Hikermick

When parking i can get a good view of the immediate area, it's easy to spot pedestrians and oncoming cars. Pulling out is easy. If I have to back out I don't have such a good view. Yeah I get a look as I approach my car but by the time I sit down, click my seat belt, start the car, someone i didn't see could be coming along.

Thats why it's a cult, people get so invested they can't turn around.

I tried to use a simple example to make my point. You've ignored my point and are debating the imaginary example.

There is always the possibility the clog isn't in the toilet itself but further down the drain. You can test this by running faucets and seeing if the sinks drain properly

If there was no division there would be no need to protest as we would have voted for the candidates we wanted

Ok let's say for example a car rental agency in a year normally buys 1,000 cars from GM and these cars are 25% foreign parts and 75% domestic parts. Seeing Trump is threatening 100% tariffs on the foreign made portion, the rental agency anticipates the price of GM cars going up substantially. To save money they may buy 2,000 cars now before the tariffs are enacted. I understand your point that the 25% foreign portion of the car doesn't affect GDP but the domestic 75% sure does. Doubling the number of cars bought this year would raise GDP.

What makes them go boom is when the blower doesn't clear the combustion chamber of gas before igniting. Most boilers in residential use these days are like tea kettles. They're pretty safe unless the room fills with gas then ignites

But given that goods produced domestically often use materials that are imported won't that raise the cost of those goods?

Most likely there isn't any water in the boiler and the flames are trying to heat water that isn't there. In case you're wondering this is a fire tube boiler and the flames pass thru tubes inside the water vessel. Normally this is prevented by a low water cutoff but it's possibly clogged with mud. This thing is gonna melt

You're oversimplifying things.

When it comes to tariffs Trump is as decisive as a squirrel crossing the street. I've given up trying to keep up with it all. He announces tariffs, delays tariffs, lowers tariffs. I've wondered if it's not a ploy to increase spending to pump up GDP numbers. Big businesses may consider big purchases now if it could save them millions in the long run.

US here. I got my first "home computer" a TRS-80 CoCo (16k RAM) sometime around 1981 before PCs were a thing. The internet existed but cost around $7 US per hour plus it was a long distance call to Compuserve the only ISP which would have cost around 50 cents a minute (on a 1200 baud dial up modem). I still have an advertisement somewhere. Also i have a thin book of websites. You had to type in the IP address because domain names didn't exist yet. I couldn't afford any of this so I visited BBS's though I did fumble around with the internet on public library computers. The Macintosh and PCs came out a few years later but few homes had one because they were expensive and you couldn't do much with them besides play games. Businesses of course had them because they were useful. It wasn't until the mid 90's did everyone buy one after the internet got popular.