I think it is 2-fold: they're retarded, and they think we're even dumber than they are.
There is a door for a filter and drain on the front, but the pump itself isn't accessible at all and the debris made it past the filter. It's a front loader.
I was looking and the number of vehicles with 300,000km asking over 10k and sometimes over 20k was like "what?"
Then I looked at the price of new vehicles and it was like "holy shit...."
I think it all goes back to 2008 in two ways
First, cash for clunkers meant that they took a bunch of viable low end used vehicles and destroyed them. I've been thinking lately about that phrase "the wealth of nations" and I can't help but think that part of that wealth is the accumulated stuff that has already been manufactured and just needs to be maintained. A bunch of used cars on the road might not seem like a big deal, but those are all tools that somebody can go out and use to make their life better. Destruction of those tools is the destruction of the wealth of the nation, even if they aren't wonderful luxury cars that everyone wants to be driving around in.
The way that the government burecrats focus on GDP can be easily refuted. Think about a scenario where your grandfather bequeathed to you a piece of land. The land was completely undeveloped, had nothing on it. You chop down some trees on it, and with artisanal skill alone build a house on that property. Then you pass it off to your kids, and they have built up even greater artisanal skill and so they keep the household there, but dig up rock and build a giant castle, a mansion made out of stone. And maybe the quarry on your property that they used to get the stone for the castle it turns into a fine little lake, and a generation or two later, the same family is living there, maybe they are planning food and living off that food, and maybe some eagles dropped some fish into the lake and they spawned and now you can fish in that lake, and you have a property with a house and a castle and some farmland and lake, that was nothing before. What is the GDP of this piece of land? Well the answer is zero. In spite of the fact that it went from being a completely undeveloped piece of land to a highly developed piece of land no money ever changed hands and so the GDP is zero. Now would you say that that family with a GDP of zero has less wealth than a family renting an apartment in the ghetto? The family in the ghetto likely has a GDP of several thousand dollars, maybe $20,000 maybe more, money is coming in and going out, so according to the economist the family with the castle is doing terribly and the family in the ghetto is much richer. But who would choose to live in the ghetto when they could choose to live in the castle?
Second thing that 2008 did is driving interest rates down to basically nothing. That's why people are willing to take out 84 months loans on a car, because it's 84 months at basically no interest. Let's see if people are quite so excited to take on such a commitment with 10% annual interest rates, or 20%. The availability of money made it easier to borrow more, and made it easier to borrow longer. As a result every shit box suddenly became a lot more expensive.
I didn't realize how bad it was in North America until someone showed me some of the used car market in europe. You can still get a shitbox car for a thousand Euros there. The sort of thing you'd brag about driving? Probably not. But it's Wheels, and that can change a lot...
Then I looked at the price of new vehicles and it was like "holy shit...."
I think it all goes back to 2008 in two ways
First, cash for clunkers meant that they took a bunch of viable low end used vehicles and destroyed them. I've been thinking lately about that phrase "the wealth of nations" and I can't help but think that part of that wealth is the accumulated stuff that has already been manufactured and just needs to be maintained. A bunch of used cars on the road might not seem like a big deal, but those are all tools that somebody can go out and use to make their life better. Destruction of those tools is the destruction of the wealth of the nation, even if they aren't wonderful luxury cars that everyone wants to be driving around in.
The way that the government burecrats focus on GDP can be easily refuted. Think about a scenario where your grandfather bequeathed to you a piece of land. The land was completely undeveloped, had nothing on it. You chop down some trees on it, and with artisanal skill alone build a house on that property. Then you pass it off to your kids, and they have built up even greater artisanal skill and so they keep the household there, but dig up rock and build a giant castle, a mansion made out of stone. And maybe the quarry on your property that they used to get the stone for the castle it turns into a fine little lake, and a generation or two later, the same family is living there, maybe they are planning food and living off that food, and maybe some eagles dropped some fish into the lake and they spawned and now you can fish in that lake, and you have a property with a house and a castle and some farmland and lake, that was nothing before. What is the GDP of this piece of land? Well the answer is zero. In spite of the fact that it went from being a completely undeveloped piece of land to a highly developed piece of land no money ever changed hands and so the GDP is zero. Now would you say that that family with a GDP of zero has less wealth than a family renting an apartment in the ghetto? The family in the ghetto likely has a GDP of several thousand dollars, maybe $20,000 maybe more, money is coming in and going out, so according to the economist the family with the castle is doing terribly and the family in the ghetto is much richer. But who would choose to live in the ghetto when they could choose to live in the castle?
Second thing that 2008 did is driving interest rates down to basically nothing. That's why people are willing to take out 84 months loans on a car, because it's 84 months at basically no interest. Let's see if people are quite so excited to take on such a commitment with 10% annual interest rates, or 20%. The availability of money made it easier to borrow more, and made it easier to borrow longer. As a result every shit box suddenly became a lot more expensive.
