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A per gallon gas tax is probably the best way to tax a vehicle's use of the road that those taxes pay for. The problems with funding roads actually started 15+ years ago, when vehicle MPG started to climb progressively higher. Politicians didn't want to be responsible for raising gas prices...

Yarp, it is inevitable. Gas tax is how governments fund a large portion of the road work. So, there has been discussions about how to fund roads, outside of gas tax, for some time now. DFW's solution is to sell the roads to Chinese companies to run a toll network. Currently, EVs are using...

The current current state is Shadowlands is cut short and everyone is waiting on the new xpac to drop. Pre-patch is less than a month away (probably), so it's best just to wait until then, if anyone is thinking of playing this month... As for the beta: It is hard to guess how bad things will be...

It would be great if Musk started taking on independent astronomy missions like developing and building advanced telescopes, but I don't see that happening with SpaceX, as a potential profitable venture. It would probably need to be a separate not for profit type company that he could use as a...

One future telescope project that will be able to see the surface of exoplanets using the Sun's gravitational lensing (maybe launchable within the next 20 years (w/ 30 year travel time:emoji_nose::

Movie Elrond, sure, but this Elrond doesn't have the rights to the Silmarillion so he is currently just a mediocre politician. They actually set it all up for Hildbrand since he made that one sword that all the Numenoreans smiths were in awe of and Gladdy said something about.

I play on core on my first play through, but on replays I cant help myself to min/max everything, so I crank it up to unfair. I'm currently playing melee lich and relying on way too many buffs, so I know I will hit a brick wall with Baphomet and his mass dispel. I recently tried to kill the...

It would be almost perfect if he says "You know, I'm something of a smith myself" when this scene happens. That single line could make this whole season worth it.

I would assume this is her fault, but still, her whole plastic surgery team should get a beating for agreeing to do this.

Mouse will make it too.

Sure, it would have been nice (if it's a better ruleset but not so dumbed down as D&D 5e), but internally, they would have started work on Wrath before or right around that time. Plus they already had the 1e rules all set up in Kingmaker, so all they had to work on was adding content, instead of...

It was AMC with The Walking Dead. I remember the episode even, because it was the Don't Dead Open Inside meme, and the last episode of that show I ever saw. Now that Better Call Saul is done, I will not watch a single thing they make until at least a few years after it aired.

Calling season 2 of The Wire shitty tells me your tastes have nothing in common with mine. This season is inconsistent, but other than maybe season 1 R&M, that's been the case throughout. They can't all be zingers.

Only pure casters are good for 20 levels in the same class in Pathfinder. Even a ranged, non mounted, bow user dips into other classes. DD is great for a sorc melee build, but only for 4 levels, then it's better to go somewhere else. I have not seen a high BABS melee builds, like Paladin...

It may be one of the reasons Owlcat decided it's next game would be 40k universe. To give time for the 2e to settle and everyone to get a proper handle on the rule changes.

In the character creation screens, on the class selection page, there is a box that lists weather you can turn on an auto build feature for that class. It is in the read out for that class/subclass, where the class description is, what stat is the main stat, whether it is a caster or melee, etc...

Negative, Kingmaker only had the core races plus Aasimar and Thieflings. You would have needed mods to get anything else. They did have the Serpent bloodline, so some classes could be kinda sorta Yaun Ti like. There seems to be a lot of mount builds now that they fixed mounts. Pets were always...

Not sure I understand, I don't think they cut any races or sub-classes from Kingmaker going into Wrath. If you mean dialog options then yea, that's mostly reserved for Mythic paths; not that they cut them all, there are still some race and class specific dialog flavor options out there. If you...

Seen people use that before, but I always end up forgetting about it. I have been using a chrome extension that does it on the fly, but yea, cant just link de-paywalled stuff using the extension. Extension: GitHub - iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome: Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for...

