Nice red herring you’ve got there - I’ll leave you in your dark, depressing hole to enjoy eating it in peace. 👋

History proves you wrong. Every major challenge to our democracy, from our inception, has been overcome with blood, sweat and plenty of tears.

Americans will roll over and let it happen like they have for fifty-some odd years now or more.

You’re old now but apparently can’t remember all the victories over the last 50 years? Title IX? ADA? Same-sex marriage? First black president? First woman speaker? That’s just off the top of my head - your willful ignorance is actually shocking to me, shameful.

Some ass-hat thinks ‘activism’ (slacktivism) is bot-spamming his same comment thousands of time.

War is a great distraction from these robber baron tactics the current admin is employing.

So glad I moved out of FL, I’m sure these policies will go over well in your actual money makers like South Beach, Ft. Laudy, Orlando, et al

I saw park rangers doing this up at rainier, I shouldv’e asked why!

I saw the video yesterday and it’s def worth a watch to understand how China is contesting ownership of international waters.

Nah. We label stuff good or bad for a reason, to say it’s all ‘a human thing’ is just meaningless reductionism. Of course we are capable of it. Humanity is capable of what every human has ever done, got it. He’s not me, speak for your fucking self.

Horrific… I know he killed himself already. I know there is no real justice in this world. I can’t stop my primal brain from wishing stringing him up by his feet and torturing him to death would bring those girls back or prevent others from doing the same. Edit: He ziptied thier hands and put plastic bags over their heads to suffocate them. This is not a mental health thing, this is an evil incarnate thing.

Sign me THE FUCK up, have been looking at 90s danger rangers to sate my small truck fix but so many of them have a car-looking front end.

You mean the better side brother, ohhh yeaahh!

Yup in a ‘normal’ housing market I would totally expect to pay more to do a custom build. House builders are like walmart, they get volume deals that you don’t have access to building a single unit. I used 'Sweet Home 3d" (basically sketchup light just for buildings) to plan the house/site over several months before using online estimators for material as a ballpark, now finally working with a professional. For site planning I hired the geotechnical engineers and the waste water engineers to submit their findings/blessings to the county.

Some of the gotchas I’ve encountered:

• Land is very hard to finance, I ended up saving until I could buy cash
• Building ‘on-grid’ would have saved a lot in permitting and setup (luckily I had electric service at the road). If you are going off-grid, I would check the permitting requirements for sewage/water and the average depth of wells near your spot, this can get expensive quick if you have to drill deep.
• I’m working with an architect atm but we’ve pivoted to using ICF blocks for wall construction as they are made in the USA and tariffs would have killed me otherwise.

I would expect the cost of the building, using the highest quality materials (not luxury) to still beat (by like 100k) the cost of buying an equivalant old home in the area I purchased; however, if we are talking pre-housing-price-explosion of the last few years, I would say building would be more expensive.

I’ll let you know when it’s all done lol - it’s a long and expensive process!

Yup - had the ability (and even tried last downturn) to buy but was consistantly outbid by overseas (and domestic) cash, after 10+ years of trying I finally decided to buy land and go through all the red-tape and expense of buiding something new. Turning houses into financial instruments was a real mistake.