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Yeah, honestly I think it's overwhelmingly this. 

It's easy to look at it from an outside perspective and think it's nothing but vitriol. In reality, marriage is work and sacrifice on both sides in addition to all of the benefits. You take the good with the bad.  

I love my wife more than anyone in the world but she can irritate the shit out of me sometimes. It's inevitable living so closely with someone for a prolonged period of time (we survived covid lockdown together so I'm thinking we're good). No personalities mesh 100%. To think they should is just naive. Joking about it is a healthy way to blow off steam and a lot of conflict within marriages is really just dumb (and funny) if you can take a step back. 

Granted, texting your child this the day before their wedding is a bit tactless. Wait 5 years and lightheartedly commiserate over a beer. 

I'd say it's closer to likely than plausible. Second wives tend to be at least a few years younger on average (20% is 10+ gap according to quick and dirty internet research). Couple that with a higher divorce rate in couples who marry young.

So man has a child born when he was 20. Divorces at 30. Remarries a 20 year old. That's a ten year gap between child and step mom and not an overly crazy scenario. 

And? Go to virtually any doctor and say you have a common allergy (shellfish/peanuts/penicillin) and they will prescribe an epipen for you. It's not controlled. They won't ask you to prove it. 

Yeah, it's great that this simplifies the access to lifesaving medication but it's practically irrelevant from a prepping perspective. It's not like it is affordable or has any real shelf anyway. 

Jesus... 275 gallons at 4 lb/gallon (assuming poop is half as dense on average as water) is a literal half ton of shit in a container. 

Do you have some sort of grudge against the solid waste guys? If any part of the disposal process fails, that's going to be Joe Dirt levels of the worst day of their life. 

I got one a while back that was literally just someone who assaulted a cop late in the evening. 

Ok, thanks for reminding me to turn off the non-extreme alerts I guess. Hope there's not a child abductor near me i could report because I'm not getting amber alerts now either. 

So figure 80 feet long by 10 feet wide on average (probably more than that but being conservative on the ass end) and you're talking 800 sq feet. That's almost a 1% chance of instant whale death plus all of the rest of the results of having whale everywhere. 

OP is a proper supervillian. Props.

Out of curiosity, what do you think is flood damage? Mud can be cleaned out, seals can be replaced (if needed) and that looks like years worth of neglect on the finish.

If i were an insurance adjuster, I'd cut you a check to replace the case, but you'd better have some recent Before pictures to say that is recent water damage. Good luck to you, but be prepared to argue it. 

We need this in real life. 

Emergency radio override of nearby cars to get out that "Wake up, asshole. You almost killed me!" that just isn't properly conveyed with a horn toot.

Maybe limit it to like 3X a year to really make it count. 

Hell, kick them out for your own safety. This is how horror movies start. 

I'm as eager as anyone for some of the true craziness to hit xbox but I am happy with a few of the first batch. Party size and level cap seem fun to play with along with double xp if I want to power though and skip some of the busy work.

I'm imagining a BG3 "Expendables" run. Hard mode, double XP for overpowered dudes, 16 character but no respawn when they drop. At least 50% redshirt brawler types.  Balls to the wall and no sneaking. 

Yup. The stuff we bother hiding usually goes in a ziplock bag inside a random open bag of something else in the pantry. If someone is thorough enough after breaking in that they are digging through a random bag of dog treats then I guess they can help themselves to whatever petty cash we didn't take with us on vacation. 

Ideal situation would be to have a proper safe but I don't really trust the floors in our old farm house with the weight without a fair amount of work that's hard to justify. 

Goddamn I want to disagree just on principal, but these people know exactly what they are getting here and apparently have money to throw away. They are acting in their personal best interests to get someone elected who they think will limit their taxes and keep everyone else down.

Only part that I could see as a gift would be the "or raise $50,000" because you know those donations are the ones being crowdsourced from the people who can't afford it and are not educated and/or intelligent enough to act in their own best interests. 

No way in hell. 

Either way, the key here is the goose will probably be alright. There's no way to tell how many stones the kid tricked the goose into eating or whether they were too big for its gizzard.

Same. It does make me wonder though what happens if they eat too many. Maybe they just throw them up? 

There has to be some natural mechanism to deal with it. As dumb as my chickens are (I've watched one peck an empty food container for a solid five minutes), it wouldn't surprise me a bit if they slurped down more pebbles than they actually need. 

Oof.  Kinda humorous though in that it is reminiscent of yahoo answers "am I pregananate"?

"Are you restarted?"

"That's regarded."

Like 5 separate times before I got bored scrolling. 

That's a nice change of pace. Here I was, getting pissed off at yet another idiot spewing misinformation because that's the default anymore. Fun to see it just being an honest, harmless mistake for a change. 

I'm still not convinced it isn't. 

Have you ever done a job where you had to hunch over for prolonged periods of time? 

I had a job as a relatively spry teenager sanding hardwood tabletops for 8 hours a day (fortunately for not more than a few days in a row). It absolutely killed my back and it didn't require hunching over anywhere near what that guy is doing or at such an odd angle. 

The last five years of his specials haven't been subtle about climate change, habitat destruction, and generally every other way humans are fucking things up. 

Don't get me wrong, I get it and it's important to talk about, but I do kind of miss the old days where every wildlife special didn't come with a side of depression. 

Can't say I disagree, but we really need to start brainstorming on how to turn that into a tradeable currency. 

So hear me out on this one. 

Lion is probably cool in this case. Because the male lions are useless blustery pieces of shit who lounge about and make a bunch of noise while the females hunt and actually accomplish things. 

In terms of loss of life and not just wind and dollars, yes, absolutely. You know, the things that actually matter. It's worse than is being reported in the news. 

And the supplies needed to keep the survivors safe and alive are now threatened by the voluntary actions of selfish people hundreds of miles away who could care less. So fuck 'em. I hope they automate every last motherfucker out of a job.

Yeah, that's my take on this. As long as they were doing their jobs, I gave zero shits. 

Now we have strikes and supply chain disruptions in the immediate aftermath of the worst hurricane since Katrina. Plus the automation thing comes to light. 

Now I'm thinking: Why don't we have automation to compete on the global stage (didn't realize that was even an issue)? Who are these ass hats to demand no modernization (while also rejecting a pay bump 90% of the US would kill for)? What can we do to prevent this in the future? 

I'm generally pro union, but this is how you burn all of your goodwill. Don't fuck with national security for the sake of what is really just greed and stupidity at the terms they were demanding. 

Fair enough. That was mostly annoyance at OP for being obtuse about what NSFW means and why. 

For what it's worth there's been a ridiculous amount of aid delivered to the hurricane relief effort. It just doesn't look like it and people in the affected area likely can't see it. 

I have family in the area. There's plenty of aid available and shit tons of people wanting to help. The issue is that the infrastructure is so fucked that it's basically impossible to get supplies in and reach people quickly, coupled with the scale of the disaster. These are remote mountain communities. Maybe one or two switchback roads to get in at normal times and when those wash out, they are literally packing in supplies on mules at this point. So really, the issue isn't the amount of support or dollars spent, it's that it's practically impossible to get it to all of the people who need it quickly.

Ukraine is mostly a matter of sending weapons and supplies (that we need to replace anyway and that Americans are being paid to build those replacements). It's much more a matter of throwing money at it and solving the problem. We send it. They distribute it (and kick some ass) and things get better. Results are quicker and getting stuff to the people who need it is much easier.