
Captainant
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18 hours ago, fattyflattie said:
What margins should businesses be allowed to make? Where should they be capped? And do you believe they pay enough in taxes?
There's a difference between earning a profit as a business, and stealing wages from workers to pass onto investors as """record profits""". I appreciate that you can't discuss this in good faith and so need to continually lie and misrepresent my position, so I look forward to explaining this to you again soon, farty.
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13 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:
This man has a real fear of wind turbines …
I don't think it's fear, it's just terminal boomerbrain where he jumps to fear when he doesn't understand something
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Just now, immamac said:
I think part of us and everyone else is not believing we are about to win 10 games for the first time in forever. This team is gonna fucking dominate from here.
What are you drinking? I need to switch to that
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1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:
And every car on the road would need to be maintained and inspected to a degree that we don't do here (maybe in Germany).
In Texas? Where we just got rid of the inspection requirement for road vehicles starting in 2025?
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5 minutes ago, Blotto said:
I thought I read someplace online that these early practice sessions were free.
I don't think so - FP1 and FP2 were on the Thursday ticket which started around $200. Plus the cost of being in Vegas during F1 etc etc. Just a bummer for folks who paid a premium to get a subpar product
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1 hour ago, G650 said:
That's a water valve box lid. It's amazing they had them run across that.
I've read there's been 30 some odd boxes that they've had to remediate. I think they're filling in the box with sand and then capping with quick concrete?
Idk this is such an incredible shit show, I would be PISSED if I shelled out thousands for the privilege of $30 drinks and getting kicked out while holding a ticket
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10 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:
I paid $8K in 2020 for a system that could potentially turn that car into a source of passive income as a robotaxi once I'm done using it for my own transportation.
I have beachfront property in Lubbock you may be interested in
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34 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
Was this a Honda or Toyota dealership by chance? Or in Austin, any Covert dealership?
Toyota dealership in Houston
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5 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
None of it yet- the rise of new car prices over the last several years was enabled by 0-3% interest rates and the dealer margin is built into that number.
In a normal new car market car dealers typically make around 3-4% margin on new car sales. They make the real money on factory incentives, flipping trade-ins, service, and ESPECIALLY F&I. Some dealerships even operate the new car sales end as a break even or loss leader business by design and make it back on finance discount (this is especially true with subprime).
“Market adjustments” by dealers represent the extraordinarily rare circumstance that they have a scarce good- either an exceptionally popular model, or a general supply shortage, and when financing is cheap they have a partner to make high prices more palatable for a buyer.
so 2021-22 was a perfect storm of
1) low rates
2) low supply
3) high demand driven by cheap debt and stimulus
We’re seeing the opposite now- high rates are making high MSRP new vehicles less attractive, there are few truly new concepts coming in at this moment to drive a premium, the cost of floorplan financing* has risen to dealers can’t afford to let stock sit, and the supply chains are returning to normal.
So right now I’m seeing dealer discounts in the 15-20% range on bro-dozers that would have sold for MSRP last year, and financing incentives on vehicles that would have had a 5-10k “market adjustment” last year.Cars are a fairly high price elastic product on a coat of ownership basis because the the market addressability has underwriting standards dealers can’t do much about other than eat the difference to keep the lights on if they have to.
For them the market giveth and taketh away.
When I was at the dealship getting my wife's car serviced a month or so ago, I still saw a shitload of cars on the lot with "market adjustment" markups. Not brodozer trucks, mostly Rav4's and nicer sedans. But the lot had rows and rows of them, so I don't think there's constrained supply anymore
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5 minutes ago, Storm the Field said:
Used car prices continuing to slowly come back down to earth.
I wonder how much of that is MSRP prices coming down, vs dealerships simply removing their arbitrary $5-10k markups
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dude must have had Chipotle for dinner
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lol there's a vegas traffic cam youtube stream if you wanna see 30 construction dudes looking at a hole in the ground
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I tuned in just to catch a glimpse of cars coming down the strip - didn't realize I'd see a water valve cover go through the floor of a Ferrari! Holy shit what a close call for that driver though - if the cover had punched the engine instead of empty air that would be a bad time
Cracked the chassis and broke the suspension!
