Dont know about you but my Doctor gives me a 50% discount if I pay in cash. Turns out to be less than the cost my insurance bills me as my "co-pay". He saves the money because he does not have to have 3 people dedicated to validating the insurance, billing the different insurance agencies, and a collection person whos job it is to get the insurance companies to pay him.
The only thing missing is the smallpox.
OMG, I cracked up laughing at the above. Even trying to live the same style as the 1800's is better just because of the above statement.
My only statement is that the weak need to remember it's a choice for the strong to help them, not a right.
So you're a social darwinist. So I guess you'd be OK with the poor ganging up on the rich in huge numbers and tearing them to pieces. After all, it's the law of the jungle and there is strength in numbers.
It is for such madness that I still subscribe to your journal, my friend.
Well, not only the navy, but also the merchant marine. Those big container ships burn the dirtiest engines and technology available, because it is the cheapest fuel.
True, you always have the right to move off the grid and become a hermit, well, mostly. There are few places off the grid these days.
It isn't the amount it is the local concentration. And the tendency for it to affect your neighbors. Still, I agree about ICE engines, which is why I use the one in my prius as little as possible.
Of course it doesn't- but it is the small things we can control, not the large things. Isn't that the entire selling point of the Prius? Sure, it still burns gas, but far less than most cars and with far less pollution for four times the cost.
Hate to inform you, but one of the odder problems with the liberty to take drugs that are smoked, is that it contributes to global warming and air pollution.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra