Youtube comments of Thump Er the Sweaty Fat Guy (@SweatyFatGuy).
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This is the modern version of the Kulaks. mildly successful farmers who were very competent and thus doing slightly better than others. Marxism says they stole from others to be successful, and its oppression, racism, etc, so the marxists killed them or carted them off to gulags in Siberia. The result was 20 million people starving to death in Ukraine because the most competent farmers were now dead, and nobody else had an incentive to produce because if they did, they would get killed or shipped to the gulag.
SJWs are the most short sighted, envious, resentful, hateful, and bitter cunts on the planet. Marxism kills everything except greed, resentment, and envy. Do not follow what the sno cone haired twats dictate, they have no competence, only a profoundly flawed ideology.
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on deployment in 2004, 35 years old, a year before I had been running 10 miles, riding a mountain bike up the steep hill at Osan AB ROK, benched over 500lbs, training for special forces, and I got fucked up. Wasn't enemy action, no explosions, no bullets, but walking and moving was now extremely painful. Going from being able to do damn near anything, lifting heavy shit most people need a forklift to move at all, to all you can do is sit around, man it makes you feel worthless. The more I pushed to get back to where I was, the more it hurt. Got out in '05 with a laundry list of shit fucked up with me physically and mentally.
Strangely enough, in '12 I was doing some stuff for my father in law, painting parts for a car and I reused the mask I had used two days earlier to shoot the car. I was unaware that is a bad move, the stuff in the paint fucked up my lungs so it hurt like hell to do anything and it felt like a tank was on my chest. So now can't walk, can't breathe so everything I wanted to do was out. Sit around for 6 months, the wife bringing me food and something to drink, and taking a piss was exhausting from the ten steps to get there. Had no idea what was causing it for most of the time.
Figured out it was the paint, got some meds for that, found smoking weed once a week helped my lungs, and in two months I was able to move without getting winded. Just as I recovered, the wife decided I was broken forever and she cheated, so I punted her ass to the curb. I had to look really fucking useless and bad for her to think the guy she has now was better. As my lungs improved, I found the inactivity had healed the rest of me that was fucked up in the desert almost ten years before, not fully but enough I could enjoy my life again. Problem was she was rewarded by the state, I had to pay her and her boyfriend, she got the house, and I was left homeless... again because it was my second divorce. First one was 2001. In 2015 I was finally free from paying either of them.
They gave me all kinds of meds for pain, and the pain killers caused headaches and the stupid feeling Joe and Kevin talked about, so none of that shit for me. Turns out an arthritis med works pretty good, and with some supplements I can walk again and without looking like I am 80. I've been so close to my own death so many times, it doesn't scare me.. not even a little. The only thing that concerns me is how would I get the cars rebuilt if I am dead, and who will take care of my dogs? Then my daughter would have to figure out what to do with all the cars, equipment, tools, parts, and stuff I have to keep myself busy.. death itself isn't a problem for me, but it is for everyone around me.
I found ways to work around my physical limitations so I can rebuild my old muscle cars. It now takes days to do something that used to be minute or hours, and years when it was days before I got hurt, but I can get it done. The best part is, if you look at me, you don't see any of what I am dealing with, none of it shows. I can hide it all, deal with all of it, and put everyone around me at ease. I still have the strength, but not the carrying capacity, so I can mask the pain easily. I can do something two or three days out of the week, and about 4 or 5 hours of those days. Its something at least, and I build cool shit.
My dad died yesterday, mom back in '14, now I get to drive 14 hours and have my siblings try to fuck me around. They made my life hell until I enlisted and got off the continent back in 88. So much bullshit in my life, from so many people, and two wars. I've been told most people would have quit, long before the last deployment, if they had to endure what I have. Its a lot more than I wrote about here. Used to do stand up at open mic nights in the early 90s, then I married the first ex and she destroyed my life in many ways. I don't feel funny anymore. People freak at what I find funny, since its very dark and very politically incorrect. Being around death for most of your life, somehow surviving when friends didn't, it gives you a fucked up sense of humor.
Why haven't I quit? Thats easy, I am not a victim. Shit happens, people suck, I deal with it and keep trying to do the things which interest me. I want to build GTOs and other cars, make them haul ass, look cool, and then enjoy driving and working on them. I didn't go through all of that shit just to quit, or stop and sit around drinking myself to death, smoking weed constantly, or being useless. So today its swap a trans into my daily driver GTO, pack up the truck so I can drive to BFE where I grew up tomorrow. You get up, do what you gotta do, and keep moving even if it hurts.
Yes I know, nobody cares, nobody read this far, and I wrote this for me, not for you.
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Tony is exactly right about the connecting rods. It was by design, not Pete Estes, John Delorean, Bunkie Knudsen or Herb Adams design, they were trying to get corporate to OK forged rods. Olds, Buick and chevy had them, but corporate said no. Why would GM do that? Well...
Every Pontiac VIN since the 60s starts with a 2. The chevys have a vin starting with 1. That was based on the pecking order of who sold the most vehicles. GM wanted chevy to be the largest manufacturer, and they wanted the Corvette to be top dog. Pontiac started selling too many vehicles, especially with the GTO, but going back to 1962 they were getting close to beating chevy numbers. The 421s and 389s were dominating racing, and racing was selling.
In 1963, the year the mystery motor came out in the Corvette, which we all know as the 427 big block now, a lowly 63 Tempest put a hurting on everyone, and embarrassed not only chevy's Corvette, but also Ferrari, BMW, Porsche, and everyone else... in a freakin road race.
The car from My Cousin Vinny that was confused with the Buick Skylark in mint green metallic with a white top was the 63 Tempest/LeMans... and this one in the race had a 421 stuffed in where a 326 usually was. Independent rear suspension which proved it was not kids driving the Buick that robbed the sack o suds, and a flexible driveshaft with a rear trans axle... which is eerily like the C6/C7 Corvette, which is what Leeroy the Savage is.
The Tempest lapped the Corvettes several times, not just once. It ran away from them like they were pushing their Corvettes and sports cars on foot then rolling them down hills. Utterly obliterated them, it was several minutes between 1st place and 2nd in the finish times. This was not lost on GM and chevy, some crazy guys just made them all look like chumps, with a grandpa looking car using its goofy flexible driveshaft. I am sure many things were thrown around the C suite that week, including spicy expletives.
GM's solution to slowing down the Pontiac was cast rods, which limited RPM. You can make incredible torque, earth moving power, tectonic plate shifting grunt, but spinning a 400 over 6300rpm or a 455 over 6000rpm usually meant a rod was going to be slinging its beam around whacking the camshaft, block, lifter bores, oil pan... etc. That is what happened to both engines I had where a rod decided to come apart, and neither were due to RPM, they were both sabotaged. (chevy guys don't like losing to cars that sound like they "are on a trip to the store for a loaf of bread." as one chevy friend of mine said it)
Trust me, you can make ludicrous power under 5800 with a Pontiac using the stock rods, iron heads, and factory intakes, and they will live for decades doing it. 500ftlbs from just above idle to 5000 is VERY easy to achieve, especially with compression and porting.
The problem is, most people think they have to spin an engine to make power, because they are used to short runner, bit lazy port sbcs and Fords. You need to spin those things to the moon to make power, because they lack torque under 4000rpm.
What do most people do? They throw some 4.10 to 5.13 gears in the back, a 4000 stall, single plane intake, 250@.050 or bigger duration cams, big headers and spin the snot out of the poor little chevy things. When you do that with a Pontiac, even if you have forged rods in the bottom end, it goes slower and its particularly prevalent with the 455 and 428. They do not like lots of RPM, they are not designed to make the power up top, they make it EVERYWHERE ELSE. So when people do that, they can't figure out why it goes so slow, then it blows up.
So when you put a 3.73 to 5 something gear behind a Pontiac, you are moving it through the RPM range too fast in each gear, 6k shows up real fast with a 4.10 gear, 29" tall slicks, and a 455 making nearly 600ftlbs at 3000rpm. I did that to slow the thing down from 11.40s with a 3.42 to 4.10s running 12.0s to avoid putting a roll bar in, because I was broke in the 90s.
When you put a 2.93 to 3.55 gear behind it, you keep the engine in its RPM range where its making all that torque for a much longer time. The engine is grunting so hard it doesn't care what gear is behind it, its either going to shove the car down the track or its going to destroy the Th400 or tires behind it. That dip from 1st to 2nd in a 700R4 because of the 3.06 first gear? Yeah a 455 doesn't give a damn and a 400 is amused by it.
Using a 4000 stall when you have to shift at 5800 is wasting all that RPM and torque below 4000, so the car goes slower, not quicker. Make it work, let it eat, and the Pontiac will throw you back in the seat with a 3.08 gear.
Its the long runners that are kinda small for a 400 and definitely small for a 455, that limit the RPM due to airflow but make so freakin much velocity. A 455 will just stop pulling with ported iron heads at 6000rpm. That small but long port moves air VERY FAST, they are high velocity ports because of the Bernoulli effect of air speeding up when it goes through a necked down place or a long runner.
Putting a single plane intake on effectively shortens the intake port, and it kills bottom end, but the ports are not sized to flow air at high RPM, so it doesn't pick any up on top. The single plane intake usually makes a Pontiac powered vehicle slower... usually.
245@.050 is about the biggest you want to go with iron heads. Do you know what happens when you take that long high velocity intake port and make it flow more air? It makes MORE torque EVERYWHERE in the RPM range, and over 310cfm you open the door to 7000rpm. Now imagine if you will, an engine that is making 650ftlbs at 2500, and carrying it through to nearly 6500 and is still making 500ish ftlbs at 7000rpm... and doing it without a power adder. That my friends is one of my higher end Pontiac engines, and yes it has a single plane intake on it.
Sure you can spin it to 7000, but why bother? All it will do is wear the engine out faster, put a 3.00-3.50 gear behind it and let it do its thing as you shift it at 6500. Keep up on the valve spring maintenance and it will last decades.
You have to think different with a Pontiac, or a Caddy as they too are low RPM engines. It is far better to take an engine and make it do what it is designed to do better, than it is to try to make it do something it was not designed to do. Make the Pontiac or Caddy make even more torque rather than trying to spin them up real tight.
That 11.40 car with a 455? Yeah it was a $2700 rebuild, $1500 of it was getting the heads ported and new valves put in, TRW slugs, ARP rod bolts, and since the RPM was not out yet, and would not fit under the hood anyway, it had a Torker II single plane on it. The car was a 1979 Formula, weighed 3750lbs without my 230lb ass in it, had a stock L88 converter (1900 stall) and a 228/231/109 hydraulic cam in it. I moved the shifter at 5800 and the trans shifted as it hit 6000. 1.59 sixty foots on 9" wide slicks, 1.70 on drag radials, and it would move the tire a quarter inch around the rim on launch... with a 3.42 gear and no power adder other than the 11.3:1 compression.
The same top end from the 90s era Formula is in my 65 GTO and it is 3400lb with me in it. It has a 455 with an Eagle crank kit under the heads, and that thing runs hard. Its a daily driver to me, and if the bird ran 11.40s weighing right at 4000 going down the track, I figure the 65 should run at least that quick since its lighter. I have $4200 in that engine, because it has a $1100 hydraulic roller cam in it, but it would run about the same with a $75 Summit 2802 cam, which is about the same size. 224/228/112.
More is not always better, sometimes less in certain areas gets you more.
Hell. I should make a video and just read all of this into the mic then add pictures.
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What I like more than FuJoBi.
1. The dysentery I contracted on my last deployment to Kuwait 20 years ago.
2. Picking up dog poo in my yard.
3. The power going out randomly like it did yesterday.
4. The risk of contracting herpes from that homeless girl who lives behind the dumpster, because she has herpes and likes it there.
5. Washing my car in January with a garden hose and bare hands. (I live in Michigan, no not the southern socialist riddled part near Detroit, the part most people do not realize is not Canada or Wisconsin, if its even on the map... most of the time its not. Find Green Bay, and go north.. yeah, UP there.)
6. The last few Star Wars movies, because I have not seen them.
7. The way ads are conspicuous to me now, due to the obvious omission of white males, unless they are morons/buffoons/timid/losers.
8. Taxes and the price of gasoline.
9. Knowing I will die someday, and hopefully I will be alone when it happens.
10. Taking a shit in a 5 gallon bucket with a 13 gallon trash bag in it, then hauling it to the local dumpster along with a 30 gallon bag full of other 13 gallon bags with poo in them
Things I hold in equal derision to FuJoBi..
Hillary, Congress, marxists, marxism, all the abhorrent offspring of marxism like feminism, socialism, communism, fascism, etc. Wars where the politicians profit at the expense of those of us who are sent to fight and endure it.
Things I hold in greater contempt than those.
Gretchen WHitler, Pelosi, Schumer, Omar, and the rest of the miscreants like them.
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Marxists claim that capitalism, along with anything other than marxism, always results in a wealthy ruling class and abject poverty for everyone not in that class. The reality of marxism is the ruling class lives in opulence, while the 'people' live in abject poverty, with shortages of everything and no way out of it, making them dependent upon the government. It has worked out that way EVERY time marxism has been implemented, and yet they still lie about that fact.
I was stationed in Germany back in 1989, I have a ten pound chunk of the Berlin Wall sitting on the shelf next to me. The marxists claim the wall was put up to defend against nazis, trying to hide the fact it was erected to keep Germans from escaping socialism. Its a simple rule, if the government shoots you for trying to leave, they aren't trying to keep some nefarious 'other' out. They are trying to keep a better way of living out, because the ruling class would no longer be in charge if they didn't have marxism in place.
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I'm 51, permanently intentionally single. I am not exactly mgtow, but they share some ideas with me. Why? Its not that I can't get interest from attractive girls, its not that every girl will cheat, lie, etc. Its that they can do it, and not only that they can do all those things without repercussions, its that they are rewarded for it by the state, and we must pay the reward to them. In the US men are used as walking ATMs, we are a wallet to be plundered, and we have no rights when it comes to children and family law.
I have been hit by a car going 45mph, served in two wars(and worked severely to the point of breaking my body at 35), have been beaten unconscious a few times in my youth, been a passenger in cars that wrecked, its been a hard painful life. The worst pain for me, out of all that, was when my ex wife took off with my kids, moved then 1500 miles away, then I was punished for it. I got to see them 12 days out of the next 7 years. I had to live on $100 a month for nearly three years, before she agreed to lower it. I was active duty and living in my car because at my rank I could not live on base without a family. They took 71% of my gross pay, state law allowed 68%, but that did not matter. I paid 23% tax, so that left me $100 a month.
The second wife cheated, tried to drive me out of the state by cutting up her boyfriend's truck and blaming me for it. Then she got a restraining order on top of that. I went to jail for something I did not do, and physically could not have done. All it took was the accusation from a female, and being somewhat intimidating in appearance and a war veteran, it was 'obvious' I was guilty.
So I ask you.. anyone really, who has read all of this (which is tip of the iceberg). Why the hell should young men put their heads on the chopping block and sacrifice themselves the same way I was used, abused, lied about, and cheated on, then punished for simply being male? Its not like my story is unique, rather my story is typical and ubiquitous if you find out about men who get divorced. The thing is, nobody gives a damn about us, we are obviously guilty, we are obviously violent, superfluous, and only good for that wallet to plunder.
Why will I not allow a girl to be here longer than overnight? Because I have lost two houses already, my freedom, and I am now too old to rebuild everything a 9th time just because she gets a whim and decides to burn my life to the ground. I date, I am not celibate, I am definitely not having any more kids, but never will a girl hear me utter the words "I love you" or even "I care about you" and they are always kept at arms length emotionally. You can spend a little time with me, but you can't stay and be part of my life. The risk is too damn high and I do not want to lose everything a 3rd time and end up living under a bridge while she collects my retirement as a reward for not being faithful and honest.
The first one got over $250k thanks to my efforts, and I lived in my car, on friends couches, and as cheaply as I could. She blew it all, the kids were always out of food, she rarely bought them clothes, but she always had something new to wear. The kids liked coming to stay with me over the summer because there was food in the house all month. I taught them shapes, colors, how to read and write, how to crawl, walk, run and ride bikes. I worked 60-70 hours a week to support them, and spent as much time with them as I could around my work before she took off with them. They were 7 and 4 when she took them. She constantly lied to them, saying I didn't care, didn't send money, and when I sent gifts for birthdays or called, she would keep the stuff and screen calls. the state helped her keep me from spending time with my kids, also against the law.
So now I live alone, with Siberian Huskies, in the woods, on a small fixed income after my last deployment left me barely able to walk with a list of things wrong with me, and I build old cars into daily drivers to keep myself busy and feel like I have a use in the world. A man needs a purpose, mine is the cars and making fuel for them from tree sap.
The time of my parents is gone, where people stayed together for 40, 50 or 60 years like my uncle who just died this week. Now there is incentive for her to file for divorce, for any reason, or none at all, and she will get paid and he will do the paying. Until you change these laws, men will continue to wake up, see what happened to men like me, and they will nope right the fuck out of there. Fix the laws and the way society sees men, otherwise this trend will continue and grow.
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I have to agree that being able to communicate effectively, in both speech and writing, is vastly important. The ability to speak to people at their level so they can understand and comprehend your point, without bringing emotion into it yields wonderful results. Avoiding the violence with reason and communication is highly beneficial, because there is always risk with violence. However, there are times when someone will not be swayed by prose nor logical argument, and will in fact be incensed by it, taking it not as logic but as condescension or perhaps arrogance. In those instances you will find yourself with violence being brought to you regardless of your communication skills. At that point, you need to be able to inflict grievous harm upon them, without remorse nor thought of fairness. You dole out pain and suffering to belligerents far in excess of the insult they offer, when you want to win the fights that have not occurred as yet.
Being a man who can think and speak effectively is only part of the equation. You also need the discipline, knowledge, capability, and experience that comes with training to inflict that grievous harm. The competent, capable, highly trained, and thus very dangerous man does not venture out seeking a fight, as he already knows what he is capable of. The weak, insecure, and undisciplined males are who start the fights, outside of conflict over resources which brings an entire new element to the subject. The weak and insecure have something to prove, to themselves and to others, as they are desperate to appear powerful and capable.
They often speak very highly of themselves, yet have precious little experience with violence. When the weak minded and insecure pick a fight with the competent, capable, disciplined man they have no idea what they are fucking with as they initiate, and its only after the fight is over that they realize how poorly they chose. It often makes them angrier and more violent towards others, but every so often these tin pot tyrants who accuse others of being exactly what they themselves are, will learn the hard way.
The weak and incompetent seem to follow the same patterns, bluster, accusations, ad hominem, shaming language, belittling, demonizing, and then employing others to effect violence in their stead. They are incapable of doing the job personally, so they have underlings or others who are easily manipulated do it for them. False accusations lead to police forces being the tools of the tyrants who cannot handle it themselves.
What do I know though, I am just an old, broken, gray haired, fat looking, military grunt who builds old hotrods out in the woods. I am harmless, unassuming, usually affable or quiet, perhaps even comical in appearance and demeanor. I agree that the world needs more dangerous men, who are capable of inflicting great harm, but refraining from doing so unless there is a threat that warrants the violence... and its not up to governments to decide when its warranted... as they are often filled to the brim with the weak, ineffective, and incompetent.
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I have five friends who have suddenly been evicted from their meat suits while sleeping in the last year and a half. NONE of them got the charlie one niner, but all of them got the mandated thing. I am in the worst shape of all of us, but I didn't get the thing. I have hypertension, they did not. None of us smoke. I am fat, they were not and were more active than I am. Three were veterans like me, but they were working for the VA. I have been hearing about young guys suddenly not waking up in the morning on military bases.
So far I have only heard of men having this happen. Five friends of mine is a lot, considering I have been through two wars and have had lots of people get whacked in my life. My mom's dad had a heart attack when I was 5, he was only 46, but he smoked and was overweight, sedentary life, very high risk, that was also 47 years ago.
Its damn difficult for me to NOT make the connection.
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Here in the US we have SEMA, Specialty Equipment Manufacturers Association, and its all about aftermarket parts and the industry of keeping vehicles running and modifying them. I went to their show in Las Vegas back in 2016, and they are aware of the intent to remove our ability to move freely in personal conveyances. They work to protect the industry and the livelihoods of everyone in the industry.
Sounds like Europe needs something similar.
The way they are going about it is to ensure that you in Europe cannot do what I do here in the US, and that is produce your own clean burning fuel. They want to remove the cars and light trucks because if you don't have the vehicle, it doesn't matter that you can make fuel yourself that is vastly greener than EVs are. Its not about the environment, its all about limiting your travel, communication, and ability to resist.
1 acre of cattails can produce over 1000 gallons of fuel. Just so happens that the nitrates they are so worried about in Belgium would increase the yield per acre of cattails up to 10x, AND solve the 'problem' of nitrates in the water. The cattails soak up the nitrates and being its plant food, they grow huge and store large quantities of starch. Simply direct runoff from feedlots into cattail beds, then harvest them to make fuel.
I am talking about independence from oil companies, producing energy yourself, and it being better for the environment as well as better for your vehicle, plus making more power.
Do you know why you get lower mileage on ethanol fuel? Its not the BTU content, we are not heating water, its not because it has less energy. It makes more power than gasoline, so how could it have less energy? Gasoline requires low compression, without enough octane gasoline will ignite on its own, you know it as spark knock, ping, and detonation. Ethanol improves gasoline dramatically making it spark knock much less to not at all.
Did you know, that if you build an engine with a static compression ratio higher than 13:1, it will work the fuel hard enough to achieve better mileage than gasoline from the same size engine, while producing considerably more power? The higher you go with the static compression ratio, the better your mileage and power will be. You can run around 26:1 compression on straight ethanol, that is diesel territory.. and yes a diesel can run on ethanol IF you add a spark ignition and a carburetor or EFI. Imagine getting diesel performance with fuel you can produce yourself for 40 cents USD... they REALLY don't want you to know that.
Ethanol also runs cooler so you need less cooling system mass/capacity, gasoline wastes more than 80% of its energy as heat, ethanol only 60% goes to waste heat. So you get more work from it and less waste. Its not about the BTU...
How does ethanol make more power than gasoline? Two ways other than compression ratio, because it will still make more power than gasoline in an 8:1 engine. Pump gasoline will not run in a 14:1 engine driving it around in the real world, and certainly not while trying to make max power, such as going up a mountain.
The first reason is: Latent heat of vaporization. As ethanol vaporizes it pulls all the heat from the environment and cools it off. That creates a more dense mixture and thus more power. David Freiburger (from HotRod Magazine and Roadkill) demonstrated that in an Engine Masters video where they took a big chevy, ran it on gasoline then another test with ethanol, installed a tunnel ram, and then a supercharger on top of the tunnel ram, and measured the results. On gasoline the engine was barely able to reach 1000hp on gasoline, but made nearly 1200hp on ethanol, and the ethanol lowered the air temperature under the roots supercharger by over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
The second reason is simply that ethanol has more oxygen in it than gasoline, which is the real reason you need to run a richer fuel air mix. As you add more fuel, you also add more oxygen, and what does an engine need to run? Fuel and O2. Additionally, ethanol's power decrease as you go up in altitude is less than that of gasoline because of the oxygen already in the fuel.
What does ethanol leave for emissions? Simple.. Co2 and water.. good old H2O.
You can produce ethanol, aka vodka, whiskey, bourbon, beer, wine, etc. simply with any starch or sugar, including waste paper, stale bread, and a wide range of plants. In the Southern USA, places like Florida, Alabama, Georgia etc. they have an invasive species from Asia called kudzu, which grows a foot per day with little more than sunlight. You can use that to produce vast quantities of ethanol, and that would keep it from smothering forests.
Ethanol does not have to be made with corn, but corn does work rather well, and the leftovers after fermentation make a superior livestock feed to corn. Making fuel uses the 1/3 of the kernel that animals cannot digest, and that turns into methane inside the animals. Cattle put on muscle mass (meat) 17% faster on distillers dried grains, which is the technical name for what is left over after fermenting corn and making grain alcohol.
Right here is a large part of the solution to many aspects of the environment they are simply trying to outlaw rather than remedy. Food, fuel, pollution, vehicles, nitrates.... but you have all been told that ethanol is bad for your vehicles, bad for the environment, and you have to use 2 times as much of it, and it will eat everything in your car. That is incorrect..
Why would you trust the people who are trying to sell you a product when it relates to their direct competition.. which happens to be a vastly better product than what they are forcing you to buy at the cost THEY demand?
The alcohol fuel that is very corrosive, requires 2x as much, and is highly toxic to you and I, is methanol. It is more difficult to produce methanol than it is ethanol, so they can still have a monopoly on its production, meanwhile literally anyone can produce ethanol with little more than caveman tech.
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@loganblackwood2922 yep, the first one (30 at the time) was beyond pissed when I hooked up with the second one (21 when I met her) and that she was thin.
Here I am ten years intentionally and permanently single, own 13 acres of woodland, a bunch of old muscle cars (I build them) built my house and the shop where I build the cars... and the best part is I am debt free with a passive income just under $100k.
Where they are. 1 is 49, over 300lbs at 5'4", in debt so deep she will never get out of it, has a problem with ox y cont in, and is married to a spineless unambitious guy ten years older than I am. He is almost done with life, and he has tried to leave her three times now because she is so bad to everyone. When he shucks his morrtal coil, she will be left with $1300 a month, which is less than her mortgage payment.
The second one lives alone in a small shack her mom rents for her, has a part time job that pays $500 a month, she is 41 and can't get a date. The guy she left for took off and now she hates men.
They both thought they could do better. In reality they were both holding me back.
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Its a ratchet, they push the narrative with fear, then back off, let people relax again. Then push a bit farther, and back off, farther and back off. They never go back to where it was before they started, they never rescind the 'special powers' they gained with the crisis. Rather than relinquish that control, they craft a new threat and run the ratchet on it for a while. Fear is the easiest most effective tool, and fear of the unknown is their greatest weapon against the ignorant masses. Conform, obey, agree, and be safe.
I make my own safety, I do not need others to provide it for me.
I watch this happen, been seeing it for a long time now, well over 30 years. I know when it was used in history to gain power and control. Adolf used it to go to war and get his living space. Joe and Vladimir used it to gain control and keep control, keeping people afraid, malnourished, and more concerned about survival than with fighting back. People do not think big when they are struggling to survive. The Red Army didn't seem to have a problem feeding the millions of people in it, but just ten years earlier people were starving to death in Ukraine. It was intentional.
Their plan is to take over bit by bit, make people afraid enough that they will accept authoritarian rule under the justification of safety/security, when the problems are being caused by the people trying to sell you that safety/security. If they manage it, there will be no storm, no war, no major conflict, no fighting back or resisting. People will go along with it out of fear, and they will go quietly when the secret police show up, because they hope it will all blow over if they stay calm.
It used to be that when a plane was hijacked people were advised to do nothing, and they had a better chance of surviving. That did not work so well for the passive passengers 20 years ago. Only in hindsight do most people realize they should have acted. They are ignorant of history, unaware of what is happening, by the time the water boils they need the scalding water to feel safe..
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I can smell the desert, jet fuel, diesel and dirt, feel the heat, and even sand blowing on my face when I watch some movies about my wars... while sitting in an air conditioned theater. Welcome to the world of PTSD. I did both Desert Storm and OIF/OEF and watching Pvt Ryan sucked me in and made me feel like I was there. When the guy holding the sticky bomb explodes, I checked myself to see if I caught any bone fragments in the theater, and it didn't even pull me out of the movie. It was like coming home again for the next few weeks after I watched it in the theater. Another 4 years passed before I could watch that movie, and I had to sit through 5 minutes of it. Then ten, then fifteen, and so on until I could watch it all and not be fucked up for a week. Then a year after I got to where I could watch it, I was in Kuwait for 9/11, then to Korea coming back to the US only to go to the desert for my 5th deployment.
I didn't do Navy seal shit, I was not infantry. My first three deployments were the 'rough' ones the last two weren't too bad, just boredom after 9/11 and stupid amounts of work in 2004. The first deployment brought it home to me in 1991. Those memories will never fade. Strangely enough most of my nightmares are based on movies, not memories. Black pajamas are not a thing in the desert. No idea why my brain goes to Platoon or something, shit is weird. The flashbacks are all the desert or other places I've been, but the nightmares are movie based. Go figure.
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I know this is two months old. Tim its not as much people are waiting to have enough money to get married, that idea is from the 40s. Its an excuse from men, and wishful thinking from women. An excuse because they don't want to say what they really think, because if we do we are labeled misogynists and nazis.
You found out what I have known for some time. Girls suck. Why do they lean so heavily to communism? Think about it, because the government takes care of you in communism, you don't have to work and you get free stuff.... kinda sounds like marriage to me, where he works, you as a wife benefits, and the most you have to do is tidy up and give up the pussy once in a while.
They are entitled, they think the world owes them because they have a vagina. Its very unattractive, but the most entitled of them do us a favor and dye their hair wild colors and do other obvious things. Nature warns of danger with bright colors, think poisonous frogs.
I am twice divorced, 7 months from being 50, and only 4 years into being a completely free man unburdened by a state taking income from me to give to a cheating lying vagina who was rewarded for being a horrible waste of oxygen. I was stupid and did it twice, ended up homeless 2 years each time. I do not hate women, I like them quite a lot. What I hate is marxist ideology being indoctrinated into them so they all think they are an amazing princess that we should bow to. I worship no woman.
All they have I want is a slot C for my peg D. They want everything from me, a place to live, a car to drive, everything to be paid for, and a card to go shopping with no limit... and they assume they can cheat on me at their leisure whilst limiting me to only them. Never going to happen again. I do not fear dying alone, not even a little. I accepted decades ago that will happen to me regardless. They claim to want equality, what they want is all the benefits with none of the responsibility.
Online is shit for me because it pairs me with the fat over 40 bad choice making cat ladies and the ones who divorced their husband because they wanted to find themselves... read that as ride other dicks. In person, out in public, I can easily get girls in their early 20s, so why would I bother with the old fat ones with 40 cats? part of the problem now is if she isn't fat, she is snorting adderal or straight up doing meth. If she is single, she is either crazy, addicted to something, or makes exceptionally bad choices in life. I rarely tell them my real name, and try not to let them know where I live, it helps that you have to know where it is to find my home. Like an island that can't be found except for those who know where it is.
The way it worked for centuries was she provided the slot C, we worked to provide her with food, shelter, protection, and offspring. All we got from it was the kids to help with the work and the slot C, that is a shit ton of work for a little bit of pussy that starts looking ragged as a roast beef sandwich after 30 with a face that looks like a worn out handbag.
Now they can support themselves, but they want to sample every swinging dick out there. They hook up with one guy, get him to support her so she doesn't have to work anymore, and then she starts hopping back in the carousel. They are rewarded for not holding up their end and men are punished and made into the villainous aggressor. So girls only want a husband to extract money so she doesn't have to work as many hours, and men are saying fuck that. Its not rocket science.
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A lot of what you say in this is what I am doing. As I was waiting for my divorce to be final in 2013 I bought some land, and closed on it the week after the D was final. Started building in 2015 when the child support indenture ended to the first ex. I cleared the trees and did the foundation work myself, with a borrowed Kubota and rented skid steers. Lots of work for a 46 year old crippled guy. Built my 32x48 shop first, cleared 3 acres and used the straightest trees to build the shop. I built my shop and house, hired a couple guys to help with the roof, but I was doing the work along with them, and I did everything else.
I bought an Allis Chalmers One Eighty this spring, its been getting a work out moving dirt, yanking trees, moving rusty trucks, and grading the driveway. Its not a small tractor to city people, but it is to farmers. Equipment like that is a good investment when you own several acres in the middle of nowhere.
I was seeing a girl from '14 to '18 who lived 7 hours away, and we did lots of fun stuff, she knew there was zero chance of getting married or any sort of commitment from me. That will probably be the last time I will date, just not worth the effort.
Paid off all my debt in Feb 2021, and now I can do whatever I damn well please. So I build old muscle cars. This year I went a bit nuts on an engine for one of them, a 99% aftermarket 505 inch Pontiac that can easily handle 20psi, and it will make around 1500 to 2000hp with that much boost. Have a 6-71 supercharger sitting here to go on it next summer, just for fun and science. The front timing cover is the only factory piece on the entire engine.
I don't need anyone around most of the time, having an extra set of hands to help with some things is nice, but for the most part I go weeks without speaking to other humans face to face. Two divorces and I am done, I am not losing all of this to another lying cheating harpy. I find doing this car thing, making videos of what I do, and enjoying my life driving the cars I build is the most satisfying thing I have ever done.
Next summer I am going racing again. Provided we aren't in a declared war or something. The last time I made a pass down a dragstrip was 2005, right before I got out of the USAF on a medical. They broke me in 2004 on my last deployment. I decided to get debt free when the potato was 'elected' because I do not want any bank or other as****e coming and telling me I don't own it anymore. Same reason I am never letting a girl live with me again.
I am having fun doing what I want to do, how I want to do it. I wish I had decided to live for me and not allow females in way back in 1992 when I got out of the USAF the first time. Would be a lot farther ahead.
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@mr.austinlucksted783 back in '17 I was driving down the highway into town in my rural area. I passed a Prius being driven 15mph under the limit that had a "resist" sticker on the bumper. I looked at the driver as I went by, and it was obvious by his appearance why he would prefer marxism.
He was around 65 years old, maybe 70. Frail, thin, balding, stooped a bit in his seat from a lack of testosterone. The driver had never struggled physically against anything more difficult than a pickle jar, which had to be opened for him.
I wondered, just what exactly he would resist against, the wind would be a challenge for him.
Its always the weak, inept, mediocre, and incompetent who flock to marxist ideologies like socialism, communism, feminism, etc. To them merit is a bad thing as is competence, because they profoundly lack those things. They want everything given to them, without effort, because they are loathe to put in the work required. If they weren't unwilling to put in the effort, they would not be the weak, inept, and incompetent losers that they are.
They hate masculinity because it is rooted in merit, competence, and capability. They have none of those.
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I had to go into debt at 44 because I lost the second house/shop to the other ex. Never get married. The bank wouldn't let me take out a 5 year note on my land, had to do ten. I'll have it all paid off by the time I am 52, I am 50 right now. Would have done it sooner but I needed to build a shop and house, while living here. The fixed income game is harder (crippled war veteran), and divorce destroys your credit, so I had no choice but to take out a loan so I wouldn't be homeless and lose everything I worked my entire life for. 13 acres, 32x48x12 shop to build my cars, built a container house last summer living in it now, and did it all for less than $70k. I should be able to sell this place for $250k next year if I want. I did the work, I built all of this and I hate taking out loans. Once this property is paid off there will be no more loans or debt even if I don't sell it and I just build my muscle cars.
Yeah a crippled guy built his own house and shop, so if I can put in the work you can too.
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You started showing up in my feed recently. I'm an old guy too, build carbs, engines, transmissions, entire cars, plus I do EFI and other modern tech, often putting it in my 40+ year old cars. daily driver is a 65 GTO with a 455 that runs solely on E85 and E100 in it. I make E100 from tree sap and cattails, 10 cents a gallon lets me run my huge V8s with 13:1 around on the street all summer. Here is more info on the modern gas.
The reason why it is boiling over far easier than it used to has to do with the multiple components that make up gasoline, the stuff that comes from oil. Ethanol has a 173F boiling point at sea level, it goes up with pressure like most other boiling points, but that is not what is causing the problem. Ethanol is somewhat counter intuitive if you know gasoline, its very different but raises octane considerably.
That 10% ethanol they mix in raises the octane from 60/70 in the base gasoline to 87/93, depending on the mix of the gasoline components. The boiling points for what constitutes ethanol free gasoline has boiling points that range from 80F to 450F, flash points are equally varied and all over the place. Octane for each component tends to go up with boiling and flash points. So what they can do now is mix in the very light parts of gasoline that have a naturally low octane, and get it to run without knocking by adding 10% vodka to it. So that stuff boils in the lines or tank on a hot enough day.
Where I live its rarely above 80F, so we get the really crappy stuff up here, and they charge us a fortune for it. That is the reason I got into making vodka to run my cars, because 87 octane gas was $5 a gallon until 2015, and now its nearly $3 a gallon for 87, and I am not even close to California. The gas you buy in Georgia or Texas is different than the gas we get in the far northern reaches of Michigan. We get the light crap, you get the slightly heavier stuff, but its all lighter than it used to be. They can sell you the worse crap because ethanol improves is so much.
They used to use tetraethyl lead to raise octane, and that just might be why the boomers and their parents have such a huge problem with Alzheimers. Though nobody will look into it because the class action would kill the oil companies. That caused cancer and all kinds of other problems, so it was discontinued when I was a little kid. Then they tried MTBE, and that too was very carcinogenic and harmful.
Meanwhile ethanol is consumed by millions world wide daily, used in de-icers and to remove water from fuel systems, so its harmless as long as you aren't addicted to it or drink too much and pray to the porcelain god the next morning. It cleans the hell out of your fuel system, removes all the varnish gasoline leaves behind, also it allows you to burn any water that condenses in the fuel tank rather than sitting on the bottom, causing corrosion and then making the engine not want to run when it gets sucked into the pick up. Ethanol when burned only makes Co2 and H2O, runs cooler, and can handle more compression or boost than gasoline can, all the while making more power. Its fun stuff in your car in high percentages, essentially a race fuel for the street.
I have almost 1000 miles on the oil change in the 65 this year, and it is still clean. That engine has never been run on pump gas since I rebuilt it back in 2011. I have to run a 195 thermostat in it to get it warm enough even cruising around Nebraska in 105F weather. Nothing special in the engine and fuel system, its all basic parts store stuff and 1967 vintage 72cc 400 heads on a flat top 455 with an additional .04 stroke, and my Qjets run great on it, the FiTech EFI did very well too. No problems with vapor lock, even with mechanical pumps, here in Michigan or in Nebraska where my family lives. Yeah I road trip the thing too and have other cars I run on E85/E100.
When they found they can sell the really low boiling/flash point stuff for profit, they took advantage of it. I do not blame them, but where I take issue is how they then blame ethanol for the problems the gasoline is actually causing. Business is business though, you do what you must to make a buck. I don't think its the companies themselves spreading that, but people who simply do not know much about it.
Before 2007 I was building everything to run pump gas, race gas got too expensive in 2005 so I dropped compression in most of them. Then when gas got to where 87 was $5 I looked into making my own fuel just so I could drive my cars and not be stuck in a modern appliance. I got quite adept at tuning for pump gas, getting 20mpg from one of my 455s on a 1500 mile road trip, 2004R, 2.93 gears, 27" tall tires, Qjet, and enough wheaties to push that 4100lb GTO into the high 12s with the stock converter and those gears, on 87 octane with 8.8:1 compression. It was an engine I spent all of $1900 rebuilding with cast pistons and a mild cam. I love 455s. Cars that quick have a hard time getting a mechanical pump to feed them, so most of my 400 and 455 powered vehicles have electric pumps by the tank. That really helps with vapor lock, and I never had a problem with it.
So yeah the ethanol is causing the problem in that it allows the oil companies to sell you a not nearly as good quality gasoline, but on its own, it is not a problem. The additives they put in the 10% stuff are also an issue, Jeff Smith from Hot Rod Magazine and Summit Racing wrote an article about that. https://www.onallcylinders.com/2018/05/25/ask-away-jeff-smith-e85-pump-gas-additives-not-ethanol-cause-corrosion/
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I was bullied in school, beaten at home, and my older brother tried to kill me several times. Yes really. I've been stabbed, poisoned, beaten, bludgeoned, run over, and more. Served in two wars, got shot at in the first one. I agree people will bully you if you're smarter than they are, I ran into that from grade school all the way into the military even when I was an NCO.
I don't see myself as being a genius or anything, but certain things come easy to me. Part of why my older brother was so capricious and violent with me is he was jealous of all the stuff I could do, but he was bigger than I am.
Yes they will bully you, but you do not have to give up your mind and become a bully too. You don't have to be stupid and retard your intellect to fit in either. Rather than just taking it or becoming a bully myself, I got into wrestling. At age 13 I was 4'9 and not very strong, by 17 I was the strongest kid in school, number two was close and everyone else was far behind us. I could beat anyone in my school easily, the state champs, the kids bigger than me, and most of the teachers... but I didn't. I saw no reason to bully anyone, I just wanted them to stop fucking with me.
When I went to basic training I got the first bit of info that I am not like most people. Our sign in roster had all of our names and ASVAB scores on it, what we scored in each section. I had the highest scores in all but two categories, and I was number two and three in those. I blame a parochial school that had us reading the bible instead of doing math and science.. Towards the end of basic, on a Saturday with no drill sgts around, we decided to do some arm wrestling. I started with the smallest guy, went to the biggest, and beat all 32 of them in turn.
Seeing how I was not exactly svelte being 12lbs over my max weight and only 5'8, what the military calls 'fat' or morbidly obese, and civilians call powerlifter muscular, they could not have me being the honor graduate, and they knew by the scores of all the other work we did that I would make the academic part easily. They failed me on an inspection so I was no longer eligible. Got to my first station and they did a body fat% test and told me I could weigh 35lbs over my max.I got bigger in my first war, long story.
At my first base my immediate supervisor was much smaller than me, maybe 5'5 and all of 120lbs, and not overly bright. He made it his life's mission to screw me over. I later found out he was bullied in school and assumed I was a bully back then, so he got his revenge on me... another kid who was bullied to the point of wanting to go on a rampage and end everyone in school who fucked with him.
I did not become what they were, instead I got bigger, stronger, faster, more capable, and that made me a rather dangerous man. Not only can I overpower them, but I can usually outsmart them.
Now I am in my early 50s, the only people who are daft enough to mess with me are drunken college kids trying to look tough, and I prefer people underestimate me and not know my capabilities. So I try to look like a poor nearly homeless old fat guy. When I don't people do things that irritate me, which is also why I live alone in the woods and build old cars.
The only way to stop a bully is to be so freakin dangerous its not worth it to bully you. It does not mean you have to be mean.
Being capable of inflicting grievous harm upon others, but refraining from doing so, makes you a peaceful man.
Being unable to inflict harm on anyone, does not make you peaceful, it makes you incapable of defending yourself, as you have no choice but to not start things. Its always the insecure types who feel a need to prove something that start fights and cause problems. Its rarely the men who have experience, have competed and achieved, or survived armed conflict who start problems. Those are the men who will finish fights started with them. Its better to be the warrior in the garden.
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I am number two of six kids. My two younger brothers and the youngest sister look like carbon copies of me, my dad, and all the way back to great great grandpa in the 1800s. The oldest brother looks nothing like us, from his profound lack of mechanical aptitude the rest of us have to his one eyebrow, he is obviously not the same father. He looks an awful lot like the guy mom was seeing before dad, one eyebrow, much lower IQ, everything about that dude looks like my brother.
Then the sister after me is a redhead, there are no redheads in either parent's family other than her and her kids, this is true through our direct lineage all the way back 150 years. We are a bunch of light haired Germans. The neighbor two miles down the road, has red hair... and is related to my dad's side but his mom was a redheaded Irish girl, so his kids are my second cousins.. makes ya go hhmm...
Mom claimed she met dad and got knocked up the first time they did it that night, yeah mom appears to have been a slut.. lol.. Dad had to break off a date with another girl to get married, makes sense with how easy it is for me to get pussy, apples and distance from trees. To the youngest three and myself it looks like mom got knocked up and dad had a better job than her previous boyfriend, or he dumped her when they found out. She blamed dad for it. Dad always treated those two different than the rest of us, my dad would never hit someone else's kid, but the four of us got plastered all the damn time. Dad coached youth baseball for years as we grew up, so I saw him interact with hundreds of kids. He treated my older brother like he was some other guy's kid.
Then we get to my two daughters. The oldest has a lazy eye, is about 5'2, and bears no resemblance to her sister or anyone in my family. I know her bitch mom was cheating on me the whole time too, while I worked 10 hour days. The younger one we tested, she is 5'8 and looks exactly like my blond sister did at her age, she is definitely my daughter. Her mom is the twunt I was indentured to for 15 years, and I always found it odd how she got pregnant with the first one.
I am 50 fucking years old, this shit is worse now than it was back then. There is no stigma, the state helps enforce this shit as well. If you ever supported some chick's kid that isn't your in my state, she can get you for child support, no need to be the daddy, just take care of them like you are the kid's dad and now you're on the hook. She can double dip it too, and get money from other guys she claims are the daddy, including the real dad. Not any incentive there to pull this bullshit..
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I've had PTSD most of my life, since I was 8 or 9 years old and I am now 52. Long time to live with it. I have done a ton of work to minimize the effects so I can exist in a peaceful (compared to what I have been through) society and not end up injuring someone. I was slipped some MDMA a few years back, and told about it after. I noticed a difference in my anxiety, the nightmares, suicidal ideation, hypervigilance, and the over reacting anger/rage response, its more manageable but its all still there. My ideation has dropped off, but also I have been living alone as stress free as possible, out in the woods. Being close to nature works well for me. Staying busy working on old cars does as well.
Still have a hard time with crowds, I go to grocery stores at night or in the evening, and I tend to go to the same places rather than try new ones. Its more that I don't want to deal with people than anything else. I don't go anywhere on the big shopping days, and avoiding big cities is something I take into account when driving across the country.
I've rewired my mind before they slipped me the mickey so to speak, doing most of the work from 2008 to 2011. Hardest thing I ever did. 40 years ago I learned to utilize the hypervigilance, and I rarely get tickets from cops. I spot them, or sort of 'feel' them like another sense, before they can radar me or I do a big smoky burnout... or something equally offensive to my insurance premium. I do that shit all the time, but not when my gut tells me its a bad idea... then the cop drives by.
Took me until 2018 to get the road rage thing under control, did that by telling myself over and over, that they aren't trying to set me up for an ambush or something like in the desert, they are simply idiots. They have no idea how to drive, or what they are doing, and most are barely capable of operating a vehicle. Its hard to get mad at stupid people because you pity them. Self talk and dealing with the things that have emotional markers rather than avoiding thinking about them works best.
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My first divorce was when I was 32. Second divorce was 44. The second one was a 21 year old virgin, and she was absolutely wonderful, no arguments, sex all the time... for 8 years. Then we got married, and 16 months later, she went stupid, cheated, and filed for divorce.
Do yourself a favor.. stay single. Rebuild your life now rather than having to do it again when you're in your 50s like I am. Forget the apps, meet girls in person, but do like Rich says and stay on your purpose, girls are a pastime, not a focus of your life. They are not an achievement, not a prize, not a goal. At best they are a depreciating liability, an expense with no benefit.
Always remember a new crop of girls turns 18 every damn day. There is no shortage of them and you are coming into your prime. Don't fuck it up and get married or committed like I did.
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If you think you are safe in eastern Europe or southeast Asia, you're deluding yourself. Its only a matter of time before those places are forced into the same dystopia. The goal is making it worldwide, and currently the USA is the only thing stopping them. Not the people in office, they are all in and for it, they clamor for it going worldwide. Its all of us, the plebs, the nobodies, the 330 million of us who can still shape our own destiny... well, the ones who survive what is coming can.
Cities are pens for domesticated livestock. Sure you need $200k a year to live in a big city, but you only need $40k a year to live out in the sticks. You are not married to that job, don't get hung up on the numbers bandied about in cities, they take more of it from you. Quality of life means something.
Around where I live the youth are leaving and going to big cities rather than starting a business here. They think they need that big paycheck and it will mean they are doing well. What they find is they need to live with 3 or 4 other people just to put a roof over their heads. The same thing was going on for us Gen X'ers. The boomers screwed us all. Most of us don't own a home either, and they never will.
Ten years ago I bought land in the middle of nowhere, the largest town within three hours driving time is 26k people. There is still cheap land here, but its going up fast everywhere else. I have less than $80k in my property (including structures) because I built my house and the shop I work in. I didn't pay someone to build it, I did it. I have to live cheap and frugal, because I don't really get that much money and I am stuck no matter what. Can't earn more because I am a crippled veteran. If I was daft enough to live in a big city I would be living under a bridge rather than building 60s and 70s muscle cars.
30 year mortgages are for chumps. I tried to get a 5 year, but the bank wouldn't let me, they made me take a ten year. The difference in monthly payments is a couple hundred bucks, but the difference in how much interest you pay is HUGE. I paid the mortgage and building loan off in 8 years, that was in 2021 because I knew this was coming. I knew something even bigger is coming, and I wanted to have no debt they could leverage against me.
That whole you will rent everything deal means you are forever in debt, you have no equity that you can possibly build up, you can never pay something off, so you have to continuously work and never stop, because you don't own anything. You can't store up food or fuel, because you don't have the room for it. You can't produce anything yourself, all you can do is go to the cubicle farm and look at screens all day to make someone else wealthy.
If I want to, I can turn off the cellphone, landline, internet, and the only expense I will have is electricity and car insurance. I am working on producing electricity rather than buying it. That is a rather big project, producing fuel for my cars is a lot smaller and cheaper project than making electricity. Not only can I fuel my vehicles, I can sell fuel, or teach others how to do it too if I need to.
You can do it too, if you get out of the cities and think outside the box. Job is an acronym for just over broke. There are so many ways to make money its ludicrous, yet people seem to want unskilled part time jobs to pay for a family. Yeah it sucks for you, it sucked for me, and every time I tried to get ahead some female destroyed everything I built, which is why I live alone now and have for the past ten years. I don't know how to stop a female from destroying the family you're building, they seem dedicated to doing exactly that. So I avoid them.
Its not a bootstrap thing, its not a working more hours thing, its an exploiting the system thing. What can you learn from a job? What skills can you acquire working there? If its nothing useful, beneficial, and doesn't produce anything tangible, its a nowhere job. Every job I worked was a stepping stone that taught me more skills, that I use every day now. Construction, machinist, heavy equipment operator, auto mechanic, finances, chemistry/biology, hell I even build the PCs I use rather than buy them, because its a lot less expensive to build them.
The more you can DO the more useful you are, and that means the more money you can make ANYWHERE.
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I'm a US vet, met some of you down undahs over in the sand box, great people. Far more fun and entertaining to hang out with you guys than the Dutch.
The generals are implementing the policy they have been directed to implement by elected officials. The ones who do not agree with this idiocy, will be fired and someone who is willing to make the changes happen will be put in place. Politicians more often than not do not understand what we know while serving. Finding former enlisted in a public office is nearly impossible, and the officers are somewhat isolated from the 'meat and taters' of the job, but most of these progressives have never served anyway, so they are clueless.
If you want a less effective, less lethal, more kind and compassionate military, well I suppose you can have it because the US military will do the heavy lifting for you in most cases... until they push this bullshit into every aspect of our military, in which case we are all weaker. That is hilarious that dude said no scary stuff.. some limp wrist politician has the general's nuts in a vise.
I agree about the idea of inclusivity in the military, you want the most capable, the best you can possibly get, and whatever color they are or the type of plumbing they have should not be a priority. Its who can do the job effectively. You do not want to go solely on arbitrary bullshit like how much melanin you have or if you can't take a piss outdoors easily.
I was an NCO, I worked along side my people and knew who could do what parts and who could not. We loaded cargo planes, palletized your stuff and put it in the C5s C17s and C130s. Pallets can weigh up to 10,000lbs as singles, and you can tie multiple pallets together to move longer stuff, and each one can weigh 10,000lbs. so 5 together would 50,000lbs, but I never saw anything that heavy, the most I pushed were under 30,000lbs. The pallets are pushed by hand over rollers, and the old C5s have rather crappy rollers. Its a heavy lifting high endurance job where being big and powerful is a massive benefit. I can move a 10k pallet alone, but very few can do it. Thankfully most were under 9000lbs, but occasionally it would be really heavy stuff.
I could not let the females push the pallets without mostly men on the team, because they simply couldn't do it alone, and you can only fit so many of them behind it to actually push. I would need ten females to do what I could do alone, but usually two males could do what I did alone, I got kinda big from the first gulf war back in 90-91 from doing this job, so the second war I still had the muscle. Pick up 200lbs and run up 3 stories about 200-400 times in a 12 hour period, and you gonna get big if you can eat enough. That is a good approximation that most can understand.
I have yet to meet a female who can do anything close to that. Most could barely lift 50lbs and move it. A 3000lb pallet gets stuck in the rails, and they can't budge the thing, and one of us comes by and moves it easily. Logistics is not glamorous, nobody makes movies about cargo, but without it getting there the military freaking stops functioning and your people die. Its a massive thing to supply everyone over in the desert, you can't imagine it until you have seen it. So putting mostly females into this means it takes far longer to move the materiel needed to fight. The males who work with too many females end up doing the majority of the work and that takes a huge toll on your body, ask how I know.
Yes females can be there, yes I appreciate their service, but there has to be a priority set on capability and competence where you put those who can into that job. If a man cannot pack the gear and do the job, he is put out of the military, if a woman can't do it, and you say something, you are sexist and mean. He gets separated she gets moved to a busy work job where she isn't going to be in the way, but isn't really contributing.
Females are treated with kid gloves, you can't write them up, reprimand them, or give them a bad performance report even if they do something completely egregious. They might be "in charge" but they are not responsible, so they screw up and the highest ranking active duty male gets in trouble, because he is responsible even if he isn't "in charge" been there done that, got the T shirts and broken body parts. Then you have the sexual harassment issue where the females wield the accusation like a kid with his button on a nuclear tipped ICBM. Just saying hello or good morning to a female can get you demoted if she decides she wants to destroy you for some reason. I stopped talking to them entirely except with other males around as witnesses and only mission essential conversation. I did all my dating off base, all to avoid more claims of harassment over innocuous bullshit.
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My ex complained that I didn't help around the house enough. So I said she could come out to my shop and help me work on cars, organize my tools, clean things, then wash and wax the car after doing the brakes on the C10. Thats just what I did in my own shop to make extra money.. in addition to working in the factory as a machinist/CNC programmer. All she had to do all day was cook something for me and the kids to eat, so I didn't have to do it, and put the laundry in the washer, so I didn't have to do it.
Living alone I spend about an hour a day cooking for myself, two hours every two weeks doing laundry, and when I am not building on my house, its clean. Currently its full of construction materials and insulation I need to get in the walls.
They whine about the division of labor, thinking that all we do is sit around the house... because all they do is sit around the house and sometimes go to a 'busy work' job pushing papers or some light activity like that. Come lift some 90lb stuff into lathes and run dangerous machines with me, or fling 140lb chrome plate arbors around all day, push some 5,000lb to 10,000lb 463L pallets on to airplanes... I'll trade you ladies, I will sit around the house and do laundry/cooking/cleaning, you go lift stuff that weighs more than you do all day and use a ton of math so you know you're making good parts.
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My 2nd ex, who is alone and turns 40 in August, cheated and left for her 'soulmate' who was a millennial half wit with Asperger's so he can't keep a job and everyone loathes him. Dude thinks he should be in charge despite knowing almost nothing and just starting the job. In the first 7 years after our divorce in 2013, if she saw me out in public I would get a visit from the state police. Telling me to stay away from her, and stop stalking her.
I had to ditch every forum profile on my car forums, make an entirely new facebook (which I no longer use now anyway), and had to start this channel after dumping my other one because she was stalking me online and calling the cops about me. I was hearing a twisted version of what I was up to from people in my area who do not follow me on social media... because she was talking about me. I change vehicles when she sees me in one, repainting them, driving a different beater truck, whatever. I avoid her, she follows me around.
I have to drive past the house her dad rents for her to dump my trash, and she is the VFD chief so she is training with the other guy on certain days. So I have to plan around her schedule to dump my trash just to keep the cops off my yard. They had 12 members on the VFD before our divorce, she brought her boyfriend on and 11 of them quit that night at the township meeting. Thats how much they despise that kid. One guy joined a couple years ago, so its just the two of them since her bf is gone.
I am 53, own 13 acres of land, a house I built, a shop I built to rebuild my vintage muscle cars (mainly GTOs and Trans Am/Formula Firebirds) been debt free for three years after taking out a mortgage to buy some land in 2013, closed on it two weeks after the divorce was final, before my credit went completely to sh!@t. I've been retired since 2005 (crippled war veteran), and I have free health care for me and any spouse I might have.
She chose poorly.
She is salty about it so she tried to make my life difficult. I told the cops the last time that if they do it again, EVERYONE is getting sued for harassment. The judge, the cops, the county, the state, her, EVERYONE.. and I will stop building muscle cars for a few years to destroy them all with a public campaign.
The 1st ex was worse, but she is 1100 miles away.
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@juliapigworthy while I am inclined to agree with that sentiment, females have something men do not. The ability to level a false accusation and destroy a man's life. To divorce him for any reason, and be rewarded for her actions, even if she was the one who was abusive, unfaithful, etc. She gets cash and prizes when she fucks up, he has to pay for her choices. He has no rights, only responsibilities, while she has every incentive to be a horrible person with no immediate consequence.
No fault, or put more aptly the man's fault, divorce predates me even having a girlfriend. It predates me being able to vote, and I am 52. It was forced upon us but politicians who did it for their own reasons, which include profit and control.
One morning before I went to my shop to work for the day, my first wife grabbed my 3 year old daughter's arm and flung her into the wall, called her stupid and as many other epithets she could think of. I told her in no uncertain terms that she was not to speak to nor mistreat my kids like that. She admitted she was wrong, and said she was sorry. I came home to an empty house, her mother and brother came by and took EVERYTHING including everything of mine out of the house. I had the clothes I wore to work and thats it.
She eventually came back because she had nowhere else to go. Her abuse intensified. The only options left to me were to endure it or leave her with the kids, because if I took them it was considered kidnapping.
She is bipolar, she is very abusive and you never know what she will do one minute to the next. She was half my size, I am two war combat veteran who fears no man in a one on one fight. I can hurt people easily, as I have extensive training and muscle mass. You could not meet me and think I am timid, afraid or incapable.
I had photo evidence of her abuse, affidavits attesting to her abuse and violence towards me and my kids, including the divot in the back of my head from a coffee mug she threw at me, and multiple scars from cuts when she grabbed a knife. I stayed 8 years to protect my kids from her.
I worked 50 to 70 hours every week, and still made time to teach my daughters to crawl, walk, ride bikes, colors, shapes, how to run a computer, math, and how to read and write before they were 4 years old. I adore my daughters and I loved being a dad and teaching them everything I knew, as well as how to be a good person.
In 2001, when I had gone back to the military because NAFTA sent all the machining jobs to Mexico, and left me without a factory job or customers for my auto shop, she took off with my kids, moved them 1500 miles away, and the state helped her hide them from me.
Then the state decided that 71% of my gross pay was adequate for child support, leaving me $100 a month to live on while in the military as OIF was kicking off. I slept in my car from November 2001 to June 2002 when I was sent to Korea. Then upon my return to the US in June 03 to January 04 I was in my car again until she agreed to lower it to only half my gross. The state was extremely reluctant to lower it, and they waited 6 months to do so.
I was punished from 2001 to 2015 by the state, including assessing any debts she accrued AFTER the divorce to me and my credit. From June 2001 to June 2008 I got to see my daughters a total of 12 days, because when I would go home on leave I would spend most of the time trying to find them. Then I would get an afternoon or maybe an overnight at my parents house.
12 fucking days. Their childhoods were stolen from me. They were teenagers when I got more than a day with them.
In 2004 on my last deployment I got hurt and came back barely able to walk. They medically discharged me in August 2005. The VA took until February 2007 to decide how messed up I was, and in that time I had ZERO income. The state did not care, disabled, deadbeat, same thing to them.
In 2009 Social Security finally agreed I was disabled, they decide on their own and require a bunch of bullshit to get it. She started getting money because I am a crippled war vet. Getting paid by me, SSDI, and none of that was applied while she was getting both. It wasn't until 2011 that the state recognized that and said I no longer had to pay child support to the woman who abused my kids and got them both molested by boyfriends of hers. Still had all the arrears and penalties though.
I was still behind from zero income for nearly 2 years, and because in 2009 and 2011 the state locked my bank account and took everything out of it as a punitive measure, they gave some to her, kept the rest for themselves, and applied NONE of it to the arrears cause by me being unable to work. It set me back months on bills, because we only get paid on the 1st of the month, so they take two months worth, which was illegal by the way (until Obama changed that in 2012) leaving me nothing to live on. They wanted to keep me in arrears, despite me paying. They used that to justify penalties for the payment bouncing those months.
This is only a brief overview of all the shit I have been through with my first divorce. Remember, I never cheated, never hit her, worked my ass off to support her, and doted on my kids as much as I possibly could.
So then... how does a man enforce the boundaries he sets when the state will destroy his life at the behest of the mother who has every incentive to act poorly?
The only way to win is to not play.
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The reason I want to be left alone to do my thing, build my old cars, enjoy my woods, and my remaining years in peace, is because they have already taken that previous life from me. I have been through it twice already, two wars for the profit of others, paid for with my health and youth. I have had everything I worked for, invested my time in, ripped away and given to the undeserving twice in divorces. I was punished for their bad choices and reprehensible actions, and they were rewarded at my expense.
The only thing I have left to lose are the old cars, trucks, and my liberty to do as I please. To be quite honest, though I adore old GTOs and other vehicles I own, the most precious thing to me is liberty. I will fight to the death to defend it, I have taken oaths to that effect many times. I have nothing left to lose, thus my freedom is precious to me.
I am at the point where I only need a reason, where they cross a line carved into stone, and the world will know my full name. If they never cross that line, and continue walking next to it with their rhetoric, I will remain anonymous and maybe my kids will mourn me. Cross that line, and reap the whirlwind.
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My family has a lot of veterans, uncle was in WWII, two of his sons were Navy in the late 70s, his grandsons were Navy and USAF, I was USAF, my brother and his son were Army, my older brother's oldest son got out of the Army two years ago because of this nonsense. Three of my cousins on my mom's side were Navy and USAF. NONE OF US... nor any of my friends who were in for 20 to 30 years, will advise people to join as either enlisted or commissioned officers. 80+ years of my family in the military has come to an end.
The only conflict one of us was not in was Vietnam, my dad was 4F due to asthma, he was the only one the right age to go. I did Desert Shield/Storm and OIF/OEF, my brother did four tours in Iraq driving trucks and two tours in Afghanistan flying UH60s.
DO NOT ENLIST. They are not using the military the way it should be employed.
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The US military saw fit to give me many hours of training in NBC warfare (nuclear biological chemical). They had me running the shelters, bunkers, and decon teams, for two different units and the base, so I was in training almost every month. Of primary concern before anything else is a very good seal around the mask. You cannot get a good seal with a beard, you will die in a chemical environment unless you have a supplied air system that keeps positive pressure around your head. Bulky and cumbersome. Even if the paper/cloth masks were good filters, which they are not, there is no seal so most of what you breathe comes from around it. Paper/cloth masks do somewhere between jack shit and fuck all, other than being a placebo that makes you feel like you're safe.. sorta like the TSA.
Additionally, I grew up on a farm with severe allergies to grain dust. It affects me like an asthma attack, chest tightens, can't breathe at all, and its less than 5 minutes before I pass out in a grain bin. Just thinking about it makes my chest hurt, and I have not been in a grain bin in over 35 years. Paper and cloth masks were absolutely useless, I needed a full on respirator like is used for painting cars.
These days I paint cars, so I have several respirator systems I use because I am hypersensitive to a chemical in paint called isocyanate, it affects me like grain dust, but it goes on for months. Prednisone and weed are the only things that allow me to recover from it. I have to have something covering all my skin and clothing, because the off gassing will fill my house with isocyanate and skin contact causes the reaction as well. I have to be quite anal about protective gear for my gearhead obsession.
My local ACE hardware has a mask mandate, Menards, Lowes, and the county do not, so I will never shop at ACE again. They have chosen sides with the people who want to control us, and I will not support them. The VA has to do what the dementia addled kid sniffer Brandon tells them to do, and they are the only place I can get health care. They know its bullshit too, but are not allowed to say anything about it.
So I have spent a hell of a lot of time in gas masks and respirators, and I know just how ineffective masks are in keeping you healthy. The medical community KNOWS this at least as well as I do, and they see mask mandates the same way, its about control and seeing who obeys and who does not. Two masks make it even less effective, because then nearly all your respiration goes around the mask. I will not obey, I will not comply, and I am not afraid of a virus that only kills people with 2 or more comorbidities. I am as healthy as I can be with what the democrats for profit wars have done to me, and I am not afraid of the flu or colds, and yet I manage to not get those without wearing a respirator.
The mandates are for the ignorant sheep, the people who have no idea but are terrified of the unknown that is exaggerated in an effort to scare everyone into subservience.
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@SenorQuichotte I made more than $4500 a month as an E5 with more than 12 years time in service, back in 2004. He is the equivalent of a Major in the other branches, O5, and the base pay is $6112 if they come in as an O5. They can make $10,384 a month with 22 years time in service. Combat pay, jump pay, family separation, BAS, BAH, and other allowances all add up. Then you have the bonuses for signing, making it through training, and reenlistment bonuses for some jobs. For a while USAF LAN/WAN Admins were getting $60k to reenlist.
Until you hit E5 and O3 its a struggle though, not gonna lie. You barely get paid enough to do much of anything until you have 8 years and have made E5 or O3. My E5 pay was higher than O1 and O2 pay when I got out, which is very different from when I first enlisted in 1988. Back then an E9, the highest enlisted rank got paid less than an O1, the lowest commissioned officer rank. My first paycheck in 1988 was $710 for the entire month.
You'd be surprised to see what I can do with $4k a month.
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My divorce rate is 100%. Its also 100% she filed for it. The rate at which they cheated after 7 years together is also 100%. The standard reply from blue pillers and feminists is that it must be me. Technically, yeah it was me, because I made the commitment, gave them a little bit of trust, treated them like adults rather than children, and they fucked up. Now I do not commit, treat them like adults, or trust them, and when I grow tired of her I act beta asking for sex and she bails on her own thinking it was her idea. They are predictable, its easy to see what they think if you watch them.
In a way the cause is me, I am not suited for long term, because I don't want another kid I have to guide and support. I want to trust them, rely on them to handle simple things so I don't have to do it. Now I simply don't. If I could get this 23 year old kid to get married or get a real job, then I would get on with my life and not have a female leech in my wallet. Her mom was bad enough.
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I suppose it cuts out some of the casualties from the hurricane, since three friends of mine who worked for the VA, were in very good health, active, no heart disease, and 40s to early 50s, never woke up one morning after the mandatory job keeping thing they had to do. My VA doc was pushing it on me, and I have lost all trust in them now, won't be getting the flushot this year because I don't want anything else slipped in.
I am only 53, I have a lot to do before I kick my air addiction, and having a massive heart attack is not on my list of to do.
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It means do not be a s i m p and have some self respect.
People think that being tall, having money, acting tough, and being loud and boisterous makes you an alpha male. Apparently they have no idea what that particular term means. Its a mindset, a way of thinking, a natural dominance with confidence, and he doesn't have it. Most people don't, and aren't.
Also, I bet she has nothing on my first ex wife for notches. In my defense I didn't know her at all before I met her 30 years ago, so I had no idea she was the doorknob on the bike until my life was ripped up. Found out about her after her divorce, and learned a lot about mental illness as well.
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Birth defects start skyrocketing at 32 as well. Of the girls I know who had their first or second kid after 32, only one has had a kid without defects. My nephew is nearly deaf, my sister had him 20 years after her first, she was 38 when he was born. The girl I was engaged to in 1990-92 had her second at 36, he is an invalid with the mentality of a 2 year old, she is a slave to that kid for the rest of her life. She is 58, he is in his 20s. My cousin's oldest daughter's second kid is much like the girl I was engaged to years ago, wheelchair bound, and will never be a productive member of society. They will be slaves to that kid until someone kicks their air addiction. The girl I was seeing from 2014 to 18 had her second at 34, he isn't as bad off as the previous two, but they had to suppress his growth with meds, and he has a long list of problems. I can go on, but you get the idea.
My mom had six kids starting when she was 21. I am number two. There is 15 years between the oldest and the youngest. None of us have defects, but my sister's kid does because she selfishly wanted to get pregnant at 38.
They try to say its a 2% increase in risk after 32. Well then if thats the case somehow I know a hell of a lot of that 2%.
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@greenarrow219 Its the military, and its a different world. Even if its the British one, and not the US one I served in. I got lucky because my false accuser while I was active duty couldn't get the day and time right, she guessed days where I was working. Otherwise, no evidence needed and I go away or get a dishonorable at the very least.
The military is held to a higher standard, and they are actively trying to kick people out all the time. Why? They want the absolute best that fit their idea of what the best is. If a girl accuses you, well where there is smoke, there is fire to them, and to save face from not doing anything, they throw the male member under the bus or tank, whatever works.
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Right at the end you hit the nail on the head, the idea behind no meat is you will not build muscle, you will be weak, unhealthy, unable to think much beyond basics. Skinny and easily pushed around makes you easy to control. You'll all be part of a permanent serf class, living under the authoritarian boot that limits you in every way, turning you into chattel to be exploited for their profit.
I grew up on a restricted diet, they thought I had severe allergies, but I was having reactions to my dad's smoking. It stunted my growth, I was 4'9 until I was 14 years old, and I only made it to 5'8. It messed up my metabolism, I was the fat weak kid that fell asleep in every class because my body wasn't getting what it needed. Once I got off that diet I started growing, packing on muscle, and I could think again. Thats what medicine from the 1970s could do to you.
This can be done with restriction to any food group. They want what I lived with forced on everyone.
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Didn't you hear? Viking culture came from north Africa, German culture is from central Africa, same with China.. all the technology and advancements were originally developed in Africa and stolen, like gunpowder, paper, written language, machines, even the Greek idea of self governance! Well.. at least that is what they try to make us believe.
The one about Vikings actually not being white was the most hilarious one I have heard yet. Barely any sunlight in the north, its a shallow angle, so vitamin D is hard to come by, impossible with abundant melanin.
Do not listen to marxists except to be aware of what they are doing, and to mock them.
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I've lived with PTSD for over 40 years, since I was a kid. Two wars, lots of familial abuse, and far too many beatings and close calls with death to recount them all. For someone who is new to it, and put in a position where they cannot affect the outcome as it depends on other people, the reaction is quite similar to Kyle's reaction.
My first reaction to a threat is anger, then to intimidate it, when that fails everything escalates until overwhelming force is brought into the situation. When force is the last option, there is zero emotion until after everything is over. When that is not an option, such as in a courtroom, there is a dissonance between wanting to fight or flee, and being unable to do either. Getting angry can harm you farther, and it leaves you in an untenable position.
Its difficult for me as a 52 year old two war veteran to handle a situation like that, its impossible for a teenager who is just now experiencing it for the first time. I've dealt with that thousands of times, particularly in the military when I could not go against the rank structure and chain of command without far worse things happening to me.
PTSD is a survival mechanism that does not shut off when the threat dissipates, it stays with you. It changes how you think and act, most of it is automatic, subconscious, buried deep in the program running in our minds and passed down from all our ancestors who survived attacks. Its a primal thing, and it runs under your consciousness, in the background.
When I perceive a threat, it takes a lot of my willpower and consciousness to not act on it, such as when some braindead moron tries to occupy the same space time I am currently occupying with my vehicle. Trying to injure me will activate it, and in polite society its not acceptable to drag a moron out of his vehicle and beat him senseless. Therein lies the rub... it keeps you alive, but if you cannot control it someone can get hurt. Its a rough way to live, and trust me you do not want it.
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@tombrewer49 It is definitely about control. I am a gearhead, I build hotrods, muscle cars, and I like to go drag racing. However, my cars do not run on gasoline, they run on ethanol, either E85 or home made cattail and tree sap vodka. Ethanol is vodka, exactly the same stuff you can get in a bar.
I live in a shipping container house in the woods. I heat with biomass, sawdust pressed into pellets and next winter a large compost pile with plastic pipe run though it to heat water to 140F. Been working on producing electricity, its more expensive and complicated than all the other forms of energy we can make ourselves. My stills are powered by methane that I make from sawdust, woodchips, and when I get my septic system done, from there as well. I can do a lot with methane, and its super easy to produce and use.
NONE of these people pushing this want everyone to do like I am doing, they don't want us to make our own anything, they want to force us to buy it from them, at the price they set for it. They want to push out all other forms of energy and the companies that produce it so they can take the profit from it.
These busybodies want fewer humans on the planet, and they are willing to use the same methods that were employed last century to eradicate millions. Listen to what they say, they tell you straight up what they want, and people think they mean someone other than all of us...
Why did I start producing energy for myself? Because in 2007 when gasoline was $5 a gallon I could not afford to buy it. I had old vehicles I love driving and building, but if I can't afford fuel whats the point? So I looked into all kinda of alternatives, hydrogen, methane, drop in biofuels, electric... and the more I looked into ethanol, the more attractive it looked. Easy to produce, has many other uses including party time and antiseptic/disinfectant, light, and the process of producing it can make more food, especially when the CO2 is pumped into a greenhouse.
If it was about the environment, they would be pointing at me and telling people to live as I do. Instead they want to force them to use wind and solar, drive an EV they can control, and limit how far we can travel. We are livestock to them, they want to profit from us, thats all they want.
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I drive around every day with 11.5:1 compression in a 455 Pontiac with iron heads, 45 degrees total advance, all in before 3000rpm, no need for race gas, but 92 octane will not cut it in my engines. Also have a 13:1 compression 455 with iron heads, it too is going in a daily driver. Instead I use $1.94 a gallon E85 and just enjoy the power and cool operation.
I don't lock the timing, I use vacuum and the mechanical advance, change the springs and weights to get it to do what I want it to do. Been running the moonshine for over a decade now, 13 years this month to be exact. Zero problems with longevity of parts, engines, carbs, rubber, gaskets, etc. Its not methanol, which will eat everything. When I ran the 11:1 heads in the 90s on race gas, that stuff ate rubber, gaskets, and clogged everything with varnish. Had to change rubber hose every other year and 850 Holley gaskets every year. None of those problems now.
Tetraethyl lead didn't work as good as ethanol, and hell you can drink ethanol (as long as you don't drive) so I can handle more compression on the street than the gas did in the 60s. I'm only 51 which means I can still remember things without thinking a 350sbc would run 9s with 461 heads turning a PG in a full weight 67 Impala on pump gas. Man I dusted so many chevys in the 90s, now they all need turbos and aftermarket parts to run.. lol. So many chevy guys have no clue, but then think 13s are super fast... and now those 13s they ran in the old days are somehow tens and faster.
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I live in a very scenic part of the US, the upper peninsula of Michigan, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is at the other end of the county I live in. Its one of the least visited national parks in the lower 48.
The economy here is dependent on tourism. Snowmobiles this time of year, because we get 150 to 300 inches of snow every winter, and camping, hiking trails, lakes, waterfalls, and wilderness abound here. Mosquitoes and bears...
I have two black friends in town, they are a total of about 12 black people. Its cold and rural, so most people who want to live here happen to be European ancestry. Mostly Finnish people in this county. None of my UV resistant friends, including those who were in the military with me, want to spend time out in the woods.
Michigan likes to put prisons here, because if you escape you are going to turn yourself in rather than endure the mosquitoes, waist deep snow, low temps, swamps, and forests for miles and miles. People from Detroit and other urban areas do not know how to survive where I live. So the entire peninsula is a prison for them. Only two highways and few other roads, so egress is a challenge. A bridge and Canada at one end, middle of nowhere Wisconsin on the other.
I have lived here 16 years and have yet to see a non pale family out camping and hiking. Funny how I see all these advertisements showing lovely minority families carousing in the woods and driving RVs.
Only the dems don't want minorities here, nobody else cares. If you want to live where it snows half the year, has mosquitoes the other half, and have to take vitamin D in copious amounts because you barely get any sunlight, come on up... bring some jobs with you though.
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40 to 80 is a looooong time, but they will have their boxed wine and cats. I spent a total of four years homeless, two years after each divorce because they were rewarded with everything I had for cheating, lying, and falsely accusing. Like I want to risk that again, as if I want to reward someone who acts reprehensibly with handing over everything I have built.
I wear my work on car clothes in my videos, when I go into town for parts/supplies/lumber, and I really don't care what girls think about me. I'd rather build my GTOs and work on getting one of them to run low 8 second quarter mile times.
I am 53, 5'8, and have had a relatively easy time getting female attention over the years. I am simply not interested anymore. I will look at them, talk to them, but I do not want a relationship with them. I will hug my tunnel ram instead of them. Tunnel rams are awesome.
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@duckpwnd I am not a timid man, most men would never try me, two wars, wrestled in school and the military, LOTS of training and experience in altercations, I can seriously injure people easily. My first ex felt the need to do all that stuff your sister did, and more. If I wasn't there, she did it to my two daughters. In Nebraska the dad only gets custody if the mom relinquishes it, so leaving with my kids was not an option. The cops only cared if I did anything to her, they didn't care if she cut me, stabbed me, hit me with stuff, ripped my shirt and scratched the hell out of me.. So she could do what she wanted and I would get in trouble for it.
Let me tell ya, I don't care who takes a swing at me now, if they connect they are going to find out the hard way. Doesn't matter if they have indoor or outdoor plumbing.
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I respect both of you VERY much, and appreciate the work you both have done over the years. I am not a conservative, I am an atheist classical liberal, considerably alike to Ben Franklin, and to a certain extent Thomas Paine.. You said conservatives were resentful of democrats when they voted for Trump. That is not entirely accurate, and while it might be true for many who had voted for Obama and wer thusly disenfranchised by his actions, it is not indicative of the conservatives and classical liberals such as myself
Many of us no longer on the left are averse to authoritarians, Hillary wore her authoritarian war mongering like a full body suit. She made no effort to hide her glee at ending the lives of foreign leaders, she showed her abject disdain for we the people, she flaunted laws that had I done anything even close to what she did while I was in the US military would have resulted in my incarceration for at least ten years. Resentment is not the key, fear is not the key either though it is a larger component. Basic survival, that is why so many voted against Hillary.
Having been through two wars in 90-91, and 2003-04, deployed to Kuwait on 9/11, having listened to what these politicians said leading up to those conflicts, seeing the weak limp wrist ineffectiveness of Bill Clinton whilst he eviscerated the US military that lead to the massive overreaction and invasion happy Bush administration, both of which were lining their pockets from the conflicts in which friends of mine came home in boxes.. I knew full well what was in store if Hillary was elected. Yet, in 2016 I did not vote. I left it up to everyone else, because I was NOT a fan of Trump, haven't been able to stand to listen to him since I first learned of who he was back in the 1980s.
I figured Trump would be more war, and Hillary would be lots more war, abroad and at home. I am permanently disabled thanks to these useless wars that the politicians profited from, and we bled for, which means I am not a fan of war. The people I know who voted in '16 did not do so out of revenge or vengeance, it was out of self preservation. Those of us who voted for Trump last year also did it out of self preservation, and because the track record of democrats and the economy has been 'lackluster' at its most charitable.
When Trump tried to end the useless wars against brown people for oil and opiates, and the rest of government did everything they could to stop him, which from my vantage point sure looks like they are protecting their income stream, he won me over. When he banned the marxist based critical race theory which says I am bad just because I easily sunburn and can piss standing up and not soak my feet, he won me over again. When he managed to revive the industry that Bill Clinton sent to Mexico (of which my jobs were included and prompted me to go back to the military to survive) I came to actually like him despite STILL not liking to hear him speak.
Honestly I give zero fucks about the 'grabbing' remark, as it is 100% factual. When a female is sexually interested in you, she will not only allow but encourage you to do those sorts of things, they really like assertiveness and confidence. Its leftist spin that turned it into unwanted contact, if girls can want my crippled short ass like that and I am broke, some powerful taller than 6' guy with a few billion in his pocket is a shoe in. Obviously the Cheeto as I call him, talks like I do in some respects. He talks like a construction worker, mechanic, machinist, cold war military member, blue collar matter of fact why be all pleasant with overly verbose soft language. Obama was a stuffed shirt that acted more like a slightly masculine girl than a man. I bet homie can't even lift his own body weight. At the same time Clinton and Biden get a pass for their groping and other actions, and its ignored.. so obviously the leftists don't really give a damn about that sort of thing, unless they can use it as a cudgel against their opponents. Like Cavanaugh.
Being military I have a certain penchant for history, having been there when lots of it happened, like being stationed in Frankfurt West Germany when the Berlin Wall fell, and I have a large chunk of it on my shelf next to me, and catching CNN and the rest in lies about what we were doing and when, because I was the NCO in charge of that certain thing, I see patterns from the past cropping up. Just like Mr. Murray's recent PragerU video about history, I like to learn from the past, and try to avoid the mistakes of those who came before us. Standing on the shoulders of giants indeed.
What I see is current very recent history rhyming very closely with certain events in Europe, South America, Asia, and Africa, and Trump is actually an impediment to the horrors wrought by those events. I find myself among the 'other' that is maligned to create an exploitable rift in society. I am called every negative epithet they can conjure, by virtue of my German ancestry and unwillingness to embrace marxist ideology. Yeah a white guy who is all about liberty and against authoritarianism.
Looking back to just a few scant years before my father was born in 1945, I see the similarities of what I am being falsely accused of by virtue of characteristics I did not choose. Something entirely antithetical to what the USA is supposed to be, and now it is in the oval office once again. I am among the other, the nebulous oppressor class, and already there is talk about persecuting anyone who does not follow the ideology of the left. You see from my perspective socialists, communists, feminists, fascists, and progressives are all cut from the same cloth. Its the same pile of shit with different sprinkles. Its victim olympics, oppressor/oppressed, power and control, authoritarian top down celebration of mediocrity, at the expense of merit, competence, and achievement.
I am one of millions outside that abhorrent ideology.. and I used to be center left. They have moved so far left that they think the entire world has to be socialist, and that is the only way it makes sense that the goosestepping morons in Hugo Boss uniforms were 'far right' because those assholes were freakin socialists.
So it was not resentment, it was not vengeance for 'losing battles against the leftists' its all about our own survival. Unlike the leftists who wish to erase history (ostensibly so they can repeat their favorite parts of it e.g. gulags, camps, starvation, mass graves, etc) I and many others like me LEARN from history, and humans are quite adept at spotting patterns. When they spew the same rhetoric, with some of the nomenclature changed, as the likes of Karl, Vladimir, Joseph, Adolf, and Mao its not hard to see where they are headed. If it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, shits like a duck, and quacks like a duck.. its not an fuzzy pet bunny. Seriously, take anything they write or say, plug in one of the 'evil others' from eastern Europe and you have the same damn rhetoric as those who gave us the Gulag Archipelago, Auschwitz, Dachau, Ukraine famine, Killing Fields, and others.
They chose the wrong 'other' this time. We are not a bunch of serfs living hand to mouth with no means of resistance, beholden to the government for our very existence and thus at its mercy.
Remember, I am a green energy producing atheist who has perhaps a few too many gay and trans friends, that has been engaged to girls other than white, loved meeting new people and learning about their culture in my world travels, for me to fit the narrative that everyone who isn't a marxist has to be a klan member who adores Adolf and his idiots, while oppressing people far more resistant to UV light than we are. All you need to do is read their literature and you can see that its marxist 101 to call non marxists every bad name they can conjure.
When/if I am evicted from my meat suit in a future conflict, I bequeath my chunk of poorly made concrete with BERLIN 1989 scrawled on it in sharpie to both of you. If I die in my sleep or at the controls of one of my vehicles, my daughter gets it. Its nearly circumnavigated the world with me as it sat on the windowsill of my room at Rhein Main AB until 1991, and Osan AB in 2002-2003.
Its about survival. I have no plans to go quietly into the mass grave.
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@godsamazing2090 you just agreed with the original poster. Do you see where? Here, I'll show you...
"The problem nowadays is that ppl are making decisions based on feelings and desires"
Females are ruled by emotion, they feel rather than think logically, and there is good reason for that in human societies.. but its not good in a leadership role, no matter what all the Mary Sue characters in movies try to sell you.
Masculine thought does not involve feelings or emotions. The two are supposed to be complimentary, neither subservient, but only one is competent to lead. The leadership requires support from the feminine mindset, and currently we have people pushing the idea that feminine thinking is best, so they toss logic and reason out. leadership is NOT power or control, it is RESPONSIBILITY, and that is the thing most people do not grasp.
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I had a vasectomy at 38. Two kids with the first wife, and hit with 71% of my gross child support. 15 years of being indentured to her via the state and now at 51 I am just starting to get my life back on track. First divorce was in 2001. Second in 2013, did not want kids with the second one, and she didn't want any either. I will never allow anyone to have that much control over my financial future ever again. I did not get to see my daughters grow up, I was not allowed by the state to be part of their lives, and the state assisted my ex in keeping me from my kids. All the evidence of her abuse was thrown out, and instead they used multiple instances of the cops coming to domestics, where she was the one getting violent, to paint me as an abusive neglectful dad.
I worked my ass off, 50-70 hours a week, and still found time to teach my kids and spend time with them. When my oldest was 3 she was running a PC, she could boot it up, bring up paint, and she likes to fill the screen then erase it all. I taught her to read, write, count, add, subtract, multiply, divide, colors, shapes, and more. I was there teaching them to crawl and walk, then how to ride bikes, and other skills. They loved going to the shop with me to work on cars and do stuff out there. My daughters were shooting AR15s and 10/22s when they were 5 and 7. Then right before my oldest turned 8, their mother took off with them, and moved 1500 miles away, then lied her ass off and was rewarded for it.
That bipolar bitch would start a fight any time I did something nice for her, then when she would lose she could feel like a victim, and the cops never asked what she did despite my ripped clothing, deep bruises, and bleeding when she would throw things at me or cut me, they only cared if I touched her. Might be due to me being ex military, twice her size and able to kill the bitch with one hand... but it also might be due to my state using the Duluth model, where the man is always guilty the bitch is always the victim.
I have survived two wars, been hit by a car going 40mph, taken severe beatings growing up where I was knocked unconscious, endured 8 years of her crazy bullshit and attacking me when I did not rise to her provocations, and now I am crippled and live with chronic pain and other things that limit my ability to do things after my last desert deployment in 2004. The worst thing that ever happened to me was that bitch taking my kids from me.
The vasectomy was 3 days of mild discomfort and now nearly 15 years of peace of mind that I will not end up living in my car again because the state gives my earnings to some undeserving cunt just because she popped out a fuck trophy or two. Having kids was both the best thing and the worst thing to happen to me in my life. They are 23 and 26 now, and I barely know them because of their crazy mother and the state.
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I was the fat kid for years, due to a diet where all I could eat was meat and broccoli. The doctors in the 70s said I was allergic to everything, but really it was my dad's smoking that caused my autoimmune system to freak out. When I was 14 I was off that diet and started wrestling. I got beaten up, picked on, and no girl wanted to even look at me, also I was 4'9 until I got off that diet. imagine being a teen ager under 5' tall.. and about 130lbs.
Wrestling and the end of that diet changed my life. I went from the kid everyone picked on and beat up for fun, to the 16 year old everyone was terrified of. One kid called me ghey on the gym floor when I was 15, and I broke his nose. He never said a word to me after that. Lots of kids found out the hard way, and suddenly everything stopped. MY dad and brother got a wake up call too, they had been knocking my unconscious a bit too often.
By the time I was 17 and a senior I was the strongest kid in the school and at 167lbs able to beat everyone on the wrestling team easily. The 185lb guy ended up being a two time state champ and playing in the NFL as a center for Denver, Carolina and Jacksonville. Yes, really. I benched 265lbs, knocked out one kid wrestling, and broke another's arm, and cracked three ribs on another kid.
I wasn't mean, but I overpowered them and was somewhat brutal, but tried to make friends with most of the other wrestlers from other schools. The guy I wrestled in the semi finals met my sister about ten years after we graduated, he told her I was the toughest match he ever had. I nearly beat him, he got me by one point but I almost pinned him in the second round, but the ref would not give it to me. If I had the mindset I have today when I was a teenager, I would have been a multiple time state champ.
Got lucky the first time when I was 17, the summer of 1986. From there it was off to the races, but no girls from my school.. until 30+ years later.
Joined the military at 19, did the first gulf war, came back even bigger than I left, 15" arms and benching 300 to 22" arms and over 450 bench by the time I was 22. I can seriously injure those who intend to do me harm. :) Lots of training... Lots of girls over the years too.
I went to my ten year reunion and found out something interesting. All the cute girls gathered around me and were looking through all my photos from around the world. Found out from the one chick who didn't treat me like crap, that all the popular girls wanted me to ask them out. I barely spoke to them in school, and was astounded when they all lit up and came to sit around me at the reunion. Surreal moment...
I was the only guy from my class who had all his hair, and man did I get dirty looks from those guys who mostly would not talk to me. I didn't like them 30 years ago, still don't like them. Now they are afraid of me, which is most amusing. Two wars, lots of countries, lots of girls... and most of them never left our home state of Nebraska. Three of them talked to me at the 20 year, but they were the cool guys who never picked on me or anything when we were young.
One of the girls said I was the smart one, because I didn't follow fads or try to make everyone like me, I just did what I wanted to do with my life. I skipped the 30, they had it in November, and I was dealing with 4 feet of snow that week already in 2017. Not driving 1000 miles just to see them.
I turned my life around, and still made bad choices, like getting married. That ruined me financially. I still get hit on despite being 53 years old and I look like my name says with all the winter layers on. 18 year old girl was eyeing me at Lowes, more surreal... a 23 year old flirting with me at the grocery store and she smiled a huge smile when she saw me walk in, she is kinda heavy though. I know exactly what it means when they look at me a certain way, thats how I capitalized on that look and managed to get well over 150 girls between the sheets, or in the back seat of my muscle cars. They like muscles and a man who honestly doesn't give a F what they think or say.
So many problems in my life stem from girls. If you haven't had one, don't freak out or worry about it, they are more problem than benefit, and a huge risk. Make your life what you want it to be, and do your thing. My thing is old GTOs and Firebird Formulas/Trans Ams. Living alone in the woods with my huskies, enjoying nature around me while I build the cars.
For years I was like the dude in the article, I wanted revenge, wanted to inflict on others what they had done to me. You know what though? When I had the physical capability to do so, and saw how afraid of me they were, I didn't want to get retribution anymore. I saw where their lives were taking them, and it wasn't anywhere good. They did more damage to their own lives than I could have ever done... same with my ex wives, so instead I live well and make sure to take care of myself first. Dogs second. Cars third. Everyone else can pound sand.
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cindybin2001 they aren't uptight about jabs that actually work, aren't mandated, and don't cause very serious side effects and otherwise healthy young people to expire randomly. I am up to three friends, who worked for the VA and were mandated, that expired from the exact same thing despite having no history or preexisting condition, within two years after obeying the VA mandate. You are free to roll the dice if you want to, but I am free from not having to roll the dice if I do not wish it.
Mind you, I am a veteran, and I guarantee I have had more pokes than you have, unless you are also a veteran with most of your time being spent overseas. I am not against them in the least, provided they work and don't cause other problems. So far everyone I know who has gotten the jab has gotten the bug.. or kicked their air addiction. I still haven't.
In that military time I was trained extensively in NBC, nuke-bio-chem defense. Suffice it to say I probably know more about that than you do as well. If this was a world ending threat like they are treating it, you'd see a lot more hazmat suits and MOPP gear, as paper/cloth is about as effective as driving down a mountain with no brakes. If it were an actual NBC environment, paper/cloth will simply result in you handing in your meat suit.
Since you're already afraid, why not be even more afraid than you are now? If you knew what I know about NBC, you'd probably never leave your home.
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@-TriP- before the ex took off with my kids while I was in the USAF, I would take them to the park on base and let my two daughters run around and play. It was VERY safe on an Air Force Base... I still got dirty looks from women because I was there with my daughters.
My younger daughter came to live with me when she was 13, because her mom was 'less than pleasant' to massively understate it. I am not allowed to write much about her here. When she and I would go to stores, to the gym, or just driving around in my car, I would get dirty looks from women. Due to my physical size and obvious strength, nobody said anything, but it was obvious what they were thinking. She is 26 now, I am 54, and any time we go somewhere I get the same crap.
Sure, look at me that way but say nothing about the males the ex let into their house... and yeah, things happened, and no they will not tell me who did it because the remains would never be found.
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If the dems win Georgia, and they will since they can still rig it just like they did last month, and Biden gets in office, it is a matter of time until the 1st and 2nd amendments go away. When that happens, the Republic goes away, and the conflict begins in earnest.
The democrats have made it so our votes don't matter, they feel they can decide for us just like they can decide better than we can how to best spend our own money. I have been in the military and beholden to the VA for a very long time, most of my adult life going back over 30 years. I have zero faith in our government, they have destroyed the system and turned it into a for profit venture for politicians and corporations.
My oath to defend the constitution supersedes the fact that without the VA I have zero income and have almost no other way to get it, because they broke me with two wars. I will not sit back and watch Biden and Harris sell us down the river and leave us defenseless in our own homes, if anyone actually has a home left by this time next year.
For the last year I have been advising to wait and see what happens, don't go rushing in too early, but be prepared. Its now time to start planning.
This comment will be removed, and to the yt sensors: You guys should realize you are on the wrong side of history. Yours is the side with gulags, concentration camps, and mass graves. That is not hyperbole. Ignorance and 'just doing my job' are not a defense.
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@miguelservetus9534 look them up in a phone book, while they will not admit to it, they say to do it at every chance so the woman is assured custody, if there is any doubt. My home state, Nebraska, gives full custody to the mother by default, the only way the father gets his kids is if she is incarcerated, abandons them with him, or declares she doesn't want them. That amounts to about 1% of the time, because Nebraska likes to hit dads with 68% of their gross for support.
As for reporting them to the bar, good luck. They all cover for each other.
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I grew up on a Nebraska farm, closest neighbor was half a mile away. I knew everyone within 4 miles of me.
Joined the US military, lived on and off base, knew the people I worked with and a few others. Turns out I hated living in cities.
Retired to northern Michigan and I live in a forest, alone, my nearest neighbor is a quarter mile away. I know most of the people who live within three miles of me. Nobody can live within a quarter mile of my front door in any direction.
Its peaceful here, I have privacy thanks to the trees around me. I see city dwellers are dependents, because everything must be brought to them for them to survive, and all their waste taken away for them. Its amusing how they think they are smarter and superior because they live in a city, but they have no clue how to survive without the massive support structure and everything being close by so they can purchase it.
Who needs a car in a big city when you have trains, buses, taxis and can walk most places? You need a car/truck where I live, and it has to be a 4x4 from November to May, because of the snow. Its not unusual to get several feet of snow in a few hours here and we average 150 to 300 inches per winter.
Its 20 miles from my home to the nearest town, and at least 40 miles between the towns. Not only do I have enough food for several months stored, I can grow and hunt/catch more on my land, along with producing fuel for my vehicles. I'm working on increasing the fuel production and making electricity without as much noise as a generator and being as obvious as a windmill. I can do this on my land and support myself easily, and probably several others who have or grow things I don't have.
When you can produce the energy you need, I see you as independent.
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People often irrationally crave the thing they cannot have, you can say they covet it. When they rail against competence, capability, and knowledge, they KNOW they do not have any of those, and those are the typical means to get things you want, be it power, a house, car, job, whatever. The only way they can get what they want is to demand it is taken from others and given to them, they are incapable of earning it themselves, and also unwilling. They don't want to work for anything, they don't want to earn anything, so it must be taken from others who earned it, to be given to those who have not earned anything.
They hate you because you are industrious and capable, while they are like children clamoring for the shiny toy.
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HackShock you're confusing atheists with marxists. Atheists simply do not believe in a god, just like you don't believe in Mars, Jupiter, or Ba'al. (I assume) We just go one farther than you. The people doing this stupid shit are marxists, and they have a god. The marxist god is the state, and they have a huge problem with your religion as it conflicts with theirs.
I have a huge problem with marxists because unlike your religion which has mostly set laws and rules, they can change theirs on a whim, and make shit up at will. That and they have a penchant for filling mass graves with people who dissent or look different.
Now if you want to join me in fighting these moronic idiots that think Marx was a great thinker with good ideas, then start talking to your christian friends about getting marxism and all its offspring like communism, feminism, socialism, progressivism, crt and other bullshit, classified as a religion. Push for it tooth and nail. Get every religious person you know to do so.
That needs to go before the Supreme Court before the marxists own it completely or dilute it into meaninglessness by adding more justices.
Why do we need marxism to be classified as a religion? Because then it cannot be taught in US schools, codified into law, or used as the basis for laws. The Establishment Clause makes it illegal to have religion based laws. Just like we can't teach creationism or intelligent design in schools, they could not teach crt and socialism in schools.
If they can indoctrinate our youth, then when they get old enough to vote your religion will be outlawed and all of us who do not follow Marx will be rounded up and sent to gulags or mass graves. This is why we have the Establishment Clause. They hate me just as much as they hate you, and I do not want to see your religion outlawed.
I do not want to live in a marxist state any more than I want to live in an islamic state, I prefer a nation where every religion is welcome, and none are supported by the state over the rest. All or none, that is how it works here in the US. Thus I have a problem with the religions that want to run things here, and I will fight beside you to prevent them from achieving it. I am not your enemy, the ideologues of abhorrent religions are. :)
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After losing two shops I rented (in the 1990s) when they were sold and I had to move like Tony did, two houses and garages/shops I owned in divorces, I bought 13 acres of woodland with a falling down cabin on it and electrical power run to it, with a slow producing well... for less than $30k in 2013. In 2015 I started building after getting another $30k loan to build something. I did the pole barn first, its my shop now, used the maple trees I had to clear off the land as the poles, they are freakin huge too. Its way overbuilt. Have a 5" thick slab under it, mesh and fiber in it, so its not going anywhere. The footings are sitting on the bedrock, so its really not going anywhere. Then I build a shipping container house consisting of three of them stuck together. Lived in that for 5 years as I got caught up with everything. In 2019 I reconfigured the house, from 480sqft to 1050sqft with a loft upstairs using the 4th container I had not used before but had on the end for storage.
My crippled Iraq war vet ass did 90% of the work at least, ran the heavy equipment I rented, and only hired someone to help with the roof on both buildings and the concrete. I paid it all off last month, three years early. Now my passive income is all mine again, the ex's are paid off, I have no loans out there, and I have a bit of cash in the bank as a cushion. Its a crazy amount of work man, but I own this and nobody can take it from me unless its some eminent domain thing. I will never marry again, or even let someone else live here. I am not risking being homeless again now that I am 52 and rebuilding again is going to be impossible.
The weather is finally getting nice up here, its almost 50 today and the snow is melting. So this will be the first year I can concentrate on building and moving cars, I have a bunch of them stored in Nebraska at the family farm. I have three in the shop I need to finish this year, then insulate the shop better and get my heat system working so I can work all year and not have to take January - March off due to the freakin cold.
Figured why not make videos of what I am doing? I don't need nor want to monetize them, I want to share what I do and hopefully inspire others to get building their own. I used to take stills of everything and post it to bangshift and Pontiac forums, but now the new hotness is video. Got my cameras, tripods, some lights, and a shop full of car parts and the stuff for the house I haven't gotten in here yet making work interesting tripping over stuff. Figuring out the editing and making the narration interesting enough to keep some attention has been my winter project. If nothing else showing people how to do what I do might keep some of the information alive for future generations, just like Tony's videos... except mine are mostly Pontiac, a couple Mopars and Fords are also in my care, and of course the ethanol project I have been working on since 2007.
No matter what life takes from you, find a way to rebuild it. If a roadblock is placed in your path, find a way over, around, or through it. I have somewhere around 25 old Pontiacs, four GTOs, eleven Firebirds mostly between 71 and 79, with a 68 and a 98 too, a bunch of LeMans 2 doors, two Mustangs, my 67 Cougar which was my first car way back in 1982 when I was 13, and trucks... lots of trucks. Ford Dodge and chevy trucks coming out of my freakin ears living in the north. How did I manage to keep all those through the years?
They were not shiny so the ex wives didn't want them, and I rarely sold a parts car or a daily driver that ended up having too much needed done to keep driving it, so I got another one and turned it into a daily driver. No matter how hard life got, how broke I was, how many bills were due, I kept my GTOs, Trans Ams, and others.. mostly because to be honest other than the 65 and 70 GTO, along with one very rare Formula Firebird, they weren't worth all that much over the years. I found other ways to pay my bills, pay off the ex wives, and keep my old junk that I can build now. I did what I had to do, and I found ways to do it without having to sell the GTOs that I have lusted after since I was ten years old.. and finally own.
I am tired of people taking what I built from me, and having to rely on others to allow me to work or store things there, knowing they can tell me to GTFO at any time. So I feel ya Tony... but I came up with different solutions to the same problems. I'll keep watching and commenting, even if nobody ever reads these long winded posts.
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Yeah... I know my masculinity is the most attractive thing about me. The rough hands, the cool vehicles I built and drive, the things I do, the stuff I know, the places I have been, the muscle, my deep voice, the achievements in war and peace. All the ones who cheated or broke it off, wish they hadn't now that we are all in our 40s and 50s.
Doesn't mean they all get a chance, in my younger days they did.. not anymore, because I have better things to do than support someone who doesn't deserve it.
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Its overrated, girls are largely interchangeable, the wrapper varies, but the wiring is the same. There are massive risks involved with even speaking to them, never mind writing a check against it.
My advice for you guys is keep lifting, muscle benefits you in life, learn things like how to repair your vehicle, and how to repair things in your home. The more you know, the less you have to pay others to do for you, which means you can invest more of what you earn.
The last thing you want to do is get married, have her leech from you for years, then decide she is not happy, and leave you living in a $500 Crown Vic... because the state gives her almost everything you earn. Girls are not an investment, they are an expense that depreciates in value every damn day.
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I was stationed in Frankfurt 89-91, and lived in large cities all around the world while in the US military. I grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere Nebraska, so the big cities never really favored me. I liked the Frankfurt area a lot, tons of fun for a 19-21 year old with disposable income, but no way I could live there permanently. When my military time was done 15 years ago, I could have moved to many places to live, and I chose a part of the USA that is very similar to Scandinavia, its even full of Finlanders.
20 miles to the largeish town from my front door, woods all around me, I have deer, turkeys, moose, bears, wolves, coyotes, and foxes making their way across my yard all the time. Its so quiet and peaceful here that my PTSD is relaxed and I am not on edge like if I were in a city or suburbs. I live alone with three dogs, and the two cats stay outside to keep the rodent population in check.
The world is my urinal. I can do almost anything I feel like doing here, which is how I like it. I can sight in a rifle from the roof of my house, put holes in paper whenever I feel the need to practice my marksmanship. I like to cook over an open fire when there isn't 6' of snow everywhere. I am the happiest I have ever been in my 50 years on the planet and the only thing I want nearby is a drag strip so I can race the cars I build. I can walk 100ft and be immersed in nature isolated from all technology.
Masculinity is not toxic. Its liberating. Interestingly people move out of my way when I am in public, nobody brushes against me if they can help it, they go around. Every country I have been to, every city I have walked in, people move for me. Is curious how that works.
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@tarstarkusz you're wrong, the 'study' used to show even corn ethanol to be negative on ERORI is horribly flawed, it was done by a professor (entomology) named Pimental, and he had to skew the inputs massively to get ethanol to be negative.
Also there are many more things we can make ethanol from, like I do.. Cattails are my go to. You get double the yield per acre of corn from wild cattails.
ALSO: The corn used to make ethanol is NOT FOOD. We can feed it to cattle if we either ferment it along with the rest of the stalk (silage which makes super tasty beef) or we have to grind it up and mix it with other feedstocks, because livestock can't eat straight corn. They can't digest it.
Here is where you are REALLY wrong. When we make fuel from corn, the leftovers are called DDGS, distillers dried grains, and cattle put on muscle mass 17% faster on DDGS than they do on cut corn. We make more food when we make ethanol with the corn first, not less.
Moonshiners often gave themselves away by having the biggest livestock at fairs and auctions. They feed the leftover stillage to their animals once they make shine.
You have found all the propaganda, and never stopped to think if you were being misinformed or not. Now if you go to some pro oil website, rather than say, the USDA, you will find more of the bad information you already have.
Want to know how badly Pimental had to skew the inputs? Look up the Steiger tractor, its a big articulating 4 wheel drive machine. it was the biggest at the time. He claimed it would only last ten years while farming 100 acres. That tractor lasted decades farming thousands of acres.
Then he used efficiency from beverage distillers, who are more concerned with taste and rarely get over 100 proof. Ethanol plants make 190-195 proof (10% water at most) in a single run, they are VASTLY more efficient than beverage stills.
So yeah.. you are really really misinformed.
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I'm divorced twice, the second one was a 21 year old virgin when I met her in 2003. We never argued, never fought, got along great, and she was telling me how much she loved me and how well we fit together the day before she put another guy's peg D in her slot C in 2013.
The first one was an absolute nightmare, bipolar, violet, untrustworthy to say the least, she made my life hell from 1993 to 2015. I had dated rather extensively before her, all over the world. So when We divorced in 2001 I knew exactly what I did not want and what I wanted.
I found it in the second one, despite her being homely as hell, she was a wonderful person... right up until she cheated. Then she turned into the first ex, false accusations, enlisting others to inflict violet on me, she had to be the victim when she was the cause.
Its better to live alone as a man, I own 13 acres of woodland, have been debt free since Feb 2021, I build hotrods and muscle cars for fun, and since I do not have to pay the first harpy anymore I have a comfortable life.
Until the laws are changed which punish the man for the woman's actions, and reward her for whatever she does at his expense, smart men will not be getting married. You can dangle all the incentives you want, but with the risk being living under a bridge while you work 50 hours a week to pay her support when she is banging some other guy, yeah... we are not going to play that game.
No, you're not going to be changing the laws that reward females for bad choices, you'll just continue to punish men instead. The beatings will continue until morale....
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@alexmartinez7278 you can make vodka from any starch or sugar, its not named for some region like champagne is. Whiskey is aged, bourbon is another form of whiskey, same as rye and others. Brandy is a low proof high solids barely distilled thing that is all about the taste. Wine is a different process, its not distilled like whiskey/vodka/etc are. Beer is its own thing, and there are various methods of making it. Vodka is simply ethanol that is not aged, and is bottled as it comes out of the still. The word vodka means water in Russian, its not really a special thing. That is the basics of it. Pedants and the pretentious like to add this or remove that to make it seem more special, but that is all it is.
All of that being said, yes the best vodka is Russian, and they don't export much, if any, of it. Sorta like Belgians and Germans with their beer, you don't get their best outside the country very easily. Since vodka is usually low proof, as in 100 or less, you can taste what it is made from to some extent. They add flavoring and sugar to lots of alcohol, because ethanol on its own doesn't taste so great. Most moonshine is well under 100 proof, especially if they are using pot stills and thumper kegs, they get like 20 proof from every run, but rarely get over 120. Its the limit of their still design that hampers them.
When its 190 proof fuel, the taste is rather unpleasant, and it can cause chemical burns from pulling all the moisture from your mouth and throat. Everclear is not 190 proof, the fuel I make from cattails and put in my 60s and 70s GTOs is 190 proof. You REALLY DO NOT WANT TO DRINK my fuel... unless you water it down and add something to it like orange juice or soft drinks. My stills are packed reflux columns, plate stills are what is used in the large ethanol plants because they work great for continuous runs rather than batches. Easy to clean them. Both of which can make 180 to 190 proof in a single run.
For those who don't know, proof is a scale where 200 proof is 100% ethanol with no water in it, and 100 proof is 50% water and ethanol. Yes.. its all ethanol, same as moonshine, fuel, and denatured alcohol. Beer doesn't use the proof method, they tell you how much ethanol by volume is in it.
Yeast in an anaerobic environment, eat sugar then piss ethanol and fart Co2. That is how ALL of it is made. Taste is derived from things added later and what the source of sugar for the yeast happens to be. Lower proof = more taste. higher proof = less taste.
Absolut and Blue are hand sanitizer without added lotion.
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Any idea how much waste a city of 10,000 people generates? How about the amount of energy needed to sustain those people? If the trains and trucks stop bringing everything to those cities, there will be no food or water in 3 days. I see those people as dependents, because without all the supplies bring brought to them, they will starve, freeze, or die of thirst.
My nearest neighbor is a quarter mile away. I like it that way. I can do what I want to do when I want to do it. I am big into cars, mostly old cars. I am so big into old cars that I even make fuel for them from cattails and tree sap. Yeah I have green energy muscle cars. I live green out here in the woods, unlike these urban minded leftisthalfwits
I lived in cities while I was in the military, I hated living in cities. I cannot live with people that close to me, it wears me down to the point that I will become less than polite... imagine a 300lb muscle bound freak of nature with a bad attitude and lots of interesting training.
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Carl... if you want people to get married more, then you need to get the legislators to change the laws to where the woman is not rewarded handsomely (aka given incentives) to file for divorce, and no longer punish the man/father for the actions of the woman. No fault = his fault in practice. He always pays, he is always wrong, he is always guilty, she is always the victim.
Until you change that, men are going to keep saying NOPE to marriage. The ones with means will fly to Asia or South America to get women, and they will then stay in that country rather than risk bringing her back to the US where she will be encouraged to financially destroy him on a whim.
Taxing us for not being married is akin to 'the beatings will continue until morale improves.' Force men to put their heads on the proverbial chopping block so women can have the state lop them off, take their kids, and live in their wallet whilst providing nothing but stress, court dates, and the ever present specter of jail. Sounds wonderful. Men are punished for marriage, and have zero benefit in it whilst bearing all the risk. Essentially marriage for a man is betting everything he has ever earned and will ever earn or build that she won't lie, cheat, and take his kids from him.
You do not see it that way Carl, because it has not happened to you...
yet.
But you are well off and famous, your wife will have a hard time finding someone 'better' than you my friend. Both my ex wives did far worse after leaving me for someone they assumed was better. The first, now 48 and over 300lbs, has a substance problem and is having her house foreclosed soon. The second is 40, her 'soulmate' left her after 3 or 4 years (its been almost ten since our divorce) and lives off her dad paying all her bills. She also has a substance issue...
Meanwhile after I finished paying the first one that monthly pound of flesh, nearly 3/4 of my gross income, in 2015, I have been busy. I bought 13 acres of woodland, built a house, shop, and improved it so its very nice and comfortable here. I rebuild old muscle cars to stay busy, and have several vintage Pontiacs like GTOs, Trans Ams, Formulas, etc. I can travel at will, and do whatever I like to do. I am not making as much money as you are, but for where I live I am doing quite well. I have been DEBT FREE since February 2021.
They both chose to leave, and take the immediate cash and prizes, whereas I played the long game and now I don't have to work, and I can do fun things like take an old $300 car I pulled out of a pasture, turn it into a race car I can drive long distance, and do drag and drive events like Drag Week and Rocky Mountain Race Week.
They were encouraged to leave me, the state forced me to pay them for their poor choices, and now they are in a very precarious position as nobody really wants women over 40 for anything other than some practice.
Get married again? Why so the state can take everything I have built in the last 8 years and give it to her when she wasn't around to build any of it? Nah... not gonna do it.
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My first wife tried to make me lose my masculinity, to acquiesce to her and obey. She tried everything for 8 years, and realized I would not budge because I was the responsible party and her choices would ruin me financially, then she could leave when she wanted with me holding the bag.
We have been divorced since 2001 and she STILL complains to our daughters that I bought my 1970 GTO in 1994 for $1000. She says that I did what I wanted no matter if she said I couldn't. Well, yeah, I earned the money, paid for everything, and she barely heated up hamburger helper. I taught my kids to crawl, walk, ride bikes, read, count, multiply, divide, colors, shapes, running PCs, and when they were teens I taught them to drive. She taught them to be promiscuous and to shoplift.
My second ex wife was better, but still did the same thing when she hit 30 in 2013. I'm done with women now. I like them, talk to them, look at them, like to spend time with them... but I cannot trust them and there is no damn way I will commit to one. Its not that they all will act wrong, its that they can and they will be rewarded at my expense for it.
So I build old cars, live alone in the woods, and don't concern myself with making lots of money. Rather than paying for things, I DO things. Built my house, the shop where I build my cars, I make fuel for my cars, grow my food, and have been working on quiet inexpensive electricity production. Money is not what drives me, it never has been. What I do with my time, mind, and hands is what is important to me.
I still have that 70 GTO, along with four other GTOs, and 11 Firebirds. They aren't show cars, they do what I want them to do, and they do it well. I build cars into the vision I have in my head, they are for my enjoyment, not yours. If you like them, thats cool, but they are not to impress you. They are built to impress me.
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I have painted a bunch of my cars, did a frame off resto on my 65 GTO, and it was stupid rusty. I made it into a daily driver with a big engine, lots of power, overdrive trans, and a kick ass stereo. Two years of metal work, and another year putting it all together and making it a driver. Ok honestly my GTO was scrap when I started.
I do paint jobs on my cars because it costs me less cash to do it myself. I get tired of doing metal bending/shaping/bumping, and end up hating the sanding and filling, so when that happens I build an engine or transmission, maybe some suspension work. Cover my hands in grease instead of dust... then I go back to sanding and bumping.
I don't have lots of cash, but I have lots of cars. That means I gotta do it myself, whatever the hell it is. Today I finished putting a set of Ram Air III heads on a shortblock that has been in 7 or 8 vehicles of mine. Next I am going to put the fuel system together on my street strip toy since the AN fittings showed from Summit today. Had to go get some rocker studs from a chevy friend because my rockers needed 7/16 studs and Pontiacs have screw in studs from the factory.
How hard, how much time, how much money.. meh I don't care. What matters to me is enjoying it while I am driving it after its done enough. Paint does take a stupid amount of work, its why it costs so much to have it done for you.
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@darthverminates9708 I've been to Dubai, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. In all of those countries if you damage a vehicle you need to report it to get it repaired. Without the report, no shop will touch it.
They have lots of people from other countries there, not just tourists, people who work in UAE and the other countries in the region. When they come from places where traffic laws are merely suggestions, they have a problem with people causing problems.
If she damaged a vehicle, and was disrespectful to the people working there, she is going to have a REALLY bad time.
When I heard Joker read it was some kind of scam, I laughed. They have VERY harsh penalties for someone who scams tourists, or anyone else for that matter. Its an islamic country, and scamming is tantamount to theft, and you really do not want to be caught stealing anything there.
It is not Juarez or some 3rd world hellhole where a prince is trying to get you to send him money so he can get his $50billion out of the bank. That sort of thing does not happen there, and accusing someone of doing nefarious things falsely also ends poorly for the accuser. She gonna find out.
DO NOT PLAY LIKE THAT IN AN ISLAMIC COUNTRY.
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its more akin to people thinking in the feminine mindset. e.g risk averse, safety and security above all, fairness and equality. The masculine is entirely meritorious, capability, competence, knowledge, willing to take the risk when the pay off justifies it. Those two mindsets are complimentary, they are not supposed to be oppositional. The masculine wants to go over the ridge to see what is over there, the feminine wants to make sure everyone has enough to eat and is safe.
Currently society is focused heavily on safety, security, and making everyone equal. Nobody is equal, we vary wildly in abilities, competence, intellect, etc. and to try to force equality is how you drag the competent and capable down to mediocrity. You cannot make the slow kids faster, you can only slow down the fast kids which makes everyone mediocre.
They used to put the slowest vehicle at the front of military convoys, because it kept the column together for security. When you are engaged by the enemy, you want the faster vehicles to move and engage the targets, not continue to wait for the slow jeep up front to get around to it.
In Apollo 13 when the old senator asks "Why are we funding space when we have already beat the Russians to the moon?" he is displaying feminine thinking. That is the problem now just like it was 50 years ago.
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Despite a decade of familial abuse, daily beatings, older brother stabbing, poisoning, bludgeoning, and running me over with farm equipment, I did not know the true depths of evil until I married a bipolar female, and was divorced from her. That story will make you wonder why I ever even spoke to another female after our 2001 divorce.
I know its not just the bipolar ones, because my 2nd wife was absolutely wonderful for 8 years, then we got married and just 16 months later we were divorced and I was sitting in jail on false accusations with zero evidence. Why did she do that? She felt guilty about how she cheated, lied, and treated me, so the only way she could stop feeling guilty was to make herself into the victim, so I had to do something that would justify what she did in her mind.
I am missing teeth because of my brother, and I have a divot in the back of my head from a coffee mug thrown by my 1st ex, among other scars, from when I was ignoring her crazy ass and would no longer engage when provoked for hours. I am not a small weak nor timid man, two wars, lots of training, I ended up knocking out my dad when he went to hit me, and nearly killing my older brother when I was 16 to stop them. I can easily end the average human, but I do not.
When the police would show up, they only asked if I touched her, they did not care if I was bleeding from something she did, they wanted to arrest me, and only me. Nobody had a second though when my final ex accused me, they took her word for it and punished me without a shred of evidence.
They can do what they want with near impunity, they are protected regardless, and its rare a female bears responsibility for her actions.
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@originaldatagate2 I'm going to guess you are asking me about my ex wife. I ended up having to protect her to some degree, because if anything happened to her I would be the prime suspect.
When you have some female half your size attacking you, with or without weapons, if you give them the same response you would to a man doing the same thing, you go to prison. She gets the 'abuse' pass, YOU DO NOT. Nobody believes that men are abused like that by their wives.
Bill Burr has a skit where he says an ass beating doesn't just fall from the sky. So when I hear about a domestic, I am always neutral, because I know exactly how violent a female can get. Most men will not endure what I did with the same restraint.
Where does the restraint come from? Starting when I was an infant, I had an older brother trying to kill me. He took great joy in seeing me in pain. He is almost 2 years older, so he was always bigger than me, and I took so many beatings, was stabbed, run over, poisoned, and hit in the head with things that I learned restraint and eventually how to defend myself. I nearly killed him with the first fight he lost to me. It was the last one he started. I was 16 then, we are in our 50s now, and he still runs if I get mad.
I started wrestling in 8th grade and continued through high school and into the military at the base level. That developed discipline, awareness, and the capability of putting people face down without hurting them. I can do it in seconds and leave no marks, or I can bash their head into concrete, its entirely up to me.
So I could stop her, get her to calm down, and prevent her from hurting herself, the kids, or me. Around 1997 I started ignoring her and that is when she started hitting me with things from behind to get a reaction out of me. I learned not to do anything nice for her because it ALWAYS lead to a fight.
She would feel guilty when I was nice to her, the only way she could stop feeling guilty was to start a fight, lose said fight, and then she could feel like a victim. If its not your fault, you don't feel guilty, so you manufacture a situation where you can feel like its the fault of others. When I ignored her screaming and ranting, she would escalate it.
I have PTSD from the abuse growing up. There is an interesting thing about it, to some extent I can control it, depending on the threat. If someone tries to kill me, I will probably end them unless someone stops me. If they are merely attacking me, I will stop them.
There were several times that I stood over my brother, while he was passed out from his drinking problem in his teens, with my shotgun pointed at his head. Safety off, shell in the chamber... and I would think, "If I do this I will not be able to do the things in life I want to do. All I have to do is endure until I can leave."
If I harmed my ex, even if she cut me or hit me with something, I would end up in a small box, my rights taken from me. Limits placed upon my life by the state.
What are the things I wanted to do with my life? I traveled the world, had sex with girls of every race on the planet, on four continents, watched history unfold before my very eyes rather than on some TV screen, I wore the boots on the ground.
I build 60s and 70s vintage muscle cars for fun, and I go racing when I can. I am huge into cars, and airplanes, but I can't afford aviation. I own four GTOs, 65, 69, 70 and 72. The 65 is my summer daily driver, you can see it on my channel. The rest need lots of work, and I enjoy doing the work as much as I enjoy driving and racing them.
Its not so much the car, its not a status symbol or valuable thing, its what I can DO with that car that interests and drives me.
I can't build GTOs, Trans Ams, Formulas, Mustangs, Cougars, etc if I am stuck in a prison or have a felony conviction. Can't have guns with a felony either, and DV is a felony in my home state and where I live. I really enjoy guns, but I am not a gun nut. I just like target practice and self defense where I am not sore for a week after.
My daughters are 25 and 27 now. They are both fucked up because of my ex, but they are sorting it out and realize dad was not all the things mom said he was. I wanted them to have a better life than mine, but she made damn sure it was as bad as mine.
Karma is getting her now, but her mother dying kept her from having her house foreclosed. She has an oxy addiction, she is 300+ lbs, her second husband is leaving her and she will be 50 year after next. All her bad choices in life are far worse than anything I could have done to her.
My favorite word is from the old country of my family. It means enjoying the self inflicted suffering of others. Schadenfreude.
I get plenty watching what both my ex wives have done since they fucked me over.
So my self restraint comes from being smart enough to realize there are consequences for my actions, and that things I want from my life would not be available to me if I made certain choices. Guess I am smarter than some people.
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I traveled the world in the US military, met women from four continents, both ends and the center of Asia, Africa, Europe, and all over the US. Some of my best friends in the military were Filipino, absolutely wonderful people. Asian ladies seem to like me a lot, India, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Russia, Dubai, Kuwait, UAE... West African ladies really liked me too. I think its my pale blue eyes.
If I weren't so big into 60s and 70s muscle cars, and wanted someone in my life I would probably head back over to Asia, or maybe south to Columbia and Panama. As it is, I am content to stay here in the north, live alone with a couple of Siberian Huskies, building hotrods and enjoying my mid 50s.
Not much reason nor inclination to waste more time and money on the ones around here, building GTOs is far more enjoyable, rewarding, and vastly less expensive.
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@jodi2847 how ya figure? I have gamed since video games came out in the 70s. I have also traveled the world, been divorced twice, served in two wars, built my house, my shop, and the muscle cars I drive all summer. My life would be vastly improved if I had never married either of them, and did catch and release, test drives, and target practice. Women are simply not worth the effort, risk, and expense.
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Zuby, I am old and have traveled the world a bit. Met women in Europe, both ends of Asia, and Africa, all over the US as well. In 1990-92 I was engaged to a beautiful Arab woman, and I am a blue eyed 5'8 guy with German ancestry. Long story why we didn't marry, it was not left to us. She and I are still friends though. Its funny because she is the only one I met in a club, on my base in Germany. She was friends with the woman who was dating the guy across the hall from me.
I found hundreds, while looking for one. Overseas they were much better than the US. You cannot trust them in the US, because they can change their mind at any time and trade you in for cash and prizes. Doesn't matter how quality you are her happen to be, she can do that on a whim.
I did the thing. I did it the right way for a man, and it did not matter. Never cheated, never mistreated them, they had boundaries that were easy to stay within, and the second ex was definitely NOT pretty. I went with her because of who she was, not what she looked like... and 9 years in she did the same thing all the hot ones did.
Now if I were a 6'+ guy with a few million in the bank, I might have had different experiences.... except for all the wives of tall men who hit on me, short muscle bound gorilla looking me. They give me pause.
Women from islamic countries are top notch, I have to admit that. Europe is full of dregs, just like the US. Asia is full of wonderful people, and I have yet to meet someone from Africa I did not get along with.
Its the culture, because women are all pretty much running the same base programming, just like men are pretty much wired the same. The wrapper changes a lot more than the behavior and things that attract them does. The culture in the west encourages and rewards women for acting poorly, unlike Asia and Africa. Its not the culture we had when I was born 54 years ago, its the one we have been fed since around 1985 or so. Our culture has been subverted, undermined, infiltrated and only remnants remain.
Its the vapid, shallow, materialistic, disposable culture. The throw it away and get a new one mentality has permeated everything. Nobody wants to work at anything, they want instant gratification, and they want it all without effort or discipline. I see them as spoiled kids who were not told no enough when they were little. They are also dependents, relying on everything being brought to them in their cities, with no idea where it all comes from, or the work that goes into producing it.
Women are rewarded and encouraged to be that way, men are punished and told they need to be like women. Its perverse. Being polite or friendly to a woman makes her see you as weak in the US, its twisted.
If I had been able to marry my Arab friend 33 years ago, my life and most probably my views on this subject would be somewhat different. I would not know what happens to men who's wives decide they want to get his cash without having to live with him.
Some things you have to experience yourself to understand and know them.. like combat, and divorce... particularly frivolous divorce, because she thinks she can do better at 30 than she did at 21. She can't, but she is told she can, and that she deserves everything she wants.
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@gusgrimm7533 when I had my daughters the state was still making me pay their mom child support. She really screwed them up, and I tried hard to fix the damage she did between 2001 and 2008 when I barely got to see them.
It was 12 days total during that time when I went home on leave, and spent most of the time trying to find them. She moved and kept me from seeing them as much as she could. There was a three year stretch where I didn't find them on leave.
I've never had substance problems, but have had PTSD most of my life, from well before the wars. Their mom has a problem like that, and she is bipolar, so she is always broke and overdrawn at the bank.
My kids realized just how messed up she is when back in 09 when both of them came to live with me for the summer. They didnt get screamed at or hit, no strange guys had their way with them, there was food in the house all month where their mother was broke by the first Monday of the month after the pay came out... and she had $6000 coming in, I had $1800. She rarely bought them clothes, but every time I had to see her over some court thing she had on a new goofy outfit.
Living with me taught my daughters how to be productive adults, only took 14 months with the first and 18 months with the younger one.
The default custody to moms is ruining the lives of kids.
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@basedbrit4206 hhmmm what came out first. F15 or MiG29? C5 or AN124? You can see they are copies of US designed planes. When Mikoyan was running shit they were able to surprise the US who was wanting to do other things, not just build warplanes and more weapons. The MiG15 and MiG21 were very impressive but could not hang with an F4, and barely kept with with the F9F.
All of their weapons systems were copies of other countries. The PPSH a copy of the Suomi smg. The AK platform is a simplification of the Suomi. They would not have gotten nuke tech if it were not given to them by US born commies.
They did get some really decent German rocket scientists though. So the SAM and ICBM tech was pretty good. Good old Germans doing rockets and aircraft shit..
A huge amount of my knowledge comes from living it, not reading it in a book somewhere. I was there as history happened, not watching it on TV and getting the narrative they wanted us to hear.
I am old enough to remember these things, as I was stationed in Frankfurt in1989 when the Berlin Wall fell, and I have a large chunk of it on the shelf next to me. I was at the 1989 Paris Airshow the day after a MiG29 augered in, and I saw the simplistic child like AN225.. then years later in the early 2000s I had several opportunities to load cargo on soviet designed aircraft like the IL76 (a C141 copy) and the AN124.
It takes roughly 3x as long to load a Russian bird as a US bird, because the USAF uses 463L pallet and rail systems, the Russians have all loose load. That means each individual piece of cargo has to be tied to the aircraft floor, rather than to an easily moved pallet. So they get the outside shape right, but had no idea what was inside them... just like they had no freakin clue how we managed to fly so many C47s and C54s into Berlin during the airlift.
In Kuwait 2004 on my last deployment, I got to talk to some of the Russian crews on the IL76s, very cool guys. I had picked up some Russian from the juicy girls in Korea, and we conversed in broken English/Russian while we put cargo on their planes. They said my accent was hilarious. I came to admire Russians in the same way I admire Arabs and Koreans, they are wonderful people and have interesting cultures.
All the time I spent with them was enjoyable and I learned a lot from them. The food in Dubai was amazing 30 years ago. Too expensive for me to go there now. I like Russian food a lot more than French, probably due to my German ancestry.
I have zero respect for marxists, soviet or otherwise. Anything innovative the people under them managed to do was despite the idiocy of the government which was/is controlled by morons. The Chinese stole a massive amount of intellectual property from the company I worked for (as a CNC programmer/machinist)between my enlistments in the 1990s.
They all have to steal it, or copy it, they can't do it on their own. Innovation is suppressed in a marxist environment.
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I am 51, ex mil, two wars, five deployments, and I have had PTSD since childhood. I am an old hand at living with it, because I did not get it from the mil, my experience there only enhanced it and gave me new triggers and flashbacks. I have PTSD from random severe physical abuse growing up, so my first time in war felt like home.
I don't have a problem with ED, I am not on TRT or anything, but I wake with morning wood all the damn time. I eat mostly red meat, some veggies, rarely alcohol, minimal sugar, and my blood work is stellar. How I deal with anxiety might help him and other guys new to this thing in our heads. Self talk is everything. Meds might take the edge off, but they are not going to fix the problem. Self medicating is kicking the can down the road and it becomes a snowball then an avalanche. Don't do it.
1. When you get that feeling/thoughts (he will know what I mean) tell yourself its 2020 (current year/month/day) not 1990,. 2004, 2010, whatever. Nobody is shooting at you, you are not depoloyed, you do not have a mission tonight. You're in CONUS and its rather chill here.
2. Flooding works. If it bothers you a lot, DO IT MORE until it is no longer a problem. If you want to lift more, do you avoid the gym or do you lift heavier and heavier shit more often? If you can't deal with crowds, you need to get into public and put yourself in positions where it bothers you. Then remember number 1, its today, not some day we can relive in our heads at any time. The movie Pvt Ryan fucked me up bad when I saw it in the theater only a few years after my first war in 90-91. In 2000 I decided to fix that problem, because I noticed it was causing issues with other things, movies, people, my job in the mil.. So I forced myself to watch 5 minutes, then ten, then 15, then 20.. until I could watch the entire movie and not be fucked in the head for a week.
3. I like to use a play on a bible verse for my social anxiety. "Yea though I walk through the valley of death, I shall fear no evil, for I am the baddest mother fucker in the valley." I too am heavily muscled, well trained, and can take on most guys who are not trained MMA types with ease. If you are under 180lbs, you are probably going to get torn up by fucking with me. If they have no training, they are definitely going to get hurt. I would surmise he is similar. No need to let the anxiety run rampant when you KNOW you can handle anything. He can't own a gun due to prison time, but those of us who can will find it puts you in a very different frame of mine when you concealed carry. When you are 'Oscar Mike' its easy to deal with people, and you aren't going to randomly start shooting people.
4. One of my biggest problems was road rage. How I deal with that is simple. On base, we are all mostly on the same page, we have a way of doing things, and those not doing it that way stand out to us like a jacked up uniform/haircut or a blue sno cone haired male in a dress carrying a purse. The inability to correct it is what causes the rage. We can't fix the civilian idiots out driving, and that is my solution. They are idiots, they are stupid and they can't help it they are stupid. They aren't trying to set me up for an ambush, they don't realize death is in the car they just tried to merge into, they are clueless and ignorant. Cut them some slack, they aren't terribly bright, and expect them to do stupid shit. It goes back to number 3, they can't help it, they are not trying to kill me though they drive like it.
5. I lived for 35 years with only numbness, anger, and blind rage for emotions. The rage was internal, once I hit that point I was dead calm and someone was going to get hurt. The anger was loud, filled with profanity, and designed to intimidate threats. There aren't many threats in the states, not like in the desert. That was how I dealt with it here, because ROE in the states is very different. Make an ROE for yourself, stick to it. Now in the past I could laugh, smile, and act like I was happy, but what I really felt was numbness, no emotion other than anger/rage. Getting to the point where you can unlock all the others takes a while doing everything I wrote above this. How long depends on you, and how much this shit affects you. When I opened them up it was two entire years learning how to control them, and another 3 or 4 before I had mastered all of them. 35 years is a long time to not use something, then pull it out and start fucking around with it. Its best you get started on this shit soon.
PTSD is a survival mechanism, its a problem here because the threat level is low, but we can't turn it off. We are always watching, scanning, assessing, and planning. Crowds are a problem because there are too many people to watch, and its like a dense forest, you can only see so far. We want an open area so we can see threats coming at a distance, a crowd means they can be on top of us without warning. Watching everyone wears you down mentally, and it does it quickly. When we get worn down mentally, we get irritable, then angry. Our brain has a job to do and we are overloading it, the result is anger in most of us, some go with the flee vs the fight. My mind always goes to fight, mostly because when I was being beaten as a kid, I had nowhere to run to, so I had to stand and fight.
That mental tiredness can pop up in other aspects of our lives. We avoid things we know we have to do. Its why all my bills are on autopay on the 1st to 3rd. I will avoid doing things I know I need to get done, so I set it up so I don't have to worry about it. That is possibly where the ED comes from, you are too stressed about other shit, and rather than facing it, dealing with it, and overcoming it, you are hiding and avoiding even thinking about it. You need to push your envelope, get out there and get used to being in public. For more than 10 years after I got out in 2005, I would only go shopping for food after 10pm, when the stores were mostly empty. Now I can walk in and its like I own the place, people move out of my way if they notice me. Men all look away and down, very few maintain eye contact... if they make eye contact at all.
I have found the military bearing and intensity some of us seem to get and keep, can cause problems. After having the sheriff call me and tell me I can't 'go there anymore' a couple times, I started bantering with the people in check out, and getting to know people working in the stores. I want them to see me as friendly, know that I am not going to harm them or cause problems, but seeing me they know I can handle problems if needed. I have a bud, a black guy, who is the doorman at a local bar. I hang out with him outside, I don't usually go in because bars aren't my thing, and people assume I am working there as the bouncer. Both of us have big arms (mine are 21") and chests, but he is 6'1, I am 5'8. You have to set people's minds at ease, not have your 'mission face' on as I like to call it. That expression and body language that says "I will fuck you up" because it intimidates the hell out of people, which can be beneficial, but in most settings it only makes you seem scary. Don't act weak or timid, just temper the intimidation with humor and friendliness. I try to never get angry in public. Remember, they are stupid and don't know any better.
Most of this shit is what you tell yourself. Some of it is rewiring the synapses in your mind so your brain doesn't go down that well worn path that sends you directly to anger and rage. I liken it to deep snow in the forest, because I live in a forest that gets lots of snow. Cutting a new path is difficult, its easier to walk on the paths you have already been down. Thing is, we don't want to go to the same place as where we have been, we want a new path, a new destination, something other than anger.
When you start to go down that path, be it anger, using a substance, anxiety, whatever the fuck, chide yourself like you would an E1 and tell yourself, no you aren't doing that today, we are going this way. The more you tell yourself something,the more real it becomes to you. You need to break a new trail, and wear it in so its easier than the old ones you have been going down.
Walking through a forest is similar to fixing all this in our heads. You can't walk a straight line through the trees unless they are planted by people. You have to go around trees, rocks, cross streams, find a place to get across rivers, sometimes you have to go back the way you came for a while, most times its not a straight path. You have a general direction you're headed in, a goal off in the distance like a hill or mountain, and you have to find a path to the destination. Then you have to find a way out of there. Its not like the desert back in 91, open and featureless, its more like a city filled with trees, walls, and roads. The thing is, there is probably nobody shooting at you or trying to kill you with an IED. They have no idea what that world is like, so they are blissfully unaware and assume the world is easy, safe, and simple where the biggest problem is your phone won't charge.
After more than 40 years dealing with this, I am better at it than most shrinks. I have been teaching my VA shrinks all of this stuff, some are bright enough to realize what I am telling them, some are not. Finding a shrink who gets it and can ask you the right questions so you come up with the answer for yourself is fucking difficult. That is who you want, not one who condescends or patronizes you, but challenges you to find the answer yourself. If anyone actually read all of this and wants to know more, specifics and the like, just ask and tag me in it so I see it in my feed.
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@JoeSmith-nu8oo one big thing women cannot handle is rejection, guys going overseas, not playing the game, not dating, etc is rejecting them. Thats why they are so spiteful and hateful towards those of us who ignore them. They want to be the one rejecting, because they feel powerful doing it. They feel it, but they're not powerful. They are weak, insecure, and know they are incapable of most things men do easily.
So no... they will not approach, they will not risk rejection, but they will try to shame you into liking them.
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My experience over the last 53 laps around the sun, is that if I do not look like I will F you up, someone will try to harm me and take whatever they want from me. Even though I am a muscle bound freak of nature (more power lifter than body builder) some people still want to try it. Probably because I 'look' fat, except I don't move like a fat guy.
I grew up being beaten on, things taken from me, by my family, kids at school, and people I should have been able to trust. Rather than take it and try to hide from them, I got into wrestling my 8th grade year and learned to defend myself well enough that I went to the state tournament at the toughest weight class in one of the toughest states.
I have been responsible for my safety for 40 years. Nobody comes to my rescue, not even in the two wars I served in. However, there is always someone, some sap or simp who is more than willing to jump in and protect a girl from everything except herself. If someone wants to disarm me, its because they fear me, and they fear what I will do when they try to control me.
I live in reality, not some fairytale rainbow and unicorn jizz fantasy land.
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I hit 30, did not care was married and had bigger issues. Hit 40 and I was like, ok my GF is still in her 20s, cool. I hit 50 and realized life is better without females mucking it up, building old muscle cars is so much more enjoyable and fun. I have 6 years until I hit 60, what can I get done before then? Probably a lot more if I don't waste time on females.
Females like the one who wrote that are far too common and typical. I made mistakes in my life, getting married was a big mistake both times, but despite all of the times I was put back to zero, I still achieved, experienced, and did things, and explored the world quite a bit.
Ok time to stop laughing at these females and head out to the shop to continue building my 1968 LeMans 'race' car and get the supercharger on it to enjoy 1000hp. :) It makes over 700 NA..
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@ZaphodBeeblebrox042 even if they pass a law, this administration will do whatever it wants, and use the media to cover its tracks.
Gearheads like us are a small fraction of society, most people think of a vehicle as an expense, something they need to get to work. In the big scheme of things we do not matter to the government. People in large cities can ride the bus or train. The people like me who live in the middle of nowhere do not matter, not enough of us to matter.
They are trying to remove our ability to travel, to speak to each other, and they are going after our vehicles now. It will get worse, but going after the 'hotrods' is the same as going after the scary AR15s. They will use argument from ignorance, begging the question, and appeal to emotion, claiming "Why does anyone need a modified vehicle?" and the majority of people will agree.
The lockdowns are about that, limiting our travel and interactions, so they can monitor everything online, read what we are saying, and targeting the people who are organizing to resist and defend our liberties.
They don't see a reason for our modified cars to exist, the loud fart can and ironing table wings driven by idiot teenagers swerving in and out of traffic will fuck us just as bad as the morons rolling coal. They'll crack down on 'racing in Mexico' soon, and start impounding and crushing our vehicles.
Its what authoritarians do. Anyone who voted for those assholes is either an idiot, delusional, or ignorant. Welcome to the club filled with people the government wants to control. I've been in that group for a long long time.
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I don't watch Fox, or any of them to be honest. Tucker makes me laugh sometimes, dude is a nut and occasionally I agree with his opinion, but not all the time. I am not a conservative religious type, more libertarian atheist. CNN claiming Fox is a conspiracy network, after all the Sandman, Rittenhouse, Trump, Russian collusion, black holes swallowing airplanes, and now all the noncery well its more than pot meet kettle. Outright propaganda is almost hard enough language for what they are.
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I'm 54, haven't used anything online since 2014. I will go out with a mom, we can have fun, do things together, I will even hang out with her kids, but she is never getting a ring or commitment from me. I will not pay her bills, unless I want her gone. I will not develop feelings for her.
To be fair, I am that way with them regardless of if they have kids or not. I am not losing a 3rd home, especially since this one has been paid off since 2021 and its built to suit me. For the most part, I will talk to women, but I don't ask them out.
Moms are good practice, don't slip one past the goalie, don't get feelings for them, and be ready to release her to greater opportunity the instant she steps out of line.
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I'm a 52 year old, two war veteran, well trained, very strong physically, and I can severely injure people with my bare hands. I got married in 1993, and in 1994 after my older daughter was born my ex began to get progressively more violent. I was 25, 230lbs of muscle, and if a man had done what my ex did, he might not have survived it. She is bipolar, and she seemed to really enjoy digging at my PTSD triggers. I never hit her, only ever restrained her from hitting and scratching me, until the police told me I would go to jail for restraining her even with open hands. I had to either let her hit me, or I could try to leave. If I left then she would take it out on the kids. She was always using the kids to manipulate me. If I did something nice for her, she would feel guilty, then start a fight and escalate it until I engaged and stopped her. Then she could feel like a victim.
She told everyone it was me who did that, the cops always wanted to take me away, despite no marks on her and I was usually bleeding and wearing ripped clothing when they showed up. She hurled a coffee mug at the back of my head while I played with our two little girls, she cut me several times, and she ripped shirts off me all the time. She continued doing it even after the divorce, when I would come pick up my daughters, and of course I was always at fault. I've been hit by all kinds of things she threw at me. I knew if I defended myself, I was going to jail. In the divorce they took 71% of my gross pay for child support, she took my kids 1500 miles away so I only got 12 days over the next 7 years with them. They are 25 and 28 now, I was robbed of their childhood, and they were robbed of my guidance and time with them.
She was finally paid off in 2015, and I could get on with my life without being indentured to her by the state. They rewarded her for all of that, and punished me for being a good dad who spent as much time as possible with my kids. I taught them to crawl, walk, talk, shapes, colors, numbers, letters, math, reading, how to run a PC, how to ride a bike. Being a dad was the high point of my life... until she took off with them in 2001 and I missed years with them. I have been run over, hit by cars, bludgeoned, in car accidents, beaten unconscious, I came back from my last deployment in 2004 barely able to walk, and I live in constant pain. However, the worst thing to ever happen to me was her and the state taking my kids from me, then punishing me for what she did.
You know what though? Nobody cares, men are always guilty, and I will be damn surprised if anyone actually gets to read this ... because most of my comments are only visible to me lately. It seems they do not want anyone to hear about men like me, who wanted to be good dads, but were prevented from even seeing his kids.
Since 2015 I have been putting in the effort to rebuild my life, so I can leave something for my kids. I bought land in 2013, built my home and shop in 2015 when I finally had my entire income available to me. I sacrificed, saved, and lived as frugally as possible so I could pay it all off early. I built my house and shop myself, enduring the pain, finding ways around my physical limitations, and I am still working on it. I do the old car thing because its the only reason I am still here. The old beat up ratty GTOs and other rusty heaps are the only thing I was able to keep. The only investment I was not deprived of, the only thing the state and her didn't want.
My life is pretty damn good now. I can only imagine where I would be if I had never gotten married, and had her holding me back, making life hell for 21 years. Want to know whats up with her? She is over 300lbs, turns 50 next year, is addicted to oxy, her 2nd husband has left her as he has had enough of her controlling behavior and violence. She has been trying to get me back, and I think I would sooner jump in a sausage grinder than allow her into my life again.
I can see why Johnny would slam some cabinets. He was in the same position I was, and it took years for me to get beyond the anger you have from being mistreated and the police support the person doing it to you. He had no way out other than to leave, and even then everyone will blame him for it. People always think its something he did to set her off, not that she is simply like that. People always think the man deserves it and she is innocent. I know... it happened to me.
Yeah.. I know, nobody will read this. I still have to write it. It helps to write about it.
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My life has been arduous, dangerous and full of hardship.. but I do have it vastly better than women do. Why?
Well, I can do things they cannot, like repair vehicles, build houses, move heavy things, and I can learn how to do things that enable me to survive when they cannot. I am capable of putting in far more work than they are, and harder work by far.
So when life beats me down, I can get up and keep pushing ahead. When life beats them down, they need someone like me to help them, encourage them, and take all the difficult to impossible things they can't do away from them.
Without us, they are in a world of hurt. We are built for hardship and danger. They are not. What we struggle with they simply cannot do. I would much rather be a man leading a difficult life than a woman with a soft easy life who is dependent on everyone else for everything.
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@Big Muff my friend, I have been through it. Not only false accusations, but the fact my bipolar first ex was assaulting me and abusing our two daughters, and was rewarded for it. I was punished for what she did. Mind you I am not a small, weak, timid man, I am a heavily muscled combat veteran who can seriously injure people easily with just my hands. So the cops would always ask if I touched her, and never cared that she had stabbed me or hit me with something. I have a divot in the back of my skull from a coffee mug she hurled at me. It was a relief when she left..
I got to see my kids a total of 12 days over the next 7 years starting in 2001. TWELVE DAYS in seven years. During that time they were garnishing 71% of my gross pay, and the state helped her hide the kids from me when I came home on leave to see them. It would take me months to save up enough money to drive 1500miles home, or I would catch a military plane to a nearby base and have my parents pick me up. I lived in my car, I ate once a day. I had $100a month to live on and nobody cared. Still nobody cares. I'm male, why would they?
The second one cheated, she felt guilty so she falsely accused me, got a restraining order, and concocted a scheme with her boyfriend who worked for the local sheriff as an EMT. They fired him two weeks later because he is a worthless pos, but thats irrelevant to this. The prosecutor did everything she could to fuck me over, and I ended up sitting in jail for 15 days over something I could not physically have done. Also had to pay them $3000. Compared to the first I got off light.
That was in 2013, the first ex was paid off in 2015. Both of my kids left their mother and moved 1000 miles away to where I live, to get away from her. They wanted to live with me, but the state would not allow it, saying veterans are dangerous and military men can get killed at any time, so they are unfit parents. A judge who was a Marine said that. Fuck that guy. Your kids will come around eventually when they realize you are not the crazy one. Just don't let what their mother does affect you around your kids. Don't get mad at her when they are around.
While the 1st ex is addicted to oxy, turns 50 next year, weighs 300lbs, her second husband finally had enough and left as she was controlling and abusing him as well.... the 2nd ex turns 40 in August, her 'soulmate' left her after 5 years leeching from her father, because neither of them could keep a job. She likes to call the state police when she sees me in public. Just because she sees me.
I lost my home with both of those, lived in cars and on friends couches. It 2013, two weeks after the divorce was final, I closed on 13 acres of woodland. I sold some old car parts, and my parents gave me a couple grand for the down payment. In 2015 when the first ex was paid off, I put all of that cash towards building my home and a shop on my land. I built a 32x48x12 shop, 5" thick concrete floor, and a lift to work on my old cars.
The only thing I managed to keep from the first divorce was a bunch of old rusty cars that she did not want, because they were not shiny. The 2nd ex knew if she went after the cars or my military compensation, she would get nothing, but have to clean up after the massive fire and pick up chunks of my gray matter. So she left me alone.
In February 2021 I paid off my mortgage and the building loans I took out. I am now living debt free, and no bank nor female can take it from me. I can build my cars without having to worry about my money going to someone who does not deserve it, or who mistreats me.
I live alone in the woods with two Siberian Huskies, and I drive cool vehicles all summer. I will be 53 years old here soon, and life is good now. I busted my ass to make it good. I was 32 when the first ex financially destroyed me. 44 when the second one had me thrown in jail for things I did not do. Now less than ten years later I am doing better than both of them, and better than I ever did with them in my life.
I do what I want, when I want. If I want to buy a new expensive engine or another car, I just go get it since I have money in the bank for the first time since 1991. I don't have to concern myself with making sure someone else is taken care of. My daughters are 25 and 27, they are on their own and doing good considering the nightmare their mother put them through.
Life gets better man. It takes a while to get out from under what the state does to us, but eventually we are free and what we earn goes to us.... not them. Do yourself a favor, don't be stupid like I was and never marry again. I won't let them live here either. I still date on occasion, but they get zero commitment from me. As it happens rebuilding severely rusted old GTOs is vastly less expensive than a female in my life.
For the first time in my life... I am happy with it. Life is good. So hang in there and don't do anything stupid. Walk away, rebuild your life, and never look back. There is nothing there for you.
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@__8168 the divorce rate is something like 40% for first timers. If 40 out of 100 people crossing a certain street were hit by a car, would you cross the street there?
Until they fix the laws, mgtow is going to grow. I am fully aware of what that means, plummeting birth rates and all. Its a direct consequence of feminism, the Duluth Model, and the way men are treated in the court system. There is no due process in family law, there are no rights for men, only responsibilities.
Like I said, I am not mgtow, I am not an MRA. I am an example of what can and probably will happen to men in the US if they get married. I have three brothers and two sisters, one sister is divorced twice like I am, her choice both times. The rest have been married for anywhere from 16 to 30 years... but, most of my friends are divorced at least once. So the math works out, 2 of 6... thats a third, close to the 40% often cited.
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Oil and coal has allowed massive cities to spring up. Everything in a city has to be brought to the city, nothing is produced in a city without things being brought to it first. All the waste of those people needs to be removed. Essentially a city is full of dependents, they need everything brought to them because they cannot grow food, produce fuel, or even build housing without the resources being brought in by truck or train. Most of this is geared towards the urban and suburban environments, and its also why so many of the people pushing it are for depopulating the planet. They want to choose who gets to stay and who gets to be worm food.
Wind and solar are not reliable enough to power a city. They are reliable and powerful enough to power a single dwelling quite easily. It scales up to a certain extent, several homes could run off a single windmill and a bank of solar panels, a 25 story apartment building with however many people they can fit in it, is going to have a hard time with wind and solar. The dependency on electricity is not helping, and plug in vehicles are going to exacerbate the problem.. but in a city there is public transportation, you can ride the bus or train, and they can be powered by hydrogen or electricity which cuts the pollution created by gasoline burning vehicles.
Nuclear or some other type of fusion without the radiation issue would sustain the large cities, but its not about the environment, this is all about forcing an ideology upon all of us. They are trying to shoehorn marxist elements into society, because the people pushing the climate change and electrical power want to control the population and profit from them. That is what is behind the people who cry the sky is falling, but fly around on private jets and live in mansions that use more electricity and water than a small town.. looking at you Al Gore. They want control and profit, and it just so happens that a marxist system gives them that. No merit required.
You need a shit load of energy to sustain a city and it has to be there all the time, it can't only be there when the sun is up unless people are willing to change how they live. People want the convenience, they want the easy button of setting the thermostat and forgetting about it, and they are willing to pay all the transportation costs required to bring energy and everything else into the city rather than going out and producing it themselves.
I am big into green energy, I live alone out in the woods and work on the rebuild, repurpose, refinish, recycle idea. I live in a shipping container house I built, built a large shop using the trees I had to clear as the posts for a pole barn, I make ethanol fuel from tree sap and cattails, and I can heat my house with hot water heated by a compost pile of woodchips and sawdust. I rebuild old muscle cars and run them on clean burning ethanol, which allows me to make LOTS of power, and my engines, fuel system parts, and everything else other than rear tires last longer than they did on gasoline.
I build engines to run specifically on ethanol, which means they have high compression ratios, 11:1 is low for ethanol, 22:1 is high. 13:1 is daily driver and easily achieved with some engines, and nets better mileage on ethanol than a same size low compression gasoline fueled engine. The high compression ratio negates the possibility of running pump gasoline with its low octane and massive carbon build up. The longer it runs the worse it gets on gasoline.
Now is what I do scalable to a city of 10,000 people? Probably if they have the room to do it. Can a million live on my method and still enjoy the rather wasteful practices they have now? Probably not as it would require a massive amount of infrastructure to support that many people. There is no silver bullet to fix the problem of cities requiring all their energy to be brought to them. Energy being food, fuel, and electricity. Without the trucks, trains, and that power plant feeding them, the cities would not exist.
Like I said I am big into green energy, not to save the planet, but to save my money. I am a disabled Iraq veteran, I am on a fixed income and not allowed to earn more without losing benefits, and I can't work enough hours to make up the loss. So I have to find ways to stretch my dollars, and my biggest expense is energy. Food, fuel, and electricity.
I love old muscle cars and I daily drive a 1965 GTO with a 462ci (7.5L) V8 that makes well over 500hp and nearly 600ftlbs of torque. Exorbitant or expensive you say? Well 100 gallons of fuel lasts me an entire summer driving it, and its a 20 mile drive in to town to get groceries and whatnot. I fill 55 gallon drums with E85 from the pump and home made E100, and drive my old cars on it. It costs me ten cents a gallon to make tree sap ethanol, and roughly 40 cents a gallon to make it from cattails. Next year I plan to produce between 500 and 1000 gallons of 190 proof vodka, which will allow me to run even my newer EFI equipped winter beaters on cheap high powered race fuel. Last year E85 cost me $1.89 a gallon and I filled three barrels. I have other old muscle cars and trucks too, its what I do with my time and money, the green energy is a means to an end, and its full of other benefits.
I am not cutting down my maple and birch trees to make fuel, all I do is tap some of them, and skip a year or two on the ones I tapped already. They need to be large enough to handle it, and honestly maple syrup is far more valuable than ethanol, but I don't eat many pancakes or waffles and I tend to drive more often. The big thing is I am not beholden to what the gas stations want for a gallon of gasoline, if I am not paying them then I don't care if gasoline is $3 like it is right now, or $7 like it will be soon, or $14 or more in the near future. I will be driving around for a couple weekends of work and ten cents a gallon.
There is a problem with green and renewable energy like I make, the more you scale it up, the more manpower will be required, and the cost will go up.
If you want to make a billion gallons, you will need a lot of cattails and corn. Tree sap won't do it. As it happens the cattails dwarf corn for yield per acre, but cattails require slow flowing or standing water to grow. If they have it, they grow profusely, and they also clean water at the same time. Running waste water/sewage/runoff from livestock through cattails cleans the water and makes them grow even larger, capable of increasing yield by an order of magnitude. Imagine the medians and ditches of every highway designed to grow cattails to be harvest and used as fuel.. it would put a dent in the amount of gasoline we need.
We use corn because we have so much of it. We make billions of gallons of ethanol, feed all the cattle and hogs, make all the industrial products, and we still have billions of bushels sitting on the ground rotting every year. People do not eat that corn, livestock do, but they can't eat it without it being cracked open and mixed with other feed, or fermented to break down the long chains of starch, aka silage.
Corn is easy to grow, store, and transport, plus it makes between 200 and 500 gallons per acre. If we used all of our corn to produce ethanol, it would not be gone, and actually we would have a vastly superior feed for livestock. They fart less on it too, its called DDGS. Distillers dried grains. The fermentation process uses the part of the corn kernels that livestock either cant digest or have a hard time digesting, leaving all the beneficial easily digested parts of the corn to feed to cattle, chicken, hogs etc.
As for the things people claim are problems with ethanol, such as damage to vehicles, I find that is not true. Additives put in the fuel cause problems, but the ethanol itself does not. I am not the only one to see this in testing. I have had zero problems with my fuel systems and engines while running E85 and E100 for nearly 15 years. https://www.onallcylinders.com/2018/05/25/ask-away-jeff-smith-e85-pump-gas-additives-not-ethanol-cause-corrosion
I have been running ethanol and E85 since 2007 in old cars with carburetors, and newer vehicles with EFI, I modify carbs and EFI to run on it as well. I love the power my engines produce on the stuff, its a lot more than on gasoline. My focus has been on improving efficiency, getting the most out of my fuel so I don't have to produce as much. Thats the reason for the high compression and other things I have done, compression increases alone can equal gasoline mileage.
I don't give a rats ass about climate change, because I live so far north that I get 150 to 300 inches of snow every year, so warmer weather is nice. Co2 helps me grow more food, and when I get my greenhouses built I will pump the CO2 from fermentation and methane powered engines into the greenhouse to grow more food.
I use about 3 acres of the 13 I own to do all of this, including rebuilding the cars. If done right, half an acre can easily support ten people without fertilizer. Doesn't work with monoculture farming we did on the farm where I grew up, but planting beneficial plants next to each other and using the compost water heater makes it very easy to grow food, and fuel can be a byproduct of it rather than a focus.
It does not scale well, because of the manpower requirement. But for small communities, its very beneficial and profitable. Like I said, I do this because of the smaller cost in cash, the power and reliability I get from my vehicles, and freedom from the price of gasoline which is what prompted me to start looking into making fuel back in 2007 when gasoline was $5 a gallon.
I am beyond incensed and pissed right the fuck off that people are using green as a cudgel to force marxist tyranny on us all.
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@jimbothegymbro7086 nah man, you used the wrong analogy. A feminist is hemlock tea, the berries in the Hunger Games, arsenic, and cyanide. They are poison, because they follow and adhere to a poisonous ideology. It is rooted in marxism, and that is the most vile, repugnant, and abhorrent thought cancer ever foisted upon humanity. A man cannot have a quality relationship with a feminist. It is impossible. She will destroy his life and her own, so its better to let her destroy her own life while you avoid her dragging you down with her.
They are a 100% risk. Its akin to jumping into a volcano, even if the lava doesn't get you, the poisonous gasses and fall will kill you. Bright colors in the animal kingdom in nature signify toxicity. Had a girl say the frogs are warning against predators, but she apparently has no idea how much of a ravenous predator a frog is.
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Jacob Monnin Holy shit, I haven't seen that amount of historical ignorance in a long time. What are you, like 15 or something? Missed out on history classes and never bothered to look into it? Japan attacked Pearl and then we dropped bombs, thats the extent of your knowledge.
Seriously, how can you not know what happened between 7 Dec 1941 and 6 Aug 1945? I can see the general uninterested halfwit not knowing what was going on in China from 1936 to 1945, its not often talked about, but fuck me the ignorance you are displaying here boggles the imagination. Yeah the Japanese were poor helpless little guys who were just defending themselves, not causing any problems, and they dropped a couple bombs on Hawaii.
Here is something you should know. Dresden is the large city where my family came from, its in south eastern Germany. It was not a militarized city, no factories or war making production at all, and it was bombed in incendiaries that created a firestorm, like a hurricane but super heated and it suffocated people in bomb shelters. They did not do that because the party running Germany from '36-'45 was minding their own business.
We bombed Tokyo the same way since most of the buildings were made of wood, wiping square miles of the city off the map and rendering it all dust, with more firestorms. More people died in the conventional bombing than both atom bombs combined. Most Japanese cities were bombed that way.
That is what you do when a country decides to take over the countries around it, kill the people who lived there by the millions, and plan to make the entire world live under their rule. That is why Germany and Japan were bombed to dust by the end of 1945.
Things for you to google to educate you some..
Nanking
Unit 731
Stalingrad
Poland
Warsaw Ghetto
Auschwitz
Treblinka
Sobibor
Bataan Death March
Palawan POW camp
Guadalcanal
Saipan
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Midway
Coral Sea
Papua New Guinea
or any Japanese or German POW camp conditions
Your ignorance is astounding.
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One of my summer daily drivers is a 1965 GTO, it has a 462ci (7.5L) engine that makes over 550hp and nearly 600ftlbs. When I got it in 1008, it was the second rustiest vehicle I had ever seen. I rebuilt it over the course of 3 years, and did it on a very small budget. I have around $15k total in that car and it was so rusted there was no way to put a windshield or back glass in it when I started.
Another summer daily I have is a 1970 GTO, I am currently doing some refurbishment and upgrades to it, but I will have it running and drivable in a month or so. I bought it in 1994 for $1000 and have been keeping it running and it was my daily driver until 2004. I've built engines, transmissions, rear ends, and repainted it over the years.
So I have two old GTOs and a rusty truck I drive in winter. They'd say you don't need those cars, you can get by with the truck, so we are going to give them to someone else who doesn't have a car.
Someone who has put zero effort, work, time, and has done nothing for me, gets the product of my labor and the years I nave invested in making it something useful again? I suppose since I have a house I built and its just me living here, they would also want to move me out into a smaller place and move someone else in here, despite the fact they did nothing to build it.
I cleared the forest, did the foundations, put the buildings up, 99% of the work has been done by me, and I hired some friends to help put the roof on things. So they want to steal that invested time from me, rather than investing their own time.
Well.. doing something to me like that is how you become an amusement park for earthworms.
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@birdie.21. Don't confuse Chicago, LA, NYC, and other D run hellholes with the rest of the country. You are perfectly safe to stroll through a parking lot in Alda Oklahoma, Lincoln Nebraska, Traverse City Michigan, or Goose Creek South Carolina, hell even Charleston SC is safer than the D run big cities. Also here in the US you can carry a bluethooth hole punch, I bought one for both my daughters, trained them, and they carry them legally... just in case.
The problem with all of you outside the US is that you think we only have LA or NYC. Ya know, there is over 3000 miles distance between those two places.
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@Brandon Neifert capitalism does work, what does not work is using it to fund socialist programs, having the federal reserve charging us interest for our own money to siphon wealth from us, and allowing people to buy legislation that benefits them at our expense.
Why the fuck would anyone get a job slinging burgers and expect it to be a career?
I grew up dirt poor on a farm in the 70s and graduated in the 80s. I sold sweetcorn I grew to buy my first car at 13. I turned $2 worth of seed into $2500, and my dad kept all but $450 of it. Had to help my brother make money, and I got fuck all for the work.
So yeah I know about not being paid for your effort. As it turns out, that is how socialism plays out, you work for nothing and the government decides what you are worth... just like a parent giving you an allowance for busting your ass.
I worked on the farm essentially for free, since kids have to be fed, clothed, and housed by parents. The whole time I was getting beaten by my older brother at random, and my dad when he was frustrated with something. I grew up in hell to put it mildly.
I had a job two days after graduation, working construction on bridges and highways, lifting heavy shit all day in the hot Nebraska sun. FYI Nebraska tries to kill you with the weather. That job ended and I had to get another one, went to work running mills and drills in an aircraft machine shop. Growing up on a farm working on machines and my car meant I knew how to read a micrometer and do some of the work already. Got pink eye and lost that job when the intern at the hospital had no clue what pink eye looked like.
Worked for seed companies and other jobs as a mechanic/machinist, and enlisted at 19. Got the fuck out of Nebraska. Went to Germany, knocked a chunk of Berlin wall off when it came down, then the gulf war started and I had to play in it. To say I busted my ass is a massive understatement. They worked me so hard I gained 40lbs of lean muscle mass in less than a year. You really can't grasp it unless you experience it.
That war ended, the Russians said fuck it all, and Congress decided the someday sweaty fat guy you're talking to needed to be a Mr again. No job, get the fuck out. It took me from September to April to get a job, and it only paid $7.40 an hour. At that point it was 50 cents more than minimum. In two years I was making $11 an hour, but I had a wife and a kid to support, so I worked 50 to 70 hours a week in the factory machinist job, and worked on vehicles for people in my free time to make more.
She is bipolar so she kept me broke as fuck. Another example of someone taking what they did not earn, and that shit continued from 1994 until 2015.
In the 90s NAFTA happened and all the factory jobs went to Mexico. When you are a machinist/mechanic and all the jobs are sent to Mexico by a fucking democrat, it leaves you hard up for work. Lucky for me Clinton cut the fuck out of the military and they were screaming for people, and would take me back in 2000. Just in time to be deployed to Kuwait on 9/11 then going to the desert again in 2004, to get fucked up to the point I still can't walk very far.
So now I am too fucked up to work a normal job, the first bitch took off in 2001, and took 71% of my gross with her and Nebraska said that was a perfect amount. Still having people who didn't earn a fucking thing taking from me.
Obama gets in after fucktarded Dubya, and the black guy proceeds to cut VA funding twice. They let us swing in the wind as they cranked up inflation, the cost of everything, and gave crippled veterans no cost of living adjustment from '10 to '17 when the Cheeto fixed that shit. Meanwhile the fuckwits in congress were giving themselves raises on the regular.
Do you see a pattern there? No fast food jobs that are intended for high school kids living at home. No bullshit retail jobs like helping out around the holidays. Doing what the fuck it takes to earn a living because nobody is going to give a white guy a fucking thing... but they'll sure as fuck take it from him and give it to worthless bitches and lazy people.
If you check my channel you will see shiny and rough old cars, a lift in a largish shop, and what appears to be someone relatively well off playing with his big toys. What you don't see is thousands of hours spent working around physical limitations, saving money for months while most of it is taken and given to a cheating whore.
You don't see the shipping container house I built, or the way I built the shop.. I built it, not some contractor who came out and did it for me. That is my handiwork with a pair of hired guys who bailed early. Five months of work to build my shop, its all I did, eat sleep move dirt and rocks after clearing trees. My crippled ass doing 90% of the work despite the chronic pain.
Ya know, fuck that kid flipping burgers. If he wants to make more money, then he has to do what the rest of us do, PUT IN THE WORK TO BE WORTH MORE.
After the machinist jobs went to Mexico I started my own repair shop, had six people working for me at one point. They got paid more than I did, and this one Vietnamese fucker kept taking my tools and pawning them.
If you want to earn more, you have to invest something. Either in yourself or in other people. There is no fucking way I am paying some kid who knows fuck all about working on vehicles $15 an hour to fuck things up and learn on my time. He can work for $7 an hour until he knows something valuable.
Jesus titty fucking christ kids these days are entitled as fuck. They think they are owed shit for existing. The world doesn't owe you a fucking thing, no matter what the marxists try to tell you. I am not your daddy, sure as fuck not your mommy, if you want to be paid for something, then you have to do something of value, because the asshole who owns the business where you work has invested and taken a risk. You risk nothing, you show up and agree to work.
You are worth what you make yourself worth, and not a pfenning, a penny, or a farthing more.
If you have no skills, no knowledge you can apply, no abilities, and nothing marketable, then you aren't worth much. An employer has to invest in you to get something out of you, and you have to invest in yourself.
Capitalism is being compensated for the work you do, commensurate with the value of that work. With communism you work and they pretend to pay you, if you work too much they punish you, if you don't work enough, they punish you, if you are competent, they punish you. The fact remains that socialism ends up the same fucking way every fucking time its tried.
You know the democrats pushing all this socialist bullshit, they are the ones diluting the no skilled labor pool, which means they have lots of people available so they can pay you less... and you buy into their bullshit?
Clean the shit out of your headgear man.
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I happen to abound with toxic masculinity, to the point I built my house, shop, and the vehicles I drive, paid off the mortgage along with all debts in just 8 years after my final divorce and finishing paying the first ex for being unfaithful, untrustworthy, vile, and reprehensible. The toxicity is so powerful in me that I avoid interpersonal entanglements, eschewing even the notion of sharing my space with some poor, helpless, powerful, independent, capable, victim....
The fact that she would be given everything I have built doesn't play into it all.. I simply do not relish the idea of my toxicity being splattered all over her countenance.
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@ImagineOnward ah yes, I suppose I should elucidate upon the unfortunate consequences of her inglorious actions....
She choose poorly and is having a bad time.
We hooked up in December 2003, she moved in with me in early 2004, we had been talking online since August 03. I was 34, she was 21. After enduring 89 years with my first ex I knew what I did not want, and would dump any woman, no matter how hot, if she displayed any of the negatives my first ex had.
She was everything she claimed to be for 8 years, absolutely wonderful, we never argued, never raised our voices, and she initiated spicy fun times often.
The bare minimum was 3 times a week, and she was GOOOOOOOD at it. Kegels starting when she was 12, and she managed to finish me with the mouth hug and head bob when very few women could.
She nearly changed my mind about women. Then after nearly 9 years together we got married so she could get some of my health care.
That was late 2011, in 2012 I was exposed to some chemicals that messed up my lungs, while painting some stuff for her dad. Exertion was painful, just walking ten steps left me winded, it was like someone had cargo straps wrapped around my chest preventing me from breathing.
We figured out what was causing it, got meds, and I started improving in late February 13. In April she met this guy who was 7 years younger than she is, 20 younger than I am, and he was rather desperate. His previous romantic interest was a 36 year old, 5'3, 250lb mother of two, who's father and brother had to run him off to keep him from following her around and showing up at her house at night. He's on the spectrum you could say, she is somewhat as well.
Nobody who worked with him liked him, her parents loathed him, he was one of those delusional entitled types who felt he should be in charge his first week working somewhere, so he got fired from every job. He was about two inches taller than I am, but at 24 he was already going bald with a bozo the clown type hair ring around the back of his head. His chin was swathed in jowls like some nefarious evil banker in the movies, and he had no muscle to speak of.
There is a reason most women ignored and were repulsed by him. However, my ex thought this kid was her soulmate. I sent her a text when she didn't come home, and I found the car I let her drive parked next to his truck outside a motel. Told her not to come home, nothing there for her, and all her stuff was going to Goodwill.
She abandoned her pets with me, dropped every responsibility she had to be with this kid. She had met him at a training event for firefighters, she was made chief of our local VFD because nobody else wanted it and her 120lbs was not going to pull anyone out of buildings. She brought him on at a township meeting, and all of the other 12 members quit, because they loathed that guy so much. They all knew him, nobody liked him anywhere he went. So our VFD was her and him...
Then he bailed on her after 3 or 4 years, I don't keep track but my neighbors tell me about her, without me asking. She is unpopular to say the least. Currently she is alone, unwanted, her mother is paying her bills since her dad died back in Feb this year. I liked her dad, he treated me good but let his wife dictate to him, so he got on my bad side.
She left at 30, has been alone for the last 6 years, is now 41, no future, no prospects, and her VFD job pays her $500 a month.
What did she leave behind for that kid? A very muscular, very capable and competent, two war combat veteran, that can walk now because when I couldn't do much in 2012. getting sick allowed me to heal. She was with me and stayed through the medical boards and all the health problems I had from my last deployment in 04, and knew what my ex was like. I was able to get around and do fun things before 2012, starting around 2008 or 09, but it was a slow recovery.
She left right when I was healed and the first wife was going to be paid off in 2015... which would open up another $1200 a month. She could have been with me through the entire project of building my shop, house, and landscaping my yard, all of which she enjoys doing. I have a really nice 13 acre plot of woodland, and my forest is enjoyable to walk through.
Now I build the old muscle cars, many of which I have owned for decades. The first one was a 1967 Cougar that I bought two months before she was born when I was 13, in 1982. I still have that car, but I haven't driven it since 1987, its waiting its turn in my shop. I have a couple of trucks and two GTOs (a very rusty 69 and the 70 I drove for a daily from 1994 to 2004) ahead of it on the list. That is what my videos are, vehicle builds and stuff around here.
In 2009 her dad sold me the truck he got her to drive to uni, and I still have it. A 1988 C1500 short box. He was going to scrap it, but it has zero rust so I gave him double the scrap value, $500. Its getting a 6.0 LS swap, slammed to the weeds, and painted her favorite red orange color, with heavy flake and pearl. Then I will use her truck to take my trash to the township dumpster, because I have to drive by where she lives to dump my trash. Its going to be a cool build and man does that low mileage truck drive nice.
Yeah, I am just petty enough that I will drive her truck past where she lives, and make sure she sees it finished the way she wanted it.
She doesn't drink, so no boxed wine for her, but she is destined to be alone now. Poor choices and lack of impulse restraint have consequences.
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@garytallowin6623 you're right, they have been told that roads, the military, and bridges are features of socialism. There is nobody left in the education system to counter that, so people take it as fact. They are told Karl Marx was a genius, not the reprehensible, lazy, resentful, entitlement demanding bigot that he actually was.
The problem is, it is not illegal to be stupid, and its not illegal to be a marxist.. but there I go being redundant again.
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When I got out of the US military (the first time) in 1992 I went to school and asked about financial aid, because the GI bill wasn't enough to do it all. The counselor asked me "Are you a minority? Native American? Female? Disabled?" I said 'no I am obviously a white guy' to which he said "There is nothing available to you other than student loans" Sounds an awful lot like racial discrimination to me. I don't qualify for a grant because I am a white guy who made $14k the year prior, but was currently unemployed.
While in the US military I had several instances of racial discrimination leveled at me... nobody cared. Mostly it was people taking offense to me dating black and Asian girls in addition to white girls. An overweight black female supervisor gave me a poor rating on my performance report as did a black male supervisor, while nobody else ever did, not even the white prick from Florida who fucked with me about dating non white girls. Those two had no idea what my dating preferences were, as I learned to keep that to myself.
I also learned not to talk to military females unless it was mission essential and I had to so we could do the job. Saying hello netted me three sechsual harassment accusations. One had a problem with a verbal greeting, and the other two jumped in and claimed I said Hi to them as well.. which I did because its part of being in the military to extend a verbal greeting. It was only ever a problem if someone thought I did or said something, not what they did to me.
I simply can't comprehend people who put race first, or judge people based on it, I see them as low IQ or simply ignorant. I see people as individuals, not an avatar for their demographic. Fucking me over because I am a white guy and more muscular than they are made no sense, but they did it anyway. The asshole from Florida treated me like I was a bully he was getting back at, when growing up I was the kid everyone beat on and fucked with, but I got big enough to stop them by beating the hell out of them. To be honest if I ever see him again, I am probably going to jail because he is deserving of a beating... a severe one. He is easy to find, he has three first names, all the same name. I shit you not. So if I ever want to...
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@thisismyyoutubecommentacco6302 when my family immigrated to the USA in 1867, we came to join the new culture, even though we kept some of our old culture. The food, beer, farming, our military heritage. We joined US society and flavored it with the 'old country' as my grandparents called it. We have fought for the US ever since, against Germany in both wars.
That was the deal, come live here, but accept the culture that is here. You can definitely see the German influence in the area where I grew up, but its very much American. Contrast that with certain towns that have had mas immigration since the 1970s a bit farther west.. where even the street signs are in Spanish. This is near the geographical center of the US, not somewhere like California. They left their home country, and transplanted the culture and problems from back there, to a town built 150 years ago by a bunch of Germans. Just so happens we are from the Germans who wiped out a couple Legions a while back.
Mind you, I really liked my Spanish speaking customers when I was running my auto repair shop in the 1990s, but they were loath to embrace the culture of where they moved to, legally or not. My family learned English very soon, despite nearly everyone within 100 square miles being German, Polish, or Swedish. I had to learn enough Spanish to converse with them, and they had been here a while. They had no intention of fitting in.
Culture matters, because cultures are not equal, not of the same quality and some are quite reprehensible. I know, because I traveled the world extensively between 1988 and 2004 and I lived among people all over the world. You do not want to live in some of the cultures that are out there... not unless you enjoy random violence and capricious application of Calvin Ball style law... e.g. make it up as they go.
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@AngelMerus I have a cousin named Chad, he is 46, 6'7, looks like a Viking, owns about 1500 acres, has a $200k income every year, he can take off and go on an adventure any time he wants. When his wife and mother of four kids turned 34, she decided to chase after an obese balding GP doc in his mid 60s who apparently seemed more attractive to her. She was super hot all through her 20s, and kept her figure despite the kids, this chick was smokin... but that wall came for her.
What did Chad do? He flew to Ukraine back in '17 and brought back a cute little 32 year old blonde without kids. She doesn't want them, and likes his kids. I had a lot of fun talking to her because I learned some Russian while I was stationed in Korea 20 years ago. We'll see how it goes when her citizenship is finalized..
Even when you are Chad, she will think she can do better.
I am a 5'8 muscle bound 53 year old freak of nature (who tries to look like my name on here to keep girls away, and I am good at it by being exactly that over all the muscle), two war combat veteran, set for life with passive income, highly capable despite some physical limitations. Not as well off as my cousin, but doing ok. I own 13 acres of woodland near a huge lake. The biggest lake. Have bene debt free for two years now, own a house, shop I built, and a bunch of muscle cars. If I want to, I can go pull college chicks relatively easily. They are boring, I like building 700hp to 2000hp cars instead. Fun to look at and get inside, but what a pain in the ass they are.
I had a second wife who was 13 years younger than me, 10 years ago she left for a loooooossserrr 20 years younger than me who she said was her soulmate. They lasted 3 or 4 years, and now she is 40 and alone, nobody wants her. She hit the wall like a rocket sled doing 600mph crash testing. They don't think beyond this very second, they act without thinking about the consequences. They are all like that.
The first wife is 49, 300lbs, has a painmed issue, married a loooooooosseeeerrr she can control. She is so delusional she has been trying to get me back. Yeah I think I would rather be Bubba and Tyrone's prison piece without lube and take a .45 to the brainstem than let her anywhere near me again. Been 22 years since that nightmare ended.
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I will not be ruled over and told what to do, or what not to do, by an 'authority'. I will abide by some agreed upon rules, like don't kill each other, don't steal, do not infringe upon me and I will not infringe upon you. Its called liberty. Not being killed is a good thing for me, so I will refrain from it provided you do as well. Not having what I produce stolen is also good, so I will not take your production without an agreed upon compensation. I fix your car, you make me a sandwich.. things like that. The idea of being told I cannot defend myself from those who step outside the mutually agreed upon rules is reprehensible to me.
If you try to kill or otherwise harm me, I can reciprocate, and you can bet your ass I will. Its going to hurt you too.. Having an authority tell me I have to wait for them to show up and handle it, or I will get thrown in prison or killed by them if I defend myself, well that is not liberty. Sure you have a right to live just as I do, but if you try to end my life you give up your right to life because it does not supersede mine. You are acting against the agreed upon rules, so you are at the mercy of your would be victims if they are more capable or better armed than you are.
Imposing your will on others is tantamount to slavery, forcing people to surrender liberty and personal responsibility is the most abhorrent thing governments can do. Because they do so with threat of death. They will kill you if you push it too far, how far that is varies, but their collective power will kill you the individual.
I will always fight against those who wish to impose their will upon others. That will be true even if the majority of people want to be taken care of by the authoritarian state. I will not exist like that, I want to live my life as I see fit, do what I want to do, and I will not harm others unless they do harm to me. No amount of fear can make me stop fighting. I do not fear death, not from a virus, cancer, car accidents, or other people. Torture and maim me if you like, I will not stop. I will find a way no matter how many beatings I must endure.
Being near the end of my life with decades of experience doing things most people can only dream of or watch in a movie/read in a book, I have no regrets and my last remaining years are planned to be doing fun things. If these people persist in trying to subjugate all of us, I will make the old ways of my youth 'fun' for me. Two wars leave you rather unlike most people, in that what motivates you is not what motivates them.
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I live alone. I have been married twice. They both complained about all the things they had to do around the house. They both left their clothes strewn about, and trails of clothes going to the shower were the norm. They let the dishes pile up and wouldn't even load or unload the dishwasher when I had one. I was in the USAF so I kept my room and housing clean, no dirty dishes or clothes piled up anywhere.
My house is 1100sqft, I built it to live alone in. I have several sets of dishes and silverware, but I have three plates, six of each utensil, and I wash it after I eat, or right before I cook something. Currently my house is trashed because I am still building it, and I haven't gotten to closets yet.
I don't have 'the place' for things at this point, so its boxes and building materials. Insulation takes up considerable space when its not in the walls, floor, or roof. Building a house, along with all the other things I have to do, takes some time. Right now its raining, my addition where I'm working is outside, and I can't put the roof on in the rain. Two more hours and the rain will be gone, and its back to work. Building the floor took three 10 hour days, with no extra hands helping me. Once I have a place for everything, my house will be tidy and clean. I have house stuff still in my shop too, so I need the house done so I can get room in the shop. The engines and transmissions are piling up on me while I build my house.
Its driving me nuts living like this, but you have to do things in a sequence of events. You can't put a roof up without walls, you can't install cylinder heads before you put the pistons and connecting rods in the bores. If you drop the lifters in the bores without a camshaft in it, you are going to have a bad day. Women want it all done for them, and they have no concept of what effort that goes into building a home, vehicle, or maintaining it. They wait at the finish line, pick the winner, and expect all of that to be done for them.
This is quite a lot of work, heavy lifting and mental work, When compared to keeping an already built house clean its laughable that they don't want to do something so incredibly easy and simple just to help us out for supporting and paying them. They want to whine about unpaid labor... they have no freakin clue.
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Oh just a little clutish/religion like thing called marxism, the umbrella that covers socialism, comm,,unism, feeaeminism, fasschism, post modernisssm, gotta make spelling errods on purpose of my comments get hidden from everyone else. You cannot criticize the religion, nor can you blaspheme the prophets like Stalin, Mao, Lenin, Karl, but you can say anything bad about Adolf that you want, because they want to distance themselves from him.
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@ajcarr1965 I was never really told what was 'wrong' about communism, what it is, or what it did, probably because I was sent to a parochial school until 6th grade. They didn't want to breach the ideology thing lest we start thinking. I was always in trouble for asking questions like 'if god is all powerful why can't he just forgive sins?' Meaning why does there need to be a human sacrifice. I know the standard answers, but they never made much sense.
In 1988 I enlisted in the USAF, and I got orders to West Germany. I figured it was a prime time to dive in and learn about communism, and it led me to realize marxism is the root of that and socialism. It started to make sense why we opposed it, then when the Berlin Wall came down in 89, I got to meet people who were prevented by their government from meeting us before that. I saw how they lived, they told me what it was like, and how many friends and family members were arrested and never seen again. I have a big chunk of the Wall on my shelf to remind me of all the horrors of socialism/marxism.
I grew complacent dealing with other things, assuming when the Wall came down marxism was dead and buried, except for China and they just make crappy junk covered in lead. Then with my second divorce in 2013 something clicked, and I realized just how far into our society and legal system marxism has weaseled and crawled. The divorce laws are rooted in feminism, which is marxist as well.
As I learned more about the family court system, and found that millions of men also got horribly fucked over by it, the picture started getting VERY clear. I know what happened to me, punished for being a good father in my first divorce, she was rewarded for being a horrible abusive cunt. The second one falsely accused me, and I ended up in jail over it. Show trials, ideological legislation, the man is always guilty, the woman is always the poor helpless victim. It all overlays marxism like those old sheets for overhead projectors.
Since I am a disabled veteran (since 2005) and Obama cut VA funding twice, leaving me in a world of shit, I started paying attention to what politicians were saying and doing. I started hearing the same themes from the democrats that I heard from Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, and Marx... but with different words shoehorned in to obfuscate and soften the language. They wanted to distance themselves from the well deserved stigma of the soviet and national socialist workers party, but they are spreading the same ideology and using the same tactics.
I am also very aware of what the republicans are doing. Our government is herding us into the position where we are all dependent upon them, and they're doing everything they can to subvert the Bill of Rights. The Patriot Act makes the 4th and 5th amendments irrelevant, all the government needs to do is claim you're a terrorist, and they can throw you away, lock you up, and never take it to trial. They can kill you if they like, because they are not held responsible anymore.
The more I learned about world history, the more I came to realize just how truly fucked we are with all the marxist bullshit stuck into our legal system and government. I've seen and heard it all before, I know where it leads. I know where it goes. I know what is coming. I served in two wars, traveled the world, and I know what horrors await us all. I took an oath to defend the Constitution several times, the first time was in 1988, the last was in 2003. Its not like we are released from it, we just don't get paid for doing it after we get out.
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In 1993 I got married, I was 24 she was 20. It was a living nightmare after the first kid was born, then she put away the irrational argumentative bipolar stuff and was nice for a while to get another. Bought a house in 1996 and she got progressively worse. I stayed to protect my two daughters from her. She thought I should hand over my entire paycheck to her and allow her to decide where the money went. Problem is, bipolar women are notoriously bad with money, and allowing her any access always resulted in overdrafts, bad checks, and the utilities being shut off. In 2001 she ran off with another couple, moved my kids 1500 miles away, and filed for divorce. They gave her everything of value, saddled me with all the debt, and took 71% of my gross to give to her.
I had no idea what bipolar was, how to spot it, what they do, and I really didn't know that in a divorce the man is always guilty and the woman is always the innocent victim, regardless of what transpires.
I rebuilt my life and met a homely 21 year old virgin in 2003. We talked daily for six months before meeting face to face. I vetted her extensively, and she turned out to be a very good person, absolutely wonderful to me. We lived together until 2011 then got married. We spent that time rebuilding my life, building a future together, waiting for the child support to the first to end in 2015. Didn't make it that far, she thought she could do better in 2013. Her mother and sisters told her to leave me for this kid she met who was 20 years younger than me, 7 younger than her. Then they met him, and did not like him. We were married for 16 months. She is alone and unwanted now, her mother is supporting her since her dad passed last February. Her dad had to support her 'soulmate' and her while she was with him, dude could not keep a job because he felt entitled to be in charge on his first day.
She got all the property except my old rusty cars and my tools. She knew better than to go after my money. If she had she knew there would be a large fire where everything I had was in it, and then she would have to clean up a huge mess of gray matter. 50% to 70% of nothing is still nothing, so take nothing and go away. She should have listened to her dad and begged me to take her back.
Here we are, nearly 11 years later. I bought 13 acres of woodland in 2013, sold some car parts and my parents loaned me $2k to add to the down payment. Lived in my car, an old RV, and rented a room from a friend until 2015 when the child support ended and I started building on my land. Built my house, a 32x48x12 shop with a lift where I can build my rusty old cars into something drivable and nice. I sacrificed heavily so I could pay it off early, and did exactly that in Feb 2021. I've been debt free since then.
Now lets say I am daft enough to get married again. I own several old muscle cars that I managed to keep through all of that, and have been rebuilding them. A judge is going to give her my land, home, and whatever she wants of the vehicles I have owned for decades, along with most of my income, and she doesn't have to be married to me for more than a year.
WHAT INCENTIVE IS THERE FOR A MAN TO MARRY?
What incentive is there for a woman to marry then divorce?
No, I don't even date anymore. For the first time in 54 years I have enough money to not only survive, but live comfortably and do whatever the hell I damn well please when I want to do it.
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You're conflating marxism/fascism with liberalism, mostly because they claim they are liberal minded. The reality is these people are authoritarians, and they want to appear to be like Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson, who were liberal minded... you know, focused on liberty. Call them what they are, not what they claim to be.
Call them marxists, because that is the overarching ideology behind socialism, communism, feminism, and all the rebranding of communism they've done, like progressivism and post modernism. Stop enabling them to subvert our language and make our words meaningless at best, and change the definitions at will or worse.
Reagan was correct, fascism came to the us and called itself liberalism. I can call myself a 19 year old black lesbian, but that doesn't make me that.
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I grew up on a farm, worked in factories as a machinist, in auto repair shops as a mechanic and the owner, was in the USAF for years.... while we had women in the factories and military, they did all the soft, easy, clean jobs, and the men did all the dangerous, dirty, heavy lifting work. The funny thing is we all got paid the same, they did a fraction of the work and got paid what men doing real work were paid.
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Dive into the Gulag Archipelago and you will learn how marxists think and act. They are weak, insecure, incompetent, lazy, and resentful of what others have earned. When the stazi would come for people they told those who were being arrested to not make a scene, go quietly so as not to upset nor disturb neighbors.
The people who made a scene and fought back did not end up in gulags and mass graves. These people demand others do the dirty work for them, feel self righteous about it, all while being insecure and weak.
Essentially marxists want to live like a spoiled 8 year old girl, daddy is the state and gives them the pony they scream and rant about getting. Its exactly the same mentality. If you disagree with them, then you are the most vile evil people in the world, because they will not get the pony.
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I was in the USAF, loading cargo planes. Millions of dollars worth of everything and lives that could easily be snuffed out by an 1000lb to 10,000lb pallet, or myriad other hazards. I was the Safety NCO, training NCO, and the vehicles NCO, which meant I was responsible for what people did, and I taught them how to do things, along with being the one who cleaned up the mess afterwards and filled out the EPA and OSHA paperwork.
Care to guess who put the most holes in airplanes, bent vehicles, backed over things, punched holes in 55 gallon drums with forklift tines then backed up to pick up the four barrels and drove them across the warehouse as they spilled their contents along the route? Guess who was NEVER on a bag drag in the desert, throwing all the C bags on and off the planes bringing people in and taking them back to the states.
I had two incidents where a male had a mishap, neither were their fault as it was pallets built with a lopsided center of gravity, they tipped over when being moved with forklifts... All the other ones, and there were lots of them, many repeat offenders because they get six or seven strikes before they get moved somewhere they can't do much damage after two or three instances, were not at the hands of someone who can lift 50lbs over their heads easily.
I had one who grew up on a farm in Wisconsin, so she could operate equipment competently, and she was reliable as well. One out of god knows how many.
I can go on for hours if you like.
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@earlgreystoke3324 most people stop when the other is beaten, in my experience that leaves them insulted and they develop a rage about losing to someone they thought they could beat. They will roll it over in their minds, tell themselves the winner had to have cheated, and will often return to try again... sometimes with friends.
That is how it plays out with bullies on the school yard, people who want to act tough in early adult life, sometimes later in life, and is what played out in Europe between 1918 and 1939. It was am armistice, letting Germany go but then punishing them further, which only incensed the population. They were not beaten, they simply ran out of resources. It was inevitable WWII would start, for those and many other reasons.
This is something a young man learns as he defends himself against one or more bullies. If you only beat one just badly enough they stop, the other will keep coming. If you really throw a beating to the one, the others will notice and not fuck with you. e.g. winning the fights to come. In 1945 Germany and Japan were reduced to rubble, it was obvious they were beaten, and the nukes let everyone else know who was the big dog. 77 years of peace in Europe is the result. A weak ineffective dementia patient is all that was required to end that.
How badly you must defeat them varies, no need to kill the drunken idiot who starts a fight with you while he has his liquid courage coursing through his veins. However taking him out very quickly and efficiently, without having any difficulty, will let everyone else in the area know who 'not to fuck with.'
You should realize by now that I am not referring to conjecture or esoteric academic assertions/thoughts. I lived it.
Backstory: I am 52, grew up on a farm in the 70s and 80s. I am number 2 of six kids, my parents never divorced. Mom passed in '14, dad in '20. My older brother is one of those weak minded, ineffective types, so proud of his mediocre accomplishments, and always needing to put down others to make himself look better. The last 3 and I think the oldest had a different father. Long story.
My brother derived great joy in seeing me suffer. When I was six months old, mom found me screaming on the floor with a seam ripper buried in my back. Three years later he poisoned me by telling me Sanaflush was candy. Shortly thereafter he told me to hide in the dryer, then told mom to turn it on. That was just the beginning.
As the years went by, the beatings I got from him increased in severity and frequency. I was run over by farm equipment, bludgeoned with the dirt packed root ball of corn stalks that could be swung like a mace. Beaten unconscious several times. He and a neighbor kid were throwing electric fence posts at me on a couple occasions, hitting me in the head and nearly costing me an eye. So many TBIs before we knew what they were...
He wrecked his car one night in 1983, and would not allow me to wear my seatbelt in his car, I ate the dash and got my face customized, missing teeth, shattered nose, lots of scarring as my gum line was peeled back and my head smacked the glass. I've spent over a hundred hours in dentist chairs because of that damage. I am on my third dental bridge. I have endured decades of pain and PTSD because of him.
In 1985 I had been wrestling for four years, and farm life had packed some muscle on me. I still had to work with him and any time he felt like it I took a beating. One spring day in '85, we were loading up some hogs so he could take them to market before school. He hit me a couple times because pigs are unruly when they know they are going to die. They are kinda smart. I left the barn, and went to wash up.
He came running after me, hit me in the back of the head, knocking me down, and told me to get back there and help him. I stood and said no. He hit me again in the nose, and down I went. When I came back up I had grabbed both of his legs below the knees and lifted him off the ground. I dropped him on the sidewalk going to the farm house. He got up and went to swing at me again, I did a fireman's carry, picked him up on my shoulders and dropped him. Put him in a headlock and hit him in the head a few times. He demanded I let him up, so I did and he took another swing. This time I did a double leg takedown, picked him up, and body slammed him on the concrete front steps of the house. If he had gotten back up and taken a swing at me again, I was going to smash his head into the concrete the next time. I left him there and went to school.
Later that fall my dad, who had been beating on me when he was frustrated, when thanks to Carter in the 70s and 80s was often, found out that I was not someone to try to hit. Dad kicked me until I could not move in front of the daughters of our neighbor because I could not run through knee deep mud chasing sheep. He once wrenched my neck so hard he left bruises all around the back of my neck. The last time dad tried to hit me, he swung back to slap me, and I gave him a half power hit to his sternum. He went down like a ton of bricks, and didn't get up for a while. He never tried to hit me again after that, which is a good thing, because at 17 I was 170lbs, 5'8 and bench pressing 265lbs. At 18 I was benching over 300.
I got messed within school as well, hurt some kids, but not real bad because they had more of a problem with my brother. It was rare for me to have a day without someone trying to hurt me. I'd expound but this is already long.
I qualified for state wrestling in 1987 at 167lbs, and on the way there I broke two kids arms, cracked several ribs on other kids, and knocked one kid out. Not trying to, but I was somewhat rough on the mat. I could beat everyone on the team, including the heavy and 185lb guy who ended up playing nose guard in the NFL for Jacksonville, Carolina, and Denver. The 185 took state his junior and senior year, because he had to wrestle me in practice and he got damn good having to be fast and strong.
I enlisted in 1988, I had left the farm in 1987 after I graduated. I was neck deep in the Gulf War 90-91. Several altercations came after that in the civilian world, none of which were started by me, but I finished all of them. Stopping just short of ending someone or putting them in intensive care. No need to go to jail, but they knew for damn sure not to mess with me.
I am a generous man, I treat people well, I do not threaten nor coerce people, and I try not to be intimidating in public. My nature is not prone to violence, so many people assumed I was harmless and an easy target. Since 2005 when I was injured on my last deployment, and after being an NCO, honing my leadership and writing skills, its quite rare that someone decides to start something with me. Having a 60" chest and 21' arms, with a 21 neck and 40" waist probably has something to do with it. I am built like a silverback gorilla with longer legs and shorter arms. To look at me you would never expect much intelligence, and I tend to downplay my abilities. I prefer people underestimate me, and assume I am harmless.
They don't need to know that I have been in more fights than I can possibly count or remember. I am only that man when I need to be, and if I need to be at this age when everything hurts for weeks, I am going to hurt them severely as fast as I possibly can. .. and I can still inflict grievous harm, efficiently, and incredibly quickly despite my limited physical mobility. 500lbs is something I can pick up and carry. Couple that with 6 years of wrestling, including a year at the base level stationed in Germany, and all the experience in fights, you could say its not a smart move to mess with the old fat guy.
Combat sports changed my life for the better. Actual combat felt like home the first time I experienced it.
I know bullies, I know capable men who can severely harm me... but the thing is, the men who can take me out are also disciplined, trained, and experienced, they don't start fights either. They finish them.
I would rather build old muscle cars, have fun racing with the kids, and spend time with my Siberian huskies... one of which wants to go out right now. I raised her from a little furball, she can tell when I am having a rough day from PTSD and stress.
I like dogs far better than people.
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@williamhermann6635 it happened to several guys I know, she got into cranky nose candy with her new guy, was going away for years, and the courts said the same thing to them they said to me. Because I am a dad I am an unfit parent.
The judge straight up said exactly that to me. Then he started me out $10k in arrears which revoked my drivers license, passport and security clearance. 71% of my gross pay was adequate to them, and I live in my car on $100 a month from June 2001 to Feb 2004.
It gets worse than that... much worse. So I get salty when these profem types claim men get custody often, child support isn't onerous, and men deserve everything that happens to them.
I considered doing some none too pleasant things, but realized that eventually my kids will turn 19 and I won't be indentured anymore. That happened in 2015.
My second divorce happened here in Michigan in 2013. She lied, had me thrown in jail, trying to drive me out of the state due to pure capricious spitefulness. For 8 years she had been absolutely wonderful to me, then I got sick for a few months in '12 and she decided this guy 7 years younger than her who was soundly loathed by everyone who knows him, was her soulmate.
I sold some old car parts I had, my parents loaned me $2k and I bought the land where I live now, closing on it a week after the divorce was final. 13 acres for less than $30k. In 2015 I got a building loan and started building my shop where I build my cars, and my house. In 2019 I rebuilt the containers into a larger two story dwelling, and Feb 2021 I paid off all my debts.
I rebuild old muscle cars and drive them all summer as daily drivers. They are faster than most cars too, I like big engines, mainly 455 Pontiacs. Thats what is in my 65 GTO. That car is a ton of fun and it rips, quicker than Dodge Hellcats.
What happened to the ex wives? Well the first is over 300lbs and she is 5'4", lives by the train tracks where coal trains go by every half hour. She is in debt for the next 28 years, but she is 49 and her second husband is 64, with huge health problems. He will be gone within the next five years, and she will be unable to pay the mortgage with his more than what she will get when he croaks. She is bipolar, which means she is terrible with money, and she has a problem with pain meds that she wastes all his money on.
The second ex lives alone about two miles from me, in a shack her mom pays the rent for, her dad died back in February and she ended up in the looney bin because her 'soulmate' took off 6 years ago. She is 41, alone, unawanted, and has two part time jobs that pay her all of $700 a month. Without her dad giving her money she is lost.
If either of them had been self aware enough to realize they were the problem, and I was the best that they would ever get, so that they would support me rather than hinder me at every turn... they would not be in the predicaments they are now.
If the last 30 years of my life had not been wasted because of them, I would probably be a millionaire by now, and I could have built some really amazing cars in that time. Neither understands delayed gratification, I have only met two females who do.
So the reddit story is very similar to my story, except when I am done with them, I am VERY done with them. The most attention they get from me is pointing and laughing at them.
Wait it out and life gets better, but don't do what I did and hook up with another one thinking she is different. They are ALL like that, only the wrapper changes.
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I'm not going my way. I am gone. No interest in having a girl around, nothing but trouble and expense. I own my house, my land, several muscle cars, I am debt free and retired. I put in the work already, now I can build muscle cars and have fun. Next year if we aren't in a large conflict, I plan to go drag racing again. I did that in my 20s and 30s, but then divorces got in the way. So yeah, muscle cars, GTOs to be specific, are more interesting and enjoyable than girlfriends.
So I just picked up a 2004 Escalade.. its black. I think it needs a big number 3 on the door.
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@-TriP- the story gets worse, a lot worse. Their mother exposed them to abhorrent and heinous things, she was rewarded for it by my home state. I was punished, got to see them for a total of 12 days between June 2001 and June 2008. They took 71% of my gross pay and gave it to her, leaving me $100 a month to live on, so I slept in my 1992 F150 and on friends couches 2001 to 2004.
I deployed in 2001, but came back in December to living in my truck. Went to Korea in 2002, got my room and free food, so I wasn't in my truck anymore with the added bonus of being able to eat every day, but I was going backwards in support. My pay dropped by nearly $1000 by going to Korea, but the support did not. They still had to give me the $100, despite the fact state law stipulated they had to leave me $950, but that mostly went to taxes.
This is still not all of it... it gets worse.
Its why I advise young men to avoid marriage entirely, don't bother dating, and try not to get claims against them that are untrue. If enough of them opt out, the laws will have to be changed.
Currently though, all the incentives are for women to marry.. and men are still punished regardless. No incentives for women to remain married, oh no can't have that, they have incentive for them to divorce for any reason. So men should not play the game. Its not like men have a window of 13 to 32 where they can have kids or something... like women do.
The more men who simply do the bare minimum to survive, the lower the profit will be for those who are trying to impose on us. The higher the cost of keeping the females funded will be as a result.
This is all by design, the consequences of no fault and incentivizing alone moms is already well known as it happened in eastern Europe in the 1920s and 30s. Yeah.. all of this stuff was done before.
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My dietician at the VA isn't pushing this on us. I am as my name says, but I am also considerably more muscular than JP is. All the stuff on the bottom of their pyramid is what I cannot eat. I feel like a slug if I eat that. My diet consists of beef, chicken, pork, some fish when its not too expensive or I catch it myself, fresh fruit, leafy greens, eggs, some rice, and occasionally bread. I prefer to bake my own bread, it doesn't last as long as store bought stuff, but it doesn't make me into a gelatinous blob.
Its been at least a decade since I ate fast food, and I was on a road trip, it was the only place open. It does not go well with me.
I would not fit my name if I was not crippled from my 2004 deployment, running is how I used to control it, and I haven't been able to run since 2003. Its nearly impossible for me to get a diet that doesn't make me gelatinous. Its a long story going back to my youth when I was on a 'special' diet because of allergies from 4 to 14. It costs me $250 a week for groceries, I live alone and eat twice a day. If I ate the processed stuff it would be less than $100 a week.
I need to get some chickens.
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My kids are 25 and 27, the older one doesn't want to bring a kid into this fucked up world after what the state did giving custody to her mother... her abusive mother. The younger one wants kids, but she knows if she has some, they can be taught by grandpa, because I taught both my kids how to read, write, walk, crawl, etc. If someone is gay, hey do your thing. Pushing it on someone, forcing or coercing them into it, well, I am not down with that. I have lots of gay and trans friends, its their thing, not mine.
Public schools are overstepping their boundaries. There will be a reckoning.
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I've been working to improve mileage along with power since 2005. I had gotten 18-20mpg highway from an 8.8:1 compression Pontiac 455, turning a 2004R, and 2.93 gears in a 70 GTO. It would also run mid to high 12s. It did it with a Qjet carb on it. Not bad for a car that weighs 4200lbs with me in it going down the track. However with 87 octane being over $5 a gallon I could not afford to drive a 20mpg car. In 2007 I had found a solution to high gas prices and power from my old dinosaur engines. I could crank up the compression using 1967 to 70 small chamber 350 and 400 heads on a 455, making from 10.7 to 13:1 compression possible with a flat top piston, and have fuel that cost me roughly 40 cents a gallon... because I made it myself.
Why the high compression that is well over the limit for pump gas? When the static compression increases, so does low and mid range torque, which happens to be where the Pontiac 400 and larger engines make their power. All from idle and under 6000rpm. Higher compression works the same amount of fuel harder, and that gives you more power. The idea is to maximize torque between idle and 4000rpm. Thats where the engine spends most of its time, sure it can rev to 6000, but it rarely does. The more torque your engine makes in that range, the easier it is to move the mass of the vehicle, so it needs less throttle to do the same work as a smaller low compression engine. Thats the method I used to get 20 from a 455 in a heavy old muscle car and still have it run decent. Usually people kill the power, try to run it lean, and just deal with a pig that won't get out of its own way, but I want the power available, even if I don't use it, the power is still there.
So how do I get away with 13:1 with iron heads on a big engine in a daily driver? Simple answer is vodka (ethanol). That fuel can withstand very high compression, all the timing the engine wants, and you can boost it with 13:1 if you like as ethanol can handle a lot more than just 13:1. The best part and why I got into it is I can make it from tree sap and cattails, of which I have a lot of each. Around 12:1 static you get the same mileage as gasoline on ethanol, so you do a bit better the higher you go. Then you run the engine hot, like 200-210F hot, its not going to ping and the ethanol will still cool the intake charge as it vaporizes, and you want it to vaporize as completely as possible. Smokey Yunick did the same thing with gasoline, but it was very complex due to the fact some components of gasoline have a 450Fboiling point, whereas with ethanol its 173F at sea level, and it decreases as you go up in altitude/down in pressure, and goes up with more pressure. Vapor has vastly more surface area than atomization, so it burns faster and more completely. Its entirely a matter of surface area.
The intake manifold is a low pressure area as the engine is creating a vacuum as it runs, right? Well if you can heat the fuel before it gets to the plenum, it will instantly vaporize when it hits the relative vacuum. EFI makes that very easy to do, and you can achieve some of it with a carb, but since the carbs are vented to atmospheric pressure, you are limited in how hot you can run a carb. I ran the intake hot with a carb, and it worked rather well. With EFI you heat the fuel after the pressure regulator and return, otherwise you will simply heat the fuel in the tank, which is not a good idea.
Lots of compression, heating the fuel for instant vaporization, introduce the fuel where a carb is rather than where the typical EFI injector goes, cooling the intake charge for a more densely packed cylinder, as much timing as the engine wants, and cam timing that helps make even more cylinder pressure will allow you to enjoy all the power and still get great mileage. You are working the fuel harder, utilizing the heat in the engine to improve mileage, and making a lot more power between idle and 4000rpm. The best part is your engine stays spotlessly clean if you run it on straight ethanol, but you have to run it hot so you can boil condensation out of the crankcase, or you milkshake the oil. The oil temp needs to go over 220F in any engine, gasoline, alcohol, hydrogen, whatever, to boil that condensation out.
You can only use just so much compression on gasoline before it starts pinging and knocking, then you have to kill the timing advance, run it cold, and that all makes mileage worse. When you have compression that requires 92 or 93 octane, then you are stuck with premium gas, and where I live that shit is already $4.20 a gallon. No E85 is sold within two hours of me, so I have to fill barrels to use it, and I run that stuff too. The 65 GTO runs E85 with FiTech EFI on its 11.5:1 455. That thing makes crazy power, enough that 3.08 gears are just about too deep for it and some 2.56 or 2.73 gears would be about right for it. Its been on vodka since 2018, the 70 has been on it since 2007. I've had zero problems running the stock tanks, lines, and nothing special, just basic parts store fuel system parts.
I am building a smaller vehicle with vastly better aero than my GTOs to test and see just how much mileage I can get from a high compression engine, with heated EFI fuel system, low drag wheel bearings/tires, and light weight. I think an Opel GT with a high compression LS engine and a 2.73 or so rear gear would be quick and get great mileage. Also have a Buick 3800 in the works that will have the supercharger top end on a NA bottom end to take advantage of the higher compression, stuffed in a ladder car like an Ariel Atom that I am planning out right now. 1500lbs or so, fiberglass and aluminum skins to clean up the aero, and 300+ hp with plenty of bottom end for that light of a vehicle.
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I bought the Band of Brothers DVD set at the BX at Osan AB ROK in 2002. The story of Carwood Lipton made me a better NCO, Major winters made me a better leader, everyone in Easy Company impacted me in some way. Every time life got difficult for me, deployed or in the states, going through divorces, dealing with being disabled in 2004 after decades as a very capable man, I would reflect on what the men in WWII went through. No matter how bad it got for me, I had it better than they did.
I saw Private Ryan in the theater, not many years after my first war in 90-91. That movie messed me up, it pulled me in so it was like I was there with them. When the stickybomb vaporized the guy planting it, I checked myself for fragments of him, while sitting in the theater. The flag waving at the end broke me entirely. I could not watch it at all until 2000, when I got it on DVD, sat in my room on base and forced myself to endure 5 minutes more every day until I could watch the entire movie without getting triggered. That made me a better NCO too.
Band of Brothers was a very different experience.
My experience with war was completely different from those two movies. My first base in 1989 was Frankfurt Germany, and I traveled around Europe seeing the places where they fought. They found a buried cache of mortars and other armaments on base while excavating for a building in 1990, they were buried there in 1945. My first trip to the desert was in 1991. The fourth was in 2001, the last in 2004. I still can't watch movies about the desert conflicts. If I do, I can smell them, feel the heat and sand hitting my face, the tiredness sets in that I felt back then. Its like reliving it again, and the last two deployments were very safe in Kuwait.
33 years later and I can vividly remember the tiniest details from the first, and the winters in Germany, working outside in the blowing snow. So very different than the 130F heat in the desert, and the smells you never forget. I ate bacon every other day for a year just so I would stay in the present day when I smelled it. Its called flooding, its what I did with Pvt Ryan.
There are things you never forget, the best you can do is remove the emotional marker from the memory. The things those men from the larger conflicts can't forget makes mine look about as serious as a kid not getting a toy at the store... and my peers who had jobs far more dangerous than mine.
Tell James Madio and the rest of them, thanks for the shows. They're appreciated more than they can imagine.
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@n.thadddeusmcthaddeus5416 you hit the nail on the head with a hydrogen bomb. Weak minded insecure people, often with fucked up ideological afflictions, are who become tyrants. You cannot say the cheeto was at all insecure. Then you look at Trudeau, Northam, Whitmer, Obama, and the current kid sniffing Potato, and the weakness exudes from them. The first two did a cosplay of Brave Sir Robin and bravely ran away...
Their first option when manipulation and coercion fail is to get someone else to get violent for them. Police, white knights, whatever... they won't do it themselves, they get someone else to do it, because they know if they tried it they would get beaten down.
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@SeviathTheHumanDrago in my 20s I had several soft harems, two to six girls I could call up to get some, missed a three way with two seriously hot Russian girls while I was in Korea in my 30s. Long story... still had a mixed bag of 'plates' in my 30s. In my 40s right after my second divorce it got a little crazy, 3 ways, 4 ways, multiple girls on call. Now in my mid 50s I'd rather build old muscle cars and play video games.
You'd think I was some megachad or great looking guy, I am 5'8 but also a dominant power lifter looking muscle bound freak. Not rich, but I build/drive cool old cars that make more power than the tires can handle. Most of the girls were 5 to 7, a few like my second ex were homely (she was pretty awesome for 8 years, even if she was homely, and she was great in bed) and a couple approaching ten without makeup. Mostly just average looking chicks though.
I have friends who haven't had 5 girls and those guys are in their 40s and 50s. I know lots of dudes who can't get any, and lately its even the tall guys who in years past would have panties thrown at them. When a 6'4 guy with muscle can't get laid, there is something seriously wrong.
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@anastasiavonbeaverhausen5443 that works if you ignore the fact that feminism is rooted in marxism, making the victim class all females and the oppressor class all males. All the usual marxist delusions come along with it as do the purity tests. Since marxism is feminine thinking, feminism is feminine thinking gone completely irrationally nuts. Amplify all the worst things while deriding and discouraging the positives ad they try desperately to be men without responsibility.
The marxists have to tear down western civilization, they could not use class because the middle class existed rather than the rich elite v poor dichotomy of 1800s Europe. So how do they tear it down? Come up with a system of discouraging men to not marry by giving incentives to females to throw him out and indenture him into poverty with the state as the enforcer. Then tell females they can have a million abortions and have kids when they are 40, so they should work a job and have a career instead of a family.. so the "you will own nothing and be happy" thing has played out with feminism already.
They have nothing and they aren't happy. Nothing meaning no family, no kids, they will die alone drinking boxed win, eating microwave cooking for one, with 50 of Schrodinger's cats in her apartment.. simultaneously alive and dead under the sofa. Sure feminists sometimes have money... but that doesn't fill the biological hole that should be filled with kids and grandkids.
So men are like 'fuck that I am not putting my head on the chopping block and handing over my wallet.' Females are delusional in thinking they can have kids at 35 that aren't disabled from birth. Birth rates plummet, we have to bring in 3rd world people who have been raised with marxism to fill in the gaps, the US falls to the idiocy of marxism while sjws and feminists screech about the patriarchy and other nonsense.
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Thats what I did after my second and last divorce in 2013. I knuckled down, the first one was paid off in 2015, and I got to building with the money she had been getting. I own 13 acres of land, a 32x48x12 shop where I rebuild 60s and 70s muscle cars, while being debt free. I have passive income, so to avoid inflation all of my income is invested into the property and the vehicles. I have enough of a cushion sitting in the bank to handle things that come up, but I don't need nor want a big pile of money that is worth less every day.
You see, a 1965 or 1969 GTO is appreciating in value, even if its very rusty like my 69 is. I can rebuild it, and I will, no big thing for me, its a fun thing to spend my time doing. A new car is a depreciating liability, higher taxes, considerably higher insurance premiums, interest on the loan, and now you are paying $60k for what should be a $15k vehicle.
Over the last 40 years I have invested in myself, building skills, knowledge, and getting proficient in applying them. When my income was taken from me and given to an ex, I still build skills and knowledge.
Its fun when I tell a 20-30 something that I have had no debt since 8 years after my divorce left me living in a car, and I own land. You can see the wheels turning in their heads, how can I get some of that? Its even more fun when they see me driving a different muscle car every time. No, they aren't getting any of it, I am not their retirement plan.
Now if they knew the engine I built last year has about $20k invested in it along with the car I put it in, because it can produce 2000hp with about 20psi and live for decades like that, they'd be even more interested and think I have lots of cash. However, if I had one of them around there is no way I could build engines like that.
My 50s is turning out to be a great time of my life.
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When my kids were young, before their mother kidnapped them and took them 1500 miles away and kept them from me for 7 years in accordance with feminist doctrine, I taught my two daughters how to think critically, figure things out for themselves rather than just taking "Because I said So" as an answer. I had no problem explaining how things work to them, I taught them to crawl, walk, colors, shapes, letters, numbers, reading, writing, math, and how to run a computer before they were in kindergarten. I was taught to read before I started school too. I did not teach them religion, I figured they could decide that for themselves.
How did my two kids turn out now that they are 25 and nearly 28?
Well the oldest doesn't want kids, because she saw what happened to her and realized it was the feminist/sjw doctrine that caused her life to be shit. She came to the conclusion on her own that she was taken from a father who cared so deeply about her that he would forego sleep just to teach her things when she was little. She realized her mom lied to her about damn near everything, and brought males into their lives that then did things to my innocent little girls. To which their mother replied "Well, that happens" when I confronted her about it. My oldest does not want to bring life into this world because of what happened to her, she is disinclined to inflict that on someone else.
The younger one, well she followed her mother's path and started with the boys early on. She too was victimized by the ex's boyfriends, but she went the other way. She came to live with me when she was 12 because her mom was too much crazy to deal with. She found structure, discipline, and learned the hard way how to live like an adult. The damage was done regarding boys though, her mom made sure of that. She was with me for 18 months, then went back to her mom, only to realize then why she needed the structure I provided in her life.
She wants kids, but can't find a man worthy of being a father. Those men are none too inclined to marry and have kids with a girl like her mom. If I had been allowed to be part of her life the entire time, my daughters would be much better off. They were both amazed that I not only had money left at the end of the month, but I also had food in the house. Their mom was getting most of my income, so she had roughly double what I did to life on, and yet was out of money within two weeks, and thus out of food. Bipolar people are notoriously bad with finances. They knew the boundaries with me, and could operate within them with plenty of freedom, I let them learn things on their own.. like why you don't play with outlets...lol. Supervised electrical investigations. Only needed one look into the why.
This is what marxism/feminism does to kids, it makes them incapable, inept, and incompetent as adults. So it makes perfect sense to me that the daughters of the author of that article decided against following the marxist idiocy of theri mother, because it lacks coherence, discipline, structure, and is completely divorced from reality. Kids crave those things even if they rebel against them. The whole point of being a teenager is learning how to break free of the family, while gaining appreciation for it. You are allowed to spread your wings, with some safety net, until you are ready to fly on your own in the larger world. The marxists want you to have a safety net all around you, not for your safety... its for their safety so you do not realize they own and are controlling you.
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You don't want to just stockpile things, you need to know how to make or find what you need.
Having enough food for a month or year is good, but what do you do after that? Where will the food come from if all the trucks and trains stop? When the bottle of antiseptic is empty and you have a nasty cut, what can you do about it? If you know how to produce ethanol, you can use that to clean the wound. If you also know how to make turpentine, you can mix it with the ethanol and use it to produce light without smoke and soot. You can run engines on it easily, and no despite what you will hear, it does not harm them. You can also sell the ethanol, and yes you can drink it since its simply vodka.
What plants around you are beneficial, which of them can kill or harm you? Where is food you can get with the least energy spent on getting it? Can you collect and purify water so you don't die of dysentery? You need to be able to do it without tablets or other things you might not be able to get. Distilled water harms you as it pulls nutrients and minerals you need out of your system, so you need to be able to purify and filter it without distillation.
Can you repair things, like your roof, vehicle, or the road you use? The more you can competently do yourself the lest reliant on others you will be. You want to know important things, about what you need to survive, and how to make things last and do their job so you aren't having to spend all your time keeping them working on them.
So many things in life we take for granted, they are just there and easy to get. What happens when its not there, the power has been out for weeks, the internet doesn't work, you have no books, and you need to know how to get or make something you need? If you don't already know, you are going to have to find out, or do without.
Where I live the power goes out all the time, in winter and in summer. It was out for three days this summer, perfect weather, no wind, no rain, sunny bright days and I had my generator going to keep the freezer cold and to run my internet connection and PCs. In winter I can be snowed in with 6' of snow out there that fell overnight. If the plows don't come through, you are stuck without a dogsled or snowmobile. Its 13 miles to town, so I have to know how to do things, make stuff, and find what I need if I can't go get it.
Camping equipment is good to have, but even that wears out eventually. The best part of all of this is getting to know nature, and living with it rather than trying to be apart from it in some city or town.
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They can earn their own money now, but still want ours. They will not be loyal, they will not be faithful, they will step out behind your back. I am 54 and have quite a few friends who are close to my age, we are mostly car guys. Gearheads who build old stuff. One guy lost his wife to cancer last year. He is having a rough time. The rest of us have been divorced, I have twice. After the nightmare those two and all the others I dated have put me through, there is not much interest for them left in me.
I live alone intentionally, my house is built to suit me and women are uncomfortable here. My focus is on my shop and the builds I do in it. They did not 'hurt' me. The wives both left me sleeping in old cars and trucks, the first got most of my income for 15 years after the divorce. Working for the benefit of someone who mistreated and betrayed you is the ultimate insult. There is no way I can even care about women, individually or as a whole after what was done to me by them and at their behest. The only female I will do anything for is my 26 year old daughter.
I do not need them, nor do I want them. I want GTO and TransAm parts.
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I've been there, eastern Europe, both ends of Asia, western Africa. Currently I am having far too much fun and getting too much enjoyment building my old muscle cars to travel the world or leave the country. In Seoul Korea even at 5'8 I was like a celebrity, women were asking to take their picture with me.
Russian women would hit on me outside the bars where they worked in Korea. Yeah they were there to make money off us GIs 20 years ago. They were still looking for good masculine men to be with.
Arab women are simply amazing, but its nearly impossible to meet them, never mind how difficult it is to marry them.
When I was stationed in Germany 30 years ago and the Berlin Wall came down, that was when I saw eastern European women the first time. They had an edge on western women at that time, but now they absolutely crush them.
DON'T MISUNDSERSTAND... they are ALL wired the same, they will all do and are attracted to the same things, and fitness tests from eastern European women are thermonuclear. In the US they are annoying and petty, but with Russian speaking women, they want to know for damn sure they got a leader, not someone playing at or faking it. She will test you, and that will include having her friends you haven't met hit on you in public to see how you react. Then she will accuse you to see how you handle it.
Outside the west they are still women, still feminine, and they want a strong leader. Don't bring them back here. My cousin did and she dumped him as soon as she got her green card. I warned him... and he is literally 6'7" tall, Viking looking and named Chad. She became very interested in me when she discovered I can speak some Russian. Not conversational, but enough to get the point across.
If you want one, learn her language, Tagalog, Russian, Japanese, whatever she speaks... that pays dividends for as long as she sticks around.
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@Re1d3 Im 53, 320lbs 5'8 and I could get over it. Of course I am not typical for short 300lb guys.. USAF veteran Shield/Storm OIF/OEF and I did a crazy amount of work and got over things like that no problem before I got messed up on my 2004 deployment. I will never run again, but I have immense strength, and it came from my AF job loading cargo planes. How do I know I can get over it... because I do stuff like that around here while building my sheds, vehicles and moving trees I cut down.
I can pick up and carry 500lbs, move a 1500lb box by slamming into it, and push a plane load of 10,000lb pallets by myself.. over and over again.. well I could before 2004. Thats what I was doing when I destroyed both knees loading C5s... and my hips, ankles, shoulders, you get the idea. My back is in great shape though.
It would be hilarious watching gray haired me with my belly getting over that easily while they can't make it. I have to be careful now because I can easily pull the connective tissue from my bones by lifting too much. Age does that.
Back in 1988 I was the strongest guy in my flight in basic, and the strongest in my unit every base after that. I was bench pressing 300lbs when I was 18 and I could run five miles like it was nothing. I would physically push guys through our run, put my hands on their back and shove them around the track. I beat all 31 of them arm wrestling one Saturday afternoon near the end of basic, smallest to the biggest...
These kids are weak, pathetic, useless, and they need remedial training. Bunch of candy asses making themselves look worse than some 3rd world Army.
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When I got out of the USAF back in 2005 and moved to Michigan, I rented a UHaul box truck to move all my stuff. They didn't have the biggest one there so I got the next biggest and man was it overloaded with my tools, car parts, and my house stuff. I had 5 vehicles to move, a 92 F150 that pulled my trailer around, 1998 Formula which was my economy car/long distance go home on leave ride, the 70 GTO I drove to Charleston SC in 2000 when I went back in the military, the 72 Formula I bought from a friend, and the 1979 Formula that I bracket and raced in Mexico.
The first trip was the 98 Formula and the box truck. I put the 70 GTO on a rented trailer and it was sitting too far back, I could not get enough tongue weight no matter what I did. This was all loaded the day before Katrina hit and gas prices started going through the roof. I filled the tank on the GTO because the truck ran on gas, and that made it even more tail heavy. Once I got beyond the south and $7 for 87 octane I used the electric pump to transfer the gas to the truck with some rubber fuel line. It helped a bit.
The top half of the mitten, aka lower Michigan, is very hilly like around Gaylord to St Ignace. The truck was governed to 72mph, and since it was a Ford it didn't have enough power to go up the hills. Going up it would go slow, coming down it would hit the governor and the trailer would start swinging around like the Star Wars kid the the golf ball retriever. Remember Star Wars kid? If not, look it up, and all the remakes. Going slow made it worse, it would swing more at 45 than it did at 65 or 70. The ex was driving the Formula and blocking traffic for me so I didn't have some dolt riding next to me for miles or preventing me from exiting.
The solution was full throttle down the hills, and applying enough brake to get the trailer brakes to activate so the trailer would not try to pass the truck and go out in front. The trailer brakes were completely smoked when I dropped off the trailer. It was trying to flip the truck on its side, and it was all I could do to keep it going.
Had this Karen in a little silver POS on I-75 who would pass me going up the hill, move over ahead of me, then go slow down the hill and wonder why I was almost pushing her. She did that for miles even when I slowed down hoping she would get well out ahead of us. We stopped for lunch to remove her from the problem. The limit was 65 she was doing 50 and the trailer would be nearly flipping the truck trying to go down hill faster than the truck would. Those trailers are terrible. I had time and money constraints, so once I started I had to keep going with the GTO on it.
The next trip we drove the ex's dads 2004 Duramax 4x4 to South Carolina. We loaded up the 79 Formula on a UHaul trailer behind the Duramax, the 72 Formula on my trailer behind the F150 and drove back up I-75 to the UP. Ya know something, truckers treat you completely different when you have a pickup and trailer, pulling race cars, compared to when you are driving a rental truck... I mean on flat ground, not when its swinging around like a blind kid trying to hit a piñata. Everyone with sense stays away from a trailer that is dictating which lane the truck is going to use like a mother in law whacking the steering wheel with a stick from teh back seat.
Funny how the trailer that my dad and I built works so well compared to ones people bought and the rental junk. You barely know my trailer is behind you. I put 5200lb torsion axles under it two years ago and that made it even better. The top of the trailer sits a grand total of 14" off the pavement, its low so it drags less air and doesn't want to sling around because the CG is too high. Also makes it easy to load lowered vehicles on it. We built it that way intentionally, dad and I built one, then dad built another I have both now. The downside is opening doors on the trailer, so I made the drivers side fender removable when I did the axles and fenders. T tops and power windows with a switch in the trunk was how I put the 79 Formula on the trailer to go racing in the 90s.
My 76 C10 pulls my trailers wonderfully, its lowered too. The 2004 GMC crew cab in my yard is the truck I want to use when I pull long distance, so I can take the dogs and tools with me, like to the NNN or to Nebraska to drag another car home to Michigan. Its getting a couple extra leafs out back, and I tucked a 6.0 in it. Need to get the 4L80 swap done on it this spring and replace all the rusty body parts. I have a 2005 2500 HD chassis sitting here, need to swap a cab and flat bed on it, then I can use it to do the distance hauling. I want to find something taller than the 4.10 and 4.56 gears in all my 2500s, a cammed 6.0 makes more than enough wheaties to pull my trailer and my cars on it up hills. I don't need 4x4 to pull around in summer.
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Tony.. we DO make something here, despite NAFTA which sent the majority of our manufacturing out of the country (including all my machinist jobs). Its the same thing I make. Thing is, people believe the propaganda that claims its bad, and they'd rather be reliant on other countries. What is more American than making it yourself? What is more manly than being a 'can do' man?
EVERYONE has the easy button mentality, put the card in, get the food pellet. I've been trying to educate people, get them motivated to start doing it themselves rather than relying upon and thus being dependent upon some big faceless corporation.
What do we make here? We produce energy, lots of it from various sources. When we make ethanol, and the stuff that is left over after fermenting corn is a VERY high quality livestock feed.. We export that to Saudi Arabia so they can feed their livestock with it. Its one of the very few things we send to the sandbox.. other than military people. We make it here, the money doesnt go to some other country that hates us, it stays here and gets invested here.
Yet people are still going to claim its bad for everything despite me showing them over and over that its actually good for vehicles and the environment... not to mention our wallets.
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@c.karnstein3299 ya know man, she can be kinda homely, not the best, just average while not being fat, but she has to be pleasant to be around, and feminine, and she can get a good man. I preferred the girls who were average, like 4 to 7, but they had to not be fat, while being fun to be around without bad attitudes, constantly attempts at manipulation, or starting irrational fights. I dated some very attractive ones, like 'could have been models hot' and found them to be a pain in the ass with their attitude.
Thing now is they feel like they can own us, tell us what we need to do, hold themselves to no standards, get mad if we have any sort of standard (like not being fat) and they feel entitled to the absolute best men, and will often accept nothing less.
Ya know what? Its their loss. They will end up alone, unwanted, with a hundred cats, self medicating with boxed wine, and trying out recipes from "Microwave cooking for One" as they spinster their way from 28 to 80.
Throughout history most men never got to procreate, they were killed in battle, killed in accidents, or were unable to get a girl pregnant before they died. Its the default position for males to live alone, so they can handle it and actually do quite well alone.
Conversely, females rarely do well alone, they require far more social interaction than males do, and they have a short window where they can have kids, after 32 the possibility of birth defects skyrockets.
They have the ticking clock, and they have the delusion of being able to do better than the man they have now, or the one who would have a family with her homely ass. That means the females alive today will either have no kids or mostly be single mothers who raise violent criminal sons and daughters who are also single mothers, perpetuating the cycle.
They have been lied to, they continue to lie to women, telling them its ok to wait until they are 35 to start having kids, that they deserve the best man out there despite she weighs 250lbs, or that being a bitch means they are empowered and independent. Biology it seems, does not give a damn about your ideology or beliefs.
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Is there anything the government can do well or improve when they get involved? I suppose the space program was only possible with the vast resources of the government that it takes from the people, but the way they did it was hideously expensive. Musk figured out how to drop the price of lifting 1kg into orbit from $20K to $8K. Government just throws money at it, YOUR money.
I like green energy, not the way the government wants to do it. I like making it myself, running my cars on home made ethanol, using wood for heat, growing my own food, producing electricity for my personal use. I want to be independent of all the big corporations, not paying them for energy.
So why green? Because I don't own an oil field, also it costs vastly more than I could ever afford to refine gasoline and diesel. Building a huge coal fired power plant is expensive, but other smaller methods of making electricity that can power my home and shop are not too difficult to build. They made electricity in the 1800s, I can do it too. Propane or electric are my only choices other than wood for heat, and propane costs $1000 a month to heat my home, wood is about $250. Electric would be hideously expensive here, just running a space heater a few times a week doubles my bill.
It costs me less than 50 cents a gallon to produce ethanol fuel from cattails, tree sap, and coffee grounds. To be fair maple syrup is vastly more profitable than making vodka from sap, but I don't eat pancakes or waffles very often, and I will get in the old 65 or 70 GTO just to go out and have fun several times a week.
If you live in an urban environment, you are not going to be able to do what I do. I own 13 acres of woodland, 20 miles away from the town of 26k people. I can build engines, transmissions, fuel systems, entire vehicles from piles of steel tubing, and buildings like my shop and house.
From my perspective people who live in cities are dependents. They need everything brought to them, and they must obey what the city demands of them. Lockdowns? Didn't affect me, I did whatever I wanted, and that happened to be buying 15 trucks last year for parts. You can't do that in a city, they don't like your shop to be larger than your house, or for you to have more than two vehicles. You have no way to grow food or produce electricity. No way to make enough fuel to run your car, and if you can get enough waste paper, stale bread, or spoiled produce to make ethanol like I do, it will be far more expensive for you because the scale has to be smaller for you. Your entire back yard would be full of stills and fermentation vats.
Solar is pricey, wind is less expensive on a small scale but not reliable. You need something else to make electricity and have it be reliable. To do that you need some room, and an apartment isn't enough to do anything but exist.
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@Brett_S_420 you do realize you are on the same side as the 30s and early 40s Germans, you know that carved up Poland with them, that then decided to grab up all the countries in eastern Europe, after starving millions to death, and forcing the masses into abject poverty..
You're on the same side, and speak exactly as they do.. what is referred to as a useful idiot. Unware of reality, and fully indoctrinated so you have no choice but to see the world through the lens of resentment they gave you.
I am not a right wing conservative Trump fan. I am not religious, and have similar opinions on it to yours, but I go one god farther than you. When you eschew ideology and simply observe the world around you, and how people act vs what they say, it becomes apparent that the side you are on is the religion that favors mass graves, abject poverty, and starvation/work camps.
and you call it 'freedom' just like the other religious zealots who also resent being born weak, inept, and ineffective so they cling to the ideology that says they are strong because they are victims. I find you amusing, and I replied because it helps he channel with interactions, and of course, so others in here can see this. I know there is no educating you, nor disabusing you of your indoctrination, you cling to it like Linus clings to his blanket.
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Stop punishing fathers and incentivizing mothers to throw dad out then keep him from his kids.
Stop blaming men for the actions of women and encouraging women to make exceptionally poor choices in life.
Stop giving incentives to women to eschew family for a 'career' that is nothing more than a busy work job.
Stop no fault divorce, because it is essentially "His fault" divorce no matter what he does. He is punished, she is rewarded at his expense no matter what she does.
Men are opting out in droves now, women are chasing after the tallest, wealthiest, best looking men which is 1% of the population as they ignore the rest of men. Also if a man who is not tall enough speaks to her, she will claim he S.H.'d her. They are told they deserve the absolute best, and the massive attention they get on dating apps has them believing they are far more attractive than they actually are. Then they can't figure out why men never commit to them, when its because the man she is chasing has the option to get with any woman, why would he want her or any other basic average female? The men who would commit to her and start a family are not good enough for her, as she thinks she is entitled to the best men, so 90% of men are invisible to her.
Men are punished and maligned in movies, media, even TV advertisements, women are irrationally lauded and praised when they make bad choices and act poorly. Saying anything about this gets you labeled as someone who hates women.
Women have all the reproductive rights, they can abandon, abort, or give up for adoption, while men have to pay no matter what she does other than carving the kid out of his first room with a vacuum cleaner. Men are disincentivized to have kids because they will be taken from him, then he will be blamed for abandoning them, but he is responsible for them. Do you know what it is called when you work but everything you earn is taken from you and given to someone who did not earn it with no benefit to yourself? Well the US fought a war to end it in the early 1860s... but its just fine when used against fathers.
I am 54, have two kids in their late 20s. I am and have been in the top 20% of men, so getting some was moderate effort for me for most of my life. Its different for the young men, the are invisible, unwanted, and society maligns them. They have no incentive to do anything, yet people are browbeating them to achieve for the benefit of others. Its insane.
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I knew where this was going immediately... lol. Been doing pushrod lengths and adjusting valve stem heights since I was rebuilding Briggs & Stratton engines when I was ten. The factory shaft rockers make things a pain in the ass.
Where did chevy get the ball stud rocker design? Hint: It came from the division that had almost all the modern engine design from 1955, and had race only chevy stuff from 1967. Air gap intake, 14 degree valve inclination, dual valve springs, screw in studs, valley pan, fully machined gasket surfaces and combustion chambers, cam retaining plate controlling end play, and they are vastly easier to work on. They also make more torque between idle and 6000rpm than chevys, fords, and mopars with more cubes under the heads.
Isn't it more fun to spend less money and go faster? Using stock garden variety parts, not needing the aftermarket to make good power is a cheap way to go about it.
If someone thinks the sbc is the fast way to cheap power, I have a challenge nobody has wanted to take on. Use a factory head, factory cam/springs, factory intake, stock stroke and rod length. You can replace bearings, rings, oil pump, gaskets but you have to use the stock pistons it came with. Build a 400ci sbc and we will see who makes more power for less money. I have a car we can put it in too, same vehicle, gears, transmission, stall, everything. Its a 72 Ventura, so bring some Nova headers.
I have an early 1970s vintage 400 short block on a stand that has never been apart. Its getting rings, bearings, oil pump, and a set of untouched 1969 garden variety D port heads and intake from the big cars. A 1968-70 cam that came in 4 barrel engines will move the valves. I got that engine for $50 and the heads with the intake for $200. I have people give me sbc junk all the time.
If I can find someone to drive another truck and pull the other trailer, I will bring the Ventura to NNN. Used factory stuff vs used factory stuff.
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I own 13 acres of woodland, I built the house I live in from shipping containers, I built the shop in which I rebuild vintage muscle cars and trucks using the trees I had to clear to make room in the structure, I produce clean burning ethanol fuel from tree sap and cattails, grow my own food, use biomass to heat in winter, have no need for AC, I'm working on producing electricity, and....
Its ALL paid for, I have no debt. Only expenses like internet access, car parts, and whatever food I decide to buy.
They want me to rent from them and ride a bike everywhere? After I invested YEARS of my life building my home to do what I want to do with my remaining years, they think I will simply let them have it and obey?
Apparently they do not understand human nature. They really do not comprehend what one motivated US military veteran is capable of, let alone the million or so of us who will also not go along with this idiocy... who have just spent the last 30 years engaged in low intensity insurgencies around the world. Alone we can do a little, but all of us together, acting independently.
Even if the rest of you who willingly disarmed yourselves around the world decide to obey, live in the pod, and be turned into the latest iteration of slaves... I will not, and I am not alone in that. Worldwide communism is not the answer to anything other than how to kill off a few billion people and not be hanged for it.
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@ckb6752 I have two daughters who are now 25 and 27. They grew up around loaded firearms, most with a round in the chamber, I too am a veteran. Desert storm, OIF/OEF, and I was stationed in Germany when the Berlin Wall fell.. have a nice big chunk of it right here next to me. I grew up on a farm with guns in easy reach. I could go shoot any time, provided we had ammo.
I taught my kids as soon as they were old enough to understand what guns can do. To respect them, as they are not toys. I removed the mystery entirely, but did not instill fear. When they turned 7, they got to fire an AR15, then I had them practice with a 10/22 because its light enough they could handle it.
My brother is an Army vet, and we have four siblings who aren't military. We all have kids who were taught about firearms when they were young. Of the 300+ cousins in our rather large family, many of us military, nobody has been accidentally shot. Only the military members have had to use a weapon against someone else.
Education, training, and removing the mystery is far better than depriving kids of knowledge.
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@CaptainFantastic222 what about them... curious. There is a word you need to look up and learn, incongruent. Also clemency, well the idea behind it.
I loathe politicians, very few have even the slightest respect from me, and I trust none of them. Being a disabled veteran who is in office and what they do matters a great deal to me, because they affect my life directly.
Hillary did things that if I had done them while in the USAF I would be serving a minimum of 20 years at hard labor in a federal pound me in the rear prison. They admitted it, from the server which was a federal felony all on its own, to the destruction of subpoenaed evidence, and we aren't even getting into how she orchestrated the deletion of an ambassador and multiple overthrows of countries. She got a pass despite what she did.
These are all factual things she has done, and she has ZERO power to declassify anything as secstate. Its not what aboutism, its obvious that the side that controls the DOJ and alphabet agencies is immune from accountability, while they persecute the useless gop for things the D's have done.
Not even getting into the potato and all his self admitted nefarious dealings and mishandling of documents that make the cheeto look like a saint.
This is the sort of thing that happens in Banana republics and former soviet states. Another thing that happens in those places is tyrants being removed by force, and dragged through the streets like what happened in Romania to Nicolae Ceaușescu, he got off easy I think. If you ascribe to the same ideology of Nic, well chances are you will get a helicopter ride or something too. That type of thing is not taken kindly nor lightly here in the US.
I'll be sitting back and watching, so be sure to wave to me if there are any TV cameras around. mm'kay?
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@Zetro999 I joined the military when Reagan was president, I was 19 and have a chunk of Berlin Wall because I was stationed in Germany when it came down. Yep he spent like crazy on the military, it was a good time to be in it. The wall came down because of that spending. Just two years after the wall came down, and 1 year after we removed Iraq from Kuwait (I was there too) I was a Mr instead of Sgt, because the democrats decided we don't need a military anymore. Over the next 8 years the military was cut so much that they didn't have the manpower to do the mission. the mission had not became less, but the people to do it wee no longer there. So many members ended up deployed for years at a time, sent home for one day, and sent back out again. Over those 8 years we were attacked at least 9 times. From the WTC bombing in 93 to the USS Cole in 2000, friends of mine died at Khobar towers, and the administration did nothing about it. I was able to get back in because of the ineptitude of that administration, and their cutting of the military. Why did I want to go back? Simple, all the machinist jobs I had been working were sent to Mexico because of NAFTA, so all the jobs dried up leaving me unable to support my family.
I was deployed to Kuwait on 9/11, and having been through one war already, I was acutely aware of what was coming. I knew full well that if we invaded Iraq it would be at least ten, if not twenty years before we could get the hell out of there. Its why we didn't take over in 1991. But then we had certain people clamoring for us to go find the WMDs, and remove a dictator who gassed his own people. My last deployment was in 2004, and I did not come back in the same condition I left. I will never run again, and the rest of my life will be spent with chronic pain and many other 'fun' things to remind me of history.
It was the same people who in the next administration orchestrated the overthrow of several mid east and north African governments, resulting in more conflict, and open slave markets in Libya that are still going today. Then she cackled about a world leader getting killed, like she was playing a video game, and downplayed the fact our embassy was over run and Americans were killed, including the ambassador, and said 'whats the difference?' Yeah she was in congress when they sent me, my brother, and most of my friends back into the meat grinder in 2003. Somehow these politician profited and became multi millionaires, while me, my brother and many friends of mine came back broken. Many others came home in boxes.. for the profit of politicians. When she committed multiple felonies, nothing was done about it. If I had had a security breach like that, I would still be in federal prison... they rewarded her with being able to run for president. Rules for us, but not for them.
I am worth what Congress declares I am worth, about $3k a month. And all of us are not allowed to have any other income, such as rental properties or investments. That is how they reward people who sacrificed for them... as they give themselves raises larger than what they 'give' us in a year.
Every asshole in the oval office until the cheeto started new wars, got us involved in more bullshit, he created peace treaties in the mid east, while the others stirred up shit there. The latest asshole is already bombing people for profit. Syria is about a pipeline and who gets to profit from it being built. The cheeto brought back the jobs I used to do, and was rebuilding the middle class, until the other side decided to lock down their states and destroy small businesses. Its ok they let WalMart and other big chains stay open..
Even more than in the past, our government is a dog an pony show, reality TV with our lives in the balance. They saw how popular The Walking Dead was, so they decided we could all play the home game.
Gaslighting does not work on me, because I was there, wearing the boots on the ground, watching history unfold as I participated in its making. You tend to become hyper aware of what politicians are saying and more importantly doing, when what they say and do risks your life. They stay safe and get rich, we risk our lives and are treated like we are a nuisance. While I am not fan of the bad orange man, the cheeto as I call him, and he screwed up a few things during his time, he is the least reprehensible president in my 52 laps around the local star.
They want everyone to live like I do, beholden to them. We veterans earned it, we sacrificed, we risked our very lives, our health, and any semblance of a normal relationship, to be afforded a pittance, disallowed to earn anything more (its why my youtube channel can't be monetized and I can't own rental property) They OWE us... but how do you think they will treat everyone else, who didn't risk anything, they only exist?
I can tell you how, look at Milwaukee, Detroit, Atlanta, Baltimore... look at the poor in places like that. why are they poor? Because all the jobs were moved away from those areas, fathers were kicked out of families so the mother could get section 8, crime is rampant, poverty is hereditary, and the people are subservient cattle to the dem party.. pay them a little and they will vote for you to keep that little bit coming in, but make it so they cannot escape, like a payday loan that is everywhere in communities like that. The wealth gap is growing in those places, and they blame everyone else for it, but they have controlled those cities for the last 40 years, often more than that.
Reagan had his good points and his bad, but his bad was nowhere near as bad as the ones who came after him, until the 45th who was only bad in the eyes of the media and the NPCs, and now we are right back to abhorrent assholes making life worse. People vote for their own subjugation because they can get a $1000 check once in a while. they sure have sold their freedom cheap.
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@ootmaster1 I am very aware of history, and current events. I see what is happening, and I see the parallels with the past. I have seen how marxism tries to obfuscate itself by changing words, nomenclature, and softening the rhetoric.
A socialist is still a socialist no matter what word is put ahead or behind it. Authoritarians are still power hungry assholes who want to control others, and they seem to really enjoy using ideologies to do it.
I don't give a fuck about the minutia in the so called differences, its all the same pile of shit and the sprinkles don't change that.
Likewise I do not see the evangelical christians who want to make the USA a theocracy with legislation based on their rapture myth and snake handling, they are authoritarian assholes just like the rest.
You see I am all about liberty, self determination, personal responsibility, and merit. I do not play identity politics, and I do not want a government telling me what I can and cannot do, or prescribing what I must do. I am quite capable of deciding for myself, and not infringing on others in the process. You know, the whole don't tread on me thing, because this sweaty fat guy is not an inept loser... I can and will inflict grievous harm on those who overstep their bounds and infringe upon me.
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The vast majority of the time, it is HER choices which brought her to that point. They still think they deserve the best of everything, that they're entitled to it.
I built my house, the cars and trucks I drive, the shop I built them in, and my life. I cook, clean, do laundry, and everything else. If I were to allow someone to live here for some access to nether regions, I would expect her to do something to help me out.. e.g. cleaning, cooking, laundry, etc. Its not much to ask since I will be paying the bills and keeping everything working.
But no... oh no, they want a free ride. All the benefits with none of the responsibilities. I have better things to do with my time and money..
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@joshuaperry8729 I have two kids (25 and 28), I found non crazy girls in the last 40 years I been dating. Still divorced twice, lived in my car for a total of four years and was indentured for nearly 20. My kids are girls, they can't find a man worth being with for long. The quality men are checking out, and I do not blame them. Hell I am one of them, I'm not getting married again, and sure as hell not having kids in my 50s.
Know what the worst thing was that happened to me? Been hit by cars, run over by farm equipment, survived two wars, beaten nearly daily growing up, homeless, and despite all of that having those two little girls taken from me and moved 1500 miles away where I got to see them a total of 12 days over the next 8 years was the worst.
I'd rather young men spare themselves that. My kid's childhoods were stolen from me, and my guidance was stolen from them. I hate effinists.
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@____________________________.x had a chick sleep with me, eagerly and involved saying how much she enjoyed it, then a couple hours later demanded I let her take my car out driving in the snow and ice while she was drunk. Suddenly she claimed I forced her, and tried to get me in trouble for it.
Had another accuse me because I would not give her a car since I had two. Luckily she claimed it was Friday night around midnight, she was unaware I worked nights in the military and had Tues/Wed off, Then she went with Saturday before midnight, Sunday morning, as she hunted around for a time for which I did not have an iron clad alibi.
I won't get started on my ex wives, thankfully they did not claim that particular thing, but many many others. No proof needed, it was taken as fact regardless of if it was even possible.
What would a girl stand to gain from false accusations? Gee I wonder...
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Best sounding leaning engine I have heard in a rather long time. That thing shrieks. If you were German like me instead of Italian, I'd say name it schreit. Maybe call it "Strillone." This makes me want to do a low buck UTG build with a virgin Pontiac 400 I picked up for $50 around ten to 12 years ago. Its been sitting on a stand waiting for me to get around to it. I have a set of big valve heads I have all of $200 in, throw some used springs at them, a stock intake I got for free, Qjet, headers, and splurge on a $140 cam and lifters, new bearings, oil pump, gaskets, and rings. Dump it in something, like the free 72 Ventura thats been taking up space for over 20 years, and see what it will do as cheap as possible.
Go back to the way I had to do it when I was a teenager in the 1980s. Because this slant project is exactly how we did it back then when we had no cash. Who needs deep pockets when you have stuff laying around?
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I'm done with them, I can get numbers, dates, in-n-out, but the drama just isn't worth it. the expense isn't worth it. At 53 with two adult kids, I am good. Debt free, ten years ahead of Joker on the land out in the woods project, why do I need to muck it up with a female?
Kids are great, I love mine, but when they are turned into a weapon against you, and then everyone blames you and says you abandoned them... well, that is the worst pain I ever endured. Thats from a man who has been hit by cars, run over, in two wars, and had a VERY rough life.
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My final divorce was in 2013, ten years ago. I have dated a bit since then, but every minute I spend with them, I am thinking about what else I can be doing. I built my house, the shop where I build my cars was also built by me, and I am debt free after buying my land in 2013, and taking out a building loan in 2015. I drive a 1965 GTO and 1970 Cuda all summer as my daily drivers, have passive income just under $100k so I can build hotrods and muscle cars for fun. I don't have to sell them to pay for the next one. Next year I will have the 76 C10 on the road, and a it will pull my race car (1100hp once I put the blower on 1968 LeMans) to the track. the Pontiac shortblock for that thing cost $14k to build, its good for around 3000hp with turbos.
All of that after starting out at zero with just some rusty old cars the ex wives did not want. TEN YEARS.. if I had never gotten married I would have been at this point 20 years ago.
I had my fun with women in my youth, and it cost me dearly. All those wasted years because they wrongly assumed they could do better than me. I can get tuna scent on my bits any time I want, just did on Sunday night, then she went home. The peace and quiet living out here in the woods without someone nagging and disrespecting me is glorious.
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You missed a key ingredient. Disarming the populace. It happened in Europe, now you have no means to resist nor protect yourself. When they come for you, the only options are go with them or be forced to go with them. It happened in UK, Canada, Australia, and now NZ. and people are being arrested for 'offensive language' on twitter facebook etc. You have no means to resist, you will have to go along or be evicted from your mean suit on the spot.
Here in the US they try to tell us there is nothing we can do, our boom sticks won't harm a tank or an airplane, so we should just hand them over. If that were true why would they be so adamant about disarming us like the rest of western countries?
They are making you dependent upon them, and when you're dependent, you're easy to control. They own you at that point.
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@jamesmorrow1646 hottest on record... ok, sure thing... when we started recording temps during the mini ice age, which came after the medieval warming period which was several hundred years of warm weather in the northern hemisphere. How many SUVs and coal power plants were around in the 1500s and before?
Ya know I see people claim correlation doesn't equal causation unless they start talking about Co2, then correlation IS ALWAYS causation.. how about that. Then all the 'solutions' they posit involve us surrendering our autonomy to an all powerful state which will dictate to us what we can and cannot do.... ya know, that was tried extensively from 1917 to 1991 in eastern Europe, and that is the method they want to employ to stop the earth from warming to where it was centuries before the industrial revolution.
Please excuse my dubious reaction to their assertions.
Besides, I live vastly greener than ALL of those people claiming we need to live in the pods, eat the bugs, not travel, and obey them. If they were actually about the environment and not about gaining power over everyone, they would be telling people to live more like I do. However, they tell people to obey and to not do what I do, they want people to be dependent on them rather than independent like I am working to be.
They tell you to:
Buy then drive a new $80k electric car, that doesn't work in cold climates, rather than rebuilding an old vehicle for a fraction of the cost, that cleans the air as it runs because it runs on home made cattail vodka. rebuild, reuse, repurpose, and reduce. I have already gotten better mileage on ethanol than the same size engine in the exact same car did on gasoline. ITS FREAKIN SIMPLE TO DO, and I am working on improving it even more.
Live in a large concrete building that makes you feel horrible where you have enough space to lie down, rather than out among nature where you can support yourself for food, fuel, and energy.. and heat your home while making high quality topsoil instead of burning things. Don't build a home out of used shipping containers either, because then you cannot be controlled as easily.
Eat the food we give you, not the food you grow yourself, because they make no profit from you growing your food.
Divorce yourself from nature even farther, because sad and depressed people who are ignorant of how nature works are much more profitable and vastly easier to control.
Don't eat meat because then you can remain weak and not have enough energy for your brain to operate with enough capacity that you realize you are getting screwed over as you are turned into chattel.
Believe everything we tell you and be terrified! We might end up like Venus! Except that the Venusian atmosphere is 95.6% Co2 and less than 3.5% nitrogen, not to mention its just a wee bit closer to the sun, but never mind all that because proximity to the sun is mostly irrelevant... and it hurts the narrative.
Meanwhile earth is 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen, 0.9 percent argon, and 0.1 percent other gases. Trace amounts of carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and neon are some of the other gases that make up the remaining 0.1 percent.
Simply put, there isn't enough CO2 in our atmosphere, or buried in coal or oil, to cause the runaway greenhouse effect.
remember... I don't run my vehicles on oil, nor do I heat my home or shop with oil or coal. Sadly at the moment I am getting my electricity from a coal plant, but that is only until I find an affordable Prius with a good enough battery in it.. then its going to power my home like a big methane fueled battery backup on a PC.
Every living thing that decomposes releases methane and co2. Every vertibrate exhales Co2, plants inhale Co2, but lets ignore that so we can... complain about the cows and hogs, and completely ignore the myriad other wildlife out there eating and farting, they don't matter because cows are bad mm'kay. Lets ignore all the grasses, tree leaves/branches, and other plant material that releases methane and Co2 as it decomposes every damn year, and lets freak out about cows that are doing the same thing as a few billion wildebeests..., out of sight, out of mind though, am I right?
I swear city people think they are so damn smart and educated, yet they have no damn clue how the world around them works, or what happens if you stick your fingers in the natural machine and start twisting knobs and dials.
We are coming out of a mini ice age, when it was considerably warmer prior to the cooling period, but oh noes it has to be humans... So the solution is definitely to become the property of the rich people who fly around the world in private jets, living in huge mansions, and buying water front property. That way we can suffer for them, because they definitely have our best interest in mind, not their own profit and control.
I have solutions that make a difference regarding pollution, but the 'wrong' people will profit from them, so they cannot be heard nor implemented. From where I stand the people pushing the 'earth is boiling' narrative look a lot like the oil companies do, and the tobacco companies did in the 70s. Moving goalposts and baseless assertions intended to keep people afraid and compliant. They look like the people who claimed tetraethyl lead was good for you... profit and power over people.
Thats all they are.
Yeah, I know.. you didn't read all of that, but someone might.
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I am from before the internet was available to civilians, I learned how to tell when a girl was interested back in the 1980s. 2 is exactly right, if I didn't see an indicator of interest from her, I did not waste my time on talking to her.
I don't see it as the internet as killed dating, it has made it more interesting, girls get a lot more attention online, and its useless for a 50+ man like me to even bother with it, but it has not killed dating. I can get laid easily, by girls half my age without spending a dime on them. So its not like they are unwilling to fuck, or only want the absolute best men, they want me for the muscle bound gorilla fuck they get from me. Then they move on.
What has killed dating and is prompting young men to say "Fuck this shit, I'm out!" is not the simps who feed 4s massive amounts of attention, we had that 30 years ago too. Its by design.
1: tell females they deserve the best, even if they are 300lbs with a club foot and have five kids from five different men. Instill entitlement from a young age, and reinforce it daily with the media and societies preference for females.
2: give them financial and social incentives to divorce the men who are daft enough to marry them. Make those men pay for her poor choices and punish the men for being men and fathers.
3: falsely accuse them then gaslight everyone and say it never happens. You can watch it happen on TV when they show the man as an inept, violent, moron who needs a whamen to save him. Thats a false accusation on a wide scale. On the individual scale they will claim you're abusive, graped, or touched her, or made her feel uncomfortable.
4: make it so reprehensible for men to engage in relationships by enacting laws that punish them for it when they allow a female into their lives, that men say fuck this shit Im out.
5: give every incentive and advantage to females, make them feel special, tell them they are victims when they are actually the most privileged people on the planet, so everything they do is easily rationalized and justified in their minds. Ever notice how all of her ex's were abusive cheating assholes? Well, she is rationalizing her bad choices, and she wishes she could have him back, but she fucked it up.
That is what has killed dating, is causing the precipitous drop in birth rate, and has men checking out of dating and society in droves. The mainstream is just now noticing it, and they are starting to demonize independent men, not just by getting rid of people who use the going their own way acronym in their channel name.
Young men see and read about what happened to men like me, how I lost everything twice in divorces, had 71% of my gross garnished, the state broke multiple state and federal laws and nobody gave a fuck, no lawyer would take my case. Young men see that and decide not to play the game. Some will still get laid, fucking the girls along with the other top 10% men in the area, and the rest simply stop. They watch videos, play games, and do things that are fun for them.
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I was blamed for everything, never mind that I am easy to get along with, don't mistreat people, I'm faithful, attentive, but also it is impossible to control me. I lead, she follows. They cheated, lied, mistreated me (and the kids with the first one) and the shrinks all blamed me for not being subservient to my ex's.
Like you VVulf, it was a relief when the first one finally left. She was still trying to manipulate me and tried to get me back six months later. Its been 22 years since the divorce and she is still trying to get me back. I'll take a large hole through my thinking meat before I will take her back.
The scars from her stabbing me are still here, the divot in the back of my head from a coffee mug is still there. I will never get the years back that she stole from me and my kids, by keeping me away from them out of pure vindictive capriciousness. Also she is no longer the 110lb hotty I met in 1993, she is over 300lbs and has a oxycontin issue... Remember, 22 years since the divorce.
For me its not being hurt or scared, its about losing everything I have built and invested my life into building, to someone who does everything wrong and is rewarded for it. The final divorce was ten years ago, and I have been intentionally and permanently single since then. I fear no woman, and very few men make me wary, as I am not small and I am well trained. (military and more) However judges can just take my property and award it to them at will, and there is nothing I can do about it.
I will hook up with women who are worthy of my time, but they get zero commitment, they are free to leave at any time and I enjoy the time I spend with them. If they do things my ex's did, that they are well aware of, they are released immediately.. things like starting irrational fights or hitting me. If she acts irrationally and she is gone. Pure and simple.
To be honest I am happier now than I have ever been before, living alone in the woods with a couple of old (16 and 15 year old) Siberian huskies, building my house, and rebuilding old muscle cars in the shop I built back in 2015. Life is stress free for the most part, comfortable living, and I get things done that I could never do while I had a 120lb leech living in my wallet.
They are so delusional and feel entitled, unwilling to accept responsibility and accountability for their actions, so life is preferable without them in it.
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In June of 1993, just after 2 am when everything closes, and I was rather blitzed from touring the local bars. I saw this 54 chevy go flying by making a lot of cool noises, so my bud who was driving me around and I chased him down in a parking lot near the train tracks. Talked to him for a bit, found out about the car, and saw two girls sitting on the hood of a car. I walked over to the one who had been staring at me, and asked her "Do you have a boyfriend?" To which she replied "No" so I asked "Do you want one?" I was a bit late getting to work at 2pm the next day for what should be obvious reasons.
Eight years of hell ensued, she let it creep in slowly until I didn't want to sleep in the same house because she had already tried to stab me twice and cut me a few times. Have a divot in the back of my skull from the coffee mug she hurled at me while I was playing with my kids. She cheated constantly and the only reason I stayed was to protect the kids from her. In June it will be 21 years since the divorce. She got full custody and seriously screwed up our two daughters. I was indentured to her until 2015, impoverished the whole time no matter how much money I made.
She is over 300lbs, 5'5, addicted to oxy, she kept her house from being foreclosed in December because her mom died and left her some money. Her second husband has left her, he is tired of her crap, and when they are divorced there will be no way she can pay for her house. No man worth a damn will go for a 300lb 50 year old chick.
In 2003 I hooked up with the 21 year old girl that would be my second wife. Wonderful girl, decidedly homely, but a virgin and not at all like the first one. For 8 years she was amazing, then we got married and just 16 months later were divorced because she thought she could screw this moron 20 years younger than me, and that I would fund it. That was in 2013. She had me thrown in jail on false accusations, zero evidence, and I sit in jail for 15 days.
I am not small, not timid, not weak. Two war veteran, and I could end just about any female with one hand, not many men can beat me either. However, the state has more guys with boomsticks, so when they are on the side of the female, there isn't much you can do. I got to see my kids all of 12 days between 2001 and 2009. Twelve days.
I sold some car parts, got a couple grand from my dad, and bought some woodland in October 2013, closed two weeks after the divorce was final. I built my shop and house in 2015. Its all paid off now, I build old muscle cars for fun, and the inflation is more annoying to me than anything as I try to build something fast enough to scare myself. Just ordered a $2200 EFI system for the toy I am building this year. Until 2021 that was something I would have to save for two years to buy.
The guys who are daft enough to get married now are going to end up like me, but without the happy ending of owning a bunch of GTOs they built and living on 13 acres 20 miles from town.
Your story is already an outlier, mine is ubiquitous. I'm happy for you... sorta. If you own a couple GTOs, then yeah, if not... well my condolences. Life is too short to drive boring shit.
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@Carlos.Rivera Pontiac mostly. This is going to sound like a brag, but keep in mind that I buy VERY rusty cars that are usually not even good parts cars, and rebuild them. I do that to stay busy and its cheaper than buying one already finished.
I rebuild rusty junk because they are cool cars, I want to drive them, and it keeps me busy while providing purpose for my life. When you go from being a highly capable man who can do damn near anything, to being able to walk 100feet a day, it messes with you. building cars makes me feel productive, even if I am a lot slower than I was before I got hurt in the desert.
My dad left me a car when he died in 2020, its a 1973 Barracuda cloned into a 70 AAR Cuda, with that eye searing great idea for a getaway vehicle lime green paint. Its the nicest car I own... and one of the slowest.
65, 69, 70, 72 GTOs. The 65 is my daily driver, the 69 is a basket case, the 72 hasn't been driven since 1997. The 70 has been waiting for its turn in my shop.
64, 65, 68, 71, 72 LeMans, they become race cars and fun projects like straight axle gassers. Look that up if you don't know what it is. They are cool.
Then I have Firebirds. 68 that is really rusty 71, 72, 74, 78, 79 and 98 Formulas. Four 79 TransAms. Three of these are very rare cars worth quite a lot of money when I get them finished.
Also have a 32 Pontiac, a 29 Ford both are rusty shells, 72 Ventura its like a Nova, 71 Mustang fastback, 84 Mustang convertible, 67 Cougar (my first car I bought in 1982), and a pair of Opel GTs I plan to turn into terrifying things with big engines.
A couple C10s, 76 and 84, the 84 I am building for my daughter. 88 C1500 that was my 2nd ex wife's and I am building it the way she wanted it, then using it to take my trash to the township dumpster, because I have to drive by where she lives to do it. I bought it from her dad, he was going to scrap it, but it has zero rust.
Along with that I have a bunch of 1997 to 2007 trucks, we get lots of snow here, the roads are heavily salted so I drive these 4x4 trucks in winter. End up needing parts for them, so I have several.
The most I ever paid for a vehicle was $7500, that was the 1998 Formula in 2004. The majority of them were purchased for $500 or less. I've had quite a few for 20 years, five for 30 years, and one for 41 years. I just never sold them, rather I put them away and drove something else over the years. Also now my parts cars are valuable as drivers, so I am rebuilding what was only good for a parts car 40 years ago.
I had a 1980 BMW 520 when I was stationed in Germany 1989-1991, was not very impressed with it. Slow and handled terribly. Sold it to my boss and ended up with the 1979 Formula.
I am big into cars and trucks. Its why I still exist, because the hardship in my life would have driven most people to end it. The cars keep me busy and thus alive. If you think I am making it up, click my name and see for yourself. :)
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A couple things assumed. Navigation. While the US Navy is currently very reliant on GPS, Navy aviators and USAF aviators are all trained in dead reckoning navigation, using compass/time and landmarks just like the WWII guys, because battle damage can take out GPS and other NAV aids. They gotta know how to get around, even in an ocean, without all the fancy stuff. They have to know several different NAV methods, so they learn the basics all the way up to high end go here follow the waypoints stuff.
Jet fuel can be kerosene or ethanol based, and going to ethanol doesn't decrease range like you think it would. the ME262, HE162, and Arado bombers in Germany all flew on vodka, which is all ethanol is. Its the exact same stuff people drink in bars and while watching the game. Modern jets can fly on methanol, ethanol, kerosene, and light diesel fuels. The MILSPEC is specific but more for a consistency of maintenance and performance, they know what the engine will do on a certain fuel, so you use that. What it will run well on, is a bit more broad. What works is very different from what you might prefer. Its not like we are severely limited in what we can use to run our engines.
The Navy and USAF can drop 'dumb' bombs with surprising accuracy, especially compared to WWII era systems which mainly counted on eyeballs and human speed/distance judgement. The difference between our capability now and my first war in 1990-91 is huge. The difference between now and Vietnam is even larger, and with WWII-Korea era its simply amazing and unbelievable to the people from that era who would be seeing it for the first time. Hitting a ship at sea with a dumb bomb while travelling faster than any other plane in the world, so their gunners can't even lead you enough, hell, it would be a turkey shoot even using 1000lb unguided bombs.
The IJN would hear nothing as the first couple carriers exploded long before any of their planes even got off the decks, other than their CAP flights. When we had to switch to dumb bombs rather than the LGBs and other non GPS guided stuff, the ships could be hit at just under supersonic or even supersonic speeds.
In Vietnam the F111 was a terror weapon to the North Vietnamese. The B52 strikes went like this. The air raid sirens went off, the lights went out, the jets were heard, the bombs exploded, the sirens shut off and the lights came back on. The F111 was like this. Something exploded, a jet was heard making a sonic boom, the lights go out, the air raid sirens go off. It freaked them out and you never knew when an F111 was on its way in. They used terrain following radar and flew NOE into the target. That was 50 years ago with very primitive electronics compared to today.
An FA18 rolling through at over 650kts a couple feet off the deck and blowing past an IJN ship as it drops a couple iron slugs filled with semtex into it would be damn hard to defend against with WWII tech. They wouldn't know if they had been shot, fucked, or snakebit as they went up in balls of flame. The IJN might get lucky sometimes, if anyone survived to describe what happened to their ship, and they could figure out we had planes that could fly at 1200mph... four times what the A6M2/3/5/7 could muster.. and then devise some sort of counter to it which isn't likely. The FA18 could run down the Oka/Baka rocket planes from 1945 easily. The Me262 would be very easy prey for any US fighter built since 1969, even in a gunfight without missiles. Shooting A6Ms would be like strafing a nearly stationary target to them.
We can use the high end weapons, but we can also use the low tech stuff with a very high degree of success, especially compared to WWII era systems and munitions. Its not like we used GPS and LGBs exclusively in my two wars(Desert Shield/Storm and OIF/OEF), we dropped lots of unguided munitions and tore shit up with them, far more accurate than the Norden or any other bombsights used in WWII.
The whole reason we use guided munitions is to limit collateral damage and take out targets with the least danger to the airframe and crew with the best cost/benefit. In Iraq #2 we dropped concrete slugs with LGB guidance attached to them on Iraqi jets parked in residential areas. 2000lbs of concrete dropped from 20k+ft hitting a jet in Achmed's back yard still makes a big hole where the jet was, but doesn't take out all the civilians around it. The US military can do things most can't even imagine and we can still do it the old fashioned way.
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@mr.slaphappy3794 honestly I am amazed YT let you see it. They usually hide my comments.
I started on the ethanol and home energy production project in 2007 so I could drive my 1970 GTO and other cars I have. Gasoline was $5 a gallon for 87 octane at the time, and it prompted me to learn how to make my own, and then how to make my engines run and get better mileage on it.
So far I have surpassed the 87 octane mileage of an 8.8:1 compression 455 (7.4L) that pushed that 4100lb GTO into the 12.60s in the quarter mile with a 2.93 gear ratio behind it and no power adder. The best mileage it got was 20 on a highway following a truck across Tennessee doing 80mph with a 2004R overdrive transmission. Around town it got 13-15 if I didn't drive it hard. Usually on the highway it did between 17 and 19 with the overdrive and very tall gears.
In 2010 I built another 455 with 13:1 compression to run on E85 and E100, similar sized camshaft and airflow through the factory iron heads. The heads are where the compression ratio is decided on a Pontiac V8. With a 3.42 gear behind it resulting in higher cruise RPM, it averaged 20mpg mixed city and highway driving.
The power made by the 13:1 engine far surpassed that of the 8:1 engine, using the same type of carburetor in both, a Rochester QuadraJet 4 barrel. I never made it to the track in that configuration, the wiring in the 70 GTO is original and its in poor condition to say the least. Keeping the tail lights working was a chore. Also it needs the suspension rebuilt again, so I parked it while it waits its turn in my shop where I will do a frame off rebuild on it.
So I took that engine, swapped a different set of heads on it that make 11.5:1 and put it in my 1965 GTO in 2018, and I use that as my summer daily driver on E85 and E100. It gets 17mpg because the 65 GTO is very much NOT aerodynamic.. lol. The head swap was about head gaskets, I wanted to be able to run less expensive FelPro gaskets.
I am working on two other engine projects, a 6.0L LS in my 76 C10 pickup, and a 3.8L Buick V6 that I am building a ladder car similar to the Ariel Atom but I will add body panels and see just how much mileage I can get from it. Both will employ a heated EFI fuel system that turns the ethanol into vapor as it leaves the injectors, high compression, mild camshaft timing that makes high cylinder pressure, and overdrive transmissions.
The idea is if I can get good mileage from a big engine in an old muscle car, then I want to see how it works with a modern engine in a truck and in a small sportscar. I have a supercharged 3800 Buick here along with three naturally aspirated engines. It should be easy to achieve 400hp with the supercharger, and in a less than 2000lb vehicle it should be 'spirited' driving.
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I have a hard time following orders that make no sense, are unlawful, evil, or plain stupid. Years in the military left me less than amenable to orders like that and I had no problem refusing stupid, illegal, unsafe, or otherwise undesirable orders no matter how much rank someone had. If the regs are on my side, I have no fear from people pushing me to go against them. No I did not comply with the illegal mandates over the last two years. Businesses that pushed them lost my patronage and I made sure they knew I would never return.
Why do my videos all pertain to cars and huskies? Because that is what I am into. My comments and what I do in the real world is rooted in doing the right thing regardless of consequences. However, I will drive too fast, do a bit of racing when the opportunity presents itself, and I take advantage of the government as much as possible...because they fucking owe me. I survived two wars and years of systematic abuse, so death is not much of a motivator for me to do something wrong or allow it to happen on a grand scale. Threaten me with that, and you have a fight on your hands that I will not stop until the threat is gone. Been there done that, got the T shirt and the limp.
People fighting over something that does not pertain to or include me, not my problem. The government telling me what I can say or do, tossing people in camps for disagreeing with them... that is a problem. If it matters, you can bet your ass I will do something. Honestly I don't give a fuck what happens to me, I have lived an interesting and eventful life, not all of it enjoyable. So I am good any time I have to kick my air addiction or get evicted from my meat suit. The only thing keeping me here is the old cars and plans I have for them. I'd much rather spend my remaining years building hotrods, but if they push it, they will find out just how well they trained me.
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All the farmer hate I see online surprises me, they also think farmers are the type of people who make Forest Gump look brilliant. Complaining about subsidies which amount to a drop in a bucket like farmers are getting paid millions each.
Urban people will find themselves even more dependent than they are, and wonder what happened, how they got there, and then blame all of us who aren't daft enough to live in a city... where everything must be brought to them, and the waste taken away.
I will have food, fuel, energy, heat, and a roof over my head. If the city people come here to take it, they will have a bad day.
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About 20 to 25 years ago there was a revolution in the world of Radio Controlled planes, helicopters, cars, trucks, boats, etc. It was brushless electric motors. The more voltage you feed them, the more power they make and more RPM they turn. Putting a brushless in an RC truck or car makes them LUDICROUSLY fast. It makes glow engines look very very sad. The electrics also don't have any goo to clean up from an engine running methanol and castor oil, sometimes with a little nitromethane mixed in. The brushless stuff makes the old nickel cadmium battery brushed motor stuff look like they're running in molasses.
That made foam electric powered planes lots of cheap fun. For $200 you can put together a 150mph plane in about half an hour while the battery charges. They are so cheap you can run into other planes, and either glue it back together in a few minutes, or swap a shattered fuselage or wing for another one. It is super easy to overpower an airframe made of foam, too much power too fast and they like to spin into the ground.. don't ask how I know.
HOWEVER... there are concerns, drawbacks, and hazards with electric batteries and motors. All the same ones Tony talks about, and also battery life. You end up replacing battery packs often, at most we get 5 years from one if its cared for meticulously. They range from $20 for one with a short duration (Mah is a rough measurement) to well over $300 for longer duration/range. The cost has come down on them, when I stopped flying (because I am building full size cars right now) the batteries were $80 to $100 each for 2200mah. Those are the $20 ones now.
If you don't charge and discharge them correctly, or they get any water in them at all, you have a fast burning very hot fire you cannot extinguish. Think for a moment about heat cycles. Engines get water in the crankcase, because they get hot, then they cool off and water condenses inside the engine. We have to run them hot enough to boil the water out, or the oil turns to a milkshake. Batteries get hot when you demand lots of discharge voltage from them, they go through heat cycles too. Better hope there aren't any cracks or gaps where water can condense in the pack... because if it does, poof..
Obviously there aren't as many electric boats, because RC boats don't always stay above the water, they get flipped easily. With NiCads and glow engines, you dry out the servos/reciever, flush the water out of the engine, and you're up and running again. I sank my 36" glow powered boat all the freakin time...With LiPo or Li Ion packs, you can only have that happen just so often.
Thusly I am not against EVs, but I want people to be aware of the hazards associated with them, and the limitations inherent in the designs.
