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  1. The thing is that DJT didn’t even end up needing their votes to win so all they did was deliver their voices to his “mandate” such that he can now safely ignore any subsequent lobbying. Total strategic failure which all should be familiar with given the track record of Arab armies over the past century.
  2. Tesla, especially top of the line is probably worse than most cars. Tesla’s habit of slashing MSRP in the middle of a production year means that you are eating depreciation AND the new discount. Drive off the lot, next week Tesla cuts the Model X by 10k and you’re just taking that in the wallet. There is also still lingering consumer suspicion over EV batteries out of warranty as there are unknowns, but that’s not Tesla specific.
  3. Just for grins, I googled and the Ford F-150 has been America’s top selling vehicle for 42 years. In 1985, the top of the line crew cab Lariat with 4wd set you back about 35k in 2024 dollars, which is lower than the cheapest entry point for an F-150 today. Average F-150 today is probably selling around 60k. Granted that today’s trucks are nicer places to drive in and feel more like a luxury car compared to 1985, but these are stupid prices for a truck. And yeah, people who make these types of decisions, financing a truck for 8 years, got us DJT.
  4. Yeah, no dice on it being that type of girlfriend. It’s just a lady she is friends with but also doesn’t really like. Is there any other kind of wife friend?
  5. Later this month my wife and a girlfriend are going to a concert, and through some online mixup I don’t care to understand my wife got significantly less great seats than they had agreed to buy and when she noticed the show was all booked. Wife is getting reimbursed after the fact so none of the below is related to upsetness over money or a late Venmo or something. Anyway, the girlfriend has been a total PITA about this, griping about the shitty seats, questioning whether she “really” wants to go, asking if my wife can’t contact the vendor and try to upgrade, etc. Last night in the car my wife was both complaining and asking me what she could do to “make it up to her.” Could she find a way to get a backstage pass? Should she offer to get dinner before the show? Should she keep calling the vendor? “You should text her or call her and say that you’re sorry you made a mistake and the seats aren’t as good as ya’ll wanted, but it’s too late and not a big deal worth spoiling a nice evening over so let’s just go and have fun.” Friends, apparently this idea is the equivalent to taking a dump in a box and leaving it gift-wrapped on this woman’s doorstep. Anyway, I pulled the ejector seat on the convo, let them figure it the fuck out.
  6. How much of the delta with the first one is the cast? Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, and Djimon Hounsou is a murderers row of talent. I’d watch them debate what kind of pizza to order.
  7. Absolutely felt every one of those 240 minutes.
  8. I honestly don’t think that pricing plays a role in pickup truck demand. Those things are stupid expensive and it has no impact on the number of people who don’t need them buying them.
  9. Voting is a civil liberty and the majority of the electorate was grossly irresponsible with it. It’s not about being threatened, it’s what you do with them.
  10. Unfortunately Musk has purchased his way to the right hand of the president-elect, resulting in an appointment to an extra-governmental organization charged with fundamentally dismantling multiple institutions. His tweets about fighter jets knocked close to 4% off the value of a major defense contractor’s stock. It’s real life, although your take is very much in line with the type of people who treat politics and national security like a TV show you can turn off. They end up being extremely irresponsible with their civic liberties.
  11. Ngl, I wouldn’t get out and say anything, but I’d keep driving if I saw a Trump sign. MAGA’s whole schtick is promising to hurt people you don’t like, so no I won’t help you. Fuck them.
  12. I don’t understand what you’re arguing. Are you trying to say that in the past, Bill Gates or Warren Buffet advocated behind the scenes for the execution of NSC staffers they had beef with? Is this based on anything other than repeat viewings of House of Cards?
  13. It was Marc Andreesen talking shit.
  14. Just read an article calling Elon an “energy vampire” and that’s exactly the case and descriptor. Just completely latched onto our national discourse and forcing people to drain away their energy combatting his idiocy.
  15. I’m completely uninterested in doing any more research on this but thank you for posting this. I saw a clip of this guy being absolutely stupid about military aviation on Twitter and wondered who he was and why he was talking about future weapons platforms; now I see he is just another Silicon Valley dipshit.
  16. Been completely laid up with some virus from hell for three days. My man has been there the whole time. Ordinarily he’s completely obnoxious about as much walk time as he can get but he’s been content to just lay around, he knows I’m out of the game.
  17. Realizing how terribly written my last post is, wow. Posting on a cocktail of cold drugs.
  18. Also, the VVS is terrifyingly effective in Ukraine right now, especially with glide bombs that are really similar to JDAMS. Where Ukraine is having success, it’s thanks to high-end air-defense capabilities and not drones. On the flip side, Ukraines lack of the type of long-range strike capabilities that the F-35 and other crewed aviation is a big reason why the battlefield looks like it does. TL; DR Elon is dumb on this.
  19. Chinese state media is worried about Bluesky because they can’t manipulate it like Elon’s Twitter. https://www.semafor.com/article/11/25/2024/bluesky-boom-worries-chinese-media
  20. The lessons of the tragedy of the commons are everywhere. Paradoxically, maintaining a useable and pleasant public space will always mean you have to keep a very small part of the public out. Otherwise it becomes a place for only them.
  21. Except this is a Battle of the Bulge tribute uniform and that’s how the flag patch was worn then.
  22. “These burger patties are only 15-20 percent human feces, the rest is prime brisket and sirloin trimmings.”
  23. It is darkly funny that some think-tankers wrote a Serious Lawyer Analysis of Cannon’s decision as if it were something other than post hoc gobbledygook seeking to justify a pre-determined outcome. There’s a whole industry around this. The right shits the bed and they launder the sheets down to a sickly all-over beige and tell everyone it’s normal.
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