This. If you don’t have freedom of association you don’t have freedom. Freedom is leaving people alone to do what they will if it is something that is a deal breaker for you. The criteria for which is a personal decision each person gets to make for themselves. Everyone else is of course free to not associate with you in response. I don’t care one way or the other about this particular issue but those that do are free to associate or disassociate as they will under any rational theory or libertarianism or freedom.
That’s sad to hear.
It isn’t quite that bad in my home county but prices are shooting up. Part of it’s inflation. Part of it is we’re one of the top growth counties in the state that had the most growth as a portion of population last year. Bids the price of things up. Seems like every other election we’re having to vote on a property tax increase to pay for all the new schools and teachers. That doesn’t help matters any. I still think it could be avoided here if reforms were made to the building codes. It could at least be lessened. I don’t see it happening though.
Wait. I used to have women come hit on me occasionally. Including one time at work when my boss’s boss put her arms around me and started talking about how good I was looking that day. Hasn’t happened in a decade. Have I hit the wall?!?!?! Oh well. I’ll manage somehow.
Campsite booked for week after next t13 right by the lake. 72 working hours between now and when I leave. Not that I’m counting. 
I just have notifications turned off on well everything. I also leave my phone on do not disturb. My voicemail stays full so no one can leave a message.
Working on my diet. I need to work on my exercise some. I do work 10-12 miles a day at work though. A good chunk of that carrying a tire. It’s been a year and a half, down from a 38 to a 34 in jeans. Still a little bit of a gut. I’ll get there.
Is that soccer or football? Just kidding I think I can guess based on the umlaut.
Course that number might be because of people like my grandmother who we’re pretty sure looking back on it beat being right handed into my uncle. Luckily that didn’t happen to me or my sister.
I feel you. I’m left handed in a right handed world. 10 percent of the population world wide they say. 12.8 percent in the US.
Testing my new purchase. Sun is starting to come out some. It was charging even with a goos bit of cloud cover though. 30 watts if you use both ports. Folds down to 8.5x11, only weighs a couple pounds. Comes with two carabiners so you can run it down the back of your pack and use it while you are on the move. I’ll give it a more in depth testing in a couple weeks when I go camping for a week. Just bought it to charge my portable charger so I can charge my phone and headlamp. 50 bucks on primeday. 
I’m not saying I never went on a date with a girl and then found out we were cousins. I mean you had to go back to the 1800s to find a common ancestor…
It comes in handy so you can know if she is your cousin or not. Though I suppose even if she is if you need to know ancestry to know it, it’s far enough out that it doesn’t matter.
I’m not saying the firing squad, which is legal in this state, is a more fitting punishment than a fine for people that do this but I’m open to the idea. In an ideal world if they cause a house that previously had no internal flood damage to be damaged they should be on the hook for the total cost of repairs and lodging for the owner if the house becomes uninhabitable until repaired. Instead of a fine to the to the government.
Americans spend ~70,000,000,000 hours driving per year already, according to https://newsroom.aaa.com/2019/02/think-youre-in-your-car-more-youre-right-americans-spend-70-billion-hours-behind-the-wheel/
If the hypothetical 20 miles/hr policy only resulted in travel times doubling, that would be an extra 70 billion hours wasted, or just under 200,000 lives per year wasted (assuming 40 year remaining lifespan).
It would, in all likelihood, be much worse, because fatigue is implicated in more fatal crashes than speed already, without doubling travel times.
People suck at judging risks when making choices, but they attempt it sincerely because they have "skin in the game".
Individually more intelligent and better informed experts make everyone's choices for them even more poorly, because they have no skin in the game and are rarely/never held accountable for externalities.
Fine. Whatever speed the impacts would not be fatal at. We could set that speed as the maximum speed. We don’t though. Because we accept that getting from point a to point b at the speeds we are accustomed to means x number of people will die.
Yes. I’m making the point that safety is often a secondary consideration when it comes to connivence.