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@PennelopeWhitmore you don't see it out in the country? I do. There are many people in rural areas who dislike me, because I am never going to apologize for being male. Had the sheriff called on me last week in my home town because a guy in his late 70s felt the need to, since the 22 year old coworker at his store and I got along well. Rural people look down on me because of my divorces, which I did not instigate, cause, or want, but I am blamed for them nonetheless.
What I also see is society, media, government, education, and everyone except men like Tate telling men to be more like women. To be soft, timid, weak, and let their feelings rule over them. That being capable is a bad thing, competence even worse, and we should just let women run things because we are so inept.
When I got out of the military the first time in 1992 I asked the financial aid counselor at my local VoTech if there were any grants or anything I could get. The counselor asked, me. "Are you female? Disabled? A minority?" to which I replied no, and he said there was no money for me other than student loans. He also said that making $14k the previous year on active duty was too much money to get any assistance.
Everyone else gets a hand up, but we pale males have to work for everything, all the while being told we are the most privileged and have it the easiest. Read any of the things I write about my life, and tell me how easy and privileged I have been.
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Sniper? Recon? Logistics? No.. they cannot do that, they do not pack the gear required to complete the job. To do the same as one average guy takes 5 or more of them. They can't run very far, they can't carry anything while doing it, they have no endurance, no speed, and they can't manage their emotions. My USAF job was logistics, air cargo where I loaded aircraft and pushed pallets that can weigh 10,000lbs each. Over 6000lbs you cannot get enough of them behind it to move it, and I can move then by myself, because I was saddled with them in the 1990-91 airlift... and I got HUGE from being overworked.
I could pick up 200lbs and run up three stories hundreds of times during a 12 hour shift. They have a difficult time with 40lbs, its simple biology.
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Before I start telling the story, here is some background. Typos are intentional because the powers that be don't like me talking about this. I am a 5'8 muscle bound freak of nature, served in two wars, I fear no man one on one. I am well trained and very capable. I was 230lbs on active duty, and you can't be fat in the military if you want to stay in.
The ex was 120-140lbs, bipolar (which I knew nothing about prior to her) and she would get extremely violet. She took it out on our two daughters and on me. She wanted control of everything, including me and the money I made, and I would not hand it over to her. If I did anything 'nice' for her, she would start a fight and escalate it until I had enough and stopped her physically, then she could feel like a victim. I never hit or harmed her, I only stopped her from hitting me, stabbing me, and throwing things at me.
I have a divot in the back of my head from the coffee mug she threw at me while I was spending time with my kids, teaching them how to read, write, math, etc. She started fights until I allowed her to take care of the bills, and gave her access to the bank account. She then made me $400 overdrawn every week by Tuesday, and I made $750 a week. She never paid the bills, and I would come home to a dark house with the power and water shut off.
When the police showed up, they only cared if I touched her. Didn't matter if I was bleeding, had ripped clothing, or she was holding something she was using to harm me. They just wanted to take me away, she could do anything with no consequences.
My only choices were to take it, or leave my kids there with her. If I took my kids away from her, I would get arrested for it. The cops made that abundantly clear. So I stayed with her for 8 years and endured it all, while trying to work enough hours to stay ahead of the debt she enjoyed creating.
She was cheating with several guys including her best friend's husband, using substances, and even went so far as to make spicy videos with another military couple. I had a three inch thick folder showing all her actions, singed off by my O6 commander and my entire chain of command, as they saw it all when I went back to the military in 2000 trying to stay ahead of her debt.
The judge threw it out without even looking at it. Then he called me an unfit parent because I was in the military and could be zeroed out at any time. They used all those police reports of her attacking me, and framed it as I was doing it to her.
She got full custody, I got 'reasonable visitation' which turned out to be 12 days in the next 7 years. I had to go find my kids when I came home on leave, because she would move, change her number, and screen calls when I got her number from her friends. The state was supposed to tell me where my kids were, but they would not. They broke state and federal laws, and no lawyer would take my case.
The state deemed 71% of my gross pay to be adequate to pay in support. That left me living in my car because at my rank I could not live on base without dependents. I slept on friends couches, in my car, at work, and ate once a day. I had $100 a month to live on, when state law said they need to leave the father at least $950. Apparently taxes are included in that.
From 2001 to 2004 that was my life. I deployed in 2001 and got to sleep in a bed. Got orders to Korea in 2002 and that caused me to go behind in support because we lose money going there, and they still gave me the $100, but they could not take enough for me to stay current. If I got a second job, which is impossible with my military job, particularly after 2003 when my 2nd war started, they would increase the amount, but they would not reduce the amount unless she demanded it.
I was indentured to her until 2015. When the support ended, she kicked my kids out and they came to live with me to get started in life. She had told them I only cared about the money, not about them. Thats why she would screen calls, move often, and not let me talk to them on holidays and birthdays. When I sent gifts the ex would either take them for herself or throw them out without the kids knowing about them. It took all year saving enough to get a present for my kids, and she never let them have it.
2009 was the first time my kids were allowed to spend the summer with me. I was out of the military and living near Lake Superior. The oldest was terrified because of what her mother had told her. The ex assaulted me when I came to pick them up, my hands stayed in my pockets as she hit me and ripped my shirt off me. Then she told the cops I pushed her. I wish we had video taped that one, not that it would have made a difference in court.
I could have ended her easily, with one hand, but I didn't.
Currently she is 330lbs, addicted to oxycontin, was about to be evicted from her house for non payment, then her mother died last year and left her just enough to get caught up. So she will be homeless within a year. Her 2nd husband is trying to grow some balls and leave her, but she runs his life with an iron fist. The cops are behind her in that state.
I was injured on my last deployment in 2004, barely able to walk for the next ten years. Discharged on a medical, nearly two years before VA compensation started, and I went behind nearly $100k in support with zero income. I got caught up in 2015, just as the youngest was graduating.
The 2nd ex lived with me for 8 years, then we got married, and 16 months later she cheated and filed for divorce in 2013. They falsely accused me and I sat in jail for something that was impossible for me to do. It only takes an accusation, no evidence needed, you being male is enough.
In 2013 I sold some old car parts and bought some land. Starting in 2015 I got a loan and built my shop, my house, and have been rebuilding my life ever since. Last year I paid off all my debts, so I own my land and home free and clear. I am rebuilding old muscle cars to stay busy, the cars and my tools are the only things I managed to keep in the two divorces I have been through.
I don't even date anymore. Its not worth it, because at 53 I am too old to rebuild my life again because the state takes everything I have invested in and built, and gives it to some cheating waste of oxygen. Its not that every girl will do that, its that every girl CAN do that.
This is a brief overview of my story, there is a lot more to it than just this little bit. Its long enough as it is.
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@Opal5674 yeah... point blank.. be subservient to her, obey her, hand over your paycheck to her so she can spend it on whatever she wants, and who cares about things like bills, mortgages, food, insurance. Thats what the 'therapists' all said to me. She was never wrong, never at fault, never to blame, and when she cheated it was justified because I was not good enough and drove her to it. All the irrational fights she started were my fault as well.
The shrink even showed happiness in her expression and body language for my second ex when she heard about the methhead my ex was talking to in Minnesota. Thats the same ex who was telling me how wonderful we were together in the morning, then ran off to get with this kid she met two weeks earlier that she thought was her soulmate. They lasted 3 years.. she was with me for just short of ten. Now she gets what she has earned, loneliness, poverty, and the invisibity that comes with being 40 and female.
Now here is the funny part. I have treated every woman in my life the same, which is quite well. The last one I was seeing from 2015 - 18 is still friends with me, but she wanted to try out a firefighter she met.. who dumped her two weeks later. Granted the 7 hour drive to see each other was a bit rough, but she still enjoys spending time with me, when she isn't seeing someone else. She gets a year to 26 months per guy now. She is 51 and a single mom... its not looking promising for her to not end up alone and unwanted.
Most of them from my past want me back. They realized they screwed up, and nobody else ever treated them as well as I did. Funny that... since I am always the problem, always at fault, always the reason and justification.
Life is better without you ladies in it.
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I'm an individual, I think like one, act like one, and do not follow groups, fads, or ideologies. Lumping me in with groups is what other people do. It is abhorrent to me when someone only sees the minimal resistance to UV light, or my overly light sensitive pale blue eyes, and assumes that I am the same as everyone else who looks remotely similar. THEY want to play the groups and power games, they want to push us all into pigeonholes that limit us, because that gives them power over people. You are bad because of how you look, not who you are, so anything we do to you is justified because you're bad. That is the game they are playing, and I refuse to play it that way.
The game I will play when SHTF is oh you follow that particular ideology? Ok I have something for you... don't worry, we'll send it over to you, just hold on a second.
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@JohnL-qe4pi its funny you say that... the first one, who is 48 and over 300lbs with a substance issue (oxy) came to drop off some of my youngest kid's stuff. When her and her mother drove on my yard, saw the shop, house, and the kid told her I owned more than ten acres of land, and all the old muscle cars around here, the looks on their faces were priceless.
She knew she screwed up. I live out in the woods where its peaceful and I can see billions of stars every night, and the northern lights all year. She lives by train tracks that have coal trains rolling by every half hour.
Well a few years later the kid was talking to me on speaker from her house by the tracks one day, and the kid said something about how it all got messed up. I said something about trying to make it work, but you can't fix unmedicated bipolar.
Well the ex straight up said that yes she caused nearly all the problems, she was overly regretful about what she did. This is about a year after she told my family that she wanted back into our family. They didn't even have to ask me to inform her the answer is a resounding no. She is so delusional she thinks I might take her back...
After she ruined my life, stole my two daughter's childhoods from me, and my guidance from them, and leeched more than $250k out of me, left me homeless while I was still active duty in the US military. Living in your car sucks, but doing it with a war on really sucks. 2001 to 2004.
She attacked me often, I still have scars from where she cut me and hit me with stuff, trying to get me to engage with her so she could feel like a victim.
I am not a small nor timid man, check my videos if you want, I could end her easily if I so chose, quietly, and watch the life drain away while I scratched my chin or ass with my other hand... but I never harmed her in any way. I endured to protect my kids from her... and that is the highlights.
The best revenge is to live well. The best enjoyment is watching them run their lives into the ground and set fire to it. I say to girls like that...
You go girl.
40 to 80 is a long time to live in boxed wine and cat land.
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@grizzlybear2702 you're making assumptions, its far easier for a girl to get sex than a man, certainly if they are both average. Even if you are not very tall as a man, you can still get a girl. I am 5'8 and have had somewhere between 150 and 200 of them, and have girls hit on/flirt with me often. Cute girls make eye contact, look down and away while smiling. That is an indication of interest, but they do far more than that.. plus, I am 53 years old, have a gray beard and hair, but I have lots of muscle and a power lifter physique. Remember 5'8... 53, and 300lbs of muscle. The take away from that is if you build yourself, like my muscle mass, and you have a dominant personality, girls will like you even if you're short.
They do not get any say in what girls I allow to be in a relationship with me, they only decide if they are going to get naked for me or not. They gatekeep the snot pocket, I gatekeep my resources. Any of us can get laid with zero commitment to a girl. They cannot get commitment unless we give it.
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@MRU79 why should everyone have equal representation? Should you or I have 1.1 million subscribers just because the Drinker does? I don't think so, he has earned it, put in the work, been consistent, and made quality content. Merit matters.
It takes a surprising amount of work to create a video like this. Sure he doesn't create the video aspect as he is utilizing the trailers for the visuals, but what he says, how he phrases it, the point he makes, and how its all put together so it feels so seamless, easy, and remains congruent... that is where the effort lies.
He has 1.11 million subscribers because he has earned them, not because he was given them for being Scottish or due to the fact he can piss standing up, heels together without getting his feet wet.
The people with a marxist mindset are envious of what he and others have built, they want it for themselves, so they demand to have it without the effort and discipline required to achieve it. That is why movies are shit these days, why Rey and Mulan are perfect without any effort, its to sell the idea that merit doesn't matter, only if you squat to piss or have high resistance to UV light.
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@TallGarage I like Rich, I use his info on LS engines often when picking cams and whatnot. I have talked to Dulcich and Freiburger on bangshift, a site David started quite a few years ago, but they no longer frequent, they are too busy with TV shows. Dulcich was a bit of a dick one time, but it was all in good fun and I kinda deserved it to some extent.. lol. I still like those guys, otherwise I wouldn't have a sub to MTOD because EM and RK are the only things I watch on there. I have lots of respect for them, and appreciate the goofy way they don't take themselves too seriously.
Now, about Rich. I am big into ethanol, one of the guys who is pushing the envelope, testing, and trying a lot of different things. I know all the leaders who are building carbs, engines, and have been testing for more than a decade like I have. Rich couldn't get an E85 carb to run, so I sent a good friend of mine who is one of the leading carb builders to help him out. Rich dismissed him and said something to the effect of "The way they have been doing it always works fine" but it was obvious from his video that it wasn't fine. It was a simple problem for Mark and I to fix the carb problem, but Rich won't listen to me, or Mark. Rich 'knows' more than we do, in his opinion.
I've been doing Holleys and Qjets since 2007, and I have gotten the Qjets down to where they get great mileage and make power on E85 and E100. I've matched gasoline mileage with pump gas and E85 fueled 455 Pontiacs. Anyone can make a carb run on ethanol, but making it run well takes a bit more knowledge. It takes a different way of thinking than gasoline, some things are opposite of gasoline, like compression, timing, and AFR. You don't want to retard the timing much with boost, it can lift ring lands for instance. Retarding timing only hurts power with gasoline, and it makes it safe. This is something we have found by running E85 and E100 for the last 20 years. You don't go lean with ethanol to make more power NA or with boost, I see lots of people make that mistake, but you lean gasoline out to make power. They are very different fuels.
My focus has been on mileage and keeping the power on ethanol, not making max power. Making max power is rather easy, doing it on minimal fuel takes a bit more knowhow. I really like power, but I do not have deep pockets, so I want efficiency as well as power. I do low buck things anyone can copy, not high end race stuff because I simply cannot afford it. Doesn't mean I have no idea what I am talking about because I am focused on street daily driver performance.
Rich has an ego too, we all do. We should be working together and prove these things right or wrong for everyone, not simply dismiss it out of hand and say you know more than experts who have been doing it for decades. I mean hell, content is content on here, just do it for the content and show everyone.
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@feydrautha191 ever heard of a power outage? Where I live everyone knows the grid goes down without any warning, 12 times last July, 26 times in June, two days before Christmas my generator was running because the grid was down, but only for 14 hours.
My neighbors and I all have propane ranges, and woodstoves, because when the power goes out we don't want to freeze to death while being hungry. In the summer we can cook over our fire pits, which I enjoy a lot. Nothing like a steak grilled over an open maple or hickory fire. Currently my fire pit has 4 feet of snow on it.
Now imagine why they might want to ban stoves that function without electricity.
I have other means of heating my home and shop, but all of you urban dependent on the system types can't do it. You have no way to make food, fuel, or electricity, you are dependent on all of that being brought to you. What will you do when it is not brought to you?
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I put in 50 to 70 hour weeks working, still taught my daughters to crawl, walk, ride bikes, read, math, running computers, and lots more... until they were 7 and 5, at which point their mother took off with them, moved them 1500 miles away, accused me of mistreatment and cheating which is what she was doing. The state rewarded her for it at my expense, taking 71% of my gross pay so I could not afford lawyers or to travel to visit my kids. I got to see them a total of 12 days between 2001 and 2008.
I lived on $100 a month while on active duty in the US military, sleeping in my car and on friends couches. E4 and up cannot live on base without dependents, and the state was taking all my money that didn't go to taxes. They also revoked my drivers license, passport, and security clearance when the judge started me out $10,000 in arrears, because at $5k they do all of that. I drove illegally until I got a license in another state in 2008.
When I got messed up on my last deployment in 2004, medical discharge in 2005, they still wanted their five pounds of flesh. She got half of my disability once it kicked in, leaving me $1000 a month to live on. The indenture to her finally ended in 2015.
No matter what happened, I was always guilty. When she assaulted me and left me bleeding from stabbing me or throwing things at the back of my head, the cops wanted to arrest me. All the times they showed up because the neighbors called them was used against me, as if I were the one causing, perpetuating, and being violet. (typos are intentional so the AlGoreRythm doesn't obscure my post.. they don't like us talking about this)
If I had reciprocated, she would not have survived it, I am not a small nor timid man, but the cops have more boomsticks than I do. My choices were stay and endure her violet, or leave and let her have the kids where she would inflict on them what she did to me with impunity thanks to protection from the state. Its called Duluth Model. He is always guilty she is always innocent and the victim, regardless of what transpires.
I loved being a dad and teaching my daughters as much as I could, their childhood was stolen from me. She poisoned the oldest against me and she has not spoken to me in 8 years.
Before she took off with them, my kids got to have lots of fun with me. Including riding in my old muscle cars. They were not nice back then, but they were reliable and easy to work on, cheap to keep them running. We went drag racing from 1997 to 1999, and the kids loved going to the track and helping in the pits. The ex still complains about me buying the car we drove the kids around in instead of spending that money on her... we have been divorced for 21 years.
I swear if a man had done even a fraction of what she did to me and my kids, he would have kicked his air addiction soon after. Everyone coddles and protects violet toxic females... and blames men for what the females do.
So from my perspective, society can go f*** themselves. They support that bad behavior, and encourage it. So I don't give a damn if you all have shit lives now. :) Like the marque cysts, you wanted this, so now you get it, I had to endure it already and I am not playing that game ever again.
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I'm Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom (ironic names.. heh) and I am 100% service connected. They gave me a new Doc a while back, and she has a thing for arbitrarily deciding to not renew our meds. They screwed us up, the OWE US, and she wants me to take tylenol instead of an arthritis med for my destroyed joints and chronic pain.
Then the D's have been talking about putting the border jumpers in the VA health system, as if it didn't go from walk ins in December 2020 to A five to nine month wait in January 2021, overnight. They have been trying to disarm us since Barry, and I think its about time for me to fire my Doc. She is pushing stuff I don't need, and trying to take things I do need.
The mental health is laughable. They have no idea about PTSD, I spent several years trying to educate the local shrinks, and all I got was condescension, as if I could not possibly know more about it after living with it for more than 45 years. They are a bunch of C average types who can't make it in the private sector.
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I'll be 52 in a few months, similar story, retired since 2005, divorced twice, the first 4 years younger the second 13 years younger, both lasted a bit over 8 years. They both lied, cheated, and got kicked out of my life when they were 30. Both are stuck with losers, one ten years older than I am, the other 20 years younger. I've been single for 8 years and life is great, nobody nagging and soaking up my income, eating my food. If I want to get laid I go get some, and most are half my age. What do I want a chick my age for? It sure as hell isn't a relationship. They are demanding, crazy, and there is a reason they are single.
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I'm happy, not lonely, debt free, build muscle cars, and own some land I can live off if I want or need to. I discovered that women were the source of my stress, debt, and anxiety. How to do all of it, and then she tries to jump to someone she thinks is better.. they never have yet.
On dad's side, my grandpa was born in 1910, grandma in 1915, they married in 1932. She never drove, raised chickens, had a huge garden, canned food she grew every year, did laundry, quilting, kept the house spotless and she had 4 kids who survived. They both made it to the 1990s, she went first. Grandpa never had to worry about the house, food, and laundry, she handled that for him, and he handled EVERYTHING else, the farm, finances, transportation, the lot of it. She was like 5'1" and tough as nails, a hardcore first generation born in the US German.
My mom got a job in the late 70s, because the farm economy was terrible thanks to a grain embargo. She was the cook at my school, then a custodian at my high school a while later. Dad farmed then got jobs at farm equipment dealerships selling parts and equipment, he was a lot better at that than he was at farming. When I left for the military in 1989, dad sold the land to my cousin, his sister's kid, and did the sales thing. He didn't have someone around to do all the work, he also got a furnace because I kept the house warm with firewood from age 8 to 18. Mom kept on at the school and retired there in 2012, but mom also cooked, did laundry, kept the house up.. The garden went away when I enlisted and my older brother got an in town job.
These people that think wives just sat around and watched TV have no idea, grandma almost never turned the TV on. She liked the quiet. I miss her cooking. I was always looking for a woman like her, dedicated, honorable, trustworthy, capable despite being tiny... I never found one.
I stopped looking ten years ago, now they are a means to an o face. Nothing more. Its sad what has become of women, I think their lives are too soft and they are given too much without earning it.
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I live in the woods full time, its standard procedure for me to avoid people so this is nothing new. They can try to force me to do as they want, but they'd find me to not be easily ruled over. If I want to go gray and make it exceptionally difficult for them to track me, I can. They trained me in how to do it during my time in the military. I live the way I do because of hyper vigilance, it wears me down having to watch everything going on around me, so the woods lets me relax a bit and focus on whats important. There is no way I could ever live in a city again, you're too dependent on others, surrounded and you have to have everything brought to you.. what happens when that stops happening? You have nowhere to go, no way to produce what you need, and nature is not there for you.
Communists are my sworn enemy, I am against everything they stand for and propose. Not out of being contrarian, its because they follow an abhorrent ideology that always results in mass death and atrocity. They seem to revel in death on a grand scale.
I also got extensive training in NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) warfare. There is being free, and there is being smart... you can do both. If this thing can kill you and the people you care about, you need to limit exposure to it. I have many older people in my life I do not want to catch it from me. I take precautions, and for the last 15 years I have only gone out when I needed to, and now I consider everyone else to be a carrier. I am not afraid of them, but I know what not to do so I don't catch this thing. I avoid colds the same way, because they're an inconvenience for me, and I have better things to do than have my head clogged with snot for a week.
There are a few million of us out here who will never allow the US to follow Europe and Asia into the abyss of marxism. We aren't overly vocal, we don't make a big scene, we tend to wait and see what is going to happen before we act. When we act, its decisively, quickly and can be brutal. Its better to have your enemy underestimate you than over estimate you... thus we watch and wait. However, we are here and we will not go quietly.
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@randysavage1 they aren't very effective in logistics, e.g. moving the cargo needed for a military to function. My USAF job was logistics, and they did NONE of the heavy lifting, caused the most vehicle mishaps, and became petty capricious tyrants when they made rank. They are useful in services, running the gym and chow hall, finance and other paper pushing jobs, and in medical its a mixed bag of how well they can do the job. Mostly they are a whistle sack that gets reamed out by the tallest and best looking guys on base.
I was the safety and vehicle NCO for my unit, as an extra duty my primary job was cargo/logistics. I know how many accidents and bad ideas were perpetrated by everyone. In all my years on active duty, I found ONE that was able to operate equipment without running into things. Several of them put holes in aircraft, drove forklifts off docks, ran over cargo, and one was most thrilled about driving fork tines through 55 gallon drums of oil, hydraulic fluid, or whatever else was in it.. then when they make a huge mistake like that, they are protected when one of us who does it twice gets 'corrective measured' heaped upon them and discharged if they mess up three times.
Air cargo guys go into hot spots, do the job under fire, and nobody realizes its USAF guys doing it. Look at the videos of Khe Sanh and you will USAF cargo troops going out to pick up the airdropped cargo and loading/unloading planes with mortars falling around them.
On my deployments we did all the heavy lifting out in the heat, they stayed in the passenger terminal with the AC and rarely came outside when a plane was being loaded with passengers. They did NONE of the baggage, because they simply cannot lift a 90lb bag, let alone 900 of them in a row.
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@hubertcumberdale2651 Resentment, envy, laziness, and entitlement are the pillars of marxism. They resent those who have earned, they envy what those people have earned, they feel entitled to what they have not earned, and are too damn lazy to go earn it for themselves.
At the root of all of that marxist thinking is the belief that if I have something you do not, its because I took advantage of you, or stole it from you, to get it. Its the common denominator of every facet of marxism, from feminism, to post modernism, socialism, communism, and fascism. They try desperately to make it look like they are all different, but its the same abhorrent ideology behind all of that.
I don't give a rats ass how much someone else has. I give a damn what I have, what I have earned, and what I want to do with it. The people pushing all this crap come from families that are far more well of than I am, and they claim to be fighting for me.
They are whining and complaining for themselves, they care nothing of the suffering of others. That suffering is only a justification, an appeal to emotion fallacy, utilized to get people to sympathize with them.
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@claudesigma3784 My first wife spent it faster than I could make it, then cried abuse when I cut her off from the accounts because she was so horrible with money. The second ex was costing me $2k a month, food, fuel, all the other bullshit. When I kicked her ass out for cheating, I suddenly had more money every month. Now I build 60s and early 70s muscle cars, I have 3 dogs, multiple guns, own over ten acres of land, built a large shop and small house on that land, and its cheaper than having a female leeching off me.
I have only ever met one female who was good with money. Only one. Sure they exist, but they all want to leech off us so they don't have to work anymore.
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@lsshvs8415 it depends on where you live as to what you grow. Farms where I grew up had livestock, in the 70s and 80s they needed them so they could get income once Carter ruined the ag economy. Under Clinton most sold off their livestock, because suddenly it was too expensive to keep them, and too much work. We all had large gardens, we canned what we grew and lives on that all winter.
My cousin farms between 6000 and 9000 acres, he leases about 1/3 of that. He does it with two hired hands and himself. His kids are in their 30s and 40s, so he and his wife haven't gardened in years. All they grow is corn and soybeans, rotating between them to keep the land alive. Farming in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, etc is very different than it is in Europe, the southern or north western US.
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You got lucky. I had my kids ripped from me, the state helped her hide them from me despite evidence she was abusive and I was not, then they hit me with 71% of my gross in support, destroyed me financially and had me living in my car for two years while active duty military. I was indentured to her for 15 years after 8 years of hell with her. She horribly fucked up my daughters, and since they turned 19 and both moved 1000 miles from her closer to me we have been trying to fix the damage she did to them. In the first 7 years of the divorce I got to see them for 12 days. Then I got them for two weeks in the summer every two years until they moved here. My kids became a source of pain and anguish for me.
When their mother left, it was a relief to me because of the hell she makes around herself. Missing my kids was unbearable, especially during deployments, holidays, and their birthdays when she would screen my calls and tell them I didn't care.
I have spent the last 4 years essentially homeless due to my second bout of stupidity. Both of them got the house and everything they asked for, and I had to pay them to be abhorrent lying untrustworthy wastes of oxygen.
Here I am, 50 years old and starting over only being free of them since I was 47. Having two kids who are messed up isn't much of a bonus compared to what I lost due to marriage and the reprehensible divorce laws.
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I learned about overpowered brakes in a light car with low traction with my first car. My 1967 Cougar has four piston power discs up front. I lived on a gravel road and had to drive at least 3 miles to get to pavement. Most of where I went was on gravel for the first 3 years of 'legal' driving. What happens when you push the pedal with kick ass brakes, 225 wide tires, in a light car on a gravel road? They lock up almost immediately. I nosed into a few ditches in my time driving that car. Dry pavement braking was like bumping into a rubber wall or something.
The 72 GTO had single piston discs, it was heavier than the Cougar, and I still drove on gravel most of the time. My GTOs stop quite good to be honest, and they don't want to lock up on gravel. Much easier to drive the GTOs.
Then I have my 10th Anniversary Trans Am, they had every option you could get in 1979 as standard, for the most part. That included WS6 which was heavier spring rates, different sway bars and bushings, and four wheel disc brakes. That car is damn near 4000lbs and I drove it with 255s all around. The wheels are crazy heavy too, put some steel wheels on and I picked up nearly a full second in the quarter mile. 14.7 to 14.0 with a wheel change. However, that car made me overly confident, because it handled predictably, it would go around corners VERY well even with 70 series tires, and the brakes on even wet pavement were all about stopping RIGHT FREAKIN NOW. Dry pavement was eyeball plucking if you really stomped the whoa pedal. Tons of fun for an 18 year old.
Pontiac did their homework with the WS6 package. No 67-81 Camaro could come close to that TA going around corners, stopping, top speed handling, etc. The Camaros all floated above 110, the faster that TA went the more stable and deliberate it felt. I really need to get that thing up here and make it a driver again, it hasn't moved from the spot its in since 1988. It was the only car I had with working AC from the first car in 1982, until I bought an F150 with functioning AC in 2002.
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@SterileNeutrino its not far fetched, its a feature on some cars after 2010, not all of them, but if someone managed to take off with your car, they can located it, shut it off, and lock the doors so the people in it cannot get out. The tech is already in EVs so they can be remotely governed, meaning it will not let you go faster than you are allowed, and it can be disabled remotely. Travel restrictions via GPS would be very easy. The new cars have built in GPS so they don't even need your phone.
You could say I am into cars, except I like to build old cars. Doesn't mean I don't read about the new ones and the 'features' they have. There is a reason I won't own anything newer than the 2007 GMC crew cab 4x4 I swapped a bigger engine into. Its my tow rig I use to haul me and my dogs around while I move old muscle cars on my trailer. $400 truck with a bad transmission, and I put another $400 into it, and now its a driver.
Most of what I own is older than 1979. If I want to blend in I take the 2000-07 trucks. The 70 Cuda isn't really a good car to drive if you want to be unnoticed, same with the 65 GTO to a lesser extent. Now those are very difficult and expensive to track, cannot be remotely disabled, but old muscle cars kinda stand out in traffic. I make ethanol from cattails to run my vehicles, started that in 2007 when gasoline was $5 a gallon the first time where I live. If the grid goes down, charging an EV will be challenging, several days with solar or wind unless you have a large capacity.
Yeah, I have looked into it because I really like driving old GTOs and stuff. Ethanol was the easiest, least expensive, and it makes a lot more power than gasoline.
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@the100radsstalker93 In 2013 I bought 13 acres of woodland after my divorce. I waited to close on it until a week after it was final, to avoid the crash in my credit that always goes with divorces. In '15 when the first ex was paid in full and no longer living in my wallet, I got another loan to build my shop and got some shipping containers to build a small 20x24 cabin.
In '19 I moved the containers, placed them on a foundation, and reconfigured them into a 1050sqft two story house. I can go off grid easily.
I paid off all my debts in February 3 years early on both of them.
I'm not exactly financially independent, Congress decides what I am worth, because I got hurt on my last deployment in 2004. They do not allow us to have investments like stocks, rental properties, or earn extra cash, we have to survive on what they say we are worth.. which is about $3000 a month.
Its more than people make doing Joe jobs like stocking the shelves at the grocery store, but its less than half of what I made in the military.
All through Obama it was $2600 a month and he cut our benefits twice. The kid sniffer is going to screw us over too. The cheeto had them increase it, so thanks Donny.
So I am stuck, unable to work a normal job, but not allowed to supplement my income. I can't monetize my youtube channel that I am using to teach people how to produce fuel from tree sap, cattails, and even coffee grounds.
Being debt free on a fixed income is wonderful compared to having most of it go to loans just to survive. I do the energy thing because my biggest expense is energy, food, fuel, and electricity. The more I can make myself, the less cash I have to give away to live.
Even if I could afford a wife, there is no way I am going to get one. I own my land free and clear, why would I want to give it to some chick because she decided to sleep with some other guy and have me pay for it?
Nah twice is enough.
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Because of where I live, the remoteness, the weather, the reality that the highway to town is closed several times a winter, that the power goes out often and can stay off for days or weeks at a time, most everyone near me is ready for at least a month if they must. Where I grew up it is slightly less remote, but more rural with less snow. The weather in both places can kill you if you are unprepared for it. There is no walking to the corner store for food every other day. You get enough for a week, and a bit extra to store away when its 13 miles to the gas station, 20 miles to the grocery store, 22 miles to Walmart..
We are all armed, we all know who to talk to if we need help with something, like who can fix the lawnmower, snowblower, or vehicle, who has a snowplow, can help put up walls and a roof, or knows how to grow certain foods. A few of us can do almost everything, some of us are quite old.
I am sharing things people aren't thinking of. Such as how to produce fuel rather than trying to find gasoline or paying some exorbitant sum for it. How to heat your home without electricity and without burning anything, while making high quality topsoil. If there is no fire, no noise, no smoke, what will give your position away while you rest comfortably in your home when the power goes out and doesn't come back?
If course, if you live in a city, you're pretty much fucked. Good luck with all the other zombies.
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Girls can multitask better than men? Since when? Working as an auto mechanic I would have five to six vehicles that I was working on at a time. Not the same brand, not the same model, trucks, cars, imports, domestics, waiting on parts for one so I work on another one. Various problems and jobs needing done on each one. I can detail what specs and engines are in the vehicles I own, and I own somewhere around 70 vehicles. Also, I can have multiple other things going, like producing fuel for my muscle cars, built my house, my shop, taking care of my dogs, landscaping my yard, and making videos about the projects.
Don't get me started on how ineffective females are in the US military. Squatting 125? Did more than that in 7th grade, the first time I tried. I wonder how much I can squat now, can't find out because of injuries sustained on my last deployment in 2004. No female on the planet, I am talking XX females, can match me for strength. Females are so delusional, its hilarious.
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@FarmingUnclear its been interesting watching women go from hottys 35 years ago to rotund hags now. I am 54, and the young ones really like me. I get hit on by a 16 year old checker at my grocery store. Its amusing, but yeah nothing is going to happen there. Right up until they are 28, they like to have fun with me. They get to ride in cool old cars, and do fun things.
At 29 they decide they want someone to rescue them, and let them not work anymore as he funds their endless shopping spree. If they don't have kids they want one immediately, like you said. If they have kids they want to get resources from us without putting anything into us and that goes right up to 40.
When they hit 40 things change for them somewhat, they realize nobody wants them and their prospects dwindle to nearly nothing.. what they get is dregs. If a man with some value notices them, they become teenagers again because someone noticed them. That gets worse as they age. They are willing to do anything to keep a man around, and I mean anything, not figuratively.
At 50 they get more desperate, and are often getting more delusional about what they think they deserve, but they also realize they aren't going to get it ever again.
When I was 34 I had just gotten divorced 2 years earlier, and had been having lots of fun with women from other countries, like Russia, Korea, and around the world. They all wanted a ticket to the land of the big BX (base exchange, its like wallmart on a military base). I met my second ex wife, who was 21, a virgin because she was homely, and she seemed to be different from the rest of them.
She was awesome for 8 years, then we married and the divorce was final 16 months later. I had never gotten along with someone so well before, then I got sick for a few months, she met a kid 20 years younger than me, and I kicked her out for cheating with him.
She will be 41 next month, she is alone, unwanted, and reliant on her mom since her dad died earlier this year. I saw her in the grocery store, and the last ten years have not been kind to her.
Back in 15, a couple years after the final divorce, I met another one. She was early 40s, had her own money, and she treated me wonderfully. In 2018 I saw her one time, because there is a 7 hour drive between us. We ended it after having lots of fun together, she wanted to hook up with a firefighter she met. He dumped her two weeks later.
I've had lots of them, can't remember how many exactly, I remember another one I hadn't thought about days later when I try to think of them. I don't date anymore, don't get numbers, barely speak to them, and if she shows interest its exceptionally rare that I will even offer to spend time with her.
Its not fear of anything, sure as hell not intimidation. Its that I have better things to do with my time, that aren't as much of a waste of it. Playing video games is more rewarding than dating American women.
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@ericlandstrom6155 Well the 78 Camaro's 350 was rated somewhere around 170hp, maybe 180. So it would be very easy to improve on the 16 to 17 second quarter mile times. How well it works for acceleration with a motorcycle carb is something he has not addressed in his 4 videos. He isn't working with a big power engine, but does run. He isn't getting it to all vaporize, but he is getting all the light stuff there.
He is heating the gasses in the intake, whereas my system is heating the fuel in the lines and I am running ethanol. Ethanol boils at 173F at sea level, lower as you go up in altitude. Only need to heat it to 200F rather than 450F to get it to fully vaporize, so I can use the coolant system to heat the fuel. Oh and with 11.5:1 to 13:1 compression in a 455 Pontiac, it makes some power.
I'm also working on a hot fuel 6.0 LS, and a 3800 V6, I think a NA short block with a supercharged top end will get the compression up there. Ethanol does boost with high compression easily, and you can give it as much timing as it wants for best power.
I am not using anything stainless nor special, its all basic automotive parts from Summit, Jegs, NAPA and other stores in my area like Lowes and Menards.. heh...
I can make ethanol, I cannot make gasoline, that is why I went with the vodka for fuel. I make it from tree sap and cattails, and here shortly coffee grounds.
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@Brandon Letzco You must be one of those skinny guys who hasn't ever had a difficult job in his life. Its always some 6'+ skinny dude who can't wraps his head around the fact that a short guy is vastly stronger, and did not need to juice to get there.
I am 5'8, grew up on a farm, at 17 weighing 175lbs I benched 265. At 18 it was 300+. Joined the USAF at 19, at 21 the Gulf War kicked off and being in airlift, I was worked 12-14 hours per day, 7 days a week for 6 months. I was eating 3 MREs per day when I could find them on airplanes, and at first I was losing weight, then I started gaining muscle. How many calories in an MRE? Do some math..
To put it into perspective, imagine pushing two F150s for 12 hours, or pick up 200lbs and run up three stories for 12 hours. I gained over 40lbs of muscle mass between 10 Aug 1990 and 1 April 1991. I came home on leave in 1992 and was doing reps with 350lbs because that was all the weight they had, and my brother's wanted to know how strong I had gotten. 350 was super easy.
I was the strongest man in my unit when I got there in 1989, and that meant I could work longer, do more, and do it faster than everyone else. I arm wrestled everyone in my flight (same as a platoon) in basic, smallest to biggest, and beat everyone. I was always over my max weight of 173lbs, even when I was ripped with a six pack I was still 185lbs. I stood on my tip toes to make it through MEPS in 1988, and I had cut down to 182lbs to do that.
They measured my arms at 15" when I was 19, and 22" when I was 22. Until about 2015 I had no idea how unique that was, or that I could have done pro power lifting, I was simply doing my job and only did a max when someone wanted to know what I could lift.
Did over 500 in Korea back in 2003. Someone asked how much I could lift, my reply was "I have no idea." He said lets find out. We started at 450 because that is what he could lift.
In 2004 I was loading C5 Galaxy cargo planes single handed, usually its ten to 15 people on a load team. The USAF made me huge, then punished me for it in my performance ratings.
I was 35 years old when I deployed in 2004, and as it turns out you cannot work at 35 like you did at 21. I crushed the meniscus
in both my knees, nearly destroyed my hip joints, and was constantly tearing up ankles. During the wars a pair of boots would last me about 3 to 5 weeks, I would wear through the soles.
So now at 53, I will never run again, not without severe pain anyway, but I can still lift things. My left arm is current down for maintenance, seems I pulled the connective tissue from my bicep away from the bone again.
In 2015 I carried a 500lb roll of rubber roofing mat to the top of my house, Put it on my shoulder and hauled it up there on stacks of wooden pallets.
Most people who get into body building have a small bone structure, they do not have a 55" rib cage like I do. They do not have 9" circumference wrists, like I do. They do not have hands that are nearly 6" across the palms. If I was standing next to Joker, you'd never guess we are both USAF veterans, we are close in height, but I would make him look tiny.
Currently with my lats, pecs, and ribs I am 60" around my chest. I keep getting bigger, probably from all the work I do building my house and on my property. Like shoveling 12 tons of gravel in a day from the back of a pick up in 2000lb loads. It takes me less than 20 minutes to shovel it all out... and I am a crippled old guy.
Power lifters and strong man competitors are usually taller than I am, like Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, it takes tall guys longer to pack on muscle mass than us short guys. He would make me look tiny, but he is also and outlier. You're not.
It doesn't matter if you believe it or not, because you do not matter and you do not dictate what I am capable of.
Just so you know, my car is probably faster than yours too. I built it. Well I am building a faster one right now. Chances are I am smarter than you are too, I had the highest ASVAB scores in my flight, but a rather large margin, and not only do I build cars, houses, and whatever else I need, I produce fuel from tree sap and cattails to run them... among other things. I do everything on my cars, not simply throwing parts at i them, I build/rebuild/refurbish every part of them.
People get really butthurt when they discover a fat looking meathead guy is stronger AND smarter than they are. Your butthurt is showing. Being an outlier has taught me that being skeptical of people has benefits, but also that showing your ass like you have usually backfires. You're like the kid with a Honda that thinks its 14 second time slips are brutally fast... there is a world out there of which you know nothing.
With my arm messed up, it will be months before I can use it, its about 4 months into healing, and it takes nearly a year. So unlike showing timeslips for my cars, I can't do any lifting just yet. Its annoying as hell to me, because I can't even pick up a transmission with that arm, and I need to do that tomorrow when the engine and trans go in my 1968 LeMans.
Most people do not believe I own four GTOs, eleven Firebirds four of which are Trans Ams, and they are all older than 1979. Something like 25 or 30 muscle cars, many of which I have owned since the 1980s and 90s. Three of them are very rare and desirable. Hell my summer daily drivers are a 1970 CUDA and a 1965 GTO. Doesn't matter if you or they believe it or not, the limited parking space in my yard isn't changing. However, you can look at my channel and see the cars, I don't do any lifting videos because I have no interest in it.
When I heal, maybe I will do one just for you.
I do and have done things you can only dream about. Yet you are the one who is butthurt, I am just an old guy living in the woods who has seen and done some shit. Being part of history rather than watching it on TV or reading about it in a book, results in things most will never experience.
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@lessevdoolbretsim I hate mosquitoes, which means I appreciate spiders, because they eat skeeters. I am protective of my spiders, if I find them in my house, I catch them, and move them outside where the food is. They have a job to do, just like the cats that live outdoors and keep the rodents good and dead. Snakes eat rodents too, so I am careful not to harm them either.
I have no females, other than two Huskies and one of the two cats, living here. The spiders are more useful than someone leeching my finances. :) They can come visit, but they cannot stay.
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@rally_chronicles I wish I had never married, I would be in a far better position today had I stayed single. They have no foresight, take no responsibility for their actions, and feel entitled to anything they want.
I know my second ex talks bad about me as often as she can. I pity her, but have no sympathy for her.
Saw her sister a few months back, the look she gave me made it obvious they blame me for what she has done to her life. They encouraged her to leave me and go with a guy 20 years younger than I am, 7 younger than her, that once her parents met him, they could not stand him. Now they get to support her, but they aren't supporting him anymore, he is gone.
Schadenfreude. Its my favorite thing.
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Joker, you have the land and resources to do what I do. Look into making methane, its very easy with woodchips/sawdust/grass clippings and also from a septic system and raw sewage. You can run generators and vehicles on it, but vehicles don't have much range in a vehicle. A small generator can keep a fridge going and the fuel is essentially free if you make it.
Also you can make ethanol from cattails, dig some one acre ponds, about a foot deep, fill them with crushed rock on the bottom and sand above that. Cattails will grow like crazy and if you feed them raw sewage like run off from a chicken coop or livestock they grow even bigger. You can easily make 1000 gallons of fuel from an acre of cattails. Just find some, snag the seed pods and break them open in your ponds. Simple as. Use the methane to heat the stills.
What is left over and comes out of the still can be used to feed livestock, including earthworms that will give you worm castings which are excellent for gardens.
Build a greenhouse and use an ethanol or methane fueled generator to power the lights. The exhaust from the engine will only be CO2 and water, so just let the exhaust go into the greenhouse and the plants will grow faster and make more food with less water. Turn the generator off and ventilate it or use supplied air if you go in though, hypoxia is a biatcha.
They can outlaw gasoline and limit its sale, and you will have fuel for your piston engines, food in your fridge, and with chickens meat on your table. You can also eat cattail roots, they are starchy like potatoes, and you can dry it out to make flour. Ethanol is a green fuel, carbon neutral especially the way I make it from cattails and tree sap. So if they want to complain, point out the fact its greener than a coal fired power plant that charges a Tesla.
If we go completely TANGO UNIFORM like South Africa is, you will want to have no smoke, no smells, and no noise so you can stay hidden. You can make small engine generators run very quiet with various methods, including a simple bucket of water with an exhaust pipe in it so it sounds like a boat.
Heating your home can be done by a large woodchip and sawdust pile and 600 feet of plastic sprinkler pipe coiled in it. That can also make methane too. I will be doing videos on all of these things as I rebuild all of it this year, when I am not driving around moving old cars and scrapping rusty trucks. You might as well do some of it too.
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@jam46psu nah smokey was doing something else entirely, he got good mileage and a lot of power out of it. He was trying to get gasoline to vaporize entirely, so he had to preheat the air fuel mix three times to get the 450F needed to completely vaporize all the components of gasoline.
Vapor is better because of surface area, when a liquid fuel burns, its only the outer part of it that is vaporizing that burns. Put gasoline in a jar and light it on fire, you can see the flame above the fuel as it burns the vapors not the liquid. If you vaporize the fuel before it goes in the cylinder you make it burn faster and more completely. Fog vs rain drops.
Gasoline sucks ass to do this, because it has component chemicals with boiling and flash points from 80F to 450F, which is why it tends to vapor lock so easily. The lighters stuff boils sooner and creates bubbles, and it takes a lot of heat to get the heavier parts to boil. Gasoline has poor latent heat of vaporization too, it does not cool the intake charge very well as it vaporizes. The heat also makes it want to ignite on its own, because of the various flash points of the chemical components.
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@CroMagnon42 here's the funny thing. I live exceptionally 'green' with my housing and vehicles. No I do not drive electrics, they are not at all green. I make ethanol from cattails and run large V8s with lots of compression so they make ludicrous power and use less fuel, and they only emit Co2 and H2O. Making ethanol produces more food, not less.
I built my house with shipping containers, and I have insulated it quite well so I don't need as much heat in winter. Currently I am using wood pellets, made from sawdust, but I have a system I am building where I heat water with a compost pile to 140F, and they last for six months.
Rather than buying a new vehicle, I rebuild old ones. The newest vehicle I own is a 2007, most of what I have is older than 1972. My summer daily driver is a 1965 GTO I rebuilt, with an 11.5:1 455 in it making around 550hp and 600ftlbs tq.
I reuse, repurpose, rebuild, and repair rather than buy a new one and throw the old one out. A greenhouse is in the works, I am still building on the house and have some other concerns to deal with, so I haven't built it just yet.
Why do I do all of that? BECAUSE IT IS CHEAPER! It costs me a lot less to live this way, which allows me to buy more old car parts and spend a lot less on energy.
Its $5.20 for premium, and it costs me 40 cents a gallon to make ethanol, using home made methane as the heat source to run the stills. Really though to compare ethanol to gasoline you have to compare it to race gas, because I can run 26:1 static compression on ethanol, race gas is limited to around 16:1, and I can run that easily on E85. Speaking of E85, its $2.50 a gallon, 87 octane is $1.30 more than that. I run E85 on long trips in my old cars.
So the people clamoring for restrictions live in huge houses, fly on private jets, and their lives are a trail of waste. If they cared about the environment they would tell people to live like I do.
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@mr.slaphappy3794 if you have tunable EFI and can increase the compression ratio easily, like milling the head, then it gets real easy to make more power and get better mileage. A DOHC engine is not going to take well to a head milling, certain SOHC engines can, and domes are dicey with both due to clearance issues, but it can be done.
Heating the fuel in the rails after the regulator that sends excess fuel back to the tank is the way to go. We call them deadhead systems here, there is no return from the rails themselves. That way you can avoid heating all the fuel that is in the tank, and just the fuel that has nowhere else to go but in the engine. You can pick up considerable mileage even with low compression engines heating ethanol over 200F.
The engine is operating under relative vacuum, it has to have a low pressure area in the plenum otherwise air doesn't get ingested, right? That vacuum lowers the boiling point of liquids, ethanol has a boiling point of 173F at sea level. I don't know what it is in Celsius, I figure you can handle the conversion. As the fuel hits the vacuum it starts to vaporize from low pressure, but adding heat to it before it enters the plenum vaporizes it instantly.
Liquid fuel like gasoline and ethanol do not burn in liquid form, they have to vaporize to burn. Getting the job done before it even gets in the cylinder makes for a cooler more dense intake charge and a far more efficient burn. More power, less fuel, and compression works that fuel harder producing more torque everywhere in the RPM range, which requires less throttle angle to move the vehicle resulting in better mileage.
You can do the same thing with gasoline if you can heat the fuel air mix over 450F where the heavier components of gasoline will vaporize, the problem is the lighter stuff ignites on its own long before that. You need pressure and heat in the intake tract to vaporize gasoline and not have it shatter the intake with detonation before it even gets in the cylinder.
Smokey Yunick did it with a Pontiac Fiero in the 1980s on gasoline, it was very expensive with three pre chambers in the heads like a diesel has, just to get it all hot enough. Lots of special very expensive parts, including ceramic pistons, to make it work on gasoline. Since ethanol boils at 173F, you can do it with normal operating temps of engines.
Lots of fun things can be done with vodka.
Also look into a plate or packed reflux column for a still if you want to make your own. Moonshiner style pot stills take four passes to get 160 proof, which is barely adequate for power and mileage.
Methane digesters are easy to build and you can run generators as well as stills on methane.
Now the fun part.. In the 1970s one of your fellow Frenchmen came up with a really cool way to heat water. Jean Pain used a large pile of woodchips with plastic pipe run through it, and a tank inside the pile that makes methane. It heats water to 140F continuously and lasts for six months, then you have rich topsoil left after the six months. I'm working on using that system to heat my shop in the winter.
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@van3158 apparently I joined the wrong USAF... only one deployment of my five was in a hotel... the Hilton in Kuwait City.. it was very nice. No food available as we worked all night at KCIA, but the breakfast when we got back to the hotel was amazing. It was my last deployment because as it turns out loading all 36 pallets on multiple C5s single handedly every night destroys your knees, ankles, hips, shoulders, elbows...
Not many chairs were involved in my time, even less air conditioning, lots of cargo, some near misses loading planes in BFE, being forgotten and having to scrounge food (usually from the Army) and getting screwed over constantly and on 4 deployments, yeah... that was normal. So the 2004 trip was abnormal and I took advantage of it as much as I could.. lol
The first war back in 1990 was kinda nuts. It packed 50lbs of muscle on me loading planes.
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@manisandjr8435 a few years back Senator Chuck Grassley from Iowa took the head of the EPA out to a cornfield, then explained to her that there was one acre of corn standing there. Then informer her that acre of corn makes between 200 and 500 gallons of ethanol depending on if its irrigated or dry land with a dry year.
She was under the impression that it required 100 acres of corn to make one gallon of ethanol, not that we get 2.2 gallons of fuel from a single bushel.
Then he went on to explain that using corn to make fuel increases food, not decreases it. You see when we ferment corn we use the part of the kernel livestock cannot easily digest, and leave the rest of it. What is left over is high quality animal feed, and cattle gain muscle mass 15% faster on the leftovers.
What Chuck failed to mention was that ethanol does zero damage to vehicles, burns so clean you can get over a million miles out of an engine with no appreciable wear, oil changes look new and the only reason to change it is because of thermal breakdown. It produces more power, has vastly superior drivability, withstands compression and boost, runs cooler so you don't need as much cooling capacity so your vehicle could be lighter, and the only thing it emits is CO2 and H2O as exhaust.
Now you may have heard the opposite of all that, so has she, but it is propaganda at best, and mostly misinformation that ethanol eats everything, wastes food, loses power, and other stuff.
Over 12:1 static compression you start getting better mileage on ethanol than you do on gasoline, while making a lot more power. With boosted engines that most people here like, (4 cylinders and such are the key demo for Donut) you end up using more fuel under power. Ethanol has its own oxygen, so adding more fuel also adds more O2, it compounds, so forcing another atmosphere in you have to add even more fuel to make up for the added O2.
That is the real reason you need to use more fuel, and why mileage drops in a low compression engine. You're not working the fuel hard enough with low compression.
Now try explaining all of that to some twat who sits behind a desk, with no concept nor understanding of what is going on under the hood of her minivan. Those people have no frame of reference for how much or how big something is unless they see it in person. Even then you can tell a chick that 3" is 7" and she will have no clue.
I've been doing the ethanol thing since 2007. I make it so I can run my engines on inexpensive fuel, rather than paying some gas station owner what he demands I pay for something that makes less power, clogs my engine with black carbon deposits, wears things out, and needs a catalytic converter to clean up the crap left over all while making more than 82% of its energy into nothing more than waste heat.
It costs me about ten cents a gallon to make vodka from tree sap, and about forty cents a gallon to make it from cattails. 87 octane is $3 a gallon now. I can drive a hell of a lot, with a lot of compression and power, for ten cents a gallon and a couple weekends of my time spent making it.
You need space to do it though, I have 13 acres of woodland, and a few hundred maple trees, so I have the room to do all of this. Someone in an apartment can get drunk for cheap, but not power a vehicle easily.
Never trust the government, they are clueless.
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@nikoryu-lungma getting lots of women doesn't prove a man's value, it can make him far more attractive to other women, but usually has a negative affect on him with men.
How do I know that? I have a high number, somewhere between 150 and 200. However, I was not trying to get a high number, I was trying to find one I could trust that would build our lives together.
As it turns out, they mostly just wanted something from me, not really me. The experience of having a man who is built like a gorilla moving her internal organs round, being seen with that man, or something of monetary value. A few tried to get cars and cash out of me, but I never really had money.
My value doesn't have much to do with it, apparently my face was good looking to them, and they like muscle which I have in abundance. I have never been wealthy and never plan to be. I do fun things often, mostly with my old cars, and the vehicles are the main focus of my life.. and have been for 4 decades now. Everything else supports the vehicle thing... heh.. That is attractive to them.
If you have value to them, they will want to be with you, and man without value needs something physical. Muscle, money, stature, etc.
I could get women because I know how to talk to them, could tell which ones were interested and which were not, have infinite confidence (which comes from being tested and building myself to pass those tests), and I have muscle with a deep voice.
I am 5'8" and have been over 240lbs since 1991. Got down to 215 in 2001 on a deployment, but mostly I have been 240 or heavier. Not exactly the pinnacle of the male physique.
If you think getting lots of them means you have high value, you're doing it wrong and thinking about it wrong. They are not logical, they run on emotion and you can short or exploit those emotions so easy its like a hack in a game.
What men value in each other and themselves is very different than what women value in us. Our value lies in what we know, can do, can solve, and have accomplished. Theirs is in youth and beauty, and most of them squander it.
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Whomever drew that map at the opening is clueless about the USA. If it comes to that, you can bet your ass those of us who live in rural areas will not accept rule by some large crime riddled dem run city. Look at Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, and Illinois. The blue areas are islands surrounded by people who are very un-fond of marxism that the cities are pushing. The same is playing out in California, Oregon, and Washington. Blue cities surrounded by hard core USA loving Americans.
What will happen is the cities will try to demand we obey them, and we will simply cut off every resource to the cities, until the populace removes the marxists trying to run everything by force. Only 7 of 93 counties in Michigan went blue in '20, they are islands of marxism in a sea of people fed up with having to endure laws written to govern those crime infested urban centers.
The USA will look roughly the same, but with pockets of starving people in large cities who demand we give them everything. The cities are mainly disarmed... the rest of us do not have to deal with the infringements, nor will we comply. Do the math.
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I'm 54, only 5'8, but I have muscle and game, like bench 450lbs+ muscle. Seeing the % in this video made me realize why I had so many one night and less than two month things over my life. I am not long term for them. However, I still get interest from 18 year olds all the way up to 70+. My daughters are 26 and 29, and most of the interest I see for me is from women younger than my kids.
Around here its a small population, and the women are not overly attractive. That means I am not interested in them. Yet when I go to a large city, I stand out because I am so very different than the men they see every day. Still not interested because I hate being in cities, and they are not going to want to live in the woods like I do. So I live alone and amuse myself in watching women qualify themselves to me.
In my late 30s and all through my 40s it was super easy to get the young ones. In their 30s they did not want me, because they want a retirement plan, not a muscle bound gorilla that tosses them around the bedroom. Under 30 and over 40 they are very interested... but not for long term as I have no status or wealth. I am not a beta wallet for them.
Build muscle in your 20s, it will help you all through your life. Men respect you more if you look like and you actually can throw a hurtin to them. You can do more when you are strong than when you are weak, and we all start out weak. Don't stay that way... and don't do like I did, never get married. I was daft enough to do it twice.
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@LionClanChief you take it as a personal attack, that you are somehow lesser or inferior, seems like insecurity to me. So what were the survival pressures of equatorial Africa, did they require roads, machines, food storage, robust defenses like thick stone walls and castles, or could they simply get by with sharp sticks, rocks, and grass huts? Is it not enough to know that humans evolved in the rift valley, so all of us originated in Africa, no matter how much resistance we have to UV light?
I live above the 45th parallel, not much sunlight here even in summer with very long days, and its very short days in winter, so vitamin D production is a problem for people here. My black friends all end up taking supplements of D, they don't get anywhere near enough sunlight because the melanin blocks the UV light so effectively. That is why we have lighter skin when we come from northern latitudes, its a product of the environment, and people make far too big a deal about UV resistance. Its reality, and reality is not an attack.
Where people have a need for something, they will develop it. Where there is harsh living conditions with severe survival pressure, the more capable and aware will devise a means of not starving and freezing to death. Hypothermia is one hell of a motivator, believe me its April 30th and its just barely 56F here. Just a week ago it was 20F here. Native Americans came up with ways to survive in this environment, but they didn't have a space program either, yet they don't get pissy when someone says they didn't build two story houses or have a written language. They didn't need them.
You can employ sharpshooter fallacies all you want, but the fact of the matter is when food and shelter are not your greatest priority, you won't need to develop much beyond gathering it. Africa simply ran into people who had not only endured, but thrived in a cold inhospitable place for centuries, so they had different ideas, different methods due to very different needs.
Stop being so damn resentful and just be you. You can benefit from all of human advancement, or you can be pissed off that not getting sunburned and having easy access to food means you didn't invent much. Two of the most beautiful girls I dated in my travels around the world were from West Africa, Togo and Ivory Coast, they were wonderful and fun to be around....but that was more than 30 years ago. Now people are resentful rather than wanting to enjoy life.
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In the 90s I ran a bit too much compression on a Pontiac 400, closed chamber heads with TRW slugs, on 93 octane pump gas. I knew it was too high, but I didn't figure it would really hurt it. It flattened almost all the upper bearing shells and spun two after just two first gear hits on a cool night. The rods were ok, had the crank cleaned up, put it back together and its been in 8 vehicles I own since then. That engine has been 7.7:1 and will be just under 12:1 later this month when I change heads again for another project.
The cool thing about Pontiac is a head swap can change your compression a lot. A 455 can go from 7:1 to 13:1 with the same shortblock just changing the heads, and most people can't tell if its a 301, 326 400, or 455. Think sleeper
The D port heads with 2.11 intakes all flow within 5-10cfm of each other, and the smogger heads after '73 flow just as good as the earlier Ram Air III heads. Its going on E85 and getting stuffed in my '72 Ventura for a very low buck fun project. Th350, 3.42 gears, lightened but gonna stay ugly and cheap. Parts laying around and some headers I got from a guy on Facebook. Its going to be around $2500 for the entire build. E85 makes it fun, easy and cheap to make power. Nitrous would be fun, but its hard to find up here so I would have to get my own mother bottle, pump, and fill them myself. Thats a lot of expense.
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No need to put LSD in the water, they take ignorant kids who have been told to obey authority from their first week in school, and fill their heads with marxist bullshit. An obviously marxist group, blm, is lauded but these multiracial truckers are not Cs. Its only possible due to ignorance and confirmation bias. People have been trained to believe the government cares about them, and wants whats best for them.
Politicians want what is best for themselves, and politicians run government. The type of people who are politicians are the problem. Greedy, authoritarian, elitist, corrupt, power hungry, despots... who tell people its for their own good as the politicians exploit them and extract wealth from the people they are supposed to work for..
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@unknowncommenter6698 I grew up on a small farm, we only had about 700 acres we worked. My cousin owns it all now, its part of his 9000ish acres. My dad quit farming because my older brother got a job in town and I joined the military, he main workforce left. Maybe if we had been paid for what we earned and dad didn't take the other money I made working for other farmers, I would have stayed. It was a bit too much like the soviet system for me.
We had cattle, hogs, sometimes chickens, a few sheep for a while mainly to keep the grass from growing out of control on the yard. I raised calves with a bottle, then we ate them or sold them for beef.
So I find it most amusing when someone says "You wouldn't eat meat if you knew where it comes from and had to end it yourself." They don't realize I eat wild rabbit as often as I find them, and I was there for the whole process of butchering steers and the deer we hunted.
Sure animals take up lots of space, but its not like some city, its an ecosystem where the cattle are part of it and they benefit the plants and other animals living there. Its like people who whine about making ethanol from corn. The leftovers are very high quality livestock feed, its not a variety of corn that people can eat, unless its used to make fuel first, then people can eat it. The corn isn't just gone, only the parts that we and cattle cannot digest is used to make fuel.
Those people seem to think its like a city with all the animals packed into nightmarish hovels... and that farmers aren't aware of things like crop rotation and methods to keep the soil from eroding like terraces and grass cover. We treated our animals as well as we could, because if they die we lose that investment.
Last week I saw a pic of a chinese hog farm. A soviet style block house with pens covering the open end of concrete cells, it was 8 stories high that I could see. What a miserable existence they created for the pigs, and the anti meat people point at them and blame us for it.
Growing up on a farm you realize you are part of nature, not somehow above it or separate from it. I noticed a trend among urban people who have never been outside cities, they are arrogant, assume they are smart when they aren't, and the hubris they display shows just how ignorant so many of them are. You can't be a successful farmer without being proficient in a wide range of disciplines and subjects. Not many one trick pony types in farming.
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I'm 10 years older than Carl as well, but I was a farm kid and the closest town had 6k people and it was 20 miles away. There was no going to the comic shop, hanging out with friends at the mall, the nearest mall was 40 miles away. The closest girl my age was 8 miles away, and she was not cute, so I needed a car to get a girl. When I was 13 I planted raised, picked, and sold sweet corn, made $2500 which dad took most of and I bought my first car for $450, 3 years before I could drive. (Still have it) I was not a popular kid in school, not even close. I had no friends because my older brother was an A hole, so nobody liked me either. Growing up for me hard core sucked, I made my first and only real friends after I could drive, they were gearhead car guys like me.
There was nothing to do other than work and read or draw. I drew the things I wanted in my life, muscle cars, airplanes, exotic locations, and nekkid girls. I got all of them eventually... so I don't draw anymore, instead I sculpt metal into drivable cars. I got into wrestling to get off the farm, and because the coach didn't decide who went to the tournament, you wrestled the other kid at your weight and the winner got to participate. It also taught me to defend myself, made me a hell of a lot stronger, and instilled a discipline that was unmatched even by my time in the military. Yeah I had to enlist to get out of there, and I am glad I did... not going to recommend anyone enlist now though, the current regime is using it as a social experiment of guinea pigs.
I have two daughters in their 20s, they were raised with computers, but they also did things like help me in the shop working on old cars, and going drag racing with me. They have been told no, they had some discipline instilled, they were not coddled when they bumped their head when they were little, so they are tough and ready for what the world will throw at them. They didn't have a completely jacked up life with no friends and a mind numbing amount of violence like I had, but it wasn't the soft bubble wrapped world kids have today.
I was bullied in school, and you know what I did about it? Got stronger, faster, more capable and competent, to the point I was the strongest kid in school and could take on most teachers too. Not that I started fights or anything, but I finished them and people stopped messing with me my sophomore year. There is something to be said about kids working it out the hard way, it has benefits. You learn that you can get your ass kicked, you aren't tough just because nobody messes with you, and that what you say can get you in trouble when you find the guy who will give you a beatin. You fought back against your bullies, or you stayed timid, afraid, and tried to hide... those guys who didn't fight back never amounted to much. Its been 35 years since graduation, so its easy to see who achieved and who became an NPC.
Eloquent said kids all wanted to fit in. I never did, so I stopped trying to when I was 12 and did my own thing. I did what I thought was cool, not what others would like. I worked on things to impress myself, not my peers or anyone else. I put in the work to achieve the things I wanted to do with my life, and I managed to do most of them. I still don't care if others like the cars I build or what I write, or what I put in my videos, I do it for my own amusement, achievement, goals, and enjoyment. If you like it too, hey thats cool, but I am living for me not the approval and validation of others. Its been an interesting life...
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My mom never cared about me, she left me in stores, don't get me started on sports (they never came and when dad was coach I sat on the bench), rarely called me, and my parents only came to visit me in the military once, while they spent weeks with my brother at his base. I was the least favorite of six kids, and I am the second born. Mom could not shake the idea that I was incapable, useless, and women wouldn't like me. Luckily I did not base my self worth off what mom and dad thought. I base my self worth on what I do, achieve, and accomplish. They ignored all of those things.
Mom called me three times the day before she died, and three times the day she died. It was the most she had called me in over 20 years combined. Dad would call me once a year, or every other year. Usually to tell me a relative had passed away.
I have a large family, but I am alone in this world and it suits me fine. There is a lot more to it than them not caring, the beatings were enough to drive me away, but I am not going to write that out unless someone wants to know.
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@david-468 You're right, but I don't think the conflict will go as you envision it. Blue cities are surrounded by red counties, which means they are easily cut off from everything. Siege will be the order of the day. The only unknown is will the Guard and reserve follow unlawful orders issued by these corrupt governors?
What about active duty? Its hard to guess at this point, but they are kicking out all the members who understand the oath they took is not to a politician, but to the people and the Constitution. Just so happens those are the most competent and capable individuals, leaving the most inept and incapable to do the job. Having seen how the inept run things, its only a matter of time before another country decides to try their luck.
Think about it, the rural areas actually outnumber the cities, they are simply spread out over a much larger area.. and the blue cities have been mostly disarmed. That makes the rural inhabitants a more difficult and expensive target.
It will not be entire states against other states, it will be cities vs everyone around them. Take a gander at Michigan, only one county went blue in the upper peninsula, only 9 counties in the entire state. Its a 10 hour drive from Marquette to Lansing, 8 hours to Detroit. They are islands of blue in a sea of red. Same with Virginia, New York, and Pennsylvania out east. California is more red than blue as well, and they have been fortifying popularity contests for decades to stay in power.
These people do not realize the predicament they are in, because you shut down airports, stop the trains, and they have nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. Its not so much the misguided easily manipulated useful idiots, its the people making the fucked up policies and fortifying the system.
They will try to disarm us all after the mid terms, lots of blue spikes in red states, despite how bad things get in blue controlled areas. 2/3 majority and the bill of rights is gone. They think that will make it legal to disarm all of us, and censor everyone. They assume we will comply because its what was voted for... We have about 16 months, maybe 20 before it all begins in earnest.
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Collectivism comes from a feminine mindset, a female way of thinking. Go back a thousand years or more (depending on where on earth you go it could still be right now or just a hundred years), to a time when people lived in tribes. Then men went out to hunt food, they brought it home and the women divided it up so the kids could all eat. Mom is worried about everyone getting some, dad is concerned with getting food and making sure its enough. He does the dangerous work, she stays home doing her thing. It was that way with agriculture all the way back to hunter gatherers.
We are only a handful of generations removed from cavemen, not enough generations to evolve to where we are vastly different or the base programming in us has changed. We are cavemen with smartphones and instant global communication. Just 200 years ago you could have been burned alive for trying to fly, and someone flies every damn day now.
Generally men are the ones who go over the ridge, climb over the mountain to find resources on the other side, they go into the forest, out on the water, taking great risk to feed their families. Sure some men are incapable or too timid to do that, and they kinda act like females in this respect.
The race of people doesn't matter as much as the culture they come from, or the ideology they follow. These authoritarian leftists want to make it all about race, because its low hanging fruit, an easy target they can use to divide people and get them to self segregate and create 'out group' that are easily identified.
These authoritarians want to be like our mother, telling us what we can and cannot do, what risks we can take if any at all, and essentially control our lives. They say its for our safety and its a good thing for us. But its not, humans are not meant to be confined, restricted, and 'taken care of' by the busy body assholes in government. Think of how your mom was about you taking risks as a kid, that is how these people think and act.
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I was at the VA for a dental appointment today, and these two guys walked through the waiting room bringing in supplies. The TV was not on, the five of us in the waiting room were on our phones, but not doing things most people do. The delivery guys commented that nobody was watching the TV, and I said, "nothing worth seeing anyway" the other four vets agreed. I play sudoku to keep my mind sharp, and to keep my hypervigilance from going haywire. The other guys were Korea, Nam and first desert war vets like me, and they were doing similar things.
Not being passively entertained, not doing something on social media, they were working on stuff or playing a brain game like I was. We use our phones to be productive to some extent rather than being told what to think.
Its been more than 35 years since I watched TV.
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@VicePresidentKamala "Why, then, should you run away? And how can you resist right then? After all,
you’ll only make your situation worse; you’ll make it more difficult for them to sort out the mistake. And it isn’t just that you don’t put up any resistance; you
even walk down the stairs on tiptoe, as you are ordered to do, so your neighbors
won’t hear.
Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to
sacrifice himself.
Some still have hopes of a favorable outcome to their case and are afraid to ruin
their chances by an outcry."
~The Gulag Archipelago I-II by Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn
Part 1: The Prison Industry~
Those people assumed the system would work like it used to. Its a public building, as in we all own it, until this year there was no fence to keep the people out. You could stand on the Capitol steps and speak your mind, call out the politicians, and meet with them in their office when they were in. No longer. The government is not of the people, by the people and for the people, the politicians want to own and control us for their own profit.
They did not realize the new regime would make examples of them, the small number of people who wandered into the trap set for them. The intent is to intimidate them, so they think like you do, so they are too afraid to stand up and not go quietly.
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The flavor of marxism being used is nearly irrelevant, it all ends the same way, concentration camps, abject poverty for the masses, large scale starvation, and mass graves. Rather than enjoying the decline, we might want to fight against it in any way we can, otherwise we end up in one of those mass graves and the only difference is how much we suffer before we are covered with dirt.
I am not saying go kill em all, I am saying do not go quietly, do not acquiesce to their demands. If it comes to fighting, then there is a time to fight with violence. They will bring it first, then claim to be the victim. Its what they do. Nobody is coming to save us, we are the people who tried to save everyone else from this ideology. If we go down, everyone on the planet does, and who knows how long worldwide communism will last.
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@xxxlonewolf49 my ex wife is the fire chief of our township VFD. She is 130lbs so they made her chief. She can't do much else. However, there are only two members now, we had 13 before she divorced me. She brought her boyfriend on and everybody loathed him so much, they all quit at the township meeting. Not for me, but because the kid is useless but feels he should be in charge. Well he left her after 3 or 4 years, now she is 41, alone, unwanted, and still not capable of doing her job.
She nearly burned down two houses because she didn't want to respond to the fires, she wanted to spend time with that guy instead. You're right, unless they are EMTs or nurses they are pretty much in the way.
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I wrestled in high school and in the US military. Served in two wars. Have been in countless fights. I lost every fight until I was 16, and most wrestling matches until I was 15. Still lost matches until my very last one, but have not lost a fight in nearly 40 years. I learned how to fight and defend myself by losing... a lot.
Now I drag race, build my cars and compete against others. I learn more from losing than I do by winning, because it means someone has figured out how to do it better, go faster, or whatever else they did to win. Losing makes me better at everything I do. It teaches me where I need to improve, what I need to learn, and motivates me to put in the work required to win.
When life beats you down, you have a choice. Lay there and take it, give up and expire, or get up and fight back. I have always gotten up and fought back, even when I would just get knocked down again and again.
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@sgtrice1 I've never liked the guy, still don't. Can't stand to hear him speak, however he did ok during his term. It was the first time in my life I had some breathing room financially, and I have been a disabled vet since 2005.
However, the way the d's are going they will never have my support again. They are pushing the bad ideas that were present in eastern Europe from 1917 to 1992, which I saw first hand while stationed in Germany in the late 80s and early 90s.
Once you know the rhetoric, ideology, and the tactics, its easy to spot them. Now they are doing things that were done 100 years ago in Europe. Things that were atrocious for the people living there, but benefitted the so called 'elites' at the expense of everyone else.
The fact they are going after DT like they are, making things up, using corrupt judges, maligning him by fabricating things about him, and its all so blatantly obvious to anyone who takes more than a cursory look beyond the headline, that I begrudgingly will choose him over them.
If they can take his property without cause, accuse him of things he did not do (that they did themselves), well they can do it to all of us.
As it happens, my ex wife and her boyfriend cut up his truck blamed me for it, and I had to pay him for the damage they did to it, and sit in jail for 15 days. There was zero evidence other than their claims that I did it, and they took her word over mine, despite the fact it was physically impossible for me to do what they claimed I did.
I know a railroading when I see one, even when it happens to someone I do not like, it is not right and not how the USA is supposed to work.
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STOP MAKING EXCUSES. Nobody cares, thats the first thing men need to understand, nobody cares about us. If we don't make it happen, nothing happens. You can whine and cry about the things you have to do to become a man and build your life into something worth living, or you can get started. All of those things are still going to be standing in your way after you cry about it, so skip the female emotional outbursts and get to work.
At 14 I was 4'9 and 135lbs, I was a portly kid, and I had just gotten into wrestling. By the time I was 16 I was becoming somewhat of a monster and had grown to 5'7. It was a messed up diet the doctors put me on in the 70s. No female would even acknowledge I existed until I put in the work to get stronger, built confidence through competition, and changed my life the hard way. At 17 I got the first piece, which was followed by another (who was 21) two weeks later. I was off to the races and getting tail from ever increasingly good looking ones. I am only 5'8 man, and I can lift a lot of weight because of the jobs I had and the life I lived.
Get off the couch, get the hell out there, get to work doing something constructive that makes you work. I mean work, lifting heavy stuff, over and over, not some paper pushing job or stocking shelves at a box store. BUILD something. Houses, cars, bridges, roads... whatever. Do that for at least two years and pay attention to the men you work with when you haven't had a dad there to teach you how to be a man.
Being a man takes work, you don't just end up one like females end up being women. YOU gotta make your life happen, nobody is going to do it for you.
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@ZaphodBeeblebrox042 I'm old, 51years old, got my first car in 1982 when I was only 13. I have watched this happen over and over through the years. Two guns I bought in 1992 and 93 were banned by the first stupid ban that did nothing but run up the price of my shotgun.
I was into cars already when the EPA decided we gear heads were doing bad things by making our vehicles faster. SEMA managed to kill that idiocy several times in the last 40 years.
This year its different, the people on our side are no longer in office. The next election, the mid terms, will undoubtedly have the same spikes we saw last year, and states that have been red my entire life will find themselves with an underdog dem winning. They will get their 2/3 majority so they can amend the constitution at will.
When that happens, we will lose our rights. Not just to defend ourselves, but to do the things we love to do, like building, modifying, and driving cars.
In 1988 I enlisted in the US military and was sent to Germany. I was there when the Berlin wall came down and I have a large chunk of it on my shelf. I met people from the soviet bloc, the idea of being able to even afford a car, let alone do what we do with them, was something they could only dream about.
When they take over in two years, and can do whatever they want to us, it will be a matter of time before the parts dry up, getting a set of tires will cost a fortune, and you can just forget about anything aftermarket. The blackmarket for car parts will be a big thing, not quite as big as it will be for food, medicine, ammo, and other things, but you and I will not be able to afford a gasket set.
You only need to look at Cuba, Venezuela, and the soviet union to see where they are taking us. I've seen this before, in all those places, I know how it turns out and what happens.
I am not some tinfoil hat wearing nutter, I am someone who has seen the inside of the government, been there as history unfolded before my eyes, not watching it on a TV screen at home. I've seen this before, and I am concerned about the people in government. They do not give a fuck what we want or think. They want to tell us what we can and cannot do. Even if the bill passes and becomes law, they will not give a damn in two years.
There is a financial aspect to this too. I was alive and remember the rampant inflation of the 1970s. When gas was ten cents then a dollar, and the dollar stopped being worth much. 25 cents for a bottle of Coke when I bought my car, and by the time I graduated in 87 it was over a dollar. That is only 5 years.
Its going to be a lot worse this time.
I know I sound like the sky is falling, gloom and doom. It takes a few years for things to get better when this happens, but this time it might not get better... Well not in our lifetimes. 1917 to 1989 was a very long time for people to be ruled by the type of people we have in government right now.
It matters, more than guns, more than cars, more than hobbies. This is a wake up call for gearheads. If we don't do something about this government overreach, they won't stop taking from us.
Try getting someone in California to comprehend that.
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@Nubsmcgee I am inclined to agree with you, not a fan of the GOP either. There is no political party that fits me, however what the democrats have been doing and pushing has all the alarms going off in my head. Its the same pattern employed in other countries to get leftist systems in place that have always resulted in abject poverty for the masses, starvation, death camps, and mass graves.
I am a cold war veteran who also served in Desert Storm, and in OIF/OEF. Have a chunk of Berlin wall on my shelf that I knocked off when stationed in Frankfurt back in 1989. I do not relish the idea of a 3rd hot conflict with a two way rifle range or a game of high speed lead catch and explosive lawn darts.
Money has corrupted our government, they no longer work for us, and they are all trying to make us work for and be dependent upon them. Like I said, I am not a fan, and I am stuck with them thanks to getting fucked up on my last deployment in 2004.
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@donkEEpunch85 There is always more. I plan to start making some videos about cars, ethanol, producing energy yourself, and many other things I have found interesting over the years. I am not a hippy or tree hugger, more of a gearhead hot rodder. I got into ethanol fuels because it is 1 cheap and easy to make, and 2 makes more power than gasoline 3 runs cooler.
Im working on building my house right now, and that takes up most of my time. I do everything myself, rarely have anyone to do things for me, but will pay them to help me out. If I need to do or make something, I learn how to do it. Every job I have had has been a dirty hands on technical job, and many things apply though they seem to be disparate. Once the house is done, I will start making videos and putting them on here and maybe some other platforms, since youtube has a penchant for censorship of late.
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@kettch777 During my first divorce, and for 15 years after it, my home state broke several federal and state laws at will, child support is entirely run by females who take great pleasure in harming men. I was saddled with onerous support payments equaling 71% of my gross, leaving me homeless while active duty in the US military. If I could find a lawyer who would take me as a client, they would not sure the state over any of this. Most simply would not take my case, and said good luck. They are in on it, they make money from it being how it is, they are NOT going to change it.
When it comes to our kids, men have zero rights, only responsibilities.
What shocks me is that we don't hear about men going after these corrupt people, instead they simply remove gray matter with a high speed chunk of metal... as society applauds their demise. I think the reason most men jump off the fantail is because they think they are alone, as everyone in their lives abandons them and blames them for the divorce she most often causes.
I do not speak to my family, none of my 5 siblings supported me, they all blame me for what my ex did to me. I am alone in this world, and I prefer it that way, because I cannot trust anyone.
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@pressb its hard for me to remember my parents doing something for me, and not having to work on the farm. I was operating farm equipment at 8 years old, that was in 1977. I worked my ass off to buy my first car at 13, and everything after that with my parents taking most of what I earned, I got the scraps of my labor. I left the farm at 17. Enlisted at 19 after finding the job market to be absolute crap, even for someone who was a competent machinist and mechanic.
I turned 21 in June of 1990, while I was home on leave. Got back to my base, and I remember vividly waking up to AFN (armed forces network) saying Iraq has invaded Kuwait and congress is considering sending in Marines and Airborne divisions. By the 10th of August, I was working 12 to 14 hour nights, with no days off, waking up just as tired as when I fell asleep in my uniform. My job was all about airlift, and that war was almost entirely airlifted.
I packed on so much muscle from the heavy lifting of that job, that my weight went from 210, to 190, back up to 230lbs and I was absolutely ripped. Any idea how hard it is to do laundry when you have no days off, work 14 hour days, and you still need to sleep? Nobody did it for us. Finding food meant taking MRE's off airplanes I worked, there was no time in my day to go get food, I was on the flight line for the entire 12 to 14 hours. If I didn't grab an MRE here and there I did not eat. I warmed them on the intake manifold of the vehicles I was operating so I didn't have to eat cold MREs.
At 34 my second war started, this time for the profit of politicians. Turns out you can't work like you did at 21 when you are 34. You're no longer indestructible. Joints on me started wearing out in 2003, knees, shoulders, elbows, hips.. been trashed and living with chronic pain ever since. Also got divorced in 2001,so I was having 71% of my gross pay taken from me and given to her. I was graciously allowed $100 a month to live on by my home state, so I got to eat once a day and slept in my car or on friend's couches.
In 2013 I got divorced again, and decided to buy some land so I could build a home for me, and a shop to rebuild old cars, which is what I do to stay busy. Nobody showed up to help for most of it, in 2015 I hired two guys to help me do 90% of the roof on the shop. I did everything else, cleared trees, prepped the foundation, poured the concrete, built the walls, wired it... Crippled 45 year old builds home/shop.
I've been rebuilding and repairing my vehicles since that first one in 1982, it is VERY rare anyone else does something to them. Mostly I have a shop check my alignments, everything else I do. I did the front brakes on my beater 2000 Silverado 4x4 last night, so simple to do and I used to make $500 doing it for other people.
I look down on people who cannot do things for themselves, and have to pay others to do it for them. I see them as inept, incapable, and lacking knowledge as well as skills. If I ever get so old I can't do things for myself, I am gonna check out on my terms. I doubt I will make it that far though, its not like I haven't been exposed to some really nasty stuff over the years.. chem weapons in the first war, burn pits in the second one, farm chemicals for the first 17 years of my life, all the stuff with cars and machines... I'm amazed I am still alive at 53 to be honest.
I've never had the luxury of wondering if I am spoiled, I have always been the man people come to for help, they do not come to help me. If I don't do it, it doesn't get done. Nothing is provided for me like the chick in this video... nothing. I go to the VA for health care and they compensate me for breaking me in my two wars, but I earned the hell out of it. We might be even if I live to 110.
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I bought several 1500 trucks over the summer, all for less than $500. I can build a good running truck out of them for less than $2000 to fix whats wrong with them, mainly rust issues. I can build a car for $5k that will stomp a mudhole in a Hellcat's ass, and walk a Tesla easily, running fuel that costs me ten cents a gallon to make. For $10k I can make it handle better and look nicer, while being considerably faster.
No way in hell will I buy anything other than land for more than $30k. Ok maybe an airplane.
The whole reason they are going electric is to force people like me to move into the cities and use public transportation, because then we are easier to control and exploit for profit. I can't afford one of those, most people can't, sure as hell not one with the range I need to get around. The idea is to make us dependent on them, the people who will own everything, rent it to us, and claim we will be happy about it. I own my land, I am debt free, and I can live off my land easily if I need or want to. The idea of having to rent from someone else when I have only a few expenses is akin to slavery to me.
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Identify a problem, presuppose a reason for said problem, look only so far as is needed to support the presupposition, then prescribe a solution based on the erroneous assertion presupposed so it fits an ideological outlook. Makes perfect sense to the left minded.
I am a gearhead, you can discount me as being nothing but a gray haired old man who gets dirty working on cars if you like. However, there is a system, a rather scientific method of diagnosing and repairing vehicles and other machines, that if you use what I wrote in the first paragraph, you will never actually fix the problem.
Lets make it easy, the car you drive is running out of oil so you have to put more in to stop the lifters stop clattering and make the bright red light on the dash to go out. The left mind is to assert its due to things not being equal due to design flaws, such as leaks or whatnot, and the solution it so add a complex system that carries vastly more oil and delivers it to the engine for you. Add a tank on the roof of the car to supply more oil, that is their first solution. The second solution they posit is banning all cars and trucks because they have oil in them.
Then you have the right mind, the one I ascribe to, where you look for causes. Where is the oil going? Is it being burned or is it escaping the engine in the form of a leak? Maybe your neighbor is opening the hood nd siphoning some out to start his Hibachi grill. it is in the realm of possibility, but unlikely its going to start a grill. Look under the vehicle to see if there is a puddle where it sits overnight. If there is a puddle, how large is it and can you see where its dripping from? Follow the drips up the engine block and find the leaking valve cover. Remove the cover, clean it well, replace the gasket, and reinstall it. Now drive it around to check for other leaks and to ensure you repaired that leak.
Identify a problem. Find the cause. Repair or remedy the cause. Throwing money at it doesn't fix it, and adding more oil just wastes oil because its dripping out of the engine.
I wonder if this one will be hidden as well. They usually are.
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@jimfrancis2624 nah, its just RPM, and people revving them beyond where they are actually making power. The 3" mains aren't a problem. The main reason most of us go to bbc journal sizes is because in the 90s the bbc rods were cheaper than forged 6.625" Pontiac rods, and we could use 6.8" rods with a $500 set of pistons. Back then forged 6.625" rods were $1200 a set or more.
He wondered about a RA IV beating an L78.. yeah, the IV would stomp an L78, provided it was running right. The L78 had what, 11:1 compression and a 242@.050 solid cam, but the guys who raced the IVs 50 years ago said no 396 was a problem for them, despite less compression, smaller cams, and less gearing.
Most people who bought IV engines thought they were daily driver mills like the D ports, but they required some maintenance and someone who knows what they are doing. Take them to a chevy dealer and it won't come back right.
A friend of mine is the original owner of a 69 RA IV 4 speed Judge, the original engine is on a stand in his shop. He was not the type who wanted to work on the car every couple weeks or so, he took it to the shop.
IV heads and cam on a 428 or 455 is a very simple combination that results in an 11 second car even if it weighs 4000lbs. But you shift it at 6000rpm, not 6500, not 7000, not 7500... unless you have forged rods in it, which like I said earlier were expensive until recently. There is no need to spin a Pontiac that high unless you have worked aftermarket heads on it that will flow enough air to support that large of an engine at that high of an RPM.
It takes a 572 bbc to match the torque of a D port 455. Its all in the port length and velocity.
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Really? How long have you lived in your car? How long have you been indentured to your ex who cheated, lied, falsely accused and assaulted you? How long have you spent in jail for things you did not do, but were accused of? How much child support were you forced to pay? How many houses have you had to give up to a cheating ex?
For me it was in order:
3 years on active duty, 2 as a civilian ten years later.
15 years of indenture.
20 days.
71% of my gross, totaling well over $250k.
2 houses and garages.
Plus I was tasked with the dangerous, dirty, heavy lifting jobs while the females got to sit around in air conditioning in the safest places on deployments and when I worked in factories.
You are the most privileged group in world history, and you are so accustomed to getting everything given to you, that someone saying no feels like oppression. Enjoy boxed wine and cat land, and remember dear.. 40 to 80 is a long time to be alone, unwanted, and invisible.
Our default is to be alone, and we get stuff done when we are alone. We have fun when not encumbered by you like a millstone around our necks. The majority of the problems and stress in my life, was caused by females. I have massive arms, chest, and legs because I had to pull the weight of the females as well as my own during my first war.
I adore females, they are wonderful... unless of course they are like you and hate us.
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We don't want someone who feels like she needs to be competing with us. Intimidated... heh, they sure like that cope. It is impossible for me to be intimidated by someone who cannot open a pickle jar, parallel park, or change a tire... not that any of those are intimidating abilities, and that is the point. Its a much higher bar and they can't even do those things. I own my house don't care about a job some chick has, and she needs more from me than I need from her.
Pleasant to be around, attractive and fit, not combative, and doesn't start irrational arguments. That is the bar, and its so low its like a painted stripe on polished concrete, but they still can't get over it.
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Respect is earned. It is not given. Being polite is not the same thing. Being cordial is not the same thing. Giving respect to people who have not earned it goes nowhere good.
These days saving the damsel is a good way to get shanked, and often she will turn on you if she is involved with the person doing whatever it is. I have two daughters, I have armed them with good judgement and long distance hole punches accompanied by training in how to use them effectively.
I am polite and will open doors for people. I will also extend a verbal greeting to others if they seem amenable to it. I am cordial and often try to make cashiers laugh, because they have a rough job and deal with irritable people every day. They still have to earn my respect like everyone else does.
If women want to have the treatment they used to get from 'gentlemen' then they need to start acting like ladies. It does not begin with men, it starts with women being gracious, acting feminine, being polite as well, and not acting entitled. When they do things like the ones making videos in gyms lately to shame men, they prompt us to all ignore them. The legal system makes us VERY disinclined to be helpful or even acknowledge that ladies exist.
Likewise the legal system is driving men away from women. If you want men to marry, you must given them positive incentives to do so, not threats and negative reinforcement. When they can lose everything they have worked to build and invested in, just because she decides she wants to divorce him, that is disincentivizing men. Change the laws and the application of them, or watch more and more men walk away, ignore women entirely, and leave civilization to circle the drain.
Until the 'conservatives' grasp the fact that men are being punished for simply being men, none of this will make a difference. Because we are logical, and if we get our hand burned by sticking it in the fire, we won't put it in the fire again. The men around us who see us get our hand burned, will also not put our hand in the fire.
To put it in a different metaphor. If there is a busy street with excellent ice cream on the opposite side of the street, but 40% of men are hit by a bus crossing the street, most men will forego the ice cream, no matter how amazingly delicious it is. When 80% of men get hit by a bus, the ice cream will only get the fastest men who are lucky enough to cross the street. The problem with this metaphor is that bus can hit you ANY TIME in your marriage. it can be a day into it, or several decades, he still gets hit by the bus and she is rewarded for hitting him with the bus.
Lastly...
Like JP said, a peaceful man is one who can inflict harm upon others, but refrains from doing so. If you're incapable of inflicting harm, you're not peaceful, you're harmless. This is lost on most people as they assume they are capable of great harm, when in fact they are harmless.
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I had five baseless unfounded assertions leveled against me in the USAF back in 1990-92. I am not allowed to use the typical phrase or my comment is hidden. I wasn't tall enough to say hello in passing to military females. My solution was to not talk to military females.
In 92 I had one accuse me of a struggle snuggle, because I would not give her a car I owned. She was a civilian and unaware I worked nights on base and had Tuesday Wednesday off, she claimed I did it on Friday around midnight, Saturday around 11pm, then Sunday evening. I was on duty and could prove it beyond any doubt. No spicy time transpired between us, she got my name from one of the guys who knew me and made her assertions when I would not just hand over a car to her. I had looked at her car to see if I could fix it, and I needed a lift and a shop to do it, so I declined fixing it for her.
I was restricted to base for months and it played a part in me not being able to reenlist. The off base cops wanted to haul me off, but my base said they would just keep me there. They needed me to work and having me in jail was not going to allow that. I got screwed over because some bint found out I had two cars and she wanted one.
Then I had another in the civ world because she wanted me to let her drive my car, on ice, while she was drunk and I said no. Both ex wives did the same thing during our divorce, but it wasn't spicy in nature, it was other things they claimed I did.
After all of this, it is impossible for me to trust females.
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I stumbled into something that is turning out to be a very important thing to know. In 2007 when gas was $5 a gallon here the first time, and I wanted to drive my Pontiac muscle cars with 7.4L/455ci engines, and I could not afford gasoline. The power grid where I live is unstable, it went out 7 times in June alone. We get 150 to 300 inches of snow every winter, and its 40F to -20F here from October to May. Heating my home is one of my largest expenses and firewood has its drawbacks.. like getting enough that isn't still green, it has to be dry.
I learned how to make ethanol after looking into methane(CNG), hydrogen, methanol, and electric power. Its the least expensive, easiest to produce, and I can make ludicrous power on it.
In learning how to make ethanol fuel as cheaply as possible, I found how to heat my home with little more than a compost pile, a water pump connected to 600' of plastic sprinkler pipe, and some baseboard heaters. I can use home made methane to power generators, cook my food, and since when you burn ethanol and methane you produce CO2 and H20, I can pump that into a greenhouse and grow food all winter using the generator to power it all. Fermentation also produces CO2 which can be utilized in the greenhouse as well. The compost from the water heater can be used to grow food as well.
I make ethanol from cattails, tree sap, and this year I am working on coffee grounds.. though coffee grounds would be VERY hard to get with a complete collapse, while they are here I am using them. Using methane to power the stills means I can make fuel for less than $1 a gallon, but its more work than going to the station and putting your card in the machine. There is no "easy button" other than oil, and oil still takes a HUGE amount of work and energy to get it to you so you can push the "easy button."
Also... you need room to do all of this. Its not going to be something you can do in an apartment, but several neighbors could get together in the suburbs and work together to produce all their energy. You can make fuel in a couple storage units that are large enough to store a vehicle. One to produce it, one to store it, but that limited space will limit how much you can make, roughly it would be 150 gallons per week if you made it as efficient as possible. More realistically it would be 30 or 40 gallons per week.
You need something to use to make fuel (starch/sugar) and other energy, plus there are other considerations like what to do with what is left over after you make fuel vodka... usually you feed it to livestock of some sort, from earth worms to cows. You can also use it to make methane, fertilize soil, and often eat it yourself.
I can travel on my fuel, heat my home, power everything, and grow my food since I own my land. The best part is I can drive my muscle cars, with the high compression engines from the 1960s, make lots of tire shredding power, and enjoy the vehicles I love to build and race.
I got into it because I am a hot rodder/gearhead and I want to drive ludicrously overpowered vehicles as daily drivers.... and I don't have much money. I do all of this on less than $40k a year.
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@FullCircleTravis do you have kids? Because if you have kids, she can decide to take them from you, no reason nor justification needed. She will be rewarded for it. I was thrilled my ex finally left, the police backed her every time they showed up looking to arrest me for what she did. She did not intimidate me at all, even when she was coming at me with something or throwing things. I have lots of scars from her, maybe I needed to give a few scars back.
I am not a timid man, not a small powerless one either, but there are more police than me.
She absconded with my two daughters when they were 5 and 7, moved them 1500 miles away and I had to look for several days to find them when I came home on leave. She screened calls, threw away presents I sent or kept them for herself, and I was forced to give her all but $100 of my take home pay for nearly 3 years. I slept in my old ratty car while active duty in the US military, or on friend's couches. Lots of cheese and bologna sandwiches, except for the week where a friend's gf gave her kids my weeks worth of food one day.
For the next 7 years I got to see my kids a total of 12 days. Usually the last afternoon before I head to head back to base, and I spent the rest of the time trying to find them.
My bank account was seized twice as a punitive measure, so they could put me behind on payments, and punish me for the payment bouncing. They kept the money, and did not give it to her.
So be as willful as you like.. when she decides to destroy you, there will be precious little you can do about it. Your choices are let it happen or take a permanent dirt nap. If you try to fight them, they will make it even worse. I lost 15 years of my life living on a tiny portion of my income because the rest was going to someone who did not deserve nor earn it.
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@ytwatcher69 seems like you have limited experience dating girls. Take a bit of info from an old guy on the other side of life. If a man has a family today, those kids will be used against him and that is one of the most painful things anyone can do to a man. Taking his kids from him, and mothers do it out of spite and vindictive capriciousness. Sure, not all of them do that, but enough of them have that its a safe bet to assume that at some point that girl is going to do it to you.
My generation (X) was the last to have a sensible divorce rate, and it still got me twice. There is no meeting half way, because she can bring absolutely nothing, and walk away with half to 3/4 of everything he spent his life building/earning.
I am not on channels like this to learn about the nature of women, I am here to critique the message put out by channels such as this. While I think the vampire thing is a bit goofy, its his thing, and he is pretty much spot on in every video I have seen Taylor make. I come here to do what I am doing now, giving information to the young and inexperienced who assume they know, but have no freakin clue.
Men are giving up, or more aptly they are not playing the rigged game anymore. They have everything to lose, and nothing to gain, and having a family makes it much much worse when she decides she is not happy. The problem is partly the girls and the rest is the legislation surrounding marriage, divorce, and whatever she feels like accusing you of today.
Now I ask you, do you think I was happier paying 71% of my gross pay to an ex who kept my two daughters from me for nearly a decade, while I was indentured to her from 2001 to 2015? She was the one who cheated and mistreated the kids and I, but was rewarded for it.. or am I happier, more content, with a vastly more fulfilling life living alone in the woods, building my house, spending time with my Siberian Huskies, building vintage Pontiac muscle cars in the shop I built, and living debt free since nobody else is camped out in my wallet?
After a man is forced to live in the back of a $500 truck or old cop car because his wonderful wife got everything else including most of his income because she did everything wrong, living alone in the woods is heavenly. No loneliness, no misery, no bitterness, just peace and quiet.. well until I start one of my cars, which then shakes the ground and rattles windows. It does set him back quite a bit though, I would probably be a millionaire right now if my first wife had not gone off the bipolar train wreck track.
Here is the fun part... my ex wives have screwed up their lives far worse than any retribution or revenge I could have visited upon them. They made the choice to leave a man who was going somewhere, be an anchor holding him back rather than working with him to improve the lives of all of us. The 1st is 49, over 300lbs, about to have her house foreclosed, and has a problem with pain meds she developed about 8 years back. We been divorced for 22 years now.
The second one is 40, the 'soulmate' she left to be with stuck around for 3 or 4 years, she had known him for 3 weeks, and threw away nearly ten years with me. She was set for life with me, now she is living off her dad because he pays all her bills, since she has no appreciable skills despite having a degree.
Useless schooling.... it doesn't make you a better judge of people, and girls are really bad at thinking ahead since they are all in the now. The only thing that matters to girls is what they want right this second. Thats why girls are the problem along with the laws. Because they are encouraged to act on those whims and desires, and rewarded for it at the man's expense.
So you as a nice young lady, can expect to be like my second ex for sure, possibly my first ex, and 40 to 80 is a very very long time. You'll be miserable alone, but men are not, its our default setting. We are used to it, whereas you're not.
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@C_J__ I'm ex military, heavily muscled, own 13 acres of woodland where I live and build vintage muscle cars for fun, plus I am debt free, built my house, shop, and produce food, fuel, and working on making enough electricity to go off grid without burning anything... I am twice divorced, no way in hell am I letting another female into my life where she has any control, power, or sway in it. She can come visit, then go home.
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@jorgelarzabal you wouldn't feel so tender hearted towards her when she has you thrown in jail for no reason other than she is off her nut, keeps you destitute no matter how much you earn so you're living in a beat up old car, and keeps you from seeing your kids out of pure vindictive capriciousness.
I have two ex's, kids with the first. They both stepped out with infidelity, lied about me to make themselves look better to everyone, took my house, my income, and had me sit in jail for things I didn't do.. evidence doesn't matter when a man is accused by his less than loyal ex. They just assume he did it, because she is sooo wonderful.
No they do not get any respect from me and I honestly would not care if space junk squished them, or they caught something serious. They earned the derision, and what the first did to my two daughters is unforgivable.
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The AFB from Carter and Edelbrock, doesn't matter which, is the least tunable and lowest power producing carb of everything he had on the table. They are wonderful for people who don't know how carbs work, how to tune, and do not really modify their engines. They are calibrated for stock engines between 300 and 350 cubes, you can bolt them on and go because there simply isn't enough tuning ability to make a difference, you get what you get. For a small block powered daily driven truck they are perfect, because you aren't trying to get the most power or mileage possible from them, they just need to idle and run. The reason for multiple carb intakes in the 50s and 60s was because the AFB can't flow enough air to feed a big power engine without more than one of them.
On the other end of the spectrum the Qjet is VERY tunable, to the point it is excruciatingly easy to screw one up if you have no idea what you are doing. People don't know how they work, how to tune or modify them, and so they think they don't work well. Once you know how they function and what to do with them, they are easily the best street carb made. Set it and forget it until the gasoline varnishes the inside of the carb so bad it clogs stuff. With the Qjet you will have mileage and power, with excellent drivability, but you have to know how to get that from them.
It was always amusing when I would loan a Qjet or Holley to a guy who wanted to make his car faster, so he could replace the AFB on it. They never wanted to give my Qjets back, because they were set up right. We dropped a full second off one guy's Luv truck with its ZZ4 with a carb spacer, Holley 3310, secondary spring kit, and a bit of timing advance over his combo with the AFB. He could barely get it in the 13s, I spent 40 minutes on his truck and it was running mid 12s. He said it even picked up some mileage driving it around town.
My friends who don't know carbs all run Eddy's, and its a good thing. They can really mess up a Holley fast. Great little carbs for the people who just aren't into getting all the power, mileage, and being able to tune it. You can do it with them. but it takes a hell of a lot longer to make an E carb run right. Don't even get me started on the Edelbrock Qjets... what a mess they are.
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Been single and not looking for ten years, since my second and final divorce. Life is enjoyable, I have money, time, and can do anything I want. Talked to some 26-28 year old women while doing my laundry yesterday, they are a bit too big, but still thought I was hitting on them by talking to them. They have no clue what is wrong with them, why we don't want them. They were fun to talk with, but I would not date any of them at any point in my life, and I am 54 now. They are simply too big, one had a cute face, but she was packing two axe handles out back.
You lose your home twice, most of your income for a couple decades, are punished for being a man, and living alone is not lonely... its enjoyable with the peace and quiet. Get some spicy fun time, and send them on their way, they are not worth keeping around and wasting time and money on them.
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I am big on green energy, because I cannot afford $5 a gallon gasoline, the power grid where I live is very unreliable (the longest I have gone without an interruption in the 15 years I have lived here was 6 weeks), and the more energy I can produce myself the less money I have to spend on it. Energy is my biggest expense, and when you're on a fixed income like I am, not having to spend as much money on energy makes a huge difference. So I am not big on fossil fuels, yet I see this climate change alarmism for what it is. Its fear mongering to get us all to accept the marxist system being pushed by these people. They want to be in control of us, and marxism does that. Its puts the inept, capricious, and ruthless in control, allowing them to become wealthy at the expense of everyone else. In other words, it does what it claims to fight against... The more you learn about history and the effects of marxism in all its various forms, the more you will realize everything negative they accuse others of, is what they are doing themselves.
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@kfalco2406 you're engasged in an ideological war, where the followers of another god are going to try to wipe you out because you do not agree with them. Their god is the state, and its a bit more effective than an invisible friend.
However, despite the fact I do not follow your ideology, or any for that matter, I will fight along side you to protect your right to believe in talking snakes, rapture, and whatever else. I am sworn to do so, because you can believe any nonsensical or factual thing you like here in the USA, be it flat earth or Hillary was honest and Biden is the most popular president ever, for reals tho. Yeah, none of that is factual, but idiots still believe it.
Thing is, there are idiots who want you and I dead simply because we do not accept the government as our lord and protector. So call it the end times if you like, say the four horsemen are upon us and use the sharpshooter fallacy to declare it to be so.
Revelations was written about the fall of Rome, the super power of their time. Its not hard to discern how empires crumble and collapse, and its actually easy to do when you're allowed to sow dissent among the weak and resentful.
These marxist and globalist assholes are trying to bring about our demise, and render the entire world subservient to them. It seems you are resigned to accepting that fate, whereas I am willing to fight tooth and nail to rectify the marxist influence that has been injected into our nation and way of life.
That is why I am not a follower of ideology, because rather than rely on invisible friends or nebulous concepts, I tend to act and make shit happen. If I wait for thoughts and prayers, nothing happens to benefit me. Most often it gets worse through my inaction. If I act, my life gets better. Its me making it better, and I force myself through discipline to effect the changes, I do not need a sky fairy nor a busy body government to empower me.
You have a feminine mindset, the "When I stop looking that is when someone comes into my life" thinking. Know what happens if I stop looking for girls to ask out? Nothing with girls, but on the bright side I can spend the money and time I would otherwise spend on females doing things I enjoy, like building old cars, spending time with my huskies, and enjoying the natural wonder of the forest I live in.
If I do not talk to girls and ask them out, I do not get laid, do not get dates, and nobody just talks to me. I have to put in the effort. You want the effort to be made for you. That is the other reason I am not big on ideology and invisible friends. They make you weak and keep you ignorant so as to keep you believing the ideology.
Yeah, I know this is too long for you to read, and if you do read it all you are pissed off because I do not agree with your unsubstantiated beliefs and assertions. :) Will still fight so you can have them though.
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The last one I hooked up with (I am 54 and never commit after two divorces) was cool, she didn't want me to be a dad to her sons, but she wanted them to see what a masculine rough hands male is like. She earns more than I do, and we are still friends 5 years after it ended. She is the ONLY one I am still friends with, because she earned it. She knows she isn't super hot, I like em between 4 and 7.
I got through to the younger one, and he is following the pursuits I followed.. wrestling, building vehicles, lifting, competence, capability, putting in effort to get what he wants. He spent a few weeks total in the 4 years I was tappin her, we played games together and talked about stuff, like what it is to be a man.
She and I talk a couple times a week, and the kid is a monster in his senior year just destroying kids in wrestling. I made a positive change in his life. Winning..
His mom decided to break it off because there is 7 hours between us, I would never commit, and she wanted someone closer to her who made more money. She cycles through them every 16 to 20 months. Thats how long they hit it before quitting it. Its a pity I didn't meet her 30 years ago when she was 20.
Avoid them, but if you want to live dangerously with an easy one... Hit it and quit it, but NEVER commit to one. Wrap that rascal, take it with you when you leave. They are broken, damaged, and far too much risk.
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@thomas9685 I direct you to Article 88 as well as Article 134 of the UCMJ. When I was an NCO we kicked a kid out for Article 89, 91, and 134 for what he said in the presence of my subordinates about me and an LT. The other NCOs pushed it as he wasn't my troop, and our E7 left it to me if I wanted to put him out or if I wanted to wait for him to be separated for failure to meet standards which was also imminent. GD vs BCD.
What we do, in uniform or not, reflects upon the branch of service as well as the entire military . It is in effect 100% of the time, on duty or off, active, reserve or guard.
You are thinking of engaging in protesting/attending rallies, or something of that nature, which cannot be done in uniform. Verbatim "You CAN attend a political rally or event as a spectator. You CANNOT wear your uniform to the rally. You CANNOT speak in front of the rally." However if you are caught in a protest that turns violent woe to you when your chain of command finds out. So Forrest Gump violated the UCMJ when he addressed the mall.
The chain of command does often not take the most charitable interpretation of the UCMJ when you are found in violation. Expect the worst, because chances are that is what will happen.
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@Blackraptor1234 I'm a decent man, but I think your 3/10 is considerably too high. Sure, at your age there are good girls, I know a couple. Problem is, even at 53 I am just not interested in someone who was born in the 1940s or 50s. I'll hang out with you, talk about whatever, and enjoy the company of a girl older than me, hell we can go for a ride in my old car that was new when you were a teenager, but as for anything romantic or commitment related.. nah.
I've opted out. Not looking for a girl at all now. I have several interested, and others show interest often, but its simply not worth the risk. Im not going my way, I am gone. Those old muscle cars are a lot more fun, less expensive, and they won't take my house that I built long before I met them. You seem fun though, people forget that your generation was the one that developed the PC. Someone had to teach us X'ers how to use them.
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I'm 53, tagged a 66 year old who looks better than this chick a couple years ago, she was an honest 9 or 10 in her 20s and 30s, did local commercials on TV. I know her 40 year old son, which is how she met me. Let me tell ya, there are some issues with older ones... physical issues, like things escaping that should not, and no a 50+ something chick is not moist all the time like when they are 20. In the mood? Oh yeah, that biological clock is clanging away in her ears starting around 35, so they want it and every orifice is available more often than not. When I was 32 a 51 year old Thai chick who cleaned where I worked wanted some, she cooked me great food and then it was funtime.
Take it from an old guy who has had 18 year olds in the last couple years, and everything in between. The juice isn't worth the squeeze is an understatement. However the chances of getting whacked with support once she is over 40 is slim, but your best bet is pearl necklaces and the like.
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I had a different upbringing. Love was not part of it, beatings and neglect were. I was forced to defend myself from a young age, and I could not do it until I was 16 and had built enough muscle to seriously injure people. I had learned skills through both defending myself and in high school wrestling. On the mat against other kids, I was not so much violent as brutal, outclassing most of them in strength and the will to fight. I broke several bones and knocked kids out, and yes... there were two guys at my weight who were slightly more brutal than I was. Those were memorable matches. I learned more from losing than I did from winning, and that continues today.
My first foray into war and combat felt like home, and I was comfortable there. I did not run away, I moved towards the danger to eliminate it and I did. My wars packed even more muscle on me, to the point that I am in the top .01% of strength worldwide. To be honest I was surprised to learn that, I assumed most people were similar to me and my capabilities.
My life was more like an ancient Spartan's life.
Now at age 53, with a vast experience behind me, a wariness that never rests, and no voice in my head that says "Ok stop now, because he has had enough" you might assume I am a bully or a tyrant.. but in my experience, bullies and tyrants are the weak, insecure, inept, and incompetent among us who have gained influence by means other than merit. I take care of the people for whom I am responsible, I make sure they have what they need, its not serving and self sacrificing for them... its part of leading them.
In the military I lead people, and they appreciated my style of leadership. I expected them to do their job, and be the adults they were, so they could handle themselves without my constant supervision. If they wanted to step up and try to lead, I let them and kept a watchful eye on them as I was still the one who was responsible for everything. The only time I yelled was to be heard over jet engines, when disciplining my subordinates I got quieter so they had to lean in to hear what I was saying. Its about correcting behavior, not about berating and embarrassing them.
As a father I employed the same methods, I let my two daughters learn, I let them fail so they could learn from it, and I taught them how to think, solve problems, and use the world around them... I taught them to crawl, walk, ride a bike, read, write, math, run computers, shapes, colors, and identifying vehicles before they were 5 years old. At 7 I taught them to safely handle long distance hole punches. When they were 13 they learned how to drive and operate other equipment. My 25 year old daughter knows more about repairing vehicles than any of the boys she dates... and she carries a S&W .380.
I prefer to downplay my capabilities, to blend in and look like an old fat guy. Its in my name on here, and its how I portray myself to the world. In my experience, it is better to be underestimated than to give an opponent an accurate view of what you can do.
So love and self sacrifice all you want, ignore strength of mind and body... the chances you don't end up in the big hole with a few hundred others is pretty high. My demise will come very differently than obedient domesticated livestock. I have defended the weak and those who are incapable of defending themselves, because I am very capable of doing it. Hell I repair vehicles for people and show them how to do it for themselves. I like to educate and make people more competent and knowledgeable.... as it improves us all.
Despite having three brothers and two sisters all currently living, I am alone in this world and its not by choice. Considering how other people treat each other, I prefer it this way to be honest. Who is more of a man? Fuck if I know, and I don't give a damn either. I have my own issues to attend to, other men can handle their own. Its up to them to step up and fight or lay down and take it.
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Insane doesn't fit, the ideas they have are based in envy, resentment, entitlement, laziness, and they laud being the biggest victim. Marxism affects the low IQ disproportionately, the same as it affects the weak, unattractive, lazy, and over self indulgent. They cling to it because they see it as an easy way to get what they are loathe to earn. They want to take whatever they want from others, without doing anything beyond calling themselves a victim.
Marxism is not insane, its for the weak, feeble minded, ugly and lazy.
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I used to date black girls in the 80s and 90s, only two in the 00s and none since 2002. While part of that is geography, as very few people live here who aren't Finnish ancestry, there has been other things that affected my choices. Often I find the way they look very attractive, provided they are thin and not like the gravy and rocky road blood type of big pink. However there was a change when Bill took up residence at 1600 Penn Ave, and an even larger change in them when Barry moved into that particular public housing. They became mostly insufferably combative, not at all feminine, and the attitudes with always needing to be a victim is repulsive.
Girls directly from Africa still get my interest, and they are usually far more pleasant to meet and talk to than girls of any shade in Europe and the US. East and west Asians are also much more pleasant and therefore more attractive, but meeting Arab women is incredibly difficult for a man from Nebraska who's family came entirely from Germany.
There is a reason men are going overseas to meet women, and leaving all the harpies and harridans who live here to take up residence in boxed wine and cat land. Its not just the dark girls who are insufferable, its the vast majority of women who live in Europe, USA, and down under. Currently South America looks promising, women there are very feminine and not going to be testing you every 30 seconds like eastern European girls will if you get with them. I know, I dated them as well.
Men don't want someone who wants to compete with or control them. We want someone we can trust, is feminine, and is fit. Its not a lot to ask, but girls in EU, US, and AU/NZ are unable to meet those criteria. Its the ideology they've been fed for the last 50 years that tells them they are oppressed but can do everything a man does and do it better. The 'girl power' religion is making women undesirable in the extreme. They have bought themselves steerage class tickets on the boat to boxed wine and cat land. The black girls have been exposed to it longer and they are a smaller % of the population so it affected them first. The change in them before and after Barry has been huge, far larger than before and after Rodney King.
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@GoldenBoy-et6of it depends on what you are farming, and how much work goes into it. The best thing about strawberries is that once you start them, they keep going and spread a bit every year.
Farming when I was young was not a money making proposition, thanks to Jimmy Carter and his embargo. However, you are right. I turned $2 worth of sweet corn seed into $2500 in 1982, and bought my first car when I was 13. Two weeks before the 4th of July, people were willing to pay $5 a dozen, in 1982.
I still have that car, but I have not driven it since 1987. Its on the short list of projects. Its a 1967 Cougar. Life happens.
With the way things are going now, most of us will be millionaires, not because we have vast sums of wealth, but because the dollar will be worthless.
Owning land, producing from that land, investing your life and energy into it to build a better life for you and your offspring, that is where wealth begins.
I own some woodland, I am not doing much 'farming' on it per se. The trees are a resource while they are alive, tree sap vodka powers vehicles. Cattails also produce vodka to power vehicles and generators. The ground is full of rocks, and the soil is not very deep, but it is incredibly rich and things grow profusely here. Small scale works great here, enough for me and a few neighbors.
What resource does a person living in an apartment have? What can they grow or produce? They are consumers, doing 'busy work' to make others wealthy. Trading hours for dollars, with nothing to show for it other than piles of paper and useless stuff.
They need everything brought to them, and the waste taken away for them. Without every resourced being trucked in and provided for them, they would starve as their waste piles up around them.
How they think they are more intelligent and capable, despite having no idea how much of anything works, is beyond me. They call someone to fix a switch, repair their vehicle if they even own one, pay someone to repair the roof, mow the lawn, and bring them food. They have no idea how its done or how it gets there.
When it stops coming there, what will they do? They will obey... to get the food pellet.
I will have to be removed by force, and chances are it will be in a bag after I have filled many other bags with those sent to dislodge me. They don't want someone who knows how to do so many different things, running around teaching their cattle how to be self sufficient.
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@bdelectr7411 I didn't. In 2004 I was messed up on my last deployment to the desert and could barely walk for the next ten years. 2005 gas prices started going up as I was leaving the base where I was stationed and driving home, as gas stations ran out of gas behind me. I saw $9 in Atlanta on a sign...
I've been beholden to the VA for compensation since 2007 when they finally figured out how broken I am. By 2008 gasoline was $5 a gallon here in northern Michigan where I moved to. It stayed above $4.50 until 2015.
Obama cut VA funding twice in his term, leaving the disabled veterans he voted to send to war, with less income and fewer benefits. We got no cost of living adjustment from 2010 to 2017, despite cost of living going up.
In 2007 I was looking for a way to drive my vintage muscle cars that I have owned since the 1980s, because $5 gasoline was out of my budget with even 40mpg. I started working on that, because K knew the next dem after Trump would do EXACTLY what the potato is doing now.
I take nothing for granted, hell I am lucky to be alive today. Congress decides what we are worth, and its not much. Its easy for one of us to see what is going on, because with the GOP in office, a medical appointment is same or next day, two days at most. With the other guys in office, its MONTHS... I waited 9 months to get a broken tooth fixed in the first year of the Potato. It was the next day under Trump when I needed a crown on the other side.
I have been working on producing energy for myself, because that makes the few dollars I get in compensation go farther.
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@city_of_coompton6832 you said "maybe on one or two occasions show weakness or seek reassurance is enough to make them lose respect for you and possibly stab you in the back is just... idk. Someone who acts like that isn't your friend. Or partner. They don't care about you they're just using you."
and you are exactly right. Men do not treat each other like that, but females treat men like that. They aren't interested in us, only in what we can do for them.
Now if you take that as a dig or insult to females, well you are doing them a disservice by judging them on the same scale we judge men. We are different, we are not wired the same way, we have very different natures, abilities, and even ways of thinking. If you find that insulting to them, then you are comparing females to males, and it simply isn't fair.
Not that one is better than the other as a whole, we are complimentary. Her highs fit my lows, and my highs fit her lows, I can do the things she can't do, and she is better at some things than we are. We are not equal, we are very different. No two men are equal, one will be stronger, faster, taller, smarter, or whatever metric you measure, than the other one.
Males and females lead very different lives, due to biology which drives society. Society does not drive biology as marxists/feminists assert. Biology drives society, and people have adapted over the centuries to make the most of the strengths of people, rather than trying to drag the weaknesses up across the board.
The feminists and every other type of marxist seeks to drag everyone down to the same level where they have a chance to compete with a stacked deck. They claim we are equal and there is no difference in males and females, and in some respects there isn't but in others its massive.
If you are judging females by comparing them to men, well you are being hateful towards them.
The reason why I talk about what females do, how they act, and what to expect is very simple.. I like to fuck girls, I am not into fucking men. With fucking comes responsibilities, risks, and a whole bunch of bullshit we are fed.
Women are not wonderful, they are flawed humans like every man is, and they are quite capable of violence and the worst parts of being human, they are not special. treating them like they are special is hateful towards them, accept them for who they are, and be aware of how they think, act, and what they can get the state to do.
Why? Because its stupid to take a risk without knowing what the dangers of that risk entail.
I like girls far too much to treat them like men.. and yet the feminists want me to do part of that, they want all the benefits that come from the risks men must accept, but without all the responsibility those risks entail. They want everything with no drawbacks, downsides, or consequences, and they want men to keep shouldering all those risks and responsibilities.
Fuck that noise. I accept girls for who and how they are. Its up to them to be of good character and not do the things mentioned before. If they can't live in civilized society without fucking every swinging dick, well society will treat them a certain way..
Biology drives society.
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@Something-tz2vw the lack of drama and stress induced headaches is why I dated them, Thai ladies were my favorite from that end of Asia. Russians, well, they are interesting and run a wide range of ethnicities. You have to be a strong willed man that can withstand thermonuclear S-tests if you want to get and keep a Russian speaking one around.
My days of travelling are over, last time I was out of the US was 2004, the first time was 1989. I have eschewed relationships for some time now, opting to spend my money on vintage muscle cars, my land/home, and doing the things I enjoy doing, like going drag racing.
Because of women the last pass I made down a drag strip was in 2005. This is the first year I have rebuilt my life enough to get back into it after having everything I built and invested in ripped from me.
Asian ladies are quite nice, they rarely have bad attitudes and they know how to treat a man well.
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@thetomdillengerescapeplan3525 my friend, I have been to Russia, when it was still communist. I learned some Russian from girls working in Korea, the more Russian people I meet, the more I like them. I am a veteran of the US military, going back to the 1980s, and getting out in 2005. I have a large chunk of the Berlin Wall because I was stationed in Frankfurt West Germany when it was opened.
We the people of the USA, do not dislike nor hate you.
I felt no animosity towards Iraqis, even as we pushed them out of Kuwait in 1991. Was there too. On the contrary, I felt for them because they were forced into that fight, and I pity anyone who comes up against what our military can do. I was part of it, I know what we can do, and how we do it.
I never made it to Afghanistan, and we should never have gone in there, the idiots in our government didn't learn from when Russia went in when I was a kid. People want the oil, opiates, and lithium, so they buy politicians to get the resources. China is going in there now, they will probably end up carpet bombing villages when the Afghans get tired of their bullshit.
The assholes who run for office in the US are owned by corporations, they don't work for us anymore like they are supposed to. So the likes of Hillary and Cheney keep getting us involved in bullshit in other countries. Why are they fighting over Ukraine and Syria? Because Hillary, Biden, and Obama, along with many others in government, stand to profit from the pipeline being built from Qatar to Europe.
Its not us causing all this bullshit. Its the people that corporations and wealthy fucktards are installing in office. Much in the same way my peers in the soviet union were not making the choices and decisions, like me they were not the leaders fucking things up. We are average people, doing our jobs, and trying to make the world a better place for us and our kids.
I don't blame you at all for shortening your name. I have a very German name, and outside of the part of Nebraska I lived in where 99% of everyone's family came from Germany, I had to deal with the same shit. I live among Finn's now, and holy fuck they are a bunch of assholes to me. It would be cool if you came by and we could work on my Russian, drink some vodka, and tell stories from our travels. You're welcome any time.
The democrat party is owned by corporations and wealthy assholes, and though they like to say its not them, they are who has started every conflict short of Panama and Grenada in my 52 years. Democrats started Vietnam, of course that was in response to communists trying to overthrow the south but the dems kept us involved there for ten fucking years.
Sure Bush was in office in 2001 and 2003, but everything leading up to that was orchestrated by Clinton. He kept letting us get attacked and did nothing, he wanted desperately to start a fight. He was clamoring for it the entire time he was in office, he wanted to invade Iraq, they wanted to invade Iran when Obama was in office, and if Hillary had won, they would have.
I am not giving a pass to republicans either. Most of them are just as bad, the rest are completely useless.
The way I see it is the US government is the enemy of Russia and most other countries, and of the US population as well. How to fix it now that we have fortified population contests, without a two way rifle range, I have no idea. It needs to be done. We need to take control of our government and make them stop fucking with everyone else for their own personal profit.
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@RuralVol yes he is. I have lived in the upper peninsula for the last 16 years. When I wasn't in the military, and living in a city or on an base, I lived and grew up in Nebraska, not nearly as many trees, lakes and rivers as up here. I realized while I was stationed in Frankfurt Germany that I preferred living away from most people, and certainly not in a city. Partly due to my car thing, cities don't like you to have project vehicles sitting around, and partly because I want to have my privacy.
for the last 30 years I have wanted to live like I do now, although I want to go back to Nebraska because I can do my car thing there and go racing. Around here, nothing happens like that, but it is very beautiful here.. so I might keep my land here and split my time between the two.
I go into town and I feel dirty, not because of the people, just how detached from nature it is, its saccharine, artificial, unnatural.
South Carolina was ok while I was stationed there, but living in Charleston was not my preference. Had no choice though. get away from the city and its wonderful again, except for people trying to steal from you. I don't get that up here, everyone knows I am the crazy war vet with all the guns and cars... they don't know I lost my guns in a boating accident on Superior.
My Siberian huskies love it here, they are at home in the snow, and watching them play and be happy makes me happy.
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Everyone in this thread is not looking at the problem, but playing the game we are told to play so we don't look at the root of the problem.
The anti racist and white fragility crap is not so much political as it is RELIGIOUS. The teachers are teaching a religion in school, and as we all know the Establishment Clause says that is a no go. You see the ideology behind all that sjw stuff is marxism, its what is behind feminism which has had laws enacted based entirely on marxist ideology and its claims. Its everywhere now, and marxism is very much a religion/cult.
Now you might say marxists are atheists, and when it comes to invisible all powerful old guys in the sky, or the great juju in the mountain, you'd be right. But.. they have a god, it is the state. The all powerful, highest power, authoritarian, do as we say or end up feeding worms, entity that supposedly wants whatever the guy in charge wants. The priest class is politicians, they tell you what the state/god wants you to do. The congregation is not the rest of us, it is only the party members, everyone not in their 'church' is an infidel that needs to be enslaved or eliminated if they cannot be converted. Now if you stand back and look at religion with some skepticism, you will see the similarities. Use islam if you are uncomfortable looking at your own religion this way. Not many of you are muslim.. just sayin.
The marxists use the same tactics and the ideology mirrors christianity/judaism. They use shame and guilt to control you and get you to self police your thoughts, they have original sin just like christians and they call it privilege. Where marxism mirrors islam is the drive to take over the entire world, and force everyone to live by their rules, christians did that a bit a few hundred years ago, but currently islam and marxism are the only ones doing it.
If they wanted to self impose their rules only on themselves, hey no problem, you do you like the puritans or the Amish. Problem is, they want to force you and I to live by their rules, imagine if the Amish were prone to that sort of thinking. Gladly they are not. Your religion does not fit me any more than your pants or shoes do. Some parts might, but not the whole.
The muslims want to get everyone to heaven, to them that requires everyone be muslim or they are not getting to heaven. Unwilling to convert and live under sharia or speak out against it? Simple solution, death. The marxists want a utopia where nobody has envy, nobody has to work, and nobody has to be paid for their work. Everything is free and you just do what you want to do all day. You don't want to do it and speak against it? Death. The marxists have blasphemy laws, and they are currently being implemented right here on YouTube.
When marxism fails, they say the solution is to do it harder, because it obviously wasn't done right... but if they were in charge it would have been done right.. Hubris much? If you can't see the problem with the idea, you aren't smart enough to run everything, not even close.
When you have an idea that cannot be proven, that requires faith rather than empirical evidence, and prescribes what you MUST do as well as what you must not do, then you have what amounts to a religion. Thus marxism has no place in government, unless we also put every other religion into the mix and then we have a huge pile of meaningless poo.
Yes there is some reality in it, Marx pointed out places where capitalism fails, but his solutions were wrong and end up with things being much worse. They don't love the poor, they hate the rich, big difference. Now this might sound harsh to the religious, but just like Harry Potter is not reality despite being set in England and parts of it taking place in London, a place that actually exists, religions do much the same thing, and marxism is a prime example of coming to the wrong conclusion then trying to make everything fit that narrative... like economic disparity is due to racism/oppression just like earthquakes and disease are caused by sin.
Yes I see marxists the same way I see flat earthers, young earth creationists, and TV evangelists. To me they are not atheists, they are not satanists (usually) but they are following a delusion and it always results in the same thing, every time it is tried/implemented. I will side with you christians and others who are living your life by the tenets and rules of your religion, WITHOUT trying to force us all into it. Start trying to make me live by your rules, and we have a problem.
I am all about liberty, and the Bill of Rights is a very good place to start so we can all be on the same page, even if its in a different book or chapter.
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@fraserfir19 men are judged on competence, knowledge, capability, and achievement. What you know, do, can do, and have done.
A masculine man is capable and competent. How tall you are, how much money you have, even how muscular you are, doesn't really matter. There is a correlation with men who build muscle mass and masculinity though.
A man who cannot change a tire, is not viewed as a man. Same with if he cannot open a pickle jar. You are still a man if you cannot bench press 300lbs.
The other thing that is masculine is strength, and that is more than just muscle. Its being able to weather adversity and hardship, its not breaking down under stress and pressure. Its resilience in the face of adversity. Its stoicism rather than being ruled by emotions.
People follow the man who makes good decisions, leads with strength and is not broken easily by hardship or adversity. He doesn't have to be the biggest, strongest, or richest. He has to be the most competent and capable.
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@MajkaSrajka Occams Razor. The simplest solution is usually the right one.
Its not yours. You are putting the blame on the man, as if no female ever does wrong, except for the few bad apples.
The reality is females are wired differently than men, want different things, and have a very different reproduction strategy. They have a very different nature than men do.
Currently society is supporting and encouraging female nature to run without restrictions, limits, accountability, nor responsibility.. and punishing men for the actions of women. Then blaming the men for what the females do, exactly as you have done.
All the limits, restrictions, accountability and responsibilities are still in place for men, but not for females.
Its not that every woman will cheat and destroy us in court leaving us homeless and broke because the state gives her everything we earn.
Its simply that she can do that, and is incentivized or encouraged by everyone around her to do it.
Y'all act poorly and blame us for it, but then scream misogyny when we try to correct the behavior or we simply stop playing the game and let girls fuck the same 1% of guys and share all the STDs. If we don't do what you demand we do, then we are bad.
So I am a bad man then. I will live my life for my benefit, girls can do the same since they think they are equal and more capable, stronger, etc... rofl.
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Glib Happensoos I'm not a trust the plan or two more weeks type of loony. What I am is a retired military NCO who has set up ambushes and knows better than to just run in without a recon first.
To be honest, its not bad enough for most people, they simply do not care about who is in government. They are too busy running their own lives and trying to make life better for themselves to pay attention.
Its survival pressure, you are too busy surviving to think big thoughts. You're not planning a trip to the moon when you have no water to drink, and haven't had any for two days now. Water is your first priority, and what some twat a thousand miles away is doing matters very little to you. Its by design.
Then we have people like you, obvious shills who are doing what the commissars did in Poland back in 1945. They urged the Poles to fight against the Germans, the Poles assumed the red army would come help, but they did not. The Russians let the Poles get exterminated and captured. Then the Red Army came in and took over. After Germany was defeated, there wasn't anyone left in Poland to fight against the soviets.
So you are either ignorant or evil.
If these marxists (like you are) step across the line rather than just talking about it, then people will act. If people act before then it becomes justification for tyranny and authoritarian action against people.
The previous century showed us exactly what happens when marxists take control of nations, starvation, abject poverty for the masses, death camps, mass graves, and they always blame it on someone else.
Did you ever stop to think that many people are smarter than you are, and do not think like a child as you do?
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When the military downsized in 92, I went to school in 93. I went to a VoTech school, for automotive tech and mechanical engineering. I wanted a piece of paper that said I know what the fuck I am doing. Since I had been building cars and engines since the early 1980s, got my first car in 82 when I was 13, I tested out of nearly everything. I picked up rebuilding transmissions and how to run an alignment rack/system. I had a 3.8 GPA in all of it, and was ripping though 12 credit hours per month since it was a work at your own pace school. The engineering took a bit more time as it was all classroom work, but I could get ahead in it easily.
Used my GI Bill to pay for that, and also to live on once they increased the payout in the mid 90s. I had a gap in school thanks to the ex wife, but went back. I am 4 credit hours from a degree in both, and it made zero difference in employment, even if I did those last 4 hours which were unrelated to the discipline, it would not matter. I didn't finish because I went back to the military in 2000, when I was 30 years old, and unless I was medical they didn't want me because of my degree due to my age. NAFTA sent all the jobs to Mexico, so I enlisted to GTFO of there again, like I did in 88.
What I took is actually useful, and I use things I picked up in engineering class all the time doing old car builds in my retirement. Blowing money on something like outdoor recreation like my 2nd ex wife did, would be stupid. There are maybe 3000 jobs nationwide for that degree, but she has a degree... and her dad is paying her bills as she turns 40 this year. Know what is hilarious? She got to go to the local university for free, she only had to pay for books, because she is a female from an 'economically disadvantaged area' and I had to pay for all of mine because I am a white male. I served in two wars and paid into GI Bill to earn school money, she just had to have a vagina.
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@daveg4963 so you're afraid of it. Ok fine, why should your fear affect my rights? I know a few who have caught the rona, nobody has died, but they are all under 80 years old. I was concerned back in February, but by June there was enough data to see that its not a plague, sure as hell not an effective bio weapon. Just so happens I have some rather extensive training in nuclear, chem, and bio warfare. Know how effective these masks are? Somewhere between fuck all and jack shit. Washing your hands and not sucking face with random people is far more effective.
The hospitals aren't being overwhelmed, not even in most of Europe. Lockdowns make it worse, and masks are to get people to conform out of fear. If you want to prevent catching this thing, its just like not catching a cold during cold season. You can do that easily without being in MOPP4. Look up MOPP4 to see what I mean. Its essentially camo HAZMAT doomsday suits like in the movies, but more durable. Bio weapons are the least effective, and most are designed to use a vector, like insects or rodents, because its incredibly easy to defend against them. The only time the military locks down is when they are under direct attack with NBC weapons (nuke, bio, chem), they still have a job to do and will do it once the shells stop falling.
If this were an actual threat, they would be advising real masks with filters that cover your eyes. Paper masks don't do shit. I grew up wearing respirators working on a farm being highly allergic to grain dust, so the military training was second nature to me. I paint my old cars now to stay busy, gotta wear a real respirator with that too. That shit will fuck you up bad with just a little bit of it. I need to buy a fresh air system so it covers my eyes because I am hyper sensitized to isocyanates, I can't even get it on my skin or it fucks me up.
Trust me if you knew what was out there in weapons, this would not bother you at all. You want some nightmare fuel? Learn about NBC warfare. The chem stuff is a horrible way to die, its not at all like in the movies. Its much worse, with the rona the movies are far worse.. like 28 days, walking dead, WWZ etc..be afraid if you want, but you can't force me to be afraid with you.
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Way back in 1988 I joined the USAF, got orders to Frankfurt Germany in 1989. Three trips to the sandbox in 1991. Then orders to Charleston SC in 1991. Then I got out and was a civilian for a while, went to school, got a job, married, had kids... then I had to go back to the USAF in 2000, went to Charleston, then my 4th deployment to the sandbox, divorced in 2001. Orders to Korea in 2002, back to Charleston in 2003, and to the sandbox again in 2004. Out in 2005 because the last sandbox trip broke me.
Other than that, I traveled the world quite a bit, even made it to the soviet union right as it was falling apart. Many countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Missed out on South America and Australia.
What did I find? THEY ARE THE SAME AND NOT WORTH IT NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO... but the culture of some other country can result in them treating you better than here in the US/UK/EU. They are all running the same basic program, so they all do the same things, the difference is the wrapper and how long it takes them to nuke their lives from orbit.
I'm going to be 55 in a few weeks, divorced twice in the US. I've had a couple hundred of them in my lifetime, its a decent sample size considering how similar they are with the programming.
DO NOT BRING THEM BACK TO THE US/UK. The culture here has been infected with the 'f' problem.
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You guys know I am big into green energy and muscle cars, running my GTOs and others on home made ethanol and E85. I like the power of electric vehicles, I am big into RC airplanes and cars, the electrics are way faster than the methanol powered glow engines, they are ludicrous in the RC world. The electrics are clean there is no goo from a two stroke covering the airplane or monster truck. I can make Pontiac 455 like torque with an electric very easily, 600ftlbs no problem.
So why don't I go electric and charge them at home, cutting everyone out of the loop?
1. Cost. To get the range required to get into town and back, I will need to either drive under 45mph or spend around $100k.
2. To get the same power as my $3000 455, e.g. 550hp-600ftlbs I will have to spend over $10k for just the motor.
3. Corrosion. It would be a part time vehicle requiring lots of maintenance to keep the corrosion at bay. Corrosion increases resistance, and resistance causes...
4. Fires. In the RC world we take great care of our batteries, because the lithium batteries will explode, burn to the ground with your expensive airplane around it, or they can burn sitting on the shelf and take out your shop or home. These are small 4000mah and less batteries that weigh a few ounces, not the 2000-4000lb packs under a Tesla.
5. The batteries have a lifespan, you can only charge them so many times, and at the end of that life, they run a higher risk of catching fire. How many times can you charge it? You don't know until it lets you know by making a lot of heat and light. You can't let them discharge entirely either, that is quite bad for them.
Its easier and far more economical for me to build a 13:1 compression Pontiac engine with iron heads, convert a Qjet with some numbered drill bits, tap my trees every spring, feed the sap to some yeast, then run a still for a weekend to four days and make all the fuel I need for the year. $3000 for the engine, $80 for the drill bits, ten cents a gallon for the fuel and I get 17mpg from the 65 GTO, 20mpg from the 70 GTO because it has better aero, and lots of tire shredding power with all stock/stock replacement parts, and nothing special being used. With EFI I can get better mileage than 20 and keep the power.
If I lived in a city, electrics would make more sense, also because I would not have 300+ maple trees I can tap every spring for fuel. You can use any starch or sugar to make vodka, and ethanol is simply the stuff you drink in a bar or while watching your favorite team lose on TV.
Gasoline works too, but you need to run lower compression and deal with the extra heat it wastes. I do ethanol because the only place in the US that has higher gas prices is the big cities in California. When its under $2 everywhere else, they want $3 up here. So I decided to make my own. I looked into electrics because I can make electricity here at home too, I need to because the power was off for 6 hours just yesterday. The grid is sketchy as hell here, and its stupid expensive as well. Another reason I am not fond of a PEV.
If electrics cost less, the batteries were not so volatile, didn't have to worry about corrosion, and I could get the range as cheap and easy as I do with vodka, my GTOs would be silent, you'd only hear tire and wind noise. They'd probably get AC too, just because. I actually want a Prius to use as a generator, power take off, and a battery to power my home and show using wind and solar to charge it. I'd never be caught dead driving one.
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Obsolete is not the right word. Discouraged, punished, dissuaded, demonized, reviled, persecuted, ridiculed, ostracized... more like that. Claims we don't need hardened men who are capable and competent, and its better to be feminine, ineffective, useless, inept, and incapable is preferable to society are merely a ploy to subjugate populations. If they can eliminate the men capable of fighting back and leading others, they can rule over the people without concerns for their own safety, which means they can do anything they please to you.
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@whenpigsfly8178 look at how many guys are around who have never gotten laid. Most of them are short, a few are tall. Then you have the guys who got one to three girls in their entire lifetime.
Now think of all the guys who died of disease, war, famine, crime, or being worked to death before they could get lucky and have a kid. None of that has happened on a large scale since 1945. No mass culling of young males... so we have millions of males just existing, because in centuries past they'd be room temp before they hit 30.
Also people in most places were very short until the 1900s, they didn't eat well enough. So even the ancestors of tall guys weren't overly tall. Its a rather new thing to have so many guys over 6'the Vikings were only a little taller than I am, but Scandinavians average over 6' now.
Its more than just genetics. Its more than just height that attracts females. They are VERY attracted to dominant men, and lots of tall guys are not dominant, they think they are, but really they're not. Only about 20% of the male population is dominant, likewise only about 20% is submissive, because the Pareto principle works both ways. 80% of men are just there, existing, and they were the majority of those culled in centuries past.
My two kids are both mine. One is 5'8 the older one is 5'and you don't even think they are sisters when they are together. They were distinctly different from the moment they were born. The older is more of a tomboy, likes computers, helped me in the garage on my cars, into anime, the other one was wearing heels and obsessing over shoes when she was 3.
Then you have me and my three brothers. Three of us are dominant like dad was, the oldest isn't. Everyone had big families where I came from, 4 to 10 kids, and the differences in brothers is usually a lot more than between me and the two after me. Hell you look at my enlistment photo, my brother's enlistment photo, the youngest's graduation shot, and dad's wedding picture, and you'd think the same guy had a black and white pic, and was in both the Army and USAF.
Sometimes the genes are strong, sometimes not. The short guys who can get laid often like my Army brother and I are much more rare than short guys who can't. My brother is 5'6, and if you met him you would not want to mess with him. You can tell by looking at him that he will hurt you easily. Thats what the chicks dig about me too, except I am literally the same size as a medium silver back male gorilla. I'm like a short version of the guy with the minigun in TF2. My brother is all of 170lbs, I am over 300, and you can see my ribs.
So many variables with males.
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Matt, that is a farm kid, lots of farm kids are like that. You have things to do on the farm, and you start as soon as you can lift a 5 gallon bucket of water or feed. Video games are a sometimes thing, work first, play later. Farm kids are around adults all the time, they listen to adult conversations about markets, equipment, finances, chemistry, biology, various engineering disciplines, farmers have to know lots of areas of knowledge and be proficient in them. Farm kids are the smart ones that are also athletic. Throw hay bales all summer, move irrigation pipe, wrangle cattle, and it turns out you can be a very good wrestler or football player, and still have the smarts to handle finances and other mental tasks/jobs with ease.
Most of the content I watch is automotive.. I am keeping up with friends and it helps me stay motivated to work on my stuff. I've been building engines for just short of 50 years, I started when I was 8 by repairing the tiller and lawnmower engines my mom ran out of oil and I will be 55 in a few weeks. I was big into trucks until I turned 10, and my cousin let me sit in his 1969 Camaro drag car and throw a couple revs. I was hooked from then on. First thing dad taught me was how to repack wheel bearings on farm equipment, chisel plows, discs, grain trailers, trucks, cars, tractors... I did all of them from around 8 until I left for the USAF in 1988 when I was 19.
My daughters learned to work on things when they were little, and the first letters they learned were GTO at the front bumper of my 1970 GTO. At car shows when I see a kid who is looking at my car with 'that' look, I ask if they want to sit in it. Sometimes I will start it and let them throw a rev or two. That is how you get one of these kids who is stuck in the virtual world, to connect with the tangible world, and show he that he can build a car in reality.
They really like my 68 LeMans, its like a hotwheels car. Two carbs with velocity stacks above them and a tunnel ram under them, with the carbs a good 8 inches above where the hood would be. That thing draws a crowd any time I start it, it completely stopped the first two shows I took it to last year. Kids are super excited when you tell them they can sit in it, with the roll cage, racing seat, engine sticking up ahead of you out of the engine bay, and then the sound it makes.. it shakes the ground.
You can actually feel a hotrod, its a visceral experience you can't get from watching a video or playing a video game. Take your kids to car shows and find the guys like me who let kids sit in them and ask questions. I don't play racing games because I have racecars. I like flight sims because I cannot afford airplanes. I drive in real life far more than I fly in VR, and I drive cool stuff.
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Another thing about other countries compared to the US, the bolsheviks managed to take over Russia because the military was fed up with fighting for the Tsars in Germany, the people were unarmed for the most part, impoverished, and had no idea anything was taking place. Every commie take over was after the population was disarmed. The USA is unlike every other country in many respects, the biggest being the people here happen to be armed. A few million are trained and fiercely loyal to the Constitution.
All that really needs to happen is for the feds to authorize veterans to handle shit, no need to involve active duty or reactivate the IRR, just unbridle the veterans who have been fighting an insurrection for the last 20 years, who took an oath to defend the constitution and are now civilians again. There are a few million of us out here watching, waiting to see if these idiots step over a line we all have ingrained into us. Thus far they haven't crossed the line, when they do, you will know.
The 'not fucking around' morons marching around with jammed weapons, airsoft, and some shooting themselves and their friends with accidental discharges while acting tough, even a bunch of USAF guys who did air base ground defense could handle those idiots. Put some 11B or jarheads on it and it will be handled very easily. They claimed to be military trained, but the way they marched, carried their guns (toys or not) showed those of us who are veterans that they are full of shit.
If it gets bad enough, the millions of us who served and are trained will respond. Its not like we forgot everything, never bought a gun of our own, and are afraid like the candy ass office weenies who made the anti gun ad.
Honestly I don't see it getting that bad. Its a small bunch of activists influencing a few idiots who want to larp as revolutionaries, and very few to none of them have real training.
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Oh yeah almost forgot.. Joker you will want to filter the water you collect from the roof. It will have pollen, spores, leaves, etc in it. Get a smaller 30 gallon tank with the 2" outlet, some stainless screen door mesh, 40lbs of activated charcoal, a few bags of sand and pea gravel. The mesh keeps everything from being washed out the outlet, a couple layers of it held in place by the charcoal and sand will do the trick. Charcoal on bottom, then sand, then gravel, leave three or four inches on top of the gravel for space because the water will overflow otherwise. All you need to do to recharge the filter is remove the sand and gravel, spread it on your driveway, replace the mesh if needed, and put more charcoal, sand and gravel in it. A screen on top where the water goes in will keep leaves and twigs out.
The roof you have will fill those 275 gallon tanks in ten to thirty minutes with a mild shower.
You can build a filter like that very cheap, and it works great. Should keep the algae and moss out of the tanks. UV light in the tank will take care of microbial life like giardia. You can use it to shower, wash dishes, toilet, laundry, etc. Its also drinkable, but you will probably still want to use a filter again, though you might not have to.
No need to stack them, put them side by side and connect the outlets together. Raise them up a bit, like 3 to 6 feet so its easy to reach the valves, and it will give some water pressure if you attach a garden hose to it for a power washer or something. The ones I have right now are for ethanol and methane, they had chemicals in them before, got them on a farm sale. Don't want to risk it. I am getting a couple more brand new ones later this year for the house and yard, they will be elevated so I can get some pressure from them. Gravity is your friend.
Mosquitoes like standing water, they will lay eggs in buckets or tanks, so be aware of that and make it difficult for them to get in your water supply. Screens on the tanks help a lot.
I found some traps at Lowes, they have a UV light and a fan, they pull the skeeters into a trap, and the fan prevents them from escaping. Round black things like tiny grain bins in a red and white box. There is a trap door in it so if the fan shuts off they don't escape. Four of them around my land made a huge difference for me last year. Used to be that end of May to mid July I had to fog insecticide three times a day, dawn midday and dusk, just to be able to walk outside and not get swarmed. The traps made it so I only fogged a handful of times, and the dragonflies and birds liked it much better.
There are also tablets that supposedly only take out skeeter larvae, but I have not tried them. Some of those in buckets around your property are very inviting to the skeeters and stops them before they hatch. The traps work good for me, so I haven't tried them yet.
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@briant7265 To them, diversity means simply 'not white' and as it progresses, the lighter your skin the more vile and reprehensible they will see you. They need an other, an outsider, an oppressor, Adolf had the jews, Karl, Vlad, and Joe had the bourgeoisie. Its always a nebulous thing, and attributed to an entire race or demographic. Its always the same victim narrative, their solutions are always the same.. ostracize, segregate, concentrate, mass graves.
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@PBVader yeah, we ripped on each other all the time. One of my most memorable was a retired Navy guy working with us on base. He left his terminal logged in and walked off. I changed his screen saver to say "Navy blows goats, I have proof!" and made sure it stayed unlocked until he got back.
About two hours later he left it and it locked, when he returned and saw what it said he blew up. He went and complained to my E7 and my other E3s and E4s ratted me out, which I did not forget. So I went back to the E7s office and we had a chat.
He asked if I changed the screen saver, I said yeah, he left it unattended and was lucky I didn't put the Village People or Teletubbies as his background image. Its how we remind people to not leave the terminals unattended and unlocked.
He said it was the funniest thing he has seen in a while, but don't do it again. He also said to act like I got my ass shredded for it... The bonus, when I was working the old squid would not leave his terminal unattended.
My E7 and I were both from the Cold War and were in Desert Storm Shield, we know lots of the same people from back then, and he is only a couple years older than I am. I was forced out in '92 with the budget cut and huge drawdown, came back in 2000 because Cigar Bill had eviscerated the military. I never wanted to get out, but had no choice.
When I got out again in 2005, after they worked me like a rented mule even after I was crippled on my 2004 trip, I decided the USAF had changed so much that I wanted no part of it. The difference between 1989 and 2000 was huge, and the difference between 89 and now is immeasurable.
I will not defend the current regime, nor their ilk, in any way.
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I've been looking for one of those tuner chips, off road Y pipe, and cat back for my car, but nobody makes them for a 1965 GTO with a 1970 455 in it wearing 1967 heads.. No I am not serious about the chips and pipes, but it has FiTech EFI on it. It runs on E85 anyway, (too much compression for pump gas) so its cleaner running than new cars. The state I live in doesn't test or inspect, but most of what I drive is older than 1975 anyway. So pre emissions, alt fuel, and is a mid 11 second daily driver all summer.. Fun times. They can kiss my ass as long as they don't go stupid and fine me for running vodka in a non flex fuel vehicle... which would be idiotic.
The EPA is run by a bunch of idiots who know somewhere around fuck all to jack shit about cars, fuels, and emissions. They know how to push pencils and rely on their own personal interests with advice from company representatives from the oil business to set policy. The heads are morons, some of the lower level people working there have a clue, but not the big wigs. I know more about this than they do.
I like clean air, rolling coal is stupid, but I seriously dig driving fast old junk, so I got into ethanol back in 2007 when 87 octane was $5 a gallon here.. because I can make my own ethanol/vodka from tree sap and cattails to power my vehicles... doing it this way is dirt cheap for me. The fact it runs cleaner so my engines last longer, and makes more power while running cooler is a bonus. I'd run the stuff just because its cheap and I can enjoy 13:1 compression with iron heads. Wanna know a secret? With that much compression I get better mileage from my 455s than I do on pump gas and 87 octane, with a lot more power.
Its not a good idea to delete the cat right now, they are being dicks, even if you run ethanol, methanol, methane, or hydrogen, all of which burn clean. They want us to use public trans or drive electric vehicles... probably due to them having financial interest in coal /natural gas powerplants, or mining for rare earth metals, lithium, copper, etc. Conflict of interest doesn't matter anymore
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I've dated black girls since I was 18, (nearly 53 now) around here its damn hard to find any that are single, or single enough. I'm in the north, small community with lots of wilderness between towns. So they simply don't really like to live here, the pickins are slim. Back in 2020 my niece's friend said I was wassiss on facebook because I said the bee ele emm thang was markcyst. I found it most amusing, because I have dated nearly every race of girl on the planet. The last one was Mexican - Apache. I miss her cooking, and I didn't have to pay her way she had it covered. I mentioned my any shade of girl will do, and she said I have a fetish. As if there is some taboo about a pasty glow in the dark man like me getting with girls that have that all over tan that never goes away. Sure it was ok for her to date guys like that, but not me.
Before I could inform her of the way that movement would turn out (which it always does the same way, with the people pushing it runnin off with da moohlah) she blocked me and reported me for being waysiss.
i never back down, never apologize, and never say sorry... particularly when I have done nothing wrong.
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@MrJagorin a violent death is not indicative of a warrior, it is however an indicator that life was violent and dangerous in that time. If someone was shot or blown up in Iraq over the last 20 years, you might want to assume they were fighting to push an ideological narrative, but civilians including females and kids were often caught up in the fighting, not participating in it. To think that someone would be alive in that time and not know how to defend themselves, well, more than likely they would be a slave.
Over developed shoulders indicate carrying something or rowing. The people rowing Greek, Roman, Persian, etc. boats were often not considered to be warriors, they were more often slaves who moved the boat. Sure, the Vikings rowed their own boats that were somewhat smaller than on the med, but it doesn't mean the females who went along fought. It means they rowed the boat or carried water with one arm all the time.
I've been to war. The females in my unit were completely incapable of doing the heavy work the males did easily. The females did not do the dangerous physically demanding parts of the job, because they simply cannot do it. The fact of the matter is females are essentially in the way and taking up space when muscle power is needed.
I live in an area predominantly of Finnish ancestry, while the females are tall, they are not what one would call robust. My ex wife is Finnish, 5'7, 120lbs and the thought of her in a fight is most amusing. I know one female in the area who fights MMA, she is not Scandinavian. She does well against females and small males, but against me she would have zero chance. In the 9th century I would have been the crazy German guy swinging an ax or hammer and caving people in. German girls are more capable of fighting than Finn females.
Its not academic or based on movies and TV for me. I lived it. Females are shit when it comes to fighting against males.
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@RuralVol I paid off my land yesterday, 3 years early. Paid off my building loans last month, now I am completely debt free and if I wanted to go off grid, shut off the phone and power, all I would have is car insurance and whatever food I want to buy.
It took a crazy amount of work to get here, not the least of which was going to other countries, getting shot at, and being worked to the point my body broke.
Also I live very frugally, because I want to spend the money on rebuilding my old cars.. Shipping container house I built in '19, built my shop to work on the cars in '15, and 90% of the work was done by my crippled ass.
If I don't make it happen, then it doesn't happen. That is the life of a man, we don't get free stuff thrown at us. No way would I want that anyway, it would make me feel weak and useless.
The best part of living out here in the woods, nobody is going to make me stay in my house or wear a mask, or anything else like that. I do what I want, and my normal life is only going to town when I need more supplies. So the big change for me was the gym being closed for six months, and the stupid masks that do nothing other than make people feel better.
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@doublebassman123 its apparent you don't know much about marxism or islam, but you have been fed some interesting propaganda. You are partially right, but there is more to it. As it happens, islam and christians are the only people who follow Jesus, the main difference other than religion and culture is that christians elevated Jesus to god status, and the muslims have not. Its the same religion as judiasm and christianty. Same OT stories, but the prophets lived perfect lives, like David didn't get drunk or send one of his generals to the front so he could bang his wife.
The language, culture, and relatively minor things are different, which is the same as in christianity. For instance pentecostals do not believe in the trinity, and they dress modestly, they are VERY close to muslims, but holy fuck do they get pissed when you point that out. Its like v1.1, v1.2, v1.3 with ever increasing fanfic being pumped in. If a jew embraces islam as they put it, he becomes an Arab to them. Its the same people, and they are very aware of that. Then you get the Persians, and they think different from the Arabs.. culture plays a big part.
Yes marxism is about chaos, but its a very feminine minded childlike ideology. The reason why the woke marxists are defending islam is because they assume every muslim is brown, and they can claim its racist to disapprove of the ideology. They are using the muslims the same way they used gays, trans, and other people to push their agenda. Moving the goalposts is standard procedure, just make up rules as you go to benefit yourself, and when it no longer benefits you say that was never a rule. They want to be cared for by dig daddy government, and they think everything is free so everyone should get an equal piece of the zero sum game. Its a very myopic ideology that comes to the wrong conclusions to the obvious issues with capitalism and every other form of government.
The marxists think they can control the muslims, and to a large extent they can, because they are stuck in the 1200s and don't think very big. Using airplanes to crash into buildings was extremely high tech for the ideology. They are easily manipulated, easily bribed, and therefore easy to control. They are shit at fighting because they don't train worth a damn, don't give a fuck anyway, and are more willing to die than imperial Japanese in the 1930s and early 40s.
How do I know this? Well, I was raised in a lutheran family, at 21 I was engaged to an Arab girl from Dubai so I had to learn her religion and culture. I was in the US military and studied marxism so I would know why we were willing to fight them, and to be sure I was on the right side. I served in the cold war, as well as Desert Storm and OIF/OEF. I took the time to learn about my enemy. Thats how I know.
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I grew up on a farm. Lifting heavy stuff all day at certain times of the year, hay bales and irrigation pipe all summer, firewood, snow and livestock feed all winter. I wrestled in high school and later in the US military. If something needed done and we didn't know how, we learned how to do it.
There was no need for anything like this little crawling in wet dirt silliness. My entire life I have laughed at the smugness of these soft hands types looking down their nose at me, as if they are superior to me. Sure, they might make more money, but thats the only area where they're ahead of me.
I see them often, driving in the car their wife approves of, looking at my car in traffic with that look.. That look of a man behind a fence looking at the world he cannot get to. The look of a man who is told what to do by his overbearing wife, as he longs for an old muscle car like I have. I built my car, he would rather watch TV in the evenings than cut rusty panels out and weld in new ones, or rebuild transmissions and engines. He would pay someone to do all of that stuff, and his wife won't allow that.
They are Lester Burnham at the beginning of the movie "American Beauty" but think they are Colonel Fitz who lives next door. Sell the Camry, buy the Firebird and lift heavy stuff.
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There is something else at play as well. The environment in which I live is probably quite different from yours. The problems people in a big city are facing, are not the problems I have out in the woods. The problems people have in deserts are not the problems faced in a rainforest. Who is in the best position to solve a problem I have here in the northern woods? Someone sitting in a European city, or me out here in the trees?
Then you have the centralized distribution model, where things are gathered then distributed around. It works great for oranges and things that require a certain area or means of production, like oil. Its pumped from the ground then moved around the world since its only in a few spots. It doesn't make sense to make something here, ship it half way across the world, only to buy it from a middleman, ship it back to where it was made to be used. Its part of why they can't make green energy work, because they want to fit it into the centralized distribution model which is a problem. Use it where you produce it is how green energy is best utilized.
I can make ethanol from tree sap and cattails, I can make electricity lots of different ways, and heat water with woodchips but not by burning them. Doing that in a city is going to be impossible, there are too many people centralized there without enough room. People grouped together like that are dependent upon everyone outside the city to make things and ship them to the city to be used by the large numbers of people. Then the waste must be removed, and that is an even bigger problem than feeding everyone or keeping them warm.
The head of the EPA thought it required 100 acres of corn to make one gallon of ethanol, until Senator Grassley from Iowa took her to a field, showed her how big an acre is, how much corn grows on it, and that we can get 250 to 500 gallons of ethanol from each acre. She had no idea of the size of anything, it was all numbers and words on a page to her. I wonder where she got the erroneous information that was wrong by massive orders of magnitude.
The Platte river in Nebraska is what is called a braided stream, it meanders through a wide flood plane, its shallow and slow moving most of the year. Its unique in north America for that large of a river. The EPA demanded Nebraska clean up the Platte, because the water was too warm. The EPA assumed it was from industry, because the rivers to the east are deep faster flowing rivers, and have industry along them. Not enough water in the Platte to use it for industrial purposes, and it moves around a lot from year to year. The water being shallow and slow moving means it will warm simply by solar radiation. That was beyond the understanding of people sitting in offices in DC going by what they knew from their part of the world. For the Platte to not get as warm in summer, it would have to be dredged into a deeper channel, that would eventually fill with sand again, cause more flooding, and destroy the ecology of the wildlife habitat.
The region, the environment, the forces people have to overcome vary wildly around the world. Different solutions for problems pop up, and the solutions are tailored to the environment and the people with the problem. That is why humans are tribal. Shared experiences, common threats, they build bonds locally with people who have endured the same things. That is how the solutions arise, not by fiat of some out of touch asshole in an office dictating how it is to be done and why.
Those are two examples of why globalism does not work. Top down authority does not work either, because those at the top are ignorant of what happens at the bottom. We are tribal because we share the experience of living where we do, and in rural communities people help each other survive and endure. Not so in urban areas.
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@SomeCanine its funny, because I made my second wife go 8 years before we married. She acted right, never stepped out, and we never fought though we disagreed sometimes, she was quite wonderful to be honest. 16 months after putting a ring on it, and bam.. I am sitting in jail for something I could not have physically done, and she is run off with her soulmate who dumped her 3 years later. Now, 11 years after she stepped out, she is 42, has nobody, was let go from her job, and has been in the padded room 3 times in the last 12 months.
She chose poorly when she left.
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Lil from 1994 to 2001 it was true with my first ex who was very abusive to the kids and I, mind you I am an ex military man who has served in two wars, wrestled in high school and the military, and can bench over 450lbs even now at 52 years old. I could have ended her with one hand.. easily. Cops only cared if I touched her, my options were to take it or leave. If I took the kids with me it was considered kidnapping, but she could take off with them at will, and take them to another state. They wanted to arrest me every time they showed up, she told them not to. She knew if I lost my job there would be no support.
They used that against me in family court, her being abusive and violent, due to her bipolar disorder, plus that I was military so I was unfit. 7 years after the divorce I could file charges against her for attacking me, but all she had to do was say I pushed her or something.. She did it several times and I left my hands in my pockets for each assault. I just took it because I know what would happen. My dad video taped it once, and the judge threw it out.
She stabbed me twice, hit me with a coffee mug in the back of the head while I played with our daughters on the floor, and started fights constantly. She cheated, lied, abandoned the kids several times, tried to end herself and was put in a hospital for a month, and they would still not let me have my kids. They said her boyfriend could take care of them... and he took that opportunity to do other things to my 5 and 8 year old girls. I had evidence signed off by my chain of command showing all the bruises me and the kids had from her throwing stuff at us, the judge tossed it without even opening it.
They took 71% of my gross for child support, broke state and federal laws doing so, seized my bank account several times making everything including support payments bounce, then punished me for that with interest and fines. They also said I was responsible for her looney bin stay, two years after the divorce was final. They took money from my child support and applied it to that $8k bill, putting me behind on support. Then they say they have no record of it. I lived in my car for two years on active duty because they left me with $100 a month.
I taught my daughters everything I could, they knew math, and how to read before they started kindergarten. They were running computers with Windows 3.1 when they were 3. I was there when they learned to crawl, walk, run and I taught them to ride bikes. I spent as much time with them as I could, they helped me in the garage working on my old cars. Then she took them and moved 1500 miles away without telling me. That was right after she made a bunch of pron videos on base with another couple, and they went around to all the units.
When my daughters turned 19 and the support ended, she kicked them out of the house. She always told them I never cared about them, only about the money. The oldest is going to be 28 in a few weeks, the youngest just turned 25. They are a mess, and will probably never have families of their own.
So yeah, what Jeremy said is 100% true, even if you have no clue about it or deny it. That is how it works out in practice, they don't give a damn about what the laws say.
The second ex had me thrown in jail twice for things I never did, all based on false accusations. 15 days of my life and a criminal record, just because I am a big heavily muscled, intimidating and scary combat veteran, and she was a poor helpless cheating girl. That was in 2013.
Here is how things turned out. The 1st is 49 this year, over 300lbs, addicted to oxy, and her house wasn't foreclosed last year because her mom died and left her enough to get caught up. She will lose it later this year anyway. Her husband finally left after 19 years of her abuse. Good on him, except she gets half of his VA disability compensation.
The 2nd one turns 40 this summer, the guy who was her 'soulmate' dumped her a couple years ago, so she has been renting out orifices and her dad pays her bills. She has substance problems too, she rips through her ADHD meds in a week.
As for me. I own 13 acres of woodland, built my house, my shop, and I rebuild old muscle cars. I am debt free just 8 years after my last divorce and 6 years after the child support finally ended. I don't date anymore. I rarely talk to girls, and if I do they are told my name is Sergio or Raoul.. they never get to know where I live. I spent four years of my life living in my car and on friends couches, two years with each divorce. I am not going to do it again. Any false accusations I get now are going to be met with either an overwhelming legal assault, or a violence that will make people wonder what the hell happened to cause it.
I have endured enough at the hands of others for several lifetimes.
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@GabrielleTollerson trust me, it can get much worse before they start putting people in camps and holes in the ground. There is a window of opportunity, where if you act before that window public support can be turned against you and you end up like the crazies in Waco Tx under the Clinton administration. Everyone is told to hate you and they will wipe you out. Acting after that window closes, and you end up in the gulag.
You see at this point they will do to you and I, what they are doing to the dolts who went in the capital back in January, and to Kyle right now. They will use the media to turn public opinion against you, to make you into a monster, and you will lose because nobody will support you.
The trick is getting the normal people who aren't paying attention to much, to get on your side, or at least stay the fuck out of the way. For them to get involved, it has to get worse, because for them this is not that bad. Its not affecting them much.
Public support is needed for any large scale conflict, without it you are just the crazy guy on the corner with a sandwich board ranting about the end is nigh.
I would vastly prefer to simply ridicule these marxists into obscurity than to start stacking bodies. However, if it comes to it, stacking bodies is not outside my wheelhouse. Been there, done that, got the T shirt and bodily injuries. No Purple Heart though, I am thankful for that. I still think two wars is enough for one lifetime, but if they bring one to me, I will bring one hell of a fight back to them.
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@Robert_Westwood there is a big difference between not wanting to do something, and not being able to do it. Most people claim they don't want to, but in reality they can't and will never put in the effort required so they can.
I got out in 2005 after my last deployment left me barely able to walk. Nearly two years without an income while the VA in Detroit took their time deciding how messed up I am. When they finally got around to it, and that required a call to my senator to make it happen, I was behind in child support, with the interest and things they tacked on it was over 70k.
Obviously I don't have much money. The ex has been paid off since 2015. The land I bought in 2013 and the building loans I took out in 15 were paid off in 2021. Despite being crippled, I built my home with shipping containers, shop with the trees I cleared to make room for the foundation, and I build old cars/trucks so I can drive something fun and inexpensive.
If I want it, I have to build it or make it more often than not. With the price of gasoline, I am making ethanol fuel to run all my vehicles. Through the Trump years I ran E85 because it was cheap, and worked on improving efficiency. I built engines that get better mileage on ethanol than a same size engine will on gasoline, and they make a lot more power doing it. Thanks to the potato regime in office making the cost of everything go up, I am producing even more stuff... rather than pay someone for it.
Who will be in a better position when the money becomes nearly worthless due to rampant inflation? The people who know how to make money, or the people who know how to produce what they need to survive? Its coming, because the marxists claim to be doing a good thing for us, when in reality they are enslaving us and placing themselves as our owners where they can profit from us.
The NPCs who can't actually do anything will allow it to happen, because they aren't bright enough to realize free stuff isn't free. Free stuff leads to all of us being domesticated chattel.
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I'm divorced twice and while I can give you great advice about your vehicle, the only thing I can tell you about marriage is DO NOT DO IT. I can tell you why its a bad idea, namely you can't trust females when they have massive incentives to cheat, act poorly, trade you in for cash and prizes, and the state will destroy you on her behalf.
My first marriage lasted 8 years, the second was 16 months but we were together for just short of 10 years. You can't get two girls more different and they are still females than my ex wives.. yet they did exactly the same thing.. lied, cheated, then blamed me for all of her mistakes.
This chick can't tell you how to make marriage work, because she fucked up two of them already. Yeah I broke some engines I built when I first started, but I have had over a hundred that didn't break and made great power. Relationships aren't a trial and error thing, because other people are the variable and you never know what that chick is gonna do.
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I was financially destroyed by divorce, twice. 15 years indentured to the first one, and she ruined every business I started while we were together. When the state is extracting resources from you keeping you impoverished to give to someone who does not deserve it, did not earn it, but gets rewarded for all her bad behavior at your expense, its damn difficult to build anything.
No idea what to do about her baby rabies, she is 36, a decade beyond her 'best before date' and chances are very high that any fuck trophy she pushes out is going to be fucked up and another burden for the rest of her life. I know several mothers who were over 34 when they had kids that have adult sized toddlers chained to them. A cousin, sister, and a former fiance from 1990 are prime examples. She has a higher chance of a drooling bag of meat in a chair than a healthy kid.
She missed her window. Too bad, so sad, her fucking problem.
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I was in a similar situation with my first ex wife, she was the one who felt the need to throw things, start irrational arguments, and escalate them into physical altercations.. She took off with my two daughters back in 2001 when they were 4 and 7 in an effort to make me submit to her, hand over my paychecks, and let her run my life, which is what she wanted to do. Bipolar women are not exactly good with money, and her life bears that out splendidly.. No matter what she did, I was not going to let her keep me in overdraft and not paying the bills.
The state REWARDED her for all of her mistreatment of me and the kids, blamed me for all that she did, and all I ever did was try to keep her from inflicting harm on the kids by either taking the brunt of it, or restraining her as lightly as possible. Its funny how everyone assumes a man is weak or timid in that situation, but the law makes it so she can do whatever she wants, and the man will be blamed and arrested for it. All I was allowed to do was leave, or simply endure it.
The state took 71% of my gross pay, and gave it to her. I lived on $100 a month for four years, while active duty in the USAF. Sometimes I think if I had just given it back to her in kind just once, I would be getting out of prison about now... but then I would have all that back support if she survived it.
Men are constantly blamed for the actions of women, and women are encouraged to act poorly. Most of the comments under this video bear that out.
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I'm 53, live alone in the woods for good reason. To get an idea of what its like to live in an economically depressed region, its a lot like a trailer park. Most people have a messed up way of doing things, like not finishing the job but demanding full payment. The vast majority of females around here are single moms.
The last chick I was seeing lived 7 hours away in Chicago, and she made bank. We ended it back in 2018, but we still talk and I am building a 1972 Cutlass for her that she is funding. She is 50 now, has two teenage kids, but being Native American and Mexican descent, she still looks decent, kinda like Asian girls. Not great, but decent about a 4 or 5.
She has a good attitude, is very classy, fun to be around and she can cook really well. She is submissive to the man she is seeing, and in the four years of getting with me she only had one instance of irrational argumentativeness. She would drive the 7 hours just to come see me, and she funded our trip to Las Vegas in 2016 to do to the SEMA show, I had friends who got us in. The drive to see each other was the problem. She knew there would be no ring, no admission of affection, no commitment, but she went out of her way for four years just to be with me.
Single moms ARE NOT ALL LIKE THAT ONE. Most of them are single moms for a very good reason, they are horrible to be around. They are practice at best, they will cheat on you without concern for the consequences, and they will do their very best to leech money out of you. That is why I don't even bother talking to girls within 3 hours driving at 70 mph of where I live. The freshman at the university are usually not moms yet, give them a year of riding the CC and they're just as broken. At 53 you'd probably think they aren't interested, but when you have muscle, a dominant attitude, and your confidence dwarfs the solar system, yeah... 18 year olds don't really care that you are older than her dad. Most of them kinda get off on it. I know why girls like someone like me, but I don't understand it at all. I would not go for someone like me... but they will.
If you want to get with single moms so you can get some, you will have to be careful to not get attached or care for them. Do not get attached to her kids, she is just practice. If she divorced her baby daddy, she will divorce you too and cheat on you just like she did the father of her kids.
2018 to 2023, while I am not celibate, I am not very interested in girls for anything more than a warm moist orifice. Even that is less interesting and exciting than building a new engine, going racing, or just driving around in one of my old muscle cars. I'd rather spend the time and money on my cars, I get a lot more out of it than I do out of females.
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@Alex-pt5no judges tossing out cases on procedure or because they do not want to be the judge to address the issue, is not the same as cases being thrown out without merit. I understand that leftists hate the idea of merit, they prefer narrative because they can make that say anything they want it to say, but merit is what the world runs on.
You don't go to Jim Bob down the street for laser eye surgery with the laser pointer he ordered from Amazon, but for some reason marxists just hate the idea that someone can be better at something or more knowledgeable about it than they are... until it makes a difference to them personally, but of course you have to go to Jim Bob and they go to someone who has decades of experience doing eye surgery.
Just keep following the marxists, see where it takes you.. It worked so flawlessly in Cuba, Venezuela, most of Africa, Russia, Ukraine.... and on and on...
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I've been hoarding parts for decades now. When I started on the car thing back in the 1980s I had to scrounge junkyard to find things, like the sequential tail light control for my 67 Cougar. Nobody made them, they were not in stock in 1985, so I went hunting for Cougars and T birds of the right vintage for them. Can't do that anymore. They have all been crushed.
My solution in the 1990s was to buy more cars, entire cars. I have a pile of Firebirds and LeMans two doors sitting around now because I bought them as parts cars dirt cheap in the 80s and 90s. One $50 LeMans could get me $2000 worth of parts for a GTO in the late 90s when repops started showing up.
Last year I started hoarding 99-05 Silverado 4x4s, so I can keep a winter beater going. I have complete trucks sitting here I got for $500 or less. Lots of parts on them, so along with being able to get rebuild parts for drivetrains, I have a stash of small stuff like BCMs, EFI manifolds, fuel tanks, and all the other related crap. I have seven 6.0/4L80s sitting here now, and eight or nine 5.3/4L60s too. So if something breaks, I have the part sitting here in my yard. Once I get another shed built, the rusty junk is going away, everything else is getting catalogued and stored out of the weather so my home doesn't look like a junkyard.
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@MaestroMephisto you're exactly right. I did get her best years, and the first wife's best years as well. They were 20 and 21 respectively, first went 8 years of nightmare for me, and the second was just short of ten.
The first is 49, 5'4, over 300lbs, and managed to get herself a yesboysimp who hands over his disability check to her before she became a hamplanet. 30 years ago when I met her, she was smokin hot, with a 5 face. Her ATM is creeping up on room temp, he might have a year or two left at this point. Dude is a mess. When he croaks she will drop down to $1300 a month, which is her mortgage payment for her 1100sqft house by the train tracks. Math is not her friend.
She came here to drop off stuff for one of my daughters back in 2018. She realized then just how badly she screwed up, especially when our daughter told her how much land I own. She has been trying to get me back, but after the hell she put me through, I can think of very creative methods of demise that I would prefer over taking her back.
The funny part of this is I have 20-29 year olds flirting with me and hitting on me, and I do not dye my hair or beard, so I am full on gray. I look and act younger than my 54 laps around the sun, but the gray gives me away, I earned it so I flaunt it.
Both my ex's chose poorly when they thought they could do better, especially when they were 30.
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I'm 5'8, yeah I got turned down by some, others were very eager to get with me, 50"(in my 20s) to 60"(in my 40s and now 50s) chest, 22" arms, and 21" neck will do that. Some were so intimidated by the muscle they thought I was over 6'.. I found that amusing. I read people very well due to PTSD since I was a kid, around 40 years with it, so I can tell which girls are interested in which guys, including when they are interested in me. The looks tall guys get are obvious if you know what to look for, just don't be fat and most girls will throw themselves at you giraffe guys. Makes it hard to tell which ones are nuts and which ones actually like you, not just your height.
Muscles and attitude trump height though, lots of girls with boyfriends and husbands taller than me decided they wanted some silver back gorilla banging. Chicks are impulsive and lack self control more often than not, but you tall guys could get a different one every 20 minutes if you had game like us short guys who have triple digit counts. Its easy for you so you don't have to work hard at developing it, trust me.. my short ass had to learn to talk to chicks.
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Its not that we miss combat, war, danger, etc. After you have endured enough of it, you start to get comfortable with it. Then you come back to the states, you feel out of place, you don't fit in, nothing makes sense back home anymore. Its more of a problem with the guys who go over without PTSD and come back with it. People like me had PTSD long before we enlisted. I've had it since the 1970s when my family was mistreating me and my older brother was trying to end me and random intervals. I am downplaying it a lot, suffice it to say growing up was a nightmare.
Also my first experience with war was in 1991, it felt like home to me. Coming back was just another day in 2001 and 2004, except in '04 I could barely walk when I got back. Not from enemy action or anything like that, my second war was far less eventful than the first, but it was still an intense amount of work. When I got out the first time in 1992, I had no idea that it wasn't normal to have a rifle in every room, or to sit with my back to the wall everywhere I went, to scan everything all the time no matter where I was out in public. I was unaware that normal people didn't relive parts of their life when they smelled something, or the weather conditions were just right, or had a horrible day because its an anniversary of something that happened but I didn't know what day it was when it happened... somehow my mind knows now, 30+ years later.
We miss being part of something bigger than ourselves, we in the military are all on the same page for daily life, how things work on base/post, and its a very ordered and disciplined environment. Without it we feel kinda lost, and yeah we feel like we don't fit.
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You're conflating liberalism with marxism, libertarian and liberal thinking is how we got the USA. Jefferson, Washington, Paine, Franklin and others wanted liberty above all else, with no king, and a small limited government that provided protection of the whole to ensure that liberty. The marxists have managed to get you, the average citizen, and me for a while, to conflate liberal with marxist, and they are anything but liberal minded. They are authoritarian asshats who want to control every aspect of your life, and call it freedom and tolerance, they want to divide everyone into groups based on arbitrary criteria, and call it inclusive, they want to remove white people and call it diversity..
Its only in this country that socialist/communist/feminist marxists are called liberals. They build walls to prevent people from leaving because they have to or else everyone would exit the shitholes they create for the masses they claim to fight for. They piss on you and then tell you its lemonade. Stop letting these marxist twatwaffles change our language and the meanings of words, because that is their goal. They want to make words meaningless so they can tell you any lie they want and we/you will believe it out of ignorance.
Compared to these marxists running the dem party even liberals are far right. Anyone right of Mao, Stalin and Hitler is far right to them, and they feel its admirable to kill everyone who doesn't follow their dogmatic bullshit. Stop giving them power.
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@TheGreenKnight500 take a guess what happened to that factory in 1998... it was packed up and sent to Mexico where they could pay them $2 a day instead of $12 an hour. Apparently the corporation could afford an 85% scrap rate with the massive drop in payroll expenses. I heard they got it down to 80% scrap a couple years ago from one of the higher ups who goes down there every month to try to improve things.
First it was Jimmy in the 70s who eviscerated the ag economy that prompted me to enlist in 1988. Sure Ronny was in at that time, but he could not fix the debacle of the grain embargo in his 8 years.
Then the 92 drawdown forced me back into the world of Mr...and Bill then signed NAFTA which sent all the manufacturing jobs to Mexico, leaving me with a wife, two kids, and no way to support them. So back to the military just in time for my second war.
Came back from my 2004 deployment barely able to walk and in constant pain. We had things like the 93 WTC explosion and the USS Cole happen at least 9 times under Bill, and he did nothing. So it was inevitable that we would then have the September 2001 thing. I have to dance around all of that on here. I blame Bill more than Dubya, but Dubya went all in and got stabby.
Then we get Barry and it goes from good mental health care to abhorrent care for us crippled vets. It went from walk ins and being seen at most two days later to waiting months to be seen. He cut the budget for veterans twice during his term.
Then the cheeto gets in and it goes back to walk ins and we got our first cost of living adjustment in 2017, with the last being 2009, but he dropped the ball with mental health care. Now we have the potato and its worse than it was with Barry.
I am kinda forced to still live under the same sort of top down thing with limits that I had in the military and people live with in chy-na. I am not allowed to earn any money other than what congress decides we are worth. No rental properties, no investments that pay dividends, anything that pays interest is not allowed. I am not supposed to even sell cars I build to stay sane and feel productive... well not for a profit. I can't monetize my channel on here either.
That means I know what its like to live with UBI and with gov health care. Its why I got into producing the energy I use rather than buying it. It opens up money for things I want, rather than almost everything congress repays us going to energy costs.
I see where they are trying to take us, and I try to dissuade people from thinking its a good idea. Most people want to be given everything rather than work for it. I am still working for it and I have to live frugally if I want to do things with my old cars. If they get what they want, they will outlaw the old cars, even though they run on clean burning vodka that I make. Its not about the environment, its about control.
I am stuck with them, because they broke me in their 'forever for oil and profit' war. It is not a fun life, there is no way I can afford to have anyone else live with me. If I were in a big city I would be homeless because I could not afford an apartment, which is why I live alone out in the woods.
Now guess who was the first to go into the fake showers and large holes 80 years ago... the cripples like me. I know their play book they always do the same things, and just change the language to obfuscate it. If you want to know what its like having the government 'take care of you' ask one of us crippled vets.
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I'm almost 54, have had somewhere around 150 to 200 of them, lost count long ago, and they came from all over the world, and from across the social classes. I'm twice divorced as well. Wasn't trying to get a high number, but it happens when they are into you, and I still had to put in effort and work to get them. My point is, there is nothing a 26 year old can tell me that I don't know already when it comes to the he and she thing.
There is NOTHING a woman can say that she could ever know about what it means to be one of us. The closest they come to it is above 40 when they are nearly invisible to men, then they get the slightest idea of what its like for most men. Even when they are old and fugly they still get preferred treatment.
Apparently I am moderately attractive, also have muscle, and the dominant mindset draws them in, the deep voice seems to help too. For a 5'8 old guy I did rather well, being in the military probably helped too.
Why am I here? Why do I watch content like this? I am curious and want to see how accurate the people presenting it are. I will also share my story as a warning of what not to do... like getting married. Joker has a good message, he is an old guy like me who did well with the ladies despite being short. It is quite different now than it was 15 to 40 years ago, and you young guys are kinda screwed if you want a family.
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For me, living 20 miles from town, having to recharge it is a pain in the ass. A neighbor has an S10 he converted, and he has to drive 45mph into town so he can make it back, and he charges it on solar and wind. One trip every other day is his max. I make 1000 mile one way trips from northern Michigan to Nebraska often, sometimes several times a year. Its a 14 hour drive running between 60 and 80 mph. That would add three to four hours to my trip. Then we have the corrosion issues of driving in the salt they use here in northern Michigan. Teslas have been catching fire and killing the occupants in crashes. 3 in the last 2 years. The corrosion is a problem with them. Corrosion and electricity do not mix, it causes resistance and that makes heat, and heat makes fire.
I went with ethanol. Here's why.
1. I can produce it myself, rather than buy it from others who have touched it or traded it several times.
2. I can run all my high compression 60s stuff on the street and enjoy 13:1 compression power.
3. It makes more power in any engine, especially between idle and 4000rpm.
4. It costs me 10 cents a gallon to make it from tree sap, 40 cents a gallon from cattails.
5. My engines last longer because they don't have carbon deposits left from the fuel.
Addendum to 1. Local production rather than centralized distribution, I make it and use it here. I cannot make gasoline, it comes from the other side of the world now, and we pay people who hate us to get it. I'll use my home grown USA produced fuel, make more power doing it, and save money.
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@joeschlotthauer840 considering my daily driver Pontiac 455s with garden variety D port heads have more torque than that at the wheels, and no oiling problems like the Buick, what they were rated at doesn't make much difference to me. I can do that with factory cam profiles, factory intakes, and really only some cheap headers from Summit that only flow about as well as the RA III manifolds.
My '72 455 HO round port was rated net, it pushes a 3800lb Formula into the mid 12s real easy, it only has a set of headers because the manifolds cracked a long time ago.
A bud of mine put a Stage 1 in a Vega, it fits as well as my Pontiac engines do, actually better than the chevys. It didn't run with my D ports in the quarter, and mine were heavier cars. I still like the Buick and the Olds 455s, but when it comes to potential, the Pontiac has a lot more.
Then we have my 467 that Butler set up for me while I was deployed. 700hp+ at 6500, 700+ftlbs at 4500, 520rwtq at 3000, on pump gas NA. I can run a 3.08 gear behind that thing if I want. It scares me a bit, and I still haven't gotten it even close to hooking on the street. 1/4 throttle with 285 drag radials just makes a smoke show. Its a rather mild build too, stock block, two bolt mains, but it has a solid roller and the same porting work Justin Shearer(aka Big Chief) is running on his 482.
That thing pissed off all the Cobra and LS guys by whupping them on a chassis dyno without a blower or nitrous... the funny part is someone had dumped gravel down the carb and it had four bent valves and still made that much power. Its been fixed for 8 years but parked for a while. Its coming out to embarrass some local chevy guys this summer. They seem to think a Pontiac can't run faster than a 13.
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@jasonmunt1463 That is not a liberal position, that is an authoritarian position, such as religions hold.. aka original sin, as if subsequent generations are guilty of crimes several generations ago. 7 generations and all that rot. Do not the descendants of people who were enslaved hundreds of years ago benefit from the society that arose? I say they do.
However, much finger pointing and declarations are made based on resistance to UV light as to guilt over a brief time in US history. Not to mention the fact that the very same party that has the descendants living in ghettos, stripping them of fathers as well as gainful employment is the exact same party that fought to preserve slavery. Where are the most impoverished people living with the largest wealth gaps? In blue controlled cities.
Accuse others of that which you are doing, call them names until it sticks, lay the blame at the feet of those who had nothing to do with it... I know of one demographic that does exactly that, other than the followers of Karl M. My first ex wife is among them, bipolar females, where projection is the norm. Whatever lunacy they are accusing you of, is exactly what they are doing themselves, behind your back.
The so called 'liberals' you refer to are projecting and it is obvious from the completely neutral position in which I find myself. Its neutral because I have no dog in the fight, I am not emotionally invested, and I abhor ideologies in general.
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@stevenhagebusch9561 back in the 90s I kept getting beat by this guy in an 85 Monte Carlo, 355, 30-30 cam, iron heads, 4.56 gears and 3500 stall. What would happen was he would jump out about five or six cars on me at the start, because I was spinning at anything over 1/4 throttle. Then I would catch him at the top end and lose by a fender in my 4100lb 70 GTO with an open diff.
I knew I had a lot more power, but the (now ex) wife kept me quite broke so I wasn't going to be able to buy some sticky tires.
All the chevy guys kept saying to pull the 455 and put a 350 sbc in it, because it would be faster and cheaper. Not sure how I could make more power with a 350 that only had $1800 invested in it, but whatever. The fastest street car they knew about was a 72 Nova, 427, tunnel ram, and a fiberglass front end and doors. He was running 12.90s, but he broke it and I never saw it in the nearly ten years I lived there. They said it takes a lot more to run 12s than what I was doing.
Then I traded a guy some stuff for a 2.93 Olds posi, the one with 12 bolt cover and 10 bolt ring gear, and another guy traded me some McCreary dirt track tires. Those two things changed everything, and rather than him jumping ahead of me, that heavy old Goat put two lengths on him before the 60ft, and pulled a couple bus lengths before the end of the quarter.
His best ever was a 13.8, and he normally ran 14.3 to 14.1. Then we took the Goat to the track, and it was clicking off 13.50s shifting at 4500rpm. My tach was off and I didn't know it. Fixed the tach and shifted at 5500-5800 and then it ran 12.8, then 12.6 and he never wanted to race me again in the GTO.
I built a 670 headed 400 a year later for my 79 formula, only made one pass at the track on the last test and tune of the year, it was a 13.8@110 and it bogged real bad from the cold. Then the starter fragged and I was done for the day. I raced him with that one, wearing the McCrearys on the 3.08 rear, and walked away from him like it was nothing.
I hurt that 400, so I pulled it out and built the 455 for it. Fixed the 400, stuffed it in another car, and put the Butler ported 670s on the 455. I asked the guy with the Monte if he wanted to race, he didn't. I said I built a new engine for it, and everyone around there knew a 455 was slow.... lol.
Fast forward a bit, and I meet a friend who had a 68 Camaro, 355 and it ran low 14s. He later sold me the 12 bolt I ran under the GTOs for years. We were talking about going out and running them, when the Monte pulls up. Monte guy says he will come watch.
We get out there, line up, and I beat the Camaro by a fender. Well since we are there why not race the Monte and the Camaro? They run and the Camaro goes down by almost two car lengths. So now he has some confidence and wants to race me. I beat the Monte by a fender too. We went around and around made about ten passes each, with the same results every time. They could not figure out how I was beating them both, but the Camaro was always slower.
It made sense to them when the track opened, and the Formula ran a 12.80 first pass off the trailer, then a 12.3. They found out what sandbagging was all about. 14.2 cars racing an 11 second car, yeah I was part throttle all the way down the track with them.
Funny thing.. I never did hear anyone around there tell me a 350 sbc would cost less and be faster after that. I also helped several of the chevy guys get their cars into the high 12s, when the best they could muster was mid 13s. I am quite a bit better with carbs, timing, and other small stuff than they are.
The Bird was running deep in the 11s at that point, and the track was telling me to slow down or put in a rollbar.
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@joeswanson733 exactly my point. My cousin brought one back from Ukraine in 2017, he failed lots of tests, she had him on a very restrictive diet and essentially controlled him. Last year she took off, divorced him, went back to Ukraine and hooked up with a guy younger than her. She was late 30s and still looked decent when I met her in '20.
Dude's name is Chad and he is a 6'7" Viking looking guy with long hair. I am 5'8" and look like a German silverback gorilla. Both of his wives, the one from the US and the Ukrainian, acted the same way when they met me. I want nothing to do with them, because I have better things to do than pass tests they conjure up.
They can tell when you're a dominant male, and stature is trumped by dominance. It helps that I know some Russian from my time in Korea where I dated them. I'm not conversational, but I can get my point across.
Chad can get lots of them, but they do the same thing, soak him for money, then bail.
My friend Ben lives two miles away from Chad, and he went to Ukraine 8 times, spent $70k going there to find a wife. Ben is 5'6", balding, and pudgy, he never built any muscle despite living on a farm. They played him all the time while he was there, and he couldn't get any of them to do more than talk a bit. He knows zero Russian, so they could say whatever and he wouldn't know.
I told him that he doesn't want one of the eastern Europeans because of the tests. He will fail every one of them if he ever managed to get one. He also only went for the hottest with the most beautiful faces. He never had a way with women, he is the quintessential nice guy.
I will get with them, hit it for a while, then let them go by failing a test so she thinks its her idea. Thats all I want, warm moist snot pockets in nice looking wrappers.
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I do not measure my wealth by how much money I have. Also yes, I own things, don't have to pay anyone for them anymore. My vehicles, home, shop, tools, etc. My skills and knowledge are my most valuable asset. As such I have never really concerned myself with getting big piles of cash, I save up enough to get large cost items I want, like parts I cannot manufacture on my own, and with what I do that is an investment.
Your car is an expense, mine is an appreciating asset. Its because of what my car is, and how desirable it is. You probably think about what you can buy. I think about what I can build.
Its a different mindset.
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@steveredstone1711 along with incentives to act poorly and make bad choices.
I find it amusing when someone says I am materialistic because I have muscle cars from the 60s and 70s. Its not the vehicle that does it for me, ok, well partly, but what actually motivates me is what I do with that vehicle. How I build it, how fast I can make it, how efficient, how fun to drive, how well I can make it perform. Its a challenge to me to see what I am capable of building. Its also a cool car, but that in itself isn't what drives me.
Most people are not like that, they want the thing they think will make them happy. They want instant gratification, rather than delayed gratification. I spend days, weeks, months, years building vehicles, just to drive it eventually. Its the epitome of delayed gratification when you build hotrods like I do.
The jealous people think I am rich, and they think they should be given the car they like, there is no thought of building it in their minds, they want instant gratification that comes with buying something. I am actually not all that well off, I just do a lot with what I have.
Females seem to hate that mindset. They want everything right now, and they always want that new thing.
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@streptococo4735 beyond the cesspool... so other planets then? I'm 53, spent the better part of my adult life in the USAF, travelling the world. I've dated and been with women from Europe, US, and all over Asia from Dubai to Seoul. Never dated a military female, that is most definitely a cesspool wearing green.
Somewhere between 150 and 200 of them, the hottest were Russians and a 20 year old in my home state who could've been a model, the most loyal was the Arab woman from 1990-92 that I am still friends with today. She lives in Germany, married to a German. the least loyal were from the USA. You cannot trust them in English speaking countries. The Russians were far more trustworthy, which is hilarious.
Been married twice, they spent 8 and 9 years with me, and divorced me when they hit 30. They chose poorly when they left to say the least. Their families and friends encouraged them to leave and hook up with far less valuable males. Also most amusing... They are the '40 alone and unwanted' posterchildren.
I tried every race and most religions, four continents, various sizes and every social class from trailer park to one with a multimillionaire dad... They're all wired the same.
When the laws encourage them to divorce and get paid, they will all leave as soon as the opportunity presents itself.. and usually its with a lower value man who isn't boring simply because he is 'new' to her.
So good luck out there. Its definitely NOT like it was when I was a 20 year old.
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Cattails, aka Typha, are the simple solution to their nitrogen concerns. They remediate water and grow profusely when fed run off from livestock farms. You can also use them to produce ethanol fuel, at 1000 gallons per acre as a minimum.. up to 10x that when they get run off from feedlots. Ethanol is clean burning, makes more power, runs cooler, and allows you to build high performance, small engines with very high compression ratios and reduce the mass of the cooling system. Ethanol emissions are CO2 and H2O, and made like this is carbon neutral. But...
They are not interested in solutions, even to problems which aren't really problems, like CO2.. They want control, they want to own the land and force us all to work for them, they want to own everything and control what we get. They want to own the farms so they can starve you into submission, and cull the world population to 500 million.
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You won't even have to believe in god or follow a religion to be forced into the camps for non compliance. Thinking for yourself, speaking your mind, being the 'wrong' color, and having something you worked for and earned will be enough. Make no mistake though, the marxists have a jealous god like you guys do, they will not allow you to have a differing/competing ideology. They will do everything they can to stamp out your beliefs and force you to accept the state as your god, becoming dependent upon it.
Know this though, my atheist ass, that is under oath to defend the constitution (as we are not released from it after military service) will fight to defend your rights, our way of life, and against the lazy resentful, envious, self entitled marxists who seek to enslave us all. I am on your side, and I will die along side you if I must, but it will not be in a camp.
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@dw-yc6qb I am in the USA, in a state that is mostly rural but with a now infamous fucktard democrat governor. I am relatively certain this state will be the flashpoint.
The whole reason we have the 1st and 2nd amendments is to not end up like the UK or Australia, dependent upon the government, and unable to resist unlawful mandates.
First we talk openly about it, if/when that fails, we use the 2nd. That is why they are 1 and 2, not 12 and 16.
You can still fight back, it has happened before, yes it will cost you dearly, but your countrymen allowed this to come to pass. They have to sneak up on it with us, or they get the business.
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@morva4498 I was at Rhein Main, just outside Frankfurt. 19 years old, single, money in my pocket.. oh I could have gotten into so much trouble if I had been caught. Germany made Korea look like a theme park. I got to know Frankfurt and the surrounding area quite well, still have a fondness for that place and I don't like cities.
I saw a few Trabis when I went off base. Someone on bae bought one and we measured it, we could have put a 302 Ford or a small block chevy in one relatively easily if we sat in the back seat. Like a low buck Mini Cooper.
Until the gulf war started in August, 1990 was a VERY fun year for me. Started to learn some Russian and more German because the girls from the east were most attractive, and eager to meet people from the US.
Rhein Main was the main transit/through base going to and coming back from the desert, we handled more than 85% of the air traffic in the airlift. Its kinda cool that Frankfurt played a huge part in the Berlin Airlift and some 40 years later in Desert Shield/Storm as well.
My time in Yugoslavia was very memorable for all the wrong reasons, it was still com when I went through there so it was not a pleasant experience in the least.
I have a nice big chunk of the Wall on my shelf, it reminds me of why that ideology is abhorrent, the worst thing ever inflicted upon humanity.
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@AngelMerus sounds like a decent plan. Focus on you and build your life, its too short to waste it on things that do not benefit you, or cost you. Jocko Wilink has a video about that he dropped today, worth a look in my opinion.
As an aside, apparently they didn't get to English and effective writing while you were a cadet. Punctuation and paragraphs are your friend. I split my comments up the way I do so they are easier to read, because usually if I am taking the time to write it, I want people to be able to read it and enjoy reading it. I use short paragraphs because of the layout of phones and the drop down menu on a PC being rather narrow. It works better this way.
Today in this world of text and video, communication skills are important, how you use them reflects on you, the better you are at using language and communicating, the more effective you can be. How well you speak, the words you employ, and the manner in which you deliver them makes a marked difference in how well they are perceived and accepted.
I developed this writing style in the military, and in online forums, because usually I am giving some sort of technical reference, advice, or information. The more words you know the better your writing will be, and knowing how to use punctuation will set you apart from the unwashed masses.
That being said its good to be bale to look at where you are headed so you can make sure you aren't deluding yourself or wasting time on superfluous pursuits, though they can be fun when used to wind down... like video games. What Jocko posted today goes into that quite effectively, the man has quality advice.
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I was born at the end of the 1960s, mom says I watched Neil and Buzz walk on the moon on live TV, I was too young to remember it. Early life was good for the most part, other than my brother mistreating me severely. Physically... he tried to end me several times until I was 16. Then the grain embargo in 1979 changed everything, and that was just as I was getting on the tractors and doing farm work. Tractors at 8, grain trucks at 11. I have been driving a long time.
After 1979 had the prices fall due to a massive amount of grain rotting on the ground thanks to bad ideas by bad presidents, life sucked. Dad would hit, kick, throw me into things, when he was frustrated, which was often because corn was selling for $1.50 and it cost $2.10 to grow it. Luckily we had cattle and hogs, which we butchered so we always had meat. I grew up on steak and burgers, some of which I raised with a bottle. From 4 to 14 I was on a messed up diet because my dad's smoking made it seem like I was allergic to everything. That meat and cauliflower only diet screwed me up for the rest of my life.
All summer I moved irrigation pipe, pick up a 150lb to 300lb pipe that is 20ft long, and 8" to 10" in diameter, and carry it on your shoulders across a field that is 1/2 mile long. When I was a kid I could barely move one end, by the time I was a teenager I could carry two of them on my shoulders, alone, for miles. Fixing fences was a year round thing, keeping hogs and cattle in where they are safe. Carry a large spool of barbed wire, several steel fence posts, post driver, and the stretcher around the pasture perimeter mending fences. That was a three times a week job, in addition to everything else. I had to do the mowing too, in addition to rebuilding the mower and its engine sometimes, I started building engines at 8. Did my first V8 at 13, it was a 390 Ford.
Between all of that we had to herd cattle/hogs, load them up to take to town to sell them, walk through bean fields cutting the weeds out of them, maintain all the farm equipment (oil changes, greasing everything, repacking wheel bearings, replacing worn parts, its no wonder I am very good at mechanical things)
In winter I had to go out in the west pasture, cut up the fallen trees, drag them back to the house with the tractor, cut them up, stack it, then keep the house warm all winter. Been running chainsaws since I was 13 or 14, and I can build a fire exceptionally well. From the time dad got the woodstove for the house when I was 7 until I left for the military at 19, I was the one keeping the fire going, and getting it going when mom let it burn out. Dad got a real furnace when my younger brother enlisted in the Army in 1992. I could not wait to get off the farm, away from my family that treated me like a servant/slave, and away from wearing a gas mask most of my life.. So the military fit quite well, I was worked extremely hard during the airlifts for the wars, and I wore a gas mask so freakin often it just became second nature to have it on.
The work I have done in my life has been extremely physically demanding, thus I am packed with muscle and when I was 22 my arms were bigger than Arnold's, but not as well defined since his mass came from a gym and roids, mine came from being worked heavily every day, you can't imagine it really. The best way to explain it is to pick up 100lbs in each hand, hoist it to your shoulders, then run up three stories. Do that several hundred times in a 12 hour period. Then take two F150s, put them bumper to bumper, now push them from one end of a 300' parking lot to the other, and back again, for a 12 hour period. Between 21 and 35 I could do all of that alone, I was a monster who wore out every joint attached to my spine. Now I live in pain. I am kinda sugar coating my life, fyi.
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Si Fascisti you do/should realize drugs react with us in vastly different ways, right? He wasn't a junkie for the black tar, he was into meth and fentanyl. I have watched people slowly die from meth over years, its not like opiate aficionados such as yourself.
the fact of the autopsy is he was not suffocated or strangled, he did not have blood shut off from his brain by the knee on his neck. He died from everything else wrong with him, not the least of which was his blood not being oxygenated due to his unobstructed lungs being affected by drugs.
Hence the 'I can't breathe" and I am someone who knows a lot about living with respiratory issues, and none of them are from my life's choices. I would bet I know what he was feeling in his chest, because it is daily life for me after having my lungs fucked up by chemical exposures, part of which was in the military. I can have a clear airway, and still be unable to breathe. I can only sleep on one side, or I can't breathe.
Drugs can do the same thing to you, it depends entirely on which drug/chemical is affecting you.
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Living overseas I learned that most people only know about where they grow up. Like a 200 mile radius, and they rarely leave that circle. The most often asked question I got when I was in Dubai 32 years ago was "Are you from LA or NYC?" I would reply I am from almost exactly between them. The paradigm for Emirates is much smaller, Abu Dhabi is quite close to the other Emirates and Saudi Arabia. They could not imagine where Nebraska is.
People in Europe don't grasp the size of the US either. It is 1000 miles from my home near Marquette Michigan, to the farm where I grew up near Lincoln Nebraska. That is a 14 hour drive at 75mph. I have no problem driving that in a day, but Europeans will take two or three days to travel that far, or they will simply fly.
The funniest question I got was after they asked me where I was from and I said Nebraska, they'd ask "what state is that in? That was people from the US (urban people) and from overseas. I usually know more about the country I am visiting/deployed to than the people who live there, as far as geography. I kinda study that sort of thing so I find out before I go. I know far more about the US than most of the urban people I meet, but I have been all over this country.
I definitely got a different mindset than most Americans. I spent just under ten years (total with a gap in service) in the USAF, travelling the world, meeting people from other cultures, learning bits of their language, and expanding my horizons so to speak. I can tell where some people are from based on their facial characteristics, Japanese look different to me than Koreans, Laotians, Vietnamese, etc. They all look different from each other to me. Same with Russians, Spanish, Germans, Italians, and English. The Baltics look similar to me, and I didn't spend as much time with them, but often I know they are from that area.
When it comes to work, I heavily value my time off. Before I retired my time off was precious to me, because in the US military you can end up working 14 hours a day for several months without a day off. I went from 10 August 1990 to some time in January or February of 1991 without a day off, I was on the flightline, working the planes every night, minimum 12 hours, sometimes 14 to 16 hours working. The result was I hoarded my leave, and once that uniform came off I tried to be unreachable. I also learned to sleep anywhere, anytime, I had the chance to get some zzz's.
From June 2003 to August 2005 I worked 12s, with varied work schedules, often 4 days on, one day off. Out of my entire time in the USAF maybe 3 years were spent on 8 hour shifts. When I was an NCO there was even less time off to myself, always had to handle things for my Airmen, and since I worked nights it meant missing out on sleep during the day. I do not miss being an NCO at all. Lots of work and responsibility for nowhere near enough pay.
I just passed 6600 straight days of Saturday this week. That is 570,412,800 seconds, 9,506,880 minutes. In two months I will have spent more time disabled/retired than I spent working since I graduated high school in 1987. Two separate lifetimes is how that feels.
I don't miss Europe or Asia, but I want to go back to them sometime. I'd also like to go to South America for a while, maybe Columbia, Brazil, and some of the centrals like Panama. Where I live I avoid the big cities, Green Bay is the closest and its a 3 hour drive to get there. I like living rural, and having food for several years stored up, and shopping for the entire week is my norm. Can't afford to drive 25 miles into the grocery store every day.
These days I am not very social, I can go weeks without speaking to another human, or even seeing them in the winter. Most people repel me, they are not good people to be around. Trust is huge for me, and if I can't depend on someone I can't trust them. If I say I will be there, then I will damn well be there unless something larger prevents me from following through. Most people aren't like that. Doesn't mean I don't like or appreciate them, just that I will limit my time around them.
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@blackticalmayhem8461 when a government employee does a good or stellar job, I am impressed. That goes for us military types too. I'll take your word for it that you are good at your job, most people just show up to get a paycheck, like the small crew of 'ladies' that got the easiest TSA job on the planet, on an Air Force base where everyone is already checked multiple times. .. they were pushing the limits of the chairs they sat in all day.
One of the funniest things I ever saw TSA do was confiscate nail clippers from a bunch of Army guys who were getting on an ATA bird out of BWI going to the desert. They were carrying M249s, M16s, M4s, sidearms, bayonets, the works.. and the TSA took all their nail clippers and files. Through my five trips to the sandbox I learned not to trust anyone at BWI. I think its something in the water there...
as an aside, I was deployed on 9/11, sitting in Kuwait, had just gotten back to Doha after working a bunch of planes that night at KCIA. I was almost asleep when I was told to come watch the TV. About the time I was saying a B25 hit the Empire state building back in 1945, the second plane hit.
I watched until the towers fell, then went back to sleep. I remember very vividly waking up on 2 Aug 1990 and hearing that my first war had just started, so on that day in 2001 I already knew what was coming.
It was a very different and jarring world I came back to at the end of that deployment. The rise of security theater was taking hold, and I call it that because so many gov employees are utterly worthless. Also because as an air transportation terminal manager, I am well aware of the operations of passenger and cargo terminals.
I won't go into that, but suffice it to say I know about the effectiveness of searches, appearances, and deterrents. Also know about other things, like overstepping of authority, bad legislation, and infringements.
Keep doing a good job and you are not included in my less than favorable attitude towards your particular branch of the fed. Still I will never fly commercial again... not because of you, but because it is simply too much BS imposed by ignorant politicians.
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@skullviolater8835 nah, they simply do not know. Crowder is finding out the hard way right now. he was saying the same things Matt and the others were saying, just a few short years ago. Now he has been shown what really happens. She lies, takes the kids, most of your income, and is rewarded for less than honorable actions. The other guys on this panel, haven't been through it.
Matt has no idea what its like for his wife to take his kids 1500 miles away, and keep you from contacting them. He can't imagine why a mom would do that, but they do it all the damn time and his imagination is not part of it. He still believes they are wonderful people, and they have only been misinformed a little bit.
Coward doesn't fit, ignorant and inexperienced fit better.
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@CoolPapaJMagik they sure want that, don't they. The thing they do not realize is that people in the US are not like Russian serfs, or Cuban poor people, and the populations of other countries where they are essentially peasants with no means to do anything. We are a sleeping bear, and those people assume our lack of action to their impotent rage and threats are cowardice or a reluctance to act.
I've seen what happens when people are threatened and have the means to resist. People in the US have the means, and the will, but its not bad enough for them to do anything.
In two more generations that might change, its hard to say. The divide between urban and rural is growing ever wider though, with the urban people knowing less and less, while becoming incapable, incompetent, dependents. Not so with rural people, particularly those who have weather and other environmental pressures that make living away from cities a bit 'more difficult' than living in a city.
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mrpresident not only have I read history, I have been there as it happened wearing the 'boots' on the ground. There is a sequence of events, we are not there yet. It might be tomorrow, it might never come to fruition and these people will fade away into the dustbin of history...
but I doubt they will fade into irrelevance.
Having been in both two way rifle ranges in Iraq/Kuwait, and countless other physical altercations in my life, I am not overly eager to have my third conflict here at home. I know full well what it entails, and I would much prefer to sit here in the woods, making videos of my old cars, making moonshine to run them, and cracking jokes.
What I want does not matter to those people. You ever read the thing about the man who just wants to be left alone? I am one of those men. When I see someone clamoring for conflict, it tells me that they have no fucking clue what that means as they have not lived it, or they are trying to catfish us like some undercover agent running a false flag op.
You do know who Simo Hayha was, right? Gotta know something of history to know who he was and what he did.
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@spracketskooch had a large sampling of girls, from four continents, several different countries, trailer park to high class families, and they are mostly the same. the wrapper changes, but the program running in their heads is the same one.
Thing is its hard to know which ones will accuse you of things until after you know them a while. The second one who played guess the day, I never slept with. Yet she had me restricted to base, and working 7 days a week for nearly two months after the civilian cops said nothing happened.
The year prior I extended a verbal greeting to a military female who apparently felt I was not good looking or tall enough to speak to her. Accused of harassment for saying hello. Then two others jumped on the bandwagon and claimed I said hi and hello to them as well.
My reaction to all of that, was to stop speaking to military females. Several of whom probably thought I was ghey or something when I did not reciprocate her advances.
The first one I mentioned above who wanted to drive my car in the snow... I had known her since I was 16, knew she had issues, she had a narrow spaced notebook with four columns of names on each page, covering both sides of six or eight pages, it has been 30+ years since that day. I found the notebook after... I was 22 at the time, and figured since we had known each other for years that she wouldn't do something like that.
Ever since that I use a fake name, if not Thumper like on here, I go by Sergio or Raoul which if you saw my ice blue eyes, and formerly blond hair, you'd not think of those names.
Here is the kicker... Despite only getting with black and Asian girls for a few years in the military and before I enlisted, I was never falsely accused by any of them. It was always white girls who did it, and other than my wives (both white, long story) who made up stuff for the divorce, the only one I actually slept with was the girl who wanted to drive my car drunk.
Sadly there are VERY few Asian girls where I live now,. and only a handful of black girls who all have husbands or boyfriends (except for two who are um... too easy if you get what I mean), so I really don't date or talk to them other than small talk at stores.
The last girl I was with is Mexican Apache, grew up in New Mexico, lives in Chicago, makes nearly double what I do, and she was thrilled to have a man like me. The problem is the 7 hours driving time to see each other. She broke i off with me, and has been getting the P&D ever since. Still friends because she is cool.
My number is somewhere between 150 and 200, which is really high for a 5'8 guy who never made more than $40k a year in his life. Its the muscle and how I am that attracts them, near as I can tell. Why so many? Because they would get with me, then think they could do better, and jump to another guy. Hypergamy. Of all the girls I have stayed in touch with that I was with, none of them have done better than me. Its amusing..
I was looking for one girl to make memories and enjoy our lives together. All sizes, shapes, colors, cultures, and from homely (second ex) to seriously hot, Russian chick hot. Quite a few Russian girls, especially in Korea 02-03.
They almost all did the same thing, thought they could do better, found out they could not, but I would not take them back after they cheated. Lots of one nighters, they just wanted the muscle bound freak experience I guess. The girl from Togo was smokin hot, so freakin dark that she vanished at night when nude. Eyes and smiles is all you could see.
Two false grape claims, four false harassment claims, only one I actually slept with... dude. chicks are either crazy or have no impulse control.. the wiring is the same, the wrapper changes. If you ever get to know enough of them, you'll see what I mean.
Also they are mentally the same at 16 as they are at 70+. Its like they never progress beyond 16. The oldest was 66 I do not recommend girls over 40, maybe 50 if they are not white so they still look good. Latinas look good to around 60 if they take care of themselves. I am 53, its been an interesting life. All my false accusations were before I turned 24... other than ex wives making things up.
Second ex was wonderful for 8 years, homely girls aren't showered with attention so they develop a personality...Then we got married, 16 months later were divorced because she found her 'soulmate' and cheated with him less than three weeks after meeting him. That was in 2013, she turned 40 this year and is alone, her dad pays all her bills since she only has a part time job. They lasted three or four years. Its a really funny story if you want to hear it.
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I bought my first car in 1982.. a 67 Cougar for $450. California car with no rust (just some dents hidden under bad paint) Got the second car in 1986, a 72 GTO for $175 from a junk yard, it was hit in the front. I still have both of them, and a lot of others I bought cheap.
My brother bought a 70 Charger 500, 383 2 barrel, 727 for $850, he still has it. He wrecked it in 1983, and I got a custom face from it. While dad looked for parts to repair it, we bought a 68 Charger, 318 auto, but it has a sure grip for $750. You can see that one in my latest video, its the gold/bronze one up on the stand in the shop. I missed a RA IV 4 speed Judge for $1200 in '86, and a 71 Judge 455 HO M22 4 speed in 1987 for $4000. I bought a 10th Anniversary TA instead of the Judge. Sometimes I think the Judge would have been a better idea, but the TATA is a cool car as well.
The Cougar was last driven in 1987, the 70 Charger was parked in 88 or 89. The 69 was wrecked in 1990 or 91. I drove the 72 GTO along with the 70 GTO I picked up in 1994 as family cars until 2004, child seats in the back, 455s under the hood, and my daughters yelling from the back seat "Lights green dad STOMP IT!" Older brother is working on the 70 Charger right now, collecting parts for it. Younger brother has the parts for the 69 already, but doesn't have the time to do the work yet. Soon... It will be great when we all have our high school rides running again and can do some tours and cruises.
Life is more fun with muscle cars.
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I have to deal with the VA. Haven't trusted many medical people for a while now. My local clinic has some wonderful people in it, and I had one good physician for a couple years, he's a car guy friend of mine now and owns a 1969 Corvette you can see on my channel. The rest of them were worthless, and the 9th in the last 17 years since I got out on a medical, has been pushing woke crap and the jab on me, using circular logic and false assertions, as if I am too daft to realize it.
No problem though, since the potato was installed we went from being able to walk in or be seen the next day to waiting six to ten months for an appointment. I could be good and room temp by the time I get to be seen.
The whole reason I am crippled is a PA on active duty who assumed I was trying to get out of running, rather than trying to get a problem fixed. Then he figured I wanted to get out, when I fought tooth and nail to get in and had child support to pay.
Another Dr on the same base, ten years earlier said he used to get that sliding into second base when I was hit by a 50mph car while riding my mountain bike... lucky for me nothing was broken, but that was the most intense pain I have ever experienced.. I went to work that night, not even a day off.
Gubermint medical people are the worst. No idea why people want the gov to handle their health care.
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@MrKago1 You're welcome, I mostly had a good time, and have many fond memories to contrast against the not so wonderful ones. Getting someone to help me build my house, or get running water in it would be far more appreciated than people thanking me, as I get thanks all the time when people realize I wore green for a living.
Thing is though, I am not a female which means nobody does things for me, I am not helpless though walking/standing is often a problem, so I end up doing things myself.
Left homeless thanks to two divorces, a total of four years of my life living out of a car, two while active duty. Nobody cares. Its my problem. I accept that and live my life accordingly. I will help the needy when I can, usually by repairing their vehicle when they can't afford a shop. Sometimes letting them stay here for a while. Its rare anyone does anything for me that is even close to what I do for them. That is just how it is.
A couple friends helped me out over the years, but they can't do it all. Its asking a lot of them to do more than they already have. They get repaid when I can, usually doing something for them that is outside their wheelhouse, or when the opportunity arises, I toss them some money for the help. They are very rare in my life though. No more than four people in the last 50 years fit that description.
Spending my youth working for the people and risking my life doesn't make me special, nor does not having done so make someone somehow less worthy. Yet someone saying thanks when what I really need is someone to lift the other end of the board so I can build the wall or roof, well.. I think of it as an empty platitude. Makes them feel better, doesn't do much for me.
I didn't spend those years doing my job for gratitude or handouts. I did it because I wanted to do it, I felt a need to be part of something larger than myself, and not to be forgotten, I needed a job because Carter, then Clinton both left me without an industry in which i could support myself.
I really want to be able to take a shower at home rather than driving 13 miles to the gym. I've lived this way for 6 years now. Tonight I will head in to the gym and take my first shower of the year... I get to do that one or two times a week. Its like a deployment where nobody is shooting at me and its snow instead of sand.
So you can see why I am none too fond of people that call asking for money to help us veterans, when I could really use some help. They are grifting, and playing on the good nature of people just to milk them for cash that never gets to any of us.
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Hey Homer... you work for the Army? I am a USAF veteran. What are you doing about soldiers who decide to ventilate thinking meat when their spouse plays hide the sausage with half the post while he is deployed, then takes off with everything he has ever earned and loved... meaning his income and his kids respectively.
If you want to curtail soldiers making custom red and gray with chunks Jackson Pollak style artwork on barracks walls and such, perhaps y'all should address the spouse/girlfriend thing.
I went through a divorce 2000 to 2005, in 2002 I got orders to Korea and my unit in the states heaped stress on me, as if they were trying to prompt me to be a one time wall painter. When my unit in Korea asked why I was an emotional wreck, I gave them the short version of why. They started an IG investigation on my behalf, and somehow my E5, E7, 1Sgt, and the E9 all got their member stepped on, the first two were reduced to E1 and BCD, the other two and my O5 were forced to retire and the Shirt was dropped to E6 from E8. The Wing Commander got a black mark because it all happened under his watch.. and I don't think he had much to do with it. The base shrink was also forced to retire.
There is a culture of screwing over military members who are going through a divorce, I have seen it happen to others, not just me. The big difference why they all got bit was simple, my E5 charged me leave but told me I had to come in for duty on Saturday, the day my leave started. I had a 24 hour drive to go home and get a lawyer for my court date Monday afternoon. He intentionally delayed my leaving, and also said I vandalized his truck. Then he made up as much as he could to write me up, all while the civilians watched. I did not get a lawyer, missed the court date entirely because I was still driving, and ended up in contempt of court. They gave me 2 hours at COB to outprocess the base, which is usually a two day thing at minimum.
The E7 tried to get my car impounded on base, and fouled up it being stored by the Navy at their base, which I had arranged, he just had it in his mind I needed to get rid of it, despite the fact it was paid for and was costing me nothing since it was in storage for insurance. It ended up going into a storage unit which I nearly lost because my home state decided that 71% of my gross was about perfect for child support. His wife was Korean so he took it as a personal offense that I was wanting to postpone my PCS until I could sell my house and get things in order.
They even hospitalized me for two weeks because I was ready to play Jackson Pollak in his red phase. Then the shrink decided I should PCS and it cost me any chance at custody of my kids, the house I owned back home, and nearly everything I owned. The shirt realized the day before I got on the plane to Korea that maybe it was a bad idea to send me overseas where I would lose BAS and BAH and go behind in my child support as a result, and have about $100 a month to live on.
So if there are other NCOs doing this sort of thing to soldiers, airmen, sailors and marines, it might be a good idea to change the culture and stop blaming the man for divorces... especially with how it works on base/post. Maybe everyone in the chain could just start giving a shit instead of taking one on the heads of the lower enlisted members...
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That depends on where you live, rural areas have much lower costs than cities. If you want to live in a large city, yeah its going to be exorbitant. $5k a month to rent a one room apartment? Thats a down payment on 10 acres where I live.
However, all the jobs I used to do are gone now, the only one still available is construction, and with considerable education, working on cars. Very few machinist/CNC jobs, they were all sent south of the border 20 years ago. Where I live now there is no industry, the main source of revenue is tourism, snowmobilers in winter, RVs in summer. If you have internet income where you aren't going to a job, you're doing it where you live, rural areas are ripe for the taking.
There is no way I could live in a city, a fixed VA income means I have to live somewhere inexpensive. I live alone because I am not giving away another house and most of my income to an unfaithful succubus. My land is paid off, I am debt free, and own 13 acres, I could easily support someone and have an enjoyable life. Not going to... because they cannot be trusted.
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Ethanol is what cars ran on before prohibition, the Ford T was dual fuel, you retard the timing and lean the mix to run gasoline, advance the timing and richen the mix to run ethanol. Henry Ford was big into farmers producing grain, making fuel, and running their Ford vehicles and equipment on it. J.D. Rockefeller was far less enthused about farmers not using gasoline and diesel... which is why he funded the people who gave us the Volstead Act.
At sea level ethanol boils at 173F, with altitude that temperature drops. You're right though, ethanol gets blamed for lots of things it does not cause. After producing my own hydrous ethanol, meaning it has 4% to 10% water still in it, and running E85 when I don't have home brew since 2007 in my 60s and 70s era Pontiacs, I can tell you how much better it is to run ethanol than gasoline if you want performance.
Eschew gasoline entirely, other than the bit that is in E85, and you can run 13:1 compression in your daily driver without issue, and it can get better mileage than a low compression gasoline engine of the same size will get. Also it will make considerably more power, but people like to hate on vodka fuel.
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@stoltzk we are close to the same age, since I have been out nearly 20 years, and enlisted under Reagan. Take some advice from someone else who was in Shield/Storm and OIF/OEF, and was there when the Berlin Wall came down... have a nice big chunk of it. The people like the dejuren guy are not worth your time nor attention. They have no idea what the military is like, what reality is like, and they are too timid and afraid to do much more than try to preach their morality from their anonymous pulpit... when they have done somewhere between jack sh!! and F' all in their lives.
Never defend yourself, your actions, or your choices from them as they are meaningless nobodies, even less meaningful than we are to be fair about it. Like you probably did, I used the military to get ahead in life, didn't work out so well for me, but if I were suddenly back in 1988 with my 19 year old body in functional condition, I would do it all again. We aren't special, well not most of us, we went and did our jobs like any decent people will do. However our jobs put us in a place where we get to see history unfold first hand, not on some TV screen or in a movie. We are witnesses to history, participants in its making, and that gives us a different perspective. Its a view those others can never have, even if you were a cook or something and never left conus.
People like that want to mess with you, they do not realize that we did what millions of other men also did in their lives, all around the world, through history. How we conducted ourselves during that time is for us and our peers to judge, not for the ignorant propagandized fools out there.
Those kids think the world is soft and bubble wrapped like theirs is. We know what lurks out there in the world. They'd be kissing our asses if they knew what we know.
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@DavidLLambertmobile I know quite a few pieces of shit who made rank, through ass kissing and special treatment, so who knows.
My thoughts/comments are not based on what he did before, but what he did in the last two years. Why does anyone decide 'fuck it, I am gonna wipe my ass with the UCMJ, eat a bowl of stupid flakes drenched in idiot juice, then go full retard and actually take the action?
My WO3 brother made a couple comments about Obama on Facebook, so I had to remind him of 107. Didn't want him to get fucked over for it, and that prick would have acted on it if it was noticed.
Letting emotion get in the way of professionalism can/will fuck you up quick. We agreed to the rules, standards, and laws when we took the oath, if you fuck up after that its on you, no matter what you did before.
Maybe I am more of a hardass about it because I was USAF and I got fucked with a lot by petty, insecure, incompetent, fucks who managed to get promoted. Administrative Violence is easy when they violate articles. People lost stripes for fucking with me rather often.
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That won't work well with short shaft Th400s and Th350s such as are in A and F body GM cars. The bellhousing does not exist under the converter either. In my younger days I would slide the transmission under the car, place the floor jack behind it, lift the tailshaft with one hand and pull the jack under the pan with the other, keeping the trans from sliding with a knee. I am a bit more burly than most people, and I could bench them in there easily, but its hard to start the bolts while holding it in there. Also doing everything alone, its best to not get a Th400 or 4L80E wedged between the vehicle and you, resting on your rib cage. Them 4L80Es are HEAVY... as in H E A V Y heavy.. with that lock up converter full of fluid in there.
When I built my shop in 2015 at the ripe old age of 46, I splurged and bought a two post lift because I do LOTS of transmission, engine, and brake line work up here in Da Up Nort Eh. Rather than having a transmission jack sitting around taking up space, I made a fixture to fit my engine crane and I tell ya what, that thing works slicker than snot on a doorknob. All I have to do is lift the transmission about 36 inches and put it on the fixture. Its a lot more stable than one of those tall transmission jacks, and you can put tools on it as well as use it to drain the pan too. One tool rather than four tools, because my shop is full of engines, transmissions, wheels, tires, cars, and all the other stuff needed to build hotrods.
I did so many things on the floor, in parking lots, without a roof or walls, having to haul my tools into the apartment every time I had to go somewhere for anything so they didn't walk off while in the USAF that I made it my life's mission to build a shop I can work in, with all the tools I need. I sacrificed quite a bit just to have the shop, built it first, my house second because it was that important to me.
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If you live in a city, in a warm climate, with short commutes, they are absolutely wonderful as long as they don't catch fire. I live in the north, 20 miles from town, where we get sub zero temps and 150 to 300 inches of snow on average every winter. The EVs are utterly useless to me.
I can produce ethanol from cattails, make any internal combustion engine run on it, and I can also produce methane to run engines, both of which are super cheap to produce and have no harmful emissions.
If you live in a city, you can't produce your own energy, everything has to be brought to you by someone else. You're a consumer, a dependent, and I see that as being like domesticated cattle. :) You do not have the room to make fuel like I do. You do not have the room to make electricity like I do. You do not have the room to grow food, like I do.
So I am going to resist being forced or coerced into using an EV, because its an expense I do not need nor want, and holds zero beenfit for me.
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@Gunsight-One I got more than a truck, I got freedom. She was costing me $2000 a month just being there, and not spending money wildly like the first ex. Car insurance, gas, food, all the incidentals TWO THOUSAND FREAKIN DOLLARS.
Now I have a larger shop to build cars in, with a lift and better equipment like my air compressor, welders, etc. I have 13 acres of land that I can't be kicked off of without someone paying me handsomely for it. A smaller house that is easier to heat and cool, that fits me quite well and its comfortable.
I am debt free which means I can run my accounts down to nearly zero every month if I want to get something done, or I can save up to get something big like a 3 car trailer or that plasma cutter/Tig welder I want. As long as I have food, the bills are paid on the first of the month, and the dogs have chow, I can do whatever the hell i damn well please without being concerned about someone else.
Currently I have my eye on a set of cylinder heads for my Pontiacs that would allow me to make around 850 maybe 900hp NA with my latest engine, and an easy 1200hp with 7psi from the blower sitting on my floor. I plan to pay my friend for them in January or February so they can be on the car by the time the snow is gone in May or June.
Fast cars are infinitely more fun than a female nagging and haranguing me all day over bs while she wastes my money.
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WHATEVER YOU DO.. don't be a mechanic or own an auto repair shop. Learn how to do all of it, but do something else to pay the bills. Fix vehicles on the side or for yourself. I love building old cars and trucks, but I hated working on front drive stuff, SUVs and minivans. I was a machinist and military to support my old car passion.
Owning a small business means you are gonna end up working harder and longer than any wage/salary job you can get, but if you can make it work in 5 years or so you'll be ahead. You have to dedicate your life to making it work. The best thing is being able to get free... but storefronts, employees, inventory, and regulations like for food, will force you to put in even more effort with a lot more risk.
You can do it, but know what you're getting into. You are going to have to work, and be consistent, persistent, and live minimally until you get ahead.
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I live in the woods near Lake Superior, it looks like the background in Bjorn's videos around here. It's 20 miles to town, the power goes out here even on nice days, we get 200+ inches of snow every winter, and the highway into town was closed three times this winter. I have two months of food on hand at all times, enough fuel to run a generator for several weeks, I make fuel from tree sap to run my generators, cars, and trucks, plus I can grow my own food in summer, fishing in winter through the ice. Your being prepared is my daily life. :)
I agree about China, I hope we get a change for the good and people realize we can't outsource everything to them to maximize corporate profits. This virus doesn't have me overly concerned, chances are with my solitude by choice for the last 8 years, I won't even come close to getting it.
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LuceliaBerger yes, women 'can' do some of the jobs men do. However, let me give you some information from my two military conflicts in Kuwait (90-91) and Iraq (03-05) where I had women on my team. My USAF job was logistics, I loaded cargo planes. That means we pushed pallets that weighed 300lbs empty, and up to 10,000lbs as a single, and we could connect 6 of them together, on to cargo planes. Its akin to putting two F150s bumper to bumper and pushing them across parking lots all day/night.
The pallets are 88 inches by 108 inches, that constraint means that you simply cannot get enough females behind a 10,000lb pallet to even move it, let alone get it unstuck when it gets crooked in the rail system of the aircraft. I have watched them try and fail every time. Additionally, I can not only move a 10,000lb pallet by myself, I loaded entire aircraft single handed while all female flight crew stood around and watched me in 125F heat in Kuwait.
How did I get the muscle mass to do that? I am only 5'8, so everyone assumes a 6'4 man could do more (they'd very very wrong if they assumed that) Well in 1990 and 91 I was doing the first of two largest airlifts in world history, and working with two person teams doing my physically demanding job, I was often paired with females. Only ONE of the females who worked with me were capable of lifting a 5 gallon igloo cooler of water. As a result I was loading 200lbs running up three stories of steps to the troop compartment of C5s carrying all the stuff they needed to eat and stay hydrated on the flight. Imagine carrying 200lbs like that about 400 times in a 12 hour shift.
In 1990, because I was saddled with females who ended up just being spotters (and two backed me into aircraft) I gained over 50lbs of lean muscle mass. I am 54 years old now and still have all that mass, which I carry around on shredded knees, hips, and ankles with two bad shoulders and one bad elbow. Because females are so much smaller and less capable, I was worked much harder, and the consequences were that at age 35 I was already worn out.
Bear in mind that my job entailed driving heavy equipment, LOTS of math, and geometry. Later on I was the safety and vehicles NCO, so I was responsible for the equipment and safety. I had ONE mishap involving a male operator, where the pallet was built incorrectly with all the weight on one side of it, so it tipped when he drove past a storm drain with a very slight incline. The rest of vehicle mishaps, including backing into a 747 putting a 6" diameter hole in the fuselage, and puncturing four 55 gallon drums of hydraulic fluid, and later a set with motor oil (she did it 3 freakin times) were at the hands of women. It got to the point of when they would call me in during the other shift to handle a mishap, I would ask "what's her name?" or "Who was she?"
Oh and that one who punctured the oil drums, the reason why she did it three freakin times is the female reservist who was 'in charge' but not 'responsible' prevented me from pulling her operator license. You see, in the USAF you cannot get a female in trouble, you cannot discipline her, she can do just about anything she wants, including be over weight, out of shape, and completely unable to do her job due to fake fingernails and other nonsense.
I had one female, she was a pudgy redhead from Wisconsin who grew up on a farm. She was the ONLY female I trusted to run one of the all terrain forklifts we had, its essentially an end loader with fork tines on it. She could drive quite well, and since I grew up on a farm I know why. Because she did it her entire life growing up, just like I did. However, there was no possibility of her pushing a pallet that weighed more than 5000lbs by herself. To her credit she never complained in my presence, but she complained plenty when I wasn't around. I never had a female above nor below in rank who was as competent as she was operating equipment.
I worked in factories and on cars between my enlistments and I rebuild old muscle cars in my retirement. I do literally everything to them, body-paint, engines, transmissions, etc. Yes a woman can do this, but she is not going to be capable of doing it for long. Men can do this every day for about 30 years, females trying to keep up with the men can do it for about 4 maybe 8 years if she has lots of cranes and stuff to lift things for her. There is a female diesel tech you does youtube videos, she might be the real deal, she might not be, regardless she will not be doing it in her 40s.
Its a heavy lifting job that requires above average intellect, and a mind that understands how things work. The slack jawed dropout is not a competent mechanic. The smartest men I know work on vehicles, either as a hobby or for their jobs, and bear in mind I have known thousands of people all over the world.
My daughter is 26 and she can fix most things on her truck. Not everything, but she is getting there. She is 5'8 and has never lost an altercation with another female. She knows her limitations, but she also isn't afraid to try new things and learn. She is roughly 1/16th of my capability, but she is far ahead of most females in many ways.
Women are NOT built for those jobs. They just aren't. Any time the job requires heavy lifting, as in over 40lbs, women are rarely put in those positions. They simply can't do it for an entire shift, day after day, like a man can. A factory job I had between my enlistments had us all paid the same based on how long we had been working there. The females did visual inspection and light work, males lifted all the heavy stuff, like 150lb chrome plate arbors, and ran all the dangerous machines where you were covered in 200F oil and compound very day. The women did a fraction of the work, but got paid the same.
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@tercerocastero you said "Too many see the entire world and EVERY interaction as just oppressor vs oppressed." and you are exactly right, that is the marxist lens through which they are seeing the world. Its very child like, myopic, and definitely not equality driven. Its an ideology driven by resentment and envy.
Your point here is also spot on "No equality, only a perverted view of equity even, which equals taking power, role reversal, canceling and silencing all who disagree." that is the modus operandi, as they are weak, incompetent, and ineffective, so they have to use things like shame, guilt, and false accusations to gain power.
Being compassionate and caring, is not a bad thing, but that mindset is being exploited by the marxists. They crave power and control, are willing to do anything to achieve it, for them the ends justify the means. Therefore anything, no matter how abhorrent, reprehensible, our outrageously incompetent is justifiable to them.
They are the kind of people that were taken outside the encampment and bludgeoned until they stopped moving in prehistoric times, because all they do is sow discord, discontentment, and envy among the group. They have the worst ideas, and the most abhorrent method of implementing them. They are tyrants, and if they gain power, nothing good ever comes of it.
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@Bucky1836 yeah, got it in 2006. He was a bit behind in the automotive end of it, we can do even more than he knew, but he was on the right track. I took his info and used it as a springboard, and have been building my engines to specifically take advantage of ethanol. I can't run pump gas in them, but I get excellent power and mileage from them running vodka.
The static compression ratios are too high for pump gas, but they use less fuel than the low compression engines I had in the same cars, that were the same size or smaller. With EFI and heating the fuel I get even better mileage, my '76 C10 will be the test mule for a modern engine running mostly factory EFI and parts, and those trucks aren't exactly aerodynamic, so if I can get good mileage from it, imagine what I can do with a smaller vehicle.. lol.
My still design has been improved too. Its kinda funny how some of my innovations are now common among home distillers.
Lots of people have bad info out there, and they are unaware of things you can do with engines running ethanol that make gasoline engines look pathetic.
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There was a car my dad brought home that would have made me into a mopar fan, but he decided against it and took it back. It was a 64 Barracuda, had a 318 with a 2 barrel and a 4 speed behind it. I liked it because it was different, the 4 speed was like yeah well thats what it has, and it sounded great. You don't see those often, and it would have been lots of fun with a 360 swapped in it later. I looked at a 71 Duster with a 340, 4 speed, headers, and dad said definitely no because he thought it would be too fast for me. Mom wanted me to buy a 76 Volare that was bright orange, had a cream colored interior, and a cream quarter vinyl top. It looked like a clown car with a receding hairline... and it had a slant in it. Mom said it was "Neat" apparently mom wanted to ensure I never got lucky with a girl. So I got the 67 Cougar instead which I still have, and bought a 72 GTO on my 17th birthday, for $175 from a junkyard, it was hit in the front... and that GTO eventually ran mid 12s with a mild 400 in it a year later.
As for getting girls the Cougar and GTO worked fabulously. GTOs have a rather large back seat and even more room in the trunk for .... lets leave it there.
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@Hasid_Lafre I grew up on a farm in the 70s and 80s, when it was very unprofitable to farm thanks to Carter. We worked quite a lot to limit erosion, didn't use much in the way of herbicides and pesticides most years, and we rotated crops when we needed to because if you destroy your land you will not be able to support yourself on it. People like the other two in this thread thing farmers are morons, they have no idea what goes into producing food regardless of if its meat or veggies.
On my last deployment I had a kid from California (National Guard who 'just wanted the free money for college' and didn't understand deployments are how he EARNED the money) who was passing around pamphlets about cows waking up without skin while hanging from hooks and other nonsense. Whomever made his little religious nut tracts has no idea how the process works or why you need to drain the blood from them before you do much else.
Then you get the anti farm people, the ones who think ethanol is bad for cars and the environment, and people who think farm subsidies amount to hundreds of thousands or millions to each farmer. I make ethanol from cattails and tree sap to run my vintage muscle cars all summer, so I know quite a lot about it. Additives the oil companies put in cause damage and problems, not the whiskey/vodka used as fuel. No humans eat the corn used to make fuel, but people will sure complain about it despite the fact that what is left over after fermentation is a vastly superior livestock feed than corn is.
My extended family (cousins) that still farms laughs at the 'massive subsidies' because its barely enough to buy a used pickup truck, and the monetary cost of farming is beyond most people's comprehension. Even if it was $10k that isn't enough to cover the cost of fuel for a year. Not even close. Its like giving Elon a million, he will barely notice it and it makes zero difference because of the amounts he normally works with. They think farmers should do it for free or something. I quit farming and enlisted to get off the farm because it didn't pay enough for me to survive.
Urban people only know that food shows up on a foam tray or in a plastic bag at the store. Its amusing...
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@nickhanlon9331 no, before the 1940s it required a little more work to raise kids, because people had gardens (not including urban people, they have always been dependent on everyone else to survive), raised their food, and they spent lots of time canning and preserving what they grew. My family lived like that until the late 90s. The most you need is a washer and dryer, and laundry can be done without them if you have water available. Its not that difficult to do.
Thing is, women apparently aren't very capable, so it seems to be much more difficult for them to do things. Getting them to forego having a family and waste their lives doing meaningless 'busy work' jobs is why wages are so low, it diluted the workforce. In the 90s the factory jobs here in the US were all packed up and sent to Mexico, including the ones where I worked as a machinist.
My mom had six kids, we lived on a farm where I grew up in the 70s and 80s, being born at the end of the 60s. We had a two acre garden, and we raised hogs, cattle, sometimes chickens then butchered every spring so we had meat all year. It was a bad time to be a farmer, because Jimmy's grain embargo in the 70s made our crops nearly worthless until the 00s.
There is a saying you might not have heard about, its called "Living within your means" and most people won't do it. They saddle themselves with massive debt, usually for things they don't need, so they can look affluent and thus better than their neighbors. They go for instant gratification, what can they buy today? In contrast I tend to build things more than I buy things, and if I don't have the cash, I don't buy it. Its very simple.
Most people simply cannot do math, and they apparently cannot comprehend that doubling the work force will make labor vastly less expensive, which will make wages lower. Mom's can't raise their kids because they want a 'career' or a job so they can buy stuff they don't need. They want that new shiny thing in the big house so they can feel better as the credit cards get their pound of flesh every month.
Trying to get my first wife to understand simple things like that and to not waste everything I earned was impossible. 22 years since we divorced, and she is in a much worse position now, because she is incapable of handling money, doing math, or thinking beyond what she is told by the media.... just like most people.
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@loganzamanwalker8763 not with how she was flirting with me, and how her face lights up when I walk in her store. She is lonely, has no friends, and is aching for anyone to notice her. She explained all of that to me, doesn't help that she is rather intelligent, makes it more difficult for her to relate to young men.
The old guy was obviously disenchanted with my presence though. He is one of those weak timid types who begs others to do for him what he is incapable of doing for himself.
Most people who meet me, like me, because I am very friendly, outgoing, and easy to talk to. I make it a point to get the person behind the register to laugh and brighten their day. Working retail is drudgery, and I am that way with everyone working retail. I make sure they smile when they see me. Genuine smiles, not the saccharine smiles you get because they have to.
I am that way intentionally, because if I am my normal self, I get calls telling me I can no longer shop there because I terrify people. My military bearing causes it often when its displayed, so I am very friendly and conversational.
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Along the same lines as the OP, I have seen to ads on YT today for Redwing boots. I have been wearing Redwing boots for a long time, because they hold up to the work I do for more than a year. Most shoes don't make it three months. Good shoes for working.
Well about the ad. I find it curious because it shows a fat black chick with her weave hanging out all over, climbing down a ladder, then walking around the rebar and touching some wires that will be covered with concrete. I find this curious, because having worked construction tying rebar together, building foundations, and building my shop and house since I retired, I have yet to see a female out doing the hard work... a female of any amount of UV resistance... certainly not one with a two ax handle wide ass.
Ok so the shoehorned a chick into the ad. On the face of it I have no problem with the fact she is female or not white, but the question I have is why? Men wear and buy these boots because they last doing hard work. To me its like Rey being awesome at everything without having put in any effort and lacking any discipline, they just dropped her in there because she is 'diverse' not because she will sell more $200+ work boots.
Her hair hanging out everywhere is a safety hazard, get it caught in some machinery on the job site and find out how fast a PTO shaft will wad you into broken hamburger before it decapitates you.. so stunning and brave. They wanted to ensure you knew she was female.. doing a job precious few females do.
Its a virtue signal, pure and simple. I hope they don't do like Carhart or Coke and proclaim everyone should obey and be less white, because its hard to find boots that will hold up to living out here in the woods working on vehicles and shit like I do.
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elf-ovener if its something like this channel talking about them, I wait to see what the guys think. Otherwise when a chick starts droning on about irrelevant bullshit, one or a few of a number of things happen. I fall asleep, turn the channel, close the window, crank up some pron, or will check an image search with her name with various words after it and see what comes up.
I had no choice in the military, I had to listen to them droning on so I could piece together the important part of the drivel.
If she is saying something interesting, I will listen. Carolyn Porco talking about Saturn is fascinating, she is one of if not the leading expert on the planet. So its not because they squat to piss, its because they don't say anything useful or interesting. Most females are about as deep as vodka spilled on a glass coffee table.
My 25 year old daughter is painful to listen to most of the time. Her mother was far worse. I live alone out in the woods because its peaceful and quiet here, plus there is room to park my cars. Old rusty muscle cars are far less expensive than a girlfriend or wife, and vastly more reliable, functional, and enjoyable too.
GTOs > females.
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I served in the USAF under Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, and Dubya until 2005 when I was medically discharged due to injuries on my last 2004 deployment.. I have been beholden to the VA ever since, with Obama and the Cheeto. I can tell you first hand the differences between all of those presidents in regards to the average enlisted member. So when a non veteran friend sent me the article claiming the cheeto called us losers and suckers, I was immediately dubious.
Obama cut the VA funding twice, there was no cost of living adjustments from 2010 to 1017, despite costs going up. Those were some very lean years to be on a congress controlled fixed income. The Cheeto hasn't done anything fucked up to us, unlike Clinton, Dubya and Obama. If you want to know how Clinton and Obama fucked us over, just ask. the short version is the cut the ever loving fuck out of our funding. Dubya got us into a couple useless wars, but he did increase funding for us because of it.
The Cheeto disparaging us? I find that exceptionally difficult to believe.Its incongruent with his actions, and that sort of thing is far more aligned with the actions of Obama, Clinton (both of em) and Biden. Fuck those pricks.
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@bigneiltoo curious that you ask that. I was engaged to a beautiful Arab girl while I was stationed in Germany 30 years ago. We ended up not getting married due to other people and their hang ups. We kept in touch over the years, married other people, and are both divorced now. She lives in Germany I am in the northern US. She was somewhat unique due to the culture and who/how she is, but she is still VERY much a female and does the expected things. She was 28 when I met her, I was 21. I would still give her a chance, and we have talked about it. Distance and we both have two kids, along with the coof bullshit, are the stumbling blocks.
She gets a chance, its not a guarantee. She knows what I expect and how I am, and I know how she is. we are old friends who would have a good time again like we did 30 years ago. There are things about who she is that I appreciate, and I am very aware of female nature, so its interesting to explore if we can ever travel again.
Now the myriad of other chicks who turned me down, cheated, or ghosted, yeah fuck no. They had their chance, they will not get another. Most of them see where I went in life, and what I have achieved since my second divorce, and they usually want to try again.. they get a nope.
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@benjaminshelton978 take some time to learn the history of every revolution that ended with a marxist government. They follow a script, its a step by step sequence of events, and it is obvious when you know what they do, and the ideas behind it.
They want exactly what you are describing, a break down of society that makes people desperate. Because desperate people are easier to control.
They want power and control, while preventing others from surpassing them in wealth, power, and control. Its as simple as that, and they use the resentful, lazy, entitled envious people with massive insecurities to drive it. Its merely a way to get people to clamor for their own slavery and eagerly strive for and demand it.
Its the means by which they want to have corporate control over all of us.. the "You will own nothing, and be happy" thing, where you have to 'rent' everything you need and want from them, thus making you not only dependent, but also submissive/subservient to them for everything.
Its not like they think marxism is the answer or a solution, nah, its a method of enslaving the masses and putting certain people in positions above them... all for profit and control.
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Im curious, when have the republicans been against minorities? I am not a republican, I tend to loathe politicians no matter what party they are. However, I have not seen anywhere near as much from them as I have democrats. Maybe its because I am in my 50s, paid attention to what politicians said since the 1980s when I enlisted, because what they said and did affected me directly.
The military itself is not against minorities, however the politicians who dictate policy were. The military does not govern itself, it acts at the behest of congress and the president. So if you want to take up an issue on that front, you need to speak with the people who made the policies. Take a wild guess at who you will find behind those policies. Truman is the one who signed the EO desegregating the military... not that he particuarly wanted to, but they could not afford to have separate forces at that point. Its similar to how LBJ switched from trying to keep minorities from having a say, to pandering to them to put them on a plantation where they would keep the dems in power.
Until recently Ivy league universities were merit based, if you scored well enough you got in. Now they make certain people score much higher due to the demographic they happen to be in. That is a new thing, and its being pushed by dems.
I am atheist, but I grew up being sent to a lutheran parochial school, then later was a muslim (long story involving an Arab girl from Dubai) but now I have lost religion and have my own thoughts and beliefs. In the parochial school I had a teacher tell me that the people who look like Zuby were the descendants of Cain, and god marked them. That made them all inherently evil in her opinion. She told us that when I was in 3rd grade, around 1977 or 78. Take a wild guess what political party they were members of...
Remember that Arab girl? Well it just so happens she and I did not get married, and the reason might surprise you as she wanted to be with me as much as I wanted to be with her. Her mother was overly concerned that I would pimp her out or something, and my military supervisor did not like that I changed my religion and was getting hitched to someone who had far more UV resistance than I have. Guess what party he was a member of in 1991, before the evangelicals were pandered to by the republicans... take a wild guess.
The most anti minority and overly concerned with skin color people I have ever met, and I have met thousands of people around the world, have been dems and other leftists.
The police? It matters where you are, who sets policy, and what the situation is like. The thing Zuby did not address that is the other edge of the sword is how black fathers are thrown out of families at a very high rate, but are then said to have abandoned the kids and blamed for all the problems. As a dad who had his family taken from him and prevented from being part of my two little daughter's lives, I can assure you that even if the father is absolutely amazing, all a mother needs to do is decide to divorce him. He becomes guilty of everything, she is innocent and oppressed no matter what she does.
Face it girlfriend, you like the people who have been oppressing people and have not changed that, they only changed how they go about it.
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@htomc42 well I do have a tiny miniscule member, so there is that... but, I simply adore the feeling I can only get from a car I built that goes 0-60 in around 2 seconds, and 0-100 in about 4.5 seconds... give or take.
Its not the car, status of having a cool old car, or the value of it that drives me. Its the fact that I built it. The cars I build are my vision, skills, abilities, and perseverance all brought into reality and molded into something that functions with a certain utility that art like statues cannot have.
They are a part of me, an extension of myself rather than something I am trying to be with a material thing. I make the material thing into what I want it to be, not what others think it should.
Being able to scare the living fuck out of non car people is a huge bonus in the fun aspect.
If you're not a gearhead, you probably won't get it. Thats ok if you don't its not about you to us, its about the self validation of this is what I can do, what I have achieved, what I am capable of, and its tangible.
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@irocksup123 now don't go bringing up the medieval warming period, mini ice age, and the rest of it... because he will just say it doesn't matter, because its happening faster or whatever... we can just ignore the flash freeze dried mammoths too.
I live in northern Michigan (Upper peninsula/U.P.) where we get 150 to 300 inches of snow every winter. The snow comes down at varied rates, particularly the lake effect coming off Superior. If they think they can tell which layer of ice corresponds to which year, they are freakin delusional. You know, along the shores of lakes that were created by glaciers roughly two miles thick where I am sitting right now. What used to be an ancient mountain range with volcanoes and minerals, scratched down to rolling hills... yeah, its just like Florida here. (sarcasm)
I use wood ash instead of salt to melt snow, and when it snows on top of it, you get a really nice layered effect, like in the ice cores. The layers are different thicknesses, depending on how much snow, if its cold lake effect powder, or heavier wet snow from a storm that blew in here from Canada or the central plains states like the Dakotas and Wisconsin.
Most people in the US do not deal with snow like we do in the UP.. we can have clear blue skies with the sun shining, and be driving in a whiteout with just a few feet of visibility. They don't get powder that falls several feet at a time, then compacts under its own weight to be a couple inches thick. So most people will accept the idea that ice cores show how much snow fell every year at the south pole, except it snows there damn near all year.
Narratives predicated on ignorance, backed up with logical fallacies and baseless assertions, intended to keep people afraid, compliant, and obedient.
Bear in mind I live VERY green, because its considerably less expensive for me to produce energy than it is to buy it, that and my old muscle cars with big V8s (455ci/7.4L) run great and make ludicrous power on home made ethanol, sourced from cattails. My 1965 GTO is silly amounts of fun, and 40 cents a gallon fuel that cleans the air as it only emits Co2 and H2O make it even more enjoyable.
But yeah they call me a kook nutter denier, because I have learned some history and how to do things they claim cannot be done while not wanting to accept their control over me like a version of the soviet union. Thats all their solutions are, soviet style rule. I can't get behind nor accept that.
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@FumblsTheSniper Where I live the grid is always going down, its less stable than my bipolar ex wife off her meds. Gasoline is always higher here than most of the country, the big cities like LA, SF, and NYC are usually the only people paying more. The gas stations all collude, because you go 50 miles in any direction and its 20 to 50 cents less.
As a result I have gotten into producing energy myself. I make fuel from tree sap and cattails, then build engines with race car compression ratios to run on it. That improves mileage, because I have to work for every gallon, might as well make lots of power and use less of it. The fact I am a gearhead that builds drag cars and almost everything else I need, including the PC I am writing this on, the house I am sitting in, and a lot more means I can figure out how to improve all of it, and make seemingly disparate things work together.
I'm working on ways to make electricity and heat my home without burning anything. So I know what it takes to produce enough energy to live on.
I don't really care that its better for the environment, what I care about is being able to get around and not pay $200 to fill the tank, and another $250 every month to keep the lights on... just the lights and a fridge.
Wind isn't viable, yesterday I had 60mph wind with 80mph gusts, today its calm, completely still out there. Also I live in forest, and the turbine has to be at least 30' above the trees to get clean air.. the trees are 60' tall. Any idea how much a 100' tower that can withstand 100mph gusts costs? Just to get a little bit of electricity once in a while? What is the solution they have? Cut down all the trees or move into a city... nope. Not going to do that. I like the trees keeping prying eyes and thieves from knowing what I have here.
Solar? I live up north, in summer the days are long, this time of year I barely get enough light to charge a motion light in the back yard. What good does it do me if it only works 5 months out of the year?
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@Artyom_P its social conditioning that is the problem. They are encouraged to act on their less than desirable nature, and the desirable nature is discouraged.
I have had lots of girls, two wives, and many many female friends. My critique is not of them, though it may seem like it to someone who thinks they are pure as the driven snow and wonderful princesses.. I see them for what they are, and that is human. I like how they are, and I enjoy spending time with them a great deal.
What I do not enjoy is how they are encouraged to cheat, act poorly, and throw away any investment we men are daft enough to put into them, be it time or money. They do not appreciate what we do, they expect us to do it all for them. That is the meat of it.
The best girl I ever met was an Arab girl, her parents were from Oman and Yemen, and they lived in Dubai. I was engaged to her in 1990 until 1992, and other people prevented us from getting married, out of their own bigotry and biases. If I had married her, I would have an entirely different outlook on laws and society. We are still friends all these years later, both divorced from people who cheated on us.
We blame those people for their actions, not everyone for those actions.
However when you have been with enough people, gotten to know them, and seen how others interact with people, you can see trends. I do not blame women for the problems we have here in the west, I blame the effinists and other marque cysts for it. I have to write it that way or you won't see the comment.
I have two daughters who will probably never have families, one definitely will not. Their lives were ruined by the Duluth Model, as they were prevented from having me in their lives after the ages of 5 and 7, until they were 18. Kids need dads, and the system makes sure dad has a very low chance of being part of his kid's lives.
There are massive incentives for a woman to kick the father out of the home, and keep him from his kids. That is effinist influence and legislation at work. Thats why if a man here wants a family, he has to go to a country where that crap is not allowed, or socially stigmatized, otherwise he will end up with his kids being stolen from him as well.
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@teefrankenstein4340 I'm the same age as OP, barely did any D&D just a little while stationed in Germany 89-91. I grew up in Nebraska, didn't meet my first non European person until I was 18, and then I started dating her.
Enlisted in '88, and most of the B guys were friends, they were standoffish until they realized that despite my German ancestry and rural farm kid mannerisms, that I did not hate them. Everyone was welcome to be friends with me. Knowing I was engaged to a B woman kinda helped, but they realized there is zero animosity in me towards people who need less sunscreen than I do. I was accepted into both worlds, and still am today once people get to know me.
I was stationed in Charleston SC in '92 when the Rodney King thing went down. I had broken off my engagement in '90, she was sleeping around while I was gone. I was dating lots of women, most of them sans sunscreen. I noticed a big change after that week in '92... I got out of the military that September and went back home. Not many B people around.
Went back to the military in 2000 and entered a world where everyone was hyper aware of what we looked like. I got LOTS of prejudice from B members, I was surprised how much it had changed in just 7 years. Was stationed in Charleston again, and it was considerably more difficult to get B women and make non W friends. There was a pervasive attitude coming from them.
In Korea (02-03) I made some B friends, but for the most part I was looked down on for being W... and being a veteran of the first war, so the fact I did things differently was also part of that. When my second war started in 2003 things started getting worse. I am glad I got messed up in 2004 and discharged in 05, because someone like me did not fit in the military anymore.
The biggest change was 93-00, then another big jump in things going back 08-16. If you lived in a big city, particularly one run by D then yeah you probably always saw the same thing.
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Are you canning as well? My family did that well into the 1980s, we had a 2 acre garden on the farm. At any given time we had two years of food for all of us, six kids in my family. Mom stopped the garden when the three of us oldest kids left the farm. I was gone by 1987. My great grandfather planted fruit trees around the garden, l so we had apples, cherries, and pears every year. It was cool picking a pear from the tree and eating it.
I live in the north, the people around here don't like you if you were not born here. I moved here 16 years ago. So my network is minimal, but people know I am the guy who can fix things and knows how to produce what they need. Winter is long and harsh, normally 150 to 300 inches of snow. The power goes out even on nice summer days, and it can be out for weeks. We all use wood heat or have it as back up. We have generators, and food stocked up all the time. We could be snowed in for a month, its happened.
So all of this is day to day for my neighbors and I.
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I saw the exact same dynamic play out, 35 years ago when stationed in West Germany. 6000 men, 300 single not men. Even the overweight 3s got tons of attention.
On base they all chased after the same handful of guys, anyone else who had the audacity to speak to them was taken up on charges of untoward conduct. Back then I could go off base and do very well. In the US it was different, they had to struggle because everyone speaks the same language here.
When I got to Korea in 2002 they separated us from them and we were briefed not to sleep with them on base. Every one of them would catch something, because they'd be getting with the same handful of guys. The tallest best looking guys... They told us to go out the gate and get it on with Russians, Filipinos, and willing Koreans. Sure enough, they were down with something every few weeks.
Now that situation is here for everyone.
Think about it, everyone on a military base is in shape, most of them take very good care of themselves, so you have men who are already top 20% in physique, no matter how tall they are. Overseas you have a language barrier, so they would all go for the top 1% of the 20% guys that were everywhere.
When he would deploy, the dependent would be on base with all those very in shape single guys... Being married in the military is a detriment, because you know they are not going to be faithful while you're in the sandbox. It was wild how many dependas hit on me.
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@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz really.. EVs cost less. That depends on where you live and how much grid power costs. I have all LED lighting, wood heat, no AC, one PC is on most of the time, and there is a 2019 vintage refrigerator running in my house. Its almost nothing power wise. My power bill, and its unstable and therefore off constantly regardless of weather, is $140 a month. Solar isn't great because I am well north of the 45th parallel, and already the days are very short, the sun barely gets up above my trees from Oct 1 to Apr 1.
If I could get the solar to work, and didn't need a 120' tower for a turbine (costs more than I would get from it) to get above the trees, then I would build something with electric power. I am all about making lots of power for as little cash as possible. I want to go solar but the $$$ to return isn't there. I am looking for a large Stirling engine, because of the system I use to heat water and my shop.
Using tree sap and cattails to make fuel ethanol, 10 cents a gallon for tree sap, 40 cents for cattails, and a weeks work a year for both means I can make more fuel than I am legally allowed to with a micro producers permit. If I have to charge a vehicle twice just to get into town for something, and get back, well that hour trip just because several hours, unless I buy an EV that cost more than my land, shop, house, and all the cars I build to increase the range to something acceptable, and my power bill will go up even more.
With increased compression (11:1 to 16:1 with iron heads), running the engine at 200F-220F, and a carb I converted, 17mpg is the norm with a very un-aerodynamic 65 GTO, 20mpg with a slightly better aero 70 GTO, and I am working on a 71 Formula with better aero to max the simplistic carb. With EFI 30mpg is easy, but you cannot run gasoline in my engines configured for ethanol. The compression ratio is too high and they will rattle themselves to death on it. The power I get from my engines is enough that even the 'Plaid' from Tesla is slower.
About the lithium batteries. I fly RC and have RC trucks, boats, cars, drones, etc. I like the electrics a lot, the power is incredible. The cost is not small though, and the li-ion batteries require some special handling...yet they still catch fire. Still have to deal with heat, LOTS of heat, most of the energy goes to waste heat, but they are not covered in methanol and lubricant goo like the glow engines. That is a plus. My brother does a lot more with RC than I do, and his wife is allergic to methanol based glow fuels, so he is 100% electric.
Then we have a corrosion issue, if the roads are salted at all, like they are here all winter, corrosion is going to be a HUGE problem. So far in the last two years we have had three Tesla vehicles burn to the ground with the passengers inside them. Ever seen a welder at work? Thats the kind of fire you get from the battery pack. Not much left of the people, no need for a casket, an ashtray will suffice. In a southern urban environment the EV is a wonderful idea, no need for long range, and no salt on the roads.
I am not against the EVs, but I know about them as well as ICE powered vehicles. If someone else has to provide you with your energy, you are dependent upon them for it. They can shut it off if you do not obey them. EVs limit how far you can travel, and they can be controlled remotely very easily. Good luck controlling my 50 year old vehicles that make over 550hp and pollute less than the coal fired plant that produces the grid power here, and I can make fuel for them easily.
So if you want to live in the south, take public trans everywhere, or spend a lot of $$$$$$ on an EV so you can drive but also deal with parking it, then it sounds great. How they are not using much (if any) power at stop lights is hugely beneficial. I'd rather make vodka that I can sell, drink, use as antiseptic/disinfectant, light, power, and fuel. I also like living in the woods, away from people, where I don't have a city, state, or whatever telling me what I can and cannot do with my own property. I will show how to increase the mileage a lot, and how to implement it, but it precludes using gasoline like I said above.
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@robertstone9988 in 1968 my dad sold his 1964 426 wedge Sport Fury, turquoise in and out, 727 auto, he bought it new from the dealer where he worked. He sold it because my brother came along in 1967.
In 2012 after years of unsuccessfully looking for a twin or his 64, he bought a 73 Cuda cloned into a 70 AAR by a guy in Texas. He and mom flew down to pick it up and drive it back. Soon after mom passed in 2014 dad found the other 64 Sport Fury with the 426 wedge in turquoise and bought it from a chevy guy in Georgia. Yeah there are only two of them as far as we can tell. Tony might be able to find out more, but while I was researching, I found that something like 92 Sport Fury's came with the 426 wedge in 64. How accurate that is I don't know, but dad's dealership sold four of them so he figured they were common.
When dad passed in 2020, he left the 64 to my older brother and the Cuda came to me. My sister wanted the Cuda, but she doesn't take care of cars (she destroys them), she can't work on them at all. It needs some work done to it, and she has nowhere to store it out of the weather. It would probably get stolen where she lives, if she didn't just pawn it off for another Kia like she did the low mile Buick she was left from my mom's mom. She got $2000 off on the Kia in trade for a $12k car.
Dad wanted the Cuda taken care of, dad knew I can fix anything and that I would not only take care of it but I would drive it. She sold the truck he left her for a quarter of its value.
My older brother can't fix cars, he didn't get those genes like our other two brothers and I did. Its currently not running, sitting in his garage, and he has no idea what to do with it. I had it running quite well in 2015, I fixed lots of the problems it had, and then my younger brother, the mopar fan, figured he could do better. He is good with LA small blocks, but B and RB engines, not so much.
They know I will probably never sell the Cuda, and I drive it on dry days in the summer. Not sure if the wipers even work. With the deer around here I don't drive it at night, E body parts are harder to find and more expensive than GTO parts so the GTOs get driven at night.
I learned from dad talking about his cars he sold and wished he had kept. Problem is I bought a lot more and kept most of them. I never would sell one of my GTOs or LeMans just to pay a bill. I would find another way and I never went into debt over my cars, other than two buy a couple daily drivers like a 92 F150 and a 98 Formula. Cruise, AC, and mileage is why I got those.
Having the car is worth more to me than a wad of cash, especially when its a eye searing green Cuda my parents road tripped before mom died.
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@peterchessell28 Good to know you have no clue about the US military. I served in two wars, I got one medal for what I did in the first six weeks of the first one. It was an "Achievement" award worth one point for promotion, and to this day nobody has come close to doing what I did. When they read my citation at the ceremony at my next duty station, there were very audible gasps at what I had done. It was mind boggling to people who know what our job entails.. and no, we are not office weenies, the two units I was in for those wars made history that everyone glosses over.
I was put in for a 'Commendation' for what I did after the first six weeks, but was denied because "E3s do not get those" according to my Colonel. My second war resulted in me not being able to walk very far, and a whole mess of other shit wrong with me. No medals, despite doing more shit nobody else can do, in 2004.
Now if you're a brown noser or female you get a medal for showing up and because someone likes you. I will grant you that. Usually achievement medals are for not fucking up in an exercise, rather than doing the impossible single handedly in an actual conflict. Those are usually Bronze or Silver Stars.. but E3s don't get those.
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I learned that way back in the early 1980s when I was wrestling in high school. After practice where we did an extensive workout that made the basketball guys puke, I would go home, split a bunch of wood, then bring it in the house to keep it warm for the night and entire next day while mom was home keeping the fire going. Then I would do another 200 pushups and situps in sets of 50 every night even on weekends. I did that because I knew the other guys I was going to wrestle were probably doing the extra too.
That discipline and experience served me well in the US military too. I was worlds ahead of everyone else in basic, nothing phased me because I had seen worse. Where it bit me was I kept pushing through the pain once I was injured, and I ended up making the injuries worse and more extensive.. but YOU are probably not in any danger of doing that.
Get off the couch and start moving. I got too f@ because of my injuries and I didn't consider my diet for a few years. Not being able to walk well for a decade has issues that need to be solved. I needed to find a way around my physical limitations, and I have. If you're young and don't have destroyed joints and other damage, you only need to get up and get moving. Stop watching TV, stop wasting time doing non productive things, make yourself into something. Make your life worth living... and NEVER get married, that was the worst mistake I ever made.
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@joshmoeller8303 I hear ya, at 21 I was lifting 200+lbs and running up three stories with it a few hundred times in a 12 hour period, every night, for 14 months. I was also pushing 3000-10,000lbs on rollerized floors that only worked so so. That was the majority of my first war in 1990-91.
The second war 2003-05 I was 34 and things don't heal as fast... if at all. For that war I was moving heavy shit, thousands of pounds at a time, mostly alone and in 120Fto 135F heat.
In high school at 170lbs I was benching 265. A year later it was over 320lbs. At the end of the first war it was over 450. In 2003 it was just over 500. All of it came from my jobs, not the gym. I broke a rib straining to push a car, and ripped connective tissue from the bone in my left arm trying to pick things up I should not have.
As it turns out, you pay for that in later years. Chronic pain, worn out knees, hips, shoulders, elbows, wrists, and the really fun part is the upper part of my tibia and fibula have fused together behind my knees in large bone masses. The MRI is really cool looking.
I'm 5'8, 310lbs, you can see my ribs and all the muscles in my arms, chest, back, legs, etc needless to say I am massive. Its why my profile pic is a gorilla. Finding clothing sucks, shoes wear out fast so you have to get high quality, my arms and neck weigh so much I have apnea. Had it since high school to be honest, my neck has always been thick.
Now I have to haul all this around, be careful so I don't trip or slip on ice (breaking ribs is very easy, or an arm if you try to catch yourself), and twisting ankles is extremely easy to do. The mass does me little good, except I can military press a 150-200lb transmission into one of my cars easily, hold it in with one hand while I start the bolts, if I want to. I tend to work smart now, it hurts less.
I look fat when I'm really not(particularly in winter with multiple layers of clothing), because I am short and my proportions are skewed. Any idea how hard it is to lose muscle? I am almost 52 and its still building on me, I'd rather be getting taller. I have to move trees, shovel gravel, dirt, and move rocks, built my house and shop, all of it takes muscle power, so I keep getting more mass.
It probably won't happen that you get huge like I am, but you will wear out joints. The worst of it is knees, all your weight rides on them, and once they are gone, the only thing you can do is cut them out to put metal in and that puts even more limits on you. Be smart about it, don't hurt yourself, use proper lifting techniques, and when you do hurt something in your late 20s, don't keep working through the pain like I did. At 50 it hurts seemingly forever.
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I've lived with PTSD most of my life, had it before I enlisted because of a really shitty home life on a farm in BFE. I got beaten a lot, not the point of this though, going to war in 1990 and again in 2004 felt like going home. Its not always that we are back there when we trail off or just stare at something, we can be reliving any time in our lives, good, bad, completely random and routine, or horrific, you never know what will pop up or why. It helps to talk about the stories, to pass it along. Somehow it removes the emotional power it has over us to talk to random people about it, as long as they actually give a damn. There are things we won't talk about, things we only talk about with other veterans, and then the stuff we will talk about with anyone.
One interesting thing is anniversary dates. I usually have no idea what day it is unless I have an appointment or something. Haven't worked a normal job in 16 years so they kinda blend together. Occasionally I will have a shitty day, wake up a wreck, irritable, hateful, hyper vigilance going haywire, anxiety off the charts our around the edges of the solar system, and I have no idea why. Its a day from my past that something happened, an anniversary. Somehow my mind knows even when I have no idea what day it is.
Once you get to be ok with it, rewire your mind so you can detach the emotions from the memories (not easy to do: a massive understatement) then learn to utilize things like the hyper vigilance/scanning to your advantage, like not getting speeding tickets or in accidents, life gets more bearable and figuring out all these things you do automatically becomes very interesting. Like walking into a Taco Bell making a quick scan, then knowing how many people are in the place, what they are wearing, how much of a threat they are, where the exits are, and where to stand or sit so nobody gets behind you, all in a quick glance. Its completely subconscious.
Makes you feel super human, until you get worn down from watching too many people and you start to get irrationally pissed off. I don't go anywhere on Black Friday or other holidays like that. Hell while writing this I lost my train of thought and relived some time way back for a while.
I find it helps to write about things, because the typing takes enough brain power to let me talk about it without thinking about it. How to write it becomes more pressing than what I am writing about. Something I just noticed. My posts tend to be rather long, probably due to part of that.
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@bartholomeo26 what is wrong with liking money? I like old muscle cars, so I have several of them, and my money goes towards that because I like cars more than I like money. I take severely rusted hulks missing engines, transmissions, and interiors, and turn them into nice daily drivers and fun rides with lots of power under the hood. I don't have to sell them to pay my bills, because I also served in the military and have passive income from that... its just not a lot of income. So I have to work for what I want, rather than pay for it.
A big pile of money isn't useful for me to keep around, using it is the only time its useful to me. More would let me do more, and do it faster, but its not the focus of my life. Tim wants to focus on money probably because he grew up poor in a city and I grew up poor on a farm.
Don't envy and resent the people who have what you do not, particularly when you have not put in the time and effort required to get it. Go get your own, the only thing stopping you is you.
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@TransRoofKorean you're right. Some people just accept their position and do nothing to change it. Others will fight to the ends of the earth and take on any challenge to improve their lot in life.
In the USA our voices do not matter anymore, when the election can be obviously rigged and nothing is done about it, we are cut out of the game. The only option left to us, is the one I would really rather not employ.
Not only did I grow up abused, we were dirt poor thanks to Carter's grain embargo. I enlisted and took a large risk to get out of that situation. Then the Berlin Wall fell and they down sized the military, leaving me without a job again.
Clinton came in and I was working in factories as a CNC machinist and ran an auto repair shop on the side. The factory jobs all went to Mexico with NAFTA, leaving all of us jobless and no customers for my shop who could pay. Ended up enlisting again to get out of that, because Clinton also cut the military so they would take me back.
More risk to change things. Here we are again, at a point where I am too old and broken to enlist, but a change needs to happen because our position is untenable.
Meanwhile most people who are poor remain poor, because they will not do what it takes to change their situation. If they are given just enough to survive, they will become dependent, and their actions will create a negative feedback loop that perpetuates the poverty, crime, and the reasons they are impoverished in the first place. e.g. voting for democrats.
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@jennifersignsoflife1375 what happens to you happens, my friend to whom I was engaged to 30 years ago was cheated on and left by her husband over in Germany. Same sort of thing, he wanted nothing to do with his mixed race kids, and one of them was developmentally disabled from birth, she was 35 when he came along.
My friend who helps me around here sometimes was replaced by another younger slightly less fat girl, but she chose very poorly with him. Bipolar, controlling, weak willed insecure type. I know it happens that way too...
Its not heartache that is keeping young men from engaging with females. Its not getting spurned one time doing it either. Its some other things...
1. Three is no incentive for them to engage with girls, they have been told repeatedly that they should not approach girls, not talk to them, not ask them out because they are creepy if they do. They are told no means no, but you and I both know from experience that it often means she wants him to pursue more. They are wary of being accused of nefarious activities, just for saying hello.
2. In addition to #1, girls are completely disinterested in any male who is not in the top 20% in looks, height, dominance, and wealth. I find this most amusing, because girls I would never date, due to being fat and obnoxious, start off by saying they have a boyfriend when I say hello. They want to reject me so badly, just because I am 5'8 and have an obvious dominant masculine personality. They won't even have a chance with me, and I used to be right at the 20% mark so it was only a bit of effort to get attractive girls until I stopped bothering about 4 years ago.
They think they are worth far more than they actually are, so they reject the men who would fit well with them. They want the tallest, wealthiest, best looking, everyone else is invisible.
When I got to Korea in 2002 we had a briefing for just the men. We were told to go off base to get laid if we were going to engage in that. The reason being the military females would all bang the same group of men on base, and they would all end up with whatever VD one of them brought into the Venn diagram from hell.
Being 5'8 I am too short to speak to military females, when I said hello they would accuse me of harassment. Happened four times in 1989 so I stopped talking to them unless I had to.
I still get girls of all ages wanting to get attention and validation from me, despite the fact I am 53 years old and actively try to dissuade girls from flirting, I am friendly and polite though Thing is I try to look fat, disheveled and unaffluent, yet they still hit on me because of the muscle mass. Somehow you can all tell even with a hoodie on and my gorilla belly..
Thing is, they are all excited if I ask to get their number, then when I contact them they act disinterested or simply flake when I set something up. I am not going to pursue a girl who plays hard to get, she does that she doesn't get got. She gets one chance and if she screws it up, she never hears from me again. I have what they need, they only have one or two things I want. Kinda makes the man the prize... They just want the validation and attention, unless you are 6'4 and wealthy.
3. The young men have seen what happened to older men like me in our divorces. This is the big one, and what happens to men in a divorce is a massive incentive to NOT get married, and not even bother talking to girls.
What was taken from you when your ex left? Did he get the house, car, most of your income, were you thrown in jail when he accused you of something that was impossible for you to do?
We men work and invest our very lives, the effort required to earn a living just to support you. All you need to do is say you're not happy, go file for divorce and you get whatever cash and prizes we earned/built, and it doesn't matter if you cheated, have a substance problem, mistreat the kids, or are mentally unstable, you will be rewarded if you live in the USA.
They will take from him, and give it to you, just because you felt like leaving.
Now if a man is willing to give up most of what he has built/earned, get away from his kids forever, and be indentured to his ex until the youngest comes of age, there has to be a good reason for it. Its not just the allure of a cute 20 something shaking it for him. He has to have been driven away from his wife, she has to have made his life miserable in some way, so that staying with her is such a reprehensible thought that he is willing to sacrifice everything he has put his very being into, just to escape.
My first ex put me in that position. I stayed for 8 years to protect my kids from her. She was bipolar and violet, have to leave the 'N' out or it gets hidden. She would attack me so she could feel like a victim rather than feeling guilty about something. I have several scars where she cut me, and a divot in the back of my head where she hurled a coffee mug at me while I was teaching my oldest to read when she was 4. She forced me to withdraw and avoid her, and if I spent time with my kids it made her even more hateful. She drove me away from my kids.
