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"Precipitation Whiplash" is in store for California. It's historically the West Coast's normal weather pattern. We're going back to that. We need to increase our water-holding capacity and the resilence of our existant water holding systems.

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/new-study-precipitation-whiplash-hitting-california-and-itll-get-worse

With three large fires in California right now, I figured some folks need this reminder/warning.

There are still too many problems with amateur drones near wildfires.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/why-its-dangerous-harmful-to-fly-drones-above-wildfires/70005644

It didn't happen. It was recorded in error.

Original Article reveals that it was a false report.

>Update: Paul Iniguez of the Phoenix National Weather Service office has done more detailed analysis on the July 24, 2018 rain event at Imperial, and has concluded: "Did quite a bit of analysis on this. Based on all the data (radar, satellite, soundings, area obs), this looks like an error with the present wx sensor. I really don't think this is a new record." The present weather sensor is what measures the presence of rain, when only a trace of rain is reported, and it is possible for this sensor to get fooled. In particular, there was not significant cloud cover apparent on satellite imagery during the first hour that rain was reported at Imperial, though clouds did move in after that. In light of Paul's analysis, we have to regard the world-record hottest rainfall event at Imperial, California as questionable.

>July 24, 2018 was one of the hottest days in California history, as a searing heat wave of rare intensity, even for the Desert Southwest, sent temperatures soaring to near-record levels. Death Valley hit 127°F, just 2° short of tying the all-time world record for hottest reliably recorded temperature; Palm Springs hit 122°F, just 1° short of tying its all-time record; and Imperial, California topped out at 121°F, their hottest day since 124°F was measured on July 28, 1995.

Piggybacking off of u/leftwinglovechild for the easily locatable link b/c I'm at work. I'll edit this comment and add a few more links when I'm out.

Yes, yes they do : https://www.huffpost.com/entry/catholic-hospitals-refuse-to-treat_n_5b06c82fe4b05f0fc8458db3

> Birth control has nothing to do with your health.

For a lot of women, they do in fact use it for their health.

https://youngwomenshealth.org/2011/10/18/medical-uses-of-the-birth-control-pill/

https://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/features/other-reasons-to-take-the-pill#1

> Unless, of course, the fines are not actually levied against your tax return, but use some other system to collect. I am not familiar with the fines administration.

You should make yourself familiar.. The law was specifically crafted to avoid that outcome. From Healthcare.gov:

> The IRS will hold back the amount of the fee from any future tax refunds. There are no liens, levies, or criminal penalties for failing to pay the fee.

Its only counter-intuitive on a face level. I'll preface this by saying I've always been perfectly fine with hunting, but that I think it should be done with a goal of minimizing suffering. With that in mind, I've always been off-put by poisoning animals - it's always felt lazy and cruel. So know I'm definitely in this with some bias, but I want to be honest about it.

Way back in July of 2017 a radio station I listen to on my phone played this show ( Bit of a warning: The descriptions of how anti-coagulants affect animals is pretty rough). It's a home designer and builder who talks about home things. In this episode, starting pretty much precisely at 35 minutes in, he starts to talk about pest control.

In the episode they talk with Poison Free Malibu, a group with an obvious agenda, and their work in eliminating anti-coagulant poisons in their region and they expand on how this plays out.

When a rodent eats anti-coagulant poison it gets lethargic, and thirsty, and slow. That makes for a really easy meal for Bobcats, Owls, Hawks, and other escalating predators. The problem is the compounds don't go away very quickly, so when a rat is eaten by a raccoon, and that raccoon is eaten by a mountain lion you end up with a lion being poisoned

It causes an increase in pests because natural predators are having their populations harmed by these poisons, meaning the prey numbers are less encumbered. A better answer to rodent problems is to harden against their means of entry and invest in building an Owl box or two.

I don't think drones have near the carrying capacity to make it efficient. They are being used for information gathering on a smaller scale.

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EDIT:

"The best heavy lifting drone is none other than the Alta 8 from Freefly Systems. Made for professional drone users, this drone is exceptionally expensive. With a 36-inch diameter wing-span and 8 powerful motors, the Alta 8 is capable of lifting up an unbeilievable 18 kilograms. It comes packed with auxiliary sensors such as accelerometers, barometers, and GPS."

