Conspicuous lack of coverage given it was Yuki’s worst Red Bull race (so far).
If he doesn’t get a Caddy seat next year - he is on their list, apparently - he is out of the sport, UNLESS Max moves to Mercedes (or Aston Martin), and Red Bull is forced to scramble for drivers.
Horner will try to hire his fellow Tory George Russell, who will be in the cold. Russell is rumored to have an opportunity at Aston Martin (don’t know which seat!), as well.
Horner is toast if Max leaves (and the 26 car isn’t a title winner).
One could question Red Bull’s corporate commitment to F1, but then again … the Red Bull Ring just inked a long term deal AND Mark Mateschitz just bought BCE’s tremendous collection of vintage F1 cars.
If Oscar had kept up the pressure and forced Lando into a mistake that would have ended the season. Highly entertaining race. I am almost as ready for a summer break as the teams, I think the long season is showing in mistakes.
Congrats to your family on the wins. There was also an F1 race this past weekend. Norris won. Please debate the reasons why below.
I am not commenting on the Canadian rental situation because if I was honest about my thoughts and feelings, my mother would spontaneously teleport to my place and slap me for using such language.
McLaren's doing something that helps their tires. Rumors of phase change materials, and apparently an interesting suspension setup. Didn't Chapman say "any suspension works, as long as you don't let it"? Not quite that extreme, but... Here's a vid on it: https://youtu.be/3mAeVIA94n0?si=driPt67eAnlb1cYz
In that video linked above the narrator (who I believe knows what he's talking about) says the scrutineers have examined the McLaren and found it "legal, but clever." Something going on with brake cooling...
You are correct about the brake cooling. I was referring to the belief that Newey's piece of the RB19 was the anti-dive suspension that made its ability to develop downforce so much more consistent than the porpoising horde of 2023 F1 cars.
MotoGP ran at Assen in the Netherlands this past weekend
(Sachsenring the weekend after this where Marc Marquez has the moniker King of the Ring).
In a shocking qualification Marc Marquez was down all the way in fourth place behind his brother in third, Bagnaia looking sharp in second, and Quartararo once again with a pole position on the Yamaha.
At the jump Marc makes great progress and slides into second between turns one and two putting Bagnaia and his brother behind him. Alex put further pain on 63 in turn 8 to secure third place in lap one.
In lap 2 93 and 73 both overtook Quartararo.
Bezecci passed Bagnaia for fourth place, and then Quartararo the next lap to seize third. He proved be unable to overtake the Marquez brothers in the sprint but did finish on the podium. Marc first, and Alex second.
Bagnaia was further beaten up and ended down in 5th with no ability to hold off Digiantonnio's late charge. If only Digi had better qualifying!
The race was about equally poor for Quartararo. Marc, again, put on a clinic in getting to the front and holding it for the duration. Alex wrecked out in his second big mistake of the year, but the only one that counts as the first was spared by a red flag restart. Bezzechi looked strong and ran in second but was unable to overtake Marc with a half second gap at the end. Bagnaia faded and rallied to a distant third. Digi failed to duplicate his late charge, tangling with teammate Morbidelli, and finished 6th behind Vinales and Acosta.
The rookies had a fraught weekend with Ogura high siding and his bike burning. Aldeguer also high sided during the race. Chantra finally finished second to DFL behind Aleix Espargo as Honda's wildcard.
MotoAmerica ran at the Ridge on the west coast (best coast) but their premiere class, King of the Baggers, was absent.
Instead it was a Herrin, Beaubier, Gagne 1-2-3 both races in a fairly boring weekend.
Supersport's Scholz finished first and clawed back points against PJ Jacobsen. Blake Davis is developing well as a rider along with Ty Scott
I have friends (a married couple) who lived in Geneva for a few years.
They both had excellent jobs (Pictet; restructuring law) and massive trust funds (both families worth well into 9 figures), but their first remark about Geneva after returning back stateside was … “It was SO expensive.”
And moreover: Draconian speeding laws, US citizens don’t get the tax benefits, etc.
Perhaps Jack should consult with our mutual friend Ted Gushue about the relative merits of living in St. Moritz vs. Gstaad!
Just shows how every brand needs to push down market to grow in the B2C space. Kind of wild to me but it makes sense, now I just need to get used to seeing it everywhere around me in Miami.
Unless we fuck up in the next election and become next Hungary... and, hell, even it that's the case, you want to live here.
It's not all mountains here. We do have mountains and even with the global warming, there is going to be skiing available for a few more decades in the winter.
We also have almost everything else, with the sad exception of the access to the sea (though you can go to either Adriatic or Baltic in 10 or 5 hours respectively, the time to Baltic being shorter due to it being almost all Autobahn.
We have Prague, which is one of the most charming and mysterious capitals in Europe. Also one not destroyed by WW2 and surprisingly little harmed by 1950s to 1980s communist building of concrete shit. Some of said concrete shit is even quite cool.
We have Southern Moravia, which, in this day, age and climate, is getting closer and closer to, say, Tuscany. We have places called Czech Switzerland and Czech Canada and Czech.. a few other things. Mountains, hills, lowlands, rivers, lakes.
And the fun part is that everything mentioned above is within 3-4 hours of driving from anything else, as we are slightly smaller than Kansas and slightly bigger than Nebraska.
We live in cities and villages, so there's a lot of free space to roam around even though we have the population of Michigan on above mentioned area.
We are a "cut-price Germany" when it comes to industry, especially automotive. Which is why Škoda is the highest-margin European mainstream automaker. It also outsells Tesla in electric cars, Europe-wide. And it still makes Octavia TDI, which is the VW Golf you actually want and need.
Only we have about half the wages Germans do, which makes us the Mexico of Europe. So we won't likely go broke anytime soon, because we make same shit for less money than the Western Europeans do.
We are also cold, cynical, atheist bastards outwardly, but quite nice if you get to know us. Imagine a cross between Austrians, Germans and English or Irish.
Much like Switzerland, our borders are mountains – which means that if you look at those videos of European borders changing over last 1,000 years, most of ours remain intact, with the exception of the part where we border with Austria in the east.
We are one of the safest countries in Europe, which also means in the world.
At the same time, we are probably the only country in EU where it's easy and legal to own AND CARRY a firearm, as long as it's semi-auto. You just have to concealed-carry. But you can concealed-carry an AR-15 if you figure out how.
For a long time, we didn't have a lot of immigrants. Now we have – mostly Ukrainians, who are very much like us. And Vietnamese, who differ by not being as lazy as we are.
And, of course, we make the best beer in the known universe. And quite acceptable wine. And very good slivovitz and other fruit spirits.
The best part – while Prague and other big cities got fucking expensive, the countryside is still cheap.
For what you could sell your house for, you can probably get a mid-sized chateau in here. Or a small castle. Or something.
Also, there's a lot of airfields and we are one of the best in the world in making small airplanes, from ultralight to Zlins.
John needs a Zlin, because Pipers and Beechcrafts suck (let's not talk about Cessnas). We made, and I think still make, the Zlin Z-143, which is a four-seater aerobatic plane. Imagine a Beech Bonanza that's full aerobatic.
There's only one problem. If you want citizenship, you'll need to learn the language. And that sucks. I mean, the language is beautiful, but it's hard enough to properly learn if you're born here.
Still, better than Switzerland OCD on everything. That country looks like a model train set. Czechia is the right amount of messy. Not full of garbage like souther Italy and not overly clean like Switzerland or Bavaria.
I've spent a lot of my adult life trying to figure out where to emigrate, only to find out that from almost every other country on Earth, I would actually IMMIGRATE here.
But no one can speak your language, our keyboards don't even have this "š" letter on them, and for TOO MANY YEARS the composer didn't have a mention on the top of this page so you had to go to a disambiguation page to find the proper Tomas Dvorak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1_Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k
Besides, you've kept a Jaguar X-Type running, which means it's not safe to be on Czech roads. That alone should disqualify anyone from moving there.
Well, actually, Slovaks almost can! Their language is close enough to ours that we can each speak our respective language and understand each other. My parents' generation could even do this with Polish. I still can converse with Poles if there's a bottle of vodka available.
Also, your keyboard can do it, as can ours! It's just that numbers from 2 to 0 are ěščřžýáíé, and you write the numbers with shift.
But you can't pronounce ř. No one can pronounce ř.
And my X-type is not NEARLY the most dangerous thing on our roads.
No disrespect to my Jewish sisters in Tel Aviv, but I've often heard it said that Estonia has the highest per capita rate of beautiful women of any country in the world.
When I worked for Intel in Hillsboro, OR, I always looked forward to the visits from the Israeli engineers. They came by fairly regularly as they were working on standing up an fab facility in Israel and were using the Ronler Acres fab as a model. At least that was my understanding. My work while organizationally under the fab unbrella had almost nothing do do with the manufacturing process.
Is there anything interesting to see or experience on the Czech side of the border near Klingenthal, Germany? I do business with the Seydel harmonica company (the oldest in the world, btw) and I hope to one day visit their factory.
Apparently, one of the largest synagogues in the world, and one of the few in the region that wasn't destroyed or damaged by the Nazis is about an hour away in Plzeň. This website (https://www.visitplzen.eu/en/visit-pilsen/the-best-of-pilsen/great-synagogue/) says that it's closed on Fridays, Saturdays, and Jewish holidays, but Grok says that it's an active congregation with regular religious services so I assume that means closed to the tours offered to the general public.
Depends on what you're interested in and how far are you willing to go – within an hour is quite a lot, within two is REALLY A LOT.
Closest to Klingenthal is Karlovy Vary, a wonderful spa town that hosts a famous film festival.
Plzeň can be also interesting – besides the synagogue, there's of course the Pilsner Urquell brewery. And yes, I looked at the Czech website of the synagogue, it is closed Fridays, Saturdays and Jewish holidays for general public. It really is an active congregation.
I once used the phrase “toxic empathy” in an internet argu-, ahh, discussion, and was basically laughed out of the chat by the simpletons who seek to out-empathy the next guy. But that’s exactly what it is, doing what “feels like” the right thing because you want to be a good person, while having zero understanding of the 2nd, 3rd, nth order effects of doing “the right thing.” Why wouldn’t you give your kid candy and ice cream for every single meal? Doesn’t it make your kid happy? Why wouldn’t you want your kid to be happy you monster? Etc.
Well, the distaff half for sure. The only thing worse for our society than Affluent White Female Liberal - AWFLs, are leftist lawyers and judges who have no regard for the law or justice, only power.
He’s great! Many videos out there of him discussing suicidal empathy. I believe he has a book in the works about this, as a follow up to the Parasitic Mind.
First off, the vast majority of American Jews don't have any deep knowledge about traditional Jewish values and beliefs. A large fraction are not affiliated with any synagogue or Jewish fellowship at all, and those who are affiliated with Reform and, to a lesser extent, Conservative congregations have likely been miseducated by their clergy into thinking that Judaism is a cross between the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man and whatever the Democratic party's platform is this year. Hence the "tikkun olam" dolts. Add the fact that they are likely to have been indoctrinated with leftist stuff on campus.
Also, half of Ashkenazi Jews (there are crazy leftist Mizrachi Jews but with their families having experienced the joys of being a religious minority in the Muslim world, they tend to be a bit more grounded in reality) have IQs under 115. We're not all Einsteins & David Mamets.
There are some cultural factors at play too. Jews have been refugees many, many times, so the culture has sympathy for immigrants, and they've been persecuted, so the culture has sympathy for the downtrodden and persecuted. Also, compassion for the poor and foreigners has been part of the Jewish religion going back to scripture. The Talmud (Yevamot 79a) teaches that Jews should be compassionate, modest, and perform acts of kindness if they want to act as Jews.
Of course, if current trends for birthrates, intermarriage, and assimilation, continue, within a generation or two the majority of American Jews will likely be religiously orthodox and politically conservative. My youngest grandson just finished 1st grade. His yeshiva had three 1st grade classes this year. At least half of non-orthodox Jews marry non-Jews and a minority of their children identify as Jewish (putting aside religious standards for who is a Jew). Orthodox Jews have very large families. With four kids, my son and daughter in law are likely to have the smallest family on their block. About 90% of American Jews raised as orthodox stay religious. Do the math.
What is a Christian? A person who accepts Jesus Christ as their savior.
What is a Muslim? A person who worships Allah.
What is a Buddhist? One who follows the teachings of The Buddha.
But what is a Jew? A person who was born into a Jewish family? A person who has chosen to follow the tenets of the Jewish faith? A person of Jewish ethnicity? A person who's only a Jew because of their name, and not their behavior?
Seems the answer is Yes, No and Maybe, but that's speaking as a gentile looking in.
A Jew is someone the Jewish religion defines as a Jew, specifically the child of a woman who is considered by Jewish law to be a Jew, or someone who has converted to Judaism in accordance with Jewish law. By Jewish law, I mean orthodox Judaism in its Ashkenazi, Mizrachi, or Yemenite forms. That means, yes, someone who was born Jewish but has even rejected Judaism could be still considered a Jew in the eyes of Jewish law. They're still bound by the covenant and are obligated to perform commandments. That doesn't mean, however that apostates are counted towards prayer quorums and the like.
0. The 'global south' has shown that it can produce infinity people
1. These places are crowded, usually violent, dirty, literal shitholes because that is what they are capable of creating. Any place they go in numbers will become those things.
2. This is not my fucking problem. I don't care if it makes big line go up or helps boomers get their lawns and roofs done on the cheap.
3. I can figure out how to make my own tacos and curry. (They can keep their mud cakes.)
4. 10 bucks says these chicks fucked dirtier and smellier guys back home for much, much less.
It would be trivial to tax remittances at very high rates. Both parties, including the pathetic cuckservatives in the GOP are against it. The new president of Mexico had a conniption over just the mention of it
i think over here we probably get the watered down versions of some dishes given how spicy some of them can be. i went to a proper indian restaurant (as recommended by a friend of mine) and while the flavor was great it was absurdly hot
went to go try it again years later and it was gone
Indian food served by SF bay area restaurants is typically slop. Home-cooked dishes brought to the company pot luck had little resemblance to restaurant fare and was quite tasty.
America is under no obligation to fix mankind's age-old problems. It's like when cities broke up skid rows as actual physical locations. The bums and junkies just wandered into the places with names that ended in "Gardens" and "Heights" and wrecked those areas. If we take in the whole world, they'll bring their habits with them, trash our "nice neighborhood" of a country and then EVERYBODY loses. You have to protect the healthy sectors of society from the riffraff.
I am not going to watch the sting on the show, but I have questions. Similar to legal brothels in the hinterlands of Nevada, I am not going to participate in the market but I am also bothered by the asymmetry of information regarding pricing.
Are these single occupant units? If not, are all the occupants paying the same "rent"?
Is this a better deal for either party than Seeking Arrangements if that is still a thing?
Is this OK or does it fall afoul of some Canadian version of the fair housing act?
If the quality of services being rendered is poor, does the frequency then have to increase? Is it a free use thing?
I read about someone offering to share (non-sexually) a Queen bed for IIRC 900CAD/month, and the comments were "unlike a King, you can't even put up a divider."
"ahead of two BMWs, and the third-fastest Stock driver overall, behind a C8 and a Camaro SS LT1 but ahead of two C7 Vettes."
In every WAY that can be construed: OUCH
That endurance race sounds like a lot of fun. I don't know why you would say the passing was horrifying (except for having to trust the car next to you in the corner), since each of those passes have to make you feel like one Fernando Alonso each time one comes off. I know that's how I would.
Man, DO you complain.....
"As you can probably guess, the same CBC that embraces OnlyFans sex work is quite outraged at the idea of sex housing." LMAO WTF.....
"if you OF content creators out there think that GPT- 6.0 won’t be able to figure out your social security number and kids’ names in 2028 from an image of your left shoulder taken during your online “bad girl phase” in 2016 then you’re too naive to be using the Internet."
Please let this come true, Jah!
"I’ve come to believe that support for open borders is a flex. It’s the position taken by people who stand to economically benefit from having additional demand for their capital, whether the capital is real estate or investments or, I don’t know, Rolex Submariners. When you publicly state that immigration should be effectively unlimited, you are saying “I’m so rich, so successful, so unique and powerful, that I can only benefit from this.”
It’s like me saying, “Sure, I think women should be able to filter by height on Tinder.” That can’t hurt me, but it’s hell on the five-foot-eight crowd. And I can sound like a real advocate for women’s rights — “Nobody should ever have to take off their heels on a first date!” — while I laugh at what that policy does to other people."
For all of your readers who think I exist only to give you grief, THIS is PERFECTLY TRUE. You have hit the nail on the head.
"One of adulthood’s worst lessons is that things can feel good to us, or be beneficial to us as individuals, yet be inimical to society. Unlimited pornography. Low-cost recreational marijuana. Easy divorce. Lack of zoning laws. And so on. "
The hits keep coming!
"In a perfect world, however, this would get us all thinking about the consequences of feel-good decisions, for ourselves and others."
The lesson my soon to be 5 year old is already learning in her own way.
'That endurance race sounds like a lot of fun. I don't know why you would say the passing was horrifying (except for having to trust the car next to you in the corner), since each of those passes have to make you feel like one Fernando Alonso each time one comes off. I know that's how I would.'
These were novice racers and they weren't predictable. Which is why SCCA has this program: to help them get to where they want to be. I probably made two passes a lap for 110 laps. Some of them were... marginal.
"he was observing a refueling mission over the Atlantic"
how does anyone even get chosen to do that in the first place
"third-fastest Stock driver overall, behind a C8 and a Camaro SS LT1 but ahead of two C7 Vettes"
nvm this is more impressive. how much do you have to suck to get passed by a child in an accord when driving a c7? otoh maybe this is the best evidence of you capability to instruct (and how competent your kid is)
"international students, are being targeted by ads offering rent-free housing in exchange for sexual availability"
they also openly discriminate against whites or non indians when posting places for rent or jobs for hire (because those are literally the only people ive seen do this) and despite being blatantly illegal nothing is done about it. locations near colleges and universites are getting crushed under the weight of these people and destroying the neighboring areas and stories of people living 12 to a basement arent unheard of.
the immigration numbers are likely far higher than whats posted due to the actual influx of people coming in under mulitple pathways like tfws or international students or on visas or those bringing their families in. its literally insane. its not slowing down or stopping. in ten years we could very well have 50million people here and a huge chunk will be indian immigrants.
there is no current solution being proposed by anyone near any power
It just occurred to me to ask if the refueling mission showed only the KC-135 or KC-46 on radar, and such mission supporting the return from a certain act of..uhh..DIPLOMACY in the Middle East! 💣
I'm genuinely interested in understanding how he was selected, as in what agency even does this sort of thing. I'm probably asking a dumb or obvious question.
If you're 'in the system' so to say, it isn't that hard. I got to watch B-52's getting refueled over the midwest back when I was in ROTC. For guys like him who are in CAP, they get offered that stuff all the time, especially if they're already pilots. We used to see CAP folks often enough when I was in the service.
Canada (surprisingly the name hasn't been changed to some unpronounceable native/African/Indian word), is perhaps five years behind the UK. England itself being maybe five years from violent ethnic balkanization.
I have a front row seat to the destructive diversity as I ride the subway to work in Toronto. The commute of the damned.
Two requests, first that the US liberate us. Regime change or simply add a few new states, I'm easy. Don't worry, Canadians won't fight back. Heck, the British had to tell people of Upper Canada to stop helping the Americans during the War of 1812.
