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If... she has lost this, and then starts saying 'the NYT lied about me'...

... can't they then sue her for defamation, libel?

Entirely seriously:

Minnesota.

Lots and lots of fresh water.

Fairly low CoL for a (hopefully) leans decently blue state.

Pretty darn low risk of climate change causing significantly worse and more frequent natural disasters.

The flood damage potential is actually not projected to increase significantly.... nor are droughts and wildfires projected to be a serious problem.

Yeah, you get the blizzards, but... those are not projected to massively upscale to a point they'd be overwhelming the infrastructure, at least not yet in the next 10 years.

Also, despite the projected general housing downturn... Minnesota looks pretty uneventful in projections.

That would, to me, indicate an... actually stable economy generally, as compared to many other states that are much more prone to booms and busts, and thus massive wealth disparity.

I... assume you are joking, but having grown up with a mother who had legitimate OCD, and would clean and clean and clean and clean in very particular ways, far beyond what was necesarry, and would freak out when any minor spec was anywhere...

I do not find this funny.

Got nothing to clean.

Because ... I follow these rules... and keep everything clean.

If that doesn't work, get John Constantine.

May the spirit of St. Mangione soon visit Mr. Vance and impart upon him his Saintly honesty.

As is written:

Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming.

Luigi 1:7

Sounds like a pretty reasonable projection to me.

Its pronounced 'About four thirds megabytes.'

You are correct, the more accurate description is... areas that are more likely to be wiped out by the effects of massive rainfall deluges from intsensifying hurricanes, the storm surges, as well as of course the more direct wind damage.

... Even assuming the self driving tech was actually capable of doing this, which is won't be...

How would this even make any sense?

Ok, if you live within about 200 to 300 miles of a Tesla factory, ... you have this option?

Fremont, California; Sparks, Nevada; Austin, Texas; Buffalo, New York; Lathrop, California.

Outside of 250 miles ish of one of those places? No self driving delivery for you.

... And I am pretty surr not all models are made at all those locations.

Despite long ago claiming his EVs and charger network would be capable of automatically recharging or battery swapping themselves... to make a long distance journey... that ... doesn't exist, he abandoned all of that.

Even funnier: Imagine a tesla self driving from the as of yet to be completed gigafactory in Monterrey Mexico... through the border checkpoint.

The auto charger network doesn't exist, the car would murder people, cause an accident or fucking explode in the border queue... and even if none of that happened... how in the fuck is a self driving car gonna get through a militarized border crossing?

If he just gives himself a waiver via DOGE for his cars... congrats Elon, you are now a drug trafficker / arms smuggler, whether you know it or not.

... fucking lunacy.

I absolutely despise the patronizing and bellittling nature of that phrase, and the tone it is usually delivered in...

... But at the same time... cleaning as you cook a complex meal with multiple steps and lots of involved cookware... really really does cut down on overall time spent in the kitchen, and makes for an actually usable and sanitary kitchen.

Worst case scenario, you've got everything but the final used cookware soapily soaking in the sink when you serve and eat... and then right after you eat, you rinse and dry those off, and then clean the final stage cookware and serving plates/utensils.

If you don't have the time or energy to handle cooking and cleaning a complex meal... you don't have the time and energy to just cook it, and then be overwhelmed later by the accumulation of 'dish cleaning debt'.

...

It can be somewhat challenging to learn how to cook and clean at the same time, and avoid getting soap into your food or visa versa... but it is by no means impossible, and is a huge time saver... and you can feel proud of yourself for legitimately learning an extremely useful life skill.

If you just set a rule for yourself or your apartment or house that ... there should basically never be any dishes left in the sink for over an hour... you avoid the massive pile up of dishes and always being overwhelmed and avoiding them... because your rule basically enforces breaking things down into cleaning smaller amounts of dishes at a time, and it also forces the generally positive experience of cooking and eating to be integrated with the generally negative experience of cleaning dishes.

...

I have, waaaay too many times, lived with people who just pile up dishes somehow in the sink and dishwasher, such that it becomes an actual biohazard (I mean it, rotting food and mold, swarms of flies in a sink that hasn't been cleaned in two weeks or more, nobody can even remember if the dishes in the dishwasher are all clean, all dirty, or a mix of both)...

...and that means if you wanna cook anything with a commonly used piece of cookware, ok, now you gotta pull it out of the ratsnest in the sink, hope nobody threw any knives in there to cut your hands on, and get an infection from the festering biohazard... and then also you must now somehow clean this cookware while the sink is completely full.

Which means you have to just clean the entire sink to begin to be able to clean the major cookware you need to begin to cook the food.

...

Hell, the solution that ended up working best for me was to just also throw on a 'no dishwasher' rule.

Force yourself to associate the actual cleaning cost with whatever you are cooking... and the result was that I ended up with a mental health affirming regular structured rule/habit, that I actually ended up genuienly enjoying, as another source of 'i actually accomplished something today'... as well as basically ingraining a better subconscious ability to understand what level of cooking complexity I actually had the energy to prepare.

If you find yourself being often overwhelmed by what you want to make... learn to make simpler recipes, get a rice cooker or crockpot and just have basically a constant supply of something approximating a stew, get an airfryer or toaster oven for rapidly heating up smaller portions, salads are great for you and often have a pretty low prep time.

Save the dishwasher for actual schedule emergencies and hosting an occasional get together or party.

...

Basically, treat dishes as credit card debt.

Pay that shit off ASAP, otherwise, it'll snowball into disaster.

Remove the 'i can handle the dishes/pay this off later' from your mental approach to it, directly associate all the costs together in a very near time frame.

...

tldr; that saying needs a makeover or rebrand.

Maybe:

Clean as you go, dish pile don't grow.

something like that? I am not really a ... sloganeer.

Mortgage payments definitely won't go down, if they're on a variable rate, they'll go up.

Property taxes... might go down... but as far as I can tell, most property value assesors and assement methods and schedules are somewhere between... esoterically arcane and inconsistent... and just openly corrupt.

But sure, if you do get assessed lower, a year into all this, then your property taxes go down.

And then the local government realizes that their revenue has gone down, and then cuts services, govt jobs, goes into debt, and/or raises taxes on everyone other than the wealthy and infuential, who then go on to buy the foreclosures.