If the disaster is bad enough you only have to survive off of your hoard until enough other people die off that one can scavenge. COVID showed us how brittle JIT supply chains are. How many people die in 3 months without access to daily medication? How many broken arms or ankles go septic or heal badly? How many staph infections, bad teeth, tetanus, botulism or whatever that used to kill and now we can get ready treatment for? Just got to stay in the bunker until all the more dependent and unlucky die then you can come out and spend the rest of your short life fighting over the remains of technological civilization with the other preppers.

Together for 16, married for 11 or 12

How it looks on my phone. That ad sure does eat up some space.

I think it was a military action not a law enforcement action so jurisdiction is irrelevant in that sense. Just the world’s largest military killing random “terrorists” in international waters. Good practice for getting the terrorists at home next. People who cheer this need to understand that authoritarians always need an enemy and will invent that enemy out of the citizenry as needed.

Good write up. Spotify is the lsdt for me to replace

I think this has to do with the words per minute read back speed. I find that audiobooks from books with large font are read slower than the audiobook versions of books with smaller type. The last two audiobooks I’ve heard are The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and Project Hail Mary. The former was read more slowly than the latter and had about 3 to 4 times bigger type.

It means there is no future in centrism. The living armadillos choose a side. Those that dither will be hit by cars. On United States roads, yellow lines signify lane divisions between cars traveling in opposite directions.

Good to down vote and move on. Engagement only eggs them on.

Ha! You must be on some sort of hurricane-naming convention

I would have done shameful things for that dl speed in 1998.

Like 50 Shades of Grey and whatever it’s source material was. Lost to history but still inspirational enough to change the world.

No Trump bibles in our schools because they are always sold out! The Maga Bible King James Influenced edition even has a Dedication by the original Author saying how great Trump is and how he was Chosen as a divine instrument of retribution to bring the kingdom of heaven to Earth. That is why he has been rewarded with three wives, two of them foreign models, and vast riches. As we can read in the prologue about a blameless and upright man of Uz, the tools of God are most often given earthly rewards before their heavenly reward.

God has sold more books than any other author ever. If we needed other books He would have written a sequel.

An innocuous reference to a well known story from a best selling book and they just can’t help themselves.

If he had diplomatic immunity, he didn’t claim it as far as I’ve seen. He was given a date for appearance before the judge so they could have held him until then with no problem. I agree they didn’t want to make an incident of it but it wouldn’t have involved the ICC.

In one of the Mission Impossible movies Tom Cruise is supposed to have a boring job no one will ask him about and the movie shows this by having the character talk about traffic patterns. I thought it was interesting information then and think it is interesting now.

Did the new adapter have the same problems? I know you said it read as the same.

Probably for the best. I’ve heard the symbols in those books can be decoded into Forbidden Knowledge like in the first garden from that other book. Better not to be tempted with options.

They have a rule against United States news here maybe they should make one against comments that derail the topic to be United States focused. Unless that would be too broad to be applied fairly? Always room for improvement though.

I think the charitable explanation is that the US exports so much pop culture and also several of the main social media companies are US based that US Americans see “their culture” constantly reflected back to them causing a reflexive assumption that is often wrong. The less charitable explanation would be willful, myopic ignorance I guess.