Second request, as the subway is becoming intolerable (will leave its depravations to your imagination for now) what car should I make a daily as an alternative. My current fleet spans the years 1959-1999, none are really suitable.
I think it will be far cheaper and easier for us to liberate Canada than to have to fortify the border.
And I don’t mean fortify with Border Patrol, I mean fortify with the US Army.
Having lived in and exited bad parts of Chicago, bad parts of Chicago suburbs, and the bad US state of Illinois, there’s no reward for living somewhere ruled and populated by people who hate you and your way of life and everything you stand for. It’s best to leave as soon as you can to live and thrive in freedom. For much of my life I had to be on guard and always be looking over my shoulder. Now that I live someplace free I no longer have to do that and it’s liberating. I wish it for everyone.
Sure, and as I've said before, you're free to change the number to even a negative value if you do so feel.
I am a guest, and act appropriately.
In the case above, imagine what ataraxis's position would be if the residents of the state he moved to went out of their way to make him feel unwelcome.
I am not sure about nc but any northerner moving to the south, especially smaller communities, is not exactly welcomed with open arms. Just in this thread i mentioned people from illinois are not much welcomed in mi or wi and texas absolutely doesnt want the retards fleeing California who will vote for the same stupid things
Well having lived in both Michigan and Illinois people from Illinois are special and think they're special too, so it follows that they get special treatment.
I'm surprised people burning the US flag while flying one from any other country by an alien is tolerated. I put it down to the retardedness of Joe sixpack.
RECOMMENDED: The newest, cleanest Ford {Focus, Fusion, Taurus} or Chevy {Malibu, Impala} within your budget: "cattle not pets."
ALTERNATIVES: Mopar {300, Charger, Challenger}, Saab {9000, 9-5}, AMC Eagle. If you need lots of headroom due to a long torso, skip the 9000 (if you're leggy, it's OK!).
The Dodges are RWD with traction control. The difference between the "recommended" and "alternatives" is that you have to think about whether you want:
a) a disposable commuting tool that preserves time, energy*, and money for your existing classic cars
or
b) Yet another classic car that will be another labour of love and soak up the time, energy*, and money that you want to spend on your existing classics.
I never liked AMC Eagle, but it's old and, in some ways, the progenitor of 99% of modern commuter CUVs.
April as you know, gas mileage was not even thought of as a consideration in the 71-73 GM FWD cars, the chain driver transmission and big block on top of it required front suspension components that ended up being utilized in 22 and 26 foot motor homes. I once took my Eldorado in to have a new set of 235/75-R15 installed and the young man could not believe the size of the front end components.
Great combination, first and last year, just wish they had upgraded the dash in the 71-73 as a lot of people comment on the down market look of that dash with its light colored plastic wood and black plastic switches for the rear defogger and convertible top. But the great advantage is no quarter and fender extensions to crack and fall off. Best and happy motoring
The new Camry was mighty impressive to me on a business trip to Buffalo a few months back. Quick enough and will have resale value when it’s time to sell it to a newcomer
I guess they decided that some ex vice governor of British Columbia wasn't sufficiently woke in his dealings with the Siberian-Canadians so Vancouver renamed Trutch Street to šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street (I dare you to try and pronounce it), which translates to Musqueamview in English, after the name the local tribe gives itself. Signposts bear the English name below the official Musqueam name, because not even the Musqueams can pronounce the phonemes created by academics to represent their language, which had no written alphabet. My favorite part is that they included the English translation on the signs. I bet locals still call it Trutch Street.
I was once talking to an Indian (dot, not feather) chap at the NAIAS and he said that periodically in Bharat (he called it India, btw) anti-colonial activists will rename something with a Hindi or Sanskrit name, but locals will still call it something like "Victoria Station". It doesn't matter what bank owns the naming rights but Cobo Hall will always be called Cobo Hall.
From Grok:
"The Musqueam First Nation, whose traditional language is hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ (a dialect of Halkomelem, a Coast Salish language), historically did not have a written alphabet, as their language was primarily oral. Like many Indigenous languages in North America, hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ was transmitted through spoken communication, storytelling, and cultural practices for thousands of years. Written systems were not part of their tradition until contact with European settlers and the influence of colonial systems.
In the 20th century, efforts to document and revitalize the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language led to the development of a writing system. In 1997, the Musqueam First Nation formally adopted the North American Phonetic Alphabet (NAPA) as their orthography to represent the sounds of hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓. This decision was made because the Latin alphabet used for English could not accurately capture the language’s unique sounds, including its 36 consonants (22 of which are not found in English) and distinct vowel sounds. NAPA was chosen for its specialized symbols, which are designed to document and teach Indigenous languages accurately."
the govt is way too absorbed with kowtowing to everyone but actual canadians to get anything accomplished and is especially overly concerned with its first nations people
Given the ages of your existing fleet, I assumed that you were looking for more modern (and probably more reliable and less of a project). My personal fleet policy is that redundancy (in the engineering sense) is good, but superfluity is bad.
Once, I had an old Saab (they're all old now), and, in a David-looking-out-the-window-when-he-should-have-been-at-war moment, found a GREAT DEAL on another Saab of the same year. He (the car: Saabs have personalities) provided excellent and economical service with outstanding performance, but, through no fault of his own, drove me crazy! I would have had much better mental health with almost anything else, because the roles and purposes would have been more clearly defined and the vehicles would have had more complimentary strengths and weaknesses. Like even a Geo Metro would be clearly "an ultra-economical penalty blob whose purpose is a backup car if the Saab needs service during the work week."
Larger would be Fusion (a good friend has one and it's been good) or Malibu (I rented one and it was nice).
If you are willing to try RWD with traction control, then you can let Brampton solve Brampton and consider Challenger, Charger, or 300. The latter seem very much to your taste as I understand it.
I'd try to find a Grand Prix GTP or one of its platform buddies with the supercharged 3.8. Literally good at everything if you can find a well cared for example. Perfect age, too. Even the most recent ones would only be a couple years newer than your '99.
That'd do it! A little more power than the GTP if memory serves, but, to counter Wyatt, I think the softer edges make the Grand Prix the better looking of the two. Can't go wrong either way. Park Ave and Regal had it, too, or if you have a stash of "3" stickers, the Monte Carlo fits the bill.
My gedankenexperiment was mostly focused on something, ideally domestic, that would be highly economical for cheap commuting, DIY repair, and entry-level motorsports (AutoX / RallyX). I wanted to avoid the Honda/Toyota tax. Although Honda is often more domestic than the Big 2.x these days, I have considerable history (generally positive) with Honda products, but always in a non-DIY context (and on one of them, even the dealer techs struggle to properly stow the dipstick, which indicates to me that the rest of the car may also be unusually difficult to work on).
I agree with "not much new that I find exciting," but also "not much new that seems like a long-term economical option." I did a deep dive and plotted out all the economy FF platforms (Civic was not the first) by year of introduction, and realized that if the 1970s were a transition from Système Panhard (FR) to FF, the 2020's are possibly the transition away from manual transmissions, ICE only powertrains, and non-crossover bodies. Another issue is that platforms seem to be turning over much more quickly: VW Type 1 and Mini were produced FOREVER, Falcon was ~1960-1980, Fox lasted for decades, Volvo 200 1974-1993, Saab 99/900 1969-1993, Range Rover 1970-1996, etc. That seems to be much less common these days, which has implications for parts availability and also the longevity of knowledge.
"REMITTANCE TAX" "enacted" but completely neutered.
Search for "SEC. 70604"
The rate is only 1% (not the proposed 5% or 3.5%), AND it only applies if paid with cash or check, NOT credit card, debit card, or bank transfer. Why even bother?
Never automatically trust anyone in a position of power—whether that is government, corporate, private, ngo, social club, track club, religious, or otherwise. Trust has to be continually earned.
Corollary is that you need people to seek positions of power bc those create and keep order. Otherwise the hierarchy of organized criminal violence will win everytime.
Let’s add more than $3 trillion to the national debt, cut medical care for the poorest Americans, hugely pump up funding for Trump’s masked private police force, funnel tax breaks to the very richest, expand the gravy train for munitions manufacturers, and all because you lot simmer in your crab bucket hatred for immigrants and women with blue hair. While we’re at it, cut clean energy, subsidize the oil companies, support fascist governments, scrub any mentioning of global warming or other environmental pressures that are the *cause* of people wanting to leave their own shitholes and come to ours. Job done.
'Let’s add more than $3 trillion to the national debt,'
Nobody cares. They didn't care when Biden added $7.5 trillion. Fiscal responsibility is a lost cause. I'm not saying this to excuse Trump, or to perform whataboutism. Just stating the fact.
'hugely pump up funding for Trump’s masked private police force'
Come back to me when they burn down a building full of kids, or shoot a pregnant woman in the head while she's holding her baby. Scratch that. Come back to me when they do what the "antifa" heroes MacArthur and Patton did to American citizens during the Bonus Army march. Some people are so eager to get a taste of stolen victim valor they can't be bothered to crack a history book.
'all because you lot simmer in your crab bucket hatred for immigrants and women with blue hair.'
Who is "you lot" here, exactly? I personally housed South American immigrants for nearly a DECADE while they worked through the process. At my own expense.
'cut clean energy'
Clean energy is a sinkhole of wasted money, and part of the reason we spend trillions. Worse yet, the trillions get spent on Solyndra style graft rather than on a genuine Manhattan Project of clean energy. Which we already did, by the way; it was called the Manhattan Project. Any plan that omits nuclear for solar and wind is pure fantasy.
'scrub any mentioning of global warming or other environmental pressures that are the *cause* of people wanting to leave their own shitholes and come to ours.'
In the words of Joe Rob -- Come on, man! Do you really think that people want to leave Venezuela and Somalia and India and Pakistan because of GLOBAL WARMING? Do ya see anyone leaving Texas or Florida over it?
Let's be thoughtful and logical in these discussions. Otherwise it's just emotions competing for vicarious satisfaction.
