myrrh
...in my experience, first-generation-citizen demographics tend to skew hardest against undocumented immigrants; not sure whether that's because they put in the time, effort, + cost to secure their own citizenship and thus resent those who haven't done so in kind, or because they emmigrated to expressly to get away from their native demographic who comprise undocumented immigrants...
...my ND automatically disengages the compressor under heavy throttle; i'm convinced that my elise compressor is just cosplay...
...i always ask providers up-front what is my cost without using any insurance versus my out-of-pocket cost after insurance, and most of the time it's substantially cheaper not to use insurance at all even though it won't count toward my deductible...
...those private-industry middlemen are a huge burden on the healthcare system, and they persist only because their costs are hidden from patients...
...texas is trailing at 41% low-carbon but wind and solar are gangbuster growth industries here...
22% wind
12% solar
7% nuclear
48% natural gas
11% coal
...i work in the sustainability industry and the dogmatic backlash i've seen against electrification is absurd...
...i have an embarassing quantity of editions of tolkien's books, and i keep finding new ones i want to pick up...