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Cake day: February 23rd, 2025

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  • If you want to be even more pumped, check out the PA Supreme court election and Virginia’s governor election.

    TLDR: PA sided with trump by about 2% in 2024 but chose to retain 3 democratic justices this hear by ~23% each.

    VA has had a MAGA candidate as governor since 2021 and they just elected a dem governor by a whopping 15% margin.

    Finally, CA has decided to redraw its congressional districts to erase the republican gains from the Texas redraw, and CA did it with a 30% margin.

    NJ has had Latino communities that were previously Trump leaning areas swing heavily in favor of dems yesterday, too, which is likely because of increasing CoL and ICE activity in their communities.

    All in, democrats not only took every win they were hoping for but absolutely dominated across the board with no close calls.






  • So, reading that study, I have a few concerns about how it was conducted and my concerns generally aligns with their findings. Primarily, their source for information is the payroll system of the companies studied, which in my experience is nothing more than an HR drone entering into the system what they’re told to enter. If the prescribed reason is AI even when it was really business performance, then that kind of aligns with the study in the OP.

    Their graphs of roles most and least exposed to AI disruption is dandy, but if you think about it (with the exception of customer service roles) the jobs that are threatened are typically not production roles for the company, and are moreso ancillary positions for most companies. I’m a software engineer for a company that doesn’t sell software, which means I’m more of a luxury than a necessity; this is true for the majority of software engineers.

    The roles least exposed to AI, according to the study, are production roles that play a core role in the product delivery of the company. Things like construction workers, nurses, cooks, etc. are only in businesses where they are the core of the business model. I’ve never seen a movie theater chain employ nurses or cooks in droves, but they have employed secret shoppers (auditors), accountants, software engineers, etc. and are likely to trim that fat when times get tough. I think this is more of an economic health indicator than anything, IMO.








  • No feelings hurt, sorry. My point was more so that this isn’t the place for throwing insult-ridden fallacies at every person who disagrees with you or, in this thread, simply doesn’t talk about other/bigger issues 100% of the time. You’re not fostering a great environment for constructive discussions.

    For real, I am sorry if my previous comment hurt your feelings. My point was that whataboutism is a common trope over there and serves for nothing except to, ironically, make the whatabouter feel on a moral high ground.

    Please be nicer to people, even online, and if you feel they’re neglecting something important it might be more useful to be helpful and constructive instead of mean.




  • A 2 liter sleeved and build b18 and a built trans will run 8s without meaningful issues pretty much forever, as long as you don’t launch at 10k rpm every single time. Mine is on it’s 6th season and 30k street miles, albeit on low boost (tuned for 1090whp, but I track it at 840 and street it on 600) and the closest thing it’s had to a rebuild is a head gasket and timing belt replacement because 4 hours is a small price to pay to protect a 6k motor. That and frequent motor oil and trans fluid changes, of course.

    I take no problem with telling how much building a really nice car could cost, but you made it sound like 110k is the minimum cost and all I’m saying is not really. That, and the notion that high HP Hondas necessarily can’t hang with the power output are verifiably false


  • 1995 civic shell, ~3k if mint

    2000 CRV AWD manual transmission, 1k Upgrade the diffs and gearset for 5k for 6k total

    Fully built, sleeved, and bored to 2L b18c motor ~5k easy all day long

    If DIY, misc chassis parts (motor mounts, brakes, tires, traction bar, etc.) 3-4k

    Turbo setup with a good quality turbo ~4k

    Misc supporting mods like injectors, ecu, upgraded rad, etc. ~3-4k

    All in you can pull off a 1,000hp b series AWD build (AWD being a luxury in the Honda tuning world) 26k that’ll throw down 8 second miles all day long