Soooo... yeah. If you live in a less expensive part of the US, you tend to get paid less. It’s mostly a wash. Folks who live in small town real america Ohio have the same percentage of their salary left over after they pay rent/mortgage and utilities and groceries. So yay, everything costs less, but you make a lot…

Translation: Child Protection Services gets dragged into this as well, meaning the family will be monitored to determine if the mother is a fit parent.

why do people still live in those backwater states?

OOOOOOF that is awful

I’ll be interested to see what happens when FEMA flexes it’s muscles on flood insurance. As in, “we will insure you for floods that are random and rare, not for floods that reoccur every year or two.”

Florida’s housing market pretty much exists because of government backed flood insurance, and it wouldn’t take a lot…

In the end, Insurance only works if they pay out less than they take in. And Insurance companies have been taking big hits lately, to the point that they’re having to go to their insurance to cover their losses.

Roads designed only for cars and the total domination by cars of any urban environment. Cities around the globe are starting to rethink their streets and are deciding whether or not cars even belong there in the first place.

I mean, both of those also affect the mileage in my car- My mileage drops precipitously when winter hits then goes back to normal late spring. And if I’ve got something on the roof, my mileage is gonna suck.

To be fair to Tesla, My 2017 Outback does essentially the same thing- when I fill up for a long drive, the car will tell me that I have a range of say, 440 miles. As I’m driving, at first that range will go down to match the miles I’m driving, followed by the range going back up as the miles go by, until somewhere…

To be fair to Florida: Florida has some kind of open record law for arrests so it’s really easy to find the crazy stuff. If Indiana had a similar law, I can guarantee you “Indiana Man” would become a thing.

And while Florida has “florida man arrested for getting in a fist fight with a manatee”, my beloved Wisconsin…

High hops is a great way to cover the fact that you don’t actually know how to brew beer. I’m starting to see some light through the cracks in the wall of IPAs but they’re still pretty small.

OK so lately I’ve been seeing some decent pilsners starting to pop up- you still have to search through about 200 IPAs to find them, but they are actually starting a bit of a resurgence, at least in the midwest. My partner doesn’t care for IPAs and so we’ve been on the hunt for anything else- Saturday brewery in…

Ale Asylum was one of the breweries my hops growing client specifically mentioned. And it’s a shame, because hopalicious is actually good.

To be fair, it can actually be difficult to even find non-IPAs at your local liquor store. Or at least, at mine. Around here (southern wisconsin) beer has become a lot less seasonal and a lot more HOPSLAMMOUTHFUCKER IMPERIAL OVERLOAD all the time. A client I used to work with who actually grew hops for breweries even…

Not at all- Where I live now, I don’t even have sidewalks. I can ride my bike to the grocery sort of but not really. I would love to live in a place where I could get everywhere on foot or by bike without having to worry about getting hit. But I’m not crazy enough to think that one neighborhood could provide…

First, I’d want a bigger garage. Because I need a better workshop space.Plus, there’s gonna be a lot of stuff plugged in, so we’ll need to upgrade the electrical. So, figure 15k on that.

The only thing I’d want to add to this community would be a parking area so I can have a car for the outdoors stuff I love to do that requires me to go somewhere else to do it- you know, a place I can leave my car for a week at a time and not worry about it, but can then grab my bike, throw it on the rack and head for…

So... as you get older this changes. Especially if you buy a house or some other form of “I’m going to live here for a long-ass time.”

Again, I’m talking about actual crosswalks. Crosswalks on 2 lane roads. Where the speed limit is already only 30mph. It doesn’t matter how wide the crosswalk is if drivers ignore it. And that’s why we’ve had to install strobelights at crosswalks, and given pedestrians big fluorescent orange flags to wave as they walk…

I can give you one simple legal change that would clear this problem up in about a year: You know how, as a driver, if you rear end another car you are automatically at fault? Make that apply to hitting pedestrians and cyclists as well.