@dr-zoidberg So glad we have dealers to protect us from the big mean manufacturers...

@milky Even beyond the inflation, there's also of course the cost of storing the car, and more importantly the cost of not investing that money in something more productive.

FX TV show pilot set in the 1960s has started filming by my parents' in Baltimore, so a lot of old metal has shown up:

https://commerce.maryland.gov/media/20th-television-to-film-the-spook-who-sat-by-the-door-pilot-for-fx-in-maryland

@dtg11 Presumably depends on whether the race is long enough for the Alfa to break down?

@dr-zoidberg And so the prophecy will be fulfilled:

A challenger appears...

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/ojj8rh/this_persons_unique_and_very_specific_taste_in/

@Long_Voyager94

@pyroholtz I don't know, these make for more exciting videos when the root ball comes free and then launches into the rear window of the pulling vehicle.

But I really want to make a red hat for this mountain lion:

@nickhasanexocet I don't have to admit that at all. Honestly the estate tax is an excellent tax. It has zero impact on the person who died. And the person inheriting hasn't earned that money. It is an excellent tool against the consolidation of wealth and growing inequality. Arguments about double taxation are silly, everything is taxed multiple times. Unless your argument is that we should have exactly one type of tax, we are going to have that problem somewhere. Funny how the argument is always that we can't tax the rich with estate taxes or tax capital gains at the same rates as income from labor, because it's "double taxation" but no one seems to have a problem when highly-regressive sales taxes that hit mainly the poor are double taxes as well.

Also your example is wildly misleading. Firstly, the taxable value of the estate is estate value minus liabilities, so no you do not pay 40% on a $1M house with an $800k mortgage (hoping that $800M is a typo). And the rest of the horror scenario you describe doesn't happen. You'd pay 32% on the remaining $200k (at the top rate, some of that would paid at lower rates, and of course assuming net-0 on other assets and liabilities). Except you probably wouldn't, because the first $11.7 million (!) is exempt, so there wouldn't be one cent of estate tax on an inheritance less than that (possibly there would be a state tax, but those are at lower rates, and the few states that have them also have generous exemptions). So $1M house estate would almost certainly be taxed at $0. If they are getting taxed at 40% they would need to have at least $12.7M in assets, and even then only the portion over $12.7M would be taxed at over 40%, stuff between $11.7M and $12.7M would be taxed at lower rates, and anything below $11.7M wouldn't be taxed at all. And I'm not going to feel bad about that situation, even if somehow they did end up underwater on an asset after taxes, they still have millions. No one is going bankrupt on the estate tax.

Also, there is a massive boon to inheritors (this is what Biden is looking to change, though he wouldn't eliminate it completely). When someone dies, their estate may pay the inheritance tax, but the estate does not pay capital gains, and the tax basis for any assets resets to the value at the time of death, so their heirs only pay capital gains on increases after that time. For gains above the (very large) exemption, this isn't going to be big enough to completely offset the estate tax (it might be if we actually tax income from capital the same as income from labor), but it's still a huge tax exemption, since all those previous capital gains are ignored by the capital gains tax.

So anyway, yes, estate taxes are good. Honestly we'd be better off lowering income taxes and raising the estate tax, letting people keep more of what they earn, and passing less to the heirs of the ultra rich (obviously you'd need to be careful about taxing gifting to make sure that wealth isn't just given away to avoid the tax, though that's a concern now as well).

@ttyymmnn

@carsoffortlangley Are the rear doors not sliding? Very 1st-gen Mazda MPV/ Honda Odyssey...

@taylor-martin Good stuff. My van is ready, just needs the marketing blurb.

@mastermario Bradley GT II is definitely the better looking of the pair.

@tonicipriani I think that's NIST's recommendation as well. And pretty much every academic security researcher.

@roundbadge Password strength wouldn't change it but we had a spear phishing attack where they collected login credentials and then right before payday changed the direct deposit info of anyone they fooled who hadn't been on top of things enough to reset their password.

@beefchips I sleep on planes all the time, hopefully not while behind the controls.

@akioohtori Yep, a "pusher propeller". Since it also has a traditional front propeller, it is a push-pull configuration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push-pull_configuration

Of course the most well know aircraft with pusher propellers is the Wright Flyer, which I'm sure you've seen.

@chariotoflove Yep. Two factor, and then password strength becomes much less important. Use a secure password manager so that you can easily use different passwords for different accounts.

Complex password requirements just mean users write stuff down on a notepad or in a plaintext file.

And of course a "new password doesn't follow the rules" error dialog is pretty useless if it can't tell you what the rules are.

@darkbrador I don't doubt it, but I want to believe that the $15,000 150 I saw for sale 20+ years would still be that cheap and need 0 work to keep flying...

@urambo-tauro Works for stadiums: