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Air and naval bases my dude…

Eh. It would imply those people are mysterious or difficult to understand. They’re not, they’re just stupid.

Nah. Being cheap is a frustrating personality trait.

Source: obsessively cheap, penny pinching father. Just pay for the damn nuggets like a normal person.

Fair. Didn’t look at the caption.

The Taco Bell meme has never been about the spice…

I buy my cars solely as transport. I usually buy the cheapest thing I can find that has the amenities I want (AC, Bluetooth, heated seats) with the best gas mileage I can get. Typically ends up being a Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla.

I don’t give a shit about cars. I’d rather spend that money on home improvements and my family.

Garbage take. Bring on the face eating leopards.

People that voted for bad things to happen don’t deserve bad things to happen?

Wut!?

Perhaps I’m the one who misread. I took OP’s comment as saying working for a foreign company with no presence in the US while living in the US. On a second read, that might not be what they meant.

Because money keeps getting deposited in your bank account every two weeks and you’re not reporting any income.

Banks hand all of that information over.

There’s a reason TSMC does most of the world’s chip fabrication.

It’s complex and extremely expensive. Standing up a fab, in America no less, capable of handling Apple’s demand would be an astronomically expensive feat. Apple would never do this while TSMC is still an option. Even after the tariffs it would still probably be cheaper to use TSMC.

Men who respect women don’t vote for a rapist.

Then she’s going to keep getting challenged by security until she clips the damn badge on the damn dress.

I wasn’t exaggerating. Go to any new development site. American homes are literally made of plywood and paper. Materials used for houses now are largely the same as 20 years ago. If the same house that cost 200k 20 years ago now costs 1 Mil, the cost of materials did not increase by 400%.

They’re not construction prices lol. Construction costs are like 5% of the total value of a home. The other 95% of the value of a home is due to houses being treated as assets in a speculative market.

Landlords want the prices to increase because it increases the value of their asset, which allows them to leverage it for greater loans to buy more assets, etc etc to eventually sell at hilariously inflated prices for massive ROIs. Or alternatively to charge massively inflated rental costs pegged to the value of the home. Higher value, higher rent, more $$$ in the landlord’s pocket.

So far costs of homes have only gone up since the 70’s. A house worth 200k 20 years ago is now worth 1.2 Mil. It is an excellent rate of return. The market shows no signs of slowing down, forget about getting cheaper. If you have the capital to invest, it’s basically free money. Or at least, it has been for the past 5 decades. I don’t see why it would stop now. Maybe climate disasters or war, we’ll see.

Corporate landlords are absolutely driving the prices up, combined with 3 decades of low interest and investors treating real estate like a speculative market. The material cost of housing is miniscule. North American homes are made out of paper and plywood.

MuH BoTh SiDeZ

Right, but at least it will be your house. Instead of paying someone else’s mortgage and coming out of it with nothing for yourself.

Lol I don’t understand. So when you get hired somewhere, you just shake hands and go to a desk and start working? You don’t sign any employment contract outlining role responsibilities, compensation, NDA, expectations, background check, bank deposit information, tax information, etc?

I don’t believe you.

I don’t give a shit about that. OP misused a Picard quote. Completely unacceptable.