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Guadaloopy

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  1. If you think the actuaries aren't already factoring this into the rates for vehicles with advanced driver assist features, I don't know what to tell you.
  2. That has little if anything to do with FSD, and is due the cost of repairs to the vehicle.
  3. Insurance covers it like any other inattentive or negligent driver. If you aren't monitoring your driver assist features and you get into a wreck, you are at fault just like failing to yield or follow at a proper distance and your future insurance rates will suffer. People have been misusing and abusing driver assist features since 1958. This is not a new problem for insurance companies.
  4. I'm surprised how much of the RDM vernacular has made it into common usage for me. "How big a boy are ya?", "I'd better pack a lunch", and "it's a common spelling" make their way into conversation more than is probably healthy for me.
  5. Probability that my deadbeat brother has this on order already? 100%
  6. You post this as if it is out of the ordinary or something related to new policies implemented by the current administration. ICE has been doing this exact same thing for the past 23 years. Congrats on continuing to do the job.
  7. @Mack Tripper imma disabled it.
  8. Oceans of time have passed... I can barely remember that there were four stickers, but I can remember one guy. He was a TE/OLB. Went on to play at aggy on scholarship, but didn't see the field much there other than ST.
  9. Since you asked… Got an OTA software upgrade to FSD (Supervised) 12.6.3 yesterday. Did a drive to downtown Tulsa this morning and back through rush hour traffic, multiple construction zones and downtown streets - 33 mile round trip. Zero disengagements or interventions. Best performance I have ever seen from the system. As I am neither a pilot nor aerospace engineer, I have no frame of reference to form an opinion on how well the FSD camera-only model would translate to aircraft control. Based on recent experience, I can only guess that the solution will be far more complex and take far longer than dumbass Elon says.
  10. This is exactly how I picture Pimphand.
  11. Star - special teams score (entire ST got one) or a general "good play". Football - individual scoring play. Skull and Bones - TFL/Sack/Turnover. Stack of Pancakes - you got a pancake block by knocking someone flat on their ass.
  12. I've seen this happen in real time, and it is absolutely heartbreaking. We had a 19 year old midshipman from the Naval Academy experience a complete break while on a summer training cruise on our ship. Poor kid was absolutely convinced that there were "dark" people on the ship who would kill him if he went to sleep. One day he was a motivated USNA mid with unlimited potential, and the next day he was cowering under a table in the crew's mess. At this point, as heartbreaking as it is, I hope this is what is going on with Johntay, because it can be treated and managed. Being a general fuck-up is much harder to diagnose and fix.
  13. I know the general policy on the Surl is not to kink shame, but this one might be a bit too far.
  14. True, but in the context of this discussion, it's a minor distinction. The argument posed by the administration is that the foreign exporter will pay for these tariffs completely. That is a theoretically and practically false claim. It will be the domestic consumer paying the largest portion of this tariff.
  15. This is a graph of the incidence of tax, not the pass through. It reflects a change in consumer and producer surplus, not who actually pays the tax. In a competitive market, the pass through will be 100% to the consumer.
  16. I mean, he is a baseball player, but I find it really hard to believe that Bregman is so dumb that he would view a $26M AAV as a "pay cut" since he made $28.5M in each of the past two years. He knows that those are prime year rates and that he is just barely still in the window of his prime years.
  17. I debated a Ben Stein gif to accompany the post, but deferred. Thank you for picking up my slack.
  18. Awesome thread about a bunch of awesome Dads. My Dad is still living and making memories with us. One thing about my Dad is that he is big joker, and nearly every joke starts off as a serious story that eventually goes off the rails. He's polished this type of delivery into a fine art. It's such a common schtick though, that he can no longer pull it off with family members, as they immediately sense that there is a punchline coming. It's no surprise that my Dad is very outgoing and gregarious. In my opinion, he is continually on a search for an unsuspecting audience. Growing up, I though my Dad was the funniest person on the planet. He had a funny song for nearly any situation. It wasn't until I was in my 20's and actually heard a Smothers Brothers album that I realized my Dad had stolen every single bit from them.
  19. Peace to you and yours, Brisket. Wonderful tribute.
  20. Congress bailed on the power to implement tariffs after the massive Smoot-Hawley fuck-up in the 1930s. They then passed laws allowing the Executive branch to levy tariffs under the justification that it could do so more dynamically than Congress. Of course, that all supposed an Executive branch that was respective of history and the general norms of international trade. Congress could take back the authority any time it wants, but this Congress absolutely will not.
  21. In practice, the domestic importer pays the tax, not the foreign exporter. The tariff costs are ultimately passed to domestic consumers. Tariffs MAY hurt foreign exporters by making their goods more expensive and reducing demand and lowering trade volumes. Not only do foreign goods become more expensive, but there is inflationary pressure on prices from domestic producers as they can now charge higher prices since foreign competitors are forced to charge higher prices to cover tariffs. In all scenarios, consumers lose. Targeted countries will undoubtedly levy retaliatory tariffs, which makes them ultimately self-defeating.
  22. So Prime is releasing a new series next month based on the story of King David called "House of David." If it sticks to scripture, it has the potential to be as violent and salacious as anything HBO has ever put out.
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