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autoliteInline··on Justin Trudeau Vows Two-Year Ban on Foreign Home Buyers in Canada Election
So the foreign buyers enter in a partnership with a bank like they do in parts of Mexico. Net change = nothing.
autoliteInline··on Chery QQ Ice Cream goes on sale in China – a modern electric car for $4,600
You do have to wonder how people drove around when scarcely any vehicle was AWD/4WD.

Having said that, good snow tires are magic.

autoliteInline··on Chery QQ Ice Cream goes on sale in China – a modern electric car for $4,600
It would be interesting to know just how many cars ever have their back seats used.

You can argue that the average car should either be a 2wd Tacoma or a Miata.

autoliteInline··on The Hot Wheels Design Studio: How a Real Car Gets Turned into a 1:64 Toy
I don't doubt that a new Hot Wheels car is inferior to one from 1968, but then they cost about a dollar in 1968.

Honestly I don't remember anyone having Matchbox cars. It's the kind of thing you'd own if you wanted a model of a dull green Austin saloon, plus you'd miss out on the whole orange track/racing angle.

autoliteInline··on The Hot Wheels Design Studio: How a Real Car Gets Turned into a 1:64 Toy
>a few hand-me-down Hot Wheels made in England in the 70s

That's interesting. I thought they were all Hong Kong or US manufacture. I wonder when that started.

Looking back, the car culture was really something. Not just cartoonish new cars like Superbirds but George Barris models, racing windbreaker jackets, the entire universe of slot cars, cars in songs, on pinball machines, CARtoons magazine, STP stickers, Sting-Ray bicycles, etc.

Shame that it's mostly gone but then the whole industry based around draft-horse farming or treadle sewing machines is largely history too.

autoliteInline··on The Crime of Curiosity
I wonder if there isn't a market for a COVID vaccine that the inevitable variants aren't resistant to.

If you kept it to a small group of customers, it would maintain it's value and be worth $$$$ to them potentially.

autoliteInline··on Don't insult me with your pricing (2019)
How about pricing tiers: 1, 2, 3, 4
autoliteInline··on Windows 11: Just say no
I just fired up a Win10 machine for the first time in some while in order to run specific software.

Good gawd. It was finally useful about 4 hours later after all the updates and tomfoolery. Never again.

autoliteInline··on U.S. court upholds dismissal of lawsuit against NSA on 'state secrets' grounds
It seems safe to me to assume that US government security is mostly to keep secrets from it's own citizens. Foreign intelligence agencies know about pretty much everything.
autoliteInline··on Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds
it's easier to count dead people. it's harder to obfuscate the numbers. One value is that you can see increases/trends/etc. and they are actually meaningful.

Generally, you do find this:

. Include suicide in stats...is against guns

. Block suicide from stats...is for guns

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