Cat4 - Cat5, direct impact, you’re most likely going to lose your roof unless it’s some heavy duty metal shit bolted onto high-density concrete walls and foundation. Timber homes in an impact of that magnitude are TOAST regardless.

I’m from Polk County. Sheriff Judd openly advocates for the deportation of immigrants who are found guilty of felonies - however, these tweets aren’t part of some larger effort to ‘deport people’. Judd has always been a hardass when it comes to crime and criminals. His stance on immigration is largely tied to his…

You can’t breathalyze for it, but you can do a saliva swab test for it. They’re doing this right now in Australia, and while the goal is to catch people who are driving while high, the tests can actually detect usage within ~12 hours.

Long story short, a number of longstanding factors have led to our police being increasingly militarized and our rights being steadily eroded, even as actual violent crime rates have decreased. There are many areas ripe for review / reform, from how we equip police, to how we handle abuse of power / excessive force,…

Or let them have it, but tax it (and subsequent interest / dividend earnings) as income. Easy peasy.

Great, one of those new religion people who capitalizes ‘It’ alongside ‘God’. I’m glad you have literally indescribable joy but your faith-based happiness is little consolation to people who find fault with the nepotism rife in the elite sectors of our society and economy. Also — sure, happiness is in large part…

You don’t “pass down” your seat in the Senate or your 51% stake in a heavy industry conglomerate through your “superior genetics”. You pass down good eyesight, strong teeth, eye color, etc. Some Ivy League prick who grew up chuckling with his dad’s rich friends at the yacht club and then gets hooked up with a job as…

“Ask and ye shall receive [sometimes]”

Hashton Kusher. Sheesh.

It sucks, but the time where the federal government - especially the executive branch - was actually bound by the Constitution is long past. The Democrats played a major role in weakening the Constitutional limitations on executive power. It’s a little late (and hypocritical) to be complaining about it now. I say this…

I like how his posts repeatedly mention a dead body, yet the text of the article completely ignores this in order to better misconstrue the situation and generate more outrage.

He’s not ‘look neutral’. He looks like ‘inherited privilege’. Grew up wearing khaki shorts with sport coats and wore a scarf while sailing around the lakes of New England with his rich dickhead ‘friends’. His white-collar criminal dad has his own Wikipedia article. All those rich reptiles have rosy cheeks and soft…

You’re not a shitty person for feeling that way. Their ‘unhappiness’ isn’t involuntary. They’ve willfully inserted themselves into a situation that makes them ‘unhappy’ for their own greedy / selfish ambitions. They’re a living embodiment of nepotism, political corruption, plutocracy, and cronyism in addition to…

Ah, Darkest Dungeon. Such a fun game - compelling mechanics, immersive atmosphere, cool music / narration. The punishing difficulty was refreshing, too, until I realized what a grind it starts to become. My advice for those players who wish to enjoy the challenging combat mechanics and explore party combinations…

I mean, it sort of is better, in ethical terms and according to a couple other metrics, like water / land requirements. I still love meat too much to change.

Aside from a few years of relative peacetime in which we were only invested in small-scale interventions (mid-90s to early 2000s), my entire adult life has been spent with ‘perpetual war’ as the baseline state for U.S. affairs. Cold War fears about fallout and whatnot might have taken a backseat to other concerns…

What? It’s not a binary thing ‘ethical’ or ‘unethical’. There are a lot of factors to consider - carbon, labor / fair trade, animal testing / suffering, etc. People can sacrifice a bit of their disposable income and pay a little extra for locally sourced vegetables or vegetarian protein options without being…

Once again, the actual numbers are against you. The viability of paying for higher education with a minimum wage job is rapidly increasing - realistically speaking, the price of higher education outstripped minimum wage earning potential long ago.

The hard numbers show that income inequality has steadily risen in the States. Expecting minimum wage workers to ‘improve’ and ‘educate’ themselves (on their own) is what’s truly unrealistic. As a society, expecting the underprivileged to ‘improve themselves’ is like expecting the leaky pipe in your bathroom to ‘fix…

Preferably, a Kenyan albino.