Funny, though, that cheap sticks and cardboard houses like they are common in the US are a rarity here in Europe. Reinforced concrete basements are the norm here, and the rest of any halfway modern house (from the last 80+ years) is brick and mortar. My house has 30cm walls made from concrete blocks, and this is no outlier.

Top Secret papers all over Florida!

It is a shame to have something like school lunch debts in the first place. This is something that should be free from the start.

Yes to the first assumption - with a caveat. To cross the width of space, their technology must be far ahead of ours. Imagine a modern army fighting one from the 18th century, and you could imagine what a tank, a machinegun, modern artillery or whatever other aspects would do.

BUT: There is also the point that we would fight locally, while they would need quite long-winded logistics. OK, they could mine asteroids, and if they have all the means of production, we would be f-ed.

Regarding the disease, well, any disease needs a host, and it is formed by evolution over millions of years to work on that host platform. Just imagine the aliens have a different interpretation of DNA, maybe for pairs forming a codon instead of three, or just different encodings of amino acids for their codons, and nothing would work. And that would assume that they are similar enough to actually have DNA.

What they could do, though, if they are technologically far ahead, they could probably synthesize a virus that is basically made to kill us off the planet before we know it.

So better not piss off any aliens that made their way to us... Gray lives matter!

The only god that would protect him is Loki, probably. Just to piss us humans off.

Well, can you afford to stay, then?

Reminds me of a novel I have read. Some dystopian future where companies rule it all. If someone in the ghetto gets killed, nobody cares. If someone is caught piracing videos, though, they send a SWAT team, take you down in front of the news cameras, and put you in prison until you rot.

That was not "asking for advice", that was "receiving orders from the handler".

Originally they thought that Helene would be a cat 3, too.

But the Democrats aim with the Hurricane machine proclaimed by MTG is getting better. Maybe the third try actually turns Mar-a-Lago into a pile of rubble.

There is actually an official clarification from LEGO that the 99 years is definitely not a hard upper limit.

If "they" can control the weather, why haven't "they" incinerated Trump with a flash of lightning on one of his rallies?

Good. The more money the swindlers take, the less those idiots can waste on Donalds campaign funding.

And maybe, just maybe the one or other learns a lesson from this.