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

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.

Well, he renamed it and made minor changes around the edges so he could claim that it was broken and he fixed it. And then, of course, proceeded to violate the agreement he signed.

Excellent post, just a couple of comments.

First, it's interesting that Nikkos said "a previous administration", without naming it. It was, of course, Trump 1.0.

Second, international treaties on refugees don't require a country to accept every refugee and there are multiple examples where nations have made agreements that modify which county must handle asylum claims. For example, the US-Canada Safe Third Country agreement specifies that asylum seekers must make their asylum claim in whichever country they arrive in first. If the US and Mexico had a similar agreement, then refugees could not enter from Mexico at all. Trump tried to get Mexico to sign a Safe Third Country agreement, but Mexico refused -- and it probably would have been invalid anyway, since Mexico might not satisfy the requirements of a "safe" country under the US law that authorizes the signing of Safe Third Country agreements.

Instead, Trump signed the "Migrant Protection Protocols" agreement with Mexico, which was the "remain in place" agreement. You said that no other country should be willing to put up with it, but Mexico did formally agree to it, though only to avoid tariffs. Of course, Mexico has declined to renew the protocols in Trump 2.0 (though Trump announced they had, which Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum immediately denied -- Trump's habit of unilaterally announcing that an agreement has been reached obviously doesn't really work).

Anyway, there are lots of reasons why countries might agree to various limitations on asylum processes to manage refugee volumes, and these agreements are often perfectly valid under international and national law. Trump, of course, doesn't care about legality, or humanity, only what he can get away with.

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.