Honestly, what exactly do you do if the parcel of land where your home used to be caves away in a landslide? Do you still have ownership rights on the slide area? (Or a riverbed moves on your parcel, or the land is washed away in a hurricane)
People think that voting either doesn’t matter, or that it’s like choosing to be a fan of a certain football team. They won’t realize their mistake when the rug gets pulled out from underneath them…but they might when they hit the back of their head on the polished concrete floor.
Unfortunately, we (the world) are paying for their medical bill. Climate change policy will regress. Trade and economic policy, too. Peace will be undermined. And regional wars will flare up and get worse as people fight for water and other resources.
Please send the police here next.
Absolutely sucks, but these are also some of the wealthiest homeowners in the US. Cut your losses and move to less vulnerable areas. Nobody should be building homes in flood plains, lake beds or fire prone areas, particularly the ultra-wealthy. Save FAIR for normal folks and low income families.
You can switch to loose leaf. I thought loose leaf sucked because the tea bits always got in it. Then I found a metal filter that has like, 180nm holes in it. Extremely fine mesh.
I use it more than paper tea bags now!
If anyone needs a good fiction read, the Hyperion Cantos series by Dan Simmons was so good that I just finished my second run of the series. It involves entities that run backwards in time as a future, space-faring human society moves forwards in time, and everything snaps into place in the last book. Very satisfying, and re-readable!
One discovered planet has tombs that are moving backwards in time, and nobody has any idea what they do, except that they are beginning to open, and a death cult is involved. And all hell is about to break loose :)
because reasons
I think it’s ungodly expensive to retrofit to planes, and crashes are rare relative to small plane hours flown. While I like the idea, this plane crash probably wouldn’t have turned out differently, as it sounds like it was about ~900 feet off the ground when it stalled and crashed.
Sometimes your ticket is just punched and you are totally fucked, particularly if your engine seizes in a single engine plane.
I was surprised that it wasn’t the fifth circuit, then my shock faded: the sixth administers Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, as well as Michigan.
A second vote for Black Mesa. I played HL1 and Black Mesa back to back, and BM was way more enjoyable!
Piss in the pool is probably the least of our worries. He’s gonna be emptying the proverbial RV septic tank into our fucking community pool.
The shitter is very full.
“regrettably bad weather” (Neptune missile)
God, I love Costco
Lots of good indie stuff, not much from AAA. My recommendation: try new single player or co op stuff. Stop recycling content.
Three years isn’t nearly long enough. Chrome needs to go, as does their dominance in search, android, YouTube and email. That cannot all be one company, under a giant advertising umbrella. Split them up into three companies. Chrome and advertising cannot stay together.
Yeah, as the new health nut, he should be serving these to the Whitehouse and Congress. Get them off that junk food and PFAS.
You need 5-6 hours of oxygen (from the West Coast) and insanely good winter gear to even attempt this. It’s extremely dangerous too, since you also could potentially fall out on either end of the journey. Not to mention cold or asphyxiation hazards from rapidly climbing to Everest altitudes.
Just buy a ticket.
Unfortunately, things like this will continue to happen. Events like Pride here have been proactive whenever there’s street events, and they have deployed crash barriers that people can walk between quite easily, but will immediately stop vehicles. They kinda look like portable construction equipment, but they have little wheels on them so they can be wheeled around, and have teeth that bite into the concrete when a car crashes into it. It will stop or potentially flip the car, depending on the speed.
Seeing deterrent measurements is disheartening, but it also makes it much more reassuring to see police and crash barriers protecting large (300k+) events like parades and street festivals. I hope Germany and other countries start to deploy barriers like this for big events.
I liked the face reveal. What happened to the red engi? I haven’t kept up in many years!
Whoops, off by a bit, lol
Bumble used to be different back in the day. I tried it when it was going down the tubes.
I think part of the problem is that the matching is fairly superficial, so while you know a little about the person, most of the details amount to their face, 1-3 hobbies, and their ass.
The women I matched with that I went out with were awkward and felt forced. In the end, I ended up falling in love with a close guy friend that I had known for years.
If bumble wants success, they should allow for much deeper Q&A, longer response times, a tweaked algorithm that matches people based off hobbies and passions, and an AD section that allows people to privately put in stuff that they like after dark. Info that isn’t shared with their matches, but helps make people match better with people like them.
As for straight dating though, idk. I feel like people should probably be avoiding apps and meeting organically through stuff like biking groups, climbing groups, skiing events, big dance venues, etc. it fosters much more organic connections.
I don’t participate in bar culture that much, but the difference between the gay bars I’ve gone to and the straighter college-y bars feels immense. The former is much more social with a pinch of kink, the latter is where people are getting absolutely blitzed without much dialogue over loud music. It’s an extremely small sample size, but I can’t help but wonder if it’s part of a larger trend when it comes to meeting people and how portions of society meet and date. Perhaps there are bars where single straight men and women meet over 1-2 drinks and talk, but I haven’t seen any so far.
Overall, I think the Internet and cars (decreasing population density and increasing the space between third places) has had a dramatically negative impact on love and friendships in places like the US.