You hate standard time

DST moves the sun an hour later in the day

Yep small caliber proof for sure

My favorite part of decimeters is 1 inch is 1/4 decimeters. 3 decimeters is foot.

So if it’s like 8 inches. I can just say 2 decimeters

From there you can say 20 centimeters or .2 meters

If something is 12ft it’s 36 decimeters or 3.6 meters

There’s no easy way to turn 8 inches into centimeters other than knowing that 1 inch is about 2.5 centimeters or just estimating in centimeters to begin with.

You could say 8 inches is 2/3 of a foot. 3ft to a meter. So 1 ft is .30 meters. Then it’s 2/3 of a foot, so .30×2/3=.2.

Decimeters are the missing link for Americans to convert

Yards to meters is 1

Feet to meters is 3

Inches to decimeters is 4

Things like a 36 inch doorway, 3 feet, would be 9 decimeters or .9 meters

Common measurements of inches:

12 - 4 Decimeters

18 - 4.5 Decimeters

24 - 8 Decimeters

30 - 9.5 Decimeters

What they would use otherwise would be

.4 meters

.45 meters

.8 meters

.95 meters

Saying the standard doorway is 9 Decimeters is way better than saying .9 meters.

If you rounded to 1 meter. You’re adding 3 1/3 inches. Which is a 10% increase.

A decimeter tape measure would be nice.

Yeah, I watched one from official Tesla youtube where the guy shot it with a bunch of stuff.

It did stop the 9mm with the rounds they chose

The buck shot pierced the door and cracked the window because it was rolled down.

Buck shot is smaller caliber with higher velocity.

I need to find a video of someone trying to get a 9mm bullet to go through it rather than basically a paid advertisement.

Resistant

There is no guarantee to stop even a small caliber

Small caliber at high velocity would go straight through

You could say a thick metal wall is small caliber bullet proof because no matter what velocity, the small chunk of metal is never passing through a few decimeters of solid metal.

Small caliber piercing round at high velocity, straight through the stainless steel door.

Slap some plastic on that bad boy

You’d really trust that as a bullet shield?

Normal 9mm across the street. Probably going through

Make Ukraine the 51st state

25% tariffs means businesses need to raise prices ~33% to keep same profits

If I was selling lemonade for $1

Tariff would be 25 cents

Sell $1, pay 25 cents for tariff, make 75 cents per lemonade

If I raised my price to $1.33

Tariff would be 33 cents

Sell $1.33, pay 33 cents for tariff, make $1 per lemonade

A 25% tariff means ~33% higher prices if the company’s can get people to pay it.

So should be 33% instead of 10%

No problem!

Starting Price / (1-Tariff %) = Final Price Needed to Break Even

$5 / (1-.25) =

5/.75 = $6.67

If an item was $5 and there was a 30% tariff

5 / (1-.30) = $7.14

If there was a 30% tariff and the syrup company wanted to keep same profit they would have to sell each bottle for $7.14.

$7.14 × .30 = $2.14

$7.14 - $2.14 = $5

No, because (1 + tariff) isn’t enough to keep up with the tariff because as the price goes up, the tariff also goes up.

Like in the example going from $5 to $6.25 (5 × (1+.25)). Would result in 31 cents less per bottle.

It needs to be ~33% more or $6.67 for the syrup company to keep the same profit with a 25% tariff.

Final Price × Tariff % = Tariff Amount

Final Price - Tariff Amount = Cost of Good Sold

Cost of Good Sold - Expenses = Profit

So if you need $2 profit

$2 = (Final Price - (Final Price × Tariff %)) - Expenses

$2 = (X - (X×.25)) - $3

$5 = X - .25X

$5 = .75X

X = $6.67

Formula would be

Profit = (Final Price - (Final Price × Tariff %)) - Expenses

So if a company still wants to make $2 profit per bottle.

Company raises price to $6.25 to try to cover the tariff (25% increase)

The tariff becomes $1.56 ($6.25 × 25%)

Instead of selling for $5 price, they would sell it for $4.69 effectively ($6.25-$1.56)

Instead of making $2 profit, they would make $1.69 profit ($4.69-$3(production cost))

If they still sold the bottle for $5, paid $1.25 tariff

They would make 75 cents of profit ($5-$3(production cost)-$1.25(tariff))

Let’s say a bottle of Canadian Maple Syrup is $5 before.

