Put some #1 spice on all them cheeseburgers being served in the white house.

Not so much racism as much as laughing at the stupidity of someone more or less supporting the extermination of other people like himself IMO

shorter than we were in the 2019 shutdown.

Ah, so there was a shutdown in 2019 as well. Anyone know if there was anything in common between 2019 and 2025? In, idk the American government or something? Any important people in common between 2019 and 2025?

Absolutely agree. Push the Democratic party as far left as it’ll go, because a new party would be splitting the center-left and left vote between two parties and we know what that does. Primary the old guard dems where possible, rather than competing with them in the actual elections.

Staten Island so crazy that R* didn’t know how to make fun of it in GTA IV and just left it out.

Waiting for it to kick in

Wait, that’s viagra. Cialis you can just take hours before

I’m assuming city council is going to be his biggest obstacle?

I reckon it’s possible, though not easy, to use that to his advantage the next time IF he does a decent enough job his first term. Keep people informed that some backwards-ass council members are voting against good policies, so the people know to vote them out next time. I hope Mamdani’s the great communicator he seems to be. A huge reason for people’s indifference and the whole “both parties are the same” issue that greatly benefits Republicans, is that people aren’t really informed about who’s voted for what. Inform people about just a few key votes that matter to them, and they may be more active in the primaries (to hopefully swap out their own party’s uninspiring old candidate for fresh blood) as well as eventually in the elections themselves.

56 million dollars is pocket change for a single billionaire. It’s less than that for a multitude of billionaires.

On the other side of the ocean, plenty of people not even living on the same continent are cheering for Mamdani. Not because the mayor of NYC affects us directly, but because 1) he’s awesome and 2) if change starts with this mayoral election, tide may yet turn for the US as a whole. And of course 3) NYC is overly romanticized thanks to the American media my generation grew up on here in post-soviet Eastern Europe, plus it is awesome to visit. Maybe with Mamdani it can be awesome to live in again as well.

And Argentina is not even their only option at this point. Trump will uninstall Maduro and install someone else, maybe Machado. Then the 21st century nazis have a friend in Venezuela as well.

Writing from a 7 year old Thinkpad I got this year as a backup computer. Could do with a RAM upgrade because I find it using swap often, but actually it’s still pretty fast. Best chassis quality I’ve seen outside of Macbooks - and I’ve touched thousands of laptops, I used to refurb them for a bulk refurb company. I intentionally got the first generation where Intel got their heads out of their asses and gave us 4 cores on i5 and i7 U-series, since it was a significant performance bump from the previous gen, but still very cheap compared to newer ones.

I use Arch NixOS btw.

Ohhh there are so many options here!

The app is often more important than the adapter at this point. Some marques have bad 3rd party app support unfortunately (looking at you, Subaru). Others have pretty great support (BimmerLink is adapter-agnostic, though they recommend using a high quality one and they have an affiliate deal of some kind with one manufacturer they recommend)

Personally I own a Chinese fake VCDS cable for <20 euros that allows me to do literal magic on anything VW, Audi, SEAT, Škoda… and could probably do a few things on modern Lamborghini and Bentley as well. Mysteriously, Porsche is the least supported out of all the VAG marques - they insist on having their own electronics. If I ever buy another VAG car, I’ll probably buy a genuine adapter to support the company behind it. I also own a Chinese fake Delphi DS150E clone, but at this point I don’t think it’s as great as it was 5-6 years ago. It doesn’t get cars newer than 2013. Plus it’s still missing some crucial things on some cars between 2000 and 2013. And outright missing some models.

Then there’s options like iCarsoft. More expensive than just an adapter and an app, but you get pretty great support for a lot of different marques. A lot more than some cheaper generic options.

And finally, marque-specific solutions. BimmerLink and VCDS I already mentioned, then there’s GAP for Land Rover, etc. Worth investing in if you’ve got a car you’re going to keep for a long time and want to be sure you can do stuff like air suspension ride height sensor calibration and all kinds of other procedures that generic tools might not have for your vehicle.

I used to think like you, but then my time became worth money. It’s no longer such a clear cut case.

If I spent even 100 hours a year working on my car, that’s now several thousand euros. More than a year’s worth of lease payments on a brand new budget vehicle or (and this is my preference) a 3 year old executive car. And at the end of the lease I have the option to buy it for what’s likely significantly under market value and then either keep driving it, or sell it immediately to recoup some of the depreciation.

Then consider that with the new vehicle you can get full coverage insurance which isn’t even available on a 20 year old vehicle (and full coverage gives you peace of mind that if YOU fuck up or an animal fucks your car up, you get the residual value back). This occurred to me when my friend’s old, around 1000 euros worth car slipped into a ditch in the winter. Its value just dropped by half and there’s nothing to do about it. If it’d been their significantly newer car, it would’ve been a 350 euro copay to get it repaired or totalled and paid out. My car at the time was worth around 3k and if I’d totaled it by either driving into a ditch in the winter or hit a moose, I would’ve been out of a car and out of money. My next car after that was a lease and if something would’ve happened to it, insurance would’ve made me whole. In fact I got a brand new OEM Mercedes windscreen fitted for free, no copay since it’s usually 0% for windows. That alone was worth over a year of insurance payments.

Currently I’m back to driving a shitbox. Nice car attracted gold digger, gold digger ruined finances, now I’m living as cheaply as possible. But the shitbox life is not great either - I’m going to have to either change the transmission on mine to keep it going another few years, or sell it for a loss compared to what I paid for it just 5 months ago. This is after I’ve already done brakes, belts and some electrical work. Sunk cost fallacy becomes way too real way too quickly on cheap used cars.

To be fair by 2010 they’d been owned by Ford for a decade and then in 2010 were sold to Geely, the Chinese parent company. From everything I hear, the quality actually has gone up under Geely, compared to Ford, which was easily the worst era of Volvo. Personally I still like RWD Volvo bricks, but of course they’re not as safe or efficient as modern cars.

Look, I’ll go out there and say it.

Cars are just an afterthought on the heater core. That’s why it’s called the heater CORE and also why you need to disassemble half the damn car to get to it.

My 2003 E-Class remains the best car I’ve ever owned, except for one annoying fault that kept coming back with reman parts and new part availability was shit - the steering rack. I do fully believe I just had bad luck with the reman units personally, but it made me sell the car. It had almost 400k km on it at the time and still drove beautifully. Of course I replaced some ball joints and two lower control arms and a few other things… But that’s natural.

I’m round 250k miles on my car (admittedly, not American so it’s actually a bit over 400k km) and it’s not even the most kilometers I’ve had on a car.

Buy something with an engine and transmission that are known to last that doesn’t have known rust issues, take care of it, and it will take care of you. You of course seem to have realized it already.

They may actually be scared to mention it at this point.

He’ll also continue to prioritize corporations over humans because they’re people too and they’re richer people. Is what I mean by not a leftist.

He’ll make the money in presidential campaign donations, I’m sure he’ll find a way to profit. He’s better than the Trump crowd for sure, but he’s no leftist.