I had a guy from Florida tell me that the oil wells just fill up again after you empty them, so the whole oil shortage is a scam.
I mean, they do, for a while anyway... but it's like that last little bit of a milkshake that you never quite get through a straw. There's no new oil - it's just the stuff that is just now making it into the well. He thought you just waited a handful of years and you'd have another gusher.
A lot of interesting stuff happened during his four years. The Mexican-American war, the US and UK coming to a settlement over Oregon Territory, Texas joining the union, the forced purchase of New Mexico and California, the political unrest between the north and south... The guy wore himself out and died shortly after returning to Tennessee.
I'm really surprised he wasn't more prominent in the history books I read in school.
I'd recommend A Country of Vast Designs, which you can find as an audio book. It's about the Polk administration. Most people don't know anything about Polk, even though the US tripled in size and had a war during his four years.
It's also a peek into the politics leading up to the Civil War.
It's like the old saying (which made more sense back in the CRT days):
If I wanted your website to make noise, I'd lick my finger and drag it across the screen!
Borderless windows. I don't know how many times I've clicked the window behind the one I'm using because I can't see where one window ends and the other begins.
Not necessarily. Chemical weapons have been off the table for a long time. They've got all the stigma of nukes but without MAD to justify them. Militaries tend to be conservative about weapons, though - they don't want to throw away a working weapon just in case it's needed.
My guess - the existing weapons are probably outdated and it makes little sense to develop new ones given that it's highly unlikely they'll be used. It's not like we fight the kind of wars where they'd be effective (think WWI here) anymore.
Looking at pictures of external design is usually pretty safe to look at when you're at work. I imagine architects do it all the time.
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Sometimes NSFW images are appropriate in otherwise SFW communities. For instance, imagine a community on exterior design that had a post with a picture of that building in Germany with the five-story-high penis on it. Or a community for desktop themes that has a post with nudes wallpaper. Or a community about a certain celebrity that posts pictures of her car wreck.
I Love Lucy started in '51. Les Paul & Mary Ford at Home started in '54 (shorts, music & skits). The Honeymooners started in '56. The Donna Reed Show started in '58. Dobie Gillis started in '59.
Bear in mind that TV shows in that period usually displayed a highly idealized way of life (The Honeymooners less than the others). If you want to know what life was like in that period, Leave it to Beaver isn't going to help you. Books are your friend there.
Only for lazy shits.
I had a gallon bottle that I used. I only filled it completely maybe twice in seven years. I'd pull over on the shoulder in the country and pour it out the passenger window. Give it a good rinse every few days and a thorough washing every month or so and it wouldn't even stink.
Even for the people that use small bottles and throw them out, they can save them long enough to throw them away at a truck stop. There's no excuse for throwing your full piss bottles and other trash on the side of the road.
There is a shortage of cheap oil.
Time was you could find it bubbling up on the surface. Then you had to dig for it. Then you had to frack. Then oil was expensive enough to justify going back to the old oilfields and pumping water down some of them to push it into the others.
Sure, there's oil there, but it's harder and harder to get. That's why protected areas that still have easy oil are a target for the oil companies.