diplomatpuppy

Only if they have a breakthrough infection - and that is very rare.

That is low for an off-road vehicle where civilisation could be quite far away. My Suzuki and Chevy off-road vehicles are calibrated the same. My Buick thinks low is 24 miles of range.

No - on a local level, people of goodwill from both parties can do meaningful good for all our citizens.

This doesn't have to be a R vs D issue.

Locally, I live in a very diverse area, and the typical customer has skewed much less 'good-old-boy' in the last two years.

The 'good-old-boys' are generally very happy with this and love to see new people of all backgrounds take the first steps toward citizen ownership of firearms. While there may be other disagreements on a political level, those barriers seem to be forgotten when people of good will help each-other out.

That's an interesting point - if indeed Facebook is providing a service, then using that logic they can't discriminate on providing that service for a protected class engaging in speech if they provide the same service to the public.

If we are going to be consistent on what a service is, and what speech is allowed on a service, this could get really interesting.

The federal fuel economy standards have a weird calculation that incentives vehicles with a large footprint. It's the ratio of footprint to MPG that's important to the feds.

I'm very pro covid-19 vaccine - it probably saved my life.

I am however uncomfortable with the idea that the state can compell an individual with incentives or the implied threat of travel curtailment to accept any medication.

Especially when those of us who do not want to get Covid-19 can get the vaccine and leave the others to their choice.

While the "slippery slope" is a logical fallacy, it's also an observation that often rings true.

My view as an American:

I trust my sketchy neighbor with a gun much more than I trust the government with a gun.

Perhaps it's the same trend. Citizens having control over arms is a classical liberal idea.

My kids did the same thing - turns out it let them understand what normal behaviour looks like. When someone offered one of them something weird and dangerous, they recognized that it wasn't normal.

Can confirm - some of the poorest palaces where I live had the most fun with fireworks.

It takes a particular cruelty to take the fun away of those that don't have much.

For me, there's a difference between boycotting a powerful corporation by not buying their products or services and starting an angry Twitter mob to badger someone so much that they quit a large aspect of their life to protect their friends and family.

Neither tactic is exclusive to the left or right certainly.

There's an economic problem with well made smaller homes - they have all the detail of a larger home without the square footage. Hence the cost per square foot is much larger than you would expect.

It's good business to keep your customers alive.