trae-satterfield
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Cobalt mining has a long way to go with environmental and humanitarian problems and electric cars still have some basic utilitarian hurdles to get past, such as efficient recharging of vehicles that die far away from a charging station and electrical infrastructure being totally inadequate for the scale of the transition they anticipate. The reason car companies are committing to electric has more to do with legislation than it does with market demand. Several states are banning the sale of new internal combustion cars as soon as 2030, and I think the federal government also has a deadline, but I can’t remember when it is exactly. The EPA is essentially forcing car companies to build expensive and unreliable engines for their internal combustion vehicles in an effort to incentivize consumers to switch to electric, and constantly raising the threshold for average mpg requirements. If you’re curious, look at what diesel pickup owners are dealing with. Exhaust after treatment systems are required on Diesel engines now, and they often are not covered by warranties and are expensive to replace and repair. They’re also very unreliable and shorten the lifespan of your engine significantly. Companies that sell delete kits and reprogram the computer to bypass these systems (for less than half the cost of replacing the original equipment) are getting raided and extorted by armed EPA swat teams. These raids have been steadily spreading into the automotive aftermarket as well. Basically government is attempting to force the issue, when we actually have more environmentally friendly options than electric cars.
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I also judge the quality of a game by replay value. If I can’t pick it back up in a few months and enjoy it for more than an hour or so, it wasn’t a very good game. For example, I still occasionally play GTAV. Lol. It never stops being enjoyable to play for me.
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As with most things government related, I have high hopes and low expectations. Optimistically the SC rules that government can’t mandate anything like this and all of it lies on the discretion of individual businesses, but realistically they’ll probably uphold that government owns your body, and will maybe exclude covid vaccination due to the qualification being the number of employees, not anything related to workplace risk.
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I went a long time avoiding debt as much as possible, but I’ve more recently embraced it as a tool for elevating my position in life. I think debt and loans are a useful tool, but also can become a major burden if you let it get out of hand.
What Ive concluded is debt is the best defense against inflation without switching currency. Your balance doesn’t reflect the value of the dollar, only the cost when the contract was signed. When the interest rates are half the inflation rate, you’re going to do okay.
I’ll use my truck as an example. When I bought my truck, I found it used for 16k. I dickered them down to 14k. Since that sale, the same trucks with similar mileage and options are listed as high as 35k. (At least here in Washington.) The combination of increased demand in the used car market due to supply shortages, and the devaluation of the dollar means I came out way ahead. If I’d saved up until I had the balance in full, I’d have watched the prices climb faster than my savings.
That being said, when prices are inflated, it’s a bad time to lock yourself into a debt contract. As soon as the prices come back down, you owe more than the value of whatever you’re paying on. Since the interest rate is artificially limited to 6% when it should be more like 15%, debt is a good way to defend against the inevitable price increases on products that aren’t currently in short supply relative to demand. Right now is a horrible time to buy a pickup truck, but may be a great time to get a loan on undeveloped land.
It’s like any other tool. You can hurt yourself if you use it wrong, but used right, it can offer great results.
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That being said, most debt is backed by the federal reserve somewhere down the line, so choosing a creditor is something you shouldn’t take lightly. I learned this after I got into my truck loan, unfortunately.
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I like the polls but I don’t participate when it doesn’t pertain to me. But, they’re good conversation starters. I say keep it going the way you have been.
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This is good stuff. I haven’t spent any money on crypto, still in the process of making sure I understand it, but with the way the dollar is looking and it’s pretty horrible prospects, I’m feeling some pressure to get into a more stable currency.