I didn't realize how bad it was in North America until someone showed me some of the used car market in europe. You can still get a shitbox car for a thousand Euros there. The sort of thing you'd brag about driving? Probably not. But it's Wheels, and that can change a lot...
I lucked out that the brake work I needed to do wasn't so bad.
But you're right, I bet a lot of stuff that should be insignificant results in people buying new cars -- or washers.
But you're right, I bet a lot of stuff that should be insignificant results in people buying new cars -- or washers.
Had to tear my washer apart to do a repair. It really helped me understand how everything is designed to be disposable.
I was getting a drain fault code, the washer wasn't working at all. The correct method to repair is to take the top off, the front off, then unbolt the pump to get at the drain pump on the side of the pump assembly. All so I could undo 3 screws and take out a clump of fuzz that was clogging up the pump. How many people would just assume the washer was dead and buy a new one for a clump of fuzz?
I had to do some pretty interesting gymnastics to get to the pump from the bottom, but after a whole bunch of work I got to the drain pump and sure enough, it was just a piece of felt stopping my new washer from running correctly.
You know.... The drain pump is a known failure mode of this thing. In a sane world, there'd be a little door you can open to access it. Nope, not in clown world, you're expected to take the entire thing apart to remove three screws and lift the pump head off.
I was getting a drain fault code, the washer wasn't working at all. The correct method to repair is to take the top off, the front off, then unbolt the pump to get at the drain pump on the side of the pump assembly. All so I could undo 3 screws and take out a clump of fuzz that was clogging up the pump. How many people would just assume the washer was dead and buy a new one for a clump of fuzz?
I had to do some pretty interesting gymnastics to get to the pump from the bottom, but after a whole bunch of work I got to the drain pump and sure enough, it was just a piece of felt stopping my new washer from running correctly.
You know.... The drain pump is a known failure mode of this thing. In a sane world, there'd be a little door you can open to access it. Nope, not in clown world, you're expected to take the entire thing apart to remove three screws and lift the pump head off.
The heart of many fallen empires often stop believing in governments altogether, and so different structures take over. It's one reason why the mafia is so powerful in italy.
As I mentioned, yes the "beautiful ones" who groom and groom but never actually leave are one group, but the group that go around attacking anyone still trying to keep the mouse population from dying out are the really interesting ones, and very few people point out that we've got entire groups of people advocating for genocide of the human race at this point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTDTVbourzU
This guy does great videos and some of the details he mentions I've never heard before and they're chillingly accurate to our current society. Everyone focuses on the beautiful ones, but nobody mentions the genocidal ones.
This guy does great videos and some of the details he mentions I've never heard before and they're chillingly accurate to our current society. Everyone focuses on the beautiful ones, but nobody mentions the genocidal ones.
Going out for a drive today I was thinking about it a lot, you see a lot of buildings, and I really question whether we could build those buildings today. Imagine these multi-story buildings made out of red brick, that's not how we build buildings anymore, we just put up some made in China girders, slap some made in China siding on it, fill it with made in China insulation, and Pat our cells on the back as to how great we are.
You look at multi-story red brick buildings, and I just don't know if we as a civilization are capable of doing this thing anymore. Most of the people who built these things are either retiring, retired, or long dead.
Talking about it now, it reminds me of the archaeological remains of the Harappan civilization. Archaeologists were able to tell the decline of the civilization because they went from being extremely well kept and well regulated and doing the right things and doing things in a sophisticated manner to later on being a lot sloppier in the way that they do things, not following rules that obviously existed before, and doing things in an increasingly less sophisticated manner until the civilization just up and disappeared one day.
The bronze age collapse is relatively unique in the fact that over the course of such a short period of time so many major civilizations completely disappeared, but that doesn't mean that it's the first or last time civilizations will collapse. Just a little while before the Western Roman empire collapsed people didn't remotely think that it could ever happen, they just thought that the empire would last forever. Until it didn't... On the other hand, from an anthropological perspective, it was quite obvious that the Roman empire had fallen from its peak...
You look at multi-story red brick buildings, and I just don't know if we as a civilization are capable of doing this thing anymore. Most of the people who built these things are either retiring, retired, or long dead.
Talking about it now, it reminds me of the archaeological remains of the Harappan civilization. Archaeologists were able to tell the decline of the civilization because they went from being extremely well kept and well regulated and doing the right things and doing things in a sophisticated manner to later on being a lot sloppier in the way that they do things, not following rules that obviously existed before, and doing things in an increasingly less sophisticated manner until the civilization just up and disappeared one day.
