Benefit of pots is it doesn’t go out when the Internet does (unless your provider has a VOIP backend, but usually those would be more robust than your home.)

It also is a second source of electricity coming into the house should there be a power outage.

I kind of wish I could have an old school pots line, even though I run my own VOIP system.

Ultimately, it is cheaper for EVERYONE if we all just pitch in a little. You may pay a little for schools that you don’t have kids to go to, but you pay LESS for things like roads, sewers, and trash disposal.

This isn’t a min-max system where you can adjust to only what you use and come out ahead. If you try, you end up paying more. Not just in the services themselves, but in the administration and middle management of the systems to handle calculating who used each system and how much they used it.

So as a community, we all pitch in and we all benefit.

We should all be fucking PROUD to pay taxes. We should be proud that our money goes towards educating all the people around us. We should be proud that we have parks and schools where children can play, learn, and grow up safely. We should be proud we have fire and medical teams who dedicate their life to helping others and keeping them safe on the worst day of people’s lives. We should be proud to live in places that are attractively maintained. We should be proud to spend our money on conserving the environment around us. We should be fucking proud to have libraries that lend out not just books, but tools and board games and toys. We should be proud that we pay so we don’t have to live in sewage and trash infested places.

We should be PROUD to pay taxes.

They really can take pounding.

In the other hand, dicks can take a beating though.

This one talks about injecting ethanol straight into the veins for quick absorption. https://scienceinsights.org/treating-ethylene-glycol-poisoning-antidotes-and-dialysis/

Or this one. Skip to “ethanol treatment” https://archive.cdc.gov/www_atsdr_cdc_gov/csem/ethylene-propylene-glycol/treatment.html

I think when it flips the other way they get an extra hour further apart.

I always keep a bottle of medicinal vodka around.

Also glycol poisoning. Like if you drink antifreeze for your car, one treatment is to drink a bunch of alcohol so the liver processes the alcohol and not the ethelyne glycol.

They are hard to put out, but if you want them to burn all you really need is a safe place to do it. So in a big crucible with some type of fume extraction so they aren’t crazy polluting the air. As long as the heat has somewhere safe to go and there isn’t anything else to catch on fire, burning things is easy.

Don’t know where you are. But look at the directories for business parks and office buildings around you.

Which is why I don’t look for made in USA. I look for small local companies. I also refuse to support those small local companies if they are super patriotic. I hate how they’ve co-opted nationalism for advertising. Plus, it usually means they’re maga skid stains and I don’t want to support them.

A “made in USA” sticker with a flag on it is pretty bargain basement for companies I want to buy from.

Secular trends? As opposed to religious ones?

Yea. It seems wild the more I think about it that either party can be the same as the president. It’s become clear that people on Congress think they work FOR the president when one of their duties is explicitly checking and opposing the president.

I would like things made by local craftsman.

Made in USA has a markup for the cost of labor. But that’s kind of alright by me (when I can afford it) because we should pay people living wages. However, so many companies use “made in USA” as the sole reason to add even MORE markup beyond the additional costs for manufacturing.

I like made locally also because it means let’s transport costs and hopefully lower emissions in what it takes to deliver it to market.

I have a hard time understanding why certain companies should be allowed to be multinational conglomerates. Certain markets probably should have hard caps to the size companies can reach.

When was the last time you got a Ferrari for a ride share though?

A 2000 outback as an ev would be amazing. I love the old Outbacks.

I drive a 2001 Toyota MR2. My 7 yo step daughter is taller than the entire car. When I’m next to most vehicles, the top of my car is below their windows.

Even drive thrus I’m usually lower than the window.

I love my little car, it’s more capable than people think. I can easily get all the groceries I need, I’ve picked people up from the airport with their luggage in it. (I have a luggage rack on the back.) But I am concerned about people seeing me and am wary of it.

Yea. This doesn’t seem like it should be under the jurisdiction of just any sheriff. But I’m not sure who I think it should fall under.

Holy fuck. That’s like… Straight rebellion. They think they can supercede the existing California government. He is calling himself governor pro tempere.

Fucking weird.

Geez, that looks nice. And the green is really a pretty color.

I wish we got small cars again. I’m going to be really sad when I have to give up my MR2 spyder. Fortunately, with an average of 1 to 2 mile a day, I think it’ll hang on a while.

What TV or box? I have aerial views for my Nvidia shield which can connect to an immich album.

Are fallout shelters going to make a comeback?