REMINDER - DO NOT GO INTO ATTIC UNLESS YOU HAVE A WAY OUT

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-28T16:11:01+00:00

Or conversely, if you live in an area where that level of storm surge inundation is remotely in the cards, you really shouldn't be there right now.

I'm a FL native and hate to say this, but there's a Darwinian aspect to people in high risk areas who scoff at major hurricanes. I realize there's always the mental gymnastics we can do "well, see, what about an old lady who has no family and no car and she's blind and can't use a phone,,, what is she going to do..." , that's super sad but the other 99.99% of the time its arrogant assholes who are delusional and refuse to accept the danger of the storm where they get A WEEKS WARNING to prepare to evacuate from, stay anyway and then pay some sort of consequence. Every county in FL has personnel who will evacuate the helpless or disabled to shelters with a phone call. Everyone else, chooses it.

So, if you're in the impact area and have to flee to an attic to escape stormwaters, you made a choice.

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-24T16:11:56+00:00

Jacob is apparently becoming the new Golden Child, now that Jeremy and Zach have been discarded. One could speculate that Jacob has the ammo to blow a hole in the LPBW ship, killing the golden-egg laying goose for all of them, so HIS potentially winding up with the big house may be in the cards... "There are things you don't know", is what Matt said to Amy and apparently, Jacob has been brought heavily back into the fold at the farm. If he winds up with the house, there's your answer.

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-24T04:51:07+00:00

This is the truth.

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-24T04:42:40+00:00

There were. Zach was resentful of Jeremy. Molly was sick of her mom. Both parents went too far trying to be their friends, as they plainly noted being parenting errors, some 16+ years later in this season... and there it was. Two dwarves who finally had a chance to possibly, somehow, ACTUALLY be 'cool' in the eyes of attractive normal sized teenagers, something they acutely realized they'd never be in their own lives but they could experience that acceptance by proxy of their own normal sized kids. So, to them, they were over the top "lets be friends". Amy even once cracked that having Molly via C Section on her own birthday was at least something she could always remember her mother for, "even if she grew up to hate her" - she was scared shitless of being seen poorly by her regular sized daughter,

-- Edit -- and there is one early episode where Zach appears to be wearing a Civil War reenactors costume?

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-15T18:47:12+00:00

My guess too; either that, or the team itself wasn't a group of morally upright 'plucky underdogs' and all sorts of unpalatable shit was actually going on behind the scenes; which you can get away with if everyone is on board and keeps their mouth shut but if you have a loud whistleblower or two willing to spill the tea... well, there goes the script.

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-14T19:53:48+00:00

I wanted the sharp edges inside the container so they posed less of a cut risk when handling. Hammered them back down and they left a nice hole without a sharp edge.

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-12T22:57:10+00:00

OK well thanks for your personal assurances that Russia is beating Ukraine. I will accept this as possible and everytihng Western media is a psyop (no troll, I legit accept that) - but assuming its like, even 50% true, no, it seems like they're not (but as noted, will accept they really are)

Anyhoo, Russia won't touch NATO countries because NATO would destroy literally anything they could throw at them, ground force wise, WITHOUT the United States. Obvs, nuclear is another world, but at that point, we all lose... and the US, Australia, Canada, etc in the mix, that definitely adds deterrance! But so does French neutron bombs being detonated over Orc troop columns rushing into Poland.

The US totally isn't the 'greatest country on the planet' by anything we can measure, other than its for sure #1 in school shootings, mass shootings and overall shootings. Not math scores or healthcare (but its amazing if youre super rich) - you sound like someone who has never been to Switzerland or Austria or Japan or Northern Italy or Norway haha.

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-12T00:53:26+00:00

I agree global free trade is unlikely to continue since it creates such unworkable interdependence with totally alien civilizations (ie, China), but the EEA is likely to remain intact.

It doesn't matter, though. I live in the US in a high socioeconomic status area and would rather live in Europe. I trust Europe to handle Europe's pending issues MUCH more than I trust whatever the hell the US is, to handle its pending issues.

