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  1. redpoint5

    Money & Economics

    I'm always saying the issue is mostly self-correcting... Many (most?) trans people are simply gay. Those relationships don't produce children either. Adults are free to do any number of foolish things to their body, it just shouldn't be funded by taxpayers. My wild progressive idea is to have...
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    Laptops...

    Here's what I'd likely be looking at given the requirements; i5 or i7 12th or 13th generation CPU (integrated graphics are ok for light gaming, discrete necessary for modern FPS games) Touch display (useful for drafting/drawing Backlit keyboard Minimum 1920x1080 HDR display Thunderbolt 4.x that...
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    Laptops...

    The '11' in 11800H denotes an 11th generation Intel CPU. The latest generation is 13. I believe both the 12th and 13th generation chips are significantly more power efficient (longer runtime on battery). I've been seeing laptop deals on SlickDeals quite a lot recently, but I don't know if the...
  4. redpoint5

    Money & Economics

    Oregon is way worse than that. My wife has a patient who got gender disaffirming care absolutely "free" from the Oregon Health Plan, which is free healthcare for poor people. Whacked the balls off, went by Suzie or some such name, the whole nine yards. Realized it was a mistake, wants prosthetic...
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    bidens incredible transition to electric cars

    Mustang Mach E. EV with ~250+ mile range and 266-480 horsepower. Here's what I think of when Mustang is mentioned;
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    Money & Economics

    TLDR... apologies if this has already been posted. This is the appropriate strategy for most people. Investment Order
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    bidens incredible transition to electric cars

    Helicopter pilot would be my dream, but I only fly drones at the moment. Was going to get into paramotoring before my first child... now if only I can get serious about it before a 3rd comes along. Back on the topic of EVs, I did convert my daughters Jeep from 12v to 18v cordless drill...
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    bidens incredible transition to electric cars

    Utility, efficiency, fun; covers all the bases.
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    bidens incredible transition to electric cars

    I like the eMustang and yours looks great in red. I agree that it should have been named something else. The thing is, Ford decided to drop all cars except for the Mustang. When they made that decision, it meant any car made IS a Mustang. Perhaps it was a dumb decision; I really liked the Fusion...
  10. redpoint5

    Progressive Liberal Hypocrisy

    Some people swallow the red pill, others have it brutally pounded through their face. Tragic consequences for doing stupid so long.
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    Who ya gonna call...Ghostbusters LOL

    Everyone is going to die of heart disease or cancer. Going down the list a bit more is car accidents and ladder falls. A couple people die of gas explosions.
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    Progressive Liberal Hypocrisy

    Best to have an actual sanctuary before declaring you have a sanctuary.
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    Progressive Liberal Hypocrisy

    Speaking of "used to be young", it used to be only the crazy women that lived alone with a hoard of cats. We're going to have a lot more "cat ladies" because our culture values postponing marriage or avoiding it altogether, and then women wake up one day when they are 35 and childless realizing...
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    Progressive Liberal Hypocrisy

    Not just emasculated, but trans-womaned, including the "bottom" surgery. The US is in danger of becoming more like Europe though. Freedom of speech and thought are next on the chopping block.
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    Progressive Liberal Hypocrisy

    It amazes me that there are people, especially so-called men, who believe they have no right to self-defense. We've just got to allow ourselves to be robbed, beaten, raped, and killed. My wife would help the guy up if he yelled angrily, because her nature is to give in to threats and not resist...
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    Progressive Liberal Hypocrisy

    Canadians "niceness" is a result of their value of acceptance. Acceptance goes off the rails when it has no boundaries. When you have a laws making it illegal to call someone by their biological sex if they insist on being referred to as something else, this is the result. Legally, they've got...
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    Progressive Liberal Hypocrisy

    I knew Wiki was not to be trusted and leaned left, but I didn't realize it had no objectivity whatsoever. Just went to Google Stefan Molyneux to see what he's been up to, and the first result was this Wiki page "about him". They call him a White Supremacist and cite sources that also call him a...
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    Progressive Liberal Hypocrisy

    The liberal mindset tends to place faith in public institutions while the conservative mindset tends to put faith in family/church/community. That means all public institutions are likely to be dominated by liberal-minded people, because they're the ones that place their faith in them. Public...
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    Progressive Liberal Hypocrisy

    I'm 25% Japanese, 20% French/German, 18% British/Irish, 8% Ashkenazi Jew 7% Scandinavian... and I don't own any slaves and haven't killed anyone yet. Too soon to proclaim perfect race, but so far so good.
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    Progressive Liberal Hypocrisy

    I've never laughed so hard than this Gaad clip.
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    Comca$$ and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule. FCC says "no."

    I haven't had DSL in a few years now. My options will be cable vs fiber (and possibly a 2nd fiber), so I'll be shuffling between those options (Astound, Comcast, Ziply). I'm curious if fiber modems are interchangeable between providers? I've actually never seen one before. Out in the country...
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    Progressive Liberal Hypocrisy

    Impossible! That's where we send all our brightest problem solvers the nation can produce. I'm feeling less confident about the utopia they will bring about once we convert more individual liberty into power for them.
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    Comca$$ and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule. FCC says "no."

    Comcast has directional drillers out in our neighborhood to lay fiber conduit. They raised my sidewalk 1", so now there's a lip for the kids to trip on. They are going to bust out that section of sidewalk and pour a new exposed ag one. Insanely expensive to install this conduit. I buy the modem...
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    bidens incredible transition to electric cars

    As an old Millennial, I've been pushing back against the fad to blame Boomers for every little thing that isn't perfect. Even if things aren't ideal, that's no excuse to give up. I'll push back on this. Energy expenditure to ship things long distances is insignificant when done on bulk...
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    Progressive Liberal Hypocrisy

    Canada had better hope we never tell China they can have it, because they'd fit right in.
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    Comca$$ and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule. FCC says "no."

    My complaint is that anytime I sign up for service, they act like I'm the very first customer to ever make such a request, and they are still trying to figure out how the process works. Internet is a fringe service cable provides, apparently. If I ask what the upload speed is, that is a...
  27. redpoint5

    Poll - Who Won the Republican Debate?

    If Peter Zeihan has a correct understanding of Russia's situation, there doesn't appear to be any good way forward. They are a population in decline, and they'll never have more young men to send into the meat grinder then now. So, they're going out on their own terms rather than choosing the...
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    Poll - Who Won the Republican Debate?

    I wonder about this too. My take is that Trump lives rent-free in so many Democrat minds that they just can't not poke the bear. Inadvertently they have kept Trump relevant and activated his base. This may work to their advantage for the reason you give. Half of me wants to move on, and the...
  29. redpoint5

    Lost a BI hard drive

    As mentioned already, OS and software on a solid state drive, video on spinning disks, important data backed up elsewhere. I've got my OS/apps on an SSD, media on a RAID 1 array, and BI recordings on a single spinning disk.
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    Poll - Who Won the Republican Debate?

    Of the 8 Republican candidates, who do you think performed the best in the debate? This is a separate question than who your favorite among the 8 is.