I honestly believe Texas wouldn't last more than a few years without begging for someone, anyone to help them.
They aren't a self-sufficient state, no matter how much they pretend to be. They need a massive influx of goods that would all immediately halt or be indefinitely postponed (and massively marked up) if they broke off.
The real question is whether the treasonous MAGAt politicians who run the state would make a deal with Russia for assistance.
Holy fucking shit this country is in a downward spiral and the only cure is to cut out the MAGAt tumors.
In what other country could the headlines say "CONVICTED FELON calls the justice system rigged, so the law enforcement branch has decided to let their cult of outspokenly bigoted, dangerously violent, sprinkled with domestic terrorist in-group do whatever they want while destroying things in order to try and keep them from destroying things"
I remember reading some headlines from about 80 years ago with similar headlines, only it was from Germany. Can't punish them TOO much or they might take over the country and start exterminating.... Oh.... Wait... That is exactly what happened.
They're literally showing a group favoritism to avoid seeming like they're playing favorites.
This is no different than the school bully screaming about how unfair the teachers are after they were punished for hitting another student. Except now the teachers started saying "well if we keep punishing him then he will go hit someone" as if that in any way shape or form is a logical conclusion.
Fuck the system. If it doesn't work for the betterment of society then there isn't a reason to abide by it.
How soon before people start getting offers to buy their lemmy accounts?
Once I hit 100k karma on reddit, I started getting clearly automated messages from brand new accounts offering to purchase my account for anywhere from a $25 roblox gift card to several hundred dollars.
And while I sure could have used that money, I used my old username on almost everything and wasn't about to turn my username into a shill for a company.
Idk what the going rate is nowadays but 100k karma, started around my account being 6ish years old, filled with thousands of comments and dozens of posts stretching back to 2010/2011. That is how you properly troll.
Yeah. That is true of every storm. It's the reason we keep getting "once a decade" storms every few months, and "once a century" storms yearly. It will keep being a problem.
Seems weird to choose a sunken yatch to focus on, but I guess when rich fucks don't give a shit, you have to make the point that it affects them too.
Side note: former enlisted navy and I know quite a few people who are/were in the US coast guard. You would not believe the number of abandoned small watercraft that get found, but since it's not something big, it either doesn't go toward the big headline news counts, or just doesn't even get recovered because nobody wants to stop for a kayak that's half-sunk with no visible person or life vest.
Makes me wonder how many people die at sea every year that nobody knows about simply because they were too poor for people to care, or too unconnected for someone to notice.
Honestly, I didn't question that just because I've heard flat-earthers talk about the "ice wall", so I just assumed it really was from a FE forum or something.
Yeah this guy is trying to tell you you aren't thinking outside the box, while not realizing he is in his own little box called "following the socially accepted rules from a time before politicians tried to overthrow the government"
Another anecdote for the "Springs Be Scary" list, I was helping my brother in law put theirs up two years ago, and similarly had trouble with the last spring.
We were using the tool included in the packaging, a little T post handle with a small hook on the end, sort of like one of those livestock processing hooks they use to grab heavy things with, just a lot smaller. And not sharp.
Well the last spring was being pulled back when the metal hook broke out of the handle, and shot into the nearby house window and broke one of the bottom panes.
Nobody was hurt, but with all the kids excitedly sprinting around, that metal bit was flying at eye level to 3 or 4 of them... Someone could have lost an eye.
Springs under load are scary as fuck, ask any garage door tech.
Same. I've been using magicearth but I keep my eyes open for any alternative to a popular google app , just so I have a backup if something goes wonky.
Someone who has the ability to do something about things: "See, so 1.5 is totally fine! Full speed ahead!"
Infinite growth machine go brrrrrrr