AA5B

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Depending on state, healthcare applies to spouses but may not for long term partners. You can’t do that with a will or trust

You also get tax benefits

Getting married should only be expensive if you want it to be, although too many people fall for the peer pressure.

  • For me I was overwhelmingly in love, ready to declare it to the world and willing to pay anything for the one big party of my life. That may not have entirely worked out, but was how I felt at the time
  • My best friend just got married for reasonable cost. Still had a big party, but it was 40 people in a park, and we went to a restaurant after.
  • Another friend got married inexpensively, maybe. Was it the $100 actual cost, or do you count the week in Vegas?
[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Wow, I’ve done that (in simpler times, and I’m white). For me it was just an expensive and time consuming mistake - I had to pay an extra toll in a currency I didn’t have. Of course they won’t convert the exact amount for the toll

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

It doesn’t even have to be a derailed boom, but simply

  • a maturity transition where the dilettantes fall out, concentrating on the biggest players
  • more efficiency. There’s been a ton of research on efficiency and that’s a great profit multiplier so will be rapidly taken up
[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Aside from the obvious questions everyone else is posting …. How is this even relevant? Saudi Arabia mainly exports oil, but US uses almost no oil products for generating electricity. Unless data centers start installing their own generators (please no) for full time power, it’s a non-starter. What electrical utility does s going to build an oil burning generator plant?

History we’ve used a lot of coal and natural gas, so that’s the most likely fossil fuels to increase. And those are fuels the US has tons of

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

You’d have to call uno reverse trans

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

JD Vance has repeatedly denied he fucks couches

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

So far, more than $6 billion in projects and over 10,000 jobs have been wiped out in GOP districts alone.

Seems like 10,000 of them would have benefited from full time jobs.

But that article is all over the place. It reads like copy-paste a bunch of loosely related facts without actually organizing it. No AI could have written it that poorly

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

While I appreciate the sentiment and perhaps you’re right about meaningless populism… but from up here it really looks like she wants to take advantage of our bout of insanity to goose your economy, to reduce the reasons for people leaving in the first place, to build a more independent local economy in place of the more precarious global one.

Think of all the insane drivel drooling out the side of the mouth of mango Mussolini - somehow his strategy is “1. Wreck it; 2. ???; 3. Profit”, whereas this looks like “build it and they will come”.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Akshully…..

federal officials stated a preference for Amtrak, the station’s owner, to partner with private investors on the renovation

There’s a concept of an idea of who would pay for it

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

A lot of choices don’t seem to be available in the US - Hyundai/kia seems best of what else is available in a lot of ways. I originally hoped the legacy American manufacturers were getting their shit together but it looks like they’re crawling back under their rocks.

I guess my biggest hope is that Lucid or Rivian are able to break out into mass production of their next generation

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, it’s unfortunate. I bought mine when we could still ignore the red flags and it’s still my favorite car feature wise, there are still so many things it does better than any car, still so many features not available on other vehicles for any price. The comparisons with Apple are apt - I could have been a lifelong customer. But wtf mental illness happened here? For the first time ever I’m embarrassed by what I drive. I don’t know what I’ll do next time I need a car, but it won’t be a Tesla without radical changes in leadership - and that Nazi is only the start. Every board member and executive who thinks that’s ok has to go

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Have they seen our current politico-economic stance? That’s the first time too, but seems like the expected response.

I haven’t ever tried lighting my house on fire but I can safely predict that if I did, things I care about will get ruined. It hasn’t happened before but that’s because I’ve never lighted my house on fire before. Otherwise, obvious cause and effect

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