If you wany a rural setting you’re probably fucked.

If you’re looking for a SC kind of ‘city’ I would suggest perhaps Colorado, or something like Bend Oregon, or Spokane Washington. More isolated cities without large populations and also surrounded by that rural character.

…The Portland State Univerity’s Library?

The safest possible place with the least possible chance to reach a critical audience for this shit.

Cereal is $7 to $11 per box at my grocery store.

Then after a few weeks they go on sale down to $2-$4 each as long as you buy 3 or 4 at once.

Infuriating shit.

Ah don’t be ashamed of not having known though. I used to work for a health department and did a lot of outreach in rural communities. It’s amazing how little knowledge of wastewater systems there is out there. Education on private infrastructure is lacking. People might learn about public treatment plants (seriously Ms Frizzle’s Magic School Bus is the primary common point of reference) and assume their house is served by the same: even when miles out side a city off a forestry road.

For anyone reading the above: Hamas is the one in negotiations with Israel. The words that came out after ‘but’ was a factual statement, not a justifying qualifier.

Hamas is negotiating with Israel on behalf of Gaza. Textbook case of prejudice hijacking reading comprehension.

Day in and day out, yes. It is a Kafkaesque political strategy. It is about injecting discord and confusion.

It is a pretty common tactic for accepting or supporting a genocide, or priming people to shame others for not accepting or supporting a genocide.

Corollary: there’s a somewhat relevant quote by Sartre on the ‘anti semite’ from the immediate aftermath of WW2: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7870768-never-believe-that-anti-semites-are-completely-unaware-of-the-absurdity

It’s going to take years, if not decades, to clear the rubble and the human remains still inside.

The millions of reconstruction for billions worth of damage will ensure there is maximum amount of ‘unpopulated’ Gazan area for Israel to remain occupying.

Which also means there is a baked in flashpoint of conflict where Israel will have to leave areas that are rebuilt. The entire history and existence of Israel indicates this will not happen: settlers will occupy anywhere the IDF is: which brings us back to the status quo.

The American Independent Party is identified as the ‘American Independent Party’ or ‘AIP’ anywhere I have seen it. That’d be a pretty conscious mistake to make as far as I can tell.

Reduce FOG. Fats, Oils, Greases.

Especially if you’re on septic. You can have clean pipes and a bricked tank or even worse clogged drainfield.

Sewage backing up into the home, or surfacing in the yard, and now the house is posted for non-occupancy and a 20-80k repair or replacement.

Gotem.

Maybe so. Though I feel it was likely just the natural result of clout chasing, which I think is more on Jaime.

Rogan just went full covid brainrot. I used to listen regularly during his early podcasts and especially the redban era when it was mostly just the wasteland feeling after Occupy Wall Street failed. Jamie curbed to show down the alt right pipeline and it felt less like comedians hanging out.

It’s been weird where it’s been about a decade since I listened and it feels so remarkably different when I see a clip after he hits the news with some nonsense guest.

That’s how he lends credibility to everything that airs on his show. It is disarming enough to help the listener extend that sentiment toward the guest long enough to explain whatever lunatic theory.

And then you’re listening to the guest, not Rogan so…

He’s been doing the podcast since 2009.

The Tim & Eric episode he directed was wild even by Tim & Eric standards.

For the Russian revolution you’ve also got that whole World War 1 thing where the rulers were expecting the freezing starving people to repeatedly bayonet charge machine gun positions with zeal and elan for years on end.

Far from it: history is an account of things that happened. Learning from it requires a solid adherence to what is known about what happened.

The value of speculating on alternate timelines is not to learn from the theorized history but to illustrate how interwoven it is with the events of the time.

You can still call that learning from history, but it is a very different avenue of inquiry. I love alternate timelines, and I also respect the limits of their value.

It seems odd to me how the author compares Ukraine to an alternative reality of 1938 imagined by their favorite historian.

Flat comparing 2020s to 1930s is already tenuous enough.

This often comes up in these threads, but the point of using the term tankie is for its association with leftism.

The traditional term people otherwise use when referring to such abuse by mods and admin is ‘fascist’ or ‘nazi’, hyperbolic or not as you demonstrated. The conflation is the point.

Some folk identify the .ml (or the pronouns of hexbear users) and work backwards from there.

Simply: the bad faith was having .ml there in the name. I’ll take him for his word and bet that’s what was meant.

*edit And it isn’t like I haven’t seen wingnuts go “.world eh? More like .nazi!” as well. It is just that whole general vibe with the people who all up and comment about blocking shit.

This whole endless debate always just feels like three Dean Brownings in a trench coat.

Marginally. The paper analyzes the capabilities as they existed in the 1980s, but doesn’t draw strong conclusions as to why that may be. It does demonstrate how reliance on central planning results in inadequaciea when said central planning is not operating well, though.

The paper doesn’t really mention it but the central planning of the USSR was actively reeling from Brezhnev dying, Andropov dying, and Chernenko either dying or about to die at the time the CIA thing was written. So yeah, correct is an accurate if imprecise way to put it.