Joshjrn

Conning people into eagerly prepaying for postage literal years in advance is the most clever thing I’ve ever seen a government agency manage to pull off.

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Listen to GP. Stay off the internet.

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This, a thousand times this. Wait for real results; nothing good can come from trying to read the internet tea leaves.

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I would do it in a heartbeat but my wife refuses. I could easily transfer to Mississippi where taxes, insurance, and cost of living are significantly cheaper than Baton Rouge. The particular area of MS has great public schools meaning we’d save an extra 20k per year. But, women do not think logically.

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Or your wife is prioritizing different considerations? :lol:

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Milei eliminated the housing crisis in Buenos Ares in 10 months by greatly reducing zoning restrictions on building new housing, eliminating rent controls, and reducing restrictions on cohabitation. No reason to think a similarly radical approach couldn’t have similar results in NYC. Our housing shortages in this country tend to be caused by artificially restricting the supply of housing and making insane demands upon developers to eliminate potential expansions of housing stock. This is all to protect older residents and existing landlords.

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I’m a libertarian who is a reasonably big fan of Milei, and while I agree in most geographic areas, Manhattan is a different animal entirely. BA has a population density of about 15k per square kilo. Manhattan is nearly double at 29k per square kilo. Look at the skyline of BA and then the skyline of Manhattan. The latter is already vastly more vertical than the latter. Most places have a NIMBY problem; Manhattan is just flat out of land.

Eta: This isn’t my saying that I’m in support of rent control; I’m 100% not. I just can’t fathom how you could get Manhattan’s median rent that low with any plan based in reality.

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Sir this is the OT. We only care about enforcement of the laws we don't break. The ones we do break should not be enforced. /s The culture most present in the OT is no different than other cultures the OT loves to hate on. They justify the laws they break because it's ok and infringes upon their rights. There are levels, but knowingly breaking the law and justifying it is the same mindset that the OT loves to hate.

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Which is why we should significantly, and I mean significantly, reduce the number of laws we have on the books. We have made a criminal out of every single citizen in this country, which means everyone justifies their criminal behavior, big or small. That’s a fricking problem from a societal norm perspective.

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Seems like it’s always black people pulling that sovereign citizen bullshite.

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Not in my experience. I haven't exactly kept track, but I would ballpark somewhere in the range of 75% white to 25% black.

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Interesting, if the birthday paradox works for deathdays as well, the percentage chance is much higher, on the order of 8%. I don't have time to consider the issue, though. It seems high, but that is the whole point of the birthday paradox: the numbers don't make sense to us initially.

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Birthday paradox only works here if you de-emphasize the date itself. Put another way, the reason for the seemingly weirdly high percentage in the birthday paradox is that every person you add isn’t one dice roll; every person you add means every person rolls the dice again because every person gets compared to every other person. If you need a specific date, that fundamentally changes the math. You’re no longer comparing everyone to each other and are instead comparing everyone to a single date. That removes all the extra dice rolls that make the paradox counterintuitive.

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Sure, This would be for every day trips out and about. I charge it every night, and someties run it down by 4pm. I just need to keep it charged. And thank you for your help.

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You could accomplish that with a very low wattage (15w) charger, so the world is kind of your oyster. With that said, it comes down to space versus what-ifs. If you have storage space galore and want to be able to use your vehicle as a mobile command station in an emergency, buy the inverter. If space is at a premium and you just want to keep your laptop topped off, buy the cig adapter (or if you’re in a newer model vehicle with USB ports, you could likely get away with just using them, assuming they put out enough wattage for your laptop to acknowledge them).

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^can I bump this last question?

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You need to give us some context on your usage. Do you just need a little extra juice during road trips, or do you use your vehicle as a 24/7 field office? Or something in between?

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She doesn’t have to. Literally any word(s), thoughts, or actions will be twisted into racism by these people. The fact that a person of reasonable intelligence would defend what they do in any way boggles the mind. It’s my opinion that you’re just being pedantic.

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Im not defending anything, and I’m not being pedantic at all. We not infrequently have threads with titles that follow the rough form of “and the newest item on the racist bingo card is *checks notes* hiking!” Generally speaking, those threads are, while a bit hyperbolic, on point. This thread title is 100% bullshite intending to mislead re: a political opponent. If the inverse of this were posted, dozens of you would line up to eviscerate the OP.

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How is it lying? She said “anti-immigrant” language is racist. Last time I checked “immigrant” isn’t a race.

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The thread title is this:

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Standing up is racist apparently, according to Oregon Democratic congresswoman

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Did the Democratic congresswoman from Oregon say, at any point, that the act of standing up is racist?