Sorry, this one is behind the paywall, but I couldn’t help but post it. From the Philadelphia Business Journal:
With Jersey Shore home prices soaring, owners are now selling fractions of their houses
With skyrocketing home prices and rental rates at the Jersey Shore pricing out many families, the owner of a $3.39 million home in Stone Harbor is offering fractional ownership stakes in his house — and he’s not the only one.
Stu’s blocked post from yesterday:
I will answer each of your points separately.
Our debt spending as a percentage of GDP is not much higher with Biden than it was when Trump was in office. Trump’s corporate tax plan failed miserably in the long term and even before Covid, the debt was increasing. Factor in all of that stupid and fraud-ridden Covid stimulus and Biden is spending less now than when Trump left office. And don’t forget, Trump did it with ZIRP in effect and never went a day without telling you how amazing his economy was, especially at the lower tiers. Just like Biden’s. But Biden’s was even better. Of course, you don’t know this because you get your news from the Right wing media.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S
The higher credit card and auto loan debt is most likely the result of two effects. One, mortage debt is way down so people feel safe about carrying higher debt limits on other things. Two, inflation makes the number look larger. We had wage inflation to go along with good old retail inflation. Most importantly, debt has been increasing at the same general rate even without adjusting for inflation since 2014. Adjusted for inflation, it may actually be slowing. Of course, you don’t know this because you get your news from the Right wing media.
https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/hhdc
Crime is through the roof you say. Well actually, it isn’t. Of course, you don’t know this because you get your news from the Right wing media.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/people-think-crime-rate-up-actually-down-rcna129585
On immigration, you are correct. It is a drain. Not as much as we pay for poor hillbillies and poor urban families. But it is a net drain. On average, $63,000 per illegal over their lifetime. Currently, illegal immigration costs about 180 billion per year. In comparison, defense spending is 760 billion per year. Medicare alone costs 933 billion a year. It will be quite a while before we are all living in shanty towns. Of course, you don’t know this because you get your news from the Right wing media.
“Illegal immigrants are a significant net fiscal drain — paying less in taxes than they use in public services. The primary reason they create more in costs than they pay in taxes is their relative low levels of education. Based on prior research, 69 percent of adult illegal immigrants have no education beyond high school, compared to 35 percent of the U.S.-born. As a result, they tend to earn modest wages and make modest tax contributions even when income and payroll taxes are taken out of their pay. This fact, coupled with the relatively heavy demands they make on public coffers — especially for education, health care, and means-tested programs — is the reason they are a net fiscal drain. We estimate that 59 percent of illegal immigrant households use one or more major welfare programs, costing roughly $42 billion a year. At the local level, the largest single cost is for public education. We estimate the cost of educating the children of illegal immigrants, most of whom are U.S.-born, totals $69 billion per year. While illegal immigrants often receive other services for their U.S.-born children, even when we estimate the net fiscal impact of just the illegal immigrants themselves, excluding their U.S.-born children, we still find they create a lifetime net fiscal drain of $68,000 on average (taxes paid minus benefits received). Even though illegal immigrants are net fiscal drains, they do pay a significant amount in taxes. We estimate illegal immigrants pay $25.9 billion a year to the federal government. Unfortunately, their tax contributions do not cover their consumption of public services. The net fiscal drain is not the result of illegal immigrants being unwilling to work. In fact, we find that illegal immigrant households are significantly more likely to have at least one worker than households headed by the U.S.-born, and there is little evidence that immigrants come specifically to get welfare. Legal immigrants and U.S.-born Americans who have relatively few years of school are also a net fiscal drain on average because they too tend to earn modest wages, make modest tax contributions, and use social services extensively. None of this should be seen as a moral failing on the part of low-income people. Nonetheless, it is the reason why communities across the country worry so much about losing their middle-class tax base, as it is primarily middle- and upper-income people who keep public coffers full. The fiscal situation today is very different from the situation more than 100 years ago during the last great wave of immigrants, when federal, state and local government was a much smaller share of GDP. Also, at that time industrial jobs for the less educated were plentiful and paid, by the standards of the day, relatively high wages. But none this is the case today. We need an immigration policy that reflects current realities, and we need to rigorously enforce it. Otherwise, the fiscal costs will be significant, as many communities across the country are currently finding out. ”
https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/camarota-testimony.pdf
For what it’s worth, Biden is trying to pass a pretty decent immigration reform bill. Way more restrictive than any Democrat in the past ever presented. But the Trumpies won’t pass it as it would hurt their only “real” platform position that’s truthful.
So what do you have to say?
Things really are not that bad. Immigration is really not having that much of an impact on our daily lives. We might actually benefit from them in the future too as labor shortages become a real issue among a population that doesn’t have enough kids.
GOP is a complete and utter embarrassment.
They need to walk away, spend the next few terms focusing on rebuilding the team.
I don’t have access to the article above but if you have money for a fractional ownership, then you have money to rent a vacation slot. Without reading the article, I can only guess. Doesn’t sound appetizing to me. And anything with the word ‘timeshare’ in it makes me skeptical.
Of course, you don’t know this because you get your news from the Right wing media.
When I put on the left wing media outlets, it’s 24/7 of Trump sucks, democracy will end because of him and women’s ‘reproductive rights.’ Why isn’t the left pushing the narratives you listed above. They’re sophisticated and educated, remember? Can’t they tailor it in a way the muppet masses will understand?
I called it timeshare, mostly because I’m an asshole and love to call out that nonsense.
Dysfunction Reigns in Congress as G.O.P. Defeats Multiply
Published Feb. 6, 2024
Updated Feb. 7, 2024, 1:09 a.m. ET
In a day of chaos in the Capitol, Republicans failed to impeach the homeland security secretary, lost a vote to speed aid to Israel and cheered the demise of a border deal they had demanded.
Republicans in Congress suffered a humiliating series of setbacks on Tuesday on critical elements of their agenda, turning the Capitol into a den of dysfunction that has left several major issues, including U.S. military aid to Ukraine and Israel, in limbo amid political feuding.
As Republicans in the Senate torpedoed a border deal they had demanded, the bid by their counterparts in the House to impeach Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, collapsed amid Republican defections.
Stu,
your arguments make sense. But unfortunately most people around here have been watching FOX NEWS all day, every day for over a decade. Only FOX NEWS can reprogram them.
None of the above beats Nikki Haley? Gotta say, that’s funny.
Hehe. I don’t think that’s ever happened here.
Donald Trump WINS Nevada primary without being on the ballot: Voters picked ‘none of these candidates’ over boosting Nikki Haley
“Illegal immigrants are a significant net fiscal drain — paying less in taxes than they use in public services.
Corporations get the advantages of illegals, taxpayers pay for their public services.
All this impeachment talk makes me want cobbler.
Here we go again
Married middle school teacher, 26, faces up to 50 YEARS in jail after admitting to raping a 14-year-old male student over course of a year
Well now that’s a surprise. Right up there next to Glitchy McConnell.
Brain dead vs none of the above at election time. Holy Fucc.
Staggering moment President Joe Biden, 81, appears to forget the name of terror group Hamas during press conference where he’s asked for an update on hostages held in Gaza
Biggest indication that the world is in trouble– Taylor Swift is getting along with a man.
Hehe.
Ze Russians, Ze Russians.
So what will be the last straw that triggers WW3? Every war has a story.
NATO scrambles F-16 jets in Poland as Russia launches one of its largest onslaughts of the war and pounds Ukraine with missile strikes
NYC gets a new police department, one that brags about assault. The last one just did it, this one does it on national television.
‘We gave him a little pain compliance’: Guardian Angels led by founder Curtis Sliwa take down ‘Venezuelan migrant shoplifter’ in Times Square during LIVE TV interview
Staggering moment President Joe Biden, 81, appears to forget the name of terror group Hamas during press conference…
I watched the speech. The vegetable called them the opposition because he couldn’t remember the name of Hamas until someone uttered it to him. There were times in that speech where he paused for a loooong time, searching for words. It was awkward to watch. I think China’s just pausing to see who gets elected in November before they decide to go into Taiwan. Our enemies are rooting ‘bigly’ for an O’Biden win like it was their Superbowl.
NJ cop brings Snookie’s husband his Uber meal after arresting the Uber driver cause she makes so little driving Uber she can’t afford a ticket that later turned into a warrant.
They had him on News 12 acting like a hero. I wonder if he delivered the food with lights and sirens making sure some dipsh ites husband gets his cardiac killer meal, guess they don’t have a fridge at home.
It’s amazing what is a hero today, just as bad as our choices for President.
How, over the course of just 2-3 generations, did this country go from producing men who had the courage to storm the beaches in Normandy, to producing squirrely fragile weaklings like these guys, who cry the unravelling of the world and became insurrectionists as instructed by Trump, shape their world view around perceived racial grievances? What an embarrassing Fox News watchers
Lib: Your points on immigration is what I have been saying for quite some time. There has to be a plan in place, and it’s not the same as immigration 100 plus years ago. I don’t know the statistics on immigration education achievements , but there are at least some that are illiterate, that has to be addressed. I know this as I have a friend who is a social worker who has said illiteracy is not uncommon in countries and they work with them.
We also need to integrate these new arrivals and that means everyone shares the burden, not just the everyday people. As for jobs in the future, who knows, we need a plan for all the younger generations going forward. AI is already changing the employment landscape ; that will continue going forward.
As for credit card debt, I think you dismiss that too easily. Yes, people with low mortgage rates might feel confident carrying credit card debt, but at 2o to 29 percent interest rates , does that make sense? I suspect far more are using credit cards are being used by many for daily living expenses, or at least more than you might think. Finally, white collar layoffs are continuing into 2024. Perhaps I am too pessimistic, and things are overall good, but I remain skeptical.
The democrat party doesn’t need candidates because it fabricates them on demand. Both Obama and Biden as candidates were myths. Total disconnect between their claimed experiences and accomplishments and reality. Bama was raised by white folks in private schools. Biden spent his lifetime as a Dixiecrat and a front man for big business. Yet both as candidates are portrayed as champions of minorities and common people.
Fast Eddie says:
February 7, 2024 at 8:16 am
I think China’s just pausing to see who gets elected in November before they decide to go into Taiwan.
China isn’t going to war with Taiwan anytime soon. They are watching Russia carefully. They are studying NATO tactics. They see how America economically drains others for personal gain. Europe is paying dearly for it’s attachment to America, it’s love for her is like marrying an expensive wife-eventually she draws you into her drama.
They are intercepting data. They are eliminating phones that America has put Pegasus on to listen in on them. They are building their own satellite network. They are studying the American weapons given them by Ukrainian smugglers-anyone can be bought for a price. They are building alliances with the underdogs that America refused to because they couldn’t rape them financially, and bringing them up to standards vs America’s keeping them as slave outposts.
Even Canada sees what is coming, but Americans will sell their land to the Chinese and anyone else for money. Hell I don’t believe there is anything an American won’t sell, there is no integrity here, no social structure, no continuity, no honor.
Never thought I would get a front row seat to America’s version of the Roman Empire, but we are getting close. Even Lib is headed away out to Costa Rica, I don’t think anyone will waste a nuke on that place.
China is playing the long game, and America is busy making memes and electing brain dead criminal Senior Citizens. Boomer must have taken just too many hits of the bong in the earlier days.
8:26 and yet they govern effectively and aren’t looking to subjugate the rule of law or become incompetent dictators.
3b
Credit card debt is the best debt for an individual to have. It’s like real estate debt to commercial investors.
Just don’t pay it. Give the debt back to the bank. Just like they just give these commercial buildings back to the bank, they will write off the credit card debt as well.
After you file for bankruptcy, where they can’t take your house anyway, just wait six months and reapply for another card. Don’t worry, the dealers like to hook you with dope again. It’s not like they lose, just like the police who do crap like this, it’s not them that pays the bill.
You must be referring to all of the hoaxes and political prosecutions. To save democracy the left has to destroy it. More righteous bullshlt.
I guess we eliminated the mafia in NYC for the muncipal workers to take the lead.
Taxpayers paid 1.9 million dollars for this F up. Couple of female cops standing there, f azzes watching these kids cry as well. You would think women would make “better” cops. Nope. No morals, no sympathy. Too lazy to check the plate number, and taxpayers eat this. The video is heart wrenching to watch if you have the least amount of empathy in your soul. They don’t have any.
Police detained and handcuffed a Black mother and four children after mistaking their SUV for a stolen motorcycle from another state.
They made children, little girls, lay face down on the ground. Wouldn’t the first question be, license and registration?
https://youtu.be/OuiLfWVTuaY?t=5
Crime is through the roof you say. Well actually, it isn’t. Of course, you don’t know this because you get your news from the Right wing media.
This is an easy argument to debunk. Reported statistics are meaningless when you don’t report crimes or eliminate them. Juking the stats.
