oh awesome, and thanks for sharing the link…just once I’d like to be under-informed in a positive direction rather a negative direction 😪

How much worse could our fuel economy standards be than they already are? Does Hummer want to make something that gets 5 MPG instead of 7 lol? Not that it matters very much at all, manufacturers already don’t meet existing standards and just pay the fine each year, which is a drop in the bucket to them. So “rolling back” these standards is basically just telling Chrysler “hey, you know how you have to bribe us with about 200m a year to do whatever you want with fuel economy? Yeah let’s just forget that fee going forward.” The fines for violating our standards is just a tiny cost of doing business for them, nothing more. As they say, if the penalty for breaking some rule is a fine, then it’s only a rule for poor people.

yeah I barely can bring myself to give like Fidelity or Charles Schwab photos of my ID, just even having a digital image of my ID on my computer feels wrong lol

No no, he limits himself to “Clearly illegal” orders, normal illegal is beneath him.

we can hope for some high-profile resignations and maybe an outspoken admiral or something. And remember, it’s only Trump’s DOJ until it isn’t anymore, and I think the statute of limitations on murder is more than 3 years…

This should be top of the thread everywhere this story is mentioned, forever.

Yeah it’s a different lifestyle and not appealing or possible for everyone in every situation of course (not that I implied it was but for some reason I feel the need to defend my self on that point). I get that the systems we all live under have many of us completely captured by debt or bills and impoverished to the point where the major concerns in life are getting enough to eat each day and not freezing to death homeless out on the street. It’s conditions like that elsewhere in the world which cause people to emigrate in search of a better life in the USA, ironically.

when I was like “hey can I do my REAL ID real quick now too?” to the DMV agent I was renewing my registration with, he literally laughed at me 🤣. It’s like 90% the effort of getting a full-blown passport, at least with the documentation they make you give in my state…

I use my passport for domestic travel almost always. I come from a small state so it’s just easier than showing the TSA agent a type of license they see maybe a couple of a day and don’t know how to read. Never had an issue.

hahaha now there’s something I haven’t thought about in a minute. I honestly hate airports, airplanes, the TSA, and flying myself. But I do love seeing places and people and experiencing things that I never would have otherwise, whether that’s in my home town, across the state, or across the world, count me in :)

idk, not by the letter of the law, no. But they are they are pretty awful sometimes. I personally always used my passport for all flights even before REAL ID existed, it’s just easier for them than offering a license from a rural state like I live in that they may see once or twice a day.

For some people in some cases, sure. Myself, I traveled in South America for 3 months last year and overall I saved money vs. expenses in the US, even with airfare included. Also, there’s probably 100 million Americans that live within a single tank of gas of getting to Mexico or Canada. There are plenty of lower-income Americans, Brits, Aussies, and Germans (to name the big groups) who manage to travel extensively for long periods at very low expense. I’ve met many of them, and they could make “thousands of dollars” (let’s say you’re talking about $3,000) last a good three months in many parts of the world. Look for deals, be willing to not get exactly what you want, and be patient, and travel can be (and had been for me) cheaper overall than paying US prices for housing food etc.

And later is says he “told” them a second time, however are we to untangle this Gordian knot of language???

yeah come give it the ol 1812 special please

Oh for sure, I’m not saying foreign travel or passport fees are an achievable goal for every single adult American. But we are talking here about the group of people who fly at the very least domestically. And for that, you need Real ID, which does require you to supply things like your SSN and birth certificate. So for that group specifically that we’re talking about here, the domestic flyers that already need or have Real ID, I think a passport is a logical thing to get as well if it’s in your budget.

A passport is a really good thing to have, and lasts much longer than a Real ID state license. It ends up costing like $13/yr and it opens up the whole world to you. It blows my mind that on;y 50% of US citizens ever bother getting one.

yes, yes, we all know that capitalism relies fundamentally on a money supply that expands forever and ever, and that nothing about the whole grift keeps working if prices are falling or even just stable for extended periods. We need to issue loans today that are payable in future dollars which we are certain will be worth less than today’s dollars or the whole shebang is basically out the window. “A dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow” must be true the vast majority of the time for debt, credit, home loans, the national debt, municipal bonds, treasury bonds, the stock market, the overnight repo market, and central banks, just to name a few, to function whatsoever.

This actually seems like the kind of nonsense that gets “invented” once a decade or so. There’s just no way this is humanity’s very first crack at “washing machine but it does people” lol

What’s spiking is everything needed to run a AI datacenter, in order. First they spiked the price of GPUs, then the very instant that started to cool DRAM spiked. Electricity itself looks very much like it might be next, and we’ll be on to water before too long.

Maybe I’m just not getting the distinction between “The Fuhrer” literally redirecting to the Hitler page on Wikipedia, isn’t that Wikipedia saying those two terms are so synonymous that they don’t need separate pages?