https://tnmuseum.org/junior-curators/posts/underwater-ghost-towns-of-tennessee
Apparently, back in the day the government decided that some places weren’t worth saving, and the benefits of building dams and flooding the towns outweighed other considerations.
The movie ‘Deliverance’ has a plot about something like this happening.
https://bookshop.org/beta-search?keywords=asteroid+mining
Here’s a link to some books on the subject. You’re right, most people figure it would be putting our heavy industries in space and bring down what ever products are needed.
With climate change and coastal flooding, it’s coming, just not in the form you’re thinking of.
Asteroid mining. We’ve had the tech to get people to the asterodi for decades, just lack the will to do it.
People are downvoting you, I assume because they think you are lauding some other east Asian billionaire.
iirc Epi-pen is the usual treatment, and those things are pretty easy to obtain.
I think that OP philpo is on to something, that the medical staff was a bit slow to deal with the situation.
Along similar lines, I once saw a food review that talked about Peking duck and Beijing, China.
12 Step Support groups.
No dues or fees; no full time leaders; you are a member if you say you are and no one can say you aren’t.
I expect many downvotes.
lechajim
I’ve never seen that spelling before. Usually I see ‘L’chiam’
Physical calendars are great. One good trick is to write all the important dates down the day you get it. Mom’s birthday; parent’s anniversary; any event that you want to be sure to remember.
“Fancy” people who have champagne often aren’t going to be impressed. Think of it this way; tourists come to New York and gawk at things the locals have been ignoring for years.
If they don’t respect the laws, why do they respect the courts??
People had encyclopedias and dictionaries in their homes. They read newspapers every day [and since there was a lot of competion between papers they made sure of their facts.]
imho people today are more likely to fall for nonsense because they look for confirmation instead of accuracy.
Absolutely not. What works for one person can injure another. You can’t live online, eventually you have to go out and interact with real people.
I talked to a trainer at my YMCA about my pains. she suggested a specific machine and it’s been working wonders.
Go volunteer to help someone else.
Nothing gets my mind off my problems like being useful.
Simplest is almost always the best.
In a neighborhood, everyone knows your name. If Joe the Plumber and Fred the Butcher make a bet, everyone has heard it, and the loser has to pay up, or be scorned.
In a bar, the bartender or server holds the bets and pays off the winner, and expects a cut of the pie as a sevice fee/tip.