Buffalo, at least in ground form (and sometime steaks) has broken into most mainstream meat displays at major national supermarket chains due to the fact it’s very similar to a lean beef, is not much more expensive than beef, and for some reason they’re not allowed to do much of anything to them. As a result, it’s…

Or living in a coastal state where they have jobs, like I am. I won’t say how much my family pulls in, but it’s far more than the average in the US. The problem is that our housing is 3-5x the national average, high taxes, etc. If my wife and I had student loans, we wouldn’t have been able to afford even the mediocre…

But if I recall right, in all 401(k)s I’ve been in, you are simply paying that interest to yourself, which is great. I have never taken a loan from mine, but it is one of the least objectionable options available if I absolutely had to get a large chunk of cash quickly...

Currently $5500 unless you’re old, but that’s the biggest problem I have with them - they have a ridiculously low limit that they haven’t bumped much in a very long time. It should be 2-3x as much by now.

Yes. That’s why you can withdraw without penalties. If you are doing an IRA and you don’t need it to offset your taxes, always go with a Roth due to both the flexibility and the fact that you get that much more money stored for retirement...

The Roth IRA could serve this purpose, but it also has painfully low contribution limits and much higher risk to produce decent returns. My wife and I both have them and we max contributions out annually, but it’s hard to use them even for retirement savings as a result. You can’t even get a month worth of today’s…

You could do a lot better. Admittedly, I keep a minimum in all my accounts to get maximum returns (when reasonable), but I believe even my mortgage savings account (used to pay the mortgage and fill with a cushion in case we need it) is paying 1.5% now. It’s below inflation, but not as bad as it has been. I remember…

Was not a blimp, it was a semi-rigid airship.

It is not a blimp.

They do make sense, they simply aren’t thought of and fell out of favor after the Hindenburg disaster. Their other problem is that they use helium now, which is expensive and scarce. If they used hydrogen (the fact we have video of the Hindenburg proves the hydrogen did not explode, although some did burn, it was very…

Yeah. When there are no decent cars to buy, people stop buying cars... So the carmakers would have successfully skirted the EPA rules and surreptitiously gave themselves a big raise.

Helicopters are dangerous to begin with and sub-optimal photography platforms due to vibrations. I took fabulous pictures and had the ability to walk around unimpeded only a handful of feet off the ground with open windows you could hang out on the best aerial photography platform I’ve ever encountered (probably also…

That is the most disturbing rebate I could possibly imagine. Overtly focusing on subprime buyers/loans is a recipe for a Mitsubishi-style disaster.

They’re on year 15 with the current D3 (Taurus) platform. They started production in 2004 as a 2005 MY...

Considering how good the LX/LC/LA platform is, I agree. It’s too bad so much of the remainder isn’t great.

It is the W220 (mid-late 90s S-class) front suspension and W211 (early 00s E-class) rear suspension. So much is the same that even the floor pans are shared...

They didn’t change the platform sufficiently to call it a new platform. That said, it’s still great because it’s still basically a mashup and of old M-B designs. They have long been the pinnacle of domestic sedan handling & comfort.

I have four screens. Of those, two are vertically-oriented.

Interesting fact: This car almost certainly has the original plate it received when it was first sold, which means it never left CA and likely has a clean title.

I wouldn’t chalk it up to California. All the Broncos (and most cars in general) are in relatively mint condition and therefore all used cars are cheaper. This price is very high for the location.