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Cake day: February 16th, 2025

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  • I’m not sure how VAT equivocates to tax tag and title here in the US, but for $35,000 car it should still be less than $1000. I pay a bit less than the average person because I’m Native and I go through my tribe instead of the state I live in, but I don’t think the rate I get is less than like half the state rate. A few years ago the same car would’ve been in the $29,000 range. At the time we got the car things were so crazy in the used market that it actually was about $100 less per month for us to get the new car then to get a four year-old used car of the same model.

    Thank you, we got a Mazda CX-50. It’s a lot nicer than my 2004 Chrysler Sebring was with 280k miles (~450600km)! I’m not the primary driver so as long as my wife is happy with it I’m happy.

    Hopefully wages will start reflecting prices someday.



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    4 days ago

    I think my biggest problem with it is that if it were obviously the other way around and the man was hugging the woman everybody would be asking this question.

    Others have said that certain context would make this OK, I kind of feel like it’s unprofessional regardless of the personal relationship you have with that person.








  • It’s been somewhat fascinating to me to see how tech companies have managed to continue that over the years. It was always inevitable that phones were going to plateau in power increases the same way that PCs did back in the 2000s. Since then most people have been content keeping their computer for 6 to 10 years, but the same has not been true for phones. Somehow, through software trickery and planned obsolescence tech companies have managed to convince people that their phones are worthless at two years old. It makes me a little worried for our ARM based computing future though, I definitely see at least one section of the tech community that really really wants the future of PCs to look a lot like phones and tablets do now.