Yeah, signage used to be massively more important. Not just the intersection signs, but the mile markers, the signs that give you a general guide to a distant hospital or park, the signs on overhead bridges that tell you what that cross street is. You'd have to constantly note them.

The compass was a lot more important, to the point where people installed aftermarket compasses in their car if there wasn't one already. Also there was a lot more math with address numbers, like noting which side of the street had odd numbers, then counting how much they were incrementing to estimate how close you were. Resetting your "trip odometer" could be important.

There was just a lot more "dead reckoning" type of shit. GPS made all of this stuff so much easier. I do miss the AAA Triptiks though. My Grandma had AAA and she would get them for me. There was something really satisfying about working your way through one on a long road trip.

Me too, but with office supplies instead of pizzas. They handed me a ripped out chunk of phone book, the "map" section at the back, and let me go. It was also in the liminal period where cellphones were ubiquitous enough that most payphones had been ripped out, but a cellphone was still too expensive for me to afford, so that was fun.

Just ran like crap. Headlights too dim to see, etc.

Sort of depends what your resources are, there's a continuum between doing nothing and full doomsday prepper. It also depends on what sort of flood you're preparing for. Like, 6 inches of water in the house, or the house is gone? Anything that gets touched by flood water is basically coated in literal shit, so you have to prepare for everything from the water level down to be completely wrecked but (hopefully) not utterly smashed like in a tornado.

Probably wise to keep some water and food. A small power bank for electronics. If you have expensive or irreplaceable things put them on an upper floor or at least off the ground if you can. If you've got some more money you could think about a generator, not just for you but for your sump pump (if you've got one). If you plan to leave maybe scope out a place you can go so you don't end up in a shelter. Figure out a plan for your animals, if you have any.

If you have insurance, take pictures or record everything you have. You want make and model of everything when it comes time to get reimbursed. You will forget a bunch of shit, and if you specify "coffee maker" you will get a $15 coffee maker, instead of the "Miele UltraCoffee 9000, Stainless Steel, with Grinder" that you lost (for example).

I have no idea. He was also like, the third owner, so it's quite possible that things were failing.

My brother's first car was a 1989 Dodge Colt. He couldn't run heat, wipers, and headlights at the same time. So driving at night, in the winter, when it was raining, became this dance of running the wipers until your ass was almost frozen to the seat, then turning them off and running the heat until you were almost blind, then repeat.

Actually one of my most favorite memories because the simplicity of the solution using recursion blew my little mind. It was like discovering a magic spell.

Gnutsak

I invite you to look beyond the machinery of misinformation—an integral part of this aggression—and instead speak with those who have visited Iran. Observe the many accomplished Iranian immigrants... Do these realities align with the distortions you are being told about Iran and its people?

Sorry is there an Adrian Zenz-like figure I can ask instead?

Seriously though I admire that, despite all we've done to them, he still responds with a dignity that we certainly don't deserve. Of course we're totally deaf to this as a people, but I respect the gesture.

There's no way they want to eliminate bot traffic, it would kill 2/3rds of their traffic instantly. So this just means, "bots that aren't paying us."

His health was so fucked it has its own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_of_Charles_Darwin