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Mirikado

And who do you think is paying for these trades…? Usually middle or upper class white collars are the one paying for trade services. They are the main group that hire people to do their plumbing, electrical work, HVAC, fixing their cars, clean their roofs… White collars pay for trade services. They are the biggest client base. If all these white collars lost their jobs and cut on spending, it will hit people in the trades as well, severely. Maybe instead of spending $700 on fixing their car, the jobless white collars will just deal with driving a shitty car with a broken AC instead and only fix it when they find a job, or maybe never. That’s hundreds of dollars in labor that an auto mechanic lost out because their clients can no longer afford the service. You get the idea. Smaller client base, less jobs to do, while more competition because everyone flocks to trades because “AI can’t replace me” thinking. End results is a race to the bottom. Sure AI might not be able to replace people in the trades but those people would make jackshit if no one is hiring them due to their clients being broke.

stupidber

Europeans don't have AC you american spy

Heidruns_Herdsman

[Gazes down with a look of superiority from the balcony of my Pasivhaus, built to such a high standard that AC and heating are not required and net exporter of electricity to the grid, at some kind of chuckling medieval vagrant.]

r4rLIC

They have no AC! 🫵😂

InIce1234

AC Milan

Woolly-Willy

I'm a long time lurker. Barely dabbled in options and some meme stock. I had anxiety for a few weeks about buying a new (to me) car and an AC/furnace for my house that it needed I truly can't fathom how some of you endure but god bless your sacrifices 🤣

originalrocket

Agreed. 2016 Honda Accord. Summer with AC= 36-40 mpg. Winter below 20F for weeks = 26-29 mpg. I pre-heat with block heater every morning, but by far, the largest killer of my mpg's is my performance winter tires.

lmaccaro

Those are all the things I would take an EV for. EVs can run the AC for a week in the woods off one charge. EVs can crawl off road at walking speed for days. You’d need a lake of fuel to do that in a gas vehicle.

Final7C

All of the big 3 do a shitty job with EVs. Let me explain. Either they don't actually want to make a good car. Or they don't know how to make a good car. The EVs have been underpowered, with middling ranges, with prices that are too high to make sense for almost anyone. The hybrid is what they should have been doing 20 years ago. but instead they laughed in oil. They kept full ICE vehicles and put an outrageous markup on EVs and anything close to a Hybrid. Teslas would probably still sell really well if Elon hadn't gone and got into politics. The problem is, conservatives tend to dislike EVs. And there is a lot to dislike EVs from a visceral level. 1.) They take at a minimum 30-45 minutes to fully charge. At best. Is that a long time, well, when you're used to 2-5 minute fill up times, yes. It's a long ass time. If you run out of energy on the side of the road, a tow truck or an electric generator is the only thing that can help you now. 2.) They cost more than comparable ICE Cars. They use less parts, but the parts are more expensive. They also know that people who want an EV will pay through the nose for it. At least that was the thought. They saw Teslas and thought - Boy, I bet we could crank out a piece of shit EV and it would sell like hot cakes... Except, The reason why Teslas were so coveted, is Elon made an expensive car, that was fun. It seemed futuristic, and it didn't feel like he was shitting them out as the lowest bidder. And the ones that he was shitting out, those were priced similar to a midsize sedan and STILL went faster and further than the Big 3's EVs. paying an extra 20k for a car, just doesn't work. 3.) They don't have as many options as ICE cars. They are so worried about making a car that goes as far as an ICE car, that they cut out all the bells and whistles because it reduces range. 4.) They are heavier, and thus cannot pull as much as an ICE vehicle. And lose charge when under load (not much different than a big engine using more gas, but the difference is, the ICE F150 has a towing capacity of 8,200lbs - 13,500lbs. vs the Lightning of 7,000 -10,000lbs.) 3,500 lbs is significant. especially if you're buying the truck to tow. 5.) They have a maximum range that is less than a current ICE vehicle, and the re-fill structure isn't nearly as well developed as ICE vehicles. And they haven't cracked the code on fast refill. 6.) EVs are a direct competitor to most of the secondary market for the auto industry. - The companies that make the parts (replacement and otherwise) for the cars are suddenly not going to have as many parts, meaning hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs are gone. Your car doesn't need an exhaust, anything in the engine block, it needs 4 identical motors, (well maybe 2 sets of 2), you need chassis and suspension, you need, electrical, a heater, an AC, a wiper system. But the big ticket items of a transmission and engine are gone. replaced with a battery pack and wiring harness. 7.) Range anxiety is a stupid but real thing. Oh no, my car only gets 200 miles to the charge. The average rural driver drives around 40 miles per day. Do some drive more than that? yes. But we're talking averages. That is from home, to work, and all side trips, 40 miles. In the harsh winter that means you're probably needing to charge due to the 39% drop in efficiency (ICE vehicles tend to use 15-24% more gas on cold days). But it's still WELL within the range that most people drive per day. but because it's not 500+ miles, we all freak the out. 8.) The Oil and gas industry is literally a MAJOR part of the american economy. It is one of the largest employers in the US, and you won't find most of its workers switching to EVs anytime soon. That's like watching someone from GM drive a Toyota. Here's what Tesla did to make themselves successful. 1.) They pulled an APPLE. They made something fun, that just seemed to work. 2.) They were a vertical monopoly. They build all the components themselves. ALL of the software/hardware was developed by Tesla, all of the batteries were built by Tesla. That's HUGE difference in how the software worked. It's why most other makers touchscreens and media centers feel like total dogshit. Because every component was made by a different manufacturer. And all told to "Just work together". Instead of building a single unified software/hardware package. They had tons of individual lines doing a segment, then slapped them into a different hardware package. And it feels clunky and unintuitive. Because they KNEW we'd buy it no matter what. afterall, almost no one chooses a car based on the media center. So why spend the money on it, just make it mostly functional. The problem is, most of the parts to these cars are the same way. They work, and they mostly work together, but they don't feel made for the vehicle they are going in. instead they feel like they are just sourced from a big bin of "generic parts" and made to fit. It's really just a slap in the face of anyone who wants to be in one. They are actively made them underpowered. You know what sold 50% of the people on a tesla. Insanity mode. The ability to go from 0-60 in about 3 seconds. That sold more Teslas than ANY OTHER THING. The next biggest thing was "He released an update over the air, increasing range , no need to take it in, it just updates wirelessly." It was cool, dangerous as fuck and not a great idea to allow a car to be "always tied to the manufacturer" but cool. It is hard to sell "We purposefully made your life harder, to help you". Hybrids are a good route for them to take. it allows them to figure out the fucking battery problems, it gets everyone used to the angel halo sounds, and excitement at getting more than 20mpg while still driving a big ass SUV. and they can charge "a bit" more. Not waaay more, but a bit more. Politics of the current admin wanting to gobble Oil Exec's giblets while handing their asses to OPEC. All while basically cutting out ANY price incentives AND adding tariffs to all foreign cars and any EVs and EV parts. It makes sense that for the next 3 years or so Ford, and GM are going to say "We can't survive a lack of demand" And instead of learning the "lesson we keep trying to teach you old man" they are going to just stop, and switch only to hybrids. Which is still a step, but a 1/2 step at best. But you know what... maybe this will give them the chance to figure out how to make a decent car.

