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broke back buzzard in the back yard what up

... called the wildlife folks. Said they'd send someone, but ain't no tellin' if they'll show up for a grounded carrion bird.

Capitalism is fundamentally about people using their assets as efficiently as possible, under whatever regulations apply.  Blaming individuals for doing exactly that is only treating the symptoms.

Theoretically, more than fundamentally. In practice, wild inefficiencies (that are pretty inherently baked into the systems involved) often rule the proverbial waves due to various... let's call them pre-existing conditions. Maybe it'll cause an insurance magnate's head to explode, somewhere. _{it'd probably be a net gain in terms of lives ahaha}

The only fair price in capitalism is the one you can convince someone to accept :V

What the fuck did that rifle shoot? Space Marine electric demon infected bolts???

It doesn't actually take much if your power grid's designed badly enough. Hit the right transformer or whatev' and you can wreck a pretty wide area. If stuff's bottlenecked through single installations or sufficiently unhardened/non-redundant you can hit something and cause a cascade failure, all it takes is messing up like one box to see it all drop, and it doesn't take daemon bolts to manage that much.

One of the myriad annoying things about all this shite is claims like a single sharpshooter dropping most or all of the country is more plausible than it should be

Most VHS tapes in existence are probably wearing out - the magnetic strips don't last forever. They don't make VHS players anymore, not even DVD/VHS combos, and even VHS->DVD/Digital converters are rare.

This, aye. They just more or less weren't seeing circulation, so out they went to make space for stuff that might. Most weren't actually trashed, but we've been giving them away for like five cents a whatever. We're down to maybe three or four dozen (out of hundreds, maybe breaking four digits) left, outside a handful of kids tapes kept for holidays.

Hell if I know. It was a book on breast care (one of a passel of twenty+ year old medical books I pulled out of our closet to try to figure out why the hell they were sitting in the library's closet), and the page was something about... whatever medical condition leaves folks with extraneous nipples. I didn't pay much attention, honestly. The important parts for me outside a general condition check is at the front or back of the book.

What the actual fuck

Unless it's changed fairly recently, the USCIS -- the organization that handles that sort of thing -- is congressionally mandated to be entirely self-funded. Or to put it another way, their government's budget for them is $0.00 USD. If you're wondering what the fuck is going on, it's "The USA isn't paying anyone to process those applications."

In own wtf, was processing a book today, and the first page I open it to see is mostly occupied by a photo of a women with three nipples. Welp.

Don't we already have those, though? Landfills are a thing, and I'm pretty sure some of them involve fire.

Innsmouth isn't part of the EU, tho'. It's not even on the same side of the atlantic. American grasp of geography is bad but it's not bad enough to teleport a massachusetts town to europe...