Youtube comments of Robert Morgan (@RobertMorgan).
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5:05 "and he loved, above all, feeling valued".
And that right there is the cornerstone, the main structural element, of how gangs, mobs, cults, and even many of our institutions work and attract and keep members. It's extremely powerful and coercive to give someone who has been convinced for whatever reason that they're worthless a worth through purpose, even if that purpose is an ulterior motive to serve some self-serving goal of your own.
Quite often in such situations what's not seen is that valuation comes at a price, that in most cases what you get out of the situation that makes you feel great is being paid to the 'leader' many times over. Especially in the mob. The more you make, the better you do, the more you kick upstairs to the Boss.
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It seems like somewhere along the way, in the Star Trek example, that they lost the idea that The Enterprise is the Federation's Flagship, THE front-line vessel, the most prestigious posting in the entire galactic fleet. Only the best of the best of the best were selected for service on the Enterprise and the competition for positions was intense.
That would mean that when writing a part for a crew member of that vessel, however you portray them reflects on the rest of the entire world you're building. If they're useless and incompetent, you're telegraphing that in your canon this massive paramilitary apparatus of many worlds and countless people working together towards this overarching goal of space exploration can't find anyone better than the incompetent character to serve that role AND they're the best they have out of their giant talent pool.
In well-written Star Trek, they have flawed characters, BUT despite their flaws they're also there because for the most part they're exceedingly qualified for their job.
People can relate because we've all probably worked with someone like that. "That guy over in engineering, I don't really like him, he's kind of an asshole, when we clock out he can f-off away from me...BUT he IS the best, most qualified person I know to work on (noun). He's the only person I'd trust with that. Just because I might allegedly think he's a piece of shit as a person doesn't mean he's not great at this job."
But when you write a character with bad personal character AND incompetence in their specialty or role, you start asking "why are they here?".
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I had a 'friend' recently telling me, almost demanding, that I need to date single mothers, 'grow my family' he said.
I said I'm only interested in having my own kids, and now that I can afford to buy new, why buy used?
He didn't like that, and told me with a straight face "You can't choose who you love, if you met the right mother and fell in love you'd raise those kids like your own, love just happens!"
And I'm like Bro, not you or anyone else can MAKE ME LOVE SOMEONE, sorry. If you can't control your feelings, which he can't as he married and divorced a stripper out of High School, had kids with her, then was widowed by the older single mother in his second marriage.
It didn't end the friendship but it ended me ever even remotely discussing that topic again.
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Maybe that's WHY they CAN afford such lavish expenditures. I know 2 extremely wealthy individuals/families, in the 8-figure range, and both own 'normal' 300-400k houses. They drive nice yet normal cars. They do live in safe affluent neighborhoods, but they don't live flashy rapper-mansion lives because most of their wealth goes into leveraging to more wealth, and saving to guarantee a future.
One bought a second house, rented it out to buy more houses, used that revenue to buy other houses, open car washes, on and on and into other ventures, at the same time working as the CEO of a major multi-national corporation (50/50 you have used their products). The other were immigrants who came to the US from India in the 70s, spent every penny they had to open a convenience store, expanded to rentals, and today they own more than a dozen C stores, restaurants, all their kids own and operate their own c-stores/resturants, one is a constantly-booked wedding and club DJ, and they've started a pharmacy chain.
If you met either of these people on any regular day, you'd have zero clue. If just I personally know two examples, there have to be many more out there. People who live their wealth under the radar.
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"Yes they hunt us for sport, but they don’t hate us or target us specifically."
They basically have the same relationship with humanity as we do with 'lesser' animals. Every fall I go hunting to find a kill a desirable deer, but I don't see a deer in June and be like "A damn deer? Shoot it!", no, I'm feeding them lol. They have no concept of what I'm doing or why I'm there.
It's like if you kill the queen in a bee colony, you've just destroyed an entire society, a thriving 'civilization' where hundreds of thousands of individuals work tirelessly using math and geometry to pollenate flowers, create honey, and grow their young, dead with her loss...to you all you did was squash a random bug and go about your day with little to no care. To the bees, some unknown and unknowable outside force beyond comprehension just capriciously ended existence for you.
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it all goes back to WHY. WHY am I doing this, why am I AMBITIOUS when I have no real purpose to be? Ive started doing a LOT less in life when I applied first principles thinking, it turns out MOST of the things we do in society as people, SO much of the time we spend, is all about families and getting laid. Sex SELLS, and if you stop caring about sex, ALL the selling starts to FAIL with you. Why do I need or want a giant house, to look better to get laid, why do I want a flashy car, to attract pussy, why do I want that better job title and different digits on my paycheck, to brag to women and look better than other men. You start naming all the things you no longer really care about because you see they're only about sex and money, the less you do those things.
You start REALLY thinking what do I WANT, not what does society or other people or what I think other people want, what is important to ME?
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It's also because older generations were fucking terrible at documenting their stuff! I work in a water plant that's 25 years old, I even still have original employees, and ALL THE TIME we run into shit that's not right, why is it like this, oh look this equipment was installed in 1999, failed in 2003, was replaced with a new spec item, the manual was never replaced, the serial not recorded, now it's failed again 15 years later and we have zero info, no specs, the original and as builts don't match, so you start over and respect everything because of course the replacement is no longer manufactured, it was discontinued 10 years ago, so spec a replacement, cool, now it's a 25 WEEK lead time because COVID. No shit, I'm waiting YEARS on critical, need it today equipment.
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@martinkuliza that calls back to the first movie as well, the rooftop Agent encounter where he narrowly dodges all the rounds fired at him. The very first thing Trinity, who's seen just as much as Morpheus, asks incredulously is "How did you do that? You moved like they do! I've never seen anyone move that fast!".
Even just before that as the Agent saw him move that way and has him at gunpoint, he says "Only human", but it sounds almost like the program is saying that as reassurance, that ok, that was crazy, he dodged bullets, not one but like 7, that's fuckin' weird...still, just a human.
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Same for men. Once Facebook hit, it was over in college. FB would get you laid, unfortunately it was also getting everyone else laid too. I remember hooking up with my dorm neighbor in college, hottest woman I've ever been with before or since, and thought wow, I want to pursue this, she's amazing...saw her two days later, her roommate is like "Oh, you want to date her...ehhhhhh, about that...she got with like 3 other guys in the two days since you..."
And she did, she was still logged into Facebook on my laptop, there's the messages, here's guy 2 apologizing for ruining her sheets.
Frustrating. Disappointing.
One night stands that are good suck, it's like you get one single hit ever of this amazing drug, I'd prefer not to indulge if I can't lock it down.
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And on that same note, I talk to people today who are 20 that have zero concept of how big a deal 9/11 was.
I was 18 and had just registered for the draft on Sept 11, 2001, I was a high school senior, and it was the LITERAL END OF THE F-ING WORLD to us. I can close my eyes still today and see each tower fall on the TV in my high school classroom, who I was in the room with, and who of those people volunteered and died in the war that came after. My high school graduating class is trauma-bonded for life from that, we were the Class of 9/11, 2002.
I was elected as graduation speaker and I very deliberately said NOTHING about 9/11 in my 10 minute speech, because WHY, what could I or anyone else say that hadn't already been said 100x times? My speech was about moving PAST that, to the future.
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I was chatting with a chick on Bumble, 30, has a MBA from a local VERY prestigious university, and is unemployed lol. I mention my property, I own a very large farm, quite valuable today, and she's like "Oh it's my dream to own something someday"....so I go look at her criminal history, which you can do in my state, and she has a bankruptcy and wage garnishments from a defaulted credit card. I mention this, she's like "Well yeah, owning something is a DREAM, i don't expect it to ever happen..." and it's like how can you live like that? Oh things just happen to me, what can you do? NO.
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That's why as a man you REDEFINE success.
She's successful, that's great, can I meet her husband and kids?
Oh she doesn't have those, then she's a failure. The point of a career and all that IS GETTING MARRIED AND HAVING KIDS.
Why would I buy a car if I don't want to drive?
I feel like a failure all the time, high powered career, wealthy, everyone likes me, but I'm 41, single, no kids, I have nothing I VALUE.
They need to think about what they value.
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The sad thing is the officers and the situation played into his delusions perfectly.
OH LOOK, it's the same cop that's been on me before, from the same department that's been on me, and now they're moving up my porch trying to maneuver on me, and then he calls it out and they say it's not happening...then they do what he accuses them of, "That's obstruction right there", and they move in on him.
I can see both sides unfortunately.
He wants to defend himself, 'defend from who?", from the people trying to take me away....Whaaaat, we'd never do that, then they do it.
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Dating women abroad was easier in the US if you went to college at a school with a lot of international students, like I did, University of Missouri-St Louis. I knew like 3 women from the US when I went there, hundreds from Europe and Asia though.
Here's what I learned: I'm rich by US standards, on paper, they're WEALTHY by a global standard.
EVERY student studying abroad in the US is from a very wealthy family. I met women who were cute and unassuming, nice even, then I find out her dad is a Chinese PLA GENERAL, that's why despite the one child policy she has a dozen siblings, they're Party Members, they're exempt from ALL the rules. She almost got pulled back to China because her parents discovered she got a JOB, WHY? Do you need more money, why is one of OUR kids WORKING? It's beneath you.
That's just one story lol. The Middle Easterners I knew were a whole other crazy story.
I've never felt more poor as a millionaire American than hanging out with international students.
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But why even do it? Setup a server, change a webcam setting, boom, you're livestreaming directly to everyone, nothing to take down.
BUT, you don't get the free hosting youtube provides, is the catch.
This is why I despise monetization and ads and all the money people have gotten addicted to on youtube. The hosting used to be the compensation. A free video host? Amazing, groundbreaking.
If even a modestly large YT channel had to pay their actual hosting fees they'd lose money endlessly, not make it, even with adsense.
Maybe we all need to get off these pedistals and get back down to the real platform, the internet. You don't need a service, you dont need an app, the tools to do it all are easy and FREE, they worked for decades past, they'll work today.
But it takes getting off your ass and off a site where someone else does all your work like yt
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I'm 40, I remember back in the day, it was always women being the ones walking around saying hello to everyone, greeting strangers, smiling at people, just being pleasant. Working to make other people feel good just as part of their life. My mother was the type to go out of her way to randomly greet and say nice things to strangers.
I can't count the number of times I left her at a door while I went to get the car, she had trouble walking without pain, and no joke every time I'd be gone a minute tops, I pull up she's met a stranger, bummed a smoke off him, they're laughing, and she's writing down the address of that persons kids to send them baked goods at the holidays because his son is deployed to Iraq right now...I don't think she ever met a stranger, and if she did, she'd be the type to be 'Hey, why are you avoiding me, you have a problem?'
If I had even 10% of the social magic my mom had, I'd probably be a Senator as a man, but no, socially awkward.
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I have 4 male coworkers and there are 9 marriages between them all. The oldest is in his 50s.
They can't figure me out, I'm 40, single for a decade, no kids, no marriages or divorces. I can't figure out how they rack up all of that carnage, hell the one paid half a million in child support over 20 years. And they're with MORE women now, it's insane.
My mom abandoned me at birth, my only real gf left me before we could get married, dumped me at college graduation, so I've been done.
I want a big family, all the women who want me hate kids or are too old. At least I'm wealthy lol.
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@mister-x2 here's the caveat with that, DEFINE FAILURE.
I'll start, I'm 40, I'm a millionaire, I'm debt free, I'm ready and able to retire, and I feel like a failure because I'm single, never married, and childless.
TO ME, success would be having a family, regardless of all that other stuff.
Actual love and commitment, your own kids, I can't buy those even if I become a trillionaire, they can only be real if they're FREELY GIVEN to you.
So before you start predicting failure, tell me what failure IS.
I know insanely wealthy successful people that are called failures all the time.
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I have a friend who is a single father, one divorce, one marriage widower, telling me I HAVE to step up, be a man, an get a single mother, grow my family, be responsible.
When I said I didn't want to pay for another man's ejaculation, lol, he got very upset and said I was brainwashed and the idea my family would chide me for taking on a single mother was because my family was 'controlling' and I need to ignore them.
Like, thanks for the advice, bro, just give up all your dreams and do the one thing you don't want to do, lol.
He even said 'You have zero choice on who you fall in love with, if you love a single mother, you WILL raise those kids as your own' and I'm like no, maybe YOU can't control that, but I can. I can't turn off REVULSION and turn on lust lol. I guess I'm just not that talented lol, he even said he'd had great sex with horrible people, and I'm like how do you even get in the position of being intimate with someone you say you hate, that's so unhealthy and weird, and my calling that out was called weird lol.
This long time friend is relegated to obscurity after all that as far as I'm concerned.
It's easy to say not to get married, don't have kids, by people who have been married and already have kids.
It's easy to say the top of the mountain is boring as you sit up there and throw rocks down on the other men trying to get there.
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In shape, no kids, wants kids, that's attractive before I even look at a photo, that's top 10% these days. If she has kids not interested, if she wants no kids, not interested, before I even see a photo. SOME of us are GOAL ORIENTED and want a future. Having a degree and no kids and no exes is somehow a red flag for women in a man these days. I just want to get married, have kids, so I can retire and be a full time father, homeschooler, and fitness trainer on my farm, and women hate that lol. 2024 amirite?
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I have a coworker, mid 50s, twice divorced, always complaining about his girlfriend, whose house he lives in, whose car he drives, who takes his paycheck...I asked Don, have you tried telling her NO?
He's like, what?....I never thought about that!
He's started talking back to her and things have gotten better lol, I red pilled a guy!
On the other hand, his own daughter is trying to blackmail him for money, but that's a different problem to work on.
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And that's really the thing here, choices and preferences are ok, and someday THEY might learn that lol.
I like broccoli, I enjoy cooking and eating broccoli. I don't like Kale, I don't eat it. That does not mean I'm anti-kale and through my vegetable preference am trying to invalidate kale's existence, lived experience, intersectional identity, or those who enjoy it. I'm not part of any organized anti-kale-spiracy, I'm not a far-white alt-vegetable extremist lol.
I just don't like that food so I don't eat it, and if someone wants to do so themselves, fine, but why, ick, lol.
For a group that's so pro-non-binary, the left as a whole craves painting themselves into binary thinking corners. If you don't support something, that makes you against it. If you support something, by their default you oppose the inverse, and that's just not reality.
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Stories like this are why I'd love to be wealthy enough to have life on autopilot and just wander the country randomly helping people. Like coming across this guy on the side of the road, seeing his make and model, and coming back with a new radiator, some jugs of water, and a six pack, because why not?
Something small to me but huge to someone else. To me it's a Monday, to them it's the first day of a new life, not just because their material situation Improved, but because they now live in a world where sometimes, people DO help each other, and that's a better world.
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The craziest thing I've seen, and I get that's it's mild, was mid-2020 in Walmart, in the middle of everyone going about their business, looking at the empty shelves, lamenting the lack of toilet paper, this disheveled looking old lady RACES up shoving everyone out of the way, grabs a big multipack of bottled water of a stack of them, throws it in her cart, looks around at everyone wild-eyed like a dog daring you to try to take away the steak it just snatched off the table, and RUNS away into the store. I and the like dozen people standing around in the dairy section all look at each other like "What the fuck was THAT all about?!"...and then like 5 of them grabbed a pack of water too lol.
That made me think, wow that was crazy, now imagine 500 people acting like that in the same store.
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I see that CONSTANTLY, I'm the only single man in my workplace. It's always "I have tomorrow off, but it'll be a full time work day, she's got a ton of stuff for me to do. What are you up to tomorrow?"
And my answer is something like "IDK, hadn't thought about it, it's still today, I'll figure it out then, and it'll be whatever the hell I want to do, or not do".
I've REALLY noticed it about AMBITION too. MOST men are content wherever they are, it's their WOMEN IN THEIR EAR all the time "you deserve more, you need more, ask for a raise, ask for a promotion, convince them you need XYZ, push for more, more more!".
You ask those men they'll tell you they just want peace, while their women will sacrifice all the peace to get EVERYTHING.
I think about climbing the ladder and it bothers me I'd have to hurt people I like to do that, women see that thought as WEAKNESS, no bro, you need to step on your friend's neck to reach that next rung FOR ME. F that.
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I had a coworker who was in Missouri from Jakarta, Indonesia...he asked why all the women here were prostitutes, I double taked, he explained where he grew up, the only women who smoked were street walkers, a smoking woman was the advertisement she was hooking, so he lands here, in 2006 when people still smoked, at our university and everyone is smoking, so he was weirded out by that, something I'd pay no mind at all to
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I have 5 sisters, all strong, independent women in the unironic sense. As in as a man I have to work to keep up with them, and they don't let me forget it, but I also don't let them forget they're women lol. As a brother I have a lifelong commitment to them, to torture them lol, and to keep anyone else from doing so lol.
Jokes aside, if a woman is truly independent that's sexy as hell because it means she's going to ask me out and be easy to date, because true independence is ignoring society. None of them are feminists because feminism was the groupthink. Hookup culture was the groupthink, so they're all married in decades-long marriages.Don't have kids early was the groupthink, so they had kids early.
Men do want a woman that wants them, to me that's THE main factor, but true independence makes that worth so much more, because being wanted by someone because they WANT you rather than NEED you, that's so much better.
I appreciate the affection of someone not dependent or wanting something far more than agenda-based action.
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$1000/month is what I pay to live in Missouri. I own my house, my farm, and I'm debt free. Food, utilities, insurance, taxes, all that is about $13-14k a year, all told.
I have a farmer grow crops on my land and my share of the profits is about $13k/year.
My money I earn from work is pure profit, and I'm working on getting a remote job now that'll double my income with no more work than I'm already doing.
I'm 41. You can get here, in the US. Cut costs, save, buy dividend stocks.
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Same here, but it's the more I appreciate (despite the remoteness and somewhat social isolation) my 100 acres in Missouri. When I had Covid almost exactly a year ago, I had to isolate here, which was like "Oh no, whatever will I do stuck at home OH WAIT, let's shoot guns, do woodworking, race four wheelers, clear brush, and get paid by work for 10 days lol".
If I'd had to do the lockdown/stay at home thing in a NYC apartment, I'd be a statistic. I had a 1200 square ft apartment when I lived in St Louis for university and that was cramped, yet not all that bad. That would be enormous in a place like NYC. I really enjoy visiting cities, I like seeing that there are lots of other people out doing lots of living things...but it's also nice to f-off away from all that and go to my 'compound' where my closest neighbor is beyond visible range .
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I'm not going to lie, today's weed is pretty crazy, and that makes me feel old as a millennial. I smoked for a decade before 'adulting', and recently my employer revealed that they would not fire people who test positive if they're prescribed.
So I got prescribed. After not using for 8 years, I went to the dispensary and was like "Let's try one of these vape pens...ooo Sour Diesel, I liked that before, let's see it's only 75% THC, that's not that much, right?"
Turns out this is where he realized he fucked up lol. I took a rip off this vape pen and didn't think I was going to make it home. I did, but holy shit I was not expecting to get trip to Mars high, just a little buzzed, sheesh.
The future is crazy.
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ALSO, fun fact, government at every level is OSHA EXEMPT. Local, municipal, state, federal, all can completely ignore OSHA. It solely applies to private organizations.
I run a municipal water plant, and it would cost us millions to become OSHA compliant, and this plant is only 20 years old. It was never designed to be OSHA complaint because there was no need to.
Making government facilities at all levels OSHA compliant nationwide would probably cost hundreds of billions, bankrupt every state, and drive taxes to the moon.
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OK that's terrifying that nurses like that are SO LACKING in curiosity they refuse to learn how a hospital works. What else are they slacking on?
I had a friend who went to Harvard pre-med, Stanford med school, very accomplished, very prestigious, MD. He practiced medicine for one year and transitioned to concentrating on hospital administration, because, he told me, as a Doctor, I can help one person at a time, thousands of times. As the admin of a hospital that HE runs BETTER than it was, he get's to do ONE change, one time, that helps tens of thousands of patients. He's dedicated his life to helping patients, so his goal was to find the fastest, easiest, best way to help the most people in the most amount.
That meant giving up his dream of being a practicing physician, so be it.
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My rent was a struggle back in 2014 even at $600/month.
So I moved home to the paid off massive farm I grew up on, now it pays me $1000 profit a month averaged from my row crops, soybeans this year. I expect yield enough to feed something like 10,000 people for a year from my harvest (probably in China). That totally covers all expenses for the year, food, utilities, and taxes and insurance.
So I start debt free, expense free, and I work a full-time municipal job as a dept director and water treatment plant supervisor, only $40k after taxes but it's all discretionary, I invest most of it in dividend stocks, so I can retire around 50 at the same current salary in dividend income.
Just gotta make sure I don't do anything stupid like fall in love or some shit and lose it all
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Australia is RIGHT up to the line of actual war with China at the moment. China f-ed them royally, and openly, when covid was ramping up by having Chinese nationals buy up all the medical supplies in Australia and shipping them back to China while they kept the coof disaster concealed. Then covid hits Australia and they had nothing, no ppe, no ventilators, no masks, no gloves, their people died as a direct result of Chinese action. That's like secretly setting someone's house on fire, not telling them, then stealing all their fire extinguishers and locking all the doors on your way out and watching them burn alive telling the fire dept "I don't know WHAT happened, innocent me over here, what a tragedy this happened to them"...
THEN they destroyed the Aussie win industry last year, by imposing a massive tariff on imports of wine to China, killing something like 80%+ of the customer demand for Australian wine overnight. And I'm sure I've missed many other stories and events, but China is waging outright, blatant economic war against Australia, and they're quite incensed about it and not taking it. I've joked with friends I discuss these things with "How crazy would it be if the WW3 everyone has always predicted started with Australia going to war with China, of all players." The UK and Russian have had some very intense friction recently as well, with just a month or so ago the Russians saying they'd use nuclear weapons against the UK Navy if necessary to keep them away from Crimea and Ukraine.
It would be such historical irony if the US ended up playing a supporting role in a WW3 scenario of UK/Australia vs Russia/China, after everyone thinking it would be the US vs everyone for so long. So goes the moves on The Grand Chessboard, as Brzezinski famously called it.
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Untrue. The water plant I run is municipal. We are owned by our taxpayers.
The water bill you get is for the half a million dollars a year worth of treatment chemicals we use to make Mississippi River water safe for drinking and in compliance with federal and state regulations, not to mention salaries, training, continuing education, hiring, maintenance of equipment, retirement, overtime, holiday pay...and the hundreds of miles of buried pipe and thousands of valves that actually deliver the water we make, well, that's another expense not part of my department, but it's not cheap.
Always remember, water doesn't go anywhere, it's never lost, and it can always be purified. The freshwater we drink today was not always fresh, and not always drinkable. It's been here for billions of years, and it'll be here for billions more. Trust the water: it knows what it's doing, and it's been doing it a hell of a lot longer than we have.
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Obvious question, if I'm a childfree man, why do I need a stay at home wife?
I'm a single childless (not childfree, huge difference) man, and my house is just fine sitting empty when I'm gone, I do my own household chores because I'm an adult...what would she do sitting all day? While I work?
NOW, exception, my older sister never wanted or had children, she's happily married almost 30 years now, and they own/operate a very successful HVAC business, ans her full time job is managing the finances of that. Her husband's full time job is everything else, doing all the actual work stuff, and it works great, they both go into the office at 8am, leave at 5pm, and they're doing great. She'd go insane staying at home all day lol.
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@indepthmike5578 I'm the only single man in my workplace and I see that moderation as you call it all the time, in the form of being pushed and cajoled and henpecked...I know a ton of guys perfectly happy where they are, but they have to pursue ambition because she's at home telling him you/we deserve more, go for that promotion, rat that other person out to gain favor, gun for that position, step on the neck of the guy in front of you to reach that next ladder rung.
I'm single, never married, no kids, and I'm their supervisor, and my only ambition is to stop working and retire before 45, that's my major ambition, not to work more, but to not work and start living.
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I have a LOT of older gen friends, and I was at a meeting last night just listening into random conversation groups, and all the talk was around stuff I and people younger than me, I'm 40, have no relation to: how are your kids, how are their kids, how is your family, how is work oh wait you retired, how's that, did you see that thing that happened last week, who was part of that, oh really him how ARE they....
It was real interested discussion about each other's life, about stuff none of us seem to care about anymore. They sit and talk (and drink) for hours, about nothing, daily, IN PERSON.
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I've been saying this to anyone who will listen since I had the thought:
The only people who can have power over you are those you WANT something from. So if I want nothing from you, you have no power over me. No leverage, nothing to offer. All you can do is threaten, and that's a no-go for me.
In my work, I'm topped out at my organization, I've achieved all my goals there, and I'm maxed out on the pay scale, and there's nowhere to promote me, so when my boss gives me static, I remind him there's nothing here for me to be ambitious about, you have nothing to offer me, all you can do is try to threaten me with my job, and that's always losing strategy for someone who doesn't NEED said job.
They're locked in here with me, not the other way around.
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I just got a new coworker, same age as me, 40, and he's retiring from 20 years in the marine corp. We don't get it, it's a dead end job we're all trying to escape from, this guy is gung ho and even says the money doesn't matter, he wants something to do, so we're like great, he got his full retirement pension and now we're his retirement project, fuck.
He's married and anti-children, we're all like if I was him I'd take like 5 years off and live off your free money. He says naw, he's never taken a vacation, won't now, and took home books worth of stuff about the job to read on his own time. WAY too much effort for a $15/hr job.
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Just think about how...interesting...it is that we live in a day where one nation invades another and there is outrage and surprise that the invading nation would hit a civilian home with non-precision artillery. Look to history and you see that targeting civilians was a feature of large scale warfare, not a bug.
HIROSHIMA, for example, was a civilian target deliberately chosen for psychological impact. In WW2 Europe entire non-military cities were obliterated, see Dresden and Hamburg, or for Pacific theater, Tokyo. Tens of thousands of civilians were killed in these bombing campaigns. Stalingrad was sieged and blockaded by the Germans for YEARS and MILLIONS of Russian civilians, women and children, died/starved to death.
What was a major disconnect for me here was "Russia invades Ukraine!...watch live on our livestreaming Kiev/Kyiv cam!
If there was a 'real' invasion, I'd expect ZERO news, because I'd expect all communications to be down, no cell service, no GPS, no sat phone, no internet, radio jamming, a complete black box. The fact that people are calling in and out, livestreaming, webcamming live from cities, seems ODD. On a good day in the US, comms are down and out at least somewhere, yet in Ukraine they're under the alleged worst invasion since WW2 and everything is just running fine? OK.
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The way I see it, if we NEED women for combat, they'll ALREADY be IN combat as everyday life, because if we have to reinforce mainline forces with women, it means we men have been OBLITERATED already and we're desperate. It's Germany in 1945, the fierce main Wehrmacht was gone, the industrial base bombed out, they were filling ranks with all they had, little boys and elderly men, with hand tools and old weapons, because it's all they had left.
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@sj3969 yes, that is trading on your sexuality, 100%.
There's absolutely women who could ask me to do something and I probably would, that if A man asked me I'd say do it yourself, you're a man, adult.
Of course this is 2023, so also a lot women ask me I'd say "You're stunning and brave, you don't need no man, do it yourself, you're capable, I believe in you".
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I live near a county border, the county to the south, 3x larger population, went on full lockdown, mask mandates, all of it...the county to the north did nothing. The local restaurant/bar half a mile over the county line, just 17 miles north from the largest city, was INSANO PACKED every day all day and twice as busy at night. Because it was the closest place with no restrictions, and they did SO well they tried to retire and close the restaurant after covid...got no buyers, had massive outcry to reopen, so they did and they're rocking better than ever. It became a bonding thing, going to where there were no restrictions.
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Men cry not for validation, but for TRUST.
If I cry in front of you as a man, that's probably the most trust I can ever place in you, as someone who does permitted confined space work where I literally rely on my coworkers for my life.
It'll either drive that person away forever, or forever bond you for life.
I still remember my best friends dad's funeral, huge event, and him as the eldest son had to portray absolute strength, and he did.
And after, when he broke down to me, and we cried together because his dad was my second dad, we'll never forget that, and he'll be there when my dad passes for me. After that, one night when he randomly called me for help because of a family situation, I let him move into my college condo, he lived there in a new city for a year, started a new career, met his new wife and has two great kids with her...and he has that life because I made the decision to pickup the phone and repay that favor that night, so think about that.
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How can non-police use of force be more restricted than police use of force? For one, no non-officer, at least in my state, is subject to local police department employment policies, not subject to union protections, not compelled to testify, and their firearm/ammo choices are not mandated. In my state, officers have no protection against civil suit other than sovereign immunity, whereas a person using deadly force now has immunity from all civil suit in a self-defense case, it's ruled justified you can't even try to sue the shooter, meanwhile big city PDs are paying out millions for police shootings.
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@jonathangrayson9626 but what's the POINT of getting better?
Ask yourself and BE HONEST, look at all the things you do in life that lead back to why?...to get laid.
Why do I work, why do I have a career? So I can have money, for....clothes and cars and a home and ALLL the stuff we buy, but why do we buy the stuff?
To make yourself more attractive to the opposite sex and reproduce.
If you strip away all the things you do just to get laid, you'd be alone in the woods, growing your own food, making your own clothes, not working, not learning, not doing anything really.
If I knew for a fact there was no one out there for me, I'd do that in a second, I'd abandon society, because all of it is solely for sex and kids.
Think about it really, it's all you do all day, we're that conditioned.
You need this car, why, because it's popular and it'll get me attention. Wear this shirt, not that plain but functional one. Eat at this restaurant but not that one. Be nice to that person even though you hate them.
If you stop caring about getting laid, you have to disengage and remove from society, it's the only way.
You can't leave the game while still living in the game.
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Can we clarify, what does attention from women MEAN? I keep hearing it.
TO ME, attention from women would be them touching me and asking me out.
So for me, 40, rich, in shape, I get ZERO female attention, and I never have. Am I supposed to be looking for more?
If she doesn't tell me in words I don't assume anything, never have. Whereas I'm straight forward and direct, hey I like you, I'm attracted to you.
Can we get some actual instruction please, some of us with great loving fathers got nothing BECAUSE we had great loving fathers, who never dated lol. My dad's advice for dating was never stiff a hooker, never get married and never have kids SON.
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@marcellkovacs5452 because most people expect that to be handled in-house.
It's pretty cool though that all an adversary has to do to cripple our nation and compromise national security is take out a vulnerable civilian contractor.
It's like having this huge, super secure facility full of vaults and loot and guards and guns, state of the art security, and depending on normal utility mains power with no on-site generation or backup, so some movie-plot heist crew just cuts your power and all security becomes useless.
It's like people who get into prepping but don't think it through, they buy a ton of guns, gear, food, then when a disaster actually strikes they're found later in a giant cache of supplies, dead the first week from dehydration or waterborne illness because they forgot to prep for their most basic physical need, clean water.
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I work in municipal government, but my budget is actual REVENUE, not taxation, we're the water department. We make and sell water and our customers pay for it, that's our budget. It's about $800k in revenue, and I've aggressively cut spending and expenses in the 2 fiscal years I've been Dept Director, this year I'll have about a $200k surplus.
What's my reward for that, a bonus? Being able to buy something I really need?
NO, my reward for being that responsible is my surplus money gets stolen my the city and used to go on a different departments books to balance their budget, and I get f-ing nothing. It's frustrating. And at the same time they're jacking my budget surplus, I'm also being told we can't afford anything and especially not raises or increased starting pay to attract new qualified workers, oh heavens no. I'm looking at the numbers, I know we can, stop lying to my face.
If I got a performance bonus of even 1% of what I cut from the budget Year over Year, I can guarantee our expenses would get slashed even more, but right now there's no incentive because the more I cut the more I LOSE.
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Years ago I called it living my life by the Triple F Policy:
Unless you're one of my Fs, and those are family, friend, or someone I'm fucking, I have nothing for you, not a crumb of food, not a single round, not a milliliter of water, I have nothing for you. You're on your own.
Now, if you want to become part of my F list, there is a place, let's talk.
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Man, I remember when covid was really ramping up, like March 2020, I asked my parents, whom were born in 1940 and 1944, if they ever remember, ever in their long lifetimes, born during WW2, did you ever go to the grocery store and see no bread, no milk, no meat of any kind at any price on the shelves?
Their simultaneous answers:"Of course not, this is AMERICA!".
Then I showed them my phone and the photos I'd just take at the local Walmart where all the meat, produce, bread and dairy shelves were bare and they were completely shocked. They thought I was pranking then. It was that unbelievable to them, food shortages, in the United States?!
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@edwardfigueroa4436 If you sell assets to buy assets, it's not like you lose assets. I forget what financial expert I heard this from, but one of the biggest mistakes people make is confusing negative assets for positive assets.
You buy a car with cash, you lose money, depreciation, market value, breakdowns, and such.
You buy a second home to lease out, you MAKE money, it's an actual asset that brings in more resources rather than taking resources. If Musk buys twitter for $X billion, and a year from now it's worth $X+1.5 billion, that's a great asset, and even at $40 billion and the value going up 1.5 bill is still only around 3% return, very feasible.
Of course, if I had a billion dollars myself, I wouldn't spend a dime. I'd convert it all to Tether crypto earning 9% interest and live off the paltry $90 million in interest every year lol
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My mother was preventing from getting the care she needed because of lockdowns, and then when we finally got her to an ER, she died 24 hours later, sepsis, kidney disease, COVID negative...and because of the lockdown, no visitors. She died suffering, alone with strangers. I can never forgive them for causing that, I can never forgive myself for ALLOWING that to happen, and I sure as hell won't ever forgive or forget those in power who perpetuated it.
Any time I waver in that, all I have to do is look at the "Mom-sized" hole in my life that will be there forever. A rage like that in a good man burns for a lifetime.
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One of my older sisters worked for a local school district...turns out she thought their family was struggling so she embezzled tax money, and got busted, arrested at home, the whole deal, barely avoided prison.
That's when it came out her husband, basically an adoptive father to me, my brother in law, revealed he had a sizable hidden savings account he'd been building his entire life that no one but him knew about, that he was keeping in reserve IN CASE they ever did actually struggle, BUT NOW it's gone because it had to go to fing restitution and legal fees.
I love my sister and she's always been so responsible so it was a huge shock to the family, and was a felony conviction that changed her life, all for NO REASON.
They didn't NEED the money...she WANTED the money, and was willing to steal it from kids, sheesh.
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Here's her problem, all her bad B friends, as a man I see that and think they got that, they're fine, they have it handled, they don't need or want me, so I'll go where I AM needed and wanted, OH LOOK, women that are NOT bad bitches that WANT to join up and take my help, how ATTRACTIVE.
My dad told me the reason he was hard on me and most of my sisters, but not one in particular, not because she was his 'favorite' kid or something, no he explained, it's because she doesn't NEED the help. She was the sister that had perfect grades, honor society, was a super-type-A go getter. She didn't NEED him to ride her to stay on track, like the rest of us did, so we got that instead of her. WE were sort of his favorites because we got that extra attention of being underachievers lol. And as an adult she's told me that was isolating, a lot of pressure.
So to me, I see a woman that's super successful, that's great, YOU DON'T NEED ME, YOU GOT THAT, so why would I help you? I'll go help a woman that needs me. Damn sure successful women don't do f one to help their fellow women.
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I'm not married, never have been, but I'm friends with a LOT of older people in multi-decade marriages, and one feature I notice consistently with all of them, you see one of them in public, the FIRST question anyone who knows them asks is "Where is (spouse)?" because it's RARE to see them without each other, so there has to be some reason it's not BOTH of them there. They're literally no longer individuals, they're a SET, lol, like seeing a salt shaker, you automatically ask "where's the pepper shaker?". You just EXPECT to see them together, it's weird not to. And that's amazing. I'm envious.
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I know it sounds shallow and vapid, but if you're a billionaire like Putin, with a well-known penchant for wearing custom, individual tailored $10,000 Brioni suits, how serious can you take a guy who sits down across from you, from the allegedly most powerful opposition nation, wearing at best a Ralph Lauren number his wife probably laid out for him? Biden doesn't even wear American made aviators, he wears fucking RAY BANS, TRASH! AT LEAST he could be wearing American Optical or Randolph Engineering Aviators, made in America.
Anyway, these meetings, The G7, the G20, the WEF, Davos, they're all drinking club social events, and everyone knows you will be judged on how you dress for the social occasion, and I'm just saying, as a citizen of the United States, a shareholder in this company as it were, I'd like my CEO to meet with the other opposing company CEOs and be the best dressed in the room, befitting the big dick energy of a GDP above $20 trillion.
Like I said, it's shallow and vapid, but that doesn't make it untrue.
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I tried to stand up for a woman in trouble once. Here's how that worked out:
Junior year of high school, homecoming dance. I'm leaving, and down a hallway I see the following scene playing out, young woman I've known since preschool being held against a wall by her throat by her boyfriend, she's begging to leave, he's telling her she's not leaving, she's crying. [She is white, he is black, this is relevant only later].
I "do the right thing" and walk to them, put a hand in his shoulder and tell him to let her leave if she wants to leave. He grabs me and throws me down. I get up and tell him again to back off. He lets her go and she leaves. I leave.
Fast forward to the follow Monday, I'm called into the superintendents office, with the police there, I'm expelled and being charged with assault for grabbing the guy. It's his word against mine, he's a star basketball player and I'm just a regular fuckup, so no one cares what I say. Of course she refuses to say anything. He even accused me of 'attacking' him for being black'
I ended up going to court, getting probation and community service, being expelled for a full half of Junior year and having to make that up to graduate on time, and learning the strong lesson of doing the right thing is often a bad idea.
I hate to say it, but I wish for my well-being I'd just walked away and thought oh well, she choos to be with him, that's what she gets, and she stayed with him through senior year BTW.
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The difference is, you could choose tomorrow to suddenly want a family, and have like a dozen kids, and everything would be good.
A 54 year old woman does not even remotely have that option.
I had a coworker, retired now, who started his SECOND family at 60. He has adult kids in their 40s almost 50s, and now they have a little 8 year old half brother with the 20 something he married, I think it's inspiring.
I want kids, but I'm ONLY 41, for men these days that's still relatively young, for women these days that's ANCIENT, I look at women near my age like "UGH? HER?"
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Federal taxes don't build a single foot of water line or lay a single brick at any water plant. That all comes from LOCAL taxes. You might get some government loan help or 'grants' or some BS like that, maybe even a variance from some overbearing regulation it would double your costs to meet, but trust me with first hand knowledge, you ask the Feds for help with a water system, the best they'll do is give you directions to your State, County, and City officials, because they are the ones responsible and they are the ones who handle that tax/revenue policy.
The ONLY way the Feds are getting involved is if a disaster is officially declared on both the State and Local level, in accordance with NIMS and the Stafford Act, which brings in FEMA.
You want your infrastructure fixed? Were you at your last city council meeting or County board event? If not, then start there. Get it on the ballot. Get it passed. TL:DR it's that easy.
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I'm white white. My 23&me says I'm 100% european oppressor, 0% victim, and I had to learn how to properly get pulled over. The ACLU taught me. I've had guns pulled on me, I've been drug out of the car, I've been very uncomfortably restrained, I've been arrested, many of those things in multiple occasions and different combinations...but I followed dirt stupid common sense, kept my mouth shut, and made it through every time, still alive. It's not that hard regardless of race.
And for the record NBA, even a white guy in a BMW will get profiled if you're driving like a dumbfuck, been there, used to have the revoked license/suspended license/tickets/SR-22s/high rates to prove it. Then I started adulting.
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Depends on the state, f your boss, skip all that union BS, go take a one week class to get your backflow device testing certification, you now have a license to print money.
Find a local city with a mandatory backflow preventer ordnance. Look around, see those HUNDRED THOUSAND HOUSES over there, EVERY ONE needs their backflow preventer certified YEARLY by YOU, for $50 a shot, and the job takes 10 minutes.
If I wasn't running a water treatment plant I'd be doing that right now. I've known guys that had that as their sole business, on their own, $100k cash a year with like $3k startup.
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Drinking Water Treatment has a pretty ridiculous licensing system, at least in my state. There are 4 license levels, D, C, B, and the top, A. I've been a B for a year, and turns out I took and passed the A level test too early for it to count. Requires minimum 5.5 YEARS actual work experience to get the A license, but with it one is certified to operate any water plant in the United States, regardless of size, capacity, or complexity, from top to bottom. So I can understand having rigorous requirements, you screw up in this job and it's not a messed up drain line or gas connection, you can potentially kill untold people.
Every decision I make in my day to day work I have to be mindful of my duty, and legal liability, to over 7000 customers who are going to drink my water, whose CHILDREN are going to drink it. This either really stresses you out or seriously focuses someone. I always think about Flint. If I did something, or stood by and let something happen, that killed a dozen people and ruined the lives of thousands of children, forever, I couldn't live with that. I don't see how anyone involved there can. I'd probably drown myself and make sure my coworkers called it an accident so my family got the AD&D insurance.
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to take that another way, imagine being so bored you call your boss out of the blue at home while he's on vacation and start a national news story over a cup...my boss would probably fire ME in this situation, for wasting his time.
Fuck Starbucks, Fuck these employees doing this, but more broadly fuck every thin-skinned nitpicking snowflaker out here that has to turn the most petty, minuscule shit into BREAKING NEWS. "Today we open our broadcast with a shooting in what used to be a nice neighborhood, police say up to 23 people may have died, but in other news that we're going to spend far longer talking about, some random guy called some random woman a woman today and is facing criminal charges for misgendering her, we go live to the scene of the despicable crime, forget about those murders, THIS is important, now lets bring in our expert 9-person live panel to discuss this meaningless issue until the next pharma ad"
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That hit me first week of college, 2006. Wow, there's women EVERYWHERE...and they might as well not be there because they're all in earbuds, can headphones, sunglasses, I said hey, hi, hi, how are ya, great weather right? to dozens of people with no response before I gave up. It's the Midwest, I'm used to it being way more friendly, welcome to the Big City I thought.
But yeah, I wonder that myself a lot, I spend all this time in the gym closed off, I'm in my own world with noise cancelling headphones, you could be screaming in my face you want to do whatever I want, I won't hear you.
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inebriated duck a Nitrification/Denitfirication activated sludge wastewater process does quite well also. We have such a plant, and its efffective enough we treat what is called lechate, the runoff out of the bottom of a local landfill, horrible stuff loaded with lead, mercury, acids, countless organic and inorganic contaminants. The landfill pays us by the gallon to treat this stuff, and going through with the rest of the sewage, we meet state and federal removal limits well enough to discharge directly into the Mississippi River. 4-log minimum removal on all heavy metals is our licensed standard, thats 99.99% removal.
With lead there are two removal advantages you can exploit, its specific gravity and its chemistry.
Lead is 1135% heavier than water, so it will settle out, or sedimentate, under gravity with time. Lead will also form lead hydroxide and precipitate out as a solid when pH is adjusted to between 8 and 10.5, with 9 being ideal.
Of course, this ignores the biggest problem...the lead in the vast majoriy of cases comes from the customers own pipes, in their home. No government intervention can deal with that.
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And if you look back on that era, there's lots of literature and media (yes it's just entertainment but it reflects the society of the time it's made) where you see the idea of "She's just my mistress, she's not my wife.".
Mad Men portrayed this somewhat. Don caroused and womanized, but he always went back to and loved and supported his wife,kids, family. And he kicked hoes to the curb, because why? Because they're flings, not his family.
I'm not saying this is a good example, commendable, or even acceptable, but it makes more sense than what we have today, with the crazy divorce rate, the abysmal marriage rates, and the infinity supply of single mothers.
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TRUE, that does make logical sense. Both parents have equal 'claim' to the kid, if one forfeits that claim by choice, like taking a name off a title, the father should then be the sole parent, all shared rights relinquished by one partner are gained by the other.
I'm an adopted kid, and as I was told, before I could be family-adopted, my bio dad had to legally sign away all rights of any kind to me, only then were my grandparents able to legally adopt me. Of course, had there been a different 'choice' made, he wouldn't have been consulted at all, which is very wrong. Not all parties get a say, I know if I had been asked, I'd have voted to live, and being alive now I reaffirm that vote.
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No matter what my salary is, I own my house and farm outright, so my net worth probably dwarfs any woman I ever do or will meet. Being debt free should be an auto-3 to 4 point rating bump for a man.
Eh, he's like a 4, but then I saw his house, lakes, hundreds of acres, 850 credit score, and he's now a 9.
Oh and he's single as in actually single, no kids, no divorces, who does she have to kill to get that man lol.
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As a Missourian, lifelong conservative, CCW holder, lifetime NRA member, I fully support the police. They did nothing wrong. ANY time you use a firearm in an investigated event, anyone, any time, every case, even the police, that weapon goes INTO EVIDENCE. EVERY, FUCKING, TIME, FOR, EVERYONE. This is in state law, this is taught in CCW class, every gun owner knows it.
The saying is to never carry anything you're not willing to lose if you have to use it. Because you will. After the case you can go through court and get it back. Do you actually think if it was some violation of their rights, the ELITE LIFELONG LAWYERS would have allowed it? FUCK NO. They would have refused it, they would have fought it with their $1000/hr lawyers, and it would not have happened. Knowing the law, they followed the law.
It annoys the fuck out of me every time out of staters like Tim that have no fuck of a clue about my state say this dumb shit. Fuck the police, but they did nothing wrong in THIS case so far. It's all on the insane lawyers representing the City.
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It's the difference between the word you used, equality, and the word they use, EQUITY.
Here is the best explanation I could find of the vast difference in the two:
"Equality generally refers to equal opportunity and the same levels of support for all segments of society. Equity goes a step further and refers to offering varying levels of support depending upon need to achieve greater fairness of outcomes."
In an equal race, You and I start at the starting line.
In an equitable race, Since I'm 5'9" and OP commenter Rob is, say, 6'2", he has a natural advantage in the race, so he starts at the starting line and I start at the 1/4 lap line.
Instead of everyone getting an equal shot, you engineer society to give that guy 10 shots to your 5 because he's oppressed, and she gets 2x as many tries as any of you because whamen.
Those on the left, the progressives, HATE equality. They demand EQUITY, and equity based on their terms.
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"when did the admin hand the keys to the inmates?"
When the UK left and the inmates BECAME the admin.
It's kind of like the US: what happened to the hippies who partied at Woodstock, promoted free love, burned their draft cards, and chanted about fighting the power and taking down The Man?
What happened to them is they now run the country, they BECAME the man, they took over The Power. I had a university history professor of mine tell me that exactly, that he grew up a free love hippie, he brought his ticket stub from Woodstock in to show the class, he was an anti-war protester, here's a photo of him burning his draft card, all that. And he was like "And how did that turn out? Now I wear a suit, live in the suburbs, pay too much in taxes, and go to stuffy conferences and conventions...I didn't fight The Man, I BECAME The Man."
Van Jones said something to that effect as well, stating in a 2005 newspaper interview that “I’m willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.”
In effect, bide your time, keep your agenda hidden, forego implementing your plan quickly and overtly, so that when you are in position to advance your agenda, it happens, it's too late to change it, and you get what you want.
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@antonisch3861 this. All this.
