It isn’t really a drought if that is just what the weather is like now. As someone who lived on the edge of desert for over three decades, before move to where there is ample water I can attest to the trend of the American Great Basin drying out and trending hotter during that time. I may be off by a year or two, but it seemed like the region was in drought compared to recorded historical norms at least 7 out of every 10 years starting around in the current millennium. With the impacts compounding ever since. At what point does weather turn into climate? Because I’d argue they probably should just expect the previous patterns not to return any time soon. And they should act and plan accordingly.

Some people marry for love.
Some people marry for money
Some people marry for lust
Some people marry for power
And some people marry because, deep down, they hate themselves

Of course they are. The prison industry lobbyists probably just bought a few million in trump’s crypto scam. Federal agencies come cheap in Trump’s Money Always Gets Anythingitwants America. Trump is a crime boss and almost half the nation loves him for it.

No spyware for you. My computer belongs to me. Not sure I’ve ever sold any of my old computer anyway. They just usually gathers dust for five to ten years stashed away somewhere and then I eventually light it in fire and smash it with the 70lbs piece of granite otherwise revered as Rock of Justice. After all, the Rock of Justice does need to feed every now and then.

Same dog different leg. Might as well blame moves or video games with murder for creating murderers. A chat program isn’t ever going to get me to kill myself. Neither will any human, save some straw man argument about some fictional scenario where my suicide saves my wife and kids or million of people, or some other far fetched bs. Sacrificing yourself to save others, say jumping into a frozen river to save a child, doesn’t count. Giving a borderline mental case a few more years before the succumb to madness by banning a product used safely by just about everyone else is the definition of moral panic.

Hmph I suppose it is. Didn’t mean it as offensive thing. I guess I know how some accidentally racist grandpas must feel. How about: Unlicensed UBERS? Conmen carriages? Unvirtuous vehicle venture venders?

My kids have citizenship in three countries. Their legal Japanese names and legal names in the other two nations are different because they don’t allow middle names. Ironic in my kids case because the middle names are Japanese names in practical use. They go by their first names. Their Japanese names middle names are their legal first names in Japan. My wife’s maiden name is her legal middle name in the USA. In Japan she has no middle name.

Seems fair. After a club World Cup game in Philadelphia my group tried to catch an Uber or Lyft. There were lots of cars with UBER stickers on their windshield who were soliciting passengers and then trying to get people to prepay with Venmo instead going through UBER. I wasn’t getting into a gypsies UBER, and legit Ubers cancelled on us 5 times before we just took the train. Why not the train as first choice? It a 22 minute drive to where I live vs 47 minute train ride with one connection. But the train only cost $2.50 and the paid car would have been about $28, $50 from a gypsies UBER.

Uncle Sam also taxes the earnings of American who not only make that money in foreign country, but live outside of the country as well. At least as far as they are aware of the money even exist.

You rarely get what you don’t ask for, but hell no.

Tomatoes, cannabis, and beaches. That’s all I want from NJ.

Doesn’t Walmart sell generators? It cost them less to crack a few open and plug in the fringes and freezers than to lose all that inventory I guess that is what insurance is for. However, In this day and age find it hard to believe a company with that much perishable food on hand doesn’t have backup power.

The album Joshua Tree sold 25 million copies all over the world. It was the number one album in over twenty countries. New U2 is boring. That album and War are great. There are few other good songs throughout their discography that are good, but nothing like those two albums.

I think you answered your own question. “I live somewhere rural”. Assuming it is truly rural then its safe to also assume not of lot of people or businesses are there and the roads don’t change that often. Secondly, you obviously care. But on national level you are the exception. Google isn’t doing it for free. They do it to sell ads. As long as the roads, trails, and buildings are pretty much the same there isn’t a pressing need to redo the photos to maintain accuracy. Making sure someone is able to see the tree they planted or the car they just bought parked in their driveway so they are more likely to choose google maps is harder to justify financially in low population areas than in higher population ones.

Still doesn’t change the fact it’s still one of the dumbest things I ever heard. Nor the fact the study is from five years ago as others have pointed out. That doesn’t make the study irrelevant, but it also doesn’t mean it is entirely relevant to today. Buying a plug in hybrid and never plugging it in is akin to buying a smartphone and only using it to place phone calls. Just save your money and buy the less expensive version with only the features you will use.