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It's 1500 here. 3000 for the mandated concrete walkway. Another 5k for the required hard wired fire alarms.
Just examples of things that are reasonable sounding that add up quickly. I hate to sound like some libertarian douchbag, but we need to be careful we don't regulate our way out of affordable shelter.
Project Pat- Chickenhead
Keeping with the theme of early aughts hip-hop I'm seeing here
Oh baby YOOUuuUU... Got what I need
I like it, but with housing prices already out of control I wonder if this is the wisest? It's just going to make housing that much more expensive. Long term it's great! But I hope they have some fancy financial footwork to curb the upfront costs.
Gross
Fuck that. It's a slippery slope. I'd argue public spaces like that need to serve their purpose singularly to be effective and useful to the public. It's hard enough to run a transit system, being a mobile cafeteria in addition will only serve to degrade an already precarious service. Not to mention it's incredibly rude to subject your fellow riders to the accompanying crumbs and grease, no matter your own circumstances.
Besides being a soulless mega corp who only exist to serve the unholy gods of greed and gluttony, what's so bad about home Depot?
Where I'm at they're usually a glorified lean-to. Ran by either a kid or an old, never anyone in-between. Or just the honor system. Usually has excellent produce for real cheap.
It's because the various branches get their panties in a bundle when you call them soldiers. Call a Marine a soldier and watch them throw a hissyfit. "War fighter" is a term doubtlessly thought up in some godless boardroom and applied to some soulless style guide in some shitless publication.
China will fuck with Taiwan just enough to get them to melt their chip foundries, then blockade the fuck out of them till they say uncle. Give china another five years or so to get their own chip industry to something approaching parity, then they'll strike. Once Taiwan loses their best export, support for them will plummet.
I won't defend George w. But there was a whole chain of people that fucked up. Kathleen Blanco was governor at the time, idk who the mayor was, who was in charge of the national guard, who was point man for FEMA at the time. A whole chain of people doing fucking nothing.
It's easy to blame the president in such situations, and he certainly deserves his share of it. But the entire affair was mediocre at best. I don't think it was malicious, just fucking embarrassing....
Still not a drag queen....
First to come out as.
My kitty will only drink freshly poured (we keep a pitcher of water around usually) cup of water. Out of a human cup. No saucers. She wants the cup. Shell jam her little head in there and be happy about it. I'm waiting for the day she gets stuck. Such a little weirdo!
From what I hear BYD is better than Tesla at this point. I think we've come to the time where China is reaching parity with us tech. I mean what do we have that they don't?
They are. Till they're not. They're dumb AF and will just panic for no reason. And they weigh a literal ton, so fight and flight is basically the same thing.
Spoilers
!That scene towards the end when he asks the bishop "what do you know of war?" was amazing.!<
A great movie all around! Definitely one of 2024's best!
Real basic. Steam, VLC, and a torrent client. Setting up a VPN was probably the toughest part. But even that was easy.
I think a lot of people get into trouble trying to do a partition, which windows will try to hunt down and breach. In the name of security capitalism.
Tourism is bad.
10 of the last 10 years were the hottest on record. It's time. I know so many people that will give lip service to the environment and then think nothing of taking multiple flights per year on the flimsiest of pretexts.
And as all too often happens, people go to poorer countries where they get waited on hand and foot, and then act like they're doing some giant favor to the locals. All too often these tourist sights end up being an unmitigated natural disaster, not to mention locking the locals out of their own back yard.
And then they'll turn around and claim they're "helping the local economy" trying to justify it. It's colonialism by another name. If they paid fair wages to the workers these vacations would become much more expensive, perhaps prohibitively so.
And wtf is wrong with you, you can't relax in your own region? Gonna cook the planet because you can't be happy and relax in your own hemisphere. Y'all need to chill it with the air travel!
Effect of the number zero in European economies
The wiki says it was transferred to Europe via the middle east. It seems obvious the Arabic numerals we use today are so much easier to work with than Roman numerals.
Was there a noticeable uptick in trade simply because bookkeeping became so much easier? Was there a noticeable uptick in the complexity and pervasiveness of monied, as opposed to in kind, daily trade in all levels of society?
It seems like the humble zero hit the scene and next thing you know the Renaissance is getting under way.
Clean laundry is obviously the best place for naps.
I left this pic in a comment on another post, but she's so cute I figured it deserved its own post.
You are under surveillance!
It starts getting warm and she wants in and out dozens of times a day.
Apparently we're doing fierce AF kitty yawns?
She had to get shaved after a tree sap incident.
She had to get shaved
Her fur was getting too clumped up. Think she got into some tree sap or something.
How to get into private trackers?
I've been using torrent quest, which recently went down. I really liked the no bs interface. Rarbag and all those others just don't stack up. Any recommendations would be great
Melancholy Kitty
This f***n cat lives a blessed life and has no business with that look on her face!