The Phantom VI (the Phantom available in 1980) cost nearly nearly half a million pounds new. The Silver Spirit (or Spur depending on where you were) is probably the rolls you are thinking of, and it had a MSRP of a little over $100k new.

According to the CPI inflation calculator the Phantom would be about $1.4 million today, and the Silver Spirit would be about $334k.

This year’s phantom starts at around half a million but (IMO) it’s more of a “luxury car” compared to the ultra high end Phantom VI. But I think the Phantom is less of a car you buy and more of a modular platform you build your car on top of so I imagine there’s so multimillion dollar phantoms rolling (hehe) around

They aren’t fool proof, and relatively easy to detect from the source.

Source: high end AV tech for like half a decade

I feel like without oil the middle East would be like northern Africa. No real natural resources to kickstart an economy leading to seemingly perpetual poverty.

Ah you see, I’ve found a flaw in your plan! If they dont make unimaginable amounts of money how can they give the US president a $400m jet as a bribe gift???

Yeah but how would shell and the Saudi royal family make unimaginable amounts of money if we move to renewables??? I bet you didnt think of that liburul

Hasn’t Iran been talking about ramping up nuclear weapons production since like the end of last year? I don’t think they’re actually a nuclear capable nation but I could see them posturing like they are

Perfect is the enemy of progress

I disagree with the other person, rsync + ssh is faster even in my own benchmarks. But samba is plenty fast enough these days, I can easily have it max out my gigabit network so I don’t need anything faster. So for me (and I would guess the majority of people) speed really isn’t a concern anymore, so I use samba because it’s easy to use and it makes sharing network folders to anything else a breeze.

It’s like phones. Yeah technically the newest iPhone is faster than this years budget Samsung. But when’s the last time your phone was actually a bottleneck? (Unless you’re one of those people who play games, in which case, actually please respond cause I could use some really nice idle city builders for my phone pls)

Call of duty: first person shooter

Doom 1993: first person shooter

They are essentially the same game!

Their chicken tenders are some of the best fast food tenders you can get too. Plus they come with sourdough toast

I just wish they would fix bombers somehow. I wish I could fly my B-17 or B-29 and actually drop bombs.

All I want is high altitude carpet bombing, I know everyone else thinks it’s boring but it’s what I want 😭

All 5 of the dues ex games were good. And Ill die on that hill

Yeah I don’t know when this tweet is from but I imagine that it’s talking about the 50501 protests. Which the NY times covered extensively.

Hell right now there’s a half dozen articles on their homepage. Or if you don’t want that here’s an article, and Another article.

Then again, literally every single time I’ve seen a comment like this online talking about “nobody is talking about this!!!” every single major newspaper has multiple articles about it. I don’t know why people keep falling for this when it’s the easiest thing on earth to prove. Like guys, just Google the thing “”“nobody”“” is talking about.

DnD is also a game that utilizes table rules pretty much all the time. It’s possible that his DM gave more flexible rules, I know my DM will if you have a convincing argument.

But also, buddy definitely says “you’re one of the good ones” to his black coworkers

Tbh, I don’t care what the “intent” was. Swinging an animal by its feet into a wall because it stole your chips is an entirely inappropriate response.

Like if you kicked a dog in the head because it peed in your lawn. It’s a disgusting and very much non-proportional response.

No but brutally killing an animal in public in front of children is.

It’s almost like different people enjoy different things haha

~30% of Americans are functionality illiterate, 2nd grade or worse reading level.

First of all, you’re a little high. It’s only ~21% of Americans who are functionally illiterate. Source

Second, the thing people forget about that statistic is it’s more or less in line with European countries like Germany, England. And we have better literacy rates than countries like Ireland, France, or Spain. Source

don’t let them catch you, you WILL lose your job

Hey director of IT for a trucking company here, i just want to reiterate this part!

Don’t fucking do this. Any of this advice. You WILL lose your job and we WILL blacklist you from the industry for this shit. Maybe if you drivers could actually mange your fucking log books and follow the safety regulations we wouldn’t need to have ELDs and camera and GPS and fucking canbus monitoring and annual inspections and all of the other “”“invasive nonsense”“” the government requires.

I dont want it either. Its all crazy expensive, annoying to manage, and I have to constantly deal with drivers complaining about it.

Sorry. I’m a little upset with this issue because its a constant issue i have at work. But no there is nothing you can do besides just get another job.

I just want to reiterate it again. Do NOT mess with the equipment your company has in your truck. At best you’ll just get fired but I’ve seen my company respond with legal measures in the past.

Which is the reason the right to bear arms is the second amendment.

The founding fathers anticipated and understood that without the ability to defend it, the right to free speech only exists while the population and propaganda are in agreement.