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Buying a second house for your estranged wife is very normal. I’ve got tons of very real, normal human friends that buy their wives second houses because divorce would cost more than a second house.

The person is very human, yes.

I figured it would be pretty instant as soon as he mentioned tariffs.

Your average Joe may not know much about how tariffs work, but the finance people that do most of wall street trading, and the big corporations that rely on international trade certainly know how they work.

Trump basically promised to halve the market for most products in the US. Sure, some businesses may see this as an opportunity to increase prices above the tariff costs to squeeze even more profits, but any large company that operates on volume, like Walmart, should be shitting bricks right now. If half the people shopping at Walmart right now won’t be able to afford the products next year, the company is going to have to massively downsize or risk financial ruin. They already operate on narrow profit margins per item. If they sell less of imported goods, their revenue will drop through the floor.

I’ve just accepted that no matter how much I try to save, or what kind of job I get, the economy will explode every ten years and I’ll get shafted.

Who needs to retire anyway.

You think a billionaire that spends most of his “very busy” schedule tweeting nonsense cares to read the news?

There’s probably a dedicated intern that gives him daily briefings while Musk scrolls twitter for a new Nazi to retweet. The intern knows better than to upset the Muskrat, and keeps news about Tesla issues to a minimum.

Starship is not feasible for anything but space tourism, maybe, if it doesn’t blow up or crash every other launch.

It currently barely has the energy to reach orbital speeds while completely empty. How is it going to achieve orbit with the supposed 100 tons of cargo on board, or even the more realistic 50 ton payload.

The Government Accountability Office, the pre-existing competitor to the Efficiency Office Musk wants to run, put out a report over a year ago that the main engines of the starship do not meet the energy requirements for the Artemis mission that SpaceX has already been payed for. Those engines are already run so over throttled that they routinely melt themselves, that’s the green fire you see whenever one of the boosters or Ship itself relights its engines for landing.

SpaceX does not have the technology to make starship work as designed, if they did, they could have retrofitted the Falcon rockets to have reusable second stages like was originally planned. Instead they went straight for the big scam of a reusable moon rocket, because why tell a small lie when you can tell big one and have someone fraudulently award you a 3 billion dollar contract to make it.

Oh boy, here we go again.

They’ve actually argued that there’s 2 suns and that the midnight sun is a second sun that replaces the first.

Least insane flat earth theory.

Kids these days are born too late to invade the Middle East, but born just in time to invade Canada, apparently.

I just hope we don’t have to wait all the way until 2077 for the Great War. I want to see deathclaws and super mutants while my eyesight is still good.

Having those supplies in your regular house is way more useful in a natural disaster. You’re likely to already be in your home with your family and pets, and don’t have to risk going outside to get to shelter, as your basement is already a suitable shelter for 99% of storms and weather phenomena.

The problems with bad storms is they usually disrupt power and cause flooding. Having a generator or home battery to power your existing sump pumps makes way more sense than spending tens of thousands of dollars on a bunker/storm shelter that will also need sump pumps and a power system.

Having supplies in your own home also means they’re more likely to be cycled through and checked on regularly, versus having to make the conscious effort to go out to a seperate shelter every year or so to inspect the food, water, and medical supplies there.

Doesn’t the Bible say that the coming of the antichrist will also bring plagues and war?

We’re 2/2

If only all of human history didn’t disagree with you.

Man, aneurysms are terrifying.

They’re often undiagnosed because they can develop over time and regular MRIs and CTs without a reason aren’t really a thing because they’re expensive.

One day you could just bump your head, go for a jog, or even sneeze and then boom, dead.