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They are elected TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT.

Ok...to do what is RIGHT....with definition of "right" being the will of the voter.

The politicians are not there to be the arbiters of right or wrong...they are there to represent the will of the people, whatever that may be.

Not everyone in the US wants to live in a densely packed urban city....

We're a free country over there and are not going to force a lifestyle on everyone here.

We do have some dense urban areas and hey, great for them that want to live like that.

A very significant portion of us here in the US do NOT want that type life....thankfully it is a BIG country with very diverse climates, habits, cultures where anyone can find where they want to live, how they want to live and how they want their state and local governments run.

One size does not fit all.....and trying to make it so will not fit well with the US.

We may be in an era when people unashamedly only vote for their own immediate interests.

Err what do you expect people to do?

This is just human nature....since the dawn of time...are you expecting sudden changes to this somehow?

I'm not the original poster, BUT...I would agree and I would NOT like to live in any densely packed "urban jungle".

I do not want to share walls with neighbors first and foremost.

That's something I did as a college student and early professional when I couldn't afford more than an apartment.

I don't want to hear my neighbors next door, nor do I want to bother them...I bought a really nice AV system and I like to exercise the decibel range on it from time to time.

I also relish having a back yard....fenced in for my dog....

I like having room in the back for my firewood stack that I use to run my large offset wood burning smoker, I'm a big BBQ fan....

I also have grills I like to run...lump charcoal on those....I like live fire cooking, I also like having room out back for having friends over to hang, cook and eat, crawfish boil parties, etc. (I live in Louisiana)...

I also like having room on my property to set up and run a nice sized veggie garden in growing season.

I have great neighbors, we talk, interacts and have a great life together....not sharing walls.

I like having a place to park my car and motorcycle off the street in a covered area.

I'm pretty close to everything I need...going back to office, commute is maybe 10-15 min.....multiple grocery stores minutes away, even a Costco.

When I shop I do it once a week....and usually way more than I'd care to try to carry on pubic transport, even if we had it here in a meaningful manner.

It would be too much to carry....and with summer just starting here...way too fucking hot and humid to be trying to haul so much stuff around.

"The farmers don't know if their corn is for human consumption"
Certainly not in the case where they don't know how it's going to be used, they would conform to the usual limits.

I'm not a farmer, but I know farmers who have stated "I'm growing this corn for ethanol" ahead of time. I don't know if that's a contract thing or something unique to MN or just that particular farmer.

Did you also complain that Biden blanket-pardoned his family and large numbers of folks as well?

Just checking if you're a hypocrite before I reply.

Why is no government doing this ? Because the populist shits ( of left and right ) are doing what people want them to do, not what people need them to do TO SAVE THE FUCKING PLANET.

Err....in free countries, the politicians, elected BY THE PEOPLE are there to do the will of the PEOPLE.....that is their purpose.

They are not elected to tell people how to live. The elected officials are answerable to the people....not the other way around.

Anyone buying it is a moron - 15% savings for 20% less mileage AND increased gasket damage.

Plus, as I understand since it's not for human consumption, many of the limits on weedkiller etc are suspended or drastically reduced leading to increased contamination of drainage basins and rivers.

Ethanol was a stupid idea on every level.

Yes I'm sure that has nothing to do with leftist lawmakers & judges whose "catch and release" policies that result in the criminal being instantly released without bail. Hell, they do that today with actual murderers.
    Why the hell should police waste their time?

The bulk of uranium reserves are Australia, fwiw.

The point being now if you're watching a "premium" streaming service like HBO you get constant commercials.

Pretty much the point of the whole thread, in fact?

Or, y'know, once in a million years we could just agree on an issue instead of always making it about politics?

Crazy, I know.

1) absolutely demand right to repair - the idea that units which may be in FUCKING COMBAT need to call a service tech is unbelievably stupid.
2) find out who approved this contract AND FIRE THEM.

The contract needs to go away, and anyone in the DoD who agreed to this is literally not doing their job in a way that could ostensibly cost lives. This level of incompetence not only can't be tolerated, there have to be actual consequences.

You could hear the birds all the time. I don't care about cheap gas, but cars make cities noisy, ugly, polluted and dangerous. I only realised this in covid when almost all of the cars went and councils allocate more space for everything else for social distancing.

I"ve been trying to figure out what ya'll were trying to say about no cars, etc.....then it dawned on me that ya'll must be living where they had lockdowns.

Where I lived, sure, traffic was lessened due to more WFH, but it certainly didn't go away to any levels of no cars on the roads and hearing the birds chirping any more than normal....

Glad I didn't live where ya'll do.....for the most part my life didn't change all THAT much after the first month or so...it was largely getting back to normal.