Empires come and empires go. The Roman empire lasted 2000+ years. Impreial China ran for about 1,000 years. The US will be lucky to make it to 300, but given enough mismanagement it wouldn’t take much to collapse and splinter.

Just remember: Attic space is typically not environmentally controlled. It might not have any duct work ran to it - or even electricity. Any room you build up there could turn into a sauna in summertime. Previously owned house had a converted the space over the garage into a quite large bonus room. But the previous…

There are a lot of areas (primarily in communications and messaging) where the Biden administration and other Democrats have not handled this pandemic well, and deserve to be criticized.

I don’t understand this.

Let the fire burn isn’t scary. But it is gripping and horrifying, in that way that you will barely be able to breathe, even though it is entirely constructed from broadcast news footage.

This is a tad tiresome, but I do get your point. They are not homophobic. At least not the one near my home as the franchise owner is an out homosexual, and has lgbtq workers there.

Increase suspicion, or, as I responded to it, to call them out on the bullshit.

And remember kids, if you’re using a work supplied computer, basically anything you do (settings, specific applications, notifications) can likely be tracked as well.

No, they treat it as a deeply unpleasant undertaking that they can avoid by spending less time and more money.

feet and ounces again, rather than grams and liters

The conditions for destroying stratospheric ozone by HFCs and CFCs only exist in polar regions - they need very cold temperatures, ice crystal surfaces in clouds, and sunlight to catalyze the reactions. These conditions only occur in the polar regions and are stronger / more pronounced in the Southern Hemisphere. …

So in other words, just Business As Usual?

Wouldn’t this sort of reaction be...

And a multi-national force will be summoned to prevent it?

We’re ending the independence experiment. It’s been a good 245 years, but it’s just not working out. Biden’s going to tear up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and we’re going to rejoin the British Empire.

Biden resigning. It’s happening.

Maybe you don’t.

There’s no valid reason to continue to have a Facebook account.

What will it take for people to stop using Facebook & delete their accounts? There’s nothing that Facebook offers that can’t be found somewhere else.