I see I'm still living rent-free in some heads.

U MAD [I'm alive] BRO?

And ammo. Yeah some people have thousands of rounds of ammo. The military has millions of rounds, and enough men to go with them to effectively utilize suppressive fire. If you do get in an old-fashioned firefight with soldiers they can simply outbullet you if for some reason they don't have an armed backpack drone. Which by the way they totally do.

What demographic? Poor and disadvantaged? You know events like these are held by white people where there's only white people, right?

You completely lost me right here, bro. OH THE BOOTYANITY TWERKING ON COP CARS

The big tax preparation software companies lobbied strongly against the Direct File system, for obvious reasons.

They are just as obviously operating as a cartel, keeping their prices "in the same ballpark" without exactly matching. I remember a day when TaxAct was still a new entrant into the market, and it had excellent features and support at a price that significantly undercut TurboTax and H&R Block. Once it achieved popularity, its price suddenly jumped (a bit more than double) to match that of H&R block. Its features and support didn't improve at all; the price hiked and that was it.

TurboTax still charges more than the other two, creating an illusion of price competition. The truth is that TurboTax is significantly more popular, so it charges more, even though its features and service level are merely equivalent (at best).

So they all three ride on the same gravy train, and the last thing they want is a taxpayer-funded entity to provide a high quality option for free. They might have to actually EARN their income then! So they applied their considerable wealth to the political action of killing this offering, and succeeded.

You get that the unemployment rate is literally designed to be a falsehood because it stops counting people when they have been unemployed for a while, right? The methodology used for it has no concept of who is looking for work at all, it's based on a fundamentally bogus assumption that people who haven't found any for long enough aren't looking.

Who has ever tried UBI? Make sure your answer is about UBI and not just BI for a test group.

Most of those guns are irrelevant, as guns don't kill people by themselves, and a person can only realistically use two at a time, and can only use one at a time well.

Plus, you know, the government has thermal vision, guided munitions, satellite overwatch...

Infinitely more would be removing yourself from the equation in a carbon negative way. I suggest swallowing seeds and falling into an early grave.

If people don't buy stuff eventually the corporation collapses. The principals can make a profit before then, but repeat this enough times and the whole boat sinks as it happens to too many major employers at once. Hence too big to fail, which is of course the result of failure to enforce antitrust law.

Same for crony capitalism.

No.

People keep trying to prove a link between any type of video games and crime and failing.

Why not an 8.3 or a L10? Nothing prohibits making stupid fake engine noises instead of a whir or whatever, so long as they are not overly loud. But quiet is one of the joys of EVs.

It takes about 25hp for a car to cruise at highway speeds. In the US a big TT is 8 feet wide (possibly less a few inches) and around 11-12 feet tall. The overall height including the crap on top like a satellite dish has to fit under 13'6" to be sure it can clear "all" overpasses, this is the national standard. The front of it is sometimes up to 13' and just doesn't have anything sticking up on top of that part, especially in a 5er. Plus you've got a lumpy truck in front of it, and space between them, and the back is just a big flat rectangle with a square box bumper sticking out from it so you're pulling a big vacuum.

The F150 was always a full sized truck. The early F100 was a smaller pickup, but even it got up to full sized by the end of the run. Originally the Ranger was just a model of F150, then they made a smaller Ranger pickup which wasn't based on it.

The modern F150 isn't much bigger except that it's longer, because people didn't respond well to the shorter hood. There are multiple possible reasons for this. I have personally heard people complain about the appearance. I have personally worked on a short hood F150 and it's fucking nightmare doing engine work, so I sure wouldn't buy another one.

What I want, but I doubt that a) it would sell or b) you could make it meet crash standards, is something like the old Jeep FC (Forward Control) pickups. Sitting in front of the front axle is weird, but you do get used to it. We have a diesel pusher bus, I've only driven it a handful of times, and I'm almost used to it already — and you sit literally multiple feet further forwards in there. ("First to the scene of the accident", they say.) Cabovers are much shorter, and if they have a tilting cab, also much easier to work on. A big part of the problem with a truck with a useful ("long") bed is the length, it's hard to parallel park it anywhere.

For people who like Windows for whatever reason, it makes some sense. It's gotten expensive to upgrade PCs, if you put in much more GPU then you probably need a new power supply for example, and most people will never upgrade their CPU. But it makes sense for people to want their game console to be able to do PC stuff, so they don't need a separate PC. In particular it could be a reasonable option for students, who will often be required to run a bunch of Windows software anyway.

For me it makes none, because the machine will be surely locked down hard, and I don't want anything I can't run Linux on when I get tired of using it for its intended purpose.