Mind you she was 120lbs, I was a 240lb muscle bound freak who could end her with one hand, I have training and I am not timid nor afraid of 200lb men, let alone a 120 to 150lb woman. However the cops made it clear that no matter who started it, who was the one attacking, who was bleeding, and had done absolutely nothing, I was going to jail if she said so.
My options were stay and endure it, or leave and never get to see my kids again. When she finally left in 2001 I got to see my kids a total of 12 days between 01 and 2008. Then I got a month with the youngest, and in 2010 I got them again, and that was when the state decided to seize my bank account as a punitive measure... which by the way was illegal back then... but nobody cares what happens to men.
You lose your provider, we lose the years of our lives we invested, the wealth we could have accrued, and we can lose our freedom. I sat in jail for two weeks because my second ex said I cut up her boyfriend's truck. Zero proof, zero evidence, just an accusation and the big muscle bound scary war veteran is guilty.
Young men hear and see what happens to men like me and they say "oh hell nah.".
You want them to take that risk? The only reason the divorce rate is dropping is because nobody is getting married anymore.
If you want young men to ask girls out again, get married, have kids, etc, then you need to:
1: change the laws so men are not punished for getting married and for what she does.
2. Make women act right so we are willing to take the risk.
3. Change society so they stop punishing boys and teaching them they are broken and should act like girls.. all while telling girls to act like men.
Until that happens, men will go do whatever other things they enjoy and they will ignore women entirely... except for pron, because that chick on the screen isn't going to leave them living in an old Crown Vic cop car.
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@whoami7721 you could say its the youth doing it, but think back to when you were 21. Were you thinking about culture and the like? The only reason these kids are doing these things is because they have been directed to do them. They are indoctrinated and told that capitalism, western civilization and its history, are bad. They have been told that by teachers, professors, and the media since they were born. They are unwittingly bringing about their own servitude and enslavement, and to use the term coined early last century, they're useful idiots. The people driving it think like children, as if human existence is a zero sum game, and if I don't have what you have, its because you stole it from me.
Kids are rarely deep thinkers. That comes around after they hit 30 or perhaps 40 and life has had its way with them. What is going on in the west is by design, its very much intentional, and the aim is to subjugate the entire world so the unwashed masses can be exploited due to their ignorance. Exist, consume, and be exploited. Its like people are being turned into cattle, all while being told its good for them so they never ask why the cheese inside the cage is free.
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@warriorredeemed215 I'm curious what the plan is for all of us veterans out here, who have experience with insurgencies, and are not overly fond of the idea the bill of rights needs to go. Drone strikes would be the safest for them, but how to keep it quiet while they reduce the number of people the VA has to care for.. oh and the VA under Biden isn't doing anything for us. They told me to go to the ER.
I am aware of what is going on, one of them openly said it under Obama, she wanted to disarm all of us vets. Since we (not the blow hard Fudds with 'daddy's shotgun') have been through it already, we aren't overly fond of bringing it here until they actually cross the line. By they I mean the people who own our politicians and run the dog and pony show.
What is the line for us? Perhaps drone strikes on veterans, arresting us, going door to door taking guns, enacting unconstitutional laws then enforcing them, things like that. It could be lots of things, but we see whats going on and we are waiting to see what they do.
Most of this shit is distraction and bullshit drama. The propaganda is obvious and ubiquitous, but people believe it. Its easy to sway the median IQs of the weak minded and ignorant.
You think it would be good fun to have someone start shooting? I'd rather we put it off as long as possible, maybe the idiots pushing it will realize its not a good idea, and maybe I will die of something else long before I have to fight my third war. Maybe its not going to happen and they are all just talking shit to keep people enthralled like its a TV show. I don't think that will happen, but an old man can dream and want to believe his sacrifice wasn't a futile gesture.
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Its not about belief, its about wanting to follow a higher power/authority. Some people do not want nor need a higher power/authority which will tell them what to do, how to act, what to think or what is permissible. Most people do, they need that authority above them. Partly to decide for them, it makes life simpler, but also as a means of justifying things they would otherwise find objectionable. Think of all the atrocities justified with Deus Vult. God Wills It, so I must obey and kill the infidel.
I noticed how people would lose their Abrahamic religion, but then go to marxism for their authority above them which dictates the hows, whys and whats. I lost my religion and realized marxism is just another one, where the state is god, the politicians are the priests, the party members are the congregation, and everyone else is an infidel which is the same to them as being a nazi. The marxists have more disdain and vitriol for non-marxists than religious people have for atheists like Mr Saad and I.
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@vishbinliftin2288 after a while females are too much effort, drama, and stress. I can get college age chicks easy, I'm not shredded, but they can tell its muscle on me, not pudge. I am 54 and have lost interest in them for the most part, divorce does that to you. They stop looking like a fun time, and start looking like the reason you sleep in your car and have no money. Its more fun to look at them, cheaper too.
Yeah I have had 18 to 28 year olds often since my divorce ten years ago. I just don't care anymore, my cars are more fun and enjoyable. I am getting to be friends with a lesbian though, she is low drama and big into cars. She has a 67 Mustang and a Yota rock crawler, she's like a dude but with indoor plumbing.
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I live in a forest,a huge one that stretches for hundreds of miles along the shore of Lake Superior. Trees are logged around here often, its easy to see trucks hauling the timber. I see people who build a house, then clear all the trees from around it so you can see all the grass while driving by. I bought my little chunk of land because it had trees obscuring everything but the falling down cabin that was here. Its just not me to clear more than I have to, so people can marvel at my house or something.
Privacy, a barrier between me and people, and its quite difficult to spot from the highway, thats why I wanted to live here. I drove by it for 8 years and never even knew it was here, I lived half a mile away with my ex wife. I cleared only enough trees to build my house and shop, and I used the trees I cut to build. I like my privacy, and I don't like people stopping here, then poking around my old cars like its some kind of petting zoo for machines.
I am big into green energy, but not to 'save the planet' or some other nonsense, and sure as hell not as a means to force marxist control/ideology on everyone. I am into producing my own energy with what I have around me, rather than paying someone to provide it to me. If the trees are cut down and burned, it takes most of a lifetime for them to grow back. So I work with nature.
Gas prices are always high here, electricity is expensive, food is expensive, and the grid is unstable so it shuts off randomly. Making my own energy saves money and fills in the gaps left by the unreliable grid. I produce vodka (ethanol) to power my vehicles, made from tree sap, coffee grounds, and cattails. I heat my home with biomass, not always burning it either. I can live off my land if I must, but for now I am letting it do the nature thing.
As long as I or my kid owns this land, it will not get logged. Its a good way to get extra ventilation from my long distance bluetooth hole punch coming here and cutting down my trees. I don't see myself as owning them, but I am a caretaker of sorts.
I am working to support myself by working with nature, rather than exploiting nature so people in town can consume what they did not produce. I do not trust 'environmentalists' especially those with the 'leave no trace' mentality. I get the idea of not littering and spoiling nature, but leaving dead wood and biomass littering the forest floor is how you get uncontrollable wildfires like in California. Yeah fire renews, but I don't want my house and cars 'renewed' that way.
Lately people have been using the environment as a means of coercion, to motivate us to accept their rules, laws, and bad ideas. They don't care about nature, they only care about power and control. Its obvious in how they try to tell us what to do, that we have to sacrifice, we have to endure hardship, while they fly around in private jets and take expensive boat rides where they want to go, all while virtue signaling how thoughtful they are.
I love the fact I have deer, wolves, birds, squirrels, bears, eagles, and even wild turkeys walking around my home. They live their lives and I watch them go about it, and try not to disturb them. Only when they disturb me do they run into problems.
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@terryboyer1342 I like the scenery here, its amazingly beautiful, especially right now with the trees changing. However it is the most socially dead place I have ever lived.
Even a hermit loner such as myself wants some social time once in a while, and a drag strip would be epic or at least some other similarly minded car guys to hang out with. By 8pm its dead, and the only place anyone goes is the bars. 10 years of trying to change that, and all they want to do is drink and at most sit around at a car show before they take it right back home and put it away. I daily drive my 60s and 70s muscle cars, rain or shine, they are what gets me around.
Their idea of hunting is leaving a pile of apples in an open spot and waiting up a tree. My idea of hunting is walking into the wind, quietly, slowly, stalking my prey. Its an entirely different mindset from mine.
Sure is pretty here though, makes me not want to sell my land so I have a reason to come back if I move to the western plains where I grew up.
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@sthubbins4038 I was in the Iraq war, I am hurting right now from my last deployment in 2004. Need to take my meds so I can walk.
Ya know, I remember the Clintons talking about WMDs in the 90s, calling for action in Iraq, clamoring for war. Republicans controlled congress and they said not only no but fuck no to war/invasion. I remember it vividly, because wars since 1988, until 2005 affected me, and what politicians have done since I was medically discharged has as well.
After my first war I started paying attention not only to what they say, but what they actually do.
Then while I was deployed to Kuwait in 01, I watched as the second plane hit, and I knew congress would be amenable to invading someone over that. The media, the democrats, and people in DC were whining about WMDs, then when we found some they downplayed or didn't mention it. They just wanted the war, because conflict sells ad space.
In 2003-04 I caught the media lying about me, my unit, and what we were doing, claiming we had done nothing when we had actually completed it months before. They just wanted to bitch and make us look bad. I was wearing the boots on the ground, I was there as history unfolded around me yet again, and I know when I did what since I was the NCO in charge of what we were doing. You tend to remember big shit and the order things happen when you're responsible for it and you're probably going to be dodging mortars and shit every 9 months.
Not a fan of either Bush, kinda liked Reagan because he fucked people up who were fucking with us, but without the huge mobilization both Bush assholes had. In other words Ronny stayed relatively limited outside of Panama.
Clinton caused shit shows all over the world, both of those useless wastes of oxygen did it. Bill as pres and the cunt as Secstate. We were attacked nine fucking times under Bill, including Khobar towers where I lost friends, the USS Cole, the 93 WC bombing, and more. It was like the early 80s all over again. His ineptitude and limp wristed response is what emboldened the other assholes to fly planes into buildings, thus justifying the warmonger's wishes to get invasion happy.
I have never liked Trump, I did not vote in 16 because she was the stuff of nightmares, and he seemed like a buffoon who would only fuck things up. When he didn't fuck things up, didn't start any wars for my friends and family to get fucked up in, and turned the economy around bringing back the jobs that were sent to Mexico and China in the 1990s, well I decided to look past his asshole nature. He got shit done, and a good bit of it was good, with some fucked up shit to go with it. Most of what was said about him was propaganda, and people believed it, because the media had never lied about them before. Still don't like him, but he did way better than the cunt would have.
Now we have the creepy kid sniffer and the fucktarded diversity hire installed with absolute bullshit, and its looking like Carter and Clinton all over again. They are pushing us towards a dystopia like they have a deadline to enslave everyone or the aliens will anal probe them again. The cheeto slowed them down, stalled their bullshit for 4 years, now they are trying to make up lost time.
I am no fan of politicians, and I will not vote for a religious nut like Romney, Santorum, Perry and others. To me they are like Swalwell and O'Rourke, just a different religion.
One thing I am dead set against is marxism. I have a chunk of Berlin Wall on my shelf next to me from when I was stationed in Frankfurt in 1989. It reminds me of the horrors of socialism and every other marxist fuckery in action. Unlike most people who believe what they're told because they're ignorant of what is going on, I can see exactly what is happening. Knowing history enables that, not taking the pundit's word for it keeps you from being misled.
Regardless of what the politicians do, most of my veteran friends, my veteran filled family, and I will fight to the death against marxism. From the looks of it, I will have my third war relatively soon, and I won't have to travel far for it this time.
Man, all I want to do is stay retired, build old muscle cars in my shop, live alone in the woods, and run the vehicles on tree sap vodka. Now the government is coming after gearheads like me, handing out fines with no law behind them. They are trying to end racing and modifying vehicles in any way.
That alone is enough to make me get stabby, all the other shit on top of it, critical race bullshit, selling us out to China, trying to disarm us, making us dependent upon government, fucking people over so they don't own their home anymore.... yeah.. most people aren't paying attention, and once again I am in the middle of it.
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@americanman5908 when my first ex divorced me, she got anything she asked for, 71% of my gross pay, the house which she lost and all of her debts even after the divorce were tacked on to me. She owes me over $8k right now, but the state will not do anything to enforce her paying me. If the father is one payment behind, even by a couple days he can be arrested, if he is $5k more more behind he loses his drivers license, passport and any professional license he has.
The judge started me out 6 months in arrears, nearly $10k in debt in one afternoon and I was stuck with all the debt, I lost my drivers license, passport, and security clearance so deployments where a major hassle for me. I nearly got fucked trying to get back into the US in 2004 because I flew back Lufthansa rather than the military contractor flight. Only having all the paperwork for my entire team got me back in the US. They gave me a hard time in 2001 as well.
she was rewarded for being abusive to me and the kids, cheating, and doing everything wrong. When she tried to kill herself and spent a month in the looney bin, two years after the divorce was final, they sent me the bill and fucked my credit even harder with the $20k bill she racked up. I sent a check when I got out of the military (medical discharge due to injuries on my last deployment) to pay my child support arrears and for a few months in advance, and they applied it to her looney bin bill. None of it went to child support. I have tried to get that back but the entire child support enforcement is run by capricious lying females who hate men and want revenge. I shit you not. The state held me at fault for her for nearly 6 years after the divorce was final. If she hadn't been 1000 miles away, and I had more than $200 a month to live on, I would be someone the world knows of including my middle name. This is only a fraction of the bullshit my home state did. It gets worse from here.
So if this guy only lost it, didn't have to continue paying for it, and didn't have his credit fucked every time she did something wrong, he is doing ok.
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@Dgreen4154 yeah? You think so do ya? Living in another country, learning their language and culture, travelling to nearby countries, and seeing the world while being paid to do so, isn't as good as flying somewhere, staying in a hotel for a day or two, and moving on to another hotel?
I suppose if you backpack across Europe and Asia that would be more immersive. I drove around Europe and rode the trains all over as well. Moscow and Belgrade to the east, Paris (not pleasant at all), London (nice 30 years ago) and Belfast to the west of Europe. Dubai, Cairo, Mombasa, and Kuwait City to the south, and all over Korea while I was there, even though I had almost no money in Korea.
Berlin was ok, was in Frankfurt when the wall came down in 1989. Got a nice big chunk of it on my shelf. I got to know Frankfurt exceptionally well, I walked and drove all over the area, what a wonderful place it was back then.
My deployments were to Kuwait and Iraq (maybe others, its hard to tell when you're flying around loading/offloading stuff) and yet I went to all those other places.
If you're a low ASVAB score 11b or something, or in the Navy and you get a day or two shore liberty every few months, then yeah, you don't see much. I was USAF and I could travel just about anywhere easily.
I could put myself on a cargo plane going somewhere as long as I had leave, my job was cargo so we could do that. Was going to make the South America embassy run in 2003 when I got back from Korea, but a little thing over in the desert started.
We get 30 days paid leave a year, and it accumulates if we don't use it. With all my time working, I could take months off at a time when I wanted to. I came home to the US twice on leave (when I was 21 and when I was 33), but most of it was used overseas. I flew to Dubai 3 times on leave, spent 6 weeks there in total.
So how do we not see the world?
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@bradspitt3896 you're conflating marxism with liberalism. They are not the same, and in fact nowhere near each other. The marxists have cloaked themselves in a lie, claiming to be fighting for freedom and liberty, just as the religion of peace does... sure, if you are that exact religion and do not run afoul of any prohibitions and do exactly as you're told, its peaceful to you.
Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, George Washington, John Adams and his son, many of our founding fathers were liberal minded, that is why the government was limited in our Constitution rather than rights being granted by the government. You can believe your God granted you those rights, but its not required to have a God, you have those rights regardless of if there is a god or you believe in it. You have those rights simply because you were born.
However, the marxists claim to be compassionate, caring, fighting for the good of the lowly worker.. but really they demand obedience, subservience, and allowing others to control every aspect of your life. The state owns all, and the state will not allow you to believe in another god. The dear leaders will tell you what the state demands and wants, just as priests do in a religion.
Liberal thought, you know, based on liberty of the self, is the root of the USA. Being able to speak your mind, follow your own path in life, determine what you believe yourself, rather than being forced or coerced to believe, think, or say what others demand of you. I do not have to believe your religion or anything else you assert, I can think as I like, and do as I like provided I am not harming others whilst doing it.
Don't conflate the marxists with liberals, because they are not what they claim to be. That is what they want you to do, they hate being outed as communists, as it has a well deserved and profoundly earned stigma around it. They like you to think they are progressive, wanting to improve life, liberal wanting you to be free to live, and they talk about free speech... but it all has to fit in their tiny, constrictive, prescribed, limited, and incredibly ignorant worldview.
You and I, along with everyone else around the world, are embroiled in an ideological war. The authoritarians pushing marxist control want to force all of us into a subservient role, working for them like they are some elite more equal than others super being. They think themselves smarter, better, and more capable than others, but the fact of the matter is they are usually average to below average IQ, and they simply follow a script made for them.
Stop calling them liberal, and stop letting them subvert our language, because language is the root for ideas, and if you cannot express yoru ideas with words that have a finite meaning, you cannot express yourself.
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I noticed this about 15 years ago when I 'misplaced' my religion. I did not throw myself into another one whilst assuming it is the polar opposite and therefore a good or better thing. I eschew ideology entirely, preferring to observe reality, and make up my own damn mind what I think or feel about things. I make my own decisions, and usually I know what the probable outcomes of them are.
I saw all these people tossing one religion and replacing it with another, that is far worse for them as well as society. That is why I tend to hang out and side with the people with Abrahamic religions, y'all might want to make/cajole everyone to believe like you do, but you aren't going to ruin civilization and humanity to do it.
I don't need a higher authority to tell me what to think or how to act, I am an adult male and can decide for myself. That does not mean I mistreat people or think less of them, on the contrary I like to get to know people and see how they are as an individual, rather than assuming they are an avatar of their collective group based on some arbitrary thing.
I learned long ago that people will mistreat you and justify it with whatever they can (especially religion), but I wanted to live my life better than that, so I don't mistreat people, animals, or nature. I eat animals, and trust me if someone brings a fight to me, they will regret it, but I am not starting one. I am polite to everyone, even if I do not like them... well, until they take a swing at me or something.
Now if you are good to me, then you will be treated well in return. You can change my mind if you have a good enough argument and can prove to me your idea is better. Might try it out for a while and see how it works, thats what you do when you work on cars and trucks, you watch and listen to others because they might have a better more efficient way of doing the same job.
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@sgshaday property taxes are local, the state is supposed to use them in the area in which they are collected. Here in Michigan, I live 8 hours north of Detroit, and 10 hours from Lansing, in the upper peninsula. Most people don't realize its part of the USA let alone part of Michigan. Most of our property taxes go to Lansing and Detroit to pay for things down there, and hardly any money comes up here.
Then we also have property tax/mils for things like fire departments, schools, and local infrastructure like county roads. Sales tax on things like gasoline/diesel is supposed to go for road maintenance, but it also goes to social programs in Detroit. Otherwise sales tax is somewhat local.
Federal Income tax is where I have a problem, because here in the US its collected to pay the interest on our own money.. In effect its a siphon of wealth on the entire country. I am not allowed to explain this on here, my comment will be removed if I do... but it has to do with a reserve and the first word of this paragraph.
Some states don't have an income tax, and some cities, like new York, do have an income tax. So if you live in NYC you get taxed on your income three times. Federal, state, and city. They just can't figure out why people and companies are leaving...
Corporate tax is how things like the military is paid for.. well, thats how its supposed to be.
Here lately there is a particular party that likes to use whatever money for its own little things, like paying the states with Social Security funds a like amount to that which the state requires divorced fathers to pay in child support.. which is an incentive for the state to estrange fathers from their kids. Title 4D if you want to look into that.
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Men build things. When we build and improve something, that is where we derive a lasting satisfaction. Do not chase happiness, its fleeting and is based on feelings. Accomplishment, overcoming obstacles, doing difficult things, and increasing your capability and knowledge is what builds men. We have to build ourselves, we don't achieve by simply existing, we don't have value unless we can do something valuable.
Build you and your skills, then apply those skills to your environment, and if you want tail... well it will come to you. That is another skill set you have to build.
If you think of life like Skyrim, where you have to improve by doing things, and there is a wide range of skills you can improve, you'll get the idea. Why do you think they make game like that? Why do you think its compelling and draws you in? Its because we are wired to build, create, and improve. Stop doing it in video games, and do it in real life. Ok you can game a couple hours here and there, AFTER you have put in the day's work on yourself.
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@Xplora213 you're not grasping the gravity of the situation. Should i Have grabbed one of my rifles and created my own law?
I am not a lawyer, they are expensive to hire, and there is more to that than just expense. Before I start understand that the second ex falsely accused me of a huge amount of shit, used my PTSD disability against me, claiming things that were not true, and I ended up sitting in jail for two weeks for something I did not do. Had to get a public defender because I was still paying the first ex, and he did fuck all.
In the USA men are always guilty, women are always the victim in family court, we have no rights, no recourse, and nobody fights for us. That is the reality of it, and nobody is willing to change it, that is why men are checking out, there are 6.5 marriages per 1000 people, and the birth rate is plummeting so the people causing this are bringing the 3rd world in..
I was in the USAF 1988-1992 and 2000-2005. Long story how that happened, but I never wanted to get out, Congress has other ideas. In 2001 I had forecasted leave so I could drive 1500 miles to my home state on Saturday and Sunday, meet with a Lawyer on Monday for my Tuesday court appearance.
Well my immediate boss decided to fuck me over, he made up a bunch of shit, said I vandalized his truck, wrote me up for a bunch of bullshit and then told me I had to work Saturday to fill in because he gave one of his sycophants the day off to justify me working. My leave had been approved, but he made me come in to work, and it was a slow day so all we did was sit around. That fucked my entire plan of driving home and getting a lawyer. Because its a 24 hour drive. A plane ticket was $900 driving was $200 and I did not have $900 to throw at a plane ticket nor a vehicle to drive while I was home. I had to drive it.
He made me work while I was on leave, I was charged the day of leave so I should not have been at work or made to unless it was a recall for war or some emergency. It was before 9/11 so it was unjustifiable. He ended up getting a bad conduct discharge over it, that is how serious they take that. Its like a felony conviction in some ways to get a bad conduct discharge. The only thing worse is a dishonorable discharge.
As it happens, he was not the only one to get in trouble for what my unit did to me in 2001 and 2002. My 1sgt was forced to retire early, lost a stripe. My E7 lost two stripes and was forced to retire for his part in it, he also fucked me around in getting the Navy to store my vehicle for the year I was in Korea, so I had to rent a storage unit for that year, and I barely had the money to do it. My gaining unit in Korea looked into what happened in the states, they are the ones who fought for me and started the IG complaint on my behalf.. heads rolled over this shit, because I was on the verge of self deletion every day for months over it.
So no lawyer on Tuesday, and the court did what they wanted to me, I didn't say or sign a damn thing just showed up and they destroyed me financially. Like I said, men have no rights in family court, no due process, the court does what it wants and you have to find a lawyer who will fight for you. There is no way to know which lawyers will until you pay them, and they either fuck you over like the lawyer I got in 2010 or actually do their job.
The judge started me out 6 months in arrears, at $5000 they revoke your drivers license, passport, and any professional licenses and my hard won security clearance. All of them were gone in one day, and I drove the 1500 miles back to base illegally. I had no choice, it was either desertion or drive back to base.
My parents hired me a lawyer eventually, because I had barely enough money to eat something once a day once they started garnishing my military pay. I slept in my car, and on friends couches at times, taking showers at work and the base gym. The only time between 2001 and 2004 that I got to sleep in doors in a bed was the year in Korea and the two deployments I went on.
So what the fuck should I do when the state takes nearly all my income and gives it to her, leaving me $100 a month? Its a good thing my car insurance was dirt cheap, otherwise the base would have had my car towed. The state does what it wants, and when its a federal paycheck the state can take all of it if they want, so can the feds.
My options were to desert, try to get out of the country with a revoked passport, find a new life in another country that doesn't have extradition laws with the US (eastern Europe or a socialist country are about my only choice) and blow off everything in my life. Or, take my rifle and make everyone know my middle name and I guarantee you if I had taken that option you would know my full name and be surprised at the wrath I brought to them.
In 2005 I had enough money I could have left the country, I was not in arrears anymore due to the judges actions, I got a medical discharge because I could barely walk after getting fucked up in 2004. I have a long list of other things wrong with me, and I live in constant pain, and everything I do now is working around my physical and mental limitations, and with the pain. What country should I have fled to? China? Vietnam? I am sure they would be thrilled to have a two war USAF veteran in their midst, roaming around the country banging girls.
It was not a matter of compliance, it was a matter of endure it all or run for the rest of my life.
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My USAF job had parts of it that were extreme heavy lifting, I packed on 40lbs of muscle mass in the first Gulf War because I was saddled with females on my load team, so I had to do ALL the heavy lifting. I loaded cargo planes, for an idea of what my job entailed, imagine pushing two F150s by hand, thats a 10,000lb pallet of cargo. I could move them by myself, you can't get enough females behind them to move it. Also pick up 200lbs of stuff, and run up 3 stories of steps... then do it again 300 times in a 12 hour shift.
On deployments in 01 and 04,the females did the easy office work in the AC, and we did all the heavy lifting out in the 130F heat, like doing the bag drag when planes brought 300 military members to the AOR. The bags were 90lbs to 200lbs, and each person had at least two, if not three of them. I got freakishly huge in the first war, and even bigger in the second.
As the Safety NCO I can tell you who liked to run into things with forklifts and other vehicles... it wasn't the males. The chain covered for the females, and fried any males who even came close to screwing up and bumping into something. Females were treated with kid gloves, and I have been out since 2005, there is no way in hell it got better.
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At 17, weighing 175lbs, 5'8, I bench pressed 265lbs with very minimal time in a gym, it was mainly farm work. At 18 and weighing 185lbs, I benched over 300lbs, with zero time in a gym ALL from farm work. At 22, after being worked nearly to death in the first Gulf War loading cargo planes, I weighed 230lbs and benched nearly 500 with zero time in a gym. At 34 and still 230lbs I benched over 500lbs just finding out of I could still do it. I am 53 and 400lbs is still easy when my joints aren't too sore to lift. Its been a hard life.
No two XX born female, will ever match that. The vast majority of males will never come close to matching that. I wrestled in high school and in the military at the base level in Europe. I can tear people up easily. I could call myself a girl and set world records in my 50s.
When strength, bone density, oxygen capacity, and bone structure matter in any sort of competition, males will dominate it... even if the cut off their twig and berries and have a wizards sleeve installed. We are born with it. Yes some weak skinny out of shape dude can get his ass kicked, but he is an outlier, same as I am.
My favorite sport is one that doesn't make my knees, ankles, wrists, elbows, shoulders and neck hurt, and I can compete against my 25 year old daughter on a level playing field.
Drag racing. Its not just driving in a straight line, as the more powerful your vehicle is, the less straight it is going to go. Its all about reacting to the start, be it a light, arm drop, whatever, and hitting the shift points while keeping the vehicle from hitting things, including the other car. It takes the strength, speed, and bone differences out of the equation. You are operating a machine and the skills required can be learned and perfected, some people are more apt than others, but anyone can do it if they can drive on a slick road in winter and not hit stuff.
We don't give a rats ass if someone is into the same bits and pieces, wants to or has changed their pieces, or if they sit or stand to take a leak. We don't care how resistant to UV light you are either, all we care about is who gets to the stripe first. People in wheelchairs race with us, on a level field. People missing arms and legs race with us too.
When it comes to ANY other sport I have been involved in, males can dominate it easily. Look at Drag Racing though and you see Brittany, Courtney and Ashley Force winning championships and beating their dad John Force on the track. Go back farther and you have female drag racers like Shirley Muldowney in the 70s and 80s, winning races and championships. Right now Alex Taylor is racing and winning in a car she built with her dad last year for drag and drive events.
At least two of my subscribers to my small car related channel are trans, one is a good friend of mine. You cannot change reality, you cannot change biology, you can change appearance and yourself to be more like you want to be... but when it comes to competition, biology matters a lot. I am too short and heavy to be in the NBA, also I have zero interest in roundball. I am crippled so no more running for me, my 2004 deployment finished that off. I can still lift a crazy amount of weight, and do things most people never will.... but my daughter could kick my ass on a drag strip, in a car I built for her no less..
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@robertmaybeth3434 I was in the USAF like Joker was, at the same time even, except I worked air cargo loading C141, C17, C5, C130, etc. The pallets we use are 88" x 108" weigh 300lbs empty, and can carry 10,000lbs each. You cannot get enough females behind a 6000lb pallet to move it on a rollerized cargo deck.
I was loading C5s, which hold 36 pallets, by myself in Kuwait back in 2004. They made this huge deal about an all female air crew on a couple C5s that year, and C5s have several loadmasters that fly with the plane. Both those female crews stood around and watched me load every pallet on their plane. Usually a load team consists of at least 5 guys pushing pallets, with as many as ten, and females are rarely put on those teams. If they are, then they end up driving the equipment that hauls cargo around.
If you want to see what I am talking about, look up 2T2x1, 60k Tunner, and 463L pallet systems. You will notice there aren't many women in the photos loading aircraft, and if they are they are spotters for the vehicles.
Also they ask me to fix their vehicle for them. I rebuild cars, mostly old muscle cars like GTOs, so I can rebuild, replace, refinish anything on a car or light truck. Not many men can do what I do, and zero women can.
Then they want to cry about all the unpaid work they do... yeah I do all of that too. Its part of living, deal with it. Now I need to go cook some food, clean the kitchen, and get ready to drive 1000 miles to pull an old car back to my shop so I can rebuild it..
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@Stevie-74 I learned to drive when I was 8, running tractors and farm equipment by myself unsupervised. Had a go-kart that was pretty fast, and I could drift it around in the gravel and dirt on its slick tires, so I learned how to drive sideways long before I got my license. I have never wrecked a vehicle unintentionally, and I have some cars that are rather quick, and lots of passes down dragstrips.
My kids learned to drive when they were 10 to 13. Their mother taught them so not so great habits and ideas, but that was fixed when they came to spend the summer with me, and when their mother kicked them out after the child support ended.
The earlier a kid learns how, the more competent and confident they will be as adults. When I was in the US military I ended up teaching a huge number of city people how to drive, they never had to before. I grew up 20 miles from anything on a farm, I had to know how to drive and how to repair vehicles and equipment just so I could go somewhere.
I find it most amusing when an urban individual assumes they are smarter and know more just because they live in a city.
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@patthewoodboy sure its too far at that point, but what could you do about it? Write a strongly worded letter laced with profanity and aspersions of incompetence towards the denizens of Westminster?
As with China, you outnumber them even if you have willingly given up your means to resist, you can still fight back with the numbers. Its going to be costly but its your only way out now.
I saw the bit of video with the white mice holding back an entire street full of others, and the mice could have easily been flanked, surrounded, and overtaken. It could work just like the fall of Mordor when the Orcs surrounded Aragorn to use an example Carl would appreciate and most people would know. The ground will not give way as the tower with the eye falls.
Learn envelopments, flanks, misdirection, and ruses, then apply them to get in close and change the course of history for the better this time.
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I caught them lying way back in 1990 when they lied about my unit in the first Gulf War, and they did it again in 2003, 2004, and 2005. Not misinformation designed to obfuscate for operational security, but lies intended to make the US military and the President at the time look bad, inept, incompetent, and ineffective. Then I caught them again, lying about agriculture, ethanol fuels, and other technical areas where I am rather to highly knowledgeable.
So when I saw them ripping on Trump, then hearing what he actually said in context, it was obvious to me what they were up to. Its particularly interesting when they reported on something a year earlier, then claim its a 'conspiracy theory/fake news' now, like the Hunter Biden thing. I started out not liking Trump from long before he ran for office. Now after seeing what they have done and why, and how he has reacted to it, I like the guy. They made me into someone who will vote for Trump in November.
To those who have no expertise or knowledge of a given subject, they are believable. If you don't notice weasel words like "may cause" which are intended to mislead you to the wrong conclusion, its easy to be fooled by them. They prey upon the confirmation bias and ignorance of the average person, telling them what to think rather than what happened. They are repugnant in what they are doing, and I have caught all of them doing it.
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@carina5663 I am 13 years older than my second ex wife. We had 8 lovely years together. She was 21 and I was 34 when we met in 2003, we got along great. So why is she my ex?
Well in 2012 I painted some parts for her dad, and the gasmask I used didn't work, so my lungs got messed up and I could barely breathe for six months. Just as I was recovering from that, she decided that a 23 year old kid, 7 years younger than she was looked to be better than me. Her mom and sisters encouraged her to take off and go be with the kid.
She chose poorly to say the least. He left her after 3 or 4 years, not sure exactly when, but she has been alone and unwanted for at least 6 years. The ten year anniversary of her cheating and me kicking her out was May 13th. She tried to end it all and was put in the mental ward, ten years to the day of her screwing up her life. Her family still blames me for all of it, but they encouraged her to run off with a less than capable non winner.
Where am I? I sold some car parts and my dad gave me a couple grand to buy some land in 2013, and I closed on it two weeks after the divorce was final. Under $30k for 13 acres of woodland, its quite nice here. I took out another $30k loan to build my shop and house in 2015. Both were 10 year loans, and I paid off everything in 2021. I build old muscle cars that I drive all summer, and have a 3 acre yard for my dogs to run around. I am 54 and debt free, after having nowhere to live just ten years ago. I have videos of my cars on my channel, and the green energy projects I work on too.
Men start to pull their brains out of their small head around 30. You want a 32+ man when you are around 20. You don't want a man your age, because he is going to change in a way you won't like, and you will definitely change in a way he won't like. A man over 35 doesn't really care so much when your looks fade away, as long as you are pleasant to be around, not combative, don't try to control him, and don't waste his money. Its REALLY easy to keep one of us older guys around... don't cause drama and stay relatively decent looking, like under 140lbs.
My first wife was a nightmare, she was bipolar, liked to throw things and hit me, and the police always wanted to haul me off.. because I am male and because I was more than 100lbs heavier than her, a combat veteran, with a mountain of muscle, lots of training, so I could have ended her at any time without exerting much force. I am not small timid nor weak...
She cheated and did everything wrong, and was rewarded for it. 2015 is when I no longer had to pay her child support. As my kids got older, she kicked them out when the support ended. Don't be like her. If you are bipolar, just live the rest of your life alone and don't inflict that on kids.
She is 49, over 300lbs, has a pain med problem, live sin a small shack 100feet from train tracks that have a coal train going by ever half hour. She paid more for that little shack than I have in my land, the buildings, and all my cars. She got a 30 year note and she is only ten years into it. She will lose that house soon, and her second husband is just about as worthless as something can be. She runs his life and he has no spine... just what she wanted, but, he is 64 and on his way out. Then she is alone, unwanted, and its not going to end well for her.
If you wait until you are over 30 the chances your kids will be screwed up goes up fast. My sister has two sons, 20 years apart, the younger is deaf as a post from birth. My cousin had her first kid at 32, he is wheelchair bound for life and is obviously a mess.
The Arab woman from Dubai I was engaged to in 1990 had her second kid at 35, and he is in a home, completely incapable of taking care of himself. There are others I know but this is already long. Lots of miscarriages and still borns too.
It is a lie that women should wait until they are 30. You should be popping out kids starting around 18 to 20 if you want them to be healthy. Get with an older man who is established, and cling to him like your life depends on it. Or you will end up miserable and alone like both my ex wives.
Take it from an old guy who has two daughters, 29 and 26, who are in the same position as you... can't find a decent man. The younger one's problem is her mother ruined her, she has a 200+ count, lots of ink, and she has the bipolar like her mom. No quality man will ever want her, she is too trailer park. If she had been raised by me, she would be far better off and her only issue would be the bipolar.
Good luck, I really do wish you well. You have it much worse than men do, because men are entirely capable and comfortable living alone, doing our own thing, and we usually thrive with a moderate amount of effort. It takes you monumental amounts of work to keep up with us, and you still end up alone, unwanted, with no kids.
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Suppose for a moment there are no supernatural beings, its only the reality in which we live. Now assume that people postulating that a supernatural being is watching you. For some it is a metaphor, and others its a higher power to which they will submit and allow themselves to be 'controlled' or to self limit themselves. Self control can be a good thing, and learning it requires failures with accurate assessments of why the failure occurred. If you reason you are only 5'4 is because the garden gnomes put a special elixir in your tea, chances are your assessment is inaccurate.
A god is a means of teaching people to self govern, to live by a certain set of rules and do so willingly. The guilt is thrown in to reinforce the self governance. Is it an accurate assessment that sin causes earthquakes and hurricanes? Probably not...Is it an accurate assessment that if you kill someone while stealing their shit that other people will get pissed at you and probably kill you as well? Yeah... that has some credence to it.
Most people do not want to choose nor decide for themselves, they want to follow, to submit, and be told what to do, and what not to do. It makes life simple when someone else has already said what you should do. Going to a 9-5 job to do work for others requires fewer choices and opportunities to fail than running your own business. Religions, including ideologies like marxism under the umbrella of religion, are designed to keep people on the 9-5 and self governing. Don't think this, don't say that, don't go there or do that thing... It can be beneficial when utilized properly, but it can also be wielded like a 4 year old carrying a loaded pistol and the safety is off. It all depends on who teaches and leads the ideology, as well as what the ideology prescribes to its followers.
Some ideas and ideologies are far worse than others, they are not equal.
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Pretty fly for a WiFi I'm owed over $10k, and they will do nothing to her like they did to me when the judge started me out $10k in arrears. Through no fault of my own, I lost my drivers license, passport, and security clearance in one day because the judge said I owed her 6 moths back pay when she kidnapped my kids, traveled 1500 miles away from me, and cut all contact because I refused to allow her to abuse my kids.
She owes me because one of them came to live with me for over a year, she even agreed she owes me for it, the court admitted it as well... but she has a drivers license, her credit isn't completely fucked, and she isn't going to be arrested the next time a cop runs her plate number.
Fathers have no rights and are always guilty, even when proven innocent.
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@Profitglutton90 funny you say that.. she is my 2nd ex wife. Guess who has been trying to weasel her way back into my life for the past 5 years? The first one. Ok the 2nd is homely as fuck, but she is thin and thanks to billions of kegels that poon was amazing, turns 40 this year, and she is done regardless..
In contrast the 1st ex is turning 48, weighs over 300lbs, has an oxy addiction that is soaking up all her money, the only reason she didn't lose her house is her mom died and left her enough to get caught up. Give it a few months and she will be homeless. her 2nd husband moved out last year, he is leaving her ass too,.
She is bipolar, stabbed me a few times, bashed me in the head with coffee mugs, and stole the child hood of my kids from me while turning them against me. She also got the state to indenture me with 71% of my gross... she was finally paid off in 2015.
She wants me back... she came here to pick up stuff belonging to my youngest kid, saw my land, all the cool old muscle cars, and knows I am debt free. It was at that point she knew she fucked up. That was before I built my house and was living in a 20x24 shipping container shack.
Yeah... they can beg and plead, cajole and promise... never gonna happen. They had their chance, they fucked it up, they cannot come back, there are no second chances.
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Office jobs.. people always whine and complain about office jobs. Ya know, there are other jobs you can do that aren't so soul sucking and confining... I find it amusing, live in a big city, pay ludicrous rent, ride the bus or train, get paid a big number but the cost of living is so high that I am doing better living alone out in the woods on less than $100k a year. You're barely squeaking by, will be in debt the rest of your life, but you seem to think you are successful.
There are things I won't do. Like work for minimum wage stocking shelves, sit behind a screen and being yelled at by 5 bosses for not putting a cover sheet on my TPS report, and other busy work where you don't do anything productive, you don't make anything, you just shuffle paper around. Thats a fate worse than death to me.
I'd much rather be sweating in a shop, under a vehicle on a lift, rebuilding the transmission. Or growing food in a field, making vodka fuel for my old cars from cattails, or building sheds, shops, and houses. I am debt free, own 13 acres of woodland, my house is paid off, the cars are all paid off, and I can rebuild them at my leisure. Its what I do for fun actually, take a rusty heap, and turn it into a cool looking, rather fast, daily driver, then drive it all summer.
I like to see the product of my effort... I can be my own boss, I can employ others, I can work with others too... and I have useful skills, even when the world goes automated with AI. There are things the robots won't be able to do and I already do them.
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@nuckygulliver9607 that is not terrorism, its vandalism with a tantrum. The reason they do it is not to deface art or even be a nuisance (which they are) its in the hope it will illicit a response from others, in the form of violence. Then they can claim they are the poor helpless victims of oppression.
Its similar to how my ex wife would start a fight, escalate it to the point where she would start cutting me with a knife, or hurling things at my head, then consider herself the victim when I restrained her as lightly as possible, because any mark on her and I go directly to jail. The point was for her to feel like a victim, and she would do anything to be able to see herself like that.
I am a two war combat veteran, an accomplished wrestler in high school, I fear no man and can end altercations in seconds with all my training, experience, and muscle mass. So how was it that I could not defend myself against a 120lb bipolar girl and I just had to take it? The police have more guns, and they will throw me in a tiny room then not let me out if I did anything to defend myself or my kids from her.
That is what they want.. to have others incarcerated for reacting to the insults they spew, as they and the media claim they are victims... like the summer of love, and mostly peaceful protests. Defend yourself, go to jail. Someone else takes you to jail, as the instigator cannot do it herself. This is how females exact revenge on males, getting the state to do it for them.
Its not terrorism, that is violence with a political goal in mind.
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@ActivateMission2ThisTimeline Rockefeller owned Standard Oil, they were known to refuel German U boats in the Atlantic even after the US entered the war.
The very wealthy do not concern themselves with the wars of we the poor, they see themselves as above it all, and they are driven by power, prestige, and profit. It makes sense that they push marxist ideology, because they assume they will be at the top, running it, and they will get wealthier whilst we get poorer. Thats why Bloomberg and Styer are pushing to disarm the US and plunge us into a socialist dystopian nightmare. They assume we will all be working for them.
There will be no challengers to their power either, as it is impossible for you to get beyond where they put you, where you are born you will die, with few exceptions. Zero upward mobility unless you are already in the ruling class. Nobody is going to come take their precious wealth from them by building competition, and if everyone is unarmed, all they need to do is bribe the right government officials.
Its not like Bernie ever made anything of value in his life, and yet he has millions. He is a leech on society, all he does is take, and give you empty promises and platitudes so you will keep giving him more. He is pushing a religion, and getting wealthy doing it. Joke is on him though, he will be dead in a few short years. Can't take it with you and while he is well known, he will not be remembered for anything good.
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nah, you give them too much credit. The way you should see feminism is as a destabilizing tactic/method. Driving the father out of the family creates poverty, crime, single mothers, which all result in civil strife. The idea is to make it so bad that people clamor for the government to save them, when it was government that caused the problem, and then they toss out marxism as the only solution.
Thats why the marxist CCP is banning the feminists, because they do not want to be destabilized as they are already in power. They know full well what it is, and what it does. The only thing it would bring about in China is a regime change, and a much worse situation for millions of people living there. Its bad enough as it is, despite what the rich party members will say in comments on here.
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Found that out the hard way 20 years ago.
When I pulled the 550hp iron headed 455 out of my 79 Formula that ran really consistent easy no stress 11.50s on a drag radial, and dropped a 700hp aluminum headed 467 in its place, stiffened the chassis, made it lighter in front, even with fresh 10" slicks it was like driving on ice. That thing would NOT hook no matter what I did. Yeah I know it could work, but with over 600ftlbs from 2500rpm to 5500, its not like trying to get your average high rpm small block to hook.
Thats why I built the 68 LeMans, the factory 4 link is so much easier to tune and get to hook than leaf springs on the Firebirds. The full frame is a bonus too, and strangely enough a 68 A body is lighter than a 79 F body with all the same stuff removed. The Firebird doors are over well 100lbs each, without the glass.
The bird has a 550hp or so 461 with aluminum heads in it now, nearly all used parts other than the cam and lifters. It needs some work before I can race it, but it will move under its own power which is nice. With 1000lbs less in the car when it ran 11.40s and 11.50s, it should be in the mid to low tens real easy.
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@kaizokujimbei143 I don't have a defeatist attitude.. however, thanks to military training and serving in two wars, I am rather disinterested in walking into traps and ambushes. I like to think ahead and see what is going on before rushing in to fight. Call it the mindset of an old man who has survived a lot of rough crap...
We agree on what men should be in so far as taking responsibility. Additionally you will be hard pressed to find a more masculine man than yours truly, and I say that with out intention of bragging.
I build the cars and trucks I drive. I built my home and shop with the trees I cleared from the woods I own. I produce ethanol fuel from cattails, tree sap, and coffee grounds to run my vehicles. I can grow and catch all the food I need. I worked many years as a CNC machinist and am just 4 hours short of a BS in mech engineering.
The only thing connected to the grid is electrical power and the internet, otherwise I am off grid completely. If I can get a large enough Stirling engine to turn my generator I will go of grid other than internet.
As stated by the last woman I was seeing who lives in Chicago, I am a rough hands man who has also seen the inside of books.
Then you have the two wars I served in, the first of which in 1990 when I was 21 made me incredibly strong physically, to where I can pick up 500lbs and carry it up several flights of steps. Wrestled in high school and pinned 13 of the 22 wins I had my senior year, and was not pinned for the entire four years of high school. At 170lbs I benched 265lbs in high school. I was a bit of a monster.
So yeah... there is that.
My first wife still complains, more than 20 years after our divorce, that in 1994 I bought a 1970 GTO when she forbade me from doing so. I still own that car and many others, including 65, 69 and 72 GTOs. I am kinda big into cars. She constantly tried to control me, using every manipulative tactic she could, she gave up trying after 8 years and divorced me claiming I did everything she did. e.g. cheating, mistreatment, etc.
I endured her mistreatment to protect the two daughters I have with her, 8 years I put up with it. She hid it until she was pregnant, and I was stuck. Not one to abandon my kids, so it was devastating when the state took them from me and kept me from being in their lives.
I agree with you entirely about not letting them take advantage of you. I do not let them, and never have. Going all the way back to when I started getting out and meeting people not from my school. However, the state decides what she gets... you don't... in a divorce.
So when I admonish young men to eschew females due to there being only huge risk with zero benefit, and having two daughters in their late 20s who can't get a decent man... it is not without reason and logic.
I use this name as self deprecating humor, because the USAF said I was obese just because I could bench press well over 400lbs so I weighed more than the 150lbs they wanted me to be, at 5'8. 230lbs on active duty... you could say I have some muscle, since that is more than 50lbs above my max weight.
The name sets people at ease and let them feel good even if I do or know things they cannot. It makes me more affable and less intimidating, which causes far fewer problems.
You do not gain all of my skills, knowledge, and capability without discipline, sacrifice, perseverance, and dedication. Its been a very rough life, lots of 'near end' experiences.
Now watch... some skinny wimp who has achieved nothing will come in and say something about being an internet tough guy... lol. Click on my name and go look. I'm for real.
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There needs to be something worth fighting for, otherwise men will amuse themselves as best they can. You can blame prn and games all you want, but in essence you're blaming men for not sacrificing themselves to do what you want them to do. I'm a veteran of the Cold War, Desert Storm, and OIF/OEF (Iraq) and there is no damn reason to fight for the people running the show now. I advise everyone to avoid the military as it is not what it was, they have removed all benefit from service.
As for fighting back, just like my first point, its not bad enough yet. You have about a million men like me out here in the civilian world, who are trained and have not only been through asymmetrical warfare, but also know all the tactics and capabilities of those who might try to defend the tyrants. We are spread out, mostly isolated because many of us prefer to live alone as relationships are not worth the time, effort and probable loss of everything we have earned/built in our lives. Why should we come to do your bidding when you blame us for the problems you helped create?
Alone we can't do much beyond ending up in a pine box or a small cell wearing orange. If you are willing to follow us and sacrifice yourself as we are, then it is up to you to get started getting like minded men together. Do not expect the kid sitting on the sofa play Xbox to do it for you. He has nothing to fight for, no reason to struggle and sacrifice, because there is nothing allowed to him without huge risk. A girl? She is an expense he cannot afford even if one likes him. Wealth, he has no means to get it without years of work, same as my generation. So why should be bother? Especially why should he bother to do for you when you want to sit behind a keyboard and demand someone act on your behalf?
I've been through the meat grinder, so has my younger brother and many of our friends. Clamoring for others to go in your stead to do what you want doesn't sit well with us. You want things to change? Well... get busy making it happen. We are not going to do it for you.
My plan is to enjoy as much of the remainder of my life as possible, which means living alone in the woods, building 60s-70s vintage muscle cars (Pontiacs mainly) and living as stress free as possible ensconced in nature. I did my time in hell, its your turn if you want to open that can.
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I grew up on a farm in the 70s and 80s, we had 300 cattle, 1000 hogs at any given time, and fed them with crops we grew.. I moved lots of silage in my time. This is not about the environment, that is just what they are using to justify their power grab. If it were about the environment, they would be doing things like I have been for the last 15 years, but they say what I do is bad for the planet.
These people will make a certain group from central Europe in the 1930s and 40s look like benevolent humanitarians if they get the control they want. Not only are they ignorant of what raising and maintaining livestock is about, they are wholly ignorant of how it all works together. They are mainly urban people who are resentful and envious of farmers, because they see farmers as ignorant Forest Gump types who will always do the wrong thing if they are successful. We saw how that line of assumption turns out in the 1920s in Ukraine. You do not have to feed people when they are no longer living...
I am kinda big into green energy, not to save the planet or whatever, I am into it because I can produce the energy myself rather than being forced to buy it from someone who sets the price. Farmers are told what they can sell their grain and livestock for, they do not set prices. I got into making energy in2007 when gasoline hit $5 a gallon the first time where I live. No way I could afford to pay for that, so I started researching other fuels that would enable me to drive the 1960s and 70s muscle cars I have owned since 1982.
Cattail and tree sap vodka was the one I decided on, methanol is too destructive to fuel systems, costly to produce on a small scale and its incredibly toxic. Mostly it is too much work to fuel a vehicle when it gets single digit mileage no matter what you do. Hydrogen and methane are cool, but not suitable to transportation due to fuel storage issues. Electrical has range issues, along with corrosion and it is NOT less expensive here, the grid is about as stable as my bipolar ex wife off her meds. Then you have the expense of electric vehicles, I can't afford them, its that simple.
I use methane from biomass to power my stills and for cold start assists. I can use it to run generators too, and plumb the CO2 from ethanol and methane production into a greenhouse to make more food. What comes out of the stills after making cattail based fuel, I can feed to livestock. Since my production is small, less than 1000 gallons per year, earthworms and fertilizer is where my spent mash goes. I don't have the room for cattle and no interest hogs. You know as well as I do that earthworm castings are wonderful for growing plants.
Cattails remediate water by removing nitrates and other things that they need to grow, and they can provide us with a lot more fuel than corn can per acre. They are just harder to work with and have a time constraint to get them into the still before they rot. The Netherlands are stopping farmers from growing because of nitrates, when that problem can be solved easily with cattails, and then they can be used to produce clean burning fuel.
They do not want to do that. You see they do not want people to be independent and make energy as I do, they don't want us to travel freely either. They want us to live in a city, where everything has to be brought to us... and it can be held back from us so we obey. When you control the resources and make everyone dependent because they have no choice but to rent from you, then you can make people do what you want them to. Doesn't matter how flowery and wonderful they try to make it sound, its still slavery.
Yeah I got into green energy because I wanted to go racing with 50+ year old cars, with 500+ hp/tq, and I can't afford to pay $5 for 87 octane, let alone $10+ for race gas. When I can make a fuel that makes more power, that lets me take advantage of increased compression ratios that make more power and get better mileage, for less than a dollar a gallon... you can bet I am going to do exactly that.
I can't do ANY of that living in a city, in a pod, eating a low protein diet, nor will I ever allow myself to be put in that position. I would rather be fertilizer than live as one of their slaves.
They do not care about the environment, its simply the cudgel with which they are bashing us until we allow them to own us.
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It DOESN'T MATTER if you are a good husband or not. Not even in the slightest, as it is not up to the man if he is going to stay married or not. He has no choice in the matter, also no choice to be in his kids lives, when the wife/mother decides she wants him gone.. for whatever reason.
Why would I say that? Because my first marriage proved it to me. I had zero rights, only responsibilities. Not only was I a good husband, I was a VERY good father. Despite working 50 to 70 hours every week, I still spent as much time with my kids as I could. I taught them to crawl, walk, ride bikes, had them running a PC at 3 years old, taught them shapes, colors, and even how to read before they turned 4. I taught them math, and critical thinking skills, how to ask the right questions, and I was starting to teach them how to discern BS from reality when she took off with them.
I never cheated on her, she cheated on me. I never harmed her, she cut, stabbed, and hit me with things. She lied about me in court and to everyone we knew. She started irrational fights and would escalate them until I had to defend myself or leave.
In 2001 she took my kids and moved 1500 miles away, preventing me from seeing and protecting them, and providing the guidance only fathers can give children. The state assisted her in keeping me from my kids. They were all too happy to help her bring random guys into their lives so they could do abhorrent things to my daughters.
I was punished for all of that, and had zero rights in family court. They had me sleeping in my car while on active duty in the US military because they only left me $100 a month to live on. They took 71% of my gross pay as child support, said I was unfit to be a parent because I was male and in the military. The fact she is bipolar and likes to hit the kids, and had bad people do bad things to them was irrelevant.
The messed up part of all of this? MY STORY IS NOT UNIQUE. It is UBIQUITOUS. The numbers change somewhat, but the story is played out the same over and over millions of times.
So yeah blame men for everything, and give women a pass who do the most abhorrent thing imaginable, keeping fathers from their kids and being unfaithful.
You want to know why men are not dating anymore? Its because we cannot trust women, and we know if we start a relationship with them the state can indenture us to her. She is rewarded for abhorrent behavior at our expense.
What man in his right mind would sign up for that? What is it now, 5.1 people out of 1000 are daft enough to get married... It is not you women who are opting out, you are all still chasing the same 5% of men, and blaming all of us for what they do.
So to all the harpies and harridans out there who feel its their right and entitlement to everything a man has earned and will ever earned, but feels no compulsion to treat him right, I say.. ENJOY BOXED WINE AND CAT LAND.
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As long as you have lazy people who feel entitled to what others have produced - built - earned, while resenting those people who they envy for having what the lazy fucks do not, you will have socialism. Also as long as you have people who think child like, or like a female where an authority over them, provides them with things, who are around the mean IQ and below, you will have socialism and all the other forms marxism has taken over the last 150 years. Aka feminism, communism, post modernism, progressivism, and it had a great influence on fascism as well as they are all authoritarian identity politics thought cancers....
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@alvarodiazrodriguez2603 Amish are very insular, you cannot simply go join them.
I was engaged to a muslim woman 30 years ago. Her mother decided one day she did not like me anymore and wanted me to wait five year to marry her daughter who was already 29. Her father adored me, he was a good friend of mine until he passed ten years ago, absolutely wonderful man.
For a pale guy of German ancestry from the US to find and marry an islamic woman is VERY difficult. I knew all the other men like me who had Arab wives in Dubai, all three of them.
Islam is an interesting religion, its good for you as long as you adhere perfectly and are not a different flavor than your neighbors. Being sunni in a shia area is a less than favorable thing, and the suffis are kinda strange, though still good people. One of my friends here in the US is an Egyptian suffi, he is a very good friend.
If mom does not like you for some reason, no matter how much your want to be wife wants you, its not going to happen. They were overly concerned that I would turn her out once she got to the states. Prejudice is not a unique thing here in the states.
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@ArticulatedHypernova you missed the part where she can take off with your kids, the state will help her keep you away from them, and ensure you have no chance at raising your kids to be well adjusted adults.
You can vet and choose very carefully, do everything right and be a wonderful father, and she can still remove you for cash and prizes.
I have survived two wars, been run over by farm equipment, hit by cars, bludgeoned into unconsciousness, beaten severely, survived several car accidents as a passenger, I am missing teeth and have had so many close calls with being unalive I cannot count them all.... but the worst pain anguish and despair I have ever endured was my two kids being taken 1500 miles away and me prevented from seeing them for nearly a decade.
I worked 60 to 80 hours per week, usually around 70, and still made time to spend with my daughters. I taught them to read and run computers when they were 3. Colors shapes, math, and I taught them to crawl, walk, ride bikes, swim, and later when they were teen agers and I was able to see them again, I taught them to drive.
The whole time I was still living with them I was teaching them, critical thinking skills, how to solve problems, how to know what is the right question to ask to get the answer you're looking for.
Their mother was set on making sure they had a horrific life, and she exposed them to the worst possible things, all while my home state protected her. When she tried to end it all and was hospitalized for a month two years after the divorce was final, the judge said her boyfriend could watch my kids.. and then they sent me the bill for her hospital stay. They also diverted my child support payments to pay her bill, putting me in arrears again. the state went to great effort to break laws, both federal and state just to make my life as miserable as possible.
Its not that every woman will do this...
Its that every one of them can.
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@umiluv men do not pick who they get to marry.. they decide if they will commit or not, but men date who they can. Women decide who they will date and give access to. Women are the gate keepers of poon, men are the gatekeepers of commitment.
So do not expect a female to honor commitment, because neither of those words benefit her. That is not to say they are bad people or lesser, or anything like that... they are different than men, in how they think and act.
the vast majority of young men under 40 are not anything close to what I was between 16 and 50, most of them have never had a woman, unless they paid her. Women under 40 seem to think they deserve the absolute best men, and they ignore all but the top 5%.
So no, you're wrong. Men do not pick who they marry other than if the female decided to let him smash. Then he decides if he will commit or not.. That is the only choice he has, everything else after that he loses.
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The Pareto principle states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of the causes. The 80/20 phenomena shows up all over in nature. 20% of trees in a forest will be taller than the rest. 20% of snowflakes will be angled the right way to create a glint from a light source. 20% of people will think for themselves and not follow the herd of the 80% people. In a business 80% of productivity is accomplished by 20% of the workers. This idea has been around for some time now..
They already knew the majority of people are willing to blindly follow along out of ignorance and fear, long before now. Here is a 75 year old quote that the left seems determined to tell us was not uttered by Herman Goering. Its curious that only the left wing 'fact checkers' are saying the Luftwaffe asshole did not say this. I suppose they'd rather it was their one of their heroes like Stalin, Lenin, Mao or Pol Pot who said it..
"Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country"
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I am a two war USAF veteran, I was an NCO in charge of millions of dollars worth of equipment and dozens of lives at any given time. I was additionally tasked with guiding the screw ups, so I got the problem children who made mistakes or just could not adjust to military life. I fixed a couple of them, one fixed himself after getting a DUI and wrecking his truck, two were kicked out because they just could not do the small things. I am not a fan of the draft, because all of those people volunteered to be there. NCOs would have a horrible job if they had to deal with people forced to be there.
I am a muscle bound freak, I have 21" arms, 60" chest, 21" neck, my wrists are 9" in circumference. I am only 5'8. Most of the muscle I got from the 1990-91 airlift for desert storm. My job, loading cargo planes, was VERY physically demanding. Because I was big before and could do the work faster than the smaller guys, I was teamed with the females. That meant I had to do ALL the heavy lifting, and essentially the females were little more than spotters who carried paperwork.
To get an idea of what my job was like during wars, park two F150s together end to end then push them for 12 hours. That is like pushing several plane loads of 10,000lb air shipment pallets. Alternatively pick up two 5 gallon igloos in each hand, hoist them to shoulder height, now run up three stories of steps. Do that 300 times in a 12 hour shift. If you want to make it even more fun do it while carrying a rifle and 240 rounds of ammo and a bag of chem gear. Fun times.
You cannot get enough females behind a 10,000lb pallet for them to move it, I can push them by myself.. or I could before my hips, knees, ankles, shoulders and elbows gave out after two wars and about three years of working like that. The heaviest pallet I saw all female load teams move weighed about 4000lbs. It took 8 of them to move it. They just do not weigh enough. They do not have the strength. The females who tried to hang with us all ended up broken and disabled after less than a month.
I had one female airman who grew up on a farm, a portly redhead, but she could do more than any female I had seen in the USAF. Being the most competent female I had known, she was more capable than some of the weak males, but most of the males would work circles around her. She could operate the equipment safely, back up trailers, and not put holes in airplanes or run things/people over. She was one (the only one) of hundreds I knew who could not operate equipment safely. One reservist female punctured 55 gallon drums filled with fluid several times before I was allowed to rescind her operators license. Each time she did it, she went home to sleep after our night shift, but being the safety NCO I had to stay there, clean up her huge mess, and fill out all the EPA and incident paperwork, and that usually took most of the day. That meant I would maybe get two hours of sleep. The vast majority of vehicle mishaps were with female operators in my units.
They never were on bag drags either.. Picture this. An airplane like a DC10 or 747 with 300 passengers, each one has at least two bags with chem gear/military equipment that weighs 80lbs to 120lbs. Some people have three or four of those depending on their job. So we are talking 600 minimum, to 1000 bags that need to be offloaded, then the same amount of passengers going back to the states needed their bags put on the plane. You have two hours while the plane is refueled to achieve this and its 110F to 130F outside and even hotter in the belly of the planes. Females are in the way, they simply cannot do it, the bags weigh as much as they do and they do not have the strength to move them, let alone hundreds of them.
No.. we are not equal, not even close.
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@bertherpez6081 Sunday we got 14" of snow, they shut down the highway for ten hours, currently it is 35F outside, the power was out for 20 hours. Weather is not her fault. However, in this part of Michigan, going without power means things like no heat, running water, and whatever you have in the freezer is shit. Hypothermia is a real bitch.
In the upper peninsula people plan for this sort of thing. Most of us have generators, wood heat (at least as back up) and can self sustain for about a month (often more), because the power can go out for a month easily. We have food stored for those times, and fuel for the generators. People in the lower peninsula often do not have the same things planned for. The power has been out 24 times already this year. Point is, its still cold here. What would you do if the power went out for two days in December?
The thing about the roads is she promised to fix them. But spent the money on her social welfare programs for the people in Detroit, Lansing, Grand Rapids, etc. Not a fucking penny came north of the bridge. Then she wants to add 45 cents gas tax to backfill what she didn't put towards the roads.
Bear in mind, that only the SF Bay area in California has more expensive gas in the lower 48 than the upper peninsula. The lowest I have seen it in the 15 years I have lived here was today, when it was $1.98 for 87 octane and $3.25 for 93. Wisconsin has stations four hours from here under $1. She wants to tax us even more, and spend it on the idiots in cities who vote for her. I have the bare minimum car insurance on a 14 year old $500 rust bucket and a 21 year old pickup, no tickets, no accidents, never a claim in my 35 years of driving.. and its $375 a month because of the ~no~ my fault insurance the democrats installed here.
How would you like someone in Texas deciding what you can and cannot do when you live in Arizona? Its a 10 hour drive from my front door to the outskirts of Detroit, and I never leave the state. We have to put up with the laws and rules the morons in the cities want and the closest neighbor to me is a quarter mile away, police, ambulance, and fire are a minimum of 30 minutes away unless they happen to be driving by.
Now she bans us from planting a garden? I guess we can grow weed and eat that instead, since that was legalized before she got in office.
I figure you will ask, why I still live here. Long story, but I want to move back to Nebraska where I grew up, because the winter isn't from October 1 to May 1 there, and everything except the land costs less. I can have four vehicles in Nebraska insured with full coverage for less than two months on two here with crash and burn. I need to find some sucker to buy my land. Maybe you should move here if you like socialists.
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utewbing I'm good. I do not see myself as a victim, however my life is an example for you who are younger. In some ways my life story is something to follow, the never give up, keep struggling to get ahead, doing whatever you must, and putting in all the effort to improve yourself and your situation.. on the other hand its an admonishment not to make the mistakes I made because the consequences are life altering.
This is just one small excerpt from the shithole I have found myself in since 1969.
I am doing quite well, will be debt free later this year if I want to be, and I have a yard full of old muscle cars, engines, transmissions and I built a shop in which to rebuild them. I live in a two story shipping container house I built, and I have been retired since 2005. Forcibly, but still, retired with passive income.
That means I can do like I did today and install a fuel system in my street strip toy, and them play some WWII era first person shooters on my other PC.
Now where I would be if I had never married that evil woman, or had instead married the girl I was engaged to right before I met my ex wife, well I am quite certain it would be a much better place than I am now.
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I too grew up on a farm, dirt poor, not a very good education considering the children of the corn religious school I was sent to had us read the bible instead of doing math and science. Yet when I took the ASVAB and talked to the USAF recruiters they wanted to put me in avionics, and the Navy guy got my scores and pestered me to go to the nuke school in Goose Creek SC, they offered me a $50k singing bonus 35 years ago.
I was none to enthralled with the idea of a submarine, and only slightly less so with an aircraft carrier, unless I was involved in aviation... and if you are running the reactor in the bowels of the ship, you are not in aviation. So I went USAF...
Did not end up in avionics working on B1s like I was supposed to. Doc at the MEPS held me up, said I had an ingrown toenail and I didn't get to basic. Had to wait almost a year, and all those jobs were full as the classes start at specific times.
They stuck me in Air Cargo... which requires, math, physics, spatial skills, and physical brawn. You kinda have to be a smart jock of sorts, except the ASVAB requirement is average. You could say I was vastly overqualified, but I could push a 10,000lb pallet on planes over and over for hours, alone...
Yeah we had some not so bright people, some weak people, and I discovered that being smart and strong in the USAF meant you are gonna get worked and relied upon for everything you can possibly handle. Then they punish you for being muscular, assume you're dense, talk down to you, then discover you dwarf them intellectually, and they decide to make your life difficult.
I shoulda gone Army like my brother, he was so far above everyone else that he was top of his class in every school, was accepted to warrant officer, then flew UH60s around for his last 8 years or so, and the last 4 was an instructor at Ft Rucker. I pushed pallets, kicked boxes, and fixed all the tiedown errors the reservists did... and as many as 12 extra duties as an NCO. Fun times.
To be fair I look dense and if you met me on the street you'd never in a million years say, now that is a smart guy... Start a conversation about vehicles, biological or chem agents, or a few other things, and you'll be like oh wow, he isn't as dim as he looks.
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@177SCmaro I can see why he turned off comments, not because he is hiding something as much as he doesn't want the drama. Some people are averse to conflict, some people aren't. He doesn't want to deal with the comments, I am surprised he got in the videos, I don't appear in any of mine yet.
I've started making videos and it has a learning curve. It also takes time away from wrenching, so there is that. I've been working on ethanol since 2007, and have already surpassed mileage and power with a carb on ethanol over gasoline. It takes some sorting out, but its very easy to do with ethanol, crank the compression up over 12:1 where mileage is equal. Run it hot, like 200F to 220F, and get the intake as hot as you can, which is hard to do since ethanol cools the intake manifold and runs a lot cooler than gasoline.
He is heating the air fuel mix, I am working on heating only the fuel before it reaches the injectors, but after the pressure regulator. Its far easier to do with ethanol because it has a 173F boiling point and gasoline is made up of various compounds that boil between 80F and 450F. So mine is a simple heat exchanger built into the heater hose. His is complex with lots of stainless and a turbo.
Mine has also been on a 11.5:1 and 13:1 compression 455 Pontiac making well over 550hp, not a 170hp sbc. In the 70 GTO it got a mixed highway/city 20mpg easily, in the 65 the best the 11.5:1 will do is 17mpg, the aero is that much worse on the 65 GTO vs the 70 GTO. I think a 79 Trans Am or one of the Opel GTs would be a more aero mule.
Working alone and trying to make videos of it sucks. You want to work and not bother with filming it. Then the work is all done and you have no content.
So what would you rather see, and I am asking sincerely. Do you want to see the work being done, even if its time lapsed, or do you want to see the finished product without all the drudgery of building it?
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@gulfy09 I think he is using the motorcycle carb because it can be mounted sideways, so the draw through system he built is easier to package. He needs a side draft carb. A Holley or AFB won't work.
Putting too small of a carb on raises vacuum but hurts power. You might use a bit less fuel, but the air restriction is causing the loss of power.
If you want to improve mileage by a lot, you want to produce as much torque as possible between idle and 3500rpm, where the engine spends most of its time in daily life. Then you want as much compression as you can get, and not have it rattle itself to death with ping/knock. A fuel that will allow very high compression and the advance the engine wants narrows it down considerably. Gasoline is very limited in that respect.
Another way to increase mileage is reducing drag, rotational mass, un-sprung weight, aerodynamic drag, and of course the weight of the vehicle. Low rolling resistance short sidewall tires, the modern sealed wheel bearings, lightweight transmission parts, aluminum driveshaft, light wheels and brakes, it all adds up. Aero makes a big differences over 60mph, the faster you go the more power you need until it gets really nuts around 120mph and the power to drag becomes a vertical line. Exponential, not linear.
With the way he is going about it, he doesn't have much choice other than a side draft, and a motorcycle carb is cheap and easy to find. That is probably what motivated him to use that carb, it fits and works for what he is doing.
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@tomcatmcgillicutty6913 the fun part about making ethanol is you can sanitize, degrease, and use it as an antiseptic, then use it as a light source, fuel for vehicles and generators, and you can drink it for party time, among other things. The best part is how simple it is to produce.
The government and corporations have done their best to outlaw it, which was the reason behind the Volstead Act, you know to force people to use gasoline instead of producing their own fuel. Ever since they have used propaganda and taxes to limit people in making it. Rockefeller funded the Volstead Act with $4 million which is well over $100 million now, all so he could secure his profits and kill off his competition. How many people died needlessly during prohibition so he could profit?
When WWII ended they intentionally left all the construction equipment overseas, or tossed it in the ocean. Otherwise there would have been a glut of it and that means fewer sales. Some of the best machining equipment I have operated is Army surplus from the 30sand 40s.
Why do you think I am working on producing fuel, showing others how to do it, figuring out how to use what we have now to get the most mileage from it, and passing out that info for free? Because fuck the corporate assholes who want to profit from us.
Twice they sent me to war over oil fields, and my brother, along with nephews and lots of cousins. They profit and we pay for it.
If I can produce my own food, fuel, and electricity, they can't control me by shutting them off. Its also a lot cheaper to make my fuel than buy gasoline.. lol. Wanting to drive my old GTOs and Firebirds is how I got started in this, and I have discovered so much more, like how to heat my house and shop without burning anything, using biomass... aka wood chips and sawdust.
So all these other guys can try to save a few pennies, and I am simply not going to need them.
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@BRIANDER100 honestly, a couple have told me why. I am masculine as fuck, they can smell the testosterone in me, I have 21" arms, a 52" chest, 29" thighs, big hands, ice blue eyes, and apparently I am better looking than I realized. Most are intimidated by me, and they can tell they will get a gorilla fuck. Picture a medium sized silverback gorilla sized human with slightly longer legs than the gorilla.. thats me.
Black T shirt, jeans or cargo/carpenter pants, redwing work boots, high and tight with white sides, and a gray beard trimmed to make my face look slightly longer. I do not scream "I have money" with my appearance, more like I am strong, capable, confident, and willing to severely injure people if needed. The deepish voice seems to help, I don't sound squeaky or high pitched.
How to get like that even if you're kinda short like I am? Lift. Some kind of martial art, mine was high school/freestyle/greco roman wrestling and I got quite good at it. Compete full contact, and do other things that test your abilities so you can develop discipline along with confidence.
How do I know they're attracted?
Because they look at me a certain way, their body language tells me they are interested, they touch me, and its kinda obvious when I put my dick in them.
Once you know what to look for in body language, its super easy to spot it and tell which ones are into you and which ones aren't. Rich and others have courses on body language if you want to know what to look for.
Guys don't usually see me as good looking, they often see me as fat, because I look fat when I wear a sweatshirt or jacket, see me in a T shirt and the belly I have is dwarfed by my chest and the arms really stand out. Muscle, confidence, and very masculine traits (you can develop them even if you're a weak chinned little cunt) work for everyone.
Lift, get good at a combat sport, and build shit with your hands.
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@rbarnes4076 feminism is of the exact same source ideology as communism. They are the same damn thing, but with different in group and out groups. With the commies its the proles vs the bourgeoise, with feminism its females vs males. The entire point is to create a marxist (the root of both of them as well as socialism, progressivism, post modernism etc) system where the weak and mediocre are lauded, and lead by the weak and mediocre.
The interesting thing about all the marxist variations is that they all create the exact thing they claim to be fighting against.. a system where an elite minority controls and oppresses the masses.
you're right, it is a religion, and marxists do not like competing religions, which is why they are all about oppressing christians and jews.. why not islam? Well to be honest, they think they can control muslims due to they see muslims as weak, stupid, inept etc. Also they can use them as a pawn, a means of dividing society along racial lines, because they are easily identified by their dress and appearance.
Make no mistake, if they manage to gain complete control here, muslims will not be allowed their religion either. They are using them the same way they used gays, lesbians and lately trans people.
Due to the nature of marxist ideology, there are always purity tests, so they have a constant inquisition going on, just like Spain a few hundred years ago. Yeah, they eat their own.
Nothing good comes from marxism, at least I can see some good in the abrahamic religions and the buddhists, along with a few others like taoism. The less about authoritarianism the religion is, the less problem I have with it.
Thats why marxism fails completely as it seeks absolute control of everything, including your mind and thoughts. The abrahamics come after marxism, they can be used to justify authoritarian control, but they can also be used to justify something actually good for people.
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Tim, you really think social justice is about being nice? You are confusing politeness with an ideology that puts equality of outcome at its center. Its not about ending racism, not even close because its ok to be extremely bigoted towards people who are a lighter shade of pigment, or that you perceive have something you do not.. a.k.a this mythical privilege. Its a race to mediocrity at best, holding back the achievers so the lazy and inept can not feel so bad about themselves. Thats social justice. Its very different from politeness and being cordial.
The hair was ok last week, now its not ok and suddenly its racist and you are not going to say anything... which is exactly what they want. Do not offend them, provide a counter argument, do not offer facts or bring reality into it, and most of all do not openly disagree with them. Want proof? Wait and see the replies to this. You cannot disagree with bigots, ideologues, and those who want to rule over you and expect them to sit idly by and take your criticism like Sargon does. Nah, instead they call you names, project all their own hatred/bigotry on to you, and scream until they get what they want. You can point it out, call the shot, and they will do exactly what I have said they will. Wait for it.
Fuck that childish shit. They should grow up, join the adult world where you do not throw a tantrum any time you want attention or feel like you should be offended.
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@Fernando Soria-Molina heh.. no. Whiskey/vodka/wine/beer/ethanol doesn't eat the rubber in cars. it doesn't harm anything. The difference between a flex vehicle and a non flex is programming, injector size, and the sensor in the fuel line. I've been running home made vodka as fuel in my 60s GTOs, 70s Firebirds and trucks, as well as my modern EFI equipped vehicles for nearly 13 years. Zero issues other than making so much power that the rear tires go up in smoke very easily.
The thing causing problems is the gasoline mixed with ethanol and additives they put in for whatever reason. I am not the only one to find this through extensive testing. https://www.onallcylinders.com/2018/05/25/ask-away-jeff-smith-e85-pump-gas-additives-not-ethanol-cause-corrosion/
You are exactly wrong about ethanol fuel, like most people. They are also very wrong about how to survive when the world goes to shit. Well the power goes off here a few times a month, it can be out for a week. We get 200 inches of snow every winter. It is 20 miles to the nearest grocer. Temps fall below zero for most of January and February. Cell service is spotty at best. And yeah I live in the lower 48, not Alaska or some remote part of northern Canada. If you have no idea where to find food, how to grow it, what medicines you can get from nature, how to produce power, heat water, and make fuel, you are very dead within a couple months at most. Life is too easy and bad information is everywhere, mostly thanks to marketing. Marketing is why you are wrong about ethanol.... like most people. You have been lied to and are spreading it around like you know all about it.
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@Thomas-sb5rp apparently you are unaware that nazis are socialists, that means they are marxists, which puts them in the same camp as all other socialists, communists, feminists, progrerssives, and post modernists. National socialist workers party, that is what nazi is an abbreviation of. In case you don't know marxism is left, far left, like Stalin, Mao, Castro, Chavez, Lenin, Trotsky, and yes Hitler as well as Mussolini.
The cheeto is not a socialist. You are supporting the party that brought us the klan, Jim Crow, fought against civil rights, fought to preserve slavery, and have been working very hard to keep black people in their cities and states from achieving... and buying their vote at the same time. Just enough to vote, but not enough to thrive. You are the guys who have the nazis on your side, as well as the plantation owners from the deep south.
I don't give a fuck about Trump, I am not a republican and never have been, not conservative, I am an atheist too no less. I used to be center leaning left, problem is the democrats went full retard marxist leftist. They abandoned me, I did not leave them. You are not a patriot if you support the democrats who are calling for the Constitution to be tossed out, or at least the 1st and 2nd. That is the entire fucking party at this point. Hate speech, banning rifles and magazines, yeah that is unconstitutional.
Read 1984, its about your party. Watch V for Vendetta, that is the future of your party and all of us if this stands. Animal Farm, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451 are about your party. When you have marxism, you always end up with the same things, abject poverty for the masses, luxurious living for the political elite, concentration camps, mass graves and starvation. Your ignorance of what you are supporting is astounding.
Not having a dog in this fight its obvious to me that the dems rigged the election. They rigged the primaries against Bernie twice, and expect us to believe this is legit? Not even a year ago the twats running for the nomination with Biden were complaining about the machines being rigged, but nothing to see here... we have always been at war with east asia...
I only give a fuck that we have a legitimate election, and it is painfully obvious we have not. If all the smacktarded idiots out there want to live in a dystopian nightmare, hey that is their thing. Sure I will fight against it, but its what they want so they get it. You are so easily manipulated, like the rest of them, because you believe the propaganda about the cheeto. I find that curious and amusing. You are on the wrong side of history, and you are all for it.
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Thats kinda like the military life, except people aren't trying to ventilate you and you don't have to put up with certain things, like shaving and weight limits.. heh. I was in Dubai in 1991, it was a bit different then. Traveled all over Europe 89-91, when I wasn't stuck on the flightline working airplanes for months on end because of Desert Shield/Storm. Went to Korea for a year too, that was enjoyable other than the personal things going on, namely a divorce. Kuwait has a really nice Hilton, the USAF put me up in it with a $350 a night room to myself om 2004.
I live in a very scenic part of the lower 48 states, the upper peninsula of Michigan. Every time I drive into town is a trip through beautiful places with overlooks of Lake Superior. Right now in mid to late October the trees have changed and its stunning... just like every year. Soon the snow will come and I will be buried under several feet of it. Spring is always most welcome, April dumps a blizzard on us at least once but usually twice, so its annoying.
My closest sibling is 1000 miles away. I like a life of isolation, after the military I am accustomed to it. I am used to not seeing friends for years, and not talking to other people for months. Sometimes I go so long without talking that my voice surprises me.
I could travel the world, and be an expat super easy, but I am big into muscle cars from the 60s and 70s. I own 13 acres of land, built my house on it, the shop where I build my cars, and I can grow food, produce fuel, and live off my land entirely if I have to.
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@actionfaction2558 while I was in the military I had to live in large cities, the bases were there so I had to live there. I hated living in a city. The only thing separating you from other people is a couple sheets of drywall.
They want us weak, complacent, docile, dependent, and obedient... like I was until I was 13 or so. I am not a child, I do not want to live like one and be taken care of and told what I can and cannot do by some asshole on the other side of the planet.
If they are going to take what I have built, then I have no reason NOT to fight them with ever fiber of my being. I don't want a pile of cash for it, I want what I have created through sheer will, hard work, and perseverance. The only way I will sell it is if I can get a large piece of land free and clear, back home where I grew up, close to a drag strip where we can all race.
These pricks want to take racing from me as well, even though the way I go racing is vastly greener than the way they live. They are hypocrites, 'do as I say not as I do' is their mantra. They want control, to own us all, and I will not be owned. I will die a free man, not as a slave on my knees.
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Too much gear, unless you have 34"-40" tall tires. The FE engine, other than the 427, was a low RPM torque machine, much like a Pontiac or Olds 455. They didn't like a lot of RPM, nor did they need it, they made all their power below 6000, even the 428 CJ was a grunt engine. The 427 had a short stroke, large bore, and much bigger ports than the other FE engines.
You were trying to make it run like a small chevy which is very low on bottom end torque, they need the gear to get the RPM up enough to where they start using mechanical advantage to push things around. If you take an FE, long ram Mopar, Pontiac, or Olds and put a 3.73 or deeper gear behind them, they will run slower every time than they would with a 2.73-3.55 gear. They just don't need it.
I've run 12s with a 2.56 gear and a mild 7:1 compression 400 Pontiac in my '65 GTO, stock converter, no power adders either. The 70 GTO was 4100lbs going down the track, 2.93 gears, stock converter, 8:1 compression 455, it ran high 12s shifting at 5500 all engine. It would also smoke the 275 65 15s from idle up to 40mph by just whacking the throttle, and carry it for 1/8 mile easily. Pro stock burnouts without holding the brakes are tons of fun.
You let the torque work for you rather than trying to make it do something it is not designed to do. You are racing farther than 60 feet, unless you are racing across the intersection or to the end of a semi.
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Confidence comes from achieving despite hardship, being tested and learning from it. If you have never been tested, never had to compete/defend yourself, it is arrogance.
I wrestled in high school 1982-87 and in the USAF in Germany back in 1989. If you're arrogant and step on the mat, you are probably going to lose.. and you'll lose fast if you have minimal or no training/experience. Nobody is just good at wrestling or any other martial sport when you start, you have to train, learn, put in the work and compete against others. At first you lose all the time, you can't win because you don't know what to do. You can be the strongest one and still get handled without the skills and knowledge that are required. As you learn you get better and your confidence builds.
Until you are tested its like playing a video game on godmode. You have to go up against someone else to measure yourself. Confidence is built over time, by losing over and over and learning how to win. Failure and losing is how you learn and grow, and you cannot grow without failure.
You have to put in the work, you have to be tested, you have to compete, otherwise you have no idea how you stack up against others.
In the drag racing world, until you go to the track and get a timeslip, you might think your car is fast, but then at the strip you discover it takes 16 seconds to go 1320 feet, not 8 or 9 seconds like you thought. Most people who have never been to the strip think they are way faster than they actually are. You need to get the number, the performance needs to be quantified, then you can start refining and make the car even faster. I've known lots of guys who talked big until they went to the track, 700hp, 9 seconds, pull the front wheels at a stoplight... and then they turn in a 15 second slip. Arrogance because they have never been tested. It vaporizes with the first test.
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@WendysFries I am 5'8, and have been turned down often because I am not over 6'. Here lately women are completely delusional about tall guys, but if you are shorter than I am, well its gonna be tough for you. My younger brother is 5'6 on a good day, but he displays competence and nobody with any sense wants to mess with him. He isn't overly muscled like I am, but he is every bit of 170lbs and he is tough.
We both grew up rough, living on a farm, getting beaten often, six of us kids in the 70s and 80s so mom and dad didn't have much money. We both wrestled in high school, joined the military he was 18 I was 19. I went USAF he went Army, I loaded cargo planes (which is where the muscle came from and its a lot of muscle) he drove trucks and later flew UH60s.. the pilot flying the thing, not riding in it.
Its the mindset we have that makes us attractive, far more than how tall we are. You don't need to be military to have this mindset, but some sort of combat sports is more than a good idea. Get into BJJ and do some lifting, if you can bench press 300lbs, deadlift around 500, and squat over 600, you are going to be stronger than the majority of men on the planet. I was there at 17 years old weighing 175lbs. its doable for you.
The BJJ training gives you discipline, humility, perseverance, restraint, competence, confidence, and the ability to defend yourself. Jordan Peterson is exactly right when he says a peaceful man is capable of inflicting grievous harm but refraining from doing so. A man who is incapable of inflicting harm is not peaceful he is harmless.
Through the trials required to become proficient at a combat sport like BJJ or high school wrestling, you lose a lot more than you win, and that is where you learn to be humble as well as what you are capable of. You prove it in tournaments, and you are proving it to yourself, not to other people. Once you have proven to yourself what you can do, and you are well trained, you have no need to try to prove to anyone else.. thus you tend to avoid altercations. You know that seemingly innocuous looking guy just might be better trained than you are. You also learn to read people, judging their capabilities by simply looking at their posture and how they move.
There is a big difference between declining someone's offer to fisticuffs, and acquiescing to them.
How does this all relate to dating and women? Well you see women are often VERY adept at judging a man's dangerousness by how he walks, moves, and speaks. Its his confidence that draws them in and you display confidence, you do not announce it verbally. Its how you do things rather than what you say. They don't want someone who will harm them, they want someone who 'can' harm anyone who messes with them. They want to know you are dangerous, but will refrain from hurting them.
They want the warrior who is gentle with them when he needs to be, and can toss them around a bit during spicy time.
I have never lost to someone over 5'10 in a wrestling match, and I haven't lost any fights since I was 16 back in 1985. I have inflicted grievous harm upon others who were trying to harm me, yet have never initiated an altercation. The 6' tall guys were a source of amusement for me, I would pad my stats for points, then pin them in the 2nd period. They never had a chance. In real life, they have to have a lot of muscle and training to hang with me, even though I am relatively short. My brother is a 3 time state champ, he is not to be trifled with either.
Women are attracted to tall guys because they feel small around them, they are intimidated by tall men, just like their dad when they were growing up. If you can make her feel both intimidated and at ease, which is being dangerous yet peaceful, you will do quite well with the ladies.
I had to admonish you about western women though, there are very precious few of them worth the effort and risk. If they are worth the risk and effort, they are usually taken. They can cheat without immediate consequence, divorce you after cheating and be handsomely rewarded for her poor choices, and its at your expense she is rewarded.
That is NOT her fault, it is the fault of legislation that benefits women no matter what they do, and punishes men for anything they do or do not do. The man is responsible for her, she is set to profit from him when she leaves. The consequences of those actions show up later, usually after she is 35. If she frivolously divorced the man she got in her early 20s, every man after him will be of lower quality, less value, and less trustworthy. She gets her best man at her best, and that is 18 to 26.
I have two ex wives, divorced from the first for 22 years, the second for ten years. They both thought they could do better. They were both wrong, and both ended up in the mental ward because of their poor choices.
The first was 3 years after the divorce, the state charged me for her hospital stay, despite the fact we were divorced for 3 years. She was 8 years of hell to live with.
The second was this month, the ten year anniversary of me ending it via text because she spent the weekend with another guy... because I had been sick for a while from paint fumes getting into my mask and messing up my lungs. She left because I got sick for a few months. Her life is ruined, by her own hand, and with the encouragement of her sisters, mother, and friends. She and I got along wonderfully, never fighting, spending time together, and I was waiting until I no longer had to pay the first one 71% of my gross pay in child support.. that was in 2015 she was paid off. Two years after she light the fuse to burn her life down.
I know a few thousand people, from all over the world. My ex wives are typical of what happens when a woman divorces her first husband in the hope she can get a better one. They simply cannot, especially in their 30s unless they chose exceptionally poorly in their 20s.
So lift, get trained, build confidence and your life, be aware that you are at fault for all of her choices and actions in the eyes of the court and society, but realize that YOU make who you are. Nobody does it for you. Nobody comes to rescue men in this particular area of society. You might get recued on a battlefield, but when it comes to divorce and the court system, you are on your own and society hates you.
Matt Walsh will even blame you for what she does, so does Jordan Peterson, because in the end, you are responsible for those who are subordinate to you.
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@decwow my ex used to tell my kids and everyone else who would listen that I only cared about the money. She also told my kids I didn't care about them, and didn't want to see them. She would screen my calls on birthdays and holidays, and she changed her number often. When I sent things to them, she would throw them away or keep it for herself.
Guess what she did when they turned 19 and the child support ended for them. Yeah, she kicked them out of the house. They came to me and rather than coddling them, I got my daughters working and supporting themselves. I helped them get going, but they knew they had to earn their way in life.
Then since I am a crippled veteran, my kids could attend college/uni with the tuition paid. My ex was taking money from my kid's VA benefits.
The ex has racked up huge debt, and has nothing to show for her life. All she will leave my kids is a mess to clean up, and probably people calling them trying to get money she owes.
In contrast I own 13 acres of land, and there is around $500k worth of tools equipment, parts, and entire muscle cars here. I am completely debt free, and investing everything I get into my land or the vehicles. Old GTOs and Formula/TransAm Firebirds can be quite valuable... I have 11 Firebirds, 4 GTOs, and 7 LeMans, along with some Mustangs, and a Cougar. I will have most of them running, drivable, and looking nice before I exit this plane of existence.... well naturally exit, can't do much about if someone evicts me from my meat suit.
She is a burden to my kids, as she was to me. I am a benefit to my kids, and yet I was told I was unfit to be a parent because I was in the US military, a judge who was a Marine actually said that to me. I wish nothing but ill upon him and the lying harridans working child support enforcement.
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VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM my daughters are 26 and 29, both are single, no kids. The oldest doesn't want kids, because she has bipolar and will not inflict that on some innocent child. She is mad at me for having her with her mom. I have my doubts about if she is actually my kid or not. I know the second one is, she and I tested it because she is so very different than her sister.
The younger one has been trying desperately to find a man who will stay, but because of how her mom raised her, and her mom allowing her to get tattoos when she was 15, she turned my kid into a practice chick. Nobody wants to write a check against her, between the bipolar and promiscuity from her mother having zero self control and instilling that in my kids, I will probably never have grandkids.
This default for mothers getting custody creates a negative feedback loop that extends for generations. They want to ruin lives, and they say its 'best interest of the child' as they give them mental issues, limit their development, and continue the trend of poverty and dependence on the state.
Its intentional and by design.
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@mowtivatedmechanic1172 they realized when they were about 12 that she was the less than sane one, and lied all the time. When they came to visit me for the first summer, they saw how different it was with me.
They still talk to her, but they don't trust her. They can't depend on her for anything, When they need help or just want to get some consolation because a pet died, they call me. With their mom its always about her, my mom was the same way in that regard.
I tried not to disparage their mom, but she made it a point to say everything she possibly could to negatively influence them about me. Such is the capricious vindictiveness of females.
A funny thing happened about two years ago, my youngest was talking to me on the phone, she had me on speaker at her mom's house. She said something about how she wishes we had never divorced. I told her, that was not up to me. What floored me was I heard her mom in the background actually admitting that she was the problem. That she caused the divorce, and it was her untreated bipolar that was instrumental in her cheating, being terrible with money, and starting irrational fights that she escalated into throwing things, hitting me with stuff, and even cutting me with knives.
I was more than twice her size in the 90s, and I am VERY capable of defending myself and inflicting grievous harm upon others if I so choose, but she had the state behind her and she took advantage of it. If I ever harmed her in any way I was going to jail for a long time. The cops never cared what she did to me, only if I did anything to her. It was 8 years living in hell for me.
She had finally realized that, and apologized and admitted she was to blame for all the bad that happened.
Here is why she admitted it. She is trying to manipulate me into taking her back. The guy she married is 64 (ten years older than I am) and he has health problems, so he just hands over his VA check to her. He is not a war nor combat vet like I am, the funny thing is he was stationed at the base near where I live now.
She wastes all his money, and has a problem with oxycontin. If her mom had not died last year, their house would have been foreclosed. She left her just enough to get caught up, and now she is about to lose it again.
In 2018 my youngest was living here off and on, so she had a bunch of stuff here. Her mom and grandma brought more of my kids stuff. She saw the house I was building, the shop I built, and all the muscle cars I have done and am working on rebuilding. I live in the woods, away from everyone, and its VERY scenic here.
She lives in a medium sized city, 100 yards from train tracks that have coal trains going by ever half hour, all day and night. She paid more for a half acre and a 1100sqft shack than I have in 13 acres, house, shop, and nearly all my cars. She got a 30 year mortgage, I got a ten and paid it off two years early.
She saw what I have, and what I am building, and she wants to crawl in my wallet again and leech more from me.
At 49 years old, over 300lbs at 5'3 with a pill problem, and the bipolar... even without the fact she ruined my life and that of my kids, kept me in poverty for 15 years no matter how much I earned, and left me sleeping in my car while I was active duty from 2001 to 2004, there is NO DAMN WAY I would let her back in my life.
So yeah, my kids talk to her, but they don't really like her. They know it was her that screwed them over and kept me from protecting them.
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The anti gun people I know are the timid, afraid, and easily manipulated insecure people, who know they are helpless. They are misguided in thinking that if we get rid of all guns, they will be safe. they are ignorant of how guns work, the capabilities of guns, and everything about them... or they know full well that an armed populace is not going to be easily subjugated and controlled.
I often to to explain this simple concept to them. I am rather well trained, have extensive experience with conflict and violence, have more muscle mass than 90% of the world population, and I can use it very effectively. You have to be quite adept at some forms of MMA and have enough muscle mass to have a chance in an altercation with me.
Now what would allow the average man or woman to defend themselves against someone such as myself who intends to do grievous harm? Do they wait for police to arrive while they cower in a closet behind locked doors? They have to come out sometime, and its not hard to get inside if you really want to. What can they do when they are timid, weak, and untrained? They are dependent to others to do it for them.
Children are dependent on others for protection and what they need to survive. Adults should be able to do it themselves. These anti gun people want to be children, to have someone else bear the responsibility for them, and do what is difficult so they themselves do not have to.
A firearm makes people able to defend against someone with capabilities such as myself, who lacks the restraint to refrain from doing as we please with them. I can defend the weak and incapable, but why should I risk my life for them when they try desperately to remove my means of doing the job?
Now realize that you do not need to be a muscle bound freak of nature to inflict your will upon others, you only need to have the will to do it, and if you are small you only need a couple friends to take on the weak and timid. That is why the likes of antifa only attack those who are weak and incapable of defending themselves, the old, frail, and wheelchair bound, or they use sneak attacks with bike locks and skateboards. If you are a hard target, they will probably not try it with you.
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Sacrifice? I'll tell you about sacrifice. You invest in a girl for years, or decades, while you build your life and pull her along with you. Then she decides she wants some other Tab D in her Slot C than yours. You get to sacrifice everything you built, earned, created, and owned TO HER.... just because she got nekkid and showed you here snot pocket. Yeah its a crude way of putting it, but maybe the humor of it will let it sink in.
I am 53, twice divorced, four years total homeless living in cars and on friend's couches. Two years in the US military sleeping in my car and living on $100 a month, because my home state decided that 71% of my gross was a good idea. I sacrificed, bled, busted my ass, did difficult and dangerous jobs to support them... and for what? Her to run off with a loser and put herself in a worse position while financially eviscerating me?
Go ahead...knock yourself out. Take the risk and hope she never wants anyone but you. Both of mine wanted my wallet and other guys... Ya know what though? The second one acted right for nearly 9 years, because she knew if she screwed up she was gone that same day. Then we got married and 16 months later we were divorced. In less than 10 months she burned her life to the ground. She turned 40 in August, she is single, unwanted, essentially unemployed and her dad pays her bills. Her entire family blames me for her bad choices, when they encouraged her to undertake those bad choices.
They don't like me because I own 13 acres of woodland, built my house, a shop, and I rebuild old muscle cars to stay busy.... and she can't get half of everything anymore, and THEY have to support her. Girls have massive incentives to do what my ex wives did, and the downside comes years later when the guy they cheat with has dumped them, and several others have as well. They squander their best years, they throw away the best man they can get, and then blame him for all her woes.
Patrice was exactly right about how men need to be so the girl will not misbehave. Once you commit to her, she doesn't have to work for it anymore, and you have to pay. So put your head on the chopping block, stick it in the noose, and maybe once a week she will give you some most wizard sleeve.
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@redneckroy8947 I certainly have noticed, and going back to 2017 I saw the turn happen. The turn where an ever increasing number of men had enough, and were not going to play the game anymore. I started hearing friends who had no idea about the side of society where Popp is, saying the same things we have been saying since 2010.
I have friends in their 30s and 40s who are not dating, because every time they do its a nightmare of insecurity, untrustworthiness, and irrational demands. Its going mainstream, because even Carl and his friends are seeing it and speaking about it, they just aren't as crass as we are with Popp's crew.
It has to be growing a lot faster than we can see, with all the vitriol coming at us over men leaving the country to start a family, others staying home to play video games or do whatever else they like instead of going out and starting a doomed relationship. Its doomed because she has massive incentives to destroy it, and we have to pay her when she does. Why pay for something you don't get to enjoy that provides zero benefit to you? Even the men who have never heard of our niche are coming to the same conclusions.
As long as females continue to act poorly, men will avoid them at best, and use them at worst. The hilarious part is that she hates being ignored, and loves being used.
Our niche is growing because men base their choices on merit, logic, and reason, not on emotion.
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@evanhuizenga8626 its the laws and society's treatment of men that has me bothered. I like girls, I like people, even though I am rather antisocial. People have been the source of my stress and hardship for my entire life, so I only let people into my life who contribute and do not detract from it.
Everyone gets a chance though, very few earn a place. I will not tolerate one misstep, if they break my temporary trust, it is never regained. Good friends are hard to find. They don't have to be perfect, they just have to be trustworthy.
I will never marry again, or even let a girl live here with me, because the state will take my land and everything I have built since 2015 after my final divorce, then paid off in 2021, and give it to her.... doesn't matter if she cheats, mistreats me, or does everything wrong, she is rewarded for it at my expense.
I never cheated or mistreated either of my ex wives, but they did.. and they got everything they wanted, the state was all too happy to give it to them, even leaving me living in one of my old cars I had running at the time.
That is one hell of an incentive to not get married. I warn young men about it, not because I dislike women, I have two daughters who are 26 and 28 who are single and can't find a guy who will stick around. Its society and the laws, all of us men are incentivized to avoid females, to not support them, to not help them.
Fix that and you fix the problem, but it will be far too late for my kids, and their entire generation. The only way they will end up with kids is if the baby trap some guy, and they will probably end up single moms.
Society did this, the legal system did this, we men who are taking our stuff and going away are only reacting to it. Blame us for everything, yeah we will stop doing for you.
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@kajjak7001 I have two daughters your age, and I agree with you. The risk is simply too high for men. The younger one, who is 26, just broke up with her boyfriend of three years last night. He ended it. Yes I feel for my kids, and yeah I want to have grandkids I can spoil rotten and teach how to do all sorts of things, but how the hell does a young man know if that girl will stick around, be pleasant, and not cheat on him?
He doesn't. He simply doesn't and the only way to find out is take the huge risk then wait and see.
If there is a busy street where 40% of men are getting hit by a bus, are you going to cross that street? What if its 80%? What if its just 20%? Two in ten men get hit by a bus... are you going to risk it or go somewhere else?
The divorce rate is dropping because the marriage rate is nearly nonexistent. The chances you'll get divorced are far higher than she won't cheat, mistreat, or abandon you while taking everything you have earned.
I blame society and effin ism for this. Society blames us, and all their solutions are punish the men harder until they comply and enslave themselves to some girl. No thought to giving positive incentives to men to marry, like eliminating no fault divorce for a start, and having child support itemized.
Another good one that will never come to fruition, automatic paternity tests at birth. If its not his, he is not responsible, if its the second kid, he keeps the previous ones and she is sent off to find her own way.
Instead society and the legal system treat men like rented mules in a salt mine.
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@superdave8248 the USAF boot camp was super easy for me. I wrestled in high school, grew up on a farm, they only wanted us to do 30 push ups and sit ups, a mile and a half run in under 11 minutes. I went to basic being able to run almost two miles in ten minutes and could crank out 200 push ups or and sit ups easily, I could do sets of 200 when I was 19. They said I was overweight and messed with me about it the entire time I was in.
The marines wanted me to repair armor, the Navy offered me nuke school in Goose Creek SC, the USAF said you can push pallets of cargo and net cargo down on pallets. The Army only offered me infantry..
I did not want to be on a submarine, or a carrier, down in the bottom of the thing being a snipe. Didn't want to be the smartest guy in my platoon in the army sleeping in mud, and I honestly considered the Marines, except you could end up on a boat out in the ocean even if you were an armor tech. So yeah I loaded cargo planes.
It was 1988 so there was no stress card nonsense, and three candy aqss types from California wimped out of super easy USAF basic. They claimed they got high while on delayed enlistment so they could get out.
It was an entirely different military in the 1980s and early 90s.
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@williambranch4283 I enlisted when Reagan was in office. Medical discharge in 2005 with Dubya. 100% permanent and totally disabled, 100% service connected since 2005. The VA is my only health care and income, I am not allowed to earn anything more, no investments, no rental properties, no taxable income whatsoever.
So it matters a great deal to me who is in office.
Here is what I have found. The D's cut VA funding, limit cost of living adjustments for us, and it takes several months to get seen at the VA. When Barry was in office, I had to go to the ER if I had a problem between noon on Thursday and 0900 on Monday. The ER visit came out of pocket for me, and every time it was roughly 3 entire months of my income. They also restricted meds and constantly tried to change them to the cheapest thing possible, even if they don't work.
Then we got the cheeto, biggest cost of living adjustment since I got messed up in the desert in 2017 (until this year, more on that later.) The last one we got was 2010, and congress forced Barry into it. I could walk in and be seen, or call and get an appointment the next day, two days at most. No hassles about meds, and my ER visit was paid for by the VA. He made it law that they now have to pay the ER visits if we can't get in. I have respiratory issues and sometimes I have to get in right now.
The cost of living adjustment this year was larger because they have devalued the dollar so badly, we got a percentage that is less than half of what inflation is. It amounted to $200 more each month.
We don't have more veterans in the system now, but they have more BS they have to do and fewer people to do it, and that translates into being able to see fewer of us, which means we wait longer to get in. Seriously a five minute phone call appointment to set up something takes 90 days to get.
The day after the potato was installed, the VA went right back to how it was with Barry, but now its worse.
So if the cheeto was controlled opposition, which I always suspected, at least he made sure veterans are treated better. The D's seem to make it a point to take funding from us and make our lives worse, all while claiming they are doing so much good for us. The D's have been clamoring for conflicts since LBJ, and they were in office in 1917 and 1941 as well, yet somehow the R's are always called the warstarters.
The 01-03 invasions were after 8 years of Bill doing nothing when we were attacked 9 times, and for his entire term he was calling for what Dubya actually did. Yet Bill sat on his hands and cut funding. I remember the rhetoric vividly from them in the 90s. All while he cut the military so much that many of us were deployed around the world for several years at a time. Bill cut the military so much that we had one man doing the work of five or more.
The 92 drawdown and huge budget cuts left me without a job so I was forced out of the military. Then Bill signed NAFTA and the CNC programmer/machinist jobs all went to Mexico. He eviscerated our manufacturing with the stroke of a pen. My only recourse was to enlist again, and since he had cut the military so badly, I was able to do that... just in time for my second war and two more deployments, and ending up crippled for the rest of my life.
Guess who voted that we go into Iraq back in 2003... Bill's wife, Barry, and all the bile spewing D twunts that lied about the cheeto and accused him of every horrific thing they were doing themselves.
I loathe politicians, and I have never liked the cheeto, going all the way back to the first time I became aware of him when he was on Oprah in the 80s, my mom used to watch her show every day. I can't stand the way he talks, and something about him grates on my nerves, but he was the best president in my lifetime, which extends back to Nixon.
The Rs fund the military and veterans, the Ds defund the military and start wars for us to fight, and then hope we expire rather than compensate us.
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I happen to live green as fuck. I make vodka fuel from tree sap and cattails to power my vehicles and generators. I heat with wood, and biomass water heaters that don't burn anything while they make excellent topsoil. I built my house with shipping containers. I can produce my own food, electricity, and all my energy needs. I collect and filter rain water, using about 10 gallons per week. I reuse, repurpose, rebuild, rather than replace with a new one. My newest vehicle is a 2006, theoldest is a 1932 Pontiac. My summer daily is a 1965 GTO, along with a 70 Cuda, 76 C10, and soon a 71 Formula 400 Firebird, that only emit Co2 and H2O when they are run on my home made ethanol fuel. I had a plethora of firearms, lever actions, semi autos, bolts, but I lost them all in a tragic boating accident in Lake Superior. So sad.
I do this so I can afford to live on my fixed income, and because I like to drive overpowered old muscle cars. Ethanol allows me to run very high compression ratios in my daily driver, on fuel that costs me ten to forty cents per gallon to produce.
I LOATHE MARXISM.
Those pricks do not care about the environment, they crave power and control. They are only using green as a Trojan Horse to gain power over all of us. Its sad I lost all my rifles and ammo...
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@michaelsix9684 after 8 years of abuse and her irrational violence, my first ex wife cost me over $250k in cash that I will never see. Indentured to her for 15 years because she did everything wrong and was rewarded for doing it. Initially they awarded her 71% of my gross in child support, ignoring every law and doing what they wanted to do. That left me living in my car and sleeping on friends couches while active duty military.
After a few years I got her to agree to lowering it to only 50% and a fixed number rather than the scaling amount the state wanted to impose. It only ratchets up, it never goes down with the state, unless she agrees to less.
I got to see my kids for 12 days out of the first 7 years, she stole their childhood from me, and the state helped her. Laws did not matter, the state did what it wanted to do, and she could do anything she wanted and they didn't care. She now owes me $8k but there is no punishment nor enforcement for her.
The second was wonderful for 8 years, then we got married and 16 months later we were divorced. With her loser boyfriend, she set me up and falsely accused me, so I did 15 days in jail for something I could not have done. Still lost the house again, but no support payments or alimony, because she knew if she went after the income I had left I would simply put a bullet through my head after burning everything I owned. 50% of nothing is nothing.
Neither one contributed a damn thing, they leeched from me, and the first one stole the kids and fucked them up.
I have three brothers, I am the second oldest, and they managed to stay married. Maybe they overlooked the cheating, or their wives were not given the opportunity to cheat with someone who actually would, but they stayed together, one for 30 years now the other for 25. Two of my sisters in law hit on me and would have fucked me, the other is so homely and unattractive I'd never even consider it.
Most friends of mine are divorced at least once, and a few have never been married. The latter are usually doing better than the rest of us.
If you have gotten laid a few hundred times in your life, you aren't missing anything but useless debt, pissing money away down a vagina doesn't get you anywhere.
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@Gunsight-One hey man, good to see you again. I made another reply about that, check out my others, I think I managed to avoid bad words while writing it.
TLDR is I got sick helping her dad, she took off with a kid who has no future nor ambition, but feels entitled to everything, and he left her 6 years ago give or take a year. Now she is 41, alone, unwanted, and when her mom dies, and she rips through the inheritance, she will be in a world of hurt.
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@stormthecat7395 the environment where we adapted to live via evolution is what decides our racial differences. My last 30 or so ancestors on both sides of my family came from Europe, part of Germany. Go back farther and you have lighter skin people because of the lack of UV light. You have people who learned to use tools early on because the weather demanded it. The smart people survived by storing food for winter.
We are a product of the environment in which we have lived for a certain number of generations.
Culture comes from where we live, and who we become by living there. The more harsh and unforgiving the environment, the more selective evolution will be. Less harsh environments do not require people to plan ahead for 6 months of snow, they have no need to do so when food is available all year.
Go back far enough, a couple hundred thousand years, maybe a million years, we were pretty much all the same race. It was when we spread out over the globe that the races came to be. Its who survived and had kids, that is where culture and race come from. We were shaped by the environment, the weather, the seasons, availability of food, even by conflict with others.
The genetic differences between equatorial people and those who lives farther from the equator are so minimal we can mix the races without issue. Not so with other animals changed by geography and their environments. What food is available will adapt the organisms living there, and its not always compatible after a certain number of generations.
Europeans and Asians have achieved a hell of a lot, because the harsh environment shaped them into people who can adapt and survive easily. Its the region, not the race, because the race came about due to the region.
Its not because I am white that I am good with machines and building things, its because my family adapted through the centuries to be good at those things and I carry the traits of my forefathers. I am white because we came from Germany, I am good at that stuff because we came from Germany. It was the environment that made my family who we are and endowed us with certain traits.
I've travelled the world, met people from four continents, and people are generally the same in what they want in life... a better life for their kids than they had is a big one. How resistant to UC light someone is does not matter anywhere near as much as what adaptations their ancestors made to fit the environment.
I suppose you can be proud of who you are if you want, but I accept who I am, what I look like, what my capabilities are, and what limits I have. I do what I can with what I was born with. The fact I get sunburned is annoying, it is not a source of pride or feeling superior to others.
The intellect I have been given by genetics does make me feel superior to others rather often, but I am aware that other people know things I do not, and can do things I cannot do. So I also accept that we are all in a different place with different knowledge and experiences. The only time I look down on someone for a lack of intellect is when they cannot grasp a simple concept like evolution and what I have said above this.
i notice its the stupid people who tend to put the emphasis on race. I am not a collectivist, I am an essentialist individualist, I take people for who they are rather than what they look like, because i know their 'group' will probably not define who they are. I know my group does not define me.. I define me.
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@cult_of_odin those of us who figured it out early got laid a lot, even if we were short like me. I've had wives of tall guys hit on and sleep with me more than I care to admit.
The way it looks to me is dominance and confidence play the biggest part, and indifference to them sets the hook. You do not build confidence by going with the flow or following the herd, on the other side if you have a dominant personality you are not following the herd, you are finding your own path. People will follow you if you are competent and capable with a dominant personality.
Most people misunderstand dominance, they think its controlling or domineering, its not, being either one of those is usually an indication of insecurity and lack of confidence. They also assume that an 'alpha male' will be tall, good looking, wealthy, etc. None of those matter, its all mindset, attitude, and dominance.
My younger brother is 5'5 on a good day, he is only 165lbs, but he has confidence far above what most people have. He earned it. Multiple state wrestling champ in high school, joined the US Army, drove trucks hauling crewed/operational tanks around the desert for three tours in Iraq, then got his warrant and learned to fly UH60s. Later he was an instructor teaching others to fly.
He grew up somewhat like I did, it was a rough life on the farm without much money. Our older brother is very insecure, and he would take that out on us with beatings. I got it worse than my brother though, since he was younger. The oldest is not dominant, he is not a leader in any way, so he was using violence to try to be dominant over both of us. He ended up getting his ass kicked by us when our strength matched his. I nearly killed him.
So my brother has had a rough life, saw lots of action and friends get zeroed out in the desert and mountains, but guys over 6' move out of his way in public. They can tell that he will do some damage just by the way he carries himself.
That kid got almost as much tail as I did, but he got married in 1992, so that cut down on how many others he got since he isn't divorced. I got divorced twice, but around those two 8 year relationships I was pulling tail easily and often. The longest I went was 8 months when I was going to Korea, and for the first few months being there. Had other things going on in my life, so poon was not a priority at all.
I've seen tall guys who are insecure, have a friend who is just about 30 and still a virgin, kid is 6'3, but is so unambitious and timid that he works in a grocery store stocking shelves. I try to get him to take some risks and learn to do new things, but he doesn't want to. He wants to stay sad and lonely I guess. Good thing he doesn't know I banged his mom.
Its a mix of traits that affect how we carry ourselves, and dominance is something females can see in us without us saying a word. Its how we stand, walk, move, etc. The guys who aren't dominant display that in how they move, stand, walk, etc.
Thing is they can learn it, and they can earn the confidence, if they apply themselves. My brother and I did it through wrestling and the military. Sure my base personality is different than my celibate friends, but I am not exactly an extrovert. Not an introvert either, I can be outgoing and boisterous, but I can also blend in with the surroundings, well as much as a 300 pound muscle bound gorilla looking freak can blend in.
Thing is my brother and those of us like him don't need to prove anything to anyone else, we have already proven it to ourselves, and the opinions of others does not matter. That is essentially a dominant and confident personality, its earned, usually through hardship and effort.
Those guys who can't get laid, have not achieved anything to earn it. They don't realize that poon is NOT the goal, its a consequence of achievement or of good looks. Being tall definitely makes it easier, but its not impossible for a short guy to have it too.
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Launching a street car with a mild cam, highway gears, and 8" tires? Well.. that depends entirely on how much torque is under your right foot. The 65 GTO has a 455, Th350, 3.08 gears, and 255 60 15 Coopers on it. It will smoke the tires as long as I stay in the throttle, no need to hold the brakes. The 70 Cuda has a 340, 904, 3.23 gears, and 255 45 17s, it won't spin the tires unless you make a determined effort, just not enough torque under 3000rpm to do it.
Practice and test it, see what your car likes and what it will do. I know how much throttle I can give the GTO before it smokes the tires, it actually hooks rather well, unless it gets all the beans from a complete stop. The suspension is set up to work the tires pretty hard, so its not like driving around on ice with slicks. You can do it on a stretch of deserted road, doing 60ft after 60ft until you know what it will do.
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@budbas based on rank, time in service, and time in grade, everyone in the military gets paid on the same scale. So that guy climbing a mountain with someone dropping grenades down at him gets paid the same as she does sitting in an office filling out forms... and he will get an ok performance report and she will get a stellar one, regardless of her job performance.
As an NCO I was forced to give them top marks on performance reports, but the males I had to justify all of it unless they were one of the 'favorite special ones' who did next to nothing in reality, but was lauded for the most minor and mundane things.
Enlisted performance reports (EPRs) are a scale of 1 to 5. 1 and 2 is discharge them at the earliest, 3 is what you give to someone who is barely able to function. 4 is what you get when you aren't doing a bunch of things for the local community, going to school for higher ed, or have your nose so deep in your boss you can see what he just had for breakfast, but you are VERY good at your job. 5 is what you get when you're that last guy, female by default, or you are absolutely outstanding and have not intimidated the guy writing the EPR.
Your EPR plays a pat in the points you need to get promoted, so do awards/medals/decorations. I was screwed out of many medals for doing things nobody else could do, because I am freakishly muscular. The 90-91 airlift packed 50lbs of muscle on me in around 6 months. I got an achievement medal for working 5000 airplanes in the first six weeks of Desert Shield. My Colonel during Shield/Storm said E3s do not get commendations, which is what my performance warranted, so I got an award worth 1 point rather than 2.
There was a gasp from my gaining unit when my award was read to the squadron in 1992, usually you get an achievement for participating in something, what I did was superhuman, it normally would take a crew of 5 to do what I did single handed. They don't want someone who can bench press 500lbs, they want someone skinny who brown noses, and looks good in uniform... or bleeds a week every month and does very little actual work.
Females came back from deployments where they sat in AC doing safe non difficult paperwork/office jobs, and got awards for showing up. That means they were promoted faster.
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The more masculine you are, and the more you accept that about yourself, the fewer problems you will have with depression and considering self eviction from your meat suit. Be a man and own it. Apologize to nobody for being a man, especially when your accusers are NOT men.
Ever since I started getting muscular at age 14, grew up on a Nebraska farm and we get kinda burly, I haven't had a problem attracting females. They like a rough hands highly capable man, and when that man can pick them up and carry her a few miles, they really like it. They are attracted to strength, both physical and mental. Here is why that matters:
I have always had a problem getting them to stick around, sometimes its a one time thing, sometimes a few weeks, and the longest I have had a relationship is 9 years. Its not that I get weak, its that they perceive me differently, and start believing I am somehow not the capable man I actually am. Part of that is that society teaches us that we are supposed to act a certain way with our significant other. When I would do that, they would almost immediately lose interest in me. If I get sick or show any weakness at all, she suddenly thinks I am not capable anymore. She can see weakness in something simple and innocuous such as you cooking a meal for her. (I actually cook for them to get them to leave when they are clingy or I am concerned about pets being boiled)
The other part of it is that familiarity breeds contempt. They get used to me, and the novelty wears off.
For the last ten years since my second and final divorce, I have acted the same way all the time when I attract one who fits my criteria. Yeah she has to fit my standards, which honestly have a somewhat wide tolerance and my boundaries are simple to understand while being not at all controlling. She is free to leave at any time and take what she brought with her, and nothing I have earned. Around here the females who can get over that very low bar, which is akin to a painted line on smooth concrete, are few and far between.
Now they tend to move on because they get zero commitment from me, can you blame me? Every time I made a commitment, she got my house, most of my income, and damn near everything I had earned and built. Why risk it when I now own 13 acres of woodland where I live, my house, a bunch of 60s and 70s muscle cars, and have a passive income? They weren't here to help me build it, why should they get it, particularly when SHE is the one who cheats?
I do what I want. I do not consult others who bear no responsibility nor accountability for my actions nor do I ask permission, its my decision to make. I am a 54 year old man, have been through two wars, two divorces, built my house and the shop where I build old cars I drive and enjoy. I did not pay others to do it for me, I did/do all that work. If I need something and I can build it rather than buy it, I build it. The PC I am writing this on is one I built. So is the one I use for video editing and gaming in the evenings. There is nothing I cannot learn, and precious little at which I cannot become adept or proficient.
Men do things, men are interested in things, men build, men can also destroy and protect. Its who we are, and acting more like women does NOT do us any favors nor does it benefit us in any way. We are how we are, and when we are capable competent men, women are attracted to us. If we act like women, they are repulsed by us.
Stop listening to women who tell us how to be men, because they have no damn clue what it is or what it means, let alone how.
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I really enjoy all these health and fitness videos, talking about how large people are, and that women aren't normally thin... because of my name on here. Funny how there are THOUSANDS of eastern European, Asian, and African women on webcams who are thin, and South American women are voluptuous, but not freakishly huge like here in the states.
So ya know, a man with a big chest, lots of muscle, who is over 40, is going to have a belly unless he runs a lot and cuts calories hard to maintain weight. Look at silverback gorillas, they have a belly on them with that huge chest. Most men will never gain that much muscle mass though, so if they have no chest and have a belly, yeah they are simply out of shape. Most of them don't really care..
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@Terimator20 it depends on what you are growing, why you are growing it, and what you are growing it for that matters. Monoculture, which is a field with all the same plants in it is useful for industrial products like corn, soybeans, milo, etc.
Humans do not eat the corn you see in fields while driving across I80 or I70 through Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri, that is an industrial product, and its a not so great livestock feed as is, but we can do a lot more with that stuff.
Humans eat sweet corn, its grown in much smaller patches because you have to pick it within a day or two of it maturing. I grew and sold sweet corn to buy my first car when I was 13 years old in 1982. There are many varieties of corn, mostly hybrids and inedible stuff too. Corn cannot exist without humans, as it is not a naturally occurring species, we made them through selective breeding, much in the same way we made different dog breeds..
Permaculture is growing vegetables with beneficial plants near to each other, some keep bugs away, some add nitrogen to the soil, but doing so requires more space to get enough food from it. There are always trade offs.
Crop rotation is standard procedure for farmers. They plant soybeans every 5 to 7 years, because soybeans are nitrogen fixers, they put it in the ground with their root system. Corn removes nitrogen from the soil, so you have a balance when you plant beans every few years.
So many people in this thread have no clue what goes into agriculture, how to grow plants, raise animals, harvest, butchering, all they know is the propaganda they have been told.
If they had to grow their own food, they would starve, they probably don't know how to preserve food, like canning, drying, and other methods of long term storage. Yet they think they are smarter than the people who feed them.
Case in point, the head of EPA during the Obama administration was under the impression that it took 100 acres of corn to make one gallon of ethanol. She had no concept of how large an acre is, or that we get 250 to 500 gallons of ethanol from each acre of corn, depending on if its dry land or irrigated... and the variety planted as they yield differently as well.
Senator Grassley from Iowa took her to a field with 1 acre of corn planted in it so she could get a visual representation of how much space that requires. Then he showed her how much fuel 500 gallons is. She is one of those urban people who had never even seen a cow before, or had any notion of automobiles, fuels, agriculture, or the oil business.
Most people are ignorant of damn near everything going on around them... like the one in this thread who thinks plants are 'soaked' in pesticides, doesn't even know what form pesticides come in, but thinks they are bad and obviously sprayed 24/7.
If I told people that magical fairies are how a transmission functions, they would only not believe it because they know fairies are mythical story critters. They still have no clue what a planet carrier, sun gear, or ring gear do, nor apply pistons, valve bodies, governors, solenoids, bands, reaction carriers, or anything else.. they just know you put it in D, R and P.
However, they can probably tell you all about some celebrity or TV show.
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Hey Tim, have some kids and find out that its not very difficult to be a parent. I suppose its a steep learning curve if you have no siblings that are 8 or more years younger than you, but its not real hard. I was number 2 of 6 kids, 10 years older than the second to last, 13 older than the last, so I learned early on how to do the parent thing. Sure when they are too young for solid food, you don't get a lot of sleep. That only lasts two or three months. Colic really sucks, but it passes after a while. That is all in less than one year of your kid's life. When they are 3 they can start learning things like reading, writing, how to run a PC, math, colors, shapes, but its still lots of fun teaching them to crawl walk, run when they are younger and ride bikes when they are older.
I absolutely loved being a dad and teaching my two daughters all kinds of things. I was working 60 to 70 hours every week, 50 to 60 or so in a factory as a CNC machinist, and then in my one car garage on the side to make more money to do fun stuff for me, but I still had time to spend with my kids. I didn't watch TV, I spent that time with my kids, and they came out to my garage with me all the time. I would sit them on the fender of the car I was working on and explain to them what I was doing. I have a set of short wrenches, 3/8" to 3/4" and the 3/8" fit perfectly in my daughter's hand when she was 4, she carried it around with her all the time. Its in my toolbox right now end every time I use it I think of her 25 years ago on the fender of my beat up GTO or walking around the very low buck Firebird Formula drag car as I was doing stuff to them.
The first letters both of my daughters learned were GTO. I'm a gearhead and school sucked for me, so I found ways to make learning fun for my kids. I asked them "Do you want to learn to read?" when they turned 3 and were able to communicate ok, and they said emphatically "YES!" I sat them on my knee at the nose of my 1970 Pontiac, and taught them GTO using the grille emblem. Then I taught them the other letters on the trunk lid of my 1972 GTO that spelled out Pontiac, they already knew T and O. From there it was the rest of the alphabet, the sounds each letter can make and how to read on the computer. They were reading college level by 6th grade... just like I was at that age. I taught them math the same way, with cars, and fractions were easy with wrenches. You can get into some big involved math with vehicles, so its a wonderful way to teach a kid how numbers work.
After the divorce in 2001, and I could get home to see them from the military, I would get them for a weekend when I could find them. Then in 2008 after I was out of the military, I was able to get them to come visit me for the summer. May to Mid August. The other days were stolen from me for those 7 years, I got to see them a total of 12 days. The most painful thing to ever happen to me was her taking off with them and keeping them from me. I taught them to drive when they were 13, and they learned how to shoot at 7, gun safety was important they learned that as soon as they could understand English. They grew up around loaded boomsticks, and we never had a problem with them, same as me and my 5 siblings.
Yeah I fed them, cooked for them since I have been cooking for myself since I was 9, changed diapers, and taught them all sorts of things in the process. It was enjoyable to spend time with them, but their mother seemed to loathe them being around most of the time. Comparing raising my kids and taking care of them, providing guidance and supervision as they learn about the world they were born into versus what I did as jobs is a HUGE difference.
I grew up on a farm, started working at 8, long days, heavy lifting, dangerous stuff working with equipment and livestock. A steer can mess you up by kicking you, so can horses. I worked on machines, threw hay bales, irrigation pipe, and lots more, usually wearing a respirator because of allergies to grain dust. By the time I was 18 I was bench pressing over 300lbs, and I weighed 175lbs at 5'8" and could run for hours. Wrestled in high school, went to state at 167lbs, had a winning record and messed up some kids in the process. Worked as a mechanic and machinist after leaving farm work behind, more heavy lifting and highly technical jobs using math, spatial skills, and developed a good work ethic. Almost none of my time was spent in a gym in high school, our weight room was a closet.
Then I enlisted, the USAF put me in Air Cargo, which is what Tim did at O'Hare, throwing bags, pushing large pallets, tying down trucks, helicopters, and armored vehicles on cargo planes, VERY heavy lifting for hours on end. When the war kicked off in 1990 I worked every day from 10 August to sometime in January of 91, 12 to 14 hour night shift, occasionally carrying 400lbs of stuff up 3 stories into C5s, usually it was around 200lbs though. By the end of the war I was bench pressing over 450lbs. Notice I didn't say I was in the gym a lot. I wasn't all my strength came from my jobs, farming and the military. Yeah at 5'8 I am freakin huge, which is why I go by the sweaty fat guy. I am not that fat, but I can look that way easily.
My jobs were so physically demanding that my joints like knees, hips, ankles, elbows and shoulders were worn out by the time I was 35. I live in pain now, and carry around a lot of muscle mass I can barely use and have no need for. It doesn't go away. Earlier this summer I shoveled 12 tons of gravel from the back of my 4x4 in 2 ton loads, in one day. Its a half hour drive to the gravel pit, so yeah I was working and I am 53. I bought a dump trailer after that, easier to spread it around and I can make more trips every day. A few years ago I carried a 500lb roll of roofing rubber to the top of my house and laid it out.
So I have never had an office job, rarely worked inside and when it was inside it was not air conditioned, and machine tools in factories throw off lots of heat. 120F to 135F in the desert or the factory in Nebraska in August, same same. Getting to spend time with my kids teaching them things is still the most fun for me, and they are 26 and 28 now. I am building a drag car for the younger one, she kinda likes trucks so its probably going to be a truck. That way we can go racing together, they used to have fun at the drag strip when I raced in the late 90s. She knows more about her vehicles than the boys she dates do, she has a thirst for learning like I did, so does the older one, but she is more into computers.
Being a parent is a hell of a lot easier and more fulfilling than any job I have had, and I had some really cool jobs where I was not only watching history unfold, I was part of it. I was instrumental and neck deep involved in the two largest airlifts in world history at the bases doing the most work, in the unit and duty section most involved. Just lucky I guess.
Parenting is 'Toughest job on the planet' according to Oprah? Maybe if you're a candy ass that wants to be treated like a kid your entire life. The worst part about being a dad was the state and her taking them away from me, not letting me be there as they grew up, and actively preventing me from being part of their lives. Just because I am a dad, not because I ever did ANYTHING harmful or neglectful to my kids... just because I am the dad, and we are superfluous to them.
Big scary combat veteran of two wars in court? Yeah... they always went against me no matter what. Trust me, you would want me to be your dad. We would have had a ton of fun. Yes I am a bit salty about their childhoods being stolen from me. Thats the downside to being a dad, and why most men are simply not dating anymore.
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@alan2102X ok, you are using logic and reason, something not prevalent with those on the left. Her implication is if you have invisible sky fairy friends, then you are going to hate people who don't need sunscreen.
I can attest to that, because I am one of those sunscreen types who was met with derision and suspicion in the USAF from the members who did not need sunscreen. They simply assumed I would thing poorly of them, because of how I look.
It was less prevalent in the 80s and early 90s, but by 2000 it was nearly impossible for me to make friends or even have a conversation with someone who doesn't need sunscreen.
The most annoying thing about that is I have a preference for ladies with that all over tan that doesn't fade in winter. The difference in my attractiveness to women between 22 years old in 1991 and 31 in 2001 was huge, women were throwing themselves at me, especially in uniform.... but not the ones I preferred over those who need sunscreen.
The attitude the chick in this video has was the norm for females with her complexion in the US. Overseas it was game on off base, same as the 80s and 90s, but in the US it was very rare for me to get one of them to spend time with me. Meanwhile the Asian women would pester me all the time, even when they were married. Latinas like me almost as much as Asian women...
The community got the attitude, and they have the prejudice against us. This chick is alluding to it just like so many others have. She wants a rough hands type of man, and they simply are not going to be the soft urban blue haired type.
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they have nothing to strive for, nothing to see as a goal, the girls are told they are wonderful, deserving, and simply amazing... and then you have the boys who are told they are broken girls, everything they do is bad, everything they think is bad, and they should be more like girls.
They all have no direction, no discipline, no focus. Boys need to endure and overcome hardships, put in the effort to rise above, and they need to achieve despite obstacles and difficulties. That is what turns them into men. They are denied that. Girls are being lied to, told they can wait until they are in their 30s to start their life and have kids.... among other nefarious untruths.
So to some extent it is the technology, but its also what they are being told about themselves.
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Tony, bet you are wondering how long it would take for a response.. First thing: Brazil.
I talk about Brazil often, they run hydrous ethanol down there in everything, they export most of their oil. Hydrous means there is water in it for the readers who don't know. Anhydrous means no water in it, which is also 100% ethanol or 200 proof. They have test kits at the fuel stations to see how much ethanol and water there is in the fuel. More than 20% water and you start losing power and mileage. You START there, its a gradual drop.
That is the only drawback to having water in the fuel, unless you have more than 20% water and it sits in a soft aluminum (non anodized) tank for an extended period. That sets up a hydrolysis process that pulls soft aluminum into suspension. It takes a lot of water to get to that point, and its not going to get it from the atmosphere unless you have a funnel in the tank while its raining.
A good quality still, like my packed reflux column, or a plate column like the ethanol plants use, can make 190-195 proof in one run. That is 4% to 10% water still in it. You need a molecular sieve of some sort to get the last little bit out, but that is only required if you want to mix it with gasoline. In Brazil, they just dump it in the tank and go.
Its a really cool system they have with the sugarcane, the bagasse from sugarcane is burned to produce electricity, which powers the ethanol plant, and nearby towns. So its more than just fuel for cars, trucks, and airplanes, it makes electricity as well. There are so many other beneficial things about producing ethanol I don't have the space to detail all of them here.
Second thing. Water, like I said above, you have to dump 2 gallons of water into 10 gallons of anhydrous ethanol to begin to see issues over time, or in power. Richard Holdener tested some low proof moonshine and showed how much power it loses, it was considerable. But 5% to 10% water is no big deal.
Third thing. Methanol and Ethanol are VERY different fuels. Methanol is 2:1 or more, VERY corrosive, VERY toxic, and not easily produced by Joe Sixpack wanting to fuel his Hemi or 440... or a sweaty guy's 455. Thats why I didn't get into methanol, but holy smokes does methanol make the power under boost. LOTS OF OXYGEN in methanol.
Ethanol is somewhere around 30% more than gasoline(methanol is 50%+), but not because of BTU content. You see BTU is only a measurement of how long it takes a given fuel to heat one pound of water one degree. Thats it, we need fuels to do a lot more than heat water. The reason you have to feed an engine more ethanol, is because it has a lot more oxygen in the fuel. Ethanol is vodka, moonshine, whiskey that hasn't been aged yet, its also rumored to be in those fruity drinks the ladies like, such as Whiteclaw. Its all the same stuff, and any starch or sugar can be used to produce it, just like ya said.
In addition to above, gasoline wastes more than 80% of its energy as heat, which has to be shed via the radiator or the parts will expand too much and the engine seizes. Ethanol in contrast only wastes 60% of its energy as heat. Now yes under strictly controlled lab conditions, gasoline can do better than 20% efficiency, except the world is not a lab and not a controlled environment. So 20% or 40% energy, kinda makes up for the paltry BTU thing, unless of course we want to heat water.
A fun thing about running ethanol vs gasoline. Ya know how ping/knock flattens upper rod bearings and breaks piston ring lands? Thats because gasoline has a large spike in pressure as it ignites. That doesn't translate to more power, just broken parts. Gasoline also likes to ignite on its own, when it feels like it, rather than when the spark plug does it. Ethanol only lights with a spark, so the octane test doesn't work very well with ethanol.
Ethanol burns faster and is softer, it doesn't spike as hard so you don't get broken parts from it. If you run a boosted engine lean on any fuel, you will burn head gaskets and pistons, but otherwise fed enough fuel ethanol is very forgiving and 'nice' to engine parts compared to gasoline. You would think ethanol makes less power because its softer and burns considerably faster, and if it was only one parameter that mattered, it probably would.
However the added oxygen content and the latent heat of vaporization conspire to make more power than gasoline, it cools the intake charge making it more dense, and feeds the engine more O2, which makes more power. Ethanol can drop IAT by 100F in boosted applications.
Now that is where the fun begins, because most people trying to make more power with ethanol or E85, will lean it out thinking that will make more because that is what you do with gasoline. Ethanol is different, since it has more oxygen, you throw more fuel at it to make more power, not less. If you didn't see a power increase when you switched to E85, its because you are running it too lean. Ethanol will run quite lean, but be down on power, as the range where it makes acceptable power is much wider than gasoline.
With E85 best power is around 7.5:1 AFR, I tend to ignore Lambda because stoich isn't where best power nor economy are. Best economy is between 8.5:1 and 9.5:1 AFR, and my 13:1 compression 455 did quite well with 10:1 AFR, but better at 9.0:1 by my wideband O2. That 455 also got better mileage than my pump gas 455s with 8.5:1 compression, around 2 or 3 mpg more, if I drove like a sensible individual. The power a 13:1 ethanol fueled 455 makes is VERY enjoyable.
Last thing... if you leave a gallon of ethanol open to the atmosphere, but out of direct sunlight, you will lower the proof a little bit over time, two or three points over a year. Not a big thing, ethanol sits open in bars and it doesn't go bad or become water. Think about it..
A fun thing I do when I get a barrel of E85 that is 70% ethanol is I leave it open for a day or two. That lets the lighter parts of gasoline evaporate, leaving more ethanol. I get higher % as I take more fuel out of it, and the water doesn't hurt anything. Leaving the barrel in the sun speeds that up, but you just open the bung and let the gasses escape rather than let it sit there and evaporate.
PS Cattails are AMAZING sources of ethanol, you get a lot more from them than you do with corn, at least 2x more per acre, and they are weeds to most people.
Ok back to work...
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Tyler was right. I am NOT my khakis, my job, or what I own. Rorschach was right as well. They are NOT villains, they are heroes.
I am not the car I drive, but since I build the cars I drive, my cars have part of *me in them*. My time, effort, skill, and knowledge are invested in the old cars I drive. Its delayed gratification, the masculine act of building something to improve your life, through sweat equity and the skills earned over decades of work.
That is lost on the spoiled brats who demand everything be given to them sans effort, the people who feel entitled to that which they have not earned. Likewise those who seek power over others will claim it as their own, and the only way to live that way is to join them... to me they are all on the lfet.
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HackShock go back and read what I said about atheists and marxism. You are being distracted so you don't notice what is happening.
There are billions of people on the planet who do not believe in the Abrahamic god, are they included in the 'atheist agenda' as well, or are they ok because they believe in vishnu or follow Sidhartha?
The marxists are NOT atheists, they have a god, priests, and a congregation. e.g the state, politicians, party members. Not only that but they will employ all the same tactics that other ideologues use, shame, shouting louder, enacting legislation making non belief a capital offense... and their god is even less structured and vastly more capricious than the god of Abraham.
I have a problem with ideologies that prescribe how you must live, and demand death as a punishment for not believing or saying bad words about the god/religion.
Thats why I am not a fan of the Abrahamic religions, and a life long vehement enemy of marxism. I've been to communist and socialist countries, I have a chunk of Berlin Wall from when I was stationed there in 1989, the year it came down. I know who is the threat and who is not. ...
meanwhile all the christians think its us. Ol' Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, Dawkins, and I. None of the aforementioned men demand you live a certain way, nor that you follow an ideology. I prefer self determination, personal responsibility, and what was laid out in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
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@valentine8161 we agree then. It did not originate in Russia, it simply held all of eastern Europe for a very long time. Believe me, I am not blaming you for it. You have a good idea of what the effect on people is, hard to miss.
My point is that is what these certain people want for the entire world. For all of you to be shoved back into it, and all of us to be dragged into the abyss with you.
Those people crave control and power above all else. It stems from massive insecurity, they feel the need to control others. They are the Karens of the world.
All the Russian, Ukrainian, and other bloc girls I have dated have hated the idea behind all of that. They are about 20 to 30 years older than you are. They remember it as well as I do.
Its not your fault, nor was it the fault of girls I know, because it was forced upon you and your great grandparents. I know individuals who think its a good idea, that it only ever failed because of the USA, not because it goes against the best parts of human nature while exacerbating the worst parts.
They are unaware of what it does, what it was like, and the effect it has on people. Like you, they do not have a birthday with a year starting in 19. So those poor misguided lazy resentful and entitled kids are clamoring for the nightmare... they do not realize that it will be far worse for them than it is now.
You have an idea of what it would be like from what it did to people you grew up around.
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@captnhuffy am aware of how common it is, thats what I am told by most men. The only other option is they had an amicable split, they get their kids half the week, and they aren't kept in perpetual poverty by the state. What happened to me is the expected outcome, from her cheating and being vindictive to the state taking everything the man owns and punishing him for being male.
I like taking risks, if there is a benefit from it. I do not like a risk with zero upside and all downside. I like change too, but there has to be a reason for the change, a benefit, improvement, or making things simpler/less complicated, not for the sake of change and certainly not a change that directly negatively affects me for the benefit of someone else.
I own the land where I live, am debt free, live alone in the woods, and I build vintage muscle cars... NO DAMN WAY am I going to let a girl be in a position to take ANY of that from me. I'd rather die alone after enjoying years of living my way than to die alone sleeping in a car because everything I built was taken and given to someone who does not deserve it.
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@drawmaster77 I get those types hitting on me too, and then others who are attractive will as well. Then they start talking, and in trying to impress me they tell me all the unsavory things they have done.
They hit on us differently, they put themselves in our field of view and hope we approach them. If they come up and start talking to you without being employed by the establishment you're patronizing, then she is probably hitting on you. They leave themselves plausible deniability, so they can say they weren't interested and didn't do anything when they discover they don't like us.
I have older women hit on me (I am 54) when I am driving my old muscle cars, more often in the GTOs than the Cuda. Chicks all like the green on the Cuda, but its too effeminate or something for me to drive it. What they are interested in is obvious, my wallet, not me. So I play along, wind them up a bit, but never follow through.
They are not worth the effort around here.
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I'm a 55 year old veteran, who used to push 10,000lb 463L pallets on to planes.. by myself. Usually takes 3 or 4 guys to do it, and you can't fit enough split tails behind a 10k pallet to move it on the rollers. Yeah.. I am kinda huge and heavily muscled, the little airlift we did in 1990-91 made me just a tad more powerful than most people. Had a much vaunted and lauded all split tail C5 air crew stand around in Kuwait watching me load their entire aircraft, 36 pallets of varying weight, from 1500lbs to 9,000lbs, with their jaws on the floor. I even had to put the pallet locks in, which is the loadmaster's job, not air cargo's job. That was in 2004 when I was 35 years old. The reservists didn't want to push in 130F heat, so I ended up loading most of the planes alone.. fun times. Usually its a crew of 10 to 15 people pushing pallets on planes.
Any XX types wanna see if they can hang with me in lifting stuff or self defense?
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@zeroyon4562 Camaro =/= WS6 TA. This one in the video needs some help, considering it has a chevy in it that does not surprise me. I own three WS6 1979 Trans Ams and a WS6 Formula, along with other Formula Firebirds. 71, 72(very rare 455 HO), 74, 78, then five 79s including a 10th Anniversary TA, and a 98 Formula. If you saw on the steering wheel like he does in the video with one of mine, or the 65 GTO which has a fast ratio box in it, you will be swerving all over the road. With modern rubber the WS6 cars are pretty damn good, even with stock 60 series tires they handle better than anything else built in the US until the 3rd gens came out in 1982.
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@MrSleepProductionsInc I am not knocking Tesla, other than they are kinda pricey for what you get. Its understandable to be fair. $40k for a model 3 that can't go as far as my $500 beater on a single fueling, and I really don't want to drive it in the snow and salt. What happens when you drive one in the salt? Well the owners of a model S found out two weeks ago near me. They had a relatively minor accident, not sure what caused it as yet, but the car burned to the ground with them in it. Corrosion and electricity mix to create massive heat, otherwise known as resistance and its measured in Ohms.
I dig the ability to fuel my vehicle without buying its fuel from others, which is why I produce tree sap vodka to run my vehicles. Next year I plan to try to make over 500 gallons, because gas around here will most likely be over $5 a gallon like it was when I started on this project back in 2007.
The idea of producing my electricity and running my car on it is very appealing, but the distances I have to drive, the things I need to carry with me, and the weather all play a part in that. We get 150 to 300 inches of snow every winter, and they dump a mind numbing amount of salt on the roads to contend with it. In ten miles of winter driving your vehicle turns gray no matter what color it is. Salt and metal = corrosion.
I really want a prius, not to drive as I would not be caught dead in one of those things, but to power my house. I can run the engine on my ethanol or methane to charge the battery, then use the drive motors for powering other things like water pumps, sawmills, and whatever else I need.
In a city environment the electric car makes vastly more sense, but so does public transportation. They aren't idling at lights, if its not moving or running the heat/AC its not using any power. Seriously cool benefit there. It makes even more sense where there is no snow.
Most of my driving is highway, and 1000 miles is a trip I do relatively often, but I am hauling something like a project vehicle when I make that trip. I have developed several ways to get better mileage on ethanol than gasoline, and they all make a lot more power. If electric were less expensive, not a death trap in the north, and I could do all the things I want to do with a vehicle, then I am all about getting one. As it is though, its less expensive by a wide margin to buy a heap of shit, repair some of it, modify the engine and fuel system, and run it on my home made fuel.
Also my daily driver 1965 GTO that runs on ethanol is faster than a Tesla 0-100 and in the quarter mile. its kinda aero limited to 17mpg at the moment, but its a ton of fun and people like it a lot more than a jellybean with wheels under it.
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Somewhat of a gearhead... Yeah, I suppose. I didn't want to live in cities anymore, because I can't have my cars there. Not enough room to grow food if I want either. I live in the woods, and its a resource for me, I am very reluctant to cut down trees here. Not planning to hide and let it blow over, I am the guy people come to for information on how to do things they don't know how to do. I am not a prepper though. I do all of this stuff because its cheaper and the grid is unreliable here.
I wish I had another pair of hands here so I could get more done, but its just me. I need to get the ethanol production videos up, and make some more of them. Been too busy trying to get a truck going that will make the long trips I need to make. Tomorrow the trailer is the focus, if I can get it in the shop and flipped over, it will be done real quick. If you have seen my shop, its full of parts and stuff. I need another building for storage, and I need to get the Mustang and Cutlass out of there so I have room to work.
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I stopped using those super coils way back in the early 90s, they start great, run good driving around, but over 4500rpm I would get strange issues like surging, missing, no power, etc. I stopped using Accel stuff entirely in the 90s because I had issues with the wires, HEI coil, and pretty much everything of theirs I tried. I'm not saying their parts are bad or junk, just that I had problems with them running my Pontiacs. The way I tune stuff is different because of where my engines make power.
You could go to a coil that doesn't require a resistor other than what the car has... and throw some jet at the carb, because the surging tells me ignition timing and lean. I would have put the locked advance in the middle of its range, get more of the distributor pin in proximity when the points do their thing... but I rarely lock out timing, because my junk likes to hard start when its hot, and I tend to run lots of advance early (before 3000rpm), but not at idle.
Like I said, the way I do things is different because my engines make the most power from idle to 5000, rather than 4000 to 7000. I know that doesn't make sense to small engine and high rpm guys.
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@justarandomguy9459 there is a reason why I kinda lump Europeans together, and Aussies. I realize you are all individuals, and the people in the countries are not the same, but you have to realize that I am one of the men who has protected you since 1988. That is when I was stationed in Europe, to keep the soviets from rolling over you.
Thats why your governments don't spend hardly anything on national defense, because we did it for you. Thats how most of Europe can have massive social programs, because we defend you.
We are not the type of people who will simply give up and obey when someone decides to own us. Sure, some people in cities are like that, but we outnumber them.
You could be doing something about the current invasion going on, but you aren't. you have allowed your government to make it so you cannot criticize them, or point out where their policy is damaging you, your life, and the futures of your kids.
You could have gone the way we have, but instead every generation born since 1945 over there has been on the free stuff and no personal responsibility thing.
If you are like us, then perhaps its time you did something about it. Bear in mind that getting violet is not the first course of action. :)
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@anthonywilliams7052 when you get older, like 48 and up, and have lost interest in having them around for any more time than it takes to bust one out, you aren't worried about moistness, and the trouble of meeting any of them makes it not worth the effort. Its an interesting thing.
However, when they are over 40, every orifice is now open for business, and they will do anything to keep you coming back. They seem to realize they are unwanted, but their ego won't allow them to accept it.
Oh and the ones with the big racks are hideous later... those things sag well below their waist, think of over ripe deflating melons in a tube sock and you get the idea. The smaller ones often still have ok lookin racks over 50. However, most just let themselves go, they get portly and irritable.
Had one around 60 hit on me the other day. I was going to my VA appointment and was taking the steps two at a time, she was impressed to see a man with gray hair and beard doing that. It was fun watching her lose interest when I explained its because I am crippled from my last deployment in 2004, and as long as I can walk I make the most of it.
I earned my gray hair so I wont dye it, and I try to look both out of shape and non wealthy when I go out. Sometimes they see my muscle cars and realize I am not as bad off as it seems... and I just say thanks when they tell me I have a "nice car."
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@user-df4kf6fg7h I am someone who came from a poor family on a farm in the 70s and 80s. I have started my life over nine times since 1987 when I graduated high school. I was set back to well below zero with two divorces, huge debt from both of them.
I fought and clawed my way out of poverty, massive debt, and from being crippled on my last deployment in 2004. I've had what many consider a rough life, and most of it was due to choices others made that affected me.. like getting beaten constantly growing up. I am pretty much alone in this world despite having five siblings.
I have two kids, daughters who were ripped away from me by a manipulative, bipolar violet mother, who was then rewarded with 71% of my gross pay for all of her abhorrent behavior.
To counter that my sister had her first kid while she was going to uni back in the early 90s, just after I got back from my first war. The father only had to pay $20 a month, instead of the $1200 a month I had to pay, he was a student I was in the military.
My parents helped my sister quite a bit, they helped me 5 times in my entire life. However, my sister put in the work and she is close to her PhD, and has two other kids in their teens along with a husband who is almost as messed up as I am because he was crushed at work.
Now... what are the chances my ex would have taken off with my kids, exposed them to a horrific life where her boyfriends did things to them, wasting all the money she had coming in, which was around $6000 a month once I got SSDI in 2009, if she did not have a wide range of bad decisions by females insurance?
When you find yourself in an untenable position, you have two choices. Beg someone to help you, or get up and handle it your damn self. You will work your ass off to make it work, no matter what it takes. I know.. I did.
Now if you look at my channel you will see it is full of muscle cars and rusty old trucks. Despite being crippled, I do all the work on them, I rebuild them, and I also produce the fuel I run the GTOs on. I have very limited funds coming in, inflation really hurts fixed income people like crippled veterans, and yet I still find ways to make my $$ go farther.
I built my house, the shop I build cars in, and I do everything around my property as well. I paid off my mortgage and the building loans in 8 years, on a ten year note because I am good with money, and I stretch it rather than waste it like both my ex wives did.
I earned the money I get every month, because I went to other countries, got shot at, and came back broken, unable to work a normal job, and for ten years I could barely walk. So yeah I am a bit biased.
She wants to throw dad out and be an alone mom, well she can get up and get to work like everyone else.
If her kid starves, its her own damn fault. Her choices got her there.
My choice got me messed up in the desert almost 20 years ago, I am good with that though, and I am working towards not needing the cash they send every month.... but they will not allow me to earn anything. Self sufficiency... thats my goal.
If you give people free stuff when they screw up, they:
1. don't learn anything and continue to do it
2. become dependent on the free stuff
3. pass that mentality along to their kids
You know the whole teach a man to fish thing right? Same concept. If you want it, you earn it. If you don't know how to get it, you learn how. Only females get to push the easy button and have everything handed to them.
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I ran into that in the USAF, having someone who outranked me, telling me to do it their way which was dangerous and against the regulations because of its danger, so I would say Yep, ok, will do. Then I would do it the right way and document who it was that said to do this highly dangerous thing. Placate them where they have authority, and do it the right way when its not up to them.
I learned to go along with what they say and do it the right way in my first two years in the USAF, because of what happened with teachers in school, and what one particular bastige did to me when I made his incompetence shine through.
I argued with my 4th to 6th grade teacher in a parochial school when he said the earth flops around on its axis to cause the seasons, among other things. As a result he made it look like I was 'special needs' and did everything he could to stymie me.
You don't have to believe the falsehoods and baseless assertions, just think of it like you're doing a book report on a fictional character, like Holden Caufield...
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Al Gore said by 2012 there would be no snow in north America.. the 150 to 300 inches of snow we get here in Michigan's upper peninsula proves not only was he full of shit, but he was horribly optimistic and massively inaccurate. Its funny how the same people who claim correlation is not causation will see the correlation of CO2 and temp, and assume the CO2 is causing the rise in temp. They tried to erase all the information on the medieval warming period F. Puttroff referred to, which is the time Greenland had vineyards, which will not grow there now.
All the predictions they make are incorrect, not just in what will happen, but the effect they postulate as well. I am not big on fossil fuels, I like to run my vehicles on tree sap vodka, aka ethanol, as its cheap to make, produces more power, burns clean, and runs cooler. All the claimed negative effects like destroying engines and fuel system parts have not happened to my vehicles in the last 15 years of running E85 nor the E100 I produce. Got started making ethanol in 2007 when gasoline was $5 a gallon here. I can produce my electricity too, but that is because the grid here is very unreliable. So I am not on the kill more dinosaurs bandwagon, but I do not see the drastic changes they are claiming. I see it for what it is, alarmism, trying to make us afraid so we will accept their marxist system where they profit off our labor, as we live in poverty.
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I put a FiTech on the 65 GTO back in 2016, took it on a road trip in '17 where I drove 1000 miles back home to Nebraska, did a 600mile tour with nearly 400 other old cars (Tour Nebraska, its fun you should do it sometime), drove around for another two weeks going to shows with my dad, then 1200 miles back home through Chicago.
In '19 I took the EFI off to set up an E85 Qjet I did for a friend, traded it and $200 for a 69 GTO in '20. Put the EFI back on after it sat on the shelf for a year, and it still works flawlessly. Last year I had to work on the cold start in the spring, showed that in a video. The Cuda started with lots of throttle, I was trying to get the GTO to start without touching the throttle. A couple taps on the hand held screen and the GTO was good for the rest of the year.
I pulled the Qjet off the Cuda and put on one of those Demon carbs, the small ones like an old Autolite carb. It runs ok, not great, cold starts like crap just like mopars always do. I might get goofy and put two 750 Demons on the Tunnel ram... as a hoot.
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@sinamy the last two times her mother saw me in a store, she looked the same way. They look down and want to crawl in a hole. They know she fucked up, and her mother and sisters encouraged her to fuck up, cheat on me with a kid they didn't know, only to find out he was worthless, and they despised him. She was set for life with me. Her dad was too kucked by her mother to stand up to them, he could tell the new guy was a useless idiot. He ended up having to pay for both of them.
Something about my ex.. She was 21 when I met her in 2003. She was a virgin because she was too homely for anyone around here to want to fuck her. I liked her because of her attitude and she was quite intelligent, she was completely different from my first wife. A bipolar hotty who wanted to fuck everything and spend all the money when she wasn't starting irrational fights and getting violent. I didn't want to get stabbed and hit with shit anymore.
We lived together for 9 years, and I ignored her face because I liked who she was. I've had lots of girls, crazy hot Russians, to trailer park trash from BFE Nebraska. All over the world too. I was the first guy to show interest in her, and I was more interested in personality than hotness, because hot bitches are a hassle.
She turns 40 in August, nobody will give her anything more than dick because she looks worse now than she did at 21 when I met her. I gave an ugly girl a chance, and she fucked it up just like the hot ones do. The wiring is all the same, no matter how good or bad they look.
So yeah, her ugly ass knows she fucked up now.
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@BlueBD the right is to self defense, defense of the nation along with our families, property, and even the people who loathe. The gun is what makes he average individual capable of defending against various threats.
It is also a deterrent against aggression, which is why these things rarely happen in states where almost everyone can be or is armed. It mainly happens in gun free zones and states that prevent the average individual from protecting themselves from deadly force by using deadly force.
An armed society is a free society.
Privileges can be taken away, you cannot easily remove my ability to crush a grown man's skull with my hands. The only thing that would make weaker males and all females able to defend themselves against someone more powerful and skilled than they are, is a gun. Its the tool, and everyone has a right to own and wield that tool, by virtue of being born.
However, all around the world the government of every country doesn't want the people to be able to defend themselves. People who can are not easily controlled by governments.
Every living thing on this planet has a right to defend itself against a threat. Some organisms have horns and claws, others use poison or the ability to flee to prevent themselves from being eaten. Its only humans who are not 'allowed' to defend themselves by other humans who want to control them.
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@ootmaster1 how many vehicles are you flipping and how fast? I am not allowed an income other than the VA or SSDI, but I can sell a car for a profit. I can't sell cars as a dealer, but if I get one, fix the small things wrong with it (brake lines and transmissions are the big ones here) I can sell it. I do not live in a city or town because of what I like to do with my spare time... I build muscle cars and 4x4 trucks for fun. I am not running a business, I simply like to do things with vehicles and sometimes sell one. If my crippled ass can do it and remain legal, and not get the VA pissed off at me, you probably can too.
They want their taxes, which is why you are supposed to get a dealer license if you are flipping cars, or a fuel permit if you make vodka fuel like I do. If I make fuel and use it on site, no taxes are required to be paid. If I drive my vehicles on Michigan roads with my vodka fuel, also no taxes need to be paid as the fuel is not 'sold' and the law states the tax is on fuel sold in the state. They get really pissy when they don't get their taxes. Its all about the money. Your money and they want it.
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I honestly don't care how many she has had... because I am NOT keeping her around, nor will I support her, tell her I love her, commit to her, and sure as hell not gonna marry her. They are free to leave any time they want. They have to earn all of that, and all they need to do to get the opportunity is be feminine, not be fat, be pleasant to be around... Its not a bar to get over, its a painted line on the freakin ground and they trip over it. You can't trust them as far as you can throw them, and I can throw them a good long way.
They want to be playthings, I treat them like playthings. Making a commitment to a female these days is putting your head on the chopping block.
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Oh man, its good to know that I am racist for having dated quite a few non white girls in my lifetime, like the Arab girl from Dubai, the Mexican-Apache single mom from Chicago, my first fiancé way back in the 1980s who had a black dad and a white mom, so her mom was racissss... no wait, they don't think that is rassissss.. but the many girls from around the world I spent time with makes me not only raysisss but misogyniistisssss too! You see, they call it a fetish, like the races should not mix because there are good skin colors and bad skin colors and if you have my skin color you have to have a fetish to like anyone with a different skin color.. so no getting tans ladies...
If only I had a preference for transgender 'women' because that would be cool and I wouldn't be transmission phobic and I could put a Th400 in my car. oh wait, I just mixed cars and people again. Because I don't want to sex up someone who has the shape of a male but with different plumbing I gotta be the most horrible man in the world. Shit, I am practically the failed Austrian painter who was a corporal running messages around the trenches in the first war. Good thing I was a Ssgt in the desert war, because now I can be a dictator of an entire country since I outrank the Austrian guy.
YAY ME!!!
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@truth6565 how would you know I am not funny? Just because I would rather build cars than be famous? I did stand up for a while, and decided I liked drag racing more than travelling around making strangers laugh. Just like when I owned a repair shop and discovered I wanted to build hot rods instead of fix minivans and crapbox econo cars. I'm not much of an attention whore, so I mostly keep it to myself and close friends.
The other thing, you might be too young to get most of the references and imitations I do, though the later stuff you will probably get. I'd bet that Jimmy Stewart and Sean Connery driving around with Arnold failing at picking up chicks would make much sense to ya. You have to know who they are for it to be really funny, and kids these days lack culture other than frozen yogurt.
Still, chicks are not funny. They are nice ornaments, exciting playthings, and occasionally enjoyable for short shallow conversation. I want to stab my ears with a jagged ice pick when they tell a story, and jokes about men suck and their vagina stinks just isn't funny. I've honestly tried, but even half assed Aziz is funnier than every female out there.
Now if its Carolyn Porco talking about Saturn, that is entirely different, except she isn't as amusing and funny as Phil Plait.. she knows her shit though, so I like listening to her.
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@user-ns4zm8qe9p I got one from the enlisted club on base at Rhein Main AB back in 1990.. she was there with her friend who was banging the guy who lived across the hall from me. She was the Arab I was engaged to in 1990, completely unlike all of them here in the US. Long story.
I did have a one nighter in Ord Nebraska while working construction on a bridge nearby back in 1987, met her in a bar, she was 24 I was 18, and yeah I was not old enough to be as drunk as I was... but I looked old enough.
The ones who go to the local uni are fun for a while, and its most amusing when I get farther in five minutes than the college guys do in weeks or years. I'm 53 and do not dye my gray beard. They are catch and release sport fishing that make for very nice photographs of my catch.
ALL the others I have been with since 1985 when I got the first one to say yes, have been from me knowing mutual friends, walking up to them sand saying 'Hi" or going through the place where she works and asking "What time do you get off?" My first wife I was rather inebriated from free drinks all over town due to my birthday, and I asked her "Do you have a boyfriend?" to which she replied no. So I said "Do you want one?"
I do not operate in clubs, bars, or the Greek thing on campus.One very attractive black one in Charleston SC I met walking past the park bench where she was sitting and I said Hi. She just wanted the experience of the muscle bound white guy. She was cool and lots of fun... but definitely not long term.
One Russian approached me in a small Russian Cafe outside Osan AB ROK circa 2002. She was fun for a few months. Another one met me through a mutual friend, she had been seeing the guy next door to me in our building. She just wanted one time. She lives in Florida has a daughter now and brought her mother over.
If they are my age, they are single due to poor choices in life. Not many females get cheated on by men who have no option nor opportunity to do so. They leave of their own volition and discover life sucks without a wallet to ride like a rented mule.
In their 30s they only want the big wallet to set up camp, so they do not like me. They can tell I will not be funding their shopping sprees and nights out with their friends. The 20 somethings want the muscle bound freak experience, the 40 somethings are thrilled that someone speaks to them, 50 somethings are usually desperate or delusional. Over 60 they are resigned to a life of being invisible.
Four continents, 40 countries, 35 to 40 US states, 150 to 200 willing for spicy fun time, several thousand others did not meet the criteria for me to pursue farther or decided 5'8 and able to bench more than any woman on the planet wasn't enough.
The vast majority do not want me. Those who do I can tell. I learned how to read them way back in the 80s when I was a teenager.
I'd surmise I know considerably more about women than you do.. especially where and how to meet them. I tend to keep in touch with some of them, to see how they are doing or because they were good people.
Man if you think there are really good trustworthy ones out there, life is gonna play you hard.
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I've had PTSD since I was 8 or 9 years old, somewhere around there. Beatings at home from my older brother and dad, kinda minimizes it, because my brother stabbed, poisoned, bludgeoned, pushed me down stairs, ran me over with farm equipment, and a few other things. Never knew when he would attack me.
Then I enlisted at 19, way back in 1988. Went to war in 1990, again in 2004. Between that I got married, had kids, divorced, and had so many close calls with the reaper I cannot count them all. The military kicked me out on a medical after the injuries from my 04 deployment left me barely able to walk. Chronic pain, destroyed joints, not from enemy action.
The VA said I have dysthymia, a chronic depression kinda like pulling a weighted sled around with you, or being under water while everyone else is above it, along with all the physical problems from my time in the military.
At 40 years old in 2009 I was diagnosed with PTSD for the first time, and then it all made sense why I did the things I did. Rifles in every room avoiding crowds, sitting with my back to the wall, scanning and watching everything around me.. anger..
They tried meds, and that was worse. The side effects and the way it made my brain not function, living in a fog is my my thing. So I work out, stay busy building old cars, building my house, working in my yard on my land, big projects like that. Been making videos lately.. Its fun and challenging.
Been divorced twice, neither time was because of my PTSD, I try to limit its effect on others. However they can affect me a lot. I found I do much better alone, keeping people away, because other people are the main source of stress in my life. Its not for everyone, some people need to feel wanted and close to others. I actively push people away, not out of fear or anything, life is simpler, easier, and if you want a job done right, do it yourself.
The part that relates to you is this. Its called self talk. What we tell ourselves is our reality, if you dwell on the parts of life that depress you, then you will stay there. This is not to say you cannot have an imbalance, but you have a choice every day about how you are going to feel.
I still have all the issues from my life, but how I choose to think about them has changed. The chronic pain lets me know I am still alive. Being alive is good because I can do things, go places, and enjoy my time here. I live in the woods so I am close to nature, and that is the big thing for me. I love all the trees and wild life around me. Its really dark here at night, one of the darkest places in the USA outside of Alaska, so I can see all the stars on clear nights like last night.
Those stars remind me of two things. That everything that is a problem for me is temporary, and compared to the vastness of space they are small problems. The other thing is that we are all connected to those stars, we are made of the same stuff, so we are the universe, self aware so we can study ourselves and learn about everything there. I find that comforting and very cool.
Tell yourself you're good today, and you will be even when the day goes to shit. Your perception and what you tell yourself matters. Its not easy, but eventually you will get used to it, and your brain will change the chemicals in it to fit how you decide to be. Just make sure you tell yourself the truth, no deluding yourself. :)
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Leave the cities to live cheaper. I traveled the world already, didn't make it to South America or Australia, no reason to go to Antarctica, but it would be kinda fun to say I been there. In 2013 when I got divorced for the final time, I bought my land out in the woods. 13 acres for less than $30k. Got a $30k building loan in 2015 and built my shop and house with that. I built it, as in I did not have a contractor build it. Paid it all off in 2021, several years early on a ten year note.
I can grow food, raise animals, go fishing in the worlds largest freshwater lake and you can drink directly from said lake. I produce fuel to run my vehicles from cattails. My land is easily defended, if anyone can find it.
There are countries where you are going to end up being just as broke as the locals, and stuck with draconian laws. You really do not want to screw up in another country.
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Will R Thomson the problem is, we are not all affected the same way nor at the same time. Like your first time in combat, or your first time having sex, you can't possibly know what its like before you experience it. That is how it is with the myriad oppressive actions being taken against us.
Its that way with divorce laws that encourage females to do it, and punishes males regardless of what transpired. Men who have not been through it, nor indentured into poverty no matter how much money they earn, they will not see it as a problem until it happens to them. Its all couched in responsibility of the man, with none being held to the females who engage in it for the temporary rewards.
It must happen to them before they will decide to act, and once it has happened society is directed to hate and ridicule you, shaming these victims of the system as being subhuman.
Its only when you are being loaded into the cattle car that you realize, the window for me to have acted is long past... and society will clamor for you to shut up and get in the car, not realizing they will be going in soon.
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@hughdelaterra9004 funny thing.. I am almost 54, two marriages were 8 and 9 years. I have three brothers and two sisters. Oldest has been married over 30 years, the brother after me is coming up on their 30th this year, and the youngest brother who is almost 41 has over 20 years with his wife.
The sister after me has almost 20 years with her guy, and the other sister has been divorced twice, but 20 years apart. Her second husband was a felon... so yeah she chooses poorly.
A few friends of mine have had very long relationships, but more have not. So I know it could still work out in the 80s and 90s.
I know one guy who got married in the last 15 years, and she had three kids already. Waiting for that one to end... its inevitable.
I have quite a few guys in their 30s and 40s who I know, not many are married, only the very religious one still is and they have six or seven kids. They are outliers now when they have kids.
My first was a very bad choice, I was about to end it with her when she said she was pregnant in 1993. Not entirely sure the kid is mine, but if she is I wanted to be there for my daughter. Thats the only reason i stayed with her, she made my life a living hell, cheated, and did all sorts of less than admirable things, and of course I was blamed for all of it. It was a relief when she finally left in 2001. I didn't have to worry about waking up to a knife plunged into me or scalding water thrown on me... she was like that.
The second one I was very careful about, and we lived together for 8 years before getting married. Because if she had shown any hint of being like the first, she was out and I would not tolerate irrational behavior, lies, cheating, etc. Be pleasant, don't try to control me, and we get along great.
We did get along great until we got married. 16 months later we were divorced, I was sitting in jail for two weeks for something I did not do that she and her boyfriend accused me of doing (I think he vandalized his own vehicle but they blamed me). She had known him for two weeks, and her mother and sisters encouraged her to leave me for him, before they met him. Once they met him, they regretted it. Her dad had to support both of them until the kid left, he is 7 years younger than her, and 20 younger than me. He does not do well with the ladies, jobs, or normal people, but she thought he was her soulmate. She is going to be 41 in August and has been alone for 6 years at least.
I lost two houses, over $250k in earnings to the first one, and now that Michigan has passed a red flag law I am worried the second one will send the cops to my door again... out of spite, I try to avoid her as much as possible. She used to call the police when she would see me driving the opposite direction on the highway... until I made it clear that another visit would result in everyone involved being sued for years since my first ex was paid off.
I was active duty in the USAF until 2005 and spent from November 2001 to February 2004 living in my car and on friend's couches except for when I was deployed. The state left me $100 to $300 a month to live on, they took 71% of my gross and assumed the USAF would give me food and a place to live... well, if I was E1 to E3 without dependents then they would... but then I would have $900 to $1400 less every month and would be going behind in child support as a result.
From 2015 to 2018 I was seeing a really amazing woman, with two kids, who lives 7 hours away. She makes more money than I do, but we got along great. She was probably the best relationship I had, until she decided she wanted to try out a firefighter she met, so we ended it and he dumped her two weeks later. She averages 16 months per guy now and she is almost 51. We have remained friends, because I really like who she is, despite not being attracted to her anymore. She is good people.. but still, she does what women do. Changes her mind.
Oldest brother married one who has no options to cheat. Second married someone who is as stubborn and direct as he is, plus they had a kid with a heart condition and the Army was needed to keep the kid alive. So she stuck around. The next brother has a blue haired wife who fell face first into a tackle box.. just waiting for her to decide to leave and try to take the family farm we all grew up on that he got when our dad died a few years ago. Maybe she won't... hard to say.
I've had lots of ladies over the years, at least the last one I am still friends with broke it off before she went to some other guy. One from 33 years ago when I was stationed in Europe is still friends with me, her life has been a mess since it ended between us.
going by what I have seen, and the fact that I own my house and the 13 acres of woodland it sits on, without any debt, getting married or living with someone is the last thing I want to do. Because a judge will take what I have built with my own two hands, and give it to her no matter what she does.
Its not a risk I am willing to take.
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@JakTheRipper-01 the most damning description of socialism and its inevitable result communism, was written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956. How anyone can read that book or listen to the audiobook and not come away incensed with righteous indignation at everything marxist is beyond me.
The only way you can think its a good idea is if you're ignorant, either accidentally or willfully, of what it is and what the results always are. Of course their solution is to do it harder when it fails miserably, when marxism fails their solution is more marxism and greater control... the result is always more death. As it happens, death is their favorite tool, much like only having a hammer so everything looks like a nail.
Until the end of WWII most people had no idea just how bad it was. Delusional adherents still try to claim the only reason it failed was US influence... well, if it is not robust enough to survive against the US not supporting it, then its not something that should survive. If it can't stand on its own, or even with the little bit of pressure from the US, its not worth entertaining.
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After two divorces, I learned:
1. They will always blame the man, no matter what it is.
2. They will blame the man for her poor choices and misdeeds.
3. They will always justify their cheating by claiming the man cheated.. even when it was impossible for him to do so.
4. Responsibility? Consequence? Accountability? HA! AS IF! He has all of those, she does not.
I adore women, I have two daughters, and I want what is best for them. I find the best thing to do when they are being irrational, is ignore them, leave the house, and go do something enjoyable. I would go try to find a race or work on my car to avoid my irrational wife. Her being my ex was VERY expensive, and I lived in my car for several years while being punished for being male, but I am absolutely thrilled she is no longer with me.
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@sksubterrain3424 heh.. females learning to be alone. No, they accept it when they hit 50 and realize nobody talks to them, or even acknowledges they exist. Females go from being adored and praised, to being invisible. Men are alone by default, and most of us do not need external validation, nor do we need to constantly tell ourselves how amazing, strong, capable, and independent we are.
When you are something, you don't realize it because you just are. When you aren't something it grates on you, and insecurity raises its head and smiles at you. Men are normally invisible, unless they have attributes that stand out.. height, wealth, muscle, dominance... etc. When someone notices us its a novelty. When nobody notices a female it ruins her entire self image.
They don't learn to be alone, they have no choice when they make poor choices in their lives.
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They blame us for their own bad choices, actions, and irrational impulses. Its NEVER her fault, its always our fault... all of us, even those of us who have never known her and would not even acknowledge she exists.
Had one stalking me in the grocery store on Monday, late 30s, with her teenage daughter. I was getting supplies I need to make bread, she walked by and said "Hi there" I kept doing what I was doing, did not look at her, and said "oh, hey ya." I was trying to find the yeast because they moved everything in the store over the last two months.
Its starting to happen more often again, as it gets more difficult for them to pay their bills. I purposely try to look unappealing in public, and they still try to get my attention. Its going to get worse for them.
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So you're telling me you don't have PTSD or live with it. I am 53, have had PTSD since I was 8 or 9, which is when the beatings started in earnest... and were random, some severe. Lots of TBIs in my past. My older brother tried to end me several times, poisoned, stabbed, bludgeoned, run over by farm equipment, and more.. I am missing teeth because of him. Dad beat on me when he was frustrated, much less random and easier to deal with. It continued in school with other kids beating on me until I was 16, and big enough to really hurt them when they tried. They learned quick. I served in two wars, which didn't cause it, but that experience sure did enhance it and give me all sorts of new flashbacks and memories that come back while I am asleep.
Starting in 2009 I went about rewiring my mind, with the focus on not having things send me into a blind rage.. because I am a rather strong and well trained man with no fear of my end, and no voice in my head that says "we should stop now, he's had enough." People can get hurt if I am not in control of the other side of me. It was and is the hardest most difficult thing I have ever done, and I have done things that very few other humans ever could.
I have lessened the nightmares by living as stress free as possible, same with the ending it ideation. I've never been one to jump scare over loud noises, they make me 'angry' which is a rage to most people. I still scan all the time when I am in public, I still assess everyone for threats. Still sit with my back to a wall in a public place, and there is still a boomstick within easy reach in every room of my house. Crowds piss me off, because I cannot scan everyone and keep track of them all in my head, that frustration turns into anger. The thing that keeps me from acting on it is knowing VERY well that 99% of other humans I will have no problem winning against in an altercation.
It can be lessened, we can learn to utilize certain aspects like the hypervigilance. I don't get in car accidents and very rarely get traffic tickets because I see the cop first, and can read what other people are thinking like when they want to run into me. hypervigilance means I am hyper aware of what is going on around me. I am rarely surprised. After all these years living with it, I have made it part of daily life in ways that benefit me. It was not easy.
PTSD is a survival mechanism, once activated it doesn't shut off. The only reason its a problem is because there aren't many threats in civilized polite society, and most people are so self absorbed they do not realize they are doing something less than brilliant. My biggest one was driving and having people do things that were threats in the desert, but they have no idea. There is no need to constantly scan everything, but our minds don't know that. The anger that comes with it upsets people, and then the police are called, because the timid and weak want someone else to handle things for them.
If it goes away after 5 or 10 years, then you do not have it. You have to work diligently with great effort to minimize it.
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@prussiansocietyofamerica here's what I have found about them, I am mid 50s. In their 20s they want me for fun, riding in my muscle cars, bedroom fun, etc.
In their 30s they have wasted their 20s, probably have a kid, and they have to work so they want someone to rescue them and make it so they don't have to work anymore. They want someone to fund their shopping spree and party life that they wasted their 20s on.
In their 40s they are starting to get desperate, so when they find a man who gives them tingles, they will do anything for him.. every orifice is fair game, and if she has some money she will spend it on you trying to keep you around. They are entering boxed wine and cat land in their 40s.
In their 50s they are worn down, desperate, depressed, and they reek of bad choices and regret. Above that the ones who used to be 9s are the only ones who get any attention in their 60s and older. They are deep in boxed wine and cat land after 45.
In their 20s they are like candy. Enjoy it and don't pay for it with them.
However, most guys, probably including you, are not going to be able to attract the average college chick when you're 40 or 50, because you don't look good... A guy with a comb over desperately clinging to his youth as it slips away, dyeing the ring of hair around the back of his head, trying to dress like a young man, usually buying a Corvette or something... yeah, they didn't build themselves in their 20s and 30s so they are invisible other than the wallet.
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Billy Burr been there man, I was quite similar in my 20s. I had a bottomless abyss of rage in me. Believe it or not we have a choice if we are going to get mad or not. We can choose to get angry or we can choose to remain calm and be amused at what people are doing.
For my the anger was a threat response, my fight or flight kicked in and I almost always went into fight mode. If I had a very real and very dangerous threat, there was no anger, no emotions whatsoever, and I would take the fight to the threat. That worked out good for me a few times, once in the military. Not so good for them.
Gaming can help make the anger more controllable or less, until a few years ago I would get really pissed off and start yelling. Mostly because I have a nightmare that comes to me under high stress situations. My war was in the desert, but I have a nightmare of Vietnam, I think its because of movies which is honestly hilarious. So much other shit to choose from and my brain goes with Nam movies to scare the fuck out of me.
The assholes in the black pajamas are coming at us, I am firing at them, I see the rounds hit, but they keep coming. If they get knocked down, they get back up and keep coming. I wake up as a bayonet sinks into my chest. Its been a couple years since I had that one.
So when I am playing a first person shooter on PC, have a perfect sight picture, I fire and nothing happens, it wears on me. Due to the remote area where I live, I get it a lot. Also they put a bunch of random variance in rifle trajectories in the games I play, far more than there should be. I have to work to keep myself calm because its just a game.
The nightmare is my mind's response to a feeling of helplessness. When I cant change the outcome of something stressful, I get that dream.
I try not to break my shit, because it costs me money when I do. I try not to yell because its annoying to people online, and terrifying to people in real life.
So how do you fix the anger issues? Before you make the choice to get mad about something, which is the easy path in your mind, chide yourself lightly and intentionally don't get mad.
Our synapses are like a field of deep snow. The first time you go through its a lot harder, but as the snow gets packed down it becomes easier, so every trip down that path packs the snow. Then you will always choose that path, because its easy, familiar, and well worn in. That one is getting angry.. and you have a pathway for every fucking thing that pisses you off. You have to make new pathways that don't lead to anger.
It fucking sucks doing that. Takes years, but its worth it at the other end. When you get to the point, you will realize you have a choice, and its your choice to get pissed or to laugh about it, because shit happens.
A Nam vet, who was the veteran service officer in my home town gave me a bit of advice that helped more than anything. He said:
"Everything is temporary" and it is. Our existence is temporary, the problems we have are temporary, relationships are temporary. In 5 billion years when the sun goes red giant the earth will be cooked or consumed by the sun, then nothing will matter that happened here on this tiny planet.
So how much does it matter right now? Some things matter more than others, no need to get pissed about shit you have no choice in happening, you deal with it and move on. Change what you can, accept the rest, and just realize its some bullshit you have to go through.
Now the really shitty part. Emotional markers. We all have an emotional marker attached to at least one memory, they can be good or bad. A big one that everyone in the military has is their arrival at basic/boot camp, you rarely forget that day and they intend you do not forget it. The military purposely puts an emotional marker on that memory, because it is your transition from a civilian to a military member.
When the memory is triggered, you get the same emotions you had when the event happened. It can be a dream, a phrase, weather conditions, smells, sounds, or the really pernicious one anniversary dates. Some of my anniversary dates I get insanely pissed off and have no reason for it, I don't even know what day it is, but somehow my subconscious knows.
Some days I will remember on the day and know exactly what it was. 2 Aug 90 and 10 Aug 90 are days like that for me. I have distinct memories of both of those days. I was stationed in Germany when the gulf war started, and it ended up affecting my life profoundly.
Anyway, the only way to limit the effect, or remove the emotional marker attached to a memory is by dealing with the memory directly. You have to think about it, roll it around in your head, face it, accept it rather than avoiding it or trying to hide the memory.
You have to relive it over and over, each time telling yourself to remain calm because its the present day, nobody is trying to kill you, its not whatever day it was when the shit happened. I have markers going back to the 1970s, and there is a massive difference between 1975 and 2021. You have to remind yourself over and over, its today, not that day.
That is called flooding. Sometimes I can use a movie to achieve the desired result. I saw Pvt Ryan in the theater, it fucked me up for weeks. When the guy gets splattered by the sticky bomb I checked myself for bone fragments and other bits. That movie pulled me in and made me feel like I was there. I couldn't watch it because it was so real to me. All of my military experiences were very different, desert war, high stress, different threats, but the movie wrecked me nonetheless.
In 2000 I decided to fix the problem with that movie, and I started watching as much as I could stand every day. Got it on DVD and watched over and over until now I can watch the whole thing as entertainment and it has no effect on me.
You keep exposing yourself to the stimuli until it has no effect on you. Games will make it worse as long as you do not decide NOT to get mad. If you keep wearing in that synaptic path of getting pissed off, you will get angrier faster with more violence, you'll escalate it. So you have to tell yourself to not get mad, its just a game. I use games as therapy. I've taken a three month break from the shooter I like. Gotta reset once in a while.
Like I said, this is very difficult and hard on you when you do this. Mostly because you have to be cognizant of your actions and face all the bullshit you endured getting here. Its all in your head, but it shapes your reality.
Its called 'self talk' by the shrinks, telling yourself what you want to believe. Like some chick saying she is strong and independent when she isn't, she is using self talk... but she is deluding herself. I could tell myself everyone loves me, all the girls want me, and I am the sexiest man alive, but that is delusional.
You have to ask yourself "Is it true?" and be honest about it. Having been through a world of shit, competing against others, achieving goals despite hardship, I know my capabilities and my limits. So I know very well what is true and what is just my anxiety fucking with me.
Will it happen? What are the chances it will come to pass? Its irrational to be concerned over shit that has a very small chance of happening. Its not worth it to be obsessed about shit that might or might not happen.
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@teslasnek I'm a gearhead who lives in the north, I'm getting all my vehicles off gasoline, but not going EV. Which Tesla did you get, and roughly how much did it cost?
The reason I ask is because I like to go as fast as possible for as little cash as possible. Thats why I like big engines, very high compression, lightweight vehicles, and sometimes forced induction. My cost to produce fuel is between 40 cents and a dollar a gallon, it works great with boost and high compression, the bonus is pretty much anyone can make it themselves.
Making energy myself is why I started this fuel/food/electricity project in 2007. $5 for 87 octane was too much for me to afford. Speaking of stationary power, I want a Prius or another hybrid to use for exactly that.
People think when you start running ethanol that you are some tree hugging type, but they do not want anyone running that either. I make it from cattails and tree sap. We can use lots of waste items to make fuel, like stale bread and waste paper, so its not like we all need two acres of corn.
My summer daily driver runs mid 11s around 120mph with a $4000 engine I built for it. Since its a 1965 GTO the really bad aero limits it to 17mpg mixed city/highway with a 455 and no overdrive. I have a Tremec 5 speed ready to go in when I get the rest of my manual transmission parts from the family farm, that should help the mileage a bit. Its one of the vehicles I have built to drive and enjoy. I have about $15k total in it, after rebuilding it from a rolling shell that was very rusty when I got it in 2008.
The 70 GTO got 20mpg mixed with an old Qjet on its 455, better aero with the 70 than the 65.
Only one vehicle I have has a somewhat expensive engine in it, but its destined to make around 2000hp with 20psi. The rest of them range from high 12s to low 9s in the quarter, and I can drive them around on my home made fuel and E85 on long trips and cost less than $4500. I can build a ten second street car for about $5k to $8k without a power adder using these old Pontiac engines.
I've found that making electricity is the more expensive form of energy to produce yourself, and it has requirements to use it. Thats why I went with vodka fuel. Simple, cheap, effective, and the fact its very clean burning is a bonus to me.
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That is post modernism, or communism rebranded to avoid the well deserved stigma of communism. They make reality questionable, dilute and obfuscate language, and call things that ground people to reality bad names, because it is designed to confuse people. They want every one of us to police our own thoughts so we do not question the authority of the religion. You must not, shall not, question the state, and the state is god. They are religious zealots following narrative and fantasy whilst eschewing reality.
Its the way the mediocre, insecure, lazy, and inept can control large swathes of society. Which is why they are so vehemently against merit, competition, masculinity, self determination, and personal responsibility, opting for collective and group identities where you are nothing more than a representative of your class or skin color.
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@isecretlyvotedemocratbut2426 again... there is a problem in democrat run areas, and they blame everyone else for the problems they create and perpetuate. So you are not wrong, but you are missing the big picture.
You know what social program works best? Sink or swim. I can attest to how much of a motivator hypothermia is. There are no social programs for me, nobody is coming to help or offering me free stuff. I have to do it my damn self or I freeze to death.
If I wanted anything in my life, I had to put in the work to earn it. If you look at my channel videos, all those cars are the product of my labor, both working jobs to earn money, and in building the cars into something useful from a pile of rusty metal. I do all the work and I am 90% self taught, if I can learn how to do all of this, anyone can.
I am a long damn way from wealthy and I never made more than $40k a year in my life. Hell people on welfare get more money than I do as a crippled veteran, and I busted my ass and risked my life to get a pittance and mediocre health care. I can't even remember all the times I was nearly killed, and now I live with chronic pain and a host of other problems related to service. I still had to build my house myself, working around all my limitations. Like I said, nobody is going to help me with a damn thing.
When you give people or even wildlife food without them having to work for it, you create a dependent population. That is how we domesticated cattle, dogs, chickens and other animals. We offered them free and easy to get food, and made them dependent upon us. The democrats are doing the exact same thing with blacks, and trust me that pisses me off because I know black people are capable of so much more.
Telling someone that its not their fault, that someone else took advantage of them and stole from them because of their race or whatever, will also create a dependent. Being a victim is not virtuous, its not beneficial, all it does is make you think you are helpless.
Giving handouts to people does not motivate them. It makes shit worse. Putting conditions on the handouts exacerbate the problem. That is how the democrats are putting blacks and other minorities on their plantation where they farm them for votes.
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Old guy take. Don't worry about it, split tails do not decide our worth or value, especially now since they think they are all worthy of the top 1% when they weigh as much as I do. Really, if you've never had one, you aren't missing much. I get it though, I remember when I was 16 and had that burning need to find out. Until 16 I was stuck on the farm, 20 miles from the nearest town over 400 people, that had new meat that wasn't in school with me.
I had a HUGE drive, seriously my brain didn't work if the pipes weren't clean. Honestly it was annoying. My main focus was on doing things, I wanted to drive and race fast cars I built. That hasn't changed in 50 years. To satisfy that drive, I learned how to talk to them, what to say, what not to say, how to act, what to do, what not to do. What you don't do is more important than what you do.. except for lifting, that is the biggest thing that can change your life, if you're a skinny dude or more portly and rotund like me, lifting is like magic. Lift heavy, lift often. Get to where you can bench over 300lbs for reps. Trust me on that.
I learned by observing them, and I learned A LOT like a HUUUUGE amount from the first one I got. That one displayed everything they all do so obviously, it was easy to watch and learn. I could tell who that one was attracted to by the expression, the body language. After that I looked for the ones who had those expressions and body tells directed at me.
I had some super hot ones and also had some who would be considered normal now but were big for the 80s and 90s, usually when I got stationed at a new base. Dry spell breakers is how I saw it. Needed to get to know how the local culture operated, and a big one was a low effort means of finding out. The military really jacked up my game, just saying hello to a split tail on base was enough to get in trouble, because I am only 5'8" and not tall enough to speak to them. So sorry your highness.. but off base you're a 2 and I am a 7, they damn well knew it too. Thats why the erroneous assertions flew.
I was second guessing, holding back, not acting when I should have and cutting myself out of the picture by doing or saying something I should not have. The two Russians in a hotel room with me in Korea are one that REALLY bugs me today. Here in the US they would be 9s, but for Russians they were 5-6s or maybe 7s on a good day. Dat thigh gap tho. Didn't let that happen again, Korea was fun when I had money, which wasn't often.
These days with two ex's and nobody knows how many notches, its easy to see that they were a monumental waste of time. Seriously, playing video games is far more beneficial to you than chasing split tails. Its one hell of a lot cheaper. Not saying you should waste your life on games, quite the contrary, you need to build your life and make it one worth living, even if you never sink deep into the pink tuna scented orifices. There isn't much variance in them, mainly the wrapper changes, the program in their heads is the same, the way it feels in there has a little variance, but its mostly the same. Size, shape, and hues, thats the only variables. Smaller is better to me, big is like gettin busy with a mattress. Taller than me was interesting but so was the 4'9-5'3 ones.
They all want the same things from you. Money, attention, validation. Their worth and value is decided by us, and which of us they can get to put a ring on it. They hate that fact, and have been trying to demand it changes but we do not care how much money they make, if they own a house, a car, have a job, etc. Its meaningless to us, and everything to them that we have those things. If they have it, they can remove us from it any time they feel like it, and they get VERY irrational every month.
The problem now is that the court will take everything from you and give it to them when they get irrational. Thats the main reason I live alone and don't really talk to them. I own my home and land without debt, I have money in the bank, and I am enjoying life. A judge could take all of that and hand it to someone who had no part in building it, no effort spent whatsoever, just because they have to squat or sit to drain the bladder... thats all it takes to have everything given to you without effort, it only requires indoor plumbing.
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I spent 3 years doing a frame off on a rusty rolling shell of a 65 GTO that wasn't even a good parts car, and I turned it into a fun daily driver. I enjoyed it so much I am doing others, like a 72 Cutlass, 71 Mustang, 69 GTO, 70 GTO, 68 Firebird (rustiest one yet), 72 Formula, and others. Made a video of the 65 build showing the stills I took while doing it.
I like to build drivers, I am not into show cars, but I really appreciate the work and skill that goes into a show quality car. I'd never drive it nor enjoy it if I made it that nice.
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This is an amusing little thread. So many have no idea what differentiates the alpha personality from the beta. Its not how tall, ripped, wealthy, outgoing, or well dressed you are. The fact that people don't know what it is tells me that not only are they not one, they have never met one. It is NOT a status thing, its a leadership thing.
The simplest way to look at it is in caveman terms. The most competent, capable, and actually dangerous man is the one everyone else will follow into danger. Being an alpha male is a leadership role, in the most basic sense. Betas are not bad, they are the foot soldiers, the followers who do their job and fight alongside the leader. A leader who directs from the rear and avoids contact can be either, it depends on the conflict and how large it is. Your high school jock was probably not an alpha, he was just tall and good looking so people liked him.
As we males move through the world, and we meet other males, we size each other up mentally. Its not a physical size thing, its far more nuanced and entirely subconscious. You will know exactly which man will F you up when you see him. There are some who blend in trying to be unobtrusive, grayed out, unnoticed, but you will still get that feeling of intimidation just by how they move or stand, posture is a big part of it. We display who we are in how we move, just like animals do.
That loud boisterous guy who will come in and immediately try to take charge of a newly formed group, is not the alpha. He is trying to be, but chances are he is trying to hide his insecurity and incompetence or ignorance. Who might the alpha be? The one who sits back, observes the dynamic among everyone, learns about all members in the new group that is forming, and will assume command when the boisterous loudmouth screws up. He gives the loud guy the chance to prove himself, if he is competent then that works out, if the loud guy isn't he will be rejected by the entire group. Men follow competence, doesn't matter if you are the leader or not, competence, knowledge, ability.. all rooted in merit.
Zuby has some of it, he is a super cool guy with good ideas and an awareness about him. Matt is definitely not alpha, but he also has an awareness about him that is beneficial to society and all of us. Matt says it himself, he is contrarian, he is the one who wants to be sure the leader is competent enough to do the job. He will not step up to lead, but he will find who is competent and capable enough to handle the job.
Once you have spent time in the military, with various leaders of wildly varied competence, knowledge, and ability, you will be able to see who is the one people follow, and who is not. A competent leader does not get excited and start bouncing off the walls, trying to micromanage everything, that is what females do. If a male acts like that, its out of massive insecurity.
Would you follow that man into a bear cave with nothing but some sharp sticks or not? That is a good litmus test for this subject. Most of the people you think are alphas are simply not. Tate isn't for damn sure. He tries too hard to intimidate, but the man is spot on about how men should think and act in certain situations.
The big thing about being a leader most people completely miss is that you're responsible for the lives of everyone following you. Most just want the control, and have no idea its a position of trust and responsibility, you have to make good decisions in a timely manner. Its not as easy as it sounds.
If you want a TLDR then trust me, you are not an alpha.. lol.
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@FoxtrotFleet hypothetical: What if you cannot get cooking oil and there are not enough feral hogs around to chop up for fat? What if you do not have a diesel?
Here is an answer to the first question:
Hemp seed produces a good bit of oil per acre, and it grows exceptionally fast. It also provides you with fibers that can be utilized for textiles and paper.
Sunflowers are another good one, and they also grow profusely. However with diesels you have the problem of fuel gelling in cold weather. Pig fat will work great in Texas, but it will not work in Michigan, North Dakota, Montana, or Canada. No hogs, not enough bears, and cold starting issues.
Diesels are great where you can make fuel for them. They will run on all sorts of things, but if you have to find it, and its something like Walking Dead without zombies where all the infrastructure is gone, producing fuel is going to be dicey.
I really like the hemp idea, because the plant provides so much more than just seeds for oil.
I tend to think worst case scenario, because the more I can make for myself, the less I have to buy. Thats how I got into this subject. Lets say I was forced into poverty (divorce) and still wanted to enjoy life (drag racing) so I had to find ways to spend as little cash as possible so I could use it for things I could not make.. like tires, cylinder heads, camshafts, etc. Even though I am a machinist (among other things) I would need the equipment and electrical power to run it if I wanted to produce parts.. then I need raw materials like cam blanks and the like.
I figured ethanol was the easiest, because any starch or sugar can be used to produce fuel, and it will run in any engine, even a diesel if you ditch the diesel injector, put spark plugs in it, and run a carb or EFI. I've been testing for corrosion problems since 2007.. I am wondering how many decades it takes for it to show up.
I built some Pontiac 455s that I can change the static compression from 7:1 to 13:1 with only a head swap to test things. At 11.5:1 I get the same mileage on ethanol as I do with pump gas at 9:1... and I get to enjoy a lot more power.
Working on a 3800 Buick V6 version and a hand built vehicle to utilize parts from donor vehicles with that engine. Think Ariel Atom with body work and you'll get the idea.
I wanted to go racing again, but my 2004 deployment left me unable to ever run again, and barely able to walk, living in pain, and existing on a fixed income set by Congress. Started on the ethanol project in 2007 when I converted a Qjet for the 455 in my 1970 GTO. In 2015 the ex was paid off, and I built my shop and house. Paid those off in Feb 21, and while I could get E85 for $1.70 during the Trump years, I worked on testing, carbs, EFI, and building ethanol maximized engines with lots of compression to take advantage of the fuel.
Now I am back to producing it, but I got screwed by weather again... so now I have to go with the other method.. coffee grounds. This fall I will harvest cattails and use them to produce fuel for next summer. I am building a pond just for them. One acre of cattails provides 1000 gallons of fuel. More than enough for me to drive everywhere I need to go, run a generator if I want/have to, and go racing. So I might make two 1 acre ponds, or four half acre ponds to farm my fuel.
In the south you can use Kudzu to make ethanol. Also you can drink it, use it as hand sanitizer, antiseptic, and its a wonderful degreaser. Add some turpentine and it is a very nice clean burning light source. So its more useful than just fuel.
Making vodka should be part of every prepper's inventory of things to do and learn.
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@neilsaunders6009 you want me to explain to you, what marque cysm is, and how everything you said is a product of that, but yet somehow you think its not.
Ok... so how much do you want to read? Because I can write A LOT, and it will be somewhat difficult to read since YT makes me use code words, throw random spaces in, and spell stuff all jacked up or they hide my comments. They do not want anyone to speak disparagingly of the religion they like so much.. well, not when we have an audience over 500 people. That was pretty much when it all started and got real bad, when I hit 500, its a bit worse now since I am over 1000. As long as nobody followed me it was great, I could say whatever I wanted, then earlier this year all of that changed.
I'll try this. Think of how a stay at home mom is, dad brings home money and resources, mom divides them up among everyone in the family. Mom doesn't know or care where they come from. The kids don't know where all the stuff comes from either, all they know is they exist and get stuff to continue existing.
Now take dad after 2 to 5 years, he turns into a power hungry tyrant, usually inept and incompetent, but very ruthless and willing to do anything for control and power. Mom is the party so to speak, and rather than taking the stuff from what dad earns, she goes to the neighbors and takes from them instead. The kids have to work to get stuff now, and everything they produce goes to dad, but they are told its wonderful and fair.
Dad lives very well and has multiple families supporting him, since he no longer has to work. The mothers all run their children like they are property rather than people. The kids all think they are getting free stuff, but really they live in poverty and aren't allowed to complain to mom or dad about it.
Everything else outside of that is a means of control to keep people in the 'family' up to the point of building walls and fences to force them to stay... and work for nothing.
Now if you can grasp metaphors, and realize that you have been lied to about what so cia li sm actually is, then take the next step and look into the history of every country that has tried it. Its all the same turd, with different sprinkles when they put a different word ahead like democratic, national, etc. Merit doesn't matter nor does knowledge, because you only do what you are told to do. Where you are born is where you stay, there is no path upwards unless you are ruthless, violet, and willing to get very dirty and eschew morality entirely. Crime boss or dear leader... same thing.
The way things are supposed to work here is we all earn something, either by building, producing, gathering, creating, assembling whatever. We get paid for that effort commensurate with the value of the work. If everyone can do it, the value is low, if only a handful of people can do it and the work is in demand it pays a lot more. Skills, knowledge, abilities, and competence are worth more, its a merit based system.
All the stuff you referenced in your first comment is the support structure for the abhorrent family, partly to get us to be more amenable to accepting it, and partly to ensure we really don't have a choice unless we want to do damn near everything ourselves. I chose the do it almost all myself path.
I grew up in a family similar to the one I described, everything I earned was taken from me and used however my parents wanted. I earned thousands of dollars working for other farms, growing my own produce and taking it to town then selling it like a street vendor with a stand, but from the back of a pickup.
When I bought my first car at 13, way back in 1982, I had earned $2500. My car cost $450, and I still have it. A 1967 Cougar. Dad took the rest of my money for driving my crop into town so I could sit in the hot sun and sell it. Then dad decided to drive my car to his in town job that he took on because of the grain embargo Carter inflicted on all of us.
Farming wasn't lucrative, so dad got a job selling parts, and then farm equipment. He drove my car for the 3 years between when I bought it and when I was 16 and could drive it myself. He continued to drive it even after I turned 16. I learned how to repair vehicles by owning that car, because I got it in far worse shape than what I bought it in. I am number 2 of 6 siblings, and I am the only one they did that to.
As I learned more about marque cysm and all its abhorrent offspring, phasionism, cooommeyism, so cia lism, effinism, etc. I immediately saw the parallels of how my family took what I earned and I got almost no benefit for all of my work. When I enlisted in 1988 I started to learn more about it, because I wanted to know why we were fighting against it and I had been sent to West Germany. then in 1989 when I saw the people coming from the east side of the wall, and in talking to them, even more of it became apparent.
Sure people claim all those things are different, but they are all the same bad ideas, with other bad ideas thrown in just like most religions do. When you get to a certain altitude things look different, you can't see individual trees, but you can see the entire forest, and the shape of that forest. If you look at the trees they all look different, but from 5000feet up its the same forest. When it comes to marque cysm, its a forest filled with shit.
Like I said I can write a lot. Currently I have to go do some stuff in the shop, so this is all I will write for now.
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@genericusername9997 gasifiers are cool, but not ideal, they work best in trucks where you can carry the smoker in the bed. During WWII China was using coal fired gasifiers to power buses and trucks. Works ok on large vehicles, but the engines do not last as long because of all the particulate matter that clogs them. The power trade off sucks, and it takes a while to get the smoker going. I looked into that and other transportation fuels in 2007 when gasoline was $5 a gallon the first time. I started making ethanol from cattails, tree sap, and this year coffee grounds. No power loss, its simple and cheap to produce, and if you use home made methane to power the stills it is DIRT cheap, like 20 cents a gallon cheap.
The bonus for a gearhead like me besides the power, is that I can run very high compression engines on straight ethanol, and when you increase the compression ratio you increase both power and efficiency. I have engines that make more than 100hp more than a pump gas version, and get 5mpg better mileage on ethanol... and they are Pontiac 455s, 7.4L engines making well over 550hp. 20-25mpg in an old muscle car is pretty good. The best I ever got a 455 to get on pump gas was 19-20mpg, following a semi at 80mph down I-40, and it made considerably less power than the same car with an ethanol engine in it. The compression ratio difference is 8:1 vs 13:1.
Now imagine if I build a smaller more efficient engine, like a Buick 3800 with 16:1 compression running straight denatured ethanol and put it in a vehicle that isn't as aerodynamic as a brick pulling a parachute, with all the low drag improvements we have had in the last 50 years, like sealed wheel bearings, low rolling resistance tires, lightweight transmission parts, and rollerized internal engine parts. I'm working on exactly that.
Since I can produce fuel simply and very cheaply, rather than buying a Tesla this year like some people, I am building an engine capable of 2000hp with 20psi on vodka. A Tesla is not ideal around here, the distances are too great, the power is expensive, and the grid is unstable. I had the power go out while I was watching this video. All of my neighbors have generators, because the power is always going out. Its a beautiful windless day here, sunny, 51F and the power went out. The grid could not handle more electricity demand here, and it costs more than making my vodka fuel does. My power bill is over $200 and it only feeds LED lights, a refrigerator, a PC with a TV connected to it, and a deep freeze. When I run my air compressor in the shop building cars it goes up a lot. If I could offset it with wind and solar, you bet your ass I would be. Solar doesn't work well this far north.
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@keledek660 I've been divorced from the first one for 22 years this fall, been out of the military since 2005. From 2001 to early 2004, other than June 02-June 03, I was living in my car. Then again 2013 to 2015. In 15 I built my shop and my house, after my second divorce in 2013 left me without a place to live. Paid off my land mortgage and the building loan in Feb 2021.
So I am debt free, and have a good bit of money in the bank for the first time since 1991. Its been a long time coming, sacrificing to get ahead and make it so nobody can just kick me out of where I am living without either a fight or paying me lots of money.
Life is good now.
The first ex isn't evil, she is bipolar and spiteful, her life is rather unpleasant, she earned it. Just how girls are. The second one made a bad choice and she is paying for it now. She is 40, unwanted, and alone because her 'soulmate' didn't work out how she hoped.
I don't have any animosity towards them, and realized earlier today that my second wife was a big part of my decision to improve my writing skills. She gave me 8 good years too, with only about a year and a half of BS.
They cannot come back, I will not save nor help them, but I wish no ill upon them, they brought it on themselves.
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@adamduffield7782 was currency a means of making things easier, or was it a method of enabling taxes to be paid easier? Taxes getting paid in chickens is less useful than gold for the entities collecting the taxes.
For something to have value, it must have a finite source. You can't tax the air we breathe without knowing how much we are breathing, if they figure out how to do that they will do it. Air is simply here for us to inhale, so the only time its valuable is when you have a limited supply.
In the 1700s farmers would take their grain, ferment it, distil it into ethanol, and sell that rather than the grain itself. Ethanol is very useful for more than party time, but its also a limited resource as you have to make it which takes feedstocks, time, water, and effort. We have revenuers because the government wants their taxes for ethanol people drink. They have to pay that up front rather than at the sale like sales tax. You pay the tax for how much you make. Giving the gov a bunch of whiskey isn't as useful to them as currency.
Remove the taxes and people will trade most of what they have. People very rarely only produce one thing in situations like that. Blacksniths don't only make horseshoes, farmers don't only grow corn, when you are a producer of something like that you have to have multiple income streams. The Amway people have a saying, you will sell a lot more toilet paper than luxury yachts, even if a roll of TP is only 30 cents and the yacht is 30 million, you'll make a lot more money selling the TP.
You probably have a hard time with this since you live in a city, right? You have a job where you do one thing. Everyone you know does one thing, maybe two. Out here in the rest of the world away from cities, people do hundreds or thousands of other jobs producing a wide variety of products.
e.g. I can form/pour concrete, build a house, wood working/carpentry, raise and butcher animals, produce ethanol fuel, modify vehicles to run on said fuel, design and wire electrical systems, design parts then machine the metal, program CNC machines, work logistics moving stuff, operate heavy machinery, rebuild vehicles, fly aircraft, and more.
Used to be most people were like me and my father, grandfather, great grandfather. When people moved into cities they were motivated to specialize. They also became dependent, most city people have no idea how to replace an outlet in their house let alone grow food or fix their car. They go to their office job and go home to watch TV.
The black markets spring up and will have all the things you cannot get through the system. The problem with them is the only way to protect your investment is with violence. Think of the cartels and prohibition. You cannot go to the cops when someone steals your stuff, so you have to deal with them directly.
Money is to make it easier to pay taxes.. especially our money, which is nothing more than debt as it is a fiat currency with nothing backing it.
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Lil nobody deserves to be beaten and abused by anyone. My older brother was worse, he would beat me at random, tried to kill me several times, poisoned, stabbed, run over, bludgeoned, threw things at my head like steel fence posts. When I was 16 I nearly killed him one morning before school when he hit me. I body slammed him on the front steps of our house. Three times.. the fourth was going to be his head hitting first, but he didn't get back up.
Dad beat on me too, but only when he was frustrated or angry. He would beat me savagely though, kicked me so hard I would limp for a month. I knocked my dad out when I was 16 as well. One hit as he was going to hit me. He went down, was very slow getting back up, and never took a swing at me again.
My solution was to get big, fast, and dangerous. I am only 5'8 but I can seriously hurt people who fuck with me. The ex is the only person since I was a teenager in the 1980s that ever hit me and didn't take a beating for it.
My sisters dated guys who hit them. One was a guy who said I wasn't good enough to date his sister. I guess he was good enough to beat on mine. Years later he was selling used cars in my home town. I stopped to look at an old one on the lot, had no idea he worked there. He came out, realized it was me, and took off running. My sister stayed with him for a while, so it was her choice to hang around after the first time. If I had caught someone hitting my sisters, they would have probably vanished.
I had kids with the ex already before she got violent. The irrational arguments and fights weren't bad enough, because she didn't get violent until I started ignoring her. Then I was staying to protect the kids from her, and to be part of their lives.
If you are like me and have been treated that way by people who should have been dependable for you, then I completely understand.
Ya know something though? The second one and I never argued, never fought and for 8 years she was absolutely wonderful. We got along great, and she understood about the ex and tried not to do things the ex did. I honestly thought there might be a good girl in the world. I had lots of bad girlfriends over the years. We got married just after 8 years together, and were divorced 16 months later in 2013.
In 2012 I got sick painting some car parts for her dad, one of the chemicals in the paint screwed up my lungs. I couldn't breathe for six months. Just as I recovered, she cheated, lied, and then falsely accused me so she could be the victim.
Then all the other false accusations in the military, and girls wanting to extort things from me. Two false accusations because I would not give the first a car, the second because I didn't let her drive it while drunk on icy roads. Four false accusations in the military for saying hello, claiming s3xharaassmewnt. Gotta spell it wrong for you to see it.
I knew more than a few guys who's wives did similar things to them, and were falsely accused in the military. My story is not unique, a better word is ubiquitous. Its impossible for me to trust females, and males only earn my trust conditionally. It doesn't take much to destroy any trust I have in someone now. Its easier to simply not trust them at all.
Doesn't mean I can't like them, but I know there is nobody on the planet I can depend upon.
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@SpawnOfJenova you want to simply let the leftists take over the largest cities and capitulate to them? Give them the surrounding states and force all those people who do not agree with the the urban leftists to rot with them? Look at California, New York, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin by county as to which way the counties voted. The cities are islands of blue in seas of red.
I live in Michigan, in the upper peninsula that most people don't even realize is part of the USA let alone Michigan. Lansing makes laws for problems in Detroit and the other big cities 10 hours away from where I live. We in the U.P. have to live by those idiotic laws that make zero sense in this predominantly rural area. We pay taxes that go to the cities downstate and we get hardly anything coming back up here.
Gas prices in Marquette are always the highest in the state, and usually only huge cities like LA and NYC have higher prices than we pay.. and they want to tax us even more. Marquette has about 26k people in it. Its the only county in the UP that went blue last year. Its an island in a sea of red, just like Detroit, Lansing, Grand Rapids., etc. They vote to take more from us, and there is nothing we can do about it.
Who the fuck are we going to divorce from? The cities?
If this does kick off, it will not be state vs state, it will be the rest of the state vs the large cities that dominate elections through massive numbers of dependents living off the government tit and people beholden to the system for everything. You can't grow food, produce electricity, or produce fuel in a city, it must all be brought in to them. It takes a massive amount of resources to keep a city alive.
Any idea how easy it is to lay siege to a modern city? Cut the power, water, food, and fuel... Drop a couple overpasses, cut some rail road tracks with torches and an excavator, build hedgehog barriers and sink them into the asphalt of roads and airstrips.... three days later the people in the city are eating each other. A handful of construction crews could do it overnight, then a handful of people with rifles can enforce it. If the national guard comes in and takes it all down, it can spring up again a mile or two down the road and they don't have the manpower to guard everything.
That is how vulnerable they are in the cities. That is how an insurgency works, and its damn hard to defend against it. Also thats how our country got its start, Britain took the cities, and eventually the continentals laid siege to them. The cities back then actually produced something other than cubicle jobs.
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Girls can do anything I can do? Pickle jars would like a word.
I am one of the fathers who was thrown out, indentured into poverty and prevented by the state from being part of the lives of my two daughters who are now grown and in their 20s. I am not one of a minority, this happens to many fathers who want to be there with their kids. Despite working long hours to pay the bills, I spent a lot of time with my kids. I taught them to crawl, stand, walk, ride bikes, read, count, math, colors, shapes, how to run computers, and as many other things as I could. Then the cheating ex said I never spent time with them and was mean to them. That was how she was, abusive, bipolar, she would take off and screw her best friend's husband and completely ignore that she had kids and responsibilities.
If society wants to continue blaming us for everything, holding us back so females can creep ahead with all the extra benefits and help they get, hey, fine by me. When everything stops working, the food dries up, and suddenly the cities go dark, lets remind them this is what they wanted. If they can do 'everything' we can do, then they can keep civilization functioning. They f'd up my daughter's lives, neither will find a decent man because of the damage done by their mother and the spineless guy she married. I will probably never be a grandfather, never get to spend time with kids teaching them all the things grandfathers should teach them. All the fun stuff, like how to drag race and play first person shooters. I was robbed of the childhood of both daughters, and of grandkids by feminism. Yeah, I am kinda salty about it.
Men are good living alone, its our default setting we start out with as soon as we leave our parents house. They need the validation and attention from others, men don't give a damn. The weak males act like females, and they can suck it up and risk their lives for the precious females. Not like those guys will get any poon..
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@katydidd6321 dogs and horses I know very well, I train huskies, and if you know anything about huskies its not exactly easy like a Lab or a hound. Thanks to PTSD and growing up on a farm I can read nonverbal language quite well, be it human or animal.
Its not very easy to keep her from talking to her mom and sisters. Believe me, they feel deep regret and shame for encouraging her to throw away the only man who would accept her for who she was. Every time I have seen her mother in public, it was not a display of haughty superiority, she was righteously embarrassed. She knows she screwed up and pushed her daughter to screw up.
They knew it a month after everything was final and the kid brought a pistol in her house, and had the grandkids of hers playing with it. They got to know that guy and regretted everything they did to me. Her ego prevents her from apologizing, but thats ok with me. Just seeing her embarrassed and shamed is enough.
You are doing exactly what most girls do, think I am calling you 'bad people' when I am not. Saying you are not wonderful, trustworthy, amazing, and whatever else is not the same as saying you are bad. Whats that saying about having privilege for so long that hearing no sounds like oppression or something? I used to see that used against christians and other religious nutter types but the people who always think they are being called bad if their nature and/or faults are pointed out.
So you have not cheated. What that means is you have not had the opportunity to cheat with someone else who appears to be better than the one you have in some way. Also you have been married for 20 years, so you are old like I am, at least in your 40s.
I am saying it is in your nature to trade up, and you also need constant validation and assurance that you made the right choice, so you test the hell out of us. It makes sense, because for a million years or so choosing the wrong male meant death.
That is the nature of females. It just is, and its neither good nor bad.
Now when you and other girls assume I am calling you bad, its your own judgement of yourselves, and you are judging yourselves on the male scale. We are very different, we want and need different things, are capable of different things, we are supposed to compliment each other, not be opposing forces pushing each other away.
It is not fair to judge females by male criteria, nor vice versa. We are not horses or dogs, but you should be able to tell the difference between riding a stallion, a gelding, and a mare. There are variances among the groups there is overlap, but you get to the extremes and its obvious which is the most of something and which is not. We could get into things like Arabian vs Morgan, but you should get the idea.
You see we have everything to lose now, you will not starve to death if we leave or get deleted in battle, an accident, by a disease, or whatever. You have a safety net, the government makes sure you are not living under a bridge just because you no longer have a man.
The gov ensures that by making us pay for you to not have a man. If you decide you no longer want your guy, you can trade him in for cash and prizes, claim he smacked you around and you can get anything you want no evidence needed.
It is NOT in our best interest to just leave the girl we are with, because we are going to have to pay her if we are married, and even more if we have kids together. Yet the trope persists that dad goes out for milk and never comes back. More often since the 1980s he is forced out and prevented from seeing his kids by her and the state, then she just says he doesn't love you or care about you.
My 25 year old daughter can attest to that.
Now that my dear horse chick, is when a woman becomes a bad person. When she acts on her nature, and burns her life to the ground on a whim, and drops a nuke on him from orbit. Everything is in her favor, she is absolved of all responsibility, and its all dropped on him.
The laws encourage you to follow your nature without consequence, well not immediate anyway, 40 to 80 is a long time to live in boxed wine and cat land. The laws discourage us from taking the risk of marrying you. We are held accountable for everything you do, and have zero rights when it comes to our kids.
If you were to get divorced and be left with nothing but a 20-30 year old standard cab pickup to your name, and 71% of your gross income was being given to your spouse, how eager would you be to cheat and trade him in? What would be the downside for him? Why would he keep you around when you have to pay him and he gets to keep everything you worked for?
At 53 I am too old to rebuild again, besides 8 times in one lifetime is more than enough. Each time was caused by someone else, and only twice was it my choice to let them into my life.
Why should I and why would I risk it again with any female when the chances of me ending up homeless for the rest of my life, or self deleting and burning everything I own/built is around 80%?
I did not cheat, did not mistreat them, was not overbearing nor controlling, I set boundaries and expected them to be adults and stay honest. I worked my ass off for them, and still managed to spend time teaching my kids how to read, walk, crawl, ride bikes, run computers, math, and eventually how to drive. I spent every minute I could with my kids until she took off with them in 2001.
So the way it looks from my end, and after dating a couple hundred other girls who shared the same nature, is if you are a good man you get destroyed.
Since 2013 I have dated, one girl for 4 years. She never heard me say I love you, never heard me utter an epithet of affection, and I never allowed myself to get emotionally attached to her, and yet I treated her very well. She decided she wanted to end it so she could date a firefighter who dumped her two weeks later.
She is still a good friend, we talk often, and she is the classiest girl I have ever known... but every one of you will trade in the best thing you can get for one that seems better if you think you can turn it into something long term.
I really really like girls, of all shapes, sizes and colors. But I have learned through 37 years of dating and being married for 8 years to the first and being with the other for just shy of ten years, that I cannot trust them to do anything other than what she thinks she wants right this second.
I cannot plan around that, I cannot afford to invest in that, so I will never ever commit to one of you again. I'll bang one like a screen door in an Oklahoma tornado ripping through a trailer park, but she gets zero commitment and can leave any time she wants, but takes nothing with her.
Even the good ones do the same thing the trailer park sloots do.
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I've been meeting these young guys, online and out in the world. Its the rare one that doesn't know about MGTOW or red pills which are answers to the feminine centric society we have. They are told they are shit, treated like broken girls, and nobody really gives a damn about them other than to tell them how evil and privileged they are. Its not that they truly believe it, but they are smart enough to see that the game is rigged against them, and the best solution is to not play the rigged game.
This half a million guys not working is the tip of the iceberg. The pendulum has swung so far left to the believe all whamens, every man is a gonna betherapist, and people are considering the cull all men idea proposed a few decades ago by typical man haters, that the swing back is going to be fucking epic. It will make the civil war look like a bad weekend at the beach, the preceding years will make the great depression look like a couple of overdrawn bank accounts. These guys are saying Fuck you, I am not going to be your pack mule.
They arent addicted to video games and pron, but that is where they spend their time because fuck it, you gotta do something with the seemingly endless hours you are alive. They have nothing to work for. They aren't going to have families, their dreams have already been pushed under the rug by the school system and society in general. They aren't the type of men who will allow themselves to be indentured through debt. They watched what happened to the previous generations, the gen X fathers who were horribly fucked in divorce court, and they are just not gonna do it.
They see what the feminists and marxist have wrought, and are checking out. Its the right and proper reply to that abhorrent bullshit. Let it crash and burn, walk away from the fire, or get out the rats you caught and have a BBQ. One thing is for damn sure though, I have sympathy for any country that starts some shit with us in the next 15 years, because these fuckers who aren't wearing man buns and skinny jeans are just waiting for the chance to prove themselves in an arena where it will actually matter. They are not going to invest in a paper house. As of yet, the only thing available to them is sticks and scarps of paper. Wait until these young men find something to get behind that will make a difference. Its going to be fucking epic and I hope my old gray haired ass is around to see them become the men they are destined to be.
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I can pay it all off today if I want to. I live frugally and built my home myself on inexpensive land far away from civilization. I have 13 acres of woods, a two story container house I built, a 32x48 shop I build my old cars in, and I did it all for about $70k with a couple years of work on my part. I owe about $12k now , and I have more than that sitting around in the event this all goes to shit. I'll throw their useless cash back at them, and continue making my fuel and energy, and growing my food and catching fish, turkeys, rabbits, etc. I live this way because its inexpensive, its more work but I have plenty of time and not a lot of cash. People want me to sell it all and buy a $350k house in town.. I think I would rather be dead.
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@coledibiase1777 I have a channel, I am into cars, old muscle cars I build, and green energy because I like to make stupid amounts of power and drive it around on cheap fuel. However with the censorious nature of youtube and google I am not putting my videos on here anymore. They can use my content to make money and they don't have ot give me any of it, and the way they are fucking with everyone, why should I support them?
Its hard to find a photo of me online too, my cars are easy to find, what I look like isn't. There are two reasons for that, 1 is privacy, I am not much of an attention whore. 2 is I don't want to be recognized or easy to find when the shit hits the fan... also since I do my editing, and don't like looking at myself I tend to not be in my videos.
I thought about a book.. My life has been seriously fucked up, but there is no happy ending, and people get depressed reading about it. At least 1984 and Animal Farm have a reason and meaning behind them, the only meaning or reason in my life is capricious fucking humans trying to harm or even kill me.
If you want to know my opinion on most things, read Jefferson, Franklin and Paine, they are far more eloquent and interesting than I am. I mostly think like they do, mostly like Franklin to be honest.
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@bbb462cid Ya know, the 455s don't need much in the way of speed parts. All of them are easily capable of 550hp/600ftlbs with factory heads, intakes, ignition, and certain factory cams. Unlike the chevys which need the entire aftermarket thrown at them to run, the BOP engines can make great power with reworked factory parts.
The Pontiac is particularly easy to get power from, most people under cam them or go with single plane intakes that slow them down, then put a deep gear behind it that also slows it down. Then they try to RPM it like a sbc and can't figure out why its so slow and then chucks the rods out. The cool thing about the Pontiac is a head swap is all you need to get anywhere from 7:1 to 13:1 compression with a factory head, and you don't need all the hard to find round port RA/HO/SD stuff to make power, the D ports will do it. Every Pontiac head ever made will bolt to every Pontiac block, so as long as you get the valve pockets right for the heads, and the intake for either 64 and earlier or 65 and later, you can mix and match everything. The LS comes close to that interchangeability, but they don't have as many displacements.
The Buick is simple too, but has fewer head choices and thus a tighter compression range. For pump gas engines its tough to beat a Buick, it usually comes down to which car is lighter when a Buick lines up with a Pontiac or Olds. The chevy is going to have a bunch of aftermarket stuff, or its gonna get beat.
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You don't need to be as big as he is, or as big as I am to get female attention. You simply have to be bigger than most guys in your area. Definitely lift and put on mass, its HUGELY beneficial as far as your capabilities are concerned, shoot for 17" arms and bench pressing 300lbs or so, and you are right in the sweet spot.
I'm 54, twice divorced, and I actively push women away. I was never a bodybuilder, but I was somewhat forced to be a power lifter by the USAF. I'm not as big as he is, my arms have shrunk to 20" from the 22" they were in 1991 after my first war. I get the same reactions he does when I am low BF%, and I still get plenty of interest from women where I am right now in BF%. I use this name because the USAF always marked me down and messed with me about my muscle mass, saying I was morbidly obese. By BMI I am beyond morbidly obese.. lol, so is that body builder.
You probably will never get as big as I am, but thats not a problem. 15" to 17" arms is more than enough to get attention from women. I had 15" arms when I enlisted back in 1988 and it was easy to pick them up. The mind numbing amount of work I did to gain 7" of muscle mass in less than one year is far beyond what most people will ever do. What I did when I was 21 hurts a lot at 54, believe that. Having this much mass on a 5'8 frame causes issues with joints, connective tissue, blood pressure, and breathing. I am the same size and strength as a medium sized silverback gorilla.
However, if I dropped 30-40lbs so you could see my six pack, there would be no shortage of women trying to get my attention. I used to drop 40lbs every November in high school for wrestling, I'd go from looking big to absolutely ripped and gaunt looking. I don't want to do that, I like not having to deal with females constantly. After two divorces and losing everything I owned other than some old rusty cars, I just don't have the interest in them I did 30 years ago. I wear baggy clothes I get at hardware stores, like Menards, Lowes, and Tractor Supply.. I kid you not. I do not want their attention and expense... ok once in a while some nookie is good, but its a lot of Bravo Sierra to get some, and the risks (legal).
I forget how much larger I am than everyone else, then I see myself in a photo or a video next to normal people and I am always surprised. My community page has a big of me at a distance with my 65 GTO, lined up with my family and our vehicles if you want to see what I mean. I can lift some very heavy stuff.
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I live alone in the woods, I avoid people normally because most people have proven themselves to be untrustworthy, so I limit my interactions with them intentionally. I am not afraid of anyone nor anything, certainly not a virus. However, the idea of escaping society and leaving it them all to suffer under the oppression that is surely coming on a scale never before seen, well that is unpalatable to me.
I will not run away and let them do as they please. I will not abide and hope they do not find me. They have as yet not crossed the line in stone for me, they have talked about it at length, but have not gone over it. I can think for myself, and act of my own volition, and I will fight for liberty and freedom to the point of giving my life to preserve it if need be. Already served doing exactly that for a large part of my adult life.
Part of why I am secluded is not to hide, but to deprive them of intel and information. It is standard operation security (opsec) and I only write in here to advise people they are not alone, you have scary motherfuckers on your side, and yes some of us will stand against this with you. It will not be pleasant, it will cost you more than you know, but there is a chance your grandchildren will only know of this authoritarian and marxist bullshit in history books, as failed attempts to enslave the world.
Leave the cities, but do not abandon western civilization to the marxists. For if we do, there will be no place to run to.
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Chicken and the egg thing if its genetic or geographical. It seems rather simple to me though, it stems from survival pressure in harsh environments. Where food is abundant all year, there is no need to store it, no problem solving is needed beyond the most simplistic solutions to minor issues. In the winter people who were incapable of planning ahead, storing food, and building shelter to stay warm, simply died off. Those who were planners, who thought about how to survive until the next crop is harvested a year away survived. When survival is not a given like it is today, merit and competence matter.
If you have minimal need to stay warm and food is abundant, people don't need to be very smart. If you live in a place where the weather tries to snuff you, the terrain tries to end you, and wildlife tries to eat you, the smart ones will solve the problems and endure. Evolution isn't so much about one thing changing into another thing, its organisms that adapt to the environment because some are better suited than others.
Where does the lack of melanin come from? Needing vitamin D which is produced by our bodies in response to sunlight. There is far less sunlight in Norway, Siberia, and Canada than there is in Congo or Ivory Coast. Even during the long days of summer the sun doesn't have nearly the direct shot that equatorial regions enjoy. People with lighter complexions survived because they were able to produce more D with limited sunlight. This is a big thing for those of us who live in the north, I don't get enough sunlight on the shore of Lake Superior. Everyone who lives here that is not pale needs supplements to survive and thrive.
So is it genetic? Eventually, the genes that enable some people to adapt better than others would survive and endure. Those that don't adapt as readily will not. Over 100,000 years people can change a lot... to understate it. Geography plays some part of it, but society does as well. China warred with themselves for centuries, never caring to go farther or take the next step when they invented something. Native Americans never saw a horse until Cortez brought horses to the continent, before that they walked everywhere.
For some reason Europeans want to explore, to find out what is over the hill, probably because of the scarcity of food and shelter in prehistorical Europe. Polynesians did something similar, they managed to find remote islands in a vast expanse of ocean with small rafts and boats. Food was plentiful, real estate was not, so they had to move to survive.
I don't see all of this as someone is better or whatever, more that we are the product of our environment. Accept who you are, where you come from, and make the most of what you were born with. Why feel superior to others when there is almost definitely something they know or can do that you cannot. I know some people need to feel like they are special or superior to others... I see them as insecure and resentful they aren't someone else.
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@RaylerRepent the problem is people who like them and believe the propaganda think its not a big deal. I have a friend who hears about all of that, and the stuff they want to do to kids, and she still says but Trump is worse. Really, Trump doesn't matter when people are doing all of these bad things, you can't discount or ignore what people do just because you dislike someone else.
I don't have a political party, and I do not follow any ideology either, no religion, nothing like that. So that puts me in a position where I hear what people say, compare it to what they do, and judge from there and make my own decisions.
When I see and hear what the ones I mentioned in the post you replied to are doing, and I can see that its the same script that was used 100 years ago in eastern Europe, I am not going to be a fan, and I will not abide it. What I think of Trump doesn't matter, the job performance does matter. I still cant stand to listen to him speak, it grates my nerves something terrible.. but he did a decent enough job.
There is absolutely zero that I like about the potato we have now, I loathed him 30 years ago when he pushed the crime bill and he is even worse now. So many things he has done, that are obvious and easily proven, not some conjecture or stretching and fabricating like with the cheeto... I mean the man is on video saying he is doing illegal and illicit things, and he just gets a pass.
We no longer have a legal system here, we have a stazi.
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@PapaFenn alcohol taxes are not because its bad for you, it goes way back to the 1700s when farmers would turn grain into alcohol because it was much easier to store and transport. Ethanol used to be used for light, antiseptic, cleaning, and when cars first came about it was the main fuel for them, before prohibition.
They want their cut of that grain, so they also taxed ethanol. Fun fact, if I wanted to, I could get a tax credit for every gallon of cattail fuel I make to run my vehicles. I think its like 45 cents or so last I checked. They heavily tax the beverage ethanol, but pay you to make fuel ethanol as an incentive for you to become energy independent. The potato hasn't stopped it far as I know.
Don't get caught selling fuel ethanol as moonshine though, they fine you based on how much your still could produce over an entire year of continuous operation, not by how much you actually produced and sold.
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@solanumtinkr8280 First thing, I really don't give a damn about Co2 as a pollutant. I like to utilize it to grow more food. I make ethanol from cattails, tree sap, and starting this year, coffee grounds. I figured the coffee grounds are here, might as well use them rather than throw them out.
The difference for the climate people is the CO2 from gasoline is dragged to the surface and released, whereas ethanol is from plants that are already on the surface, pulling CO2 from the air, and burying part of it in the ground as they grow. We could be using ethanol fueled engines in tractors, irrigation engines, and trucks... like in Brazil, but the 'wrong' people would profit from it.
What is used to produce ethanol matters, but the 'study' used to show ethanol to be negative EROEI when made from corn was horribly skewed. Its still the one published all the time, but its erroneous at best. It was done by an entomologist at Cornell named Pimental, and his assumptions and inputs were well off the mark to say the least.
Every gallon of fuel grows a lot more than most people think, the inputs for corn aren't as high as most people assume they are. As long as you don't go with studies based on Pimental's numbers, ethanol is very much positive in EROEI.
One acre of cattails in the wild will produce around 1000 gallons of ethanol. One acre of dryland corn will produce around 200 to 250, irrigated corn around 500 gallons. You could claim the cattails need a huge amount of water, which is true, but you'd be ignoring the fact that the cattails are cleaning that water as they grow. If you feed them nitrates from livestock or urban sewage, they grow profusely and produce 10x the ethanol per acre... and clean the water.
We use corn because its easy to store and transport, easy to grow and harvest, and it does ok making ethanol. Plus what is left over after fermentation is a very high quality livestock feed. We actually produce more food by making ethanol with corn, not less. The yeast eat the part of corn that livestock cannot digest, leaving the part they can digest, which leads to healthier animals, less methane produced (AOC would be happy.. imagine me rolling my eyes out of my head at her) and they grow faster than on cut corn feed.
Lots of ways to make ethanol that people are simply ignoring.. like waste paper, stale bread, etc. I do cattails because they grow like crazy, North Dakota classifies them as a noxious weed. They are notoriously difficult to eradicate, and they produce a high yield with minimal inputs. A very beneficial plant.. and yeah we can eat them too.
Now for the gearhead part... since I am a gearhead and build very high HP/TQ V8s.
Yes if you want to run both ethanol and gasoline in an engine, you will lose mileage on ethanol. That is due to the static compression ratio. Gasoline has a propensity to ignite when it feels like it, we call it ping or knock. It breaks things in engines. It will ignite with nothing more than heat and pressure, which is exactly what a diesel runs on as diesels have no spark ignition. More compression means more ping/knock on gasoline. Direct injection is a bandaid to get around that, by introducing the fuel as late as possible into the chamber, thus limiting the time it has to ignite on its own.
Ethanol doesn't like to ignite with just heat and pressure, it wants a spark. Its not really an octane thing, more of a very different fuel thing.
On 87 octane I can run no more than 8.8:1 compression in my engines, but on ethanol I have had daily drivers with 13:1 compression, that is too much for all but the best race gasoline. That was E85, which is cheaper than 87 octane.
Around 12:1 with iron heads, I get the same to slightly better mileage, but a lot more power as gasoline at 8:1 from my engines. 550hp@5500rpm and 20mpg with an old Qjet carb isn't easy to do on gasoline. My 455 on E85 did it easily with 13:1.
Now why do you need to add more fuel when running ethanol? Its the oxygen content in the fuel, not the BTU content. The BTU is only how long it takes a given fuel to heat one pound of water one degree. It says nothing about how much power, how resistant to ping/knock, or anything else, just how well it heats water.
Gasoline heats water very well.. in fact more than 80% of the energy in gasoline goes to waste heat. In controlled environments in labs, they can improve that now, but real world its about 18% efficient. The energy difference between gasoline and ethanol is more than absorbed by that disparity alone.
In contrast to gasoline, ethanol uses 40% of its energy to power the vehicle, more than twice as efficient. Only 60% goes to waste heat. The added power comes from two things, the extra O2 in the fuel, and latent heat of vaporization, it cools the intake charge making it more dense. Its very pronounced in forced induction engines, easily making 100hp/tq more than gasoline.
If we build engines with 22:1 compression ratios, run them on straight ethanol, we can have a much smaller cooling system which reduces mass, make more power with smaller engines which also reduces mass, and get better mileage than diesels. If we heat the fuel in the EFI rails before it enters the intake port/plenum, we can improve mileage further.
The best part that I stumbled on is how clean my engines are when I run them only on ethanol. There are no black deposits of carbon clogging the engine, wearing the surfaces, and fouling the oil. In Brazil the taxis run hydrous ethanol, they go a million miles and have nearly no wear inside he engines. 500k still looks like a new engine inside when you take them apart.
What if we grew cattails along all the highways, in the medians and ditches, used them to remediate waste water and sewage from cities, and built engines designed to maximize the properties of ethanol?
More water, more food, less pollution, and longer lasting engines... exactly what the people pushing EVs and eat the boogz do not want.
Thing is though, we would still have the problem of what to do with the toxic waste that is left after refining diesel, kerosene, and other valuable compounds from crude? That leftover toxic stuff is what they call gasoline.
Like I said, I don't give a damn about the Co2 in the atmosphere, its a trace element so we will never have a runaway effect like Venus... or even close to it. Just not enough of it on the planet that can be released. Most of the CO2 that was here was used by coral to build their homes. That Co2 isn't going anywhere no matter how much oil we burn and pollute our air with Co, Nox and soot from fossil fuels.
I like ethanol because I can make it for less than $1 a gallon, I use methane to heat the stills. Its dirt cheap, makes lots of power, allows me to run my high compression parts from the 1960s and its more of a problem getting the engines hot enough than keeping them cool.... I REALLY dig the power though.
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I wrestled in high school and at the base level in the military, the discipline required to succeed in wrestling has been the most important benefit in my 50+ years. Testing yourself in competition teaches you so much about yourself, what you can do, what you can achieve, and that there is always someone faster, stronger, better, bigger, etc than you are. That is where the humility comes from, knowing what its like to win and to lose, based on what you put in. If you are never challenged you will tend to think you are more than you are, you will not have the discipline needed just as much today as 1000 years ago.
The best thing any man can do is compete in some form of martial art in his youth.
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@The_Reality_Filter the reason I got into wrestling was simple. I was getting beaten on at home and at school, in team sports I always sat on the bench, in wrestling if you can beat the other guys at your weight, you are going to the tournament. Started in 8th grade, by the time I was a sophomore the kids trying to beat on me had stopped, at 16 I ended the abuse at home, and made sure my dad and brother never considered hitting me again.
Everyone who has started a fight with me since 16 has lost. I would rather walk away, ignore them, and let them think they are tough. I avoid violence as much as I can, I've had enough of it for several lifetimes.
When you know what you can do, and most people have no idea what is about to happen to them if they take a swing at a grappler or a proficient boxer, you don't go around starting fights. You are not insecure, you have nothing to prove, you have already proven to he most important person... yourself.
Its always the insecure who haven't put in the work and developed the discipline who start fights. They want to feel tough and powerful and they think violence will do that for them. Those of us who have competed know exactly what we can and cannot do, we are proven, and experience is the best teacher.
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@krzosu the more apt question is would you want what has happened to someone else, such as me for instance, to happen to you? Its been a rough life to say the least. Here's my outlook after two wars, with far too much death and violence in my life. Everyone dies, you never know what is going to get you until you're there, a second or so later you no longer care. Its only a matter of when and how, as death is inescapable.
Accept that fact and live your life knowing someday... its gonna be you. Our tombstones have two dates separated by a dash or a space, the dates are mostly irrelevant, that dash or the space between them is what is important. Most people live uneventful, boring, barely doing the minimum to get by, unimportant lives. In the big picture on a cosmic scale, that is ALL of us. None if it will matter in a couple billion years.
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I'm twice divorced, it was easy for me to move on because both of them cheated. My solution to the irritating annoying fact they cheated was to go get nekkid with another girl. I was 44 when the second one ate a bowl of stoopud flakes and cheated with a loser her family loathed. Ever since then, I do not get attached, do not get emotionally invested, and I actually prefer to live and be alone. I am not lonely, not hard up, I can go get some pretty much any time I want to. Thing is, I really don't care to.
I am 53 now, and I still like girls, still interested, can still get busy, and college girls seem to like gray beards.. don't ask me why, as I have no idea.
The time and money spent on girls is better utilized to do the things I want to do with my remaining years. I spent lots of my youth doing the nekkid girl thing, completed my bucket list of all but two.. twins in a 3 way and conjoined twins.. Ok, it wasn't a burning desire or anything to have twins.
Thanks to my time in the military, and wrestling in high school, its been relatively easy for me to get girls. Learned to talk to them into the nekkid time thing back in 1986, and its been an ocean of 'what was her name again?' ever since.
A girl has to be more than a warm body to get my interest long term, but past exp means I am exceptionally wary of them misbehaving. I know its only a matter of time until she decides to try to do better. So they are free to come into my life, and free to leave it whenever they want.
She wants to break it off? My reply is "Okay" and I go about my day. There is no coming back once they do that. She is on her own, and open to explore greater opportunities. The amusing part is that they have dwindling opportunities after 30, and it gets smaller and smaller every day after 30. They still jump off the ship with nothing more than a small island in view, only to find themselves treading water again when that island sinks beneath them.
Rebuilding old rusty GTOs is vastly less expensive than getting divorced.. I know, believe me I know. Get married at your own peril these days, its not like when Jocko and I were kids.
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@Adrian-qr6gk I'm solidly in X, and it was done to us just like it is happening to you. The difference was the ideology behind all of this was not as prevalent, they had no infiltrated education and companies like they have now.
The weak minds listened to them and raised you guys with participation trophies and punishing the kid who gets bullied. Its a small group of people who have gotten inordinate influence over media, education, and government. They are not indicative of the whole by any stretch, but they want you to think they are.
It does suck pretty bad for you though in regards to gettin some nookie. Most of you can't lift your own body weight, chicks dig men who can do that. most of you have no idea what it means to be masculine, they dig that in us too. You have never competed, trained, overcome hardship, nor achieved something difficult. You are reaping the reward of an easy, soft life.
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@elidrissii I've followed my path my entire life, allowed some girls to go along with me on my journey over the years. They did their best to derail me, one went so far as to take everything but a few rusty old cars from me, and the state made me pay her for another 15 years.
I avoid where the masses go, If its popular more than likely I am not there. Youtube is about the only popular thing I am associated with, and I still have my limits for it.
Funny thing is I have an Occulus Rift, the VR set facebook is pushing that metaverse on. I got it because I like combat flight sims, not because I want to talk to people in a fake environment or do something with a virtual house. I put all the furniture on the ceiling, the plants on the walls, and the other stuff is floating around... Its about the stupidest thing I have ever seen. I had no idea it was a FB thing when I bought it. Havent been on FB in two years.
That VR set works pretty good for flying though.. I would use it for racing games, but I own race cars, and games are kinda missing the visceral appeal of racing an actual vehicle. Which is the whole reason I build and race cars, its not the speed, its the acceleration getting to the speed that has me hooked. Watching racing on TV is the most boring shit ever. Wait, no games with balls... that is the most boring shit ever.
I like the real world, but I can't afford a P40 or P38, so I use games to do things I can't do in real life.... especially in winter, my GTOs and Cuda are not going out in this salted snow.
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@angrytedtalks BMI works for small people with small bones, who cannot lift their own body weight. BMI does not include provisions for muscle. It is simple height + weight. Most people who are over 200lbs are disgusting blobs of lipids and grease, with a gravy blood type. Over 300 most can barely fit in a vehicle... well the interior, they can ride in the back of a pickup. They simply eat wrong and are sedentary, my usual diet is high protein so I have to supplement with carbs and occasional sugar. Lean meat, veggies, fresh fruit is my usual. Under 2000 calories most days. Its kinda crazy to be honest.
When I reenlisted in the USAF back in 2000, I was 30 years old, 5'8 and 235lbs, with the very inaccurate tape test I was 18% BF. At 220 in 2001 I was ripped to the point of having a six pack.. and I was on the "fat boy program." It was ludicrous. My max weight was something like 175lbs. My first war made me grow from 190lbs to 240. The second war, and the last 10 years of building my house, shop, and doing all the ground work mostly by hand has me at 315lbs. The VA measured me two years ago with calipers which is more accurate than simple tape of the neck and belly, and I am 15%. Yes, I know I am morbidly obese according to BMI and I have been for most of my adult life. I can lift very heavy things, because that was my USAF job, moving heavy stuff as fast as possible.
I am VERY considerate of others, and the last time I flew my seat was in the center between two nice ladies, one of whom was an Army Captain, her job was dietitian so we have a wonderful conversation about it. I did not choose the center, it was the only seat left on the flight. When they came to sit down I made the joke that they are unlucky as they have to sit next to the fat man. They both laughed and we got along great. I try not to encroach on the space other people are occupying, and I am cordial about it when I have to.
It should be obvious that I play up that angle, calling myself fat in my handle on here, making jokes at my expense. I am very obviously not fat in person, unless I am wearing hoodies and warm clothing like I am right now. Most people guess I am 220lbs judging by my size, since most people are fat at my size. It really surprised the gym manager when I stepped on his scale last winter and it read 330 on the nose. He assumed 210.
Some of us do not fit the normal sizes, as a senior in high school back in 1987 I wrestled at 167lbs, bench pressed 265lbs, and was 8% to 10% fat, so its not a new development. I am inclined to pack on muscle very easily, and its honestly a pain in the ass. Finding clothing, getting in and out of my race cars, knowing my car is .2 slower because I am driving it instead of my 120lb daughter... I have to buy high quality shoes, usually Redwing work boots because nothing else holds up to my activity level and the weight on my feet. If it were fat it would not be on me... and over 40 this damn belly won't go away because of the size of my chest.
I know it will shorten my life, but its very difficult to lose muscle without doing a couple years in a concentration camp. Which way is better to shorten your life?
Far too many fat people think they are like me, nah they are just walking soap.
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A girl I know told me straight faced that women have it worse than men do, that doctors don't believe them when they say they are in pain, and a bunch of other nonsense. She has never been beaten up at random or assaulted, never been shot at, never even come close to death, doesn't have to sign up for the draft, has never had to do a dangerous job, never been robbed, never been homeless, never been to jail for something she didn't do just because a girl accused her of it.
I have been through all those things including every supposed hardship she said she had to endure.
Women are protected and cared for, how many white knights will step in when a woman is in trouble? Women whine about it all the time. Thing is men don't whine about it, they just keep moving through the world of shit they have always known. Manginas whine about it... I do not consider them to be men.
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Compared to the rest of my life, this has been easy. However I do not think its going to continue to be something I find merely annoying. I know where that slippery slope goes. I didn't lock down, have been speaking my mind and not holding back, and when a store says we need to wear a mask, I let them now I will never shop there again. ACE hardware lost me forever over that shit. Admittedly I live alone in the woods, go into town one a week at most, and avoid people due to the fact they are the source of most problems and stress I have had in my life.
I am not afraid of a virus, not afraid of death either. They cannot control me, and I will not bend to them, nor will I surrender. I do what I want, when I want, where I want, and I rarely ever want to bother harming someone else. Only if they try to harm me, then they have earned it. These tyrants need to understand, leave us alone and let us live our lives as we see fit.
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@Bender_B._Rodriguez I don't agree he was the worst, Wilson still wins that race. He signed the shit that gave us the Fed, which is a wealth siphon on all of us. FDR fucked us hard with his new deal, but he did not start the war.
He also had nearly 16 years to fuck us over, Biden has done almost as much in just one year.... and yes its VERY intentional, not by Ceepy Dementia Joe, but by the people actually running the show.
They want it as bad as it can get, they want us to live in a world of shit they created, then tell us they can fix it if we let them toss the constitution... so they can make us subservient to them. It works in dem run cities like Baltimore, Detroit, and Chicago, so they assume it will work with all of us.
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@greenarrow219 I've made it better, I've rebuilt my life 7 times now. I'm too old to start over again after being indentured for another 15-20 years, so I live alone and always will. The risk is too great for me to try and find a "good one" and lose everything again. The last 3 years are my first since 1994 that I have worked for my benefit and not had to give most of what I earned to someone undeserving. If she had been a good wife, mother, and partner she would have been more deserving. I avoid contact with girls I have to see often, as in I will not date a girl who hits on me where she works. When it goes south, she still do things to prevent me from going there. It's more than simply not dating girls I work with, it's girls who I see often in the course of my daily life. There's several of them, very cute, young, but I need to get parts, equipment, and materials in the places where they work. So they don't get to enjoy being part of my life. That means most every girl I sleep with lives hours away and I see then occasionally. They can do whatever they wish when I'm not there, I don't own them
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@CoolPapaJMagik better for whom? You're missing my point though, I am not seeing myself as part of a group, particularly not based on skin color. I do not play identity politics, I either like or dislike people based on who they are and what they do, what color they are is irrelevant to me.
I have enjoyed learning about other cultures as I traveled the world between 19 and 34 years old. I found people around the world to be very interesting, and made many good friends, in places most people would not want to go.
Cultures are not equal, some are vastly better than others. When it comes to ideologies, most are horrible to abhorrent to me. Most people are too dim witted to think for themselves, so ideologies are used to keep them from doing stoopid things. I get that.. but I do not need a prescription from some nebulous authority to decide what I want to do.
Now lets take on the 'moving in and things go to hell' issue. What areas have been turned into cesspools, filled with particular demographics? I will posit that its the people who are in political control of those areas more than the people who are moving in.
Why is it liquor stores and abortion clinics are the most prevalent in areas with a certain demographic rather than meaningful work that would enable them to achieve more and not live in poverty, while being dependent on the state? Could it be the policies of people running cities such as Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, etc. are creating the issue with what they allow to be built in certain areas?
People complain about red lining, but keep putting the people responsible for it in office. To me it appears to be by design, an effort to keep certain demographics from being anything other than dependent on the state/city. Give them free stuff, make life hellish, and blame someone else for the problems, so they will continue voting for you.
So is it the people living there who cause the problems, or is it the people dictating how people can live and what businesses are allowed to remain?
Its probably one started the ball rolling, and now its self perpetuating, and all they need todo is keep fathers out of families, and limit opportunities, so with very little input they get what they want from their plantation (votes) and keep the people living there dependent, impoverished, and having crime as the only outlet for opportunity.
Perceptions of people are a curious thing. Most who look at me think I am not overly smart, and they're amazed or surprised when I know so much more than they do about a wide range of subjects. Everyone considers one of my sisters to be very intelligent, and me to be Forest Gump, when the reality of it is she is nowhere near as intelligent as I am. Its very humorous to me.
I prefer people to underestimate me rather than get an accurate assessment or overestimate me. I prefer people think I am stupid because it is advantageous to me.
People will assume what they want about others, and act accordingly. Since I am a walking dichotomy, I tend to refrain from judging others until they have proven themselves in some way. Positive or negative, its all up to them and what they do.
I rate people on things like dependability, honesty, competence, capability, and knowledge. Its very much merit based rather than appearance. I know that looks are deceiving, I use my appearance to deceive others. Most people are superficial, stuck in the banalities of life with their depth being equal to that of some vodka spilled on a glass table.
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Ok so you wanna 'win' which makes me ask, will you do what is necessary to win? Do you know what that is and understand the results of it? Do you grasp what it will mean if we have open conflict here? Everything you own, everything you have built, everything you care about... will be gone, even if you survive it. Are you capable of fighting? Do you have the will to fight longer, harder, and in a more difficult situation than your enemy?
I've been through two wars, its not what most people think it is. I am not afraid of having my third, but ya know I would much rather live alone in the woods, build hotrods and muscle cars, then go drag racing. I realize certain people will not allow me to do that, but they should understand I have the will to continue until I take my last breath, no matter how much pain I am in, how uncomfortable I happen to be, or what is taken from me. The more they do and take, the more pissed off I get.
If it happens your children will know of it first hand, and it will affect them the rest of their lives.
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For the last 50 years I have been staying on the fringe, avoiding the spotlight as much as possible, retaining my anonymity to a large extent. I like being private, solitary, and going mostly unnoticed. The only reason I have a smart phone is so I can make calls if my old cars break down, which happens on occasion. I am not reliant upon it, most of the time I never even use it or turn it on. I have my reasons for being this way, its neither fear nor anxiety, its a preference because I would much rather people underestimate me.
Kick me out of the digital society, and I am ok with it. I do not need it, am not reliant upon it, and I remove myself from 'societies' all the time. If someone is watching me, well, I hope they enjoy the nekkid girls I leave up all day... :)
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@@ConontheBinarianI know you're not directing that at me, but I'll expound a bit.
They look at me and smile, then look down and away, if you know what that means. Usually I make eye contact and no facial expressions. Then they will start a conversation with me, and I am polite, friendly, and keep my profanity to a minimum. There is this thing that happens often if I am not like that, I get a call from the sheriff telling me I can't go there anymore.
Its my physical size, despite being relatively short at 5'8" plus I have lots of muscle and am built like a gorilla, also my military bearing/demeanor terrifies people. Staying quiet agitates people, so I talk to them in a soothing voice, crack a couple jokes, and treat them like I have known them forever.
So I am polite and friendly to everyone. If you act 'nice' it usually makes them lose interest.
I had a great many assertions made against me without reason or evidence in the past. I've pretty much figured out how to avoid that, and still be allowed in public. Going to jail for things you did not do sucks. Which is also why I don't date.
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@Branche11 its good to hear you earned his trust, it would be wonderful to know many years from now that you kept it. Its a rare thing these days, someone not betraying our trust.
When women talk about men not being emotionally available or intelligent, they are justifying and rationalizing to avoid the obvious. They blame it on us, claiming we are deficient, when in reality its getting damn difficult for men to trust women. You ladies have zero incentives to stay with us, and massive incentives to leave us while taking everything we have earned, built, and invested along with you.
Its not so much 'hurting' us, we are used to pain and loss so thats not it. To give you an idea I will share with you the reason why I don't date anymore, its because I prefer to sleep indoors, in a bed, that I own, in my home. I also prefer to have my income not being taken from me and given to someone who has made it her mission to make my life a living hell.
I spent a total of four years sleeping in my car, on friends couches, and eating every other day because I had 71% of my gross income taken from me, you know... before taxes. I was active duty in the USAF, since I had dependents I could not get a room on base, but all the money I was paid was given to my ex wife. It would have been six years but I spent half a year deployed on two different trips, and a year in Korea where I got a room, bed, and free food.
What happened to me is commonplace, ubiquitous if you prefer. I am not an outlier in what happened to me because of divorce. This happens all the time to men, and nobody cares, instead they blame us for it. I was sent to special classes to manage money, as if I was just spending everything and getting in debt irrationally. I shared my situation with the 'instructor' and they realized that I am VERY good with money, but I only had $100 a month out of the $2200 that was my gross pay. Child support and taxes took the rest.
The young men have seen what happened to me and millions of other men, many of whom decided to ventilate their thinkin meat rather than live indentured.
I'll give you some insight into what has happened to nearly every woman I know who has cheated, filed for divorce, or thought she could do better than the man who took her in when she was 21.
They are all doing much worse.
My ex wives were 20 and 21 respectively when I met them in 1993 and 2003. They both cheated and filed at 29 and 30 respectively. The first is living in a shack next to the train tracks that have coal trains go by ever half hour. She is 300lbs and has a problem with painmeds that she developed ten years ago. The guy she married is shiftless and spineless, and both of them have myriad health problems because they are blobs and rarely get off the couch.
The second is living alone because her 'soulmate' left her after 3 or 4 years. Her dad was paying her bills, but he died back in February, so I don't know how much longer she will be out on her own. Imagine being 41 and living off your parents because of your own poor choices... but her mother and sisters did encourage her to leave me for the other guy.
If you want to know how well I am doing, I show the cars I build, the things I do, the yard I have on my land. You could say I am doing relatively well now that both of them are paid off and so is the land I bought in 2013 when the second one got the house and shop we were in.
I know a few hundred other women who divorced thinking they could do better.. Not a single one has. As they get older the time they can keep a man around gets shorter. It starts out around 4 or so years in their 30s and 40s, drops to 2 years in their 50s, and by the time they hit 55 its a few months to a week or so.
So if you have a good man who treats you will and committed to you, I'd suggest you do everything you can to keep him.
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The C141 is a plane I know all too well. I was Air Cargo from 1988 to 2005, stationed at the 435th APS at Rhein Main for the first gulf war, more than 80% of the aircraft going to or coming from the desert came through RMAB. I have worked every C141 and C5 the USAF had operational in 1990-91... probably several times over. I got a USAF Achievement Award for working 5000 planes in the first six weeks of Desert Shield. My Colonel declined to award me the Commendation for the other 13 months of the airlift, because as he put it, A1C's do not get that medal. The airlift was non stop bust your ass every day/night from 10 Aug 1990 until well after I left in September 1991.
There was always at least 5 planes on final approach, five to ten waiting to take off, and five to ten waiting to block in, with a completely full ramp. I had to work every plane that came in, no matter where it was headed or what it was carrying. Every time I see videos of MAC/AMC birds I see familiar tail numbers. To say the airlift was massive is an understatement. You cannot imagine it until you have seen it first hand. Its a never ending river or airplanes and when you have to do a lot of heavy lifting for each one, it is a workout from hell to say the least.
I was stationed at Charleston AFB in 2004 when the last one left active duty. We all signed it with chalk. The C141 on static display going out the back gate at Charleston AFB is one I worked hundreds of times during the Gulf War. That means I was at CAFB when the roof in Dover collapsed and all the cargo for OIF was put on trucks and hauled down the east coast to the 437th. Turns out I was at the base doing the most for the two largest airlifts in world history, and smack in the middle and neck deep in them...not just at the base, but one of the guys loading, unloading, and configuring cargo.
Not many of us cargo types were in both airlifts, only two of us at Charleston were in the first Gulf War when OIF kicked off in 2003, the other guy did his entire 22 years at Charleston. I worked with him my first time, second time, and third time at Charleston. He did several years TDY, but only had to PCS once. His Filipino wife could sure cook. Everyone else at the 437th was either not in the USAF for the first one, or they were stationed somewhere like Guam or Japan for the duration of it.
In Korea I loaded An124s, on a TDY we loaded the AN225 that is no longer with us, and in Kuwait I loaded IL76s. Loading Russian birds is a huge pain in the ass, they don't have a rail system with locks like USAF birds do. So the Russian planes take 2x to 4x as long to load. The C17 is kinda nice in some ways, the rollers weren't crap 20 years ago when I was loading them, unlike the C141s and C5s. Even with two wars, a crazy amount of work, being shot at a couple times, and all the close calls with death I had, my time in the USAF was where most of my fondest memories come from.
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@charlesangell_bulmtl Every Pontiac from 1955 to 1978 had the same size block, and the heads from the 267 will bolt to the 455, and everything in between. There is no big or small Pontiac, they're all the same size. They had the same 6.625" connecting rods and most had 3" mains, and nearly everything will interchange.
You're right though, they will make stupid torque VERY easily with garden variety parts. No need for a big pile of aftermarket stuff to make 550hp/600ftlbs. You can do that with iron heads and a factory sized cam, even with the stock Qjet intake.
Getting one to hook is the hard part, and they don't like a lot of gear. More than a 3.55 will slow a 455 down a lot, and they will pull a 2.73 no problem. I've been told they don't sound like a race car, sounds more like I am going to the store for a loaf of bread as it pulls a mid 11 in a 3900lb car, without any power adders.
You can't tell by looking at it if its a 326 or a 505 with a 4.5" crank in it.So all of my engines are either 301s or 326s.. if you ask. lol
Just about the ultimate sleeper engine.
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@grettirgrattmards2348 its always been a hell hole, girls thinking they are 10s when they are 4s. The only thing that has changed is rather than looking at themselves in a mirror they are staring at a phone.
While I was in the grocery store earlier tonight, I saw several girls between 20 and 30 who were checking me out, a few in their 30s, and a bunch in their 40s and up. Two were walking with their guy, but made sure to put themselves in my view, and made eye contact with the smiles you don't get if you repulse them.
I'm only 5'8 man, 52 years old, and I am freakin HUGE... I look like a brick on short legs, kinda like a pale hairless gorilla. I shave my head and have a long gray beard that comes to a point. I wear black T shirts jeans and Redwing workboots. Looking at me I do not scream "I HAVE MONEY!" but I do have muscle. Girls can tell its not all fat despite my size. I call myself the fat guy as a euphemism, I look like a power lifter not a body builder.
If you build some muscle, even if you are short like me, girls will notice. Its not like every girl will like you, but lots of them will. Of course being able to watch people, read their body language, and tell which girls are interested out of the majority who are not will make a huge difference.
I've known 6'4 guys who had no clue that girls were attracted to them, since nearly every girl acts the same way around those guys. Shit if I was that tall with everything else I know and have for traits, I would have my pick of them.
FORGET ONLINE BULLSHIT. Go talk to them in stores, don't ask them out. Instead get comfortable talking to them and get people to like you. How do you get people to like you? Get them talking about themselves is a good start.
Go read a free copy of "How to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie, its a 100+ year old book that is still spot on. Its a salesmanship book. You are selling yourself to girls, so sales will help you.
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@wayneeddy3261 if I can save someone else the grief and pain I have endured by telling my story I will tell it over and over again.
I enlisted three times, with 7 years between the first and second ones, I did that for two reasons, I needed a stable job that paid well and wouldn't be sent to Mexico under NAFTA like my CNC machinist jobs were (thanks Biden) and I knew my sacrifice would allow someone else to stay home and not sacrifice for the benefit of all.
That decision cost me, physically and mentally, but it was my choice to put myself in harms way because the benefit outweighed the risk.
Feminism has made it so the risks outweigh the benefit, because its now all risk and zero benefit for a man to marry.
I am all about family, duty, honor, and merit. The marxist ideology, of which feminism is a part, is opposed to all of those things. Its not only that feminist based laws ruined my life and the lives of my daughters, its also that nothing good comes from it and it only serves to subjugate people.
There is no benefit unless you're one of the privileged political elites. They claim it fights against that sort of thing, but puts it in place with the least meritorious individuals running the show. War is peace, ignorance is strength, freedom is slavery and 2+2=5 is how that ideology functions.
Every spin off or subset of it has the same effect, the demographics vary between the subsets, but the results are the same. Miserable impoverished people ruled by an inept elite that results in mass graves.
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@minkyfran8307 not around where I live. Around here they are into validation, attention, and leeching my wallet. The last girl I was seeing regularly liked doing car stuff with me, not so much getting dirty, but she did clean the interior pieces for my 65 GTO. She lives 7 hours away in Chicago.
Its easier and far less expensive to live alone. The second ex wife was costing me $2k every month just to feed her, keep her vehicle running, and pay for the fuel she used to get around. Kicked her out for cheating in 2013 and turned off all the expenses for her. End of that month I have $2k extra in the bank, and every month after that.
Thats how I bought my land when she got the house, shop, and everything else she asked for. We were together for just short of 10 years, but only married for 16 months. Seems as long as she could be replaced without undue cost she acted right. Once she got a commitment she ate a bowl of stoopidflakes. She said that kid 20 years younger than me was her soulmate... that lasted all of three years and her daddy was supporting both of them because he is worthless. I find that most amusing.
Now she is 40, alone, unwanted, and is probably going to get arrested for some of the things she does at her part time job. Her dad pays her bills and they are still trying to extort me for money. She chose to do that, I am not responsible for her actions.
If I told you about the first divorce, you might wonder why I even bothered to date again. Well, I thought I could find one who is different. Nope.. I am 53 and too old to rebuild again when everything I have invested in and built is given to some chick who lies, cheats, and falsely accuses me to get the cash and prizes.
Alone living is good living. I own 13 acres of woodland, a 32x48 shop with a lift, a nice little house for me and the Huskies, have been debt free for nearly two years, and I am building some crazy over powered hotrods this year. Plus I have money in the bank so when I need parts I just order them instead of planning for six months to buy a $1000 item.
No.. girls had their chance, and every damn one of them who got the chance squandered it. How many times do you have to stick your hand in the campfire to know its going to burn you? Apparently I had to do it a lot between 17 and 50
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@Jeff Merrill I learned something in 1990 about conflicts and preparedness. I wasn't in peak condition, but was in ok condition, I could run a couple of miles relatively easily, and I had some extra fat on me. Then on 10 August my world changed forever. I worked every day until some time around new years, I lost track of what day it was, and did not see the sun from September to March because I worked nights on base. 14 months of the hardest workouts I ever did, with very few breaks. I was wearing out new boots in less than a month, wearing through the soles.
The work I was doing was extremely physical, so I lost about 20 maybe 30lbs, but then I gained back 40lbs of muscle in a very short time. If I had not had the fat reserves, I might not have made it through that first six weeks. I had to scrounge for food, as the command completely forgot about people who don't work during the day.
In 2004 the same thing happened when I was deployed. Heavy workload, no food. I did not have as much fat then, not much in reserve. I got hurt and at the mid point of the deployment I was taking 3000mg of motrin three times a shift, just so I could walk and do my job. There is a reason you take that stuff with food. It tore up my upper GI, and when I would lay down to sleep the contents of my stomach would end up in my mouth, the acid burns a bit. I had to sleep sitting up, and I had to stop taking so much of the nsaids. Turns out you can't do the same things at 35 that you did at 21. On the bright side nobody was shooting at me in 2001 or 2004. Yeah 20 years ago today I was deployed... fun times.
You have to have some reserve if food is going to be scarce. Not be some disgusting gelatinous blob of lard, but you have to have something to run on when you can't eat. It sure looks like I will get my third war, but this time I will not be in uniform getting paid to work myself to death while dodging mortars and other interesting high speed objects.
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@Lumino3 Some stuff in the 80s I liked, not the music, not the cars, but some of the movies were good. FMJ, Platoon, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Aliens... Being stationed in Germany in 1989 kinda sucked, snail mail took a month in both directions to the states, phone calls were crazy expensive, and the internet was only for us military types and it was nothing like it is today. I grew up in the 70s, born in the 60s, graduated in 1987.
There are lots of things I like about the 00s, but I see the difference in the kids. They are all staring at screens that tell them what to think, and they follow fads more than the brainlets did in the 80s. I was involved in none of the 80s fads. Compared to the world since 2005, I'd like to go back to 2000 and stay there, but with the tech/internet we have now.
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sw4gr1d by that logic feminism is capitalist. Are you daft man? Oh wait, you're playing identity politics so yeah, you must be daft. Supply and demand works, something easily attained and ubiquitous is low value because everyone can get it. Something rare and desirable has high value because its not easy to get it. Being compensated for your effort, you know, paid for your labor/time commensurate with the value of said labor is not a bad thing. Working at a mutually agreed upon price is also a good thing. Its not a good thing for lazy people who want something just because of their skin color or if they can stand to piss or not.
I swear leftists have to be the most ignorant and arrogantly entitled people on the planet. Yeah fascists are leftists, seeing how they're totalitarian identity politics playing types. Government control but certain people are allowed to profit... provided they are part of the 'in group' that controls everything. Can't say as I like them more than commies or any other marxist. So yeah you're all leftists, even if the commies have tried to paint you as being on the right. You're not. You're also not a third position, its the same position as the other socialists, but you pay certain people more, when they're not one of the groups forced into slave labor.
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When I heard about that I laughed. I am former USAF, worked the flightline around the big cargo jets, and every day I saw signs that said USE OF DEADLY FORCE IS AUTHORIZED BEYOND THIS POINT. What that means is if you do not have the right stuff to be out around the planes, we find you, and you do not comply, we can shoot you, beat you to death with tie down chains, or otherwise subdue you however we see fit... and we are REWARDED for doing it. People stand out who are not supposed to be there, its the small things that tip us off because the military has a way of doing things, and if you don't do everything our way, we notice.
We aren't exactly going to cower and just let people come through, lives and taxpayer owned equipment is at stake. The security forces are bored to tears, they are eagerly wanting something to do, so when I heard those idiots were going to go out in the desert, miles from anything, and try to get into the base structures, I laughed my ass off. Go ahead, make their day, give them something to talk about and a reason to be there on the perimeter. They would have a very fun time with the idiots, I know we did with German anti nuke protesters who climbed the fences back in the 80s. The funny thing is there were no nukes at my base, all we did was cargo, but it was the biggest and busiest base in Europe until it closed. Probably why they protested there rather than at Ramstein or one of the others.
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Timmy and Dave did not take money from it, Tenet had a contract with them for content, and the people at Tenet got burned by the Rooskies. Timmy has plenty of money, its not why he does what he does. I understand that mindset because its the one I have, I do things like my 60s and 70s muscle cars because I want to do them, not to make money doing them. The d's and establishment are pushing the narrative that Timmy and Dave are on the dole from the Rooskies, in an effort to discredit them. They've been trying to do that with other creators like Rollo, Sandman, and Bo Refec that talk about masculinity. Others have been banned outright, like Milo, Alex, and Stephen M. A lie goes half way around the world before the truth gets its shoes on.
The whole point is to try to make it so people don't know what to believe. They've been calling Rogan all sorts of bad names, but none of it sticks because five minutes listening to him disabuses you from any such notions.
Bjorn, you should already know how they operate, they do it to you too. The only difference is you're still under a million and you don't bring on other people who are controversial. You watch, they are going to try to arrest Tim and Dave in the next few weeks, because they do not like the amount of influence they have and how they are showing the d's to be what they actually are. I am not allowed to use the words that describe what they are, and all of my replies to other comments are hidden for months. They tend to pop up about 6 months later. They are trying to suppress our speech, and I am not large enough to do anything about it. You are. So they are coming for you next.
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At my home track in the 1990s, we had a guy with a 74 Nova that ran high 13s low 14s with a 305 headed 350. He would chuck a driveshaft every few weeks, and garnered the nickname "Halfshaft" from it. I was running mid 11s to low 12s in a heavier Firebird with a 455 that would just about pull the front wheels and did a best of 1.59 60ft on slicks with 3.42 gears. I was doing it with a stock shaft, in a heavier car, with more power and a lot more strain on things. He was getting beefier and beefier driveshafts and spending money he didn't really have to keep it running.
I told him that he didn't have the centerlines of the yokes aligned right, he said he did. So one day we checked it at the track with his car sitting on some 10" wide steel rims I had. Turns out the shaft was binding real bad, not only in the vertical plane, but laterally as well. The engine was tipped back too far and the front of the engine was closer to the passenger side than the drivers side, so it was tweaked side to side. It was nearly binding the yoke to the driveshaft it was so misaligned.
He brought it over, we measured his subframe, it was crooked too, so we measured and aligned that, then moved the engine so it was straight front to back and not nose high. However with the leaf springs we couldn't do much without angle plates, but he never chucked a driveshaft again. If i remember right he picked up some ET too.
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@warpedreflection3650 I have two daughters, they are 26 and 29. The oldest was put through so much that no 9 year old ever should that she will not date men. You can fill in the blanks for what her mother exposed her to a year after she took them 1500 miles away from me out of spite and trying to manipulate me.
The younger one made really bad choices in life, she was only 4 when her mother took off with her, so she didn't get as much guidance as her sister. She has been trying to fix all of that, but its difficult for girls to change how they are viewed.
Piercings, ink on her wrists, and not good ink either. All allowed by her mother when she was 15. The consequence of that is she cannot meet a quality man who is worth having as a father.
On the bright side my youngest, who is not exactly homely as she takes after her mother who was VERY attractive in her 20s, will not do the spicy videos and OF. She is afraid I would see them, which means she respects me.
She also takes my advice when it comes to who she is dating. She learned the hard way, I warned her and she went ahead and moved in with a felon when she was 23. Now she knows that dad sees things she cannot. She will not be like her mom, divorcing in an effort to manipulate her husband, she has the other problem.. she can't keep one around unless he is a waste of oxygen. That is the same problem the girls in spicy videos/pictures will have.
Having sons is different than having daughters, different challenges, different guidance, different discipline. I am number two of six kids, 10 years older than number 5, 13 years older than number 6. I already knew what its like to have kids since all of us were involved in raising our siblings.
Its not terribly difficult with two parents, but its impossible when the mother has massive incentives to destroy the lives of her children and to keep the father away from them.
I see pr0n as a symptom rather than the problem. The problem is much larger, and more pernicious.
Good luck with your sons, sorry to hear one has already had the same thing happen to him. My second wife and I had no kids, so she had me thrown in jail for something that was impossible for me to do. She was with me for just over 9 years, and the 'soulmate' she left for stuck around less than 3. Now she is 40, alone, unwanted, and has no support since her dad died last month. Thats the other side of the problem, women being alone, unwanted, and a burden on all of us because of their poor choices that they were encouraged to make.
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@charlesiragui2473 first thing, break it up into paragraphs and second thing, you're right. The notion that only a woman and not the father has the right to carve a kid out of its first room denies both the father and the kid of their rights. Stay with me here...
If mom can end it but dad has no say, then dad is not equal under the law. Preferential treatment is not a right, its a pandering tool. Preventing the father from being a father and enjoying the wonder of raising his progeny is a terrible thing to do. I know, I am a dad who was prevented from it. I was robbed of their childhood and my opportunity to raise them to be productive functioning adults.
The kid should have a right to live once the biological ball is rolling, provided the kid survives long enough to breathe fresh air. With medical advancements we can keep lots of kids going when 50 years ago they likely would not.
Their claim it is a right puts all the choices on the woman, and nobody else involved gets to say anything, not the dad, not the kid, its all her and if she doesn't want it he can't do anything about it. Even if he wants it and she takes off with the kid, he has to pay just like he never wanted to be part of the family.
It is so pernicious that a man can be made to pay support for progeny that are NOT his. Take Nebraska for instance, if someone claims I am the daddy and they send the court notice to my old address in South Carolina where I was stationed, rather than Michigan where I live now, I have 90 days to prove I am not the father. After the 90 days have passed I am on the hook until the kid is 19 and there is no way to stop the indenture.
Fathers have zero rights whereas mothers have privileges and special rewards/choices enshrined as rights.
Some are more equal they say, than others.
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@slipslop7156 in the 35 years I have been building engines I have yet to see springs, lifters, rockers etc listed on the cam card. Lunati, Comp, Summit, UltraDyne, Crower, Clay Smith, and Crane cams have gone in my engines. The card tells me advertised and .050 duration, lobe lift, centerline, and separation, and lift with various rocker ratios.
I've built with hydraulic and solid flat, and hydraulic and solid rollers, and not once have they told me what I have to run, though Comp really likes it if you buy all your stuff from them.
I had a Comp and an Edelbrock (Crane ground) cam go flat in that time. Both used the lifters, springs, locks and retainers they provided. Never got them to warranty any of it. I usually get decades out of my engines, and they are not weak suck 300hp chevys.
Not sure where you are getting that info, I just put a drop in cam in a 6.0 for my 76 C10 last year. Used the factory lifters from a 5.3 and the heads from the same engine. So its not like its been a lot of time since I built one.
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I'm doing what I can to motivate young people to go for the delayed gratification, teaching them how to do things that have enjoyable results. Some of them get it, they realize they will probably never afford to buy what they want outright, but they can build it like I have. I'll give them the knowledge and guidance they need to get started. If they want it, they'll make it happen.
If they want a cool old car like I drive, but they can't afford to go buy one, like I can't.. they can build them same as I did to get the ones I drive. It takes years to decades to build, learn, and become proficient in the skills needed to do what I do with cars. Its worth it.
Cant afford to buy a house? Buy a bit of land in the woods, and build a house there yourself, like I did. Doesn't have to be huge and spacious, it can be just enough for you, and you can build on later.
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Being that I am a disabled veteran, and 100% of my income comes from the VA, it matters a great deal to me who is in office. Being a car guy, its doubly important to me, because I want to be able to afford parts and supplies to build the cars I like. Red works out vastly better for us crippled veterans than blue does, because the only spending the blues cut is funding for the VA and military. I am convinced they hate us.
Everyone who knows of me will be aware of my penchant for ethanol fuels. Not a mandate though, my thing is make it yourself rather than buy it from some big company. Its like doing the work on your car yourself rather than taking it to a shop. The fact I can run lots of boost, timing, compression, and drive cars with those things around as daily drivers for way less than $1 a gallon, is also a plus. Thats why I am not into hydrogen, EVs, or whatever else. I want to have my ludicrous power and the fuel still be dirt cheap.
The potato regime, and Barry's as well, was unkind to small producers like me, which is part of why I haven't rebuilt my system as yet. You can bet I am going to make it happen over the next 4 years though, even if gasoline is under $1 a gallon. They actively discouraged people from producing fuel, as they wanted EVs which are infinitely easier to control in the future. How the hell can they control someone who produces their own food, fuel, and electrical power? We saw that happen in China and other countries...
In 2021 I ordered a set of tires for my truck. The first set was stolen in Chicago, the second set was the wrong size and not what I ordered, the third set was diverted to another customer, and the fourth set showed up 7 months after I first placed the order. Then I needed replacement sheet metal, and quarter skins were $300, when usually they're half that. Nobody had any in stock either, so that project had to wait and its still waiting. The incompetent diversity hire of the potato regime fouled up the ports, and I was unable to get parts.