Global warming has made chicago winters tolerable and may make canada livable when we annex it. Im sure we will have 8 brutal winters in a row because of this comment. Unless we are willing to risk full on war with china, climate change is a lost cause
I find David Bahnsen's Capital Record podcast and blog informative about US debt. We won't see a hyperinflation spiral like Argentina or Zimbabwe. We WILL see anemic growth and relative economic decline like Japan.
THAT said, the US looks good compared to lazy EuroLand. Or corrupt China. Yes, the US has corruption too - like the '09 bailouts and public sector union grifts. But we are pebbles compared to the mountain of "Installed Base" Chinese Communist Party corruption.
There are solid reasons for wealthy Chinese to invest wealth US and Canadian condos. They want a trusted out.
By the way, very "nice" Switzerland gives local governments a veto vote over each new immigrant. For some reason, that's not much reported.
David Bahnsen likes to mention the USA'S TINA attributes.
Not sure if this is a trick question, but the simple answer is the party that starts with a “D”.
The longer answer is that the bill known as Obamacare is basically a poison pill for the budget of the US Government. A key feature of Obamacare is that when states expand Medicaid, US Government share of that new Medicaid benefit increases, so Obamacare was and is a way to blow-up the healthcare system, financially speaking, by further distressing the US Government’s financial state, and then “forcing” the US Government to move to single payer healthcare “to save costs”. There was a lot of discussion on the right about this back when Obamacare was being pushed through the house and senate, and the people talking about it were called kooks and conspiracy theorists. Now we can literally see how Obamacare is bankrupting and exploding the US debt in real time. So when the left says “this cuts Medicaid” they are lying because they are still hiding the fact that Obamacare was designed to do this (incentivize states to take lots of free money in the form of Medicaid reimbursement and move us all along the way to single payer). The left didn’t consider that someone like Trump would come after Obama, and that he would actually build the Republican Party to a level where they would have the power to, not undo Obamacare, but reverse some of the evil inside of it.
It was meant as a rhetorical question to the original poster who brought it up… either they say explicitly that’s what they want or understand what the reality is below the surface by applying the ‘above average’ IQ that everyone here has except me.
"hugely pump up funding for Trump’s masked private police force"
based. yeet the illegals over the wall and put that shit on payperview
"you lot simmer in your crab bucket hatred for immigrants and women with blue hair"
yeah because neither of those groups did anything to degrade the standard of living or freedoms in the west in any way shape or form right
"global warming or other environmental pressures that are the *cause* of people wanting to leave their own shitholes and come to ours"
yeah the us is the sole reason some third world wasteland became too hot and inhospitable therefore they should show up and be granted access to the greatest country in the world
I was pinched for time this afternoon, so I'll leave it to all of you to discuss Austrian GP!
Conspicuous lack of coverage given it was Yuki’s worst Red Bull race (so far).
If he doesn’t get a Caddy seat next year - he is on their list, apparently - he is out of the sport, UNLESS Max moves to Mercedes (or Aston Martin), and Red Bull is forced to scramble for drivers.
This is a Yuki-positive site... and our job is getting harder!
Sounds to my ears like 'HIV positive'.
He suck’s man. What he has going for him is the other bottom five also suck. Or that seat is cursed
Crying Isaak should think twice about taking the second seat at RB.
Setting aside the worthless Yuki, if Max DOES move to Mercedes, it'll be interesting to see what Red Bull's approach ends up being.
If it happens it'll be like starting over again and I wouldn't be surprised if they're back to square one, and Horner gets let go too.
Horner will try to hire his fellow Tory George Russell, who will be in the cold. Russell is rumored to have an opportunity at Aston Martin (don’t know which seat!), as well.
Horner is toast if Max leaves (and the 26 car isn’t a title winner).
One could question Red Bull’s corporate commitment to F1, but then again … the Red Bull Ring just inked a long term deal AND Mark Mateschitz just bought BCE’s tremendous collection of vintage F1 cars.
And that is why you dont text employees cringe stuff. Still think theyd be insane to fire him
-He fairly evidently had an affair with his PA; boys will be boys, sure. But he definitely displayed poor professional judgment, because…
-…Adrian Newey (who shared the PA) quit the team. As did other personnel.
-The prime mover in all of this Red Bull downfall was Christian’s Horniness.
So dumb. Your old wife is still hot dude! Maybe ginger spice doesnt put out anymore. Maybe newey was just looking for an excuse.
If Max leaves them, they'll be worse than the 2015 Red Bull team.
If Oscar had kept up the pressure and forced Lando into a mistake that would have ended the season. Highly entertaining race. I am almost as ready for a summer break as the teams, I think the long season is showing in mistakes.
I missed Piastri’s Alpine comment after COL nearly had him off.
Hey Yuki got justice!
Closest he’s finished to verstappen all year
Ahead! Please don't dis him. If the others would just kindly get out of his talentness and charm, we could crown a champion.
finally finshed above max
very happy for him
"I was pinched ..." Damn Swiss landlords
(long time reader, first time commenter and my first comment is about molestation... I am not proud of myself)
Congrats to your family on the wins. There was also an F1 race this past weekend. Norris won. Please debate the reasons why below.
I am not commenting on the Canadian rental situation because if I was honest about my thoughts and feelings, my mother would spontaneously teleport to my place and slap me for using such language.
you might as well tell us how you really feel as theres no reason to self censor
a lot will likely agree with you
Did you miss the part about spontaneous maternal teleportation?
i did see that yeah
Mom be one of the only distaff subscribers here
McLaren's doing something that helps their tires. Rumors of phase change materials, and apparently an interesting suspension setup. Didn't Chapman say "any suspension works, as long as you don't let it"? Not quite that extreme, but... Here's a vid on it: https://youtu.be/3mAeVIA94n0?si=driPt67eAnlb1cYz
I could swear that everyone was saying the same thing about the RB19.
In that video linked above the narrator (who I believe knows what he's talking about) says the scrutineers have examined the McLaren and found it "legal, but clever." Something going on with brake cooling...
You are correct about the brake cooling. I was referring to the belief that Newey's piece of the RB19 was the anti-dive suspension that made its ability to develop downforce so much more consistent than the porpoising horde of 2023 F1 cars.
MotoGP ran at Assen in the Netherlands this past weekend
(Sachsenring the weekend after this where Marc Marquez has the moniker King of the Ring).
In a shocking qualification Marc Marquez was down all the way in fourth place behind his brother in third, Bagnaia looking sharp in second, and Quartararo once again with a pole position on the Yamaha.
At the jump Marc makes great progress and slides into second between turns one and two putting Bagnaia and his brother behind him. Alex put further pain on 63 in turn 8 to secure third place in lap one.
In lap 2 93 and 73 both overtook Quartararo.
Bezecci passed Bagnaia for fourth place, and then Quartararo the next lap to seize third. He proved be unable to overtake the Marquez brothers in the sprint but did finish on the podium. Marc first, and Alex second.
Bagnaia was further beaten up and ended down in 5th with no ability to hold off Digiantonnio's late charge. If only Digi had better qualifying!
The race was about equally poor for Quartararo. Marc, again, put on a clinic in getting to the front and holding it for the duration. Alex wrecked out in his second big mistake of the year, but the only one that counts as the first was spared by a red flag restart. Bezzechi looked strong and ran in second but was unable to overtake Marc with a half second gap at the end. Bagnaia faded and rallied to a distant third. Digi failed to duplicate his late charge, tangling with teammate Morbidelli, and finished 6th behind Vinales and Acosta.
The rookies had a fraught weekend with Ogura high siding and his bike burning. Aldeguer also high sided during the race. Chantra finally finished second to DFL behind Aleix Espargo as Honda's wildcard.
MotoAmerica ran at the Ridge on the west coast (best coast) but their premiere class, King of the Baggers, was absent.
Instead it was a Herrin, Beaubier, Gagne 1-2-3 both races in a fairly boring weekend.
Supersport's Scholz finished first and clawed back points against PJ Jacobsen. Blake Davis is developing well as a rider along with Ty Scott
Marc's races are even more impressive considering his two crashes Friday. One of which apparently bruised his junk pretty bad.
Watching him skip through the gravel and then clutch his groin and collapse was a relatable moment.
I have friends (a married couple) who lived in Geneva for a few years.
They both had excellent jobs (Pictet; restructuring law) and massive trust funds (both families worth well into 9 figures), but their first remark about Geneva after returning back stateside was … “It was SO expensive.”
And moreover: Draconian speeding laws, US citizens don’t get the tax benefits, etc.
Perhaps Jack should consult with our mutual friend Ted Gushue about the relative merits of living in St. Moritz vs. Gstaad!
I can't pronounce either so I wont go there. Lucerne I understand because of the Buick.
Lucerne was Safeway's house brand for dairy long before it was a Buick.
https://www.safeway.com/lp/lucerne.html
(The "Scotch Buy" line appears to be discontinued, unfortunately.)
https://www.brandlandusa.com/2017/07/12/safeway-house-brands-edwards-coffee-history/
https://www.defenestrationmag.net/2009/07/%E2%80%9Cscotch-buy-cookies-anyone%E2%80%9D-by-rachel-levy/
Cragmont seems to be gone too.
Yeah, I didn't remember that one: https://www.brandlandusa.com/2009/10/23/what-happened-to-safeways-private-brands/
They used to have those funky soda flavors like chocolate or strawberry or green apple. way before Jones Soda.
So can i not respond to the DM you sent me without installing Substack’s app?
Nope; I’ve never used the app: just use a real Web Browser like Librewolf/Brave/Firefox or Chrome!
https://www.ft.com/content/36871929-c8cd-4b30-8c9c-c36eccdf1042
Holy shit they really have an Audemars quote in there
He is sponsored by Loro Piana, AP, Acqua di Parma, etc.
Just shows how every brand needs to push down market to grow in the B2C space. Kind of wild to me but it makes sense, now I just need to get used to seeing it everywhere around me in Miami.
