Even tunnels without the vacuum are expensive. Although real estate in our most congested urban areas is equally expensive. Once you get out into open country subways don't make sense anymore. Doesn't matter what the underlying tech is.
That's a funny way to define "empire": a place less hellish than most of the world that attracts immigration from the most ambitious people from the rest of the planet.
I was wondering how quickly some MORON would bring Trump into this as if this program has been anything other than a shameless abuse of power and exploitation by people just like Trump.
Those cities are larger than some countries (and US States). Now that heavy manufacturing has been outsourced to the 3rd world, it's those cities that represent the real source of pollution.
Bernie Madoff engaged in the classic con. For a con to work, you need a greedy mark. Every one of his victims thought they could get something for nothing. They thought they could get unrealistic returns.
What's to control? It's pretty easy. Buy low and sell high. Barring that, you can just shove money in an index fund over the long term. There are also plenty of individual stocks to gamble on.
Bitcoin is just one single thing.
Even in the currency market there are a ton to speculate on.
I find my local news to be far less deranged than the national media. The national media seems bound and determined to give me a permanent case of depression. On any given subject, the national media is far more negative and hysterical. The national media also seems to intentionally attempt to create cognitive dissonance.
Abusive advertising practices are posing as journalism.
Yes. We're not the greatest country in the world. Yet we seem to be the only country actually capable of actually doing stuff. We're not supposed to be the global police, except when we're expected to be just that.
This is why a socialist uber-state can't evolve into final stage communism. You end up with precisely this kind of dependence mentality. The average citizen is turned a helpless child.
They're idea of "social responsibility" is completely abdicating any responsibility for whatever social problems they identify. It's someone else's job to solve the problem and pay for it.
>> The $58 million satellite was dismantled in 2016
> So what you're saying is that Trump used his Russian-made Temporal Collusion Time Machine to go back to before he was in office, and destroyed it. Please try to get all these details out, OK?
I was hoping that someone else already managed to catch this bit.
You still seem to be laboring under the delusion that either side is less in the pocket of the 1% than the other. Both just work for different parts of the aristocracy.
The only difference is which particular billionaires profit.
>> So, in this case, the plan would actually stick it to the rich. > > No. It sticks it to the middle class at a time where several EVs have become cheaper than the median sale price of a new car.
HAHAHAHAHA.
That's so funny.
EVs are still too expensive to appeal to anyone that's a fiscal conservative. Sure, plenty of people blow much more money on their car then they should. That doesn't mean that EVs are reasonably priced at this time. They still suck.
Don't get me wrong. I would love to make the switch but I'm not going to do it based on ideology.
An overly complicated tax code invites corruption. Everyone that can't see their own pet agenda when eliminating tax loopholes are part of the problem.
You're all alike. All talk until it comes time to be responsible for the solution.
> Mortgage interest deductions are one example of social engineering,
The mortgage interest deduction is only useful if you are making yourself house poor. If you aren't being reckless with the size of your mortgage, that deduction doesn't do squat for you.
It doesn't do squat for me for this very reason. I would have had to have spent about double on my house for it to make sense to itemize.
> (e.g. subsidized day care lets mothers work instead of being on welfare).
Oh Please. You know NO ONE in that demographic. You have no idea what you're talking about.
In the rest of the country, you simply don't need that sort of thing nearly as badly because you aren't nearly as desperate to have both members of a household working.
Assholes from California have really don't nothing to demonstrate exactly how it is that they are "bailing everyone" out. What part of the state budget is California replacing with it's ridiculous taxes exactly.
It seems like the California problem is self inflicted driven by supply and demand that feeds into real estate prices and makes everything else more expensive.
Tenessee can charge less taxes because it doesn't have to deal with over hyped "glamour cities" where cost of living is artificially inflated. Land is cheaper. Rents are lower. Labor requires far less money for a "living wage". Everything becomes cheaper.
Some ditch digger doesn't have to worry about paying the mortgage on a McMansion just to have some place to sleep.
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Even tunnels without the vacuum are expensive. Although real estate in our most congested urban areas is equally expensive. Once you get out into open country subways don't make sense anymore. Doesn't matter what the underlying tech is.
Those 15,000 scientists probably have a bigger carbon footprint and have little interest in changing that.
That's a funny way to define "empire": a place less hellish than most of the world that attracts immigration from the most ambitious people from the rest of the planet.
> I live in San Jose, which at less than 1/3 white, it is the "brownest" big city in America. It is also the big city with the lowest crime rate.
Clearly you never got the memo. Indians are white people when it comes to "social justice". They aren't "brown".
I was wondering how quickly some MORON would bring Trump into this as if this program has been anything other than a shameless abuse of power and exploitation by people just like Trump.
Those cities are larger than some countries (and US States). Now that heavy manufacturing has been outsourced to the 3rd world, it's those cities that represent the real source of pollution.
