agree here

vehicle safety improvements are one of the primary motivators (for me) to drive new cars. driving is dangerous and i want the best odds when the inevitable occurs

It criticized the potus, and threat of his ire is enough to scare corporations in 2025. A fairly concerning development

i guess it will depend a lot on where you bought

some parts of california have been affected by insurers more than others, but in those more minimally affected? prop tax is suppressed via prop 13 (for better or worse), and the cost of insurance is a drop in the bucket relative to what id be paying for a roof over my head otherwise tbh

yep

my life cannot be uprooted based on the whims of a crummy landlord or because my obligation has crept out of my budget

i bought conservatively and now have a tiny payment relative to what i’d otherwise have to pay to live in the bay area. peace of mind is hard to put a price on

This is semantic nitting and wastes time when for all practical intents and purposes humans understand the assertion being made and find it agreeable.

Plan for the evisceration of public services in the interest of privatizing them to enrich a select group of capital owners.

This stood out to me as well.

A pitfall for experts in one field to assume their skills are transferable.

>experts in one field [assuming] their skills are transferable

That appears to be the premise of DOGE.

This sentence also killed me:

>working on various projects I’m definitely not able to talk about

It's not because they're classified. It's because a bunch of unaccountable private citizens are plotting behind closed doors to tear down the government.

And they’re doing it while unironically shouting about the tyranny of unelected bureaucrats

It is a mark against our system that someone can get this rich without seeing a problem with all of this. We are told that capitalism makes smart people rich, but it does not appear to filter out gullible people.

that’s fairly on brand for hackernews

doubly so if it’s from a person with no expertise in the relevant field

I studied microbiology and biochemistry and I work in a medical lab.

Let's agree that news and articles that are shocking, scary, but not likely to happen, aka. clickbait, are even more common than comments like mine.