There’s a huge number of these kinds of homes in the southwest. They’re pretty inexpensive and they usually sit on the market for months. They’re in no way investment properties - mine sold a decade later for what I paid for it after sitting on the market for a year.

You have to go into it with eyes open, though. If you’re lucky, you will have your own well on the property. If not, you’ll have a shared well or have to haul your own water. That changes the way you think about showers and laundry. You’re in the middle of nowhere, and your neighbors may range from the nice folks who live a mile over that way to the black helicopter conspiracy theorists. You’ll probably see them rarely but hear them doing target practice in their backyard. Wildlife will very much be a thing. Winters can be rough because if you get snowed in, you’re not going anywhere without owning a plow or snow vehicle. Summers are freaking hot. Water will increasingly be an issue. Internet will be unavailable unless you have a satellite service. You’re going to potentially have a problem with cell service, too.

Some of the problems can be solved by throwing money at it, others are just things you have to adapt to.

I hear what you’re saying, but I’m not sure building a water park is the boast you think it is.

So among the two best, most innocent things the DPRK did in the past ten years was building a water park?

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No it is not.

Rumble is the truth social of video, and in fact also runs the cloud service that hosts truth social.

There might be a less reputable source for information, but I can’t think of one.

Some cars do catch on fire during crashes.

We tend to force them to be recalled and redesigned.

And I can say without a doubt it runs great on my steam deck. I don’t just mean the graphics - I prefer it over my laptop because it’s easier to see - but they also got the controller support done almost perfectly. It’s the first game I’ve enjoyed this much since Baldur’s Gate II.

In some states, it’s ilegal to shut off utilities in a way that creates a threat to life. You can’t shut off the power to a house that needs to run medical equipment. You are limited to what you can shut off in the winter because people could freeze to death.

In most of those cases (from what I know) people are still responsible for the bills. It’s like the covid period where they banned evictions but back rent would still accumulate. I’m sure they’ll also tack on interest or fees.

There needs to be statutory limits on what can be done in these situations, and they need to prevent creating health hazards. I know people are wary of triggering a free rider problem, and on the other side it’s entirely too easy to get a conservative judge to sign an eviction order (depending on where you live). I know the problem is exacerbated by the drive for profits even by “public” utilities, and I know that we have yet to achieve a post-scarcity society where creating potable water and maintaining the infrastructure is essentially free.

Even given all that, though, what you’re describing is ridiculously over the top and counter-productive. If it’s important enough that they will send people with guns to physically destroy critical infrastructure in someone’s home, you’d think that they should try something like putting in individual meters first. That’s the kind of thing the law should compel, if nothing else.

You have all of my respect for doing what you did. I also quit a job that was becoming morally ambiguous, but I was able to do so with time to set up my next position. What you did took real moral courage.

Pluto, were you surprised at being delisted, or did you planet?

Are the two obviously differentiated like that?

In most of the American English accents I’m familiar with, they’re pronounced “WI men” and “WŌ man.”

If I try to sound out using an I in both, the only way they sound different to me is if I move the accent to the final syllable, to mane it stand out. Something like “wi MEN” vs “wi MAN.”

If so, I’d love to hear where you’re from.