but lucky enough to find themselves near one such bouy.

Oh please...

Idealistic FEMA staff: it seems reasonable to take care of the insurance, etc ourselves
FEMA head, administration appointed: my insurance industry lobbyist has outlined to me 105 reasons that would not work

They are very useful IMHO, drivers when seeing them are reminded that they are in a machine that can kill, that indeed it has happened at exactly this location - and that when there are many on, say, one corner, your risk is much higher...

Lead photo of the MuskRat: does he think he is some sort of culture warrior, a good guy protecting us all, clutching his dog tags (sic) in a flying jacket replica?
Clutching his pearls in his 1950s twinset more likely... or maybe he should have gone with some more militaristic from Hugo Boss?

Per-Musk Twitter: American car quality, safety and design from the 1970s is not very good
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Post-Musk Twitter: I just got rear-ended in Ford Pinto

... and an apartheid-era white South African man to boot, “the gall of these lefties”

My partner is a space weather scientist for NOAA, I have become fascinated by what she does...
We get another Carrington Event, we are screwed in every which way till Sunday in terms of our vulnerable infrastructure - and far beyond...

~googling the layout of sunfish intestines~

Acting like a petulant, spoilt little anti-Semitic, white pride, little rich boy from apartheid South Africa? Awwwwwwwwww
Anyone truly surprised?  ~roll~
I would love to see a history book from, say, 2063 - if it even mentions him beyond in passing...

I know, tired trope: why is this a slide show?

For a second I thought the lead photo of Seattle was Auckland, NZ, so there is there... lots more rain these days though...

.... but then you have to live in Tulsa...

#BlessYourHeart

NOW I am going to be singing the “Everybody’s shufflin’” refrain all day!
(yes, different KIA advert)

Prisoner in long term solitary confinement: No thanks!

A fool and his money and all that...

Nazi sympathizer!

I would be there with you...
2.8D as a geologist back in the day, truly amazing

vegetable taste and nutrition has been lost in large part because they have been breed to survive the supply chain and still look good to the consumer - tomatoes are a case in point