A gallon of water weighs 3.78 kg, so it could carry 4.76 gallons of water, provided all the other equipment required was weightless. Just to add insult to injury, that drone costs a whopping $17k!

Well, Yahoo news is reporting that Gray Davis declared the state of emergency. Edit I wonder how long it will take them to realize that Arnold Schwarzenegger is now the governor.

The weather conditions that day & in that area were virtually no wind and decent relative humidity (https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/ca/chico/KCIC/date/2021-7-13)... several tiers below even getting a Red Flag warning (https://gacc.nifc.gov/oscc/predictive/weather/myfiles/Watches_and_Warnings_for_California.htm). If these are the conditions where a utility is supposed to turn off power, might as well just say no electricity for CA from June to November each year.

I'm not posting this comment to be mean. I picked up a solar charger on Amazon a few years ago to use while on a backpacking trip. I had no idea if something like that would even work but it worked great!

Anyway here is an example of such a device. This happened to be the first one that showed up on Amazon when I searched for "solar phone charger" but there are many different kinds available now.

They are inexpensive enough that I would recommend anyone get one of these, even if you're not currently plagued with these power outages.

It is not a coincidence that's for sure.

Putin is behind all of this and we are stuck wondering what happened to our democracy.

I just finished the book The Plot to Destroy Democracy by Malcolm Nance.

If you want a real understanding of what happened just read the first chapter. Explains a lot.

/u/sletonrot is probably talking about Fire Chasers (trailer and direct link), and yes it's quite good.

The big thing that's changed with chickenpox is the number of people who have it. Thanks to the vaccine, the number of reported Chickenpox cases has dropped 85% since the early 90s.

That being said, it could still have serious consequences other than a rash and itchy skin for people with weaker immune systems. It could cause dehydration, pneumonia, toxic shock syndrome, and it could even kill.

On the subject of converting an attached garage to a living space, Dean Sharp does a home improvement podcast where he discussed this topic on Nov 3'rd.

It's not a tax, but a fee in a way on the oil companies. Who will just pass it down. Just mess with the name of stuff can change there views.

Used gasbuddy then did the math to find out what we pay over the average. Right now $2.474 is the average with California gas being $3.301. So our gas is $0.827 more then the average. So let say the tax on avg is $0.15, and for our special gas we pay $0.16 more. What is the other $0.51?

This is all just using average gas so may just be because of that.

Looks to me like a pretty clear trend line of red states with lower gas taxes so I don't know what world you can really blame gas taxes on conservatives. Anyways, it's not just the taxes that make gas taxes expensive in California, it's the way the system is set up and closed off from the rest of the country that makes California the most expensive in the country.

No doubt we need some sort of usage taxes but we shouldn't pretend that California's fuel policies don't hurt the poor and middle class the most and just increase wealth inequality.

> will I be blasted if I did not tip by accident, I mean we don't do it so it may just skip my mind.

Assuming you are talking about sit-down restaurant service, you ALWAYS tip. It is taboo to not do so, but a server will recognize you as foreign when they hear your accent so any mistakes you make will be understood in that context. You will definitely not be verbally blasted, but the people who served you will be pretty peeved.

You should really pick up a tipping book (or pull up a website on your phone), because tipping rules are really unpredictable. This gives a good overview.

check out the big Sur area

This link shows some really cool views.

Edit: I haven't driven that stretch of road for a really long time but I do know that at one point there was a landslide that took out a major portion of the highway. Unsure if it was fully repaired or not so if you do decide do go that way make sure to check road conditions to verify you're able to get to the destination you want easily.

Hotspot Shield should just sue them. Might be easier and more effective than a petition.

For the lazy.

Police as defined by google.

> the civil force of a national or local government, responsible for the prevention and detection of crime and the maintenance of public order.

ICE is a police force, by definition. They are police officers and have not, as far as I can tell, impersonated or claimed to be city officers. But they are a national police force.

This is the same photo of the California flag that's been in the sidebar for the sub for years. It was taken by taken by Håkan Dahlström. It has a Creative Commons CC by 2.0 license. Source:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dahlstroms/4136725536/

This is the original version (4804 x 3203).

