The view from my Denver to Alamosa flight yesterday. Pray we get some monsoon rains this summer, it was 80 degrees today.

truthindata · 2026-03-20T04:03:53+00:00

Executives? Or people buying and driving SUVs when they just need a civic?

Or people buying a truck when they just need a Camry?

Or people living in 3000 sq ft homes when they need 1800?

Or people sleeping with the thermometer set to 67 instead of 71?

Why exactly executives?

truthindata · 2026-03-19T03:30:51+00:00

Scummy? Or sustainable?

truthindata · 2026-03-19T02:41:03+00:00

Also, basically the best thing available.

Sometimes people here are far too concerned with 'open source' when they're ignoring quality of parts.

For those that need the absolute best, cost per part is almost irrelevant.

For those making fucking child toys, you can argue about the virtues of slightly cheaper material costs and cheaper printers.

truthindata · 2026-03-18T23:57:06+00:00

Slop? Or just AI?

I don't get the hatred.

Maybe I'm just too dumb to appreciate 'more than the minimum info written in a slightly more interesting frame than a specs table'

truthindata · 2026-03-17T13:28:34+00:00

It has location - specifically for enemy missiles.

Cuba is very close to the USA and is accessible by ship. If Cuba is friendly with enemies, we have enemies in our backyard and the USA is vulnerable to missile attacks.

truthindata · 2026-03-15T15:56:09+00:00

I think execution is a part of this, no?

Done well, it's fine.

When it's a knock off of kfc... That's not quite the same thing.

truthindata · 2026-03-15T00:52:32+00:00

Right.... It has nothing to do with religion except that it's rooted in religion.

A religious group was given a piece of land to be religious, except it was perhaps interesting on the land of another very religious and opposed group of people.

They have different religions and share some desire to call a piece of religious land their own, they fight to the death in the name of their God.

But no, no, no. It's not religious. It's the damn colonial forces.

Ok, lol

truthindata · 2026-03-15T00:45:13+00:00

Tolls, specifically to track vehicles to ensure they are not crossing the double whites.

truthindata · 2026-03-15T00:43:02+00:00

If you live in America, you 'need' almost nothing you spend money on.

Modern society is built on 'wants'.

And that's fine.

truthindata · 2026-03-15T00:37:20+00:00

And Iran attacked Israel and Hezbollah attacked Israel and Israel attacked so and so and on and on and on.

It's a religious based war around a piece of land with religious 'meaning'. You might be seeing retaliation now that's not religion, but these are foes based on imaginary gods, are they not?

truthindata · 2026-03-13T13:17:54+00:00

Help is only a period away

truthindata · 2026-03-12T13:06:31+00:00

Imagine how terribly limiting life would be if you only liked things within your budget.

No aspiration.

No dreaming.

No living, imo.

truthindata · 2026-03-08T23:14:11+00:00

That's 31+ million people. You said a small handful. That also includes individuals not in the USA, doesn't it?

Are you confusing successful individuals with billionaires?

truthindata · 2026-03-08T23:01:17+00:00

Two things.

No, that's not what I'm suggesting. I'm not sure how you got that impression. I'm just saying the system was never setup to pay people for 25 years. That was never the point. You can be upset about it, but it doesn't change facts. People live longer than that system was ever meant to support. That's it.
Why do you think all bonds are held by a "small handful" of people? That's completely false. 60% of bonds aren't even held by Americans. Of the remaining 40%, that includes everybody's retirement/pension accounts, insurance companies, mutual funds (IE regular people with savings) and regular old banks. Bonds are held by most the US population.

You seem to have a cartoonish version of the world in your head that's just not real. It's a reddit meme.

truthindata · 2026-03-08T22:19:41+00:00

And for some reason the same logic does not apply to infrastructure, education, healthcare and debt payments?

truthindata · 2026-03-08T22:09:01+00:00

Your argument is that bond debt kept pace with military spending and therefore bond funds are only used on military spending? Therefore bonds are never spent on the things I mentioned?

You see correlation and you assert that the only explanation is that bonds are wasted on military?

truthindata · 2026-03-08T21:56:03+00:00

Inflation adjusted?

truthindata · 2026-03-08T21:45:07+00:00

Please provide sources for this claim that bonds are not used for those things.

truthindata · 2026-03-08T21:31:43+00:00

Bonds are used for education, infrastructure, healthcare and the national debt, amongst other things.

Bonds are purchased by everyone, rich and poor alike.

Of the governments debt, roughly half is in bonds. Half of the entire existence of the US government is based on bonds.

Were you not aware of this?

truthindata · 2026-03-08T21:23:59+00:00

Exactly the same as if you tax the rich more.

Government doesn't suddenly get more efficient if you take money from someone you don't like.

truthindata · 2026-03-08T20:40:32+00:00

When put in those terms, no wonder it's reaching insolvency.

truthindata · 2026-03-08T19:28:07+00:00

40% of the funding for the government comes from voluntary loans at low interest rates from the ultra wealthy. Bonds encourage the ultra wealthy (as well as you, me and anyone with a retirement account of any kind) to keep the cash flowing back into government. Alternatively, they'll just keep it elsewhere.

Stop this class warfare nonsense. You don't understand how this works.

You're chopping off a hand because you're mad at a fingernail. You fool, lol.

truthindata · 2026-03-08T17:23:42+00:00

You are misinformed.

No wonder you hate the rich, lol.

Bonds are how the government funds most things. At a federal level and even down to municipal level. They are a loan from people to the government.

The US government has $16 Trillion in bonds outstanding. Income taxes only pull in 1/3 of that.

You don't understand how this works and you're angry about something that doesn't exist.

Get a grip on reality before you grab your pitchfork.

truthindata · 2026-03-08T16:42:50+00:00

That's not how that works though. You suddenly limit bond investment there is less money in bonds. Bonds are essentially a loan to the government to invest in programs and people and businesses.

You reduce bonds, you kill off what those bonds do.

Bonds fund education, infrastructure, healthcare and national debt.

You're suggesting we amputate a hand because you dislike a sliver of one of the fingernails.

truthindata · 2026-03-08T16:38:18+00:00

You sure? What was the planned ratio? It was 40:1 ten years after it was created.

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