I think I clicked a link for them once and it gave some bs you win wheel, and told me to download an app right off the bat. Hard pass

Yeah, things get said in passing over the years and then you aren’t sure what’s real anymore. Like I remember a big scare happening with red sauce for awhile. How long it stays good for once opened, some will tell you a couple days, some will say a couple weeks. Some will say it is may be bad even if it looks/smells fine. Will you get sick? Fuck if I know when you will or won’t.

It isn’t a LOT of money but it is drastically more. Where I live you can survive making around 35-40k. The way I see it is that is your baseline requirement. So someone who makes 60k has about 20-25k spending money to improve their situation. Someone making 150k has 110-115k to improve their situation. So I would argue they are in practice more than 5 times richer. $55/day spending vs $301/day.

You can raise a family one fairly easily.

Anyways… that’s off topic haha

1. That is twice the median wage.
2. I blamed the dealerships, hence the suggested changes to not have dealerships and just have manufacturer owned showrooms.

Right now cars are sold to dealerships and then are resold at higher prices to consumers while throwing in fees, markups and any possible way they can come up with a way to get you hooked on an interest rate that they have made kickbacks and deals with financing companies to ensure they can sell more cars.

A car salesmans job is to make money off charging you as much as they can. They often make 100-150k a year. That’s all money that comes from the purchasers who would have just paid the manufacturer for the product they wanted, and not have situations where you are haggling to get a decent price and finding out most everyone is getting taken advantage of.

The numbers vary but in general you are likely paying 3 grand more than what you would have if you bought directly from the manufacturer. Some places are saying 10% markups, so that’s 5k on the average new car purchase being around 50k.

Manufacturers should just have showrooms with repair centers. One or two of each car so people can see them and test drive if needed. They would take up far less room, and everyone would have places to take warranty repairs still. They cut out the middlemen so repairs for normal things could possibly even be less. They send the parts to themselves so the parts don’t need markups. Dealer fees no more and ship them to either their house or to the showroom for pickup if the buyer wants.

Yarp, that’s why the dealers in Florida wrote a bill for Florida to ban direct to consumer sales on most vehicles. (An exception was left for certain cars like Tesla’s… Which Desantis owns)

I think they were saying that the read write speeds being from a NVMe would be faster than (an unspecified) SATA drive. But that was my assumption while reading

Im actually usually quite terrible with sentence structure and such, but I spent most of my career in IT so far. Which anyone in IT can tell you that the difference of good documentation and bad documentation on support for products, is often the difference between keeping those products or employees around. Nothing is worse than “Brian set this up 7 years ago and hadn’t worked here in 5”… And no documentation exists. Fixing a home computer, no issue. Managing 60,000… Everything has what seems to be way to many procedures.

I think a lot of it is coming from the bird flu scare. If the milk is pasteurized the virus would be killed in the process. If it isn’t killed and gets transferred to a person it can be deadly. The chance of death varies drastically though. Worse than covid odds, but up to ridiculous levels if someone is pregnant.

Basically if a pregnant woman gets it from raw milk somehow, the chances of death for her and the baby are around 90%. So the lack of knowledge of if the spread amongst the cows is being stopped, is leading to the fear of it being dangerous to humans

He is just a basket of daisies and warmed hugs isn’t he lol

Except he didn’t do that a second time did he, he extended the presidency to 6 years, now served 2 consecutive 6 year terms and he’s standing down? Nope. He’s going stay in his presidency for 12 years now til 2036 unless someone stops it eventually (he isn’t going back to being prime minister as far as I know)

Let’s look at the new average cost of a car. Roughly 50k. The average loan amount for new cars is right over 40k. (Meaning they are paying 20% upfront by either trade-ins or down payments. The average car loan interest and length are 6.84% at around 67 months.

So that would mean the average person pays $8,235 more than a rich person.

So it really makes out to be that there is a 120% charge on the 40k they borrowed.

Note: car insurance costs are based off the area you reside in, and your credit score. So you will pay more to have it as well.

Poor people pay more on everything. And when you compare how much money someone makes it isn’t direct like many people view it.
Someone who makes 40k vs 50k isn’t a “well they don’t make that much more”

If the cost of living in the area is 35 a year. One has $13.69 /day spending money. The other has $41.07 /day spending money. $178/day if you made 100k in that area.

So someone making 40k if they spent money on nothing else, could buy that car outright in 10 years… 100k doing the same could buy it in October, of that same year (271ish days)

Drastically different living/saving possibilities between them.

The President can only serve 2, 4 year terms. President in 2000, 2004… 4 year terms? Eh… let’s do 2012, 2018… Nah, let’s amend that as well, 2024-2036… you know. I’m starting to think he’s not sitting legitimately 🤔 Maybe Putin will be tired at 83 and think about handing the country back over to whomever takes him out, I mean… replaces him.

I’m fairly certain Conan bought it back in 2019 after Trump inquired last time.

If it were 6 of the 9 that mattered to most of us, I’d be excited. Instead I’m just kinda bloated

Tried 12ft.io Really didn’t seem like there was an article there. : /

Jesus if that guy cheated on his wives a few more times we would have had to worry about people wanting him for president