Second source, a little less accusatory, but still depicts unpeaceful behavior on the part of the "peace" officer. Something to pay attention to should it go to court and have merit.

thefreethoughtproject.com

numerous other results

> “When snow is on the ground and the panels are clean, the snowy surface basically acts as a mirror and you can get higher output,” Pearce said. “In many cases, you end up with a small boost because of the reflection off the snow.”

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/are-solar-panels-usable-in-sno/21894748

You just can't use having solar panels as an excuse to go completely off the grid, basically.

Last time I saw them, I thought they said it was about Betty Ford Clinic.

Edit: I was wrong. Songfacts

It’s about a life of excess, the album cover is the Beverly Hills hotel.

but California is worker friendly. One of the major reason the tech industry is in California is because they struck down non-compete clauses, among others(can't recall off the top of my head, but generally made it easy for workers to move about)

You're right, it is bad for business when it decided that a Judge decided 345 Million wasn't enough compensation for wage fixing, but it is good for the workers.

oh, I did not know that. Hold on, I do not think it is right, try this one?

here is also a youtube video.

Chrome is open source and doesn't really do any extraordinary data collection.

Even if it did, it's software that you choose to use. Do you get angry with the grocery store for giving you a club card and using it to track your purchase habits and make relevant offers?

Leonid meteor shower: Saturday night's peak to spark 20 meteors per hour in the night sky

All ya'll should read 'Cadillac Desert'.

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Also I was annoyed by the one farmer that complained about ground water restrictions taking acres out of production. How many acres will go out of production when it becomes too expensive (if not impossible at any price) to pump out ground water?

A good chunk of that drive is simply on HWY 101. With that in mind, I'd suggest Montaña de Oro. Good luck!

Searched for California misdemeanor jail on https://duckduckgo.com/.

> Under California’s laws, misdemeanors are crimes punishable by up to one year in local or county jail.

http://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/california-misdemeanor-crimes-class-and-sentences.htm

There's probably more to it, of course.

THE SURVEY IS CLOSED! The survey host allows for a maximum of 1000 responses. Here is the link to the raw summary data. Thank you for participating!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-LH7DJJF7/

Sorry to be 'that guy' but this temperature record has been dismissed as invalid. There is no record of where the thermometer was, how it was used, or even if one was used at all. Expert Christopher Burt gave this record a validity score of zero:

https://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/hottest-reliably-measured-air-temperatures-on-earth.html

He does say something unusual happened that day due to the evidence of burned crops and dead birds, but it's impossible to know if it was 130 F, 120 F or 115 F.

Last year Dean Sharp touched on this in, if I'm remembering right, his "Pets and Pests" episode of Home with the House Whispered.

Yes, prices went up a few cents in the past week. But they're already starting to trend down again.

It's great to hear the viewpoint of a person who is negatively impacted by this, but do you believe the city/world would be worse off on the whole were non-reusable plastic bags banned?

Also, there's nothing stopping you from just purchasing a bunch of plastic bags from somewhere other than a grocery store. I'm sure you could fit a dozen in your pocket easily, and they're much cheaper on Amazon ($0.02 each).

I think the amount of time in Yosemite is okay. There is so much to see there (the park is way bigger than just the valley floor) and so many great hikes that you'll be super happy with your time there if you make use of it! My mom runs an amazing BnB in Mariposa that you can book through air bnb. Just check her reviews, she kills it! She's lived there for 20+ years and knows a ton about the park and is very helpful.

After Yosemite, Sequoia/Kings Canyon may be a little underwhelming. Build some flexibility in there if you can since you may get a little bored. I stayed at the Lazy J Ranch along the river there and it was an amazing experience. Such a cute little place. Highly recommended.

There are golf courses all over California. I don't play golf but I think the one in SF out by the Pacific Ocean is open to the public.

Did a quick google: http://www.tripadvisor.com/HotelsList-California-Luxury-Resorts-zfp4368.html

I know this is a joke, but for more detail if you go to Weather Underground's 10 day forecast for a city it gives day-by-day rainfall total estimates. Very useful: https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/ca/long-beach

Honestly I wouldn't expect you to break $200k at Google. Even engineers there have a hard time breaking $200k until they're promoted into senior manager positions.

