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But going against the fed in a way that is considered “illegal” could be seen as declaring civil war. And while the fed can’t live without it’s taxes it can bomb you to hell if provoked

Not making a payment is seen as civil war? If its already at that point we're already done.

However, realistically not making a payment won't earn you bombs. It might earn guns though. What would that look like if a state withheld payment? Would a fed law enforcer with a gun go into an office, up to some state employee sitting an a cube responsible for making money transfers as part of their work, and have the gun in their face or threatening arrest if they don't make the payment to the fed? Would it instead be indictments of state government officials, and perhaps jailing them? Who would they jail? The Governor that signed the bill into law? The state legislature for putting the measure forward?

When high level state officials or low level state office workers start getting arrested, that moves the game to a different level. That escalation may have knock on effects on the citizenry. This would be especially true if the reason the state would be withholding the payment from the fed would be for cutting of services from the fed.

and legal experts said they would face obstacles.

Do they? Those at the top of government aren't following the rules anymore. Why should states still be bound to do so?

Eye Doctor <> Optometrist

Perfect example of why that is a bad approach. An Optometrist can measure your eyes for basic vision problems and monitor your retina issues, but you'd need an Ophthalmologist if you need surgery on those eyes for something the Optometrist finds.

Have you tried doing a full BIOS update? As in, download from the manufacturer. I wonder if that would overwrite the passwords.

The enemy of your enemy isn't always your friend.

We once did a side-by-side comparison of KitKats (we live right on the border) and the difference was stunning.

Bad comparison on that one. KitKat brand in the USA is an entirely different company that the rest of the world. So they aren't even the pretending to be the same recipe.

I tried to like the Aldi chocolate bars but they leave this strange fatty coating in my mouth after eating them. I don't experience that with other brands.

"Look at the silver lining! You were always worried she was cheating on you, now you know for sure she is so you don't have to worry about that anymore!"

Several people have told me I should sue the builder, and I probably should, but I’d have to pay for a lawyer, and it would probably take months and months.

IANAL, but I'm wondering if for your situation you'd have more success with a whole string of Small Claims court. A quick Google search for your area says this:

"You can ask for up to $25,000 in most small claims actions in the Tennessee General Sessions Court."

I'm betting nearly every one of your findings and fixes you had to pay for would be under that. There's no lawyer needed to file them, as you can do them yourself, and for the builder to have to defend it, they'll have to send their expensive lawyer to each court proceeding. If they don't show, you could get a default judgment and just win outright with no battle for the legal judgment. Now, collecting may be a different problem though. You could keep one claim going all the time so you don't have to do them all at once (and make it worth it for them to put a billable lawyer on it".

June:

TheDemonBuer v. DR Horton - civil suit from breach of contract "missing attic insulation" claim of $12,485

August:

TheDemonBuer v. DR Horton - civil suit from breach of contract "missing main drain connection" claim of $7,434

etc.

If you string this out long enough, one of two things will happen:

• You'll eventually get paid for all the fixes you needed to begin with that you paid out-of-pocket
• DR Horton will actually show back up and say "fine, show us what's actually broken and we'll give you one single large check to go away"

So you like splatter-horror-comedy memes. Nothing wrong with that:

Ohhh, trAma. My mistake. Carry on.

You skipped the "mass market" part.

"I've exhausted my monthly ration allowance for McEnergy, so I'll have to pass today."

Instead of McCafe, it should be "McSoylent".

See now I'm curious how Sri Lanka's capital city got its name.

Listen, I get it that the Austin PD, as the example here, are doing their best. I get it that they aren't their own ultimate masters. All those points are made. I'm also GLAD that the APD are doing what they can within their rules to warn residents that these actions are happening. Yes thats good.

However, thats approach of harm reduction, not harm avoidance. The good folks of the APD are being used as tools to carry out the harm though. They may not want to, but they are. Is anyone claiming different? The state doesn't need to take over the APD to get the harm the state wants done. The question, and its a rhetorical one, is "where is the line?". At what point is it better to say "no, I won't do that" and be replaced by the state? I fear that day will come, but it needs to be examined now, before the state asks for something worse.

and play a lot of classic wow.

I'm wondering if you can tell me where I can find Mankrik's wife.

Those advancements were made possible by the Roadster, which was the true pioneering product that made EVs cool again. A car that was dreamed up and invented by Martin Eberhard, and would go on to be built by someone else that gave him the shittiest end of the most shit-covered stick there ever was.

All credit due to Eberhard and Tarpenning for the idea and some of the initial development of the BMS, but its not like they had a full car ready to sell and before Musk came in. Tesla was established as a company in 2003, Musk was brought in (with his money) in 2004. The first Roadster sold in 2008. Now stop making me say anything positive about Musk just to set the record straight. Its making me sick to talk about him positively after what he's become and how much harm he has caused human society.

It’s not rare for the first company to bring a product to market to not be the top dog once other companies get involved.

Except Tesla wasn't the first mass market EV. It wasn't even the second. The first would be the GM EV1 in 1997:

Many would argue that the EV1 doesn't count because it was on old technology. Fine then, the Nissan Leaf from 2009 then sporting its lithium battery:

Tesla Model S brought performance, range and styling that both of those were missing. However, we don't need Tesla anymore in the world if Musk is still benefiting from it.

Especially those times of year where you're in the office before the sun rises, and leave after it sets. Oh, and you work in a windowless room.

Nice humblebrag. You don't need to use the plural of pog in your post here when you only have a single mint condition Alf pog as your $2M asset.