East_Jacket_7151

I know yall are much more savvy, but I’m doing just fine with my mutual funds. I moved a lot to SMCWX, pretty happy so far. When the market falls, it doesn’t fall as hard as the large caps. Instead of Nvidia, the top find is doing AC work in data centers. I thing American focused funds are going to underperform in the next few years.

PizzaDominotrix

Adding my anecdotal information to this: I've gone through four 2nd gen Priuses. Still have 3, one was wiped out by a drunk driver. (I walked away with no injuries.) One at ~175k, one at ~220k, and one at 320k miles. 100k of that 320k has been purely beating on it doing food delivery. These were all heavily used <$5,000 cars. All still averaging ~45mpg today, with the worst being in the upper 30's in 0 degree weather like this, with lots of idle time and the heat maxed out, and the best still landing in the upper 50's in the summer, driving with a heavy foot trying to make money. All still on the original drive train and hybrid batteries. All still in "good" health according to the Dr. Prius app, and look good using Torque to monitor the voltage deltas across the battery packs. They need oil changes and fluids of course, brake pads like once every ~150k miles, wheel bearings similarly around like every 100k miles, and I've gone through some tie rods. A lot of work is surprisingly easy to DIY. Even replacing the capacitor on the combo meter (speedometer) in one -- a failure point on this car worth ~$1,000 to fix at a shop -- was relatively simple to do and I did it in a weekend as a leisurely shade tree mechanic with basic tools. They're not literally flawless, but they're incredibly solid and have saved me a ton of money not just in gas, but in repairs and the time spent on them. The fact that they just fire up and go, every day, and do what I expect them to do. I've known people who have had to resort to living in these, and the extra capacity for heat/AC, or just electricity was a total game changer. I'll be sticking to gen 2 Priuses until I literally cant anymore, and I don't foresee owning another ICE vehicle again.

Southern-Garbage6226

It's going to be big. It's already how trains and cranes are powered. The loiter time on these 100k, mobile, foreman offices is going to sell them. AC for days.

ETFBro4DaWinz

Data centres were outsourced by big tech because there's no money in them. Even if the own the building WTF are you gonna do with huge, windowless building that has an insanely expensive AC system?

R12Labs

I just want a $15k to $20k off the lot bare bones truck with a radio, heat, AC, and hand crank windows. I don't want a $100k truck that needs 10k of repairs every year.

Ok_Environment_3618

$CVNA will replace $SMCI $DELL to use cars as the new datacentre instead of liquid systems. This is how it works: First, chips will be added in stacks using gear rods and then turn on AC to cool the system. Also, you can power on the chips using car batteries. This is a new prototype which will be released soon by carrvana. Everyone stack up before inevitable pump 🤑

ThatFreakImHim

Add some mini splits for your AC needs. Radiant heat is much more comfortable in the winter/not drafty and maintains a steadier temperature. Don't know the utility prices near you, but wouldn't use them to heat.

BrandNewBiz

that 7% return assumption is pretty conservative honestly.. especially if your friend is already up 50% this year. But the real question is - does he want to be a landlord or an investor? Those are two totally different games. The fire/water risk thing is real. I've seen properties in Colorado get absolutely hammered by wildfire insurance hikes. One place i looked at went from $3k to $12k annual premium in two years. And if he's in California? Forget about it. Some carriers just straight up won't write policies anymore. Plus vacation rentals can be a pain when something breaks at 11pm on a Saturday and guests are freaking out about the AC not working.