It's why a woman has a spreadsheet and an Access database of criteria and specifications, whereas most men are like "She needs to be not fat, shorter than me, thin, athletic, like me, not be a bitch, and best case all that plus no tattoos or face metal".
Outside of that, she can be a high school dropout with no drivers license working for minimum wage, that's no big deal. I can drive, I can teach her to drive, she can get schooling, on and on. Men love taking on a project IF there's potential and opportunity there.
But if she's got a degree, super successful, but jaded, hateful, tatted up and pincushioned, she can be hot as hell and zero attraction.
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Thank God my state has none of that.
Unless you are legally married, you can live together 50 years, have a dozen kids together, it means nothing, you're even less than roommates. A tenant leasing from you would have more property rights. Zero marital property, nothing common law, cohabitation isn't even a legal definition in my states laws.
And divorce? You as a man can just file the papers and the court will divorce you regardless of the other partner, they have no say. You want divorced, boom, done, you're single now wether she/he wants to or not.
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I like the idea of no fault divorce with kids, the state takes EVERYTHING you BOTH have and it ALL goes into trust for the kids. You have a house together, start looking because the state seized and sold it in your divorce, you're BOTH homeless now, equally, fairly, and YOU CHOSE IT. Retirement? Seized, in your kids account now, start over, YOU ASKED FOR THIS.
Make divorce HURT equally and make it ALL for the kids, OH LOOK the divorce rate dropped 90%
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that's why you have 100% of your shit NOT in your name.
She can have 99% of the nothing I own, no problem, here's a $5 as a tip too lol.
Oh, the 10 million dollar farm, not mine, that's in every family members name, I don't own that, not marital property. Oh and look all my cars and trucks and boats and motorcycles are in my SISTER's name, DARN, guess you starve OH And with your new kid tooooo GOOD THING you have a NEW man SO GOOD you decided to reward him with kids, you two will be fine on his wealth.
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The sole way I would agree with him is my own situation, actually, I have built up a skillset and license level that's in extreme demand, water treatment, BUT I'm tied to this area because I'm caring for my dad for his end of life, he's 84. I attend to him daily along with working full time.
I make $22.50/hr.
If I could move anywhere in the US, I'd have a $50/hr job tomorrow, and I've been offered that.
If I wanted to leave the US I could make 7 figures consulting, there are entire nations overseas building new water plants for millions of new people, the next century is an industry bonanza.
But I can't access those opportunities currently. If you can move and it's shatteringly more money for the same work, that DOES make sense.
If I could work from home for my same salary that would be a giant raise because I have a 30 minutes one way commute, ditching that would reclaim 30 DAYS A YEAR of just eliminated driving time to and from work, and the fuel cost.
Math, there's lots of it. Cost/benefit analysis should be mandatory education.
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As a child of normal times, I'll be 40 in a month, I learned growing up that the thing about ridicule is participating in it is also a tacit invitation to BEING ridiculed yourself. That was understood. You don't dish out what you can't take. Don't be a clown if you don't want to get clowned ON yourself. And if you're being a cruel asshole to people, that give most people in their mind permission from you, via your behavior, to treat YOU like a cruel asshole, and that should not be a surprise or outrage to you, we learned to realize "Oh damn, they're right, I have been acting like a dick, you were right to call me out. I'M SORRY I ACTED LIKE THAT" and life goes on. No one needs to be canceled, no jobs have to end, no self-deletion necessary.
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I've been living with my 83 year old dad for several years now after his wife, my mother, of 59 years passed unexpectedly. I'm 40 and pretty much given up on family life, taking care of him takes a LOT of time and work, on top of a full time career, so yeah it's like that some days honestly, he's helpless, I get a giant 'sonny do' list from him, and it's like having a spouse with all the work and effort, and zero benefits. He pays me, quite well in fact, but it's not worth what I'm missing out on.
DAMN ME for being a good man and a dutiful son. Here's to hoping a good person eventually helps out my life instead of being a disability in a world that doesn't appreciate dedication and fidelity.
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Exactly, it's like meeting a new person, after you talk to them for 10 minutes, you'll start to answer questions how you know they want them answered. Questions have different answers often based on who asks you them, and we all know this.
If you're asked the same, identical question by a stranger, your supervisor, a close friend, and your wife, those will be 4 very diverse responses.
It's that thought we've all had, I know what I want to say, but I'm not saying that to THEM.
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Usually it's subtle like that, but last night in the gym for example, girl walked by while I'm up on the stairstepper, she was talking to her friend and stopped talking, turned and looked me right in the eye, smiled, and gave me a wave, then giggled when I smiled back and chuckled. It helped she was slim, white, blonde, and young lol.
BUT, I still had 25 minutes of stepping left, so sorry, I'm busy.
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Here in Northeast Missouri, the corruption starts at the county sheriff's office and trickles down from there to the local PDs. Being elected is a double edged sword for a sheriff because it makes them beholden to lots of backers and local bigwigs to get into office, and this is a district that whips back and forth from deep red to bright blue periodically, so it can be a political bloodbath time to time.
Now, when a sheriff or deputy runs for other elected office, like one recently did, no one is willing to speak out against that candidate because they're a corrupt cop, you'll get on their list and retaliated against if they lose, which is exactly what happened. They turned on each other as well, one faction threw another deputy that got in as a state House Rep under the bus by leaking all the dirt they had of the shady shit they all did as cops, because he didn't back one of the others wives who was running for office.
She lost without his endorsement, so they tried to end his career.
The biggest problem is the sheriff IS elected, BUT you can't get good cops anymore, and it's hard to fire the ones they have, so all you do is replace the figurehead in an election while the rotten dept under them just stays in place from sheriff to sheriff, rotting more.
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LOL, as the only brother of six sisters, my old school dad made me kind of despise women. He was a 101st Airborne Ranger, and all they had to do was fake cry and whatever happened had to be MY FAULT because his GIRLS had to be innocent, they're girls. I love all my sisters but they taught me so much about women it makes since I'm 40, single, childless, not really dating.
I've also had a lifetime of hearing them tell me how they treat guys behind their back, and that was an education, wow. Women are terrible, I hear it from men and women.
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"Was it NATO or Russia!!
The answer is YES.
The US fomented a coup in 2013, installed 'our guy' in their government, which was basically our successful invasion. Then the Biden crime family took over with their demands, their Hunter board seats, the withheld billions if they didn't hire the government employees we wanted, and the "10% for the Big Guy", Joe Biden. That was out attack, and we did great.
Now Russia has attacked. Ukraine has no allies.
As an American, I thing we need to be out of there entirely, and these sanctions that have already destroyed our economy here in America have done far more damage here than Russia has done in Ukraine.
I support Ukraine, but that country TO ME is not worth a single American life or dollar. NOT OUR FIGHT.
I don't forget that UKRAINE aimed hundreds of nuclear weapons at ME for half a century when they were Soviet, so they've never done anything for me.
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One of the key insights of that I got that helped me immensely was not looking at calories for days, look at your calories per WEEK.
If you need, say, 14,000 calories a week, that's your allotment, it's OK if you have 4000 calories on one of those days, just balance it out over the other days and keep the week total the same. The math still works.
Same strategy is used for running. It's daunting to look at the idea of running a 5K EVERY DAY, but if you instead commit to running 100 miles a month, even in February, as I have, and it's easier for me to run 5 miles monday, 4 Tuesday, take wednesday off, jog a bit thursday, then on friday I'm off work, I might go to the track for 7 or 8 miles, it all adds up. CONSISTENCY OVER TIME is the biggest, boldest, overarching point of all of fitness. I'm down 100lbs in 18 months.
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Learning other people are just other people is what keeps me away from other people.
If the bad ones are not special, that means the bad people are NORMAL, ORDINARY. meaning anyone including me can be a bad one.
So avoid them all.
That's where I take that. When my fiance left me, guys told me that, she's not special, she's just a woman, and I took that as damn, so all women can act like that, I'm out.
If she was special, if she was outlier bad, I could take that. But if how she acted was normal bad, I want to avoid normal.
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OnlyFans has been my thinking problem, because I grew up as an 80s baby, ALL that matters is the MONEY. You work 100hr a week for $100k/year, admirable, but if you can work 20hr a week for millions, who's the loser? Output is the only metric that matters.
If you can work less and make more, fuck, I have to respect you more because you HAVE THE RESULTS. You got giant arms doing some training that seems ludicrous, ok but they have the proof, so guess we're getting ludicrous and swole lol.
It's probably unhealthy but if you make more money, if people are willing to willingly give you more, then I have to respect you. Attorney quits and joins OF and 5x their earnings, shit, good work.
If I quit my 40hr/week $18/hr job and got something else making $36/hr 20hr a week, I'd feel like a huge winner, same pay for half the work, fucking fuck yeah.
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The whole part about overly-concrete associations and lack of abstract thought ability is very interesting when placed in the following context:
A large portion of the population today seems to go the other way, taking what's actually concrete and simple and associating it with/projecting their own overly abstract ideas onto that in a way that affirms their beliefs.
An example: Bob is hungry. Bob wants to buy lunch. His options are cheeseburgers, tacos, Thai, Indian, or Korean. Bob decides he'll have a cheeseburger. Meanwhile, Stacy has this conversation about lunch with Bob and thinks he's a racist because he decided against what she sees as the other 'more ethnic and inclusive' choices. In reality, Bob only goes to the Korean place with his Korean friends because the food is amazing but it's so authentic the menu is only in Korean, He just didn't like the Thai place, Indian food brings up too many painful memories of a close Indian friend who passed away, and the taco place uses bad guacamole. Race played zero role in Bob's decision of where to eat, it was a practical, concrete decision process, but that won't stop Stacy from telling all her friends, and her and Bob's coworkers, about his 'problematic' behavior.
Its like a segment of our populace has a disorder where they 'read into' things way more than is actually happening. It's becoming a real problem 10 years on from this lecture.
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No, ALL persons are subject to the same law, that's equal protection, BUT, if you're not a citizen, Constitutional protections do not apply to you. Illegal immigrants have no rights, but must follow the same laws. You want protections, become a citizen.
Service ensures citizenship?
They way you're trying it spin it is identical to some sovereign citizen talking points, "I'm a free citizen of the earth, I get all US citizen protections but I'm not subject to the laws, I don't contract with the state, what do you mean I need a driver's license and insurance and I can't try to stab the police? That flag has gold fringe you're not a real court! Articles of Confederation!"
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As a municipal government worker, talking to people is the most important thing, because things happen and people connect dots, and often they make incorrect conclusions because they don't know what's actually going on, and we have to remember that. "AW, I can't believe my local government is doing (thing) WTF?! Why are they doing that?!", so you explain to them the situation, the circumstances, the thought process and plan that went into and backed that final decision that they got to see, and very often that results in that resident responding "Oh...well that makes sense then, I didn't know all that. Good job dealing with that".
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The other kids are not her responsibility, her kids are. THE OTHER kids were left to die by the police for 40 minutes, so not sure why we're still trying to go down the path of redemption here.
If she can go in ANY building, why didn't the police outside also go into any building?
Anyway, police stood aside, children died, just like Columbine, just like Parkland, just like Sandy Hook, at some point after the thousandth example you WILL have it drilled into your head that you are not safe, and no one is responsible for you at any time, anywhere, and your safety is your SOLE responsibility. When seconds count, the police are right outside, waiting until you're dead to come help.
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@shania991 Here's the problem with thinking that, it means they're GOOD PEOPLE. They're projecting their own logic and reason on your abuser. Someone who is NOT an abuser would have to ask why is this person abusing you, what CAUSED it, because to them/us, SOMETHING had to be a cause, good non-abusive people don't accept that things just HAPPEN and 'that's just how that person is, they abuse for no reason'.
So don't be so quick to blame that person asking what caused the abuse, it just means they are not abusive. They would not do what your abuser is doing EXCEPT in reaction to something that legitimately would warrant that response.
It's just like how people that would never cheat on their partner ALMOST ALWAYS get cheated on by their partners, because they can't imagine someone else cheating because they would not.
It's like how someone who is not a murderer can't understand why someone else would murder.
I have zero clue why the abuser in this movie would act the way he does. It seems like way too much effort and work for no payoff lol. It's not like he's doing all this to his ex to get her money or get her back, and he's wealthy, he could have a way better wife that actually wants him and forget about her, move on.
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people shame me for my ideas, I put my immediate family before anyone I'm dating. Because they're my parents and siblings, you're just some woman until you're my wife, they were there before her, they'll be there AFTER her if that happens. That's the truth. I've been through infatuations, engagements, breakups, all of those less than women have come and gone, but my parents are still here, my siblings are still here, so why would I put anyone ahead of LOYAL people? She's got to be at least better than my family.
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You can be against something and still allow it.
For example, I think abortion is reprehensible, it's murder, and I oppose it, personally.
I ALSO feel if a woman decides she wants to make that reprehensible, murderous choice, that's her business. I also don't use any illicit drugs, and I discourage others from doing so, but if someone else wants to mind their own business on heroin, that's their business.
You can be opposed to and against something without imposing that choice on others.
I'm a covid survivor, I had the pre-delta December 2020 real covid. Very mild. I've had no vaccinations for covid. Last and only time I even had a flu shot was 2009 H1N1 swine flu nasal mist, and that made me feel like I was going to die, sickest I've ever been for a day.
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@jonstapleton2340 because with no label, or even worse, the wrong label, you can't belong to the class you want to.
Americans, we're great at seeing racism, especially when there is none, but we're absolutely blind to the class system we have that's blatantly obvious to outsiders.
I see European YouTubers talk about it all the time, how the US eliminated racism but won't shut up about it, while we also have a rigid, heavily enforced class system we can't see at all, and refuse to address.
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That rarely works. You can try telling them hey, here's all the reasons you want and need me as a man, your life is in shambles girl, you're broke, you're childless, you're THIRTY, I can rescue you, they seem to hate that even though it's true.
I hate the type of exchanges where a woman is like "I have this impossible dream..."
And I can legitimately reply "Oh, I already have that, in fact I have two, if you play your cards right maybe you can have two of them too..."
And the OFFER goes right over their head "Oh, maybe that would be possible SOMEDAY, but probably not...".
Oh well, if she's too dumb to take a hint that big she's not for me. My woman has to GET my humor and entendres.
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I hate that whole concept even though I hear it all over the place: getting married, having kids, and 'slowing down'.
Negative. That's the time to hit the gas and accelerate. That's a major level-up in the game, an accomplishment achieved.
NOW life becomes all about really working even harder to leave this family a true legacy.
The most successful people I've known in life worked this way. Work hard, obtain wealth, achieve all your set goals, great, reaching this level unlocks all these new more ambitious possibilities so then they double down on their efforts.
Establishing a family should not be a peak, it should be a FOUNDATION, a START to your success, not the destination.
This concept is also why I've come to not understand the concept of 'retirement'. You mean I just spent my entire life mastering a skill or set of skills, and after 30 years or so, just when you have the most knowledge and experience ever, you stop, take all that with you, and go sit and sip tea and play golf or something? I can see not wanting to WORK anymore in your latter years, but I strongly feel if you're someone that's done something for decades you have an obligation to mentor those behind you. If anything reducing the learning curve is vital to society as a whole. Why allow others to make the same mistakes you made and got past, that's wasted effort everyone pays for. It's like they talked about in the AI discussion with Carmack a week ago: AI has the advantage that once it learns a skill, it's learned forever. The new version of the software doesn't need to be taught how to do something by a teacher or mentor it's first day on the job, it comes preloaded with that knowledge from when the first AI learned it, and so on. It doesn't need the 10,000 hours to become a master, it already has access and knowledge of the experience of every other version that's ever done it, and can leverage that to be even better than before right out of the box.
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It's not the boy's fault, WOMEN DEMANDED THIS. This is the prize of feminism, YOU WON. The result, men have zero care, because if men and women are equal, then we can NOT CARE equally.
If this was a boy player he'd be told to stop faking, get up, MAN UP, walk it off, get back in and DON'T MISS next time, do better!
No one would care. Men are expendable, and with equality, now so are women.
change that before you rage about anything else, because without changing that, nothing else CAN change.
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I would answer that by saying a search warrant is part of the continuation of an investigation, in which one has already articulated probable cause a crime has been committed, and is now continuing the investigation to find evide of said crime the investigator has cause to know exists.
It's a chicken and egg problem sometimes. You can't search for evidence until you can prove probable cause, and sometimes it takes evidence before getting that probable cause, to look for evidence.
Point being, a search warrant is a late stage of an investigation, it's NOT an opening move.
Think of it like a traffic stop: officer observes you, officer develops probable cause you committed some offense, speeding, ran a light, expired plate, or such. On the stop you act squirrelly, reek of cannabis, have an open container, whatever in plain sight, that the PC to search the vehicle.
Searches and search warrants don't just happen to random people for no reason, it's after a case it already being built they happen.
Also, in some cases an arrest warrant can serve as a search warrant. If you find out Fugitive X is staying at house Y, you serve the warrant by breaking in and snatching him, and there's 90,000 grams of cocaine on the coffee table, openly, that's admissable, and also grounds for a subsequent search warrant to tear that house apart..in some states to asset forfeiture the entire home and its contents.
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Right, I'm saying all the stuff im saying not to just say it, to be heard, I can do that in my bathroom or on a podcast. No, I'm coming to a professional to hear my issues and give solutions.
I don't hire an engineer to consult about this structure I need work on and he listens to the problem, takes a look, and says come back 15 more times so we can talk about it.
No, they look at the situation, ask clarifying questions, then draw up a plan to deal with the issue, and follow through until it's solved.
That's what I expect from therapy, like taking my car to the shop or having construction done. There's a problem, a process to solve it, that work, and a follow up and maintenance.
How hard is that for mental health? And if it's not working, try something else! I see people bang their head against the wall for decades with therapy and fail.
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Yes, the comment about coasting...isn't the whole point of a relationship that it makes life easier, less effort, because it's two people combining their resources and talents and efforts?
Or is that just me lol?
If one gets less out of a relationship than they put in, if it's a negative in your life, a losing investment, why have it? It would be like a sport where you can run solo, or you can run with a partner but with a partner you get a penalty of this 50lb weight vest and you have 10 seconds added to your time, now go out there and win!
Everyone would choose that race solo, and you'd never see a team of two win.
But, if that same event was a relay, where you could tag in or out your partner through the race while the other rests, in most cases they'd dominate solo competitors who have to run the whole race.
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fun fact, child support ceases when you're incarcerated.
ERGO, watch out for single moms, they start looking to date when their babydaddy get's locked up because the payments stop.
I'VE SEEN IT, single mom came onto me HARD, I ran her name, saw her divorce so I backgrounded him, whaddayaknow, he went to jail last week, payments stopped, better hit bumble for a new income stream.
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Agreed. As a Missourian, lifelong conservative, CCW holder, lifetime NRA member, I fully support the police. They did nothing wrong. ANY time you use a firearm in an investigated event, anyone, any time, every case, even the police, that weapon goes INTO EVIDENCE. EVERY, FUCKING, TIME, FOR, EVERYONE. This is in state law, this is taught in CCW class, every gun owner knows it.
The saying is to never carry anything you're not willing to lose if you have to use it. Because you will. After the case you can go through court and get it back. Do you actually think if it was some violation of their rights, the ELITE LIFELONG LAWYERS would have allowed it? FUCK NO. They would have refused it, they would have fought it with their $1000/hr lawyers, and it would not have happened. Knowing the law, they followed the law.
It annoys the fuck out of me every time out of staters like Tim that have no fuck of a clue about my state say this dumb shit. Fuck the police, but they did nothing wrong in THIS case so far. It's all on the insane lawyers representing the City.
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Friend of mine in high school was an amazing student, finished high school math in middle school, 35 ACTs, full scholarship to Harvard. His freshman year, he dual-majored in pre-medicine and pre-law to decide on one. He abandoned the law because, in his own words, "Medicine is WAY easier, it's all fact. The Law is all OPINION, and it can change at any time. It's way too hard."
This gave me a grudging respect for lawyers and attorneys.
He ended up graduating Harvard Med, then got his MD from Stanford. He did his residency and tried private practice for a year or so, then went into Hospital Administration. Said as a Doctor, you can only help one patient at a time, but in admin you can potentially help countless patients.
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Holy shit welcome to my world, I run a 25 year old water treatment plant. You probably know what that's like, tons of high tech automation that's state of the art, for 1999. Not so compatible with 2023 tech.
Good electricians come in and use PLCs to paper over our old shit...great electricians and electrical engineers came in and did a whole legacy integrating modern scada 'graft' into our old stuff last year and it's working great, finally, after a year of refining and literally millions of taxpayer dollars.
There is no option to replace a lot of our equipment, MOST OF ITS NOT MANUFACTURED ANYMORE, so the only option is cobbling lol.
Stuff like taking this multiplexed tone from a level sender, converting that to 4-20ma to then feed that signal to a digital converter to feed a plc that then reverts back to analog to trigger a mechanical relay, because the system that used to actuate that was a contactor so old and beat up it died and was irreplaceable.
And don't get me started on the TESTING of all that. I spend hours running tests, can I do THIS and make it fail, what if THIS happens, how about these two things at the same time, oh that did fail, send the bro-grammers a ticket...
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As a single guy I do all those things because I'd not expect another person to do them for me, because no person ever has. Men are easy to please and impress because our expectations for most things are zero tbh. Woman or not, my home will be paid off, clean, and my meals cooked and stuff cared for, because no one else can be counted on to do it. Women leave. That's my trauma talking lol, but yeah, OTHER people are not dependable, YOU are. I know many husbands who do all their own housework because their wife doesn't do it up to standards, and it has to be done, so they just do it.
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17:30 that's sad, she can't be happy or excited FOR her friend for having that huge life moment to share with HER loving partner, all she can manage is to be sad that SHE doesn't get to have that moment for HER.
My sister PISSED the women in my family off when she delivered both of her daughters because she allowed no one in the delivery room except her husband, because that was THEIR moment, she didn't even do a gender reveal, nope, YOU all get to find out after their born, ONLY HER AND HIM knew leading up. I was fine with that, I even defended her decision to her mother and other sisters, it's her and his life now, they're their own family, respect it.
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You're close. What the real lesson is: "Fuck helping anyone else". In both cases that was the cause. Kyle wanted to be helpful, it fucked him, now he's serving a life sentence of infamy. The Arbury trial guys wanted to help their neighbor, and it fucked them. Just stop helping people who aren't you, is all I can say.
It's sad, but it really is true right now that no good deed goes unpunished, so stop going out of your way to lose your own life trying to help others out of the goodness of your heart. Let others help themselves, and if they can't, sucks to be them, I guess. But they are their own responsibility, and the liability is now way too high.
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I guess Im just used to being a man, ain't no one in almost 40 years helped me get home from shit. 30th birthday party, like 20 shots deep, best was a buddy giving me a ride because I couldn't stand or walk to my apt 2 blocks away, and dropped off in the parking lot...leaving the baseball stadium like 13 drinks deep, and all you get is friends pointing you to where your parked and saying drive safe!
As a man you get no help, you learn to never even ask, because you are expected to have your shit together, to do everything for yourself, to adult and handle whatever is happening 101% of the time, 24x7, 365.
It's an astonishing luxury and privilege to live any other way to 99% of men.
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My buddy is a software engineer, he lost a job opening at Nintendo, his dream job, because in an interview an old engineer asked him questions he had no clue how to answer.
The question: he drew two boxes on a whiteboard, one labeled CPU, one labeled RAM, and a line drawn between them. He then asked to describe this relationship...he didn't even know it was called a bus, he had no clue because he focused so hard on programming, he's so SILOED, he'd never learned how hardware works, it's not his specialty. The engineer was very upset with this, my buddy went to a top school and has a degree, how are they not teaching this he demanded, followed by a 20 minute lecture about how data moves through busses on the main board.
He's worked for the DOD for years making tons of money, and didn't know what to me was stuff I learned at age 10 building my first computer, actual building, I had to solder my cards and boot from 5" floppies, I'm old.
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Do all the Dems who scream 'muh democracy' not realize that if the US was an actual democracy, we'd probably have a Christian national religion, abortion would be outlawed, guns would be mandatory, and we'd still have slavery.
Democracy never favors any minorities, it the tyranny of the majority.
And The US is by majority Christian, pro-gun, pro-life, and in our past we'd have probably voted pro-slavery, if we decided things by a public majority vote.
Democracy is always their high virtue, until The People use it to vote against them...
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This reminds me of these people I see that are so excited they got the shot, now they can go outside for the first time in a year! I'm like, are you f-ing serious? If anything, I worked and was out MORE during this whole pandemic, staying stocked on things, dealing with shortages that drive you to multiple stores, when are in reduced hours so you go more often, sheesh. Life has been back to mostly normal where I live in northeast Missouri for, hell, almost 6 months now. I have covid, very minor, at Christmas and after that I was full on f-it mode. I had the natural vaccine.
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I can confirm men somewhat do this as well, when I started my current job the 'main guy' that runs everything invited me to the Texas Holdem game they would have Fridays and big holidays, a big group of coworkers, all men. This was at the company christmas party, we work a half-day and have a catered lunch, then off for the rest of the day. I declined, I'd just started working there and was getting back on my feet financially. Maybe another time they said.
The next Christmas, had a great first year, I get invited to the same game again, and this time "You've been here a year so we know you got money...", but I declined again.
It's been five years now and I've never been invited to anything with that group every again, and now in a few months that entire group has quit, been fired, or got retired.
I had others not in that 'group' I talked to and they said that's how it works, they invite you to the clique twice and if you say no both times, there is not a third.
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Now, if it was your son, you'd tell him to stop PRETENDING to be hurt, MAN UP, walk it off, get back out there, AND DON'T MISS THE BLOCK NEXT TIME, it cost us a point.
Been there, if this was a boy in this video zero people would care, they'd probably make fun of him for not being able to play, BUT THAT'S NORMAL, no one cares about boys or men.
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"I have two kids that are MY WORLD, not looking for hookups, only looking for ltr, step up, real men only, can't host, don't drive, I know what I'm worth don't waste my time!"
Stats: 35, 5'1", 225lbs curvy and sexy, more to love
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Also, as far as imagination, it depends on how I direct it.
I can imagine fanciful fantasys quite well, for decades I've built a world for some characters I've created, someday I'll write a book. It's a narrative I use to occupy processing power when I'm bored with other stuff, like running 5 miles a day.
My real mind power is my realism imagination. I can start at the end and work backwards until my vision exists in reality. It's great for work projects on infrastructure like I do. I can 'see' every step, every part going together, how it lies underground, interaction with other systems, parts and tools I need, lists form. I still have to write it all down and draw it.
Example: I'm hand building a cabin in the shore of my lake, and it's a huge process. For me, it starts with me sitting on my balcony off my bedroom in said cabin, looking across the lake at dusk, supping a nice cup of evening tea, watching the fireflies start to blink in the evening...now I just need to draw the house I see, note all the features I see in my vision, and work backwards from there to build it.
I know that might sound crazy but I can't imagine doing it any other way. Present me with all the parts and materials in a pile to build exactly what I want, I'd be totally lost. Let me design what I want in reverse and I'll give you a list of everything I need.
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We do that with drones, common tactic developed under the Obama admin. It's called a double tap.
You id a terrorist group, send in the MQ9, and hit them with a Hellfire missile. Giant boom. Then you put the drone to loiter the area. You watch as the locals come to the scene, the neighbors, some accomplices, the police, firefighters, paramedics...and then you fire Hellfire missile two and kill everyone gathered at the scene. They must be helping the terrorists we hit, and that makes them terrorists too, is the logic.
We did a huge number of these in Pakistan under Obama/Biden, killing thousands of bystanders and first responders, in a nation we are not and never have been at war with. And Biden was there allowing this that whole 8 years.
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It always amazes me seeing all these people who PROUDLY can't, don't, won't cook. Everyone I think I've ever known fell into one of two groups, people who can cook, and people who admire them because they can't cook. I've never, not once, had a single other human say "Oh, you can cook? Haha what a loser!". It's instead almost always interest, oh hey I like to cook too, what do you like to cook, and then you talk about food for, like, 20 years. I have friends like that, humans have bonded over food perhaps more than any other activity because we all have it in common. Cook or not you have to eat.
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Meanwhile my father was married 59 years until my mother passed away, and it BROKE me to hear him tell me he's dedicated to staying single until death, because their vow was till death do THEM part, NOT one another. He's still married and will never cheat, he days. 84 and going strong, she passed in 2020 and I still accidentally walk by and catch him crying over her portrait. Occasionally I join him.
When I tell that story to women, I say that's MY bare minimum, if she can't handle that level of dedication, move on. I'm 41, single, never married, no kids, and regret all of that.
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Just like in 2016 they liked to say it was such a close election, but if you go by STATES, Trump won 30 to her 20, that's pretty huge.
That's like losing the baseball game, your score 2, theirs 3, BUT BUT BUT you got 5 more hits than them so technically...NO, all that matters is the score, not the other metrics that may be better. You get 100 hits to their 4, but you never make it to home plate and they blast 3 home runs, loss.
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Every time I call in a contractor to do work on my water plant, it kills me to see them doing something on my job making $110/hr (electrician for example) while I'm directing them making $18/hr, all getting paid by the same taxpayer.
Guy came in and changed a valve and electronic actuator for us, one day job, 8hrs, $12,000. I saw the quotes, I know what the materials cost, so I know half of that was their material and labor markup, and of course there was behind the scenes work they did, sourcing, ordering, machining even, but it sucks seeing them do one job we see as kind of small this sole prop services guy made 6 MONTHS of my salary on this one job for us, and he does a lot of jobs for us.
Thinking about seeing if I can go work for them...
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@RealSugam I ordered for store pickup at my local Bass Pro, primers, bullets, powder. When I went that afternoon to pick up, I looked in the store first and there was not a single 9mm/45acp/223/556/or 12ga buckshot load left. All gone. Even the reloading stuff I got was the last of their stock.
While I was waiting at the pickup counter, the phone, 2 lines, was ringing non-stop and every call the response was "No, we're out of that ammo, we don't know when we'll restock", over and over, at least a dozen calls. This was Tuesday, the 17th.
I ordered some more stuff online, it's in stock, but with order backlogs won't ship until the 29th at the earliest. This is a local company that has always prided themselves on next day delivery in most cases (MidwayUSA).
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That is the biggest disservice done to us 80s/90s kids, BOX CHECKING THINKING.
For instance, I was told to stay in school, get good grades, so you could go to a good college, so you could get the degree, so you could get the career, so you can get the house/cars/vacations, so you could...win. So you could have the family you're supposed to have.
BUT NOT HOW TO GET ALL OF THOSE THINGS. So here I am at the finish line saying I did the right things, I made it to 40 with no exs or bastards, I got the degree, the job, the house, the farm, the debt free mountaintop, so, where's my issue wife and kids? I checked all the boxes in that upgrade tree, where's the loot?
Oh there's way MORE you have to do than just check the boxes, ah, why not SAY THAT 30 years ago?!
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Here's my question...WTF does Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania have to do with the NORTH ATLANTIC?! That's the 'NA' in NATO.
it would be like me living as I do in Missouri, and running some large organization called the Pacific Coast something or the other, or the Atlantic Seaboard whatever group...we might as well introduce Australia and Japan in to NATO and start calling them honorary European nations lulz.
Geography for my 38 years has always put Ukraine as part of ASIA, just like Russia, yet this week suddenly every news outlet declared it's now in Europe, just as fast as they pivoted from calling it 'Kiev' for 70+ years, to now over the last weeks it's abruptly and without even a nod to the change 'Kyiv'. These talking points and linguistic tricks don't just 'happen', this is coordinated.
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My father (Army, 101st Airborne, Retired, 1958-1961) has always told me that: Just because someone is a veteran doesn't make them a good person. He gets tired of that today always seeming to be used as almost a protected class, "You can't criticize that person, they're a vet!". And he's right. People should be thanked for their service, of course, it's respect-worthy, but it's also at the end of the day just a job.
He gets shocked when he sees news about whats going on in today's military. When he was in, late 50s/early 60s, he had two jobs: kill people, break things. Wokism was in short supply lol
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Life Rule; if you can AFFORD to travel internationally AT ALL, you are unconcerned with food costs lol. I learned this in university, no foreign student in the US is poor or working class, it was my experience that only the wealthy or the state sponsored travel to and study in the US. I'm talking "Hey we're going out later, should I get $5k or $10K cash from the bank for the bar" kind of wealthy. Meanwhile I was a local Missouri farm boy living on student loans and what weed I could sell, to them mostly lol.
But yeah, them THEM, 'going home for the holidays' was taking 30 hour flights that cost more than my semester tuition, to visit a few days and do it again coming back. My Kuwaiti roommate even smuggled me back real Cuban cigars from a state store back home, would not take payment for them, 'Eh, they were only like 100KD..."
100 Kuwaiti Dinar was like $500 dollars at that time, I was making half that a week at my student job, and he's giving like that as a gift.
I just laugh at people taking what would be considered by most a trip of a lifetime, and nickel and diming the experience.
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For example, to make my workplace ADA compliant, which it's not because it's not a public building, but for the sake of argument... we'd have to rebuild our entry ramp and redesign the entire building, which would be a change big enough the DNR and EPA would have to sign off on it, that's a multi year process and tens of thousands just in design and engineering the changes, probably millions in materials and labor, and that's one water plant in a town of 3000 people in Missouri, now multiply that by thousands of towns nationwide...and that's just one small utility in government that might have dozens of such non-conpliant buildings. It's a huge lift.
Like the new water lead rules that take effect this year, we need to find, Id, and catalog every lead containing water line in the nation, BY LAW.
Good luck. My system has water lines over a century old, that no one knows where it is, no maps, but we're liable to the feds.
Makes me want to go stock at Walmart sometimes.
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Do people not get that this won't do anything to e-sports, because they're STATE ATHLETES, they have to game 996. 9am to 9pm, six days a week. Gaming is their JOB. No time off, no f-ing, no family, you game for the state, game more, game better, game for the greatness of a-China, why aren't you gaming right a-now?!?!
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Remember GATTICA, where they went on the first date, Uma Thurmon's character snuck a hair from Vincent and went to a kiosk and had it INSTANTLY full genetically sequenced?
That is the dating future I see in our current biotech revolution. Your date goes to the bathroom, you surreptitiously swab a few skin cells off her glass, put the sample in the dongle that plug into your smartphone, and DING 10 seconds later here's their whole genetic makeup, yes they're a woman, OOO there's some major risk factors for this list, have no kids with this person, your kids will be f-ed up especially combined with YOUR dna...
We're there TODAY, it's just the cost and availability. I got the full scan from 23&me when I decided I wanted kids someday, and thank god I have 0.00% inheritable diseases, I'm not a carrier for anything horrific, so there's at least that
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Iirc, the factor that explains that is married men get nagged more so they go to the doctor more than they want so things get found and dealt with faster.
I can't count the # of times I've had a minor ailment and my sisters are nonstop go to the doctor, go to the clinic, go to the ER, call 9/11, and I'm like it's just nausea, it's just a sprain, I'm just sick, it's only COVID, if all the DR will do is prescribe antibiotics or painkillers and tell me to rest, I CAN DO THAT MYSELF.
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And the fucked up thing is, at least in my state, if that father is incarcerated, child support orders are suspended. You go to jail and you don't owe anything.
Here's how f-ed up women are, I've had chicks hit on me, then I search their criminal history, see their divorce and child support order, it's all public record, and see her baby daddy just went to jail, so of COURSE she's out single mom prowling for a new man, her money just got turned off.
I've had women confirm this when confronted with it.
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@dedasalmeida9047 I see dating apps now that list 'A few extra pounds' higher up the weight scale than 'curvy'.
I'd consider 'A few extra pounds' just that, she should be 120, she's 132 lol. Curvy to me is she should be 120, she's 180.
June 2021 I was 305lbs, June 1 2023, I'm 208lbs, and I'm still a total fatass dispite being down 100lbs and near a 'normal overweight weight'.
For context, ROCKY BALBOA as heavyweight world champ, 5'11" and 200lbs.
I know a LOT of men who are 5'11" 200lbs, and they don't look like Stallone lol, body composition is key.
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As a millennial, I would agree that the attitude displayed here is a huge part of the problem: It's something I probably won't ever have, so lets shit on it. Let's not look at the millionaire with his nice house and fancy car and say "Look, it IS possible to make it", no, let's firebomb his house and put a rock through his car window in an Occupy/Antifa riot.
Time, memories, and experiences are ABSOLUTELY precious, that's 100% correct and we are in full agreement....and good luck having any of those being FUCKING DESTITUTE as some form of virtue signaling. I'd rather spend all my time accumulating wealth than spend the exact. Same. Amount. of. Time working to be poor. Enjoy your memories of suffering, your free time to do nothing because you can't afford any activities outside of stressing over finances, and be sure to fully experience the despair, it's priceless after all.
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SAME. I loved my job when I was lead plant operator. As plant manager it's NONE of the job that I loved, and everything I hate doing. When I started, I was like this is GREAT, no dealing with the public, working mostly alone, zero people to supervise, and no dealing with money.
Guess what the f I do NOW, supervise people, go to meetings, file paperwork, do budget stress shit, and endlessly get shit from the public. I got a $2/hr raise to take that on and went from 4 days a week to 5. After 9 years here I'm looking for the exit.
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Water system director, and all my workers are also firefighters, and we're on the Mississippi River...in an emergency like this they can use salt water, or river water, but it will basically destroy the fire equipment. What they can do is fill tankers from the ocean/river, truck the water to the scene where it's needed, and dump it into giant swimming pool type deals called drop tanks or drafting tanks, then it's pumped into the fire trucks and pressurized to be sprayed on the fire.
Salt water and untreated river water are very corrosive or can have debris that can damage pumps and tanks, that's the only real issue.
When life is on the live F the equipment is what they tell me, and I agree. AS THE MAN in charge of my city's water supply and fire protection hydrant system, an unstoppable fire with inadequate supply to suppress it is what keeps me awake at night. I've worked 20 hour shifts running the treatment plant, taken a 4 hour break, worked another 20 hours, break, for days on end in structure fires before, it's the job.
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I should add to everyone else, I'm a great success as a man, large farm, house, cars boats, career, everything paid off, retirement already funded, I have literally everything I've ever wanted EXCEPT anyone to share it with, so it feels worthless.
I've built an empire with no one to run it with me, and zero prospects of a legacy.
Here's to the next 40 years of, nothing and boredom I guess.
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He's following the Glenn Beck model, I'm telling you! First he gets everyone engaged, then when the money and the following hits a certain threshold, it's time to start preaching, then get THOSE people, the acolytes, who stay for his righteousness, to donate for the BIG thing. The land, the studio, the network, hell at one time GB was talking about spending two billion dollars on some conservative theme park, and that's when I was out from the Blaze-o-sphere lol.
Tim is on that trajectory. Next instead of him telling you to move to a farm, he'll be the one trying to SELL YOU THE FARM you need, from his Timcast Realty company.
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As a single man, nearly every decision I make goes through the check process of 'Does this action serve my goals?"
If it's a no, I reconsider, if yes I proceed.
Right now my goals are get laid, get a girl friend, get married, have a family.
Old achieved goals I no longer think about are get a career, own a home, own a farm, own everything debt free.
If you're not living a life in service to your own goals, then ask yourself what master you ARE serving, because if you're not serving yourself, you're a servant to another.
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Ah yes, another 19th century idea, batteries, to solve the shortcoming of a 20th century problem, solar.
We need to move past these centuries old ideas and get to breeder reactor nuclear, the current-gen. They burn old nuclear waste, solving that issue. They cannot even be forced to melt down, solving that issue. They could make electricity so abundant that fantasies like all cars being electric would finally be feasible.
We'd have enough abundant and affordable power for the first time in human history to desalinate water on a globally-industrial scale, and all water crises are solved.
This is 1990s technology being suppressed by ecoterrorists, greenies, Evoto rentals type people stuck in the past, coal companies, and the uninformed. Join the future. Get out of the distant past.
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Yet it didn't work and we're still cursed with unions in this state. And yes, in certain jobs you have no right to work there unless you join the union against your will. You are literally paying a bribe to a third party in order to gain the privilege of working somewhere. You have zero choice. I've had friends start new jobs at forced union employers and not get a paycheck at all for the first month or even five weeks, because all your pay in that time goes to get you current on your union joining fees, and surcharges, and dues, and more fees.
My roommate is a unionized security guard, he was laid off for a few months and since he was still technically employed by the company, the union took more than half his unemployment check every pay period until he went back to work, because he was still in the union and had to stay current on his dues and fees.
I'm sure they do some good, but holy fuck the BAD they do...and we just had a major union guy here in the UAW get busted taking bribes and embezzling, which is pretty common.
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I had a woman challenge me the other day because I said I don't consider divorced women single, they want to know why, I say because you got married, that's a lifetime commitment wether YOU believe it or not, I Do, you have a husband already and I don't date taken women. They didn't like that.
I'm not married because I don't believe in divorce, so it would have to be perfect for me to marry, because marriage is forever. My father lost his wife in 2020, my mother, married 59 years.
He states he's still married because their vows were until death did US part, not one another. Way he sees it he's married until he dies.
I agree.
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I hear that. I had a moment the other day that made me feel REALLY bad, it's kind of dark but let's go there:
I realized I'd lied to myself, in a big way. As a teenager, I remember having the idea to do what you mentioned. It was deer season. A beautiful, cool fall day. And I got out of my deer stand, kneeled in my field, put the .280 Remington rifle under my chin and asked myself "Why NOT?"
The answer I came to was uncertainty, the promise of the future, and I made a promise to myself IT WILL GET BETTER, YOU'LL SEE!, and I believed myself, got up, went home, and tried my best.
I realized the other day I'd literally lied to myself with a gun to my own head. It was that easy to lie, even to me. It hasn't been appreciably better. BUT it's been tolerable. I'm GLAD I chose life, but If I'd seen the future of now, I probably wouldn't. But that part of me that can't suppress curiosity for the future is still alive in me, I don't think it can be killed, but it's getting pretty fatigued.
I don't have all the answers, and if someone asked me I'd probably say 'that's your choice, don't let anyone else make it for you'.
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Yolo is why I'm 39, single, childless, and never married.
Yolo taken the other way, the way I took it, was slow down, whoa, you only live once, so EVERY MISTAKE is a fuckin disaster! Because you only live once you have to avoid the BIG MISTAKES like the wrong marriage, divorce, kids out of wedlock, kids in the wrong wedlock, divorcing and breaking kids, adoption. All the mistakes made that MADE ME, I'd love to avoid. I was the accidental child of a teenage unwed couple, I was adopted, so I avoid hookup culture, because I see first hand how much destruction one little mistake like creating a life by accident can have, and I'd kill myself before I'd force another to go through it.
So yeah, Yolo to me is perfect or nothing. I'm breaking the cycle.
I'll have a 'normal' family, or none I can fuckup. Maybe a real great person could change my mind there, but that person you might doom by your choices, THEY only get one chance too, so you OWE THEM the best chance you can give them.
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Nope, it's 2023, alone you prioritize YOU leaving because you have a wife.
Leave helping to the people who volunteered to not have family and be paid to jump into that, police and fire.
No one will help you, so why help anyone?
Think about explaining to your wife why she's alone and vulnerable because you wasted yourself on a stranger that 50/50 hated you for your characteristics or beliefs. Write a letter so it's ready for her if you feel that way, write one for the kids too.
Just saying, I'm in the team of I get to my loved ones no matter what, if I have to shoot a victim to get out of a shooting event, whatever it takes for me, by any means necessary... because your loved ones are worth it.
The victim...they should have had better, more present loved ones, sometimes you just get got.
Don't live for other people.
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@nucleargrizzly1776 I worked in academia for almost 8 years, in IT, and more than once I saw cunty profs literally say "well she's just an adjunct, she isn't even tenured!", to have it explained to her that while that's true, that doesn't mean you get to bogart the room for extra time that eats into her class. She booked the room same as you and it's unfair to her students, stfu, from the dept dean lol.
It was an awakening, I'm like how can the 'best of us', the 'educated', the alleged intelligencia, be so childish and petty?
Then it's like oh yeah, they're still just PEOPLE...
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I had my sort-of supervisor, new woman, try to pull that card. "Well, no one gave us a MANUAL for this job, ok, we're figuring this out!"
So I said what I'm asking about IS in the manual, the employee handbook, this page, this paragraph, the thing YOU signed the form saying YOU read fully, understood, and agreed to abide by fully or be fired, it's right there, so YES you DID get a manual, and this obligation you were supposed to fulfill by June...it's December. We want our money.
It was payout for our unused sick time, dozens of employees, hundreds of dollars each, delayed 8 months because she didn't know her job as well as we did.
Then she died suddenly and the disarray got worse.
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BUT it has to be actual passion, and when you have actual passion SHE WILL COME SECOND. When you have a passion, you can't have TWO passions.
And guess what, she'll come and go but your passion will remain, so whatever, forget her. If she wasn't enough to overcome your first passion, she wasn't good enough.
It's why you don't date single moms, passion. Her passion needs to be her kids, if she makes time for me like I deserve OVER her kids, then she's a bad mother and why would I date a bad mother? If she's a good mother worth dating, she would not be available for dating because her passion is her kids and she has no time for a second passion, you. It's a catch-22 but that's why you avoid single-motherhood, she's in a lifetime committed relationship, with her kid(s), you can never be more than a SIDE PIECE.
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What's even worse than that video is BEING the bear in that situation. Let me explain: Several years ago I helped track down a deer on my property that was gut shot by a young inexperienced hunter. It happens. No Judgement. But thanks to the conservation laws of our great state, only certain people can be armed during such a search for a wounded animal, so I'm the unarmed sap who finds this poor creature, a full grown whitetail, I think it was like a small 8-pointer, and it was so weak and exhausted that I could hold it down on the ground from running away while I'm calling to get someone to finish it off. It took about 10 minutes for a gun to get there.
Meanwhile, for that whole time, I'm sitting here holding this deer down, that's as frantic and terrified as it can manage to be near death, and the whole time it's making that same noise as the deer in that video, and looking at me.
This experience taught me three lessons:
1. I'll personally never take a questionable shot at such an animal.
2. I never leave the house without a KNIFE after that.
3. Our state laws regarding hunting do not apply to a sidearm carried for personal protection, especially on your own property, so I'll always have a pistol for such events.
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I wish that worked for me. I'm the middle brother of four sisters, two older, two younger, I'm a life expert at being a dick to women and meaning it.
I'm 39, single, never married, not even had a women come onto me since Obama was president lol.
Is now the time to switch to niceness?
I also have the issue of holding women up to be standards of my siblings, which is a very high bar none have yet to meet.
And then there's also whomever I'm with having to deal with all those competing women, they hate it, and my family will always come first, even over a wife lol.
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Tim isn't used to the idea of actual consequences of import for actions, you see. He thinks letter of reprimand, that's like a parking ticket or hall monitor warning, wads it up and throws it away...he probably doesn't realize that nukes any chance of advancement, in a ladder where it's often years or decades between promotion.
I met a guy at a trap shooting event, family friend, he had just retired from US Army, he was a full bird, had 30 years in, and he was told we can GUARANTEE you that first star, General, IF you sign this contract for 10 MORE YEARS as a Col...do that and we'll promote and then retire you at 40 years in, he walked. And that's with a spotless record.
