~$25K is about ten grand less than the average used car price in many non-rich US states so it's obviously affordable for many, self included, of modest incomes.
I only make ~$70K but live below my means using enabling skills in an enabling location. I don't piss away money on new vehicles as a matter of economic principle.
exactly. so why is it a problem if people choose to pay through their nose for techno-fetish or status symbols?
Using Apple products ceased to be any sort of "status symbol"....LONG ago....no one generally gives it a 2nd glance if someone is using something apple branded....
Frankly, the quality of build, the stability of the operating system, and just the plain reliability and features even in the supporting tools exceed Windows. Take the Preview App. The work I can do on PDFs; signatures, annotations, OCR, right out of the box, and built so that the versions on my iPhone and iPad fully integrate, cannot be easily replicated on Windows. Apple just really has an eye for workflow, and making sure the base system and tools fit well into that.
It's not perfect, to be sure, I wouldn't want to use Pages as my full time word processor, and Apple, like Microsoft and Google, suffer designed interoperation friction, which does suck. But all in all, I'm just more efficient on a Mac, and in subtle ways I never knew were even problems until I picked a MacBook up the first time. Honestly going to Windows right now is just horrible for me, particular Windows 11, which just feels like constant chaos and out of control busy-ness.
Do they block all IP addresses from china?
And there we have ity. this is allso a self reinforcing system, due it it being dangerous to walk no one walks so waking walkable neighborhoods will never be a priority because everyone drives eventyrere anyway so..
Unless you are in one of the view ultra-urban cities....no we just aren't built to be "walkable"....hasn't been a need or impediment so far to be honest....it's just our way of life here.
And we're not going to be spending exhorbant amounts of money to rip and and redo our cities.
Personally I dont wanna live somewhere where I'm required to live in dense housing and share walls with neighbors. I prefer to have a front and especially a back yard where I can fence it in or my dogs, so I can set up my large log burning offsent smoker, sent up for parties with friends and neighbors for crawfish boils, etc....
I'm VERY happy being "non-walkable"....my cars and motorcycle suit me just fine for shopping, travel and just having fun out on the road....
I don't have trucks or SUVs myself....but to each their own.
That's one data center, dimwit. Where's the 'many'?
You wrote; "Show evidence." And I gave that to you. Now you are complaining I didn't give you all the evidence that you never asked for.
And it sure looks like that one datacenter near Truckee California planned quite well for their needs, they are getting electricity.
I wrote " It seems pretty clear they did not BUILD their own power plant." No one is complaining that these data centers did not plan to USE electricity. That is either dishonest or idiotic.
It's called M.A.D... mutually assured destruction.
The Iran situation has nothing to do with MAD. A key component of MAD is "mutually assured" part. When MAD was the strategy between the USSR and the US, both sides collectively had tens of thousands of warheads. At best, Iran might have the ability to produce a few nukes if they had the uranium.
The part you missed or trying to deflect is the part where Iran DOES NOT have nukes at the moment as it is not clear if they have the required enriched uranium and capability.
Umm... what predictions?
"Here's a thought experiment: Will you go to any lengths to excuse Trump of things we know he did?" Still going to any lengths to defend Trump.
Oh... and, I'm not the one continuously try to change the subject.
Bahahahahah. I wrote about no bid contracts. You tried to pivot to how every past President was also bad. Then you tried to speak abou WMDs. Still nothing about no bid contracts.
And, where's those links I asked for?
You: I DEMAND answers to everything while I am not going to address any of your points by trying to change the subject. Buddy, no one owes you anything..
You seem to suffer some reading comprehension issues. I take no offense. I stated that "I find it absolutely hilarious... This indicates that I am entertained, not offended.
You know we can scroll up, right? You wrote: "I find it absolutely hilarious when so many piss-poor plebeians like you say that others are morons." Leaving out that part where you took offense is dishonest nd you know it. Now, you are trying to lie about wrote you wrote.
But, I can totally understand your mistake, if you're not a native English speaker
How would you know? You don't do you? That is just your attempt to insult me for calling you out by insinuating English is not my native language. But to my point you have yet to actually address a single point of his.
How about the false-flag war to find WMDs that weren't there?
And no one talked about WMDs either. How about you trying to continuously change the subject?
How'd that one turn out? Who slapped their company name on the oil wells?
Not sure what you are talking about I would guess it has nothing do with the topic on hand. Every post of yours is just another example of you trying excuse everything Trump does that was predicted.
When all else fails, read the instructions.