Big_Development1867

Only reason to go to AC right now. It kinda helps the social anxiety.

theSherlockView

You can see [here](https://x.com/joshcrumb/status/1998173818981097644?s=46&t=AC5YvqCpT0W7R6Xux2UenQ)

jawstrock

Depends how long it all takes I think, I doubt anything could be done with CNN fast enough to influence viewers. If they get rid of people like AC the viewership goes to 0.

fbiorsherifflol

it was post covid, but doesn't matter, I'm not the one retard bag holding an asset that at best goes up 5% a year (enjoy fixing that AC unit bud) but you probably forgot you're paying 100% of the asset in interest over the length of your contract? you probably didn't even know that when you signed the dotted line lmao

DolanTheCaptan

I have a hard time seeing how PSUs are going to be jacked up much. Their core function is to take 230V AC (if you live in a civilized country), filter out noise, and turn it into a variety of voltages up to 12V in a filtered state, all while handling load changes. That is a much less complicated and very different job from processing. It'd take a spike in material prices or by some weird alignment of stars for capacitors to start becoming very expensive for PSUs to change in price.

Canadian_Border_Czar

Personally I just buy a big spotlight at shine it on my ISPs headquarters, then flicker in binary.  The real problem is that my spotlight runs on AC, and it's not the 802.11 kind.

kingdongalong1

I do work in the industry yes. I work for a major equipment manufacturer selling to data centers. I'm not talking about DX CRACS. I'm talking about AC Chillers. WC builds while more efficient are limited in my experience primarily because of water usage concerns built into lease agreements

Groovey_Dude

Well some people state that AC stations by like any other company have more “variety” than the iHeartMedia ones such as either having more currents/90s/2000s stuff and less 80s or simply more 90s/2000s stuff with less 80s but around the same amount of current titles. Others believe AC doesn’t even have variety anymore due to big companies except on locally owned stations and they might even believe AC should go back to soft rock re add 70s music and even add softer new titles too mixed in with let’s say Taylor Swift and Maroon 5.

Lost_Percentage_5663

Paradigm shifted. AC can't defeat nowadays GTA or Elden Ring stuffs. All they have are dead IPs.

Upstairs_Whole_580

It was 100% about the performance for me. The tenants was never a problem. I was maybe lucky. I know I was priced a bit below the market, but I always had a waiting list. I COULD have hired a management company... and was considering doing that. I had one that was willing to manage all the properties for 3.5% of net income... which wouldn't have been bad. One wanted 7% and they had better reviews so I was kinda debating that at the time. So I could have stopped dealing with the maintenance and all that. I did cry myself to sleep for about a month when I had to put new AC units in one apartment complex. A 40 unit building. 3 identical 40 unit properties, in 2020, 750K for a new AC unit for one of them. Now they were all the same age and the other two were fine(they'd had some repairs, but still). But, I wasn't outsourcing that yet so it was just non-stop. My Dad, now 70 spent \~15 years working basically a full-time job... he basically got a work vehicle and free tools out of it and never expected more. So I was in an enviable situation there. Even when I sold it, despite all the time he'd put into it, the sweat equity and even co-signing for me when I was younger, 7 figure loans. He asked for nothing in return. Best day of my life was when the 15 acres around his house, the hole reason he bought the house he bought, there were 15 acres, a tower and then farms on either side and a nature preserve behind it. That went up for sale and they were going turn it into a sub division(most likely). I'd put 15% into an account for him and my Mom and invested in nearly all the same equities I did. NVDA, AMZN, META, GOOGL, MSFT, AVGO and then bonds. That was in late '21/early '22. The owners came to him first and he said he didn't want to buy... and I was able to buy it for him. He was never going to take the money and his entire sentiment at this point is to make sure he leaves enough money for his kids. So I told him take it, build a house and it'll be worth 3X what he spend in 30 years. That was the best thing that came out of all of this. And... he didn't even sell any of those stocks, he just felt more confident in taking money out of his Roth and he's building a beautiful house and my Sister is moving in the house they were living in. 2 houses on about 20 acres 15 minutes outside of the City. It's a pretty cool little set up. Anyway... sorry, that was way off topic.

Key-Courage3634

Finally, I’m seeing a relevant comment. I don’t understand where all this hate for Ubisoft comes from (yes, they’re not doing too well at the moment, the management needs to change), but I don’t think Tencent invested those €1.16 billion randomly. If I’m not mistaken, Far Cry 7 is in development, as well as AC Hexe and AC Jade. They need to cut some of their fixed costs (they have way too many employees) and increase the quality of their games in order to recover (oh, and yes, without media scandals). As for me, I’ve started accumulating; I bought at the price of €6.5. I’m sure they have a budget planned for several years, and even if a bear market or a crisis comes, they will still release what they planned.

grailly

Good luck trying to have a decent conversation about Ubisoft on Reddit. You'll just get a bunch of dumb gamers thinking they're smart by repeating some flavour of "Ubisoft bad". Truth is, they don't even know what Ubisoft puts out other than Assassin's Creed and imagined a world where Shadows was bad and a flop. Anyway, as others have said, it's a risky investment. They are huge (slow) and desperately need a turn around as they are losing money every quarter. They did initiate the turn-around however and the latest quarter, while not great, was at least encouraging. Anno just came out and seems like it did decently. There are a bunch of projects coming up that might have some impact. The Avatar DLC is coming out alongside the movie, which might be a good opportunity for the game. Hyped up cross-media tends to boost games quite a bit. Ubisoft also has a bunch of other TV series coming. Star Wars seems to have done decently on Switch 2, Assassin's Creed Shadows might do decently too. A whole bunch of remakes are also coming, Prince of Persia and (rumored) AC4 and Splinter Cell. Those might do well. It seems like a turning point to me. If you believe they can pull off straightening the ship, now's the time to buy. In you think they cannot, there's still a chance a making money off of a buyout. I like my chances, honestly. I personally think Ubisoft's biggest issues are optics, people have convinced themselves that Ubisoft only makes bad games. It's not as bad a hole to dig themselves out of as actually making bad games. TV series might be a good step for this (worked wonders for Fallout). I'm also looking forward to the new Heroes game. The demo was pretty good. It's not exaclty a Ubisoft game, but it might strengthen their IP.