The bronze age collapse is relatively unique in the fact that over the course of such a short period of time so many major civilizations completely disappeared, but that doesn't mean that it's the first or last time civilizations will collapse. Just a little while before the Western Roman empire collapsed people didn't remotely think that it could ever happen, they just thought that the empire would last forever. Until it didn't... On the other hand, from an anthropological perspective, it was quite obvious that the Roman empire had fallen from its peak...
I shot a home invader in the face today.
I was pretty bummed out about it
But then I realized I was happier shooting him in the face than he would have been with my stuff, and the total happiness in the world increased.
So whatever.
I was pretty bummed out about it
But then I realized I was happier shooting him in the face than he would have been with my stuff, and the total happiness in the world increased.
So whatever.
That's cuz you ain't on that grind mindset. You get on the grind, you become a bunch of people's agent, grind grind grind, you get 10%, profit.
They're just a symptom of the problem, quality of life for the common Man has been precipitously dropping for a long time, and they're they're doing whatever they can think of to try to fight back.
Now I can already hear you saying "that's crazy these people won't help them!" And your very likely right, but they've tried the other alternative. Obama got in, he basically destroyed the Republican party by winning so hard, he even had a supermajority in the Senate, and instead of people's lives getting better, they got someone telling them that their lives were getting better while they actually got markedly worse.
That's where you end up with some really weird stuff, like in 2016 a lot of the people who voted Trump would have in the alternative voted for Bernie Sanders. The key with both of them not being a common ideology obviously, but the fact that there were both perceived as considerably different than the political orthodoxy that had failed them.
The cure for politicians like that is really simple but not easy to implement: the working and middle classes need to feel like they've got a pathway to a normal life. As things stand, entire generations aren't having kids because they're struggling so much just to keep a roof over their heads and food in their bellies. Without addressing this root cause, politics is going to get much uglier than you can possibly imagine, you'll look back on these halcyon days with fondness. And that's not just for america, that's for Europe as well where the youth are in bad shape in a lot of countries.
Now I can already hear you saying "that's crazy these people won't help them!" And your very likely right, but they've tried the other alternative. Obama got in, he basically destroyed the Republican party by winning so hard, he even had a supermajority in the Senate, and instead of people's lives getting better, they got someone telling them that their lives were getting better while they actually got markedly worse.
That's where you end up with some really weird stuff, like in 2016 a lot of the people who voted Trump would have in the alternative voted for Bernie Sanders. The key with both of them not being a common ideology obviously, but the fact that there were both perceived as considerably different than the political orthodoxy that had failed them.
The cure for politicians like that is really simple but not easy to implement: the working and middle classes need to feel like they've got a pathway to a normal life. As things stand, entire generations aren't having kids because they're struggling so much just to keep a roof over their heads and food in their bellies. Without addressing this root cause, politics is going to get much uglier than you can possibly imagine, you'll look back on these halcyon days with fondness. And that's not just for america, that's for Europe as well where the youth are in bad shape in a lot of countries.
Considering that the largest purveyors of hate by a wide margin are neomarxists, you'd expect such laws to specifically affect neomarxists, but because neomarxists are in charge, doing things like burning down churches or long racist diatribes about why certain races are evil are totally acceptable as long as they're acceptable within a neomarxist lens.
In Canada, which has had hate legislation for decades, when a bunch of catholic churches were burned down, the government's response wasn't "this is unacceptable we will find you and punish you", it was "we understand why you did it"
In Canada, which has had hate legislation for decades, when a bunch of catholic churches were burned down, the government's response wasn't "this is unacceptable we will find you and punish you", it was "we understand why you did it"
My invidious stopped working, and when I dug into it it turned out it hadn't been updating for like a year. I had to do the following as the user that compiles invidious to get it to work:
rm -rf ~/.cache/{crystal,shards}
rm -rf ~/.cache/{crystal,shards}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptW0pKkTazQ
I got called an idiot for saying GOG is the best store, but I still have all my backed up games whether GOG likes it or not, and if steam disappears tomorrow I lose all those games whether I like it or not.
Razzorfist a couple years ago pointed it out, if you can't get media you control (either in the form of physical media like old game consoles or in the form of DRM-Free downloads like GOG), you didn't buy that game, you're just renting it and it'll stop being yours the moment it is more convenient for them to do so.
I got called an idiot for saying GOG is the best store, but I still have all my backed up games whether GOG likes it or not, and if steam disappears tomorrow I lose all those games whether I like it or not.
Razzorfist a couple years ago pointed it out, if you can't get media you control (either in the form of physical media like old game consoles or in the form of DRM-Free downloads like GOG), you didn't buy that game, you're just renting it and it'll stop being yours the moment it is more convenient for them to do so.
Honestly, the fact that these countries are still relying on US infrastructure for that stuff is kinda damning. I wonder if the future will be really fundamentally different because once the US infrastructure collapses (and I do think it will eventually) we don't have evidence that it'll be replaced with anything new.