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  1. In some of the worst locations. Minot, North Dakota? Altus, OK? At least in the canoe club you are likely going to be near a coast.
  2. Tesla is almost paid off, so I'm going to hold onto it for a few more years rather than trade it in and buy a new vehicle. I can't stomach the interest rate and a new car payment now. I can deal with the internet side-eye. Will stick with my current paid off iPhone rather than upgrading after three years like I've done in the past. No travel planned for the year other than a wedding in San Diego at the end of this month. We usually take at least one big vacation trip every year. Did not switch back to DirecTV Stream for baseball season to get regional sports networks. Consolidated streaming services and shifted to a Hulu bundle in November that's $40/ month less than DTV Stream. Putting off back porch addition and other home improvements for another year.
  3. That's a half-answer. Why is it unconstitutional? It's not explicitly forbidden, but why did the Framers construct the Commerce Clause in a way that implies the dormant Commerce Clause as interpreted by the Supreme Court? The Constitution implies the dormant Commerce Clause because Madison and Hamilton successfully argued in the Federalist Papers that tariffs would lead to conflict and instability between the states.
  4. I'd be pretty shocked if this was happening nearly as much with today's interest rates. It's an unsustainable strategy long-term for lenders. Musk's lenders are going to take it in the shorts eventually, which should start to dampen some of this activity. That said, I'd support legislation to curtail the practice because of the tax-dodging nature of the behavior. Even with the manipulation of the system, billionaires still only able to access a fraction of their net worth. Musk is a HUGE outlier in the amount of pledged shares he has borrowed against. He's fucking around, and I hope he finds out.
  5. If tariffs are such a great tool, why don't the states levy them on one another? And if the US were to annex Canada, what would happen to those tariffs? If they are good now, what magically changes if they become a state? It's a stupid tool for stupid people to use in the name of brain-dead nationalistic policies.
  6. It's almost like we should get over our fascination with net worth...
  7. Co-worker in Denver says it is dumping now.
  8. Very small sample size, but...
  9. Would be a lot funnier if Tesla's actually had a multi-speed transmission.
  10. This post is the equivalent of farting into the PA microphone at Costco.
  11. So for torpedo bats, the mass goes middle out.
  12. All true, with the caveat that the tradeoff with the loss of mass in corking is more than overcome by the gain in velocity. K = 1/2 mv^2. Change in velocity has a greater relative impact on total kinetic energy than a change in mass. That's why Bonds swung such a light bat.
  13. I tried to watch this yesterday, because I like Dr. Mike's approach in his videos. I had to give up after this guy took the seat. He was completely incoherent and made me want to smash my monitor. "I have brief access to a broadcast platform, so let me take this opportunity to mention every issue I have a crackpot theory about rather than make a single logical argument."
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