Nothing wrong with that though if you can negotiate a telecommuting deal. Check out the monthly "Who's hiring?" threads on HackerNews. Lots of positions are listed there and they're all up-front about their telecommuting policies.

Here's the most recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9639001

There is a new vaccine for shingles that is supposed 90% effective. It is recommended for those over 50, but I don't think you have to wait.

I'm not sure it's so much that there is proven detrimental effects (as of today) of GMO's as it's the leading company behind them's corporate history of not being quite so honest about their activities and other effects of their products outside the intended use.

Links:

http://gizmodo.com/5904552/biotech-company-blamed-for-bee-collapse-buys-leading-bee-research-firm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#Legal_issues

By all means, come to Los Angeles! But you will want to make sure you have a car (public transportation here is all but nonexistent). And bring some patience as well, because if you're going to be cavorting all over the city you will almost inevitably get stuck in traffic at some point. As a local, you eventually learn how to avoid the worst of it. What I would recommend is to tackle the city by rough geographical regions. I.e. don't try to get from Disneyland to Hollywood in one day. Instead, pick one place you want to visit that day, and then structure the rest of the day doing other things around the same area. And try not to be on the road during rush hour. Here's a guide of things to consider doing, and feel free to PM me for more information. Have fun!

Dont be dense, of course I do. Regardless, definitions don't impact the context of my statement.

• NPR Article referring to Trump threatening Sanctuary Cities with loss of Federal Funds.

• LA Times Article referring to Brown declaring Sanctuary State status in direct defiance to Trump

Here is lots of cool info and graphs for the past 365 days.

The reports may be 0% contained but you can bet the crews already have a hook on the heel.

I don't see strong winds out of the north in the forecast.

https://www.windy.com/?2021-08-21-09,38.566,-120.141,10,m:eJlacN7

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But you are right about one thing she shuould have a bag packed. Always in the mountains in the summer time.

More importantly she should be doing everything she can to create defensible space.

People do nothing untill it's time to run.

I would definitely recommend driving Mattole Road through the Lost Coast on your way down from Oregon. There's some amazing scenery in a very undeveloped part of the state. Be warned, the road is really rough with potholes and it's very isolated so have a full tank of gas and make sure your car is in great shape. Here's some info on it on TripAdvisor

Oh no worries. I was born here (in San Bernardino, CA), been here my whole life, and I've lived in Nor Cal, So Cal, and now the Central Coast. Never once in my life did I get any flack for saying Cali, writing Cali, or even mentioning a song that used the term Cali until a few years ago on Reddit. My family has been here for three generations and I'll be damned if I let the word, "Cali" be taken from my proud, very Californian vernacular, especially by some regionalist f-tards who think they can speak for everyone and don't know a damn thing about this state. A few things to know about Californians is that we never bow down to the status quo, we never go along with the consensus, we yell 'fuck the po-leece" a lot and we damn sure never let anyone define who we are. I am very proud of that and it ain't going to change.

Anyway, Craigslist is always good start but be careful of the apt listings that seem really nice but are really cheap and the person who replies to your email doesn't have a good handle on English. Those are total scams. If you know what city or area you want to move, I would try Indeed.com for jobs. They have a great search engine and that's how I found a lot of jobs in the past.

P.S. Sorry about the Cali rant. It won't really be a thing in real life when you get here. People talk big on the internet but probably won't correct you on the street. Maybe that's why I never got any trouble about until now . . .

Are you into backpacking? If so, this trail is pretty fun. You can hike up to the hot springs for a relaxing soak.

Other than that you can car camp at one of the state parks. I've stayed at Lime Kiln park. There is a site just under the bridge. While most people would say it is a crappy site, I loved it. It was semi close to the shower, far from other people, and the nearest you could be to the beach. A lot of the camping is first come first served, so if you're heading out Friday night, prepare for disappointment.

Next bet is would be one of the hotels/motels in the area.

Check out Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park while you're there.

Have a good one!

California vs Denmark:

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You might do best trying something from AirBnB. There just aren't a lot of options in Big Sur proper, and most of them are awful expensive.

https://www.airbnb.com/s/Big-Sur--CA

You could also consider Carmel or Pacific Grove. There are a lot of conference centers there so they might have more options for larger/cheaper hotels.

