throwaway89848b

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   by throwaway89848b 5y ago

   You have misunderstood something. Yes, that car was worth the price. It is the benchmark against which I am measuring newer cars. "Cars today", which is what we are talking about, give an experience that is unlike that one. (I
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   by throwaway89848b 5y ago

   I agree with this in principle, and would have agreed even prior to the accident, but in reality, after the period where I was forced into a "no car" lifestyle, yes, you actually do need a car in the meantime, at least while waiti
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   by throwaway89848b 5y ago

   That's the story, but it doesn't hold up in the general case. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21167942 My car (at 200,000+ miles at the time of the accident) was exactly such a case of "take care of it,
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   by throwaway89848b 5y ago

   After my accident, for a while I blew so much money on Lyft to travel to the office and back, which was a fairly straightforward 10-mile trip one-way. Later, after the pandemic started, I watched the movie 1922 (although I don't really
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   by throwaway89848b 5y ago

   Even before having been involved in a car accident two years ago, I have always been annoyed with the car industry, and looked on incredulously at the kind of racket that people are suckered into dealing with. Buying a car is like being fo