25% Tariff is $1.25

Let’s say the company makes $2 on each bottle before tariff. They really need to make $2 per bottle to cover expenses

So if a company still wants to make $2 a bottle still.

If they sell for $6.25 to try to cover the tariff (25% increase)

The tariff becomes $1.56

Instead of making $5, they would make $4.69.

Instead of $2, they would make $1.69

If they sold the bottle for $5, paid $1.25 tariff

They would make 75 cents

The number for $5 is $6.67

If the company sold the syrup bottle for $6.67. Payed $1.67 in tariff (25%). They would make $2.

Now, of course, they want to sell it for $6.67. Will people pay the increased price?

They can’t just keep selling them for $5 and make basically a 1/3 of their previous profit.

Prices have to go up. How much is up to the consumer.

If the consumer is willing to buy Official Canadian Maple Syrup 🍁 for $6.67. The consumer is paying the whole $1.67 tariff.

An interesting thing happens when people pay $8. The syrup company makes an extra $1, Government gets $2 tariff. It’s a win for everyone, but the consumer that lost $3. (Kind of scary if Trump gets a Maple Syrup company in Canada, goes around, ignores, or pays himself the tariff and sells a bottle for $5. Both are true Canadian Maple Syrup, it just has his name on it. Are you going to buy the $5 or the $8? Even if you buy the $8, he gets $2)

The consumer can’t win. Free economy is better.

~33% increase covers a 25% tariff

If the price settles at $6.

Company pays 50 cents

Consumer pays $1

Trump gets $1.50

Who even is in charge of the “tariff funds”?

Like people are happy with having to pay $1 to get the company to pay 50 cents? Like that’s a win?

Sad reality is Americans should not buy anything with a tariff. Paying a premium to help support Canada seems like a good thing but if everyone does it and everyone pays 33% more. The tariff funds makes out like a bandit all thanks to the consumers.

TL;DR: Company facing a 25% tariff will look to raise prices 33%. If they can they are fine or better. Consumers lose. I really like Vermont Maple Syrup

Having everyone on one time zone would be the best thing ever.

Have you really thought this through?

It’s 12 pm in New York.

It’s 9 am in California.

Sun rised at 7 am in NY today

Sun rised at 7 am in CA today

It was 10 am in NY when sun rose in CA

So let’s say we get on one clock.

That means sun rises in California at 4 am

So now everyone in California has to shift their whole schedule around that.

7 am sunrise, 9am-5pm work (Sun set begins at 4.5pm)

Would become 4 am sunrise, 6am-2pm work (Sun set begins at 1:30pm)

How is that the best thing ever?

This would work great in some places, others might finish lunch as the sun rises.

Because compromise makes neither side truly happy

We are already trying to compromise with switch back and forth.

30 minutes just makes it over complicated and satisfies neither side

We can’t tell you who squealed, but it was one of the dozen employees at this McDonald’s. Probably the one that’s going to change jobs soon…

I’d be pissed and scared if I was an employee at that McDonald’s

Why wait so long and not get found earlier or not long enough for the reward to increase by a lot? It’s in a weird time frame.

Why risk traveling to PA where someone else might spot you first? Maybe crossing state lines increased reward?

People will do a lot for money. My guess is someone is paying this guy’s family to take the fall because they do not want one of the highest profile murders in recent history to go “unsolved”

Willy Loman would take the fall for money for his family

Imagine letting the world know you could shoot a CEO in the middle of NY and get away with it. They would much rather everyone believe life is like CSI and they always get the shooter. Worth a lot to them to keep up the security theater.

Couple days pass. The shooter got away and probably not going to turn themselves in to get the soap box.

The guy could be the next Guy Fawkes if they let it get out of hand

A smoker would definitely want to switch to their tobacco flavor

However,

A smoker that tries tobacco flavor does not want to switch to tobacco flavor

Smokers enjoy their cigarette’s flavor. If they could just get it in a vape many would.

Expecting a smoker to be like “I wish my cigarette tasted like Mint Mojito”. Is crazy.

So I do believe that the majority of the responses are tobacco flavor

Just doesn’t mean what they think it means

Many would just try tobacco flavor, hate it, and move back to cigarettes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest-lasting_light_bulbs#:~:text=The world’s longest-lasting light,off a handful of times.

We have had weather modification technology for 20+ years.

First known use in war was in 1967, called Operation Popeye.

Now could the government create a category 5 hurricane? Very farfetched.