Do you live in America or do you live in one of the places where they actually require you to be a skilled and competent driver before you can drive?

I have three vehicles right now.

My daily driver is a 2020 Chevy Malibu. It is spacious, fast, and comfortable, and it gets pretty good gas mileage. About 30 miles per gallon on the highway and about 22 in the city.

I have a pickup truck, which is a 2004 f150. It’s a good vehicle for hauling furniture or helping friends move or for the occasional camping trip. It’s four-wheel drive. It has rear seats, and honestly other than the fact that it’s a relatively slow vehicle and that it gets horrible fuel mileage at like 17 mpg combined, I enjoy having it.

Finally, I have a project / fun car, which is a yellow 1986 Jeep CJ7. Has the inline slant 6 4.2 258 motor, hardtop, and is constantly in need of repair, lol.

My hope is to have it finished up by summer and take it on a camping trip and go do a little off-roading, but for the most part it just sits in my driveway and looks beautiful.

My annual insurance runs about $2,800 for all three vehicles. If I got rid of two of them I could probably cut that down to 1200 or so.

I was always told that the thing to keep track of is 3 minutes 3 days 3 weeks.

3 minutes without air, 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food.

Make sure to check your sun rose first as well.

I live in a geodesic dome and so it is not a good match for solar but even if it was I only average like four and a half hours of sunlight a day because of tree coverage on my neighbor’s properties.

Hey cousin! Crazy apocalypse, right?

You could probably get a couple of Life straws for that Creek and buy yourself several weeks of drinkable water.

If you have a water heater you have a supply of drinkable water in the 40-80 gallon range, not counting what is in your pipes

I have a wood burning stove with peltier device powered fans to distribute the heat.

It gets hot enough to boil water so I can cook on it.

And I have about 4 days worth of continuous fire firewood.

So assuming that I couldn’t just hop in the car and drive somewhere else I guess I would be okay for about 4 days.

Okay so here’s my take on it not that anybody asked.

There are likely back doors in all computerized Networked devices.

There is likely some identifying information being sent back to random servers from a myriad of places.

That being said, you are not worth the time to directly observe.

Most likely, all of this data goes into a large database where they analyze trends and look for people that are outside of various tolerance zones.

Other than that, all of your data is just noise, grist for the grist Mill.

It is only when you become a person of interest who is worth devoting the time to directly analyze that these risks escalate to the point where you should have concern about it.

99.9999% of us are just not important enough to pay attention to.

It’s almost like El Cheeto dorito was born for the role.

Depends on your mana pool.

If you can overlook the Japanese savior complex propaganda it’s not bad.

There was an anime called gate that addressed this specific event.

It was a very pro Japan are the good guys kind of almost propaganda anime, but long story short the main advantage that the non-magical earthlings had is computers and logistics and War experience from hundreds of years of wars without magic.

So it would be kind of like asking if a modern military could win against some 1400s era nights in armor who just happened to have missile launchers but not machine guns or tanks.

I did. Been a decade since I had a cigarette.

He was overreacting because the bot publicized that he had clicked like on a porn video.

His ban of the user was an attempt to cover up his mistake and thanks to the Streisand effect now we’ve got screenshots.

It’s pretty freaking sad honestly.

If I did something like that at my job I would be looking for a new job. Not really sure why they haven’t responded or dealt with that in any way.

It is harder to cook healthy foods nowadays than it was even 40 years ago because commercial farming has expedited the growth cycles of plants and animals to the point where they simply cannot process the nutrition available from the environment the way that they used to.

If you want to eat truly healthy, you basically have to grow the food yourself.

Since that is completely unreasonable for the grand majority of the modern world, your goal should be to try to eat as healthily as you can. Cooking from scratch and not over cooking your food are very good places to start.

There’s a very simple solution to this, and I’m honestly not quite sure why no one is doing it.

Make ads voluntary. Make them separate from the rest of the experience.

Make it so that you can watch ads and answer surveys based off of the ads in order to get credits which then allow you to watch videos.

Alternatively, make it so that you can purchase the credits out right.

Everyone fucking wins.

I don’t know why people are so stupid as to not even contemplate the easiest and most satisfying solution to all of the problems.

The flaw with Backpage was that they engaged in moderation of sex workers posts.

If they hadn’t done that it might be a different story but they directly specifically edited posts to increase engagement

For me, being wealthy would mean that if they never intentionally earned another penny for the rest of their life, that would not prevent them from doing anything that they wanted to do within reason.

For normal people that would mean between two and five million dollars in liquid assets available to them.

I just tell them whoever they’re calling for died. I let them bask in the awkwardness for a bit before they hang up.