SacRebel
🏴🇺🇸🇵🇹 Scottish former California Tech Engineer now retired to Portugal
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- Spinning up a long hill, kids in the street, 1 on MTB coming down, turns around & started up ~next to me. I said "you wanna go? Let's go," and shifted two gears higher. Kid says "huh?" I say "c'mon, let's go," picking up the pace. Sadly, he dk Boomer street racing lingo & I just dropped him
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View full threadTrouble is, once they get to mid-teens, they start dropping me
- We need YPVA (Young Punk Von Alten) graffiti all around your routes in Boise so these kids get it!!!
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- Dick Campbell - similar personality and longevity just in lower leagues - xcancel.com/contextdick?...
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- You guys really need to get Amber Ruffin to join and let her rip on the current occupant!!!!!
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- Since the early 90s I've always described British Indian restaurant food as westernised Indian food - Indian flavours adjusted for Western tastes...
- Nothing like a collective effort to show how quickly the wheels can come off.
- So if they aren't selling cars I assume that means they can't sell carbon credits either so its a double edged punishment for the bottom line!!!!
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- Ivan who???
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- Explains why after years of screwing around a US LNG ship turned up out of the blue at Sines in Portugal last week....
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- These idiots are all about distraction.....better this than discussing the cost of tariffs or the fact they seem to be ready to abandon Ukraine because Russia isn't bowing down to the clown...
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- Vance opened his mouth, Vance is lying.
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- snake oil salesman doing what he does....
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View full threadPG&E is in the surrounding county and with profit and AC needs electric bills are triple the city rates. The challenge is SMUD built the infrastructure over last century and has huge hydro and now solar sources, replacing PG&E elsewhere would require buying their infrastructure and power plants...
- When buying houses people avoid PG&E areas as it adds $2-3000 per year in utility bills! PG&E also drives people to home solar!!!
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- My local electric company was a community owned non profit so acted like a private company but with no traditional shareholders. www.smud.org/Corporate/Ab...
- Well done to all countries bar China who have managed to benefit from the 10% ‘Brexit benefit’…
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- ICE is taking over the island!!!
- In the US some cities have private electric companies that are owned by the city....they have some of the cheapest electricity in the country but avoid the issues with outright nationalisation.
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- Not that I know your situation but is surgery only available in US, I know rehab would be trickier away from home but cost of surgery is typically 50% in Western Europe, 20% in Turkey or Thailand, 15% in Mexico. I understand there are risks in going overseas but if it means you can walk...
- #BlueSkyArtShow #peaceful #photography Deserted Praia do Ribeiro do Cavalo, Sesimbra, Portugal looking on to beautiful turquoise waters.
- NEW: The House has passed the SAVE Act that would prevent millions of Americans from voting. Senate Dems say they will block it.
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- standard 60 votes so at least 7 democrats would need to vote for it
- It still needs 60 votes in Senate so as long as only a few Democrats support it, it will fail.
- The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!
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View full threadYou are assuming the retail price will be previous retail+tariff. The formula is (import price + import/retail margin %) + sales tax % I've seen 30-50% as margin & 5-8% as sales tax but all things being equal a 10% rise in import price results in a 10% rise in retail price.
- Some companies may absorb some margin but they will be investing more in product inventory so ROI will drop for investors which doesn't usually go over well!
- But if you got the 10 minute heads up of the 90 day pause you could have made 10x that.....corrupt bastards.....
- I don't see how the US can win a trade war against China - in any scenario. China isn't a democracy - there's no opposition, and it produces far more of what America needs than anything Chinese import from the USA. Their biggest import is soy beans... presumably can get elsewhere
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- And every low cost item on amazon.com triples in price....
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View full thread($400 + 30%) + ~6% = $605 paid (not sure how wired got $571, without sales tax it is $520) vs ($795 + 30%) + ~6% = $1095 paid NOT $966
- Oops I used $571 instead of $520 in current price - it should be $551 total not $605...
- Why would the importer and any retailer reduce their margins - the idea they tie up more in inventory without charging the standard mark up is falsely reducing the new price. A doubling of the cost will double the price and sales tax is also doubled as it is on final price.
- California Poppies and alyssum in Azeitao, Portugal just south of Lisbon #flower #gardening
- I feel @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com needs an air fryer for Christmas so she can make breakfast without a hob!!! allairfryerrecipes.com/air-fryer-fr...
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- Funny clip but the sad part is once again Lutnick is lying. California ships significant quantities of rice to Japan, South Korea and Taiwan....
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- Chinese crap like iPhones and Nike shoes???
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- Pretty simple - he is a 21st century snake oil salesman...
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- Rich people who like tax cuts, knuckledraggers who hate non white, non straight, non males, low intelligence people who believed headline lies in right wing media and independents who were too racist and sexist to vote for a black female president over a conspiracy theorist junkie like RFK Jr...
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- Retail prices will go up by much more than the tariff unless importers and retailers slash their margins....a $10 tariff increase creates a $35 increase in retail price of a ~$100 shoe...
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- Kings aren't terrible.....yet.....
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- I wrote a guide for someone who wanted to transition from twitter articles, hopefully useful! whtwnd.com/sacrebel.bsk...
- Setup your account on whtwnd.com and you can blog and share your adventures on bluesky!
- I'm no good with patterns. Can someone help me out here?
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- Fair comment but all the other recent crashes had major world events drive them (covid, banking crisis) not government policy. This week was driven by a moron.
- In a dystopian movie, JD Vance would be the toady loyalist who does whatever the leader wants, only to be shut out of the escape helicopter by the leader himself when the regime falls and beaten to death by the mob
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- Someone figured out they are the trade deficit divided by the exports in to the US so absolutely nothing to do with tariffs and all about trade deficits....
- @mcuban.bsky.social @barackobama.bsky.social @petebuttigieg.bsky.social @ocasio-cortez.house.gov Get this out there!!!
- The only thing being liberated today is money from the bank accounts of hard-working Americans.
- Does anyone have real numbers for tariffs on American goods entering these countries? Given his lies about Canada we can assume the numbers by country are made up.....is he counting sales taxes/VAT/IVA which are charged on every sale not just US goods?
- It's even more fake than I assumed.... bsky.app/profile/reic...
- Sounds like he is at least for the EU which means he is conveniently ignoring the US adds sales tax in most states to imports...
- @fortboise.org ????????
- On Saturday, David Pettinger dressed as Hitler to counter-protest the @teslatakedown.com in Meridian, Idaho. Yesterday, he was at the Idaho statehouse, where the Idaho GOP invited him into their caucus from the visitors' gallery, as @abbottalynn.bsky.social reported www.wired.com/story/proud-...
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- Thanks. It's near Portknockie along the coast east of Inverness in Scotland. Someone replied with the wikipedia page.
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- Thanks. It's near Portknockie along the coast east of Inverness in Scotland. Someone replied with the wikipedia page. maps.app.goo.gl/xwfFCSmafQpq...
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- But if not irn bru then Barrs also make a cola www.agbarr.co.uk/our-brands/b...
