Given that she’s still alive, does that mean she works for the cartels or does that mean the cartels have determined she’s not a threat? From everything I’ve read the only real remaining power in Mexico is the cartels, and I honestly don’t even know how accurate that is because no one I know has actually been in Mexico in the last 5 years or so

Hard deadline huh?

Usually a hard deadline means something quite literally can’t go beyond that date. Like “hey guys, Kursk literally has all our food, if they don’t get it back by the end of September we’re probably going to all starve” or “Kursk has the only insulin stock in the whole country, we’re gonna have a lot of dead diabetics”, “take Kursk back or you are all fired and heading to the front” and in this scenario I’d even settle for “if you guys don’t take Kursk back, I’ll glass the area as a nuclear test site.”

Deadlines can’t be hard if there are no consequences.

Edit: I mean if it were me being a stupid strongman dictator I would totally nuke an enemy controlled region within my own borders after designating it a test site. If any of the nukes were still working of course.

I mean if someone comes into your house with a clipboard and safety vest and a gun your probably going to let them do what they need if you can’t fight them off.

Do pilots get air rage? I’m sort of terrified now, I’ve only met super calm and collected pilots that might be way too far up their own butts but still seem like nothing could piss them off.

Ok so I have a solution. We glass Israel, Lebanon and Iran. About 10m people per faction. We can use neutron bombs as well to make it super highly radioactive for quite a while.

That way NO ONE can live in that region and be dragged into more stupid wars and it equally distributes the deaths.

I mean… Yeah that’s what I said. Higher demand, Airbus charges more for planes that are less likely to kill you.

Personally I’d rather get on a plane that is less likely to kill me. Even if it’s more expensive? Or maybe I’ll find another mode of transportation that seems more reasonable for the price? Sure statistics still say flying is safer, but safety isn’t the only thing in this optimization problem.

But, I also don’t fly regularly. I hate crowds, I hate MRI machines, and I hate falling from 35k feet. The price of a plane ticket going up because Boeing can’t get their shit together and stay in business does not seem like it will change life much for most people.

See I’m starting to think that it’s unsafe to fly in any Boeing. Airbus is going to monopolize the entire jumbo-jet market and make killer profit doing it while being able to comply with higher standards. and laugh their way to the bank because Boeing couldn’t figure out that dead passengers isn’t a great business model.

Let’s take a complex situation, make it worse, set it on fire, then spray the fire with gasoline from a fire hose. What’s the worst that could happen?

The only counter I have to that is how sensitive our brains are to chemical, mental, and physical trauma.

Drugs, injury, and environmental stress cause easily observable behavior changes, but also changes on the brain measurable in medical imaging. And there’s a lot of acknowledgement that these changes can occur in childhood and persist.

I don’t think anyone chooses to be cruel, I think it’s forced on them in ways they can’t do anything about, and as a society we owe it to them to do better and help them.

Uhm.

Ok. He should not be in charge of the executive office. We know he’s stupid but, damn.

Worth living? :(

TBF it’s boring as fuck out here

Upper Midwest.

Zillow is months behind, but you can find chunks where they’ve fallen 10-50k since first listing for houses under $500k.

No, they aren’t talking about the sudden drop, they’re talking about the rapid increase. Which I get the point but we may finally be looking at a true correction, which is hopeful more than anything

Wait, what?

Hold on. Around here, house prices have falled, dramatically recently.

In fact, 54% increase from 2015-2024 is low. When my house was appraised a year ago, it was +72.5%, it is now +54.5%.

Housing prices, anecdotal as it is, are going in the right direction.

I’ll die on this hill.

I can’t up vote you

And down vote you

It’s not fair

The part I don’t get is that smokers smell like shit standing 6 feet away.

How the fuck is any smoker comfortable with that?

The first part of this made me think you’re making a joke about being tasteless, then you said the pineapple pizza part and given that pineapple on pizza is just plain wrong, you might be serious

That’s pretty much exactly what happened.

I typed the first “ha” cause it was a great slap, then I typed the next “hahahaha” because it was hilarious, and at that point I was committed anyway, so I just added the last revelation that it was actually not far off from reality

Ha, hahaha, oh shit that’s a good point