How much are you using the card now that you’re paying it off monthly? You might be reporting more even though you’re paying it off.

I was about to point out the same thing. Hard pulls also stay on your report for two years, with an effect (diminishes over time) on your score until it expires.

I have been preaching this forever to people.

That’s a mid-range one, so it’s very comparable to a loaded versions of mainstream CUVs on the market. Categorizing it as a luxury vehicle is a huge stretch, but the base features are closer to a heavily upgraded mainstream car in the class.

Fly a multi-hop Southwest route sometime. I once booked a flight that was $15 cheaper than a direct flight that did at least 4 stops along the way in a really inefficient route and a couple of those hops were nearly empty... I was the only weirdo doing the full circuit with the crew...

It’s kind of an entry vehicle that has three rows and I feel like it’s very competitive with non-luxury compact CUVs at around the same price. For the same or very similar money you could have a RAV4, CR-V, or CX-5...

When that supply bomb drops, HD will be history. They won’t be able to give the damned noisemakers away.

There was a difference. In fact, they had an exception for Barq’s to have caffeine up there, while it didn’t have caffeine in the US.

I miss the old Canadian Mountain Dew before they started using HFCS and adding caffeine to it. It was like a children’s drink.

I have been eating veggie burgers with bacon for almost 20 years.

They’re still not cheap and they’re far more limited. $65 for a passport card and $145 for a full passport. The former only allows land and water crossings, then only to adjacent countries, while the latter will get you across most borders on Earth and allows you to fly between them...

This is just a ghetto take on San Diego taco shop Carne Asada Fries, which become a California Burrito when wrapped in a tortilla.

...and transmission problems.

But she works through the “Real People, Not Actors” talent agency, doesn’t she?

Less. Manufacturers buy them (more like they go to the highest bidder, but same concept). To claim them is basically confirming that you make the shittiest products and therefore are willing to pay for fake awards that you can use in your marketing.

They named that junkyard “the road”, so they could market that they have more trucks “still on the road than any other brand”.

This is terrifying. These are the same dirtbags that lost all our personal information so everyone is at risk of identity theft. Why would we ever want to give them access to our bank accounts?!

It’s not just this, but it could be a factor. The Seattle metro has a lot of engineers and people in tech; a higher percentage of both groups prefer to drive manual cars.

The latter is my theory. We also have people with enough money to be willing to pay for what they want to get shipped in.

The traffic is so shitty here that I’m shocked by this, but there are a lot of people in STEM fields out here and for some reason we drive manual cars at a far higher rate than any other group I’m aware of. I can’t fathom people in downtown owning them at high rates, but once you’re far enough out it can be practical.…