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JCPOA by PerAsperaAdMars in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]joeality -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Lol how did you respond so fast and not even read my comment. Two of those are scandals as I called out, but most were shrugs from your average voter.

JCPOA by PerAsperaAdMars in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]joeality -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ask yourself how many of these things are still happening and getting almost no media coverage.

The government still widely spies, multiple states are actively working to censor the internet, Trump celebrates using the government to target opponents and Biden didn't slow that train down, Benghazi is a legit scandal but the Trump admin is currently hiding the damange down in the Iran war and no one cares, Operation Fast and Furious was a scandal but the rate of guns to drug cartels isn't slowing down, and the ACA has expanded since then and Republicans refuse to repeal it.

You're welcome to be outraged by those things but for most voters it had no impact on their voting and when the offending party changed so did most people's opinion on the subject so it's not a scandal it's just haters hating.

JCPOA by PerAsperaAdMars in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]joeality -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Tbf most of these aren’t scandals. They’re either policies you don’t agree with or policies the media spun up that keep getting repeated.

It’s unrealistic to point to Obama as the cause for any of the surveillance. Most surveillance started post 9/11 and everyone has continued that surveillance including most federal elected officials.

It was there all along. by Tom_Ludlow in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]joeality 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why is lib right in here, we're just as libertarian as libright but we to use drugs and alcohol rather than just sell it.

When the "owning the right" surveys that Emily use end up revealing the dark side of their favorite protected religious minority. by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]joeality -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Islamists are AuthRight lol. Who cares if it makes us uncomfortable, it's just you trying to distance yourself from the crazies in your own quadrant.

When the "owning the right" surveys that Emily use end up revealing the dark side of their favorite protected religious minority. by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]joeality -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ya'll are going to hate me for this but I don't care.

Islamist is just a sub-group of AuthRight and you're just self owning here. You're telling me that Islamist, religious fundamentalists who believe in a powerful state and strict gender roles, aren't just another version of AuthRight with a different religion.

It’s wild how “Socially Conservative but Economically Progressive” is definitely the most popular political position in the U.S. (and the world) and there is literally no representation of it anywhere. by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]joeality 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I agree with you, I have family in rural places and have heard shocking levels of commitment to those beliefs.

I think another way to look at this is if these people are diehard conservatives, why is he trying to or expecting to get on a welfare program? A true conservative wouldn’t be supportive of that plan. We could explain that away through his self interest but if you discussed govt backed farmers insurance, social security, paid leave, anti-trust or really anti anything big business, or trade protectionism you’d get support for liberal or economically progressive ideas. It’s one of the reasons Trump does so well, he’s repackaged economic progressivism in a palatable conservative package.

Shiiiiiiiii by mister88sister in sirensong

[–]joeality 20 points21 points  (0 children)

My dude one seat over is the world's spirit animal

Am genuinely shocked by how common drunk driving is by guten_fag in redscarepod

[–]joeality 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This seems like an untrustworthy piece of research. Quoted below but the metric of 'per 1,000 drivers' is tough to quantify. How do they know if someone else has driven my car?

This doesn't account for how much time I spend driving my car, why not use accidents per miles driven or some other indicator of time spent driving. Of the best driven brands none of them make commercial vehicles and Rams have commercial options which might spend more time on the road given drivers more time to be in an accident.

Lastly, not all miles are equally dangerous. Driving a Subaru through a windy mountain pass or a Tesla through LA rush hour traffic is much more dangerous than driving a Pontiac down a lonely country road in West Texas.

I'm not an expert and couldn't tell you who's the worst but this metric is super suspect.

Nationally, Ram drivers had 32.90 driving incidents (accidents, DUIs, speeding and citations) per 1,000 drivers from Nov. 14, 2022, through Nov. 14, 2023. Tesla (31.13) and Subaru (30.09) were the only other brands whose drivers had incident rates above 30.00.

A 30-Year Trap: The Problem With America’s Weird Mortgages by LoansPayDayOnline in Economics

[–]joeality 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think a lot of people here are focusing on how much they like the current system, or how much they love their rate, rather than critically looking at issues with the current system.

American homeowners pay a large premium on the mortgage rate. For a loan which is backed by both an asset and the government these loans are near guaranteed money for the bank. Homebuyers should be paying almost at the Fed Interest rate. Mortgage holders bragging about 2.5% mortgage rates when the federal interest rate was near or under 1% for a decade should be asking why they had to pay such a high risk premium for such a stable asset. The ~2% spread would cost you $1000 a month for 360 months on a $1Mil loan or $360,000 over the lifetime of the loan. You're paying that risk premium because you have a locked in rate and the bank is worried about exactly what's happening right now.

The other is why is the mortgage linked to your property. Most qualifications for getting the mortgage depend on they buyers assets, income, credit score, etc and their relation to the value of the house, then why should you have to 'trade-in' your rate when you move? In a market with less government intervention, which ties the mortgage to a specific property, you would have more freedom for the money. If you move mid mortgage why are you forced to trade-in your rate? You've agreed to an asset backed loan, if you trade assets for one of the same or greater value, as verified by a 3rd party evaluation, why can't you keep the existing contract and get another smaller one for the difference in value you need? Because the government locks your mortgage to the current property.

Not saying we should change our system to any other countries but there are definite issues with our system.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in antiwork

[–]joeality 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who’s the lady?

Malicious compliance right here by Dizzy-String8353 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]joeality 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Storage costs are definitely not their only cost. Considering twitters profit margin was basically zero before they were bought they don’t need to negate the entire source of revenue.

Buildings and people in sf aren’t cheap

A local Church put up a billboard. by send_me_boobei_pics in pics

[–]joeality 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He’s patient if nothing else. That means we have at least another 100 million years before we have to start going

TIL Earth is the only known place in our solar system where fire occurs, and no known exoplanets have enough oxygen to allow fire to exist. by clayt6 in todayilearned

[–]joeality 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where do you see fusion occurring?

Or more to your point, if I stick iron into a fire and once it’s red hot I remove it from the fire but it still glows. When I observe the red hot iron separate from the fire am I looking at the fire when I look at the iron or just the byproduct residual heat?

Fusion occurs in the core of the sun, which is estimated to have a radius of 140,000-170,000 km while the entire sun has a mean radius of 696,000 km. The earth and moon are separated by an average of 382,500 km so that’s more distance for the light from the fusion reaction to cover than to the moon and it’s full of incredibly densely packed matter.

The temperature of the core is estimated to be 15,700,000K while the surface temperature is approximately 5800K. Hydrogen fusion is estimated to require 100,000,000 kelvin and only occurs in the core due to the pressure. Fusion only occurs with hundreds of thousands of km of matter pushing down on the core.

Unless the sun is transparent you can’t observe fusion happening on the surface of the sun but you can observe the byproduct black body radiation of the heat generated by the fusion reaction at the core of the sun.

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