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Newer Teslas don't have a turn signal stalk. They've put the turn signals on capacitive touch elements on the steering wheel because of course they have.

Kurt Cobain has been dead longer than Kurt Cobain was alive at this point.

it would require a constitutional amendment

Senate, yes. House, no.

The House used to regularly increase in size and has only been at 435 seats since 1911 and capped at that size since 1929. This is changeable through normal law making.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-house-got-stuck-at-435-seats/

I had a few years of young and dumb followed by struggling through the great recession that pretty well wrecked my credit early on.

I then went through a few years while rebuilding where I really dug into learning how the credit system works and gaming it to my advantage. It was literally a case of getting entertainment out of "number goes up." I got bored with it once my available lines of credit hit a couple multiples of my annual income, but the end result was having a basically perfect credit score.

It ultimately paid off when it came time to buy a car and get a mortgage. Basically had immediate access to the absolute best rates available and approvals have always gone super smooth.

The flip side of that is my SO who never went through the young and dumb stage and hadn't needed to rebuild credit, but had a similar "fuck credit" attitude as the OP so they'd never had credit in the first place. The fortunate thing there is we were able to jump start their credit history by adding them as an authorized user on one of my older accounts with a high line of credit -- this gave a massive boost to both average account age and available credit and pretty much instantly brought their score up from the 5-600s to low 700s. Add in a few more deliberate things like financing a car instead of paying cash and now they've got enough of a credit profile built up that it'll be okay if anything ever happens to me.

Obviously, that requires a lot of trust, but it's good info for relationships where one partner has established credit and the other doesn't.

For myself, I simply dislike the usury present in the debt market for consumers and have decided not to engage with it.

You're engaged with it whether you like it or not.

Credit cards are a reality of the modern economy. There are costs associated with every credit card transaction and, due to the ubiquity of credit cards, those costs are priced in to nearly every single purchase you make. Because most merchants charge the same price regardless of payment type, this effectively means that your cash purchases are subsidizing my purchases made with a rewards credit card that has its balance paid off each month by a couple of percent.

You can choose to opt out, but that doesn't mean you're not playing the game either way.

I request a credit increase every time I get a raise or every 6 months, whichever happens first. Why get credit I dont need? In case I ever do need it, but more important is that debt ratio. That is what gets you good loan rates. Do it before you need it, and you will be set.

There's also a feedback loop here -- once the credit limit increase hits your report, other creditors see it and are more likely to extend increased limits to you. I went through a few years where AmEx and Discover both seemed intent on being my highest limit card and would preemptively offer CLIs after the other one had.

And to expound on your point re: credit utilization ratios - this is another area where having higher limits than you need helps. Your percentage utilized of available credit has a huge impact on your overall score. Having a higher limit means that if you need to carry a balance due to an emergency spend, it'll have less impact on your score.

e.g., you have an emergency expense of $700 with a line of credit of $1000. Your utilization is now at 70%. This will have a negative impact on your score pretty quickly.

Take the same $700 spend and apply it to a $5000 line of credit and you're only at 14% utilization. That'll still have an impact but much less than anything over ~30% utilization.

Even beyond emergencies, if you use a credit card to pay fixed bills each month and then immediately pay them off, you'll occasionally have months where the payment credits after your statement date and hits your credit report -- same deal there. It looks much better on your report if that balance is a fraction of your available credit than if it takes up a large chunk of it.

But he determined the direction and scope of Democratic policy almost in its entirety

I wouldn't agree with this.

In terms of the progressive wing pushing the agenda under Biden, Liz Warren has had far more direct impact.

Warren was rather famously successful in landing allies into key positions in banking, education, and labor regulatory agencies. These are the sort of moves that are less flashy, but have played a large part in why we've seen things like debt cancellation pushes and a resurgence in antitrust action since Biden took office.

The last point is purely a configuration thing. Our Teams instance only keeps DMs for I think 30ish days -- legal wants to minimize the surface area of discoverable material. Same reason our Exchange instance nukes emails over 12 months old unless you manually move them to an archive.

