But the prices won’t go down. Reductions in production costs are only reflected in sale prices when there’s a market force driving the costs down. Right now, people have to own cars, and the barriers to entry into the matlrket are too high for new competitors. There’s no reason for the auto manufacturers to lower prices if their costs go down. They can just pocket the difference.

In my experience the window also isn’t usable from the window seat unless you’re really short. And the way the fuselage curves up at the side, there’s also no shoulder room.

The point is that even six-figure earners are struggling.

And there’s something to that. People with 6-figure incomes tend to work in more metropolitan areas where housing is very expensive. I make about 80 grand, and the only reason I’m getting by at all is because my drive to work is about 2 hours with traffic. A modest 1br apartment in the city where I work is about $3,000/month.

I feel like there’s an opportunity for a multi-layered Epstein-Barr joke in this whole situation, but I can’t quite put it together.

That’s why you have to light the fireworks before eating them. They undergo a chemical reaction when lit and are not longer gunpowder after a few seconds.

Yeah. Bastards everywhere should feel insulted.

Did you see the video?

Even the AI knows he has issues with his diet.

Squirrels are very frequently hunted with a .22. It works great for squirrels, but (like a pellet rifle) can be lethal to a human - especially if you shoot them in the head.

And there’s legitimate reasons to shoot squirrels. I used to do it for an exotic animal preserve because their population would explode and they’d eat everything in site.

No, the liquid helium cools the magnets to the point where they become superconductive. As to how that works exactly, I do not know. I don’t think I have the math for it.

Depends on the machine type. Closed bore machines (the vast majority) use supercunducting electromagnets that are surrounded by liquid helium that creates a very strong magnetic field. To demagnetize them requires dumping the helium.

Some open bore machines use electromagnets, but they’re much less common and not as powerful.

Every 118 years then.

Sus a slow clock, not a broken clock.

She’s right every couple decades.

If a 24-hr clock is one second slow per day, its correct once every 236 years.

K-12 schools and universities in a state can also be very different in terms of quality.

They mentioned shitholes full of idiots.

After AI video generation got much better.

That last part has never been a part of the HBO business model.

Acrobat even provides a warning asking if you’d like to sanitize the information specifically to keep that from working.

When we need to unite against a literal fascist, I’ll gladly stand with conservatives with whom I have serious policy disagreements. Telling them to fuck off will just strengthen Trump’s hold.

Once we’ve finished the fight against the MAGA cult, we can debate each other about policy without worrying about anyone getting disappeared.

Nope. When France didn’t join the invasion of Iraq, “Freedom Fries” was a thing.

It was truly stupid.