Surely you understand their position though? The face-eating leopards haven’t eaten THEIR faces yet, and they hang around all the time! It would have happened by now if the face-eating leopards was gonna eat their faces! Have some sympathy - having their face eaten by the face-eating leopards truly came out of nowhere and was unexpected!

Now for the personal interest bit - I would pay real dollars in a pay per view for the comedy that would be her trying to recoil control a mac-10 at like a range or something.

Not that it changes anything but, I kind of want to know what gun it is, out of personal interest. Cold war era? There’s so many one offs and weird stuff we tried. Is this a click bait way of saying she has an MP5 or MAC 10? I tried googling it and came up empty handed.

Doctors for me but not for thee

This has been my experience. Not complaining tbh but yeah when people complain about how they see “so much x” I begin to wonder if the rage-algo kicked in

Cooling is the process of offloading heat from one atom to another. In space and the moon, there’s very little…anything. You can’t transfer heat onto nothing - so an “air cooled” heat vent doesn’t work. Another user suggested they use the moon itself or moon dust as a heat sink, and you could do that in theory.

Quick guide to rally locations he owes money to

I do not see the entertainment in watching “1-5 asshole versions of sideshow bob takes 20 minutes to step on a rake” as the sole plot point for 170 episodes.

I recognize that clearly people like it, it’s run for 16 seasons.I personally just can’t do it.

Am American, couldn’t get past the second season. Characters were unlikable. Why would I watch a cast I dont like, for hours at a time.

I heard animals in there, Ventura. I heard them again in there this morning, scratching around.

Maybe law just works differently in rural areas but

The outposts - which can be farms, clusters of houses, or even groups of caravans - often lack defined boundaries and are illegal under both Israeli and international law.

How do farms and clusters of houses just appear? Are they no better than ramshackle sheds or are they proper houses? If the latter - how are these materials getting out there without anoune noticing for prolonged periods - the two countries are locked in a heated “no u” and I would have a assumed watching their borders closer than someone having a month across it building a house with a goat shed and chicken coop before being noticed and told to leave.

The squid giveth laughter, and the squid taketh away.

Truly he works in mysterious ways.

Ah yeah I realized it later. I got too carried away typing it to check that part

Trump is the kid who got good at PacMan. Then the arcade brought in MrsPacMan and no matter how high he scores and tries to get attention, the kid who scores well in Mrs PacMan is stealing his thunder because it’s harder. And he’s mad no one is paying attention to his New High Score because it’s irrelevant in the face of the new game. But he can’t get good enough at MrsPacMan, so he’s sulking on PacMan setting new scores and slowly filling the board while his friends try to give him the new Guide for how to score better or get farther in MrsPacMan. Trying to get him to take on the new kid. But he’s just broken from constantly being the loser every time he 2 players. He’s scared of it because it’s a new age where it’s not a solved game, the enemies react to you, and he’s not fast enough anymore to handle that and it scares him - no matter how much his friends try to get him to get good.

This got me. Running against who? lmao “I’m the Republican VP” saying he’s “running for VP” makes it sound like there’s a field of candidates.

Her asking to not be shown shows Vances team didn’t set this photoshoot up properly. Like if you had called ahead you would have gotten the people who were (more likely to be) all smiles and wanted to be on camera and had engaged the conversation to look good for an op. Instead like most of these shit heels they just show up in the fucking store with 30 fucking people unannounced, and order untold amounts of food the put the drive through and other in-house orders into lockup for an hour so we can finish this one $185 order because shitfuck in charge couldn’t be bothered to call ahead and say “hey we’re bringing a bunch of people - like 15-20. We’ll be there in 10 minutes, also we’re doing a public outreach recording if you have a policy around which staff you want present for that”

But no they just walk in, make conversation holding up lines and get staff who don’t want to be on camera answering their order.

I’m not comfortable with that. 25,000 is $400 a month (5 years). But yeah trucks are ridiculous. People gotta be taking out 8-10 years to pay for those

The number in OP was $25k

For electric cars yes. (As opposed to the civic question). The reason I would posit is a culmination of my points. Companies love to over engineer these systems to justify high R&D to allow prices (and margins) to go up.

Manufacturing costs go down but also there is an increase in technology, fuel efficiency, and especially safety.

Not something you or I could answer, but are these costs truly matching inflation? In this era I am hard pressed to believe profits are still only 10% that is listed online.

No one is doing that. Just because it has the same name doesn’t mean it’s even remotely the same car as it was 20 years ago…

Many parts do the exact same stuff they used to. A radio head unit nowadays is the same head unit 3 and 5 years ago in a new shell. Bluetooth, USB, Apple/Android carplay, am/fm. And now they’re hooked up to the touchscreens. Why change what already works in a new facelift year, except for no reason other than to intentionally prevent parts from becoming commonplace. The rims I mentioned. No one will notice when buying a car if those rims were reused those 4 years.

Because backup cameras were mandated in 2016.

