Kumicho

6/15/21

Eh, me voting down a school budget doesn’t directly impact me, and probably wouldn’t indirectly impact me either. My city would still be fine, kids would still get educated, and life would go on as normal. And I’d save $500/year which would be vastly more than the negative impact I’d feel from a cheaper school district…

6/15/21

Yup. Looked up my wife’s ‘15 Sonic (paid $13k for 6 years ago) and Carvana would buy it back for $9k+. Was suddenly seriously tempted since we don’t drive much, but ultimately decided selling it now and buying something when the crunch was over wasn’t worth it.

6/15/21

So what you’re saying is that a retiree living in a huge house should pay less in property taxes and that a new family struggling to pay their bills and raise their kids should pay more? Money is fungible, and if you cap what one household pays in property taxes it raises the property taxes of everyone else. Or…

6/15/21

Back in 2004 I (somehow) cooked the I6 out of my Cherokee, and the wife and I drained our meager house savings for a down payment on a brand new ‘05 Scion tC. We were going to pay off the loan in 4 years, and we agreed to own it for a year with no car payments before buying another vehicle. While paying down the loan…

6/14/21

Voting for god, gays and guns won’t actually make those bigots lives better.

6/14/21

So, first of all, making college free is different than canceling student debt. Current graduates took out loans to go to college, and now have higher paying jobs than non-graduates (on average). If you want to make community colleges free, GREAT! If you want to incorporate trade schools in to that as well, EVEN…

6/14/21

Lol, OK, so you don’t actually live in the real world then. Gotcha. I live in a swing state (Wisconsin). I’ve watched it swing from Obama to Trump and then back to Biden. Any of your ideas, if pushed by the mainstream Democratic party, would have lost Wisconsin, and probably the presidency.

6/14/21

Nope, that’s exactly my point - that we (and they) view “self-interests” differently. They place more value on god, gays, guns, abortion, blah blah blah than they do on food stamps for the poor, even if they are the ones on food stamps. And the only way that changes is if they can vote for their own food stamps (or…

6/14/21

You’d think so, but.......... I didn’t have the exact information on your car, but Carvana will buy a 2013 Titanium Focus Hatch w/ 75k miles on it for $7k.

6/14/21

Prop 13 sucks all around. It rewards long-term property owners at the expense of renters and people who have own property for less time. So even at it’s best it basically rewards the rich and middle class at the expense of the poor. If you have enough money to buy your “forever house” at the beginning and live in it…

6/14/21

Found the troll, folks. The fact that you couldn’t refute a single thing I said shows pretty much what you are.

6/14/21

UBI was actually seriously considered as a replacement to welfare/SNAP/housing assistance until politicians realized that people might spend that money on things that they didn’t agree with.

6/14/21

Someone came up with the argument recently that it’s “economic populism” vs “cultural populism”. The Democrats are firm believers in economic populism, as in tax the rich, increase subsidies for the poor, expand on opportunities for advancement, etc.

6/14/21

This is absolutely true. I can save money on food and buy pork shoulder for $1.79 from Costco because:

6/14/21

It’s pretty telling that you have to reach back 25 years to somehow come up with your “both sides are bad” argument. And for the rest of it, give me a fucking break, there’s room for nuance on all of it.

6/14/21

Why do you hate Freedom®?

6/14/21

Roughly half of all new vehicle buyers are in the 25-54 age range, or the “prime working years” that I was talking about.

6/11/21

Neutral: FUCK. NO.

6/10/21

So, the entire point of the video is that by canceling out the wind pressure on the front of the sail, they can go faster than the actual wind. Basically going downwind, normally the pressure on the back of the sail (tailwind) can never overcome the pressure on the front of the sail (headwind) and the fastest you’d be…

6/10/21

Dude, he fucking definitely saw her. Stop being an idiot ok? If he couldn’t see her, he couldn’t have done the PIT right? And you know he did the PIT.