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I missed the part in the constitution where it said America should be made up of mostly whites. If you want more whites in america, i guess you should have more children.

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i really don't believe people buy 3/4 and Full ton trucks as luxury vehicles, at least not to a large degree. I certainly agree with you that a huge majority of 1/2 ton pickups are luxury vehicles. Just look at all the short beds that are sold.

the problem is, unless you buy a southern truck, the frames are pretty much done for... rotted thru.

pulling a US ton of hay with a smaller used car isn't going to be fun. That car's transmission is going to get wiped out.

i bought a 2005 Ram 2500 for $25,000, today it would cost minimally $75,000. I actually need a truck to haul hay every week. i dread when the thing rots apart. I will have no answer.

so 49 killed by the pair.

ah ok. immigration. that would be true.

i would expect that more people are retiring than are first time entering tho, right? Given demographics?

Can someone explain to the clueless among us (me) how you can increase jobs, but not decrease unemployment? ----------------------------------------------------------

POINTS December’s jobs report showed employers added 216,000 jobs for the month while the unemployment rate held at 3.7%. That compared with respective estimates of 170,000 and 3.8%.

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Also, isn't this just the most american thing ever?

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Markets reacted negatively to the data, with stock market futures sliding and Treasury yields sharply higher.

All car sales have stalled significantly. Now are there issues to EV sales, maybe? but a larger swath of people more than any other time in recent history can't afford new cars.

Well at least as a new hire you know to get out, early on. So there's that.

One's ability to feel superior to people less fortunate than you is a very ingrained psychological factor in a capitalist society. America isn't going to change, unfortunately.

To me, the bilateralness is the super cool part. I imagine that this happens more often, but you just don't notice from a visual inspection.

not selling, including ice. the lots are packed. their Floorplan is crushing them.

i'd probably recommend Mercurial, say a UI like TortoiseHq. It has 90% of the value of git with a much better interface.

Maybe there are certain domains where you could obviously do better. Take an artist wanting to version control images, i could imagine specialized tools that could be much better. For programming, there could be improvements for versioning groups of repositories that work together perhaps.

For standard needs, probably going to be difficult.

The craziest part about the page is some of the sample drawings people did that are unbelievably good.

shame john wasn't here to see it.

First thing i thought of was this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ5zx__Iavs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EumnijQBhw

incompetence is fraud, when displayed over time.

was expecting a, "..... and was brought up on charges." at the end.

A strong case can be made, i think, for people who are struggling with the cost of education, to consider trades, now more than ever. especially in electrical. Trades people are aging pretty significantly as a group, and there is going to be a surge in electrical that will need lots of people. This is true in general, but especially electrical. I went to college when it was cheap and so there really wasn't much of a concern. If i were a young person now, i doubt i could afford it, and trades would likely be a big win for me. Many a day, even now, i wake up and wish i had taken that path.

nothing worse then when a good joke goes unnoticed.

isn't 37 the solution to the toilet problem, as well? i'm supposing the two problems are related.

25 million is chump change to Apple. To whatever extent the practice was deviously purposeful, this ruling only emboldens that urge.

>>I don't know about your education or professional background, but from my side as a software engineer I very well understand that you can pile up evidence that will point you in a certain direction, and afterwards you might get that small 0.1% that will turn things completely around.

you can still be justified in a belief if the prevailing evidence rises to the claim. We can be wrong about anything, and certainly in the mid 1800's people probably thought they knew how physics worked pretty well. They were wrong, of course, However, until evidence was produced that discounted their existing evidence, they were justified in that belief, and, it mostly worked for all intents and purposes for the tests they proposed/attempted, even tho quantum physics says something quite surprisingly different.

>> I would not be able to switch my faith to something else just because.

i don't doubt you. However, 9 billion people can use the process of faith to believe things, including things you think are horrendous. How do you discount their beliefs, while being confident in yours, if all you have is faith to discern the difference? If you are discerning a difference, that difference is coming from somewhere else, likely evidence and rationality. So the process of faith, itself, is not trustworthy, as i'm guessing you feel that at least half the planet is using faith and coming to the wrong conclusions.

it is preposterous because a) we have no known comps b) we have no evidence of the claims c) we have no reason to believe the claims are even possible.

as for trusting in experts, there's no question that that is problematic in the extreme. However, it comes back to how the evidence rises to the claim. Can a group of people be experts in a subject? How can we validate that? Can we verify that their are experts in how electrical wiring works? To a large degree we can. We have lots of evidence. Do they know everything, probably not, but i can have confidence that they are mostly correct. Can we verify there are experts in evolution? Again, i think we can. They have produced mountains of evidence. Do they know everything? No. But they are likely largely correct. Can we verify there are experts in God? What are the tests? How do we verify these experts?

You mention faith, and i have to ask, what good is faith? Is there anything you could _not_ believe, based on faith? If faith has no mechanism to filter out anything, does it tell you anything about what is true or likely true?

One should proportion belief to

1) The amount of evidence for a claim. 2) The grandiosity of the claim.

If you tell me you have a pet dog named "Spike" I probably would be willing to accept that with as little evidence as a picture of you holding a dog, found in your wallet [i might even take your word for it, if i knew you to be an otherwise mostly honest person]. Because, dogs exist and are plentiful, billions of people own dogs, and "Spike" is a common name. you may be fooling me (it may be the neighbors dog) but i'm still justified in the believe because the evidence rises to the claim.

If on the other hand you claim that you have a pink polka dotted flying dragon as as a pet named "Chester". I would be a fool to believe you. I have no evidence such a thing exists, or that people have them as pets. I would have to see it in person, and even then, i would need to get a report from teams of biologists/zoologists to be willing to accept the claim. It would require tons more evidence.

And yet, the claim STILL isn't _that_ preposterous. The dragon would be an animal, and i know animals exist. I know there are animals with scales, i know some animals fly. I even now there are some with wild coat patterns.

Now if you tell me you believe in an all powerful all knowing god who is responsible for why there is life? I have zero evidence, i have no experience like what you are describing. I've never been given evidence of a being outside of time and space. I don't know that that is even a thing. I don't know what all powerful is, or if that could exist? or all knowing? is that possible? I have no correlary to compare to. It's not like we know King Neptune exists, and while not infinitely powerful, is still pretty boss. Why would i believe that was the explanation for why there are creatures on this planet?

Evolution, on the other hand, has mounds of evidence. We have a powerful fossil record, We went thru a pandemic that shows the power of mutation. Even our own ability to drink milk. And yet even evolution isn't making all that fanciful of predictions. It doesn't claim to know your thoughts, or how you will die. So the evidence rises to claim. Do we know everything there is to know about evolution? Could we be wrong in some areas? Sure. But we are justified in accepting it.