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FSD works a lot better than I expected in the snow! @farzyness @Teslarati @Tesla_AI @MrTeslaTom

Financial. Lifestyle is difficult because it is so subjective. Even financially, it’s subject to lifestyle. Some people massively increase their income by regularly moving for job advancement. For them, renting is far cheaper. I’ve been in the same city for decades, buying is the better option for me.

@JonGMechE @leevalueroach By better do you mean from a purely financial standpoint? Or financial + lifestyle benefit?

A 30-year fixed mortgage is basically a long-dated call option on inflation. You borrow dollars today, lock the rate, and repay in nominal terms. If inflation explodes, your debt evaporates in real terms while your house price soars. You’re long the house, short the dollar.

@itsanotherjon @leevalueroach True, but renting is quickly catching up. As home prices increase and people become more likely to rent because of it, rent goes up faster. Generally speaking buying is better, even if that isn’t true at this particular point in time.

@JonGMechE @leevalueroach The alternative is renting yes. Depends on where you live, but with current home prices the math on renting versus buying is not as clear cut as it once was.

@itsanotherjon @leevalueroach What is the alternative? Renting? What do you think happens when you rent and there is inflation?

@leevalueroach Your debt evaporates in real terms, but it’s irrelevant. Unless your income tracks inflation, your ability to pay off the loan remains unchanged. Even worse, if your earnings *don’t* track inflation, and costs do, it becomes *more* difficult to pay off the loan.

Poor management is incredibly expensive. People who excel at getting organizations to move with a purpose and efficiently generate incredible wealth. Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos were able to do this. People like them have made the quality of life much higher. Yes they matter

@CFBLocks @JonGMechE @4TaxFairness Do you actually think they matter.

"If you tax the rich, they'll just leave." Not if the law also imposes a 40% exit tax on anyone with over $50 million who renounces their American citizenship 😎 Shout out to Elizabeth Warren's ULTRA-MILLIONAIRE TAX ACT.

You let yourselves become dependent on oil from 2 countries that hate democracy. If you grant leverage like that to a country that wants to destroy you they will profit off of you until they have the power to do so. Did you really think this wasn’t going to happen either way eventually?

@JonGMechE @wartranslated We need gas and oil from the region you've frivolously decided to start a war in. In the future, we'll have to deal with the inevitable wave of war refugees. And you're celebrating this mess as big brain moves. Makes me sick.

Trump wrote on his social network that the United States will no longer assist countries that cannot obtain fuel due to the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

@akanoego @wartranslated That doesn't change the impression it leaves. How were you fucked over by the US?

@JonGMechE @wartranslated As an European completely fucked over by your country, I'm just venting, not trying to convince you of anything.

@akanoego @wartranslated Insulting people like this doesn’t exactly shout “high IQ”

@JonGMechE @wartranslated I know you Americans are stupid, that's ok, but why are you so loud about it?

@Fwd_Party @amyklobuchar What do you think when a country that chants "Death to America," welcomes Martyrdom, and slaughters 30k of their own people gets it's hand on a nuke and a missile that can reach the US? Mutually Assured Destruction only works when both sides is afraid of being destroyed.

@amyklobuchar 💯

We start the day w/this Washington Post headline: Gas hits $4 a gallon for the first time in nearly four years This didn’t need to happen. Self-inflicted wound on our country and most of the world by this administration. Unilateral actions without an endgame have consequences.

@sunmoonbuffalo @4TaxFairness Then the US falls apart from a mass exodus of people that get things done. Just like every socialist "paradise" in history. We should absolutely change laws around inheritance, because nobody should be BORN into billions, but if you earn it keep it... until you die at least.

@JonGMechE @4TaxFairness Then when they are gone not hurting us snymore, we ban them from owning us stocks or tax their us holdings.

@brandenflasch So we should stop spending money on weapons while people that chant "Death to America" spend all their money on weapons?

Sounds like a reasonable strategy the US should follow

@texasrunnerDFW My parents didn’t live alone in a 1 or 2 bedroom apartment with a fitness center and pool. They didn’t get new cell phones every 2 years, or have a gaming computer. They don’t pay $10 to get their $15 takeout meal delivered to them

Your parents didn’t bid on starter homes against foreign buyers with cash offers. They also didn’t apply for jobs alongside foreign workers on visas They didn’t have to compete with global money and talent Young people today do But yeah, we have cheap fast fashion and TVs

Why can’t both these things be true: 1. Boomers got jobs and worked hard in an America that hadn’t yet globalized and also reaped the benefits of later globalization 2. Gen Z has a harder time getting jobs because of that same globalization, not because they don’t work hard

@NPC2699 @Fwd_Party @factpostnews someone forgot their lithium pill today. I'm going to just block you

@JonGMechE @Fwd_Party @factpostnews Religion absolutely does matter when you consider the invasions happening in all christian nations. All perpetuated by the satanic jewish new world order. Less power for you more power for them. Wake up bozo

The national average gas price has reached $4 per gallon after rising $1.06 over the past month. This is the largest increase ever recorded.

@pjcavender @wartranslated lol, gonna bookmark this one and revisit in a few months

@JonGMechE @wartranslated Iran will now require a toll from every ship using the Hormuz Strait, generating massive income and leverage over other countries that it did not have before. Trump remains a master strategist. 4 D chess!

@BrianMcL6 @wartranslated No, it’s made a whole bunch of other demands. I’m not aware of any statement that they would stop attacking ships if attacks against them stop

@JonGMechE @wartranslated Iran has been quite clear that if the US/Israeli attacks stop there will be no need for it to blockade the Strait.

@NPC2699 @Fwd_Party @factpostnews Did you forget that they are a nation with a dictator for almost 30 years?? No freedom of speech. Religion has nothing to do with it. Dictatorships will always try to destroy democracies. Keep clinging to that CAI brain control theory, careful not to try looking for sources!

@JonGMechE @Fwd_Party @factpostnews Go ahead and ignore that CIA coup that happened in 2014 bozo. And you’re gonna act like the Europeans and Americans aren’t brainwashed? You been told Russia is bad your whole life when in reality they should be a close ally because you they are a predominant christian nation

@NPC2699 @Fwd_Party @factpostnews Yeah because we can just brainwash millions of people to vote to join the EU, then also brainwash them into going into the streets to protest. Man, why don’t we just use that brain washing tech on Russia itself??

@JonGMechE @Fwd_Party @factpostnews Ya we overthrew the Ukrainian government in 2014 that was pro Russian to a pro western nation. Ofcourse they want NATO and most importantly the United States weapons. How much more endless wars does your generation want?

@DzQuentil @wartranslated lol, and spamming my comments with childish insults makes you look smart?

@JonGMechE @wartranslated You do realize hoe insanely stupid you sound, right? You're clearly ignorant of basic geography and reality.

@NPC2699 @Fwd_Party @factpostnews How do you think NATO kept getting countries to host our weapons? They WANTED to join NATO, they asked us to put our weapons in their territory. We put weapons in other countries at their request, Russia does it by force. Big difference. Russia meddled in the middle east too

@JonGMechE @Fwd_Party @factpostnews Shut up boomer. We’ve been meddling in the meddling in the Middle East for decades on behalf of isreal. It has NEVER worked out. Kind of like how NATO kept putting weapons closer and closer to the Russian border and they finally attack and you say how dare they!

@Fwd_Party @factpostnews If the Islamic Republic can be defeated and replaced with a free and democratic Iran, what do you think that would do to gas prices? Iran has been killing US soldiers whenever possible for decades, and destabilizing the middle east. If this succeeds, it will be worth it.

@factpostnews This isn't what Americans want. We need a system that solves problems.