There was a yellow flag just before the incident, the sky sports people are speculating that the cover had worked its way up and become proud after just a few laps
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"Arsonists complaining about the smoke" is a pretty succinct encapsulation of the republican angst over election fraud
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7 minutes ago, UTGrad98 said:
Imagine constantly shipping $10k-30k IV medications to patients in rural areas where fed ex is the only alternative.
Now imagine it's summer....
Welcome to my nightmare.
Genuinely curious, I wonder if it would be feasible to use a drone dispatch system to distribute medicine to rural areas. Mark Rober on YouTube did a great video on using a relatively small base site to service hard to reach areas in Rwanda that planes would never be able to land
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Whoops. Turns out moms for liberty is affiliated with the proud boys
https://www.advocate.com/news/moms-for-liberty-proud-boys
Shout out to Florida investigative journalism for spotting the pictures with PB's and Karens flashing the white power symbol
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2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:
And I think it needs to be based on radars. I know Musk thinks he can do it on the cheap with cameras, but there’s a reason why radars work better.
You actually need several suites of sensors fused together. Radar is easily foiled and confused by water - be it rain or fog, lidar doesn't have a wide enough gaze to see everything, and visual lacks the depth and definite dimensions of the other avenues.
I got to sit in on a great talk on true autonomous drive at an ML and robotics conference a year ago, and the sheer volume of data that they were collecting to reduce the uncertainty in their driving agent model was absurd. There's a full sized indy racing car league that used these techniques, they stream track days on twitch sometimes and it's WILD
https://www.indyautonomouschallenge.com/
Edit: oh yeah and they do head to head racing with those autonomous cars, both totally independent from each other and using only their onboard sensors and compute. At 160mph.
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1 minute ago, Anastasis said:
All the NICS checks that I have had recently conducted, as well as a form 4, have been through eForms transactions that are all digital. You're talking about going back and scanning all the old paper 4473s and that seems like a waste of time and money to me. The NICS system has numerous flaws that can and should be fixed, wasting energy scanning decades old pieces of paper seems like a distraction from more useful reforms.
After your records hit a certain age, they are printed out and deleted off the database. It's designed to be extremely difficult and onerous to search. I agree there's not much progress to be made with fighting about paper records, but it's a strong point of evidence towards the depth and breadth of gun safety obstruction.
Hell, it even fails "unsafe" with allowing a purchase if the check takes too long to come back
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Just now, Anastasis said:
Curious what year this was, because this would be yet another ridiculous failure of the NICS system if this story is anywhere close to accurate.
NICS was made to be a broken system that was opaque and hard to trace. It's literally against the law to digitize those records. Of fucking course it let a madman get guns
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4 minutes ago, YGIFS said:
I knew a guy, through another guy, who would roll back analog odometers and fix the dash on the South Side of Chicago. He got caught, along with his ring of accomplices, and was sentenced to 24 months in prison. And because some of the cars ended up in Indiana and Wisconsin, it was a serious prison. And he did every single day of that 24 months, and hard. The week he got out, before anybody from parole or the courts even noticed his paperwork, he legally purchased multiple guns in Wisconsin. A few days later, the crew he suspected of ratting him out were dead by his hand. You can't touch a mailbox, an odometer, or an interstate highway sign without raising a dozen federal red flags. But you sure as shit blow those flags away with an AR-15.
Well duh. Republicans CARE about property crime, they couldn't give less of a fuck about children getting killed in their classrooms.
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11 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:
Look… I’m not here to defend Elon or Tesla.
That's a strange thing to say after defending and whatabouting an oligarch testing beta software on unwilling 3rd parties that went on to kill those 3rd parties.
11 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:When a driver has their Chrysler on cruise control and barrels into stopped traffic, who’s to blame? The inattentive driver.
You are really straining to overlook your mans comments and fucking branding on his "full self drive autopilot" and conflating it with cruise control. That's some really inspired intellectual dishonesty you've got going, elmo is lucky to have so many useful idiots defending him online and propping up TSLA
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88th Texas Legislature
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It's gonna be a hoot when we get hit with another weather event and ERCOT fails but the lege is going into it's 15th special session seeking to give taxpayer funds to private christian schools