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Thanks for making me aware of 55+ plans. I thought most discounts didn't start until 65. I'm a Princeton alumni actually. My brother broke his iPhone screen multiple times but did his own repairs. He's not even an EE like me. I'm going to be mostly using the phone in case of emergencies, and...

I'm finally coming into the 21st century and getting a mobile phone. I already have Verizon for Internet, TV, and my landline. Verizon has an offer of 90 days free mobile service for existing customers but you need a phone to take advantage of it. I'm leaning towards getting an iPhone 14 on eBay...

Probably most of the Republican party. Trump thought there would be mostly Democrats in those files. When he found out otherwise, there were suddenly no Epstein files.

The perpetual optimist in me says this too will pass. The realist says otherwise. What's amazing is all these MAGAs defending policies which will hurt them in Trump's so-called Big Beautiful Bill. Or more accurately Big Raging Dumpster Fire.

It'll definitely extend to women and girls in general. I'm sure part of the hidden agenda of Project 2025 is to make females property again. You'll probably even have people wearing MFPA hats. This way the incel "white grievance" males don't have court women to get laid. They can just buy them...

In anyone is interested I uploaded pictures and videos when I saw the Macy's fireworks this year. Now that I have my freedom back I'm starting to go out more. Pictures: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Gh9dHVnHZ3EmkhVp7 Videos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/BeesKHf87pgpkmAWA (first video is part of the...

That's what I'm hoping happens, rather than any low-level conflicts lasting for years or decades. In theory we can stop this cold in 2026 if the Dems get control of both houses of Congress. In practice I think Trump will find an excuse to void any election results he doesn't like. There's also...

I don't disagree with anything you wrote, sed. It's 1933 all over again, and it's scaring the crap out of me.

I'm aware of that. I'm also aware that if the blue states stop sending money to Washington lots of people won't be getting paid. Those with the gold make the rules. The blue states have a lot more gold. NY and CA combined would be the world's 3rd largest economy. The US GDP would fall from $30.5...

I'm thinking more along the lines of the blue states having the drones, data, and smart bombs. They'll be confronted by MAGAs with AR-15s. The end result will be so lopsided it wouldn't even be funny. The military is on whichever side pays it. If the blue donor states stop sending their money to...

I totally agree about the alternate reality being propagated by the likes of Fox News, OANN, and Newsmax being largely responsible for where we are now. When nearly half the country can't even agree on the same basic facts as the rest, what hope is there?

Stuff like this is why the 2nd Amendment exists. Civil war anyone? It sadly might come to that to stop these people.

Let's not forget this speech by ICE Barbie: Apparently this administration wants to "liberate" cities like LA from so-called "socialism". I can see where this is heading. Next year they'll use this playbook to try to void election results they don't like. We're getting a front row seat to how...

Sad to say I think that's going to happen. Even worse, this Supreme Court will rubber stamp it.

That wasn't my intent but yes, it could be taken as kind of patronizing and cliche. Last time I was in love was when I was 19. That didn't work out obviously. After that I sort of gave up pursuing people. It helped that I didn't meet anyone I found particularly interesting. My attitude has...

My cat isn't so good at conversation, either. I'm also in the process of organizing my place a bit. Over ten years of taking care of mom meant I let lots of things slide. Yeah, long distance relationships are hard. Heck, I lost touch with my high school friends after school ended and we were in...

How's the living alone situation going? I'm guessing it's an even bigger adjustment for you than for me. I couldn't have anything resembling a conversation with my mother although she was still physically there.

This is exactly why I'm still using 7. If MS wants people to upgrade, they need to make the process seamless where all your old software and settings remain.

It reminds me of the case my old 386 is in. Beige cases were almost always disgusting. I never understood the point of picking a color that looks like a faded white case that's been outside in the sun for decades. Either make it white, or make it black. Or even some shade of gray.

Color me surprised. It's been 14 or 15 years I think since I last bought a spinning drive. Their fragility is a show stopper. Kick the case accidentally while the drive is spinning and all that data may be gone. Plus the cost difference per TB isn't that large any more. Maybe $20/TB for HDD...

Realistically though how many people use mechanical drives these days? SSDs are under $50/TB and few people need more than 2TB of storage. Even 4TB is affordable now. With NVME on nearly all motherboards, and USB drives for portable storage, you don't even need drive bays any more. That said...

Tell me about it. Until my mother passed I never lived alone, outside of one semester in college when I had my own dorm room. Living alone sucks. Yes, you have freedom in that there are no fights about how to manage things in the home, but you also have nobody to talk to on a regular basis.

The tariffs literally put me out of business. For the foreseeable future I have no income unless Trump reverses course.

I'm honestly surprised it's not more than that. 450Wh/km * 235km/h = 105.75kW = 142HP. That seems like a fairly low amount of power to maintain 235km/h. Driving at high-speed train speeds sounds like a lot of fun.

