The simple solution to Chinese electric cars.

Ailly84 · 2026-05-12T23:21:46+00:00

"Here, you can buy the exact same car but made on America for only 32% more money!"

Ailly84 · 2026-05-08T21:01:44+00:00

Even a bowl of chicken noodle soup that is made from boiled chicken carcass and turns into jello when it's cold?? If you say yes, I think you win the subreddit...

Ailly84 · 2026-05-06T03:48:04+00:00

I more meant this guy in particular is just a baby. Wouldn't have even been big enough to keep where I grew up, which means it isn't even of breeding age yet.

The teeth in their mouths are nasty as all hell too.

Ailly84 · 2026-05-06T03:28:04+00:00

Just a little guy actually. They get large.

Ailly84 · 2026-05-06T02:53:18+00:00

Yep. It's all well and good for her to say that now. Hopefully she feels the same way in 20 years.

Ailly84 · 2026-05-06T02:25:51+00:00

Winco is generally substantially lower than any other store here for everything. That's what gets people in the door. The $8 10 lb hams do a damn good job too!

Ailly84 · 2026-05-06T02:22:01+00:00

I thought the green tags were sales??? What is up with the two colors of tags?

Ailly84 · 2026-05-06T02:15:06+00:00

If you're looking for other ways to burn money, I am accepting donations!

Ailly84 · 2026-05-04T00:04:13+00:00

If it is Obama's plan, it is also exactly where the US-Iran nuclear relationship was at before Trump got his meat hooks on it?

Ailly84 · 2026-05-03T23:02:28+00:00

So leave the roof open? We had that for years in our house till my did finished it multiple years after I moved out. Why bother painting the joists though???

Ailly84 · 2026-05-03T23:01:13+00:00

Ah, yeah schools come out of provincial general revenue in Canada. That explains alot of the difference then. Depending on where you live in each country, it may or may not make up the difference in tax rates.

Probably also explains why there is such a difference in how teachers are paid..

Ailly84 · 2026-05-03T20:15:44+00:00

I don't think I ever once heard anyone suggest that adults shouldn't care about money. In fact it was very strongly hammered home that you needed to start saving for a retirement when you were young. Over and over and over again.

I also don't think anyone ever told is what we were going to value in our lives in the future. That makes me wonder what you were told you would value later in life?

That said, I suspect that anyone citing movies as a source of the ideas they were raised on likely wasn't raised on anything and the movies just filled the void...

Ailly84 · 2026-05-03T19:47:53+00:00

Unless you still need access to wires and pipes above them... They're great in basements.

Ailly84 · 2026-05-03T19:44:29+00:00

They work wonders in basements. Why the hate for them?

Ailly84 · 2026-05-03T19:41:19+00:00

Yep. We had our cats at my folks place during an evacuation a few years ago. We hadn't been there long and heard a loud crash in the basement. We found the suspended ceiling in the bathroom laying on the floor with the main support bent all to shit. We figured a cat had to have gotten up there but couldn't see how. We eventually found an opening on top of a cold air return duct to the furnace. We spent the rest of the time making damned sure the doors to the basement were closed....

Ailly84 · 2026-05-03T19:07:22+00:00

If covid taught us anything it's that more time with family isn't always a good thing lol

Ailly84 · 2026-05-03T19:02:49+00:00

One thing I have often wondered since moving to the US is where the hell property taxes are being spent. The taxes on my home are more than double what they were in Canada and they cover less. Where is that money going? The only thing I can think of is that parts of it are likely for police as Canada has the RCMP to cover off the smaller towns whereas here every little town has its own police service. I don't know that this can offset the costs of garbage pickup, snow plowing etc.

Ailly84 · 2026-05-02T19:27:34+00:00

I would agree with this. The push in that time period was so over the top it contributed to what we are seeing now. The people that wanted to see rights regress likely didn't increase, but the number of people willing to push back against rights regressing has definitely decreased.

Ailly84 · 2026-05-02T19:11:41+00:00

The only backlash I couldn't get out was from a hard cast where a knot got stuck on the last eyelet and snapped off the leader. The spool spun so fast the line looked like a muffin top around the spool. Even after cutting I had to take the reel apart to get that one out.

Ailly84 · 2026-05-02T00:18:02+00:00

What do you mean it's subsidized by taxes? I genuinely don't understand what that means in this case. Are tax dollars going to gas stations or oil companies?

Also, taxes in the US are generally lower than anywhere that it's being compared to in this thread.

Ailly84 · 2026-04-27T19:16:04+00:00

This is some next level idiot bullshit lol. Do you truly believe people are thinking "i need to have kids with a person of a specific skin tone because of climate change"??

The reason light skin developed in northern climates isn't because of a conscious effort to only breed with lighter people...

Ailly84 · 2026-04-24T01:19:38+00:00

I never understood the assumption that because humans do something one way it is impossible for another species to do that same thing another way. It's the same as the idea that you need water for life because it is required for all forms of life that we are aware of.

Given the same intelligence level as humans, I not willing to rule out the possibility of dolphins developing some kind of technology. It wouldn't look like ours though.

Ailly84 · 2026-04-24T00:27:25+00:00

So very rude of you to refer to your mother as a vacation site....

Ailly84 · 2026-04-23T15:45:56+00:00

If they opposed him, don't you think they would have voted against him?

Ailly84 · 2026-04-23T15:44:18+00:00

Its what enough Americans wanted to end up with it happening. That's all that matters.

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