Just to clarify, by housing units do you mean individual residential structures or actual living units available? Like if a developer builds a 24 unit condo building and sells them all off, does that count as 24 housing units or just 1?

Unfortunately, he isn't there to govern consistently. He's there to make the keys to power happy, and the keys that got him power don't like the Democrats.

I believe it also depended on the time and place. Like, Wyoming almost passed on becoming a state because Congress was against them having universal suffrage in their state constitution; they put it in anyways. New Jersey had women's suffrage based on the same criteria as men, needing to own X amount in cash or property, but that was taken away in 1807.

That's the cognitive dissonance in their whole argument. Especially considering, that there are likely many local Rs that won, but noting was wrong with that election, despite them being on the same ballot.

I will never have the money for it, but it's been on my bucket list to have dinner at a 3 starred restaurant. Closest I've got is going to a Ruth's Chris Steak House. Sure it's on the fancier side, but it's still a chain.

Troy 6 or 7 is believed to be the Troy from the Trojan War & The Iliad.

T1 has two things involved with developing it. You need a genetic component and an environmental trigger. This can be obesity, disease, etc. but the genetic components is something that can be tested for.

Source: I'm a T1 diabetic.

It's not survival of the fittest. It's more survival of the good enough.

Cooling. They don't sweat or pant so the large, thin ears provide enough surface area to cool the blood as it circulates through.

On a similar note, that's also why many male mammals have testicles. Normal body temp is too hot for sperm.

Similarly, I've got a friend in the USAF that gets deployed to Japan and England occasionally. When driving, the levers on the steering column are switched. So a bunch of Americans that aren't used to it will often flip the wipers on when they're trying to signal a turn. I think locals call it the Western Wave or American Wave or something.

Now if only we could get a metric of how much of a dumpster fire each state flag is. Nebraska's state capital flew theirs upside down for like 10 days before anyone noticed.

TIL is quickly entering a taxidermy phase I guess.

I think there's a few Sci-Fi novels that take the idea that humanity is essentially the Orks in 40K, but IRL. Well, IRL in their novels. If that makes sense.

To add to this, we will see sea level rise over the next century that will force the majority of the globe's population to go somewhere else or invest in expensive infrastructure projects like massive sea walls. The mass migrations will strain, and in some places break, food supply chains. There is likely going to be massive social upheaval to accompany all of this.

On one somewhat bright note, we have likely avoided a hothouse Earth, where a feedback loop begins and the planet becomes too warm to support human life. This also assumes that our estimates for methane in polar regions is somewhat accurate.

Well, registering in Delaware is a little different of a tactic. A lot of companies do it to avoid taxes.

What's the break between History & Current Events? Like What's the cutoff year for something passing from CE to History?

>The dude took the stolen photos and used it to blackmail the women to provide him more sexual photos.

That part I didn't get to. I guess I had in my head a different comment about a peeping tom-esque anecdote of a guy trying to snap up-skirt photos or something.

Yeah, no. Definitely about control, then.

Reagan threw it out.

A liter of coke.

For all the dipshits that are gonna be like, "We're 'Murica and we're different than those other commie, metric countries! Besides, it's not like using different systems causes any problems."

It almost caused a drug overdose. It caused us to almost lose a satellite. It caused us to crater a Mars orbiter into the planet. It caused an airplane to run out of fuel mid flight. Finally, it caused a roller coaster to derail.

Folks currently alive will probably never be able to fully grasp metric. We'll likely never hear that something is 20km away and just have an intuitive estimate of how far away that is like we would if we were told it was 12mi. The same would probably be true of weights, and volumes, and other measurements.

But our kids and grandkids would know. And we would finally be able to work internationally without the confusion. Confusion that will someday cost lives instead of cash and the heartbreak of which will force us to change.

I never realized how much seasonal variation there is on the price of strawberries and grapes. Like, I understood there was seasonal variation but I vastly underestimated how big the swings were.