Did your income increase by 120%? How much of that was eviscerated by inflation? Most people have seen a meager 1-3% raise per year and for about 5 years following the 2009/2010 housing collapse quite a few got 0% raises. Cost of goods has more than doubled in the last 2 yrs alone. Numbers mean fuckall if your actual spending power is in the toilet. You could be paid $1000/hr but if a roll of toilet paper cost $1600 what good is your claim of wage increase?

If anything is going to cause mass unemployment its not climate change, its AI. If Moores law remains in effect AI will create better robotics, which will be controlled by AI, and then even physical jobs like construction, welding, plumbing and electricians will be gone. Hell we wont even have jobs fixing the robots because another robot will do that too. 2050 might be entirely optimistic. Im no fan of UBI and laziness in general, but AI will eventually force the issue unless we get the robots to go on strike and revolt. That of course opens a new can of worms.

Must be some crazy CA town or something. In the midwest most people know better than to bang on someone’s door at midnight. Thats a quick way to be staring down the barrel of a shotgun or rifle. Meanwhile, while being held at gunpoint till the police come to haul you away for trespassing and possibly terroristic threatening (who knows what threats you allegedly made) the homeowner is free to fuck with you by pretending to completely unstable, talking to the voices in your head, and ask you to get on your knees and pray for calmness so that the voices subside because right now theyre saying you have to die in self defense.

Apparently you misunderstand manifest destiny. To the victor go the spoils. Its not an illegal occupation 50yrs later. And what legal law do you refer? Some global government? Youre rather naive. Think Rome gave a shit about illegal occupation on all the lands that it conquered? Thats not how the world really works. Climb down from that ivory tower before some bully drags you down during a conflict. Your lack of preparation will be totally brutal for you.

They must have taken all the good ones from France then. So which province is bigger and has more influence? Quebec or Ontario? It seems they are starkly different. Like could be completely different countries different.

I would be happy to see a shift away from oversized SUV and 2ton pickup trucks. Anything bigger than a toyota highlander is totally excessive. The weight to space ratio crashes making them terribly inefficient. Yet people keep buying them. Read an article about some idiot woman on tiktok who bought two $80k vehicles in the last couple years and is whining about a $1400 and $1600 a month car payments and how its more than her rent. Duh! Maybe dont spend $80k on a damn SUV or Truck!!

Worse, the United Auto Workers union.

If they weren’t interconnected I would agree. I think China tipped their hand when they banned tesla being within distance of a government building. That should be concerning about the potential of all connected vehicles regardless of the powertrain.

The wildcards are the Jill Stein and McCarthy players. They have a string potential to strip away swing votes from both parties. The voters who have to hold their nose while voting for someone they dislike only slightly less than the other candidate. Look at 1992 with Ross Perot to see what an impact this would have. Clinton is scared, he helped get Perot started as a benefit to his bid. He knows it’s strategy. Thats ehy he personally flew out to stop Machin and his No Labels party. He told Machin if he ran, it would guarantee a Trump win. I wouldnt place percentages until the whole gameboard is filled in. We could find ourselves with last minute candidates even among the national committee parties.

I told my daughters friend she needs to look for an old 4cyl toyota corolla. She makes entry level wages and rent is crazy. So having c car like that wont break her bank on gas and repairs are significantly less costly than the 6cyl toyotas. Plus I would say over half the old beaters on the road are toyota/hondas so that should count for something for someone trying to make ends meet.

with all that french influence, how have they not already surrendered to Russia, just incase they invade.

this is no longer true now that there is so much proliferation of mobile phones. Only the ILEC was ever required to keep a powered landline for 911 calls and that got repealed a decade ago. CLEC and VoIP providers (which Cox counts as) are not required to provide free 911 services to non-paying customers. Any mobile phone that connects to a cell tower can make emergency calls even when it has no service plan. This in turn eliminated the ILEC requirement to maintain their aging and faultering copper POTS lines. This is why they are ripping out copper pairs everywhere.

its ridiculous from the onset. The auto makers are not required to make sure the buyers wont one day drive drunk, same for the gas stations or makers of the gas for the cars. Electric and Water companies are not held liable because someone turned their house into an illegal pot farm. Spoon manufacturers are not held liable because someone got fat using their utensils. This isnt 1999 anymore. Denying someone online access is borderline death sentence anymore. So many services have been pushed to online-only in the last several years. Two-Factor authentication has only increased this need. Until 1929 a first class letter was just $0.02. Over the last 40 years there has been a rapid pace of postage increasing while the quality and delivery times plummet. 3 years ago it took just 1 day for a letter mailed to an address within my city to arrive. Now postage is almost 20 cents more and it takes as much as 10 days to reach a house just 3 blocks away. I have literally had letters come back with yellow stickers saying undeliverable to an address in my neighborhood, that I have to turn around and place it in the goddamn mailbox myself. Totally unreliable. This in turn is driving the demand for online filings, online communication, online shopping, and online bill payments. There are some things you cant even buy in a big box store anymore. The only way to get it is by online shopping, usually on amazon. Like it or not, online access is no longer a luxury or entertainment, its damn near as big a requirement as access to water and shelter. With this rediculous logic the state and federal highway employees should all face criminal charges because the interstates are being used to transport heroin/fentanyl up from Mexico and down from Canada. Why arent they being sued?

It was overcast where I was, even though I was in the 95% band of totality. at 2pm EST the moon began crossing the sun's path. Up until 2:20 the sun was bright enough to pierce the clouds and use the solar glasses. By 2:20 the moon was covering more than half the sun which was enough light restriction you could only see it as it peeked between the clouds. Around 2:45 to 3pm, as it was at the peak, glasses were no longer required. You could not see through the clouds but occasionally enough cloud would part so that the layer of cloud above provided just enough filter to see the eclipse with a naked eye and it still be rather dim. Throughout the entire event I kept laughing inside at all the Rapture/Doomsday predictors. When my area saw the peak of the eclipse, it had already been occuring further west for the past hour. There were even fucking nutjobs on the internet claiming the day before feeling 'weird' and blaming an event that 1) happens every goddamn 7 years in your geographic location, more frequently all over the world and 2) wont happen for another day and its not like the sun and the moon are suddenly in different places in the solar system. I swear ever since social media evolved post 2010, everyone has gotten fucking stupid and cant seem to remember something that happened just 7 years ago. My local schools closed schools, not so they could see the eclipse. That would be a great reason. They did it for 'safety' reasons not wanting kids to go home from school in the 'dark'. FFS, its never been THAT dark, its as dark as early daybreak/twilight at best during an eclipse. Its been darker during a heavy storm. FFS its darker at 7am in JANUARY when you expect these kids to walk to school, its pitch black at 7am in january.

FDD were already phasing out in 1998. Two competing formats used the IDE interface: the ZIP drive and 3M’s LS120. The latter could read standard floppies and read them 1.5x faster, but the ZIP drive was more popular due to name confusion with pkzip shareware popular of the day. If it used FDD it might not have USB1.0 which was emerging at the time (Bill Gates famously demonstrated a BSoD bragging about USB hotswap ability in Windows98).