“If done right this can help coal country, right? Am I nuts?”

“All that needs to happen for the grid to handle all these new electric vehicles is for their charging to be shifted into overnight idle time.”

Gas Turbines like the LM2500 are some of the most resilient systems out there. People would be shocked at how filthy the fuel can be and how wide a range of fuels can be used. They’re not all clean, efficient, or necessarily good for the systems longevity, but they’ll burn and generate power.

It’s not at all aberrant. It’s common in this giant metropolitan area that is DC. I live in a renter’s market. That’s my entire point. lol The market I’m in is over inflated in value. The reason my landlord doesn’t need to charge me as much as my neighbor is because when they purchased the cost of the home was half of…

There’s nothing at all disingenuous about the comparison. I pay significantly less per month than it would cost me to own a condo in my building. There’s dividend stocks that return more on their payouts, after taxes, than rental inflation (see AT&T at just shy of 5%, with a near 30 year consecutive increase). As a…

You know what beats a 3.2% inflation rate? Any basic S&P index fund. Also, your assumption is that rental inflation is guaranteed, it’s not. My current residence has gone up by less than 5% in 6 years.

I’m sure if you survey the infantrymen and tank operators, they’ll all accept less than 1%.

“there is now a not-insignificant chance”

“fund their development and deployment don’t have any idea what the drones are actually doing. That’s not okay.”

Of course. I didn’t do the after tax sum because that can vary drastically depending on where you live.

So $15 an hour translates to about $2,500 a month. That’s “liveable” in quite a lot of places. Some might even be considered within the “greater metropolitan areas” of the cities on this list (looking at Baltimore and Nashville for examples).

Maybe if you live in a cheaply built building, but a well built apartment will have cinder blocks separating units. My current one is like that.

DC never saw much of a collapse in the housing and job markets (thanks to the amount of government jobs in the area). Baltimore on the other hand got wrecked.

You’ve got to admit, McCain has some well documented entitlement issues and he showed it here. The General was also trying to be polite in the exchange. I’m all for accountability, but McCain (and a few others) treat the DoD they’re the commander in chief themselves. It’s unprofessional and doesn’t belong in…

Yup. Off the coast of FL regularly. Bombers off the coast of CA regularly. Spy planes flying routes across the US regularly.

So at first this kind of bothered me. It didn’t make sense until I started using it more in Win10. I realized that by only allowing the syncing of folders that you choose allows for some segregation.

The hard-cases tend to be pretty spacious for this kind of stuff. The good thing about the hard cases (in addition to their durability), is their ease of storage. All my Milwaukee tools organize nicely (stacked) in a corner.

The hard-cases tend to be pretty spacious for this kind of stuff. The good thing about the hard cases (in addition…

The equivalent Milwaukee kit is also on sale for the same price, and it comes with the hard case (those things are indestructible).

The equivalent Milwaukee kit is also on sale for the same price, and it comes with the hard case (those things are…

You have 666 stars as of right this moment. I don’t want to ruin that.

Those are ‘US Government” plates not “Diplomat” plates. The latter are blue with a maroon banner at the top. These vehicles are likely owned and managed by the GSA for the express purpose of chauffeuring VIPs when they’re in town. My motor pool that I used to take from one site to another in DC was usually a passenger…