As a Canadian, I get nervous when I see the US running out.

I’ve never used yelp in my life.

Life changing adventure and the all-in price was $27k for 2 years of doing exactly what I wanted everyday.

I throughly enjoyed following my nose 99% of the time. Navigating in Central America and rural parts of South was easy. Stopping to ask directions lead to the best street food, hidden beaches and random stuff ( going to weddings, etc). It really helped me learn Spanish too. It’s always worth remembering drivers did this for 100 years, and walkers and horse riders for many, many thousands. GPS is pretty new.

Getting out of the mega cities in South America was not fun, and overshadowed the romantic aspect of the no gps thing. I spent 4 hours trying to get out of Quito. Multiple police pointed in different directions, etc.

They certain don’t control the straight, because Iran can attack any ship passing through with ease and the US can’t stop them.

Notice how no US navy ships are going through? They know they’ll be sunk. That doesn’t sound like control to me.

https://europeanspaceflight.com/arianegroup-ceo-reusable-ari...

That any space faring nation is not working on reusable vehicles a decade after SpaceX proved it possible feels as head in the sand as V8 engines instead of electric.

How exactly will the US do that?

They’ve been trying for months, and can’t because Iran have the literal high ground. It’s accepted that Short of a massive land invasion committing millions of US troops, they can’t control the strait.

Both going up 8% next year.

Which is actually the problem.

Americans have been propagandised for so many decades they are not well educated enough to have a clear understanding of where their country lags behind developed countries.

Back in about 2007 I realized I was doing this. At the gym, snowboarding, walking to work, at the supermarket.

I realized it closed me off from meeting new people and living in the now. Music encouraged me to drift away and think about some other time in my life when I saw that band, or was at a great party or something.

So I put the iPod away and have never done it since. I don’t own headphones now, have not done for 20 years. Really happy I made the correction not to get sucked in.

So for 8 years we pay the loan instead of for the power, then we get -25 years of $1000 a year in our pockets. The price of power is also pre approved to increase a minimum of 5% a year every year here, so the savings will be more than that.

Right now we get a 1:1 credit for anything we put into the grid. If and when that changes I’ll get a battery.

The kicker? We’re in Canada in a tight valley where it snows a ton. If it works here…

Which the US system fails at, miserably

Then my Mum got cancer, and my brother just said “why would you put that shit in your body?”

That was seven years ago and I’ve never had fast food or sofa since. I can’t imagine how sick it would make me feel.