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As a 39 year old debt free millennial, I'm salivating, this is finally MY chance, I actually have means and money and low risk, I can be the guy who swoops in and buys shit from everyone else for cheap and profit, like what happened the last two times.
Recessions suck if you're poor, but if you're not it's just clearance shopping for houses and cars and toys.
Guns, super cheap, it's the first thing people sell.
If you default on your new house, rest assured someone will get a great deal off of your misfortune, so there's that at least.
We'll talk about it at the next meeting of the Elder Millennial Council, remember we have that zoning deal to vote on.
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Biggest lesson I learned as a man:
Most of it all feels about the same, men, women, mouth, ass, vag, just saying, once you have enough experience to realize eh, it's not the be all end all, it all gets a little less pressing, less frantic you know? Once you get over FOMO, you may find there was nothing to miss out ON.
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Realism. Taking the world as it IS, not how we WANT it. That's pragmatism. Doing whatever actually works, no matter how stupid or bad or counterintuitive it seems to people. The Wright brothers were pragmatists, what's the easiest, most low-effort way to fly, well that's this, ok let's try that! But, that means ignoring orthodoxy! Do it anyway, and win.
The book definition agrees with me: "A practical, matter-of-fact way of approaching or assessing situations or of solving problems."
If you told me someone is pragmatic, by default I assume they're also very PRACTICAL, practicality being a hallmark of pragmatism.
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Step 1 of taking down youtube, demonetize everything and stop making youtuber multimillionaires.
We never had these problems back in the day of pre-google youtube, where there was zero money to be made, there were no ads, little censorship, anything went, and everyone did 'content creation' for free. The payment was youtube hosted your video for free, that was huge at the time. If youtube started charging for video hosting today, Timcast and every other giant operation would be millions in debt within months.
You make one 10 minute video that goes viral and gets 1 million views, that's almost 170,000 HOURS of HD video bandwidth...do the math.
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Hey, we're twins! At 32 I moved back at the parents request to take care of the farm and home. I was the only male sibling, thus the only single, unmarried, no kids sibling, so it was my duty. As I was told "All your sisters have HUSBANDS AND KIDS, you don't have a wife so you have no excuse...".
At 39 I'm still taking care of my dad and inheritance. Mom died in 2020. I feel like an absolute failure as a man being childless and unmarried at 39.
I have literally everything I want or could desire today, except that.
it just feels like such a WASTE, I have all this, I want to help people, I want to protect people, I want to support someone, but no one cares.
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I like watching youtubers stream and count their super chats and membership joins.
It's interesting to see like "Don't forget to become a member, we're almost up to 100 new members for this week!". That's $500 minus the YT cut extra per week and continuing monthly.
Specific example: I watched the super chats a few months ago when CorpseHusband was livestreaming his Among US playing, and he was making, no joke, more than $100/MINUTE on average. For Hours. The chat was just zipping by, $25, $50, $50, $200, $50, over and over non-stop.
SO, can a youtuber make enough money to not need a day job, no, usually not. But a POPULAR youtuber, yes, millions easily. Corpse has 7 mill+ subs for context.
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Incel is such an odd term, "involuntary" implies you're being forced against your will to do something.
If you're just not trying at all, if you don't care, is it still involuntary?
I'd wager that for the majority of people described as incels, it's not that they pursue women and fail, it's that they fail to see any women ever worth pursuing.
It's like these tiktoks, it's like they're trying to be as repulsive as possible, not by appearance but by action.
It's like "Hey, she's attractive, maybe I should [she says anything in any of the clips in this video]....NOPE, not worth it."
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Markets are kind of like Youtube for Tim: for the average person, if youtube went under today, they'd say "Meh?" , shrug, and move to a different video site.
For Timcast it would be the planet exploding, revenues to zero, employees and families out of work, suffering, but why would I care? I got no millions from it, so why do I care people who did, and probably didn't deserve it anyway, lose so much they're now down here with me?
They never lifted me up, so why would I cry then they fall, on me ?
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Part of the POWERFUL cultural bonding experience we've had as humans around food for thousands of years is in sourcing and preparing it. EVERYONE was invested in the meal you're sharing, and everyone knows it.
I grew up on a farm, I've known the name of what I'm eating lol, I named them, and I did great, they're tasty. SOOOO much more goes into an EXPERIENCE if you go shopping for an upcoming meal together, choose stuff together, prepare it all and cook together, then eat together, it's so much better than just food appears, let's eat, ok now on to something else. Notice there's a lot of TOGETHER in there, because it matters.
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That sounds like a win. It always bothers me seeing men say never get married, never have kids, as they tell you about their divorce and kids, and it's like it's easy to say it's all bad AFTER YOU'VE HAD IT.
It's like sitting on top the mountain, pulling up the ladder, and saying don't come up here...I'm not coming down but it's bad don't do it...
It's nice to see someone say hey, wasn't all bad.
Contrastingly, my parents were together 59 years, so that's my template, my bare minimum for success, so I'm single never married no kids at 40 and I regret waiting.
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Humility is the ultimate confidence.
Sure, I donated a million dollars, so what.
Yeah, I ran that 10K in 59 minutes, I do that all the time, big deal?
Yep, I'm the supervisor at work, and I didn't even want the job, they just gave it to me, I'm pretty good.
The bigger the accomplishment, the bigger the downplay of it you have to do.
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Duty. That's why. My parents raised me, and when in their late 60s needed help, it was my DUTY as the only son, and the only sibling who was still unmarried and childless because I'm a man, lol, to move back in to take care of the family and farm when I was asked to.
I was 31, I gave up my home, my career, and everything, friends, I'd built in the city over a decade and did the right thing.
In the seven years I've been back I've built a career, became a millionaire through inheritance, and gained success through charity work.
And I'm lonely as fuck, hate my life, and yeah. But I'm doing the right, REAL MAN thing and honoring those who gave so much to raise me, which obviously no women gives a fuckin' shit about in 2022. I can't imagine it would be any different if I moved out to anywhere.
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Imagine you're a married man, 10 year anniversary time, and you tell her "Babe, so, remember how you really wanted a kid? Ok, so, well, um, yeah. Imetaniceblond20yearoldatthegymandshesoregnantsowecanraisethebaby, that's fine right? She doesn't even matter, but YOU get a kid finally!
Damn, many women might actually go for that insanity, it's so hard to imagine yet not use reason or logic.
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The hilarity of the coof is all these dumb -fs get to learn how much the cities suck. It's great living in a tiny box until you're trapped in it lolololol.
I had covid during Christmas, ordered to quarantine at home for 10 days, and it was AMAZING. Of course, I have 100 acres of property, a shooting range, garage, workshop, lakes, atvs, and an endless property to-do list, and the weather was unseasonably mild for winter, so I got to enjoy a nice paid vacation lockdown after my 2 days of mild fever were over.
I highly recommend it.
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RIGHT?! I thought it was just malice, now I'm seeing it's incompetence, and now I almost feel bad for those women lol.
Like he said, it's not a bug, it's a FEATURE, they're supposed to be like that.
I remember my big breakup, my friends telling me "Hey man, she wasn't special..." and me interpreting that as "Wait, if she's not special, that makes her normal, are you telling me ALL WOMEN are THAT BAD?! OMG" and them saying Yes, that's what we're saying, was trying to cheer you up, think we just did the opposite lol.
It's not finding a good one, it's finding the least-worst one.
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I go by this, I would not hold someone else to a standard I myself do not meet.
I want her to be actually single, no other guys, no ex husbands, no kids, and I meet that standard as well. I'd like her to own a home free and clear, because I do. She should have some sort of career, because I do. She should be debt free, because I am. She should be at a healthy weight, because I am. She should have a good relationship with her siblings and immediate family, because I do. She should not be overly religious, because I am not. She should support charity and want to do volunteer work, because I do. She should WANT kids, because I do and that's the whole point of men and women even doing this. This is all bare minimum basic compatibility stuff in my mind. It's not asking anything crazy.
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That's why I like Bumble: since women persue there, anytime I get some criticism from a match, I turn it around like "That might be true, but YOU'RE the one hitting on ME, so your criticism says more about you than me lol".
I had some zoomer say something, and I replied as a millennial I don't get it, she's like "Geez, how old are you, like 60?" To which I reply to her frustration "Hey, you're the one hitting on an old guy, you asked for it".
It makes it easy to have the attitude of maybe I'm shit, but here you are hitting on shit so that's your issue lok
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I can't speak to it, but as a bi guy I know it's gotten pretty easy to just see women as fun placeholders, lol, because I have practice in absolutely meaningless truly no strings stuff with guys, it all kinda starts to lose 'value' after a point because you know, guy, gal, whatever, there's always another one behind them, and it's all more or less the same.
But yeah, it's hooking up, not dating. To me, if we're Dating, I'm having weekly dinner with her family, we might be vacationing as a group, dating is vetting for marriage.
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But just think how much harder it makes success when that 'good disagreement' becomes everything you talk about, all day, all the time, always. A metaphor is like trying to date a drug addict when you are not a drug addict. It's a small difference, it doesn't define their life, but just sometimes when you want to go to dinner, they decline because they have to go score some crystal. Lol. How dare you date based on drug addiction preference. Just because someone's beliefs include spending $1000/week on cocaine doesn't mean you need to get hung up on that, that doesn't define their whole self. It's just a disagreement. Honey, come to bed, we'll talk about it tomorrow...No, i think I'm going to tweak out for 3 days or so, but you get some rest.
Are we going to church today? You can, but I REALLY need to hit this pipe, go on without me, have fun!
See, that just won't work without an extraordinary level of effort and investment. It's incompatibility. Forcing it, like pounding a square peg in a round hole with a hammer just damages everything.
To your second comment, sure, you can have great chemistry, she can be fun, happy, funny, all that...and then you discover she hates your job because your employer is 'evil' somehow and she's fine with unprotected sex with you because eh, she can always get another abortion, the last few weren't that bad.
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The worst affected (traumatized/terrorized) are the kids we've put through this insanity. To them, a year of these terrorists scaring them is a large portion of their life. For a 10 year old, literally 10% of their life has been being put through this, forced to undergo this abuse.
I had just become an adult, 18, a senior in high school, when 9/11 and the entire universe of life-defining/culture-shattering changes that came with it happened, and it changed everything we know. I've now, at 38, lived longer in a post-9/11 world than a world before that seismic shift, and I can hardly remember that pre-9/11 world. It's 1984-ish, we've been told it for so long we just know we've always been at war with Oceania, I mean Eastasia, I mean Eurasia.
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Its the other way: the most dangerous man is the one that wants nothing.
You can't control me because you have nothing I want, you can't coerce me. All they can do is try to take, threaten.
But yeah, if you want nothing, no one has power over you. If you want nothing, there's nothing they can give you, so f em.
My boss, i don't need my job, and I have nowhere to be promoted, so its very little leverage.
Ambition is the easiest way to leverage all people. Once you satisfy it, no one can control you.
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from that, YOU are the SOLE person I want to have kids.
REMEMBER, if someone wants something, they're probably not worthy of it. Give it to whomever wants it the LEAST. That's how POWER works. People who want to lead are the worst leaders and should be the last to lead. The reluctant leader is often the best, because he appreciates what he's been granted, the responsibility that comes with it. You actually care so you'd do great, because it's not in you to do bad, you wouldn't LET yourself. You're like me, I don't want to be a dad because I think I'd be bad at it, I'm afraid I'd be too good at it, that I'd take it so seriously it became my life....like a PARENT should.
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Last time I ran my expenses for a year it was $13,000 all told.
That's taxes, gas, power, propane, phone, starlink, food, water, exterminator, and including all insurance.
The crops my neighbor grows on my land bring in about $15k so already profitable.
And I NET $110k/above that.
Still alone and mostly miserable lol.
I'm thinking about starting to work for myself farming.
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I've felt that for a while now, I thought if I check all the boxes, it'll just happen.
But, no. I made it, career, house, millions in property, in shape, no exes, zero debt, college degree, and I've been alone since Bush was President lol.
Turns out all that stuff women demand, get it and they still don't seem to care.
Everyone says ignore and they'll chase you...when does that start, do I need to ignore women for 20 years or 30 minimum before that effect kicks in?
I can't face the next 40 years if they're like the last 40 I lived. Getting used and exploited would be positive attention at this point.
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@sivasankar2784 if we had TRUE cloud computing, your data would never be stored for long on any one system or with one provider. It would be distributed, mirrored, redundant.
I think we need to rethink the paradigms of storage, move to a more biological type base. DNA is a prime example: theoretically, you could take a single cell from anywhere in my body, my 'cloud' as it were, and recreate my body entirely from it, even after the original was destroyed. The data of my genetic makeup is distributed, backed up, in every part of the data itself.
It gets even crazier when you think of identical twins. If I was a twin, and I took my twins DNA, identical to my own in every way, and cloned them...is that a clone of them, or of me? The data is the same either way, so does the difference even matter? It's like having 2 hard drives, identical down to the bit, and you copy one onto a 3rd, is it a copy of that drive, a copy of the other identical drive, both? Is there even any way to tell a difference as far as the information is concerned?
Am I still writing this?
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THIS.
When someone calls in the guys with guns to do guys with guns things, you can't then be surprised or angry they show up and do guys with guns shit. That's always annoyed me, someone has a family member freaking out, armed in some cases, so they call the police, then get upset when the police they call show up, get attacked, and forever box their family member. What did you THINK was going to happen. If I'm trying to remove a bolt, so I use a socket wrench and it removes it, I can't then berate the wrench for doing its job. People seem to forget that, you call in they guys with guns, the whole purpose is for them to arrive and USE FORCE (be that the authority of The State or actual physical force) to end that situation. Don't be mad when the tool you choose does it's job.
That was a long way to go to say in that situation, with that information, the 'tools' did their jobs properly and as expected. The sole person to blame here, even if this had gone horribly worse, would be the perpetrator who faked the call, not the response to that fraudulent call.
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My younger sister and her husband got a Goldendoodle and it was their fur baby for like the first year they were married. Fast forward to their first kid being born, hardly saw the dog after that. Second kid was born, oh you guys still have a dog, I didn't know lol. They used to bring the dog to visit grandpa, not anymore. When they'd have house parties the dog was all over, now it's locked in a back bedroom until the party is over.
I love my sister and my nieces, I'm a big brother, I'm always lurking in the shadows in case I have to jump in front of a bullet, but I feel sorry for the dog, it doesn't know it's basically furniture at this point, it's just a goofy fun loving dog.
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I've had this recurring thought line for years now, "What if we used this to solve that, by doing this, and changing that?...hmm, I just thought of that in 10 seconds, SURELY, SURELY the people way smarter than me that get paid to spend all day every day thinking about such problems already thought of that, tried it, it didn't work, and they moved on, Right? RIGHT?"
And so often NO, they didn't or they haven't. It's crazy. It's 'we can't do that super simple thing that would be CRAZY' type thinking. For something to work it has to be convoluted and asinine and rube-goldbergian, we think.
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That $800 left over in your budget every month, from the provided figures, places you in the top tenth of the top 1% of the global human population. You have employment, 100 million adult Americans don't. You have a home, a vehicle new enough you're making payments on, you read and write English fluently. You can turn on your faucet and water that not only will not kill you comes out, but that also tastes good. The hardest choice you have to make each day is what massive fully stocked fresh supermarket to shop at, Coke or Pepsi, Medium or Super Size. I'm 33, I was born in 1983. I have about the same student loan debt as you, and don't even dare to make it sound like you're boo hoo suffering in the streets.
Go tell that to the 22 veterans a day offing themselves, or the homeless veterans. It should take far worse than your situation as you've described it to be defeated. Would you have surrendered to an enemy force that easily?
You have resources you take for granted that BILLIONS of humans can't even imagine having in their wildest fantasies.
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Fun trick, a single mom hits on you, get her full name and look up her divorce court proceedings, its public record. Get her exs name, oh look he recently got arrested, which means he's not paying child support at the moment, OH LOOK shes new on the apps, looking to replace that revenue er I mean find a father for her kids that are her world....
Do the research, men. If I was buying a car or a house I'd research as deep as the hole went, any woman is far more expensive, so the research should be as extreme as you can make it, bare minimum.
I pull credit scores too.
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The best way I've seen what you state explained is that Europeans are GREAT at seeing class, but are mostly racism-blind. Whereas we Americans are abso-fing-lutely blind to the strict class system we live in but WE SEE racism everywhere, because we confuse classism with racism.
We believe everyone is equal and all that, but we can't LIVE it because it's not true physical reality. There's parts of the US where it doesn't matter if you're a billionaire and everyone else is poor, if the billionaire is a black man, well, he's just another black guy, and to those people even with a billion dollars he'll never be more than just a black guy. And quite a lot of us see it the exact opposite of what you describe, we're trapped, the system is doing this to us, there is no escape, there is nothing I ON MY OWN can do, why isn't someone else saving me?
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For real, I have a large family, we're close, and honestly that KEEPS me from dating a lot as a man, because I have siblings to take care of and talk to and work with. It's friday, I'm bored, are my older sister and her husband also bored, let's cook dinner together, drink, watch movies, and talk late into the night. We do that ALL the time and it's great.
If I could just get that with someone who also wanted me sexually, and I wanted and enjoyed them, that would be even better, but let's not get TOO ambitious lol. And that's turning DOWN invites from other family to go do other stuff. My siblings are always all over the place. I guess when someone never had that it can feel lonely.
I'm not lonely really, I just want to get laid. I have needs.
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I don't know how popular an idea it is, but being born and raised in the US, a message we get over time is how FORTUNATE we are to have been born here, and we have an obligation to help others with that...I hate to call it privilege, but more like passing on good fortune. Call it "American Guilt". And it can be a problem, see some of our global interventions. There's helping, which is good, then there's overhelping people aren't asking for, and that can be bad.
The idea I've tried to live by is "If I was this other person, what would I want me to do for them?" Then I do that. We're all people, it's usually not too hard to figure out. I've had a lot of experiences with people from all over the world and the biggest lesson is how similar we are as people, not how different we are.
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@themarathoncontinues4211 if you don't approach how do you pull?
Waiting for the right woman! My father is an example, he was single, never wanted kids or marriage. My mother went after him, asked him out many times, finally he agreed and they were married 59 years with us 3 kids.
Of course, my mother was like that, she never met a stranger ever, she was everyone and anyones friend, didn't take people's shit, and took and did what she wanted. Also probably helped my dad was 6'+ and 101st Airborne shredded.
Do the work if you want the rewards, ladies.
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I work in Missouri USA for a municipal employer, I get 160 hours a year of vacation, with 140 I can carryover.
Last year I got in trouble for having 212 hours of vacation time OVER my base 160, so I had like 370-ish hours, 48 days, and I had to use them in 6 months, BUT, BUT I had no one to cover my shifts AND my being gone could not affect operations because I'm the department head.
So instead of taking days off which I could not do, I had to reduce to 4 days a week, and 6 hours each day, and REALLY work f-ing HARD to get my 10 hour shift worth of work done in that 6 hours. It was actually more stressful.
I had asked they just cash in all that time and cut me a check for it, but no, it's a BENEFIT, not compensation, you have to USE it. Sigh.
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I'm finding with age that telling someone something that happened to you, or you lived, or you really do think in your mind, is not actually your experience, that's not what you think, that isn't what you know, THIS is what actually happened, or you're thinking, or what you did, is the most infuriating, triggering event a person can experience.
"I watched a Haitian man butcher my Fluffy on my lawn, I know he was Haitian by the RITUAL he was performing..."
You will not win any favor from that person telling them they're wrong, that's not what you saw, that didn't happen. That person just sees you as a liar and minimizer now.
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9:05 what a terrible sin he committed, asking you want you want to do and considering your wants and desires, proof men, do not care about them.
I say that sarcasticly, but does she even realize she's saying that when she gets all butthurt he asked her if she knows a place she'd like to be taken?
You want to eat at X, ok, im down, boom, that man makes all that happen FOR YOU. But if you say nothing, give him no goal to reach, why would he try?
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Did mushrooms several times and acid once in college with a group. Never saw 'entities' other than lights and visuals and patterns dance and such. I thought my brown speckled carpet was a rattlesnake for a moment on acid, but said hell no, this is all in MY mind and Im not into snakes, poof, snakes de-manifested. Probably helped I've been a lucid dreamer since childhood.
The main journey of shrooms I always had was every time I felt body poisoned and thought I was going to die, no question, I was dying....until I followed my fellow trippers advice to 'let go, to jump off the cliff and fly, stop holding onto that ground". Once I could get past that point it would be a great time, it's like my mind has to be talked into letting my body 'die' to be able to start the trip. Usually took 30-45 min. Perhaps that's 'ego death'? Who knows.
OF NOTE: I had occasional headaches for the 20+ years before I did shrooms, and in the 10+ years after I did then, I've had a headache maybe 5 times, other than like dehydration/overdrinking/head trauma headaches. There are many studies of psylicibin as a treatment or even cure for migraines, so it makes sense. It was also good for critical thinking, every person should experience not being able to trust what you're seeing for a couple hours at least once, you'll spend the rest of your life looking deeper at life.
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Demonitized has no relation to being de-advertised lol. You get ads regardless, only change is who gets paid from them.
My channel has never been monetized, I have it off, opted out, I don't even have an adsense account...my videos have had ads for at least 10 years I can remember. I have to watch them myself on my own videos lol. Never gott a penny, nor do I really want to.
The sole purpose of the platform is to serve the users, advertisers, with the product, you the viewer, to see their ads. A video happens somewhere in there but doesn't really matter, it's a byproduct of the actual service, advertising.
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@conservativeriot5939 WAIT A SECOND, hell no you're not getting away with that, if the price of his car and his criminal history are irrelevant, THEN SO IS HIM BEING A BLACK MAN.
If that becomes irrelevant, this ceases to be a story. I've been more violently arrested in the past as a white man, for not even doing anything at the time, I just had an outstanding warrant for failing to appear in court. I've also done WAY worse traffic crimes, BLATANTLY, in front of an officer, and kept my cool and got a warning, thanks to knowing a little bit of law from the famous ACLU how to get pulled over video.
Not once did he follow any of their advice.
All attention is good attention though, he turned a $100 minor traffic ticket into GLOBAL news, so he's profiting immensely. Billions in free media.
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That trip to find the middle ground these days, coming from either side, used to just be a long flight. You're way over there, I'm way over here, but travel a few thousand miles and we can agree in the middle. By the same metaphor, now it's more like two separate galaxies and you have to be able to cross interstellar space to meet in the middle, if it's even possible.
I like the imagery I've heard used of our divided society being two dimensions, Dimension A and Dimension B. If you reside in one or the other, it's like you literally cannot see anything from outside that perspective. In D-A, these characters wear a black dress uniform like soldiers and government workers all over the world do, but in D-B it's a SS uniform and confirms your suspicion that fascist Nazis are present everywhere so you must fight everyone.
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That's where you have to start getting agnostic about the job and the money.
Example: Policing, pays $24/hr, somewhat valued, somewhat liked, lots of risks, lots of stress.
Cashier at Target, Pays $21/hr, zero stress, zero people trying to kill you daily, little responsibility, you're not hated lol.
At that point you have to ask, is all that comes with that extra $3/hr worth all that for that $3/hr.
Hell no usually. What if a job shoveling shit all day at toilets offers you $30/hr, should you take it?
Objectively hell yes. It's not a prestigious job, but fun fact, I tried, they can't do shit with likeable or prestigious or fulfilling at the bank. I can't buy stocks from my broker with accolades.
The purpose of working is the MONEY.
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Conscious inertia, also today known as Analysis Paralysis. Where you have so much bounty, variety, choice, freedom, and information on just about any decision that you spend insane amounts of time analyzing what you should or should not do that you end up doing nothing.
It's how I feel in the cereal aisle, for a great example: All I want is original Kellog's Corn Flakes, but look at these 5390 other options...maybe I should try one of them, but what if I don't like it, now I'm stuck with a box of cereal, but what if it's amazing and I'm FOMO....wait, do I even WANT cereal for breakfast that often? Fuck this, I'm making omelettes.
I've gotten over most of that by prioritizing importance of decisions. What kind of cheese do I want for my omelettes? Who TF cares, grab cheddar and whatever else you're considering, it's like $2, so what, not worth the time to overthink it.
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Ikr.
I will say that if she was right place, right time, made it way easy, and I had nothing else to do, and she insisted, I'd probably smash and dash, bust and dust, hit and quit.
But I'd definitely not be going anywhere out of the way to get with her.
So basically the same criteria for j/I in the middle of the day lololol, do I have time, is it worth it, do I feel like it? If the opportunity presents, fine, but I'm not doing extra effort to make it happen
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1:How much notice would you get about going to past time travel prison, and
2: am I allowed to get tattoos while I'm awaiting sentencing?
Because with like a few months or years notice, like some appeals delays, a good tattoo artist, and the internet, id go back in time PREPARED.
Fuck, I'm in the Year 1280, good thing I have this full body Yakuza-style tattoo bodysuit that spells out a thousand years worth of scientific advancement.
Formulae, equations, astronomy timings, all that could be tattooed on easily, I have nerd friends who've done it lol.
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Am I alone in thinking a 'submissive woman that follows your lead always' sounds like a GRIND, great now I have to take care of HER TOO, in addition to everyone else depending on me, counting on me, holding me accountable, I have to do that all day THEN do it more at home, f-ing sigh.
How about a submissive chick that's also able to handle things on her own under my supervision? If she needs my constant leadership, that's not peaceful. That's being at work. I go home to get AWAY from being The Man that's in charge and everyone is constantly asking what to do.
Leadership in the way that word is used now is slavery. You have to watch everyone always and tell them what to do, no.
Leadership to ME means I'm so far ahead of everyone else on my OWN course that I'm alone, because you either keep up or get left behind.
I always thought the point of marriage was a sanctuary away from the world and it's problems, OH MAN the outside world is horrible and fucked, good thing the REAL WORLD, my household, has zero issues or problems and is a safe place we've built for ourselves, that's the dream. Home should be an ESCAPE, not something you want to escape FROM.
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It's so crazy to me, as a single never married man, to see men who were married tell men to not get married. It reeks of pulling up the ladder after you got yours, and saying naw, the grass is no different over here, don't you dare hop that fence and come over here!
Just saying, I see it a LOT. I never see men say to other men "Hey, I tried this pussy thing, nope, not worth it, not for you bro, stick to that hand, in fact I don't respect any man that's getting laid, nope, what a loser he'd be".
Being single is the #1 thing that embarasses me as a man to other men, because I grew up around old people, and you were only single if your were a widow, a widower, or a HARLOT that never got picked. It's the man bare minimum trifecta, car, job, girlfriend. You don't have all three, what a loser is how I remember feeling as a kid.
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Because the prenup would not allow such hidden money.
Run your house like a business, cash controls, good bookkeeping, regular audits.
People like her get scammed and end up losing everything, and probably won't even say anything. I've caught fraud in my finances from getting hacked that had I not been on top of my bills would have been a major problem, but I caught it in days by being vigilant. You'd be amazed how fast a scammer that gets your card number can max out your shit, I had it happen, called my card provider, while I'm on the phone they're like "Ok, yes, it's definitely fraud, they just tried to make those same charges several times per SECOND while we've been speaking on the phone, we'll just cancel all that..."
It was like $1200 a minute they were changing on and off all day.
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And not just injury, just regular wear and tear from stuff working properly. December 2022, I took a challenge from some friends to run 100 miles in that month, over the holidays, all of it. I did it. It hurt my shins like hell, may have given me a bunion, and I lost two toenails that turned black and fell off from what they call 'microtrauma' from too many steps. I pretty much ate what I wanted, and I lost 5lbs over Nov-Dec. I kept it up through March, then cut back, but once I worked through the injuries and everything kind of 'settled down' with my body, it just became normal.
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MEV-1 infected everyone and killed about 20%.
COVID-19 infected a small number and killed 0.1% of them.
You're comparing a shotgun to a bottle rocket, but we do know this NOW, in the future of mid-2021. Even in places where it raged out of control, St Louis County for example, as I live nearby: 14 months into the pandemic, population 1,000,000+, total positive cases all-time, only 100k. The entire course of the disease never even touched 90% of people.
Sure, you can say those are only the positive test numbers, we didn't test everyone, but, we tested everyone who died, so if they died negative, it wasn't the virus.
People just have to come to terms COVID-19 was WAY scarier than we thought, and by that I mean it was MILD and we reacted to it INSANELY, to the point we might have killed the entire world economy for a generation, the effects of which could kill millions more than COVID was ever capable of. Suicide and crime rates have quadrupled or more in many or even most places. Murder is at record highs. The real virus, FEAR, caused us to overreact and almost kill the host.
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@FinntegrationSociety As the stacked, packed, jacked 40 year old millionaire guy, yeah no, I haven't had a date since like 2007. I'm 5'9" 170lbs, I deadlift 315 for reps, 10 pullups daily, run 4-6 miles every day, and I lost over 130lbs in the last two years, oh I'm also a Chief/Director-level at work, decade long municipal career, and I inherited a house and large farm free and clear from my dad, I'm debt free, hell I want kids someday so I already have their college funds paid off...zero interest.
TONS of fat black women in africa want to marry me according to Tinder, but none of the slender young white blonde chicks who want 6 kids that I WANT are interested.
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Mine is mostly tame, serious relationship, engagement, 3.5 years in and she doesn't come to my college graduation. I'm obviously worried, she said she'd make it, everything was fine, right? Find out later that day things apparently were very NOT fine, according to her, because she'd left me because she met a new guy 'at a party, and he treats her like a friend'.
That was 2006 and I never really got over it, been single since then.
Consolation prize, she married him, had 4 kids, and he divorced her last year. I can still only see it as him winning because he got three kids out of the deal, he's won at life. I have nothing.
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As a 40 year old man, I'd be like Fuuuuuuuuuuck why is this person telling me all this, I just asked on my way walking by, oh fuck now I have to date this woman, I mean I AM looking but this is going to take a lot of work, plus this is WORK, I'm not stupid enough to risk work allegations, this is my CAREER, I put it above my FAMILY, I can't mess that up, geez this chick is STILL TALKING while I had that whole monologue in my head...where are all the GOOD women I want, lol?
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The intro chicks actually have a point, and it's this: they're adults, they can wear whatever they want, and no one should be telling them what to wear, HOWEVER, that ALSO means they don't get to dictate such things to others, like her man in question.
I can't go out or wear what I desire, neither can or should she. As usual, it's not the standard that's the conflict, it's the DOUBLE STANDARD.
If she gets to do whatever she wants and so do I, I'm not sure how that's a relationship or partnership, but at least it sounds fair.
Compromises are only compromises if BOTH sides get AND LOSE a little of what each want and don't want.
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@basseon but we ARE researching that, behold:
https://sanotize.com/covid-19/
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At present, SaNOtize:
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Has confirmed NORSTM is >99.9% effective against different types of coronaviruses (including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19) in tests conducted by the independent Institute for Antiviral Research at Utah State University;
Has applied to the FDA for Emergency Utilization Authorization for use on people with an emphasis on availability for healthcare workers; and
Is working with a leading hospital in Israel to commence a clinical trial to determine the efficacy of NORS in prevention of COVID-19
For more information about SaNOtize, NORSTM and our potential to bring to market antiviral hand sanitizer, nasal spray and deep sinus wash products shown to be safe and effective in combatting COVID-19"
"
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And they also don't realize that all that effort that goes to waste, if you went to the person she was dressing for, and told them she dressed this way for them, even if that's a lie or her gaming, it would flatter the vast majority of men.
"She wore THAT, for ME?! She must really be into me, that's hot, I should probably see where this goes...".
The biggest revelation I've ever had was saying to someone I liked "I wish we could have done X all this time we didn't...
And them replying "That's all I ever wanted too...BUT YOU NEVER ASKED".
That was a haunting wakeup call, you mean, the things I want in life, I can get them, I just need to ASK? How am I 40 and just learning such a simple lesson?
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Wait until this unhinged article author watches Cells At Work!, an excellent anime where the characters have rigidly defined roles and distinct, identical uniforms to match those roles, and every cell works tirelessly, to the death if necessary, toward the singular goal of keeping their world, the body, alive. There is some fascist imagery there as well, but again it's more projection than by design. The show is very medically/biologically accurate, and cellular biology is 'natural' authoritarianism out of necessity: if cells stop performing their required function, or start acting independently, that's called disease and CANCER, and will kill the body.
Cells at Work! also illustrates some other traits one could stretch to claim a fascist relationship, like cells 'just doing their job like they are told' that cause problems. The episode about Allergies does this. The cells are just doing their job like the manual says, but because an immune system with allergies is a faulty response system, even doing your job right is what causes the problems.
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If it's a metal fitting into a plastic housing IT WILL CRACK AND BREAK IT.
First rule of plumbing and piping, plastic screws into metal, metal does NOT screw into plastic. You have two materials of differing strengths, and the plastic WILL yield to that metal fitting, boom, coolant jacket cracked, battery on fire, people will die and it'll be totally metal.
Another example: When you change the transfer case fluid on a 2007+ Ford Expedition or F150, if you aren't careful when you put the drain and fill plugs back in, to the proper torque and no more, the steel tapered thread drain plug WILL split the aluminum transfer case wide open and now you're out thousands.
That's metal to metal. Even high pressure plastics like Schedule 80 threaded fittings will crack like an egg if you screw a brass fitting into it even a in/lb too much.
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we have more ammunition than there is HUMANS.
Last stat I saw was in the US, in one year, CIVILIAN MARKET ONLY, ammo sales were over 10 billion rounds.
In a year. In just this country. NOT COUNTING GOVERNMENT OR MILITARY.
This means by now there's easily 10s of billions out there. I mean I have an entire desk drawer filled with M855 alone, loose rounds, iirc it's like 5k, and that's just one guy, one caliber, in one place. I know guys who literally have lost count of the number of specific guns they own, not how many overall or total...I'm talking 'Oh, I just found a box with 5 glocks in it...I'll move that next to these 8 other glocks I just bought. Whoa, I forgot I had this crate of AR-15s, why did I buy 10 more ARs this week?! Geez..oh well, add to cart'.
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The whole idea of BELIEF is knowledge absent evidence.
You can believe in God or not, for example, there's no evidence either way to prove or disprove that belief.
But, you can't say you do or not believe in horses, or cars, or black people. I can remove all doubt by putting one of any of those in front of you, right there, you can see and touch it. No need to believe.
Beto, sorry, White Irish Bob, can believe whatever he wants, but that won't make it reality.
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OR, he opens it immediately, says to her 'opening up' "Yeah, I get that. How about a week from next Saturday?"
Show her you're responsive, but still too busy for her. I have the time, just not for YOU right now.
THAT will mindfuck her.
OR OR, And I do this, straight up tell her "No, I have other dates planned, but if those fall through I'll get back to you.".
It runs her off, good, you didn't want her anyway right?
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Get off last centuries ideas like solar and wind, and actually go to a modern technology, breeder reactor nuclear, that's not 70, or 100, or 500 years old, which old-tech nuclear, wind/solar, and batteries are respectively.
NO TECHNOLOGY other than nuclear, fission or fusion, even comes close to starting to meet the power demand of the next century. Solar would be a challenge today, much less when the population is 14 billion of us and the population of first-world developed countries is 10x what it is today.
If you're thinking about today or even 20 years from now, you're a century behind.
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"When I die, any debt I accumulate dies with me"
HA. tell me you've had no death in your family without saying it.
Fun fact, when you're married all your spouses debts become YOUR debts, when a parent dies, they'll come after what was left to you.
THE SOLE WAY TO DO WHAT YOU SAY is to die completely alone, with nothing. No one to go after and nothing left for them to lose. Also no insurance.
Fun fact, your life insurance goes to expenses first, out of a $20k policy on my mom we got like $2k back after funeral, transportation, storage, headstone, burial plot, because that check goes to the funeral home first...
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I agree, as an American who's briefly considered politics, maybe later in life, I've thought one of the tactics I'd like to use campaigning is IGNORE my opponent entirely, make them IRRELEVANT. Someone asks "So and so said this or that, how do you respond?" I'd reply "Hey, that's their business and they're not me, I'm here right now, if you want to know about them go ask them, WHAT I'M PROPOSING to deal with that issue is (deliver my position on the issue)".
So and so says whatever, that's fine, they can say whatever they want, my campaign is about what I'M SAYING to the people I want to represent and how I advocate for them, and I think citizens should listen to everyone and vote their conscience.
"Well such and such says your plan won't work!"
"They can say whatever they want, that's their business, their opinion, but here's my opinion on my why plan will work, how it will work, and why I think it's in my constituents best interest to support it." Stay off defense because you're always on offense.
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Here's the problem with trying to share or show this stuff to boomers and silent gen types, like my 82 year old father: they're all in on the advice to never trust anything on the Internet.
My dad watches Fox News daily, but if I show him a printed article from Foxs website, fake, made up, it's from the Internet so it's NOT REAL.
Anything you show someone like that they'll instantly dismiss as fake, made up. I've tried this, I've brought him articles about things he sees on Fox, nope, it's from online source, it's fake.
I'd bet he is far from alone in that.
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I had a prison inmate on work release at my workplace, and I did not believe him he was in prison for NINE YEARS for DWI.
So I looked up his case, which is public record, and for real, he got a decade in prison for DWI, didn't hit anyone, didn't crash, didn't kill anyone...but he got like 4 DWIs back to back over and over and over and the state basically said F it. Persistent offender, his sentence said.
Really nice guy really, great worker, he just CANNOT ever under any circumstance or for any reason ever have alcohol. He just can't and he knows and admits that. Did his 9 years and got out, I was one of the letters of recommendation he had for the parole board.
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Life is all about making the least worst choice.
When faced with a ballot featuring a murderous Reptilian oligarch, an American businessman, and White Fidel Castro, I wasn't left with much choice.
If that box had 'Rand or Ron Paul' next to it, I would have filled it in.
All politics aside, I won't vote for another Clinton OR a Bush, because this is the United States and we don't do 'Dynasties'.
Run better candidates. You're telling me that in a nation of nearly 350 million people, Hillary and Bernie were the only 2 they came up with? Did they set their candidate search to filter out every possible under minimum retirement age? I'm 34, where Is our generations JFK? No matter who won this cycle they would take office as the oldest US President.
As far as being qualified, hell, in 10 months I'll be 100% qualified to be President. Any 35 year old Natural Born Citizen with the preceding 14 years of US residency is 100% qualified. Anything beyond that is arbitrary and completely subjective. We've let Ivy League grads with 'experience' run the country for over a century, and it's been about the worst century so far.
Maybe let's not run Rich Old Man/Lady 2020?
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@the_laziest_fox And there you go. The first spoonfed answer is free...
The metropolitan areas that pay the highest salary in the plumber profession are Bellingham, Nassau County, Springfield, Albany, and Duluth.
Bellingham, Washington. $100,430.
Nassau County, New York. $95,650.
Springfield, Illinois. $84,830.
Albany, Oregon. $83,660.
Duluth, Minnesota. $82,930.
https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/plumber/salary
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@AngryReptileKeeper I've wondered that as well. Close friend of mines father made me think that. He was very wealthy and successful, and I swear he bought extra hours of the day. He was a corporate CEO, and a landlord, and a small business owner, and a triathlete, and he also had time somehow to garden, vacation, go on trips, international travel, and he built high-end japanese-style designer furniture from scratch that sold for thousands online...And he had zero employees, he did everything personally, hands on. It's like he was in 3 places at once all the time.
I don't know if being wealthy enabled this, or that's just how he is as a person and THAT'S what enabled him to achieve wealth.
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Lost 100+ or so (stopped weighing) over the last two-or-so years as well, and the idea of doing what I was 2 years ago, I can't even conceptualize that. Life is so radically different, I'm so much more radically CAPABLE , it's like why would I stop?
I remember when I had to take breaks to walk a mile, now I'm running 100 miles a month just as warmup, I can WALK a 45 minute 5K. It's so ingrained now I'll catch myself in the evening "Wait, did I lift today? (Looks at whiteboard) Ok right, I deadlifted this morning, no, you can't do more, REST". REST is the hardest part, when to rest, what to rest, how long, or how little.
Now that I bought a barbell, bench, hex deadlift bar, and 400lbs of plates for my home gym, and I have zero excuses, I can say starting a running 3 day rotation of your 3 olympic lifts works great for me so far, you can workout every day while resting each muscle group worked by those specific lifts two days between. 5x5 sets with 1 minute rests, quick, easy, everyday.
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"Look at how I dress, look at my music!"
Bro, you dress like a right winger, look like a right winger, and the early 2000s emo punk is hardcore rightie.
If you weren't a right winger, you'd be tatted up, making rap music, and dressing flamboyantly with hair replacement dyed a bright color. That's the culture today.
You have regular color short or no hair, no tats in the face, neck, or sleeves, and you wear pants and t shirts, bro, that's the over-30 righty guy uniform. I wear it daily.
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It's taken me 40 years to realize my dad, 84, is like this. All the time, he asks me something random, I address it, THEN 'while you're here', and he asks me to do what he REALLY wanted to ask me, some totally unrelated thing he 'just happened to think of'. It drives me crazy. Just be direct. He also does what I've come to call 'woman asking' for things, "You know, wouldn't it be great if you (do thing)?" or "Remember when you said you'd do (thing)?".
Meanwhile I'm thinking we're men, dad if you want me to do something just TELL ME to do it, you don't have to hint lol. It's a lesson I learned from women (sisters) that if they MENTION something, that's their way of directly asking. "did you see they opened that new restaurant (name) in (nearby town)?"
Yes, I did see that, is that your way of asking me to take you there/go with you there, because I'll do that.
Maybe I'm just blunt or on the spectrum, but I'm the kind of person to just ask someone "Hey, I want to go do (thing), do you want to go with me, yes/no?"
No. "Ok, then I'll find someone else to, or I'll do it alone".
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Ah, I see he's 28, you're right, it needs to run it's course. It's the perfect time to learn the man lessons of how 'love' is a specific chemical reaction which is predictable and perceptable. Logan is in good enough athletic ability I know he's better at biofeedback than I am, and I'm pretty good, with experience and awareness you can start to see "Hmm, my body feels anger, sadness, rage, all the emotions have corresponding physical states. Awareness is the first step in controlling it.
I'm sure in a fight he's very aware of his body state and what's going on, he needs that in regular life.
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But there is a conundrum there: if you listen to the Left, our 'rights' are things like everyone gets free food, water, and housing. Does that mean the police should be defending people's 'rights' by taking the homes of people whom have more than one and giving one to a homeless? The left would say yes, that's protecting the rights of the people.
Blanket statements have that problem. Back before the 1860s, the police actually defending the Constitutional rights of everyone included arresting and returning escaped slaves, as the Supreme Court had ruled that said people were property and had no Constitutional protections. Was that right and just? The Constitution and SCOTUS said it was...then a decade later an Amendment was passed, a new SCOTUS opinion issued, and then it was not just or right. It's a sticky moral quandary.
I had a friend, a genius, that went to Harvard right out of high school, and his first year he double-majored in pre-law and pre-med. After that first year, he chose medicine and I asked him why? Why not the law? He replied, because law is fucking HARD, it changes day by day, sometimes entirely overnight to something completely new. Medicine by comparison is easy, the human body is the human body, it's the same today as it was a thousand years ago, the whole base of knowledge doesn't get upended with one opinion or decision.
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@Ana-bn9tw there's no fun chasing when they're actually trying to get away lol. Like straight up, I'm a millionaire and had zero dates my entire 30s. I desperately want a family. No one else does. They just want to party and travel. Oh you have an estate, that's nice, home ownership is for old people, I want to travel, your stuff owns you...I've heard this as rejections. Someone shot me down for having anything other than an iPhone.
I'm 40, my new plan is kids by 50, or just give up and start encouraging my sisters to have more kids. They're women so OBVIOUSLY they're all married in multiple decades marriages.
Women, do better. Want kids, please, we kinda need it to survive...and let's not mention the 50 MILLION of us aborted.
My soul mate probably met their end In a planned Parenthood 30 some years ago, so I'm just lost forever.
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For me it was someone trying to cheer me up after my big breakup, saying "Man she's not special, she's just like any other woman, get another one" and I'm like "Wait, she's not special? So they're ALL THAT BAD?! She's NORMAL? This could happen AGAIN AND AGAIN, naw fuck that". I remember doing arm curls for a year saying with every rep, Down NEVER, up AGAIN, down NEVER, up AGAIN, down NEVER, up AGAIN.
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That's because Dr Fauchi and the CDC were consultants on that movie. It's screenplay is adapted from the actual response plans, the plans we're seeing real-world today.
If you've ever taken any of the FEMA independent study courses to certify for a job or position, none of this is a surprise, it's all rigidly planned and refined over decades.
WHILE YOU'RE LOCKED INDOORS, now is a perfect time to take some of those FEMA classes, it's free insider knowledge real estate. Start with the Incident Command System (ICS) as it's the base level you need to know, then work up to the NIMS (National incident management system) and finally to the top dog big daddy that ties it all together from the top down, the NRF, The National Response Framework.
Hell, they even have classes on how to run a distribution center under martial law, lots to learn.
https://training.fema.gov/nims/
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And as someone coming up on 17 years of working for public government, I can almost guarantee the MEN in charge of running the Fire Dept and their water system will have the CYA memos they've sent in the past saying "We HAVE to do things THIS WAY, not the stupid way YOU want us to, or else people will DIE"
And they got the reply from those in charge, "Noted. Now do it like WE said anyway". Because I've been there. I've sent those emails. Hey, you ordered me to operate in this way, here are the risks I can foresee if we implement that, and I need you to acknowledge that I made you aware of those risks because I will not be responsible for them, and I've had to lay an email like that on the Mayor's desk too and say hey, what happened happened because YOU overrode my professional opinion, so that's on you.
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If you take a penny from the government, you are state sponsored media.
If you take a penny from advertising or platforms, Styx, you're corporate sponsored media.
It's all about who owns you. The sole way to go is value for value. Have listeners donate what they feel it's worth, and take zero ads, zero monetization. Some of the biggest podcasts right now make millions that way, with zero ads, zero sponsors, hell they don't even use a platform, they distribute mp3s via RSS, free, zero censorship possible. You can say literally anything because there is no carrot or stick, and no way to cancel it. Move to that model, get super rich. When you tell people to give what they think your content is worth rather than asking for an amount does make donations and revenue go up. It works
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No one in this debate at all is talking about that, or medical issues.
Confine the discussion to ELECTIVE Abortion only.
I'm pro-life and I would advocate for MANDATORY abortion for pregnancies from rape, incest, OR under the age of consent.
I was one of those accidental pregnancies of two 16 year olds, in 1983, so I'm arguing against my own existence here, that's my level of objectivity.
The hilarious realization is, if abortion was MANDATED, the left would have it banned TONIGHT, instantly, they'd swip-swap to government off my baby immediately.
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Lifelong Missourian here, concealed carrier, gun owner. ANY gun used in ANY investigated incident, LEGAL OR NOT, is always taken as evidence, by every department, in every case, every time. In training, you're stressed to never carry anything you're not willing to lose, because if you have to use it, shots fired or not, it's gone. You can petition later to recover that property.
