Perfect, I've got the Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water album on vinyl. I'll toss it on the turntable tonight while I'm getting caught up on laundry. Hope you and your dad can share a smile over that 🙂

What was your dad's favorite song?

No, you're thinking of Katie Morgan. Tracy Morgan is a professional female footballer.

The reason it is whimsical and fun is because it's unique. I'm sure its also a huge pain in the ass when it comes to just owning it. Parking. Painting, Maintenance, etc. Then there's safety to consider when it comes to things like accidents. I'm sure most of these custom cars are death traps for the occupants in any situation other than just fender benders.

Do I love seeing them on the road, yes. Would I drive one myself or enjoy living in a world full of them? No.

You mean shitty bananas?

In this case he hadn't

Have you never heard of financing? I make $50,000 a year and bought a used EV. The only reason I was able to was because of rebates offered by IL-EPA. If not for the rebate, I'd still be driving an ICE vehicle and paying $50/wk on gasoline.

My buddy is currently on his way to paying 32k for a 15k car

That might be the worst financing option I've heard in my life. 4000 down on a 15,000 loan would end up being about 12800 total on 5 years at 6%

This is a field I study. Its more complicated than yes/no. OA is caused by inflammation. However, inflammation when introduced into a joint space raises the friction coefficient between surfaces within the joint. More friction leads to mechanical stress and deterioration.

The friction coefficient for synovial joints ranges from 0.0015 - 0.01 depending on the study. Essentially frictionless. That's why when inflammation enters the synovial fluid, you hear crepitus or "creaking". Friction goes up and tendons vibrate like strings on a violin. For reference, ice on a Teflon pan has a friction coefficient of 0.05 - 0.10. Roughly ×5 the conservative estimate for synovial joints.

I can't imagine the hell he's been through.

instead scheduling an evidentiary hearing on a pending question before the court: whether Abrego is the target of a “selective and vindictive prosecution” by the Trump administration.

The question should be what he should receive for the documented selective and vindictive prosecution by the Trump administration.

You're right, but you have to consider what USPS has to contend with. Its not the fault of USPS as a government provided service.

They need to fully fund their employees retirement health benefits 75 years into the future unlike any other company. This destroyed any sort of year-year operation funding they had in the oughts. So when they would have been able to reinvest into keeping services timely and efficient, instead they were forced to kick the can down the road to focus on retiree benefits for every single postal worker in the branch.

Package volume increased from roughly 3 billion in 2006 to 7.3 billion in 2025. Package volume in USPS essentially doubled while national package volume increased somewhere in the range of 10x. Which shows that companies like UPS, FedEx, DHL, and Amazon captured a majority of the market growth due to their liquidity and better margins. USPS is forced to deliver to every domestic address so they're stuck with tougher delivery routes that cost more while the other private delivery companies hoover up lower cost/simpler deliveries. All while the primary revenue driver of first-class mail dropped like a rock due to the rise in email traffic.

This is all ignoring the fact that congress won't allow them to upgrade their delivery fleet. They've been forced to manage their fleet of Grumman LLVs from 1986 as though its the ship of Theseus. They want and everyone else wants them to upgrade but they've been hamstrung time and time again by lawsuits and Oshkosh's own inability to build an electric truck. Instead their deliveries still rely on trucks last built in 1994, making them at least 32 years old at this point, with no airbags, no A/C, and getting 8mpg.

Reddit is selling their user database?

There's something silly about describing a NSFW intance's shut down as untimely lol. As if it could have had a more timely death. Not to criticize the wording in any way, it just gave me a chuckle.

People are capable of understanding context. Not that you're totally wrong, but Biden trying and executing Trump for treasonous crimes isn't the same as Putin torturing and poisoning Navalny in a Siberian prison camp.

Do you need a reason beyond that? I'm confused by this question.

How much stuff have the republicans already blamed democrats for?

A lot. But they can literally never back up any of their claims.

Do you think that the MAGA base wouldn’t execute Biden for his ‘crimes’ in Ukraine?

Desire to? Yeah, I'd assume so. They tried to overthrow the government and murder Democratic leadership once already. Be capable of? No.

My prediction is that in much the same way Italy and Germany unified after the deaths of their respective far right leaders, America would eventually move on and become more unified as well. Maga is a cult of personality with Trump as the sole proprietor. When he goes, there'd likely be a power vacuum too big to fill and the cult fractures into multiple small factions that eventually lose popularity. Mayyybe one or two starts to gain traction, but they're much easier to deal with than the inertia Maga has right now.

I get the sentiment, but nothing says that you can't switch careers when it starts to feel like a chore. And plenty of people never get that feeling.

Good. Now if only they could make the Edge+ with the same relative spec sheet and ditch the curved glass in 2027. I'd buy it in a heartbeat for Graphene. My next phone WAS going to be a Pixel for the broader case/screen protector support, but that would make me reconsider cause I would really miss the chop chop flashlight.

No, just a waste of compute and electricity.

I mean, yeah, but also they were allied with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy at the time. And pursuing their own expansionist ambitions in the Eastern hemisphere.