The article goes into the effective tax rate though. Essentially that Billionaires are paying close to nothing via loopholes while holding an obscene amount of the overall nations wealth. It covers a few tax loopholes that make that possible and highlights a topic the is crucially important.
West coast US…it’s only just beginning.
I took a class in my undergrad program titled Human Engineering and Ergonomics. It was an elective in comp sci but I really think it should have been a requirement. Going through how humans communicate and perceive interfaces/communication. Every developer should have to take it.
I’ve watched Seattle drivers do worse in a power outage so just stopping was probably safer. The other side of the coin is that everyone gets trapped on the road during an outage as stopped cars block everything.
Ahhhh. That makes sense. I guess I had always assumed that it would be more efficient to have one centralized “burning of the gas” event to create and distribute electricity than numerous individual burning events to create heat but it makes sense that due to the efficiency of just converting gas to heat directly it would be more efficient.
I think my curiosity is more around the “why” of the gas lines. I put in another comment above but it’s a good amount of effort to run and maintain these lines when we already have and need electric. We’re adding an additional source of risk to these environments for what additional benefit? I’m not talking trash about gas I’m just wondering what the selling point is. Like I said, I have a gas furnace and it’s fine…no complaints. Is it much more efficient than electric? Hotter? There has to be some compelling reason to put in the effort.
I guess my question was more about the “why” for gas lines. I mean it’s a lot of extra effort to put them in place and maintain them when we already have electric coming into the houses.
This is a reason I never understood modern homes in the US being built with natural gas furnaces and appliances. My house had a gas furnace even though most other homes around have electric. You have a flammable gas under pressure going through miles of pipe to get to each home. A leak anywhere could be really dangerous along those many miles. Yet, exceedingly rare to see fires from this (maybe I’m wrong in that I just don’t hear of many). Meanwhile, electric appliances use the electricity that has to come into a house anyways.
The ID3 looks super cool, I really want to go test drive one. If you ever do a test drive, post about it.
I miced up a drummer for home recording using cheap Fender conference mics that came with the fender PA. It’s all she had. It technically worked but I ended up having to overlay the kick and snare with samples in the DAW to make it sound decent. I’m the sound and recording guy for a few local bands as I’m their only free option (I’m in them). One of these days I swear we are going to have something worth “real” recording and use a studio. Until then, I improve slightly every time I work through these things.
I also can’t believe I forgot VW. Pretty sure they’re are OK minus the whole Dieselgate thing.
Alright, now I’m back to my original Toyota opinion. What a roller coaster.
I did not realize it was the former CEO of Toyota and that really makes me feel a bit better.
I’m pretty sure most major brands are aligned with maga at this point. Toyota has gone maga with their (I think) CEO putting on trump merch for photos. Stellantis and GM contributed to trump, and ford seems to be going in that direction. Tesla is obvious. Seems like what remains is expensive brands (BMW, Porsche, Mercedes) and Hyundai, Rivian, and Subaru. Not sure where Nissan sits in all this.
Someone needs to tell the justice department that the justice department is in violation of the law and should dispense justice.
I’m not particularly good at micing up cabinets but with the 57, my guitar tone sounds good no matter how bad my placement seems to be (slightly off center damn near touching grill). I tried so many ways to get bass decent on it but the 52 just worked without effort. I’m sure an expert could probably get the 52 to sound decent/good but for the rest of us, just use a 52. Don’t have a 58 so can’t comment on that but I doubt any Shure mics are bad.
All of those yes but not the kick and bass mic. Had to buy a beta 52 for those.
IIRC there was a whole part about the Israelites heading towards the Land of Milk and Honey which was to be Israel. Pretty sure they called it Israel…I am confident they called their people Israelites. There were a significant number of parts in volume one that called their destination their “promised land” kinda like how Mormons and others have done. so I think it’s a common thematic format across different religions.
Jiminy Cricket I can’t believe this is where we’ve ended up and it’s not constant pressure from all politicians to fix this. Obligatory Onion:
https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-regularly-happens-2/
Who pissed in my pants.