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@pstudeba8 @AFpost It's a long story, but so far I have run into a fire marshal that refused to do anything about an illegal burn pit, a county that "lost" an important contract that placed restrictions on a developer, and a state rep that knew documents were missing but didn't want to get involved

@XecularO @AFpost What’s corrupt about SC?

Where Americans moved to and from in 2025. Massachusetts experienced the most loss of any state, Kansas the most of any Republican state, and South Carolina grew the fastest of any state. In contrast, Delaware grew the fastest of any Democrat state. Republican states dominated in growth overall. Follow: @AFpost

@schizophrenicAs @Spacemanspiff98 @Chieftain_armor @DublinAirport The problem is that it's a grenade shaped object filled with liquid. On a scanner it would probably look bad enough to prompt a search

@Spacemanspiff98 @Chieftain_armor @DublinAirport Unlikely since you would be leaving the states, would only be an issue if you tried to get on a plane with it in Canada

These are whiskey bullets. They perform two functions. 1) It is how Texans cool their drink without ice melting and diluting said drink. 2) It gets you and your family a free tour of @DublinAirport baggage transfer and screening under armed airport police supervision when you have it in checked baggage. To be fair, they were very good about it, once I had explained the concept to them (still in the original packaging, wife had brought them to gift to me), and after some rather bemused close examination by the officer they escorted us to the front of the immigration line after the delay, which I appreciate.

@MT_Kilpatrick @Chieftain_armor @DublinAirport It's not really poor taste. Arms are an important aspect of US culture because they were crucial to achieving independence

@Chieftain_armor @DublinAirport You should have been sent to the back of the queue for being so stupid as to fail to foresee a problem putting such a thing in a suitcase, never mind for the poor taste of your ridiculous gun culture polluting every other part of your culture.

@orlanblackledge @AFpost If only these states reps would do something about it instead of taking money under the table from developers in return for allowing them to decimate every square foot of land they purchase

@AFpost Everyone's running from a state they ruined or allowed to be ruined. Once their new home is ruined they'll flee again, to wreck some other nice place. Eventually there's nowhere left to run: the USA will be entirely paved over, without farms and without fresh water. Enjoy.

@eatingthesoup @AFpost A lot of these states aren't conservative anymore either, they just pretend to be. They are all pushing stupid constitution infringing censorship laws

@AFpost Sh|tbag leftist, Yankees and center left liberals who think they're conservative are moving to the South and ruining it. Yankee go home.

@evh1234567890 @AFpost They also have higher paying jobs. The biggest factor in cost of living is median income. As long as wealthier people show up, all the land gets bought up to build garbage $200k cookie cutter houses by companies like Dr Horton

@AFpost It's because blue states have a massive affordability issue. They have insane environmental laws that prevent housing from being built, they shut down all the power plants so electricity is very expensive, have very high taxes to pay for larger gov, and immigrants driving up rent

@pstudeba8 @AFpost SC had a low cost of living because the median income is low. As far as governments go, they are among the more corrupt ones, which is partially why they had no economy until companies started offering to build things for them

@AFpost Weird. I was definitely told more government = lower costs I guess when people get to play with your money, without any consequences of the market, it doesn’t go efficiently

@TheRealHondo99 @AFpost People living in expensive areas go where the cost of living is lower until they inevitable cause it to increase and displace the original residents It's a pretty unfortunate cycle since poor states like SC will bend over for developers to get more houses built

@AFpost Results are the only things that matter. Which states are people fleeing from and going to? That says everything. It's the same with the world. Which countries are people fleeing from and which ones are they going to? It's not rocket science.

@ChesterCat1964 @mattvanswol The military leadership is corrupt. The only things you gain from serving are concussive injuries that the VA won't fully cover and the fun long term effects of chronic mold exposure

I am convinced that at 18, or immediately upon graduation, whichever comes first...every male and female should automatically be drafted into the US military for no less than 2 years, educational options given. Eventually, discipline will help fix this shitty culture of fatherless degenerates. Eventually....

🚨HOLY CRAP!!! Over 19 people are injured and 3 are hospitalized at "Black Bike Week" after multiple fights caused a STAMPEDE that ended in a MASS CASU*LTY INCIDENT at in Myrtle Beach SC. This is the largest African American motorcycle event in the United States.