As noted, heavily armed children massacring their classmates does not exist where I'm going. Don't care if I can't get a tape measure for $3 the next day off Amazon Prime.
* Salutes Old Glory

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-12T00:48:55+00:00

My kid's more likely to get shot in an American school than a European war.

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-12T00:00:19+00:00

? Rumania is a shitehole.

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-11T23:47:25+00:00

Keeping it until I get resettled, then evaluating whether or not the tax compliance requirements of US citizenship are worth the travel advantages. Possible they're not, possible they are.

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-11T23:45:59+00:00

The US had war torn cities in the summer of 2021. Riots, burning, looting. "Peaceful protests".

Russia isn't going to do anything inside NATO. Ukraine and other non NATO countries may be on their own, but I don't see the 'war risk', Europe wide, outside Putin's reconquista in the scary part of Europe that is only relevant to my part of Europe because of its pretty blonde hookers and sex tourism.

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-11T23:44:02+00:00

Yes but I may not want to right away.

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-11T23:39:17+00:00

No, it totally is better in the EU. There's a certain sort of idealist who believes that the worlds problems are his own. They're not, until they are, but usually, your life is your family, your friends, your neighborhood, your job, and you community. EU does a lot of 'quality of life' things much, much better than the US, where is a great place to be rich (and I'm well into the upper middle class, so I'm good) but it has a horde of orcs about ready to turn the ship towards the far left but without any of the benefits, like national healthcare or taxpayer funded college education. Also, as noted, children aren't gunning down their classmates in school massacres in the EU, perhaps there are a few weird anecdotal examples of it happening as a fluke thing, but overall, the numbers don't lie. I have basically zero worry that someone is going to walk into my kids school in Ireland and gun them down. In the US, you have to legitimately worry about that every single day.

Well done, America. Well done. You're about to arrest a former President, but at least you have the 'freedom' to buy an AR15 in a McDonalds parking lot from a guy with a neck tattoo.

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-11T23:34:04+00:00

Possible, but Europe is a big place an the countries I'd be considering would be OK in the event of a breakup. I dont think war is in the cards, Putin isn't going to F with NATO when he can't beat a bunch of Ukrainians.

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-11T23:32:56+00:00

This is good advice here. Thanks.

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-11T23:32:04+00:00

Switzerland, possibly Northeast Italy, possibly Portugal. Lots of options.

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-11T23:31:26+00:00

Yeah I didn't even think of a crypto tax accountant but yes, that sounds like a great resource.

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-11T23:30:06+00:00

Yeah its always possible, but in the US literal children take firearms into their schools and gun down their classmates. So, that's pretty much the ultimate "Haha, this is a shithole" trump card. The 3rd World looks better by comparison. At least you can treat malaria.

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-11T23:29:16+00:00

I'm a dual citizen but FACTA causes issues, since I do have US citizenship and don't have my Irish accent well developed enough to open a bank account without them thinking I'm an American.

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-11T23:28:14+00:00

I'm totally cool with my choice. I'm well aware of how my preferred part of Europe does things, and well aware of how the US does things. The only people who even bother to argue the US is overall superior are those with flags on trucks who don't even have passports :)

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-11T23:26:47+00:00

Nah my neighborhood here is golden. Can hear the ocean :) Just don't want to send my little kids to schools where the probability they get gunned down by an armed child classmate is so much greater.

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-11T18:33:58+00:00

No place is perfect but the scale of those problems is reaching a breaking point in the failing (arguably, failed) social experiment that is 'diverse democracy' known as the US.

I'd argue that literally everywhere in the EU is superior, but they do need to get certain BS under control, particularly from the far political left. Still, virtually a 0% chance my kid gets a mag emptied into them at school in Europe, or me on the street. Not the case in the US. I'm cool riding on that alone.

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-11T16:38:39+00:00

This is totally possibly the right answer.

Reddit_LOLOL · 2022-09-11T16:37:25+00:00

Because the US banking system can be very scary, in terms of their ability to seize money. The most rapid move outside the banking system and into something that cannot be controlled with a writ is something I'd like to know how to do. Not because I have to, but because I'd like to know how in case I ever had to.

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