We need it to be far enough out they can’t just blame the prior administration.

Bets on it being totally ignored by the world if it turns out to be aimed at Africa?

It used to be better. The subtitles were all in 13375p34k if you turned them on, but it looks like they got replaced by the YouTube automated subtitles at some point.

Found someone who can help.

https://youtu.be/O2rGTXHvPCQ

It’s not zoning.

It’s when places developed. The super spread-out metroplexes of the US are in areas that developed after the invention of the automobile.

Europe isn’t more enlightened when it comes to development. They’re just older. Cities tend to develop around most people living within an hour of where they work. When the US urbanized, that was a much larger area due to technological advancements. Rolling that back is almost impossible.

They need to embargo us.

Make the US economy absolute dog shit so the GOP gets nuked in 2026. There’s enough GOP Senate seats in play to remove Trump from office in early 2027.

Believe it or not, not everyone lives in dense urban areas or the suburbs.

And the scale of the US isn’t something most Europeans understand. How long does it take you drive across your country? In the US, a drive from Southern California to Maine is over 48 hours and around 5000 kilometers.

The Texas Triangle megalopolis (Houston, Dallas, San Antonio) is bigger than lots of European countries.

Kings off-topic, but after listening to the audio book I really want a World War Z miniseries in the style of a Ken Burns documentary.

I tried saying “bippity bopping boo” just now, but it didn’t move my house 20 miles closer to the grocery store.

Let’s start with this: murdering people is bad.

That being said, if someone is determined to murder people for infamy and attention, let’s give all the attention we can to those who kill parasite CEOs while saying nothing about those who kill random civilians and children.

Peope can’t just say “I don’t like the weather” and leave.

Wednesday things like housing, Healthcare, and food, which depend on jobs. And those can be very difficult to find in a new place.

I work in municipal employee and an expert in Texas development regulations. If I leave Texas, I lose most of my value as an employee.

Most Americans buy a lot of groceries at once because most Americans don’t have quick access to grocery stores, and buying smaller portions of groceries costs a fortune.

I can buy a week’s worth of groceries for a family of 4 for about the price of 10 days of groceries for one person. But it requires being able to haul a lot more than can fit on a bike. And for many of us, the store is also a long way away with no public transit and in a place where the temperature may be lethally hot for months at a time.

Kung Fu Hustle is Kung Pow, but good.

Trump literally asked Zelensky for half of all of Ukraine’s mineral resources.

Yeah - without tools would be impossible.

That being said, for that kind of cash, I’d accept getting my hand cut up and shit.

https://youtu.be/q5wvurTU5DI

Good thing they won’t need to bring back a bunch of groceries.

I wish.

We would much prefer you walk into the woods and scream where nobody can hear you.

I think that actually was a plot in a MacGyver TV movie I vaguely remember from the 90s.

Lots of things like grey hair, moving more slowly, injuries that I would have bounced away from before instead hurting for weeks or months.

But the one that hit hardest was a breakup I had a little while back. She was the love of my life and I fully intended to marry her, and when she ended it out of nowhere I was sad, but fine. She dumped me, and it sucked, but I also needed to finish a staff report for a Planning and Zoning Commission meeting that night. So I moved on.

The thing that upset me most was that I wasn’t that upset. There was a time in my life when I would have been a mess. But as I’ve aged, my emotions have become more regulated.

I miss being capable of that level of joy and pain.