Lots of interesting news today

[RatLabGuy]

FBI: ‘America’s Most Wanted’ fugitive in 1988 Florida heist dies hiding in Asheville

FBI says “America’s Most Wanted” fugitive John Anthony Quinn died in an Asheville hospital.

www.foxcarolina.com

Lived 38 years after the robbery to age 86.

I like the optimism this story brings...

 

[Tom@Hilltop_Machine]

“OH CANADA: 97.5% of Canadians have refused to comply with the government’s order to turn over their banned firearms. Authorities now plan door-to-door seizures to disarm the nation’s citizenry.” – Whatfinger News' General Dispatch

generaldispatch.whatfinger.com

 

[RatLabGuy]

some real brilliance here

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkirichenko/2026/03/28/booby-trapped-insoles-allegedly-reached-russian-troops/

 

[drkelly]

Nearly 1 in 3 car buyers are underwater on trade-ins — analyst calls dollar amount 'troubling'

An estimated 30.5% of car buyers with a trade-in owe more than it's worth, up 4.2 percentage points from a year ago but still below the prepandemic share.

www.cnbc.com

 

[RatLabGuy]

Nearly 1 in 3 car buyers are underwater on trade-ins — analyst calls dollar amount 'troubling'

An estimated 30.5% of car buyers with a trade-in owe more than it's worth, up 4.2 percentage points from a year ago but still below the prepandemic share.

www.cnbc.com

I sick of so much winning

 

[benXJ]

gotta get all the context:

The share of underwater buyers is up 4.2 percentage points from a year ago and has been growing since 2022. However, it’s not as high as it was before the pandemic: In 2019, the annual share of trade-ins with negative equity for new-car purchases was 33.6%, according to J.D. Power data.

and

On average, the age range of trade-ins with negative equity is 3 to 4 years old, according to Edmunds — “which means these are vehicles that were purchased between 2022 and 2023, a truly anomalous period in the market where it wasn’t uncommon to pay over the sticker price,

so not that hard to understand (as so many dummies panic bought over MSRP) and numbers aren't that scary compared to the past, and no real reason for the 'news' story

but its 'easy' to mass produce AI slop hit pieces today