What is this obsession with pedophilia? I'm really getting rather suspicious of MAGA. I suspect your average Catholic priest or Southern Baptist youth pastor thinks about nude children less than most MAGA individuals.

Whether or not people use the vehicles for their supposed purpose or to the full capabilities is completely irrelevant to the sales numbers.

I'm sorry that the world does not conform to what you imagine it should be. The reality is full size pickup trucks are the best selling vehicle type in the US by a wide margin. Feel free to masturbate your is-ought sophistry until you go blind though...
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That's probably because the "Typical millionaire in the US" is likely a farmer or rancher.

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Won't happen, at least not with my books.

There is a reason writing the last one took two years. Many of its passages have very carefully considered wordings. Intentional ambiguities. Alliterations. Words chosen because the other term for the same thing is too similar to another thing that occurs in the same paragraph. Names picked with intention, by the sound of them (harsher or softer, for example).

I've used AI extensively in many fields. Including translations. It's pretty good for normal texts like newspaper articles or Wikipedia or something. But for a book, where the emotional impact of things matter, where you can't just substitute one words for a synonym and get the same effect - no, I don't think so.

This is one area where even I with a general positive attitude to AI want a human translator with whom I can discuss these things and where I can get a feeling of "did she understand this part of the book and why it's described this way?".

Or you could have just one bank nationalized and let the rest compete against that as a baseline

I mean, who is fooled by this?

We got better results by moving a lot of coal burning to natural gas, but the increased production and movement of that natural gas means we're spitting out a lot more waste Methane, now. And it's a way bigger effect greenhouse gas than CO2. Luckily it doesn't last as long.

You at least used to be able to pay that kind of money (well, $30k) for a professional setup with new stuff.

But even the new stuff is cheaper now, it's well documented, anticipates DIY, and is just a lot easier to do now, and used panels are available for insanely cheap prices.

A much cheaper DIY system can get you blackout protection and will pay for itself in less years than you might think. (If you're unlucky enough to be using PG&E, that's something like a 3-year payoff.)

> MOST PEOPLE DON'T WANT A "FULL-SIZED" FUCKING TRUCK. THEY'RE TOO GODDAMN BIG.

Counterpoint: The Ford F series are the best selling vehicles in the US. Second place is the Chevy Silverado, which is another full size pickup. If you broke out just the F-150 I think it's just barely behind the Silverado (Looks like ~420K vs ~410K so far this year?)

The physical size isn't the problem. Smaller pickups like the Honda Santa Cruz and Ford Maverick do not sell well. The kinds of people who actually want a pickup truck do not seem to actually want a midsize or compact pickup truck.

Cheaper, on the other hand... that's something you can sell to the masses. Sounds to me that the market for EV pickups is still there but the price isn't alluring enough, and maybe people are willing to compromise on the size to get an EV truck that's more affordable.

> Back in my day

It ain't your day anymore; the world has moved on.
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If you’re going to play well akshully, I’d like to point out to you that a woman is someone over the age of 18, not a minor, so no the vicitims were not all “sexually mature young women”. They were largely *minors*, even if they had hit puberty.

But really: why are you trying to minimise these crimes? Is this who you intended to be? Someone that does that? Because it’s a helluva way to end up.

I mean, if you’re unable to think of any reasons why per capita spend might be higher for Medicare and Medicaid than for the private sector, other than inefficiency then you’re *really* not in a place to critique other people for not thinking critically.

Very obvious explanations include:
- Medicare and Medicaid provide care for old people and poor people, and the vast bulk of healthcare costs are incurred in the final years of life, and poor people are sicker than rich people
- Private sector insurers manage costs by aggressively denying coverage, whereas public insurers are less aggressive. I mean, I live in the UK, and even here we’re aware of the horror stories of coverage denial

So if you’re going to prove government inefficiency, that’s not really where you should start

Voters don’t seem to agree with your interpretation of what’s going on. At this rate, Republicans won’t be holding on to power for ever much longer.

It seems like quite a lot of voters decided it did bother them this week, even if you think it shouldn’t have

I did not. But use your fake superiority if you must.

This type of translation doe not even really work for technical texts. For other books, they will just lose their soul.