Now, in that case, as in the case of the McCloskys, they can go buy a crate of machineguns today if they want to. They've been convicted of no crime, they've been deprived of no rights. Their case is why you need LOTS of guns, as backups.
You can call the police nazis all we want, but as a lawful gun owner to stay lawful one needs to cooperate with an investigation. It's a big deal to threaten to end another's life even if you are 1000% justified in doing so.
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He simply told her, like a small child or politician, to answer the question that is asked.
LIKE A WOMAN, she felt the need MANY times to answer the question she wanted to be asked.
If I ask you "Guy, did you leave the youtube comment I'm replying to?"
You'd answer in either the affirmative or negative, right? It's a yes/no question. I didn't ask WHY you left the comment, I didn't ask you to elaborate on your presented thoughts, I didn't even ask if someone impersonated you in leaving this comment in your name. It's pretty easy.
Your responses on the stand should be no different than how you'd talk to a cop at a traffic stop: answer what's asked, keep answers factual and short. don't volunteer unasked for info, yes or no to yes no questions, and don't talk yourself into things.
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@Justin 7 and on the subject of the right doing nothing, where were you in 2009-2010 when we formed the Tea Party, raised up candidates, fundraised, and caused the biggest flip of House seats in US history with less than 18 months of work? The left has had 4 years to do that and BLM/Antifa don't have a caucus, don't have PACs.
And what did we get for all that work, Pelosi called us terrorists, the IRS hounded political enemies, we were deemed racists and it really spurred on what today has become wokeism and cancel culture.
As far as getting it done, if NOTHING CHANGES in the US, if we don't have radical transformation, then that's getting it done to me.
Do nothing government is the best government. If they're doing nothing, they can't f anything up.
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I'm so happy I rediscovered playing outside at about 38, it saved my life. I was 305lbs, now I'm 190 and trail running 8 miles an hour, jumping, climbing stuff. I realized one day going into the gym that I was EXCITED to exercise, it felt like going to the park as a 10 year old, oh boy this'll be so FUN first we're going to run, then lift stuff, and bike, probably row, can we run some more can we?
Rediscovering my youth also makes a lot of people around me look old and boring. I'm only 40, lets live lol. And maybe not have the 20 beers or drinks to be able to chill lol.
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All the things I actually WANT, that I have AMBITION for, are free, in fact it's impossible to purchase them. So more money is not a benefit for the things I want.
A partner, kids, loyalty, integrity, care, 'love', none of those can be actually bought, not the real versions. They can only be GIVEN to you.
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Want to really upset them? Tell them I'll date you, but I'd like to talk to your ex husband first, we need both sides of the story, this is America, due process, he gets to face his accusers, I want to adjudicate these allegations. If he's as bad as you say, ok then....but I'm that case, if he's really that bad, why'd you marry him to start with?
And oh look, she left the chat halfway through that idea lulz
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"You're just not a very nice person"
Woman: "What, how dare you say that about ME, you're such an asshole, what a loser, you're not a real man..."
"See, right there, there it is, proof of what I was saying"
See it all the time. I was in walmart the other day and overheard a couple, the man said "I wish you would just stop nagging me on this" and she predictably replied "NAGGING, I'm not nagging you, I never nag you, how can you say I nag you!?" and I'm like wow, he's actually getting nagged about saying she nags him lol, zero self-awareness.
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As a Missourian, lifelong conservative, CCW holder, lifetime NRA member, I fully support the police. They did nothing wrong. ANY time you use a firearm in an investigated event, anyone, any time, every case, even the police, that weapon goes INTO EVIDENCE. EVERY, FUCKING, TIME, FOR, EVERYONE. This is in state law, this is taught in CCW class, every gun owner knows it.
The saying is to never carry anything you're not willing to lose if you have to use it. Because you will. After the case you can go through court and get it back. Do you actually think if it was some violation of their rights, the ELITE LIFELONG LAWYERS would have allowed it? FUCK NO. They would have refused it, they would have fought it with their $1000/hr lawyers, and it would not have happened. Knowing the law, they followed the law.
It annoys the fuck out of me every time out of staters like Tim that have no fuck of a clue about my state say this dumb shit. Fuck the police, but they did nothing wrong in THIS case so far. It's all on the insane lawyers representing the City.
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The people I know with the MOST friends are post-50s. They have the time and the means to have friends, they're wealthy and retired and traveling. Two of my siblings are late 50s and they have HUGE fiend groups, and they're meeting up to do events basically every weekend, usually at a destination. They had few friends in their younger years because husbands, kids, and working. In fact most of the older people I know have WAY more friends than I did in my 20s/30s/or now in my 40s. Some of them can stand at the edge of a room with hundreds of people and point out every person "And that's so and so, he's married to such and such, they do this for a living, and over there that's him, he's not married but is dating so and so, we had drinks last week, and of course you know such and such, we went to their wedding," just on and on for dozens and dozens of people, like that's easy to do lol.
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It's like when I pay my local property taxes, and I get the breakdown of where that revenue goes, and I see that 90%, NINETY, goes to the local school district, and I have ZERO children.
That means roads, bridges, EMTs, Hospitals, Fire Dept, police all of that NOT the school district runs on just TEN PERCENT of the taxes I pay.
I think that should be the opposite. If you have kids, you pay school district taxes, if you don't, you don't and that money goes to everything else.
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Male jealousy drives most of our problems. If you argue against jealousy you argue against the male ego, against testosterone itself. We are driven to take what we want because, maybe ONLY because, someone else has it, that's a base feature of our psychology.
Maybe you meant to say ENVY. Envy is more the feminine version of jealousy. I can be jealous and want to DESTROY what the other person has so they can't have it, but someone powered by envy only WANTS what they have, don't destroy it, then I can't get it...who cares if they have it, I WANT it, and they'll do anything to get it, including destroying themselves or you.
Jealousy say I want to GET the same things others have gotten.
Envy says take it directly from them.
Jealousy is fine, jealousy is the #1 drive, I want that car too, I want those traps, I want to DL over 400 like that guy....
Envy would come up on you doing your 400lb deadlift and kick the bar down every time you try...
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@kieran5191 I can verify through my lived experience that no, nothing delivering THC in a liquid form at 90%+ potency for vaporization was available last time I was a smoker, 2014-ish, and my multinational college roommates from 3 other continents had never heard of that either. I had to learn what that even was when I restarted legal smoking last year.
My first dispensary trip, "Idk, is 91% THC like, a lot? Whatever, give me that pen there..." Then I almost lose consciousness after the first hit I bongrip drew from this disposable vape lol. I went into orbit for hours, and the edibles, holy shit. Edibles were a fantasy we had, we tried soaking ditch weed in butter and using that lol. Now I have a few Missouri's Own gummies a day.
But stronger weed just means use less. Instead of buying an eighth for a weekend, I get a 1 gram 80%+ vape cart for $10 less than flower, and that can keep me stoned to the bone, wake to sleep, for a whole week if I wanted it to. Without lighters or pipes or resin or smelling terrible.
OR, one of my favorites, tinctures and infused coffee. You can get high right in front of people with zero concern now, it's amazing.
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If Tinder worked half as well as Grindr, there would be no single person epidemic and we'd have overpopulation.
Swiping is insanely inefficient. SHOW ALL THE MATCHES AS A GRID so we can choose instantly from ALL the options!
Imagine going to a restaurant and you only get to look at the menu one, dish, at, a time, and if you say no, that dish is gone and you're stuck with whatever the menu shows you next...no one would be eating there. NO, you open the menu, here's the 50 choices we have in total, point to the ones you like or want. That makes sense.
If the goal is matching people, swiping makes zero sense. A grid does. You like any of these 50, no, ok here's 50 more. Don't like those, ok move locations, try again later. Done. Don't sit and swipe for hours, that's a sales job.
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I'm 40, and my biggest life lesson is money doesn't matter. I have all the money I could ever want. I could retire today and be fine for a century.
All the things I actually WANT, that I have AMBITION for, are free, in fact it's impossible to purchase them. So more money is not a benefit for the things I want.
A partner, kids, loyalty, integrity, care, 'love', none of those can be actually bought, not the real versions. They can only be GIVEN to you.
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Technology is also the main advantage that has enabled our survival. We don't have big bitey teeth, slashy claws, or stabby antlers. We're kind of defenseless as animals. We had to innovate. Nature hasn't provided us weapons, so we provided them for ourselves. With safety from predators, and the ability to meet your food needs, you can progress to greater things.
Some of the simplest tech is the most impactful. Chlorinating drinking water is cited by many as THE most significant technological innovation made by humanity. In barely a century of sanitizing drinking water with chlorine, we've eradicated waterborne illness nearly everywhere, overnight, and estimates say that has saved over TWO BILLION human lives. One simple, easy thing, a small change, 2 billion lives spared.
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As I approach 40, I've learned that boring is something to aspire to.
Boring means we have nothing to worry about. Everything is handled, sorted, taken care of, squared away, dialed in, locked down, good to go.
If things are boring, it means you're not just fed, you have good food you like and want, you have a nice place, not just shelter, you have money left over to do what you want, and knowing if some catastrophe strikes you're at least somewhat prepared.
Boring is exciting as fuck to me. Boring means you have the STABILITY to possibly go so not-boring stuff.
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My coworker's common law wife, not married, tried that.
The court granted her the restraining order....for a day until his attorney showed the court the house was solely in his name, so they slapped HER with a restraining order, BUT since she claimed he 'threatened' their kids, they gave her custody temporarily BUT she was HOMELESS now, so THE STATE took their kids to foster care, together they had to spend tons of money, counseling, interviews, supervised visits, for EITHER of them to get their kids back at all.
Now they're back to living together like nothing even happened.
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This makes me happy to hear, as I'm on the other side of that. At 37 I'm the youngest in my department. I operate a water treatment plant for a municipality.
I grew up in that generation where I was driven to do work and impress my bosses and supervisors, I wanted to do all the worst jobs, go in the worst spots and holes, get dirty, hurt, wore out doing the shit they did their entire career, because I know they've done it themselves. And now, with the imminent retirement of my mentor at 65, after 5 years doing the job, I'm set to take over supervising operations. And I'll expect anyone behind me to do the same level of work and effort.
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ALSO, GOOD magic is way more powerful than bad magic, and it's way better on you when it comes back on you, so I would suggest to them what's worked for me, don't try to curse the person you don't want to work with, BLESS THEM, ask the universe to send them a BETTER JOB so they're attracted away from you, that works so much better than trying to negatively get rid of them somehow.
Later you can say "Man, F that steve guy, I'm glad he got offered a way higher paying gig in a different state and left with his new gorgeous wife, good riddance loser".
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Your honor, be as it may that my client has a passport, millions of dollars in cash, and a car waiting to take him to the airport to his private jet immediately after this hearing, there is no evidence my client is a flight risk, therefore...
Wisconsin Judge: Say no more, for the 10 felony counts we set bond at -$1000, your client can pickup their check upon release, thanks for choosing our court system...
It has blown my mind watching a lot of these CBC videos where they high speed chase while drunk, hit the police, run, fight, all that, and at the end it's like 20 felony charged, released on own recognizance or $100 bond, wtf?
Here in Missouri, just being minor in possession like they are is a night in jail, $500 bond.
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That's exactly how I quit smoking and got others to as well: Think of ALL the work you have to do to do that behavior, now be lazy and just don't do that. Oh you're out of cigarettes, now you have to go to the store, stand in line, walk, pay money, come home, open that shit, light up, go outside, ash, empty the ashes, collect and dispose of the butts, have lighters all the time, just don't do all that shit, it's a LOT of work. Be lazy, improve your health.
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Exactly, and as a supervisor of men, it's a powerful place to come from, "Go do that terrible, horrible job no one wants to do, and here are the tips I can give you from when I did it last. That's right, I'm not just your boss, I WAS you not that long ago, and no, I would not ask anyone to do anything I won't.
It's why I'm IN CHARGE, I would do the things other's would not.
Common thread here, my dad who raised me was US Army, 101st Airborne retired.
I grew up with that mindset, you get to the door YOU FUCKING JUMP, because if you don't it's the job of the man behind you to KICK YOU OUT because the jump line waits for no man and it's all BIGGER THAN JUST YOU.
Leading from the front is a skill that has to be taught.
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She even says, we used to meet, talk, date and so on, but now you have to prove yourself...WHAT DO YOU THINK TALKING AND DATING WAS FOR?!?!?
You're attracted to someone, you meet them, and you interact to see if they're worth your time beyond attraction, how hard is that to figure out? Was she just banging any guy that showed any interest in her, no proving required? Hell, probably, now that I think of it.
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@pmdl23 Right. As if one cannot be an illegal drug dealer AND not use drugs AND have a responsible job.
All the best drug dealers I've known personally have fit that mold exactly, and that's part of why they had success in supplementing their income as such: no one suspected them.
I used to buy cannabis in college from this very nice black couple, they were a few years older than us, early 30s, dressed well, extremely well-spoken, always had insane-level good stuff, packaged it in nice glass vials, and insisted on delivering it you, and all for a regular price. We thought that was odd so when they arrived once I asked them about this, and they laid out their story: The get their stuff from out of state at a low price through friends, and they sell it how they do to cover their expenses as they were both PhD degree candidates. They weren't out to make a profit, and they insisted in delivering so they could hang around and interact with younger people. They didn't smoke at all themselves. Basically that was their recreational activity as a couple, after long days of thesis research, they'd kick back and watch younger people get high and have a good time lol.
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16:30 If your SONS are ignorant, YOU FING DID THAT, MOM.
YOU had ONE job, not a career, not a happy adventure, ONE JOB, A DUTY to raise your kids how YOU wanted, and you abdicated that apparently.
Do not gripe about how you made your kids turn out with your actions. You had all the control.
The exact opposite response I've seen from actually rational parents was an interview I saw in the past with super-liberal parents who had far-right kids, and one set of parents said "We raised our kids to be critical thinkers who make their own decisions for their own reasons...If we give them those tools to use, and they USE THEM, how can I be disappointed with that. So what they didn't make the same decision as me, it's THEIR decision and we love them for it". That is worthy of respect, those are good people.
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I will put my sister up as an example, she is an actuary, has her actuarial science degree, and as a freshman in college she had an INTERNSHIP full time that paid $19/hr. That's $39k/year in college, private school, full scholarship.
Now she's 30, looking at house #4, a trust banker at UMB, and will probably retire before 41 year old me does lol.
Pick a specialty with insane growth and start in early is the key. She was getting financial mathematics white papers published while she was in high school, and playing on multiple school and private softball teams, and for a while there she could bench 185.
Some people I think are just more motivated than others.
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But that's the whole problem as I see it, you're not sitting at home. You're sitting at work, where you now LIVE. The whole point of working, to me, is to not have to work anymore at some point lol. You're giving your home time to your employer and then working MORE? I like the compartmentalization of being able to leave work.
ALSO, I hire engineers, it's on site or nothing. I'm not paying you MORE than I make at work for you to call me or zoom, no, you're billing triple-digits an hour you're driving here.
I stopped hiring an engineer I liked because of his billing practices. Phone call, $2000. Site visit, $2000. Email consult, $2000. He flat-feed everything, even when I or others did the work, that PE stamp is just a money press. Now he gets 100% of zero of our business.
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As a Missourian, lifelong conservative, CCW holder, lifetime NRA member, I fully support the police. They did nothing wrong. ANY time you use a firearm in an investigated event, anyone, any time, every case, even the police, that weapon goes INTO EVIDENCE. EVERY, FUCKING, TIME, FOR, EVERYONE. This is in state law, this is taught in CCW class, every gun owner knows it.
The saying is to never carry anything you're not willing to lose if you have to use it. Because you will. After the case you can go through court and get it back. Do you actually think if it was some violation of their rights, the ELITE LIFELONG LAWYERS would have allowed it? FUCK NO. They would have refused it, they would have fought it with their $1000/hr lawyers, and it would not have happened. Knowing the law, they followed the law.
It annoys the fuck out of me every time out of staters like Tim that have no fuck of a clue about my state say this dumb shit. Fuck the police, but they did nothing wrong in THIS case so far. It's all on the insane lawyers representing the City.
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Wow, where TF did Tim go to wastewater treatment class, lol? Plants overwhelmed, sewage pouring into oceans, can't keep up?!
As someone who works in the industry, I can say with authority and standing that what he's talking about may be true in the Third World, it's not in the US or Canada. Our wastewater plants, at least the one I work in, produce water so clean it's actually bad for our receiving waters, The Mississippi River, because compared to that water it's too clean. It's drinkable-level safe, UV treated, directly from sewage, using just bacteria and aeration, one million gallons per day for a area of about 5,000.
Tim needs some expert guests on to talk about these things credibly.
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It's the Star Trek problem: the Enterprise is the flagship of the entire Earth fleet, the most competitive, prestigious posting in all of humanitys military, any placement has literally every (sailor?) On earth vying for it, so if the plot relies on one of those crew being inept or having some glaring deficiency, it hurts the story, it's a plot hole, because in a best of the best situation like that they would not have risen past that Incompetence on the way up to that spot.
Sports are the same, I want that team to literally be the absolute best female soccer players in this entire nation, they need to rep America in EVERY way, at ALL times, appearance, clothing, manner, speech, what they say, how they say it, who they're with or dating, or not, it ALL matters because at that level of sport YOU ARE NOT A PLAYER YOU ARE A PRODUCT, FOR THE PROFITABLE CONSUMPTION OF AN AUDIENCE.
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I have the opposite problem, I'm property wealthy, but income poor. I make $40k/year, but if you saw my (inherited) property, the math is easy, I'm in the 8-figure net worth range, on paper, IF I sold everything.
I'm also debt free, which is a foreign concept to women. $40k sounds low until you realize my living expenses are like $15k/year total, and my farm brings in more than that on it's own, so my salary is entirely discretionary.
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A day in my life:
I go to bed at 11pm after taking care of my 82 year old dad who lives with me, because he's old and stays up late.
Up at 3 or 4am, contemplate my will to live while I make coffee. Take the dozens of supplements, out the door by 5am to the gym, run 3 miles, 20 minutes of stairs, lift, shower, at work by 7am.
Fast until about 10am, usually have a keto Factor meal, 500-700 calories.
Work my job managing a water treatment utility serving 10,000 customers 24x7, work 10 hours.
Swipe right on a few thousand tinder profiles, 5-6 a second, in breaks hoping for one match every other week or so...
Leave work, back to the gym for an hour or two to lift.
Back home to cook dinner for dad, probably get super high, in bed my 10 or 11 to do it again.
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Lol, flood insurance is ran by the federal government, you know what they do with it, they use it as a STICK, you WILL do this, you will NOT do that, you will buy this, oh you didn't meet our demands, No coverage for you, AND we're canceling your entire regions coverage due to you as well, it's happening locally where I live.
Well just go somewhere else, YOU CAN'T, once you have government insurance they ban competition FOR CONTROL of you. And if they pull your federal flood insurance, the city BY LAW has to condemn your property and cannot under state law give you a building or occupancy permit...The fedgov just nuked your property, it's uninsurable and uninhabitable.
It's why near major waterways is often a ghetto, no one is dumb enough to buy that useless property.
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Imagine if youtube charged you for your cost of hosting your video. "Ok, monthly statement, ad revenue, $1000, nice....wait, 50,000 hours of HD video bandwidth, $10,000! That viral video ruined us!
I just think we need to go back to old-school youtube, where no one got paid, or expected to, so no one did BS videos by the billions of for money, chasing the algo. Commercializing youtube was the death of it, about 10 years ago.
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Um, the entire point is to signal interest, full stop, zero other reason. I'm attracted to her, I want to get her attention, buy a drink.
If I'm not attracted to her, she doesn't exist, she is not a person, she is not there, why would I buy her a drink?
People forget the point of the exercise here. Drinking itself is far easier, faster, and cheaper at home. You go to the bar for the social aspect.
It's like "Why would I spend time at a used car lot when I'm not in the market for a car?", And conversely why would you hang around a shoe store when you want to buy a car.
Do the thing intended at the place you are, lol
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CA leaves the Union, ok, let's wargame this then:
Film industry, gone. All movies from the enemy state banned from their largest market, the US.
Largest Ports, 10 minutes, one flight of F16s or heavy bombers, gone, and what's left is blockaded by the most powerful Navy on earth, which Ca no longer has access to or protection of.
Farms, ravaged, burned by infantry during the requisite civil war.
Silicon Valley, major threat to US security and interests, if unable to occupy by ground force/air campaign, EMPed from orbit, done.
Then the earthquake hits, and no help is on the way, ever. THEN the Japanese invade under the pretense of saving you from the earthquake. Saddest of all, you brought it on yourselves. Enjoy your Kempeitai
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krgrimm Keep in mind corporations have been considered people since the early 1500s in English common law, and under the US Constitution, if corporations are not people...they aren't subject to criminal law.
That's right. While you can hold an object civilly liable such as asset forfeiture, you cannot hold a non-person criminally liable under US Law, and it's always been that way. Thus, if corporations cease to be people, they become entirely above the law for criminal acts. The only person you could go after would be the criminal actor individually.
Example: Say Dave, a 42 year old driver for Monsanto with 2 kids, a mortgage, and just 2 more years of student loan payments to make, is ordered to dump 8 million gallons of industrial waste on your lawn or he'll lose his job, and he really needs his job so he does it. Subsequently, you and your loved ones contract supercancer and astonishing medical bills, along with your neighbors and closest friends. If corporations are not people, what can you do? How do you go after to pay for these crimes?!?.....not Monsanto, they're a non-person and thus immune, and since you can't go after them, the only person you can get a judgement against is poor Dave. Good luck getting the millions you're owed out of his negative net worth after you destroy his family.
It is this revelation that made even OCCUPY WALL STREET publicly state they believe corporations are people for purposes of law.
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Reggie stinson Hell, this thing probably creates a couple dozen jobs.
Not just to feed it bricks and mortar, but now you need techs to service it, workers to check its work, designers to improve it, vast manufacturing capabilities to produce the huge qunatity of precision parts, and then shipping and trucking to move it all...and if it makes building faster and less expensive, boom, guess what, theyll need to produce more SAMs, which means more techs/designers/manufacturers/workers/shippers.
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@erinobrien8793 There is a HUGE difference and that difference is COMMUNICATION. Go out with me, OR let me buy you dinner are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. If a sales rep at my workplace says lets go to lunch, I'm assuming I'M paying for me, unless he says let ME take you out to lunch, MY TREAT, or Let me buy you lunch.
Payment expectations should be setup upfront AND assumptions should be DISPELLED.
Like homie said in that first clip, if I'm not getting any, and you said I'm not, why would I pay to feed you? A romantic date with no romance is just eating with a stranger, it's kind of a waste of HIS time. Be goal oriented, have intention.
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Fun fact women, those things like that you see in porn ARE STAGED. It's all scripted, with written consent forms in ALL cases.
If she wants to do that, fine, we're all adults, properly communicate that, we'll get all the proper protections in place, get everyone's consent, have an aftercare plan, safe words, all that. Believe it or not THAT IS PART OF THE FOREPLAY in such power dynamic/BDSM craziness. It never just happens.
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whereas we men have the opposite issue, I go into therapy ALREADY CONCEDING that I am the problem, WTF would I be in therapy for OTHER people lol, their therapy is their responsibility.
The problem is we're there for a FIX for our problem. I don't need to be seen or heard out, that's already been DONE, I did all that BEFORE therapy.
Like, I TRIED to rebuild my engine myself, and I could not so here I am at the mechanics with a check, FIX IT.
Oh you can't fix it, then wtf am I here and why did I pay you?
That's the difference. It's about purpose. If I'm there for a reason and we cannot fulfill that, it was a waste of resources.
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Such 'trials', as long as it's universally applied to all, builds comraderie in a group, because on the other side of it everyone who makes it knows everyone else in the group went through that same formative experience.
I'm part of a fraternal order, a big national one, and the initiation rituals, the process of joining, being voted in, all of it, everyone goes through the same, so it's a bonding experience. It's why I never miss a new member initiation at my lodge, I want to be there and see this new member stand in front of the membership and say the words of the oath they take with my own eyes, like those before me did, so I can hold them to those words later. So they can hold me to them.
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Exactly, the spirit should be more like "If they offer you food, it's a bribe, you don't want or need THEIR charity, tell them to F off". Maybe it's just me, but that 'spirit of defiance' doesn't just turn on and off like that lol. Your enemy knocks you down and offers you help up you slap it away. Why else are you protesting?
Because they're not protesting to stop something or take something away from their oppressor, they're protesting to GAIN something for themselves.
An analogy would be in the US civil rights movement, a white man seeing a white cop beating a black man with a baton and jumping in and grabbing the baton to stop it, vs that same man standing to the side and telling the black man how to stop resisting and they'll stop, you're making your people look bad, while they record it with their face in the foreground.
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Eh, as someone who worked in academia, I'm actually ok with rendering the 'DR' honorific to PhDs, only because even the most BS doctorate DOES take a lot of effort, time, and discipline to achieve. If I had a doctorate, I'd insist on it.
What bothers me is seeing countless mentions of "Mr Rand Paul" in places like the NYT. NO, it actually is DR Rand Pauil, M.D., Senator R-KY.
When some rag writes a hit piece about how 'wrong he is' about Covid, and cites several MDs who disagree, then refuse to list his title as an equally qualified medical doctor, that's bullshit.
I'd put someone who's survived covid, with decades of medical practice, degrees from top schools, and whom is a sitting Senator with access to information only he and 99 other people know quite high as an authority to opine on the matter.
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Oh, she has a house and a career, GREEEEEAT, so she's unavailable, she'll always be asking another man for permission to do anything like a pimp (her boss), and she has a house I'd have to sell if she moved in with me, sigh, way too much work, and for HER, ick.
My dream is a mid-20s broke underemployed chick I can build up with me and our kids. No baggage to unwind or unravel. No outside permissions needed. Want to go on vacation tomorrow, why not tonight, oh you can't get off work, too bad for YOU.
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I was listening to a podcast recently where Micky Royal, ex pimp, was interviewed. He made a great point he learned from his mentor: you can make more money selling images of naked women than you can selling actual naked women. That's why he mainly produced porn, he says. It was far more lucrative than prostitution, it scales infinitely, and it's LEGAL. A lady of the night can only 'serve' so many clients per day, but a video of her can be sold a million times an hour, a second, and forever.
Another point, if some chick is selling herself on OF and making anywhere close to seven-figures yearly, I have zero sympathy. With earnings like that, you should be able to be secure for life. With responsibility, your needs should be met in perpetuity once you're a millionaire.
Can you live a baller lifestyle, no. But you should own a home, you shouldn't be going hungry.
"Oh, I can't make rent!"
B, why are you renting, you made hundreds of K last year!?
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Narcissistic hate is a great description. I look at this and I think wow, it's great SOMEONE is helping these people, I applaud Jimmy for doing that, good job, keep up the good work!
They see it and think DAMN, if he's helping people it somehow makes ME look bad, how can we make him look bad doing it and therefore somehow make us look good for calling him out?
NORMAL people just want people to be helped, NO MATTER WHO DOES IT OR GETS CREDIT. I know a lot of people like that, get this helped, here's money, I don't care if I get praise I just want those people helped, and I also know people who will literally not help in any way unless they get credit and praise and social validation for that help, making it not really seem like 'help' for others at all.
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It should be happy life, happy wife.
If I as a man am happy, it means there is zero conflict. It means the bills are paid months ahead, the house is clean, the landscaping is on point, savings is topped off, fridge is full of food, everything is handled everywhere, because as a man I'm not happy until I'm at that state, and that means everything I'm responsible for is also happy, such as the wife and kids.
If I'm not happy, there's no happy life for anyone because if I'm not happy it means we're under external attack, or natural disasters, or war/recession.
At any rate no one cares anyway
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Some giant chick matched with me on Tinder, I decided to troll her a bit because she said in her bio she was way into fantasy.
So I asked which she liked better, Rangs of Power or House of the Dragon.
She said HOTD was too violent, she liked Rangs, of course. I asked which Tolkienian race she would be, of course it was an Elf. You're like 350lbs, so that's true fantasy lulz.
Anyway, after the Rangs finale, I messaged her "Hey, so Galadriel apparently wants to F Sauron, and her actions actually destroyed Middle Earth, brought about Mordor, and doomed mankind to suffering, so good job elves!
And I never heard back lol.
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It's weird, if a guy has no desire to get with her, he won't do or take anything from her, get away, you're acting weird I'm busy lol ...
But women, if they're benefitting it doesn't matter lol, they'll take all the attention no matter what, especially if they want nothing to do with you lol.
If a woman I'm not attracted to offers to buy me a drink, I'd say no, I'm not attracted to you and I don't want to owe you lol. Try that guy over there, he's more your speed .
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@HollAnna you fail to understand the fundamental fact: men divide women into TWO groups and only two groups, f her and keep her, or f her and leave.
That's your two options. That's all any man ever considers, I want to bang her, that's a given, thats the point, the goal.
Know that.
It's the after that's on you and your behavior. We will bang any women, but it's up to YOU to act in a way that gets us to stay.
Women are great at fuckin every man on earth, you're terrible at keeping just one.
When you can bang no men and keep at least one you are, NOW you're a WOMAN, not a recreational use only girl.
If you don't learn that sorting program, you'll never keep a man.
You're either tonights entertainment, or I want you for life, there is no middle ground, there are no shades, that's the reality.
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@HollAnna also, just because SHE wants to bang on the first date doesn't mean HE has to, telling her no to sex that fast will make her obsessed, because no man before could resist her perfect 10 vag, right?
Women love being told no by men, they see it as a challenge, especially when men turn them down for sex because sex is all those women can offer, it makes them feel worthless she couldn't get him in her pants. And you know this, you're a woman.
I'd get you so turned on, then end the date, tell you to wait until later, you'd be crazy from that. So predictable.
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It surprises me Tim says conservatives will be against this. As a lifelong conservative republican leaning libertarian, I've long thought there needs to be real equality, if anyone can get a civil union, everyone should be able to get a civil union, just like anyone who wants to get married can get married, it's a contract. Free people in a society based on liberty can do this.
Also, I feel all tax benefits that solely apply to married individuals should be eliminated. The tax code should treat all equally.
This concept of 'gay rights', 'straight rights', 'women's rights', it's all terrifying in a society where ALL rights are intended to apply to ALL citizens regardless of any characteristic. We can't dice up rights for thee and not for me, that's not how RIGHTS work.
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I'll always remember in high school marching band, at a competition standing at attention for a parade for HOURS, watching people in my section and the section in front of me pass out and faceplant on the concrete, and think "That's why you bend your knees now and then, don't keep them locked, you gotta try harder!"
We were the best in our region and earned shelves of trophies the two years of Jr High and 3 years of high school I did it, including a season as lead drum major my Junior year. I played clarinet and tenor sax, and snare drum to fill in if needed, and it was VERY character building...now at almost 42 years old, I still hear the drumline marching cadence blasting in my ears when I need motivation, we had an awesome one, heavy on the bass drums, you could hear in a parade echoing down the street for blocks.
I also did basketball pep band, and some all-conference ensemble and solo, and concert jazz band, but those were more class requirements, marching was my real passion. We didn't have a football program so we never did those big synchronized moving field shows.
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Breaking News, Trump recommends everyone stay indoors, don't travel, wash you hands frequently, and exercise and eat well.
Meanwhile, tens of millions of democrats whom heard this begin traveling and contacting each other without distancing, refusing to wash their hands, sneezing on each other, stopping their exercise and eating pizza or hamburgers for every meal.
Breaking News, Donald Trump states breathing well is healthy for you, millions of democrats die holding their breath in protest of this claim.
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This is why I'm so happy I landed in my career: Drinking water treatment. A field that is not only impossible to automate, BUT which also spends tens of billions per year TRYING to automate. The equipment market for just water treatment is insane, and the entire industry has virtually limitless growth, because every human needs drinking water, and we're getting more humans all the time, in more places, and innovation is happening every day.
Water Treatment operators are in extreme demand as it is, and as the older experienced generation retires that need will explode, along with wages.
Thirdly, it's a vital skill for human survival. If the apocalypse was happening and there was an Ark that only a small percentage of people could fit on, you damn well need some water treatment experts, and some wastewater treatment experts, because without water or the ability to treat sewage in a sanitary manner, good luck surviving. No matter how many geniuses, doctors, or engineers you put on your survivor list, they lack the specialized knowledge and experience. I've had the engineer that actually designed and built my water plant say that to me, that he knows how to design the buildings and all that, but he's not a trained operator, that's not his job.
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The irony is in China, the Replika bot probably pushes users to improve their lives to strengthen the population. Instead of sexting Chinese users, Sino-Replika is probably like "You know, you'd be so much cuter if you exercised more, here, try this 15 minute cardio blitz playlist, start workout! You did great, you know what else is so hot to me, calculus. Let me show you how to do differential equations, hey you're pretty good at these integrations, I'm going to recommend to The Party in my next report that you should work in the space program. On that note, you need to eat better, I've ordered you some better food from the local grocer to deliver..."
The Chinese version is probably useful and pushes you to be a better person, rather than just fucking it.
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Who TF cares if BLM support dropped to zero after their violence, they won, they got what they wanted, they no longer needed support. If BLM had no support, if violence didn't work, they wouldn't be in power at all levels right now!
Violence works great, we founded this nation on violence. Not advocating for it, but not deluded into thinking it doesn't work.
Jesus, Ghandi, MLKJ, those non-violent movements DID work, but only after, as a result, of those leaders being brutally murdered, martyred.
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Naw bro, just casually come up with a few world changing, paradigm shattering, entire-market-creating ideas, just like 20 or so of those, and capitalize, donezo brah, you're a trillionaire. Easy.
MY question is how do you have a vag, the most marketed, most in demand product in history on earth, the thing entire markets exist off of, and ever be hungry, or alone without wanting to be? She should be a millionaire off what she was born with alone. Worse women than her did WAY better in the past with far less.
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Try actually saying that,with words. If you're worth it, they'll wait. Most men see it as they were virgins for decades, if she's worth waiting for AND SHE will commit for LIFE, we'll wait.
In my case, I'm 41, I've had my fun, all I want is kids now. And I see the sole purpose of marriage is having and raising kids, other than that I have little use for a woman, I don't really even have male friends. I'm kind of a loner, so I want a great woman to be alone together with our large family.
I tell women that today and they flee because THEY seem to only be looking for sex. It's become meaningless to them. If a chick hooked up with me today, to me, I'd think we're committed now...she'd bang 2 other guys before I ever get to say that, that's happened to me lol.
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@Alvin-1138 ask yourself this, IF the kids are the PRIMARY concern, then whomever is deemed the one ABLE to pay child support to the other parent is who gets the kids, because they have the most resources.
If the court reviews everything and sees the mother could pay $1500/month in child support if the dad got custody, and the dad could pay $3000/month to her if she gets the kids, it makes ZERO sense for her to get the kids, they'd be taken care of TWICE AS WELL by the father.
In that case the dad would get the kids and their burden, and she would get nothing, no kids, no having to pay child support, and the kids are better off.
I makes no sense to take money from him and give to the 'lesser' parent, if she wants to leave, she leaves clean, and he takes on the burden as men do.
And if that's reversed, he could pay $3k and she could pay $10k, it would make sense she gets the kids AND no child support, she has more resources.
All that would involve removing emotion from things, so that's not happening.
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The FIRST thing you should always be saying to that officer, before ANYTHING, "Officer, can I ask why you stopped me?" You need that articulable suspicion right up front, you MAKE that officer directly accuse you of a crime, otherwise we're done. No articulable suspicion, I'm asking if I'm free to leave.
I've gotten pulled over before, street racing, triple digits on the interstate, crowded traffic, passed a cop, he stopped me. LIVID, I saw him pop his holster thumb break when he jumped out, and when I asked him "Can I ask why you pulled me over" he was so shocked and pissed he jumped back almost into interstate traffic....and then gave me a WARNING.
He was in a admin car, no radar gun, he didn't pace me, what was he going to say in court, the suspect was going 'fast'? And the guy I was racing he let go, so?
He did make me hand him my car keys, take my sunglasses off, and told me to put both hands THROUGH the steering wheel and both palms flat on the dash while he ran my info, and lectured me about the interstate not being my personal race track and these are REAL people in these other cars, not obstacles, and sent me on my way to finish my drive to work lol.
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@jessbellis9510 That's his point. A woman can go on an AMAZING date, have ALL this fun, really like the guy, brag to her friends.
The guy is telling his friends "Yeah. failure, it was a waste, she didn't bang me so she's not into me, no second date, moving on."
If the journey is amazing BUT you never made it to your destination, it was a wasted trip. If I'm going to the gym and not getting stronger and not losing weight, I'd stop going, or change what I'm doing.
Being goal oriented is a curse in a society FULL of people just looking for a good time and to feel good.
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I came to the realization that feelings are there, but you have to evaluate them knowing they are involuntary chemical reactions, they are irrational, and they mean nothing. Thoughts, logic, plans, ideas, these are all voluntary, rational, logical constructions that do have meaning because they're intentional.
I'm fine having the feeling, but thinking about why I do and does it even matter? I have feelings that make zero sense all the time, is that just random electrons, or a 'hunch', intuition?, or just nothing? Does it change my ideas, plans, or thoughts? No? Then it's meaningless, move on.
I tell women that as well, yes, I do FEEL this, but what does that matter? I know the feeling is wrong because the facts are apparent and mismatched, so I take the facts.
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A plot hole in Tim's clunky analogy about 1 minute in: Giving people money raises prices.
Ok, you get $2000/month free from the government, oh no, your toilet is broken, let's call a plumber.
Plumber: Yes, I can fix this. My rate is $1000/hr, this is a 3 hour job. And BTW, I'm the cheapest plumber you can get here within a month, so you can wait, or pay, but that's fine, right, because have that guaranteed money!
The best analogy would be student loans and tuition. Since kids can borrow virtually unlimited loan funds, why not raise the tuition a few thousand percent? They can afford to pay.
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Wireless headphones, i noticed this day one in college way back in 2006.
I tried being the nice person who said hi to every pretty girl I saw walking to class, but almost every time you say something, theyd not hear, have to stop, take out their earbuds, then be like "What, what do you want?"
Creating that imposition of having to stop, stop your music or podcast, now interacting with this unsolicited interaction, its a huge isolating factor.
That was almost 20 years ago (holy shit) and its only gotten far worse. Every person has wireless headphones in now, there is no way to randomly compliment or say hi offhandedly to anyone.
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Pro tip, put ON a fake wedding ring and watch the attention from women intensify. It's strange to see, but I've seen it personally, with coworkers at a job long ago...the young women I worked with didn't pay me any mind for months on our shift, until one day I wore a silver band my girlfriend at the time got me. Like the second day of wearing it, I'm now getting questions, oh I didn't know you're married, oh you're not, what's she like, where does she live, are you happy together, are you staying together... suddenly now that I was not seemingly available to them, now I'm interesting, what does she have we don't. It's that weird thinking where women only seem to want what they can't have or are the worst for them.
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General Pikalov's leadership is what I was always taught, lead from the front and people will follow.
My Dept Director at work hates when I do that, we have some dangerous confined space work, you shouldn't be going in there, you're a supervisor and you're the only person licensed and able to do your job...to which I reply If I'm not willing to go in then no one else is going in either.
As a Chief Operator and facility manager, I see my job like a ship's captain, I should know every inch, every space, every bolt and hole of my ship, and I have over a decade of doing it. That's how you reassure and inspire new personnel when they're apprehensive about a large maintenance job, I've done it a dozen times, it'll go like this, this is what to expect, here are the risks, here's what's gone wrong before and how we prevent it, be careful and there's little to worry about, lets go.
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But here's the issue there, if you don't have all that travel overhead, you should get a reverse-premium on your pay. It's cheaper for you to work, you need less pay. Simple. Prorate remote wages to account for the lack of travel expenses. Those who choose to work in office get a premium/differential. Similar to shift work, third shift in a factory often gets a few more $ an hour as incentive/compensation for working overnights.
Call it pay equity if you want.
The other issue I see with remote work is the global aspect of it. If YOU can do the job by remote for $50k/year, then maybe someone in the third world with a Starlink dish can do your exact job for $10k, so I hire 4 of them, get 400% more productivity and pocket that extra $10k a year.
Teachers did this, oh look during covid we made remote learning work SO WELL, so now I'm asking why do we need these millions of local in person teachers? Fire them, keep the very best ones, pay them twice as much to remote teach all US students nationwide at a high standard, cut local school district taxes by billions a year.
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The left has just never been able to understand a simple truth, hating Trump drives people to him. The more they hate on him, the more sympathetic it makes him look.
Morgan Freeman had the answer when he said the cure for racism was to stop endlessly talking about racism. If the left et al had decided "Eh, we're going to ignore Trump and play with a different toy" it probably would have ended there.
But no, they said, split those 10s, hit me, oh, I have 20 on both, HIT ME AGAIN, and again, and again, I know we're playing 21 and I have 60 but more cards now! It's time to stop, left. Get some help.
BUT NO, deal the whole rest of the table in, max bet and HIT ME! Constitutional Crisis, Doge, Elon, BigBalls, more more more! The media is like a pitbull and we're trying to pull the Trump rope out of their mouth.
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As a public employee, I know that the worst thing about this is that even though the officer was hit by this guy who is blitzed into a different universe, HE will be the one to face equal or greater scrutiny. Mandatory leave pending investigation (probably), compelled statement, absolutely drug/substance tested.
I'm driving a city vehicle, doing everything 100% right, and some day-drinker t-bones me out of the blue, I'LL be the one defending myself to the City Admin and municipal insurer, and depending on their mood that day, I could be the one fired, for doing nothing lol, for something someone else did.
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@DadsCigaretteRun NO, absolutely not. Bail is not punishment. I've been arrested, I've paid bail, I DID IT, I was convicted, I GOT MY BAIL MONEY BACK. Bail has zero to do with your guilt or innocence. It is solely to compel you to return for your court date.
An ankle monitor is far more insane, I had a coworker go through that. He was accused of beating his wife. Charges later dropped, but to start out his bail was $10,000, they reduced it after a week to ankle monitoring, zero cash....but he had to hire a company and pay them $30/DAY to monitor that ankle monitor, gps, and it read his skin to tell if he drank alcohol....he got NONE of that money back when his charges were dropped. If it had been bail money he'd have gotten every penny. Is THAT your solution?
I guess we could just scrap the whole system, fuck everyone, just shoot anyone who wrongs you.
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It's a grey area. According to the US Constitution, slavery IS LEGAL in the United States if you are convicted of a crime. It's right there in the 13th Amendment:
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
That's irrelevant in many cases anyway, because at least in my state, don't know about backwards California, all our prison offender workers are PAID.
But, keeping people in past the end of their sentences, that's reprehensible, and should be criminal.
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5:00 perfectly encapsulates what confuses men the most.
She's annoyed and upset and off-put, so her response, go see this guy and bang him all weekend.
I won't speak for all men, but for me I have to really like a woman to have sex with her, its an expression of that, so when women talk about how much they hate some guy, but are relentlessly f-ing him, that math breaks my brain.
Why do they reward the behavior they don't want and punish the behavior from men they do want?
If I have a dog, and I give it treats every time it craps on the carpet, its going to do that more, not less.
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@superdave8248 "Our logical mind ponders what you did for them to act like that as men avoid acting abusive"...[mindblown.gif]
Exactly. I live in a world where if you are telling me something, I assume the reason is you're asking my advice on how to solve that problem, so I'm not going to accept "this happened out of the blue", I'm going to start INVESTIGATING, seeking more info, circumstance, evidence, is that what you reat want chick, lol.
Anyway, why are you on a date with ME talking about other guys you fucked, odd topic, turn off lol.
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HIPPA would not apply because if YOU tell someone your info, YOU authorize them to repeat it. If you tell the HR lady your vax status, or your drug abuse status, or your HIV status, by disclosure you release that Info. HIPPA would only apply in a case like another Dr office asking for your records and your Dr has no release form on file for it.
FERPA, the education version of HIPPA, is the same way. Once you release a transcript from your school to another, they then have that info and can use it because YOU gave it to them by your permission. Example: if you are a parent of a college student, and you call registrar to check your kids grades to make sure they're not f-ing off, they can't even tell you if they're enrolled or not without a FERPA release naming that parent on file. Once you do allow said release, that parent could check your info all they want, they'd have the same access as the owner of the info, the student. But if you blab your info, that's just out there, protections go out the window when you volunteer things personally.
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Apparently no one has done bmw maintenance.
If you follow the factory recommendations you replace THE ENTIRE suspension, inside and out, top to bottom, every bushing, bearing, spring, strut, shock, block, and bolt, about every 75k.
Just did it all in my 1996. 270k miles, handles like new, except far better
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@skipdreadman8765 here's the problem with that: if Russia is losing invading UKRAINE, a nation we spent billions disarming to the point they couldn't weaponize a fart, then why did we have to give Europe QUADRILLIONS of my tax dollars over the course of the cold war to stop Russia, because back then Russia was going to invade tomorrow and have tanks across all of Europe and rolling through London in like 10 hours if we let them, so we were led to believe.
Seeing today that was a lie, fuck Europe, I want my thousands of trillions back they and our government lied to get.
You can't have it both ways!
If Russia is losing, great, fuck Ukraine, stop paying them if they're winning, Americans need money and stuff like streets and water infrastructure.
You can't tell me to scared to death while also saying the thing I'm supposed to be scared of is weak and inept.
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It's like alcoholism and the disease model of addiction, it's self-affirming.
I think you're an alcoholic!
No I'm not, I just have a drink now and again...
Oh, that's denial, that CONFIRMS you're an alcoholic, now you have it for life, can't get rid of it, you have zero power, it owns you, you're a fiend! The only choice is to give up all control and your whole life to God, I guess, you drunk.
And don't even think about arguing with that, that's just more denial, wow you're a worse alky than we even thought!
Trans can be just like that. Everyone around you says you have a problem, if you do or not you start looking for a solution, you get coerced. You get influenced. And before long, you start actually believing it too. That scares me.
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Some things:
1, as a Missourian, I know that once you use a firearm in an incident, and an investigation opens, it's gone, it goes into evidence, every time, in every case, police officers, self- defense, even in cases where you are exonerated. This is standard, at least here.
The McCloskeys, whom some friends of mine had a dinner party with last week, are not accused of any crime and are 100% free to go buy a crate of ARs for home defense if they so desire.
2. Tim has been crying for the police to do something for so long, why are they standing down, he laments. Then here he calls them the gestapo for doing something. The McCloskeys are lawyers, notice they no longer even had the handgun, the police had to retrieve it from the safekeeping of their lawyer.
Sometimes I wish tim was better educated, did more research, put more effort into understanding things
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That last video, I keep trying to tell women, what YOU value is not what OTHERS value.
If someone is allergic to some product you're selling, BEST OF FING LUCK chasing them trying to sell them that product. Someone is a beekeeper, they're super into bees, they make a million dollars off honey every year, you should totally get some bees they keep telling you...but I'm allergic to bees, I'd die, I'm not buying your bees. BUT BUT BUT, so what they could kill you, you should really buy some, HERE, have some free-bees.