This is basically every major enterprise ticketing system. They're typically extremely customizable over-featured behemoths so that they can check all the buzzword boxes for the people that make purchasing decisions but will never actually use the system.

"It's a fully integrated Agile ITIL DevOps CMDB that empowers your users while providing generative KPIs to guide business decisions!”

Then, on top of that, ownership of it is generally dropped on a team that is completely incapable of properly managing it from both a technical ability and sheer manpower availability standpoint. So each install ends up becoming an overly complex, confusing, terribly performing mess.

I think I've seen one reasonably well managed install in the couple decades I've been doing this, a couple of more that were mildly jank but usable, and then everything else has been a pit of despair largely driven by the above.

They literally show in the video that the majority of the surface area on the RAM truck they filmed was blocked off by plastic paneling because it's not needed to actually cool the motor. A large part of the point is that these grills don't have any actual utility and are killing people for purely aesthetic reasons.

There are plenty of good arguments in favor of EVs; this specific issue is not one of them.

It's part of his Jeff Bezos rowboat video.

https://youtu.be/VGhcSupkNs8

All of his videos are brilliant but that one is unironically a masterpiece of a production.

You can also just spend $10 on a domain name with a registrar that offers dynamic DNS. Offhand, both Namecheap and Cloudflare do. I have no idea what my public IP address is because my router just updates it automatically for me. Plenty of DDNS desktop clients around if your router can't for whatever reason.

One thing this overlooks is that the rigid mounted bed of the V2 causes thermal expansion issues. There's a lot of really bad lore that gets repeated in the community re: bed heater power because the V2 tends to want to taco the bed if it's heated too quickly.

The WhoppingOrchard kinematic mounts are a solid option for addressing the issue.

The Trident is the overall better design with a higher performance ceiling.

Flying gantries are a solution forever in search of a problem. They can work okay and they're fine at the speeds that were common when the V2 was first designed, but there's a reason why the community has converged on fixed gantry designs. They're neat to watch operate but they don't offer any practical advantage. The V2 tends to be relatively slow by modern standards, especially in terms of accel.

The Trident isn't without flaws but it's a perfectly fine starting point and the huge community does mean that most of the bigger design issues either already have a usermod or somebody working on cooking something up.

Part of what makes all the hatred for Common Core math so hilarious to me is that when I finally saw what they were teaching, it was a moment of "holy shit, this is exactly how I use and do math in real life." It's full of contextualizing with a focus on teaching mental shortcuts that allow you to quickly land on ballpark answers. I think it's absolutely wonderful.

But it's so foreign to the rote manner that a lot of parents were taught that many of them have a hard time grasping it, and get angry as a result.

The article cites the opinion of an unnamed author of an unnamed "image encyclopedia." Not really what I'd call definitive, which was the point.

In my circles back then, soft G was predominant. I wouldn't cite that as evidence of a One True Pronunciation either.

There has always been debate about it. Hard G has certainly become predominant, but declaring that people that prefer soft G "weren't on the internet back then" is revisionist at best.

If you say otherwise I'd be willing to bet you weren't on the internet in the 90s or 00s.

Bullshit. It's always been divisive.

There's literally a Wikipedia article covering the fact that this has been debated going back to the 90s.

The PT Cruiser was more or less a Dodge Neon with a funny looking body shell on top, meaning engineering cost to bring it to market was pretty minimal.

The Cybertruck is... pretty much the opposite of that. Tesla has spent literally years trying to get the thing to market meaning it's failure will be far more painful than PT Cruiser sales tapering off was for Chrysler.

I generally remap to swap caps lock with left control. Having control on the home row makes Ctrl shortcuts way less of a contortion act.

Useful in general but especially so on laptop keyboards.

PEDS aren't limited to bulking up via steroids. A lot of PEDS use is about shortening recovery time. As an example, cycling is the kind of sport you're describing where increased bulk is a disadvantage and doping in the sport has been absolutely endemic for years. It's what the Lance Armstrong controversy was about and Armstrong was more representative of the norm at high levels than not.