“Privatize the profit and socialize the risk” is truly the American spirit.

It’s only socialism when somebody else is getting the benefit or relief. If the disaster befalls you, it’s a unforseen, unavoidable tragedy that can only be rectified by an influx of other people’s tax dollars.

Everyone wants deregulation when it seems in their favor, but as soon as it turns against them they want the government to step in and “do something.” How about forcing people to live with the consequences of their narrow-minded decisions?

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That’s a great question. Maybe it came down to proximity and timing - the electro-motive diesel (EMD) engine was simply at the right place and at the right time. 

In that time of crisis, which I have lived, good luck finding ANY generator

There are other reason to not buy a Tesla over the price. For example, I need service I just bring it...ooohh right.

Chloe Grave Moretz sounds like one of those names The Simpsons cast/crew gives themselves for the Treehouse of Horror episodes :)

Come on now, we’re Texans.

Sell it and make money. 

Folks on Twitter putting it better than I could.

You’re presupposing “cheap and portable” is possible. And imagining the machine’s form factor—” a catalytic converter-style device”—rather than how it could possibly get the job done.

But a pitcher for margs will be just fine. Leave those out in the snow. By the hot tub. Thanks. 

Why not?

I hope rabid weasels attack his genitals.

The core, fundamental purpose of society and government is to keep *everyone* safe. To keep the fire warm and the wolves at bay. Because we have found that making life better for all means that if there is a time in our lives when things are not great, we get help. Arguing against that notion is a good way to wind up…

When I first saw it, I didn’t like the Last Jedi, but now with some time and perspective I agree that it is by far the best of the last three. It’s the only one that has stuck with me and spurred my sense of wonder as opposed to pandering to my sense of nostalgia.

I hope to see Rian Johnson’s trilogy because out of everything in the 3rd trilogy it set up the most interesting concepts out of all of them, and was the best film IMO fight me. the fact that regular people were becoming in-tuned with the force outside of the jedi and sith. I wanted to see them crisscrossing the…

I think she made a deal with some more powerful force, and part of that deal was she had to forget she made it.

This episode actually started to turn me more in the “sinister force” camp than I was, though not controlling her. Those red eyes seemed to be too much (though maybe I just don’t remember them from before).