Never heard of this guy, but always welcome parody. Thanks for the link.
Maybe Jack's into it for the uh, 'stuff' he mentions.
Fuck Switzerland. Seriously. Come here.
Unless we fuck up in the next election and become next Hungary... and, hell, even it that's the case, you want to live here.
It's not all mountains here. We do have mountains and even with the global warming, there is going to be skiing available for a few more decades in the winter.
We also have almost everything else, with the sad exception of the access to the sea (though you can go to either Adriatic or Baltic in 10 or 5 hours respectively, the time to Baltic being shorter due to it being almost all Autobahn.
We have Prague, which is one of the most charming and mysterious capitals in Europe. Also one not destroyed by WW2 and surprisingly little harmed by 1950s to 1980s communist building of concrete shit. Some of said concrete shit is even quite cool.
We have Southern Moravia, which, in this day, age and climate, is getting closer and closer to, say, Tuscany. We have places called Czech Switzerland and Czech Canada and Czech.. a few other things. Mountains, hills, lowlands, rivers, lakes.
And the fun part is that everything mentioned above is within 3-4 hours of driving from anything else, as we are slightly smaller than Kansas and slightly bigger than Nebraska.
We live in cities and villages, so there's a lot of free space to roam around even though we have the population of Michigan on above mentioned area.
We are a "cut-price Germany" when it comes to industry, especially automotive. Which is why Škoda is the highest-margin European mainstream automaker. It also outsells Tesla in electric cars, Europe-wide. And it still makes Octavia TDI, which is the VW Golf you actually want and need.
Only we have about half the wages Germans do, which makes us the Mexico of Europe. So we won't likely go broke anytime soon, because we make same shit for less money than the Western Europeans do.
We are also cold, cynical, atheist bastards outwardly, but quite nice if you get to know us. Imagine a cross between Austrians, Germans and English or Irish.
Much like Switzerland, our borders are mountains – which means that if you look at those videos of European borders changing over last 1,000 years, most of ours remain intact, with the exception of the part where we border with Austria in the east.
We are one of the safest countries in Europe, which also means in the world.
At the same time, we are probably the only country in EU where it's easy and legal to own AND CARRY a firearm, as long as it's semi-auto. You just have to concealed-carry. But you can concealed-carry an AR-15 if you figure out how.
For a long time, we didn't have a lot of immigrants. Now we have – mostly Ukrainians, who are very much like us. And Vietnamese, who differ by not being as lazy as we are.
And, of course, we make the best beer in the known universe. And quite acceptable wine. And very good slivovitz and other fruit spirits.
The best part – while Prague and other big cities got fucking expensive, the countryside is still cheap.
For what you could sell your house for, you can probably get a mid-sized chateau in here. Or a small castle. Or something.
Also, there's a lot of airfields and we are one of the best in the world in making small airplanes, from ultralight to Zlins.
John needs a Zlin, because Pipers and Beechcrafts suck (let's not talk about Cessnas). We made, and I think still make, the Zlin Z-143, which is a four-seater aerobatic plane. Imagine a Beech Bonanza that's full aerobatic.
There's only one problem. If you want citizenship, you'll need to learn the language. And that sucks. I mean, the language is beautiful, but it's hard enough to properly learn if you're born here.
Still, better than Switzerland OCD on everything. That country looks like a model train set. Czechia is the right amount of messy. Not full of garbage like souther Italy and not overly clean like Switzerland or Bavaria.
I've spent a lot of my adult life trying to figure out where to emigrate, only to find out that from almost every other country on Earth, I would actually IMMIGRATE here.
But no one can speak your language, our keyboards don't even have this "š" letter on them, and for TOO MANY YEARS the composer didn't have a mention on the top of this page so you had to go to a disambiguation page to find the proper Tomas Dvorak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1_Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k
Besides, you've kept a Jaguar X-Type running, which means it's not safe to be on Czech roads. That alone should disqualify anyone from moving there.
Well, actually, Slovaks almost can! Their language is close enough to ours that we can each speak our respective language and understand each other. My parents' generation could even do this with Polish. I still can converse with Poles if there's a bottle of vodka available.
Also, your keyboard can do it, as can ours! It's just that numbers from 2 to 0 are ěščřžýáíé, and you write the numbers with shift.
But you can't pronounce ř. No one can pronounce ř.
And my X-type is not NEARLY the most dangerous thing on our roads.
I also have a Buick Rendezvous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key
That was great! But you left out the beautiful women. Prague was, for me, an eye opening experience!
I know, but I tend to forget about it, as it's "the normal" for me... :)
Honest but cruel nonetheless!
Looking for a woman with high cheekbones in my area is like Demosthenes looking for an honest man in Athens.
I thought Prague was impressive in that regard. Then I went to Tel Aviv.
No disrespect to my Jewish sisters in Tel Aviv, but I've often heard it said that Estonia has the highest per capita rate of beautiful women of any country in the world.
More beautiful, per capita, across an astonishing age range, than…than the women of Tel Aviv?
Inconceivable.
When I worked for Intel in Hillsboro, OR, I always looked forward to the visits from the Israeli engineers. They came by fairly regularly as they were working on standing up an fab facility in Israel and were using the Ronler Acres fab as a model. At least that was my understanding. My work while organizationally under the fab unbrella had almost nothing do do with the manufacturing process.
I'd like to visit Prague some day. On Etsy I sell a replica of the Hebrew clock in the old Jewish quarter. Yes, it runs, ahem, counterclockwise.
Let me know if you do. I can show you around!
Is there anything interesting to see or experience on the Czech side of the border near Klingenthal, Germany? I do business with the Seydel harmonica company (the oldest in the world, btw) and I hope to one day visit their factory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grrydRwCpi4
Apparently, one of the largest synagogues in the world, and one of the few in the region that wasn't destroyed or damaged by the Nazis is about an hour away in Plzeň. This website (https://www.visitplzen.eu/en/visit-pilsen/the-best-of-pilsen/great-synagogue/) says that it's closed on Fridays, Saturdays, and Jewish holidays, but Grok says that it's an active congregation with regular religious services so I assume that means closed to the tours offered to the general public.
Depends on what you're interested in and how far are you willing to go – within an hour is quite a lot, within two is REALLY A LOT.
Closest to Klingenthal is Karlovy Vary, a wonderful spa town that hosts a famous film festival.
Plzeň can be also interesting – besides the synagogue, there's of course the Pilsner Urquell brewery. And yes, I looked at the Czech website of the synagogue, it is closed Fridays, Saturdays and Jewish holidays for general public. It really is an active congregation.
Here's the website:
https://www.zoplzen.cz/index-en.html
Can I bring my Guns?
I imagine it would involve some hellish bureaucracy, but I'm almost sure it would be possible. As long as they're not automatic.
Or you can sell them and get new ones here.
Also, Colt is a Czech brand now.
Well, mostly they're CZ. Free pass maybe?
Probably easier to sell and buy new ones here. Could be a hassle for a non-citizen to get guns here, though.
I understand. It can be a hassle for a US citizen to get a gun. Kind of used to that.
Seriously though, I've always wanted to visit Prague. Beautiful in pictures, better in person I'm sure.
There's a Czech bar in Denver I like. Friends with the owner, love the Czechs.
I once used the phrase “toxic empathy” in an internet argu-, ahh, discussion, and was basically laughed out of the chat by the simpletons who seek to out-empathy the next guy. But that’s exactly what it is, doing what “feels like” the right thing because you want to be a good person, while having zero understanding of the 2nd, 3rd, nth order effects of doing “the right thing.” Why wouldn’t you give your kid candy and ice cream for every single meal? Doesn’t it make your kid happy? Why wouldn’t you want your kid to be happy you monster? Etc.
There's also suicidal empathy, like "Jews For Mamdani". Gad Saad talks about it.
white liberals probably suffer the most from
Well, the distaff half for sure. The only thing worse for our society than Affluent White Female Liberal - AWFLs, are leftist lawyers and judges who have no regard for the law or justice, only power.
AWFLs!
I’m stealing that!
First i find out not everyone had pizza bagels and awfls isnt a widely known term
It’s not original so you’re not stealing it from me.
He’s great! Many videos out there of him discussing suicidal empathy. I believe he has a book in the works about this, as a follow up to the Parasitic Mind.
Nothing unusual about that. Jews have this weird disconnect between their intelligence and their voting habits.
First off, the vast majority of American Jews don't have any deep knowledge about traditional Jewish values and beliefs. A large fraction are not affiliated with any synagogue or Jewish fellowship at all, and those who are affiliated with Reform and, to a lesser extent, Conservative congregations have likely been miseducated by their clergy into thinking that Judaism is a cross between the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man and whatever the Democratic party's platform is this year. Hence the "tikkun olam" dolts. Add the fact that they are likely to have been indoctrinated with leftist stuff on campus.
Also, half of Ashkenazi Jews (there are crazy leftist Mizrachi Jews but with their families having experienced the joys of being a religious minority in the Muslim world, they tend to be a bit more grounded in reality) have IQs under 115. We're not all Einsteins & David Mamets.
There are some cultural factors at play too. Jews have been refugees many, many times, so the culture has sympathy for immigrants, and they've been persecuted, so the culture has sympathy for the downtrodden and persecuted. Also, compassion for the poor and foreigners has been part of the Jewish religion going back to scripture. The Talmud (Yevamot 79a) teaches that Jews should be compassionate, modest, and perform acts of kindness if they want to act as Jews.
Of course, if current trends for birthrates, intermarriage, and assimilation, continue, within a generation or two the majority of American Jews will likely be religiously orthodox and politically conservative. My youngest grandson just finished 1st grade. His yeshiva had three 1st grade classes this year. At least half of non-orthodox Jews marry non-Jews and a minority of their children identify as Jewish (putting aside religious standards for who is a Jew). Orthodox Jews have very large families. With four kids, my son and daughter in law are likely to have the smallest family on their block. About 90% of American Jews raised as orthodox stay religious. Do the math.
