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I'm curious what price costco would give me on this truck. Executive members can do the car thing.... bought my Leaf through it. The Leaf was a flat invoice+small percentage, no haggling.

But I don't want to do it because then I have to talk to a human and no one enjoys that.

I just custom-specced out a new truck on ford.com.... Mine would be $60k to replace. Nearly double what it cost 13 years ago. I hate you can't choose to NOT have all the bullshit radar stuff that I don't want. I don't have a problem seeing my blind spots, and don't need the alert lights. I don't nee...

Your pics don't work. My truck new in 2011 was $33k. Mid-range, for the time, just a F-150 XLT. To replace it new will be at least $50k. That's nuts. Mine currently has 162k miles on it, and (the engine, at least) has been well-maintained. I'll take this thing to a million, if I can. Fucker's paid o...

Rust proofing project: I did my research on rust proofing, and my uncle is a retired welder and we reinforced the rusty bit of frame. This is the hole that was first brought to my attention. This is the actual frame. Fortunately, the rest of it at that spot was still solid.... that particular spot w...

You ever hear the theory that the poor get audited more is because the poor can't afford tax lawyers?

Hitting the rich by another 50% could conceivably triple their audit costs. I say triple to make the point, could be 10x. Idk.

Rich peeps will tie that auditor up with lawyers.

If the board is required to do what's best for the shareholders, to maximize their profits, then they could probably be sued by the shareholders for NOT murdering whistleblowers.

Wall Street model unsustainable?

"Uh, Rick, I don't think you can say retarded any more." "Why? That's literally what this device would do, It would retard my brain function." "Well it's about choosing our words to not be offensive." "Well maybe choosing our words through the filter of what other ...

Right after they close the campaign -donation- bribe loopholes.

Little more than A, little less than B. I like a sexy, trim, athletic, assassin -type.

Prediction: Soon "mentally ill" will be considered an insult, like retarded. The correct phrase will become "Differently Minded."

Decades later, people always have funny stories about the things they protested in college, when they were young and stupid.

I bet none of these people will tell stories about how they hated jews.

Expel 100% of them.

Mostly peaceful protests from people who totally don't have a seething hatred for jews that is boiling over.

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/ ... index.html

Even if trump is found guilty, his penalty with be $$$. And if not, Biden will pardon him. Calling it. Trump aint going to prison. My dollar is on that.

I was calling this during the "punch a nazi" phase. We were deciding who was and wasn't fully human with human rights, because of our feelings. And the people doing so were really damned dumb. So now here we are in the "I don't hate Jews, but..." phase, and peeps not even botheri...

Does anyone really think a precedent will be set that a President can be imprisoned? Even Trump?

Their "civilizations" were absolutely screwed over by the introduction of foreign diseases... which is no ones fault, it was 300 years before anyone knew what a virus was.... but I do have sympathy for them over all the treaties that were broken with those who survived, over and over.

There are stories, and there are data. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/boeing-corporate-america-manufacturing/678137/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic Somewhere along the line, Boeing lost interest in making its own planes, Jerry Useem writes. “One day in 1916, [Bill] Boeing spotted an i...

Unless the natives figured out germ theory on their own prior to meeting the rest of the world, in spite of having no known record of any kind of medical science or scientific method, they were still going to be screwed.

They were lucky to have lasted as long as they did.

Just like the precedent of France, where they knew their system was perfect and best for everybody and would last forever.