CG_throwback

Not only about performance. I don’t like the headache. Replacing an AC system. Leaky pipes. Finding new tenants. Just a huge no thank you.

MHWGamer

ubisoft is trash and everyone is hating it. GenZ brainwashed gamers play f2p games and couldn't give a shit about new "ubisoft" titles as they literally don't know any banger game that is from ubisoft. The management with Yves stays the same, the employee count is insane and there have nothing in their pipeline to convince anyone that they are not trash. Ubisoft will get bought by china or suadi arabia... doesn't change that for the next 5-10 years, they literally can't change the direction they are heading (aka right into the trash bin). Even AC doesn't farm on the mindless gamers anymore

silverfutes

Imagine being Pharaoh, literally god on earth, sweating his nuts off cause he didn’t have AC. I can’t even get a second date when they find out my truck AC is out.

Negative_Win_5117

CNCK up 140% today. Can’t find any news other than an SEC filing from 11/28 referring to this slide deck. Im gonna make a small gamble on this one tomorrow. https://archive.fast-edgar.com/20251128/AC2XK22CK222K2Z2222T22YZO5LNZ292B272/a202511coincheckinvestor.htm

Rebar4Life

AC said 10%.

Canadian_Border_Czar

Still need a realtor to really sell that "nice cross breeze" aka no AC you peasant.

TenderfootGungi

I have talked to family and friends that are retired. Some are OK living on SS alone. One owned a modest home outright. They had less than $100k in savings at retirement and is doing OK because they only use it for emergencies (e.g. AC broke) and keep it invested. Another is doing OK with no savings, but had to move into a small income adjusted apartment. They pay like $500 a month rent and their kids live nearby. But I also know several that are struggling. One owns a house, but it is not in good shape and they cannot afford to fix it. They borrow money from my parents to get groceries towards the end of the month (they always pay back). And had to have someone gift them a car. To attend a family event, like a birthday, the family has to send them the money for gas. And that is with people giving them stuff constantly (an old coworker has a standing Walmart food delivery). My favorite is the one that found a house with a "mother in law" apartment built in. They technically live in the same house but have separate entrances. But yes, that is exactly what you described.

BackgroundUnusual428

Do you hear yourself? I guess AC isn’t in their vocabulary. 🤡 

monumentValley1994

>Tickets for everything, not just movies. I still have my $12.50 AC/DC ticket from 1983. And sadly ppl have considered that as normal, which sucks.

SoulStripHer

Tickets for everything, not just movies. I still have my $12.50 AC/DC ticket from 1983. Entertainment is a disgustingly overpaid industry.

thejumpingsheep2

Yes if your electricity is cheap then this is all moot. In CA, we are billed about $0.35/kwh on average I would say. More during peak hours which are critical times of the day, and less in super off peak which is from midnight to 6am. Its a total rip off over here with peak hours costing around $0.50. This is why we want batteries. A lot has happened since my post above. Enphase never did figure it out. They just kept making the same product with very minor upgrades. Their battery system is still the worst money can buy. SEDG is making a comeback despite their lousy track record with inverters failing. They had lost tons of market share but are not getting it back because the only other competitor is SMA who bought TIGO to have their own optimizer. ENPH remains popular with installers because its easy to install but you can see the tide shifting back to SEDG. ENPH dropped the ball big time. They did stop advertising their battery system as "AC coupled" and are telling the truth that they are plain DC batteries. Instead they are now advertising them as "safe low voltage" batteries which is still BS.

cashflow_

I have no clue. its like 65-75 here year round. Also don’t use AC

Thisispaartaaa

Assassins creed odyssey is a fucking awesome game....Valhalla is pretty dope too....Valhalla was the first AC game I ever played, loved it so much, I bought the older odyssey...it was even better than Valhalla!

ChaseballBat

It's a townhome, 2k sf with AC and huge garage, either way not buying isn't a good sign when they were selling fine 5 months ago

ChaseballBat

My home has been on the market for 75 days, ~13% price drop from the price I bought it at in 2022. 830k to 699k. Started listing at 740. Also every single time I do a price drop redfin redoes their value to be like 4k lower so it looks over valued... Not to mention the other identical houses are valued at like 760k. And multiple sold between 760-775k less than a year ago without AC (mine has it). Not a single, not one, low ball offer. Nothing. It's a townhome so it's a slightly different/worse market than single fam, but still... It gets tons of compliments but people who want it aren't putting offers out. Getting under 700k definitely produced a ton more showings but ugh. Literally negative equity AND closing cost blows dick as a millennial... Got about 4 more months till the GBC kicks in... Shit is rough out here.