And the market rout continues. Down and down she goes, where she stops nobody knows.

I'm already liberated from my 401K, IRAs, etc. Down over 30% since Trump took office. If this keeps up Trump will solve global warming. The breeze from all the stockbrokers jumping out the windows will cool the planet down. :ROFLMAO:

My brother redid the brake lines on two of his cars with stainless steel himself. He ordered stainless steel line and a flaring tool. Now he'll never have to worry about the brake lines rusting.

Bringing nukes into it is basically a mutually assured destruction scenario. Nobody wins. The USSR had a civil war which broke it up and nukes weren't used. If we can secure a peaceful splitting of the country in two or three pieces even better. They don't like us anyway, so why would they want...

Because it's harder to maintain control in a country where at least 60% don't want them in power. We're fast heading towards a civil war. Despite the bravado of Trump and his followers, they will come up on the losing side if that happens.

Here's my solution to the problem: 1) Denmark gives Greenland to the US subject to #2 to #4. 2) Trump and all his MAGA supporters are deported to Greenland and lose their US citizenship. 3) Trump can become King, Emperor, Fuhrer or whatever he cares to call himself of Greenland. 4) Greenland is...

All this is going exactly as I predicted. We're going to destroy the planet, make workers virtual slaves, treat women and girls like property, all so a few billionaires can become richer. We have to stop this by any means necessary.

I wonder if Trump or Musk even have a driver's license?

I wonder how this will play with Trump's base who thinks electric cars are the spawn of satan.

That's terrible. Also, anyone having work done on their home should be careful. I had my roof done in January. I was genuinely worried ICE would show up and cart the workers off right in the middle of the job. Being that I went with a big company, I'm sure they were all legal, but that won't...

I think that has to be a record of sorts. Even Hitler didn't lose his goodwill that fast. The fact so many people believed Trump's lies speaks to how bad our education system is. His base is going to be the ones suffering the most from his shortsighted policies. I'm going to be using the words...

I'm honestly hoping the EU declares war on us if we withdraw from NATO. It'll be worth it just to see the dumbfounded looks on his MAGA supporters. "But I thought he was going to bring peace." Last I checked the price of groceries is still high. But we're talking about making Gaza into a resort...

I haven't been following stuff lately but that sounds like a game changer. 16 cores, 40 CUs, AND 128GB of memory. I've been saying for a long time AMD should put dedicated memory on their APUs. I guess the chip would attempt to cache the most frequently used stuff in the on-chip RAM, and use...

Speaking of Lunar, he hasn't posted in a while. Do you know if he's OK?

I'd probably just ship my luggage to a UPS store near my final destination where they can hold it until I get there. All this lost luggage stuff honestly sounds like yet more reasons to just take Amtrak if I ever start traveling.

I second Mercutio's sentiments. :cry:

Cars in NYC generally always cause more problems than they solve, starting with finding where to park them. Lots of reasons why I never owned one, even though I have a driveway to park it.

Didn't you tell her driving in Manhattan is slower than walking? Real NYers never drive into Manhattan. Besides being the most congested place in the US by a large margin, it also has the greatest public transit system by far. The only parking in Manhattan is insanely expensive garages.

Can you still go to Canada without a passport these days? I only went there once, in 1973, to Montreal, with my parents and siblings. Actually that was the only time I was ever out of the country.

I'm aware the date of manufacture matters also. The 2.88 MB format didn't really catch on but I wonder if the early versions of those were also reliable, or if the bit density was just too high. The larger problem with floppies was that their mechanism for finding a track was purely mechanical...

My thought about USB drives failing is if your carry them around you build up static charge while walking, especially on a carpet. Touch the drive before discharging yourself and you may well cause it to fail. Probably the USB drives with metal cases would be much better protected. I actually...

To be fair most average people in the US can't ditch a personal vehicle because of development patterns and lack of public transit. Suburbia was arguably the biggest, most costly mistake of the 20th century which will take decades to fix. Of course these high profile people should ditch the...

Clean means when it's making energy it's not emitting pollution. Of course there's an energy cost to make anything, be it wind turbines, solar panels, batteries, EVs, etc. Overall though these things are far cleaner than burning fossil fuels. It's always better to repair than replace if...

China is making $10K EVs. If Trump removed the tariffs and allowed them to be imported they would sell like hotcakes. The major reason we're having trouble electrifying is our insistence on clinging to ridiculously sized vehicles which need 3 to 5 times the battery and electricity to go any...

Oil is yesterday's news. The country should be moving towards renewables. How did Trump's attempt to revive the coal industry in his first term go? Coal isn't economically viable any more. Oil won't be within a decade, either. Drilling new wells is a huge investment which oil companies won't...