Bob Robertson IX

Except it isn’t just a name change because with this change you can no longer use it for person to person payments.

You’re joking right? Gary Larson is a very iconic author and was hugely influential.

The last 2 GoT books were so bad that time travelers keep coming back to stop them from being completed.

Gary Glitter… so many sporting events still play this pedophile’s music.

I love the idea of this experiment and my hope is that it leads to some real programs that ultimately lead to UBI, however I hate the article… specifically the headline: “No Questions Asked”… then they go and start asking questions about how the money was spent. How about ‘$750 a month, no strings attached’, or ‘$750 a month to spend how they want’?

Words have meaning and this should be important to people such as journalists who make a living through using words.

This isn’t true. In fact, I told my wife that I’d come back and haunt her if she paid a penny towards my student loans if I died.

But it doesn’t matter any more, I was able to get my student loan debt finally discharged earlier this year. All it took was sending $450 to my loan carrier every month for 20 years, and then they told me I didn’t need to send any more. Thanks Biden!

Can you elaborate on how creating heat in summer time helps save money on cooling your home?

2024 Kia Forte $19,790 Starting MSRP - https://www.kia.com/us/en/forte

2024 Hyundai Venue $19,800 Starting MSRP - https://www.hyundaiusa.com/us/en/vehicles/venue

2024 Nissan Versa $16,130 Starting MSRP - https://www.nissanusa.com/vehicles/cars/versa-sedan.html

2024 Mitsubishi Mirage $16,695 Starting MSRP - https://www.mitsubishicars.com/cars-and-suvs/mirage

2023 Kia Rio $16,750 Starting MSRP - https://www.kia.com/us/en/rio (There isn’t a 2024 version as this model has been dropped)

2024 Kia Soul $19,990 Starting MSRP - https://www.kia.com/us/en/soul

Which of these cars that you listed are $15k? The Chevy Bolt EV is less than half the cars you listed when you look at the base price ($26,500) minus the Federal Tax Credit ($7,500).

The original comment I replied to said that “there is not a single affordable EV” in the US and I listed 3 that are under the average cost for any new cars in the US. Then you claimed that EVs need to be $15k in order to reach mass adoption, even though there are no new cars available in the US at that price. You can argue that cars are priced too high, or the car companies are making too much money, but the fact is that for anyone in the market for a new car, there are EVs available in every new car price range.

And where are you going to find any new car in the US for $15k? The average cost of a new car in the US this year was over $40k, and there are several EV options available for practically anyone in the market for a new car.

The Chevy Bolt and Nissan Leaf are both under $30k, and there’s a Mini Cooper that’s just barely over $30k. There’s only 1 other car from Chevy that’s cheaper than the Bolt, and only 2 models from Mini cheaper than their EV. Nissan seems to be a leader with cheap cars, with 6 cheaper models than the Leaf. When you add in the tax rebates for buying electric that reduces the price an additional $7500.

I had someone close to me with a terminal illness use a gun to end his suffering. He had a bottle of Oxy on his nightstand and a gun inside his nightstand and the only reason I can think that he decided to go the gun route was so he was sure that it’d be done. It sucks that he didn’t have any other options available that could have provided a more caring and humane way to exit. Instead now his wife has to live with having found him like that in bed, and my daughter has to live with the fact that she never got to say ‘goodbye’.

This was going to be my suggestion, it’s such a delicious bourbon.

Delusional, not wiser. There’s no way Republicans would put a woman up for Speaker.

Putting the profits into lowering the cost of tuition would be a good idea, however the schools would just argue that the revenue from sports programs already go into lowering tuition. And since it is all counted as revenue, if you lower either source then your overall revenue is lowered.

Let’s say that you have 2 sources of income: your job, and your hobby. Let’s say your job pays you $100k and your hobby brings in $50k. If your employer said that they were going to lower your salary to $75k because your hobby is bringing in a decent amount of money, you probably wouldn’t go for that.

This isn’t to defend the schools, just pointing out that the issue is a bit more complicated than this solution would indicate.

Perhaps with an education?

I’d rather die from starvation after having witnessed my loved ones die from similar circumstances.

This sounds like you’d be keeping food from your loved ones so they die first.

One I’ve literally used more than once: “If I die, I’m going to look very stupid”

I’m also fond of: “There’s only one way to find out”

I was at a Courtyard by Marriott and they had a fully accessible TV that allowed me to connect my SteamDeck and play from the bed. I will definitely stick with Courtyard for my business travel just for this alone.

A seedbox is access to a server that someone else runs, and they typically have a policy of not asking too many questions, not keeping too many logs, and offer assistance in keeping things secure. It can be used for any number of things. I use mine to host bit torrent files and to run applications such as Sonarr & Radarr. These are open source apps that manage TV shows and movies.

That was my first thought too. A seedbox, Sonarr & Radarr and a Usenet site and I’ve got everything I need for $15/month.