microrule
I booted the game up and so far the only achievement I have is the first year achievement.
No idea if it's a glitch that has kept me from getting "start the game" or what but I haven't gotten it yet
(US) I've been to gas stations in big cities, small towns, little collections of buildings that have no official name but they have a dollar general and a gas station, etc...
I've seen several kinds.
Single hose to dispense 87-93 ("normal") gasoline, and one for diesel
One hose for normal gas, one for diesel, and one for high-ethanol
One for all gasoline types and one for diesel
One super fancy stainless-steel-clad gas station that looked like something from retrofuturism had 5 hoses, one each for 87,90,93, e15, diesel, and the farthest end pump had a line for kerosine.
Never seen a combined gas and diesel hose though.
Ha, jokes on YOU, I already have a heart condition!
Wait...
"I use ReVanced"
goosebumps
Also marketing.
A good hotel with good service may get a reference here or there, but a decent hotel that gives you a cute thing to take with you, post pictures of, and tell people all about the cute quirky thing some place or other does?
People do the advertising for them.
It's like the snarky tumblr/twitter/facebook fast food pages.
I need about a moon-sized glob of cement for.....
Science stuff.
Ineffective, definitely.
Safe for the target, also maybe. Just depends on whether the exploding action and barrel throw shrapnel down range, or if you had a shitty weld. Guy holding it won't have a good day, but could survive. Something something Kentucky ballistics.
Idk man, this plan is sounding pretty credible.
Wait, wrong community....
I used to live in an apartment complex where someone got wasted, took the main road corner too fast, plowed down 3 10ft tall pines, plowed over the complex signage, and into the living room of one of the apartments. The brick facade was coming down in chunks all along the building.
My family was on chit-chat-about-your-life terms with the property manager, and apparently their insurance company was refusing to do anything because, you guessed it.... "preventable"
Now, how could this have been prevented you ask? Well I'll let you know when they find out because replanting thicker trees, and putting a guard rail didn't help since literally a month later someone was street racing and spun out on the same corner. Didn't hit the apartments, but took out the semi-reconstructed sign and the cars in front of the apartment.
If I had to guess, I'd say the car insurances refused to pay also. Idk, didn't know the families that lived across the road.
Tldr: people are dicks and absolutely will just break shit they know other people like just because they get a little thrill at causing other people to feel bad, or they really do just like breaking things and have no regard for others, history, or significance.
A couple years back there was a big search going on when someone decided to topple a cliffside tree and it fell onto the path below and crushed someone.
Looked it up just now because I never heard any follow up, and not only is it now reported as a "log" (idk if you can call a mostly dead tree a "log" but whatever) and three teenagers were charged.
At a state park near my house, there's an insane amount of huge sandstone boulders deposited by glacial melt, and half buried. Someone knocked an eroded piece away that was kind of like a table that people had a tradition of "you walk up the super steep sideof the mountain/hill, grab a pebble on your way up, and when you get to the top you try to toss it onto the pile that's accumulated over the years"
Now there's just a slowly building pile of palm sized rocks where the sandstone table fell as people started a new tradition.
I fully believe that if the world was introduced to a newly discovered alien species that only exists in one single hole on Mars, and teleportation on the same day, someone would have stuck an explosive in the puddle by the end of the day.
Based on the facts of the case as presented by the cops themselves, not murder and not even attempted murder.
Defense, plain and simple.
When police are involved in an illegal act, they deserve every bit of the same treatment as any other civilian.
If someone breaks down my door in a mask, screaming and pointing guns around, I'm not going to stop and ask if they have badges or a warrant, I'm gonna defend my life, my family, and my property.
If someone is beating my sibling to death, I'm not going to sit back, shrug, and say "well he should have tried cooperating harder, nothing I can do but watch" I'm going to defend my family from attempted murder
Well you see, when the people with all the money make the rules, they go out of their way to ensure they never see an inkling of the consequences of their behaviors.
It's not logical, as so many things in modern society aren't when you take a step back and think about the Why's of the way things are. But society at large is beaten down and starved enough to not question it.
"It's just the way things are"
But it's not the way things could be
Mold started growing in the crawl space that had to be taken care of but for the most part I think so.
Everything has been heavily documented because with the flooring being what it is, it doesn't like moisture from the underside and if things got humid enough that would drastically reduce the lifespan of the floor.
I'm in the US and a few years back we had to replace our septic system.. Did all the usual stuff to contact utility companies to come mark the lines off.
The cable company we had has been bought out twice in my memory, who knows how many times before that. They marked a straight line from certain points around the front of the house.
Well guess who sliced through the cable with the very first excavator chunk out BACK.
The placement made no sense until you consider a tree that had been cut down and stump removed, on the close front side of the house vs the completely clear, easily dug up but farther to go back side. Looks to me like someone didn't want to deal with roots and too the easy way, but didn't change the reported line. I don't know how cable guys usually mark their lines but I thought it was weird he only had a clipboard and some measuring tape instead of like... A metal detector. Idk if the lines can even be picked up with one though.
Another time I noticed water visibly flowing underneath the house from front to back through the foundation bricks. NOT good. At all. Very bad, in fact, to have flowing water under your house.
Thanks to the grass growing extra tall, and the excessive amount of groundwater I was able to track down a leak to a little spurt of water maybe 3 inches high coming from the ground. Called the water company about a busted pipe.
Apparently they had two lines next to each other, one was a replacement and the other was supposed to be bypassed but apparently never got cut off. So when the old line eventually completely broke, it just started pouring water into the hillside which ran down to our house. Three crews working until about 5am. Water spraying a good 15 feet into the air.
So they new where the pipe was, but they didn't really know where the pipe was since their papers said the actual leaky pipe no longer existed.
I just want you to know my wife is adamant that this is the correct version.
I'm with the cat, but you should know you aren't alone.
P̷̯̎R̷͕̍Ạ̷̈́I̸͈͗S̵̚͜Ė̶̥ ̴̻̋T̵͘͜H̸̻̒Ě̷̠ ̴̞͊Ỏ̴͕M̵̭̓N̵̝̆I̵̮͛S̴̥̓S̶̪̄Í̴̗Ä̴̟H̸͇͛.̴̘͠ ̸̪͌
Reading how they accomplished this, I will not accept any explanation other than The Machine Spirit deciding their prayers were enough to save V1 from Chaos.
The only way humans' progeny will exist for millions of years is if we manage to make it through the great filter and spread out to other planets, assuming we can find planets suitable for open-environment habitation.
We're quite good at making more of ourselves than is sustainable, so the only way of keeping ourselves going that long is to spread out.
Of course by then I'm sure several new species of humans will have emerged.
It's bullshit that they're being thanked for table scraps that the children had to slap fight over how many scraps are allowed..
Of course anything other than 100% gratitude would be touted by the shittier child for the rest of their life regardless of whether the scraps ended off starvation or not.
My metaphor got a little weird but what the fuck.
I've caught myself making NCD-level comments in other places.
Besides, this is 100% credible.