It sort of is. Securing funding is part of of the Job at the top level of officials.

SpaceX is the only legitimate way to make it into space in the US right now though. it’s mostly a failure of NASA, but it’s going to take decades for a real competitor.

You should have a nest egg by then that even in a crash, a year of withdrawal isn’t significant

You don’t have to choose, just keep saving and investing for 30 years.

Not sure if you have to pay for the blood test (it wouldn’t surprise me), but part of driving on a public road is consenting to a breathalyzer test. They do need a warrant to draw your blood against your will, but they may bully the hospital into doing it anyway. Refusing to take one is a crime that in combination with any other violation can get your license suspended.

It may be worth going that route if you are marginally over the limit and a few hours would sober you up.

Refusing a breathalyzer is expensive though thanks to implied consent. The ticket for that is a ton of points.

Were those people black by chance?

It’s called devils night around here.

I wouldn’t share a reddit link in that scenario either, but it’s a decent point.

1. Land is scarce where people want to live, it’s always going to get more expensive as more people want to live there.
2. Low interest rates caused large investment firms to seek higher rates by being rental owners instead of mortgage owners. This forced up rent to make returns on investment. As the realities of being a landlord are realized this might get better.
3. New building nationally wasn’t keeping pace pre covid, but it was by a negligible amount. Post covid, new building is years behind where it needs to be.
4. High interest rates now has effectively got people stuck in existing homes, because a new mortgage would be double the payment.
5. Inflation happened, 20% of the increase since 2020 is just inflation.
6. Short term rentals have devasted the residential market in popular tourist areas, forcing them to charge hotel taxes and follow those regulations is hopefully going to start correcting this.

It is harvest season and most crops are brown when it’s time to harvest.

They could try not constantly funding and training groups commiting terrorist acts.

A party realignment likely happens faster. It’s been a long time since the parties have had a real shake up and we are probably overdue anyway.

Comcast has a monopoly though, it’s not like satellite or 5g is a serious competitor to cable/fiber.

That seems like a poor excuse, every country experienced rationing and they didn’t revert to awful food. There’s even a few dishes like fried spam and ramen that are actually pretty good.

The more impressive thing is how the British had a global empire for roughly 400 years, and their cuisine remained awful.

It’s more than a defense, it’s actually a benefit for police. Attempting to enforce rules that don’t exist still count as valid pretext if they find evidence of actual crimes.

Here’s an article from 2016 when it was more important.

This sounds nice in theory, but there’s a county in my state which hasn’t had a good count in my lifetime. All the collected ballots still get counted, and because the count doesn’t match a recount can’t be conducted by rule. Once ballots are in the box it’s functionallly impossible to determine illegitimate ones. There’s definitely legitimate mistakes that can cause that, but it’s essentially impossible to prove it was fraud and not losing a few stubs, a missing spoiled ballot, or someone just keeping a ballot that were merely accidental.

4 years after the fact a known bad apple might actually face real punishment. It still probably won’t happen, but there’s still hope at this point I guess.