One of the concepts they introduce you to on The Wire is the practice of “juking the stats” as a crime reduction strategy. You code aggravated assaults as simple assaults. You code robberies as larcenies. And presto-changeo violent crime is down. And it’s not just on television, the availability of these tactics is why crime researches say that if you want to compare violent crime levels from city to city or within a given city over time, you need to just ignore most of the statistical information available to you and focus on the murder rate. It’s hard to miscode a murder as anything other than a murder.
If you are walking into a CVS in the city or a Home Depot in the suburbs and can’t figure out why everything is behind a lock and key, you have your head buried in the sand.
If you are walking into a CVS in the city or a Home Depot in the suburbs and can’t figure out why everything is behind a lock and key, you have your head buried in the sand.
A few days ago, the local news showed a clip of a drug store employee standing next to a guy loading a garbage bag full of stuff and casually walking out of the store. She was holding a clip board and taking inventory of items lifted. The green garbage bag was full. Evidently, theft has become mainstream. Was that guy reported or arrested? I have a feeling he wasn’t.
BRT,
This one is for you
https://corporate.target.com/news-features/article/2012/02/an-unexpected-career-target-forensic-services-labo
Phoenix, thanks, interesting read. I knew a few people who went into forensics from the Chem program at Rutgers.
Me. I don’t care if he is arrested. I don’t care if he empties the entire store.
I had police and court systems keep me away while my ex wife emptied my house out of all of my personal belongings. Yes, actually assisted her while “supposedly” protecting her when all she was doing was lying. Defund the police. I’ll take my chances. Bring back the wild wild west.
Our court systems are a f’n clown show. Both Trump and Biden, and Hunter Biden as well, should all be in prison. But they are not, and 4 black kids are face down on hot pavement handcuffed for “allegedly” stealing a car that actually belonged to them.
I hope that is as burned into their memory as the burns from the hot pavement. That is when you realize just how free you are in America.
Never forget. For those children, this is their Holocaust, their 9/11. No one gets to decide who’s pain is worse than another’s.
At least they get some reparations as well, thanks to the w2 taxpayers of America.
Fast Eddie says:
February 7, 2024 at 8:52 am
If you are walking into a CVS in the city or a Home Depot in the suburbs and can’t figure out why everything is behind a lock and key, you have your head buried in the sand.
A few days ago, the local news showed a clip of a drug store employee standing next to a guy loading a garbage bag full of stuff and casually walking out of the store. She was holding a clip board and taking inventory of items lifted. The green garbage bag was full. Evidently, theft has become mainstream. Was that guy reported or arrested? I have a feeling he wasn’t.
“Why isn’t the left pushing the narratives you listed above. They’re sophisticated and educated, remember? Can’t they tailor it in a way the muppet masses will understand?”
Who said the Dems are any smarter than the Right. I certainly don’t pay attention to their media either. I get my news from Tangle and Bloomberg. Though I do occasionally watch about fifteen minutes of FoxNews here and there for shits and giggles and to find out the latest narratives they are pushing to their dedicated audience.
I said this here once before, years ago, after taking a cruise that only had like three channels on the TV. One would show cricket all day, and the second had really old movies. Then there was FOX News. So we watched a lot of it. Their MO was clearly to push narratives. In the morning, there would be a panel show where through simple conjecture a conspiracy or story would be developed. It would be debated between a hot chick, a pro wrestler and a comedian (not exactly the types I would trust an opinion from, but this is FOX News). I don’t remember what they were pushing during the cruise, but I’ll make up an example to show how simple the strategy is. An undisclosed informant claims Biden hates dogs as he was caught admonishing a dog owner who was walking his dog off leash and the dog ran up to Joe and jumped on him. For a half an hour, these bozos will start by confirming the conspiracy with all kinds of nonsense. He didn’t have a dog when he came to the White House. He eventually got a dog, but it was the first rescue dog in the White House because none of the pet store or breeder dogs liked him. He probably got the dog to help him see, etc. Then the next show comes on and adds to the conspiracy. They discuss how old people shouldn’t have pets. They refer to hoarders with homes full of feces and old cat ladies. On the next show, they bring in an expert from a dog rescue center who claims they would never give a rescue dog to anyone over 80 years old since they’ll likely die and leave the dog in limbo. This nonsense continues all day until Gutfeld comes in with all kind of jokes about Biden and his rescue dog.
Heck, it’s convincing. The next morning, it’s all recollected in the Murdoch rags. By noon, it’s even covered by the regular news who doesn’t want to be left out. The problem is, that it’s all nonsense and conjecture. There was no informant. Biden does not dislike dogs. The whole story was completely made up. But, there are no facts to check. It all sounds completely logical. Clearly Joe Biden hates dogs. And then the right wing nuts here will post the same garbage here, especially after Trump makes a remark about it when joking about Biden’s age, which is three years older than his.
BRT
Target is the one that “Targets” shoplifting. They allow them to shoplift, building a case instead of trying to do a “gotcha” with a single item.
Don’t worry, facial recognition is here, and will be implemented more. ALPR cameras are being placed in town after town, every place you go will be monitored. Drones and robots will be the police in the not so distant future.
We mock China for doing this to their people. F you boomer, you are doing it to your children right now.
“Things really are not that bad. Immigration is really not having that much of an impact on our daily lives. We might actually benefit from them in the future too as labor shortages become a real issue among a population that doesn’t have enough kids.”
Simply not true. We have super advanced surveillance now. People can be identified and tracked. The point isn’t that crime statistics suggest that crime is down (although BRT provides commentary). In context, crime should be absolutely driven to low levels compared to past years because of these tools. The bump up in certain types of crime should be alarming.
Also, I’ve taken NJ Transit into NYC late in the afternoon several times in the last few months. It is very apparent who is now in NJ. It must make a massive impression to all those people getting on at the Newark airport stop and they see this third world backwardness.
Re: “border deal”
No that senate legislation was a war funding bill.
The Senate could draft separate border legislation but then they could not get the war funding. Without the war funding does the war end? You betcha..no ammo means no more bombing. Over a million 155 mm shells and other sizes the USA alone is sending to Ukraine in addition to various other lethal systems. I am sure every young man and woman living and fighting in those war zones would like to know, as the Ukrainians are now sending women to the front lines and are rationing shells to about 2,000 a day.
Schumer could very well have cost the Democrats the election and even a majority in Congress. If they want a “border deal” get back in committee in the house and senate and draft up a real one, with no other agenda. Right now the Democrats very well need one, polling says all flavors of voters want the border crossing orderly. Right now it’s a shi***t show.
In context, crime should be absolutely driven to low levels compared to past years because of these tools.
