Is this properly accounting for the regional pricing differences of “good girls” and “bitches”? Lil Wayne has lived in a sprawling mansion in Miami, but also now lives in New Orleans. Are we just supposed to accept at face value that the costs are fixed across both localities?
Additionally, Kanye appears to be referencing wholesale costs of “bitches” as he’s talking about getting them in quantities of 1000, while Lil Wayne is clearly buying in retail prices at only 12 “bitches” at a time.
There’s too many inconsistencies to determine objective pricing from the data provided.
This part confuses me. Wouldn’t this be a good thing?
“Worsening the situation, 45pc of landlords decided to sell their properties in the wake of the announcement significantly reducing the amount of accommodation on offer and further pushing up prices.”
Yes, the number of rental properties declines, but that would mean home ownership would increase, right? I know my bias is toward the North American model of a multiyear fixed rate mortgage. I also know that the model exists in Europe about essentially interest only mortgage where you never actually pay down your mortgage, but your interest payments are essentially your housing costs.
How does it work in Argentina? How do people buy houses? Are they instead all cash transactions or do mortgage schemes exist there in some form?
Not too surprised by this, the law says one shot per trigger pull so neither of the devices technically violate that rule.
That law doesn’t say that. It says this:
"by a single function of the trigger. "
And this is where the legal arguments are sitting in court. Is the “single function”:
the action of the operator moving their finger, causing the trigger to be moved
or
the trigger releasing the sear to cause the hammer/bolt to drop, and then resetting
Various courts have ruled if the written rule means the first or the second. Under a single definition bump stocks would be allowed, on the other, they are not allowed.
If nothing else it breaks the stranglehold the 2.1 x86 licensees (Intel and AMD) have on the Windows market. Its just that that market is much MUCH smaller than it was 20 or 30 years ago.
My default buying process is research + spreadsheet creation, this time thought I’d ask the community here if you have any experience / wisdom with garage door openers. Thanks for any help!...
Before you replace the opener, make sure your door is still working properly.
You should have some kind of manual disconnect of the opener from the door (sometimes a red rope dangling). Once you’ve confirmed you’ve disengaged the opener, with your hands try to lift the door up. It should be pretty easy. This should not be a struggle at all. Now try to pull it down. That too should also be easy and little muscle effort. You shouldn’t need to exert much force either way because the springs on your door do most of the work.
If it is hard to lift either way, you have a door (or more likely spring) issue. Replacing your opener won’t fix your problem. Get garage door service. Also, if you aren’t REALLY REALLY experienced with garage door springs, don’t mess with them. There is a tremendous amount of force stored in them, and if you do it wrong, all that energy will come out and once and could maim or kill you. Garage door service doesn’t have to be crazy expensive. A couple hundred dollars is what it cost to have my springs replaced (parts included) a year or two ago.
Arizona, don’t let the GOP do this to you. They tried to do this to us in Ohio. The “geographic restrictions” meant that each county had to have a specific number of signers before a measure could go on the ballot. What the language of the Ohio GOP measure meant was that, in addition to other barriers, our smallest voting county (Vinton County Ohio) needed 154 people to sign the measure (in addition to 5% of voters from the prior election in every other county). Here’s the whole story on the GOP Ohio attempt
So had the GOP had their way a tiny number of people from our smallest county could have decided whether the entire state gets to get a measure on the ballot. Ohio voted this down. If you want your voice heard, I recommend you do the same.
Do you think we might finally see support from Thomas against the conservative view on Loving or do you think he’s looking for a “pocket divorce” from his wife? “I’m sorry honey, our marriage isn’t Constitutional anymore.”
conservatives who think that sexual orientation or gender identity are choices think that because they themselves have chosen to remain in the closet.
That’s possible for those conservatives that are closeted, but I think the majority of conservatives simply lack empathy on this point. They have no concept of it for themselves, so they assume everyone is like themselves.
A bunch of the containers on the bow were crushed by the bridge falling on it. Others were knocked into the bay. There’s a good chunk of folks never getting their cargo back. At this point they may not even know who those customers are yet.
