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  • Most places I have lived in the U.S. have plazas, giant parking lots, with stores that loop around 2 sides into a corner for the most part. They aren't designed to be walked to. Bicycling to them is often tough as well. The mom and pops shops are mostly dead, so groceries, appliances, movies, whatever it is you are looking for are in Walmart, Target, Bestbuy, and other failing stores like Macy's, Dillard's, JCPenney, etc. all resteraunts are either surrounded by a parking lot, or in a plaza. Fast food is everywhere, and neighborhoods are miles from stores. The jurisdictions don't allow commercial propertys near many neighborhoods. Slowly we are seeing more mix, but it's a last 10 year change that I have noticed.

  • That's a good amount of states, at least 10 I'm sure. Parallel parking in the U.S. is rare. I remember my mother telling me in her late 50s she had never done it since her driving test back in 77. I used to do it when I'd go into cities but it is rare to find anywhere that requires it. Some vehicles are also so big here that if someone parallel parks a truck 5cm off the curb cars will have to drive into oncoming traffic to go around them. Thankfully places are starting to crack down on that.

  • I don't see how this is meant to ensure the law is fairly governed, nor where the constitution or legislature told the president that they could change pricing for parks. It isn't pertaining to war, and it's a pretty damn hard to see how this pertains to international affairs.

    Everyone in the government has to know this executive order shouldn't exist. Wish the Supreme Court had the integrity to just vet every executive order and suspend all of them that could be overreach upon being placed until they are reviewed.

  • I tried looking into why Mississippi was so far worse. Mostly just finding people self report texting and driving more there, infrastructure is shitty, enforcement is shitty, DUIs are high they recently just upped the civil fine of texting while driving from $25 to $100.

    For fun I looked to see what Mississippi would be like if it was its own country, and do to GDP it was compared to Morocco and Kenya.

    Car Deaths per 100,000

    Mississippi: 26 Morocco: 17.29 Kenya: 28

    Kenya is 4x as dense as Mississippi is though, so still hard to say Mississippi is safer than Kenya. It's just numbers

  • I haven't done a bunch with it. I set it up locally on an old laptop, installed the app on my TV and on the other machines throughout the house. It works great when I use it. I stream a lot of content outside of it so I don't use it all the time but the interface I really liked. It's fluid even running the server on a laptop that would struggle to run a zoom call.

    Believe I set it up with pop-os, but it could be mint. I haven't had to touch it in months so I honestly wouldn't know without going to it. I leave a RustDesk connection on it from my phone if I ever need to get to it.

  • They rushed into action how exactly? It's been known and reported for multiple years. The Varroa management book discusses their ability to develop resistance to chemical treatments.

    Whole section on managing potential resistance and rotating active ingredients used in control. That information was published in 2022. I can't tell if it is just government bodies trying to give credit for their earlier work to new people/incompetence by the administration to not already have that information or who knows what

    https://honeybeehealthcoalition.org/resources/varroa-management/

    (Sorry, bothered me because I remembered reading about them when I was contemplating getting bees, but I put them off because I wanted to make sure my chickens were doing well and not get my hands to full all at once.)

  • Standardly you lose the insurance on the day your job ends. There is a program called COBRA that exists where you can pay more (whatever the employer was paying on top of what you were paying, and a fee) to keep it going until you find your next job. I think it maxes out at a year but I'm not sure. Never done it, as I couldn't afford it between jobs. Hope that day you speak of comes sooner than later. Also I hope all goes well in life for you. Best of luck

  • Thank you for doing so! Our insurance varies drastically. The last time I had insurance available from work it was $134 per pay period so ~3500 U.S. dollars a year. It had a $5000 deductible, so while you had a co-pay/consult fee so the doctor would see you for $15. But if you needed them to do something, say fix a broken arm, you pay out of pocket until you pass that $5000 mark for the year. Prescriptions they pay some of, but for people like me it's not much different than just not having the insurance. Amoxicillin is less than $10 with a prescription, and that's usually all I need if I get a soar throat and jazz. So once every couple years I'll get that and Mucinex D and I'm usually good in a few days.

    Now if you want dental or vision those come separate. My last job offered them but I can't remember what they are split, something like $20 per pay period, so another $240 a year.
    You also pay copays for the visits and deductibles for the procedures and something's aren't covered like normal.

    The sad thing is that is considered pretty good insurance to many people. My uncle always used private healthcare, and his was much higher than that.

  • A good example is a bullet. It can get grooves from the barrel being rifled, but the bullet will maintain its shape for the most part when you dig it out of a tree.

    Not sure how I got to this comment, you're going to be super confused why someone responded to a really old comment 🤣

  • They guy is just saying thank you for your service. I think what you did was worth it. It only sounds like a dig at Trump because it's near impossible to say anything nice to anyone without it somehow being against him.