Nothing on the internet is real anymore. I’m pretty sure none of you are real. Not even the ones I personally know. Maybe it did snow in Asheville around Labor Day. Snowflakes are probably tiny drones trying to map people’s tastebuds. Something about the mud flood.
I stopped to get gas today. The pump had a TV on it, as they do. I started pumping gas and the tv starts while I’m facing the other way and some dude says, “You got beef with me?” Remember that when some dude gets in trouble for shooting the gas pump. Gas pump started it.
I see so many arguments about gas stations on the internet. The best gas station is always the one on the right with no line.
Somebody is liable to acquire a bulldozer about something like that
This is absolutely insane.
Homeowners in Magnolia Cove, a neighborhood in Sherrills Ford, North Carolina, are watching their HOA fees spiral completely out of control.
Earlier this year, residents were paying $350 a month. In June, those fees jumped to $1,250. Now, just four months later, the HOA has voted to DOUBLE them again to $2,500 A MONTH.
And believe it or not, it could have been even worse. The HOA had initially proposed raising the fees to an unbelievable $7,500 a month. That’s $90,000 a year!
The final approved amount of $2,500 still means homeowners are expected to pay $30,000 a year in HOA fees alone, compared to just $4,200 annually earlier this year.
Some residents are now worried about liens, foreclosure, and bankruptcy because they simply cannot afford these increases.
Imagine working your entire life to buy a home, only to have an HOA increase your fees by more than 600% in a matter of months and potentially force you out of your own house.
How the hell is this even allowed to happen?
The Gamecocks make one mistake and it’s just all to hell. It’s remarkable. It’s across generations, doesn’t matter who the coach is, it’s just how it is down there.
I was 12 years old and predicting the future of football with my patented 37 yard drop back to pass in NFL Gameday 97.
Of course I’m listening to Years by John Anderson at this hour. Now I’ll listen to Shoot Low Sheriff while I try to pull it back together.
The rare instance where the real story was worse than the movie version
In 1991 eight people were sealed inside three acres of glass in the Arizona desert to prove that a carefully designed farm could feed humans without the outside world, and the design had almost no room in it for animals. Two years later the only thing inside that had reliably fed them was a handful of goats.
Biosphere 2 cost a hundred and fifty million dollars. A rainforest, an ocean, a savannah and a farm under one roof, with the door welded shut for two years and nothing allowed in or out. The farm was the heart of it, and the farm was built on the modern idea: crops first, grown intensively, with livestock as an afterthought at the edges. A few African pygmy goats for milk, a flock of chickens, and four small feral pigs chosen because they could live on scraps.
The pigs did not last the year. In a sealed box short of calories a pig is a competitor, and the crew killed and ate them. The chickens barely laid, because the glass cut the light and there was nothing to feed them that would make an egg. That left the goats, and for two years the goats were the only source of fat in a world designed around vegetables.
The accounts the crew wrote afterwards return to them again and again. The half glass of milk a day was the thing people lived for. When a kid was born it was eaten and the meal was written up like a feast. The men lost nearly a fifth of their body weight, the women a tenth, and the food they dreamed of was never the sweet potatoes they had in abundance. It was the animal they had been given too few of.
The plants were also taking the air. To make the crops grow the soil had been enriched with compost, and the microbes in that soil breathed oxygen faster than anyone had calculated. The level fell from twenty-one per cent to fourteen, the air of a high mountain, until the crew could not climb a staircase without resting and oxygen had to be trucked in from outside. The design that put plants first had removed the thing everyone needed most.
Nobody has ever run the experiment the other way, with a herd at the centre and the crops at the edge. It would not have needed a doctor to explain the results.
They were given three acres and told to feed themselves on plants. They ate the pigs, worshipped the goats, and suffocated.