Lets start by giving these “tools” to the IRS to arrest every tax cheater. Mandatory prison, not just a cash payback.
Take that small business owner who claimed his kid’s birthday was a “business expense” and put him on the hot pavement along with his family and treat him as a criminal just like you did to the innocents in that car.
Naz futures are up almost half a percent.
3B, on the layoffs. I honestly think that today’s layoffs are yesterday’s share buybacks. It’s just another way to juice the bottom line in the short term. Especially at tech companies where the older stock of employees are loaded with useless legacy knowledge which comes with high legacy costs. Culling the herd annually is probably still commonplace on Wall Street. It certainly adds to the aggressively competitive nature that they want in their employ. It also serves as an incentive to make the survivors work harder. In the past, I don’t recall anyone but Wall Street performing these culls when a company was profitable. Like stock buybacks, I think this is being used as an additional new way to juice earnings.
https://advisor.visualcapitalist.com/rise-of-stock-buybacks/
https://money.com/tech-layoffs-affect-stock-prices/#:~:text=At%20their%20core%2C%20layoffs%20are,revenue%20and%20increase%20its%20profits.
Lots of gaslighting from the blue-state stooges this morning, but perhaps the silliest is Grim looking around at the current state of affairs and calling the GOP an embarrassment. In any case, lots of good responses already to the moronic propositions that crime, illegal immigration, spending, debt, etc really aren’t that bad…
On the topic of the immigration bill, good job by the GOP to tell Joe and Schmuck Schumer to take a hike. This is Joe’s problem, he caused it, he can fix it tomorrow if he wants to. I’m reminded of the Daily News headline in 1975 when the GOP refused to bailout then almost-bankrupt NYC — DROP DEAD!
Gonna be fun when you hear the loud feedback squeal of one AI meddling in the stock market vs a second AI doing the same thing both at a high frequency and bitrate.
Hehe.
It won’t be long before AI will be battling itself in the greed department.
Libturd,
Once again, you described in length your disdain for a news outlet. My question is/was why the left isn’t touting their achievements?
Juice,
“No that senate legislation was a war funding bill.”
I don’t disagree, but sadly this is the precedent with nearly every bill. It’s called compromise. You get what you want and we get what we want. Again, I agree the two should not be linked, but nearly all bills are. Plus, in this case, the Republicans said no more war spending without a border crisis solution. This is what they asked for.
Chi – Sorry to be obtuse. Can you elaborate on this?
“It must make a massive impression to all those people getting on at the Newark airport stop and they see this third world backwardness.”
New York Community Bancorp will be bailed out.
Profits are private, losses are socialized. Trump playbook
Unless you are poor. No bailout for you
Lots of racial resentment…
Boomer Remover says:
February 7, 2024 at 9:35 am
Chi – Sorry to be obtuse. Can you elaborate on this?
“It must make a massive impression to all those people getting on at the Newark airport stop and they see this third world backwardness.”
Gary,
“was why the left isn’t touting their achievements?”
For the same reason they are running Biden again when it’s clear as day (and the polls reveal) that even an unknown would score many more votes than him. Strategically, they are being really stupid right now, IMO. If history proves anything, it’s that politicians are the last to find out when their shit stinks. Look at the 2016 election. I tried my best to warn all of my lefty friends (and around Montclair, that’s all there is) that Trump would likely win. The night of the election, they were all stunned, but no one looked more idiotic than Montclair’s own Stephen Colbert, who when the cameras turned on, was left completely dumbfounded and at a complete loss for material when the results were posted and dear Hilary had lost.
https://youtu.be/BtohBA8mmHQ?si=Q-1-Z6JTA4ueXEvo&t=18
Lib: Wall Street has always laid off, nothing new there, but it is a lot of other companies as well, particularly tech companies, accounting and others. I do t know the age demographics, but I would guess they are not all old, as in 50 and above.
My point is the economy appears to be doing well, unemployment is low, and yet we have all of these announced layoffs. On the surface all appears well, but is it really? Just seems to good to be true.
Perhaps the most interesting issue, not getting enough attention, is the rapid decline in Joe’s cognitive state. Anyone who’s dealt with elderly parents/grandparents with dementia can easily recognize that Joe is already in mid-stage moderate/severe cognitive decline. Here’s the Reisberg Scale for those not familiar with it, and just by glancing you’ll see that Joe is already somewhere in stage 4/5/6. I don’t know who’s going to win in Nov, but I’m very confident in stating that Joe will not be alive in Jan 2029, when the winner of the 24 election leaves office.
https://alzheimersdisease.net/living/stages
Do we need to pass a bill to prevent them having DHS use construction equipment to raise barbed wire for easy entry?
Very Stable : I recall the Dems did lots of bailouts during the financial crisis, and no one did any perp walks. So no different than the Repubs.
3b, anecdotal, but my mom works at Target. Everyone’s hours were cut there the past month.
BRT: Probably other retailers as well. Estée Lauder announced 3000 layoffs yesterday. And, as you know it’s not a Wall Street/ tech company.
Yep
3b says:
February 7, 2024 at 9:50 am
Very Stable : I recall the Dems did lots of bailouts during the financial crisis, and no one did any perp walks. So no different than the Repubs.
How, over the course of just 2-3 generations, did this country go from producing men who had the courage to storm the beaches in Normandy, to producing squirrely fragile weaklings like these guys, who cry the unravelling of the world and became insurrectionists as instructed by Trump, shape their world view around perceived racial grievances?
You are confusing media with reality. This is America, there is no shortage of men who have the courage to give everything for this country. They just have better things to do than to parade their politics and positions everywhere they go.
At the car dealership getting the pathfinder fixed for a recall. They sent me a list of over 5k in critical repairs. Including having the tires rotated and rebalanced. literally 2 weeks ago rotated the front tires to the rear and had 2 new Michelins put on. Texas dealerships are notorious for this stuff.
I only do recalls (and free oil changes) at dealerships. Their markups tend to be crazy. I just got our first CX90 oil change (and three recalls) done Monday at Wayne Mazda. I overheard an estimate given for 3 tires (one was under warranty), a front and back full brake job, brake flush, and alignment. $2,600. Not only were the tires outrageously overpriced, but there was a $29 per tire labor fee. WTF? Brakes were $800 and $650. Should be closer to $600 and $500. Even the brake flush was like $200. I think I paid $80 last time.
Find a good gas station mechanic for real repairs and just use jiffy lube or Valvoline Instant for the regular maintenance. With coupons, they are easily half the dealer cost. The one I use in Bloomfield is excellent.
Yeah, I get it now. I didn’t read enough prior threads, as was reading from the bottom up today.
