The left is calling for greater investment in renewable energy and the right is burning Barbies, shooting Bud lights, and touting the upsides of slavery, so I can see how both sides are to blame for all this polarization
it's funny to me that in every hobby, spending more can mean getting a more durable item, but after a certain point, the thing is super delicate. and if you ask hobbyists why an expensive item is such a hassle to maintain, they look at you funny and say, "that's the joy"
@markasaurus I feel like people forget you can just rent a truck when you need one and that you don’t have to drive a truck around all the days between just to cover the couple days you might actually need a truck.
If you would like to actually encourage sustainable architecture you should spend your money lobbying for code changes instead of establishing another superlative award for projects that happen to meet the requirements.
Imagine a world where the physical infrastructure for a critical and highly concentrated and therefore highly brittle supply chain was built to disaster resilient standards that would have greatly mitigated the damage here.
Just a thought.
Extensive tornado damage to a Pfizer drug manufacturing site in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, on Wednesday, has threatened critical supplies for U.S. hospitals. The property held one-fourth of its injectable medications for hospitals. See the damage: https://t.co/WhVNvjgpys
New data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor:
The number of people with a disability dramatically increased & hit a new record of 34 million in June 2023.
#LongCovid is a mass disabling event.