I mean, It’s not the people with investments really feeling it. The S&P 500 is up 12.92% YTD and 26.96% since Trump took office again, and treasuries range from 4.89% to 5.69% depending on the term. I got a 5% raise in January and looking at another 5% raise here in a couple of months, and I’ve gotten 5% in bonuses throughout the year.

There are basically no investment vehicles right now that aren’t significantly beating inflation. Unless you’re playing the market yourself picking individual securities, which is really just gambling, not really investing.

It’s the people struggling without a safety net already that are feeling it the most. Those are the people that need the relief.

Further details, her specific team had 100 software engineers on it, and the broader apollo computer system team that she helped manage had 400 software engineers.

That stack is literally the culmination of hundreds of developers’ work over a period of 8 years. She absolutely should get credit for herding all of those cats and being the one making all the big decisions, but it’s insulting to the hundreds of engineers, many of whom were also women, to claim she did that all herself.

Idk, mine has gone up every year since I have been an adult paying my own bills. And that was loooong before the pandemic.

Real median household income in 2015 was $74,590, while in 2025 it was $87,460. So real median household income is up 17.25%.

The article doesn’t give what the actual average water bill was in 2015, but it says that the average in 2025 for annual water bill was $531. Using the 62% increase we can figure that the average in 2015 would have been $327 per year, which inflation adjusted is $445 in 2025 dollars, a 19.33% increase compared to the 17.25% increase in household incomes.

Well according to the DOT, there are just north of 2.1 Million registered motor carriers. Of those. 1,083,501 are for hire.

A couple of these were Amazon contractors, 7 were 6 or fewer trucks and drivers. Pretty much all of the midsize or larger companies went into chapter 11, so they’ll continue operating just with a restructured debt plan.

It was the 8 small companies with 6 or fewer trucks and drivers that entered chapter 7 liquidation. And I imagine that’s pretty typical for those tiny companies any time diesel spikes.

It would not surprise me in the least if he thought that the plague warnings about prairie dogs were a conspiracy to keep cheap meat from people.

Yeah we get a few cases in Colorado with some regularity. It’s why you don’t pick up prairie dogs and ground squirrels.

https://cdphe.colorado.gov/colorado-plague-data

A lot of animal cases, but usually 3-4 human cases per year.

You’re overestimating.

The average vehicle in the US gets 29mpg, and the average tank size is about 13 gallons. That’s 377 miles per tank on the average vehicle. But that’s including small cars, while something like 70% of new cars sold are trucks and SUVs which average 19mpg and have average around 16 gallon tanks, which would put it at 304 miles per tank.

I know when I had my truck, I averaged right around 306 miles on a tank. My EV now gets 370 miles per charge.

So, apparently, does France. France has the same exceptions to allow 16 year olds to marry adults. And Spain. And Italy. And virtually the entirety of Eastern Europe. Belgium has no minimum age as long as a judge allows it.

If you look at the map of where minors can get married to adults without parental consent, Scotland is more lenient than anywhere in the US. Scotland is actually one of a tiny tiny few countries that allow minors to marry adults without any exceptions required. Adults can just outright marry children in Scotland without issue. Only 7 countries in the world allow that. Most in Africa and the Middle East. And then Scotland.

The minimum age differs by gender. Minimum age for men is 22, minimum age for women is 20.

I mean, she wasn’t wrong. They botched it yesterday for her.

Office of Personnel Management

Just another one in a long line lol. OPM has been breached so many times. There was a huge one in 2015 under Obama when the Chinese government stole the data on basically anyone who had had a background check done on them by the federal government. 22.1 million records, social security numbers, job data, clearance data, address data, their friends’ and families’ data from their SF-86 forms, everything. They also got 5.6 million fingerprint records.

It’s kinda funny how many of these cases are just due to shitty policing. In hindsight, it’s really clear what he was up to.

While working in the area of Las Cruces, New Mexico, Betkouski attempted to obtain capsules of some kind in March of 1982. Police were called to a pharmacy and escorted him home, Cooper said. That’s when they discovered he was taking unauthorized material from his lab at the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico and later found cyanide in his room. Co-workers said Betkouski would often discuss how cyanide could be used in “the perfect crime.”

He also made frequent calls to chemical supply and pharmaceutical companies in Pennsylvania in the weeks before the Tylenol homicides.

Places started doing that the day the EO was signed lol. By far the most common way places handle it is just rounding to the nearest 5¢. If the total is $x.x1 or $x.x2 it gets rounded down. If it’s $x.x3 or $x.x4 it’s rounded up.

Most EVs on the market have ranges on par with gas cars. 300 or so miles.

The only real difference is instead of 5 minutes to pay and fill up a gas tank, it take like 20 minutes to charge on a fast charger.

EVs are pretty much on par with gas cars new….

She taunted, beat, and slashed her victim repeatedly for half an hour, carved a pentagram into her chest while still alive, then bashed her skull in with a hunk of asphalt. Then carried around pieces of her skull to school, showing people.

There are plenty of times where a person does something so heinous that they should never be allowed into society again. This is one of those times. I don’t believe in the death penalty, but life in prison is absolutely the right move here.

Also, yes, you absolutely can know that she is still a danger to society. She attempted to murder another inmate while in prison and has attempted escape.

No, pasteurization has never been a hard requirement. The requirement has been aged 60 days for a long time now.

That means that soft raw cheeses like Brie are effectively banned, because you can’t really age them like that. But there has always been plenty of aged cheeses made from raw milk.

Here’s a WSJ article about it from 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20150711000630/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304370304575151663770115120

Raw milk has been legal to sell in some form in 29 states going back to the early 00s as well. A few states like California have allowed raw milk to be sold at retailers, and plenty more have allowed it to be sold direct from the farmer.

No it wasn’t.

Raw milk cheese is perfectly fine. It just has to be aged for at least 60 days at or above 35 degrees F.