Pretty_Ad_7885

He made AC power and fucked a pigeon

Adept-Grapefruit-753

I'm well-aware why I'm being downvoted and don't really care, I'm not interested in Reddit for the karma. I understand that my frugality reaches to an extreme level which is not sustainable for most people in the US that allowed me to reach homeownership a lot sooner than most. And you're not completely wrong about my attitude, although I'll modify it for you; my attitude is that most people in their twenties could afford a house if they cut down on consumption. Lattes and avocado toasts? Sure. But also they can choose to cut many other things that could make a significant difference – vacations for one, while saving for a down payment. Eating out: one commenter mentioned that this could add up to 5k a year for just the weekends. Cars: my city is not considered particularly walkable by the majority and everyone insists on having a car, but it is not as necessary as claimed. The list goes on and on and one does not have to cut all of them to afford a home within, say, 8 years of saving, *especially* if it's a two person household, but an average person cannot maintain every luxury they have while also complaining about the unaffordability of homes.  What I see in my everyday life is that my peers insist on maintaining every convenience while also desiring a home. Life is about compromises and they are not making any.  I don't see any problem with having a car, eating out, using AC, avocado toasts and coffee, having children, or taking vacations – that's perfectly fine if those are one's priorities. Everyone is free to spend their money as they please. The problem is the fact that people complain about renting forever if they're unwilling to forgo one or two or three of them. It seems that the main barrier to homeownership is the down payment as usually the monthly payment of renting vs owning are approximately the same (plus or minus a few hundred dollars depending on location). Saving for a down payment is a temporary endeavor, and people are not saving even temporarily, and I'm sick of those who feel entitled to every luxury possible at all times in their adult life. 

bearhunter429

I consider them as part of AC2.

nyse25

Unironically yes. Shadows just barely above Odyssey though. I hate the RPG AC games that have disregarded the lore in favor of grindy and tedious mechanics.

bearhunter429

AC3 sucked too. AC4 was good though.

nyse25

AC1-4 were the shit then the franchise fell off

Admirable_Hand9758

It's literally no contest. [https://presidentialdata.org/](https://presidentialdata.org/) [https://www.google.com/search?q=budget+deficit+under+clinton&oq=budget+deficit+under+clinton&gs\_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQABgWGB4yCAgCEAAYFhgeMggIAxAAGBYYHjINCAQQABiGAxiABBiKBTINCAUQABiGAxiABBiKBTIKCAYQABiABBiiBNIBCTc2NjZqMGoxNagCCLACAfEFZui0WYbTJAo&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8](https://www.google.com/search?q=budget+deficit+under+clinton&oq=budget+deficit+under+clinton&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQABgWGB4yCAgCEAAYFhgeMggIAxAAGBYYHjINCAQQABiGAxiABBiKBTINCAUQABiGAxiABBiKBTIKCAYQABiABBiiBNIBCTc2NjZqMGoxNagCCLACAfEFZui0WYbTJAo&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) [https://www.google.com/search?q=budget+deficit+under+george+w+bush&sca\_esv=9bd0e26604fdbc2f&ei=fMIgaenGCr2t5NoPu6rx0As&oq=budget+deficit+under+cbush&gs\_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiGmJ1ZGdldCBkZWZpY2l0IHVuZGVyIGNidXNoKgIIADILEAAYxwMYCBgNGB4yCxAAGIAEGIYDGIoFMgsQABiABBiGAxiKBUi4LlCtBVj6HXABeAGQAQCYAaYBoAGeCaoBAzQuNrgBAcgBAPgBAZgCC6AC2QnCAgoQABiwAxjWBBhHwgIFEAAYgATCAgYQABgWGB7CAggQABiABBiiBMICBRAhGKABwgIFECEYnwWYAwCIBgGQBgiSBwMyLjmgB48xsgcDMS45uAfTCcIHBTAuNC43yAck&sclient=gws-wiz-serp](https://www.google.com/search?q=budget+deficit+under+george+w+bush&sca_esv=9bd0e26604fdbc2f&ei=fMIgaenGCr2t5NoPu6rx0As&oq=budget+deficit+under+cbush&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiGmJ1ZGdldCBkZWZpY2l0IHVuZGVyIGNidXNoKgIIADILEAAYxwMYCBgNGB4yCxAAGIAEGIYDGIoFMgsQABiABBiGAxiKBUi4LlCtBVj6HXABeAGQAQCYAaYBoAGeCaoBAzQuNrgBAcgBAPgBAZgCC6AC2QnCAgoQABiwAxjWBBhHwgIFEAAYgATCAgYQABgWGB7CAggQABiABBiiBMICBRAhGKABwgIFECEYnwWYAwCIBgGQBgiSBwMyLjmgB48xsgcDMS45uAfTCcIHBTAuNC43yAck&sclient=gws-wiz-serp) I honestly don't know where you're looking.

TemporaryInflation8

I have .25 AC and my guy wanted 800 to mulch and 750 for leaves. Wtf? They wanted 5k to rock the deck and sides.

1ThousandDollarBill

If you want someone to turn the AC down do you tell them to turn the AC down or do you say, “is it hot in here” or “I’m kinda hot”?

Successful-Tea-5733

I think the question is really do you want to be a long distance landlord? Me personally, I would not. I don't think you have a tax problem, your gain is well within the $500k allowed. And historically equity returns have outperformed real estate returns. The only real advantage with real estate is leverage, you have a bit of that here because you could keep your low interest mortgage. If it were me, I would only keep it if I thought I might move back in the next 10 years. I think mathmatically you are better off in equities and you're never going to get a call at 3 AM from VOO or QQQ telling you that the AC went out or the plumbing backed up and an emergency repair costs $10,000.

