I doubt the ability of the American govt to quickly and efficiently build sustainable infrastructure, and I’m the idiot

many times. also married to an Arab, for what that’s worth. AZ exists bc America used to build stuff. but if you tried to build the Hoover dam today it would be sued into oblivion b4 it got out of the planning stages. whereas the Saudis, for better or for worse, can build anything on a prince’s whim

they do! but it’s significantly richer than AZ and the Saudi govt is spending it on sustainable housing, infrastructure, and renewable energy projects using huge amounts of immigrant labor. not impossible for AZ to do but let’s be real, that ain’t happening

insurance is getting stupid expensive even outside disaster zones. our insurance company told us ours is so high because they have to calculate replacement cost as built and our house is real brick, and we used to import brick from Russia 🤦🏻‍♂️

Phoenix is starting to get Saudi Arabia hot, but without the oil money or authoritarianism that maintains Mecca and Riyadh. it won’t be disasters that drive people out, it’ll be the impossibility of daily life

in a slow drip as the issues become personal. when somebody’s AC fails in Phoenix for a week straight or their Florida house gets flooded for the third year in a row, they’ll say “fuck this” and head north. Cleveland and Buffalo will welcome home the great-grand-children of people who left

the Freemasons who remain tend to be cops or religious weirdos (speaking from personal experience)

I’m still not giving up shaming people who use “byzantine” 🤣

I’m repeating myself, but: the US is three third-world countries in a trench coat. All our infrastructure is one really bad day from breaking and we lack the institutional capacity to fix it the failing empire vibes would depress me but GBBO is back. did you see that leather bag cake?!?!

The X-Files movie. went with my best friend to the first showing and we brought in a ton of X-Files stuff and made a shrine around our seats and as more people came in we did an trivia contest. eventually an usher came in and said “I’m so sorry to interrupt this but we’d like to start the movie” 🤣