Add a decimal and some more 9s to that number!

The grindy routine of winning painfully hard races so you can afford a better turbo to win even harder races doesn’t seem to be what most people are after anymore; not when they’re older and busier and lack the free time and patience for the rigmarole.

I’m in the district Gournades represents.

iTs tHe rEvEnUE!!!11!!

The sales and install side is the important factor here. Stop the sale of loud cars and stop the install of equipment that makes them loud and that cuts down on a huge part of the problem. Regulators will be looking more at aftermarket installers than end-users, likely.

I mean that’s a *helluva* cast and it looks decent (and Monster House is an absolutely classic)...

... but more importantly is that my kids will absolutely love this.

I would think a couple of food trucks could kill in that environment.

Pristine meh cars are fantastic.  Somebody needs to buy and preserve this worthless gem. 

LA Cars and Coffee is held at Griffith Park and a coffee truck shows up and sells very reasonably priced coffee and snacks, so that’s not an issue. If that’s something that can be set up, this would actually work, although I’m not sure how many celebs want to hang out in a high school parking lot vs. a fancy shopping…

That’s like saying “the yen is imaginary because you valued total all yen in existence is 10 trillion dollars”   ...not exactly the gotcha you think it is...

If Khol’s cash weren’t controlled by a central entity, could be sent anywhere in the world, spent anywhere, was a trillion dollar industry, and a sovereign currency of at least one country. Then yes :)

1. Yes it does, so do a lot of industries (like the gold industry which uses double the power, the banking industry which uses near double the power, and any number of other useless industries like “souvenir t-shirts” which while likely using less power, are also utterly devoid of any value)

Wow, what a disingenuous load of shit. Those provisions would have required even more crypto tax reporting and destroyed decentralized crypto as a whole. and one of the amendments would have unfairly targeted some cryptos over others, picking winners and losers. IIRC the provision would have forced every automated…

Every time I’ve seen a tax implemented in my life, over the long term they widen the scope of it.

Every time I’ve seen a tax implemented in my life, over the long term they widen the scope of it. I’d bet on them lowering until just-above-average people are paying it, then introducing loopholes for the ultra-rich.

Just to put some numbers behind what @Drew is saying: the Estate Tax’s exclusion amount sat at $675,000 in 2001 with a max rate of 55%.

They’re just straight up hitting the black poles because they’re bad drivers or distracted, which is kinda the same thing.

It’s pretty simple—if you know you’re narrow enough to fit, you get your driver’s side just short of touching the barrier on your side then you’ll know damn well the far side will clear. Those people are all too lacking in spatial intelligence for driving.

Seems like a bunch of people don’t know how wide their vehicle is, and the width restrictor is giving them a lesson with devastating efficiency.

Like I said, the estate tax is a direct counterexample. The estate minimum was actually increased to make it easier to dodge. Since this would be unlikely to hit large swaths of America, I would suspect they just raise the limits to avoid making the ultra-rich pay it, rather than expanding it to reach those less likely…