WSB-mods-are-

bears: a 240p black and white video feed SPY: A fully loaded AC-130

swoodshadow

Depends on the house you’re buying and where you’re buying it, but almost certainly… yes. Too many expenses scale with the house: - property tax - utilities - the work required to keep it livable - cost of replacing windows - cost of replacing one of the two furnaces or three AC units. And so on. I’m sure there are places where you can get a relatively simple house for 20 million. Places where the value is in the land or location. But those are few and far between. Normally this cost means the house is going to be big, complicated, and expensive to maintain.

xViscount

Find your top 3 coolant AC providers. When they start missing expectations or barely beating them, your bubble is popped. Until then. Pure vibes from me.

Bcider

I'm handcuffed to my house. Deck is falling apart, AC units are 25 years old. Got quoted absurd prices to replace so fuck it. 40k for two 3 ton AC units and furnace. Equipment prices for them are 10k at most. They'd be a full replacement, my house is already ducted to 2 older furnace/ac units. I'm supposed to pay 30k for 2 days worth of labor? Get the fuck out out here.

RogerDCuck

It didn't flop, no AC game can flop lol and I am part of people who hate modern AC more than anyone else.  Even Syndicate the least Successful AC game, the game that made Ubisoft change the whole series sold like 5.5 Million and I dont think AC Shadows was as disastrous as Syndicate. 

Moise_makes_me_moist

I don't want to give Elon any ideas but Did you know Thomas Edison (father of DC power and often called a charlatan) once got a death sentence changed to use Nicolas Teslas AC power to electrocute someone to show the dangers of AC and how it can kill you.

ButterscotchFeeling9

The last good Ubisoft game was AC: Black Flag

mardex_5

No, that claim isn’t true. Before Musk joined, Tesla already had founders (Eberhard and Tarpenning), a real business plan, technical direction, AC Propulsion drivetrain agreements and early engineering work based on the tzero concept. Musk didn’t create Tesla from a spreadsheet, he became the main investor who accelerated and scaled an already existing startup. First investigate and check your statements before writing...

No-Necessary-9026

J1772 is only single phase AC. As the MW goes up (DC fast charging) it’s either CCS or Tesla NACS. So far most brands are opting towards Tesla- Hyundai, Mercedez, Rivian, Kia. On top of the fact that Tesla still owns most superchargers for all those that use an adapter.

Crackastackaa

As a black jack dealer in AC my advice would be: always chase your losses. Hit up the ATM. The next shoe will be better....or it won't. Dont forget to tip your dealer!

varnums1666

I give AC shit for its gameplay but the open world studio can indeed make a pretty and detailed open world.

ThatOneGuy012345678

In the Northwest US, much of the generation is hydro electric facilities along the Columbia river, and for the most part is in the middle of nowhere. This means that where the people live and where the power is generated are nowhere near each other. There's a 1000 mile high voltage DC link (Pacific DC Intertie) from Celilo, Oregon (far north east) to Sylmar, California (near Los Angeles-ish). Losses on that line are only 2% or so, and you can move 3000+MW. I believe China has similar issues with their hydro facilities. Ultimately you can't really pick and choose where your hydro facilities are (can't really move a river, and the ideal hydro facility locations are wherever they happen to be), and if there's no people living nearby then that's that. With other power plants like nuclear and gas, you have much more flexibility, so they tend to be located closer to population centers. The eastern US and much of Europe is set up with power being generated closer to loads (in general). Moving power long distances is no problem. Sure, it takes transmission lines and sure, it costs money to build and operate those lines, but it's not as big of a deal as people think. 'A big deal' in the power industry is not the same thing as 'a big deal' in the general economy. Building a bunch of transmission lines will be 'huge' in the power industry, but is rounding error compared to the $30T US economy, or AI spend, or any number of other things. There's High Voltage AC links all over the place too. 300 mile lines for AC are very common. I'm not too knowledgeable about the European system, but I can almost guarantee that the difficulty and cost of building lines has a lot more to do with people problems than with engineering. China has shown that lines can be built very fast, and very cheap, if you steamroll over the people in the way. They've built an insane amount of generation and transmission in the last 30 years, and that level of building is probably orders of magnitude more than was built in the US during that timeframe.

Sheshirdzhija

But solar panels also peak at approximately the same time as AC?

TheHammer987

EVs are a bullshit problem. They charge at night. When the grid is at its lowest. In Texas, there are financial incentives to run your dryer in the evening because there is so much more power available. Guess when electric cars do the bulk of their charging. And guess how much power they use? Oh look! It's a 240 outlet, the same as a dryer. Many electric cars can use the 110 outlet instead, but literally no one ever says our grid can't handle people getting window mounted AC units. This is *anti ev propaganda* , it has no basis in reality.

buttplugs4life4me

It's so sad cause I loved Far Cry 3 and AC 4/5. FC3 was literally why I bought an AMD GPU back then to use Mantle with it lol Such a downfall. I hope someone picks up the pieces and makes proper games again.  It felt like they tried to switch to a FIFA/sports game release cycle with a new version every year with some minor updates and new characters and that's just not the right type of game for that...

extremelyannoyedguy

DC HV power distribution is already cheaper for longer distances and becoming more economical for shorter distances. AC is no longer a requirement.

shizuo-kun111

As much as I did enjoy AC Shadows (although it was flawed), even Tsushima was leagues better than it. Shadows only has it beat on its open world.

adrr

240V 50 amp circuit, same as my AC.

