Or in windy weather, or with other helicopters around, or with bad thermals…

Helicopters are 35% more dangerous than planes, but that stat includes small aircraft, which are 10x more dangerous than jets. So they are WAY more dangerous than jets. By hour they are 85x more dangerous than cars, but comparing traveling similar distances they are 4x safer than cars.

Saying they’re only dangerous compared to any aircraft if poorly maintained is just incorrect.

How? By taxing the shit out of the wealthy.

There should be no billionaires. Period. If someone created something so insanely valuable that they actually earned a billion, then awesome for them. They can still have $999 million and be better off than 99.999% of the world. Most people who have over a billion got that money through screwing over people and exploitation. They don’t deserve to have more than a billion. Nobody needs more than a billion, and I can’t think of anyone who has actually earned it.

The next step is targeting the way wealthy people get wealthier. Tax assets instead above some number of millions instead of just income and capitol gains. Change the way corporate officers are paid and how boards of directors are made up of other corporate officers all voting for each other to get higher salaries. I’m not smart enough to come up with a way to attack the profits made by exploiting cheap labor in other markets, but maybe something like a global minimum wage that lifts up workers in other countries while not giving CEOs as much incentive to do it.

Finally, I would go after housing costs. I would ban corporations from owning single family housing and place a HUGE tax on individuals owning more than 3 homes (with moderate taxes on more than 1 home, then a higher tax on the 3rd home, then a ridiculous tax on the 4th). Limiting foreign ownership would also help out.

1. I’m not sure how much of their profit margin Apple would give up. It depends on how much phone sales slow down when prices go up. Is the cell phone market elastic or inelastic?

2. The labor is 2.5x more expensive than minimum wage. Do you think Apple will have minimum wage workers doing relatively skilled labor like soldering and assembling electronics? I’ll likely be more in the $15-$20/hour range before even looking at benefits. I don’t know how many person hours go into assembling a phone, but it’s not just a few. That alone would probably add a few hundred to every phone.

3. Like you said, the most expensive portion is not the labor, it’s the parts that are mostly sourced from China and Taiwan… which have huge tariffs in the scenario Trump is talking about.

Because he has other things he wants from an electronic voting system company.

This is a new woman fired for being a woman. The big news one was the Coast Guard who had a woman leading the entire force.

Good, fuck scalpers. This is no different from people buying up 15 PS5s and then selling them on eBay for triple the cost. They are adding nothing of value to the world, only helping rich people be lazy.

Even if that did happen, the next step is keeping the prices of goods made in the US cost competitive. Wages in the US are far higher, so everything would STILL cost more.

I don’t think that’s an accurate statement. Maybe most of the enlisted people are, but a very large percentage of the officers hate him. He is their commanding officer, and they openly insult him. They ridicule him constantly and talk about how terrible his decisions are. They joke about how stupid the SecDef’s plans are. And they do all this in front of their superior officers.

The officers make an oath about defending the constitution, but they also hold very strongly to their duty to protect the people they command. Trump puts those people in jeopardy for no damn reason, so many hate him for that.

I also read that there is a translation issue with the word cake. It was originally reported as saying “brioche,” not cake. Brioche is a type of bread, not a cake like we think of. It is still indicative of a lack of awareness, since the line was uttered in response to poor people not being able to afford bread and she suggested brioche instead, as if there is much difference.

And sales tax, which is usually used to offset income tax in no-tax states, effects the poor WAY more than income tax. People making less than a certain amount pay no income tax but still have to pay sales tax. I doubt they will implement a luxury goods sales tax, while the 10% tax on a pound of meat is far harder to pay for by a person barely making ends meet than for a person buying ground Wagyu.

This is an April Fools joke. It isn’t real.

It’s one thing for states like FL, TX, and WA to do this, since they have tourism, oil, and/or high sales tax to make up for it. But Mississippi doesn’t have anything going for it except for an efficient use of the alphabet in its name. This will absolutely cause the state to crumble even more and become more of a welfare state.

Mostly because there are many different roles that apply to “front line troops.” The traits that work great for running ammo boxes all day are different from the traits to carry a 200 pound dude a few hundred feet. The traits to shoot accurately are different from the traits to assemble and deploy explosives. The traits to drive a tank are different from the traits to work the comms.

More importantly, though, is that this isn’t JUST choosing one set of standards. This will absolutely be “choosing one set of standards with very high bars in certain categories.” There are things women just do not do as well as men, and we all know those will be areas that are emphasized and with difficult to reach goals. There are things women do better than men, and we all know those areas will be de-emphasized with very easy to reach goals.

He was a Democrat for a long time before switching sides. He doesn’t care about ANYTHING other than himself and maaaaaaybe hurting brown people. Taking care of other rich people serves him. Taking care of Christians serves him, because he knows they can get him reelected. Lowering taxes serves him, and he doesn’t care who it hurts.

The only thing he has been consistent about, even when he was a Democrat, is hurting brown people. Everything else is an act to get people to do things that help him.

It was fucking stupid to choose Max over HBO in the branding in the first place.

Tesla does source some parts from outside the US, so they will be impacted. However, they are definitely the MOST US-based and will be hurt the least. Other US brands and foreign brands that have mfg in the states source a ton of parts from around the world. Those parts will all be more expensive, so prices will go up by some percentage.

Hey Mitch, remember when you got angry with Obama for telling you your bill was really bad, then you passed the bill anyway, then you got mad when Obama vetoed the bill, then you overrode the veto, then you saw the horrible repercussions of your stupid bill, then you got very angry with Obama for not vetoing your bill hard enough?

This is like that. You are seeing the repercussions of all the stupid shit you did, even when people told you it was stupid. So you don’t get to act like it is anyone else’s fault but your own for all the stupid shit you did.

It feels so gross upvoting a picture and quote from Reagan.

“Stop! Police!” *instantly shoots 17 times

Why even yell at that point? If you are so afraid he might shoot someone, then stay behind cover and yell that police are present and to drop the gun. When you startle a person with a gun, there can be pretty predictable responses. If you aren’t afraid he might shoot someone, then why instantly shoot 17 times without giving him time to comply?

Maybe he should learn from Joshua: the only way to win is to not play at all. Trump should just quit and ride off into the sunset… likely on a private plane filled with underage sex slaves.