Didn't the Army have to lower PT standards for general enlisted again due to too many obese weaklings?
I'm concerned we'll have an Army of Private Pyles (although he was a Marine during a draft... who may be able to be a bit more picky...)
It needs to be affordable on a single income. Right now housing, food, living in general are far too expensive.
Plus the quality of life issues. If you're making the big money as an employee now, you likely depend on a big city... and it's not remote anymore. So either you spend even more to live closer to work, or an extra hour or more a day unpaid in the car or train... and it's still too expensive for the salaries (if you look at NY, Miami, California, etc...)
Constitutional Amendment, which can be ratified by 2/3 of the States and then comes into effect.
Congress can also enact an amendment, but would be unlikely to enact this.
Fun trivia, the 27th amendment, the last one ratified, was proposed as part of the Bill of Rights in 1789. It basically stipulates that if congress votes to change their wages, it does not take effect until the next congress sits, so as to be more difficult to vote to enrich themselves.
It was ratified by the States in 1992.
Three of the four States that did not ratify it should surprise no one. They are New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Mississippi.
New Jersey, Illinois, Rhode Island, California, Hawaii and Washington ratified it in the 90s after it had already been certified.
This is unfortunately a major issue. Cadillac sells in Europe. But they don't sell a lot...
(Ford is an exception, but they have a German design and manufacturing division - they do sell a lot. Ever wonder why the Focus ST was so good? It was designed in Germany and later imported into the US.)
I wish we could be making better cars, appliances, and foods in the States...
US, Mexico, and Canada all don't have exit customs - you can drive or walk into another country and will only be questioned on arrival by the country you arrive in.
You can also fly out - boarding an international flight is the same as boarding a domestic flight.
Whereas in the EU/Schengen area, and Colombia, for example, you pass through immigration when departing as well as arriving (the international gates at the airport are, for immigration purposes, outside the country. This also allows changing planes on flights between third countries without clearing immigration).
If it helps anyone, scored.co has a poorly documented API - someone wrote a C++ library: https://github.com/thansen0/scored_communities_api
Scored themselves said to use your browser's debugger: https://help.scored.co/article-categories/api-integration/
In theory, a separate service could be created.
Autopilot in general.
I have an early 2016 Tesla, have a single front facing camera for the original Autopilot version 1, which uses MobilEye and Nvidia tech. It uses radar and can see cars in front, but doesn't know what's going on behind the back half of the car. Still impressive tech.
Newer cars have 8 cameras outside and sometimes one inside, and use radar. It shows a whole map of many cars, signs, etc. on the road in all directions. This eliminates blindspots for the autopilot, and allows for improved safety and performance. It's fairly impressive now.
Consequently, it was very easy to add Sentry (camera while parked) and TeslaCam (dashcam/camera while driving) features by asking the user to simply plug in a USB drive and turn on a setting.
Found on archive.org, looked in the data. There are four flattened GeoJson objects stored as strings in very long lines (so that the entire application is a single file). The single HTML file is about 2.5 MB.
The files contain the following:
- A list of Tesla Superchargers, it appears to be from OpenStreetMap, generated using their overpass API.
- A list of Tesla show rooms, repair shops, etc., also from OSM.
- (this is the most interesting one) a list of geographical features that are either residences, businesses, or charities belonging to people associated with DOGE. A house near Austin that ostensibly belongs to Elon Musk appears in this list. Kash Patel's house in Las Vegas is also on the list.
- A list of 1684 Tesla owners. There are more than 1684 Tesla owners in the US. It's unclear where this data came from.
This is basically how the Value Added Tax (VAT) system in Europe works. Effectively, only entities that added value pay the tax - a middle man pays VAT on the initial purchase but refunds it after selling the product. Selling someone a used item adds no value.
Although the western European countries all charge other types of taxes as well.
VAT tends to be around 20% in Europe, so would be like a 20% sales tax in the US, only that it's built into the price you pay/see on the shelf. A bit higher in Hungary due to low income and very low other taxes, lower in Switzerland due to many things covered by government being covered either privately or by the Canton (state).
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/eu/value-added-tax-vat-rates-europe/
The Due Process clause in the constitution appears in the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments and states the following:
Fifth:
"No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."
Fourteenth:
"... nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."
Put simply, the government can't deprive you of life (so kill you), liberty (incarcerate you), or property (take your property/possessions) without going through court. Deportation does not deprive a person of any of these things. Because of that, it's not affected by the due process clause, and too many people fail to understand this.
The State of Florida notified me that it was off until further notice late last year and had officially recommended not filling it out until the status changed (that was as of Dec 31, 2024).
https://dos.fl.gov/sunbiz/other-services/reporting-of-beneficial-ownership-information/
It seems a lot of the transplants to Florida from New York are pretty red - R party registration has only been increasing. And DeSantis mentioned this statistic a few times over the last few years.
I think it's just become more polarized - Florida is more red, and New York* is more insufferable, as it is full of the "Orange Man Bad" types...
*New York City. Upstate is more red but is too small compared to the NYC area. But the City has become outright unlivable post-2020.