I’m just awaiting the government investing all these “savings” and the money raised through tariffs into an obvious crypto scam, which then fails spectacularly and predictably and all the US taxpayer money conveniently disappears into the pockets of those running the scam (which totally won’t involve Elon Musk).

Yeah that’s basically it. I don’t know the Irish system, but in the UK it’s XX11 YYY - XX is two letters for location, the 11 is the year (kind of, they have two new plates every year) and YYY are three random letters for individuality. Every vehicle gets a plate by this designation when it’s first registered.

You can then also get a custom plate, however it has to follow the same syntax: 2 letters, 2 numbers, 3 letters. Custom plates can also use old plate styles, so long as they follow the same letter/number arrangement rules from those plates (P3 NIS would be valid, but they don’t let you have that one. I did look up P3 NNY once, at the time it was a Jag). Custom plates tend to stay with the owner and move from car to car, but when you sell a car that has a custom plate it usually takes its original plate back.

I like to point out that he’s always been a fascist, people just didn’t pay attention.

My thoughts exactly. The only way you could have bought one before he went crazy is if you bought one before he was born.

The numbers are the year it was registered. The car could sit on the lot for months before being registered, or the car could be made to order months+ in advance and delivered fresh from the factory and registered immediately. But the registration comes after the purchase for a new vehicle, and doesn’t necessarily happen at the same time.

Either way though, he might have bought it last year or so, but that was hardly before Elon went crazy.

Not sure they’d give you a new number if yours was stolen, if you got to pick a new registration they’d still probably want you to get the same year and locality. Otherwise you’d be paying for a full custom plate, so why would you just pick the latest year and not something interesting?

It’s possible they ordered the car sometime back in 2024, maybe even earlier, then registered the car in 2025 but I think it’s a stretch to say this was before Elon went crazy.

Definitely not the people of American Samoa.

Edit: It’s interesting that RFK Jr is now only briefly mentioned in the body of that article, but several of the source links at the bottom explicitly reference him in their titles.

Well yeah, 90% of the market is overpriced crap - that’s not unique to boardgames, although like you say it’s understandble how when the material cost can be low. But there are some game makers that do really make the effort, and in particular when I looked up what Scythe is and all the pieces it comes with I feel it’s probably not too unreasonable to ask a higher retail price (although I saw them available for much less also).

People are already boycotting American things on their own, it doesn’t make sense to punish them. If anything, that’s more likely to backfire and make that government look bad towards its people.

The only way tariffs work is if the revenue collected from them is used to do something for the country setting them. America isn’t doing that, America is being stupid. Trump is going to rinse America dry and all the tariff money American taxpayers paid will be gone (probably by the government investing in a classic and obvious crypto scam meme coin).

Other countries shouldn’t be stupid like America, they should only apply tariffs with a plan to re-invest the revenue back into their country. If they even need to apply tariffs at all; I’d argue not.

The point I’m making is that retaliatory tariffs don’t make Americans suffer, let alone the American government. They maybe mean some American businesses make a little bit less money, but that’s it. What tariffs really do is make that country’s people suffer.

The American government is already making Americans suffer with American tariffs. It makes no sense for other countries to make their own people suffer with their own tariffs.

Ultimately, tariffs are a tax; they take money from the people and put it in the government’s pocket. I wouldn’t want my governmet taking more of my money, not at least without some plan for what it’s going to be spent on (and those plans being in my or the country’s interest).

If America wants to tax Americans for buying overseas then that’s their problem, and it doesn’t mean that Europe or other countries should start taxing their own citizens.

I just want to add something right here:

Retirement was pushed to the age of 64 under his name

Macron did this unilaterally by twisting an emergency constitutional power so that he could bypass a vote from the Assembly/Senate.

You’re only considering material cost, not time cost of employing someone to operate the machines. Also your system is not really scalable - it would take a long time per unit, making the labour cost even more significant per unit. There’s also R&D, distribution, marketing, etc. all before any profit is made. Also, as you mention, the quality of 3D printed pieces would be much poorer.

This is why it’s ridiculous that media in other countries are criticising their politicians for not responding harshly to Trump’s tariffs with tariffs of their own.

When America applies tariffs on imports it’s Americans who pay them. It affects foreign business slightly, in the form of reduced sales, but the real victims are Americans. When other countries apply tariffs, the main victims are their citizens.

The correct response to someone punching themselves in the face is not to punch yourself in the face.

Yeah I mean I feel like they’re just being overly cautious here (as lawyers often are) when in fact there is no real precedent to support that position. The law perhaps could be interpreted to stretch the definition of sale broadly, but in practice it isn’t right now.

Frankly, I find it offensive that businesses would choose to pass that minute risk onto the customer by weakening consumer rights.

Maybe it isn’t, but I just find it hard to believe the obsession with Merrivius on r/comics is completely natural.

The artist is Merrivius https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/elf-comic/list?title_no=983708

Elf girl is bottom left, the artist begins with M. Their comics are really popular on r/comics.

Edit: The artist is called Merrivius https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/elf-comic/list?title_no=983708

Shots fired lmao I bet this tanked on reddit, they’re obsessed with their elf girl (and that totally isn’t astroturfed).

Nah it would have cost the city the same regardless, you’re just talking about how much the civils business pays its workers.

Most likely this would have been part of a larger project of installing cycle lanes in various places. But it still would have been expensive, civil contractors are notorious.

Bitwarden is arguably a better choice, although the two options are generally so similar I wonder if they have a mutual owner.

Cool, I’ll give the video a full watch then. I normally don’t like Rossmann videos because he takes 30 min to say what he could have covered in 5-10.

But yeah, they shouldn’t be doing that. That’s selling of data. If they want to sell my data, that I manufactured by my literal blood, sweat, and tears of being alive, they should pay me for it first.