DadicusBodicus
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@heresyfinancial Well, I bought a brand new Honda Accord Hybrid Touring for $30k cash 10 years ago and drove it with literally zero repairs...
... until the day my 10 year old Honda Accord Hybrid Touring, then worth about $11k, needed a new $7k hybrid battery.
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Maintenance on a bad beater will always be cheaper than buying a new car when you account for more expensive insurance, more expensive registration, the fast depreciation, and total extra cost to purchase
Nick Freiling@NickFreiling
I think Dave Ramsey is wrong about cars. There is no way to assuredly buy a "cheap and reliable" used car. You can gamble on one, but you can't be sure that's what you'll get. It's smarter to buy new. It's *extremely* hard to save money without predictable monthly expenses.
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MY SPIRIT ANIMAL HAS ENTERED THE CHAT
This absolute legend named Ricky just dropped the most honest, unfiltered TED Talk on alcoholism I’ve ever witnessed.
“I love being drunk. I love getting fucked up. I’m a goddamn drunk alcoholic and I love it.”
Bro pays his bills (most of the time), goes to work when needed, but his true passion is walking around the woods blasted, not knowing what the hell is going on in the world.
“Stay drunk. Give it hell. You only got one go.”
Ricky isn’t just drunk, he’s free. This man is my spirit animal. I’ve never felt more seen in my life. Who else is claiming Ricky as their life coach? 😂🍻
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@GregoryScaduto They should send a letter to me on what to do with 100k, the arrogant pricks
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@mchamarthi I think you're an idiot. That car is WAY outclassed in every way by cars costing a fraction. Namedropping can't fix that, and everyone involved in that betrayal of the prancing horse should resign in shame.
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🚨 As an Auto Executive Here is My Perspective on Ferrari's New EV
Bottom line....
They built an extraordinary EV. The market’s reaction suggests that may not be enough.
Ferrari unveiled the Luce yesterday:
• 1,050 horsepower
• Jony Ive co-designed interior
• nearly $650,000 starting price
• Ferrari’s first fully electric vehicle
Today, Ferrari stock fell roughly 7%.
As someone who has spent 25+ years inside automotive leadership, I think this reaction says something important:
This is not about whether Ferrari built a technically impressive car.
They did.
This is about whether Ferrari fully understands what its customer is actually buying.
Ferrari customers are not primarily purchasing transportation.
They are purchasing:
identity,
emotion,
heritage,
scarcity,
mechanical theater,
and cultural symbolism.
That is what makes luxury automotive branding so fragile during technological disruption.
The challenge with EVs; especially at the ultra-luxury level is not performance.
Electric drivetrains already deliver extraordinary performance.
The challenge is preserving mythology.
And that is much harder.
Ferrari appears to understand this intellectually:
the engineered sound,
the tactile controls,
the dramatic specs,
the emotional design language.
But the market reaction suggests investors are still questioning whether the EV transition aligns with the emotional expectations of Ferrari’s core customer base.
That distinction matters.
Because in luxury markets, brand identity often carries more pricing power than engineering itself.
What do you think?

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@ExtremeFootbal4 Why? Why on Earth wouldn't we just watch the actual footage?
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@Verstappenn_ This is absolutely, 100% correct and obvious to anyone paying attention.
What GOAT would get beaten to a WDC by Nico Rosberg in equal equipment?
The worst part is that he was constantly on the radio berating the very team who gave him that car.
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Hamilton genuinely might be the biggest fraud F1 has produced, a good driver, nothing special but having the fastest car for 8 years has skewed his stats so that people think he’s the GOAT.
not even top 3 in terms of talent.
Holiness@F1BigData
In less than 2 weeks, Kimi Antonelli could equal Hamilton's best career winning streak, with a total of 5 wins in a row
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I’m starting to think that I’m the only right-winger on this platform who believes that climate change is a real phenomenon.
Not saying it hasn’t been exaggerated in the media, but I just don’t see how you can wholesale reject it.
RS Archer@archer_rs
Apparently climate change is a myth.
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@ian4downton I could, until I had to pay $7k for a new hybrid battery on a 115k mile car worth 10k after the repair.
Depreciation happens for a reason.
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Then just sell puts or use a call writing strategy, you guys make this too easy
Being worried about the stock going down is not the same as saying you have to pay tax
Two different things entirely
If worried about price = use options. If worried about tax = borrow
Jakabeem@blahblahblah_02
@BowTiedBull Problem is if they are highly concentrated. $10M in SPY or global equities is one thing. $10M in a single equity is quite different.
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@kevinolearytv Gas prices go up like a rocket and down like a feather.
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I think the president is absolutely paying a political price for $4 gasoline right now, especially as the midterm narrative is already starting much earlier than usual. But what happens between now and November is still unknown. If oil prices fall back to the $70–$75 range, gas prices could stop being a major issue altogether. The challenge is timing even if oil drops immediately, there’s still oil sitting in inventory, tankers already on the water, and supply moving through refineries at higher prices. Realistically, it would take about three weeks for consumers to fully feel lower gas prices at the pump.
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@frogNscorpion I have a 2017 accord hybrid touring (top trim) with 115k on it and a brand new $7k hybrid battery. What do you think it's worth?
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>20 year old car pushing 200k miles selling for $6-10$k
>One or two within range of a million people
In 2012 this would be your first car for 2k max. How the hell are new drivers going to afford cars now?
The economy is shit.
LibertyJ@LibertyJen
This was legit a 5 second search on Auto Trader. All these cars have less than 200k miles. All under $7k
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