ChaseballBat

I bought a house in August. I've had my house on the market since late August/Early Sept. Zero offers. It's priced 130k under its value in 2022. Initially priced at 80k under and 50k worth of price drops. Nothing. Earlier this year same exact townhome sold for 775 without AC. I will end up paying 40k and have zero equity if we close after this last price drop. It is 100% all this administration's fault.

Coccolillo

Since the Covid it has been a zombie corp, and the woke path that they chose ultimately killed the last brand that was carry on the financials (AC). Most likely, given that they are French, the government will chip in for supporting them, but I see literally no-one interest in buying them without the French government concessions for massive layoffs…..

AJRNR

They really blew it with Dragon Age: Veilguard and doubled down with AC: Shadows. Both had huge upside potential.

staszewskyyy

After TheCrew drama and new AC games

ThatOneGuy012345678

Sure, when electricity was invented, it wasn't used for much other than lighting. Then came the washing machine. Then came dryers, refrigerators, etc... then stoves, then came AC, computers, then EVs, etc... There has been a gradual transition to electric for everything because it's the most efficient form of energy use (generally speaking). At this point, natural gas is used for heating only because burning gas at a power plant, and shipping electric to you doesn't make economic sense. But replace that natural gas generation with renewables and it can make economic sense if renewables are cheap enough. Induction stoves are also an improvement over natural gas and are slowly starting to take over. They're not like crap electric stoves of the past. 30% of energy is not lost from generation to home, not sure where you're getting that from. Typically 2-3% is lost over long distance transmission and about 10% is lost in distribution. If you really want to split hairs, a lot of fossil fuels are 'lost' too (flaring at oil pumps, leakage out of fracking sites, etc...). If you're going to count one you have to count the other. There's a lot of 'losses' in fossil fuels too. The lowest 'loss' fossil fuel is coal because very little of it is lost as it's a mineral and doesn't release gas as a byproduct of mining it like natural gas/oil.

Minus614

Between the launches of AC2 and AC:Brotherhood

LinxESP

No idea on their economics, but from the dev and consumer side: - The crew franchise being inferior to a direct competitor + stopkillinggames - Their suscriptions being inferior to game pass and ea - The division 3rd game (and the phone one?) got shafted - Talking about tom clancy's, no idea about ghost recon, siege probably doing ok - Was it the splatoon copy theirs? And that rollerblade? And some other - How the fuck did they got away with trackmania as a suscription? - Nadeo and red lynx (trackmania and trials) not incorporated like those studios who became "Ubisoft cityname" - AC, Far Cry probably carrying financials, R6S esports side maaaaybeeee? - Idk about that avatar game which being a 4A game feels like I should - Tried to join a lot of tooling towards the snowball engine or whatever is called because currently they are 4(?) actives engines. Studios didn't like it. - Rayman, rabbids, HoM&M stalled. It seems a *bit* too big to work properly but I don't shit, too busy playing wii shovelware to make profit as a multinational

phovos

I bet Trump has something in mind big for westinghouse he keeps talking about them to foreigners. I was thinking it was something nuclear but maybe its more something battery or even better high-voltage DC current transmission lines like China has got. The 'issue' with solar is that you have to 'get the energy to where you want it' since it uses real-estate far away from where the electricity is needed, mainly (obviously some fits inside cities, just not as much as square acres in the country). One solution is water electrolysis on site such that you have Hydrogen (H2), Oxygen (O2), Water, and Electricity all as possible 'products' such that you can distribute the 'load' (the yield, more like) of the incoming electricity in diverse ways such that the distance-to-consumer problem is less egregious. The other problem, is, yea, doing AC is obnoxious it takes a lot of equipment but it's 'necessary' for any-sort of long range transmission -- but that is kind of an anachronism; China has thousands of miles of HVDC that pumps serious juice straight from direct current sources to direct current consumers.

Competitive-Strain-7

[AC.TO](http://AC.TO) cause they hand out beer like pop free and unlimited.

Glock7enteen

I’ll never forget when I first started in 2020. Bought an airline company (AC.to) and lost $40 that same day. I nearly cried that night, was depressed all day and thought I was a failure. Now my portfolio jumps +/- 5000 per day just from shares.

SpeakCodeToMe

I agree with this comment and I think you can extrapolate it further into all of the downstream companies that have been buoyed by this. It is affecting every company that has anything to do with data center build out from AC and refrigeration to chips manufacturers. It is affecting the energy market and energy companies. There's a whole batch of companies that have grown up around the idea of providing small modular nuclear reactors largely in an effort to meet the demand from these data centers. It is affecting commodities miners and refiners who are scaling up to provide the rare earths etc for this massive build out. I read an estimate the other day that almost the entirely of GDP growth so far this year can be traced back to AI and data center build out.

raj6126

The plan makes no sense. BTC mining uses open air no air conditioning. Servers need air conditioning. So retro fitting facility with AC will cost an arm and a leg. They should just build new facilities.

Denselense

Yeahhh I had 80k or so in losses (I stopped looking after 60 cause why torture yourself when you’re havin fun.) I got a free weekend in Vegas and a couple weekend rooms in AC. Nothing fancy. So yeah I think the number is over 100 if you wanna just get free shit thrown at ya all the time.

9ninjas

I don’t gamble. That’s a thing??? AC?

