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Is there a used electric truck old enough to be $20,000?

The closest thing I can think of is violence or loot boxes, but not all video games.

There may be a market.

The big 3 have been chasing larger trucks, effectively abandoning this market. I can see this being a farm truck that gets beat to shit.

They've had a lot of skirmishes in the past and haven't nuked each other yet.

That's tech companies for you.

Why else would they make all this for free?

Department of Transportation?

To add onto this, you're also seeing a greater development of the nerd fan, propped up by fantasy football and gambling.

Before, a fan would be interested in their team and maybe a few others. You now have people dedicated to the league, treating it as the RNG running their games. That means knowing all teams, all players, and even how coaching staff will use players as that affects their own games and possibly even their own bottom lines.

I was labeled as gifted growing up, part of it being I was the smartest kid in the classroom in a lot of my classes. That generally meant that no one really celebrated if I did well academically since it was expected. It was really only a celebration if someone beat me. So I never got used to celebrating what I did since it would just piss people off.

My mom would also usually claim my accomplishments as her own since she raised me and my success was due, in large part, to her.

So I got used to not getting a sense of accomplishment when I accomplished something.

Goldmember...

A lot of print media is dead. Magazines have shriveled up. Newspapers are dying.

I don't think the Internet provided an equivalent replacement.

Mexico will let you become a permanent resident if you can show that you have about $300,000 in savings or investments. Because of that, there are retirement communities being built in Mexico for American retirees.

It isn't that much different moving to the Yucatan than it is moving to Florida except the cost.

For some reason, monogamy was the default in Europe, and that default goes back thousands of years. There were times when men could have second or more partners, but they were never on the same level as wife and any children born from these unions weren't entitled to inherit anything from the father. It is just a cultural signifier that goes back before Christianity; Romans were monogamous.

To add to this, Western peoples have slowly redefined marriage over the past century to go from a man and his wife to the union of two people. This has given women more power in marriage while also allowing for same gender marriages, since gender is no longer a defining characteristic of marriage in a Western society. I would see same gender marriages being harder in a polygamous society as gender is hard coded into the rules.

As for the Western aversion to polygamy, you've seen a lot of people here describe polygamy as "less civilized". That belief has been around for centuries, so it isn't tied to marriage equality For instance, the statehood of Utah was delayed until the Mormon church gave up polygamy.