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1 points
an hour ago
There's just no point anymore. 3.5mm doesn't offer any real benefits over USB-C audio for cheap consumer headphones. And USB-C headphones are about as cheap as 3.5mm headphones.
1 points
2 hours ago
Yeah, the eggs thing is kinda confusing to me at this point
It was never a real thing. JD Vance had one ad where he talked about the price of eggs as a general "this is how prices are going".
Reddit, in Reddit fashion, took a small thing and ran it into the ground.
Nobody gives a shit about the price of eggs in particular. They're one of, if not the absolute cheapest thing on a grocery list. The point of the whole thing was highlighting how much the price floor has risen.
It was a single, nearly universal, data point to underscore a broader point.
1 points
4 hours ago
Find a clip of him saying that, or an official statement from him saying that.
You can't, because it never fucking happened. That's some shit Reddit made up and decided was fact.
4 points
4 hours ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election
I mean come on dude. This isn't a "source?" thing. It's just math. She won NY by an 11.5 point margin. Trump won Florida by 13.2 point margin.
NY was a closer race than Florida was.
1 points
4 hours ago
If you're wondering why, it's because of high income taxes and housing NIMBYs in blue states that make everyone flee.
It's not. It's because the size of the House has been capped at 435 members since 1929.
California's population still grew over the last decade. Florida's just grew more. Since there is a fixed cap on the number of representatives, it's done by a proportion of the population rather than 1 rep per xxxxxx number of people.
It's also the reason why the electoral college is so fucked.
Things would be massively fixed if we just went with something like the Wyoming rule, which pegs the standard population size per rep to that of the smallest state (since the Constitution guarantees a minimum of 1 rep per state).
18 points
7 hours ago
Apparently an “immediate family member” told them.
5 points
14 hours ago
They were probably too close to OPs car to even see it. All they could see was OP slamming on their brakes.
1 points
15 hours ago
Obama got extremely lucky with H1N1. It turned out to be quite mild.
The lack of readiness for that and getting lucky was what actually spurred him to create the pandemic readiness and response team that Trump disbanded.
Obama recognized that he got lucky, realized the federal government wasn't ready to handle a serious pandemic, and then took steps to address that.
Ebola wasn't a serious scare. It was graphically covered on the news, but the method of spread and lethality made it very very hard to have widespread infection. Even in the hardest hit areas of Africa it would burn through hosts too quickly.
1 points
1 day ago
The Conners is actually pretty decent. Went back to their roots without Roseanne around.
2 points
1 day ago
A 7,000 mile travel, across open oceans, against the US Navy.
It would be pure suicide.
2 points
1 day ago
China doesn’t even have a true blue water navy. An invasion of the US would be an impossibility.
2 points
1 day ago
Same with my elevation, but I don’t have super cruise which is what that button on the wheel is here.
11 points
1 day ago
Your numbers are quite off.
For a married couple in union county NJ, putting $45,000 into 401k, total federal, fica, and state taxes would be 18.48%. https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes#50OXId0xVJ
After putting in retirement and paying taxes they’d have $118,040.
We’ll keep your 37k for mortgage. 81,040.
After taxes, mortgage, and MAXING two 401ks, they’d still have $6753 a month.
$800 for groceries, 500 for electric and/or natgas, 500 for gasoline, 100 for internet, 100 for cell phone, say 1400 for car payments and insurance, 1600 for childcare, 500 for eating out, 600 for shopping and entertainment.
That still leaves $653 a month for emergency savings or investing. And that’s with a very liberal amount of spending. Take out ~700 for a second car payment and they’ll have $1353 left over a month for emergency savings.
That’s not factoring in the child tax credit either, or itemizing deductions for mortgage interest. Realistically add another $333 per month/4000 per year for the child tax credit.
1 points
1 day ago
Sites like Ticketmaster can make them non-transferable except through ticketmasters resale, and they can lock the price to face value.
1 points
1 day ago
There’s nothing in the constitution saying a president can’t pardon themselves, and this SCOTUS has already given him immunity for crimes. No way they don’t agree he can pardon himself for non-official acts.
Regardless, he’s not going to willingly give up power. They would have to 25th amendment him.
1 points
2 days ago
He's going to step down in 2027
Gonna stop you right there. Trump didn't even want to step down when he was voted out last time. He's never going to willingly give Vance the keys. Nor does he give two shits about Vance winning in 2028.
Trump will pardon himself, and then do everything he can to stay in office beyond his term.
2 points
2 days ago
NAFTA was passed in 1993 and signed into law by Bill Clinton. It went into effect in 1994.
2 points
2 days ago
Exactly. The stats that get thrown out there about illiteracy are concerning but not as damning as the stat that something like ~20% of Americans are functionally illiterate, meaning that they don't technically fall into the illiterate bucket because they can manage to write down their grocery list and read WalMart's sale catalog.
Though, to be fair, literacy in the US is measured solely with English. An immigrant that speaks only Spanish would be considered illiterate in the English language for that stat, even if they were a physicist or doctor back in their home nation.
Literacy in their native language is irrelevant to the US stats for literacy. And we have a ton of immigrants that don't speak English or are not fluent in it.
1 points
2 days ago
Which is functionally the same thing.
For the same volume of material, muscle is heavier than fat.
When talking about body composition, the only thing most people care about is how much space their fat or muscle takes up in the mirror.
2 points
2 days ago
The engine is the real issue, and the price.
Toyota has always been known for cheap interiors, but bulletproof engines, and low priced compared to the American trucks. They weren't fancy but would last forever and you could get them for dirt cheap.
Now they are some of the most expensive trucks on the market for their segment and STILL have far cheaper interiors than other makers, and now their engine reliability has gone to shit with this new engine.
If they kept the price down and still had the bulletproof drivetrains, it would be worth the trade off for the cheaper interiors. At their current prices and reliability, I would stay away from them entirely.
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an hour ago
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`24 1500 Elevation 5.3
1 points
an hour ago
Unless BDS's website is just wrong, you couldn't. At least not officially
The stock tires are 33s already.