I was in for a recall and got a printout of an alignment being out of spec. Like an idiot, and having just put on new tires, I took this as gospel booked an alignment at my local shop. They performed the alignment but noted that it was within spec to start with.
The woman working the service counter at the dealer is also the worst kind of trailer mouth breathing condescending trash. I’m trying to explain something to her and she’s talking to me like I am five years old in a tone. FOH.
Took Hyundai corporate to resolve my battery coolant recall issue.
I’m on my second set of tires but still on same brake pads on the car at 40K, with plenty of life left. Drive train regeneration – and braking (car uses regen to brake car via pedal unless you mash it) – is where it’s at, barely uses the pads.
Actually buying the lease out later this month for $13.7K residual. How is your Tesla, Grim?
Stable. You are the racist. Did I say anything about race? Do you know how I grew up?
Very Stable Genius says:
February 7, 2024 at 9:43 am
Lots of racial resentment…
Boomer Remover says:
February 7, 2024 at 9:35 am
Chi – Sorry to be obtuse. Can you elaborate on this?
“It must make a massive impression to all those people getting on at the Newark airport stop and they see this third world backwardness.”
An example of third world backwardness is people riding bikes on the sidewalk in Red Bank. Spitting on suburban rail car. Being so unkempt that even a construction site would tell you go home and clean up. Carrying on a loud cell phone conversation in the middle of a quiet rail car while people are staring at you. Is there anything racial there?
^^ agree with this.
This is also how western Europeans feel when they tour your average NNJ house.
“You live in this?”
Hehe. She will do one at best, however.
Downfall of a woke DA: Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby sobs as she faces FORTY years in jail after being found guilty of COVID mortgage fraud – just months after being convicted of perjury
Hehe.
Female Tennessee corrections deputy is charged with having SEX with male inmate just 10 months after she was hired in rat-infested prison.
Libturd and Boomer
They wanted $139.99 for brake fluid exchange. I had brakes done and new brake fluid around 5k miles ago.
$89.99 for a cabin filter. My mechanic just charges for the cost of the filter since it takes him literally 1 minute.
$2,875 for drive belt replacement. If I really need that it’s half that at my local garage.
$79.99 to rotate and balance tires. I get my tires done at discount tire and buy the warranty so it’s free to do that everyday if I wanted to. And it was just done 2 weeks ago.
I’m not sure what to do with this information, Phoenix.
I can’t find the passion in my heart to hate on this topic, can we coalesce around something else like shoddy American construction?
Poor Martin. Get’s labled a pedo just for doing his job.
An X-rated sex scene between Jenna Ortega and Martin Freeman in new movie Miller’s Girl has been branded ‘gross’ by viewers left horrified by their 31-year age gap.
Wednesday star Jenna, 21, plays 18-year-old student Cairo Sweet in the black comedy drama, while Martin, 52, takes on the role of her teacher Jonathan Miller.
The film sees the two getting tangled in a very complex and inappropriate relationship, with Cairo choosing to pen a sex story after being given a creative writing assignment by Jonathan.
Raunchy scenes from this story are then played out on screen by Jenna and Martin – leaving viewers in uproar over the ‘uncomfortable’ age gap.
“$89.99 for a cabin filter.”
They cost between $3 and $10. Usually they take 30 seconds to replace. This is the most common dealer ripoff. Most charge between $75 and $100 for it.
bi-partisan border bill was awful. So many poison pills within it…almost like it was designed to fail. Most likely it was just leverage for some back room dealing.
They also wanted $169.99 for a fuel injector treatment. All they do is pour a bottle of fuel injector cleaner in the gas tank and run the car for a minute or 2.
“bi-partisan border bill was awful.”
Sure it wasn’t.
My 12 year old son now does the air filters/cabin airfilters on our car. I told him, replace every 6 months on his own, he’s free to order them online. I give him $25 for each one he does. When I showed him the cabin air filter replacement he responded “people actually pay money for this?”
HMB,
A real fuel injection service should involve removing the fuel injectors from the engine and soaking them in either a chemical bath or an ultrasonic cleaner. They will also pour a $10 bottle of cleaner into the fuel tank to clear the pump and tubes.
Libturd
It’s really disgusting. And of course every repair was marked as critical. The problem is if something really is critical I can’t believe what they say since they are full of it for so many things on that list.
My favorite was the time I brought the pathfinder in for an oil change to a different dealer. They told me I needed the cvt transmission flushed for $349. I asked how can they tell. They claimed the fluid was really dirty. I said that’s interesting since you just replaced the transmission under warranty about 10k miles ago.
And that’s why I only have warranty, recall, and free oil changes done with purchase of car at a dealership.
Real men work on their own cars.
BRT,
I taught my not-so mechanically inclined son this as well around age 10. We replace them every Spring. It may be overkill on the air filter, but the cabin air filter will need it. All three Mazdas of ours (2 of them over 145K) are still running perfectly with just routine maintenance except for tie rods and end on the CX-9 due to road salt for sure.
“The immigration bill is pretty strong. Republicans ought to pass it. If they don’t, they can no longer complain about immigration. Seriously. Read the bill. Trump is playing politics over crisis. Of course.”
Oh fucking puh-leeeeeze, Lib…….
First who gives a shit about political motivations, it’s DC legislation we are discussing. By definition it is politics. And political.
But let’s take your tack and discuss the ‘politics’ around this legislation.
So…the President for three years of his term in office allows literally anyone in any number to walk over the border every single day. Border encounters in his first year in office rocket from less than 500k annually to over 1.6m, the highest level ever recorded. He demonstrates absolute disdain and downright hostility to any restraints on this inflow whatsoever. He could with the stroke of a pen by Executive Order shut most of this flow down.
Then early 2024 – yes, an election year – rolls around. He is pummeled in the polls. Immigration becomes the second most important issue among registered voters ahead of even the economy/jobs, crime/drugs, and healthcare. And nearly 2/3rds of the country disapprove of his handling of it. His overall approval numbers on the back of the immigration issue hit rock bottom and if the election were held he would lose to DJT nationally and in five of six swing States.
Then….just magically, presto change-o…..Joe Biden is an immigrant HAWK! Stop the flows! Limit asylum! Physically shut the border!….Just like that. Wow.
Riiiighhttt….first thing you learn in business – hell, life – is that there is no manner to work with someone not operating in good faith.
I truly don’t know who is more gullible…you or the idiot Republicans who nearly gave this fraud a major electoral victory on an issue his Administration would never enforce. Thank goodness for Senators like Cruz who actually tossed their leader overboard and called Biden’s immigration move for what it was…pure unadulterated craven political opportunism.
