I think the audio detail was so high because it helped to sell the realism of the game. Go back and play those early games and they don’t look nearly as good as my brain remembers, but the audio helped to fill in the lack of gravel looking texture and leaves tussling sounds in bushes that had two twigs on them.
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It’s actually more Tesla related than most people know/think. Dodge for the last several years has basically been selling majority V8s which go against most CAFE regulation. So in order to meet the efficiency metric they needed they bought carbon credits from Tesla. So all those supercharged V8s and 392 scat packs existed because of Tesla, and Fiat Chrysler (at the time) helped to keep Tesla afloat by purchasing credits. It’s becoming more difficult for that now, but they built so much of their brand around their V8s that most customers are turning away. Not to mention that the new I6 and I4 have massive problems all over. It’s an even longer story that the cnbc video, but given their timeline for vehicle launches this is either going to be a bumpy few years for Stellantis or it will falter until it slowly sells off brands or just stops brands all together. Chrysler only makes one car, Dodge has like 4, and Jeep was cool until a plastic car costs 70k now.
I’m a RAM truck owner and even I don’t understand how they fucked up this badly. The one thing they do have is that during the pandemic they were able to source more chips for their vehicles due to an existing relationship with a manufacturer somehow and so they actually won quite a bit of fleet/government business since they were the only option. Of course some of those cars are failing now…
It was free. It’s a marketing stunt. People were selected to put their resume on a box and say which offices they wanted it to go to. Pizza Hut then sent them free pizza with the resume on it. It’s all in the article.
Low income is also better in uncertain budget times as Title 1 funds make sure they have both fed and state funds. Here in Cali our property taxes mean that the schools in poor areas are the most well funded and the schools in rich older areas are the least well funded. Just with variations on what “rich” means here too.
If you have a state pension system too don’t forget to look into how that works for your district. There are some in my area that actually don’t pay the full percentage so teachers have a worse retirement than if they went to a different district with slightly less pay. So it’s all about the long game.
Then your union is negotiating it if they’re of any value. All the teachers unions around me negotiated 14-25% raises over 3 years over the last few years. If you’re a younger teacher you should look to job hop though. If you’re tenured you’re sorta stuck. In my area there’s three districts of the like 40~ I always push people that are new to end up in as once tenured in them you’ll earn well over 6 figures, even at the elementary level.
Source: former education and still friends with my teacher colleagues.
In San Jose that’s not even bedroom rental territory, but in Fresno that’s a decent apartment and in Redding that’s a small house you’d be able to get. It’s not great, but Cali also has a super diverse background of where minimum wage goes farther. What’s ironic is the people in the areas that benefit more from this (Redding and other more rural areas) will likely vote against it.
Just drove around the bay (Concord to Atherton, Santa Cruz to San Jose, and then back to SF before going back home). There was a lot of trump flags and supporters on bridges and vehicles driving around. There’s a lot of Trump supporters even in Progressive Bay Area regions. Lots of tech bros now are big Trump supporters. That said, the west coast has far, far less than other regions.