Value mismatch is a real thing. It's way easier to sell umbrellas while it's raining than during a prolonged drought.
As a man, I want a family. The reason I want a relationship with a woman is to start a family. If she does not want children, I have zero reason to pursue a relationship with her, I could be out meeting better women who DO have that value I'm seeking. Just because YOU think someone should buy you does not mean others will want to.
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Which is super-ironic because if you go over the MSNBC, they're saying literally the mirror opposite of this, and stating the President IS a monarch.
I guess we forget somehow after 8th grade civics that the President is THE leader and global representative of the United States, he in fact DOES speak for We The People with the 'royal we', if you want to call it that, and that's been the case for over two centuries.
The Supreme Court ruled during the admin of Democrat Hero FDR, In United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp (1936), that "In international relations, the President is the sole organ of the Federal Government." It's an exclusively Executive power and that's an unchanged, unchallenged precedent. Whatever the President, whomever that may be, says goes in foreign policy and relations, and the decision even states that is regardless of Congress. It also rules that Congress has no jurisdiction over, or right to interfere in foreign affairs or policy. Their purview is solely inside the US.
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Everyone you named ARE the reaction to hordes of insane black-clad weirdo larpers nearly beating people to death on the streets.
I was a Tea Party protester for 8 whole years, and not once did I ever fear violence from anyone except from the fascist Authoritarian Obama-cops.
During that time we created a political movement that caused the biggest House of Representatives 'flip' in Us history.
What has Antifa accomplished? How many candidates have they groomed and elected? How much money have they raised? I've yet to see a representative of theirs on a tv news show, nor heard anything about their lobbying efforts.
If they're not working toward some sort of actual change through actual political means that go somewhere, then what are they DOING? The LARPing needs a larger purpose. Otherwise it really is just role-playing.
If you have some guy who's probably an asshole standing on a street somewhere spouting some BS about not liking gays or black people, or some fringe view, REASONABLE people are going to see that and say geez, what an asshole...but then some black-clad masked weirdo with pink hair jumps out of a passing group and bashes this guy with a bike lock or a baton, no one is going to side with that. They might FEAR it, but they certainly won't support it. Notice that the civil rights era protesters avoided violence at all costs, to prevent that image of being violent and losing the ability to get their message out, and they WON. Those using violence to try to stop them LOST.
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Guy I work with, twice divorced, two adult daughters who hate him, late 50s, is dating a chick almost 60 and they live together, is always complaining she never puts out, that all he's there for is the place to live and the sex, and how unhappy he is she doesn't bang him enough...
I told him you know, you can just leave if you're unhappy, you're a man, you do what you want.
He came to work the next day and told me "I was thinking about what you said, and, I'd never thought about it like that, you're right, I could leave if I'm not happy, I never realized that was an option." That was a year ago and they're still together, still griping.
But it was crazy to me, to hear that from a much older, more experienced man (I'm 41, no kids, never married) that the idea of walking away and being alone wasn't even something he could conceive of. Didn't even cross his mind.
He also plainly states "Men NEED P**sy, we NEED it, it's a REQUIREMENT." and the way he says it, you almost believe it lol. He was raised by a single dad with 3 other brothers, so I guess it makes sense. I was raised with all sisters so I can take it or leave it, the drama has to be less then the trouble of getting laid for me, I like peace over a piece.
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I live in Missouri in the St Louis area, and most of us knew that info leak would happen from the start, because they asked them to snitch to an OFFICIAL Police reporting system, so just like filing a police report, calling 911, or suing someone, it was a PUBLIC RECORD by default. You were not required to use your name, but tons of idiots DID.
If you want to be anonymous, you could be, but you snitch on yourself when your report is "Hey, this is [Your Name] and I'd like to be anonymous, my address is...", like, duh.
It's like calling 911 from your home phone landline, telling them your name, and giving an anonymous tip...FUN FACT 911 calls are also public record you can just file a form and get copies of!
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It's so exclusive, to get in you have to pay them lol.
It reminds me of South Park talking about celebrities, it's super easy, you don't even have to be anyone or know anyone, they go where you want if you just pay them.
Want [insert celebrity] at your event, write the check and they're there, willingly or not lol. It's their JOB.
If the event was actually exclusive they'd turn down your attempts to buy your way in, nope, you need to have done this and or that and know someone and get a referral and references and vetting, THEN we'll let you in to the exclusive event, IF you get an invitation. If just any loser with cash can get in that's boring.
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When my mother passed away, on social security, it took months to get the death certificate finalized, because COVID and she did not have COVID, the hospital wanted COVID on the DC so they'd get that MONEY, and her Dr said F that, it's a lie, I won't sign that.
Meanwhile...
Social security clawed back the remaining portion of that months payment from her bank account in 3 business days. She died April 8th, by the 12th they withdrew the 'overpayment' for the 23 days of April she was no longer alive.
My father, her late husband, is on VA service-connected disability, and the DAY she died, he got a notification he was no longer married and they had reduced his monthly payment, and they clawed back the adjusted amount for the rest of that April automatically.
So they can't tell ME they don't have laser-fing-focued control over this financial payment system, try a different lie.
If someone is getting money they MEAN them to.
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Women approach by doing things like walking past the 20 unused stairsteppers and getting on the one right next to you, flipping their hair at you, looking over to see what you're watching on your phone, I'm like, whatever. Use your words!
She could strip down and be stepping naked next to me and I'm not acknowledging her until she opens the dialogue, because SHE wants something from ME, she has to initiate that.
The other chick that walked by, turned, looked me in the eye, smiled, and waved at me, while looking white, blonde, and young, she's doing it RIGHT lol.
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My dad has expressed this kind of thinking and it always surprises me, I mentioned something about an investment, I can't even remember what it was, but it was somewhat greed-based, and I remember him replying "That makes no sense, if you already HAVE millions or billions of dollars, why would you do that thing to make more money you don't need?"
And I'm like, DUH, what is the one thing people with billions on dollars can't buy but want more than anything, GETTING MORE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
If you're someone who can be satisfied with what you've accomplished and not be greedy, you have trouble understanding people who ARE greedy.
It's like a man I know, just went through his FOURTH divorce, and was dating TWO NEW WOMEN while his divorce was finalizing, and he's asking me why I'm his age and single....like, bro, duh, look at the insanity and stress you're going through, I want none of that, and besides, you're out here ruining women 6 at a time, there's nothing LEFT. I'd be happy with one wife for life, you're working on wives 5 and 6...
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As a kid in the 80s, my school teachers thought I had ADD, and booted me from school until a doctor diagnosed me and put me on ritalin...So my parents took me to my GP, a great doctor who ended up being my doctor my first 35 years alive.
He saw me, examined me, did some tests, and returned me with a clean bill of health, no drugs, and an admonishment to the female teachers "He doesn't have ADD, HE'S A 6 YEAR OLD BOY, he's going to do 6 year old boy things, YOU are an adult, do your JOB and control him".
If that had been today I'd have been put on 3 drugs, therapy, and probably been transitioned. Thank god I had a based doctor.
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Everyone is seeing this all backward: they're limiting gaming time, but if you play THEIR game, the game they WANT you to play, you get UNLIMITED play time.
Classic games such as exercise, practice combat maneuvers, work a productive job, have and raise strong children to protect and serve society, and nationalism.
Yes, all these classic IRL games are allowed unlimited play time, as they should in any nation. Level your character up today! Build out your skill tree, acquire resources, and battle other players and clans for territory and materials. The beauty of these games are you're already playing, it's just most people are REALLY noob at it.
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Ike Dyson wrong. My friend is going through divorce number three, he's not losing anything because it's all in his name, and it's all underwater. Like he said, she wants the house, she wants her Camaro, she wants his Expedition, TAKE THEM, she's unemployed and that's like $300K in debt in his name only. She refused to take any of it. They had no kids other than the several they each already had.
So yeah, women lose sometimes.
Or, like my Bro in law, his last wife kidnapped his two kids and moved to England. He hasn't seen his kids in THIRTY YEARS, there is no parental abduction extraction between our two countries.
He has great grandkids he'll probably never meet. Zero risk to her.
It goes both ways.
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I would say yes. I test as an ISTJ, but I also crave attention at times and have big golden retriever energy, but a lot of that comes from being an adoption survivor, a lifelong trauma that affects all of me, including my personality. In fact it's probably what drove my ISTJ traits, I value honesty and integrity very highly, because I started life being lied to by the people closest to me, for a good reason ostensibly, but still dishonesty.
I'd rather hate someone for what they honestly say to me than for saying nothing at all and making me suspect them.
It's an odd mix of introversion, and demand for attention. It may be why I work a thankless but vital public service job, the community needs me and I get to do it in the background.
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I'm glad fivepointeightnate stated the obvious before I had to.
If it's a metal fitting into a plastic housing IT WILL CRACK AND BREAK IT.
First rule of plumbing and piping, plastic screws into metal, metal does NOT screw into plastic. You have two materials of differing strengths, and the plastic WILL yield to that metal fitting, boom, coolant jacket cracked, battery on fire, people will die and it'll be totally metal.
Another example: When you change the transfer case fluid on a 2007+ Ford Expedition or F150, if you aren't careful when you put the drain and fill plugs back in, to the proper torque and no more, the steel tapered thread drain plug WILL split the aluminum transfer case wide open and now you're out thousands.
That's metal to metal. Even high pressure plastics like Schedule 80 threaded fittings will crack like an egg if you screw a brass fitting into it even a in/lb too much.
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Do people not get that this won't do anything to e-sports, because they're STATE ATHLETES, they have to game 996. 9am to 9pm, six days a week. Gaming is their JOB. No time off, no f-ing, no family, you game for the state, game more, game better, game for the greatness of a-China, why aren't you gaming right a-now?!?!
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@justarandomname420 "The never has and never will be a guarantee of security. A tree could fall on you or a random commie kick you to death.
Exactly, and without you making some of your own SECURITY, you'll never have the FREEDOM from things like trees falling on you or random commies. People like to mistake freedom as the ability to do things, NO, TRUE FREEDOM is living without having things DONE TO YOU. ASTOUNDING difference between those two states.
You could argue that people in prison are free. No responsibilities, no work, no bills, hell they don't even have to cook for themselves. BUT they're not free from having things done to them, such as when they sleep, where they go, what they eat, who they associate with.
Always think about that question for yourself, do you want to freedom to do things, or the freedom from having things done to you against your will. You can pick ONE but not both.
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ALL the male ambition I see day in and day out is WOMAN DRIVEN.
I'm single, wealthy, and happy. I don't want more, I want LESS so I have the freedom to do more of what I WANT To do.
MOST of the men I know are constantly getting pushed pushed pushed by a woman at home, YOU"RE better honey, YOU need that raise, YOU need to stomp on that other coworker and get that promotion, you need to do all these things for MORE because I'm telling you to!
You talk to that guy and he'll tell you if she'd stop that, bring him a beer, put out, and back the fuck off with the ambition pushing they'd be 1000% happier. It's women pushing men to be WORSE for THEIR benefit.
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7:24 "I don't know what I'm witnessing"
Oh, turn to page 12, that explains exactly what you're witnessing, and you also need to sign and initial that page here here and here as well, and I'll co-sign that as well, and this is all under penalty of perjury as well, a felony, so I ALSO need you to sign page 23 which is you're attestation that you can in fact read and comprehend English, the language these documents are presented in, sign and date here here and here....great...NOTARY, can you just seal that and take her fingerprint real quick, great, let me get a photo of that...thanks!
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How do we have a shortage of housing with a collapsing birth rate, record high housing inventory, giant subdivisions carpeting everywhere and going up at breakneck pace? It's not like some disaster erased millions of homes or something, the housing is still there and more numerous than ever.
It's home PRICING you've identified as the problem.
BTW, I own my own home, and my own 100 acre farm worth millions right now, inherited, paid in full, outright owned, can't be taken. No woman seems to give a fuck because I'm wealthy, as in I have assets, but I'm cash poor, only making $36k/year. If you can't FLASH IT, they don't care about net worth.
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The reverse of that is what took down Enron and the us economy by extension, mark to market accounting, where you get to have an idea, project it's potential profit, then just say that profit exists, so now we have the money on our balance sheet.
Hey, I have an idea, wow, this could make us 10 billion over 10 years....cool, now we have $10 billion dollars in revenue we can use as collateral for borrowing actual cash, repeat!
You can't pay people expected money lol. It's too abusable. That stock you own, WE think it's going to quadruple next year, so you now owe 400% more taxes on that
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@NahuCommNS yeah, hoes and dolls is where we ALREADY are, that's already what's not meeting our needs for connecting and Intimacy and trust. My ex is the sole person in earth that could tell me to my face, bald faced lie that I told her to tell, that "You'll figure it out, everything is going to be Ok".
Even knowing she was lying, telling a lie I told her to tell me, I still felt better because I trusted her. It's the trust that allowed her to cheat for so long lol.
No whore or doll is going to give me that.
Sex is a need I can meet in 5 minutes, anytime...it's all the missing stuff around the physical act of sex we can't buy or steal or manufacture or get from a drink or drug.
I know, I've been trying it myself for 15 years single now. If you found a whore/doll combo that's legal and meets all a man's need, fuckin' share, mate, everyone here is all ears.
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John Stewart had an interview about this with a DOD rep, they said they can show you exactly where every penny went, it's all entirely accounted for...the problem is where it went is ineffective, but they can show you all the wasted shit it went to, so therefore it's all good. She actually said this. They'll pass an audit, look, see, here's the receipt, $12 billion for submarines, went to submarine people for submarine things, wether it DID anything or was used properly was irrelevant to her.
Basically if Congress voted to literally burn a billion dollars in cash, a department would say the money was spent properly and pass that audit because here's the manifest from the Treasury for the billion cash, plus shipping and handling, here's the receipt for the gasoline and matches, and here's the signed work order in triplicate of the workers who lit it, totally passed audit, properly spent billion dollars. Wether it's spent WELL seems irrelevant to them.
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Women want their problems heard, men want their problems heard IF that leads to fixing them.
It's where 'mansplaining' comes from, stupid as it is, because if someone, man or woman, is sharing a problem with me, to me that's them asking for me to help solve it, not to just listen and say oh that's so bad. I want to be useful, so if you're telling me something I feel it has to be for a REASON, not to just say things. If I'm telling you something, ALL I want is a solution!
If I'm talking about dating and women, I want a fix, not to 'be heard'. Being heard is the bare minimum of what I'm owed.
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It's not that men don't need a safe space, we do. I spend a Looooooooot of money making every space I dwell in safe, via training or equipment. I'd hope any man would.
The correct statement is men know, always have, always will, that we'll never be GIVEN a "safe space". Nope, never seen it once.
And here's why: because men are counted on TO CREATE EVERY SAFE SPACE.
We do the work, we set things up, and when it goes sideways, who does the safe space call to ensure safety? Men, with guns, called police.
My whole life as a man is a safe space, any man's whose isn't is dead right now. No one is protecting you except you.
It's like that meme with the happy children playing in a carefree idyllic scene, with the father leaving over them and you see his back blocking and taking all the bullets and arrows that threaten them.
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10:00 I try to tell people of both genders that, take a minute to think about the REAL reason you do SO MANY things, you might discover you do a LOT tying to get laid without realizing it.
It's all the societal pressure you grew up with, it's IN you. You need to do well in school,to go to college, to get a good career, WHY? Because no WOMEN like a DUMB man, or a broke man, or a loser man, so work hard to not be those things, otherwise you'll never get women.
Drink the right beer to be attractive to women, drive the nice car you needed the career for to drive to your awesome house, why because that's what YOU want, no who cares about what you want, it's what you get that women want you for. Advertising is based on this simple idea, that if you don't aspire to X product, that will cost you Y amount of chances with women.
Once you realize that, you understand a lot of the things society expects us to do, if you remove the incentive, the BRIBE, the reward of women, why the hell would we do that? If I found out I could never have children, full stop, absolutely impossible, I was sterile, my life would radically change, I'd stop consuming, I'd stop doing most things that I do to appear 'acceptable' because why? I have no future, so fuck the present lol.
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I can give an example of crazy spending at my local city government job with federal money: We're doing renovations in my water treatment plant, my pipes are corroded, we have left over American Rescue Plan Act money we're utilizing, sounds great right?
HALF the money we have available has to go to COMPLYING WITH THE LIMITATIONS OF THE FUNDING. There are so many strings attached that to spend $500k we're granted, we're handing half of it to an engineering company to 'MANAGE' the grant process and keep us in compliance with federal laws. $100k for sandblasting, $100k to the engineering firm for 'construction management' of the sandblasting! That's the contracts, fed-gov compliance, legal, bids, union liaison, on site supervisors, and it's taking YEARS to do this. We started this project in June 2024 and we're on schedule to not even turn a single bolt until AUGUST 2025! For money we were granted in 2021!
Working on this has soured me on federal 'help' so I can imagine how bad the rot gets the higher you go.
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Profiling does make sense in many cases. Take a second to de-trigger yourself after reading that, and I'll relay an example:
I used to work at a convenience store, we sold tobacco products. One of my coworkers, an idiot, sold tobacco to an undercover State Trooper without IDing them, so we got dinged for that.
After that, the store policy became, directly from the owner, anything that is age restricted MUST show ID, no exceptions.
So now I'm having to refuse sale of alcohol to men in their 70s because the either don't have their ID on them, or refuse to show it because why would they? They're obviously of legal age, but no id, can't sale. No discretion allowed.
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From FBI.gov, the current definition of Domestic Terrorism:
Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial , or environmental nature.
Arson is a criminal act of violence, it is being said to be in connection to a movement seeking political change due to racism. This is domestic terrorism.
Shooting of someone, and the terrorist arson of a restaurant are not connected events, no matter how much they may want them to be. They just wanted to burn some shit down and use any 'excuse'.
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Here's another personal example: I'm great friends with my work supervisor outside of work. We do charity events together, I've gone on vacation with him and his family, and we're like 5th cousins or something. He's known my family since his dad was a kid.
You'd think that would mean I get to skate on anything I do wrong, right? WRONG. WRONG.
The fact I know my boss so well means MORE is expected of me, that he knows I know what I should and should not be doing, and if I was to grievously fuck up at work, it wouldn't just be a "Oh, this bad employee screwed up", it would be more like "Why are you disappointing me like this, I expected more from you, I know you can do better".
Also makes it hard to skip out for a sick day if I'm not actually sick, because I have to avoid anywhere I might be spotted lol. Not that I get days off.
It's far easier to care a lot less about a job when you work for a stranger. I also put more into this job because I work for someone I know and respect. It's hard to have that "I can't let them down" attitude for a stranger, and I'd bet that drive is even stronger when it's a job with your own last name in it.
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This is why I think Cells At Work would drive the author of this idiotic article insane: every cell having an identical, distinct uniform that identifies them instantly as to who they are and what they do. For the premise of the show, that visual metaphor works perfectly, because under a microscope you can look at how a cell is 'dressed' (it's appearance) and know exactly what type it is, what it's job is, and if it is normal or not. In real life society, that would be a horrible fascist/communist authoritarian dystopia, BUT when depicting how the immune system of a human body works using anthropomorphized cells it's how things have to work, because the body cannot live without all the types of cells it has and with them all doing their duty/jobs. You don't have rogue 'woke' groups of cells in your body protesting how biology works and wanting to upset and change things...oh wait, the body actually does have something like that, it's called cancer.
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I never understood why people don't just do this service themselves, be their own boss.
Sure, it takes a little bit more effort, omg noes work, right ?
But literally all you need is menus, a vehicle, and some marketing.
Customer treats you bad, nicely hand them their food, conclude the transaction, then tell them to f off, you're firing them from the service, banned.
Pizza and Chinese food delivery has been a thing since before Uber or any of these delivery companies ever existed. We've lost our entrepreneurial spirit and drive, easier to just jave someone else do the work and you get abused in their employ.
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Mo resident, lived in Normandy/Ferguson for a decade including Mike Brown, and the biggest shock of this video execution is how shocked people are of it. Here in Mo that's just Tuesday, literally, hey that happens, you get clapped it's on you, quit slippin'. Notice even the local news was like eh ho hum, shooting number however many thousand this period. When I livestreamed Ferguson, which is on my youtube channel, someone got shot like 50 feet away, it's on video, little to no reaction, because people are used to it.,
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I've had guy friends tell me that's BS, your family and friends have no say In who you get with, and I'm like even if they're terrible for this friend or family member, no one wants them to get hurt or abused, and think they can do better? His response was that's not your problem...but also, he married a stripper out of high school, got stuck with her 2 kids, married a much older single mom, had another kid with her then she widowed him unexpectedly, now he's looking for more single moms and telling me I'm stupid and 'Judgemental' for not dating single moms, and need to stop caring how who I date looks to other people .
Sorry man, your family might be a mess, but mine isn't, and if the choice is sloot or family, family wins EVERY TIME.
Only idiots and movie characters abandon their entire family to run off with a piece of tail.
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The way we beat the virus is to get the economy going again! With this many people not working, with businesses suffering losses like this, state and local governments are TAX REVENUE FUCKED. Because their revenues are thusly fucked, their ability to fund things like healthcare, hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, all that will be severely diminished.
Along with strain on funding for things like fixing roads, keeping the drinking water flowing, treating sewage, all that stuff no one thinks about.
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Sounds corrupt as hell. "Well, the review board is made up of compassionate people, so they determined Billy wasnt a danger and released him, as he'd only murdered ONE person, what's the big deal?! Sadly it was during this release he raped and murdered your daughter, and we truly apologize. Here, take this $50 walmart gift card to mourn your loss. Also, we reviewed Billy's recent case and are releasing him pending trial, I mean, it's just TWO suspected murders, and he seems like a nice guy..."
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If I mentioned I was sick, and some woman brought me soup and a humidifier, I'd probably be thinking "I probably need to (insert her favorite sexual favor) her later, that was really nice of her"
Not, wow she brought me stuff out of nowhere, I MUST BE THE SHIT, I changed her into a great women just by being me around her, I'm awesome. LULZ.
That really is what that chick said, he brought me soup when I was sick, not because HE was a great man, but because SHE is so great she just being there changed him INTO a great man, so she can not have to show appreciation, because in her mind he didn't do anything, SHE did everything HE did.
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Funny, it was the half of us that were like "Change HOW? We would like far more upfront info, please" that were called evil naxi racist truther terrorists.
As I said at the time, I'll proudly tell my grandkids that I was an ACTIVIST when it mattered, in the 2009 tea party era, when if you were a grandma wearing a teabag hat they'd call in the swat team on your march, and Nancy Pelosi stood in front of congress and called us terrorists, well If supporting the Constitution and capitalism and our ideals, her actual job, is terrorism I proudly wear that decal.
I love America enough to want to SAVE it, not destroy it in some noble suicide BS.
We're the United States, for 200+ years we didn't really give a single fuckety fuck what the rest of the world thought about us, we were doing US. When and why did that change?
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Our culture has never been in the Asian tradition of 'saving face' so it's troubling that we seem to be going to a lot of trouble to save face with other world leaders that hate us, leading populations that have been trained to hate us.
I know in my personal life I'm not making decisions through the lens of "oh but what will my haters think about that, is it ok with them?".
Hell no, I do what I'm going to do and they'll do whatever, I can't control anyone but me. I think we as a nation need to be replying to a lot of outside calls for help with "Oh man, that's terrible what's happened to you, like that's REALLY sad...what do YOU plan to do to deal with that? Ok well sounds like you have a plan, if you need any advice or moral support, you can always call us again at 1-800-America and we'll cheer you up!........Oh no, sorry, hundreds of billions in tax money, planes and bombs and guns, troops, our navy, NAH we really don't send those out for foreigners or non-subscribers anymore, but we'll send a gift bag if you pick it up at the UN."
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Chaos Undivided Same here. I was seriously sick from Dec 23rd all the way through new years, and had this rattly, phlemy cough that sounded terrible through about valentines day. Bad fever, all-over body aches made worse by shivering, unstoppable runny nose, horrific sore throat, terrible cough and coughing, very swollen neck lymph nodes, but no nausea, no digestive issues, no vomiting. I thought it was strep at first and took some antibiotics I had on hand, which overnight almost eliminated the sore throat, but the rest of the symptoms ran their course.
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So teach us your lessons. Come on, I'm 40, single, childless, never married, pulling nothing the better I do in life. I'm about to pull a felony, go to prison, get some tatts, and knock up some hoes, because that's how you get women today.
Has to be, being wealthy, fit, happy, and single gets me nothing lol. I can't even get taken advantage of for fuck sake. Where are the golddiggers and exploiters? Lol, why am I not worth victimizing?
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Here's their main problem, we men that can and do all that, I look at women who can't as kinda losers who can't keep up, because I have 6 sisters, all of them can change tires, some of them have built houses with their husbands, they're all in stable long term relationships, and half have self made businesses. And they can all shoot very well, and gut their deer faster than me lol, so when I see women who can't do all that it's disappointing.
When you're surrounded by capable people, incapable people kind of start to disgust you, like how are you making it?
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What's fucked up is thats a hard shift LEFT.
The saying has always been "The right looks at the left and sees good people that just have bad ideas.
The left looks at the right and sees evil demons that must be killed at any and all cost."
You can't make those two stances square. I can't show you compassion as a fellow person when you literally see me as Satan and I must die by any means necessary to save humanity. It's been like that since the 90s, man.
But calling the opposition evil, always been a hardcore lefty liberal thing. I'm not even religious but I've always felt a need to try to reach and help and rehab lefties, sure they're misguided but they're still Americans, even if they want to murder me we DO still have to work together because we have no choice, we share this home.
Example: I marched with signs of Obama as a clown at tea parties, for 8 years I had a 'NObama' bumper sticker, caused people to road rage, but if you offered me a nice dinner with Barack and Michelle and the kids, and politics and religion was off the table for conversation, I know I'd have a great time, as people they seem alright, it's just their politics I disagree with.
Offer that same deal to a leftist to dine with the Trump family like civilized people and they'd immediately start plotting some harmful scheme, they'd never treat it in good faith.
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I think of it like this, I could go to a jewelry store for MY wedding ring as a man and spend lets say $500 on a silver band (I hate gold, yellow is ick to me).
OR I could make it mean something, take a trip out to visit my sister in Arizona, hike the desert until I find an abandoned old mine, scale my way in, extract some silver I have smelted into the ring I want, THAT MEANS SOMETHING.
THAT is a STORY that adds value. THAT is a conversation to have. Nice wedding band man, where did you get it? FUNNY STORY THAT, so, it starts with...
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My federal income taxes aren't that bad, it's the massive state, local, and city taxes I pay that dwarf what the US fedgov takes.
I have zero kids, why does NINETY PERCENT of my massive property taxes go to my school district, and EVERYTHING else, roads, police, fire, everything lives on the left over 10%?
Why does my neighbor with FIVE kids pay the SAME school tax rate I do, while consuming 500% more resources?
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Funny story, in my locale we don't have a county sheriff, they have a county police department , and the reason that was formed was in the distant past, mid 1800s, they had multiple COMPETING police departments, and they'd actually get in little wars and skirmishes, such as ambushing another department transporting a suspect and taking that arrestee away for their own department, filing competing charges, all sorts of craziness and the state put an end to it. Imagine getting arrested for a crime, and then the OTHER police fight off the cops that grabbed you and take you instead and charge you under their laws lol. Such a system can't work.
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If she thinks homeschooling is that bad, that's projecting. Maybe HER homeschool would be that way, but if you CARE as a parent, it doesn't have to be that way.
Bad homeschool teachers are just as prevalent as bad public school teachers, it's ON YOU to do better. I'd hope at least you'd be better than the current public system, sheesh.
I have a bachelor's, I have technical certs, I have a science career, I'd happily and enthusiastically homeschool my kids if I had them, I'd proudly stay at home dad if it meant I raised awesome, smart adults, that's a major accomplishment.
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Wait until you have a corrupt and politically motivated local sheriff's dept and you'll see truly fucked. Living it.
In the last several years I've seen some real crazy shit lol.
When you mix shady county police with those same officers running for political office, it's bad. Everyone is terrified to say anything because that cop candidate will see it and will put you on the retaliation list , win or lose.
This happened after the last election in 2020. One deputy's wife ran for county office, a former same dept deputy who is a State House Rep now refused to endorse her, she lost. Next thing you know, her husband, current detective, releases all the info he has collected in a personal investigation on that State Rep to the local St Louis newspapers, it becomes a national news story that he banged a drunk 19 year old in his police car back in the day.
Same dept tried to take out other local government employees via 'leaked' investigation documents as well. This is all been referred to the State AG, but best of luck as he's now running for US Senate so he'll need these same corrupt locals to Garner votes for him, including aforementioned State House Rep.
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And that's why they're SO worried, as this last election showed, they're losing their positioning as the trusted middleman. I don't need a news channel to report on what someone said, to parse it, to tell me what they really said, how to interpret it, I can just watch this person speak directly, for HOURS on end, and make my own judgement.
I was skeptical of JD Vance, and if I'd just watched the MSM, even complementary outlets, I'd have probably opposed him, but then I watched him converse on Rogan for three hours with no censorship, no agenda, no soundbites, and I really related to him.
It's like the difference between reading a dating app profile and going on an actual date lol.
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Oh, wow, look at that, say his attorneys, the GFM is exactly 3,542,653 dollars, and our invoice is 3,542,654 dollars, that's so convenient. You owe us $1. We'll take all the rest.
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High School, Junior year, everyone was in AWE this senior guy who was pretty damn cool was dating an elementary school teacher. She was an ADULT, she was like 24 lol. He was 18. Age of consent is 17 in our state.
School admin couldn't do anything about it because she wasn't one of his teachers.
THEN I went to college, got a student job, and had to take an all day course on the ethics of dating your students lol, full of scenarios like "Person A is an undergrad student in the College or Arts and Sciences, and they're dating Dr So and So in the College of Business, is this ethical?" As long as they're not in a position of power, the answer is yes, as long as everyone is adults and there's no power dynamic, date whoever you want was the guidance.
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It's a bit more nuanced than that. As a lifelong conservative republican, if you asked me "Do I hate cops?", I'd say no, of course not. Not a single one.
BUT, do I hate corrupt sadists and bullies whom put on the uniform as a costume and pretend to be actual cops by the many, many thousands in my country? Absolutely. Of course, they're not cops, they're just wearing the costume as a mask, so they don't count in the population I consider peace officers. I think that's a distinction one should always consider.
I have friends and acquaintances in both groups. Some are fine, upstanding officers and members of their communities, and others are just a bad person who fooled enough people to get the right clothes and accessories. Just people.
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"Chimpanzees have excellent memories; if a male remembers having sex with a female the last time she was in estrus, he will refrain from killing the offspring that resulted from her mating frenzy"
Humans are roughly similar. We lack the senses of other animals that can just sniff one another and know if they're blood relatives, but we do remember, and yeah, if some chick I hooked up with had a kid that looked similar to me, and we were pillaging , I'd probably spare her because just in case, that COULD be my kid, I have no way to know or not know if the timeline works.
Now, if it was a few years back and she's got a newborn, eh, sorry....
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@DudewithPizza I'm in Missouri and UNLESS YOU'RE SPECIFICALLY ASKED ABOUT IT, relationships really are not a topic of normal conversation. I have friends and coworkers for YEARS that I have no clue if they're married, single, straight, gay, in a 36 member polucule, or whatever, BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT ME, so it's not MY business.
MYSTERY is far more interesting than knowing every damn thing. Maybe it's a Midwest thing.
Now if you ASK then sure, I do actually want to hear about your significant other(s) or the 15 woman roster you're slaying, IF I ask. Otherwise think of it like underwear: wear whatever crazy drawers you want, or none at all, just don't flash them in public.
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it's why I took my current job in water treatment, and got the highest certs and education available in the US. I've gained the kind of skills that will get me on the ARK at the end of the world. Do you need that attorney, do you need that actor, no, you need people who can create water and food, and doctors to keep people alive. ACTUAL skills suddenly become infinitely valuable. I have absolute confidence in my ability to make any available water safe to drink, because I already do it every day for thousands of people, Mississippi River water is about the worse source to pull from, and we make it happen. You can live just fine without lawyers and politicians and business execs and even teachers, but you won't even make it three days without SAFE water. You'll get thirsty and drink some random liquid and go Oregon Trail, you have died of dysentery.
Here's a free lesson: Turbidity, the measure of dirt and sediment present in water affecting it's clarity. The more turbidity, the more places pathogens have to reside and sicken you regardless of disinfection. EPA standard max turbidity for drinking water is 0.3 NTU (nephelometric turbidity units). The human eye, the BEST human eye, is only capable of seeing turbidity at 4.0 NTU and above. Anything under 4NTU looks clear and clean and drinkable. It's not. I could put a lineup of samples in front of you, one actually drinkable, all others not, and you could not tell the difference, nor could I. NO surface water safe, ANY of it, without treatment.
And none of this even touches on the other half of water, WASTEWATER, what do you do with and how do your treat your shit? I'm licensed in that too. You can't really do one without the other. This is centuries of knowledge we could lose in an instant in a solar flare.
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As a single never married PERSON, you tell me you're divorced I instantly JUDGE you harshly, man or woman, because there's millions of chances not to marry someone, and you missed them all. It astounds me seeing people get married when they've only known each other for years or so, you need decades to know someone that well.
And yes there is a Black Swan factor too, if you do some major event ONCE, the likelihood it happens again goes WAY up. You divorce once, the chances it happens again are extremely higher. Just like if you cheat once, it makes it easier again. once you cross that line, you can't cross back, so be REALLY sure you want to.
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I think that could actually hurt the situation in some cases. We're conditioned by movies and tv that altercations and chases are smooth, stable, well framed, easy to follow, and nicely edited.
Real life is shaky, blurry, out of frame, jittery, and difficult to see, and I think that needs to be preserved as part of the experience of the situation. It gives context.
Maybe smaller, multiple cameras, one stabilized and smooth, one raw showing what's actually happening in an unaltered way. Maybe patrol officers someday will have 'follow' camera drones, giving an over the shoulder view like a video game.
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@justhecuke True, but in my case I'm maxed out, I'm a department head, I'm a director, I've been at my employer literally years longer than even my supervisors (because they're politically elected office). I don't need to build relationships, THEY have to do that with ME. My direct reports are loyal to me. They'll even tell me, just because you work for the mayor doesn't mean I work for him, YOU are my boss, he's your boss, we do what YOU tell us.
You know how you get that kind of loyalty? By absolutely never asking for it and trying to avoid it at all costs. It's a strange thing I've seen countless times in my own life, people for the most part stack up in line behind a reluctant leader, and betray those who WANT to be leaders. If you jump out in front to lead, people won't follow...if you step up when you don't want to, people see that and respect it. The more you want it the less you'll get it.
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No, quite the opposite, when they refer to owner they mean the titleholder. If your name is not on the title, you're just driving it and making payments, you're NOT the owner, you're just some guy they let drive it and make payments. That's why they can repossess it, you never owned it, you just possessed it, now they're REmoving your POSSESSion.
You have all rights to the vehicle, sure, but only USE not ownership, like a condo. You live there but you don't OWN it. The person you pay to live there owns it.
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True, BUT not when it comes to legally protected classes or the lack thereof.
I could not fire an employee because they're a raging communist, but being left handed and a left handed supremacist myself, I could fire them right now for being right handed. Unfortunately handedness is not yet a protected class in the US. As such an oppressed minority, if I want to operate my business where I only hire the left handed, that's fine. Just like entire massive hospital systems today and for over a decade do not hire tobacco users. To work in hospital here in the Midwest, for example, you cannot smoke on or off work. Smoking is not a protected class.
The real, easy fix here is to classify vaccination status as a protected class you can't discriminate against, or to classify vaccination status as a disability this making it an ADA violation to base a decision on. When I went to university of Missouri, they actually did list being left handed as an actual disability, and had I wanted I could have gotten certified through the disability services office as 'disabled' and gotten the use of an ADA approved left handed desk or table in any classroom I went to, BY LAW. I never did as I didn't need to, but that policy was in place.
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It causes problems, I've seen it first hand, because to ME as a midwestern 40s white guy, 'fucin' with you' means I HATE you and I'm trying to find any way to make your life hell, I'm fucking with you, you douchebag.
It's crazy to me it would mean being with someone. Like taking the piss meaning a joke, what? If I say I don't with with them, it means I ignore them, avoid them entirely. Usage, "The local police, nah, I don't f with them AT ALL." means I see them I be somewhere else.
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Bruh, I lived in St Louis for 10 years when it had a murder rate higher than any city in Iraq or Afghanistan. Hundreds of murders and it wasn't even noticeable in day to day life. But those people still died and we still had the 'top most dangerous cities on earth' label, until we got jacked and Chicago stole that title.
More Americans have died in those two cities during the time period of the Iraq/Afghanistan war than our soldiers in that entire war. If you look at the entire Southern border as a whole there are more murders per YEAR than all of our combined casualties in your longest war in history, nearly 2 decades.
Statistically, Iraq and Afghanistan, for Americans, are safer than large parts of the US.
I've never been to a 3rd world country either, and you can fuck right the fuck off with what that has to do with anything.
Oh wait, I take that back, I live next to Illinois, so yes, I'm quite familiar with 3rd world/Communist nations.
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I hear that in the Midwest US where I grew up all the time, oh look at so and so rich farmer, look at that $300k combine, that $150k tractor, driving that $100k diesel truck...right, and wait till you see his monthly expenses. I know these people, and they have ONE failure, one bad year, it's a house of cards. And with the way our system is today it's precarious because that one big farmer folds, it's bad for his family sure, but he stops farming that's food for THOUSANDS of other people gone from the system. That's keeps happening, before long there are no more 'rich farmers' leveraging to the max to feed everyone, you have to feed yourself. It's not sustainable.
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I've had these debates, the longer she makes a man wait, to men, that means the LESS she likes us. She wants you in bed immediately, it means she REALLY likes you.
They see it the opposite, I hate this guy, lets bang immediately and it means nothing (to her). Then later, oh I like this one, so lets go slow.
I've been in that situation, wow, she wanted to go to bed on the first date, finally one that really likes me. Lol. She liked me so much in the 3 following days I waited to say hey I had a great time and lets be a couple because I liked her too, turns out she'd gotten with 3 other men in that time, because "it's JUST sex" she said.
Not to ME, lol.
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You think that until YOU are that boss with no tesla and no villa, with the people under you calling you a fat cat while you also try to just get by.
I work for government, no big boss with a salary, no profit sharing, no PROFITS, everyone paid the same, pretty terrible to be honest, MEANWHILE citizens making more money than I do call me a fatcat lazy leech. Why do that?
In the private sector it's double the money and half the responsibility, I'm thinking of jumping ship and saying F the citizens, they can fend for themselves, I'm going to get paid.
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Until we demonetize the entire platform, this will be a problem.
If you do youtube for the money, YOU are destroying free speech.
If they can't threaten your income, because you have none, you cannot be silenced.
We need to get back to youtube as a passion, and get away from 'creating as an industry'.
The growing movement in media is Value for Value. If you put out a good product, for free, with zero expectations of compensation, but just offer a way to donate back the value you get from the content, people are making millions with zero middlemen, no subscribepatreonstartube BS, no sponsor shilling, and no advertisers.
Just the viewers who like your content sending you value directly. Look into Podcasting 2.0 to get started.
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@thegrayghost1786 As a nationally licensed water treatment professional, I disagree RE: fluoride, specifically hydrofluorosilicic acid. It's entirely unnecessary, and our entire industry agrees. You should see the holes it eats in the concrete floor at our water plant. You should see how it melts skin if you get it on you unprotected. Also, it's expensive, and the testing protocol we have to use to monitor fluoride levels, spadns, exposes lab workers to arsenic hourly and creates a toxic wastewater stream that has to be dealt with.
I and every other expert professional I know advocate for the end of fluoride addition to drinking water solely based on those occupational hazards. That's no conspiracy theory, and OSHA even agrees. Also, Jeffrey Epstien didn't kill himself, and I think you're uninformed name-calling is probably racist/bigoted hate speech and I support your banning from the platform lol.
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I'd argue that's backwards: JON SNOW is the Gary Stu here, the secret heir to the throne that just happens to be the best fighter we know from the start of the show, who never loses, even when he DIES.
By contrast, Arya has zero skills starting out, loses everything, starts over deciding to get revenge, and gains the skills she has over years of work and even torment, such as being blinded and abandoned, stabbed near to death, and having to kill countless people on her path to getting back anything she's lost.
I hate the SJW/Metoo/identity politics bullshit as well, but I think too much of that is being read into this episode.
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Just realized, if any other human person is boring to you, that's solely YOUR failure of imagination.
Think about yourself, you are a vast virtually unknowable thing, you don't even know yourself all that well.
So engage that imagination, I use this trick: think about what you want to know about you, then ask other people that.
Like, i wonder how I feel about X, hey other person, random question but how do you feel about X?
Oh, that's an interesting answer, i would have never come to that conclusion, thanks!
And now your entire thinking changes.
Nothing of infinite complexity can be boring, your improper study of it is boring.
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The whole point of Captain America was to embody an aspirational ideal of America as a place/people of honor, dignity, integrity, trust, and dependability. He's the Boy Scout that's literally BETTER THAN YOU, that you should look up to and want to emulate.
This is all part of what Adam Carolla talked about growing up, his dad pointing to the wealthy man in town driving a nice car and said "see that, if you work hard and do the right thing, you have the opportunity to be like him", and somewhere that turned into "Hey, see that rich d-bag driving that nice car, put a rock through his window because f him".
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It's true, I've long thought there's no reason to get angry at the guy your woman cheats with, because SHE LIED TO HIM TOO TO GET HIM IN BED. I can't blame him for her treachery.
The only 'serious' relationship I've ever had ended at 3 years with her cheating with a guy she met at a party, and left me for him because 'he was a friend to her'. #monkeybranching
Fast forward 15 years, they got married, had like 3 kids (one she named after me LMAO), and now they're breaking up because she wants an 'open marriage'.
LULZ. And yes, she matched with me on Tinder recently, nooooooo.
The real hilarity is he's a really nice guy, we even turn out to work in the same field.
I've never blamed him, why would I?
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As a Missourian, lifelong conservative, CCW holder, lifetime NRA member, I fully support the police. They did nothing wrong. ANY time you use a firearm in an investigated event, anyone, any time, every case, even the police, that weapon goes INTO EVIDENCE. EVERY, FUCKING, TIME, FOR, EVERYONE. This is in state law, this is taught in CCW class, every gun owner knows it.
The saying is to never carry anything you're not willing to lose if you have to use it. Because you will. After the case you can go through court and get it back. Do you actually think if it was some violation of their rights, the ELITE LIFELONG LAWYERS would have allowed it? FUCK NO. They would have refused it, they would have fought it with their $1000/hr lawyers, and it would not have happened. Knowing the law, they followed the law.
It annoys the fuck out of me every time out of staters like Tim that have no fuck of a clue about my state say this dumb shit. Fuck the police, but they did nothing wrong in THIS case so far. It's all on the insane lawyers representing the City.
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The saddest part of watching all this, all the drama, all the hatred, all the crazy...
Is I'm secretly jealous these guys are getting this attention, horrible as it is.
Myself, if I want to import a 350lb Asian or African woman to marry, I have literally hundreds of those matches on Tinder, lol.
Meanwhile, I swipe right on 3-5 profiles a second, hundreds per session, every day, and I might get 1 local match a week at best.
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@johngenericlastname9781 As a Missourian, lifelong conservative, CCW holder, lifetime NRA member, I fully support the police. They did nothing wrong. ANY time you use a firearm in an investigated event, anyone, any time, every case, even the police, that weapon goes INTO EVIDENCE. EVERY, FUCKING, TIME, FOR, EVERYONE. This is in state law, this is taught in CCW class, every gun owner knows it.
The saying is to never carry anything you're not willing to lose if you have to use it. Because you will. After the case you can go through court and get it back. Do you actually think if it was some violation of their rights, the ELITE LIFELONG LAWYERS would have allowed it? FUCK NO. They would have refused it, they would have fought it with their $1000/hr lawyers, and it would not have happened. Knowing the law, they followed the law.
It annoys the fuck out of me every time out of staters like Tim that have no fuck of a clue about my state say this dumb shit. Fuck the police, but they did nothing wrong in THIS case so far. It's all on the insane lawyers representing the City.
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Tim, municipal employee here, the president says spend money and rains federal dollars, my boss does whatever they say. The feds control ALL the big money at the state level. My own state suborns grants to the feds. We have flooding the feds pay for it all, also, if we're doing something wrong we get the stick, no federal funds.
Under Biden we LOST Fed money locally because my city did not force vax on us workers, so we are not eligible for several handouts of fed cash.
The president has massive power locally, because locals give it to the feds.
Read a book, talk to people, learn this stuff, it matters, like trillion dollars matters.
My own individual department got $300k in covid money we still haven't figured out how or where to spend, the strings are crazy.
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13:20 Tim, your video yesterday LITERALLY DID THAT, the title was "US evacuated over Corona virus fears".
It was about our diplomats pulling out, but just reading that headline I actually thought, because I somewhat trusted you, we were actually evacuating the entire United States, so of course I clicked immediately.
You deliberately crafted that headline with that clear intent, you misled viewers.
So happy I block ads from all YouTubers. The money has destroyed this platform. It went from a passion, a hobby, to a job, and died.
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It makes sense when you think about expectations too. As a man I was always told to 'attract a mate' you needed to be smart, why, to get a good job to provide, so you could afford a home, and all that.
Now I'm here and I've met all society's boxes, I checked everything, where's my wife? Wasn't I supposed to be issued one, I did everything society told me to, I went to the places, I did the things, I made the money, I own the house, I got debt free, I worked my deadlift up to 315lbs, I got my 5K down to 30 minutes...what's enough?
Oh, things aren't enough, now I have to be funny and charming and look people in the eye and all that...getting all the stuff you told me too was hard enough now I have to learn all that, just to get one night stands? Nah.
Society, done.
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TTF is CORRECT, I won't speak for all men, but for myself, I REMEMBER how I was treated when I was younger, and 300lbs, and looked terrible, and now when people I knew all that time see coming-up-on-6-pack 170lbs me and tell me how great I look, how they see me running all the time, how proud of me they are, I'm almost disgusted, because I think "Thanks and all but if you really cared you'd have grabbed me by the ears years before and said you're a fat fuck, you're killing yourself, be a man, fix your bullshit and get in shape if not for you for your family and people you care about". No, it took ME doing that, not anyone around me, and I upset people when I tell them that, usually because I tell them I'm going to do what I wanted done for me, for you, you're a fat fuck, start running, hit the gym, find something, anything to live for and improve for and DO IT. You're worth it, and I think you're worth it enough to tell you that.
You can't lie to me and tell me this happy/healthy at any size crap because I've been supersized and I was not happy. I'm still not all that happy, but now I'm not all that happy while having fun doing 10k runs, pullups every day, and deadlifting double my bodyweight lol.
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He did, that's the highest rating! Everyone knows this.
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0
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Women today say being under 6' and not being a millionaire is immoral. You're short or fat as a man, you're a bad person, that's the society women have created through their influence.