Libturd
My mechanic has friends who work in dealerships. They tell him all they do is pour a bottle of fuel injector in the gas tank and run the car for a minute or 2 in park.
The sad truth too is that most good mechanics would never work at a dealer. Not enough autonomy and lower pay. The good ones own their own shop.
Phoenix
Real men fix their wounds with superglue .
Lib: I had two local mechanics, one for years. They both turned out to be bad for various reasons. I use Goodyear for the past year, and they seem to be good. Also guarantee the work. Good local mechanics seem to be hard to find these days.
Political opportunism or not. You can no longer argue you want the border closed when you vote against it. Everyone knows it’s three years late. Still. The reason the bill will not pass is pure politics. Closing the border is less important than winning the next election. There is no denying that is the card Trump has chosen to play. Biden just won this chess match IMO and in the opinion of nearly every non-Trumpee questioned.
Trump can’t even say there is no compromise anymore.
The delay to close the border is simply obvious.
Hold my beer says:
February 7, 2024 at 11:32 am
They also wanted $169.99 for a fuel injector treatment. All they do is pour a bottle of fuel injector cleaner in the gas tank and run the car for a minute or 2.
This is a rip off. Use a bottle of Chevron Techron every so often at fill up. If they get so bad that a check engine light comes on, then Lib’s way is the correct way.
Hell my 4 cyl has 8 injectors now, 4 on a high pressure rail, 4 on a low pressure rail.
They can use this story if they remake The Wire
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13056383/baltimore-prosecutor-marilyn-mosby-mortgage-fraud-covid-retirement-funds.html
Hold my beer says:
February 7, 2024 at 11:43 am
Phoenix
Real men fix their wounds with superglue .
Dermabond to be correct. Hehe.
Wasn’t busting on you, many modern cars are impossible to work on without specialized tools. Just bleeding the brakes requires a bi-directional scanner ( easy there repubs, it’s a scanner, not a rainbow person trying to change the gender of your ABS system)
Hehe.
3b,
I kind of experience that a lot too. A mechanic is always great until he isn’t. The miracle workers on my old Civic were not so good with my CX-9. After watching a Youtube video, I knew an annoying whistling sound was the strut mount. I brought it to three different mechanics who said that can’t be it and blamed it on dumb things like the wind blowing through the wiper blades and a loose chassis (wtf is that?). The sound the car was making in the youtube video was exactly the same as mine. When you tell a mechanic you saw it on Youtube, they get all offended. Well, replaced all of the struts and whistle went away (when we did the tie rods and ends). I hate sinking about 4K into a car worth 2K, but at the end of the day, it’s so much cheaper than the payments and insurance on a new car. Plus, these were the first real repairs ever on the SUV.
A few years back, the makers of the Wire made another series “We own this City” starring Jon Bernthal. It might as well have been another Wire. It was pretty good.
Lib,
Show this to your kid. Farkles knows his stuff. Guy is tough as nails.
https://youtu.be/4ONf46NLFyg?t=819
Watch at least a full minute of that video.
https://youtu.be/6Oy5y9jEID0?si=YQBg3t05CUq0piK-
Oh this was so annoying.
Phoenix.
He would really need a lift. The 40 of malt liquor the dude downs at the end is funny.
Phoenix
My guitar teacher owns a ranch and is always getting cuts. He just superglues or crazy glues the wound shut. He carries a bottle in every guitar case. He says it stops the bleeding and the pain instantly so he can play his gigs with no problem. His dog had surgery and ripped out the stitches. He brought it back to the vet and got charged $150 to get it restitched. Dog ripped out the stitches again. He broke out the crazy glue and glued it shut. lol
BRT
Never heard of that series. Will have to look for it.
Hold,
about 20 years ago, my friends dog tore a ten don in his leg. Couldn’t walk. Doctor mounted an industrial rubber band in place and sealed him shut. Dog was running full speed within a week. Friend was amazed. Vet at the time said, there’s so much less regulation and the lifespan is so short that they can get away with that kinda stuff.
Sad to say, vets seem to be going the way of traditional American medicine. Substandard service and gutting you like a fish on the bills.
GOP is indeed an embarrassment, after 8 years it has pretty much become a cult of personality, and that personality has driven out many intelligent and ethical people with his constant lying and preening. Now I suspect that the rot has gone so deep that even if Trump were to drop dead, they’d find another populist buffoon to follow. Like Trump, they seem to be motivated more by the desire to bash their enemies than to uphold some coherent principles. I blame William B Fuckley for driving out the secular pro-liberty types, and pushing instead for a religious conservative foundation for Republicans (though he himself probably favored that more by word than deed). Now they follow Trump as a religious messiah, their God supposedly working in mysterious ways through a flawed human agent. (Pretty much what Billy Graham Jr told religious conservatives about Trump).
Fox decided to be even more loyal to Trump than to the Republican party. Their talking heads are even nastier to Nikki Haley than the left wing media, because she’s basically a traditional moderate conservative.
On the other side, you’ve got a bunch of collectivists who act like they are the community organizers on the island of misfit toys. First be a loser, then identify with an oppressed group (ideally more than one!), and then let us be your group’s organizer to make government take back what you deserve from your oppressors. Person of color? Poor? Dumb? Member of the majority sex minority? Enjoy fudge packing? We’ve got your back, we will “unite” the country by demanding more from everyone else.
Most “mainstream” media opinion folks are just low-information libtards, just as Fox turned their opinion folks into low-information Trumpies. But PBS wheels out the high end college professor neo-Marxists whose ideas trickle down to shape the libtards’ point of view.
Meanwhile, even the Libertarians are dumber than ever. They’ve always had smoking pot as their top priority, with a smaller faction of NAMBLA activists, “anarcho-capitalist” dreamers, and the like. The real member base made somewhat cooky Ron Paul look super-sane in comparison.
I’m unaware of any political party that isn’t broken right now. Fortunately most of the existing population isn’t as screwed up in their beliefs as their political parties, yet. But I don’t see any popular political movement that’s set to improve things.
Libturd says:
February 7, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Phoenix.
He would really need a lift. The 40 of malt liquor the dude downs at the end is funny.
Farkles is funny. A very obscure video. A few years from the start of YouTube. I could relate to this guy then, and now, with the exception of the 40. Working in the dirt, in the cold, without the right tools. Just trying to get the job done with what you have so you don’t get ripped off like a f’n tourist. His video was helpful for me, this is around the time people started posting videos like this instead of the stupid “shorts” they do now.