Huge fan of Cadillac Desert.

Check this out too...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FD36FXK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

An epic struggle over land, water, and power is erupting in the American West and the halls of Washington, DC. It began when a 4,000-square-mile area of Arizona desert called Black Mesa was divided between the Hopi and Navajo tribes. To the outside world, it was a land struggle between two fractious Indian tribes; to political insiders and energy corporations, it was a divide-and-conquer play for the 21 billion tons of coal beneath Black Mesa. Today, that coal powers cheap electricity for Los Angeles, a new water aqueduct into Phoenix, and the neon dazzle of Las Vegas.

Yeah, driving too fast in a school parking lot and cutting off people seems safe. Shame the school employee didn't have a dash cam in their car to prove beyond a doubt their side of the story on how this lady acted. I recommend citizens and cops to use cameras.

If you live in California, here is the app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.aclu.mobile.justice.ca

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id979642692

Keep in mind that one, wind is just air moving from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure, and two, significant fires literally create their own weather. As a fire burns, the air around it heats up. What happens to hot air? It rises, and that creates an area of low pressure to which air from surrounding areas moves. The bigger and hotter the fire, the faster the winds it generates.

Gusts of 27 mph in Windsor at <em>4%</em> humidity. To put that in perspective, Las Vegas is currently at 8%.

Generally speaking, residential areas tend to be built away from major wind tunnels, but that doesn't mean that they aren't all around you.

Looks like it's moved inland and dissipated a bit but will hit Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/east-pacific/nora-2021

But I suspect there's still a chance of monsoonal rain for the Coachella Valley and the California Deserts with associated flash floods.

Unlikely for anything in Fresno but increased humidity.

Wouldn't it be great if there was some resource where you could look up average monthly temperatures for different locations. /s

https://weather.com/weather/monthly/l/USCA0027:1:US

Average Winter lows: 47-48℉

Record lows: Below freezing

The average price for a gallon of gas in the US is about $2.76 right now.. In CA, it's $3.65. The problem is almost entirely caused by the way that California gets its gas supply, which keeps prices slightly higher than the rest of the country all the time, combined with local refinery issues which have messed with supply. This caused a spike in prices, only in California, shortly after the prices in the state dipped below $3.

The situation will get better, but CA has a systemic problem with refineries.

Also, for anybody interested, I found this article that claims the taxes collected for Medicare only cover about 40% of the cost of Medicare. The rest comes from the general fund.

So, from that angle, I would say it is not working, and is likely to get worse as baby boomers age into the system.

> Weird though that there just happened to be a bag of coke lying in the street exactly were they got pulled over and next to where they set the wallet on the ground.

Not really, it's quite easy for the cops to bring drugs with the specific intent of using them to frame a person for possession.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/20/538279258/baltimore-police-caught-planting-drugs-in-body-cam-footage-public-defender-says

He put up the signs for the picture; obviously they can't be permanent as the signs would subside with the earth.

The location is here:

http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.aspx?PID=GU0103

The benchmark is gone, but anyone could return to the same spot.

The datasheet doesn't seem to reflect the photographer's measurements, which is one of the details that leads me to wonder if his measurement of subsidence was flawed - perhaps he compared elevations without adjusting for changes in datums?

By the way, if anyone is curious where the famous "30 feet of subsidence" photo was taken: The benchmark referred to on the sign is located at:

http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.aspx?PID=GU0103

Someday I plan to make a pilgrimage there.

Yes i do, but it can't be put into a few paragraphs. Also don't even know your knowledge level in bitcoin,and economics to know where your start. You can take bitcoin now for 0-1% fee using https://bitpay.com/ or https://coinbase.com/. A lot of business are doing it now dell just this week started to take them.

Right on.

Just a note on 'hot', the ocean is nearby and somewhat cool, so the temperatures tend to be moderate most of the time. As far east as SDSU, you will probably dress for warm weather most of the time (shorts/t-shirt), but after the sun falls may find a light jacket and/or pants more comfortable.

compare: https://weatherspark.com/averages/28628/Cologne-Bonn-Nordrhein-Westfalen-Germany vs. https://weatherspark.com/averages/31552/San-Diego-California-United-States

Rental market can be very tough, I would advise using sandiego.craigslist.org to see what is available starting now and to understand how much to budget. You might not sign a deal until you get here, but you will be educated on the appropriate rates in the area.

