I mean, anecdotally, I do know someone that bought a new build in mid 2008 for about 60k-ish less than what everyone else in the neighborhood bought for (earlier or later). The company building out the subdivision was pretty desperate and he had a solid stable job as a trucker. He managed to get all kinds of perks and stuff too.
I don't think that's a terrible idea for politicians. Let's see who bought them.
Same? Nope. Good? Hell yeah, their voters are way more liberal than ours there could a hell of a lot of electoral votes that will be deeply blue.
Obviously I'm joking but it's clearly not something that is thought through.
Oh yes, thank you for the clarification
Ummm... Billionaires are people? Imma need a source on that.
(to be) polygoned- meaning to have your phone go off with an amber alert or an emergency alert. (The act of setting off the phones is called polygonning). Very niche to what I do, but I use it all the time.
Do you actually think they're shutting down USAID because they're going to redirect those funds to fixing American poverty or infrastructure?
Your take on soft power is as ignorant as Trump/Musk's. The game is being played no matter what. Russia and China are always playing. We just walked away from the table and any chips we have will quickly be stolen. As a rich, powerful county, we don't have the option not to play (and stay powerful anyway).
Depends on the state I imagine. But I just looked mine up and it's "in the last 10 years" and not "ever" so that's good.
In my job, I occasionally facilitate training for prisoner firefighters. Not only do they all love the job, they are also the best FD we train with. They read the material, study procedures, get it right when being observed. They get to stay at the firehouse instead of the prison itself, so both getting invited to do it and continuing to do it are huge for the inmates. They also love it. It burns my biscuit right up that they'll not be able to be a firefighter when they get out.
Oh yeah, that's where it started. My dad loved it and he'd put it on when I was younger and I'd start sawing logs.
This is true: I have seen the first half hour of every Dune... But I ALWAYS pass out around that point.
Thought I'd share my 16ish year old with you all and give posting a try since I'm new to the fediverse thing! Isn't she the cutest?!
My dad was in the Navy (submariner) in the 80s and he loves that movie. He told me they didn't do the thing with the string like they do in the movie ... Instead they strung it up when they were at depth and took bets on when it would break on the way back up.
You couldn't pay me enough to be that far underwater.