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Captainant

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  1. 2 hours ago, Nicole44 said:

    My antenna is locked and loaded! It’s not pretty but it gets the job done well! 

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    One of these with a command strip is what all the DTV folks should be buying. It's such a good and easy to set up antenna 

  2. 29 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    Bandaids are an HSA eligible item. HSAs are not the problem, and could be part of the solution. 

    Sure, but what does that money go to when they spend it? A 30% upcharge margin on admin costs and premiums - not to the actual fucking care that they need. I agree that having a tax-advantaged way of saving for healthcare costs is good. But I'm less enthusiastic when the 30% saved on taxes instead goes to the shareholders. 

  3. 4 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Anything that's not complete condemnation of the fascist of the thread is defending said fascist, and all fascists for that matter, according to CaptainAnt.  Even if you are discussing something completely tangential to the fascist.

    When it's in an effort to evangelize a vanity project for the apartheid heir... You certainly aren't picking the right things to throw in with. 

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  4. 10 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

    Except that it isn't reliant on a power grid.  There are plenty of off-grid solar panels on homes that could provide power to charge an EV.  Life span of current generation of solar panels is ~30 years.  Shelf life of gasoline is 2-3 years at best.  Or set up a base camp near a wind farm or hydro. 

    After the first couple of years of the zombie apocalypse, you'd be begging for an EV.

    You're not gonna be traveling far if you're using solar panels to charge your tesla - unless you've got a whole house's worth and no other demand on their electrical capacity. Whole-home systems with a ton of panels are in the 2-4KW range, and considering a 60-100KWhr battery in a tesla... Not really a realistic thing to defend lol

     

    Oh wait wait that's right, you're totally not defending elmo in this thread though lol

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  5. 4 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Well, in Europe, a large chunk of the profits that would go to insurance companies here go directly towards paying for these kinds of medical procedures...

    Yeah but those shareholders DESERVE to make money back off the backs of sick people! We would be socialists if we didn't exploit the sick and punish them for failing to shop around their life saving care. Just think of all the lake houses and boats that would go unpurchased just so those takers could live

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  6. 1 hour ago, horn_of_the_morning said:

    Most in the west dont know the history of this movement and how important tackling this issue is for any Indian government not just Modi. Many just hear the name and start frothing at the mouth because they are programmed by NYT, Washington Post etc. to go "Modi Bad!!". You can find such examples in this thread as well.

    This is a bad claim to make on such a short thread lol. I gotta disagree with you champ. Also you probably shouldn't be cheering on foreign government assassination campaigns in the US. 

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  7. 14 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

    The statistics don't bear that out.  Wages are increasing at a >5% clip this year; inflation is at 3.2%.  Wage growth has exceeded inflation throughout 2023.

    I'm sorry, man, but this is entirely a case of "feels" and misinformation.  The truth is that the economy is great.  For everyone.  And particularly for those at the bottom of the wage scale.  Arguing otherwise is to ignore every measure of objective reality.

    Real median household income in the US is just about at $75k/yr

    https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-279.html

    Knock off a third of that to cover taxes if you're looking at around $53k left in take home pay. Median mortgage payment is right around $2k/mo right now. That's at least $24k gone before you even get to insurance, PMI, HOA costs, and utility costs. Count in a car or transportation costs for work, and you're looking at way south of $20k/yr left over for food, clothing, kids, and everything else.

     

    That's not much money these days my man. Sure if you zoom out far enough and look at enough sythnetic metrics it looks peachy - and it definitely us in a top income bracket! - but the reality isn't so nice for most of everyone else.

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