Different areas I guess. Around here almost everyone I know owns a 4x4 SUV or Truck that is the 'winter beater'. You don't want the salt and potholes ruining your nice car and often the fact it's a car at all means you are going to be high sided on the streets that almost never get plowed before you need to go anywhere. Hell it's already May and I still can't take the motor cycle out because the roads are just hole after hole.

You can call it a winter beater or the 'work vehicle' that you use for towing, trips to the gardening supply, dealing with winter, and general hauling. I see it with my friends who live on way less than 100k a year and with my friends who live on way more. It's not a status or wealth thing. I'd say it's much less likely to be seen with wealth. Thats why I get to laugh at the guy trying to drive a maserati in our winters wondering why he's stuck on the road.

Come to the glorious midwest where you get brutal cold winters and brutal hot summers, but no spring or fall.

When you mentioned a weekly fill up it got me thinking. How do you store an EV for the season?

Around here you have your summer car and your winter beater. Sure you drive the winter beater all year round to pickup landscaping materials and such, but your summer car never hits those pot holes and salt.

My reading suggests long term storage of an EV is not ideal.

I wish usps would charge $30 a letter to my home. Every day I have to walk to the mailbox, collect trash, throw it away. Maybe once a year i receive real mail.

"The very existence of this phenomenon IS the problem."

That is how markets work. We could solve this by ending public companies and requiring all of them to be private, but then what does the asset tax do? Your company on paper is worth 30 billion, but you can't sell any of it to pay. I guess we close up shop?

I guess it's an argument that no person should own a company. The government should. I'm not sure I'm that red.

If you want to argue with a 70 year old man. I'm happy to get you in touch. I've learned it's easier to smile and let them live how they want. It's not like it's forever so you enjoy the time you can and keep them off the topics you don't enjoy.

I'm quite literally going to the middle of nowhere. The last trip I took I saw exactly one charging station. It was 50 miles from my intended location where I would be for 2 days. This is a risk management problem. It's easy to say "Take part of your weekend and go sit over here and charge". I'm not going for that.

Same with visiting my parents. It's about 270 miles. My dad is in no way going to let me charge at his house. He's very much a republican. So I guess I get an extra 20 minute stop on the way home.

City living is great for electric cars, or even city to city travel. Electric isn't ready for country living.

I sadly drive 200-250 miles a day almost every weekend in the summer. For a town car Iâ(TM)m happy with electric. For my trip car i need no worries if middle of nowhere has a charger.

Is investment with no equity an investment or a gift?

Was the money he gave them used during the non-profit time to acheive that mission?

If I give a homeless man $20 for lunch and he later takes $200 from you to buy bourbon was I defrauded?

When someone asks for H1B's the government should have a recruiting arm that sends them a list of candidates that meet the job posting requirements. If they can't justify why they are not qualified no H1B should be issued.

It is possible to use AI assisted coding tools like claude code and also not vibe code. Vibe coding assumes no code reviews, no actual developers crafting the prompts, reviewing the plans, implementing controls on AI, and working with it to execute changes.

I'm not saying this wasn't vibe coded, but I have no concerns with engineers who use claude code to get work done. It's a new skill and it will take time for developers and engineers to develop the skillset to be successfull at it, but the ones who don't won't be as employable.

Me personally? No, becuase I would never use X.com, facebook, etc. Not even the slightest.

Most people though? No they will do both and that will be the outcome for some.

Personally I'm happy with SPAXX for liquid cash and the rest in a brokerage invested in total market index funds. It's liquid enough and for most of my life returned more than 6%.

I don't have or want a debit card. I have an ATM card that I can use for physical cash the one or two times a year I need it. It was actually quite hard to find a local bank that still offered ATM only cards.

The actual protection of credit cards makes them the best way to buy everything. I get 2% cash back on every purcahse so that ~3% isn't even a concern to me. I get to float my monthly spending for a month in SPAXX so I may even come out ahead. If I'm making a very large purcahase, I just either cut a check (if the place takes it) or plan in advance and bring cash/cashier check.

It's an interesting take on smart. I'm inclined to agree. There are many smart women who have no education, but a nice rack and manipulate old men into investment.

Imagine saying something that gets you 'cancelled' and now you no longer have a bank account. You try to contact support, but it's just an AI that replies with shit emojis.

Yea I'll bank there.