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https://tnmuseum.org/junior-curators/posts/underwater-ghost-towns-of-tennessee

Apparently, back in the day the government decided that some places weren't worth saving, and the benefits of building dams and flooding the towns outweighed other considerations.

The movie 'Deliverance' has a plot about something like this happening.

https://bookshop.org/beta-search?keywords=asteroid+mining

Here's a link to some books on the subject. You're right, most people figure it would be putting our heavy industries in space and bring down what ever products are needed.

With climate change and coastal flooding, it's coming, just not in the form you're thinking of.

Asteroid mining. We've had the tech to get people to the asterodi for decades, just lack the will to do it.

A lot of difference between shooting protestors and a nuclear war.

Look at Trump's big military parade. The Army has crack drill teams, expert parachute units, ace helicopter pilots, and dozens of other impressive troops to put on display. No way is the military going to go to war because Donnie is having a tantrum.

Along the lines of the original post.

Compare Angelina Jolie and Elizabeth Taylor, for example. On paper, Angelina is far wealthier, but in terms of day-to-day lifestyles, they are pretty comparable. Only the 0.01% of multi-billionaires have reaped any rewards.

The inflation in luxury goods is staggering. High school kids used to be able to afford concert tickets, football games, and Broadway plays. That Phantom was a year's salary for a school teacher; now the most expensive cars are twenty year's salary. It's not that the products are so much better; there's a larger pool of very wealthy people. In 1960, if a man's wife had a job they were considered 'poor.' Today, even professionals need two salaries to keep up with the Joneses

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I'm not much of a fan of 'inflation calculators.'

According to most of them, $1 million in 1960 is $10 million today. But if you look at the actual prices, it makes no sense. $1 million in 1960 would buy two mansions, a fleet of cars, a nice boat, and you'd have enough left over to invest and have an income for several lifetimes.

Fred Hampton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton

Fire fights is what the Right wants and is hoping for.

If you don't have a good sized freezer, buy one. There are small ones that fit in any home.

Too many veggies? Chop them up and put them in quart sized containers. You can add them to any soup or stew.

I have a five quart pot; make chili/stew/soup and freeze in pint size containers.

My house has a good freezer, here's the first i searched out as an example.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Magic-Chef-3-5-cu-ft-Manual-Defrost-Chest-Freezer-in-White-HMCF35W5/313922431

Don't engage with them.

If every interaction you've had is bad, look for the common denominator

Quick history lesson. In 1960 US minimum wage was $1.00/hour and the cost of the average US home was $11,000.00 A couple of high school kids could get married on graduation day and be homeowners in a few years.

You know that Trump just told the generals to have 'a parade.'

Kim or Putin would know exactly which tanks and units he wanted, would have specified how many flyovers, and sweated all the details.

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I can't remember the author or title of the story.

Napoleon wants to give his enemies false information, so he picks a courier who looks bold and dashing, but has a reputation for being a complete fuck up.

The idiot manages to fumble his way past a dozen patrols and deliver the orders.

Exactly what they didn't want.

"Well structured query" is what got me.

If I read up on a subject for two hours, chances are I am going to learn things that have nothing to do with the original problem.

I read a detective novel years ago. One character said that even when people are lying, they always reveal a lot when they are boasting.