That’s why American Airlines had the “cheat line” livery. Bare hulls saved them enough weight to carry like an extra 2 passengers.

Plus, polished metal on airframes looks sweet IMHO. Real “DC3 golden era of aviation” vibes.

Oh yeah. Strong “first car” energy there.

Still more expensive than a paid off gas car. Probably cheaper (when fuel is factored in) than buying an equivalent used gas car.

The way I see it, there are 3 choices.

1. Vote (effectively). If you still have a glimmer of hope that things can be changed for the better, you need to be doing this. Job one is to keep republicans out of power, vote for whomever is going to beat them. Job 2 is to push Democrats further left in the primaries. Mamdani showed us that this can happen, reluctantly at first, but the party will respond to its voters. Key word there is “voters” if you don’t vote, they don’t know about you, and won’t give a fuck about you.

2. Disruption. I can’t in good faith call for violence, but if you genuinely believe it is impossible to fix the system by voting, you need to be in the streets disrupting day to day operation of the system that oppresses you. Protest, strike, squat, whatever you gotta do, but you can’t do it halfway. If you aren’t literally ready to fight for your life then, this option isn’t for you.

3. Do nothing. You can just sit around and bitch about things. Whatever happens is (almost) equally your fault as it is the people who voted for it. You’ll end up against the wall just like the other two groups, but it will take the nazis you left the door open for, a little bit longer to get around to you. I’ve got no respect for the people in this group, no one should TBH.

Correlation is not causation. The two are related, but one does not cause the other.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The first company that makes a “1990 civic hatchback, but as an EV” will fucking print money. Shoot for 170-200 miles of range in a small, efficient, and affordable EV. Keep the tech simple and make it “driver focused”. Once people are clamoring for those, release a “sport model” with dual motors and upgraded suspension.

That’s exactly what I did. I got mine used with about 30k off the MSRP for letting someone else drive it for 9000 miles.

2nding this. My wife was surprised we weren’t saving money on gas. Almost every time, a paid off car is cheaper than a new (or even moderately used) car.

More than 5000, yes. Marines? Not so sure.

I’m gonna buy a flag pole and let Ol’ Glory fly at full mast for the whole time she’s ordered to half.

And then I’m going to take it down, only to be seen for special occasions, as the line between patriotism and nationalism is too fucking thin these days.

I didn’t say owned.

And trust me, plenty of non-electric cars will be sold today and tomorrow, same for laptops without soldered RAM.

Wanna take bets that trump is getting kickbacks from Venezuela’s oil sales? Iran said they were going to make oil cost 200 dollars a barrel and I bet trump just heard a ka-ching sound and his eye turned into $$ like a fucking cartoon.

I doubt 5000 marines are going to die in Iran. We might loss a few hundred… But that is going to be 5000 marines that are away from their families for a long time. That’s going to be billions of dollars spent supporting those Marines. Most importantly, it’s going to be tens, if not hundreds of thousand of people in Iran killed in an invasion.

Iraq and Afghanistan were costly, and lengthy failures for the US, and we had fucking plans for how to deal with them. There is no fucking way the clown cabal running the government right now had any kind of plan for a stable and independent Iran after this.

Pretty much every machine I’ve had open has upgradable ram. Unless the machine is the absolute thinnest of ultrabooks, the ram has been easily removed, replaced and upgraded.

(And good luck getting your IT people at work letting you put Linux on your laptop.)

What am I gonna do? Stop myself?

I mainly just turn mine on. Not a lot of work.

I mean, it’s been a lot of work lately because I’m learning a new OS and mucking about with shuffling some data around on a couple different drives, but for the last 5 years or so, the “work” involved in keeping my desktop running was mainly plugging it in again after moving to a new apartment.

Yeah, and we’ve had peaceful transfers of power up until this one fucking guy…

Don’t have what? A Steam deck, a PC, or a USB?

Edit: StReam deck

Yeah. I don’t think MTG’s district is gonna flip, but it’s funny that the race is even that close.

Not of age, I got through the “draft period” during GWB. The US probably won’t have a draft, mainly because we have a sizeable “volunteer” military.

However, if I was drafted, I would talk to my draft board about how I’ve read books about fragging, and how all I can think about is how powerful that is, for one man with one weapon on the inside to destroy or disrupt the chain of command. Then do your best Private Pyle “Seven Six Two millimeter. Full Metal jacket!” imitation. The military doesn’t care about sending untrained and unqualified conscripts into an active war, but I doubt they will take someone who seems to have uncontrollable fantasies about shooting their own officer.