Look, I hate Ticketmaster too. But there’s an infrastructure cost. I started with a percentage fee, but that leads to incentive for higher resale values. A nominal transaction flat fee not to exceed $1.00 would make sense

I’d even be fine with resale prices limited to original sale price plus a nominal FLAT fee for ticket master.

How much do you have to pay for the ability to have a backup, or are you lucky enough to be charged more or less nothing if the batteries don’t go out?

What do you mean by not friendly towards grid tie? Do they charge you more for having solar (supposedly some places in California may have this)? Did they tell you you can’t sell solar power back?

I’d like to hear more about this.

While my current use case for a car would not allow me to purchase an electric vehicle, my future case would. However, I am planning to wait for solid state vehicles. I don’t like how prone to thermal runaway lithium batteries are in their current state. That, and I don’t like the trend towards bigger and heavier vehicles.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m happy to own a large diesel truck for when I need a truck, but it feels like such a waste as a daily personal commuter vehicle. Most of the time, it’s literally me and my spouse. Sometimes we have groceries, sometimes luggage. It’s such a waste of space and energy to be transporting an extra 3000 lbs around

That’s really funny. My electricity prices have basically tripled over the past two or three years and my use hasn’t changed.

With the push towards AI data centers that seem to have coats pushed to the average homeowner, I do not think an EV will be the most cost effective option, at least in “car” form.

Maybe an electric bike or scooter would be more cost effective

But look at the stock market!

I thought polls announced that they would stop measuring approval rating

NATO is a defensive alliance.

The USA is one of the host countries. Would likely have to find ways to schedule games in Canada or Mexico

No he should go there in person.

It is so strange to agree with Sepp Blatter.

What are you on about you liberal extremist you? It’s horse dewormer that’s the proven medicine. Stop trying to stereotype us as bleach drinkers - we only do that once every six months

Is he trying to pay the shareholders of Greenland above market price so they’ll be willing to merge with the US?

What the fuck is this even?

Britain is that you?

First of all, I don’t use LLMs. Second, I made my point specifically because things can be missed if you rely on utility (only checked if a difference in water pressure makes it to your faucet) or public news (may not report if it’s only your municipality).

Are you being intentionally hostile for a reason?

So, sometimes it doesn’t make the news and it doesn’t affect your faucet. Sometimes a loss in water pressure affects most people but not you. I’ve had it where the utility will report it but if I don’t know there’s a problem, how will I know to check?

That’s when I subscribed to my municipality’s alerts

He has the backing of Big Couch

It’s chosen by the members of the house, however they see fit. Majority vote by members is just how they chose to do it:

“Clause 5 Impeachment The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.”

It is not an election by the people

Precedent? What’s that? I think Donald John Trump just nominated himself to the Supreme Court and the Senate is slated to approve it.

What’s that you say? They can’t do that? Well Chief Justice Trump says it’s constitutional.

Edit: On a serious note, Speaker is not an elected position. IIRC it’s all made up and the House can choose however they want, including games of chance.