02-01-2018, 05:48 AM
don't forget we live on an active volcano.
And yet, two years after Pele nearly wandered into Pahoa, causing businesses to close down and pack up inventory, here we are. Almost all of them are open again, and a major new shopping center is under construction.
With, as kalakoa pointed out, the requisite building permits and full code compliance. If all of us have to follow the rules while we live on an active volcano, is it too much to expect the people instituting and enforcing those rules to follow them as carefully as they require of us?
Does the state discourage us or facilitate our actions? Roads have been widened, a roundabout built, and a new stoplight installed. What does that look like to you?
Recycle Puna. Humans, although probably not you personally, have already left 400,000 pounds of trash on the moon. - YouTube's Half As Interesting
And yet, two years after Pele nearly wandered into Pahoa, causing businesses to close down and pack up inventory, here we are. Almost all of them are open again, and a major new shopping center is under construction.
With, as kalakoa pointed out, the requisite building permits and full code compliance. If all of us have to follow the rules while we live on an active volcano, is it too much to expect the people instituting and enforcing those rules to follow them as carefully as they require of us?
Does the state discourage us or facilitate our actions? Roads have been widened, a roundabout built, and a new stoplight installed. What does that look like to you?
Recycle Puna. Humans, although probably not you personally, have already left 400,000 pounds of trash on the moon. - YouTube's Half As Interesting
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves