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- Comment on Make it stop 4 days ago:
Really need some term limits and total service years. Pick your numbers, something but like 6 for congress, 4 for Governor, 20 max in public office.
Also their salary is based on their represented area. For a Congress representative, the national average is their base pay. If the area they represent is below average, a 30% of the difference is deducted. If it’s above average, 30% of the difference is added.
After 1 year, the percentage increases by 10 every year you’re in office.
So by year 6 if your doing a shit job your pay will be -90% the difference. If the national average is 50k, and your area is at 20k, the difference is 30k, 90% of that is 27K, so your salary is 50k-27k, which is 23K.
- Comment on A man attempted to transfer files from his Commodore 64 to his Apple computer. 1984 6 days ago:
Ah how little has changed
- Comment on Innövative sölutiön 1 week ago:
- Comment on No more a dream 1 week ago:
Did I stutter?
- Comment on No more a dream 1 week ago:
The box is full of rocks, and not the cool kind.
- Comment on Permit please 1 week ago:
I’m sorry, this permit is written for Ron, not you ilovededyoupiggy
- Comment on OK so which is it? 1 week ago:
HUMANS! DO NOT SWIM HERE
- Comment on Ed Sheer-enough 2 weeks ago:
TBF, some of the edits are a step above of low-effort. And there’s a bit of creativity involved in coming up with the puns.
But, yeah they’re all annoying after the 3rd one, but it’ll blow over a week or so. All that will remain are obscure references about Sheeran sharing beans in jeans on a plane.
Welcome to Lemmy.
- Comment on Tragic 2 weeks ago:
That tracks
- Comment on Never Forget. Please dear god don't forget 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Dammit dad 4 weeks ago:
Then why did you say the right story?
- Comment on demon named racecar 4 weeks ago:
My bad, I missread your comment.
I though he was raised in an English school, and had to deal with the translation growing up.
- Comment on demon named racecar 4 weeks ago:
Poor kid, hope he got it changed
- Comment on You might want to hose it off when you are done 5 weeks ago:
What!!! other cultures are ahead of Americans on personal hygiene, I’m super shocked!!! /s
- Comment on Better have done his homework 5 weeks ago:
+10 if the little sibling answers the phone
- Comment on Generational differences 1 month ago:
I can see an international trip costing money, either funded by participants or fundraiser.
Sounds like you had a cool time traveling, in the states your lucky if they have the funds to bus some kids to the public library
There were a lot of after school stuff that had travel, mainly sports and music. The foreign language dept sometimes was able to an abroad trip with like 7 students.
But the history class that wants to go to a museum can pound sand.
- Comment on Generational differences 1 month ago:
I’d count a field trip under the “crazy they have to fundraising”
I could see it if the fundraising is for an after school club trying to go on a trip?
But if the class were going to the museum or something, there should be a budget for that.
- Comment on Choose one 1 month ago:
Cool list.
Never seen an electrician use an “electricians hammer”, most use a framing.
Also missing the Form Setter Hammer.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 1 month ago:
“Oh no I’m dying and the 30 year old class room phone is broken and out of reach”
Cells phone have done a ton for EMS response times.
- Comment on The Circle of iLife 1 month ago:
No not like those, the difference is Apple did it first like every thing else they copied.
- Comment on What is Superman's "kryptonite"? 2 months ago:
They got the wrong guy, subman is a breeze in the wind compared to subparman.
- Comment on And he would've gotten away with it 2 months ago:
Hang on pal, I know your in a rush, but I just need to know if you want pepperoni or sausage on this thing. I promise you it’ll be done in like 7-9 minutes.
- Comment on The one good thing about all this 2 months ago:
China is just going triple the price of everything and blame the tariffs for it.
- Comment on This is not the post you're looking for 2 months ago:
Your Jedi mind tricks can’t fool me!
wait...
what post was I looking for?
- Comment on Nice try 2 months ago:
There’s variations to bugs on a log?? I always hated when my uncle fed us that.
- Comment on Based on a true story 2 months ago:
You take that 10k you were going to drop on a crap used car, use that as down payment on a new car. Get a longer loan with lower interest and keep monthly payment lower. The larger the down payment, the lower the monthly will be, and now you have 10 years to set aside money for the next new car or “out of warranty” repairs.
There are still new cars that have a sticker less than 30k, after warranties and any desired upgrades, probably closer to 35k-40k for anything not a truck, EV, or sport car.
There’s also people who lease, they pay lots of money to rent a car for around 3 year, after that they trade in for a new car and the old car gets sold as used.
- Comment on Based on a true story 2 months ago:
You can do school loans if you start paying bigger. Not sure what your debt is or how large your financial cushion needs to be, but if extra cash is sitting in checking not earning interest, its loosing value while your student loan interest keeps ticking up.
For me after setting aside money for savings, I kept what I needed + plus a small amount for whatever and the rest got dumped into loans, had that shit payed off in a few years. Think my total interest payed was around 3k, I know some people basically end up doubling their debt over the 10 years with some crazy interest rates. (Went to state school, so loans were about 50k for everything, I know some private schools are triple that)
(Also open a saving account or something, your checking account shouldn’t have access to all your funds in the event of debit card theft, especially if you use that online)
- Comment on I present my girlfriend's daughter. 2 months ago:
It’s the only time you will, even auto correct will work flawlessly for you when your intentionally trying to mistakes by typing large and complicated words.
- Comment on Terrorists 2 months ago:
Its an objective that is causing a major fucking problem for the people who want to sell their tesla but can’t without going bankrupt. You’re hurting thousands (hundred of thousands?) of people to stick it to one man.
People setting fire to a car forces fire fighters to have to put that out. That’s a waste of resources, possibly delaying other calls, and its a fucking fire. It doesn’t take much for the situation to become dangerous
Not hard to imagine the risk of something exploding or “sorry we couldn’t get to your hose 5 minutes earlier to save your baby because were scrambling around town dealing with arson”.
It’s not worth the risk.
- Comment on Terrorists 2 months ago:
The problem with selling a Tesla is the greatly reduced sell value, who wants to buy a car with such a shit reputation they’re getting set on fire? Either the crazy Musk/trump idolizers or someone who lives under a rocks and will gladly a buy an extremely expensive sedan for cheap. Unfortunately, unless their dumb enough to put a giant maga sticker on the car (but then how do you know someone isn’t vandalizing cars with stickers like that to watch other people harass the owner), there’s no way to know anything about the person driving it. They could be renting it because their’s broke down and that’s the car that was available, we simply do not know.
Tesla owners are basically being forced into loosing around 20k. Even selling it, they still have to pay off the rest of their loan. If they still have 30k to pay, and only sell for 20k, there’s still 10k on loan. then another 5k for a down payment on a new car. Do you have 15-20k sitting in the bank your able to spend and loose 20k in assets without it being a financially stupid idea? Not many do.
Only if the loan is payed off the loan or almost done could it make some since to sell the car at a 50% loss. It sucks, and should be done to get rid of the Tesla, but I still feel bad for the folks who wanted the EV for the environment/at home charging/no gas and got sold into the Tesla marketing.
And okay, my UHC example is easily broke on an individual level, but companies still choose the provider. Do we go set fire to random businesses that picked United Healthcare? That’s not gonna hurt UHC, it’ll just hurt the families of the workers who no longer have a job.
If you want a different example, insert Nestle or something, same idea applies.
And I’m going to emphasize this again, nothing musk does is justification for risking anyone’s life with burning cars.