What is a Christian? A person who accepts Jesus Christ as their savior.
What is a Muslim? A person who worships Allah.
What is a Buddhist? One who follows the teachings of The Buddha.
But what is a Jew? A person who was born into a Jewish family? A person who has chosen to follow the tenets of the Jewish faith? A person of Jewish ethnicity? A person who's only a Jew because of their name, and not their behavior?
Seems the answer is Yes, No and Maybe, but that's speaking as a gentile looking in.
A Jew is someone the Jewish religion defines as a Jew, specifically the child of a woman who is considered by Jewish law to be a Jew, or someone who has converted to Judaism in accordance with Jewish law. By Jewish law, I mean orthodox Judaism in its Ashkenazi, Mizrachi, or Yemenite forms. That means, yes, someone who was born Jewish but has even rejected Judaism could be still considered a Jew in the eyes of Jewish law. They're still bound by the covenant and are obligated to perform commandments. That doesn't mean, however that apostates are counted towards prayer quorums and the like.
0. The 'global south' has shown that it can produce infinity people
1. These places are crowded, usually violent, dirty, literal shitholes because that is what they are capable of creating. Any place they go in numbers will become those things.
2. This is not my fucking problem. I don't care if it makes big line go up or helps boomers get their lawns and roofs done on the cheap.
3. I can figure out how to make my own tacos and curry. (They can keep their mud cakes.)
4. 10 bucks says these chicks fucked dirtier and smellier guys back home for much, much less.
5. We don't want your best and brightest either. Make your own country better.
ive heard that the billions sent overseas as remittances is making life over there more difficult as its driving up the cost of living
It would be trivial to tax remittances at very high rates. Both parties, including the pathetic cuckservatives in the GOP are against it. The new president of Mexico had a conniption over just the mention of it
I would be heavily supportive of such a tax.
https://www.avoidablecontact.com/p/wednesday-ort-air-fryer-supreme-commander/comment/132188673
When you're taking flak, it's a sign that you're over the target!
[edit; spelling 🤦♂️]
Very good! But, linguistic nitpick, it's "flak" surely?
🤦♂️ Yes, thank you!
See the title of this Far Side: https://dks.library.kent.edu/?a=d&d=dks19941209-01.2.45&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
[note that Chrissie Hynde briefly attended said institution before decamping to London after the government shot several of her classmates]
Right, you don't hear the term "brain drain" anymore in relation to immigration, but it's still a valid concern
bingo on all points
i hate it when people say they want immigrants for their food
subcontinental slop is by definition easy to make
While I think food is a really really poor argument to support immigration, slop from anywhere is by definition easy to make.
Not all subcontinental food is slop. Sounds like that's all you've been exposed to.
seems to be all thats sold around here
i dont know of many complex indian dishes but ive never seen them sold here whole lot of butter chicken however
go figure
Proper butter chicken shouldn't look or taste like slop. But it's not real Indian food anyways. Look up it's history if you have time to waste.
butter chicken i do like though
i think over here we probably get the watered down versions of some dishes given how spicy some of them can be. i went to a proper indian restaurant (as recommended by a friend of mine) and while the flavor was great it was absurdly hot
went to go try it again years later and it was gone
Yes what you consider absurdly hot is generally medium for a real Indian.
Also they're terrible at the restaurant business. They open and close doors. All the time in months.
Indian food served by SF bay area restaurants is typically slop. Home-cooked dishes brought to the company pot luck had little resemblance to restaurant fare and was quite tasty.
Indian food is a Lovecraftian horror. Especially that street-vendor stuff in Mumbai and Bangalore.
slop is quite easy
a recipe's more involved
why eateries fail
slick haiku
America is under no obligation to fix mankind's age-old problems. It's like when cities broke up skid rows as actual physical locations. The bums and junkies just wandered into the places with names that ended in "Gardens" and "Heights" and wrecked those areas. If we take in the whole world, they'll bring their habits with them, trash our "nice neighborhood" of a country and then EVERYBODY loses. You have to protect the healthy sectors of society from the riffraff.
Jokes on these guys when they end up common law married and the chick gets half their shit
I am not going to watch the sting on the show, but I have questions. Similar to legal brothels in the hinterlands of Nevada, I am not going to participate in the market but I am also bothered by the asymmetry of information regarding pricing.
Are these single occupant units? If not, are all the occupants paying the same "rent"?
Is this a better deal for either party than Seeking Arrangements if that is still a thing?
Is this OK or does it fall afoul of some Canadian version of the fair housing act?
If the quality of services being rendered is poor, does the frequency then have to increase? Is it a free use thing?
Utilities?
Imagine the paperwork on eviction “she wont fuck me bro”
Afroman already wrote that notice for you. CTRL + C and CTRL + V.
2livecrew made one as well.
Girl you eatin all my food
You drinkin all my beer
You smokin all my weed
ive seen listings for what amounts to a mattress thrown on a kitchen floor
its dire out there
I read about someone offering to share (non-sexually) a Queen bed for IIRC 900CAD/month, and the comments were "unlike a King, you can't even put up a divider."
welcome to canada
Christ on a Swiss Cake Roll!
There’s a subreddit that explores the subject of Canada’s absurd rental stock: https://www.reddit.com/r/SlumlordsCanada/
Most of it isn’t exactly for Canadians or by Canadians, but rather for a certain group, by a certain group ;)
kills me that they dont just seek any indian but indians from a very specific class
as if renting for the regular canadians wasnt difficult enough
Superb job by John. Can't really say much more..
"ahead of two BMWs, and the third-fastest Stock driver overall, behind a C8 and a Camaro SS LT1 but ahead of two C7 Vettes."
In every WAY that can be construed: OUCH
That endurance race sounds like a lot of fun. I don't know why you would say the passing was horrifying (except for having to trust the car next to you in the corner), since each of those passes have to make you feel like one Fernando Alonso each time one comes off. I know that's how I would.
Man, DO you complain.....
"As you can probably guess, the same CBC that embraces OnlyFans sex work is quite outraged at the idea of sex housing." LMAO WTF.....
"if you OF content creators out there think that GPT- 6.0 won’t be able to figure out your social security number and kids’ names in 2028 from an image of your left shoulder taken during your online “bad girl phase” in 2016 then you’re too naive to be using the Internet."
Please let this come true, Jah!
"I’ve come to believe that support for open borders is a flex. It’s the position taken by people who stand to economically benefit from having additional demand for their capital, whether the capital is real estate or investments or, I don’t know, Rolex Submariners. When you publicly state that immigration should be effectively unlimited, you are saying “I’m so rich, so successful, so unique and powerful, that I can only benefit from this.”
It’s like me saying, “Sure, I think women should be able to filter by height on Tinder.” That can’t hurt me, but it’s hell on the five-foot-eight crowd. And I can sound like a real advocate for women’s rights — “Nobody should ever have to take off their heels on a first date!” — while I laugh at what that policy does to other people."
For all of your readers who think I exist only to give you grief, THIS is PERFECTLY TRUE. You have hit the nail on the head.
"One of adulthood’s worst lessons is that things can feel good to us, or be beneficial to us as individuals, yet be inimical to society. Unlimited pornography. Low-cost recreational marijuana. Easy divorce. Lack of zoning laws. And so on. "
The hits keep coming!
"In a perfect world, however, this would get us all thinking about the consequences of feel-good decisions, for ourselves and others."
The lesson my soon to be 5 year old is already learning in her own way.
'That endurance race sounds like a lot of fun. I don't know why you would say the passing was horrifying (except for having to trust the car next to you in the corner), since each of those passes have to make you feel like one Fernando Alonso each time one comes off. I know that's how I would.'
These were novice racers and they weren't predictable. Which is why SCCA has this program: to help them get to where they want to be. I probably made two passes a lap for 110 laps. Some of them were... marginal.
Even double impressive to finish the race with no contact.
"he was observing a refueling mission over the Atlantic"
how does anyone even get chosen to do that in the first place
"third-fastest Stock driver overall, behind a C8 and a Camaro SS LT1 but ahead of two C7 Vettes"
nvm this is more impressive. how much do you have to suck to get passed by a child in an accord when driving a c7? otoh maybe this is the best evidence of you capability to instruct (and how competent your kid is)
"international students, are being targeted by ads offering rent-free housing in exchange for sexual availability"
they also openly discriminate against whites or non indians when posting places for rent or jobs for hire (because those are literally the only people ive seen do this) and despite being blatantly illegal nothing is done about it. locations near colleges and universites are getting crushed under the weight of these people and destroying the neighboring areas and stories of people living 12 to a basement arent unheard of.
the immigration numbers are likely far higher than whats posted due to the actual influx of people coming in under mulitple pathways like tfws or international students or on visas or those bringing their families in. its literally insane. its not slowing down or stopping. in ten years we could very well have 50million people here and a huge chunk will be indian immigrants.
there is no current solution being proposed by anyone near any power
It just occurred to me to ask if the refueling mission showed only the KC-135 or KC-46 on radar, and such mission supporting the return from a certain act of..uhh..DIPLOMACY in the Middle East! 💣
He disappeared off the flight tracker for four hours. His mother was apoplectic. I was outwardly stoic, at least.
I'm genuinely interested in understanding how he was selected, as in what agency even does this sort of thing. I'm probably asking a dumb or obvious question.
He is a cadet captain and squadron commander in Civil Air Patrol who intends to attend the USAFA, so these opportunities tend to pop up.
So when you say on an actual tanker does that mean a ship or the refueling plane?
I mean a KC-135
For some reason I thought maybe he was at a base observing the mission.
Not on one of the actual tankers!