As you say, women are the gatekeepers of sex, so if tomorrow you all decided to only bang men that fit whatever criteria, the next day all men would be trying to meet that. Right now, men are CUTTING THEIR LEGS OFF and adding bone to approach 6' and get dates, costing hundreds of thousands and making them learn to rewalk for 6 months. That's how desperate YOU have made men lol.
And if you all said "We'll only F men under 5'8" and over 300lbs, you'd see BILLIONS of men eating 50,000 calories to gain weight and getting their legs cut off to be shorter.
ALL of our problems can ONLY be solved by you guys and proper pussy allocation. STEP UP. Manipulate more, it's your skill after all.
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My fellow Millennials, being 36 and an elder of our generation, I implore you to adopt the following reading list:
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
Behold a Pale Horse, by Bill Cooper
Confessions of an Economic Hitman, by John Perkins
1984, by George Orwell, and its companion novel, Animal Farm.
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson
That's a good start and will open your perceptions to many others you'll want to check out. I read F451 basically by accident when I was in middle school and it radically changed my views even to this day.
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As someone who lost a parent due to lockdowns preventing them getting the medical care they needed, only to be locked outside of the hospital while my mother died ALONE, suffering with STRANGERS, then had to put the funeral off months because the f-ing cemetery was COVID lockdowned, my initial offer for forgiveness is I need to see suicides. I want these officials to go out on the lawn and commit seppuku, or the method of their choice. However, they need to be permanently removed so they can never perpetuate their crimes on humanity again.
Maybe after that we can talk atonement, restitution, reparations, whatever you want to call it.
And they might say, how can you do this, I have a family!!
To which I sit back, sip my beer, and say "Yeah, fuckin' tragic isn't it? Maybe in 6 months we'll allow your family the privilege of having a funeral for you..."
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By the same token there really is no epidemic of protesting, looting, or rioting in the US when you look at the problem in the context of the size of the country. There's almost 350 MILLION of us. It's why polling irks me. You ask 1200 people what they think and that's supposed to mean anything?
If there were actual widespread protests, looting, and rioting, proportional to our actual population, there would be tens of millions of people doing it, not thousands or hundreds of thousands. If some issue really caught fire and had real broad support with everyday people, not activists and news junkies, it would be orders of magnitude larger than anything we've ever seen, and all the activists would probably be like "where did all these white people come from?!".
We've never really seen anything like that in this country. For example, go look at some video of East Germany in 1989, they had legit protests where something like 1/10th of the entire population of the country, almost 2 million people, demonstrated at Alexanderplatz in East Berlin. Can you imagine like 35 million Americans gathering in DC on the Mall for a protest? I have a feeling it would be heard, but it would have to be something REALLY, ACTUALLY motivating.
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My horrific covid experience was feeling run down and more tired than usual at work on Tuesday, taking Wednesday and Thursday as sick days where I had a terrible fever, almost 100F lol, and was tired. I felt normal Friday, so I left the house to get tested, positive, placed under quarantine until the day after Christmas 2020.
My treatment was not throwing anything at it, there weren't really any symptoms TO treat. The following week on quarantine I felt GREAT, probably the most healthy I'd felt in a long time, I got a TON of work done around my farm being off work.
Contrast that with Christmas 2019 when I had strep and was so sick I thought I was going to actually die. High, real fevers for days, lost 15lbs in a week from not eating, chills, teeth-chattering shivers, crazy sore throat, and a cough that sounded terrible and I didn't shake off until around Valentines day-ish 2020.
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I know in shooting competitions I've gone to, any ammo of ANY kind is not to be out or loaded in anything away from the firing line. If you need to do a function check or some other manipulation away from the firing line, you go to the designated 'cold range' area to do that, where you are allowed to take nothing but the empty, checked firearm in and tools as needed, and a safe, controlled direction to do things like sight and dry fire is provided and maintained. Hell, you can't even chamber a round until you're on the firing line, prepared to to your event.
It's rigid safety protocols and diligent, no-nonsense, no exceptions enforcement of them that keeps the thousands of firearms competitions everyday in the US stunningly safe. It's all pretty common sense stuff.
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I had a friend, she was a stay at home mom, her husband traveled for work climbing communication towers.
They had a somewhat open relationship. One night, her and her friend and I were hanging out, things led to things, I banged her friend in front of her, they both participated. Then she wanted her turn, I'm not all that attracted to her so I turned her down.
You can see my mistake.
Next time I came by I was met at the door by her husband who I was good friends with.
He told me I'd offended her, and she never wanted me around again.
I asked him straight up, "Are you telling me that because I wouldn't bang your wife while you were out of town, I'm kicked out of the house?"
He replied "Yep, that's exactly what's happening, and you really pissed her off."
Found out after that the reason it pissed her off is I was the ONLY young guy around who did say no to her easy lay and that bothered her.
Weirdos.
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Jealousy is bad, but ENVY can be useful. I know personally it makes me feel bad seeing happy couples and families, but not in a way that I'm like "F them, why do THEY deserve that and I don't", no, that's a mistake.
Thinking damn, what can I do myself to get that because that's what I want. It's nothing to do with those strangers, they're just the example I'm comparing my situation to. I don't hate them, I hate whatever about me is keeping me from that, THAT I can probably work on and control. I can ASPIRE to that. I look up to those successful people, I ADMIRE them.
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That's actually true in many cases, and it's for a good reason: who wants to do your own work when you're paying already for someone else to?
And by that I mean most leases on high-end cars include ALL maintenance for the life of the lease. You're already paying for the dealer to replace your wiper blades, change your oil, even vacuum and wash it in some cases. I know a local dealer that even picks your car up at your house for service and leaves a loaner. That's in the lease price. You get a worry-free automobile for 3 years, then you upgrade to the newest one. It works out for the dealer because then your 3 year old 36k mile used lease, which they hold the records of all on-time maintenance on, gets sold at a premium as a 'Certified' pre-owed car by the dealer.
With cars like BMW for example, this makes the most sense, because with their maintenance schedule you'd be on the hook for thousands + in just routine maintenance yearly on top of the high monthly payments. Congratulations on having your car for a year, it's due for it's "Service II", that'll be $7500.
It's why used BMWs from individuals can usually be purchased inexpensively (relatively) because they deferred all that scheduled maintenance that makes it drive so well. Been there.
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I won't even bang vaxxed people, and neither should you, so why would I passport bro? Every foreign women is unavailable due to the policies of my government. It's why passport broing was an early cross off my list, why spend hundreds of thousands to import a 50/50 chance, I could lose everything here for way less work, money, or effort.
Also, consider this: US citizenship is a gift far bigger than anything you could give any wife, she could naturalize, divorce you, then chain-sponsor her entire family to immigrate, costing your countrymen out of pocket. It's a giant risk. I have friends who passport bro-ed in the 80s, with a 100% divorce rate, one was my brother in law who's second wife divorced him, abducted his two kids, one from a previous marriage even, and went to England. No extradition for family matters, neither he nor his first wife have seen their son for decades, he has great grandkids he has and will probably never meet. And like he told me, that's why you never get married, and sure as hell don't marry anyone with a built-in international escape plan. He has zero legal recourse.
When they lived together in England (he was in the air force), she'd constantly get him harassed by the local police, which of course got him in trouble with the US military too, because as a non-citizen married to a citizen, he had little to no rights, basically just another immigrant to their system, so that's also something to look out for, just like in the US, if you're a citizen, you do enjoy certain rights and privileges denied to a non-citizen, and in some foreign nations that can be an extreme difference.
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@MountainMace but the local da stated himself a week prior, publicly, that a taser IS a lethal weapon, to justify action against police that used a taser on a college student.
That sets precident, that doesn't just go away.
Another example, in my state of Missouri, a collapsible baton and any knife over 4" are listed right next to firearm in the lethal weapon statute, they are identical under the law. To even carry a baton, or large knife, concealed here requires a concealed firearm license, which I have.
You pull a 6" kbar or extend a baton against someone it is legally identical to pulling a handgun on them, under our law.
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Yeah, try using your natural weapons like other animals when a grown man has a 9mm in your face, getting twitchy because you're not removing your watch shoes belt phone wallet fast enough.
Make no mistake, we are animals no different than any in nature, and we hunt each other by the hundreds of millions, and your natural weapons, of which we have zero aside from our wits, are not the best choice.
The sole difference between a human predator and human prey is technology. TOOL USE elevates us. You decline to use tools, you're just prey, and the real irony is it's not even the predator's fault, because you possess the intellect to know you've willingly disarmed yourself. You've victimized yourself. You haven't put your own life on the line, you've forfeited the game at the start. This honor you speak of only comes through survival. The winner is the only one with honor, in objective reality, and whatever it takes to win is honorable.
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Lifelong Missourian here, concealed carrier, gun owner. ANY gun used in ANY investigated incident, LEGAL OR NOT, is always taken as evidence, by every department, in every case, every time. In training, you're stressed to never carry anything you're not willing to lose, because if you have to use it, shots fired or not, it's gone. You can petition later to recover that property.
Now, in that case, as in the case of the McCloskys, they can go buy a crate of machineguns today if they want to. They've been convicted of no crime, they've been deprived of no rights. Their case is why you need LOTS of guns, as backups.
You can call the police nazis all we want, but as a lawful gun owner to stay lawful one needs to cooperate with an investigation. It's a big deal to threaten to end another's life even if you are 1000% justified in doing so.
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Like I've never understood the "gay cake" debacle, the baker that refused the wedding cake for the gay couple.
I'm a capitalist, I thought the idea was to make money. Some gay dudes want me to decorate a cake, ok, you want giant cocks on it or something? Oh, just happy wedding, ok. You have USD or bitcoin to pay with, cake coming right up!
If I wasn't there to take money to put things on cakes, why TF am I running a cake store, to turn away money? I could do that way easier than running a business lulz.
Hitler want a swasitka cake....does he have USD? What color swastika?
I worked at Dairy Queen for a bit and I made some CRAZY cakes, one wanted giant tits on the cake with congrats on the boob job, so I icing piped some gargantuan tits onto this cake, it was rockin' lol. I make a cake for some people who wanted it as a gag for a buddy getting out of prison, so I made a prison break themed cake real fast. Our policy was "It is going in the display case? No? Then they can have whatever they want on THEIR cake. Sky's the limit. We're adults lol.
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Honestly I'm kind of excited to see something remove nearly all the corrupting money from youtube, at last. Maybe it'll go back to the days before monetization, where people made whatever content they wanted and no one forced themselves into making whatever was trendy at that second, for money. In the good days of youtube, your payment for your content was the ability to have it hosted and seen by millions without you having to pay a fortune to a hosting provider. Youtube paid you by letting you upload content for free. At that time that was revolutionary. The google bought it and it's been giant channel monetary corporate merch selling garbage since then. No one should be making more than minimum wage here, because no one should be paying to watch your content, and by being advertised to and raped by data collection, we pay quite dearly. Also, with no money on the line, you can't be threatened over your content's content. Say expletives, be controversial, fuck brands and families, you'd probably get a bigger audience. But it should never be about the money. Some of the best channels on youtube, with the highest quality content, refuse to monetize and have never made a dime.
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People give average a bad rap, but being just as good as about half the 8 billion human population is pretty damn impressive actually.
The global all time average for human males running 5 kilometers is 30 minutes. If you can run a 5k, 3.2 miles, in 30 minutes, you're dead center of the bell curve average among ALL human males.
That's pretty damn impressive really, at just 10 minutes a mile x 3 you're out running billions of other men.
And as far as athletes that's SLOW.
Last 5k I ran I finished dead even 30 minutes, perfectly average, and that's was overall third place, and I was arms length from 2nd and first.
While we waited at the finish line for the women who take 50 minutes, one of the organizers friends who is a college competition distance runner, left to run the course...he ran the 5k in 17 minutes with no warmup. That's what's possible above average.
The fastest women btw ran a 42 minute time, and she was a high school track competitor lol.
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It an interesting situation and how they handled it. I was involved in a traffic accident with a local police officer, the dept chief in fact, when I was in college. Turned out to be his fault, but that entire dept did NONE of the investigation. They arrived on scene, told everyone to stay put, and called in State Police to run the entire investigation. I never spoke to any of the local PD other than them to tell me to wait for State, they could not investigate an incident involving their own officer. Guy was in an unmarked going about double the speed limit and we hit each other changing lanes, me going into the turn lane, him trying to beat the intersection yellow. I was on my way to work, and it was a crazy story to tell as to why I was late lol.
It's a sinking feeling to go "Holy shit what just happened, that guy's crazy!", and look up and see "City of [Redacted] Police" license plates on the other vehicle. I will also say in my case, the officer NEVER got out of the car or checked on me AT ALL. I never even spoke to him or was within 10 feet of him. I'm guessing he radioed in, we were like 1/4 mile from the dept, but I didn't get out because I didn't want him to think I was any sort of threat, and he didn't get out until officers arrived.
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I can speculate from my perspective, we want a feminine, conservative, modest women TO EVERYONE ELSE. We want you to be another one of our friends who also can't keep their hands off of us to US, in private.
So many women today are the opposite. They act modest to their partner, then are giving attention to other men to inspire jealousy/competition in their man for manipulation. I see it daily. I've seen it happen to me, she has some problem or concern and she'll ask family, friends, strangers, ANYONE but the man she loves, and it should be the OPPOSITE. It's all about respect.
When I've been in relationships, that's when I'd get ALL the attention from other women, trying to steal me. It's sickening. What's more sickening is the disgust you see in those women when you shoot them down because you refuse to cheat. Women don't do that, it seems, they get attention from outside men, it's flattering and they follow it. Not saying you'd do that, but the option even being there makes it hard to swallow.
My main dealbreaker is "Does she want kids? No? Then what's the point, this relationship would go nowhere, not wasting my time, I want a family." I'm goal oriented, and so many are NOT today.
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YEAH BUT SHE DESERVES him working his dick into the dirt 115 hours a week, at least, how else is he going to IMPROVE FOR HER.
LOL.
It always makes me laugh, women don't know what NET WORTH is. I know women making 6 figures DEAD BROKE, and I know men making $36K an year that could literally put a million cash on a table today. I am that man.
I work full time mostly as a hobby, and I'm a department head so I get to manage stuff, but I could retire today at 40 and have like 4 lifetimes of coasting. I inherited.
But to women I'm broke because I only make $36k. But I'm debt free, student loan free, cars, trucks, motorcycles, boats, own my house and farm free and clear, but none of that is FLASHY.
They'd rather you spent $250k on a chain than a house.
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Meanwhile the right are individualists that as a group are saying "I'M the only one who CAN do this". And then they do it, and landslide takeover the entire government.
Remember way back in 2010, after Obama get elected in 2008, the Tea Party kicked off, millions of people ORGANIZED politically, not violently, and the midterms were the largest House/Senate flip in US History. I did a LOT of work in that 2 years, as did many. The left COULD have done that, but no, not ME, someone ELSE can do all that, said all of them.
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It's why I think God has the most possible compassion: if he's omniscient and omnipotent, that means he knows everything that's going to happen to you AND he could finger snap handwave snowplow all of that out of your way, BUT you are trusted enough with free will that he knows you can deal with it. Some would say that's kinda fucked up, but letting people fail, especially when you see It and know it's going to happen, because that's how people grow, and we see the kids of snowplow parents and how they never did grow because they never faced adversity and never on their own. That's not loving your kids, that's hating them. That's like having a kid that's 20 but never learned to walk, but he's so SAFE, no falls, no skinned knees, no broken bones or injuries, but also no quality of life. They're a prisoner to safety.
We all NEED to fall, it's how we learn to get back up.
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That story is just another example of women not caring what men want lol.
Honey, I'm bi...
Oh, that's great, I support you, lets go on this journey together! Here let me find you a BF to go on dates with and move in and do activities!
Um, NO, I just want a fwb I can get some good head from now and then, why would I want a BF, I'm not GAY lol, and besides I already have a wife.
They can't understand severing the physical from emotional, in my experience. She sees being bi as wanting a relationship with men, I see it as a backup to get off lol. Any hole will do isn't entirely wrong.
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As a consumer, I'd rather pay the $14 for domestic steel than the $15 for foreign or the $10 if it means ONE HUNDRED percent of my dollars stay in the US.
As a government purchaser, I'm MANDATED to buy the US made product, particularly steel pipe...if the domestic goes up in price but is still cheaper than the foreign, that's actually good, because in the past it looked F-ed up that buying domestic Quadrupled THE PRICE over foreign suppliers. There's a lot of fuckery.
Here's the other concern, if you and the foreigns raise your prices like that, a percentage of buyers will just say F it, we're not buying anything, it's too expensive.
Sort of like everyone under 40 with marriage, f it, I can't afford it so I'll just forego it. Maybe next life?
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As a drinking water professional, I started this thinking well, 3 gallons of water in 2 hours, that's not too terrible, there has to be more to this story...then he says it was distilled water, ah, say no more fam.
NEVER, EVER drink distilled water unless it is your absolute last available option. Only seawater would be worse. It's not only distilleds lack of minerals and ions that causes problems, but it often has a very low pH value and no alkalinity. If you do drink it on an empty stomach this is why you'll notice it causes heartburn. Ideal water ph is 7.4 to about 9, most distilled I've tested is about a 4.5. Bottled water is very similar in many brands, and should be avoided for the same reasons
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As someone who works with FEMA in my job, really the ONLY thing they can do in an emergency is RAIN MONEY. Oh you have flooding, keep your receipts of what YOU spend to deal with it, we'll make you whole on the back end, 18 months from now once the forms are approved.
Fema is NOT showing up to fill sandbags. FEMA is not giving your flooded neighbor a spare room, or opening a shelter and manning it, nope, local charities do that and get funded by Fema, eventually. Often it's local organizations and individuals who just DO IT, because if you wait for the feds you may be waiting a while.
My Mississippi River town flooded in 2019 and we're STILL waiting on Fema and National flood insurance program reimbursements/funding. We're just now spending MONEY FROM COVID, in 2025!
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It's like the idiots who say if they removed Trump and Pence they'd get Pelosi as President, NO. They'd remove Trump, step one, which would elevate Pence, THEN they appoint a new VP, NOT elevate the Speaker. The Speaker Assumes the Presidency only if BOTH Prez and VP are taken out at once. We've seen this before, the VP resigned, the Speaker didn't step up to VP, no, they nominated and placed a new VP in that spot, THEN when the President resigned, the VP elevated and they picked yet another new VP. You can't remove the VP until he (oops my bad, female VP now, it's 2024, slap hand, THEY) IS President.
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@KjKase that's the great thing about being on two wheels, just hit the throttle and escape that situation with velocity! Fighter jet mindset, get out of that dogfight BS, leave it behind.
I worried about traffic until I realized hey, I can outmaneuver, outgap, out accelerate and outstop ANY of these jokers, what am I afraid of?
I did get snuck up on the other day and I didn't like that, cruising on the highway, 'felt' the wind change somehow, glanced around and there was an F150 RIGHT next to me in the left lane slowly passing me, I probably could have reached over and pushed off from the passenger fender.
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Even harder and more annoying as a childless bachelor is people maneuvering to take my disposable TIME.
I can't count the times I've heard I should be doing something someone says I should just because 'well you're single with no kids, you have the time. We can't do that, we have our kids'.
It's why I was volunteered to take care of my elderly dad out of all my siblings, I just have a career, my siblings have marriages and kids so they're too busy.
I've had arguments with people over meetings at an organization I volunteer for, I had to take time off work to fill in for another man, and he tried to play it off as my missing work was not a big deal because HE had to watch his kid...he did NOT like me telling him I didn't care about his kid, my career is my kid, why do I have to neglect my 'kid' to benefit yours? That was YOUR choice, he's a 4x divorced brah lol.
I can make more money, I can't make more time, so stop trying to spend it for me, people.
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12:00 here's how that would REALLY hurt people, your local government and state workers don't make $17/hr for the most part, and if min-wage went up to that, then you'd have to pay them MORE, WAY more than that min wage, and where can that money only come from? MORE TAXES, because local and state gov can't print money, they have to take it from YOU.
So your water bill TRIPLES, your sewer bill triples, your electricity bill quadruples, your streets cost way more, your fees and licenses for dog and cat licenses go up, YOU GET LESS COPS and they have to write MORE TICKETS to make up that massive new cost difference just to break even at the service level they already provide, and no way you'd get quality workers at that low a wage, they could make more somewhere else.
As it is I know gov workers with a decade in service, with skills thousands of citizens count on every day for public health, that earn as much as a cashier at Target, because government wages via taxation can't rise as easily with inflation.
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If you can see chemicals in the water, but the test of that water is negative, that's the test. I do these tests 10 hours a day, for almost 10 years now. If it's not in the water, it's not there. You CAN attack the testing method, the sampling sites, the accuracy, lab procedures, but just because you don't get the answer YOU WANT doesn't mean the test is fake or that people like me are somehow in a conspiracy or corrupt.
If you don't trust the results, well, magical thinking is common among the uneducated populace.
Tim called the vax safe for a year.
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I got over my food addiction the same way I quit smoking two packs a day: laziness.
I'm a non-smoker, so why would I go to all the WORK to smoke? You have to go to the store, buy them, have money to do that, get home, open that shit, lighters, working lighters, ashtrays, go outside in the cold, that's a lot of work and I'm too lazy for that, so I just won't anymore.
Pizza and bagels, ugh, that's a lot more work, I'm already full on straight keto protein and fat, i'd have to struggle to eat that bad stuff, so I won't.
Have the mindset of why would I do all that work? Easier to just do the bare minimum.
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Can I ask seriously, how DOES that happen? I'm probably just weird, but it's SO easy for me to just 'forget' people out of my life I can't stand. It takes effort to maintain any relationship of any kind, so I don't do it. I just can't imagine being MARRIED to someone I didn't absolutely ADORE, because I'm fine being alone instead of around people I don't like, and as you described her I'd never have spent 2 seconds around her, much less the YEARS it would take to get me to decide to join for life with them.
I guess what I'm asking, honestly and seriously, because I see this story over and over and over, is how/why do men marry women they don't KNOW? I have 4 sisters, we're a very close family, and I don't know any of them even enough to marry them (theoretical here lol). And I know secrets not even their multi-decade husbands know, DEEP family shit lol. I know women keep secrets and do stupid shit, and lie, cheat, steal, because I'm an only brother and I heard and saw all this over 40 years.
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All it means is he's not straight. Not being straight doesn't force you into some other box, so to speak. It opens more doors than it closes.
I've known REAL gay men that literally had vagina thrown in front of them (college, don't ask) and recoil in disgust, how 'gross' it was is all they talked about the rest of the night, how can you bring yourself to do THAT he kept asking us lol. And he has a point. Saw the same dude try shrooms for the first time and was talking himself through a wave of trip saying "Shawn, you can do this, whoooooo, ok, you got this, you're SUPPOSED TO BE A MAN, act like it!" with clenched fists lol.
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As one of the people who run a water treatment plant, I would concede that we need programmers, their work is what makes it possible for me to run a plant large enough to supply 10,000 people entirely solo. Without the automation coordinated by the PLCs they setup, it would take 5 of me to do what I do and stay within spec and regulation. I have a comp sci degree under my technical qualifications (I'm licensed to operate any plant in the US), but PLCs and factory automation is a specialized field I've worked on learning on the job but it's an entire branch of technology on its own.
But to the larger point, yes, that was one consideration I had when I got into the water treatment industry and why I put in the effort and initiative to become a qualified expert, because if shit REALLY ever goes down, it's a highly-valued, marketable skillset. If there's 1 open spot on The Ark and it's between me, an actor, a lawyer, and a stockbroker, I'd hope it would be me to run the water systems for everyone.
That reminds me of an instructor I had in college, he worked at Boeing (MD) for over 40 years, he was one of the program leads on the f14 and later f15, he had a doctorate in engineering, masters in aeronautical engineering and computer science, and a bachelors in chemical engineering, all from good schools like Purdue and Washington University. He taught advanced operations management. I always thought THAT is the kind of resume you want if you had to go down a list of who is and isn't going to survive some cataclysm.
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There is your problem, 4 years.
Here in Missouri, assault with injury is a Class B felony, 7-15 year sentence mandatory. If the person is a 'special victim', defined under Mo law as a law enforcement officer, a first responder of any type, probation officer, elderly person, disabled, a highway construction worker, any utility worker, and any employee on mass transit, that's a Class A felony, MINIMUM 10 YEAR SENTENCE, with the option for up to 30 years or even life, depending on circumstance.
Four years is a joke!
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@faizalf119 Yep, I was late 30s when Pewdiepie got into Minecraft, and that pulled me into it.
But once I slayed the Ender Dragon a few times, got all the stuff, did all the things, meh, I got busy and had to move on. Once I was farming tons of iron a day and going to bed and waking up to my infinite fishing rod glitch with a hundred chests full of loot, once I had sooooo much shit there was literally nothing to do with it all thus making everything sort of worthless, it was like what's the point, lol? Why add yet another story to this self-harvesting farm? Do I really need 10,000 more beets and carrots to feed 500 more pigs and cows?
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Tim, if you lose the 50 year old, fuck em, we already GOT their money for 25 years. If we don't hook this 25 year old zoomer, then you have to get the 50 year old right now to drink THREE TIMES AS MUCH, 1 to cover their current consumption, one more to make up for the lost zoomer, and a third drink to have GROWTH.
REMEMBER, a business like AB-Inbev, if you're not growing, and growing above a certain minimum rate, you're DYING. Holding steady is end of the world to them.
You have a losing year, selling VICE, the stock tanks, and rightfully so. It's like failing selling heroin, like, HOW?
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I'm glad you used that specific word, "deperson". A synonym for dehumanize. Here's the problem I have with dehumanizing someone due to their views: if you can do it to someone, you can do it to ANYONE. I personally don't want to be dehumanized, so I oppose dehumanizing anyone.
It's the same with censorship. If something can be censored, that makes room and precedent for ANYTHING to be censored. 'Hate Speech' is a vehicle of this. Oh, racism is bad, hate speech, silence it...but then a while later, before you know it, it's something mundane and mainstream that a vocal enough minority bitches about, oh, that's now hate speech, just like racism, and you're 'evil' for saying that opinion, silence it. And if you try to fight back against that, well now you're a 'bigot' who 'platforms' and defends 'hate speech'...It's very insidious and pernicious.
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The movie was bad, but even worse it was BORING.
Also, everyone harps on the sexualizing of the kids, but why is no one outraged that the main character almost MURDERED the fat latina girl by pushing her in the canal to take her spot in the dance group finale? She pushes her in, watcher her sink, and thinks about maybe helping, but then she grabs a buoy so she's like "nah, it'll be fine" and walks off, and that's never mentioned or addressed again, WTF?
But yeah, it was creepy, and the most fucked up part is I'd have never heard of or watched it if there wasn't so much hoopla and outrage over it.
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My memory isn't spectacular, but my ability to know I remember is pretty fucking spectacular. By that, I might not know exactly what it is I need to know immediately, but I always almost instantly know if it is something I do know, if that makes sense.
Example: something happens at my job, I'm the guy saying "Yeah I remember how that went down last time 5 years ago, yeah, give me a second, I know I have it here, gotcha! Here's the photos and notes I took with my phone 5 years ago, with all the data and specs and part #s we need."
I might not remember what I need, but I remember HOW to remember and I never throw any information away, because someday it'll be useful, somehow.
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Also, it's not photographic, but almost. Recent example, in needed a bunch of long, complicated part numbers for some maintenance parts. I know I made copies of the labels to get all the info on one page, I could not find that page, but I remembered precisely what it looked like, down to the sizes of the labels and the length of the part numbers, lol, but not the actual data. I can look right at it with my mind and see a very close representation of it, but not quite it. Probably with practice, but I'm already 40, probably a bit late for super spy mind training.
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The proper acronym used to be LGBTQQIAAP, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Allies, Pansexual.
The new '2S' form includes 'Two Spirited' persons, an indigenous American form of non-binary expression.
And now you know all that useless info I had to look up the other day.
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No, you just redefined racism. Racism is just that, prejudice solely based on race. ANY race.
We will always have racism. Know why? Because it's a HUMAN problem, not the issue of any individual race or ethnicity. Ending racism is like trying to end murder or prostitution: we've been doing it since day one, we'll be selling sex and killing each other right up until our extinction day, and that's regardless of all external factors. The moment you refuse to think you're capable of horrible things is the moment horrible things become capable of happening. Every individual has the whole of human evil inside them, and it's the responsibility of every INDIVIDUAL not to act on it. Most don't. But anyone can, and will.
Every time you see some horrible act occur or a horrific news story play out or someone perpetrate some heinous act, you feel it in your soul, in your very being disgusted and sad that happened, and you feel fear. Fear not just of that terrible thing happening to you or those you care about, but a part of you, whether you realize it consciously or not, realizes with a start that YOU are no better or worse than them, that YOU are capable of doing that. You cannot be a good person without realizing how bad all people can be.
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Hey men, let's IRL boycott Tim Pool!
He can bootstrap up to 100% making his own electricity, food, water, and the maintenance of such, his own building, plumbing, all that. I'd hate to think he's PROMOTING anyone by paying them for these services.
He can do it himself, like REAL people do. Need a new studio, put down the phone, no one is answering, build it yourself from scratch.
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A mail in ballot envelope isn't just for secrecy. In my state the envelope has the name and jurat oath that proves what registered voter the ballot belongs to and must be matched to.
I'm a notary. To vote absentee here in Missouri, at least pre-covid, your ballot must be NOTARIZED. That means that person comes to a bonded, oath-bound officer of the court like myself, presents valid ID which I copy into my permanent record book, and then I stamp/seal their ballot.
If there is any question of if the ballot was cast by whom it says it was, they track it back to me and I can validate it, AND, I TAKE FINGERPRINTS. Many notaries do, there a spot for it right In the record book.
If every state did this, there would/could not be any voter fraud unless there was also notary fraud, which is a major felony in all 50 states.
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7:00
"We should want everyone to be woke. But they won't be if we keep scaring them off. That's what wokeness is to me. Once you strip back all the jargon and posturing, it's just basic consideration."
NO, wokeness at it's purest is the absolute refusal to have any consideration, for any mitigating factor, for any circumstance or context, it's the complete denial of NUANCE.
"Oh, a white guy said the n-word, canceled!" "Yeah but, what was the situation in which he said it?" "Doesn't matter, he said the magic spell work, now the canceling happens! And YOU, are you DEFENDING him by asking about consideration or context!? That's makes you even worse! Collaborator! CANCEL!!"
If one has actual consideration, one cannot take being woke seriously in the vast majority of cases.
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Doing an ad, only an idiot wouldn't use a teleprompter. Trump does during video production. It's part of the process.
What we take Biden to task for is he has to use a teleprompter for live off-the-cuff events and interviews. It would be like sitting down with a long-time friend, asking them how their family is, and they have to pop open a notebook to look at their lines to say how their mom is doing. This should be regular-person easy flow conversation, no prompting needed. You shouldn't need a prompter for a debate, because a debate should not/could not ever be scripted.
THAT is the issue. When you're literally 'doing a read' like a commercial, a speech delivery, or a tv show, IT'S SCRIPTED, EVERYONE is on prompter. But for things unscripted, no.
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7:42
There's your list of fascist censors: Australia, Canada, The EU Commission, France, Germany, Indonesia, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Senegal, Spain, Sweden, The UK, plus Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Youtube.
Gee, it's almost like there's only one developed nation left on Earth where there is still freedom and some independence. Instead of these articles lamenting and questioning why the White House is not on board, they should be asking why would we WANT to be part of that? It's counter to a quarter millennia of our culture and history.
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We are experts, and with our expertise we are telling you this is a great product, and it's even on sale, click here to buy it, we get a kickback if you do, and this is completely not an advertisement.
You got to buy it, you got to buy it, Buy,buy, buy!!
I guess such sites fail to realize that by positioning themselves as 'product experts' in the field, that when you then recommend a product it basically becomes an ad, even if you don't profit from it. They're lending their 'authority' on the subject to backing whatever product they recommend to consumers. It would be like an olympic gold medalist pro athlete saying in an interview that they use such-and-such vitamins or supplements, and they are not paid in any way by the company, they just really like their vitamins and supplements, you should try them...that's advertising, albeit free.
It makes people stand in the store looking at two competing products and saying "I saw this one get 10 stars on PC Gamer, this other one was not mentioned...I'll get the recommended one".
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The biggest advantage of the digital signage menu boards is ANIMATION. I think it's McDonald's menu boards inside that are always scrolling to different specials, stuff is swooping on screen, different choices are presenting, everything is grabbing your attention, I remember specifically looking at one and something went by too fast so I was waiting to see it again, and I realized whoa this is like a damn internet ad. It triggers that "Did I miss out on something, I have to see that again" feeling, despite already knowing EXACTLY what I wanted.
And yes most of the drive thrus around me DO flash up the order in front of you before they take your order, so it's almost like social proof, the guy in front of me got 26 sliders, maybe I should too...
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It's an Interesting observation perhaps worth study and maybe graphing/charting out: as people gain more to lose, the more government overheard control they seem to want, up to a point where one has so much to lose the government becomes their only competition, then they swing the other way and start wanting less government regulation. It's likely a bell curve distribution.
Left of the curve you want to be freeer because win or lose , it's probably worth any risks, you only have ground to gain. In the middle of the curve, you have a lot but you're still at risk of the people on the two ends, so f them, government come harass them for me...and at the right side, the super elites billionaire class, you want to be left alone entirely because you make your own rules. For all intents and purposes you are your own government, so down with other ones trying to restrain you.
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You know how Tim choices go: "Oh you could either get killed by the government or [choice], then you should DIE for your principles!!!"
Remember all the people he told just that about the Vax....you have the choice, you could refuse the vax and destroy your career, family, life, standing, finances, reputation, but at least you kept your principles, right?! If it's your job or the vax, quit, leave your kids, move away, start a company, sell stuff, be homeless, walk away, that's the Tim Pool advice.
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Last 5K event I competed in, my time was 30 minutes. Average. I finished 3rd place overall, 3rd men's division. I was 40.
The first place woman was a 17 year old high school track athlete, her time was 43 minutes.
The fastest woman finished after every man.
To contrast all of that, when we finished the race, one of the staff's friends, a male college track athlete, started running the course.
His time was 17 minutes, he actually passed some of the women who started half an hour after he did.
The physical differences are quite striking.
Who was first place in the entire race, beating everyone, with a time of 29:50?
An 11 year old boy.
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Obviously, the overhead is higher.
Like I say though, I'm willing to pay 20% more if it means not getting pulled over, having a roach found, then I lose my job and almost get raped in jail, AS HAPPENED TO ME IN PAST DECADES.
It's like, these taxes and regulations suck, but they are cheaper and less sucky than legal fees, jail, experiencing the states monopoly on force, all that.
I'll happily pay a little more to sit in a waiting room with security and order my shit online, than risk all that meeting someone shady in a parking lot or their run down apartment...and outside all that, I get a certified, lab tested, unadulterated, strength tested product that's consistent.
I remember getting brick weed that smelled like actual diesel from being smuggled into the US submerged in diesel fuel.
No more of that. That weed isn't worth jail lol.
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"how is he so good at defending himself?"
Because he's a good attorney that, critically in my opinion, spent the first 7 years of his legal career as a DEFENSE attorney before becoming a federal government attorney.
A big problem we have in our government is we have tons of attorneys that have never defended a client FROM the government trying to put them in a cage.
It's a mindset that has to be developed. It's a huge issue SCOTUS has, 9 of the best legal minds in the US, ZERO defense attorneys, EVERY Justice is a former PROSECUTOR, and when all you've ever done is prosecute, every problem looks like it needs to be prosecuted, whereas a defense attorney spends their time finding holes in the schemes government is trying to pull, not thinking of said schemes. The prosecution fails their case, meh, looks bad on my record. A defense attorney fails their case, a real actual human being they've gotten to know and probably care about has their life destroyed.
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Middle child, four sisters, and two half-sisters, and I turned out ok.
It's made me virtually blind to women showing attraction to me though, I'm used to always having nice women doing nice things for me, so when ones I'm not related to do it because they're trying to get with me, I'm oblivious. I'm used to nothing but female attention, you have to SPEAK to me, women.
Also, the BS is useless on me. I know the tears are fake, I've laughed at every crying women since I was 10, no one is buying it. It helps my sisters are all based, they'll tell me a chick is ugly before I realize it lol. I'm easy to please, it's my family you'd have to impress and compete with, women.
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Hey, your house is on fire, neighbor!
OH, just because we're BLACK our house is burning, is that it, racist white neighbor?!
I'm calling the fire dept!
OHHHH, so now it's call the authorities because the BLACK people can't burn their own house down, is that how it is? You people, man, YOU PEOPLE!
That's kind of what this sounds like. Hey, safety issues like a light being out or some other hazard, has nothing to do with race. I'd bet if this officer was tested, there's no way she could see what race someone is driving by the opposite direction at night, all she saw was a headlight out on some car and notified them.
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Marriage is the most submissive thing any man can ever do, how do we not see that? I'd be vowing to forsake four billion women and only be with her, for life, to give her the world, to give up my life if needed, and counting on them to give me healthy kids that survive into adulthood, that's a LOT OF SUBMISSION. That's a lot of RISK.
You have to make it worth all that, by forsaking 4 billion other men and only want and be with me, to accept the world, to take my life if needed, to do what you can to have and raise our healthy kids. If I met the right women, I'd retire to be a full time father when we had kids.
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@Krep45 problem is this, under US law, ONLY PERSONS are subject to criminal law.
If you eliminate corporate personhood they'd become absolutely above the law. You could only punish and get compensated by individuals, so the guy who dumped the waste, prison, the guy who ordered it, maybe prison, the corporation, zero liability, because it's not a person. This is a concept going back to the 1500s.
Laws only apply to people, so everything you want subject to the law must be a person, or they're above the law.
Even the United States itself is a person, it's considered as the personal embodiment of all us citizens, We The People
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Wait, PAUSE...HOW did the nozzle get broken in the first place? If it was someone that didn't know what they're doing, well, that's on them, I have little sympathy.
If it was a garage that screwed up and broke it, they're liable to PROPERLY fix it, that's why they're bonded, insured, licensed, etc and I have little sympathy.
If the nozzle just broke on it's own, on a otherwise working vehicle under warranty, I'd expect the dealer/car company to warranty it, and I have little sympathy.
Without knowing how the part broke, or who is to blame for breaking (and if negligence was involved), I'm leery of immediately blaming the manufacturer.
If you put antifreeze in your crankcase because you don't know what you're doing, that's not the makers or dealers fault, is all I'm saying.
I support right to repair, but only when the repair is competent.
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April 8th will have been 4 years since I lost my mother also. It's so fitting the solar eclipse is on that day, as I said, I don't need to watch it, because the sun in my solar system went out already on that day for good. That's really how it feels, like the sun or the moon was there, and now it's not anymore, forever, and I just have to make do with the darkness I'm left with.
It gets better, but the anger is still hot and fresh: She died needlessly, she didn't want to die, and because of COVID lockdowns and no way to get in to see a damn doctor, she died from a simple infection that went untreated. In 2020, in the United Fucking States, the most powerful, the most advanced, the most feared empire known to the entire planet, and my mother dies from an illness that when she was a young adult in the FIFTIES would have been TRIVIAL to treat. That's where it hurts the most. I see people do dumb shit and get hurt so bad it's a miracle they survived their stupidity, miraculous medical intervention, almost magic, but a simple injection or pill for my mother, nope, covid, let's push her appointment two weeks, what's the worst that can happen? Well turns out me carrying her into the ER two days later is the worst that can happen.
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Lol, you can bring witnesses, whoever you want, as long as they're only picked from this list of ours of the people we want as witnesses.
I'd love to see, as White House witnesses, The President of Ukraine, Joe and Hunter Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, all to speak on the events in question that underpin this entire impeachment inquiry: the previous Admin's illegal withholding of military aid to Ukraine contingent upon demands made on their country's staffing, to wit, the Prosecutor Mr Biden didn't like and asked removed, which happened, and he is on video clearly and creepily bragging about making it happen.
BUT, this proceeding is not a court, the rules of law and fairness are suspended, there are no cross examinations, there are no evidentiary rules, there are no standard objections. It's kind of like that stacked and rigged grand jury system where only the prosecution gets to present all non-exculpatory evidence, there is no challenge to it, and you can indict a ham sandwich for a capital crime.
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Right? That's why I say the most valuable things have to be given, not earned. Bought love is not real. It has to be selfless to be truly there. That's seen rarely.
Being controlling and forcing people into 'loving' you, basically serving you, that's easy, you see that all the time, every day.
Being loved or beloved, people CHOOSING or even putting in effort you didn't ask for or maybe even want or expect, that's love, that's somewhat rare anymore. That's your sibling texting if you're still at work, because they realized you've been at work all day and you're probably hungry, so it just so happens they've cooked one of your favorite things and of course far too much of it, they'll be by in 5 minutes with food for you. Unexpected, unsolicited, and with no expectation of anything in return being cared for, that's WEALTH, and it's priceless.
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All I can say is, as a bi guy, I have a boyfriend (I guess, fwb) that's satisfied me and cuddled me a night or two a week for like 10 years now, I go over to his house....
I don't know his last name, I barely know his first name, we have pet names...we don't care about that crap, we're not there to talk. He never asked for my story, tbh I really don't CARE all that much about his, I'm just there to bust and go, and he knows that and likes it. Neither of us want more.
That's an impossible fantasy to have that with a woman, they'd never understand it. THEY have no concept of them taking care of a man, like actually caring.
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Now imagine how that effects employers, they put TONS of effort, time, resources into each employee, just for them to walk with all that value right out the door, probably to a competitor. You have to see more than just the side you want to see.
LONG ago when I was a fast food manager, I remember training when they were talking about hiring new employees, to remember that it cost the company several thousand dollars for a new employee before they even clocked in the first time, all the paperwork, the accounting, the recordkeeping at the national/corporate level. You hire a flake that only lasts a week, it's a major loss that comes right out of sales.
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Wait, how would you not vote locally? The local ballot IS the presidential ballot, you don't get to choose one or another, at least not in my state. You have the option to undervote, as in leave any race you want blank. It still counts as a vote on the total but it goes to no candidate. Undervoting is popular as a protest, you take a ballot, look at it, then turn it back in blank. IT STILL COUNTS toward the total, but not for any candidate, it's how you can have two candidates both with less than 50%. For example, 1 million voters, 2 candidates, and the election total is 400k to 400k 40% vs 40% tie, because 200k undervoted, took a ballot and marked no one. 1 million ballots still cast, only 800k go to the candidates.
YOU SHOULD BE DOING THIS. If I see an unopposed race, I leave it blank.
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Ha, ridiculous. WALMART is the true Army, and they DWARF those three combined. Walmart could have gone into Afghanistan, defeated the Taliban, opened 500 new store locations, and been out in 24 months lol. There are entire college minors in transportation you can take that study the insane, unique logistics marvel Walmart has built. They even have their own space program that runs their global private satellite constellation, the largest private one in the world, that runs their own private intranet. They do all their own credit card processing, internet service, datacenter needs, TV network, and even phone service over their own private, isolated internet service they built from the ground up. It's all quite impressive.
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@VelhaTheOne I'm 39, I started a year ago at 300lbs. Never lifted, never ran before.
Now after a year of practice, 2x a day 4x a week in the gym, miles every day, diet changes, normal everyday supplements (multivitamin, iodine, beets, preworkout, modafinil)...
I'm down to 250lbs, my 5k time is 40min, and I run at least one every week, my deadlift is up to 315lbs for reps, and I've doubled where I started weight and rep wise on all the cable machines. I swim. I push the heavy sled, it's been lots of FUN after you really get into it.
I've noticed shirts are starting to be baggier in the front as my gut shrinks, yet stretch across my back as my shoulders are growing.
I sleep better, I eat less, and I want to fuck anything that moves lol. It's been great 😃.
My gut stretch marks have stretch marks, so it's not all good, but I'm hoping that next year, at 40, I'll be at 200 or under and the strongest in my life.
Would I do steroids if I could afford them, damn right.
Would I be way better off if my JOB for a year had been working out to look a certain way, with no other job, a staff to do my bidding, a nutritionist, a chef, assistants? Hell yeah.
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@blackman5183 no, they're achievable naturally, when you realize naturally means exercise hours a day as your SOLE job, all your other needs handled by staff, assistants, maids, and you have a nutritionist and chef on staff keeping you on track and accountable.
It's how any of today's highly successful people do it, they have UNDERLINGS.
You see it in families often, the parents who are active physically and engaged, who really care hardcore, usually have trim, strong kids because they prioritize health and hold them to account, while others have the obese kids and are obese themselves, we all kind of acclimate to our surroundings and expectations.
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@TheUnholyPosole but thats the point. Even being 50% right/wrong, AJ is talking about this stuff 100% more than anyone in media.
To use your townspeople analogy, everyone in the town are the freaks just the same as the outsider, but when everyone is crazy, evil, and an outsider.....
Being a crazy evil outsider makes you normal.
It's like the irony of everyone becoming conformists in a desperate effort not to conform to norms, that creates new mores and norms. Then you're just normal.
If the three major networks started delivering verbatim AJ script copy tomorrow, sounding like him would be just regular news within a week. No better or worse, no more right or wrong, but now safe, 'normal'.
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Rites of passage in my mind, driving, graduating high school, getting laid, reaching 40 with no marriages or bastard kids, getting married, having kids, starting a business.
Things like being debt free, that's not a rite of passage that's ADULTING. Next paying bills will be a rite of passage, living in your own place a rite of passage, first hooker lol.
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She has to gauge romantic interest over 5 dates?
Women, take heed, I don't speak for all men, but as a man, if I come approach you, know that already means 100% I want you, I want to be with you, I'm coming for you. At that point it is 100% up to you if you get me or not. I'm interested, otherwise I would not be there, talking to you!
If you open your mouth and say some dumb shit, well now that 100% interested health bar might start taking hits, you might even make some move that makes the guy go whoa, I was wrong, egress, escape!
But, this is NOT hard to grasp, if he's THERE, he's in, and it's YOUR show to f up at that point.
If I'm not into you, you won't need to think about it, because he won't even be around anymore.
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House arrest is RAPE. My coworker was on house arrest and he had to pay $10/DAY to a private company to stay out of jail. Late on a daily payment, prison.
He ended up having his charges dropped, 100% innocent, got his $5000 cash bail refunded as you do, but the thousands he paid to this private 3rd party company the court put in charge of tracking him, that's gone win, lose, or draw. He waited for court for months, paying $10/day, for nothing.
THIS is what millionaire Tim Pool wants for more Americans? Better look at this STOCK TRADES, he's probably all-in on these prison industrial companies.
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God, why is everyone so childish? We've paid informants at all levels for CENTURIES, you just now learned this?
Read a book, kids.
If the FBI paid $1 million to prosecute Hunter I'd donate. If Trump, MY GUY, was corrupt in actuality, I'd want them to spend millions getting that info, the alternative is letting a criminal into the white house costing us trillions and maybe even killing us all. The outrage here is hilarious, AND OLD, this news came out in 2017, catch UP!
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Well, being bi is being straight just with less steps lol.
If I could open an app and get even 1% of the attention from women that men give on grindr, I'd have 1000+ bodycount and be married lol.
