Dave Ramsey is an asshole person, but he is one of the few people out there giving pretty good advice to people who really need it. Not so much the finical part (that’s generally mediocre), but the emotional part that drives a lot of these decisions. He’s one of the few voices that’s out their telling people with hundreds of thousands in debt with 2+ kids making $80k that they don’t have to take care of their 60+ year old parents that never saved and feel like they should be able to retire. He tells people that experience massive trauma and loss that it’s ok to take time to process and pause major financial decisions while they process that grief.

Pregnancy is a protected class though, it’s going to be an uphill battle to say it’s premarital sex, when the evidence of that is the pregnancy.

The fact there’s a fairly large amount of people eating raw meat and milk and there isn’t widespread illnesses in those communities is an endorsement of how safe our food industry is.

Long Covid was also a goldmine for the medical quackery institutions.

I like my professor’s view in AI from over a decade ago. AI is the term non commercially viable research. Once something becomes viable it gets rebranded, like automatic text recognition, computer vision, machine learning, llms. It worked great until generative AI was good enough to impress average people, then it became a great way to attract venture capital. It’s still not quite viable so the rule holds, but we are in a very messy and public era where several products are likely to emerge and separate from the AI title.

That’s just the port side. The cables are just as fun, you have multiple levels of power delivery support, that generally don’t include data. There are data cables, that may or may not support video. Thunderbolt cables support most everything. The highest charging speeds generally require dedicated cables. Assuming everything is standards compliant it shouldn’t break anything to plug in the wrong cable to the wrong port.

First rule of rocketry, always assume it will explode.

You realize pointing out how bad Trump was makes Biden even worse right? The fact random non sequitur appeared competent next to Biden was massive problem.

It really depends on what you are comparing against. A temperature taken in direct sunlight at human height in a paved parking lot is going to be well over 10 degrees different than a grassy area shaded by a building. Even if they are adjacent areas. Proximity to a large body of water can easily change the temperature by 5-10 degrees.

A weather app is going to present a temperature that trys to average all of that for a fairly wide area.

The worst debate performance used to be Ford with “There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.” Biden at least matched that with “We beat Medicare.”

If a jury can’t reach a unanimous verdict it’s called a hung jury. Essentially it’s a mistrial and the case can be retried.

I’ve been called several times. Failing to show up gets more extreme as the level of court increases. County and city courts tend to have smaller penalties and pay less than federal courts. The pay is basically a joke in all cases. Jury duty is generally a lot of waiting for things to happen, and it’s pretty boring.

The first time I was called in for a criminal rape case, I believe this was federal. The victim was under 18, but over the age of consent. The issue was around her being mentally handicapped. I was removed during voir dire by the prosecution, but it took until the second day. The first day was mostly sitting and waiting, I don’t remember if either side got to remove anyone the first day.

The second time was a county court. All cases settled that day before trials. So it just wasted a few hours.

The third time was another federal court. It was a civil case of a prisoner against a guard who destroyed his legal documents searching for “contraband.” I was part of the jury for this one, it was a 2 day long trial and we took an extra half day of deliberation. Ultimately we were a hung jury.

Money is printed through loans in the modern economy, which means you need someone willing to hold trillions of ious. That’s not something that’s going to happen. It’s also not a long term solution since the government spends more than it makes every year, so borrowing would need to happen again immediately, which no one is going to do for similar rates after the money printing. This puts the government in the position of getting fucked even harder or starting the hyperinflation cycle as they print money again.

There hasn’t been a single country that’s successfully printed their way out of this problem. The best case is probably Japan like and the US has 20-30 years of stagnation or gradual decline. The worst case is probably Weimar Germany.

I think the game just has too many mechanics and it doesn’t work that well together.

None, I’d never attempt a 10% shot. 50-60 is the most desperate I’ve gotten. Anything less and you might as well overwatch.

The death of the touring car, and even the sedan really sucks. We need more large 4 door cars that can fit four adults comfortably with reasonable trunk space. My first car was an old Chrysler LHS and it’s still the most comfortable car I ever drove.

This is probably a good thing as these tend to be shit jobs with high turnover. Dealing with angry people for hours on end isn’t great for anyone long term.

That was one of the last old people brands, especially with the vinyl top.

It happens once they get off the ice.

You can’t exclusively support the hardcore audience, but you do need a level of support for it. The hardcore players are the ones doing the research, writing the strategies and guides, and finding or exploiting bug and balance issues.