Please tell me you know where to watch this.

Holy shit! That might be the dumbest arguement I’ve ever heard. I might have heard worse, but nothing is coming to mind.

Are you fucking with us? I am eating the onion? When I read that I thought you were doing a bit like that greentext with all the goofy fake British names for things.

That’s not a bad idea.

Why not completely divorce your phone from your portable computing device?

Before smartphones, they were getting pretty small. You could probably make a phone that was just a voice activated earbud now. Then have a device that was everything but the “phone” bits. You wouldn’t have to accept the locked down aspects that the cell providers demand, you could have all the variety and functionality of your home computer or laptop.

Yeah, this seems crazy to me. This is a big differentiator. I still hate apple’s ui and several other things but now I can see myself being convinced to get an iPhone. There was zero chance before this decision. If apple ever allows real third party launchers and browsers that aren’t just safari skins (or if android ever disallows launchers and makes all browsers chrome skins), I’d be pretty close to 50-50.

Don’t forget to include reinvested dividends.

That makes it just under $400k, big difference.

I used this calculator. I took the deinflated $5k starting figure so just use the nominal results, not infusion adjusted.

If the next 40 years performs the same, with reinvested dividends, $15k will get you almost $1.2mm. That’s nominal, I wouldn’t want to guess about inflation adjusted.

Not surprised, I just clicked on the first inflation calculator that came up. I think it was the BLS CPI calculator.

And I only did it in dollars from December of '21 until now. Converting back to shillings, either in '21 or Dickensian times, before bringing it forward to today could result in a big difference due to the charging exchange rate between the pound and the dollar.

That was from December of '21. It would be $15.69 now.

Hmmm, yes, what a coincidence.

It is though. Our eyes just aren’t good at seeing desaturated orange.

The fuck you on about?

The Wikipedia article starts with two paragraphs accurately defining the term, then in the third paragraph above the drop-downs mentions the criticisms. Then two drop-down sections, Solutions and Criticisms, are almost entirely given over to all the ways various people have refuted this.

What do you want, a big flashing red banner at the top that says “This Concept is Bullshit”? I don’t think you understand how Wikipedia works.

The worst ones are when they slaughter scores of henchmen without a single qualm then get all prissy when it comes to the big bad.

The percentage of people that would be just as happy with their neighbour having less as they would be with themselves having more is shocking and depressing. It’s all about comparisons. Crabs in a bucket.

Brown Sugar

A lot of that album was pretty subversive but hidden behind upbeat rock. The olds didn’t realize what the kids were listening to because they just heard pop rock.

Is that not normal when this occurs? Is it usually just one foot, or a pair of feet?

I don’t know how the Mercedes ones work or what type of fridge he has, but BMWs just have a door light and a filter goes over it for “M”, “BMW”, the roundel, etc., and my fridge just has a light.

I assumed he found you could put the filter from the car on the fridge light with a minimum of fucking around.

But you’re right, the more time and effort spent on this, the stupider it becomes.

I get where you’re coming from, I’m logo free to the maximum extent practical, but a fridge is inside your house. If i wanted an “M” projection on my fridge light (I definitely don’t, but if I did), I wouldn’t consider that providing free advertising.

If I played a set against Serena there is a decent chance I get one point.

She will hit 12 aces/unreturnable serves and 12 return winners. That’s going to happen. But during that she could double fault or miss one return. She’s not going to be trying that hard, playing me definitely isn’t going to put her “in the zone.” And my serves will be so weak and pathetic compared to what she’s used to that she’ll have to generate more pace for those winners than she normally would. I like my chances of one going long or wide.

Now, if the question is “could you hit a winner against Serena,” lol fuck no.

My grandparents house built just after ww2 had, what was for a long time, a standard two car garage. Enough room for two land yachts from the 70s, lawn care implements and various other stuff and you could still open the car doors all the way and walk around. My parents’ house built in the 70s was the same. It’s more recent construction in built up areas where they are shrinking. They’ve been getting smaller as developers try to cram more liveable sqft on smaller amounts of land.

You’re right, being poor is expensive, but that doesn’t really apply to charging a vehicle.

The term “being poor is expensive” is generally applied to situations where you don’t have the money to pay for something upfront (a quality product, bulk purchases, preventative maintenance, preventative healthcare, down payment on a house) so you have to spend smaller amounts of money repeatedly and/or have a large unavoidable cost as a result (multiple cheap products that wear out, multiple small purchases with a higher per unit price, a blown engine, a root canal, rent), which can cost a lot more over time.

The electric bill is post-paid, not up front. Not being able to set aside the “$10 every few days” to pay the higher bill at the end of the month with money left over is just poor money management.

That being said, the higher purchase cost of electric vehicles preventing poor people from taking advantage of lower operating costs that would more than offset the higher purchase price after some number of years is an example of it being expensive to be poor.