Women, match, text for 8 weeks, maybe let you date them.
Guys, hey, you like me? Have an hour, here's my address, come over. Know anything about you, why? It's just secks.
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I dated this hot blonde in college, and she showed up to my door first date and I was like "Ew, dafuq are you wearing?"
She had on a brunette wig "because she thought it made her lok like this other girl she thought I liked".
I tell her what, that skank, if I wanted her she'd be her instead of you, your blonde hair is what I like the most about you, take it off!
Then we drank, watched Eurotrip, and after she called her BF to get permission we hooked up. Lol. Weirdos.
Then by Monday I discovered I was the Friday and guy, two others were the other weekend night guys, and I icked out of there.
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They were born on third base and think they got robbed of a homerun.
Fun fact: when one man started adding chlorine to drinking water, that one technological advance TRIPLED the world population in just over 100 years. It's the most impactful invention in human history, we eradicated waterborne disease overnight. Most people don't know that, and when the water treatment plants go down, literally hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of people could die horrifically in like a month, because they have no clue about the dangers of drinking water in nature or how to sanitize it.
I work in water treatment and I always ask my friends who grew up in the US, how many people have you ever known that got dysentery, typhus, typhoid, giardia, or cryptosporidium? Zero.
Because we eradicated those, IF we have infrastructure up and running.
They don't even know what those diseases are, their doctor doesn't know what it is, it's so rare. Ignorance kills.
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@vociferonheraldofthewinter2284 hello, fellow neglected boy adult here.
I would not ask why a woman is asking me about the Roman Empire, BECAUSE IT WOULD BE THE FIRST TIME IN DECADES A WOMAN IS ASKING ME WHAT I THINK, NOT ASKING OR TELLING ME TO DO SOMETHING.
Seriously, it sounds crazy, but being asked what I think and want...I'm 40 and never been asked that by a woman.
It's always why don't you do this or why aren't you doing that...also never compliments, always criticism. And always delivered so nicely and cheerful lol.
But yeah, if a woman asked me what or why I was thinking, I'd probably ask her to marry me.
I have 6 sisters and I can't remember the last time any of them asked me 'how are you really doing? What do you think about? Are you ok?
Men never get that. Ever.
So it's more surprising than anything. Which is all horrifically depressing, let's be better to each other.
It's 2023, men are persons too.
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White male in Missouri. Did not get the talk, bit I did watch the ACLUs video on how to properly handle a traffic stop, engine off, inside lights on, hands on wheel, don't admit to anything, yes sir no sir, notify them before you make any move or reach for anything, all real common sense stuff. It's served me well, and I've done some truly dumb shit behind the wheel, not going to lie, bit I never felt in danger of being killed, because I gave no reason for that. I was losing my $ and temporarily my liberties, no need to risk my life over a ticket or a night in jail.
I think people these days can't think past their own nose. You think you can fight a cop at a traffic stop and life just goes on like normal after that, you just go to work the next day? No.
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@rayzala1393 Brah, under biden we had quarter million job loss reports all the time, they release the report, OH LOOK only 50k jobs lost, a month later, OH LOOK we had to revise that lost months jobs report, it was actually 250k, but wait look over here, new interest rates, new FOMC, new new new don't look at those old numbers, as jobs evaporate by the millions.
Can we get a 10,000% tariff on foreigner's youtube comments, that's a taxable intellectual property import, you owe some duties.
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That's why I advocate for NOT dating like that. I like the idea of inviting her along to something I was already doing, that way if something goes wrong, meh, I was already doing this alone anyway, so what? No emotions invested, no getting ready time wasted, because I don't do anything different to get ready for a date than I would to leave the house for any reason.
Don't ask her out, tell her you're going out and invite her to follow, if so great, if not well that's awesome too. The absolute most I could ever offer even the love of my life is to tag along with my life, companion on the journey I'm taking anyway.
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Very true. As a grad with an actual 'useful' degree, MIS, it was disheartening to discover that such a field views a BS degree as basically a min-wage ticket. You need a Masters to really break in. Unable to make that work, I got a job which is now my career in water treatment. I wish I had done 2 things differently: started in this industry earlier, and studied biology, chemistry, and earth science in college instead.
Water treatment is another field, like construction, that depending on locale you can start at upwards of 40k, and make double that after you put in the 4 years or so of needed experience to get licensure. Next April I'll have been working 3.5 years operating a water plant, and I'll be eligible to test for my Class A treatment license. With that cred, I'll be nationally licensed to operate any water treatment plant in the United States, regardless of size or complexity. There is no level higher. But it does have strict time-in-job prerequisites no matter what you know or what degree you have.
Water treatment, even more so than construction, is a great industry because it has permanent, rapid, sustained growth. Every human might not need a new house, but every human on earth is literally addicted to clean water. It's not a choice or a luxury. Every time a new person is born, every day, my demand goes up, and barring some catastrophe that reduced the world population, it will never go down. The work will always be there. There will always be innovation needed. And surprisingly, we're still always learning new things about water. There is an entire branch of science that could, and does, fill entire libraries with what we know and don't know about how and why water acts the way it does.
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That only works if the man doesn't take her back. That NO at the end is crucial. Not no after we try things out again, not no after one quick blow and go where she 'happened' to 'coincidentally' run into you, NO it's who are you, I thought you died, gtfo I'll get a restraining order shouting no means no at her in crowded public.
I hear it so often, the then I took her back again, and she did it again, ran off with a felon gangbang, then I took her back for a few years, then....just on and on, over several marriages, ick. Be stronger, men.
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Meanwhile I operate a water plant supplying the taps of 10,000 people, a position I had to work in for 5 years before I was even ELLIGIBLE to take the test to get the state license I needed to hold this job, almost 11,000 hours of provable, time clocked, documented full-time continuous on the job just to take the test!
That got me up to $16 taxdollar-funded dollars/hour. I am licensed to operate any water treatment plant in the United States, regardless of size or complexity though.
IF I could pull a Tim and walk away, I could go elsewhere and make STAGGERING money in my career profession.
BUT, I don't have kids, I have an 81 year old wheelchair-bound father I care for, and 100 acres of greatness we've had for nearing a century.
IT'S NOT ALWAYS EASY TO WALK AWAY TIM, YOU FUCK. The smugness, it's so infuriating. And from a man that's so insecure about his damn hair he's worn a sock for a decade, wtf?
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No you see that past experience EXPLAINS and JUSTIFIES his actions in this traffic stop, he was oppressed by the police in the past for his crimes, so now he's in fear of getting caught I mean in fear of the police oppressing him more. In his super car. With his 7 figure salary.
They're traffic cops, ALL THE WANT IS YOUR MONEY, and you have so much you won't miss it, so why act a fool?
He should have been like Jordan Belfort on his yacht, here you go cops, starts shoveling $100s out the window, pay my ticket, get you and your wife and girlfriends something nice from me, let me get to work. Fun coupons I think he called those $100s.
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Medics SHOULD have guns, absolutely. In most major cities, you'll die before EMS gets to you, because the police have to get to you first and secure the scene before they're even allowed in, because paramedics and fire getting ambushed, shot, killed responding to a call is rampant. It's why EMS wears body armor in many cities now.
When I lived in St Louis County and listened to my radio scanner all the time, you'd hear it constantly: someone in medical distress, or a fire, and ems/fire is on scene staging for police to secure the scene, and it would add 5 -10 minutes for police to get there, clear the area, and guarantee the medics/firefighters safety before they could even enter and assess the situation. That's a long time to be dying or on fire to have to wait AFTER help has already arrived, but it's what they have to do to stay alive.
I fully support EMS and firefighters being armed, to have the same means of defense at work as I do being a regular person.
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Tim gets these weird ideas...if I think there's voter fraud, I'm now FAR more motivated to vote, because every vote against the fraud counts more!
The only reason Hilldog lost in 2016 was too many real people voted for Trump that they couldn't out-fraud it. They fixed that issue in 2020, which is why BOTH candidates set records for vote totals.
No idiots are NOT voting because of voter fraud, and if they are, f em, they're weak bitches. Get pissed off, work harder, don't give up.
Of course, Tim's default position is always to give up, drop out, so maybe it makes sense.
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It amazes me that people get upset when I mention that hey, those 'big corporations' that may get some 'bailout' money, fun fact, they tend to employ tens of millions of Americans, and at some point, those people might enjoy an actual employer that still exists to go back to work for.
I guess I could be wrong and that millions of people want to be unemployed, destitute, homeless and such, but that seems far-fetched (all sarcasm).
GM, from it's numbers, is teetering on collapse. Their profits, income, revenues, cash on hand, all dropped by more than 100% rates since they shut down all their factories and stopped making cars. If GM goes under, and it could, that's not just the 164k people who work there, but all the people who work for their suppliers, all the dealers, the parts makers, on and on. That one company going under is at least a million people set adrift.
They need to think of the housing market. How can you buy or sell a house right now? Do you want to tour a strange house that could be corona-taminated? Do you want to show your house to strangers coming through that could be infected? If someone in your home gets covid-19, or dies from it, will your realtor have to disclose that to any future buyer?
It would take anyone with half a brain all day here typing to even list off a portion of the economic effects this has all had.
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TangoX To play devil's advocate, they're probably better than Latino(a)(x) immigrants with no skills or private wealth like we're getting now. And as far as our population, remember, the US is more than 40 MILLION people short of where we should be, thanks to 40+ years of unchecked ABORTION. We're missing an entire generation. This is why all of our systems based on continuous growth, like Social Security and pensions, are failing with extreme speed, an aging out population that killed half of the younger replacements we should have had. I'm a millennial, we're the largest generation in US history, over 70 million of us, but projected growth says it should have been more like 100 million. The US population today should be about 400 million, not 325-ish.
All those lost contributors, consumers, taxpayers, and potential human resources we terminated have sank our country. #demographiccliff
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It's the opposite though, coupling is a life hack. Ideally you double your help and income while cutting your work and expenses in half.
You go from I have a house and she has a house, to WE have a house which is the SAME AMOUNT OF WORK as living alone, but now there are two people to do it. If you have two incomes you now also have double the resources. See how huge an advantage that can be?
Think if it like a business analogy, Company A merges with Company X, each had about the same revenues, same market share, same employees, same assets and buildings, but now as ONE company, f all this redundancy, fire 1/3 of the staff, sell half the buildings we don't need, combine our revs and market share, BOOM, we just took over the entire market AND cut our overhead massively, bigger AND leaner, shareholders are ecstatic.
Imagine if Walmart and Amazon stopped competing and MERGED. They'd be ultra-unstoppable. Amazons web dominance fueling Walmarts massive global physical store and unparalleled logistics apparatus, they'd be bigger than the Us government.
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Second video, friend of mine at work is going through something like that but got a big win recently.
His long time not-wife partner and him had an argument, he broke some dishes in the house he solely owns...she filed a police report for harassment, took their FOUR kids, put them in the van he owns, and fled from the Midwest to her parents on the west coast, then got a restraining order blocking him from his house.
His attorney got that changed since she's gone, so he's back in the house, and a judge ruled the kids have to go to school, and since they have not lived where they went long enough to get them enrolled there, boom, kids had to be returned to him, they're back now.
They're few and far between but have hope, occasionally there is family justice in the family justice system.
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Upload to Bitchute. Then it's not a re-upload. It's new content, and free real estate.
My biggest complaint about Unus Annus is that it was not 'one video per day' as billed. There were series of many, many videos where you could tell that got together on a weekend and just banged out like a dozen videos to then release daily. I'd like to see it re-done right, start each video with them getting the newspaper dated THAT day. Make it more topical. Get rid of the fancy editing and cuts.
It was kind of low effort unless they made a single video per day. Having a bunch saved up and releasing one a day, meh. Hell, if they'd just live-streamed every single day, that would have been even better. REAL content, not this slickly pieced together fake crap that all of Youtube has turned into.
I think that's part of why Tim Pool for example is as insanely popular as he is, no edition, no script, no cuts.
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DARE is a great example. Neither me or any of my friends knew anything about drugs until we went through the dare program, and what happens when you expose 5th graders to some forbidden thing and tell them not to do it, well hell, now I want to try that! They even passed around weed for us to smell so we'd allegedly know how to identify it and avoid it. LOL. Thanks for teaching us how to FIND it. Our DARE program had to stop giving out their prize for finishing the program because it was a mirror with the dare logo and adults pointed out it would be perfect for doing cocaine from.
Hey, don't ever, ever do this, don't ever go to this place and see these people and get this thing, no, it's bad, don't do it, reminder they're only open during these hours, so never go there, never talk to so-and-so lol.
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I used to feel the same way about fitness, it's just for meatheads, I'm an intellectual, lol. I was over 300lbs, my youngest sister is a MD now, she got her degrees in Biochemistry and Sports Medicine, certified trainer in several different orgs, went to college on a full ride softball scholarship, then her residency in rheumatology, and I've been her research project for a few years now. I went from 307lbs to 170 now in two years. I run 10ks in an hour. I Dl 315 for reps. I turned my life around with science. I myself have degrees in chemistry and math, and my other middle sister is an actuary that was also a softball star athlete, once they showed me it's all just chemistry and math, fitness became pretty simple. Follow the numbers, do the work, see results.
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Electric cars are not feasible until we have widespread nuclear power. Otherwise you're actually using a less efficient mode, burning millions of tons of dirtier coal and natural gas, and more and more of it, to charge more and more electric cars. Solar and Wind are 1800's technology.
We need to be allowed to move forward by the environmental terrorists holding our future hostage. The more resistance to nuclear power, the more you support coal and fossil fuel use.
If we could deploy current-gen fast breeder reactor nuclear, a technology perfected and shelved years ago, not only would be become a 100% emissions free NATION, driving all electric everything, the costs would come down AND the power plants would be fueled by the existing nuclear waste from old-tech nuclear that we have no storage options for.
ALSO, this would solve any water crisis globally. With that level of abundant, inexpensive electricity generation, mass-industrial scale water desalination becomes feasible. The oceans hold 1000x more salt water than all of the freshwater ever used by man in our entire existence. We have enough fuel to run such reactors to power the entire globe for more than 1000 years, at ZERO carbon.
You say gas is dead, but idiots like you opposing nuclear have murdered us all BY KEEPING US ON GAS, fucker.
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My biggest criticism of wfh is if you work from home you now live at work. You're on 24x7x365 because you're there.
It's awesome being able to clock out at the end of the day, hop on my motorcycle, turn my phone off, and boom, work no longer exists to me, until it does again.
Think about it like heroin, if you have your drug dealer's stash in the other room in your home office, it's ok if we do a little, right? Its just one more thing I need to work on, just one more email to send, I know it's 2am but just real quick....
At least that's me, if I could work from home I'd obsessively work all the time because it would be so convenient. I'd never get any life done.
Working in a physical location, which requires millions in massive machinery to do so it can't be done from home (would actually be illegal under state law to do from home) gives me that Compartmentalization I need to not be a workaholic.
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Maybe I'm weird because I grew up with all sisters, no brothers, middle child, tell these women NO.
You broke a nail, you want to go to Benihanna, no.
Just no. Oh, she walked out? Great, glad she left willingly.
You give POWER over yourself to those you can't say no to. MEN, did you have sex when you were 5 years old, 10 years old. NO, so you KNOW you can go without sex, you've done it before. Value peace and your self over her demands. If we're not the prize to her, YOU BE THE PRIZE TO YOU. Make HER work for it. Walk away as a FIRST option, they'll follow, or they'll get out of the way, either way not your problem.
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Asmon has been open about his dental issues, none of those are his teeth, that's all restoration work.
I have similar problems, and I just KNOW that's what'll happen, I'll spend a ton of money getting my smile fixed, and then I'll get a ton of compliments on my smile, and they'll HURT, because....
You're complimenting me on the MOST FAKE part of me, overlooking the real rest of me. Crazy right?
I've lost a ton of weight and I still see myself as fat, so when I get compliments they're almost insults, because I don't believe them, why is this person MOCKING me lol?
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What Asmond talks about, a slow responding situation you get to see go wrong in real time and can't do anything about it, is my daily life in my job, running a water plant. Something can go wrong, especially by mistake, instantly, and by the time you notice or catch it, the damage is already done and you have to wait HOURS for the correction to come around, and that whole time you're sweating. It's just better to not make mistakes in the first place.
It's a terrible feeling to know "Yeah, this was a quick and easy fix, if we'd seen the problem 2 hours ago...now it's going to take 8 hours to fix."
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I think the problem Joe refuses to understand, as it has been explained to me, is that officers risk the one time they deal with someone in a rational way, polite, calm, non-violent, that person could turn on a dime and attack/injure/kill them.
Look at what happened in Atlanta. Those officers, everyone agrees, were very measured and reasonable on camera the entire time, until the ex felon on probation and with a BAC 135% of the legal limit resisted arrest, jacked one officer in the face, stole his weapon, and attempted to use it as he ran away.
That came out of nowhere. He changed his demeanor and behavior to violence in an instant.
Now multiply that risk times every single encounter you have with anyone, at any time, all day everyday at your job.
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The discussion about reporting around the 4 minute mark is similar to why I still follow Tim today: I lived in neighboring Normandy, Mo when the entire Ferguson/Mike Brown 'events' were occurring, I saw it all, I even livestreamed quite a bit of it myself, and Tim was one of the few journos/streamers/reporters/call it what you will there from any kind of outlet that was willing to stay late at night, talk to real people, get in crowds, ask questions, and so on. As someone who was there also for a lot of it, watching his footage was a good representation of what was actually happening, which was rare from credentialed media. Because of that I give his work today implicit weight.
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ALSO, the same people who go sit in their car and cry and wail and screech to TikTok, if you sat them down and legitimately, genuinely asked them if they had problems, should we talk about it, lets work through things, NOPE, no, I'm FINE I don't need to talk to anyone, life is perfect I'm a 10 slay girlboss.
If it was a real problem you'd want to deal with it. As a man I WANT to do therapy, I think it would help me, so I look for a therapist, NO MEN ANYWHERE. I'd have to drive 90 minutes one way to get a male therapist I think I'd relate to better, because my issues are with women...if I wanted a woman therapist, there's a dozen in walking distance. That profession has changed entirely to women, there is no 'male space'.
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@sj3969 the sole reason to have female friends is to get with them. It's why you'll notice men who are successful with women have zero female friends, while guys frustrated have a bunch of female friends they'll never bang, but exploit for male attention without risk. Yes, every man, every single one not related to you, has a non-zero desire to be with you, because you're a woman. They don't even need to be cognizant of that drive, it's there.
There's always a CHANCE, every guy thinks. If it costs nothing to keep her as a friend, maybe it develops into something romantic?
But if she's EXPLICITLY said that's off the table, you'll see a LARGE percentage of men will disappear after that.
Men have lots of male friends, why, because they're not trying to bang them, so actual friendship is possible, no underlying subtext or desires.
Don't yor elders teach you kids this stuff anymore?
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@sj3969 for the vast majority of men, straight up, if you're being nice to us as a women, even if it's just being friendly, we have to take that as a sign of interest because the stakes are so high and men get ZERO attention. Women don't realize, a man might have not gotten a random compliment for DECADES, unlike how women get them all the time.
The one time it happened to me in 40 years it wasn't even a woman, it was a gay man lol. Men get so little positive attention from women today, if you show even the smallest nicety we'll jump on it and be very appreciative, and it feels like a come on. Like you have to want something, because why else be nice to a man these days?
That's what's going through OUR head.
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Reminds me of my friends story when he was training to be a paramedic. He was in the last leg of training, riding an ambulance full time, and answered a call for pregnancy complications. On the way to the hospital the patient mother died, they tried resuscitation the whole way, and en route the fetus, stillborn, spontaneously delivered right in the ambulance, and he had to hold this dead baby all the way to the ER...he filled out his paperwork, called his currently also pregnant wife at home to cry, and quit on the spot. Nope, not for him.
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I'd need more info. I'm a water quality and treatment expert, I'm licensed to operate any water treatment plant in the US.
In my plant, these chemicals are trivial, we already treat to remove them because they're assumed to contaminate ALL surface water.
When we treat surface water, we just assume it's contaminated and treat for everything. We had to buy a multimillion dollar UV system, saddling the taxpayer with debt for 30 years, because of the CHANCE we could have cryptosporidium, maybe, possibly, so we have to treat for it in the mandated way.
Just watch, this spill will be the perfect crisis to push new water regulations that will cost the US TRILLIONS and cost you the water consumer far higher rates.
Water treatment subject matter expert rant concluded.
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@allan7380 The news IS the panic. Most of this is literally a terrorist attack on our nation with the media as the triggerman. Terror MAKES PEOPLE WATCH, READ, CLICK.
Good news kills revenue. This virus could kill thousands in the US, but the response to the virus is going to kill millions, easily.
It's almost exactly like a body with allergies, a minor pathogen to which it overreacts to so much it can kill the body. When someone allergic to peanuts eats a peanut, it's not the peanut that hurts them, it's the body's irrational overblown response to a benign peanut that can kill it. It's basically biological suicide through a natural process gone awry.
This btw is why smallpox in particular was the most deadly to young healthy people when it was a pandemic. Variola causes the immune system to overreact and attack the body, the healthier the immune system, the more damage it does to the body and itself, all the while being tricked into thinking it's helping. People with weakened immune systems paradoxically were at less risk with smallpox.
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@thatstench5242 exactly..."women are being slaughtered in Ukraine!"...why care? What are they doing for me? Nothing.
So why care, why take hundreds of billions from my empty pockets for them? That's most men today, our issues are not cared about, so why care yourself? We don't.
In fact many are cheering the collapse because it would be an improvement to them. Being a without rule of law warlord in a collapse would be a step up for them, would be more agency and freedom than they've ever had.
War works for this because you send those men out to kill other men, and they do, and carry that experience back into society, so when your Amazon package is 7 minutes late, they see it for what it is, a miniscule inconvenience, rather than a slight that ruins her day.
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Trump needs to say "Look Nancy, NaeNae we'll call her that, look NaeNae I see your concern, so, next week I'm taking the jet to Maralago, I'm gonna open the small petty cash safe in my office, NOT the big safe, just the small one, and pull out about $3 million in cash and hire, say, 500 Blackwater-type guys at my expense to reinforce the Secret Service, at YOUR request.
There, does little NaeNae fweel I'm safey-wafey enough to come give my speech? Good, I'll see you then. Trump, out"
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Hell, even not getting married doesn't always work. I have a coworker going through an ordeal right now, got in an argument with his 'old lady', they've been together 15 years and have 4 children, and she decided to call the police, claim 'harassment', get a protective order, quit her job, and took the kids from Missouri to Idaho to stay with her parents. He had to get an attorney to get back into his own vacant house, owned solely in his name, because the protective order listed the house as a prohibited place. Thousands of dollars just to get back into his own house after she fled across the country, insanity.
Two of their children are severely autistic, so this level of disruption has to be catastrophic for them. Sad.
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Not me, 39, single, never married, childless, and I've never taken women, chasing, all that serious, so I've been single forever, decades.
When you don't chase and ignore women, being self absorbed women THEY JUST IGNORE YOU.
If ignoring and not chasing worked, I'd be swimming in poon.
After almost 40 years I need a new strat, this ain't working and I want to continue my family line.
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@Justsomeguysomewhere teach a class, man. I can't be the only 39 year old clueless man alone since Bush was President, lol.
I get zero attention or interest, at least that I notice. The more I ignore, the more I get ignored.
I have everything I need except game lol. House, career, property, I deadlift 315, I run a 30 min 5K, career, zero debt, no exes, but still invisible.
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I think there is a mindset concern here. For me as a man, BORING is EXCITING. Why?
Because boring means TAKEN CARE OF. If you're starving, facing enemies, broke, in legal trouble, circled by wolves, that's all not boring. Boring can only happen if everything else in life is going amazingly. Boring happens when you run out of problems to solve.
For men, boring is ideal, it means all your shit is HANDLED. Money, got it. House, paid off free and clear, boring, we'll never be homeless. Property, huge, developed, owned outright, can't ever be taken, BORING. Career, going great, all my needs are met, I'm fulfilled, I like my coworkers, no drama, Boring.
BORING is what I ASPIRE TO, because you can't be exciting UNTIL you have boring, because unless all your stuff is locked down and handled, you don't have the FREEDOM to be exciting.
You can't be spontaneous and do actual fun stuff if your life is all dramatic and in shambles.
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Exterior keyboxes for police and fire are mandatory in some cities. Yes, there is a big box outside apartment buildings, secured by a key the Fire/maybe PD have, that has a labled key for every door in the building, including yours. The idea being if there is an emergency, you don't need to wait for a landlord or manager, you open the box and have full access. AND you can get the keys that open the keybox.
There are TOOOOOONS of easy, giant vulnerabilities around, like all Police Crown Vics in the US, millions, used ONE STANDARD KEY, so any cop could use any car without needing different keys, and these were available to the public, and lots of cars got stolen. ALL RVs in the US use ONE SAME KEY for all the external storage doors, and you can buy these keys online by the dozen. Unless an RV owner has changed the locks, they ARE this single easy lock. Elevators, same brand uses same keys GLOBALLY for all elevators. You get a control panel key for one elevator, it'll probably work in all models of that brand, and you can get those keys easily.
I have all these keys I've mentioned on a ring, cost me like $50.
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Women: We CAN do anything!
Men: We HAVE to do everything?!
Growing up I was told, as a man, a career and home and family are not things you CAN do, they're things you're EXPECTED to do. Not pick and choose, but fulfill the bare minimum 'SUCCESS' boxes, including the 'trophy' wife.
A woman does all that, everyone is impressed.
A man DOESN'T do all that, and everyone is going damn, look at him, is he ok? Bad job, no house, crappy car, no partner, is he straight, can we help him stop making us all look bad lol?
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Powerwall, welcome to the 20th century. Batteries are ancient technology. Zero innovation in even the most advanced battery. An entirely new concept and technology are required.
Apple actually had a great idea when they teased the hydrogen fuel cell powered iPhone years back.
Radiothermogrpahic Generators, using radioisotopes to generate heat that a thermocouple than generates electricity from in high intensity/high stability output is actual future tech, and it's innovative enough the Mars Curiosity rover picked it over all competing ideas. That's a sealed, zero maintenance nuclear battery that will output at the same rate for 10 years easily. THIS needs to be where we go, not old batteries using materials from hundreds of years ago. We've been in the nuclear age for almost a CENTURY, yet we suppress limitless, cheap power for the solutions of novelty in the 1800s-1900s, solar, windmills, chemical batteries.
Come on.
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Don't worry, in 10-13 years it'll still feel about the same, sorry I don't have better news.
In my case I did get a nice update recently that she was divorced by the guy she left me for, and she lost everything except their 3 kids, so now she's homeless, 38, min wage job single mom.
Oh well, SHE choose that. I'm just chilling over here still single with my 100 acre compound that's paid off, laughing, feeling sorry for her kids I wanted with her that are now cursed to growing up in a poor broken home, damn, now I'm hating her more doing that to those kids, im an adopted orphan so making your kids pay for your choices triggers the F out of me.
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Its why when women are the hero, they feel powerful and destroy their enemies!
Its why when men are the hero they focus on not using their power to hurt anyone, to use the power, its RESPONSIBILITY, to save and help people.
Its like I'd love to have millions or billions in disposable income, so I could give it away, like a hiking pack full of hundreds stacks, walking the world handing it out.
Its pretty crazy how the meanest, cruellest people ive ever known, SADISTS, all women.
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19th century technology, solar, is the problem that needs to be solved.
Current-gen breeder reactors, that cannot meltdown even intentionally and run on the waste left behind by old-gen nuclear plants need to be our next step. Widely deployed, solar and wind would be obsolete and far too expensive next to breeder reactors, and we could actually go 100% emissions-free, 100% fossil-fuel free. We could have electricity so abundant, on demand, as to be basically post-scarcity. We'd have the power necessary, and finally affordable, to desalinate water on a globally-industrial scale and solve all water crises for the next several centuries.
All this is being prevented by ecoterrorists that want to keep us on coal power and polluting-production solar technologies that are last centuries ideas.
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There's merit to the SCOTUS idea of incentivizing pedo murder like stated.
We had this issue with the drug war. Before, getting caught dealing drugs was no big deal, 5-10 years, no reason to murder anyone...but they changed it to mandatory life in prison, suddenly you had incentive to leave no witnesses, since drug dealing was the same penalty as murder, why not just murder anyone who gets in your way, and murder EXPLODED in that era, hundreds of times increases, because WHY NOT? This guy could snitch on me for selling to him, and the penalty is the same as if I kill him so he won't talk, SOLD, bang.
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Also, I went full carnivore two years ago, down 110lbs, deadlift past 300lbs, run 6 miles a day, better shape at 40 than I was at 18, when bread and soda was my diet.
Meat is food, fat is fuel, grain is poison, vegetables are seasoning, sugar is heroin.
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Sure healthcare is a right, and just like other certain rights, let's have some 'common sense laws' against it. No healthcare until you're 21. You must pass a test and get a license to buy healthcare. In some states, you can't have healthcare more than 6 months out of the year, no high-capacity healthcare! There is a 3 day waiting period for all healthcare, and you must pass the instant background check to be approved for care. All care must be registered in the national database. Healthcare will not be allowed in any church, courthouse, school, child care facility, or government building. Healthcare dealers must pass rigorous background checks, maintain onerous permitting and licensing requirements, secure massive insurance policies, and keep records on all patients and provide those records to the Federal Healthcare Police Bureau on demand. Users of controlled substances are prohibited from buying healthcare, as are those convicted of any crime above a misdemeanor.
See, it's still a right, just 'well regulated'...
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As a Missourian, lifelong conservative, CCW holder, lifetime NRA member, I fully support the police. They did nothing wrong. ANY time you use a firearm in an investigated event, anyone, any time, every case, even the police, that weapon goes INTO EVIDENCE. EVERY, FUCKING, TIME, FOR, EVERYONE. This is in state law, this is taught in CCW class, every gun owner knows it.
The saying is to never carry anything you're not willing to lose if you have to use it. Because you will. After the case you can go through court and get it back. Do you actually think if it was some violation of their rights, the ELITE LIFELONG LAWYERS would have allowed it? FUCK NO. They would have refused it, they would have fought it with their $1000/hr lawyers, and it would not have happened. Knowing the law, they followed the law.
It annoys the fuck out of me every time out of staters like Tim that have no fuck of a clue about my state say this dumb shit. Fuck the police, but they did nothing wrong in THIS case so far. It's all on the insane lawyers representing the City.
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I like Fox's point that we seem to be in a place where we've gone too far. There absolutely is a 'line', a zone we should try to be in of just common decency, where you're considerate of other people and what they have going on, and they do the same for you, whether that be about appearance, gender, orientation, race, culture, ethnicity, all of that. The problem is we left that line and zone of common decency way back there and we're about 25 miles inside the border of insanity over this stuff. A place where you literally cannot tell a joke, even a universally funny line, without risking offense and some 'movement' trying to literally kill you and destroy your life. For example, if someone weighs 400lb and we tell them they need to get healthier, we're not 'fat shaming' you, we're desperately trying to help you live as a fellow human! Unless we start being real with people, we'll never really change or help anyone.
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Here's a real world example, ideally the oxygen concentration around you for breathing and living should be about 20-21%, so if it drops 1% that might not sound like a great deal, right? It won't sound like anything because you'll potentially be unconscious, suffocating.
Covid, the worst disease ever forever that's ever been, allegedly, has a fatality rate of just 1%, but would we consider that 'a great deal' of death, it's just 1%, 1 in 100 chance.
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@geminifreestyle3697 "I want a guy with drive, intellect, charisma, qualities that lead to a high salary..." Except then the complaint will be "you work 60 hours a week and never have time for Meeeeeee".
As someone who works 50 hours a week in only 4 workdays per week in a high pressure career, and getting up at 3am those days, it's not the best full-time relationship formula.
To most, 5 pm might be time to cut loose, have fun, to me it's hour 14 of being awake, have to prep for tomorrow and be in bed at 8pm, maybe 9 at the outside.
Upside is that I only have 16 more years of that and I'll have full salary retirement at 52, if I choose to keep doing this.
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We had the reverse issue with my Dad, 80 at the time, he was incapacitated, in a hospital outside his normal care team, and it took DAYS to get his medical records released to the doctors treating him, in the end I had to lie to his regular doctors, get an unofficial copy of his records by impersonating him, then provide them to the doctors caring for him. Without his consent the VA would not release his records. How can you consent when you're unconscious? Then the issue was the other hospital didn't want to accept his 'paper' records, it had to be electronic. Eventually, after a WEEK they sent his full electronic records to his doctors, but anything could have happened in that time.
The didn't even have any info of what prescriptions he was on other than the list I had of what he took, being without some of those alone could have killed him.
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Desperate gun toting mobs become targets for actual preppers...he'll survive, the neighborhood won't.
Think it through: if they're a gun toting mob, it means they did no planning before, meaning that gun in their hand is probably the only one they've ever used, and now is the only time. Sure, some will get lucky, even toddlers in Africa in large numbers work as infant-ry.
But enough times to make a difference they'll come across 'prepper Joe' who's on his roof, spotted and sighted them for minutes before they even know they're in range, and they start dropping before they can even tell where the shooting is coming from.
BESIDES, always booby trap your supplies with firebombs. If you die, you always make sure all your equipment and supplies are denied to an enemy force, that's day one stuff man. You're dead, fuck the neighborhood, what do you care about some murderers?
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That's why I have a man rule for stuff like that: They're not here, I'm not thinking about them.
I'm on a 6 mile trail run, alone, so why would I think of other people? This is my time to not have to do that, just for an hour, let me be ME, not "ME in the context of how I relate to other people". As far as I'm concerned in that moment, there are no other people. It's just me and the moment, every moment, and they all count.
If women never get to feel that, I pity them, I truly do. We should all get to experience freedom inside our own head and selves now and then.
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"therefore the child carrying the fathers name is the man stepping forward to take responsibility in front of the community."
When I was adopted, that's literally the point of that. I was adopted at birth, so the man who raised me because my biological father couldn't legally gave me his name, and I'm proud to carry it. Later in life, it's just one more thing that alienates me further from my half-siblings my bio dad had later in life and COULD care for, who took HIS name. But he actually did raise them, so they also deserve to carry his name. Those names used to actually carry the father's name so it was quite obvious, like I'd be Robert Johnson, Robert, the Son of John. It also makes sense in Game of Thrones, having a 'placeholder' surname for bastards, like Snow in the North or Sand in the East.
Calling me a bastard is about the only insult that'll get anger from me, because it's the only true one lol.
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Lifelong Missourian here, concealed carrier, gun owner. ANY gun used in ANY investigated incident, LEGAL OR NOT, is always taken as evidence, by every department, in every case, every time. In training, you're stressed to never carry anything you're not willing to lose, because if you have to use it, shots fired or not, it's gone. You can petition later to recover that property.
Now, in that case, as in the case of the McCloskys, they can go buy a crate of machineguns today if they want to. They've been convicted of no crime, they've been deprived of no rights. Their case is why you need LOTS of guns, as backups.
You can call the police nazis all we want, but as a lawful gun owner to stay lawful one needs to cooperate with an investigation. It's a big deal to threaten to end another's life even if you are 1000% justified in doing so.
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The orders were legal and lawful, and court issued. Since you're not from here, let's break it down:
As a Missourian, lifelong conservative, CCW holder, lifetime NRA member, I fully support the police. They did nothing wrong here. ANY time you use a firearm in an investigated event, anyone, any time, every case, even the police, that weapon goes INTO EVIDENCE. EVERY, FUCKING, TIME, FOR, EVERYONE. This is in state law, this is taught in CCW class, every gun owner knows it.
The saying is to never carry anything you're not willing to lose if you have to use it. Because you will. After the case you can go through court and get it back. Do you actually think if it was some violation of their rights, the ELITE LIFELONG LAWYERS would have allowed it? FUCK NO. They would have refused it, they would have fought it with their $1000/hr lawyers, and it would not have happened. Knowing the law, they followed the law.
It annoys the fuck out of me every time out of staters like Tim that have no fuck of a clue about my state say this dumb shit. Fuck the police, but they did nothing wrong in THIS case so far. It's all on the insane lawyers representing the City.
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they do. If you can build thousands and thousands of explosive rockets, putting several thousand lbs together for an IED is easy, they probably do it all the time unintentionally just storing that OCEAN of explosives they have.
All my life the lack of imagination is staggering to me. they'd kill millions of Israelis if they could, of course they'd kill thousands of their own people if it helped.
I know because the US does it, and we're supposed to be BETTER, right? We sacrifice Americans willingly all the time to serve our goals. Look at covid. Sorry sick person, you need to stay outside the hospital and die, it's closed and locked down, empty, for potential covid patients. Thousands died.
At any rate, I HOPE the US did this, we should level a hospital every 30 minutes until they release our hostages. They're locked in there with US, we're not worried about them.
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As an English-descended one of those later-arriving Germans, yes, and you're welcome. I live here in Missouri in an area known as the Winestrasse, centuries of German immigration and winemaking, amazing town, great vineyards. When German immigrants arrived here in the 1700s fleeing the Munich region, they found central Missouri along the Missouri River to be the closest place on earth as fertile and beautiful as the Ruhr and Rhine vallies, so they settled here, built up a town and when people back home came and grew the town, the original founders moved down river to get AWAY from the crowd and started a new town, over and over and over and over, so the whole Missouri is dotted with these German towns full of whatever-generation Germans. It's great to visit.
I've often wanted to visit the central European French-German countryside, I'm told it's quite similar to my native Midwest US. @NoahBodze
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And yes, Herman, Missouri, the epicenter of the Winestrasse and tourist attractions, it is common to hear German spoken as a first language on the street. It's normal to walk into a shop and be greeted first in German, then they see you don't understand and fall back to English, I don't think that's common in many places outside of cultural enclaves in big cities.
When I lived in St Louis I saw that but only in specific cultural spaces, like for example some South Korean friends took me to a REAL Korean restaurant they knew in our area and it was AMAZING, but the entire menu was in Korean, there was no English version, no English in the entire restaurant, because this was not a place Americans went or knew about. Luckily I had fiends I trust to guide me because if you've never had a full-on traditional Korean meal it's pretty overwhelming. First you drink makgeoli, from bowls not glasses, then they bring out the giant table plate with like 20 different appetizers you have to try ALL of, then they bring out and setup a giant steam pot, bowls and plates, rice, liquor, more snacks and appetizers, then the beef bulgogi I ordered that they started marinating like last week that's SO tender and tasty...it's a whole PRODUCTION, and this was a group of like 20 so always something happening. I miss those days.
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Following GPS has gotten me lost FAR more than following my own sense of direction or even intuition. No joke, it never failed a decade ago, I'm taking an unscheduled stop here, ok lets go, wait, why is the GPS telling me to take an entirely different route, recalculating, take this turn instead and travel the next 3 hours...this was a 2 hour drive on the interstate, why are we on f-ing GRAVEL now, oh well it knows better than me, right?
Google maps now will default to taking you on the GREENEST route, not the most efficient or fastest route.
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Because to 'those people' the world is just horror. Patriarchy, racism, government control, sexism, -isms in general, how can you be happy when 8 billion people are VICTIMS?!?!? How can you have a happy life when so many people are OPPRESSED! You have to crusade for them!
If you keep to yourself and live YOUR life, like a normal person, NO, that's complicity, you alt-right naxi dragoon!
But yeah, for them life is pain, so how could someone be painfree?
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BUT if not for the picture and bragging rights, then what? It's truly disrespect for the animal, it's life, and your being privileged to have taken it to not celebrate and just unceremoniously butcher the carcass.
You remove value from it's sacrifice. You'd WASTE it. If you take no trophy from a trophy hunt, then it's just needless killing.
Instead of hey, look at my photos from Africa, look at this magnificent giraffe I was fortunate enough to harvest, he's such an impressive animal, here's 20 photos, look how great a specimen he was.....but doing it your way yields "Yeah, there was this old busted giraffe we iced, no big deal. Naw, we didn't take any photos, it wasn't worth remembering or showing off. Just a dead dog like chefawkes says, basically worthless. We gutted it and gave it away"
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Friends and I were hanging outside their house one night, saw the neighbor drive by and SOCK the chick in the passenger seat in the face. She bails out, runs a bit, my friends white knight and talk to her, she gets back in the car, they go to the house next door. Friends call 9/11. A county police officer arrives, talks to them, goes next door to talk to the neighbor, says everyone there including the victim says it's all good, nothing he can do.
My friends didn't like that, they call dispatch AGAIN. Same officer comes back, now it's all my friends, ID, searches, statements, and if you call again it's YOU that will be arrested.
20 minutes later, same cop is BACK, THE NEIGHBORS called them for AN ESCORT out of the neighborhood because US being outside intimidated and harassed THEM.
He locked my friends in a second police car while the other car led them 'to safety' then let my friends out. Neighbors moved away shortly thereafter.
You never know where it will go when you add police to a situation, so don't, was the lesson to me there.
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Notice NO recommendation has ever said it stops the spread, everything is to SLOW the inevitable spread.
Masks, handwashing, 6ft distance, not touching face, they are all stated to SLOW the spread, no talk of stopping it.
We WILL all get it, the sole purpose of the precautions we're taking is so everyone doesn't get it at the same time, to distribute the ill over a longer timeline.
And yes, it IS similar to AIDS. You have non-stop unprotected sex, you will contract disease, but if you take measures to stop the spread through the population through your own actions, such as monogamy, abstinence, and condoms, it will slow or even stop the spread starting with you.
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Boston University, not Harvard in Boston, but Boston U down the street lol.
It's the same with Trump, he's an idiot they scream, despite graduating WHARTON, a school people list Harvard and Yale as BACKUP schools for when they apply.
What they fail to talk about is how often 'inexperience' can be a superpower when THE PROBLEM is entrenched "We've ALLLLLLLLLLLWAYS done it this way" failing thinking.
Why do we do it like this? (Reason) Oh, that's retarded, why not do it this way twice as fast for 1/4 the price, OH because then parties a,b,c,d,g,y,t would not BENEFIT and get enriched, I see. You can't just buy food for starving people in nation X, no no no, you have to give that money to an NGO to hire staff to consult on how to get the food to the right nation, they make the determination, then contractors H,K, and Haliburton buy another company who ships the food there and starts another NGO who distributes the food, ad nauseum, with a COST INCREASE at every layer.
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I bet if you put 10 men that are between 5'9" and 5'11", and told a chick to pick which one is over six feet, she's wrong EVERY time.
It's why I just LIE. I'm 5'9", I say I'm 6', if she can actually use a measuring tool to catch me, one that's impressive, and 2 what a psycho to care that much, I'm out.
It would be like "I won't date anyone over 120lbs" but if she's fine, wants me, and is 122lbs, can I even tell the difference? Does it matter?
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Here's the problem, the 'followers' gave the mayor correspondence IN WRITING with their info on it. At that point it is public record. As a Missourian I could file an online form right now and have a copy of all of that by law probably within hours. It's a crime under our open records laws not to provide it. It's called transparency.
I could publish all their names, no problem. Frankly, they're fucking idiots if they didn't know that and they doxxed themselves, unknowingly or otherwise. ANYTHING in writing you give any government official in MO is public, by law. I work for a small city running a water plant, and it's a crime for me to delete an email on a 'work' account, because 3 years from now, for example, any citizen could request some email I got about some bid for some project or job, and I fucking better have it or they can sic the State Attorney General on me.
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@GenericUserName443 sigh, fuck, men have It terrible, NON MEN MOST AFFECTED.
This victim good Olympics shit has to stop. All it does is delegitimitze people's anguish.
It's like telling a homeless person no, I'm not going to feed you, and another thing, you should feel fortunate to be here and hungry and not hungry in India or subsaharan Africa, in fact you're living like a king!
Sure trans people and purple hobbits and martians all have problems too, and are they worse? Maybe, but who gives a F, we're talking about us, not them. Their pain is THEIR conversation, for that time.
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I turn 36 in less than a week and I label myself an 'Eldely Millennial'.
As a mostly-conservative mostly-republican I don't really care if people are gay or whatever they want to be, but I also feel that OTHER PEOPLE'S BUSINESS IS THEIR BUSINESS. I was the 'Best Man' at my Uncle's marriage to his awesome husband lol.
I've said your orientation or whatever should be like your underwear, wear whatever crazy kind you want, or none at all, but it's disrespectful to have your underwear hanging out in public.
It's all about personal choice and personal rights, I feel. Do I approve of and support abortion? NO, but if you chose to have one, well that's your choice. I wish you'd choose differently, but it's not my place to make you behave how I want you to any more than it's their/your place to tell me what to do.
Something I've thought about recently as a Millennial is our gens lack of a positive defining event like pervious gens had: ww1 generation saved Europe from evil, Greatest Generation had the Great Depression and Ww2 with America saving the world from evil AGAIN, then Gen X had Vietnam and watching the first human in history, an American, walk on the moon...our defining moment, as it happened to me, was sitting in American History class your senior year of high school at age 18 and watching two of the tallest buildings on this continent collapse and kill thousands of your fellow citizens live on CNN. Unlike such events in previous gens, we have yet even nearly 2 decades later had any moment of triumph over that defining event. We've won no war, we've had no great victory, if anything it's all been downhill since 9/11.
It's surreal to have graduated high school in 2002 because we will forever be known, no matter what, the Class of 9/11/2001. I was a speaker at my graduation ceremony, elected to do so by my class, and in my 5 minute speech I made it a blatant point to say NOTHING about Sept 11th, not a word, not an allusion, not a reference, nothing, because by then what was there to say that everyone hadn't heard? I wanted my speech to be about us, our school year before and outside of that tragedy, and the future moving past it, and I got many compliments for that decision.
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Remember, ALL crime is property crime.
Murder, someone stole my life and body against my will, rape, someone took your body without your consent, assault, someone damages your property, your body, without your consent.
If you have no rights to property, you can't own your own damn body even.
If YOU don't own your own body, that means someone else DOES, and I don't like that.
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@angrydragon4574 ALSO, I missed a chance at that in college. I worked with a chick that seemed to like me (but I'm 101% oblivious so who knows) but she was nice, funny, smart, gorgeous, Chinese. I found out after a while that her father was a high-ranking military member and that's why she had lots of older and younger siblings despite the One Child Policy. If you're in the club the rules don't apply. They were wealthy to the point they felt shamed she was making them look bad and WORKING while in the US, women don't WORK, are you in trouble, do you need us to send more $, they told her.
I wonder what that could have led to if I'd perused it. For all I know they'd have been into it, their daughter getting an AMERICAN MAN, marrying and becoming a citizen, a lot of successful motivated men of power, anywhere in the world, would probably see that as making an inroad. Oh well, it's the past now.
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If I'm out and about, I'm on a mission usually. I'm in the store, the coffee shop, I'm under the gun, I'm in a hurry, where's the stuff I need, hurry up with my damn coffee, chick, WAIT who is this woman trying to talk to me, I'M BUSY.
Ok now I have some free time, not a woman within 100 miles lol. It's like people don't have things going on in their lives.
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That makes sense to us men, because we (at least I did) grew up where if you even THOUGHT about another woman, your GF was BYEEEEEEEEE! On to the next.