One thing Trump needs to do is bring manufacturing back to the US. Like my fuel, and working on your own car, if you make it here, you get the benefit from it and you also benefit your economy. I had to go back to the military in 2000 because nafta sent all the CNC programmer/operator jobs to Mexico in 1998. Thats what I did between enlistments.. I made things. The shops I worked in were not union, so while we didn't get paid exorbitant amounts of money to do half or less of the work, I was able to make it all work with some OT. I am neither appreciative nor disapproving of unions a whole, it depends...
If we don't make stuff here, we will continue to get junk from Chy-nah that doesn't last, and the supply chain is easily disrupted by malfeasance, incompetence, or conflict when it all has to come in through ports.
Things like inflation affect me first, because I get paid once a month and have to stretch it. The cost of living adjustments, if we get one, come to us February 1. We did not get one from 2009 to 2017... and the cost of stuff went up during that time... just sayin. As a result, I pay attention to what they say and do in Washington and down state, if you were getting your funding for health care and everything else cut, you'd want to know too... yeah Barry did that. Twice.
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If you learn about Karl Marx himself, how he acted, what kind of individual he was, you will see why his ideology attracts the same type of people. Its a religion for losers, the people who resent they were not born with something or have something others have. They are envious of what others have, that can be from having a penis to having fabulous mnd boggling wealth. They are too lazy or inept and incompetent to achieve what they want, or in the case of feminists, not good looking enough or downright ugly. They tend to double and triple down on the ugly as they resent not being able to attract the males they feel entitled to. Which brings us to the other aspect of the typical marxist... they feel entitled to what others have, earned, built, or simply are.
Karl Marx was a leech, he didn't want to put forth any effort, he wanted everything given to him just because he existed, and took no personal responsibility for his actions. So the ugly inept leeches of the world flock to his idiocy.
If you have it and they do not, its because they stole it from you, or exploited you, not because they are stupid, lazy, incompetent, inept, or unmotivated. That is their mentality, because that is how Karl Marx saw the world. He was a spoiled brat from a well off family, and wanted them to support him while he did nothing to earn his way in life. He thought the way an 8 year old girl does.
Another aspect of this is similar to spoiled children, which Karl was. Kids who come from financially comfortable families will assume everyone has a life like theirs. They want to remain children, be taken care of, avoiding personal responsibility, and leeching from others. They demand what they want be taken from others who have earned it, or were born into it as its all the same to them, and given to the spoiled, entitled, irresponsible loser... aka marxist.
They cannot comprehend someone having a life like mine, where I had to work on the farm from an early age and endure (nearly daily) beatings until I was 16 and big enough to defend myself. We were dirt poor, and the only way I got anything was working for it. I grew, picked, and sold sweet corn that I used some birthday money ($6) to buy the seeds, so I could buy my first car at 13 in 1982. Carter had so fucked the farm economy that its the only way I was going to get a car, busting my ass to earn the money myself, nobody was going to give me one. I had to enlist in 1988 because there were no jobs and I wanted off the farm desperately, as it was massive work and zero income for me.
They claim I am privileged because I am a white male, except I have never had anything just given to me. I had to enlist in the military to get out of the dirt poor existence, served in two wars, was divorced twice and left living in my old car (its as old as I am), everything taken from me and given to someone undeserving who had done everything wrong... for which I was punished and they were rewarded. The result of feminist/marxist laws in family court. The familial abuse, the beatings in school, the parochial teachers who made us read the bible rather than do math and science.. and a mind numbing amount of fuckery foisted upon me by others. My life has packed a crazy amount of muscle on me, and wore out my body by the time I was 35. Its been a difficult life to say the least.
Yet they, who have never worked, never endured, never risked anything, want what I have earned and build, taken from me and given to them based solely on the fact I get sunburns and can piss standing up.
Its easy to sit around and think up reasons and justifications for your own lack of motivation, then write them down. I just wrote all of that with almost no effort, Karl wrote about how mistreated he was, how he deserved so much more with no thought of how he could earn it, and thought up idiotic solutions to obvious issues. Philosophy takes no effort, unless of course you're an idiot or one of those people with no inner monologue. That is particularly true when you do not hold yourself to any standards, such as if any of what you think is true, factual, realistic, or what the consequences might be, and you can make up whatever bullshit you want as you rationalize and justify your meaningless existence.
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@suzimonkey345 kids live in a socialist utopia, their parents give them what they need to survive. The problem arises when the kids want more, but are unwilling to work for it. They want the government to play the part of their parent.
I was 13 when my parents could no longer support me. We lived on a farm, and I had to work every day, and I never got paid. I could work for neighbors at times and then I got paid. Quite often my parents took what I had earned working for neighboring farms. Relying on my parents meant I would have nothing, work my ass off for it and get nothing. Thats why I left the farm and got jobs as a machinist, a mechanic, construction, and finally military. I was 23 when I finally went to a votech school to get some paper that said I know what the hell I am doing with cars. I tested out of 90% of it, because I knew it already. Learned aircraft machining and CNC programming on the job.
If I can do it, anyone can. If you are a socialist, you want to be a child and remain a child with the government taking care of you. Fuck that shit..
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@backroom12 I've noticed a trend online, its chevy guys (or guys without vintage cars/experience at all) posing as Pontiac people. They figure its all the same because its GM. They are constantly giving bad information. I posted a pic of my 72 455 HO Formula, a VERY rare car. 276 built, this one has nearly every option and no paint code, so its unique. I had people coming out of the woodwork offering me $5000 for it or asking me to sell it. So I posted another pic and said its not for sale and sure as hell wouldn't be for sale for less than $20k, even with the bit of rust it has. I've turned down offers, serious ones, for $20k and have a standing offer from one of the round port guys.
Well that post blew up, and guys were calling my mother's honor into question about what the car is worth. One guy said it was at most a $45k car AFTER you sink $60k into it. Everyone who knows what a round port is worth, especially a numbers matching low production 72 Formula, were being told its nothing special, just a basic Firebird with a simple 455.
They simply do not know.
15 years ago a TransAm cowl, front subframe, 455 HO, and Th400, with a title, thats all there was left, sold for more than $8k and the pistons were rusted into the bores. The block and heads are worth more than $5k if I were daft enough to pull it out and sell them. I know, I have been trying to find a set of 455 HO heads so I can go Pure Stock racing with my 71 Firebird cloned into a 455 HO. Yet somehow my car is worthless, or about what a D port 400 car goes for.
One guy said because the rear valance has a rust hole in it, the car is worthless since it needs $50k in rust repair. So I showed him the collage pic of my 65 GTO that has the before and after shots of its rebuild and some in process pics. I can have all the rust gone, a very nice two stage paint job, and the car returned to near new condition for about $5k, maybe $7k and three or four months of my time. How does that translate into $50k+ I have no idea, other than these guys have shops do everything since they can't do it themselves.
That one guy claims to have built and sold three 70-73 Firebirds recently, all 350 cars, and he didn't get $30k out of them. Well duh.. its a 350 car. Thats about what a D port 455 car goes for too, but the RA IV, HO, and SD all bring a premium far above the added 10% claimed on NADA. The hilarious thing is NADA had my A code, which is a 289 4 barrel automatic 1967 Cougar valued higher than a 455 HO Formula. The only way a 67 Cougar is going to be worth more than a 455 Bird, D or round port, is if its a 427 GTE. Even a 68 428 CJ Cougar doesn't approach a round port Pontiac in value.
Not only they don't know, but they have been misinformed.
No 14" rally IIs? The 15" ones are the hard to find wheels. I have probably 5 sets of 14s.
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@MrMucera I am inclined to agree with you, and NDT did 15 years ago because he remembered Galileo and others who went against consensus. Now he has gotten on the "well xx% of scientists agree" bandwagon as he seems to ignore all the instances where the consensus was wrong. He should stick to astrophysics and avoid medical and biological subjects, particularly when they are driven by profit motivation, political agendas, and by duplicitous people.
I'd wager that I have more medical and bio training than he does, that I got from the US military. I knew when an agenda was being pushed in the last three years, because everything they demanded we do, and the things they did, would exacerbate rather than alleviate the problem. They tried desperately to make it worse than it actually was, is how it appeared to me.
Currently I am in the midst of changing a consensus in my area of interest. There are people who will claim I am wrong despite abundant evidence that they are incorrect. My project is about vehicles and various fuels they run on, it takes time to build engines and vehicles then test them, and I am just one guy doing all the work. So many people who know almost nothing about the subject will declare that it will not work, despite me having made it work in several vehicles.
So far I have built three vehicles that get better mileage and make more power on ethanol, than they did on gasoline, but they cannot run pump gasoline anymore. You might be amazed at how many people are rejecting the notion out of hand and completely ignoring reality and physics as they push the narrative. Its actually quite easy and simple to get better mileage on vodka, but it does take time to get the mechanical work done.
They're the same type of people who would try to justify wearing paper or cloth to prevent catching something, they know what they were told by an authority figure and they will defend that notion no matter how much evidence is presented to them. Its like a religious fervor with them and they don't understand the basics of physics, biology, or even how our atmosphere functions. I see them like the people who think chemtrails are a real thing, and not just a contrail.
NDT is siding with the chemtrail type of people, but he doesn't realize it. 15 years ago NDT would be amazed at what he has said now.
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@petercollingwood522 nah, there is this thing called math, and when you know it certain things become obvious. Such as when zero people live in an area, but somehow thousands of them show up to say yes to someone, that is a problem. When only 700 people live in a town, but 1100 people show up, that is a problem.
Then there is this thing called history, you probably ignored it because most people think its boring. I happen to love learning about history, what happened and where is cool to know. I am lucky enough to have been part of history, and watched it in person rather than on some TV screen, like the Berlin Wall coming down, the first Gulf War, the second war in the desert, and other events.
As you read history you start to pick up on certain things, what people do after they say something, what happens to people after they start a particular system, how things go when the people are disarmed so they cannot defend themselves, things like that.
I have been to countries where all of that happened, at the end of the tyranny inflicted upon those people. I read about the start of their problems back in 1917, and what happened before I was born. Seeing the same rhetoric and ideas being put forth now, against the will of the majority, and the way old Joe always won same as Mao and the Un family sure looks the same as how Whitmer was able to stay in despite all the problems she caused...
Tinfoil hat? No the aliens are not reading my brainwaves, I am not hearing radio in my fillings, nor am I thinking everyone is out to get me. I merely listen to what people say, watch what they do, and going by what happened throughout history, I can guess where they are wanting to take us.
Then to top it all off, I have the wonderful added bonus of not being able to use certain words on this platform, otherwise my comments are removed from view of others, but its still there for me. Its only when I talk disparagingly about the particular problem I have alluded to above.
Not that there is no vitriol in this, but it will probably be hidden from view because I am highly critical of the ideology being pushed on us by big tech and the potato regime.
History is fun and easy because it has already happened, you should look into it. You can get an idea of what people are going to do by what they say. I am decidedly unfond of someone owning and controlling me. I agreed to it in the military, but I was paid and was supposed to receive decent benefits from it, but there is no benefit for me in what certain people are trying to accomplish.
If you were even slightly aware of Karl's misguided ramblings, you would know this.. but you are probably the type who thinks Karl got it right... and that would be because you don't know history, you only know assertions, conjecture, and propaganda if that is the case.
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@yasserbostan7156 yep, its confirmed, insecurity. I get it from tall guys who hear how much I can lift too. They can't imagine it, because how can that short guy be so much stronger? The only thing I exaggerate about is the size of my tool.. its really really small, like a half eaten TicTac.
Face it, you are lucky to get some, and you are jealous that an old guy like me has gotten tail on four continents, from nearly every race on the planet. Might be some left, and of course subsets... but generally its all of them.
Back when I was 44, just after getting divorced from my 30 year old wife, I had a 22 year old doing all sorts of naughty stuff. At 50 there was an 18 year old having way too much fun, both were under 115lbs. I've lost interest in girls, too much effort I'd rather build, drive, and race old muscle cars.
Know what the wives of tall guys almost always said when I finished? "How the hell can you move like that?"
I bet you are going to say I do not own four GTOs, four Trans Ams, six Formulas, two Mustangs, six LeMans two doors, an eye searing green Cuda, and some old C10s too... or that I can bench over 450lbs. You can see most of the cars on my channel if you want, and its a fair bet that a man with 21" arms can lift a lot of weight. Go ahead, peruse the channel... I dare ya.
Kid, there is always someone who is capable of and has done far more than you have in his life. Imagine what the guys who have accomplished and done more than me are like. Oh wait, you can't because you think small and probably will never build anything. Legos don't count, but they are cool.
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I thought I met a great woman a few years after the first wife stopped abusing me with thrown objects and irrational fights and escalated it to the legal system where she could seriously hurt me. I got fucked, to put it lightly. Well the second one I vetted for 8 years, she was wonderful until I got sick from some chemicals used helping her dad. We never fought, sex was very good and never stopped even after I married her, until she found someone who showed interest in her while I was ill. The marriage was less than 16 months long, but we were together almost 10 years. She sent me to jail, framed me with her boyfriend who worked as an EMT for the sheriff.
I am better, have been and started getting better a month before she burned her life to the ground. Her mother and sisters encouraged her to monkey branch to the other guy, and now her family is supporting both of them. She was set for life with me, no worries about money, medical, etc. Its been nearly 7 years since I ended our relationship via text when I found the car I was letting her drive parked next to his at a motel. My new house will be livable tonight or tomorrow, on a large chunk of wooded land where I see eagles (siting on one of my cars no less), turkeys, bears, deer, and all manner of other furry woodland critters. I have a large shop where I build my vintage muscle cars, and I am no longer indentured to either one of them. Free since 2015. In a year and a half I will be debt free once again, and I will not be giving this land and home away to anyone else by order of the state.
There are no good ones out there, because every one of them can do exactly what our wives did to us. I too date from time to time, get laid when I want to, but every one of them knows from the start, they cannot live with me, will never hear me say I love you, and that I will ghost them without warning if they do any of the irrational shit any of my ex wives or girlfriends did. I fully intend to die alone, hopefully someone notices before my dogs starve to death, and my daughters from the first one (22 and 25) live 1000 miles from their abusive mother within an hours drive of me. They will get the cars, land, and whatever else I collect between now and my dirt nap.
never again.
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@HappyGoFunTimes you can assume that, but if he has training the mass doesn't negatively impact him as much as you might think. It will limit his range of motion, I have the same problem, but not to the same extent.
I wrestled in high school, at 167lbs and 5'8", benched 265lbs that year A year later after farm and construction work it was over 300. I overpowered all the state champs on my team, including the 185lb two time champ who went on to play nose guard in the NFL for Jacksonville, Carolina, and Denver. The smaller guys had zero chance against me, even the 155s, and I whupped on state champs from other schools, but not at my weight. 167 was the toughest weight, you had to be fast like the light guys, and strong like the big guys.
All of that training still works despite the fact I am 54 now, and a hell of a lot stronger. I benched over 500 back in 2003, someone asked if I could, and I didn't know so we found out. Its probably higher than that, I never checked. For being 300lbs you would be very surprised at how fast I can move when I want to, and how quietly. Once you know how to move quick like a wrestler, that muscle memory stays with you the rest of your life. I figure it will go away if I make it to 70, but for now its still here.
If he has BJJ training or something like it, small guys will get obliterated. Small to him is someone under 250lbs. Without training he will still be fast and explosive, so you have to avoid letting him grab something, like a wrist.. because he will dislocate your shoulder with a twitch.
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@everope you're welcome, I had a mostly fun time, except for when it majorly sucked. Lots of interesting things in my life, kinda like Forest Gump who doesn't luck into accolades, meeting presidents, and ends up divorced twice, then living in a shipping container house alone in the woods.
Was there as history unfolded, that alone was worth the price of admission.
They can't gaslight me, tell me the soviets were all wonderful or Cuba and Venezuela failed because of the USA. The marxists create shitholes, literally and figuratively. Look at San Fran and other major cities like Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore. etc. Its obvious to anyone who takes the time to observe it.
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@MrSteve-hy9yo first one, worst idea ever. Second one was to get her health care, that was it. If the second one hadn't decided to try and extort money from me with her boyfriend by cutting up his truck for a new set of tires, it would have been a simple matter of turning on service to her phone and cancelling her on my car insurance.
We were together a bit over 9 years, she was wonderful for 8 of them(only the last month sucked), no fights, all the crazy sex I could stand, no drama, no BS, and she was a lot less expensive to support than the first. So at a bit past the 8 year mark I gave her health care and she knew she could leave at any time, but she can't take anything of mine with her. I was the only one in there until that last month. She was a virgin when I met her.
Im relatively certain her asshole decided to do the tire thing without her knowing it. Not defending her, she is still a cheating lying sloot, but she was really good for a long time. Then one day she wasn't.
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One application where you don't want to block off the crossover is when you run E85 NA with a carb or TBI systems like the FiTech and Sniper. Here is why. Ethanol has a high latent heat of vaporization, which means it will pull heat out of the intake as it vaporizes. Gasoline does this too, but to a lesser extent. You want the fuel to vaporize, it makes more power on less fuel when its a fog rather than a spray. No worries about keeping the intake cool as the fuel does that for you. A roots blower running ethanol or methanol can develop frost on the case while driving around on a 90 degree summer day, it cools the charge that much. You want the heat while running ethanol, its your friend unlike on gasoline where its your enemy.
Another time you don't want to block it is if you drive that vehicle in cold weather, as it takes forever to warm the plenum enough that it will idle without a choke. Up here where we get sub zero temps for a month or two every winter, and lots of snow, heating the carb in the winter is mandatory. In southern states you rarely have to deal with below zero temps for long if at all.
On gasoline in a vehicle intended for performance only, its a good idea. Gasoline likes to have the fuel and air colder to make best power, Engine Masters with Freiburger did a test on that, the intake temp mattered less than the fuel temp, but it can make a big difference having the intake and carb cooler.
On my Pontiac engines we fill the cross over with aluminum, because the hole is almost as big as an intake port. The heads on my 65 GTO's 455 have been filled, did that way back in the 1990s when they were running on another 455 with race gas due to the 11:1 compression. No idea how much difference it makes because they were filled before I ever put them on an engine. Now it runs E85 and I have to drive it almost 8 miles for the intake to warm enough that it will idle without a choke, and that is on warm days. Pontiac intakes are all air gap designs, from the first one in 1955 to the last 301 built in the 1980s, so they are more sensitive to the lack of heat running ethanol and they work great on gasoline when you block the crossover.
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@davoodoo8042 it depends on how you do it, an who you talk to. The Soyuz can put stuff up relatively cheap, but its limited on what it can lift. Size and mass limits. The Shuttle could lift the bulkier stuff, and heavy things need the big rockets. The reason the Saturn V was so big was thats how much fuel it needed to do its thing to get men to the moon, and it has to lift it all at the start.
NDT liked to talk about how NASA does so much with half a penny on the tax dollar, big picture its not much, but for a private citizen its ludicrously expensive. I will never be an astronaut, I am too damn heavy and you don't need lots of muscle mass up there. It becomes a detriment.
Also everything other than Musk's rockets, is expendable after one use. The shuttle was the first effort at reusing as much as they could, the main tank was expendable and the SBRs had a limited lifespan, only so many launches with them.
The larger problem is all the crap floating around in low orbit with slowly decaying trajectories. All the bits and pieces could create a barrier that keeps us from getting out, unless we figure out a way to go clean it all up. It will be a long time before it call degrades and comes back into the atmosphere.
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@str.77 learn more than one abrahamic, it opens your eyes.. particularly when you see how the followers of one will lie about followers of the other. I call it 'lying for Jesus.'
I grew up being sent to a parochial school, in 7th grade I went to a public school because I wanted to learn math and science instead of reading the bible for an hour every day. I read it four times with my class. I was the kid who asked questions they could not answer, it was always 'mysterious ways' and 'because I said so' or some variation thereof. Consequently it never really stuck with me. God can do anything, but can't do that, and he doesn't know how the water cycle works or what electricity is.
When I was 21 I met a beautiful Arab woman, she was unlike western women and keeping in touch with her over the last 33 years has proven that she can be trusted, while western women cannot. We were engaged, but her mother and my pentecostal military supervisor ensured we did not marry. To this day he is on my beat until he expires list for what he did.
Around 38 or so, spending time learning how things actually work, knowing people from around the world and seeing how they all lie to support their religion/cult, it clicked in my head. All the contradictions I had been overlooking because I was trained to overlook them since I was 5 years old, were now blatantly obvious to me.
I was working on producing fuel for my muscle cars from the 60s and 70s, and in learning how biology, chemistry, and physics work so I could produce fuel, the notion of the Abrahamic God creating all of it, while not knowing how any of it worked or why was the salient point.
If god doesn't know how the universe functions, he is not all powerful and omniscient.
If he knows but misinforms us by telling us sin causes disease and bad weather rather than microbial life and the water cycle (respectively) then he is capricious and wants us to remain ignorant. The fact that you were burned for attempting to fly before the 1700s is indicative of the preference for us to remain ignorant, same as the bible only being in Latin for centuries.
The simple answer is similar to the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip from the 80s and 90s, where Calvin's dad doesn't know the answer so he makes something up to placate Calvin. i.e. someone made it up to answer questions to which they had no idea why. Such as why does it rain, or the ground shake, or the mountain erupt?
The flat earth notion and the flood, which could only happen with a flat earth, were meant to keep people subservient and placated. the notion of sin does the same, keeps you in line when nobody is around, because uneducated and low intellect people won't do the 'right' thing without someone watching them.
Now since we have technology and can better understand the world around us, religious people use the sharpshooter fallacy to claim that some bible or koran passage proves an idea, when the reality of it is nothing of the sort happened like that. Sorta like Nostradamus, stay vague and very general so it can be applied to myriad events.
Now there is some really good stuff in the bible, my favorite verses are psalms. Two of them say essentially the same thing. 25:24 and 21:9. I can attest to the veracity of those two psalms, but that does not validate the entire bible nor the assertions held within. Just like Karl can be right about things that happen with capitalism, but his solutions and predictions are not only incorrect, but errant by orders of magnitude that make the ludicrous nature of superstitions in the bible are nearly plausible.
The bible is almost entirely argument from authority and argument from ignorance, and propped up with no true scotsman, moving the goal posts, sharpshooters, and ad hoc ergo propter hoc. Since Karl's cult is based on the same religion (he was jewish after all) his followers are maligned with the same shortcomings and thus they employ the same fallacies to support their errant notions and assertions.
Harry Potter has London and England in it, but that doesn't make the story any less fictional.
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@Outlier999 they do care about looks, that wasn't what I meant. Dominance and the ability to inflict grievous harm on others, but refraining from doing so, is what gets them going.. looks just get the ball rolling and your foot in the door. I am 5'8 and I don't think I am all that great looking, but I pulled girls from guys over 6' an alarming number of times. Usually by ignoring them while hanging out with their guy, though we were not usually friends.
Without having a good masculine role model, young men will have no idea what I am talking about or how to display it. That is why there are so many of them now who can't get lucky, and a handful who are getting all the tail. Most guys think its money, or being tall, but its far more visceral than that. I frighten girls, intimidate them, and then I am friendly, polite, cordial, but not nice. I like messing with their heads to some extent, not in a mean way, just watching their expressions change as I talk to them. I am friendly because if I am not I get calls from the sheriff telling me to not go there anymore.
I'll put it another way. Ok guys usually like exotic cars, R8s, Ferraris, Lambos, GTRs .etc. They assume girls will like those too, but if they see you driving one, you're a wallet to them.
What gets a girl's interest is a sinister looking rusty rat rod, something that screams "I AM DANGEROUS" and declares watch out for tetanus. They really like cars that are loud, obnoxious, and shake the ground as they idle by, but its better if they are satin black or the paint is faded and worn through, but the unmistakable power throbbing in the car will have them wishing for a ride in it.
My 1968 LeMans is just such a car. My 1970 Cuda despite it being that eye searing green, and the 65 GTO even though its an 11 second daily driver, are too shiny and nice looking, so they do not have the appeal my ratty looking muscle cars do.
Its the danger, the possibility of injury, the thrill of something that will go zero to sixty in less than 3 seconds and scare the hell out of them in the process.
I get females of all ages, all types, socio economic backgrounds, hot to hogs, wanting to check out my ratty cars that have an obvious intent of going fast. The shiny ones get some attention, but nothing like a satin black one with the engine sticking out of the hood and 3.5" exhaust dumping the cacophony from my large high compression Pontiac V8s.. yes they shake the ground at idle.
One girl with the 65 GTO, and lots of them with a ratty 1979 Formula that would flatten your eyeballs on the street. When her jugs go over her shoulders, its pulling hard enough to dampen panties.
They like the danger and intimidation, but only as long as its under control. Not going to hurt them, but it could.
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I think I need to make that vacuum measuring tool. As he is going through that, I am thinking the same things, but not about restricting fuel through certain circuits because of the fuel I use. Makes me wonder if I don't need to do so much work to a carb to get it to run well on E85. Switching fuels changes things, and now I want to find out with my Offy intake and a pair of single feed 500 Holleys. I was wondering how he would address the jets and PV, because that is where the power and cruise economy come from. From my experience he is spot on, and it makes sense running two carbs that you need to back the idle 'air-fuel' down by a lot. I hadn't thought of that, and my engines make lots of vacuum at idle.
The one thing I would highly recommend if you want to get into tuning or building carbs (like I have been for E85, but really for any fuel) that you invest in a wideband O2 sensor. I use my 65 GTO and its 455 with 11.5:1 to test carbs I build, it has an O2 bung in both collectors, so I can see how either bank is running, or put the FiTech on it and have the wideband in the other collector to see where the AFR actually is. Unless you can see how its running, you are guessing, and reading plugs is damn near impossible on ethanol, they look perfect and new after hundreds of runs. I can install a bung on another car, then by simply plugging my wideband in with a couple spade connectors and a good ground I can see what its doing at idle, cruise, WOT and everything else. Its very beneficial for pump gas, because your street ride spends a lot more time at part throttle than it does at WOT. I don't run ethanol with gas scale O2s and then convert it, I like to see what its actually doing and mine goes roughly from 11:1 to 7.5:1 AFR.
If you like the way a high compression 60s era V8 runs and want to drive it every day, then E85 is the way to go. 13:1 and boost is easy on E85.. and you put the timing where it wants it, not where it doesn't try to rattle the engine to death. Driving a 13:1 455 around making ludicrous bottom end torque is silly grin inducing fun.
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@susanwojcickisnicetwin I am inclined to agree with that sentiment. I am not conservative, nor am I republican or democrat. I am outside all that nonsense.
The democrats have fucked me over far more often than the republicans, but the republicans aren't doing shit. Far too many of them want a christian theocracy here, and I will fight against that as hard as I will against a marxist theocracy where the state is their god.
I do not want to be forced to live by someone else's ideology, particularly when it tells me I am a bad man, that I need to pay them to assuage my sins/guilt, while prescribing to me what I must do every day.
Authoritarians and I do not get on well, no matter what authority they are pushing.
If the GOP would do something other than trying to slow down the inevitable slide into the abyss of worldwide marxism, I might appreciate them more. Problem is far too many of them want that, because they will profit from it as well.
Its damn difficult to trust the government when you are a two war disabled veteran. I trust corporations even less than government. Why you might ask? Because the inept, ignorant, and ideologically driven are in control far too often.
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55 and despite being disabled by the military, I stay active. Live alone in the woods and you will be active. I am usually hauling wood pellets all winter, I can unload fifty 80lb bags, two at a time, in about 20 minutes. I get a nice little workout running my snowblower clearing my 400' driveway, and the 200' circle when nothings parked there. In summer I am cutting trees, running them through my sawmill, shoveling tons of gravel. I might be the most active gimpy old guy you'd ever meet.
I can only do so much though, roughly 4 to 6 hours a day, and three to maybe four days a week, and the knees, hips, etc are done. I have to have something to sit on while I work on my cars, and I bought a lift for my shop so I don't have to lay under them. When the snow is gone, or at least manageable, the dog and I will take laps around the driveway again. I can feel it if I am not active enough. EVERYTHING hurts if I don't move.
I had a VERY active life when I was younger, wore out the lower half of me by the time I was 35. Put in the work when you're young, and you'll benefit when you're old. I can still lift REALLY heavy stuff, just cant carry it as far anymore. You probably won't over do it like what happened to me, unless you are involved in some major conflict, so get off the couch and go do things.
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@erroneous6947 isn't it amusing that when people hear about this stuff, the blame is cast on us because the assumption is we had to do something wrong, we chose the wrong woman, we did something bad to cause it, they are always blameless to society no matter what they do.
Accountability for their actions falls to us, even decades after we have nothing to do with them.. like my first ex. Been divorced for 22 years, she is remarried, and collections creeps still call me trying to get me to pay her debts and threatening legal action. I tell them to go for it I can afford lots of lawyers now, and i will be able to afford more after I sue them into oblivion.
Almost two years after my first divorce was final, the 1st ex did roughly the same thing (she made an attempt) and ended up in the bin for a month. Guess who's credit was destroyed, and guess who's child support was diverted to pay her bin bill, putting me in arrears far enough that they revoked my drivers license again.
They did that to me right after the first hearing, the judge started me out almost $10k in arrears, and at $5k they revoke your passport, DL, and my security clearance in the USAF as well. Thats tip of the iceberg of that story...
Seems that when reality sets in, and they understand that life is not going to be easy even when they are leeching from the man's wallet, they decide to go with the Canadian solution. Of course they blame us for it, never themselves or their own actions.
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I had a VERY high drive from 12 to 38, and that did cause me some problems, but mainly it was a dearth of quality mates which men are all seeing now, that caused the problems. Not so much poor choices, just poor options and opportunities. I've been comfortable being alone since I was a kid in the 1970s, didn't have much choice living on a farm with a family that was on a scale of indifferent to hateful towards me. No escape without a car and the nearest town is 20 miles away.
Being married or living with someone never felt comfortable to me, but as long as I was getting the drive handled I put up with everything else. The last 12 years have been a lot better, living alone, avoiding entanglements, not having to pay for someone who provides nearly nothing.
The work I had to do on myself was to make the PTSD from my older brother trying to end me several times and dad throwing me into walls and kicking me when he was frustrated. Gained a lot of ground on that 2009 to 2011, it was not fun.
Others have proven themselves to be untrustworthy, everyone gets the same chance to be a trusted member of my circle, but most fail at the very simple requirement of being honorable and trustworthy.
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Tim... if half the people who live around you hate you, it might be a good idea to move regardless of how resistant to UV light they happen to be. I used to date almost exclusively west African girls, some from the states some from Togo and Ivory Coast. I have noticed a distinct change, and it has been exacerbated few big times. Rodney King was one, I went from lots of girls wanting to be with me to none, overnight. My darker military friends all became distant that same day. I was stationed in South Carolina.
Then we had Monica's ex boyfriend with his cigars. Big change there too, far fewer showed interest. Then we had Barry from Hyde Park, and now its like pulling teeth just to get someone darker than me to talk to me.
There has always been an underlying distrust, going back to the 1980s when I joined the military, and it has progressively gotten worse when we had the people mentioned above. Usually it was enough that they would find out I like girls from that demographic, but now its completely different. It takes forever to gain trust, and I blame the left for that. They are the ones pushing it.
Its funny how everyone who is overly concerned about UV resistance have been aligned with the ones running your home town.
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Gearheads like Tony, Smokey, and Mickey (and to some extent yours truly as I do the same thing) are actually more like scientists, employing the scientific method, measuring what we do so we can get a quantifiable result. If someone claims they have a 9 second street car on 225 radials with a two barrel 305 and rams horns, we are gonna tell them to prove it, and we will see how well it runs at the track. Until we see it run, we will be dubious at best.
With his gas vapor I want to know how well it runs other than a steady cruise, because I am doing the same thing but with ethanol. Mine makes lots of power, with 13:1 compression in a 455, its gonna move. I want to prove it to everyone, even if they don't use it, if it works or not.
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@tomcatmcgillicutty6913 I am messing with you. I know how nuclear reactors work, so I knew where you were going, and they are a bit cumbersome for daily automotive transportation. Its not Fallout 4 where all the vehicles were nuke powered, its the real world.
For a submarine, carrier, or several cities, they are wonderful. The Navy was trying to get me to sign on for their nuke school, I went USAF instead and they out me to work loading cargo planes.. yeah high ASVAB scores pushing pallets and driving forklifts doing math to figure out CG of long cargo. Compared to true position, CG and restraint angle math is quite simple.
You might be surprised at what I know, and even more surprised that I like using caveman tech to solve modern problems. Not completely caveman, but with minimal reliance on electronics, analog solutions for a digital world if you will. That way the tech enhances it rather than we become reliant upon it, because sometimes the power goes out. Its why you learn to navigate despite having GPS.
So if you too can program a CNC 5 axis machine, can you also run a turret lathe and Bridgeport? I can...
I am acutely aware there are things I do not know, which is why I am always looking to discover them. Hard to be a gearhead like me and think you know everything there is to know. Dunning Krueger doesn't affect hotrodders as much, well not the good ones like Mickey Thompson and Smokey Yunick. I wish I had more opportunities to innovate in my younger days. I'd be a lot closer to them.
I cannot build a functional reactor, radioactive isotopes are a bit scarce, but I can make 190 proof vodka and build an engine to take advantage of it. If Doc Brown had me in 1889 the DeLorean would not have needed a train to push it.
Why caveman tech? Its cheap and fun to do in my retirement. Its far more fun to go fast with minimal money than to put it all on a liquid nitrogen cooled credit card and pay others to do it for me. I like the visceral experience of that torque monster 455 Pontiac under my right foot shoving me forward. Its more than just the numbers, its how you get there.
Like I said, you might be surprised at what I know.
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@tomcatmcgillicutty6913 as for hydrogen, I looked into it. With a nuke sub you have excess electrical power available. You can harvest hydrogen easily in a sub. When you scale things down to a car, thats when hydrogen loses its shine. 22k+ psi fuel systems, considerably lower range for similar sized tanks, and you are still beholden to someone else making the fuel for you, and buying it from them. Trucks and buses are the smallest vehicles that are feasible for hydrogen, but damn its a nice fuel.
If I could make hydrogen work for me, without lots of expense, I would. The $$$$$$$ is the problem.
Its not technology withheld from the general population, its that they don't care. They want a simple solution, they want to follow along, and they are not inquisitive as to how it works. If they wanted to know, they would find out, like I did.
I dropped working towards my mech engineering degree because it was putting me in a box of 'this works, this does not' and the reason I make things work that they say won't is because I don't have the bias already that says it won't. I make it work because I don't know it won't. They just accept what they are told and I get all scientific method on it and adjust as I go.
I'm not your typical unwashed member of society, I am a sweaty fat version of that. I like old cars for how they are and what I can do with them within the constraints of the technology. You probably don't grasp that.
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The Lone Journey most people can't work alone. They need other people because they are incapable. The government is there to provide a common defense, as in preventing a foreign nation from invading, killing and enslaving the population. That is what they meant by ensuring the general welfare, not what welfare has come to mean today... the government taking care of the lazy and people who make poor choices.
People work together all the time, but they have no problem being dependent upon others or the government. As for me it bugs the shit out of me knowing that congress decides what I am worth, and that I am not allowed to earn any more than what they say I am worth. That is the rub of serving the country, risking your life, and then getting fucked up in the process of that.
They still own me, but I don't have to show up and shave anymore. Sure they broke me and I can't work a normal job ever again, so they owe me, but then they limit all of us who came back less than completely functional. Can't invest in stocks, own a rental property, or anything like that.
People want the government to take care of them? I live it.. ask any disabled veteran how wonderful the government is to them. The difference is we fucking earned it and sacrificed for the benefits... while others want all of it and more for simply existing. This is how they treat the people who fought their wars for them, imagine how they will treat the people who did fuck all... oh wait, we can see it already in Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Atlanta, LA, etc.
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@PeterNolan-009 I'll be surprised if you can reply to this at all, most of my comments are removed. In Nebraska, circa 2001, until 2015 it was not voluntary for me. I had to pay, I was not allowed to speak in any of the hearings, not allowed to submit evidence, and I never signed anything. Additionally, they included non taxable military allowances in the support amount, and completely ignored Nebraska and federal laws.
They deemed 71% of my gross pay to be almost adequate, which left me with $100 a month to live on while active duty. They assumed the military would give me housing and food for free, when they give us non taxable allowances to go towards that, and they took that for support.
The judge also started me 6 months in arrears, about $8000 with a $1470 base pay of taxable income. Over $5000 they revoke your drivers license, put a hold on your passport, and revoke any professional license which included my security clearance. That was all automatic, so I drove illegally until 2008 when I finally got my residence changed to Michigan.
I had no choice, no rights, and no lawyer would do anything more than push paperwork through that made things worse for me. Not a single one would fight for me.
When my younger daughter was 12 she wanted to live with me and avoid the mistreatment she was getting. Nebraska would not allow the change in custody, but they said my kid could live with me, 1000 miles away.
I paid off everything in 2015 (the year my youngest turned 19), and currently they are trying to extort more from me, I don't know what its for or what its about. My family is calling me telling me there is 'unclaimed money' and I only have to go to the courthouse to get it. That is what they do when there is a warrant for your arrest.
I owe them nothing, the ex actually owes me over $10k, but they do nothing to her. There is a lot more to this, but I am not allowed to say much on here.
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@owen5640 a good place to start is journeytoforever with a dot and org after it. Look for the biofuels library. They are a bit behind the times, but thats a good resource to get you started. I'm showing how to on my channel as well... but...
I'm still rebuilding it, was well on my way in 2013, then the ex decided she wanted to be with her soulmate... that lasted less than 5 years. She got the house and land, I had to buy another spot. Anyway I had to rebuild everything, starting with my shop in 2015, the house in 2019, and this is the first year I can get more done on everything else. I made the effort to pay everything off and be debt free while building my home.
Takes a while when you are doing it alone. But...
I've made it work before and have to rebuild it.. but now I can go bigger. The cattails will be ready to harvest this fall, so I have until September to get that up and going.. I have it small scale now, but its not enough to fuel all my vehicles.
I've been using E85 since '15 because fuel prices were so low, and concentrating on improving mileage... and figured that out so I get better mileage on vodka than on gasoline, with a lot more power. Have a few short videos on how to improve mileage, but you get the biggest improvements by making it impossible to run pump gas in your engine. High compression ratios and heat management, you run the engines hotter than on gasoline.
Now that the potato is in the office, and gas prices are nuts again, I am back to making fuel. With all the other stuff going on in the world. I am not going to starve or succumb to hypothermia,
Right this second I am taking a break from doing an engine swap on my 2007 GMC crew cab 4x4. I am going to use it as a demonstrator for things you can do to improve mileage on ethanol fuel without rebuilding your engine to raise compression. Its not a flex fuel vehicle, its just a rusty old truck.
I have eight 275 gallon tanks to use as fermenters, with the good yeast I can make nearly 50 gallons of fuel from each one. Three more will go into producing methane.
There is quite a lot of info online about producing and using methane, everything releases methane when it dies and breaks down, might as well capture it and use it. Look for methane digesters.
The way I am heating my home and shop this winter, other than wood pellets in the house for as long as I can get and afford them, is the Jean Pain Method, you can find info about it on YT. Its a large compost pile of woodchips and sawdust, soaked with water, and plastic tubing run through it. That will heat water to 140F for months.
The pile has to be at least 16' in diameter to work, and you have to get everything soaked so the microbes can get freaky and eat to make the heat. Smaller woodchips are better than large ones, but mix them together and you get a really nice black dirt for growing food.
In addition to all this green energy/sustainability stuff I do, I build old cars. That is my focus, however this year I have no choice but to make the fuel and hot water projects larger. Can't drive much when each tank is $75 to $200.
I have everything in place to go off grid except a reliable electricity source that isn't a 7kw generator, I just need to assemble it, along with some vehicles. Thats kinda beneficial since I can show how its done as I make everything larger.
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@Slavic Melodies "proactive, outgoing and genuine" that might work for the ladies, but men have to do and not do a whole lot more to attract a girl. Its almost impossible for many of them to achieve because they were raised without a father who would teach them such things as masculinity and empathy by simply living with them. Then once they get a girl, the only way to discover if she is a 'good' one or not is to take the huge risk of betting half your stuff, everything you have built and earned, along with most of your future income that she won't decide to trade you in for cash and prizes. Even living with a girl can end up with her taking what you owned before she came along in many places.
I'm divorced twice, have two kids with the first, and she used them as weapons against and to hurt me. The state she lived in helped her keep me from seeing them, and I got a total of 12 days with them over the first 7 years after the divorce. I had to find them when I came to visit, because she would move and not tell me where she was. This is what awaits men, that along with 71% of my gross pay being taken and handed to her for years, leaving me sleeping in my old car.
I have dated girls from all over the world, including slavic and other Russian speaking girls from former bloc countries, Arab girls, African girls, European, and all over Asia. Literally hundreds of them since I started dating in 1985 when I was 16. I have watched the dating scene change over the last 35 years, and it is not going good for most men. While I dated hundreds, they can't even get one, because of the insane expectations of the females e.g. 6' tall, 100k in the bank, etc. and the inability of men to attract a female in the first place. I still attract them, but they are more interested in validation and attention than anything else. The girls all sleep with and share the same men, the tallest, best looking most well off guys in the area, and they also share STDs. I watched it happen on military bases in the 80s to the 00s, and now its happening everywhere. If you aren't tall/good looking enough to say hello, she can turn you in for harassment or assault.
So Red Knight and others like him are screwed.
I have my two kids, lost two houses and everything I earned and built before 2015, so I am done and not playing anymore. I rebuilt my life in the last 7 years and I will not risk what I have built ever again. More men are not playing now, they are checking out, doing whatever they want, and simply ignoring females.... because the juice isn't worth the squeeze, the risks far outweigh the benefit, and the only benefit is nekkid time access. Other than that its all expense for him, and nothing in return.
Until that changes, things will get worse and the population will crash.
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Sometimes it works to not have everything all tidy... Oh and trying to get to the headers to see if they're hot is a pain with a Pontiac. I have a couple infrared thermometers, I use them for my RC glow engines and other things. Rather cheap too, and they work, giving me a somewhat more accurate idea of the temps between cylinders.
In the 90s I had an 11 second 1979 Formula, and I went to great lengths to make it look slow. I made a sleeper using bolt on stuff like traction bars and the paint was oxidized something terrible. I had beat up gold Moroso valve covers, and the wires were all done up haphazardly, including the plug wires. I routed the wires so they didn't cause problems, but I made sure they were dirty and old looking, and completely unkempt.
That thing caught so many people, I had lots of fun with it. It was really amusing when my neighbor came to the track to watch me run one weekend. I had 12.3 dialed on the window from the previous weekend while running time trials, no cage in it so I had to stay under 11.99 in brackets. A guy standing next to the neighbor laughed and said something like "What a POS, that thing will never run a 12!" and it then ripped an 11.78 at 115. The guy then said "HOLY SH** THAT THING HAULS!" I wish my neighbor had gotten it on video... Nobody expected that thing to run, and being a 455 it never went over 6000rpm either. The chevy guys said it "Doesn't sound like a race car, more like you're going to the store for a loaf of bread." They couldn't imagine a car putting bus lengths on their small blocks with a highway gear, and most of the time on a piece of road in Mexico, I sandbagged them. Doing that made it sound even slower, dropping two or more seconds to barely beat them at the end.. subterfuge for money.
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@janszeneri1750 the PIK program isn't in effect for most crops or areas. Payment In Kind, it was a thing when I was a kid, its not a thing now. The grain embargo in 1979-80 is why they did that. The point was to lower the supply of grain to raise prices, because Russia wasn't getting it from us anymore.
Thanks Jimmy...
He is the reason I enlisted the first time, because in 1988 there was no future on the farm for me.
There is something you apparently fail to realize, agriculture is the base of our economy. Without farmers, we have nothing. Other than cars and trucks there is only one thing we export to Saudi Arabia in any meaningful amount.. DDGS, the left over cattle feed from making ethanol.
Farmers don't get to set the price for what they sell, they are offered a price and they can take it or leave it. They are the only industry like that, where the buyer tells them what they will give for their product.
For decades after Jimmy the margins involved with farming were thin to negative. Meaning it cost more to grow crops than you got for them. Without the subsidy, because of what Jimmy did, you would not be enjoying life right now.
Here's the other thing you don't seem to get. Its not very much money for the farmers. When your fuel bill is $200k a year, the equipment costs $200k to $800k and you need a lot of equipment to farm, then the cost of seed and sometimes fertilizer, a $20k subsidy doesn't really amount to much. Just about any farm with more than 1000 acres is a multimillion dollar business, and they tend to break even to profit a bit, usually less than 10%.
If you wanted to start farming today, you can't unless your family gives you land. I've been wanting to move from Michigan to Nebraska (more drag racing there) for the last ten years. Problem is an acre of land, on a hillside not suitable for farming, sells for around $5000, and quality crop land goes for $15k+ an acre. If you have less than 500 acres, you have a hobby, not a farm.
Any time you want to work like farmers do, I can hook you up. Remember, there is a reason I left, the money was not worth the effort, and you couldn't do my military job like I did either.
Go ahead though, hate farmers while you live in the burbs or a city. Famines really suck for people in towns.
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I grew up in a state that is supposed to have the XL pipeline run through it. When you take into account the risk to the citizens who live in that area vs the benefit to them the pipeline does not prove to be a risk worth taking. Here is why.
There is a massive underground lake stretching from Colorado to Iowa, South Dakota to Texas, its called the Ogallala Aquifer. This is where all the drinking water and agricultural water in the region comes from. Sure its a fly over state so who cares about the proles who live out there right? Lets turn the entirety of Nebraska and Kansas into Flint Michigan with a single oil spill so a Canadian company can pipe oil from the tar sands to refineries in the south, then be sold on the world market, which will have zero to negligible benefit to the few million or so people who live in the area.
Pipelines do break, leaks can take months to detect and find the source, and fouling that underground lake of fresh water when states like California and Arizona want to pull water from Lake Superior and Lake Michigan so they can have green golf courses and lawns in the desert, yeah that makes sense. Lets take a giant swath of the nation that produces more than grass on the vast majority of its real estate, and turn it into a potential wasteland so a few others can profit from it. Who cares, its only a bunch of hicks in pickup trucks and nothingness. You might want to look into what those states produce in regards to food, and the amount of money they generate with such a small population.
Would you want to run hazardous waste through your yard and water supply for the profit of others and none for yourself? Is the risk worth it?
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@paulhawkins6415 my experience agrees with your assessment, but it depends on the situation as well. Growing up I was severely abused, beaten almost daily, discouraged from trying to achieve, told I was worthless, and if I tried to fight against it I was beaten more severely. It was not in me to accept it and stop fighting, to become passive and hope they would relent. It was in me to work at getting stronger, learn to defend myself, and then beat the hell out of my tormenters... which I did. That was my means of escape, fighting back with far greater force and violence than they were capable of.
However, while in the US military beating the hell out of a capricious superior was not an option, despite being very capable of doing exactly that. To some extent I had to accept that I could not resort to violence, could not escape, and had to find a way to deal with it.
While it did not make me passive, it prevented me from being able to rectify the situation. When its beatings and abuse, its simple, beat the hell out of your abuser and it stops when they realize you could end their existence. When its someone who has authority over you, and the force of much higher authority with the power to incarcerate and punish you in other ways, it becomes more complicated.
You have to learn 'administrative violence' which is using the system against the people who are acting poorly. Then you have the chance of reprisals, and those people enlisting others (usually peers at the same rank as you) to assist them. The way to deal with those types of individuals is the chain of command, but it depends on how good the superior can lie and fabricate things to make you look bad, and if they overstep their authority or do something illegal. If the chain of command fails you, as it did for me at one point, there is nothing you can do but take the abuse until someone changes station or duty section.
I think its part of why they were capricious , vindictive, and in military parlance, fucked with me constantly. They were intimidated, either by my physical presence and prowess, or my intellect, sometimes both, and their own insecurity prompted them to 'fuck me over' at every opportunity. Having had good superiors and horrible ones, that is the only reasoning I can think of as to why the small weak ones were the capricious cunts, and the capable men were not. It was always the weak and ineffective, the poor leaders, who acted that way. Might be that it was the only time in their lives they have had power over someone, and they saw me as the bully who beat them up in school. Never mind I was the kid who got beaten up all the damn time.
There are two people from my military time, that if I see them in the civilian world, both are getting a beating, one might not survive it due to the egregious treatment they forced upon me. One was kicked out with a bad conduct discharge, because of what he did to me. He profoundly harmed me and the lives of my two daughters with his actions. I could not use violence against him then, but I can now. Its why I don't go to Jacksonville FL or Charleston SC, because that is where they are from. I will end up in jail or prison if I see them. I do not resort to violence to solve everything, nor even most things as I prefer to avoid it entirely, but these two have earned it.
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@michaeltalpas I've noticed something, it was prevalent in the US military, and I see it in movies and other media.
Physically powerful men are seen as dim, if you can lift heavy stuff and fight well, you are considered none too bright. In D&D terms they are fighters and the ultra religious ones are paladins.
The skinny guys who can't lift their own body weight assume they are smarter. The reality is they are compensating for their lack of physical ability and telling themselves they're better. In reality, they usually aren't. If you put them into a D&D thing they are the wizards.
If you have seen the 80s Mad Max movie Beyond ThunderDome its depicted as MasterBlaster. The brains in the little guy, the brawn in the dolt he rides around on.
Perhaps I have a bias, because I am one of the men who can lift very heavy stuff, but I can also do technical, math laden, scientific things easily.
Everyone has an ego, most are very beholden to it and cannot stand for it to be challenged. So when presented with someone who is vastly stronger and more capable, the ego of the weaker people tends to assume they are smarter as they try to manipulate others.
I'm a gearhead who drag races and wrestled in high school, my ego is firmly in check as a result. I have ran into the guys who do those thigns better than I do.
In person I like to play up the none too bright role, it causes fewer problems. I like for people to underestimate me rather than get an accurate idea of my capabilities.
Oh and I never play wizards in any games like Skyrim or D&D.. Just not my thang...
Like I said, far more important things to think about, like how to make my car faster without spending a ton of cash.
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@josephfisher426 imagine if you will, all that cheap crap no longer being readily available, either because of artificial shortages caused by ineptitude (like the last two years that I can't get quality car parts) or because they are simply no longer made.
The idea is the people controlling all of us will decide what we can have, and we will rent it from them no less. Where do you get something they do not allow you to have, like meat, or fuel, perhaps water because you dissented or disobeyed? That my friend, is where all of this is headed, and it is not some fever dream conjured by crazy guys living in buried buses. They have told us outright what they are going to do to us.
As for setting up a still, its a lot easier than you might think. I can show you how to build a 2" packed reflux column that will make around a gallon per hour of 190 proof, for about $100 in copper. Then another $100 to build a 30 gallon boiler. Or if you just want fuel, PVC for the still and you can make a 6" plate column for less than $100 that will produce four or five gallons of 190 proof per hour.
Will you be able to do it in a city? That will be tough. The whole point is they want you to own nothing, rent everything, live in a tiny space like people do over in Asia. So that you cannot make anything, you will be dependent on them for everything. thats how they want to minimize the black market, because that alternative market cuts into their profits.
Government is not there to do what is best for us, they no longer work for us. They do the bidding of the people who pay them, and its not us.
What do I know, I am just a crippled old war veteran. Its not like I know history or anything. Ok back to wiring my kitchen, I am having fun conversing with you.
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@GoldGollum you touched on something there, about feminine thinking. They hold it up as the pinnacle of human development, and make up things like emotional intelligence and emotional labor. Also there is another thing. See if this sounds familiar.
Lets go back to caveman and hunter gatherer societies. The man goes out, hunts, brings home food for his family, and the mother takes it from the father and divides it among the kids. In some of those societies they would take from the most successful hunters and feed the old and inept. Take that notion to its extreme and you get something that should be familiar to everyone at this point.
Everything is taken from you that you work for, its divided up by those who did not earn nor produce it, and then maybe you get some of it back after the others have gotten theirs.
Men take risks, they go over the mountain to hunt and find things over there to bring home. Women are risk averse, they want to be safe above all else, and then want to divide up what they have not earned so everyone gets an equal share. These two ways of being are complimentary.
The problem is, the feminine way of thinking is being pushed on everyone and the result is always that nobody produces without being forced to. If you are not compensated for your efforts, you stop putting in the effort when you see others getting what you earned, despite the fact they did nothing to earn it.
That is the point where female thinking goes too far.. when its put in control of anything other than a man's kids.
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Most men don't have the choice. They are lucky to get three girls naked in their entire lifetime, and lately most can't even get one. There are millions of unfuckable males out there, and they deal with it in various ways. Sometimes I wish I was one of those guys, because then I would not be divorced twice, would not have ben forced into poverty by the state, and would be far better off at 52 than I am today. I never cheated on them, but they sure as hell cheated on me. No matter how I treated them, they all did the same thing because there are no immediate consequences for them acting poorly, but they have massive incentives to be stupid.
I can't even remember them all, they kinda blend together in my memory, with a few who stand out. It seems most of them just wanted to get railed by the muscle bound freak who looks like a gorilla, and then they were good. Like they were playing bingo or something.
One thing is certain, I could have rebuilt around ten to fifteen very rusty muscle cars for the cost of my first divorce. My 65 GTO cost me $15k to build, roughly... my house, shop, and land cost me around $80k since 2013 when the second one went stupid and thought she could do better than me at 30. She was a 21 year old virgin when I met her. Now she is a 40 year old practice girl for autistic losers.
That reminds me, I need to order quarter panels nd a few other bits for the 69 GTO and check on the engine for the 68 LeMans fun toy..
Eschew females, build yourself, your life, and in my case 45+ year old cars.
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You hit something there, but it works somewhat differently than you might think. You learn from your father when you are little, dad's teach empathy, fair play, and a whole lot more. Moms cannot do it. Dads are most important between age 3 and 30, far more than others are. Dad's teach you how to be an adult.
Now where you missed something is how my dad taught me things from about 8 until I was in my 40s and he was in his 60s. He was 25 years older than me. He taught me by not being there, not doing it for me, and not helping me at all. He actually made it more difficult for me, especially compared to my siblings. I have 3 brothers and 2 sisters, I am the second one.
I planted, raised then sold sweet corn to buy my first car at age 13. I bought the seed, paid dad for the fuel we used to plant it, and then dad took $2000 of the $2500 I earned selling it. Then I bought my car, a 1967 Cougar. Dad drove it to his job in town for the 3 years before I turned 16. 25 miles one way. I got a very worn out car as a result. I had to try to keep it running, and he didn't bring me parts for it. If he did it was after it sat waiting for months. I needed a car to get a job off the farm, the car was broken so I could not get a job.. vicious circle.
I learned how to rebuild things, repair things, and to do it with the most basic tools, just keeping that car running. On my 17th birthday I bought my second car for $175 from a junkyard, it was wrecked, hit in the front on the passenger side. A 1972 GTO. I scrounged parts for that one, and eventually drove it as a daily driver into the mid 1990s. I learned to build engines the right way with that car.
You see if dad had done all of that for me, I would not have learned how to do it. I would not have learned how to scrounge parts, make deals trading things to other guys who had the stuff I wanted, and to crawl around junkyards looking for the stuff I needed. I learned to make money to buy the things I could not make, and I made money doing the car thing too.
By the time I was 17 I had surpassed my dad in automotive knowledge as well as muscle mass. Dad got the ball rolling when I was 8, taught me the most basic things like repacking wheel bearings which I did on all the farm equipment twice a year until I left the farm at 17. I learned everything else on my own, except for rebuilding transmissions and doing alignments, which I learned to do in votech school.
Dads teach you self reliance by NOT helping you.
However if he is not allowed to be there for you learning the basics, like how to use tools, its going to be a hard time learning all the small stuff on your own. However, I have friends who are good at the things I do, and their dad never touched a wrench in his life.
If you want it, you will find a way to make it happen.
Dad's get you started, and sorta hang around to tell you to get up, check to see if you're bleeding, then say "Yeah, you're ok, its not that bad" as you get back to it even though it freakin hurt. I did that with my daughters, they would do something brilliant like stand up under the table and whack their head on it. I'd see the tears welling up and I'd say, come here, make sure they didn't give themselves a concussion, pop them on the butt and say get back to playin. As a result my daughters are tough as nails, they did not get coddled. They are almost 27 and 30. I didn't catch them when they fell, I let them learn on their own. Just one time playing with an outlet was all it took for them to realize 110v is gonna make your arm feel funny, so don't play with the outlet.
Dad's let you screw up with supervision... You still have to learn on your own. You can do it without a dad too. Thats the whole point of being a man.
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How does a 481ci engine, built on a block in which all factory parts will fit and work, make so much power? Just so happens I have a 467 Pontiac built by Butler that has heads with the same CNC program that Justin (Big Chief) runs. They are not wide ports or widened bore spacing, just hogged out Edelbrock castings. Mine makes over 700hp NA on pump gas with those heads. It makes that power at 6500rpm, and it is making over 550 ftlbs at the rear wheels as low as 3000rpm. If you are a chevy guy or into small blocks, that makes zero sense. A high velocity port under pressure is going to flow up to a certain RPM limit just like if it were NA. It will be higher with forced induction, but the torque it makes will be prodigious. Its about maximizing the benefits of a design rather than trying to make it do something it is not designed to do. Enhance the capabilities and it will move mass easier.
Yeah we are only getting use from the top part of the cylinder because the expanding gasses only push for a handful of degrees after the combustion event... Unless its nitromethane. Justin is shoving 30-50psi through those ports to make 2500-3000hp, and is under 7000rpm doing it. My engines fill the cylinders rather well low in the RPM range, with high velocity ports. A fast moving column of air fills the cylinder better at RPM under 6500, and it is entirely dependent upon the shape and length of the port. Pontiac engines have a sweet spot in runner length and cross section that makes ludicrous torque from idle to 6000rpm in an iron head engine.
Then they have 4.25" stroke cranks, Justin has a larger bore with his aftermarket block. He might have a 4" crank, can't remember exactly. We can go up to a 4.5" crank easily in any 400, 428, or 455 block. Grind one spot about 1/8" and it drops right in.
The effect of going from the stock 400's 3.75" crank to the 4.25" or 4.5" crank is moving the RPM where max torque is produced lower in the RPM range, all else being the same. It also increases how much torque the engine produces, this effect is well known in the Pontiac world, and we often opt for the 4.25" crank in our builds, that allows us to run 3.08-3.55 gears, a 2400-2800 stall, and run 11s to 9s relatively easily. Pontiac engines are optimized to move heavy vehicles with highway gears, which is why building them like you would a 350 sbc makes them run slower.. every damn time. Put a 4.10 gear behind an iron head 455 and you will go slower than you would with a 3.08-3.55, often a full second slower. A 4.56 might work good with a 350 chevy in the 1/8th, but a 455 will waste that thick band of torque its making from idle to 6000, and it will stop pulling at 6000. No need to spin it any tighter than that. A mild pump gas 455 with smog heads from 1975 will make enough grunt to push a 4000lb GTO into the 12s with a 2.93 gear using a 1900-2200 stall. Be advised, that tends to break transmissions, even Th400s. Ask how I know...
The difference in stroking small engines like the 302 ford or the sbc is not as effective as it is with the Pontiac. The Ford has too small ports, unless its a 351C where the 2V heads flow better than most aftermarket W heads and the 4V borders on the Hemi. The longer runner length of the C makes up for the huge 4V ports to some extent, and they can make crazy power with a larger camshaft than the stock tiny cams. The C only has a half inch of stroke over the Cleveland headed BOSS 302, but the power difference is huge, that is partly due to deck height and the resulting longer intake port, including the intake manifold. The tunnel port 427 FE engines were an extreme example of that, as are the Ram Air V heads for a Pontiac. Huge ports with long runners that increase velocity.
The sbc has a big short port, which makes them an rpm engine, getting 450ftlbs from one of them is an achievement, and if a Pontiac is only making 450ftlbs its a disappointment. However iron Pontiac heads run out of airflow around 6200rpm even after porting. The engine design matters more than just bore and stroke, but those still make a difference.
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I'm 55, not bald but my hair/beard is full gray and I don't dye it. The gray is earned. I am 5'8" but have 21" arms and a 60" chest, they like muscle and I have it (I look more like a gorilla than a body builder). I try to hide the muscle because I am not looking to have someone spawn camping my wallet, and I have stayed the sweaty f** guy to keep them away. I wear baggy hoodies, work pants, and ratty T shirts I get from Menards or Tractor Supply. They don't need to know my land and cars are worth more than a million, my net worth is getting up there, because I invest my entire income every month. My kid will get everything when I expire.
Health dictates I have to stop looking and being f** and if I am not active enough everything that got screwed up in the military hurts and stops working. Even though I can get 20 somethings all the way to 70+, they are not worth it at any age. I've gotten plenty of strange in my life, did the entire bucket list other than twin sisters.
That means I am content to live alone, build muscle cars, and spend my money on things that have a return on investment, like my land. Already been overseas and I had a lot of fun. There is only one thing I want from them, and its not much of a priority for me. Also superchargers are lots of fun on daily drivers.
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@robertcastillo5318 the difference between 70s and prior cars and pretty much everything built since 1995, is essentially a cage around the occupants. The exterior body parts are merely a fascia on the new vehicles, rubber, plastic, thin metal, not structural as its almost entirely cosmetic and there for aerodynamic reasons. Check out Cleetus McFarland with Leeroy in the wind tunnel to see just how much drag they make without the body panels. Its really bad.
The old cars, the body was structural. The metal was thin all around the passengers and the frames are so light they twist with no body attached to them.
I do frame off rebuilds on 50s-70s vehicles, and I have cut up modern vehicles for parts. Cutting into the high density steel that makes up the 'cage' around the passenger compartment is difficult, that thing will not twist without everything attached to it.
While driving my 65 GTO around, if Aunt Edna and Milton driving their Buick Century or even a Cobalt, collides with me, they will be fine even if the airbags do not go off. They will be cutting whats left of me out of a twisted mangled heap. Sure they will rip up the fascia, the engine and K frame will fold under the car, its designed to do that, but it will not intrude on the passenger compartment. Worst case for me in any of my GTOs is to get hit in the doorjamb, the new cars will clean the metal right off the frame and very nearly push the door that is hit, into the other door, and you will still be able to get in and out of the new car that hit me.
Its a complete myth that old cars were built stronger, go back to the 50s and its even worse, those things crumple like an aluminum beer can. While driving my vintage machines, I am very aware of what the morons in new cars are doing, because death is almost certain if they collide with me in a 1965 vintage vehicle. Its a little better with my 70 GTO, but the $500 winter beater 2006 Gran Prix will fare much better hitting any of my old stuff, and that includes the rust it has from the salt.
The 65 is around 3300lbs with a 455, 700R4, 12 bolt, and a full interior. The 70 GTO is 3980 with no interior other than seats and dash, 455, 700R4, and 12 bolt rear and no fuel in it. The front bumper alone is 90lbs. Both have power steering/brakes, and no AC. They used to just throw metal it it, now the cars are designed to crumple around the outside of the passenger cage, dissipating the energy, and making sure the impact does not force components inside the cage. Its like a fully caged Nascar Cup car running into a lightweight drag car without a cage in it with the new cars hitting old ones. Its certain death over 50mph in my GTO.
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@degen83 in the mid term we will see staunchly red states 'elect' blue candidates with the same after hours unobserved spikes that are now familiar. They will get their 2/3 majority, and immediately shred the bill of rights.
First to go will be the 2nd, and they will claim its for our safety. Then the 1st, 4th, and 5th, at the same time, leaving the 3rd because its a non issue in this century.
Fervent religious zealots will do anything they can to force the rest of us to follow their rules, if they can get in control. Yes marxism is a religion, and the people following it use the same logical fallacies and tactics to prop it up when reality knocks it down that all other religions employ.
Their god is the state, which they euphemistically call 'the people' and the politicians tell you what the state wants just like priests. The party is the congregation, the rest of us are infidels, and everyone knows the path to heaven/utopia is paved with the blood and bones of infidels.
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@JohnSmith-yc6uv You going to control her, lock her away in a box like a bunny rabbit? Keep her from interacting with anyone else? Or will you go the other way and make her so freakishly large that nobody else will want her?
It seems that you have not been through it yet. I was a stellar dad, and a very good husband, did not matter. Once they decided to cheat and file for divorce, there is nothing you can do about it. You don't know if she will cheat on you until you make the commitment and wait to see. Apparently you have not been there as yet.. or she has and you don't see it.
Once you know what to look for, you cannot unsee it, and nearly all women have the same tells when they are thinking about, deciding to, and then trying to hide their cheating. Most husbands simply don't know, do not pay attention, or they are in denial. regardless it comes as a shock to them when they discover that no matter how well he has treated her, she has some other guy coming around as soon as he leaves for work,.
I've been on both sides of it... they all do the same things, the only difference is if they act on the impulses and if they have the opportunity. Its the way they are, and what you have done for them in the past does not matter. Its called Brifaults law...
If you have not been through it yet, then I hope you don't find out... because it beyond sucks having everything you ever worked for ripped away from you and then you are punished for simply being male.
Good luck and if you have good luck you will be able to stay in your fantasy world and not enter the real like me and a few million other men.
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@Brian Babin yep, all of that happened to me... except alimony. However I didn't give a damn if they had other guys, because once I am done with one due to her cheating, I am done.
It was a relief when the first one left, but I missed my kids more than anything, that is a hurt no father should ever have to endure. She left trying to manipulate me into letting her run my life, give her the money I earned and let her decide where it goes. She was not expecting that when she left and filed I would let her go.
Funny story, the same day she took off this cute Asian woman who worked cleaning where I worked met me at my car right after I found out she had taken off. She asked if she could cook me chicken that night. I thought it over for about 2 seconds and said sure. She cooked me a wonderful Thai meal and then.. well, you know. I was thrilled the ex was gone. She cost me a fortune though.. more than $250k between 2001 and 2015, I barely earned that much in that time. I lived on nothing for a bunch of years.
I kicked the second out out via text, saw that she got it and turned off the service for her phone from the online ap on my PC. Then went and shut off all my debit cards she had, canceled the insurance on the car she was driving, and changed the passwords on everything. It took me all of 30 minutes to remove her from my life.
I was more pissed off at her parents who let the guy she cheated with sleep with her at their house while she was married to me. I liked her dad a lot, he treated me well, but he let his wife influence him too much. My ex's mom and sisters encouraged her to leave me and hook up with this guy 20 years younger than me. They regretted that, and now they blame me for her actions... because that guy left her after 3 or 4 years, not sure how many. She was with me for almost ten and set for life, the guy she left for is going nowhere in life.
Now I am living good, own 13 acres of woodland where I built my house, a shop to rebuild my old muscle cars I managed to keep through both divorces (they weren't shiny so they thought they were junk), I am debt free for the last two years, and my final divorce was just ten years ago. The first was 22 years ago.
The first one is 50 has a guy she can control but he is on his way out, might have two years left, then she will lose everything and probably sponge off my youngest kid. She is also over 300lbs with a pain med problem she developed about 8 years ago.
The second one is 40 living alone two miles away(near the township dumpster so I have to drive by occasionally), nobody wants her, her dad just died in February so nobody is paying her bills now. She is starting to act very friendly to me when she sees me drive by. No, she cannot come back... ever.
Another funny thing... most of the women who want to get with me now are wives. You can't trust these 304s. They are ALL 304s.
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Tony, like I have said before on your videos, I am working on heated fuel systems to increase mileage and power. The problem with Smokey's engine is gasoline needs 450F to vaporize all of it, so it required ceramic pistons and all the prechambers to heat it. I am doing it with ethanol, because ethanol vaporizes at 173F at sea level, and lower as you go up in altitude or in the relative vacuum of the intake ports. No need for pre chambers, 450F, or any of that. Carbs won't work without the positive pressure, aka turbo, because it will vent vapor from the bowl vents.
173F is well within the operating parameters of our engines, and as ethanol vaporizes it cools the intake charge making it more dense, thus it makes more power, as well as it has oxygen in it, and is vastly less prone to ping/knock. Its very easy to do with ethanol, gasoline is much harder like you said.
I have done it to some extent with a Qjet on a 455 Pontiac, but its in a 65 GTO which has horrible aero. Have EFI on it now, but have not heated the fuel as yet, the FiTech has a return on it, and I need to deadhead it with an external regulator. We do not want heated fuel going into the tank now do we? So far with just compression and a 210F thermostat, I have equaled ethanol mileage with gasoline. Currently it has 11.5:1 with iron closed chamber heads, I have another set of 13:1 heads I can run on it, but that much cylinder pressure requires MLS head gaskets, and I am still kinda cheap. Trying to do it without special stuff on a low budget like you do, so it can be easily replicated.
The project has been back burner for the last 8 years as I rebuilt my life from a divorce. She hit me right in the middle of it and left me homeless for a couple years. Fun times. The cost of fuel is going up again, and E85 that I have been running is going up as well. So I will be going big on my tree sap fuel vodka project over the winter and in the spring. I'd like to make 500 gallons of fuel next year, that would allow me to put the muscle cars and the LS powered trucks on it. I'll keep the winter beaters on pump gas because that waste heat is so damn nice when its 20 below here in Michigan.
Gasoline is limited, because under best case scenarios it still wastes 80% of its energy as heat that must be shed by the cooling system. Real world cars are lucky to get 18% of the fuel converted to power. Then you have to deal with low compression because of ping/knock, vapor lock, and limited advance, just so it will live.
In contrast only 60% of the energy in ethanol goes to waste, and that is real world, in the lab it uses 42% under perfect conditions to make power. The cool part is you can crank up the compression a lot with ethanol, into the 25:1 range as long as you don't add gasoline to it, and it won't light until you give it a spark. Increase compression and you increase mileage because you are working a given amount of fuel 'harder' to so speak. Gasoline is limited because it wants to ignite with heat and pressure, but ethanol is cool and waits for the spark.
I have another Pontiac engine going in an as yet to be determined chassis, two 6.0 LS engines going in a 76 C10 the other in a tube chassis Opel GT, and two 3800 Buick V6s, one supercharged, the other NA. All will have heated fuel systems, high compression, and run on E98/E100. Ethanol makes the most power below 3500rpm, and still more than gasoline higher in RPM. Pontiacs are grunt engines, so making even more torque from 2000 to 5000, along with the incredible ease of raising static compression with just a head swap makes them ideal for this sort of thing. I can take a flat top 455 and go from 7.6:1 all the way to 13:1 with a factory head because they adjusted compression with chamber size rather than the piston crown, its kinda cool.
I will have video on my channel as I progress. This year was a building year, so the fuel project and cars didn't get much attention.
Yeah I know, nobody reads book length posts like this. I am trying to make a video of all of it instead.
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For the most part, you're spot on about them not being big. My second ex was homely, but she was also 115lbs and 5'7" and the heaviest she got was 135 while we were together. A 21 year old virgin when I met her, she cheated with a desperate sot (she was his first) when she turned 30. They lasted less than 4 years, now she is 41, alone, unwanted, even less attractive in the face, and around 135lbs. I just saw her last month.
I figured she was too ugly to have anyone who appeared better than me show interest in her. Well I got messed up by some chemicals in paint, couldn't breathe for 6 months, and I guess I looked worse than that guy which is really path et ic.
Around here if she is thin, she is into speeders (like ritalin, aderal or Walter White's special) otherwise she is large. Its simply not worth even talking to them.
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@AzuruliaClaremont wonder no more. They have said in ten years you will own nothing, and they claim you will be happy living like that, working until you're dead, having nothing to show for it, and being forced to continually pay for the crap you do have like its some huge Rent to Own scam.
If you have something saved up, they need it to be worthless. If its not and you have "Fuck you " money, they cannot control you. Without us being dependent upon them, they have no control over us.They are forcing us to be dependent upon them, or so they think.
What they are doing is pushing us to the point we repair what they have done, or die trying. We will either have world prosperity, or global communism, they want the latter I want the former.
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I finally have one of my holy grail Pontiac items. A set of finned M/T valve covers. I wish they would clear the valve train on the blower engine, because man that would be PERFECT.
Mickey Thompson did not set a record at Bonneville in 1960. He went 406mph one way, but they grenaded a transmission on that pass and could not fix it in time to make another pass the other direction to set an FIA record. Challenger II had four 389s in it, each essentially driving a wheel, with superchargers on top of them. Previously they took Challenger II to the flats with four NA 389s. 406mph was a good bit faster than anyone else had gone without turbine or rocket power. The details of Challenger II are utterly amazing, with the things they did and made to go 406mph 65 years ago.
A few years ago Mickey's son finished the car he and Mickey started to build for LSR, and he did set a record with it.. but it was powered by two modern hemis with snails shoving air in them. There is a cool short film about that car and Thompson setting the record. I suggest everyone go watch it.
If any of those DOHC engines exist, Steve Barcak would be the man to talk to about them. He has I think TWO sets of M/T hemi heads, and his daily driver is a 1972 GTO with a numbers matching 455 HO, last I heard it has over 300,000 miles on it. I know one of the Hemi head conversions is on his jetboat. If you think I am nuts, you gotta hear about Steve.
Mac McKellar had a 421 SOHC in his daily driver Catalina until the day he left this planet for the next adventure. Its not lost or hidden, but its not for sale until the latest caretaker gives up his air affliction. They had some wild eyed engineers at Pontiac, Mac was just one of them. Herb Adams designed the TA suspension and the body parts, i.e. the spats, spoilers, airdam, and the extractors on the fenders of the 70-81 TA, and they flat work. My 79 TA got more stable the faster it went, and 145mph was uneventful. Duntov might be the guy who gave the sbc a chance beyond a mediocre taxi cab engine, but the guys at Pontiac had to be held back by GM so as not to make the Corvette look... unwell.
I'm still amused at how some people have no idea what a round port means on a Pontiac. They just don't know why it makes a difference, so that a RA II/IV, HO, or SD commands a premium. If only GM had let the Pontiac guys do what they wanted to do... Still most people will think you absolutely need those round ports to make power, but the garden variety D ports are usually enough to make other iron headed 'muscle cars' look slow, you just gotta do it right. Doing it right isn't a single plane intake, 4.88 gears, 5500 stall, and a huge cam.
The reason Pontiac makes prodigious mountains of torque rather than 6000+ HP is really simple. Its all about the length of the intake ports, and the size of them, along with the shape. The shape has a venturi effect inside the port. From throttle blade to the bottom of the cylinder at BDC is quite long for an engine that compact. If you increase the size of the intakes, they simply make more torque EVERYWHERE... provided of course you have at least a 400ci shortblock under it.
If you take a 400 and put 400cfm heads on it, that thing will still make tons of grunt, you have to get into long duration cams to diminish the torque. I did that to a 400 with a 250@.050 Comp cam, with a 6X head, no porting, and essentially 7.8:1 compression. It sounded hardcore at 6000rpm, but it had a difficult time spinning 225 wide tires.
All of our aftermarket heads have a similar design, even the high ports, the somewhat ludicrous Tiger heads (look those things up sometime) and the RA V, are capable of serious torque numbers where most other more poorly designed engines are soft. Two guys I know Don at DCI and McCarthy are making RA V heads. Don's heads are more race oriented, McCarthy's heads are more like the originals with a lean towards the street. Both have made 800hp without a power adder... on pump gas no less. I want a set, but currently I can't scratch up the scratch to get a set.
I absolutely adore the Pontiac engine design, they had features that other engines needed the aftermarket to get, if they even got them at all. Part of why I like them so much is that they can make great power with mostly factory parts, the key is in how you gear them. If you toss a 3.73 or deeper gear behind them, you are going to run slower. Its like the old 413 cross ram, they don't 'need' the RPM to make power. Try to spin it like a small block, and its going to go slower and chuck rods, unless its built like the 505 in my 68.. that thing is good to 8000, if I have enough flow through the heads (e.g. Tigers).
I am not a purist, I just think the Pontiac is the best engine design ever. Sure others make more HP, but they also (more often than not) have a lot of Pontiac designed/invented tech in them.
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When there is so much for men to lose, their freedom, future income, progeny, and more, girls are going to have to be someone worth marrying. That means not acting poorly, making bad choices, staying feminine, and not filing for divorce on a whim or just because you're not happy. Of course not every girl is going to cheat, its simply that they can and will be rewarded for it, and it is far too expensive for males to take the risk to find out if she is going to remain faithful and not develop into someone we cannot stand to look at.
Honestly, you are going to have to convince the older men such as myself that you are worth it, because many of us are warning young men and boys to never get married, as the risks are too high. You change the laws so there is no benefit or advantage whatsoever for a woman to divorce and nuke him from orbit, stop treating men like they are always the guilty violent perpetrator and she is always the victim, and we older men just might back you up.
Until that happens, you are going to see marriage decline, girls growing old with 50 cats, boxed wine, and microwave cooking for one. Men should not, and are not going to willfully sacrifice themselves to the abhorrent laws we have today that treat them like walking ATMs and indentured servants at best, and violent criminals at worst. Remove feminist ideology entirely from family courts, bring back due process, and eliminate the obvious bias towards benefiting the female at the cost of the male, and it will be a good start.
We did not walk away from marriage and fatherhood, we were thrown out by the courts, society, and the state. You removed us, we did not abandon our kids or you. You pushed us away. So good luck getting married when there is ZERO benefit for us, only risk, and no risk with all the benefits for you.
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To me its not about tradition, its about what actually works. I don't do things a certain way just because that is the way I have always done it, or it was the way I was taught to do it, I do it the way it freakin works. When I was in the military and when I worked in a factory, I found ways to cut extra and superfluous steps from processes.
I was not cutting corners, I was separating the chaff and streamlining. Some things you need to do, other things are just an added step put in because someone did it that way and never thought about why they did that. Like picking up the same thing several times and setting it down rather than moving it only when it needs moved.
I'm a gearhead who likes to build hotrods and fast cars for fun. I don't change things if there is no benefit to it, I do not dress up my engines and vehicles in shiny stuff that serves no purpose. If it serves a purpose and improves the function while also being shiny then sure, but I don't go out of my way adding expense and effort just to serve an aesthetic. "Chrome doesn't make it go" is a well known term among gearheads.
The difference is people have a problem or take issue with something they were taught, and how they were told to do it or what to think by someone else, who simply said because I said so or something equally useless. They want to throw it all out and start over, but why reinvent the wheel when we have it pretty well figured out?
Others want change simply for the sake of change, my ex wife was like that, she would move my stuff because she wanted a change with no regard to what I wanted. Her changes made no sense, but she felt compelled to make them so she could have that new or novel feeling again.
Back to the car thing, there are several ways of making a car faster or more efficient, and actually both of those. However due to design parameters of various vehicles what works for one might not work nearly as well for others. My thought is rather than trying to make the engine do something its not designed to do, its better to improve it do what it is designed to do. If it makes lots of torque at low RPM, you figure out how to make even more torque rather than trying to make it spin lots of RPM.
You have to consider what the effect of a change will be, and address if it is beneficial, detrimental, or simply a waste of time.
Tradition is limiting change so its always the same, which is comforting to most people. If you want repeatable results, such as in drag racing where you want to traverse the quarter mile in exactly the time you predict, then doing everything the same way every time is beneficial... but you will not make the car go faster doing that. You will win races, but not improve the elapsed time.
Every machine we have built is based on natural systems and processes. So if you look at it a certain way, all of this is pertinent to interpersonal and intrapersonal as well as most of human existence. Most people replace their car on emotion rather than on function or reliability, they want a change, something shiny and new rather than the old one. New hotness vs old and busted.
I tend to drive and keep repairing them until they rust in half or require so much work that they need extended time in my shop. So I put another one in service while I repair the previous driver. Its always a cost benefit analysis rather than an emotional need for a change.
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Joe put in the work when we were younger, he is two years older than I am. You don't get where he is now without having some kind of obsession and dedication that results in positive outcomes. You are coming at it from the victim mentality he is talking about. Going and begging for a raise from corporate, thats victim mentality.
My story is similar to Crenshaw, except I was loading USAF cargo planes. Grew up in a world of shit, poor as fuck, beaten constantly, poisoned, stabbed, bludgeoned, run over by my family, enlisted to get a new start and a chance in 1988. Ended up working 7 days a week, 12-14 hours a day from 10 Aug 90 to some time in March 91, doing physical work office types can't imagine. Then I had a machinist job when I was out for a while, saved the corp tens of thousands a year on scrap by improving the system, didn't even get a thanks. Then the factory went to Mexico when Clinton signed NAFTA. Enlisted again, had another war with a massive airlift where I was smack I the center of it and was worked until my body broke.
Throw in how my home state gave my first ex 71% of my gross pay leaving me homeless while I was busting my ass for the country, and living in my 1970 Pontiac or my 92 F150. you want to talk about being sick emotionally and financially, I got ya..
Do I see myself as a victim? nope. I busted my ass for the last 7 years since my second divorce left me homeless again, building a house, a shop to work in, and I am doing that with limited mobility on $36k a year. 50 year old crippled guy builds home because nobody else will do it for him, and he can't afford to pay others to do it. I keep getting set back, and I don't get these stimulus checks, I get things taken from me instead.
You either get busy living or you whine and piss and moan about it like you have a dick for a tongue.
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Brake lines are always rusting out here, so you can have brakes one second, and the next time you tap the brake it goes to the floor. It happened to me in my 1999 4x4 Silverado 2500, and the E brake rusted away long before I got the truck. It was winter time, so brakes are used lightly on packed snow and ice anyway. Drove it the 20 miles home on the highway, because I have no other way to get it there without it costing more than the truck is worth. Besides I have bulk rolls of brake line and flare nuts sitting here to fix it.
UP here I have shoulders that are as wide as a lane, and wide ditches next to the highway, so if I have to panic stop (poor planning or not paying attention is how you get there) I can go on the shoulder or in the ditch. Drive home sensibly, put it on the lift, fix it, and wait two years to do it all again. The salt they put down makes Bonneville look pristinely salt free.
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@GodOfOrphans look at the people who push marxism and all the fucked up authoritarian ideologies like it. What are those people like? They are resentful they do not have what others have, they envy what others have, they feel entitled to what others have and want it taken from the competent people so it can be given to them, and they are too damn lazy to change themselves to get what they want. They live by the idea that if I have it and you do not, its because I stole it from your or took advantage of you to get it. They cannot comprehend that I worked my ass off and built it, and they are too damn lazy to put in the work to build it.... or they are too damn stupid to do something that is valuable enough to earn money to do it.
It preys upon the worst of human nature, envy, resentment, and entitlement. Add to that the fact that most people want to be taken care of, told what to do, what not to do, and they need that authority figure above them to 'guide' them.. which is a nice way of saying decide for them so they don't have to think. That is why we have religions, and the marxism/socialism thing is nothing more than another religion rooted in resentment, envy, and entitlement.
Why do they always laud the inept and incapable? Because they themselves are inept and incapable. How many feminists are overly attractive? They want to drag everyone else down to their level so they can get what they want. When the most attractive men still don't want them, they hate men even though they could easily get an average man. That is the thought process behind all that shit, they want more than they deserve and demand it be taken from others and given to them. I see them all as spoiled 9 year old girls, because that is how they think.
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I have traveled the world already, South America, Australia, and Antarctica are the only continents I haven't been to yet. No rent to pay, because I own my land, home, vehicles, and am debt free. Building old muscle cars then driving them all summer, is far more enjoyable than chasing skirts, in any country. I had LOTS of fun in my youth, but in every country, in every woman, is the same program running. I don't want to deal with that program anymore. Spicy fun time is very enjoyable, its what comes before and after it that I am tired of.
I am not the type who can sit around on the beach all day, watching waves. Gotta be doing something, and its preferable that its constructive.
Respect and not being mistreated is VERY important to me. Back in 1990 while stationed in Europe I got engaged to a beautiful Arab woman who lived in Dubai. Her mother decided to not let us marry in 91 after I traveled there 3 times. Her mom did me a favor. We hadn't seen each other since 91, and she had been married to a German guy until 5 years ago.
She came to visit me back in August. From the moment I picked her up at the airport, until I told her that she f'ed up by how she treated me a day later, it was a string of disrespect. Women who talk down to me get derision from me, because they could never accomplish what I have in my life. Its like being berated by a 5th grader as they try to tell you how life works. We used to talk a few times a month, video chatting, and she made it obvious that she wanted spicy fun time. She was not going to get it once she started in talking to me like her worthless ex, not that he is worthless, just that she saw him that way. I can see why the dude left her.
She was vastly different 30 years ago. Kind, supportive, eager to please, wanted to do things for me. She was either hiding it from me, or living in Germany changed her. Doesn't matter to me really, she is 60 and very unpleasant to talk to.
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In 1989 I was stationed in Frankfurt Germany, at Rhein Main AB, the prime target/goal if the Russians came around looking for the rest of Europe. My normal job was Air Cargo, loading planes, building pallets and such. My squadron liked to 'voluntold' me for things, so I ended up a Security Police augmentee, on the CIPS/Shelter team for my squadron the base decontamination team, and eventually the shelter team for the Security Forces squadron. As a result I was in NBC (nuke-bio-chem) defense training every month for one or the other. I could single handedly run the nuke proof shelters if I was the only one who survived, all of us on those teams were trained to do that.
I grew up on a farm with severe allergies to grain dust, wheat, corn, milo soybeans, hay... any of those can stop my breathing in minutes. So I lived in a gas mask most of the time, especially during harvest. These days I paint the old cars I build, and I am hypersensitized to isocyanate, which is in paint activators, if vapor touches my skin I am unable to breathe for weeks, its much worse if I breathe the stuff. I have to dress up like I did in the military for chem exercises when I paint a car, so I can breathe and function any time I paint a car. I am probably going to get a supplied air system that filters air and pumps it to my mask through a hose. I cant be exposed to it at all, so its very much like an NBC environment.
Lets say my experience and training is EXTENSIVE.
The MOST important thing for MOPP/NBC gear is the mask seal, without a good seal, you're not long for this world in an NBC environment. Cloth and paper, a little bit of distance, they do NOTHING. Filtered air in a building is the only way to go, because a chemical agent or biologic, and Alpha and Beta radiation (particulate) can be spread around a facility without filtered air. The fast way to the ER for me is to rely on a piece of cloth or paper rather than a proper gas mask with quality filters.I have to change the filters when I paint a car, and we had to change the filters for the shelters when certain agents were used.
The idea that a paper or cloth mask will do anything but virtue signal is ludicrous. I don't get colds or the flu, and never got the charlie one niner because I am not in the habit of touching public items like door handles, then touching my face, eyes, nose etc. That is how most biologic agents are spread, via surface contact, some are airborne and you can breathe them in, but most of it is contact.
We live in a soup of microbes floating around in the air with us, and we are immune to the vast majority of them. A piece of paper or cloth over your face has no seal, so the air you breathe mostly goes around it, not through it, and even if it goes through it, well its not filtering a damn thing.
Biologics are the most difficult to defend against, because they are also spread through vectors. A vector is another living organism, rodents and other vermin, dogs, cats, people.. whatever. Let one infected thing in, and the whole shelter is compromised. Kinda makes what Whitmer, Cuomo and others did with nursing homes appear in a different light, does it not?
As they came out and had different mandates and directives, I was aghast at some, and amused at others. Its like they had no idea what the hell they were talking about, or they were outright knowingly lying to all of us. I think its a mix of the two. Nefarious incompetence lets call it. Any time I would say any of what I have written here, it was removed or some virtue signaling ignorant type would chastise me and claim I didn't know anything because I am not a doctor.
I knew about the anti virals like iver the mectin from my military time. I know vitamin D helps along with other things they told us not to use. From my perspective it looked as though they wanted it to be far worse than it was, and made it out to be even worse than that, when it was not much of a big deal.
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I watched that happen on reddit when a particular subreddit was accused of being not c misogyyynists. The sub would be called hateful, bigoted, and rassis too.. then people would go read what was being talked about, and it would grow. Not by a little, but doubling in a few hours, tripling in a day or two. The marxists create a narrative intended to make you afraid or angry, then you go find out for yourself and find reasonable conversation about topics not allowed to be spoken of elsewhere.
They use appeal to emotion fallacies, along with others, to spread misinformation and outright lies about people who do not accept the narrative. When other people go read or listen, they find out the narrative is bullshit. They also realize its useful, pertinent information that the marxists are trying to suppress.
By trying to kill it by lying about it, they made it grow exponentially.
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@TomNook. a woman like me is not what I want, and I can't imagine anyone wanting a girl who is like them. I am not attracted to men and sure as hell not to myself, but girls sure seem to be attracted to me. What attracts us to each other is different, what men want in a girl is very different from what they want from men.
I wanted someone to compliment me, meaning she handles the things I am not as good at doing and I handle the things she can't do or isn't good at. You know, team work...
Problem is, girls are not wired like that. They are not raised like that either. They are given everything without having to work for it, they are taken care of and expect to be taken care of by a man. She decides who she allows in, the only thing men get to decide is if we are going to commit to a girl or not.
She can change her mind and decide he isn't good enough anymore, but she gets to keep the resources he provided her. The state will take them from him and give it to her, so there is no immediate downside for her, its all incentives. She is encouraged by society, her family and the government to divorce him and take at least half his shit.
There is zero incentive for a man to marry, the only reason any man is getting married now is they think it means something it has not meant at any point in my 50+ laps around the sun. A man who marries now is either an idiot or completely ignorant of the legal realities.
There is only one girl on the planet I would consider marrying. We were engaged 30 years ago, but didn't get married due to racist motherfuckers. She is divorced now because her husband cheated, and stopped fucking her almost 20 years ago.
She is 58 and she knows that she can't find just anyone, she also knows my value beyond an income. The only reason I would get with her is so we could enjoy the remainder of our lives together, because we have been friends since we met in 1990. There is no incentive for me to be with her, other than she is probably safe from divorcing me and taking all my shit.
She grew up in Kenya, lived in Dubai when I met her, her parents were from Oman and Yemen. It says a hell of a lot about western girls that the only one I would even consider is an old Arab girl.
Considering doesn't mean it will happen. She lives in Germany, has two sons, and if I want to have sex there are thousands of college girls and desperate chicks who were stupid enough to get divorced for no reason right here. No need to get on a plane and go through all the bullshit that entails. A new group of girls turns 18 every day, and even though the Arab girl is still decent looking at 58, a 22 year old sure looks better. Catch and release still works with the gray beard I am sporting.
There is no fucking way in hell I will ever marry again, because the laws can take everything I have built, and give it to her on a whim.
I make it easy though, I stay fat looking and dress like a homeless guy. I still get hit on. Had a chick close to my age hit on me with her husband ten feet behind her. She said she was going home with me while I sat in my 65 GTO. I get college girls trying to get attention from me all the time. Its amusing.
Girls are easy and not overly bright. If I could trust one, I would have one as I like them quite a lot.
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@oc7805 its the Pareto principle. 20/80 for any natural distribution. I learned about the Pareto as a machinist, 100% checking parts meant I would still miss 20% of bad parts. So we had to be aware of it so we could work to improve it.
When it comes to people, 20% are the competent, critical thinking leaders, 80% are followers. Of the leaders 80% of them are going to be less competent and capable than a further 20%.
When it comes to marxists, their leaders come from the 80%, and they run on resentment, envy, and a feeling of entitlement, while being to lazy to earn what they want. They are the 20% who are motivated to take from others and don't think ahead, only today matters to them. Consequences are for other people, which is why they run into all kinds of things they never saw coming, so they blame others for their shortcomings.
Who leads the 80% is always in play, as they are easily manipulated, as they are prone to pleas to emotion and other logical fallacies, the bread and butter of the marxist or any other ideologue.
They have a choice, the hard way with delayed gratification that pays off later, or the apparently 'easy' marxist way that pays off today at the cost of the rest of your life.
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@magrathean0 I agree. I can't stand to hear Trump speak, it irritates me to no end. That does not mean I would rather have a communist puppet in office, or want Trump thrown out. I do not blame the cheeto for what the democrats have done, such as lock downs, that killed the economy, riots and other violence/civil strife, and I won't blame him no matter how much they claim he is a racist.
Thing is, I can think critically, look at a subject without emotion, and find out what the facts are. If someone tells me something dubious, like Trump calling military members losers, it gets the same pile of salt as when the media tries to push some other bullshit on me.
I am a veteran, and I know what Clinton, Obama and Biden have done to us, so I know what they will do to us when in power. Once you know what propaganda is, it becomes exceptionally easy to spot it.
How Trump speaks is irrelevant to his job performance. As if Biden speaks any better, and Kamala makes me want to scratch a chalkboard to cover up the sound of her. Thing is, the latter two are going to fuck us over, they have made that abundantly clear.
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@nixie8435 did God show you how to make fuel, antiseptic, grow food, defend yourself and your family, build shelter, produce electricity, forge metal, carpentry, electrical wiring, or even how to build a fire with nothing more than flint, or even what flint looks like in the real world? If not, your eternity with the old guy will probably come sooner than you expected. Isn't there a parable about God helps those who help themselves? By all means keep your faith, but learn to survive in the real world too.
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A couple years back I got a dirt cheap 2004 Escalade (Zombie Land machine, just needs a 3 painted on the door and a busted up snowplow). The guy had been using it to haul firewood. 330k on it, was driven up here so its rusty. Well the TB stopped talking to the TCM, which stopped talking to the pedal sensor, and the MAF decided it wanted changed too.
The REALLY fun part was the dash cluster stopped working when the battery gave up. Nothing lights up, nothing works, nothing moves. Pull it out, stick it in a different truck and everything works flawlessly. Pull a cluster out of another truck, stuff it in the Caddy and Nada. Put it back in the other truck, works fine..
The 4L60E flares a bit going into 3rd, but thats about it for drivetrain problems. It drives very nice, other than you need to drive around with a scan tool/code clearing device connected because it tosses throttle codes about every 45 seconds. The bonus is the scan tool will give you MPH from the VSS and oil pressure.
The downside is plates cost more than the other four vehicles I drive combined. The beater truck, Cuda, GTO, and Le Mans are all less than the Caddy. Michigan goes by the "when new" purchase price retail value of old cars, so making it legal is spendy. The Cuda and GTO are dirt cheap, not as cheap as Nebraska, but way cheaper than the $180 for a pos 2000 Silverado 4x4.
I took it to a dealer to get the dash working, and the old guy (75+) there had no idea what he was doing, and it has been even worse since he did something to it and made the throttle not work.
I have a solution. I am going to rip the body off, remove all the nice leather seats and interior parts, put them in one of my 2500HD pickups, then put the front end on a beater standard cab 4x4 and drive it around after I chop up the rusty fenders and turn it into a ghetto widebody with big honkin mudders.
The chassis will be a huge source of amusement. I have some 29/30/31 Ford 4 door body parts that someone cut down into a pickup cab of sorts. My plan is to put nearly 100 year old sheet metal on this Zombie Land reject and turn it into a mud flinging burnout machine... or I will find another old pickup cab and put that on the chassis, change the intake to a cable operated TB, and get silly with that... kinda like TomsRefurb.
I mean a 6.0 that runs good with a ton of miles? Its perfect if I want to toss some snail shaped hairdryers on it, and boost the snot out of the poor thing.
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@cthulawha you're right, and Tm242 is right as well. Something I noticed in the early stages of OIF/OEF was how they were taking office weenies, putting them in gun trucks to ride along with convoys. That baffled me, other than put the most expendable people in the obvious target. Not much of a front line like the world wars, everyone is a target now, unless you're in a place where nothing is happening. I was still surprised that finance and other office types got deployments inside CONUS, we were in the desert every other year in my job.
That was my second war, and the 04 deployment was like a vacation where I got worked like a rented mule. I got to run KCIA with my team, which meant half the deployment in the Hilton, half at the Radisson getting $86 per diem. The USAF paid me back for all the crap they put me through in the gulf war and before we invaded Iraq again in 03. We still had kids whining about going to freakin Kuwait where they made plenty of money and had no risk other than was inherent in our job. The guys at Balad had it much worse, quite a few guys from my CONUS unit came back from there with the PH.
My first foray into the desert was quite different in 1991. Well after the 100 hour remove them from Kuwait part, but still rather 'sporty' at times. As it turns out some of us REMFs aren't in the RE, despite our primary job not being combat arms.
Look into MAPS and TALCE units in Vietnam, I did some in both of those types of unit along with AMOG between '90 and '04. Nobody talks about us because we aren't glamorous, and we are an obvious target. To most people we are simply UPS or FedEx wearing green carrying CAR15s. Pushing pallets that weigh up to 10,000lbs each in the desert heat while hauling a rifle, 240 rounds, and all the other crap is one hell of a workout. Not many chairs involved in my job, lots of weather and occasional mortars and small arms though.
The ROMAD/TACP guys are technically support, but nobody knows about them unless you worked with them. I was cross training into that when I got messed up in 04. Yeah I managed to get inured in Kuwait where nobody was fighting. As it happens at 35 you can't do the same amount and intensity of work that you could at 21. Jumping out of planes with 120lbs of radio and laser equipment might have not been the best thing for me to do considering how well my joints reacted to pushing pallets in my geriatric 30s.
We didn't have all the social media crap back then, not like now. Every day that goes by I am thrilled to no longer be in. What a shitshow it has become.
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@fishsmell3939 I'm in northern Michigan, along the shore of Lake Superior, long enough growing season, plus greenhouses are easy to build. Fish are plentiful in the big lake as well as rivers and streams. You can drink directly from the lake, and we get lots of snowfall which means water is VERY easy to get.
I make ethanol fuel from cattails and tree sap, so I can run generators, chainsaws, and my vehicles on it. It doesn't harm engines like people claim. To run a two stroke you need to mix vegetable oil with the fuel for lubrication, the two stroke oil won't mix with ethanol. If you raise the compression in your engines you can get better mileage on ethanol than you can on gasoline, its easy to achieve but you cannot run gasoline in them anymore unless is very high octane race gas.
We have plenty of wood here, and that opens up lots of possibilities. Firewood works, but you can see and smell the smoke. I have another method of heat that doesn't burn anything and makes 140F water for six months. You can use that with radiant heat systems in floors or baseboard radiators. After six months of heating water you have rich topsoil that requires far less water to grow food.
I came across all of this when I started looking for alternatives to gasoline when it was $5 a gallon back in 2007. I am a gearhead, I like 50 year old muscle cars and drag racing. I am not a tree hugger, and it just so happens that producing energy rather than buying it enables me to spend my money on parts I cannot make.. like engine blocks, cylinder heads, tires, gaskets etc.
I am also a machinist, but you need extensive tooling to make things like that, and foundry work is a big undertaking. So its better to buy those parts. I am stocking up on things like gaskets, tires have a lifespan so maybe I will get wheels the same diameter as Teslas for my cars and trucks.. lol.
After growing up on a farm I know how to grow food, raise livestock, butcher, and survive off the land. Also know how to weld, fix machines, build structures and repair damn near anything. The military taught me some very useful things as well.
The more you can produce, they less you need to buy. The more you can produce, the more you will have if/when the world goes SHTF.
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No... you're wrong. It will not be the entirety of California, Washington, etc.. If you look at the maps of how each county goes every other November, you will see that its a few blue islands in a sea of red. Good luck getting all those people who oppose the large cities to do the dirty work for them. Who are the people who send their sons to the military? Not the large blue cities... they have a few, but most come from the red areas.
Think of it this way.. if they aren't a major coastal port like LA or NYC, they can be cut off entirely and starved out quite easily. Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Denver... yeah, they are screwed. Of course if they give up the people in offices, then it will be far less ruinous to the people who live there.
You need boots on the ground to maintain it for your side, if those boots arent fed and supplied, it is over rather quick. Ask Friedrich Paulus about how that goes. There is a reason an insurgency does so well against superior militaries, and there are about a million of us veterans out here in the civilian world who went over and did that kind of thing for the last 30 years.
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@Bender_B._Rodriguez I stopped to think a bit.. Wilson forced the Fed on us, FDR extended the depression and interred the Japanese. LBJ escalated Vietnam and fucked over minorities and the middle class with his bullshit policies.
Carter had the grain embargo and massive inflation from money printer go BRRRRR. He caused the first gas crisis and made us even more reliant on gulf oil.
Clinton allowed us to be attacked at least 9 times and did nothing, which I take personally because I had friends at Khobar Towers who never came home. His inadequacy, ineptitude, and weak response is why we had 9/11 and that was justification for Dubya to get all invasion happy.... at the behest of and with the blessings of Congress.
Clinton also signed NAFTA which sent most factory jobs to Mexico, including mine and everyone who would have been a customer for my shop. So I take that personally as well. Not to mention Ollie North, Iran Contra, Mogadishu, and other bullshit.
Obama fucked us hard in several ways, and me personally since I had to reenlist in 2000 because Clinton sent all my work to Juan and Jesus. I got fucked up on my last deployment in 2004, discharged in 05, and then total and permanent disability at the end of 06. Then Obama came in and cut VA funding twice, and stopped any cost of living adjustments for us as costs rose on everything.
Obama's regime was instrumental in fucking over the Arab world and his legacy is open slave markets in Libya, a tortured, graped and executed ambassador, constant war in Syria, escalation in Afghanistan and Iraq... holy fuck he jacked up a lot of shit.
Now Demented kid sniffing Joe...
What do all of them other than Dubya have in common? I mean other than seriously fucking up the country every time they are in office...
It boggles the mind why anyone votes for those inept war loving pricks. Stupidity I guess.
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I am not a success story. I am an example of what mistakes not to make and that persistence doesn't always pay off like you think it will. I've rebuilt my life 8 times now. I am only 50. Two divorces, the first one indentured me for 15 years and left me starting over at 46. The second one was two years before I got the first one paid off. NEVER MARRY FOR ANY REASON.
I served in two wars, with a gap between the enlistments where I fucked up and got married to the first succubus. The second war broke me, so I have not worked since 2005 and have been on a fixed income. I still try to do the things I have dreamed about, but it means it takes lots of work with my hands because I cant afford shit.
It was not the things that didn't happen to me that made a difference, it was the things that did. I wanted great things from life, but had to deal with others doing what they could to prevent it. Long story that started when I was 5 years old and ended last year when I cut damn near everyone out of my life. I am still alive. I still build cars for fun. I live on an acreage in the woods in a house I built. All I have is from an iron will to overcome shit, only to have it all ripped away again and again. I keep getting back up, keep fighting forward, pulling the weighted sled behind me. Fighting the demons in my head from multiple people trying to kill me, one of them was a family member.
So yeah I retired first, but its not comfortable, and I have to be alone so I don't lose everything to lying cheating bitches again. Its subsistence with chronic pain, PTSD, and the plethora of shit that goes with it.
Know what though? Living alone out here in the woods near Superior, with my dogs, cars, guns, and hobbies, sans conniving bitches who want to take my time, money, and future like 110lb leeches on my back, I am happier and more satisfied with life than I ever was before. Its beautiful in my yard, I have cool old cars parked everywhere. People leave me alone because they know thieves are never seen again, and I am not exactly desirous of company. I fully intend to die alone, I have honestly been alone most of my life and now I enjoy it.
So if you want money, don't be like me. I am kinda free though, except the US government decides what I am worth... and it isn't much. The fire feels nice tonight. Tomorrow I will have a campfire and watch the stars as I polish off another bottle of whiskey.
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I have a friend, who has two kids, weighs about 250lbs, 34 years old, 5'4", and gets over 300 messages a day on dating aps. Not only that but the looks even when under 130lbs were not all that great. Three hundred... per day. Apps are useless to me, being 5'8" 55 years old, with bulky muscle covered just enough by soft stuff to keep my name on here. In person, its completely different if I go into town not wearing the clothes I wear while rebuilding my old cars. If I dyed my beard it would still be a large amount of interest coming my way. Just a salt and pepper look, rather than the pure gray/white it is now.
I look the way I do to keep them away, because I cannot trust them and two divorces is enough for one lifetime. The last ten years have been spent rebuilding my life, and I am not going to waste the rest of my time on this planet on another one of 'them' and have to give everything to them when they are unfaithful. I have better things to do...
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@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 I like your take on this one. I have a somewhat different view, but still like yours. I grew up being sent to a lutheran school. At 21 I met a beautiful Arab girl from Dubai and at 22 changed my religion so I could marry her. I learned her religion and culture. I know both religions quite well as a result, and find them to be very similar.
However, while I can see some good things, and many bad things in both of them, I do not share those beliefs. I am not a fan of ideologies, particularly prescriptive ones that tell you what you can say and not say.
The result is I can rip into both religions and show where they go wrong, what the bad ideas are, and where good ideas are located. Knowing something well and from the inside gives you a perspective that cannot be reached as easily from outside.
In 1988 I enlisted in the US military. I had not been taught much about the soviets, other than we all had nukes pointed at each other in a Mexican standoff. That they continually wanted to spread their ideology around the world (much like islam which I also grew up knowing nothing about). Out of wanting to know why I was putting my life on the line in the hope that T80s and T72s didn't come through the Fulda Gap and my base would be attacked (probably with chemicals we figured) why was the ideology of the soviets 'bad' and ours was good.
I started reading about Karl, his ideas, the history of eastern Europe, and what transpired between 1917 and 1989. I am kinda big into history anyway so it was enjoyable to discover what happened.
I came to the conclusion that Karl and his buddy Engels were vastly incorrect with their solutions to common problems of the 1800s. They were not particularly bright, and lived reprehensible lives which appeared to b me as spoiled 8 year old girls in adult male bodies.
So like the two Abe religions, I learned about the religion of Karl. Just like the other two I found it to be something I wanted no part of. The more I learned the more I realized just how abhorrent it is.
With the Abe religions you have rules that are written down, and as long as you're the sale flavor and do not step outside those rules, you're good. Step outside and there was a good chance for many years they'd turn you into wormdirt.
With the Karl religion, they make up the rules as they go, and this is displayed VERY well in Animal Farm. As is the capriciousness and manically corrupt, self serving egos of the inept and incompetent 'leaders'
What Orwell wrote is spot on in most of his books. Though he still believed the ideology would work if it was implemented right, just like you said. He was stuck in the religion and saw the world through the ideological lens placed over his eyes, so everything was warped and twisted so it would fit.
People stuck in cults tend to try to make everything fit that cult rather than accepting reality as it is. Even Isacc Newton fell victim to that thought problem, he attributed to god what he could have very easily figured out regarding why orbits are ellipses. The best and brightest as well as the Forest Gump and Karl types have that same propensity to make the world fit the ideology.
Most people need a religion, because they do not want to decide for themselves as that takes effort and requires personal responsibility. Most people are lazy, insecure, and unsure of themselves when it comes to big questions and decisions.
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@oftheborg I've noticed that vegans look like leather hand bags very soon in their lives, but it seems to be more about sunlight than diet. From what I have seen, white girls age the worst. I spent a few years travelling the world in the US military, living among people rather than just visiting and being a tourist makes a big difference.
The second girl I was engaged to is Arab and lived in Dubai at the time, she is 59 now, she is nowhere near as attractive as she was 32 years ago when I last saw her in person, but she looks vastly better than the 60 years olds who live near me in the US.
We have stayed friends all this time, it was not our choice to not get married. It was forced on us, and we both had rather shitty lives because of what others did.
She takes care of herself, but that beautiful long black hair is short and always pulled back now. Less effort is the way they usually go with things like hair.
Asian girls really like me, must be the pale ice blue nearly gray eyes I have. Walking around Seoul in 2003 I was like a celebrity, girls coming up and wanting to take their picture with me. It was surreal. Asian girls have always liked me, from any part of Asia. The African girls like me too, but they like ANYONE who can get them out of Africa... rather like the Russian speaking girls.
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@GoldenEagle_Matariki_Kaleolani the last girl I was seeing regularly was Mexican Apache, she turned 50 this year and she looks every bit of 31. She was also the only girl I have ever been with who could cook as well as I can. We had lots of fun, going on adventures, travelling concerts, and she funded most of it.
One of my favorite people in the world. However, she decided this firefighter was going to be more fun than I am, and he dumped her two weeks later. She has been going through guys every two months to a year. She just can't find a masculine man with man hands in Chicago where she lives. They are all soft, but they have more money than I did. Still friends, and we broke it off in 2018.
Still a girl, still has the hypergamy, still makes irrational choices based on emotions rather than logic, and in that respect they are all the same.
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I do not apologize unless I have done something heinously wrong, which I try not to do out of honor. I stand by what I say and do, and I mean what I say and do, though I often use sarcasm to get a point across.
I sure as hell do not apologize for being male, or being masculine. If someone doesn't like it, well that is their problem, I am who I am and I am not changing to suit them. However, I am not an unbuilt, un-accomplished, untested, average man. The just be yourself thing doesn't work, you have to be better than you were yesterday, and better than others.
Who I am is who I intend to be, not what I am by default.
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@kristijan8518 you have to do what I did, move. There was nothing where I grew up, the economy was terrible, no jobs, and the females are terrible. I left when I was 19. I joined the US military, because it was way back in 1988 and that was my only option. Ever since if things aren't what I want, I change where i live, work, and what I do.
Its not easy, there is risk involved. Thing is you need to be smart about it. Honestly avoiding women until you have your life where you want it is a very good idea. I find they drag you down and hold you back, rather than support you.
I dated Russian, Ukraine, Polish, Uzbek, and women from other ex bloc countries while I was in Korea 20 years ago. Hotter than the sun, but a pain in the neck. Of course, they were the ones who were willing to do just about anything to get our of the hellholes where they were born.
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Yeah.. I talk to people online, when I go to a store for something, and on occasion I hang out with friends. Thats enough for me, once a week is good. No depression, no dark thoughts, I am busy building things and living my life out here in the woods. Everything mentioned can be alleviated with physical activity.
When I am waiting for an appointment, or my shop to warm up in winter, I play sudoku on my tablet to keep my mind sharp. I build cars in my shop, that takes some thinkin... I learn new things every day, because I am trying to do more, and I need to figure out how to do things to build my house.
I may be wired different since I have had PTSD since I was an 8 year old, that is almost 50 years. Other people have been the source of my problems my entire life. The stress caused by my ex's and my family made me want to do the sewer slide, and it was something I lived with every day, multiple times a day for over 40 years.
I turned my back on society when I was 12. I am almost 56 now. The last decade has been my best one so far. Its not purposeful isolation, I can't live in town because the hypervigilance drives me nuts, and cities/towns don't like old cars sitting everywhere. Been trying to get some young people to hang out and do things, but y'all are whack. Old people are cool and they are great for conversations, but I am like a 19 year old in many ways. The cars I build/drive are the same ones I had or wanted when I was a teenager.
With the PTSD thing I don't really fit with society, and I don't fit with other veterans because I've had it so long and they are new to the whole thing. I keep my mind active and chewing on things, the problem is getting it to turn off when I want to sleep.
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I had a lot of them, I was looking for just one with whom I could spend my life and make memories. Most of them just wanted the muscle bound freak memory, they'd go for a few times then try out some guy who was taller or had more money. I was married twice, and I was the first everything for the second one, but they BOTH did the same thing, stepped out, blamed me for it, and ruined their lives. They all thought they could do better, they didn't.
They have proven to me that they are untrustworthy, so I am done with them. I till get hit on and they flirt with me, but I am disinterested. I play the nice guy and I keep my belly, it does a VERY nice job of keeping them away. I travelled the world, they're the same everywhere, only the wrapper changes, and the culture can keep them in check. Nothing else will.
The Marine is learning a valuable lesson. The same one I learned in 1989. I build muscle cars and spend time with my dog.
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I traveled Europe 30 years ago when I was in the military. Everywhere except Paris and Belgrade (Yugoslavia just after the wall came down) was nice. I avoid cities here in the US, preferring the wide open spaces and forests between Michigan and Wyoming. It really depends on where you go as to what you will get. You won't be walking to the store from my house, unless you like walking a marathon, and you won't be doing that from November to May.
A vehicle is required, not because something was planned that way, but because of the vast distances. I put 4000 miles on my truck between 24 August and September 24, I do that often. I made another 2500 mile round trip earlier in July. I like that drive, it takes me 14 hours, but its enjoyable when I start in the early morning when the sun comes up about 0530, and I get to my destination in the evening. Next year I will probably use my dashcam to make a video of the entire run.
If you are used to and do not like big city life in the US, then the small towns in Europe and out here in the states most people don't know exist are for you. Don't expect to have lots of free stuff handed to you out here in the crimson 'flyover' places, but that means you won't see people camped on the streets, shootinup, and doing all the other things you see in the big crime infested cities.
Taking a train in Europe works great, I used them when I was over there, the distances are much shorter than the US. Taking a train to get from my home to my destination earlier this year, is a five day ordeal of waiting around for the train to pick people up, going the wrong way so you can get a connection, and waiting around for the next one to come in tomorrow. Same with a bus, if you have several days you can just ride around then it should be lots of fun.
Hollywood doesn't show the part of the USA I am from and live in, they show a caricature of it at times, where everyone is portrayed as none too bright and marrying their sister. Then they make the cities look far better than they actually are, not all like the cesspools they have been turned into.
Yeah, the movies are what people overseas think its like in the US. When I was in Dubai in 1991 the question I was asked most often was if I was from LA or NYC. I told them I was from a place roughly 1500 miles from both of them called Nebraska. They had never heard of it, but I knew quite a lot about their country. Abu Dhabi was absolutely beautiful, Dubai was kinda small and just starting on the big building project in 1991. Sharja was a nice quaint little place with wonderful people.
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My ex wife used to start fights, escalate them, and initiate physical violet (spelling intentional to get around the bots) until I would finally engage and stop her from harming me and my kids. When she would be stopped without harm, she would them be able to feel like a victim rather than guilty. When the cops would show up to these, they would always want to arrest me, despite me usually in shredded shirts, scratch marks all over me, and sometimes still bleeding where she cut me with things. In the divorce all of that was used against me, and I never hit her, never mistreated her, and would lightly restrain her since I am a two war combat veteran and have experienced a lot of violet in my life.
That is the same pattern that is happening here. They want to pick a fight, so they can claim to be the victim, and the media will paint all of us non so CIA lists as the enemy and the instigator of it all. We did nothing in the summer of love because it was happening in bleu cities, and we don't live there. Their mayors and governors allowed and encouraged it, if you notice that crap didn't go outside those cities and when it did it was shut down immediately.
I am among those who wants to be left alone and not hindered from doing things I enjoy doing which harm nobody. I like to go drag racing and to build old muscle cars, but I run them on tree sap and cattail vodka which is greener than any EV could ever hope to be. I suppose I harm bugs by driving in summer as they splatter allover the front of my vehicles, but they don't care about the bugs, they want us to eat them.
People such as myself are not instigating nor perpetuating this, but we will sure as hell respond to it when it comes to us.
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@timg3799 Small Seal is right, I am 54, twice divorced, and your wife should count herself fortunate to not be divorced or to have filed for it. It does not end well for them, especially after the money runs out from child support and whatnot.
I have friends half our age and some in their 30s and 40s too, they are all avoiding entanglements. If they date they keep it very superficial, because women today cannot be trusted to be faithful or loyal.
Our generation is the last to have normal wives, where the majority don't think they can do better, or that they are entitled to more. I was at the tip of the iceberg, now there is zero benefit and massive risk for the young guys. That is leaving women to live with their delusions.
I have two daughters, 26 and 29 (her B day is later this week), neither have had luck with men. The oldest decided that women were the way to go, until she was mistreated by every damn one of them. Now she lives alone and enjoys her time between work and doing fun stuff.
The younger one is looking for someone, but can't find one that sticks around longer than 2 years or so. She wants a kid, and has wanted one for the last 5 years, she can't find a anyone worth being a father. Not because men are horrible, but because there is too much risk involved so they won't commit.
The chances of me ever being a grandpa are quite slim. Their mother stole their childhoods from me, a grandkid would be quite a wonderful thing to have.
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@lilmike2710 I made an easy 550hp and nearly 600ftlbs with a 455, some 670 heads, a mild hydraulic cam, and mostly stock parts other than forged pistons in the 1990s, and had about $2700 in the engine. No boost, no spray, and mid 11 second timeslips with a total outlay of less than $4500.
My daily driver 65 GTO has those heads on it's 455, and its lighter than the 79 Formula that ran 11.40s in street trim with them. Same size cam, but its a hydraulic roller, just because I could. It has 3.08 gears under it, and it runs just as good as it did with 3.42s, which is what the gear in the Formula was in the 90s.
Its very easy to make a ton of torque from idle to 5000rpm with a Pontiac, and the new cars usually need blowers and shit to keep up. Its fun when the 4 cylinder kids do the BOV thing next to me... they really have no idea what that big old blue car will do. I am amused by them all the time.
They aren't going to be affording hellcats at a young age, the insurance alone is more than they can swing. Besides 550hp at 5500rpm is very different than 550hp at 8500rpm with a turbo. Getting the small engine fans to understand that usually requires them to go for a ride in a grunt engined car like a 455 Pontiac powered whatever.
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@@Carmen-99 the risk for being an older father is not having enough life time left to rebuild after the harpy takes off with everything you own, blames you for her cheating, and then gets the state to punish you for what she did.
She will shove out a kid with serious problems after her 'best before' date. Five women I know personally, who had first or second kids after 32, have messed up kids. One is my sister, who had her first son at 19, the second one 20 years later. That nephew of mine is deaf as a post. My cousin's daughter has one of those wheelchair and helmet kids, she was 34 when he came along. The woman I was engaged to in 1990 had her second kid when she was 34, he is slightly better off than my cousin's grandchild. The other two have kids with several different issues, and are not related to me somehow.
A man's health and lifestyle play a much larger role than his age. With women, IT IS ENTIRELY THEIR AGE, and poor health/lifestyle simply speeds it up.
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I loathe the creepy kid sniffer, and his reasons for killing the XL are ideological. Why I am not a fan of that pipeline is very simple. It moves Canadian tar sand crude, which is considerably more abrasive than standard crude, to refineries in Texas and other Gulf states. It is then sold on the world market, rather than being used here in the US and Canada. It might help with global gas prices, but Saudi Arabia opening up their production and flooding the market did more to drop gas prices in 2015 than the tar sand oil would. Tar sand oil is only viable if the price per barrel is high enough.
The pipeline was to run across the Ogallala Aquifer, a massive underwater lake beneath several states including Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, parts of Texas and the Dakotas. The people living in those states who depend on the aquifer for drinking water and irrigation would receive no benefit from the pipeline, while bearing some rather massive risk to it in the event of a major leak fouling the ground water. Its akin to running pipelines across Lake Superior and Lake Michigan, and risking a leak that makes the water undrinkable.
The risk portion is similar to the people in California wanting a pipeline to take water from Superior and ship it to CA so they can have green lawns in the desert. I grew up in Nebraska, and now I live a mile from Lake Superior, currently we can drink directly from the aquifer beneath Nebraska and Lake Superior without treating the water.
So a non US company would profit from the pipeline while US citizens bear the risk without compensation. Biden killed it because they have interest in mining operations for things like lithium, cobalt, and even coal. They want you to drive an electric car, because they get kickbacks and profit from electric cars and power generation.
If its this easy to shut down a pipeline running from Texas to NYC, imagine how easy it would be to cause a massive leak and fuck up the ground water for the plains states? Do you want $15 a gallon gasoline? Because that is how you get $15 a gallon gasoline and $200 chuck steaks. Why would gasoline prices go up? Well that is simple too, currently we use ethanol to raise octane because tetraethyl lead causes severe health problems, and MBTE causes cancer, but you can drink ethanol since its vodka. Without those states having irrigation water, you will have to either lower octane requirements in vehicles, pay a lot more for gasoline that has high enough octane, or you will be forced to drive a plug in electric vehicle.
Biden just wants you to drive electric because he probably has money coming in from several aspects of them.
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I found the same situation in the 90s, working as a machinist. I was doing a huge amount of work, the plant was 120F to 130F all summer and I was wearing heavy plastic protective gear to keep the 250F compound sorta off me. Saved them $80k a month in scrap on 10 different part numbers, the engineer who said I was wrong got the bonus, I proved him wrong. I didn't even get a thank you.
I quit in 1998, told my boss I would not be in on Monday, or ever again, on Friday. Already had another job. The plant closed and was shipped to Mexico 6 months later. They saved so much on payroll that they could afford the 90% scrap rate of the unskilled people down there.
In 2000 I went back to the USAF, and guess what... I got all the extra duties, 10 Airmen to supervise when the other NCOs my rank had 1 or 2 if any, and they had me working 16 to 18 hours certain days of the week, and coming in on my Tuesday-Wednesday 'weekend' to handle things.
If you're competent, capable, and more efficient than everyone else, they will heap work on you. Then everyone you work with will start backstabbing you, talking about how you're not doing anything. They sat in the office all day, and I was handling my usual job moving cargo and loading planes, along with all the extra stuff like Safety NCO, vehicle NCO, building custodian, and a bunch of other things. I probably taught 30 people how to drive, because they came from big cities and never needed to learn. Yet somehow I was the one who wasn't working.
The best thing that ever happened to be was getting messed up in Kuwait in 2004. 35 years old, working like I was 21, my knees were the first to go,, then hips, shoulders, ankles. I live in pain, but I haven't worked since 2005, well.. haven't worked for anyone else since then. I was loading aircraft single handed when usually its a team of 12 to 20 guys. Just me, a muscle bound freak of nature from both massive airlifts I was in 1990-91 and 2003-05, pushing pallets on planes.
Pallets can weigh 10,000lbs each, and I was pushing lots of them on single handed while the female reservist air crews stood around and watched. Yeah they made a huge deal out of a C5 with an all female crew, they stood there slackjawed as I loaded all 36 pallets on their plane by myself. I was stuck with a bunch of reservists who didn't want to work in the heat, so they drove vehicles or sat in the office. I can go on for hours about reservists... they are the most worthless people I have ever met.
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@Navesblue marxism in all its forms is a religion. Its a cult where the state is god, the politicians are the priest class that tell you what the god thinks/wants/demands, and the party is the congregation. Everyone else is an infidel that can be used or abused because they're the 'other' so any atrocity is justified.
The zealots of marxism see themselves as victims, and the 'others' are oppressing them. Or they see themselves as saviors to the lowly less than human sub races as they view others. At least they aren't rounding up ethnic minorities to gfas them yet.
The marxist reach is rather wide. The laws in family court are rooted in feminism, which is marxism with males as the other, females as the oppressed victim class. The Duluth model is marxist, it is exactly like crt but where females are the oppressed and men are the always guilty, always at fault, always violent oppressors that need to be punished for being born with the ability to piss standing up and not get their feet wet.
The Establishment Clause is intended to prevent religious legislation from being enforced. The problem is most people do not see marxism for what it is, a religion based on wishful thinking, lies, misinformation, erroneous conclusions, and ideas that do not work. That alone is enough to make it a religion... but there is so much more that does as well.
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@josephcharles3460 while I was in the USAF, the most problems I had with NCOs above me being capricious, juvenile, and fabricating things to justify writing me up, were all from pentecostals and southern baptists.
To put a finer point on it, they were all named some variation of William. It seems they justified their mistreatment with the fact I was not in their cult, so they felt they could do anything they wanted to harm me. One of them found out its not justified, he got a bad conduct discharge for what he did.. he was a southern baptist.
Funny thing is, I have two very good friends who are pentecostal. Great guys, had christmas dinner with one of them a while back, man can his wife cook.
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@goofygrandlouis6296 I suppose they could, but it would be amusing to see it. The Aussies voted for this, they wanted it, they clamored for it, and willingly gave up their ability and right to prevent it and resist. The ones who did not vote for it, well, just like those of us here in the USA have to deal with the choices others made for us.. but unlike the Aussies, Austrians, Kiwis, and Brits, we can defend ourselves and our property.
Its a shit sandwich, and everyone will take a bite eventually, because dependent people wanted the free shit sandwich.
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@basilbaby7678 Society will not allow young boys to be taught to be men, they now claim masculinity is a mental disorder. So teaching them to spot crazy in girls, yeah that will not happen because the narrative is that girls are perfect and males are always the problem.
There is variance among people with bipolar and BPS, so it can't be a hard science, but once you live with someone who has it, you can easily spot it in others. I endured 8 years of the first one, the only thing anyone cared about was if I touched or hit her, not at all what she did to me.
I was twice her size, military trained, had been to war, and I could have easily stopped her from abusing me and the kids... except if I did, the state would throw me under the jail. Any man who did to me what she did, might have awoken in an ICU somewhere(if they survived it), but she had the government behind her. Enabling and protecting her as she did whatever she wanted. My only option was to leave, but if I did she would then take it out on my two daughters.
She was rewarded by the state for doing everything wrong, I was punished for almost always doing what was right. I was punished because I am male, she was rewarded simply because she is female.
Until that mindset changes, men will continue to say fuck it and stop playing the rigged game. Most of the veterans I know live in solitude like I do, because in family court or any time we are accused of anything by a girl, we are automatically guilty, and proving our innocence is not an option.
I am good living alone, I am used to it and the probable alternative is far worse. I live surrounded by nature, I have wild turkeys, deer, bear, rabbits, raccoons, and the occasional moose or mountain lion stroll through my yard. I had a juvenile bald eagle land on one of my cars and hang out while I took pictures of him.
I built my house, the shop where I build my cars and the engines, transmissions and everything else they need to run. I did it with my two hands and minimal assistance from others, mainly putting roofs on and pouring concrete.
You'd be hard pressed to find someone more masculine, and I cam called toxic by society and mental health 'professionals' because I do not hide it nor stifle it.
Sadly, men have to learn by experience with females, we don't just know. Then once we know, we are told things like 'she wasn't the right one' or 'we choose poorly' which implies it was our fault, and another one will be better than the last one. When there is nothing restraining female nature, and they are encouraged to follow their nature even when it costs them dearly in the end, this is what you get.
At the same time they are trying to restrain masculinity, to turn us into women, to make us soft and pliable, unable to defend ourselves or even be capable.
Think about it. When someone gets divorced, and she was violent, you probably think 'what did he do to piss her off' not that she just might be a crazy bitch who decided to destroy everything he ever touched or built. Blame the man is what society does.
it is what it is. So those guys are checking out and not playing the game. I played the game, and I got roasted over a fire on a pike for over 20 years.They see me, they do not want to get burned like I did.
I tell every young man I meet to never get married because there is zero benefit from it for them. I tell girls to get married because it is so very advantageous to them, and if the guy is stupid enough to do it, he kinda earned the destruction in his life.
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Spot on again Rich. I learned that if she doesn't get in my car and go hang out with me when I first meet her, chances are she will flake. Its a product of where I live at the moment. I have zero patience for them here, they get one chance and if they screw it up they never get another chance. They can flirt with me when they see me, try to get more attention from me, but they will not get another opportunity.
Its an opportunity for them, because I have built something, I am going somewhere in life despite having had to rebuild my life again over the last 7 years. These chicks are working BS jobs making $1000 a month or less, and chasing dudes who make about the same and are not going anywhere. I hide who and what I am from them, until they have proven themselves worthy enough to be allowed into a small part of my life. They do not know I build old muscle cars for fun(I own somewhere between 25 and 30 of them, its my life's passion), have been retired since 35 (two divorces put a hurting on me but I'm free now) and while I look fat in winter gear, I am carrying around a lot of muscle mass they can't see unless I want them to. Baggy clothes and driving a rusty beat to death 4x4 in winter, keeps them from seeing the truth.. a 65 GTO I restored in summer is what I drive.
If they see me in the GTOs, the 70 Cuda my dad left me, or one of the others I own, race, and drive, then they show interest and flirt openly. I try not to clue them in despite the cool old cars. No gold diggers allowed, and this area is full of them. I don't want some chick who thinks she can get money and vehicles out of me, I want one who wants me for who I am, not what I have. Because honestly, all I have is some land, a house, shop, a bunch of old cars, tools, equipment, lots of parts, and free time until I kick my air addiction. What I am doing with all of that, well that is what makes me different from most guys.
Why would I want to risk fucking that up? All I want is some snot pocket once in a while. I'm 51 so the overwhelming need to get some I had from 12 to 36 just isn't there anymore.. but they are still lots of fun.
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King Leopold it was his liver, and they were his lungs to do with as he pleased, and he did so. In his youth he fell for the socialist mind cancer, and later realized the same as I do, that its just another religion.. and should be regarded, then discarded as such.
I like to build scary fast cars that I drive around all summer, and I like to punch holes in things at a distance with a chemical reaction and a long tube. Its enjoyable to me to live in the woods, living a harsh life for most modern people. That does not preclude me from understanding and commenting on the idiocy of ideology and those who push it on others.
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
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@nebbindog6126 when I moved to the UP 16 years ago, they were joking about leaving the state, starting their own. I no longer hear that sentiment from the democrat voters now that WHitler is in office with the same spikes in the election Evers, Biden, Northam, McConnel, and others had.
I checked, and guess what. My vote was accepted in the machine, but there is no record of me voting in November, nor in the mid terms. Curious how that works. Only one county up here went blue, Marquette, with the university and others demanding handouts and socialism.
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@albertgaspar627 those guys were a special bunch, all of them together at the same time at Pontiac.. It would have been wonderful if GM had not been holding them back all the time. DeLorean went to chevy as a reward for selling so many Pontiacs, and to keep him from doing end arounds to make Pontiacs run faster.
Bunkie had great ideas, the man is a legend that far too many do not know about. Same with MacKeller, that man was a genius, he got the only SOHC Pontiac ever made, its in his Catalina, or is it a Bonneville, regardless its the B body.
The FE valve layout is the same as the RA V head, the RA V ports are like the FE and LIMA tunnel port heads. However, the nailhead preceded the FE and it too has that valve layout. Long runner, high velocity ports to move trucks and heavy big cars around. Put those engines in a light car with a 2.70 gear and they become monsters.... if they hook.
Ford did strange stuff with oil systems. Still I like some Ford engines as much as I like Pontiac. I am a huge fan of the 351C, and if I am somehow limited to only 350ish cubes, I am building a 4V since I have four of them laying around and several sets of heads. That is the only small block to ever impress me, all I did to one was headers and a Comp 270 cam and it scared all my chevy friends too. The only non Pontiac I have ever had that would smoke the tires from a dead stop at idle, by just whacking the throttle open. No need to hold the brakes, just floor it and the tires go up in smoke.
I will put a Cleveland up against any engine, including the LS and the new Hemi for NA power under 6.6L. Those things flat kick ass.
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Thats a cool spot to live, I tell ya what, living in the woods is freakin awesome. You cannot see my neighbors at all, the nearest is a quarter mile away through the trees, on the other side of the road.
I've spent the last week insulating another wall and building my livestream area in my shipping container house. Its coming out nice. I mounted my two PCs on the wall to open up desk space, and I think I need a few more shelves for stuff in the background. Its been a long time coming getting to where I can afford to do all of this after my divorce left me living in my car.
My 32x48x12 shop cost me about $18k with the lift for my cars, the house using four 20ft containers is around $20k. Two are stacked, one is 13 feet from the stacked two, with another on the side of them, with a loft built between the two bottom ones. If I ever get it done and all the unused building materials out of here I might make a video of it. I've learned a lot about how to build a home from containers, and the foundation is overbuilt, but I wanted ot make sure it wasn't going anywhere unless I take it apart and move it... which I can do relatively easily.
Its a comfortable home for me and a couple dogs, no plans to have a woman living here, and a pellet stove keeps me good and warm. Next week I am ordering a sawmill so I can make lumber from the maples I have cut down so I can use the wood in the house to build things, like a place to put my clothes that is not a dresser made of particle board. I will probably rework the interior of the 71 Travco RV I have too, so I can use it to haul my drag cars around and sleep in it when I go racing with the dogs.
Owning your home without debt is a wonderful thing, building it yourself saves money, but it does cost you time.
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I grew up on a farm, we have a 1952 John Deere Model A that my grandpa bought new. Not only did it have that oil stank, it had varnished gasoline stank too. I wish I could find an engine block for it, haul it up here, and make it run again. Its the first thing I ever drove... at 8 years old.
Its fun watching people who don't know much about engines and vehicles try to explain stuff they don't understand. From the people who say they put jet fuel in their car and it really ran, to those who think its faster than it is.. FYI jet fuel is like kerosene, it just makes smoke in a car engine.
Like the guy who said his 302 in his 69 Camaro could pull the front tires and run tens on a 225 radial. He never would race my 79 Formula that had a string of 11 second slips on McCreary dirt track tires and BFG drag radials. The "hop a beer can in the parking lot" people...
Or the turbo Neon guy in my unit who thought it was the fastest thing on the planet and said he would only race me for $500, and charge $250 to open the hood. Apparently he had no idea about the Formula mentioned above, but he knew about my bone stock down to the paper air filter and stock lid 98 Formula with the auto and 2.73 gears. He talked mad trash and got all butthurt when I simply said his car isn't that fast. He was friends with the low ranking guys in my shop, and they all thought he was fast too.
He was busy cooling down his neon at the local 1/8 track 30 min from base. I pulled off the highway, in the gate, into the lanes, and made a pass without a burnout. 8.82 and I don't remember the mph. That thing is like a bracket car varying between .82 and .84 hot lapping the snot out of it 10 to 15 times.
He walks up and arrogantly asks what it ran. I told him and he got mad right off and demanded to see the slips. I gave him a handful of them, at which point he started saying something about my car being an 8 and his a 4 so I should stay in my 'class' and other crap. His best ever on a cold night was a 9.2 and that day his best was 9.7 or so. In the quarter that is like a mid 14 at best. My slowest car, the one that gets 28-30mpg highway, not the 12 second 70 GTO or the Formula, was faster than his "modded all to hell" neon.
Currently I have a chevy guy with a 68 Camaro and an iron head 454 that thinks nothing of mine is faster than a high 13. This summer will be fun if he ever gets his chevy put together.
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@TheGreenKnight500 the universe doesn't care about anything, its ambivalent if it is aware at all. The vast majority of men who ever lived, since humans evolved into modern humans, and probably the species wee were before that, never procreated. They were culled by war, famine, diseases, hunting gone wrong, and any number of other things. The lucky few had kids, most died without ever knowing what girls are like.
As for achievements, some men achieved far more never having bothered with females. Newton and Tesla being outlier examples. Then even more never reached it because of females, like yours truly. Its hard to get ahead when the state ensures you are impoverished no matter how much you do. Take 70% of a mans earnings after setting him back to zero and putting him in debt, then see how far he gets, doesn't matter how brilliant or capable he is. It will take him decades to dig out from that, and the decades he loses from the indenture is unrecoverable.
Math is probably not your strong suit either I am guessing.
I wonder where you are getting your information. Its very gynocentric.
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I posit to you a question, and its not an accusation nor is it endorsement of any kind. Would you rather see your sons indentured into poverty for 20 to 30 years of their lives, perhaps more, and never reaching their potential because they are artificially prevented from achieving it? Or would you rather they live their lives without being forced to pay some harridan for decades because she did everything wrong, because instead of risking their entire future on the harpies, they used spicy video to satisfy that particular facet of life?
You might say you would prefer them to have a family and not be indentured, but you see my dear friend... it is NOT up to them. It is entirely up to the girl which whom they start the family. She can decide on a whim to destroy them, or stick around longer and destroy them later. As a man ages, it gets significantly harder to rebuild, and rebuilding in your 40s is about the last chance we have. However, being taken back to zero then financially pushed a hundred thousand in debt to someone who did everything wrong, is damn difficult to come back from. I know.. I did it.
I am 53 and somewhere out there is a woman who wishes she could have a good man, and I want nothing to do with her because she can be rewarded with everything I have built since my final divorce ten years ago.
Most men simply end it rather than endure decades of working for the benefit of someone who betrayed and enslaved them. My life from 25 to 44 was not spent working for me, nor was it enjoying what should be the reward for supporting a family. I was robbed of my children growing up, and they were robbed of my guidance, experience, and everything else a good father endows to his children.
Yeah spicy video can cause problems if they are spending all their time doing that rather than living their lives. I am not denying that either. Girls doing those sites is a symptom of this, not a cause. They cannot get a man to be there for them, and they think they don't need one, so they show off their bits for dollars.
Which is worse, your family being ripped apart and his kids being shoved through a meat grinder that leaves them scarred and broken, all because their mother decides to be the vindictive capricious one who keeps your son away from your grandchildren, or you not having grandkids at all? Chances are very good that even without the spicy video that your sons won't procreate unless they leave the western countries, because your younger peers here are not worth the effort in any way shape or form.
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@hieug.rection1920 my ex wife got better health care after our divorce once obamacare kicked in. I'm never getting married again, can't afford it because the VA won't allow me to earn more than congress says we are worth. Living alone I can do just about everything I want to do, as long as I work at producing energy myself and live as frugally as possible.
Yeah a crippled 46 year old built a shop and a house almost single handed in 2015. Barry cut the budget twice and that meant I couldn't do much of anything while I was married. How messed up is it that a crippled war vet has to build his own house when he doesn't want to exist in a one bedroom apartment?
I paid off my mortgage in 8 years, the building loan in 6 and I have been debt free since 2021. I'll be increasing my ethanol production this year, I want to make at least 1000 gallons of fuel so I can drive everything I own on it. Tree sap and cattails, costs me 40 cents a gallon and a weeks worth of work. Been working on heating my house and shop with a compost pile that heats water to 140F. Need to get the radiators installed and plumbing done.
I work almost as much now that I am gimped as I did when I was active duty, but it hurts a lot more and its relatively stress free. I could live without all the projects, but I need something to keep me busy.
Want to know what the VA would do for me? Help me build my house? nope. Help me insulate it? nope, Help me get running water? nope.. they would pay first months rent and a deposit on an apartment, thats it.
Unless I want to end up so freakin down the hole I never come out living in an apartment, I have to do almost everything myself. The blue run VA doesn't give a damn about us, they wish we would all expire.
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I am not going to help someone who is swinging, I will watch them flail about though. Like others, I am well trained in various disciplines, ex military, and have a power lifter physique, so I can more than hold my own against much taller opponents. I will not fight fair, and you will be going to the ground with me. A girl is not at all intimidating, but if she attacks or assaults me, she is getting sued. I will not be her white knight. She wants to start some shit with someone larger, because her female privilege has emboldened her into believing she can do anything and will have everyone bow down to her and rush to her aid, well she is the entertainment for the moment.
NO it is not a fair fight, girls are weak, unable to actually fight, but think they can start shit and someone else will end it for them, usually the police. Ass kickings don't just fall from the sky ya know. Maybe instead of hitting them like men, we should bend them over our knee and spank them like little kids... except from my experience that turns them on and then they follow you around wanting more.
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I'm almost 52. I drive old stuff because I like them, its cheaper to get parts, new cars are like appliances, and the old cars have a style you just can't get with the new stuff. New to me is anything past 1980. Started reading car magazines in 1978, right before the 79 Trans Am came out with its new nose. I was not a fan when it was new. Now I own five 79 Birds, four Trans Ams and a Formula. They grew on me a bit and for most of the 80s and 90s they were dirt cheap. I like the 70-73 Birds more and I have two of them, but my thing is the GTOs.
I have no problem mixing new tech in with my old cars. Breakerless ignitions, overdrive automatics, disc brakes all around (stock on two of my 79 Birds) and even EFI on my 455s. For me its more what I can do with them, and how I can enjoy them, than anything else. I build these things to drive them, and I will drive it rain or shine all summer. The work building it is delayed gratification for when I am driving it and win some races. Its a lot of fun having some kid in a WRX try to outrun my 65 GTO through the traffic circles here in town, only to find the old GTO stays with him around the corners, and then blows past him when it straightens out.
Swaybars, kinda stiff springs, tubular control arms, and a Jeep steering box, it corners so hard it has dents in the trunk when stuff slid into the quarter panels and pushed the metal out. Get in and other than the shifter and aftermarket speedo I had to put in when the factory ones all broke, you're in 1965. The 69 GTO I need to go pick up will go around corners even better, its getting tall spindles, 12" brakes, and larger swaybars along with low aspect ratio tires, either 17" or 18" and at least 10" wide in back. Possibly an aluminum block and heads 505 to 535 ci Pontiac powering it. You know the kind of stuff I wish I could get my hands on back in 1986 when I got my first GTO.
I'm not afraid of new tech or anything, I build my PCs, all my cameras are digital, use GPS for a very accurate speedo, and work on modern cars too, I just don't like it much. Its not too complicated or anything, its still an engine under the plastic and wires, its simply not fun like working on old stuff. Gotta keep the winter beaters going, and I drive things built between 1998 and 2006 in the salt, because nobody will ever give a damn about those front drive crapboxes. I sure as hell don't.
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@MrJetMango The simple answer is... because all females are toxic. She trapped me, the whole ooops I'm pregnant thing. Also, she hid the crazy until she had me trapped, then it came out and got worse. Not every girl is borderline or bipolar, but they all have the capability to be toxic. The second one was awesome for 8 years, then went stupid and became incredibly toxic in a single weekend. She was amazing right up to the point she decided to lie, cheat, and start an irrational fight.
I've never met a girl who was trustworthy and/ or didn't shit test me constantly. The second ex came the closest, but proved that AWALT with no exceptions. I accept them for what they are, unfaithful, vindictive, solipsistic, with no idea what honor means, slaves to hypergammy and Briffault`s Law. Accept them for how they are, and they're not bad people, unless you compare them to men. I compare them to each other.
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@keeptrying5962 I think Jordan doesn't want to accept that it can happen here, not in our countries, not to us. He also might be trying to cover his ass a bit because I am relatively certain with what I say on here and in other areas, I am on a list of people that need 'a good stern talking to' so I can accept dear leader into my heart. He is most definitely on a list like that.
I am nobody, a limping gearhead who lives in the woods, reading, watching, listening, and questioning. He is high profile, I could slip away rather easily if I want to, I built my life to do exactly that. Not to escape a tyrannical government, not exactly.. but because I like being private and exceptionally un-famous. I do not crave attention, I prefer peace, quiet, and car parts.
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@manisandjr8435 hydrogen is great for large vehicles and stationary power, provided you havfe something like geothermal or hydroelectric to break the hydrogen from the oxygen. Works good in large trucks and buses, because they can carry a large enough tank to have decent range.
Methane is even easier to produce and collect, but it has the same problem hydrogen does in that a 20 gallon tank for ethanol or gasoline has roughly the equivalent of 3 gallons worth of hydrogen or methane. Then you have the problems associated with flammable gases under very high pressures needed to liquify them. BLEVE is a bad thing.
You can run compression ratios in the diesel territory (20:1+) with ethanol, methanol, hydrogen and methane, and it increases the range considerably. However none of those engines could run gasoline, and the mass required for a dual fuel diesel to survive would make the 'green' powered engines too heavy.
The 15%-20% of gasoline in it is holding E85 back a bit, but 16:1 will work easily with E85.
Most people conflate ethanol with methanol, thinking they are the same thing made from different things. They are similar but ethanol has more to it than methanol, and you can drink ethanol in non muslim countries. Methanol will kill you. Also methanol is the fuel that requires all the special stuff, stainless fuel system parts, after run oils, can't sit overnight, and eats aluminum. No need for that with ethanol, its simply vodka.
Now finding accurate information on ethanol is a massive pain in the ass. Most places keep pushing all the erroneous stuff. you have to find one of us who have been testing, producing, tuning, and running it for years.
It takes a different thought process than gasoline to run ethanol. Yes you can run it like you do with gasoline, cold engine, cold fuel, lean it out, but you will be down on power and the mileage will go completely to shit.
You want the heat in the engine, heat in the fuel works great as it vaporizes faster, that makes more power and improves efficiency. Even a hot fuel vaporizing cools the intake charge making it more dense, so heating ethanol in the fuel rails makes that happen faster. To make the best power you want to run it around 7.5:1 AFR, best mileage will be somewhere between 8.5:1 and 10:1 AFR.
With gasoline you lean it out to make power, rich is safe but down on power. Ethanol will still run lean, even where gasoline normally does, but it will lose power and that will make your engine burn more fuel. Everyone who loses power on E85 to E100 is running it too lean or too cold, usually both.
I run a 195 thermostat in my GTO right now, but I have run 210F with the other set of heads that had higher compression (13:1). The problem is the Pontiac needs better head gaskets over 12:1, and they were more expensive than dropping the compression by putting on another set that only makes 11.5:1, since I have a set for both.
Daily driven 13:1 in a 7.6L V8 is a ton of fun, and you can give it as much advance as the engine wants. You have to run it really lean to get it to spark knock, otherwise it won't do it no matter how much advance you throw at it. I've tested all of this with worst case scenarios, doing nothing special, and using basic parts from the local stores for gaskets and fuel system parts.
The whole reason I got into running ethanol was to be able to drive my old cars and have fun with them. I can't afford to be throwing parts at it all the time, so if it caused any problems with carbs, pumps, engines, or anything else on my cars I would let you know and probably not run it. Sure I own four old GTOs but I am not wealthy, I buy rusted heaps and rebuild them.
Its fun being able to do so much of it myself, rebuild everything, repaint it, design parts, figure out combinations that work, and make the fuel they run on. It means I can do crazy shit for dirt cheap.
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1989 to 1991 I was stationed in Frankfurt West Germany. One of my extra duties was nuke, bio, chem warfare defense. Lets say I have EXTENSIVE training in all of it. A PSA like that is absolutely useless, it might make people feel better than the reality of it. If you live in NYC and it gets nuked, stick a fork in ya, because you're done.
Everyone in the initial blast radius is vaporized instantly. Then you have the thermal pulse and the blast wave. The blast knocks down buildings, the thermal pulse sets it all on fire. The fallout kills people for years after the blast. If you are downwind of the blast, your days are numbered, you will be losing all your hair, teeth, and will die a slow painful death.
On the maps Tim shows, if you are within ten miles of the yellow circles, you are dead within ten days, unless the wind carries it away from you, or the terrain shields you. There are only two defenses... increase distance, e.g. get away, or increase shielding. It requires a mountain to shield you as nukes are almost all air burst to maximize the effect.
We were told our bunkers were designed to withstand a direct hit in Germany, but we expected a chem attack since the runways are a strategic resource, they would not want to destroy them, just remove us from the area.
I live just outside the blast radius of everything other than the largest nuke from an old SAC B52 base. It has been closed since 1985, but they still might hit it to prevent the runways from being used. If the blast doesn't get me, the fires will as the entire region is wooded. Consider both Lake Superior and Lake Michigan as toxic if they hit the base here.
Russia and China have enough nukes to blanket the entire US with blast radius damage. That means the fallout will only get a few people, most will be gone within the first 20 minutes.
The chances of just one hitting in an exchange is small, its going to be a lot of them. If it happens, maybe a few people on islands in the Pacific or the southern hemisphere will survive a full exchange, but all the debris in the atmosphere will make it difficult for plant life to grow.
Now if you want some real nightmare fuel, ask me about bio and chem warfare.
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@Colddirector It required me to go to other countries, get shot at, work months on end, 12-14 hours a day, and otherwise bust my ass for most of my adult life to get to where I can relax out here in the woods.
I hate cities. I was stationed in or near them the entire time I served. I grew up on a farm, far from towns or neighbors, and I learned to be alone and become capable and competent out of necessity. Now I prefer living out here where I can look up at night with my yard lights off, and see the milkyway up there with its billions of stars lighting up the sky. Meteor showers are awesome, and I see the northern lights at least once a year. I love the quiet, and I enjoy breaking it with my unmuffled race engines or with marksmanship practice from time to time.
Even now, after being retired it is still lots of work. You do for yourself living like this. Its $100 minimum for someone to drive out here on a service call, so I know how to do everything I need to do or have done. I carved my home out of the woods by hand, and have built my house and shop with what came from the clearing.
Thats the kind of life I have always had, working my ass off to get what I want. Would not want it any other way.
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I worked for Dana Corp, Perfect Circle Division in 90s making piston rings for those diesels. That is essentially what the Prius and other hybrids are, an ICE that charges the batteries. Its two power systems, more complexity, and more weight. The reason we use that in trains is very simple, electric motors have the ability to produce max torque at any RPM its capable of turning. With ICE power you need a certain RPM range, and the diesels in modern trains run in a very tight RPM band where they produce maximum torque and efficiency.
I like the simplicity of ethanol, make vodka/moonshine, and you can run a lightweight, very high compression engine on it, with a much smaller cooling system, less weight, less complexity, lots of power, and exceptional longevity. The bonus is you can make the fuel yourself rather than being forced to buy it from the only people who can make it. Any starch or sugar will work, kudzu vines in the south, mesquite seed pods in the south west, cattails, tree sap, and all manner of other things where you have no problem with water, like here in the north. If its not a desert you're good.
Doesn't have to be made from corn, we just happen to have a mind numbing amount of corn being grown every year, and since it is a superior livestock feed after you make ethanol from it, we might as well use it to make fuel. No humans eat that corn, and if they do its HFCS which is not good for you at all. Livestock cannot digest the part of corn that is used to make ethanol, its something most people get wrong about it.. because they are misinformed to keep them thinking gasoline is the only way.
If I could get the range and power of my vodka engines from an EV without the expense they currently have, I would be running one. Making electricity at home is something I am working on too.
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@911WASanINSIDEjob420 I agree they should not back the commies or follow them, even if they don't realize it. However, lopping off heads and killing millions is what they do.
The problem is dissent from the marxist narrative is not allowed, they are actively trying to silence anyone who disagrees. Calling your racist, bigoted, homophobe, or whatever they can think of. Its marxism 101 bullshit. Its intended to piss you off so you respond with violence and they then use that as justification, claiming they are the victims.
Its exactly what they did in Europe and South America. Its the standard operating procedure. Rounding them up and executing them only makes their kids and relatives sympathetic to marxist bullshit.
The better way to go about it laugh at their accusations, agree and amplify making them look silly, mock them for being brainwashed 'useful idiots' and point out the logical fallacies they use to prop up their ideology. Do not treat their accusations as anything of substance nor value, because its all bullshit.
Violence at this point, before they have egregiously broken constitutional law, will only serve to lend them public support. Public support is key, and without it you cannot win. They are playing the sympathy and victim game, gaslighting everyone and projecting their filth on everyone else. Laugh at and ridicule them. It takes their power away, which is why they are going after comedians.
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@willsomething5305 serving was both the best and worst thing to happen to me, all based on what others have done or will do.
A clueless office weenie in Korea wiped out my entire first enlistment, with a war, three deployments, a combat engagement, an overseas tour, a decoration, and the source of some of my problems I am having now. She tried to make my service record fit the government computer program, and the only way to do that was to wipe out four years of my existence.
So I only get credit for the last two enlistments, which started 7 years after the first ended. That is the reason for the problem, a gap in service. Got promoted at the same time, and she managed to delay the pay from it for over a year, then when I got the back pay it put me in a very high tax bracket so all I got was an extra $800 one month.. which my home state took for child support, except I wasn't in arrears or anything...
I could go on for hours about people in the military and VA fucking up my life, like a Dr who said I was diabetic despite not even being close, I am just packed with muscle from my first war. They liked to work me half to death for months on end and then punish me for getting huge. Now they won't fix the joint problem I have because they want me under 180lbs.. I'd have to get cancer to lose that much muscle. So I am limited on what I can do, and for how long I can do it.
Allowing the government to decide what you're worth, and what you can have done to improve quality of life fucking sucks. Congress gives themselves a raise that is larger than what every veteran with 100% service connected disability is allowed to have... and they cut our funding twice under Obama. the Cheeto gave some of it back, but Congress still wants to fuck us.
I earned this, and they treat us this way, so how well will people who didn't earn it get treated?
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@craxd1 exactly right, but wait there's more! William Randolph Hearst did the same thing with cannabis, in an effort to get hemp removed as his competition for paper, and the same lies, tactics, and misinformation were used in hemp prohibition as is used in keeping people from running ethanol. Tobacco used the same tactics and lawyers as gasoline producers.. telling people its good for them despite the fact it causes cancer and other deadly issues.
Propaganda and misinformation has been used extensively, and includes the horribly skewed and massively flawed Pimental 'study' that shows ethanol as being negative on EROEI (energy return on energy invested for the new to this people), and the constant claims that ethanol degrades or destroys fuel systems and engines, which it does not. It is blamed for any problem, much like shark attack and car accident victims dying of charlie one niner.
Know why we use corn to make ethanol? Its easy to grow, we produce billions of tons of it, easy to transport and store, and humans do not actually eat that corn. We can feed all the livestock a better feed if we use the corn to make ethanol first. DDG (distillers dried grains) is a superior livestock feed as the fermentation process removes the part of the kernel that animals can't digest or have a difficult time digesting, leaving the best parts to eat. Humans can eat DDG as well.
We can make fuel from any starch or sugar. Cattails dwarf corn for gallon yield per acre, plus they remediate water (cleaning it) which makes them grow profusely and much larger.. so your water filter can produce 2x to 10x the amount of fuel corn does.
Stale bread, candy waste, cardboard, paper, coffee grounds, spoiled produce like potatoes... can all be used to produce fuel. I have a friend who uses cardboard and waste paper to make fuel for his farm trucks. He owns a cranberry farm, and could use the berries but the juice is vastly more valuable than the ethanol.
The one thing where negative ethanol info is true is with fuel mileage.. but its not for the reasons claimed, e.g. BTU content. The British Thermal Unit merely measures how long it takes a given fuel to heat one pound of water one degree. Internal combustion engines are not for heating water, they for are producing torque to do work. If we were steam powered, then yeah ethanol is not as good as coal, candle wax, or firewood. There is a lot more to it than how well a fuel heats water.
You lose mileage for two reasons, the first is ethanol has more oxygen in it than gasoline does, so you have to add fuel to get it rich enough because it compounds as you add it. That extra O2 produces more power though, which is why ethanol is not allowed in some racing classes.
The other reason is the fuel is not being 'worked hard enough' due to gasoline requiring low compression ratios. Gasoline likes to ignite with heat and pressure, or a glowing piece of carbon stuck to the combustion chamber surface, and if it goes off too soon, it breaks engine parts. Raise the compression by shoving a larger volume into a smaller space and you get more torque from the same amount of fuel.
As it happens, ethanol does not like to ignite unless it has a spark, so you can really crank up the compression to race car levels and drive it around like a normal vehicle. That means you can run very high compression ratios, the fuel has more O2 in it, and both of those mean more power. More power in the low and mid RPM range will yield better mileage, because you are working the fuel harder and it has more oxygen.
Not to mention how ethanol cools the intake charge drastically, far better than gasoline can, and a cooler denser intake charge will make more power. Supercharged and turbocharged engines respond VERY well to ethanol fuel.
Lets say we take a small engine, like the GM 3800 V6, give it 16:1 compression, and add the supercharger, running it on straight denatured ethanol. On gasoline it will break the first or second time you go WOT, (wide open throttle) but on ethanol that engine will not only live and make a lot more power than the gasoline version, it will get better mileage as well as last longer than a gasoline fueled engine.
How does it last longer? Well, ethanol does not leave black carbon deposits in the engine, it burns clean and an engine that runs on ethanol, or hydrogen its entire life, will have zero carbon built up in it. The oil does not come out black on ethanol. All that carbon acts like sandpaper inside an engine, wearing bearing surfaces and fouling the oil. In Brazil the taxis run on 100%hydrous ethanol, and at 500k miles they have zero noticeable wear in the engine, after a million miles there is barely any wear.
There are so many things we can do to improve efficiency with ethanol that are simply not feasible or possible with gasoline. Heating the fuel in the EFI rails so it vaporizes instantly when it hits the vacuum of the intake port is one option that increases mileage considerably.
Now imagine all the medians and ditches along highways in the USA are landscaped to support cattails and easy harvest of them. Corn does 500 gallons of fuel per acre if its irrigated and has a good year. Cattails do 1000 gallons per acre easily, many more if raw sewage is passed through them with waste water.
We could have the roads producing our fuel, the cattails soak up CO2 emitted by the vehicles which are powered by high compression lightweight engines that do not require as much cooling capacity. The engines have a lot more power, and last a long time while using less fuel than a gasoline engine making the same power would.
No need to transport fuel with pipelines or trucks/trains, because you can produce it where you use it. Oil is only found in certain places, then you need to refine it, so you need to move it where you are using it but aren't producing it. You can make ethanol anywhere on earth. The higher the altitude the easier it is to distil it.
Ethanol doesn't have to fit the oil infrastructure or distribution method, the paradigm if you will. You can produce it locally with ease, even if you can't grow corn, because there are other things to make it.. like Kudzu, an invasive species in the south that is smothering trees, grows a foot per day with only sunlight, and its very difficult to kill. We might as well go cut it off the trees and make fuel with it.
The problem is, the 'wrong people' will make money from ethanol, and there is no planned obsolescence if the engine in your vehicle lasts longer than you do. Anyone can produce ethanol with minimal equipment. That gives you personal independence, because you don't have to rely on the oil supply, the market price which can be manipulated, and would be easy to produce even in the zombie apocalypse.
I am not a tree hugger, I am a gearhead/drag racer, I want to go fast. Ethanol lets me go fast for cheap, and all my parts and stuff last longer on it. 15 years and counting with zero issues on a 1970 GTO with its original tank, 12 years on a 98 Formula Firebird and its EFI 300hp 5.7L V8. Four years in the 1965 GTO with a frame off rebuild that was completed in 2016. I run it in other vehicles as well, and next year every vehicle I own will run on home made vodka... because lets go Brandon.
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@patrioticaussiesams8581 sounds like my first ex. I managed to keep all the old muscle cars simply because she kept me too broke to paint anything. In her mind, if its not shiny, its not worth anything.
I lost a house and one car garage, plus most of my earnings for 15 years in the first divorce, 10 acres of land, house, and 32x32 shop in the second divorce. In 2013, just two weeks after the divorce was final, I closed on the land I am living on now. 13 acres of woodland, a mile from Lake Superior, nestled in behind the trees with a very hard to see driveway.
The second one didn't take money from me, she knew she would get nothing but a huge mess to clean up.... like gray matter splattered on the walls. I was not going to be living like I had to with the 1st one, and she knew it. Instead she accused me of cutting up her boyfriends truck and had me thrown in jail for two weeks.
A year ago, I paid off my land and the building loans, ahead of schedule. I built my house in 2019, the 32x48x12 shop went up in 2015, and I did most of the work on both of them. Cheaper that way, even if it hurts more. I have a lift and almost all the tools/equipment needed to do frame off restorations and building tube chassis from scratch.
The funny part is I can still get with girls in their 20s, usually I am older than their dad is. Even at 52 I have more options and things going for me than either ex, and all but one girl I dated in the past. They don't get a chance at living with me or anything, they know up front its only sex.. wild gorilla against the wall with light hair pulling sex.. its what they want, sometimes I give it to them.
Right now I am building a rather large engine that will take a bit of boost and make 1500 to 2000hp, so all the funds are going to that project, engine, chassis, etc. No time or money to waste on a female that isn't already getting dick from me when I feel like giving it.
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@Doyourbest4245 my point is people will only look at the colors, not the depth of the people behind it. I am not into group politics, where we are all avatars for our group. I take people as individuals, and what color they are is just something interesting about them. Its not what I judge them on.
It probably stems from the fact most people look at me and assume I am something very different than I actually am. It works for me to have people underestimate me, which is why I use the name I have on here. They think I am unintelligent, slow witted, and ignorant of most things.
Its the judging a book by its cover thing.
Physiologically speaking, yes there are some rather large differences among people from various places. Height, strength, intellect, problem solving, all have both a wide variance and a relatively large overlap. Kevin Hart to Shaq is a seemingly large variance, but is it really that big of a thing? In some ways yeah it is. In others not so much.
We are more the product of our environment than we think. Well, most people don't grasp that concept. Humans adapt to our environment, and that can make large differences over large amounts of time.
So while we are not the same, and we are not that different, there are areas where we vary wildly and others where we do not, even within each group. Its silly and childish to base a judgement of other people on something like skin tone... look at where they come from, its a better indicator and then get to know them and understand them better.
People who dismiss everyone based on their own prejudices are missing out. Also yeah stereotypes exist for a reason...
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@qwaurk985 the bible tells us that god created everything, poofed it into existence in 6 days. Chilled on the 7th. Then we are told the earth is flat, with a metal covering which is filled with water and has widows in it that god opens to make it rain. Its sits upon pillars that are unmoving, with water beneath the land. All the animals mentioned are within 200 miles of Jerusalem. No mention of how electricity works, the EM spectrum, water cycle, germs, tectonic plate shift, that the earth orbits the sun, which orbits a super massive black hole at the center of the galaxy, and only the moon obits the earth. Its as if god only knew as much as bronze age desert nomads.
So does god intend to keep us ignorant of how everything works? I find that to be rather self serving and capricious if that is the intent. After all, people who attempted to fly in the middle ages were burned at the stake. God says no witchcraft and flying is witchcraft... so no more aviation, GPS, or Amazon next day packages for you. Might want to get rid of the cell phone and whatever you are watching YouTube on, because its witchcraft to anyone born more than 200 years ago.
He could also be unaware of how it works, and that is why he explains it all like the dad in the old Comic strip Calvin and Hobbes.. since ya don't know, just make it up.
Since god is either apparently unaware or unwilling to share the way the entire universe works, but is cool with slavery and genocide (which I find interesting) and only imparts revelation to certain individuals who write it down and it turns out to be factually incorrect, how are we to know what is correct and what is fallacious? Faith? so slavery and wiping out entire civilizations because they have a different take on invisible friends is ok.... Which means you are in agreement with islam, because they have the same god you do, and the same backstory except it diverges a little bit with Abraham's sons.
The other god hypothesis is god started everything and stepped back, aka the deist position that Thomas Jefferson ascribed to. That would mean the people who wrote the bible were making up what sounded like a plausible explanation. aka Calvin's dad.
Just because evolution does not include abiogenesis does not mean a god did it. God of the Gaps only means your god lives in the ever decreasing pockets of human ignorance. For centuries humans were dissuaded by death and torture to not explore certain aspects of the universe we live in, by religion.
So is god capricious or clueless? If there is a god, and yes there might be because it cannot be proven either way (like the invisible dragon living in my shop and my underwear gnomes under the sink) we can't say definitely one dos not exist. To posit one exists and then use sharpshooter fallacies to justify it, well thats just silly.
Lastly.. You can keep your beliefs, live by the rules it imposes on you, raise your kids to think the same way, and openly congregate with others who believe the same thing, and I will fight all those marxists in the democrat party to help ya keep your religion.
They have their own dogmatic religion where the state is god, and my problem with it is the same issue I have with most religions. When they try to make it the law, force everyone to live by its rules, and dissent is crushed with violence, that is when I cease to support then believing what they like, because it then infringes on the rights of others.
For now, we are technically on the same side fighting marxism in all its insidious forms... communism, socialism, nazism, feminism, post modernism, and identity politics etc. However, once we defeat the overbearing and overzealous marxists, do not assume that your religion can take the place they are striving to gain. We allow all religions here in the USA, and none are allowed to take precedence over the others, and that includes those of us who do not ascribe to any of these ideologies.
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@stephj9378 I've seen this go down in other countries, I've seen war in the desert in 1991 and 2004. You have a problem that the ignorant masses who listen to CNN and the other propaganda channels truly believe they are on the right side. They are timid and afraid, so their bias is towards what the legacy media tells them.
Take any animal, back it into a corner, and no matter how timid it usually is, that thing will fight to save its own life. It is in every person to fight like that when they are terrified, though some will choose to hide rather than fight.
Humans have become exceptionally efficient at killing other humans, several orders of magnitude more than in 1861.
Like V says, ideas are bulletproof, even bad ideas can persist through ignorance and fear. Look at the average American, most can't find Iraq on a map, they have no idea where Venezuela is, China is some vague thing out west on the other side of the ocean. They have no idea what the Constitution says, that we can speak freely to our politicians and that those politicians are supposed to be working for us.
They are completely clueless about the ideology permeating the democrat party, thinking its about compassion and fairness. They call the right wing authoritarian, when it is the left who wants to restrict your rights or rescind them outright and turn us into dependent subjects they can exploit.. they claim the entire time that it is for our own good, and for equity, which means everyone is equally poor, except of course for the "animals that are more equal than others."
No, my friend.. if this election stands, from my estimates over a million Americans will not be alive in 2024. Most of them will simply starve. We will know how this is going to turn out by 6 January. Probably a good view of how it will turn out will emerge within the next two weeks. It will take a few months to get rolling, but by August if Biden and Harris is in office, living in the US will suck beyond their wildest nightmares.
I'd rather that didn't happen, but the entitlement and resentment of the left runs very deep. They also underestimate the resolve of the rest of us to live without government control of everything we do. All through the last century, marxists were overly willing to use violence to get their way. As Stalin is said to have put it, one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic. they will get violent and we will reply to defend ourselves and our way of life.
The only way out of this is if the democrats stop, problem is, marxists never stop.
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Solitude is enjoyable for me, after 45 years of being mistreated, the last ten years living alone and eschewing entanglements has been peaceful and nearly stress free. My 50s have been my best decade, because I haven't had an albatross tied around my neck. People have been the source of my problems my entire life, tearing me down, taking from me, holding me back, mistreating me, trying to use me. I'd rather spend time with my dig, build cars, and create things.
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@johnblossom8447 some people tell me I am smart(none of my teachers or family though), a great many things come easy for me, but I still don't believe what I have been told my IQ is. Looking at me people assume I am not overly bright, and my name on here takes advantage of that. Its better to be underestimated than overestimated.
I always assume people are on par or close to the same level as am I. However, being a hard core gearhead has taught me repeatedly that people are all over the place with knowledge and skill levels. Also learned early on in life there is always someone who knows more than I do, and I can learn from them. Someone somewhere is always better, faster, stronger, smarter, whatever. I prefer to learn from those people rather than get butt hurt and try to tear them down.
I see signs that I am relatively intelligent, but having been told the entire time I was growing up that I wasn't makes it difficult to believe. The teachers wanted to put me in special ed classes, despite the fact I was reading at age 3 and at grad level in 7th grade. I'm always amused at the idea that I might be smart, but I'd rather spend my time learning and doing fun things (like building old cars/producing fuel to run them) than stroking my ego and feeling superior. Maybe I can feel superior and have a huge ego when I win every drag race I enter.. until then I am just an old sweaty fat guy living in the woods welding on rusty junk.
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@panthersoul he has a knack of explaining complex things to people in a way that a 4th grader could comprehend it. Its not as easy as people think it is. I can explain how a four stroke engine works in very simplistic terms, or get into myriad variables and processes that are going on simultaneously in great detail. Simplest form is suck squeeze bang blow. Yet you can get into physics, mechanical/electrical/chemical engineering, metallurgy, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, aerodynamics, and more, all on a simple one cylinder engine. Its so complex that 1000+ page books can be written about a single system within the engine.
I could write 1500 words about how a camshaft works, but if you have no idea what a camshaft, valves, pistons, or anything else are, its meaningless to you so a basic explanation leaving out all the things about lift, duration lobe centers, advance/retard, and all the related things can get you to grasp the idea of what a cam is doing without becoming mired in the engineering of it.
I can do that with aircraft, how they fly, what they can and cannot do and why. Same with cars and trucks. Do you want to know how an airplane flies? Because it uses the same thing a carburetor uses to meter fuel, a pressure differential induced by speed of air over a curved surface. Its all very math heavy as you get into it more, but the basic concept is harder to describe the more you know.
Now extrapolate that to the entire universe, from the very small in the quantum realm, to the very large such as the idea of a multiverse. Most people cannot explain complex things in a succinct matter. I suck at it, because right here we have a TL;DR length post about conveying a message so the uneducated can comprehend it.
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I only see ads on YT and other online video platforms. Of all my black friends and people I served with, none of them ever wanted to or entertained the idea of going camping. The girls I dated who are not as pale as I am also had zero interest in living rough like I do. Yet I keep seeing ads with that demographic for campers and RVs. I saw one last week for sunblock, and the girl in it did not have a tan but would have a very difficult time with vitamin D here in the north where I live. Every time I see a mixed race couple its never a guy who looks like me with a non pale girl. I was told by one of the commys who is friends with my niece that I have a fetish, but its perfectly acceptable for her to date any shade of person she wants.
Unless its a small company pushing boomstick/holepunches or safes for them, the only time I see white dudes is when they are being inept, incompetent, timid, afraid, or otherwise useless.
Its amusing to me, because I see it for what it is. A virtue signal, a desperate attempt by the company with the ad to not draw the ire of the commysz. No matter how much you declare your mythical notions and delusional assertions, it does not change the facts that people know and understand. I am not going to hate myself because of some twits making advertisements. Its not like commys are overly intelligent and knowledgeable, if they were they would not be commys. They use the skin tone differences to divide us up and cause us to hate each other. So I will not be disliking or hating on people who don't need sunblock either... I like them too much to feel animosity towards them. However, when it comes to commys, yeah... I am going to reserve all my disgust for their ideology.
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@KulaGGin Ever notice how Sun Tzu never gave dating advice? That is because men are logical, somewhat honor driven, and even our randomness can be predictable because its rooted in logic and reason.
I know full well what they want, and I don't care to give it to them. Saying I don't care what they want does not equate to I don't know what they want.
Women are emotionally driven, they rarely employ logic and reason, have no concept of honor whatsoever, and are predictable in every way, including that you cannot trust them. Once you know them, you can predict what she is going to do, and its only a matter of time until she does.
The randomness of men is their greatest asset and threat. Being random and unpredictable works in our favor in many ways. That is not to say we are chaotic or uncontrolled, that is a different thing.
You could say I know females rather well, having had between 150 and 200 of them, married and divorced twice, and they were from all over the world. Its a pretty good sample to get an idea of how they are.
How they are does not make them bad people, it simply makes them female. They operate under different strategies and tactics than we do, because they cannot use overt physical prowess to get what they want. They have to use subterfuge, deception, manipulation, and the allure of wookie cookies and the hidden snot pocket to get what they want.
If you notice, weak males use those same things, because they cannot use physical means either. They think they are smarter, as if we can't see what they are doing. We merely allow them to do those things, sometimes out of amusement to see where it goes. Lots of men are unaware of those machinations of women and weak males, and the fuss they put up when we point it out is huge.
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Ah but that is the thing. Its acceptable to rape infidels. Thus it was not a serious crime in certain cultures, not the least of which is Somalia which has no functioning government to speak of, so no laws other than islamic or warlord dictates. To him, it probably appears that he was punished for doing what he is supposed to be doing, and thus sees himself as a martyr of sorts.
I am somewhat less nice when it comes to certain crimes. I have no problem with a death penalty, provided we know its the individual who committed the crime and that the crime actually took place. Having gone to jail for things I did not do, I have a different perspective on it than most, but if you did something heinous, such as sending an innocent person to jail, murder, rape, and others... well I am less forgiving.
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@ezkempinkemp3467 I had a prick in the US military that got the idea stuck in his head that I needed to sell one of my cars that I raced from time to time. It cost me all of $25 a year to insure it in my home state because its a 1979. I was going through a divorce and he demanded I sell off everything I own before I went to Korea in 2002.
I was going to have $100 a month to live on because of child support. He thought me selling my car for $500 would help me out when I had $5k invested in it, and the parts in it were worth even more than that. He did everything he could to force me to sell it, even went so far as to prevent the NCO between us from helping me by taking it to Navy storage which was free for the year. If its left on base for 3 months, its auctioned off as an abandoned vehicle and I wouldn't have seen any cash from it. Ended up having to put it in a storage unit which cost me more and left me with less.
Thankfully my unit in Korea started an IG investigation on my behalf, and that prick ended up losing three stripes and being forced to retire. There were other things he did, the car was just one of them. In all four people in my chain of command got bitten by what they did to me before I went to Korea. My immediate supervisor was lucky he avoided jail time for what he did. Lots of fraud and conduct unbecoming.
Selling something you have money invested in for a lot less than you put in is stooipid. Rather than sell off all my stuff, I lived VERY frugally and got used to having no money. Thats what I always do, and I never sell something just because I have bills to pay. Thats short term thinking, instant gratification.
If I sold off all my stuff and had a pile of money, it would just go into another yard full of vehicles and they would not be as rare and valuable as some I have now.\
When I went to buy the land where I live now, I sold some parts I didn't need. Mostly chevy stuff and things I had plenty of spares of. Made a few thousand on that and my dad helped me out with the rest of it. Its only the second time my dad helped me with anything before he died. Its not that I won't sell stuff, but I am not going to take a huge loss on it if it is valuable.
I have one car that is worth more than the land I bought, could have sold that, but then I wouldn't be able to afford to own that particular car again. I still have it, paid everything off in 2021 so now I am debt free... and that very rare and valuable car is still sitting here. I play the long game, and my kid will benefit from it.
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@LionHeart0808 you have an urban mindset, its ok but it means you are probably fucked. If the world goes to shit, my neighbors and I will all work together to survive, we already do that to some extent. If I have freezer space and a generator, the power goes off for a week, neighbors know I can take some food for them. They also know I am the guy who can fix machines, make fuel, produce electricity, etc. They can all do things too, and we tend to work together because around here the weather tries to kill you half the year.
City people are not like that. Small towns are not like that most of the time, maybe if they are under 600 people or so. Over 1000 people and you get the childish bullshit you see among apartment residents. There are too many people on a given block in NYC to know them all. They are probably going to starve when the food trucks stop moving. Soylent green... its whats for dinner.
I've lived in cities, like Charleston SC, Hastings Nebraska, near Frankfurt Germany, and I have also lived in rural communities where there is a quarter mile to the nearest neighbor, to several miles before you see other people. When its sparsely populated, they come together to do things that require manpower. My parents, two uncles, one aunt, and two neighbors would get together every fall and butcher 5 steer and six or so hogs. Everyone showed up and handled the job.
A year's worth of meat, cut up and packaged over a weekend. I have at least 6 months of food in my house right now, plus I can go fishing, shoot a deer or two, and bag a turkey easily if I need more than what I have. Everyone around here has at least a month of non perishable food, because we can get snowed in for weeks any winter. Its a different mindset than when you have a store within half a mile. Its 21 miles to my grocery store. 13 miles to a gas station. The highway is closed for weather randomly all winter.
We all have at least one 4x4, and many of us have dedicated winter vehicles rather than drive something nice in the salt that will rust it out in a year. Most people in big cities have no car. I taught several people how to drive while I was in the USAF, because they came from big cities and always rode the bus or took a taxi. I have been driving and operating heavy equipment since I was 8 years old. Been building engines since I was 10, starting with small Briggs & Strattons, doing my first V8 at 13. You have to know how to do things when you live miles from anything, because usually you cant afford someone to make a service call.
Around here if you need your driveway plowed, a car pulled out of the ditch, something fixed, some firewood to get by, neighbors help out and don't demand money. What goes around comes around. Can't do that in a city. People are too self absorbed and deep down they know they are in a precarious position where everything has to be brought to them. So they want to make sure they get theirs before someone else does. They have no idea where the meat comes from, or what it takes to get it there, they just pick it up in the store.
It wont be like Walking Dead or 28 Days where everything is left sitting on shelves because people died off or don't eat anymore. Everything on the shelves will be gone in three days, and the desperation will set in. The cities will devour themselves. Rural communities will endure because they are already assisting each other.
Most of them only need to get the information I have, and offer freely, and they can earn a living producing energy for neighbors.. because what good will a 'busy work' paper pushing office job be when the food trucks stop moving? How dire is it to get the cover sheets on the TPS reports?
Any idea how much time you have available when you stop watching TV? Also, thanks to the US military, CNC factory jobs, and growing up on a farm, I am no stranger to 12, 14, and 24+ hour work days. City people are fucked unless everything is brought to them. It will be a world of suck for everyone, but especially for the dependents who are used to walking to the corner store to get food for the day.
You simply cannot produce enough food and fuel to support a city, inside the city. It has to be brought in. Its easy to do out here in the sticks, we have the room and the resources. I have 300+ maple trees of my own, and I live in a forest that stretches for 300 miles. I am not the only one making fuel from tree sap either.
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You are not wrong. However I have concerns, because marxists claim those are the same people who cause the problem, along with common every day people who aren't fans of marxism. The marxist solution to those people is concentration camps, executions, mass graves etc. Mao and Pol Pot went after 'intellectuals' and killed them, often with the only criteria for being an intellectual was wearing glasses. I have deep concerns about using marxist tactics and methods, even against marxists who are trying to do the same thing to us that they did in the past to others.
Its a soft spot that we allow anyone to speak, any ideology to be followed, and any political ideas are accepted here if people like them. I am not willing to give up that soft spot. The problem being what can possibly fill a power vacuum after a conflict, you can end up much worse than you started out. What happens when one side gains absolute power over the other side, and now they can outlaw their ideas, language, and even their very existence?
The founders were very aware of these two problems, but they did not have knowledge of the idiocy behind marxism, which includes socialism, communism, feminism, fascism, and others. If they had, I wonder if they would have outlawed marxist ideology, or allowed it. Because it is antithetical to the ideas of liberty and self determination that the founders were so steadfast to protect... but people can still think that its a good idea to be a commie here.
When the marxists control the narrative, the media, education, and they can fill fresh new youthfully ignorant minds with their garbage, and make it sound so appealing to certain older people who think equality of opportunity is the same as equality of outcome, how can we remedy the direction they are taking us?
They want the conflict, because they want to fill the power vacuum that comes after.
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@GoodAvatar while I am not fan of Trump, and I am a classical liberal, atheist, not conservative, and I live vastly more green than any of the assholes pushing their agenda using the environment... I abstained in '16 because I loathed her and didn't like nor trust him. I decided to give whichever asshole won, a chance to prove themselves. I had voted for Obama, because fuck Romney and I used to be in the middle.
I actually listened to what he said, rather than what the media claimed he said or did. I have caught the media lying often enough, about me and my unit no less, that I take anything they say with a huge pile of salt, and I investigate their claim if it actually matters. I don't like Trump because he is one of those frat boy types who have always irritated me, and the way he speaks in his speeches is incredibly annoying.. its gonna be yuge, its really great, its tremendous... its like fingernails on a chalkboard.
I do not see him as the dividing factor.
Take the grab em by the pussy comment. He was 100% correct in what he said, when you are famous, wealthy, have status or power, including raw physical power females are eager to have you do whatever you like with them. The media spun it to say it was unwanted contact, however having been in a similar position many times, and damn near any time I go out in public, I can tell exactly which girls like me, and which ones don't. If I were a billionaire and famous movie and TV personality along with having the muscle mass that attracts them, it would be even more girls showing interest.
The media spun it to make it look a certain way.. like the kids in cages, initiated by Bush, cages and facilities built under Obama, Trump closed them down, and Biden reopened them, but somehow Trump is the problem. Trump calls Ukraine asking about the quid pro quo Biden did to protect his son who was paid by a corrupt organization.. then they impeached him claiming he was doing what Biden admitted to doing on video.. I read the transcript, and I listened to Joe and it was two very different things.
I said I used to be in the middle, I have not moved, not changed my view on things, I see things the same way. Republicans are worthless lazy fucks, and the dems are a whole thing unto themselves. I do not like politicians, probably stemming from now NAFTA fucked me over, Clinton and both Bushes fucked me over and sent me into two wars, and how Obama decided to fuck over us crippled veterans.. I can explain at length why I dislike and find politicians untrustworthy if you like.
The democrats moved so far left now Bill Clinton looks like Ron Reagan compared to them. What the fuck. Its getting to the point where Vladimir Lenin looks like Bill Clinton compared to where they are going now. I listen to what Biden says, then watch what he does. Unlike most people I have a VERY good memory and gaslighting does not work on me. Having been wearing the boots on the ground in many instances where the media said one thing and what actually happened was entirely another, no amount of spin will convince me that the media is not full of shit at best, inept and pushing propaganda as a general rule, and utterly bereft of honor and completely untrustworthy as a whole.
The dems moved away from me, I did not move, I did not suddenly become a christian conservative, I still think the idea of a god is ludicrous and ideology is the crutch of low IQ people who need something to follow. They have gone deep into an ideology I find abhorrent, but not for themselves, they wish to inflict it upon the rest of us. When people blatantly call for rounding up the centrists along with the religious nutters and conservatives, it gets my attention. Demands to obey and acquiesce to their ideology is what is dividing us, because I will not follow that bullshit, I will not accept woke dogmatic propaganda, and I will gladly fight against those who push it in any capacity. Why?
Its simple. I have a chunk of concrete on my shelf beside me. It came from what people like the democrats called the anti fascist rampart, ostensibly to keep the nazis out. Except reality was it was keeping east Berliners from going to west Berlin. I was stationed in Germany when that wall finally came down, its how I got a large chunk of it. That chunk of poorly made concrete and rock reminds me every day, why socialism is abhorrent, fascism is just as bad, and authoritarians are the worst scum on earth. When they carry signs saying they 'will tread' on us, I take it at face value, I have fought against these pricks before. When I see the democrats siding with them.. well the democrats lost me forever. the media lost me when they lied about my unit in the first war, and pissed me off when they lied about my unit and me as the NCO in charge of a large aspect of their lie in my second war.
So yeah its an overly verbose way of saying I fact check shit and don't like any of these assholes. Unlike the democrats I am completely against war, they seem to love sending us into the meat grinder, its not their kids getting fucked up like I did now is it?
but yeah Trump is the hateful one, despite democrat after democrats calling for me and others to be rounded up and put in camps. Calling us racists, calling for segregation, saying because I am white I am a supremacist or some other nonsense. I've been told by these people that I have a fetish, because most of the girls I dated over the years have not been white. They are obsessed about race, I bet you are too. To me its variety, different people with different looks from different cultures and I want to learn about all of them... but yeah we are the hateful bigots ... sure thing.
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@donreinke5863 I've been working on vehicles for 40 years, newest one I own is a 2007, I will never have anything newer than that. Oldest is a 1932 Pontiac two door sedan... currently its a shell, not for long though. Stopped spinning wrenches for a living back in 2000, did it part time a bit. Now I work on my own stuff. Most of them are older than 1979, with the most numerous year being 1972.
My daily drivers in the summer are a 65 GTO and a 70 Cuda AAR clone, the GTO runs on ethanol with a race gas compression 455, EFI, and its getting a TKO 5 speed when the snow is finally gone here. The 340 in the Cuda has low compression, I didn't build that one, my dad bought it and left it to me. All my Pontiacs will be running E85/E100 though. 40 cents a gallon to make vodka vs whatever pump gas is going for these days is worth the two weeks worth of work processing cattails and running the stills.
Not many of us left who can build a carb and tune EFI, and know how to repair pretty much anything from the pre war era to now. Why is 07 the limit? Because I don't need all the extra stuff they put on them, and I can keep that GMC crew cab running forever easily.
Why did I get into making fuel? Simple. I have four GTOs and a bunch of other cars I like to drive, and when gas was $5 back in 2007, I started learning how to make ethanol and convert carbs and EFI. If I can make it it costs me less cash, which opens up funds for things I can't make like tires, cylinder heads, camshafts etc. It was purely a money saving adventure.. then I discovered I can drive around with 13:1 compression or 15psi with a roots blower on it, and not have to retard the timing or drop the compression to 7:1. I'm in the middle of a supercharged 505ci Pontiac powered 68 LeMans build right now. Its going to be lots of fun.
I figured out how to get better mileage on vodka than I can on gasoline too. Lots of compression, run it 220F coolant temp, EFI deadhead system with the fuel being heated by coolant after the bypass/FPR and the injectors. It vaporizes instantly, burns exceptionally cleanly, doesn't ping or knock and makes more power. Essentially its the same thing Smokey Yunick was doing but within normal operating temps rather than getting the fuel to 450F. Works great in diesels if you can add a spark plug, and ditch the mechanical injection for a carb or EFI. Working on some LS engines to do the same thing, the 76 C10 is going to be the test mule, who needs good aero...
Already got better mileage with a carb in the 70 GTO with a 455. It did 17-18 highway with an 8.8:1 compression 455 running 87 octane, 2.93 gear and 2004R trans. It would also run 12.60s at almost 110mph, despite weighing 4100lbs. .. when it hooked anyway. Swapped in a 13:1 455, 700R4, and 3.42 gears and got 20mpg mixed city/highway from it with a Qjet I modified. 210F coolant temp and didn't block the heat riser in the head so the intake would get hotter. I want to try an EGR manifold to vaporize the fuel better with a carb. The 13:1 engine is a monster, just a bit over 600ftlbs from 2400 to 4500rpm and carries over 500ftlbs to 6000. It might do better on fuel if I didn't have a heavy foot.. its just too much fun. Maybe I will put it in a Firebird, they are more aerodynamically favorable than GTOs.
I live 20 miles from town, out in the woods so public transportation is limited to a bus in the morning and one mid afternoon. Miss those and you are stuck in town or walking. EVs don't go very far in the cold, currently its -8F outside. Even in the summer they have a hard time making it 40 miles to the next town and back.
If they dry up gasoline or make it hideously expensive the only problem I will have will be 10w 30.
Oh and I have no corrosion issues with anything running my home made vodka. E85 from farther south has some additives that cause problems with white chalky stuff, a yellow gel, and rust. Methanol is the highly corrosive and toxic alcohol, ethanol is the one you can get in a bar. They are quite different for anyone else reading this. :) the 70 GTO has been on ethanol since 2007, zero issues with it in all this time.
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@jeric0777 thank you for the kind words,, I share my story with people with the intent to help them, not all of mine are something you would appreciate. I learned early on that I had to take whatever I was given and use it as well as I possibly could. Its why I rebuild old cars instead of buy new ones. Its a different mindset.
I have been working on out thinking chronic pain, its a difficult one because I know that if I am hurting I am doing damage unless its sore muscle or headaches. With everything so worn out, the pain lets me know when to take it easy and heal up, if I power through it, then everything gets worse.
Its not easy for a man who was capable of so much to suddenly find himself unable to do most of what he used to do, or to be slowed so drastically that he becomes ineffective. That was the hardest part for me, accepting that I was never going to run again, and I could not work like I used to. it takes your confidence in yourself and trashes it, and a man judges himself by what he knows and can do, as well as how effective and competent he is at doing it.
So you find the things you can still do, and you get better at doing that. Never give up, but also know which battles are worth fighting. If I can help people with what I have been through, then its not so much of a bad thing.
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@rockon88888888 If you're one of us who lives with these things, it will be very familiar. I've lived with it so long I had to have a shrink tell me that most people don't have a rifle or handgun (usually both) in every room of the house. That most people do not relive time from their past in the middle of conversations.
What i did works, but it sure as hell isn't easy. You have to work out events in your head, make them less and less influential and remove the emotional marker attached to them. You have to do it with every memory and event that fucks you up. I had a few thousand memories I wish I could forget.
8 years of being beaten almost daily leaves you with shit you can't even remember, but the anniversary date shows up and you're fucked in the head for days.
On the bright side, if you only have one event, like a combat experience or car accident, you can flood that and get past it quicker. Still isn't easy, because you have to do what you are avoiding the most.. thinking about it. Don't dwell on it, break it down, take it apart, look at the pieces of the memory, and get used to the idea of this happened, its not happening now, I am good.
It seems that talking, to people you don't know, about it helps. Family will judge you, friends can look at you like you're mental, but talking to school kids and other people, more of an education for them and a release for you, that seems to work quite well.
I can talk to one brother a bit, he drove HETs in Iraq, then flew UH60s in Afghanistan, and he grew up in a world of shit like I did. He is still avoiding, keeps himself crazy busy so he doesn't have to think about friends he lost and things that happened.
He isn't ready to deal with it, because he can still be very active. I had to deal with it because my knees and most other joints are fucked and I live in pain.Can't have your mind hurting along with your body, you will end up shooting yourself.
Talking to you and other people on here helps a lot more than you'd think. Writing out your past seems to work. Its a lot easier than making a video talking about all the shit.
Hang in there man, lots of us around so you're not alone.
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@umiluv every woman I know who has had their first kid after 32 or has their second after 36, has had disabled kids. My nephew is deaf, my fiancé from back in 90-92 has a disabled kid, my cousin's daughter has a disabled kid, and there are others, but you get the point. The risks go up the older you are. My mom had six kids, the first in 1967 when she was 21, the last in 1982. I think its criminal to misinform women that they can start having kids after 35, because of the high probability of defects.
I sincerely hope your child is ok, you are lucky to even have any, and I do not wish that on anyone. I see my daughter is probably going to be the same, she is 26 and has no prospects for a father to even have kids. Her mother has scared off all the quality men, long story, but the short of it is she divorced me 22 years ago and raised my kids poorly.
The woman I was engaged to 30 years ago is now 60, and she is unable to enjoy her life as she has to care for her 24 year old son. Her story is sad. I was engaged to her when she was 28, her mom decided we had to wait 5 years to get married, which meant we were not going to have kids. They were an Arab family living in Dubai, and it was random chance how she and I met when I was stationed in Germany. We are still friends and in contact after all this time, and she is profoundly unhappy with her situation.
My sister had her first son at 19, he is 21 years older than his brother who is deaf. He is the least disabled of the over 35 mothers I know.
I wish that on nobody. Far too many women are facing that life, or something near to it. I truly hope you beat the odds, too many women I know have not. You sound like a good sensible mom, something increasingly more difficult to find.
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Asbestos didn't cause problems immediately... but years later it sure as hell did. I have seven friends who worked for the VA during that mandated time, one didn't get it, the others did, we are all mid 40s to mid 50s. Five of those friends, who got the mandate but not the molehill sniffles, had massive lethal heart attacks in the last two years. The 7th and me, never got it. Never will. I am the only one who is overweight, we all exercise, stay active, and don't drink nor smoke. I am massively muscular, so I have ben super heavy since 1990... I am the only one with hypertension, go figure.
How many young people in perfect health have to stop moving while playing sports, and lay down without wanting to before people realize there is a problem?
While you aren't going to be able to prove it this soon after, but if you want ants, thats how you get ants.
Trust me Tim, you might skate but I doubt you put in as much effort all year that I do, and I am a crippled vet.
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@blargster the fist one was a huge mistake from saying hello, but I didn't know anything about bipolar or family court when I was 24. I know now, and I avoid girls who display any signs of bipolar or borderline.
The second one was 8 years together before we married. Its a long time to vet a girl. 16 months later we were divorced and I was sitting in jail for something I could not have physically done. She was a virgin from a good family, though her mom is an effinist. After that experience if the mom or the daughter spews effinist crap, they get ghosted immediately.
As for the quality of girls, I've had trailer park girls, they were practice. Well off classy girls from good families. The Arab girl came from a wonderful family and her dad worked for the government in Dubai.
The last girl I was seeing long term is pretty cool, very classy, earns over $150k a year and she adored the rugged masculinity I have that exudes from every pore. Thats how she put it.. lol. She likes my rough hands and how I can toss her around if I want. I am not a small man despite being somewhat short. The 7 hour drive to see me was too much for her, but she stuck it out for just over 4 years.
I've dated girls in Europe, Africa, both ends and central Asia, and all over the USA. From poor as hell to girls from very nice families who adored me. Things didn't always work out though, people in other countries have a hard time trusting Americans because of the TV and what they hear about us, e.g. propaganda.
The one question I was asked often while in Dubai getting to know the Arab girl's family and learning the religion/culture was "Is life in the USA like the show Dallas?" Not her family but the people I met in mosques and around town hanging out with her brothers.
I spent years studying women, because I am very interested in them.. well, I was. Not so much anymore. I can predict what they will do before they even know what they will do. I can read them like you are reading this right now, and I can tell exactly which ones are interested in me and which ones are not. Just sitting around watching people I can tell a lot about them, its a PTSD thing. Nonverbal communication jumps out at me, its like an early warning system that I have made work for me.
Travelling around the world in the military, and around the states not in the military, I have encountered thousands of people, watched them interact with others, and studied them as they interact with me.
There are girls who are practice, you hit it for a while then quit it, and there are those you want to have something long term, but they can't handle being treated well. None of them can, particularly if you are short like I am (5'8") and not overly wealthy.
They will ALL cheat if they have the opportunity and at least plausible deniability, and definitely if there is no chance of being caught. Its not hard to tell which girls are going to cheat in the very near future, once you know what to look for you cannot un-see it. thing I am trying to say is very simply...
They are all wired the same. The wrapper changes, their options vary, but the wiring in those cute little heads varies barely at all. Once you know them, its like they came from an assembly line.
Used to be society and culture kept them from screwing up their lives the way my ex wives did. Now they are encouraged to do it. Its really sad when you think about it, because how many millions of them will be alone, unwanted, and probably living in poverty or on gov assistance from 40 to 80? I don't want that for my daughters, but its not like they have much choice at this point.
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@Antropovich Yes, very much so. Because voter fraud is exactly what the dems are trying to do on a large scale, so they blame it on Trump. They know they can't win, and the cheeto knows nobody in their right mind will vote for creepy Joe and the chick who was outed as being horrible by Tulsi.
I am not a republican, I was a swing voter until the dems went off the rails five years ago. I didn't vote in '16, after the last four years of their bullshit, there is no way I will ever vote for a democrat again.The only time I voted for a republican was against Kerry, because fuck that guy. Then I voted against Romney, because fuck that guy too.
I can easily see whats going on, I do not have a dog in the fight, and I have no emotion about it. People who are blindly following the democrats are ruled by their emotions, and apparently they will believe anything as long as they can be afraid of and hate the bad orange man.
No worries, the cheeto will win again.
The postal service has been going to shit for some time. The dems are just using it as a distraction for the useful idiots. I've had a box make it to within 50 miles of my house 3 hours north of Green Bay Wi, then get sent off to bounce around Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah for two months before making its way back north 1700 miles. That was when Obama was president. Zip codes are supposed to prevent that...
Now people use UPS or FedEx to send stuff, I hardly get any mail now so I check it once a week. Most of the time its empty. I send one letter per year, regarding my property tax. Now all of a sudden the dems pull the USPS out of their ass saying Trump killed it... Its like when they showed pictures of kids in cages, blaming Trump, but the pictures were from Obama's administration.
Why did I vote for Obama? Because I knew he wasn't brazen enough to go after the Bill of Rights, creepy Joe has already said as much that he will throw out the 1st, 2nd, and 4th. Also Obama was against illegal immigration, because I understand that particular issue affects low skill/wage people in a profoundly negative way. So I was kinda surprised when the dems accused the cheeto of doing things Obama did.
I am no longer surprised by their bullshit, I kinda expect it. Whatever they say is more often than not, exactly what they are doing or trying to do. They are like my ex wife, accusing others of what they are doing... and the useful idiots lap it up like the good sheep they are.
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@James_36 the last one I was seeing, from '14 to '18, paid her way. She also took me to concerts and we went on adventures together. The 7 hour drive between us was a factor too, but she decided she wanted to try out a firefighter she just met, so she ended it with me. He dumped her two weeks later, and she thought I would feel good about him doing that. I like her and consider her a good friend, so even if she isn't with me I want her to do well and enjoy life.
When we hooked up I told her she would be the one who breaks it off, and why. She said she is not like that. I said ok we shall see. Sure enough, she did exactly what I said she would do. The only variable is how long it takes for her to get there.
Its exceptionally easy for me to stay single, as long as I don't ask any of them out or get their number, I stay single. Women are not willing to take risks and they cannot stand rejection, so they don't put themselves out there and start things. They wait for us to come to them then they decide if we are good enough for them.
Around here, none of them are good enough for me. They are either alone moms, huge like a manatee, or they are thin and having happy time with ADHD meds every day.. the legal and illegal versions of it.
If they are drug free, not huge, and are pleasant to be around, they can hop on the train for a while. Stay as long as they like. I am putting zero effort into them, because its not worth it. There is no investment, its an expense that costs more and more as the years go by. Not just money and resources, but in time. I will not put time into them, I have my own stuff to do that is vastly more enjoyable.
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I own my land, house, shop, all my vehicles without any debt, I am free and clear and nobody else has any claim to my property. Now if I am daft enough to get married again, when she decides to divorce she can take EVERYTHING I own and built years before she came into the picture. Now what is the incentive to get married? When everything is taken from men, just because they are men, why the hell should any man do it?
I am twice divorced, lost almost everything I owned both times and was indentured to the first one for 15 years to the tune of 71% of my GROSS pay.. not half, not 40%, 71%. Now figure in 24% of my pay goes to taxes and I had the privilege of living on 5% of my income. That meant living in my car from 2001 to 2004 while in the USAF. I was getting $50 paychecks for a grand total of $100 a month to live on. She got well over $250k over those 15 years thanks to what I put in, meanwhile I was living in vehicles, eating every other day.
It got worse when I came back from my 2004 deployment barely able to walk. Then I was a disabled dad, and the state does not differentiate between the two. It took the VA until 2007 to decide just how bad off I am, and my medical discharge was August 2005. Zero income for a year and a half, so I was around $70k behind. Then my home state had a penchant for locking my account until I gave them everything in it, which was against federal law the first two times, but Barry made it legal. Despite the fact I was paying them what I could, not the $1100 a month they wanted of my $1800 compensation which was 100% back then, they would take all of it as a punitive measure. They did not give the extra funds to my ex wife, they kept it. I cannot possibly be the only man they did this to.
My last payment of indentured servitude to my ex was in 2015. Since then I have bought 13 acres of woodland, built my house and a shop to work on my vehicles, and paid it all off in 2021. Nobody gave me free stuff, the state and the VA didn't help me do a damn thing, they made it more difficult. The county had my electricity turned off in December, and I live in northern Michigan where its currently below zero. Two guys helped me put the roof on the shop, two friends helped put the roof on my house, and I did pretty much everything else. Cleared trees, built foundations, built walls, wiring, plumbing, insulation.. I am still building and finishing it, because I am doing it all alone. Nobody comes out here to help me, because nobody gives a damn about men.
If I had not built my home, I would not have one. Society would say bad things about me, like those who say I abandoned my kids. I got to see them a total of 12 days between 2001 and 2008. I was actively prevented from being there for them. I did not leave, I did not go out for smokes and never return, I fought for them but the state only wants mothers to have kids. Fathers are nothing more than a wallet to plunder. She exposed my daughters to things they never would have been if I had been there, the males she dated and brought home, beatings handed out by her to my kids, no guidance or direction and no structure... but I was the unfit one.
You think I should risk all of that a third time? Are you daft man? I am 53 years old, crippled from war, living on a fixed income, so there is no damn way I can rebuild if the state takes everything I own and built and gives it to a woman. It does not matter what she does, she gets everything I own. Both of my ex's lied, cheated, accused me of things I did not do, and the first one had a particular fondness of throwing things at me and cutting me when she was upset that I was teaching my daughters how to read or something.
The only things I did wrong in either relationship was getting married, and having a relationship in the first place. I suppose getting sick was my fault with the second one, thats why she divorced me in 2013. I do not have enough years left to rebuild, so if the state takes what I own and gives it to someone who played no part in building it.. well I am going to war for a third time. I am pretty good at it so everyone would know my full name. Its best I stay single and enjoy my life rather than deal with the sword of Damocles put there by the state.
So explain to me why I should get married or why any young man should, because the risk is pretty damn high. You could say I chose the wrong girls or something else to blame me, but here's the deal. Its not that every girl will cheat and divorce you for cash and prizes, its that EVERY ONE OF THEM CAN.
Every time I write about this on here, it is hidden or removed.
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@SSingh-nr8qz I grew up on a farm, only the 2nd generation after the depression forged my grandparents into the thrifty reuse and repair it people I try to emulate. I've never bought a new car. The newest one I own is a 2006 and I bought it for $500 to drive it in the salt and snow. My summer dailys area 65 GTO and soon to be a 76 C10 chevy pickup, both of which I rebuilt and they are more reliable than many new cars and trucks. I try not to buy disposable stuff, try not to waste things, and living 20 miles from the store I stock up for three months long term, and a week or two short term with fresh fruit and meat. When you get 150-300 inches of snow every winter, and the highway is closed randomly because of conditions, you learn to stock up, The power has been off six times this week, and only one of those days was a small thunderstorm. So i have generators and heat sources that don't require electricity. I built the PC on which I am writing this, because why not? It kinda rocks, but isn't as fast as the one I use to game online.
I built my house form shipping containers, its coming out really cool. Its much sturdier than one built by 1.5x2.2 and OSB. Best part is I own 13 acres of woods, have a large shop I can store 9 vehicles in, and I spent less than $75k to do it all. I do things that make city people wonder how the hell anyone could possibly do it. You have to know how and learn what you need to when you grow up on a farm, miles from anywhere. You can't be a successful farmer if you're an idiot, you have to be rather intelligent to succeed. I quit farming in 1987, and enlisted soon after when I was 19. Its second nature to come up with solutions to problems and not need a new one, that freaked some people out.
But yeah, the city people can think we are idiots living out here in BFE growing our own food, repairing things instead of putting a new one on the card... I loathe being in debt. You want to see how smart the city people are compared to some of us, drop us all off with only the clothes we are wearing and a knife somewhere in a forest and see who not only survives but builds an empire.
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@slewone4905 the urban people might be educated, key word is might, but to assume they are more intelligent.. heh, as if. The majority of them have no idea where food, fuel, electricity, or any of the stuff they use every day comes from, let alone how it is made. They don't know how to repair vehicles, appliances, and other simple machines. They don't know how to survive unless everything is provided for them around the corner.
I live in a VERY rural part of Michigan, the upper peninsula. They send all their felons from the big cities here, because if they manage to escape they give up within a day or two. If its not the cold and deep snow, its the mosquitoes, deer flies, bears, and swamps. They have no idea how to navigate, (particularly not in a forest that stretches for over 300 miles) what they can eat or drink, and its hilarious hearing the stories about them begging to be rescued and taken back to prison. We freakin live here, and they can't handle a day or two in the woods.
The smartest people I have ever met were Nebraska farmers, highly educated too, not much they cannot do, from multimillion dollar business concerns and markets, to repairing heavy equipment, they can do it all.
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I want to know why they are even bothering to pussyfoot around and not just ban everyone they don't like. I mean reddit danced around with some subreddits before just cutting them off. Why do they even bother? Why not just go with the draconian anti free speech dogma they adhere to, and just ban everyone who doesn't support their leftist ideology? Instead they call a gay jewish man a nahtzee.. I had no idea the national socialists were so progressive and into diversity.
Meanwhile they prop up Dave's former coworkers at tyt, which is named after a violent group that decided to genocide an entire race/demographic of people. From what I heard ol Anna is a descendant of the group that was targeted by the young turks. What fucking clown world do we live in? I get these ads for paid youtube, and it has all the leftist media outlets and tyt on the page. They are openly supporting the propaganda. Its obvious where their allegiance lies. Its not with the bill of rights, its not with the people, its not with free speech.
Seriously.. why not just ban everyone who speaks out against their idiocy? What is holding them back from their ultimate goal? Is it the presumed loss of viewers? Is it a legal issue? I think they are just chicken shit, and like the stazi coming to take people to the gulag at night, telling the victim not to create a fuss so they don't disturb their neighbors, they are too weak to act on what they want so desperately to do. If you fight back they are too timid and weak to do what they want, so they coerce you to go to your death or incarceration without fighting back. Check out The Gulag Archipelago if you don't understand what I am saying here.
I am on here for two reasons. To use them to my advantage, and to help out channels I like. I absolutely loathe marxism and authoritarianism. The assholes at YT seem to love it and cling to it. When this site goes away, I will not lament its passing into obscurity.
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@sweetbriarfarm777 since its 20 miles to the grocery store, I only go into town once a week or every other week. I learned the first winter I lived here, in 2005, that we can get snowed in without warning and be stuck for another week. I am still surprised at how many people who live here only have enough food for a day or two, so they have to drive in all the time, even if they don't work in town. A guy my daughter was dating decided to rip through my canned food, I am gone a week and come back to find 2 months worth of food gone. People do not think ahead.
I am not a prepper, didn't get into green energy and making fuel to save the planet or because I thought the system would collapse. I learned all this stuff so I could live on the fixed amount Congress says I am worth, owing to being a crippled veteran. Its also just how you live here on the north coast of the USA.
I wanted to make fuel for my old 'over powered' cars when gasoline was $5 a gallon, and it spiraled into being able to heat my home and shop without burning anything (jean Pain Method/compost water heaters) growing food which we did on the farm growing up, making fuel, converting everything to run on it, building engines to take advantage of it.
With the cost of electricity here I learned several methods of producing it, all kinds of windmills, generators, small engines running on ethanol, methane, hydrogen, etc. Heating the first house I lived in here was stupid costly, over $900 a month in propane just to have it 60F. I grew up using wood, and I live in a forest, so that one was simple.
The thing with all of this is that making your own means work. Most people want to push the easy button, have it done for them, and they don't care how or why it works, only that it works when they push the button. My whole life I have had to either make things work without things I need, both on the farm and in the military, or to make the things I need when I can't buy them, which was often. So I am used to it and I do not have soft hands.
The more I know how to do, the less money I have to spend on things I want or need to do. So I have been learning all kinds of things. Its also why I built a shipping container house, it was cheap, I can drive the big forklifts to move and stack them, and I got a couple friends to help me put the roof on and walls up. Its four of them sitting on concrete pillars that are pinned to bedrock. My entire house was around $20k to build, so that is dirt cheap even around here.
Two are stacked, one is 13' from the stacked two with a sloping roof, and the fourth is set to the side of the others, so I have a deck on top. Inside its a loft where I sleep, and 1050sqft of space. Its cozy, but most people will not live like this unless they have no other choice.
I reconfigured it last year, prior to that I had three of them stuck together making a 20x28 studio, when my kid came to stay with me it was miserable. For me living alone, no problem other than they were sitting on dirt, so I had a bit of water (with snow melt) and mold problems. All that is fixed now, and its insulated well enough I don't need much heat.
I can pay off the rest of my mortgage and be debt free tomorrow if the banks are open. 5 years ahead of schedule. That will open up a lot of cash to do my car thing, if the world doesn't go to shit and I can't get parts. No idea what I will be able to do about tires if they push this great reset and global communism on us. I know how supply dries up and nothing is available under that system. So I don't plan on just letting them do it without pushback.
Seriously I am a gearhead who wanted to build cars with huge engines making so much power they can waste a pair of large sticky tires in minutes, and blow the doors off the modern cars like Corvettes, Hellcats and Demons. It all came from wanting to build and race cars on a very small budget. Now I am a survivalist of sorts who can rebuild society after a collapse, if I survive it.
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@AlwaysVotingMAGA the divorces were only part of the story, and it was worse than I said in this thread. I don't tell people about my life to get sympathy, I share what happened to me so people have an idea of what can happen. My life is an example of a few things.
1. What choices to NOT make.
2. What to do when you make those choices. e.g. perseverance/keep getting back up/don't make that mistake again.
3. How not to treat your kids while raising them.
4. No matter how good or bad it is, it can always get worse or better. In my case it was usually worse, but sometimes through a mind boggling amount of work and effort, I made it better. Had to do it alone though, others only dragged me down and held me back, I had to struggle against others irrational limits for most of my life.
You need to find that thing in your life that drives you. For me it was airplanes and cars. I can't afford planes so I enlisted in the USAF, got my fill of planes there. The car thing is why I get up in the morning and why I do anything at all.
Its not a status thing, its not a 'hey look how much better I am than you are' either. Its about what I DO with the cars, the way I build them, the vision I have in my head that becomes reality through hard work, effort, and a huge investment of my time.
ANYTHING YOU DO that has value will require a huge amount of your time and effort, so find something that drives you but is also worthwhile and results in value.
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I'm a US military veteran, I have friends all over the world, Korea, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi, Germany, Belgium, Norway, Australia, Togo, Ivory Coast, Kenya... your resistance to UV doesn't matter to me. Something I noticed, none of my black friends want to live like I do, alone out in the woods. They don't even want to come visit and hang out for a while. No idea if its cultural or what.
Most of my friends are gearheads, because I tend to make friends with other car guys, but I have friends who don't give a rat fuck about building hotrods. That is another activity where we don't give a damn what color you are, if you dig cool cars, you are welcome to hang out and bring your ride. Not everyone has an interest in mechanical things, we get that, but there are no color or gender barriers when it comes to drag racing.
Why are so few females into racing? They simply are not interested. Why are so few black people into going camping? They simply are not interested. If you want to take part in an activity like that, then just go fucking do it.
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I'm 55, my advise for young men is simple. Lift heavy things over and over, build muscle to the point you can bench press over 300lbs. Maintain it through your life, it pays off when you're old and decrepit. Learn how to do as much as you possibly can, the more you can do, the more useful and valuable you are. Learn to repair cars, electrical appliances, and how to do plumbing/electrical, as well as how to weld. Do those on top of whatever other job you have, especially office jobs where you push paper around.
The big one. Push yourself to achieve things most do not. A degree in basic things like psychology is not one of those.
DO NOT TRUST SPLIT TAILS, they are not here to help you anymore, they are here to take from you and that is all they will end up doing. Taking everything you have built and achieved, and then they squander it and blame you for all their poor choices. Never get attached, just let them come in and go away when they want to, and never let them have power over you in any way.. ESPECIALLY financially.
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Race is merely the thing being used to divide us, since class and status don't work due to the US having a middle class. We aren't having a racial war, we are having people constantly poking at racial differences and painting black people as helpless victims, and to a lesser extent Latinos are as well. The idea is to cause so much civil unrest that people will accept marxist control, because along with victimhood being lauded, they claim capitalism doesn't work and the only answer is marxism in the form of socialism.
This racial bullshit is nothing more than a tactic being used by marxists to cause problems, make people resentful, and to remove motivation to improve their lives and replace it with dependency on the state. Rather than earning a living, they are teaching people to beg the government for money.
We are in an ideological war, and the marxists have taken over academia and the education system, while heavily influencing the political system of the US. They will continue to push until we either give in and accept the tyranny, or fight back and start a much larger conflict than just here in the US. Their goal is worldwide control, and the US is the only stumbling block in their way, because we are not easily subjugated, we have the bill of rights... which our current administration is trying to make null and void.
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@J Steiner4791 I have a bit of reading if you haven't or as a refrehser, or even an audio book version, and sometimes there are movies based on the novels for you. To get where the predilection for it all being backwards, read "1984." Ignorance is Strength. Freedom is Slavery. War is Peace. The idea is to make words meaningless, and to get people to self censor their own thoughts.
Others to read or listen to are Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, and Animal Farm. Those are warnings. If you want nuts and bolts here is what the effect is in reality, and what happens when you end up in a dystopian shithole of marxist mind feces, you need "The Gulag Archipelago" which is still available right here on YouTube as an audio book for free. It is quite long though. Listening to that you will get a deeper understanding of what they do, how they do it, and what the effects are, and you will see how those ideas are permeating western culture and society.
I read all but The Gulag Archipelago in high school, over 30 years ago. I seriously doubt they will be required reading with the marxist stranglehold on education. That and they paint Trump as the Chancellor in V for Vendetta, when the reality of it is the left does that sort of thing far more often, and they blame it on the right.
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@matthewmosier8439 I own mostly old cars, with points distributors sitting around that I can throw in if I need to. The problem with an EMP is that it induces a charge in every wire and piece of metal, just like an alternator or generator spinning a pack of wires through magnetic fields.
A coronal mass ejection (CME) aka Carrington event, acts the same way if it hits us. One hit in the 1800s and fried all the telegraph wires, starting fires and burning down telegraph poles. It put so much voltage in the wires that it overloaded them.
If we get hit with an EMP, there won't be any vehicles running. Most of them will catch fire when the smoke is let out of all the wiring in them. Rather than 12v or millivolts, its a MASSIVE overvoltage of every circuit.
Faraday cages can help, but if its powerful enough its still going to burn out everything inside the cage.
I am a crazy car guy who makes ethanol fuel to run my old high compression engines in my muscle cars. If the world goes to hell, but we don't get an EMP, I will be driving until I run out of tires and other consumables.
I got into doing the ethanol/vodka thing because gas was $5 a gallon here in 2007, and my broke ass can't afford that. Its $5 again, so I am ramping up my production. I make vodka fuel from cattails, tree sap, and I am figuring out a recipe for coffee grounds right now.
Cattails cost me less than $1 a gallon to make into fuel. Tree sap can be even cheaper using home made methane to heat the stills, but you need A LOT of sap, and it has a shelf life.
My military training and automotive knowledge are very useful for saving money... or for surviving when everything stops. I was an ASE certified master tech in automotive and automotive machining, until my military job which was not car related broke me in 2005. Consequently I can tell you all about nukes, cars, and how truly screwed we are if the bombs fall.
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@alertgasper unless I can hear them run, I consider any engine I get as a core. I have a 351C I got in trade and the guy who put it together had no idea what he was doing. The rod caps were not on the correct rods, the main caps were all mixed around, and luckily he screwed up the camshaft so every lobe but three went flat in the first five minutes of it running. If not the world would be short a 4 bolt main 351C 4V. At the least I pull the pan and look for bad stuff, I pulled the pan on that one and found an obvious misalignment on a rod cap.
I think Tony is being entertaining, or doing his best to be. We all know the 'right' way to do engines, and reviving a deceased one is dicey at best, without some machine work, cleaning, and replacing things like bearings, rings and I do the oil pump if I have it apart.
Lots of people who watch channels like this are not that adept at engines. They don't know, and more than that, many of them don't know they don't know something they need to know. We all have things we don't know much about, for me its celebrities and pop culture... and science, lots of science. Thats where I don't know how much I don't know. With cars, I know how much I don't know, because I know enough to realize there is a lot more to learn. Its called Dunning Krueger.
No its not the right way to do it, but rest assured, someone out there has tried to do what Tony did for 40 freakin minutes. I know, I have seen them do it.
He isn't making how to videos... Look on the bright side, Tony doesn't run over desirable cars with an excavator.
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@Djhylowmusic your mom did well, doesn't happen often. I have a female friend who is really good to me, she is annoying with some things she does, but she is dependable. I can call her if I need a ride to the ER, nobody else I know around here will answer or show. I keep her in a running vehicle because of that. However she is over 300lbs, does not have a pleasant aroma, and after all these years I prefer to live alone. So no, she will not get to live with me. We help each other out, like friends should.
The last one I was seeing was a single mom, she just turned 50 last year, was seeing her from 2015 to 18. Wonderful person, but she decided to end it with me to try out a firefighter, who dumped her two weeks later. We are still friends, talk often, and we have talked about this sort of thing often. I was the longest she has seen anyone since her divorce.
I am not putting myself out there, because of the lack of decent women in this area. If they are remotely attractive they decide they can do better and flake when I set something up. One flake and I never contact them again.
For me its not worth the stress and effort. They can leave whenever they want and take most of what I have built with them, even if we aren't married.
Oh and both of my ex wives say I mistreated them, which I did not. The first was the one who liked to fight, hit, and throw things. I have no interest in that, and I will not tolerate it in my life. The first sign of a woman being irrational or wanting to hit me, she is removed from my sphere of influence. Buh bye, GTFO. They like to hide that stuff and hope I will be submissive to them and hand over my wallet.. it doesn't work.
I figured out that I need to go grocery shopping during the day in the middle of the week, because its all old people in there. Cuts down on chicks trying to get my attention.
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@prussiansocietyofamerica from about 12 or 13 until I was 38 I had a high drive, needed to get some at least three times a week. Now at 54 I don't care anymore, I can go a year and not even realize it. My T is where it has been since I was in my 20s, but what the cost has been for getting some makes me far less interested in them.
Spent 9 years with my second ex, 8 before we got married. We never fought, argued, and we got along great. Then I got sick helping her dad by painting some stuff, and she decided she needed someone else. That guy left after 3 years, now she is alone, unwanted, going to be 41 this summer.
Meanwhile I am living in the house I built, on the land she wanted to buy before she met me, have enough money to do as I please, and I drive cool old cars. I get attention from women half her age all the time, but its too much effort to deal with them, because its a short term thing.
Its like going to the bar and spending your paycheck on beer. You're just pissing it away. Its funny how they say they are so oppressed and perpetual victims, but they can be given money for showing bobs and vagene. I had to work my ass off for what I have.
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@jjboss7896 I am inclined to agree with you, because complaining about it does nothing, just ask the mens rights guys. They complain like females did to get what they want, but everyone calls them weak.. just like you did.
Anyone who knows me when I am on a project, knows that I work hard. I worked harder than most people can even imagine during my two wars, so much so that without spending time in a gym I was able to bench press well over 450lbs. I am not weak, not small, not timid... but I got some very raw deals along the lines of what the video is talking about.
Handouts make you subservient, weak, and dependent, its not masculine to live that way. We make our lives into what we earn, not so much what we deserve.
I have rebuilt my life 8 times since I graduated high school in 1987. Two of those rebuilds were because of divorces, and the only thing I was able to keep was some old rusty cars and my hand tools. I lost houses, shops, and a fortune because of divorce. I was blamed for all of the problems, punished for what my ex wives did, was indentured into poverty for 15 years. I was living on $100 a month for three years while active duty, 2001 to 2004.
They cheated, lied, the first was violet to me and the kids, horrible with money, and she would sleep with literally anyone. Bipolar people are like that. She would start a fight with me, escalate it until I had enough and stopped her, then she could feel like a victim rather than guilty because I treated her so well. For a man with PTSD it was a living hell to live with her, but I stayed for 8 years to protect my kids from her. I can't go into what happened to my kids in detail, because this particular platform will remove the comment... lets just say her boyfriends had a thing for 8 year old girls.
The second one lied, falsely accused me several times, and I ended up in jail because of it. Simply because she cheated and wanted everyone to see me as the villain, and to justify her poor choices.
What happened to me is not an outlier, it is ubiquitous. I tell people about it, and usually soften it a lot because it was a lot worse than I described here.
I rebuilt 8 times. Had everything I built and invested that was worth something taken and given to someone who did not deserve it, because she has to squat to piss. I would be in a far better position in life now at 53 if I had never married or had kids, and I would be just as alone as I am now.
I do not want a relationship, because I cannot trust females. Its not that I think all of them will mistreat me, use me as an ATM, then lie, cheat and get the state to punish me for them... its that they can. Society encourages them to do exactly that.
My last divorce was in 2013, and she was wonderful from 2003 until late 2012. The indenture to the first ended in 2015. Before my credit took a massive hit because of the divorce, I bought some land by selling some car parts and borrowing from my parents for the down payment.
I started building in 2015. I cleared 3 of the 13 acres and used the straightest trees as the poles for my shop. I did most of the work, despite being a crippled veteran since 2004. Hired two guys to help with the roof, and two guys came out to help pour the concrete, I did everything else.
I took out a $30k building loan and made my shop and house from that. The land was under $30k because its in an area where its hard to survive, Michigan's upper peninsula. I paid everything off in Feb 2021. Two and three years early. I cannot afford to live anywhere else. Land costs too much.
No matter how many times or how brutally I was knocked down, even thrown in jail for something I could not possibly have done, I kept getting back up and rebuilding.
So the quandary is: Why is someone who contributed nearly nothing, caused all the problems, cheated, lied, was violet towards the kids and I, rewarded at my expense?
The answer is partially in this video. They want to destroy men like me, the builders, the competent men who can make things happen, the leaders who can motivate an army as well as train them. They want us gone, and in our place they want subservient males who laud incompetence, ignorance, and uselessness. They want a nation of dependents who will obey and never question authority.
They assume that if we are trained to be weak from birth, that none of us will turn out to be a man such as myself and many of my friends. What they do not realize is that doing that just irritates us and motivates us to show no mercy when the time comes to remove them from positions of power and control.
Their greatest fear is intelligent men, who are vastly smarter than the people trying to control us, who have the physical prowess and brawn to not only defend themselves but to enforce their will on tyrants, and the competence to do so in the face of seemingly overwhelming adversity.
They are creating their own downfall, because men like me will only take just so much. If men like me try to teach the youth about the pitfalls and traps set around them, they call us female hating misogynists and grape promoters.
As long as I can live alone in the woods, spend time with my huskies, build my muscle cars and old trucks, enjoy nature around me, and not be messed with, I will happily grow old, useless, and fade away leaving behind cool cars and stuff. My videos are all about the cars I build and the things I do in this beautiful part of the world.
Leave me nothing to live for, and I will never stop fighting until I am evicted from my meat suit... and I am most adept at fighting, been doing it my entire life. I lack that voice in my head that says its time to stop now, they've had enough. It was beaten out of me more than 40 years ago.
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@Kevin-qj7fp I wrestled in high school and at the base level in Europe against the Army guys, its one of the best things you can do in your youth as it teaches not only discipline and skills you can use to defend yourself, it teaches you self reliance as well. Its up to you if you win or lose, not how well the rest of the team does. Its the individual's skills, knowledge, and training that matters.
As for depression, I have lived with it nearly my entire life. I stay busy doing things I want to do rather than things others tell me I must do. I worked all manner of crap jobs, no food service or retail though, but technical, dangerous, dirty, and physically demanding... usually all at the same time.
The job isn't what motivated me, it wasn't what satisfied me either, it was what paid my bills and enabled me to earn enough to do things I wanted to do. That was the car thing mainly. You put in the time doing things you don't want to do, so you can do the things you want to do later, pay the bill first, then enjoy what you worked for. Its delayed gratification.
You do not win a match without training and putting in the work first, the other guy who has trained and worked his ass off will kick you all over the world if you don't train first. Everything in life is like that, and that is why combat sports are so beneficial to men.
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@nigelwray7647 that applies to more than this current discussion, people are like that when they are simply ignorant of what happens. They assume it cannot happen to them, that the people it happened to did something wrong, but they think themselves smarter and better than that. Its why males support other males being crushed by family courts, prevented from seeing their kids, and forced into indentured servitude. They believe it won't happen to them, that those other men caused it, and that their wife would never do that...
Until she files for divorce, they end up losing everything and sleeping in a 20 year old vehicle, working more than they did before, but getting a tiny fraction of what they earn... because the rest is taken and given to her, tax free. It could never happen to them. When it does they find themselves alone, no lawyer will take up the fight for them as they become a pariah at best.
Men who speak about it are labeled all sorts of bad things, woman hating bigots and more. Mothers who throw the father out are lauded and incentivized financially to do so, which creates a cycle of poverty, crime, and more single moms. People ignore that and keep the people doing it in office, and they swallow the logical fallacies like 'won't someone think of the children?'
What I am talking about is the foundation of society, destroy that and everything else built on it will crumble. Why do you think the people Yuri was talking about want to eliminate the nuclear family? Its amazing to me how many people support it, just because it has not happened to them yet.
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@mrhello7611 thransfobia does not exist. I have friends who are like that, my own daughter is like that and wishes she was my son. These people out here are not afraid of them, but they are tired of people (apparently like you) forcing people like my friends and kid into their faces and demanding everyone love them. Kids are being encouraged to make permanent changes before they know what the hell is going on. My friends all made the change well into adult hood, after they had kids of their own, and three of them served in the US military same as me.
However, Tanker is missing a big point, and that is these events are desired by the people who talk about them endlessly. They want them so they can keep pushing the agenda Colion is pushing back against. To use a word they liked a few years back, its disingenuous. They are using my friends as a cudgel to silence dissent and opposition to everything else they want to do.. just like they did to my gay friends, my black friends, and before them they did it to females. They are being used as pawns and I am utterly sick of it.
I am probably going to get in trouble for writing this, because insecure people pushing a weak agenda cannot handle dissent and criticism.
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@MikeJones-mj6qp commies, nazis, fascists, progressives, feminists, socialists,.... all marxists, all the same ideology at the base. Its kinda like lutherans, pentecostals, baptists, methodists, catholics, presbyterian, anglican etc. are all christians, or sunni, sufi and shia are all muslims... same root ideology, slightly different take on the myths and batshit crazy ideas in it.
The commies like to claim fascists are somehow not far left nutters, and say they are far right... except for the fact that they had the national socialist workers party, and the fascists used exactly socialism and marxism with their own slightly different spin.
The marxists like to put distance between other leftists who got caught and themselves, its why they eschew the word communist/ism, as it has a bad connotation associated with it. Its all the same pile of shit with different sprinkles on it.
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heh.. democrats cause a mess for the gop administration after them, then blame it on the gop. NAFTA and deregulation of banking caused the financial crisis in 2008/09, Clinton's limp wristed weak as fuck response to no less than nine terror attacks during his term caused 9/11. e.g. 93 WTC bombing, Khobar Towers, USS Cole, and others with the most response being shooting tomahawk missiles into mountain sides in Afghanistan. Not defending Bush, he wanted to invade everyone just like Hillary and Obama.
Obama funded the gain of function for the charlie one niner, dem governors locked everything down while the media ramped up hysteria about the virus that won't kill you unless you are quite old and have other health issues. The whole time the media and democrats did nothing but try to impeach the cheeto for anything, including shit they were doing. Once again, the problems are caused by democrats... and morons blame the gop for it.
I do not trust any politician, nor do I like them, and I think they should all be removed from office and stripped of the wealth they amassed from their position. When it comes to which politicians fuck the most shit up, it has to be democrats. Carter with his grain embargo. Clinton with NAFTA, deregulation, and the weak ass response to attacks. Obama with socialist bullshit, starting more wars, and running the economy farther into the ground all while fucking up the education system. Now, with fucktarded nanner creepy kid sniffer, holy fucking shit he is fucking up everything.... but he is not a leader, never was, and he doesn't even know what decade it is.
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America was bumbling around and not really fighting in 1944-45? Really? Iwo Jima, where friends of mine fought and more than 6000 us men perished on a tinyisland. Saipan, with huge casualties. Okinawa that was a taste of what the home islands had in store. Okinawans throwing themselves off cliffs by the hundreds to avoid capture.
You see the us military that i served in, the capabilities we have had since my first war in 1990, and you assume we must weren't putting in the effort in 45. Our military is what it is today BECAUSE of WWII and the cold war. The invasion of the home islands would have made Iraq look like a stroll on the beach. They would have thrown everyone, civilian and military at the allies, just like Germany did.
Where the hell does the narrative that Japan was thinking the soviets would join them come from? The soviets got their asses handed to them by Japan in the 20s and 30s, as if they could bring the troops from Europe to the pacific in less than two years. Japan had no fear of the soviets, they were the least of the worry. They jumped in after it was over to get land back they lost before wwii.
I'm no fan of war, i did two of them, and the cold war as well. Japan was not trying to surrender, it was not in them, just like it's not in us to surrender. They're fighters, the taliban are fighters, and so are the people in the us. Switch it around south someone invading the USA, and while the potato would run and hide, most of us would fight as long as we breathe. It's who we are.
Even some urban people here would fight despite being soft dependent sheep.
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Ya know I agree entirely that a strong family is the foundation of civilization. The problem is, the risk is too great for men in the west. Men need to check out and show how valuable and required we are. Back in the 90s I worked as a machinist in a factory. When they would complain about me taking overtime, I would take Friday and Monday as vacation days. By the time I came back in on Tuesday, the backlog of parts was immense. No mention of me getting OT when we were suddenly several weeks behind on parts, because the nightshift guy did almost nothing.
When you make things look effortless and you're efficient, people will take you for granted, and assume you're not doing anything. Sometimes you need to take vacation without warning and remind them why you're there.
Men need to take an extended vacation, make it hurt, make them cry and plead with us to come back and do the work we were doing before. Make them desperate so they will appreciate us. It has to hurt or they will soon forget what its like without us around.
So yes, I agree entirely but we need to force a change so men are no longer punished for being dads, and are cherished as dads.
Dude I make car videos, I do car things, I mostly watch automotive content. Why am I here? Simple. I am old, been through a lot, and I want young men to avoid the mistakes I made, and to know life gets better if they have already fallen into the same traps I stumbled into. Life gets better if you work on making it better. Bo, you have been doing pretty good on the improvement message.
I adore 'not men' and have many of them as friends, have two daughters around 30 who will never have kids, never get married or have a family, because their other parent destroyed their lives.
Way back when the men walking off thing came out, I noticed most of them were the guys who can't get some anyway. Rather than building themselves, they claim to be walking away. THEY WERE NEVER ON THE FIELD OR IN THE GAME.
Every time I got one, and tried to have a family, THEY burned it to the ground on a whim, and they have all paid the price of making the poor choice of trading me for a lesser man. Both my ex's wish they had never left, now that they see what I have done despite them taking so much from me and forcing me into poverty for 15 years...
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I'm not a conservative, not religious either, I am very much atheist. However, I have a massive problem with authoritarians who push their religion on all of us, where the state is their god, the politicians are the priests, and the party members are the congregation full of useful idiots. Yeah, I have far more issues with the marxists than with you fine people who believe in the old man in the sky. I will fight them along side you and support your right to believe in whatever god you choose, right up until you decide to force it upon me.
I like change, but it has to be for a good reason, not some made up bullshit or wishful thinking. For instance I will swap camshafts in my engine so it will make more power, or swap a larger engine in the car for more power, I am trying to improve performance, I like to make changes that give me more power but don't cost me more fuel. It requires thinking about the entire system. The idea of changing something just to change it is asinine and illogical to me. Why would I spend thousands to put a less powerful engine in that uses more fuel? Why would I change my vehicle and make it non functional just because I was told to by someone trying to sell me something?
The marxists want you and I to walk rather than drive, be dependent upon them, beholden to them, and thus be controlled by them. Yeah, I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees begging them for a bit more. I want to live my life, not merely exist to serve them.
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Billy Burr it takes time, discipline, and dedication. My goals were to have a more normal life, and to limit the negative effect my PTSD has on others.
My kids are older than you, one is 24, the other 27, the youngest is a hot head and she would scream and yell, throw things etc. She was good practice for not engaging, sitting back and being amused at her bullshit. She started to improve a bit, because I would not engage.
She is bipolar like her mom. What a nightmare it was being married to her mom for 8 years. That bitch had me stressed out every damn day.
Avoid bipolar and borderline girls. If they get irrational more than once a month, release them to greater opportunity. If they start a fight and especially if she gets violent, end it immediately. Life is too short to live like that.
I live alone in the woods, building hotrods and my house, cooking meat over an open fire, and working on becoming independent except for car parts I can't make. I make fuel for my cars, and other things like that. If possible I will build it or make it if I need it. Staying busy, having a hobby, and a passion that keeps you grounded in reality is huge.
Remember to not teach your kid to react with anger or violence when you're frustrated. My dad did that to me, took years to fix that shit too.
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@177SCmaro you didn't answer if you want to see the finished product or the build process.. thats the most important thing thing in my last comment.
I agree entirely on not allowing comments, I welcome them because it gives me new areas to explore. If someone brings me a question I do not know the answer to, it gives me an opportunity to find out. I might never have thought about it if they hadn't said something.
He seems like he doesn't want to get involved with that. I feel the same way you do about it, but its his thing. If he wants to be like the White House and CNN he is welcome to. lol.
Yeah I was being overly generous, I chuckle at people who have comments turned off on their videos. It strikes me as being timid and not wanting to hear criticism.
Engines on gasoline have not reached 50% efficiency, not even close. Maybe that is some pie in the sky wishful thinking. 20% is the best you can get with gasoline, 80% goes to waste heat due to how it burns. Its simple physics based on surface area, boiling and flash points. It cannot handle much compression and advance timing either, you pick up a lot of efficiency when you increase static compression.
20mpg with EFI, modern low rolling resistance tires, bearings, light brakes, and vastly better aero is easy. Doing it with a Qjet, an engine that makes mountain moving torque, in a heavy car with 70s tech and 70 series tires takes a bit more doing. Big difference.
My LS1 powered 98 Formula gets 28 to 31mpg if I drive like a sensible human on long trips. I got it as a highway economy car that was fun to drive and not an ugly Honda or something. Comparing that car to a 79 Formula you will see a big difference in the car itself, not just the engine.
If you put the LS1 in the 79 Camaro or Trans Am, with the same trans and EFI, it will not be as fast and it will not get the same mileage, it will be damn lucky to reach 25mpg if you drive it very gently. Most of the LS swaps I have seen get high teens to low 20s when they have the EFI and trans with them.
The aero, suspension, brakes, wheel bearings, the tires themselves, rotational mass, it all adds up. Push a 4th gen Firebird and a 1st or 2nd gen Firebird without any brake problems and you will see the difference. The easier I can make one of my cars roll, the faster it will accelerate, decelerate, and the less fuel it will use to get around. Disc brakes have some drag to them, drum brakes can be set so there is no drag until you apply them. Drums are often lighter too, but the fade and wet operation of them is a major drawback.
Its more than just the engine.
I have a 79 Formula that I have drag raced since I bought it in 1990. I built a rather mild 11:1 455 for it and the first run off the trailer at the track was a 12.8@110 weighing 3900lbs with me in it and a 3.42 gear. The engine ran good, the AFR was spot on, but there was a lot more left in that car. The MPH showed that. I had about $4500 in that car at the time.
Over the winter I trued the front rotors, greased the pins the calipers slide on, repacked the wheel bearings with a synthetic grease, aligned it to have half a degree toe in, zero camber, and 3 degrees of caster with the front end 4 inches above static. Set the rear drums so they did not drag. Raised front tire pressures to 45psi. That eventually got it to 11.6@115 as the engine loosened up some. I broke out a lot that year. It was always going faster run to run.
I closed off the front grills on the bottom of the bumper added an air dam to keep air from under the car, and then it was running 11.40s @120. I got the sheet aluminum used to block the grilles for free.
So all of that dropping 1.4 seconds and picking up 10mph was essentially free, since I did the alignment and brake work rather than taking it to a shop. Know how much power you need to add to drop that much ET and pick up the MPH? Quite a bit.
That was before you needed a roll bar at 11.49, and it was an 11.99 cut off. I couldn't afford a roll bar (wife, mortgage two kids and the wife was horrible with money she is an ex now), so I had to slow the car. I put a 4.10 gear in it and that slowed it to 12.0s. Yes a 455 goes slower with deeper gears. It moves through the RPM range too fast and you don't use the torque as effectively.
With an 850 double pump Holley, the 4.10 gear, and 28" tall rear tires it managed 13mpg going 55 down the highway. Not exactly great, but a lot better than the cars that could run with it back then. I was honestly surprised because all the chevy guys were getting 8 to 10 and running slower than me. It got me thinking, so I did another 455 for the 70 GTO to test some of it, and the 70 became my test mule until 2016.
The point is, the little things help as they stack up. Its like machining parts. If all the tolerances are on the high side, it will probably not fit at the end. I suppose if you're not a machinist you won't get that. Its not like adding stickers though. Improve 100 things 1% and you get a big improvement. Make it 10% better on half of those things and its a huge improvement.
You aren't going to get around the crap efficiency of gasoline, not easily nor cheaply. The stuff that guy built is pricey, being all stainless. Even if he built it from scrap, its still costly with the TIG welding. He isn't getting the fuel to completely vaporize, only part of it and I bet its not a powerhouse either. That of course is if he actually gets the mileage he claims. I too am dubious, and damn its complex.
I've been trying to figure out how I can illustrate the mileage in a video. Best I can come up with is a clear 1 gallon jug on the hood, drive through town and down the highway and see how it does while recoding it using GPS to see how far it has travelled.
Its the little things that allow modern cars to get the mileage they do. Aero is huge to be honest. There is a 3-5 mpg difference between the 65 and 70 GTO, when I swapped the engine, trans and rear end from one to the other. It was all aero.
Ya know you made me think of something, how well could I get one of my old dinosaurs to run in a light chassis with modern suspension, bearings, and tires?
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@177SCmaro I like to see how its done as well as the finished product.
direct injection is a handicap bandaid for gasoline. Anything else you run in it will be crap. lol. Chances are unless they figure out how to vaporize it at the nozzle it won't get better than that. Lots of complexity and cost to do DI. I like simple solutions that anyone can do. Caveman tech applied differently or creatively so to speak.
A stationary engine is very different from a transportation engine. The diesels in trains are very efficient because they run at one RPM and turn a generator. I used to make piston rings for them when I worked for Perfect Circle. FREAKIN HUGE pistons. 10 3/8" bores on the biggest ones. You can tune everything to run at that specific RPM, runner length, bore, stroke, valve sizes, compression etc. There aren't as many changes involved with a stationary power unit. We are talking about cars though.
Driving around means you are varying the RPM and it goes through the sweet spot. The best you can do is make a very wide sweet spot, which is why I adore my Pontiac V8s. Very flat torque curves from low RPM to about 4500-5500. The more torque it makes with the least amount of fuel, the better the mileage will be.
I have only scratched the surface with my project, because I had to rebuild my life, including building my shop, a house, and getting debt free again after a divorce left me living in my car. I was stupid and got married twice.. not a great idea. Also being old, and crippled from the Iraq War slows me down. I haven't done a damn thing for 5 days, partly because its cold outside and partly because I busted my ass all summer.
Problem is I have to do a bunch of rust repair in addition to building engines and fuel systems. That and I have several non mule projects in the works, 65 LeMans gasser, 68 LeMans sleeper (that should be getting a larger twin turbo engine soon) a couple C10s and all the 4x4s I need for winter around here. Haven't driven my first car in 35 years, I really should do something with that. Then there are the two cars in the shop already, 72 Cutlass on the rotisserie and a 71 Mustang fastback I put on hold in 2009.
I need to get unlazyfied by hurting less. Then I can actually get more shit done and make videos of it. I want to know how well it works just as much as I want to show everyone it works... even if they don't use it. I like finding out how and why. I think I was born about 30 years too early.
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@danieldimitri6133 drive slow get better mileage with very slow vehicles. Why not walk? Use no gasoline? You're right its the way people drive that costs them mileage most of the time... I don't always drive to get max mileage though. However I want to get the best mileage I can for the way I am driving, and where I am driving. Turning it off and coasting down hills doesn't work everywhere and man that is a bunch of BS to put up with.
I have some Buick 3800s too, they do quite well and are peppy, its a good little engine. Not a powerhouse though, but 35mpg driving 65 to 75 is doable in a Gran Prix. Thats why I use them as winter beaters, cheap, reliable easy on gas, and in the snow and salt more power just creates problems.
Those GPs are not what I drive in the summer, unless I have everything else torn apart. I want to enjoy my driving time in summer, not make it a chore. I want power reliability and efficiency, not something I need to push up a hill or across an intersection.
Thats why I work on keeping the power and making it all work better so it uses less fuel. Using less fuel means I have to work less to produce that fuel. Gives me more time to do other things, like driving my old GTOs.
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Longevity matters. He can get by with small stuff because its low powered, minimal weight. When you start making torque and moving heavy stuff in a hurry, you will find the light parts break. I found all the weak spots between the flexplate/flywheel and the contact patch running my 3900lb empty, 4150lbs with me in it, '70 GTO in the 12s with a 2.93 gear. Stock converter, no nitrous, 8:1 compression 455 grunt power from idle to 5800. With 275 65 15 street radials it would smoke them from idle for the entire 660. No need to get them spinning first, just whack the throttle from idle.
That thing broke an M20 4 speed, Th350s like they were made of hard candy, Th400s had hard parts breaking, and a 2004R lasted about a year behind that engine. Cast pistons, smogger heads from '75, cast rods, small hydraulic cam about the same size as a factory grind, stock intake, and Qjets. It was a 455 with 400 heads, dirt cheap 1 5/8" headers, and an HEI stuck in it. I threw that engine together in 1996, its still alive in my '65 LeMans.
You put that much torque to moving that much weight, you find what isn't up to the task real quick. The slant 6 doesn't have that power, its going in a light car, no need for all the heavy parts. Putting a Dana 60 in it would probably slow the car by a full second, no reason to do it though. It won't break the 7.25 rear even on nitrous.
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@MrTheHillfolk sadly no plasma cutter as yet.. soon. If I have too much money in them I don't want to drive them. If they are too nice I don't want to drive them. So I build daily driver quality cars and enjoy the hell out of em.
I can buy a decent car easily, something with about 80k on it, EFI, working AC, cruise, etc. I don't want an appliance, I want to drive. I have beaters I keep running and don't give a damn what they look like. People don't get it, they want one nice one, and I want fun cars that do different things in different ways. I like the project as much as I like driving them.
How much I spend on them is irrelevant to me, its not like I can take a pile of cash with me anymore than I can take a car when I die... but I can enjoy the hell out of the cars while I am alive, what good does money do sitting in a bank? Unless you use it, the stuff is worthless.
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@shortyorc121 I have found myself pushed into the same group conservatives are, being a classical liberal, and atheist, much like Ben Franklin, its a strange place to find people who agree about what they are doing.
Yes they will keep pushing, they will rig the mid terms and we will see just enough red states elect dems to congress with the same spikes we have seen in the last two elections, unless they figure out how to not do it all at once like that, but its difficult because it will be easy to go over 100% voter turnout which is impossible. That would make it too obvious even for them, but who knows they will probably do it and claim the gop is rigging it all.
Know why most peasant revolutions fail? Because they are unarmed and untrained. Know what the difference is between the average US citizen and any peasant revolting against some authoritarian asshole in the past? We are armed and not peasants. We have something to fight for that is not a nebulous idea, its tangible to us and we have the means to resist.
If we the people wanted to, removing all these people from office would be a weekend deal and there is absolutely nothing they could do about it. The NCOs who run the military are working class, and they will not support corrupt politicians who are only sending them off to fight for the profit and back room deals of the politicians, when they start revoking the first 5 amendments.
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@KR-mm4el how is blm a commie org? Have you listened to them? Have you seen the flags and signs they carry? Are you aware of what communism is and does? Do you realize marxism is the root of socialism, communism, feminism, progressivism, etc, and they all lead to the same things... abject poverty for the masses, wealth and privilege for the elites, mass graves, starvation, and political prisoners in camps?
If someone is ignorant of what all of that is, and they believe the propaganda, as children/young people, weak males, and females are prone to do, because they have not experienced it, then they will think its a good thing. It always results in worse conditions for most people, even if they lie saying it doesn't, obfuscate history as they rewrite it, and cajole useful idiots into putting them in power.
If China was not leeching off the US, they would have collapsed decades ago. Its simple, marxism does not work.
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@lasthopelost9090 its been over 30 years since the fall of communism. The youth of today have been lied to, told marxism is a good thing, that it didn't work because the US ruined it. They do not know the facts or truth. They don't know about a hundred million lives snuffed out by the capricious idiocy of the marxists.
They are told that the Berlin Wall was to keep the notCs out, and no mention is made that I could go to East Berlin while I was stationed there, but the people who lived over there could not come to West Berlin. Who was it keeping from moving? Sure as hell not us, but it was preventing people from leaving the socialist shithole to the east.
Now the youth who are too young to remember the cold war, believe they have found the answer to all problems... and have no clue its been tried over and over for the last 150 years, and it has failed every fucking time.
I am a cold war veteran, I was 20 years old and stationed in Frankfurt West Germany in 1989 when the wall came down. There is a large chunk of it on my shelf to remind of of the horrors of socialism. I traveled to countries that no longer exist, like Yugoslavia, when they were communist. Belgrade in 1991 was a world apart from Frankfurt the same year.
I remember and no amount of gaslighting and attempts to shame or silence me will change what I know. I was there, wearing the boots on the ground.
You don't see the Poles and Ukrainians clamoring for socialism. There is a reason for that.
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I'm a gearhead, did standup for a little while back in the early 90s, and Jay was mostly funny. I remember his bit about driving his 50s Buick Roadmaster, I had a 56 Buick Special in the 80s and 90s, and I too would find Hondas wadded up in the wheel wells from time to time. If you wrecked it, they washed off the dash and sold it to the next guy. That was his bit.
However, he is a different kind of gearhead than I am, he is more the clean hands type, he likes the exotic and strange stuff like the Stanley Steamer and the one with the tank engine. I build my cars, the way I want them. He tends to buy things others have built, and he has guys who do the work for him. I do all the work on mine. It doesn't make me dislike him or anything, he is simply different from gearheads like me.
Mostly funny is one of those things, because your gig can get stale, and you have to reinvent it often. Robin Williams fought hard with the reinvention. Chappell doesn't even bother trying to make his thing new and fresh, he just works out his material in small clubs. Rogan is mildly amusing to me, but I love listening to his podcast while I work on my vehicles. Comedy is a taste thing, some people I do not find funny, others I find very amusing like Bert Kreischer, but he and I look similar... and have similar stories, particularly with Russians, but mine wasn't a school trip, it was a year tour in Korea.
Jay comes off as too corporate to me, too clean hands in everything, like he is trying to reach the absolute widest audience with his comedy, and not offend anyone at all. His predecessor, Johnny Carson was much funnier to me, but he is from a different time. These days its too PC, so I like the guys who buck that and say what they think and damn the outrage of the wokemob.
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@DanEBoyd I remember the black soot on semi trucks, haze hanging in the air everywhere we went in the 1970s. I also remember Chuck Grassley taking the head of the EPA under Obama to an Iowa cornfield to show her how big an acre is, how much corn grows on an acre, how much corn it produces (200 to 500 bushels) and how much ethanol we can get from that acre (roughly 2.2 gallons per bushel). She was under the impression that we needed 100 acres of corn to make 1 gallon of ethanol.
If that were the case I would not be running my GTOs and Firebirds on ethanol, nor would I be making it from tree sap. Oh yeah 13:1 compression daily drivers getting 17-20mpg with an old modified Qjet while making well over 550hp/tq. For ten cents a gallon making it at home from tree sap, forty cents with cattails, $1.90 E85... and its clean, keeps everything clean too. It is vodka after all. When Biden makes the gas prices skyrocket I will ramp up my production and put everything I own on it, winter beaters included.
These people in government are clueless, ignorant of everything not involved with getting a government job. They are as bad as actors who pretend to be people who do amazing things, except the politicians and government employees have our lives in their hands. She was against ethanol because she thought it required that much space and had no idea what it all was. Most people are kinda like her in that respect, but after years in the military and dealing with the VA I find non veteran government employees and politicians to be mostly ignorant inept halfwits.
I like not breathing tetraethyl lead every day though, which is a big part of why the EPA was created. I wonder if the boomers have such a high rate of Alzheimer's because of the lead in gasoline. Its a possibility.
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@dogmilk9651 I get writing and thinking and silly stuff comes out. Also having been through a lot, endured a lot, achieved some, every so often someone gets inspiration from my rambling short stories.
You want me to tell ya about all the times I made mistakes, failed, goofed, and missed opportunities? People get something out of those stories too. I have lots of them, and made REALLY bad expensive mistakes like getting married.
I find people fascinating, but I also find them disheartening at times. Discovering what people are like is interesting, because I like to know how things work. Its why I build cars, I know how they work and what changes made in one place cascade into another.
I see how you could think its bragging. Usually the guys who see what I write in that way are the ones who have yet to achieve something. Its all good, you will eventually. You're just young.
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@josephfisher426 you haven't been paying attention I take it. Ok.. here's a short version. If you can get people to pay for your product every week or month, instead of once, that is better than planned obsolescence.
If you can build one or two things very cheaply without competition, and force everyone to use that one, you can maximize profits. Knowing what people will buy, simply because they have no other choice is how you monetize a captive audience.
end of the short part.
I mean did you learn anything about the soviet union, or how Cuba, Venezuela and all the other little failures were? An elite group on top, dictating what everyone could have, and profiting from the masses that live in abject poverty.
Then you have chy-na in its current form... the gov controls everything, reaps profit from it, uses essentially slave labor to produce things, allows certain people to own a business that is still controlled by the gov in what they can make and whatnot. Its the same basic thing used in Central Europe between 1936 and 1945.
That is the plan for all of us. The companies will get blended together, cut back like corporate raiders just took over, and everything streamlined so they can produce their one to five, maybe ten products that everyone will have to rent.
Its guaranteed profits for the ones that are allowed to remain, and depending on how well each corp does with their ESG scores will dictate if they survive or not.
That is the gist of that you'll own a big pile of nada, and be happpeeeyyy... They came right out and said you will rent everything, they did not say from them, but yes it will be from them.
I am a gearhead, I build old cars and have fun with them. So I have been listening and watching whats going on with the automotive thing too. The push for EVs is not about the environment, they are NOT green at all. Massive mining and power supplies would be needed to have even half of the vehicles in daily use were replaced.
The idea is to get you to move into a city, live in the small space, rent everything including your soap for the day,, and you will not have a car. You will have to ride public transit if you go anywhere they allow you to go. So no more taking $1000 and driving across the country just to see what is out there.
They won't need nearly as many vehicles with everyone being forced to walk or ride the bus, and of course your movement will be limited legally as well. The EVs will be far too expensive for you to rent, but the elites will have them provided for them.\
Someone like me who owns their land and has no debt will end up with a massive tax bill for a VAT, value added tax. They will claim my land is worth X amount and I will have to pay X amount in taxes for it. The VAT will be more than I have coming in every month/year, so they will then come out and take my land by force or coerce me to sell it... for useless credits. Then I will have to move into a city, live in a small box and ride the bus like everyone else... in their perfect little world.
My reaction will be quite different than most, owning to my military time and the fact that I have lost two houses and 44 years of my life to the state taking from me and giving to someone else.
They can't quite do it yet, but that is why they are going so hard for removing the 2nd, and the 1st, limiting travel, and making it increasingly difficult to nearly impossible for people to buy land.
You are still operating under the assumption that gov and corps have our best interest in mind. They don't, and all you need to do is check out how the gov has been ignoring the 1st with social media.
Sounds tinfoil hat, I know.. but that is what they have said they want to do with us... ok well those of us who survive long enough to see it all being implemented. They want a herd/crop of about half a billion people. Easier to control, not enough people to revolt, especially when they only eat insects and veggies which do not give you enough protein and nutrients to build muscle and think about things higher than basic survival..
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Guys, I am Gen X, 54 years old, born in the 60s. The people around me were the same way as your peers, when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s. Most of them followed the herd, did the fads, and didn't think for themselves. Most of them never traveled more than 200 miles from where they were born. They married the woman they dated in high school, and some of the females never got married because they were too big. Its not so much a new thing, its a being young thing. Having a soft life does it too.
The only time its too late to start leading in your own life, is when its over and you reach permanent equilibrium with ambient temp. Working out and working towards goals gets you somewhere in life. Unless you're a hot chick, nobody is going to give you anything without you earning it.
When I went to my ten year reunion, the hotties from my class dumped their husbands and crowded around me. I went to the military in 1989, did the desert storm thing, traveled to Europe, the mid east, and Africa, and I gained a ton of muscle mass. I was the strongest kid in school when I graduated (could lift more than the teachers could too), so I was even bigger when I came back. They wanted to hear about my travels and what I did.
At the 20 the guys were all bald, pudgy, and looked like they were desperately trying to hold on to their youth. I was married to someone 13 years younger than I am, retired, and building muscle cars for fun. I skipped the 30, now the 40 is in another three years. I will go to that one, and probably be driving one of my gassers that I am building right now, the belly will be gone by then and I will look great for a 57 year old crippled two war veteran.
I was an outcast my entire life, the pudgy kid everyone picked on and I was 4'9 until I was 14. I sat on the bench in practice and never got in the game when doing team sports, so I got into wrestling. It changed my life and I realized how beneficial it was at my first tournament. I got my tail handed to me, but I could see the potential, so I continued with it. I learned that nobody is going to give me anything, I had to earn it if I wanted it. Growing up poor meant I had to know how to do things rather than guy things if I wanted stuff like a car.
By my senior year I was a monster, 5'8" full of muscle, ripped, and could run for miles, benched 265lbs and weighed 175lbs. 22 wins, 13 of them were pins, and I obliterated most kids who got on the mat with me. Suddenly female attention was being thrown at me, and yes I took advantage of it. The second one I had was 22 when I was 17, she was lots of fun in the back seat of my '72 GTO that I bought wrecked and got driveable.
I had no friends, no peer group, only wrestlers from other schools respected and admired me, they were the only friends I had and I only saw them at tournaments. I did my own thing, went my way, and did not follow the herd... because I was not allowed to be in the herd. Rather than trying to fit in, I started to lead.
My youngest brother is 13 years younger than me, born in the early 80s, he is 41 now. He wasted his 20s getting high and playing World of Warcraft. Now he has a good paying machinist job, he realized he can make things just like I can. I was a machinist for years when I wasn't in the military.
He is a lot like your generation, grew up without the pressures I had, he was softer from a soft life. We gave him his first car, a 1968 Mustang. Dad and I repainted it for him. I had to buy all my cars, including the first one when I was 13. I raised, picked, then sold sweet corn in town to buy my first car. Without wheels, you weren't getting off the farm and into town where the females were.
It was easier for him so it took him longer than me and the brother between us to start his life. All three of us wrestled, my two sisters were cheerleaders for wrestling. I started a dynasty, and most of our kids also wrestled in school.
The only sibling of mine to not wrestle was our oldest brother who is one of those follower types, he didn't ever do anything impressive or challenging. Dad bought him his first car, and he wrecked it twice. A 1970 Charger. Dad had it rebuilt for him. Around 40 he finally pulled his head out of his rectum and started earning his life.
Dang it, now its noon and I have car stuff to do out in the shop... putting EFI on the 70 Cuda.
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@Motor-City-Mike I got divorced in Nebraska and in Michigan, I do not recommend getting married because of it. I'm in the U.P. Most people around here are anti ethanol, but they are changing their minds when they see what I am doing with it. Been living here for 15 years, since I got out of the military. I went back to the USAF when I closed my shop. Steady paycheck, can't get fired, promotion potential, and more money than being a shop owner in Nebraska in the Clinton years.
Also did CNC programming, and learned on manual Bridgeports in an aircraft machine shop in the 80s, hundred thou to millionths was the norm in there. Great learning experience. Worked for Dana corp making perfect circle piston rings between enlistments, started my shop on the side. It was laughable how people could not hold a .02 tolerance, or how they measured the same part five times and got that much variance every time.
Held ASE master certs in machining and automotive tech, no need for them now. Its not like you forget the stuff, and besides I build stuff for me now. Not paying labor means I can do things super cheap. $200 transmission builds that last for decades are nice.
I like watching the kids in their videos, seeing them learn by doing it. Then we get Tony who is our generation and did other things along the same lines we did. We can tell instantly if the person doing it is full of shit or not. Most of the kids are open to guidance and different ideas or angles to a problem. We have been there already most of the time.. lol.
So what did the Falcon run? I always wanted a Comet, just traded my '64 Fairlane for a '32 Pontiac two door a couple years ago. The Fairlane was rusty as hell.. and $50 in '87. So I came out good.
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@liquidragonfu5546 I figured it out in the 80s that most chicks will just lead you on, act like they will give it up then do fucked up things.
Had these two when I was 16 who would ask for rides. I was bored most of the time, small farm community, town had 6k people in it. If I didn't get a race I was bored. So I would drive them somewhere for something to do. The cute one would lean in my window, show off some cleavage, and ask me all nice. I was amused, because I could see through that shit.
One day she asks if I can drive her 40 miles to the state fair. I said sure, lets go. They got in and down the interstate we went. Once we got in, they paid their own way I paid mine, they ran off chasing some guys. I walked around, looked at the things I wanted to see, did the things I wanted to do, and they were nowhere to be found when I told them to meet me at my car.
So... I got in my car and left them there. Mom and dad wanted me home by 0100, and I wasn't going to walk all over the fairgrounds to find those ditzy bitches. I'd be late if I did. Their parents had to drive 40 miles in the middle of the night to pick them up. I bet it went so well.
Guess who never asked to bum a ride from me again. Guess who would go home or avoid town when they saw my car. That was 1985, and they are still pissed at me.. I am still laughing at them.
Not my monkeys. Not my circus. Not my problem.
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@icanhazgoodgame3845 I spent the better part of my adult life before 2005 in the US military. Its a very different way of thinking, because the people you lead reflect upon your leadership. If you let people become incompetent wastes of oxygen, you don't look like a competent leader.
I was the NCO who got all the fuck ups. Mainly because I am physically huge, but short, so people looked at me as fat, not muscular. They considered me a fuck up despite my miliary job packing all that muscle on me in 1990-91. So lump them all together, right?
I had a kid who would not take a shower, do laundry, or keep basic requirements for living off base up to date. He ended up getting kicked out because hw simply could not grasp soap and water and talking big about himself did not make him stink less.
Had another who wrecked his truck and got an off base DUI while I was in Korea, I knew him before his wreck and he was big into the party scene, but was otherwise a good kid. When I got him I had a few minutes and told him if he wants to stay in, he has to be better than everyone else. He has to be damn near perfect, get some schooling going, and keep everything as shit hot as he can. He did, he was absolutely stellar and never did drink again. The unit tried to get me to fuck him over by giving him a mediocre performance report, but he deserved one that showed how shit hot he had become. So I fought for him and I won.
Had a fat Wisconsin farm girl, she was the only female I could trust to operate heavy equipment and not run into things or run someone over. She was getting out soon of her own will, but I made sure she was treated right. To her credit she never ever complained or bitched around me, nor about me. I even wrote an achievement medal for her, and it was approved. My way of saying thinks for being an example of how to be competent and reliable. She could have gotten pregnant like other fat girls, but she didn't. Probably because she likes girls not boys. I kept that to myself...
Had several others, even a kid who married his best friends mom, then was abused by her, and the divorce left him financially ruined. He deployed with me in 2004, and we talked often about how to get out from under that, because I had gone through divorce and indentured servitude as well. I lived in $100 a month from August 2001 until January 2004. He turned out ok, and never married again. Smart kid, just took some prodding.
Other NCOs felt threatened by me, and they would try to backbite and talk me down to the chain. When they checked the numbers and work we all did, I was crushing them easily, despite having 10 subordinates in two different duty sections on two different shifts so I only worked with two of them. Also I had 12 extra duties, three of which would keep me at work long after my shift ended. The other NCOs had zero to 3 people under them, and at most one extra duty.
When I found out how much more I was doing I asked my E7 if I was being punished, he said "No, you're being relied upon." So I told him to rely upon someone else a bit more.. lol. Ended up getting out in 05 because I got hurt in the desert in 04.
We would much rather help people than destroy them at work. However, there are still insecure, inept fucks who feel like they have to make others look bad to make themselves look good.
If I had a corporation, I would go undercover and see who my leadership was comprised of, and the insecure capricious fucks would get put out of the company or in a position where they had someone competent and more aligned with my leadership style above them.
There is more to life than profit.
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I got to see my kids for 12 days out of the first 7 years after their mother took off with them and moved in with some guy 1500 miles away who pumped and dumped her. Then the state she was in decided that $100 a month is more than enough to live on, so I was homeless for two years while serving in the US military. They garnished 71% of my gross income, and broke multiple state and federal laws, yet nobody cared. The state actively helped her keep the kids away from me, and kept me so broke I had to save for months to travel to see them.
Consequently, my daughters are anti feminists (it really helps they are cute and not disgusting hambeasts who want to paint their hair blue), because they figured out on their own what the Duluth Model is, that it was employed in giving full custody to their bipolar abusive mother, and in preventing me from being part of their lives in their most formative years.
I was nothing more than a wallet to plunder. Now they are in their 20s, live within 20 miles of me and 1000 miles away from their mother, for good reason. You will not find a more ardent and vehement opposition to feminism than found in yours truly.
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@markgarcia6887 they resent the fact they were not born with everything being handed to them like when they were a child. They feel entitled to living like a child for their entire lives. They are too lazy to earn what they want, and instead want it taken from others and given to them.
They think like females, even if they are males, because weak, inept, incompetent males are treated like females. Well except a male is fired due to incompetence and a female gets promoted and moved to a job where she can't fuck things up. The insecurity they have about their lacking ability is exacerbated by the resentment, entitlement, and laziness. That is where the hate and contempt comes from.
At the very root of it feminists are resentful that they cannot piss standing up, and they delusionally think that ability makes life easier.
As an aside, its not hating a god to not believe they exist, but yes the marxists do not like your religion as it competes with their own.
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Back in 1992 I was stationed in Charleston with some people from Pittsburg, had to teach them how to drive. They had no idea, never needed to know how, and it was unbelievable to me as I grew up on a farm where if you did not drive, you did not go anywhere. That amount of coddling has made soft people, dependent on the system for everything, and now the police are not going to be there to save them, or even clean up the mess after the fact.
Vigilantes? Hardly, not from those people. They're not wolves, not sheepdogs, they're more like gerbils.
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I had the Eastern European ones approaching me, asking if I had a gf or wife when I was in Europe and Korea. Not forward exactly, they were classy about it. Sure, 20 years ago they wanted the green card and to live in the land of the big BX. (base exchange) Not so much now, most people don't want to come here anymore, they can see where we are being taken.. especially the ones from former bloc countries. When I was younger it was better to be overseas. Now that I am 55, I am tired of them, don't want to deal with them and their drama, plus living is far less expensive alone, so I can do whatever I like whenever I want.
I could leave the US and live VERY well on my military retirement/disability. I do ok where I live now, well away from cities out in the woods. If it gets bad here, I have skills and knowledge I can turn into an empire overseas so I could do fine without the VA check. However, I like living where I am, and would only move back to Nebraska because of the car stuff I can do there and the friends I have in the area. I am debt free and own my land, don't have to pay property taxes because I am a crippled vet. So it works for me to stay here and build my old cars.
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First marriage was 8 years of hell, she did everything wrong that she possibly could. Then it cost me another 15 years of paying her most of my income. The second one I vetted for 8 years, and she was very good for me, but we were only married for 16 months. She was a lot cheaper, but had me thrown in jail on baseless assertions. They believe all women in court, just so ya know.
The first cost me almost $300k in income, which she wasted and has nothing now. Its tough to be ambitious when the court is keeping you in poverty. I barely earned that much in those 15 years, they were taking 70% of my gross, you know before taxes. The time that cost me was worse than the money. More than 20 years chained to paying for someone who mistreated me and my kids. I was 24 going in, 44 coming out. It cost me several business opportunities, and soaked up so much of my income that I was unable to save anything. If I saved anything, Nebraska would seize it anyway, as a punitive measure.
I live alone in the woods for a reason. Been single and not dating since 2013, living frugally so I can build my old cars. Paid off my mortgage 2 years early in 2021, and the building loan in 21 as well. Debt free since then... but now I am 55 and can't build my life like I could have.
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@Brandon Letzco you're still a small guy, with small wrists, bones, etc. I was fat and stunted when I was younger, due to a diet forced on me because of allergies... caused by my father's smoking. Once I got enough nutrients, after 12 years being deprived, I started gaining muscle fast and easily.
It should be obvious that people are not the same, most are in the thick part of the bell curve, like you. Some are at the edges, like me.
It is not an enjoyable nor enviable thing to have this much muscle mass. I can reach the back of my head, and my neck, and thankfully still wipe my own ass. Scratching my back is done with corners, sticks, and courteous friends. Its not symmetrical like it would be from a gym, but its useful when I need to move something heavy. Having a limited range of movement worse than someone severely morbidly obese is a pain in the ass. At least fat squishes.
Hard lives suck. It sucks worse when it is forced on you, and you did not make the choice to go there. At least I chose to join the military. The rest of it I did not choose.
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@gps9715 there is a difference between us getting pissed off and most people, we are used to having fucked up shit foisted upon us. However we have a hard limit for certain things, and Biden is standing on the line of that limit.
Now how we react is very different than civilians. We will act long before we get mad or angry, and even if we were mad or angry at one point when we act its calm, rational, calculating. There is no emotion in our actions until after. Well not all of us, but many of us. When we get pissed epic shit happens. Terrifying epic violent shit. Its not to be taken lightly. Its not a movie.
Young hotheads full of piss and vinegar want to run in guns blazing without thinking ahead. Those of us who are older and have survived some shit know to wait and see what happens. Having survived two wars and a ludicrous amount of violence in my life, I do not relish bringing more into it.... but...
When we do begin it will be with an overwhelming violence that will scare the fuck out of civilians and wannabes. Its not the wort of thing you bring down without justification, because of the costs involved.
Whitmer has not yet pushed too far, but she is very close to it. She got the same wake up call Northam got, she knows how easy it would be to remove her ass from office and there is fuck all she can do about it. She should realize we allow her to hold office.
The idiot governor of California has no worries they have mostly disarmed the populace so they can do as they wish and what the fuck can the people do about it?
The riots and other bullshit in the dem cities, hey, if they want to vote for the morons who allow and enable that sort of thing, its not my circus. You want to go fight the idiot larping kids, feel free to do so, but they are not my concern. If they do that shit in my area, well then they become a concern of mine.
It is no small thing what you are proposing, and those of us who have been would rather the people who are insulated from that world do not learn of it first hand in their backyards. We give the legal system a chance to work, but when it fails, and yes it will fail as it already has many times this year, shit will get real, and people will experience what we have, and many of those people will not survive it.
The whole reason we enlisted was to protect our way of life and the people who live here, so don't have to endure what goes on in the rest of the world. It is being brought to us, but we are not going to willfully hasten its arrival.
So you can get emotional and rush on in there, get involved early and give them justification for more bullshit if you want. We who have served tend to fix problems rather than create them.
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@gps9715 we are past the tipping point. The ball is rolling, its like the rock chasing Indy in Raiders of The Lost Ark. At this point it can still be stopped, but the dems and marxists (they overlap like a ven diagram of protestants) are pushing on it as hard as they can.
What we are waiting on is a flashpoint. The pieces are set and moving across the board, but there isn't a unifying event to solidify the sides just yet.
The rigged election isn't enough. People are not invested enough in politics to give a fuck. The lockdowns are dividing people into the timid followers who do as they are told, and the non conforming 'fuck you I won't do what you tell me' types who will resist draconian or authoritarian control.
You know how in V for Vendetta he blew up the Bailey to get their attention? The election was that event. Blowing up parliament is the flashpoint that brings people from their doldrums of safety in conformity. It doesn't have to be a year in between, a matter of days is all that is required. Time for word to spread, and people to decide for themselves what they think.
That movie had a pandemic, man made, and the government used it to justify authoritarian control. The parallels to right now in that 15 year old film to now are astonishing, Its closer to the present than 1984, except its not the religious authoritarian nutters behind it, its the marxists following their own religion and dogma.
What will be the flashpoint? I'm not surem, but since the marxist democrats don't really have much imagination (i mean damn look at movies lately, remake tripe at best) it will probably be a terror attack or a school/public shooting they manufacture. Then they will do as New Zealand did and write the 2nd out of the Constitution. That won't be the flashpoint though...
The flashpoint will be the response to them actually trying to implement their unconstitutional edicts on all of us. The asshole shooting the girl with glasses will be the state going out to confiscate guns and shooting up an entire family or someone with standing in the community.
They hope we will accept the new subservient reality they propose for us, that we will want the big screen TV more than the freedom to live as we please, and they hope we will become complacent then forget what we are so mad about. That works on their NPC supporter drones in big cities, it doesn't work on the rest of us, because we are not dependent upon them out here in BFE.
This is a chess game with real consequences. We will either end up free and more so than the last 5 decades, perhaps the last ten decades if we do it right, (eliminate the federal reserve) or we will end up in a global marxist dystopia akin to 1984. Regardless, millions around the world will die, either in the conflict spawned by the attempted take over of the USA, or the inevitable famines that will follow if the marxists succeed. The only thing preventing a large scale conflict for the last 76 years was US.
We have to play this game right. The stakes are too high.
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@gps9715 I should add, we cannot count on politicians to do anything but serve themselves, doesn't matter if its left or right. This responsibility will fall to us, the people endowed with the ability to govern themselves but the founders and framers.
The politicians have been bought and paid for, if they are a representation of us, then we are some vile repugnant pond scum. I have zero faith in our political establishment, the system laid out 240 years ago I have faith in. A great reset, yes, but not to the marxist nightmare the WEF is proposing. Endow everyone around the world the same rights we enjoy here in the US, or I should say the ones we are supposed to have that are now under threat.
We also need to be aware of what happens in a power vacuum. Egypt had two revolutions in a very short time. Libya is a failed state with open slave markets, and the assholes in our government caused that.
This responsibility falls to us. We are the last free people on the planet. Its going to be expensive.
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@dpstrial I am somewhat short at 5'8, heavily muscled, and with my military mentality I am apparently intimidating. If I am my normal self, I get calls from the sheriff telling me I can't shop there anymore. So I have to try to look fat, harmless, and I have to be very polite and affable. That means I make conversation with the people running my stuff across the scanner, try to make them laugh, if they flirt a bit I flirt back, but then I walk away and go on with my life.
I like for people to underestimate me, I learned that growing up and getting beaten on often. Be unobtrusive and you have to deal with less shit. When you have 21" arms, no neck and look like a gorilla, its hard to be unobtrusive. Its also why my channel and name on here is sweaty fat guy.
So the girls probably think I am too timid to ask them out or something. Whatever works as long as my caller ID doesn't say "restricted" on it, I don't care. I get lots of smiles and downward glances as girls meet me in public. I rarely smile back. The PTSD has me scanning everything and reading people, so I can tell which girls like me, and which ones don't. Most don't and I am good with that.
If they knew that I can just order up $10k worth of engine parts for one of my cars, and not have it affect me at all, they'd probably show a lot more interest. A black T shirt or hoodie when its cold, well worn jeans, a ball cap from a gun shop or car parts company, and the one tell.. $300 redwing work boots. Even when they see me walk out to my 65 GTO or 70 Cuda, they don't seem to make the connection. The older girls will comment about my car, its obvious to them. I tell em "Thanks, its my grocery getter" they always laugh.
