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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • People that wanted to buy new are instead settling for used. They have more money on hand, meaning in order to secure the deal, they’re offering more money closer to asking price. They were probably even over asking price in 2020-2022. It’s automotive gentrification where the top buyers are settling for lesser product, pushing each bracket of buyer down to a lower product rank, squeezing the bottom buyers out of the market. So tell me, with buyers willing to spend more, are YOU going to be the one that charitably sticks to the 2019 KBB value of a car you’re selling?

    Anyway, take a look, used prices are down closer to where inflation was projected pre-2020. New car supply is up, so most used cars normalized. Project car prices have crashed now that most people are commuting and socializing again and don’t have time. Hybrids/EVs leveled out since gas prices are normalized.


  • Probably because it’s just a nice round tens of thousands that’s the current benchmark. It wasn’t long ago that similar articles mourned the scarcity of the sub-$20k car. I don’t want to say it was a Scion, but I don’t think the gap could be that big between the death of scion and the general loss of the $19, 999 car.

    Tried to look up what I saw years ago and instead found there were still sub-$20k cars as of 2024. Hyundai Venue and Mitsubishi Mirage. And the venue just surpassed the mark.

    Anyway, see you again in 2029-2035 when someone else writes about the loss of the $40,000 economy car


  • Neat, airtime for Channel 5/All Gas No Brakes/Andrew Callaghan. Callaghan and Co have gotten into some true, deep journalism as they’ve evolved. Actually going places? Actually talking to people there? Waltzing through the Minnesota riots, getting ferried by a coyote across the southern border, all in the name of journalism? Awesome to see him catch some headliner work and mainstream coverage.

    I haven’t watched this interview. It’s not exactly a topic I care about. I saw some comments saying it was soft. If that’s true, then I hope Andrew stuck to his routine where he let’s people talk and gives them the airtime to make or break their appearance. If the flak comes from proper news outlets, then stfu and go do it yourself.

    If you haven’t been following but know the original owner (not content creator) of All Gas No Brakes had a falling out and took the name, FYI, Andrew owns it again. Seems like the theme moving forward will be AGNB will go back to its goofy event roots while C5 will lean towards political/news events.


  • Aren’t you just a shining beacon of logical, data-driven level-headedness. The fuck is she supposed to do, mentally recite each sign she saw on her way in as her spouse is being crushed before to determine if her request is feasible? Crawl out of the MRI, past her dying partner, and go read the manual to see if the MRI has an emergency stop capability before asking the technicians to intervene?

    I wish you the best in your future human interactions. I hope very few of them are life-threatening because clearly, you’ll be of no help if you deem the situation avoidable or deem help unlikely to be successful.








  • I have. I follow this artist and came across this a bit ago and it gave me pause for thought. Pre-edit: this got lengthy because I’m hoping if you’re here to relate to the comic, then maybe my experience can help.

    Despite constantly feeling like I’m drowning in incompleteness, I realized lots of things came together. I was too busy focusing on the negativity that I wasn’t acknowledging the positives. I have had fun, I have gotten things done, I have fixed things, I have socialized, I have used an appropriate amount of mental/physical recourses, and I have been placed in a solid career position.

    I couldn’t reach this understanding when I was younger because the necessary pieces hadn’t fallen into place yet. I understand that to some extent I’m lucky things came together, but a large part of feeling OK came from lowering my standards. Projects fall by the wayside as priorities change. I noticed a huge number of incomplete projects were no longer necessary - so were they ever?

    One of my biggest things was feeling lonely because I didn’t have enough friends. By whose standards? Social media’s or childhood’s or school’s? At work, I thought I had friends, but they faded whenever I changed jobs. Somewhere around 2020, I saw the term “friends by proximity”, where you can be great friends with someone one day and lose them the next because you’re no longer in their proximity. Initially, that hurt, because it made everything feel fake. But the longer I thought about it (months or more), the better I felt. I had fun with these people, I enjoyed their company. We bonded over the current common experiences. Once the experiences diverge, it fades. There is nothing wrong with that. There is nothing fake about that. We don’t have enough time on this planet to get it perfect. I dropped all the modifiers I’d say like “friend of a friend”, “better than an acquaintance”, “former friend”, etc. I’ll only clarify if it’s relevant to the story. Otherwise, it’s just past tense like “had a buddy that…” or current tense for someone I’m still in proximity with. Nobody needs to know the disqualifiers. Every friend stems from proximity and very, very few will outlast that.

    To sum everything up, ask yourself what standards you’re holding yourself to and failing. Are they even real? Are they standards set by a different generation in a different time period with a different societal mindset? Are they set by social media showing only the best sides of other peoples’ lives? Are they set by your family? By your friends with entirely different experiences? Should these actually apply to you?


  • Very good explanation. I’ve been on 6 or so, never got sick. And quite frankly, the Healthcare on board is generally decent by American standards. They have a monetary interest in getting you back on your feet. We only hear about cruises full of disease when there’s a cruise full of disease. Nobody reports “Carnival docks home with insignificant amount of illnesses today, again”.

    It shouldn’t be hard to imagine the benefit of essentially bringing your hotel to the destination(s) with you and avoiding/reducing flying.



  • It could have been a single intersection. The article has no useful info. Somehow, the car entered a space where people were standing/laying still stargazing, so, presumably, not the middle of the road. I have definitely seen some more rural areas use both a stop sign and a flashing red light overhead. Sometimes an all-way stop, sometimes one road has a flashing yellow to take the right of way. A leg of a tee would almost definitely get the red/stop while the crossroad could get either, if any sense was used in traffic planning. Leaving the tee via the nonexistent leg could certainly risk a car entering a people space.

    Regardless, they are still 3+ separate items that should not have been missed, as you stated. A stop sign, a flashing red light, and leaving the road should all be condemnable as each is a normal circumstance. I’d agree, the speed limit likely did not allow 70mph, either