Second these. I got one 5 years ago and it’s still in great condition after daily use. No other belts have held up like that.

I think there are two major purposes in government. First, protection for its citizens. This includes military protection from hostile foreign powers and domestic protection from interpersonal crime and systemic violence as well as providing safety nets.

The second is creation, protection, and maintenance of public infrastructure, including transportation arteries, healthcare systems, etc.

Furthermore, government should be centered around protecting all its citizens, not just the richest.

That’s a really long one but pretty much every shitty trend since the 80s can be attributed back to him: Wage stagnation, climate inaction, police militarization, Middle East wars, no taxes for the wealthy, war on drugs, for profit prisons, elimination of pensions, union busting, media polarization, Iran-Contra affair, etc.

He was popular because he was charismatic but literally all of his policies hollowed out the country into what it is today.

Damn, can’t believe I forgot that one

• Only state to not vote for Reagan
• Weed legalized
• Free Breakfast and Lunch for all students
• First state to protect LGBT Americans from discrimination
• Only state to not vote for Reagan
• Protected abortion rights
• Childcare assistance for low income parents
• Planned high speed rail between the Twin Cities and Duluth
• Legalized gay marriage before Obergefell v. Hodges
• Only state to not vote for Reagan

There’s plenty more but those are just the ones I can think of right now.

Extremely common Minnesota W. I love my state.

Either toss my ass in a dumpster or give me a sky burial. No exceptions.

This is nothing new from Tesla. My parents have a Model 3 and they can’t use a car wash at all with it. Hand wash only.

Classic Conservative. All feelings of empathy begin and end at himself.

Can someone with a legal background explain to me how a law written before the state even existed is somehow considered more legitimate than current law?

Why do companies even buy ads in this space? There’s so many spots in our society where ads are just being injected to play for nobody. At what point do they figure out that it’s not worth the return on investment to put ads in those spots?

Not OP but I work in a similar environment (special heavy rail equipment). In our shop we have lots of tradesman: plumbers, mechanics, welders, electricians, etc.

Generally they are broken up into small teams, handed a set of prints, a kit of parts, and told to build the thing to the print. It’s not like an assembly line where you’re tightening one bolt all day, it’s more like building different Erector sets all day and handing them off to the next team.

Low stakes, high pay, good benefits, regular hours, low monotony. If higher Ed is not for you, I’d look into something like this.

You’re completely right. Many people are about to get totally financially ruined at a minimum. There’s going to be a lot of climate refugees from these areas who’ve lost everything.

Insurance rates are the true Canary of Collapse. If the money men have calculated that certain areas are going to quickly become unlivable, then people should listen.

Of course it’s not trivial to just pack up your life and move but it’s about to become super necessary, unfortunately.

I see your thinly veiled Hanlon’s Razor and counter with Clark’s Law: “Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.”