Glad you liked it. One of my longtime faves. Hat tip to you Farkles, whoever you are.
HMB,
Dermabond is sterile super glue. But now they have prineo, which is the same superglue with a mesh tape. Stuff is awesome. Like patching sheetrock or fiberglass tape when you Bondo a car.
Line of the day.
“I’m unaware of any political party that isn’t broken right now”
Sad to say, vets seem to be going the way of traditional American medicine. Substandard service and gutting you like a fish on the bills.
It’s a business, becoming increasingly run by a large privately owned corporation:
Mars Buys Another Veterinary Network, as a Candy-Company Turned Pet Care Giant Furthers its Influence Over Animal Health. Last week, Mars, the company best known for brands like Snickers, Skittles, and Wrigley’s gum, purchased AniCura, a network of 200 animal hospitals spanning seven European countries
Petcare dominates Weihrauch’s conversation, just as it now accounts for a majority of Mars’s sales. But should the company see the appointment of its former petcare chief as bad news for the Mars Bar and Wrigley?
“I’ve spent 23 years in Mars; I’ve spent a third in food, a third in confectionery and a third in petcare,” Weihrauch said. “What we prefer to say in Mars is that we believe you can walk the dog and chew gum at the same time.”
Hopped in some NYCB. Collared to juice returns, basically a not unreasonable risk/return that they won’t get taken under.
High risk/high return, closest I come to yolo.
Back in the old bowling days, they sold what smelled like and worked just like super glue in the vending machines at every alley. It was for covering raw skin from blisters. Pretty sure it was marketed under the name Nu-Skin. Will look it up.
https://newskinproducts.com/
Shit stung like hell, but worked wonders on broken blisters.
They still sell the wound sealer. It’s more dilute (so less viscous) but it evaporates pretty quickly and seals nicely.
False equivalence.
GOP rich conservatives designed the system. Reagan, Trump, Supreme Court, Senators were selected by the rich, conservative elite.
“Collectivists”, the poor, etc., have no power and certainly not say in country’s direction. Community organizers do not control Billionaires, Reagan, Trump, Supreme Court or the US Senate.
No One says:
February 7, 2024 at 12:39 pm
Going to long some TLT as well.
“GOP is a complete and utter embarrassment.”
“Dysfunction Reigns in Congress as G.O.P. Defeats Multiply…Republicans in Congress suffered a humiliating series of setbacks on Tuesday”
Uhmmmm…no.
You all sit around bitching and moaning every day about the status quo while absolutely nothing gets done about it.
What the fuck do you think change looks like? You think people in power – especially entrenched privileged people in power – just readily yield to change?
The GOP recently tossed out two speakers and ran the next three candidates into the ground.
The Senate is literally the most exclusive club on Earth. 100 members. Most opting for a life membership. The Leader determines your entire trajectory there. Whether you stay there. Several Republicans yesterday in a nearly unprecedented move told their Leader to ‘fuck off’.
Look at McConnell’s presser last night. Look at the look of disbelief and bewilderment on his face.
THIS IS WHAT CHANGE LOOKS LIKE.
Or, you can opt for the alternative the liberal echo chamber in here chooses…sit around sulking ‘both sides suck’ and watch Lib dislocate his shoulder patting himself on the back for being a ‘centrist criticizing each side equally’ with twice posted screeds that demonstrate the opposite.
On the other hand what have the Dems done lately to change the entirely dysfunctional status quo? To overhaul the septuagenarian+ bipartisan cabal wrecking this country for your children?
Oh yeah, that’s right….they moved their superdelegate vote from the first ballot to the second ballot. Meaning instead of right out of the box having the entrenched Party tell you who your candidate will be, they’ll give you the kabuki theater of the first go around before they obliterate your vote.
Change is not smooth. First step is vested interests need to be uprooted. It’s happening. And all you guys can do is whine while the status quo you allegedly so much despise is slapped back.
I truly do not understand the logic of the suburban NJ mind sometimes.
Lib – That bullshit Senate border bill came out of Chucks Schumer’s back pocket. My point is they only care about the war spending. So much so now Schumer is not sending a new separate Bill to be voted on for the border only. He won’t do it no matter what.
Schumer is however sending a new Bill for war funding only, the Senate may vote today on this the NEW separate war funding bill and it’s rush rush rush and only possible now because of the failed vote yesterday. The bill being rushed now will be almost the same one that failed the Senate cloture vote in December.
You do understand the process? Senate and House Bills don’t match then a conference committee will be appointed with both House and Senate members they go to a room and has out the differences and it’s sent back to both chambers for a final vote. Much harder to do when the bills are massive. If the Bills match that is it, it passes the house and senate and goes on to the president. Easier to do when it’s a single issue and not some omnibus trillion dollar garbage.
Put up Bill for the Border, another Bill for Israel war funding and one more Bill for Ukraine war funding. This is how the founders of our country wanted it to be. No this gamed process we have today where they will not separate very distinct issues and funding of American Tax payer dollars to make it happen.
Also a reminder the House passed and Israel War funding bill in November about 14 billion. Senate under Schumer rejected passing one to match in the Senate.
Well yesterday the House Democrats refused to pass a new Israel War funding bill, and Biden said he would veto if it did pass.
Why is Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer blocking Israel funding? This is what has been happening folks.
Here is what a democratic house member said about it.
“If you have a bill that has nothing in it except Israel, and it fails, what does that say to the rest of the world?” asked Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), a veteran Jewish lawmaker who voted for the proposal.
“If the Bills match that is it, it passes the house and senate and goes on to the president. Easier to do when it’s a single issue and not some omnibus trillion dollar garbage. Put up Bill for the Border, another Bill for Israel war funding and one more Bill for Ukraine war funding. This is how the founders of our country wanted it to be.
And to my prior points, eliminating omnibus bills hundreds of pages long done by six people being handed to the rest of the Representatives the night before the vote with the instructions that “it’s done, this is how you are voting” was one of the core concessions those ’embarrassing’ new Repub Members were able to negotiate over the course of the ’embarrassing’ 15 votes for McCarthy….
ch-ch-ch-ch-changes….
Business Insider article on DINKS living it up like never before. As per the article.DINKS are becoming more acceptable, and is not viewed as negatively as it was. Reasons for not having kids, freedom, more money, the rising cost of raising children, more time for career etc.