They don't see me again, so they won't realize its the same guy with a 69 GTO, 70 GTO, a bunch of old Firebird Formulas when I get them done and put them on the road. I will be driving the 76 C10 I am building right now later this summer. All black, slammed, short box, big wheels, wide tires, loud raspy thumping 6.0 I swapped in, its going to be a head turning truck. Hopefully the wheels and tires I want for it will be off backorder soon. Fucking Biden.
I like to build cool shit, and old cars are a vastly better way to spend time and money than girls. The vehicles go up in value, girls go down in value.
Its kinda funny. I am a disabled veteran, I save money by doing the work myself, because I can't afford to pay others to do it for me. Honestly I cant afford a female and an old car, so 40 old cars, and 30 or so newer ones is the way I go. every so often a college girl decides she wants a ride in my car, then a ride in the back seat. Then she goes back to class and I never see her again. They don't want their dad to know she got railed by a guy older than him. I don't think they buy it that my name is Raoul or Sergio...
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The Buick engines are wonderful little pieces of design, particularly the 215 all the way to the 3800. They are my third favorite engine, with the Pontiac first, the Cleveland second, and honestly tied with the Olds for 3rd. I have a particular fondness for the Olds 403. The LS is a lot like the BOP engines(Pontiac in particular), far more than the sbc, so they are like the best of GM design and engineering, with a chevy bolt pattern for the trans and starter location. I can see the 215 design being called the most versatile and successful V8, it wasn't killed off by the bean counters in 1979 like the other good GM engines.
The only reason the sbc was produced as long as it was, and in as many numbers, is because it was a lowest common denominator design that powered trucks, taxis and fleet vehicles. Its not a good design, it needs LOTS of work to get to the point where a Buick, Olds, or Pontiac came factory stock. Without the aftermarket the sbc would be a footnote in history, stock they are low powered slugs that even in the best configuration (the LT-1) made less power than a simple 351C 4V with a tiny stock cam. The sbc needed a 250@.050 cam to come close to the power the Cleveland made with a 224@.050 cam. Daily driver Ford vs race engine chevy. Throw a bigger cam in the Cleveland and it becomes a monster. The 4Vs were the engine to beat in the late 1980s where I came from.
I have a pile of even and odd fire 231s, one is supercharged the rest are NA. There is a plan rolling around my head to build a ladder car, like an Ariel Atom, with one of the 3800s and transaxles. I am thinking the NA heads on the SC short block with flat top slugs to up the compression under the blower, port the hell out of the heads, bump the cam up and run a 110LSA to build mid range torque, and fuel it with E85. You can run a lot more compression with boost on the yeast pee vodka fuel than you can on pump gas. Probably use LS injectors from a 6.0 to increase the head room enough for the fuel requirements. Man that would be a kick ass little grocery getter, easy on fuel, ludicrous power to weight for a daily driver built from junk, and if I get the suspension geometry right it should be stupid fun in corners or an AutoX track.
If I had that 215 I would turbo it and put it on a T Bucket built from scrap. Kinda thinking of doing that with the 1965 vintage 326 that came with my parts LeMans that is now going gasser with a dual quad 455. Ya know, one of the Opel GTs I have with that 215 would be a fun daily driver.
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@robertsmith2956 yeah the payday loans outside the front gate, how everyone under E5 with dependents qualifies for food stamps, and from what I hear from my nephews who are in right now the esprit de corps is completely gone thanks to the potato regime. Everyone I know who has gotten out in the last ten years is resentful and bitter towards the military, and the VA comes in a close second.
The treat everyone like crap, since Sicarg Bill everyone gets deployed constantly because they cut everyone/everything back so much, but still expected people to do the work of five people, and the politicos start useless for profit conflicts. Their profit at our expense.
Thats not even bringing PTSD into it. I've had it since I was 8 or 9, maybe earlier the shrinks and I are not sure.. well the shrinks who didn't come from the anti male social system in the state and actually know something about it. I've lived with it, and that thought goes through my mind every few seconds when I am highly stressed. More stress, more thoughts of demise.
These younger guys who went into the conflict without it have no idea how to deal with it, the VA and the military have no freaking clue either... despite me telling two shrinks at my VA all about my coping skills, the methods I used to rewire my mind, and how I managed to minimize the effect my PTSD has on others. When I pass it on to other veterans, it all makes sense and they start improving to where life is livable.
It seems though, that the military, government, and certain people in the VA want us to go ahead and end things. Its cheaper if we do it ourselves, and they stand back and feign giving a damn, 'like oh no don't do that... it makes us look bad, but we won't help you at all, just fill you full of meds that don't work, but make your life worse.'
The movie Jarhead shows some of what its like, movies are still movies and the people making them have no freakin clue about the military, or even reality for that matter, but in that one they portray the boredom, the spouses cheating, the dark humor, and the exasperation of dealing with poor leadership pretty good.
The numbers of chicks who made videos of them cheating is crazy... my first ex did that, with another couple on base, he was getting kicked out for looking at CP on GOV PCs. A real winner he was. Almost all the lower enlisted on base saw them all in several unnatural acts, many of which were punishable by the UCMJ, but since he was getting discharged the wing commander ignored it.
There are two people who were my E5s at my first two bases who are on the BTDOS list, because of the life altering things they did to me... mostly out of spite or because they enjoyed heaping stress on me.
I almost forgot.. when I was injured, it took a year to get an MRI, my PA assumed since I am big due to being very muscular that I did not want to run. Rather than some simple treatment they worked me harder and did nothing about it. Now I live with chronic pain and limited mobility that could have been alleviated in 2003. They want to break you, then they want you to end everything so they don't have to pay you anymore.
So maybe that is why the military doesn't really do anything about PTSD and the spouse cheating then getting everything problem.
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@c.albrow9161 at the ripe age of 16, in 1985, I had the chance to buy a 1969 RA IV 4 speed Judge.. for $1200. I had owned my 67 Cougar for three years at that point, and only used $450 of the $2500 I made selling sweet corn in the summer of 1982... dad said no, because it would never be worth more than $2500. I said I didn't care because I would never sell it anyway. Yeah I have owned a car since I was 13... longer than my second wife has been alive.
In 1986 I bought my 72 GTO from a junkyard for $175, hit in the front. I got a 72 LeMans with that front end last year... been looking for it all these years. Those hoods sell for $5000 each in 'ok' shape. I have two of them now.
In 1987 I could have bought a 1971 Judge, 455 HO M22 4 speed for $4000, I really should have, but the 69 has always been the enigmatic dream car I still want. Instead I got a 1979 10th Anniversary TA for $2500. I still have the TA but it hasn't moved since 1988. I plan to change that this year, drag it 1000 miles from the family farm to where I live now and get to rebuilding it. The poor thing was rough when I got it, but zero rust.
I enlisted in 1988, which put builds on hold for a while. Still picked up a 1979 WS6 Formula 4 speed while I was stationed in Germany. If it were a 400 car it would be worth a fortune... but it was a 301 4 barrel. Its my street strip toy now, had it running 11.40s in street trim back in the 90s. It has a 700+hp Butler Performance engine in it right now. That thing scares me a little.
When I got out of the military the second and final time in 2005, a friend who had orders to the White House (electrician) sold me his 1972 455 HO Formula... you know one of 276 built, six with auto and AC, this one has no paint code, just two dashes on the cowl tag... a one off special ordered car.
Between enlistments, working as a CNC programmer/machinist, and owning an auto shop on the side and after NAFTA sent the CNC job to Mexico, I picked up some other Firebirds, 71 Formula 400, 74 Formula 350, three more 79 Trans Ams (one is a black SE) and my 1970 GTO.
In 2007 I picked up the rolling shell of rust that is my 65 GTO. PHS verified GTO, was a 4 barrel 4 speed, manual everything car. Is now a 455, TKO600, and Jeep steering box, with a bunch of suspension upgrades to make it a fun daily driver. Runs on E85 and home made E100. Lots of compression, which means LOTS of torque and decent mileage. I have over 3000 hours of my life invested in that car, and about $15k.
Last summer I picked up the 69 GTO, not a Judge, and not much left of it, slightly worse shape than the 65 was when I started on it in 2009. Well the 65 had a good frame under it, but the 69 has more pinch weld area where the front and rear glass glue in.
Once I get a bunch of other stuff done this summer (trucks/trailers/youtube creator race drag car for the no name nationals, etc.) the 69 and 70 are going in the shop to get frame off rebuilds. Then the 71 and 72 Formulas the next year. The 10th Anniversary will get the shop all to itself because it should go quick, might as well concentrate on it and make it nice.
First divorce was in 2001. Second in 2013. I managed to keep all the old muscle cars, mostly because none of them were shiny, so those two didn't realize they were worth anything. The first got a crapton of child support out of me. She will be 48 this year, alone, over 300lbs, addicted to oxy, and the only reason her house wasn't foreclosed is because her mom died and left her just enough money to get caught up. What a great parent to leave debt and a world of crap for her kids.
The second one had me thrown in jail rather than going after my VA income. She knew I would simply burn everything and self delete in a VERY public and inconvenient way in her parents driveway if she did.
Both of them cheated, lied, and did everything wrong. Both were rewarded, the first was violent and bipolar, she made my life a living hell. I was punished for being a good dad, and never cheating, never mistreating them, and busting my ass to provide for them. I will not be doing that again.
Bipolar chicks are obvious to me now, at the first hint of that I simply turn and walk away. I will hook up, but usually I tell them my name is Raoul or Sergio, and they don't get to know where I live.
So I own all these old cars, a bunch of old trucks, (around 70 vehicles total) 13 acres of woodland near Lake Superior, built a 32x48 shop to work in.. with a lift and most tools I need to do all of this stuff...
But wait there's MOAR! I paid off everything last year and am debt free just 8 years after losing everything other than the cars and my tools a second time, and living in my car for two years. I like old cars a lot more than people. I like dogs a lot more than people too. My older Siberian Husky is bugging me to go out...
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@lescobrandon8443 I grew up on a farm with 300 head of cattle, 1000 head of hogs, sometimes chickens, and we had a small bit of land, only about 800 acres. I am always amused at those people claiming our animals live horrible abused lives, like they do in China... They have no clue, they have no experience, they are fed bullshit and they eat it eagerly. When we raised hogs the sows had their own crate that they went into every day, open the door they walk in, we let them out to roam around their pen daily until they pushed out their tasty little smelly bastards. They would stay in the crates to protect their piglets, they didn't want out because the other sows would eat them. When they weren't pregnant or raising their kids, they had nearly two acres of pen they lived in.
Our cattle would follow me around the pastures they to themselves had all summer, because I was the food guy all winter. I showed up, they got fed. Its a crazy amount of work keeping them healthy, having calves in March when the weather is still shit, taking care of them better than ourselves most of the time, except they want to be outside all the time. These people don't grasp the idea that the food isn't there with several feet of snow on the ground, so the cattle gotta eat something.
The 'factory farms' are not going to get paid if they abuse the animals, just like you and my family would not. Abuse them, they die, and if they die they can't produce more of themselves, and then why bother with livestock? These city dwelling clueless twats think we are all stupid like they are. Its in our best interest to keep them healthy, and the idea they die of thirst is ludicrous. They die from a blow to the head long before they get thirsty.
Compare the life and death of livestock here in the US to that of wild animals, and the domesticated ones have it very good. No fighting over water, no threat of predators eating them while they are still alive, no starving to death because the food dried up, no pressure to always be moving because the herd eats everything in its path. But those people, the ignorant city people who believe that propaganda from other ignorant fools, have no clue what life in the wild is like. They think its a Disney movie and Bambi's mother is a tragedy when its the natural life cycle of being born, growing, then being eaten. Everything gets eaten. Even us, unless we burn ourselves.
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I started losing interest at 36, by 40 it was a novelty, at 55 its a hassle that isn't really worth the expenditure of energy. Life without one of them is so much less expensive in time and money, so I get a lot more done and have been enjoying my life. The solitude is entirely intentional, and preferred. Better things to do.
I never did the P&D, didn't try to get a high count, I was looking for one to make memories and spend my life with me. Still ended up with somewhere between 150 and 200 count, they all kinda blend together after a while. First ex was number 89 or so, that was 30 years ago.
The more I talk to them today, the less interested I am. I am still polite in public, friendly, and kind, but I don't pursue anymore and try to appear unattractive.
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@HenriFaust I like new ideas, if the new ideas actually work, do not cost more than the old way of doing it, and it improves things. I am a gearhead, I build engines, transmissions and entire cars. Some people think it needs to be stone stock, others think everything needs changed or perhaps the entire concept needs to be thrown out. The way I see it is simple, I put effort and changes into the areas in which it benefits me most, so I can make more power and use less fuel than the stock version of the engine. I don't need to change everything, I only need to tweak certain areas to get what I want. I choose the engine that does what I want, then I enhance its strengths rather than try to change it to do something it is not designed to do.
With people its harder, because you have to understand human nature. Most people are lazy and want to be taken care of. Thats why socialism and all the other fucked up ideologies like it take hold. Because people want something for nothing, and do not realize its the path to slavery for them. How many people would rather buy a vehicle than build one like I do? Most want it given to them.
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Interesting, you are against the higher power and authority being the state, but are advocating for the authoritarian higher power to be a nebulous idea from the bronze age. Sounds kinda harsh, but boil it down and remove the emotion you have attached to it, and that is what you get. Freedom is not supplicating to something that prescribes to you what you must do. Does not matter if its a god or a government, or some jerk who is bigger than you are and will beat the snot out of you if you don't do what he says to do.
Freedom is taking personal responsibility for your actions, your path, and deciding where you will go and what you will do. Understanding that infringing on other people with your actions is limiting their freedom and then not doing it, is the responsibility behind liberty. You chart your own path, but don't run over the others around you. You will always have people who want control over others, most often they are the weak minded and insecure, always afraid of what others might do, so they seek to control everyone in a vain attempt to assuage their own insecurities.
The way I see it is you are either follower oriented, or leadership oriented, and many people want to be leaders, but are not very capable of it. S few will be competent capable leaders, but it is something earned, not given. Most want to follow, and be told what to do, when to do it, and not have to decide for themselves. They are the ones who follow ideologies, like religions, marxism, etc. They want someone else to decide for them, so they don't have to risk being wrong.
You can choose to follow the ideological path, nobody is stopping you, but there are limits and drawbacks to every ideology. That is because life is too complex with too many gray areas, and filled with capricious people who don't care about liberty as they want power and authority over you, to build an ideology that doesn't limit or try to control you. One size does not fit all, and you will always have someone who will use the ideology to take control and exploit others. Just look at the TV evangelists with private jets begging for more cash every week. They are taking advantage and telling you the piss on your head is rain.
I always found it very surprising that when most people lose the religion they were indoctrinated into in their youth, they would then run to another ideology that does the same thing, but has the state as its god. They have a need to follow. Its not just a want, they need someone to tell them, do this, don't do that, this is bad, and you are in the in-group when you do or say this. They leave your religion and assume marxism is the polar opposite and therefore different and good. Its just another ideology, but its one that always results in the same things, large scale starvation, concentration/death camps, abject poverty for the masses, and mass graves. Contrary to popular belief, marxists are not atheists, they have a god, and it is the state, while the religion is the party.
They go from an ideology that limits you in certain ways, not all of them beneficial as religion instills guilt as a means of control and that can cause huge problems (among other things), but at this point is nearly benign because its not allowed to be the law of the land anymore. For good reason I might add, otherwise you get things like we see with the islamic state, burning people alive, crushing them, witch trials, etc. The influence of the founders removing religion from our legal system, and keeping the good parts like don't kill, steal, then going with the aforementioned idea of liberty and rights, is why your religion isn't burning people anymore... well not in the west, over in Africa it still happens, and then you get holy wars all the time between your religion and others over who follows the same god of Abraham the right way and who does not.
Not letting your ideology control everyone and forcing them to live by the exact prescriptions laid out by people trying to control the actions of others is the key to it not ending up as an authoritarian nightmare. your god said to destroy entire races and groups of people, and called it good. He flooded the entire world, according to your bible, and killed millions, calling it good and them wicked.
Your wicked could possibly be my Tuesday, and I will not be harming anyone, no child sacrifices etc. I am just not following the exact prescriptions of your bronze age entity. Wicked in islam is producing whiskey or vodka, and I run my old cars on exactly that and I make ethanol/vodka from tree sap or cattails. Your religion claimed it was witchcraft to attempt to fly, and witches were to be burned. ever gotten on a jet to travel? Orville and Wilbur would have been burned alive two hundred years earlier. You get my point?
Taking the good parts of your ideology and living by them, I am all for it man. Being kind, compassionate, not getting your nose in the business of others, not being a dick to your neighbor and trying to bang his wife. All good stuff.. its where ideologies go wrong, that is why we can't have an ideology like a religion, and yes marxism is a religion, in control of our nation.
Liberty is not going to be found in any ideology that tells you what you have to do and you can only do what it says you can do.
Freedom of speech is being able to point out where ideologies fail, and not being burned or stoned as a blasphemer. Ridicule or criticism of the authority is not allowed in religions... but it is in the USA. Before you say OT does not apply I direct you to Matthew 5:18. For what its worth, I like the Abrahamics in many ways, its the people who take them too far and go completely 100% by the book that concern me, because it is so easily used to oppress people... as any ideology is. Derive comfort from it, and I am cool with it go do your thing, force me to live by its rules, and well you will find out what the marxists are about to learn the hard way.
I can decide for myself what a good life is, and to me it does not include being subservient to anyone nor anything.
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I chased my dreams and goals, females and getting laid happened to be one of the goals, but a minor one. I did well with picking them up, getting laid, and meeting them. However, if I do not put in some effort, actually go talk to them, or if I don't meet one that fits some rather low standards, nothing happens. I do not get any if I do not put some effort out there, even if its just talking to the chick who is looking at me in the store.
Like it or not, men have needs and getting laid on occasion to several times a week is a need. In my youth I needed to get it at least twice a week for my brain to function without a fog. Now at 51 I still wake with morning wood, I am interested, but not overly motivated to get laid. Females cost me a lot, hundreds of thousands of dollars, two houses, two stints in jail for shit I didn't do, and more. I still had the need to get laid, and I found ways to make that happen.
Focusing on getting laid, you're right that is going to fuck up. Focus on your purpose, by all means. One of the best things I can advise is to learn sales, because everything you learn in sales will translate into getting laid.
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@krzosu you think being a sociopath is a bad thing? I am not a cereal deleter (I have to use code as YT doesn't like me speaking about certain things. It happens more when you get over 500 subs). People can take pleasure in others being harmed, and not be like me, or a psychopath. I've had two diagnoses so far, along with PTSD and some other fun stuff..
Sociopaths are created, usually in childhood, through systematic not nice treatment. Doesn't mean they are horrible people, it only means they do not care about you or feel empathy without putting in an effort to do so.
Psychopaths don't care if something is right or wrong, they do what they want and often enjoy the outcome. Sociopaths have their own set of rules and guidelines they live by, with a considerable amount of overlap with society as a whole.
The bad guy getting his comeuppance in a movie, a man being hit or kicked in the family jewels, seeing people suffer... its entertaining to those who are insulated from it. Unless it triggers a flashback, I am indifferent to most of that stuff.
Now here is the interesting part. I don't want to be around people, but generally I like people. Yet I tend to look down on most of them as they have limited intellectual capacity. Doesn't mean I mistreat them, or want to control or own them, its merely that I cannot depend on them, trust them, and most often there is nothing to be learned from them.
While I don't really care if a billion people get zeroed out, I realize that can profoundly and negatively affect the rest of us. Its part of my 'rules' to not harm people who have not earned it. Earn it and there is no voice in my head that says "we should stop now" when they have lost, its only when another target appears or they stop moving. Thats a PTSD thing too.
Now as I watch what is happening in the world, with certain people working to control everyone and cull a few billion, I realize they are doing it in a quest for wealth and power. Neither excite me, they are not my motivations. So I have a very difficult time understanding those people.
I resent greatly being lumped in with them, which is why this diatribe has appeared here today. They are not like me. They are driven by insecurity and a need to control others to assuage their own shortcomings and self image. Whereas I harbor no insecurities, it is impossible to offend or embarrass me, even though resentment is close to being offended its somewhat different as there is no element of disgust.
I have defended the innocent, fought back against those who tried to impose their will on others for whatever reason. I have accepted the fact that people come and go. I know a few thousand people I will never see again, its just how life is, and not all of them have kicked their air addiction.
There is a chunk of Berlin Wall on my shelf, I knocked it off with a sledgehammer in 1989 while stationed in Frankfurt. It reminds me of how truly evil some people can be. Those who follow that evil, are my sworn enemy, and thus deserve what happens to them.
Everyone else, meh.. they have their own lives, let them be concerned with them. We have ours to live.
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Gob Mccracken they are already trying to force us to stop racing cars. The RPM act is designed to stop their stupid shit. Its the same tactic they are using with AR15s, claim this one small thing is the big problem, get people to ban it, then when it has no effect they will say we need to ban all guns/cars.
I'm aware..
As for pollution, heh.. my vehicles are cleaner than electric vehicles. They have a far greater range as well. Sugar, water, yeast and time, then various methods of distilling that I can utilize without fossil fuels. Burn ethanol in an engine you only get CO2 and H2O. The Co2 comes from the environment around us, not pulled from the ground.
Part of the push for electrics is to limit our ability to travel, and my vehicles have 250 to 300 mile ranges with as much performance as the Tesla, usually more. Rather than the $80k+ of the electrics with that range, I build everything for less than $5k with a car that was stamped out of steel 40 or 50 years ago. Its all amortized, the electrics are using fossil fuels today to produce everything used to build them.
Its not about the environment, its about controlling us, making us dependent upon them.
My thoughts on climate change? Well I know a bit more about geologic history than it being the warmest in recorded history. Its nowhere near the warmest it has been on the planet. They started recording temps and measuring them in the middle of what is known as the mini ice age, in the 1700s. Prior to that mini ice age it was much warmer, to the point that vineyards were on Greenland rather than ice sheets. Medieval warming period... its real.
Go back farther and the planet has been warmer and completely covered in ice. 150k years ago there was two miles of ice where I am sitting, wearing down a mountain range from 300 million to 500 million years before. The climate fluctuates, and all the supposed things about it changing faster than it has before are nonsense.
It took me a while to figure out why Al Gore made his demonstrably inaccurate movie. They want to control us, and they want to use fear to do it. They want to use marxist based laws and systems to control us, while they profit from our labor, which will prevent us from challenging them. Like Bill Gates and Bezos slamming the door behind them, we are rich and do not want you to get rich, so we are going to limit you artificially.
If it was about the environment then all the things I do around here would be far more popular with them. Instead they just want to limit us, and force us to rent everything from them.
If everyone is more concerned with survival, they are less prone to think bigger. If you are hungry and cold all the time, you will do whatever you must to get food and warmth... including allowing yourself to become a dependent, a slave to them.
Outlaw gasoline, I don't give a fuck. I will teach people how to produce fuel that will make more power, burn cleaner, run cooler, and actually clean the air as we run it, then we can also use the CO2 from the generators in greenhouses and produce our own food all year. Electricity is easy to produce on a small scale.
Trying to make everything I do fit the centralized distribution model that is so very profitable for the big corporations will not work. Individuals and small communities can utilize my systems, and be self sufficient. Its funny how its rather communal, or collective, but not communist nor socialist as there is no top down control structure. Its inherently free market, not a command economy like the marxist ideas.
They in power do not want that, because we are not easily controlled when we produce almost everything we need within a 20 mile radius of where we live. Oranges would be a bit of a pain in the ass, as would tires where I live..
You see they push propaganda, whereas I supply facts and I can prove they are wrong... well except for history if they wipe it. Can't prove that if all evidence is purged the way religious nuts do it.
I can prove how easy it is to produce fuel, how easy and beneficial it is to run it in our vehicles, and how to easily increase the efficiency so my engines surpass gasoline and diesel for mileage. All they can do is say the world will end in 12 years...
or as Al Gore said no more snow by 2009... and judging by the amount of snow I have gotten since I moved here in 2005, Al was as full of shit as AOC saying the world is over in 12 years.
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First wife was um... a doorknob on a bike that the town enjoyed from a broken home, I did not know and it was 30 years ago. She lied, cheated, filed, and financially destroyed me after 8 years together.
Second wife was a virgin when I met her, her parents never split up and are religious. No red flags, she was smart, and wonderful for 8 years then we married. She lied, cheated, had me thrown in jail on fabricated allegations, and financially destroyed me 16 months after we married.
Women blame me for not picking the right ones. How do we know if they are going to do that until we take the risk and they actually do it? Also we don't get to pick them, we offer to take them along with us on our journey, and they pick us.
Men blame me or just say yeah, thats how females are.
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@MiyamotoMusakaki yeah, I retired at 35, that was 15 years ago. Keep striving to get more money.. soon your life will be over and you might have a big pile of cash, meanwhile I have been living and enjoying my life because I know things you do not. I know these things because I never chased money, I strived for competence, capability, knowledge, and prowess.
What I got in return was immense physical and mental strength, a wide range of abilities, and a confidence you do not get without being tested far above what normal people experience.
I have done things you can only dream of, watched history unfold before my very eyes, not on some screen with a talkin ghead blathering on about whats happening on the other side of the planet, and I was part of it rather than a spectator on the sidelines. If you get to my age with half the experiences I have had, you will have had a more eventful life than 90% of people on the planet.
I doubt you will.
You might be rich someday, other people are wealthier than I am by far, but I have something they will never achieve. With your mindset, it will elude you for the rest of your time here. You will forever be insecure about yourself, what you have done, and what you deserve.
I live alone in the woods, in a house I built with my hands, and I guarantee it is a far more enjoyable life than you will have chasing pieces of paper with dead presidents on them. Enjoy your hollow existence. I will enjoy watching people like you founder at life as you never really live.
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@zakofrx you really don't know much about veterans, do ya. We know what they know, we know how to thwart their capabilities. If they pull comms, that only lets us know something is up. We can do what we do in an analog world. If the government comes for us, well that changes things a bit, but a bunch of idiots in black hoodies, they gonna get tore the fuck up. I do not base anything on movies or fictional stories, I base what I do on reality, experience, and training. The people who make movies more often than not have zero clue about what happens, but they know how to make a dramatic story. Reality is not very dramatic, its lots of boredom and sheer terror sprinkled in randomly. Doesn't make for a compelling movie.
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We military types will often have a way about us that makes us appear to NOT be an easy mark. The haircut and the way we walk say a lot about us, gives us away too. I was able to blend in exceptionally well in Germany, my ancestry is there and I look exactly like Germans do, well the barrel chested farmer/machinist types. I stood out a bit in Korea.. no idea why. When I was engaged to a woman who lived in Dubai in 90-92, they said I looked Syrian, because they have lighter hair and often blue eyes, otherwise I stand out everywhere other than central/northern Europe.. for more than my width, which makes me obvious anywhere I go.
I've never been mugged, only had my car broken into in Charleston SC, its obvious when you have training and muscle that you are not worth the risk. The soft or loud and boisterous types in the military are the ones who get rolled.
The car thing in Charleston was kids, they broke the window to take a water damaged stereo when the door was unlocked. He left a screwdriver that was worth more than the stereo, and never touched the $25k worth of tools in my road box in the back of my pickup. The funny thing is my 1970 GTO sat unlocked the entire time I was stationed there, the stock radio was in the dash, a Kenwood under the seat, and it looked ratty. Rattle can paint, cheap wheels, no carpet, cracked dash, and special instructions just to start it. Looking unassuming is a quality defense, it goes along with "look unimportant, they may be low on ammo"
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@nixie8435 missed the entire point of what I said.. Ok, no worries, nothing bad can ever happen to you because you have faith it can't happen to you. :)
Yes he is an old guy, somewhat of a boomer because he doesn't know how electricity works, or that the moon orbits the earth(which is spherical), the earth orbits the sun, which orbits a super massive black hole at the center of our galaxy, which is one of billions of galaxies.. He isn't real big on disease either, since he says its sin that causes it, not viruses and bacteria. No problem though, just pray, no need to wash your hands. Everything is ok.
There is nothing wrong with being an old guy. I am an old guy, but I know how electricity works, and the other stuff too. Maybe your lord should come hang out for a while so I can explain things to him.
He did tend to get female nature right though, so I gotta give him props for that.. 1 Timothy 12:2.. he even repeated one twice Proverbs 25:24 and 21:9. Those last two are my all time favorite bible verses. Man Paul was spot on about the ladies, I tell ya what he was plugged in when it came to female nature.
Not real big on marsupials or the north American bison, but what is an entire class of animals and the continent they came from and a whole species really? I guess when he catches up to the average 6th grader, even with the common core and other BS they are indoctrinating into kids these days, then I will take him more seriously.
Until then I will keep making fuel, energy, growing food, and doing things to survive. Maybe he sent me into your view so you could learn how to do all these things.. mysterious ways and all that. My grandmother knew how to grow food, produce antiseptic/fuel, but she never drove a vehicle in her life. She was awesome, I miss her cooking. Germans are the best cooks by far... ok Indian food and south west food is pretty good too..
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Dallnar Right before I got out in 05, we had a handful of new kids get busted for smoking dope, one for selling it on base, and some meth and cocaine were in the mix too. Restricted to base, no off duty days while they waited to see what happened, I asked them what they were thinking.
They all said they didn't think it was a big deal, and that the videos they show us in basic about how serious it is to use those drugs on base were not what actually would happen. When your parents fix everything for you, there is a tendency to not realize the military is serious about you not doing stupid shit.
The least one got was a BCD, the rest got dishonorables, and jail time one should be getting out soon, the kid who brought it on base and sold some of it. He got 20.
To me weed isn't a big dangerous thing, but doing it while you're active is just plain stupid. There are reasons its not allowed, and people's lives are in the balance. Its just so fucking stupid. This Vindman guy is from that same generation, what the fuck was he thinking.
He will be lucky if he gets to stay in or gets promoted to O6.
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I wear a mask in stores here in Michigan, because they ask me to. They ask me to, not demand it. I will not wear one outdoors, not in my car, not in my plane, not in my train, I will not wear a mask as it is a useless placebo and a mildly annoying pain. I will not be getting the shot. I am not anti vax, I have had hundreds while in the military, including small pox twice, anthrax, and all the others. This one I do not need, do not want, and honestly do not trust.
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@LikeGod_ButBetterLooking that is not what a nazi is, and it sure looks like you have no clue what they were about. If you think a nazi is right wing you are:
1: an ideologue
2: ignorant of history
3: both
nationalism is not a nazi only thing, it is also not a bad thing except to marxists. As for our schools, they are teaching marxism from pre school to post grad, so I find the idea that the cheeto and the useless republicans were teaching kids to be nazis.
You are buying in to the emphasis on nationalism and it being bad when we do it, but I bet you have no problem with central Americans being proud of where they come from. Well, you'd better not have a problem with it, because then you would be a socialist. I bet you have a huge problem with the fat that I am proud of the country I was born in, and the one where my ancestors were born in, just because we are white, and the old country had quite a few problems with socialism.
The key word in national socialist workers party is socialist. There is no way a socialist can be on the colloquial right, unless you assume the entire world is marxist. It isn't.
I would surmise that like most people, you are simply unaware of the history of socialism, communism, and all the rest of that utterly repugnant bullshit.
I would also wager that you buy into the idea that the democrats somehow switched with everyone else in the 1960s, when all they really did was stop trying to prevent minorities from voting, and paid them to vote for the democrats. Then did everything they could to keep them impoverished and dependent on the handouts from the dems.
What is on every block in Compton? A liquor store. The gangster rappers figured that out 30 years ago. They found out that if they talked about it, someone would shoot their ass... like Tupac. Funny how NWA and the rest stfu after he and biggie were whacked.
Now here you are pushing the same tired bullshit propaganda meant to divide us and allow the useless race obsessed fucktarded democrats to control everything. I'm not sure who is worse, people like you or the people who liked Dubya.
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My power was off for 6 hours yesterday. The longest I have gone without a power interruption in the 16 years I have lived here was 6 weeks in 2007. Right after the power was off for 7 days. Grid power costs a lot here, its not so much the watt hours as all the other stuff they tack on to it. They charge me rent for the meter box I bought at Lowes and installed myself. All to give me unreliable power. Its why I am working on making electricity myself, looking for a large enough Stirling engine to run a 7kw-10kw generator.
The grid power here is from coal. Lots of coal. How much more coal is needed if we are charging limited range cars every night? Earlier this year two people died in a Tesla fire, they hit a pole and were dead before they could get out. The impact did not kill them. Its the 3rd EV fire here in two years, corrosion from the salt in winter does those things no favors.
I make vodka and run my GTOs and Firebirds on it, I get better mileage than I do with gasoline with the same size/make engines, but with different compression ratios. 11:1 is low to me, 13:1 is easy to achieve, 26:1 is high. I make ethanol because gasoline is expensive here, its been over $3 all year, when most of the country still has it under $3. Premium is over $4, so if I am planning a pump gas build, it gets 8:1 compression rather than having to run premium. If it pings it will get some ethanol thrown in to bring up the octane. Why pay $3 when I can run my 455s for ten cents a gallon on tree sap vodka?
The way I do it is cheap, because its made on site not shipped across the country a couple times or sold at the stock market raising the price so everyone can get a little from it. The power you can make on ethanol is lots of fun too.
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Seth R I have 300' of driveway I can cover from my roof, which is easy to get to. If they want to try and get through the woods, well they better show up in mid May, otherwise its a nightmare, at that time its only wet from snow melt.
I know my land much better than they do, and if they aren't adept at navigation in a forest, they can get lost within 100 yards of my house.I suppose maybe its time to build some walls, punji pits, and other fun stuff to funnel idiots who want to stroll in here. But to get away with anything of value, or bring more than yourself and a gun you have to take that 300' corridor and I shot expert 4 times with worn out M16s. My rifles are much better than the mil grade crap we had to work with.
Not worried though, they'd never make it this far out without getting cut to shreds by the people who live between me and town. That is if they were stupid enough to come out here. Nah, if I wanted to get in a fight again, I would have to go to it. It won't come to me unless the world goes completely to shit Walking Dead style.
I don't want marxists running things because that means I can't get car parts, hell you can't get anything after a couple years with marxist control. Already things like tires and parts are getting scarce, tried to order some tires for my truck, they were back ordered for over a month. They want me to stay home and build hot rods, they really don't want me to come fight again. I want me to stay home and build cars.
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Since I was in my 30s, I haven't wanted to go through the effort of getting to know them, finding all their landmines, then after putting in all that time and effort to have them decide they want to try someone else. I gave them one last chance with my second ex, 8 years together before getting married, and it ended the same way they all did. The last time I could ever trust one of them was more than 20 years ago. At least the second one didn't harsh my peace, and the spicy time never ended until I turned off the debit card, car insurance, and everything else because of infidelity on her part. In my 40s I was getting lots of them in their 20s, a handful in their 30s, but it was always all the same thing, over and over. Untrustworthy, flighty, definitely not a long term thing. Now at 55 I enjoy living alone, travelling to dragstrips all summer to run my car, and doing fun stuff I enjoy.
Building old cars is vastly cheaper, more enjoyable, and infinitely more satisfying than dating/relationships. Our opposite simply isn't worth any effort at all anymore, even for the only thing I want from them.
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@Hashishin13 you missed my point... they want taxes paid on every transaction, but its impossible. If I sell an intake manifold that I got with a used car, the only time it had any tax paid on it was when it was initially bought... If I catch a fish and sell it to my neighbor there is no tax paid.
Here is the funny thing.. if I sell some ethanol fuel to someone, technically I have to pay tax on the sale, but since I am not a business owner, and all I am really forced to do is tell the ATF how much fuel I produced then the IRS will give me a tax credit on it, they are paying me to make said fuel. In my state if I do not sell it to anyone, I do not have to pay tax on it because the law says the tax is for fuel that is sold here... not produced here.
Lets say you have a wife with a predilection for spicy times.. if the guy down the street drops her a Benjamin for the old fashioned she gives him, neither will be paying tax on it.
Until it becomes a sizeable amount of cash, or they can track every penny/farthing/pfening, there will be transactions like this where no taxes are paid.
I suppose I could go into the whole laundering thing, its not like our politicians aren't doing that in several countries as you read this, but why get everyone up in arms over something they can get the gist of from watching Breaking Bad?
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Not a Trump fan either, really unfond of the GOP in general. Santorum, Perry, and Cruz are especially ill favored. The alternative the democrats provide is even more terrifying because I know where socialism always goes. They are doubling down on it, and it will cost them in a month, because I am not alone in my assessment of them. I have seen the government from the inside, caught the media lying outright as well as by falsehood by omission, and if I weren't concerned about my rights being infringed even more by the leftists, I would not even be interested in political shit.
Trump is annoying to listen to. Makes me want to slap him and tell him "stop using the same freaking words over and over you orange tinted twat." I loathed Obama because the dude cost me dearly, had my world fucked over by Bush and all the asshats who voted for the Iraq invasion (including hillary) so I am decidedly non plused by our politicians. However I can see where the orange tinted gremlin is turning the economy around and bringing back the jobs I lost to Mexico in the 90s which resulted in me going back to the military so I could enjoy my second war.... and come home fucked up from it. I needed a decent paying job, and they were drying up fast in the 90s because they were all going out of country thanks to NAFTA and other bullshit trade deals.
Yeah, I am old, not idealistic, I tend to enjoy reality over wishful thoughts and pie in the sky utopian fantasies. Been around the world (literally) and seen some shit, so I know marxist bullshit when I see it. This whole fiasco is nothing but by any means necessary ends justify the means marxist bullshit.
Kavanaugh is not someone I want on the SC, mainly due to 4th amendment and separation of church and state issues, but damn go after that shit instead of this repugnant bullshit.
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ethanol does absorb water. However, it does not evaporate easily. Does vodka evaporate sitting in the bar without a lid on it? What about whiskey? Do the4y absorb a lot of water from the air? The way it works is ethanol, methanol, and isopropyl all bond to water in your fuel tank. Then they still burn without a problem allowing you to remove the water from your tank.
You get water in the tank with E0, and you have to use things like HEET or DryGas to get it out. I had a 1984 F150 where the tank had rusted to the point if it had more than 1/4 tank it just ran out. Looking inside when I scrapped it, the only thing keeping the bottom from leaking due to rust was the varnish left by gasoline.
Just like the crankcase, water condenses in the fuel tank with heat cycles. A cold beer on a humid day condenses water the same way. So does cold concrete on a humid day. That same process happens in every fuel tank and crank case with heating and cooling cycles. You have to get the oil over 212F to boil the water out, can't heat the fuel tank now can we?
So ethanol, methanol, and isopropyl will allow you to burn the water that condenses inside the tank. Do a test. Get some Everclear or some other high proof whiskey, add water to it and see what happens. You simply lower the proof.
The additives they put in pump gas are causing the problems with rubber and small engines. Also you can run straight ethanol in your 2 strokes without a problem, but you can't use the two stroke oil for gasoline. it doesn't mix with ethanol. Use cooking oil or castor oil instead and it will run forever, except they tend to run too cold, so you need to limit the cooling to get them warm enough.
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@lsswappedcessna you got close to it. I make ethanol from cattails, using methane to heat the boilers, its all very green.. However, I don't do that to be green, I do it because it means I can make fuel for 10 to 40 cents a gallon. Then I can put it in my 13:1 compression iron headed Pontiac 455s, that make well over 550hp and near 600ftlbs.
I rebuild old cars rather than buy new ones, which is greener too, but not why I do it. I rebuild rusty old cars because that means I can get GTOs, TransAms, and other cool stuff a lot cheaper than one already done. I enjoy doing the work on them. The newest thing I own is a $400 GMC crew cab 4x4 with the old body style built in 2007. I'm working on making it a tow rig for my race cars.
Also I live in a shipping container house I built in 2019, and I heat it with biomass. Currently its a pellet stove, but I have a wood stove and another method I am working on that heats water to 140F while producing very high quality topsoil. It costs me around $100 a year, sometimes as much as $300 depending on how far I have to go to get the stuff I need to do it.
For me green is cheaper. Its not easier to produce your own energy, it takes work. However, how long do you have to work to pay for that tank of gas, or the electricity to power your house for a month, or to put food on the table? One weekend a year running stills, and one week prepping the fermentation is all I need to produce all the fuel I need for the year.
Producing electricity is the most difficult and expensive part of it. Wind and solar can only get you so much, where I live, its not enough, particularly in winter. A large Stirling engine would be the ticket for me, using the 140F water to power it.
Generators are noisy and thirsty for fuel, but they are handy running methane and ethanol because the exhaust is only Co2 and water, which can be pumped into a greenhouse to make the plants grow faster and use less water while producing more food.
Getting the hertz and a steady voltage/amperage is the hard part, get one wrong and you fry the appliances you're trying to use.
In many places if you live like I do, they will evict you from then condemn your home, tell you that you cannot grow your own food, and/or that you must be on the grid. There have been times where people tried to tell me I cannot run my vehicles on ethanol, that it is illegal unless its flex fuel and other nonsense.
Pushing EVs over home made vodka fueled vehicles is just a way to make personal transportation hideously expensive. You have to buy the electricity, since its rather difficult to produce enough yourself to charge the EV. You can, but it takes forever to do it.
My neighbor found out the hard way. He converted an old S10 to EV, and was using his windmill and solar to charge it. He could make it to town and back on a single charge if he went no faster than 45mph. the speed limit is 55 for half the distance, 65 for the rest, and he would have a two mile line of cars stacked up behind him on our two lane highway.
Takes him two days to charge it, and the conversion cost him more than the 750ish hp/tq Pontiac I just built. Haven't seen him drive it in a while.
I do green energy to save money, not to save the planet. The planet doesn't care, it will still be here and be fine.. Get away from cities and there isn't enough pollution to notice.
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@SurlyCurmudgen USAF rarely gives a GED waiver as well. They have to have a rather high ASVAB score to get in with a GED. My brother went Army, and they were letting GEDs into the infantry for a while. He was an 88M then a UH60 pilot/instructor. Makes me think I should have gone Army or Marines. I qualified for every job in the military, the Navy guys were trying to entice me with the nuke money, no fucking way I wanted to be in a submarine or on a carrier for months at a time. Ending up in the fleet is what kept me out of the jarheads. Sleeping in the mud kept me out of the Army.
Had an avionics job lined up, doc at MEPS bumped me for bullshit, and that school only started a class every other year. Ended up kinda desperate for a job back in 88, recruiter tried to give me TMO, turned that down because if I was going in the AF I was going to be working with airplanes. Then he offered me air trans the day I got fired from a bullshit $5 an hour job, so I took it. Ended up having the highest asvab scores in my flight in basic. It was my first inkling that the teachers and my parents weren't right about me being an idiot.
My sister is working on her masters in psychology, when she got her BS she nearly flunked out and graduated with a 2.7, she's not doing so well now either. When I got out the first time in 92 I went to school, was pulling a 3.8 in mech eng and automotive tech concurrently. My siblings still think I am the stupid one. Its good to be underestimated.
I had a decent time, deployed a few times, got worked nearly to death in the airlifts, saw the world, watched history unfold around me rather than on a TV screen. I'd do it again if we were transported back to the 1980s. No fucking way would I want to be enlisted right now. Too much PC bullshit.
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@birchthebirch4593 I'm good now, after accepting every relationship I attempt will fail, realizing I enjoy my solitude, and avoiding people other than to help them online, I am actually quite happy with my life for the first time. I always felt alone, even in a crowd, and sure as hell with my family, but I am not lonely.
In 2009-2011 I rewired my mind, created new synaptic pathways and flooded myself until I managed to write over many of the emotional markers. It sucked, was the most difficult thing I ever did, and I have done some damn difficult things, but it was very worth the effort.
Enough time has passed that I am no longer angry about what happened to me, I can never forget, but its like retelling a book I read rather than reliving it.
There are many things I will not talk about, but most of my history can be beneficial to others, so I share what is pertinent from time to time. I don't talk about military stuff with civilians, other than things they can grasp. My sense of humor is completely fucked, much like yours I bet. What I find funny often terrifies people. I have to be jovial and friendly in public, because if I let my NCO side out in public I get calls from the sheriff telling me I can't go there anymore.
One thing that made a huge difference in my life came from a VA VSO who was a Vietnam veteran that grew up with my dad. He told me "Everything is temporary" and somehow that puts things in perspective. My take is what will it have mattered in a thousand years, or a million years? It probably won't matter by then, so why get worked up over it now, just do what I gotta do and get on with it.
Mentally I am in a good place, hardly ever have thoughts of self deletion anymore, they used to be multiple times every day. More stress meant they came more often. I try to live stress free now, or as close as I can get to it. Since other people have usually been the source of my stress, not being around them makes it easy.
We just might have crossed paths, somewhere in the desert, or an originating/in transit base. I was usually where all the shit was happening when it came to logistics. Just lucky I guess, to be neck deep at the epicenter, but nobody knew or cared. :) Fine by me.
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@juliette2439 I'm aware of what they are saying about the religious right, and about people like me who were formerly in the middle and simply want to enjoy liberty, particularly since I sacrificed heavily for it already.
They can plan and cajole, use all the epithets about their supposed moral superiority, but when it comes down to it, they do not have the will to win a fight, they need others to do it for them.
*"Why, then, should you run away? And how can you resist right then? After all,
you’ll only make your situation worse; you’ll make it more difficult for them to
sort out the mistake. And it isn’t just that you don’t put up any resistance; you
even walk down the stairs on tiptoe, as you are ordered to do, so your neighbors
won’t hear.*
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Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to
sacrifice himself.*
Some still have hopes of a favorable outcome to their case and are afraid to ruin their chances by an outcry."
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
The Gulag Archipelago
I will not tiptoe like I am ordered so as to not disturb my neighbors. They come for you in the night and cajole you into not making a scene or fighting back so they can get you to comply and do what will almost certainly end with your death. They are too timid and inept to force you without a massive number of men, and if you fight back, your neighbors will as well when its their turn.
The watchers at yt tried to edit this as I wrote it. They do not want us to realize what they are doing and will try to do. Take the time, read the book I quoted that was also quoted above. Its in your best interest.
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LuceliaBerger the problem arises when someone claims we are the same, interchangeable, or that men are superfluous. We are supposed to work together, not compete with each other.
I live in constant pain because of some notion of equality and interchangeability.
However that is not why I am overly vociferous about this subject. Its because I have daughters, and they are being screwed over by this silly nonsense. The youngest wants kids badly, but cannot find a decent man to be the father, and that is due in large part, to her actions and choices when she was younger.. her mother gave her poor guidance at best, and now my daughter is paying for it.
The older one has sworn off men entirely, because of what her mother allowed to happen to her when she was 8. Less than a year after their mother took off with them. When I confronted her mom about what happened to them, all she said was "Well that happens."
Not if I was around, you can bet your lifetime's pay that I would never allow that to happen. If it did happen, you can bet the perp would never be found, and have a very painful passing. For obvious reasons they will not tell me who it was.
Yes, women can do some things we can do, but they aren't needed for many of those roles. I am not traditional, I am not conservative either, nor do I want to go back to a different time. I simply understand how people function and how society works.
I want us to work together, and play to our strengths.
You get a lot more when you improve on what you do naturally, rather than trying to do something you're not intended or built to do.
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@window4799 Its bad because it claims that if I have something and you do not, its because I stole it from you.
It also says I do not own anything, the state owns everything, and then claims the people own the state, but they actually do not. It owns them.
You do not get paid for putting in more work, you do not get compensation for how much work you put in, you get what you are deemed worthy of being paid.. So the incentives to achieve are gone. There is no reason to do even the minimum. So everyone is always out of everything.
In practice, going off he first thing I mentioned, if I put in more work and get ahead, I am punished for it. If I am more competent than someone else, I am punished for that as well. It is much easier to drag down the competent and capable than it is motivate the lazy or make the inept and incompetent someone who is competent.
All of this is how it works out when they claim equality of outcome is the best way, and that some have privileges, so others need to be advanced before those with privilege.
It praises and rewards the inept, incompetent, and unsuccessful, while punishing those who are capable. That is why the weak, resentful, envious, lazy and entitled losers flock to it. They want to be taken care of like children. They want the state to be their mommy and daddy.
Fuck that noise.
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My rare cars are all Pontiacs, two of which are rareish because they have so few options, one because it has lots of options and was special ordered. The 70 GTO has a very short build sheet, 400, 3 speed manual, power steering and brakes, thats it. Like a base model GTO. Then there is the 79 Trans Am, the only option on it is the Trans Am 403 automatic, which came standard with power steering and brakes, like a base model TA, neither of them have AC or power anything else.
Then I have something interesting. 1972 455 HO Formula. Its the only car I have where numbers matching means something, and it is. 276 were built with that engine, which only went in a few GTOs, all the Trans Ams in 72, and those Formulas that were built with it. I am told 6 of those had AC and an auto trans, how accurate that is I don't know. There is no paint code on the cowl tag, just two dashes where numbers or letters were normally, there is a metallic blue in the door jambs that looks like a Caddy only color, I am the 4th owner of it, so I am pretty sure thats what color it was painted at the dealer. This thing has a long list of options, which in and of themselves don't make it unique, but the round port 455 and no paint code does.
What my friend found out when he bought it in Alaska, was that a guy ordered it new to pull his boat around Alaska. He wanted the biggest engine he could get, but not a Trans Am with all the scoops and air dams, because snow doesn't get along well with them. So that meant he ordered a 455 HO with Ram Air, Th400, and a 3.08 open rear. AC, power windows, power steering and brakes, this thing is loaded. There are unique parts that go with the 455 HO, like the AC brackets are special to that engine.
The friend I got it from sold it to me because he had orders to be an electrician at the white house, and he wouldn't have room for it. He was planning to hack it up, put a transverse leaf spring under both ends with some Corvette kit. He tossed the factory aluminum intake ($1000) the factory carb ($2500) and the distributor ($1500) and put a Torker II with an Edelbrock carb on it. He was using wire nuts to wire everything, since he is an electrician, not a mechanic so its a fire hazard. He painted it flat black and put skull stickers on it. He painted the engine red, and all the parts on it are now red, he even painted the alternator. Then he put a 3.70 gear in it with a posi unit. The things he did slowed the car down rather than making it faster like he wanted to do. He was thinking chevy, which doesn't work on a 455.
The funny thing is NADA says its only worth about $6000 in its current condition, which would get the heads and a bare block. They add only 10% for the round port engine, which if you know Pontiac is ludicrously low. For a long time NADA said my 67 Cougar that was a 289 A code, just a 4 barrel auto, was worth more than the 72 Formula. Its like whoever is running that has no freaking clue.
The 72 is going in the shop soon, to get its ground up rebuild and it will end up being a day 2 rather than a chalk mark restoration. The rust isn't that bad for me, but some people will scrap a car because a quarter has a small half dollar sized hole in it. I've been putting off the build on this thing because my skills needed improvement. I need to finish the 72 Cutlass and the 71 Mustang fastback that are in the shop now, then I can do the 72 Formula and 69 GTO at the same time.
This year is being soaked up fixing trucks so I can haul cars. I wanted to do that last year but other people kept volunteering me to work on their junk. Not happening anymore, I have my own stuff to do, and I am running out of time to do it.
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@jenniferj5324 my life is good now. Actually very enjoyable living single. The details of what my ex wives put me through are quite messed up, child support alone for the first was $250k over 15 years, I barely made that much in that time. They hit me with 71% of my gross, and charged me interest when I was medically discharged from injuries sustained on my last deployment... and could not work. Zero income, but the pound of flesh accrued interest.
Ya know, it might sound like I am being harsh or hateful towards females, but really I am not. Society and the legal system are my problem with all this.. but I do not see it changing any time soon.
I like girls a lot, I have two daughters that I want to have fulfilling lives. They're in their late 20s and its a world of sh$$ for them. I would like to date again, but the risk is too great. I am 53 and if the state takes everything I have built since 2015 and gives it to a cheating liar who falsely accuses me, I don't have enough life left to rebuild again.
How eager would you be to hook up when you could lose the home you invested in, sacrificed to pay off early, and everything else you have done despite having limited mobility and a fixed income? You would stand to gain everything from dating me, and I would lose if/when you decided to move on to another walking ATM (in the eyes of the state) that we colloquially call men.
Life has been hard enough up to this point. The last thing I want to do is complicate it further and end up with nothing left from a lift of struggling against everyone taking from me.
I want to leave something for my daughters, and its going to be a big pile of valuable parts, equipment, and some seriously nice/fast cars they can enjoy or sell.
Know what my first ex is leaving them? Debt, nightmares, horrible memories, knowing their mom is addicted to oxy, and the bipolar she seems to enjoy.
My kids have the sad lives.
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Is it financial or is it men are discouraged from having a family, women are encouraged to chase only the best men and put off starting a family until its too late for them? I dunno, but its all included. HOWEVER....
I know its sustainable for me to grow two acres of cattails, use the roots to produce ethanol, the leftovers to produce methane, and that is how I power my old muscle cars. Local production, local use. I make it here and run my vehicles on it. Costs me about 40 cents a gallon, biggest cost is yeast and the enzymes that convert starch to sugar, and cleaning supplies.
One acre of wild cattails makes around 1000 gallons of fuel. (2x to 4x the yield per acre of corn)
One acre of cultivated cattails that are fed effluence from livestock runoff, can produce 10,000 gallons of clean burning fuel, WHILE CLEANING THE WATER flowing past them..
All you need is some tanks for fermentation, a source of starch/sugar, some water that can be reused, plastic tubing, copper or pvc for a still, and a boiler that can be cleaned easily. Also some space because things take up room and trying this in your apartment is going to limit how much you can make, and the quality of fuel.
Everything left over after fermentation can be fed to livestock or used for methane production, which can power the boilers, generators, and be used for cooking. Methane is essentially natural gas you can produce easily and cheaply. No drilling or digging required.
Running ethanol is simple and requires no special parts to run in your vehicle, no expensive tanks (like hydrogen does) and it has a great many other uses besides fuel. Every internal combustion engine can run on ethanol, with some changes to the tuning. Methanol is the corrosive one, ethanol is nowhere near as corrosive as methanol. Ethanol is simply vodka, moonshine, whiskey, bourbon, wine, beer...
Literally anyone can do it, cavemen made it, its thousands of years old tech... however the stills I use are vastly more efficient than a moonshiner's still. I built them myself and they make 180 to 190 proof fuel in a single run.
The only emissions from ethanol and methane are Co2 and water, which comes from plants already growing on the surface of the earth, not dredged up from the ground.. Put the Co2 in a greenhouse and get the benefits from plants needing less water, producing more high quality food, and growing faster.
If you want to go off grid, be self sufficient/sustainable, and actually do something to help the environment, getting into ethanol production can be very beneficial. There is a lot more you can do that I am not talking about here, its not a one trick expensive pony.
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@thegreatattila Where I live in the middle of flyover nowhere, the cops are not as bad. The jerks are identified early, and the departments are small enough they are not protected when they do stupid shit. In the large cities, its an entirely different story.
My home state of Nebraska has a habit of seizing cash, vehicles, etc under the federal civil forfeiture laws, if you can't prove on the spot where the money came from, they assume its drug money. A mexican guy lost around $26k to that when he was driving through after a deal on a truck fell through.
Every time I go home with my out of state plates I am concerned there just might be one of those assholes who does this to get my car, because I drive cool old hotrods. It kinda helps I have veteran plates on all of them, its like a get out of jail free card, unless you're in Wisconsin where they apparently hate veterans. I get harassed constantly in that shithole. Most cops see the veteran plate and don't bother me, but in Wisconsin I think they target us... and I am a gray haired white guy.
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@@ConontheBinarian three times in the USAF, all of them in 1990, I got in trouble for saying hello and hi to females who apparently felt I wasn't good enough to speak to them. A beta, who was my boss on shift, had a habit of screwing me over. He overheard me talking with one of the cool females I worked with at the start of Desert Shield. She and I ripped on each other while working, she was hilarious and burned me often, she was married and I was engaged so we were friends. He overheard a retort from me and decided to make a federal case about it. Then three other females said I spoke to them.
Its military custom and courtesy to extend a verbal greeting, in uniform or not. My solution was to stop speaking to them unless it had to do with the mission or work. I was never alone in a room with military females, and did not consider dating any of them. Not even when a seriously good looking one was trying her best to get me to give her the smash in Kuwait back in 2001. She did everything except come out and state she wanted me or start removing items.
Then of course the two ex wives making things up, which is par.. the second one had me thrown in jail for two weeks based only on her assertion with her new boyfriend. The first financially destroyed me, and still blames me for all her problems and we have been divorced 22 years.
I keep females at arms length now, but if I find one that seems like she won't do that to me, I will spend time with her. The last one was 2015 to 2019, she and I are still good friends. She wanted me around to teach her sons how to be more masculine, and the younger one made good on it.
That kid is a monster now, senior in high school, two time state champ wrestling, and he won a tournament in another state over the weekend. She earned her place in my life, she honestly did, and I enjoyed teaching her kid how to be a better man. The only woman to ever treat me well the entire time we were together. She didn't know my real name for over a year, she understood why I was reserved about it.
If she wasn't pudgy and 7 hours away, it might have turned out lasting longer. So I know good ones are out there, but they are so freakishly rare that I don't bother looking for them.
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Been single since 2013. Like I've said before, I own my 13 acres of land (that I bought in '13), home, and shop with a bunch of muscle cars I rebuild (most are rusty and not running, so don't assume I am wealthy) with no debt. Built my house the way I wanted it, and split tails are less then comfortable here. Its small, just 1050sqft and two story, the upper story is a loft so it seems rather big inside. The shop is just under 1600sqft with a lift and almost all the tools I need to build cars from scratch, just need some metal working tools, like an English wheel and bead roller. I live in a forest so all my stuff is hidden unless you come down my difficult to find driveway.
Was married twice, with each of them for 8 years, didn't marry the second one until 8 years together and she bailed 16 months later. The first tried to be like the wife of the guy in the video, yeah that didn't go how she wanted it to. Tried to use spicytime as a means of making me do things, and I simply ignored her demands and didn't touch her at all. Agree and amplify... I never bent to her will and I learned early on that if I did anything nice for her she would start and escalate conflict. Her losing to me would allow her to feel like a victim instead of guilty because I did something nice for her.
I bought cars I wanted, did things I wanted to do, made sure the family was taken care of first before I did anything else. I worked OT and on the side to pay for my old car thing. Built engines, transmissions, swapped gears, built carbs, installed superchargers, all kinds of things to make money for my car. My factory job paid the bills. Despite having to give her 71% of my gross pay and hardly ever seeing my kids, a huge weight lifted from me when she finally left. She made my life a living hell.
The first has been gone since 2001 and STILL COMPLAINS to my kids about me buying my 1970 GTO. She wanted a wallet, a mule she could send to work so she could go shopping, and she wanted to handle all the money. That didn't fly. At one point she wanted to get a job that would require us to get childcare that would cost more than her job brought in, she wanted that job because some guy she liked worked there. She has a small house, about 500sqft, 200ft from the railroad tracks with coal trains going by every half hour. Nearly lost it but her mom passed and left her just enough to get caught up, she will lose it when her spineless 65 yr old husband kicks his oxygen dependency. He might have 3 years left, if they're lucky.
The second one, I was her first for everything, she was 21 when I popped it and the spicy time never abated right up to the day before I booted her out because she spent the weekend with her 'soulmate' that left her less than 4 years later. Life is not going well for her these days, 42 and nobody wants her, can't keep a job so she relies on her 79 year old mom.
Ok, gotta go work on my supercharged 505ci Pontiac, need to finish installing the roll cage in the 68 LeMans its in so it passes tech at the strip. Should be somewhere between 800 and 1100hp, depending on how much boost I can throw at it. Still have the 70 GTO, it might go in the shop over this winter to get rebuilt into a fun daily driver. Might do the 69 GTO instead, or the 32 two door sedan Pontiac I have will get built, both of those are ROUGH, not much left of them to be honest... hard to say what goes in the shop right now.
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Society doesn't care about men. They want to blame men for everything, but also utilize us like rented mules, then throw us away. They see us as superfluous at best. Fathers are always guilty in family court, and the only way they get custody is if the mother relinquishes it. Men have responsibilities, but zero reproductive rights. Men are expendable to society. they only care about us when something isn't working and we are the only one who can fix it. After we fix it, we don't matter anymore.
Feelings are useless to us, partly because nobody cares what we feel, and also because they are not a solution to whatever problem. Most often feelings are a hinderance to what we are trying to accomplish, at best they're a distraction.
Females are ruled by their emotions, men control theirs. Females benefit from talking about how they feel, it is almost entirely irrelevant to a man how he feels when the engine he just built doesn't want to start. Frustration and anger set in and that clouds his ability to think and solve problems.
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Oh man, no more 3G? Whatever will I do in the 65, 69, 70, and 72 GTOs? Or the nine 71 to 79 Firebirds I have? Even the 2007 winter beater Silverado will work just fine, its the newest thing I own. Probably won't go any newer than that, and I have a metric fuckton of parts for 99 to 07 trucks. Even more parts for the 76 and 80 C10s. Now if I rebuild the engines, crank up the compression, add heated fuel rails to the newer LS engines, add bigger injectors and retune them a bit... then teach people how to make their own ethanol for a few dozen pennies a gallon, yeah I am sitting on a gold mine.
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@Madonnalitta1 yes Karl was male, even got the cleaning lady knocked up and then disowned the kid wanting no part of the kid's life. However, his through process was that of a spoiled 8 year old girl and his writing is at that level of thought.
He came from a well off family, but decided that rather than work like his parents and siblings, he was just entitled to what they had. They all shut him out as he tried to leech from them. He felt entitled to what they had earned, he was too lazy and inept to earn it for himself. He resented them for having what he did not. He envied what they had, but like I said before he was too lazy to earn it for himself.
That is the type of people you get following that ideology. Lazy, resentful, envious, feeling entitled to what others have, and they usually come from well off families.. not families where the kids all have to work so they can all eat.
Look at how his idea is laid out, equality, no money, no possessions, everything is free to everyone. That is the mindset of a kid who's mother who decides how best to divide up what the father brings home. It is not the mindset of someone who works to produce something, its completely a consumer/leech mindset.
Normally females are not exactly leeches, but they sure as hell can be when all they do is take and provide nothing in return, the definition of a parasite. Used to be mothers and wives worked with the father to provide for their children, to make sure the kids had a better life than the parents did.
That is rare these days, now the wife wants to be paid for everything she does in her jammies. She has been told that she should be paid, that someone else earning and sacrificing for her so she can handle her end of the partnership is somehow oppression.
Now if everything was plentiful, available to just pick it up and go, then sure... no problem. Thing is someone has to produce EVERYTHING you eat, wear, and use every day. You cannot produce it all yourself. I can produce everything I need to survive at the most basic level, food, water, heat, clothing, shelter etc. Most people cannot. Its a crazy amount of work.
Karl wanted those people to work for free, to just produce stuff so others can use it. That works great with 20 or less people, you know like a family sized group.
When you get more people than that, you have the lazy good for nothings soaking up the resources others worked their ass off to produce. If I am working I want to enjoy the benefit of my labor, not have it taken and given to someone who does nothing to benefit me... like alimony and the majority of child support that is not spent on the children, but on the mother.
People do not want to work for free, which is why there are always shortages in marque cyst systems.
If there is no benefit to being industrious and competent as you produce whats needed, people will not put in extra effort, they will do the bare minimum. When you are punished for achievement, like being sent off to the gulag because you are a better farmer than your neighbors so you have a little more than they do, people will be incentivized to NOT work hard enough to get ahead.
Merit and competence become bad words, which results in the inept, incompetent, and incapable being in control. Weak leaders are capricious, vindictive, and rule by dictatorial fiat rather than knowledge and ability.
The result is everyone is poor, hungry, and lacking almost everything. When its bad enough millions starve, which happens often in so cia list countries.
Without the father out there producing the family starves and is lacking.
the TLDR is feminine thinking is division of resources in a relatively fair manner, its risk averse, staying close to home, with safety and security being paramount. Thats how you protect the kids and the very important females who can have only one kid every year. Thats why nature has more females born than males. Somehow our biology knows.
the masculine mindset is defense of the group, going over the hill to see what is there, to collect resources and drive off threats. Risk taking is commonplace and encouraged, merit and competence along with ability and achievement are held in high esteem, whereas all of that is essentially unimportant in the feminine mindset.
Men are largely expendable, if 200 warriors go out and 10 come back, the tribe can recover because each man can impregnate several females and rebuild their ranks. If you lose 200 females and are left with ten, your tribe is doomed. You will have to go collect other females to get enough kids to keep the tribe going.
When you have an excess of young males with no females, they go start fights to get females from other areas, and it also acts like a means of culling the population. Most men in history never had kids, they died long before they could. Whereas most females in history did have kids, because all they have to do is say yes or simply be available.
The masculine and feminine thinking is very different, and it is COMPLIMENTARY not adversarial. Karl thought like a spoiled brat, and Engels enabled him by supporting Karl.
What do we call weak, incompetent, incapable, ineffective males? Think about it... starts with a p... ends in y. Karl was definitely one of those.
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@popwarner8029 Tetraethyl lead was added as an octane booster, because gasoline on its own has a really crappy resistance to spark knock/ping. Then they tried MTBE and it kills people whereas TEL caused neurological damage, it is lead after all. I wonder why there is such a massive number of Alzheimer's... now they use ethanol as an octane booster, and since the oil companies don't make the stuff they hate it and spread propaganda about it. I run ethanol straight and E85 on long trips or when I don't run my stills like the last few years. Been working on the vapor fuel thing Smokey Yunick did with the Fiero in the 80s, and since ethanol boils at 173F at sea level and not 450F like some parts of gasoline, its much easier to achieve the same effect. Mine is simple, I heat the fuel in the EFI rails to 200F rather than running it through a bunch of pre chambers and using special parts because of the heat required.
The problem with gasoline is more than 80% of its energy goes to waste heat, ethanol only loses 58% of its energy to waste heat. You can't get around that, because of how gasoline burns and doesn't like to vaporize. Some parts of gasoline vaporize easily, at room temp even, but its more than just one chemical compound and its various components have boiling points ranging from 80F to 450F, and the flash points are all over the place too. That is why its so very prone to pre ignition and knock, because parts of it vaporize then ignite too soon with just heat and compression.
The quickest and easiest way to increase mileage is to increase compression, work the fuel harder. Gasoline has the problem of knock/ping to deal with, as it sucks in that area without chemical help. Direct injection is a band aid to limit the amount of time the fuel is in the engine before its ignited, that allows them to raise compression ratios slightly. With ethanol you can easily run 22:1 compression, with iron heads, and running it hot too. The gasoline in E85 holds it back, but 16:1 is doable with E85 in a daily driver. Between 12:1 and 13:1 is the crossover point where ethanol starts getting better mileage than gasoline. Problem is you can't go dual fuel with 13:1, so you need to run a static ratio that gasoline can handle, which means you will get a lot worse mileage on ethanol.
So even if Pougue got really high mileage, which is also claimed by the Fish carb, the loss of power is a large detriment. Getting around the really poor vaporization of gasoline and its inability to handle high compression and heat, is why gasoline engines are limited in mileage.
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@QuadHelpMe making an engine run on ethanol is easy, you can modify the carb like I do, buy a carb already set up to run it, or if you have EFI sometimes larger injectors and a bit of tuning is all it takes.
To get better mileage you increase the static compression ratio, above 12:1 with iron heads you get the same or better mileage on ethanol than you do on gasoline. Also ethanol makes more power, burns cleaner, and runs cooler. I have not found any problems with materials like gaskets or fuel system parts in the 14 years I have been making fuel and running either home made E100 or pump E85 in them.
My engines make changing the compression ratio easy, all I have to do is swap the heads and I can go from 5:1 to 13:1. The power increase with ethanol is the most between idle and 3500rpm, with a smaller gain higher up in RPM. That fits the Pontiac V8 quite well, because they are torque monsters. Other engines need dome pistons, stroker cranks, or smaller chamber heads to raise the compression.
Throwing a turbo or blower on it to increase cylinder pressure requires you add more fuel, so it makes a lot more power but doesn't see the mileage increases unless you also crank up the static compression. 22:1 compression works fine with E100, and you can run a diesel on it if you remove the diesel injector, add EFI or a carb, and a spark ignition.
You can also heat the fuel before it comes out of the injectors of an EFI system, that will increase mileage without a loss of power or drivability. I'm working on doing that with E85, the problem is gasoline has a bunch of different boiling points for each component, some will boil before others, it works best with straight 180 to 200 proof vodka.
Wood heat is simple, pellet stoves, fireplaces, wood stoves all work. The other thing I am doing is using wood chip and sawdust compost piles to heat water for a radiant heat system. You can find more about that by looking up the 'Jean Pain Method' here on YT.
Growing food is quite easy, and fishing is a short walk from my house to rivers or Lake Superior.
Making ethanol requires water (you can reuse it as many times as you like and its not a biohazard), starch or sugar, yeast, and some time for the yeast to eat the sugar. If you have starch like corn, waste paper, stale bread, coffee grounds, or cattails then you need one or two enzymes to convert the starch to sugar so the yeast can eat it.
It needs to ferment without oxygen present for the yeast to make fuel, they will also produce CO2, which needs to be vented. That means you need a fermentation lock so air doesn't get in and CO2 can get out.
Then you need a still, and a moonshine still takes too much energy to produce quality fuel. They are designed for low proof and a better taste, if you were daft enough to drink my fuel it would burn you and pull all the moisture from your mouth and throat. Not pleasant, and because I don't care about the taste at all it doesn't smell very good either, so I doubt it tastes good.
I have packed reflux columns made from 2 inch copper tubing, they give me between 180 and 190 proof with one run on a 35 gallon boiler, saves lots of time and work only running it once. Working on a 6" plate column for when I get a larger 1000 gallon boiler built.
With the right yeast strain I can get 200 gallons of fuel from that 1000 gallon boiler. Typical bakers yeast can only stand 10% ethanol before it dies off, so you would need 10 gallons of water to make 1 gallon of fuel. You reuse it, so its not like its gone or bad, you can drink it after the run but it won't taste good.
Using tree sap means I don't have solids left over toe get rid of. Using starches like corn, coffee grounds, etc leave parts behind that make a very high quality animal feed. Fish, earthworms (for castings in the garden), cows, pigs, chickens, etc can all eat what comes out of the boiler after the run. You need to do something with it though, because it is biomass and will rot if left sitting around.
Since my 65 GTO uses about 100 gallons a summer as it is, only getting 17mpg because it is very un-aerodynamic, means I only have to make one to three batches to power everything I drive all year. with a 1000 gallon boiler.
I'm working on other vehicles to get better mileage that have vastly better aerodynamics and less drag in the suspension, brakes, and driveline. The 70 GTO got 20mpg with a carb and the same 462ci engine thats in the 65, the aero is that much better on the 70. The power it makes is kinda nuts for a daily driven old muscle car. Its faster than a new Corvette up to around 120mph or so. Fun times.
The old cars are the whole reason I got into green energy. I want to drive my GTOs and stuff (I have a lot of them) but can't afford $5 pump gas, which was how much it cost me in 2007 when I started making fuel at home. everything else I do, the woodchip water heater, the mileage improvements, everything came from simply wanting to drive my old cars and not pay a fortune for fuel.
The fact it makes more power, burns a lot cleaner so everything lasts longer than on gas, and runs a lot cooler on 10 cent a gallon tree sap vodka, while not polluting the environment is a bonus to me. I just want to go racing and drive my old vehicles.
This is what I do, old car stuff and make fuel. I'm working on videos showing my projects, what I do to make them run and get good mileage on ethanol, and soon how to make it. I am not making any fuel this year, the thaw came early and I wasn't ready for it so I missed the sap run. I am ramping up production, I want to make 500 gallons of fuel, so I had to get more supplies and build some things.
In the US you need a free permit from the BATF you can get it from their website. It allows you to make up to 5000 gallons of fuel per year, and you have to tell them how much you made and where it was used.
It also requires some space to do this. I own 13 acres of woodland, and I have about 2.5 to 3 acres cleared to park vehicles and make fuel, along with where my shop and house are sitting. Doing this in town would be a rather difficult thing, and getting the city to ok it would probably be a problem.
You need a source of sugar or starch, and buying it increases the cost of the fuel. How much sugar something has varies, then you have to consider PH and other things to keep the yeast happy.
A good place to start is: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library.html
more information about fuel and food production can be found here: http://alcoholcanbeagas.com
It can turn into quite the rabbit hole of finding new things you can use to produce energy. Like I said, I want to drive my muscle cars. I found so much more I can use learning how to power my engines.
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@jamesdevore3022 yep, with the brushless RC cars and planes my brother and I have, feeding it more voltage makes more RPM, and feeding more voltage lowers the range, The power of the brushless motors is insane though, and they are clean compared to glow engines. Still have a problem with battery packs catching fire when they feel like it.
With the gearing I run in my Pontiacs, 55mph is 1700rpm, 70mph is 2100rpm. That is not much of a difference, and provided the aero isn't as bad as the 65 GTO, they get better mileage going faster, because they cover more distance for each revolution. Thats the fun of 455s making 600ftlbs from idle to 4500/5000.
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When I got out of the military the first time in 1992, I went to the local VoTech in January 93 for automotive tech, to use my GI Bill and get the paper that says I know what I am doing... and to pick up transmissions and alignments since I didn't know that yet.
Well I am doing the basic stuff, reading micrometers, these are screwdrivers, fractions, metric, all the stuff I have known for 15 years at that point.
There was a kid just outside the classroom door struggling with a VW Beetle, he couldn't get the rear drums off. He bought a large gear puller, and was grinding on it so it would fit between the backing plates and drums so he could pull the drums off. I saw the drums rocking as he tugged at them, and said "release the park brake." he said something about what did I know, I was in the basic part, and laughed like he knew better.
While he was grinding away on the new gear puller, I went over to the Bug, released the brake, and put both drums on the ground. Never saw the kid at school again after that.
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@Vickzq reading through this thread, and thinking back to when I was a kid 50 years ago, it seems like you and the others are talking about two different things. What you're talking about doesn't exist anymore, and yeah it was ruined by the effinists and corrupt court system. There is zero benefit for men now.
I grew up on a farm, was working from age 8, (I'm 53 now) driving tractors, lifting and moving stuff, working with cattle and hogs. Its how a farm works, with the sons learning by doing and working to support the farm. Back then it was very rare for a farmer/rancher to get divorced. The wife knew if she left and took the kids with her, the money would shut off, because the land would be sold, and the business would simply no longer exist. 70% of nothing is nothing.
Then in the early 90s the people ten years older than I am started getting divorced, farms folded, and people lost everything unless the farm was big enough, had hired hands because they had daughters rather than sons, or the wife didn't want 70% of everything.
That life and benefit is gone. Getting married today is essentially making a bet against everything you own and most of your future income that the chick won't eat a bowl of stoopidflakes and burn everything to the ground. Not even religion can keep them loyal, the incentives are too attractive, and they seem to be doing it around 30-34 right when their value is starting to plummet.
Its by design of course, to destroy our society and culture, exactly how you said. Civilization and our society is built on strong families, not so much religion, but definitely on being able to raise your kids to be productive members of society instead of criminals or lazy good for nothing leeches.
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People who live in town come to my house, and when the birds settle down for the night, the bats come out around dusk and start eating bugs, the highway quiets as people relax for the evening.. they often mention how quiet it is here. When the sun goes down, the embers of the campfire dim, they look up they see more stars than they ever have in their life. During the day when no vehicles are going by, all you hear are the birds and the wind blowing through the tree tops.
I like having the highway nearby, not for the noise of motorcycles and trucks, but so I can get to it easily and go travel the vast woodland where I live. Soon I will erect log walls in my woods between the highway and my yard to block the sound and muffle it more. Its a ribbon of black snaking its way through the forest where I can enjoy the 50+ year old cars I build for fun. I am a tree hugging wild man in the woods who loves old cars and technology to go along with my solitude, peace, and quiet. The sound of my engines making power is just as relaxing as sitting next to the fire with my feet up looking at the stars.
Cities do not allow you to have an open firepit, or several vehicles you're rebuilding, or a shop larger than your house. I have no use for their rules and regulations, nor do I have a need to be dependent upon them. I use the city out of convenience for food and parts, as long as the world doesn't go completely to hell in October, I am good without the city.. October is too late to grow or gather anything, leaving only meat. If I didn't make enough fuel before that, its too late to make enough to last the winter.
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I am a drag racer, I race cars. Its a sport where nobody gives a rat damn what color you are, if you sit or stand to piss, or if you feel like you need to change that ability via surgery. You can be disabled and race, lots of paraplegics and amputees do exactly that. WE DO NOT GIVE A DAMN! What do drag racers care about? How well you can drive, and not run into things while driving, and how fast your vehicle is. Get good at it and you will be admired.
If you are faster than everyone else, you're not forced to make your car heavier, they have to figure out how to make their cars faster, or do better at driving. You are not legislated to be slower just because you win. Safety concerns, because 330mph is hauling ass, and other rules apply like cubic inch displacement, but if you can run faster than everyone else with taht same size engine or a smaller one, then you go out and win.
John Force is one of the winningest drag racers in history. He has two daughters who also race those ludicrous fast cars that go 0 to 330mph in 4 seconds. His oldest daughter decided to stop racing and instead focuses on her family and the business side of the sport. John Force also gave Cruz and Tony Pedregon their start in the funny car class. They are decidedly Latino... not latinex, or any other repulsive bullshit the marxists invent.
In the 50s and 60s there were multiple teams who were not white guys. Stone Woods and Cook are a famous gasser team, and they had a black guy. There was a team of Mexicans who went by the name the Bean Bandits, they were very good at racing. Big Willie Robinson is one of the godfathers of street racing like you see on street outlaws, he was from LA and very black. Check out any video from Da Pad near New Orleans, you will see people from every race going out and racing together..
ITS ABOUT RACING. Its about MERIT. Its not about your resistance to ultraviolet light, we don't give a fuck about that.
Why can't my 5'8 300lbs muscle bound freak of a white guy play in the NBA? All those guys should be forced to be short, slow, and fat so I can keep up with them... nah fuck that. Merit matters. Physical ability matters and you don't try to hold everyone back so you can win, you get better so you can win. Equality of outcome is not part of the program. Self determination is.
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@timothyberlinski2299 I am probably the greenest living person you will ever know. Especially for a gearhead who likes to go drag racing. Not to save the planet, but because producing the energy I use is cheaper than buying it.
My muscle cars run on home made vodka/ethanol and they make ludicrous power on it. My daily primary driver in the summer has more than 550hp and almost 600ftlbs. Its a 1965 GTO, 40 cents a gallon for cattail and tree sap vodka. Gets 17mpg without an overdrive, the aero sucks or it would do better. The only emissions it has are CO2 and H2O.
Rebuilding old cars vs buying new ones is far greener, because the energy used to produce them was spent 50+ years ago. I live on the reuse, rebuild, repurpose, repair system.
The stills are heated with methane, I need to rebuild that system and use my drain field septic for more when I get it built next year.
I live in a shipping container house, heat with biomass either the pellet stove or the compost water heater, currently pellet stove because I need to get the radiators set up for the heated water. every light in here is LED because it makes it easier to produce enough electricity.
With luck I will get the greenhouse built this summer so I can grow food next winter with the compost from the last heater I built for my shop. Wind and solar are very unreliable where I live, so I don't even bother with them for now.
There are other things I do too. Where I live food, fuel, and electricity are the largest expenses for me. So when I see people talking about how we need to pay a carbon tax, eliminate fossil fuels entirely, and use a marque cyst system of complete control of people (all of us) to fix it, its obvious what their agenda is to me.
Rather than using things I know work great like cattails to remove nitrates from farm runoff, they just tell the farmers they can't farm anymore. We could be growing cattails in addition to cleaning water and make massive amounts of fuel from them... but that is an actual solution that empowers common people instead of gov employees, so they won't ever allow it.
Usually most people never get to see what I write about my projects, and some of my videos are artificially limited too.
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@IWubYooz its more than not giving a damn about them, if you want to get your member moistened by her snot pocket.
1. You have to talk to them, even if you are paying them you gotta talk to them. If you can't talk to them, you will not get any tuna scent on your thing. Chicks are all about talking, if you can't they won't open their legs. They are voice activated. What you say and how you say it matters.
2. I have found that whatever I set my mind to, what I focus on (doing or getting) I find a way to achieve it. If I really want to do something, I find a way to make it happen, and I put in the work required to make it happen. I have never just sat back and waited for things to come to me, because if I did, nothing ever came to me. Thats how my life has been since I was a little kid, I had to struggle and work to survive. Had to learn how to defend myself, and how to really hurt people so they would stop beating on me.
I wanted a vintage GTO, really wanted a 1969 model, but it took a long time to find out I could afford. I have owns a 72 since 1986, a 70 since 1994, and a 65 since 2007. I got the 69 last summer and it is a severely rusted shell. So I have to put in the work to rebuild it and make it a driver again. It doesn't come without effort. Anything worth doing is worth the effort. If it comes easy, it has low value, if it requires effort, dedication, perseverance, it will have greater value. Rare and desirable rather than common and unwanted.
You can't simply sit and wait for the girls to do all the work, because they won't. You do not focus on them, or obsess over them, but you go places you can meet them. My focus was never fully on girls, it was on muscle cars or aircraft my entire life. Girls were a secondary or tertiary thing, never a priority, more like a pastime like watching a game on TV once in a while rather than being a rabid fan that paints his face at home and screams at the screen.
When the opportunity presents itself, I decide if I want to give her a chance or not. They only get one chance though, and once offered and rejected, it is never offered again. No shortage of girls out there, a bit more of a shortage of non fat girls these days, but still plenty around. A new crop turns 18 every damn day.
3. Girls do not hit on you like we hit on them. They are terrified of rejection, so everything they do is from a distance, with deniability built in. They are not overt, you have to read them because they will not come out and say it unless they are very low on the 1 to 10 scale... or you are very high on it. With us being short guys, we are not high on it, so even the ugly fat girls rarely hit on us overtly
How do girls do it? They show interest, by doing things like making eye contact with you from a distance, they place themselves in your field of vision, they give you an opportunity to say hello, essentially they present themselves to you and wait for you to make a move.
Once you know the facial expressions they have that show interest, its VERY easy to spot, because they all do the same damn things. Doesn't matter what continent they are from, how wealthy their parents are, they all have the same expressions that say "I want you" or "I am very interested in you" and I caught on to those when I was 16.
Also their displays of disinterest, revulsion, and impatience are the same. Most guys can't tell when she is not interested because she is being polite, giving him that saccharine smile that should be telling him he isn't even in the friend zone, she wants him away.
Girls like all kinds of different things in men. Some like us thick guys with lots of muscle, some like the little skinny wimps who can't lift their own body weight. Same as some guys like fat chicks, some super skinny, big or small tits, whatever.
If you are an introvert you are going to find it nearly impossible to get some unless you are quite good looking. If you get nervous talking to them, they will be able to tell. If you lack confidence, it will show in everything you do and say. One thing most of them seem to like is knowing the man is dangerous, but that he can refrain from harming them. Thats why so many of them like the serial deleters, they think he won't harm them despite the fact he is in prison for doing exactly that to however many females.
They are almost all attracted to danger in men. If you are not dangerous, or incapable of inflicting grievous harm upon others, they will not want you for anything but a wallet to plunder.
"You can't truly call yourself "peaceful" Unless you are capable of great violence. If you are not capable of violence, You're not peaceful, You're harmless."
That is a big part of why I draw their attention, because I do not move like a fat man. I move like a muscle bound freak that has harmed people many times in the past. Look at the way MMA fighters who win often move, that is what draws their eye.
Its a lot of BS that a man has to know and do to get his thing damp. Chicks say "It just happened" or "when you stop looking, that is when it will happen for you" which is how it works for them. They sit back and wait for one of us to approach and talk to them.
If we sit back and do nothing....
Nothing happens.
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@thosewhobelieve122 you did not grow up on a farm, right? I am number two of six kids who grew up on a Nebraska farm, I was 13 when the youngest came along in 1982. We had a 1 acre garden, choke cherries, crab apples, and a pear tree. Mom canned more than enough food for us to make it until the next summer when she would harvest then can some more. We raised cattle, while you will have to buy meat, but one steer would feed us all year, I grew up dirt poor eating steaks and roasts that now cost $20 to buy in a store. We had hogs too, up to 1000 of them, so we also had pork. If we'd had a mill mom could have made her our flour, and she baked all the time. Sometimes we had chickens, but my grandmother was the master at all of that. How I miss her cooking, old Germans had the best food. She would be 105 right now, my grandpa would be 111. I learned so much from them wish I could have learned more.
If done right, you can feed more people than you think with not much land. A city does not have enough land to feed everyone, I will guarantee you that. Cities we have today only exist because of diesel fuel, everything they need to survive is brought to them. City people are entirely dependent on others, they are not sustainable, they cannot support themselves, without people bringing them everything they need, they will starve and die of dehydration or exposure. So I find it mot amusing when city people have the arrogant attitude and think they are better than rural people who can survive on their own.
There is a reason I live alone in the woods that looks like the places Bjorn walks through and makes his videos, and not in a city. A big part of it is freedom. I can build whatever the hell I damn well please here, I can have cars and trucks without current plates or even running in my yard, so I have spare vehicles and plenty of parts. I am more of a gearhead than a prepper. I make fuel from tree sap and cattails. You can eat cattails, make flour from the roots if you want, and that makes a fine bread. Its hard to kill cattails, they grow like crazy and are massively beneficial, but most people have no clue. I can grow food, collect water, and I have the resources to produce all the energy I need, especially if I get some solar panels and a wind turbine or two.
It seems to me like you simply don't know how to do all of this, which is why you assume it cannot be done without store bought food and items. I am using store bought stuff while I can, but I am not beholden to Wal Mart for everything I have or need. Which reminds me, I need to get more canned and non perishable things for this winter.
I live in northern Michigan now, along Lake Superior. Its part of the US most people do not realize is part of the country, its often left off maps or attributed to Canada. Its hard to imagine a winter here until you have lived through a couple of them. Snow comes in November, stays until May, and we average 150 to 300 inches every year. If you aren't ready for it, you just might die before the highway opens again and the power comes back on. Without a plow or snowblower, you are kinda fucked. This is the only place I have ever lived where a 4x4 was essential. If I ever move from here, I will have no more use for four wheel drive vehicles. Currently there are 12 of them sitting in my yard, three projects, three runners, the rest are parts. It is rather difficult to make car parts, even brake lines that rust out every two years here would be quite impossible to make. Its good to have spares.
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@Rob-ze4ic being alone doesn't mean you have to be lonely. I get laid when I want to, and the age range is from 18 to 60, if I can do it just about anyone can. You don't need a female living with you to get what you need from life. Seriously, I can go into town and get laid any time I want, because I have a few girls who are always willing. They know they can't keep or be with me, but they like the sex. Works for me.
You can have a kid, but you will end up having to pay for the kid most likely, even if you never get them in your life, but you'd still have a kid. You could work that out with the mother if you find one that isn't going to make your life hell. How to do that I don't know. Some girls want a kid and don't want to get 70% of your gross, but they will sure as hell accept it if the state gives them the option.
What I do know is that building things is what makes men feel accomplished. Houses, cars, airplanes, empires, whatever it is, build it. I built my house, shop, and several cars, I am still building. I've done things in my life most people never will, but thats mostly because of my enlistments and being part of history rather than watching it on TV. I don't have regrets about things I didn't do but could have as a consequence.
Live for yourself, put yourself first, realize you are the prize and she is not. We are the prize because we can rebuild our lives over and over, and come out better every time. They are only as good as we make them though our effort, and their looks go south fast.
I am on my 8th rebuild, it sucks but I might move and rebuild my shop one more time. The difference now is I will get paid for the property I am leaving rather than someone else getting it without putting anything in.
Thing is man, my life is an example of what can happen, how to deal with it, and what mistakes to avoid. Its also an example of perseverance, getting back up after being knocked down and hitting harder the next time.
Go into risky situations with your eyes open knowing what the actual risks are, and choose your path from there. Knowing what can happen, and that it will 'probably' happen to you means you adjust and try to mitigate the negatives. it doesn't mean you run and hide from life.
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@mfranzusan3014 I can't afford a new car. Sure as hell can't afford an electric car. The people pushing this want us to ride the bus or walk, which makes us dependent upon them. Its about controlling us, its not about the environment or anything beneficial to all of us.
I live 20 miles from a city of 26k people. Three hours from the largest major city. Its a 13 mile drive to the nearest town. I cannot endure living in a city, I need my space, my solitude, my privacy. I will not live in a city like they want me to.
I can make many of my own parts, producing fuel for these old vehicles is simple and relatively cheap. Making things like tires and major gaskets, like head gaskets, is out of reach for most people.
If it was about the environment, not power, money and control, they would be talking about running on ethanol, which literally anyone can produce if they have starch or sugar to ferment. Instead they want you to use something more expensive that you can't easily produce yourself, like hydrogen, or have to drive a vehicle that is prohibitively expensive.
Living in a city means you are dependent upon others, they need to bring you everything so you can live. If the trucks and trains full of food stop coming in, the cities starve and the fuel runs out. There isn't enough space available to produce food and fuel in a city or the suburbs.
Forcing all of us into cities means they can control us by shutting something off.. the fuel, electricity, food, water, whatever, and there is nothing the city dweller can do about it.
Power outages are common where I live along the shore of Lake Superior, we get 150 to 300 inches of snow every winter, so we live with everything we need on hand to last at least three months. Fuel for generators, food to eat, extra vehicle parts in my case. I am prepared for bad shit happening just because of where I live.
Its how I got into making fuel and building engines with 12:1 and higher compression to take advantage of ethanol's properties, producing green energy, because its cheaper than grid power, and doing things preppers and sustainable types want to do. Gasoline is higher where I live than 98% of the US, and always the highest in Michigan, and I can't afford to drive a muscle car that gets between 15mpg and 20mpg when gas is over $3 a gallon.
I get 20mpg from a 550hp Pontiac 455 in a 70-81 Firebird, or a 68-72 GTO very easily, the 65 GTO only gets 17mpg because its aero sucks. I can drive them a lot for ten cents a gallon to make fuel, and run E85 for long trips. My home brewed fuel only emits CO2 and water, and can actually clean the air as the engine runs because there is no gasoline in it.
Its all about controlling us. You in Canada are ahead of the US in terms of the populace being controlled and forced to do as they're told. There isn't much you can do about it at this point. Its sad because I really like Canada.
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All through my 20s and a good part of my 30s, I worked on cars for other people in shops, my own shop, and on the side.. along with doing work on mine. I am kinda different (understatement, I know) in that I don't really like fixing cars for other people... unless its a cool ride like a GTO, Corvette, Charger, Cuda, Mustang, etc. I figured out 20 years ago that I don't like working on minivans and front drive crap boxes, I like building hotrods, drag cars, and street machines.
From the time I graduated in the late 80s, until the end of my first enlistment in 92, I thought I wanted to work on cars for a living. I went to school to pick up the rest of what I hadn't learned already (transmission rebuilding and alignments) and to get a piece of paper that said "This fat guy knows what he is doing" so I could get a good enough paying job to start my own shop just like Tony talked about.
In the mean time I worked in some other technical jobs to pay the bills. Machinist, CNC programmer/machinist, things like that. It paid the bills and let me get side jobs, which was usually swapping gears, building carbs, transmissions, the occasional engine, and I used the money from my side jobs to build my own vehicles.
Then in 1998 my machinist jobs were all packed up and sent to Mexico, so I figured its sink or swim time and opened a shop out of my one car garage. Then I shared space with another guy who had a shop with a lift. It was at that time I figured out that working on cars to pay bills was taking all the enjoyment out of working on my stuff, and turning it into a chore to keep my GTOs and Firebirds running. The ex wife didn't help matters, but thats another story.
So I went back to the military, and did car stuff on the side for friends with hotrods and street machines between deployments and on the few days I got off from the 12 hour shifts when the Iraq war kicked off again. So when I got hurt in the desert in 2004, and got out again in 2005, I knew I didn't want to work on cars for other people unless it was something really cool and interesting. So when someone asks if I can do their brakes or axle seals on their crapbox, I tell them no, but I will show them how to do it.
Getting messed up in the desert was just about the best thing to happen to me, in a strange sort of way. It has given me time to think, figure out problems like how to produce fuel for my cars, and has left me with lots of time but very little cash... and physical limitations to work around. So for a guy like me, thats a perfect situation to come up with different ways to do things that most people would never even attempt to do, and to figure out how to make lots of power and get good mileage as well.
If I absolutely had to, I could work on cars for other people to get paid. I prefer not to, but yeah I can do it and if I need the money it gets done faster than my stuff, even if it hurts me for a couple weeks after. As it is now, I have no need to do that. I can do my projects the way I want to do them, when I want to do them.
And here it is, 1540 in the afternoon (three forty PM for you civilian types) and I am just now going out to the shop to get ready for an engine swap in a couple trucks... and to get the Suburban fixed so I can drive it to Missouri this fall for the NNN. Yesterday was a long day moving vehicles to get to the ones giving up the parts, yard tetris I call it. So today was a slow start.
Getting old hurts longer, and the physical limitations let you know it when you push them. However, I will have a seriously cool long distance hauler rig when I get all of this swapped around... and of course the cars will be built too this summer.
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I killed it on easy and fun for my life, only sorta lucrative, but its all passive income. The only limits I have (other than the amount of passive income) I placed upon myself, deadlines are of my own making, the magnitude of projects is set by me, I can take off and go whatever the hell I want, when I want to do it. So if that is playing video games, or going on a road trip in a vintage GTO I built, or flying to Vegas for a few days in the middle of winter.. I do it.
Being 50 is fucking great, if only I had made better choices in my youth (like not getting married or moving to the frozen armpit of the universe) it would be even better. Hard fucking work got me out of several holes dug by bad choices, despite all the fuckery from states, ex wives and their boyfriends, and conflicts started by other people, I never stopped pushing forward.
This week I started a new project.. well outside my wheelhouse, but all about that which is in my wheelhouse. Win or lose, doesn't matter. I am having fun learning new shit.
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I have a line that has been in the same place for over 30 years, my state government is standing on it, but they have not crossed it yet. The problem for me is that while I am willing to do what is needed to cure this marxist infection, most people are not. They will not do anything, they will not risk their jobs, they are more concerned with the big screen TV than they are with not being a slave to the system or worse. They want it all done for them, and are unwilling to put in the effort to make a change that will benefit them.
So I am waiting to see where this goes, what these power hungry individuals who are looking to subjugate us all will do.
I've lived alone for the last 7 years, I have dogs and I build cars. Prior to 2013 I was solitary most of the time going back to 2000. I prefer to live alone now, and avoid people. I live in the woods and I can do just about anything I want to do out here. I love living away from people and the waste of a city. I hated living in a city while I was in the US military, and I will never do it again.
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I was in the USAF, air cargo craftsman during the two largest airlifts in world history. Desert Shield/Storm and OIF/OEF. I was also at the base doing the vast majority of cargo. So I kinda know a thing or two about logistics. The Russians had the AN225, the largest plane in the world at the time and it could lift some really heavy stuff.. but they only had TWO of them, and one never flew. The flyable one was destroyed in Ukraine earlier this year. They also have some AN124s, roughly the same size and payload as the C5 Galaxy. Then you have the IL76 which is quite similar to the C141A. The C141B hauls more than the IL76, and for a greater range.
Here is the interesting part you won't know unless you understand USAF logistics. USAF planes have a dual rail system with rollers in the floors, the rails have locks in them so you can lock pallets in place. It makes loading C130, C141, C17, Ck10, KC135, and C5s as well as civilian 747, DC10, L1011, a rather quick and efficient process. Three to six guys push the pallets in, the crew locks them in place, and another pallet is pushed in. It takes about an hour to load a C5 if everything works well, two hours at the most for rolling stock that needs to be chained down to hard points in the cargo floor. C17s are faster to load.
The AN225 had rollers like ball bearings in the floor, same as AN124 and IL76. There was no rail system, no locks, so everything that goes on them must be chained or strapped/netted to the cargo floor. Using the same 88"x108" pallets the USAF uses, it take several hours to load the 124 and 225, the IL76 takes about twice as long as a C141 or C17, both of which carried more cargo. Rolling stock takes roughly the same time, except the 225 is much larger, so it holds more.. but there was only one of them.
I know this because I loaded cargo on IL76s, An124s, and worked the AN225 one time between 2001 and 2004. The first time I saw the 225 it was in Paris for the airshow in 1989 and had their space shuttle on its back. Definitely larger than the C5 and 747, but they only had one.. We had a bunch of C5s, and we have only lost a handful to accidents. One happened during Desert Storm, it took off from Ramstein and crashed when a thrust reverser deployed, some of the passengers and I think two loadmasters survived the crash. I was at Rhein Main AB that night and remember it vividly. I knew all the C5s and C141s that were flying in 90/91.. intimately... heh.
In the time it takes to load a Russian plane, USAF cargo guys can load two USAF planes, sometimes three. That kind of efficiency makes a huge difference downrange. If the Germans had had airlift capability like the USAAF or the USAF, they would not have had to surrender when they were encircled by Zhukov west of Stalingrad. They could have been resupplied by air, but the JU52 was inferior to the C47 and considerably so compared to the C54. They should have learned trying to fly Ju52s across the Med to north Africa. It didn't work then either. Somehow flying over Burma worked much better... gee, I wonder why.
The Russians did not have significant air cargo capability until the mid 60s. They were astonished at how many planes where coming in to Tempelhof for the 11 months the Berlin Airlift operated in 1948/49. They went so far as to downplay it when they reported to Moscow, because it was so ludicrously unbelievable that we had that much capacity before 1950.
General Curtis LeMay usually gets credit for the Berlin Airlift, but the real brains behind it was a logistics General named Tunner. LeMay could flatten cities and infrastructure, that was his deal running the 8th in Europe and the 20th over Japan. He was not a cargo guy, his loads were all air dropped behind enemy lines... sorta like the MOAB is today.
My point is the same TIK is making, sure they Russians have lots of people, lots of manpower, but they are woefully inefficient, usually incapable to inept, and they simply do not have the capability and capacity of the US military. They never have.
The IL76 crews were hilariously funny and enjoyable to work with loading their planes, other than the fact they rarely ever take a shower, it was good meeting and talking to them in broken Russian and English. I learned some Russian when I was in Korea 2002-03, so I sorta became de facto interpreter with the crews. It was somewhat surreal for a Cold War veteran to be loading US cargo on an IL76 in Kuwait, I never thought that would happen in a billion years, yet there I was.
These are the sorts of things people don't take into account when they claim the Soviets did this or that, and just look at the big numbers. If they had come through Fulda, they would have been shredded by A10s, F15Es, AH64s, and would have been lucky to reach Rhein Main to secure the runways and parking ramps outside Frankfurt. It would have looked like the road between Basra and Kuwait City in 1991 with burned out vehicles clogging the roads to central Europe. REFORGER exercises were always entertaining, wearing chem warfare gear is so very enjoyable.. heh.. no, its really not.
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@TheShootist fascism is based on the ramblings of Giovanni Gentile, who is a follower of Karl Marx and his idiotic ramblings, so it is NOT a far right ideology. It is not even on the right, its full on authoritarian leftist. National Socialist Workers Party... Stop believing the propaganda, the commies and the nazis as well as the fascsists in Italy and other European states are all of the same ilk. The only way fascism is far right is if you assume (very wrongly) that the default is marxist, and everyone has to be marxist at the start. Not unlike christians assuming everyone is christian and believes in their god at the start of their lives and they just get angry with him or something.
Its seeing the world through an ideological lens that taints everything you see with the filth of the ideology, so you end up trying to make reality fit your ideology. That is how we get the racial divides caused by socialism, and young earth creationists who think the earth is 6000-10000 years old, or how people think you have privilege just because of your skin color. Its a big sharpshooter fallacy mixed with begging the question.
The fact of it is we start off without a bunch of ideological bullshit in our heads, and then its put there to control us. It seems most people need a higher power, an authority above them to tell them how to act and think, or what to do. Then they call people like me racist and bad because we need no higher authority to tell us what to do or not do.
All the worst parts of humanity in the last two centuries has been the result of ideas like those espoused by Marx. The most death, suffering, poverty, and destruction has been due to that failed ideology of resentment, envy, entitlement, and laziness.
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@Barbreck1 lets say you don't know anything about cars, engines, fuels, or how machines work, assume you are like a 1400s farmer.
Lets say I am an expert in V8 engines, and I am telling you how they work. I could tell you the truth, being factual and explain the Otto cycle and inner workings in great detail... or I can tell you its magic gnomes wearing rainbow drag inside it with hammers smashing crystals to make the power.
If you are inquisitive, you won't believe the story about gnomes and you will look farther into it, if you just take my word for it because you see me as an authority on the subject, you just might think there are gay gnomes in my engines. The more plausible the explanation or more gullible people are, the easier it is to feed them bullshit.
When you are ignorant of something, particularly complex issues like engines, climate, politics, human nature etc.. It is very easy to mislead you, blow smoke up your ass, and feed you propaganda that you never question. When you know about the subject, its vastly more difficult to get you to believe in magical gnomes.
So they keep people ignorant of history, reality, news, current events, and feed them propaganda. Adding to that they keep them on the edge of survival so they are always concerned with where the food will come from, if they can pay the light bill, and things like that.
Survival pressure keeps you from thinking about the bigger picture. When you are hungry and haven't eaten in a week, all you really care about is getting food. You will accept any narrative just to get the food.
Also, many people are either stupid or willfully ignorant and do not want to know how things work.
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@Ashnal I like how people believe that narrative, that a mask protects others. I am not just some wacko loon with a tinfoil hat, I have extensive training in NBC warfare (nuclear, biologic, chemical). A paper or cloth mask does somewhere between fuck all and jack shit to prevent viruses from entering or escaping the body. Sure it might reduce the amount of spit people throw at each other while speaking, but it does nothing about airborne vapor or viruses, particularly when its saturated. You can still get a cold while wearing one, and surgeons only wear one to limit exposure going in both directions, it does not prevent it. It does not limit much, only direct contact, not the air flowing out around the mask. Surgeons also change the mask out with every patient and do not operate while they are sick... or at least they're not supposed to.
We live in a soup of life floating in the air around us, we breathe in all manner of organisms every day, and breathe them out again. Most of which are have immunity to, some make us sick. The mask does not seal around your face, air escapes all around it, the air you breathe is directed around the mask as well as through it. You end up doing nothing more than rebreathing your own effluence. Wear glasses with a mask sometime, your glasses will fog up from the hot humid air escaping past the mask.
The cloth and paper masks are nothing but a placebo, its intended to make people feel safer, like they are doing something. It makes people afraid, and the powers that be want people afraid, because when you're scared shitless you will do whatever you're told to do, even give up your rights and accept subjugation. The TSA is also a placebo, they want people to feel like air travel is safe, but in most tests weapons are gotten past their checkpoints. I worked at an airport and we had to test the TSA screenings, they always failed. Always. Its a placebo and the ignorant believe what they are told, because they have no idea what the facts are..
I grew up wearing respirators, I lived on a farm and am highly allergic to grain dusts. A paper mask didn't do a damn thing to keep me breathing, and dust particulates are much larger than viruses. I had to have a quality respirator and a good seal. The same was true doing NBC training and real world, a mask leak means death in a chem environment, and there isn't much you can do about a biologic agent, the vectors can be anything living. Now I paint old cars in my shop, and I need not only a quality mask and to change the filters after every use because they become saturated with the chemicals in paint (isocyanates) I also have to wear a protective suit, because the chemical getting on my skin has the same effect as getting in my lungs.
If it was a serious threat, people would be wearing doomsday suits like in the movies, or going out in MOPP4. If you don't know what MOPP4 is, just do a search on it. Its the highest chem and bio protection level of the US military. While I was in at least, we played the NBC thing VERY seriously.
Paper and cloth masks don't do anything other than make you 'think' you're safe.
As for vaccinations, I have had a mind numbing number of shots, vaccinations included. Two for small pox, one when I was a kid and another in 2003. You name it I am vaccinated for it. I had my kids vaccinated too, no need for mumps and the rest of them. Vaccinations do not cause autism.
This one though, I do not trust. It was rushed into service, they say it doesn't make you immune, only reduces the symptoms, and doesn't work like a normal vaccine. Along with the NBC training I was also given rather extensive combat first aid and other medical training. When my unit needed someone to take a class to fill in a quota, they sent me for all the bullshit ones nobody wants to sit through or care about, so now I have knowledge of some really wild shit.
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Men have a defense against feminism, it works exceptionally well. Stop dating girls who display or say anything even close to feminist bullshit. Going farther men can stop dating girls entirely and focus on building their own lives and not supporting a female. There is a way to combat it, and Carl is doing it right now. Pointing out the idiocy of feminism and mocking them. So you call them out, point and laugh at them, and do not date nor give them attention. She can enjoy her life alone with boxed wine, microwave cooking for one (its a real cookbook) and playing Schrodinger's cats under her couch. Are they alive or dead? Who knows so we will assume they are both.
Ladies, girls.... XX types... if you embrace feminism, you are making a declaration that you want to die alone, uncared for, with no family there around you. For you it is the ultimate loneliness. You resent us for not holding you in high esteem and giving you everything, well, we aren't going to give you a damn thing with the sno cone hair and commie fist emblazoned clothing and literature. We will let you wither on the vine, some of the weak men will sleep with you, but no man of value will write a check against you, because you are the highest risk.
To be honest, we don't NEED you. We don't need someone in our lives, the default position for us is to be single, we spend most of our lives single or alone. Being alone after a divorce feels a hell of a lot like freedom. We get the milk for free, from girls who don't hate men, aren't useful idiot marxists, do not make themselves as ugly as possible, and who appreciate us for being men.
If a female wants a man, she has to be something the man wants. Who wants a harridan who hates him and only seeks to exploit him?
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@stevejohnson6858 don't wind them up, the valvetrain pieces stay put better lol.
A friend of mine, who was my crew at the NNN when I didn't make it down there, took a 430 Buick put some Stage 1 heads on it that came from a wagon, then stuffed it in a Vega Kamback. It fit great, but destroyed rear diffs like they were made of rock candy.
An 8" Maverick rear held up a while, then he broke the 430. Since he couldn't get much tire under it he had to baby it out of the hole, but then the grunt would take over and he'd catch most people he raced. It never got over 5000rpm, and he got 20+ mpg with it on the highway. He still has a bunch of Buick stuff, turbo V6s, 430s 455s, but he is a Five Nine chevy guy.
Big low RPM engine in a tiny car is tons of fun. Thats the plan with one of the Opel GTs I have.
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@timsharpe3498 I was sandbagging the chevy guys, beating them all by about a fender. Keeping their headlight in the middle of my side windows. They couldn't figure it out...
Until we went to the track and they saw my car running 12s, then 11s, and they were in the low 14s. That was when I stopped hearing people tell me to put a 350 in and it will go faster for less money.
11.40s with a $2700 forged piston, stock rod, ported iron head 455, turning a 1900 stall with a 3.42 gear behind it, in a 3750lb car.
It was really funny when all these high school kid's had their dad buy them a mustang. I built a couple fox body 5.0s for guys in the area, had them running low 12s and one with a Paxton in the 11s with me. One of the new kids asked the guy with the 11 second mustang I built if that old beat up blue Firebird was any competition for his 1995 mustang. He laughed and said "Kid, you're not even close to being competition for him." 15 second cars should just stay home lol.
Back in the 80s the fastest cars in my home town were 351C 4V mustangs (13s and 12s), a couple of 455 powered LeMans(low 12s high 11s), and a 71 Cuda with a 440, tunnel ran, big roller cam, and 4.10 gears. The Cuda ran 11.60s back then. Jeff got it into the 9s about ten years ago, and he doesn't race anymore. All the Mustangs with windsors were thrilled to get into the 15s.
When you grow up in Nebraska, you either end up a gearhead, a hasbeen high school jock, or a farmer. The street racing there is kinda nuts, just look at 1320 video's early content and you'll see what I mean. It spawned Cleetus... Nebraska is nuts for gearheads.
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While I was active duty USAF in 2003-2004, the NCO in charge of ALL outsized air shipment to Iraq, the media lied about all of us with the armor kits. I had shipped the armor kits for humvees and body armor for soldiers months before the news said the military was doing nothing about it. They were trying to make the military and Bush look bad, and lying to do it.
I built the pallets with my small crew, my unit them put it on C5s, 747s, and other planes that flew directly to Kuwait and Iraq. Everything going by air to Iraq was going through my base from March 2003 until mid 2005. So they lied about me directly, as well as my unit, my branch of service, and the entire military. It was all in place six months before the news said we had 'done nothing' to alleviate the problem. It was priority shipment, it went ahead of everything else and it was all I did for a few weeks, getting armor kits ready for air shipment.
So yeah, I have not believed a fucking thing they say for a very long time. They lied about us in the first Gulf War and I was neck deep in that massive airlift as well, at the base doing more than 80% of the air traffic going to Saudi and later Kuwait, then back to the states. More than 30 years I have been catching them in outright lies and exaggerations.
Its easy to spot the lies when you are not ignorant of what is actually going on. I catch them doing it all the damn time.
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Knoxville isn't far away for you, could drive down there, get a tour and show if they are made here or packaged and "assembled" here. In my mind, if its not made of parts made here in the US, even if its assembled here, its not made in the USA.
I've been making throttle cables and whatnot for my cars from factory GM window regulators in all these rusted out 99-07 trucks. They have decent quality cables when the tracks get sticky, the motors wear out, or one of the cables wads up. I made the throttle linkage for the blower from a knock off cable kit so I could use the ends/brackets, then cut the cable to length to fit between the throttle and pedal. I think the next use for one will be the under dash vents in the 65 GTO and 65 LeMans so I can operate them both from the drivers seat.
I'm thinking about getting a HF lathe, the small one, so I can make those small parts rather than buy them. Being a machinist in my past has benefits.
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Agree on running engines you get for dirt cheap to free. I've never paid more than $150 for a Pontiac 400 or 455, usually get them free, so easy to make 500hp/550ftlbs with them, cam, lifters, headers and you're there with a 455 running any year of 400 head. Some of the 400 heads require race gas or E85 because they make 11.3:1 or more compression on a 455. With how cheap E85 is, thats what I do, just crank the compression up with small chamber heads and enjoy the torque. The pump gas 455s I built for less than $2000, bored .030 over, balanced, good machine work, but nothing they don't need like honing the mains, make enough grunt with 8.8:1 compression to push a 4100lb 70 GTO into the mid to high 12s with a 2.93 gear behind them. Yep, not a typo, two ninety three. And a stock type converter that stalls around 1900-2100. One of them was built in 1995 and its still good, no ring ridge, no blow by, and it was my daily driver for ten years along with getting raced often.
Getting a cheap or free engine and rebuilding it like Tony does is fun, I simply like to do it with more cubes. Tried it with a $500 sbc 400 short block, put vortec heads on it, and man that thing nickel and dimed me to death, sure the heads are $300 a piece, but then you need all the special stuff that fits them, and suddenly you are over $2500. Compared to my Pontiac 400s its a pooch too, because the valve guides won't let you run more than .465" lift, so that is more machine work and money. If it would stop leaking from a different spot every time I run it, I might be more inclined to like it. Less torque for the same cam timing than my Pontiac 400s, less power everywhere, and the leaks..no wonder RTV is so popular. The LS costs a lot more, but they don't leak. HotRod magazine lied to me saying the vortec heads are cheap power.. would have been less expensive to put some AFRs or Edelbrock heads on it. It might be cracked, the sbc likes to crack things.
For a basic driver you pull out and stuff in the chevy works pretty good. Very easy to find parts, usually not overly expensive because you can find stuff used easy. I had to buy new with the 400 because nobody had parts for it around here. Making the power I get from my Pontiacs with one costs more than I want to bother with. These LS swaps are pricey, doing one on my 76 C10, even using parts from engines I got free its expensive. I like them in my 98 Formula and the 4x4s I run in the winter, so I figure why not the summer truck too? I hope the 6.0 makes decent power, the one in the 99 Silverado 2500 runs pretty good for such a heavy truck. The 76 came to me with a 305 that developed a death rattle, I put a 400 Pontiac in it for about 8 years, then needed that 400 for a GTO build, and put an 86 454 in the truck, man that thing was a gutless pig that drank gas, seriously 4mpg in a 2wd short box half ton. Changing the cam, intake, and probably heads on the rat was going to cost a fortune, so I went LS in it. People have been giving me 5.3s for free lately, with the entire truck. As long as you use all used stock parts they are pretty cheap. Making them run in an older vehicle is going to cost more though, its $700 just to make it run after putting it in, doesn't matter if you run EFI or carb.
Fun stuff to play with though.
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@ma3stro681 No, I have not been to Thailand, they were in the US and Europe, not bar/juicygirls. Most of the Russians were working in bars in Korea, but I had no money while I was there, because child support took it all, leaving me $100 a month. The Russians liked me, we had lots of fun. Learning some of the language really helps.
The 18 year olds were here in northern Michigan, did not work in bars, but were freshman class at the local university... and one that had a thing for old guys.
I was not at Clark AB PI before Pinatubo covered it in ash, so I never made it to PI either.
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@TheGreenKnight500 no a man's value is by is ability, knowledge, competence, and skills. Its merit based. The woman he can attract is irrelevant unless you are so enamored with females that its all you think about.
Just because some guy has a hot wife/gf does not earn him any respect from me. Now if he can build engines as well as or better than me, build houses like I do, lift as much as I can, or has achieved things greater than me, he has value and earns respect from it.
I attract all kinds of girls, very hot to very homely, all ages too, 18 year olds to 70s. So freakin what? It is not indicative of my value in any way. Thats because I have been able to do that since I was in my 20s, when I had no money, few appreciable skills, and knew a small fraction of what I do now 30 years later.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Probably because you have yet to achieve anything, and you just like to start arguments. I don't mind arguments on channels I like, because it helps them get more views.
I figure you are in your teens or 20s, because you have no clue what masculinity is about. It makes sense because masculinity is a bad thing according to the people trying to destroy our culture and society. Its not like you just know this stuff, it has to be learned, and you have not learned it. Plain and simple as.
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@allangibson8494 adding boost is not the same as compression. Boost adds more air, which requires more fuel or you melt pistons. Its not always about more power. High compression is more efficient because it works the fuel harder with the same atmospheric pressure that an engine sees without boost. You take the same amount of fuel, work it harder, and get more power with increased efficiency, rather than adding air and fuel and getting more power.
Its more economic for the people who own the oil business, not for you and me. The study they use to claim ethanol is very poor in energy returned on energy invested is a horribly flawed and incredibly skewed one by a gut at Stanford who studied insects.
He had to include the smelting of the ore use to make farm equipment, producing the machines themselves, then he had the largest equipment doing almost no work and only lasting ten years. The Steiger articulating 4 wheel drive tractor he used was from the 1970s and many of them are still running today and rather than farming 100 acres they farm thousands every year. I have an old 1978 Allis Chalmers One Eighty tractor, it can work 100 acres in less than a day, or two depending on how many breaks are taken.
In addition to that he used still efficiencies for beverage stills, which create a very low proof and require several runs just to get to 160 proof, or 80% ethanol.
Take a guess who paid him to make his 'study' that he had to twist that much to make it come out the way he wanted... Yep, an oil company. I'd have to look up which one, but my memory tells me Exxon, but it might have been another one.
Making ethanol results in more food, and can produce electricity and other useful things, and when done in addition to basic farming the ethanol isn't even the most valuable thing, its more of an added bonus. The food is far more valuable.
Everything left over after fermenting corn (which I don't use, I have cattails, but its still useful for the same thing) is a high quality livestock feed. Its called DDGS, distillers dried grains, and its one of the few things the US exports to oil countries like Saudi Arabia. Livestock gain muscle (meat) faster on DDGS than on corn mixed with other things, because they cannot eat corn unless its mixed with other things and or fermented, like in silage.
I can explain the silage thing too.. you chop up mature corn, ear, stalk and all, and either bury it in the ground or put it in a silo and let it ferment for a year. That breaks down the corn enough so livestock can digest it. We might as well be making fuel from it instead of only fermenting it.
I think steers raised on silage taste far better than beef that are grass fed, I've had both and grass fed is nearly inedible for me.
There is a lot more you can do in addition to ethanol, not just growing food, but also heating your home, producing electricity, and producing natural gas.
The thing is... energy companies don't profit from you making your own energy.
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@localsheriff I have a permit that allows me to produce 5000 gallons of fuel a year, and I can get a 40 cent a gallon tax credit too.. except I am a crippled Iraq veteran and don't pay income tax. I don't bother with the tax credit.
The idea that people can take denatured ethanol and make it drinkable again is ludicrous. The common substances used to denature it are gasoline and methanol. Both of which (certain parts of gasoline) are too close in boiling points of ethanol to separate them, so once poisoned its always poisoned.
Norway and Sweden have a decent sized car culture that goes racing, a friend of mine in Norway races his 76 Chevelle in the snow and in summer. Mo I Ranna or something like that is where he races.
Your weather is milder than where I live, winters are shorter in Norway even though you are farther north than I am. You're around 49 and I am 46 latitude. So EVs work better there, the ocean keeps it warmer than here in the middle of the continent.
Ethanol doesn't like to vaporize below 20F, at 40F it takes a bit longer to start. I get around that with methane, which is easy to produce in large quantities. A nitrous bottle, solenoid connected to a jet in the plenum and you have a cold start aid with home made methane. Methane works except you need a HUGE tank to get range out of it, same with hydrogen, and then you still have shorter range than even methanol.
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Once I found out who Tony is, I realized I read his articles quite often in the 80s and 90s. I took what he wrote about 5.0 mustangs and turned it into money in my shop in the 90s. I built all the fastest Mustangs in the area, we had fun beating on the chevys. I built my Pontiacs and helped other guys with them go faster, we beat lots of chevys, and spent less money doing it than they did. 11.40s for a grand total of $4500 in the entire car (79 Formula), including purchase price, all motor, no spray, and it was 3750lbs without me in it.. yeah that is low buck go fast street car stuff from the 1990s. Hell it never went over 6000rpm, the chevy guys said it didn't sound like a race car, more like I was going to the store for a loaf of bread... as it put bus lengths on their chevys when I wasn't sandbagging them.
I know why I wasn't much of a fan of PHR, the writing was meh, lots of typos, bad editing, errors, and it was brief overview with a pronounced sbc is amazing, everything else should be replaced by an sbc theme. Being a Pontiac nut, there was precious little in PHR for me. I remember John Pearly Huffman writing an article about a Buick GN someone swapped a 12:1 compression 355 into, and it was slower than the turbo V6, but he wrote about it like it was amazing. Needs race gas now, and it isn't faster, but somehow that is better.. mmkay JPH.
Its not like HRM or CC had tons of Pontiac info, when they did it was resto, or daily driver stuff with very mild engines, and they left out all kinds of pertinent information, assuming nobody really cares because nobody races these things. High Performance Pontiac did all kinds of testing, airflow of heads, dyno tests, combinations in actual cars with weight, gears, stall, etc all laid out in a recipe and then showed what it ran on the track. No other magazine did anything like that. HPP was a bible every month until about 2008, when Primedia bought them and turned them into PHR. You can find some of the articles on HRM's website now. Like this one about dyno testing E85 in a 455 SD with 8:1 compression:
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/hppp-1109-testing-different-fuel/
I have plastic totes filled with magazines I collected from 1982 until 2009.. I kept the HRM, CC, and HPP, but the rest like Street Rodder and others went away. My bud back home has his dads collection of HRM, every issue going back to 1949 up until he died in 1996. Lots of great info in there.. I learned so much reading my magazines until I memorized them, then I would go do things on my cars and find out what worked and didn't. Don't ask why I have 50 or 60 vehicles now.. Its a long story.
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@zeddez1005 my dad was a farmer and a farm equipment salesman. I enlisted to get the hell out of Nebraska in the late 80s. Dad was predictable for when he would beat on me, if he got frustrated or my older brother pissed him off, I was getting hit, kicked, thrown, etc. I knocked him out one night when he went to hit me, it was a half power shot to his sternum, he never hit me again, never even tried.
My older brother was the source of my PTSD, he derived great joy from seeing me in pain. Completely random, no warning, no reason, he would be laughing one second and beating on me the next. He stabbed, poisoned, bludgeoned, and ran me over with farm equipment.
I nearly killed him several times, including the last time he hit me. I body slammed him on the concrete in front of our house three times, until he didn't get back up again. He started a rumor at school that I was gay, I got lots of beatings for that until they figured out I like girls.
If I didn't fight back and really hurt them, the beatings would have continued. That is how life works, turn the other cheek is only when you have an escape or someone else who can fight for you.
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I don't trust, haven't for a long time. I allow people to come through, or drop the ball, its up to them. When it comes to cars, I take it apart and do it, because I trust my own work more than anyone else. I like rolling shells because I can build the engine, transmission, and rear end the way I want them. That way I have fewer screw ups done by others that I have to fix.
If you can't do the work competently yourself, perhaps unique or high dollar muscle cars might not be for you, maybe you should stick to new appliances.... unless you can afford to pay someone to do the work for you. I drive these as my summer daily. You don't have to do what Tony and I do, but if you can't set points or diagnose and fixz simple problems, well you better dig out that liquid nitrogen cooled credit card.
Do it yourself and its not that expensive really.
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@albertgaspar627 $15k was for a frame off rebuild, with two stage paint, EFI, and lots of metal work. I did all that work. It was so rusty you could not put glass in it, and I got it as a rolling shell.
I have others, like the 68 LeMans that has $4500 in it and should run a mid 10 in the quarter. That includes pulling a $300 rolling shell out of a Nebraska pasture, rebuilding the brakes and suspension, then dropping a low buck engine into it and shooting it with $60 tractor enamel. Its not 'nice' but it is not intended to be.
I have others, not just those two. Cars and light trucks are what I do.
Its interesting how I can throw them together with parts I have laying around, and provided I don't do power upgrades they are rarely in my shop getting worked on. I put 20k miles on the 65 in 2017 running a 400 I built in 1996 for $1200 that has been in 8 vehicles I own, including the 70 GTO, 71 Formula, and 76 C10. That 400 is going in a 72 Ventura next. My daily driver engines run for decades, and make enough power to put 4000lb cars into the 12s on 87 octane without a power adder, and 11sand 10s on E85/home made fuel.
Yet you couldn't keep one running long enough to go to a show. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised you say the PEV is a less complex vehicle. Sounds like your mechanic sucks. Not everyone has the skills and knowledge.
I drive $500 pieces of shit in the winter, because the salt will destroy whatever I drive, so they are sacrificial. They barely move in summer, I can drive the vehicles I value between 1 May and 1 November. The rest of the year is salt. No reason to spend money on something nice to drive it in winter, because it will rust in half in 3 to 5 winters.. People are discovering why you don't drive a Tesla in the salt and snow, they kinda catch fire.
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@tapsofosiris3110 yeah and it was also rather expensive when new, and to buy it now. I am a crippled war veteran, I don't have a lot of money, so I have to build things. Just so happens my engines are rather worn when I get them, so I simply refresh it with a bore and then throw on a head from a 400 or 350. Its almost all stock stuff, or stock replacement, and running 11s is rather easy. Headers and a camshaft/lifters and drop it in something as light as or lighter than the Viper.
If I get a bit crazy with it I can have the heads ported by Butler and upgrade the connecting rods, which makes the entire engine cost about $3200 and make around 550hp with nearly 600ftlbs.
I have a 72 Formula with a 455 HO in it, 8.8:1 compression, pushing a 3.08 gear, and it runs 12.60s. Its the original engine and had a ring and bearing job because its almost 50 years old. I am planning to clone it with a 71 Formula 400 I have, get another set of HO heads, put them on a 455, make it completely stock, and see if it will run in the 11s. Since that Formula has no AC, manual steering and brakes, and is a lot lighter than the every freakin option they had 72, it should get close to the 11s if not all the way in there.
Not too shabby for something that runs on 87 octane camel whiz.
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@Hayawasa really.. you can gap a daily driver that runs mod to low 11s for less than $5k in the entire car, buying it, tires, engine, everything... $5k.. I have yet to see that, particularly NA. Sure as fuck no ricer is gonna do it. Imagine what would happen if a couple Wuhan hair dryers found they're way in the car, or one of those low buck grunt monsters were dropped in a light vehicle rather than a 3750lb stock suspension beater. So um.. prove it.
No shit that generation Viper moves, so did the Cobra, so did a lot of cars. Typical ricer kid, can't grasp the point I am trying to make. Spend enough money and even your honda can be fast.
I bet you're gonna point to someone else's car rather than one you built yourself, and say it is this or that. Always someone else, because you guys can't do shit without every break... just like a chick. Gotta have handicaps and throw money at it. lol.
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@Faddidaddi I do the same, and the only time I revert to ad hominem is when the other party is going intentionally stupid/obtuse, or obviously trolling. Most what I say/write is not so much to convince the person I am conversing with, as it is the people who are coming by later and reading or watching what went down.
I'm a gearhead from the street racing world, so I am used to people talking shit, acting stupid, trolling, and obfuscating their true intent/capability. I do it myself, because my cars do not look like they are as fast as they are, they are what we call sleepers. Looks slow, but isn't.
You won't last long in the automotive/racing world without a thick skin. You are also locked into a system based solely on merit, and it requires continuous improvement and learning.
It also means there is no racial bigotry, we don't give a damn what color you are, only how your car runs. So in this environment, I care how well your argument/ideology runs.
My world is all put up or shut up based on empirical evidence. So the broke guy who knows a lot can beat the guy with deep pockets and all the fancy stuff. It translates perfectly into the political world, or any other, because facts are the be all end all, no matter how you try to spin it.
Everyone is on equal footing at the start, and as the rounds go by the inept are weeded out.
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My first car was a 1967 Cougar, A code 289 auto originally. It has the 4 piston Kelsey Hayes disc brakes on it. Other than the boosters always not working and the vacuum leaks everywhere so the headlight covers were manual, it drove rather well... on pavement, it sucked on gravel roads, because the brakes overpowered the roads easily.
I could never figure out why people said muscle car brakes were terrible and barely stopped.... until I had to drive a 69 Charger with drums all around because my Cougar was broke, at least that 318 powered slug went around corners ok, about the only thing it did adequately. Then I got my 72 GTO with disc brakes and swaybars front and rear, and the 70 GTO with the same, and I laugh at people who say muscle cars don't stop and don't handle corners. Mine do if I want them to. My younger brother wrecked that 69 Charger because the brakes were always terrible. He is looking for parts to fix it, and has been for 30 years.
Then there is my 79 10th Anniversary TA, that came standard with WS6 suspension, which includes 4 wheel disc brakes. That thing stopped like RIGH NOW with no drama whatsoever. It also went around corners better than all the same vintage Vettes and everything else out there that was not a Pontiac. Wild eyed handling ride on 70 series tires no less. My 4th gen 98 Formula doesn't handle as well as that 79 TA does and the 98 has 17" factory wheels and 40 series tires. The faster that 79 goes the more stable it is, unlike Camaros from forever. Herb Adams knew what he was doin for sure.
I usually upgrade drum brake Pontiacs to disc, because with how many of them I have it means I don't have to remember which one has what. Also there is no mickey mouse nonsense of different rear brake sizes and whatnot with my Pontiacs. The 2 VIN division did not build 'barely adequate' vehicles like chevy and mopar did.
All of my changes have the attendant requirements figured in, master cylinders, wheel cylinders, steering boxes, pitman arms, power steering hoses and T bars to get the right road feel... I like to use 94-96 Jeep Grand Cherokee steering boxes on my A body Pontiacs, its less than 3 turns lock to lock and has the right stops for the LeMans/GTO turning radius. I swap the valve in the back of the pump for one from after 1982 and I can use the O ring style hoses.
Also Pontiac decided to have both holes drilled in brake pedals for power and manual brakes, because the leverage requirement is different. I just move it to the other hole when I got to manual or power. Real simple stuff.
Pontiac is the best for low buck go fast, because if a 350 or 326 is sitting there, a 389 (64-66), 400 or 455 will bolt right in using all the same stuff. No K members to change, different mounts, bellhousing differences, or engine families, and nearly all the parts interchange between the engines. The main differences are crankshafts, pistons and sometimes main bearings. Not to mention they make ungodly torque from idle to 6000rpm so you don't need to swap in 4 something gears, the 2.73 to 3.42 will work just fine.
Here's the kicker.. an aluminum headed LS 5.3 is 480lbs as a long block. An iron headed 400/455 Pontiac with the front drive brackets and an intake on it is 550lbs. I know, because I weighed them both this week. I get a lot more torque and power for 50lbs than you will out of the LS, and its a lot less expensive to get 500hp/550tq from a mild 455 with garden variety stuff on it. So I laugh at the guys who take out a 400 or 455 and put a 350 sbc or an LS in it and think its an upgrade. Its quite the downgrade in reality.
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Living in the USA is not a free ride, unless you are a hot girl or someone born to a very wealthy family of course. The rest of us have to earn our life here. What about all of the veterans who didn't come home? They sacrificed to keep this country worth living in. I spent a lot of years overseas in the US military, sacrificed my health and youth to protect pretty much everyone.. and then later to protect the profits of the people put in office. Don't blame us for the people everyone else wanted.
Louis can let them live at his house, in his gated community, so he can enjoy the waves and the different world it creates. I have been to the rest of the world, and if they wanted to make it better, they damn well could. Instead they just sit back and take whatever is done to them, and fight over who has control. There is a reason the rest of the world is a sh**hole, and its not because of US influence... ok well some of it is due to the Barry regime helping to turn countries into s'holes. The big cities seem to want that type of individual in office, so they can take on all the people from other countries and have their cities turned into.. oh wait, Detroit, Milwaukee, Baltimore, DC.. yeah.. already S'holes.
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@GibDozer1 my first ex divorced me in 2001. She regretted leaving just two months later when she discovered how hard life was without me handling everything. She wanted to make it work, so I went home on leave and we met at my parents house. She spent the night and I slept in a different room. In the morning she started another irrational argument and decided to start hitting me with something. At which point I told her there was no way in hell I would ever take her back.
Thats when she got incredibly vindictive and started lying about me.
Back in 2019 she came to where I live with her mom to drop off some stuff to our youngest who moved the 1000 miles away to where I live. She and her mother saw my land, the house I was still building, the shop I had completed, and my kid told her how much land I owned.
The look on her face was priceless, she realized how badly she messed up. Her mother had encouraged her to leave me and never said anything good about me.. until she saw what I was building and where I was building it. Her mother had a look on her face that told me she realized she was very wrong about me, especially when compared to the guy my ex got after me.
Then in 2021 my kid had moved back to our home state where her mom lives, because jobs up here suck, and she had me on speaker. Kid said something about if only it had worked out, and I said I was not the deciding factor in that. Her mom yelled from across the room that yeah she was in a bad place, caused all the problems, and regrets all of it.
A couple months later she contacts my brothers and sisters and wants back in the family, which she had said to them about 8 years ago.
As if I want to take back someone who made my life a living hell for 8 years, then kept me broke and living in my car for most of the next 15 unless someone else helped me, because she was getting most of my income. That alone is enough to give her a hell no... but then add in the fact she is well over 300lbs, is only 5'4, and has a pain med problem she picked up a few years ago, so she is not only broke but horribly in debt as well.
As I bump into girls I was with years ago, a common thread emerges. They find out how far around the world I have traveled, what I am doing now, how well off I am, where I live, and they realize they really screwed up. None of them did better than me like they thought they would when they decided to cheat.
The last girl I was seeing (14-18) broke it off after seeing each other for 4 years. She wanted to get with a fireman she met. He tapped it for two weeks and moved on. She regrets leaving but she won't come back, she is too proud to ask. lol. We split on good terms though, and she is really cool and treated me exceptionally well. We are still good friends so I send her a little validation every so often.
They make really bad choices in life, throw out the best men they will ever get, then when they end up alone they think we will take them back. Must be nice to live a life without responsibility and accountability.
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I painted my 76 C10 short box, 79 Formula street strip toy, 79 Trans Am, 67 Cougar (first car and first paint job), 70 GTO, 65 GTO got a full frame off from rusty scrap heap to daily driver, and a few others. I am an engine, transmission, carb, suspension tech, not big on doing paint and body but I am not overly wealthy and I can weld.
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@badlaamaurukehu I see the religions the same way I see marxism/socialism/communism/feminism (those are the same shit to me) wishful thinking based on at best conjecture, sort of like fiction based in our universe. Since I know christianity very well, and islam rather well, I know what they entail.
Just because one runs entire swathes of the world and the other has been defanged by secular law, does not mean one is somehow better than the other.
They are both built on the same foundation, they both have had their abhorrent atrocities, and now christianity comes to us seeking to play the nice guy exactly the same way the communists have in the last ten years. Its not that they are always violent, reprehensible, genocidal, ideologies with a massive in group preference that seeks to kill non believers if they don't convert, its that they have that within them and they can be used to justify exactly those actions.
I am not a fan of religions, either theistic or non theistic like marxism, for the same reasons Hitch was not a fan.
However, I like how Jordan Peterson frames it, using the archetypal stories that are in those Abrahamic books as a view into human nature can be beneficial. Using them to justify killing or ousting everyone else, well that is abhorrent. You can justify any atrocity by simply saying "God Wills It" and that is exactly what the ideologues do with them when the ideology becomes what makes the laws.
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Tim you asked for us X'ers to tell you what its like. I was born in 1969, graduated high school in 1987, we had 3 channels on TV and two were fuzzy, was stationed in Frankfurt West Germany in 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down, at the base that handled over 80% of the airlift traffic for Desert Shield/Storm. The 92 budget cut left me a 'Mr' again. My first kid was born in 1994.
If you would have told me in 1989 when we were knocking a chunk of poorly made concrete off that wall, that when I was 53 we would have people groom ing like this, and that we would have marque cysts running our gov and pushing this on us, I would have laughed at you.
I absolutely hated the 80s, the 70s were goofy plaid and polka dots with orange and green on everything. The 90s were a little better, except Bill sent my CNC programmer jobs to Mexico with NAFTA and allowed us to be attacked nine freakin times, and he did nothing but clamor for invading Iraq.
I went back to the military in 2000 and found it had drastically changed. Suddenly there was mandatory training about races, saying hello to a girl who did not find you attractive was cause for her to say you were harassing her. For a Cold War and Gulf War guy who had been out during the change was what we called 'culture shock.' Similar to your first overseas assignment. I stopped talking to military females entirely, I had curtailed it in the early 90s as all of that was in its infancy. Why was harassment on the rise? Because extending a verbal greeting just one time while not being tall enough to speak to her was considered grounds for harassment claims against males.
Here is a big difference between now and then... Back in 1991 I came back to the states and made some friends on base in Charleston SC. A friend from Germany came to Charleston early in 1992, lets call him Joe. A few of my friends in Charleston were female, one was named Sherrie, so I said "Joe this is Sherrie, Sherrie this is Joe." They are going on 29 years of marriage, have three kids and a whole mess of grandkids. All because I introduced them. They called me to tell me thanks for connecting them.
Most of my friends who are around Tim's age, have never been married, never plan to be married, and never plan to have kids. They can't find girls they want to have kids with, or girls that they can even trust. Its not that girls are bad, its more that the laws and society encourage women to act poorly, make huge life altering decisions on a whim, and toss out the man who was willing to take the risk and support her.
Most women never get a guy close to the same quality as the one they tossed out, and end up alone at my age. That has been the sequence of events for many people I have known for more than 30 years. Its all shortsighted hedonism and trying desperately to get hers while not realizing its a short term thing. the money she gets from him runs out eventually... right around the time she is 45 to 50. She is invisible to men like me at that point, we do not want them, since those of us who have done something with our lives can get girls much younger and better looking very easily...
Not 'get girls to keep' mind you, the girls aren't looking for that. They get the simps to give them money, but they sleep with guys like me. (I am not really that fat..) They want someone like me because I am fun, dangerous, and their parents would not approve,, that and I care more about my muscle cars and dogs than I do about girls. Most of us are not even looking for a girl now, and the chances of a 40+ girl hooking up with a younger man is very low.
Now in 2022 the followers of an ideology which I have been a sworn enemy of since I was 19 years old, are running things here. Its surreal hearing the same words come out of US politicians that I heard Adolf and Joe S say in newsreels. I see the same control of narratives and language that I saw in Pravda in the 80s, but its right here on YT. They aren't hiding it at all, and people are following along like lapdogs begging for treats.
All you need to do is know history, but that is being warped and not taught to kids. The narrative is the Wall was there to protect the world from not Cs, rather than to keep people from escaping East Berlin and going to West Berlin. I could go to the East side easily in uniform, and walk around doing whatever I wanted to do... within reason. The people living there could not come visit us in the west. People today do not know that, they are too young to remember it like Tim is, or they never paid attention, perhaps they forgot.
I doubt this will be seen by anyone, because the 'toobgawds' do not like it when I write about history and the parties involved. Makes it easy to see what side they are on.. doesn't it?
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@ingurlund9657 Ah, but we have something the Brits, Canadians, and Australians do not have. A bout a million veterans who have spent the last 20 years in an asymmetrical fight, and the tools with which to fight. Also the brown people who speak Spanish are more on our side, since many of them already know how marque cysm turns out for them.. its why they left and came here.
Its the entitled, spoiled, upper middle class kids who have useless degrees, can't lift their own body weight, and cry when they have to work more than two hours a week and actually DO something that are amenable to the plans... because they think it will be better for them. heh...
I saw the soviet union up close, I know how that turns out for the weak and useless.
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I am 55, no midlife crisis happened for me. The years go faster as we get older, trust me. Why no crisis? Well, because I have done things most people never will, never could, or never would. Military, travel, adventures, building things, doing stuff rather than buying and taking on debt. My only concern is will I get all the old cars built before I expire... or am too broken to do the work.
I was in charge of the direction of my life, I chose which way to go, what challenges to take on, and I chose my mistakes which cost me dearly.. like 25 wasted years paying someone who treated me horribly and sapped the majority of my income after taking off with my kids.
I am driving the same kind of cars I drove when I was 18, 64-72 GTOs, and 67-81 Firebirds, three of the cars I have now I had when I was 18. 67 Cougar, 72 GTO and 79 TransAm. Its what I do with the cars, build, drive dragrace.. not the status of having an old muscle car, if there is any I don't care about it. They are fun and I like the way they look, I'll build them exactly how I want them. None of them are perfect, none of them are going to win shows, they are not the fastest thing on the planet, but they do exactly what I build them to do. Been doing this since I got the first one in 1982, that 67 Cougar, when I was 13.
Is your life enjoyable or are you chasing the all mighty dollar and putting off living until you have money? I kept my cars even when I was broke and had bills to pay, I didn't sell a $5000 car for $500 just to pay a bill. I found ways to make the $500 to pay the bill and kept the car. Had people push me to sell the cars at a huge loss, and they were always the ones in massive debt, trying to make ends meet, and ended up with nothing because they were thinking short term and right now solutions. I am debt free and own my land, 13 acres of woodland, built my house and the shop where I build the cars, and my fixed income is around $4k a month. Most of my life I was making $2000 a month or less, and I did all of this...
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@mylesleggette7520 I noticed something in my military time.1988 to 92 the black guys would accept you if they knew they could trust you. I was engaged to a black girl back then, and that was good enough for most of them. Some people still don't like you, it is what it is.
The 92 drawdown left me unemployed going by Mr fat guy, until NAFTA forced me back into the military in 2000. I went back to the same base when I went back that I was stationed at when I got out.
There was a large change. Now everyone I knew, save for two guys, who was black had an attitude. No possibility of them accepting me. Didn't matter what color my girlfriends were, they had this chip on their shoulder and tried to act superior as often as they could.
Of course the entire military had changed as well. When I went back only one other guy in my unit of over 600 people was in the first gulf war. Just me and him. I had worked with him at the same base in 92.
Being the only one, of only two who had been to war, had seen combat and the workload of my job during war time, I was different than the rest of them. It changes you.. they found out just 3 years later.
The military got woke under Clinton as he cut the shit out of it. The attitude you allude to was installed at that time. Before Clinton we all got along good, and could form close friendships regardless of race. After Clinton, the divide was too wide, and they had told too many black people they are victims... and they believed it.
Pisses me off and makes me sad. Even now its hard to make black friends, but a few of them come around
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@stupendous7848 I agree with you... but, I fought and sacrificed to preserve the Constitution, and the founders decided that even bad ideas should be heard... people implementing bad ideas is not the same as voicing them though.
You'll have a hard time finding someone who loathes marxism more vehemently than I do, being a Cold War veteran who was stationed in Germany when the wall came down. I traveled through several communist countries, and I saw first hand what they did to people, and how they forced them to live. I am a father who was prevented from being a positive influence on his kids because of the Duluth model and other feminist legislation.. They stole the best part of their childhoods, 7 years.. the most important years.
Its better we allow them to speak, so we know who is following the abhorrent ideologies. If they hide their true intentions and aspirations, they go under the radar. Can't be having that, its preferable to shine the spotlight on them, and they'll scatter like roaches running from the light.
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I try to look broke, wear my work on the car clothes when I go into town for groceries. That way when I get out of my sublime green 70 Cuda or pearl blue 65 GTO, they don't try to crawl in my wallet. I have been retired since 35, I am 54 now. Take home for me is over $60k, so just under $100k if I paid taxes. I live in the woods, on 13 acres of land, in a two story house I built myself, and I have 30 or so muscle cars and hotrods.
Zero debt and I just finished the build on my latest toy that has 700+ hp/tq NA, and when I throw some boost at it, 2000hp under 20psi is easy.. Occasionally I will give a woman a chance, offer to take her out. They are eager to hand out their number, but then they flake or don't want to do anything. They get one chance, only one.
So far since 2018 none of them have passed the test.
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Exceptionally beautiful women? I go with a binary, is she fuckable or not? The hotter they are, the more neurotic and entitled the chick is going to be. Know what the difference between a hot 9 and a 5 is? The wrapper. I pay attention and I can tell which girls are interested and which are not. I'm not keeping them, my value is not based on how hot the girls I bang are, so as long as she passes the hydraulic test and she is interested, I might talk to her. They are a huge hassle and a waste of time/money, I've had more than I can remember, so they aren't special to me.
I'm 5'8 and heavily muscled, so a suit makes me look fat. Style is something I do not give a fuck about, I wear a black T shirt, jeans, Redwing boots, and a ballcap. I drive an old muscle car I built, and I have several of them. Some are ratty, loud and obnoxious, all of them will scare the fuck out of girls. I am who I am, and no bint is going to give me useful advice. I am not a nice guy, to be honest I barely give a fuck about them. As long as she is thin 4 to 8 is good for me.
The muscle, bad boy image, and IDGAF attitude works rather well, and since I am short the hottest chicks rarely show interest in me. I get mine, and I try to limit how much they cost me. If you're an incel, here's what you do. Get in the gym, lift very heavy shit, stop giving a fuck, learn to tell when a chick is interested in you or some other guy, and realize unless you are over 6' and ripped with good facial symmetry, the hottest ones aren't going to be interested. They are entitled and annoying as fuck, rarely having a personality, so go for the 5 to 7s. As long as she is thing, she will do. Never marry one.
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@joey9511 yes we most definitely were. I was part of that military force protecting the ungrateful entitled lazy bastards. I saw your reply and I started laughing, because I agree entirely with you.
they can pay for all those social programs, give money and housing to people just showing up, and all the other government funded bullshit, simply because the US military is vastly overpowered compared to the next ten militarys.
So the USA subsidized all the socialist bullshit around the world, an essentially turned the Vikings and hard core German warfighters into candy asses. I guess it keeps them from fighting amongst themselves like they did for centuries.. but why the fuck do we have to pay for it, and why the fuck do we have to fight for them?
I liked being stationed in Germany back when the Berlin Wall came down, hard to get parts for my car, but I liked the 'old country' a lot. Italy was ok back then too, France loathed tourists, and I can understand why... I do too. I hated Paris but liked the rest of France well enough, its a very scenic and beautiful place outside Paris.. that city has a stench and a filth that follows you for days after you visit. Frankfurt and Berlin were far nicer.. but perhaps I felt that way because of my German last name.
Yugoslavia was not a fun place to be back then, I stopped through on a flight to Dubai. We stopped in another 'undisclosed location' in a former commie country on my 01 deployment. What a shithole those places were. Now the EU wants all of Europe to be like the soviet bloc was. I remember it, fuck that shit, but if the people there are stupid enough to accept it, hey.. not my circus, not my monkeys...
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Think of it this way, its natural population control. For centuries the population was controlled by war, pestilence, and famine. Millions of men never got the chance to reproduce, because they died before they could get some tuna scented snot pocket. China had a one child policy for decades, so they have millions of men who will never get laid, never have kids, and their population will probably crash this century because of it. Japanese men have said fuck it and checked out 20 years ago. Now its rolling through the USA. The same men who would have died in battle or from disease are not bothering to chase tail, because there is no benefit in it and it bears a VERY high risk. The population is going to crash, because there is no incentive
to have kids and risk everything you invested your hours, days, months, and years into building just to get your Tab D wet.
Its not materialistic, men want their investments to pay off. They want to be in a better position after the investment than they were before, but the laws today almost always put the man in a far worse position when his wife decides to jump on random cocks. What is the point of doing something for nothing or at great cost when you're left with nothing at the end? We are not charities. When we sacrifice for a wife and kids we expect to have them in our lives and supporting us, its a give-take relationship that goes both ways, Currently its all give by men, all take by females, and females might give some nookie in return for all we do. Fuck that.
I am not in the 80%, which was surprising to me to discover.. because I am 5'8 and have never been wealthy. Apparently I am good looking. I thought everyone could bang a different girl every few days to weeks, with less than a month of dry spell between them. I have friends who are in their 50s like me, who have had less than 5 girls in their entire lives, and one hasn't been laid in nearly 20 years. Just last night I had girls in the grocery store who were smiling at me and looking down and away, obvious indications of interest. I live near a small town, and I try to go shopping when nobody is around. One was in her 20s, a couple in their 30s, and one well over 40, all were thin and well kept. I DON'T GIVE A FUCK anymore. Two divorces, hundreds of girls cheating and using me for money/attention/validation, and I just don't care anymore. I am not losing my home I built to another chick who wants to extort cash and prizes from me.
They are too much effort, too much risk, and the only benefit I get is a warm moist place to jerk off. Pron is free now, and at my age its more of a maintenance issue than a strong urge. I've had girls naked in my bed and I decided to play RDR2 or a first person shooter instead of getting some. I'd rather spend my money and time on my vintage GTOs and old pickup trucks. I am happy being a hermit in the woods, building hotrods, and trying to teach people how to work on old cars and make fuel to run them.
I have two kids, both daughters. One will not have kids, she doesn't want them. The other is 25 and her mom fucked her up so badly that she will never find a quality man. She attracts the losers, the dregs, the morons and felons. If she has a kid it will probably be with a low quality male. Her mother made damn sure of that when she divorced me 21 years ago.
A bit of humble brag here. I banged a mom and a daughter, on separate occasions not together, back in 2002. They were among the other 6 girls I had on rotation, the mom was 4 years older than me, the daughter was 11 years younger. You can tell a lot about people by where they live... trailer parks are where you find girls like that.
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@PrivateSi I do not disagree with you, European cultures are somewhat rigid, insular, and apparently fragile because of that. Its difficult to assimilate into it. When I was stationed in Frankfurt back in the 80s and 90s, I blended in because of my heritage, I look, move, and act, like a German, but I am American. They were far more accepting of me than France and Italy were. Britain had a decided disdain for me while I was there. I won't get into how I was treated in Belgrade... it was not nice in 1991. More of a commie thing though I think.
I am not saying you have bad cultures, but they are much older than ours in the US, and ours is constantly evolving, taking bits from other cultures and implementing them where they are useful. The USA is larger than all of Europe combined, so we have regional cultures sorta like the dialects in Germany or Britain, but we still have the one overriding theme.
Sweden and the other northern countries were and are predominantly white, the people they allow in end up in ghettos and are not assimilated into the culture. Bringing other cultures in does not affect Europeans in a favorable manner.
I noticed the same thing when I moved to the part of the US I live in now. They are more recent Finnish immigrants, most have only been here one or two generations, not four like my German family and home region. They too are very insular, and unless you grow up with them, they treat you like shit, taking advantage of you at every opportunity. Its a European thing.
Some say you should change and be more accepting, but I am not one of them. You guys are how you are, and if people want to live among you, they should try to fit in with you.
When I went to other countries, I did not expect them to speak English, though most of them did. I made an effort to learn enough of the language to get around, ask directions, how much something costs, etc. I did not do the arrogant thing and demand they speak my language. If they want to that is fine, otherwise they can help me learn theirs and I am happy to learn their language and cultural differences.
The Arabs would talk in English, its obvious to them where I am from. I learned as much Arabic as I could though. Same with Koreans, I ended up adoring Arabs and Koreans. They are wonderful people.
Germans would talk to me in German, and usually I understood what they were saying, but since my family stopped speaking it except at home in 1918, I could not reply effectively. The French hate it when you butcher their language and they will angrily use English. I do not blame them either, they have a shit ton of tourists demanding they know some other language.
If you do not like the culture somewhere, go somewhere else. The world is a big place, the wide variations are interesting, and while we can learn from each other in many instances, trying to force people to act like those coming in is a bit too much like an invasion, and people will resist it.
Culture is like language, like the old saying when in Rome... Bringing a shithole culture in will only make the place you moved to a shithole like the one you escaped.
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@incelproud2670 I'm a barrel chested German. Ice blue eyes, used to have blond hair, no idea why girls liked me so much. Maybe it was because I didn't really give a damn about most of them. The less I cared the more they wanted me, it was strange.. until I learned how they are.
I have a huge bone structure, and power lifter muscle, hell my wrists are 9" in circumference and my hands are nearly 6" wide across the palms. So maybe chicks dig that. Maybe its my voice and attitude.
One thing I noticed a long time ago, the more intimidating you are to others, the more girls are interested in you. I've been able to seriously injure people sine the mid 1980s, thanks to wrestling in high school. That translates into girls being attracted.
The nicer you are the less they like you.... but your wallet is always attractive to them if its full.
Don't worry about it, you aren't missing much. They are pretty much all the same, and only the wrapper changes. These days at most I will catch and release, telling them my name is Raoul or Sergio. I don't look like either of those names.. heh..
I like girls a lot, they are tons of fun and I have female friends, sex is really nice, but they just aren't worth the expense and risks associated with them. They are not an investment, because they can throw away all that time and money lavished upon them in an instant, and get more money out of you with the state forcing you to pay.
The manager at my gym is a good looking dude, 6'1 or so, ripped, 18" arms, blond hair blue eyes like me. He has never even had a girlfriend, never gotten to kiss a girl. If he could talk to girls like I can, he would be one of the top 5%.
He is 25, I am 53, and I can get vastly more interest from females than he does, even when I am not driving my shiny old muscle cars. Girls get kinds silly when I drive up in my 65 GTO or the 70 Cuda. They are on my channel if you want to see them, and what I look/sound like.
I don't get why they like me, but they do. I know why, but it makes no sense to me.
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@tommytomthms5 ah but you're missing something. That is 11 seconds NA spending less than $3500 rebuilding the engine, in a nearly 4000lb car. I've gone 11s with a 3900lb race weight for $4500 in the entire car, no turbos, no nitrous.
In the big scheme of things right now, 11s are not that fast on the track. Not many daily drivers can do it, and even fewer can do it dirt cheap all motor. Trust me I have much faster rides than the 65 GTO. Its my version of a cruiser, a grocery getter.
Sure you can go spend $50k or more to run what my beater does, and 11s is a lot faster than you think. Every kid with a Honda thinks he runs 9s in the quarter after all the Fast and Fictitious movies. Not many cars can do it stock, and my combinations use mostly reworked stock parts, like heads, intakes, etc. with a mild stall and a highway gear between 2.41 and 3.42. No blowers or turbos needed.
So lets say I put a turbo or two on one of my old dinosaur mills, and stuff it in one of the cars that would be around 2900lbs all up. I can still daily drive it, and at 14psi it would be making well over 1000hp and ludicrous torque, because what makes mine move is the torque. All the power is between idle and 5500 rpm.
Now if I take my fastest most powerful engine and boost it, then its an entirely different animal. You can see what boost does with the same heads I have on my engine on TV, same port work, everything was done by the same people in Tennessee, Shearer has the same heads I do, they aren't even the biggest port we can run. You know him as Big Chief. The Pontiac world is kinda small, we tend to know each other somewhat.
I run the E85 and high compression because I can, it improves mileage on E85 when you crank up the compression and it makes more power. Plus its cheap race fuel I can drive every day. Win-win.
There are lots of kids with the turbo cars around here (I'm in my 50s so a 30 year old is a kid to me, no offense) and so far none of them can keep up with my old beater GTO through first gear. The turbo LS makes lots of tire smoke, but he goes nowhere.
I have a challenge for you. Take $5k, any vehicle you want and can get for less than that because all you can spend is $5k for everything, and make it run mid 11s or faster on a Cooper 265 60 15 radial, not a drag radial... a regular hard street tire. Do something like that and you will grasp the concept of what I am doing, and realize its not as easy as you think. I am talking quarter mile times, not 1/8th. 11s in the 1/8s is pathetic slow. In the 1/8 it would be 7.5 or faster.
BTW its a lot of fun doing the low buck thing, but you have to know what everything does and why, and know where to spend money to get the most from it. Anyone can throw money at it.
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@trublgrl Why? Because I am no longer active duty, I have issues with authority, I call the 2nd Bush 'Dubya' and I only call people by nicknames if I respect them.
Trump has earned my respect, even though I seriously can't stand to listen to his speeches because of how he speaks. It grates on my nerves. I am voting for the Bad Orange Man, and I found it hilarious that Hillary was beaten by a guy who is nicknamed after snacks.
I don't have a nickname for Clinton or Obama, because those two did not earn my respect. They fucked me over in many ways, and cut the hell out of the military making us work harder with fewer people and less equipment.
It happens that Dubya is a 50-50 thing with me, sent me into war along with approval from Obama and Hillary, but he also made sure we were compensated for it where Clinton made sure we weren't.
Dubya changed policy on family separation payments, and I got a lump sum that my home state could not remove from my account. That allowed me to fly back from Korea on leave, locate my kids after two years of the state helping the ex hide them and prevent me from contacting them.. for no reason.
So for that alone, I liked him far better than Clinton and Obama. Something Obama did, allow states to garnish/seize federal disability payments for child support. My state was doing that punitively, even when I was not behind, in an effort to make me behind on them and punish me for it. When they seize your account, the payment bounces, and then they punish you harder for something they caused. Obama made it legal to do that.
If Trump will rescind Title 4 D and reinstate the US Code that Obama changed in order to protect disabled veterans from the capricious actions of the harpies running child support enforcement, I would think even higher of him.. but since nobody gives a fuck about veterans and men, I am not holding my breath. Oh sure they say they do, spouting empty platitudes, but really nobody cares about us. We are nothing more than a trump card in an argument.
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I had some twat try to say I was privileged because I grew up on a farm, was working from age 8, operating heavy machinery, repairing vehicles and equipment, and lifting heavy shit until I left the farm at 18. Got a construction job, then a job in an aircraft machining plant running Bridgeport mills, drills, and turret lathes. Lost the machining job because I got pink eye and nearly went blind. Worked in a junk yard, getting wrecks, flooded, and theft recoveries running to check the compression, then completely taking it apart and cataloguing the parts and putting them away. Left that job, worked for a seed corn company unloading trucks alone, and on night shift five guys came in to do what I was doing.
Then I enlisted, was sent to Germany loading cargo planes, and my second year there the gulf war started and I nearly got worked to death spending the entire 12 hour shift, and usually a few hours extra, out on the flight line busting my ass working every day from 10 Aug 90 to some time in January 91, then I got one day off per week until September 91. The 92 draw down left me a Mr, so I went to school on GI Bill, got a factory job working full time on 2nd shift, 90F in the plant in winter, 130F in summer, working with 220F compounds and coolants always covered in oil, doing 12 credit hours in the mornings taking mech engineering and automotive tech. Was stupid got married, the factory was packed up and sent to Mexico because of NAFTA, started my shop but all the factory jobs were gone so I didn't get enough customers.
Went back to the military just in time for my second war, got divorced in 2001, and came back from the desert crippled in 2004. That was the first time I drew unemployment. 36 years old, crippled from war, and on unemployment while the VA decided how fucked up I was..
So fucking privileged.
Then a fat chick I know said my life was easier because I am male.
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@causticchameleon7861 ah yes.. I remember my first ex watching Lifetime.. One of our biggest four day altercations (perpetuated and instigated by her) was over one with Farrah Fawcet in it, she played a lady of the evening and the main character had cancer, so she wanted her husband to hook up with Farrah. Then she had no cancer.. so my ex wanted to know what I would do. I said it was ludicrous, and the last thing I would want to do is get with a professional in the first place. She as a bit irrational...
My dad told me he was proud of me twice. When I qualified for the state wrestling tournament in 1987, and when I came back from the 90-91 Gulf War. He was in his 60s before he said he loved me, after lung and brain cancer, five heart attacks and two bypasses, and he was drinking roughly two gallons of 100 proof per day.
What he did while I was growing up in etched in my mind. I went to school with bruises all the time, which I attributed to livestock, horses biting me, steers kicking me, getting run over by bulls. It was dad kicking, hitting, throwing me when he got frustrated. Also the steers and horses kicked me from time to time, just part of farm life.
I ran away twice. They were more concerned about what everyone would think than what was happening to me. At least the second time I didn't get hit. I was actively avoiding them, hiding so they could not find me in cornfields. I went 17 miles at night, in 20F weather when I was 14. The sheriff found me when I went into a town to warm up.
Old brother tried to end me so many times I can't even count them all, 40 years later it all kinda blends together. Stabbed, bludgeoned, poisoned, run over, beaten unconscious and to the point of seeing stars for hours and days, lots of TBIs and concussions. The military kinda freaked when they did a CT scan of my thinkin meat, they asked if I played football or was a boxer. Lots of damage in there.
I've had PTSD since I was 8 or 9, because of the beatings and near unalive events. War felt like home the first time someone shot at me, it pissed me off and did not end well for them. I have no fear of anything anymore, but I have a bottomless abyss filled with rage that can be utilized to end threats.
The last chick I was seeing said I was the sweetest, most dangerous, and smartest man she has ever known. She lives in Chicago. We are still friends, but haven't seen each other since 2018.
She knows what many others have known, I am not long term material because I cannot connect with anyone anymore, not beyond superficially. I will never say I love you or that I even care about someone, why bother, they always leave anyway. I tell them up front, that they will end it before I do, they scoff.. and then months or a couple years later, they end it so they can be with someone else.
Its ok.. I am accustomed to living alone, and I enjoy it now.
I know my older daughter won't have any kids, she is trying to be a son and is angry at me for having her with her mom. The resentment is burning her up.
The younger one is a mess when it comes to dating, hundreds of guys. However she has a good job, is being responsible now, and is turning into a decent woman. She is 26 and I doubt she will have any kids.
I picked the wrong one to have kids with, because they are ruined from everything the ex did.
Mom passed back in 2014. She rarely called me. The day before she died, she called me three times and tried to talk to me. Its just not in her to talk to me, she never liked me, she also never had to worry about me. I handled myself and my problems, because nobody else would. She called three times the next day, then dad was the 4th call telling me she was gone from a massive heart attack.
They were coming back from a cruise in Alaska, driving down from Vancouver, through Montana and she died in Billings.
In 2020 dad was driving his truck on a snowy road when the weather was warm enough it was all slush. He got into the thick stuff on the side and totaled his truck. Broke three vertebrae but was otherwise ok. The Drs did not give him any alcohol, and he had been drinking a lot for years. he got the DTs, slipped into a coma for a few days, lots of damage, he was barely awake and when he was he acted like a 3 year old, very impulsive. They wanted him gone, and yeah they said it was the bug, not a car accident.
Dad and I finally found some common ground in 2015, he found the twin to the car he had when he met mom, same engine, color everything. Its a rare car and he bought his new in 64 and sold it in 67 when my brother came along. He tried to drive it to our farm in Nebraska from Georgia, but the alternator bolt stripped the hole in the head and sent the fan through the radiator.
I fixed it for him, since that is what I do now, rebuild old muscle cars. He finally realized I am valuable, competent, capable, and have knowledge. I had left when I was 17, right after graduating, enlisted at 19. Crippled on my 2004 deployment. I live 1000 miles away from my family, for a reason.
I was their least favorite kid, the one they helped the least, only visited once while I was in the military, and they never appreciated when I did or went through in the wars. I didn't matter. The brother after me went Army, drove trucks for the first 12 years, then piloted UH60 Blackhawks until he hit 23 years. They had a shrine to him in the house, they were so proud of him. I did five deployments he did a total of seven.
I did things almost no other human could, earned a medal in the first war, came back carrying a ton of muscle. They were surprised when I bench pressed 400lbs at the gym that was part of my sister's apartment complex in 1994. They thought I would hurt myself, I did ten reps like it was nothing.
They all assume I am not very bright, that I am incapable, incompetent, and don't know anything. My sister graduated with a BS in psychology and a 2.8 GPA, I have 4 credit hours left for the same in mech engineering and automotive tech with a 3.8 GPA. I am the not smart one though...
Growing up I was the kid everyone kicked. Now I am the man everyone is afraid of. A rough life turns you into a hardened rough man. Throw the two divorces in and the smarter VA shrinks wonder how I am still here and didn't splatter the thinkin meat on a wall or something.
Thats easy to answer, I have cars to build, the cars are my family. The only thing in the world I really care about... well, the cars and my two Siberian huskies.
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@wheelieking71 its all about torque, thats why diesel/electric is used when heavy stuff is being moved. To generate enough voltage/amperage you need more torque than the generators produce, because spinning the armature through the magnetic fields is not easy.
There is a massive amount of misinformation out there, from people trying to push their own interests. The EV people have interests in mining, coal, precious metals, rare earth minerals, etc. The last thing they want is for you and I to be able to cut them out of the loop by making our own energy. So they keep people in the dark, feed them bullshit, and treat them like mushrooms, a product to be utilized for profit.
Think about it, if you can do it yourself, why do you need someone else to do it for you? Sure, it can be a luxury like having the kid down the street mow your lawn, or hiring a maid to clean up the house once a week.
However when they are forcing you to buy from them, eliminating all other options, and keeping you ignorant of what you could be doing without them, that is more along the lines of slavery or at least usury. They want you to be dependent, so you have no choice but to buy their product at the price they dictate, so you are always in debt and reliant upon them.
I've been working on being energy independent, because its my largest expense. I am on a fixed income because I went to the desert in 2004 and came back barely able to walk. I want to do more with my time remaining on this planet than simply exist and make profit for others.
Thats why I make fuel vodka, and build engines to run on it without the handicap of gasoline's abysmal octane and waste heat.
I make methane too, for running the stills, cooking, generators, and cold start assist in winter. Methane has a very low range, just like hydrogen, but its vastly easier to make than hydrogen. A 20 gallon tank holds roughly the equivalent of 3 gallons of methane or hydrogen. It works great for stationary power, and large vehicles like buses and short range trucks. That and to get even that 3 gallon range you need to compress it into a liquid, which requires around 25,000psi. You need specialized equipment unless you plan to use it sparingly like I do.
Everyone seems to think we need to use centralized distribution, which is usd for fossil fuels, electricity, food, etc. but making energy ourselves means we produce and use it locally, no need to ship it around the world twice just to use it where we made it.
They don't want you thinking that way. If you think like I do, they cannot own and profit from you.
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@craxd1 want to hear my darker side of why they want us to go electric? People who live in a city are dependent upon the system to bring them everything they need to live, they cannot produce anything themselves, all they can do is busy work and then buy what they need after it is delivered to the city.
Electric cars are expensive, and will remain so, because copper, lithium, and cobalt are finite resources that need to be mined and that is expensive. Its not produced locally... so it has transportation costs factored in.
You can't travel far with an electric, unless it costs as much as a Ferrari. The cost alone will keep most people from buying one. So living in BFE like I do will not be feasible as the bus only runs twice a day, requiring an overnight stay to go shopping in town... so you have to produce everything you need at home. Hard to grow oranges near Lake Superior.
Then you have longer recharge times, corrosion problems which cause fires.. not fires like we have with liquid fuels or biomass, but like the arc of a welder. Not much left of you after a PEV fire. We have had three in the last two years in my area, all passengers died.
So only the wealthy will have vehicles again. The poor will be kept poor and live in cities where they are dependent. If you step out of line and dissent, they shut off your power, food, and water. Thus making you chattel, a slave to them, because you cannot survive without what they provide to you.
Whereas ethanol empowers you, gives you the ability to travel at will, that is freedom and independence. Its hard to control someone who can produce all their food, fuel, and electrical power. The only way to do it is either by force, with threats of bodily harm, or via fear such as pandemics, catastrophe, wrath of god, etc.
Maple trees have between 2% and 5% sugar in the sap, you can increase that to 10% for bakers yeast, or 20% for turbo yeast, by pulling ice out of it when it freezes overnight. Once you have enough sugar in it, you can add the yeast and ferment it.
If you are only using it for fuel, not party time or disinfectant/antiseptic, you can distil ethanol with a PVC column, making it very easy to build. The boiler can be made from metal, but as long as you can connect the boiler to the column without the high boiler heat reaching the column, only the 173D-212F which is in the range of PVC, it will work. You can run a plate column or a packed one. With a 6" still only your boiler capacity is limiting you.
Since I will be using tree sap, I will do the fermentation in the square 250 gallon tanks with cages around them, got a bunch of them cheap. The boiler can be any metal, because I won't be reusing anything from the previous run. Old fuel oil tanks that are everywhere around here will be my boilers. It also limits my need for more fresh water, the sap is its own medium.
I built a 35 gallon fermenter/boiler with a roll of copper flashing, you could get two that size from a single roll. Also built a pair of 2" packed reflux columns out of copper tubing. I did that for test runs, and to distil water for various uses. For heat, I am going to produce and compress methane into propane tanks, and use a turkey fryer to heat the mash. Been using firewood, but I would rather cook with the wood as it tastes great.
You can also go electric with water heater elements and an industrial dimmer switch. Far less fire hazard that way, and you can use old water heaters around the boiler as a heating jacket.
I have collected two years worth of coffee grounds, I like to drink coffee, and am going to convert that with amylase and ferment it as a test run. See what kind of yield I can get with various yeasts and how much coffee. I will probably make a video series of that, and how to build a small still with hardware supplies.
The last 8 years I have been rebuilding my life after a divorce, that meant my house, a shop, vehicles, and storage space all had to be built. With the events since last November, I am getting the fuel project going in earnest again.
I will do videos on production, vehicle conversion, and how to improve efficiency along with adding more power. I figure my 76 C10 can be the ethanol mule now, the 70 GTO was for a long time, and the 65 GTO has been for the last 4 years. The C10 is getting a 6.0L LS based V8, because the fuel system I will be using lends itself well to heating the fuel before it goes in the fails and out the injector. Might do a Pontiac powered Firebird and Opel GT test mule as well. They have better aero than the 65 GTO and any truck.
I have some videos on this already, mostly short ones because I have been busy all summer. Things slow down in winter and I have more time to make video, and once the sap starts running next spring its going to get crazy around here. I want to make 1000 gallons of fuel next year... and show people how to do it.
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I am twice divorced, so you are doing fine avoiding them.
I'm 5'8 as well, lots of them turn me down when I say hi in passing, I'm being polite and they think I want them... Its funny, they are lucky I acknowledged they exist. I'm 54, grew up on a Nebraska farm with 150 to 300 head of cattle at any given time, about 800 acres for growing and several pastures around the area. Its probably not in your genetics to pack on muscle, by the time I was 17 I was 170lbs and benching 265. By 19 I was 180 and benching over 330 when I enlisted way back in 1988. Wrestling helped too.
Desert Shield packed over 50lbs of muscle mass on me and 450 was an easy press. I am still huge today, and its still easy to gain muscle. My weight keeps going up but you can see my ribs and I don't have extra chins. Have a belly, but its not huge, its almost 20 inches smaller than my chest. I look like a gorilla and most women aren't into that look, but some are.
It could be what you eat and what you do. Nobody else I worked with in the military gained muscle mass like I did. Nobody did on the farm either. It takes an incredible amount of protein to pack on muscle like I did. I never used powders, juice, or any supplements at all. Lots of meat and eggs though.
It also takes a mind numbing amount of work to pack on muscle like I did. To get an idea, pick up two 5 gallon igloo coolers in each hand, and run up three stories with them, and do that for 12 hours. Alternating days push two F150s bumper to bumper across Walmart parking lots.
I go by this name because the USAF said I was too obese when I came back from Kuwait in 2001 with a six pack, absolutely shredded, weighing the lightest I have been since 1991, and they put me on the weight program. I am more 'power lifter' than body builder. So a short wide guy with huge arms and no neck, some women dig it, most don't.
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In most places the stations don't profit much from the fuel, where I live they do and its obvious. Travel 50 miles in any direction and the price drops 50 cents a gallon. They don't like me. I rarely go in the store, unless I have to piss. I make fuel for my vintage muscle cars from tree sap, cattails, and coffee grounds, so the only vehicles that run pump gas are the winter beaters I drive once a week.
The summer rides I drive often once the snow is gone, cost me less than 50 cents a gallon.. and they make lots of power. My 65 GTO is well over 550hp, and I am building a bigger engine for another car I have, a 68 LeMans, it should run the quarter mile deep in the 9s or maybe the high 8s... all on home made vodka.
Urban people are not going to be able to do what I do, making ethanol takes some space, water, and you need to do something with whatever is left over, like feeding it to animals or using it as fertilizer in a garden.
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I had kids, the younger one is 28. My kids aren't having kids because they were raised by someone other than me, because the court said I was unfit due to being able to drain my bladder outside. Its going to get bad, but its not the end of us. Young guys, learn how to do as much as you possibly can, build cars and trucks, houses, repair things, cook, grow food, produce energy both electrical and fuel based... your life will be far better the more you know, because you will be less dependent on others and the system. They'll be dependent on YOU.
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I hear the right say we need families and men need to be fathers, and I agree with them. However, they also say that men should "step up" and start families, without addressing the fact that men have no choice whatsoever in if the family stays together or not. They demand we make the sacrifice and take a HUGE risk, that only Crowder seems to know about now. Steven is finding out the hard way.
Until the family court system and child support is fixed, title 4D is eliminated entirely, and fathers are no longer punished for having a family, men will continue to eschew relationships. We tend to solve problems, and if there is a risk with no upside and only detrimental effects, we will avoid taking that risk. Its that simple. If we are going to lose regardless of how we play, well, we aren't going to play that game, we will spend our time doing things that benefit us.
As for health, well there is definitely something in our food that is doing us wrong. When I would be stationed overseas I could maintain my weight easily, here in the US its a constant battle and I don't really eat that much, plus I eat very healthy. I can't get the exercise I need because after my 2004 deployment, I will never run again, and running was how I managed my weight.
I don't want to get more muscle, I have more than I need already, so it leaves me in an interesting position. I lost 30lbs between May and September, but since October I am maintaining rather than losing the 40 I want to get rid of. Same diet, but eating less and I am stuck bouncing around in a 4lb doldrum for more than two months now. However, my clothes are fitting better and I have more energy, so even if the belly isn't gone, and the weight is the same, I know what I am doing is healthy. I want the gorilla belly gone, but even eating nothing processed but some yogurt, it persists. It has to be in the food.
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@RafaelSantos-pi8py We know how China would fare, much worse than Russia is vs Ukraine. Vietnam whupped on them not long ago. You missed something that the US does better than anyone else, and we dwarf the capabilities of every other country in this area even more than we do in putting warheads on foreheads.
Logistics.
Its the most important aspect of the military, being able to get stuff to the people doing the fighting so they can do their job. NOBODY does logistics like the US does. Nobody else can. Without food, medical, ammo, and everything else humans need and go through at a ludicrous rate in a war, the fighting stops. Ask some old Germans about Stalingrad, or Napoleon about feeding and clothing his men too far from home..
In the first six weeks of Desert Shield, the USAF moved the entire tonnage of the Berlin Airlift that lasted a year. In 2003 the same tonnage was moved in just under 4 weeks, and all of it came though a single base on the east coast. The Berlin Airlift was a superhuman feat that most people can't comprehend what it meant.
June 6 1944 was successful because of logistics, Eisenhower was not a tactical nor strategic leader, he was logistical. Moving all the men and materiel needed to invade Europe was far more vast and important than the push to get off the beach. Without it, those men would have just been wipe out on the beaches, or a day later when the Germans finally started moving armor to the front.
Between air and sea shipping, the US is unsurpassed and if it were a race we would have lapped everyone else several times. Our allies relied on the USAF to get their people and stuff to Iraq.
I was neck deep in the two largest airlifts in world history, at the base doing the vast majority, or the entirety 2003-05, of logistics. I was either putting cargo on pallets, or putting pallets/vehicles on planes, and it is unimaginable unless you have been there and done that as to how much is needed.
Yes we have combat capability far in excess of the next ten countries, but our logistics capability is even greater than that. We can move all of our stuff, and all the stuff for our allies as well. If we lost half our C5s and C17s we would still dwarf everyone else in logistics.
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@burgertime434 nearly everything he says. He is a graduate student, which means the info on which he is basing his opinions is older than the classes he just finished taking.
To put it in a mechanical analogy lets say you go to school to be a mechanic. While you are doing your four year grind the technology of cars advances. Currently there is a fast change going on, so the cars you work on in school are ten to fifteen years old, and share almost no technology with what is sitting on a dealer's lot.
The newest thing he is asserting is what was happening back around 2016. He actually cites a study from 2001, which is the only one he puts a date on.
The dynamics of interpersonal intimate relationships is changing rapidly right now. The trends that were starting to appear 20 years ago are growing exponentially now. It used to be that the ladies went for the top 20% of men, but now they want the top 1% of men. The tallest, best looking, and wealthiest. Everyone else is invisible or unattractive to them.
Most of us are not afraid of being seen as creepy, we are afraid of the one we talk to either calling the legal system on us, or using society to bash us in the head. You can lose your job for saying hello now. He glosses right past that and misses the point entirely.
I've been watching all of this play out since I took the time to learn how to read females back in 1985 by watching the girl who was on a date with me, drop me and go for a friend of mine. Only for her to come back a couple months later after her ONS with him. She wasn't the kind of girl you keep around long term, so I she made a very good subject to study. I started watching and learning about people and have gotten quite adept at it.
I am in the top 20% of men, not because I am tall or wealthy, its a dominance and muscle thing, as well as they are not a priority for me, which makes them attracted to me. being the 19th or 20 percentile gives me an interesting perspective, because I can see what works, what doesn't and being able to read who she is into and what draws her to various men means I can make some conclusions about the dynamics over the years.
In the US military I saw all of this play out 30 years ago on overseas bases. I am seeing the same patterns now in the civilian world, and I know where it goes. The majority of men stop interacting with them. All of us who were under 6' tall stopped interacting with military females, we went off base to have fun with them.
Its a microcosm of human nature at work on a military base, particularly if you want to see the dynamics of females who are showered with attention and validation because there is about 300 of them on base and roughly 6000 men. They get so much attention that they start to think they are incredibly attractive, rather than they are simply available, and the only ones available that speak the same language.
Online dating and social media has achieved the overseas base effect. Girls can get attention and validation, no matter what they look like, from millions of men all over the world.
That dude will catch up to this effect in about 20 years, but it will still be couched in left ist thought which is rooted in female nature and of course sees females as the best rather than actually human like everyone else.
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@LaCheeserie The cheeto doesn't have the track record with whamens? Are you serious? The orange man employs lots of females in key positions, both in his administration and his business. Its one of the things that kinda annoys me about him, but at least the chicks he hires are competent and not just a mirror fogger with a vagina.
Look at the mayor of Chicago, that is a beetljuice looking vagina hire if I ever saw one. Same with the governor of Michigan, clueless, capricious, vindictive, and prone to really bad decisions. I am all about competent females in key positions, but putting them JUST because they squat to piss is not good enough. It seems the cheeto and I agree on that one.
Also, that is a lame non sequitor, if you are going to use fallacies, at least use the fun ones.
bear in mind I am not a cheeto fan, but holy fucking shitballs is the alternative a nightmare dystopian shithole of fuckery. Dude is pulling us out of hot spots and useless fucking wars, something no democrat has done in my 50 laps around the local star. Dem controlled congress sent me to war twice under both Bush presidents.
So from my vantage point, the cheeto looks like a much better choice than anyone I have seen in probably 30 YEARS. Though I did kind alike Ron Paul, that dude was absolutely right about a great sucking sound, I lost every factory CNC machinist job I had in the 90s and had to reenlist to feed my kids. Fuck democrats.
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I like the message you put in this video..
I do not build my cars for the approval or adoration of others. The cars themselves do not make me 'happy' either. I care how much I spend on them, because I don't have very deep pockets, but I will put as much into them as I can afford. What makes me happy about my cars? What I do with them, driving them, building them, enjoying them, and even the planning of the next build or modification I am going to do. Cars ARE my life. They are my reason for being here, not the hunks of metal, glass and rubber or the ethanol they swill on their way to 600ftlbs from 3000rpm to 6000rpm (oh yes, Pontiac 455s... mmmm now I am hard again), but everything I do is in my quest to build the cars I want to drive.
I am not better than you, I am different from almost everyone and I like cars and dogs more than I like people. I'd rather motivate people than get accolades, praise, or validation from others.
Its not the car that drives me, I drive it.
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@1961kickboxer what happens with an EMP is a massive voltage spike is inducted into any closed circuit. If you take a wire and cut magnetic fields with it, a charge will be induced in the wire. Its how an alternator and generator work, lots of copper windings passing through magnetic fields makes electricity.
An EMP is an electro magnetic pulse, massive very powerful magnetic waves that will induce millions of volts into wires. There was a massive CME, coronal mass ejection in the late 1800s that fried the telegraph wires and set poles on fire. That was the at the earliest start of humans using the EM spectrum so the damage was minimal.
So every circuit that is closed will let the smoke out, every circuit that has enough proximity for the charge induced in the wires will jump the arc like a spark plug. However, depending on the magnitude of the magnetic waves, even a thin sheet of metal can act as a faraday cage. Usually all you need for a functional faraday cage is some chicken wire, but the more powerful the wave the thicker and more solid the shielding needs to be.
You have to have cage on the bottom for an EMP or CME as well, because the earth's core is a molten ball of iron and heavy metals (radioactive stuff) and the magnetic waves can bounce off it and come up through the floor.
Its just science, not magic, and a condenser might get fried, it might not, but all the wires around it will let the smoke genie out if its a nuclear bomb sourced EMP.
A gamma burst from a pulsar aimed directly at us will kill everything on the side of the planet facing the pulsar, almost instantly. Around the edges radiation sickness will kill everything else. Everyone on the other side of the planet will have a bad day too, because of the fires raging on the exposed side. One of those could be the cause of one or many mass extinction events.
The cosmos is trying to kill us all. :)
Fun times.
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@albertgaspar627 yep, thats why I make my own fuel, food, and can make electricity a few different ways.
I lived in the south for five years and I always found it most amusing that they would run to the store and buy all the bottled water and bread any time they got a flurry that melted as soon as it hit the ground, or a hurricane went by.
I grew up in Nebraska where the weather tries to kill you weekly. We went three months with no power back in 1978, due to an ice storm. The roads drift shut any time they get more than 2" of snow. It can be days to weeks before you can get around.
Now I live in northern Michigan where we get 150 to 300 inches of snow, and the power grid is about as stable as my bipolar ex wife. If you're not prepared for being snowed in, chances are you are gonna lose some weight. The power goes out for weeks at a time here with just a wind storm.
I left the south in 2005, the day Katrina hit and I was racing the gas shortage with my U Haul truck. Saw gas for $12 a gallon in Atlanta.. I know how unprepared clueless idiots react.
Where will I go with my fuel? Anywhere I damn well please. I would also be willing to teach people how to produce fuel and get their power back on for a while each day, if they are willing to put in the work to do it.
Keeping the fridge cold will be a big thing in the warm months. Sure you can steal my fuel, but your vehicle will run poorly on it unless its a flex fuel. When it runs out, what will you do if you managed to get a vehicle running?
Its a safe idea not to rob the heavily armed man who is telling you how to get mobile and keep your food cold.
Food is one of those things that takes time, and if you don't have the ability to produce it, well yo are going to be doing things to get it, like selling yourself. Food is like dark humor, not everyone gets it.
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That is what is rampant in the US military, erroneous assertions of misbehaving are the go to for one of them to destroy a man who spurns or ignores them. Hyper toxic doesn't even begin to describe it, if you're a short man like I am (5'8") all you need to do is extend a verbal greeting and you can get an erroneous assertion.
Happened to me FOUR FREAKIN TIMES. One decided I wasn't good looking enough to say hello, and three others chimed in that I said hey or hi to them as well. My solution, DO NOT TALK TO THEM AT ALL, unless its mission required. That was in 1990.
Then sure as hell, some of them take offense at that and complain about it. As an NCO I was told I needed to play better with others, so I was polite and friendly, but with very short replies and ignored any perceived advances. If it has a uniform on, its off limits. Write one up for not doing the job or following directions/insubordination and you get an erroneous assertion.
I've been out nearly 20 years now, and I seriously doubt it has gotten better, it almost assuredly has gotten much worse. It got worse between 1990 and 2000, and trends like that in the military rarely end.
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He feels the censorship in his wallet, he see's the effect of socialist thinking and marxist ideology in his daily life due to that. All he needs to do is say one word, and he loses money. Anyone who is in that position and still advocates for the ever more stringent purity tests of the marxist ideologues is a complete fucking idiot.
I'm formerly middle of the road like Tim, but the left has gone so far off into the weeds I find myself among the christians and conservatives in my opposition to what the left is doing. To the leftists we are all nazis, just because that is the word they know that has the worst connotation to it, trying to shame everyone into going along with them.
Having shit on hand is a good idea, because if someone like AOC or Bernie gets in the oval office and congress goes full retard too, we will end up needing it. At this point, its pretty much any democrat with a democrat controlled congress and we are fucked. Open borders, tax and spend gone stupid, removal of 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th amendment rights.... yeah, thats their goal.
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@WorldWearyAngel While I like capable girls who can actually do things, like my second ex who could back up a trailer, the last girl I dated long term could drive and she made very good money as a tax expert for large corporations, I do not want them to be combative, domineering, or trying to control me in any way. Its not that I want to control her, I want her to be able to control herself. I can handle my life, and hers if I need to, but I do not need her handling mine.
The Arab girl I was engaged to 30 years ago is submissive but stubborn and headstrong in the right ways. These harpies in the US are headstrong in all the bad ways. They want to dictate to me what I can and cannot do, tell me how I can spend the money I earned, and shit like that. Fuck that.
I haven't had a date in two years, because finding a girl who is worth my time is a huge problem. I get laid any time I want, but not with girls I want to keep around any longer than it takes to bust a nut. Around here they are either fat, or they are literally crazy hoes with massive notch counts, and if they are thin they are probably doing meth or abusing Rx ADHD meds.
It doesn't really bother me, I like living alone and won't let a chick live here any way. However it is quite annoying that females are so worthless in the US. The up side is I have plenty of time and money to put into the old muscle cars and trucks I have. I hope the government doesn't fuck us or start a conflict before I get some of them done.
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@chrisfreemesser Its harder to do without a shed to keep it in, and body work is a huge pain without at least a tent over it, but it can be done. The cragi909 youtube channel is doing two 63 Galaxies in his backyard right now. Sure he is in California not Michigan where I am, but he's doing it and they are coming out nice.
I built a $4500 11.40 N/A 79 Formula in a one car garage back in the 1990s. Wife (now ex thankfully) that kept me broke, two kids, mortgage, full time job doing 50 to 60 hours a week, then another 10 to 20 hours building carbs, transmissions, engines, swapping gears for guys to fund the quick ones. I made a 3750lb beater run with mostly reworked stock parts. Bracket raced it, lots of street time, and that $4500 was everything from buying it to insuring it for a year. I built engines in friends garages before I got that one car garage, did transmissions in the back of my pickup at the race track for extra cash too. She got that house in 2001, then she lost it.
Now I have a pole barn I built just to do my cars, splurged on a two post lift too. I am too old to crawl around under my cars. I spent a lot of years in the military doing the work in parking lots, laying on cardboard or the ground. Learning that way builds character, but it also discourages people.
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@glennross85 built what, an electric car? No, can't afford them. Engines specifically to run ethanol, yeah, several of them and they get the same or better mileage with more power than the same size engine on gasoline. Its all about heat and the compression ratio, as well as where the engine makes most of its power.
My daily driver 65 GTO has a 455 Pontiac in it, torque monster engines from 2000 to 5000rpm. It runs on E85 and E100, will not run long on pump gas, that stuff will flatten the upper connecting rod bearings at anything above idle. It gets 17mpg because the aero on a 65 GTO is atrocious. In the 70 GTO which has slightly better aero the same engine and trans got 20-21mpg. Not bad for a 50+ year old car using a carburetor and an engine designed in the early 1950s.
The 70 GTO had a pump gas 455 in it from 1995 to 2010, best it did following a semi down I-40 across TN was 20, it usually got between 17 and 19 highway, around town it was a lot worse. The ethanol engine does that with mixed city and highway.
If you are idling in gear, not moving at all, not holding the brake, and whack the throttle to the floor, that 455 will smoke the tires until you lift, no need to touch the brakes. The engine cost me $4100 to rebuild, and I used a crank kit as well as had the heads ported and milled to raise the compression to 13:1. Currently it has a different set of iron heads that have 11.5:1 because they were not milled, thats also why the 65 only gets 17.
I am working on a couple other engines and vehicles, like a 3800 V6 Buick, for a ladder car similar to an Ariel Atom, and some 6.0 LS engines in trucks.
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@Pau C we entrusted the security of the country to the people we elected, in all parties. The appointed people who also let us down, and it seems that profit is more important to them than the prosperity of our nation.
You can only blame the voters just so far, some places yes they are to blame, like how does the likes of Maxine Waters stay in office? I suppose we know now, with ballot stuffing that is ignored by the 'winners' of the elections.
We entrusted them with a job, and the cost of them failing in their job is we the people must rectify the failures of the elected officials. That is massively costly in every possible way.
Many of them in office think they are above reproach, they are in control, they are the authority and what they say goes, and they apparently assume we work for them. it is not unthinkable, but knowing full well what it entails because I have been there, I wanted to give the politicians every opportunity to right the ship and do the right thing.
Most people like me have been watching and waiting. We have been through conflict, we know what it means because we endured and survived it. We do not want the rest of the people to know what it is, because the cost of it is beyond comprehension for most people. The time is fast approaching when the younger versions of men such as myself will have to take action to right the ship.
None of us are looking forward to it, and we sure as hell aren't clamoring for or encouraging it. I am one of few who are warning about it, and the warning is to the common people, do not be eager for this outcome, as nothing is certain. It always gets far worse than you imagined it would. And to the politicians, do the right thing because its what you were put there to do.
getting people to listen to warnings from experience is one of those things with a low success rate. People always think it won't happen to them.
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Most old guys haven't been through family court, they haven't lived in their car while still working full time because their paycheck goes to someone who was unfaithful and betrayed them. I'm 55 and what I hear most is I picked the wrong ones, it was all my fault, and I should do better. It is always the man's fault, and thus he is responsible for everything even the stuff he had no part in doing.
Young men aren't getting the choice, because the quality they can get is severely lacking... they're all chasing the top 5% of men, and getting high counts as a result, because those guys aren't gonna put a ring on it. All the incentives have been removed from them, there is no benefit to pushing themselves to achieve more and only liability for them to bring someone into their lives.
It doesn't matter how attractive, dominant, or alpha you are. Doesn't matter how much higher value you are over her either. They cannot be trusted, because "something" else, no matter what it is always more attractive than what they have. They're never satisfied, never content, and they always think they can do better, so they make very poor choices in life. Why should men sacrifice themselves to that?
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@slowfinger2 sadly, the all meat diet doesn't work for me. I was put on that when I was a kid, and what your body does when you eat only meat as a kid, is you get to be the kid who is just as wide as you are tall. When your body isn't getting enough energy from carbs and simple sugars, it turns everything into lipids, and stores it.
I was on that diet in the early 70s and 80s from age 4 to 14, and all I could eat was beef, chicken, pork, cauliflower and broccoli. Chicken was cheapest so thats what I got most of the time. Not a lot of energy in chicken.
If I take in 1000 calories of meat every day and nothing else I get huge. I can't stay awake and have no energy, but I still get huge. Any dietician worth a damn should know about that.
My parents couldn't figure out why I was sick all the time. They took me to doctors, subjected me to all kinds of tests, and told me I was allergic to almost everything. Its easier to say what I could eat than what I could not. I was 4'9 until I was 14 years old, the diet definitely stunted my growth height wise.
What was the problem? My dad smoked, a lot. I am what they call hypersensitive to tobacco smoke. Put me in a room without windows or ventilation that is 25'x25' and have someone smoke one cigarette, and I will be puking for three to five days. Its just like flu symptoms, but worse. It also comes with a migraine. Until they banned smoking in bars I could not go to them. It also wrecked my autoimmune system, so when they did the scratch test on my back (not fun for a 4 years old and I remember it vividly) I was allergic to almost everything.
Two brothers and one sister out of the six of us smoke, and they know I cannot be around it. Yet they will light up wherever they are with no concern that I will be having a technicolor yawn for days when they do. I don't go around them much.
The smoking lead to the messed up diet, which led to my metabolism being completely jacked up, and the only way I have been able to control BF% is by rather intense physical activity. Also have to have a mix of protein, carbs, and monosaccharides and too much of any one thing makes me huge. I am one of few people who can eat high amounts of sugar and lose weight, but it wrecks me in other ways.
The muscle mass is getting to be a problem, a consequence of the diet, growing up on a farm, and wrestling in high school and the US military at the base level is that I can pack on mass VERY easily. Its not symmetrical though, its 'working' muscle, so I am built like a power lifter, not a bodybuilder.
I have been getting heavier all my life, and stronger from it. I am to the point now that the connective tissue between my muscles and bones is the weak link, and I tear them all the time. I can't reach my back, its been 40 years since I could. My clothes have to be huge and I look like a cartoon in a suit.
Yeah, I know it sounds like BS, but that is what I live with. I cannot eat processed or fast foods at all, everything has to be fresh or I get sick.
I was around 12%-14% BF in the USAF and was always on the weight program, despite having a huge neck, some guys who taped me would claim my neck was 16" instead of the 21" it actually is.. just to put me on the weight program.
The most messed up one was in 2001 when I got back from Kuwait after spending most of the time doing cardio in the gym on Camp Doha (Arnold donated it to the Army) because 9/11 grounded all the planes for most of the trip. I came back with a washboard six pack, best I had looked since the first war in 90-91, and was put on the weight program. The guy said I was 22% BF, with my ribs prominently showing and a six pack. I was absolutely ripped. It was ludicrous, he also said my neck was 14". That felt like a setup.. but thats another story.
I barely got to eat anything while I was active duty... and my job made me freakin huge with muscle mass.
If I could eat only meat and get ripped, I would, but it doesn't happen to me. What happens is I get 'smooth' hiding the muscle and I fall asleep if I stop moving for a few seconds. Almost no energy. Been living with this for 5 decades now. I know exactly what happens when I do or eat one thing or another.
How many 5'8 guys do you know who weigh 330lbs that you can see their ribs and they can bench press over 450lbs? Well, you talked to one via text today.
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My second ex wife was a 21 year old virgin from a two parent family that was rather well off. She was quite smart and could keep up with me in discussions we had. Her values and mine aligned a great deal, we were looking for the same things. She was very homely, but she stayed thin and I liked who she was so I overlooked her crooked teeth, flat hair, and how she wore flannel pants and hoodies most of the time. She was very good and adventurous between sheets, and she tried her best to make my life better.
We never had fights, we argued about esoteric subjects for fun, and the spicy fun time was several times a week.. right up to the day she decided to step out. She tried not to spend my money frivolously, but it was still expensive to have her around, food, gas in her vehicle, insurance, etc. She was costing me about $2k per month just to have her around, thats how much I had left every month once I kicked her out.
Other than her looks, she was wonderful for 9 years. We got married just before we were together 9 years, and just 16 months later we were divorced. As long as she knew I could leave her for stepping out or breaking the three rules I had, she acted right. Once she had commitment, she decided to eat a bowl of st*p*d flakes and ran off with a desperate sot who showed interest in her.
The previous love interest of his was a 36 year old alone mom who at 5'4" weighed around 250lbs. Her brother and father had to run him off because he kept pursuing her despite her telling him to GTFO. He was 24, my ex was 30 and I was 44 when we divorced ten years ago. They lasted 3 or 4 years, then he moved to Montana and now she is alone, unwanted, and her mom pays all her bills since her dad passed back in February.
My ex chose poorly.. there was nothing I could have done, or could not have done, to prevent what she did... other than getting married, which was more so she could get health care than anything else.
Contrasted with my first ex, who was bipolar, the second one was very good to me, was vetted and proved herself for 8 years. The two could not have been more different, but they did the exact same thing in the end. The first was the doorknob to the town, I had no idea because I had just moved there. Her bipolar seeped out and after two years together it was a living nightmare.
I don't date anymore, not looking for a woman at all. I dated a few hundred women in my life, before and between my marriages, both of which went 8-9 years. I find they are all running the same program, but they think they are all unique and different. The wrapper changes, the mind inside of it is still running that same narrow and easily predictable program.
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@victortaylor9399 its not for him, morons like that cannot be reasoned into accepting reality. They are blind followers, subservient to the authority that salves their ego and confirmation bias.
Its for others, who may be on the fence, unaware they are being propagandized, or as a means to provide information about what is going on and why. Unless my comments are of a technical nature, e.g. automotive/mechanical/etc. They are geared towards people who may be reading along and interested in comments. With these rather long comments the periphery is my audience.. not the moron who believes the media.
The moron/troll is the excuse, the reason, and the opportunity. People tend to look for the negative, the outrage. I like to look for facts and enjoy reality. So i want to bring that to others, perhaps change their way of seeing the world and what they are searching for.
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@Motor-City-Mike Only a few, not many at all, aftermarket W heads flow as well as the 2V Cleveland, the 4V is better than most big block heads. The thing that made the W so popular was they were made from 69 to the 90s. The Cleveland was only 70-74, so not as many of them out there, unless you go to Australia where they put them in cars for much longer.
Fill in the dead spot on the bottom of the ports and you get even more flow. As for bottom end, the 4V heads I ran with 224-236@.050 cams had enough bottom end to roast 275 wide tires under a heavy 72 Mustang Grande with a 3.00 gear, from idle. No need to hold the brakes, just whack the throttle, exactly like my Pontiac engines. Its not 500ftlbs from idle like my 455s, but its way more than any comparable sized engine. I can't wait to try one with a 4" crank to make it a 400 with 4V heads.
The 2V heads bolt up just like the 4V does, as long as you don't hit the pistons and you plug the water passage in the head deck, they will go on any Windsor. Huge improvement even with the 2Vs. The 302s are kinda weak suck with the 4V heads though. I have a bunch of 302s sitting around here, a couple are roller cam engines even, one is going to get increased to 331 or 347 and then a set of 2V heads, and stuffed in something innocuous.
For now though I am neck deep in Pontiac projects. The Ford stuff is sitting around waiting for me to have fun with it again.
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@Motor-City-Mike Pontiac makes it incredibly easy to go fast. I like the RA IV, but I want it with a 108 or 110 LSA, the Crower 60919 is a IV copy, but has a 112 LSA. Lots of guys swear by that thing. I got hooked on the tight cams in the 90s with the UltraDyne grinds, the mid range power from them was amazing, with no loss of bottom end. Choppy as fuck at idle though, yet they'd still idle easily.. lol. Put enough cubes under it and you can do fun stuff.
I've wanted a 60-66 Catalina for a long time, a 2+2 421 car would be awesome, but I can stuff a 455 or stroked 400 in easy enough. Just a driver, not a race car. Set it up with an OD trans, EFI, big brakes and swaybars, make it a long distance cruiser that handles well. That says yes to me.
Got in a tuning discussion yesterday. Guy says I am wrong about everything need to run full manifold vacuum only, and yet every time I set up a car for people, it ran faster and drove better. One kid with a ZZ4 in a Luv truck dropped from 13.40s to 12.50s with what I did, and he said it picked up mileage and drove great. I put lots of vehicles into the 12s for other people, and there was still people saying I was doing it wrong, then they'd slow them down again.
Nobody he knew could tune it to run better than 13s, and when they messed with it, the truck always slowed down. Then he'd bring it back to me and it would run well again. Maybe learning by doing it on a bunch of different engines gave me some insight.. who knows. Maybe I am just lucky.
Seems I fix lots of chevys, its like chevy guys have no clue what they are doing. I used to get high end carbs from the oval track chevy guys for cheap, because they'd put an 850 on a 350, then put 50-65 jets in it thinking that would make it run right. Then I'd put some 82/88 jets in it and slap it on one of my engines, then beat their 'super scary fast' street car with it. They pay $500 or more, I buy it for $150.. chevy guys are useful like that.
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I remember reading that 12.99 for $12.99, probably have that issue around here somewhere. That and Cheap Thrills Dart got me thinking, big engine, little car, and my big problem was I had no money. I stumbled into 351C 4Vs for a while, still have those little meanies, but I always wanted a GTO. A 69 Judge no less, I suppose if I had bought that one in 1986 for $1200 I wouldn't have so many vehicles today. Never did scratch that itch.. until two years ago when I dragged home a rust bucket shell of a 69 GTO.
After building my first Pontiac 400 with smog 1975 heads, a RA IV cam, factory EGR intake, and some really unimpressive 3 tube headers that were a massive pain to bolt up, I discovered just how much fun it is to make torque everywhere. The best part is Pontiac stuff was cheaper than 351C stuff, and they were both about as easy to find back in the 80s/90s. $300 worth of rings, bearings, oil pump cam and lifters was all it took to make them run on pump gas.
Its still cheaper than putting a chevy in something, because I don't have to change the transmission, where the fuel line comes into the engine bay, where the starter is, etc. Also with 400 to 455s I could use whatever gears were already in the car. Its super fun putting a couple bus lengths on someone with 2.41 gears and shifting once in the quarter, especially when they have 4.88 gears and a 4500 stall behind their little 350. 3.08s work great too, and that means I could get by without an overdrive and didn't have to buy gears, and all the stuff to put them in.
One guy said my cars don't sound like race cars, they sound like I am "going to the store for some bread." I dig the subterfuge of having a car that doesn't look fast, doesn't sound fast, and will get the job done with less than 6000rpm. The 68 doesn't do that very well with the blower and cage, but its more of a practice build.
Right now I have a couple local guys thinking my 68 LeMans has a 326 under the blower... Its not like they would know the difference, they know nothing about Pontiac. I even warned them and said its a completely aftermarket engine, apparently they don't grasp what that means. They'll find out the hard way when I turn it up in the spring. This year was finding bugs, problems, fixing things, and seeing if it goes/stops straight, and everything actually works. The last time that car was on the road was 1982, and I rebuilt the suspension, brakes, steering, and just about everything else, so there is lots to test.
Ace Ventura, the 72 Ventura, is one of the low buck builds. I am not throwing much money at it, just brakes and suspension, maybe getting the bench seats recovered. Right now it has one of my old engines in it that has a great set of heads and was built in 1995, but I plan to put in a 400 that has never been rebuilt, I have two of them. Currently I am getting it running and making room in the shop by getting an engine and transmission OUT of the shop. Cars take up les room when they are all together you know. I have around $2000 in the 400 that is in it right now, most of that is in the heads.
So you and I will do dragy runs on asphalt, Bottle Rocket and Ace, in the spring and see what is quicker. I have a feeling Rocket is lighter than this thing will be. Pontiac vs mopar.. Old guy vs sweaty old guy.
Just remember Tony. YOU are partly responsible for me being a gearhead today.
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@boomerkobold3943 its good you don't want something from me. You'll not be getting it, but you are not the OP. Excuse my method of writing with a colloquial use of YOU, its not you personally.
Now if you want to stick your head up without anyone backing you up like OP seems to be demanding, go for it. However if you are trained as I am, you know what will happen. If you have any sense at all you know what will happen.
We are same page, and same book, but I am not going to expect others to do for me. If they want to start leading, I will see where they are going before I join in. I am not big on walking into traps and ambushes.. I am twice divorced, so I learned that lesson.. also learned we are alone in life, because nobody cares about other men.
If you are like me, then once you start you will not stop until the problem is eradicated or you are permanently room temp.
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About the 'manifestation' thing... They are not manifesting anything, what they are doing is trying to change their behavior and focusing on something. They put a bunch of woo into a rather simple concept to pretty it up.
I competed in combat sports from 14 to 21. Mostly wrestling, and I got good at it eventually. If you want to become proficient, you need to focus on that for a while. Started out I was 4'9 and very weak, due to a diet I was on that stunted my growth. I focused on getting better at wrestling, getting stronger by pushing myself harder in practice and while working on the farm. When I graduated at 17, a month before I turned 18, I was the strongest male in the school, including teachers. I was bench pressing 265lbs while weighing 170-175. I am 5'8 but I became more than everyone else through focus and effort.
I am big into old muscle cars from the 60s and 70s. Finding them and parts for them takes a certain amount of focus. I look for parts I want or need, and I change my behavior to make it easier to find those parts. I get to know people who have similar interests, and they pass along info to me about the parts I am looking for when they find them.
People know I am looking for Pontiac engines, cars, etc. So when they find them, I hear about it. I am known as the Pontiac guy because of how obsessed with them I am. I own four GTOs, 1965, 69, 70 and 72. I have eleven Firebirds, four of which are Trans Ams, the rest are Formulas which have the Trans Am engine but not all the bells and whistles, so they are lighter and usually faster.
When you focus on something you change your behavior and your thinking so that you can get where you want to be. If you are driving and you look at a chicken in the ditch, most people will tend to steer the car towards what they are looking at. Its a natural tendency. People steer themselves towards what they want and focus on.
If you want to make money, you focus on things that make you money. You learn what you need to learn, do the things you need to do to get the money, just like I do with the Pontiac parts.
Meeting women is somewhat different. The more interest you show in them, the less they are attracted to you. So to get them, you focus on other things, mainly yourself and building your body and mind. Get stronger, smarter, more capable, and more competent, all of which will make you more confident because of the effort required to attain those improvements.
They always whine about how we don't show emotion like they do, but if we show emotion like them, they lose interest instantly. They are solipsistic, they think the universe is here for them, rather than understanding they are just a part of it. They think everyone should be like they are, and if you're not then you are broken, all the while not understanding that they are not attracted to men who are like women.
They think they are manifesting things, but really they just focus a little bit and things happen for them. Its because they put themselves in a position to benefit from the effort a man puts into living. They sit around and wait for men to come to them, and they inevitably do come to them, then they can pick and choose which ones they want, and reject the rest. They are all about looking pretty and waiting to get noticed, which does not work for men.
Nothing in this world comes to men without effort, nobody gives us a damn thing. We have to earn it, we have to take risks and make an effort. If we do not approach women and speak to them with confidence, NOTHING HAPPENS. Women do not approach us unless we are showing we have resources. They talk to me about my GTOs all the time, and they hope I will provision them as well, but its not me they want.. its what I can do for them. If I do not get a number or ask them out, nothing happens. If I drive my winter beater truck that is rusted and has a red cab and silver box, they sure as hell won't be telling me 'nice truck' in an attempt to get me to proposition them.
They sit back and wait for things to happen, men make those things happen. they delude themselves that it takes monumental effort to wait for things to happen.
Setting goals is a means of motivating yourself. Some people need to work on self motivation more than others. Its not a weakness exactly, its more about interest. If you are interested in something, you will motivate yourself to do that thing. Why are all of you here watching this content? Its because you are interested in women, and want to understand them better so you can avoid the risks and hopefully meet one that isn't like all of them in these tiktok videos. You come here because you are changing your actions and thinking to align with getting what you want.
A goal only works if you have a deadline for when it needs to be accomplished. the deadline is the motivator. When the deadline is winter time and snow falling, you are very motivated to build your house so you can stay warm. The goal is build the house, and if its not done by the time the temps drop in fall, its going to be miserable trying to do it in the snow.
If you want to lift a certain amount, you have to set the goal to lift it. Then you work towards that goal, focusing on how you are doing, what you are eating, how much work you are putting in. Take it from a man who has lots of muscle and is VERY strong, you do not get there without a commensurate amount of effort. To get my 21" arms took monumental effort, more than most people would ever consider doing. I was forced to do it in 1990-91 during my first war.
I was not trying to get this big and strong, it was the result of what I had to do every day for nearly a year. 9000 calories in every day, and lifting then running with 200lbs most of the time, and pushing the equivalent of two F150s a mile or two on other days. My goal was to get the job done for that 12 hour shift. The result was I went from a 330lb bench to a 450 in less than a year spending zero time in a gym. If you have built any muscle at all, you know how much work that required. Imagine how much I was doing when I was 21 in 1990 to gain that much in less than a year.
Men are built, either by themselves or by the environment around them. We have a sink or swim life, even the soft coddled kids who were bubble wrapped by their parents who moved all obstacles out of their way. If they want more than what they are given by their parents, it will require work/effort.
You don't manifest a damn thing, you make it happen by focusing on the goal and getting there.
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You were over revving them. If you feel like everything has to go 7000rpm then the chevy is right for you.. ;)
I made around 540hp, nearly 600ftlbs with a D port headed 455, had all of $2700 in it back in 1996. $1500 of that was having Butler port the heads, install guides and stainless valves. It ran for 10 years, 12.0s with a 4.10 gear, 11.40s with a 3.42 gear, and a stock converter. Shifting it at 5800 so the trans shifted at 6000.
I have broken two of them, one was because someone dumped lead shot in the valve cover, one found its way to number #7 rod journal, the other someone dumped gravel down the carb, bent five valves and dropped #1 intake valve, which it then promptly shoved through the head in two places and punched a nice hole in the piston.
I have a 400 that has been in eight vehicles I own, including my 76 C10. Its sitting on a stand waiting for me to finish building a car for it, might end up in the 71 Formula 400, it was in that thing back in 1999.
A 455 I built in 1995 for $1800 with cast pistons that is still running. It pushed my 4100lb 70 GTO into the 12.60s with a 2.93 gear shifting at 5500. Yes two nine three, not a typo. It was 8.8:1 compression and ran the same with a stock intake, RPM, or performer on it. Ran the same with a 2004R and a Th400 too.
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@kokocaptainqc I've had everything I worked for, built, and invested in taken from me and given to someone undeserving TWO TIMES. I lost houses, land, and huge sums of money to divorce, and I lived on about what the average Sri Lankan did for 3 years while active duty in the military because of it.
I own my home, the 13 acres its on, and I am debt free. Believe me, if they decide I no longer own it, that I have to rent it from them, and they try to take it all from me a third time...
EVERYONE who speaks English in the world will know my full name. I will make damn sure of it.
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@manfredschmalbach9023 yep, you are right about what girls want. Saying I am a superchad is a bit much though. That is most amusing to me. If I ever show myself in one of my videos you will laugh at the idea, and probably call bullshit that I get any attention at all. But for some reason, I do. Girls do not make sense in what they are attracted to, all I can do is notice certain things that they are drawn by.
I always had to talk girls into it. Lucky for me I have a deep voice and I can be very funny, but if I never speak to them they have no idea.
I have friends who are just as on their mission as I am, and they can't get laid. They are 55 to 57 now, and only one of them has a girlfriend. They are either gearheads like me or gun nuts, but they can't talk to females worth a damn.
I bracket raced my old cars for a while in the 90s and early 2000s. Farthest I made it was the 3rd round, but we also had 200 cars in my class at my strip. The highest I placed in wrestling was 3rd. The only thing I 'win' at is video games, first person shooters, because the PTSD gives me an awareness and a complete memory of the maps, so I can figure out where they are coming from. So I do quite well in games. Girls don't care if you can go 60-2 in CoD without cheating.. nobody else does either unless they are playing against you.
So I am not a champion, not a winner in contests, but I can win sometimes against other cars when we head to 'Mexico' to race. That is a euphemism for 'undisclosed location with a straight deserted road and no traffic' because shit faster than mine cannot be raced in traffic without killing someone. Not talking about fart can and cheese grater equipped Hondas, but cars that actually run hard.
If you check my channel and look at my cars, the green Cuda gets attention because of the color and sound. Its my slowest V8 car. Girls like to take their photo by it, but I am never around when they do it. Since its the only green one in the area, its easy to spot when someone posts themselves with my car on facebook or something. Have yet to pick up girls with it, but I am not really trying.
The blue 65 GTO has gotten me laid a couple times, but its too nice and sorta grandpa.
The blue Firebird, now that thing has gotten me a ton of tail, and the uglier it was the better it worked, but it is also my fastest ride at the moment, running mid to low 9's in the quarter. It ran mid 11s to low 12s in the 90s. Its ratty and has no interior to speak of. It scares panties off girls if they go for a ride.
The black 68 LeMans and the 70 GTO when it was satin black, draw females like moths to flame. They are very ratty, but have the right look about them. That 70 GTO draws attention from everyone, well not in its current color as that blends in and its not even noticed.
If you give a girl the option of riding in an exotic like Ferrari / Lambo, or a rat rod covered in rust that requires a tetanus shot to lean against it, they will more often than not, got for the rat rod. They like the danger, and the exotic car owner is seen as a wallet, whereas the ratty fast car owner is seen as someone she wants to fuck. Guys dig the exotic cars far more than females do.
They want the man who can harm them, but doesn't as he refrains from harming others unless he has to. Being the captain of a ship means you are in control of something, rather than just working on it. Like being the race driver vs the mechanic. The fighter pilot vs the crew chief. Being a competent fighter who has competed against others is where confidence and discipline come from, and that attracts girls. .. even if you're a short bastard like me and my little brother.
Oh yeah, my little brother... he is 5'6 and all of 160lbs. Retired Army helo pilot/instructor. Five combat deployments, three driving HETs that haul tanks around Iraq, two flying UH60s in Afghanistan. He has been shot at so many times he doesn't even notice anymore. His short skinny and now 45 year old ass has always been able to pull seriously hot girls. He too has been through a world of shit like I have, and he is almost as dangerous as I am, I have a lot more strength than he does, but he has killed more people than me.
Good luck finding a tougher man than him. Watch him walk or move and you will see it, its a do not fuck with me way of being... but he is funny and friendly, just don't try to hurt him or his family, he will destroy you and never think about you again.
Come to think of it, he is a far better example than I am. I am a 300lb gorilla, he is a relatively normal sized short guy who can get VERY hot girls because of how he is.
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@JR-zm2yu I drive that GTO rain or shine all summer, but the salt eats things fast. So when the first salt truck goes by, all the old cars and trucks get parked. Then I drive $500 beaters like the 2006 Gran Prix Im using now
I've been 'retired' forcibly since 2005, so working on old cars keeps me busy. I have to be doing something or I feel unfulfilled you might say. Doing things from which I benefit, all the better. I built my shop, house, and I do cars for fun. Saves money that way too.
The plows throw snow across my driveway, but its easy enough to clear it out, or I can just drive through it with the 4x4. I usually give it a day after it snows to clear the driveway, its 600' long so doing it while its snowing just means more work.
I like the isolation, the peace and quiet, and nobody in my business unless I ask them to be.
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@JR-zm2yu when I kicked the second wife out for cheating and she filed for divorce, I saw a piece of land pop up for sale half a mile from where we lived. So I worked it in such a way that I closed on the land purchase two weeks after the divorce was final. There was an old run down cabin here, not livable, but it had electrical power run to it and a well.
The two years later (had to get funds) I cleared a spot of trees, about 150x70, and used the maple trees I cleared as the poles for the 32x48x12 shop. the smallest one is 8" in diameter the largest is 14". Used a chainsaw to cut a flat side into them so I could attach the walls. Hired two guys to help me put the roof on, and the concrete guy came out with two guys and the four of us poured the slab. I built the walls and then we put the roof on, and I did the rest of it.
Bought four shipping containers, put three of them side by side and cut the center out of it, making a 20x28 studio. I lived in that for 5 years until I could get the funds together and prep another foundation. Weather and other things got in the way too, or it would have been done two years earlier..
I stacked two of them with a forklift, the uncut one and one that had one side cut out. Then placed one 13' away, and the fourth with both sides cut out on the end. Then filled in the walls between them, built a floor, and put a roof on. The year before I moved them I prepped the foundation, and it has concrete on top of the sandstone bedrock, pinned to the ground with rebar and concrete, with concrete like fill around the foundation. Its not going anywhere.
Now its two stories, a sloped roof to collect rainwater and snow melt, with a loft. Right around 1050 sqft.
With the virus crap, a medical problem relating to my injuries, and my dad passing last year, I didn't get the water done so that means I am going on 8 years without running water. Its like a deployment where nobody is shooting at me, and I can play video games all day if I want. Have a gym membership so I can take a shower any time I want.
I grew up on a farm so operating heavy equipment is second nature to me. Used a rented forklift to stack and move the containers, and rented one of those scissors lifts for inside the shop and putting the roof on. Did some of the dirt work with skid steers and pulled stumps with a mini excavator.
While I was clearing the trees the girl I was seeing came up and was dubious about me getting the shop built. I started clearing trees the last week of June, and put the sliding door on the shop the first week of November. The whole time until I put the 'house' together in September, I lived in an old $1500 RV with a woodstove in it.
All of that and not being able to walk more than about 200' a day. Hypothermia is one hell of a motivational tool.
Also I make ethanol fuel from tree sap to run my old cars, use biomass to heat my home, and I am working on going off grid because the power goes off randomly around here... even on beautiful sunny days. I live green because it costs me less to produce energy than to buy it. The lowest electric bill I have is only the fridge, microwave, hotplate, and the PC is running.
It costs me more when I use the lift and air compressor a lot. All my lighting is LED, and its still well over $110 a month. If I use a lot of power its over $200 easily, that is like a space heater sometimes during the day and repainting a car with the air compressor, doing the sanding and whatnot..
Gasoline is back up around $3 now, premium is over $4. Two bags of groceries is $200, so it makes sense to produce as much of my energy as I can. Its my biggest expense. When I started making ethanol gas was $5 and premium was over $6. When it gets back up there again thanks to creepy Joe, and it will, then I will be running only my tree sap vodka.
A book about my life would be part horror story, part inspiration of perseverance, a big part of DO NOT DO THIS EVER, and lots of WTF, why did they do that to him?
The VA shrinks told me most guys off themselves when they run into half of what I have. The reason I am still here is I want to build old cars, I like the sunset through the trees... and watching my huskies playing in the snow
Life is short, work hard enough to do fun things and avoid the mistakes I made.
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@maxxor-overworldhero6730 some were deists, like Jefferson and Washington, some were non believers like Franklin and Paine, then you had the christians of various denominations. The USA is not and never has been a theocracy, nor has it ever been based on any religion or religious laws. No matter what David Barton says.
The establishment clause is the result. No religious tests for office, no religion is mandatory, no religion is elevated or supported above others, you can have any religion you like, or none at all.
That is why the ten commandments cannot be in a courthouse, a nativity scene is not allowed on public ground, and things of that nature. You cannot promote one religion over others at taxpayer expense. Same with school prayers, you cannot force kids to pray in school, if they want to pray they are free to do so, but the public teachers and school cannot promote their religion to the students. Its all or none.. and you really do not want your kids being taught islam or satanism, now do ya?
Sure, some things are common with christian beliefs and with the secular government created by the founders, its not like most societies allow murder, theft, etc. Its rather ubiquitous across all religions and civilizations to not kill your own tribe or steal from them... but go to war with another tribe and its game on.. unless you think Jericho and all the others were games of hopscotch or something.
There are no US laws based on the ten commandments that are constitutional, that are not prohibiting stealing or killing. The half a law is lying, because under oath its illegal, but any other time its not a problem to lie to anyone. Honoring your parents, not a US law, likewise blasphemy is not a law, adultery, hell they freakin encourage chicks to cheat these days and give them huge incentives to do so.
The evidentiary requirements in criminal law (not family court) are a direct result of what happened in Salem, using religious based laws. It was closer to the lives of the founders than WWII is to my life, and I know a lot about WWII and WWI. Its a safe bet the founders and framers knew very well about the witch trials and how they went horribly wrong.
Yeah our society is aligned with much of christianity, that does not mean we allow christian based/focused legislation.
Some assholes like Barton are trying to retcon everything to make it appear like we were supposed to be a theocracy, and while some founders wanted that, we are not and were not a theocracy.
The Treaty of Tripoli, Article 11 spells it out. "As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,-as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen,-and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."
It was unanimously ratified by congress, including all of the religious types who wanted a theocracy in the USA.
Apologize and sharpshooter fallacy all you want, bring up the ramblings and wishful thinking of David Barton to your hearts content, but the USA is not a christian nation, even if the majority of people living here are.
That is what the marxists are exploiting, the fact that its not illegal to be a damn dirty commie as you can have any religion you like. However those damn dirty commies are trying very hard, and quite successfully I might add, to make their religion NOT seem like a religion.
I find it most amusing that you religious types take MASSIVE offense with those of us who do not believe in invisible friends or nebulous ideas and are not reprehensible marxists yet give the commies a pass, and hate on us when its the marxists who are attacking you.
I do not wish to be forced to follow religious prescriptions of any type, I can think for myself, choose for myself, and get along with people without having a need to feel smug and superior to them because I am part of an ingroup with a shared delusion.
Like I have said before, if your god knew a bit more about the EM spectrum, biology, orbital mechanics, and the fact the earth is not circular and flat, sitting on pillars over water, with a metal covering that has windows in it so it can rain, then maybe I would take him more seriously. I mean shit, no mention of kangaroos and koalas, or any other animal outside of a 200mile radius of Jerusalem.
Hell most of you do not realize you have the exact same god as the muslims, called by a different name, with all the same old testament stories but with Arabic rather than European names. Mary and Joe, Matt, Mark, Luke, Paul, John... not exactly middle east sounding names there. Really, all the same stories and they are the ONLY other religion outside of christians who follow Jesus. Willful ignorance and propaganda is designed to keep you unaware of reality.
On the bright side you religious nutters don't cause abject poverty, build concentration camps, and fill mass graves on the regular with hundreds of millions of corpses. Y'all are pretty benign compared to the fucking marxists. Which is why I like you guys, and loathe the commies. They will kill both of us, and they are your real enemy. They are not atheists, they are religious nutters.
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I have a few trans friends who present as the other gender, a couple have had the surgery, most haven't because its expensive. My older daughter was born a girl, but she feels like she is in some kind of limbo, not really a girl, but not quite a boy, but she leans more to the masculine side of things. The activists want everyone to think the rest of the world wants you dead or something. Well maybe in Iran and most of Africa, but in the US, nobody really cares except religious nuts.
My friends who don't believe the rhetoric and bullshit know the activists are only using them, but they are also not exactly able to earn a high standard of living. It comes with the territory so to speak. Its hard enough to eek out a living around here, so its not like they decide to switch on a whim. Funny thing to me is the straight democrat people are the ones who make a big deal of it. They like to lump me in with the republicans because I am anti marxist and straight, but I don't care what others want to do with their lives, I am not going to try to control them, but the democrats will and do.
I'm 51, a two war veteran, I had gay friends in high school which is surprising since we only had around 30 kids in each class, and my older brother started a rumor I was gay back then. I got my ass kicked a lot, despite being straight, just because he told them I was gay.. until they realizes I am not, and I also got big enough to severely hurt people and could defend myself easily. Rather than being gay I liked non white girls a lot. man I took a bunch of shit for that, and now the leftists say I have a fetish because I like Asian, black, Latino, and pretty much any dark skin girl, in addition to white girls. Because I am white, they say I am wrong and its a fetish.. nah I just like girls whatever color they are. Darker is hot to me.
Hang in there, you do your thing, and don't fall for the marxist bullshit.. because they are not your friend, they are only using people who are different to further their bullshit agenda. When they are done with everyone who is kinda like you, or even me since I am into all races, they will try to put us in mass graves. They always have, and always will. Its their solution to everything.
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Man.. the more I watch, the more its driven home that I do not want one of those around. I am doing well, have no debt, passive income, I can travel just about anytime and anywhere I want. I do whatever I want every day. That means I could take care of and support one of them, but THERE IS NO BENEFIT TO IT.. only massive risk. Besides, they are too expensive in time and money.
Next summer I will have several old cars to drive, and at least one old truck, maybe two. They include a 1970 Cuda, 1965 GTO, 1971 Ventura, supercharged 1968 LeMans, maybe a 1971 Firebird and 1971 Mustang fastback. Later this week I am starting on the 76 C10 shortbox. Its fun when 'they' see me in one, then another, and they comment on it and look at me 'that way' and I just say "Yeah, I am into cars."
The Ventura and LeMans are NOT shiny nice looking cars, they are rough looking and have more power than sensible people would ever want. I'm not bragging to you guys, because most of the cars I have were junk when I got them, and I rebuild them. Its what I do and how I am spending the rest of my time on the earth. I do enjoy rubbing it in and rejecting 'them' when they look at me and see dollar signs. I try to stay looking like my name on here, and wear shabby/cheap work clothes rather than dressing nice. I want to look broke, poor, very low working class. It keeps them away when all they want is an ATM to plunder.
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This sounds like an attempt to get men to NOT workout, not stay in shape, and not get any training. They want us soft and complaint, not capable and dangerous. Power lifting is more useful than body building, but you really need some kinda of martial art training. That alone will change your life. Mine was wrestling in high school and the USAF back in the 80s and 90s. BJJ and some others with grappling and striking coupled with the discipline and competition will benefit you in every part of your life.
Something for all of the guys with the slight, thin wrist skinny builds.. when you pack on muscle, you look FREAKIN HUGE, even with only 17" arms. However, all of us with robust bones, barrel chests, and wide shoulders look like bricks. How do I know? Well, my wrists are 9" in circumference and I have 21" arms with a near 60" chest.. but I am only 5'8" so think gorilla or really big battle dwarf and you get the idea. My neck is 21" around... and some split tails like it, but most don't. Really you only need to have some definition, and if you can bench press 300lbs, and deadlift over 400, you're doing exceptionally well. Bench 250 and DL the same, you're better than the vast majority of people in the world.
Yeah, I am kinda funny looking, and just an extra 15lbs makes me look like a beluga whale. The last time I was under 220lbs was 2001, when I returned from a deployment in Kuwait, had a six pack and the USAF put me on the weight program, thus the reason for my name on here.
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@gianni_schicchi its handy, because when these control freaks decide to make fuel cost more than we can afford, or some conflict happens, we will still have fuel. However, the reason I do it is very simple and has nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with the cars I drive all summer.
It makes more power, burns cleaner so my engines last vastly longer, runs cooler, and its cheap to make. Best part is anyone can make it themselves, if they have access to sugar or starch in large enough quantities, clean water, and the space to do all of it. Really though you can make ethanol on your table top in your apartment, it just won't be enough to power a vehicle very far and would be hideously expensive energy wise. Larger stills and vats make the cost go down considerably.
There are a few channels tat show how to distill spirits, fuel is the exact same thing but with a much more efficient still because you're not concerned with how it tastes.
If you drop the notion of running gasoline entirely, and run only ethanol maybe with methane as backup and cold start assist, you can rebuild engines to take advantage of ethanol by raising the static compression ratio(SCR). Over 12:1 scr you get the same or better mileage on ethanol than the same low compression engine would get on gasoline.
Then there are other things we can do to improve mileage and power while running ethanol, but all of them make it even more impossible to run gasoline. Things like running the engine hotter, faster timing advance curves, heating the fuel in the EFI rails so it vaporizes as it enters the relative vacuum present in the intake tract, locating the injectors farther from the valves so the fuel has more time to vaporize and cool the intake charge while it vaporizes... things of that nature.
Running ethanol in a low compression engine will almost always lose some mileage, how much depends on the engine design. You have to handicap engines to run gasoline, its not a very good fuel. Gasoline has far lower limits, makes less power, 80% of its energy is wasted as heat you need to get rid of, and all that black carbon fouling the oil also wears the engine out much faster.
Ethanol makes more power two ways, first it has more oxygen in it, gasoline barely has any. More oxygen means more power, and the o2 content is why you need to run ethanol richer than gasoline.
Second it cools the intake charge as it vaporizes, in supercharged applications it can drop the temperature of the air in the plenum and runners by 100F, the result is a lot more power.
Only 60% of the energy in ethanol is wasted as heat, and its heat that helps the engine make more power and burn less fuel. 40% powers the engine, whereas with gasoline in the real world its less than 20% of the energy actually powers the engine. In very controlled laboratory conditions, gasoline can get close to ethanol's efficiency, but in the real world, out on the road, its not going to happen.
We could be driving lighter vehicles that make more power with smaller displacement engines, but of course then the 'wrong' people would be making money from it.
Also the other 'side' doesn't want you and I to be independent, producing our own food, fuel, and electrical power. They want us dependent on them, which is why they are pushing this nonsense about oceans boiling and no snowfall. I find it amusing they claim the world will become a desert if more water evaporates into the atmosphere, despite everything including physics points to more rainfall in arid regions, not less. If we are dependent on them, then they can control us by limiting energy.
Livestock were domesticated by giving them free food inside a pen, as long as the food was there, the animals didn't care. They weren't smart enough to ask themselves why is this food always right here? So now they are eaten... and some people want free stuff from the gov, not realizing what the cost will be.
If you live in a tiny space and only get what they give you, that sounds more like someone making veal than humans living worthwhile lives.
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How do you increase mileage?
1. Make as much torque as possible in the RPM range the engine lives in the most, under 3500 in a street/daily driver engine.
2. Increase static compression as high as possible.
3. Get the fuel to completely vaporize before its ignited.
4. Give the engine the timing it wants.
5. Long high velocity intake ports.
6. Gearing that reduces the number of revolutions of the engine per mile.
7. Reduce friction and aerodynamic drag.
8. Reduce mass, make the car lighter.
Gasoline wastes more than 80% of its energy as heat, using only 17% to 19% to actually power the vehicle. It can't handle much compression and ignition advance without rattling the engine to death. You will never get 100mpg on gasoline, the thermal efficiency is simply not there.
You really hate ethanol don't ya Tony.
Gasoline became the standard only AFTER the Volstead Act. Rockefeller gave the temperance movement $4 million, which is in the hundreds of millions today. Rockefeller owned Standard Oil and had more money than god and Davey Crocket combined, but he wanted all of it. His biggest competitor was ethanol, the Model T was dual fuel, they ran better on ethanol than on gasoline, they over heated and lost power on gasoline. There is a knob on the dash that adjusts the air fuel ratio, and a lever where the modern day turn signal is that advances or retarded the timing. Advance the timing and richen the carb to run ethanol, retard the timing and lean the carb to run gasoline. Ford was big on it and was building tractors that ran on ethanol, Henry's ideas was for farmers to make their own fuel, and buy Fords that ran on it.
Farmers everywhere in the USA had stills so they could produce vodka and turpentine, which when mixed together make a nice home made light source. If you are producing your own fuel and light, why would you need to buy Rockefeller's gasoline and kerosene? You wouldn't. Most people were rural before WWII, lots of farmers and the easiest way to get grain to market was to ferment it into vodka and sell it that way. Its why the government put a tax on ethanol people drink.
So how do you get people to buy an inferior product that rattles their engines to death and overheats them? Push through a constitutional amendment outlawing the production of ethanol, and say its about people drinking it. You could still get it to drink it, and people made fortunes bootlegging, like Joe Kennedy (JFK's dad) and Al Capone, but you could not produce your own fuel, you had to buy it from Standard Oil... until it was broken up, then you could buy it from other companies that used to be Standard Oil.
Yeah there were gassifier systems where engines ran on fumes and 'smoke' from incomplete combustion, but many more ran on vodka. The gassifer is a cool idea, but not that wonderful, it leaves a ton of soot in the engine and the power is not there, but it runs... sorta.
Ethanol uses 40% of its energy to power the vehicle, plus it has oxygen in it so it makes more power. That O2 is why you need to run more fuel, not the BTU content. BTUs are only about heating one pound of water one degree. Thats it.
Driving around with 13:1 compression, iron heads, on a 455, running 42 degrees total advance, making tire shredding torque is a ton of fun... when it costs you ten cents (if you make it how I do it) to $2 a gallon (if you buy it) to fuel it. Plus it runs cooler, doesn't clog the engine with black carbon deposits that cause wear, and it drives so much better and is vastly easier to tune.
87 Octane is $3.50 here, 92 is almost $5. The Pontiac guys seem to think they need 9.5:1 and then run premium, paying out the ass for it. Then I take the late 60s cylinder heads, mill them to 64ccs, put them on a flat top 455, and drive around with 13:1 for dirt cheap getting better mileage with a ton more power than my old pump gas 455s and their premium fuel engines..Youcan run 22:1 compression easily on straight ethanol, and 16:1 is super easy to do on pump E85, the gasoline in E85 holds it back.
Yeah if you run ethanol in an 8:1 engine it will get worse mileage every damn time. Go back and read 1 - 4. That is what you improve by going to ethanol and building your engine to take advantage of it.
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@hottuna2006 so do you allow them to get with other men while you still support her, or do you release them to greater opportunity outside your sphere of influence?
It doesn't matter what we do, we can treat them well, poorly, be faithful, act like we don't care, wait on them like a servant, the result is the same more often than not.. she finds a new peg D to jump on.
I know they stick with me longer if I make them earn it, never telling them I care about them, and never asking permission. They keep coming back for years when I treat them like that. To get rid of one I treat her nice, ask for spicy time, and maybe cook for them while telling them how much I care about them. They are gone in a week doing that.
So how do you adapt to who they are when they are all like that? They all think they can do better, that they deserve the absolute best, and everyone who isn't one of the .1% of 6'5 millionaires with two helicopters is below average. Thats the reality of it today.
When they leave, even if you're not married they can take from you now. The precedent has been set, and not in common law states either. So she can hook up with you for a while, then hook up with another guy, and take all your earnings and property with her. Sounds like a lucrative way to use a snot pocket to me.
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@Medietos It takes about 13 years for humans to be capable of reproduction, completion of higher cognition formation is later than 21, its around 25, it seems most people never fully develop. They never learn how to think, and thus they are easily swayed by idiotic ideological arguments and logical fallacies.
As it turns out, the greatest influence in a child being able to fit with society comes from the father, without a father children are adrift, they do not develop a good sense of empathy, and they do not learn social skills that enable them to interact with larger society... the result is more fatherless kids, higher crime, incarceration, and poverty.
Of course feminists claim fathers are superfluous, because everything male is abhorrent to them, and the female is the highest possible achievement. They see it that way out of envy and resentment while feeling entitled to all the benefits with none of the responsibilities and downsides to being male. They will try to obfuscate their reasons, justify, rationalize, and gaslight others to hide that they are simply envious they aren't male, resentful they are female, and feel entitled to only the best males but too lazy to get them. Gays/lesbians are a whole different sort of dynamic, not including them in what they are resentful and envious of.
Thats why I see feminists as marxists, because marxists are envious, resentful, feel entitled to what others have earned, whilst being too lazy to earn it for themselves. Rather than sexual/gender focused, its financial resentment and laziness.
Those are the people who have never fully developed, they are still children living in adult bodies. They crave authority and control, someone to keep them safe and absolve them of responsibility, which is a child like state of living.
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I've had PTSD since I was a kid too. Beatings, near 'endings' and it was random as well as severe. It affects every relationship I have. Since I am the one who loses everything in a divorce, and am always guilty when accused by a female, its easier for me to simply avoid them entirely. I can and have controlled my PTSD for more than 40 years, I'm 53. Most of that time I didn't know why I was so different than everyone else, including while I was in the US military doing the war thing. War felt like home to me.
The problem is women can take off at any time and the state will reward her with everything I have built and invested my life into, no matter what she does. When I have been accused of things I could not possibly or physically have done, I was immediately guilty to the state and juries, because I am a heavily muscled war veteran who can relieve his bladder whilst standing up. Two divorces and several accusations without merit was more than enough reason and justification to live alone in the woods and build my hotrods.
The last relationship I had was quite good, but thats because I did not allow myself to become emotionally attached, she knew that a single irrational argument would result in never seeing me again, and that any lies or half truths would also result in me being somewhere else.. permanently. You know, boundaries... She wanted to end it for two things, first it was a 7 hour drive to see each other, and we did that for about four years. Second she met a firefighter who lived nearby she wanted to try, he dumped her two weeks later. We are still friends and converse often, but there is no going back.
The women who live near me are.. how to put this lightly... absolute sh**.
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@travisjohnson6676 I have seen it too. Far more often its a nightmare, and then she decides to ramp it up to 12 on a scale of 10. Sure it can happen...
Here is an analogy I use to explain it.
Lets say there is a street you can cross and have some nice stuff just on the other side. However, 40% of men are hit by a bus when they cross that street. 4 of every 10 are hit by a bus. Are you going to cross the street there?
What if its 8 in 10 are hit by a bus? Would you risk it if 2 of every 10 got hit? Sure you see some guys make it across the street and are enjoying the stuff on the other side.
The thing is you don't know if you're going to be hit by a bus or not until your life is over anyway, because she can run you over with that bus at any time she feels like it. Once you start crossing the street you are stuck doing it for the rest of your life, or until you are hit by a bus.
You could also call it a minefield, where the mines move around under the surface, and when they go off they take your house, car, income, wallet, and often your freedom away. Are you going to spend most of your life walking through that minefield?
I got hit by two buses and stepped on two landmines on the same street. I'm not crossing anymore, I found a better way to get to the cool stuff I want.
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@realangiechrist I like to read comments, and reply to them while I eat lunch and take breaks. Otherwise I am kinda like you, live alone in the woods with my huskies, building hotrods and muscle cars, avoiding people.
I don't try to relate to anyone. I figure they like me or they don't, not my problem. As it happens, a surprising number of people like me. I know why, but I am always surprised at it.
Haven't dated in 5 years because the people around here are just... not. I figure if I could find a woman who wants to do the car thing, build them, go racing, enjoy the adventures that brings, and she is pleasant to be around while not slowing a car by more than .15 seconds in the quarter mile (meaning under 150lbs) I would spend time with her.
As it is though, its better to avoid people because they make no sense. They are running on emotion rather than logic.
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@carolmiles553 what are they growing? Most of what is grown today is not food for humans. The corn grown in the US is an industrial product, it can be fed to cattle, can make fuel, the only 'food' made from it is high fructose corn syrup which isn't really food, but they can also make plastic and other things from it.
Actual food growing for ten people doesn't take that much space really. The problem is cities have tens of thousands to millions of people in them. They have nowhere to grow anything, its all concrete and small rooftops.
There has been an encroachment on farmland for a long time, people moving into subdivisions that were cornfields just a year or two before.
The way it works here in the US is a city or town will annex the farm land, then tax it at the same rate as a residence, so your 40 acres now is taxed the same as that quarter acre house with no yard, which is thousands of dollars for that tiny plot. Spread out over 40 acres or more, the tax burden prompts farmers to sell it.
In 30 years, if things remain the same my land will no longer be rural and remote. I am 13 miles from the tiny hamlet with a gas station. 30 years go it was even more remote than it is now.
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@MrSmith-on1qz from 2001 to 2004 I slept in my 70 GTO and 92 F150. The GTO was painted with rattle cans, had no interior to speak of. It was a daily driver beater I bought for $1000 in 1994. Sure its a real deal muscle car, and has a 455 I put in it, but even if I sold it it would only pay about four month's rent without utilities.... and I would no longer own a 70 GTO. Slept in the car while active duty in the USAF, and on friend's couches when they let me.
My home state left me $100 a month, they took 71% of my gross pay, the judge said the military would give me a place to live and food for free.. Well, they did in Korea, except for the entire year I was over there I was going behind in child support, because it was more than my base pay after taxes. In the states I was being paid to live off base and buy my food, but the state took all of that money.
The F150 was the back up vehicle, and I ended up needing it. My insurance was dirt cheap in my home state and I parked near my duty station.
Yeah I came very close to saying screw it and ventilating my thinkin meat on several occasions. I told the ex "Do you know what 70% of nothing is?"
That was a rough 15 years having to pay her after everything she put me through and did to our kids. Karma got her good though.
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@user-ld6wo4rv8h that was the only reason she came here, to spend time with me. A month before she was talking about spicy time, then suddenly she turned mean and talked to me like I was her ex. I live 3 hours north of Green Bay Wisconsin, in northern Michigan, it takes some effort to get here, especially from Germany.
Dang it, now its 51F outside, gotta turn the heat on again. Also need to get back to working on my fun toy, the car I am building for an event next week in Missouri. I have to build a seat mount yet tonight, then figure out where to put the roll cage, and hope I get it done in the next 8 days.
If she had not come to visit, the cage would be in it and I would have quite a few miles on it already. Its annoying that she decided to be a raging cant understand normal thinker.
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My friends all know I am looking for Pontiacs. Nothing newer than 72 unless is a Firebird and they know it has to be cheap. In 2014 I pulled a 68 LeMans rolling shell with a bunch of extra parts out of a pasture in Nebraska for $300. Put $3000 into it and made it into a quick driver with a healthy 400, Th350, and a $150 posi rear with a 3.08 gear. I lightened it extensively, dropping 900lbs out of the shell. I even used an old aluminum screen door as the radiator support... Now it has a 461 inch mill built on a 400 block with some used Edelbrock heads, solid cam, and other parts I had laying around.
I have to go pick up a 69 GTO, another rolling shell, that I gave $400 and an E85 conversion on a carb for. Its rough, but it has a title and is a great starting point for a cool ride.
Last week I got a 68 Firebird for $200. Its rusted VERY badly, but I plan to use the shell and build a tube frame pro street ride with it. That thing is beyond most people, but its perfect for what I want to do with it.
I find this stuff all the time. They are out there, you have to look farther than facebook and the high end for sale sites. Yes it is a HUGE plus that I have engines, transmissions, and all kinds of other stuff sitting around. The reason I have all of those parts to rebuild these old cars, is because my friends know I am always looking for 400, 428, 455, engines and heads from the late 60s so I can run high compression and E85. I buy cheap used parts, and have them waiting for the next build.
I rebuild engines, transmissions, carbs, differentials, and everything else too. Not throw a kit at it or paint it, I tear them down and make them better than new. That makes it easier to get a rolling shell drivable when you have the parts and skills needed to put a car back together. Its also much cheaper than paying someone else to do the work for you. Do the work yourself and old cars are the cheapest way to get around and they are cool as hell too. What would you rather drive? A stain black 69 LeMans two door with a glass nose and 550hp for $4000, or a boring front drive commuter car or minivan? My daily driver is a 65 GTO that I got for $1500 as a severely rusted rolling shell, and turned into a kick ass 11 second daily driver for less than $15k. Nary a boring pos in my yard, even my winter beaters are supercharged Gran Prix drivers I got for less than $1000.
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If you check, you will see I own a bunch of muscle cars and trucks. The farm was 20 miles away from town to the west, 25 to the east, the town to the west had more going on, so I went there. Got into races with my car, met lots of interesting people, and thats where the females were. I needed a car to get anywhere, especially in winter. Nebraska is actually quite hilly, not flat like it looks from I-80. The weather there can end you fast if you're unprepared for it.
The cars I have are not trophies nor status symbols, sure they are cool and fast, but I built them. Its a different mindset. I see an old car as like a canvas where I can do my art. I plan them out, build then drive them. The fun and enjoyment is in the build and the drive, and I beat the snot out of them. My cars are the physical representation of the vision I had in my head when I bought the rusty hulk without a drivetrain. They are my knowledge, skills, abilities, perseverance, and time put into reality in a way that you can feel and hear it, unlike any other art form. I do everything on them, I am capable of doing all the work, provided I have the tools to do it. My shop only lacks a few things, like a Tig welder, plasma cutter, and the machine tools needed to rebuild engines.
Its not the cars for me, though I build the ones I like and have lusted after for most of my life. Its more than the cars, they become part of me, because I put part of me into them. Sure you can go buy one, but then you get what someone else wanted, what they deemed adequate, its probably not the way you would build it, its just acceptable to you.
While I have some that are worth a lot of money, one is valued at more than $90k, and its currently rusty, the value is nearly meaningless to me. That car is exceptionally rare, as only 276 were built with that engine, six of which had AC and auto transmission, and this one has no paint code, its a 1 of 1 of one of the most desirable Pontiacs ever built.... That value is not why I have it. My intention is to rebuild that one, and make it near perfect to preserve it.. I will build a clone to drive. The rest of them, I have no plans to sell, other than the Mustangs because I bought them to rebuild and sell.
I derive satisfaction from what I do, accomplish, achieve, and overcome. I do not pursue happiness, nor is it excellence, I am driven by the things I want to do and experience. Rather than throwing money at it and paying others to do it for me, I learn how to do things. I have never had much of a focus on or need for lots of money. In fact if I were to sell my land tools, shop, and all the vehicles/parts so I have a really big pile of money, I would simply spend it buying other rusty old junk and rebuilding that in a shop I built.
This is what I do. This is what I have always wanted to do, and every job I worked either gave me skills I needed to do this, or paid me so I could afford the parts and equipment. I don't give a damn if I don't put a dent in the universe, I want to build things, and since I can't afford airplanes, muscle cars are the medium I choose.
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@sweetbriarfarm777 ya know, despite all the rough hands heavy lifting stuff with finite very small variances measured in hundred thousandths or smaller, I really like to bake. The problem is I am the only one around to eat it, and bread makes me fat.
The whole idea of mixing a bunch of things together, then putting heat to it and having it come out so very tasty and satisfying, its just as enjoyable as building a hotrod that is crazy fast.
I took the time to learn how to do these things, the more you want to know, the easier it is to learn it. Having a need to do it also teaches you how, but wanting to know adds something. Its the difference between making tasteless bland bread, and baking some rich flavored artisan rolls that take three days to create.
These days its super easy to find out how, videos, articles, forums, other people who know or have interesting ideas, all within easy reach. learning how to do all the car stuff before the internet meant hours spent reading, then even more hours spent wrenching and refining my methods, coming up with new and better ways to do the job. I wanted to know a lot more than I needed to know.
If you want to know how, make it happen.
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@sweetbriarfarm777 I like the old ways too, want to build a water wheel and a few other things. So many opportunities with water power. My physical build would suit me well to a halberd, broadsword, or some two handed weapon, ax, hammer, sword, but I like to whack things at a distance since I can't move very fast anymore. Lots of power, not much top end, kinda like a semi truck.
I can build a forge to produce a kick ass sword or ax if I need to. Old leaf springs make for amazingly good lightweight swords. I have lots of spring steel around here. Ya wanna get some hardcore PTSD? hack people up with a freakin sword. You gotta hate them with every fiber of your being to be able to do that to people and have no remorse. Its brutal.
Blacksmith, carpenter, sculptor, and machinist, so many possibilities. If we get reduced back that far and I can find the stuff that lets me walk on these destroyed knees, I will be some kind of ruler or wizard. lol.
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Tim its better to allow Seattle and Minneapolis to become examples of what happens when they eagerly accept communist rule. They can serve as examples of what not to do, since apparently Detroit, Milwaukee, Chicago, Baltimore, LA, and others have apparently not been good enough examples of marxist ideology in government.
The county west of where I live went blue in the last two elections, it is the only county north of the bridge to go blue. It has the largest town in this section of the state, a University, and its run by marxist sympathizers. If they go this direction and disband police then allow antifa and blm to run things, you will see a reaction to the larping revolutionary idiot kids and that town of 26k people will become infamous. They have no idea how many war vets live in the area who will not allow this to happen. We number in the tens of thousands here, because its a nice quiet place to live and retire.
They'll claim we are white supremacists, and we will call them what they are... communists.
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I am old enough to not only remember when we went into Iraq and Afghanistan, I am old enough to have been in that one, and to have been in the one before that where we removed Iraq from Kuwait's ass... and I am old enough to have been stationed in Frankfurt West Germany when the Berlin Wall came down... Yes, cold war, Gulf War, OIF. Its a bit jarring to be invading a country in real time... you know, not watching it on TV but seeing it on the ground going in.
I didn't go to Afghanistan, but my little brother did. He flew Blackhawks there.
Trust me guys, as bad as you think it is... expect it to get worse. It can always get worse.
On the bright side I am too old and too broken to get drafted or called back. So remember kids, don't call sergeants 'Sir', we get a bit irritable...
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@evbbjones7 I don't know much about Jacen, thats the only post I know of he has made. However, I know what you're talking about and tend to agree with you.
On the other side of things, being a hard core gearhead in addition to being a bit too interested in history, I have seen where people try to profit from being so called experts. I am also very aware of what happens when the consensus is challenged and the experts resist it. I think that resistance to change is a good thing, as it ensures we get correct data and its tested many times before its accepted.
Being big into cars like I am, building them in my shop, and understanding how and why they work in addition to how to do the work, has given me some insights. I like to drive big V8s, I don't like paying $5 for premium and $12 for race gas, so I got into something cheaper that I can do myself.
I make ethanol from cattails and tree sap, then I run my muscle cars on it. For the past 16 years I have been building engines specifically to run on ethanol. Pontiac V8s, 400ci (6.6L) to 505ci (8L+) and I have achieved what the experts all say cannot be done. I get better mileage and power on ethanol than my engines can on gasoline.
Now if you want to run gasoline or ethanol, you have a much harder time achieving that, because it is all about static compression ratios and heat management. An engine built to run best on ethanol will rattle itself to pieces on gasoline, but an engine configured to run gasoline will easily run on ethanol, it will just use more fuel doing it.
So in a way, the experts are right, but they leave out some very important aspects of engine design, and just claim it cannot be done.
Also you hear constantly that ethanol is highly corrosive, eats parts, and you need special everything to run it.. that is true of methanol, which is a different fuel entirely. Ethanol is vodka, methanol will end you and its what makes you go blind. The common belief is they are roughly the same thing and act the same. I have no corrosion issues at all with my fuel that I produce.
However the farther south I go to get E85 the more issues with corrosion get from it. Its the additives put in the fuel causing problems, its not the ethanol. Still everyone blames ethanol for it, when its not the actual culprit.
I happen to be one of the experts in producing and using ethanol fuels, as well as designing engines to run on it... along with being the go to man for Quadrajet carburetor conversions to ethanol., ALL the information about those carbs running ethanol comes from yours truly.
When you are protecting your profits, you will try to dissuade people from using other products. Even to the point of making the E85 you sell worse for the vehicle. Its amusing and still kinda sad.
Once you have people using their confirmation bias to support your profits, then you have far less trouble with competition. People support you when they have zero idea about the subject.
Now if I were to come out and say I am making engines run on water or happy unicorn farts, that would be a dubious claim at best.
My point is sometimes the experts are wrong, sometimes the experts are being used to protect profits (I can tell you about a study regarding ethanol like that) and sometimes the experts are right and its painfully obvious they are right.
The weather is another area where the consensus is more about profit than actual science... my reasoning for that also stems from my experience with ethanol fuel.
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Tony talking my language again. I'm all about torque from idle to about 5500 or so. If it will make 500ftlbs at 2500rpm at WOT, it will make more than enough at part throttle to move the car easily. If its still making 500ftlbs at 5200rpm, then its also making 500hp. That is my world, and I can run a 2.56 gear behind these things if I want, but that is kinda hard on transmissions when its a somewhat heavy car.
You're not going to do it with a chevy unless you slap a roots blower on it. A 460 Ford comes close, but still has a hole in the bottom with its shorter stroke. The Buick Olds and Pontiac will do it easily with mostly stock parts.
With a street engine you want to get power and mileage from velocity is everything. If you have too much at a low RPM, you end up killing the flow higher up. The shape of the port is hugely important. Just hogging the ports will often kill flow. You have to know where to remove metal to create a certain shape that will keep velocity and improve flow. It varies depending on the heads and port design.
Another thing that makes a huge difference is port length, the distance between the throttle blades and the top of the piston at BDC. A longer runner generally has higher velocity, throw a venturi shape into it and you increase velocity if the "tight" spot is in the right place in the runner. Remove that tight spot and you kill airflow. Make the air have to turn sharp corners, you kill airflow. A short runner is lazy at low rpm and makes all its power in the high rpm.
Its not so much the long stroke of a 455 that makes the torque, its the length and shape of the entire port. Ford tried to emulate the long runner with the 5.0 intakes in the 80s and early 90s. GM did it with the TPI and the LS intakes. Dodge had the right idea with the long ram, but packaging and other issues were the problem there. You then get into resonance and pressure waves that are bouncing around in each port.
Its so much more than simply big hole flows more air, but generally, more cubes makes more torque. I can build an engine that has around 400hp at the crank but runs low 12s to high 11s with a 3.08 gear in a 3500-4000lb car, because its making a lot of torque between idle and 4500rpm.
HP is simply torque over time. Torque x RPM / 5252 = HP. If the engine lives under 5000rpm most of the time, why does what it makes above that matter? An engine that makes 400hp at 9000rpm is making a lot less torque than a 400hp engine at 3500rpm.
More torque in the range where the engine spends its time on the street translates into less throttle angle needed to get the car moving and keep it moving, and thus it burns less fuel. The less torque you have in that range, the more throttle it will need to get the car moving and keep it moving. Anything that improves torque between idle and 5000rpm, including cam timing like LSA and duration, and very importantly static as well as dynamic compression will also improve mileage, provided you aren't shoving more air in which requires more fuel.
That is why the 360 should do better than the 318 for mileage in a light car with ok aero and a sensible gear, and why my 455s get 20mpg relatively easily while making enough power to run 12s in a heavy car.
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I remember that, didn't see it in person, but I saw video of it on TV and all the pics in mags. Makes sense why is turned around, centrifugal force from the engine would cause that, just like a helicopter without a tail rotor, Newton with his equal and opposite reactions.. I can't forget my first experience with TF at Darlington Winter Nationals in 1992. It was the first big drag race I'd been to, and had been working with really loud (and dangerous) cargo jets. A C141 full throttle engine run is an earth shaking thing. That Fuel car going by the finish line, while I was walking through the pits behind the trailers, about 200' from the track, nearly knocked me over. I swear its louder than jets in full burner, heard that in Korea 2002-03. You can feel a jet engine in full burner, but it doesn't thump your innards like vintage fuel cars.
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@woodheat411 of those you mentioned, PJW is the only one I watch. I like his style. Being a two war veteran, your idea for the elites sounds amusing, but improbable. Not because they are powerful, they are merely wealthy, but because tyrants like them rarely survive long when the people have had enough of their shit. They either go out like Adolf or Marie Antionette and Saddam.
They think they are powerful, they think they are special and smarter than we are, I like to let people assume that. Its better to be underestimated than over estimated when fighting someone. Let them come to the wrong conclusions, it makes things easier.
They are so myopic and hyper focused on amassing wealth, that they assume everyone else is as equally useless as they are without it. When you are essentially a one trick pony you run the risk of thinking you're the best ever. The condescension is most amusing when one of them talks down to us, saying they know better than we do, and the underlying theme is we are just backwards idiots who would be wealthy like them if we were smart. Apparently they don't know the word hubris.
Currently they are being allowed to do what they want, as most people really don't give a fuck as it has not affected them yet. Rest assured though, when they make it bad enough, there will be a leader who emerges from the masses, and solidifies them despite the best attempts of the elites to divide us along arbitrary lines like race. It has to get bad enough first, because people tend to want to follow along, as leading is hard and lonely.
They are not getting their asses whipped yet, but the ground swell against them is growing. Tyrants usually have a very bad time when the masses get pissed.
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Fictional characters can be any color, they can also change colors for different audiences. That being said, isn't there a commandment that says make no graven image? Ok, so its a 'symbol' and you aren't praying to the idol, but its still a graven image and it doesn't say only symbols it says no graven image. There is another that says have no gods before me. Jesus has been elevated to the status of god, and not everyone believes in the Trinity. So is it ok to have one before the other or not, because he is either god in man form, or the son, or as the muslims believe the only prophet who is coming back to earth? These are things I always wondered about when I was a lutheran.. and the catholics really bewildered me with praying to all sorts of people.
That being said, Talcum X can go fuck himself, eat a bag of dicks, and get a sunburn in his tanning bed with a rash from his hair dye. He can shove his marxist bullshit so far up his ass that Karl himself can pull Shaun's wisdom teeth and tickle his racist self loathing white boy tonsils.
I figure let the religious people have their ideology and symbols/idols/statues/whatever, provided they do not force it or laws based upon it on anyone else. If they try to outlaw your religion, you will probably find my atheist ass next to you fighting against them. :) I am on the team of liberty, and these marxists like Talcum X are the enemy of us all.
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@BigBeavrSlayer it takes some space, a good bit of water, and some time, but its relatively simple. Sugar/starch, yeast, water, no oxygen, time, then an efficient still.
The cool part compared to woodgas is no soot in the engine, more power than gasoline, and they drive great on it. Does start a bit harder in cold temps though. My solution is home made methane in a nitrous bottle with a nozzle in the intake. Crank it, hit the button until it starts and runs on the vodka. Methane doesn't have the range of gasoline and ethanol.
If you have 12:1 compression or higher you can get better mileage than gasoline, with considerably more power. I'll be demonstrating that next summer if I can get my C10 done.
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No, we are not too lazy and weak to fight them. That point has not yet been reached. They have tried over and over, had gun bans knocked down in the Supreme Court, the '93 ban went away when it was proven to do nothing beneficial after ten years. If we fight back with violence too soon, we lose the fight in the court of public opinion. We would give them justification to enact a complete ban, and carry on with their plans to subjugate us.
We have to be smart about this, we have to wait and see what happens. If they enact unconstitutional laws and edicts beyond what we have now, then we respond in kind. They can talk about it all they want, its when they actually do something they have been clamoring for that we are justified in defending ourselves, our way of life, and our nation.
Trust me, we are not weak and lazy, nor are we timid and afraid, that is the people who vote for democrats. They want others to do the dirty work for them, to take care of them, to give them what they need rather than earn it for themselves.
I am almost without a doubt on some list somewhere, because I am not a fan of Trump, but also far less of a fan of Biden. I am a fan of the Constitution since I swore an oath to defend and uphold it several times in my adult life. Its why my real name doesn't show up anywhere online, because I will not roll over for the marxists.
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@mindeloman people rag on Pontiac all the time, saying they are hideously expensive to build, aren't reliable, and don't make any power. The thing is, the aftermarket took so long to develop Pontiac parts because the factory stuff is quite good.
The sbc and others need tons of aftermarket parts to make power, youhave to throw heads, intake, cams, big stalls, deep gears, and all kinds of stuff at them.
With Pontiac the stock 67-72 intake is as good as any aftermarket intake, and the heads do a great job of making torque between idle and 5500rpm. Increase the airflow and it simply makes more torque everywhere.
People think they don't make power and blow up because they try to build it like a sbc, 250@.050 cam, single plane intake, 4.88 gears, then try to spin it to 7500rpm. If 5000rpm is good, then 7000 is better, right? Not with a Pontiac.
I like to do builds like Tony does with my Pontiacs, low buck, mostly stock stuff, reworking factory parts, and making it do what its designed to do, but better. I have a virgin 400 short block on a stand I got for free, the plan is to pull it apart, ring, bearing oil pump, throw on the $200 set of 1969 heads from a 428, stock intake, RA III cam, then stuff it in a 72 Ventura with a 2200 stall and 3.42 gears and see what it will run with a Dragy, since the track is too far away. (5 hours)
Have a 455 I built back in the 90s that was my daily driver engine for nearly 15 years, pushed a 4100lb 70 GTO into the 12s on 87 octane with a Th400, 2.93 gear and a 1900 stall. No power adder either, just lots of grunt. I have all of $1800 in that thing.
Its incredibly easy to make power with a Pontiac, but you don't do it like with other engines. You do it more like an FE Ford or a nailhead Buick.
For years I heard people say pull the 400 or 455 out of my car and put a 350 chevy in because it will go faster for less money. Then I threw together a very mild 455 for $2700, ran 11.40s with a 3.42 gear, 2200 stall, in a 3750lb car without a power adder. Nobody ever said I should put a 350 chevy in again.
I've been building these engines since 1985, have heard it all, and man I tell ya what I absolutely adore beating high dollar race engines with daily driver parts. If Tony did one it would run damn hard... unless he tried to make it do something it isn't designed to do... like 7000rpm. I have a 7500rpm capable 467 Pontiac, but it cost me almost $10k to build it, and the only stock parts are the block and cam retainer plate.
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Jian Daugh your dad and I seem to be a lot alike. Except I worked on a farm, in factories, CNC machinist, ran my repair shop in the 90s, and did a decade in the military. I've never made more than $50k a year in my life, usually its been well below $40k.
I grew up on a farm in the 70s and 80s, lots of work and no money. I bought two bags of sweet corn seed with money i made working for my neighbor 3 miles away. Planted it in March, and had full ears with no bugs in it the 2nd week of June in 1982. I made $2500 selling it, dad took all but $450 and that is what I used to buy my first car. Still have it, a 1967 Cougar. 289 4 barrel A code auto, red with a black top and interior. I got it with a 302 two barrel from a 68 Galaxy, it was pathetically slow.
In the 90s after my first enlistment I had a wife two kids mortgage, and I built the 11 second Firebird I mentioned in another reply on here, in my one car garage. I put in 70 hours a week and still found time to spend with my kids.. until she took off with them and the state left me all of $100 a month to live on. I was active duty when they did that, NAFTA sent all the machinist jobs to Mexico, but I managed to keep the GTOs, Trans Ams, and other cars I had. which is good because I had to live in my 70 GTO for two years in the military.
They were all used cars I paid $500 or less for, many I got for hauling them away. To say they are/were rough is an understatement. The 70 GTO needs a frame off, the electrical is completely shot, but I shot some single stage paint on it to protect it until I can get it in my shop. I kept that thing running for years, had car seats in it for my kids when they were little, and that is the one my ex still bitches about more than 20 years after our divorce.
I learned how to do literally everything to a car or light truck. I can work on anything domestic between 1927 and 2007. I was a certified master tech for a long time, but let it lapse in 2005 because I got hurt on my last deployment in 2004. All the time I was doing other jobs, I was working on cars, learning as much as I could, and I was not afraid to tear into it and fix it.
Since 2005 I have been a disabled vet, until 2015 I had to pay the ex out of that so I had less than I normally would. I applied that money to some land, building my shop, and my house in 2015. Paid it all off back in February. This year is the first since 1991 that all of my money is mine, and only has to pay expenses. I built my house and shop, putting in the hours, working though the pain, figuring out how to get around my physical limitations. I had to because contractors wanted $90k to put up a 24x24 garage. Can't afford that...
I always found a way, and I put in a mind numbing number of hours so I could build the cars I wanted to drive. I learned body work, paint, and all of that by doing it. Its fun to me because I know that doing the work means I can drive it when I get it done. Delayed gratification is my thing. Between my last reply and now I put a transfer case in my winter beater 2000 Silverado. Figured I should get it done before I get more than the 14" of snow I have already. We usually get 150 to 300 inches every winter. Thats why land is cheap here.
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I like the B/RB engines, except the 426 wedges seem to run hot all the time, and there are no provisions for a temperature gauge. They even have some Pontiac design in them, which is cool. I've had a 383 and 727 for it since the early 90s with 906 heads. Older brother wants it, but he isn't capable of doing car work. If I ever found a 71-72 Satellite/Roadrunner without an engine, or will a 318, I would have put it in there.
The small chevy was going to have shaft rockers like the Mopar and early Fords, but the Pontiac V8 that was slated to debut in 1954 had the ball stud rocker arm. GM held the Pontiac release to coincide with the sbc, so the sbc could get the Pontiac ball stud rockers.
Fun additional info. Pontiac went to screw in studs in 1967 on the 4 barrel heads, some low performance heads still had press in studs until 1974.. the sbc finally got screw in studs in 1996, along with machined valve cover rails and combustion chambers that Pontiac had since 1954.
Without Pontiac innovations, the automotive world would be very different.
I have somewhere around 4 sets of T handles for my valve covers. They don't clear the master cylinder on some cars.
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@Xbalanque84 well, that is the evangelical take on it, no wonder the non snake handling, non rapture believing, non babbling to themselves protestants don't really associate with the evangelicals.
Ya do realize its all a big sharpshooter fallacy that you just wrote, don't ya? By the same logic judaism is diametrically opposed to chrstians, because they don't do the Jesus thing. Only you guys and the muslims follow Jesus. Mo was simply the last prophet, not the only one, and the prophets are very different in islam, they are all said to have led perfect lives.
Also its apparent you don't know anything about islam, only what you heard about it between bouts of people writhing on the floor and watching Benny Hinn fans falling down and shaking. I have to admit watching those videos is one of the more amusing things I have ever seen. Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floooooooooor!!! Makes me chuckle just thinking about it. Or the Jedi blue lighting from his hands.. comedy gold.
The OT stories are the same, with the names changed to fit the language, Mosa is Moses, Ibrahim is Abraham, one group sees themselves as descendants of Ishmael, the others Israel, and you probably come from Europe somewhere with no ties to either group unless its 500,000 years ago or so.
I do not suggest you spend too much time learning more about religion, its about as useful as becoming a trekkie that can tell you what is on deck 37 of the Enterprise or something.
I won't try to dissuade nor disabuse you of your beliefs, but you have been lied to repeatedly about the Abrahamic religions.
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@user-gu9yq5sj7c what caused my relationships to fail was:
1. I trusted them to act like adults, and they simply could not do it.
2. I did not babysit them, they knew my very basic rules to live with me and enjoy the product of my labor. When you giver a female that much leeway and responsibility, she screws it up.
The first one was bipolar and you would have deleted yourself it you had to put up with what I did. Lets see how many times you can be stabbed and hit with things, then the cops want to arrest YOU before you snap and start reciprocating. It was 8 years of hell, and I only stayed to protect my kids from her as much as I could.
The second one decided to jump to another peg D when I got sick. We were together for almost ten years, never argued, fought, or had any problems until after we got married just before 9 years together. She chose VERY poorly.
I am not bullying anyone, what the hell are you on about? Just because I do not sugar coat what I say, or speak with soft language like a girl does, does not make me a bully.
Both were treated well, allowed to do as they pleased with the caveat that they were not to sleep with anyone else. I never harmed them in any way, was not demanding nor controlling, and until the first one continually was violet as well as trying to control me, I did not withdraw from them physically nor emotionally.
As for being promiscuous, I wasn't trying to pump and dump my way to lots of notches, I was looking for a girl to spend my life with making memories we could enjoy late in life. Thats what I was looking for, they apparently wanted the muscle bound freak of nature for a few romps between the sheets. I was almost always looking to make it long term, unless of course she made it abundantly clear that she was not to be trusted...
So F you for accusing me of ruining all those relationships. EVERY ONE of them was ruined by her, not by me. Face it, you females THINK you are amazing and not like that, but no matter what you think,,, you are exactly like that. :) The funny thing is that is what attracts us to you.
Lastly I am not a conservative. Nor am I what the marque cysts claim to be, e.g. liberal. I am more aligned with Ben Franklin, look into his life, its quite similar to mine.
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Men DO things. Men make friends based on common things we DO. We DO NOT make friends based on feelings or any other thing females make friends over. It just doesn't work on nor for us.
My friends all share the same interests. Muscle cars, airplanes, drag racing, first person shooter video games, and marksmanship. Not much crossover among them, its distinct groups. If you are a young man who has no friends, then you do not have any interests in common with other men. What the hell do ya do all day when you're not working? Sure you won't get many friends watching prawn and strangling the worm until it pukes, but there has to be something else you do.
Sitting around watching this content will not make you many real world friends. This sort of content is for advice, and to know that we are all dealing with it, so you are not the only one getting screwed.. we all are.
Now I am VERY picky about my friends, everyone gets a chance, and their actions dictate just how much I will allow them to be around. If I don't like someone, or the say they will do something and then don't, I will still be polite and friendly with them.. but I will never depend on or trust them. The people I trust have earned and maintained it for years to decades, and I maintain their trust in me as much as I can.
I have gearhead friends in real life and online. We are very easy going for the most part, and if you hang out with car guys, especially us older gray haired muscle car guys, you will learn banter and how to make friends. The big thing is to get people talking about themselves, their car, or their interests. That gets them to like you more, and if you honestly care about what they tell you and you do not betray their trust, you will make friends easily.
If you don't DO something, you aren't going to meet like minded men. You simply won't. You have to be the guy who says hi, hows it going? Or you ask about their car, talk to them about what they are working on. Its a skill you develop, you are rarely born with it.
What are your interests? Find people with similar interests, but make them legal interests and not some dishonorable thing. Men make friends based on merit, so competence, capability, knowledge, and to some extent accomplishments are very important. We won't stay friends with someone who talks big, can't back it up, and is actually ineffectual to dangerous to be around. Merit is everything with us.
The L's won't grasp that, because they are all about feelings, and the biggest one they harbor is re sent ment. Typos are intentional
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You're on to something Tony. I find that there are a few different types of 'car guy'. From the ones who are satisfied with the poster on the wall and the video game that lets them drive some exotic, to the guys who can rebuild, refinish, and repair everything on any vehicle built between 1909 and two weeks ago, which includes the guys who know how everything works and what also needs changed when you change parts around. From posters to interchange and mechanical processes in your head.
You have the vast majority, who like to have a 'cool' car, but don't want to or can't work on it, no matter how old it is but they will do what they can/want to do. Then you have the checkbook guys who have shops do it all. Only thing about that group is when they claim its 'home built' and at most they put the rims under the car and hauled it around to various shops to get the work done. Most of the late model guys are in these two groups. They aren't the scroungers who were doing this before the internet, back when all your car friends knew you were looking for your brand of parts, and when they ran across them they would tell you where to go get it. Now we have the internet, so finding things is easier and faster, but also people think a $75 intake is somehow worth $600 now, or that two door rolling shell is worth $10k and not $250 just because it has two doors and is old.
The crazy group I fit into that has a bunch of cars, tons of parts, can swap things around and knows how to do absolutely everything from machine work and engine design to electrical, paint/body, and the simple stuff, and they do it because its stupid grin inducing fun. Dave Freiburger, Steve Dulcich, Mike Finnegan, you and a bunch of other crazy bastards we know fit into that group. I call our group the hard core gearheads. We drive what the others consider junk and only farm out the stuff that requires special equipment doing the rest ourselves.
Lastly we have the factory correct guys, who want it just like it rolled off the showroom floor. Date coded hose clamps and vintage original air in the tires. They don't want it hot rodded at all, and I hear all the time how I ruined my cars because they have headers disc brakes, swaybars, and aftermarket wheels. Seems lots of these guys are judgmental, because they want it 100% correct. Thats their thing, and I get it. I don't like the 24" wheels or the negative camber 'stance' cars, but I see why they like it. Whatever you like is fine by me. However if you want to get cocky and talk about how fast your Neon is, well you should be aware of which type of gearhead you are speaking to.
Nobody is better than the others, and the best part about cars is you can go with the amount of involvement you want to have. Its shades of gray rather than black and white. From the white light of a sunrise to the dark blue of the retreating night sky, it is part of the same landscape. Some of us might know more about cars than others, be able to do things others cannot, but that is simply because we wanted to know how so we learned how. If you want to drive around in a cool car and rarely work on it, the late models are for you. If you want to work on it all the time and learn more using your daily as a test mule, the old cars are cheaper for that. If you like having posters and walking around shows, by all means enjoy it. I like to look at girls but I do not want to marry one.. maybe a test drive here and there. lol.
Cost figures in. The more you can do yourself, the less it will cost you. Paying others to work is more expensive than parts. That is why I can do so much, I have never had lots of cash, but I have plenty of time since I don't watch TV and do things other people do that soaks up time. I enjoy working on my old stuff, although I am slowing down quite a bit lately. I took a $300 rolling shell of a 68 LeMans and turned it into a cool driver for about $3500, because I have so many parts sitting around I traded for, came with projects, or I bought. I have a 98 Formula and a couple C10s I am stuffing LS engines into, so I can do the late model thing, but the cars after 1979 feel like an appliance to me. My friends like their Scat pack Challengers, LS era Camaros, Subarus, and mod motor Mustangs, and don't want to do what I do. They want bolt on stuff, and they don't mind paying for it.
