Note the extravagance of P-8 anti-submarine aircraft when the RNZAF has not prosecuted a single submarine target since WW2... We could and should have bought 3-5 more C-130Js which would meet our SAR output perfectly well and provide more air transport flexibility and capability...

From personal experience: a daily use wheelchair, with the only extravagance being a purple coat of paint, cost my mom more than $6,000 about a decade ago, after a government subsidy of ~$4,000+. Wheelchairs are hella expansive, and can't be bought on Amazon.

There had to be a limit, a cap put on the extravagance. Books spilling over, the word tsundoku in blinking neon over the scavenged bindings. She was close to becoming a library, had long surpassed book store…maybe just one more..or a collection…or two… #vss365#vssdaily

🌹 "Let your confidence be your accessory." 🌹 When I was picking out this outfit, I played with textures and colors because life is all about variety. A little extravagance with white high boots and lace stockings adds just the right edge. 💥 #ConfidenceLook#FashionStatement#BoldChoices

Jon. Aaronson, Hitoshi Nakada Extravagance, irrationality and Diophantine approximation https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19393

In this case Turkey wanted to give Mayor Adams a $10m sandwich, but Mayor Adams correctly said "no, sir, that would be extravagant, how about you give me $5m in cash and keep your sandwich, that way I'm /saving/ you $5m and also saving NYC the extravagance of eating a $10m sandwich". And so, jurors

"America is a one-party state, but in typical American extravagance, they have two of them."

✨ #DailyWishes ✨ Beware of fatal extravagance. YOUR WISH IS DOUBTFUL.

"With its intellectual earnestness, first-person grandiosity, and aesthetic extravagance, the film is more floridly and brazenly youthful than anything else Coppola has made."

“Megalopolis” Is Francis Ford Coppola’s Artistic Rejuvenation

Adam Driver plays an embattled visionary in this giddily spectacular mashup of futuristic New York and ancient Rome, science fiction and political intrigue.