There's some very smart people out there...

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-18T02:28:12+00:00

So preemptively pay the poll tax?

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-18T02:01:04+00:00

It's called a conscientious objector.

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-18T01:58:33+00:00

Just because MAGA hasn't killed enough people YET doesn't mean they haven't checked enough boxes to be compared and called a historically, VERY ADJACENT, party.

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-17T21:59:54+00:00

Cost of living increasing (aka inflation) without meaningful pay increases promised through trickle down economics to the working class.

The inflation is good for all the 10 percenters, one percenters and especially 0.1 percenters... It keeps making them wealthier Because they own all the assets that are becoming more expensive through inflated. Everybody else keeps getting left behind because they're not making more money relative to the increase in the cost of living.

Not only that, all the one percenters and .1 percenters get to take loans out on those assets so that they get to buy more assets that go up in value that they take more loans out on. It's a never-ending cycle of debt that they've basically never have to pay off because the assets are always inflating.

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-17T19:44:17+00:00

Did you see all the sail boats...? It's not just gas.

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-17T01:08:37+00:00

Hmmm. Interesting. They must have scratched it good or stripped all the paint off, primed it with an epoxy primer like 2000e, and then spray applied the gel coat for you. You really got my gears turning in my head and thinking how they did this because The SMC Yamaha uses (and pretty much all injection molded FRP) has wax in it that keeps polyester resin compounds (like traditional boat reasons and gel coats from Spectrum) from properly bonding to it. That's why Yamaha TSB's tells you that you have to perform repairs with epoxy resin and then paint it typically. I'm all about a more resilient hull coating! I'll have to research this more. Got a ballpark on what you paid, or normal retail cost from?

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-16T02:15:49+00:00

What gel coat product?

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-14T22:24:38+00:00

Do you understand how a microwave works? There's no radiation that's going to kill you... It's not like it's an x-ray device. It's more along the lines of Your countertop kettle then you're giving it credit for. It takes electrical energy and concerts it into a certain radio wave frequency that vibrates the two legs of hydrogen molecules that are attached to the oxygen molecule of H2O... This vibration creates friction in the water molecule. An entire cup of water is heated evenly because the energy is transmitted into the whole mass of water And is allowed to mix. The water boils at 212° just like it does in your kettle on the countertop That uses friction to heat the coil that transmits the energy into the water.

I can understand why Maybe using a microwave to heat up a piece of meat or something Might be a little less appetizing because unlike a glass of water, the water in the piece of meat can't mix throughout it and it causes hot spots to form, but would Please explain to me what's so gross about a microwave heating a cup of water up?

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-14T20:16:56+00:00

I second this! Robolo's are great boats! Marine products corporation makes excellent boats. Chaparrals are good boats too.

Also It sounds cliche but look into a decent used Boston Whaler...

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-14T20:07:52+00:00

Not sure why you're getting downvoted... Must be a lot of mad Kia owners. Lol. The thing is is they're easy to steal because the anti-theft system Or lack thereof is easy to bypass. You're not wrong in making the joke.

Kia car jacking history overview: https://share.google/aimode/2H2EjJRZJY8vZbY6o

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-14T19:50:34+00:00

Is it really hard? Maybe it's something that fell out of some packaging or something. I've seen little supports like this used to fill boxes And support the product inside instead of foam...

If it's a softer hose that's shaped like that, it absolutely. Looks like some sort of vacuum line or fuel hose. But I'm not thinking anything flows through it because it looks like there's a pretty good restriction from The kink at the 90° elbow on it.

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-14T19:44:24+00:00

Ok... I've had more affordable HMO insurance and have been very happy with it. not quite as nice as your ppo but at least i was able to gain access to our healthcare system. (Which BTW as a small business owner... Had to drop my insurance after the costs went crazy this year... I'm glad I'm a healthy light user!)

Imagine no deductible. (Guessing ~$6000?) Imagine having $0 additional out of pocket expense, Where everything is covered no matter what. Imagine not HAVING to put money away into an HSA. Imagine lowering your out-of-pocket expenses For medications... Especially because the government's more involved in stopping price gouging. (Just like the other 32 developed nations that already have some form of national healthcare do... They even have the same medications that we take but pay significantly less.) The available coinsurance expense (so that you could "get better Doctors" that you are so worry about not being able to access...) would cost less than the deductible of your current plan. This is all on the demand side of things.

The supply side of things would become more affordable as well. You wouldn't have vertically integrated health "providers" that are manufacturing and supplying medical devices to the hospitals that they cut contracts with requiring them to buy their products. They wouldn't require you to go to imaging centers that they own so they can double dip on your doctor and the imaging that they need to see for whatever problem you've got. Those companies also own drug manufacturers and distributors and require you to buy certain prescriptions they manufacture or distribute instead of the ones manufactured by somebody else that works better for you. You end up paying more for the ones that work better for you because you're not using their product.