This silliness reminded me of LA smog.
Pretty much. I could throw $1000 into the fire pit right now. I would end up sleeping on the couch for the next year, but it's entirely doable for me.
Bernie Madoff engaged in the classic con. For a con to work, you need a greedy mark. Every one of his victims thought they could get something for nothing. They thought they could get unrealistic returns.
This sounds a lot like Bitcoin really.
What's to control? It's pretty easy. Buy low and sell high. Barring that, you can just shove money in an index fund over the long term. There are also plenty of individual stocks to gamble on.
Bitcoin is just one single thing.
Even in the currency market there are a ton to speculate on.
Bitcoin screams "single point of failure".
I find my local news to be far less deranged than the national media. The national media seems bound and determined to give me a permanent case of depression. On any given subject, the national media is far more negative and hysterical. The national media also seems to intentionally attempt to create cognitive dissonance.
Abusive advertising practices are posing as journalism.
Suuure.
Your neighborhood is so bad that you can't leave packages outside, yet you're fine with having a delivery person just let themselves in.
Perfect self-nuke.
Sure they could. Anyone with a concealed carry permit could have shot back.
On the other hand, some guy passing by did in fact return fire. Another guy also joined the pursuit and the perpetrator was quickly dealt with.
In Texas, little old ladies pack heat to deal with varmints.
Yes. We're not the greatest country in the world. Yet we seem to be the only country actually capable of actually doing stuff. We're not supposed to be the global police, except when we're expected to be just that.
> It's called paying taxes.
This is why a socialist uber-state can't evolve into final stage communism. You end up with precisely this kind of dependence mentality. The average citizen is turned a helpless child.
They're idea of "social responsibility" is completely abdicating any responsibility for whatever social problems they identify. It's someone else's job to solve the problem and pay for it.
>> The $58 million satellite was dismantled in 2016
> So what you're saying is that Trump used his Russian-made Temporal Collusion Time Machine to go back to before he was in office, and destroyed it. Please try to get all these details out, OK?
I was hoping that someone else already managed to catch this bit.
What I hear is that Facebook is being abandoned by the young and hip crowd and it's more for aging geezers as a replacement for swapping chain emails.
"Fake account" is the new "troll".
In other words, it's just a bullshit accusation you throw around when you don't like what someone is saying.
You still seem to be laboring under the delusion that either side is less in the pocket of the 1% than the other. Both just work for different parts of the aristocracy.
The only difference is which particular billionaires profit.
Let's not forget NPR and PBS.
Although the average "advocate" seem to think they're only worth the 5% of of their operating cost (the part the government actually pays for).
> The "best part" is that these blogs filled with innuendo, incorrect information, and metric-tons of bias are done by hobbyists. Brilliant!
In other words, they're just like CNN and Fox News.
>> So, in this case, the plan would actually stick it to the rich.
>
> No. It sticks it to the middle class at a time where several EVs have become cheaper than the median sale price of a new car.
HAHAHAHAHA.
That's so funny.
EVs are still too expensive to appeal to anyone that's a fiscal conservative. Sure, plenty of people blow much more money on their car then they should. That doesn't mean that EVs are reasonably priced at this time. They still suck.
Don't get me wrong. I would love to make the switch but I'm not going to do it based on ideology.
An overly complicated tax code invites corruption. Everyone that can't see their own pet agenda when eliminating tax loopholes are part of the problem.
You're all alike. All talk until it comes time to be responsible for the solution.
> Mortgage interest deductions are one example of social engineering,
The mortgage interest deduction is only useful if you are making yourself house poor. If you aren't being reckless with the size of your mortgage, that deduction doesn't do squat for you.
It doesn't do squat for me for this very reason. I would have had to have spent about double on my house for it to make sense to itemize.
> Some of the blue states like California have a high cost of living due to the infrastructure they support,
Keep telling yourself that. Clearly you need to in order to make up for whatever deprivation you suffer for dealing with that crap.
Been there. Done that. Fled the other direction.
> (e.g. subsidized day care lets mothers work instead of being on welfare).
Oh Please. You know NO ONE in that demographic. You have no idea what you're talking about.
In the rest of the country, you simply don't need that sort of thing nearly as badly because you aren't nearly as desperate to have both members of a household working.
Assholes from California have really don't nothing to demonstrate exactly how it is that they are "bailing everyone" out. What part of the state budget is California replacing with it's ridiculous taxes exactly.
It seems like the California problem is self inflicted driven by supply and demand that feeds into real estate prices and makes everything else more expensive.
Tenessee can charge less taxes because it doesn't have to deal with over hyped "glamour cities" where cost of living is artificially inflated. Land is cheaper. Rents are lower. Labor requires far less money for a "living wage". Everything becomes cheaper.
Some ditch digger doesn't have to worry about paying the mortgage on a McMansion just to have some place to sleep.