Juice, you are cherry picking history. What we are witnessing is a House that will not compromise no matter what. It’s really that simple. Bills are always stuffed with tons of bullshit that don’t have one iota to do with the name of the bill. This is bipartisan. This is how it works. Do I like it this way? No. Neither do you. But when neither side is willing to compromise, why would you expect the Dems to cave here. Lord knows, the Republicans never uphold their promises. And I could have sworn last year the House said no more war funding without border reform. Just another broken promise. Like with the SCOTUS appointments. Neither side can trust the other. This is why you must combine stuff into one bill.
Lefty,
I know you are very intelligent. I’ll make it very simple for you to understand. I would love massive reform of the government and a so-called draining of the swamp. But if what we are replacing it with is a President who does not know how to define the word statesman, and who has been indicted time and time again for legitimate crimes. Plus a bunch of half-educated populists who own restaurants that flaunt rifles, get felt up in movie theatres and are no less corrupt then who they replaced. Well count me out. The Roe V. Wade decision alone, one that clearly aligned with only a minority of this countries citizens is not what I nor should any of us be looking for. I’ll take Dem corruption and personal enrichment over coat hangers,morons and a President who repeatedly lies to his supporters that he is a constitutionalist and freedom lover while claiming to be above the law and restricting rights if it guarantees the Christian vote. So much for separation of church and state. Sorry. Again, I’ll stick with corruption.
As to the border, Trump had full control over the senate and house. He squandered it spending his first two years reversing everything Obama did. Why did he not pass border reform then? I’m not talking about a stupid wall Mexico was going to pay for. Give me a legitamate Che or even a Golda. But a Donald? Pass.
Heck, is there a third Bush who could run? Anything but Trump.
Hunter’s laptop. Hunter’s laptop. Let me know when anyone with the last name Biden gets indicted please. An entire party that as backing a known criminal. It’s astonishing.
Almost had a draining of the swamp on January 6th except there was more interest in selfies than pumping out stagnant water.
Just think how that could have went had there been a real plan and some organization instead of a group of yahoos.
Now you just have angrier piranhas in the swamp. F’n really old ones.
“Look at McConnell’s presser last night. Look at the look of disbelief and bewilderment on his face.
THIS IS WHAT CHANGE LOOKS LIKE.” Yeah, that dude is one year away from a bed in a Sunrise Living facility.
You call this change? I’d wager you could turn an aircraft carrier around in the Delaware river faster than that change.
To Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Gates, it’s all noise.
Flying so high with bags of cash over the thunderstorms they don’t even feel it.
The rules of the game are very different once you have enough money.
Woodcliff Lake Hilton to close abruptly after over 40 years. Big tax hit to the town. I guess more luxury condos to come.
Or housing for immigrants since the reform won’t pass. :P
Lib,
Structurally, Trump didn’t even reverse much of what Obama did.
Remember how he promised he’s pass some “beautiful” new health care plan that would be “amazing”? Remember the “beautiful wall”? He didn’t do that or many other empty promises. The one thing he did do for Republicans was nominate Supreme Court Justices they liked.
He could barely pass anything during his 2 years of Republican control of Congress and President. Because he’s a terrible manager of himself or others, and didn’t really have a coherent vision anyway. He passed an alleged “tax cut” bill that raised my taxes. And he spent a lot.
Temporarily he cut some regulations by eventually having some agencies change their policies, but such actions only last as long as he appointed the heads of those agencies. Which was such a short time that very few showerhead makers even bothered to make new high-flow showerheads, knowing they’d probably have to discontinue them again after a new regulator got appointed. Same thing for car makers – they got a brief reprieve from Obama’s efficiency regulations, but California gets to Trump those anyway, and then Biden’s team pushed them more electric than ever.
Remember all those empty promises from Trump to pass an infrastructure bill? There was zero intellectual leadership on that (duh), and Trump eventually walked away as usual like a spoiled 8 year old. Remember- this was with control of congress!
After Trump’s incompetence and assholishness helped give back control of congress, he proved even less capable of passing any lasting legislation.
And Trump shut down America for COVID, while praising and copying Xi Jinping.
The idea that an older, crazier Trump will come in and get anything good done as president is a fantasy. He’s proven unable to accomplish much even when his party was in power, much less accomplish anything bipartisan. Yet he says he was the best president in US history, including George Washington.
Lib: Not in bucolic Woodcliff Lake!
Biden needs a script
Viagra and other impotence pills may perk up the brain and reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease by up to 18 per cent, a study found.
Men who took the little blue pills for erectile dysfunction had increased brain activity and were less likely to develop dementia in later life.
No one: Apart from Trump being crazy , what’s the point of the Republicans running someone who can only serve one term regardless of what he will or won’t do, or can do? It will be even more chaos if he wins. This is no endorsement of Biden as I believe he is declining mentally. I would have voted for Haley if for no other reason than to get rid of the two old geezers, and perhaps restore some sort of normality ( whatever that even means anymore) Since that’s not happening it’s Biden, or Trump, or stay home. I will stay home.
When Maytag made a good washing machine:
https://youtu.be/RxW_yDvo04c?t=2335
One for the road: https://youtu.be/AwPV3qJegEE?si=kx6-mPsiS6zPTJPN
National Geographic reports a huge rise in adults being diagnosed as ADHD. Pay wall so can’t provide any details.
Trump stiffed Rudy out of $2m.
It’s crazy how much value Cathie Wood has destroyed, and she’s just fine continuing to show her face in public and talking the same ish.
No flinching, same facial expressions, hand gestures, all is according to plan, I sleep well we all gonna be rich talk. Still on this robo taxi 10X base case on Tesla.
Some quick back of the napkin math, Cathie has claimed the robotaxi scenario would generate another 4 trillion in revenue for Tesla. Just roughly dividing this by the adult population of the US would put us in the range of 10 to $20k per person riding in these things.
I think I’ve spent a grand total of $300 on Taxi Rides in the past 15 years. That being said, the cars won’t stay charged, and the riders would stink the cars up with cigarette smoke and weed smoke. Their kids are gonna wipe snot all over the windows. My sister rents those zip cars when she needs to drive out of the city. They are friggin disgusting.
3B – there is a reader version. On an iPad click on the aa in the url bar and select reader.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/women-diagnosed-adhd-historic-rates
Women are being diagnosed with ADHD at unprecedented rates. Here’s why.
Women and girls with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder have historically been under and misdiagnosed. Is the world finally catching up?
The reality is, women were getting addicted to crystal meth because they were taking it to increase their productivity. The medical industry is figuring out that they can just give them aderall instead and get paid for it. It’s way overprescribed….and I say this as someone who took Ritalin for 14 years.
LAX says:
February 7, 2024 at 8:58 pm
Trump stiffed Rudy out of $2m.
Hehe.