So if I leave my shitty broken down car.....er "home".....in front of your house, I'm "homesteading". JFC. Get a grip people.

Re: The nail. Hey, the guy's Etsy handle is "Augustus", plus he's willing to insure it for shipping, so it's totes legit, amiright?

And if this is a little out of your price range, I've got one of St. Paul's finger bones (he had amazing long fingers!) I've been holding onto for a rainy day, but I'd be willing to let it go at a DEEEEEP DIIIISSCOUUUUNT - say, $5,000. Cash sales only, no refunds or exchanges.

@1:

Get used to it. Between global pandemics, global climate change and environmental collapse, unrestrained upward wealth redistribution, and conservatives abject refusal to acknowledge that any of these things are actual problems worth solving, by the end of the decade your street may be festooned with nothing BUT bootstrappy homesteaders living in their "micro mobile living spaces"...

@4 Misreads the statutory record, quoting the purpose of a 1991 amendment protecting homestead assets from adverse action by other states - not the main Homestead Act of 1995 (as amended).

@3 -- Bingo

meanwhile KkKonnell threatens
to Continue his assault on Congress
and WE the fucking People as if he'd
just hought of it. wtff. Retribution? nah.

'Tis OUR Turn Turtleman.

Economics question:

Trump's 2017 tax cut added 2.3 trillion to the federal debt. A tax cut means a loss of revenue, not increased spending. So did that tax cut eat into the debt because the government had to borrow more money to make up for the loss in taxes?

And yet again a white supremacist terrorist that just committed mass murder, brought in without a scratch on it. Fascinating how that happens every time (unless the white supremacist terrorist chooses to kill himself first).

White supremacists, especially violent men, are the biggest threat to this country. The number of racist mass murder incidents done since Trump took office has skyrocketed. I hope Merrick Garland and the U.S. Attorney General's office does what they say they are going to do and go after these terrorists as hard as possible.

This country is sick and disturbed and needs to exorcise itself of its delusional psychosis, white supremacist ideology, policy, violence, and terrorism. It needs to start with these violent terrorists being killed when they commit their acts of terror. If civilians of all other races can be murdered for no reason (even while sleeping in their bed), then these terrorists can be eliminated each and every time. Enough bullshit. These people are garbage that need to be destroyed.

Cheesy cheesy COMTE - no. Lots of buzzwords and little sense coming out of you.

Yeshua - if you come to my continent and plop down you should expect a fight. Amiright?! So then its ok if I fight off the shitty oil dripping cars "homesteading" on my street?

@12:

Just because your limited intellect is incapable of grasping relatively straightforward concepts such as pandemics, global climate change, environmental collapse or upward wealth redistribution, it doesn't mean those things don't exist - it only means you fit into that very large category of conservatives who have the unique ability to ignore glaringly obvious problems, because you don't think they affect you personally.

And it's YOUR street? Do you own it? Do you have a checkpoint set up at either end to restrict access to YOUR street? Do people need to show you proof that they live on YOUR street in order to pass through or park there? Do you totally NOT get the irony of Yeshua's comment @6?

RE: Atlanta shooting

Apparently the suspect (who has already admitted to the crimes) was a hyper religious gun nut:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/aaron-long-atlanta-massage-parlor-massacre-suspect-had-sexual-addiction-cherokee-county-sheriff-says

He killed them to "remove the temptation of sex." Why didn't he just blow his own head off?

Also, he bought the guns he used just hours before the shootings.

The 2nd amendment is a curse on this nation. Religion is another curse.

COMTE - I love you on crackers. Forums? Not so much. Blah blah blah blah. Tiresome screeds and nonsense. Did you understand my take on Yeshua's comment or is your mind too full of screaming demons of liberal claptrap?

@2: So yeah, re "the nail" ... Etsy listing says " This item may take some time to prepare. Contact the shop to find out when it will ship"

Gonna need a while, got to go to Lowe's, buy a nail, and whatever cocktail of chemicals go into making a nail look 2000 years old. These nails don't fake themselves y'know.

How violence, especially murder, by white males is always given a pass:

Atlanta shooting suspect had 'a really bad day,' sheriff's office explains

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/17/2021494/-Atlanta-shooting-suspect-had-a-really-bad-day-sheriff-s-office-explains

We have a white guy who apparently murdered eight people at three locations, injured one other person, and was arrested unharmed despite police having to force his car off the road to apprehend him. And the first thing police have to tell us is what a bad day he had and about his sexual addiction problems that led him to want to eliminate temptation … by murdering people.

"nearly all American voters live in communities where they are less likely to encounter people with opposing politics than we’d expect."

This statement implies that people should interrogate everyone they 'encounter' as to their politics. Hard pass. I don't discuss belief systems with people I encounter, whether spiritual or secular. If anyone I 'encounter' (WTF does that mean - standing in the grocery store line?) starts interrogating me, I put them in the "I don't need this religious shit" and ignore them. Even if we agree - nothing more tedious that someone "into politics" aka "religion".

Shorter @16:

"I really don't have anything constructive to contribute here, so I'm just going to ad hominem my way through this in the hopes nobody notices..."

@17 - Not to mention printing the face on the shroud in which the nail is protectively wrapped.

@19 - I'll be shocked if this guy gets a pass. I think that a needle is more likely in Georgia. And even if he thinks that some kind of "sex addiction" motive is going to make a good story, sounds like he may have some "yellow fever" issues around his "sex addiction," which arguably make the whole thing racially motivated.

1) Attacks against and harassment of Asians and Asian-Americans: sick, wrong, misguided. This can't be emphasized enough. Wrong in EVERY way. 2) Yes, Seattle drawbridges need help--and so do many other of its bridges. Number one on that list: the Magnolia Bridge. Either tear it down and build a new bridge in the same location or tear it down and find a different way to manage the flow of traffic in and out of Magnolia. But don't bury collective heads in the sand and hope the problem will solve itself. That bridge is a disgrace. It's at best marginally safe and really should no longer be used. Any solution will get some group angry--but doing nothing is unacceptable.

When polled, Republican voters consistently express a preference for larger yards and greater distance between their dwelling and those of their neighbors. All you have to do is select the house and yard that "feels right" to you, and chances are you are also selecting a neighborhood full of people who vote like you do.

Well raindrop got all butthurt yesterday because myself and others were calling the shooter an incel and I said he probably had the sympathy of the police. Today the police showed their sympathy for the shooter by saying he “was pretty much fed up and at the end of his rope,” and “Yesterday was a really bad day for him."

https://dailyboulder.com/georgia-official-slammed-for-saying-killing-of-8-people-was-a-very-bad-day-for-the-gunman/

Is there anything you are never wrong about? I'm sure you'll ignore this here so I will remind you in slog PM as well.

@26 Yes, of course. Good point. But at least its problems were so bad a collapse was imminent, and it is now getting repaired. The Magnolia Bridge situation was supposed to be resolved years ago via a large chunk of the 930 million dollar "Move" money--but that didn't happen, and that pathetic bridge is still being used with no agreed-upon plan, no repair, no replacement in sight. And look at it: a kiddie slide supported by matchsticks. But, yes, of course, you make a good point: the West Seattle Bridge is in bad shape.

@28,

The Onion outdid themselves on that sheriff's comment:

https://www.theonion.com/sympathetic-police-know-what-it-s-like-to-have-a-bad-da-1846497280

Well, of course the most important thing is that we have "healthy streets" and dedicated bike lanes. The rest of the street/bridge problems will resolve themselves.

@28 - I guess only your constipated view of things would waiting for the facts to come out be felt as butthurt.