“People love her when she’s in office, not so much when she’s trying to attain that office.”

I think Brooks’ implied point is that her gender didn’t change, yet her polling numbers have. That’s the paradox he’s referring to. Now you can argue, as Jia’s attempted, that the public is only content with a woman so long as she’s“demonstrating her competence in a position subordinate to a popular male chief…

Great read, and congratulations, but most of those other folks sound like selfish assholes. It sounds like what little support and encouragement they gave you was done out of a sense of obligation.

“It’s faster and easier than Paypal when you want to reimburse somebody for a Lyft/Uber ride, or picking up the tab somewhere.”

It’s an issue of density and only applies to specific spices. Peppercorns, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, fennel seeds, and mustard seeds are the only ones that I can think of off the top of my head.

Underrated lesson to be taught right here. This is the sort of knowledge that only experience can teach. I KNOW not piss to piss on a fire because I’ve tried it.

I think people are assuming that the dislikes are a direct correlation to dislike of the game. It’s dislike of the trailer. Which is subjectively crappy IMO. It’s terrible from a marketing/hype perspective. I’m sure the game itself will be fine, but that trailer had way too much BS in it, played at a nauseating speed.

“Steam plants have no waste heat recovery.”

“and are every bit as efficient as the base load steam plants,”

“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).