Oh, and welcome! Hope you enjoy your time here!

Why don't you concentrate on getting your degree first while interning for work experience (work xp is VERY important)? Why must you concentrate on getting a tech job when you don't even have the degree? I mean once you got the degree and work experiences, then you can figure it out.

You can use this to help you: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/unemployment

They are saying that power can be restored when the winds are safe, but with the "mega-typhoon" hitting Japan, the winds keep building. https://www.windy.com/?2019-10-14-00,35.757,-120.790,5

The power will be restored 2 days tops before they shut it down again

Uhhhh, sorry I can't sit on reddit all day debating San Franshitsco leftoids. Suffice it to say I don't take you very seriously because you somehow still think Snopes is legit. Your whole argument is predicated on the assumption that yet another "fact checker" should be deferred to as an authority on truth and balance. Unfortunately for you, media bias fact check has its own tarnished reputation.

If you are so pitiful that you must defer to some higher power to tell you what to think I'd say the standards of NewsGuard or Allsides.com are more balanced and credible. But Snopes...lol, no. Snopes is editorialized rubbish and the people behind it have been discredited in court for their poor character. Snopes is for kids and folks who can't think critically.

8oz milk calories 150

https://www.fitbit.com/foods/8oz+whole+milk/17957754

8oz coke calories 91

https://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/usda/cola-soda-(with-caffeine)?portionid=36897&amp;portionamount=8.000

http://www.gasbuddy.com/US

pretty much everyone.

NY is paying 2.10, and the "cost of living" is considerably higher there.

Jerry Brown's budget plan for 2016-17

http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_29355146/california-budget-gov-jerry-browns-plan-include-deal

He wants to pay for it with a $65 annual fee for drivers; an 11-cent diesel tax increase and a 6-cent gas tax hike

Brown should legalize marijuana and California will make 100 mil annually. Stop taxing the average joe citizens. Tax the money that are going to the illicit business. The state of Colorado had so much excess $$$ from marijuana tax that they don't know what to do with the money. Use the pot money to fix the pot hole.

Fracking should be an obvious thing to cut out too. It's completely environmentally destructive, and leaves a path of shit wherever it goes. My issue, however, is the one time I brought up Gasland a lot of people (not sure if they were anti-fracking or not) went apeshit over the fact that it's completely biased, so I would find a better resource if you want to have a discussion about fracking on Reddit. But yes, fracking is absolutely horrible the way it's currently done, yet it's driven by profits, so there's no real incentive to use safer, less environmentally-destructive ways to extract methane from shale.

While we're at it we should tell Nestle to quit bottling our fucking water and reselling it.

Here is a wiki-formatted list of (mostly) academic sources I found in college, hope it can be of use!

Indeed, it was a packet of blended seeds geared toward Monarch rescue which can be planted year around in temperate climates.

There is actually a recently published history book that covers them... https://www.amazon.com/Evangelicals-Struggle-Shape-America/dp/1439131333

It's fascinating, but one of the ending conclusions is that the linkage to the far right has hurt the evangelical cause. There numbers are finally shrinkage similarly to what happened to Mainline Protestants in the 20th century.

That is a myth that came form a fail system. You sould read Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt to start to see how this all will work. http://c457332.r32.cf2.rackcdn.com/pdf/books/Economics_in_one_lessonOCR.pdf

This is a bit of a myth IMHO. Fast food is incredibly expensive compared to like, bags of rice and beans you can buy. Bananas are literally 10 cents each at my local Trader Joe's. Carrots are $1/lb.

This bag of rice is like twenty bucks and could feed a family of 4 for a week.

This is the best book on the subject. The maps in the video were drawn by the author. It was written in the 1950s before Dan Pedro dam and other late twentieth-century changes. It's very fun to take on a road trip and retrace signs of the old road.

http://www.amazon.com/BLADE-FPV-Nano-RTF-Quadcopter/dp/B00P6P7AR0

This one is pretty solid. I have the non-FPV version, and have beat the heck out of it. It is small enough you can fly it inside your house, and not worry about breaking anything.