Good joke, needs be redone in Jelico format for full effect. A facepalm isn’t a bad reaction, but a frustrated or deadpan subordinate because of the power dynamic is chefs kiss…beautiful.
“aboard the Bell helicopter, which Iran purchased in the early 2000s”
If Iran was so concerned about the safety, they could have easily used a Russian helicopter which they could get parts and maintain properly. MI-8 are a dime a dozen.
Joe Biden has launched one of his most scathing attacks yet on Donald Trump’s record of racism, suggesting that the former US president would have acted differently to the January 6 2021 insurrection if was led by Black people....
If you expect to be able to supply the weapons to a government engaged in a genocide against a population that also happens to be a requisite part of your winning coalition and still have them vote for you, then you are stupid beyond description.
There are quite a few great cases for AI, but all of them need mountains of clean data. Thats always been the challenge and very few are working to solving it. The most successful ones are those that are creating their own data by building out their own expensive sensor networks in controlled spaces. That doesn’t really work for the general AI that everyone wants to do the mundane tasks in their general work tasks or at home.
But if they’re not educating our children well, and they’re layering the next generation down in mountains of student debt, then they’re not meeting their end of the bargain,” he [Vance] continued. “I think it’s totally reasonable to say there needs to be a political solution to that problem.”
So, Vance, you’re saying that college tuition should be totally subsidized by tax dollars? Right?
I think you’re underplaying the sequel aspects. Russia was one of the antagonists in the first installment, began as an antagonist in the second, but flipped to protagonist ally in the first act. Also in the first installment the Ottoman Empire was an antagonist ally, where Turkey was neutral through all of WWII. Finally, China was an ally in WWII and huge victim of the Japanese , but underwent a revolution joining with Russia to become the primary antagonists in the third installment “Cold War”.
A St Petersburg court has seized over EUR700 mln worth of assets belonging to three western banks - UniCredit, Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank - according to court documents, the Financial Times and Reuters reported Saturday.
These banks deserve what they got. The writing has been on the wall for over 2 years they needed to get their people and assets out. Instead these banks stayed in to make money working with Russia.
Well the way things are at the moment, a Chinese car is one of maybe three affordable options, even with a 100% tariff. Plus they’re making the type of car that I want, so I’m still failing to see the problem.
Thats understandable. Its not a obvious process to calculate out macroeconomic moves years and possibly decades into the future.
It’s also a good move in regards to reducing global CO2 emissions.
True.
I guess they are overproducing EVs and solar modules, but is preventing the worst of climate change their main motivation?
Its not. Foreign manufacturers are fleeing China because of the crackdowns by the CCP and more importantly the rising cost of labor in China. Since there are thousands of factories dark and empty and millions of factory workers unemployed, China is trying to boost domestic consumption and exports via government investment in an effort to prop up their sagging economy. They’re making and selling EVs in high quantities because they hope the rest of the world (outside China) will buy them.
I can’t help but detect a bit of passive aggression here.
Yeah, after repeatedly explaining the macroeconmic implications in multiple ways, you either aren’t getting it or you don’t care and could be one (in the future) to suffer the consequences. I’m trying giving you the benefit of the doubt but I think I’m running out of patience. Your post indicates you’re in a similar position with me. My apologies, if we can both be civil, I’m happy to continue out discussion.
Do you calculate out macroeconomic moves decades into the future when deciding to buy a product?
Not usually, because that would be a microeconomic action.
However, occasionally I do. I don’t own a Sodastream because they were manufactured on seized Palestinian land. That one small action on my part has a tiny tiny tiny macroeconomic impact as with my I (and may others) actions the company later moved the factory out of the West Bank. I also chose to buy my solar panels and inverters from domestic manufacturers in the USA because I want to support domestic production of green energy technologies. I don’t buy cotton products sourced from Xinjiang either because of the treatment of the Uighur people there by the CCP. I bought my cast iron pan from a Ukrainian manufacturer because I wanted to support their economy in the face of the Russian invasion.
Do you really not pay attention to where the things come from that you buy? Do you not think how your spending is funding things that are possibly against your personal interests?
I definitely do, seeing as I’m the economic minister of a mid sized country it’s more or less my job.
