It can be a pain to find, but every road project is public. You can see the DOT budget and what every project cost. If you really want to, you can often find the drawings that went with each project to know exactly what was supposed to be done. 

When the interest rate is lower than the asset appreciation, paying back the debt is pretty easy. Depending on the loan, the interest paid can also become tax deductible.

All discussions on tax shortfalls should start with the buy/borrow/die loophole. My favorite part is where an asset’s value resets once it is passed on. So, an asset’s value can increase infinitely and if the heirs sell it off as soon as they receive it, they get 100% of the gains at 0% tax.

Instead of a fleet of giant drones, would be able to get by using smaller drones for the recon and primarily send out the big drone after a swimmer has actually been spotted? 

That’s how the whole thing hit me. In general, I assume most comedians are lying about basically everything and more so playing a character on stage to deliver material, none of which actually happened. It’s just funny story telling most of the time. For Louis CK though, the jokes don’t land the same knowing he is a…

Jim Jordan, the wrestling coach that covered up sexual abuse of his students when he was at Ohio State,

I’m with you that my bet on the most likely way to enact change any sooner is court expansion. Replacing judges requires too much lucky timing and, as you note, carries the risk of losing a liberal judge for every GOP judge along the way.

Most challenging is that the blue wave has to come to the Senate, which was intentionally designed to give small, rural, conservative populations outsized power. The current hyper-narrow 51-49 seat split is more like a 58%-42% population split. Been a while since I saw the numbers, but I think the Dems getting 60+…

I think the Elantra is still going strong for BHPH crowd. I’m sure all of those stolen Kias will find new life there too.

How much of her stuff does she actually write? All of her stuff feels extremely formulated, in general, like she is the girl pop version of That Thing You Do. 

The Federalist Society is a billionaire far-right org that collects potential judges, like a frat for judges, and gives those names to GOP politicians to fill any vacant seat. Amy Barret & Neil Gorsuch are both members, along with several lower court judges that got pushed through under Trump. Conservatives have long…

For those curious, using the dates in https://constitution.congress.gov/resources/decisions-overruled/ for the time it took for SCOTUS to overrule a previous decision, the average time is 31 years, with the average between flips growing as you get more modern (which makes sense as the country gets older). Using the…

To be fair, my entire life experience with boarding schools is hearing them discussed in movies. I don’t even know if I’ve ever met someone that went to one. 

SCOTUS overruling previous decisions is pretty rare. It requires time for new judges, time for new congressional laws, and/or time for a lawsuit get filed and pass through all of the lower courts. 30 years was my random number because many of those decisions are several decades apart, requiring major generational…

Them simply retiring/dying isn’t enough to make a tangible change. It has to happen when there is a Dem POTUS & heavily enough Dem controlled Senate to get a different appointee pushed through (Sinema & Manchin have proven a paper majority doesn’t equate to a real majority). Otherwise, it will be either massive delays…

There is less than zero chance any right-wing SCOTUS judge will face any consequence from congress (the only people who legally can do anything) when those 6 people so blatantly do whatever the GOP wants, seeing as it requires a super majority from congress to have any consequences. It will easily be 30+ years before…

It’s not a moot point when the original statement runs along the lines of ‘I will buy item X when the non-existent technology to make it possible exists.’ It’s no different than ‘I’ll buy a BEV once the range is 400 miles and I can charge it to full in 5 minutes anywhere in the country.’

The re-use gets nullified by the littering, which once resulted in a horrific spill because the lid was full screwed on. Truck remains on fire. 

If the chewer is a giant POS who needs their truck set on fire, they leave it in a big protein powder container in a shopping cart of a Menards to make a vomit inducing mess for others to clean up. 

If only GM would have put the Volt tech into an SUV. Toyota can’t make the Rav4 Prime fast enough, despite routine mark ups on them.