Lawn darts were so cool

A- 10,000 dollar car

B- 50,000 dollar car

Intrest is 5-15% (depending on credit score)

6 years loan

Interest paid over loan:

5% A- $1,595 B- $7,977

15% A- $5,224 B- $26,122

If the dealership sells a 50k car they can get 6.5k-21k more money than if they sell a 10k car.

They want to sell you the most expensive car they can

So even if they could sell you the “cheap” Chinese EVs they would make less profit

This is just one reason. Sales margin is another. When you’re a Ford dealership and get special treatment from Ford you have higher profit margins. If you just flip a Chinese EV with no special treatment you have lower margins.

If there was a solid 10k car available less people would buy the 50k car (average cost of a new car today)

Inexpensive cars on the US market is not good for dealerships in anyway

Anyone arguing that anything that happened on a previous day is relevant

This could make it premeditated

Ice sees gun, knows they could push a future altercation

Imagine if Pretti didn’t have a gun. Ice tackles unarmed guy and shoots him? Other than AI unbelievers it would be a hard sell.

Someone signing a lifelong legal binding agreement at 18 is pretty wild

Like getting your driver’s license and heading on the autobaun first thing

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should

18-25, 7 years. That’s half their current life and basically all they can remember. Just to the point where you should really think about marriage.

No one should feel obligated to get married. If that person cannot wait 7 years to tie the knot then they aren’t ready for the rest of the ~55+ years.

We should push for a UBMI

Universal Bare Minimum Income

“Basic” is debatable

Hard to argue everyone needs the bare minimum

Maybe they aren’t going to be able to buy their art supplies at first. But it’s definitely a start.

Wonderful thing about art is that multiple people can share the same crayon box

It’s the whole “Is Pepsi fine?” Thing.

You ask if they have coke and they will say “is Pepsi fine?” Then you can say “Yes I’ll take a Sprite” and get Starry.

Like you can’t order a sprite without saying sprite. You cannot be like “I’ll take a soda” and expect sprite. Same with saying coke. You have to elaborate.

You could ask for a “coke” and accept any soda. But you’re not really calling what they are giving you coke. You just wanted any soda.

These are the EVA birkenstock sandals

They ended up ripping through and not really usable anymore because the whole front flops.

Saying nature intended anything is naive

Chimpanzees have gang wars and eat each other. Doesn’t make it right.

“More over the counter medicines”

Sorry your insurance only covers prescription medications. Go pay full price up at the front for that.

Emergency departments accept both Medicare and Medicaid. Are they going to have to have a huge wall of prices?

You mean debit and Zelle?

Parts yes. Cars no.

It is in Ford’s best interest to keep other forgien cars out of the US. If Americans were really free to shop forgien cars the US car companies would all go under.

Trump will keep out “bad forgien cars”

Tairiffs are just a cost they pass down to consumers when there are no other options for the consumer other than domestic cars built with tariffed parts.

They know what they are doing.

Sounds like anendophasia

It is not considered a disorder

If we were to make a computer to “read our minds” it would pick up on our internal dialog which people with anendophasia do not have.

People with anendophasia are not dumb. They just think different.

Like imagine a person that was born deaf. They can’t have a verbal dialog in their heads. They could imagine sign language, images, or words. But just because they were born deaf doesn’t mean their IQ is low. They just think different.

But our federal government does not.

Not paying federal taxes would eventually create a situation painful for everyone.

That’s like saying “You don’t need to brush your teeth, but, eventually your teeth are goIng to rot.”

The whole system will crumble. You cannot just “print” money to solve problems.

They don’t NEED taxes. They just WANT taxes.

The government absolutely needs taxes. It’s the primary source of income for federal, state, and local governments.

You have to pay interest on debt or else you default. If you default no one will give you more debt. If you’re in debt and can’t get more debt then there’s a problem.

If everyone stopped paying taxes it would be devastating

Sorry it is called Curve Grading.

Curve Grading

Many ways to do it. But that example where the best student scored a 60%. Everyone would get +40%. That’s a Standard Curve method.

Personally, they didn’t curve a lot of grades when I was in high school. It was more a college thing. A hard test that pushes the limit of your knowledge without being unfair.

But yes a grade can change afterwards for whatever reason the teacher wants. They could just throw on 10% if they felt generous. Definitely apparent when it’s like a writing assignment without clear right or whole answers like math.

The teacher can pass or fail you

You could do all the work or none of it and it is up to them to say “pass” or “fail” by giving you a grade

After a test you could “round” the grades. Like if it was a very hard test and the highest grade was a 60%. You could round everyone’s test up by 40%.

If you made a 0%, now you have a 40%. Everyone passes!

(Don’t think this is too common, but plausible)

Teachers are “encouraged” to not fail any student by a lot of pressures.

You have to go above any beyond to fail high school. Trying hard and getting bad grades will generally get you enough to pass. Teachers will “work” with you.

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Double check.

King has to take queen.

When Bishop moves it’s a discovered check with the Rook.

You cannot block both checks therefore King has to run.

Open spot for Rook to move to back rank.

Checkmate.

It’s all forced.

Didn’t Crocs just sue the US government over tariffs?