I'm hoping the Iranian people can come out of this a better country. But you are totally correct in that the US did this for the oil not the people.

ROI on even a 2 story parking lot is a lot longer than the one and much more expensive than double the price.

Paving is cheap, easy and other than drainage design is pretty straightforward. Put in drainage, grade land, put down bedding material for the asphalt, put down asphalt and curbing, paint line install signs.

A multi-story garage needs a ton of engineering, concrete and rebar and is custom to each location. Because you have a lot of weight in these structures

If you look at amusement parks that have parking garages most of them are land locked or purchasing new land for parking is so expensive it's cheaper to build a garage

(Please note I'm am a layman about construction, there is probably a construction person or engineer that can explain it better just a theme park fan that likes reading about how the engineer rides and have occasional tumbled over into parking engineering which is a fascinating topic of how much engineering goes into it)

Fragging

I have to quote St Carlin

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

So we are not supposed to ....eat?

You mean Jill Stein who shows up ever 4 years, runs for the president, siphoning off 2 to 3% of the liberal vote over a single issue, collects a check, and then disappears for 4 years. That's not a real third party, that's a grift.

The right wing keeps thinking if we just remove these people it will be better, when that doesn't work, they move on to a new group over and over again until you're the group that's causing the problem and they remove you.

These guys just ruined the sport for at least the next 5 to 10 years and they don't even realize it.

Most of them will probably be let go at the end of their contracts and have to go outside the country to other leagues to continue playing if those leagues allowed them.

They are a PR nightmare

You do realize that Ukraine has more cutting edge tech at the new way of war that the US. The EU is getting more weapons from Ukraine and they are building factories in the EU

Extinction explosion, before a major social movement ends there is a push by it's most extreme memebers to make that social movement relevant again.

It just give me a point of clarity in a crazy world. When people are being daft I just like to remember, probablity wise, I'm probably verbally fighting with a moron and morons are good at being dumb.

I agree that Fed Ex should be sending those refunds to everyone who has to pay them.

But I think FedEX should be able to sue. It used to be anything under $600 didn't get a tariff. It was too costly and burdensome on the package handlers to collect the tariff. Also the system was designed to hold those $600 packages, not all the packages. Instead of ramping up Fed Ex had to handle a new system blind, with no preparation time. That had to effect core business

Hell would love to see a class action suit by all the package shippers and handlers against the government for what they had to go through

Article. Proof that she was there. I just searched Jill Stein Protest, Jill Stein News, Jill Stein ICE protest, on 2 different search engines and got one news article that was from the Daily Kos asking where is Jill Stein. So unless you can provide independent verification, I don't believe you.

Oil is still very useful. Especially when we stop burning it to make cars go forward or to fertilize crops.

A mostly electric future is a safer place

That's not a Black Mirror Episode
(Season 2 episode 1)

Does anyone remember billionaires for Gush and Bore. It doesn't matter who you voted for as we bought them both.

I finally figured out what you are, not worth my time

Where is she now?

No you didn't. In a 2 party system that's not how this works. You basically became a no vote and in a 2 party system, a no vote helps the party you don't want the most.

So what happened 45 became president and you got a even worse genocider.

Do I like that my choice was a little genocide or a lot of genocide? No

And I'm glad your feelings are soothed because you didn't vote for genocide, but in the end did your vote help the Palestinian people of Gaza? NO

In fact your vote probably made it worse

The biggest use of oil is in the energy to run transportation.

Not that the would problem would go away but it would be an actual manageable problem.