They were still selling into the 30s, marketed primarily towards women (“less maintenance, no gasoline needed”, etc). The Depression really killed off the environment that allowed many people to own multiple cars, and those little electric city cars were the first to go because you needed something that was big and could actually carry your kids and your dog and your belongings and whatever else.

This is true, but as most self defense people will tell you, it only takes a small hole in another person to stop them worrying about much more than “oh damn that dude just shot me”.

I’ve been working through Cassette Beasts and it does NOT like lower-end hardware despite being pretty light on graphics.

For the 20 minutes it takes to swear Vance in. While JD might have the charisma of bloated roadkill, he’s competent, unlike Trump who was guided solely by his narcissism and need for validation.

Same here from when I was working in the field. If I’m driving, I can count it as working so I go home after 8 hours instead of 9 or 8.5 or whatever.

My seatbelt did save me. My work van got T-boned by a semi that blew a red light (dumb American traffic light highway intersection), and my belt saved me from getting a shifter knob added to my abdominal cavity.

Wear it, y’all.

The multibillion dollar company I work for hosts literally everything on Teams and OneDrive. We absolutely have the capacity for storage on-site, we absolutely have the capacity to spin up our own cloud. They just do it this way because “well it’s already there”.

Arguably thousands or more, considering judges and police and schools see these episodes about these places and recommend places like that to parents or as part of their own sentencing.

Don’t forget all the illegal/semilegal weed farmers who are more than happy to put you in the dirt no matter who you are.

A lot of Mormons in the Great Plains take up long range and extreme long range shooting (think sniper shit), mostly because you have enough flat land there to set up proper 1000yd ranges (and enough deserted areas where you can just go plink a target for a couple hours without another living soul around).

Don’t forget Oregon, which was literally founded to be a white ethnostate.

Pretty much this. The number of countries that could wage a full invasion across an ocean, keeping supply lines open, against a near-peer, is pretty tiny - MAYBE the EU if they all pooled resources (and invited the UK along). MAYBE China if they island-hopped (which is its own set of logistical nightmares). That’s really about it.

No no, you forget the depths of this man’s racism.

He nearly went mad with grief when he found out his father’s… Grandfather, I think, was Welsh.

Cedar waxwings do something similar - their favorite food is juniper berries, and usually by the time they’re migrating and need to eat a lot, those juniper berries are fermenting on the bush or have dropped off. I’ve seen bunches of these idiots just rolling around too drunk to fly.

Hey hey, it’s not JUST about that!

It’s also because it classifies child marriage as abuse. You can still get married to or marry off your child as young as 12 in some states.

So to expand on these, because a lot of people seem to think “it’s because they cared”, that’s only partially it.

Back before faster travel methods, if you wanted a small bird for any reason and it had to travel any significant distance, you would assume at least a 75% fatality rate from stress, with that increasing to roughly 90% over greater distances.

So canaries and finches were expensive, and unless your mine was close to a port city, you’d be traveling 3-4 days at least. Need 4 canaries? Better buy 40.

I got laid off literally less than 20 minutes after I finished everything that needed to be done for that quarter. They told me they were waiting for me to finish, and that they had lied to my face about finding me a new position when they closed up my office.

Don’t forget trying to start a war with Iran (and maybe Iraq too) by assassinating an intelligence head during a peace conference with Iraq.

Hell, we just need to take a small fraction of what the military gets yearly to pay for everyone’s student loans, right now.

Sadly, all the public school could afford was 10 interwar Italian tankettes that fall apart in a light breeze.