What you like I might not. I am no fan of Honda, the chevy engine is pathetic junk to me, and I prefer not to work on any mopars after 1973. The best part about all of this is how varied it all is. Cookie cutters are boring. Seeing 25 green Challengers all parked in a row is like, seen one you seen them all. There are no other 1965 GTOs like mine, despite it using mostly factory parts... just not all parts from 1965, but those green mopars turn heads. My dad has a 70 AAR clone in that green, you cannot drive it if you hate attention. If its a cool car I will wave if they look at me in one of my Pontiacs, and I am always willing to sit and BS about cars, hear about yours and check out your ride if I see you in a parking lot. Some guys aren't.
Now outside this microcosm of gearheadery, we have the normies for whom a car or truck is a utility for point A to point B, and they have no clue how any of it works, only where to put the gas in and what shop to take it to for work. That is the vast majority of people. They simply do not care about cars like we do. They might get interested until they find out how much work it is, then the project they tore apart sits until they sell it to someone like us.
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They delude themselves into thinking they are like us, that they can live alone and be comfortable and satisfied with that life. That them having a job, house, and degree is going to attract us. If I found one who was into drag racing like I am, that would be cool. If I found one that also enjoyed living in the woods and not spending money on frivolous stuff, then great. Thing is, if its not one with an attractive body and pleasant demeanor, I don't need nor want one around. My peace is worth too much, and thats why I don't look or approach, even when they show interest.
Also, why bother wasting time with one when I could be doing something productive or just goofing off, when there is a VERY high probability that they will think they can do better. Its not about being 'hurt' and there is not one of them born that is intimidating, its about wasting time, money, resources, and whatever else. I am not investing in them, because its like throwing money and time into a hole and burning it.
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@popcornto6032 I wasn't built for it either. The pain, hardship, and effort turned me into who and what I am today. You have two choices when life beats you down.
1. stay down and let life do as it pleases with you.
2. Get back up and fight against it happening again.
I am not entirely sure there is a 'good' woman out there, though I know of one who did a decent job of it over the last 30 years. We were engaged 30 years ago, but the actions of others prevented us from getting married. With her my life would have been very different. She isn't perfect, not by any stretch, but who and how she is makes her unique.
I have been with well over a hundred girls, maybe two hundred, I lost count long ago and every time I try to make a list I don;t remember names, only places, races, sizes, etc. and then I remember others later. Its a lot of them.
Out of all those, only finding one girl, on another continent, from a vastly different culture, and all of her friends are hoes, who is stubborn enough to do what she had to in an effort to make it work, well hell.. that doesn't bode well for most guys who only get to fuck 3 or 4 girls in their entire lifetime.
Her son has his first long term girlfriend now, he is 23 and lives in Germany. He's had sex often, but this is the first one who he is interested in for more than a quick bang. His mom can see how that girl is, but he cannot. She is going to let him find out for himself. Some of us have to learn the hard way. What we learn has to teach us the right lessons, or it keeps happening to us. that is where guidance comes in.
What I offer is guidance, I can't tell you what to do, only what to watch out for. This is the result of that action, this is what will probably happen when you try that. I know, because I did it and found out. You have to find out for yourself, but being aware of what is ahead in the road really helps you to keep from flying off the side of the mountain. A rock slide can still take you out, but at least you will know rock slides happen so don't stand in those places.
Those of us who have taken the red pill and lived it most of our lives can only offer guidance and information. Its up to you to decide what you will do with it. I enjoy sex and intimacy a hell of a lot, but the cost to me now is such that I would rather spend my time and money on old cars... and I watch hottys get naked on webcams while I work in my shop, so I don't forget that there are girls out there that don't look like a water buffalo.
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Eric Rogers yeah the Kaiser funding the Russian revolution was a bad idea, a fair bit worse than the CIA overthrowing Iran's government and installing the Shah in 1959. I hate to think about what will come from Obama and Hillary meddling in the mid east and fucking up Libya, Egypt, and Syria.
As for the Brits and US siding with Germany, thats not a great idea. While FDR was a socialist who extended the depression with his fuckery, he was a far cry from Hitler and his cronies, mostly because FDR was limited by the Constitution.
The New Deal was pretty much the same thing Hitler did, but Adolf built the autobahns and his military. The only way to support socialism after a handful of years is to go to war. If you don't go to war it all crashes around you.
About the only difference between Adolf and Stalin, other than their particular brand or flavor of mental problems, is that commies think the state owns everything, and fascists allow personal property, but in both the state controls everything.
WWI is entirely the fire that started the shitshow we have now with marxists, and that includes everything that happened since Arch Duke Ferd got his cranium popped. The tendrils go farther back, but that was the big event that resulted in the commies and fascists being more than some crazy whackjobs in authoritarian death cults.
The last Tsar was kinda weak, a bit inept, and wasn't ready to lead when his dad died. They kept the people of Russia so fucking poor they were willing to accept anything, even socialism/communism, and nobody was going to fight to keep the Tsar in power. What they got was worse than the Tsars, but it had a smiling face telling them utopia was just around the corner and other nonsense.
The big and continuing problem with authoritarian rule is the probability of more authoritarians taking over in the vacuum left by the now deceased leaders of the previous one. Its the problem Bush and the democrat congress created in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Eisenhower administration created in Iran. The people are poor, unarmed, and have no idea what its like to not live in a fucked up system like that, so they do what they are told.
So we remove a dictator, and if shit doesn't go quite right we get more dictators rather than liberty. It also seems the French version of liberty is very different from the US idea of it.
Now look at what we have in Europe, its essentially the western European version of the soviet union, but without Stalin or Kruschev keeping everyone in it, and they have no army because they are dependent upon the USA to protect them.
The whole of Europe is now treated like little kids, because the fuckers can't stop fighting bullshit wars over stupid shit, because war is profitable... ask Dick Cheney and Hillary. That is how they can do their little socialist programs and stay afloat, because they don't have to spend massive amounts to protect themselves. We do it for them and keep nearly the entire world in check, because everyone saw what we did to the 4th largest Army with only a fraction of ours in 1991.
The Kaiser could be blamed for all of this, but the dude could not have known just how fucked up his actions would be a hundred years later. He wasn't thinking that far ahead, he was thinking no farther than 1918.
So I can't get behind the idea that Adolf would have been better to side with, because despite the idea for the bahns and the US interstate system, the dude was fucked in the head, resentful, capricious, vindictive, and felt the world owed him. He blamed everyone else for the problems created by poor leadership, and brought on more poor leadership mixed in with appeal to emotion and loathing that comes hand in hand with any marxist ideas.
Its going to be hard to change my mind on death camps, gas chambers, gulags, secret police, and forced poverty that comes with marxism... every fucking time.
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Billy Burr here is the second half, read the other one first. YT had a problem with it for some reason..
Most every veteran I know, particularly those of us who have seen combat, have the same feeling about the political situation right now. We are having the same feeling that a fight is coming. A big one. We should know, we have been at war for the last 30 years. We know what the lead up is like, we know what happens when it gets here. But we aren't freaking out about it. Its useless to freak out about what might or probably will happen, its better to be prepared for a fight and for peace, while waiting and see if it actually gets here, if anything happens at all.
In the military we learn to hurry up and wait. We wait for shit all the time, the effect is we can be more rational about certain things, because we have been there already... a lot.
Anxiety is a fact of life in the military, but you learn to deal with it because some shit is going to happen regardless, nothing you can do about it. Some things you can affect or change. Knowing which one it is takes experience.
Realize this: PTSD is a survival mechanism that goes millions of years back in evolution. The only reason it is a problem is because everyone doesn't have it activated. The reason being we live in a safe society, with minimal threats and the risks are usually not overly deadly, more so annoying as fuck. We have to fit in with a society that is oblivious to threats, because they simply do not exist where most people are. They did not endure what we survived, so they do not have it.
It was the trait that kept our ancestors alive after an attack by a predator, its also why we can see the most shades of green rather than any other color. Those who did not have a propensity for PTSD got eaten, those who could not differentiate shades of green also got eaten.
No matter what the fat chicks with garish sno cone hair will say, you cannot get it activated from mean tweets. People claiming to be triggered irritate the shit out of me, its obvious they have not endured much of anything, and they want to use it as a source of victim points. Fuck them and their solipsistic need to be a victim. I am trying not to make others victims of my past.
A very high stress level over a prolonged amount of time will kick it off, as can a traumatic event where you narrowly escape death or are there when people you know are killed. If a tiger takes out Bob who was standing next to you at the time, you are going to be extremely aware of tigers. Same mechanism.
To sum up.
1 Make a conscious choice to not get pissed off when shit goes wrong. Stoicism works, look into it.
2 Face your fears and memories, deal with them, do not hide nor avoid them.
3 Make sure its true and will actually happen, then act accordingly.
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@smiletodaykatie Glad I could help you out, its part of why I write comments on here. You will have a different experience, because females tend to go into flight rather than fight, y'all want to get away or hide. In some ways its worse for you because the anxiety prevents you from doing things, like going out on the rough days.
I didn't put the other coping thing I have used in what I said above. It will be hard for you to do it, but you can use some of it.
My anxiety turns to anger rather than fear. Similar to realizing people are stupid and just don't know. There is part of my thought process that doesn't freak out from anxiety, and essentially it works like this and is a play on a bible verse.. lol.
"Yea though I walk through the valley of death, I shall fear no evil for I am the baddest motherfucker in the valley."
It kinda works for me since I am physically powerful with lots of muscle, have extensive training, and all the experience from the familial abuse. I don't lose fights, but I don't start them either. I prefer to avoid them to be honest. If someone starts one, I am very capable of defending myself.
You could do something similar, but rather than the profanity tell yourself "I got this" or something like "Its no big thing" because in reality, its probably not a big thing and you got it handled.
It should help when you have that overwhelming sense to get away. I still get that at times, mostly at night in the forest around my house. I get that feeling I am being watched, and with wolves, bears, mountain lions, and bigfoot meandering through the forest, something could be looking at me and thinking "Is that worth the effort?" Out in public I don't want to flee.
I know its different for you, but a lot of it is the same. The worst thing for me is avoiding things, I do that all the time. Its like hard core procrastination, that majorly sucks and its why all my bills are on auto pay. Its easier to not think about it.
Thats when I have to tell myself "I got this, ain't no big thing, just get it done."
Hang in there, ptsd gets easier as we get older, but I find everything else hurts more. Old war injuries are like that. Decide to have a good day, even when you have an anniversary cranking up the anxiety.
You'll be ok. :) I have a feeling about it.
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@smiletodaykatie haven't gotten into Goggins, heard of him. Currently Jocko is my go to for motivation, dude fits my mindset better. Only so much time for things these days.
I used to get pissed and fly off into a rage easily, it would take a while with most things, and then I would explode. More stress, the sooner it happens and more severe it is. When you can break bones in people easily, its not a good idea to let the anger run rampant and unchecked. I might not be tall, but I am sure as hell not weak or small. lol. I'm a middle sized silverback gorilla copy.
The only thing I use is CBD, it helps with the anger issues and the chronic pain, I don't like getting drunk or feeling high, but I appreciate slowing down the whirlwind in my head and not hurting. PTSD is only one thing I live with, hurting all the time really sucks, and the list of other crap.
I think its best I live alone, it minimizes the effect on others. No relationship lasts long anyway.
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I saw this coming, never trusted the idea that we would be taxed into prosperity. In the 80s I had to enlist to get a job that wouldn't lay me of, came back after 4 years, Desert Storm, and went to school while working full time in a factory. The factory was packed up and moved to Mexico in 1998. All the jobs went south, and I had to go back to the military to get a decent paying job. $9 an hour despite being a CNC programmer/machinist, ASE certified master automotive and machining tech, just wasn't gonna do it. Just in time for my second adventure in the desert with high speed metal.
I got out of the military the week before Katrina, and as I drove north from Charleston SC where I was stationed, we watched the gas prices climb over $7. Until 2015 gas prices were $5 to $7 a gallon here in the far northern reaches of Michigan. Thats when I knew for sure, it was deliberate, and I needed to find a different way, because VA disability compensation was $1900 a month for a 100% service connected rating. Not allowed to earn more. As an E5 NCO I was making around $4500 a month in 2004-2005. Big pay cut. 20 years later my VA compensation is still less than I was paid on active duty. People jumping the border got more than we veterans who sacrificed our health for the US receive.. let that sink in.
2007 is when I started learning to produce energy myself, because that was my largest expense. Its still my largest expense, and with nothing more than LED lights, a PC, refrigerator, and a pellet stove in winter, my power bills are well over $200 now. I barely use any, and I pay a lot, plus I have to have a battery back up and a generator, because the power goes off all the time. 11 times so far this year, and only 3 of those were during storms.
I can make fuel for my cars, heat my home, and grow my food all on my land out here in the woods. In 2021 I sacrificed a lot and paid off all my debts, I knew this was coming, and the only reason I am above water today is no debt, owning my land/home, and being able to eat as cheap as possible. I cook from scratch, fresh meat, fruit, and veggies are expensive, but its healthy without a bunch of stuff added to it. I need to get my greenhouse built so I can grow food all year. I can catch fish in Lake Superior when there aren't ice banks, plus deer, bear, and other animals roam my woods. I could raise rabbits too, but you can't live on rabbits alone. Cattails produce my fuel, but you can also eat every bit of a cattail, roots to seed pods. The roots make a nice flour that can be used for baking and things like pancakes, thats what I use to make fuel grade ethanol.
Electricity is the most difficult energy to produce, so its the most expensive. Sure I can run a generator, but it needs to be fed, and man a 7kw generator sure likes fuel. Half a gallon an hour if I run it on gasoline. I'd need massive tanks of methane to run it all the time, and then the noise...that is the easiest and cheapest method of making your own electricity. They want us to go 100% electric, ponder why for a moment. They can turn it off, and you cant afford to produce it yourself. If you don't have the space that I have, you can't produce ANYTHING but waste. You aren't going to be making much in a tiny apartment, you need some land to grow things and build stuff.
Future generations won't have access to the information I have, they won't be able to own land and become even remotely self sufficient. They'll be cloistered and sequestered into large urban areas where everything must be provided to them, but only if they work and every November pick the people who decide how much food they get. They won't eat meat, when was the last time you saw a muscular man who never ate meat? Have you seen Dave Bautista lately since he went vegan? Dude deflated and looks emaciated. You cannot grow stronger without meat, and that is how the elites want you to be... unable to do anything to escape or revolt.
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@winry2357 I just saw the strike thing the other day. 5000 nurses, yeah that will make a difference. 150k hr types... not so much.
I worked in factories, on a farm, and in the US military with women. Here is how it always worked out. Men did the dirty, dangerous, heavy lifting work, women did the light, safe, clean work, and when women had to go out on the heavy lifting jobs with me, I had to do all the heavy lifting, pulling her weight and mine.
The consequence of that is I am massive, overly muscled, and very physically strong because my military job involved serious heavy lifting.
The women got paid the same as any other rank, even when they did a fraction of the work men did.
In the factories men ran all the machines, did the technical work like running precision machines, heavy lifting (like chrome plate) , and the dirty dangerous jobs where you are covered with 200F oils and compounds for your entire shift. Women sat around in tank tops and shorts, doing visual inspection and other very light work. We all were paid the same, depending on how long we had been working there. And after a year and a half, it was the same pay for everyone.
So far I have yet to find a woman who can equal the work I have done, or still can do, in a day... and I am 54, crippled from the two wars, and live with chronic pain.
Mind you, I like women a lot, have two daughters, one of which (is 27) likes repairing her truck herself, and she is learning fast. However she cannot do things I can do, like lift a Th400 transmission up and stuff it in a car/truck.
When survival is on the line, women are held back away from the danger. Not that they really want to be involved with the difficult, dirty, and dangerous stuff anyway. They want the accolades and status we get for doing that, but they don't want the actual work. Besides, if they try to keep up with one of us, they break in a matter of weeks.
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@Razmatazz522 its not about hippies, they mostly went nowhere, maybe into education at best. My point is boomers had it too easy as a whole, they grew up when things were improving, it was easier to live your life. Sure you had to work, but living was far less expensive, and other than Vietnam there was minimal survival pressure on boomers.. unlike their parents who grew up and survived the great depression then WWII.
Not every boomer had it easy, but generally it was easier than any generation before or after them in many ways. However, as for survival pressure, millennials, Z and whatever comes after them are finding out what its like to live when the debts and mistakes of previous generations come to fruition.
I'm a 54 year old X'er, and boomers were the ones who implemented things like NA f tA and no fault divorce which hard core screwed over X and the subsequent generations. Now its getting progressively more difficult to get ahead, and most of it is due to boomers who are way outside their usefulness.
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$700 in 1963 is equivalent to $7,315 today, so essentially add a zero for the most part. That means every can is $60 top $100 so the runs could add up fast. I'm pretty sure you can build a turbo kit for less than $7k with a decent turbo. The 8-71 I just bought, without the drive, manifold, belts, pulleys etc was $3000. The manifold was $1000 and the drive with belt and pulleys was $900 two years ago, but thats Pontiac stuff. The 4V Cleveland manifold I want to get is $800, so a bit cheaper, and Cleveland stuff is kinda rare. I figure the 6-71 that is too small for my Pontiac would work fine on a Cleveland in my Cougar.
No.. I don't think like other people, I am not 'normal' compared to most.
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@samuraisaint2360 I like to get them for free, at most its fuel and tire wear, and she goes home or I leave after. Sometimes its a repeat, sometimes not. Either way, I am not going to spend much money on her, if any at all. I'm 50 and last night I went to see my daughter's boyfriend and his band, my short gray haired ass was groped, eye fucked, and got tons of ioi. Happens everywhere I go, so I get it easy. I also get lots of flakes and attention seekers, but girls and sex are not a priority to me so I really don't care.
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@BoffinGrusky I'm not on that one, I hang out with the guys who are doing their thing. I am too old to risk another one, not enough years left to rebuild again when a judge gives her everything I built. Since I own my land, home, and everything else without debt after great sacrifice, I am disinclined to risk it on a woman.
Most of my stories are horrific or tragic, a few are amusing. Its like Forest Gump except he doesn't end up a millionaire, get the medal of honor, or receive accolades of any kind. The more intelligent shrinks I met through the VA have mentioned they are amazed I am still here considering everything I have been through, and the mistreatment inflicted by so many others.
When I tell people about my life, they usually get depressed, or they feel a lot better about their own lives. Some have had it worse, much worse, but they don't talk about it. I share my stories to help others avoid the mistakes I made and the traps I fell into.
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If you are still in a city, you are screwed. You think you can come out here to the woods and just live? Hypothermia is one hell of a motivator, but there is only so much daylight, only so much you can do during a day, and you need to be able to sleep without dangers. Do you KNOW HOW to grow food, hunt and fish, build a house, produce energy, find and purify water, or how to handle all the waste you produce that is whisked away for you in a city, but builds up if you don't do something with it? Do you know what grows wild that you can eat?
Its been time to get out, and yet you guys are all sitting there, thinking you're on top of it, overconfident and absolutely clueless. The reality is city people are dependents, they rely upon others bringing them everything they need to live. When nobody brings it, the city runs out of food in less than three days. Most city people have less than three days of food in their house at any given point. Water is even more of a problem.
That reminds me, I need to get a couple more fishing poles and some more lures. FYI I built a shipping container house, it took me 3 days to put it together the first time, making a 20x24 studio like space. In 2019 I reconfigured it into a 2 story with a loft. Insulating it has taken a while, but I am also busy with lots of other projects. You want to insulate the outside of a shipping container, or it will condense water on the inside when its between 30F and 50F outside. Like a cold beer can on a hot humid day, but on the inside. Moving them is easy for me, because I am capable of operating heavy equipment, and stacked two of them with a rented forklift.
If you think you can build a log cabin, well first you need enough trees that are large enough. Then you need the time to do it, and September is a bad time to be in the woods without shelter, even in Alabama. You need to the tools to do it, saws, edging tools, something to lift the logs if you lack the manpower to do it. If you don't know how to build it properly, the thing will fall down, probably on you. If you get snow like I do here (150 to 300 inches every winter) you have to take snow load into consideration.
If you aren't out here in the woods already, you are probably going to end up being someone's biatch at best, more likely you'll be biomass in a large hole.
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I'm 53, the last place I want to be is at a frat party. In 2001 while stationed in Charleston SC I saw a skinny nerd looking guy, late 40s early 50s, goofy pedoglasses, the ring of hair around the back of his shiny head, clinging to the last vestiges of his youth. He was trying super hard to get girls to dance with him and give him attention. Don't be that guy. He would do better with a Ferrari, shaving his head completely, getting laser correction, and hitting the gym after getting a doc to hook him up with some TRT juice.
The funny thing is I usually do well at car shows and such, because I have cool old cars they like. The car I am building right now is sure to be a thong magnet and the VA doc says I can't keep my repellent hanging over my belt anymore. 1968 LeMans, satin black, roll cage, good to 8.50, between 900 and 1100hp when I get the 6-71 supercharger on its 505ci Pontiac. The thing looks like pure evil incarnate.
The ratty 1979 Formula Firebird I brought back from Germany in 1991 that had 550ish hp, it got me lots of tail, it might come out this year for a bit too. Just need to put the cage in it so it can have seatbelts, and a couple small things. I swapped a 550ish hp engine back in it so its fun to drive again, 700+ wasn't enjoyable for much. Gave the first ex a ride around the block in it when it was only running bottom 12s, she never got near it again.
Chicks dig cars like that, I like driving and racing cars like that, which is why I have had the belly for repellent. Two ex wives is enough to make you decide to keep them away.
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@strongheartwoman1931 the Constitution is ahead of the president, but the dems are clamoring its all above board and constitutional... when it isn't. Thing is, rentals are mostly clueless, they don't live the military life 24/7, they aren't trained the same as active duty, and the guard doesn't have to answer to the president unless they are activated, they are beholden to the state they serve in. Its slightly different than federal troops.
Most of us who had to work with guard and reserves found them to be similar to an active member who had been in a year or less. The only way they aren't laughably inept is if they were active for at least four years before going rental, or they do the same job as civilians that they do on the two weekends a month.
They like to talk big, but I spent way too much time training them over and over when they came in for drill, and I had to reteach them the same damn thing week after week, and they had more stripes than I do because they just fill a slot after being around long enough. Where as active duty competes against everyone up for promotion,, branch wide.
You gotta know your shit to get promoted on active duty. Rentals show up regularly, do the little bit of book work, and kiss some ass, then all of a sudden they are E7 ..
Still, they aren't idiots even if they will tend to do things hey shouldn't like when guardsmen disarmed people after Katrina. They should have said fuck no to that. Some of them might actually be aware of what is and what isn't a Constitutional order.
Regardless of rental or active duty, this shit reeks of South American coup and the illegitimated trying to appear legit. Its not much of a show of force to those of us who were active.. It makes us wonder why the dems are being so blatantly stupid and overreacting.
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@consumercellc1109 first thing, you think his old truck compares to the emissions of jet aircraft in any way? Second thing, I drive 40 to 60 year old vehicles all summer. They are cleaner than hybrids and EVs because I run them on home made ethanol fuel made from cattails. They clean the air while running, and the cattails clean water while growing. When I travel or don't make enough fuel, they run on E85 and I get the % of gasoline down as far as possible when I run that stuff.
How do I make ethanol? I use the tops and leftovers from fermentation to produce methane, along with woodchips, grass clippings, and sawdust, which will also be heating my home as it composts very soon. The methane heats the boilers to run the stills. Doing it this way gets my cost per gallon down around 10 to 40 cents. Its also infinitely cleaner than electric since I have a coal fired power plant giving me rather unreliable electricity. We all have generators around here, because the power goes out often and stays off for hours to weeks as they repair the grid.
Those EVs they want us to buy and drive, well they don't work so well where I live. They won't charge when its colder than 40F, and its colder than that from end of October to mid May. The salt rips them in half quickly (just like any other vehicle), which causes corrosion and fires, and who wants that $100k vehicle to burn to the ground with them in it? With cold temps the range is negatively impacted far more than the pie in the sky estimates. I drive $500 rusty twenty year old 4x4s in winter, because we get a bit of snow here, only 150 to 300 inches per winter, so it could be worse.
Thing is nobody can track my 65, 69, 70, 72 GTOs or 70 Cuda, or any of the other old cars I own and drive, if I leave my cell phone at home. Nobody can turn them off remotely if I disobey or dissent. They cannot keep me from running them by making gasoline cost a fortune, or by banning it entirely. My travel will not be limited without manpower forcing it.
The 69 GTO is a rusty hulk missing almost everything right now. Its far more environmentally friendly for me to rebuild it and drive it, than it is to produce an EV or any new car for that matter.
Its not about the environment, if it were they would be admonishing people to live how I live, but they aren't. Its about soaking up money from people, limiting their travel, limiting their speech/thought, and making everyone obey like a good little subservient underclass.
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@paulmryglod4802 nah, we can still be a super power, where the conflict lies is profit. Its super profitable to have people buy a new one every two or three years. Planned obsolescence goes hand in hand with continuously producing and selling stuff.
Sometimes its used to keep an industry going, like the companies that make safety gear for racecars. The seatbelts in my drag car need to be replaced every two years. Not because they are frayed or wear out, though that is the claim. Its so the company can sell its niche product and stay in business.
If everyone who raced could use the same seatbelts, harnesses, parachutes, window netting, helmets and other stuff for decades, they wouldn't be selling many of them. Its artificial volume, but most racers understand that the people who keep us safe in our cars need to make a living too. Its not like they are outrageously expensive parts, $100 here, $300 there, every two to five years.
The problem is that notion has been moved to TVs, PCs, cars, clothing, everything we use today has an artificial shelf life, unlike the stuff made in the 40s and 50s. Machine tools like lathes and mills from the 1930s are some of the best pieces you can have now... if they aren't worn out completely from the work done on them 1940 to 1946.
The disposable economy is about profit for the people making the stuff and selling it. We could be the preeminent military and economy without all of that, but that would limit the profits made by certain individuals.
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it depends on what car you have, what kind of shape its in, and what it is running for things like fuel, spark, etc. What he needs to carry in the Swinger is different from what I carry in my GTO. Mostly because I did a frame off build on the GTO and made it into a very reliable daily, but also because it has HEI, electric fuel pump, and a fresh 455 running E85.. Since I can't get fuel anywhere around here, I have five to ten gallons of fuel in the trunk in case I don't notice its low before I head to town.
Otherwise ignition, fuel, some fuses, a basic set of wrenches and sockets, electrical connection set so you can fix wires, and always check your tire pressures, lug nuts, and for leaks as you walk to the car.
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@Jitterzz I've lived with pain my entire life, have had PTSD since I was about 8 or 9 years old, all that stuff has become like an old friend that says hello every morning and talks my ear off late into the night. It just is, and I keep going through it, because life is too short to do boring shit.
Finding ways around physical and mental limitations is one of my hobbies.
Cars are my favorite distraction, Siberian huskies my favorite companion, and combat video games are what allows me to sleep with new memories that do not terrify me into being awake. Living alone in the woods away from people seems like the best solution, as most of my problems stem from other people. ;)
I often go weeks without speaking to anyone but my dogs, and then its only to give them treats, let them in and out, etc... A solitary life fits me, and allows me time to expound upon my thoughts and ideas on here and other platforms.
So life is good. I own four GTOs so life is very good, even if I can only drive one at the moment.
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@Dave B You have to have more than one of those things, resentment, envy, entitlement and laziness, and most socialists have all of those. I will freely admit I goof off a hell of a lot, yet I do not envy those who have what I do not, nor do I resent them for having it. Rather, if I want what they have, I work to get my own, be it built by me or bought by whatever means. I do not feel entitled to what they have. If I felt like they owed me because I exist, and wanted what they have without earning it, then that would be socialist.
Now I envy guys who have cars that are faster than mine, but I do not want to have laws written to force them to be slower than mine, nor do I want their car taken from them and given to me. I figure out how to make mine faster, put in the work, and then go race them again.
Likewise I own four vintage GTOs, that two of them are basket cases doesn't matter, I still own 4 of them. The marxist says I stole them from someone else, so they should be taken from me and given to those who do not have one. Thing is, I put years of my life into rebuilding them from rusty heaps of scrap.
I worked my ass off to get a '65 GTO daily driver. I sunk 3000 hours into it, more than half of that was cutting out rusty metal and welding in new metal, usually I had to hand form the part I was replacing as there isn't much available for that year/model. They envy that I have it, resent me for having it and they do not, and feel entitled to it despite not having earned it like I did.
Socialists assume it was given to me or that I stole it somehow. They only see the finished product, not the years spent getting welding burns and cutting my hands on metal.
My method is the masculine way, the capitalist way, you want it? Go build/earn/make it. The feminine is the socialist, you want it? Have someone take it from others and give it to you just because you exist.
Resentment, envy, entitlement and laziness. Hallmarks of the marxist. You only need two of those, but most of them go for the whole enchilada.
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@davidkunkle3262 they are salty because Tim has built something, found a niche he can utilize or exploit if you will, to his advantage, and they are sitting on their ass doing nothing to improve anything. So they whine and complain, then say they need so cia lis m to fix everything. They assume with so cia lis m that they will get everything they want, rather than what they are allowed to have.
Its the typical resentful envious type who is too lazy to do something to get ahead. The type of resentful dolts who scratch a car like mine because they can't have one, despite the fact that I spent years rebuilding it. They see the finished product and want one, but are unwilling to put in the work to get it, so they try to destroy it or take it and claim it as their own. Its because I have built things and put in the work to improve my life that I harbor no resentment towards those who have more than I do. I prefer to find out how they did it rather than try to tear them down.
I take Tim with a grain of salt, I catch him and especially Ian being not only wrong but completely full of it often. I have no envy for him, no animosity towards him or any other well off people.. provided they don't try to dictate how I should live, like Gates and others have been doing.
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Men's expectations are the problem? REALLY? Not that females only want the 6' tall 6 figure guys with 6 pack abs? You know like 1% of the population... These completely average girls think they deserve and are entitled to the absolute best of males. They don't even see the other 90% of men out there. So yeah, they are going to be alone because they either have to share the tall rich guys (who will never commit because they can get all the poon they want) or they hold out for someone who is way out of her league.
OKCupid did a study on how men and women rate each other. Men rate them on a typical bell curve, women rate 90%+ of men as below average. They don't see those guys, and if those guys speak to those girls they run the risk of being accused of SH and other things. Carl has been married a while, and trust me married people are not seeing all of this, but I am explaining exactly what happens and why.
They will flirt and give out their number/contact, but then they either flake because she only wanted the validation and attention, or they think they can do better after a one nighter. Thats how it works for me, but the overwhelming majority of males can't even get that far.
I am 5'8 and I have had a lot of girls over the last 35 years that I have been active. On four continents, a bunch of countries and US states. Married twice, second ex is 13 years younger than I am. Its still easy for me to pick up college age girls despite being 53. Why is that? I'm ex military with powerlifter muscle mass and I know how to talk to girls. I've been paying attention to what happens and how it works.
I will not commit anymore, because every time I do, she does the same thing. Lies, cheats, falsely accuses me, or otherwise decides she can do better and breaks up. Every damn time. It doesn't matter what social class they are from, what color they are, or what native language they speak. They are told they deserve the best, so they make less than brilliant choices. Both of my ex wives are now alone, unwanted, miserable, and have no money coming in, and both lied, cheated, etc etc etc. I treated them very well, but to hear them tell it I was a monster. They are never the guilty party who screwed up, its always the fault of someone else. Accountability and personal responsibility are foreign concepts to them.
Men are not playing the game anymore. The tall guys and dregs are on dating apps tearing through the female population or going nowhere (respectively) but a growing number of men are simply deciding there are better things to do with their time. What is the point when there is zero benefit and massive risk? Because she can have ANYTHING she wants that HE EARNED when she files, and they are filing in droves. The vast majority are filed by females, because they have incentives to do so, they get paid and he has to pay regardless of what she did or whatever transpired. She is always the victim, he is always guilty in both family court and public opinion.
That is why these girls can't get married or have a serious relationship, in addition to the fact they give it out to any guy who comes along and gives her the moistened tingles... then they want to tell the average dude he has to pay for everything just to get her to acknowledge he even exists.
Its funny too, because I am debt free, own a house and large shop on 13 acres of land, rebuild and drive vintage muscle cars, I've been retired since I was 35, and I have money in the bank that I am investing like mad before the potato makes it worthless. Yet a 35+ single mom thinks she can do better than me..
HAHHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAaha....
She is lucky I even speak to her, because the way I see it is they are an expense rather than an investment.. Due to the fact she has massive incentives to act poorly and get rewarded for it. I can invest years, tens of thousands of dollars supporting her, and then she throws it all away on a whim. Rebuilding a severely rusted vintage GTO is vastly less expensive than having a wife, its still worth something in 10-20 years(they are appreciating in value whereas females aren't), it won't take off and have the state give it my house and majority of my income either. I have two Siberian Huskies to keep me company, and the only time I could use a female around here is when I need to move a non running vehicle.
They wanted this... we are giving it to them. They all have first class tickets to boxed wine and cat land.
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I was stationed in Germany Feb 89 to October 91, winter is bleak and hardly anyone is out. Summer was far more active. Most of 91 I didn't get out much because of Desert Shield/Storm, but I had lots of fun the summers of 89 and 90. Winter straight up sucks in Germany and the rest of Europe. Its wet and dreary most of the time, kinda like South Carolina winter but it lasts longer than the two weeks of cold in Charleston.
I blended in so well that old ladies would ask me questions in German that I understood, but had no idea how to reply. My family is from Germany, we came to the US in 1867, and my grandparents were the last generation to speak German at home.
I was very popular with Asians, blond hair, blue eyes, I was exotic to them. I was almost a celebrity the one time I went to Seoul when I was stationed in Korea 02-03. My picture is running around on a few dozen cameras from me walking through the Coex Mall. The Russians liked me a lot too when I was there.
Travelling the world was a great thing for me, I got paid to travel, and since I was USAF and not Army, I was able to do whatever I wanted on my days off. I didn't need permission to leave the base, or leave the country, as long as I was back for my next shift. No babysitter needed in the USAF, so I got to see Europe cheap. We had some 3 day weekends and we would drive to Rome, look around for a day, and drive back to Frankfurt. Belgrade was not much fun while I was there in 1991.. because of who was still running the place.
Get out and see the world, don't do it for tail, go learn more about other cultures and people. Don't be an arrogant prick, and you will enjoy travelling a lot more. The French really loathe arrogant Americans, FYI. They didn't mind me as much.
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@Lotek117 The piston driven LSR record is held by Danny Thompson... yes with twin 426 style hemis. Technology has come a long way from 1960. The Pontiac had hemi killing heads in 1962, but they only built one set of those and they went on McKeller's 421. It was a set of SOHC heads. The RA V was a serious piece as well, the valve layout of the FE Ford, but with ports rivaling the hemi. Easy 800hp on a 428 or 455. A 455 with RA IV heads and cam is a serious piece.
Its not that they could not come up with something, its that they were not allowed to use it by GM. When Pontiac was 2# in sales only behind chevy with all the taxis, fleet vehicles and barely adequate daily drivers chevy sells, because Pontiac was the performance division, GM decided to hold them back.
Pontiac we not allowed under the table things like the copo, you could not get a 428 or 455 in an A or F body until 1970, when everything weighed enough to slow them down, and then only low compression round ports. GM really hated it when Pontiac would stomp a chevy, particularly corvettes.
If they had been turned loose like the Dodge boys were, it would be a completely different performance world today.
I am kinda thinkin I need one of those new truck hemis in my 70 Cuda... for science of course.
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@alswearingen323 even though I don't work a normal job trading hours for dollars, the limited amount of cash congress thinks we are worth means I have to work if I want something more than the most basic.
My younger kid lived here for a while, and that alone set me back financially. I can support another person, but thats all I can do. No cars, limited travel, have to plan for months to have enough cash to buy a $1000 item.
I'm never getting married again, because when she inevitably decides she is not happy, I will be homeless and out all the cool vehicles I am building now. They like to leave right when their value is falling, and then can't figure out why nobody treats them well for long.
The adventures I have been on where both interesting and boring, lots of boredom, sometimes terror was thrown in, but always lots of work. Well except the 2001 deployment, no planes flying after 9/11 meant no work so we were stuck at Camp Doha for six weeks. Nothing to do but spend time in the gym, eat, watch movies and play games. It actually kinda sucked.
My life wasn't glamorous, as for the military job I did, nobody even knows we exist for the most part, and they'd never suspect we do anything dangerous ever if they know about us. Its only interesting if you are into logistics, airplanes, and airlift.
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@peasantrobot A bit of info for you. I am not a christian, I am an atheist and have been for some time. I am not a fan of ideology, be it marxism, taosim (not so bad but still) or any of the organized religions. However, do as you please following your ideology provided you do not force it on anyone else. The problem with marxism and islam is they wish to force it upon everyone, and they think they are doing a good thing. Christians also think they are doing a good thing, but I can easily point out where it goes wrong.
This is why I am more aligned with Franklin, Payne, and to some extend Jefferson, who were from atheists to at best deists. A deist being someone who feels a god created the universe then stepped back from it. Which is essentially an argument from ignorance/god of the gaps fallacy.
You can believe what you want, say what you want, do what you want, provided you do not infringe the rights of others in that endeavor. If you wish to limit your experience on this plant to appease an invisible sky fairy, by all means go for it. If you want to live in poverty and be given what others are willing to give you, then great you go do that. If you want to work and build something beneficial to all, hell I might help you. Inadvertently or willingly harm others and now we have a problem.
I am also not exactly a fan of Trump, but considering the alternative to him on the democrat side, I like him a hell of a lot more than outright communists who are trying to play the part of liberal thinkers such as those who founded our nation.
Obviously I am not a conservative, but I am also not a democrat. I am between those two extremes, but of course the left wants to call me a nazi, as if the nazis themselves were not leftists. You do not need to be a conservative to have morals and abide by laws that make sense, like don't kill people who aren't trying to kill you.
Lately the way people are going along with the marxist rhetoric and forsaking reason, logic, and merit has been concerning me. Its not a one or the other game, where you are a marxist if you have no religion, or you are a conservative if you are not a marxist.
I am an American, a US citizen, and I prefer to live my life along the lines of the constitution. All the dogmatic religious and leftist rules are uninteresting to me, insofar as they are not foisted upon me. Push it on me and I gain interest exceptionally fast, and I will act if needed, not just talk. I'd rather dissuade others from getting stupid, but if they persist in showing their ass, I will reply in kind with overwhelming violence. Its the American way of doing things. Speak softly carry a big stick.
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@jonrussell7567 My situation is different from most. Its an FN, I don't own a glock, just not into them. My other carry piece is an XDS in .45, with three extra mags it will work well too.
My daughter is 23, I am 50, chances are I am not going to move much because the two wars left me with bad knees in addition to too much muscle mass. Can move in some directions pretty good, not as well in others, so it really depends. With a jacket or sweatshirt on, you'd never know I am not just some random old fat guy.
If I go out, no big thing man, its something I accepted 3 decades ago. I'll be sure to take the bastard with me, the only reason I am still here is I shoot better than some people, and luck I guess. I'd probably notice something was off long before it got to that point, hyper vigilance is like that.
If my kid is around, she will be firing too, and she is more spry so she can probably get out of the way.
Where I live is mostly rural, largest town is 26k, next largest is 3 hours away. I have not gone to establishments that say no carry since I moved here. Just because fuck them, thats why. I can't help but watch everything around me, its why I live in the woods with 300' of forest between me and the highway. Its always drawing my attention and it wears down on me when people are around.
I will avoid conflict if possible, have no desire to seek out more of it, but rest assured if it comes to me it will be met with as much overwhelming ultra violence as I can bring. I already know how I react, been there done that a lot.
The reason I don't fear these morons is simple, I don't have much to lose anymore, just some old cars and my dogs. Death is something that comes for us all, when it gets here it gets here. No reason to be afraid of it, the only regrets I would have are not finishing some of the cars I am working on to stay sane. GTOs are my therapy.
Until then, I try to be the sheepdog as much as my relatively limited training will allow me to be. Lots of other vets have quite a bit more training, I am nowhere near them, I know my capabilities and limits. If I don't kill the bastards trying to kill others, they will be having a very bad day.
Now if they want to get organized and cause problems on a large scale, they really don't want to do it around here. There are lots of other crazy war vets like me in the area. It would not end well for them. Its easy to not be afraid when you are one of the baddest mother fuckers in the valley so to speak.
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@grumpycat_1 it depends on the vehicle. I am into cars in a big way, if you can't tell by the avatar. Also big into guns, I know what rounds will go through where and where to shoot.
I won't be trying to disabled the vehicle, just the driver. If he is hauling an explosive device, then I am pretty much fucked anyway since I won't be in a hardened area, just hanging out like a meat sack in the breeze. Shrapnel gives no fucks. Right?
Its going to come to rest somewhere, my goal is to limit how much shit it runs over before it stops. Its not like the movies. Its not like the desert shooting from behind a bunch of sandbags or on a wall and hoping to disabled the vehicle before it gets close enough to detonate. If its that scenario, been nice knowing ya out here in the land of the blissfully unaware.
Thats only a truck of peace, there's so many other options for these fuckwits to get stupid and think its like playin Call of Duty. They talk a big game, but have never been close to reality. They are like most people, assuming they will be the one who survives it. When it comes to me, I don't care if I survive it. I've been ready to check out for a long time, the only reason I am here is for the cars and my huskies.
Who doesn't think they'll be fighting zombies or surviving after the plague. I'd rather go early and not have to deal with all the bullshit again. Twice was enough for one lifetime. They have hope, I do not. Who is more dangerous?
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@howabouthetruth2157 hey check the name that showed up when you replied. Looks like one of those trolls/bots that goes around saying stupid shit and getting people riled up. I loathe those things... be it human or bot.
I'll be 53 in a few months, been building Pontiac engines for the last 35 years. So I am not a younger type who pretends to know either, just like you.
I tend to see things differently than most. I will take an engine that makes 400hp at 4500rpm over another that makes 400hp at 7500rpm. Which is because I don't get too hung up on horsepower, as its a math derivative, essentially torque over time. TQ x RPM / 5252 = HP. So above 5252 RPM HP will always be higher than TQ. Want to impress me? Make 1000hp at 5000rpm without some sort of power adder or forced induction.
That is why I like Pontiac engines, they make incredible torque from idle to 5000rpm, and if you add more airflow they make even more. The beauty of that power band is you don't need deep gears, a big stall, or a feather weight vehicle. However, a feather weight vehicle with an engine that produces 650ftlbs at 3000rpm,and over 700ftlbs at 5000 is going to haul ass, and it will run fastest with something like a 2:1 final drive ratio.
The reason I like going that way is I can daily drive things that are capable of accelerating quite hard, but also get decent mileage, and last a long time, because they don't need high rpm to make power. I don't need to swap in a big converter, don't need to change out the 2.56 to 3.42 gears that are already under the car either. So its less expense and usually I go faster and quicker in a heavier vehicle than the chevy guys do... for less money.
Its fun beating on high dollar engines with something you tossed together from swap meet factory parts. As if I can find anything at a swap meet for a Pontiac.. lol. But you get the idea.
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Its the D run cities that are cesspits, go to places not run by them and its a different world. Comparing Dubai to D cities is hellish culture shock. That is particularly true with NYC, Chicago, and California. The facial recognition is not a bonus to me. Probably because I have a profound distrust of the gov.
The last time I was in Dubai was 1991, yeah 32 years ago. Its changed a bit since then, and I don't recognize anything when I see video and pics.
Where I live its affordable, the only thing that is expensive here is gasoline and car insurance. Thats why I make fuel for my cars and trucks. No I do not live in a city, because even in the clean cities like Dubai, I can't stand that many people that close to me. I prefer trees, grass, and wildlife over concrete, steel, and glass.
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I rebuilt my life at 44 when the ex decided to divorce me.. that was 2013. I bought land, built my house on it, built a 32x48x12 shop where I rebuild old cars. I own over 30 old muscle cars... no, they are not all nice, most are projects. I paid off the mortgage and building loan in 8 years, on a 10 year note for both. I am not super wealthy either, I'm a 100% service connected disabled Iraq veteran. You can look up what my income is... Yeah, I did it on that.
I will be 55 in a couple months, living an awesome life, doing what I want to do, and I just drove 3 hours one way to buy a Super T10 four speed transmission to put in one of my GTOs. Yeah it goes from suck to blow in a nanosecond when everything you worked for is ripped away and you have to start over. I did it in my mid 40s. If you're younger than I am and was, THERE IS NO EXCUSE. Get off the couch and make it happen.
If you think my life was easy, things were handed to me, or that I had lots of opportunities provided to me.. then why would I enlist at 19? Then again at 30, with 7 years between the first and second. Its been a rough life to say the least, but you have two choices. Quit and become worm food, or keep going and actually do what needs to be done.
Your tombstone will have two of the least important dates on it. The day you're born, and the day you achieve permanent equilibrium with ambient temp. The dash between those dates is what matters. Make the dash worth living.
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@dinhodinho9832 despite all the shit I have been through, and there was considerably more than I wrote about here a year ago, I have never given up. I get back up and keep moving. When the situation is hopelessly fucked, I accept that it is fucked and adjust my attitude accordingly.
For instance when people die, can't do shit about it, so I accept it happened and get back to doing my thing. I am not dead yet, I will miss talking to them, but I am still here and have shit to do.
A friend of mine died last week in his sleep. We are in our mid 50s, and dude never woke up one morning. Way early to die like that, but it is what it is.
My point about nobody giving a fuck is simple, we need to give a damn about ourselves, and its ok to put ourselves first. If you depend on others for too much, they will fuck you over eventually... unless you're female, in which case you have incentives to fuck him over... but thats another story.
Some fights are worth fighting, others are jousting windmills. Knowing which fights to pursue is the key, and not really giving a fuck if you win or lose, but doing whatever it takes to win seems to provide a low stress level. Most people give up and just go with the flow, rather than swimming up river against the current I like to swim across it.
I do what must be done to achieve what I want, while not being so tied to an idea of a plan that I lose everything if I fail. It makes no sense to most people.
So yeah I am strong, because I have continued to fight, learn, and improve. Do what you gotta do to get what you want while realizing the ends do not justify the means..
Life sucks, make the most of it and enjoy as much of it as you can, especially when it sucks..
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@Tony-lk6sn Grew up on a farm in the 70s and 80s, wrestled in high school. When I graduated in 1987 I weighed 170lbs and could bench press 265lbs, I am 5'8" and that strength came from the work I did on the farm.
In 1988 I enlisted in the US military, at that point I could bench 330lbs because of the jobs I did, construction, agriculture, etc. In 1990 I was at the base, doing the most work, in the duty section doing the most work, during the airlift for Desert Shield/Storm. Came away from that being able to bench over 500lbs. You could say it was a physically demanding job moving cargo.
The 92 budget cuts put me in the civ world again, so I got jobs as a machinist/CNC prog, started a business repairing vehicles on the side. All the factory jobs went to Mexico in the late 90s so my CNC job and the repair customers dried up. I had a wife and two kids with a mortgage at that point.
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I went with my wife to my VA shrink who came from social services, she was about 250lbs and had zero clue about PTSD. To her it was all about feelings, relationships, and I was always guilty/wrong. I had fun making her bristle by commenting negatively on F'inism.
Having PTSD I read people, and their nonverbal communication is far more accurate than what they say. When my now ex wife was talking about how she had met and started talking to this methhead 7 hours away, my shrink displayed genuine happiness and was excited to hear about the new man... no matter how reprehensible he is. You could say I was surprised to see that, and was not expecting her to get excited about my ex wanting to cheat.
I called her on it. She defended herself saying she said nothing of the sort. Then I explained that when we have PTSD from childhood beatings and mistreatment, and its enhanced by adult conflicts like war, we become exceptionally adept at reading nonverbal communication. She displayed exactly what she was feeling, betraying her thoughts entirely.
Now when she sees me in the clinic she is super reserved and does not try to show anything at all. I tried the other shrinks they have there, they all came from family services and are useless for war veterans. They are all geared towards helping women destroy their husbands with false claims.
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@fastyzzzff its easy. Change the carburetor or injectors, clean all the varnish left by race gas in the tank, or replace the tank/fuel cell. Fill it with ethanol and get to tuning it. Race gas leaves a lot of varnish, its easier and more effective to replace the tank and fuel cell if its been on race gas for many years.
I had one of my cars on race gas all through the 90s and early 00s. There was so much varnish left in the tank it kept clogging filters, pumps, and carbs no matter what I did. So it got a nice new fuel cell and the problems went away.
If your fuel system was marginal for feeding your engine, then bigger lines, pumps, filters, would be in order. Not much problem with increasing the flow capacity of a fuel system, other than cost. What I have found is that if it runs on gas without feed issues, it will run on E85 without issues as well.
The more compression and/or boost you have, the more beneficial ethanol will be for you.
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@lamentate07 damn straight. No second chances. I saw a podcast yesterday where some guy said men and women do better when they are together. That has not been my experience. My life was worse, I had less money, more wasted time, infinitely more stress, and life was far less enjoyable when I had a woman in it. Its like having an old fiberglass boat that costs money every day just to have it around, costs you a huge pile of money to get rid of it, and has less value every day until its worthless.
They provide no benefit, they are an expense, and they can take everything you own on a whim and the courts will reward her for abhorrent behavior.
Sounds like a great deal, doesn't it? I have gotten the not all women are like that thing several times over the last couple months.. Nah, they ARE ALL LIKE THAT... but they want their free ride so they claim to be different. If they were just honest about it, I would have more respect for them. If they had any concept of honor, loyalty, and faithfulness I would appreciate them more. Instead we get demands, notions of entitlement, and its only a matter of time until she cheats and runs off. Most guys simply don't know she is cheating.
So where is the incentive? I don't see it.
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I'd say its more than possible, and actually probable that environmental pressure advances human technology at different rates. What it takes to survive in the north is far more involved than what it takes at the equator, technology wise. When food is available all year, there is no need for planning beyond a handful of days. When snow covers the ground and the days are very short for half the year, long term planning and strategy plays an immense role. The southern hemisphere has much less inhabitable landmass and far more ocean, thus not as much, or perhaps different, survival pressure.
Thats not to say that there are no adverse conditions or that its inevitable that adversity brings about technology like we have today. Certainly not saying some people are better than others, but more than some people have adapted to harsher environments and that can be beneficial. People tend to put too much hubris and ego into these sorts of things, often in attempts to feel superior or special in some way, rather than looking at us as a whole species.
Over eons the technology can be lost, or become so automated there is no reason for us to plan ahead and be concerned with the future. We could all be evened out by our own adaptation and modifying the environment of our tiny spec of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
To me where we originated is nearly a moot point, because we have had about a million years pass since we spread out walking upright. Its interesting to think about, but really what difference does it make, because we all share DNA with each other, and at least some DNA is shared with every living thing on the planet.
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@torgranael the whole reason cannabis was outlawed was hemp. Since they look similar. William Randolph Hearst.. you may have heard of him, newspaper tycoon. Well he had massive forests he wanted to use as paper, but hemp was being used for paper instead.
Cotton benefitted as well, because hemp clothing lasts longer, doesn't mold, and holds its color far better without fading, its also more comfortable than cotton or wool.
The US Navy uses hemp rope, and thanks to prohibition it must all be imported through licensed importers, meaning they can set the price, and nobody else can produce hemp rope.
They took a page from Rockefeller's playbook, he pushed through a Constitutional amendment to outlaw his competition for transportation fuel. The Volstead Act, aka prohibition. Before that, most vehicles ran on ethanol, and a few could run on ethanol or gasoline.
Like Ford's Model T. They overheated on gasoline, made less power, and drove worse, but all you had to do to run ethanol was move a lever on the steering column that advanced the timing, and turn a knob on the dash that richened the air fuel mix at the carb.
Why would anyone run gasoline when it ran worse, overheated, made less power, and you could not make it at home? So Rockefeller used the legal system to outlaw his competition... and now people think gasoline is wonderful and the only way to fuel a vehicle.
Even now you can find videos and articles about how bad ethanol is, how bad green energy is, and that is to keep you guying products from other people. If we all start making fuel ourselves they lose huge amounts of money.
Buying a Tesla still requires you to use coal power to charge it. Unless you can produce your own electricity. I can take a rusty heap, rebuild it, make it run on ethanol, have a greater range than the Tesla, run faster than the Plaid, and spend less than $10k doing it. Then I can produce the fuel to run it, and I only need tires, brakes, lubricants, and other wear items.
I'm not saving the planet, I am saving money so I can spend it on fun stuff rather than energy.
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@Bacteriophagebs I didn't say the Volstead Act was about cannabis, I said Hearst and the others took a page from Rockefeller's playbook in getting their competitor outlawed rather than providing a better product.
The target was hemp, cannabis was the justification, and the propaganda like 'Refer Madness' was how they got people to support it. They threw the race card in there as well, just because they could. If you haven't seen that little movie, you gotta watch it, its some of the best comedy ever.
Both weed and alcohol were prohibited to make people rich, because they were competing with them. Hemp grows fast and dwarfs trees for biomass, it also sequesters a shit ton of carbon in the soil which should make all the climate change people happy... but they are idiots who don't understand how it all works.
I never hear any leftists admit that Trump did a wonderful thing by removing the ban on hemp so we can grow it now. You'd think they would stop caring about cannabis with how other substances are far worse... but the DEA needs its funding and justification for being here.
We can grow our own weed, hemp, and produce ethanol to fuel our vehicles, which is why they are none too excited about us doing it. If we produce it, they can't profit from it.
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@no_activity you're flat wrong about a few things... its not the BTU as to why you need more of it, BTU is only a measurement of heat. As in how long does it take a given fuel to heat 1 pound of water 1degree. You need more fuel because it has more oxygen and has a different specific gravity. Ethanol makes more power because of the extra O2 and the cooling from a superior latent heat of vaporization in the intake charge.
If you aren't making more power running ethanol, you are doing it wrong.
You also seem to have missed the part about compression ratios, or you do not understand it. Yes if you run ethanol in a 7:1 to 10:1 engine you are going to lose some mileage.
Compression ratio is how hard the fuel air mix is squeezed before it is ignited. Higher compression ratios means more torque from less fuel. Around 12:1 is the crossover point for most iron headed engines where gasoline and ethanol will get the same mileage.
The thing is, pump gasoline CANNOT handle the 12:1 or more compression without igniting when it feels like it, and that causes engine damage. Ethanol with no gasoline added can easily run in a 22:1 compression engine with no ill effects, just lots of power and superior mileage to gasoline, and possibly diesel as well.
As for the water thing... in a 10 gallon tank, you would need to add 4 gallons of water for it to become a problem. Then the problem would be a loss of power, loss of mileage, and it starts to pull non anodized aluminum into suspension, but that takes a very long time.
You will not get even 1 gallon of water in a fuel tank of ethanol from the atmosphere, unless you have your container under the drain from your gutters when it rains.
Water is a problem with gasoline, as it does not mix so the gasoline floats on top while the water causes rust. Every part of a vehicle that goes through heat cycles and has air flowing through it, like the engine, transmission, and fuel tank, will get water condensing with the heat cycles. Its not usually a problem with gasoline in the crankcase, because more than 80% of the energy in gasoline goes to waste heat. That massive amount of wasted heat needs to be shed, and before the radiator can do its job, the water is boiled out of the crankcase.
Since ethanol has 40% of its energy going to making power (which also makes the energy content argument ignorant and irrelevant) those engines run much cooler, so if you cool it the same way you do as with gasoline, the oil does not get over 212F and the condensation is not boiled out of it. the same thing happens with gasoline engines in cold environments running 160F thermostats or not being driven far enough to reach operating temperature.
The fuel tank does not get hot enough to boil the water out, so it tends to collect in there and cause problems. Ethanol acts exactly the same way HEET and DryGas act, they contain methanol and isopropyl alcohol, which absorbs the condensation and allows you to burn it.
The only time I get any rust or residue in my ethanol fueled vehicles, is when I get a batch of E85 that has a bunch of additives in it that causes the corrosion and yellow gel gunk.
Ethanol leaves nothing behind... for proof look in any vodka, whiskey, or bourbon bottle. If there is something left when the ethanol evaporates, it was put in there by the people who mixed it with the gasoline, or its part of the gasoline.
You are simply spouting the same propaganda used since Rockefeller pushed prohibition through to eliminate home made vodka from competition with his toxic waste left over from refining kerosene and diesel fuel.... that they called gasoline.
The wear caused by the carbon deposits left by gasoline are far in excess of any problem caused by running ethanol fuel.
My 1970 GTO has been on ethanol since 2007 when I converted my first Quadrajet carb to run it. The fuel tank is spotless inside, and the car has been sitting with 5-7 gallons of ethanol in the tank since 2018 when I pulled the engine to put in the 1965 GTO. The 70 needs a full restoration, it was my daily driver from 1995 to 2004, so the suspension, electrical system, and body need work, so I plan to do a frame off rebuild on it. The fuel system is perfect, and it has the original tank and lines under it.
The 65 GTO is my current daily driver in summer, its been on E85 since 2018, and it keeps breaking transmissions from the torque it produces. Its kinda funny since it has a 455 in it, running E85, getting 17mpg with 11.5:1 compression. Meanwhile my other summer daily is a 1970 Cuda with a 340, it gets 12mpg despite being lighter, with a smaller engine, and much better aerodynamics, but it runs pump gas due to its low compression engine.
I have been doing this for over 15 years, testing the entire time, figuring out how to get the most from ethanol fuel, and its incredibly simple... but it means you cannot run gasoline in your engine, and if you have precious engines that have been out of production since 1978 like I do, the idea of gasoline's carbon residue wearing on every bearing surface and the cylinders is appalling.
You see, I know this because I do this. I am not reading what someone else said, who is usually trying to sell me something... I have been an ASE certified master tech in automotive and automotive machining, and there is nothing I cannot do with vehicles built between 1920 and 2010. I can build a car from some blocks of aluminum and a pile of steel tubing if I have a bridgeport mill, a turret lathe, and a couple welders... and a few months to do it all.
I know vehicles, engines, transmissions, carbs, EFI, differentials, electrical systems, hydraulic systems... I do everything when I build my old cars. Currently I farm out machine work, because the tooling and equipment is expensive and takes up room. I have no intention of doing it for a living again.
But yeah, you didn't read this far anyway. You'll go on thinking you know something, but its erroneous at best.
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In 2002 I got orders to Korea. My first trip off base was revealing. I saw hundreds of amazingly hot white girls walking around. Very different from a stroll through any WalMart, not a hamplanet in sight. Then I became aware that they were Russian and former Soviet bloc girls there to be "Juicy girls" where you go into one of the hundred or so clubs, buy them a $6 or $12 drink and she will sit and talk to you wearing some sexy bit of clothing, then she gets up at some point and does a pole dance but never takes off her bra and panties. If she "likes" you she will drink it slowly, if she doesn't like you she gulps it down and gets you to buy another one.
There was a Russian pub, with a kinda cute 5 working there, and she spoke English very well. So I spent time there learning more Russian. I was going through a divorce back in the sates, and my life was utter shit at the time, I had $100 a month to live on thanks to the rest going to the ex. So no juices were bought by me. While sitting there one afternoon, listening in on conversations to learn more words, one of the juicy girls started talking to me. I told her up front, I have no money. She said she did not care. Ended up seeing her a few times after that, teaching her more English, learning more Russian from other girls I knew who were dating guys in my squadron.
About a week went by and she said get a motel room so she can meet me after her shift ends. It was $20 so it was most of my income for the month, but I had saved up since there isn't much you can do anyway, outside of drinking. I got sexin from her a few times, and then she tried to extort money from me, and obviously I had none so the extortion attempts failed and I laughed at her about it. She doubled down on the sex for a while. Then Dubya changed a law about our pay, and I got a back pay that allowed me to go home, find my kids that I hadn't seen in two years at that point, and try to impress upon the state that they needed to keep me informed as to where she was living. They were very opposed to telling me where my kids were, which is against state law, but its run entirely by females, so do the math. Laws do not matter to females, unless it benefits them.
I get back to Korea, and juicy girl had run off with an Army guy. I found that amusing. Then another who had been dating a friend of mine who went back to the states two months before I did started hitting on me. Two days before I left Korea for good, she decided to swing for the fences and we hooked up in another motel room. She asked how long I was going to be in Korea, I said I am leaving in two days. That was the end of that and man she got dressed fast and almost ran out of the room. I relaxed in the room and watched some Korean TV, went back to my room and waited for the big plane to fly me home.
A bud of mine has been to Odessa 7 times over the last ten years, spent $10k-$15k each time he went. Learned no Russian nor Ukrainian, and relied on translators. He gave one girl a ring, and she ghosted him minutes later. He is 4 years older than I am, overweight, balding, and an incel for the last 12 years. He has only ever had 3 girls in his lifetime.
I lost count 25 years ago around 80 or so, its been at least that many since then. I can pull college chicks here in the states easily, if I bother to go meet them. I am 50 in a few months, and can still get the young ones easy, and the old ones really try to get me to commit. If I go to Ukraine, or any of the former Soviet states, I know I can get laid. I will not get scammed, because when asked to go to eat or something, I will say no, not happening. I have no delusions about bringing one back, that is the last fucking thing I want to do.
Way back in 1990 I met an Arab girl from UAE while I was in Germany. Her married friend was banging the guy across the hall from me. When they came to my room to find her, they wanted to know how I did it. All my black friends had run up on her and she shot them all down. They never saw my game, never saw me interact with girls, because I do not date military females. She really liked me, and we got engaged, but did not get married a year later because of racist bullshit from my supervisor (pentecostal white guy from Florida didn't like her religion and the interracial aspect) and the gulf war happened, but we have kept in touch all these years. Now she is 56, has a disabled kid because she had him too late in her life at 36, and is getting divorced from her German husband because he would rather bang a 60 year old than risk getting another fucked up kid from her. No she can't be rescued by me. She had a chance 5 years ago when I got divorced the second time, (yeah I was stupid in my youth) but she chose not to. That door is forever shut now.
I have had lots of experience with foreign girls, Filipinos, Thai, Russian speaking, Germans, Poles, all over the mid east and Africa. Girls are roughly the same everywhere you go. The hypergamy is hard wired. Culture can influence it a bit, but they are the same everywhere. The solipsism and everything else is ubiquitous. If you have no game here in the states, you won't have any overseas either, all they want is the wallet and a ticket to the land of the big PX.
Find em Finger em Fuck em Forget em. 4Fs. Never get married... unless you want to live in one of the islamic republics that actively prevent her ass from doing all the shit they normally do. Me, I would rather live here and not have to worry about all the religious bullshit. Lift, take care of yourself, and realize you matter they do not. It makes life far more fun. And with that I am headed to the shop to work on one of my old Pontiacs... GTO > females
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@BlazingOwnager Thats a Netflix show, isn't it? I don't count those as TV, not like network TV. Occasionally we get a gem like Breaking Bad, Saul, Band of Brothers, The Pacific, the first couple seasons of GOT... all of which I watched online without the advertisements trying to force stupid ideas into my thinkin meat.
I stopped watching TV more than 30 years ago. The popular shows like friends, survivor, how I met your single mother... crap like that, annoyed me and made my head hurt. I still heard people talking about it, and its a world of shit out there on the lobotomy box.
If I am going to watch something, I either want to learn or be entertained. not propagandized, not talked down to, and not have them try to turn me into a mindless consumer who pushes the button for a food pellet. That doesn't work anyway.
On the bright side the male enhancement ads have ceased on here, now I get feminine hygiene products, bras that aren't bras, and stuff trying to sell me something right now before the supply runs out. I must really have their algorithm wondering what the fuck is up with me.
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@keledek660 what part do you want to know about? Growing up in the cold war with fighter jets and B52s flying tree top level over our farm? Being beaten daily and my older brother trying to end me several times, where he stabbed, poisoned, ran me over, bludgeoned me, and gave me several hundred TBIs?
The time before the gulf war where I was in Europe and the cold war ended, and I have a chunk of the Wall on my shelf next to me? The gulf war?
Getting out because of the drawdown, not willingly, going to school, and being told there was nothing for me to be assisted by because I am a white male? Getting married and having kids with a bipolar chick who made my life hell from 1993 to 2015?
The second war and my year in Korea right before it, where I was financially destroyed by my home state? The second divorce where I ended up homeless again and sat in jail for something she accused me of but I couldn't possibly have done? Rebuilding my life rewiring my mind to help with the PTSD I have had since I was 8 years old?
Or the car builds I have done over the years despite all the crap everyone did to me? Maybe the wrestling in high school and the military that changed me from a weak obese kid into a muscle bound freak and a very capable monster?
My story is kinda long and varied. I've had several people tell me to write a book about it, but I have a lot more fun building hotrods and going racing than I do writing.
I might put some of it on my locals page, there is a bit there already. Haven't been using it much lately, been doing other things for the last two years. I wonder if I can change the name of it or not..
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@keledek660 I'll get with a girl who wants to share her snot pocket with me, but she doesn't get anything but a zinc shot from it, maybe a few O faces.
I've had the cars for years most of the time. One I have had for 41 years, my first car I bought when I was 13. Most are Pontiac muscle cars with 6.6L and larger engines. Thats my thing, my entire reason for being on this planet. Those cars and what I want to do with them is the only reason I did not check out through all of that in my past.
I have a 1969 GTO in my yard that needs almost everything, its really rusty. Its from the same year I was born, and the only vehicle of that year I have ever had. I have to finish two (maybe 3) others this spring, then I can get started on that one. Have to strip the parts car for it and the '72 GTO first, then I can start building provided I can get the replacement metal it needs. Prices are going up and supplies aren't always available these days.
Today its 0F out there, so I am not working in the shop. Its supposed to start warming into the 20s and 30s which means I can get stuff done. I'll be making content of the builds I do this year, and moving other cars I have had at least 20 years from the family farm to where I live now. Road trips are fun, its 1000 miles one way, and I have to do it 8 times.
Should be a fun year.
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Already traveled the world, I am old and ex military. I'd rather spend my remaining years building my cars, living on my land, well away from cities, and enjoying the peaceful stress free life that comes after you have earned it.
Got divorced in 2001 after being baby trapped (found out later not my kid), endured 8 years of hell with her, and was never going to do that again. The 90s were a different time, it was somewhat more rare people got divorced back then. In 2003 I met one who was different, 21 year old virgin when I was 34, smart, good head on her shoulders, kinda homely so I figured nobody else who appeared better than me would bother. Vetted her for 8 years and she was wonderful, got married then divorced in 16 months.. It was ten years ago last week that I kicked her cheatin ass out. She is not doing well, but its what she chose, so she gets to live with it.
Had lots of them overseas, Germany, Dubai, Korea... Russians, Ukrainians, Arabs, Indians. I've done every bucket list thing other than twins. I am out of the gene pool, not getting back in. I have my kid and her mom ruined her life as well as mine.
So no, I have no plans to travel and get a wife, but I might go overseas again and to South America to get some strange. For now the GTOs are keeping me satisfied.
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@gregd4391 I live in the north, If you don't have some survival gear in your vehicle, you might not survive a flat tire. Same with Nebraska, the weather can end you long before you have walked far enough to get help.
We get Canadians driving through here all the time, rather than going the long way around the lake. You can spot them besides their plates, they are timid, afraid, and wag their finger at you for passing them after they brake checked you.
Mind you this is people from Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta are much better when they come through. We see Ontario plates and we give them a wide berth and try to avoid them. I swear the Swift trucking rejects go to Ontario for a job.
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@Face2theScr33n Check my channel, currently I own somewhere around 70 vehicles, lots of parts trucks, a few parts cars, and more than a handful of projects I plan to keep.
I am swapping the 6.0 in the crew cab because I want to haul my dogs and I, 1000 miles to Nebraska to haul more cars from the family farm that I have owned for a few decades. Just got the Suburban to where its only minor stuff to make it drivable.
Mind you, I have a 2000 1500 4x4, 1999 2500 4x4, and an 88 1500 4x4 that are either plated or just need tires and plates. Along with the 65 GTO, 70 Cuda, and the winter beater 2006 Gran Prix that is slowly returning to the earth as it rusts in half.
I could fix the 2000 extended cab's transmission that is slipping a bit, and make the AC work again, but its so cramped for me and the dogs when I head to my home state to move cars to where I live now.
I figured this $400 crew cab 1500 4x4 GMC with a bad trans just needs two added leafs in the rear, a 6.0 swapped in, one of the good transmissions put in, and I have plenty of room for the dogs and I.. plus the AC works. Huskies are not fond of 100F heat, they are 'north' dogs. I could have the 4.8 out tonight, but I am getting old and I lose interest fast. I have the top end done, need to pull the TC and trans, yank the mounts, and pull the starter/wires so I can leave the power steering pump in the truck.
I'll start on it early tomorrow, get the tiny engine with its broken trans out, and with luck have the 6.0 in and running the day after.
With all the big hills between Nebraska and Lake Superior, I want the 6.0 in it. It has a 4L75E going behind it, since all the 80Es I have out are hurt somehow. Makes the driveshaft thing easier too.
I'd rather be building my 1969 GTO and making the 68 LeMans drivable so I can take it to Missouri for the NNN, but I need the truck stuff done. I do the not as fun stuff so I can do the fun stuff. Gotta do the glass in the crew cab too... No. I am not normal.
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I am close to your age, I am 54. I've been divorced from my second wife for ten years, and 22 years from the first. I have stopped bothering to ask any of them out, but I get plenty of attention from them. There is a 27 year old and a 24 year old, both are average looking, the younger is slightly heavy, about 15lbs, maybe 20 and she'd be quite nice, who flirt with me and try to get me to ask them out.
They will not stick around for 30 years. The women today are not like your wife and my sister's in law, they are not loyal, nor are they faithful, they will trade you in on a whim because they are told they can do better. Our generation is the last to have long relationships like that as the default.
These young guys will never have that, and if they do have one stick around, it will not be without her running around on them, and they just accept it.
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@scifiwriter98 some things are actually happening/happened, some things are not. What I find most interesting is how the marxists (and their unwitting useful idiots) are obfuscating who they really are in this particular thread.
I live in the world I built from cast off bits of refuse, because I refuse to follow along blindly, live in the pod, eat the bugs, take on unrepayable debt, and obey. I kinda like living like this, not being part of the rat race and just doing what I want to do while I wait for my 3rd little conflict to begin in earnest.
I've had hundreds of vaxes considering I am a veteran, not getting this one though. No need to, and I realize is for profit rather than safety or health. Was born during a pandemic, this one is nothing to fear unless you are older and fatter than I am.
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@flowerjpotter1629 nowhere did I say it was always the case. However, what happened to me is not unique, it is typical. Fact of the matter is YOU could have done the same thing to your ex that my ex did to me, you chose not to which I see as admirable, if you are telling the truth.
Still what did you lose? What was taken from you that you put into the union? What did you have to pay him every month for years? Now what did you get? What did he earn, create, or build that you got from him just because you showed up?
One of my friends divorced her husband, she got tired of being the breadwinner, he never really started doing the adult thing. She went to school to learn how to do business taxes, payroll, different laws in different states, and now she is one of the premier HR tax experts in her area, so she is bringing in well over $150k a year.
She got the house, kids, and still gets child support from him that is 60% of his 'expected' income, so she ends up giving it back to him most of the time. Its everything he makes most months. He has other kids with another chick, and he owes her $40k, which is now tacked on to my friend's mortgage, so she has to pay off his child support to be debt free. She was unaware of that until after the divorce.
Here is the difference between my friend and my ex, my friend did not cheat, get caught, and then destroy her ex out of capricious spite. She is very good with money, my ex is horrible with it, so my ex wants to extort as much as she possibly can from anyone. My home state is coming after me again for some reason, the divorce has been final since 2001, child support ended in 2015 and I have no arrears, but they want more from me. They haven't said why, but they are gearing up to take money from me again.
They called and said they have money for me, and that I should call back. Then they wanted a whole bunch of information they already had, so its probably a bench warrant for something and when I go home if I get pulled over they will throw me in jail. What will probably end up happening then is I will resist and someone will get whacked, because I am not giving up my freedom to them again.
So you and my friend didn't get everything you wanted... you are in the smallest minority of ex wives. For every one of you I know thousands of men who got financially destroyed and reduced to indentured servants.
I liken it to a busy street where 40% to 80% of men get hit by a bus crossing that street. 1% to 2% of women get hit by the bus, but most are just bumped into or brushed by it, not splattered across the road or thrown a few miles from the impact.
When 4 out of ten men get hit by the bus, they are not going to cross that street. When its 8 of ten getting hit, only the least intelligent will go anywhere near that street.
So yeah sometimes women don't get everything they want, its very rare that a man comes away unscathed.
My second ex settled for me paying her $3000 to screw some halfwittededtardednanner and sitting in jail for two weeks, for something I didn't do. It was physically impossible for me to have done it, and yet I was guilty before anything even started. She had me thrown in jail because she knew she was the one who cheated and ruined the good thing we had.
Now her family runs me down to everyone, which is amusing because everyone knows her and her family around here, but it takes them a while to figure out I am not the horrible no good very bad person they say i am. I am the villain to them, when she did everything wrong.
Why didn't she go after my money and old cars? Thats simple, she was with me from 03 to 13 and I was still paying the first ex until 15. She knew exactly what it was doing to me, and how many times I was left with no money for the month, how many times I considered ending the whole thing.
She knew if she went after my income or the old cars, I would push them all into a big pile, set fire to all of it, the house, shop, cars, tools, EVERYTHING, then splatter my brain matter all over her parents driveway so she had to clean it up and would remember finding me there every time she went to her parents house. Good luck getting money from a dead man. She chose nothing without the mess to clean up.
I will not be indentured to some harpy ever again. I advise young men to avoid being indentured to women as well. Change the laws, change society so you ladies stop screwing outside marriage for profit, and I will tell men its a good thing to get married, have kids, and how wonderful it is to have kids.
Two wars, I've been hit by cars, run over by farm equipment, countless times I was beaten unconscious growing up, I have endured a world of pain that would drive most people to end it... but the worst thing to ever happen to me was her taking off with my kids and preventing me from seeing them and talking with them.
Thankfully she is paying for her bad choices now, 20 years later.
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@flowerjpotter1629 girlfriend, and if you came to visit you'd be my friend, you ran into the same type I ran into with my first ex. She wanted to control me like that, no way I would ever allow it.
She was bipolar, which means she is horrible with money. She can rip through $5k in a week and have nothing to show for it. I was amazed at how she could do it so fast. I had to shut her off from all of our funds, because she kept me overdrawn if she could get to the money.
I wanted someone I could trust to be an adult. When I let her 'take care of the bills' I came home to a dark house with no water and a $400 overdraft notice. She wasn't paying the bills like she said she would. Mind you the house payment was $375, the utilities were usually $40 to $70, and the car insurance was $150 for six months. Its not like I wasn't earning enough bringing home $600 to $900 each week. We should have been doing VERY well, but I was always overdrawn.
After I bought the house and we had our second daughter, she started attacking me and I was concerned about getting stabbed in my sleep or something like boiling water. Thankfully she was afraid of waking me up, because early on she woke me by jumping on the bed and screaming, not a good idea with a combat veteran. Lucky for me I realized it was her before I caved her face in. That episode might have saved my life.
Those are things you can't know about people until after you have been with them long enough.
My whole point is not that women are bad, I do not think they are as a whole, you are different than we are. Its unfair to judge and value females by male standards and vice versa. The messed up point is that she was REWARDED for all of that, I was punished just because I am male.
Here in the US fathers have no rights in family court. All we have are responsibilities, and the states will do whatever they want to us with impunity, and so can women unless we want to end up in jail for a couple decades for defending ourselves against them.
When a wife gets like mine was, all a man can do is leave or endure it. If we leave we cannot take our kids with us, because that is kid napping them, but she can take off and abscond with them half way across he continent and she is applauded for doing it.
Its the laws that are the problem, but we cannot do anything about the laws. Which is why I admonish young men to not get married, because the risks are far too great, and there is no benefit for men.
There is no curtailment to female nature, no buffers or boundaries, they are encouraged to do whatever they wish at the moment, no matter what the consequences are. Men are then forced to pay for her actions. I refuse to be rendered destitute and homeless a third time because the girl I am with decides to make bad choices that affect me.
That is how it is in the USA. Its by design, and the intent is to destroy the family. Well, its working.
If you ever want to come to the US for a visit, you are always welcome at my home. We could sit around the campfire, sip moonshine and talk about the horrible things our ex's did, and all the things we wish would have been. With luck this year will be better for both of us.
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The car analogy is fun. Except I can take a rusty rolling shell with nothing in it and turn it into a very nice and very reliable daily driver. I can do it dirt cheap too, because I have the skills and knowledge required to do literally everything on a vehicle. When it comes to resale/value, the car I choose to rebuild matters. A 4 door 1972 LTD is not going to be worth much. A 1969 GTO is going to be worth a lot more. I can daily drive an old car, and I do, a 65 GTO and a 70 Cuda are the ones I daily right now. I'm building more... The newer vehicles are worth less, too many electrical issues can crop up.
With 'not fellas' its inverted. They have the highest value when they are 22, and then it depreciates every day and every peg D they take. By the time they are 50, they are almost utterly worthless and no amount of rebuilding will fix it. They are more like boats, the small fiberglass ones that are expensive to buy and maintain, and 20 years later you have to pay to get rid of them unless some doofus gives you money to take on all your problems. Its a hassle to put them on the water and go out, but its fun when you can... as long as they don't break.
They think they are Ferraris, when in reality they are Yugos, utterly worthless and impossible to repair because there are no parts.
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I went out Saturday night, went to a small bar to observe and I had one drink. Just saying hello in passing to most of the women got me dirty looks, so I stopped talking to them. Had a better time talking to the bouncer, we talked about cars and the people who used to work there. A couple of the women talked to me and flirted, but decided to see if I would chase them. Play hard to get, ya don't get got. Got a glass of ice water from the homely and pale bartender, and left.
Then I went down the street to hang out with my bro who is the bouncer at another bar. I never go in there, he and I stand/sit outside and talk about lifting, football, boxing, cars, whatever. His other job is being a trainer at my gym. Thats the only reason I go to bars, to talk to my friends who are bouncers. Last time I went out to his bar was July.
This area is pretty boring, I have some gearhead friends I hang with and we do car stuff, not many females to bother us. Its a man thing for the most part. We are going to do some racing next year, deserted stretch of road, a bunch of cars, see who comes out on top.
The women around here are on the large side, or the old side. Its always the ones who made poor choices in life and are divorced, or are unattractive.
Thats why I do the car thing, live alone out in the woods, and though I tend to flirt with the women working the check out lane register, I don't ask them out. They are not worth the effort and risk. I kept my old man belly to keep them away, but now I need to get rid of it so I can fit between the roll cage bars in my race car. I guess wearing clothes from Tractor Supply and Menards will keep them thinking I am broke.. if they only knew that I have a passive income just under $100k..
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@Motor-City-Mike Its not the cubes, its the port length from booster to the bottom of the cylinder that decides if an engine is going to be a torque engine or not. The FE has a VERY long port, like the Pontiac and Olds, the long ram Mopars are even longer. The chevys have short ports with a big cross section, they are lazy on the bottom so they need to spin more RPM to work.
The 389, 400, and 428 Pontiacs are also torque engines, the 455s are more exaggerated in the same effect. 326 Pontiac and 327 chevy, same cubes, same size valves, but the 326 has a 3.75" stroke and a port as long as the 455s. So the 326 is not an RPM engine either.
The venturi effect is also in play with the FE and Pontiac, the FE is a copy of the Nailhead Buick, but 'improved' so it will turn more than 4500rpm.
I used to run FE engines, the VoTech school I went to, so I could get a piece of paper sayin I know what the hell I am talking about, had a 390 powered 59 Ranchero drag car. They set it up with a 250@.050 solid cam, a single plane intake, and 4.56 gears turning 26" tall 225 radials. It wouldn't even spin the tires on wet pavement. They were getting 17 second times trying to make it run like an sbc.
I had them switch to a 224/228 cam, dual plane intake, and 3.25 gears and it was in the 13s with stock manifolds, and now would fry the tires easily. A set of headers and we had to slow it down, the school didn't want it running over 100mph on the track for insurance reasons. I was not on the 'team' because I had an 11.40@120 daily driver 79 Formula with a mild 455 in it and a 3.42 gear. I used a 4.10 gear to slow it to 12.1s to avoid having to put a rollbar in it in the 90s. It was 3900lbs going down the track.
The FE responds like a Pontiac, not like a chevy. They have long high velocity ports, not short sluggish at low rpm ports like the sbc does.
Even if he has 34" tall tires, going to a 3.50 gear in his F100 would make a huge difference. If they are 26" tall then a 3.00 gear would work better. Go ahead and try it with a 390 or any of the torque engines I mentioned. You will go slower with more than a 3.73, every time, unless you change the entire top end to flow a lot more air. I've done that too, and the Pontiac 467 is still making 520 rwtq down at 3000rpm, and 700 ftlbs flywheel at 4500. It will spin to 7500 easily, and keeps pulling, but we stopped the dyno on it at 6500 where it made a bit over 700hp.. Good luck getting a chevy to do that on pump gas, NA, with less than 470 cubes. The BBC needs at least a 540 to pull it of. It will make the power above 6500, but not the torque from idle, and the sbc is only gonna come close to it with a power adder.
The FE 390 with a 428 crank in it comes out to a 410(Mercury had them), and those things are grunt engines too, with any FE head that isnt a tunnel port, high, or medium riser 427 head. They just don't like RPM, they aren't designed nor intended to run high RPM.
With these things more isn't better and chevy thinking will make you slower every time.
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@Motor-City-Mike My point has to do with gearing and where an engine makes powr, not displacement. Its well known with the Pontiac engine that using deep gears that move the engine through the RPM range too fast slows the car down. Also when you are making 500ftlbs from idle to 5000, you do not need a 4500 stall, a 2200 works better, because you aren't slipping as much with each shift. Its making the power down there, might as well use it.
You run out of RPM and the car will stop accelerating. Its like trying to run Bonneville with a 5.13 gear, you are limiting its top speed but shortening it to well before the end of the track. Sure it accelerates easier, but not necessarily quicker. If it runs out of RPM before the 1/8th then its too much gear for the quarter, right?
I've run into this and used deeper gears to slow cars down to stay within the rules.
When I was bracket racing there was a guy with a Maverick, he was running a 302 and 5.13 gears. I had the 4.10 gears to slow my car to 12.1s. I had only 6000rpm to use, he had about 7500. Side by side during time trials he would jump out roughly two cars ahead of me before 150ft, but before the 1/8th I was ahead of him, and at the end of the quarter he ran a 12.9@100 to my 12.0@114. Mine was done at 1000ft with the 4.10 and 28" tires. He was done around 450ft out and I drove by him easily. I asked why he doesn't drop to a 4.10 or so, he said then his 60ft goes away. The track is longer than 60ft.
Now with the same car of mine, putting the 3.42 gears in it with the 550ftlbs@2500 and 500ftlbs@5000 Pontiac in it, it pulled harder through the quarter than the 4.10s and ran mid 11s @120. In the 1/8 it dropped from 7.70s with the 4.10 to 7.30s with the 3.42, and the 60ft was 1.7 with the 4.10 and 1.5 with the 3.42. After 60ft the gears are no longer helping you, unless you have an engine that makes no torque down low e.g. chevy small block.
The FE is more like my Pontiac than it is like a chevy, it doesn't need nor want the deep gear, its making plenty of torque down low, its a truck engine after all, and not as much up top. You have to increase the volume of airflow to raise the RPM in an FE or Pontiac, but due to the length of the runners you will retain more torque on the bottom by doing that than you will by increasing the cross section on a short runner engine like the sbc.
When you get to extremes or run forced induction like F1, Top Fuel etc, things change a bit, but in the engines used as daily drivers and built to run up to around 7500, this holds true. Longer runners is more power down low, short runners more power up top. The thing is you don't need as much gear when you have the torque down low. You are just wasting it with a big stall and deep gears.
The RPM limited TPI chevy doesn't like deep gears either, it doesn't have the RPM to make up for it, but good luck getting the sbc guys to comprehend that, they all think 4.56 is the way to go.. with an FE pushing it a 4.56 is going to pull stumps but ET and MPH for shit... unless you really work the heads. Sounds like he has iron heads on his 390, and not CJ or 427 heads.
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@Motor-City-Mike no worries Mike. I loathe those 'experts' too, especially when it comes to tuning, transmissions, and gears. Been doing this for over 35 years, the first engine I built with my dad when I was ten was a 390 for our F250. Dad wasn't much of an engine builder, but it ran until my brother killed it 5 years later.
I closed my shop back in 99, got tired of chasing down customers to pay me and they would take the car with a spare set of keys. Shop wasn't big enough to keep everything inside. I'm retired now and do frame off rebuilds for fun, and I like to see how much power I can make, and how fast I can go with the least amount of money.
The blue 65 GTO is my summer daily driver with a 11.5:1 455 in it, 700R4 and 3.42 gears, its a bit over 550hp and runs on E85. Its fun beating the chevy guys with a mild combo like that. Did a frame off, and it was the rustiest pos I had seen until recently, 3000 hours, and half of that was cutting and welding metal, just broke $15k invested in it. I painted it Ford Flame Blue.. god I love that color. I am not a body guy, but I learned how to do it on my Cougar.
Went 11.40s in the 90s for less than $4500 in a 3900lb car, which was before the internet.. lol. Maximize what the engine does best rather than trying to make it do something its not intended to do. That is my main focus fast for cheap, I don't need to do it for money, no customers, so its all essentially research and development.
This is all I do, mess with engines, transmissions, and old rusty heaps of shit. Sometimes I make them nice, sometimes not. Well, that and supporting it by making my fuel from tree sap. I like to go fast for cheap, and compression + home made ethanol is dirt cheap fast. One of my engines is 13:1 with iron heads, it scares the chevy guys.
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@Motor-City-Mike I know where three 61s are sitting right now, complete but VERY rusty. He wants too much for them though, and I have enough projects.
For years I heard "put a 350 chevy in and you will go faster for less money." When I was too broke to afford sticky tires and a posi rear was hard to find, the low 14 second cars would get way out ahead of me while I was trying not to spin, then I would catch them by the end of the quarter.
When you can blow the tires off in 3rd gear at 60mph, you have no traction at all. Once I got a posi n the 70 GTO, and it was only a 2.93 Olds rear, things changed. Sticky tires and it was now a mid to high 12 second 4000lb daily driver. Have all of $1800 invested in that 455, cast bottom end, '75 vintage smogger heads, 224/228 hydraulic cam. Stock intake, cheap Summit headers, runs on camel whiz 87.
Then I threw together a $2700 455 with ported heads and forged pistons, .030 over, 228/232 cam, 2200 stall and the 3.42 gears, put that in my $200 '79 Formula, 3900lbs with me in it. Running mid 11s easily in the mid 90s I sandbagged so many chevys in that thing, they said it wasn't like a race car at all, sounded like I was going to the store for a loaf of bread. that Formula has the 700hp engine in it now, and I have a bunch of different chevy guys taking about how slow Pontiacs are. This summer will be fun.
I haven't heard chevy faster for less money except online, where everyone seems to think a stock rebuild is $6k-$10k, and I do them for less than $2k, farming out the machine work. I can do the machining, but have no use for the equipment since I only do an engine every other year or so now. Easier to take it to someone I trust and have it done, costs less than payments on the tooling too.
Its fun beating them all by a fender or so, and they have no idea what your car is capable of.. they can't figure out how you can beat them all by a fender, and they beat each other by car lengths. Not fair racing 10-14 second cars with something capable of single digits though... but who said life is fair?
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@Motor-City-Mike Sounds like what all of us were doing too, but most of them didn't research anything, they just took a 350 or 327 and threw in a big cam, single plane intake, and had a 4 speed behind it. Stall converters were too expensive, thats why I ran $100 L88 style converters. Some of them ran nitrous, and I had a kit but found that because of the 4.10 gears it only gained me a tenth with a 175 shot. So I never really used it.
I was limited on what I could do for weight reduction, not a lot of time, nearly no money, and I had to scrounge almost everything. I had the Formula already, so I threw engines at it I built as cheap as possible. I picked up some lighter cars, but the first wife kept me so broke I could never do anything with them.
The Cougar sat from '87 to '06 in my dad's shed on the farm, I want it for a cruiser/driver, not a race car anyway. It was my first car, bought when I was 13 with money I earned working for neighbors and selling sweet corn I grew. Have a Maverick I never got to, it has a 9" under it though, so its waiting and probably is rust by now.
Found something smaller and lighter last year, 71 and 72 Opel GTs. One of them might get an LS since I have a truck engine sitting here, the other is getting Pontiac power, because I have lots of them after 35 years of hoarding all of em I could find. I figure 700hp in a 2000lb car should be lots of fun... if it ever goes straight.
I ran heavy ass cars because they are what I had that would take a big engine easily and had parts available. In the 80s and 90s we didn't have much on the shelf for 60s and 70s vehicles. Had to scrounge parts in junkyards and from other hoarders. Right now is a great time to be alive, so easy to find stuff and parts are available and more affordable than before.
There is just something about the 64-70 Falcon/Comet/Fairlane body that speaks to me. Always liked them, and the 66 Fairlane looks a lot like my 65 GTO so it makes sense I would like them both. The problem was getting enough cubes into them, and a Cleveland swap wasn't as easy as it is now.
I really like the 351C 4V, its the only small block to impress me. Just add a cam and headers to beat on almost everyone. So in that way its like my Pontiacs, but a little bit lighter and goes in a Ford with the Front sump.
I've spent the last 7 years rebuilding after my second divorce, I am going to get back into the projects this year. Might as well do some videos of it while I have fun. Just waiting for the snow to go away and warm enough I don't burn up my money in heater fuel.
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@Motor-City-Mike Know why I went Pontiac? Because I knew that with a 400 or 455 I didn't need to change the rear gears, run a big stall, or do anything crazy to build a 12 second daily driver in the 1980s. A cheap rebuild with an overbore and some forged pistons, throw a slightly bigger cam at it, headers, and the rest is factory stuff. Boom 12s in a heavy A body with a 3.08 gear.
With the chevy I needed deep gears, a big stall and to change the wiring, cooling, fuel system, and the transmission case. Before I could rebuild transmissions that last one kept me from doing anything with them. The first 400 I built was a '75 from a GP, threw a used RA IV cam in it, some used 3 tube headers, and went out beating on the 350s and 396s running around town.
I had $600 in that engine and it was stomping big block chevies on the street, when the damn thing would hook on the bias ply tires. With the radials it was a smoke show, until I got sticky tires. Running on a dirt poor budget in the 80s meant I didn't have lots of stuff, then I enlisted in 88 and all of it went on hold for four years.
When I got back in 92, thats when I started building lots more power, and then drag radials were required. It was simply cheaper for my broke ass to run Pontiacs and Clevelands, but it has always been hard to find C parts. The 4V heads were mythic until I stumbled on to a bunch of them, one was a 71 HO in a Cougar that was severely rusted.
Pontiac parts are easier to find, garden variety stuff was everywhere, and all the D port 2.11" intake heads flow within a few CFM of each other, only the compression ratio changes. Its not like they have a bad head, even the 350 heads ran well.
Simple economics is what did it for me. I never assumed the chevys were going to be faster just because they are chevys. lol. I don't believe the hype now and I didn't then. Not when I watched a 71 Fastback Mustang stomp the guts out of every camaro in three counties with a 4V, and the 455 cars were faster than he was. If i knew then what I know now, it would have been a very different world.
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@Motor-City-Mike I have a 400sbc, put vortec heads on it, and the damn thing springs a new leak as I fix the last one. I am done with it, there is an LS going in that truck. Not sure what I will do with that orange lump. Thats what I call em, orange lumps.
I've been wanting someone to take me up on my 400 Pontiac vs 400 chevy, budget build. Factory head, intake, and run the same size cam in both. They can even use the vortec heads if they want, the supposedly best iron heads GM made for them. Keep track of what it costs, then we put them in the same vehicle same gears and stall, and see what runs faster. I figure a 3400lb or so car with a 3.55 gear would work good.
I know that is massively in the favor of the Pontiac, since the chevy intakes and heads mostly suck. But if chevy is sooooo good, it should not be a problem, right? Go throwing the aftermarket at it and it blows the budget.
I suppose we could do one with aluminum heads and an aftermarket intake, same cam size though. More fun for me to run factory stuff, to show how not great those things are. Not the over the counter bowtie pieces, but the production parts, like the heads that came on any sbc between 1956 and 1978, because that is the run of my engine. Its not like those heads and stuff ar ea huge advantage, but there is nothing comparable for mine.. unless I go Ram Air V, in which case the poor chevy has less chance than a snowball in a blast furnace.
Every time I offer it up, no chevy guy takes it. It just goes silent.
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@Motor-City-Mike the LS shares a LOT with Pontiac, the 12 degree heads, Pontiac is 14, the 5.7 bore and stroke is closer to the 350 Pontiac than the chevy, it has a valley pan under the intake, not just a thin piece of gasket material like the B/RB either. The IH engines have something similar to the Chryslers, but otherwise its a Pontiac thing to have an air gap intake.. they came along first. The symmetrical ports are not only on Fords, but it does lend to it looking like a W, but thats about where it stops.
I suppose the rocker trunions are kinda like the Cleveland, if you look at them funny. The port design is where they differ greatly from the W and sbc, its more of a Pontiac shape, long with a pronounced venturi area at the short turn pinch. Not as obvious as the pushrod bulge in the Pontiac head, but the cathedrals had it. The later square ports not so much.
There is a ton of Pontiac design in that thing, and the quality machine work is indicative of Pontiac design, all machined surfaces for no leaks, minimal core shift, no line bore problems, and a fully machined combustion chamber rather than as cast like the taxi cab/delivery van sbc.
There's a number of things that the W/C and P engines share in common that are on the LS, the cam plate, the water pump/front cover design, the 4 head bolts spaced properly, and a few others my brain can't remember right now. I look at the LS and I see modernized Pontiac all over it. I see similarities to the W too, but they are probably more due to manufacturing/tooling concerns, like the symmetrical ports. The deep skirt is like FE and B/RB/late Hemi, and is a very good idea for longevity.
The chevy engines were thrown together just good enough to run and push the vehicle. You have to spend about $1000 on machine work just to get the sbc to the same standard as the W or Pontiac, Olds, Buick engines. I've had several 400 cranks never need turned, never actually needed a line hone/bore though one shop I do not go to anymore did it just because they do it to all of them.. now the front cover leaks all the damn time. My engines mostly have screw in studs, easy enough to replace them with a 7/16 piece and poly locks.
Strangely enough 351W 1.6 rocker arms are a direct bolt on for a Pontiac. I have several sets of Ford roller rockers on my engines. They are cheap too.
What I don't see when I look at the LS is the sbc, the only things that are carry over are the the bellhousing shape, starter, and oil filter locations, which is more of a tooling issue at the assembly plant. Costs less to keep those things the same, kinda like the 351/400M and 460 using the same trans pattern and mounts.
So it warms my cold black heart to know the Corvette finally has a good engine and it has lots of Pontiac, Ford and Mopar in it, far more than the chevy.. because chevy engines are junk, barely adequate junk. The bonus is you can blow them up every weekend and throw another junkyard taxi lump in and you are only out time.
The majority of chevy vehicles sold were fleet vehicles, like delivery vans, pickups, and taxi cabs.
This sums up the chevy.
"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey"
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@truthfulconch7773 Evan Hafer is said to have donated to Biden. Matt Best and the other guys didn't donate to anyone far as I know. Considering Biden is for NAFTA type trade deals and BRCC gets their coffee beans imported from south of the border, Evan probably wants the free trade deals so he can import beans cheaper. He probably thinks Creepy Joe won't go after the 1st and 2nd, or that they can afford to own whatever toys they want now even with the NFA tax Joe wants to put on rifles and magazines, so he goes with his pocketbook and getting the supply cheaper.
The thing I am curious about is does it really matter when it was the local democrats in Detroit, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Phoenix, and Philly who stuffed the ballot and rigged the election? Who needs to donate to them when they can just have mindless drones do the hard work for them, and then the judges protect them from prosecution? Those morons did it for a pittance, and so far only one has been arrested because she was bragging to Veritas about doing it. I bet nothing happens to her, and its all swept under the rug...
and Evan gets his cheap coffee beans.
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My favorite thing to do with alcohol is run it in my old GTOs and Firebirds, it makes LOTS of power. I drank a lot of beer when I was 19-20 and stationed in Germany back in 1989-91. I figured out its a waste of money and I didn't want to drink away my paychecks. 20 years ago in Korea I got wasted twice, still didn't drink much otherwise.
Since 2015 I haven't been able to drink at all, it gives me a headache immediately, and I have aches all over for three days after. No buzz, not enough to get drunk, but it makes me feel like garbage for days after.
I didn't drink anything in high school, I was the only kid who didn't. Just wasn't my thing, and I have never liked the feeling of being drunk, its not fun having my mind slowed that much.
I make vodka, it goes into the fuel tanks of my cars and old trucks. Got into that back in 2007 as a means to be able to afford driving cars with 455ci(7.4L) engines that make 550hp+. I make it from cattails and tree sap for 40 cents a gallon. 87 octane is $3.60 91 is $4.80, and race gas is $12. I peer pressure people into using it as fuel..lol. Nobody really pressures me to drink the stuff.
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It worked in countries where there was no middle class, only the wealthy land owners and serfs, the effect was the same... no middle class, owners and the chattel who work for them. Europe, Canada, and Australia allowed themselves to be disarmed, they easily to eagerly gave up their right to defend themselves along with the ability.
You could say I will be outside their system if the sheep here allow it. Lockdowns don't affect me, I can go outside and do whatever I want, any time I want. If they shut off my money, its ok because I can do what I want without it, other than the old car thing which I need money for certain parts. Everything else, I have handled.
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@wheels-n-tires1846 I have some on my channel, been working on some ethanol related clips. Trying to decide if I should do short ones or longer with more information in them. Once the snow is gone here and I can do stuff I plan to show whats going on with the 70 GTO that has been on E85 and E100 since 2007. Bore scope the tank, and maybe get it in the shop for a quick frame off. It needs mainly wiring, suspension, and things like that..and an engine put back in it of course. Others are on the list for the summer too, trucks, something fast and light, and everything runs on ethanol. I like the stuff because I can crank up the compression a LOT.
I was AF from 88-92, then again 00-05, just had to attend the second war. In a job that requires monumental physical effort during wartime.. loading cargo planes. So much fun. Been into airplanes and cars my entire life, can't afford the planes so I do the cars. All my civilian jobs were technical, farming, machinist (CNC and manual) auto tech, etc.
That put me in a position to do all the stuff I wanted to do now, and the AF working me like a rented mule when I was 34 made it so I don't have to worry about money as long as the government doesn't go tango uniform on us. It was ok when I was 21 in the first one, but at 34 things don't heal like a decade earlier.
I will never get involved with a female long term again, man rebuilding severely rusted old GTOs is vastly less expensive. I am glad Tony got a good one, going though that kinda rips your life to shreds then sets it on fire. I was daft enough to try it twice.
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@MrSwinger1 I can't help but love the grunt of a 455 or a 400 stroked to at least 461. Costs about the same to build any of them, and the basic stuff is all you need to get into the 11s with a relatively heavy car.
Some Mopars I like, there is a soft spot for 68-72 Road Runners, 68 Darts, and pretty much any year of Cuda, even the 64 fishbowl Barracuda, one of those with a 318 4 speed was almost my first car. Dad dropped the ball there, he decided it was too much for me, he could have gotten me into mopars at that point. Yeah I probably would have built a rather 'stupid' 360 for it. Got my 67 Cougar and a wrecked 72 GTO instead.
The quest for all things GTO continued and now old Pontiac vehicles and engines are my reason for living.
The 71 Roadrunner is probably my favorite mopar body style . A Sebring or Satellite would work the same year, its a lot like the 68-69 GTO. It says yes to me on so many levels. If I could get one of those 71-73s it would make a great bookend to the 68 LeMans and 69 GTO I have. Of course I would want a stroked RB in it, or a Hemi if I can find some Stage V heads to make an RB into a hemi.. that would scratch all the itches.
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I bumped into my second ex last week at the grocery store. I extended my condolences about her dad dying back in February, and went on about my life. She blames me for all her bad choices, which I find hilarious. The only times I have spoken to her in the last ten years was when she pulled up to the same gas pump one day, when I voted and she was there so I had her sign the title to one of my cars I used for collateral on a loan I paid off after the divorce, and last week.
She lives two miles away and I have to drive by her place to put my trash in the dumpster. Its a small community, so it takes extra effort to avoid her.
I have kids with the first one, so I have to talk to her on occasion, but I avoid it as much as possible. Talked to her maybe ten times in the last 22 years... and most of that was at divorce proceedings.
I am still friends with one chick I was seeing from 2014 to 2018, she is cool and the only non crayyyzyeee one I have found. We send memes to each other and pics of cars we both like. The 7 hour driving time to see each other was too much, but she was lots of fun. We went on adventures and she paid for most of them, lots of concerts with her she was really good to me.
Almost everyone else in my past, is not spoken to nor contacted. It depends on her and how she is, but most of them are not worth remembering let alone speaking to. I just fall off the face of the earth when I end it.
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@spacecat7247 Well, its in a relatively light car, with Cooper 255 60 15 radials, so rather than dead hooking it will smoke the rears as long as you stay in it. I tend to drive it easier than the ones I have with Th400s behind them.
But that particular 455 with 11.5:1 compression running on E85, with ported heads, is making north of 550ftlbs from 2000rpm to 5000rpm. Those heads on another 455 with a smaller flat tappet cam pushed a 3750lb 79 Formula to 11.40s with a 3.42 gear, all motor, 1900-2100 stall, on Sunoco 110 back in the 90s.
So if I put slicks or drag radials under it, with the 3.08 gear it has now, that Th3500 is not long for the world. Its slipping in 3rd if I try to pass someone without downshifting. Come to think of it, the 700R4 I had in it before did the same thing, it could be the trans cooler in the radiator restricting flow.
My pump gas 8:1 compression 455s tend to break Th400s. So this one is a fun way to test upgrades I make while building my transmissions.
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Men build things, we want to be compensated for what we build. We want what we invest our time, energy, and money into building, to benefit us later. We don't do it just for the benefit of other people, we need to get something for the work or we stop doing the work.
Women, now more than ever, assume they are entitled to what men build and earn, but they are loath to provide any benefit to the men who put in the work. They seem to think that them simply showing up for a while, possibly showing bobs and vagene, is enough benefit to men.
Society has removed nearly all incentive from men to achieve more than the most rudimentary existence. They are not allowed to have families to pass on their knowledge, skills, and eventually wealth to younger generations. Their kids are far too often taken from them so the mother can try out a different guy for a while, then another, and another.... she ends up alone, unwanted, and resentful, while he has to pay her for years until the kids are of age. NOBODY BENEFITS from that other than the state.
Men put effort and time they never get back into women, and the women can take off at any time, for any reason, and not only make that investment futile, but take his future earning from him as well. There are incentives for women to divorce, and no incentives for men to divorce or marry, they have all been removed.
Men are blamed for every ill in society, every altercation in a domestic setting is by default cause by him and he will be arrested for it. Boys are told they are toxic and should be more like females. Men are told to be more like females, and that is not going to be beneficial to men in any way whatsoever.
When men like me, decide to no longer allow women into our lives, and treat them with indifference to disdain, we are called every bad name imaginable. We are blamed for the state taking everything from us and giving it to a cheating ex wife, we are held responsible for her actions, so we opt out.
We are opting out in droves, I have friends who have never heard anything about any of this, who are also eschewing females, because they are nothing but problems and expense for my friends. Women most affected, men are to blame.
Women are given every benefit, hand up, handout, and encouragement, while men are reviled, hated, maligned, and punished for being men, and they wonder why men are opting out. The hilarious part of all this to me is how society has been misinformed into thinking that women in control will turn out better for everyone, but a bridge collapse in Florida is an example of how that works out.
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rawtheory333 from your perspective, with the ideological lens in place, you are right. Without the ideological lens through which you see the entire world, its a very different view. I know, they tried very hard to put that lens in place for me, 16 years of indoctrination, 6 years in a parochial school reading the bible for two hours each day in lieu of math and science.
Travelling the world, serving in the military, meeting people from around the globe, and seeing the world from their perspective was a big part of that lens falling away. Most everyone I know stayed home, and they live within 100 miles of where they were born. They believe, my curious, questioning mind that remembers quite well just isn't going to accept things that make no sense or are contrary to reality.
Its the main reason I am unfavorable towards marxism, and yet I am favorable to your religion in many ways. I see what the effects are of the ideology, and the marxist one is the most vile repugnant abhorent ideology ever devised and inflicted upon humanity.
You christians are pretty much ok with me. I'd really rather not get into a discussion about the rationality of your belief system. I don't want to do that to you, no need to make you angry from cognitive dissonance. :) A marxist though I will rip that ideology to shreds and laugh about it as they seethe with anger.
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24 years of being a rental, unimpressive to us active duty types who had to deal with activated rentals and fix all their screw ups. Two weekends a month, two weeks a year, they don't learn much and a rental E7 knows about the same as an active duty E2 maybe an E3. I had to train them, over and over because they would forget it between drill weekends. Most of the time they would sit around and take up space, and not even help us move cargo or load planes.
I got to know a bunch of them very well, one guy looked and sounded exactly like Robert Graves. We would have him say "What's our vector Victor?"
This Walz guy talked about those 'Ramp Ceremonies' like he was broken up over one of them. I did over a hundred of them on my 2004 deployment to Kuwait. Too many of them. It got to where all I could do was drive the forklift that removed the member's personal effects from the plane. How dare he claim to be a combat veteran because he went to Italy.
My job was loading cargo planes, both cargo and passengers. I threw lots of bags like Tim did too. I was in Kuwait in 2004, without anything hostile going on, just the usual dangers of working around aircraft and 10,000lb pallets. I served in Desert Shield/Storm, and OIF/OEF, which were the two largest airlifts in world history. I was neck deep in both airlifts. The only time I saw anything 'sporty' was 1991, after the Iraqi's gave up.
Lots of us cargo guys came back with purple hearts, I did not. I kinda got lucky in 1991, they missed. My brother was missed too, he drove HETs with manned tanks on the back around Iraq, then flew UH60s in Afghanistan, apparently he didn't draw enough fire in the truck. My brother did 22 years active duty, and had 7 combat deployments.
So when someone like Walz whines and complains, then brags about things he never did, I cannot give them any respect, sure as hell not some rental who tapped out before he deployed.. and yeah, you know years in advance when you're going to deploy when you're over E5. I knew in 2000 that I would deploy in 2001 and 2004, its roughly every two years, sometimes three.
I like to joke that I was a space shuttle door gunner, which is OBVIOUSLY a joke, when I ridicule these wannabes and posers.
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Our number attracts them if its high, and makes them wonder what is wrong with us if its single digits. They are the gatekeepers of sex, we are the gatekeepers of commitment. In both cases a key that opens many locks is a master key, a lock that is opened by many keys is a dodgy lock. Its easy for girls to get sex, all they have to do is show up and say yes. It NOT easy for them to get commitment, and that is what she is trying to hide her dodgy lock from us to get.
They have every incentive to lie, cheat, and act poorly, and all the consequences are years down the road rather than being immediate like it is for us. We are punished for their actions and choices, they are rewarded regardless of what they do. This is what they wanted... so more and more of us are checking out and not playing the game.
In the near future, they will have immediate consequences for their poor choices... but they will continue to do the stupid shit they have been doing for decades and expect us to rescue and support them.
I'm not going to do it. They have proven to be untrustworthy, capricious, vindictive, and feel entitled to be that way. They are probably going to end up selling orifices just to get some food... and thats coming sooner than they think.
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@ColoradoStreaming after spending the larger part of my adult life in the US military, then the last 16 years forcibly retired with Congress telling me just how much I am worth (about $36k a year) the one thing I do not have at all when it comes to government is faith.
Call me a pessimistic optimist, or an optimistic pessimist, because I figure it will probably get worse, much much worse, but it could also get better. With what they are already trying to do, the for the people act enabling legal rigging of our elections, I have zero faith in the system.
I have faith in my training, abilities, and knowledge. I have none in other people so I am pleasantly surprised when they don't fuck me over. Going by what Obama did to us crippled veterans, I am quite certain Biden is going to fuck me even harder. I won't even get a sniff or a grope from him either.
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@DarkMatterX1 yep, started out lutheran, going to a lutheran school 1-6th grade. Read the bible A LOT instead of learning math and science. Met a beautiful Arab woman in 1990 and got engaged to her, its a long story all on its own, we didn't get married which is another long story but it involved a pentecostal military supervisor who didn't like me marrying an Arab and changing my religion..
Around 2009 or so, after learning to make vodka fuel to run my GTOs and Firebirds (I am big into old muscle cars) I got into learning more about biology, chemistry, physics, and the universe. I also saw my christian friends and muslim friends lying to make the other look bad.
It got me to thinking, trying to make the religious stuff fit with reality. Religion, and all ideology for that matter, lost.
I am 54 now, and if there is a god I will have some tough questions for him. There just might be an entity like what is talked about in the holy books, but so far it appears those books were written to explain things that were beyond the education of the people who were asked 'why?'
Thus I am an agnostic atheist.
Lots of interesting and strange things have happened to me over the years, so I do not discount the notion of the supernatural, but the gods as written, well, lets just say they are lacking somewhat.
As it happens islam is a very interesting religion, same backstory as christians and judiaism, but a different take for a different group of desert dwelling nomads. Its peaceful provided you follow near perfectly and are not a different flavor from the people around you.
I found the Arabs to be wonderful people more often than not... even when fighting them in the US military. They were doing their job and what they thought was right, can't fault them for that because I was doing the same.
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@Zatthium that stuff has dropped off since my hair went gray, they can tell I am just a 50 something guy who isn't going to steal anything. Black T shirt, jeans, ball cap, and $300 Redwing work boots is what I wear. Sometimes its a concert T, but its always black.
If I am driving one of my winter beaters I will get pulled over for no reason and hassled in Wisconsin, sometimes here in Michigan if its late at night. Driving the '65 GTO they don't mess with me as much, but in a $500 rusty pos I drive in the salt, they have a hardon for me.
While I was in the military, every time we had a piss test for drugs, I had to go. Every other month I was pissing in a cup. I know guys who went 20 years and never had to do it. While I was active I needed the job and the money, why the hell would I waste it on something that would get me thrown in prison or lose the job I needed? Just because I have too much muscle and I am a white male. Females didn't get fucked with like I did thats for damn sure.
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@larrygoerke9081 for me its the demeanor, what we called professionalism, no emotion, straight to the point, no fanfare, passing along information.
Right now I am working on making videos and getting out of the military briefing style of conveying information. When I became an NCO all the goofy shit I used to do from E1 to E4 was no longer acceptable. I could not joke with my guys, and I had to be 'professional' around them. No more jokes or funny voices.
The transition to civilian life has been an interesting one, and over the last 16 years I have become more anti social because we get used to people being at least in the same book if not on the same page on base, and civilians are all over the fucking place. Two divorces did not help, one 20 years ago the other in '13.
I'd rather live alone in the woods, build my old cars, play with my dogs, and make comments on videos when I am not doing the first person shooter thing pwning kids.
I avoid society rather than adjust to it.
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@michaelreutter9821 it is hilarious the way a woman's face lights up when I drop the fact I own my land (13 acres in the woods), have no debt, and have passive income. The look on their faces when I tell them I am not looking nor do I want anyone in my life is priceless.
Yeah I kinda drop that, and the fact I am over 7000 straight days of Saturday since I 'retired' at age 35, as a means to be somewhat petty and see their reactions.
The really funny ones are those who see me in the 70 Cuda, then the 65 GTO, the 70 GTO, and the 68 LeMans with an engine sticking out of the hood, and whatever else I happen to be driving, and they ask what I do for a living... I vaguely say "I build cars" but its not for a living, its for fun. I have lots of cars.... and some trucks.
After being getting ahead was prevented from 1994 to 2015 because of an ex, it is glorious to be unencumbered with my entire income not being whisked away to be awarded to someone who betrayed and lied about me. You'd never know it by looking at me, I wear the clothes to town that I wear whilst working on my cars. At most I will put on a clean T shirt with car or concert art on it and some blue jeans.
I drop it in conversation like 'oh and this too, its fun not having to work' as I buy $300 worth of groceries without paying attention to what it costs. Yeah I eat very well, no processed stuff for me. Its all fresh.
Its worth it to spend money and time on cars, because old muscle cars are appreciating in value. Women are depreciating every day after the 24th birthday. My daughter will have a sizable chunk of wealth available to her, she can drive some, sell some, and live on my land never having to work again if she doesn't want to. She is learning a good work ethic right now.
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@karenredbaron currently, its not worth the risk for men, particularly those of us over 45. Its purely a financial thing, I am 53, and if I got with another girl and made any commitment to her, like letting her live here or being VERY daft, getting married, when she decides to leave for any reason the state would give her my home, land, and anything else she wanted. In my home state there is no minimum time to be stuck with child support for a kid that is not mine. The state I live in now isn't common law, but its still very easy to lose my home to someone I let live here with me.
I am too old to rebuild again, I would lose everything I have worked my entire life for... it would be the third time. I would lose the last ten years I invested into building my home, shop, and all the cars I take from rusty junk into nice daily drivers.
How is it fair that someone can invest nothing, but get everything? I own my land and have no debt, but it can be taken from me and given to someone who played no part in building it into what it is now.
She risks little, while I would be risking everything. Its simply not worth the risk, because at any time she can decide to ruin me financially and leave me sleeping in my car again. Twice in one life is more than enough. Three times means I didn't learn from the first two.
Its the laws that are the problem. Its assumed the man causes the problem and the breakup, that he is responsible no matter what. She is always the victim, even if she lies, cheats, and does everything wrong, she is still the victim in the eyes of the court.
In all my years of dating and being in long term things, I have had two end without undue drama on her end. The second wife accused me of things I could not physically do, and I sat in jail for it. Prior to her meeting that guy, I could trust her with anything. She switched in less than an hour, and then I was everything that is wrong in the world. If it was a one off thing I could understand the thinking that I 'chose a bad one' but that has been how almost every girl has been that I have known for the last 50 years. They change their mind and it doesn't have to be rational or logical, it can be on a whim, and I have to pay for it.
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@DoctorM42 Government is either given authority by the people, e.g. consent of the governed, or it is a totalitarian/authoritarian regime that uses force and threat of death to control the population because it owns them. Right now we have the people of the USA withdrawing our consent to be governed by the installed regime, because they have left the founding principles of our nation and are pushing the moronic ramblings and notions of Marx.
They want civil unrest here in the US, that is why they allowed the riots all last year, they want it to become so bad that we all cry to them to save us from it. That is what they have done in every country that was taken over by marxists, make it so horrible that people will accept anything to make it stop. The difference between the US and all those other countries that fell to marxism?
People here are not uneducated serfs, they are not beholden to lords, potentates, or others, they can decide for themselves and act on that decision, and we are the most heavily armed country in the entire fucking world.
Afghanistan has been a shithole forever, it has been the great blunder since humans have lived there. Do not get involved in a land war in Asia. Small population and a few with a fervent belief system, and not a whole lot of arms to fit their zealous willingness to defend their land and live how they want to live. Getting involved in a land war in the USA will make Afghanistan look easy, Japan understood that in the 1930s. The only way to defeat the US is to carpet nuke the entire country, and then what is the point? Its all uninhabitable and the world is plunged into nuclear winter.
Its only a matter of time before the people living in the USA know what its like to be an Afghan this week, and to know what those of us who wore the uniform of the US military have known... after more than 30 years of continuous conflict in the region. Its coming for all of you, I have been there, done that, and survived it twice. Good luck.
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@zuko9085 yes supplies are limited, but they can manipulate the supply to increase profits. The same way diamonds are inflated in price. Only let a limited amount into the market, and create a demand.
With oil, there is no way you or I can enter the market and start producing it. The entry cost is high, you need to pull it from the ground, refine it, then distribute it.
Someone like me can do other things to produce energy. I do small scale, call it personal energy production if you will, and its green. I make ethanol to run my vehicles, use wood to heat my home, and I am working on methane production so I can power generators in addition to wind.
I make enough for me, I suppose I could ramp it up if I had a couple extra hands and provide energy to others, but I only care about making mine. Producing energy is a lot of work, doesn't matter where you get it. You have to put something in to get something out. Its either going to cost you time or cash, sometimes/usually both.
The way the government does things is throw tax money at it, while they skim from it to enrich themselves at our expense. So I am not a fan of their version of how to do green energy. They want to plug it into the current system of centralized distribution, because that maximizes their profits, and the cost to us as well.
My method is you make your own and tell the big corporations/government to piss off. There is nothing the government improves or makes less expensive, when they get involved the cost always goes up.
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Old school daily builds are tons of fun. Its been a while since I did an engine for under $400, 1987 was the last time I didn't bore a block and get everything fresh. I decided I am going to do that with a 71 Formula I have had sitting around since 1997 or so. Might as well have the same goals, 20mpg, cheap to build, dependable.
Re ring a virgin 400 I got essentially for free, bolt up all the extra parts I have sitting around like the early heads so it has compression and I can run it on E85, RA III cam because its all of $72 brand new from Summit and I have three of them here, a 2004R behind it from the core pile with a basic kit in it, and whatever rear end I feel like, with choices from 2.41 to 4.10, so probably a 3.08 or 3.42 with the OD trans and a 65mph limit around here.
Shoot a quick and dirty paint job on it in some pearl color, monochromatic the entire thing with no shiny trim like the 80s, and probably a set of old beat to death slot mags. Backup daily to the 65 GTO that needs a bunch of work again. I might even fix up the interior since right now there isn't one. It needs some rust repair in the floors, which is no big thing to me. Manual brakes and steering make everything simple, so its just suspension bushings and brake hoses, because near 50 year old brake hoses are not to be trusted.
I figure well under $1000 to have a driver by the end of June if I can drag it back here this week.
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Tony what happens when you forget to turn off the switch powering the field and its not ultimately connected to the battery, but is wired like a factory setup on most vehicles? The engine will run on the alternator even with the battery disconnected. Unless you have the routine down to muscle memory, you could forget it, and that can cause problems if there is an issue. I tend to forget things like turning off the alternator before a run, so that isn't the best solution for me.
I am not a fan of stringing wires the length of the vehicle either, and I just did thwiring and cut off on my NNN 68 LeMans. It has electric fuel pumps, so I powered them directly off the cut off switch, they are off even if the alternator keeps things working, you flip that switch and they are off. I have the ground to the pumps on the relay to switch them on. Don't need another hot wire running the length. The only wire for the pumps running forward is that ground wire, I like to limit the chances of electrical fires so I tend to swtch the ground.
Since mine is GM I have the two wires coming off the alternator, one is the filed the other is the light, and it senses voltage for the internal regulator from the field wire. I run that single wire to the farthest point on all my vehicles, no matter where they battery is because voltage drops over distance. Its a way to make the lights brighter, keep the battery charged, and run all the extra crap like fuel and water pumps, the EFI etc. I run that wire back to the switch as well, so the alternator sees the voltage at the switch, but is charging at the Ford style solenoid I have on the firewall.
I like to rebuild my alternators into 100 amp units, its easy with the internal regulator GM units, replace the diodes, rectifier, etc with higher amperage pieces. You can get a kit for them. I did that on my 65 GTO and it has no problem running the fuel pump, ignition wipers, lights, stand alone O2, two 600w amps and EFI. The Old Goat has a bunch of tech in it that wasn't invented when it was built. Gotta have enough power and the factory 50--65 amp isn't going to do the job.
My Cuda has a hard time with its factory alternator, I put an electric pump on it because the factory 5/16" stuff wasn't working to feed the 340 and it heat soaked bad. With the stereo on and the fuel pump running, its discharging at idle. So I have to figure out a way to remedy that like I do with my Pontiac vehicles. Maybe a later unit will work. Its keeping me from running the EFI unit I got for the Cuda, not enough power to run everything at a stop light.
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@Eirik_Bloodaxe when I left religion, I did not want to join another one. It got me thinking when I was banned from both atheism subreddits back in 2013 because I did not approve of feminism and socialism. it was then I noticed they took on a different religion to replace they one they left.
Made me wonder why they did so. What I came to see was they needed an authority figure and an in group so they could fit in and conform. Its funny how so many want to be nonconformist but then conform to their own smaller in group.
I've been thinking about contacting Matt Dillahunty about how so many can lose religion with supernatural ethereal gods only to take up another religion with an equally nebulous one but with the state as their god.
I bet I can piss him off and make him hang up on me.. lol I wonder if he will go with the marxism is not a religion, its a political ideology path. I know the dark haired feminist girl will. Been a while I don't remember her name.
Think about it, marxists claim they can bring on utopia where nobody will want for anything and all are equal. Sounds a lot like heaven to me.
Then they say some have privilege due to being white, male, rich, whatever. That sounds like original sin does it not?
Then if you disagree or point out where marxism has always failed, they resort to the same logical fallacies used by religious people to defend and prop up their ideology when it is show to be illogical or irrational.
They use the same tactics, scream louder, try to ban anything that disagrees with the narrative, and say you're ignorant and need to be educated, all while claiming they are victims of persecution.
They are fundamentalist religious zealots to me. Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, moves like a duck, must be a duck, but they claim they are a watermelon.
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Tell the best story...thats a problem because these people doing and running these things are not creative, they lack imagination, and they cannot come up with a good story. All they can do is take an existing story, shoehorn characters into it, and repackage it with their ideology. You can look at architecture and see the same thing. If the people following that ideology erect a building, its a simple block made of concrete with a decidedly prisonlike appearance and feel to it. Normally what they do is take what someone else has built, claim it for their own, then splatter it with feces and unimaginative graffiti.
Who is going to watch a bland, unimaginative movie that makes no sense and leaves you feeling like you want your two hours back? People are forced to live in those buildings, but you can't force them to watch craptastic films without clockwork orange style goggles and restraints. Thus they need to get people to go spend money on it, and if they don't like it its because they're a phobe or an ist rather than a sensible human who simply wants a good story.
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Sydney, you might be surprised to discover that most women in the west are typically like those shown on those kinds of podcasts. Every woman takes these as a personal affront because women are acutely aware of how others perceive them, and they are dependent on attention and validation from others. You think those 'special' ones reflect on you. That is not a dig nor a judgement, its simply how women are even if you don't like it. Judging you ladies on the same criteria as men does you all a disservice. You're different than us.
Men do not care what you might think of some other guy, he is not us and we judge him on the same basis we judge ourselves. What we know, can do, have done, and how competent we are in doing it are the big ones. We do not care about your achievements, how much money you make, how many houses or cars you own, but we do care how many men have been poking around in your special playground. Its simply how we are.
If you want examples of emotional thinking without logic and reason, you seek it from women as it is readily available and easy to find. If you want logic and reason, you will find far more men than women employing them in their every day lives, and not using their emotions as a guide. This is why the men look better on these podcasts than the women do, because it is incredibly easy to get a woman to give an irrational response based entirely on emotion.
As for who is doing whom a disservice, we can get into who pays and has no rights when things go to family court if you like. Its true that not every woman will do that to us... but it is also true that every one of you CAN, and its easy to do as the laws and courts are massively in your favor. So excuse us if we eschew relationships with you nice ladies, because living in an old $500 car for several years is less preferable than living alone in our own home, and not having to pay someone to sleep with other random guys is vastly more lucrative and enjoyable for us as well.
Sorry for you in that you are nearly 6' fall, that makes it tough as most men world wide are around my height, 5'7" to 5'9" as an average. We don't mind tall women, I rather enjoy them when they are thin like you and take care of themselves, the problem is you ladies seem to want the .1% of men who are well over 6'4" and you feel entitled to them. Even the short ones want the tall guys, which makes it more difficult for you and your tall sisters.. like my daughter who is an inch shorter than me at 5'7". She mostly dates men shorter than she is, because they tend to treat her better than the 6' and over guys.
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I'm 55 and the only thing close to a midlife crisis I am having is wondering if I will get all of these muscle cars rebuilt and drivable before I expire. I've had some of them for more than 40 years. I've traveled the world, gotten 'busy' on four continents, and risk has been a big part of my life. Calculated risk, not risk without reward. Two ex wives, two kids with the first one, and my youngest and I are pretty close. I never let one of them tell me what I could or could not do. In fact the first one still complains to my kids about me buying a 1970 GTO in the mid 1990s for $1000. I still have the car and that one has been gone since 2001.
DON'T BE THAT GUY. He has done nothing in his life, taken no risks, achieved nothing. You can look at him and see he is soft, he lets everyone walk on him and cannot stand up for himself. Lift heavy stuff, do things that require effort, take on tasks that are arduous and dangerous in your youth, because it pays off when you're my age.
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@gulfy09 I don't do gasoline, mainly because I have to get it from someone who pumps oil out of the ground, cooks it to get the good stuff out, then sells us the leftovers as transportation fuel at the price they set for us.
I make ethanol myself, from tree sap, cattails, coffee grounds, and have friends who use waste paper, stale bread, and other things they get very cheap or free.
The key being I produce what I use rather than buy it from others who dictate how much I have to pay. Ten cents a gallon to make fuel from tree sap vs $3.40 a gallon for 87 octane, and $4.30 for premium. I have over 300 maple trees I can tap every other year for fuel, but really it can be made from any starch or sugar.
What happens when gasoline goes to $12 a gallon or we go Mad Max and its not being produced anymore? You can either fight over the scraps, or you can start making fuel like I do. Really though, the low cost and power is why I am into it.
Then factor in I can run all my small chamber high compression heads from the 1960s on the biggest engines I can build, it runs cooler, makes more power, doesn't foul my engines with black carbon deposits that cause wear on bearing surfaces, and works exceptionally well with boost, and the cheap way is how I am going to do it.
I could do all of the vapor with gasoline, but its more expensive, you still need gasoline that you cannot produce, and it will still have the problems Tony stated, such as it has to get up to operating temp before it works right.
Heating the fuel in the EFI rails works on any engine without any special things other than a way to actually heat it. I am building a heat jacket that goes in the heater hose, easy to put a valve on it if for some reason you don't want to heat the fuel. It can be fitted to any existing liquid cooled engine. I suppose exhaust gas could be used in air cooled engines too, but I don't bother with them.
With ethanol you can run 16:1 compression in your daily driver, that picks up mileage well above what you can get with gasoline. heat the fuel on top of that, you pick up more with the vapor. It runs cooler so you don't need as much cooling system volume, so that means less mass has to be moved around.
Diesels get their efficiency from the over 20:1 compression ratios, but because the fuel ignites when it wants to rather than when a spark tells it to, diesel engines have to be built to withstand severe ping/knock, because that is how they run. No need for all that mass when you run ethanol, it does not shock the piston and connecting rod, its 'softer' as it doesn't have the sharp spike gasoline and diesel have, its more of a curve than a spike. That saves parts.
Smaller more powerful lighter engines are possible running ethanol, and you can make the fuel yourself if you have some space. Apartments are not a good place to run a still. If you want to live in a city, well you are going to have to rely on others to bring you everything.
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@allamericanslacker2378 I'm east of you in the UP, upper peninsula. Most people don't even realize its part of the USA as its left off many maps. The lake effect is the reason for the snow, and we can get six feet of it in a few hours. The lake also moderates the temperatures to some extent, its warmer along the coastline than it is inland. In summer its cooler, unless the wind is from the south. Superior and Michigan break up the big thunderstorms, so the weather here is usually milder than Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, and the Dakotas.
They salt the roads heavily here, so that means I can't drive my hotrods from November to May, that is the hardest thing for me. I drive $500 crapboxes all winter, no way will I take something I care about into the salt.
The cold is not enjoyable with all the destroyed joints I have, walking is difficult, and last winter I nearly snapped a tendon in my foot by sliding an inch or two on the ice. Took forever to heal, it pulled the connective tissue from the bone, same thing as in my arm. Thats the problem with lots of muscle mass, you can over power your skeletal system.
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There is a bridal shop next to my gym. Its open by appointment only. Nobody is getting married around here. Why should a man get married? There is zero benefit in it for him, its all risk with no pay out. She can trade him in for cash and prizes at any time, and he has no choice but to pay, or end his existence. Men are checking out.. Girls are going after the same handful of men in their area, sharing them between each other, and ignoring all the other men. This is what you get with the You Go Girl attitude and Duluth model legislation.
I'm 53, two wars, two divorces, but I now own 13 acres of woodland well away from cities where I build cars and make shorts of snow sliding off my roof. The last thing I am going to do is let a female in here so she can lay claim to everything I have built. Before I give it all away a 3rd time I will burn it all to the ground and splatter gray matter.... 100% of nothing is still nothing.
All of YOU young people get to enjoy this, I'll be gone within the next 20 years.. I had a good run full of hardship and strife, its YOUR turn.
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Leftists, I like to call them colloquially marxists, are the type of people who as kids would start some shit with another kid, pester him until he strikes back at them, then they run to the teacher to tell on the kid who they pushed into hitting them. They are authoritarians, they want others to do their dirty work, because they are incapable of doing it themselves, but they will talk big while they have protection from the group, the authority, or anonymity.
You can see what happens to them in that video from a few years back, where the auntifah kid took a swing at the jacked guy with a weapon, the the jacked guy cold knocked him out. Any idea how rare it is that a leftist is heavily muscled and accomplished in any sort of physical endeavor or combat sport? Its incredibly rare.
They are the weak, ineffective, inept, and incompetent people who are envious of others who put in the work to achieve, so they resent they are not like the people who have earned something, but are too lazy to achieve it for themselves. They feel entitled to what others have built or earned, and want it to be taken from others and given to them, without having to put in any effort. Every leftist I have ever known, seen, or read about has been this type of individual. They think like spoiled8 year old girls.
When they get into power, like Stalin or Adolf, the only recourse they have when manipulation and propaganda fail, is violence and they start filling big holes in the ground with people who are disinclined to follow inept people installed in leadership positions. Like our current potato in chief.
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@Revan619 The first 45 years of my life were pretty damn rough. The last 8 have been sorta better, even though my parents both died, along with a dog, and the country is going to hell in a bucket.
No matter how hard it has been, how much was taken from me, what people tried to do to make my life worse or to control me, I have never stopped trying to make it better.
Its kinda funny. I live in a shipping container house I built, and I don't have running water just yet, but thats ok. My two story with a loft house cost me less than $20k to build. I have a portable shower that I can use to heat rain water and get clean when I want to.
I own my land free and clear, just need to get a drain field built so I can have a drain for the water... and a functioning commode. Its like a deployment where nobody is shooting at me, and I can work on my cars and stuff whenever I want... or watch videos like I have for a while today.
I have money in the bank, my bills are about 8% of my monthly income, so I can eat well ($200-$300 per week, fresh fruit, meat, good veggies) and still build my hotrods. I no longer have to wait months to buy a $1000 item or parts, I just go get it. Can't go completely crazy, but I am not held up by money anymore, just physical limitations from being crippled.
The amount of investment and sacrifice I have made to build my home and shop so I can rebuild my rusty junk into fun daily drivers and sorta quick toys, was enormous. Its mine and nobody can take it from me without either lots of cash or a fight.
I have to deal with my ex tossing my property tax exemption paperwork, but thats a small thing really. I turned it in, she probably threw it away since she works at the township hall. She is gonna have a bad day when all of this shakes out. Its best for them to NOT be vindictive, but chicks can't help it, especially when they are the ones who did everything wrong.
Yeah crippled veterans are exempt from property taxes here. So I have that going for me, which is nice. Still, its like $350 a year... no big thing really.
I've rebuilt my life eight times since 1987 when I graduated high school. All you can do is just keep working, getting back up, moving towards your goals, and making it happen. It helps to not do something stooop[d like getting married.
Even when I was sleeping in an RV, paying the mortgage and building loans while I built this place, I have been happier than ever in my entire life. When its below zero out and I realize my insulation work needs improvement, its still good living. Days like today when its over 80 and I don't bother to turn on the small window AC, its wonderful living here in the woods.
My favorite pastimes are killing mosquitoes in mass quantities, building overpowered muscle cars, watching my orb weaver spiders make intricate webs, looking at the stars on a clear night because I can see billions of them with nearly zero light pollution, and playing video games every night after doing whatever the hell I damn well please all day.
Now I have to go out and finish the 6.0 swap into a 2007 Silverado 1500 crew cab so I can drag my trailer around and haul a bunch of other rusty junk I have had stored at the family farm for 20 to 40 years, to where I live now. Its 1000 miles one way, so I need a reliable truck with enough power to go up hills and such.
I think when I head into town I will get a solar light and replace the bulb with a black light so I can attract bugs to the orb weavers outside my back door. I really loathe mosquitoes, so anything that eats them is a friend of mine.
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Choose your battles, if its unwinnable, you can continue jousting windmills, or you can pursue an endeavor that benefits you. If its worth it, I will keep going until I stop breathing, if its mostly irrelevant, I'll walk away without a second thought. Just because something is difficult doesn't mean its not worth it, doesn't mean it is worth it either, thats where the cost-benefit analysis comes in. I have a huge amount of persistence if its valuable to me, and less than zero if its only cost with nothing in return.
Thats why I rebuild very rusty old muscle cars, like GTOs, Mustangs, etc. Its a monumental task, but I enjoy doing the work, and I enjoy driving them even more. Its also why I don't date anymore, because the cost is too great and the benefit is near zero. I'm almost 56 and have two grown daughters, I really don't need all that added nonsense and drama added to my life.
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fuck google that my friend, depends entirely upon what he does with his time in office, and what Harris does when they toss Creepy Joe out and into a rest home for dementia. If they make good on their threats to subvert the Constitution then yes.. that will be the time to act.
If they dick around and make themselves rich like they usually do, and they don't try the stupid shit, we get some more time before our kids and families know what war actually is. Don't cross the line carved in stone, and they will survive the next 4 years. Its carved in stone, not sand, because sand moves and can be erased.
Honestly my biggest issue with all of this is the fact we will never have a fair and legal election again if this shit is not investigated and prosecuted. Its blatantly obvious there was fuckery afoot.
If Biden wins fairly, well shit, we get what we deserve, and we will most probably end up neck deep in war again.
However what happened here in Michigan and in Wisconsin is painfully obvious fraud. Just gotta prove it and act on that proof. If nothing happens, well Creepy Joe will make it all go away, like Hunter's laptop, all the kid sniffing and money laundering... and in 4 years they will cheat again and that will be the end of the republic unless the rest of us act and do the We The people thing.
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She sounds like my first ex, who thought I should do the dishes, cook food, and do laundry when I was working 50 to 70 hours a week in a factory, running dangerous machines, being covered in scalding hot oil, where temps in the winter were over 90F and in summer was 130F+... then she expected me to hand over my entire paycheck to her to spend on anything other than bills, I was supposed to work extra to pay the bills. We have been divorced 21 years and she STILL bitches to the kids that she could not control me.
Despite working those hours I spent as much time with my kids as I could. I was there the first time they crawled, walked, rode bikes, because I taught them. I heard their first words, taught them to read, write, and do math. Colors shapes and how to run computers... all before they were 4 years old.
The second one was nothing like that, we had no kids and she was more like a roommate I slept with. Eight years of awesome, then we got married and that was her cue to lie, cheat, and falsely accuse me.
There is a reason I live alone in the woods, build muscle cars, own a decent sized chunk of land free and clear. I paid my dues, and that tuna smelling snot pocket is not worth the stress, effort, and expense.
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@mikec3201 if you are only starting to organize now, you are truly fucked. You might want to get to know some of us ex green wearing types, we know how this works and what to do, the only thing left for us is to figure out who it is that will directly oppose us. They will show themselves soon enough.
Read my other replies in this thread just ahead of this one. They flesh out some of my reply to you.
I hear what the politicians are saying, watching what they are doing, and I know what the result will be if we allow it. There is a sequence of events that these things follow, the marxists can't help but follow that SOE because they are not overly bright, have no imagination, yet think themselves of superior intellect. They are the epitome of Dunning-Krueger.
They have to follow the plan set before them, because like ants they are lost if they have to go off road. They need the control, they cannot function without someone else telling them what, where, when and how. Personal responsibility is alien to them, as is individual initiative.
Why else would the doctrine come up with the idea of massed wave attacks? Human life is meaningless to them, only the state, which is their god, is what matters.
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@mikec3201 To be honest, the system we started with was a very good one, but it has been corrupted by marxists and crony capitalists like Rockefeller, Hearst, Gates, Bloomberg, etc. Either pushing their agenda on all of us like Bloomberg, or by funding the enactment of prohibition laws that benefit them at the cost of the rest of us.
They throw money and/or propaganda around like a monkey flinging poo, and get shit all over the rest of us.
The people who should not be in office are the ones running for it, look at how many of them are convicted felons and disbarred lawyers. Seriously what the fuck?
How do we fix it? Well voting obviously doesn't work anymore because they can make the machines say what they want them to say, and put the assholes they want in office.
The way to repair this is not going to be an easy one, and it will not be safe, because those smacktarded fuckknucles in office want to keep their power and prestige. They need to be removed from office and stripped of any power. We can do it without firing a shot, but the problem is we need enough people who will show up and make a stand against them.
Northam caved after winning a rigged election and the people showed up in defiance. These cowards hide behind the police and military, and they tell all of us things like "What is your AR15 going to do against a tank or F16?" They spread defeatist narratives and fear, then sow racial discord among us to keep us from realizing we are all Americans, no matter if we get a sunburn easily or not.
We only need to stand up and demand they leave, a show of force like the USAF 'Elephant Walks' in the Pacific. Its a warning that we can fuck you up if we want to, so do not push our hand and give us a reason.
If it comes to it, then yes we can fight back because tanks and airplanes can't control a street corner. They can't remove hedgehogs placed in highways leading into the democrat controlled cities, they can't get trains in when the tracks are unsafe. They can't stop us from carrying a rifle, shotgun, or pistol everywhere we go. That is the alternative they face, its either relent and abdicate their position so we put someone in office who works for us, or we will make life a living hell for them and their supporters.
We don't need to shoot anyone to get the point across, but we sure as fuck can go that route if they leave us no other option.
We need a reset, but not into communism like the WEF wants. No we need a reset to the system we have so we can remove the monkey shit from the walls. It requires we work together, as peacefully as we can to effect the change we want.
We used to be able to do that by voting, now we have to do it with civil action, call it disobedience if you like, but you are not being disobedient when you do not follow unconstitutional edicts. We as US citizens have a duty to throw out corrupt politicians and unjust/unconstitutional laws, because THEY WORK FOR US, we are their boss.
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There are plans to kill off people, most of the world's population, they aren't even hiding it. They want everyone to live in cities, take the bus, live in a pod, and eat the free food they give you.. rumors are it will be made from bugs. The reason being, those people want control of you, what you do, what you buy, and how you live as well as think. The last thing they want is some crazy guy like me out in the woods, building race cars for the street, and producing his own fuel, food, and electricity. Its damn hard to control someone when they need nothing from you.
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@L 024 its not the alt left, its marxists and they run the governments over there. The UN is the new version of the soviet union, but they are mostly toothless since they don't have an army. They are trying to make Europeans second class, because they are harder to control than 3rd world people.
I am not a fan of hurting people, I'd really rather not. However I have zero issue with really hurting people if its warranted. I'd much prefer to live in the woods and build my cars, I just spent the day working on an engine I am putting in my 76 chevy pickup. Thats what I like to do.
I can't do that with marxists in control, partly because they won't allow it, also because I won't be able to get parts and supplies.
Do yourself a favor, learn about marxism, it includes fascism, communism, socialism, feminism, post moderinism, and others. The more you know about it the easier it is to see when they are trying to push it on you. Around here its the antitheses of everything the US was built on, so it will never be something I can abide.
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Far too many people over the years: "Why don't you sell all those old cars and buy a nice shiny new one that you don't have to work on?"
Me: Well, first of all what is the fun in that? Secondly exactly what Tony is talking about.
Back in the 80s and 90s I simply could not afford the new car, with insurance, car payment, taxes, plates, at that was only with $20k vehicles. Now with $50k and up for anything I would want to bother driving, its even more money just to buy and drive it.
I can buy $300 worth of scrap POS rolling shell, a two door with a bit of rust, no engine, transmission, or interior. Then build an engine and transmission for it or drop in one from a running vehicle, repair the rust, and make door panels, make some seats fit it, rebuild the suspension and brakes, and throw on a set of tires..
I'm doing that with a couple cars right now, the Ventura that I have about $3000 invested in, and the 71 Mustang that was VERY rusty but its only going to run me about $10k total when its all done.
Even something like my 65 GTO that was so rusty it wasn't even a good parts car takes less energy to rebuild than taking recycled or new metal, melting it down and making a new car.
I drive 99-07 Silverados in winter, 4x4s, 1500 and 2500s, I get them for $200 to $1000 and they run, they simply have LOTS of rust. Body parts for them are cheap, I am amazed at how cheap, and they are bolt on body parts other than rockers, floors, and cab corners, which are super easy to replace. However, some are so far gone I just drive them until they rust in half, then yank the engine, transmission, and whatever other parts are still good, and send them to the metal chipper.
If the frame is gone from rust, its junk but the cab might get swapped on a different frame. The drivetrain parts are usually still good. Right now I need to build another shed to store the parts I pull from the trucks that are too far gone, because I have trucks that are too far gone with 6.0 and 4L80 parts that are under 200k miles, and some over 300k.
For what I am doing, those engines and transmissions are perfectly functional. I might pull the oil pan to replace the pickup tube O ring, which is an issue with the LS engines, then yank the heads off and replace the lifter trays so the lifters don't turn sideways and break the rollers. Over 300 I might pull them apart and replace the wear items, or drop in a stroker crank because the bores are usually still good. Otherwise, they are a bolt in deal for other trucks, and a 1500 with a 6.0/4L80 in it makes a really nice truck to pull a single car open trailer.
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First wife was 20 when I met her, 28 when she cheated and took off with my two daughters. Second was a 21 year old virgin when I met her, and 30 when she left to be with her 'soulmate' she had known for less than 3 weeks. I got their best years, now both are miserable, alone, unwanted, and they chose that. I owe them nothing, but they are still trying to get money from me, despite the first divorce being 22 years ago, and the second 10 years ago, and I am done paying child support.
I never had a big problem meeting girls and getting them nekkid, despite being 5'8 and not overly wealthy. Its muscle and a dominant personality with a deep voice connected to it that did it. I still had to talk to them, but they showed interest first, and I acted on that. Well over a hundred, lost count more than 30 years ago, most just wanted ONS from the muscle bound freak who looks like a pale gorilla.
They are not an asset, they are a liability and their minimal value decreases every year, like a fiberglass boat smaller than 26 feet. You have to pay to get rid of them and they are just a hole that soaks up money. Unless you get very lucky, which doesn't seem to happen for you younger men. Live your life, accept you are probably a genetic cul de sac, because that is what the vast majority of men have been throughout history, and enjoy the time you have here. You only get one life, and being indentured to someone who hates you and banging some other dude is not very enjoyable.
Unless the laws are fixed and girls are no longer encouraged to act and choose poorly, then rewarded for it at your expense. If that is fixed, then your life will be good.. just wait about 20 to 30 years from now.
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It would affect the GPS guided munitions, but not so much the carrier, escort, or the planes, the crews are still trained in various non satellite based navigation. Also the avionics on the modern planes can hit much more accurately with 'dumb' bombs which are essentially the same as they were in WWII. We were dropping WWII era bomb cases in 1991 during my first war, we had scrapped a bunch of them and had to buy them back for the Desert Storm.
The modern Navy Admiral would probably hold off on using the expensive 'unreplaceable for 70 years' munitions, saving them for high value targets and instead use the iron dumb bombs of the era to take out the lower value targets. They would probably stay subsonic with the FA18s, to conserve fuel and reduce maintenance, because really they only need 50mph-100mph advantage to fight the A6M... and they have a lot more than that along with G suits. Fighting speed for the FA18 is well above that of the A6M, Ki61, and even the Ki84 from late in the war. Working in teams of three or four an entire Japanese fighter wing could be wiped out in minutes with guns alone with the greatest threat being mid air collisions. With no planes and skilled pilots, carriers are nothing more than a big empty parking lot floating around.
So he is right about a few things, but assumes a lot more, like the idea that an Admiral isn't going to conserve munitions, fuel, and aircraft to launch an all out assault to expend most of it at the outset. The assumptions are more like someone who plays video games than someone who has served in the US military. :) Still, its fun to watch and see what people think.
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@Bahlzeron ethanol is fuel, I run my 65 and 70 GTO on it, along with other vehicles I have. Methanol is also a fuel, and it is highly toxic, corrosive, takes 2x as much to run the engine as gasoline. Ethanol is between gasoline and methanol for how much it takes. Ethanol is not corrosive, and gets you drunk, but too much is toxic, though nowhere near as toxic as methanol a tenth of a cc of methanol will kill you. five shots of ethanol gives you a hangover.
Ethanol is made by putting sugar in water, adding yeast, and allowing no O2 in the system, yeast eat the sugar, fart Co2 and piss ethanol in that environment. It makes vodka when you distill it.
Methanol is made with bacteria in a very different method, its much harder to do, and the two processes are so vastly different you can't accidentally make methanol.
The people going blind thing is from the government mixing methanol with ethanol to denature it, you can't tell by the smell, and you can't distill all the highly toxic methanol out of it.
The reason the government requires me to have a permit from the BATF to produce ethanol fuel at home, is taxes. Alcohol for beverages is taxed at a much higher rate, and they want those taxes. Hence the term "Revenuer" they went out to collect taxes for ethanol produced and sold without taxing it.
There is no tax on home made fuel ethanol, and actually there have been incentives to make it yourself, not sure if they are still in effect or not.
However if you sell moonshine aka ethanol fuel as a beverage, they do not charge you for how much you actually sold, but how much ethanol your still could produce over a year. Be aware that my 2" packed column produces between 3 and 5 gallons of 190 proof fuel every hour. How many hours in a year? That is a massive fine and jail time.
I have to keep track of where every gallon goes and submit it every 90 days. On the bright side the permit is free and I can make up to 5000 gallons of fuel each year, I really only need 500 to 1000 for my yard full of high compression Pontiac engine powered machines.
I've been producing ethanol fuel and running it in my vehicles, both EFI and carbureted for the last 13 years, and I have been testing it the entire time for longevity, power, drivability and mileage.
Many people, it seems yourself included, conflate methanol with ethanol, they are VERY different. Beeswax is also an alcohol, so obviously not all alcohols are the same.
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@9Sec340Demon No need to blend it with gasoline. The problem is with water, as ethanol readily mixes with gasoline and water, but water and gasoline/oil do not mix. You can't easily mix hydrous ethanol with gasoline, but you can very easily run hydrous ethanol straight in an engine.
It makes more power, burns far cleaner (to the point you have zero wear in the engine after 500k miles and no black carbon coating everything), it runs cooler because it only has 60% waste heat meaning 40% of its energy is used to power the engine, gasoline under the best conditions in a lab is 20% efficient, and in the real world its around 16%-18% with the vast majority of the energy in gasoline going to waste heat.
The water thing is kinda cool. Ethanol methanol, isopropyl, all absorb water and bond to it. The water becomes part of the alcohol at the chemical level, water does not mix with gasoline as stated above. So alcohol in your tank removes the water and then you burn it, there are no slugs of water in fuel lines when you run ethanol or methanol fuel. It simply lowers the proof.
That means there is no rust, no corrosion, and it will run even if you have 5 gallons of fuel in a 10 gallon tank and dump 5 gallons of water in it, it will still burn at 100 proof, though not very well. I've had E85 and E100 in the tanks of my 65 and 70 GTO for years now, the 70 for 13 years. Inside the tanks are spotless, like they are brand new, and the 70's tank is the one it was born with in September of 1969.
In contrast, the '68 LeMans had not been driven since 1982, and it was full of rust, varnish, and the fuel line was completely blocked. I had to run a new line and run it on pump gas for a year before I could switch it to E85, so the 10% ethanol could slowly clean all the varnish and crud out of the tank, and not plug the pump, filter, and carb.
Been doing this a while now... You should look into running your Demon on it, E85 from the pump will work no problem to over 16:1 compression, and its a hell of a lot cheaper than race gas. Look up Mark Sullens if you want a carb done for you, because I do not do them for many people.
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@xfhghe yeah you can run a diesel on ethanol, if you add a spark ignition system, and either EFI or a carb, but it can't use the diesel/mechanical injection.
How much mileage you get depends on lots of things. Weight, aerodynamics, displacement, compression ratio, gear ratios, driving style, all kinds of things. It gets somewhat involved to explain all of it.
Here is a video explaining compression and what it does when you raise or lower it. If it will allow me to link it here anyway. Its not my video, but he did such a good job I am going to simply share his rather than make my own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pZqiuaZYGY
Optimizing an engine to run ethanol will preclude running it on gasoline, but you can get better mileage than gasoline if you do it.
The problem arises from getting it, because E85 and E98 are not available everywhere. If you make your own like I do, then you need space to do it, something to feed the yeast, and somewhere to store all of it once you have made it. A steady supply of clean water is needed as well, but its not toxic after you use water to ferment ethanol. The water can be recycled relatively easily, but it does take a considerable amount.
Everything in California is going to be expensive, they really like to tax everything there. They are also not overjoyed with the idea of using ethanol, because the chairwoman of CARB owns stock in coal and natural gas... well last I heard, she might not be there anymore. The one I am thinking of is married to the lawyer who defended Exxon in the Valdez spill. The "wrong" people would profit from it, so they are against it.
California doesn't care about conflict of interest.
The best way to utilize ethanol is produce it locally and use it locally, rather than trying to fit it into centralized distribution models. That way you don't have to ship it all over just to come back to where it was made. Centralized distribution works for oil and gasoline because its produced in specific areas.
Local production means making enough for you and your customers, not the entire world. Its not a silver bullet solution that fixes everything, but if you want to drive something that cleans the air and doesn't cost you much while you make lots of power, then it works pretty good.
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@alkestos Without casting aspersions on my intellect, both. You can watch out all you want, but if you're married you are at the mercy of a capricious individual who will act on any whim, then blame you for it and become the most vindictive resentful person you have ever met. She will be rewarded for it and you will be punished, especially when she cheats on you.
I was daft enough to trust another girl after the first one, but she was absolutely wonderful for 8 years prior to getting married. Only 16 months later I was sitting in jail for something I didn't do, had to pay her 'soulmate' $3k when they vandalized his truck, and was left homeless again. She knew him less than three weeks. She chose poorly, its ten years later, she is now 40 alone and unwanted. Karma is rough.
The first one took my kids 1500 miles away, which I was punished for, she got over $250k out of me between 2001 and 2015. Initially the state gave her 71% of my gross, which left me with $100 a month to spend however I wanted.. like eating every other day and sleeping in my old beat up car. She later agreed to lower it to only 65% of my gross, which was based on my earnings before I got crippled in the desert on my 04 deployment.
I got to see my kids a total of 12 days between 2001 and 2008. They were teenagers before I got to spend more than an afternoon with them. The state and their mother stole their childhoods from me, and my guidance and influence from them. I lived in my car Aug 01- June 02, went to Korea for a year and had no money, came back to the states and lived in my car June 03 to April 04.
My parents gave me a couple grand to add to what I had so I could buy some land back in 2013, closed on it two weeks after my divorce was final. Started building in 2015 when I no longer had to pay the first ex most of my VA compensation. Built my house, the 32x48x12 shop I rebuild old cars in, and carved it all out of the forest on the land I bought. $30k for the land, $35k for the building loan, paid it all off in Feb 2021.
Now I live debt free, build old GTOs from rusty $200 hulks into daily drivers with flashy paint and overly powerful Pontiac V8s. Then I drive them on cattail and tree sap vodka/ethanol. I got into green energy because its cheaper than buying food, fuel, and electricity where I live. Opens up cash for car parts I cannot make myself.
The last thing I want to do is marry some chick, and have her take everything I have built.. and yeah, I built it, a couple friends helped me put the roof on my house and shop, but the rest of it was me, working around my physical limitations from the 04 deployment. The state would give her my land, even though she put nothing into it and I owned it free and clear before I even met her.
Not much of an incentive to get married is it?
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@iamnotyu5548 to be fair, the first four were rather small. If you dropped them on LAX, the airport in LA, the blast effects would be limited to the boundaries of the airport. If you dropped a more modern warhead with a few megatons, you will get flattened concrete structures up to around 5 to 10 miles. The largest one the Russians detonated has a blast radius of over 30 miles.
Kilo tons are smaller than megatons, and yield varies quite a bit.
Nuke defense/survival was part of my training in Germany back in 1989-91. I ran the NBC shelters and bunkers, nuke bio chem = NBC. I got to learn all sorts of nightmare fuel, including how many rads you can take in your lifetime, what various agents do to you, and a great many other things.
Within 5 miles or so of the 'average' ones you get rubble at best. It depends on how high up it is on if it leaves a crater or not, because they are predominantly air burst.
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I've been buying every rusty and trashed 2500 pickup with a 6.0/4L80 in it for the last 4 years. It is not so I can keep my Pontiacs going, the best engine EVAR doesn't need replaced by an LS. Its simply so I can repower trucks, the summer 2wd and the winter 4x4s.
The newest vehicle I own is that $400 2007 GMC crew cab 1500 4x4. Its going to be changed up a bit. I already swapped a 6.0 in it because the 4.8 wasn't going to pull my trailers around well enough. Its going to be a fun and eventful summer making a bunch of junk pretty with dirt cheap paint and running with the chassis I want to put under it, as well as sending all the rusted no good parts to the metal chipper.
Also have four 3800 Buick powered cars, one is supercharged. I have a plan for those, as soon as I have the Mustang and Cutlass out of my shop, I will be able to set up my metal working corner, and start building chassis. Think Aerial Atom, but with the entire drivetrain from a GTP Gran Prix... and a hand formed aluminum/fiberglass body.
Running vehicles that move and stop with just a battery and some fuel, is a lot easier for me to move around out here than non running stuff. Tomorrow, the Mustang starts in earnest... its gonna be fast, fun, and come out cool. I have until 1 May to get it drivable.
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Its not about the environment as the green new deal asshole pointed out. Its about getting people to accept marxism and live willingly under that authoritarian nightmare dystopia. They have taken up the mantle of save the planet, but they do not live it, and they claim the answer to all our problems is marxism. The problem in the 20th century was marxism, it caused the most deaths over the last 100 years, hell it beats heart disease hands down.
I am vehemently against marxism, and I am super pissed they are trying to push their agenda with what would otherwise be beneficial to people who live outside cities like I do. I am staunchly pro 1A and 2A, a veteran who served in Iraq and Kuwait, among other places around the world, and I have a chunk of Berlin Wall on my shelf next to me from when I was stationed in Germany back in 1989. I fought against the commies, there is no damn way I am going to let them take control here without a fight.
I am big into green energy, because I live in the north above the 45th parallel, so solar doesn't really work that well here. Its daylight from about 0845 to 1630 this time of year, so not much time to get power. Sure it works, but you don't get much with the shallow angle of the sun. everything is expensive, electrical power, food, fuel, we rival California and theirs is due to stupid taxes, ours is from being remote, so it makes sense to make what I can at home rather than pay for it.
I am very much into making ethanol for my vehicles, its cheap and simple, a considerable amount of work though. I make it with tree sap and cattails, and I run carbureted and EFI equipped vehicles on it without problems, and have for 14 years. I build my engines to take advantage of it with high compression ratios and utilizing the heat rather than just shedding it. It costs me between 10 and 40 cents per gallon to make it, with tree sap being the cheapest way I have found yet. My winter beaters stay on gasoline, it makes a lot more waste heat so the heaters work better and sooner, plus you don't need as much power when the roads are covered in ice.
Ethanol makes a LOT more power than gasoline, its kinda crazy, and holy smokes is it fun to drive my 1965 GTO with a 455 (7.4L) Pontiac V8, with 13:1 compression, and over 600ftlbs and nearly 600hp, still getting 17mpg doing all of that with an old carb. The Aero really sucks on a 65 GTO, so mileage is going to suffer because of the drag. The 70 GTO got 20mpg with the same engine, trans and rear end, it is a bit more slippery to the wind. Not going to drive them in the snow, ice and heavily salted roads of northern Michigan, if I do they will be rusted to nothing in about two years.
I live in a shipping container house, because it was cheap and its effective. I heat with wood because propane is hideously expensive here, and natural gas is not available. Electrical heat is out of the question because the grid goes down randomly all the time, I have a generator I can run on ethanol, methane, or gasoline. Right now its on gasoline, because its cheap enough.
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@primitiveorganism9571 obviously we have differing views on what is a solution to these problems. It seems you are one to allow others to do to you, whereas I am the type who will do unto others. I have two wars under my belt, and a mind numbing amount of experience in many areas.
The way I see it, voting doesn't work because they control the outcome, we saw that in '18 with Evers, Whitmer, and Northam being elected with after hours spikes of 'found' votes. Then we saw it again last year, so much incongruency and they try desperately to silence people talking about the obvious.
Your way doesn't work anymore, they got away with it and nothing happened. My way needs people, as in public support, for it to be successful. People have to know its justified for the alternative to even happen. If they all remain complacent and just let them take it all away then do nothing, well that is them being the type of people who will allow others to do to them.
People have to see what they are doing, it has to be justified, because the narrative is so easily accepted by the ignorant.
The only thing they can do to me is kill me or put me in a cage, then stay out of my reach. I will not live as a slave nor a subject.
I am not a republican nor a democrat, not a conservative and not a marxist, I used to be a centrist (a classical liberal like Ben Franklin), but now that the left is trying to throw out everything I am sworn to defend, they will receive no support from me.
As long as they talk about it, but do not do it, its not a problem. When they actually do it... then its time to act. Its somewhat like 1939 before the invasion of Poland, if Poland had acted prior Germany would have been justified with the invasion. Poland was not ready for what came to them though. We are not Poland, and there are over a million men like me, who have fought in a useless insurgency for the last 20 years.
My solution is the last resort, so it needs certain things to happen before its employed. Vote all you want, they will make enough votes to get what they want, even if it means more votes are counted than there are people living there. They don't care, they run the DOJ, NSA, FBI, etc.
They don't run us though.
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@rattelv426 there are some engineering challenges to going off grid where I live...
I'm already collecting rainfall and snowmelt, we get a little bit of snow here.. 150 to 300 inches per year. Runoff from my shop and house are both funneled into tanks. There is still snow on the north side of my shop, in the shade, and its 10 May... We get just a bit here.
I am too far north for solar to be of much use in winter, from November to April the sun isn't up long enough to charge enough, and that is when I need the most electrical power. You get some, but it requires a very large array to get enough to be useful.
Wind is intermittent to say the least, and it varies between nothing and gale force winds, so windmills need to have overspeed protection. 20ft waves on the lake means its a bit windy... Additionally a windmill needs to be in clean air, so it has to be above the 60' tall trees, and usually its best to have it 30' above them.
Most times I can't tell its windy when I am in my yard, especially in summer. Its only when the wind is from a certain direction that it gets down into my yard, the rest of the time it is 60' up and nearly dead calm where I am walking.
Septic systems are somewhat unique here, you cannot allow them to freeze, and for the most part they need to be above ground. I have sandstone bedrock 2' feet under the surface of the dirt, that goes down 300' and then turns to salt, then granite. I live on an ancient mountain range that was worn down to rolling hills by glaciers. The sandstone is permeable, so wells are possible here, and they produce good quality water, but its slow, less than half a gallon per minute.
That sandstone causes all sorts of issues, power poles, ground wire for buildings, masts for windmills, the septic system drain field, all need to be built with that in mind. Drilling into it is possible, but its quite expensive. It also flakes off like a shale, so holes in it aren't very good for anchor points.
You can sit a structure on the rock without issue, my house and shop have concrete poured directly on the rocks. 16" sonotubes for the house, and basic footings for the shop. The shop gets large frost heaves, which is why I went sonotube for the house.
Water flows through the dirt very freely above the rocks, it can be perfectly dry on the surface, and when you dig a hole it fills with water in minutes, usually a few seconds. So a septic system needs to be placed more than the prescribed 50 feet from a well if its using a drain or leech field.
It also has the interesting effect of trees toppling easy, because they spread their roots out over the rock, but can't really use the dirt to hold themselves up. Not so much an engineering problem as it is a vehicles get crushed by trees sometimes problem.
While these issues are not insurmountable, they can get quite expensive to remedy.
Methane digesters are very easy to set up, and I need to do them again so I can turn biomass into methane and topsoil. One version also produces 140F water for six months, and doesn't burn anything. The woodchips are too large on their own, so I have to mix them with sawdust and grass clippings to get it to work right, thats a project for this fall.
I am also digging a pond this summer so I can grow cattails in it, and make habitat for the frogs and whatever else that eats skeeters. Yes I know its a breeding area for skeeters, but I don't plan to have enough standing water in it for them, more like a sand bog where cattails can grow and be easily harvested in the fall.
Wild cattails produce 1000 gallons of ethanol per acre. If you feed them raw sewage like runoff from a feedlot or from a septic system, they can produce 10x that, and they clean the water at the same time. That could be used in the Netherlands if they don't want the nitrates getting into the water, but its only political justification for stopping the farmers, its not a real problem.
Methane is what powers my stills, and enables me to produce ethanol very cheap. I can also use methane as a cold start aid for ethanol when the temps are below 20F. A simple nitrous oxide bottle and solenoid filled with methane can be used to start the engine until its warm enough for ethanol to vaporize so it will run.
When you burn methane and ethanol in an engine the exhaust gases are CO2 and water, so you can exhaust the engine of a generator directly into a greenhouse, the heat from which can also be used to warm the greenhouse in winter. With high concentrations of CO2 plants need less water, because they lose less through the pores they use to 'inhale' Co2. More food, no pollution. Also engines running on methane or ethanol only, with no gasoline, do not wear out as there is no carbon fouling the oil and wearing engine parts. it doesn't 'go bad' like gasoline either. There are other benefits to using those two fuels, including more power and cooler operation.
What is left after producing ethanol can be fed to livestock like chickens, cattle, and earthworms. Earthworm castings are very beneficial to gardens and greenhouses.
One idea for hydro electric is two tanks, one above the other with a turbine between them. It would be an on demand sort of thing, provided it doesn't freeze. Wind and solar can be used to power a pump that lifts water from the lower tank to the higher tank. When there is no wind and the sun goes down, the water in the tank can be released to produce power at night. Not the most efficient way to do it, but it would work.
Most of what I do is reuse, repurpose, rebuild, rather than buying new. Some things I have no choice but to buy new, but if I can built it myself I will. My house is made with four 20 ft shipping containers, cheap easy and dry. Somewhat fire resistant too.
I rebuild old cars and trucks rather than buying a new one. With all the salt they slather on the roads in winter, vehicles don't last long. So a $200 to $500 truck is both more parts and can be a driver if its not too rough. I drive my nice ones in summer, then they are parked with the first snow, and the beaters with heaters come out. Its a constant struggle staying ahead of corrosion in the winter vehicles, part of why EVs are a summer only thing around here. They tend to catch fire after being driven in salt, and they don't like to charge when its cold out. The Tesla owners have them out again now, they are second or summer only vehicles here. Its almost 60F already.. feels hot to me.
Well I have to put plates on a truck, drag my old trailer out so I can set up a sawmill on it, then start moving junk trucks so I can take down standing dead trees and clear a bit more land.
I will be making videos on how to do all of this stuff over the summer. I've been waiting for the snow to melt and the mud to dry, this is the first week I can do much outside regarding the energy project.
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Bo, you said its cope because I don't want to date, even though my oldest kid turned 31 yesterday, I am almost 56, have been with somewhere between 150 and 200 'prospects' and dated many more, while trying to find one that is loyal, honest, and pleasant... Why should I bother?
I am having fun building hotrods, my home is paid off, so is my land, I have no debt, been forcibly retired since 2005, and even if I could afford one, I still don't want to date. Getting to know them, stepping on landmines that are even more prevalent, the S tests, the absolute waste of time, money and energy that they are, because they always think they can do better... then they cry when they don't.
I only want one thing. Its no longer a big deal to me if I get that one thing from them, I just don't care. I like them, enjoy looking at and talking to them, but they aren't worth the effort. My stress level is very low since I've been living alone, my blood pressure is managed quite well, and I eat just as good because I am a better cook than all but one of them I've met.
I'm working on getting thinner, being jacked up from my deployment makes that more difficult, but I'm figuring it out. Im doing it for health, not for them.
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@swervsplatt9672 where do you get the idea that I am like that? Currently people are like you, all talk online, but have done nothing in reality. I've been in the meat grinder, I know what its about, and until some of you people step up I am going to watch all of you suffer and whine.
I've been saying its a dog and pony show for the last 30 years, since my initial enlistment and seeing how it works from the inside. They routinely toss absentee forms from the military people overseas, because they didn't want the so cia lists.
However I cannot say what I think on here unless I write it funny, spell things wrong, or allude to it rather than outright say it. As someone who fought for our way of life and the Bill of Rights, that really sticks in my craw. What I am prepared to do about it probably far exceeds what you will do, but I am just one old guy living out in the woods... and all of you are too soft. You talk hard, but you're soft. Accuse others, but you're soft.
So I enjoy my remaining time on this planet building muscle cars and making fuel for them so I don't have to pay $5 a gallon for 87 octane camel whiz because the potato's owners want us to serve them and own us..
Until the rest of you decide you have had enough, I will continue to live for my benefit and defend only me and mine. Why risk everything for some ungrateful tw@t like you?
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I am not a prepper, but due to where I live, my military training/experience, growing up on a farm, and having to do things myself most of my life, I have ended up doing a lot of things preppers do... and a lot of things they don't. What will you do if the trucks and trains stop moving, gasoline runs out, food vanishes from the shelves, and people in the cities start eating each other? Well, I will be driving, staying fat, and teaching people how to make all the shit they need.
Why do I grow food, produce fuel, and electricity? Because I get snowed in for days at a time all winter, the power goes off all the damn time even on beautiful sunny summer days, and I am on a fixed income where I get paid once a month. I have to plan ahead, buy groceries for a week at a time (I stock up too), I need multiple vehicles in case one breaks, and back in 2007 gasoline cost too much for me to drive into town more than twice a month, so I learned how to make ethanol and make my vehicles run on it. I am debt free, own my land, and if you don't know its here you will drive right by it.
The only thing about the ammo situation right now is I am not buying an M1 Garand simply because I can't get 30.06 for it. Man do I have that end of things covered... if I can get it from the bottom of the lake of course.
I have a locals too. Nobody knows about it yet, mostly because I haven't told anyone about it.
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@jew-sa not really disbanded and shut down, that is a bit too much like socialism/communism. They need to be made accountable, not allowed to influence government, nor allowed to buy votes or legislation. Corporations should be outside the government, not controlling it. The people are supposed to control the government, and government is only there to protect the people and their property from invasion. theft, etc.
Problem is people seem to think they work for the government, and it controls you. That is how it works in other countries, but its not supposed to work that way here.
Full government control with private ownership of corporations/production is fascism. Government ownership and control of corporations/production is communism and to a lesser extent socialism. However, socialism almost always leads to communism, its like a stepping stone. The common thread with all of these is marxism, same with feminism and other isms.
I have lots of issues with corporate America and around the globe, planned obsolescence is one of them. Pushing laws to benefit them at our expense is another. Rockefeller managed to get a constitutional amendment passed, Hearst started the war on weed which has been a shitshow from the start.. The list goes on and on..
Corporations are a means of making things we need, and eventually doing things that government has pioneered, like space travel. They should be providers and innovators, not legislators nor controllers.
Getting a dolt or ideologue in control of a corporation causes problems, like the twit who is running GM into the ground right now... or all the go woke get broke things like Gillette and movies. Disbanding themis not the answer, because then you can't get things unless you make them yourself. Limits need to be placed on their influence.
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I live in the upper peninsula of Michigan, its mostly forest and lakes here, which is probably why so many Finlanders settled this area. It was all clear cut 140 years ago, and they cut sections every few decades. Mostly red pine grows back, they grow fast.
While it makes me sad to see an area logged, I also realize that logged area is a firebreak that just might save all the trees on my land where I live. If there was a fire coming this way, you can bet I would be at my property line, making a firebreak of my own. I had to clear some trees to build my house and the shop where I work, but I tried to minimize how many I had to cut. I love trees, and nature. I am part of it, and do not think I am above it.
People often ask why I don't simply cut them all down, or why I left the ones in the middle of my circular driveway when I could be parking cars there. Its because I like trees, and I wanted them to be there. I have a campsite in the middle of my yard this way, and the 300 feet of trees between my house and the highway keeps prying eyes from knowing what I am doing here. Also the maples are helping me power my vehicles by giving me sap, that I turn into vodka (ethanol) so the last thing I want to do is cut them down.
Trees have a lifespan, red pines, birches, poplars, the soft woods, have a shorter lifespan than hard woods like ash, maple, and oak. A large swath of standing dead trees is a problem. So is all that logging slash they left there, that is wildfire fuel, and if they want it to benefit the trees they should chip or mulch it all rather than leaving it as brush like that. All that dead brush is why California has so many problems with wild fires, they aren't doing controlled burns or allowing people to clear the dead fuel on the ground, so they get terrible fires.
Death is part of life, and I cherish the woods I live in, and where I go for hikes/walks with my huskies, but there is a cycle to things. We aren't always in the part of that cycle where everything is alive and healthy. Nature needs to start over often, 1000 years is nothing in the geologic scale, and our lives are faster than a blink to the earth.
Its sad to see that beautiful forest getting cut down. Bjorn, buy your land, and you can protect your trees, take care of them, and enjoy them like I do on my small patch of ground.
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Yeah strength is a social construct.. which is why in my USAF logistics job where we loaded cargo on planes by pushing heavy shit across rollerized floors, the females could move just as much weight as any male... not. They were at best in the way, so the females got all the office jobs sitting in the AC, men ended up out in the weather doing the heavy lifting work.
I ended up with huge muscles from the airlift during the first gulf war in 90-91, because I had females on my loading team and I had to do all the heavy work essentially alone. Like pushing 10,000lb pallets and hauling 200lbs up three stories several hundred times in a 12 hour shift. Now in my 50s I have to carry all the mass around with me, and all the effort I put in when I was 21 in the first war, and 34 in the second war, hurts every time I move.
If females can't do my job effectively, how the hell can they do one where they have to hike for miles carrying shit that weighs as much as they do? Yes its going to bite us in the ass, and its also going to end up overworking males even more than I was in the support roles, and lots of dead people in combat roles.
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@TheJake76 Nah man, I get you and where you're coming from. Thing is, you're looking at it the way most urban people do. I'm offering a different perspective, not condemnation. Blame the military for direct and blunt thoughts.
When my jobs were passing me up for promotion and screwing me over, I would go to a different one. I have the skills and abilities they need, I could take them anywhere and get another job. Most people do not have those skills and expertise.
Also started a couple businesses, first ex wife played a large part in killing those. You roll with it and keep moving. I could rant about how the world, my family, and hundreds of people fucked me over during my life, or I can get to rebuilding it.
The only reason I tell people about what I have endured is so they know they can get beyond it, build something better, and change their world.. also, it might keep them from making the same mistakes I made, like getting married. Embrace the suck, and concern yourself with what you can change.
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@LionHeart0808 Know where the EFI shines? In being able to tune power out so the thing will hook, then ramp it in once you get it to hook. Any idea how hard that is to do with a carb? I know.
I too am a hard core carb guy, if you want a Qjet that runs on E85, you talk to me. I was the first to convert a Qjet and all the info out there is based on what I have done.
Thing about EFI though, it gives you VASTLY more control over things, even with a simple TBI system like a Sniper or FiTech, and you can change it anywhere, no need to pull anything apart. That is why people are using EFI to go stupid fast in shitboxes, not because it makes more power, but it gives you more control over it.
Check out Beater Bomb, he knows how to tune for a track, and he will ride that fine edge of getting it to hook enough to move the car, but it still usually spins down the track, so he wins all the time. Doing that with a carb would be daunting to impossible.
Making 300hp is very different from 500, and then you make a huge jump again with 650/700, and it goes completely stupid over 1000. So driving around in a 13 second car doesn't really compare to a single digit car. Getting 700 to hook on the street is a challenge, 550 is some sticky tires away, but 700 and up you can blow off just about any tire with ease. Being able to control it is paramount, otherwise its all in your foot and you end up pedalling like John Force.
If you start making real power, you will discover this.
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Its relative man. Cities are more expensive, so even if you're making $200k a year, its going to cost you $180k+ a year to live there. There are more ways to earn a living and make bank than doing the 'office space' grind. I mean you say go to Thailand to live cheap.. ITS THE EXACT SAME THING. Make money somewhere other than the local economy, and live in a place where its inexpensive.
Around here I am kinda somewhat 'rich.' I have about $5500 a month take home coming in, while most people in this area of Michigan are lucky to make $1500. There is no industry here, its tourism based, with a couple mines and prisons. In a big city I would be living under a bridge, or sleeping on a floor with a dozen other people. To hellwithdat.
I made my money elsewhere, and live inexpensively enough that I paid off my land in 8 years. I got a ten year mortgage, but still, it was early. Doing a 30 year note is daft.
I could be making a lot more from yt, but I don't really need to. The content I make takes a huge investment, then a ton of work, and really the videos are me showing others how to, or motivating them. I need the shop, tools equipment, parts, supplies, and the vehicles themselves. You get to sit there and talk, I have to spin wrenches and put in physical effort to make a video.
Thing is.. I like doing the car thing. It relaxes and satisfies me. I don't need to be a millionaire to enjoy my life.
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@Axiomatic75 my brother after me, is 5'6. He is around 175lbs, still runs every day despite retiring from the US Army more than ten years ago. He was a truck driver that hauled tanks on an overgrown semi called a HET, then he went on to fly UH60s in Afghanistan and finished his last 4 years as an instructor. He flies civilian medvac helos in our home state now.
He was capable of pulling far hotter ones than I was, and I got some seriously hot tail in my time. He got married in 1993, they are still together, have three kids, and she knows she can't do better than him. She is two inches taller than he is too.
There aren't many men out there who would want to tangle with him. He is also a 3 time state wrestling champ in one of the toughest states for that sport. He was 126lbs his senior year in 1992, I was 167 in 1987 and I was the strongest kid in the school, stronger than all the teachers too.
Just because we are short doesn't mean we are incapable, weak, or harmless. I never lost a match to anyone taller than 5'10, and pinned everyone taller than 6' at 167. So I find it most amusing when a tall guy tries to intimidate me. They have no idea what is in store for them if they provoke me enough to engage. They'd better be very adept at BJJ or another MMA, or an old short crippled guy is going to put a hurtin on em.
I prefer to avoid people, especially drunken college kids, I don't want to pay anyone's medical bills.. and I am sore for weeks if I exert myself like that now. Getting old sucks, but its also lots of fun.
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@simonmarshall1060 having been involved in that situation twice already, 91 and 04, I am not a fan of it. Doesn't mean I am not down to risk kicking my air addiction once again... but I am old, broken from the last one and would rather live alone in the woods and build hotrods. They start it, I will put in what I can to finish it and at this point if I can't do the car thing there is no reason for me to be here which means I have nothing to lose.
Its so preferable not to use the last option, but sometimes you have no choice. When you are dealing with fervent ideologues who are willing to use that option at the outset, I have no qualms. The difference between them and me, is I know what it means, they have a romanticized idea of it, where obviously they survive in their fantasy.
Fuck man, I have been in pain for months now, all over so its hard to move. After living like this for 15 years and all the other bullshit I've endured, death is a kindness. Might as well go all in if they start shit, right?
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I'm 53 and live alone, I've been alone most of my life despite being number two of six kids, married and divorced twice. I don't fit with people. I don't have anyone where I live that I consider a close friend other than a large girl who I can depend on to give me a ride into town if I am otherwise incapacitated... she helps move cars in my yard too. Dependable people are good to have around. Most here aren't.
I have a couple friends back home, 1000 miles from me, a gearhead and a boomsticknut. Talk to them once in a while, but don't really hang out much since its a 14 hour drive to hang out.
No need to date, barely even talk to girls. I try to look fat and broke as much as possible. The only people who have an inkling of how financially set I am work in parts stores where I get stuff for my project vehicles.
Most people annoy me, they aren't very bright, mostly boring, and unless they are into gearhead stuff at a similar level to me, there isn't much to talk to them about. People tend to like me, and they like to follow my lead as well. There are times when I am antisocial, but most of the time I would rather spend time working on my cars and playing video games.
Got over being lonely living on a farm in the 1970s with no friends, not at school or anywhere else. I accepted it more than 40 years ago, and the only reason I got married was so I didn't have to go through the minutia of meeting a girl and getting to know her so I could get her nekkid. I had an insanely high drive from age 12 to 38. Had to get some or my brain went haywire. Thankfully that is over, and I don't care if I never get some again... BTW my T is high even for a young guy.. red meat and physical effort does that.
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@marjty6881 I kinda figured personal responsibility was a given. FYI the Rosie comment is hidden, and hilarious. I like that one. Most world hunger is not because there isn't enough food. Its at best a distribution problem.
The comment starting this thread stems from a "Better you than me" mindset of I am glad its not me being zeroed out this time... not so much people starving.
However, what happens when you give a group of whatever organism as much food as they want? They reproduce until all that food is consumed. Thats what happens with the yeast I use to make fuel for my muscle cars. They do a job for me, turn sugar into vodka. In that way they are domesticated.
If you feed deer they will make lots of new deer every year which actually weakens the herd. They become dependent on the food in winter, and if the food stops they all starve. Survival of the fittest is a good thing and it runs on survival pressure. If it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger.
The same principle applies to people... Give them free food, and you make them dependent on you and you get a population boom. Also the world is a bit too bubble wrapped, too many incompetent and incapable people lacking mental acuity are surviving events that would have resulted in them kicking their air addiction in decades past. The poor drivers were weeded out before the proliferation of airbags in cars.
Scarcity is a population control.
Know what actually kills the yeast in my fermentation barrels? Their own waste, which is ethanol/vodka. Its a closed environment, the CO2 can escape, but the alcohol they excrete eventually kills them off. Regular bakers yeast can deal with 10% ethanol in the water where they live, above that they all die. The better yeast can handle 20% before they all die. That means my 10 gallon bucket makes either 1 or 2 gallons of fuel depending on which yeast I use.... but they all still die.
Now, to wrap all of this up...
That is the mindset of the people pushing this sort of thing. They see people as a utility, a resource, not a sentient beings that can think. I can see that point since most people don't really think, they just kinda follow. They derisively call most people eaters. All they do is eat and push out sproglets. There are some specific demographics those people have in mind with their derision.
Who do you think is going to be most affected by the drawdown of food production? Will it be the people with the least UV resistance who live in rural USA? Or will it be people in urban areas, and in countries with mostly UV resistant people. I rather enjoy dating girls with a high UV resistance, they are most attractive to me for some reason. So I do not want to see all those people evicted from their meat suits.
How many of these people pushing this idea we see do not need to use sunblock? Most of them from what I can tell, and they utilize certain judas wolves to get others to follow along like lemmings.
Anyway, they are still all going to reach permanent equilibrium with ambient temp, it is inevitable. I plan to enjoy the remaining time I have left... building muscle cars and running them on home made dirt cheap clean burning more powerful vodka. As long as these 'leaders' don't try to prevent me from doing that, I will fall off the perch in due time and never have to harm anyone again.
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@AwoudeX yeah fuel is easy.. because you aren't concerned with taste at all, just proof. Wine is harder, because most of the solids stay in there, and it uses a different fermentation lock. Its all about the taste, much less about proof. Beer is a pain in the ass compared to vodka as well.
Get the PH right, throw the sugar in (from whatever source you have, starch, or the tree sap I use) add yeast, keep O2 out of it and wait. Then run an efficient still that will get as much water out as possible, and 180 to 194 proof is not to difficult.
Keeping competing organisms out is paramount, its easy to feed the wrong bug and have them proliferate and make something useless.
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@williammurray6491 I am not a virtuous man, I guarantee you that.
If people earn what they have, the appreciate it more. Be it their freedom, rights, possessions, skills, whatever.. If things are given to them, they do not appreciate it, they expect more to be given to them.
When a man overcomes challenges that few can, he develops something others do not unless they have achieved similar things as well. Its a confidence and the understanding that nothing is for free.
I am a realist, I like reality, I observe reality to learn how things work, and I try very hard to come to the correct conclusion as to WHY something does what it does. I build engines, transmissions, and carbs for fun and to keep myself busy, so everything has a reason for what it does in an engine or transmission. Dogmatic 'answers' or assertions as to the 'whys and hows' do not interest me, nor does propaganda. I want what is real, not what someone tells me is real.
With humans there is far more variance than with engines, and unpredictability plays a huge part.
Here is why it seems like it requires a hard life. When you aren't given anything for simply existing, and things are taken from you to be given to those who have not earned nor do they deserve it, but they feel entitled to it, you end up realizing the world is not 'fair.' It becomes quite clear that thinking is simply theft.
When you have a difficult life where you have to work hard to earn what you have, it gives yo a very different perspective.
My older brother was given things, dad bought him a car, helped him rebuild it, twice after he wrecked it while driving drunk. 5 or 10 mph faster and I would not be here right now. I lost teeth, got a broken nose and a 'custom' face from it. If you want to know that story, I will tell it. He knew dad would always help him fix whatever he fucked up.
The sister after me had a similar thing, but mom and dad paid her bills, gave her vehicles, and did everything for her they could.
It took my brother until he was 35 and had four kids to pull his head out of his ass, and start behaving like an adult. He never took care of anything because it was always given to him and repaired or replaced for him.
My sister was in her mid 40s when she finally got her shit kinda together, because mom died and she had no choice but to do it herself at that point. She ran every car they gave her into the ground, she didn't take care of anything, not even her own kid. She pawned her kid off on mom so she could 'have a social life' chasing boys and nearly flunking out of university... which mom and dad paid for.
By contrast, I worked my ass off to make money to buy my first car at 13. I bought two bags of seed for sweet corn, enough for nearly 3 acres. We planted it early and I worked my ass off on the farm and took care of my crop at the same time. I was responsible for heating the house and a host of other things. I ran the firewood from 10 years old until I left at 17.
I made $2500 selling sweetcorn that spring of 1982, dad took all of it. Then I was allowed to buy a $450 car (1967 Cougar that I still have), not the $1200 car I wanted (a 1969 GTO Judge). It was not the first time that what I earned was taken from me and given to my siblings.
My dad got a job in town since my brother and I ran the farm in our teen years. He drove my car to work, 30 miles each way, and ran it into the ground before I could legally drive it. He never took my brother's car unless he was getting some work done to it. I got to drive my car one summer, in 1986 before it because dangerous to drive. I haven't driven it since 1987, but I still have it. It was 20 miles to town where girls were, with no car you are stuck on the farm. Its like being in prison.
I did not get help rebuilding my cars and painting them, I didn't get a set of tires every couple months like my brother. Didn't get livestock handed to me that I could sell for money like my brother did. He would beat on me to make me help him with his stuff that he made money from. I didn't get anything for the work, so I was less than inclined to help him. No money in it, and a guaranteed beating, yeah, he didn't grasp the concept of incentive, nor did dad.
Ended up buying my second car in 1986, a wrecked 1972 GTO from a junkyard for $175 and driving that. I got the front end parts it needed last year. Over 30 years I owned it looking for parts. lol. Now I can rebuild that one too.
Throw in the constant beatings, my brother trying to kill me, and you can see why I left the farm at 17 and live 1000 miles away from them all these years later. At 16 I ended the abuse, by knocking out my dad, and nearly killing my brother body slamming him on the concrete steps to our house. Never lost a fight after that, never started any either, but had too many forced on me.
When I lived in my home state between my enlistments, I ran an auto shop. They told me to take a day off from my shop, drive three hours and fix my sister's car. I had to buy the parts, and foot the bill for it, they expected me to just do it. Things like that are why I stay away from them.
I had to enlist to get the hell out of that state, and stop my family from using me as slave labor.
Two wars, lots of other people fucking with me, screwing up my life because they had the power to do so.
Divorced twice, lots my home, most of my money, but kept some old cars I had. Both of them cheated, lied, falsely accused me, and were rewarded for it. I was punished for being a good dad and a great husband.
Both ex wives chose poorly, they have losers now and the money from me is not coming anymore. They are going to hate life very soon, as their actions will start paying them back.
My favorite word is Schadenfreude. Enjoying the self inflicted suffering of others.
I could be resentful, hateful, vindictive, capricious, and full of spite, but I am not a female. I am not a marxist, I do not see myself as a victim, I see other people as assholes.
These are but a handful of the hardships and deprivations inflicted by others that I have endured. I have no sense of entitlement. Any notion of that was removed long ago, and buried while I lived in my car on active duty because my home state gave her 71% of my gross pay for cheating and kidnapping my kids, moving them 1500 miles away.
The thing about my siblings is merely to illustrate how people who are given everything are different from those of us who have to work for it, and have it taken to be given to those who did not work for it. Nothing is free, someone had to work to produce it. Even oxygen is not free, you have to breathe it in.
Nothing pisses me off more than someone trying to take advantage of my generosity. Stealing from me is a very bad idea.
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@williammurray6491 there was a lot more bullshit. Some people have been telling me to write a book about all of it. It will either depress you to the point of self deletion or motivate you to get back up and keep fighting. I try to frame it so the latter is what happens.
Its been a world of shit, and my reaction to all of it was to get stronger. Its hard to tell people about it without it seeming like I am bragging, but the world of shit I went through makes it impossible to brag. I'd much rather have gotten a break in there somewhere.
Its all good, the last two years have been great, this year I paid off my mortgage and building loans, so I am now debt free. 3 years early. I live alone with two huskies, build old muscle cars, and make fuel from tree sap to drive them.
First ex was paid off in 15, and the second ex hasn't called the cops on me for seeing me in town or dumping my trash since '18.
Problem is I can't shake the feeling that something big and horrible is coming. Its the same feeling I got in 1990 and in 2003, before my wars started. Part of it feels like I have been conditioned, or somehow prepared for something big. Why else have such a shitty life full of crap? lol.. delusions of grandeur. heh. Maybe its rationalization. Eh well wait and see.
Might write that book this winter.
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@antonchigurh3794 ethanol is a superior fuel that does not harm engines at all. Additives put into it are what causes problems, ethanol is nothing more than vodka. You're spewing corporate propaganda.
That corn is not completely used when they make fuel from it, what is left over is an excellent cattle/livestock feed, because the part of the kernel used to make ethanol is undigestible in cows.
NO HUMANS EAT THAT CORN. At most some of it is used for cellulose, but mainly its livestock feed. Seems you don't know much about biology, agriculture, automotive tech, and chemistry.
The subsidies don't amount to much for the farmers, not when they are dealing with fuel expenses alone that before the Potato were 4x to 10x what the subsidy pays. Economics and finances not your strong suit either? The government gives them almost enough to buy a used pickup, which is amusing that you have a huge problem with it since tractors, combines and other equipment is $200k and up.
Know who gets the subsidies? Oil companies who mix ethanol with craptastic gasoline that has such a low octane rating that they could not sell it otherwise. That is why the 10% stuff sucks so bad, its the worst crap they can mix with ethanol (which raises the octane a lot) and still run engines.
You're just jealous that someone else is making more than you, and want to blame it on the government. You're just like a leftist, they are resentful and envious of those who earn more, and they want it taken away from those people so it can be given to the lazy good for nothing twats that have not earned it.
FYI... I build engines to run on straight ethanol, E85 works in them too. I make ethanol from cattails and tree sap. Been doing this for 15 years, because $1 a gallon is less expensive than $5 a gallon, and that is for 87 octane around here.
What is the difference in an ethanol engine vs a gasoline one? Static compression ratio, some cam timing, and I run them hot, like 210F. I daily drive 13:1 Pontiac 455s on ethanol, if I wanted to run 87 octane I would need 8:1 compression. 9.5 will run on 93, but will still be down on power because you have to retard the timing. I can run 22:1 on straight ethanol without a problem, but making that much compression is a challenge with my engines. Basic design limitations, mainly the valves hitting the pistons, so you need reliefs that add volume to the chamber.
What happens when you run a lot more compression? You get more power, more torque in the street driven RPM range especially, and it improves efficiency. You get better mileage with more compression. At 12:1 with an iron head you will get the same mileage on ethanol as you do with 9:1 on pump gas, with everything else being the same, plus you will make a lot more power. More torque means its easier to move the vehicle, which means less throttle angle, and then it uses less fuel.
Its not about the energy content, that is largely irrelevant because BTUs are a measurement of heating water, not how much power a fuel makes, how much compression and ignition timing it can handle, or how well it runs... its just about heating water, and the last time I checked, engines are not primarily water heaters.
All you seem to know is the corporate talking points they have been spewing forever. its funny because you have USA in your name, but you are against a fuel we produce right here in the USA, that ANYONE can make at home if they want to, and you'd rather we use the stuff that everyone is fighting over. From my perspective, you are anti American... particularly when the potato has set policy that makes gasoline hideously expensive.
You're secretly a c0mm1e arent ya.
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Joe, those are exactly the rights the MRA's were on about. I have no delusions about changing the laws, they never will, which is why I am not an MRA. However... I am a perfect example of who they are fighting for. My first wife was physically abusive, she was rapid cycling bipolar and would get extremely violent just to get me to engage with her. I am same height as you, slightly more muscular, and have very similar training, and she would assault me with impunity. Why? Because I am a pussy? no, because if I used any force at all to stop her, my state would have buried me under the jail. I endured her shit for 8 years, protecting my kids from her as long as I could. She cheated all the time, spent more money than I could earn, accused me of everything she was doing herself, and what I did was work 70-80 hours a week to get enough overtime to try to keep up with her spending. I had to reenlist after being our for the better part of a decade just to dig out from under the mountain of debt she created. If I didn't have kids with her, she would have gotten broomed post haste. If a man did half of what she did, he might have never recovered from the beating I would have given him.
I adore my kids, I spent as much time as I could with them, taught them to read, write, math, colors, shapes, hell I taught them to crawl and walk, then ride bikes. I put as much time as I could into them, when I wasn't working in a factory to fund her fruitless shopping. I live 950 miles from her now, and both of them live near me, that should tell you something. They are in their 20s, and I was indentured to her for 15 years. One of her boyfriends was a bit too touchy with my daughters, and of course I was 1500 miles away with no money. Probably kept me from ending up in prison.
I was active duty in 2001 when she left after sleeping with another couple on base, making videos of it, and they got passed around to the other units. She was a real winner. I should have pulled out and never talked to her again after the first time,(better yet never slept with her, but I didn't know crazy when I was 24) but she mostly hid all of that crazy until after she was pregnant. She takes my kids 1500 miles away,hides them from me with help from my home state, and then files. They hit me with 71% of my gross income, assuming I could live on base and get free food, but at my rank, and having dependents, that was not a possibility. The result was two years of living in my car, a beat up 70 GTO that I kept running on a shoestring budget and my scrounging skills.
When I deployed in 2004, I finally got to sleep indoors that was not on a friends couch. She finally lowered the support which allowed me to get an apartment for a while. The state was very resistant to lowering it, they really liked to punish me for being male. I got hurt on that 04 deployment, and subsequently separated in 05. Nearly two years for the VA to give me a rating, and now I am a deadbeat dad because I had zero income for that entire time. Any idea how hard it is to get a lawyer when you have less than $300 a month to live on? yeah, it was by design, and against the state laws, which stated I was to be left $950 to live on. As if that was enough. Deadbeat or disabled and unable to work, no difference to them. Everyone wonders why 22 of us kill themselves every day. Everyone who hears my story wonders why the hell I am still alive, that includes my shrinks. You might ask why, I will be honest, because I love my cars and I wanted to get to the point in life where I could enjoy them. Now at 50 years old, broken and living on a fixed income, I can enjoy my GTOs that I rebuilt while working around my physical limitations and finances.
They broke numerous state and federal laws, but I have no recourse for any of it. No lawyer would take it on, and now she owes me over $8000 for over payment when my youngest lived with me, but they aren't revoking her drivers license, passport, and taking money from her account every month leaving it empty like they did to me. They did that even when I wasn't behind, apparently in an effort to make me delinquent. They are not doing anything to force her to pay me. her credit isn't even affected by it.
All my evidence of her abuse was thrown out by the judge, every motion I made was shot down by him, and he would not even consider giving me custody. Why? Because a few years prior he was censured by the state for awarding custody to the fathers when the mother was leaving to go bang some other dude and neglecting her kids. The judge was a former Marine, but that worked against me too.
So to sum all of that up, she did everything wrong, including neglecting the kids to go ride random cocks, and she was rewarded simply because she was female.
Know what is really fucked up about all this? I am typical. I am not an outlier, what happened to me is so common as to be expected that fathers from my state will be homeless unless the mother agrees to a sensible amount, or he makes enough that 4% of his income is enough to live on. But yeah, we have all the rights, life is great for us those guys are just whiners and deadbeat losers, and it wont happen to you or anyone else, just us. If you want to know more about my fucked up story, just ask.
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Good info. One thing people need to realize is that the ethanol we put in our cars is the exact same stuff, made the same way, as vodka, but at much higher proof. In my 1970 GTO, that has the original tank and hard lines under it, since 1994 when I bought the car it has only seen either 10% ethanol pump gas or E85/E100. I switched it to E85 and home made E100 in 2007. Last summer I pulled the 13:1 compression 455 out of it and put it in my 65 GTO, because the 70 has so many electrical and suspension issues its getting a frame off. The 70 has been driven daily to sitting for years with the same E85 in the tank since 2007. In April 2017 I pulled the top off the Qjet I converted to E85 after pushing 3' of snow off the hood and took a picture of the float bowl. I had not touched that carb since 2014 when I drilled a couple more passages, and I converted it to E85 in 2008. The carb is still spotless inside, and it runs very hard on whatever engine I put it on.
The 65 GTO is my daily driver all summer, I keep the E85 in 55 gallon drums because I have to drive 2 hours south to Wisconsin to buy it, its not sold anywhere closer than that. Next year I will have my stills set up again to make fuel here, from tree sap and cattails. Using tree sap it costs me about ten cents a gallon to make fuel, I can drive all my vehicles and have more cash left for parts doing that... plus it makes more power, runs cooler, everything lasts longer, oil changes are less frequent because the oil stays clean. The 455 in the 65 GTO has 1000 miles on the oil change, and it is hard to tell where it is on the dipstick because its still clean. No carbon buildup in the engine on ethanol.
I am the first to convert Qjets to E85, all the information everyone else have about it, such as Cliff Ruggles and Rocky Rotella, came from yours truly. I had a carb kit that was new in the box from 1978 that I bought back in 1987 but never used. The accelerator pump cup in it did not like ethanol. However, I have not found a carb kit in the last 30 years that had any problem whatsoever. That is where the accel pump thing came from, but that carb kit was the ONLY one I ever saw that had a problem, and I build lots of carbs. Doing two conversions right now for guys. Will be doing a Tri Power for a Pontiac soon.
Everything sold today is compatible, even if they say it isn't, when they want to charge more to get it to say it is. If its good with 10% its good with 100%, I have been testing it for 12 years now, from daily driving to sitting long enough for it to evaporate. I use E85 to clean pistons, carbs, and all kinds of stuff.
The reason I got into making ethanol fuel and converting carbs and EFI to run it is simple. Back in 2005-2014 87 octane gas was $3.50 to $5 a gallon where I live. Premium was $6 for a long time, and being a crippled Iraq war vet on a fixed income, I can't afford to drive my hold hotrods and muscle cars. So I looked into making fuel at home, at first thinking methanol, but that is not as easy to make, its very toxic, highly corrosive, and requires special parts and an after run oil to keep it from eating everything. Ethanol has none of that, and you can drink it, but the government gets irritable if you drink it because they are not getting their taxes, so don't do that. Most people confuse methanol and ethanol, they are very different, but are both alcohols. One will kill you with 10ml (methanol), the other you drink in bars all over the world. Beeswax is also an alcohol, and its nothing like the other two.
Old cars love ethanol fuel as much as new cars. Raise the compression well above where you can run pump gas, and you get the same or better mileage with more power on ethanol. My 65 gets 15mpg now that I dropped the compression to 11.5:1 with a head swap, and it has low 11 second capability now. It got 15mpg with a 400 that had 7.7:1 compression and would run on any camel whiz 87 octane you threw at it, and ran in the mid to low 13s. getting more than 15mpg with that car is a problem because the aerodynamic drag is quite high, but a bigger engine with almost 200hp/tq more gets the same mileage on E85. The 70 GTO managed 20mpg with one of my Qjets and the 13:1 heads, and had more than enough power to run 11s despite being a 4100lb car with a highway gear and a stock stall converter.
The power and drivability available with ethanol is very impressive. Once you try the stuff with a properly set up carb in your muscle car, you are not going to want to switch back.
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Before I stopped dating two years ago, the less interest I showed in a girl the more she showed in me. I did not chase them, if she played hard to get I moved on. Said 'no' to my offer and I moved on. If I chased them, it never went anywhere, they would just try to use me for something, usually rides and money.
Why did I stop dating? Well girls are very interested, even though I am 53 I have lots of muscle, so I get their number easily.... and they flake. I offer to take them out for a good time, and they decline. To me that says she is not interested, so she never hears from me again. They only want the validation of having a dominant male ask them out, and then they try to string me along to get attention.
Its very different than it was 30 years ago, the chances of finding a girl who will stick around, not cheat, not be miserable to you, and not trade you in for cash and prizes is very low. The only reason the divorce rate dropped to 40% is because not many men are daft enough to get married now.
Its not worth it to me to get involved, I am twice divorced, right at the 8-9 year mark with both. They hit 30 and had some sort of crisis, thought they could do better, found out the hard way they could not. I lost two houses, nearly half a million in income which I barely made between 1993 and 2015 when I no longer had to pay them anymore. They wasted all those years of my life being leeches in my wallet.
I own 13 acres of woodland near lake Superior, have no debt, own and rebuild vintage muscle cars for fun, and I can take off and do whatever I want, any time I want. Have a decent enough income, and I am in decent shape even though I call myself a sweaty fat guy. Why the hell would I want to risk having some female say she isn't happy after wasting however many years, then the state takes everything I have built since 2013 and gives it to her?
Its not like anyone else had a hand in building my home, shop, the cars, or my life, they all tried to tear me down and hold me back. Why should they be rewarded for bad behavior and poor choices at my expense just because they have a tuna scented snot pocket?
Nah.. girls can enjoy their life working a BS job doing busy work, then be a resident in boxed wine and cat land from 40 to 80.
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We called them 'Juicies' in Korea, all the clubs outside the base, every US base, had Russians, Filipinos, Koreans, and anyone else they could find to sit around and drink a $12 cup of juice and talk to you. I told them no, I don't want to buy a juicie. Got to know a couple of them, and they taught me some Russian. I got some without paying for it, because nearly my entire paycheck went to the ex... Long story.
They are not the type you take home to meet mom, but all the usual game works on them, if there is something about you they like. Indifference works VERY well.. If you are 'seeing' one expect epic 's' tests, especially from Russians.
Might I suggest going elsewhere, because the idea is to get money out of you.
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Honestly, civilized society is why this happens. Everyone is too polite, too reserved, and conflict averse, so people do nonsense like this. Nobody has ever showed them what happens when they F' around, so they think they can do whatever they want. They think they are tough, because they have never been tested. They have been living too soft, bubble wrapped, protected from danger and themselves.
When you have training, experience, have been tested, you don't start things like this, because you KNOW someone will put you in your place.
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@TheThirdWheel618 four wheel disc is the plan so it will stop like one of my GTOs, the 70 and 72 had disc, and I put disc on the 65 when I did the frame off, my 67 Cougar came with four piston front discs and that thing could lock up the fronts with ease.
I never understood what people were talking about with bad brakes on muscle cars until I drove Mustangs, Chevelles, and Camaros. The brakes on my brother's 69 Charger were absolute crap, because it had drums. Our older brother had no idea what he was doing with cars and he screwed hem up somehow..
Then I got my 10th Anniversary TA with four wheel disc and man that thing would stop, without drama, no locking or fade, just whack the pedal and it scrubs off speed like right now.. Now I am hooked on disc all around, not that everything gets it. I just want someone to buy the stupid Mustang. lol. Need it out of my shop, have no plans to drive it or love for it.
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@mickeyflowers I'm trying to figure out what you mean, but I assume you are asking about octane requirements.
In some places the stations have 85 octane gas, which is cheap but not very good for much. 92 octane is good to around 9.5:1 compression with an iron head if you retard the timing on a 455. E85 will run no problem on the same engine with 16:1 compression and it will handle whatever timing advance the engine wants to make best power.
E85 is rated at 105 octane, but it acts like far more than that. It is 70% to 95% ethanol and the remainder is gasoline/additives from the pump, depending on where you are. Supposedly its limited to 85% but friends of mine who have been testing it in places like Nebraska and Wisconsin find it to be higher all summer. 100% ethanol will run with 22:1 compression without an issue.
E85 is like race fuel you can buy at the pump for less money than 87 octane. Where I live 92 is $4.40 a gallon, 87 is $3.50, and E85 is still down around $2.80 but I have to drive two hours to get it, and I fill 55 gallon drums when I do that.
Ethanol has its own Oxygen built right in, and it is VERY effective at cooling the intake charge, also known as latent heat of vaporization, both of which conspire to produce more power. Being able to run considerably more static compression means you can make a lot more power than an engine with pump gas compression, and yes all three of those stack.
The thing people are missing is that ethanol makes doing what Smokey did and the Camaro guy who started this thread is trying to do, very easy. It has far more driving range than propane, hydrogen, or methane, and lends itself exceptionally well to vaporizing in the intake tract. No need for small carbs and special things stuck on the intake, just a means of heating the fuel before its put in the intake tract, and you don't lose power either, because it still pulls heat out of the intake charge as it vaporizes, even when its over 200F in the EFI rails.
Trying to do it with gasoline is how Tony says it is, lots of complexity, loss of power, and minimal gain for the expense of it.
Ethanol is simply very high proof vodka, thats all it is. If it wasn't denatured with something poisonous, you could drink it and get good and party time drunk.
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@Cwright386 You know part of the story, its mostly a horror flick with a xxx porn gag reel mixed into it. Its a ton of work to get where you have passive income, but for me its double edged. I am limited on what I can do, and how fast I can do it. Physically and financially. The work had a price, the mistakes I made had a big price as well. The biggest one was getting married, man that cost me years of my life and the vast majority of my income.
The take away form my life? Perseverance in the face of hardship and adversity. I downplay most of it, and do not put all of it in my posts, but if you could read all my comments and get the full picture, its not something people want to experience by choice. Ok, maybe the naked parts, the cars, and travelling the world, but you can do that without all the other very negative stuff.
Be smarter than I was. Don't let people take from you who have not earned it either.
I am glad some of what I say helps people though, that way all of this was not futile.
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These 30 somethings should just accept the fact that the only men who will spend time with them, beyond the most superficial, are those of us over 50. You see men in their 50s are not looking to start a family, nobody wants a toddler running around when you're 50, unless its a grandchild. Since these ladies are beyond their 'best before' date, they should adjust their focus if they want to avoid boxed wine and cat land (BWACL). They won't be having healthy kids, but they don't have to be alone, but they should also realize that leaving a man is going to result in them going back to BWACL. If they get commitment, they should cherish it.
These ladies wasted their best years, so they can take what they can get or they can wither away alone. Accept your fate and your choices, and make the best of your future. I know.. that is a lot to ask of females.
I am 54, I don't want anyone to live with me, but having a pleasant to be around 30 something who still looks ok to go on adventures, hang out, and spend time at the dragstrip in far flung states would be enjoyable. Hell I even have a car she can race if she wants.. lol. Mind you I am good alone and don't need one, but it could be enjoyable. I'm not desperate... but they should be if they aren't accepting the reality they crafted for themselves.
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@redlyns153 the part I shared her is a small bit of it, tip of the iceberg you might say. It hasn't been a very fun life. Lots of violence, two wars, two divorces, people taking from me with the state enforcing it, four years homeless, and more.
Its why I live alone in the woods, with two Siberian huskies, build old muscle cars and avoid people. I can't trust people. Living out here alone and avoiding people also helps me stay out of jail, because I can severely injure people easily, without any weapons. I want peace in my life, but if someone brings violence to me they will get even more sent back to them.
I'd rather help people than hurt them, but I will not allow others to harm or take from me anymore.
The way I see it is my story is two things, its an example of what mistakes you should not make, and its about perseverance, getting back up and fighting harder when you're knocked down, never giving up, always striving to make your life better despite what others do to you. I never simply accepted that I had to just take it, I always found a way to fight back, even if it required years of work to build the muscle needed.
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Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
Have an idea of where you want to go, but don't be so rigid and inflexible that you are stymied by the first roadblock. The way I think of it is in terms of land navigation, or walking through a forest. You can't go in a straight line because there are trees here and there, rocks, cliffs, boulders, rivers. Sometimes you have to go back or change directions completely to go around an obstacle. You are still working towards your destination, but the path might take you places to which you never thought you'd go. Accept it, take the detour, and go around until you can get back on heading.
I tell people this all the time when talking about rebuilding old cars. Rebuilding a car takes a lot of work, most people tear them apart, then they sit until they're sold for scrap or parts to someone who manages his motivation better. They discover how much work is needed and it saps their enthusiasm and motivation. They look at the whole project and become overwhelmed. They lose interest because having that old car isn't driven by a burning desire to actually drive it. Sometimes just getting it was enough to satisfy them.
We are constantly telling guys to go out to the shop/garage/carport every day and DO SOMETHING, even if its just sit there and stare at the rusty hulk and imagine driving it. Clean something, organize some tools, put up more lights, hand a quarter panel and weld up those rusty spots, build an engine, paint a car.. DO SOMETHING.
The idea it has to be perfect before you continue, or even start, will lead to nothing getting done, because perfect is an illusion at best. Good enough is usually good enough. Don't go half way, but you don't have to focus on the smallest things.. unless of course you are getting paid to focus on the tiny details.
When building something, be it a house or an old car, there is a sequence of events. You can't put the heads on before installing the pistons. You can't build walls without a foundation. So you break it down into manageable projects. Foundation, floor, walls, roof, wiring, plumbing, drywall.. Chassis, suspension, brakes, engine, transmission, patching rust/replacing rusty/damaged metal, primer, filler, sanding (lots of sanding) primer, paint, final assembly, wiring.. you do each system as its own project.
If you don't start, or you would rather watch TV or keep watching videos rather than doing something, well.. nothing will get done. You wont build muscle, you wont learn to talk to people comfortably and confidently, you will have a rusty heap in your garage acting as a shelf and a house for rodents. If you need everything to be perfect before you begin, you will never start, because its never perfect. There is always something.. accept it, minimize the impact of the imperfect, and get busy getting things done.
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I see your point, but I also see how people are, how they react, and what motivates them. Forcing people doesn't work well. However..
You can provide guidance, quality information, and people will still think it will not happen to them so they do it anyway. The females will then blame you for what they did despite your warnings. I'm not big on authoritarianism or any sort, and when it comes down to it, that is their choice, their life, and they have to live with the consequences of it.
The flip side is what has happened to me. People get it into their heads that I need to do something, because its what they did or is similar to it. Like selling one of my muscle cars at a huge loss, and many have tried to force me to do what they wanted. Its not the way I do things, I do not invest in something only to give it away at a loss for a short term solution to a perpetual problem. e.g. paying bills. I play a long game, so the advice of others is usually myopic and at best misguided, uninformed, and would result in me ending up in a worse position. Its like encouraging someone to take out payday loans.
The last thing I need is someone to force me to do something, because its usually to benefit them when they do that. That is currently happening in the automotive world.
I tend to let people make their choices, and live with the consequences. I offer advice if I have any, but in the end its up to them as its their life.
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Non belief is not a religion, nor is it an ideology. I'm going out on a limb and surmising nobody that watches this channel is a believer in Ba'al. So we are all atheists regarding that particular god hypothesis. The problem I have noticed over the last 15 years, is that most people who lose their religion, take up a new one in its place. Often its marxism of some form.
In my experience most people need to follow, to have an authority over them that decides for them, tells them how to live, what not to do, and makes the tough choices in life easier with prescriptions for those particular choices. They NEED something to assuage them of guilt for doing certain things as well. Justifying atrocities by claiming 'god wills it' doesn't change the fact they did that, but it lets them feel better about themselves.
Most people are followers. Its the old 80/20 rule, 20% are those who want to lead, and 20% of them are the capable/competent leaders. 80% want to follow, and they will eagerly follow someone who makes choices, good or bad choices makes no difference really, as long as its not the followers making the choice.
Dr Peterson is absolutely correct in my view, without that leadership of a 'higher power' be it real or imagined, people will clamor for that structure over their lives. Thats why I got kicked out of a great many atheist groups, because I did not accept the new religions of the group. Those were feminism, communism, socialism, fascism, and I colloquially call the group of similar idiocy 'marxism' because that is the common denominator. Victim mentality, lauding of the inept and incompetent, derision of the competent and successful, and the idea that if someone else has it and you do not, its because they stole it from you or took advantage of you somehow. That is ubiquitous among those groups.
Authoritarianism is not relegated to the idiocy of Marx, the last damn thing I want in the USA is a theocracy, particularly one of the evangelical persuasion. I served in the military for a long time, deployed to theocratic countries, and let me tell you it is not very peaceful when you have a different belief system while in that country. Imagine if the government was assumed by islamists, and sharia was imposed upon you as a christian.. Not a good idea to have a theocracy, because it might not be your religion in control.
The founders understood that.
So if I do not believe, why am I not out there doing all manner of nefarious things and causing problems? Well because I have no interest in harming others who do not intend to do me harm. Those who intend to harm me have a bad day. I have my own interests to pursue, and I do not like it when others impose upon me, so I prefer to not impose upon them. I do my thing, you do yours, and if we conflict in that we can work it out. Thing is though, I am a big scary hairless ape, so bringing violence is an option, but not one you will enjoy.
I treat others well because I know what its like to be mistreated. Not because some god or other authority tells me how to behave. I have my own code I live by, and much of it coincides with our basic laws, but only two commandments. Rest assured though, I will zero out anyone trying to delete me and feel not even the slightest bit of guilt nor remorse.
Do not try to force your ideology upon me, and I will defend your right to believe in whatever you wish, even if its magical fairies, pixie dust, and unicorn farts will produce electricity for us. Sure, its idiotic, but you can believe it. When you try to enact legislation based on that idiocy, then we have an issue.
I see the marxists as religious nuts, they act just like a cult, and use all the same logical fallacies when their argument breaks down that christians and muslims use. The marxists are very fond of moving the goalposts, no true scotsman, begging the question, false dichotomies/equivalence, and they spew baseless assertions as if they're common sense.
I became aware of those logical fallacies dealing with evangelicals who want more than anything to have a theocracy here in the USA. Ideologues all do it when reality meets ideology and ideology breaks.
The social problems with which we are dealing, are not due to atheists, they are due to marxists pushing their religion/cult/dogma. They want us all to live by their rules, police our own thoughts, and never question their authority... so they can exploit us for profit. Thats the driving factor, greed, but marxists are inept, incompetent, and at best mediocre, so the must resort to subterfuge, coercion, obfuscation, manipulation, and ultimately employing others to do violence at their behest.
Ideologues often have charisma, so people will follow them even when they make abhorrent choices, but usually fail at damn near everything they do... except for leading people into shithole nightmare dystopias... they are very adept at that, because ineptitude takes you there... case in point, the current potato in office and his cackling kneepad destroying lackey that just learned what country borders Ukraine. Its hard to get more inept than that regime.
No worries christians, I will fight along side you against the marxists... just do not impose your ideology on me.
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Bo, you're comparing big cities run by "d" with small towns in Europe. No kidding is different. Out here in the 'flyover' that isn't happening. You can buy 100 acres here for around 100k. Fresh water is abundant, and you can do what you want with your land. You want to waste your life in a city, it's your funeral. People here are having kids, lots of them. I don't lock my doors, my cars all have the keys in them, the tweakers know to avoid me because they can get ventilation added here. I get why city people leave, I've been around the world already. Europe, Asia, Africa, I'm staying here where life is good.
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I saw the same thing happen on base in Germany 35 years ago. Only the tallest best looking guys on base could speak to the split tails in uniform. If you said hello or hi, that was justification in their 3 of 10 heads to get you in trouble for 'rassments. Well guys, here's the deal. We do not have an expiration date, as long as you keep the plumbing working you can be a dad into your 70s.
Some of you will never get any, never have kids, never get it without paying for it up front. You're fortunate, because the men like that in the past were taken out by disease, conflict, and dangerous jobs. You get to live and enjoy life on Earth, even if you don't get the peen wet, its still living and you can build a very enjoyable life even if everything is ripped from you by courts.. I am living proof of that. I have kids, and I lost two houses, most of my income from 1993 to 2015. Since '15 I have rebuilt my life and I do not allow them into it anymore. I am debt free and living on my terms on land I own. I can practice with split tails all I want, when I feel like it. Around here though, they are.. lets call it undesirable. As in enormous.
The split tails have an expiration date, and a rather narrow window where they can procreate, legally its 18 to 30(ish), but by 29 they are nearly an empty egg carton. They prefer older men, and as a 55 year old with a gray beard, I can attest to how much the 18 to 28 year old group shows interest. The ones older than 29 are playthings, its what they have wanted to make themselves into, so thats what they are.
When it all comes crashing down, and trust me it will, the men who are most capable, resilient, that have knowledge will do well. When the split tails are hungry, nowhere warm to sleep, lonely, unwanted, and their biological clock is ticking in their ears like a pile driver, those 'invisible' men will get noticed and pursued. It will not happen in my lifetime, I might have 20 years left to go, but in the 2050s, or 2060s things are going to change if humans still exist and haven't expired in some sort of misguided attempt to profit from everyone like the last 4 years.
AI will take all the 'busy work' jobs that produce nothing, which is primarily occupied by split tails. They will lose all the houses they got in court when they left the best man they can ever get, they will have nothing, no prospects, no future, and they will clamor for someone to save them. The ones currently alive and older than 20 will turn to selling the one thing they have, bits, bobs, and vagenees online... until AI takes that over as well. Then they will sell the meat suit version.
When you give split tails authority, put them in charge, and go with what they demand.. you get collapse. They are not builders, they are takers that make incredibly poor choices. They have poor judgement, no discernment to speak of, and go with whatever emotion is caused by the hormones coursing through their veins at the moment. Accept you will probably be the end of your genetic line, its not a big deal really.
Enjoy your time here, not in a hedonistic way, but by building your life, getting that sense of accomplishment when you achieve goals and overcome obstacles. For me there is no better experience than starting that freshly built engine for the first time, hearing that V8 come to life, and knowing that I built it, then stuffing it in a vehicle that becomes rather quick/fast. We build, we create, we do. That is what gives us satisfaction in life. Go with that.. and the split tails will come by eventually to try to hook you into giving them everything you built.
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They can't afford to live the life they want.... Sounds to me like whiskey taste, with a water pocketbook. Life was rough for me, and I am 55, including two divorces and my job being sent to Mexico in the late 90s. I was relieved of paying the ex in 2015, and have rebuilt my life since then. In the 90s I was making $11 an hour, and got ahead with overtime. 50 to 70 hours a week, and the ex destroyed all of that work. My first house was $37k, built in 1910.
I built a small house to live in, on a piece of inexpensive land. I am living well within my means, and I am not even close to $100k a year. Never in my life was I able or willing to pay $350k for a house. I bet I know exactly what the youth today are enduring, because it was forced on me with onerous child support.
Bought my land, 13 acres, for $27k in 2013. Built my 32x48x12 shop for $18k in 2015. Built my 1050sqft house in 2019 and I have around $35k in it. LIVE WITHIN YOUR MEANS.. and put in the work to actually build your life. When I say I built my home/shop, I mean I built it. I did not pay a contractor to do it for me.
Get the hell out of the cities, find a means of making money remote/online, and live where land is cheap. I get it though, kids today don't want to work like I had to, they want that cushy office job where they get soft hands and no muscle. Prove me wrong kids.... are you rough or soft handed?
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Having been in the US military for two wars, going back to being stationed in Frankfurt in 1989 when the wall finally fell, the idea that the Russians are superior and would win a fight with us, and not take it nuke out of desperation, is laughable. Well, it was laughable until the potato's policies have been purging seasoned, capable, competent leaders from the officers and NCOs leaving us with a massive number of ineffective, inept, and clueless people in the US military.
The Russians still can't hang even with the diminished capacity of our military compared to five years ago. Since 1980 they have been sliding ever farther behind militarily. Their ten years in Afghanistan brought down the soviets, our 20 years there made most of our politicians wealthy. I got to know quite a few Russians in my military time, I like them a lot, very interesting people, hotter than the sun girls, and always down to party. The incompetence is in the leadership, more so than the people.
The US government never intended to 'win' in Iraq or Afghanistan, they just wanted the conflict so they could justify the spending, and the kickbacks they got for the spending. I'm none too thrilled that they used us in for profit conflicts.
Everyone, including the Russians, needs a villain to rage against. The Russians think of Britain as the great satan, the leftist side of the US government has been trying to prop up Russia as the nefarious caricature of Boris and Natasha. The other party in the US just plods along behind the leftists, acting like a sea anchor slowing things down a bit. Britain seems studiously and steadfastly intent on destroying itself by flooding the nation with people from other countries, turning themselves into their own great satan.
It all reads like a really poorly conceived and written book, a fever dream of some out of touch well off individual who assumes they are superior and all of us are just pawns. They should remember, pawns can take kings and queens too. Without all that money, what use are those wealthy people? The only reason anyone cares about them is they have money.
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@bobkelly3944 Its not like what he, she, it, bot, wtfe it is is incorrect... being a straight white guy is the problem with the marxists, and they don't care what religion you are or aren't if you're straight, white and male and not in complete agreement with them. They really hate christianity though, because its a competing ideology/religion, and the state can be their only god. Know what the marxists really hate? Atheists who do not agree with them, because they try to include atheists with them to make it appear as though they're not religious zealots...and to boost their numbers. Meanwhile christians lump atheists in with the commies, which is incorrect. You can be atheist without being a commie, or having any other ideology controlling your thoughts and speech.
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@indepthmike5578 jet engines come in various sizes and types, the really big jets like 747s, the big airbus, C5s, C17s, and even 737s have what is called a high bypass engine. The jet turbine spins a large fan at the front of the engine. Most of the air going through the fan goes around the engine rather than through it. That fan makes them quieter and more fuel efficient, but they also have a distinctive whine from the gearbox turning the fan and the fan itself.
Smaller jets have turbo jet engines, they have the turbine without the large fan up front. They are louder and are used on planes that have to fly faster, like fighter jets.
Then you have turboprops, where the turbine engine turns a propeller, like the C130 has as do many of the smaller commercial planes that fly between large airport hubs. They use a viscous coupling, kinda like a torque converter in a car or light truck, similar to two fans with one blowing air at the other.
Helicopters often use a turbine engine too, but rather than turning a fan or prop with a shaft, they turn the rotors through a gearbox.
Aviation is fun stuff.
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you can skew a 'study' to show whatever you like, by putting your thumb on the scale of inputs. I have an example regarding ethanol fuel by an entomologist named Pimental who did one for oil companies back in the 70s. His goal was to make ethanol look vastly worse than it is, and he horribly skewed the numbers going in to achieve the result he desired. What does a guy who studies bugs know about fuel, agriculture, or engines?
Sure I do not have a degree, I am 4 credit hours short of one I no longer need, and I have learned a vast amount on my own over the last 40 years of working on machines without the regimented university system... but Pimental spent years learning only about bugs. I'll bet you if he and I were to chat about vehicles, engines, fuels, and whatnot, I would run circles around him. He knows more about ants and beetles though, so I will give him that. If you want details just ask... but be prepared to read.
The fact remains, you can skew the study to fit your view and ideas. It is NOT the scientific method when you do that.
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@Longshanks1690 you're correct again. When I was attending a protestant parochial school, there was a massive push to see ourselves as victims. From being put in furnaces, lion cages, to being killed in the coliseum, christians have a huge desire to be victims instilled in them. It goes far beyond the blood sacrifice, and appears to be more about justifying any atrocity inflicted upon enemies.
Its a human nature thing, because non christians do it as well, however in overtly masculine societies and cultures, such as the samurai, being a victim is not lauded and aspired to. In that sort of culture being a victim is seen as being weak and without honor. Whereas the Abrahamic religions are more about obedience, compliance, with a healthy dose of shame thrown in.
All the time I hear about christians being victimized somewhere, all while touting how pious and righteous they are for being christians, like its their sole reason for existing, their meaning for life, and its what entirely encompasses them. They cannot see its the same sort of authoritarian ideology/religion that the marxists follow, where its all the state, nothing outside the state.
The commies quote Marx or Lenin, the christians quote the bible, as if either are going to sway people who take no stock in those religions. Claim I am going to hell when I don't believe in hell, and its an ineffective futile claim, same as accusing me of having some kind of privilege based entirely upon my resistance to UV light. They all see themselves as victims, that way they can justify what they do to others who do not share their delusion.
For what its worth though, I would much rather live among the christians than the marxists, because at least the christians appreciate merit, capability, and to some extent knowledge, whereas marxists laud incompetence, fragility, ineptitude, and ignorance. Here lately the chances of being killed in a christian area is far less than in a marxist state, but both see themselves as inherent victims.
Its not like Karl Marx didn't come from a jewish family, so it stands to reason his limited intellect would shoehorn his ideas into the Abrahamic template of guilt, shame, victimhood, and ignoring contradictions. He put it into a spin much like a spoiled 8 year old girl would. She wants a pony and the only reason she doesn't have a pony is someone stole it from her.
Its fun having been sent to a parochial school where we read the bible every day in lieu of doing math and science, then taking the time to learn another Abrahamic religion, and about marxism. It gives you an interesting perspective when you can remove yourself from all three. Most people who 'lose' their religion immediately go to another one, because they can't handle being forced to decide for themselves, they need to be told what to do and think.
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@SophiaAphrodite I build carbs often, do conversions to E85 too, mostly Qjets and Holley or Demon carbs. For a stone stock engine, like a 350 sbc, the E carb will run and drive ok just dropping it on. Like you said, there isn't much adjustment in them, so most people who don't know carbs can't screw them up as easily. The Qjet has lots of adjustment, they are more complicated, but far more capable than the E carbs.
As for Holleys being unreliable, thats not what I have found over the last 35 years. The E carbs are always down on power, drivablity, and mileage over a comparable Holley, Qjet, or even a Thermoquad. Every time I build a Holley or Qjet for someone who swears by the E carb, and they drive it a while, they never want to go back to the E carbs. Holley is like any other carb, you set it and forget it until you go changing other things.If you have no idea what you're doing, its very easy to screw things up.
If you don't know carbs, engines, tuning etc, and all you do know is put gas in and turn the key, the E carb is for you. These days someone who knows these carbs is hard to find, not many of us left who can actually build them. Even fewer can do EFI and carbs.
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CplHicksjr Because Orange Man Bad, and without a manufactured conflict to get weak minded idiots to have an emotional response to propaganda, they cannot get anyone to agree that Orange Man Bad. The nahtzeez were all about deporting and killing the ones they did not like, and these marxists want to distance themselves from their socialist brethren from '36-'45 so they cling to whatever appears to be the opposite, thus they can justify painting anyone who disagrees with them a nahtzee...
The added benefit to the democrats is they dilute the work force, driving down wages which in turn causes civil strife and poverty, the people from south of the border tend to vote democrat, so they stay in power and can make things progressively worse until people start clamoring for a fix, and the fix they will give them is communism.
This is why they are conflating illegals with legal immigration, as if there is no difference, but they only want the easily manipulated brown people, not the South African's who are escaping the soon to be genocide there. Can't have those people showing up, they don't vote socialist democrat.
So for us is game over man, game over. We should just put her in charge.
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@nicelypenn its a bit of a long story, but I'll give the cliff notes version. Had a pentecostal supervisor who did not like the fact I was marrying an Arab, and changed my religion to do so. He made my life absolute hell, and he put off signing a piece of paper I needed to get my PCS orders amended so I could take leave overseas before I went back to CONUS. The day before my flight to Dubai, I finally got him to sign it by going to the 1st Sgt and telling him what was up. It seems my entire duty section was conspiring against me. (a common thing in my time in the USAF)
He then got one of his pentecostal friends to let me sit in his office until after my flight left waiting for him to sign a single piece of paper. Thus I missed my flight. We were supposed to marry the next evening. I got Royal Nepal Airlines to allow me to fly down the next morning, awesome airline I tell ya..
However her mother said we had to wait another two years to get married. She was already 28, and two years later I knew I would probably not be able to afford to fly clear over to Dubai from the US. Contrary to what people think, mom runs the show in regard to the family in the Arab world. If she says no, then it does not happen.
I still flew down there and tried to fix it, her dad tried to fix it, but her mom was stubborn. I knew if we didn't get it done then, I would probably never see her again.
I had to do a 7" thick stack of paperwork just to marry a foreign national, it was over a year process and it was only things I could do during the daytime. I was working 12 to 14 hour nights from 10 Aug 90 until sometime in February or March with no time off. It was March 28th the first time I saw the sun again, Germany is kinda far north.
Her mom ruined both our lives with her stubbornness. She was 32 by the time she married and her 2nd kid came along when she was 35 and he is all messed up with defects. He is a 6'2" toddler that cannot live on his own or even walk.
My life was not favorable either, two divorces, and both of them drained me financially while they were with me and after. Thats another story that is even longer.
She came to visit me last August, the first time we saw each other since 1991. She had changed, she treated me like her henpecked ex, talking down to me, disrespecting me, and nothing I did was appreciated. I drove 7 hours to pick her up, and 7 hours back, then two hours trying to find a motel since she was too good to sleep at my house. the next day was nothing but vile diatribes and irritating me.
Called her out on it, and she said "I did not realize you were so sensitive." Its not a being sensitive thing, its "I don't like being disrespected thing, especially in public." If I was that way with my friends, they would not want to be around me either.
We used to talk a few times a week online, video and audio chatting. I haven't even opened the message she sent the day I dropped her off at the airport.
I am done. She ruined the friendship we had with her actions, and honestly I don't need a 61 year old around that only wants to complain to me about this or that. Even if she had wanted to get spicy (don't know if she did or not) after the first morning with her after my 16 hours driving, there was no way I was going to do that with her.
So maybe I dodged a 105mm round, maybe it was just her messed up life with her ex, but the person she is now is nobody I want to be around. 34 years ago she was beautiful and kind. Now she is bitter at best. Her mother really messed up her life, and so did my supervisor.
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@chrisafp071 I was Air Cargo/Trans, the guys with the K-loaders and shit trucks who run Space A or rig AD. I've worked every C5 and C141, along with most of the KC10s and KC135s the USAF had in service during my time in. 435th APS, 437th APS, 721st AMS, 731st AMOG between 1988 and 2005. Did you ever see Ms Piggy? They might have retired that one before you got in. I think it was out of Travis.
A tall guy named Creech who was in my flight in basic was a crew chief on the C5 at Travis. He recognized me in Kuwait in 2004, I must not have changed much. I knew lots of C5 loadmasters, usually they were great guys. Had an entire reserve crew stand around and watch me load their plane single handedly in Kuwait... all 36 pallets while they stood around, four people to run the locks. The reserves on the ground were driving the K loaders, and I was the active duty SSgt pushing all the trash. That is how I came to not be active anymore, turns out doing that when you're 35 has drawbacks. Three crews did that, they were all rentals. I am not overly fond of rentals.
The first Gulf War was epic, starting 10 Aug 90 until I PCS'd in September 91 at Rhein Main there was always 5 or 6 planes on final, as one would land, another would turn its lights on, between those landing, others would take off, there would be 4 to 6 planes in line waiting to block in, and 4 to 8 waiting to take off, with every parking spot full of C5, C141, L1011, 747 or DC10. Frankfurt was the busiest airport in the world for that year. Ramstein got all the press, Stars and Stripes was talking about it looking like a C5 parking lot with six C5 tails there. I counted the C5s at RMAB that night, we had 24 of them, and the rest of the ramp was full of 141s with two commercial birds at the pax terminal. I was working ramp and fleet, so I had to go to every freakin plane that came in, Base Ops was calling Fleet to find out where everything was parked because I was the first one there dumping lavs as soon as the chocks were in place. Had to take MREs off the planes to eat something, heated them up on the intake manifold of the shit truck. Fun times.
For the second war I was in Charleston SC, when the roof collapsed at Dover in 03, we did all of it until 05. Worked ramp and cargo building pallets, I did most of the outsized in 03-04, I was the NCO running it. The USAF created an award to give the 437th called the Crystal Globe award. Somehow I was always at the base doing the most for the largest airlifts the world has ever seen.
I have a picture of my ex wife on the ramp at Charleston standing next to a C5 that was there for an airshow in 05, once things had settled down and Dover was running again. It looks like a shot of the plane, until you see her standing next to the nose gear. I got the entire plane in the shot, so you can barely see her. People can't grasp how big the C5 is.
I loaded the IL76 and AN124 in Kuwait and Korea, and the AN225 came through another place I was that I can't mention on YT. The Russian planes are a pain in the ass, you have to loose load everything, they have ball rollers in the floor. Its all chains nets and straps. Locks and rails are so much less hassle. Russian crews are hilarious to talk to, their broken English and my broken Russian, made deployments fun... most of the IL76 crews had no idea what soap is though. We had to back the 60Ks in to load the 76, the cab would hit the doors otherwise.
When they did the M upgrade did they fix the fucking rollers? The worst part of the C5 loads was the damn stuck rollers. During the first war I was getting broken lavs with the tube full and no donut. They fixed that when I sent them back to Dover and Travis the same way I found them, at least they got 'clean' blue water dumped on the ramp.
Been out 16 years and ya know what? I do not miss being an NCO, don't really miss airplanes very much, but I miss being part of something bigger than myself, or any other person.
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@Alex-pt5no not because you are skeptical of the hearings, I have no confidence in our legal system nor our government. When you sit in jail for something you did not do, just because a girl accused you of it to hide her guilty conscience, well you lose faith in the system. During two divorces I learned about procedure and how judges are acting on their own opinion, both of law and real events. They tossed out all evidence I had, and took the ex wives' claims as factual with zero evidence.
I am a two war veteran, I know the government very well. I have zero faith in government because of my time on active duty and the last 15 years I have spent in chronic pain since my last deployment ended my time in uniform. Today is ok, I can barely feel it, so I am in a good mood. October to December majorly sucked ass though.
Hell, you might not even be a democrat, and of course some democrats are not marxists.. but in this country, the marxists own and operate the democrat party. My ex father in law used to say "Not every asshole owns a sailboat, but" which implied that every sailboat owner was an asshole.
Creepy Kid Sniffing Joe is more of a fascist, only partly because of his obvious racist shit in his past, but because he wants to profit from government and enrich himself while keeping the government in complete control of the rest of us. A blending of corporations and government is his goal, so its slightly different from communists who want complete control and government owns/controls everything and everyone.
Still I see fascists, communists, feminists, socialists, progressives etc in the same light. They are all marxists, following the idiocy of Karl, and most democrats are following along unwittingly. They probably would be surprised to learn just how much they agree with Adolf, Mao, and Stalin, and just how much of what the dems are pushing is what those assholes did.
Just an aside here, but I am one of the few who would actually have a good time in an anarchy. The logical part of me says it would take more time protecting what I have built and make it much harder to build more, but man I would have a very good time meeting people who fucked me over in the last 20 years or so.
If you're not a democrat and you see the bullshit like I do, then hey, we can be friends. I am sorta 'friends' with marxists, and its always fun showing them just how fucked up that ideology is. Hard to change their minds though, ideology is fucked up like that. Weak minded people don't want to admit they are wrong and on the same side as genocidal mass murderers and authoritarian dictators. Just like some religious people can't admit dinosaurs really existed over 65 million years ago, and never walked with man... or that they are just babbling and not talking in another language when they are 'speaking tongues'
Ideology gets people to do some seriously stupid shit.
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@darwinfoster7420 what engine, weight, and times are you running? The only engine I own that is in the range of the E carbs is the 340 in my Cuda. All the Pontiacs are too much for them. The 351Cs are too much too.
My point is the E carb has minimal tuning capability. Takes a lot to change the secondary opening rate, they work best on small engines because they don't flow much air, and they are wonderful for people who don't know much about carbs because of that limited range of tuning. They can't screw them up so bad they won't run.
If your Holley wasn't faster, then it was probably the single feed 3310 which is about the same as an E carb, too small, or you didn't have it 'tuned to the max.' I could spend half an hour with your car and probably make it faster. Not bragging, its how I paid my bills in the late 90s.
Only been doing carbs for 40 years, and there are reasons why I have opinions on all of them. Its mostly because I have worked on all of them. Even Autolites, the only ones I have not done anything with are Thermoquads. Lots of two barrels in my history as well from 97s to 2GC.
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@coiledsteel8344 thank you, yes there are some Pontiac channels out there, we all seem to know each other once we are deep enough into it. You could say I am deep in the Pontiac world. I've taken a break from most online stuff lately, been building in the real world. Thats why I don't put up many videos, doing other things. I have a few in the can ready to be edited and uploaded, but I haven't yet.
Young guys think they know everything, but they don't know that they don't know some things even exist. We were all arrogant in our youth. Well, I knew there was a wealth of info I didn't know, and wanted to know. That goes with being a gearhead, there is always something to learn when you are a car guy, and someone else always knows something you do not.
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@adamjames1375 as long as it gets enough fuel, they run fine, and they make more power, not less. Ethanol has oxygen in it, which is why you need to add more so it runs right.
Methanol requires all the special stuff and is very corrosive/toxic, ethanol is simply vodka, whiskey, wine, beer, etc. Most people conflate the two.
Carbs on two strokes are VERY simple, two jets you can adjust easily, low speed and high speed.
When you run an engine on ethanol it will last indefinitely, because there is no carbon deposits and grit wearing the parts. Gasoline leaves all manner of stuff behind, carbon, varnish, gunk.
Now what do you think people who are in the business of selling engines are going to tell you about fuels? If they don't wear out they won't sell as many engines, right?
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In the past, I had people who doubted that I do the things I say I do. Building cars, built my house, making things with my hands, being a machinist, working with wood and composites, producing fuel for vehicles, and quite a bit more. Ya know what? Even if they doubt I can do those things, it doesn't change the fact that I can and do them. I am always amused when someone gets their panties twisted and claims I don't own this, or do that, just because they cannot.
I'd say I am an outdoorsman too, among other things. Who cares what some dolt on the intarwebnets thinks.. :)
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@timothykeith1367 ethanol and methanol are very different things. Ethanol you can drink, you get drunk, and crash your car into a house on a bad night out. Methanol can kill you with as little as 10ml. Its the stuff that makes you go blind.
Methanol can make more power than ethanol, it can also handle more compression with boost than ethanol, but methanol is the stuff that eats all the carb parts and fuel pumps that is blamed on ethanol.
Methanol is also the stuff that takes 2x or more fuel to make the power, ethanol takes anywhere from 20% to 30% more because of its oxygen content, boosted applications take more because you are shoving more air in and the oxygen in ethanol compounds the O2 so you need to add more fuel to compensate.
They have been making methanol from natural gas for decades, its not new. Its how it has been made for a long time. They call it wood alcohol but it hasn't been made with wood in a long time, because its labor and energy intensive, takes a long time, and you don't get much from it.
The toxicity of methanol is a problem, and man does it burn your eyes when running it. Ethanol doesn't really do that, all you get is CO2 and H20 from ethanol. I have a short video of it on my channel.
I can't afford all the stainless and special parts, after run oil, and the rest that is required when running methanol. Its why I run ethanol, because all the stock stuff works and actually lasts longer.
It will be cool if they can make methanol easier and cheaper.. but you still have to rely on someone else to make it for you. The draw to ethanol for me is making it myself, so if the gasoline or other fuel supply dries up or becomes cost prohibitive, I can make fuel for my cars and drive them.
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@Icipher353 I agree with you that they are trying to instigate an event they can use to justify gulags, camps, mass graves, and drone strikes on US citizens within CONUS.
They tried to make the 6th look like that, but the video does not match the rhetoric, unless your confirmation bias makes you think burning a city is mostly peaceful and some people walking around with capitol police taking selfies is an armed insurrection. They will still use it as justification.
They will keep doing it, they have to because they want the conflict, they need the conflict. The media needs it to stay relevant, the dems need it to toss out the constitution so they can stay in power. They want to fill the power vacuum after the fight and say "See capitalism and liberty does not work! Here is the true answer" and then toss us into the global abyss of authoritarian collectivism.
There will be a point where what they do prompts a response, but it will not be the one they expect. A million or so trained men know how to deal with this sort of thing, we have spent the last 30 years dealing with one form of it, and 70 years before that with another. We aren't the run in guns blazing type, its a game of chess, and the dems are trying to rig the board.
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@stubones the average ones who are going about their lives, unconcerned with what others are doing... nothing. The ones who are going around causing problems... well... it is quite interesting how many marxists have that particular heritage. It might be partly due to old Karl being from that particular demographic.
My friend Zeigelbauer? Yeah he has zero interest in all of that. Becker, well he wants desperately to be a victim, and everything is an insult or attack to him. Ulmen, dude gives zero fucks and has more interesting things to do, great guy but yeah he is strange. Becker is an asshole, but doesn't want to own everyone else like the Bond Villain head of the wef.
Its an interesting observation. I don't get the group hate, the identity politics thing, probably because I am not a marxist nor am I prone to it. I judge everyone, including myself on merit, not where they come from or how much money they have. Its what they do that concerns me.
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How can the democrats win the Oval office next year? Orange Man Heart Go Bad Orange Man Kick Bucket. If the Cheeto is still alive next fall, he will be elected again.
Why? Well first of all he is not a marxist pushing socialism down our throats. If the dems want to win, they have to expunge the marxists, that means no identity politics, no socialists, none of that shit. Instead they are doubling down on reparations, impeach the Cheeto, calling for a minority report style of law enforcement because Trump tried to limit the bullshit so he is obviously guilty of SOMETHING.
The republicans were losing because they kept nominating religious nuts. Dubya beat Gore because Gore is a socialist. Obama was not openly socialist, he was more about lets shake things up and then shook us towards the abyss.He beat McCain because ol dude pulled a Walter Mondale and picked a female running mate. Hillary cheated her ass off and could not win, because the Cheeto is not overtly religious.
You have the religious on both sides fucking things up, either the marxist religion, or the evangelicals. Keep your ideology out of my fucking representative government, the majority of us do not follow your idiotic ideologies.
Enjoy the next 6 years of Trump.
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@sarahcoletti6946 while I was in the military, I had a subordinate who had it worse than I did. He married his best friend's mom, and she would attack him almost daily, she put him in the hospital with a cat iron frying pan, and that is when he divorced her. Then he married another one, and she took everything after having a kid with him.
My story is not unique, its ubiquitous, common, run of the mill. Everyone thinks its rare because nobody cares, nobody believes us, and men are expendable to society. That will never change, which is why nobody will care and nothing with change from what Depp is going through and endured from her. He is ruined, can't get acting jobs anymore, and she might have to pay him some money.... but they will put her in films soon after all of this is over.
We are blamed for what they do, we are responsible for their actions, and if they get violent, most people assume its because of something we did. Flip the roles and the man is punished harshly, but she can claim he mistreats her and delete him while he sleeps and nothing will come of it.
Its no longer worth the risk for men to have relationships and sure as hell not to have commitment, because she can take everything he has ever earned and will ever earn with her, no matter what she does. She has ever incentive to act poorly, and men are blamed for every divorce. So why should men put their head on the chopping block?
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For ten years I took beatings, from 6 to 16. My dad, brother (who also started a rumor that I was ghey, which I'm not), and then most of the kids at school. Started wrestling in 8th grade, by my sophomore year I was able to hurt other kids in matches, Junior year the seniors were terrified of me, Senior year I knocked out one kid and broke one kid's arm and another's ribs in wrestling. I was brutal on the mat. 167lbs of 5'8 muscle, benched 265lbs that year, 350 the next year before I enlisted at 19. Farm work makes you kinda strong. I would do 20 wall pushups before a match to warm up and intimidate the other kid.
At 16 my dad pulled his hand back to hit me, and I gave him a half power punch to his sternum, dad went down, mom freaked out, dad stayed down a long time. He never tried to hit me again. We finally got along when I was 44 and he was 70. He taught me a lot of things, mostly by forcing me to do farm work and via pain.
Older brother tried to end me several times, stabbed, poisoned, bludgeoned, beaten, run over... yes really... starting the week I came home from the hospital when I was born. When I was 16 he hit me while I was helping him load up some hogs to take to market before school, and I walked off and left him to do it himself. He chased me down, hit me again, and when I got back up I grabbed both of his legs and slammed him on the ground. Then put him in a headlock and hit him in the face a few times. Let him up and he tried to hit me again, so I did a firemans carry and slammed him on the concrete sidewalk outside the house. He got up kinda slow but still tried to hit me, so he got dropped on the concrete steps with quite a lot of force.
We are in our mid 50s now, and he is terrified when I get angry, he gets in his car and leaves. Just takes off without his kids and wife, its amusing. Of course I am even bigger now, because of the military and two wars my bench is over 450lbs. I am not like him, I don't hit people just because I am angry or frustrated. Threaten or try to harm me and you will find the monster in me real quick.
Lots of training, lots of muscle, and there is no voice in my head that says "Its time to stop, they are done now" and if nobody steps in to pull me off them, or I don't get tired, I can really hurt people.
I could not run and hide from those who tormented and beat on me, so I became so dangerous to them that they stopped. The kids who found out the hard way probably remember it today, nearly 40 years later. I know the wrestlers who got on the mat with me remember it. Don't start something and I am passive, preferring to avoid people, I have nothing to prove to myself or anyone else. I'd rather build muscle cars and go racing than pay for the medical bills of someone who messed with the wrong man. I'd rather be goofy and make people laugh, quite a lot like Joe to be honest. I used to be a lot funnier, these days not so much.
I loathe bullies, but to a certain extent they are valuable and useful for toughening up weak kids.. or making them so docile, timid, and thus repugnant to girls that they do not infect a female with their DNA. ;)
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Watching this made me even more thrilled I am into Pontiac engines, because swapping parts around on them is crazy easy. No need to make custom parts, the factory stuff will usually work as long as you get the off the shelf stuff that coincides with it. They all have 6.625" long connecting rods, ball stud rocker arms, air gap intakes, and from the 1955 introduction to the last non 301 engine built in 1979, they are the same size so everything will bolt on, with minor differences. Things like where the accessory bolt holes are in the heads, valve inclination angle change to 14 degrees in 1967 so early pistons are different, the intake manifold flange angle was changed in 1965, and the engine mounts changed in 63-64, and they changed bore and stroke to increase displacement. They used cylinder head chamber size to set compression, so you can make 7:1 to 13:1 compression with a factory iron head.
The best part about Pontiac, other than a 455 looks like a 326 to the uninitiated or untrained, is that they don't need the entire aftermarket thrown at them to run. 550hp is easily achieved with factory parts, including camshaft duration specs. With that 550hp you get nearly 600ftlbs of torque, because they don't need to rev more than 5500-6000rpm. Imagine 550hp at 5500rpm, and that its making well over 550ftlbs from 2000 to 5000.. with factory heads, intake, and duration. Its not the high end Ram Air stuff either, that is what you can do with the basic lowly garden variety D port heads. The round port Ram Air II and IV, HO/SD stuff makes more power and has more potential, but comes with a much larger price tag. D port stuff is dirt cheap, like 72cc heads for a 400 cost me around $200 a set, and they have 2.11"/1.77" valves and the 14 degree angle chevy needs to go full race to get.
All of my engines are 301s, even if they have over 500ci tucked away inside them.. because who other than Pontiac guys can tell the difference? The best part about a 301 or a 350 is that a 455 will bolt right in and look the same as the 350 if you want it to.
If you like chevy engines, thank Pontiac, because it was one of the Pontiac engineers who designed the ball stud rocker arm used by Pontiac and chevy, they actually delayed the Pontiac introduction so chevy could use the rocker arm. The chevy would suck even more than it does with a shaft rocker system. Ford eventually copied it as well.
I still like Buick and Olds, very good grunt monster engines like my beloved Pontiac, but not quite as much potential. There are a few Pontiac engines making over 3000whp with aftermarket blocks and heads based on the RA IV, but the cool thing is those aftermarket blocks can use every factory piece from the rotating assembly, to the heads, intake, and cam, and all the external covers too. 540ci is easy and 3000+ hp/tq is not a problem. Some stock blocks are handling over 1500whp, you can do that with only about 15-20psi depending on which head you are using. 2000hp is really easy with a Pontiac, and the torque is ludicrous because all that power is still made under 6500rpm. Gotta build this Olds 455 for the Cutlass I am rebuilding for a friend, she wants enough power to scare herself, any 455 can do that easy.
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Build cars for a living? HELL NO... I love doing the work, I love driving them afterwards. I HATE WORKING FOR OTHER PEOPLE. I loathe having deadlines and people who keep trying to tell me how to do it, or want their crap done first ahead of everyone else are beyond annoying. I did it for two years, that was more than enough for me. I want to build hotrods, muscle cars, cruisers, sleepers, and drag cars. FOR ME... Getting people to actually pay me was the big problem. They want it all done for free. I was so fed up with running my own shop that I called the recruiter and enlisted again after being out for 7 years.
Now I can build my cars on my own damn schedule. I do literally everything to them, and it can take me a month or it can take me three years depending on how big a project it is. The worst thing about my shop was repairing minivans and crap boxes all day, and it left me disinclined to work on my own stuff. Doing 70 hours a week working and paying my employees more than I took home, well maybe the 90s was a shit time because all the factory jobs were sent to Mexico when I opened my shop. That was why I opened my shop, because my CNC programming/machining job was packed up and sent to Mexico thanks to NAFTA.
Right now I have three winter beaters broke in the yard, a 76 C10 on the lift getting a bunch of work done, and the only thing I can drive is the 65 GTO.. thankfully the snow has mostly melted, rain washed the salt off the roads, so I can take it to get parts if I have to tomorrow when it warms up into the 50s.. today was 22 degrees.. but the Goat started. I build dependable machines.
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@mrjoeramsey know why we make ethanol from corn? Because we have vast amounts of it, nowhere to go with it, and after its fermented into fuel what is left over is a very good livestock feed, even people can eat it. Its called DDGS. Its far better for livestock than corn is.
You can make ethanol from any sugar or with an enzyme to convert starch to sugar, so the yeast can eat it. We have it rotting on the ground and its not gone when you use it to make fuel, its a better cattle feed, which is what field corn is primarily used for.
I have a friend in Wisconsin who makes fuel from cardboard and waste paper. Shred it, break down the long chains with enzymes over a week, shut off the enzymes, add yeast, wait a week. Distill. How much cardboard and paper is burned or stuffed in a landfill? We could be making clean burning fuel from it instead. He hasn't bought gasoline in over ten years.
Spoiled produce from the local grocers can be used as well. I did some with pineapple rinds, some with potatoes, and whatever else they were throwing away. What good does it do in a landfill? That includes bread, stale donuts, and other things people are disinclined to eat.
I use tree sap and cattails. Cattails dwarf corn for ethanol per acre, but most people think they are either weeds or protected marshland. They are edible and make a fine flour, 6 times more starch than a potato, and if they are used to remediate water that goes up. 1000 gallons of fuel per acre from wild cattails without the nitrates running through them, somewhere around 10,000 gallons per acre with a feedlot's run off going through them. So we can get clean water and fuel from them. Imagine if the medians and ditches along all the highways were used to grow cattails all summer..
Kudzu is another one. Its an invasive species, and grows profusely in the south. A foot per day with only sunlight, and it also makes a lot more fuel than corn. Its very difficult to kill it off, like cattails, and its smothering forests all over the south. Why not go harvest it and make fuel? Its a benefit if we can kill it off as that is its only usefulness. Or we can turn it into a cash crop for fuel production.
I am going to use some coffee grounds this winter and see how they work. I drink a lot of it, and I can get grounds from all the local shops for free. Have to convert it to sugar first so it adds some expense to it over tree sap. Tree sap runs in the spring, and you have a short window to collect it, also maple syrup is worth a hell of a lot more than fuel is, but I don't eat many pancakes or waffles and I have lots of trees. Now french toast sounds really good..
The cool thing about ethanol is it makes more power, handles a hell of a lot more static compression (which improves mileage) boils at 173F so it can be used as a vapor very easily, runs cooler with less waste heat so you don't need the extra mass of a cooling system, and there is no black carbon clogging it up and causing wear, so the engines last vastly longer.. Taxi engines in Brazil that run only on ethanol go a million miles without appreciable wear, and they don't change the oil as often either. No carbon in the engine so there is no grit to wear the surfaces and clog things.
That means we can have smaller, lighter engines that make more power, require less mass to cool them, and are very efficient, twice as efficient as gasoline. Best case scenario for gasoline in a controlled environment is 20%, real world every day for ethanol is 40%. The US Navy tested that in 1942.
The OEs are focused on gasoline here in the US. In Brazil its all ethanol, but only the racers have picked up on the high compression part of it. You can't run gasoline in an engine optimized for ethanol, the static compression is too high, there is too much advance timing, and you run them too hot, gasoline will break an ethanol engine.
The big thing with ethanol is local production and distribution rather than centralized distribution. Gasoline comes from tankers and certain areas, has to go through a refinery, so centralized distribution works. Why would you produce ethanol locally, then ship it off somewhere, only to come back and be used where it was made after making the trip?
You use what is available in your area, and if there is nothing to turn into fuel, you buy gasoline or drive an electric, like a Tesla.
No its not a silver bullet, but just because we can't replace all the oil in the world with it does not mean we can't utilize what we have going to waste.
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Ashley Graham one is that the dems give a crap about veterans. Ya think they might start to in the near future since most of them voted to send us into meat grinders starting in 2001? Not only did we crippled vets get no cost of living adjustments through the Obama years, they actually cut our funding. Imagine if you will, giving your health to defend your country, the likes of Hillary voting to send us over there, coming back unable to work for myriad reasons, and then living right at or just below the poverty level. The veteran hating democrats cut the funding even more, but at the same time increased funding for illegals and those who would rather be on welfare, and not actually earn it like veterans did.. and the welfare recipients often get more money than disabled war vets.
The civil rights act was signed into law by Kennedy, but guess who opposed it, and who backed it. It was not the republicans who opposed it, they pushed it through despite JFK being a democrat, and to his credit he signed it into law. JFK was apparently very different from most democrats, might be why his head exploded one day in Dallas.
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@prodigalson6166 I know liberalism is not marxism. However the democrats call themselves liberals when they are not, they are either marxists or supporters of them at this point. Also conservatives and libertarians tend to call them liberals also. I am quite a bit aligned with Ben Franklin, from political views to personal lives. Its kinda freaky to be honest the more I read about him the more I identify with him.
I too am a cold war vet. Reagan was my first CIC and I have a large chunk of the Berlin Wall I knocked off while stationed in Frankfurt. We rode the train up there after it came down, and people started breaking it up. The next year I had my first hot war start, and the events of 1990 changed my life forever. Some good, some not so good.
While I was in, the question of why communism and the rest of marxism was bad came to me, what was the problem with it? All I heard was it was a nebulous thing where you can't own property. The full meaning of it was not given to me, and they try very hard to obfuscate what it really is. My cursory look into it coincided with my dive into what is islam, which began in 1990.
then life got in the way, I had less time to go looking for information, and the internet wasn't here yet. About ten years ago I got back into finding out all these things, from astrophysics and biology, to why ideologies are often shit.
Two divorces left me wondering what the fuck was going on. Then I started to realize the family law is based on marxist ideology, the man is the oppressor the woman always the oppressed victim. After realizing that, I started to notice the influence everywhere.
They do not like merit, and their idea of fairness is rules for thee but not for me, and to take from one and give to another. Alimony, burdensome child support, property being given to the cheating wife, she burns it down and is rewarded for it, and he has to pay while having no rights nor recourse, he can fight but he just wastes money.
I will be long dead before I allow that type of government to be put in place over all of us. Its bad enough its in family law and currently being forced on us with employment.
So when someone uses their buzzwords, like inclusivity, equity, and social justice among many others, I kinda bristle at it. I know where that comes from.
I do not want to segregate people by arbitrary things like race or religion, however i do not want to force them to do things they do not want to do. If you want to be like me and date/marry outside your race, or other things like within your gender, by all means go for it, but do not force people to or punish me because of my race, gender, or anything else like that.
Its like they see some people being prejudiced and they want to force everyone to live according to marxism, as if its the cure all. I suppose if millions are dead and the rest are too busy with surviving to be worried about what color someone is, then its less of a problem.
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You can't build two engines with a big difference in displacement that share a lot of if not all large components? Um... the most copied and influential V8 engine in history did it no problem, and no it is not a chevy I am talking about. That being said the 170 in my sister in law's 63 Dart convertible is the perfect little engine for that car. Its sewing machine reliable and smooth, easy to work on, and its very thrifty. They are adorable little engines and someone would have to be an idiot to not like them, especially in something light such as a 63 Dart or a Miata. Vastly superior to the chevy six, on par with the Ford inline, and only down on power compared to the OHC Pontiac while being easier to work on.
From 1955 at 287ci, through 317, 347, 370, 389, 421, 326, 428, 400, 350, 455 parts interchange between all of them. Engines that ran 406mph at Bonneville in 1960, dominated NASCAR and NHRA Stock and Super Stock classes from 60 to 63 when the infamous racing ban ended the streak. Even the Trophy 4 shares parts, lots of parts and M/T set a ton of records with the half a 389. The heads from any of them will bolt to any block. The connecting rods are all 6.625" long. The main journals changed a bit over the years, but the majority of parts interchange. They did 287ci to 455ci with the same deck height and bore spacing. Factory 389 to 455 engines can go to 500ci easily, and they fit in the same space required for the sbc and sbm. 455s fit in Vegas and Monzas better than the sbc does.
Why do I say most influential V8? Well its been copied a lot. Ball stud rocker arms are from this engine. Factory screw in studs and guide plates. Air gap intakes from this engine. First domestic V8 with 14 degree valve inclination. First to use reverse flow cooling, and first to realize it isn't needed.. in 1956... among other design elements copied by others. Only the LS engines enjoy the interchangeability of the Pontiac, but not the displacement capability of the Pontiac. You can mix and match the LS, they have the air gap intakes, 12 degree heads, and long high velocity ports like the Pontiac with the same number of head bolts per cylinder too.
The LS is more Pontiac than it is sbc, and shares more with Pontiac than it does with the Ford Windsor which also happens to share a surprising amount of tech with the Pontiac... and yes with a 1955 debut the Pontiac predates the Windsor, FE, LIMA, MEL, B/RB, A and LA mopars and was held up for release to coincide with the sbc which was being retooled to use the Pontiac invented ball stud rocker arms otherwise it would have come out with the Y block in 54..
So if the 170 slant is the perfect pedestrian engine, the Pontiac V8 is the perfect wedge headed street performance engine. I kinda like the OHC six too, but don't have much interest in finding then building one to rod around. If one fell in my lap I would do something with it eventually. T bucket perhaps... or a copy of The Red Baron.
The chevy got lots of positive press, like people blowing smoke up your ass to get you to buy junk. Without massive aftermarket support, the sbc would be a basic, poorly designed, weak in the bottom, low powered taxi cab engine.
I will admit, in racing the Hemi is hard to beat, particularly in Fuel classes. I think the RA V or M/T Hemi headed Pontiac would have done quite well if enough of them were made to go TF racing. The SOHC Ford 427 also a screamer. I want one so freakin bad, but I would also take MacKellar's OHC 421. Sad they only made one.. get me a time machine so I can make it happen. So many great engines out there, and for some reason the crappy junk gets all the attention.
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@Cyricist001 the Romans fucked themselves when they allowed feminine thinking to prevail, and thought conscripting people from my home part of the world would be a good idea. Germans are unfond of being ruled over, despite the idiocy we saw starting around 1936. Roman arrogance was such that everyone wanted to take them down.
The inuit were quite adept at living in their environment, and they became efficient at finding seals, whales and other animals to eat. The environment also limited them.
Now why didn't native Americans create an industrialized society and a tolerance for ethanol? They are Asian descent, and China had writing, gunpowder, semi auto crossbows, and were making explosives other than gunpowder long before anyone else did. Meanwhile Native Americans walked everywhere until Cortez let some horses go in north America.
They didn't have to, they were nomads. Ever been to the great plains? Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, etc? To say its vastly different from Europe is an understatement. Sure it will try to kill you there, but there was a ton of room for the tribes to do their thing and rarely run into each other. The only time they had a serious threat was when we showed up with guns and horses. They caught on to the horses real fast though.
Europe had a real estate problem. Not enough of it for the population. Environmental pressure creates culture and the racial differences.
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@darkchild130 there are people who think we who enlisted in the military are unintelligent, mindless drones who blindly follow orders and will obey anything, because we are incapable of more complicated thought. I find those are the type of people who employ words without the discipline required to achieve physical prowess. They are all talk, and to use the old south east Asia reference, they talk the talk but don't walk the walk.
This new generation that thinks so highly of themselves are going to discover what you and I know, but they will learn it the hard way. The world is not the soft bubble wrapped happy thought filled fever dream they have been sold. Life is hard, unforgiving, and brutal. They will look back on their youth, and the idiocy of believing words are violence, and they will hold their young self's in contempt. For many it will be too little too late as they become worm food.
Their environment did shape them, into a supple blob.
Until then they think we are old and only know war. They can't grasp that conflict with others is how you truly find yourself. Not verbal conflict, you have to get physical to learn.
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I do the same thing. I have stacks of Pontiac parts, front timing covers, valley covers, oil pans, engines, transmissions, bolts, all kinds of stuff. I tend to get an entire parts car and keep it around as I pull parts off it. The back window of my 70-72 A bodys costs about $600 if you can find one, so I buy cars just for the back windows and everything else is a bonus. I gave a kid $20 for his 72 LeMans that he put in a ditch, got over $2500 worth of parts from it already. Maybe if I only had one or two of them I could have more expensive parts, but one or two cars won't do all the things I want to do..
60 vehicles is a bit much though so I am going to narrow that down a lot this year. Maybe 15 to 20, and maybe make some of the parts cars decent enough that someone else could build them into a driver.
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City people sure seem to have a bleak outlook on life. I can understand it. While I was in the US military, my stations were all in or near large cities. I felt disconnected, isolated, and despite there being massive numbers of people around me, I was alone and ill at ease. Now I live in the woods, alone, isolated from other people, intentionally. 20 miles from a city of 26k people, three hours from a major city, 7 hours from a large major city. I look out my window I see trees. I drive down the highway I see the worlds largest freshwater lake, and more trees. I no longer feel alone and disconnected despite the fact I can go weeks or months without speaking to another human, other than small talk at the store with the people taking my fiat currency.
The way I see genetics is we get certain genes that are not the sliders on the bar, but they are the bar itself. You can slide all along the bar, but you can't go past it. I will never get over 5'8, but I can pack on a crazy amount of muscle mass, there has to be an upper limit to how much muscle I can build, other than the limiting factor of size itself and limited flexibility that comes with it.
We can increase our intellect along the bar, but we can reach an upper and lower limit. Many things considered intelligence are based on skills, like being good at math, or knowing things. However, not everyone can take seemingly disparate things and find a way for them to work together, or solve problems, and many people cannot grasp concepts which are simple to others, the bars we all have are not equal, but they overlap.
We can change things about ourselves, both physically and mentally, but it usually requires effort. There is a change coming, and with change there is usually a mass dying. Mass extinctions are everywhere in the history of the earth. They open up new niches for other organisms, some are self inflicted, others random chance. Space rocks and gamma bursts are random chance. Exhaling oxygen whilst keeping carbon when you live in a mostly CO2 world, and the O2 then killing you off or greatly reducing your population, well that is self inflicted to some extent.
As for purpose, well I do not think people inherently have a purpose other than the basics to live and reproduce, just like every other organism on the planet. The purpose we give ourselves is to assuage our feelings of futility, because in our egotistical, self absorbed, somewhat or mostly solipsistic minds, we need to feel justified for exiting.
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@innocentbystander3317 take it from someone who has been to war, been in conflict most of my life, and has had to do the dangerous things far too often and many instances nearly ended my time on the planet.
Men are wired different, from women and other men. You never know which you will be when the high speed metal starts zipping around you. Are you going to crawl in a hole and freak out, run away, or become unable to function? Or are you the type who will stand your ground, advance toward the enemy, and run towards the sound?
I was the latter. I can function despite being afraid, and its probably because of the life I had growing up. Actually the first time someone tossed lead at me, I did not get afraid. I got angry, beyond angry, into a calm state without any emotion whatsoever and what I saw were targets and not targets.
Its not bravery, nor is it ignorance. Its something else entirely. Normal people often call it bravery, but to many of us its simply doing a job.
I have had that happen since I was a kid, for as long as I can remember. Turns out a shrink the VA contracted with before Barry informed me its PTSD that makes me able to do things when most can't function, and compels me to do others.. like having a long distance hole punch in every room of my house, sitting with my back to a wall where I can see all exists, etc.
Now bravery for me would be climbing a cell tower. I can handle many threats easily, but gravity is not one of them. Funny thing is I could jump out of airplanes, but put me on a garage with a roof that is 6' from the ground and I can no longer function well. Its quite amusing how that works.
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@beenieweenie1986 it depends entirely upon the state. Where I live and the state where I grew up, you come on my property you can be legally held at gunpoint. You then have the option of leaving of your own accord or in a bag. I have no obligation to retreat, nor do I have to have an actual threat as it can be a perceived threat. So armed or not, I can run you off my land with any gun I own if I feel the need to do so.
With my concealed carry brandishing it in public is verbotten. I cannot point it at you unless you are an actual threat, and I cannot show it to you purposefully, though since it is an open carry state you seeing it under my shirt or something is not brandishing. If I lift my shirt to show it to you, or pull it out, that is brandishing.
For instance in lower Michigan a woman had an altercation with another woman and her children, if you remember. The white woman was being threatened and she pulled the gun. This was legal and the video of the events proved it. Until the rest of the video was sourced, they assumed the first video was correct.
If I pull my concealed handgun in this state, fire it or not, they will take it pending the investigation, but they do not take all my guns. Only that one, and if no crime was committed it is returned in the same condition. That is a condition of the concealed carry permit, it doesn't apply to open carry. Higher standards being what they are. However if someone gets me to pull it, they have a very high probability of being shot in public.
On my land I can hold it, point it, carry it, whatever I want to do with it. The only time they will take it is if I actually shoot someone with it, and only that one, not all of them... like you said, pending investigation.
What this prosecutor did goes against the laws in Missouri as well as many of the surrounding states. Tampering with evidence is illegal in all states.
Lastly a witch hunt and 'fishing for evidence' is not considered investigating. Fishing being looking for something not specified on the warrant. That is up to a judge though.
Since I am almost always armed, especially while travelling, I like to know what the laws are and what they mean regarding guns in the states I drive though. There is a reason I do not go to NY, IL, NJ, and CA.. other than IL is the only one close to me.
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Completely different fuels require completely different tunes and parameters. Thanks for the info on the nitro, and it does make sense due to how nitro burns and keeps making power for the entire power stroke. Its going to slam into the piston at BDC because its not done burning yet, so opening the exhaust valve sooner to bleed off the extra pressure and throwing more fuel at it to slow the burn makes perfect sense. Plus you get a nice big flame out of the zoomies which is always awesome.
Running gasoline vs ethanol vs methanol vs nitromethane, all very different tuning requirements. Trying to get guys to realize how different it is running E85 to E100 vs gasoline is like pulling teeth on a rabid rottweiler. Going to nitro is a massive jump, and it is nothing like the other race fuels. Then you get into hydrazine and shit gets really strange really fast.
Honestly, ethanol is the easiest fuel to tune and work with. Its happy place is a wide range of AFR, and it will run well from 15:1 to 5:1 AFR, but you lose power and mileage going outside the sweet spots of 8.5:1-10:1 for mileage and 7:1-7.5:1 for power. You have to have a wideband O2 to tell where the hell it is too, because there is no way you are going to read the plugs with no carbon on them.
I am having a ton of fun building E85 carbs and engines for the street that run race gas only compression and drive around easily without all the overheating, loading up, and fouling plugs. Plus its cheap and I can use all my 60s era small chamber hardware on my later 455s.
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@WisdomOverWicked777Rules What I am about to write changes some with direct injection engines, but the non DI FlexFuel programming simply adds 30% or more fuel, they tend to run it overly rich so mileage goes to complete shit on E85. A better tune that keeps the AFR around 8.5-10:1 and adds enough timing to pick up low end power, then running only E85 will help. Running a 200F thermostat can help as well. If you have the engine too cold, its losing power and mileage because the fuel atomizes rather than vaporizes.
To get a larger increase in mileage, you need to work the fuel harder and make more torque between idle and 3000rpm, because that is where the engine spends most of its time in street driving.
Working the fuel harder means raising the static compression ratio. Some milled and ported 4.8 or 5.3 heads if you have cathedral ports on it would do the job. Or stroking the engine which will increase compression as well as displacement. A port job would be towards increasing velocity, not peak flow, because the faster you get that column of air moving the better it will fill the cylinders.
With most engines around 13:1 with iron heads is the break even point with mileage, some are around 12:1, but that much compression means you need high quality head gaskets, the bottom end can handle it, but the gaskets are the weak link.
It sounds counter intuitive, but making the engine larger, cranking up the compression so it can't run pump gas at all, and increasing airflow from the opening to the mid lifts will pick up mileage, because all of those make more torque. More torque means the engine doesn't have to work as hard to get the vehicle moving, so it will use less fuel.
Working the fuel harder means getting more from it because E85 can handle 16:1 compression easily. Straight ethanol can go over 22:1 without any gasoline added to it. Pump gas can't, and if you run ethanol in an engine handicapped to run gasoline, you are going to lose mileage, you aren't getting all the work you could from the fuel. Pump gas compression ratios will always get worse mileage with high % ethanol, they are simply limiting the amount of torque the engine can produce to keep the engine from rattling itself to death on crap gas.
There are other things you can do with a low compression engine, such as heating the fuel in the rails to 200F so the ethanol instantly vaporizes when it enters the intake port. That requires changing the fuel system, and works better with straight ethanol, as gasoline is made up of different compounds and chemicals that have boiling points ranging from 80F to 450F, ethanol is 173F at sea level, raise the pressure to 60PSI where many EFI systems already run, and you can heat the fuel to 200F. If you are doing this on an LS engine, the fuel heater needs to be after the regulator so the heated fuel doesn't return to the tank, so the fuel rails end up being deadhead with the return system ahead of the heater.
Once again, it sounds counter intuitive because people want to keep gasoline cold for power and mileage, but ethanol is a very different fuel with superior qualities. When it vaporizes it pulls far more heat out of the intake tract, aka latent heat of vaporization, then it burns faster in the combustion chamber while being more than twice as efficient as gasoline. Most engines today simply don't work the fuel hard enough, and they have tunes designed to get much worse mileage on E85 to dissuade you from running it.
Someone who only knows how to tune for gasoline is going to have a hard time picking up mileage, because everything you do to make more power with gasoline, will just waste ethanol. You want the heat, you need to have the AFR in the right range, and you need to work the fuel harder which can mean more timing, compression etc. Its a different way of thinking, like nitromethane is different.
Adding boost means adding more air, not working the fuel harder, so with forced induction you will end up adding more fuel to make up for the air and will not pick up mileage. Compressing it more has a far greater effect, but if you want raw power, boost and ethanol are happy friends. its going to use a lot of fuel though.
I build my 455s to run only on E85-E100, so I figure in the compression, air flow through the heads, and cam timing when I build them. They will not run pump gas at all, with the cylinder pressures they have, pump gas will break pistons and crush rod bearings. Retrofitting an existing engine to get the most means taking it apart to raise compression.