Gladiz1972

I can't even remember the last time I was in Vegas 15-20 years ago I used to go a lot back in the 1980s and 90 s stayed at the Mirage mostly .By the way sorry to hear you lost money in these casinos me personally I have been around casinos since 1980 or so in AC at the old Playboy Club Casino I am always looking for an angle to beat these casinos especially with those bubble craps machines

GEN-RL-MiLLz

Your grandpa's a pussy. My dad would blow 100k in a night before he went out of business easy and he wasn't shit. This wasn't even vegas it was AC. Sound like grandpa was a fucking T tottling liar anyway and probably lost his money buying college degrees for everyone but you.

GABE_EDD

You have to look into one of these, sometimes it's easier to just pay someone who has one [https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61tahOcp+XL.\_AC\_UF894,1000\_QL80\_.jpg](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61tahOcp+XL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg)

pmotiveforce

You sound extra retarded. Tariffs aren't going away you dope, even if AC blocks these specific ones.

TheInkDon1

Great question! I posted the below on another sub some weeks ago, and I think it answers your questions nicely. I'm happy to discuss any of it with you. \------------------------------- Early on I think I realized that ["momentum" is a real thing](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0927538X18303998?via%3Dihub#preview-section-references) that could be exploited. That was confirmed for me in 2007 when I bought MCHFX, the Matthews China Fund, simply because it was going up, and *it doubled in 10 months.* After that experience I made a website, MutualFundUpgrading, to talk about MF momentum and how to "upgrade" from poorer-performing funds into better ones. (The site is long since dead.) Then in 2016 SILJ, Junior Silver Miners, *doubled in 4 months*. That's when I got serious about momentum investing. Fidelity Select Funds are Mutual Funds that cover about 35 sectors of the market. For a long time there have been people [momentum-trading them](https://www.google.com/search?q=fidelity+select+momentum+strategy&num=10&sca_esv=5314ac5036c6a181&rlz=1C1RXQR_enUS1137US1137&sxsrf=AE3TifOdnoEiAf0lJqzNkHqUZXjEpNlgcw%3A1761258757914&ei=Ba36aJPFN8jLp84PnOSK2AU&ved=0ahUKEwjT2_2UsLuQAxXI5ckDHRyyAlsQ4dUDCBE&uact=5&oq=fidelity+select+momentum+strategy&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiIWZpZGVsaXR5IHNlbGVjdCBtb21lbnR1bSBzdHJhdGVneTIKEAAYsAMY1gQYRzIKEAAYsAMY1gQYRzIKEAAYsAMY1gQYRzIKEAAYsAMY1gQYRzIKEAAYsAMY1gQYRzIKEAAYsAMY1gQYRzIKEAAYsAMY1gQYRzIKEAAYsAMY1gQYR0jSElDWBliKDHABeAGQAQCYAWKgAcQBqgEBMrgBA8gBAPgBAZgCA6AC0wHCAgcQIxiwAhgnwgIIEAAYogQYiQXCAggQABiABBiiBJgDAOIDBRIBMSBAiAYBkAYIkgcDMS4yoAejDLIHAzAuMrgHzwHCBwMyLTPIBwo&sclient=gws-wiz-serp). I was trying to get the guys at work interested in it, so I paper-traded it in real time, writing my picks on my whiteboard. Over the first **quarter** of 2017 the system returned 14%, vs. the S&P's 3.9%. And the drawdown on February 3rd was just a little worse than SPY's. And only 6 trades over the 3 months. Then I drifted away from that into some other things, but now I'm back and focused: Momentum on ONLY ETFs. And I use LEAPS Calls on those as stock substitutes. Also selling Covered Calls against those.

arbitraryBlue

They forgot to turn on the AC in the Oval Office, that's why that guy went down lol

R12Labs

Well Singapore is extremely rich and I've been told in Asian countries when you're rich, you get driven. All I'm saying is I don't want 80k fucking trucks with nightvision and a heads up display I want a truck with AC, heat, a radio, and roll up windows. I understand the elites want us all in debt but it's insane a car that will rust out in 10 years is the 2nd biggest purchase in your life behind your house. Ten year old cars with 100k miles are now 12 to 15k and it's disgusting.

TexansforJesus

Milan has AC, Inter, and fashion. Miran has…

NotAHost

100%. I agree that more oil reduces energy costs and benefits the economy, but so does more solar lol. Like I’m looking at adding solar to my house just as a redundancy and so I can crank that AC to 62 in the summer lol. Practically free energy is good.

NotAHost

The wildest part is how against solar the US is. Like my god, it offsets high demand from AC during the day, it’s redundant, adds more capabilities, lowers costs. It’s ok to use oil products, but don’t put all your eggs in one basket lol. Australia is floating 3 hours of free energy during peak solar hours. It’s absolutely insane. China also going wild. USA is like… it’s too woke, whatever that means.

OTMallthetime

5 million copies is what I saw as far as numbers go, in 6 months. To quote tech4gamers : "it had a strong start but it is currently their lowest sales in the series across the last 5 entries". Its the first AC game I didn't bother buying/playing in some capacity. The last far cry didn't impress me either, even if I am a big fan of Gus from BB.

CoffeeMaker999

This is a pet peeve of mine. The place we moved into has all kinds of shit painted that isn't supposed to be painted include wall outlets, AC vents and some (but not all) woodwork.

MrBudissy

Did y’all not hear the 37% increase in fraud loss mentioned in the call? $50 million for the quarter. AC is a cancer for this stock and company.

New_Ad_1682

Do you rent or something? I have a lawn guy, a pool guy and a cleaning lady and even I change my own AC filters.