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Retired ER nurse, Hospital Corpsman with the FMF a lifetime ago. Now a wise rural sage living a simple life. I am a Rational Skeptic and an INTJ.

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These numbers are way off, on both what he says was a new car and what he says is a 15-year-old car.

I just co-signed for a car for my granddaughter. She got a 2017 Ford Edge SEL with 89K miles for just under 9K. She got a 4 year loan, her payments are around @225 per month.

Inflation is bad, and so is the economy, but this kind doom-mongering doesn't help. It makes people fearful. Stop it.

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@TruthFairy131 Completely delusional.

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Learning a trade like this takes years of work and, yes, education. You value "formal education", but place no value on informal education. Learning something is becoming educated in something.

Yes, they deserve the money. Many times formal education does not teach you how to do anything productive, so you are valued less in the market, so you are paid less. This is all logical and rational.

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@klara_sjo For going where no man has gone before?

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@4nt1p4tt3rn Please do this.

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@RCEY28 To begin with, the tire needs to be closer to the stump.

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@DreamweaverOnX Bless his little heart. He has an extra chromosome, and they dress him up like a fool and parade him around.

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@TTExulansic Welcome to man world, where shooting off your mouth gets an ass whipping and no one cares what happens to you. This is our reality, get used to it or go back to being a woman.

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@sola_chad I believe she felt a presence, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't God.

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@Arkypatriot I can build an outhouse and make it fancy for half the cost, and it serves the same function.

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@KosherChutzpah No, we just don't want to pay for a foreign country and their military adventures. That really is it. We don't hate Israel and we don't love Israel.

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@TSMERDIST It is our country, not yours, and we will do things the way we want to, for the benefit of our citizens. Benefitting foreigners comes at a cost to our own people. I am sorry this interrupts your ripping us off, but it is what it is.

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@TaraBull The purpose of the nostrils is to warm the air before it hits your lungs (important in cold climates) and to decrease contaminants and bacteria from reaching the lungs. Having three nostrils would be better than two, but one would be worse.

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The younger generations of doctors were taught to practice medicine through lab tests, Xrays, CTs, and that sort of thing. There is no substitute for listening to heart tones and lung sounds, so they still do that part. But you are right, there are no real head-to-toe physical exams anymore.

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@JosephThac34386 @elonmusk Are you talking about space elevators? They are an interesting idea, but far in the future for us. The physics involved is very interesting.

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@elonmusk Eventually, they will be loading up space freighters with prisoners bound for the outer worlds.

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@Esmeray_6 @omgsidewalks Some things have to be memorized. Multiplication tables have to be memorized. The names of the bones in the hand, and the names of the cranial nerves need to be memorized too. Memorization is a part of learning.

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@FuQImFromTexas @72Breezy I bet he throws like a girl, too. He certainly fights like one.

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@72Breezy He seems to be a slow learner, requiring the lesson be taught to him over and over again before he understands it. Being stupid is sometimes painful.