The point I’m making is that the house is way, way outside of Knoxville norms, and the house itself is comparable to a million+ home in an urban area.

Sorry, I thought I was replying to someone else, who took umbrage at the idea that anyone with a $700k house (specifically in an urban area) had to earn big dollars to own the place.

Payments for what? An 80/20 on 700K?

Nah. My house isn’t worth half of what theirs is, closer to 1/3. And I said they were lucky (and old), not typical. Also, it’s 700K in a urban area, where the dollar doesn’t stretch that far. There’s million dollar studio walkups in SF and New York.

My first thought was “that’s not that expensive of a house. I know people who got lucky (despite having middling white collar jobs) in the 90s and 2000s housing markets that have a house that expensive.”

The “backup plan” is to fly away while vectoring reinforcements. The real world doesn’t have lone fighters facing off like fucking action heros. There will never be just 1 or 2 F-35 in the sky at one time. It will, in fact, outnumber competing aircraft (such as Su-35) 10:1 in raw numbers alone.

29 absolutely had a radar. It was integral to the bombsight. Though, for the nuclear missions, they had it turned off for fear its emissions would damage or set off the bomb early.

F-35 will not carry AIM-9, ASRAAM or IRIS-T operationally. One, because AIM-9 is rail launched and physically can’t be fired from the bay. Two, the other two IR missiles will never be carried internally because that means trading a MRM for a SRM. That makes zero sense given the aircraft’s capabilities and tactics.

Sounds like you need a bigger monitor. Also, what kind of AA are we talking about? Because SSAA makes a big visual difference that FXAA or less intense AA methods do not.

That’s a lot of text that does nothing to refute the actual argument at hand. Also, you suck at parables. A good parable is both literally and figuratively consistent and true. If you deny the literal parable, you’re saying it’s a bad parable. So either back it up, or explain why Jesus told a bad parable.

First, LOL. Second, how does “the government” benefit from “robbing you blind“ by inflation? Third, what is your proposed alternative?

Inflation isn’t thievery. It’s a penalty for laziness and stupidity for people who think stashing cash in a mattress is a good idea.

That’s called “moving the goal posts” or a “straw man”. Borrowing, by itself, doesn’t make you rich. That is absurd. It is not slavery either, because THAT is also absurd.

All the camera flashes and stage lighting are illuminating everything. There’s no shadows, even inside of her mouth.

1) Buying with cash is asinine. You’re trading interest cost for opportunity cost. 4 years driving a shitty car is not worth the couple grand in financing (and no, going cash does not make a difference. I literally did this last week and played that exact game.)

Actually, yes. If a dealer/carmaker is offering loans with interest lower than the inflation rate (common for new cars) they literally are giving you money, because what you pay them back (seeing as future dollars are worth less than current dollars) with is worth less than what they gave you. That is not slavery.…

Nope. When manufacturers offer sub-2% loans that is free money. Because your dollar 5 years from now is worth less than the dollar you have today. You can either give that future dollar to the bank (in exchange for a dollar today) or watch it shrivel due to inflation while you save up for that car.

Yup. Looking at Honda Finance offers myself right now. 0.9 for the first 5 years if you extend beyond that it’s still only 1.9%.

“Enslavement”? They’re giving you money. That’s literally the opposite of slavery. It’s not even serfdom.

Why are super delegates a thing? Have you seen Donald Trump and how he’s steamrolling the whole Republican party and no one can stop him?