If you need a cheap car, then why buy new? Plenty of good used options out there, and sometimes more reliable than new cars

IIRC the difference between new and used has shrunk quite a bit recently (at least for desirable models and types) because many consumers are frustrated by the new-prices and all look towards used.

I've heard it said (literally, it was a podcast) that US car-companies are caught in a kind of prisoner's-dilemma: They all want to be the ones selling expensive (high profit margin) cars, and nobody wants to be serving the low-end. But in the long run, somebody has to, or else the market gets... Weird.

You can't really compare the economy of countries on two different contintents just based off of a single macroeconomic metric and expect to capture anything. It's way more complicated than that

I think you can. You can completely distill it down to the simple reality that one is growing on the other is not. There's no clever nuance that handwaves that fundamental fact away.

A single protocol seems to be very limited, especially if your collection of music is purely physical, and for a lot of people it is

> The real problem was almost no one had a CD player not even in their car!

That's wild. Popping in a CD is part of the road trip experience!

I remember the frustration of hitting a washboarded dirt road and the CD jumping around and messing playback.

> Hell, when my kids were young, they weren't even allowed to be outside on the same side of the house that I was mowing.

Why let them outside at all? An eagle could snatch them or something, you never know

It's more reasonable to say that the russian people tolerate the war as long as it does not impact their economic situation over a certain tolerance threshold. Almost all of the fighters from the Russian side are on paid voluntary contracts for a reason.

Well, you yiyrself did not provide any sources for asserting the argument that some of what is on Wikipedia is false

Damn, this only validates the use of ad-blockers / sponsor-blockers even more

> alternative keyboards in iOS feel second class in some ways

From my experience the opposite is true. The iOS keyboard feels unintuitive and buggy whilst most alternatives just work.

Though not an equivalent, the US has extradition treaties and various international agreements for surrendering a fugitive to a foreign country