National Forests and National Parks are different things and are managed by different departments.

National Parks (like Yellowstone) are managed by the National Parks Service and we're put aside for conservation and public access. They are protected in perpetuity. As much of a shit head Trump is and as terrible as the Republicans are, I don't think they could actually open these up.

Meanwhile, National Forests are managed by the Department of Agriculture. They were specifically put aside to be public land and to protect the US lumber industry. The rules have been slowly opened up to allow private purchase (for individuals and ranches) and different types of resource gathering (mostly fishing and ore mining, with some oil mining).

I think a lot of people in this thread are mixing up the two as well. National Forests are specifically used for resource gathering and more resource gathering isn't out of the ordinary for these parks.

I'm making almost double what I was as an electrician in IT.

Funny enough i switched from being an electrician to doing IT a few years ago.

I'm making a ton more money and I'm inside all day. Which is nice today because it's 25°F and windy as shit here today. Its less nice when it's 70°F and sunny though.

Bah I messed it up again! I have no excuse now 🤦‍♂️

Ah you're right. I misread your comment. I thought you were calling gas a liquid haha

Edit: I am very dumb and don't proof read my comments

Yeah but 100LL is also still legal (and required) in Europe. My comment is specifically talking about automotive gas

And more specifically, I was refuting the very clear anti-american sentiment in the comment above mine. Because leaded fuel was not a "uniquely American problem"

The US banned leaded gasoline (at a federal level, states had banned it since the 1920s) in 1996. Austria was the first European country to ban leaded gas, and they did it in 1993. The first country world wide to ban leaded gas was Japan and they did it in 1986.

And the EU didn't ban leaded gas as a whole until 2000

Gas can behave like a fluid. Or rather, the two can behave similarly, but they aren't the same thing.

Yeah I assumed so. It was a few years ago so we probably talked for a bit at the bar (I am not allowed to go get drinks by myself cause I'll end up talking to strangers for 45 mins haha) but I don't remember her from any other point in the night.

Idk it was just really strange haha

One time a buddy and I were out drinking and on our way out he ran into a childhood friend. So while they were catching up I was just leaning against a table and listening to their conversation and people watching.

A pretty attractive woman came up to me, looked me dead in the eyes, and said "you'd be more attractive if you had some self-confidence", and then walked out of the bar.

I think about that every day. Because I have never in my life been told I need "more confidence" (actually, it's usually the opposite haha).

Source Code release could be complicated, especially for games that aren't 30 years old because the devs don't start over from scratch every time so there would still be an enormous amount of proprietary code in it.

Itd be cool (and as impractical as it is, I believe all code should be open sources) but not really feasible

There used to be but the moderators forgot to sign up for HP Smart® Instant Ink™ and used non-authorized ink (first party ink ordered directly from HPs website) so it got shut down 😔