Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
1d ago
For calibration, $892 million is less than two large US Coast Guard cutters. But it's definitely easy to not think about just how large numbers/fundings are if you don't work with them on a regular basis, I'll agree with that.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
I in turn would love to see some story with anti-slavery campaign - feel free to recommend me some.
Just it should be serious conflict, not "everyone claps and praises to moral superiority of main character, slavery instantly disappears"
I think the Honor Harrington series and short stories get there eventually.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
I suppose the assumption is that companies will raise prices on imported goods dollar-for-dollar with the tariff increases.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
Responding to myself: I've found the source of the $5,000 claim I've seen floating around: The average tariff burden is estimated by dividing the total expected tariff revenue per year, $600 billion, by the total number of U.S. households in 2024, 132 million
I'm assuming, as has been said elsewhere, that this sort of math is not done with sales/corporate taxes or any other sort of tax increase. At least not by the same people.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
But the median income is what, around $80k/household, average $115k, right? How is average expenditure $40k more than average (not even median!) income? I'm no economist, but wouldn't that be an insane amount of debt? Or am I looking at this from the wrong direction? Are housing and auto loans skewing things?
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
Speaking of tarriffs, can someone help me with the economics/math I've seen? How does a price level rise of by 2.3% in the short-run, the equivalent of an average per household consumer loss of $3,800 work? Is it saying that the average household spends over $150k per year (and that thosr at the bottom, losing $1,700, spend almost $80k)? What am I missing? I've seen these numbers floating around (sometimes as much as "$5,000 per household"), and I cannot seem to figure out that math.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
I mean, rum & coke (or black/spiced rum and Dr. Pepper) is easy and simple, as is a gin & tonic, or coffee with whiskey/sambucca/irish cream. Hot toddies and hot buttered rum are excellent on a cold day or when you've got a cold. I'm a madman and enjoy a warm milk with sambucca or brandy. On a hot day, you can also got for a radler (hard cider or beer and lemonade) or a half beer half root beer.
I don't really do the fancy cocktails, although I should probably learn at some point. At least a few of the stand bys.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
apparently fans can do what billion dollar multinational companies cannot.
Credit to ArenaNet on this one: GW1 is still up and running, and I believe they really will keep it so as long as ANet lasts.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
the vagrants got spooked and used the victim's credit card to hire a professional cleaning company (named, appropriately enough, Aftermath Services) to fix up the mess. This destroyed most of the evidence, though not the dismembered body in a fish tank
So was it the cleaning service that found the body and reported it to the police, or did they just assume it was some weird art installation?
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
I've found that "Print to PDF" is also a workable option.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
I drink none of those. Give me a good dark beer (Ayinger's Celebrator doppelbock is my all-time favorite), or an ice wine (Reif is my go-to winery). Mixed drinks? Pimm's Cup or a Southern Comfort Collins. I learned the latter as my grandfather's drink of choice at weddings; I don't know if it is actually a real drink... it seems impossible to find the recipe anywhere online, but I remember a decade or two ago no bartenders questioned it or how to make it. So it must have existed at some point?
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
If I want a story, I'll read a book or watch a movie. Increasingly just read a book these days.
I'd rather play a game than watch a movie, personally, even with the same linearity of plot.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
I remember the manual for Red Baron was about 1/3 game , 2/3 history, planes, and pilot profiles. And that the BG1&2 manuals were basically the D&D rulebooks, but with some added character commentary.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
ME2 is helped by the fact that the character quests are the majority of the game. So if you liked that writing and the gameplay, well, it's easy to look past that whole main plot writing thing. It's not the point/meat & potatoes of the game, after all.
And yes, Shamus did absolutely nail it on that one.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
No one liked arthas - and yet they made him the big bad. His story arc was supposed to be epic, but on every front they only delivered cringe
I mean, the cutscene where he commits Regicide/Patricide was pretty awesome. I'll give them that.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
I think if any republicans try to reign in Trump, Dems know it'd undermine their entire messaging to not join in.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
That sort of mentality would probably do a lot for police reform, too.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
And, as I understand it, he meant it admiringly, in the Bruce Lee "I fear the man who has practiced one kick a thousand times, not the man who has practiced a thousand kicks one time" sort of way.
Mantergeistmann
12d ago
Originally it was supposed to be Snow White and Evil Queen going toe-to-toe, but now she just falls off a cliff or something?
I mean, that style of villain death is a Disney classic.
Mantergeistmann
14d ago
The required advantage to get ahead in sports gambling is pretty small, right? Just slightly above flipping a coin?
Mantergeistmann
14d ago
If women were equally strong then societies would have an advantage if they encouraged women to be warriors to better protect and defend those societies, and women would be similarly self-interested in doing so.
Not necessarily. Even if women were better fighters than men, a nation would still be better off losing 90% of its men than half its women just for the purposes of replacement for future wars. Or similar -- I'm sure someone has done the math on the numbers for a world building scenario if nothing else.
Mantergeistmann
18d ago
Phantom Time is pretty nifty. AKA "a few hundred years in the middle-ages, including Charlemagne, never existed". You could probably mess with people at dinner parties with it.
Mantergeistmann
18d ago
The Conservatives were on the verge of outright majority support in the polls, Liberal support was in the high teens, almost every ironclad safe Liberal seat was up for grabs, and it seemed possible - if not necessarily probable - that the Liberals might be reduced to a mere handful of seats nationwide
There was a period of time where the polling was showing that the Bloc Quebecois was going to be the second-largest party and therefore the Opposition, which would have been even funnier than this Liberal comeback.
Mantergeistmann
18d ago
Yeah, this has probably been the best thing for Canadian nationalism is my lifetime.
Yeah, military procurement is mind boggling -- sometimes for good reasons, sometimes not so good. Even a single missile is costing at least $100k, sometimes more than a million. And that's only procurement, not the costs of fuel or personnel or maintenance or infrastructure.
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