A friend owns a 2019 Ford Fiesta that has a backup camera on the installed screen that’s 5 inches tall to 6 inches wide. It’s incredibly minimalist and I know most people do enjoy an infotainment system now. That doesn’t change my point here that brands embraced putting an iPad in your car, and won’t give you buttons back because the ever increasing size screens are incredibly cheap compared to the radio/climate/headlight buttons you see people bemoaning they want back. It also feeds back to the “you can’t fix it yourself” problem that car brands have manufactured for consumers.

This might be hard to believe but 2005 was nearly 20 years ago…cars have improved in nearly every way possible, then add 20 years of inflation to that and it starts to sound like a good deal…

Comparison of all 3

Using an online inflation calculator shows the 2005 price inflating to 21,400, and the 2015 price inflating to 24,900. It would seem the civic is matching inflation. So, I’m wrong on how inflation has impacted the value of most cars, but that still doesn’t solve the problem that New cars aren’t being released for under $20,000 (stateside) anymore - and subsequently how much debt people have to sink into to buy New. Inflation has run what should just be a basic ass car into $24,000+

But my turnaround question would be does the cost to manufacture this car truly not fall? Is the manufacture cost also meeting inflation the way we found the MSRP has? Has manufacturing one truly remained at 90% MSRP? (A quick Google says profits are usually only 10%). If so, why? I understand facelifts and upgrades over the years but if you’ve been making the same “name” car that shares parts with itself through the years from 2005 till 2025, how are some of those parts not dirt ass cheap - because car brands are intentionally not reusing the parts. A great example is the 2012 and 2014 Chevy Sonic rims are the same. 2013 and 2015 are the same too. Why aren’t they they same across 4 years? Also why is the 2012 one a bolt pattern 5x105 - a size and pattern never used again or previously? Because fuck you, consumer, we needed them to be scarce so the price stays at $300 per rim. (Personal experience I had in 2017). A civic, and any other long life car model could be cheaper, but they’re not because car makers insist on convoluted systems and “innovation for innovation sake” so a new car is always full of new R&D they need to pay for.

Also cars are covered in touchscreens now. Do you know why - touchscreens are just a TV with a digitizer like your phone. And we have been making those for 20 years so they ARE cheap as dirt. Touchscreens are so popular in the face of consumers wanting buttons because they’re so cheap to put in and make a UI for. In fact the UI doesn’t even have to change, it just needs to look new every few years and anyone with some computer knowledge will tell you how far changing a jpg image for a button goes to fooling people you did a lot of work.

So they…don’t like profit? Because that also contradicts OP.

No, they made cars nearly unfixable to most mechanic shops and you, the consumer with computerisation/combining parts (climate controls are built into the radio unit on mustangs) and own the market on tools to fix their brand. Most Dealerships state parts/maintenance make big bucks. If your car is new enough Chevy and Dealerman are making bank by selling you, for example, a radio head unit that specifically fits around that climate control system, for $500 and then $70/hr in labor.

Not just the consumer, they also get to rake shops across the coals because they make parts that need a unique tool to access and then charge the shop $500 for the tool to prevent them getting their value out of its use. No shop will get $500 of use out of a cube tool that resets the brake caliper of a Kia Sedan in 2006, 2007, and 2008. So shops didn’t buy it. Where does that bring you but back to Kia Dealerships. (Or attempting it with needle nose pliers)

In our stage of capitalism, these arent even exceptions. 16k for a Versa. Is probably the best deal I’ve seen in forever, because almost no one makes sub $20,000 cars now. The last New cars I saw for that were economy cars (Sonic/fiesta/fit etc)

Weird, Nissan doesn’t have a problem selling Versas for $16k? Chevy doesn’t have a problem selling a Malibu for $25k? Honda doesn’t have a problem selling a Civic for $25k or an Accord for 28k?

Malibu used to be sub $20,000 new. (2008) Civics were $13-15,000 in 2005 brand new. These prices are outrageous for the amount of car you get by comparison. $25000 for a civic? It’s small and goes vroom. For 3,000 more you have an Accord! Compared to an Accord Civics have no storage, small legroom, an engine that makes them zippy for sure, but it’s not as if the Accord is a slouch. At this stage mpg is comparable.

And what happens to the customers who literally can’t afford the expensive models? There’s a lost sale for every one of them.

If you’re not interested in playing the game of taking on massive debt Then that’s fine - in their eyes you can keep buying used cars. For this type of person, they’ve fought so hard to make every car so unfixable to the average person. Parts and service departments are free to make a killing if you can’t fix it yourself.

For those that insist on buying dates models you CAN fix - You can forever own hand me downs with ghosts under the hood, gremlins in the electrical lines and odometers with 6 digits. It’s just a numbers game where eventually you will buy one that shits out way sooner than you can afford before your mentality suggests “maybe reaching deep on a CC and getting something with warranties wouldn’t be so bad?”

Man how hard it must be to suck it up, and just do something you don’t agree with because your job said to. What a fucking child of an adult.

This isn’t a new debate, he chose to work in a field where he was gonna be asked to do this eventually. I have to call people “valued customers” all day and don’t agree with it, I don’t see how this is any harder for him to adapt to in his field. (Not that pronoun requests are frivolous and dumb, they’re easy to just…do)