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It never really was. It’s only a problem for people who “change their gender” and can’t wrap their mind around the idea that they still look like their old gender to everyone else. It’s a form of dysmorphia which is when a person mentally views themselves differently than reality. For example, the deathly skinny anorexic person who sees a fat person when they look in the mirror, or the transgender person with the Adam’s apple, and a voice and shoulders like stone cold Steve Austin, who is convinced they look just like a girl. Most of these conditions exist in people who have experienced abuse and major traumatic incidents, and when the delusion is challenged, it triggers a fight or flight response reaction to the unresolved trauma that they buried beneath the delusion. This looks a lot like the “it is ma’am!” Video that circulated the internet a while back in many cases. It’s a pathological thought pattern, so it will never follow logically to a person who isn’t prone to pathological thought.
The sudden uptick in gender fluidity and all that confusing horseshit has less to do with actual mental illness like a person with gender dysmorphia, and has everything to do with the demonization of being straight and identifying socially with your biological sex. The instant a child exhibits any kind of non gender conforming activity, such as a young boy trying on his moms high heels, they are treated like they’re special and given additional attention, particularly in the homes and schools that lunatic leftists are in charge of, thus encouraging the behavior and instilling it as positive behavior warranting a reward at a young developmental age. This often sticks in a persons brain well into adulthood and many peoples behavior patterns can be traced back to their reward and punishment programming in early childhood. This process in certain contexts would be considered grooming.
So, on the one hand, we have people who have experienced major trauma that has been processed by their brain subconsciously as “I am actually a girl, despite this penis and Y chromosome,” who will exhibit a trauma based response when that delusion is challenged, and the people who have not experienced trauma, but have been programmed at an early age to process acting like the other sex as a behavior that should be rewarded, and will respond like someone who has been cheated when their delusion is not acknowledged and rewarded. Imagine the person who believes he is worthy of tremendous respect and special treatment despite his lack of being remarkable in any way. His reaction to being treated normally by a person he perceives as beneath him will evoke an angry overreaction. This is basically the same behavioral pattern, except we aren’t told we’re supposed to pretend for that person, and we are supposed to pretend for the gender hopping person.
I know that was long and rambling, but I hope it made some things a little clearer and wasn’t just me telling you things you already knew. lol.
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When someone starts filibustering, that branch of government does what it should spend much more time doing. Nothing. I wish someone would filibuster every day. Plus, it gives the smarter ones a chance to actually say things that are worth saying, while the nation watches. Democrats loved filibusters, until they had their President in power. They’re just mad because filibusters are threatening to keep them from passing “voting rights” bills that actually just federalize elections and leave them wide open to fraud and corruption. Democrats are attempting an authoritarian takeover in a not so subtle way. Manipulation of election results, and the end of one of the best tools against sneaking bullshit bills through the senate before anyone notices.
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It’s great, honestly. You’re in the hole for several thousand dollars initially, buying a bike/quad and gear, but it’s good fun and it’s good for you. In my experience, almost everyone is your friend on the trails, so you get natural socialization and it makes you like people more in general, something that doesn’t really come naturally to me.
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I haven’t played those games myself, but I remember seeing them on the shelf back In the day. Early 2000s was all about need for speed for me. Thanks for your input.
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I had similar gripes years ago when I lived in California. You can probably imagine how that went. lol.
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I agree, but a quicker response isn’t really the solution or the thing I would point to if I was going to argue for why the system is illegitimate. It was designed that way because the responsibility of government at the time it was structured was pretty minimal, so by limiting the amount of time they have to be politicians, they’d spend their time being businessmen instead and theoretically limit corruption and keep the scope of federal government limited as a natural side effect of their limited time. What the founders didn’t foresee very well was an entire industry devoted to writing legislative packages tailored to the needs and wants of the highest bidder, and acting as brokers of corruption by trading campaign donations for prepackaged legislation that benefits their clients. They also didn’t forsee the legislative capabilities of a similarly corrupted judicial branch.
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It’s a blast. I’ve never heard of anyone saying they got bored riding dirt bikes. lol.
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It was interesting. I hated school from day one. Once I learned more about libertarianism and anarchy in my early twenties I realized I’d been one all along and never knew it.