>Adjusted for inflation, that car would be $66,465.71 today.

and this is a perfect example of why official inflation numbers are so fucked.

The Fleetwood, in its day, was the absolute top model luxury sedan from the absolute top brand luxury car manufacturer. You couldn't get any more car than that without buying something bespoke.

The second-top model sedan Cadillac currently sells is the Blackwing, which tops out at $117,000 if you select all the trim upgrades. Their most expensive car, the Celestiq, has its price listed as "By Inquiry Only". They literally will not tell you how much the car costs, because it's in the "if you care enough to ask, you can't afford it" range.

I feel like this is a thing which gets overlooked FAR too often with discussion of wages over time.

It used to be that we expected a household to not only survive, but to thrive and flourish on a single income. Now you get looked at like a criminal if you don't have two or three people bringing and income to your house.

not in 1947. The words "Car loan" would have got you laughed out of the bank in that era. After the market crash and banking collapse of the Great Depression, consumer loans of any kind just weren't a thing. The idea of a "car loan" as we know it today didn't take off again until the mid 60s.

I have watched so many people put their car up on a scissor jack without the brakes set or the chocks in place, only to drop it and smash up the skirting when they try to break the nuts loose and it rolls.

>Dimmers don't work by limiting the number of watts

Unless it's a constant power dimmer.

>Is that really how big city people view us?

I hope so. It's probably the only reason we aren't already NOVA.

Shockoe Bottom shoots their guns into the RIVER. Chesterfield is where we shoot the sky.

TBF to the UPS driver, i also didn't see the box until he hit it. Looks like it nicely color matches the driveway. From his angle, it probably blended right in.

Always expect outages when there are freezing temperatures, precipitation, and surface level winds in excess of 20mph

People dying in office is not a new thing. Having contingency plans in place is part of responsible governance.

It's amazing how much money doesn't materialize when flipping the legislature isn't at stake.

Badly.

I'm registered for absentee ballots, with the new "every election" option checked, and I don't know whether to be more angry that I didn't know this election was happening until this morning, or that I wasn't mailed a ballot.

why would we need a quantum computer to do that? normal computers do it just fine.

I agree with the other guy. If a "professional" made this error and managed to do several square feet of wall without noticing, every single other thing that "professional" has touched is now suspect. This is the same level of fuckup as a body shop using house paint on your car.

Yeah, as a DIY job, this mistake is a teachable moment, if it were a professional job, it would be a straight up "GTFO and touch nothing on the way" moment.

>What is up with delivery drivers thinking that just because they have a big truck they can do whatever in these streets?

Our cops are too busy catfishing teenagers to bother with enforcing laws which promote public safety, so the drivers know they can do what they want.

don't do shit

>actually train their people who are granted lethal force.

it's this one. I was in from 2013-2017, and we were grilled mercilessly on RoE and use of force escalations allowable outside of combat.

>Cops murder all the time. Its their exclusive right and borderline mandate. Excluding soldiers because The Enemy isnt people of course

Having done the Army thing, my experience is that soldiers are WAY more responsible than the median police officer. It's amazing what even the pretense of oversight will do.

Absolutely. And drunk driving combined with a fatal crash should be automatic voluntary manslaughter.

I would hope so, but I know far too many people who believe it's their God-Given Right as an American to drive blackout drunk.

You'd be amazed how smoke can carry.

Unless it was from the house fire in Chesterfield.

And shit load of people start cooking for Thanksgiving the day before.