I suspect coal country in Kentucky, WV and rural PA and Virginia and the western plains in Nebraska and Kansas, which are already severely stressed with population loss, will see some real ghost towns soon. Especially if the Ogallala aquifer dries up in the latter case.
I need to get around to trying the Pern books. My mom was a big fan and had all or nearly all of them.
I think I’d put Virginia Woolf on my list.
Sounds like a cool idea, I literally just finished rereading The Left Hand of Darkness yesterday though.
Ho, dankon! Mi certe iam kontrolos tion, kiam mi havos sufiĉa da tempon.
Esperanto, very slowly, using Duolingo. Why? Just because.
Since you said “house” I’m going to push back a little bit. Housing is unaffordable and we should address it but single-family homes are not a feasible solution for a lot of places and situations.
Definitely one of the fastest way to start arguments, especially among people left-of-center.
His dissenting views include the one that people who disagree with him are the actual Antichrist, so much for respecting the right to dissent.
I don’t understand how people can read shit like this and then vote for this guy. These politicians just say whatever they fucking want, depraved and cruel and completely devoid of even the figments of sense.
Folding laundry is supposed to be to prevent wrinkles isn’t it?
I am a Transuranic, I am super heavy and my gender’s half life is measured in milliseconds.
Three different failed attempts to spell “event horizon”.
I’m sure the page had lots of them once, but they all broke down or rusted away long ago, heh.
It looks to me like this is just replacing a tax on everyone in IL on the state level paid to municipalities, they now let municipalities take the option to impose one of equal burden, or choose not to.
It is unfortunate that the majority of municipalities opted to preserve the status quo by imposing it, rather than making the revenue back some other way, but Springfield and Chicago did not, so there still are a lot of people who now don’t have grocery taxes, and those that do are not paying more than they did last year.
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Not that long, you would see it play out similar to what happened in TNG episode The Wounded or DS9 episode Defiant. Picard is pretty cagey but it seems pretty unlikely they could deal with the Federation and Romulans coordinating and putting significant resources into their capture or destruction for very long, at least assuming they don’t just leave. At that point, they would find it difficult to keep their ship outfitted and supplied when they are outlaws.
I agree with all you said, I just can’t believe it is possible for conservative viewers of the show to be blindered to the numerous, numerous ways where the show morals, both implied and very much stated, are antithetical to the entire value structure of the modern right-wing of the USA.
But then again, when I think of the Trek fans I know in real life, it is surprising how many of them are Republicans. Not a majority, but enough. So they might just be overlooking the things they don’t agree with.
I like the part I’m living in now, despite the difficulties, since it is the part I can experience and change.
Clicked the preview, there is nothing to see here, folks.