Cool, then you should understand the difference between micro and macro economics.
Are you an economic minister too? If you’re not, it seems a bit ridiculous to be thinking much beyond your own personal finances, yes?
You think you have to be an economic minister of a country to think about the impact of your personal spending power and how your dollars affect or don’t affect change?
First, I wouldn’t recommend using someone’s twitter post as compelling research. It could lead you down an incorrect path as this one has.
That analysis contradicts the BS your spreading.
The source he’s citing about Tim Cook and Apple against China’s sagging manufacturing is from 2017 (his source). Being seven years out-of-date means its contradicted by current events. Here’s one thats more recent from January of this year:
“Apple’s suppliers have so far spent $16 billion to move from China” source
I could post half a dozen more trusted news sources about Apple divesting from China to other areas of India and Southeast Asia.
Here’s some more for you to read: …wordpress.com/…/chinas-unfair-overcapacity/ China is outperforming the West in everything important for the future. Their economy fine. Their growth rates have been higher than the west’s for awhile now.
A wordpress blog post as a secondary source? That source is quoting your first twitter source as its source. I’d be highly worried for the blog post facing a “garbage in garbage out” problem. I read through most of the blog post and see a couple tenuous links of source to conclusion that are worrying me about the objectivity of the author. Further, that blog post author seems to say that all the experts in economics and global banking are wrong and he himself is right. I don’t immediately dismiss him for that, but its certainly a red flag.
Something occurs to me. You yourself are claiming to be an economic minister, which, while possible, would usually seam unlikely for a random internet poster. However, you were quick to post that same twitter post as a source here on Lemmy, just like the author of the blog post. Here’s the “about” section of the blog you posted as your source:
“[NAME REMOVED BY ME] worked in the City of London as an economist for over 40 years.” source
Are you possibly quoting yourself as source? I’m certainly not trying to dox you so I removed the actual name from my post here, if I came too close to guessing right, message me and I’ll happily edit my post to remove this part.
Assuming I guessed correctly, I’d actually really like to hear your opinion on Brexit. It seems like it would have some parallels to our discussion here on the importance of support of domestic industries.
Adjusting for inflation, they're probably at least $16 by now (lemmy.today)
Biden releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from Northeast reserve in bid to lower prices at pump (apnews.com)
Oh no. (lemmy.world)
How Argentina’s ‘chainsaw man’ Javier Milei slashed rents by 20pc (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Bump stock ruling could trigger booming rapid-fire marketplace [Clayton Vickers | 05/21/24 | The Hill] (thehill.com)
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The world’s best airline is paying staff a bonus of 8 months’ salary after record annual net profit of $1.98 billion (www.cnn.com)
Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs (arstechnica.com)
What should I know about buying / replacing a garage door opener?
My default buying process is research + spreadsheet creation, this time thought I’d ask the community here if you have any experience / wisdom with garage door openers. Thanks for any help!...
Arizona Republicans Set Up a Ballot Measure to Squash Future Ballot Measures | A constitutional amendment, placed on the November ballot by GOP lawmakers, would severely restrict direct democracy (boltsmag.org)
Supreme Court won't hear Maryland school district gender identity case (www.nbcnews.com)
Almost 2 months after it destroyed Baltimore’s Key Bridge, the Dali cargo ship has been moved (www.cnn.com)
Scotty just beams up instead (lemmy.world)
Iran's president, foreign minister and others found dead at helicopter crash site (apnews.com)
Biden: what would Trump have done if the Capitol riots had been led by Black Americans? (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden has launched one of his most scathing attacks yet on Donald Trump’s record of racism, suggesting that the former US president would have acted differently to the January 6 2021 insurrection if was led by Black people....
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[US Senator] Vance doubles down on praise for Viktor Orban’s crackdown on universities in Hungary (thehill.com)
'People got betrayed': Cardi B says she's not voting in the presidential election (www.msnbc.com)
Don't like the sound of that (lemmy.world)
Russian court seizes assets from European banks UniCredit, Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank (www.morningstar.com)
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Ford asks suppliers for ideas to cut EV costs in an all-win-or-lose push for profitability (electrek.co)