turmacar

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[–] turmacar 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It applies more. If you borrow $1000 and by the time you pay it back (including interest) you've paid $1500, but that would have had the buying power of $2000 today, you've made a pretty good deal. If you do that with a trillion dollars, you've made a great deal.

National Debt is a weird metric. For the US, the biggest foreign owners are Japan having ~4% and China having ~5% of the debt. The huge majority of the debt is within the US, either to individuals, businesses, or the government itself.

[–] turmacar 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I have an Akita that can do the same and is (mostly) very good about asking for permission / knowing he needs to be handed food.

I do feel like smaller dogs generally get minimal or zero training because people know they can just pick them up or otherwise stop them and it makes pet ownership worse for everyone involved.

[–] turmacar 3 points 7 months ago

As fun as it might be to harp (ha) on them. It's unlikely that a 30 year old atmospheric research station is a bond style earthquake machine.

[–] turmacar 5 points 8 months ago

I think they're awesome but yeah, unfortunately limited in most bigger cities due to how everything is laid out.

Their use case is basically "never need to go on the freeway". Going over 50 mph is maybe possible, with a tailwind, downhill, but would be terrifying.

[–] turmacar 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Agreed. Units are hard and for most of history there wasn't a wiki where you could look up the conversion between cubits, greek feet, roman feet, italian feet, french feet, and english feet to maybe get to some idea of how tall the "huge guy" was.

[–] turmacar 8 points 8 months ago

Doom 2016 and Eternal had multiplayer season stuff, but it could easily be ignored.

[–] turmacar 3 points 8 months ago

It's not a mystery which of the car might've been available in East Germany.

Trabants aren't exactly known for being long lasting.

[–] turmacar 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

IIRC the speed of the 9th symphony is somewhat controversial because what markings we have on original sheetmusic are significantly faster than it's normally played.

Symphony music in general is going to vary a decent bit depending on what bpm(s) the conductor is choosing.

[–] turmacar 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.

Practice the basics, get it right. Don't try to go faster for the sake of going faster, you'll hit your limit and get sloppy and pickup bad habits. Test your limits to learn them, but don't hit them every time. Get comfortable within them and the goal posts will move.

[–] turmacar 2 points 8 months ago

It's the name of an app/website/email spam service.

[–] turmacar 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's been at least since the "big iron" days.

Technician comes out to upgrade your mainframe and it consists of installing a jumper to enable the extra features. For only a few million dollars.

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