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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Homes are wildly unaffordable for nearly everybody! In the last decade literally hundreds of homes have been built in my town that sell for over $500,000. I want to know who the hell is buying them and how the hell they are affording them!

I have no idea how my son, who is 24, is going to buy a home of his own and at this point I'm wondering if I should sell my current place for a compound with enough space that I can turn into a multi-generational place so I can leave it to him and his family when my wife and I die.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This type of nonsense is happening everywhere online. Real people who are organically participating will almost always engage on a wide variety of topics and issues; any social media account on any network that spends the majority of it's time focused on a single politicized issue or viewpoint can be assumed to be a sock puppet or a shill.

In short any account that hyper-focus on a single issue or viewpoint for more than a day or two is likely not organic and if it is organic then it's likely toxic; either way you should avoid them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

IMO, the most effective method weapon would be a steam roller

The most effective weapon would be a steam roller equipped with a machine gun that fires lightsabers.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

For instance, suppressing fire; you can’t suppress zombies, because they don’t care if they get shot, and it only matters if they get shot in the head.

This makes my teeth itch. I realize that this is NCD but...

Without claiming outright magic damage to muscle and bone still matters. A bipedal creature absolutely requires certain muscles and bones to remain upright. If a zombie gets hit with a rifle round that blows out a 3" chunk of its spine then it can't stand up. That kind of damage is easily done with a 30 caliber rifle round (7.76) let alone the venerable .50 caliber. Even the relatively small .223 / 5.56 that's carried by standard infantry will remove muscle and break bones.

Your average grunt is going to figure out real quick where and how they need to shoot in order to slow or stop these things. If head shots aren't possible and it takes too much ammo for body shots they'll start aiming for the knees and ankles, because again that zombie can't run / shamble at you if it has no feet or it's ankle or knee has been blown into a hundred pieces.

So when Tommy Tactical or Isaac Infantry mag dumps 20 rounds of 5.56 into a zombie it may not be "dead" but it sure as shit has taken critical damage to its musculoskeletal system and will almost certainly not able to stand upright. Ol' Mike the Mighty on the Ma Deuce will reduce a hundred zombies into a quivering pile in 60 seconds or less all by himself.

That zombie horde will be a lot less dangerous and easy to clean up once it's crawling on the ground with all the speed of a toddler.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

American isn't buying Iran's bombs and there's no amount of hysterical hand waving you can do to get over that fact.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

A man named "Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi" starts shooting a Jewish man while shouting "Allahu akbar!".

Nope, the motivation for this attack is a mystery. We'll just never know why he did it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If they show up I hand out the candy and I've been doing it that way for decades. No telling some kid or teens situation in life and there's no need in making it harder on them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Its happening with increasing regularity even in the lower 48. Here's one from Wyoming.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Or maybe the entire god damned world doesn't make every god damned decision based on the US Election? Just sayin'...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I dunno where that map is from but it's wrong. Moose range extends as far south as Wyoming and I know they have them in Colorado as well. Not just the occasional sighting either, they have hunting seasons for Moose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'd imagine there's a few reasons for the variation in driver training between upstate NY and Wyoming.

  1. Road Speed. Here in Wyoming our highways are 65-70MPH (posted) and most of the Interstate is posted at 80MPH. You can generally figure that everyone is doing at least 5MPH over that. The higher the speed the less time you have to react and the harder it is to lightly twitch a vehicle to one side or the other.
  2. Road layout. You commented about swerving into the shoulder but most of our highways have a shoulder width of 48" or less and on the other side of the shoulder there's commonly a ditch. It has to do with the wind and snow we get here but if you twitch onto the shoulder here you are likely to encounter a very unwelcome surprise.
  3. Animal differences. In upstate New York you're dodging Whitetail deer, here you're trying to dodge Antelope (which are nearly as fast your car) Mule deer, Elk, Black bear, Brown Bear, and the occasional Moose. The bigger the animal the harder it is to dodge.

The way you describe upstate NY is how it was taught to me when I grew up in Nebraska but it's not what they advise in Wyoming. Here you stay in your lane and slow down as much as you can before impact.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Sure and living in Wyoming I've seen that happen often enough right in front of me but the more I watch this video the more I want to know how that deer GOT there.

I can see a small shrub in the dark off the (right) side of the road but somehow you can't see the deer enter the lane from either the right or left. The car in front of the Tesla is maybe 40 feet past the deer at the start of the video (watch the reflector posts) but somehow that car had no reaction to the deer standing in the middle of the lane?!

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