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Even at no cost to themselves, they can deny healthcare benefits they disagree with.  Wouldn't that apply to subsidizing the widespread slaughter of animals?

Iirc the closer equivalent to what's going on on that front would be some farm applying for (and receiving) subsidies or other benefits for farming meat without actually, y'know, farming meat. S'been how several of the religious abuses have played out, if I'm not misremembering. Plus all sorts of half-assed enforced tax shenanigans.

Also probably worth noting the practices that make eggs accessible themselves tend to trend fairly horrific. Yard grown and whatnot is definitely possible, but it also is notably more expensive than industrial stuff, from what I understand. Plenty of somewhat fucked up shit going on vis a vis even plant based agriculture, for that matter. The subsidies involved in agriculture (livestock or otherwise) are also all over the place and put in for multiple reasons, too, so you're getting into a pretty messy subject in general...

That said, lots of subsidies or tax spending doesn't respect the ethics on individual citizens at-fucking-all, their religiously informed ones or otherwise, so... not actually sure how much that's something people give much of a damn about at the end of the day, yeah? For better (LGBT kids getting what meager gov't assistance they do, ferex, or planned parenthood's continued existence) or worse (taxpayer dollars going to fucking cop black sites or funding the paychecks that have unmarked federal fucks kidnapping people off the street).

They're suicidally stupid dumbshits that have never been through an actual one, mostly, and/or are critically incapable of pattern recognition. Low category hurricanes do generally (but only generally, as they're still perfectly capable of wrecking shit pretty hard under the right circumstances, generally due to flooding/storm surge) not do much, but A, we're well goddamn aware at this point the sunlight between "low category hurricane" and "intensified to the point your area will be rebuilding for the next few years" is less than a day or two, and B, that's just the low category ones. The high (4/5+) cat ones will probably fuck you and everything around you up real hard.

There's no real overhyping a hurricane, not when we're not literally omniscient. We don't know exactly how hard they're going to hit until they hit, and if they do hit hard it's anywhere from "hope you got flood insurance lol" to "your neighbors come to shelter because their house literally came apart while they were inside it and most of it flew off". Speaking from personal experience.

Eh... maybe once it (and other mods) works with the new patch?

You'd want at minimum magic storage as well, for what it's worth, possibly recipe browser, too... calamity (most of the giant mods, really) is mildly miserable to play without that, imo. All the extra stuff just makes the problems with vanilla inventory management and crafting that much more evident

He says he has "mouldy lungs" due to sitting around for three weeks. That's not really a thing, is it?

Not from just sitting around, no. Mold can cause respiratory issues, but that requires exposure, not just idleness.

I mean, if we're adding modern weapons to a fantasy world, why stop at bazookas? We can just have Frodo ride a cruise missile straight to Mt. Doom, that'll show Sauron who's boss.

Honestly I'm just thinking of a metal max/lotr crossover at this point. The hobbits have tanks, the eagles drop bombs, and sauron is thirty feet taller with chaingun hands, the eye embedded in his chest and firing lasers, and a third mutant arm waving around his mace encrusted with flak cannons. It'd be friggin' great. The spiders could have laser eyes and acid webbing, probably treads, too. You could do a lot with it, plus you'd have orcs and/or goblins with mad max getup and probably AKs or somethin'.

Wait, is that scale actually some people have made and reference?

So... what program is that, anyway? It looks like an expensive skin for notepad++, heh.

Note, the "signed" checks were only sent to those who couldn't recieve their thing electronically. Those people are also likely to be disconnected to a majority of news, and are probably swayed by seeing a name on their check.

The quote marks are particularly appropriate. I'm actually looking at one of the things right now*, and while the shitgibbon's name is on it ("Economic Impact Payment" on one line, the fucker's name on a second), his signature isn't. The thing's signed by some treasury critter, same as the tax refund one.

*I couldn't be arsed to hunt up my banking info when I was doing taxes, so I got checks, and haven't gotten around to actually depositing them yet because going to the bank isn't exactly my highest priority right now.