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TheRealKuni

@ TheRealKuni @lemmy.world

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  • We live in a society

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  • Right? I always laugh at this meme format because of that. Is she seriously shaming other people because she’s a poser?

  • Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, 250 guests arriving on 90 different private jets at the wedding in Venice.

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  • At any other point, including now, it's an automatic 20 to 40% loss of value as soon as you drive it the first kilometer.

    This is a common misconception. The car is still worth what you paid for it. You can’t turn around and sell it for what you paid for it, because the dealership can get the same car from the manufacturer at cost. No reason for them to lose the profit they just gained selling it to you. You can’t sell it to a third party for what you paid for it because they can get it from the dealership for that price, and that will come with added benefits that a private sale won’t.

    It’s simple accounting though: the value of the car TO YOU is what you spent on it. That value depreciates over time, but not because you can’t immediately sell it for what you paid.

    Generally speaking, a new car will cost significantly less in maintenance for the first few years. Used cars, especially less expensive ones, tend to cost more to own. It is yet another example of it being expensive to be poor.

  • Who remembers this?

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  • I agree. But my wife was so firmly in the white/gold camp that I had to find this (and a better image of the actual dress, which is indeed blue and black) to help us understand one another’s perspective.

  • Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, 250 guests arriving on 90 different private jets at the wedding in Venice.

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  • Who the fuck buys brand new cars???

    I bought a new car. I did so in late 2021. My wife and I needed a new vehicle (we had been using her parents’ car while they were away, but they had come back), and the used car market was insanely inflated. To the point where the value of a new car actually made sense, especially when coupled with the supplier discount I had access to and the features we wanted.

    Someone has to buy new cars. Where do you think used cars come from?

  • Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon

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  • And it's on the IAEA to declare that they are indeed working on a weapons program, not speculation and assumption like yours.

    Okay. Don’t use your reason if you’d prefer not to. It does make me wonder though:

    Do you think the killing of the civilian scientists was wrong because they were civilian scientists, or because they were ostensibly working on an energy program?

    Because as I said, I’m not claiming the murders were justified, just that we ought to be honest about the why.

    There are plenty making the argument that Iran needs a nuclear weapons program to prevent exactly these types of attacks. That is intellectually honest. I’m not sure where I fall on that argument, I’d rather no one have nuclear weapons (but obviously that’s not going to happen).

    The difference between 5% and 60% enrichment is pretty huge. And the research and effort required to get there is neither cheap nor easy. If what they’re after is nuclear energy, there is absolutely no reason to continue risking the ire of the international community and the repeated attacks by Israel. They’ve had energy-level uranium for a very long time already.

  • rule

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  • Nope, just my emotional support water bottle.

  • Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon

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  • Thank you. The depths of that man’s evil never cease to amaze me.

  • Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon

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  • According to the IAEA, the Natanz site was producing uranium enriched to 60% u-235.

    For electricity, you need 3-5% u-235.

    That’s not an energy program, that’s a weapons program.

  • Who remembers this?

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  • Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon

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  • It's civilian scientists working on nuclear energy we are talking about.

    Is it though? What level of enrichment do they need for a nuclear energy program, and what level of enrichment were they at? I think it’s naive to say they weren’t working on a weapon.

    I’m not saying it justifies killing civilian scientists, but we ought to be honest about the why.

  • Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon

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  • I don’t believe that has been confirmed, but I could be wrong.

    Edit: I stand corrected.

  • A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit

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  • It’s actually a Chase credit card, and you can convert the cash back to Chase’s system IIRC. But you’d be better off using the Sapphire or whatever their metal card is called if you want the Chase rewards. Amazon rewards just give you cash to spend on Amazon by default.

  • SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight

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  • It also helps to be as far south as possible. You get to use more momentum to help get orbit, if I understand it correctly.

    IIRC, that’s why NASA launches from Florida. That and the coast making launch failures safer.

    (But I am not a physicist.)

  • Don't forget to sand

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  • That’s like 7,5 million Germans.

  • VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI

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  • Oh don’t worry, I wasn’t accusing you of saying they were worthless. I was just voicing my own concern for some of my former coworkers.

  • We're deep into the baggy era mate

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  • I hate the feel of loose fabric on me. If I wasn't born male, I'd wear leggings.

    Just wear leggings with shorts over them, that’s what I do when working out outdoors in the colder months. It’s a perfectly acceptable look.

  • VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI

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  • Having worked in a call center (doing survey research) during college, there are a lot of people employed by such places who really wouldn’t have many employment options anywhere else.

    I remember saying, while there, that the entire industry would be replaced by AI in 10-15 years. They all scoffed, saying they had ways to get people to answer surveys that an AI wouldn’t be able to do. I told them they were being naive.

    Here we are.

    That said, I do worry about some of those people. Just because they were borderline unemployable doesn’t mean they were worthless.

  • Let's play this game again

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  • That’s just what we call “the Tobias experience.”

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  • They are all citizens. They have all the same rights. Trump won't draw any distinction between them.

    He has very specifically been going after birthright citizenship and has deported children born here because their parents weren’t citizens. That gains it its own category in the cartoon.