Even 20+ years ago, it was a struggle. I had a boss who had married someone from Guatemala (I think, or maybe Peru? it's been a decade since I talked to him) while he was in the military overseas, and ended up having a child with her. When he came back, it took TWO YEARS, the wife and child left behind in south america the entire time, to get them approved to come and live back in the states.
edit: 20+ years ago, not 15. I forgot how long it had been since I worked for him.
She used molotov cocktails and only did $5,000 in damage? I was really expecting to hear a few hundred Gs based on tesla's prices and the cars I've seen go up in flames in the past.
Never heard of this band before. It's amazing.
My father wanted me to do this when I was going to college. He was convinced it would be cheaper. I had to point out to him that living in an apartment near college meant no car, with all its requisite upkeep, while the boat marina was miles and miles away with no public transportation.
Traffic is always one of the things that boggles me, because even for how many people there are on the road at that precise moment, it still doesn't even come close to the amount of people in the area.
To explain my thought: If everyone is traveling 60 mph, and there are four lanes, and everyone is riding each other's asses by being one second apart, that's still only 240 cars per minute passing a particular spot. That means in an hour of relatively rough traffic that is somehow smoothly flowing, only 14,400 cars are going to pass that spot in an hour.
I live in a large metropolitan area, so there are ~8-10 large highways leading towards the metro's center (that's 4-5 highways, but counting them twice for each one's inflow). Most of them vary in lane number as they come inwards, ballooning from 2 in the rural areas to 4-8 in the urban areas (though the areas with more than 4 are really only where highways are merging, so I think 4 is a good number to say as the highway's 'average'). So we can multiply that 14,400 number by 10 and get 144,000 cars moving into a city's center in the span of an hour. That still doesn't get anywhere near the millions of people living in the metroplex. Hopefully that means most people are living relatively close to their work, and all are living close to their play/chore destinations.
It really makes me ponder how much a certain element of the population has shaped our views, considering the amount of people who do the whole 'commuting' thing must be relatively small, yet that is such a giant complaint I hear about all the time.
It's the desert, you're just happy you're out of the rain.
Sunfish are the best. Why, you ask? Just scroll down until you see something... 'jolly'
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Now, these aren't official class sails, but who is going to be racing a sunfish anyway, right? ;) I'm also shocked at the price increase. I paid $150 for mine 10 years ago, which is 1/3 of the true class sails needed for racing.
Show up to race night with beers and sailing gloves
And prepare to get wet! ^.^
but it doesn't disintegrate
Lmao, my little sailboat would like to have a word with you. Maybe it could, too, if I hadn't plastered it over with enough lacquer to make a latex sub's dreams come shooting out of their happy hole. The 'fiberglass-on-top-of-plywood' construction is an absolute bitch if any moisture makes its way to the plywood.
Dude, you want to get together? I've been planning my wizard tower for years. All I want is a parapet around the top with a telescope out there. The best part is that finding an area with low/no light pollution means there won't be dang pesky jerks that want to keep a certain look to the neighborhood.
Jesus, I got suckered hard by the 'elio' bullshit. When I was looking around for vehicles, the promise of a really affordable (lol, that should have been a clue) and gas efficient car was amazing. Plus, they already had a working car (lol, should've looked a little closer at those videos to see the duck tape) and were setting up their factory!
Before I gave reddit the finger, I would check in on the sub that was posting the obviously bullshit updates when they came out. There were at least a few of us who wanted to keep joking about that fucking joke.
I'd like to believe that, I really would, but let's be honest with ourselves. The current republicans (in leadership) aren't stupid. They've gotten pretty decent at running with donald's bullshit and spinning it. They also know that politics isn't much different than sports teams for the vast majority of the voting public in america. They'll not have trouble finding someone who is charismatic enough to spit verbal acid at opponents in a primary AND can be riled up against the demographic target of choice.
The only real challenge for them will be 1.) finding someone with donald's 'blessing' or a connection to him to set it up as 'taking over' so the republican voters will find it so amazing, AND 2.) ensuring someone like musk doesn't try to torpedo everything by using vast amounts of money to try to buy their way into the ring.