Project what?

And all of those people need to live in disaster prone areas?

You're exaggerating.

Critical infrastructure for extraction and refining of oil more likely requires workers in the hundreds of thousands, not millions. And that's nation wide.

But fine, let's give you a couple million, spread out across the disaster prone areas. The cost of rebuilding after disasters would be negligible compared to what it costs as it is now when 10s of millions are affected.

Oil products can be transported inland, again at a fraction of the cost compared to rebuilding after 10s of millions are affected.

Anyway, are you arguing for handing the Federal teat over to people who

choose

Not very MAGA! More socialist...

And, which common sense should tell you, I am not talking about shutting the entire coast down and kicking everybody out. But the high-density stuff has to go, or the people living there can eat ----- and I shouldn't have to pay for it. That's the American way.

You need millions of people to run oil refineries?

Yes, hundreds of billions of dollars per year. I meant total costs, not just what FEMA pays. Or did you forget we're only three weeks into 2025.

The cost [of natural disasters in 2024] was approximately $182.7 billion.

This total places 2024 as the fourth-costliest on record, trailing 2017 ($395.9 billion), 2005 ($268.5 billion) and 2022 ($183.6 billion). Adding the 27 events of 2024 to the record that begins in 1980, the U.S. has sustained 403 weather and climate disasters for which the individual damage costs reached or exceeded $1 billion. The cumulative cost for these 403 events exceeds $2.915 trillion.

Is rebuilding at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars per year a reasonable solution? Eff no!

FEMA just helps enable millions of people to continue to live in areas that are getting hammered by more frequent and more costly natural disasters.

Adapt, or die. Or, just move inland. There's plenty of space in the Prairies and Intermountain West, if you can find water.

A representative government should represent a country's demographics.

A workforce that has diversity, differences in backgrounds, and differences in experiences is a more knowledgeable and adaptive workforce.

Diversity is not just about race and religion. It is also about including folks from the city, or folks from the country. Rich folks and folks with more modest backgrounds. Veterans and civilians. And yes, even conservative folks and liberal folks, Democrats and Republicans.

We limit our potential and resilience as a nation by filling our government with people who all think the same. The same goes for business.

Poor little guy, blue balls and hangry!

However, paying someone else to level you character is p2w - and should get you banned.

I don't know if PoE2 is open PVP, in that case I agree.

Otherwise, I don't care about some rich dude paying someone else to do the work. That's America.

It's Elon promoting and bragging about how he's some sort of world-class gamer. Like, in the top 10 in the world. He's a fraud.

Make America Feudal Again.

Which makes all you Trump humpers MAFAs.

Elon has bragged about what a world-class gamer he is on Rogan, Lex Friedman, and during the livestream while he was getting busted.

Gotta say, I'm rooting for Steve.

That said, what can he really do to Musk? Besides just complain and make fun of him, like the rest of us.

Somebody tell Zuck that allowing people to scream at you and tell you how to run your business and then crying about it on a podcast is not very masculine.

Instead of claiming we need more masculinity in business, Zuck should try growing himself a pair first and see how that works. There is plenty of masculinity all over business. Zuck is just a little bitch.

I think if we try for $2 trillion, we've got a good shot at getting one

Typical Elonia, over-promise and under-deliver.

This is why I won't buy Tesla stock. Everything is hype.

I'm guessing he's wondering if climate scientists are living in the areas they argue will be affected more severely by climate change.

It's not a very good question. For example, volcanologists warn us about the dangers and risk to life from volcanoes, yet they spend time on volcanoes.

Sometimes you want to be near the action, even if it's risky.

Is ignoring why there are devastating wildfires ONLY in CA and Canada Liberalism or leadership?

Are you being sarcastic, or are you really this dumb?

She's going for SCOTUS, obviously. He'll give it to her, too.

It sucks when crappy behavior is rewarded, but that's America today. We voted for it.

We've known to prepare for extreme natural disasters for a long time. It's only going to get worse as we continue to dump CO2 into the atmosphere.

And since we're pointing fingers, republicans have obstructed and stonewalled every effort to improve our energy-grid and build resilience to natural disasters for decades.

It looks to me like Trudeau and Canada got played.

This is an easy one.

In America, brown people who do this kinda stuff are Islamic fanatics. Period.

But when a white dude does it, we have to understand why, because it can't be that he's a Christian fanatic. Which, more often than not, that's exactly what they are.

"White" washing any paranoid, deluded writings is a big part of that.

Special Forces?

Given his understanding of energy and explosive force, I'm thinking he's more Special Ed.

Corporate was buying and building homes like crazy so they could scalp renters for 3k/month. Rent is coming down, so it doesn't make sense for corporate anymore. They've been quietly unloading houses since 2023, hoping to get out before prices collapse.

Throw in the property insurance disaster, the building collapse disaster, and all of the natural disasters affecting home 100s of miles inland from the coast, and it makes for a proper housing collapse.

The spiked rate should affect sales everywhere.

Give it time. These things have a tendency of spreading once they get going.

D&D is a fantasy game allowing people to be whatever they want.

Species, gender, race ... Who cares.

This reminds me of "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BLACK ELF!!!" (which the lore is full of).

Keep in mind that these are the same people who are wailing because the new video games aren't as cool as the games coming out when these defuses were 8 years old. Or that Stars Wars aren't as good as the ones that were out when they were little kids.

Immaturity aside, it says a lot about people when they feel excluded because others want to be more inclusive. It's the victim complex, I'm pretty sure...

I'm not an Elon bro, but that doesn't mean I don't agree with the space-Karen once in a while...

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