Israel heavily restricted imports of construction material especially concrete before the war. Even if you can recycle the destroyed concrete and get some material back to make new stuff there will be a huge shortage of building material.

This is net approval, 0 is a good number to have.

Latino guys in trucks working blue collar jobs feel more like white Republican guys to them than liberal democrats. Only problem is that the gop doesn’t think that.

That might mean they don’t send as many of their workers and it takes longer to finish.

Also the guy from Ireland who had his subdermal piercings involuntarily cut out without anesthetic.

The 100k+ over asking was the big deal because that never made it into the housing data properly so prices looked like they were lower than they were and we don’t have accurate comparison data now

Very dependent on the field. A lot of jobs are concentrated in a handful of major cities, mostly very HCOL but with high salary. That’s why remote work becoming bigger partially caused the housing surge nationwide.

Asymmetric warfare basic.

No one that is an American politician will be directly financed by Russia. It would always be indirect or hidden shell companies.

Senate investigation is sadly partisan and doesn’t mean much anymore. They’ll find what they wanted to find.

Yeah, it was meant to be a joke. Practically it will have unequal impact based on whether you can wait until tariffs are gone to buy something.

Within the hardened plaque it’s probably pretty inert. But I don’t know if there’s any data on that.

Yeah. Those usually suck. Official mail truck is way better.

You’ve forgotten supply and demand, if there’s less stuff the stuff that’s already here increases in value so it’s basically the same.

“Online”

If you haven’t heard, coal ash, fly ash, isn’t really a thing anymore since they discovered that the ash, similar to volcanic ash, can act as a pozzolan and be used 1:1 to replace carbon intensive Portland cement for concrete, up to half off the cement mix. Since then the ash that is now valuable has been used for that instead of just being dumped. The old stuff in ponds is less useful but might be used after some light processing.

https://www.thespruce.com/fly-ash-applications-844761

https://www.concrete.org/frequentlyaskedquestions/faqid/688.aspx

That’s the thing you do after 2080 when you have too much energy. Because you have to add in all the energy from burning it, and it’s very unproductive.

Lol. I just have a writing style that I use. It can be considered eclectic with a mix of various influences. The pluralized word is a buffy “whedonesque” influence.

But the point is that Russia has been running alternative warfare efforts and cyber stuff for a long time. They stoke various movements and invent ideas and spread them with bots and shills. Basically anything that strengthens Russian imperialism and weakens or fractures NATO.

Weakening NATO is their goal.

There’s been a number of news coverages of this. It’s not like it’s the biggest operation or anything but they have been trying to plant that seed intentionally.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article264043131.html

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/russia-texas-california-separatism-9809aca9f61d/

https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-russia-separatists-snap-story.html