I have a pair of 5.3s and a pair of 6.0s here that I plan to swap into some old trucks, and the 88 C1500 shortbox will stay on pump gas with a 6.0, the 76 C10 shortbox will go on E85 with the other 6.0, but with more cam timing, compression, and airflow. I am gearing the 76 towards more power than mileage, make it a fun ride, the 88 is going to be pulling my car trailer and making long distance road trips to pick up old cars. The 76 will get all the tricks I have, including heating the fuel in the rails. When I get to them I will post videos, but its going to be at least two years before I get to the 76.
Once I get my stills and production back up and running so I can make 500-1000 gallons of fuel every year, then I can put all my vehicles on straight ethanol and take advantage of the properties to get more power and mileage from them. Right now I have to drive two hours to fill 55 gallon drums for my daily driver 65 GTO.
I got divorced 6 years ago and have been rebuilding my life ever since, and that takes a while, also gas prices have been under $3 so the fuel production hasn't been the highest priority. Building my shop, house, and getting my land squared way so its livable has been the priority. Looks like I can rebuild all that and get the BATF permit next year, which means I can make videos of it all and pass it along on here. Its been lots of work, and I want to get back to doing cars and fuel making tons of power for cheap.
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@WisdomOverWicked777Rules Area under the curve is where you want the power, peak hp will not do much for you unless it comes with a thick torque band in the RPM where the engine operates. HP is a mathematical equation of torque over time. Torque x rpm / 5252 = HP, so HP is always higher than torque above 5252RPM. You want the most torque you can get, the actual twisting force the engine produces.
One thing you can try is running premium no ethanol gas mixed with E85, you want the ethanol percentage to be somewhere between 30% and 50%. The reason you want to run the no ethanol premium is because when they produce the 10% pump gas, the ethanol raises the octane so much that they can put the light, low octane, and less efficient parts that make up gasoline in it.
Essentially, gasoline is the waste byproduct of refining kerosene and diesel fuel, along with the other more valuable components. Gasoline is the left over crap that can be used in cars if you retard the timing, lower the compression, and increase the cooling capacity.
So you are getting the better quality components with the premium no ethanol gas, then you mix the E85 with it and you pick up power, it costs less, and you can often get better mileage doing this. I did it with a 98 Gran Prix that had the 3800 V6 in it, and it got better mileage with 30-40% ethanol mixed with the gasoline.
The flex system will adjust the tune according to how much ethanol the sensor sees, and crank up the fuel table so you will not improve mileage. You might be able to find a sweet spot though with some testing.
Around here premium is $4 a gallon, two hours south of me E85 is $2.25 a gallon, while 87 octane is $3. Its a big jump in price, and the E85 makes more power, burns cleaner, runs better. So there are ways around the problems imposed by low compression and crap factory tuning.
You have to actually get inside the tune and change the tables to effect the change you want. An add on programmer only increases certain things, like timing, so its a one size fits all approach.
Notice the video I put up with the FiTech reading 13-14 AFR and the wideband under the dash reading 8, a speed density system like that runs all the readings through the algorithm, so the O2 for the ECU will read in the range you tell it to, and its not exactly going to be the same as what its really running. You tell the ECU how many cubes the engine has, and it goes with those numbers as the baseline and then uses the 02 for fine adjustments, fudge the CID input and you move the algorithm around, that is how you tune a Fitech and the other self learning TBI systems for E85, you tell it the engine is larger than it is, and it throws more fuel at it.
A mass air system like the LS engines have uses the MAF and MAP to decide where in the table its going to adjust the tune, and the 02 gives feedback on where its actually running. So there is a finer point on it, but its still running all the data through an algorithm that acts like a lens you are looking through. The MAF tells it ecu how much air is going by, the MAP tells it what the barometric pressure is to give a better idea of how much air is cooling the element in the MAF.
Plus there is a best power AFR and a best economy AFR, best power is between 7:1 and 7.5:1 AFR, and some of the flex tunes go even richer than that, just wasting fuel at that point
Try some splash mixing, see how it does with 3-4 gallons of E85 for every ten of gas. Adjust how much E85 you put in and run it close to empty before filling it so you have an idea of where it is. Its still kinda in the dark, but you can see the changes in mileage doing it this way. Long road trips are great for testing mileage, city driving is going to suck no matter what.
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I don't have any appreciable savings at 55, here's why. I have like $3k to $5k at any given time right now.
From 2001 to 2015 if I had a savings account, Nebraska would empty it for me and twice during that time they emptied my checking account too. It was punitive and they wanted to make me get behind on kid support. When you're behind, and I was at some points, they can then do even more to you. Everything I worked for, other than rusty old cars the ex didn't want (they only want shiny cars) was taken from me and given to the ex, or lost because I had my before tax income dropped from $2100 a month to $100 a month. The only time I had some breathing room was when I was active duty and finally got paid for my 2002 promotion, in 2004 and 05, but I was medically discharged in 05, so it didn't last long.
As a result I make sure that the money I get is invested into tangible assets every month. The 50s to 80s vehicles I own, mostly 64-72 vintage muscle cars. Tools to work on and rebuild them, and I paid off my land in just 8 years, because it was less than $30k for 13 acres in 2013. To start saving now at 55, isn't going to do much. The time to save is in your teens and 20s so it will grow. All of that was taken from me as punishment for being a man.
The other part is I am a disabled veteran, 100% service connected, so I am not allowed to earn more than the VA compensation. You can look up how much money I get every month. I have to stretch that out because its one deposit on or before the 1st. I live as minimal as possible, other than the car thing. If I didn't do the cars and old trucks, I would probably be targeted by Nebraska again, even though 2015 was the last time I was responsible for paying the ex, and that is paid in full... actually the ex owes me a bit over $10k, but they don't care about that.
I worked extremely hard, long hours, and also invested in myself in terms of skills, knowledge, capability, and experience. At least Nebraska can't take what we know away from us, but they can revoke any professional license you have. All of it was taken. They'd take my home now if they could, they always want more, even when you don't owe them anything.
What do I have to show for my effort? VA compensation. Thats it. My life would be infinitely better had I never gotten married and had kids. I wouldn't have needed to go back to the military in 2000, would not have been injured in 2004, and I would still own the things I earned from 25 to 45.
Funny thing to add. Some doofus sent me a letter telling me he "would happily pay $12,800" for my land. I bet he would.. Especially since I improved it a great deal, from when I bought it, including building a 32x48x12 shop with a lift to work on cars. $12k won't pay for anything I have done to my land, funny how they try to scam me like that just because I am in my 50s. The property tax assessment is $12,800, because they don't come check on anything. Being a disabled veteran in Michigan I am exempt from property tax. Its part of why I am still living here with the snow.. just got two more feet of it in the last 36 hours.
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How can they? They willingly disarmed themselves decades ago along with Aussies, Canucks, and Kiwis because their gov would never do that to them... Nah, they're screwed. In a few months they won't be able to afford the bottle let alone the gasoline to make Molotovs.
They've had so much soy in their diets, and relied on the USA for their national security for so long, that they are like helpless lambs.
Here is the funny part. Because energy costs are so high where I live, the grid is very unreliable, gasoline is usually on par with California and NYC, and it gets cold with 150 to 300 inches of snow every winter, I got into producing energy for myself. Ethanol, methane, growing my food, and I can heat my house and shop with a big compost pile.
Europeans can't do any of that, they do not have the land available to support all the people. 1 acre of cattails makes 1000 gallons of ethanol. Methane is incredibly easy to produce and use, its also called natural gas. Electricity is proving to be the tough one since wind and solar are extremely unreliable here, I use solar extensively and winter doesn't get me much energy. The sun simply isn't up long enough or high enough in the sky to do the job. Europe is farther north than I am, they have even shorter days in winter. Sure, this is what they SAY they want us to do.. but they want most of us to no longer exist, and they want to control the rest of the survivors.
The Europeans have no choice but to take it and accept the fact they are serfs again.
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@davidgalea6113 if it was bad for carbs, I would be having lots of bad carbs. How many decades or centuries does it take to damage a carb? So far I have had three Qjets running E85 and straight ethanol since 2007/08, a Demon 850 since 2010, and three Holley 850s since 2011.
My 70 GTO has been on E85 since 2007. In 2018 I pulled the engine and put it in the 65 GTO which has been on E85 since then. ZERO problems with them.
Sure, a rubber part that is 50 yeas old, like something in my 70 GTO or the 68 LeMans that has been on E85 since 2015 without problems, will probably go bad... BUT IT IS 50 YEAR OLD RUBBER.. its a fire hazard regardless of whatever fuel is in it.
You are flat wrong, just like everyone else who simply regurgitates what they have been told by people trying to sell them gasoline for the last 110 years. Unlike you and most other people, and I'd say everyone who still thinks that, I have actually tested ethanol for more than a decade, in old and new vehicles.
As for it being less dense, sure but that is not why mileage suffers in a low compression engine. Its because ethanol has more O2 in it, so you need to run more fuel to make sure its not too lean. The float needs to be raised to get the level right because the specific gravity is different. Its a different fuel.
In an engine with compression low enough to run pump gas, yeah you will lose a couple mpg. Big damn deal when you can make the stuff yourself for cheap. Far cheaper than gasoline unless of course you are doing it wrong.
Raise the compression and you pick up mileage. With 13:1 I got better mileage and a lot more power from a 455, in the same car, with similar gearing on E85 than a pump gas 455 could do. The E85 engine was more than a full second faster in the quarter mile, mid to low 11s in a 4100lb 70 GTO with a 3.42 gear, and getting 20mpg mixed mileage on E85.
The 8.8:1 compression 455 got a lot worse mixed mileage and a best of 19 following a truck down I-40 through Tennessee with a 2.93 gear, and that engine would put that 4100lb GTO into the 12.60s on slicks. The pump gas 455 usually got 16 or so mixed if I didn't beat on it.
The 65 GTO gets better mileage with 11.5:1 in its 455 pushing a 3.08 than it did with a 400 that had 7.8:1 and was turning a 2.56, 2mpg better on E85 with a hell of a lot more power. It did that with various carbs I converted and FiTech EFI on it. Its my summer daily driver, and I used it to test and tune carbs I converted for friends.
With pump gas compression, yeah you are going to lose mileage. With E85 I can run all the small chamber 60s cylinder heads on my biggest engines without dished pistons. I milled a set of 48 heads, which had a 72cc chamber down to 64ccs and put them on a zero deck 455. 13:1 is that easy with a Pontiac.
Ethanol is NOT THE SAME thing s methanol. Because if you want to talk about methanol, yeah it corrodes everything, tears up rubber, and should have stainless tanks, lines, etc.
Ethanol is vodka, whiskey, beer, wine, etc. Methanol will freakin end you if you drink it.
Methanol is what made people go blind, because the government mixed it with ethanol to poison it, its called denaturing so we can't drink it. If we drink it, they want their taxes. When I make fuel I have to denature it if I use it on the highway, otherwise they can get me for bootleggin. They called them revenuers because they were going after the shiners for taxes...
So 87 octane is $5.20 as of yesterday while I was in town. It costs me less than $1 a gallon to make ethanol from cattails, which make a lot more per acre than corn does... and cattails are nearly impossible to kill entirely.
Soon it will be over $6 a gallon, and it will go higher. YOU will be walking. I will be driving way over powered high compression muscle cars and newer LS powered trucks running on vodka. Because you believe the hysteria, the hype, the propaganda, the misinformation... and I tested it my damn self. Go ahead and keep repeating things of which you know nothing about.. its amusing to those of us who know.
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There is no way I could afford to live anywhere in New York, anywhere, not just the city. Same with Illinois, California, etc. I'm a disabled veteran, congress doesn't give us much money to live. Now that has a benefit here in Michigan, I don't have to pay property tax I am exempt.. at least until the d's who now run everything from six counties realize it.
I live dirt cheap, other than my car projects, out here in the woods above the 46th parallel along the shore of Lake Superior. I wanted to buy land in Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, or Missouri, but its too expensive for me there. This is almost the only place I can afford to live, and that is only because I don't have to work a job for my bit of income. Jobs around here do not pay well, most people are lucky to make $2000 a month.
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SHORT GUYS.. Look up Richard J. Flaherty. Green Beret, Airborne, multi tour Nam veteran. Had to get a waiver just to join the Army. He was hard core and I would tower over him if we had ever met. Stop feeling sorry for yourself, put in the work, and your life will improve.
I'm 5'8" and now I am 55. I wrestled in high school, was benching 265lbs when I was 17 and weighed 167lbs-175lbs. I was a monster who could defeat the 185 and hvy on most teams, and all the small guys. I pinned more than half of my 26 wins, K/O.'ed one, and broke several bones on others. If my opponent was taller than 5'10", he had almost no chance against me. I am far stronger now, and have even more training. So its amusing when someone's tall boyfriend tries to intimidate me. I used that in the military, and I never found anyone that could hang, who was not also a wrestler.
I have somewhere between 150 and 200 notches, I lost track back in the early 90s. I think the first ex was like 89 or 90. I have a gorilla belly now and I STILL get attention from the 18-26 crowd, and the older than 40 examples are thrilled to have me even look at them and say hi in public. Huge smiles just like they would do when they were teenagers looking at the school quarterback. The 30 somethings are looking for someone to allow them to not work, and pay their bills/take care of their kids. Once they hit 30, they lose interest in me fast.. lol. I am the fun muscle bound freak, not a long term possibility.
My younger brother is 5'6" if he stretches a bit. You really don't want to mess with him. Army vet, 7 combat deployments, ended his 23 years as a UH60 pilot/instructor. He did better in wrestling than I did, and was a 138lb monster. His wife was quite the hotty 30 years ago, and they are still together. He is hard core when he needs to be.
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I live in a rural area, its 22 miles one way from my house to the grocery store and if I have to do much running around that requires mere fuel. To get an electric car that can make that trip more than once at higher than 45mph costs $100k. Where I grew up is even farther, and a Tesla is going to have a hard time getting around in BFE Nebraska where there are hours of driving between towns.
I like the idea of charging it at home with wind and solar, because I am all about making energy rather than buying it. Its why I make and run my cars on ethanol. However, a conversion to electric costs considerably more than my stills, fermentation, high compression heads, and even building a car from the ground up to reuse amortized parts. I don't buy new cars, I build old ones. Its more work for me, but that means I can use the limited funds for other stuff so I am inadvertently green. If it costs too much, I am not going to do it. If it causes problems with parts or other things, I am not going to do it. If it makes more power I am going to be very interested.
Then we have the season ware are heading into now. We get over 200 inches of snow here, they salt the roads so heavily that a new vehicle is rusted out in five years if you drive it in winter. Corrosion is the biggest enemy of the electric car, as resistance builds up from corrosion and creates heat which wastes energy and can start the damn thing on fire.
Replacing the battery, yeah its going to cost more to do just that than it does to rebuild an internal combustion engine. All the lithium and other components of those batteries need to be mined, not much can be recycled either. So its a net loss. I fly RC airplanes and the electric planes are much faster than the glow engines are, same with the electric cars, but we are not talking a small $100 brushless motor , we are talking large batteries and motors. Copper is going to be a premium, far more than it is now. Sounds good for the miners in the area, but damn thats a lot of waste to support electric cars that are mainly charged by coal fired power plants.
So range, cost, corrosion, and battery life are the reasons I am not into electric cars, because they sure as hell are not slow. The Tesla that did Drag Week this year ran 10.40s and all he did was pull out interior parts. That is damn quick for something off the showroom floor. So yes they will run hard, but that is a $100k car. I can run faster than 10.40s for less than $10k with my old dinosaur Pontiac engines, so the bang for my buck just isn't there.
I want a Prius though, not to drive, but to use as a power supply for my house and shop. I can charge the battery with the engine, wind, or solar, and the drive units can be used as PTO to run other things, like a sawmill or whatever else. So I can run my house and shop on the Prius battery, and run the engine on methane I make for damn near free. If I can find one cheap enough, with a decent battery in it, it will be gutted and turned into a power plant for the zombie apocalypse.
Making my fuel is simply tapping some trees then adding yeast, or digging up cattails to use the starch in the roots then adding an enzyme to change the starch to sugar and adding yeast. Wait a week, then distill it, keep it out of direct sunlight and I have fuel as well as antiseptic, degreaser, and if you ignore the taste and we aren't encumbered with taxes/revenuers we have party time as well. I would rather run it in my car than drink it though. My GTO is an alcoholic, it loves the vodka.
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Its better to err on the side of restraint, being a bit pessimistic, than it is to claim pie in the sky things betting others will actually do it. Underestimating rather than overestimating works when you want someone to succeed, if you want them to not prevail against you is when you overestimate them and hope they underestimate you. If you guys knew abouthing about competition, be it combat sports or actual combat, you'd know this.
Tim is wrong a lot. Everyone is wrong a lot. Armchair quarterbacks aren't in the arena, but they are the first to criticize after the fact. Are you going to get in the game, or screech from the sidelines?
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
~Theodore Roosevelt.
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Tony something you should know.. the hardeners in modern paint has a chemical called isocyanate in it. You can get over sensitized to it, and it can wreck your lungs. What happens is you feel like a fat chick is sitting on your chest and tightening a ratchet strap around you every time you breathe. Once you are 'sensitized' to it, your body will over react to even the smallest amount of the stuff. I found out the hard way back in 2012, it laid me up for 6 months, walking ten feet would leave me out of breath. I am still not 100% after having to go on prednisone twice since then because of the initial exposure and another one from expanding foam. I have to be super careful about that stuff now if I want to be able to breathe. read the MSDS on the stuff, its nasty.
Its very worth it to wear a respirator.
Now when I paint a vehicle or even parts I have to do the full hazmat suit thing, if I get paint on my skin my body freaks out and I can't breathe. I can't afford to pay someone else to do it, and I can't afford to be exposed to the stuff again.
So if you are having a hard time breathing and it hurts like hell when you take a deep breath, this is probably the problem. I noticed it the very next day after using the same respirator twice a week apart. You can't do that because it coats the filters and then lets the stuff through. The filters are one use only with modern paint. I know with smoking you won't have the same thing happen exactly, since I can't smoke, but I really don't want you to get jacked up like I did. The clear is the worst for it. Man that really messed me up for a long time.
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@SartorialisticSavage65 yeah some of them do, I usually do depending on the expression they have. If they are afraid, I talk to them and make some jokes, put them at ease.
I live in a rather rural area, largest town within 3 hours driving time is 26k people. I did the same thing when I was stationed in Charleston SC 20 and 30 years ago, and in Germany 30 years ago.
If I don't want to be bothered, I don't start anything. Also, probably same as you and every other man in the world who isn't a 6'5" millionaire, if we don't open them, nothing happens.
Here's a curious thing to ponder. If I were over 6' would I have developed such a high degree of being able to talk to them? If I had my ability to talk to them that I have now, and I was over 6' then just about any female that doesn't have more money than me would be like putty in my hands.
I developed the ability to talk to them BECAUSE I am just under average height. My massive confidence comes from competition, wrestling, warfare, military, drag racing... I've done things many people can't, and I know what I am capable of. That comes from having a difficult and arduous life, and most tall guys don't have that. They don't have to work for some things, whereas we short guys do.
Chicken and the egg... Its interesting to think about though.
I watch these channels for something to do and think about. I've had my share of poooooon, several times over. I share my experiences so other guys know that they aren't the only ones dealing with this, that all this stuff can be overcome, and that persistence with determination pays off eventually. Keep slogging through hell and eventually you come out the other side stronger than you were before.
I'm a gearhead, I like to build cars and trucks, then go racing. Thats why I am not leaving the US, tuna scented whistlesacks aren't enough reason for me to stop doing the car thing.
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We are kinda different. Gearheads don't see the world the same way normies do. We see cars that speak to us, and we don't care how old they are, if the paint is shiny, or if it has all the whizbang geegaws on it.
Status. It has never been a thing for me. I simply do not care what someone else thinks. If they are doing better in life than I am, I wanted to figure out how I could do better too. Never thought about tearing them down, making them look bad or whatever, thats not the way my mind works. I wanted to improve myself and my cars.
Going all the way back to the 80s, people, especially my mom, would say "Why don't you sell those old cars and buy a new one that you don't have to work on all the time?" Or "Why not go buy a new car that gets better mileage so you can save money on gas?"
I like working on them. Driving an old car is dirt cheap when you can repair anything on it, insurance is cheaper, parts are cheaper, no loan, no interest on the loan, plates are cheaper and you only pay the big ticket taxes on it when you buy it for $500. The math just never worked out for me. The idea of buying a new car that depreciates the instant I sign the paper, paying a lot more for the loan, insurance, etc. and the car cost more than I made in a year in the 80s and 90s, was enough to make me never buy a new one.
Its even worse now, I checked and the locals want $60k for a bare bones half ton 2wd pickup. Just no... not when I can build one from rusty junk for about $5k and it will have plenty of power and all new bushings, bearings, seals, etc.
I have engines I bought in the 80s that still run, they were old 40 years ago. I have engines I rebuilt in the 90s that are still making power and not smoking... they took a beatin too!
I have sold a handful of cars since I bought my first one in 1982. Scrapped lots of stuff that was too far gone, and if you know me, too far gone is not much left of anything. So here I am now, 55 years old with a whole yard full of muscle cars that people drool over when they come on my land. Shallow thinking types might surmise I am a purveyor of certain substances, booger sugar, or bolivian marching powder type things. In reality I paid anywhere from free just haul it off to $7500 with the majority being less than $500, and have kept them over the years.
I have no concerns about getting in one and driving it 1000 miles, because I built it and I can fix it on the side of the road if I need to. I did it all the time before the advent of cellphones, the internet (for civilians), and I drove thousand mile road trips often, even in less than friendly weather. Most of the time, they work flawlessly and I make the trip without issue. In February 2000 I got in my 70 GTO with a 455 and 2004R behind it, and drove it 1500 miles from Nebraska to Charleston SC when I went back to the USAF after being out 8 years. I had to wire up a muffler near Paducah. That was the only issue, a bolt rattled loose on the hanger.
Ya know, if I were to sell all the cars, trucks, parts, supplies, tools, equipment, the shop, lift, and everything else involved with old cars, leaving me with a big pile of money... I would just spend it on tools, cars, trucks, equipment, shop, lift, etc...
Its what I do. Its what I want to do. I wake up at night thinking about what I want to do, and how I can fit it into the long list of 'projects' with the concern of will I get them all done before I achieve permanent equilibrium with ambient temp. Well... I can try. Every day i do something on a car, truck, the shop, or the house. I built all of them, except the Cuda that was left to me. Old cars are my reason for existing, they are why I am still here despite having a life that most people would have checked out of long ago. I want to build something fun, enjoy driving it, keep it running, and ddo silly things with it. Just one is never enough. A new one does not fit who I am or how I live.
We are different, we are not like most people. Cars are more to us than an appliance or a status symbol. I don't understand the guys who buy an old muscle car as a status symbol and never drive it. Its a car, they were built to be driven... and driven hard. Not pampered and kept in a climate controlled nursery.
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@Spooklilly-Latina4Freedom I was seeing a Mexican-Apache girl (she grew up in New Mexico) for about four years, we are still friends, but the 7 hour drive to see each other wasn't working. She lives in Chicago, and she likes all the free stuff provided by the state. Girl makes bank, well over $200k a year, but she can't see the cost of the taxes and things like the tolls to get around.
It has always amazed me how she can compartmentalize everything, be a hard working, high earning, adult, and still think what the dems are doing in Illinois is a good thing while believing all the propaganda about the cheeto.
I know another Latina who moved up here from Texas, she is voting Trump, and she is a single mom of three girls. She doesn't want he daughters to live in the world the dems will create, and I think the same about my two daughters.
I am friends with several black guys who live up north, where seeing anyone non white is rare. Every one of them is voting for Trump, and they know exactly what Biden is about. They see him for the racist prick that he is, pandering to them and gaslighting them trying to get their votes.
I'm not a republican, not a conservative, not even religious, and I can see easily what the dems are about. One might assume I would be with them considering who I am/what I think, but I can't get down with marxism. They think we are all stupid, and they assume minorities are stupider and easily manipulated. The whole thing makes me sick.
Good on you for doing what you can to get people off the democrat plantation. I am an old white guy, nobody listens to us anymore they just call us racist, so you gotta do it. They say I have a fetish because I like to date girls of any race or color. They can't see how racist they actually are thinking that way.
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@Spooklilly-Latina4Freedom I abstained in '16, I saw it as a shitshow and I loathed Hillary, but assumed Trump would screw things up and get us in a war, but I figured I would give him a chance and see how he does.
I am thrilled I was wrong about Trump in '16. Hillary I am not wrong about. Then I saw how the media went after him, pushed idiotic postulations and false accusations, and having had more than a few false accusations myself, I started to like the Cheeto.
Hearing the democrats in their debates and ads it became readily apparent that the entire party is a shitshow. They brag about how they will rescind the bill of rights, so being a Cold War, Desert Shield/Storm, and OIF/OEF veteran, it did not sit well with me. I have a chunk of Berlin Wall I knocked off while I was stationed in Germany back in '89. It reminds me of the horrors that go hand in hand with socialism.
They have lost me forever, and the chances I will abstain ever again are nil, because the threat of marxism is ever present and it only goes undercover, never away. I am not some tinfoil hat wearing nutter, I learned that ideology along with two abrahamic religions, I know things, I see whats going on, I hear what they say, so I can spot socialism or authoritarian theocracy aims easily.
The only ideology I want in my government is that of liberty. No religions with invisible friends making laws based on that friend, no authoritarian state controlling our lives, just leave us alone and let us do our thing without overreaching burdensome regulations.
If you want to live by the rules of an invisible sky wizard, DC9 spaceship galactic rulers killing thetans in volcanoes, or the big juju under the mountain, by all means go for it. I draw the line when they start trying to make all of us live by those laws. There is no utopia, no Shangri La, there is only risk, effort, and personal responsibility. The choices we make should dictate where we go in life, not an overbearing big brother government.
On my channel I do car stuff, I don't dig into this political thing because I find text works much better for me to get my point across.
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@MsKatjie ok, most people think it eats everything, and tears up carbs, fuel lines, etc. They are confusing it with methanol, which is very different. Same with how much more fuel it takes, many people think it takes twice as much, it varies how much more, its usually around 30% but I have gotten where I wanted it to be with less than that.
The reason it requires more isn't about energy, its about ethanol having more oxygen in it than gasoline, and a different specific gravity.
It makes more power than gasoline, withstands a lot more compression and advanced timing, runs cooler, burns faster, but is a 'softer' burn as it doesn't have the parts breaking pressure spike that gasoline has. Its a lot easier on parts than gasoline.
I like it without gasoline, I can make a lot more power that way. 20:1 compression is no problem on straight ethanol, 16:1 is easy with pump E85.
You can find lots of misinformation, and complete BS out there very easily, put out by people who don't know first hand, or who blame ethanol for problems caused by other things.. like additives used by the oil companies when they mix ethanol and gasoline.
There is a lot more, I can go on for hours about it. Been running home brew and E85 in my vehicles since 2007. Had E10 in the drivers before that, and ran race gas in a couple of them in the 1990s. Been building engines, carbs, and transmissions for over 30 years.
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I have crates with Qjets in them, more crates with Qjet parts, and I run them on daily drivers and hotrods, some are E85 some are pump gas. I am one of two guys who are converting Qjets to E85, and I have done it the longest, so I kinda know those things. I have somewhere around 15 or 20 Holley carbs from 600s for my dual quad Offy to the 1050 Dominator on my street strip toy. A couple Demon carbs too, the 850 mechanical secondary one is one of my best E85 carbs.
Not a fan of the Edelbrock carb, not enough tuning range, they're always down on power, drivability sucks compared to Qjets and Holleys, and if its not similar to a stock 350 chevy you can't tune it easily to fit. Secondary opening rate is the big problem why they are down on power, you have to have a bunch of air valves laying around because they are weighted rather than having a spring you can adjust like a Holley or Qjet.
I have been into EFI since I got a 92 F150 and owned my shop where I built hotrods on the side along with transmissions, engines, carbs, set up gears etc. Did some supercharged 5.0s in the 90s that ran relatively well. Several LS engines in trucks and a 98 Formula Firebird.
In '16 I bought a FiTech Mean Street EFI that is good for 800hp, ran it for two years then took it off last year to tune some E85 carbs I did. It will go back on another car this year, not sure which one yet. Its a TBI speed density system, so its kinda limited compared to the port EFI. All up including the fuel system I built for it with a Walbro external inline pump was $1200, that is more than my 1050, Victor and electric pump cost me. Most of my carbs were used, so I got them anywhere from free to $250. The Demons and 1050 were new, and I really like those things.
The nice thing about the EFI is being able to make adjustments without opening the hood and getting dirty. Unless you have a separate wide band O2 in the other collector, you have no freakin clue where its running for AFR on E85, because the unit will display what the O2 says in accordance with the CID parameter you put in. The way you make a speed density system run on ethanol is you increase the CID, now if you go up 30% in CID, you are massively over fueling it and wasting fuel, its more like 10%-15% more CID in the handheld to get the 7:1 -9.5:1 AFR that runs best on E85. It starts real nice in any weather and will idle without any input, so thats nice too.
The other place the EFI shines is when you are trying to make an over powered turbo car go down an unprepped stretch of highway or track, you can pull power from it by changing the timing, boost, and other parameters and then ramp it in as you pick up speed and not blow off the tires. With a carb, that is all in your foot, so its much harder to do. The EFI will adjust to it on the fly, and you can change the tunes in seconds. Its a lot quicker than swapping barrel valves, power valves, jets, or whatever, and it stores all the info so you can tell what it did during any given run. It lets you see what its doing, remember it, and be able to go back and put a tune in that worked before.
If you are on a budget, the carb is the way to go, if you are building a street machine to go stomp egos you can go either way. If you want to race no prep with lots of turbo power, the only way you can compete is with EFI unless you can dead hook on about any surface and aren't making so much power that you can blow the tires off at 100mph by thinking about it.
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There is a difference in fuels, ethanol is VERY good at pulling the heat out of the intake charge, it vaporizes easily at 173F, lower the pressure and that temp drops. Engines run on vacuum, so its lower pressure than atmospheric, and you can utilize that with ethanol to make more power on less fuel. Heating the fuel in the rail or after the regulator and return will make it vaporize instantly and completely, the gasoline in E85 takes its sweet time, but the ethanol is nearly instant. You can't do that with a carb because of the vents, heating the fuel just makes it boil in the float bowls, but with EFI you can run 60psi in the rail and it still doesn't boil at 240F, but you only need 200F fuel temp to make it work. That is easily achieved by running the fuel through part of the cooling system, and running a 200-210 thermostat.. it will make more power doing that on ethanol too.. you want the heat.
Efficiency is power, the more power it makes on the least amount of fuel the faster you will go for longer. You want a complete burn, and making as much power with the least amount of wasted energy to heat as possible. Improve efficiency and you improve power. With a heated fuel system, EFI, over 13:1 compression, and decent aero body work, 30mpg from a 500hp engine is rather easy on ethanol. No blower or boost needed. Throwing boost at an engine means you have to throw more fuel at it too, I'd rather just squeeze it harder in the chamber without shoving more atmosphere in it.
A port fuel system has about two maybe three inches between the injector and valve. A TBI system has much more distance, introducing the vaporized fuel earlier makes the charge more dense, pulls more heat from the intake, and it will make more power. Doesn't work as well with gasoline, but it too has a similar effect, on a smaller scale. To a certain extent throwing fuel at it will make more power on ethanol and methanol, because they have more O2 in them than gasoline does, along with fuel you're adding O2, so its going to make more power until its just too pig rich. Gasoline likes to run leaner to make power, make it fat its safer but will make less power. Make an ethanol engine fatter, it picks up power. Takes different thinking.
EFI systems are mostly geared towards being bandaids for gasoline, because it likes to ignite when it feels like it rather than when the spark lights it, the poor latent heat of vaporization, and the atomizaton makes for large drops that burn slower. All of that is taken into account, and that is how we got the EFI systems of today.
Carbs are still a great way to go fast or daily drive, the more you know about them the better they will be for you, and its all hands on stuff. You can never know too much about carbs and how they work.
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I like the challenge of making something go fast without spending money on it. Anyone can throw a water or liquid nitrogen cooled credit card at it, not just anyone can run faster than a new Vette for pocket change in a rusty heap.
Even though the 65 GTO is shiny and nice looking, its still a budget build. Its what I do, mostly because I have always been rather broke. People say Pontiac is too expensive to race, but they haul ass with factory parts and cheap stuff. In the 90s I went 11.40s with a $2700 hydraulic cam 455, most expensive part was the ported heads. $4500 in the entire car and it weighed 3750lbs without me in it, running a 3.42 gear and a $90 1900-2100 stall... and no power adder.
Right now I am working on 9s for less than $5k with a 68 LeMans. Its sitting at $3800 with a 400 block stroked to 461 with a used crank kit and some used Edelbrock heads, home made fiberglass bumper and hood, core support made from an old screen door, and everything else gutted from it.
There is another project I am doing a UTG style build on, 72 Ventura with a virgin 400 block and heads. Ring and bearing, new oil pump, cam swap, and used valve springs. Should have around $300 in the entire engine and trying for less than $1000 in the entire car. Just pulled an 8.5" locking diff from an 04 Silverado to put in the 8.5" rear end under the Ventura. Free parts. How long will it survive? I dunno but I am going to find out. Th350 and a used stall, rebuild the drum brakes and MC, its all manual, leave it column shift with the bench seat, calling it the Ditch Pig. No ET goal, just want to see what I can make it run with mostly used or junk parts.
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The best success the marxists have achieved is getting the world to think national socialism and fascism is somehow 'right' wing. The only way you can think those pricks are right wing is if you're ignorant of the ideology. It cannot be right wing if its authoritarian.
4th industrial revolution... it comes after the 3rd Reich. I can govern myself, I do not need a corporation to do it.
I could get behind a one world government, but not a marxist one. If the entire world had freedom of speech, religion, and a separation of church and state as enshrined in the 1st amendment of the US Constitution, freedom to defend yourself and bear arms like the 2nd, freedom from search and seizure without a warrant, not having to incriminate yourself, and you know, the US Bill of Rights as they are intended, not clawed at like they are right now, then sure.
The shit those rich assholes are talking about, yeah you are gonna get just a wee bit of resistance from people like me.
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Live in an area where actors and other millionaires want a vacation home, yeah you're not going to afford a place to live if you're not one of 'them'. I on a fixed income, I won't even try to live in a place like that. I know I can't. Literally any other town in Wyoming is affordable, you don't have to live in the expensive areas. I live on $4k a month, own 13 acres, built a 32x48 shop, built a 1050 sqft home, and paid it all off in 8 years. I'd be living under a bridge in LA, NYC, Chicago, etc.
The video Bo is talking about here is made by people who are jealous and resentful of people who have more. Their idea is to take from the people who have things, and give it to those who don't want to work. In my part of Northern Michigan, people can live on $1500 a month. $3k a month will get you land and a home like I have.
If the rich want services, they'll need to hire people directly and provide them a place to live. Otherwise, they will have to travel to get food. If you can't afford to live there..... DON'T. It's that simple. Where I live is stunningly beautiful, and cheap. GO SOMEWHERE ELSE YOU CAN AFFORD. The USA is a big place. Avoid cities, it's that simple.
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An EMP is like a super massive alternator/generator. The reason it fries electronics is it induces current in every wire that cuts the magnetic waves, and its a massive amount of current. Millions of volts at least, electronics work on millionths of a volt, but the rest of the wiring, in the starter, alternator, harnesses, its all going to fry and arc between grounds if a few million volts with god knows how many amps behind it suddenly appears in the wires. If the car is not protected, its toast and will probably burn from the EMP caused by a CME (coronal mass ejection/sunflare)
A Faraday cage can make the induced current go around up to a certain point, but they also bounce off the earths iron core. So you need it in the floor too. Fun stuff. I accidentally made my shop a Faraday cage, steel mesh in the concrete floors and steel siding around it, so whatever happens to be inside is probably going to be less effected, provided it doesn't burn down.
As for fuel, its crazy easy to make ethanol. Tree sap, any sugar or starch, even waste paper can be used to make ethanol. Its simply vodka. Unlike what we have all heard, it doesn't harm anything, but you do need to put more of it in the engine, because it has a lot more O2 in the fuel than gasoline does.
The 2.2 is for METHANOL, not ETHANOL. Methanol is very different, its made in a completely different process, is highly toxic, and takes ten times as much water as ethanol. You can drink the water after producing ethanol, but water used to make methanol is toxic. Methanol is NOT moonshine, ethanol is, the same stuff already put in gasoline all over the world... and they run it straight in Brazil. Methanol will kill you with ingesting 10ml, that is ten milliliters, not very damn much, like .1cc, and 100 proof ethanol you can drink quite a few shots without dying.
I usually open up my carbs between 25%-30% for ethanol, which has a different specific gravity than gasoline and methanol. Just because the orifice is 30% larger doesn't mean its going to use 30% more fuel either. Lots of variables, compression, engine material, cam timing, etc.
Sugar in water, with yeast, kept under 90F, without oxygen, and the yeast turn the sugar into vodka.. yeah same exact stuff we put in our tanks. Vodka made from corn, because we have billions of tons of the stuff, so why not make fuel from it. We don't eat that corn either... but what is left over feeds livestock much better than corn does, its DDGS if you want to look it up. I use tree sap and cattails to make mine.
You get 500 gallons of fuel from one acre of corn. You can get 1000 to 10,000 gallons of fuel per acre from cattails. Trees are easy to tap and trees with the most sugar in the sap will give you the most ethanol/vodka. Sugar maples, birch, etc.
You can run straight ethanol with 22:1 compression, all the way down to 5:1 compression. I run mine around 11.5:1 to 13:1 with my Pontiac 455s and 400s. It burns cleaner, leaving no black soot inside the engine, so your oil comes out looking new after 8000 miles, and there is no wear inside the engine after 500k to a million miles. Burns cooler, so you need less radiator capacity due to far less waste heat than gasoline. It keeps the entire fuel system spotlessly clean. Also it makes more power. Over 12:1 or so with iron heads it gets the same or better mileage than gasoline, because of the increased torque output.
This is what I do, and have been doing it for over 13 years now. Check my videos, lots of engines on E85 over the last decade. E85 is 15% gasoline and 85% vodka. Crazy power.
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@jamesshively5291 due to where I live being already expensive, the fact I like to drive old vehicles with huge V8 engines (455 Pontiacs are my favorite) and the power grid is so sketchy the power goes out on beautiful summer days and can be off for hours to weeks, I have been building my home to use green energy.
I make fuel from tree sap, cattails, and coffee grounds, build my engines to take advantage of ethanol fuels which precludes running pump gas in them, but makes a lot more power and get better mileage. I heat with wood and can grow or kill my food if I need to.
This is not what Biden's owners want to happen. They do not want us to be self sufficient, they want us dependent upon them for everything.
My fuels actually are renewable, cattails grow damn fast, its hard to kill them, trees are not harmed by collecting some sap, and pressed sawdust pellets seems to heat rather well. Hard to do all of this living in a city, but a neighborhood could get together and do some of it if they have an open lot somewhere.
I think it would be awesome if we all thumbed our noses at their prescribed solutions and marxist ideology, told them to fuck off, and made shit we need ourselves.
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I'm 10 years older than her, even her being a little pudgy doesn't bother me. Three kids is not something I want to deal with to be honest, not many kids like the guy who is banging their mom. I know from experience. However, her attitude, need for constant validation and attention, blasting her desperation to the world like that... makes it easy to pass.
The funny thing is other than me being 5'8, she would probably like to share in my life. Not that she would get the chance though, but yeah I know for a fact she would never accept someone who isn't a 6' tall dude earning more than $200k.... even when I lose my gorilla belly I got while being gimped thanks to my last deployment. Can't run, its hard to not get a belly when you have never been a skinny wimp..
Not much incentive to lose it, other than it would make getting into and out of my race cars easier.. ya know, that is why I am losing fat, so my car goes faster in the quarter mile and I can fit between the cage bars. Also so I don't look like complete shit on my channel.
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@kimberlychristy-saviano7673 yeah, there is that. I like his effort and use of prose to elicit a response, Jeff is more imaginative than this sockpuppet in here. Also I agree with Jeff in one area, I am not beholden to a party, but I go one farther and eschew ideology as well.
Contrarians are important to have, because they keep you from ending up in an echo chamber. Jeff does that well, he makes you question what you think/believe, this one just wants to get the emotional replies.
If it is the same individual behind both of them, well he is giving us his critique of two demographics in how he runs both puppets. The avatar on this one is distinct, Jeff has the dog from Silence of the Lambs, or one like it. The person behind them is telling you what he thinks of that particular demographic that is not Precious the dog from Buffalo Bill's basement.
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@Alexander Dean thats cool. Ya know my sister got very good grades in high school, then nearly flunked out of psychology at the state university. I did at best meh in high school, went to the military, then went to school for mechanical engineering and automotive technology while working a full time job. I had a 3.8GPA when I quit about 4 credit hours from a degree. I didn't need it.
My second ex wife is rather book smart, but almost completely inept when it comes to social interactions, problem solving, and she is moderately ok at spatial skills like backing up a trailer. More of a skill than an intellect thing backing up trailers.
I have learned far more in the real world than I ever did in school, and I don't have to learn 'shit' I do not need to know in the real world either. I can focus what I learn easily, and apply seemingly disparate ideas or processes to solve problems. Its good not being in the box engineering puts you in.
I build old cars for fun, not for a living. So the schooling is now useless, since I only went to get paper that said I know what the hell I am doing. I tested out of nearly everything, only really learned how to rebuild transmissions and run an alignment rack.
The engineering gave me the math I needed to figure things out, and a couple interesting ideas, but mostly it was designed to put you in a box of this works, this does not.
Not knowing it 'doesn't work' is often how you come up with solutions to things others can't. People can't fly. Orville and Wilbur thought otherwise. Tungsten works for lightbulbs when everyone else thought it was impossible.
What is my point? Well despite having only part of the engineering math, I have still been able to figure out quite a bit in areas that interest me. Like making ethanol fuel, making cars run exceptionally well on it, and then getting better mileage on ethanol than you can on gasoline. Engineers say it can't be done, and yet I am doing it.
What you go to school for does not define you, and really its more of learning the process of learning and thinking critically, then being creative about the solution that gets you somewhere above the herd. Plodding along on the well worn path will keep you inline, getting out into the bush, cutting your own trail through the snow, while it is harder, it can be more rewarding than following the herd.
It seems to me that Zuby and I are similar in one way, we do not confine ourselves to any one thing. We like to do many things, we get proficient at them, then incorporate what we learn from that into other areas.
Normally I am not overly fond of entertainers, they are usually not overly bright, self absorbed, and ignorant of everything other than acting or singing/performing.
Then you get the likes of Joe Rogan and Zuby, who are interested in what other people say and think, who want to know what they know or think. Like me, they are inquisitive and curious. Rogan has managed to make bank doing his thing, it takes a crazy amount of work to do stand up. I know, I did that for a while in the early 90s. I liked building cars more so I did jobs I had to do to earn money, like being a CNC programmer/machinist and other factory jobs.
Not all of us are motivated by a lot of money in the bank. I really don't give a damn about cash other than money allows me to buy car parts I cannot make myself or trade for. As long as I can live and not have to worry about where its coming from or how I can pay bills to support myself and my car projects, I don't care how much I have.
Similarly, the car thing is not about the cars, they are not status symbols to me, they aren't bling to show off how awesome I am to others. They are the medium in which I apply my artistic and mechanical energy. Its what I do with the cars that does it for me, the building is one process, the tuning is another, then there is racing or driving and maintaining them.
They are representative of my knowledge, skills, ability, and motivation, and I build them to impress me. If you don't like fast old GTOs and other cars, I don't care because I happen to love building, driving and racing them. I don't make money from them either. I have other sources of income.
In case you can't tell, I had a rough life, abuse growing up, lots of beatings, PTSD since I was 8 or 9, two wars (that felt like going home) two divorces that left me homeless for two years each time, and being set back to zero 8 times since 1987 when I graduated high school. My life has been full of violence, and I narrowly escaped death so many times I can't even remember them all.
I travelled the world, was engaged to an Arab girl 30 years ago, still in touch with her and our lives have been interesting. Been to four continents, Asia, Europe, and Africa, and somewhere around 40 countries. I have a chunk of Berlin Wall from when I was stationed in Frankfurt back in 1989, I have sand from the Arabian desert, rocks from Korea, and a host of memories to go with them.
If I ever show myself in one of my videos you will see I am not a small man, I am built like a silver back gorilla, only 5'8 but huge and I can lift heavy shit. You do not get that way from an easy life. The muscle did not come from a gym, but from my jobs, doing heavy lifting in conjunction with math and spatial skills.
I know all about being poor, broke, victimized, discriminated against because of my skin color and my stature. I know what it takes to earn and achieve, and what it requires to overcome and be something of an outlier. I can identify with Gad Saad too, as people have tried to kill me many times in my life.
Also I know that we are all in different circumstances, different situations, have different problems, and our experiences are unique to us. Any car guy will tell you that no matter how much we know, someone else knows more, and others know less than we do. Its the people who know fuck all but claim to know all of it that are a problem.
When you discover your car is nowhere near as fast as you thought it was, it humbles you. Same with any sort of martial art/MMA, you learn by losing, and you improve by working your ass off.
The people with easy lives are missing out, because they are not equipped like those of us who have had a rough, arduous, dangerous life. I could have done without the abuse and so many close calls though.
So what he earns and what his grades were don't matter much to me. What he does with what he has, now that is what gets interesting.
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@superdave8248 the way it works in Germany is you pay her up front, and if you go into her tiny apartment where she works, you have to pay her even if nothing happens. They like to drag GIs in their rooms who are walking through. If you don't pay, she calls security and then you end up paying one way or another.
Germany subsidizes and manages them, makes sure they are disease free, healthy, and aren't doing anything nefarious, while also ensuring they are safe to sell their wares.
Women here in the US don't want that, because it means they would not be able to extract resources from thirsty males without giving anything back to said males. It lowers their overinflated value.
Of course, here in the US she would be compensated up front and have the reserve option of taking him to court after the fact as well, because they get the P pass here.
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I could have been, but it was never really a priority in my life. I was far more concerned with learning how to do things I wanted to do with my time on this planet. My investments were in me, money just lets me do things a bit faster, and buy things I can't make.
Now if I had never gotten married, and subsequently divorced, I would be far better off than I am now. Other than marriage, I made lots of good choices in life. Only took one mistake to ruin my plans and keep me impoverished for 20 years.
Now, I am debt free, own some land in the woods, a bunch of old muscle cars, a shop where I can rebuild them, and a house that fits me and what I want to do. Just ten years after my second and final divorce. In my defense she was really good to me for 8 years, then we married, and she stopped being good to me.
If not for the wives who financially eviscerated me, I'd probably be well known and well off because of the things I do and want to do. Same place as I am now, but with more stuff done over the last 30 years.
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Almost completely by accident, I have put myself in a position where I can thrive in an environment like the one these authoritarians are desperately trying to implement. Having been on a fixed income for the last 15 years thanks to war, and less than enamored with a life of sitting around doing nothing, I developed, discovered, and adopted methods of producing most of what I need to live and travel. Its cheaper to do it myself, and that means now I have the skills and knowledge required to survive even more hardship than I have already in my life.
I'd much rather all of this ends, we go back to the normalcy and easy life we enjoyed with a modicum of freedom, but I have little hope that will happen. I wonder if I will have my third war where I am a participant. Other than those others who have been there with me, you have no idea what that means. One thing I know for sure, the world will look rather different in two years time.
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I'm gen X, and I struggled my entire life. I left the farm as soon as I graduated high school in 1987, because any money I earned was taken by my parents and I worked every day for nothing growing up. Not work like an office paper pusher or fast food job, it was bench pressing 265lbs at 17 when I weighed 175-180lbs, and spent no time in the gym kind of work.
Joined the military in 1988 and got worked beyond imagining in Desert Shield/Storm, then the draw down in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviets meant I got kicked out. It got worse from there, but I kept going. Worked in a factory, and also put in 50 to 70 hours every week to make a living on $11 an hour. In summer the factory was 120F to 135F, in winter it was 80F to 95F even when it was below zero outside.
I never worked fast food, stocking shelves, retail, or any other service type nametag/hairnet min-wage job. All my jobs were technical, and I learned them by doing them. OJT. I was a machinist and CNC programmer when it was a very steep learning curve. I worked on cars and trucks, rebuilt transmissions after I learned how to do transmissions at a VoTech.
Never bought a new car, I have always driven old cars and trucks. The newest thing I ever bought was a 1998 in 2004 and it had 80k on it. I am VERY good at working on and repairing vehicles, and there is a reason I don't buy anything newer than 2007, and thats because I need several different scanners and diagnostic systems to make all the various parts talk to each other on newer stuff than that. I can take a $500 rolling shell and turn it into a reliable daily driver for less than $5000, oh and it will be about as fast as a new Hellcat.
The first house I bought was $37k in 1995, because it was built in 1910 and was actually two additions on a single room shack. Ex wife screwed that up and I lost it when she got 71% of my gross pay in child support. She was the worst mistake I ever made. Had to go back to the military in 2000 because all the factories were packed up and sent to Mexico in 97-99. Just in time for my second major conflict and getting worked until my body gave out at 35 years old.
Final divorce was in 2013, I don't even date anymore. Left me living in my car, but I bought some land by selling some old car parts and my parents loaning me $2000 for the down payment. I built my house and the shop by hand, while being crippled and on a fixed income of $2000 a month. Paid off the land and building loan in 8 years, that was February 2021. I saw all of this coming, and got out from under all debt.
The land was under $30k, because its in the woods of northern Michigan, the building loan was $30k, because doing it yourself saves you on labor. I turned $30k into a 32x48x12 shop with a concrete floor and a two post lift to work on my cars. Contractors wanted $90k to put up a 24x24x8 garage after I cleared the trees for the foundation. I can build that garage right now for about $6k, the largest expense is trusses and the steel roofing.
I am still working to get what I want, building old cars from rusty heaps. There is no way I can afford to buy the cars I drive, have to build them. Buy a new car and you have the loan, the interest, full coverage insurance, taxes, and plates/registration is thousands of dollars. Build an old car you have a few weeks of work, a low cost of entry, plates are dirt cheap, and you can drive it around on crash and burn minimum insurance, and never have to take out a loan. 20 year old half ton trucks are the cheap way to go right now.
All my life I have known that if I wanted something, I had to work to get it, and usually I had to work harder than most people, because my family or an ex wife was taking most of what I earned. Its like I have been pulling a weighted sled my entire life and I fought to keep up with everyone else as much as I could, and it made me incredibly strong.. but not rich.
There are very few things I cannot do competently, because I have never been able to afford to pay someone else to do it. If you think people were buying houses and new cars on min wage during my lifetime, you are delusional. The boomers had it better than I did, but they still had to do more than the bare minimum of showing up to a nowhere job.
You cannot imagine how much work I put in during my life, but at 55 I can bench over 500lbs, or pick up 500lbs and carry it. None of that strength came from a gym or juice/gear, it was eating a lot and being worked an insane amount for months on end. You don't get that kind of strength in a soft hands office environment. I can lift like that, but man does it hurt for a lot longer as I get older, so I usually use something to lift heavy stuff. It keeps the muscles attached to bones that way.
Bootstraps? No.. LEARN HOW to do things, the more you know the more valuable you are... and NEVER get married.
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@zuhayerahnafaziz6956 its not to relive a bygone era, the cars I build are an extension of myself. A tangible example of my skills, abilities, knowledge, and effort. They are utilitarian functional art, as I envision them a certain way in my head, then I make them look and perform that way.
Its not the value of it, or some perceived status of owning one of them. Its all about what I can do with them, the build, the drive, the repairs and maintenance.
Its a way to prove to myself that I know what the hell I am doing. I self validate through what I can do rather than what I have. To me building a car is far more gratifying than buying one. It takes a lot more to build it than to buy it.
There is no chance I will ever quit doing this and just sell them all off. I will die long before they are all 'done' but I want to at least get most of them to the point someone else can finish them and drive them after I am gone. I would rather give someone the chance to add their vision to mine than to scrap them and lose all the energy that was put into building it in the first place.
Its far more ecological to rebuild an old car than to build a new one. I care about things like that... and when I can make my old cars run clean while making a lot more power, you can bet I will be doing it. Not only do I build old cars, I produce fuel for them as well. I make ethanol from tree sap and cattails, and the power I can make on that stuff is simply amazing.
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@texlahomagirl9809 I was somewhat amused at the ill preparedness of Texas during that. You do not see it in Nebraska where I grew up, and you sure as hell don't see it in northern Michigan where I live now. Last year was a light winter, we only got 110 inches of snow, well below average. If you are unprepared here, you run the risk of being evicted from your meat suit every year. Same in Nebraska, the weather tries to kill you there. It gets as hot as Texas, but also sub zero temps for weeks. I've lived all over the world, Persian Gulf, Europe, Asia, and in South Carolina, and Texas as well, Nebraska has the harshest weather by far. Winters are more pleasant a mile from Lake Superior, way up north, than they are in Nebraska and South Dakota.
All of us who live outside town have at least a month's worth of non perishable food, water, and fuel, because we can get snowed in or the power will go out for hours or weeks. Even in good weather the power goes out for days at a time here.
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How could one ever get around such control where you are disallowed from buying food, travelling, or doing anything you want that the authority does not like? Well... you won't do it in a city. The cities will become prisons where you must obey and consume as you 'produce' the thing they tell you to do.
They will do other things to dislodge people such as myself who owns enough land, far from a city, and can produce fuel, food, and energy for myself and neighbors. Things like value added tax where the government assigns a value to my property, and asses a tax based on that. All they need to do is make it so high that they can take my land and everything I own. They could claim my acreage is worth $4 million a year in taxes, then try to remove me by force.
They could also simply outlaw private ownership and declare my land property of the state, or claim its unfit for a dwelling because it has a well, does not have plumbing connected to the city, or some other nonsense.
In other countries, well you are on your own and if you do not obey you will starve. Simple as.
This is why they are trying so desperately to remove the bill of rights in the US. We can speak out and defend ourselves from them rather easily.
I only need money to buy things I cannot produce. Currently that is tires, gaskets, and certain parts for the cars I build.... and my internet connection. I can turn off the cellphone, cancel my ISP, and go completely off grid if I choose to. I got to this point by not being able to afford to do anything after paying for the energy I needed every month. Producing food, fuel, and electricity (that last one is the most expensive and difficult to get reliably) rather than buying it opens up cash for things I want.. like a 1000hp daily driver 68 LeMans with a supercharger sticking out of the hood that runs on cattail vodka.
I can stop the hotrod thing and produce most everything I need to survive if I must. Who needs cash when I don't have to buy anything? Can you eat gold or silver? Do you actually have it in hand or is it a certificate saying you own some of it, somewhere? What do you do when it runs out? You're either a producer or a consumer, and stockpiles are short term thinking.
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@sdjslkdjlsskldjslkdjsl8262 about the other thing.. paying taxes and the state coming after you. If you put in the work, make some sacrifices for the good of everyone, you can not have to pay property taxes. Disabled veterans like yours truly do not pay property tax in Michigan. Also since I am 100% permanent and total, I do not pay income taxes either. Yeah.. a crippled war vet built his own house, and people complain that life is too difficult as they sit in a car talking on a phone.
I bought my land, built my home, and I build the vehicles I drive as well as producing fuel to run them. If a cripple can do it, why can't everyone else? Well because they think they need that 2500sqft $450k home, the $90k pos appliance in the driveway, and they want someone else to do all the heavy lifting.
I have not been employed in 6542 days. That doesn't mean I haven't had to work, the difference is I am working for ME now, because I worked for you already.
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@t700e nice apologies and thinly obfuscated sharpshooter fallacies.
Well its a morality thing about killing everyone off. I make my own morality, much of it coincides with the bible and just about every other society/civilization. Its not like the bible is unique in not killing people from your own tribe, and its ok to kill those from other tribes.. relatively standard. Yet people hold it up as a moral virtue..
Me I am ok with killing people, but I have a reason for doing so, not just some capricious thing where I am acting like a vindictive ex wife who got caught cheating. I do not see human life as precious, but also I have no intention of snuffing someone out without a very good cause. I'm more humanist than your god, as he decides to off people just because, or on a bet. Yeah I get the story of Job is a parable..
I read the bible cover to cover four times in parochial school, in lieu of science and math. I know the bible rather well actually. You might be referring to newer bibles, but none of the bibles I read 40 years ago condemned slavery. Rather they explained how to do it 'correctly' how long they could be enslaved based on who their parents are, and what sorts of punishments they can receive. No mention of not owning people just a basic overview of 'how to.'
As for them building things, well it was no secret how to build with stone. The Egyptians were doing it centuries before Jerusalem. So copying the achievements of others is prowess... ok.
I suppose the way the church demanded we have a flat, then earth centric view of the universe, doing the god of the gaps thing until just recently is also easily explained with a logical fallacy.
Ya know, I don't have a problem with people believing in talking snakes/donkeys, worldwide floods that can't happen, flat earth, and whatever other nonsense like bird blood cures leprosy and sin causes it, as long as they don't try to make all of us live by those rules. Start enacting laws based on religion and we have a problem where I am going to fight it. Incidentally that is my issue with the marxists, they are trying to legislate us into socialist/marxist/communist shit.
My parents were very religious until they passed, they took comfort in it rather than trying to prescribe to others how they should live, think and act. My brother on the other hand judges everyone, demands we all follow his children of the corn religion (he's one of the rapture people now) and like the penetcostals I had negative run ins with feels justified in whatever he does since he does it to people who don't share his delusion. Not entirely unlike my muslim friends. Curious how close to muslims the pentecostals are. Man do they get pissed when you point out the rampant similarities.
Its good that the bible is not intended to explain the hows and whys of reality and nature, because it gets a mind numbing amount of things wrong.
To me the whole thing is like someone who is really into Star Trek or some other show. Learning as much as they can about a fictional narrative, taking it overly seriously, and rather than sifting through all the shit to find the pearls they accept it all as fact.
The fact remains christians are not in power in the US, we are not a theocracy. In the islamic countries the religion has teeth, and they will apply those rules harshly. Then you have the marxists, who tell you how much they care and what to take care of you, while they impoverish everyone, throw people in camps, and fill mass graves by design and ineptitude.
To be 100% honest, I like you Abrahamic religious nuts vastly more than I like marxists. We share a lot of good ideas, and the marxists are rife with bad ideas, implemented badly, with no regard for human nature. Just so happens that islam and Paul (aka Saul) are right about women. Curious how that works.
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The religious 'right' can go full authoritarian very easily. Wanting a theocracy here in the US is exactly that. Trying to force your religion into the laws and have things such as the Ten Commandments put up in courthouses is authoritarian, its also silly because only two commandments show up in our laws, don't kill and don't steal, with bearing false witness only being a crime when its proven to happen under oath.
The rest of them, not a law. Not even close to a law. I can worship Joe Pesci if I choose and make graven images all I want, then I can call my mom and dad names, work on Saturday, and say the most repugnant things about whatever deity fits my mood. I can covet pretty much anything, and really that is what keeps our economy going, the difference is now you can go buy your own damn 65" flat screen. My ex wife is living proof that the state doesn't give a rat fuck about adultery... they rewarded her for it and punished me for not cheating.
Most of you guys realize you're not getting your theocracy, and if you did would you rather it be lutheran, catholic, mormon, pentecostal, methodist, islamic.... ya get my point? I don't want to live under any of those in a theocracy.
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@clm652 After catching the media lying about what my unit was doing in both 90-91 and 03-05 there is very little they say that I will trust. As an example, they said we were doing nothing about getting body armor and armor kits for humvees to the desert, but I personally loaded THOUSANDS of them on planes six months to a year before. I was boots on the ground and catching them lying. Not misinformation for the enemy like we do for COMSEC, but outright lies designed to make the US military look stupid, inept, uncaring, etc.
I have been on to them since 1990. Its easy when you are neck deep in history watching it unfold before your very eyes.
When Gore came out with his bullshit movie, I was skeptical but didn't know what the angle was. It bothered me for some time. That was '98, and soon I was enjoying my second war that soaked up most of my time. After I came home broken thanks to Bush getting invasion happy while Hillary and Obama voted to send us to the meat grinder once again, I have had time to read, watch, listen, and think.
I know some history, its one of my things like cars and making silly amounts of power then driving it around. Not big on dates, but eras and events, such as what happened in Ukraine in the 1920s. After reading and putting it together with what I learned growing up during the cold war, it all clicked into place. Now I can spot commie bullshit as they spew it. Its so similar to fascist nazi bullshit...they're all the same to me.
These greedy resentful busybodies are going to pick a fight they can't win.
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@robbiebryant9819 we exist, even kids born today will think like we do when they grow up in 20 years. We are a minority though, the Pareto principle comes into play and only about 20% of the population will be independent thinkers with strong wills. The rest will be followers.
Men can learn leadership, independent thinking, and all the skills that go with it, and the marxists are doing their absolute best to prevent that from happening. That is the ideology behind all this bullshit going on in the world, and its not going away any time soon. Resentful, envious, entitled lazy idiots will always be drawn to it because marxism celebrates mediocrity and ineptitude. Thats why they hate merit. They can't compete so they say its bad and we all need to be dependent losers like they are.
Bjorn and others are doing what they can to pass on skills men need to be men, sharing the thought patterns that made us free and pulled the entire world out of poverty to the point that poor people have cell phones.
The system beat me down over and over, it hates the idea of a strong capable man who isn't afraid of anything. They do their best to keep you in poverty, and they use relationships to do it. I've had to start over from zero 8 times in my life, and I am sick of it, because none of it was due to my actions outside of getting married twice. I learned that lesson and its why I live alone, wishful thinking and being a kinda slow learner is why I did it twice.
Yes we exist, there are millions of us in the world, but there are billions of followers and billions of them are idiots. We will need men who are trained, highly capable, competent, and dedicated to preserving and restoring freedom to lead others to repair this. Waiting at home until they show up isn't going to cut it, they will just come back with more people. Sieges suck.
It falls to our generation, the people alive today, to try and wrest the entire world from the clutches of those who would subjugate us all. If we fail, the entire world will suffer like people do in China, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela.
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@karlosvulture5014 Most people need someone to tell them how, when, and where, without giving a thought to the why.They follow, they want someone else to decide for them, to direct how they should do anything, and they want to conform so they fit in.
Once they find a place where they fit in, they will fight to defend it, even if its the most abhorrent thing in all of human history. The weak minded followers are the most zealous of ideologues. Most people though, want to keep their heads down, go with the flow, and let others take the risks.
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@vidard9863 its very intentional, because the not Cs have a very well deserved and earned stigma about them. The commies want to distance themselves from them, and use the epithet as a way to 'other' groups of people. Its like a standing order not to drink in the desert, but its calling anyone who disagrees bad names in order to make the public think they are bad.
"When certain obstructionists become too irritating, label them, after suitable buildups; as fascist or Nazi or anti-Semitic, and use the prestige of antifascist and tolerance organizations to discredit them. In the public mind constantly associate those who oppose us with the names that already have a bad smell. The association will after enough repetition become fact in the public mind."
(Communist Party Directive, to United States Communists 1943)
Trudeau is doing exactly that. The media is doing exactly that. You can tell who the commies are by them calling people not Cs who are not authoritarian assholes. Its like when your girlfriend is cheating on you, and she accuses you of cheating while you're at work... its because she is cheating while you're at work.
They will tell you what they are doing, because they will accuse you of doing it, and you know you're not doing anything like that.
So they want to make it so the left appears virtuous and the is moral authority, and claim the right is a bunch of Not Cs. They have been doing it and repeating it so often that people just accept that fashhists are far right. Its fun misspelling shit to get around the censors.
The last thing they want is for people to know that the not cs and the commies shared a huge part of the marxist bullshit ideology. The main sticking point between them is private ownership. The state owns and controls everything in communism, the state controls everything but people are allowed to own it in fashhism. However, not just anyone can own it, they have to be approved. Both are authoritarian, and thus both are very left wing.
I see you realize marxism and all its little abhorrent spin offs are a religion. I noticed that a few years ago when r/atheism started kicking people out who disagreed with feminism and other forms of marxism. They were doing all the things religious people do to infidels, as if you are automatically a marxist when you 'misplace' or reject your religion.
I did not shed one authoritarian ideology just to grasp desperately to another one with an equally nebulous god and capricious edicts coming from the priest class.
You know how life is divided up by kingdom, phylum, class, order, etc? Thats how I divide up ideologies. Authoritarian/anarchy, theistic/secular, terrestrial/ethereal gods, and on down the line. Karl's family was jewish, so he build his idiotic ideology on the platform of the Abrahamic religions, its all he knew and he wasn't a very bright man.
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@alvitrv8072 nearly all have sad stories, both of my ex wives have sad stories they tell.. it makes them feel better about what they did when they can blame someone else for their problems. Almost every girl I meet has stories about her ex who 'abused' her, its their go to story about why they divorced someone, or broke up with them. Then you find out the truth, that she wanted to sleep around, you find that out when you talk to the guys she slept with and the one she cheated with on her husband or boyfriend.
I heard those sad stories so often in the military, and then found out what really happened from others in my unit, that when I hear it in the civilian world, I already know what is going on. So I completely expected every girlfriend and both ex wives of mine to talk bad about me, say I was bad to them, and all this other horseshit.
Fact of the matter is, they caused their problems that came to them after they divorced to go jump on a different male anatomy.
Everyone, including you, defend their bad choices and accepts they are victims. Some are, most are not except for being victims of their own actions. You still blame men for the actions of women. Men are still the violent aggressor, not the beneficent protector.
You're following the feminist narrative that is causing many of our problems today.. like poverty, crime, single mothers, kids without fathers in the home are far more likely to become criminals, and poverty breed more poverty. You blame fathers for not being there, when the reality of it is they are pushed out and prevented from being part of their kid's life. They did not abandon their kids as a whole, there are exceptions, but you, and society paint every man, divorced or not, as the problem. You're following the propaganda you've been told.
I see the world for what it really is, and the people in it for what they really are.
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They blame pron and video games... Jeremy is blaming them too. Here is the reality, men want the real thing, but 80% of men are invisible because the 'nota men' want the top 5% and will not consider anything less even when they themselves are a 2. Then you have the fact there is ZERO benefit in a man keeping a 'nota man' around, because it has been replaced with massive risk.
Jail, registries you can't get off of, loss of mine, loss of property, loss of YEARS of your life as everything you earn is taken and given to someone who betrayed you...
The pron and games are alternatives, a distraction at best. There is no incentive for young men to bother, because the 'nota men' are not worth the risk or even the effort. I am a 55 year old twice divorced man, and I can see what is happening.. because it happened to me. I am still desirable to 'nota men' and they hit on me often, but they are not worth it.
The men who want one are going overseas, because in the US they are just not an option.
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Some engines have those problems, some don't. Having only one or two castings for an engine sure makes it easier for the rebuilders to send you the right thing. Some are really hard to find in rebuilder form.
In the last 35 years building Pontiac engines with heads from 67 to 79, mostly before 70, and running them on pump gas or E85/E100, daily driving them for thousands of miles, racing them all the time, I have yet to have a problem with the seats going away.
Lots of different castings for Pontiacs, they used the chamber size to adjust compression rather than dished pistons, so getting rebuilder heads is dicey at best. The same casting number can have up to three different sized chambers like the 4X head. I can get an iron set ported to flow 90cfm more than stock, new stainless valves, springs, guides, etc for $1500 or so. Thats what I usually do, might as well get it all done at the same time.
Basic aftermarket aluminum heads are over $2k a set because Edelbrock realized they could charge us more for them. The new china heads that came out in 19 are around $1700, but you can end up spending that much to fix them. The only other companies making heads for these engines are die hard Pontiac guys, some of them are hardcore race pieces, some are daily driver types that can be made to flow quite a bit.
None of the big companies like AFR, Holley, Brodix, etc make a Pontiac head. We still have lots of choices though, and there is one tunnel ram still available... I need to order one, for science. Gasser science of course.
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If someone has something I want, but do not have, I don't envy them and try to take it from them or rip them down. I don't try to make rules or laws to keep them from doing it. I figure out what I have to do to get that thing for myself. What do I need to do to earn it, build it, or have it? e.g. if they have a faster car than I do, I don't try to have their car outlawed. I figure out how to make mine faster. I did not have anything given to me in life, I worked my ass off to get what I have, the only time I was ever concerned about what others had was to make sure they had enough if I was responsible for them, like my kids. The poor are not my problem, because I was not the problem for anyone else, I made it happen despite those who tried to take from me, hold me back, or keep me down.
You want what others have? Go earn it for yourself. If you want it bad enough you will find a way and do what it takes to get it.
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Atrazine is a herbicide, it goes after broad leaf plants like beans, rather than grasses like corn or wheat. It not an insecticide, which goes after insects. Roundup is the opposite of Atrazine, it doesn't harm broad leaf plants and takes out grasses, unless it has a genetic addition that makes the plant impervious to roundup, like the corn that is Roundup safe.
I grew up on a farm, I know this stuff and how it works. I know of a lot more chemicals we use that are supposed to be safe, but I am pretty sure there is some rampant cancer in my future. There is plenty to point out as bad, no need to make things up or give bad information.
Tim pool's lackey Ian keeps claiming farmers use roundup to dry crops. That is 100% erroneous and not based in reality. Grain is dried in large bins with propane heated air blowing into the floor, and as hot air rises it pulls the moisture from the bin. Herbicides are not exactly cheap, so using them to do something other than as sparingly as possible to manage plants, would be hideously expensive.
Farmers are smart people, they have to know a wide range of disciplines and knowledge. Finance, agronomy, chemistry, electrical/mechanical engineering, construction, heavy equipment, computers... yet most people assume farmers are low on the brightness scale. In my experience city people are the ones with the low scale, they don't know where anything comes from or how its made, or how to survive without everything being available at the corner store.
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@kennyshepard-ww1gk don't need to be an expert to see the obvious. Also having been in the USAF in two conflicts and knowing a bit more about our capabilities than the average individual, especially in 1991 when I was there for it, well.. it gives a bit of insight.
Cargo guys go everywhere, but nobody talks about us. Look up TALCE, AMOG, and MAPS in regards to the USAF. I was part of all of those at one point or another. The TALCE part is super fun and sporty, not that wiki will give you an accurate idea of what they do. Geography plays a part when it comes to aircraft, especially take off and landing. Geography plays a part with armor and mech infantry as well.
Also bear in mind I am not going to be talking about everything I know, what capabilities we had when I got out, or why I got some rather interesting training that would probably had me surviving an NBC exchange when most of the base was wiped out.
Also just because YOU don't know doesn't mean someone else doesn't know.
So how many Russians have you met, how many Russian planes have you been on? How many airlifts have you been involved with?
Oh you read it somewhere, or heard someone say it on a youtube video, so now you're the expert with decades of experience and training. Got it.
Ya know something, my car is faster than yours and cost less, plus I can lift more and banged more ladies than you... rofl... Accept it, you're out of your element and can't keep up with an old crippled guy so you talk big on the intarwebnets. Take your sperg meds and go back to Call of Duty. :)
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@TheFredmac sugar maples have between 2% and 4% sugar in the sap, boil it down with methane that is easily and cheaply produced to where its 18% sugar, add yeast, wait for them to do their thing, distil.
The cattail roots and lower 1/3 of the stalks are what is used to make fuel. The starch inside the roots is very dense, so you can make a lot of fuel with them. They also grow very fast and clean water as they grow, cattails are hugely beneficial and you use them to make ethanol in the fall, after they have done all the other good stuff.
Using starch means you need to convert it to sugar with an enzyme or two, Alpha or beta amylase, a little goes a long way but it takes longer if you use too little. I am working out using coffee grounds right now.
Any starch or sugar will work, so it can be from whatever plants around you have the most.
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I've been talking to and flirting with this 27 year old who works at the grocery store I go to since she started working there last year. Last night I asked her if she wanted to hang out, and she said "As friends only" to which I replied "yeah, that is what I meant. I have been divorced twice and have zero intentions of dating." She is fun to talk to, and she is amusing. Not the best looking, but I like her personality, and I usually don't like people much. She is happy and pleasant most of the time, that alone makes her interesting.
Hell no I don't want to date her, but having another friend would be a good thing. She is not from around here just like I am not, we don't fit in with the locals very well. Local women are undesirable even if they are thin and good looking. Its the attitude that is the problem. She mentioned like four times 'friends only' so I bet she doesn't get it or believe me. From talking with her we have lots of similar interests, cars, trucks, dogs, movies and respiratory issues.. heh..
Usually just me being polite and friendly makes them think I want in their pants. The last thing I want is drama and walking through the minefield of getting romantic interest. I am 54 years old, and have tired of that ten years ago. Sitting around a campfire, drinking some vodka, enjoying the stars or northern lights, and not having to prove anything, simply having a good time is preferable to all the nightmare that western women are when you're banging them.
She seems interested in doing some stuff with my cars and trucks, so that is an opportunity for her to learn, grow, become more independent and capable while getting out of her boring apartment. I can have someone to talk to a few times a week, that alone is a plus to me.
Its amusing they can't believe we check out on them like that and don't want to be intimate with them. its rare I find a female I like talking with, never mind being physically attracted. I hide my wealth from them, I have stayed overweight for the last ten years to keep most of them away, and its exceptionally rare I offer to spend time with them.
I have another female friend who is into old cars, but also she likes women and has never had a man, she is fun but she is also super busy with her business. this new one would fit in with our tiny group rather well I think. The only way western women are enjoyable is when you are completely uninterested in them intimately.. lol. Ok, to be honest I am looking for someone who can watch my dog when I travel that won't steal everything from my house.
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GM ate an entire bowl of stupid flakes, with idiot syrup and moron butter on dumbass toast in 1974. What did they do? They decided to pack a ton of extra crap in cars, making the more complex every year. Sure I dig a HUD display and I use a tablet as the speedo in my 65 GTO, and it has a HUD setting. I can see it reflecting in the windshield at night, its super cool.. and I can pull it out, use it in the Cuda or any other car I drive. Its not permanent, its handheld tech. I use that tablet to shoot videos sometimes.
By the time GM brought out the GTO in 2004, targeting BMW 6 and 7 series buyers rather than gearheads, they had completely lost touch with reality. $34k and the only options were colors and auto or manual transmission. Fully loaded 4200lb barges with power freakin everything shoved in them. Why did it die off after only 3 years? Because they told all of us GTO owners/buyers that we don't matter.
They don't care about the little guy, they don't give a rat damn about any of us who cannot afford a $14k crate engine, they laugh like Marie and say let them eat cake. You gotta pay to play in their world, and whatever is something they can sell for an outrageous amount of money, is all they are going to push.
No more Roadrunners, T-37s, Formulas, for Chevy 210s, no they want to have massive mark up, and make a GTX look like a stripped down Roadrunner with all the crap they put in. If they had sold a GTO with only AC, the LS engine, and without all the extra whizbang bullshit, I would be the original owner of one right now.
So yeah, they killed off Pontiac, which was interior and badge changes since 1979 I am not lamenting the passing, and it makes perfect sense they would desecrate X, because the people at GM are not gearheads, they are not hotrodders, they are not Zora Arkus Duntov, Delorean, Pete Estes, Bunkie Knudsen types... they are stuffed shirt, bean counter, maximize profit by forcing people to pay for shit they don't want nor need.
They forgot why Ford sold a million Mustangs in 3 years, why the GTO started a craze, and rather than increase sales with quality products and ludicrous power in a light vehicle (ala Thunderbolt, Swiss Cheese, Hemi Cuda, Z11) they make them weigh as much as possible and cost more than my house, shop, property, and the 50 vehicles I have parked here.
I let my subscriptions to HRM, CC and the rest expire, because they became advertisements for the checkbook 'rodders' and they took a everyman's Pontiac magazine that gave a wealth of info on those engines and cars, made it into an LS magazine with arrowheads, and then killed it because not very damn many of us Pontiac guys want to put an LS in our old GTOs and Firebirds. I sure as hell don't, and I adore the LS. Its my favorite truck engine of all time.
I still build iron head 400s and 455s, because its dirt cheap and they make mountains of torque. 600ftlbs, 550hp for $3000 going through it completely with all new machine work, fresh pistons, and flat tappet cams. Best part is everything bolts up to a 455 that was attached to a 350. The only way to get Pontiac power from a chevy or LS is with forced induction. If I want to get a bit more ludicrous, I can increase the power a lot without spending much more cash.. If I get stupid, I can spend a lot and go slower too...
The power, and where it is made in the RPM range is what has me hooked on Pontiac.GM lost that 40 years ago. They lost the plot when they freaked out over the 455 SD and killed it off in 74. Can't have a performance engine at GM, not when the Corvette has all of 180hp.
GM can kiss my pasty white pock marked gelatinous ass. At least Dodge is making mind bending shit like the Demon.
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No sympathy, if they want that they can look in the dictionary between sh** and syphillis. I have better things to do with my time and money, washing feral cats is a better use of time than wasting it on these harridans. I spend my time and money building fast cars, Pontiacs mostly, and working on my house making it more energy efficient... so heating it costs me less and leaves more money to invest into cars and trucks. The two girls out of hundreds who treated me right, still did what the others did, so none of them are worth my time.
Sure it might be me, but it doesn't seem like it, because no matter how I treat them, they do the same thing. Regardless if its me or them, the outcome is the same. I waste time and money on her, she decides to leave so she can try out a new peg D who then dumps her. My second ex is going to be sniffing around soon. Her and her boyfriend were leeching from her dad, then her boyfriend left a while ago, and her dad died last week. When the rent isn't paid I bet she shows up around here. What will my reply be? Something along the lines of "I liked your dad, but no."
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@spacedinosaur8733 other than the wars I had a rather fun time in the military. Germany, Korea, and all over the world, got laid a lot, drunk quite often, saw a lot of cool stuff, and I was there when history unfolded rather than watching it on TV. It was like a paid vacation where I got to go on airplanes every day and do cool shit nobody will ever know about.
A handful of capricious assholes made things difficult at times, but I would do it again if I were suddenly 19 and not broken anymore in a do over. Lost friends in my time, but that is part of life and the job. I didn't lose anyone I was responsible for, so I was fortunate in that respect. It might have been the best thing I could have done with my life, considering my circumstances of where I was born and how I grew up.
One drawback though, I could do without so much muscle that I look like a pale gray haired gorilla, my job packed lots of mass on me. Its hard to lose muscle mass, and I have no need to haul it all around anymore.
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@@allenbanks9034 funny you say that... I enlisted in 1988, with Reagan slapping around wannabe thugs with F111s and A6s, it did not look like there would be any conflicts. When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 and I got a big chunk of it because I was stationed in Frankfurt, it looked even more like we would have no conflicts.
Then I woke up 2 August 1990 and the guy on the AFN radio station said "Iraq has invaded Kuwait, and Congress is talking about sending in US Marines along with the Airborne."
During peace time my job loading cargo planes and putting cargo on pallets is pretty laid back, uneventful with a few exercises here and there just in case a conflict begins.
10 August 1990 rolls around, and we go to 12 hour shifts, I am put on nights, 7pm to 7am. The C141s, C5s, DC10s, L1011s, 747s, and anything else they can find to move people and cargo start rolling through my base.. We handled more than 85% of the traffic going both directions... and I had to go to every plane that landed, and most or all that took off while they were on our ramp.
Germany is kinda north, so over the fall and winter months, the sun sets before 7pm and comes up after 7am, it was April before I saw the sun again... and I had to get more than one day off to even see it.
I worked every night from 10 August to some time in January or February, I'm not entirely sure when my first night off was, because I had no idea what day, week, month, or year it was, I was too busy working 60 to 80 planes in that 12 to 14 hour shift. Yeah, day shift would show up and keep sending me to airplanes.
The fun part... I went into that airlift being able to bench press around 330lbs, I the next time I lifted anything I did 450 like it was nothing. I became a muscle bound freak, more than 50lbs over my max weight, and capable of doing some really insane stuff.
Why did I get so much stronger than everyone else in my unit? Well... I was the one who seemingly always had females on my team, so I had to do ALL the heavy lifting. I was already big and stronger than most people, but Desert Shield made me even bigger and stronger.
When they can't lift 40lbs, and I can lift 400 to 500 and carry it, or push a 10,000lb pallet by myself, well it still needed done even if I was doing it alone with an audience.
Then September 2001 happened, I was in Kuwait that day.. and we sat around and spent time in the gym until planes started flying again. Camp Doha had a gym that Arnold had donated to the Army, we spent 8 hours in there every day out of boredom. I came back absolutely ripped and looking like a monster, and they put me on the weight program... which is where this name comes from. The USAF said I was morbidly obese, despite being 5'8" and able to bench over 500lbs and single handedly load cargo planes every day for months.
Then I went to Korea, which was a nice break to be honest. and when I got back in 2003 I was at the base doing 100% of the airlift to Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, the Stans, and Saudi. I was in the duty section doing the most work, again... At least I got days off in the second one...sometimes. I was an NCO for the second one, just an E3 in the first.
Just lucky I guess.
Now that my house and shop are built and paid off I can relax. Taking it easy in my mid 50s, building hotrods, milling lumber, and landscaping my yard. I just fixed my winter beater 4x4 before I came in and wrote this.. and in an hour I will be on a livestream talking about my ethanol project. Fun times.
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Ford did some interesting things, which don't really make sense, unless you know Ford.
While I am a Pontiac fanatic, I like other engines, too, like nailheads, B/RB mopars, 348/409 W engines, the 351C 4V is my all time favorite small block, Buicks, Oldsmobile, and I used to have a fondness for FE Fords until the cost got out of hand for all that stuff. It warms my heart when I see a street rod with a nailhead or tri power W engine in it. I can't afford hemis, cammers, LS6/Zl1/L88 stuff, and thats ok because I am not looking for peak HP. When it comes to GM truck engines I am really growing fond of the LS, because they are a lot like Pontiac, but everywhere in rusty junk trucks. So they're cheap truck engines.
Why am I so massively into Pontiacs? Well, because for what I want to do, they are the absolute best engine design. I'm not big on peak HP, I am big on mountains of torque, from idle until the rods exit the block, which means I don't need much gear. The fewer things I have to change to get the car to go as fast as I want, the better. Also I want to drive it.. a lot. I can still find parts for them, really the factory stuff is cheap, and will make more power in the driving RPM range than any other engine for the same $$$ spent.
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I'm a US veteran, Gulf War, was deployed to Kuwait on 9/11, got fucked up on my last deployment in 2004 and have been disabled since 2005 when I got out on a medical. I lost friends in Iraq and Afghanistan, in Saudi at Khobar Towers, Somalia, Bosnia. My brother, several nephews and a lot of cousins and their kids have served since 1990. Many of us are broken now. For what? Biden voted to send us into Iraq and Afghanistan when he was in congress, along with Obama, Hillary, and the other miscreant democrats who were in office at that time.
THEY SENT US AND NOW TREAT US LIKE SHIT... all for nothing. Fuck these assholes, fuck the creepy kid sniffer, fuck em all. I am not a republican, not religious, hell I was engaged to an Arab girl back in 90-92. Ever since 2 Aug 90 I have paid attention to what politicians say and do, because it has affected me directly. Its about time they feel some of the effects of what they have been doing.
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@Alex Stange lol so you drank the koolaid too.. here's a hint. What a marxist says is VERY different from what a marxist DOES. When they accuse someone of something, its what they themselves are doing.
Apparently ya don't know much about history, I mean actual history not the revised narrative fed to kids these days.I call socialism, communism, feminism, fascism, post modernism, progressivism, etc marxist because that is a root in every damn one of those. If you can't see the connection, you either aren't looking or you are completely unaware of what it actually is.
Its a cult/religion, the priest class is the political elite, the god is the state, euphemistically called 'the people' because it enslaves the people rather than freeing them. Once again, they say one thing and do another, that is how it has been for the entire lifespan of the cult.
In the big picture of all the ideologies foisted upon humans over the last hundred thousand years, marxism is akin to scientology... except scientologists don't throw you in camps and kill millions to force it on others... not that they wouldn't if given the opportunity, ideologues tend to skew to the crazy with any ideology.
Willfully ignorant types amuse the hell out of me when they assume Karl had good ideas. Sure he points out some areas where capitalism fails, but his solutions and reasons for those failures were wrong. Putting his ideology into government like a theocracy is even more wrong. How many times do we have to watch it fail for people to realize that?
I am very tired of people assuming we atheists are marxists, The only ideology I like is one where we are free to do what we please, provided we do not infringe upon others, and we are not controlled by others. The marxists can't help but demand to control others, and thus they are my sworn enemy, and have been for 32 years.
You know, that thing called liberty.
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@Lucas-sm2nr sorry to break it to you, but you have swallowed the propaganda. You probably think the Berlin Wall was erected to keep the nazis out of East Germany.
You guys sound like religious nuts making up excuses for why your religion chops off heads while claiming to be a religion of peace, all the while claiming the world is 6000 years old, and your book proves it because it says it proves it.
I lump them all together under marxism because they all have roots in marxism. Its all the same pile of shit, with different sprinkles.
Don't be an idiot and think its a good idea, about class struggle or some other nonsense. It simply shows you haven't actually thought about it, you only believe what you have been told to believe... just like the evangelical christians who try to make dinosaurs and erosion fit into their narrative.
Karl noticed things that were exploitable in capitalism, but his solutions result in abject poverty, no middle class, the few elites running everything while the 'proletariat' slaves for them, all under the guise of equality. What they claim to do is not what they do, if you can't see that, well you're either an idiot or you haven't thought about it after your indoctrination.
Learn about some logical fallacies, learn to spot them. Then apply what you learn to your own little 'religion' and see how it fares. Ideologues have no choice but to go to fallacies when their ideology reaches its limit and starts contradicting itself.
Stop listening to ideologues, think for yourself, and try to shed the lens that has been placed over your eyes.
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@nicky640 the point is they are NOT your priority, YOU should be your priority. The path you want to travel in your life, goals you want to achieve, things you want to do, places you want to go. They can follow along with you if they want, but they are NOT why you do things.
If you make them your priority, they will not stay long. Its the rare one that will stick around anyway, most will take off and do whatever they feel is best for today, with zero concern for you or how it affects you.
Why is that? Because YOU are not their priority, they are self absorbed and will do what is best for them with zero qualms about you. Sacrifice yourself to them if you want, but I prefer to live in doors, sleep in my bed, and not be subject to their whims.
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@beewithab6122 people make their own morality, no god is needed. If you cannot comprehend that, then you are not endowed with enough intellect to do anything but follow others. I have to admit that being a leader usually sucks, having been responsible for people's lives while in the US military. Some people are simply not cut out for it, some take to it easily because they are comfortable with responsibility and being their only support.
Then there are people like you, the followers, the thick part of the bell curve, who cannot think for themselves so they must be told what to think. It does not make you bad people, the choices you make and if you shirk the responsibility for them by claiming your god demanded it, that makes you a good or bad person.
I bet you do not own slaves. You have better morality than your god, even Jesus told slaves to accept it rather than fight against their servitude, and made no mention of releasing them from their bondage. I bet you realize its not a good thing to go kill off an entire culture, take their kids as slaves, and their females as sex slaves... just because they think differently than you.
I know your bible stories, I know your bible, I know your religion very well. There is a reason I am atheist, and its because I know yours as well as islam, and I found them to both be reprehensible unless you cherry pick the fuck out of them. There is some good stuff in there, but its not solely found in the abrahamic religions.
Every society on the planet says it is not ok to kill members of your own tribe, but they usually say you can go kill other tribes. Love your neighbor is not about the guy on the other side of the planet who thinks differently, its about the ideologue who shares your delusion.
Wait, there is one society that says its ok to kill its own members, for whatever reason not just thinking differently. Yeah its the one I have a HUGE problem with, and will fight against along side you deluded bible thumpers.
They are coming for you and you blame people like me who simply do not believe in your god nor any other. Like them you have to see yourself as both the victim and the righteous, when you are neither. But you guys don't fill mass graves like the marxists... so I will fight to defend your belief system, like I already have.
I doubt you would fight for my right to not believe in your delusion. Kinda makes me better than you in my book. I am willing to risk my life for you, but you won't do the same for me, you'd probably want to lop off my head like the muslims would because I don't believe. So which is it? Are you like me and willing to fight against the tyrants or will you support them?
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@Denariusjay when the state takes 71% of your gross, which for military members is breaking both state and federal legislation, and then you pay 24% in taxes, it doesn't leave you enough to live on.
You see the state doesn't care if you are in the military, disabled from a war, or you aren't getting paid enough to pay child support. Even if you have zero income they will keep racking up interest and penalties against you.
I was left with $100 a month after taxes and child support was taken out. Some months I got no paycheck. When you have to pay your car insurance and eat from that $100 per month, there isn't any left to live indoors.
State law stipulated they had to leave me $950 a month to live on, so they included my taxes for that. Also illegal state and federal.
The judge was an ex marine, and he said that the military would give me food and a place to live, except I was not in the marines, and the USAF stopped allowing E4 and above to live on base without dependents in base housing during the Clinton era, because he cut the funding drastically. So the housing was simply demolished and not available.
The military gives you BAH (basic allowance for housing) and BAS (basic allowance for sustenance) which are non taxable and are not supposed to be included when they figure child support. They included it, so when I went to Korea, and was not paid either BAH or BAS I was going behind every month. That was the only time I was able to sleep in my own bed.
Having to pay $30 per month for the phone in my room severely curtailed what I could do in Korea. There is a whole messed up story about my divorce, going to Korea, and the unit I was at before Korea, but that is long and military people would only get it.
My 2004 deployment left me barely able to walk, living with chronic pain, and unable to stay in the military. So they put me out in 05. Luckily for me my girlfriend's dad had a vacant house he said we could live in, 1000 miles from my home state, otherwise I would have been in and out of jail for non payment in my home state. Zero income, can't pay the pound of flesh.
In 2007 the VA finally got around to deciding how messed up I am, and started paying me, back then it was $1800 per month for 100% service connected disability. Obama cut VA funding twice and 2009 was the last cost of living adjustment until the Cheeto was in office.
It was 2010 before I was able to even start digging out of the massive debt my home state put me in. In 2009 SSDI was finally approved after a long drawn out fight. They said I owed around $80k with all the penalties and interest despite social security sending the ex a check every month. They were taking money from me, and she was getting paid because I came back from a war messed up. Double dipping on me.
I had to build my house from shipping containers, because I can't afford to have a contractor build one for me. So my crippled ass built my own home, nearly single handed. I hired two friends to help with the roof when I reconfigured it in 2019.
You could say that I have been screwed over constantly from about age 8 until age 51, and most of it I did not bring on myself. I have a ton of jacked up stories from the last 50 years.
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@1HeatWalk I own many vehicles, some of them I absolutely love, like the 65, 69, 70, and 72 GTOs, the 79 Formula, 79 Trans Am, 67 Cougar, and my 76 C10 short box pickup. The 65 GTO wasn't even a good parts car when I got it, I spent 3 years and about $15k rebuilding it in my shop, now its one of my summer daily drivers. I've had the Cougar 40 years, the 79 Formula 32 years, 79 TA 36 years, 70 GTO for 28 years.
The longest I've had a girl not cheat on me is 9 years. The first ex wife cost me more money and time than ALL my vehicles combined, and I own more than 70 total. Most of which are parts vehicles or truck I intend to flip/use as winter beaters at the moment. The newest is a 2007 GMC 1500 crew cab.
After dating more than twice as many females than I own vehicles, I prefer the old cars. They are dependable, inexpensive, reliable, trustworthy, and enjoyable to work on or drive. Females are a hassle with no benefit, just a tuna scented snot pocket which I can get for free.
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I discovered that electricity is expensive to make yourself first hand. I make fuel ethanol from cattails, tree sap, and spoiled produce from the local grocers. I can make it super cheap. The grid where I live goes down all the time, so I have been trying to find a means of producing electricity myself. Its not easy and its not cheap.
If you only want to run some LED lights or charge a phone, its easy. Refrigerators, welders, air compressors, computers.. yeah, it gets spendy fast. Lets go nuclear, I could afford an EV if it was that cheap.
I got into making fuel back in 2007 in an effort to be able to drive my 60s and 70s muscle cars, and not have to pay $5-$7 a gallon for pump gas, or $15+ for racing gas. Honestly I have zero interest in saving the planet, it will be fine. I want to drive my overpowered hotrods and go drag racing. Coming up on 20 years on this project, and I have figured out a lot, including how to get better mileage than gasoline. :) Can't run pump gas in an engine that gets better mileage on ethanol, it will rattle itself to pieces if you try.
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@albertgaspar627 if I remember right, Olds was the first division of GM to use Tri Power, the J2 engine unless I am mixing airplanes with cars again.
Pontiac was the stodgy division with no clear reason for existing before Bunkie took over. Thats what he changed about them. Prior to Knudsen Buicks were reliable cars doctors drove to house calls, Caddys were the top of the line luxury vehicles, chevy was the poor man's option with basic amenities and barely adequate engines. Olds was the 'performance' division but not many were interested in that in the 50s.
Pontiac was somewhere between all of that with no direction, kinda like a Buick, not as high end as the Caddy, above the chevy for trim, options, and powerplants, but no focus on anything.
Thats why Knudsen gets the legendary status among Pontiac guys. He changed them from going nowhere to winning races, making power, and building exciting performance vehicles. DeLorean played a big part too, he brought his OHC six ideas, along with saying something like 'Its a 400cube world out there' when asked if a GTO should have a 350 or 326 in it.
If only GM had allowed forged rods, the RA IV and V on a 455, and 421/428/455s in the midsize before 1970, what a different world we might live in today. A forged rod and piston 455 in a 65 GTO with 11.3:1 is one hell of a fun daily driver, I can attest to that. Easy mid 11s with sticky tires.. real easy.
Probably would have been a bit much for the boomers as a whole, kinda like the Mustangs running into everything a few years back.
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@TheSecondFinest Its funny you say that, because I am an expert in automotive areas, not the least of which is ethanol fuels, I grew up on a farm, I do not farm anymore though, I live in the woods of northern Michigan and make fuel vodka from tree sap and cattails.
Its amazing how much misinformation is out there about ethanol, and how much the media spreads it and tries desperately to make it seem horrible, when its not. The negative propaganda against yeast piss fuel is massive and ubiquitous. Repeating a falsehood over and over does not make it true, no matter what it is.
Being a veteran I am also quite knowledgeable about guns, conflicts, history, aircraft, and many other related items. So I can spot the bullshit there easily as well.
I've been a CNC programmer/machinist so I know about Pareto distribution, variance, tolerances, and how things naturally go. So the huge spikes only for Biden are all extremely suspect to me, because that shit does not happen without someone tweaking shit.
You can only attribute just so much to the ineptitude and ignorance of the talking heads, when they start using weasel words and misleading phrasing, its obvious they are not just wrong but pushing an agenda.
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@williamcarey6592 my first ex was a used 1974 model, the second ex was a spanking new unused never driven 1982 model. I am from 1969, one of the good years, so I am appreciating in value, but the suspension is worn out and needs rebuilt.
When it comes to cams, bearings, etc, yeah I get all of that new, I see them as consumables. I have a virgin 400 block on a stand, so I am thinking it needs a UT rebuild, rings and bearings with a bit of a hone. Throw some of my 72cc heads on it, a RA IV cam, used springs, new oil pump, stock intake, E85 Qjet, and stuff it in something light. Sounds like a $350 engine that in a 3000lb car should come real close to running 11s with a 3.42 gear.
I want to go 11s in this 72 Ventura for less than $1000... excluding wheels and tires, because hell those alone are a grand. The car itself was free, and its been sitting around for over 20 years now. Its a reason to make videos.
Figure I will do that while I am waiting for the aftermarket block and 4.5" crank kit to show up so I can dump it in something like the 68 LeMans or 65 LeMans gasser with the heads and cam from my street strip toy. Probably the 68 because I can fit a lot more tire under that thing than the 65. Should be over 800ftlbs from 3500 to 5500 with that setup, all motor. Fun times. The reason for that one is to go embarrass people who say Pontiacs will can't run faster than 13s.. lol
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Its not worth the effort to bother with females. Buy land, build a house, get energy independent, the largest expense of your life will be energy. Food, fuel, heat. Far more people expire from cold than from heat. Learn skills, how to do things so you don't have to pay someone else to do it for you. Continuous learning, the more you know the more valuable and useful you are, and the less dependent you will be.
Live for you, care about you, because nobody else will. They will try to take what you have built, trust me... thats what they did to me.
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@hanglong8056 I like edged and melee weapons too, building a forge so I can make swords and knives from leaf springs, and armor from shipping container sides... among other things. I like working with metal and wood, and I have gotten into composites as well. All the rock around my land is sandstone, so it doesn't work well for things like arrowheads, spears and other edged weapons. Some granite and quartz at the lake, but mostly sedimentary rocks.
I've been inventing and making all kinds of weapons since I was a kid, its something that just works in my head. Got into cars and airplanes for the same reasons, working with metal and it just makes sense to me.
Guns are handy, good at a range, but are noisy and require ammo. A good blade just needs sharpened every so often, but you need to get in close to use it.
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@TheImperatorKnight I started learning about the soviet system in the 80s when I enlisted in the USAF. I wanted to know why we were willing to fight against the eastern bloc. Especially since I was stationed in Frankfurt at the air base that was the primary target. I was there when the wall came down, so its not like I read history in a book.. I was there for it and watched it happen in many instances. That was a surreal time in 1989 considering how I grew up.
My second ex tried to get me into Karl's cult, same as the atheist reddits tried to, but I was not going to trade delusional religions for another. I was kicked out because I did not agree that if you're atheist you're automatically a pro female ist or the social type of ist. I am not allowed to use those words on here, because I always disparage them.
I grew up on a farm where my family took the money I earned working for neighbors and selling produce I planted, cultivated, and picked. I worked for no benefit to myself, it went to my siblings and parents, and even now in my 50s my family still assumes that whatever I own is something they can do with as they please. Its interesting that I was the only kid of six of us that happened to. So I am not big on collectives where someone else decides who gets what and its not based on merit or productivity. There is a reason I live 1000 miles away from them.
How to realize and question things sooner? It takes a while, and most never get beyond the indoctrination they have forced on them as kids. Those of us who always question things come to it sooner, but they can still not realize it. I build vintage muscle cars, usually they are as old as I am or older. I want to know how, why, and when it works, and how to improve on it if possible. I do not take 'because I said so' as an answer, I want to understand things completely. Thus I am always questioning things, even things I know already. It gets expensive fast when you're building an engine and you're mistaken because you 'know' when you only think you know. Dunning Krueger is a real thing.
Experience and education are the way out of ideological indoctrination, but now that education is not coming from schools nor the public/media. Its all indoctrination.
The required education to eschew the abhorrent notions of the left comes from people such as you, making videos like this one.
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I'm not a fan of Chargers, they are beautiful cars, but I have zero interest in having one. Here's why.
In 1981 my older brother wanted a Charger, he liked the TV show. I was non plussed by them. We found one in a small town called Edgar Nebraska and he bought a green on green white vinyl roof 383 2 barrel 727 70 Charger for $800. It was rusty but ran. I rode home with him in it, and had this incredibly unpleasant feeling until I put on my seatbelt. Then it went away. Every time I got in his car, that feeling came back and I put on my seatbelt.
Well dad fixed it up for him in 82, while he was driving my first car to his job in town while my brother and I worked the farm. 50 miles a day on my 67 Cougar for 3 years because I was 13 when I bought it. The paint job came out very nice, dad got the seats redone for him, and other than running hot if he went over 60 it ran pretty good.
In 1983, on St Patricks Day, we went to a church function and it got over about 8pm, which was well after dark and it was a cold night, just above freezing. All the kids went out into a cornfield to drink beer, not much else to do in Nebraska than drink beer, chase skirts, and go racing on some lonely stretch of arrow straight highway. I wasn't drinking, but i was stuck with my brother, because I was 14 and he was my ride home. Walking 25 miles at night did not appeal to me.
When I got in the Charger he was good and sloshed, but not falling down like he usually was when he came home. I put my seatbelt on, and he hit me and told me it "messed up his interior" so I couldn't buckle it. As we followed my cousin down a gravel road, going about 50 or so, we crested a hill and I saw that our cousin had stopped. I said "She stopped" my older brother said yeah, then he ran into the back of her 81 Toronado.
I smacked the dash, it pushed my upper lip over my nose, knocked out my front tooth on the right side, gave me a concussion, and obviously broke my nose. My brother got a couple of cuts on his forehead. I was the only one sober, the only one hurt, and of course I was blamed for everything for some reason.. lmao.
I was 20 years old before the USAF fixed my teeth for me the first time. That bridge lasted 12 years and the USAF did another one for me. It too lasted 12 years, but now my teeth on each side of it were so far gone there wasn't enough material left to do a 3rd. In 2018 the VA did my 3rd bridge, which consists of bone grafts, implants, and more than a years worth of pain and healing. All because my brother was drunk and wouldn't let me wear a seatbelt.
So dad bought a 69 Charger with a 318/904 in it, copper/bronze with a white top. There was an identical 383 4 speed Charger running around but with a darker top. My brother beat that poor thing and bashed it up in ditches. Then I finally turned 16 and my Cougar was broke more than it ran, because dad had driven it to work for years before I got to drive it. So when my brothers Charger was fixed by dad again, I got to drive the 69 Charger.
The brakes were terrible, because my brother worked on them. It ran terrible because he messed with the two barrel carb and the distributor. He still has no idea what he is doing with cars, the 'gearhead' gene my other two brothers and I have is not present in our oldest brother. I'm just waiting for him to total dad's 64 Sport Fury, and original 426 wedge car.
When I turned 17 I bought my 72 GTO from a junkyard on my birthday for $175 and started looking for parts. It was hit in the front. I bought a 71 T37 for the front end two months later, also for $175 from the same junkyard. So now I had a running car again, and the Cougar last ran in 1987. I still have it.
My younger brother got the 69 Charger, and it had one brake drum that was functional. One of the chicks in his class pulled out into the path of the Charger in 1989 and he T boned her. It has sat ever since, waiting for my brother to find the parts to put it back together. he has been doing other builds, 70 Challenger, 72 Charger and Demon for his sons, all the wild trucks like a pro street D50, a 48 military Dodge on a 78 Power Wagon chassis, and his latest, a 1 ton Dually chassis under a 50 something Dodge cab.
Its coming up on 40 years since any of us drove our first cars, which we all still have. I think I need to be the first to get mine running. I was 17 the last time I drove the Cougar. The last time I drove the 72 GTO was 1998, we were using it as a family car along with the 70 GTO, my kids were 3 and 5 at that time. I still have both of those as well, I took the 70 GTO off the road in 2015, it needs an entire wiring harness, and the suspension needs rebuilt, so its getting a frame off next year. Been driving the 65 GTO since 2016.
The 70 and 72 GTOs will be going in the shop at the same time, frame off on both of them since I have nearly all the parts they need, save for quarter skins for the 72. I should knock out the Cougar first, as soon as I get this Cutlass off the rotisserie and make room in my shop.
I think the 1969 GTO is the quintessential muscle car, not the Chargers. I have one of those too, but it needs almost everything. I will drive it before I expire...
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@chuckiegravesfield3170 I bumped into them in various ways over the years. Sometimes through friends, sometimes just saying hello passing them in public. However...
Around where I live its a desert, they aren't worth the effort even to say hello. I still get attention from them, but mostly it is ignored because I don't want to risk losing everything I have built in the ten years since my 2nd and final divorce left me living in my car... again.
My land, home, shop and all the cars are paid off, I have money in the bank, and I just ordered a set of 17" wheels for my 70 Cuda, or they might go on the 67 Cougar, or even the 71 Mustang. All the Pontiacs have wheels, might get a few more sets of 17" and 18" wheels for the ones I drive. All the cars I race get 15" wheels.
Most of the cars I managed to keep through both divorces, like the 70 and 72 GTOs, the Cougar, and four Trans Ams and five Formulas. Might sound like I am rich... but most cars I have were bought for less than $500, with a handful being $1000, and only two were $6000. Been into this my entire life, and now sans female leech in my wallet, I have the funds to build them the way I want them.
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@TheGreenKnight500 ah you think males need a woman to not end themselves, but reality shows that most men end themselves because the woman takes everything from them in a divorce.
No 'study' will ever be done on that metric though, but all you need to do is go through all the men who end it, and see if they have had any interactions with family court in the last 2 years. The vast majority will have.
Its not because the woman is gone, its because they are now indentured to her and have no alternative than to work for her benefit, as she capriciously keeps his kids from him.
Loneliness is not a need, its a want, and its also indicative of weak males who have been taught that feelings matter more than logic and reason. The only thing a man needs to never feel lonely for a girl again, is to waste the better part of a decade supporting one, only to have her take everything he has ever earned away from him.
That cures ya right quick. Some men believe the propaganda that they aren't all like that, so they get married a second time and she does it too. Lie, cheat, falsely accuse, take everything. If a male gets married more than twice, he is what we call a simp. You seem to be one of those.
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@localsheriff yeah the so called 'green' people don't want an actual solution, which ethanol is part of. They want to limit your ability to move around. They aren't green, they don't care about the environment, they only use it to justify what they want to do to all of us.
Brazil has an amazing method of producing ethanol. Not only do they make enough for the entire country and exports, it also produces electricity for the towns and cities around the plants. They use sugar cane which grows in specific climates, and the bagasse, or the parts of the plant that are not sugar, is burned to produce electricity that runs the plant and the nearby towns.
A video like that is in the works, I am building up for more production. I have a short window every year to work outside because of how far north I live. This year I need to clear a spot in the woods for a marsh where I can grow the cattails. It takes a while when you're one man with lots to do other than the fuel project.
However, the process is simple, sugar with yeast in water with no oxygen and wait for the yeast to eat all the sugar. The big difference between fuel and beverages is the still used. Beverages use a pot still which has a low proof, and thumper kegs to increase the proof a bit. They are super easy to build, and the low proof is all about taste.
The stills I use are VERY efficient, I am building a larger plate still, and have two smaller copper packed reflux columns that make fuel quality ethanol in one run. Taste is not a consideration, purity and high proof are the only considerations.
You need some room to make your own, its not an apartment project. The larger your 'facility' the more you can produce in the same time. You need room for the fermentation, distillation, and storage for fuel you produced. Keeping people out is a priority, otherwise they will take your fuel and probably drink it.. lol. You also need something to make it, starch or sugar, and starch adds a step or three. Then you need to do something with what is left over because it can pile up fast.
Depending on the yeast used, you will need 10 gallons of water for one, or two gallons of fuel. You can reuse the water for the most part, but you have to have a Ph that the yeast can live with. No rust either, yeast do not survive rust.
The reason you need so much water is the yeast cannot live in their own waste, e.g. ethanol. The yeast I use can handle 20% ethanol, bakers yeast can only do about 10%. So a 55 gallon drum used for fermenting gets you either 5 or 10 gallons of fuel. The water is not destroyed or made toxic, no need for remediation or anything. Its a completely natural process. The left overs are good for starting the next batch, but due to loses as steam, you need to add some more.
The entire process would end up being several videos, unless its only a brief overview.
Lots to do and currently I have lots of snow and 0F to 15F temps here. So in depth videos will be when its warmer.
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@leescott1775 Gordon Cooper, one of the Mercury 7 astronauts once had to refuel his plane with methanol to get back to base, since they didn't have jet fuel, which is a light diesel/kerosene. It ran flawlessly on methanol, and he made it back to base without an issue.
They also discovered that the air coming out of the engine was cleaner than the air coming in because of smog in the 60s and early 70s. Methanol is different from ethanol, and methanol is the corrosive one, the jet would have had greater range and the same power on ethanol.
The ME262, the first jet fighter, was fueled by ethanol. Potato vodka to be precise. They didn't have enough diesel/kerosene to power the Panzers, so they made the jets to run ethanol. The HE162 is another jet Germany had flying before April 1945, and it too ran on ethanol.
Beverages have a very low proof, Richard Holdener did a dyno test with moonshine and they made less hp than the same engine on gasoline. It was only 60% ethanol (120 proof) and they had to run it through their still several times to get it there. Mine comes out of the still at 180 to 190 proof, or 90% to 94% ethanol with a single run. Its a more efficient still design, beverage stills are more for taste, they are basic pot stills, and very easy to build.
So yes it will run on low proof shine, but it won't be making as much power unless you increase the static compression ratio. Over 180 proof, or 80% ethanol, you get more power than gasoline, with the biggest increase between idle and 3500rpm. You'll get a smaller 5 to 15 hp increase above 3500rpm. As it happens, where do most street daily driver engines spend their entire lives? Under 3000 rpm.
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@allangibson8494 do you realize that EVERY plant produces sugar and converts it to starch? It is the most abundant thing on the planet other than elements. Lignin and every part of plants is made from sugar, using different enzymes to convert it into what the plant needs. When seeds sprout they turn the starch inside them into sugar.
Where you get the hydrocarbons IS relevant, it takes energy to get them too.
You are missing the point that YOU and ME and everyone else can produce ethanol ourselves, without some massive plant to get to hydrocarbons. All that kudzu smothering forests in the south can be used to produce ethanol, and it makes more per acre than corn does. It grows a foot per day with nothing more than sunlight and is notoriously difficult to eradicate.
Yes boost increases cylinder pressure, but its adding more air rather than working the air 'harder' which is an important distinction. Do you actually build engines or just read about it? I am honestly curious, because I build engines, along with everything else in vehicles.
I know the differences between aviation engines and fuels, and automotive engines and fuels. The reason for boost on aircraft is for high altitude performance, as in above 14,000ft. Which is why the Merlin had a two stage system that only engaged above a certain altitude. Most cars move around well below 10,000ft.
You seem to not grasp the idea that adding more air requires adding more fuel as well. Making more power from less air and fuel is more efficient. Yes you can add more power with boost, but you are cramming more air and fuel into the cylinder, you are going to use more fuel as a result.
You are also limited in how much compression you can have with boost. Diesels have high compression and boost, but that requires far more structural mass in the engine to do it. Moving a 550lb engine is easier than moving a 900lb engine. Mass matters, not just how much hp something can produce. The funny thing is my 550lb engine can make 2000hp/tq with 20 psi on vodka but that 900lb+ diesel needs 40psi or more to get that power.
Last I checked, nobody is putting RAF Tempest/Typhoon engines in vehicles for daily driving, and I am pretty sure a basic Buick 3800 V6 will use less fuel getting around than the Napier. Also do aircraft get better range at 1000ft AGL or 35,000 AGL? Drag matters....
I do find it interesting that Pontiac did make a Tempest, and GMC made a Typhoon that was boosted.. lol.
The issue with turbines is the heat and the noise, which is just fine for aircraft but a problem with cars and trucks. The APU on a C5 makes a lot of power, but my god are they ear splitting loud. J79s are loud, but APUs are on a different level, they make Jake Brakes seem library quiet. UH60 engines direct the noise upwards, same as most shaft drive turbines, but they are still super loud. There is a reason we don't drive around on nitromethane, other than its hideously expensive and tends to melt things, if you have ever experienced a Top Fuel dragster or funny car, then you know why. Those things make jets seem quiet.
Do you want to fly everywhere? Yeah I do too.. but do we want all these people can can barely operate a car with two dimensions to fly? I think not.
Yeah.. I am into aviation, it was my job for a large part of my adult life. There is a reason we don't have EV aircraft.. power to weight is dismal when you take range into account. What good is an airplane that can't carry anything because its batteries/propulsion system weigh too much? The C23 Sherpa was designed to move jet engines around Europe, but with a full load of fuel and 3 crew members it would not get off the ground. Once again, mass matters.
The electric RC planes have short flight times, and the weight is similar to the glow engines that run on methanol and castor oil, but you have a lot more motor in those brushless in and out runners than a .60 glow engine. The cool thing is if you throw more voltage to them, you get more power out of them, which comes at the cost of reduced range. Glow fuel is lighter than battery packs for the range, but electric planes are cleaner and can have mind bending power in them.
My brother builds 200mph outrunner powered RC flying wings. He is a helo pilot/instructor and flies RC when he isnt rebuilding mopars. So I am not opposed to electrics, but I know their limitations and hazards. Where I live an EV is useless most of the year.
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@allangibson8494 corn ethanol uneconomic? since when? Corn ethanol is not using the lignin and long chains, all they do is add alpha and beta amylase to convert the starch to sugar and the yeast eat it. As it happens livestock cannot digest that part of the kernel, but the microbes in their gut can, and its simply turned into methane.. cow farts which we know Cortez hates with a passion.
Since animals can't digest the part of corn that is used to produce ethanol, why not take the massive amount of corn we produce every year and make clean burning fuel with it too? What is left over is high quality livestock feed. I'm guessing you don't know much about agriculture, plants, and animals, which is cool because most people don't.
Anyway I am not using corn to produce my fuel. I use cattails... and tree sap to a lesser extent, since only about 30 of my maples are sugar maples. Syrup is more valuable than vodka fuel, (a lot more) but it is easy if you have a lot of sugar maples. Just add yeast when its at 20% sugar.
That is my point. I can MAKE my fuel rather than buy it And it costs me 10 to 40 cents a gallon rather than the $3.40 it is here for a much lower quality 87 octane. 93 octane is getting close to $5 again and my fuel is way better than 93 octane. It runs better than 116 octane race gas, and doesn't tear up the entire fuel system while doing it. Race gas does.
Ya know I have supercharged vehicles, and NA vehicles with paltry 7:1 compression and mild for ethanol 13:1, and the 13:1 makes the most power and gets the best mileage for its displacement, which is a 462ci. The ones that get the worst mileage are the boosted ones. More air means more fuel. My 6-71 on a 505 Pontiac makes lots of power, but I need to take two cans of fuel with me to get home, whereas the 13:1 455 in my 65 GTO can make four trips to town on 15 gallons. the 606 makes double the power of the 455, but uses a lot more fuel, and they run the exact same fuel.
My supercharged 3800 V6 in a 2 door gets 27 on its good days, the NA 3800s in 4 doors get 32-34. More air means more fuel and that means less mileage. Lower compression means the air/fuel is not worked as hard so it also uses more fuel to do less work.
Ya know flying RC with lithium batteries you end up discovering things about those batteries. You really don't want to be on the plane that is powered by them. If you have them on the plane, you want them positioned so they can be jettisoned. We put things like that on the very last pallet on C141, C17, C5s, etc. Reactives are a type of hazmat, as are oxidizers, corrosives, flammables, and them splodin' things. (yay 1.1 kabooomners) Lithium batteries are hazmat in shipping, you can't have them on the same pallet as other things.
I've lost two planes to lithium batteries, and several more to pilot error resulting in less than survivable landings, but its interesting seeing the plane trail smoke then burst into flames and go off doing its own thing as you make suggestions... or it simply augers in.
If they want more power from a battery on climb, that kinda makes sense because they can recharge the batteries in flight. Is it worth the weight though...Aircraft are all about weight. ACL is a thing, and I am not referring to ligaments.
Aircraft are a different thing than automobiles. The drag is different, it takes more power for a car to go 200mph than it does for an airplane, because of how the drag is created. You are unaware of that? Do you know about ground effect or that some planes are designed to fly in it? Do you know about the lifting bodies they tested in the 50s and 60s?
Drag and mass matter with aircraft a great deal more than cars. You know that, right?
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Thank you for making this video, I have been trying to avoid making it myself because its a lot of work at a desk rather than in the shop. Now I can simply share your video so people can grasp the concept and understand what is going on. Its very informative, even its geared more towards the tiny Euro/Asian engines and pump gas, and in that area its spot on. Well done video.
My thing is ethanol, which is quite different from gasoline, and different though more similar to methanol. When you go with ethanol you can increase the static compression ratio dramatically, 13:1 and 20psi with iron heads is very easily achieved and does not hurt parts. Ethanol also provides more exhaust volume, cools the intake charge, and resists detonation/ping/knock as it only likes to light with a spark rather than heat and pressure.
I have found that by increasing the SCR from pump gas friendly 8:1 to a race gas only 13:1 but running ethanol (E85 to E100) you pick up mileage, and above 12:1 to 13:1 in some engines, you get better mileage on ethanol than on gasoline. Heating the fuel and the incoming air to ensure instant vaporization of ethanol increases efficiency as well, without much loss in power if any. It does preclude using pump gasoline in that engine. With boost you will need to add even more ethanol, because you are adding O2 along with the fuel as ethanol has O2 in it already, which is the real reason it needs to run richer than gasoline, not so much BTU content. BTU is a measurement of heating value, how long it takes a given fuel to heat one pound of water on degree. It says nothing about how much power, knock resistance, intake air cooling, latent heat of vaporization, or anything else a fuel has. Besides, gasoline engines are lucky to reach 20% efficiency, wasting more than 80% of the energy in gasoline as heat. Ethanol easily hits 40% efficiency, only creating 60% waste heat, and you can utilize that heat to make it run better rather than having to shed it so the engine doesn't rattle itself to death or destroy bearing surfaces.
Of course, if you run low compression engines on ethanol you will end up using a lot more fuel to make the same power, because you are not working the fuel hard enough so to speak. Handicapping an engine to run gasoline means it will not do nearly as well on ethanol.
Then you get into methanol and everything changes again. You can run a lot more compression with boost than you can on ethanol, and vastly more than on gasoline. Methanol is also the highly corrosive fuel, ethanol is not anywhere near as bad, and most vehicles will have zero problems on ethanol provided you get the engine warm enough to boil condensation out of the crankcase. Water condenses inside every engine during the heat cycle, and gasoline wastes so much energy as heat that its not a problem boiling that water out. Ethanol and especially methanol, run much cooler so getting the oil hot enough can be a problem, which is why those fuels tend to milk the oil.
With gasoline you have to run low compression, retard the timing, and run it as cool as possible or it will rattle itself to death, particularly on boost. With alcohol fuels you want the heat in the engine, running it cold hurts both performance and mileage, and yes you want mileage in a race engine because efficiency is power. The more efficient your engine is at making torque, the faster your vehicle will be.
Ethanol takes a different sort of thought process to tune it well, methanol is different yet again from ethanol. What works on gasoline will work with alcohol fuels, but you will not get the power out of it you could be getting. Tuning gasoline the way you tune ethanol will also cost power. Gasoline you lean it out to make more power, with ethanol you add fuel and go richer to make more power. If you pull fuel from it, you are leaving power untapped. Alcohol fuels make more power because they do two things, they have their own O2 in them, and they cool the intake charge making it more dense. It also vaporizes very easily compared to gasoline, and a vapor has vastly more surface area for combustion than atomization does, you pick up power and efficiency by getting the fuel to vaporize before it is ignited in the cylinder.
Rather than going with what most people claim about ethanol, I suggest you try it out, throw fuel at it while running it over 200F for coolant temp, and see how it responds, particularly with high compression and boost.
If you can't run ethanol in your high performance vehicle due to your government regulations or something, I feel sorry for you. It is the way to power and drivability. The best part is you can make ethanol yourself and run your vehicles on it like I do rather than buy it from someone. Ya know, like if for some reason we no longer have gasoline being brought to the gas stations, or you want to drive for a lot less cash... Some governments will get very unhappy if you produce your own vodka fuel so you have to watch out for that.
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Ethanol has been in gasoline going back to 1982. Not 2006. The reason we are having vapor lock problems is the components being sold as gasoline are lighter with much lower boiling points, the octane with those components is crap. Ethanol raises the octane so much that they can sell us really bad gasoline, and engines will run on it. People think 10% ethanol only raises octane a point or two, but it does much more than that.
I've tested E0 premium, meaning it has no ethanol in it, and mixed various amounts of ethanol with it, but to 90% ethanol. It always picked up power, even with just 10% ethanol, ran with better drivability, and usually picked up mileage over 87 octane because the EFI could give the engine all the advance it wanted without any knock.
The problems with fuel we have today are not because of ethanol, other than ethanol allows them to sell us some really bad gasoline by improving it.
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@joshuaanderson7511 if you have the skills, or are willing to learn the skills, and you can go competent work, its always cheaper money wise to do it yourself. If you screw things up, can't do it well, and have to have someone come fix it, then it is even more expensive trying to do it. Trying to fix your car when you have no idea how ends up costing more for someone like me to fix it, same with building a house.
I built my house with four 20' shipping containers. Some places will not let you do that, the county I live in doesn't give a damn as long as they get their little fees and such. Technically its 'temporary' housing since I can take it apart easily and move it if I want.
Asked some contractors how much to put up a 24x24x10 garage, they said $90k. My shop is 32x48x12 and I have a 5" thick concrete floor and a lift to work on my cars. $18k doing 95% of the work myself and using the trees I cleared to build the walls.
It is A LOT OF WORK. Thats why its expensive for a contractor to do it. You still have to meet codes for your area, do the permits and other stuff. You have to know a lot in addition to being able to do it all.
In June of 2015 I started clearing trees and getting the foundation to where I could get the concrete poured for my shop. Did the concrete in September, the walls went up in October, roof on in November and I hired two guys to come help me put the roof on. They bailed before finishing the job, typical of people around here. Unreliable and untrustworthy is the norm here.
In September it was getting too cold at night to sleep in the RV so I took three of the four containers, cut both sides out of one, one side out of the other two, and made a 20x24 studio out of them. I lived in that without plumbing or running water for 4 years. It took me about 3 days to make it comfortable with a woodstove for heat and some basic wiring run through it. Used a roll of rubber roofing to keep the water out. The roll weighed 500lbs, and I carried it to the roof of the containers on my shoulder and spread it out. Renting a skidsteer or something would probably have worked too.
In 2019 I rebuilt the house, stacked two containers, one that had the side cut out went on top, the one with both sides cut out went on the side, I put an outside wall in it like you would a normal house, and the fourth with one side cut went 13' from the stacked two. The bottom one isn't cut yet, will make a door in it and turn it into a bedroom later this year. I rented a large forklift to stack and move the containers on to the foundation I built. I can operate any machinery other than overhead cranes, its part of my military job, so I only had to rent it.
Because my help is unreliable, it took me three weeks to get the roof on and the walls enclosed. If they would have been here for three entire days we could have done it all in that time. The containers were $2200 each delivered, so figure $10k in them. The lumber and stuff was $2000, then wiring, insulation, flooring, etc and I have about $20k in the house so far, and its not done yet.
Its not finished yet because I have other things to do in summer, and because of an inner ear problem I am not allowed on ladders, scaffolding, etc that are higher than is survivable. Part of the joys of being crippled by the military. I have to have other people do certain things, like climbing ladders and doing the roof.
The septic system is a big project, its going to cost me about $10k all on its own. That is the big obstacle for indoor plumbing, because it needs to be an above ground system where I live, because its sandstone bedrock just two feet under the dirt. Both my house and shop are sitting directly on the rock, so there is no sinking going to happen. You do not want to go low buck on septic systems, and they have to be done correctly.
Now if you don't need something as grandiose as my shop where I rebuild vintage muscle cars, and the county will let you use containers, you can build a comfortable home quite easily and for not a lot of money. You will end up doing a lot of work though.
I'd suggest learning to build a two car garage first, because what you learn by doing that will translate into building a house, with containers or lumber that they call 'stick built' around here. Then you will have a garage, and if insulated well with a small heaters, you can live in it while you build your home.
Let me tell ya, a 50F or colder night in a shed without insulation is kinda miserable. I lived in my shop while I rebuilt my house in '19. It was unpleasant and maybe I should have cleaned all the cat dander from the RV instead. I had let a friend with cats live in it for a couple months, that turned into an entire winter and most of the spring.
My RV has a small woodstove in it, and you either sweat or freeze, no in between. Its a 1972 Travco, collectors like them for some reason, it runs good, but needs work on the interior living space. I'll hook that thing up once I get the sawmill going here, then I have lots of lumber handy to do woodwork.
The more you know how to do competently, the less cash you need to do things. I grew up on a farm so calling someone to come fix it for us was out of the question. We learned to do everything from concrete to plumbing, and to operate/repair heavy equipment down to lawnmowers and everything in between.
That is how I rebuild GTOs that aren't even good parts cars into very nice daily drivers for a lot less than it would take to buy one in the same condition. If a shop did all the work I did to my 65 GTO, that would be a $200k vehicle. I put 3000 hours into it, and $15k in cash for the parts, it has lots of upgrades like disc brakes, overdrive trans, EFI, big sway bars, tubular control arms, and a hidden stereo. It drives like a new car, but feels and looks like a 55 year old car with as much power as a Hellcat Challenger.
Know what happens if you don't weld something right, or don't repair brakes correctly? You can cause lots of damage. If you don't build a structure correctly, it can also end you. However, you can get there just like I did, and you don't have to have been operating equipment and rebuilding engines since you were 8 years old like I was.
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Here is the difference between 1938 Germany and 2021 USA. People are not unaware of where socialism leads, they can see who is being 'othered' and along what lines. Currently those people being 'othered' are not a disarmed minority of predominantly white collar people. Trying to do it here will not end well for the tyrants, no matter how much money they have, how much propaganda they spew across social media, or how they try to divide us. Sure, they can divide us to some extent, but the average US citizen is not very much like a central or eastern European peasant/serf.
Those doing the othering are a very small minority, and thus far they are being allowed to operate because they have not crossed certain boundaries.. they are only talking about it. If they act on their rhetoric, there will be a spark, something will start the conflagration, and there will be a reckoning unlike any the marxists have seen before. Its only a matter of time until we get that spark at this point. The media is ravening for a conflict, they need it to stay relevant and not go under, so they are pushing it in the hope the conflict begins before they lose their jobs and have to learn to code.
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I do make things, I built my house, my shop where I build old cars, and I can go off grid and have power, fuel, and food if the world goes to shit. What I can't build is tires, some gaskets, and supplies like sawzall blades and other consumables. I have been waiting a month for some sheetmetal for my 76 chevy pickup to get here, a set of tires for another winter truck vanished as they were shipped through Chicago via UPS, and I had to get a set elsewhere. That fiasco cost me three months and now I can't get in to put plates on the damn thing because of a new lockdown. Got groceries yesterday, four bags $300, and already stuff is not there, lots of empty spots on shelves.
Looks like its already happening, and I am ramping up my production of energy. I started buying guns and ammo way back when Clinton was in office, a couple boxes a month, only missing a few months in the last 20 years, even while I was still active duty military. These idiot politicians and fuckward media morons keep pushing shit, and the bankers keep devaluing our money, I just want to be left alone to build my hotrods and enjoy the woods I live in.
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Its not about the environment, its about money, power, and control. If it were about the environment, there would be none of this rules for thee but not for me shit. Deserts are not growing, they are shrinking as the planet warms. Their predictions are wrong, demonstrably so, and yes, its all ideology not science.
They want electric vehicles because they can control who drives and how far. The poor will not be able to afford it, so they will be forced to ride the bus or walk, and that means living in a city where they are dependent for everything to be brought to them. Think about it
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Find a way to get what you want, without doing illegal stuff. Its going to take some effort and time, and while you're in a nowhere job, think about what you can learn, do, or build to improve your life.
I never saw any job as my future or way to riches and wealth. They were all temporary. Just a way to get by for a while, and move on when it was depleted, like mining an ore vein in the ground. At 55 I am looking at how much time I might have left where I am functional, and its maybe 15 years. There are things I want to do before my expiration arrives, and my mind sometimes keeps me awake at night chewing on if I will get the important ones done. Mostly its car builds...
Maybe it was how I grew up, essentially alone in a family with six kids, I and the second and was always the outcast, my family tolerated me is the best way to put it. Maybe it was growing up ion a farm in the 70s and 80s.
Going back to when I was 13, I knew what I wanted to do with my life, and it wasn't a job. Jobs merely paid for what I wanted to do. I wanted to go drag racing, build cars to have fun, and drive the stuff I built. I never had the opportunity to make racing my life and source of income, I was always held back or prevented from doing it by someone else. Not blaming others, I mean they were doing what was best for them, and its just how it was, only a handful were malicious towards me. It was my circumstances, and it was rare anyone gave me a hand up.
At 5 I learned that anything can happen, when my older cousin's husband had a tractor roll over on him. That guy used to take me around and do fun things, he could probably see that my family didn't really want me. You can go at any time. There have been more times than I can remember or count where I came close to not being here anymore. Military, farming, other people causing car accidents when I was a passenger, all sorts of things... including recurrent thoughts of sewer slide because of horrible things that happened when I was growing up.
I have very few regrets in life, other than getting married.. and not buying that 1969 GTO Judge for $1200 in 1986. Technically I had earned the money, but my dad took what I had earned and said no when I told him about the Judge. He said it would never be worth more than $2500 to justify it, but I would have never sold that car. I haven't sold many over the years, which is how I have so many of them now, including a 69 GTO, well whats left of one.
Live for you, because its the only life you're going to get on this planet, and what a wonderful planet it is.
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@stripedcollar335 my ex owes me over $10k.. in my home state $5k gets your drivers license, passport, and any professional licenses revoked, along with a bench warrant for your arrest. The judge started me out $10k in arrears, and on a $1740 base pay they were taking $1200 of it. Didn't leave me much after taxes, usually between $100 and $300 per month.
Are they going after her? nope. Is her credit taking a hit because of that? nope. Did my credit take a hit several years after the divorce when I had that $10k in arrears paid up, and she tried to evict herself from her meat suit? yep. They came after me for her medical bills, and then applied $8k of my child support to her bill at the regional center looney bin. All together the state owes me about $25k, but I will never see it.
If the world ever goes Mad Max I have some visits to make to the people who did that sort of thing. No need to visit the ex, she has done more damage to her life than I could have ever dreamed of doing, and I want her to suffer with her poor choices for a lot longer. :)
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@RodVonLongrod sure thing... they say that, but in practice its a way to punish men for being born male, and to reward women for anything they do, all while lining the pockets of the state and judges.
If my ex wanted to stay off welfare she could have not ben vi0 lent to the kids and I, not cheated with every rando she met, and not made my life a living hell, then she could have relinquished custody to me rather than the state breaking their own laws and hitting me with 71% of my gross instead of 68% of my net.
So you can keep women off welfare, but screw men. I lived on $100 to $300 a month from July 2001 to Feb 2004 while active duty in the US military. The only time I had a place to sleep indoors was when I deployed and the year I spent in Korea. I ate every other day, because contrary to what my state thought the military does not provide free room and food unless you are a low rank. I was E4/E5 and that rank could not live on base in the free housing.
If I got a second job, which would have been very difficult with the war that started in 2003, they would have raised my support to keep it at 71% of my gross.
So she does everything wrong, is rewarded with my kids after taking them 1500 miles away from me, hooking up with randos, several of whom thought my kids were they own tiny versions of her, and she gets nearly all my income...
Yeah its definitely about keeping them off welfare, WHEN THEY CAUSE THEMSELVES TO BE SINGLE! Its a reward for poor choices, simple as.
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@Pedojoeisgone I make long road trips often, 1000 miles one way most of the time. I drive 5 to 7mph over the limit, and try to stay away from other people. Depending on what I am driving, people will be different around/toward me.
In the 65 GTO people aren't usually jerks, same with the 70 Cuda, they don't pull out when I am 100ft away going 60 when I am driving the old muscle cars. When I am in my winter beater rusty 00 Silverado, it varies, but they also realize I can replace it with another $500 beater, so if they wan to contact it, I don't mind. Then when I am driving my economy car, a red 1998 Formula Firebird (30mpg and 300hp is fun), people act weird, cutting me off, tailgating, passing me for no apparent reason then slowing down, all kinds of strange behavior.
Had one guy when I was coming out of Chicago, headed north in the 98 who wanted to merge into me when I was going faster than he was. Then he followed me, would pull up beside me and give me the finger, and did that for miles. I gave him a quizzical look every time, and smiled at him often. He looked like one of those D types with very low T, no muscle mass at all, and a ring of hair around the back of his head like bozo the clown. He must have missed the Persian Gulf War veteran plates.. or he thought I would do something like in this video if her antagonized me enough. I just wanted to get home, and didn't care about him.
Its just a red car that is comfy on long drives and gets decent mileage while being fun in the twisty roads. People are weird around it.
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Males are always wrong, girls have to be allowed into everything, and boys have to step aside so girls can do whatever they like and blame boys for it. Its a fun time...
How to combat this idiocy? Tell the people bitching about it to fuck right off. Yes, tell feminists to fuck off. Equity is a financial term, but in this sense it means equality of outcome. Fuck progressives, fuck identitarians, and fuck anyone who thinks this bullshit permeating our society is good in any fucking way. Do I think girls should be barefoot in the kitchen? If they want to be, then you go girl. Forcing one group to include another to their own detriment? Nah, fuck that. I have daughters, and I want whats best for them, which is to stand on their own, but I don't want them to have to get free passes, lower standards, free shit, and hold back everyone else to make sure they're all equal. You want it, fucking earn it.
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Yeah, I own my land free and clear, 13 acres of woodland well away from town near Lake Superior, have no debt, own several vintage muscle cars, my daily driver is a 65 GTO, I have passive income that is more than most people in the area make. I have lots of muscle mass, and plenty of experience in self defense. I keep my gorilla belly, I wear cheap work pants I get at Menards, black T shirts, and $250-$300 redwing work boots because I tear up anything else. I keep my scraggly gray beard and shave my full head of hair. I am 5'8 and I still get hit on, which amazes me to be honest. I am trying to NOT look attractive.
Why the hell would I want to screw all of this up with a female? There is no freakin way I would screw it up for a fat chick. Besides I don't want to have to put heavier springs on the passenger side of my vehicles so she can ride around breathing heavily under all the lard.
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@OCtheG its a bunch of barrels, a large metal tank, and a 6" diameter PVC column. Thats what you need to make ethanol. you also need a source of sugar or starch, the yeast need to eat something. I'm working on videos showing how to do all of it, but right now I am mired in moving a bunch of my cars 1000 miles from the family farm to where I live now.
One of the mileage mules I plan to build is a ladder car like an Ariel Atom, but with a supercharged 3800 in the back, with as much compression as I can get out of the short block, then I will make some body panels for it to clean it up. All the tubes hanging out in the breeze creates a lot of drag.
Those engines get mid 30s mpg pulling a heavy 4 door around, I know I can do better and make it a stupid grin inducing amount of fun besides. Also something will get LS powered with as much compression as I can get relatively cheap, already have the fuel system figured out so I can make it a hot vapor engine. Need to figure out what to put it in, trucks aren't exactly great for this sort of thing.. lol. Maybe a Mustang.. hehe...just kiddin, but my 71 fastback Mustang would be an interesting ride to turn into a mileage mule like that.
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@OCtheG making vodka is simple, but it does have some requirements. You need a considerable amount of space, a water source because you get 1 to 2 gallons (depending on yeast used) of fuel from ten gallons of water, you can reuse the water though, and its not toxic or anything like that. In the US you need a free permit from the BATF. They have certain requirements too.
Its not something you can do in an apartment. A good place to start is journeytoforever. org and go to the biofuels library. I'm not going to repeat the info they have there, but I will fill in the blanks and show how I do it.
Its simple to do, but getting the most out of production, and out of your vehicle, takes some relatively specific information. Making it run is easy, making it run well is a bit more involved. lol.
I worked out the tuning first, and built some engines with 12:1 or more compression to utilize the properties, so there is no running them on pump gas.
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@albertgaspar627 I want to be under the hood of my GTOs, Firebirds, and others, I don't want to spend all my time working on crap box appliances like the $500 winter beater 2006 Gran Prix that is rusting in half. Trying to get one more winter out of it.
I beat the GTO without mercy, and I change parts around on it often for more power or something, but otherwise its a dead nuts reliable car. Its made several 1000 mile road trips, and come back via different routes. I have around $15k in the full rebuild, and it was a VERY rusty heap of shit when I got it. I made a video with the stills I took during that project.
I can repair/rebuild almost everything on any US domestic vehicle built between 1925 and 2010, some things like alternators require specialized equipment, so you can't get them apart. EFI and overdrive transmissions do not frighten me, you only need to know what the sensors do and why, then you can figure out what is going wrong without throwing a ton of parts at it.
The hybrids and the PEVs have far more special instructions for working on them than most people think. They can kill a tech easily, much easier than an ICE powered vehicle.
Like everything else, there are positives and negatives, and PEVs have different issues for the positives.
Electrical sounds good, but the lifespan isn't there. Vibration is the enemy of electrical circuits, and anything turning will cause vibration. Thats why you don't use wire nuts on vehicles. In a DC vehicle shorts mean fires, AC is somewhat more forgiving, but doesn't work well in cars. There is a reason AC is used in buildings, and DC is used in vehicles, not the least of which is its rather difficult to be electrocuted by DC. If you don't know what you're doing, the PEVs and hybrids can kill you very easily.
Like everything else, I weigh the positives and negatives to see where it works out. I really dig the power provided by the electrics, but there is more to a vehicle than how much power it has.
For me its all about cost. Thats why I don't buy new vehicles, because they do not keep their value, and they are far more expensive to own. Sure you have less maintenance costs in most cases, but you still have to pay insurance, interest on any loan you have, and that is higher with a new car no matter what fuels it.
I realize most people do not have my skills or knowledge, so they get a newer vehicle and take it to shops. I ran a shop in the 90s, I know all too well how little most people know.
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CNN and MSNBC ran fake news about me, my unit, and my branch of the military, and on up the chain to Bush in 2004, in regards to armor for HUMVEEs and personal armor.. So welcome to the club Tim. If you're in the way of their narrative and focus on making the administration look bad, they don't give a damn. I shipped literal tons of armor months before they said "nothing was being done about it." My job was putting cargo on pallets to go to Iraq and Kuwait, at the only base supplying the entire war. So yes, it was about me personally, the NCO in charge of outsized cargo, meaning its longer than 108 inches or over 10,000lbs. I heard it on the TV in the break room while I was doing paper work, and wondered if they were stupid or something. Now I see it for what it was. Fake news.
Go back to 1990 and they were doing it there too, but not me and my unit that time. They actually talked about everyone BUT my unit which was doing 90% of the airlift going to Saudi Arabia. They never mentioned us once. The only time my base was ever mentioned, and it was a massive cargo/personnel hub of Europe,, was when a Soviet bloc kid defected and hijacked a Tupolev airliner, and brought it to my base. I was at work that night, and we told him if they did not go to the German side we were going to assault the plane and probably kill everyone on it, if not fill it with holes from where we were around it. He went to the flughafen. We got a small blurb, nothing mentioned mainstream. That was the only news in my nearly 3 years there.
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@jeremyhess7977 I had some 'interesting' training, I was USAF loading and unloading cargo planes. My units would send me to the things they thought were some form of punishment. I was over my max weight from the day I took the oath, then the first war made me bigger. So I was the one they picked to do the seemingly unappealing things.
NBC defense, decon, ABGD (airbase ground defense.. read that as lots of ambushes and funneling them into areas), and some other really useful things because it was the late 80s and we had a problem with certain people.
On top of that I grew up on a farm, learned how to build and consequently break things. Expert marksman every time except for when I got laser eye correction in 2003, so the 04 was only 'qualified.' Was seeing double in both eyes for a bit over a year.
Take all of that experience and turn me loose with a couple hundred people wanting to do damage... it will not a pleasant experience for invaders. Not on the level of a Green Beret or your average 11b, but perfect for make a stink then leave them to smell it like crop dusting in a grocery store.
So if someone like me can do that, and we have all the door kicking types out there too... man, its a really bad idea to come and try to force us to do anything.
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Methanol is also an oxygen enhancer, as is ethanol. Plain old vodka (ETOH) works the same as methanol, but methanol has more O2 in it by content and a greater latent heat of vaporization. They work similarly to N2O, cooling the charge as well as adding more air-fuel charge, but there is something else both ethanol and methanol do.. they enhance the octane, so you can run more compression, boost and spark advance without knocking out ring lands or flattening bearings from knock/ping.
That is part of why N2O didn't work so well at lower altitudes, and could damage the engine. You need enough fuel, with enough octane for the cylinder pressure, spark advance, and heat, more O2 at lower altitudes means you need to add more fuel to compensate for the added N2O. The added cylinder pressure means you need more octane down low. The higher you go in altitude the less air you have, so a given static compression ratio will work with a given octane.
With the mechanical injection these planes used, they did not have the adjustability and near instant compensation of modern EFI systems. Without getting too far into it, you essentially have jets similar to a carburetor that have a range where they flow the right amount of a given RPM range, above or below that and you are rich or lean. Now they could add more complexity and incorporate more injection nozzles 'tuned' for a different RPM with the N2O in mind, but that would add a lot of extra stuff to planes that already have two of everything.
Adding more weight without increasing power doesn't work so well, look at the A6M2 and 3 vs the 5 and 7. Sure the 5 and 7 had self sealing fuel tanks and more armor, but that cost them speed and agility. Adding more power increases weight as well, you can't escape the weight v power with aircraft or rockets. What amounts to another entire fuel system adds weight that is only useful while you have the added fuel/oxidizer. Throw the altitude variable in there and you're suddenly hauling a bunch of stuff around when its easier to not use N2O below a certain altitude/rpm or above a certain manifold pressure..
The 1940s were still limited to 'clockwork' computers, using gears and cams to make changes, the only way to change it is swapping the timing components out of the system, and you can't do that in flight when you run out of N2O or methanol. EFI makes it simple and easy to add more fuel wherever in the RPM range you want, with or without nitrous, methanol or ethanol also being added.
I'm a car guy who has a thing for airplanes, and would be an airplane guy if I have never made that much money. I should have bought that Cessna 140 for $2500 back in the 1980s.. 16 year olds back then didn't have $2500 to throw around. I settled for joining the USAF and loading cargo planes, (first base was Rhein Main AB near Frankfurt no less) where you learn about allowable cabin load, take off weight, balance, and more. Fun stuff.
Since I can afford old cars, I build them and run them on home made ethanol/vodka and E85. In learning how to make the fuel, convert carbs/EFI to run it, and all the related stuff that goes into doing it so I can go faster, I also learned about methanol, N2O, boost from turbos or superchargers, and the various forms of carburetion and injection, both mechanical and electronic.
You get more power from alcohol fuels, you can run a lot more compression and boost, and there is no need to retard the timing when useing N2O with ethanol or methanol until you get into compression ratios in the diesel territory. How much power do you gain from just using ethanol over gasoline? Well in a low compression engine that will run on 87 octane, you will pick up between 5 and 20hp. Considering even high octane race gasoline will not run in an engine with 20:1 compression, and ethanol or methanol will, you can build engines to make considerably more power, and even at higher altitudes.
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Want to know some differences in methanol and ethanol?
Well methanol is VERY toxic, 10ml can kill you. Methanol is also very corrosive, it does not like aluminum, most rubber compounds, and can cause lots of issues if left to sit in the fuel system. You have to run stainless fuel system parts unless you only plan to have it in operation a relatively short time. Then you need after run oils to keep it from causing problems as it sits. Its harder to make than ethanol too, uses mroe water (kinda like making butanol) and that water is toxic so it must be treated before it gets out into the rest of the world.. Methanol doesn't 'go bad' as they say like gasoline does, but if the proof gets too low from absorbing water you run into tuning issues with it. Usually its from a direct water source, not humidity in the atmosphere.
Methanol can handle a LOT more boost, cylinder pressure, and timing than ethanol, but you use twice as much of it. The power you can make on methanol with boost is absolutely crazy. Top Fuel dragsters run a mix of methanol and nitromethane (another German WWII thing that was a solvent but explodes nicely in an engine) and they can make well over 10,000hp. Look those things up if you want to be astounded. Methanol is the go to fuel when you want the most power possible, but can't go with nitromethane or hydrazine (which is like nitromethane on steroids)
Ethanol is toxic, but not nearly as much as methanol, you can drink quite a bit of ethanol and not die. Look at any Russian, Pole, Belgian, or German if you want proof that you can imbibe plenty of ethanol and not die. Man I miss German and Belgian beer. Yes ethanol is only vodka, its the same thing you drink in beer, wine, whiskey, bourbon and reportedly there are trace amounts of it in those white claw things the kids like.
Ethanol above 160 proof doesn't harm aluminum or other parts, and if rubber is compatible with 10% ethanol in a fuel, its good with 100% and at any proof. At 160 proof it still runs fine, but over time, if left long enough an electrolysis process will start to pull non anodized aluminum into suspension. It takes a while. If it harmed cork, then the Greeks, Romans, and others would have had a very hard time with wines. It doesn't go bad if you keep it out of direct sunlight, after all 12 year old Scotch is a thing.
Ethanol is simple yeast pee. If you put a 10%-20% solution of sugar/water in a closed environment, keep it from getting too hot, add yeast, and wait a week to ten days, you will get ethanol. Then you distil it to separate the water, because water bonds to the ethanol at the molecular level, they fit together like a hand in a glove. Tts exactly like that, because adding one gallon of water to one gallon of 200 proof (anhydrous) ethanol does not yield 2 gallons of liquid, its less, not quite 1.75 gallons but closer to 1.80-85. Temperature and other weather conditions has an effect on it.
When you burn methanol, ethanol, hydrogen, or methane in an engine, they only emit CO2 and H2O. They burn very clean, leaving no carbon inside the engines, but they also run a lot cooler so you have to run the engines hot intentionally to boil condensation out of the crankcase. Engines run on ethanol, hydrogen, or methane can run over a million miles with no appreciable wear provided you change the oil due to thermal breakdown.
The reason you lose mileage in a gasoline powered engine is not BTUs, its the added O2 that requires adding more fuel to run well. Lean is not fun with ethanol. Gasoline wastes over 80% of its energy content as heat, ethanol is more than twice as efficient as only 60% of it goes to waste heat.
Running ethanol in a low compression engine will almost always result in less mileage (unless you heat it to 200F in the fuel rails so it instantly vaporizes, but that is a whole book length thing unto itself) because you are not 'working the fuel hard enough' by not squeezing it as hard before ignition. Gasoline has a problem with wanting to light off before the spark shows up, due to heat and compression, diesel fuel runs entirely on the heat and compression without a spark. Gasoline will diesel using a glowing surface or chunk of carbon in the cylinder, ethanol will not.
Know what happens when you crank the hell out of the compression to 12:1 or higher with iron cylinder heads? You get the same or better mileage on ethanol than you do on gasoline, while making a lot more power... but that compression precludes you from running gasoline in that engine as it will knock out ring lands, flatten upper rod bearings, and basically break things. Its the handicap of low compression that gasoline can handle that causes the drop in mileage running ethanol.
Ethanol will run no problem in a gasoline compression engine, but an engine maximized for ethanol cannot run on gasoline.
All the corrosion and detrimental things you hear attributed to ethanol are not due to the alcohol fuel itself. Methanol causes many of them, and methanol is VERY different from ethanol, (ethanol is like another half molecule of methanol is added). The other thing causing the problems showing up are additives put in there by the companies mixing ethanol with gasoline, but people blame ethanol for it. Its simply vodka that has been denatured so you can't drink it and keep the government happy because they want their taxes if you drink it..
Its seriously fun learning all of this stuff.
It also allows you to burn the water as fuel, which is very cool as water condenses in/on any thing that sees a heat cycle in a certain range. HEET and Drygas are methanol, and hey do the same thing as that 10% of ethanol in your gasoline. It allows you to get water out of a tank with gasoline or diesel in it.
The part I like about ethanol is I can make it cheap from tree sap, run my vehicles, generators, chainsaws, etc on it without issues, and I can crank the compression ratios up in my old V8 engines to 13:1 and drive around making a ton of power and spend a lot less than I would on pump gas..
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We didn't defeat communism and socialism, we allowed those abhorrent ideas to take over the education and legal system. Dave I started a locals, mine is green energy, old muscle cars, a little bit of anti marxism, and right now I am working on an idea about masculinity. The leftists hate confident, capable, masculine men, and they are teaching our boys to be none of that, while treating the ones who display that as toxic broken girls. I have a plan to mentor young men and boys, to teach them what it means to be a man, while providing them with the tools they need, and showing them how to use those tools. We need to fix it at this level, because if we don't we will get another generation of weak soy swilling pseudo males. None of this "a real man does X___" crap its more this is what a man is. Mine is free of charge, as I am not looking to make money from it. I want to provide info and guidance.
My idea starts where Heinlein began, and takes it a bit farther, and my focus is on males because society, education, and the legal system focuses on girls. They have more than enough support, and hell, I am male.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
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-Robert A. Heinlein
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@irritatingtruth9121 x someone out or have a struggle snuggle with a woman is an infringement of their rights. No need for a deity to tell us not to do that. Its obvious... well except in the bible where if you have an unwanted snuggle session outside hearing distance, she has to marry the man doing it.
Also in the bible its ok to own people. Rather than saying don't do it the bible explains how to do it.
Also its not ok to wear cotton polyester blends, plant two crops in the same field, or eat lobster and crab legs.
You will probably say that is OT stuff, well Matt wrote "For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished." (KJV)
Which means the OT is supposed to apply until he comes back, sorry about the bacon you can't have. Paul aka Saul is the one who said everyone can ignore the old laws, what are the chances his event going to Damascus was more about sowing division than working for your favorite deity? What better way to cause problems than to claim you saw the light and here is what the light told me.... my parochial school teachers jumped through lots of hoops to defend the guy.
On the bright side you can be owned if someone puts a hole in your ear, so we have that going for us, which is nice.
Bronze age mid east desert dwellers are not exactly who we should look to for moral guidance.
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Waste runoff is EASILY controlled and harness with cattails. The bonus is using cattails to control nitrates makes them grow huge, and then you can use them to make ethanol fuel. 1000 to 10,000 gallons of fuel per acre, while remediating water, and they are also edible. What parts of the plants that aren't used to make fuel can then be fed to the cattle. Burning ethanol in an engine emits only CO2 and H2O, and since the CO2 is what is already on the surface, not being pulled up from underground, its carbon neutral. That should matter to the people who are overly concerned about CO2.. which I am not.
The fact the gov isn't doing this over there is proof its not about the environment, its about controlling people.
How do I know about cattails and ethanol? Thats how I power my 1965 Pontiac GTO with a 455 (7.4L) V8 that makes 550hp and is my summer daily driver. Its been on ethanol since 2018, my 1970 GTO has been on ethanol since 2007, and ran 10% ethanol pump gas from 1994 to 07. If it was as detrimental and corrosive as people claim, I would not be able to afford it. I have had zero problems with my fuel regarding corrosion and all the other things people claim.. all of that stuff is methanol, not ethanol. You go into a bar or store that sells vodka, whiskey, wine, bourbon, beer, etc, and they are selling you ethanol. It is EXACTLY the same stuff, just made with different sugar or starch sources.
Building my engines to run only on ethanol enables me to improve efficiency, raising the static compression ratio has made my ethanol engines make more power and get better mileage than the same engine on gasoline, but they will not run on gasoline because the octane is not high enough. Not a problem for me to not run gasoline, since I can make fuel. My engines stay clean inside too, no black carbon deposits in them.. they look like the day I put them together if I take them apart to change things to make more power. No wear, and oil changes can be far less frequent.
Its not about saving the planet. If it were they'd be telling people to live like I do rather than move into a big city where you'll be dependent on them for everything and not allowed to leave or grow your own food.
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Well if there is no place for me in society, then nothing has changed. Its not like I will stop being a masculine man, stop doing man things, thinking like a man thinks, speaking how a man speaks, and living how a man lives. They can try to shame me, they can try to claim I am all those bad things, but ya know what? I do not give a fuck what they say or think. They will have to kill me to prevent me from being who I am, and if they do that, then that is a bonus because the chronic pain from serving in two wars will end. They can only push us just so far, then we will not allow it any longer. Where that line in the sand happens to be, I am not certain, however I will know once they cross it. For the last 6 months, they have been stomping on that line like a 5 year old throwing a tantrum.
They are pushing against a branch hoping it will break, but it will bend and then spring back in their faces.
What do masculine men do? They build things and lead people. The people trying to take control know they can't compete with that, so they are doing everything they can to prevent boys from becoming men. They are trying to limit our speech, control our thoughts with political correctness and other bullshit. Who is this nefarious 'they' you might ask? All you need to do is look to see who you are not 'allowed' to criticize and you will have your answer.
When they have pushed too far, men will lead those who were formerly indifferent and not involved, then this problem will be rectified. Life has been too easy for the last 75 years, people think life has always been easy. They do not know hardship, but they will know it eventually. We have not had any major world events that resulted in millions of men going in the ground, for over 75 years. People have become complacent, entitled, lazy, and indifferent. They think life is hard for them now, just wait.
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@conmom1825 when the results are manipulated, people are unwilling to think for themselves rather than follow and obey, the legal system is employed against you because it has been infiltrated by the people causing all the problems... its only a matter of time before things get spicy.
I do not have a party, I am not beholden to any ideology either, and rather than assuming I am being told the whole truth about things, I look into them if it concerns me. Having been a veteran who the media lied about, not in an attempt to obfuscate our military plans, but in an attempt to make us and Dubya look bad, I take NOTHING they say at face value... not that I liked Dubya or his dad mind you... I rather loathe politicians.
Why the disdain for politicians? Well thats simple, because the people who are drawn to that arena are more often than not, the lowest, self absorbed, and inept people who simply want power and control... here lately they also want to enrich themselves at our expense.
So if I am to rely on them, when they have consistently sold us down the river over the last 50 laps around the sun I have been watching what is going on, well... I'd rather not.
Consider me a disgruntled former employee of the gov that has nothing but scorn and derision for the ideology currently permeating education, gov, media, and now the military.
You can hope they will do what is right for all of us, but I see them for what they are. They will do what is profitable for them, at our expense. So forgive me if my patience is wearing thin and I am merely waiting for them to cross one of two lines carved in stone way back in 1791.... because my oath is taken seriously, I have not been released from it, and they are standing on the lines right now.
Yeah I am waiting. You should be glad I am waiting, because when I begin, a couple million other veterans will as well. Fun times ahead.
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There's always some moron in the comments. Before the automotive videos came around, I'd read YT comments when I felt like I was mentally inadequate, and after reading the idiocy of so many people, I would realize I am not like a Forest Gump with fetal alcohol syndrome, but those retards can write too.
My entire focus is low buck. Even when I have money I like to do things low buck, but I rarely reuse stock pistons and rings without a bore, because it costs less to do that than to take it out and apart then do it later. I have one engine I plan to reuse the original pistons, just ring and bearing it, but I don't plan to daily drive it or race it for long.
I do most of the same stuff when doing a near zero budget engine that Tony does. I have a set of dome 400 Pontiac pistons that have stuck rings, they need the same thing Tony did. They popped the head gasket with too much cylinder pressure and life got in the way before I could tear it down.. wasn't pretty. Stuff is new with not even 100 miles on it, so it should all be good if the rust will come off.
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I am sick and tired of these authoritarian marxists fucking things up to make life so difficult and violent that people will beg big daddy government to help and take care of them. Of course their answer to everything is more marxism, and they are exploiting environmental concerns to achieve the shithole they desire. Make no mistake, they do not want us driving ourselves, or living in a rural area as I do, they want us crammed into cities, eating the bugs, living in the pod, unable to travel freely, use public transportation, and be entirely dependent upon them to bring us everything. To me, that is a fate worse than death.
The manufactured fertilizer shortage is a problem, it is 100% ideological. I agree we use too much of it to produce corn people can't eat. Of course we use even more of it and more water to grow grass, which feeds nobody. People in California and the southwest wanted to build a pipeline from Lake Superior so they could have green lawns... Thankfully the Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan wrote laws preventing exactly that from happening. I live a mile from Lake Superior, its so cold, clear, and clean you can drink directly from it, and we want to keep it that way.
We don't use food for fuel, humans do not eat the corn used to produce ethanol other than high fructose corn syrup which isn't made from the ethanol/cattle feed corn, HFCS is why people are so freakin fat in the US, and nobody should eat as much soy as we do. Humans eat a variety of corn called 'Sweet Corn' and it is quite different from what farmers call field corn. All your chips, nibblets, and on the cob are made from sweet corn, not the stuff used to feed cattle and to produce ethanol.
However, here is the curious part. After using field corn to produce ethanol what is left over is a very high quality livestock feed that puts muscle mass on cattle 17% faster than cut or fermented grain. Not pulling that number out of my ass, its been verified by several university studies. So the corn is not 'wasted' rather it is utilized more effectively. Humans can eat the corn after its fermented, and its not before being used to produce fuel, so producing ethanol can increase human food as well. You cannot feed cattle corn without either fermenting it in silage, or cutting it with something else after cracking it, because cows cannot digest the 1/3 of each kernel that is used for ethanol. Remove that undigestible part, and you produce very high quality cattle feed, which happens to be our largest export to Saudi Arabia. They send us oil we send them cattle feed made from the competitor to gasoline.
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As for biofuels being bad... well, that is not entirely accurate. If you run them in an engine handicapped to run gasoline, you will get less mileage but it will have more power. However if you build it to run on ethanol, methanol (they are very different), methane, or hydrogen, you can mitigate (or eliminate the mileage difference with ethanol) using the static and dynamic compression ratios. It does however preclude the use of gasoline, because of the limited octane, excessive waste heat, and it will rattle itself to death without some kind of octane enhancer like tetraethyl lead, which is banned, MBTE which is banned, or by putting more ethanol in it which is simply vodka.
Now you have to realize some things about biofuels, they are not all the same. Methane is very easy to produce and use, but it requires a 20k psi fuel system to keep it in liquid form, and then it still doesn't have the range. Hydrogen is made from breaking oxygen from hydrogen in water, using electricity, and it too has limited range with a 20k psi fuel system. Methanol is very corrosive, ethanol is not.
I know this for a fact because I have been running ethanol in my vehicles for 15 years, and the 10% craptastic gas for the 20 years previous to when I started producing vodka fuel in 2006-2007. 1965 GTO, 1970 GTO, 1968 LeMans, 1979 Formula Firebird, 1998 Formula, 1999 Silverado, 1998 Gran Prix, were all run on ethanol without issues, and the 2006 GP I use as a winter beater can be run on it, but I tend to save it for the hotrods. They have stock fuel system parts, carbs, EFI, and other than certain race parts I always utilize when I build an engine, like stainless steel valves (they are stronger and lighter) nothing is special or different from a gasoline engine, except the static compression ratio.
Zero problems in 15 years on E85/E100 and all the rubber hose, gaskets, and seals last longer than they did when I ran gasoline in those vehicles, and drastically longer than when I ran race gasoline in the 1990s. I had to change out rubber hose every year and carb gaskets/parts every other year running 110 octane race gas, and I have ten year old rubber hose running ethanol. Corrosion issues are caused by additives put in by the oil companies, not by ethanol. So I do not recommend using the 10% ethanol unless you have to, gasoline is crap, and if you like I will tell you about it from a mechanic's perspective.
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Static compression ratio is the difference between the entire volume of the cylinder with the piston at the bottom, compared to how much room is left when the piston is at the top of the cylinder. The smaller the chamber, the higher the compression ratio, larger chamber lower compression ratio. More compression means more power, better drivability, and you 'work' the fuel harder and thus get more out of it, which means you get better mileage by increasing the compression. The more torque an engine makes between idle and 3500rpm, the better its mileage will be on any fuel, because that is the RPM range for most street and highway driven vehicles.
Modern EFI engines with aluminum heads, blocks, and plastic intake manifolds can use 10:1 static compression and run on premium gasoline, which is currently selling for $4.30 where I live. 87 octane requires no more than 9:1 in a modern engine and 8:1 in an older iron headed engine like the 455s (7.4L) Pontiac engines I like to run in my old muscle cars, and that is currently selling for $3.40 a gallon. It costs me 10 cents to produce a gallon of tree sap vodka fuel, 40 cents per gallon to make it from cattails (typha), and corn costs roughly $2 a gallon to make ethanol, depending on what the price of a bushel is. For me it is simple economics and more power that got me into producing and running my vehicles on ethanol.
With 13:1 compression my 455 got better mileage on E85 ethanol than it did on gasoline with 8.8:1 running pump gas, and it made a hell of a lot more power. The 1970 GTO got 18mpg on average with a low compression 455 and a very tall 2.93 gear, and 20-21mpg with 13:1 and a 3.42 gear, both used overdrive transmissions and old Quadrajet carbs I built. The pump gas engine had a .67 overdrive, the ethanol engine had a .70 overdrive and still got better mileage with drastically improved power and drivability. Roughly 12:1 is the break even point for most engines. How much more power? The 13:1 engine was a full second faster in the quarter mile than the 8:1 engine, and the 13:1 engine was faster than a Dodge Hellcat, pulling 4100lbs down the track... without a supercharger, turbo, or nitrous. Better aerodynamics, low rolling resistance tires, low drag sealed wheel bearings, and other improvements made to vehicles in the last 50 years would result in even better mileage.
Ethanol without gasoline added to it can easily handle 22:1 compression, which is how much diesels have, and if you add a spark ignition system to a diesel, EFI or a carb, ditch the diesel injector, you can run a diesel on ethanol and get the same power and mileage from it, or better. There are other things we can do to improve mileage, and I am working on demonstration vehicles to show how. Imagine if I could get 30 to 40mpg from a 1976 vintage pick up truck, running home made 10 cent a gallon fuel while making between 500 and 600 horsepower.
I am not some marxist trying to force everyone to ride the bus and live in the pod eating bugs. I am a gearhead, hotrodder, mechanic, and drag racer who adores having so much power in my daily driver that it will effortlessly smoke whatever tires I put under it from a stoplight, just by giving it part throttle. I eat meat daily, own guns, served in the US military, came back from the desert in 2004 barely able to walk, and have been on a fixed income since 2006. I loathe Brandon and his regime, and marxists will forever be my sworn enemy as I will not abide their idiocy and desire for authoritarian control. I cannot afford to be replacing parts because the fuel destroys them, so if ethanol were a problem like that, I would not be running it.
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I have been working on home made fuels for a long time, testing in worst case scenarios rather than laboratory best possible tilted towards the outcome I want. I needed to see what happens when you let it sit for years, how well it runs, what the effects are, because I am not going to destroy my vehicles for some ideological narrative. I found ethanol simply runs great and makes a lot of power, is easy to produce and tree sap can be collected from the same tree every other year for decades. Cattails are even more interesting for fuel, they dwarf corn for yield per acre.
This is what I do. Go fast for cheap. Not sending the few dollars I get to Saudi Arabia or to some coal company, and instead being able to pay off my home in the woods, 3 years early on a 10 year note, and drive old hot rods for pennies a gallon, is the most American thing I can do.
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I will gladly go against her, I am 54, 5'8 tall, haven't been able to run since my last deployment in 2004, last wrestling match was in the Nebraska State tournament in 1987. Not sure when the last time was that someone was daft enough to take a swing at me, its been a while and they regretted it. I wrestled at 167lbs 35 years ago, I am double that now. Benched 265 lbs that year, and I did almost double that in 2003. Kinda makes me wonder what I could bench now if I got in the gym and got used to lifting again.
Females can do ok at the lightest weights, but over 130lbs against same sized men they get crushed. Jake would have a better chance against me, than she would against him. He has a chance if he can land something and KO me, if he wrestles me he is toast. He doesn't have the strength to hang with me, just like she doesn't have it against him, but she can't do enough damage to him. If he goes 100% I give her 5 seconds.
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@Luke Lemmon heh, religion is a big argument from authority fallacy where they didn't have the answers so they made up the big juju in the mountain or the invisible sky friend. They have fuck all to do with reality other than getting 5 year olds to stop asking "why?"
that being said, some stories are useful, such as Job. Perseverance, loyalty, enduring hardship. and when life knocks you down, you get back up and start rebuilding over and over. Not love god and he will make your life wonderful, no its do it your damn self despite what 'god' throws at you. I think the story of Job is the only one where the devil actually kills someone, the rest of the genocides are god's doin..
Not to say religion has no place in the world, because most humans need that higher power to decide for them, and just the old guy with the gray beard saying it is not enough weight behind the idea. So throw a god in there and you can get people to act right when they are too stupid to realize killing people will result in you being killed when everyone else gets tired of your shit. So religion is very useful, but with inherent dangers.
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@anon_y_mousse I have another part of the argument, the only out a man has is if she ends it. He can be forced to pay no matter what she does in every other instance. He is held responsible while she is not. She can opt out at any time, he cannot.
The idea of ending a kid is repugnant to me, make no mistake there. However, the pain of a dad being forced to fund someone who betrayed him in the most heinous way I have ever experienced, with no recourse and not being allowed to guide his progeny into adulthood.. well, you don't get your kids in either event, but one is vastly less expensive.
Bear in mind Nebraska hit me with 71% of my gross pay for support, leaving me $100 a month to live on while I was in the USAF from 2001 to 2004. I did not tell them I was promoted in 2002, because the military decided not to pay me for my promotion until 2004. Long story.. My ex took my kids 1500 miles away and they kept me impoverished, sleeping in my car, eating every other day.
Between 2001 and 2008 I got a total of 12 days with them, usually the last afternoon of my leave before I had to head back to base. Because I had to spend the rest of the week or two searching for them, since the 'authority' would not follow the law and inform me of where my kids were living.
When she took them in 01 they were 4 and 7, so I missed all those precious years with them.
I am a crippled vet who lives with chronic pain, been hit by cars, run over, bludgeoned, stabbed, beaten unconscious, and a lot more pain has been endured in my 54 years. The absolute worst thing I ever had to endure was my kids being taken and hidden from me.
I had taught them to read, do math, colors, shapes, how to run a PC, and was teaching them critical thinking skills when my ex absconded with them. I was in their lives teaching them and spending good time with them despite working 50 to 70 hours a week.
She hated me for that as her dad never did that for her. He left when she was 12, and she was determined to make that a reality for my kids too.
If a man can be spared that kind of pain, poverty, and hardship being imposed on him, then I can see a reason to keep it around.
The problem is EVERYONE blames the father, and the mother is given a free pass regardless of what she does. They have all the choices and benefit with zero accountability or responsibility. It takes two, why is only one punished for it?
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@capj1347 that is your confirmation bias kickin in. They had bee living with a theocracy where you had to be part of the church of England if you had a religion. They did not like that idea very much, and many of the founders were not religious.
Franklin and Paine were especially vocal about their derision for religion, and Jefferson assumed a god did it because he had no other answer for why everything is here. Its essentially God of the Gaps. When you reach the limit of your knowledge, the easy answer is 'God Did It.' Until the answers are discovered, and god becomes an increasingly smaller area of ignorance.
Adams wanted a theocracy and an official religion, but he was in the minority. Washington was a deist like Jefferson, and they spoke of god as a colloquial term. That is why they used 'creator' rather than 'god' because the USA was never intended to be a theocracy or have an official religion.
Its funny to me, having grown up going to a lutheran parochial school, how people lump christians together. There is a HUGE difference between Missouri synod lutherans and pentecostals or mormons, yet they are all technically christian.
So which flavor of christian gets to decide? The snake handlers who babble to themselves? The 'we love guilt' catholics? Rapture fanatic evangelicals? Who gets to decide what the laws will be based on their religion? The one in charge at the moment because they hold the oval office? What happens then when its a muslim or someone jewish.. or omg a non believer like Washington or Jefferson?
Think about it... unless you want sharia or some form of eastern religion like shinto or buddihsm that you suddenly have to conform to, its a good idea to NOT have an official religion. I know there is no damn way I want to be forced to be a baptist or other nutter evangelical religion. Its too children of the corn for me, and the babbling is simply ludicrous.
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When they have no argument, no leg to stand on, they always go to logical fallacies, predominantly ad hominem and strawman. That is something not only done by these people, but by anyone who's ideology or belief system is challenged. They will do almost anything to preserve their belief, its just how people are. They are terrified of their entire world view being wrong, so they will not entertain evidence that dispels that view.
I am in the middle with no dog in this particular event, there is no ideology by which I live, rather I observe reality, test things that matter to me, and rarely just take someone's word for it. If it fits what I know, then sure, we can agree, if it doesn't fit I will look into the subject if I have limited knowledge in that area. Most double down and cling to the belief, even when it is proven to be incorrect. Thats why I am more inclined to appreciate the cheeto over the potato, by a very wide margin.
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Tim, you going to join us as centrists yet? Have the democrats gone far enough left to disenchant you with them? I can't abide racists, and neither can you. I did not vote for Trump, I voted against Romney, and you can bet your ass my ballot tomorrow will be red all the way down, and I will still vote for legalization of cannabis. Let me have my weed and my guns, because I am not going to need to use violence to get my tiny bit of weed.
You are one of us man, not conservative, for the little guys, and not a marxist. Let them wither and die on the vine. FYI Only the leftists think the Founders were all racists and horrible men... just because they are white guys. Fuck em, let them fall into insignificance.
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@Compairholman not long ago London was ahead of Chicago. Or does the past not matter, only the cherry picked parts you like? Compare London with somewhere else, that is not democrat run. You see the democrats want the crime and civil unrest, it keeps them in power, and gives them justification to turn us into serfs... just like you are.
Remove the big dem run cities from the stats and England is vastly more dangerous the the US is. Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, DC, LA, SF, Milwaukee, etc. Funny how the crime rates are so much lower in cities without gun control or democrats.
You can enjoy your communist dictators and being arrested for offending someone, whilst being defenseless as you're invaded, I won't be coming to save you anyway. I am too old now.
England was a nice place 30 years ago when I was there last. You can't pay me to go there now.
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$1200? I've been looking for LT tires for my 2500 truck, $900 is the lowest I have found for a set of 4, most of them are over $1200 a set. A handful of years ago they were $400 a set. Cooper Cobras are $167 each for a 255 60 15 through Summit. Thats HALF the budget for the cheapest tires that might work. Maybe the local junkyard will have some 15" tires that aren't 10 year old junk, around here all you find is old tires that are no good anymore.
I'm starting on a project this week, a 72 Ventura, think of it as sorta like a drivable storage unit. Its a place to stuff an engine and transmission to get them out of the shop, and to make it run and drive so I can take it out if I need to or just move it around the yard under its own power. I want to spend as little as possible in time and money on this thing. Tires are one of the things that have become a major expense when building junk like this. I want to put the money I have into other vehicles, not this thing, but an engine takes up considerable room sitting on a stand or on the floor. It needs a home. The 70 GTO is going to get a similar treatment, one of my engines and transmissions stuffed in it, but I will spend a little more on it... because GTO.
My shop is full of parts that need to go on vehicles, doors, fenders, and floors for my 76 C10. Engines and transmissions are everywhere. Parts for the winter beater trucks and the 3/4 tons that pull my dump trailer and rental equipment out here. Stuff needs to get put in and made drivable so I have working room in my shop. Tires are a perishable item, even if its never been mounted it has a shelf life... and now they have nearly doubled in price.
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@jhoughjr1 I see you cannot think critically... but you can regurgitate talking points thought up by equally ignorant people, using uncommon words in an attempt to sound smart.
It was warm enough globally, for a few hundred years, for Viking settlers to have FREAKIN VINYARDS IN GREENLAND! How granular is that? Currently that entire island is nearly covered in glaciers... which are growing farther north, as they melt farther south, much the same way Antarctica is doing.
Inferred climate... so not actual data, but what we surmise from incomplete data. Yeah I know how that works... we used to call it a guesstimate. Now its just 'I feel like this is how it is, and the narrative I follow says I should feel this way, so that makes it true.'
Ya know I am kinda big on the scientific method, and I like computers. When you put crap data in a computer, you get crap data out of it. Same with crap studies, assertions, and political narratives. Start with a premise then look for supporting data to prove your point to the ignorant.
The thermometer was invented in the early 1600s. Records started being kept in the mid 1800s. From the mid 1600s to the late 1800s we had a mini ice age, and at the end of that cold period is when records started being kept.
So saying its the warmest day in recorded history is what I like to call weasel words. Like when the talking head on TV says ethanol production may be the cause of higher food prices, as if making more livestock feed and using corn nobody but livestock eat will affect the prices of anything that doesn't have more corn in it.
Sure it 'may' make that steak cost a few cents more, but not the taters, salad, tomatoes, or anything else. But the inferred meaning is making fuel from corn before we feed its leftovers to animals is making your food bill higher... and not the fact that diesel fuel tripled in cost during the same timeframe.
I swear all you young uneducated but highly indoctrinated types cannot think for yourselves... but you sure do obey and submit yourselves well.
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I'm a single/divorced 2x disabled veteran. you can look up how much compensation we get for sacrificing for the US. I own my home, debt free, and I live well away from large cities. I sacrificed A LOT TO GET HERE. The only time anyone gave me anything was when my parents loaned me an extra $2k for the down on my land in 2013. My divorce left me with nearly nothing that year, and I sold a bunch of car parts to get the rest of it. I was still paying the first ex until 2015 which was HALF of my compensation.
All these people saying they need $150k a year to break even... its mind boggling to me. I am 54 and before 2017 I had never gotten more than $40k a year. I worked highly skilled jobs like CNC programmer/machinist, and I worked on cars, loaded aircraft in the military, and I kept getting screwed over by things like the factories being sent to Mexico in the 90s.
Two divorces, two major conflicts, and I was forced into poverty between 32 and 44 via child support. I went years with $100 a month to live on, sleeping in my car on active duty. The more I worked to earn and get ahead, the more was taken from me.
So when I see these entitled punk kids complaining about how hard they have it, I laugh my gelatinous pock marked posterior off. Suck it up millennials, it can get MUCH worse. Trust me, I have seen worse.
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@unvaccinatedmensclub those are not dominant men. A dominant man with muscle, even if he is short like I am (5'8") will moisten panties. Chicks can smell thirsty by looking at you. The manager at my gym is one of those guys. He drives a lite blue Honda Fit, and has almost zero masculine traits about him, but dude 6'2, ripped, in shape, and has some decent size to him.
I am old, gray hair, short, not ripped, but I drive 50+ year old muscle cars and carry myself VERY differently, and I get lots of attention from women... from way too young to way too old and everything between. I try to look poor and pudgy, I don't want to lose another house to divorce.
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@Bjjboxing yes, I know. what they are I am not some idiot kid or clueless boomer twatwaffle spouting shit on the intarwebnets. I know what their intent is as well. Its not like Dr Evil, they simply want to profit from all of us who are not in the 'group' of wealthy people, and not be found and hanged when shit goes to hell. Its simply business, and they want more, always more. Not a nefarious plot, merely basic greed.
Who they are is as nebulous as who owns the federal reserve, but their useful idiots are the likes of the Clintons and others who made wealth from under the table deals.
So I wonder, do you know what marxism actually is, or do you believe the propaganda they spout about it and think its good?
I've been immersed in world history for a long time, saw the inner workings and machinations behind the TV screen most people think is information. Being there as a participant/observer is very different from watching it on TV or reading someone's interpretation of it decades later. I personally was lied about by the msm, claiming I wasn't doing what I had finished months before.
I'm not just an old guy who builds old cars, but I am just an old guy who builds old cars. It depends on who you are as to what you see.
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Hell Tony, I have resources, I have the time, a decent sized shop, I have tons of parts and cars laying around to build, and I have the skills to do anything on a vehicle. I still do things with an eye to bang for the buck. I want to go as fast as possible with the least amount of money. Anyone can throw money at it, but figuring out how to make junk haul ass takes knowledge and skills. Sure I usually bore them, add forged rods and pistons, balance it all, and make it fresh inside, but thats because I want them to last decades. I can send a set of iron heads out to be ported with new stainless valves for less than aftermarket heads, so I usually do that.
Then I have this 400 Pontiac on the stand... its virgin, no spun bearings, just trashed rings otherwise in good shape. I have a set of small chamber heads that will make about 10.5:1 with a quality flat top piston, but with stock slugs it will be closer to 9.8:1 or maybe 10:1, perhaps less, depending on how much space the chamfer on the crown adds. The idea of doing a low buck build like you did on the slant has been bugging the hell out of me. Problem is there is a money pit C10 in the shop getting metal work and a 6.0 stuffed in it. Gotta get that done first. I need it next summer to haul cars, chase parts, and be the backup daily to the 65 GTO. It would be so fun to put that 400 in the 72 Ventura, lighten the car even more than it is, stuff a posi unit with 3.42s from a truck in its 8.5 rear, and see how fast I can make it for less than $1500.
Ya know, I could get a G-Tec or a Dragy and we could see which one is faster. For science.. of course.
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IN 1989 I was stationed in Germany, dumped my chick back in the states because she was bangin everyone who showed interest. There are women from all over the world in Frankfurt. I met a beautiful Arab one who lived in Dubai, and got engaged. My military supervisor screwed me over, and I missed out on the last 33 years with her.
I got baby trapped by a chick in my home state back in 1993. That ended in 2001, and I was off to the races again. Went to Korea in 2002 and put several more notches on, the Russians are smokin hot. Gold diggers from hell though.. I don't do military chicks, stopped talking to them in 1990. Asian women are good, they REALLY liked me and most of them still do.
I don't deal with western chicks anymore, mostly I have lost interest anyway. Rebuilding my vintage GTOs and Trans Ams is far more rewarding and enjoyable.. vastly less expensive than a wife / ex wife.
Something said in this video struck a nerve with me. He is right, 80% of males are doing nothing, achieving nothing, building nothing, so they deserve nothing.
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@swervnk9742 I bought a chunk of land, lived in an RV while I built a shop to build stuff, then put together a shipping container house. I reconfigured it last year into two stories with 1050 sqft and a deck. Its on more than ten acres of woodland, near the worlds largest fresh water lake and you can drink directly from the lake.
Over 300 maple trees can provide me with sap to produce ethanol fuel every year to run all my vehicles, generator, chainsaws etc. Also syrup which is far more valuable than vodka. Deer, rabbits, turkeys, and other critters roam through my land, and fish are not far away. That reminds me I need to get some more lures and AR magazines.
I am not a prepper, I am a gearhead who doesn't have lots of cash thanks to divorce putting me back to zero in '13. I learned how to do all of this because it costs less to make energy myself and build my house, than to pay others to do it for me. Turns out that line of thinking goes quite well with prepping and sustainability.
The less I spend on gasoline, electricity and food, the more money I had to spend on my old hotrods. Having PTSD from two wars means I don't want to live near others, and the car thing kinda keeps me from living in town, because towns are not fond of having cars in your yard. I have lots of cars in my yard.
I realize if they manage to get the marxist bullshit in place, toss out the constitution, and then give us only what they decide we need to have, well the cars are not going to have parts, tires, etc. even if I can make fuel for them. In that event they don't leave me much to live for. My kids are grown, I am never going to have another relationship because the risk of being homeless from it again is too great, and the old cars are the only thing tethering me to this existence.
Now take a war veteran with training and experience, a bunch of rifles, and remove the thing keeping him from saying fuck it all, and watch what happens.
They should leave me alone, stop with their authoritarian bullshit, and enjoy the piles of cash they already have. Life is too short and you can't take all that crap with you.
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nah, the girls just don't realize that flipping through the channels isn't going to help them. They always think they can do better, and having watched girls for the last 40 years I have been 'dating' or married, they usually trade off good men for dregs. They also think they DESERVE the absolute best men, rather than men who are closer to their own level.. e.g. fat chicks wanting the top men and thinking they deserve them.
Most men were culled in the past, war, disease, accidents, etc. Now we have millions of men who would have otherwise been zeroed out that can't get laid. They address it in the video.
Just a worldwide population crash, followed by a huge number of conflicts. You guys under 30 will get to enjoy it the most, those of us above 50 had the good years. Y'all are screwed.
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Tim, you keep calling identitarians right wing. Identity politics is not right wing, the Nazis were not right wing, they were socialists and that makes them left wing. Calling them right wing means you see the status quo as socialist. Far left is authoritarian, far right is anarchy, and wanting a small government does not make you a fascist, but being an authoritarian who wants to play identity politics, well, that is on the slippery slope to fascist/communist ideology.
America is not a socialist country, it is not the status quo here, it is not the default position. The big puzzle piece you are missing is those of us in the middle, who do not play identity bullshit, who do not want a socialist government here, and we are nowhere near the white supremacists... if you look back over the last two centuries, the democrats have been playing identity and race politics the entire time.
They are the racists, the neo nazis, and the only reason the skin head types think they align with us is because they want to keep their guns and have free speech too... but rest assured, if they had their way only the people they approve of could have free speech and the ability to defend themselves.
There is a massive group of people who are not republican nor democrat, I am one of them. We actually decide who gets to be president, we end up being the swing state voters. We will not allow a marxist take over even if its from who they call far right wingers, because they are left of us. We do not play the race games, the gender bullshit, limit speech, or want to subjugate everyone or kill those who disagree with us... that is the authoritarian left who wants all that shit.
What you are seeing is the war among the racist left, and they are trying to take over and shove us all into the abyss, because they assume they will come out on top like they did in 1917. They are in for a rude awakening.
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Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
They are in violation of the 1st amendment if/when they teach marxism in school. It is a dogmatic religion not based in reality. It is akin to teaching kids that any given religion is the right one and it should be codified ass law. That is illegal as fuck here in the US.
You might say marxism is not a religion, but I disagree. Any religion is simply an ideology, it posits a narrative and then tells you what you can and cannot do. With christians you have original sin, the equivalent in marxism is privilege. With the abrahamic religions, judiasm, christianity, and islam, you have an all power god, an entity that has the final say in any human pursuit or endeavor including thoughts. That entity in marxism is the state, as the state owns you and everything around you, and has the final say on anything you do, say, or even think. The abrahamics have the priest classes, pastors and priests in christianity, rabbis in judiasm, and scholars or imams in islam. With the marxists, its the politicians, they set policy based on the sacred writings and their own feelings/interpretation of the sacred texts.
The big one though, if you do not share their belief, if you dissent from following it, every religion mentioned has at one time or actively is going to shame you, restrict you, or kill you when it is the controlling force of a country and the laws are based upon the religion.
Additionally with the Establishment Clause it is illegal for the government to asses taxes in promotion of any given religion. So taxes that support critical race theory are abhorrent to the 1st amendment.
The left is currently trampling all over the 1st amendment and they have been trying to rescind the 2nd for decades to render us unable to defend ourselves and our way of life. If they persist in this abhorrent endeavor they will discover first hand why the founders and framers made it the 1st and 2nd amendments and not the 12th or 43rd. 1 and 2 for a reason. You can talk about it and discuss it legally, and if that doesn't work, well there is the two way rifle range to rid ourselves of tyrants.
In the USA government works for us. we do not work for them as the democrats seem to believe. Go ahead Joe and Kamaltoe, keep pushing for your unconstitutional bullshit, see what happens. Si vis pacem para bellum.
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@Cletus9 Closest station that sells E85 is two hours away. The last time I stopped there to get fuel in 55 gallon drums, they called the cops on me. I told the cops it was for my car, and they claimed the barrels are not hazmat rated... which they most certainly are. Now I go to different stations who don't care if I fill barrels as long as I pay for it.
I was going to use tree sap this year, but weather being how it is, I didn't get any from my trees. So now I am going to use coffee grounds as proof of concept. Once I have the recipe sorted I will go around and collect more from the shops and stations that brew coffee and have them put grounds aside for me so I can collect them every night.
This fall I am going to harvest cattails. As soon as I can get a skid steer in here, I am going to dig a couple shallow ponds, fill them with gravel and sand, and let the cattails go wild in there. So this fall I will use them to make more fuel for next year.
If I can get it all done, and build a large enough boiler and column, I wont have to ever buy gasoline again. I've done it small scale with various sources of sugar and starch, but I need more than 2.5 gallons per run. Need more capacity.
I started in 2007 and was going big at this 2010 to 2013, then the ex decided to ruin my life, divorce me, and leave me homeless again. So I had to buy land, build a shop on it, build a house to live in, then I could start back to making fuel. Shop was done enough to work in November 2015. House finally came together in 2019. Now its all been paid off since Feb 21, just in time to get back to car building and fun stuff. Never.. EVER.. getting married again. Hell I don't even date.
Since the Trump years had cheap gas, I bought E85 from stations and worked on the tuning aspect. Testing everything and figuring out how to improve mileage. I got better mileage on ethanol than gasoline, with a lot more power. Same size engine, same car, with a 13:1 compression 455 on E85, and an 8.8:1 455 on pump gas that still made enough power to put a 4100lb GTO into the mid 12s with a 2.93 gear and a stock converter.
I wanted to know what caused the problems people talk about, because if I can't make fuel at home, I can't afford to drive muscle cars. Its that simple. If the fuel eats everything, I can't afford to drive muscle cars. I have learned a hell of a lot about making ethanol, making it run, and what to expect using various materials.
I have not found the problems people always claim are due to ethanol. 15 years now, and 20 years running E10 and race gas before that in my cars.
I don't sell anything, I don't do politics really, and the only benefits I get from talking about ethanol fuels and running them, is a lot more power and the ability to use all the stuff from the 60s with LOTS of compression.
I don't build pump gas engines anymore. There is a reason why. You will see why at the NNN this fall when I bring one of my toys down there to race some people.
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What happens when you fabricate things, make assumptive and obvious false accusations, then do everything you can to prevent the target of your misleading propaganda from addressing it? You build support for that person. censoring Trump is only going to make more people empathize with him, and the people who will appreciate him not being allowed to speak, while Biden throws out shit like the 'very fine people' hoax, are the people who already hate him. They are not going to convince anyone who might be on the fence about them.
CNN after the next one will say Biden leveled accusations at Trump, and Trump did not respond out of guilt.. Trump's mic will be off..They are doing everything they can to get him reelected, but they act or think they are working against him. How typical of marxists not understanding human nature, and assuming everyone should think exactly as they do. Sorry commies, I am not a weak willed, easily manipulated NPC like most of your followers. I didn't like nor vote for Trump, but after watching all the useless bullshit and false accusations, I am voting for him this time. I bet a lot of 'swing voter' people are. I am not abstaining like I did in '16.
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@xsuit6661 if you throw a bunch of aftermarket stuff at the chevy and leave the Pontiac stock, then sure. Using factory parts only, the chevy is going to have a tough time with the mix and match ability of the Pontiac.
Thing is, almost nobody builds the 350 because it costs the same or less to build a 400 or 455, they bolt in using all the same stuff, and why not go for the cubes? The Pontiac will make more torque than the chevy, so you have to build it like a Pontiac, and not put 4.88 gears behind it and a 250@.050 cam.
The long intake ports are going to make power in a lower RPM range, so the HP will be lower, but with a good bit more torque, a 3.73 or even a 4.10 might work ok with a 350 done right. The small bore makes big valve heads a problem.
I have a running 350 sitting here, and a 326 as well, I suppose I could throw a RAIII cam at one of them, and some 72cc heads and see what it runs. Not sure when I would get to that though, I have a lot more fun things to do.
I flip chevy guys shit because for decades I heard them say "Put a 350 in you'll go faster" and things like "455s won't run, they are all slow" because they would put a 4 something gear behind it, run 7:1 compression heads, and then couldn't figure out why they can't scratch the 13s.
They stopped saying that stuff when I finally got some stick tires and my $2700 ported head 455 was running mid 11s with a 3.42 gear and a stock stall in a near 4000lb vehicle. Then they asked me when I was spraying it, from the start or down track.. and it was all motor. Chevy guys who are cool I have no problem with.. but most of them think everything else is slow. Have one right now that thinks the best any of my cars will do is a 13, says I am lying about running 11s, 10,s and 9s with them..
I still like to flip people shit in a friendly bench racing way. Especially mopar guys, because my entire family is mopar nuts. Its how I got an eye searing green Cuda, which is the slowest V8 car I have, but its fun to drive. Dad left it to me last year, otherwise it would not be sitting among my GTOs. I took a pic of it with a slow moving triangle on the back just to mess with dad years ago.
My best bro is a hard core chevy guy, and majorly into 59 chevys, he has every body style of them except a 2 door hardtop and a rag top. The El Camino is cool, it has a 348 tri power in it. I have a fondness for the 348/409 because they are cool engines, and I smile when I see one of them just like I do when I see a nailhead in a street rod. If I see an sbc in a Pontiac, I lose interest immediately. meh.. so boring. Yes I will still mess with the Buick guys too, and I really like the Buick V8.
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@MrNota500 I will cut you some slack since there are 220+ replies to this comment, but suffice it to say I own a shitload of engines. You really should know something about people you call ignorant.. like maybe check their channel for starters.
Currently there are five 6.0s, one 5.7(LS1), six 5.3s and just picked up a 4.8 that wont crank or start day before yesterday in my yard. They are my second favorite truck engine, the first being a Pontiac 455, but all of those are ear marked for GTOs, LeMans, and Formula/Trans Ams.
Then I have three sbcs, one is a 400 with vortec heads, it just won't stop leaking. Then there are three 5.7 vortec engines sitting around in trucks. A454 is in the pile of cores, sold the running 454 last year and replaced it with a 6.0 in the 76 C10.
Then four 3800s, two 3.8s, a pair of Olds 455s, four 403s, two 350s, a nailhead, four 351 Clevelands, three are 4V one is 4 bolt, something like five 302/5.0s around here. The only mopar engines I have are the 340 in the 70 Cuda and the 5.9 in a 1500 4x4 short box.
All I do is build stuff, and I am not exactly a shadetree type and I do not tinker. I do frame off rebuilds for fun, have a 9 second pump gas street driven NA Pontiac, and a daily driven 65 GTO with a 455 that runs on E85 thanks to its 11.5:1,oh and it runs 11s easily when it hooks. No need to keep my certs current, but 15 years ago I had master tech and master machinist certs... been retired since 2005 when I was 36.
If you want to run a Qjet on E85, I am who people will send you to.
So you might say I know a thing or two about engines, transmissions, gears, brakes, electrical, carbs, EFI, and I am getting better at paint and body work. So if I want to flip chevy guys some shit, I will flip them some shit...
Also so ya know, the LS engines share a lot more architecture and design with the Pontiac engine than they do with the sbc. People try to claim its a W copy, but the only thing it shares with the W is valve layout and bore spacing is really close,
The 12 degree heads are surprisingly close to the Pontiac 14 degree heads made since 1967. The LS is also a long runner high velocity port design, which is directly from Pontiac. Then you have the valley pan with an air gap intake, the front cover and being able to pull it without removing the oil pan. Its closer to a RA V port than the sbc or W.. and the W has some shitty ports, especially on the exhaust side.
Fully machined gasket surfaces and chambers, and no pressed in studs, something not seen on the sbc until 1996, but on every size Pontiac since 1967. Every Pontiac from 1954 to 1979 had 6.625" rods, quite close to the LS, and the bore and stroke of the LS1 is VERY close to the 350 Pontiac. Did ya know the LS-1 was the RPO for a RA IV 400? I doubt it was an oversight.
That being said, the LS is a fine truck engine, and with boost it can make decent power. The deep skirt like the B/RB and FE helps them hold up pretty good. They run well and get decent mileage, which is why I have so many of them... to drop in old trucks. The drawback to them, other than the displacement, is the cost for parts other than stock stuff. I can stroke a 400 to 461 or 489 for the same cost as putting a junkyard LS in my truck, and the LS will make a lot less power. I still like em though.
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@Ronald-w3y5s yeah all of us can own guns. We can bring our own to the fight, because we keep it at home, and when the damn dirty invaders show up, we grab it from the rack, pack some ammo and a lunch, then go out and repel them. It saves time from having to go to an armory, get everything handed out, then disperse because a single 2000lb LGB dropped from 20k ft would take out all the defenders. poof....
Its very clear when you know why we are to have the means to defend ourselves, from any enemy, foreign or domestic. How about that, its the same as the oath I took way back in 1988.... Ronny you act like everyone is too young to remember things like the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile crisis, 9/11, all the times in the 80s and 90s that the US had people zeroed out on cruise ships, in bars, the Marine barracks, Khobar Towers (where friends of mine died), the first WTC bombing...
Yeah, the government cannot keep us safe, but we can do that ourselves. That has not changed since 1776. It has been like that for the entire existence of man... you know, roughly 2 million years since we started walking upright and making tools.
I have a large chunk of Berlin Wall on my shelf, the wall YOUR side called the anti mustache man protection rampart. I was stationed in Germany when it came down, I know what was on the other side. I could go over there without a problem, and come back, provided I was in uniform. However the East Germans could not come to the west. The wall was to keep people in the soviet union, not to keep us out.
Not YOUR side you say? Sure thing cupcake... you and Uncle Joe and Uncle Vlad are completely different... yeah, ok. Gaslighting doesn't work on me, because I have memory.
You can have faith in the government, but I worked for them, came back broken from the desert in 2004 because of them.. I am not going to trust them. They prove every year just how much we cannot trust them, and they prove it to every veteran that has to deal with them.
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I don't eat fast food and I don't buy new vehicles, but I have watched my grocery bag go from $50 per bag to $150 per bag since 2020. I build old cars and trucks, which is why I don't buy new ones, and I am very aware of what parts cost. On most automotive replacement parts, from alternators to quarter panels, its all up around 40% since 2019. Used to be fiberglass parts cost less than steel body parts, but now fiberglass parts cost a lot more. Its the labor involved in making lightweight fiberglass parts. The people doing the work need to be paid enough to survive, or they will find a better job.
The one piece front end I need for one of my cars was $750 in 2019, now its over $1200. The quarter panels I need for my 1969 GTO were $350 for a full quarter, and $90 for skins, now its $700 for the full quarter and $175 for the skins. Some stuff is nearly double the cost to get.
An engine that cost $10k in 2020 now costs more than $14k to build. That same engine cost $8k in 2004.
Then we have shipping costs, what used to be $100 in shipping is now $250 to $500 because of fuel costs. From 2006 to 2015 fuel costs were so high that it was cost prohibitive to ship parts. Its why I started making ethanol to run my vehicles in 2007. I am rebuilding my fuel production and making it so I can produce considerably more. I will put every vehicle I drive on cattail vodka fuel next year. Currently the 2000 Silverado 4x4 (winter beater) and the 70 Cuda are the only ones I have with plates/insurance that run pump gas. The GTOs, LeMans, and Firebirds are all on ethanol fuel. either E85 or my home made E100.
In September I filled two barrels with E85 in Nebraska, tested to 90% ethanol. It cost me $2.65 a gallon. Right now 87 octane here in northern Michigan is $3.80, premium is $4.70 the other day when I looked. even if I lost 5mpg, which I don't, it would be cheaper to run E85. Since my engines that are on ethanol have very high static compression ratios, they can only run ethanol or $15 a gallon race gas. $2.65 vs $15 is very simple math, and ethanol makes more power, burns cleaner, cooler, etc. Being able to produce it for 40 cents a gallon makes it even more attractive, and when the oil companies want $15 for 87 octane, I will not be using their gasoline anyway.
I figured out where the D's are taking us when Barry got in. Thats when I started working on becoming self sustainable, making energy myself means I don't have to spend as much cash on fuel, food, electricity, so I can buy more car parts. In February 2021 I saw the writing on the wall again and paid off all my debts so the banks could not call me up and tell me they own my land now.
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You do not get wear in engines that run on 100% ethanol, they do this in Brazil and taxi cabs go a million miles on hydrous ethanol with minimal wear. My oil changes are once a year in my ethanol fueled vehicles. I put around 5000 miles on my GTO every summer, sometimes 10,000 when I take a long road trip. When I pull my engines apart to change cams, or heads for more power, they are spotless inside and I can't see any wear. I am a hard core gearhead, own around 40-50 vehicles most of which are older than 1979, the newest is a 2006 Gran Prix I got for $500 to drive in the snow and salt.
I build my engines, transmissions, carbs, and I do E85 Qjet carbs for other people. I have no problem taking something apart just to take a look inside. I beat the living shit out of my cars and trucks, no grandma putting around for me. I have 700hp single digit ET street cars with Pontiac engines, and my daily driver runs 11s with a 3.42 gear and no power adder. The reason I am into ethanol is I can make the stuff at home, no need to pay others for it, it handles high compression easily, and it makes more power due to the extra oxygen in it.
So while you are technically correct on most of this, there are many omissions, over simplifications, and incorrect assumptions in your video.
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@MatthewVanston to be fair, I have some lipids on me, but I have a lot more muscle mass. When you have lots of mass covered with a little pudge, you look quite a bit like its all pudge.
However the reason for my name on here is for a couple reasons other than that. First its memorable, because its silly yet kinda gross. Second it takes away the obvious avenue of coming at me when I bet you to it by saying, why yes I am rather large.
There is also a joke in there, because while I was in the USAF I came back from the desert in 2001 with a six pack, because after the events of today that year, we were stuck on Camp Doha with nothing better to do. No airplanes, no work, so we spent entire days in the Gym Arnold donated to the Army.
I came back with very low BF% and my USAF unit put me on the weight program. They did not care that I was stronger than everyone else in my unit, and probably on base, they decided I was too heavy despite coming back 20lbs lighter than when I went over.
Now, 20+ years later, in my 50s, I have a belly, but you can also see my ribs and the definition in the rest of me is pretty good. Not bodybuilder good mind you, but like a svelte power lifter.
In 1991, after my first war and the massive airlift to support it, where I was being overworked severely, I had 22" arms, 52" chest, and nearly 30" thighs, while being only 5'8" and I could lift far more than I looked like I could. So I know a thing or two about work, muscle, strength, and masculinity.
and yeah, I have a belly, its damn hard to get rid of it when I can't run anymore since the 2004 deployment. Walking it off doesn't work, because I can't go that far, and riding a bike causes pain, but I will be getting in more miles on a treadmill and my bike over the winter and next spring. I think it would be hilarious to not have the belly and keep the name while being ripped..
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There is a balance to fighting back and protecting yourself. However, they want you to cower and hide. They want you to try and protect yourself by laying low and doing nothing, it gives them carte blanche. Where your grey rock comes into play is obfuscating or hiding your movements, do not broadcast your true intentions. They will not stop rooting out all dissent, if you do not comply they will come after you, and hiding will not help you. You have to be prepared to fight back, when the opportunity presents itself and you must choose the battlefield. Not in some futile gesture like in DC last week. This has been in schools, universities and businesses. I had to deal with this bullshit in the US military starting back in the 1980s.
My method is to have the opponent underestimate me. Be innocuous, I look like an old fat guy, gray beard, hair and all. I dress so you cannot see the muscle, so I look fat. I wear things most people will overlook, loose fitting black T shirt (or hoodie this time of year), ball cap, jeans/carpenter pants, and quality work boots. I like redwings. I go the same direction with my vehicles that I like to race, you'd never know by looking at them that they haul ass. We call them sleepers. The whole speak softly but carry a big stick. You want to hide that big stick and only bring it out when you absolutely have to.
Be unobtrusive, unremarkable, and wait for the opportunity to present itself. If you want to get around and not be noticed, a silver or white beater is your best bet, those are the most popular colors for daily drivers. That beige champaign color on grandma's Buick works well too... nobody notices my 1970 GTO while I have it painted that color. Its a 455 powered GTO and nobody notices it, because of the color. You do not want to be the brightly colored frogs... the green frogs that blend in are just as dangerous to their prey.
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My heart weeps for her...
NOT. If she can't handle it, there is a kitchen somewhere needing a sandwich maker and dishwasher.
I was working 50 to 70 hours a week when my kids were little, and I still managed to find time to teach them to read, count, crawl, walk, ride bikes, run computers, add, subtract, multiply, divide, colors, shapes, and I was there for their first words.
I also managed to build a car in my garage that would stomp a mudhole in a new Hellcat (11.40s around 120mph), and since I was on a budget I built the entire car, including what I paid for it, for $4500. Then I reenlisted and went to my second war where I worked several months without a day off, got paid $100 a month because my home state took the rest of my pay and gave it to my ex.
When she finds out how rough life can actually be, she better just deal with it like I had to.
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Any time I go somewhere I take my cell phone, and its a 20 mile drive to town. I carry an extra 5 gallons of E85 with me because I can't get it anywhere around here.
This is a fun way to live, for gear heads. I love working on them. I've been building Pontiac engines and cars for 34 years, I know damn near everything about the 64-72 A body (GTO/LeMans) and the 70-81 F body (Firebird/Formula/Trans Am). I have service manuals and Motor Manuals for them, and I have opened the drawer they're in and pulled a book out once in the last ten years. Torque specs and all kinds of stuff are stuck in my head like the phone number I grew up with.
Driving my 65 GTO 1000 miles, then doing a 600 mile cruise with 450 other vintage cars over two days, then drive around a week and drive 1000 miles back home again. I took a carb in case the FiTech EFI crapped out, a pump for a carb, spare EFI pump, a tool box with two sets of wrenches 1/4" - 1 1/4", a set of sockets, visegrips, snap ring pliers, a test light, digital voltmeter, a 4 way, and some stuff to do wiring. Not even a jack or a spare. I finished a frame off the year before, drove it all that summer to make sure it was good for the cruise road trip, loaded it up and took off in it. Beating the snot out of it most of the time it got 15mpg with a Th350 trans and 2.56 gears. A 65 GTO is not entirely aerodynamic...
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Gaming, without cheats, is 100% a meritocracy. It only matters how fast you react, how efficient your hand eye coordination is, and in the PC world, what PC you are running on eg how much ram, GPU, CPU, connection speed/latency etc.
Everyone who is good at a game gets accused of being a hack. I am banned from many COD servers, because they were simply not as good as they thought they were. I am not all that good at gaming, and yet I can get banned. Go figure. It doesn't matter what plumbing you have, it matters how good you are at playing the game, and how much you hurt the ego of the people you are playing against. I have a .89 KDR in WWII and I am constantly accused of cheating its hilarious. Shit I am a 50 year old guy, who goofs around in FPS games for fun and relaxation, I have no intentions of using it to make money, and would need more caffeine than humans can produce to be able to compete with the guys half my age.
In pro sports, it is also a meritocracy, but a 5'3 98lb girl is not going to be able to compete with a 320lb 6'8 man. Just not going to happen. Thats why they aren't going after pro sports, they know females can't compete, but they still push the narrative that they aren't weak, slow, ineffective, unless of course they want to be the victim then they scream as loudly as possible that they are exactly that.
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@zuko9085 I was born in the 60s, a teenager in the 80s, and fought in my first war in 90-91, yes they were terrible.. Tipper Gore and Cheney's battleaxe wife, among many others were on a rampage, and the evangelical nutters who handle snakes and babble to themselves and call it 'speaking in tongues' were overly influential among republicans, and that was right up until 2015 when the Cheeto started winning political fights. Those nutters wanted to ban everything, video games, music that wasn't god praising, board games like D&D, and they wanted blasphemy laws that are repugnant to the 1st amendment. If it didn't give glory to god, it was satanic to them nothing in between. So apparently toilet paper gives glory to god.
These people are still around, and still pushing their nonsense, wanting to turn the USA into a theocracy and claiming it was until JFK... it never was and I hope people are smart enough to never let it be a theocracy or a marxist dystopia. Both are equally abhorrent to me.
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@karenness5588 for me the word trust has a much greater meaning and carries far more weight than it does for most people. I give everyone the same chances and opportunities to do the right thing, as opposed to the wrong things, and its no secret what that is. We all operate on the same page in most respects, like keeping your word, simply being trustworthy. Not lying goes a long way.
I accept people will almost always act in their own self interest, and I figure that in allowing for that tendency in everyone. If someone is very irrational, they might be trustworthy with driving my vehicle but not with my finances or in a relationship. There are various levels to it.
You hit on something about the video, they are feeling more than they are thinking when it comes to Trump. Allowing the media spin and the abrasiveness of the man to put emotional judgement ahead of the rational, logical one. If rough words makes someone feel that poorly about you, then it my view they are a bit too soft skinned.
Every time Trump was accused of racism, I looked into it. I would watch the whole video, gritting my teeth listening to him speak, and I found none. Take him or anyone out of context and you can make it appear they said all kinds of fucked up things. The leftists do that to everyone. Its the only thing they know how to do, be disingenuous, deceptive, lie by omission, take out of context, and use every underhanded untrustworthy method to paint their opponents in the worst light possible.. until of course they ask you to join them, like be vice president.. then it was just a debate and nothing you said before matters.
The word that best fits the left is incongruent. They are like a bipolar ex wife making shit up as she goes, accusing you of all the bad things she is doing, and blaming you for every failing of hers. I spent 8 years enduring someone like that, the violence, irrational arguments, untrustworthiness, lying, you name it she did it.
I stayed to protect the kids from her as long as I could, then the state prevented me from being there. Duluth Model, thought up by marxists, where the man is always the violent guilty oppressor/aggressor, and the woman is always the helpless innocent victim.
Yes I have found that abhorrent ideology everywhere in our legal system. Now they are putting laws in place that will enable them to legally rig every election.
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Ya know, the range of people regarding every attribute of human existence, varies greatly. Some people are smarter than others, some are more adaptable or flexible to changing environments. To have friends, you have to be someone that people want to be around. If you need ethanol or weeds to achieve that, there is something lacking.
To have money, you need to focus on getting it, put in the work and make it happen, some people aren't interested in lots of money (like me, I have enough to do what I want) others want money but have no idea how to get it, most people don't want to put in the work to get it. The guys who put in the work and focus on it, get what they work for. You won't get rich working for someone else, you have to find a niche you can utilize and make your money there if you want to get ahead of the crowd. That takes a hell of a lot more work and time than working for someone else. It takes discipline and motivation too.
Most men, myself included, have friends because of a common interest. Most of my friends are car guys, we build, race, and drive cars. I'm not friends with many of the guys who have an old car that only leaves the garage for a car show, just one to be honest. He's old, pushing 80, and owns a numbers matching 69 Judge, and a 65 GTO kinda like mine as in not original but a nice driver, but his is nicer for sure.
I don't have many friends who aren't into cars and trucks, but the ones I do have other similar interests like RC planes/boats/cars, or long distance hole makers. If you don't do anything, you won't make friends. You have to go somewhere, talk to people, and have a common interest beyond bottles and papers.
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I'm descended from east Germans, so quite pale but I can tan to be as dark as my Mexican/Apache girlfriend. I prefer dark skinned and haired girls, I still like white and pale girls too. Provided she isn't a massive ham planet with her own gravity well, and she is pleasant to be around (not a sjw) I really don't give a damn what color she is. My male friends are judged on who they are and how they are, not on what they look like. My best bro in the area where I now live is half Arab, and he has turned out to be a good friend.
Why can't people simply accept people for who they are and not put so much emphasis on melanin and other arbitrary physical attributes? Sure I don't like fat chicks, but that is a health issue more than anything. It shows they have made poor choices in life when you are morbidly obese, have multi colored garish hair, and clip art ink covering half your face, so I don't want to date them, but if they are cool they can hang out and have fun. I don't hate you for your poor personal choices or laud you for your good ones provided none of them affect me.
Still I am constantly accused of being a nazi and white supremacist, simply because I am not a marxist, loathe marxism and everything about it, and your race and where you came from do not matter to me at all. How you treat me and animals, well that shows me what type of person you are, thats what matters to me. Also, what you know, what you can do, what you have achieved, where you have been, and even what car you drive is more important to me than how much melanin you have.
I have traveled the world, been on 4 continents, had girlfriends of damn near every race and variable, and I see that diversity means "non white" so I prefer to use variability to describe the plethora of people and cultures with whom and which I can interact. I like who I am, what I look like, and don't give a damn if you don't like me, so I am not going to change to make you or anyone else happy. I realize I am not for everyone, because I am abrasive and offensive to nearly everyone, but I still find good friends who not only accept who I am, but how I am as well.
When will the sjws and marxists stop being such blatant racists and join us here in 2018/19 where your color should not matter anymore? Maybe they need to do some military time so they can get used to working with people from other cultures and races too. I was 16 before I met anyone non white, and here I am, not a racist. Why are these entitled spoiled brats so intent on being racist little fucks?
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My second wife was very intelligent, she could hang in conversations about most things I am into (technical/science shit) but she was homely, the only thing she had going for her physically was that she was thin, but her body was ungainly and not exactly symmetrical. I assumed she was too homely and plain for anyone else to want her, but she managed to find someone desperate to branch swing.. We were together for nearly 8 years before we got married, she was a virgin at 21 when I met her (due to the homely), and an absolute kinky freak in bed. 16 months after getting married, we were divorced. 10 months in I kicked her out and ended it via text when she did not come home for three days.
First wife wasn't very bright, but not a complete idiot despite the bipolar. At this point in my life, I really do not care how smart a bitch is, because I am not having more kids, not interested in anything long term, and will have more than one available for naked fun times. The only things I care about now are, does she pass the dick test, does she have an STD, and is she into me enough to get naked. She isn't going to be around for long anyway, so whats the difference.
I will be 50 here in a few months and my cars are more enjoyable than girls are. So if tall dude is upset for having Forest Gump's sister riding his peg D, I don't know what to tell him other than ride it, neutral slam it, do burnouts for distance, wear that shit out, then trade it in for another one when she can't pass the dick test.
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David Joyner I too will not bend to the will of others, unless it benefits me with adequate compensation e.g. my military time.
In my experience, nobody is equal, we all have different capabilities, knowledge, intellect, and we vary quite a lot when it comes to things like size. We don't even have equal opportunities or rights, as Orwell put it, "all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." Trying to force everyone into that ideology only results in death and hardship.
I can guarantee if you have been through the family courts as a father, you know exactly what I mean about not having equal rights. Fathers have no rights, only responsibilities, the rights all go to the mother. That is exactly how marxism works, it claims equality but its highly preferential and segregating.
I will never acquiesce to the marxists, nor any other ideologue. We can converse about it, perhaps sway my mind considering parts of the ideology, but I hold my own council on what I think and believe. I'd much rather be dead than subjugated and living in a marxist nightmare... but I will not go quietly.
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@andrewcurtis4568 you're conflating these leftists with atheists, or you think its ok to have a god when its the state. They have a religion, with a god, priest class, congregation, and all of us are their infidels. You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
I do not have a religion, don't want nor need one, I'm certainly not a blind follower of the wokecult. Just because I do not believe in your invisible friend does not mean I am a horrible person, or believe we are just lumps of atoms.
However, I prefer to think for myself and be subservient to nobody and nothing. I suppose the way I see it is god is gravity, because without gravity none of us would be here. You can be a follower all you want, don't blame me when followers of another cult decides to persecute yours... its what all you cultists do.. over and over and over and over....
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@roninbushida1180 I'm not wanted here either. So what? I have had everything taken from me several times, and twice it was all given to underserving unfaithful, disloyal, harridans. I was punished for what they did. So what?
Here is the way I see it, I get a certain amount of time on this planet, and then nothing. I might as well make the most of my time here, do things I enjoy doing, and experience life for me. You can do the same, but you're talking about doing what they want you to do, to cheat you of the chance to really live. Life is short enough, no need to make it shorter when you can be smart about it and do what is good for you.
I had to overcome a world of sh!T to get where I am, 40 years of my life were essentially wasted as the only thing I gained from them was experience. I'll be damned if I let someone else take the time from me where I can do what I want, since I am not making stupid mistakes like I did when I got married.
I know how you feel, I have been there myself, and I had the added bit of not being able to see a way out of the hole they put me in. I still did what I had to do so I could do the things I wanted to do. For me it is old cars and video games. Hardcore video games with learning curves, against other people who are inventive and challenging. I like solving problems and doing things most other people can't or simply won't.
Stop focusing on what others want, say or think because they are feeding you BS. What do YOU want to do with your life? If you didn't have to worry about money, jobs, or whatever, and you had passive income in enough quantity to do whatever you wanted to do... what would that be?
Work towards that goal and you will make it happen.
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@lawrenceartz8640 being born in 69, and driving mostly old stuff, I tend to agree with you. Around here I am forced to use 1998-2006 vehicles as winter beaters, if they rust in half from the salt I don't care.
I figure I might have 15 years left, best case. All the stuff I have been exposed to in the military, the chemical exposure from the first gulf war, and all the rest. I am actually surprised to have made it to 52.
I am all about running our engines on ethanol, that we can make ourselves and cut out all the middle men, but the EPA is about control, not the environment. I don't run my stuff on vodka to save the planet, I do it because its cheap, very effective, I can produce it myself, and I can run very high compression on ethanol in a daily driver. Mostly its being able to produce it myself that has me hooked on it.
With the way they have been teaching kids that marxism is the right way, capitalism and the bill of rights are bad/meaningless, to obey authority and ask permission for everything, yeah I see the USA becoming the USSA with no constitution. The rest of the world will have no choice but to follow along, and humanity will plunge into the abyss of marxist idiocy.
I am happy I will be dead, but my kids might not be and they will have to endure this stupidity for decades.
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If the helicopter is building a house, then someone is getting out of the city.
The WEF says: you will own nothing and be happy.
What they mean is: You will rent everything from us and be dependent upon us.
WEF says: you will eat a lot less meat.
What they mean is: You will be fat and weak living on processed grains, fed estrogen to lower your testosterone so you are less likely to revolt.
You will work to enrich them, and never be allowed to achieve their status/station. You will be owned by them, held down, oppressed, and controlled by them. They will tell you its for your own good.
This is marxism in operation. Tell the masses its for their own good, and subjugate them while putting the most capricious people who happen to be the most inept in charge. The hundreds of millions who died last century mean nothing to them. This century it will be billions of dead, as they enrich themselves at our expense and tell us its for our own good.
I am just about 52 years old. They say all of this will come to pass by 2030. Well I fought in two wars, have been through hell at the hands of marxist legislation in the family courts, and witnessed the US slide into the abyss of political correctness and propaganda. So I'll be 60 or so if they don't kill me before that.
I will probably be dead before 2030, because I will not live like that. I will not allow them to take what I have built to give it to someone else a third time. I will not abide the abhorrent ideology I fought against and watched fall in 1989, and has been festering in China for much longer.
I wish I could say it has been a good life, I tried to make it so, but the state had other ideas and I was an expendable pawn.
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@yidiandianpang thing is Fred, sin does not exist. It only exists if you believe the ideology that posits its existence. Things we call evil are negative in relation to us, which is why i prefer things like vile, repugnant, disgusting, abhorrent, etc to describe things others call evil.
utopia is indeed impossible, because effort is required to get anything, and the amount of effort put in varies with each person. Working to support someone who does nothing pisses off almost everyone, unless they feel superior to them and condescendingly 'give' them help in the form of charity..
There are those who want the result quick and easy, they are the ones who would rather steal it than produce it. Instant gratification rules their lives. They don;t think about the future, they live in the now.
Now when those instant gratification people start taking by force, we see that as evil because it is negative towards us. From their standpoint it is not evil, it is what they do to survive. Sin is an attempt to motivate people to not steal, kill, lie, etc.. it uses guilt as a negative push to motivate.
Its that basic difference in nature that causes the problems.
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Meister Incognito I've been trying to figure out if that type of reply is ad hoc ergo propter hoc, a non sequitor, or another logical fallacy I don't know the name of.. but it is indeed a logical fallacy.
You're implying that I said its better to be white, and being dark is somehow worse, when I said nothing of the sort. I've noticed the marxist twatwaffles use that particular one often, because people always go to logical fallacies and other bullshit when they have no real argument to support their flawed abhorrent ideology. Its really annoying when evangelical young earthers do it too.
I suppose looking at it from the point of a marxist or democrat, it would be a detrimental thing, since they are racist white supremacists. Karl was vitriolic against non whites, its really amusing that so many non whites follow that asshole.
However the way I see it is, dark skin is more attractive, at least to me, I'm just not into those Irish girls. No need for sunblock, melanoma is less frequent in darker people, and people with darker skin rarely have a vitamin D deficiency, which is something I deal with... particularly in winter. Its easier to move at night and not be seen, no need for as much cammo either.
However it is a bit harder to tell when someone dark skinned is hypoxic. Learned that in chem warfare training and combat first aid. Can be hard to tell when dark brown eyes are dilated, but that affects people of every race who have dark brown eyes.. I am a huge sucker for a girl with long black hair, and dark brown eyes.. One of the hottest girls I dated was from Togo, holy smokes she was hot. Couldn't take pictures of her easily with 35mm film, but man was she amazing.
So I wonder why it is that you felt the need to say that because I am not going to feel bad about my skin, that I would dislike or otherwise look down upon those with different skin tones. I mean, other than the obvious that you're trying a really lame Kafka trap.
Perhaps it would do you well to stop being so racist and seeing skin color as anything more than a cosmetic feature which is largely due to your recent ancestors proximity to the equator. Also stop listening to marxist cunts, they are doing you no favors. :)
btw if you know any attractive Spanish, native American, African or mid East to far eastern girls who like old white guys with tiny penises, HABU. My god the girls in Nepal were amazing, and Kenya... man I need to travel the world some more. I miss meeting wonderful people and learning about them and their cultures.
Almost everyone where I live now is of Finnish descent, so that means they are tall, plain looking, straight thin hair, and pale as fuck. Its like a socialists wet dream around here. They also have no ass, and I like a girl with a nice round ass, though not too big, no fat chicks ya know..
Really get out more and stop listening to marxists.
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@saigonpunkid often it does rely on one aircraft, well when its the USAF or USN. Other countries might have a hard time achieving it, but the only time the USAF needs multiple planes is when they want to hit multiple targets over a wide area, simultaneously. Like Iraqi tanks and C and C. An F117 goes in alone in modern combat, as do many A10s, and they move mud around. It depends entirely upon the mission, you can have one plane or hundreds, what they want to do is what determines how many planes, the loadout, etc.
But what do I know, I am just a USAF veteran.
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@xr90580 what kind of death do you want? Quick, slow, painful, minimal pain or some combination thereof?
Some chemical agents kill you so fast you don't even know you're done, some are incredibly painful like nerve agents and blister agents. Mustard gas was a blister agent, the way it kills is by making large blisters in your throat and lungs.
Nerve agents are a tortuous death, its not like in the movies, they cannot show what happens in movies because it would freak people out a bit too much. If you have seen the latest season of Stranger Things, its similar to the way the villain kills his victims, but worse.
Imagine every muscle in your body spasming at the same time, going into 100% contraction against every other muscle in your body. You get tunnel vision because your pupils pinpoint, you stop breathing because of the spasm, and you end up spewing your entrails from your mouth. Depending on how much you get in you, depends on how long it takes.
If you saw that old movie with Sean Connery and Nick Cage, called The Rock, they depicted a corrosive mixed with a blister agent, and called it a nerve gas. Even if you take the atropine, which goes in your thigh not your heart (movie BS eye roll) you are going to be incapacitated for weeks more than likely. Its not an instant recovery like an allergy. The damage done by an agent might never fully heal.
Blood agents kill you in seconds, because they prohibit your red blood cells from carrying oxygen, you asphyxiate at the cellular level. Here's how it goes from YOUR perspective. You get tunnel vision and go unconscious. Stick a fork in ya, you're done. It probably hurts but it kills so quickly and efficiently its hard to tell.
Choking agents prevent your lungs from transferring oxygen to your red blood cells. You usually cough up your lungs like an oral blood eagle in chunks. Exceptionally painful.
Nerve and blister agents are persistent, meaning they hang around in the environment without breaking down. Usually they are heavier than air and will collect in low spots, like foxholes, trenches, basements, etc.
It takes a lot longer for those types to break down, whereas blood and other agents are not very persistent. They dissipate quickly or break down with UV light.
Bio is nightmare fuel because of how they work. Thing is though, they tend to be short lived because the organisms mutate to the point they don't kill anymore once they are released into the wild so to speak. You saw that happen with the "beer thing."
You can be contagious and asymptomatic, spreading it around to everyone you know and work with for weeks. By the time anyone starts kicking their air addiction, everyone is infected. They are usually VERY lethal, because it has been weaponized, but only for a short time (relatively).
Bio can be carried to you by what are called vectors, they can be other animals, like rodents or mosquitoes, or other people. They are all vectors.
Being clean only goes so far, but it does help. Removing vectors is paramount. The way zombie movies show it spreading is relatively accurate. The length of time after exposure varies, but that is how it goes for contact contagions. Bubonic and ebola are contact contagions. You have to have a wet exchange so to speak.
Now wearing paper or cloth like we were advised for the last two years is utterly useless in any of these environments. Its a feel good measure at best. Without a good seal around the moth and nose, covering the eyes, and actual filtered air, its not going to help.
I grew up wearing respirators, because I was allergic to grain dust and other things on the farm. Hay, straw, grain, it all clogged my respiratory system, the lightest was uncontrolled sneezing, the worst was severe shortness of breath leaving me gasping for air and passing out if I didn't get a rescue inhaler in time. Working in a grain bin can kill me in about ten minutes. The paper and cloth stuff is utterly useless to me in that environment.
Most of what you breathe in a cloth or paper situation goes around it, not through it. If you wear glasses, they will steam up on a cold day, because the air is going around. There is no seal, no filtering, and the best it does is slightly limit the amount of large droplets, which is a rather low concern. The soup of microbial life floating around us that we live in every day of our lives, means the stuff they told us to do was a feel like something is being done measure. Most of the stuff in the air we are immune to, as its been around for millions of years. Its the new stuff that causes problems.
Beards like I have now, prevent a good seal, which is why we were always clean shaven in addition to appearance regulations.
I rebuild old cars now that I have been retired since I was 35. Painting them is a lot like working in a chemical warfare environment, I have to wear protective suits, a full face respirator, and not let it touch my skin. I am hyper sensitive to isocyanates after reusing a respirator twice without changing the filters. Like blood agents, that stuff coats the filter allowing the agent to pass through it easily. It stops filtering.
The effect of isocyanate is it feels like there are cargo straps tightening around my chest. I can still breathe, but its excruciatingly painful, causes coughing fits, and limits exertion. My O2 saturation was normal, but walking ten steps left me winded. It is not fun.
Still I am kinda broke so I paint my cars myself, I simply have to take the precautions I learned in the military and I still get sick from it. It is a lot milder and a week of prednisone usually clears it up. I should really shave when I paint a car, but I use some vasaline or something to get a better seal with my beard. Its not ideal, but its a little better. As long as I can't smell the paint I know its working ok.
I spent a crazy amount of time in classrooms learning all of this stuff, charting RAD dosages, identifying agents, and countless hours in full MOPP 4 gear.
It was an extra duty, but I was on the shelter team for my unit, another unit on base, and the base decon team. They all scheduled their own training, so I was going to training at least once, if not twice per month until the airlift began in earnest 10 August 1991. Then all the real world stuff took precedence, and the training was put on the back burner.
Then in Korea we did it again, and every year in CONUS for training, but it was not as extensive as I had in Germany during the Cold War. Usually I knew more about it than the instructors teaching the classes in the 2000s.
I'm not sure what is worse, radiation sickness, nerve agents, or certain bioweapons. I think a .45" sized space through a specific cranial part would be preferable. Either be on the other side of the planet, or at ground zero so its over quick. Everything else is gonna suck.
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@Zephyrmec my engines rarely showed up in junkyards. Had a friend who did the JY crawl looking for stuff, and he found me three Pontiac 400s, no 455s in the 90s. You could find chevys and Fords everywhere, but you had to know lots of people to find a Pontiac or an Olds.
Now we get these guys who think a 400 block is $1000, a basic factory Qjet intake is $600, and any set of heads is $900, with the 428 bare blocks they want $1500 to $3000. They don't get that much for any of it, but they demand that much and just sit on it. Yes I ridicule them often.
$500 for a bare block is a lot, even a 428 which isn't all that special. Unless its a round port Pontiac, its garden variety stuff.
Most of the engines I have are from guys who pulled the 400 or 455 out and put a 350 chevy in, thinking they'd go faster. It was fun putting bus lengths on them with the engine they pulled out, after spending less on it than they did to get the chevy. Everyone stopped racing me after a couple months.
The good ol' days, before everything got a snail or two.
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I figured this out trying to go off grid because the grid is VERY unstable where I live. The funny thing is I can produce fuel for my cars, grow food, and heat my home all with renewables, but making electricity is the hardest and most expensive form of energy to produce on your own. Its technically demanding, there is more to it than a windmill or solar panel.
Sure I can run a generator on gasoline, methane, or ethanol, the last to of which I can produce easily and VERY cheaply, but there is noise and I still need to shut it down to change oil, and I am still limited on how much electricity I can get. A Stirling engine would be perfect. They are quiet, very efficient, will run on my biomass hot water heater, but finding one capable of turning a 9kw generator is proving difficult.
We could put all the non-urban non-truck vehicles on locally produced ethanol, the urban vehicles being EVs because the range and low speeds make them viable to a greater extent, but we still need oil. Cattails yield more than 2x as much ethanol per acre as corn, and we could plant them in every ditch and median along every highway and road. We can still use corn because after fermentation and distillation the leftovers are a high quality livestock feed. Might as well use it twice or more times, instead of turning all that non digestible starch into farts.
So ya know, getting better mileage on ethanol than on gasoline is rather simple. Same size engine, that will produce more power, only emit CO2 and H2O, but is incapable of running on gasoline, due to a very high compression ratio and different way of managing the heat. That has been my main project since 2007, and I have achieved better mileage than gasoline quite easily.. with considerably more power, less mass required for a cooling system, and my engines don't wear out.. ever.
Still need oil and coal though. My project is a means of leaving me more cash every month to buy muscle car parts, tools, equipment, etc. rather than most of my income going to energy.. i.e. food - fuel - electricity. The fact that I can built some really wild high to over powered daily drivers was just as attractive as spending 10 to 40 cents per gallon to make the stuff. I'll be building another mileage mule with better aero than the last two, and also a 76 Chevy pickup to test mileage, in the coming months. Going to display what I have learned since 2007.
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My parents sent me to a parochial school in the 1970s, math and science consisted of flashcards for math, being told the Pacific ocean is not at the same level as the Atlantic which is why the Panama canal has locks, the earth flops around on its axis, and black people are the marked descendants of Cain which is why they are so evil. We read the bible nearly every day, at least an hour sometimes two reading verses in turn.
I forced my parents to pull me out of there at the end of 6th grade. The lack of education affected me for years afterward. I was a senior in high school when I figured out how to tell time, thought I could not do math only to discover when I got a machinist job that its intuitive to me. I still know the bible very well, and its a big part of why I am atheist. Not what happened in the school, but because I can see all the contradictions and obvious fantasy in it. If God made the universe, you'd think he would know how it works and the layout.
Also I have no animosity towards christians... however I have nothing but animosity, derision, and disdain for the people pushing ma r x s ist ideology.
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Pretty fly for a WiFi Don't go off, just keep talking about it, pointing out how you are getting screwed over, and the inequality of it all. The more of us who tell our stories the more people will realize they are not alone in getting fucked by the state, and opinions as well as attitudes will change.
You have your kid, be very thankful for that. I was allowed 12 days with mine in the first 7 years after she cheated, accused me of all kinds of horrible shit, and filed. I missed so much time with them, it was the worst thing to happen to me in my life, and I endured decades of abuse growing up, from her, and survived two wars.
I taught my kids to read, write, math, how to run computers, to crawl, walk, ride bikes... all of that when they were between 3 and 7. Their mom taught them to shoplift, be promiscuous, and for some reason, despite getting $6k a month and having less than $1000 a month in bills, they were always out of food by the end of the second week of the month.
They liked coming to see me, because I had food all month and we could do things like go to movies, and I was left less than a thousand a month to live on. The leftists do not believe what happened to me, they think the most a state can take from a father is less than 50%, and he should be giving everything to her. They hit me with 71% of my gross when the state law said no more than 68% of your net pay.
They left me homeless and living in my car for two years while I was active duty in the USAF. I have lots of horror stories about the shit my home state did to me. The only people who give a fuck are other dad's who have had the same thing happen to them.
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In Drag Racing none of that matters, its who has the better reaction time and the faster car or closer dial in. Nobody really cares what you do in your private time as long as you can handle the car. Boxing, wrestling, running, swimming, etc... it is a WORLD of difference. It is completely unfair to females to make them compete with males where strength, endurance, stamina, speed, bone density, O2 capacity, or spatial skills matter. No amount of gaslighting or wishful thinking is going to change that.
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Since the GTOs run on E85 and E100, with compression too high for pump gas even if I retard the timing, a carb that is set far too rich for gasoline, and no stations within a two hour drive that sell E85 which means the only fuel around here is in my 55 gallon drums at home, I carry 5 to 10 gallons of fuel in a can all the time. I change it out every year, but because whiskey and vodka do not go bad, I do it to change the gasoline which does go bad. I have maybe two more weeks of driving before its too cold for a car with no heater, and then in November the snow usually shows up.
If I run out of fuel away from home, I have to call to get a ride back to get more fuel or my truck and trailer.
I throw two barrel air cleaners too, but I go for distance. I have one for a 1050 Dominator but it won't fit under the 4" cowl hood, needs a 6-8 inch scoop. I would throw it but its still new and I might use it someday... lol
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I am an anti feminist. I am against every supremacy movement, and every marxist ideology, feminism is both. My issues have been caused by feminism, not by patriarchy, not by toxic masculinity. False accusations, divorce rape, homelessness, and my kids growing up in a shitty environment because custody was give to their abusive mother, well thats a start.
Every time men get together to talk about mens issues, these screeching harpies show up and cause problems. How the hell is that not a supremacist thing?
I don't want to be a socialist, a nazi, or a communist either.
I have two daughters and feminism has fucked up their lives and neither one is a feminist. The older one is an anti sjw, she hates those whiny bitches.
Yes I despise them, nothing good comes from that ideology. Nothing.
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About Vindman. Article 88, 107 and 133 of the UCMJ. Might as well throw in the General Article 134 while we're at it, they usually do. The marxists are pushing us toward civil war, its what they want. They think they will win and be able to take control after, then install their authoritarian oppressive regime. That would plunge the entire world into a communist dystopia. It will not work here like it did in Russia, China, Laos, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela. We will fight over the state trying to remove our right to defend ourselves. Watch Virginia and any other state that cheats to gain power and then goes against the constitution.
Comparing the cheeto to Hitler is stupid. He is not pushing socialism, that is the other side. They are trying to create the conditions that were present in Wiemar Germany, massive inflation, poverty, rampant unemployment, then they will come in and claim they have the solution... and thats when you get the Hitler like character. They are already doing it in Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago, LA, and SF, among others.
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My ex wife owes me $8,000 for the last 5 years, if she were a man, her drivers license and passport would be suspended/revoked, she would be having her credit rating destroyed, and there would be a bench warrant for her. One of my kids came to live with me, and she was paid support for that kid. This was after they hit me with 71% of my gross pay in child support, leaving me homeless, and the judge started me out 6 months in arrears which was over $10k, so all the above happened to me, along with punitive actions like seizing my bank account for an entire month, giving it to her and not applying it to the arrears created by the judge.
To be honest, with the way the state treated me, if I lived closer to my home state everyone in the US would know my full name. It was much more than what I have stated that they did. They awarded her full custody despite proof she was abusing the kids, and her boyfriend was molesting them. When she tried to kill herself and was hospitalized for a month, they said I was unfit and his molesting ass could watch my daughters. Then despite the divorce being final for 2 years, they sent the bill for her looney bin stay to me and wrecked my credit further with it.
A friend of mine had 4 kids, his wife bailed on all of them and gave up her rights to them. While I was hit with over $1200 a month at 71%, she only had $200 which was about 8% of her gross... and she never paid it, nothing happened to her. No garnishment, no DL suspension/revocation, no credit destroying... nothing.
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I am all about free speech and a small government.. the thing is though, when a company that has a public forum, such as FB, twitter, YT, etc, starts trying to control information according to their own ideology, then I have a HUGE problem with that. When they use censorship and other tactics, such as outright lies and falsehoods in 'fact checks' to promote a political party or candidate, well... it just might be time to break them into much smaller entities as they have too much influence.
In 1963 General Motors had to stop racing, they had to stop promoting racing and limit their production, because they had too much market share and the government was going to break them apart. In the 1980s Microsoft and Apple actually helped each other so they would have competition and not be broken up. It has happened often, Standard Oil was one such massive corporation to be broken up, and they did all kinds of crazy shit to make sure they were the only ones selling transportation fuel, the owner J.D Rockefeller even pushed through a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting alcohol production and sales to push ethanol fuels out of the competitive spot they were in, and ethanol has not recovered since. Everyone who lives in the US has been affected by what Standard Oil did in the 1920s. W.R Hearst, the newspaper mogul did the same thing with hemp and cannabis, so he could sell wood pulp paper. that too has affected every one of us, even if we have never smoked weed or had the desire to do so. Its a governmental cost we do not need to bear.
We cannot have companies and corporations buying, running, or controlling the government. It always benefits the company at the expense of the people. It is time for these companies to have their balls cut off so to speak so they will stop trying to influence our government, the policies, and the voters themselves.
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It matters, and it matters a lot. Too much muscle, like what I have, can also be detrimental. Muscle weighs a lot more, and you still need to feed all of it oxygen. If its NOT muscle, its even worse, and I can tell an immediate difference when I have put on an extra 10lbs that isn't muscle. I can barely breathe when that happens.
The scale at the VA grunts and groans then says "GET OFF ME" when I step on it.
I like to make jokes about my size/weight, because I look obese but I am built like a power lifter, because of my time in the military. My heart is humming along fine, I eat VERY well so I don't have bad blood tests, and I am active despite the damage done that prevents me from running or walking long distances since my last deployment in 2004. But yeah I am huge for a short guy.
The name I use on here stems from my 2001 deployment when I returned to my base in South Carolina with a six pack, very ripped, but still 45lbs over my max weight, and they put me on the weight program. I've been 45 to 60lbs over my max weight since 1991 when the airlift for Desert Shield packed that much muscle on me. To be honest I NEVER made weight while in the USAF, from 1988 when I enlisted to 2005 when I got out on a medical, they have waivers for muscle mass.
Also calling myself this takes ammo away from people who would otherwise deride me by saying I am what I say I am.. well duh.
If you look at me and then at another male or female who is same height and weight but without the muscle, you will see a big difference. They do not live as long as I have, because they have an unhealthy lifestyle and poor eating habits. I am acutely aware of having too much, I have been that way before, and currently I do not like how I look so I am doing something about it.
I am always doing something about it, because its not something you can do once and you never have to do it again, it requires a lifestyle change and a dedication to being active and eating well. They ate their way in, they can walk themselves out.
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I was about to cancel my Netflix and Prime, but then this showed up. This didn't affect Netflix, they are on very thin ice with me.
I'm a USAF veteran, Cold War, Gulf War and Iraq war veteran. I didn't do most things like in the show, some small bits were near to what I did and it was cool seeing C17s from my last base in this. Some of it was over the top 'Hollywood type' dramatic BS, but for the most part I enjoyed it.
Its hard to express how refreshing it was to not get inundated with 'the message' every few seconds, and it was interesting how they mixed some aspects of PTSD with his tumor. Flashbacks can be anything, fun times, benign common every day crap, or the things we try hard to forget. I enjoy some of them to be honest, and a few make me want to set up a perimeter and cut down trees in my yard for a killzone. I live alone in the woods for a reason.
We aren't dangerous to you unless you're perceived as an actual threat. If we are yelling, no worries, its when we go quiet that you should worry. (better yet, RUN) :) They did a nice job showing that too.
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Sydney, I have been falsely accused 6 times of sexual harassment/rape, these amounted to girls trying to extort me for money or a car, and me saying hello to military females who felt I was not tall/good looking enough to extend a verbal greeting. One of the two false rape accusers did not know I worked nights and had tues/wed off, she said I raped her on the weekend, at night, when I was at work. She tried every day between Friday and Monday claiming it was those days... always on base, at work doing my job... she felt entitled to the car I had and wanted me to give it to her. We never slept together, and she barely knew me.
but wait there's more!
Every time the police showed up because the neighbors called them when she was having one of her bipolar rages, they only wanted to know if I hit, touched, grabbed, or hurt her in any way. Never mind I had hair pulled out of my head, scratches and bruises where she hit me with things, was often bleeding with ripped clothing when they showed up...
But scary war veteran who is 240lbs with massive arms, chest, and no neck is obviously going to be the aggressor right? 120lb helpless little girl is obviously always going to be the victim and never violent herself. She could inflict whatever harm she wanted on me with impunity, the only thing I could do was leave her in my house with the kids, because she would attack me with even more ferocity when I tried to shield our daughters from her rages.
seriously, I can bench over 450lbs, haven't lost a fight that other males started with me since I was 16 year old, I am very adept at self defense and fear no man... but this girl had the police and courts behind her and nothing I could prove nor say mattered. Take her abuse, or leave her alone to abuse the kids, what a great thing feminists have created in the Duluth model.
So saying it is extremely rare is bullshit. It happens all the damn time. I am not the only one, I know hundreds of guys who learned not to talk to military females, not to let a girl know much about you, and the divorce rape and accusations for her benefit there are so common as to be expected.
It happened to me so often I will not make a commitment to anyone, and I stopped talking to military females long before I got out back in 2005. Don't even get me started on the false shit my second ex claimed during our divorce so she could not look like the cheating dumbass she was, and get her victim points... and I went to jail over it no less. So this guy is permanently single, and though I like how you think, there is no way in hell I would even date someone as level headed and aware as you are. I am not losing my house to anyone, no matter how good they actually are.
Keep up the good work I hope you make a difference so the guys your age do not end up getting fucked like I have been.
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@rey_nemaattori more than no fault, the transition thing, vacuuming a kid's room with the kid still in it thing, males and females being considered completely equal and interchangeable e.g. the same, and the whole notion of something being factually correct but not pol correct.
If you want a source, check out the soviet union 1917 to 1991... however, you might want to avoid the 'sources' that are sympathetic to the ideology, as they tend to make things up and rationalize, such as saying it never happened, wasn't that bad, or it only failed because of US influence... among other fantasies.
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@user-ef4gf7rr9r yep, so was mine, and my mom, and my ex wife.. well, the first one. 8 years of living hell waiting to see if boiling water or oil was thrown on me or if I'd get cut/stabbed while I slept, and I am surprised I didn't come away from my first marriage without one of those std things... she caught them all, I lucked out and got none. She gave the ones that are transferable to kids to my daughters though, so there is that.
The second ex was quite good to me for just about ten years, then... she cheated, had me thrown in jail for something I didn't do (twice) and extorted me for money. I got sick for a few months, was getting better and she decided she needed to try to destroy me. Together just under 10 years, but only married for 16 months.
My dad would whack me when he got frustrated, older brother was worse, and he was completely random. He nearly ended me several times, starting when I was 6 months old, he stabbed me in the back with mom's seam ripper. I grew up being beaten, my brain is trashed like a boxer's thinkin meat.
I've been alone most of my life, the only time I had any semblance of a family was with the second ex. Then she cheated, she, her mom, and her sisters all decided to make me into the villain.
I live alone in the woods now, only allow a handful of people to know where I am, and I am freakishly muscular. The military training and wrestling in high school at at my base in Germany against other bases has made me somewhat, um.. lets say I can cause some pain. I've never started an altercation, but I have finished all of them started against me. Started winning them in 1985, haven't lost one since. Lots some wrestling matches, but not altercations. The two wars I served in felt like home... well the first in 90-91, not so much 01-05.
Its been a rough life. Can't trust people.
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Actors have tough lives? the toughest lives? HA! They pretend to be people who often times had tough lives. Some actors did have tough times in their lives, James Stewart (20 missions over Germany in B24s), Lee Marvin (Marine in the Pacific), Audie Murphy (most decorated US serviceman in WWII), and Clark Gable all saw combat. Even Morgan Freeman is a USAF veteran, maybe he had some tough spots as a radar tech, I dunno.
Most actors who make it have pampered lives compared to those mentioned above. No wonder they have shows where they pat themselves on the back and blow smoke up each other's asses... that nobody watches anymore. Rough life... PUHLEASE.
I did two wars, grew up dirt poor on a farm in the 70s and 80s, was 'mistreated' often until I got strong enough to throw a hurtin at the people doing it. Two divorces, been crippled (since 2004) and homeless (for a total of four years because of the divorces). I had to build my own damn house while being crippled, because I didn't have the money to pay to have it done.. the ex wives got it.
Despite all of that Stewart and Marvin had a much rougher time than I did... but most celebrities have done somewhere between jackSh** and F'all. Cry me a river pretenders.
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What you're seeing is guilt. He was trained to feel guilty about nearly everything by a strict religious family. Not exactly a bad thing, but it can have consequences and there are better ways to raise kids than instilling guilt as the prime mover for obedience.
Want to know who were the wild unrestrained people who made lots of poor choices when I was in the USAF and living around the US/world? It was the preacher's kids. Every PK I have known has been through a period of their lives where they rebelled against the parents and religious rules. Some Amish communities push kids out to the world without support so they can see what its like, and that usually removes any notion of wanting to stay out here, but they don't seem to be like the evangelical types who seem to have this problem in droves.
If the family is strict, the chances the kids will fall prey to things like online spicy stuff is higher. They don't have the skills/tools to deal with it, and they are the ones who find themselves compelled to engage in the illicit behavior. All they have is guilt, and it crushes them.
This kid is messed up by what he has been doing, that is plainly obvious. But he has the added guilt, that is making it worse for him. There is a strange euphoria that comes with doing something illicit and forbidden when you're in your teens and twenties. I remember having it when I was about 12, and learning how things worked and the obvious reasons for spit tails.
The kid in this vid was kept away from this sort of thing, and told he would be thrown in a fiery lake for eternity if he looked at it. There are better ways to keep your kids from engaging in less than brilliant activities. He needs to deal with that guilt first, because if he doesn't he will relapse over and over and have a miserable life.
If you're one of these young guys who found the spicy sites early in life and have a religious upbringing:
Deal with the guilt first, until you have the skills to handle that, you will not succeed. After the guilt, you need to work on discipline and will power. You do that through self talk, mildly chiding yourself when you have errant thoughts. I used that method to deal with my PTSD, to keep me from getting irrationally enraged at perceived thrteats. It works, but its difficult. For somewhere around 3 years I worked on rewiring my mind so it didn't go down the rage path under stress. You retrain your mind to go to better places, and like Bo said, physical work helps with that immensely. Work out, lift heavy stuff, go for hikes in nature and retrain your brain.
The spicy stuff is just the symptom of much larger issues, and its entirely in your head. Some people catch bad habits easily, smoking, drinking, other harder things, this subject.. whatever. Some of us are not as prone to it. The more you deal with early in life, the easier everything else is later, aka been there, done that. The easier and softer your life is, the harder it is later when you run into that problem for the first time.
My family never had a hang up about that part of life, mom and dad had six kids so they were gettin down often. When dad passed in 2020 we found his 'stash' of rather interesting things, think leather and rope. All of us kids are well adjusted, my parents didn't try to keep everything away from us, but they also did not over share. We were never made to feel guilty about that part of life, never told it was bad, just that it was private and not something you want to spread around and flaunt. The oldest three of us don't smoke, but the younger three smoke. The oldest and youngest have issues with drinking, the rest of us don't. The two of us who went to the military have PTSD, mine is from the oldest trying to delete me, so I have other issues and am far from perfect, despite having very few vices if any.
I've never felt guilt. Thats because of how I grew up, lets just say it wasn't pleasant (daily terror for most of it mostly due to my older brother), and I have been twice diagnosed by VA shrinks as a sociopath. Its not as bad as it sounds, we just have to try/make an effort to feel empathy, we have no remorse nor guilt, but I have a code or set of rules I live by, and it overlaps with society to a large extent. Also have PTSD which brings its own set of 'fun' things.
As such I do not have an issue with spicy stuff, no guilt dragging me down, no problems with the equipment not working, I VERY much prefer the real thing. I had an exceptionally high spice drive from about age 11 to 37, and it caused me to make some bad choices in who I got with, and what I would put up with. Thankfully now I don't have much drive, almost no interest and that whole system is now a 'maintenance' issue more than an amusement park. It works flawlessly though, which is the maintenance at work.
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Does the state have power over the male body? Yeah, and men only have one choice with three options. Abstinence, paying, or self delete.
I am a father of two daughters, they are now 25 and 28. Their mother hid her bipolar violence from me until we were married and had the first one. She made my life hell living with her for 8 years. The police coming by and wanting to arrest me when she attacked me. No marks on her, but I have clothing ripped, scratches, cuts, and she hit me with whatever she could pick up. No consequences for her.
She cheated, lied, was violent towards my kids, kidnapped them and took them 1500 miles away. The state rewarded her with 71% of my gross pay. They left me with $100 a month to live on from 2001 to 2004. She did everything wrong, while I worked my ass off, 50 to 70 hours a week to provide for them while she was living with me in the 1990s. I taught them to crawl, walk, ride bikes, colors, shapes, math, reading, writing, how to run computers, and most importantly, how to think critically and figure things out rationally. I never harmed either ex wife, they did everything wrong and were rewarded, I was punished for being male.
From 2000 to 2005 I was in the US military on my second enlistment. Because I was E4 when she took them in 2001, I could not live on base. I had to live off base, but I did not have enough money to pay for an apartment. So I lived in my car, and slept on friends couches when I could. I had a 7 year gap between enlistments, NAFTA was the reason I had to go back.
From 2001 to 2008 when my youngest came to stay with me for the summer where I live now, I got to see them a total of 12 days. When I would get home on leave, after saving or when Dubya gave me back pay for family separation while I was in Korea, I had to spend the entire time looking for my kids. I would get one afternoon with them, and occasionally overnight. The state was required to tell me where they live, but they would not. She would change her phone number and screen calls for birthdays and holidays. She told them I wasn't paying support when she was getting over $1200 every month. She told them I didn't care about them, and I only cared about money. Guess who kicked them out when they turned 19 and the payments stopped coming.
I had to pay her until 2015, even when the youngest came to live with me for more than a year when she was 13, I had to pay her. The state agreed she owes me for more than $8000, but they do nothing to force her to pay it. They applied her looney bin bill from trying to self delete nearly 2 years after the divorce was final, because they said I was responsible for her... Fuck Nebraska courts. That put me $11k behind on support because they diverted the payment for support to her bill.
I am not a small nor timid man, I can severely injure people with my bare hands, but I refrain from doing so. The state looked at me and decided I was unfit and she was the victim regardless of what transpired. They did that in both divorces, so I do not even date anymore. I will hook up with them, but its rare I find anyone I want to risk my entire future over. I'll tell them my name is Raoul, or Sergio, and wait for them to lose interest and jump on another guy's tab D. They always do. They are not loyal, faithful, nor trustworthy. They have every incentive to be that way, and no incentive to be any of those things.
From my perspective, any man who gets married or impregnates a woman today is an idiot. The state will do whatever they want to you, they broke several state and federal laws in their treatment of me, and no lawyer would touch it.
Know what else Nebraska does? A girl can accuse me of being the father, and they will send a notice to my last known address. If I do not respond and prove I am NOT the father, at expense to me no less, within 90 days, I am on the hook for child support until the kid is 19. It doesn't matter that I have been out of the gene pool for 11 years, it doesn't matter if I have never even met the girl accusing me, I am responsible for that kid that is no part of me. Even if proven after the 90 days, I cannot get out of paying her. That is why I never give my real name to girls I might have relations with, and I do not use my real name on any social media. I am not paying for anyone else's kid.
Men have no reproductive rights. None. Men only have responsibilities.
Girls have all the rights, and zero responsibilities.
I like females a lot, they are fun, exciting, interesting, and usually good people. However, with the way the state and society are, its better to live alone in the woods. I build hotrods, produce ethanol fuel to run them, and am working on producing my own electricity since the power goes out here all the time. Just went out on Monday for 8 hours.
Where have all the good men gone? We got screwed over by other females and the state, so we try to avoid you. Girls can have all the tall good looking guys, and share them at will.. then enjoy living in boxed wine and cat land. Ya know, 40 to 80 is a damn long time. If you're female and you are single beyond 35, pick up a copy of 'Microwave Cooking for One.' You will get plenty of mileage from it as you become even more strong, independent, and empowered.
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@GalyeArt hardly.. they age badly regardless of who they date, Latinas and Africans age a lot better then Europeans do, Asians look good right up until they don't and then its a crash. But this one, she has been on the party train too long, and she didn't start out all that great. She is painfully average, which is why older guys like her. I am almost 55, and through experience I know that the hotter they are, the problems they bring to your life. She is exactly what a guy 5 to 10 years older than me will want... thin, pleasant, presentable enough to be seen in public together.
As for me, I am done with them, I have better things to do with my remaining time here.
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@hirachann we definitely agree that antifa, blm, and I go one farther and declare the entire democrat party to be racist. They never changed, they adjusted from trying to prevent minorities from voting, to essentially paying them to vote democrat and faithfully supporting their own subjugation.
I'm not big on sports. The only thing I am into is drag racing, and I don't really watch it, because I'd rather participate. I have friends who make videos on here of them racing, but thats about as far as my 'watching others do things I can do' goes.
A guy I know from my high school, he was on the wrestling team with me, I was 167lbs he was 185lbs, went on to play in the NFL. He is so sick of their shit and all the crap surrounding it, that he has shut off almost everyone and is living like a hermit. We're in our 50s now, it was a very different society and world 20 years ago. He retired around 2008 or 2009. That is the extent of my interest in the NFL.
He went to uni and I enlisted in 1988. You'll have a hard time finding someone who loathes marxism and all the democrat pushed bullshit more than I do.
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@dylancross1039 I went to high school with a guy who played nose guard for Carolina, Jacksonville, and Denver. We were on the wrestling team in high school, he was 185lb I was 167lb, he took state his junior and senior year, and I used to own him in practice. 167 was super tough, you had to be fast like the little guys, and strong like the heavy guys. I went to state, but ran into the guys who got 1st and 3rd. They both won by 1 point, the guy who got 3rd was in overtime.
My friend who played for the NFL is not someone people want to fuck with. He is 6'2 and 320, I am 5'8 and 310, but you can see my ribs and lots of muscle definition despite my gorilla belly. Ya just kinda get one of them bellies when you hit 50. I know how much of a muscle bound freak most of those guys are.
I'm more into drag racing I don't watch or care about ball sports. Had to take a break from racing thanks to getting divorced and gimped in the US military, but I should have two cars ready to go next year. If I can't participate in the sport, I really don't give a fuck about it. I should have my daughter drive one of the cars, she will run 0.2 quicker than I will because she is a lot lighter.. lol.
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Living without a woman is easy, its also vastly less expensive, more rewarding, and you can accomplish so much more. Having kids can be rewarding, it was for me, until their mother took off with them. Then it was the worst thing that ever happened to me, and I survived two wars, 5 deployments, two divorces, and so much other stuff most people don't believe it. The problem is that females are rewarded for whatever they do, good or bad. They don't realize that the consequences of their actions and poor choices comes to fruition after they turn 35, and they spiral down into despair, desperation, and resentment...
Thats where every chick featured here is.
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I have never apologized for who I am, nor for what I think. My skin tone doesn't mean that much to me, nor does anyone else's, thats for the small minded people to obsess over. The only race I care about is drag racing, I am big into old cars. I have bigger fish to fry, and I take or leave people as individuals, and most people are not allowed into my sphere. I am friendly to, open, and accepting of most people though... though I am making a list of marque cysts, so I know who to watch out for in the coming months. :)
However its interesting/amusing when I see all of this shoehorning going on with the ads on here. Guys who look like my complexion are buffoons, villains, overly dim, or so weak and frail looking that they can't be taken seriously.
I am quite a bit like William the OP, except I am atheist and don't really fit the marque cyst / conservative framework. My thinking is more like Ben Franklin's, less so like Thomas Jefferson.
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@ferd1775 it made me VERY muscular, like 5'8" and 240lbs with a six pack muscular. Able to bench or lift and carry 500lbs muscular. Then they broke me by working me at 35 like they did at 21, and it was at 21 back in 1990-91 that I packed on all the muscle.
So I haven't been able to run since 2003, got messed up in 2004, medical discharge in 2005. Max distance I could walk was 100 yard per day until 2014. 100% service connected P&T so I am on a fixed income. Its more than just the physical stuff.
Now I can walk a good bit, but my metabolism is all screwed up (long story about a childhood diet due to supposed allergies) so it is still super easy to pack on more muscle mass despite the fact I am 54 now. Also I wrestled in high school and a bit at the base level in Europe before the war, and wrestlers tend to have some issues with weight because of cutting so much in high school. I would cut 30 to 40lbs every November to make the first tournament in December, but thats not military..
So as I do work around my property, because I cannot afford to pay someone to build my house, shop, cars, do the landscaping, clear trees, shovel gravel etc. I have gotten bigger and heavier.
Not being able to run is the reason I am quite large. The max caloric intake I have on any given day is 1900, usually I am around 1000 calories. If I go higher than 2000, I pack on a ton of pudge real fast. So now I am 325lbs, but I look like 240ish, have no double chin, no flab anywhere but the old man belly, which is shrinking since I stopped drinking coffee.. the coffee was inflaming my abdomen making it distend.
My job was air cargo, for an idea of what its like during wartime, take two F150s, put them in a parking lot bumper to bumper, now push them across the lot. Do that for 12 hours a day, every day for a year. Then you can alternate with carrying 100lbs in each hand up three stories while running, over and over for 12 hours every day for a year. Then go to a 7 on 1 day off schedule for another six months.
I was loading planes single handed in 120F-135F heat in Kuwait in 2004. Pallets were between 2000 and 10,000lbs each. When I was 22 my measurements were bigger than Arnold, but I have more of a power lifter physique, not a body builder, more like a 5'8" version of the Mountain from GOT.
So yeah... the USAF made me huge, punished me for it the rest of the time I was in, broke me, ended up on a fixed income, and I can't stay active enough to not have a belly... Working on it though.
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@tiffanygrever8092 I am polite, not nice. There is a difference. Also, most of my weight is muscle. I am 5'8" tall, 320lbs, and you can see my ribs. I can pick up 500lbs and carry it relatively easily. You know Game of Thrones? Well take the Mountain, and shrink him to 5'8" give him a full head of hair, and you have me.
It required a ludicrous amount of work and effort to gain this muscle, and it came from my military job, not a gym. So its different than someone who sits around all day, stuffing their cake hole with unhealthy stuff, and never ran a mile in their life. I have a belly, and I am barrel shaped, but there is no double chin, no extra flab beyond a thin layer that obfuscates my muscle.
Most women do not want a 5'8" muscle bound freak who is built like a silverback gorilla... but a surprising number of them do. Well at least for a few romps of being slammed against a wall and railed like a wild animal. Yes many of them are fit and not flabby, currently there is a cute 27 year old who flirts with me every time I go through her checkout line. I am 54 and do not dye my hair, its gray like Gandalf.
I call myself this as a joke to the USAF, because they worked me to build all this muscle in 1990. 10 August 90 to some time in January or February 91 without a day off, 12 hour shifts, lifting and running with very heavy stuff for the entire shift. They made me huge then punished me for it the whole time I was in.
When I got back from Kuwait in 2001, they put me on the weight program again, despite the fact I had a six pack and no belly. Thats where the name comes from.
So yeah, I don't want some female who is over 140lbs. She has to look and smell good for me, because she will definitely get what she wants from this gorilla looking man... if she earns it.
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That huffpo article was written by a chick right? When you raise boys to feel entitled like girls are, you get lots of boys thinking like girls. Self centered, entitled, demanding to be in control despite not having earned a fucking thing. When you give girls incentive to divorce for any reason, encourage them to cheat on their partner, and tell them they are entitled to what the man has earned, you kill off the idea of marriage. Now with all this marxist/feminist bullshit everywhere in our laws, media, and society, they wonder why girls are not getting married so they can divorce rape the guy and move on to riding more cocks.... You go girl... go be alone. Away from me, somewhere else so I don't have to listen to you bitch, whine, piss and moan like you have a vagina stitched to your tongue.
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We haven't had enough generations to evolve into something other than what humans were 50,000 or even 100,000 years ago. We are cavemen with smartphones who learned to fly. The idea that we can remove ourselves from nature and still be mentally stable might not be realistic or cogent. We are connected to the earth, to nature, and to the universe at large scale, we are from it, we are part of it, no matter how much people try to distance themselves from that reality.
I grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere. Then I joined the military and lived in big cities around the world, working with jets. When I got out I moved to the forested woodland along the shore of Lake Superior where the Finns decided to settle in large numbers.(Everyone around here is a Maki or related to one). I always felt an unease, something was missing, a connection was lost, and I had a feeling I could not shake while I was stuck in cities. Is it because of farm life in my early years? Is it because we are cavemen with the internet and space travel?
While I like technology, and when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s I wanted things we have now, like very realistic video games and the ability to talk to people in real time around the world, or to look up information without trying to find it in a library where it probably isn't on the shelf...but I don't want to lose the connection to nature. That and the old car thing. I really dig old cars, and working with metal. I try to live with nature rather than force nature to do as I want, and I can't even express how enjoyable it is to see wildlife traversing the land where I live, doing their own thing.
Like the huge turkey that came down my driveway looking for the pair of females that are usually around here all summer. That Tom is massive, and I was ten feet from him and he did not care, he just walked by with something else on his mind. Bald eagles land in my yard and let me get quite close to them to take pictures, they know I am not a threat to them so they relax and go about their day. The bears have learned to stay away from the dogs, but I still see tracks they leave, along with the wolves and a mountain lion. The deer come by once in a while too, they won't get shot here unless I have no other option to eat. As long as I can get beef from the store and fish from the lake, I don't need the deer for food, so they are scenery.. edible tasty scenery. The lion has me alert at night when I am outside, and usually armed, not out of fear but out of caution. I'd rather they got their food other than humans, because then they become a problem. There is a raccoon that has a fondness for the cat food I leave out for the rodent control cats that live outside, but she hasn't come around lately.
My life is far less stressful, even if I know I could be snowed in for weeks at a time. Cooking over a fire still tastes best. That reminds me I need to make a loaf of bread on the campfire again, Dutch Ovens work pretty good. Cooking outside also helps me clean up all the dead wood and fallen branches on my land. This is a good place to retire.. the only thing missing is a place to race my old cars, and someone to race against. A caveman has to have some fun too ya know.
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@blackknightjack3850 um... do you know history at all? Perhaps you should read what Stalin, Lenin, and the rest of those idiots said and did, along with Giovanni Gentile, Adolf, El Duce, Mao, and now Xi.. Then read what these twatwaffles at the wef are saying.
If you aren't smart enough to see what they are doing, well shit no citation is going to help you. Its not like the media is going to come out and say it.. and yet Carl and his crew are saying it. You didn't even watch the video, did ya?
How did the soviet union go for 80 years? A bunch of assholes at the top, living life well at the cost of everyone beneath them, all while blowing smoke up the asses of the people that it was for their own good. Millions starving, being put in gulags, and filling mass graves is for their own good.
Lets go with Cuba... Castro had several large homes, not as elaborate as a cartel head in Columbia, but vastly better than what the average Cuba lived in. Fidel died with millions of dollars in wealth, meanwhile most Cubans have nothing.
Venezuela.. Maduro was in the middle of a long winded speech on TV that everyone was forced to watch, and while his people were starving, he pulled out an empanada and munched on it.
North Korea...holy fucking shit. I suppose its all lies then.
That is how marxist rule ALWAYS turns out. The incompetent and inept people who place themselves at the top, profiting from everyone's labor under them. Its a feudal system where the potentate tells his slaves how much he loves them, and how much they should love him.
That is what these wef assholes are telling us, that we will own nothing, live how they tell us to live, and that means we can never challenge them nor dissent, because they'll just shut off everything you need to live.. since ya know, you don't have anything to live on. I'm sure that growing your own food will bring a death sentence... they just aren't saying that part out loud yet.
I have a large chunk of concrete on my shelf next to me. I knocked it off a wall back in 1989 while I was stationed in Germany. The soviets claimed it was the antifascist rampart, keeping the world safe from not Cs. The reality of it was the wall was erected overnight to keep East Berliners from escaping to West Berlin. That was after the soviets failed to force West Berliners to accept marxism, because the USAF supplied them medicine, food, and fuel by air when the Soviets closed the railway lines into Berlin.
Unlike you... I have seen this shit first hand. I know my enemy. I know his rhetoric and tactics. I know the script they follow. If they get what they want, you'll be in the mass grave as well.. its only a matter of time.
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Mills Rickman yep, not to be conflated with marxists.. e.g. commies, socialists, feminsits, progressives, kid touchers, etc. They have an authority they obey and submit to, its called the state.
I have my reasons why I don't believe, but its not because I do not know the religions. Its more that if I 'know' something I want it to be factual and correct. Not overly big on faith and just accepting what others tell me.
I'm not against you having a religion, so long as you don't force all of us who do not share it to live by its rules/laws. You do you and we will get on fine. try to make me adhere to your ideology, and well we have the same problem that I have with marxists and 'radical' islam. :)
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@jefffinkbonner9551 I did not know I was supposed to be looking for him sir... ~ Forest Gump
I had to say it lol.
Ya know, if there is a god, thats cool and all, but I will have some questions for him. I was sent to a parochial school grade 1 to 6, and we read the bible every day, and math consisted of flash cards, and science was not to be talked about unless it was biblical.
I know the bible very well, and I know islam relatively well. Any idea how many times I have found the religious making shit up and lying about other people and religions to make themselves look better?
Enough times that I started looking into things, because I wanted to know that what I think is based on facts, reality, and not conjecture, hypothesis, or baseless assertions.
I lost my religion by knowing it quite well, then learning how things actually work... you know, science. I was always inquisitive, wanting to know why things did this, or how that works, and I wanted to find the root causes of problems so I could fix them. Makes me a pretty good gearhead and machinist.
So if you really want to know why I am not religious, and simply do not accept the assertions of the various religions around the world, I can expound upon it...but, its going to be a rather lengthy read, and I do not accept logical fallacies as answers nor justifications.
Here is some info, for those who might not know. Agnostic is not being certain, it could be, or might not be, and ya gotta wait and see. Gnostic is being certain about something. You can be either of those as a non believer, and you are a gnostic atheist towards every other religion outside of your own. I mean, do you think the Roman gods exist somewhere? Nah, you are certain they do not... so you are a gnostic atheist when it comes to Roman and Greek gods. I bet that goes for nordic gods like Thor and Odin as well.
Unless you think there is a great juju in the mountain and your god is simply higher than the mountain juju.
See what I mean, its gonna be long. If you want to know, just ask and get a bagel, a big mug of coffee and a comfy chair for the short novel I will end up writing.
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If you're fat, undisciplined, weak, and have the desperate body language of chasing poon like the neckbeards, you have almost no chance except with fat chicks who are even more desperate than you are.
I never really chased females, I did spend a lot of time learning about them starting back in the 1980s. They were not my focus, they were a hobby based in a need to get laid rather often because I had a high sex drive. I am 5'8, not ripped, but I have had lots of muscle mass from my jobs. At 51 I look kinda fat, but can bench over 450lbs easily. I benched 265 in high school while weighing 172, and went over 300 less than a year after graduation. I wrestled and did quite well, enlisted, went to war, and I build things for fun and relaxation. What was my focus in life? Muscle cars. I love GTOs and drag racing.
I have gotten so much ass I can't remember them all and lost count long before my first marriage in 1994. Its because they were not a priority, they were a pastime, a hobby, sexual gratification, and not validation. I learned the hard way about divorce, and after so many different girls they are all kinda the same to me. I am more interested in cars these days, but I still like to look at girls and when the opportunity presents itself to bang one half my age, I sometimes take it. Most of the time I work in my shop, and only go into town once a week, typically avoiding people in the process. Bitches are expensive to keep around, and I am not wealthy after two divorces and two wars. For what my first ex cost me I could own three R8s and be debt free right now.
I never chased money either, preferring to chase knowledge, capability, and experience. Now I can do all the cool shit with old cars I always wanted to do. I do all the work on them, can do the engine machining if I have the equipment. My summer daily driver 65 GTO is quicker than that R8, but that Audi has better aero and an overdrive, so it has a higher top speed than my daily. My toy on the other hand, a 79 Formula, is not pushing a box car sideways through the air. It drenches panties but its not at all comfortable. Its harsh, loud, and brutal. Thats where my focus happens to be, making old junk fast.
If you see me, you'd think I am full of shit. I don't think I am good looking and I am not attracted to me, but girls seem to be. The only thing I can think as to why is because I am masculine as fuck and built like a medium sized silverback gorilla. Girls are fun for an hour or so, cars are fun for years and the cars cost a lot less than girls.
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Getting out of the city without survival skills, knowing how to produce energy is going to be the biggest problem. Energy is food, fuel, warmth. You can live without AC, its very hard to live in a cold environment without heat. You can go a few weeks without eating much, two to four days without water at most. Knowing how to get water, purify it without much energy, and keeping it clean is going to be your most pressing problem, but once its solved its becomes something you do daily. Do you know what its like to go more than two weeks without a shower/bath? You will.
If I have to bug out from here, we are all fucked. Getting out of the city does you no good without food, water, and shelter. Coming to my land is not going to be a good idea. I can teach you how to get your own, but you can't have any of mine because I worked to get it. Trying to take what I have by force is a doubly bad idea, because I will defend myself with extreme violence, and killing or pissing off the guy who knows how to produce damn near everything you need to survive is a very shortsighted.
Stockpiling is only collecting things for the people who show up with more guns/people than you have. Knowing how to produce everything, and teaching others how to produce it for themselves is a much better idea. What do you do when your stockpile is gone, do you know how to make things you need?
Any idea how useful and versatile vodka is? Fuel for vehicles/generators, antiseptic, trading, light source, cleaning/sanitizing, and of course party time. That will be as important as food, being able to clean wounds and fuel things can keep you alive and healthy. There is a reason humans have been making ethanol for thousands of years. Whoever knows how to make a high enough proof to power vehicles, and how to make them run on it, will be a very popular individual.
What can you grow, how long does it take, where do you get seeds? If everyone is hunting at the same time, all the animals will be gone very soon. What do you do with the meat when there is no refrigeration? Its only good for a few days before it starts to spoil in warm weather. In winter its easy, just keep predators away from it and let the weather do its thing.
There will be no vegans in a survival situation, you will have to know how to use plants as well as animals for what you need to survive. Do you know how to clean rabbits, deer, or other wildlife? You will get very sick of potatoes if you don't know. Rabbits do not have enough fat on them to keep you alive, you need more than them to eat. If you're vegan, you are not long for this earth when it goes to shit and the trucks stop bringing everything to you. Probably not many feminists either... just sayin.
Can you work with metal and wood? Can you make ceramic things? Can you wire for electricity and know the difference between AC and DC power? If you know these things you can do more than survive. Can you repair a vehicle or even build a wooden cart? On the bright side you probably won't have to find ore to get metals, because iron, steel, copper, and aluminum are all around us. 1000 years ago that was not the case.
Do you know how to make charcoal? Its more efficient with less smoke than wood. Can you start a fire with no flint, matches, lighters, etc? What do you do when everything is wet from rain or snow?
A simple coronal mass ejection (CME), a solar flare, is all that is required to put the earth and all of us, back into the iron age. It could happen any time and we only have minutes of warning when it happens. A nuke going off 6 to 10 miles up will have the same effect, frying all electronics not in a Faraday cage. Even if you have your cellphone protected, what will it connect to? What do you do when the battery runs out? A solar charger works as long as you have sunlight. Why do you want to keep your smartphone, laptop, or PC around? Because you can store useful information on them, so having a power source even without internet is a huge benefit. You can have manuals downloaded to them on how to do all of these things and more.
Do you know what the process is that takes out electronics in an EMP? You might want to look up induced current. FYI its the key to producing electricity for yourself without solar panels.
Sure get out of the city, but if you can't get the things you need out here in the woods, you are just going to die where you are easier food for other things. :)
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@anastrawberry8047 that my friend is why I have rifles, shotguns handguns safely stored at the bottom of a big lake after a boating accident, years of military training, two wars worth of experience, a kill zone around my buildings, and only one way in and one way out unless you know my land. Plus the forest is full of interesting things for people walking around out there.
If they come here, they will have a very very bad day. That is why I said coming here is not a good idea. I am far scarier than they are, but only when I have to be. I'd much rather teach people how to survive than end them, but if they are intent on it, ending them will do. Been there done that.
That big lake takes care of the bodies real nice. Nobody was found from the Edmund Fitzgerald, it doesn't give up its dead.
Of course, that is assuming they can even find this place, you can know its here and still drive past it. I do it all the time and I have lived here 8 years.
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@anastrawberry8047 if you're not allowed to have guns, then you can have other means of defending yourself than begging for your life and becoming a serf to the biggest ape in the area.
Its easy to build a forge, you can get leaf springs from old vehicles rather easily. A single leaf spring can make two large swords, and its better metal than was used centuries ago. Training is available online in how to use them. A hammer, an anvil and air forced through charcoal on fire.. its that cave man simple. A big knife and knowing how to use it can be more effective than guns, its also quieter and does not run out of ammo. A shovel is a weapon too, if you can get close enough.
The key is to not be a soft target, make it difficult to get in and out, make it dangerous, uninviting for people intending to do harm.
Sentries farther out, also called pickets, that will warn of people approaching. In the 1800s it meant they would probably get killed warning of the forces on the way, but the sound let the encampment know. Tripwires with flares, claymores, and other devices are used now. A simple driveway buzzer can do the job. You can get them solar powered and hide them on approaches.
Night vision is relatively cheap now, infrared and thermal scopes are useful even without a gun attached to them. Knowing where people are, where they are coming from, how many, etc, its all good information.
