Malls were just a way to privatize mainstreet and allow the ownership class of capitalists to extract more money from a local economy through large chain stores and to give them private control over what used to be public space.
Now the middle class is worth a fraction of what it used to be, their purpose has dissolved.
People use Amazon instead of the mall because they can still afford the Temu-level garbage Amazon sells.
Hyperbole is a rhetorical device.
Accept its existence or die.
Spent hours playing this on some demo disk.
“technical assistance grants”
Carls Jr Microsoft Windows. Fuck you, I’m eating!
Current thought is that mitochondria were smaller lifeforms first absorbed by a more complex cell.
Sounds weird, but also, we have more bacteria living in and on our bodies than we have cells with “our own” DNA.
Makes you wonder where we each really start and stop.
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Everybody loves their first Diamondback.
They are basically dinosaurs.
American Robins are not the same as European Robins.
American Robins were named so because they vaguely reminded British settlers of their robins “from home”.
Yes.
It’s mostly just making sure you move your mouse like a human.
The test and the answer as proposed is irrelevant.
Start the year on March 1st like it used to be?
He might mean old-growth forest.
I did this once and found a dog bench seat cover branded by Chris Kyle (the American Sniper guy).
Non-utilitized internet service.
Internet providers ARE UTILITIES. Regulate them like one.
Everything in America except building trades has transitioned to metric already.
Even our imperial units are defined in metric.
But… PLEASE don’t tell our citizens. It will all be fine as long as we don’t tell them!
She’s holding the pen like she’s a lefty overwriter.
On-demand (or surge) power generation like this is much different then base power generation like you get from solar, wind or nuclear (or theoretically fusion).
Long story short, any functional power grid needs both because generation has to match demand, and demand is uneven and wonky.
The most common surge power source is small natural gas plants. This is a replacement for those.
It presumes there will be extra electricity.
There’s always extra electricity. Eg. Solar generates power during the day, charges this “battery” and then powers lighting at night when demand is higher and people need to be able to see.
Currently, as they are dying today, yes.
This is not how malls have traditionally worked.
In the past, malls provided a plug-and-play way for national chain retail to offer premium, private-labeled goods that allowed them to extract money away from a community’s locally owned stores found on main street.