Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD

This logo looks like a cheap iphone game from 2011

FYI, on its own the top is better when you account for taxation and the cost of health care premium inflation.
The only possible argument for the bottom is: people who are otherwise covered by parents / spouse, or a bet to index your wage rate higher for higher raises.

Gen Z employees don't seem to yet understand the full cost / value of employer health insurance, esp. if its an employer that pays 100% of premiums.
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The thing is, their theory is that every undocumented immigrant was crowding out an otherwise unemployed native. If that were the case, then their mass deportation policy should not need a "30k baseline" fudge factor because every immigrant job would immediately be filled by an aggrieved native.

A lot of people (like me!) who bought EVs recently may well face far-faster-than-average depreciation because new models will be so far improved in software / UI tech, and more importantly, battery tech for range and charge speed. My "270 mi" range EV might look like a dinosaur in 5 yrs

its also just that EVs are at a pace of innovation we haven't seen in decades. It's closer to like where computers were in the 90s, or phones in the 2010s... but for $40-70k assets. And sadly, because of the fast innovation it will make 3-5 year old cars look ancient and depreciate them fast.

that lifecycle thing is huge too. A big x-factor I've thought about is the battery vs rest of car lifespan. I currently have a Volvo EX30 and keep thinking of that. Unfortunately I do think current EVs are gonna see very large depreciation due to tech advancements

but didnt jared solve world peace in the region by doing the abraham accords?

BYD just killed your EV argument with a battery that competes with gas engines The Chinese carmaker's new batteries feature a 5-minute charge and 621-mile range, plus a 620,000-mile lifespan and lower prices.

It’s insane how the Chinese are lapping us at EV tech. To be fair, they’re also lapping Europe.

www.fastcompany.com/91503415/byd...

Well my theory is she got fired today because I guess the embarrassment is schtupping Lewandowki and potentially causing a perjury impeachment was too much. Not the fact of the matter. But the distraction it caused. lol.

yeah I know I'm more interested in the whole extent of the testimony. like during the whole day they didn't press her to answer yes or no? They let her simply not say no? Because everyones gonna see that she did no say no under oath.

wait, did Noem not say "no" to the allegation of schtupping Lewandowski? It seems she goes and calls it "garbage" but doesn't actually say "no"

For sense of scale, I looked up ridership data. McLean is running at ~2,160 avg. weekday entries. That compares to Virginia Sq. in Arlington at ~2,500

I should describe a bit more. There are like five fare gates. It’s the only way out and these queues look like up to 3 mins sometimes at the length and rate they’re moving. It’s like half the train offloading here with (mostly) Cap One workers. (Also MITRE and Northrop Grumman)

Transit oriented development in action. People thought McLean Station on the Silver Line was underused. But as Capital One Tower went back to office, this is a train of knowledge workers jammed, queued to exit, every morning I come to go the other way. #wmata #virginia

like, as if its the war to end all wars

Pearl Harbor was just stratgeic air strikes, not "war"

The reality here is that universities would love to hire visible and capable conservative scholars. That they have to create separate centers, and then hire people who would never make it in an open search, underlines the fact that its not anti-conservative bias, its a lack of strong candidates.

I’m often here questioning Ryder’s choice of pups for his missions and saying “had it been me, I’d have picked…”

Dow 50,000!

Also 21st out of 23.

Not every valiant action that could deserve a Bronze Star, or even the very rare Army Cross, deserves the highly exclusive and high-standard Medal of Honor.

The headline makes it sound like they lived to be thousands of years old, so I was disappointed it wasn’t ancient Mathusalems.

On this SOTU week I reiterate my multi decade position: stop doing it. No one learns anything. Just have a president submit a letter as the minimum requirement. I wish the stupid theater of it all would be dispensed with and do not think it to be a positive cultural event.

Ultimately what I’m saying is what matters is how you cook your beans. Are you hand sifting out the rocks and boiling properly? Or using an instapot for being lazy? Or making arroz con frijoles with canned beans like some salvaje?

I grew up with the giant bags of Mahatma brand rice bought at Sedanos or Publix, and kept in a giant 5 gallon plastic bucket. Mom mostly boiled in a pot but then was elated one year when we got a rice cooker. Nicaraguan gallopinto doesn’t care: you gotta get the beans right.

The thing about the whole rice debate on here is that, as a Hispanic, we don’t care about your debate because you’re getting it all wrong anyways cuz you’re not mixing beans, or in case of yellow rice, sofrito and peas, in there so what are you even doing with that rice? Forget how you cook it.

Next thing is they’ll charge surge pricing for mess halls

It’s like an Uber executive got a job at DOD

Same for VA disability paycheck recipients, especially when their disability is still seen as high functioning. People make $2k/mo with a 70% ptsd rating (and wholly deserved!) … and those folks tend to work by and large.

Also there’s great kind of evidence: early inheritors. It’s not like they sit and never work the rest of their lives even through they’ve inherited a sum equal to a UBI. Like if you inherit $500k that’s like UBI for 10-15 years. And, well, those people still tend to work