@jointpain56 @mattvanswol Myrtle Beach has had a reputation for being the place people go to get drunk and fight for a long time. It's SC's version of Miami

@mattvanswol Not before long Myrtle Beach will soon becone a destination to stay clear of, businesses better wake up or there won't be a business to operate

@Ninjin132 @GwenpostingTTV It was inevitable and will likely only get worse. The government has been running a deficit every year for the last 20+ years We would need the majority of congress to vote against their own interests to change anything

@GwenpostingTTV I say next time vote for someone who will not dick you over with tax and forced empathy. For the first time in how long if EVER the damn government can't even pay the interest on the government DEBT. Do we really have the money to keep pissing away on free shit?

Why do they keep doing this? Is it like some kind of psychosis?

@StoneColdDRich @TamedKnave @GwenpostingTTV And the ability to afford a high interest $2000 monthly mortgage payment

@TamedKnave @GwenpostingTTV The ironic part is you can in a lot of parts of the country First time home owners only need 5% down if they have a credit score over 620 lol

@Xaraphim I am more surprised that concentrated Nicotine isn't more regulated in the US given that we have made almost every other potent stimulant/nootropic a Schedule II drug

genuine question , why do we allow france to exist

@Chambo_ncfc @lunglesschest @SherbetBomb42 You can make using AI more tedious to use by requiring in text citations in a custom format and implementing other assignment or school specific restrictions that models won't follow by default

@lunglesschest @SherbetBomb42 Seems like something you'll just have to have a conversation about. Teachers are in a tough spot. What's the alternative?

this is funny and clever until you realize it completely fucks up the students who use accessibility features that reveal the hidden prompts and then those students end up getting in trouble for no reason

@newagebarbie_ @lunglesschest @SherbetBomb42 For remote learning they likely wouldn't know unless you went out of your way to submit an accommodation request

@lunglesschest @SherbetBomb42 If you need/use accessibility devices, wouldn’t your teacher already know that? Like if your are blind and use an accessibility device to read things aloud to you, wouldn’t your teacher already know you were blind?

@yunqstpatrik @Beyondsimplify What American tech? We outsourced our chip production

@Beyondsimplify I always see bullshit news about China coming out when American tech gains momentum. Meanwhile, in China you won’t see any news about American tech because they block it.

This card cannot beat a 3 year old NVIDIA card in a straight race as of today. In Cyberpunk it pushed 88 frames a second the Nvidia card pushed 232. But they designed the whole thing themselves and just like BYD and Mobiles this too will end up dominating the market soon.

@54JohnBull @Joanna__Hardy I know, right. That's why I drive my lawnmower to work instead of wasting money on a car

@Joanna__Hardy It pushes air. A £10 fan from Argos will do the same thing.

Bought a fancy end-of-bed fan before the London heatwave began and - honestly - this is the single greatest purchase of my life

@KhanKrumGaming @LCNM_Patriot Enterprise customers won't be paying this either. They can just place a direct order through a distributor at negotiated pricing. This really is just intended to screw over consumers

@LCNM_Patriot These are scalpers hunting whales. NO ONE is buying a 120 dollar already made NVMe for 1000 bucks other than people too stupid to be that rich. It is a 100% manufactured (pun intended) panic, and these are like the stores selling bottled water for $5 per bottle before a storm.

You gotta be shitting me... there's no way people are actually paying these prices? $1k for a 2TB NVMe? I just dropped a 2TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus into my Raspberry Pi because I wanted a little extra storage. You trying to tell me I'm sitting on like $13k worth of NVMes? That's crazy talk.

@thehorizon2b2t Most likely the lack of erosion simulation. The earth was shaped heavily by erosion

is there a scientific reason as to why earths continents look so much prettier than every other "what if x planet had water" simulation

@Gargux @Mericamemed Not having a market oversaturated with REIs and middlemen/flippers would help a lot The housing market won't function correctly while all of the affordable houses are being bought with cash by guys that can afford to wait until you run out of options and rent from them

@Mericamemed Just imagine how much the housing market would drop and be affordable for Americans if we got rid of ghetto folks, cleaned up those cities and sold them for decent Americans. In 5 years we could have a couple million homes for sale if we got rid of criminals and free loaders

Now he realizes why it was $60,000