CAP has its benefits! (“Bennies,” as my Mom used to say! 😂)
that makes two of us
If you're 'in the system' so to say, it isn't that hard. I got to watch B-52's getting refueled over the midwest back when I was in ROTC. For guys like him who are in CAP, they get offered that stuff all the time, especially if they're already pilots. We used to see CAP folks often enough when I was in the service.
The kid used to maneuvering machinery in three axes
Driving around a track is an x- y- endeavor
i feel like if that were the case a lot more drivers would have their pilots license
Only the drivers who launch their cars airborne in their driving tests
Nice event, I was driving the NC Miata in the photo above. I enjoyed seeing the spec racer out there.
Exceptionally handsome car! As you may know, we have three NC Miatas at the barn.
Canada (surprisingly the name hasn't been changed to some unpronounceable native/African/Indian word), is perhaps five years behind the UK. England itself being maybe five years from violent ethnic balkanization.
I have a front row seat to the destructive diversity as I ride the subway to work in Toronto. The commute of the damned.
Two requests, first that the US liberate us. Regime change or simply add a few new states, I'm easy. Don't worry, Canadians won't fight back. Heck, the British had to tell people of Upper Canada to stop helping the Americans during the War of 1812.
Second request, as the subway is becoming intolerable (will leave its depravations to your imagination for now) what car should I make a daily as an alternative. My current fleet spans the years 1959-1999, none are really suitable.
I think it will be far cheaper and easier for us to liberate Canada than to have to fortify the border.
And I don’t mean fortify with Border Patrol, I mean fortify with the US Army.
Having lived in and exited bad parts of Chicago, bad parts of Chicago suburbs, and the bad US state of Illinois, there’s no reward for living somewhere ruled and populated by people who hate you and your way of life and everything you stand for. It’s best to leave as soon as you can to live and thrive in freedom. For much of my life I had to be on guard and always be looking over my shoulder. Now that I live someplace free I no longer have to do that and it’s liberating. I wish it for everyone.
You just made the case for why I an an immigrant.
We all understand why immigrants want to come here. The argument is how many do WE want
Sure, and as I've said before, you're free to change the number to even a negative value if you do so feel.
I am a guest, and act appropriately.
In the case above, imagine what ataraxis's position would be if the residents of the state he moved to went out of their way to make him feel unwelcome.
I am not sure about nc but any northerner moving to the south, especially smaller communities, is not exactly welcomed with open arms. Just in this thread i mentioned people from illinois are not much welcomed in mi or wi and texas absolutely doesnt want the retards fleeing California who will vote for the same stupid things
Well having lived in both Michigan and Illinois people from Illinois are special and think they're special too, so it follows that they get special treatment.
Speaking of acting like guests, I wonder how flying a flag of Lashkar E Taiba in Delhi would go over with the authorities and general public.
I'm surprised people burning the US flag while flying one from any other country by an alien is tolerated. I put it down to the retardedness of Joe sixpack.
Poorly, but it does happen. I don't know why you're asking this, since they're a globally recognized terrorist organization.
They want all the benefits of colonialism without the actual colonialism.
https://youtu.be/9foi342LXQE?t=56
Updating my previous reply:
RECOMMENDED: The newest, cleanest Ford {Focus, Fusion, Taurus} or Chevy {Malibu, Impala} within your budget: "cattle not pets."
ALTERNATIVES: Mopar {300, Charger, Challenger}, Saab {9000, 9-5}, AMC Eagle. If you need lots of headroom due to a long torso, skip the 9000 (if you're leggy, it's OK!).
The Dodges are RWD with traction control. The difference between the "recommended" and "alternatives" is that you have to think about whether you want:
a) a disposable commuting tool that preserves time, energy*, and money for your existing classic cars
or
b) Yet another classic car that will be another labour of love and soak up the time, energy*, and money that you want to spend on your existing classics.
I never liked AMC Eagle, but it's old and, in some ways, the progenitor of 99% of modern commuter CUVs.
* Energy: mental, physical, and emotional
Speaking from experience, mopars with good snow tires are fucking tanks in the winter.
UPDATE: The downside to a) is "doing 90% of your driving in something you don't like." I like the Tornado idea!
That is the eternal question, boring and perhaps practical or economical or beautiful and energy sapping.
If you do adopt (I didn't say "buy") a Saab, first make sure that you have a good specialist mechanic
https://www.saabnet.com/tsn/faq/service/
(you can also try https://www.saabshops.com/)
Saabnet is a great source of listings:
https://www.saabnet.com/tsn/class/9000.html
https://www.saabnet.com/tsn/class/9-5.html
I had 78 XS with the 403, huge but good on gas. But the 71-72 is the purist version of the 71-78 generation but had a very thirsty 455.
April as you know, gas mileage was not even thought of as a consideration in the 71-73 GM FWD cars, the chain driver transmission and big block on top of it required front suspension components that ended up being utilized in 22 and 26 foot motor homes. I once took my Eldorado in to have a new set of 235/75-R15 installed and the young man could not believe the size of the front end components.
Oh yes I have a 71 Eldorado in the fleet and a 78 Biarritz (which is far more economical with the 425 - but not as frugal as the Olds 403).
Great combination, first and last year, just wish they had upgraded the dash in the 71-73 as a lot of people comment on the down market look of that dash with its light colored plastic wood and black plastic switches for the rear defogger and convertible top. But the great advantage is no quarter and fender extensions to crack and fall off. Best and happy motoring
"I ride the subway to work in Toronto"
i couldnt imagine the hell that is
crowded areas feel like sensory overstimulation now and every time i catch a whiff of bo in public i get flashbacks to college
if the us ever liberates us everyone is just moving south anyway
also just get a corolla or some other small cheap thing because no matter how bad it is its better than the subway or a bus
Think fwd for winter and bigger than a Corolla for safety, the highways around the GTA feel like Death Race 2000 warm up lap.
The new Camry was mighty impressive to me on a business trip to Buffalo a few months back. Quick enough and will have resale value when it’s time to sell it to a newcomer
If we liberate you im getting a cabin in canada and a snow mobile. You can learn fib just like the wisconsinites. Or maybe FABS
i have no idea what fib or fabs is
Fib = fucking illinois bastard. Wisconsin and Michigan people hate us because we buy all their houses on the lake
Fab= fucking american bastard cause im getting an American north lakehouse
I have found memories of Click click click or the nation formerly known as canada in my youth
I guess they decided that some ex vice governor of British Columbia wasn't sufficiently woke in his dealings with the Siberian-Canadians so Vancouver renamed Trutch Street to šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street (I dare you to try and pronounce it), which translates to Musqueamview in English, after the name the local tribe gives itself. Signposts bear the English name below the official Musqueam name, because not even the Musqueams can pronounce the phonemes created by academics to represent their language, which had no written alphabet. My favorite part is that they included the English translation on the signs. I bet locals still call it Trutch Street.
I was once talking to an Indian (dot, not feather) chap at the NAIAS and he said that periodically in Bharat (he called it India, btw) anti-colonial activists will rename something with a Hindi or Sanskrit name, but locals will still call it something like "Victoria Station". It doesn't matter what bank owns the naming rights but Cobo Hall will always be called Cobo Hall.
From Grok:
"The Musqueam First Nation, whose traditional language is hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ (a dialect of Halkomelem, a Coast Salish language), historically did not have a written alphabet, as their language was primarily oral. Like many Indigenous languages in North America, hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ was transmitted through spoken communication, storytelling, and cultural practices for thousands of years. Written systems were not part of their tradition until contact with European settlers and the influence of colonial systems.
In the 20th century, efforts to document and revitalize the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language led to the development of a writing system. In 1997, the Musqueam First Nation formally adopted the North American Phonetic Alphabet (NAPA) as their orthography to represent the sounds of hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓. This decision was made because the Latin alphabet used for English could not accurately capture the language’s unique sounds, including its 36 consonants (22 of which are not found in English) and distinct vowel sounds. NAPA was chosen for its specialized symbols, which are designed to document and teach Indigenous languages accurately."
the govt is way too absorbed with kowtowing to everyone but actual canadians to get anything accomplished and is especially overly concerned with its first nations people
frankly its just embarrassing
First Nations people at least have some legitimate claim to Canada.
Prioritizing people from literally the opposite side of the planet is evil.
"I still call it Pine Knob" (which is once again official)
The 20th century could have been lost also, but the AEL took action: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907_Vancouver_anti-Asian_riots
https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaHousing2/
I have no insider knowledge, but what do you think about a manual Ford Focus (FWD and not particularly small)?
too small, too modern...perhaps
Given the ages of your existing fleet, I assumed that you were looking for more modern (and probably more reliable and less of a project). My personal fleet policy is that redundancy (in the engineering sense) is good, but superfluity is bad.
Once, I had an old Saab (they're all old now), and, in a David-looking-out-the-window-when-he-should-have-been-at-war moment, found a GREAT DEAL on another Saab of the same year. He (the car: Saabs have personalities) provided excellent and economical service with outstanding performance, but, through no fault of his own, drove me crazy! I would have had much better mental health with almost anything else, because the roles and purposes would have been more clearly defined and the vehicles would have had more complimentary strengths and weaknesses. Like even a Geo Metro would be clearly "an ultra-economical penalty blob whose purpose is a backup car if the Saab needs service during the work week."
Larger would be Fusion (a good friend has one and it's been good) or Malibu (I rented one and it was nice).
If you are willing to try RWD with traction control, then you can let Brampton solve Brampton and consider Challenger, Charger, or 300. The latter seem very much to your taste as I understand it.
UPDATE: See https://www.avoidablecontact.com/p/wednesday-ort-air-fryer-supreme-commander/comment/131598158
I'd try to find a Grand Prix GTP or one of its platform buddies with the supercharged 3.8. Literally good at everything if you can find a well cared for example. Perfect age, too. Even the most recent ones would only be a couple years newer than your '99.
2000 Bonneville SSEi ?
That'd do it! A little more power than the GTP if memory serves, but, to counter Wyatt, I think the softer edges make the Grand Prix the better looking of the two. Can't go wrong either way. Park Ave and Regal had it, too, or if you have a stash of "3" stickers, the Monte Carlo fits the bill.
