SSJMarx

Something that NotJustBikes brings up in one of their videos is that the Netherlands’ incredibly bike- and public transit-oriented infrastructure makes driving a car (for those who want or need it) much more pleasant as well.

if they mowed it how often like they claimed it wouldn’t have gotten that bad before noticing

I’m not so sure about this. Say they visited and did maintenance once a month - a construction crew only needs a couple days to trample over an area and dump a bunch of construction materials on top of it.

I’m sure the legal case will come down to what Texas law requires a person to do with their land to be considered to be using it, and whether or not SpaceX did their due diligence to make sure they weren’t messing up anyone else’s land with their construction. It’s possible that all of this was an accident, but I don’t think that SpaceX deserves the benefit of the doubt.

also

the hole they dug was a failure

lmao it was a hole in the ground that they dug as a marketing gimmick what more do you want.

If they put up a fence and mowed the lawn as they claim, then that’s more than what they legally need to do to not be considered absentee owners.

Okay but while this is true in a general sense it is most definitely NOT true that in the area immediately surrounding the Mediterranean the people there discovered steel working, began living in a feudal society, had stirrups and full plate and all of that and just forgot how to do it all. I get that Tolkien was a pretty serious Catholic but appending the birth of Christ onto the timeline is really dumb, unless this is some Fantasy equivalent to Jesus and not the one that was born in the Roman Empire.

edit: or maybe some apocalyptic shit goes down in the Sixth Age and the Earth gets replaced by our own?

Best controller I ever used. The last one I bought got smashed when I was moving and I wasn’t able to fix or replace it, and I’ve been using a Hori fighting game controller ever since, but it’s just not as good.

Not my tailbone, but my hip, specifically where it joints with my leg. Fell while ice skating once as a teenager and every couple of years since I’ve gotten sharp pain in that joint that makes me almost immobile for a couple of weeks. Best I’ve ever gotten from a doc is a steroid shot to “hopefully” boost the healing.

Hasn’t happened in a while… knocks on wood.

The poster you’re replying to is talking about something else. There’s a point where the terms you can get for loans using your stock portfolio as collateral are so good that you can count on your stock value growing faster than interest payments on the loan, enabling you to take out loans that amount to free money and live off of them (or use them on more investments that grow faster allowing you to take larger loans, etc).

Banks don’t mind because they reliably get their interest payments, can count on settling the account when the person dies, and of course there’s the social capital of being the institution that ultra wealthy people bank with. For an ultra-rich person it’s how they can have the liquidity to live an ultra-rich lifestyle even if all of their wealth is tied up in the market.

This is true, but it’s not like Bethesda’s past few games inspire a lot of confidence.

That was my first thought too. This has “turn based tactics character class” energy.

I used to have a phat PS3 and for years I told people that I was gonna install Linux on it and turn it into an arcade setup. Then when I finally had the inclination to follow through on it, I found out that it had been given away by my mom while I was living in Japan.