But for women it's like so what I cheated, I still want YOUUUUUUU baby (spreads legs).
When that doesn't work, when consequences happen, they can't even conceive what's happening.
NO? What does that mean, is that English? Never heard that before, and damn sure not from a MAN, lol.
I tell men all the time, the sexiest thing you can tell a woman is NO. They're insane, they don't take it as a command, they take it as a CHALLENGE.
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OH, so if I see people doing illegal shit, and I call it out, and no one does anything, now that's MY fault? If they want to stop Bury, stop the insane system and crazy choices that make him POSSIBLE. If your system can be bet against and loses, that's THE SYSTEM's problem, not a small part of it. What he does should be impossible, BUT IT'S NOT, we won't make it impossible. If you're exploiting the same rules everyone else has to be in, and you get ahead, YOU ARE AMERICA. That's US, prevailing despite everyone else. @OnlyTheTrutha
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@kathycoleman4648 what you described is her leaving where she has POWER to go feel powerless.
At home she has all the power, it's why she's in demand. Notice you never demand anything from people who are not in power over you, because you need power to meed said demands.
At target she has no power, no one cares, f her, she's just a RANDO.
As a man I hate leaving my farm, because here I'm king, I have all the power, when I leave, now it's crying other peoples kids, it's family asking to do this and women, so many, telling you to do this and demanding that and oh you're and man you should do this for me I deserve it...
I want nothing from anyone, and thus no one has power over me.
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The direct democracy voting idea has it's positives, but the problem is it's impossible to implement and very likely unconstitutional. There are no Federally ran national elections in the US. Every state makes their own laws regarding their elections and runs them independently, as per the 10th Amendment. The Constitution does not grant the Federal government the power to hold elections, therefore it's solely the Right of the States.
A direct democracy vote like he wants could disenfranchise millions of people if, for example, their state itself votes not to put those questions on their ballots, so no votes on the national issue get cast from that State. The State could get a court ruling that changes the issue question and basically nullifies the votes of other states. Such a system would also be strongly biased against non-populated areas and favor population centers. It's a top-down authoritarian plan disguised as freedom of choice, and with nowhere to escape to. At least with 50 states and 50 sets of laws, if you don't like what's going on where you live you have 49 other options. With big government national votes, you might end up fucked with no recourse.
Additionally, what if the vote on one of the 'three issues' is affirmative yet the result is a law in violation of the Constitution? SCOTUS would still be able to strike down such a law, nationwide majority vote or not. So why have that vote, at IMMENSE polling expense, in the first place?
Large groups of FAR more intelligent lawyers, scholars, and thinkers spent years crafting our Constitution, and it's been through centuries of revision, and the fact that nationwide voting on issues in a direct democratic style has not once entered into it seems like an indication that maybe it's not the best idea. Our system goes to great length to PREVENT the Tyranny of the Majority, not to empower it.
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Do people not get that this won't do anything to e-sports, because they're STATE ATHLETES, they have to game 996. 9am to 9pm, six days a week. Gaming is their JOB. No time off, no f-ing, no family, you game for the state, game more, game better, game for the greatness of a-China, why aren't you gaming right a-now?!?!
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Will helping women get me laid?
Then why do it?
If more people would ask this simple, accurate question, no one would be asking dumb questions.
So many things can be answered that way, does it get me laid, no? Then why the F would I?
Oh, it does get me laid, lets do THAT. Oh, that is terrible and nasty and mean, oh well, if they make me have to be terrible and mean and nasty to get laid, I'll do it, but I wish they didn't make it that way.
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@boogermaiden that's the point, women can choose for themselves, and those horrendous choices are now affecting all of culture and society negatively. You give a new CEO the power to run the company, and they not only ruin the company but blame all the people who gave them said power, and demand how we could let them get away with all their horrible choices, it's our fault for putting them in charge, You TAKE that power AWAY from that CEO hopefully prior to too much damage being done.
Gender is irrelevant, EVERY person SOLELY makes their own choices, there is no one on earth that can make your choices for you, and no one on earth but you is responsible for your choices, including your dearth or abundance of choices available. Having choices IS a choice. Make it.
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If I'm making millions, I'm BUYING women, not picking them up, lol. And that's what happened to all these chicks bragging about it.
They get propositioned by a billionaire, they see that as a compliment and are excited, let's GO, blow him in the private jet, champagne, coke, who-hoo!
If a REAL woman had that happen, she'd be outraged. A real high value woman would refuse that immediately, because she's not for SALE, FOR ANY PRICE.
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Have to think of the tariff situation like when bees kill attacking wasps. The wasp dies if it's body temperature exceeds 115 degrees F, but the bees can survive 118 degrees F, so they surround and gang up on the wasp and vibrate, raising their collective temperature to 117 degrees, cooking the wasp to death.
The US is the beehive, and we can heat things up pretty damn hot if we so choose to, and sure, I'll hurt, but we can survive it, while those against us cook and die, metaphorically.
Chemotherapy would be another good analogy: We can sicken ourselves to the point of near death and survive, but the cancer cannot tolerate it and dies. When you are stronger and more resilient than another, what would kill them will only weaken you, possibly severely, but not fatally.
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4:56 that seemed so transparently fake, "we have all these great guests OH LOOK it's a Princess, thank you for coming my good friend Princess, you're so great see you at dinner next week! See, tons of famous people here..."
For all we and she knows that was a grift, that was an actress hired to appear at that time to sell the bit, I put nothing past these people. It's like being on a date and trying to impress a woman so you have your friend 'happen by' your table and gush and talk you up about how great you are and how everyone loves you, by happenstance. Or wearing a fake wedding ring to attract women, it's so performative-seeming and scripted. Like in a magic show when the magician needs a 'random volunteer' from the audience, of course they choose their own planted shill.
Social Proof is a POWERFUL social engineering tool. People see you being approved by other people, they'll convince themselves to approve of you despite their intuition screaming otherwise.
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Let's take it out of the emotionally charged/politicized context of a school shooting for people to understand easier:
Say you're a paramedic, a trained trauma medic, experienced, trained, skilled. You're driving off-duty on vacation on the interstate, and there's this crazy accident right in front of you. Everyone stops. You get out and see this person ejected, their leg just ripped off, gone, they're bleeding to death. DO YOU A)grab your emergency bag from the back hatch, use your skills and tools at hand to respond and tourniquet/stabilize this victim, or B) go stand by him and call 911 while you watch him bleed to death in front of you?
NO ONE would say B in THAT situation. I can't imagine any medical professional that would hesitate to do anything they could there. You have the tools, you have the skills, and you're there, do your job. Save that life.
So why when it's a different professional, skilled, trained, equipped, and there and they don't do their job would anyone defend them?
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The father refused to leave, so now we're into criminal trespass, then he assaulted the homeowner after said crime, now it's assault.
Juror number me is a 100% vote to acquit. The custody stuff has zero bearing in the situation.
SORRY, once you're trespassing, you lose all right to self defense. I'm astounded Tim would have this take, that if I come onto his property, he orders me to leave, pulls a gun and tells me to leave, so I kill Tim, he feel's that self-defense?
Fucking city kids, man
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It's like Joe Rogan was SO conf over "What is a token, what is a token!?".
A us dollar is a token, no different than Bitcoin or a FTX token. They're just tokens. They are solely worth what you believe they're worth.
All currencies, usd, dinar, gold, Bitcoin, are identical. They're worth what you believe they are.
If you have some incurable disease, and you can choose between the 10 grams of cure you need to live and be poor, or you could choose infinite wealth but die very quickly, you'll learn all about what you value.
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I remember seeing my doctor a few years back, man who's been my GP for over 30 years, since I was a toddler.
I was there for a skin infection, and as we're finishing up and he calls in my script, I get all this paperwork. He says "I'm required by law to give you all this by the government, since when we put your height/weight into our database it flags you as overweight, so ALL THIS info on weight management and the risks get printed for you. Look, we're both adults, we know this, eat less, move more, end of lecture."
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"What happened to MEN protecting their daughters?"
WHY, those daughters call their fathers misogynist and probably blame them for 'rape culture', of course that's in the rare case any of these kids even HAVE present fathers.
This IS the prize of feminism, you WON. Now everyone is equal and no one cares you're getting beat down by men, because you are now a man, #equality.
If this was a son, they'd be told to stop faking being hurt, MAN UP, walk it off, get back in the game, oh and don't miss the block next time, we lost a point because of you. Been there.
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If I get taxed to work for an employer, YOU get taxed for working for yourself.
Sorry, until no one gets fucked, we ALL have to get fucked. #equality.
I'm just pissed that people are out here making money and not paying taxes, while I get my W2 and see that oh wait, the thousands you paid in via withholding, not enough, you still owe, meanwhile I see people I supervise who make slightly less than me rake in thousands in 'refunds' and 'rebates' and 'credits'.
Success is punished, poverty is rewarded, rant over.
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RE: California...I dont think Tim understands or has had a GARNISHMENT before.
If you work in State A, and any state b-z serves papers on your employeer stating you owe court ordered payment, like for taxes or child support, you don't even get a say, your employeer will dock that allowed amount from your pay and automatically send it.
How naive and ignorant is he? Just because you leave a state and owe that state money, you think that just goes away? Ha ha, I'm over here now in a different state, you can't touch me!
That's as asinine as those people who think the police will stop chasing you at the county line and you can sit there and taunt them, like Porkies or something lulz.
You're closer to 40 than 20 Tim, and you're rich, you have no excuse anymore to not know how things work.
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Think of House MD as the example of ISTJ emotional distance. House has emotions, he just hides them behind the blinding brilliance of his outward focus on others. He's a master at deflecting questions towards himself with more insightful, pressing observations of others that almost always puts them on the defensive, and when you're defending you can't be on the attack.
Like, someone says let's talk about what's bothering you, and you reply something like "Yeah I have stuff going on, but let's talk about you and that thing you did that no one else wants to talk about, comfortable now?" And hope they grab that and go and forget about you in the process.
That's the emotional distance I think they mean. Anyway, it's an introvert dominant type, let us be alone, damnit! What's with all these questions?
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Here's the biggest problem:
As horrible as she is, she no doubt has a retinue, a queue, an entourage, a whole solar system of orbiters after her ratchet snatch.
It's the conundrum we also see with wealth: you ever see someone making tons of money, getting success, adoration, and you see they're a horrible person, a real POS, and you wonder what am I doing wrong staying a good person but I'm broke.
It's disheartening to be a guy who can't get female attention with a spotlight and pile of bait, while nasty chicks like this will never want for a f buddy or boyfriend, she'll have her pick.
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once you say it three or more times, or say it times three, thrice, not once, twice but THREE times, its becomes true in your mind, but only if you say it three or more times. You knew that, right, I think you knew that, they told me YOU, you're smart enough to know that.
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He actually sounds like the worst kind of employer.
"Hey boss this is happening, any guidance on what to do?"
"No! I hired you to know what to do, fix it!!!"
"Ok yes sir mr pool sir".
Three weeks later:
Pool: "What the fucking fuck is this invoice from the plumber for $50,000?!?!" [Beanie shoots off his head]
"You said fix the water leak, so I did, and you approved it. In this town, it has to be a union plumber, so that's pricey, and when the code inspector for the city came by to inspect the building after the plumber was done, he found thse, uh, structural defects I think he called them, in your jankey building, so, it's getting condemned today. Now will you show some leadership and tell your damn employees what you want done?"
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It's funny, dad bods:
When I think of a dad bod, I think of one of those police firefighter fundraiser calendars where all the guys are giant ripped bodybuilders.
Because a dad needs to protect kids, they have to be in peak shape. When you're single, eh, so what, get fat, you got no woman or kids, why be in shape?
Take back the dad bod. When someone says dad bod I see Chris Hemsworth in my head.
Because that's how I remember my own dad.
Just like how I remember my Labrador retriever being the size of a horse, and I did ride him, but I was 5, and yes Mike was a big dog, he wasn't giant, it just seemed like he was because I had skewed perception blurred by 35 years of memory degradation.
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@adamsmith2209 Compensation? How about billing instead. Youtube should make users pay for their upload hosting.
This is a video that's roughly half an hour, and it has 10 MILLION views, that's 5 MILLLION HOURS of streaming bandwidth. If you hosted this video on Amazon AWS, they charge ~$0.14/hr in HD over 10k hours to deliver content, so just this video alone would cost about $700,000 to host. All just to watch Jake here cost his local taxpayers hundreds of thousands in damages, not including the costs to try and incarcerate him, which can be SUBSTANTIAL. I know in my state the most recent figure I saw was that it costs $32,000/year per offender in State prison. You steal a $500+ laptop in a felony burglary, thanks a lot, you just cost the taxpayers a new street because we have to pay $100k to imprison you for 3 years now.
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Exactly, As I state, I'm not afraid of or intimidated by women, I'm intimidated by the other men their pussy controls that they can set on me, like the police and male family members, the court system, and the government. I'm afraid of other, weaker men who hold power over me that she can exploit to hurt me, and any woman claiming to be smart should easily be able to understand that.
Men are also the biggest victim group of violent crime, not women. When I go out as a man, I don't have to just worry about getting attacked by other men as women do, I have to watch out from attacks from women too, something most women don't care about.
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Stories like this make we wonder if dating today is not treated like some vestigial ceremony we still do out of habit and have forgotten the POINT of.
As a man nearing 40 with much success in life, if I'm dating you, if I'm investing all this time, I'm vetting you for marriage, for family, for kids, for spending the rest of my life with. If it's date 2 and you're acting all crazy and tossing out odd 'we can't do this or that until date whatever, you're not serious, you're playing a game. Go find someone who wants to play, not someone serious about life.
When she tells the guy on date 2 who goes to her house "we're not having sex" and he leaves, duh, what did you think was going to happen. He certainly has better things to do than whatever you wanted to do that was not sex, what were you going to make sundaes and watch Amazon? That's more like date 20, not date 2.
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Yep, we're on a Terry Stop so we can compel identification, Mimms get's you out of the car, and sure, they technically are stopped on private property, but if they're being THAT technical they could have just waited for them to inevitably leave and stop them the second they touched street.
It's hard to argue you were not driving when you're present in a parking lot in the middle of town, did you teleport here? Have a private road that leads right here, I don't think so, that's not, magic word, REASONABLE.
And yes, they do have body cams on, which should tell you they feel in the right whatever they're doing. You think a cop would 'brutalize' you on a public record we can watch on YT? no.
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I'm on sort of the other side of this, I've inherited my family home and property, and let me tell you, if you think the pressure to get a place is high, you should see the pressure to SELL right now.
ENDLESS offers, men coming to my front door, phone calls, FUCK OFF, you'll never meet my price, by design, and if you do, well damn, now I want more because if you're coming up to my price, it's apparently way more valuable than even I knew lol. What do I want? Whatever they're offering plus 7 figures
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@eyemunchained8968 unofficially though, were I him and found out my kids were not mine, HEY LOOK I JUST found hundreds of K to hire ruthless attorneys to wreck her in any way possible.
He's acting pretty passive because he BELIEVES those kids are his, but I bet that would change if they were proven NOT, regardless of the law, the court can't make a father care, believe me.
At that point I'd be like "Child support is $50k a year, my legal fees fighting that support are $100k but also are punishing her, WORTH IT, in fact hire another firm, throw this extra stack of hundos on the fire"
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Reframe that, STOP BEING WEAK AND EVIL CAN'T PREY ON YOU, you won't need to be saved!
A woman wants to feel safe from evil, easy, GET A MAN FOR THAT. Oh, you don't have one, that's her abdicating her responsibility.
I have 6 sisters, brother can't be everywhere at once, so 1) I bought them all guns, and 2) they all got husbands, problem solved.
No good men don't have to do anything because evil has no opportunity.
Don't get all emotional here. It's weak ass shit.
Solve the problem. Eliminate the risk.
Example, bro was arrested DOZENS of times before this event, that's dozens of failures to eliminate the risk of him.
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As I frame it, you can only have power over people you WANT NOTHING FROM. If you don't want anything from anyone, no one can manipulate or coerce you. You can't be corrupted, bribed, seduced. You can't con an honest man, they used to say. It's like not wanting your job, now your boss has no power over you as he has nothing to threaten you with, fire me, do it, and nothing to offer you, a raise? overtime? promotion? I don't want to be here at all, that's not an offer.
The less you WANT the more power you HAVE, because the more people you get to tell NO. The more people you tell no, the more yes people you'll attract.
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Anytime someone starts "Thing/Behavior/Process, DOES it work?" I always get worried narratively, because the fastest way to tell if something does work, at least a little bit, or it did work well in the past, is if it's still being done. Humans have an amazing talent to LEARN. We keep what works, and we throw away what doesn't.
With institutions and traditions that were put in place to solve very real problems, and then continued for hundreds of thousands of years across all human societies and cultures, we know they work or at least are perceived to work, because if it didn't work, we'd replace that with what DID work.
Does flirting work? Yes, obviously, if it didn't work, we probably wouldn't do it.
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Never understood the controversy. Not a logan fan. Watched the original and it was blurred so it's not like anyone was shown.
All these new young people on youtube today amazed at this, lol, youtube used to show nudity, murder, gore, dead bodies, on and on.
ISIS execution videos, Iraq war ied victims, Afghanistan combat death videos, GOOD OLD YOUTUBE used to be free and open, and the wild west...
Today 'creators' are terrified of saying pussy or fuck in their minimum 10 minute length videos because of the money, oh please, don't demon-itize me oh great algo!
We need all the money out of youtube before there can ever be any semblance of free speech or creativity of expression again. Being 'brand safe' is literally ending society.
Do I think Logan's video belongs on youtube, hell no, but that's the beauty of free speech, to protect speech We don't like FROM US. Sorry, but this reaction video is no more or less shocking or offensive than a dead body video or hateful racists, or any other heinous content you can imagine. ALL Speech is equal.
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My parents were married 59 years, and that whole time had a single checking account, and every month they sat down and did bills together and did their 'books' where they tracked each other's money in the check book, to the penny. She had her money, he had his, BUT until all expenses were fully paid they didn't pay themselves at all. If the bills and expenses left over nothing, they did with nothing. Now she's gone, I'm running the house for my 84 year old dad and it drives him crazy that I don't do that, I have everything on autopay and paid way in advance, it's all on autopilot. He's like how much money do I have, and I'm like enough...wait for what?
I want to buy thing, it's almost $500...dad you had $30k in the bank last month, you just got paid again this month, don't worry about it. Me, I'm the type that's like do I have more in the bank than I anticipate spending, ok then really what does the number matter?
I can imagine someone like Elon feeling that way, I want to buy Twitter, can I afford it? Oh I can afford to buy 3 twitters, ok so what the worry, add to cart, checkout. Why stress?
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@sillyvoicedarling1740 "she was asked if others around were distressed"
Which is a simple yes or no question. She was not asked WHY or HOW or for any elaboration.
Were they distressed?
Yes.
The next question would have probably been can you tell us why you felt they were distressed, but she ruined that.
She's not there to try the case, she's not there to attempt to interpret the line of questioning.
She did this several times, in one case she discredited herself by downgrading her experience, another she questioned the entire response time, evidence already irrefutably in the record and provided by the PROSECUTION, and corroborated by radio calls, dispatch recordings, logs, cameras, and even witness video.
She's going to let her emotion sink the case all in the name of her idea of justice.
OH WELL>
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He's never been talented and faced with the prospect of having that talent ripped from him, like a perverse form of bodily assault.
I've been there, I was a talented musician in high school and middle school before that. Marching band, concert, individual competition, quartet, pep band at basketball games, jazz band concert, I was even all conference soloing one year. And I never really practiced, I just coasted on talent. I probably could have been great if I really applied myself, I'd even had hopes of affording college through a music scholarship, I had a great high school band teacher who was married to the band program director of the school I wanted to attend, so I had the 'in'.
Then I started doing late-teenage things with the wrong fellow teenagers, got expelled from school middle of my junior year, had to wait to come back for my senior year and had no time for band or music, I had to struggle to get enough credits to graduate on time. I've never played a note since...then a month later 9/11 happened.
What could have been, how my life would be different, probably better, had I been able to just have 2nd period open that senior year and kept playing haunts me still to right now, 20 years later.
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@pugsymalone6539 I hired my first employee in my 9 year career the other week. He had almost as much expereince as me, is on track to get all the same licenses I have, and has worked at more treatment plants than I have.
My interview process was giving him a tour, describing things, answering his very knowledgeable and relevant questions, then just saying "I can see you know what you're doing, do you want to give us a try?" |
I'd basically already hired him on paper because his resume was great, so the interview was basically a formality. I need people, I'm not trying to disqualify, I'm trying to convince lol.
Luckily in my org, at the moment, I'm my own HR dept.
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The guilt lies with those that make the CHOICE in these matters. That is not the police.
I work for a water department. We've been shutting water service off for customers for non-payment through the entire pandemic. We can't make water to provide without every single customer paying their bill every month. I get a work order to turn off someone's water, we do it. We do dozens a month, and they all pay up and get turned back on, plus a reconnect fee.
The alternative is NO ONE gets water.
If I got to pick and choose and say "I'm not going to do shut offs", then more people would stop paying, we'd have no income as a municipal utility to continue operation, and thousands would have no water service.
If police get to individually pick and choose which orders to follow, we no longer have a rule of law or even a society, we just have corruption and anarchy. I want the police to follow orders, so that when they're given orders I agree with, they don't go rogue and disobey them! They could just as easily be given Constitutional orders and refuse them as well.
YOU CANNOT HAVE EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW IF YOU DON'T ENFORCE IT EQUALLY.
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I have to ask, if they're super losers for going across the planet to get $50 sex, does that make me sitting in Missouri jerkin it, single for the last 15 years, better somehow?
That's the bottom line. If it's legal and makes that man happy and he can afford it, buy that motorcycle, buy that house, buy a harem of women and traffick them to the US, do that trip you want, you're a MAN, you do whatever you want.
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Exciting, my current overall goal is hitting my own personal 'escape velocity' amount of savings runway that'll excede my remaining life years, and I'll be out. I'm debt free, own my own land and home, already basics set for life, so I'm finally living the American Dream: working by CHOICE. Until I choose differently. I'm pro-choice like that.
Men, think about what you WANT, think about your GOALS, is what you're doing going towards that, if not, change it.
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17:20 I use this phrase at work a lot now that I'm a supervisor, "No responsibility without authority". I will not be responsible for decisions I CAN'T or DON'T make. If I'm going to be responsible for something, I'm taking charge of it.
I had a coworker running a project, he had some issues, I gave him some guidance on how to deal with those issues, maybe I was like 1% a dick about it lol, and he comes back with "WELL, you're the Director of the department, so ultimately you're responsible if this fails".
I replied you're right, and with that you're relieved, I'm stepping in and taking over, guys, hey guys, stop that, go over there and start on XYZ instead, I'm taking charge, we're getting this done.
He went and sat in the work truck for two hours after that, sulking, what a leader lol. Wouldn't even help after that.
If you tell me it's my responsibility, to me that's you giving up your responsibility and surrendering the authority you had to me.
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Try the water treatment industry. Almost 9 years in, I've met ONE woman, and she wasn't even in the industry, she was a grad student as part of a study a local university was doing to my plant. I can search the database, I don't think there is a single female licensed treatment operator in my state (MO). I've maybe seen one woman at a testing appointment. Never had a female applicant of any kind. All my suppliers, all my supply companies, all my vendor reps, all my drivers, EVERYONE Male to a person. Even when I get consulting engineers and municipal service firms, 100% male. Maybe it's because we're 100,00% solely results focused, and when we fail people die, women don't want that responsibility perhaps? NOW, city hall, my employer, HR, all the offices, every, single, one, female. It's why I stay in my water plant and only visit city hall briefly, then back to supervise my men.
And this is a $50+/hr job depending on market, no degree required.
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I'm 41, I've never really seen an attractive women. Not in the way I see other men who literally look and go tongue out omg it's a woman and start panting, she's like a 3, and chubby, and and and.
I'd love to get married and have all the kids, I'm rich and handsome.
I'd ask any woman that excited me into my life, if that ever happened.
Do better women. That's all I can say.
Whatever happened to you being seductive or female lol? You lost your edge. I have 6 sisters, I know women always choose their man and make him be theirs, that's what I understand about you. Seen it too often. My own mother had to ask my dad out 4 times before he'd give her the time of day. 59 years, 7 kids, 2 grandkids, 2 great grandkids.
That's my bare minimum, Step up.
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This whole story is similar in some ways to the retail wars of today, and the major factor: physical locations. Blockbuster Total Access at the end of their run was better than Netflix because they had the huge network of existing physical stores to return and rent from. It's similar to the current war between Walmart and Amazon. Amazon is now opening physical stores all over the US, when supposedly their advantage in the first place over traditional retail was their lack of physical stores and their subsequent overhead costs.
Turns out people actually DO like to shop in a real store still in very large numbers just as much as they want to look at a photo/review/description and click buy.
I've said for a while now that the logical conclusion is Walmart, the far larger company, buys/merges with Amazon in what would probably be the largest business deal in human history, maybe the first ever trillion-dollar-level deal. It makes sense, Walmart owns the physical, their store footprint is unmatched and their own in-house shipping and logistics system is like if you merged fedex with UPS and gave them the resources of a major world power's military. I remember being in college and looking at the coursework for a degree in logistics/transportation, there are literal minor concentrations focused on The Logistics of Walmart, they are the world leader in supply chain and inventory management. They built their own independent, completely in-house internet system/credit card processor/phone system based on their own private proprietary global satellite constellation, they were doing Elon Musk-level shit before there was a SpaceX.
Couple that kind of IRL dominance with the techno-superiority of Amazon's online presence, it's over. There would be no competition. It makes so little sense for them to compete when they're two perfectly tuned parts of a perfect machine.
Imagine the day when you can have a large portion of your Amazon products delivered not in days, but in only as long as it takes you to drive to any of your nearest 4700 Walmart stores and picking it up. And the stuff they don't have on hand, their combined national warehouse and private shipping network can have to the store of your choice in a day. It would put UPS and Fedex out of business.
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1:07:00 Tulsi is full of shit, and that's a blatant, self-serving LIE. I do this for a living, I'm licensed to run just about any water treatment plant in the US, and the EPA certified method to properly test the lead content of SUPPLIED water to a household STARTS with running the tap for at least 2-5 minutes to clear out stagnant water in the household pipes. This will give you the true level of lead in the actual SUPPLIED water. Next, you take that same house and don't use any water for at least 8 hours, then you pull a sample immediately after the tap is opened. This sample tells you how much the home's plumbing is adding lead. If the second sample tests higher than the first, guess what, it's your own fucked up jankey pipes poisoning you.
When my own water system does this testing, which is mandatory every year, we test almost 20 homes out of our thousands of customers, and the source water reads zero lead, and depending on the house it can vary from little to nothing, to over the 15ppm limit. It's always the older houses with higher levels, and it's 100% out of the control of the utility. Some cities pass laws making such lead-containing plumbing illegal.
If she can't even look deeper on that and just uses it as a throwaway line, how can she be trusted on important matters? It's a no for me. In fact, I kind of despise her now for spreading disinfo.
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Nah, you have it wrong: Someone dresses up as Antifa and guns down a group of peaceful counter-protesters, or a news crew, or something like that. That's how a false flag works, you pretend your are your enemy force and attack your own forces, now the public is backing you and justifying your response against such an attack. The term comes from naval history when ships would attack others flying a flag other than their own, say a British ship flying a Dutch flag attacks some Spaniards, and when done right they go on to blame the Dutch for the attack.
Godwin's Law GO! Hitler did just this with the Reichstag fire. They burned down their own parliament building and blamed it on their enemies, which caused the entire nation to come together as one (trauma bonding) against said enemies, which at that time were the Communists, and drove them out...and in praise of the man who led that charge to remove them, Hitler, he was 'elected' Chancellor. The unfortunate Communists they framed were executed.
It's a well-studied horrific formula that works shockingly well.
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If it's a metal fitting into a plastic housing IT WILL CRACK AND BREAK IT.
First rule of plumbing and piping, plastic screws into metal, metal does NOT screw into plastic. You have two materials of differing strengths, and the plastic WILL yield to that metal fitting, boom, coolant jacket cracked, battery on fire, people will die and it'll be totally metal.
Another example: When you change the transfer case fluid on a 2007+ Ford Expedition or F150, if you aren't careful when you put the drain and fill plugs back in, to the proper torque and no more, the steel tapered thread drain plug WILL split the aluminum transfer case wide open and now you're out thousands.
That's metal to metal. Even high pressure plastics like Schedule 80 threaded fittings will crack like an egg if you screw a brass fitting into it even a in/lb too much.
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Problem, they were following lawful, legal orders. As a Missourian, lifelong conservative, CCW holder, lifetime NRA member, I fully support the police in this. They did nothing wrong. ANY time you use a firearm in an investigated event, anyone, any time, every case, even the police, that weapon goes INTO EVIDENCE. EVERY, FUCKING, TIME, FOR, EVERYONE. This is in state law, this is taught in CCW class, every gun owner knows it.
The saying is to never carry anything you're not willing to lose if you have to use it. Because you will. After the case you can go through court and get it back. Do you actually think if it was some violation of their rights, the ELITE LIFELONG LAWYERS would have allowed it? FUCK NO. They would have refused it, they would have fought it with their $1000/hr lawyers, and it would not have happened. Knowing the law, they followed the law.
It annoys the fuck out of me every time out of staters like Tim that have no fuck of a clue about my state say this dumb shit. Fuck the police, but they did nothing wrong in THIS case so far. It's all on the insane lawyers representing the City.
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If she's staying at home, not working, And child free, she better be earning at least $47k a year working from home, otherwise what is she doing? Cooking cleaning laundry takes an hour a day, I know, I'm a single man living alone working 50 hours a week, and my stuff is handled, plus a 100 acre working farm. If I can do that with no help, what's she contributing if not my kids? Why get married? Just a thing to do, lol?
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Same age, I've always seen it the opposite, man having a wife and kids and that stability would be amazing, no worrying about not having a future, having to keep finding women, continuing my line, all Handled, done, life goals achieved. NOW id be able to start living for the now that the future is secure.
That's why I feel empty and bored alone, single, never married, no kids.
What's all this work for, to make me happy, that's kind of selfish and small. So I started doing charity work and fundraising volunteer work for veterans charities.
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Six sisters, no brothers, but a strong Silent generation dad, I know what you mean. I was kinda immune to female bs by like 12, to survive lol, and it's probably why I'm turning 40 this year, no kids, no marriages, only one real serious relationship years back...it's all bullshit lol. I can't take it seriously.
I know all the tests, all the tears are fake, and THEY'RE. LYING. Lol.
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In my state you can't even play Bingo if you've ever had a felony, even an expunged one. Those are the state rules.
On the other hand, my state also doesn't even recognize federal felonies as anything, you can buy a gun here no problem as long as it's not a state-adjudicated felony.
Also if you are convicted of a felony, LIFETIME BAN on running for state office, zero leeway, no recourse.
SO, DON'T commit or get convicted of felonies, they basically make you a lifetime second-class citizen, and we just passed new laws setting a new lower level of felony, we have Class A, the worst like murder, down to Class F, SIX different classes of felony they can try you for, hoorya!
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Those excuses won't fly with me, I work 45 hours a week, I care for my 82 year old dad full time, and my house is spotless, laundry done daily, dishes done as used, everything a place and everything in it's place. I'm 39, this is how things have to be in my home.
If I can maintain that with NO HELP right now, I EXPECT things to be EVEN BETTER with help. SO, if they're NOT, there's a problem.
If you add something to a system that works, and there's a problem, you have to remove that disruptive addition.
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The financial benefits of marriage is not to SPLIT the bills, it's to CUT THE BILLS IN HALF.
I have a house, those expenses, and an income. She has a house, those expenses, and her income.
Were we to marry, I'd expect our household work and bills to cut in half because we live in ONE house, and the work gets half as hard because now there's two people doing it, on two incomes.
The point of marriage is not to spend MORE MONEY, it's to spend LESS so you have resources and stability for the PURPOSE of marriage, YOUR CHILDREN.
These chicks treat marriage like I would my career, I'm unhappy, I hate my job, I think I'm going to divorce my employer and start over lulz. Oh noes life is expensive and I gave up my income, how did this HAPPEN TO ME through no fault of my own even though I choose it?
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You know what's a wild claim, that MOHELA, the MISSOURI Higher Education Loan Authority, is somehow now the biggest federal student loan processor in the US, and fucking over millions of borrowers.
I'm a Missourian, I've gotten student loans from MOHELA in the past, and they were small loans solely for in state schools for Missouri residents. Now they're nationwide, have a CEO, and are making billions using my State's name in their business name, the fuck?
This seems criminal. This is like me starting a new small business called "The United States Government, LLC" and then banks saying "Like, ok, sure, here's a trillion dollar loan, they're called the US government, they have the full faith and credit of the United States Government..."
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And at least one of them will be from a gay man hitting on you.
For me, it was a younger black man cashier at Walmart, ringing my stuff and he stopped, looked me up and down, loooked me DEAD in the eyes and said 'Honey, you're WAY too cute to be lookin' THAT sad, what's wrong? You can tell me..."
And proceeded to have a few minutes of actual open and honest talk about the bad place I was in, and I felt better leaving.
I never felt like he was trying to bang me, it was a rare moment of being genuinely CARED for, he saw another person visibly hurting and thought no, I have to do something, even if it's just asking.
It worked because that was over a decade ago and it instantly returns to mind.
You have the ability to make noises with your mouth that causes other people to have different chemical reactions happen in them and change their whole state, if that's not magic I don't know what is.
Use your spells for good.
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Deadly force is possible at all times, everywhere. As a concealed carrier I know and accept that.
The weirdness would have been if the warrant said NO deadly force, NO guns, that would be crazy, and that would be FAVORITISM.
I don't get the surprise, these are feds, they show up at 1000x force no matter what. Three meth heads, you get the entire FBI HRT, snipers, drones, Bearcats driving through the wall, all of it.
It's a hammer and nail problem, they have all these hammers we paid billions for to fight a trillion dollar war (drugs), gotta find as many nails or problems that look like nails as possible.
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As a Missourian, lifelong conservative, CCW holder, lifetime NRA member, I fully support the police. They did nothing wrong. ANY time you use a firearm in an investigated event, anyone, any time, every case, even the police, that weapon goes INTO EVIDENCE. EVERY, FUCKING, TIME, FOR, EVERYONE. This is in state law, this is taught in CCW class, every gun owner knows it.
The saying is to never carry anything you're not willing to lose if you have to use it. Because you will. After the case you can go through court and get it back. Do you actually think if it was some violation of their rights, the ELITE LIFELONG LAWYERS would have allowed it? FUCK NO. They would have refused it, they would have fought it with their $1000/hr lawyers, and it would not have happened. Knowing the law, they followed the law.
It annoys the fuck out of me every time out of staters like Tim that have no fuck of a clue about my state say this dumb shit. Fuck the police, but they did nothing wrong in THIS case so far. It's all on the insane lawyers representing the City.
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House, career, car, that's not intimidating, that's bare minimum.
If you don't own a home, car, career, why are you even dating, work out those deficiencies and THEN get ambitious.
You know what IS intimidating, the idea of a woman renting, with a hourly job, trying to raise bastard kids.
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FACT CHECK: Tim fails to mention that per many articles, Neil Young thanked his record label, with their own large stake in his works, Warner Bros, backed him in his call to pull his music. 'Conspiracy Theory' debunked.
Also, Joe Rogan always seemed small to me, he's ONLY on Spotify...of all the people I know, only one other even uses Spotify. Everyone has a radio, and 'podcasters' like ALEX JONES are on HUNDREDS of nationwide radio affiliates seven days a week, nothing to download, no streaming, no cancel screams.
That's always seemed far larger than podcasts and platform streams. I can get radio with no internet or cell service.
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Appearance, ideology, sides, politics, humor, TIM cannot understand this is not about any of that. The joke is the absurdity of seeing a woman, you don't know her politics, doesn't matter, who is at a protest standing 5 feet, 350 lbs, twerking and knocking bystanders out with her ass-flaps, wearing a skimpy tank top and yoga pants that are about to structurally fail scream about how she needs the right to an abortion in her state where it's already legal to brain-vacuum a 8.9 month old baby, despite the fact no dick would go within 10 feet of her.
If it was a 350lb water buffalo twerking in a Trump 2024 tank top it would be just as absurd.
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Except in this case they were legal, lawful orders. As a Missourian, lifelong conservative, CCW holder, lifetime NRA member, I fully support the police in this. They did nothing wrong. ANY time you use a firearm in an investigated event, anyone, any time, every case, even the police, that weapon goes INTO EVIDENCE. EVERY, FUCKING, TIME, FOR, EVERYONE. This is in state law, this is taught in CCW class, every gun owner knows it.
The saying is to never carry anything you're not willing to lose if you have to use it. Because you will. After the case you can go through court and get it back. Do you actually think if it was some violation of their rights, the ELITE LIFELONG LAWYERS would have allowed it? FUCK NO. They would have refused it, they would have fought it with their $1000/hr lawyers, and it would not have happened. Knowing the law, they followed the law.
It annoys the fuck out of me every time out of staters like Tim that have no fuck of a clue about my state say this dumb shit. Fuck the police, but they did nothing wrong in THIS case so far. It's all on the insane lawyers representing the City.
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I grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere, so constant gunfire growing up. Moved to St Louis for college, pretty much also gunfire all the time, I'd laugh at new kids, why are you ducking, that gunfire is like 200 yards away, and it's spray and pray, we're fine....then grabbing others to make them duck because they were standing like idiots during gunfire maybe 50 yards away, far more dangerous.
The most gunfire I've EVER heard was election night 2012, Obama won the election, ALL NIGHT all of St Louis county was firing guns in the air. Stupid.
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my coworker, 55, two horrible divorces, constant strife with the GF he lives with, and I asked him if all that is worth it for p-ssy.
Next day he said he was thinking about what I said, HE'D NEVER EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT THAT, he says. His whole life being single and not getting laid was death, he had that mindset. He can't conceive of how I'm 40 and been single like 13 years, not even dating. I got so hurt I can't be with anyone yet. He's torturing himself, complaining, I'm like is it worth it JUST for vag? He'd never had that thought, wtf? @EffWriteOff.
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It's also a skewing depending on what environment you work in. In my workplace, it's 101%+ male, having a bachelor's AND an industry cert it takes a decade to get is the NORM, that's entry level...when you're constantly surrounded by competent, accomplished people, you tend to assume people around you are competent and accomplished.
So when I go on dating apps and see the single moms my age struggling, I just can't relate.
What do you mean you're 30, have a MBA from a good school, but you're bankrupt and working part time at a wine store, living at home?
I guess I'm spoiled by my siblings, 4 sisters, all very accomplished, strong people I'm always trying to keep up with.
Just expect more.
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@codycraine7101 Ah yes, the old 'it's not murder because we made murder legal' defense.
Nothing can be depraved, degenerate, bad, malicious, exploitative, extorting, or puerile as long as we say a spell and make it not so. A law is just a magic spell that changes reality. Yesterday, item X was perfectly legal and available, but Congress wrote down a magic incantation on paper so NOW reality changes in the US, X is now banned contraband. You could enjoy X openly in public, but now legal magic makes it impossible to enjoy anywhere, and if you try, Paladins with machinguns called Federal Law Enforcement will confine or kill you. It's why authoritarianism is destined to collapse, you can't have multiple legal systems and double standards backed up by force, people eventually cast that off. See, The British et al, circa 1775
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This is crazy to me when I think back to my college experience. I attended the University of Missouri- St Louis, which due to location and other factors is known as the 'blackest' public University in the State. I didn't care, I was there to learn.
In 2007 I took an English class on Detective Fiction taught by this dude that was like 75. It was an interesting class, lots of good reading. One of the things we did was read stories aloud in class. We read the Edgar Allen Poe story The Gold Bug. In a room consisting of around 50 students, of which I and maybe 10 others were 'other than black', I was chosen to read the part of Jupiter, and I was informed to read the part exactly as Poe had written it. If you've never read the story, Jupiter is the main characters former slave servant and talks in a broken english dialect of an uneducated early-1800s former slave, and it's somewhat of a negative caricature of many black stereotypes prevalent when the story was written in the 1840s. He can't read, he can't do math, he barely knows right from left.
And I had to read this entire part, doing the voice, for this entire audience, and I felt very nervous about it. But it was fine. There was no outrage, I even got some compliments afterwards, it's a very difficult read.
TODAY, naw, I really can't see that happening. College even as recently as a decade ago is unrecognizable to what I see today. Half the shit we see happen on campuses today, we would have laughed at as college students back in the 20-oughts and early 2010s. Virtually everyone I knew was too busy busting ass to get a degree and get a job to be social outraging, and any time you did have free was for work or partying.
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More likely, Walmart BUYS Amazon. Actually I root for this outcome. And it makes sense. Walmart is the most efficient, most powerful logistics machine on earth, especially within the United States. Walmart even has it's own space program with their own satellite constellation system for instant global credit card transaction processing and centralized inventory control, and have been doing that since the NINETYS. Combine that with their local store saturation and add on Amazon's front end to make sales online, and cut out UPS, FEDEX, and even the USPS entirely, it would be perfect.
You go on amazon, buy your product, and within minutes it's waiting for you to pick it up from any walmart within minutes drive. Fuck one-day or same day delivery, this is same HOUR delivery, nationwide, for free, and at 100% shipping profit because it's not shipped.
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To add to the logistics power walmart has on call, I remember about 10 years ago when I worked at a restaurant next to a local walmart, there was a massive fire at a nearby electrical switchyard. Power out for the entire region, and no idea when it would be back online since all the infrastructure was toast. Within about 2 hours of this outage starting, before the fire was even out, we hear this huge noise....we're like WTF is that?!
Look outside, there's one of those giant skycrane heavy-lift helicopters flying over with a shipping container under it, it circles around, lines up it's approach, and lowers that container right next to the walmart building, on the side. At the same time, another large helicopter lands in a cleared place in the parking lot and about a dozen guys in safety gear come running out, over to that shipping container, and start running cables. It was a massive generator. While they're hooking it up, a full-size diesel tanker truck from a local distributor drives up and parks next to the container and they start fueling from it. Now, shit like that is not some plan you come up with and execute off the cuff, that was something already in place, on standby 24/7/365 for an outage like that. Had to be. That can't be arranged from scratch in mere hours.
Anyway, the store was back up and running with full power shortly thereafter, which is a good thing because when the power died they locked and shuttered all the doors and no one was allowed to leave the store until power was back on, they had the police there enforcing this.
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"Sorry, I'm poly saturated right now, so..."
"Oh, oh geez, thanks for being so up front about that. I don't date crazy wackadoos....also, could you take a different dog walk route from now on, we're trying to keep this a nice neighborhood and we don't need bigamists walking around here, it's illegal ya know..."
"I'm not a bigamist, we're polyamorist!"
"Yeah , whatever, just keep it behind closed doors, this is a nice neighborhood, there are FAMILIES here."
It's a lot funnier if you read those responses in Bill Burr's voice.
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Lifelong Missourian here, concealed carrier, gun owner. ANY gun used in ANY investigated incident, LEGAL OR NOT, is always taken as evidence, by every department, in every case, every time. In training, you're stressed to never carry anything you're not willing to lose, because if you have to use it, shots fired or not, it's gone. You can petition later to recover that property.
Now, in that case, as in the case of the McCloskys, they can go buy a crate of machineguns today if they want to. They've been convicted of no crime, they've been deprived of no rights. Their case is why you need LOTS of guns, as backups.
You can call the police nazis all we want, but as a lawful gun owner to stay lawful one needs to cooperate with an investigation. It's a big deal to threaten to end another's life even if you are 1000% justified in doing so.
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No, I watch my little sister coach her 5 year old daughter in soccer and it's "YOU go through EVERYONE and GET THE BALL. YOU get a goal, you get money, someone else gets a goal, you get nothing, so always go after the ball!"
And she does, she's aggressive as hell. It's fun to watch. But then again my little sisters were all-state and college scholarship softball players, they had it drilled into them THEY are first, then the team lol, and friends, what are those? This is SPORTS.
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Tim, please stop conflating our 2nd Amendment rights with the right to self-defense. The right to self-defense is even more base and fundamental than the right to bear arms. It's the right to own property, and your life and body ARE YOUR PROPERTY, the most valuable property anyone owns.
If the 2nd Amendment is a major structural beam of our system, then the right to self-defense is the 1000ft deep concrete and rebar pier anchored to bedrock that beam bolts to.
Without the simple concept that You are you, you own you, and no one else can own or have rights over you, which extends to all that you own, there is no United States, there is no freedom.
People forget that murder is a property crime, someone has stolen your life and body against your will, and they can never pay you back or return what they took. If one does not have the basic freedom of ownership then they can't enjoy any other rights they're entitled to. I think this is part of why communism is so viscerally opposed by people who understand the concept of ownership: if you don't have the free will of ownership over yourself, if the state holds that power, you're not even a person anymore.
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true, in my own head I hold the standard that no man can be high value UNTIL he is high quality.
Just like you put 4 honda engines into a Bugatti, look it has more horsepower now, it's even better! NO, it's far worse because it's no longer a Bugatti, even if you sell them 3 for the price of one, it's still not worth the value you expect because you f-ed up the quality.
This caviar is SORTA good, it's bargain basement fake caviar, BUT we have a TON of it, so you can eat as much horrible tasting of it as you want. Then you complain no one eats ALL this caviar you bought, ungrateful.
@nestroit5010
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That's great for jobs that you can do that, but it begs the question if it's that easy is it actually something useful, or just paper shuffling? Does an actual product get made?
It almost makes us start to have to differentiate between remote jobs, and 'Real' jobs.
You can't replace a water main by remote. I can't produce drinking water from home. We're approaching a point where we're just not going to have first world infrastructure that enables you to even work from home, because no one will be there to run it or build it.
Best of luck remote WFH-ing with no mains power ever, and no water service, no sewage collection. These skills take YEARS in the job to even be allowed by the state to take the test to hold the license you need to do the job, by law. I came into my current job operating a water plant with a masters degree, and the state says that's cool, now you need 5 years working in this plant as an apprentice THEN you're qualified to take the giant test to get the license to do your job, there is no shortcut there. 5 years regardless of other education is the bare minimum, and it has to be IN PERSON, and it has to be on the clock, they went back and audited my timesheets for 6 years to make sure I worked at least 2080 hours a year, every year, before they'd issue my license.
Now, it makes sense when you realize I make one mistake in my job and 10,000 people could die.
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I might be alone in this, but I'd think terrorism would be 'better' in something like this. Let me explain what I mean by that. If it's terrorism, that means it at the least has some sort of meaning.
It happened for some reason, even if a crazy reason. It would be far worse, in my opinion, by my thought processes, if it was just some random event, some crazy that decided to do a thing and it means nothing. We can make sense of out purposeful violence, they were killed for an idea, or someone was killed for money, something like that. But someone you love randomly dying for no reason at all, that's terrifying.
The Las Vegas shooting is like that. We never found out why it happened. What was the REASON? All those people just died to die for no reason whatsoever, at random, apparently.
Stay safe.
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