96 Park Avenue Ultra would be the sweet spot…..scarce up here and expensive for a really good one.
Even cooler than the GTP in my opinion.
GTI or R?
Wouldn't those be basically Focus-sized with higher TCO? Any cost of this commuter-pod will be cutting into her budget for the existing classic fleet.
Point taken.
TLX or Accord?
I don’t know, there’s not much new that I find exciting. I suggest the Accord but would never buy one myself. They’re just so ugly in recent years.
My gedankenexperiment was mostly focused on something, ideally domestic, that would be highly economical for cheap commuting, DIY repair, and entry-level motorsports (AutoX / RallyX). I wanted to avoid the Honda/Toyota tax. Although Honda is often more domestic than the Big 2.x these days, I have considerable history (generally positive) with Honda products, but always in a non-DIY context (and on one of them, even the dealer techs struggle to properly stow the dipstick, which indicates to me that the rest of the car may also be unusually difficult to work on).
I agree with "not much new that I find exciting," but also "not much new that seems like a long-term economical option." I did a deep dive and plotted out all the economy FF platforms (Civic was not the first) by year of introduction, and realized that if the 1970s were a transition from Système Panhard (FR) to FF, the 2020's are possibly the transition away from manual transmissions, ICE only powertrains, and non-crossover bodies. Another issue is that platforms seem to be turning over much more quickly: VW Type 1 and Mini were produced FOREVER, Falcon was ~1960-1980, Fox lasted for decades, Volvo 200 1974-1993, Saab 99/900 1969-1993, Range Rover 1970-1996, etc. That seems to be much less common these days, which has implications for parts availability and also the longevity of knowledge.
Laura Secord would like a word with you.
that’s what big chocolate would have you believe ;)
🚨 BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL FIXES SECTION 174 🚨
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/text
See SEC. 70302:
I.) DOMESTIC R&D can now be expensed in the current tax year, ending the DISCRIMINATORY tax treatment of engineers.
II.) FOREIGN R&D must still be amortized over 15 years. This helps provide a small disincentive to offshoring.
Also, the EV tax credits are gone:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/big-beautiful-bill-electric-vehicle-tax-credit/
Good. There go the sales for the Slate pickup.
Yeah would legitimately just fold if I were them…
$30k for a little EV only truck with 150 miles of range is a nonstarter. There is simply no market for that.
Agreed. No way it can compete with the Maverick now.
elon crying and puking and shitting now
or "comfortably numb" on MDMA & ketamine
This “America Party” bullshit is going to split the Republican vote.
Hakim Jeffries is salivating. Impeachment articles will be a ticker-tape parade come January, 2027.
Also, some car loan interest will be tax-deductible under certain circumstances.
"REMITTANCE TAX" "enacted" but completely neutered.
Search for "SEC. 70604"
The rate is only 1% (not the proposed 5% or 3.5%), AND it only applies if paid with cash or check, NOT credit card, debit card, or bank transfer. Why even bother?
https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/money/2025/07/04/remittance-tax-united-states/
Disappointment at Breitbart: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/01/republicans-slashed-planned-tax-remittances-migrants/
Disappointment at Newsweek(!) calling out India specifially: https://www.newsweek.com/senate-big-beautiful-bill-remittance-tax-indian-immigrants-2092719
More details (mostly that it is RETROACTIVE to TY2022): https://us.fi-group.com/one-big-beautiful-bill-act/
Never automatically trust anyone in a position of power—whether that is government, corporate, private, ngo, social club, track club, religious, or otherwise. Trust has to be continually earned.
Corollary is that you need people to seek positions of power bc those create and keep order. Otherwise the hierarchy of organized criminal violence will win everytime.
Let’s add more than $3 trillion to the national debt, cut medical care for the poorest Americans, hugely pump up funding for Trump’s masked private police force, funnel tax breaks to the very richest, expand the gravy train for munitions manufacturers, and all because you lot simmer in your crab bucket hatred for immigrants and women with blue hair. While we’re at it, cut clean energy, subsidize the oil companies, support fascist governments, scrub any mentioning of global warming or other environmental pressures that are the *cause* of people wanting to leave their own shitholes and come to ours. Job done.
'Let’s add more than $3 trillion to the national debt,'
Nobody cares. They didn't care when Biden added $7.5 trillion. Fiscal responsibility is a lost cause. I'm not saying this to excuse Trump, or to perform whataboutism. Just stating the fact.
'hugely pump up funding for Trump’s masked private police force'
Come back to me when they burn down a building full of kids, or shoot a pregnant woman in the head while she's holding her baby. Scratch that. Come back to me when they do what the "antifa" heroes MacArthur and Patton did to American citizens during the Bonus Army march. Some people are so eager to get a taste of stolen victim valor they can't be bothered to crack a history book.
'all because you lot simmer in your crab bucket hatred for immigrants and women with blue hair.'
Who is "you lot" here, exactly? I personally housed South American immigrants for nearly a DECADE while they worked through the process. At my own expense.
'cut clean energy'
Clean energy is a sinkhole of wasted money, and part of the reason we spend trillions. Worse yet, the trillions get spent on Solyndra style graft rather than on a genuine Manhattan Project of clean energy. Which we already did, by the way; it was called the Manhattan Project. Any plan that omits nuclear for solar and wind is pure fantasy.
'scrub any mentioning of global warming or other environmental pressures that are the *cause* of people wanting to leave their own shitholes and come to ours.'
In the words of Joe Rob -- Come on, man! Do you really think that people want to leave Venezuela and Somalia and India and Pakistan because of GLOBAL WARMING? Do ya see anyone leaving Texas or Florida over it?
Let's be thoughtful and logical in these discussions. Otherwise it's just emotions competing for vicarious satisfaction.
Global warming has made chicago winters tolerable and may make canada livable when we annex it. Im sure we will have 8 brutal winters in a row because of this comment. Unless we are willing to risk full on war with china, climate change is a lost cause
Here in the central Texas area Donald Trump and the GOP have personally caused historical flooding.
It's still raining heavily as I type these words.
The acceleration of climate change in his 6 month rain of terror has been alarming.
Yes, fiscal responsibility is a lost cause.
I find David Bahnsen's Capital Record podcast and blog informative about US debt. We won't see a hyperinflation spiral like Argentina or Zimbabwe. We WILL see anemic growth and relative economic decline like Japan.
THAT said, the US looks good compared to lazy EuroLand. Or corrupt China. Yes, the US has corruption too - like the '09 bailouts and public sector union grifts. But we are pebbles compared to the mountain of "Installed Base" Chinese Communist Party corruption.
There are solid reasons for wealthy Chinese to invest wealth US and Canadian condos. They want a trusted out.
By the way, very "nice" Switzerland gives local governments a veto vote over each new immigrant. For some reason, that's not much reported.
David Bahnsen likes to mention the USA'S TINA attributes.
There
Is
No
Alternative
I agree completely. And it's the 4th of July.
'Cleanest dirty shirt.'
If there was an alternative currency the only US solution would probably be default.
see what i mean?
They are not cutting Medicaid. They are reducing the rate of growth and eliminating people on it who don’t qualify.
Stolen benefits by ineligible people is still theft. Who is going around advocating for stolen wealth to be retained by the thieves?
Not sure if this is a trick question, but the simple answer is the party that starts with a “D”.
The longer answer is that the bill known as Obamacare is basically a poison pill for the budget of the US Government. A key feature of Obamacare is that when states expand Medicaid, US Government share of that new Medicaid benefit increases, so Obamacare was and is a way to blow-up the healthcare system, financially speaking, by further distressing the US Government’s financial state, and then “forcing” the US Government to move to single payer healthcare “to save costs”. There was a lot of discussion on the right about this back when Obamacare was being pushed through the house and senate, and the people talking about it were called kooks and conspiracy theorists. Now we can literally see how Obamacare is bankrupting and exploding the US debt in real time. So when the left says “this cuts Medicaid” they are lying because they are still hiding the fact that Obamacare was designed to do this (incentivize states to take lots of free money in the form of Medicaid reimbursement and move us all along the way to single payer). The left didn’t consider that someone like Trump would come after Obama, and that he would actually build the Republican Party to a level where they would have the power to, not undo Obamacare, but reverse some of the evil inside of it.
Based take.
Everyone on the government payroll is presumably advocating for this, since they're all living off of stolen wealth.
It was meant as a rhetorical question to the original poster who brought it up… either they say explicitly that’s what they want or understand what the reality is below the surface by applying the ‘above average’ IQ that everyone here has except me.
You’re dead right about govt. employees though.
Emotional dysregulation plus Gish gallop. A perfect example of the hysterics currently in vogue.
hey wait this isnt a tiktok comment section
>muh fascist government
lol k
"hugely pump up funding for Trump’s masked private police force"
based. yeet the illegals over the wall and put that shit on payperview
"you lot simmer in your crab bucket hatred for immigrants and women with blue hair"
yeah because neither of those groups did anything to degrade the standard of living or freedoms in the west in any way shape or form right
"global warming or other environmental pressures that are the *cause* of people wanting to leave their own shitholes and come to ours"
yeah the us is the sole reason some third world wasteland became too hot and inhospitable therefore they should show up and be granted access to the greatest country in the world
alright
“Show up, be granted access, and subsidized by taxpayers.”
literally that
the amount of money thrown around makes my head spin
The fact that Sleepy Joe (or NYC) put the illegals in FIVE-STAR HOTELS made my head explode! 🤯
FIVE-STAR HOTELS
https://tenor.com/view/not-anymore-silence-of-the-lambs-hannibal-lecter-anthony-hopkins-cheeky-gif-8621424748041108924
Settle down, Francis.
a lot of that certainly works for me!
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/harry-you-dont-need-to-sell-it-to-me