Bloomberg just ran a story on current housing trends. Paywalled, so I copy/pasted into the post bellow (hit the 10 attachment limit): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-10/here-s-how-weird-things-are-getting-in-the-housing-market

Please refer to him by his full name, Quintus Pompeius Rufus.

Every time I see the Hellraiser thread in the Movie forum, the song starts to play in my head. Found this when I just went play it on YouTube. It seems Ozzy commissioned an anime video for this duo with Lemmy for the anniversary of the album:

I both like it and don't like it at the same time. It's a neat idea but those axe toes sticking up, even if they have no edge, would get annoying. Flat top bearded axe would have been better, but more expensive (there are other flat head axe options, I just like a bearded axe). Something like...

My gold fortune isn't doing any good just sitting there, so even if I get 20 hours out of the gameplay, it someone else's money well spent. I was hoping Microsoft bought them, and kept the system in place, so I could buy years of game pass, but that deal seems hung up for some reason.

Sick tier 1 armor "set" for the dargons, guess I will have to make one after all:

Using camera footage, a group of people from various professions 3D map the Beirut explosion and recreate how the warehouse was laid out. Can download and look at the models from their Github as well. https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/beirut-port-explosion

I was going to ask WTF this even means, then I read the story and Paypal won't even say WTF it even means. It implies that they believe it is legal to steal $2500 from people for what ever reason they wish, as long as they have to "investigate" it as bad speech claims. Regardless, will this...

Prime seems to release shows at midnight Eastern time, so Westcoast gets it at 9pm. They were at least consistent this week: Dwarves good, everything else bad. Outside of Durin, I don't care about any other character. Things that stuck out: Everyone one acts like they weren't all in the same...

What I am reading is this is still partly due to the BOE choosing inflation over depreciation, and the Bank of Australia only increasing 25 points. So, "the markets" think the FED is going to blink and stop tightening or do something like a 25 point increase instead of the 75+ that the market...

Professional fisherman caught cheating at a tournament with a $100,000+ winners pot. They have won numerous big money tournaments in the past as well. Part of the prize money is from $1000s of dollars, per person, in entry fees. Gutting the fish up close: Longer video that the above was...

Brown Fur lets you turn those pets into dragons and give them the uber wizard self only buffs. I used a barb/cav full level pet plus a Animal cleric pet and they almost soloed the end game as dragons...at least any fight that didn't mass dispel. The one boss that dispels, at the start, took me...

Yea, fuel stability is the issue, but just quickly searching around, on diesel, lead me to a (prepper) forum talking about how if you have a proper storage tank, and add stabilizer every year, diesel can keep indefinitely. Pure gasoline is supposedly in a somewhat similar situation as diesel...

I spent a couple hours trying to get a mystic theurge angle to work and it just could never compete with pure cleric angle for unfair. I mainly wanted a total buff bot in one package with Brown Fur Arc and Cleric (of some kind) but it was too MAD. Plus, lower casting level would hurt in the end...

His page of builds look like they might be interesting but fuck that video format; it is so annoying to use as you are playing the game. Fast forward, nope too far, rewind, damnit too far, fast forward, now waste a minute playing the video to get to the part you need to be...SUM BITCH, respec...

That's unfortunate. I was starting to look forward to binge watching HOTD when the season was over, after a majority of the people in that thread seemed to be liking it.

If it's every 3 to 5 years, it seems like a whole home generator is well worth the cost and time. Maintenance shouldn't even be that hard. Fire it up annually, to check functionality (around Memorial day or Fourth of July weekend) and drop more fuel treatment in your fuel then you're gtg (for...

Some elves are immune to dragon fire, yo, but only if they have pure Valyrian Valinor blood! I assume they will portray it as a firestorm, even though it looks like they modeled the CGI on pyroclastic flows...the director wanted a cool shot, so they gave him a cool shot. As for the battle, it...

That is a Minnesota accent, mostly on the north half of the state even, and considered it's own thing. The Midwest is slightly larger than that. The accent for most of the midwest is nothing like Minnesota and difficult to distinguish from the west, outside of various local word choices. A...