Some people like spreadsheet sims.

The game series also mixed in a lot of mafia movie vibes and satire.

Then Rockstar realized you can release a lot less content by pushing online gameplay, stopping the release of single player content.

I don’t see that working today.

If it is a house, get good insurance on it that will pay out on the cost of the structure. If they demolish the house, keep the land undeveloped and invest the insurance payout rather than rebuild. Taxes will be low because the land will have dropped in price thanks to the local community. Continue as the town has to raise taxes because they are destroying rateable properties and insurance rates rise due to the increased likelihood of property damage. Hope for either pushing the locals out or getting a municipal bankruptcy to put the town under state control.

Likely not.

Am important part is that the local economy could be on board, but it is likely that some investor would see what is happening and buy the property.

I’ve taken a listening course taught by a former cop. It turns out there is an active curriculum for police on how to actively listen to diffuse situations; it just isn’t taught as default to all cops.

Going for three from Against Me!

Thrash Unreal

Borne in the FM Waves of the Heart

I Was a Teenage Anarchist

And one from Rise Against

Help is on the Way

That seems rather typical of a middle income economy.

Israel had a part in the Benghazi attack and provided intelligence on the attack to Republicans so they could use the attack as a political weapon.

That’s basic economic theory to prices. For prices to down in an elastic market, either supply needs to increase or demand needs to decrease.

Answering the can everyone do this question, the dip usually implies that everyone cannot do this.

The dip implies a drop in demand that is causing prices to dip.

A Senate impeachment trial is effectively a vote of the Senate. It doesn’t require bipartisanship.

I wouldn’t describe them as fake lucid dreams, but I’ve had them from time to time. I usually find them unsettling as I’m used to having more control in my dreams even if I am performing the actions that my dream wants me to do.

[The USA doesn’t] have a legal mechanism for it.

The South Korean impeachment only involved South Korea’s National Assembly and Constitutional Court. It is a similar procedure to the USA’s system, except that the impeachment trial would occur with the Supreme Court instead of the Senate.

Trump’s party has a majority in both Congressional houses. Also, for impeachment to become a conviction, you need 2/3 of the vote in the Senate to get Trump pushed out of office. That will require several of Trump’s party’s senators to vote for impeachment. During the last Trump impeachment, only one of Trump’s party voted for impeachment and he is no longer a senator.

And good for them to do it. Tourism causes a lot of negative externalities; this tax helps mitigate some of those externalities.

It wasn’t like the military had that much better OPSEC. The code to launch American nuclear weapons for over, 15 years was 00000000.

I haven’t been home for several days.

I’d also look into leaving the house, even if it is to just walk around the neighborhood.

Pax Americana has led to the dismantling of empires and the bimodal economic distribution disappearing. It was an improvement over the older world order.

It was a dumb mistake, but it was a dumb mistake that had broader political support than the narrative that “car companies destroyed mass transit” suggests. It is important to recognize how a broad base of support was created in order to fight it in its current interations.

And I completely agree that Musk tunnels are a shit technology and that actual trains need to be built. I just think it requires understanding how politics functions rather than just accepting a corporate bogeyman.

It is a lot more complicated than that.

Most early 20th century mass transit networks were private businesses subject to government regulation. Most of the government regulation focused on controlling fares, so there was a lot of deferred maintenance. This was made worse as some mass transit systems were built to be a loss leader to support selling real estate.

Several mass transit networks went bankrupt due to the combination of fares not covering expenses and reduced demand due to completion with cars. Most American cities weren’t equipped to take on subsiding or taking over mass transit, so they let the existing networks die.