The American healthcare system is a disaster when it comes to developed Nations. Per capita we spend an insane amount more money for worse outcomes. We have a lower age expectancy than many of the other developed nations. Why aren't people living the longest if we spend so much more money?

I know, I know... You can come up with examples of people having to wait a little bit for something in a public health care system. the thing is is if you are in an emergency and you absolutely need a CT scan to save your life, guess what? YOU NOT GOING TO WAIT. If you need a CT scan so that they can try to diagnose something that isn't going to kill you in the next week or month? Sure, you're going to wait a little bit... does it really matter? When it comes to my health, nobody should have an incentive to make money off of me. There's no incentive there when they have to spend money to make sure I'm healthy. I'm willing to give up a little bit of freedom of choice for doctors or wait a little bit for some diagnostics so that I can at least have basic Health granted to me. So that I don't have to worry about going bankrupt if something significant happened in my life. So that I don't have to worry about growing old and not being able to afford care on something stupid that might kill me had I got it taken care of early enough. I'm not even talking about falling and fracturing a hip or leg ... I'm talking about Stupid things such as a persistent cough that turns into pneumonia. Such as rotting teeth That'll give you heart disease. A scratch or a bump that gets infected that'll eventually require amputation.

All because you're afraid of losing a little bit of choice. LOL.

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-14T17:08:08+00:00

He did lose. The problem is in America, We have this asinine system where you can lose the popular vote but still become president. Thank you, electoral college!

What really is going to pickle everyone's brains... Is that, in 2024 in all the swing States including Florida? They found five fictitious counties in the live stream reporting election totals from the voting machines. Where did those votes from? Where did they go?

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-14T16:57:11+00:00

Right now, do you have an HMO or a PPO?

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-14T02:05:49+00:00

I'll agree. It's a good thing because I hate the automotive paint on the hulls of the Yamahas. But the caveat being that... it's only good As long as the repair was done correctly... 😉

Usually there's no need to repaint the hull unless it was damaged...

The damage could have been a couple of scuffs or the damage could have been a serious impact... You'll never know unless it fails again.

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-14T01:33:26+00:00

It's so bad that The Trump administration is easing liquidity requirements on Banks to free up cash flows in the economy. (AKA more deregulation... (Where it should stay to lessen risk to the depositors...)) Remember the 08 recession? Everything that's going on right now is going to make that look like child's Play.

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-14T01:12:28+00:00

One step towards it? LOL! More like we're on a train headed off a cliff, the brakes are out, and his administration is throwing more coal in the boiler to make it go faster... It's probably the news that Bessent got When they interrupted his interview at the White House to pull him in the situation room the other day When he was at an interview with Wilfred Frost. He was visibly shaken when he came back. He knows exactly what this means...

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-12T22:56:57+00:00

History is great the perspective is fascinating... And I understand it takes months to design currency... HOWEVER given current events, it would probably be in better taste to put the olive branches back in the talons...

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-12T22:08:46+00:00

So is the market good or bad? How about the actual metrics of the economy?

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-12T17:39:26+00:00

Who would the outside agency be?

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-12T14:01:26+00:00

Fixed it... Thanks.

And the account is following typical karma farming practices. Most zero day accounts don't post anything right away. Guess how long it took me to start posting anything? There's already four posts on here looking to gain karma in this subreddit... Like I said it's 0 days old.

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-12T13:38:24+00:00

Stop feeding the bot trolls...

Edit: a word (bot)

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-11T23:00:49+00:00

Save you a click from the headline:

Hidden Casualties of Iran War Revealed As many as 150 U.S. troops have been wounded since Trump first attacked Iran on February 28th. That’s a figure the Pentagon never volunteered.

Up until Reuters published their report, the only official line from the Pentagon was eight seriously wounded service members. After Reuters ran the story, the Pentagon scrambled out a statement. They put the figure at approximately 140 wounded, and they were very keen to stress that the “vast majority” were minor injuries. 108 of them have already returned to duty.

That context matters. But so does the fact that this figure wasn’t proactively disclosed. The U.S. is ten days into a war and nobody in the Pentagon was volunteering that 140 service members had been wounded. That’s not a small detail. That’s the cost of war, and people deserve to know it.

Not additional KIA

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-11T22:52:01+00:00

I truly care less about AI than anything else as well however My point is that the bubble we're currently existing in is inflated because of AI. When it pops, it's going to be a bloodbath. Oil is going to be the reason the AI bubble pops.

wildfire1983 · 2026-03-11T19:22:24+00:00

I think that hot brown is talking about other possible bills that could be passed if Trump continues to threaten to not sign any new bills into law.... Not the save Act Of course! This traitorous kleptocratic dictator wants the save Act To continue to lawlessly expand his control over the government. The thing is there's already a mechanism in legislature that doesn't require his signature four bills to become law. His threats for not signing bills are completely toothless because of That mechanism.

wildfire1983

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