COASTER1921

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I have a North face shuttle daypack that is exactly the nominal dimensions and conveniently boxy. I'm 90% sure it's fake though, so going with a ruler to a store or market that sells backpacks is what I'd recommend.

There is a company making a hard sided suitcase with removable wheels which can fit. I'd strongly recommend against that because the handle will take up so much of the already limited space. And there's nowhere to put the wheels when they're removed where it can still fit. Note that Spirit sizers are unofficially 18x14x9 rather than the officially advertised 18x14x8. Frontier's bag sizers are truly 18x14x8.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Going from Biden to a campaign with actual energy behind it is incredibly refreshing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (4 children)

At least if the Twitter comments are to believed that video was from 1.5hr before the Trump rally. I'm sure it annoys him the same as if it were real, but this isn't beneficial to ensuring Democrats realize the urgency to get out and vote in November.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Over the past few decades it's become very clear this is needed. The problem is that by making LBOs illegal you are saying that a controlling stake of the company's stock isn't the same as owning a controlling stake in the company. So at that point the value of stocks becomes a bit more speculative and likely much less stable. Given that basically the entirety of our economy is built on the stock market I think this is incredibly unlikely to ever happen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've always thought the reason they say this is due to high voter turnout disproportionately benefitting Democrats. So if you're not voting you contribute to lower turnout which will lean conservative, aka indirectly benefit Trump for the election.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can withdraw from 401k penalty free at 59 and 1/2 years old. That's what this is probably referring to. Regardless there's still a massive age difference between her and Biden/Trump.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what I'm most excited to see. Biden is a perfectly fine Democrat president but not a particularly great public speaker in terms of politicians. And the age certainly didn't help. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump decides he doesn't want to debate like he did back in 2020.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Be careful what you wish for. California capped property tax increase since 1978 with prop 13 and most experts say this is a major factor in their insanely expensive housing market. Most people are heavily incentivized to never move to keep their low property tax rate, but this in turn prevents most new development and upzoning while simultaneously leading to the worst sprawl in the nation.

It also starves the state of tax revenue requiring them to levy the tax further for new buyers and seek other income streams like heightened income and sales tax. Policies like this somewhat unintuitively only benefit those who are already well off. Renters and younger people gain no benefit and ultimately pay higher property taxes than those who already are financially established enough to own a property.

A healthy property tax disincentivizes housing as a speculative investment, improving the overall market for people who actually live there. There should certainly be breaks for poverty and financial distress but capping or cutting rates broadly encourages speculation. For a basic human need such high degree of speculation benefits nobody.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's crazy that for something so important the dems are handling it as if they had no plan. Donald Trump should be the absolute easiest possible competition for their candidate to beat. It's like they learned nothing from 2008 and the energy around Obama. We need younger candidates who can communicate to the public well. Better policy means nothing to most swing voters if it can't be communicated effectively.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

And probably well within the margin of error. It could be correlated to any other habit people who drink every day may also be more likely to have.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The problem is so many services requiring SMS to be that second factor. From what I've heard it's easy enough to steal a sim that if you're being explicitly targeted it's basically the same as no second factor. Yet even if using an authenticator app most services require you to still have SMS/phone as another option for the 2FA.

For Authy specifically they'd need to guess your master password and then hijack your phone number, and for users of Authy I suspect their passwords are not easily guessed as it's already a step above the standard SMS only 2FA most services require.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely this. AvE had exactly the same thing happen but Canadian and with tools. Now they're both just too political for me to put up with sticking around for the technical stuff.

I'm not Australian and I'm not Canadian, so if I'm watching a technical video why do I need to know their political opinions?

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