If you want to know how to defend your town and community, history can show you. US Army manuals available online have a wealth of information in them. The best idea is to engage with people as far from resources and children as you can.
What you see on TV shows is usually useless, or plain stupid.
I hope it doesn't come to this, but I can't shake the feeling that it will. Its only in the last two years I've had this feeling. Its not because of what people are saying online, its because of what politicians and the likes of the WEF have been saying and doing.
To me it looks like they have a deadline, not an arbitrary one, its intentional and its pushing them like they know they won't be able to subjugate all of us after a certain date.
The virus never bothered me, still doesn't. Its a mountain made from a molehill. Its an excuse, a justification for tight control by authoritarians. Something else is coming, its bigger than the virus ever could have been. Its the same feeling I had before my two wars.
Its not just my country either. Its everyone.
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@rodrigo100kk yeah, it definitely is. Most girls know going in there will be no cash spent on them. Some walk right then, others think they can suck a dick good enough to get in my wallet, the rest don't care.
Back when I was 19, had just enlisted, and my girl back home was banging every swinging dick that would look at her sideways, she was begging me for cash. Talked to my friends, who told me the deal, and I didn't send her a cent. Before that call she flew to Germany to see me over the holidays, and I could tell something was up with her.
Came home on leave for my 21st birthday, dumped her ass, she attacked me then told the cops I hit her, so I had to ditch them the rest of my leave. The girls came out of the woodwork when they heard I dumped her.. I have quite a few interesting stories from the summer of 1990. Didn't pay for anything for any of them.
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@harrylevison9982 nah.. its them. Treat them well, they lie, cheat, and jump to someone far worse than I am. Treat them like shit and make them work for attention, knowing they can be kicked to the curb at any moment, and it takes them longer to cheat and lie to you.
They have immediate incentives to act stupid and burn their lives to the ground, and the consequences come much later when they realize how much worse off they are since they left compared to how they were with me.
I dated around 200 girls, from all social classes, four continents, and several countries. Nearly ever race on the planet too. They all do the same stupid shit when there is no immediate drawback to lying and cheating.
The best one of them all was an Arab girl way back in 1990, we were engaged but didn't get married because of my military supervisor and her mom.. long story. Second best is a Mexican Apache chick who lives in Chicago and turns 50 this year. Arab girl and my second ex, the one I referenced in the OP, were both virgins. It doesn't make a damn bit of difference. First wife was the town doorknob. Same results.
Know what the difference between me and most guys is? I can tell when she decides to cheat, even before she actually does it. They all do the same things, act the same way, and try to hide it the same ways.
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@muffs55mercury61 I have hated loans and debt since I took out my first one in 1987 for a car I still own, but have not driven since 1988. It was only $2000, but I was only getting paid $5 an hour and wasn't getting much overtime, usually none. So it was painful to pay that loan. As my income increased, I still wanted to do things, but really didn't want to take loans to do it. I will only go into debt if I have no other choice... like when I bought my land. Then I will pay it off as soon as I possibly can.
My first ex had friends who lived across the street from us in my home state. They saw me building my old cars, making them go faster, going drag racing, and having fun like that. I was doing all the work on my vehicles, trading parts and services around with other guys to get the parts I needed. I rarely spent cash, lots of horse trading. I would do work for other guys to make money for parts I had to buy. So none of my factory job income would go to the hotrods, it all went to the wife, kids, mortgage, food, etc. Some of my 'side' money went to that too, since the ex was horrible with money.
Well her friends wanted to keep up, so they bought a truck, then two jetskis, then a boat, then a hottub, then he had to get a second job, then she had to get a second job, all while I was just building old cars and having fun. He couldn't work on things very much, so when it broke it sat there, like that car I bought in 1987.. except I enlisted and never brought it out when I got back in 1992.
If I dragged it out of its spot, where it has been on jackstands since 1988, I could have it running, drivable, and looking absolutely beautiful in less than two months. I have everything it needs right now.. except I would have to buy some tires.
Most of the people I know are neck deep in debt. Taking out loans and using credit cards rather than saving and buying only what they need. The smart ones live minimally, spend only what they need to, and they invest that money along with time to make their lives better... so that when times get lean, they are already set and it doesn't affect them much.
I have less than $100k invested in my property, only $60k of that was via loans. Both my ex wives have nothing but debt, and now they are both single and unwanted in their 40s depending on handouts and family to keep them from selling orifices to eat.
Poor planning, instant gratification, and zero forethought. I only know one female who understands planning ahead and is weathering all of this relatively well. She is single again, and broke it off with me to date a fireman, who dumped her two weeks later. So even the ones good with finances are shit with making decisions about all of us men. ;)
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@John Doe one thing we of European heritage are VERY good at is making things go boom. We can be the most destructive, and we do it with an eagerness not seen in other parts of the world.
However, we tend to have a reason to break things. What I see happening is the people pushing this want there to be a conflict over skin tone. 13% of the population which lives in mostly unarmed urban areas, the best they can do is gang members who sometimes have been in the military, vs 60% of the population that has more than half of the people armed to the teeth, over a million veterans of forever wars.
The reason the US took so many casualties in Somalia was not because the people we were fighting were so good, its because the US was trying to minimize civilian casualties.
It's ill advised to irritate the people who have proven to be very good at such things to the point they will probably wipe you out. Their tactics worked where the ruling class was a minority, but here in the US we are not ruled, nor are we defenseless and uneducated. If those people get what they are trying to get, it will not end well for them at all.
And I do not mean we will end the people who have high UV resistance, I mean those who are trying to make us fight with each other.. the ones who are in universities, the media, and tech.. and those who are in government that sold themselves to the highest bidders. The people who follow Karl from the 1800s..
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@daveswaninger1077 speaking of kids. I have two daughters who are now 27 and 29. Before the ex took off with them in 2001 I was teaching them all the time. They could both read and write before they were 4 years old, along with running computers. I was there teaching them when they learned to crawl, walk, run, ride bikes, talk, and the first letters my kids learned were GTO sitting on my knee at the nose of my 1970 Pontiac GTO.
All of that I did while I was working 50 to 70 hours every week.
I taught them math using my wrenches in my shop while working on cars as a side business to pay for parts to build the car I drag raced. They went into kindergarten reading, writing, and doing multiplication in their heads.
I have a divot in the back of my skull from the coffee mug their mother hurled at me while I was teaching the youngest to read. It was completely unprovoked, bipolar females don't need a reason. When the neighbors called the cops because of her screaming and trying to harm me, the cops always wanted to arrest me. Never a mark on her, and I would be stopping the bleeding and wearing shredded shirts. You never know what she was going to do. I endured it to be there for my kids.
I am a war vet with PTSD, so living with her was a living nightmare.. and I still did everything I could to protect my kids, usually from her, and teach them as much as I could. I got paid every Friday when I was between enlistments and when she had access she would have me $400 overdrawn by Tuesday. So yeah I shut off her access to the bank when she had me $600 overdrawn and hadn't paid the bills for two months and it was all turned off.
Either the good ones don't like me, or there aren't many good ones out there, because I have only met one woman who treated me well. We dated for almost 4 years, and are still friends.
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@LoveLightLiberty6868 well, my brother, every veteran I know, and myself already have made the decision what we will do. Honestly though, as long as Biden doesn't try to toss out the bill of rights whole or in part, and he doesn't continue with the selling our jobs to China, and pushing the marxist rhetoric he has been spewing, He is safe and so are the other democrats who don't do those things.
Fuck with the bill of rights, sell us out for their own profit, bring marxist bullshit back into everything, and yeah.. they are going to find out what happens when they rig an election then try to implement/force their marxist dystopia on us. I think Michigan will be the first state to get hot. If not Michigan, then Virginia.
There are over a million of us desert war veterans out here in the civilian world. We have been fighting for 20 to 30 years, and most of us, take our oath seriously even after we get out. If they think they can disarm us and get us to just roll over and take it, they really have no idea what kind of men they created with 20 years of useless war. Its exactly the kind of war they will have with all of us too.
They can choose to not do those things, because we who have served have no choice.
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More like the US helped them survive long enough to get their heads out of their asses while the US bombed Germany's industrial might into dust. Adolf shared ideology with Vlad, Joe, and Mao, who all had different sprinkles on their turds which they forced people to accept. The mistake Adolf made was declaring war on the US, if he hadn't the US would have been more than content bombing Japan into dust and not getting involved in Europe. Had he not done that, the soviets would have been pushed back beyond the Urals and the only people standing against him in Europe would have been the Brits.
Patton was right about all of them, he was not a fan of the root ideology and thus the turds with various sprinkles.
A few years after the war when the soviets shut down the trains into Berlin in an effort to starve West Berlin into accepting them as owners, the soviets could not believe how many C47s and C54s were flying into and out of Berlin and how quickly. The soviets could copy things, but rarely came up with anything solely on their own. Their space program was German, their airplanes were patterned after British and US planes, which they still do today. They have never had the capability and capacity that the US has, but they want everyone to think they were better or at least equal.
I am a cold war veteran, also served in the Gulf War and Iraq War. It was surprising to me in 2001 when I was loading Russian IL76 and AN124 which are copies of the C141 and C5 flown by the USAF. I went from the Berlin Wall coming down (have a nice big chunk of it on my shelf that I knocked off in '89) and seeing the AN225 at the Paris Airshow in 1989, to loading Russian planes in Kuwait in 2001, and again in Korea in 2003. The differences in the Russian and US planes is a lot more than superficial, it takes several hours to load an AN124, it takes roughly an hour to load a C5. I know the capabilities and differences of both air forces, particularly in logistics which was my job. If you can't do logistics well, you are not going to win.
Already Russia is having a hard time in Ukraine because of logistics. They suck at it to understate their lack of capability.
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@Lyba 🦋 the first thing that attracts my eye to a girl is her shape, curves are nice to look at, the next thing is her skin tone. If you take 5 girls, all with the same shapes height etc. I will gravitate towards the darker ones first. Its a preference I have had since I was young, I'm not as attracted to a pale girl, and far more interested in girls who vanish in the dark when they close their eyes and dont smile.
I understand what their thing is, they are trying to vilify men. Whatever we do, say, think or like is bad, whatever girls do is good. Its part of destroying the family, and it works because now society sees men as the problem in everything.
So I am not allowed to have a preference according to them. I should get with a 300lb glow in the dark trans 'woman' so 'she' can take my house and future income instead of someone with two X's doing it.
My first ex and her friend told me that I needed to hand over my paycheck to her, and she could decide what to do with the money I earned. Didn't matter that she was and is horrible with money, they claimed it was DV to not give it all to her. When I still didn't hand it over to her and let her write checks on base (bad checks by spouses result in lost stripes and less pay in the military) she took off with my kids and moved them 1500 miles away. Then was rewarded for doing it by my home state.
Its been 9 years since I divorced my 2nd, and while I have had girls in that time, none of them have been a girlfriend. None of them will ever be a girlfriend. None will ever be a wife of mine. The risks are too high for me to want to bring someone in, and the expense in money and time is too great for what I get in return. From my perspective, its not an investment because she can leave at any time and take whatever of mine she likes with her.
I still have my preferences, I still like girls a lot, I treat them well when they are with me, but the commitment is gone forever.
According to society and the state, anything I do is bad when it relates to females... other than just handing over money to them for no reason and receiving nothing in return. I am not alone, men are realizing what I have known for years, that it is nothing but risk, no reward, no incentive, regardless of what shade her skin is, or where she is from. I would date a girl, but even with my standards being so low they are a painted stripe on a smooth surface, most girls today can't get over that.
So if you found a man brave enough (or ignorant enough of the laws) to marry you, by all means, hang on to him. Another one might not be so readily available in the near future. Both of my ex wives are alone, unwanted, and broke. The 1st turns 50 year after next, the 2nd turns 40 this year. I met them both when they were 20 and 21 respectively. 8 years with both of them.
They chose poorly to say the least. Want to know how I am doing? heh.. I make videos of what I do in my free time.
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@Niever Korea had other issues about it, such as the US did not want to bring the soviets into the fight, so it was a limited action. Human waves do not fare well against US forces, and that is what China used. Interestingly its what Iran and Iraq both used when they fought each other.
As for Iran, the mountains would make it take longer, but the outcome would be the same. regime change and insurgency, which is exactly what the D's want. You see, that is highly profitable for them, a low intensity thing that stretches for a couple decades, they can make money from it.
Until recently when the D's started funding the other side of this current thing, they just gave Iran something like $6 billion and the dude before the cheeto gave them a couple billion, the US did not supply anything but humanitarian aid to Iran since 1979. They got all their stuff from the soviets, and the F14s were unflyable until well after the USSR collapsed and the USN stopped flying F14s..
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@jasonblizzard9635 I have daughters, I bought them pistols and got them concealed carry permits. Even though my youngest is 5'7 and can whup the shit of out of other girls easily, she can't hang with a man smaller than her.
Also know a 300lb fat chick who can lift more than any female I have ever known, but she would get her voluminous gelatinous ass handed to her against the average male. Give her a sword and she can fuck someone up though.
Always found it amusing when someone would say Rhonda could beat up almost any man. I am 52, out of shape thanks to war destroyed joints, but I have had plenty of training in my youth, and I am not exactly the fat guy I make myself out to be. Rhonda would have a hard time with me, since I can pick her up with one hand. I can throw 200lb guys around easily.
It would be damn difficult for the owner of XX chromosomes to hang with someone half my size, let alone someone like me who is in shape. In 2003 I benched over 500lbs,of course its easier for a 5'8 man to lift heavy like that. Makes me wonder how much I could still lift if I got back in shape. Well over 350 for sure.
I can still do all of it, but it hurts for weeks after rather than hours or a couple days. Ended up having to defend myself or get beaten from 7 to 16, have over 200 wrestling matches with a winning record from high school to base level in Europe when I was in the military, and lots of other interesting training. So yeah, I get it.
I call myself the sweaty fat guy to put people at ease around me. That and starting up banter with clerks when I go shopping, it keeps the sheriff from calling me and telling me I can't go there anymore. Happened twice.
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I am all about green energy, actual green energy, not the mass produced, centralized distribution trying to make it fit the fossil fuel mold and infrastructure. Green is not supposed to scale up well, its supposed to be produced on site and used on site, not shipped hundreds or thousands of miles several times. Make it where you use it. The idea of one large bank of solar panels in the desert, then wires taking the energy all over the country is stupid. Wind farms miles from anything are equally stupid. You lose a lot of energy in the transmission, you add cost and complexity, and you still have the problems associated with fossil fuel electrical production.
Farms had windmills for pumping water, enough water for the farm only, not the entire state. I collect tree sap then make fuel from it, which can also be used for antiseptic, degreasing, and even party time. Produced here, used here, no middle man to tack on his few cents to each gallon. If I can find a Stirling engine large enough, I will be able to produce all my electricity. Its not so much about saving money there, its more about having reliable power. The longest I have gone without the power going out for seconds to days has been six weeks. Its off all the time around here, and I live in the lower 48 states.
Cities are why we are stuck on fossil fuels, because you have to take everything into a city, nothing is grown or made there. Its collected elsewhere and shipped to the city, that is food, fuel, raw materials, and everything people want or need... and then you have to move all the waste out of the city. You can't tap your maple and birch trees to make fuel ethanol in the city, you can't grow enough of anything in the city to sustain the people living there, it all has to be brought to them.
My tree sap vodka fuel costs me ten cents a gallon to produce it. Roughly a week's work collecting the sap, setting up the fermenters, then running the stills. A week or two while the yeast do their thing, and a day or two cleaning. Next year I will be able to fuel all my vehicles all year with what I produce. Gas prices will be very expensive, and I will be driving old, over powered hotrods and 4x4 trucks.
I don't need some super wealthy asshole telling me how to live, what I can do, say, or think. I can handle myself quite well without their input. If they want to make parts for me, that is not a problem, if they want to dictate to me how to live, then we have a problem. I'd wager I know more about me living than they do.
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The founding was in 1776, abolition of slavery was 1863, thats not even 100 years. Where does this 200 years come from? There is always a claim of 400 years of slavery, but then they claim 1619 was the first slave brought here, lets see 1863 - 1619 = 244. No wonder they claim math is racist, it doesn't fit their narratives. The democrats pushed segregation, Jim crow, and all the other racist crap until they realized they could not prevent minorities from voting... so they instead decided to give them just enough to get them to vote democrat, but not enough to make a difference in their lives. LBJ actually said it outright.
There was no swap of the parties to where the republicans became the racists and the democrats fought for civil rights, the democrats are even now pushing segregation based on race and gender... and doing so while bragging about being marxists no less. When did people forget or not learn about 1917 to 1989 and the horros of eastern Europe during that time? The bill to remove the civil rights act from California nearly passed, you know the part where they can't discriminate based on race, religion, or gender.. they want to discriminate based on that. Its all they know how to do, they are no different than the democrats from 1840 to 1964. They are the same party, the same type of people, they only changed who they pander to.
How long until black people and other minorities wake the hell up to what is being done to them by the democrats? They are still on the plantation, but instead of picking cotton they are farming votes. I suppose it is harder to be responsible for yourself, to put in the work required to get ahead, and to accept the risk that comes with leaving a democrat run shithole and going to a place where you don't know anyone, I mean I did it... and yeah its some work. However, its far more rewarding then allowing yourself to become dependent on the government and beholden to it for everything.
I risked my life in service to my country from Reagan, to Bush, to Clinton, to Bush Jr, I came home from the desert in 2004 broken and unable to work a normal job. They treat us like a nuisance, a problem they want to get rid of so they can spend the money in places that ends up in their pockets. What do people think will happen when the government provides health care for them, and gives them money every month just because they exist?
Will they be treated better than our veterans, or worse?
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@nikoryu-lungma fresh and fit and their ilk are pushing a different idea than what RP was and has been. They use it to get some, and RP knowledge can be used that way, because its simply about reality rather than narrative and wishful fantasy.
The metaphor used in the matrix movies can be used to describe religion, ideology, cults, and society itself. Once you see it for what it actually is, you are no longer held by it, but you can go in and mess around all you want like Neo.. heh.. They use that knowledge to get spicy time.
Masculinity is on a downward spiral because fathers are not allowed to be in their kids lives, unless they fit the narrative. Mothers throw dads out unless they obey ever without question, because thats what society tells her to demand and do if he doesn't obey.
You have a few men who lead the family and the wife knows her job is to support him, while she also knows if she leaves him she will never get one better than she has now. My brother has that going on, his wife is one of very few women who has earned my respect.
Men follow competence, capability, knowledge, and its all based on merit. You must earn your place among men, it is not given. Leadership is important, as is honor and loyalty, if a man has none of those three, he is an outcast and rightfully so. If a woman has none of those, she is simply female. Its not her job to be a leader while honor and loyalty are not useful for her. She is different than men. It is what it is.
I learned about leadership in the USAF, who was a tyrant, who was capable and competent, and who was under the impression that they needed to micromanage everything and everyone.
The weak ones became tyrants. The incapable and less than competent were not respected. The NCO above you having no loyalty to his subordinates was far less effective at motivating people. You have to fight for your guys when they deserve it, not jump on the bandwagon and bash them yourself.
I was the type of NCO who treated them like adults, here is your job, go handle it without causing damage to anything. I would watch what was going on as I worked with them, and if someone was being unsafe I would address it with them. The only time I ever raised my voice was to be heard over jet or diesel engines. People liked working with and for me, because I knew what the hell I was doing, I fought for them when they needed me to, and I worked along side them in the weather rather than sitting in an office somewhere.
I had military and civilian air crews asking for me personally, by name, to come work their planes, because everything went so smoothly and any issues with the cargo were addressed right there quickly and efficiently.
I found that being really good at what you do means you get to do more of it. Before I got out on a medical in 2005, they had me supervising ten airmen in two different duty sections on two different shifts, I only worked with two of them. Also I had 12 extra duties, including safety NCO and vehicles NCO, which meant I was often staying well past my 12 hour shift's end to handle things, I usually got 4 to 6 hours of sleep 2003 to 2005 and went without sleep for 2 to 5 days several times while I was in.
Leadership and masculinity go hand in hand. Decisiveness, being able to function under incredible stress, and making good decisions every time is what earns respect from subordinates.
People will follow you if you are competent and can solve problems and get the job done. If everything you do fails, they will not follow you. If you have no idea what you are doing, nobody will follow you. If you demand they obey and demand they respect you, they will not.
All of that is lost on young males today. They have no idea how it works or why.
Females can't really grasp it either, they think being a Karen is being a good strong leader, they have no freakin clue how it works. The worst NCOs I had above me were weak males and females. Capricious, vindictive, petty, and they mistreated me because they were intimidated by me physically and mentally. They outranked me because they had been in longer.
I could write a novel on what those poor 'leaders' did to me over the years, just because they could. Several of them ended up with bad conduct discharges for what they did to me. I vowed to NEVER mistreat anyone like they did to me and to defend other members from being mistreated like I was.
You're right about fighting, in the respect you described it, and also in being capable of inflicting grievous harm on others. Every male knows that there is always the probability of a disagreement going physical. Standing your ground to someone who is obviously more dangerous than you are is either foolhardy or brave. Which that might be depends on your competence and capability.
Men are both simple and complex, as is masculinity. Most people simply don't know what it is, but they will have an opinion on it based on people like Tate and Fresh and Fit... rather than on someone who actually deserves it.
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@manbearpig9911 while that is part of it, a larger part is the attitude of females. When I say hello to someone out of politeness, and they come back with "I have a boyfriend" or "I'm not interested" but they are lucky I even acknowledged they exist, there is a problem. Large unattractive females do this all the time, and its amusing. The reason being they think they are entitled to the absolute best.
I am not looking for one, do not want one, and have no interest in living in my car after a judge gives her the land I bought and paid for, then rebuilt my life on it. Thus when I extend a verbal greeting, all I am doing is being polite. I'll be 54 in a couple months and I do not have enough life left to rebuild again, so I am permanently and intentionally single.
Along the lines of what you stated, there does need to be incentive for young men to pursue young women. There is none. Even if they aren't over 130lbs, they are delusional and reprehensible for the most part. They feel entitled to everything being given to them for free, and some simpsdo that.
Around here if she isn't too large, she is using a few too many adhd meds or the Walter White version of it. I live in the north where people suck, go 50 miles in any direction and they seem to improve a little though. Have to drive 7 hours to find anyone worth saying "How you doin" to.
Its more the attitude than the size. Eastern Europe, most of Asia, and a good bit of Africa are much better for finding women worth speaking to. I haven't been to South America yet, but the women I have met from there have been almost completely unlike the ones here in the US and western Europe. They are still female and will do all the female things, but they are much more realistic and far less entitled than the dregs we have here.
The Russians I was getting with in Korea 20 years ago were super hot, you knew they were in country for the money, but they were much better women than in the US.
Yeah I have had lots of them, all over the world, every color on the planet. The attitude here has gotten worse, and the risks are too great for men to commit to them. So they are being cast aside and ignored, except by the very select few men who have the most options, who will only use them and never wife them.
That same thing was being played out on military bases overseas 30 years ago, and now its here for everyone to enjoy. Thailand has some of the best looking women on the planet, so does Togo but Togo is dicey to visit.. lol. Meeting Arab women like I did in 1990 is damn difficult, but if you get one you will have one of the best wives you can possibly get.
The US is dregs... and I have two daughters in their late 20s, so its not like I want them all to fail, its that they are going to. They will fail because they listened to the wrong people, made poor choices, and now they are unwanted. Millions of women with nobody who wants them, because of what they have done to themselves and the actions they took.
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I made absolutely sure to have something to do to avoid my ex... and the massive drama involved, 100% caused by her. Did not matter what I did, there was always something to start a fight about. Also, the way it was supposed to work according to her, was I go work and hand over my entire paycheck for her to spend as she sees fit.
I let her 'handle the bills' for two months and came home to a house no the electricity, water, and gas turned off, with two mortgage payments missed. Not only that but we were $450 overdrawn. Yeah, her access was removed after that. The bank wouldn't let me remove her, so I closed that account and went to another bank, opened one and did not add her to it.
The entire time she had access I was overdrawn 3 days after getting paid. I NEVER bounced checks or even ran close to the account being empty. I got paid every Friday one check covered the mortgage, bills, car insurance and two weeks of food, leaving the rest of the month to get ahead... but oh no... if there was money in there she HAD to spend it, and even when there was no money she had to spend it.
2001 she filed and took off with my kids. 24 years have not improved her situation, its much much worse now. My life is going pretty good, and in June it will be ten years since I was released from child support payments going to her.
I know what this guy is avoiding. Its the exact same mentality on display here.
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This is really simple, but you can bet your ass that the talking heads on TV who look down their noses at us, have no clue what I say below. This is why Don Lemon asked if a black hole could swallow an airplane. Its also why the talking heads ask "how does that make you feel?" because they can't think of anything more pertinent as they are small minded. All they know is how to read the teleprompter and not use profanity on TV. I would fail miserably at not using profanity on TV.
Electricity is kinda like water flowing through a garden hose. The amount of current flowing through is voltage. The pressure behind it is amperage. The resistance to it passing through is measured in Ohms. If you know two of them, you can figure out what the other one is. Ohms Law states the current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the voltage across the two points. .
Here is how an airplane flies. The curve going over the wing creates a low pressure area as the air velocity increases, so the higher pressure under the wing pushes the wing up. A carburetor on an old car works in a similar fashion. The air travels through a venturi, which is a hole with a pinch in it. At the pinch air speed will increase and lower pressure. If you put a tube in that low pressure area, the atmospheric pressure on the other end of the tube will push fluid up the tube into the venturi, If you want to know more then Bernoulli's principle, which states that an increase in the speed of a fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in static pressure or a decrease in the fluid's potential energy, is a good place to start.
Distillation. If two liquids are mixed together, but have different boiling points, you can run them through a passage that allows the higher boiling point liquid to condense and fall back down, only allowing the lower boiling point to escape. e.g. Water boils at 212F at seal level, ethanol boils at 173F at sea level. As you raise the pressure of a liquid, you also raise its boiling point, if you lower the pressure you lower the boiling point. That is why your cooling system of your car is pressurized and why it takes longer to cook rice at 5000ft above sea level than it does at sea level.
Did you know that when you burn ethanol, which is vodka/whiskey/beer/wine (and supposedly found in trace amounts in White Claw), in an engine you only get H2O and CO2 exhaust as a byproduct? Yeast eat sugar in an oxygen free environment and produce ETOH and CO2. That is how you make vodka. You make whiskey by aging it in a barrel after distillation. Wine is made differently, but its still ethanol in it.
The Otto cycle for internal combustion engines is the 4 stroke cycle. Its suck, squeeze, bang, blow. Intake, compression, power, then exhaust. A two stroke has a compression stroke and ignition every time the piston goes up, power and exhaust every time it goes down.
Rifles and pistols have rifling in the barrels to impart a spin to the projectile, which stabilizes it in flight and increases accuracy. Shotguns usually have no rifling, though you can get slugs that have rifling on them so they spin and increase accuracy. A clip holds several rounds loosely, often used to fill a magazine quickly. The magazine is where the rounds are stored ready to fire.
Its really fun stuff learning all of this.
Imagine all they know is how to look good on TV and ask stupid questions trying to make other people look as stupid and ignorant as they are.
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What keeps me awake at night, is thoughts like "Will I get all the cars I want to build, done before I leave this plane of existence?" or... "What can I do to improve my health despite my permanent physical limitations?" While sometimes its things like "Are we headed off the cliff and into the abyss that swallowed eastern Europe 105 years ago?" but that is far less often. Tonight, I am simply not that tired, which is strange because I have been up a long time today.
I question everything, and am open to having my mind changed about things. I like to know that I have accurate and correct information. That comes from being a gearhead, I want to know that my diagnosis for a vehicle or machine is correct, and solving the problem that caused things to go wrong. I don't jump on the bandwagon and blame whatever someone tells me, I find out what the actual problem is. If it matters to me, I test it. If it doesn't matter to me, such as esoteric questions like 'how did we get here?' I don't spend much time on it. Can't test it, can't know really, we can only guess, and I know some people assume everything 'poofed' into existence. Whatever works for ya... I have more pressing questions on my mind.
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@@C.a.r.m.e.n I've had lots of them, the hotter they are the worse they are between sheets. The hot ones feel entitled and put in no effort. The homely to basic looking ones put in effort, and when they haven't gotten much attention they go the distance eagerly. Some of the best mouth hugs I have gotten were from virgins, and yeah I was the first, when you take one you definitely know it. One was religious, the other was homely enough to be 21 and never go on a date. She is 41 now, still mostly thin but the years have not been kind. Her sister is 38 and still quite cute though... she is a 304 too. the religious one is now 60, we hooked up 33 years ago.
The more they just lay there, and the less effort they want to put in, the more tab D's they have had. They fantasize about it even more than we do before they get their first, and they want to try everything, its like opening up achievements in a video game for them. They are going through the motions once they have had more than 3 or 4 guys. Been there done that and the contents of his wallet are all that matter to them after the first two.
Make no mistake, even homely large ones can get 15 guys per month if they want to.
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Mission accomplished.
My last deployment in 2004 left me barely able to walk for the next ten years. I do not pay income tax nor do I pay property tax on my 13 acres of woodland.
The fixed income is a pain in the ass, I am not allowed to earn more, thus to do things I enjoy doing, I have to limit expenses. My largest expense is energy, food, fuel, electricity. I live in the woods, in a house I build, and am debt free since Feb 2021. That means I can grow my own food, produce fuel for my vehicles from cattails and tree sap, coffee grounds too since I am working on that right now. I am not required to pay tax on fuel I produce, on fuel I sell, and I do not sell any. I am working on producing electricity myself, since the grid is very unreliable here. It went out 27 times last July alone, and was off for 9 hours on the 22nd of December last month. I can heat my home and my shop with sawdust and woodchips in a compost pile, it produces 140F water for six months.
They still get me on sales tax, so the car parts and supplies still garner them taxes.
The result is I am getting paid by them because they owe me for breaking me, and I minimize how much they get back from me. I am working towards never needing cash or an income. Its funny how I can use green energy and make life better for myself, but when the gov tries to force it on everyone it makes things worse. Could it be that government is full of inept and incompetent people who have no idea how to improve anything? That was my take while I was in the military.
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@Disturbed how old you look depends on genetics, some people age better than others. I am 53 but I get hit on by college age girls often. I was mostly on night shift when I was working outdoors, and UV light ages you faster. Look at a 35 year old white girl who tans daily since her teens, she will look like a wrinkled up leather handbag. They see the gray beard and hair, but still assume I am much younger than I actually am. Its kinda amusing to be honest.
I've noticed Asian girls age better than European girls, but around 65 everyone looks pretty rough. African girls do too, they have VERY good UV protection naturally. Just how it is.
Here is where most girls in the US, UK, etc screw up. They land a man in their early 20s, then at 30 they decide they want a different man. Problem is, nature has its way with them, and they will never get the same quality of man they got in their early 20s. That played out with both my ex wives, a bunch of girls I dated, and many others I have known over the last 50 years.
For girls: Get a good man in your early 20s and hang on to him tenaciously, keep yourself in good shape, take care of yourself and him. Otherwise, boxed wine and cat land will get another resident.
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The rear steer and less than wonderful sump on the mopars definitely hurt them.... however....
The chevy NEEDS the aftermarket. They are barely adequate engines in stock form. Most of the chevy vehicles were fleet vehicles, taxis, delivery vans, service trucks, etc. Thats how they sold so many, its not because they are the best by any stretch. The magazines and companies like Edelbrock saw all those engines out there in trucks, and realized that even if they aren't that great they can sell LOTS of parts and advertising for them. Blow it up? No problem go pull another one out of a truck or taxi, stuff it in and blow it up too. Same sort of thing with the LS right now, you can buy them dirt cheap in rusty old trucks.
When Bunkie Knudsen took over Pontiac he saw that they were an old man's car, and he knew there was a huge number of kids coming of age... the boomers. He said: "You can sell a young man's car to an old man, but you can't sell an old mans car to a young man." That is when he decided to take Pontiac racing, and they had a GREAT engine to go racing. There is a reason Mickey Thompson used Pontiac engines to run 406mph in 1960.
From 60 to 63 Pontiac was dominating racing, NHRA, NASCAR, endurance, road racing... and they were starting to sell as many vehicles as chevy was.. GM did not want the Corvette to play second fiddle to anything, so they did everything they could to hinder and hamper Pontiac, which is why the 63 racing ban happened, along with threats of breaking up the company due to market dominance.
You can see articles in old HotRod magazines where people were stuff Pontiac engines in everything to go fast, even a 56 Thunderbird and tri five chevys... with Pontiac rear ends because the chevy rear ends were like glass compared to the beefy Pontiac pieces. The 8.2 chevy was far weaker than the BOP 8.2 rear end, when I was building lots of transmissions, the chevy Th350s had stamped steel apply pistons, Th400s had fewer clutch discs and frictions, and weaker servos than Pontiac, Buick, and Olds transmissions. chevy was barely adequate.
That barely adequate meant they were plentiful, but you had to spend a lot more money to get the sbc to the point where a Pontiac or Mopar was in stock form. The ball stud rocker arms came from Pontiac, and engineer designed them in his basement for the new Pontiac V8 that was supposed to come out in 1953. They held it back so the sbc could come out with the same rocker arms, instead of the shaft rockers that were planned for the chevy. Pressed in studs were factory sbc stuff until 1996, Pontiac went to screw in studs for 4 barrel engines in 1967. There are so many things about the sbc that are just lazy design, like wet head bolt holes and as cast combustion chambers. They really are pathetic little engines.
Its just simple numbers, they made a metric crapload of just good enough chevy engines, and Chrysler was late to the performance game. Vic Edelbrock pushed the sbc, because if you have a plentiful engine that needs aftermarket parts, and you happen to make aftermarket parts for engines, then you will sell lots of parts to make the crappy engine better.
Somehow people lost their freakin minds and assumed chevys are good, and they also assume they are cheaper for performance engines. When you have to replace everything and do a ton of machine work, then swap gears, a big stall, and then spin it until the rod bolts are screaming in pain, its not a good engine design and its not what you can call cheap. Sure you can buy cheap parts for them, but they won't last long, won't make much power, but they are cheap. The LS engine is a good design, but aftermarket parts are not cheap, most factory stuff is though.
I would have gotten into mopar more over the years, I really like Darts, Roadrunners, and E bodys, but damn they cost so freakin much to make them fast. My Pontiacs were so simple, a mild cam, headers, tune the Qjet and HEI, use the stock converters and rear gears, then the heavy cars from the 70s would move real well. Made lots of chevy guys whine and ask how much I was sprayin it.
I got into 351C 4V powered Fords for a while, those engines are crazy powerful, but hard to find since they were only produced from 1970 to 1974. Its so easy to make them fast, intake, cam, headers, and sometimes gears.
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recession coming? Ok I will order my car parts this month rather than waiting until April. Have to rebuild my 69 GTO, 68 Firebird, and I might as well get sheet metal for the 70 and 72 GTOs, too and the fiberglass front end for my 68 LeMans. A set of cylinder heads for the engine I plan to put in the 69 GTO.
Its nice being debt free and single. I busted my ass and sacrificed to get debt free in 2021, after being divorced in 2013 and I was left homeless. I have no plans to monetize my channel, but I do plan to show people how to produce cattail and tree sap vodka/ethanol fuel, and detail the car builds.
I'm watching to see what happens with the big things in the world, but going on about my life. learn how to do more yourself rather than paying others to do it for you. Growing food, producing energy, rebuilding vehicles, building a home inexpensively... live frugally so you can enjoy things you won't be able to otherwise.. like eating meat since they want you all weak and dependent on them.
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@bigbaderek1978 what will people put up with for longevity in a product? Do they expect it to last more than 3 years? I'm talking about planned obsolescence. Also what is the bare minimum of quality people will buy?
For instance the sbc is a barely adequate engine that was a few cents cheaper to produce than much better V8s from GM. People would put up with the lack of power and mileage, because it was a lower initial cost due to GM making a couple billion of the things.
"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
John Ruskin
The battery is barely adequate for the application, not enough juice in it to run much more than the vape. And like you said, they short out often. You are trying to equate the power demand of a vehicle to a vape? To hell with relative size comparisons, an EV has to have vastly more capacity and also voltage to run it than a vape does. Even an RC vehicle has a higher demand than a vape.
Start with Ohm's Law and go from there as you learn about electronics and electrical circuits. Electricity is very well scienced out, you can figure out exactly how many amps and volts are needed to do a specific task and extrapolate that over time. The variable is resistance and energy lost to heat.
Until people who adore these EVs learn more about electricity and electronics, and compare it to other modes of transportation, they will continue to think they have a wonderful thing.
EVs are essentially useless where I live from November to May, because of the limits inherent in them. They are also a huge fire hazard because of road salt, which is slathered on the roads heavily during winter. They work great in warm areas with short commutes, but are crap when it comes to long distances and cold weather.
You simply cannot get around physics, and unless you discover a room temp super conductor and a vastly more efficient battery design EVs will remain toys for people who can afford to risk burning their house down.... and those who don't realize the hazards, limits, and drawbacks.
They can be quite fast, but that speed is considerably more expensive in an EV.
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@barrycuda3769 I like that aroma too, RC planes have a unique scent, its unmistakable. I still have some glow powered vehicles, but my brother went all electric. His wife is allergic to something in glow fuel, she breaks out in hives and can't breathe around them, so he flies electric.
The larger radial glow engines sound amazing too, different experience than the high pitched prop noise of an electric.
Since I make ethanol to power my muscle cars, I have been thinking of getting some of my RC engines to run on it, mix it with canola oil and see how much power they lose compared to methanol. There is a lot more oxygen in methanol which is why it makes so much more power than other fuels, but also you use a lot more of it. people confuse methanol and ethanol all the time, thinking they are the same, but they're not. Ethanol you drink, methanol makes you go blind or evicts you from your meat suit.
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Its not about equality, its the victim olympics, whoever is the biggest victim wins. They say equality but what they mean is forced mediocrity, because to make everyone equal they have to hold back the people who do well. You can't make a stupid person brilliant, but you can hold back the brilliant individuals.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote about it in his short story Harrison Bergeron.
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
NOBODY is equal, someone is always taller, shorter, stronger, weaker, smarter, less intelligent, attractive or ugly. Humans, like everything else on the planet vary wildly in physical attributes, and everything competes for survival/reproduction. Its how evolution works, and mucking around with the evolution process with humans causes problems. It never works out well because people have a large amount of variance.
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I like new tech and old engines, I mix them often. One thing about new tech is cost. Someone might think a 350hp $10k engine is cheap, if I sink that much into an engine it better be making 700hp/tq at least. I'm working on retrofitting LS EFI to other engines, since I have a ton of that stuff laying around now. But...
People say my Pontiacs are too expensive to build. Yet I can use factory parts, a factory sized cam with a tighter LSA, run a cheap set of headers ($175) and make 550hp easily, without a power adder or spinning it over 6000rpm. All of $2500 with some ported heads, that is a fresh rebuild with a .030 over bore. Then I can drop it in, connect two wires, then make it run with an HEI and a Qjet. It will also get 15 to 20mpg depending on what I put it in. Yeah you can make that power with a new engine too, but its going to cost you a lot more. It alsosucks working on them.
I like my LS engines, and I can get them cheap enough, but parts, all the stuff I need to work on them, and making them fit in my old truck, hell I can make a Pontiac 400 pull the truck around for less, and make the same power. I've been messing with 1999 to 2007 trucks and what a pain in the ass they are. Sure they run great, drive nice, and I can drive it until it rusts in half and never care. Pain to work on.
I like playing around with EFI, its something new to learn and I can do things with it I can't do with a carb. I have a FiTech on my 65 GTO, yeah I have issues once in a while, but I have no problem figuring it out and fixing it. I love building carbs too. Really it depends on what I want to do with it as to which way I will go. Lately which transmission I want in it figures in..
New cars are appliances, they are get in, and they run. There are no special instructions, no unique things you need to do just to drive it. They are dumbed down so they can be driven by idiots that only know where to put the gas. I don't need the car to do all of that for me. The more it does, the less I like driving it.
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@jpjpjp453 I never looked into his wing, I was active duty USAF under Reagan, his dad, and him. Missed most of the Clinton years after the drawdown made me Mr again in 92, but thats how I got back in for my second war. I spent quite a bit of my adult life on the ramp and have been on every C141 and C5 the USAF had flying in 90-91.
Grew up under a training area with F111, B52, and all kinds of fighters flying tree top training. Made me a huge aviation geek. However, loading cargo on planes for months at a time with no time off and severely busting my ass kinda made me less thrilled about airplanes. Airshows are like work to me.
Give me a P40, P51, P38, or F6F any day though... or a MiG21 and a T38 for high speed fun.. a T28 T6 would be cool to have too I guess. But I am a poor crippled cargo guy, so I do muscle cars instead.
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@deplorable_bitter_clinger7482 102/106 had a different job than the F4, the wing shape shows it. High speed run down the bombers as far from the targets as possible, kinda like Bf109s and FW190s, short range, high speed. The F4 had longer legs and could do other roles, like like a P47 or P51. They found out in Vietnam that the gunfighter is not dead, and F8s got plenty of kills with guns. The 102/106 isn't going to turn well, but they can haul ass.
The 105 was slow until you dropped the externals on it, then it was Immelmann/split S and GTFO. The 102/106 was all about getting there and interdiction of bombers for a war that never happened.
Regardless of what Dubya flew, planes are fun to talk about. I know more about when the cargo birds retired from active, I was there when the last C141 retired, we all signed it at Charleston AFB. I worked the 141 on static at Charleston all the damn time when it was still active in 90-91. There is a 106 on static with a B52, F101, and F111 at KI Sawyer about 30 miles from me.
You wanna know about the C5, C141, C17, C123, 747, KC10, KC135, C130, C9, L1011, DC10 cargo birds I can tell ya all about ACL and other stuff.
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@SadRahne sure, except he ends up paying her and she has vastly more opportunity to cheat and branch swing. However, what the ladies donot realize as they are finling for divorce willy nilly at a 80% to 90% clip, is they can't get as high of quality man at 30 that they got at 20. However... a man can get a hotter and younger woman as he gets older.
My first ex was 20 when I met her in 1993. 29 when she decided to cheat and file, she is 50 now, over 300lbs, with a pain med problem, living in a small house 100feet from train tracks with coal trains going by every half hour. Her husband is 64 and on his way out with health problems, when he is gone she has no way to pay for everything. In short, she screwed up big.
The second ex was 21 when I met her in 2003, a virgin unlike the first who unbeknownst to me was the town bicycle with a doorknob on it. She decided to cheat and leave when she was 30, in 2013. She had been living off her dad, who also supported her 'soulmate' for 3 or 4 years, until her dad died back in February. She is almost 41, alone, unwanted, and no quality source of income.
My cousin's wife left when she was 32 to hook up with a 65 year old doctor who made a little more than my cousin did (he is six figures and they have four kids) She thought she could do better too, but the Dr kicked the bucket two years in and now she is alone and her looks are fading fast.
My cousin got himself a 28 year old Ukrainian hotty, its fun talking to her in Russian that I learned in Korea 20 years ago.
I am done giving away houses and money to unfaithful people, so I don't date anymore. Still hook up on occasion, but there isn't much interest in the females around here.
Once the first ex was no longer in my wallet soaking up 70% of it in 2015, I got to rebuilding my life in earnest. I own 13 acres of woodland, built a 32x48 shop and a 1050 sqft house for me to live in, and I build vintage muscle cars in the shop. I paid off the building loan and mortgage in just under 8 years on my fixed income. They wiped out all my investments, and prevented me from saving anything from 1993 to 2015. Anything I saved, the state took and gave to the first one.
I get college age women checking me out when I go into town, especially when I drive the eye searing green 1970 Cuda or the pearl blue 1965 GTO I built. So its not like I can't get one... I don't want one, because they are too expensive, offer zero benefit other than 'Oh faces'and when they decide to be unfaithful it costs me.
When you have to pay for the poor choices other people make, you lose interest in having them around. What man in his right mind will hand over everything he owns and has built just to get a younger snot pocket wrapper? Nah, its you ladies doing this, but of course when you cheat you blame him for it and say he did all the things YOU actually did. Thats how you function....
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Green energy is being used to justify their leftist ideology and actions. They don't give a damn about the environment, they want control and controlling energy is how they control you. Food, fuel, electricity... they can turn it off, they can make it too expensive for you to survive, and then graciously give you just enough to keep you obedient and subservient. Joe Potato and his cronies want to own all of us.
Here is the fun part. I am a hardcore gearhead, I love old muscle cars and drag racing. Not watching and looking, I own, build, and race, Pontiacs mostly. I own 25 Pontiacs and more than 70 vehicles total. 20 or so run, some are projects, some are to flip (trucks) and some are parts. Like I said... gearhead.
I can't afford $5 gasoline. I don't want to pay $125 for a bag of food either. $1000+ a month to heat my home is not going to fly.
My solution is to produce vodka, aka fuel ethanol. Tree sap, cattails, and coffee grounds. Been doing this since 2007, the first time gas was $5 a gallon here. I worked on improving mileage and power while fuel prices were low during the Trump administration and when the Saudis flooded the market to squeeze out the tar sands in Canada. Now I am back to making more, increasing production so I can make 1000 gallons per year.
It costs me less than $1 a gallon to make cattail vodka to power my old GTOs and 20 year old trucks. It takes one acre of cattails to produce 1000 gallons of fuel.
I am building greenhouses to grow food all year. In addition to making ethanol, I am working on methane to power generators and use for cooking. Making methane the way I do it also allows me to heat water to 140F, so I can use that to heat my home and shop.
The cool thing about green energy is we can do it ourselves and done right it can make lots more food. You cannot make gasoline yourself. You can't make affordable hydrogen yourself either. You could make biodiesel, aka veggie oil, but that takes a lot of space, still it can be done. Hemp seeds can make lots of bio-oil and hemp grows fast and profusely like cattails.
So yeah, I do the green thing.. not to save the planet, not because I am some hippie or something, but because I want to drive around old cars with big engines, making lots of noise, with ludicrous power, and heat my home on the cheap. Even if it required 2x as much fuel to get around on ethanol (methanol is like that) it would still be cheaper than gasoline, particularly when it costs me about 40 cents a gallon.
My home made vodka leaves nothing behind, and doesn't harm anything. Pump gas with 10% has a bunch of additives thrown in it, as does E85 in most places (particularly where it gets hot) that cause problems. The ethanol itself doesn't hurt anything. Been running it for 15 years with zero issues.
Thing is though, I built my engines to take advantage of ethanol, very high compression that will not run on pump gas is a daily driver on ethanol. I get better mileage with a lot more power from the same size engine on ethanol than I did on gasoline. Its all in the static compression ratio and utilization of heat. If I run ethanol in a low compression engine that will run on pump gas, it will lose 1-4 mpg every time. My 13:1 compression 455s on vodka fuel get 4-6 mpg better than my 8.8:1 pump gas 455s... and the power difference is huge.
Like I said... my thing is making it myself rather than paying someone else the price they demand for it. I build my cars from old rusty hulks rather than pay for a new car. You can see what I do on my channel if you want, just click my name.
I still need tires, rubber and plastic parts, and oil for lubricants, but I don't need gasoline. Also the entire world runs on diesel and without it billions will starve, its that simple.
There are ways we could make enough ethanol to replace gasoline and diesel, but its not something we can do overnight on a large scale. Corn is not the only way to do it, we just have so much of it we can't use it all anyway. Besides when you use corn to make fuel, the leftovers are a high quality cattle feed. More food results from ethanol production, not less, since nobody eats that kind of corn. Any source of starch or sugar can be used to make vodka fuel. Waste paper/cardboard, stale bread, Kudzu vines in the south, cattails like I do, the list goes on and on.
You can make your own fuel within a month or two, how much you need and what you have to work with will decide on how much its going to cost to set it up. Buy everything new and it gets pricey, build it yourself and be resourceful, and if can be done dirt cheap.
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I have two daughters, 28 and 31,and yeah.. their lives have been ruined by all of this. They'll never have kids, never have a family, and will be dependent on the system for the rest of their lives. They cannot overcome and build a life like we can, they simply aren't built for it. If I had sons they could be in their 50s and still have kids, but not so for my kids, they are pretty much done. I rebuilt my life at 23, again at 32, and again at 44. They can't do that to the same degree we can. They aren't built/evolved to do it, men are.
Homie has an islamic view, and its very 'mom' centric. I'm not saying its wrong, just pointing out where he is coming from.
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@albertgaspar627 in the military there was a reason for doing apparently nonsensical stuff, it was to condition us to do things without questioning certain aspects of it. Its not illegal, its not obvious why we are doing it, but we do it and move on.
The mask thing is like that, it is conditioning. Why do I say that? Because in the military I had rather extensive training in nuke, bio and chem warfare. A paper or cloth mask does fuck all to protect anyone. In a chemical or dust environment, you'll find out real fast they don't work. Bio takes longer because you have to get sick from it and that can take time. Two masks is even worse, all your respiration goes out the sides as there is no seal.
People are being conditioned to do as they're told and not to question it because its innocuous, mostly harmless, but easily discernable who is complying. Fact of the matter is most people who get it don't die, and the masks are at best a placebo, to make it seem like something is being done.
Most people are sheep, they do what they're told and they follow the sheep ahead of them. Sheep all follow, there are no leader sheep. Dogs and humans lead the sheep where they are supposed to go.
When the economy collapses billions of those sheep will perish. Its what the people causing it want. Fewer humans, because the solution to problems when you're a self absorbed elitist prick is always mass graves.
They won't be prepared, they don't think ahead, they don't plan anything, they simply do the same thing they did yesterday and think they are smart because of it. Not that preppers are the smart ones, most of them are only stockpiling. They don't know about production, making what they need.. things like soap. Its simple shit like that which makes a big difference.
What is happening is not naturally occurring, it is intentional, by design. Idiots are far too happy to comply and get their food pellet when the bell rings. The ones who have the most food pellets think they are the gods of all creation, the masters of the universe, and other nonsense. Without their money, what are they? Usually weak losers who can only exploit the system that is being crashed.
How long would Bill Gates last in hand to hand fighting at any point in his life? Pick any of these assholes, put them in a ring with someone who has been through a world of shit, and see how long the rich prick lasts.
Most people seem to enjoy being ignorant, not knowing how it works, and barely knowing how to operate the thing. The old meme is setting the clock on the VCR. Its what they are, basic followers, barely aware of the world around them, while assuming they are superior intellects.
Saw a video of a bunch of people who took an IQ test, but had to decide who would have the highest and the lowest. The one that was the loudest was the least intelligent, and they ones she said were the stupidest were far smarter than she was. She is on the mean for IQ... she is in the thick part of the bell curve, and those people think they are the best because there are a lot of them. Not much you can do about those people.
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I'm 53, been through two wars, two divorces, hundreds of girlfriends, massive stress, have PTSD, grew up in a family that mistreated me and still does now, though not physically. I do not dye my beard or hair, as I EARNED the gray. All of my jobs were of the sort that I gained skills and knowledge from them, learned things that benefit me now rather than doing busy work pushing papers around and not actually doing anything.
The USAF made me very muscular, loading cargo planes is heavy work, and I did it in the two largest airlifts in world history, (1990-91/2003-05) at the base doing most of the work with the most airplanes. They worked me so hard that my body was worn out at 35. However I traveled the world while I was in, and spent more than a few days in countries most never go to. When I wasn't being worked to death, stressed from divorce with no money, and didn't have capricious people directly above me in my chain of command, I had a great time, it was tons of fun.
At 35 I went from being a VERY capable and physically powerful man who was able to do things most people never will, to barely being able to walk and living in constant pain after my 2004 deployment. Thats the closest I have come to a crisis like these chiks are having.
I finally healed up enough that I can walk in 2013, the pain isn't so bad now as long as I have my meds and a supplement for joint pain.
I looked best in my 40s, but I still get girls hitting on me in my 50s. They're college age to older than me, trying to get my attention and get me to validate them by asking for numbers or if I can take them out.. They want the attention more than anything around here, so I mostly ignore them.
I do not regret who I was in the past, I accept the mistakes I made, mostly getting married because it cost me everything I had invested at 32 and 45. Watching everyone else around me go bald, look pudgy, and the girls who were hot 35 years ago in high school are hags now. Meanwhile I own my 13 acres of woodland, build vintage muscle cars in a shop I built on that land, and I drive cool cars I have always wanted that I collected over the last 40 years. I managed to keep most of them through the divorces. Life is good after all the sacrifices I made to get here.
Despite all the hardship, loss, and people mistreating me, I made it the best life I possibly could have, except of course for the two divorces. I would change that if I could.
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@juliantheapostate8295 yeah I left quite a lot out of my story. I was forced to stop working, the USAF broke me in 2004, medically discharged me in 2005. 100% rating from VA in 2007. That means fixed income for the rest of my life, I can't earn more than they give me. No stocks that pay dividends, rental properties, or other streams of income, like my youtube channel.
Congress decides what I am worth, and until 2015 I was left with $1000 to $1500 a month after child support took its pounds of flesh. There was no cost of living adjustment from 2009 to 2017 despite costs going up. Got a big one in '17, '18, and '23 the latest one because of rampant inflation, we got a 6% increase and congresws gave themselves a raise larger than we crippled vets get in total for an entire year.
In 2013 I was divorced, lost everything except some old cars, my tools, and my will to live. Second house was gone and I am stuck 1000 miles from friends or family. I am almost completely alone here.
I closed on my land a week or two after the divorce was final in 2013. and I have sacrificed to pay off my ten year mortgage early, and all my other debts in 2021. I sold off some old car parts, and my parents loaned me $2000 for the down payment, because both ex wives had me nearly drained.
Thats the reason I do not date, and will never marry again, nor let anyone live with me. Because a judge can just award them everything I have built and sacrificed for.
You can look up how much we get paid for being crippled veterans, I took a huge pay cut when they put me out because I could barely walk. It was less than 1/3 of my active duty pay.
I get paid on the 1st of the month, and have to stretch that out until the first of the next month. There is no way I could live in a city like NYC, LA, Baltimore, etc. Rent is more than my compensation and I am not allowed to earn more.
The bit of money I get is invested in my land, equipment, tools, and myself. Trust me, people do NOT want to have the gov decide what they are worth, because it is not very much. Look at the people on Maui, they were told they are worth $700.
Its only enough for me to live on because I do so much of the work required to survive, and I live alone. If I had a spouse its not enough to live. Thats why I produce fuel for my vehicles and have been working on green energy to heat my home, produce electricity, and cut down on my largest expense... energy.
If you look at my cars, you will see lots of $200 rusted rolling shells, and a few nice ones. I build them, because its cheaper for me to spend the hours rebuilding everything than it is to buy a new car. Can't swing a new one, newest thing I can buy is 20 years old. Newer than 2007 and I need expensive diagnostic equipment ($10k and up) to make all the BCMs and stuff work together, there aren't many low tech end arounds.
Also building cars keeps me busy, reminds me that I am not useless, and gives me a creative outlet. So I drive my art, you could say.
I make the most of the little bit of money they give me, because they broke me 19 years ago. Also have to work around the physical and mental limitations imposed on me by my injuries. So if I can do it, I figure most people can too, if they put in the effort.
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I am the 2nd of six kids, I was ten (sister) and thirteen (brother) when the last two came along, and I had to help raise them and work the farm. I have two of my own kids, when I was 25 and 27, they are 27 and almost 30 now, both daughters. Raising kids is not difficult compared to the jobs I have done in my life. CNC machinist/programmer, farming, auto mechanic/shop owner, and Air Cargo in the USAF where I lifted heavy stuff and pushed even heavier things all day every day in the two largest airlifts in world history.
Kids are easy, you keep an eye on them while you do other things, and you teach them about what you are doing. I taught my kids how to read using emblems on my old muscle cars. The first letters they learned were GTO while sitting on my knee at the nose of my 1970 GTO. Then Firebird, Pontiac, and on we went learning letters, the sound they make, how to write them, and by the time they went to school both my kids were reading high school level.
I taught them math with my wrenches, metric wrenches are great because they are longer as the wrench gets bigger and they have a number on them. Only problem (very slight) is they start around 6mm. Fractions are easy when you use wrenches. My daughters also learned about cars and trucks, because after my factory job machining piston rings, I worked on cars in my tiny one car garage. I would take them out there with me, sit them on the fender, and teach them about what I was doing. Its fun rebuilding a Th350 transmission with your 6 year old daughter learning how.
I worked 50 to 70 hours every week in the factory trying to stay ahead of the wife's spending, which is impossible. Give her any amount of money and she will have it gone and you overdrawn in a week, she will waste it on frivolous junk and have nothing to show for it. Working all those hours and still spending time with my kids, its easy when you don't waste your life watching TV.
Spending time with my kids was vastly more enjoyable, and rewarding than working any of my jobs, and I am damn proud of the work I did in the USAF. Lots of humanitarian airlift too... just sayin. Raising kids was the easiest thing I ever did. After the divorce when I would get to have them overnight while I was on leave, then for the summer after I got out in 2005, was not a problem.. once I got them to understand life is different at my house. They had things to do and there was none of the bad things their mother had them doing, like shoplifting.
The ex did her best to turn them against me, but with me they did not get screamed at, nor did they get hit, and there was always food in the house for the entire month. Their mother would rip through the monthly checks in the first week and then have almost nothing left to eat at the end. She still doesn't grasp that you have to stretch it for the entire month, and she turns 50 this fall.
I'll take raising kids over working a job any day. I would love to have someone to teach everything I have learned over the years. I had to learn it all on my own, because my dad was not someone I wanted to be around. I got hit when he was around. I left the farm at 17 and never looked back. Dad quit farming soon after that, nobody was there to do the work and farming in the 80s and early 90s was not profitable.
We finally got along somewhat ok when I was 45, and I fixed an old 1964 Plymouth for him that he had just bought. He got back into cars because of my younger brother and I being into them so heavily. He learned not to hit me anymore when I was 16, and I KO'd him. Only took one time. He is gone now, the hospital ended him in 2020 after a minor car accident when he was 76.
As for how difficult it is to make content for online? I make car videos, and I work on my cars that I show in my stuff, making the video and editing it is simple and easy. It takes a lot less time and effort than rebuilding an engine, installing a transmission, or doing whatever else. Think of all the ones on webcams, spending hours every day to get money for taking things off... Best I can do is sand the old paint off a body panel..
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My final divorce was ten years ago in 2013. Got off cheap, only had to pay her $3000 to sleep with someone far lower than me in every way. The first one was paid off in 2015, after being indentured to her for 71% of my gross since 2001. I have avoided entanglements with women ever since, and I am doing quite well, despite being a crippled war vet on a fixed income. You can see exactly how much I live on every month if you want to look it up.
I own 13 acres of woodland with a house and shop I built, am rebuilding around 25 old Pontiac muscle cars, and I do what I want, when I want for the most part. I have been debt free since 2021 with zero intentions of letting a female into my life. The judge would give her everything I have built in the last ten years, so no thanks. I am too old to do it again. She puts in nothing and gets everything, not much incentive to allow one in my life, is it?
I would be in a vastly different place in life had I never been daft enough to marry. Its not like I got to have my kids around, the state and their mom kept them from me, now the oldest is mad at me and the youngest is doing well... but I was robbed of all the best years with them. So all in all it was a net loss having a relationship. I would probably be rather famous for the car thing by now, if the first hadn't keep me broke from 1993 to 2015... especially with how yt has been for gearheads, most of my racing buddies have been on 1320video, so I would have gotten lots of exposure had I not had that albatross of a wife around my neck.
They aren't worth it, they are an expense with zero benefit to men.
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@archaelusthorne5228 well my friend, here is the difference. You relinquished your right to defend yourselves, and I remember all the smug people deriding us about 'clinging' to our means to resist. They said there was no way the gov could ever go badly...
Well we retain our means, and you are now subservient to the whims of the reprehensible sots who want the power of office. So yeah, they put the potato in, and have run everything into the ground trying to catch up to where they would have been if the cheeto had lost, but they know they cannot push us too far.
You can be pushed around as much as they like. You did not fight back when they came and told you to hand everything in, same with Canada and Australia. Now you can be jailed for what you say, imprisoned for defending yourself, your family or your property, and you are beholden to a gov that doesn't care about you for protection and your very existence. You made yourselves dependents.
The people in our large cities think and act same as you, disarming themselves willingly, clamoring that everyone should follow suit, and they have made themselves dependents of the system as well. It was all of you, the people in large cities who brought this to fruition for them. Your numbers of desperate to be dependent types keep them in power. They import more people who are desperate to be dependent, until they can take over and force you to live like you're in Saudi Arabia or Oman.
So good luck with that, I have been to Saudi and other gulf states, its actually quite pleasant provided you don't want to think for yourself or eat bacon.
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I was stationed in Frankfurt West Germany in 1989, I was 20 so I am early X. I never identified with anyone in Fight Club, probably because of growing up on a farm, dirt poor, and I enlisted to get out of it. I achieved personal goals, not piles of money, not prestige nor fame, but they were achievements very few humans ever attain due to the difficulty involved/required.
Never worked fast food, retail, or in a cubicle farm, my jobs were always technical, mechanical, heavy labor, lots of math and spatial skills were required.
If you look into me, you will see a bunch of old muscle cars, that have some value. Its not the car that is valuable to me in and of itself, its not a prize nor a status symbol, they are a means to do things I want to do. I build, drive, and race them, and rebuild them when things break. I push my skills and knowledge ever forward, doing more with less, finding the most efficient way to reach my goals. I like the challenge of it. I like constant learning and striving for proficiency and knowledge.
I see an image in my mind of what I want to build or do, then I go about making that image happen in reality. What other people think about what I do, matters not to me. Its all about my personal growth and overcoming challenges and obstacles between me and my goals. Failure is my friend, it teaches me far more than winning does, it prompts me to look for answers and knowledge I did not have before, that I never knew existed before.
In building things, I improve myself along with whatever it is I am working on. I have always seen life as a journey, rather than a destination. This step, then that step, then the next.... Never wanted to keep up with the neighbors, but funny enough they often tried to keep up with me.
The way I see life is like walking through a forest. You can't walk a straight line, you have to go around trees, rocks, streams, and sometimes you have to backtrack and go a different way, but you're always going in the same general direction, towards what might be over the next rise, across the river, at the bottom of the canyon.
Its a difficult way to live, but its incredibly rewarding. When walking in deep snow, its much easier to follow someone, and vastly easier to follow many people as they pack down the snow. However, the first one through the deep snow has to expend the most effort, and risk falling into voids hidden below. At times I will follow others, when they have a good path or idea, but most of my time is spent on my own path, accepting the risks inherent in going off where few others ever went.
Thus a cubicle job would be a prison to me. Growing up farming, working construction in the 80s, loading cargo planes in the late 80s, 90s and 00s, and now, building my home and every vehicle I drive has put me out in the weather, doing the heavy lifting, but also leading others, mentoring, and trying to be a good example to follow... and my mistakes are clearly labeled in the hope others do not tread over those traps. I do that because they are not competing with me so I will help them. I compete against myself, the man I was yesterday vs today.
If you take something I have made, improve it and go much farther than I have, thats awesome, because discovering how, why, and what is more important than accolades, wealth, or admiration. My days of serious competition ended with wrestling in 1987, my senior year when I qualified for the Nebraska tournament. The most competition I engage in now is video games and a bit of drag racing.
Wrestling and drag racing suit me, because some coach doesn't decide who plays, you as the competitor decides via merit. You're either the best that particular day, or you get lucky, and you're never the ultimate player, someone will come along who is better, its only a matter of time.
You can be your khakis or the car you drive.. the car I drive is me, its who I am, what I know, the skills I have acquired, brought into reality through sheer will, determination, and self motivation. You're probably not like me.
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@F6HemiCharger I get decades of racing and street driving from my Pontiac V8s, I've had carbs most of the time, and a TBI from FiTech on the 65 GTO's 455 for a couple years. Pulled it off last year to tune some Qjets and a Holley 780 I converted to E85. Not sure where people get the idea that old engines are not reliable.
I have a 400 I built in 1995 that has been in 8 of my vehicles, including the C10 pickup that pulled my race car to the track. It has lots of miles and no ring ridge. No idea how many miles but its done more than a few 1000+ mile one way road trips. The 455 I did with cast pistons on a budget ($1200 all up) has run in the 12s in a 4000lb GTO with 2.93 gears on pump gas, no power adder, with a stock stall, and has made several 1500 mile road trips, it was my daily driver from 1996 to 2004, raced very often, now its sitting in my '65 LeMans gasser project. I have lots of engines that get beat and keep going.
The idea old engines aren't reliable must come from the chevys, because those guys are always having to refresh their junk or it starts smoking and making less power... not that they make an overabundance of power in the first place.
I have a 92 F150 that I bought with 180k on it, it now has 300k and its very tired. A bunch of LS powered trucks with over 200k and a 98 Formula with the LS1 that is at 199k, the EFI helps them go longer, but the LS engines are made better than any chevy before them too. Idling with a stuck choke will kill an engine, and most people didn't take care of them, only thing you need to do with the EFI engines is change the oil because they know people don't know what to do.
That 400 and 455 have to be over 200k miles on them by now, they've been all over the country. None of my LS engines come close to my Pontiacs for power, not even the 6.0s I have, sure they make similar peak power, but under 5500rpm my engines crush them. Thats from an engine designed in 1954 and that engine design is making over 3300whp in a few cars.. stock dimensions and all stock parts will bolt up... and people think chevys are the best ever.. hemis and Pontiacs are the best.. honorable mention to the 351C 4V...
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Its far more than just Tinder is bad mm'kay. Boys don't learn to talk to girls, they are taught to praise girls. They are told "just be yourself and it will happen" which is what works for girls, because it used to be men would approach girls. Men don't know what masculinity is anymore. There is no incentive, no reason, no benefit for young men to date. There is however, massive risk for them if they start talking to girls like I did when I was their age.
I am 53, 5'8, and a muscle bound freak of nature, think power lifter rather than body builder.. I look like a gorilla. I get attention from girls of all ages in person. Online its crickets, one reply in thousands of messages sent, and actually hooking up with them is very rare. So I don't bother with online and apps.
I developed my ability to talk to girls in the 1980s, and I have perfected that skill over the years, so I can get with 20 somethings all the way to girls close to my age. The problem is, even a girl I am just being nice to by speaking to her thinks she is better than I am. They have so freakin much attention coming in that they assume that snot pocket is platinum plated.
What that means for us is the girls who think they are better than we are will often accuse us of naughty things like SH, just because we aren't good looking or tall enough for them. They assume they are better and deserve better. They think, erroneously, that they deserve the best, tallest, wealthiest men on the planet. Never mind that is a vanishingly small % of males. Over 6'3, making $100k... yeah, that guy can have as many girls as he wants, but he won't be putting a ring on one any time soon... unless his looks are meh, like Cleetus McFarland. Waiting for that divorce announcement in a couple years.
Having been divorced twice, living in my car for two years each time, losing almost everything I worked for and built because the state gave it to them... I am disinclined to go out and meet girls. Besides, I have had somewhere between 150 and 200 different girls, I have found they are all pretty much the same, just the wrapper changes.
Finding a girl worth my time is nearly impossible. I am debt free, currently building an engine for one of my cars with a machine/parts bill that is around $13k and will make 1500 to 2000hp with 10-20psi, own 13 acres of woodland, several vintage muscle cars, and I have a big pile of cash in the bank... just 8 years after my final divorce. Its all passive income, I get money for simply existing because I put in the work in my 20s and 30s.
Imagine where I would be if I hadn't had everything taken from me and given to a cheating harridan twice already.
What I require in a female is for her to be feminine, under 130lbs, not over indulging in substances, and she has to be pleasant to be around. THATS ALL IT WOULD TAKE. Any color, age, height, whatever. Its a freakin painted line on the ground and they trip on it. They are simply not worth the time and effort it takes to get to know them and the risk of false accusations.
If they are single at my age, its most often because she made poor choices in life. The 20 somethings want to have fun, so they get nekkid with the gorilla looking man a few times for the experience and excitement of it. 30 somethings want to be able to stop working, and they can tell by looking at me that they are not my priority, so they won't get the cushy life my two ex wives got. Over 40 they are desperate for any attention, but still think they deserve the best. Nobody said females have to make sense or use logic.
One thing that is ubiquitous among all of them, is they think the taller guy will be better for them, so they jump from my ship to his, and he uses them for a bit then dumps them. Its happened so many times that I will predict it and tell her what she will do. They always say "I am not like that, I won't do what those girls did" then they do it and I am like... "told ya so."
With the laws and society so vehemently against men, they would be daft to get married and make commitments to these girls. The girls have every incentive to treat him like crap, cheat on him, falsely accuse him, and trade him in for cash and prizes the state will take from him and give to her.
So what if the young guys aren't getting any? THESE CHICKS ARE NOT WORTH THEIR TIME ANYWAY.
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@mastersnet18 ah I see... you have never dated Russian speaking women, or Finnish women. Or you are a 'big' one trying to feel better about yourself. They are not starving, they eat well, but somehow aren't as freakishly huge as US and UK women.
Then we get into Asian women... they look tiny compared to burly US females and the buttergolems you see waddling into Walmart.
You also don't seem to remember the 60s to 80s when the average female wasn't 165lbs. I wrestled at 167lbs my senior year in high school, and I could bench press 265lbs. Benched over 300lbs less than a year later and that was just from doing construction work. A female who weighs that much (160) is not an attractive one.
I have a friend who is 5'1 and at 120lbs she sees herself as a short Lizzo.
Now the real question is how do I still pack on muscle in my mid 50s, while eating only 1500-2000 calories a day? Sure I work harder than most 54 year olds, and have in the past to get all this muscle, but how is it I keep putting on more? I can lift 500lbs and carry it easily, as long as I don't rip any connective tissue.
I eat very light, no processed stuff, protein from lean meat, the only sugar I get comes from fresh fruit. I bake chicken, dice it and put it on a salad, and for the other meal during the day I usually grill something in warm months. No sugary drinks, its simply ice water. Yet here I am 5'8" and 320lbs of muscle, with very minimal time in the gym. 1500 calories maintains my weight, to lose it I have to put in an insane amount of work and limit my food intake to 1000 calories a week. I call it the Auschwitz diet. I don't do it often.
My guess is its something in the food in the US. Someone wants us to be obese.
FYI the USAF made me this big and packed most of the muscle on me. It was not my choice, I loaded cargo planes and when there is a massive airlift to support a war, we got worked harder than most people can imagine. It also means I traveled the world, and I met women from four continents and ate the food there.
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@SamsonDerrer I watch these videos to find out if they are accurate or not. This guy is operating on 20 year old data at best. Particularly the parts about how promiscuous girls are, as if they're reticent to get busy, and how they chase after the same select few males.
I saw that behavior in the US military 30 years ago on overseas bases and 20 years ago in stateside bases. Pretty much everyone is in shape, so it comes down to how tall you are. If you are 5'8 like I am you are accused of harassing a female because you said hello in passing.
Happened to me four times, apparently I was not good enough to extend a verbal greeting as is the custom. My solution was to stop talking to military females unless it was mission essential. I did VERY well with the girls off base in the US, Europe, and both ends of Asia. I had Russian speaking girls that made the most attractive military girl look plain.
When you shower girls with attention, they start to think they are all that, and that they deserve the absolute best. My first base overseas had 6000 single males, and 300 single females, so the females were constantly getting attention and the chunky plain ones acted like they were superstars. We had a euphemism... desert 10s.. She is a 2 in the states, but a 10 in the desert because we outnumber them, if there are even any females where we were deployed.
Now that is happening in the civilian world. Its the same dynamic playing out. When I got to Korea 20 years ago they separated the males and females. We were told to go talk to the Russian girls and to NOT get with the military females, because they would all get the same group of military men and when one of them picked up an infection, they ALL had it within a week. Females are showered with attention and validation now.
I can see how the kids in their teens to early 30s are timid, afraid of approaching, and talking to girls, because they have had it drilled into their heads that they are horrible very bad no good people. They have been made effeminate and as un-masculine as possible, so they do not make panties damp as its said. They are like desiccant for girlbits.
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@tyd8077 you're not the only one finding a dearth of reliable people. I have two daughters, 26 and 29, they can't find a decent man either. I blame their mother, she got full custody when she decided she could not control me, so she needed to find someone she could control. She ruined the lives of my kids.
I get plenty of attention and have since my teens, despite the fact I am 53 years old, 5'8 and have never been wealthy. Its a dominance thing, and the muscle helps.
What I find now is your peers want the attention and validation of having me hit on them, get their number, then when I reach out to them to set up a meet, they decline over and over. If they do agree, they flake every time. They just want to have us give them attention.
That has lead to me making some rules.
If she isn't eager to get to know me. Ghost.
If she gives three one word replies in a row. Ghost.
If she doesn't respond to the first contact after the face to face. Ghost.
If she declines a meet and does not give an alternate time. Ghost.
Any sort of irrational behavior or being argumentative, entitled, demanding, or controlling... Ghost.
That is if I take the time to act on the obvious interest I get when I am in town. Usually I don't because its a waste of time. I am more than happy to live alone, in the house I built, on the land I own free and clear, building muscle cars in the shop I built, going drag racing around the country all summer, and not having to spend money on someone who will just decide someday that she isn't happy or wants to try out a fireman... who will dump her two weeks later.
Seriously the last one I was seeing long term did exactly that. Lovebombed me for over four years, then wanted to break it off so she could try a different guy. She has been cycling through guys at the rate of two a year, and she turns 51 this year. Why do I want to waste my time and energy on someone who will leave on a whim no matter how I treat her?
I am not overly interested in your peers anymore. Too much hassle, two divorces where they took everything but rusty old cars. They were rewarded for doing everything wrong, and I was punished for what they did. Now only ten years after my final divorce, and 8 years after paying off the child support for the first one, I am debt free (since Feb 2021) and own 13 acres of woodland. The last thing I need is for the state to decide that one of your peers is entitled to everything I have built, and leaves me with nothing again.
So its real easy to say no and find reasons to disqualify girls who break my rules.
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My cars on ethanol sit from November to May because of the snow. I live in the north where people travel for hours to come here and ride snowmobiles. There is a trail running along the back of my property, I get snowmobiles and side by sides all the time. My cars are covered with snow, as in buried under it from December to April. They do not move. At all. I have zero problems with water separating and getting sucked into my carbs/injectors. Why? Because ethanol bonds to water and allows you to burn it with no detrimental effects. Its the same process as HEET and Drygas, which use methanol and isopropyl alcohol to do exactly the same thing.
Small engines, including two strokes, will run no problem on straight ethanol. The problem is, the two stroke oil yo mix with gasoline does not want to mix with ethanol. However, castor oil, canola oil, veggie oil, etc will mix with ethanol and burn in a two stroke. I have run my chainsaws on canola and hydrous ethanol for years. It does tend to start harder in cold weather, but they make more power than on gas, and everything stays very clean.
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I was in the USAF for a long time, medically discharged when they worked me until my body said NOPE. In my time, I got very adept at repairing, rebuilding, and refinishing cars. I did it for second jobs and ran my own shop for a while in the 90s. I helped a friend out last week when the differential bearings went out in his truck, I replaced them which is a somewhat involved project, but not overly difficult, still the average person cannot do it.
I do that from time to time, when I am not building my own stuff, if someone needs help I might offer it. Now if they feel entitled to my continuous help, its going to be more difficult to get me to do something. Help me out later when I need it, and we are good. he and his daughter helped me work in the shop, moving parts and cleaning up from the builds last year, so they invested before I did. They can benefit from that help from me for a long time, but since he is a veteran too, he will help me next time he gets the chance.
Nobody has to coerce nor require me to give anything to anyone, I can manage who gets assistance from me and who does not.
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Trepidation prior to painting makes sense. You're actually using the stuff you just invest $600 into for materials, and knowing that if you screwed something up, got something contaminated, didn't have the pressure or pattern right for the gun, and then if you make runs, sags, orange peel, or any number of other things you can screw up, then you now have to spend another week fixing the screw up taking the paint off and now its $1200+ just to make the car a single color.
that is why I learned how to do all this stuff using $30-$100 a gallon implement enamel on beaters. I did metallic colors because you have to shoot them a specific way. Solid light colors are easy, so I made it more difficult with dark metallic colors. That way i can see very easily what I did wrong and learn from it.
I shot the 68 LeMans with $30 tractor paint and an $8 HF HVLP gun in my dad's yard, on an unseasonably warm Nebraska day in January 2015. It came out good, and now after sitting outside the entire time it has the perfect patina that makes it look like a beater pulled from a pasture. which is exactly what it is.. with a 550hp 461 Pontiac stuffed in it.
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@LionHeart0808 I will be dead before that happens. They are already trying to outlaw replacement parts. You are aware that every gasoline fueled engine will run on other fuels, right? Many with minimal changes, two of which are VERY easy to produce yourself. Ethanol and methane are simple and easy, but methane has limited range, you need a rather large high pressure tank to run it. Its super easy to make a lot of methane though, its naturally occurring. The high pressure stuff is what is hard to do. It does better than hydrogen though, and hydrogen takes a shit load of electricity to produce.
Ethanol is a bit more involved, but none too difficult. If a few people in a community learn how to produce it, and the rest of the people bring things like tree sap, cattails, or any other starch/sugar, even waste paper, its easy. Most of the work is done by yeast, and you can build stills out of PVC as long as its not directly attached to the boiler, you need a hose that can stand the heat of the boiler, while not transferring it to the PVC. Copper is easy to work with, but has gotten a bit pricey lately, and finding copper pipe over 2" in diameter is hard these days, but you can form sheet easily enough.
The reason they want everyone to have no choice but EV is simple, it only works in the urban areas, because to get the range needed for rural areas is prohibitively expensive. That will force people to live in cities where they can be controlled easier.
They can shut off the power, water, heat, and food, what will city people do about it? Obey and submit, thats what. They cannot produce their own food, water, power, and fuel. Too many people crammed into too small of space, so they are all dependent on the system to bring everything to them.
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@masterblaster1502 its not just those guys. I saw this every time I was stationed overseas, going all the way back to the 1980s. Picture this:
You're in a country that does not share your language.
3000 to 6000 single men on base.
200 to 300 single women on base.
Most of the men are in very good physical condition.
The number of times an attractive man will say hello, flirt, or give attention to the females in a day is astronomical. Just from attractive men saying hi, she will get an inflated ego, and assume she is the hottest thing under the sun. Any man who does not measure up to her now lofty standards, is seen as beneath speaking to her.
That process takes less than a year to be complete, and every 2 will believe she is a 10, just from verbal greetings in passing. We called it golden kitty syndrome. Using the P word instead. (GPS)
The other thing is what happened in Korea 20 years ago, I was there 2002-2003. I hd stopped speaking to military females way back in 1990 after the first three asserted my hello was untoward.
During the process of briefings for the new base, the men and women were separated. An NCO from medical came out and told us men flatly. DO NOT SLEEP WITH MILITARY FEMALES. He said go off base and meet Russians, Filipinos, and Korean ladies.
The reason being is that all the women on base will stay on base, because they have ZERO value in Korea, nobody off base wants anything to do with them. They are relegated to the men on base, and they will forget they are married within the first two days of getting there.
Because of the GPS, they would ALL hook up with the same ten to twenty men on base, the tallest, hottest, most promiscuous men who can take several of them back to his room every night if he wants and have them all. Yes, that happens.
What happens when they are all sharing the same men who are the most attractive? Well one of those guys goes slumming off base, picks up a passenger that gets spread to the other females on base, who give it to the other guys who are daft enough to hook up with military females, and suddenly every female on base is in the medical building getting smeared and cured. Five or six guys catch it along with the one who brought it in.
Today its in the rest of the world. Women can get that verbal greeting from millions of men. A dating app is where men have to fling messages to hundreds of them a day just to get one reply.
Take 2000 men, making 100 to 300 messages a day, and suddenly the females are inundated with attention. Now make it the billion or so people on that app, sending messages. The 300lb mom of two I know gets 300 to 600 messages every day, and you can see on her pic she is not tiny.
Its not so much thirst as it is the way its working, men have to 'hello' and 'hru' thousands of them to get one to simply reply. They don't know any better, and they keep doing it because they have no other options. Every so often a 'female' will reply, but its usually a bot... just to keep him there and entice him to pay to be able to message more of them.
20 years ago I got lots of them on the apps, because not many people were using them. I haven't used any online thing since 2014. I met one woman on there who wasn't repulsive in person, and we saw each other until 2018. She and I are still friends, because she is cool. I got her because I was funny, didn't do the hey bb hru thing, and I knew the difference between innuendo and double entendre. Mastery of language really helps.
Now you could say its my age that makes it useless to use online dating, and in some ways thats correct. They see 54 and even worse 5'8", at which point they nope out of there. However, in person, I get a ton of college age women flirting, hitting on me, and wanting to get to know me. You should see old women's faces light up when I say hello or even acknowledge they exist in stores. I get LOTS of smiles and submissive looks.
The problem online is there are just too many people saying heybb too often, because eventually it might work.. sorta.
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They could have captures that rain and had plenty of water on hand, but they decided not to. Capturing rainwater is intensely simple, even on a large scale.
I collect rain water because no public water is available here, and my well is VERY slow producing, less than half a gallon in two minutes. The well works ok if you have LOTS of time and let it recharge several times with the pump off so it doesn't burn up. Takes days to fill a 100 gallon tank. I have collection on my shop roof which is 48 feet long and 40 feet wide going into 275 gallon tanks. A light mist can fill a 275 gallon tank in about a half hour. A heavy rain can fill a 5 gallon bucket in about 8 seconds and the 275s are overflowing in ten minutes from bone dry. I need more tanks for my home grown cattail vodka fuel project... working on that.
The reason my well is slow is I live above 300' deep sandstone, and while water flows through it, the flow is not very fast. The well goes 30' into the rock, so its nice and clean, but its too slow to use for anything. I have to filter the rainwater if I am going to drink it or use it for cooking, but really I only need it to take a shower, do laundry, and make vodka fuel.... and wash the cars once in a while.
I am not daft enough to live in a desert and expect to have a green lawn. I have the worlds largest freshwater lake a mile from me, and you can drink from it directly no need to filter it. However, its currently 11F outside and I have a few feet of snow on the ground. That weather keeps the types away who do the sort of inept malfeasance we see in California. We still have that type of individuals here, but they are ousted from positions where they have any authority when they display their inability to manage simple things like water reserves.
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@watsisbuttndo829 yep, behind a 455 they live about two years while driving 'spirited' on a stock type rebuild. Needs an adaptor plate, get the one with the pilot bushing for the converter hub. That reminds me, I need to find the hub for mine.. Its around here somewhere.
Behind a 400 it should be fine, provided you don't drive like I do. Definitely use the lock up feature, its super easy to make it work, and you don't need a bunch of special stuff, a couple switches and some wire.
The driveshaft will have to be shorter, unless you have a Th350 from a half ton two wheel drive pickup, like a C10. The A-F body Th350s are shorter than the pickup units.
I like a 455, highway gear like a 2.73 to 3.42, either 2004R or 700R4, and a 27" or 28" tire, still hauls and loafs down the highway just above idle. 455s don't care how tall the gear behind them is, they'll pull it. More than 3.55 behind a 455 is a waste, unless you have big enough heads to flow more than 310cfm so it will turn more than 6500rpm... and the forged rods and light pistons you'll need for it to live.
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@BADCOMMENTSCOMEFROME I figured you'd come back with that. Probably because you have had fewer than 5 in your life, because you cannot attract them.
I did not set out and never tried to have a high number. I was looking for someone with whom I could spend my life, create memories together, raise a family, and enjoy life.
As I dated more of them, they all tended to do the same or similar things. I would treat them well, trust them, then they would cheat and get dumped.
Others, the majority of the notches, were one nighters. They wanted the silver back gorilla to fling them around a bit, and then they were good. They wanted the memory, and would then find someone like you with a thicker wallet so they could remember me while giving you the birthday romp once a year.
None were strippers, two I met in a club/bar, and for the most part they all disqualified themselves.
Over the years it occurred to me that the less I cared about them, the more I didn't treat them well or trust them, the longer they stayed and more well behaved they were. Its just how they are.
I gave all of them another chance when I got with my second ex wife back in 2003. She seemed different, she was a 21 year old virgin, and is quite intelligent. However, she is socially inept to put it mildly. All in all she was quite wonderful despite being somewhat homely. I would have stayed with her the rest of my life, as she got less and less attractive, and she looks rough at 40 let me tell ya. She decided to lie, cheat, and send me to jail for something I didn't do back in 2013.
Since then... after two divorces, I advise young men to avoid marriage because of the risk. I am not alone in this, the divorce part of my story is ubiquitous, millions of men have similar stories. Living in cars for months to years, being indentured for decades, kept impoverished by the state, their kids kept from them by capriciously vindictive harpy ex wives... and then being blamed for all of it, when the ex wife is the one who destroyed the family.
The last one lives in Chicago, she is wonderful too. Mexican Apache from New Mexico. Amazing southwest cooking.. The 7 hour driving time to see each other was too much for her after 4 years. If you asked her about me she would tell you how well I treat women, how driven I am to make my plans come to fruition, and how difficult it is to gaslight and manipulate me. She is still a very good friend, we talk several times a week.
She will also tell you that getting me to commit or even express an affirmation of affection is impossible. I will never do it again, because every time I do, they screw me over.
I did not find my forever wife, which is what I was looking for. I gave every size shape and color the opportunity, they all failed. I suppose if I wanted to be controlling, overbearing, and the like, one would have stuck around longer.
How many times should I keep trying to find one who is loyal, moderately attractive, feminine, and pleasant to be around before giving up? I mean around 200 got nekkid, who knows how many either passed on me or didn't measure up to my very basic standards..
So yeah.. its definitely me... because I didn't control them like a piece of property.
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SA is no problem for me, I have PTSD which means hypervigilance keeps me aware of EVERYTHING. I owned a bike when I was 21 and stationed in Germany. Let a friend ride it, didn't see either one of them again. Not the reason I have PTSD. That summer we lost 4 guys on base to bikes. Over the years I have lost more friends on bikes, usually its people hitting them or pulling into their path that gets them. I haven't ridden since 1990, the year he got splattered a week before the guy who lived across the hall from me went into the trees. Simply lost interest. What my mom had to say about it didn't matter.
As for death and having to be aware while driving, my summer daily is a 540hp 455 powered '65 GTO. The new cars might have plastic fascias that are easily ripped off, but under that is a high strength steel cage. The ol GTO is some thin stamped steel spot welded together with a frame under it that bends when you pick up one corner with no body on it. The new cars cut through the 1974 and older cars like they are tinfoil. I have one tiny mirror on the drivers side, and the small rear view inside. I have to look to see if someone is there, and I am always hyper aware of idiots out there trying to kill me in the car I built. Death is only one inattentive second away in that thing.
The cars I build are faster than most bikes, they work good for getting girls. I build them for me to have fun, just happens that girls get wet riding in my muscle cars. When your daily driver has 540hp/600ftlbs without a blower or nitrous, and only 3200lbs, its lots of fun when you mash the loud pedal.
Where I live is an amazingly scenic place to go for a ride. Worlds largest freshwater lake, forests, water falls, ancient mountain ranges, its really beautiful here. We also have deer, black bears, moose, elk, mountain lions, wolves, and all the small stuff like porcupines, coyotes, foxes, badgers, trash pandas, etc. You really don't want to hit those critters in a car, and sure as hell not on a bike. A moose is gonna shrug it off then stomp you into the ground if you hit it. Gotta be aware or death comes to hang out with you a while.
I get thousands of bikes going by when its warm, snowmobiles go by all winter. I just don't have the desire to go ride.
I have a bike, been rebuilding it. Its a tiny old Gallera sold by Sears, just a bit larger than a moped really.. figured why not do something with it and I got it dirt cheap. Not going to ride it on the roads because it is fat man in a tiny jacket aka elephant on a unicycle. But I will rebuild it and make it look cool, then putt around the yard with it.
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@imXenoid really? Perhaps you should take a self assessment. I have lived in cities, like Charleston SC where a light snow flurry that doesn't even collect on the grass causes panic and people buy all the bread and bottled water in the stores.
Where does that bread come from? I wonder. (nice pun eh?) Where does all the stuff in the store come from? How does it get there? Is it produced locally in the city?
Nope, its brought by trucks, after its moved by trains. What happens to the city when the trucks stop running? You're about to find out in Canada.
The stores have at most 3 days worth of food at any given time. People have at most 3 days in their house, and most people don't stock up. They can walk to the store, or go out to eat when they feel like it, so why have extra packed away?
They are dependent on the trucks, and the system around them that produces everything they use.
If the trucks stop running, I have food for more than a year. I get snowed in often, the power goes out randomly and can stay out for days... even in summer with beautiful weather. I can produce my own food, and working with my neighbors we can produce more than enough to survive.
Wood heat is what most people use up here, because the power goes out often, propane is hideously expensive, and CNG isn't available except near the cities.
I can produce fuel and teach everyone around me how to do it as well, I make it from tree sap and cattails. Its caveman tech, so anyone can produce vodka fuel for their vehicles, generators, light, sanitizing, antiseptic, and party time. Its quite simple really... Making any vehicle run on it is simple as well. I do that too, its kinda my thing.
Where are you going to get enough of anything within a city to support the people living there?
You're not. They are dependent upon everyone outside the city bringing them everything they need to live.
You want to come out here with other city people and try to take what I have? Let say you survive the encounter and take everything. Its unsustainable, because you have to keep going farther and farther out and engaging with more people, then you have to haul it all back. Doesn't take long before everything is gone, or costs you so many people its not worth it to go take it.
You'll be starving in a week or two rather than 3 days... if you don't spring a bunch of leaks trying to steal from someone like me. :)
I am not a prepper, I just live in a region where nature tries to kill you, so we tend to plan ahead for things. I make food and fuel because its vastly cheaper than paying what someone else demands I pay for it. Saves me the limited cash I get so I can spend it on other things, rather than all of it on staying warm, and eating. Its how I build and drive multiple vintage muscle cars and live debt free.
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@Motor-City-Mike I figure with my engines I will just go for the grunt and let them work. No need for high dollar parts and the lightest most expensive stuff out there, make the torque for as long as possible over the widest RPM range I can get, then have it push a tall gear.
For tuning, I know what engines want for the most part. It changes some if its a grunt engine or an RPM mill, but get it to breathe and feed it enough fuel, its going to make power.
Funny thing, my 11 second dirt cheap 455 wanted 52 degrees total timing with closed chamber heads from a '67 400 and 110 octane race gas. It had 11.3:1 so race gas was a must before E85. Back it down to 42 and it lost over half a second, go to 36 like the chevy guys say to run, it slowed over a second and was now well into the 13s. everyone assumes the balancer slipped, but it was dead nuts at TDC. It wanted minimal timing from idle to 2800 or so, then as much as it could get. So I ran the vacuum advance off the port that doesn't have any vacuum until the throttle opens, with a very fast curve, it hit 2800-3000 and the advance shot up like crazy.
Thing drove wonderful, and despite when it had 4.10 gears (slowed it to consistent 12.0s@115) and an 850 double pumper, it got 13mpg highway turning 2700-2800, staying out of the advance if possible. It made no sense to the chevy guys at all, and I can tell when I am talking to someone who actually owns a chevy but is in a Pontiac group. They always say to do the wrong things. Same with the ethanol, you can spot the guys who have never run it, or think its the same as methanol.
I never got into turning left, cost too much and ya can't drive it to work legally. A set of tires lasted me like 4 years, they go through four or five sets a weekend. I didn't have a pickup and trailer until I had been racing for three years. Built the trailer and traded a Pontiac 400 block for a 76 C10 shortbox with a tired 305 in it. Kid brought me a .030 over block, crank and rods with the truck. So essentially I got the truck for free.
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I bought four 20' containers, and built them into a two story 1050 sqft home, for about $20k. I own the 13 acres of woodland its sitting on, and also have a 1500sqft shop where I build my hotrods (also produce fuel for them so I don't have to buy gasoline). Take two and stack them, put another 13' away from those two, and a fourth on the side between them. Slanted roof with a loft. The top, side, and rear are opened up so it gives it a much larger feel when you're in here. I have it insulated pretty well, and heat with wood and a compost pile. I have way less than $100k in my home, including the land, shop, and house.
I don't want a big house, have no use for it. This is temporary while I save up to build a log cabin that is just a bit larger than this. The ex wives got the houses before this as a reward for being untrustworthy, so I fully intend to live alone out here with my huskies and build muscle cars/hotrods. My closest neighbor is a quarter mile away, through the woods, on the other side of the highway. I also have a range (yes THAT kind of range) on the back side of my land, and parking for the 50+ vehicles I currently own, most of which are parts trucks right now. I have about 25 keepers I need to rebuild.
Someone I dated back in the 1980s lived in a trailer park, that was a nightmare compared to my home.
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I have no problems with people who have lots of money, or if someone makes more than I do, or is given more than I have. I really do not care, and I do not think they took it from me to get it. I am concerned with my life, and rather than wanting things taken from others and given to me, I have always wanted to know how to get my own. I learned what I had to know to get what I wanted, and money is NOT what motivates me.
That is why I build my old cars rather than buy them, because I can afford it that way, and I enjoy doing the work. Thats why I built my house rather than buying one for a lot more money in a city. I can live in the woods away from people, grow my food, produce fuel for my cars, and even have unclothed ladies walking around my yard.
What I have a HUGE problem with is wealthy people using all that money to tell us how to live, or to buy legislation that benefits them at our expense. Rockefeller and Hearst both did that 100 years ago, Gates and others are doing it now. They think because they have more money that they are better than us, smarter, like they know what is good for us and that we should all do as we are told.
I do not need them, do not need their ideas, and I do not need the be guided through life. I am smart enough to figure it out on my own. The ignorant and dependent people huddled together in cities with their hands out begging to be governed harder might not, but I can.
They also like to pull up the ladder so to speak, make it extremely difficult to impossible for anyone else to make money like they have. They buy legislation to achieve that. after they have made theirs. They think its a zero sum game, just like all the people who are pissed that Bezos or Musk have more money than they do. That is scarcity thinking, the same as assuming that women are rare... There is what, 3 billion women on the planet?
Having the gov meddle in business in any way is ALWAYS a bad idea, because they will do what benefits them. Also the people in gov are usually not the best and brightest, they are more often the C and D average students. I was in the US military and I have to deal with the gov all the time, trust me.. they are NOT brilliant.
Having corporations is not a bad thing, having them buy legislation IS A BAD THING.
My man, the thing you need to wake up to is the left is NOT about making life better for all of us. They are about consolidation, and a union is easier to 'handle' than a thousand independent machinists. They give you a little bit, take a big chunk of your pay, then coerce you to do their bidding, and you have to go along with what the union decides. You do not need a union to work together, but the union does make it easier for them to make you obey and do what they want. No, I am not against unions, but I am against them being used in this manner, as a form of coercion and overt influence.
The left is all about top down authority, you obey or you get removed from the world of the living. They like to claim the right does that, but they also blame the right for everything the left does. The cronies who are buying influence and legislation are not on the right, they are authoritarians, and that puts them solidly on the left. The R's are not the right, there has been an influx of some in the party being on the right in the last few years, but all the old ones are on the authoritarian side.
When I was a teenager in the 80s they both went after music and video games, trying to ban things, regulate them, censor what they did not want to be said.. BOTH "sides" did that. They are still trying to do that, and the old ones always will.
My suggest as a man in his mid 50s is for you young guys to get involved, but also to educate yourselves so you don't fall for the bad ideas being bandied about. All you need to do is look at Europe in the 1900s to see just how bad an idea the left has had. They have been behind everything that is making your life worse, less fulfilling, and less than enjoyable. Learn to spot them, its easy because their rhetoric stays the same, with some nomenclature adjustments. Its always victim olympics, oppressor oppressed.
They have so many assertions about this or that, and precious little of it works the way they say it does... but it sure as hell works wonderfully to delude the masses into thinking they are trying to help while they ruin your lives and limit your opportunities. 'Blame others for what you are doing' is their modus operandi. Look at the big cities, they complain about red lining and other things, when THEY ARE THE PEOPLE WHO DID IT. They are really good at convincing people its the others, but its them. Its always them making things worse for us and better for themselves.
They are not going to help you, give you free stuff, or save you. The corporations don't get that money and property for free... they are bought and buy people in office in a mutually beneficial system of corruption.
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I kinda agree with you, but many more laps around the local star has endowed me with a perspective outside yours. I am not afraid to espouse my ideas or thoughts. I am not a conservative as I like positive change for a reason and change itself is not a justifiable reason, but I too am completely done with the leftists. I am atheist but completely done with the left. They are following an abhorrent religion called marxism, and I can't get behind that at all. I am a red pilled and essentially moderate military veteran who has a chunk of the Berlin Wall sitting next to me I knocked off in 1989, which reminds me of why I fight marxism.
I am not passive, I am not simply allowing them to do as they please, and I am sure as hell not trying to placate the marxists. So far, the powers that be are allowing them to run wild, probably due to optics as it makes the leftists look like the resentfully violent spoiled brats they are. However, if they go too far and enact certain laws that are over the line in the sand I have drawn, they will discover just how not passive I am. What I am saying is, it is not bad enough yet to warrant nor justify the actions I will take when the legal system fails.
Wait for the opportune moment to lift the curse...too soon and you fail, too late and you fail. There is a window you must pass through, more like a keyhole, where the hole is open and aligned. If you miss that target, then you have to bash the door and go all frontal assault.. Going off too soon means you are left hanging out there in the breeze all alone, and you end up hanging for it.
At the moment, I am using words and educating people on what is going on. My intent is revealing the ideology behind their actions. I will continue to do so until the time comes for me to pass through the keyhole.
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Have had the kid at O'Rileys looking everywhere for the port to check the codes on my 65 GTO and 70 Cuda. Maybe I need to get an email tune for them. On my 70 GTO (yeah I have a few cars and trucks) removing the hood scoops and leaving the holes in the hood open, dropped .2 in ET at the strip. 12.80 to 12.60 by removing four 3/8" nuts. That is a 4100lb car, 8.8:1 compression on 87 octane, 1 5/8" headers with a Qjet, no power adders, 1900 stall, and a Th400 turning 2.93 gears. 455s and 400s stroked to 461-489 make fun street engines.
One of the funniest things I saw was what happened to a friend that had a 99 Z28, he took it to a tire shop to get drag radials put on. The guys at the shop put them on the front of the car. We all found that amusing. Then they sold him a muffler it was 3" in and out, the guys said it was really popular with the import guys. He could not figure out why his car would almost stop running at 3500rpm. Turns out the inside of the muffler had a 1.5" diameter inside it, with 3" connections. Had to tell him to stop going to that shop, because they had no idea what they were doing.
Its lots of fun having the import guys with turbos thinking they are the baddest thing on the planet. The Neon guys are usually worse though. When they try to 'street race' a 11 or 12 second car its hilarious. Everyone thinks they run nines until they take it to the track and it only runs 15s.
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@Something-tz2vw lots of people speak English, and if you have learned an Asian language, Russian is super easy. There are no silent letters in it, and you can put the words ins just about any order and it still makes sense. Learn the alphabet and its not too difficult.
However, Russians and soft men do not mix, you have to be hard minded and stoic with them. Also be ready to punt her to the curb at any moment and never look back. They'll do exactly that to you if they find you soft and compliant.
I'm winning too, I own 13 acres of woodland near Lake Superior, have no debt, and I build old muscle cars for fun. I have between 25 and 35 Pontiac GTO/LeMans, and Firebird Formula/TransAms. With a passive income so I don't have to work for a living, I can do whatever I want all day. I choose to produce fuel to run my cars, improve my land, and build increasingly faster and or ludicrous cars.
Can't remember if I bothered to get some last year or not, haven't yet this year. I just don't care about it anymore. Part of me thinks I should find a cute Asian or Latina, but the rest of me doesn't want the expense and drama. Wyte ones can forget it, they have proven themselves to be undesirable.
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@manosijroy8282 to be honest man, you don't want to have a conversation with them. If they are from anywhere outside the Russian speaking areas, you're not tall enough. If they speak Russian, you aren't assertive and confident enough, they will destroy you. The fact you're timid and shy bears that out, I am not trying to be mean, I am giving you facts.
Get your parents to set you up, unless of course you're from one of the bottom two castes, in which case.. look to Africa or south east Asia. That caste system is jacked up.
No matter what you look like, if you're timid they are not going to like you for anything but an emotional tampon at best.
Want confidence? Get into BJJ or some kind of combatsports, get proficient at it so you can actually win matches. Dangerous men are not timid nor unconfident. They have proven to themselves in the crucible of competition, thus they do not need to prove themselves to others. I wrestled in high school, and I was the strongest and toughest kid in school because of it. I was a monster. Then I enlisted in the US military, got more training. Trust me, they like dangerous men.
The ones who look like me are a problem far more than a benefit.
I was 'seeing' an Indian who went to uni here, her family is from the 2nd from top caste, she was all about status, she liked me because of the blue eyes, assertiveness, and how I intimidate almost everyone. She is 32 and alone now..
Sure, they initially like me because I have blue eyes and light colored hair (before it went gray), but if I was not confident, assertive, and absolutely fearless, they would not like me. I am 5'8" and I do not appear to be wealthy, I tend to hide that part of me as I prefer to look nearly homeless. It is a good filter to tell if they actually like me or not.
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@manosijroy8282 I would advise you to NOT get married, but that is based on how things are here in the US. I never made it to India, have wanted to visit, but it never worked out. If the laws are different there, then sure go for it. Its nothing but risk for men in the US, UK, etc. Zero benefit for us.
Doesn't matter if you and I are taller by 5 inches, if we aren't over 6' the pale ones are going to say we are too short.
Read the part about getting into Brazilian Jiu Jitsu or some other sport like it. That is what you need more right now, you can do it along with Uni. Build yourself mentally and physically. That will make a HUGE difference in your life, it certainly did in mine.
I was 25 when I got married and had kids, then divorced at 32. While its good to start early making a family, its something men can do at any point in their lives.
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I noticed that the apps were only giving me the dregs, 60+, 200lbs+, and it was rare I even saw anyone on them that was acceptable. That was ten years ago, when I was 45. 20 years ago I was able to meet someone online, because not many people were there and it was sorta new. Now at 55, its really not worth it for me to bother. In public I get attention, they say hello or hi, smile then look down and away, which if you know what that means... Online nothing, and I doubt its any better now than it was when I stopped looking. Sure, I am old but when 20 year olds flirt with you it means they don't want to know the number. Also most guys my age are not attractive at all, they never built themselves in their youth. I am too busy doing my thing to bother with dating, two wives set me back decades, so I don't need another one doing the same again when I am too old to rebuild.
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One of my favorite things is taking what seems like pedestrian, garden variety engines, putting them in whatever two door I have laying around, spending as little cash as possible, and getting at least low 12 but usually 11 second time slips. I have to admit its easy to do with a Pontiac, and you can tell everyone your 455 is really a 350 or 326, because you have to actually look close to see what block it is. You can run 12s in a 4000lb car with any gear taller than 3.55, basic D port heads, stock intake, Qjet, and a mild cam that is no bigger than factory cams, but with a tighter LSA. Stuff that same engine in a 2900lb car and tens are easy for about $5k total outlay, including purchase price of the car.
Been doing that since the 1980s. You can go kinda nuts and spend a ton of cash to go slower, I've watched lots of people do that. Usually they put a 4.56 gear behind a 455 and wonder why it only runs 14s, when my 3.08 - 3.42 geared 455 is running low 11s in a 3750lb car. More isn't always better, unless you start with a small engine, in which case the deep gears are required... like the 340 in my Cuda, it wants more gear but I like driving it on the highway, and I have other cars to race.
I don't ever sell the cars I build, drive, and race, so I don't care what its worth. Unless of course its one of the rare and desirable ones I have, then I care how much they're worth. I'm not going to carve up my numbers matching 455 HO car. When I can pull a $300 two door LeMans from a pasture, toss $3000 at it, and run fast enough to be told not to come back until it has a cage in it, well... why would I ever sell it anyway?
I am 52 and I love doing the low buck beater that moves pretty good. Part of me wants to throw a turbo at something and run 8s, but I am having too much fun with 11-12 second daily drivers.
I have a build waiting for me to get to it, a 72 Ventura I traded for some Chevelle seats 20 years ago. Have a virgin 400 short block sitting on a stand, paid $100 for it along with some RAIII heads that went to another project. A Th350 sitting around I rebuilt back in the 90s for $120. (yeah I rebuild everything myself, saves money). Got a locking diff from a 2002 Suburban, they have 8.5" ten bolts under them, and 3.42 gears that will go in the 8.5 under the Ventura.
Plan is rings, bearings, oil pump, used flat tappet Summit cam I have on the shelf, used Comp spring, and a $250 set of 72cc big valve heads. The 3000 stall I've been tripping over for the last ten years needs a home, so it will go in this thing. Won't touch the body, leave it ugly and bashed, but clean and paint the underside, rebuild the suspension and brakes, then see what it does in anger. Goal is 11s for less than $1000, with no power adder.
Yes it will get lightened as much as I can and keep it looking stockish, it is manual steering, brakes, windows etc already. Would be super easy with a 455, and I have one sitting here that pushed the 70 GTO into the 12s with a 2.93 gear at 4100lbs, but I want to know what a stock worn out 400 will do with the right combination of factory parts. Besides that 455 cost me $1800 to build back in 1995, so its over budget.
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@albertgaspar627 been collecting Pontiac engines since the 80s, still find them occasionally, and people know I am looking for them. So they tell me when they find them so I can go get it. They're still out there, and even the 557 blocks can be used for fun stuff. Don't need the four bolt ram air and round ports to run good, but if you find round ports they are lots of fun.
While the 400 chevy and Pontiac share bore and stroke, thats about where the similarity ends. The Pontiac will always make more torque everything else being the same(ish) and in a lower RPM range. Make the heads flow the same, use the same cam timing, and the Pontiac will make more torque every time.
The reason for that is the runner length and shape of the intake tract. The chevy has short runners with large holes, making them lazy on the bottom, so even the 400s need to spin a bit more to make power in the higher RPM range.
The Pontiac has a longer runner and a venturi shape that makes for a high velocity port that fills the cylinders very well at low to mid range RPM. Increase the airflow through the Pontiac ports and you simply make more power higher up and keep most of the bottom end.
Its simple physics at play, and its why Pontiac needs less gear than a comparable chevy, even the 350s do this. Hardly anyone builds Pontiac 350s because the 389 - 455 engines bolt right in where a 350 is, so its easier to just swapin a larger engine and use all the same parts. Additionally the 350 has the small bore that makes fitting 2.11 intakes a pain. They will still run hard, but they require different thinking, and you have to get around the bore, kinda like the 305 chevy vs the 350.
As for heads, the 96 were on most 400s built in 71, and 7K3 were on the 400s in 72, both 2 and 4 barrel engines got them in the Gran Prix, Firebirds, and GTO/LeMans. Same deal with the 6X, but the 6X was produced from 76 to 79, and put on 350s and 400s, so there are a lot more of them out there making them easier to find.
Most Pontiac D port heads flow about the same, within a few cfm of each other. Some heads most people consider junk are actually quite good, like the 5C 400 head from 1975, and the 46 head from the 73-74 350s. If you send the D ports out to get CNC ported, they will all work essentially the same, except for compression ratios.
The big thing about heads is compression ratios, Pontiac didn't dish the pistons to change compression like chevy and others, they used cylinder head chamber sizes to do it. So you can go from 5:1 compression to 13:1 using a factory head swap. Mill a 72cc head to 64ccs and you get 13:1 on a 455 with flat top slugs. Put a big chamber 455 head on a 350 or 400 and you can run it on acetone because the compression is super low, like a 6H or 6S.
Then you have the screw in studs and if its big or small valve. Usually if it has screw in studs its big valve, though some big valve heads like 15 had press in studs and chambers small enough to require race gas on a 455.
All you need to do is swap heads around on a Pontiac to get more compression and power. A 6X will make anywhere from 7.8:1 to 8.8:1 on a 400, so they are a good low octane pump gas head that is easy to find. A 5C makes 8.8:1 on a flat top 455, perfect for 87/89 octane camel whiz.
If someone goes thinking chevy and builds a Pontiac the same way, they are more than likely going to have a dog that never gets anywhere. Single plane intakes are useless until you really make some changes on a 400, but they kinda work ok on a 455 and 428 with enough compression.
I don't like single planes with gasoline, because it tends to puddle in the plenum when you idle around. Not a problem on E85 though, it vaporizes a lot easier and doesn't puddle, even if it does the engine won't care if one cylinder goes super rich because rich means more power on ethanol.
That port length mentioned earlier is why Pontiac engines don't want nor need so much gear behind them. A 3.73 is pretty good behind a 400 like I am planning, but a 3.42 is pretty close, so there probably won't be much difference in ET if any. A 3.73 gear will run the same as a 3.42 behind a 455, but lose some MPH and possibly a tenth or so, all it does is make it spin tighter on the highway while providing no benefit.
The whole idea behind deep gears is moving the engine through the low RPM range faster where the engine doesn't make much torque. Its hard to kill the bottom end of a 455 or 428. Better to put a tall gear behind it and let it work. The longer it stays in the lower RPM range grunting like crazy, the harder the car is going to accelerate. This makes no sense to people thinking chevy, because when it comes to making torque, chevys are weak suck. They need 540 cubes to make Pontiac 455 torque between idle and 4000, and the small blocks need forced induction to do it.
As for LS, I really like them. They are great truck engines, far better than the sbc and bbc in every way. I have a lot of them now, to power trucks. Sure you can throw a turbo on one and make 1500hp, but put the same PSI through the top end on my 467 and you will be getting close to 2500-3000hp. Guess who has the same top end I do in his black GTO he got from Marty Palbykin. If I do a turbo it will be on an IAII block with those heads, and it probably won't go over 20psi ever. No need to for what I will be doing with it.
Maybe next year, maybe not, hard to say at this point. For now I really enjoy going fast for cheap with what most people consider junk.
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@albertgaspar627 I have a vortec headed 400, its a pooch and it cost me more than the last two Pontiac builds I did with forged rods in the bottom end.. just to put those heads on a shortblock and run a carb on it. Can't get it to stop leaking either, fix one is springs two more.
Thing is my $2700 stock rod mild cam 455 (with some Butler ported iron heads included in that cost) ran 11.40s@120 with a 3.42 gear, 2400 stall, in a 3750lb 79 formula. On slicks it would do 1.59 sixty foot times and bottom 7s in the 1/8th.
That was quick enough to sandbag all the chevys in my area that had a lot more cash thrown at them. They couldn't figure out why I beat them all by half a car, when they could beat each other by a car or two. The 68 Camaro with a 6-71 on its 355 came close, and they all stopped wanting to rave my beater.. and I stopped hearing people say "put a 350 in it and you'll go faster for less money"
They'd ask how much I was spraying it and things of that nature. They could not imagine that a car capable of daily driving to work would run that fast in the 1990s.
The only car I had a traction problem with was the 70 GTO. That 90lb front bumper, power steering, brakes, but no AC with a 455 that would put it in the 12s with slicks and that 2.93 gear, it could destroy some 295 65 15 radials without ever doing a power stand. 1/8 mile burnouts from idle were very easy to do. Just whack the throttle.
Everything else has been easy with just a set of drag radials to get 1.7-1.5 60s... well except the aluminum headed 467 that is making over 650ftlbs at 3000 and 700ftlbs at 4500-5000. Getting that thing to hook has been fun, quite the learning experience. that engine is considerably lighter than 630lbs and is making somewhat ludicrous power off idle for what it is..
Anyone can throw money at an engine and make power, but its a hell of a lot of fun beating aluminum beaded chevys, fords and mopars with a garden variety iron head Pontiac. Back in the 90s in my home state they said it didn't sound like a race car, more like I was going to the store for a loaf of bread. My engines never got over 6000rpm back then, and only the 467 goes higher than that now. No need for more in the rest of them.
Sadly there is nobody that will race where I live now. They all talk big, but won't bring it out and line up. Plenty of track cars with big slicks, but anyone can get that to run.
Been wanting someone to put up a 400sbc with any factory head and intake against one of my Pontiac 400s. Drop it in the same car, with a 3000 stall and 3.50 gears. $$ for $$ see who goes faster. So far nobody has taken me up on it. They want roller cams, aluminum heads, and other stuff. I have two of them sitting here right now, with factory sized cams, RA III 744 cams to be exact.
The weight difference isn't enough to make up for the loss in torque of the sbc. Been there done that.
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Man.. you guys would hate my summer daily drivers, like the 65 GTO even if it feels like a grandma car to me. Well the Cuda might be 'nice' safe and feminine enough for you since my 70 year old dad bought it with AC and left it to me last year when his Dakota decided to take him out on a gravel road. I have a toy that will make the Cobra seem refined, moderate, easy to drive, and quite safe. Only 467 cubes of Pontiac V8 with a paltry 700ftlbs and a tad over 700hp at 6000rpm, its making a nearly insignificant 650ftlbs at 3000rpm, and its in a 2900lb 79 Formula I bought more than 30 years ago while stationed in Frankfurt West Germany. I think that particular engine needs to go into one of the Opel GTs I have, with a bout another 6" of wheelbase to make it slightly less death on a stick.. maybe end up around 2100lbs, give or take.
Cool thing about the Opel GT. While sitting in the drivers seat, I can roll down the passenger window with a very slight lean and I am only 5'8. I barely fit in those things, so its perfect for fun. Obviously my idea of fun and yours differs greatly. To me if its not dangerous, its not fun.
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@boomerkobold3943 I never said that I think they aren't coming for me. They will target all of us veterans first, to leave all of you helpless and clueless about what is about to happen to you. Most of us will get something dropped on us from altitude, our only defense against that is do not be where it hits.
Way back in the 1980s I got some interesting training they no longer offer. It included Anti trrist training.. I am using that against the system every day.
When I go gray or dark, I will vanish entirely, the best they could do is hope to catch my vehicle on a highway somewhere. Rather than taking my bright green 70 Cuda or pearl blue 65 GTO, I will take something nondescript that doesn't stand out.. Silver, white or black, as they are the most populous colors, and they will have nothing identifiable about them, save for make and model. Good luck in a sea of similar vehicles. Its like finding a needle in a stack of needles.
That is not my concern with my comment above, trust me, that is handled. My comment above is about the rest of you, clamoring for conflict, no idea what it entails, the hardship you will have to endure, the horrors you and your kids will experience first hand.... and how so many of you want someone else to do it for you.
Already did my part for you. Even people living in Europe and Asia have benefitted from what I did in my 20s and 30s. We protected all of you, and now you want more from us? More from the kids who have no incentive to fight for you?
You're on your own, unless you want to earn your freedom and risk everything to get it.
For now I will watch the rest of you and keep building my old cars, because I enjoy doing that. As long as I can do my thing then life is good and there is no reason for me to do anything else. I am ready for just about anything, but every year that passes I lose some capability along with all the others who have been to war.... keep that in mind as you sit on your hands and bleat like sheep.
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@SomeCanine you do realize most people are followers, right? Something like 80% are the type to follow along, they require something more to motivate them. 20% or so are leaders, and only about 20% of them are competent leaders, the rest are still learning. You're maligning and then trying to motivate the wrong demographic.
People need motivation, those come in the form of push or pull. A push is a negative thing most often, build a house and start a fire or enjoy hypothermia, that is a push. A pull is someone wanting to build a certain car so they put in all that effort to build it then drive it.
The followers need the push, the leaders already have the pull. So if you want to be a leader, hop on up there and get started. I am old and broken from wars, I will fight when it gets to me, but other than that its up to you if you want something done.
Give them a reason to put down the controllers and go do something useful.
I offer to teach kids how to build cars like I do all the time, they just aren't motivated. Its a huge amount of work, takes years most of the time, delayed gratification is the key. Work now, enjoy later. That was instilled in me growing up on a farm. Always waiting for things to grow, seasons to change, and the money to be made.
City kids don't have that unless they have to help run the family business. Prn is a symptom of kids not being taught things like discipline, delayed gratification, work ethic, and what masculinity is and how to utilize it. They are taught they are broken and should be more like girls, so they have nothing to work towards.
Berating them does nothing to remedy that problem. Its a push, they need a pull if you want them to change things for the better. A push will prompt you to do just enough, pulls get you to go much farther and beyond the goal.
Get on a school board and push out the leftists, start having the boys in your school district taught was masculinity is, and how mandatory it is they have it. You know.. do something yourself and start leading.
That is unless you don't know what it is to be a masculine man.
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@SomeCanine I game in the evenings, about to go hang with friends and shoot at pixels together. Its good social time, and its good therapy for those of us with PTSD. Yes it can be misused, but it can also be a benefit. You're missing the entire point of what I was saying.
I was an NCO in the USAF, I had to learn what motivated my people so I could lead them better. Its different for everyone, some its recognition, others money, some its time off, and then you have those who need to be pushed a bit.
Pretty much every male under the age of 30 has had all incentive removed from their lives. They have nothing to work towards, no hope and no direction. Some of us are trying to give youth a direction, and we are punished for it by this site and society in general. We are trying to instill discipline, teach them masculinity, and to avoid the pitfalls inherent in giving the government influence in your relationships with other people..
You know, being constructive and trying to set things right. People, especially men, need outlets for interests and biological issues. I lived on a farm in the 70s and 80s, 20 miles from town, and my family mistreated me almost daily. It was a hellish life. I used to draw all the time, teachers and kids at school would throw away my sketch books for whatever reason. They apparently think like you do..
What did I draw? Things I wanted but could not have yet. I drew muscle cars, hotrods, big engines, airplanes, and lots of girls with less than polite clothing choices. I also drew things I wanted to see, like exotic locations, places most people never get to see, and it was also a release for all the range built up inside me from the constant beatings and knowing my family doesn't care about me. It prevented me from doing harm to my older brother, because I knew if I acted on my thoughts to end his mistreatment, I would never get the chance to have the things I wanted in life, from my life. It would be spent in a cell, and that was a fate beyond any demise I can think of.
Most of these kids have a life that might not have the beatings mine had, but they are just as bleak. I am twice divorced, homeless for a total of four years from both of them. I do not date anymore, because I cannot trust females, there are incentives to avoid them... mainly having all your money given to them and living in the back of a $500 car. Trust me, it sucks.
That is the kind of life these kids are looking at. You want to take their only refuge from them and then force them to sacrifice themselves because you think its good for them. Yes some of them have an issue with the nekkid sites, what the hell else are they going to do with the raging hormones of a teenager. I figured out girls at 16, got lucky at 17, and they were a bane to my existence until I was 46 and I was no longer indentured to my first wife.
All you are doing is bitching about nekkid girls on screens and the inane video games kids play. I think you are more of a religious type than someone who can think beyond what you have been indoctrinated to believe. That is ok. However I find it very amusing that you think what works for you is best for everyone else, which makes me think you have problems with pron and whatnot. Like the republicans who are anti ghey getting caught in airport bathrooms...
i.e. you're not a masculine type, you're a follower type and you can't grasp what the hell I am talking about.
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I absolutely love ethanol fuel, I make it from tree sap or cattails, I run my vehicles on it including a 1965 GTO, 1970 GTO, 1979 Formula Firebird, and a 68 LeMans, also run it in my newer EFI powered vehicles like a 2006 Gran Prix and a 1999 Silverado 2500 4x4, but those two also run gasoline all winter. The reason I tell you that is even though I know how much better ethanol is, we still need gasoline, diesel, etc. I am a gearhead, not a tree hugging socialist. Wrapping environmental concerns around marxism does not make marxism any better. Joe can go fuck himself with all the other socialists/communists/feminists/etc.
Its not because we can't make enough ethanol, that is actually pretty easy to achieve for our country, not solely on corn though. Despite the fact corn is then a far better livestock feed after you make fuel with it, corn isn't enough. We could use tree sap, cattails, grocery waste, even waste paper to make ethanol fuel. Any starch or sugar will work. Honestly everything in my old and new cars lasts longer with ethanol. 14 years of testing and zero problems under worst case scenarios. With high compression like my engines have that only run ethanol, you get much better mileage, you also make a lot more power because of the higher compression. If you know what it means, 13:1 and above on ethanol gets better mileage than gasoline, while making a lot more power than the 9:1 gasoline engines.
The reason we still need gasoline is simply infrastructure, we have it already, its in place, and we have an enormous capacity. It starts easier this time of year when its cold out as well. Getting my drag car running on ethanol under 40F is a huge pain in the ass. The EFI on the 65 GTO and the late models starts much easier, but when its really cold they don't want to start because ethanol doesn't like to vaporize under 20F. When its 0F the 06 GP doesn't want to start on gasoline either. Then you have the jobs, we would not need all those people to make enough ethanol for the entire country.
Even if we mandated electric cars in big cities where people have short commutes, which would be burdensome on the urban people because of the cost for EV's is still much higher, there wouldn't be as many jobs available in the energy industry, and the impact on 'climate change' would be minimal. I hate running gasoline, because it wears engines more, makes less power, can't handle compression, and wastes most of its energy as heat you need to shed through the radiator. That heat is good for keeping my feet warm while driving when there is 200" of snow and its below 0, but I am not a fan in summer. Yes where I live we get 150-300 inches of snow every winter.
Why did I get into making ethanol fuels and find out how much better it is? Well what was the price of gasoline 14 years ago? Where I live it was over $5 for a very long time, and until the Saudis opened up the supply to flood the market and drop prices to keep Canada from taking over, I couldn't afford to drive much, not even with my newer vehicles that get 25-30mpg. It costs me between 10 and 40 cents a gallon to make ethanol fuel, and a couple weeks of work in the spring or fall. most of that is cleaning and waiting for the yeast to do their thing. It was simple economics, if I wanted to drive my old cars that have a hard time getting better than 20mpg, I needed fuel I could afford, and making it yourself can mean you spend a lot less on fuel.
Old cars have horrible aerodynamics, they have more drag in the brakes, bearings, suspensions, and that makes a bigger difference above 20mpg. You can get the mileage from some of the older engines, like my Pontiac 400s and 455s, they can do quite well on fuel usage, and 600+ftbls and 550+hp while getting 20mpg in a 1970 GTO makes for a very fun daily driver on 40 cent a gallon home made fuel. Really hard on tires unless you drive like a grandma though.
I still need gasoline for winter, we still need it for all the low compression engines out there that will suck down ethanol like crazy, and not make much power from it. The assholes like Biden want to use the environment to push their authoritarian socialist bullshit on us. They are pushing electric cars because many of them have interest/stock in electrical production. I like the power of a Tesla, those things haul ass, but man for the money I can build some seriously impressive stuff with my old junk and run them on tree sap vodka. I can build an old car to run faster than the Tesla with the same range on ethanol for about $5000. That is taking a cheap rolling chassis and making it a driver again, not sinking $5k into a $30k vehicle. That is $5k for everything, buying the car, all the parts, and making it a driver. So for my crippled Iraq war veteran ass, ethanol is my means of driving cars that aren't boring as fuck and keeping myself busy, while being able to afford to live.
Around here 87 octane is $2.40, premium is well over $3 a gallon, very close to $4. E85 is $1.89. Even if they got half the mileage, which they don't, it would be economical for me to run them all on E85. Now consider you need $10+ a gallon race gas to run the compression my engines have, and that $1.89 looks even better. I want gas prices low just as much as you do. I still use the stuff too.
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Guy I knew had a 78 Bonneville with a 400 in it. He said the timing chain was going bad. I bought it for $200 drove it home. Turns out that somehow it got a W72 400, the 210hp TransAm engine that is essentially a 400 with a point more compression from smaller chamber heads and a couple other bits. Rather rare engine, and I have no idea how it ended up in a 2 door Bonneville. I got it with 108k on it, and stopped diving it at 220k because my now ex hit something with it that bent something under it, and it pulled extremely hard to the right even though I aligned it several times, rebuilt the calipers, new hoses, and everything else that could cause that. Had limited time to work on it, and finding parts like control arms was difficult back then. No internet to speak of where I lived..
I still have it but it hasn't been driven since 1998. Next spring I am going to pull the engine and transmission, plus the 2.41 geared 10 bolt posi from it, and sadly scrap the rest because Nebraska weather has not been kind to it... nor have the mice on the family farm where I left it when I enlisted again back in 2000. I would have done it back in September but my brother had the bright idea of putting it 5' in the air by stacking a bunch of cider blocks under it. Made it impossible for me to take it apart, he thought he was helping.
My kids loved riding in that car, and it surprised a lot of people who thought they had fast cars, particularly 5.0 mustangs from the 80s. Big old boat of a car, kid seats in the back, and it walked away from them easily. So that engine is going in the 72 GTO I am giving to my daughter, I bought that Goat wrecked back in 1985 for $175 from the local junkyard run by some distant relatives of ours. I looked for ten years for a front end, found most of a 71 GTO nose, but never put it on. Then back in 19 or 20 a friend up here traded me a 72 LeMans with the correct front end for it, for a smogger iron lump 454. The hood on that thing alone is worth about ten of those engines. We used the 70 and 72 GTOs as family cars in the 90s, my two daughters loved riding around in them.
My older daughter (5 or 6 at the time) while sitting in the back seat of the Bonneville, or one of the GTOs (70 or 72) would see the light turn green and she would exclaim loudly "ITS GREEN DAD STOMP IT!" She loved the feeling of one of my cars taking off from stoplights, the giggles and laughter from 'stomping it' for her back then are one of my most cherished memories. She started learning to read at the nose of my 70 GTO, I used the emblem in the grille to teach her the letters GTO. Then she leaned Pontiac from the back of the Bonneville, and of course Bonneville was next. Before she was 7 she could tell a Firebird from a Camaro too, and also knew Mustangs.
No idea why should could do all of that, and learned math with my wrenches before she was 5... must just be that way with kids of gearhead dads.
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Tim.. of course this is happening, because the farleft is simply feminine nature unfettered and running rampant. JP calls it the devouring mother, I call it overbearing smothering/safety/servitude. Like helicopter and snowplow parents removing any and all hardship from the lives of their kids. They want to be taken care of, but don't want a man to do it, so they leave it to the go\/ to provide and keep them safe. When they aren't safe, they demand the go\/ get more power, and when it fails they just haven't done it hard enough. Then they claim to be strong and independent, but can't do basic things men do.
Capable, strong, competent men do not want to be taken care of, weekly men do because they think and act like non males. Infantilize a population and you remove those competent men on a large scale. That has been the plan since the 60s. Well, they never counted on the internet and men teaching boys how to be men, and the latest generation coming up is learning from all of us old guys, mostly Gen X, and a few millennials. Not like Tate, more like Tomassi. Even I have been teaching young men how to be more competent and do more, showing them how to work on cars and do all manner of other things, and getting them to realize they can do it themselves rather than pay someone to do it for them like a non male has to. Its one thing if you don't have time for the small things, its entirely another if you are NOT capable of doing the small things and the small things seem like insurmountable obstacles.
Imagine a world without men, no food, electricity, safety and security from wildlife, no roads, cars, or houses. There is a reason that through all of history that men provided, its because they can. Without white collar 'busy work' jobs, non males simply don't have the capability to provide for themselves. Without men making everything for them to use, there would be nothing to buy. Reality and biology have a bias, and it is exactly that.
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Illegal weapons in Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nebraska, the Dakotas, etc amounts to unregistered full auto guns. You can drive through all those states with AR15s, AK47s, SKS, and whatever other semi auto, lever or bolt action guns you want. Drive through Illinois, and its another thing entirely. They get a little upset if you have more than three or four, but its still not illegal. I drove to Michigan from Nebraska with about 20 rifles and shotguns I inherited from my dad. Perfectly legal no matter what the democrats try to say. No need to drive through Illinois with their fucked up anti 2A laws.
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She is lonely and can't find a man up to her unreasonably high standards? heh... I have five words for them.
So what, I don't care.
Why don't I care? Because they cheered and applauded when my ex's took everything I owned as state enforced rewards for doing everything wrong in the relationship. I was surprised to discover I am in the top 20%, its always been relatively easy for me to get laid, but it did take some effort, so 18% to 20%, the bottom of the top. They had their chance, every girl I dated, fucked, and the two I married screwed it up.
I find old muscle cars to be more rewarding than females. Siberian Huskies provide companionship. I live debt free, owning land in the woods, well away from cities. The cost and risk far outweigh the benefit of a warm snot pocket being around all the time. I don't give a fuck anymore.
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@donreinke5863 The TKO trans is rated to 600ftlbs, and I am not going to be racing it. I have other vehicles for that. They have TH400s, and yeah my 455s can tear up a transmission easy.
I don't bother with the heads and tails, since I am not drinking it. Have to denature it to use it to go driving around, thats easy enough to do. I put the last part in about corrosion and methanol for other people who will read the comments.
On gasoline, yeah you want to run them cold. On ethanol if you run your engine at 160 you are going to milkshake the oil, it wont get hot enough to boil the condensation out. With the latent heat of vaporization of ethanol, the intake charge is still cold and dense, so you don't lose power. The heat lets you use less fuel, and since ethanol doesn't like to ping or knock, you don't have to worry about it lighting off before the spark hits it..
If you want max power then its a different tune than max mileage, but you are still going to get really good power with max mileage. Same timing, 7.5:1 AFR for power, 8.5-10 AFR for mileage, depending on the engine. Much more fuel than 7:1 and you are just wasting it, and not making more power.
I am pretty good at tuning on gas, so learning to tune ethanol has been very interesting. Its a different thought process, because you aren't trying to shed so much waste heat and keep it from rattling. Just give it as much as it wants and let it eat for power.
I find with my Pontiacs, because they are predominantly under 6000rpm power bands, that throwing a bunch of advance at them makes them considerably faster. Not worried about power over 6000 at all, except for two of them. Those two have the airflow to spin more RPM. Takes a lot of air to feed 455-540 cubes, and the long runners of a Pontiac will need to be huge to make power over 6500.
Back in the 90s running a closed chamber head with 11.3:1 on VP 110, one of my 455s wanted 52 degrees total, back it down to 38 and it went from 11.40s to 13.20s. The slow burning fuel and low RPM nature of the engine, pushing a 3.42 gear wanted the advance. I did a lot of testing with it back then. Those are the head on the 65 GTO now, with .04" more stroke.
Yeah you need quite a bit of space to make fuel. Its not an apartment thing, and a city will have concerns.. lol. Two storage units would be enough room for fermenting and the still, but not fuel storage or what you're using to make it.
I have almost zero interest in the modular Fords, burned by a 5.4 and that was enough for me. Look into 3d printing, you can make it in sections and epoxy them together. Intakes aren't overly stressed and you can keep them cool, so its an option.
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@kristopherexe577 my parents were together until mom passed in 2014, they didn't like me, but they were together. My ex wife's dad took off, and after seeing how her mom and her are, I can see why. I stubbornly refused to leave my kids, no matter what she did and she did a lot, then the court forced me out of their lives. I had to pay, but I rarely got to see them, and I could not protect them from her or the males she brought around.
She told them I didn't care about them, only the money. She kicked them both out when they turned 19 and the support ended. She told them I wasn't giving her any support, while 71% of my gross was being given to her before I ever saw it. She told them I mistreated all of them when they were little, completely gaslighting them because they remembered me teaching them to read, count, run computers, and more. She told them I ignored them, when in reality I was ignoring her because she liked to get irrationally angry to put it VERY mildly.
When they were teenagers and came to spend a summer with me in 2009, they both realized their mother not only lied, but was getting most of my income and wasting it on herself. The two times I had both of them the courts seized my bank account as a punitive measure, it did not go to the ex, they just took it and kept it while I had my kids with me. An entire month with zero money, trying to keep me from getting time with my kids. Still I managed to have food in the house all month, where she would take the $6000 she got from her 2nd husband and me, and waste it on herself in a week, then the kids would be hungry for the last two weeks of every month.
If your dad knows you exist, he probably wanted to have you in his life. However, she undoubtedly made that so impossible and horrific that its easier for him to tell himself you don't exist. I had to do that to keep my sanity, and to stop myself from checking out. From 2001 to 2009 I got a total of 12 days with them. Every time I came home on leave, I would spend most of that week trying to find them. Then I would get an afternoon with them at most.
I loved being a dad and teaching my daughters everything they needed to know. I was robbed of all those years, and yes I am VERY salty about it. Find your dad, but expect him to be distant, he had to be if he is anything like me.
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I am a crippled veteran. 100% service connected, and have been surviving on VA compensation since 2007. Essentially its like UBI save for the fact I sacrificed my health and youth to get it, rather than simply existing and getting a handout. They broke me, they owe me.
I am limited to what Congress decides we are worth, and you can look up exactly how much money crippled veterans receive every month. I am not allowed to earn more, I cannot have stocks or investments which pay me, cannot own rental properties that generate income, I get what I get and not even a dollar more is allowed. With special permission I can get a job, if I can work around the physical and mental limitations that result from my participation in OIF. Its not likely.
Last week I tried to get an appointment with the VA, my only healthcare, as I can't afford it otherwise. I called to set up an appointment, listened to the rambling computer thing telling me stuff that has no relevance to me whatsoever. It will not let me enter any numbers as it goes through that. It takes several minutes where I live. Then I go on hold, and wait until an operator picks it up. They are located at the regional VA more than 100 miles away from me. She asks if I want to go to urgent care, which means a 2 hour drive there, six or more hours waiting (the usual with the D's in control), and a 2 hour drive back.
No I want to go see the local clinic that is 25 miles away, because gas is expensive and I should be able to walk in and be seen, like I did from 2017 to 2020. Who was in charge then? Oh yeah, the 'bad' guy. So she rings the clinic closer to me, it rings for several minutes, and goes back to the computer. I get a different operator more than 100 miles away, who asks the same do you want to drive for 2 hours to sit around all day and wait. No I want to set up an appointment closer. Back on hold, the phone rings for several minutes and back to the computer. So far I have been on the phone for more than an hour, waiting and listening to stuff that doesn't matter to me.
I get another operator, who is 100 miles away. I went off and hung up on them. I will be making content about the way we veterans are treated by the VA when the D's are in office in the near future.
In 2009 the VA funding was cut, by the D's, and cut again soon after that. There was no cost of living adjustment from 2010 to 2017. Prices continued to rise, but they left us to scrape by. No walk in appointments, I had to deal with the same run around from 09-17. 17-20 I could get in and be seen the same or next day, and there were very rarely a bunch of veterans stacked up waiting to be seen. Now it takes MONTHS to get an appointment, and that started around 21 Jan 2021.
I can do some work, on a limited basis. About 4 hours per day, 3 sometimes 4 days per week. I have been investing that into becoming self sufficient, at least as much as I possibly can. I have invested in vehicles, old rusty junk with some good parts on them, which I can trade and use to keep other rusty vehicles running. My land was the big one, I bought woodland in the middle of nowhere, way up north by Canada and have paid it off with 8 years of sacrificing. I had to build my own house, because I cannot afford to pay a contractor 12 years worth of my pay to build a 24x24 garage, let alone a house. I grow my food, and am working on a greenhouse so I can grow all winter. I produce ethanol fuel from cattails to fuel my vehicles, because $5 gasoline is out of my budget, and currently 87 octane is $4 here.
Some people want more from life, and are willing to endure hardship, pain, suffering, and sacrifice to get it. I am one of those people. When the money stops coming from congress, I don't want to be forced to live in a box and eat the boogs.
Other people, dare I say most at this point, want an easy life where they do nothing all day and just receive things. They have no ambition, no desire, no motivation.. and apparently no foresight. Not having to decide for themselves is much easier, they don't have to think, take chances, or put in effort, they can slide by.
Money is not what motivates me, what I do with my time on this planet is vastly more important to me. Sitting around waiting for old age and uselessness to overtake me, while achieving nothing, or saying what I did 20 years ago was enough, is not the way I am.
those shiny old cars I have with big powerful engines in them you can see on my channel? Yeah.. I spent years building them. I did not go out and buy them, they were $100 to $1500 rusty hulks that I spend my time cutting rusty metal out, and welding new metal in, often shaping the parts by hand. My days of being able to do that are coming to an end, as I am 54 and already my hands are not working the way they should. The VA doesn't care about my hands, they just want to make sure I don't splatter gray matter on walls, because it makes them look bad.. not because they give a damn about us.
When it comes to UBI, I realize that if everyone has $1000 to throw away, it has to come from somewhere, and will only serve the raise the price of every day things. It makes people dependent on it, which makes them easier to control. Very few who get it will invest it along with their time similarly to how I have invested the pittance I have lived on for nearly 20 years.
The last thing you should want in life is to be dependent on whomever ends up in an oval shaped office that can decide your worth.
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@anyfriendofkevinbaconisafr177 I understand mgtow, you guys are kinda like I am, except that occasionally I will find a girl and bust a nut on her face, or in her ass, or whatever because I am out of the gene pool and have no concerns about becoming indentured by the state again.
I have always been my priority, what I wanted to do was for my benefit, and girls could come along if they wanted. Found out long term shit is not for me, because I end up homeless, in jail, indentured, or any number of other things that have happened to me.
In a way I am like you, but in others I am not. For instance, I will never commit to a female, nor support them, my own two daughters know they have to make it on their own. They are 23 and 25, so they should be earning a living by now. I was at that age. Where I am not like you is I like pussy and can still get college ass despite being 50.
They get nothing from me but some exercise and seedless man juice. I get pictures of hot chicks and a warm moist place to jack off. They are playthings to me, I like cars and dogs far more than most humans, certainly more than a relationship with a depreciating wall smashing thot.
It seems from my perspective you guys are still putting the pussy on a pedestal, by eschewing them entirely or mostly. I have a use for them, self lubing self heating fleshlights. :) Sometimes I have interesting conversations with them about meaningless bullshit, so there is that as well. All in all, I like girls, but not like I like a GTO.
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Ok now I have watched half of the video. I lost a master cylinder at the top end of the dragstrip in Kearney Nebraska, the track from RMRW. Thankfully its an old bomber strip so its really long... I trapped 115mph on that pass and no brakes. What did I do?
Downshift to second, then back into 3rd, downshift, then third... because the 455 had stock rods in it and more than 6000rpm would have scattered it making a HUGE oil mess at the big end where everyone is shutting down. Besides, I like my engines and back then I didn't have the budget I have now. I was swaying it side to side to scrub off speed with the slicks, and finally slowed enough that 2nd would not boof the engine. Still hauling ass though...
More swaying side to side, down to 1st and the slicks don't grab they slide and the rear wants to come around. Lots of dust and dirt, not to mention weeds, on the track that far out at Kearney. Back into 2nd and downshifting briefly into 1st, trying everything to get it to slow down. I see the end of the concrete coming up, and the airport fence is looming just beyond that, so I get it down to around 45mph and just wrench the wheel to the left. The car goes around safely, the slicks do not like it at all, but it turned and scrubbed off enough speed that I could idle back to my pit space.
Ran a PB with the gears I had in it at the time, won the round, but pushed it up on my trailer. The MC showed no signs of issues, the burnout and stage went perfectly. It wasn't sinking like a bad MC does, but it failed right after I launched or when I got on the brakes at the big end. I never hammered the brakes on the track, just used them to scrub off speed.
I will not leave my shop if everything doesn't work exactly right and sure as hell not if the idle is not where I want it to be. My 1050 Dominator likes to stick WOT, and on a 700hp engine that is somewhat of a big deal. Until I get it sorted, that carb will not get driven. Its not a priority at the moment, the tunnel ram is. I got the tunnel ram because of the sticky 1050... and because they are insanely cool. Oops. I just let a small cat out of the bag.. nothing to see here, move along, these aren't the droids you're looking for, its mostly peaceful around here....
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Did you know that combat flight simulations from WWII have swastikas on planes? Not in Germany, but for the rest of the world they do... so anyone who plays these sims is obviously a nazi... except Germans of course. Corporations want the ad revenue. Thats no secret. They want to pay as little as possible and get as much as possible in return. Common sense.
The outrage has the Streisand Effect, it draws attention to people helping them grow, which returns more outrage. The nutjob left gets active and suddenly Sargon is relieved of his income stream without warning nor explanation. Censorship is not the answer, outrage is not the answer, the free exchange of ideas is the answer. If it has merit, it floats, if it has holes in it, well it sinks. If its utter shit, it stinks.
I watch Sargon, Molynuex, Crowder, Rogan, obviously you, and many others. I like a diversity of opinion, because by not agreeing with them I decide what works best for me. I avoid most of the outrage types like TYT, they are simply reprehensible, and I am not anywhere near a conservative. I have never liked them, as they are far too marxist for me, and I loathe any marxist ideology.
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Having someone who made money by pretending to do things others have done, things I myself have done and achieved, tell me that I don't know enough and am not smart enough to decide for myself, well that is like having a 3rd grader try to tell me how life works. They pretend at life, pretend to be part of history, and want to dictate to us how to live? The only thing I need from a celebrity is direction on how to do anything other than pretending to be something I am not, and I really have no interest in that. My entire life has been around merit, capability, and earned achievement. Theirs is about pretending to have/do all of those.
To the film/media industry shut up and dance like the trained monkeys you are. Its all you are worth, and if there ever was an apocalyptic event that thrust the human race into one of the dystopian nightmares they have to entertain us, the least valuable people would be actors.
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People keep missing the point. We want what is best for our kids, the people running the schools and government don't care what is best for kids, us, or the future of our nation. All they care about is what they can get from us, and installing their abhorrent ideology that they think will give them more free stuff. They want to make kids illiterate criminals, because they think if everyone else is below them, then they will get more free stuff. The idea that I have more than you is only because I took advantage of you or stole it from you is what they operate on, not that I earned it, built it, created it, and put in monumental effort to get it.. So if these kids can't succeed at life, they can't 'steal or take advantage of' others who are too damn lazy to work.
They don't want us to succeed, they want us to fail so they can take over. The thing they crave most is power and control, because they are weak and insecure, thus they have to control people with violence, shaming language, and other manipulative bullshit. They want you and your kids to be too ignorant and focused on survival to realize this.
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@Nick Varelli the most I ever paid for a car was $7500 back in 2004, it was a 98 Formula Firebird with 89k on the clock. 2.73 gears and an automatic. It runs mid 13a, gets 30mpg, and had nice cold air, cruise, and an ok stereo in it.. great for the long 1500 mile drives I was doing every few months while I was in the military. The other daily was the 70 GTO waiting its turn in my shop.
Everything else was under $2500, most of them under $500. My summer daily is a blue 65 GTO I got for $1500 back in 2009, and then spent 3 years fixing rust, doing the frame off, making pinch welds so the glass would stay in,.and all the other stuff required for making it a drivable car again.
The winter daily is a 2006 Gran Prix I got for $500, with 220k on it, because I am not driving anything of value in the salt Michigan slathers all over the roads way up here by Lake Superior. I sacrifice late model junk to the gods of NaCl.
I like taking an old rolling shell and turning it into a driver, or a sleeper. Its the most fun when people think it won't run a 14, but then clocks off 11s or tens.
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Save Western Civilization not so much sad as arduous, difficult, dangerous, and filled with pain. You don't get PTSD from a soft easy safe life. Likewise you don't wear out your body before you turn 35 with a soft easy life either.
The fact you used the word 'cringe' the way you did tells me volumes about you. Then what you said it about, tells me even more. It screams insecurity, very much like when discussions about physical strength come up and people can't imagine someone who can bench over 450lbs, because they can't and know they never will. Accept the fact that others can do things you can't or won't, and most of it with you will be can't.
Essentially, you think like a girl and have had a soft sheltered life compared to most of us who are living with the shit I was talking about. It doesn't make you bad or anything, but it does make you ignorant and soft. What you do with it, well..
I suppose if you want to feel superior in some way, you are welcome to do that, if it can assuage your insecurities and self loathing for having achieved almost nothing with your time on the planet. Feminists do that all the time, and most people who live like that follow marxist ideology, so they can feel good about themselves and their ignorance of reality.
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@Orthodox Roman Albania PTSD comes from stress, they have renamed it a few times and in ancient times most people lived with it as it is a survival mechanism. The constant stress of having to be ever watchful and alert, not being able to relax, knowing death is coming at any time, that is a big part of it.
Having several close brushes with death will activate it just as easily as one, its part of our subconscious that would keep us alive in a dangerous environment long before we had cities or even weapons more advanced than sharp sticks.
Its not a weakness, everyone has a point where they start watching everything around them, looking for threats, after long stretches of stress or a traumatic experience. If you had grown up in Serbia you would probably have it just from the environment around you, and the ever present danger over the last 20-30 years.
I lived with it for over 30 years before I knew I was different from other people, and that most never scanned for danger every half second, had a rifle in every room, sat with their back to the wall, things like that.
I can't remember life without being like this, because mine came from abuse growing up. It was random, my brother tried to kill me several times, he stabbed, poisoned, bludgeoned, and even ran me over a few times with farm equipment, there were other things like throwing stuff at my head, steel fence posts and whatnot, along with the constant threat of a beating for no apparent reason made my youth a living hell.
When I went to war the stress felt like home, it was something I already knew. I was not surprised by anything, and getting shot at was just another thing, which is why I acted different than the rest of the guys. I haven't been afraid of death since I was very small, I have known it is coming, possibly around any corner, waiting for me to fuck up.
Where it is a problem is in a society with minimal threat. We are constantly hyper vigilant, we watch everything, and when there are too many people, it wears us down eventually, and when we get tired, frustration comes easily, and with that comes an anger that makes most people's rage look insignificant.
Most of the frustration comes from the limits placed on us by society, knowing we shouldn't harm the threat because it doesn't warrant that action, but also not being able to do much about it so its still there. Like someone fucking with you at work, you will find out what I mean when you get a job. I had to keep telling myself they are just idiots so I didn't go full ape on them and lose my job, or spend time in jail.
Without a threat worthy of our action, it wears us down, and the hyper vigilance, the overwhelming violence in response to relatively small things, it just doesn't fit with society. We are geared for conflict, and to bring every ounce of violence within us to the threat, as if we are fighting off a lion, tiger, or bear with a sharp stick.
The thing in our heads doesn't differentiate between bear and idiot driver, well not very well. Threat is a threat, and we have to keep from acting on the impulses and thoughts that would ensure our survival 10,000 years ago, but today would land us in prison.
We are all cavemen with smartphones. We have not had enough time to evolve, so all the base code that kept us alive a million years ago is still there, but its dormant. It doesn't take much to activate it in some people, others requires considerably more. Its far more about your ancestry than it is about how strong or weak you are.
Trust me, if you met me in person the last thing you'd think was I am weak. The harshness and difficulty in my life has made me physically powerful and mentally resilient as well as ultra violent when I need to be. Imagine being able to bench over 450lbs, run five miles easily, and being so muscular that you weigh a lot more than you look. That was me from 21 to 34, and now the only thing is I can't run anymore because the work I did wiped out joints, like my knees. I look like I am about 210lbs-220lbs, but I weigh 300lbs. I seriously look like a human version of a silver back gorilla.
That is due to what has happened in my life, the stress, work, and demands put on me to survive. Its a hard life with the availability of food that makes you this way, you can't grow muscle if you're starving. The work required is unimaginable, and now throw all that effort into a very high stress environment and you get a potential monster. Someone with raw physical power and an ultra violence waiting inside him to be unleashed on threats.
No its not a weakness, not in the slightest. The only people who think it is are those who think they would be better in a situation such as war, who haven't even been in a car accident or had much stress at all in their lives.
Not everyone with it is a muscle bound freak, but every man with it can be very dangerous, since they do not have that voice in their head that tells them to stop killing the threat. Most of us do a good job of not going too far, because we are very rational and controlled despite the rage. Its hard for anyone who hasn't been there to understand it. Its not a fun way to live, but in a dangerous shithole, it will keep you alive.
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D.W. Shepherd strangely enough and contrary to popular belief, I did quite well with females partly because of that body language/intimidation. It has to be congruent with the rest of you, a fat pear shaped guy probably can't pull it off, but a V tapered guy with broad shoulders and enough muscle mass can.
They want the dangerous men, who act civilized to some degree. The more dangerous and intimidating you are, the more girls want to be with you. Not being angry, not overly violent, but capable of dealing out grievous harm and they start chasing you.
Where it breaks down for me is they don't usually want anything long term with me, the two longest relationships I had went 8 years.The first very bad, the second quite good, but they both ended the same way... with her cheating and me no longer giving a fuck.
My last LTR ended 7 years ago when I was 44, since then I have had girls half my age eagerly get naked with me, and over 40 they want the silver back gorilla sex again, but they only stick around for a few weeks to months at most. Many are one night, and then they go find someone who will support them and pay for them. They can tell I won't do that. I have repeat customers, most of them are married so they have someone supporting them.
Part of the limited time span is that I distract myself daily. I do the car thing, but I am also reading, researching, and at night I go online and kill people in first person shooters. The harder the game the more fun it is for me, so its all PC based and very few kids play these games, because they take planning, tactics, and situational awareness. Feels like home to me and it keeps my mind from going bad places.
I've lived alone for so long, that I simply don't do many things others do in regards to social activities. Most females can't handle that for long. If I show any beta male tendency or weakness, they bail almost immediately. They aren't interested in me for that, they want the gorilla fucking. This one 22 year old back in '14 said it was like getting fucked by a wild animal. Thats what they want from me.
Even now walking around stores, I catch them looking at me. With the masks we have to wear in Michigan I can't see anything but their eyes, so its hard to gauge what interest level they have. Most of them make eye contact, then look away, but I can't tell if she is doing that half smile that says she is interested, or if she is terrified/disgusted/turned off..
Also, with my past I am not looking to waste time with them anymore, I stopped giving a fuck what I look like, I rarely trim my beard now, I shave my head once a month, and I go about getting the things I need in town. I want to move 1000 miles from here, so the last thing I want is some chick trying to keep me here.
I suppose after I move and build another shop, I would go overseas to get a chick, Find one that doesn't speak English, learn her language, and that way she probably won't be influenced by all the feminist BS here... at least for a while. Thats if I decide to waste money on some poon. I've had plenty in my life, they aren't a challenge, at best they are an expensive hobby. Its not like I need them to feel good or complete, I just like a warm body to fuck on occasion.
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@Individual_Lives_Matter That is essentially what I just replied to an ideologue who needs the ideology to decide for them. They happen to like the idea of government being what tells them what they can and cannot do.
Since I am heavily into rebuilding muscle cars and older hotrods, I have an aversion to government. If I live in a city they tell me I have to have plates, insurance, and all vehicles on my property need to be operational, and that I cannot do major work to them.
I get that my neighbors don't want 20 vehicles sitting around on cinderblocks with weeds growing around them, but what is inside my garage or on my land is of no business to others. Its why I live on land covered in trees, so I can prevent people from noticing I own GTOs, Trans Ams, and other vehicles that are appreciating in value, and that I am rebuilding them.
Leave me alone, let me do my thing, do not concern yourself with my activities, because I am not harming anyone else, nor am I polluting the environment. I do not need to be told what I can do with my vehicles, or that they are too fast to drive on highways. Its on me if I get stupid and wad one up into a ball because I did something not overly bright. I don't do stupid things often, occasionally they are fun though. Its a risk I take when I go racing.
I do not need a government to tell me I cannot go racing on a closed course with a vehicle I built myself. I can see certain safety things like NHRA and other sanctioning bodies impose, as they are designed to keep me alive if something bad happens. They do not prevent me from racing, they make sure I am safer while I go racing. Big difference.
Government wants to prevent me from racing, or owning a gun, or doing anything they do not like regardless of if I am doing it safely or not. They are the busy body Karens who think everyone should follow their arbitrary rules.
Having to put in a roll bar when my car is faster than 11.49, or adding a parachute over 150mph trap speeds is very different from government regulations that are either cost prohibitive or outright prohibitive based on what some asshole in an office happens to think based on their limited knowledge and ignorance.
I can decide for myself what risks I want to take, what direction I want to go with my last remaining years. and what I will spend my limited income on. Some states won't let you pump your own gas, they'd freak at me because I produce my own fuel and its very green and very environmentally friendly, and it makes amazing power easily at the same time.
I was in the military, I worked for the government, I saw how it functions, and I have had to deal with the VA for the last 15 years. The word that best describes government is inept.
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Your freedom of religion is under threat. It is not as put in the video a 'freedom from religion' though, no it is an ideological war. Currently we have marxists, (which include communists, fascists, socialists, feminists, progressives, post modernists) trying to push out every other ideology to be replaced by their own. The leftists do not believe anyone should think differently than they do, and they will legislate your rights out of existence if given the chance. They are not exactly atheists, because marxists do have a god, it is the state. Their priests are politicians, and like the totalitarian authoritarian sects of religions you the congregation have no choice in the matter you must follow, obey, and you cannot dissent. The state is the highest power for them, and that is akin to a god. The marxist ideologies use the same methods and tactics to control people as most religions, shame, guilt, force, manipulation of language, and the people following it act like fervent zealots willing to kill those who do not believe the same things.
I am all about the bill of rights, particularly the 1st and 2nd, because those are required for conflict resolution and working out the best path forward for our lives and nation. I am atheist, I do not believe a god exists, though one might exist and we can't quantify or see it. I do not accept the state nor any man as a god either, as government should not be over the people, but for the people. Governments should fear the people, not the people fearing government. They work for us, we do not work for them.
That is a big problem with marxism, as you work for government and what you produce is not yours. They claim the workers own the means of production, but that is just using the word 'workers' as a euphemism for the state. Like social justice, it sounds nice and fluffy but actually its outright racism. This is standard operating procedure for marxists, manipulating words to sound like something they are not, and then when its discovered what they really mean by it, they change the words again. They do that because communism, fascism, and socialism have a stigma around them, and it is well deserved. When its the form of government, it always results in the same thing, concentration camps, political prisoners/executions, mass graves, starvation, and abject poverty for the masses with all the wealth being concentrated at the very top.
I want you to keep your religion, believe what you and your family believe, I do not want anyone telling you its not allowed. Likewise, with the Establishment clause, I do not want your religion or any other controlling government and writing laws based upon a religion. All are welcome here, none can be above another. This is what the Founders wanted and created, we are not a christian nation, though some of what we are based on came from christianity, as well as other religions. The Founders took the best of religions as well as logic and reason, and created something unique in the world. It is up to us to keep and protect it.
It will fall to all of us alive today to defend the Constitution and our way of life from this abhorrent ideology called marxism and all its equally horrible offspring. That is what is trying to destroy your religion, and they are not like me, they want to control you. I want you to be responsible for yourself as I am responsible for myself.
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Spoiled brats, resentful of those who have earned something, envious of what others have built/earned, and too inept or unwilling to earn it for themselves, they demand it be taken from the industrious and handed to the unwilling to work. Their modus operandi is to take what others have created, claim it as their own, then run it into the ground via breathtaking incompetence. It is no surprise that his followers are of the same mindset and predilections, a waste of oxygen as a whole.
Of course they will claim they have revealed knowledge, assert capitalism and the industrious are to blame for all the ills of the world, as they seek to foist all those ills on the people they claim to fight for. That is the point at which they blame others for their failures.
I have yet to meet one who has actually accomplished something noteworthy or difficult, though they claim to be intellectual, they have always been on the up side of the bell curve. That is probably why they are on the left since the left side of bell curves tends to be the dim to midwit side of things. Not even on the tippy top, but up the upslope, yet so self assured of their own superiority and supremacy...
No humility whatsoever as it is replaced with a boundless hubris and arrogance which is incongruent with their actual ability and cognizance. Spoiled brats is the perfect description of them.
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I was in the USAF for just about ten years, with a 7 year gap in the middle. Most of my time was spent overseas, 2.5 years in Germany (89-91) a year in Korea (02-03) and 2 years total in the desert (Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq) and the USAF does things different than the Army, we can live in and experience the local culture. The Army was banned from lots of places, but USAF wasn't, and people were genuinely happy to meet me in other countries.
The notion that the US is not liked overseas isn't entirely correct. The French who live in Paris don't like anyone really, but every country I have been to was full of people who liked us... when we weren't dropping bombs on them.
It DEFINITELY expands your horizons. Travel, even in the military, is highly beneficial.
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There is a thing called snake oil that has been sold countless times in the course of human history. A wonderful 'cure' for a problem that does not exist. Confirmation bias and sunk cost fallacy both play into people buying these cure all things, and they continue to do so because no problem manifests itself. Did the lockdowns work, or was it simply not that bad and the lockdowns only fucked up lives and the economy? What is the efficacy of these silly mandatory masks and lockdowns? Does it actually help, do nothing, or cause problems? I have over 300 hours of training in NBC warfare (nuke, bio, chem) and I know how the bio weapons function, how they are spread, and how to defend against them. The paper masks and not going to mom and pop stores, but traipsing around Wally World does absolutely fucking nothing but make you feel safer.. kinda like the TSA.
Sin is one of those nonexistent problems people will pay to cure. You might believe in sin and redemption, but if you were born into a different family following a different ideology, you would have no concept of it.
I am big into cars, a certified master tech with over 35 years of experience, and I run ethanol fuel in my vehicles, particularly my 1965 and 1970 GTOs. I do not do anything special, and over the course of more than 13 years I have had zero problems other than worn rear tires from the increased power. Thus, no problem exists, though many are purported to exist, as if vodka will eat things. However, snake oil is sold and declared to stop the deleterious effects of the evil ethanol fuels, which do not actually exist. So you are paying $10 or more for each tank of fuel you run, and it is curing a problem that only exists in your head and propaganda.
My military job was transportation, and I was doing it before 9/11 and after, I was actually deployed to Kuwait that day in 2001. I ran cargo and passenger terminals, I know the security regarding them, and how ineffective TSA actually is. Tim did this job as well, to a certain extent. The overwhelming majority of flights would have zero problems with or without TSA, but they are there to make you feel safe, like the government is actually doing something. I can tell you how effective the government is at doing things... or you can look at the VA, DMV, or any other government run entity... You think they are going to do their job well? Nah they want to scan you so hey can see your boobs or if you're hung like a horse, or like a church mouse like I am. Its all to make you feel safe, its a placebo..
That is all the masks and other shit are, but its a placebo with intent behind it. They want you to obey, to conform, to accept the government control over your life, your movements, and your job. I did that willingly by enlisting, so I know what living like that is like. You have no 4th amendment on a military installation, they can search you or your property at any time for any reason or none at all. You do not have the full 1st amendment either, you cannot disparage elected officials and other restrictions are placed upon you, because you represent the government and your branch of service. You agree to that... they want you all to agree to living without your rights, subjects beholden to the capricious vindictive nature of whatever twatwaffle smacktard is in office or appointed to a position. They are supposed to work for us, not rule over us.
The response to this virus is vastly overblown. The H1N1 under Obama was far worse, but nobody gave a damn because it wasn't a year where the dems were trying to take over the oval office and the Bad orange Man wasn't a politician at that point. Claiming 200k people were killed by it is misinformation, that many died with it, but not so much from it. We are not in a season of Walking Dead, it is not 28 Days Later, and this is not The Stand either. its a virus that will not harm most people, but it is justification for doing the things they wanted to do, but were limited or prevented from doing by the US Constitution.
Wear a mask if it makes you feel better, I wear respirators often because I have issues with dust and my hobbies involve chemicals that are unfriendly to human physiology. A paper mask will do almost fuck all in an actual threat of chem or bio weapons. A paper/cloth mask might help limit how many colds you get though, and if I don't get a cold from one of you I am happy. Know what it is, why they are pushing it, and choose for yourself.
Our rights do not end where your fear begins.
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@htomc42 yeah those are the idiots and kids, they are driving slow junk but they want to think its fast, so they cut off the muffler and add a fart can and stickers. Its the best they can do. They want a fast car but have no idea how to get one, and mom gave them a Civic or whatever so its all they have to play with.
They are the guys who will have excuses for everything after they talk shit and get stomped. They will brag about beating a V6 Mustang then make up shit about why they lost to something a lot faster than they can imagine.
Had one guy in my unit who had a turbo Neon, I was daily driving a 98 Formula I bought for gas mileage (300hp, mid 13s and 30mpg is not bad) and it was comfortable on long drives with cruise and AC. Also had a 12 second GTO and a mid to low 10 second Firebird I could drive anywhere. Apparently he was unaware of that, and assumed my only vehicle was the LS1 firebird.
One day we are walking to work so I say in a friendly way 'when you want to line them up?' First thing he says is "Five hundred dollars, I won't open the hood for less than $250" which got him a quizzical look from me. I know what those things ran, the fastest Neon in the world at the time was only a little faster than my 4100lb GTO, and it broke every two runs.
Then he starts running his mouth, and I shook my head and walked to my duty section. Some of the lower enlisted guys in my shop who were friends with him were talking about how fast his car was, saying it was faster than their cars, particularly a 4 cylinder 4x4 Toyota pickup. Rather low bar there.. So I tell the kids I work with that his car isn't that fast and he gets all butthurt.
Well there is an 1/8 mile drag strip 30 minutes from base. A couple friends of mine and I go up with our LS1 cars because mine is all stock and the slowest year for the LS1. We are curious what it will run completely stock with 2.73 gears and an auto. I get there and pull in the staging lanes, and proceed to hot lap the thing without cooling it off, running the AC when its not on the track, and find its very consistently running 8.81s. that is the equivalent of a high 13 in the quarter mile.
Well Neon kid is there, and he is putting ice on it, cooling it down as much as possible between runs, and the best he got that night was a 9.5 which is mid to high 14s at best. Most of his runs were 9.7/9.8, a full second slower in the 1/8 than my completely stock vehicle, and he had a bunch of money thrown at his.. My half ton pickup is faster than his Neon.
He comes up and asks what my daily beater economy car ran, so I told him. Then he got really butthurt and said 'well you have a V8 I only have a four so you stay in your class I will stay in mine' when he is the one who was getting cocky and talking shit. I merely stated the fact his car is nowhere near as fast as he thinks it is. Been racing for over 15 years at that point, you get an idea of what things run based on how they look and sound.
Then he decided it was a good idea to threaten me, all 140lbs and 6'1 of him. Kid had no idea what he was taking on there either. Being tall is a disadvantage against me. A huge one. I let it slide because getting in trouble for getting in a fight with another NCO, even if he is 7 years younger than I am, would be a bad idea.. so I laughed and went back to make more runs beating the hell out of that daily driver.
All ego and arrogance, with no experience, typical of a kid born in the late 80s. Told they are so amazing and capable, but they have never been tested, never been trained, never done anything. They assume everyone will back down because they are tall and have confidence. If he had not been in my unit and he was a civilian, I would probably have provoked him to show him not only is his car slow, but he has no chance man to man either.
That is the mentality of the fart can kids. They see Fast and Furious and believe their little pos is a 9 second quarter mile car... and its really a 15 or 16 second car... with a tailwind.
Don't be like them.
When me and other racers like me get beat by someone, we don't make excuses, we don't try to get them banned or the rules changed to favor us. That is feminine thinking. What we do is figure out how to make our junk faster, we look at what it does right, and what it doesn't do.
I got beat a lot in the early 90s despite making a lot more power than the local chevy and Ford kids, because I didn't have a sticky set of tires. So I would spin or have to go part throttle until it got up to about 50 or 60 then I could open it up. So they would jump out 3 to 5 car lengths ahead, and I would catch them and lose by a bumper or fender. Also had a fuel pump issue, the stock ones can't keep up so at the top of second it would die.
Sticky tires and an electric fuel pump, and I could then sandbag them. Meaning I would get ahead and lift off the throttle to beat them by a fender or door. It worked until they saw me at the track running two seconds faster than their all time best. Then they'd ask how much I was spraying it, and I wasn't, I just build a combo with a big engine that worked great, if it could hook.
I helped a bunch of them run faster than they had before, and taught them about carbs, timing, and suspensions. Thats the other thing, drag racers are more prone to help out the guys they compete against than anyone else. We want a good race, we like the challenge, and we are always trying to go faster. You get a reputation for making things run harder than anyone else can and that can benefit you.
Thats what we red pill guys do, we try to mentor the younger men so they can avoid the mistakes we made. We understand that we are not competing with those guys, but they could use what we have learned over the decades. Its why I post things like this, and write about subjects that don't seem to fit the discussion, because there is something to learn from it.
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This is why I buy $20 (71 mustang fastback, yes seriously and I drove it home too) to $2000 cars that need rebuilt, rather than going to some lot or Ebay and spending tens of thousands on something I have to fix a ton of stuff or completely rebuild anyway. My 65 GTO was severely rusted, it was not even a good parts car when I got it for $1500, but its a real deal GTO and I have a sawzall and a welder. Three years of work, 22lbs of .023 mig wire, and about $15k in parts/materials and I have a fun driver that won't win any shows but its a blast all summer to roll around.
No, most people will not take on a project that has rusted pinch welds so you can't put front and rear glass in it with the dash rusted away from the body and no floors, but my $300 68 LeMans was pulled out of a Nebraska pasture in '14 and is now a mid ten second street cruiser for less than $5k. I can do this, so I do it. I build drivers, a car I can take to the store and pick up groceries, drive in the rain, take on 1500 miles road trips having an insect genocide the entire time mashing bugs in the grill and windshield.
I haven't bought a running driving muscle car since 2005, and that one needs a ground up rebuild, but its one of those cars that is exceptionally rare and desirable. I paid far less than it is worth, because it needs some work, but its numbers matching and still drivable. Before that it was 1994, and that was my 70 GTO and the $20 Mustang. I have gotten some for free, just haul it off because they want it gone, and I have turned some of them into drivers and street strip toys. I got the first one back in 1982 when I was 13. Man I worked my ass off that summer for that $450 67 Cougar. I still have it but haven't driven it since '87, however its close to being a driver again other things are priority right now.
The thing is, you can probably do the work, but you have to learn how just like everyone else. The big thing is to not be afraid of doing the work, but to not half ass it. Tony is showing people what, how, and when to do things, and from what I can see dude knows what is going on. I can spot a fake or a halfwit easily, the booger and cat poop welds are a dead giveaway for the not so great guys. Take the time to learn it, dig in with an old car, collect the parts, and make it happen. If you don't waste time watching inane TV shows about who is doing whom to a laugh track, you will have plenty of time to rebuild the car.
You can also bond with your kids, save money by keeping your daily going, and not be the guy in the minivan or crossover who looks longingly at my GTOs wishing he had one but his wife won't let him. Don't be that guy.
Don't get an old car if you do not have the burning desire to drive it and the willingness to do what it takes, because you will take it apart, let it sit taking up space, then sell it at a loss to someone like me who will rebuild it in a couple months and start having fun with it. These things are simple to work on, but you can't just slap parts on it, you have to learn how and why they work and do what they do. That is just as much fun as driving it once its done.
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@Edithae one of my two huskies has her own language, she has seven or eight sounds she makes, from I need to go take a shit, I want to go out and play, the food/water bowl is empty, and others along those lines. They also use body language to convey their ideas to me, just like humans do.
They can open any trash can they can reach, so I have my trashcan high enough they can't get to it easily. I give them peanut butter jars when the peanut butter is gone, and I tighten the lid to the point a human female will not get it off.. and they get it off in a couple minutes.
I have an 8' fence around the yard on my land, I have to watch them so they don't escape. They are brilliant, much smarter than toddlers, and its more than just emulation, training, and instinct. They are problem solving, they probe for weaknesses, they figure things out quickly and if they had thumbs it would be a world we have to share with Huskies.
Examples of stupid people? Well there is a member of congress who thinks Guam will capsize if too many people live on one side of it. It gets worse from there.
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@JR-zm2yu I had a mostly fun time in the military, got to see the world, meet interesting people from ancient culture, and sometimes bang their daughters.
I can see how the snow would look fake in Miami. It never snowed when I was in Kuwait, but it snowed a few times in Germany and all winter in Korea. Not like here, but more than southern states for sure.. lol
The snow in Nebraska is usually gone in a day or two. Up here its here until May, sometimes June in shaded areas. We get two blizzards in April, so that month is super frustrating. It will be 75 and beautiful, water everywhere from the snowmelt, then the next day we get 4ft dumped on us and the salt trucks go out again. I am not driving my GTO in the salt, I spent 3000 hours rebuilding that thing and its massive rust problem I am not doing it again just because...
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@TheControlBlue pointing out and explaining how the USA functions (well its supposed to function like that, except religious zealots, currently marxists, are fucking it up) is not militant atheism. I am all about the bill of rights, which is why I am not a fan of religions, as ideologies such as that always seek to limit humans in what they can say, think, and do, beyond the norms of don't kill, steal, assault, etc..
You do understand that the majority of commandments are about not insulting god, don't you? Or do you have a different ten than lutherans? Not that I disagree with certain ones, like honor your parents, the two obvious ones, and I would like to have adultery be illegal rather than rewarded for women (thanks to commies and weak willed smooth brain types), but blasphemy, meh.. I don't give a fuck what someone says about invisible friends and sky fairies.
Religious people will justify any atrocity with their religion. The god of the religion can be anything, a big JuJu in the mountain, an old man in the sky, the state, men, women, animals, or whatever the hell it is with the xenu and DC9s in volcanoes people.. If you don't believe the same fairy tales and myths, they will mistreat or kill you over it.
This is a brain using logic, not encumbered by logical fallacies, fantasy, and wishful thinking. Its why unlike many smooth brained types, I did not fall for the marxist bullshit when I lost my religion. At least your religion has some useful and quality information/guidance in it, if you toss out all the idiotic bullshit. The marxists are following something that allows them to justify anything, and seems to require them to purge everyone in purity tests.
Believe in a higher power if you like, take comfort in the idea you will see everyone you loved again when you die, I am 100% ok with that. Condemning everyone who does not share your delusion and enacting laws to punish them for not believing or following it, that is where we have a problem.
You're like most people, you need to follow, you crave authority over you. To be told what to do, say, and think makes life easier for you, as you can absolve yourself of bad choices by saying it was gods will. Its not really a bad thing, unless you use it against people... like you are trying to do against me. We need followers, the mean IQ types who fill out the thick part of the bell curve, and the less than mean IQ types who will do what they're told and never question it. Its better to have them in your religion than in marxism.
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@maxxor-overworldhero6730 a massive strawman, so I suppose its also a strawman that the democrats/marxists want to disarm us? You believe in religion? Cool, good for you. Don't shove it into other people, its YOUR thing. All my life people have tried to shove their religion into me, and I really tried to believe it for about 30 years. Even now they try, using shaming tactics, false accusations, and insults in lame attempts to make me believe in their delusion.
If there is a god at the end of this life, I will have some pointed questions for it. It will have to answer to me why it fucked me over such as it did. However, I realize it was people who fucked me over, capricious assholes who justified their abhorrent actions with their religion.
No it was not only christians, I have been fucked over by marxists, muslims, christians, a single jew which is surprising considering their reputation lol, a hindu, two pagans, and my first ex who says she is wiccan or some shit. Strangely enough it was never an atheist who fucked me over, always someone who believed in something irrational. The second ex wife was a feminist, which is marxist, so while she did not believe in the old man in the sky or a great JuJu in the mountain, she had a god and did not realize it. Her god is the state, the government itself that takes from others and gives to her.
I find amusement in the various religions, they are interesting ways to explain the unknown, the pockets of ever receding ignorance. Its not so much the religions themselves that have turned me against ideology, its the people who wield them like a 9 year old who found dad's .44 mag and dad did not instruct the kid on proper gun safety.
If you're a believer in a monotheistic religion, then you're an atheist towards all the others, meaning you do not believe in the rest. Mars, Jupiter, vishnu, xenu, and countless others.. I simply go one farther and discount all supposed higher powers.
My god is gravity, because without it we would not exist. My religion is torque, because torque over time makes horsepower, and its what moves me.
Building a car, then making a fast pass in it, for the least amount of money possible, is a spiritual experience for me. I do not need a god, I have knowledge, skills, my two hands and two eyes with which I can either achieve or fail. Its all on me, and every time I have relied on others, be they tangible or not, I have been fucked over. I like what works. V8s I build with high compression running ethanol fuel I make from tree sap fucking works.
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@maxxor-overworldhero6730 I'm not. I explain things, you can choose to take the information or reject it. Nowhere do I claim all religious nutters will suffer in a lake of fire, or any other consequence, that's your thing. Your projection is quite similar to that of feminists and marxists.
I like reality, not fantasy or wishful thinking of some heaven to be had if only everyone obeys the authority. If your ideology needs logical fallacies to support it, and you have to quench the dissenting voices by legal fiat, then you have a rather weak idea.
I do find it amusing that you assume I am your enemy, because I do not share in your delusion of a supreme being that cares what sexual positions you employ, or that watched you jack off in the shower.
If you are on the side of liberty, self determination, and personal responsibility, then you are on the same side I am on. Whatever mythical fantasy you prefer beyond that doesn't really matter to me... provided you do not try to limit me with it.
As it happens, the way I live my life is quite parallel to that of religious people such as yourself in many ways. I treat people right, unlike many religious people I treat everyone the same regardless of their ideology. However, I will give you guys a break if/when it comes to a conflict, the marxists will receive no consideration, no quarter will be given, because they will not give any. I'd much rather fight along side you against them.
I am not your enemy, I have no ideology. The marxists are you enemy, you should focus on what they are doing as I am not a threat to anything regarding you except a flimsy faith in fanciful myths. They will line you up next to me at the wall, or put us in the same camp, then toss us in the same mass grave. They do not have a distinction outside of if you're a marxist or not. Most of them do not even realize they are following marxist ideology.
I fought to preserve your rights and way of life. Risked my life and sacrificed quite a lot so the people of the USA, and much of the world, could live free or marxist rule and oppression. Have you?
My oath was to protect the Constitution, not to some god or deity. Even if I were religious the bill of rights would be my focus. It was while I still had a religion.
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@maxxor-overworldhero6730 an ideology prescribes to you, do this, don't do that. I have somewhat of a philosophy, but mainly I decide every choice on merit, though pondering and rolling it around in my head. Bigger choices take more thought, small decisions are easy to make.
Knowing what consequences are probable from a choice allows you to choose wisely. That is where you listen to your god. I listen to my experience and observations. You rely on your religion, I rely upon myself and my abilities/knowledge.
Sounds arrogant doesn't it? It usually does to the followers of religions. They need the authority above them, I resent authority that limits me.
You think people all have an ideology and need it to exist, but we don't. You only think that because you are immersed in one, and cannot see it from the outside. All you know is the pod, the matrix, and you are blind to the rest of existence.
I have no use for the comfortable lies, hardship and death have been my companions most of my life. I have little use for hope and faith, relying on them never worked well for me. I take action and make shit happen.
Essentially take a hyper masculine mindset and you get me. You are more on the feminine side, because you need to be taken care of. I am the solver of problems, the guide through the darkness, and the one people come to when they need help.
To be honest, it sucks being the one everyone comes to, because there is nobody to solve my problems but me. You have the easier life, you chose to be cared for. I am the only one on this planet who has ever cared about me. So why would I need a capricious, vindictive, asshole who wants me to remain ignorant of the universe around me?
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@Noble99218 take a skinny broke dude, and a muscular broke dude, and see which one the women like more.
Also you're talking about a different aspect of attracting women. They can't tell if a man is a junkie or a high value man, because neither of them have her as a priority, she is an afterthought. The less attention you give them, the more they want you, and the 'bad boys' you're thinking of are the ones who treat them like they don't matter, because to those guys, they don't.
Now you have to be somewhat physically attractive for that to work. If you are someone that nobody wants to look at, because you are 5'4" and 450lbs, they will be thrilled that you ignore them.
Now you can read about all of this, or you can go find out in person. When I was 16 I took the time to study them and figure out what attracted women to men. Then I could tell when one was into me, and when she was not, which made life MUCH easier because I didn't waste time on the ones that had zero interest.
I've noticed that most of the guys who follow these channels are the type that women do not want, and they are incapable of reading non verbal indicators. Its a skill you can learn, and once you know what to look for, you see it easily. Women are not complicated, they are quite simple really. However they try to hide everything so they can have plausible deniability, because they can't stand rejection, and they are profoundly affected by embarrassment.
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Do you know what happens when you try to help these incels and 'non starter' / nice guys? When you inform them of the pitfalls of the legal system, the nature of people and especially that of girls? Teach them about how to talk to women, how to not be creepy, and what is attractive to them? You are called a hateful misogynist, a racist, and all kinds of horrible things. Meanwhile society and every influence in their lives says "Just be yourself" and bullshit like "When you aren't looking for a girl, she will just fall into your life" It doesn't work like that.
I am an old guy who figured it out the hard way, by trial and error back in the 80s when I was a teenager. Many of those trials back then would have resulted in (even more than the 6 I had) of the "OMG HE SPOKE TO ME!!!!" harassment accusations we have now. These guys are fucked, because they can't learn the way I did. They are told they are violent, toxic, losers, and men are inept, incapable, and should be treated like broken subservient women. Look at TV shows and movies, the men are always fuck ups unless they are a super hero, and then he still has to fuck up and be stupid somehow. The fucking ads bash them, they are never told to take charge of their own lives and make shit happen. They haven't been told to clean their room, they are told they don't deserve to have a room.
These guys can't be Tony Stark or Captain America or any other hero, they are average chumps, they haven't achieved anything because there is no incentive to achieve. Shit, everything you worked for can be ripped away by one harpy who didn't like you saying hello, so why bother? Stay home and play Fortnite.
Until this shit gets fixed, our culture, society, and nation will decline. You have to turn boys into men, and the bubble wrapped participation trophy ideology permeating their lives from 2 until they turn 21 is not allowing them to become men. I mean shit, what man thinks its cool to look like a girl with a beard? Seriously... that is what hipsters have become.
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@jimmycisneros5920 yep and its their problem, nothing to be concerned about except the marxists are using them as a cudgel to bludgeon us all with guilt and it works on some people.
Next up is the pedos, the marxists will try to say those creepy monsters are victims and just need their fair place in the world. Never mind that most become pedos because of their own abuse when they are children. They are made into that by others, but the kid sniffers/gropers are so abhorrent to us that the marxists can use them to control the way we think.
Thats why they used the gays first, then the trans people, next is pedos. They do not support those people they view them with contempt and disdain, but knowing they are very different to the rest of us they can be used to prompt us to think the way the marxists want us to think.... and to police our own thoughts, which is their ultimate goal.
I truly have compassion for the people who are born different, some for those who were made into monsters by others, but I want them to live happy productive lives and not be used as a trump card to win an argument.. The fucked up thing is the marxists will use them to gain power, but when they do get the power those people will be the first in the camps. Like I said, contempt and disdain. Its why they see minorities as hapless victims, but will round them up in droves as well.
The marxists always have. Why would they change now?
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@Robotrik1 So you can't see that feminism is marxism using gender to divide people and create their nefarious 'other' that is oppressing whamens? Its the same thing, with the same tactics, same rhetoric, same idiocy. You can hardly miss it once you know what they all do and say. So you're exactly right, you can be a feminist and a dirty commie.
The national socialists had the tiny hat people as their 'other' the soviets used the kulaks and 'wreckers' to blame for their failures and to rile up the populace against a common enemy. Pro female types say men are oppressin' them so its justified to oppress men.
Its all the same turd called marxism, and they simply have different flavored sprinkles on that turd for socialism, fascism, feminism, progressivism, post modernism, and whatever other idiocy they conjure up to declare themselves the biggest victim.
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@zarkeh3013 My 70 GTO has all the factory stuff under it. Been on E85 and E100 since 2007. E10 from 1994 to 2007. Zero issues, other than the now 50+ year old sender O ring.. lol. Its also been sitting since 2018 because of electrical issues, and I want to do a frame off rebuild on it, the suspension is really tired. It was my daily driver for a long time.
The 65 GTO has steel line feeding EFI, running E85 since 2018. Its my current daily in the summer. 11.5:1 455 making plenty of grunt.
The 79 Formula has 1/2" aluminum fuel line, and a plastic cell in the trunk. It runs E85 too.
When I add EFI to the 70 Cuda, it will get nylon lines, even if it stays on pump gas. That stuff is so much easier to work with, its just crazy easy and works great.
I need to upgrade the 68 LeMans, its fuel system isn't quite adequate for what it is and what its going to do. Namely, beat up on a poor hapless LS powered LeMans at the NNN.
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@jamesmorrow1646 there are studies that show ethanol to be negative in EROEI, they are all based on one flawed study done by an entomologist named Pimental. He skewed the numbers so badly that it never made it beyond peer review.
Its so badly biased that he assumed the largest tractor built in the 1970s, the Steiger articulating 4 wheel drive, would only last ten years farming 100 acres per year. Those tractors were built to farm THOUSANDS of acres every year, and quite a few of them are still running 40 years later. He was including the cost of building that tractor, down to smelting the iron for it, in the production of ethanol.
Then he used the efficiencies for beverage ethanol, which is more about taste than proof, and claimed it required far more energy to produce ethanol. He fudged the numbers going in, which got him the result the oil companies funding his 'study' were looking for.
Now when you see a 'study' showing ethanol to be negative EROEI and you look into the sources for it, you will find Pimental/Patzek as the basis for it. They take his flawed numbers and plug them into their study.
Despite failing miserably in peer review, the oil companies, and now the control freak D's are pointing at his worthless scraps of paper to show how bad making ethanol is.
Start with a flawed premise, then craft a 'study' to show what you want it to show, then tout it as reality. Its very easy to do, and gullible people will not only believe it, but also push it as reality as if its some set in stone law or something.
You, like those gullible peers of yours, have not been using your skeptical thinking, you just believe what you are told despite evidence all around you to the contrary. Its amusing because I see you the same way I see young earth creationists and flat earthers, ignoring actual science and physics in favor of narrative and confirmation bias.
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@sailormatlac9114 they are the pricks who claim I have privilege, when I grew up dirt poor on a farm in the 70s and 80s, had to join the military to have a chance at a life outside my home state that is continually impoverished by politicians. Jimmy, Bill, and Barry all did things that screwed farmers and factory workers, not to mention how they treat us veterans.
I came from nothing and scratched my way into a barely decent living, despite being set back below zero twice by divorce... where it was claimed I had privilege and was the problem.
Its amusing to me now, in my mid 50s, how those types are always blaming others for their failures, and trying to make others look bad as they claim those others are at fault for what they do. Its always your fault, not theirs, and I hold a special loathing for that kind of individual.
I like the Russian people, they are hilarious and fun, absolutely wonderful... as long as you are aware of the other side of them. Maybe its my German ancestry that finds them so amusing and enjoyable. That particular ideology is the one which I will fight against until air no longer fills my lungs.
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Omaha is surrounded by bluffs and its built on top of hills.. Flat doesn't fit Omaha. Chicago is far flatter than Omaha and the area around it. People think Nebraska is flat because I-80 goes along the Platte River valley, which is flat. The rest of the state is hills, rivers, and somewhat inhospitable weather wise. You can't be a candy ass to live there away from the large towns like Omaha, Grand Island, Lincoln, Hastings, and North Platte. That state's weather can kill you between overpasses on the interstate. Take your pick, hot, cold, or tornadoes and lightning, the weak either toughen up or leave living there.
What the police did on the overpass sounds exactly like a Nebraska solution. Most of us don't hunt deer from trees in Nebraska, we set up two or three guys in an ambush, often L shaped, and then two to four people drive the deer through pastures and river bottoms to the ambush. The ones that turn around are shot by the drivers. The police did the same thing using an overpass and handcuffs.. So these city people who go to Nebraska, or northern Michigan where I live now, are going to have a bad time if they bring their bullshit to us in BFE.
Omaha, not very racist (if at all) and there is a rather large group of minorities there, mostly Spanish speaking. Nobody gives a damn what color you are, just don't be a dick and you're fine.. lots of people being dicks though.. Lincoln Nebraska is like the San Francisco of the plains, well regarding the gay population there, tons of gay bars, and really nobody gives a damn. There are some morons in the state who are racist pricks, but they only talk shit, they don't actually do anything, and they are the minority. Most people just don't care about race.
Here in Michigan, its the democrats who are racist, and some of the more stupid people who don't know anyone of a different race because they never left their small town in the woods. My ex in laws are super racist, they were un-thrilled I dated black and Arab girls before their daughter, they are hardcore democrats and typical for around here.
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Hey Sydney, like your videos, former US military NCO here. You're right these ads do not make sense, but the people who are coming up with them are out of touch with what appeals to the under 25 group. They are throwing sliced cheese at the wall to see what sticks. We who are gen X grew up before the internet, cellphones, and we have Atari and a few other basic console games, nothing like what has been available to the 18 year old who has grown up with all we have now. Most of X is not gamers, even fewer of us do the mindless button mashing console games. Those who are all ate up and gung ho in the military will probably have no clue what that is about, and then with the drive to push females into all positions, they are even farther out of touch because as you have clearly displayed, girls are not into games and see no point in it. I have no concept of what interests a girl, and likewise what interests us males is equally incomprehensible to most females. How do you get women to want to join the military? Hell if I know, but I know how to get males to enlist and do their job when every part of their mind says no.
The military can take anyone who is not messed up physically or mentally (with a few notable exceptions on the mental part) and turn them into a productive member of society who realizes they must put in th effort and earn what they get, rather than demanding everything and feeling entitled simply because they exist. They can take the fat kids who play world of warcraft for hours on end, and show them an entire world outside the game that is just as interesting, with far higher stakes, and pay them to experience it.
Curiously, I grew up lutheran, then met an Arab girl from the mid east (right before we kicked the snot out of Iraq in '91) and were engaged. To marry a muslim girl, you have to be a muslim, so I learned the religion. Technically I was one, but as far as belief goes, well christianity never really stuck well either, but I tried hard to believe in mythical fairy tales and invisible friends. Obviously, I am not exactly religious at this point. You have to pray 5 times a day, wash your hands, feet, groin, mouth, hair, etc, (not in that order) then pray. You can do it merely facing towards Mecca, or go through the whole thing like in the video. I get the intention of accepting muslims, because I was one, and as a white guy from nearly the exact center of the USA, I can tell you there is some 'concern' over the religion even when its a white guy who practices it.
The problem areas with islam are also in the other Abrahamic religions, but the difference is in certain parts of the world, islam not only has teeth it is the law of those countries, it can lift you up or kill you, all in the same afternoon. The culture shock of coming from a place where islam is the law to the west, well its going to cause problems. That is the thing the marxists do not get. They think every culture is equal, and people are inherently nice to everyone, but the reality is they are usually nice to their in group, and everyone else can pound sand. With islam, that means you are probably going to get brutalized, then beheaded if you do something outside the ideology... and in some places, just because you are different.
Its difficult to know who is going to blow up a bus or market, and who is going to simply pray five times a day, not eat pork, and not drink alcohol. You can't know what is inside their head, just like the marxists will say one thing and do the opposite. Ideology is the problem, because its in your head and if you do not talk about it to everyone, they have no idea you are all for a genocidal thought meme or some totalitarian 1984 type of nightmare.. Normal people are not inclined to wish for a dystopian future, and the ideologues assume that dystopia is a utopia for them, because of ignorance and naiveté which is hijacked along with their religious fervor, and yeah marxism is a religion just like the rest of them, a dogmatic ideology that makes no damn sense unless you have been indoctrinated into the belief system.
So we have to fumble our way through life, trying not to step on landmines, nor start an avalanche that results in the reprehensible ideologies taking control. Currently, your country and the UK, as well as most of Europe, are in the grip of a particularly pernicious and reprehensible ideology, and its based in marxism. These marxists embrace the idea of islam because both seek to enslave everyone, they wrongly assume they can overcome islam easily once they have secured power, (which in reality mass graves and fear would do the job like they did for the socialists in the 20th century) and its simply the enemy of my enemy is my friend at play. Both hate the idea of self, and both feel entitled to certain things, so they are at odds with capitalism.... aka the common enemy.
Some of my favorite people in this world are religious, very few I like are marxist... we can pretty much call it none of them. As for the ads, who knows what the hell they were thinking, not everyone in the military has an above average IQ, a few do, but most have no clue why, how, where, or when, they just follow along, and when they are out of their element, like whoever made those ads, well, you get a big pile of shit in return from them. What you are getting from your government, and the governments of Europe is a big pile of shit. We are trying to keep ours from going the same way.
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Ask me what my daughter's birthdays are, I can tell you. Who their teachers were, I have no idea because I was removed from their lives for years because their cheatin mom divorced me and my home state decided that I needed to be punished for it. I have been through two wars, run over by cars, beaten unconscious many times, I live with chronic pain from my military service, but the most hurt I have ever experienced was my kids being taken from me and then I was prevented from being in their lives for no other reason than their capricious mother demanded it.
They were 4 and 7 when their mother took them 1500 miles away. I had taught them everything, crawling, walking, running, riding bikes, reading, writing, math, shapes, colors, how to run a freakin computer when they were 3... I did all of that while working 50 to 70 hours every week trying to stay ahead of their mother's bipolar spending. After she took them I was prevented from being in their lives, because everyone knows men are bad and dad's need punished.
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In this clip, Joe is exactly right. Sure you have a wide range of economic and social systems, but whining about you getting a shitty start compared to someone else does you no good. What does you good is getting to work, improving yourself and your life, being focused and disciplined on what you want to achieve or do.
I started out dirt poor in BFE Nebraska, and I retired at 35 through monumental work that packed more than 50lbs of lean muscle mass on me. The amount of work I have done is staggering to most people, they can't comprehend it. I have a passive income that barely gets me by, so I have to know how to do things myself because I can't pay others to do it for me. I could be living in a two story burrito bag under a bridge, or I can be doing whatever the hell I have to so I can live a good life.
Now I build old muscle cars for fun and enjoyment, its a crazy amount of work required to do that. I could whine about not owning a GTO, or I can go to work, earn the money to get a rusty heap, and learn how to repair everything on it so I can drive it and have a cool as hell old car as my daily driver. Its an analogy for life, nothing of value comes for free without effort. Even breathing takes effort. That is life and that is what Joe is talking about.
Never in my life have I made over $50k a year, but to look at what I have built in spite of the hardships forced on me by others, you'd think I was super wealthy. If you want it, go get it, I have no sympathy for people who are too damn lazy to make shit happen for themselves. Look at my videos, and the shop that is in them I built myself after clearing the land by hand. That is what discipline and effort amount to. Do shoddy work and half ass it, and you get a half assed product.
That aspect of American society and reality will benefit you the most or leave you with nothing. Your choice.
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@bornagainbuddhist1969 I've known about 5000 people in my lifetime, many of them in the US military. We had big squadrons in the 80s and early 90s. Around 1/3 of them have been female, that I got to know in one way or another. Many others I saw in passing, or knew of but didn't ever speak to.
Back in 2015 I met one kinda good one, she was treating me VERY well, I think in an effort to give her sons a quality role model. No, she is not wife material because I am not going to play someone else's saved game.
One out of all those people... just one.
Have a sister in law who seems like a good one, but there is no way I could live with her. She is excellent at keeping my brother's ADHD focused and productive, and she supports him in what he does.
I never had anyone support me, they always took from me.
The more I look and watch their behavior, the less interested in them I become.
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Steven likes authority rule because he doesn't like merit and competence. He is physically weak, physically incompetent, inept in anything having to do with strength, resilience, and self determination. Essentially he is like an 8 year old girl with a large vocabulary. He wants to be protected because he is incapable of doing it himself. He wants government to decide for him, because he doesn't want to do it for himself. Without an authority protecting him, he is lost.
Like many other people who are physically weak and timid, he erroneously assumes he is of superior intellect. Dunning Kruger party of one, your table is ready. Listening to him speak, seeing what he has written, he is not a titan of mental acuity... although he believes himself to be.
This is not about his preference for nekkid time, this is about how he thinks, acts, and his personality of deference and agreeableness. There is not a rebellious atom in his body, he begs to follow and is subservient to authority at all times. Only when he doesn't like the authority does he protest, but only with words, and often in logical fallacies in an attempt to prop up his ideological and physical shortcomings.
I have seen this type of individual many times, they are bereft of leadership skills and quality, and when put in command cannot gain respect though they demand it. The incompetence comes out in the directives that are only going to serve to create more work, less production, and in the military world... get people zeroed out. Its the first time in their lives that they are allowed even the slightest power and authority, which makes it go to their head and they become tyrants. Capricious, vindictive, often irrational tyrants. Still, they always assume they will not be like that, that they can lead just as well as anyone else... they simply cannot.
Their insecurity oozes from every orifice, and screams out at you in their mannerisms and non verbal communications. You can see the insecurity in the way they sit, talk, walk, and move. You can hear it in their voice, and yet they crave the power they have never wielded. There is no discipline in them getting the power, it is usually handed to them as they are promoted beyond their capability and competence. Once handed the mantle of leadership, they fling it about like a 5 year old with a razor sharp Katana.
Chaos ensues, and when they are placed in leadership of an entire country, the mass graves start filling at an alarming rate. Its only a matter of time until their weak personality infects the entire system, and it must then be propped up by violence committed by others in their stead. They roll tanks into a city or country to quell dissent, people vanish and are never heard from again, they bring overwhelming force via proxy rather than working out the differences.
When the rhetoric of everyone who dissents and disagrees is a (___ fill in the epithet___) the only action left is outright violence. If Steven were in office, he would be following the same path and actions we are seeing in Canada right now. Call them terrorists, racists, not Cs, misogynists, and any other bad name... when that fails, send in the jackbooted thugs with truncheons and black bags, wearing masks to protect them from probable repercussions as they allow the tyranny to flow through them like a poisoned stream.
We can watch it happen. My guess is Brave Sir Justin will abuse his authority in the coming days, and justify it the same way Pelosi and her ilk have claimed 1-6 was some kind of horrible event rather than their version of a Reichstag fire. He will cling to the power he has taken, and he will inflict terror on the people whom he believes he owns, and sees as his subjects with which he can do as he pleases. Steven would be doing the same thing if he were in power, rather than writing thinly veiled marxist claptrap at a now 3rd rate source of propaganda. A failed chicken farmer with glasses would be so very proud of his efforts.
In reference to H.L Mencken, I will compare Steve's opinions and publisher in the same way regarding the smallest room in a house.
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@Madonnalitta1 apparently you're unaware that the majority of unreciprocated DV is done by women, and that when its mutual is most often because the male is defending himself against her, but he gets arrested. You split tails can get physical without consequence to yourselves, so you have de facto impunity. That means many of you do it.
Also the overwhelming majority of dv against kids is perpetrated by you oh so wonderful caring compassionate, never do anything wrong ever wizard sleeve owners.
That is something the fininiisnisnssmsts are desperately trying to hide.
So yeah there are a handful of jerks out there who will tune you up when there are water spots on the dishes or some other inane thing, but mostly its irrational females starting fights and men being punished for them.
My first ex was one of them, the cops always wanted to arrest me and charge me with dv, because I was 100lbs heavier than her, a well trained combat veteran, and any man who did what she did would probably not survive the encounter. She always played the poor helpless victim, but she was smart enough to not let them arrest me.
There was never a mark on her, but she stabbed me twice, I have a divot in the back of my head from a coffee mug she hurled while I was teaching my youngest daughter to read. Any time she felt guilty about anything, she started a fight. Such is how bipolar women are.
Its amusing that because I am so muscular and well trained that people think its ok for a woman to hit me, but not ok for me to let her see what it feels like and put the fear of god into her.... because just once and I go to jail and lose all my rights.
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@rapidroadsode8789 I've had two advantages in my life.
1. Its super easy for me to pack on muscle, probably due to genetics and a messed up diet my parents had me on from 4 to 14.
2. I am willing to do almost anything, any amount of work, learn any new skill, and I have the perseverance to make things happen that I want to happen.
Neither of those have anything to do with how resistant I am to UV light. None.
I have been trying to think of something I was given without working for it, and usually working a hell of a lot more than most people, to get it. There might be something, but I can't think of it. The closest thing is the car my dad left me when he died, but I worked my ass off on the farm growing up, and he wanted me to take care of it and fix whats wrong with it, because I am the only one of the six of us who can.
When I see homeless people, I have some compassion for them, because I slept in my car on active duty. Child support left me with $100 a month to live on, no matter how much I earned. My home state assumed the USAF would give me housing and food for free, and they did in the form of cash, which my home state took from me. So I know that some of them are there due to things beyond their control.
However the way I see it is, if they want to improve their life, they can.
I see people in their 30s and 40s working basic jobs, like stocking shelves and checking groceries, and I want to shake them and scream at them to GET A BETTER JOB. Some people aren't smart enough, others are risk averse, some just want to do the minimum and don't care if they never get anywhere in life. Then some people want a hand out rather than to earn what they want.
I had no choice but to do it the hard way my entire life, there were no handouts, no hand ups, and most of the time someone was trying to drag me down. Like my home state and my family. I realize that isn't in most people, they won't get up and keep fighting to get what they want, they will lay down, obey, and take the beatings... or expect someone else to save them.
The only time I ever got something for simply existing was when I was a kid and got money for my birthday. Then mom would say, we will hold on to that for you and they took it from me. Then I would say I want some of my money to get something, and mom would say "What money? You don't have any."
That happened with everything I earned while I was stuck on the farm. In 1982 I made over $2500 selling sweet corn I planted and grew. I got to use $450 of it to buy my first car. Since I was 13 I had to wait 3 years to drive it legally. Dad had a job in town selling farm equipment, and my brother and I did all the farm work. Dad drove my car to work, and by the time I got it, everything was worn out.
I got to drive it for less than 3 months total. The last time I drove it was 1987, I worked on it almost all night so I could make it to a wrestling tournament, because my parent's didn't want to take me to the school. You can see why I left the farm at 17... well along with all the beatings of course.
I still have that car, and I want to get it running, but other projects keep taking the time I need to do it. When I do get to it, I will feel like I am 16 again.. Honestly it would only take about $1000 and a weeks worth of work to make it drivable, just gotta get to it.
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Some cars are so far gone that you aren't going to make money on your labor if you rebuild them. That Satellite is one of them. Those are for those of us who want to drive them, and are not looking to flip them for profit. Rebuilding rusty junk nobody else wants or is daft enough to take on is my thing. Its not so much the grass as it is the wet and moist winters, because I have had cars sit in grass for 30 years and the floors are still good. Here in Michigan if its driven in winter, its only a matter of time before the salt returns the vehicle to mother earth.
I build them to drive them, because I can't afford to buy one already running and done. My time spent rebuilding them is enjoyable to me, I really like cutting out rust and welding in new metal, building engines, transmissions, rewiring the car, and making it all functional again. That is just as good as driving it for me. People often complain that I am hoarding cool cars, well I have a lot of cool cars that are too rusty for sensible people to rebuild. If they wanted them, they could have bought them as cheap as I did. The problem is, they would just be rusting away in their yard instead of mine, like that Satellite is.
In 1986 I bought a 71 T37 from a junkyard for parts. I used the front sheetmetal to make my 72 GTO drivable. It sat for all the years since then in different spots around the family farm in Nebraska, including under the center pivot that ran over the core support. Well in July this year I put it on my trailer and hauled it north to Michigan. It went on my lift so I could take a look under it. What I found was a surprisingly solid car, the frame is very good, the floors are only needing some small patches, the quarters rusted away from the wheel houses, but thats not a big thing, and the trunk is really solid. I have everything it needs to become a drivable car again, the only thing I will have to buy other than paint and consumables is interior stuff, like covers for the bench, and I might make door panels for it.
The 68 LeMans I have built for the NNN sat under a tree in a Nebraska pasture from 1982 until 2014 when I pulled it out and started getting it running. The floors only needed small patches, the rust is very minimal, and most of the guys who have seen it are upset I turned it into a street/strip car rather than restoring it. It was a bucket seat, floor shift, green car. The frame is nearly perfect under it.
The 69 GTO I got from Indiana is entirely different. That thing is mostly gone, not much left, the frame rotted behind the axle, the floors are mostly not there, and the car had been parted out so it doesn't have front sheet metal. It needs a full quarter on the passenger side, a skin on the drivers side, and the drivers door doesn't appear to be rebuildable. No worries, all I need to buy is the exterior sheet metal and some of the parts that aren't there. I have three frames that will fit it, and several engines to go in there. Its a manual everything no AC car, just like my 65 GTO was.... and man what a basket case the 65 was.
The 68 Firebird is so gone its hard to tell it was a Firebird, but there is enough there for me to rebuild it. It might get a tube frame, it might get put back together with factory parts, hard to say at this point but 71-74 Ventura's and Apollos are easy and cheap to find, and the 4 door parts are the same. It spent its entire life in Michigan, and is a VERY rare car. It was a factory executive car, was painted bright yellow and had a saddle leather interior in it. The cowl tag says SPECIAL. So I am leaning towards rebuilding it rather than making a race car out of it. Its not the only super rare Firebird I have.
The 64 LeMans sat in the woods in Champion Michigan for the last 50 years. The frame is trash, the floors are more gone than there, but the body is really straight with minimal rust. I am thinking Jegs chassis kit and a Speedway straight axle with one of my Pontiac engines and transmissions. Moving it around my yard is a challenge, because the steering box rusted away from the frame. No worries, this car will run, drive and make chevy guys cry again. I dragged it out of the woods this year. It was an awesome car when it was new, black with a red interior, bucket seats, 326 and two speed auto, cruising around in it had to have been fun, even if it was slow.
The 65 GTO was actually worse than the 64 LeMans, better than the 69 GTO, and its now my daily driver all summer. it was the first complete frame off rebuild I finished and can drive. If I am going somewhere like to get groceries, I take the GTO or the Cuda. Usually the GTO because the 455 making 550hp and nearly 600ftlbs is so much more fun than a 340. Its getting to the point I need to repaint the 65, some of my 'thats good enough for a driver' body work along with scratches and dents are making it look really rough. I am having too much fun driving it to take it apart for a month and repaint it.
The T37 and 64 LeMans are the only ones mentioned here that were complete cars when I got them. Everything else was or is a rolling shell. The 65 LeMans was a complete car, minimal rust and had sat in a garage down in Flint Mi since 1982. It is probably going to end up a gasser as well.
Now the kicker... in order here is what I paid for them: $175, $300, $200, $200, $400, $1500.
Someone who wants a fortune for a rusty hulk like any of these were or are, is just trying to make more money than they are worth off someone who doesn't know any better. Like the guy who demanded $600 for a stock Pontiac Qjet intake, when you can buy them all day long for $75. He was saying some date code from 1969 or something, and I told him I have three of those sitting here with 1969 codes. His retort was that someone somewhere wants that date code, and I told him they will find it easily for less than $100, so he doesn't have to gouge people to pay twice what an aftermarket intake costs for a stock one. He isn't helping anyone with his ludicrous prices. Those people make me irrationally angry.
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Why we have certain areas with a rampant crime culture.. Honestly, its a lack of fathers for kids. Now you might say we need to force men to stay with their kids, but that is not the problem at all, the overwhelming problem is fathers are forced out of the lives of their kids by vindictive mothers with the state helping them. Fathers teach empathy, restraint, the idea of consequences for actions, and they provide structure for sons and daughters.The left says fathers are superfluous, not needed, and mothers can do it all as long as the father hands over most of his income.
But if we fix that problem, then we won't have people thinking socialism is a great and wonderful idea. If they can't disarm us, they can't subjugate us. If we have strong families, we are far less likely to fall for the socialist/marxist bullshit. That is why they have torn down the family structure in the black community, 70% of kids grow up in single mother homes, without the guidance of the father to help them become functioning adults. The way the democrats enslave black people is disgusting, the way they are trying to subjugate us all is appalling... and I am not a republican, I lean left on many issues, I'm an atheist and not a fan of fossil fuels, but I am about as anti marxist as you can get.
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@FJB2020 yeah some of mine work on political videos, but most don't. If I say anything remotely important, nobody sees it.
I'm thinking I will take this particular channel name, do only car stuff on it which is what my channel is about, and make another one for commenting on 'pol' posts.
Know how I know the 'green' push isn't about the environment and it is all about controlling us? Because I make ethanol to run my cars using tree sap, cattails and coffee grounds. They throttle those vids hard, they don't want us to make our own, they want us dependent on the authority...
Im all about being independent, mostly because I am a veteran and have to deal with them all the time. I know they can shut off the compensation when they feel like it, and I know they give themselves raises and screw us over, so I have been working towards not needing money.
I wonder if this one will get shadowbanned
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@garyallsopp6369 When you cake cattails, which are soaking up Co2 every day, cleaning water at the same time as they love the nitrates that can be in it, then turn them into ethanol using methane to run the stills and any generators you might need, you can have a 'carbon neutral' vehicle rather easily if that concerns you. The Co2 used is already here on the surface where the plants utilize it, making methane is simple, as everything releases methane when it decomposes, might as well capture it and use it.
When you burn ethanol or methane it only releases Co2 and water. You can have your generator exhaust go into a greenhouse and the plants will grow faster, use less water, and produce more food with the increase of Co2.
Gasoline is going to emit a lot more stuff, Co, Nox, particulate carbon, all kinds of nasty bits. An EV is simply moving all of that to a power plant that is usually run on coal.
I got into making ethanol because paying $5 for 87 octane was not something I enjoyed. I like to drive muscle cars with big engines. In order to save money so I can spend it on car parts rather than energy, I looked into alternative fuels.
Methanol is lots of problems and its difficult to produce, highly toxic and detrimental to vehicles, lots of maintenance with methanol. Hydrogen is energy intensive to produce, difficult to keep contained, and it has severely reduced range and power. Methane is slightly better than hydrogen because its easy and cheap to produce, but lacks range and power.
Both hydrogen and methane are best utilized in stationary power production, like running generators. EV was hideously expensive with a very short range.
Ethanol is easy to produce from any starch or sugar, the byproducts can be used extensively to produce more food and fuel, and you can build wild engines with very high compression and run them on home made ethanol, which increases power and mileage. Literally anyone can produce ethanol and its easy to make cars run on it. If you eschew running pump gasoline entirely, you can raise the compression and get better mileage and power on ethanol than you can on gasoline... but you cannot run pump gas in an engine optimized for ethanol, it will rattle itself apart, usually flattening rod bearings or breaking pistons because of ping/knock.
I get to drive my old muscle cars for dirt cheap now, since it costs me around 40 cents to make a gallon of ethanol.
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Don't live in leftist sh**holes. I drive old stuff. Daily drivers in summer are 1965 GTO and 1970 Cuda, building some others too. Have some newer 4x4 trucks for the winter, and working on a 1976 C10 for hauling stuff next summer. I run them on E85 and home made ethanol, this fall I will make a large batch of fuel. I make it from cattails and tree sap, using methane I make to heat the stills.
No worries, I will be showing people how to make vodka fuel.
In winter I use wood heat, a pellet stove, a wood stove, and a biogas plant that heats water to 140F without burning anything.
I collect rain and snowmelt for water, but I have a well and the worlds largest freshwater lake is a mile away... you can drink directly from the lake. This is the rainy season right now.
The grid power here goes out all the time, so I have a generator. Solar isn't very good here, not much sunlight half the year this far north. Wind has some issues, like having to get above the trees here, but I can get by with minimal electricity. I can run my generator on gasoline, ethanol, or methane.
Why do I do this? Because its less expensive than buying my energy... and my muscle cars make a lot more power on ethanol than they do on gasoline. Make it yourself, it costs less than buying it at the price they demand.
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Speak fact and truth that goes against leftist narratives and propaganda on reddit, get quarantined, then banned after they call you misogynistic, racist, hateful, bigoted nazis for a while. Then they figure out that they are helping expand your subredit by calling it all those horrible things, then people go read it and discover its none of that and its a matter of time until you are removed. Post anything in line with the leftist narrative no matter how ludicrous, fabricated, and asinine while they promote your drivel. Reddit is turning itself into an echo chamber.
reddit was the wild west, the free speech platform for everyone, and now its a marxist cesspool filled with useful idiots spewing propaganda. I am not a conservative, not religious, and not a republican... then reddit threw me out because despite being an atheist I am not a marxist, and not a feminist.
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While stationed in Germany, I bought a 1980 BMW 520 with a dead six in it. $200. A chick in my unit wrecked her 84-ish 525i on Bahn 5, so I bought that too. Swapped the 6 from her car into my 520. It is still the slowest vehicle I have ever owned, and that includes trucks. Sold it to my boss and bought what eventually turned into my street/strip fun toy that currently runs low 9s on pump gas with no power adder.. a 1979 Formula Firebird WS6. Lots of fun with that thing over the last 3 decades since I was stationed in Germany. I paid $200 for the Bird, mainly I wanted the rear disc brakes for a 10th Anniversary Trans Am I had back home that needed a caliper and both rotors. Those cars were dirt cheap in the 80s and 90s.
12 years later while stationed in Charleston SC I traded some 5.0 Ford rocker arms for a 1984 GTi. It was a fun car, my bud would take it out and bust on the Honda kids with the wings and fart cans, but eventually the injection crapped out so I scrapped it. It was my economy car for going to work on base, and bombing around town. My other car when the GTi was still alive that I used as a family car with the wife and two kids, and as a fun ride/long distance hauler, was a 1970 GTO I bought in 1994 for $1000 and drove home. It had a very mild 455 I built for $1800 that pushed that heavy ass car into the 12.50s with a 2.93 gear, with 8.8:1 compression, and no power adder.
It was fun driving the 79 Formula around Charleston when it was only a mid 11 second car with a mild 455, and the GTO running 12s, and having all the kids with cars on this list trying at stoplights and one of the four drag strips close to Charleston. Lots of flybys half a mile down the road well after I got out of it again. One Honda made it to within 4 tenths of my Formula, by gutting it, swapping some other engine in it, spraying a ton of nitrous at it, then chucking half shafts every week. I could hop in any of mine and drive them 1000 miles if I wanted to. But I bought a 98 Formula with an LS1 to use for the long distance trips. Mid 13s stone stock with 2.73 gears and an auto, plus 27 to 31mpg.
I like how the chevy and import guys spend so much money to go slower or as fast as I do with basic garden variety parts. They also need power adders, which are fun, but I would rather start with something already quick and throw a turbo at it. Someday I will boost a Pontiac, no need to right now though, but someday I will. Unless we all die in the commie revolution
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Hannah sounds like those guys who think only a shop can work on cars, that it will cost a hundred thousand to rebuild an old car without rust. They can't do the work, so they assume nobody else can. They don't have the tools, so they assume nobody else does unless its a shop. I'm one of those guys, who is not super wealthy, but I have a lift in my shop because working on cars is something I do for fun, its my reason for living to be honest.
As for cooking: I have flour, cornmeal, and lots of other things because I bake from scratch every week. I eat fresh fruit, meat, and veggies. Yeah a man who built his house, builds the cars he drives, served in two wars and has taken lives, hunts, fishes, and can do all sorts of survival things, can also bake and cook from scratch. I grew up on a farm, we had to be able to do things ourselves rather than have someone come out to do it for us. You can do multiple things at the same time, while one thing is curing/drying/heating, you do other things. Its time management. Some people are good at it, most aren't.
Yes the chick making gum from scratch with the monotone narrating is playing a role, nobody dresses like that when they are cooking or gardening. What she is doing is not unrealistic, its the way things were done prior to the disposable economy we have now. My grandparents had chickens on the farm, and I remember grandma lopping off heads and plucking them with my aunts and cousins when I was a kid, before my dad bought the farm and we moved out there.
I have two kids of my own, and I was number 2 of 6 kids, I am 10 years older than 5 and 13 years older than 6, so I have LOTS of experience raising kids. ITS FREAKIN EASY raising kids. I would have much rather stayed home and hang out with my kids, teaching them how to do things, than going to work for 50 to 70 hours every week to pay for everything.
It just might be that I can do so much because I had to do things myself if I wanted them done. I couldn't rely on anyone else, and I had lots of things to do every day growing up. Are they so incapable that they can't take care of the house and kids? I did that AND worked as a CNC machinist, auto mechanic, and from 2000 to 2005 while in the USAF working 12 hour shifts.
Urban people seem to be softer, less capable, and don't think they can do or learn things. Grow up on a farm and you'll learn how to do a mind boggling number of things, and you'll be proficient in them too.
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@erinharrington4232 the best thing you could do is have passive income like I do, I get VA compensation from getting messed up on my 2004 deployment. If you have something like investments that pay you enough to live, or a youtube channel that can give you $3000 a month or more, you can live up here if you are willing to do most of the work yourself.. I built my house, shop, and my cars, because I can't afford to pay someone to do it.
If you can build stuff, are into sustainability, homesteading, and things like that, you can video what you do and earn a living from that real easy. Well the work isn't that easy, but channels like Bushradical get millions of views on almost every video he makes.
He owns some land in my area, about five miles away where he built a tiny house. He has been building off grid stuff since the 1980s when he lived in Alaska, but pretty much anyone can do it.
Avoid buying land Marquette county, they are very busybody all up in your business types, most any other county is happy to have someone move in. Marquette misguidedly started trying to disincentivize snowmobilers from riding through the county. Alger and the rest of them encourage it, guess who gets more money from them now.
Marquette acts like the whole county is their own personal HOA. Chocolay township got in a legal battle with a guy named Lakenen, over his roadside art display and park. All you need to do is look into that and you will see the type of people who want to wield fiefdom power in the county.
We have tons of service industry business here. Food, hotels, mechanic shops, and tourist stuff is everywhere. I am geared towards building things rather than feeding people, so I tend to think along those lines.
If you can find a niche you can exploit, a business we don't have that can be supported up here, then you could do well. Selling stuff online seems like a good way to do things rather than having a brick and mortar store... but I have my preferences.
One thing that would probably do rather well is a dragstrip. There are lots of us car guys who live here, and Kekauna Wisconsin is the closest track, its a 5 hour drive for me. Snowmobile and ice races in winter, drag races all summer, and it doesn't have to be a big ornate world class track. A strip of concrete and asphalt in the woods, some barriers, pit area, and concessions, running grudge racing and brackets would probably end up doing pretty well.
Particularly since there is a crazy car guy with a youtube channel that is kinda growing who is into that sort of thing... and would be there promoting it all the time. Hell I would help build the thing. Been trying to get one going here for over ten years, can't do it myself though. VA doesn't want me owning something like that.
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@ameliaannhouck2670 I'm going to have to be fair to them about what you said. They are told from the time they are very young that they are victims, that they are being held down, and prevented from doing anything. They then believe the entire world is against them.
The people telling them that are the ones holding them back.
I had something similar when I was young. I had a very restricted diet due to my dad's smoking causing me to have allergic reactions to almost everything. It had negative effects on me, like I became the fatkid, I could not think well, I fell asleep constantly, and I was 4'9 until I was a teenager.
People treated me like I was worthless, incompetent, unintelligent, and they wanted to put me in special ed classes... except in 6th grade I could read at the post grad level.
It seemed as though everyone in my life was trying to dissuade me from achieving anything, I was severely mistreated at home and at school, lots of beatins in my past. Everyone told me I was no good, lazy, unable to do anything, and I would always be a nobody. Teachers, coaches, and everyone else essentially ignored me and were always surprised when I knew something the other kids did not.
I developed PTSD around age 8 or 9 from what my VA shrinks could figure out. I never fit in with anyone else.
In 8th grade I decided to stop sitting on the bench in team sports and wrestled. I was terrible at it, but I realized I could do something with the skills I would learn there. I was taken off the restricted diet and I started growing. It was and still is very easy for me to pack on muscle mass, so I went from being the kid everyone could beat up, including the girls who did often, to the young man that was capable of handling all the adults in the school if he felt like it.
No matter what they told me, no matter how many times they said I was worthless, lazy and useless, no matter how often they said I was unintelligent, I did not accept it.
I proved beyond doubt that I am capable, intelligent, and not much in life stops me. I served in two wars, 90-91 and 03-05, in a very physically demanding job that requires excellent math and spatial skills. I achieved things no other human ever has in that job... and still when I went home to my family, and the people I grew up with, I was nobody, nothing, incapable, lazy, good for nothing.
Consequently I do not live near them anymore. I am 1000 miles away and live alone.
I had things I wanted to do in my life, and the way one of the shrinks put it, it was like I was pulling a weighted sled behind me at all times. I was held back with such force that when I finally broke free I was far more powerful than I would have been otherwise.
The hard part was realizing that I was not all the things I was told I was. What you learn as a child tends to stick with you for the rest of your life. Its sorta set in stone from birth to around 10 years old. That is where we develop our sense of reality.
If you take kids and tell them something like they are victims, or they are entitled to the best, or that they will never amount to anything, the majority will accept it and it will forever affect their lives. Telling kids they are wonderful and deserve the best without them accomplishing or earning anything is equally detrimental as holding them back like happened to me.
There are a few men in the community who escape, find their own way through life, avoid the pitfalls and traps set around them, much in the same way I did... but most people are not like us. They accept what they are told and do not question it, do not try to achieve more, they are forever pulling the sled they are burdened with at birth by the people around them.
The people running their cities and schools, the culture around them is why they fail at life.
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@ameliaannhouck2670 we are showing our age with Aim High and be the Best you can Be.. recruiting ads from the 70s and 80s. Ah the nostalgia has me laughing, thanks for that.
The one thing I do not see myself as is a victim, it does me no good. Instead I see the people who did that stuff to me as (profane expletives), they had the problem and I can cut them out of my life easy enough.
I have tried to help people through the years, young, old, substance issues, mental problems.. Thing is they have to want to change, all I can do is open a tool box for them.
Its awesome that you helped people too, far too many do not want help. They want handouts and sympathy. All I ever wanted was for people to stop screwing me over and let me thrive without having to struggle against the BS all the time.
You can see the attitude in everything I do, building old cars, drag racing, producing energy, living alone and offering information to people who might want it at no cost to them. All they have to do is start looking into it and they'll find what I have if they follow the crumbs like I did.
Its never made sense how people would rather wallow in misery and complain than figure out a good way out of problems.. and a legal way. They expend so much energy avoiding work, if they just put in the work they'd be done already.
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The problem is they want to punish men, for being men. Stop thinking the gov wants to make life better for all of us, they don't. They want to control us so they can profit from us. The system is almost exactly how they want it to be. They would rather men work and get nothing from that labor.
Why the hell should a man have to pay child support because she gets custody when she files, cheats, and does everything wrong? Men like me are ubiquitous, when the wife files so she can run off with her 'soulmate' and we end up having to pay them. If you want a safety net for families, get the females to stop frivolously divorcing.
FYI. Nebraska broke laws, both state and federal, and I have zero recourse. No lawyer would touch my case. They took 71% of my gross from me when I was an E4 in the USAF when she kidnapped my kids and moved them 1500miles away in 2001.
Nothing will change, because of the first thing I said, they want to punish us for being male. I was VERY involved with my kids, she is bipolar, very violent towards the kids and I, but every time the cops came by they wanted to haul me off when she was the one who started it, perpetuated it, escalated it, and was physically violent. They want to destroy the family, and they are doing exactly that. They give incentives to females to act poorly, and there are no consequences
Men are idiots if they marry or even impregnate a chick today, because there is zero benefit to it for them. Its all risk and servitude..
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@thebluelunarmonkey Two weeks after my divorce was final in 2013, two years before the first ex was paid off in full, I bought 13 acres of woodland near Lake Superior.... 20 miles from town. Built a shop, a house, have been improving it here ever since, and building muscle cars as old as I am. GTOs, Trans Ams, Formulas etc.
My 2004 deployment left me barely able to walk, unable to work, and I got out in 05. Haven't worked a normal job since then. If I had been smart I would not have hooked up with any more girls after the first one destroyed my life.
Everything is paid off, I have been debt free since Feb 2021, and I am applying all my skills to become energy independent, making food, fuel, and electricity myself, rather than paying others for it. I'm getting to where I don't need cash, because the government has proven to be unreliable at keeping up with the cost of living.... when democrats are in office.
I don't have much time for females anymore, playing video games is more enjoyable and rebuilding severely rusted GTOs is vastly less expensive.
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The left says we are violent, intolerant, hateful, bigots because we are not marxists. They call us nazis despite those morons being marxists. Yes I am violent when I need to be, and its a violence these larping kids cannot comprehend. However, I am peaceful and you can't call yourself 'peaceful' unless you are capable of great violence. If you're incapable of great violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless. What I have found in 50 laps around the local star is that the most insecure, weak willed, weak in body and mind, are the ones who resort to violence immediately or try to use it to get their way via intimidation and threats.
These leftists are obviously weak, insecure, and easily manipulated, just look at the mugshots, not a fuckable one in the group. Fat/ugly chicks and losers, the resentful, envious types who feel entitled to what they will not work to achieve. They have no idea what the bear will do as they continue to poke and prod it, thinking they have the numbers advantage... their sticks are not sharp nor long enough. Their arms and chests not strong enough to use the sticks. Their minds incapable of thinking beyond poking the stick. When the bear awakens and rips them to shreds, they will claim to be victims, when all they had to do was put in the same effort we all must to make our lives better. Instead they demand it and poke the bear thinking that will get it for them. A pack of dogs is a dangerous thing, because a dog on its own is dangerous. These kids are mosquitoes or wood ticks.
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I saw the Atom on Top Gear and thought to myself, how much fun would that thing be with a Buick 3800 sourced from a $200 rusted out pos beater? I use front drive Gran Prix's between 98 and 06 as my winter beaters because I don't care if they rust in half, and northern Michigan salts the roads just a bit. I'm surprised grass still grows along the highways. Also its April 21s and I just got four inches of snow. The engines last forever though, and in the 1990s I worked in the plant that made the piston rings for them.
Now take the little 3800, crank up the compression by a lot, increase the size of the injectors by a considerable amount, then throw a GTP blower on and run it on E85, all while stuffed in something that is 1900lbs or so with my glow in the dark gelatinous ass strapped into it. The reason for the increased compression is to improve mileage on ethanol, not having to make as much is a benefit, and getting more power out of it as a result is a large bonus. I have an 02 GTP sitting here waiting to give up its guts.
The plan is to hand fab the chassis, rear engine using the factory cradle and struts, probably 3rd gen F body front spindles and struts, and since I can do sheet metal and fiberglass work, put a hopefully less than ugly body on it. A 3800 powered kart thing would be more of a test mule for my home brewed ethanol project than it would be a track car or something like that. No race tracks near here, so I want something stupid fun to drive other than my GTOs and Formulas. Gotta have heat so I can drive it more than in August, and that means having some kind of body work. yeah I produce ethanol to run my GTOs and whatnot, I make it with tree sap and cattails. You could drink it, but its better as fuel and hand sanitizer.
I am not sure if I will do this before or after the tube chassis Opel GT with a 700+ hp/tq Pontiac 467 I have in my 79 Firebird, but I want to get it done soon. The Opel is my idea for no prep, since its a rusty heap of shit at the moment and I don't give a damn about it. Can't fit much tire under those even with a tube chassis, I barely fit in the tiny things. The Banshee was OHC six powered, this would be stroked RA IV powered with lots of aluminum. Now if I spend the coin and get an aftermarket aluminum block, well, then I can throw a hairdryer or two on it and make ludicrous power.
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@erickaleigh1650 I see, you have been chasing the dregs, probably because they are tall or something and don't care about you. Match made in heaven, because men like me don't want you either, and you would turn us down because we aren't 6'4... never mind the fact if I say hello to American, Canadian, and European women its out of politeness, not interest. Y'all have made yourselves as uninteresting and repulsive as possible. So its no wonder all you find are the dregs. The rest of us simply avoid you.
The only sports I watch are my friends who live farther south than I do, going out and racing other friends. Yeah I spend some time playing PC games in the evening, rather than watching TV, because its time spent with friends doing fun things together that require teamwork, communication, and capabilities. Things that make men bond with each other.
Yeah, my name describes me for the most part, but the reason I am a bit large is because I haven't been able to run since 2004, my last deployment made sure of it. Also because the first war in 1990 to '91 packed a whole mess of muscle on me. Ya know, sacrificing for the good of others... so toxic and lazy.
I'm good not having one of you in my wallet, because it means I can invest more into my vintage muscle cars that are vastly less expensive, and several orders of magnitude more enjoyable and reliable than you are.
Take it from a man who has nearly gone completely around the planet, lived in the societies and cultures on four continents... western women cannot compete with Asian, African, and South American women. I have yet to find a woman overseas who is heavier than 140lbs... its a challenge to find one in the US who is under that.
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@raytracer5726 I dated a bunch of girls from former soviet countries when I was stationed in Korea 20 years ago. They were from Moscow, Ukraine, Khazakstan, Vladivostok on the east coast, and a Uzbek girl.
Smoking hot, absolutely beautiful, but you have to be strong with them. If you have even the slightest bit of weakness in your will, they will own you. Make sure they know you are not weak, and she will gladly submit to you, but damn the tests to make sure you're strong enough are freakin epic
They take femininity and crank it to 50 on a 1-10 scale, but man do they ever demand you are a masculine man with them. I can't imagine what its like to get sick or injured with one of them in your life, will she care for you or leave you, I guess it depends on the girl.
I've had some very beautiful girls in my lifetime, one American girl who could have been in any of the skin mags, a bunch of Asians, and those incredible 'Russian' girls. We called them Russians because thats mainly what they spoke, other than English and some Korean. Lots of good memories. They make girls here in the US look pathetic.
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@tufelhunden5795 ex wives seem to always do that, both of mine did. They claimed I did everything they actually did, and worse stuff as well. I sat in jail for things I did not do, just because they said I did. The first turned my oldest against me, telling her I only cared about money, didn't care about her, and didn't want to see her. My daughter figured out her mom was lying to her after she came to visit me after not seeing me for more than a couple hours for 8 years. Now my kid is mad at me for getting with her mom instead of someone else so she isn't talking to me.
However... my oldest has a job she has been working at for 8 years, she is moving up, got a raise, and just bought a 2017 Subaru. The first car she ever bought. She learned how to handle money from me, how to work and get ahead in life also from me. Despite being bipolar like her mom (I had no idea what it was 30 years ago when my kid was born) she is working her life like an adult. She honestly doesn't need me to help her, and that makes me damn proud of her.
Its sad what her mother has done though, she ruined the lives of my two kids, and my life as well. Not to benefit herself, but out of pure capriciousness and spite. She blames me for everything she did wrong, and we've been divorced since 2001. I've been paid up on support and everything since 2015 and I did not owe anything, they actually owe me. Now, Nebraska (where I grew up and where she lives) is coming after me for more money for something. I have no idea what it is, but I know through the grapevine there is a bench warrant for me, so they are trying something.
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They think they can control muslims, because they assume they are not overly bright. As if the people who gave us math, invented zero, algebra, and named the stars are a bunch of backwoods hicks. Then they try to use them as a cudgel to win arguments, because muslims are easily recognized due to what they wear and how they look (most not all, I was muslim for 20 years and I am a pale male).
The people pushing all of this want to use minorities to divide us, and they use them as pawns to get the power and control they want. They use the LGHDTV people the same way, they used gehys, blaques, and women in the past. When you disagree with their less than brilliant ideology they can then call you an "istaphobeiggot."
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@micheal5973 I'm with you on the idiot environmentalists, most of them are just wanting marxism and are using green energy as a trojan horse. Although I run my vehicles on home made ethanol and E85, I understand we still need oil. I know quite a bit about modern fuels, because I have been researching it for over 14 years. I run gasoline in my winter beaters, starts easier in sub zero weather, makes more heat, and I don't give a damn how long a car lasts that sees this much salt.
Climate change is not much of a concern of mine. I can explain why if you want, but that is not the point I am trying to make.
When you have a couple million people bearing all the risk of their water supply getting fouled, and they are not compensated for it, while the very few people who own the pipeline profit massively from it, it goes against the whole idea behind the USA. You're infringing the rights of those people for your own profit.
I live a mile from Lake Superior, its the same idea as California, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico wanting to build a pipeline to pump water from the lake to them so they can have green yards. It harms those of us who live here to benefit those who profit from it elsewhere. Its not like I am going to be compensated for my ground water drying up when they pump the lake down.
You know, you can drink directly from Superior, its cold enough you don't get giardia, and its still quite clean. You can see the bottom 200' down when the sun is at the right angle. I'd be just as pissed if someone wanted to put a pipeline within a a few miles of the big lake. Depending on terrain it could be quite a distance and a spill would still jack up my drinking water.
Not many people live here, so we don't matter, right? We should move so people in California can use the water we have here. The stupid democrats already sold lake water to Nestle for a dollar, and they can take as much as they want. Profit at the expense of the many.. It just doesn't sit well ya know.
Not even going to get into the tar sands and how much water it fouls, or the tailing ponds that have gotten into drinking water.
Last I checked we aren't supposed to be benefitting corporations over the people here in the states. Yes its been going on for a long time, and I had to deal with the NAFTA bullshit Clinton and Biden pushed through, which resulted in me going to my second oil war where I got fucked up and can barely walk.
I like ethanol fuel because I can make it myself, run very high compression ratios, that allows me to use the old 60s cylinder heads with lots of compression, it runs a lot cooler, makes more power, and costs a lot less than gasoline does. The big thing is I can make the stuff, so I am not beholden to some corporation that tells me I have to pay then $5 a gallon like I had to when I first started making vodka fuel.
I am a gearhead, I like to drive over powered muscle cars, and I don't want to pay all my money just to put fuel in them. So 10 to 40 cents a gallon for me to make it, $1.90 ish to buy E85, or $4 a gallon for premium that makes less power, wastes most of its energy as heat that does nothing, can't handle compression, and clogs the entire engine with carbon deposits which accelerate wear.
Centralized distribution doesn't work so well for my fuel, local production does. Centralized distribution is the only way to do oil, coal and gas, because it only comes from certain locations and only a very few companies get it and sell it.
There is no silver bullet to replace oil and coal. We could make a shitload of ethanol with cattails grown in the medians and ditches across the USA, not sure if we could displace gasoline entirely... but...
Gasoline is the leftover toxic waste from refining kerosene and diesel, among the other valuable things in crude. What the hell would we do with it if we don't use it as a transportation fuel?
The pipeline issue is about risk and reward. You can't have all the reward given to people who have no risk, and all the risk for those with no reward.
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Who do women freak out about it and men don't? Simple, there are no victim points for men. Nobody cares that men get physically assaulted more often, men gotta just deal with it. But a girl who can display her victim status and get validation points for it is lauded.
I know exactly what its like to live in fear of physical harm, being too small and weak to defend yourself. I live that way for 16 years, and then through sheer will and effort I got big enough to defend myself and stop all the beatings. Did I become a bully after getting stronger and faster with very effective hand to hand skills? No, I did not. Am I terrifying to other people now 35 years later? Of course, but I have no need to harm them unless they harm me.
Seriously it was daily beatings, plus being poisoned, ran over, bludgeoned, stabbed, and all manner of head impacts from things being thrown and hitting my head. Been knocked out so much it almost felt normal. I've had PTSD since I was a kid, diagnosed by two different shrinks, not self diagnosed victim point bullshit. 40 years of hyper vigilance, anxiety, flashbacks, and smells taking me back to different horrors of my past. Fuck the first war I was in felt like home when shit went south.
Girls want equality? No the fuck you don't, because you can't handle it physically. Enjoy being protected to the point where you are killed far less than we are, and are not the one who has to defend your ass while walking somewhere. I have to defend myself as well as your sorry ass. Be grateful for a change.
You have the privilege of being protected simply because you have indoor plumbing, we have the responsibility of protecting you just because we have the muscle mass and outdoor plumbing. Stop whining about how bad you have it and thinking nobody else has it as bad as you do, because its a shit show for many of us and you have no idea what its like to wake up after being blindsided with blood everywhere. If you do, then hey I get it, we have been close to death, but I do not need nor want any victim points.
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Why should young men get married? Why should they risk EVERYTHING for the rest of their lives, when women have massive incentives to divorce them for cash and prizes? They have seen what happened to men like me, and they don't want to go through it. Its not fear, its not that they are intimidated by women, or want to control them, its a simple cost benefit analysis.
The risks are far greater than any benefit for them, and men being logical beings are not going to take a risk with zero pay off. The ONLY thing they get out of it is spicy time with her, and the problem is there is NOTHING keeping her from giving that to anyone else she wants. In fact she will be rewarded for doing that by the state. She is rewarded for doing everything wrong while he is punished regardless of what he does.
Change the laws, remove the incentives for women to divorce, and stop punishing men for being fathers and husbands.
Metaphor:
Lets say there is a busy street with a delicious ice cream stand on the other side. Would you cross the street if two of every ten men who cross are hit by a bus? Would you cross if it were 4 of ten? Well its 8 out of ten get hit by the bus, and the ice cream isn't all that great over there.
I crossed the street twice, and it cost me everything except for some rusty old cars. The religious couples are divorcing too now, so you can forget that. I am 54 and my final divorce was ten years ago, my life is vastly better now than it ever was with a woman in it. Its all take on their end, and no giving back. So I am done, and no matter how many times they hit on me, I know they are not worth the effort and risk.
Stop.
Punishing.
Men.
and stop rewarding women for anything and everything they do. Otherwise, yeah men are not going to play that game where its all massive risk.
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Heartbreak? That is meaningless to be honest, but living in your car or under a bridge while you work a full time job, because the state is taking nearly all the money you make and giving it to the cheating ex wife... yeah, that is a lot worse than heartbreak.
My first wife took off with my kids, moved them 1500 miles away, exposed them to less than honorable males who did things to them, then prevented me from seeing them for years all with the assistance of the state. The state also took 71% of my gross pay as child support, leaving me sleeping in my car and on friend's couches while I was active duty in the USAF from 2001 to 2004.
When I was injured on my 04 deployment, and medically discharged in 2005 being unable to work anymore, the state so zero difference between disabled and deadbeat. I still had to pay despite having no income until 2007, no way to work, and then when the VA decided I was 100% disabled it was barely enough for me to survive. My home state broke several laws, both state and federal, and I have zero recourse.
Now WHY should young men sign up for that? Because my story is ubiquitous, it is not an outlier. Both of my ex wives cheated, I never did. The first mistreated me and my kids, and the cops always wanted to arrest me because I am twice her size and VERY capable of defending myself, and yet I never harmed her in any way.. I still have scars from what she did, with impunity and the state behind her.
Stop incentivizing women to act poorly, and stop punishing men for what women do. Its not fear, its a very bad choice to make, because there is zero benefit for men.
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Richard Miller having been through two wars, listening to what the politicians have said before and after them, I am more pessimistic than most. I am an optimistic pessimist, or a pessimistic optimist. It can get really bad, or it can get better, but it will probably get worse than I thought. Thats how it has always gone in the past.
Some people are waking up, some are realizing what is going on. Most are going about their daily lives, ignorant of what is happening now that will profoundly affect them later. Then you have the people who want to live like that, thinking somehow it will be better for them.
When you have had the government decide to take everything you own and worked for, then give it to someone undeserving, you tend to lose any sense of trust they will do right by you. That happened to me twice. Its why I live alone and always will. I won't even risk having a girlfriend, because she can decide one day to burn my life to the ground, and the state will fan the flames.
Its not fear, its not loathing, its getting your hand burned so you stop picking up the hot metal without the proper tools. The risk does not equal the reward, as there is no reward, only risk.
That is why I build old muscle cars, spend time with my dogs, live alone in the woods, and remain highly suspicious of government.
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@debrawood438 It will be more than just rich, the way they are going with it now, anyone with light skin will be the new kulak.
The way to fight these people following the racist ideology of Karl Marx is to educate people on what it is they are pushing, stay logical and do not rise to their emotional ploys that are trying to piss you off. Point out how BLM is run by marxists, and how other ideologies such as feminism, socialism, communism, fascism, progressivism, post modernism, etc are all rooted in the resentful idiocy and envious ramblings of Karl Marx.
Make people see the connection they have tried so desperately to obfuscate. Show them for what they are, smear merchants pushing an ideology that always results in mass graves, starvation and abject poverty for the masses, while enabling the 'leaders' to live in comfort and wealth.
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I have never bought an old car done by someone else. I have had to cut away 'repairs' from the 60s, 70s, and 80s that were done poorly, particularly on my 65 GTO. The drivers side quarter had been smashed, they brazed another one on through the C pillar, leaving a 2" deep crevice they then filled with bondo. They didnt repalce the outer wheelhouse, just left the crushed one in there with a big chunk of the quarter still attached to it. So it had parts of two quarters sandwiched under the LeMans quarter they poorly tacked on.
Luckily for me I found a Tempest out in the woods that had been hit by a falling tree with a quarter that only needed a patch on the lower rear, because nobody makes full quarters for 65 GTOs. That Tempest was a post car and the Goat is a hardtop, so I had to cut away the inner structure and turn it into a hardtop quarter.
The GTO is my summer daily driver, not going to be flipped and its sure as hell not a show car, but it was not hacked together like what these flippers do. 25k miles of problem free driving since I finished it in 2016. The only time I have torn into it is to do upgrades like more power, overdrive transmission, and things like that. It was not even a good parts car when I got it, the rust was extensive. Now I have a 68 Firebird in a similar condition, but its going to be more race car than daily driver.
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Mike B people vary greatly when it comes to intelligence, strength, capability, skills, abilities, and work ethic. Its always the lazy, incompetent, weak, and unskilled with median to low IQs that clamor for socialist bullshit, and the idea of equal outcomes.
They want desperately to be better than they are, but don't want to put in the effort to improve, they want it given to them. They envy those who have what they do not, and want it taken from those who earned it, and give to the ones who have not earned it.
They assume that if I have it and they do not, then I stole it from them, not that I worked my ass off to get it.
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I can read people through their body language, the nonverbal communication they display is something I am acutely aware of.. because I have PTSD. I can tell what sort of mental state people are in, what they think of themselves, and a whole lot more. That is a skill anyone can learn, even the current crop of spergs out there.
It served me well reading the intentions of females, I knew exactly which ones were interested, and which ones were not, then I talked to the ones who showed interest and ignored the others. Calling that 'emotional intelligence' is simply ludicrous. The whole notion of that is feminine, because they ONLY live in emotions, they use no logic nor reason, at best they have a facsimile of logic and reason, a veneer at best.
Sure I can tell what emotional state someone is in, but its part of a threat assessment first and foremost. Whatever they are displaying by how they stand or move, I can read it because I had to for a decade growing up while trying to not get beaten.
Men teach their kids empathy, it has very little to do with emotions, but women like to say they have empathy, when in reality they project all their insecurities and shortcomings on everyone else.
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@newparadigm907 my point is the term is made up, there is no intellect in emotions. Its a way for females to feel smarter while not actually being smarter.
Emotions lead to irrational behavior, anyone who has lived with a bipolar woman knows all about it. Anyone who has had a female in the military outrank them, knows just how irrational emotional people are and can get.
The way rick put it in the start of this thread makes it sound like being able to tell what emotional state people are in is somehow a form of intelligence, when its merely being observant. Most people go through life almost completely unaware of what is going on around them, they have no situational awareness, especially now since so many people are staring at screens while walking or sitting in public.
When it comes to intelligence, females have a bell curve where they are all clumped together with a narrow base to it. Makes have a very wide base in our bell curve, so we have more Gumps and more Einsteins where females have barely any. They are the epitome of mediocre with minimal variance. So they try to come up with ways to feel better about themselves, different in some way, and for some reason they think they need to compete with us.
They cannot compete with us in the vast majority of things. They are outclassed easily every time physical ability, endurance, intellect, or problem solving comes into play... and not by the top tier of men, but the moderately below average men are that much farther above them. Humans are this way for a reason, and its not to say that females are worthless, lesser, or inferior, because they have their own strengths. Physical strength and mental acuity/intellect are simply not where they have their strength.
So they make up emotional intelligence trying to set themselves apart, because they operate entirely in the realm of emotion, they feel rather than think. They can think and use logic/reason, but their default setting is emotion. When stressed they revert back to emotion. When faced with danger they revert to emotion. I've seen it happen hundreds of times in the military and civilian world. They break down, and the men keep going getting the mission done.
I am physically huge, very muscular because I had to work with females in my military job, which meant I was doing 100% of the heavy lifting, and the job was entirely heavy lifting. It sucked because anything you say around a female who feels inferior to you for whatever reason is going to be a source of contention and drama.
I stopped talking to them entirely unless it was mission essential, because their emotional default setting often resulted in them asserting I did something untoward, or was 'mean' to them. Can't speak to them like you can a man, you have to sugar coat everything and coddle them or they get butthurt and start complaining to people above you.
When I wanted to talk to or get with a female, I went off base and did not interact with military females at all, unless I had to. Acting like I was hitting on them when they were banging 10 guys a weekend...
There was a movie about 30 years ago where Jack Nicholson is asked how he writes women so well. He said "I think of a man, then I remove reason and accountability." He is exactly right.
They wanna feel special so they made up this EI thing.
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@mexicanspec you're missing the point. I'm not saying the new cars are tougher, but that they are built different with a different concept and method utilized in their construction.
If I am in my very rusty 2006 Gran Prix that I use as a winter beater, a sacrifice to the salt gods, and I get hit by another car or light truck I will probably be ok. Air bags, crumple zones, high strength steel cage around me but all the body panels are rusting back into the ground.
However if I am driving my 65, 69, 70, or 72 GTO, the 70 Cuda, 76 C10, any of the 71 to 79 Formula/Trans Am Firebirds I own, my chances are very slim over 35mph. The airbags only do just so much.
When I was 13 years old in 1983, my idiot older brother rear ended our cousin's 81 Toronado with his 70 Charger. We were only going 15mph when we hit her car, and I barely survived it, 10mph faster and I would not be here writing this now. As it is I lost teeth and got a custom face out of the deal.
It was a straight on hit, and 15mph will possibly not activate the air bags on a new vehicle. It messed up that Charger real bad, and totaled the Toronado. Old cars are not like new cars.
My daughter rolled her mom's 90s minivan three times and smacked a tree, then walked away from the wreck without a scratch. The space frame around her kept things from going into the passenger compartment. That is the big thing, the car does not crumple into where you are like old cars do.
I rebuilt my 65 GTO from a VERY rusty heap. I know exactly what is in it and how it was made, bits of stamped steel spot welded together. The strongest part of those cars is the rocker panels. Its essentially a box made of tinfoil, 16ga metal is very pliable when mass x velocity happens.
Everything around the people is sacrificial in a new car, to dissipate energy and keep the people from being crushed. There is nothing preventing the 455 under the hood of my GTO from it occupying the space where I am if some bint decides to turn into me on the highway. Every time I get in that car I know I could never see another day, and yet I know people who have utterly destroyed several vehicles and never gotten a scratch.
In 1987-88 I worked in a junk yard, cutting up wrecked vehicles, after getting the engines running, doing a compression test, and then cataloging all the reusable parts from it. I know what happens to various years of vehicles when they get hit.
Cutting up an old car is super easy. It goes really fast and hardly any cutting wheels/sawzall blades. Cutting up a new one is a chore, and the fire departments have special training and instructions, along with special tools for cutting people out of vehicles where that space frame around them buckles from the impact.
My second ex wife is a firefighter, we did lots of the training together, though I can't work that job because the VA says I am too broken, and honestly I am.
There was a picture going around a few years ago of a 66 or 67 LeMans two door post that was T boned at a car show when an old lady jumped the curb and hit it with her 2000 something Malibu. It didn't even rip the fascia on her car or set off the air bags, but it pushed the passenger door almost to the trans tunnel. That is what happens when a new car with plastic body panels over a space frame hits 16ga stamped steel spot welded together.
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Exactly right, complaining and begging for things is how females do it. They must be given what they want. Men are expected to earn everything in life, even the wealthy ones who are born into privilege that the fems hate so much.
However, this war on males is causing the downfall of the greatest civilization and culture in world history. Six men in 1000 are getting married. An increasing number of young males are checking out and not playing the game, they are removing themselves from society as there is zero incentive for them to get involved and build something. There are massive incentives to NOT get married, in the form of punishments.
Single moms are lauded and encouraged to make ever worse choices, they have incentives to throw the father out, and have more kids with other men who are also kept from their kids. Then the narrative is that the men left and want nothing to do with their kids... the reality is we are not allowed to be there for our kids, the state makes damn sure of it.
So until that is remedied, and fathers are not tossed out and punished for the actions of the females, our civilization will continue to decline and eventually end up in an authoritarian nightmare that will make 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 seem like a lovely picnic in a beautiful meadow. Thankfully I will be long dead before I see that, they will never allow me to survive that long.
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If you leave the stereo off, the glove box door closed, and move the O2 gauge out of sight under the dash, driving my 65 GTO is a lot like being in 1965 if you could get radial tires back then. Sure, it has a 455 that will suck the headlights out of a stock GTO, but the changes I made to it when I did the frame off are mostly invisible. I built it as a driver, it just happens that my summer daily drivers end up with a bit of power, good handling, great brakes, and sometimes a stereo I can hear over the wind noise. I have others that are intended to be fast, this one is for driving, long distance or short trips, its why it had an OD trans in it.. but the 455 broke it.
Starting a project for me is easy.. deciding which one to work on is the hard part. Been under the GTO for the last week trying to find a driveshaft the right length to put a Th400 in it. Now it has to go back on the lift so I can swap out the 3.42 gears for some 3.08 gears, and change the stall I put in. I thought it was my 3000 unit, but its the 3600 one, and that thing slips like crazy so it makes a ton of heat. A 455 doesn't need that much stall anyway. So that rear and stall are going in the 68 LeMans, it has an aluminum headed 461 I did for dirt cheap. It should be nice and silly here shortly. Then I need to finish the 76 C10 engine swap, and put the cage in the 79 Formula.
Its been a damn short summer with long days, without much driving my hotrods. I don't go into town much anymore, only to get parts, groceries and stuff like that about once a week. So it hasn't been a big thing not taking the Goat.
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I know Joe won't read this, he never reads the comments, but I could have been one (and nearly was) of the first school shooters in the 80s, I'm about the same age as Joe. I sure as fucked wanted to walk in there and open up on the assholes who beat on me and treated me like shit. I got fucked with every day from 4th grade to my junior year. I got stronger, learned to fight and to wrestle, and the beatings stopped, as did the ostracism I had endured for a decade.
Part of my problem was at home. Dad hit me often, if he got mad or frustrated, I would get hit. In the 70s and 80s living on a farm, he was frustrated often. Then my older brother would start hitting me at random. I am missing teeth because of him. I have PTSD because of him, the beatings were severe, random, and I was always stressed about when I was going to get knocked senseless again. We would be doing something, and he would decide to start beating on me. He took great joy from seeing me hurting, and none of it made any sense, it was mostly random. I ended up knocking my dad out with one hit square in his chest, and body slamming my brother on the concrete steps to the house.
I had access to guns the entire time growing up. I had my own 20ga from age ten. My brother developed a drinking problem when he was 16, and I nearly shot him. This was 35 years ago and I do not talk to him now. Why didn't I shoot him? I knew that if I shot him, my life would change forever, I would not be able to do the things I wanted to do. Nobody else knew what he was doing to me, because most of the time we were working alone on the farm. The rest of the family was either too young or girls, so they were not there. I wanted to build cars, get with girls, and I wanted to join the military to get the hell off the farm.
If I shot the kids at school, or my brother, the military was off the table. Probably going to prison or ending up dead was a real possibility(definitely if I was over 16) and obviously I would never be able to own a gun again.
So I had something I wanted more than retribution and vengeance. I knew that school was a temporary thing and all I had to do was get through it and I could get the hell out of that shit hole area and see the rest of the huge world. I wanted to build a fast GTO far more than I wanted to get back at the kids who fucked with me and my brother. I wanted to see the world and you can't do that from a prison cell.
These kids do not see that school is temporary. They do not see that they have a future after enduring the bullshit. They are not taught the kind of discipline that comes from some for of martial art, even just high school wrestling like I got into.They are treated like broken girls, told they are vile rapists and girls are so much better, so they should act like girls. No running, tag is touching a pinkie to another kid's shoulder while walking, and everything is bubble wrapped.
You see its a problem with the school system, with society, and with the way bullying can make you tougher and able to defend yourself if you were unable to growing up. I was bullied excessively, no doubt about that. But I got to the point where if you fucked with me, you got hurt, and sometimes really hurt. I did not bully other kids, I did not hurt anyone who was not trying to hurt me. I know what its like to be the outcast, the one who is treated like shit.
You want to stop school shootings, its not the guns. I had access to them, and back then I could bring them to school with me in my car if I wanted to so I could go road hunting on the way home. You need to do this.
1 Teach the kids to defend themselves, and give them the discipline that goes along with MA.
2 Stop treating boys like broken girls, toxic masculinity is not real. This crap is making pissed off boys.
3 Show kids that there is something other than just the bullshit social crap in school to do after graduation
4 Harden the schools against these sorts of things, because older people on head meds might decide to go postal
5 Rather than telling the teacher about bullying and then both kids get suspended, how about you teach the bullied kids to defend themselves, then let them do it with supervision? Bullies stop when they get their ass beat by the kid they like to fuck with, trust me.
6 The biggest one, stop using feminine solutions to male problems. Running to tell the teacher, taking away guns, zero tolerance, all of that shit is feminine thinking.
Of course none of that works without quality male role models. How many boys with single moms have anything even close to that? How many quality male role models are on TV or in movies today? The man is portrayed as inept, incapable, clueless, and useless in far too many programs, and as a violent rapist in things like the Gillette ad. Stop telling us we are monsters, and fewer of us will become monsters.
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@esthetics4512 Pontiac muscle cars. I rebuild them, usually from parted out rusty heaps and rolling shells. I've been into cars and trucks since I was 8 years old, bought my first one in 1982 when I was 13. Still have it as well as the 2nd and 3rd cars I bought.... along with lots of others.
Currently I have four GTOs, 65, 69, 70, 72. the 65 is my daily driver the 70 is waiting for its turn in my shop along with the other two, but really all it needs is suspension, electrical, and an engine and transmission put back in it... and I have several drivetrains sitting around. I want to do a frame off on it. The 69 is VERY rusty and will require at least a year's worth of work, and I have to buy some sheet metal for it. The 72 is only slightly worse condition than the 70.
Also have LeMans, 64, 65, 68 (the 'race' car), 71, and two 72s both are parts for the GTOs. The 64 and 65 are going to be straight axle gassers, and the 71 will be a cruiser set up with a suspension that makes it handle far better than any big old muscle car should.
Then I have eleven Firebirds, four are TransAms, one of which is a 10th Anniversary and another is a black SE. Six are Formulas, 71 with a 400, 72 455 HO (VERY rare), 74 350, 78 350, 79 (old race car) and a 98 LS1 powered car I used as an economy car since it got 30mpg and had 300hp.
A few others like a 32 Pontiac two door sedan, 78 Bonneville with a TransAm engine in it that is going in the 72 GTO, and a 72 Ventura I am turning into a sleeper. aka looks slow but hauls ass.
A couple Mustangs, 71 fastback and 84 convertible, plan to sell them. My other summer daily driver is a 70 Cuda AAR clone, its a fun little sublime green one.
The first car is a 67 Cougar, haven't driven it since 1987, repainted it in 2008, but then the ex took the shop and house so it had to sit outside while I built another shop and house. So I have to repaint it again, but at least most of the hard work is done.
Rounding things up is the trucks, have a 76 C10 and an 80 C10, both short box lowered trucks. A 1988 C1500 shortbox, they are all getting 6.0 LS swaps.
Sitting around I have a lot of 99 to 07 4x4 trucks for parts and winter beaters.
Then I have two Opel GTs I plan to put on tube chassis and use as scary street fun toys powered by V8s.
I will be done working on my house this year, which means I will be able to concentrate on the cars and trucks, and the ones I am not going to paint will take a month or two once I have the parts bought that I don't have already. Next summer the ethanol project will take up at least a month increasing the capacity I can produce. I want to make 1000 gallons a year, or at least be able to.
I don't even bother building engines to run on gasoline anymore, all my new builds have been for ethanol, my home brew or E85, and will not run on pump gas. The static compression ratios are too high for pump gas. That gives me a lot more power and better mileage on ethanol than I can get on gasoline... along with some other things I do.
Well don't take this as bragging, I just like old cars and have been doing this for 40 years. Now I have to take the 68 LeMans to a shop so we can do the alignment and set the pinion angle. Its a scary beastie.. you can see it on my channel along with some of the others.
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They want to limit climate to 2c or less to pre industrial levels.. Which pre industrial levels? The mini ice age in the 1700s where north America and Europe didn't have a summer, or the medieval warming period when there were vineyards in Greenland? That is a rather large difference. For it to be warm enough for vineyards in Greenland its going to have to be damn warm everywhere else.
Yes, that happened and the zealots tried to remove that information from wikipedia and other sources. We can't let people know that without industry it was warmer than it is now.. and then they use 'warmest time in recorded history' we only stated measuring and recording temperatures in the 1700s, right when it was the coldest on earth it has been in 4000 years.
I am big into producing my own energy, because energy is my largest expense every month/year. Energy being fuel for my vehicles, heat for my home where we get 200-300 inches of snow every year.. yes, 200 to 300 INCHES... of snow, not a typo. Lake Effect from Superior is no small thing. Electrical power where running a PC and refrigerator, with LED lights, and not working in my shop costs me over $120 a month. And food, where three bags costs $300 if you get healthy food.
So I produce ethanol from tree sap and cattails, mostly tree sap, so I can run my old hotrods on it, and if I can get my production capacity up far enough the winter beaters too. I use wood or biomass to heat my home, which is built from four shipping containers, so its a tiny house with only 1050sqft. I can collect/produce methane for cooking gas VERY easily, but I have been using dead wood from my land, so I can clean up and avoid wildfires. I am building greenhouses so I can produce veggies all year, and use woodchip compost piles to heat water to 140F as a heat source in winter, and to limit the energy needed to distil my fuel. Still working on electricity, because wind and solar don't work so well this far north with intermittent wind.. and I need a 60' or taller tower to get the windmill high enough over the trees. That is expensive.
I am greener than these authoritarian twats. Despite driving vehicles with 7.5L V8s that make 500hp+ and get 15-20mpg on ethanol, all they emit is CO2 and H2O. Carbon neutral even if I thought CO2 was a pollutant, which I do not since I understand the cycle. They want control so they can continue with their lavish lifestyles, and tell us how to live while paying them for everything we need to survive.. fuck that.
The WEF can suck my wrinkled grommet until they get a chocolate treat, I do not need them to own my property so I can rent everything from them. I do not need them to 'make me happy' by renting everything and owning nothing. Rethinking capitalism into communism, nah.. you can get me to go along with that when I reach permanent equilibrium with ambient temps.
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I'm 54, limited mobility from my 2004 deployment, working on the winter beaters is annoying, but someone has to replace brake lines and whatnot when they rust away. I'm still doing the big ludicrous junk to driver builds, because its fun to me and it keeps me busy and moving. If I stop moving, everything hurts.
Not many people, young or old, would take on the stuff I do... but I have nothing better to do. Right now I am trying to figure out what to push in the shop, the 76 C10, 70 GTO, or 72 Ventura.
The reason being I have engines sitting on stands taking up space in the shop that need to go in those vehicles. Or like the C10, I have doors and sheet metal for it taking up space in the shop. To be able to do things I need to get some of the stuff out of my way. Putting it in/on a vehicle gets it out of my way. Also I really want to drive the GTO and the C10 this year..
The ladies are all about the C10 up here, so I am thinking GTO.
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It is a strawman, or at best false attribution. Its not so cia list to build roads and have fire departments. Thats them trying to make the so cia lists not look like the tyrants they are. The type of tyrant who takes from everyone and gives just enough back that people don't starve(usually), while keeping most for themselves. The thing behind so cia l ism complete government control, the opposite of the thinking that gave us E Pluribus Unum, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. People working together to benefit all of us is not so cia lism, no matter how they try to claim it is. Taking what you have earned, built, or produced and giving it to someone else is so cia lism, and it is not for the benefit of all as it is merely a means of control and getting the people 'running' it wealthier while they can be the most inept and incompetent people ever seen.
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I agree with a need for toughness, mental and physical. How to get it is what hurts. What I have found in nearly 52 laps around the local fusion furnace in the sky, is that humans adapt to things and toughness comes from adversity and hardship. If you have an easy comfortable life, you will develop to fit that level of adversity. If you have a rough life, filled with violence, a lack of security/safety, and you have to struggle for anything, you will develop a toughness to endure that life. It works the same as building muscle, if you do not lift anything, you do not build muscle, if you lift heavy stuff repeatedly, you grow stronger so you can lift it easier. Your body adapts to hardship by building itself to withstand the adversity you live in. Added stress means you get tougher, harder, and more resilient. Stress your muscles and you get stronger.
You do not get stronger by sitting on a soft couch watching TV, you get fat doing that. You do not build mental toughness by avoiding risks and adversity, and if you live that way when adversity shows up, you are ill equipped to deal with it. What you can endure tomorrow is dependent upon what you have endured before today. 120 years ago few people had indoor plumbing. Can you go a week without a shower? Can you live without AC or in a dwelling that only gets to 50F in winter? 100 years ago people did exactly that. Can you get food that doesn't come from a store and do it every day? Can you defend yourself with your bare hands? People still need to be able to do that, despite how it is looked down upon by those who want to control you. Can you repair your vehicle or things in the place you live? All of these are skills, things you grow accustomed to by doing it.
If the power grid goes off line tomorrow and never comes back during our lifetime, will you be able to survive it? Something as simple as electrical power can make a huge difference in your life. It is after all, how you are reading this. We are one solar flare (CME) away from having no grid. The last one was September 1-2 1859. If we have another like that, the power goes out and doesn't come back for months or years. One barely missed us within the last ten years. The safety and security you think you have is at the mercy of the universe and the laws of physics. That is just one thing that could happen, and this year we had politicians kill the economy and shut down businesses for something most people (more than 99%) will barely notice if they catch it. People reacted like it was a season of the Walking Dead or something. What would they do if something far more serious and impactful happened?
The big thing I learned in the last 52 laps around the ball of fire above us, is that what happens is usually something you did not expect, and then when it happens you have no idea what it means for you and your life going forward. My first war in 1990-91 was a surprise, but my second one 2003-2005 I already knew what it meant and I was ready for it, but I was12 years older and things do not heal as fast over 30.. My first divorce was very hard, the second one was easier and I knew what to expect, but the second one reacted differently and it still wasn't good for me. Living through adversity and hardship will give you a better chance of survival when the world goes sideways, even if its only your little bit of the world.
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We are not extinct. If you don't appreciate my effort, don't expect me to be there for you. If you feel entitled to my effort, but do not want to compensate me for it, I am not going to stick around.
In the 90s between my enlistments, I worked in a factory. I needed the overtime to make it and try to get ahead. I was very efficient at my job and strove to produce the most parts with the least scrap as a CNC machinist. When they would complain about the overtime, I would take Friday and Monday as vacation days, because we could use vacation or make up the time if we missed a day.
On Tuesday I would come back to a HUGE backlog of parts that needed done. When they forgot what I was doing and lost sight of how efficient and effective I was, I would show them by taking two days off. They would stop complaining about the OT and beg me to show up on the weekends. This is the masculine way of dealing with people who are trying to take advantage of you. Don't be there for them.
Its a simple thing, if you are unappreciated, don't do the impossible for them because they will expect the impossible every time thereafter. Take some time off, let them see how valuable you are and how poorly things go without you there.
I solved several problems that had certain part numbers running at 90% scrap, dropping the scrap rates on those parts into the single digits. Not even a thank you, but the engineer got a raise. It saved them more than $100k on each of those part lines every month. So my effort saved them more than a million in scrap every month.
How did they thank me? By saying I took too long on breaks, complaining about me not doing anything because my machines ran for 6 minutes for each part, and I would have the next two shifts set up so all they had to do was swap tooling, which meant I would have time to wait on the machines after the first two hours of my shift. They also passed me over for raises and promotions, and gave the maintenance position that paid considerably more to someone had only been working there a few months, and I had 5 years in.
So I left, worked as an auto mechanic, started my own shop, got tired of trying to get people to pay me for the work and parts, then reenlisted. What happened to the factory? It was sent to Mexico where they had 90% scrap rates on EVERYTHING, but rather than paying us $12 and hour, they were paying them $1 an hour. For some reason they lost a lot of business with that move, the OE's dropped them, and they had to buy other companies to make parts for them. Yeah... NAFTA was how they moved it to Mexico.
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@ZayMTGChopcheesy funny you say that. Know how I get women to leave when I am tired of her crap, but avoid boiled pets and firebombed vehicles? I slather her in attention, make breakfast for her, I am nice, ask for spicy time and if she gives it I give her the 10 D. She leaves within a week. Every time.
How to keep them around a while. Make her earn attention and validation. Give her very little attention, just enough to keep her from acting out. Never ask for spicy time, just start with foreplay because if she is with you she is amenable to spicy fun time with you. They like for things to 'just happen' rather than being asked if you can have permission. They stick around for years as long as they don't have a ring, and spicy time is offered up constantly, every orifice is on the menu.
My first wife was a very expensive learning experience. Second wife was confirmation that yes, they are all like that. The same program is running through their pretty little heads, so you can predict what they are going to do once you understand them.
If she gets the attention from you without having to put out, you just placed yourself in the friend zone. At that point, its best to just ghost them. They crave attention like junkie, so that is what you need to wield to keep them around and acting right.
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Most people want to remain ignorant, they don't want to find out, they want to be told what to think and what to do. Its simply how things work, they are not bad people. Some have an interest in what is going on, how things work, and why they work that way. Most do not, and as long as it works they don't care how. Think of your car, or cellphone, do you care how it works, are you curious about its function, or just that it works?
The you will own nothing thing bothers me, not because I am what I own or I am materialistic. Its because they want me to rent everything.. who am I renting it from? Why can't I simply buy it and no longer have to pay for it? I own my land, my house, and am debt free after only 7 years. I cannot be kicked off my land by someone else who owns it, because I own it. The work I put into it benefits me, not someone else.
I am motivated with what I can DO with the things I own. Driving the cars after I build them, living comfortably in my house far from any city, among the trees and nature. How many people have turkeys, bear, and deer walking through their yard? I do. The idea of being 'taken care of' by the government or some corporation disgusts me, because it gives that entity power over me. Everything they give me can be taken from me.
My first ex wife got into that rent to own scam, and a $300 couch would cost her $4500 with the interest and continuous payments she made on it. Now these pricks want to force me to rent from them rather than owning where I live, what I drive, and the tools I use? get bent. I'd rather be dead than be their slave.
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I'm 54, crippled from my 2004 deployment so I can't run anymore... but I can lift heavy stuff. I ran in high school when I wrestled, and I ran in the USAF where I could plod along and run a mile and a half in 10 minutes to pass. Never ran track, but I was fast for someone who is 5'8" making nearly two miles in ten minutes every night to warm up for wrestling practice. We sprinted the last two minutes of the run. My senior year I wrestled at 167lbs, and I was shredded at that weight, but still bench pressed 265lbs, a year and a half later when I enlisted I could bench over 330lbs.
By 22 I was still able to run like I did at 17, but after the airlift for Desert Shield where I was worked unimaginably hard with zero days off for nearly six months, I was able to bench over 450lbs. It made me huge. I gained all that muscle because I was usually saddled with the females on my load team, which mean I had to do ALL the heavy lifting and work.
At age 35 doing my last PT test where I could no longer run and walking was excruciating pain because my knees and hips were wiped out from pushing 5000lb to 10,000lb pallets on to C5s single handed for 100 days (a job that usually requires a ten to fifteen man crew.) I maxed the pushups and situps for 18-24 year olds with time to spare. Could have done a lot more but figured why bother since it doesn't give me more points. I cranked off 100 of each in around 90 seconds... and they didn't count all the pushups just to make it harder for me. 35 year old men only needed like 35 of each to pass and females needed only 9 or 10 to pass.
Then I set the squadron record for the 1.5 mile run at 36 minutes as I limped around the track until my knees swelled to the point my BDUs wouldn't go over them. BDUs are baggy... so ya know. Before 2004 she would not have beaten me in a 400 and sure as hell not an 800, the mile and two mile I would have crushed her. Not anymore though...
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It can happen, they just need two things. Everyone to live in large cities where they can be controlled easier, you will walk or ride the bus if you go somewhere within your pen. Also when the population has been reduced to 500 million they won't need to build millions of vehicles.
I am a gearhead, a hotrodder, I like fast cars and building them. Now the EVs can be crazy fast, but they are also crazy expensive when they are fast. They are expensive when they are slow too, I can build a lot of cool stuff for the $60k an EV costs. However I am also a crippled Iraq veteran, yes I fought in the oil wars.. heh. So I cannot afford $5 gas and $15-$20 race gas especially when my hotrods don't get 30mpg on it. So what is my solution?
I make vodka and run my cars on that. Its also called ethanol, and I make it from cattails, tree sap, and am currently working on a recipe to use coffee grounds. I can get LOTS of coffee grounds for free, just have to go pick them up. An acre of cattails will give you 1000 gallons of ethanol, more if you remediate water/sewage with them. A lot more. It costs me less than $1 a gallon to make ethanol from cattails, and I build my engines to take advantage of the properties of ethanol which are..
I can run very high compression ratios, one of my daily drivers has 13:1 whereas my pump gas cars have 8:1 or 9:1 at most. I can get E85 and run my 13:1 engine on that. It burns cooler, so I have to have a thermostat that keeps the water temp over 200F, or condensation builds up in the oil. There is no carbon left over in my engines, no black soot and crud which is tiny particles that wear on the bearing surfaces. Take them apart after 500k miles and they still look new inside. Ethanol also makes more power, considerably more with boost from a turbo or supercharger, but also more naturally aspirated like your every day beater.
Know what happens when you run high compression like my 13:1 engine? The mileage improves, because you are working the fuel 'harder' by squeezing it into a smaller space before igniting it. It makes a bigger bang, and improves torque across the RPM range. That particular engine gets better mileage than the one I had in that car that ran on pump gas.
The 13:1 engine is a 455 Pontiac, that is 7.4L and it is making nearly 600ftlbs of torque between 2000 rpm and 4500rpm. Thats diesel territory. It gets 17mpg mixed city and highway with a 3.08 gear and no overdrive, in a 1965 GTO running 70mph down the highway. It gets less when I am having fun with it of course, but if I drive like a sensible human, 17 is easy.
The aero on a 65 GTO is atrocious, its like pushing a barn door pulling a parachute. My 70 GTO got 20mpg with the same engine, because its aero is better. I parked the 70 because it needs electrical and suspension work, so I plan to take it completely apart, clean and paint everything, then put it back together. Modern cars have vastly better aero than the vehicles from the 60s and 70s. Little things make a big difference in that area. However that old GTO is faster than a Tesla Plaid and I have all of $15k invested in the old GTO.
I am working on some other more slippery vehicles, but I enjoy driving the old muscle cars a lot. $20 to fill up vs $100 means I can drive them all summer.
Now you have probably heard or read that ethanol eats this or that. I have not found that to be accurate. However I have found additives to cause corrosion problems, and they are put in by the oil companies for whatever reason. They vary state to state and by region, there are fewer of them put in the farther north you go.
Think about it, is there anything left over when you finish a bottle of whiskey or vodka? Any yellow slime or waxy stuff? White powders clinging to the bottle? Thats all from additives because ethanol is the same stuff you drink in a bar or while watching the big game.
Now making it in on place then moving it to a central location and shipping it everywhere like gasoline doesn't work so well. Make it where you use it. One acre of cattails will power all my vehicles for two years.... I have several road ready at any time. The 65 GTO uses about 100 to 150 gallons per summer. I tend to drive it a lot.
Now its getting cold, and yeah its hard to get ethanol to ignite when its really cold, I have solutions for that such as methane which is even easier to produce and use. Know what happens to an EV when its 0F outside? The range is drastically reduced. My range stays the same regardless of weather conditions, but the EVs won't make it between towns and back where I live, its only 40 miles. All those people who bought them this summer and have been driving around all smug are going to find out the hard way.
Not to mention that an EV could make my grid power cost me 4x as much, electricity is not cheap where I live. I can produce ethanol a lot easier and cheaper than I can electricity.. I am working on producing that too. Energy is my largest expense, and I am on a fixed income, so the less I spend on energy the more I have to buy car parts or leave to my kids when I kick my air addiction.
EVs are great in southern cities where you spend more time at stoplights, and it doesn't get very cold. Forcing them on those of us who live out in the boonies with hours between destinations, that smacks of trying to force us into a pen.
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Why should we care if girls are being harassed online? Because they think they are special, and that means they are entitled to never being questioned, criticized, or ridiculed for whatever drivel they spew from their pie holes. They want all the benefits of being a girl, all the benefits of being a man, yet want zero responsibility so they can place that responsibility upon men. Yeah, all of them are like that, exactly like that. However, they want to think of themselves as not being reprehensible in comparison to a non weak male. The weak males are just like the girls, the soybois, manginas, and physically weak twats like you see wanting socialism and supporting antifa. A female will act that way any damn time it suits her or serves her purpose, and they tell themselves they aren't like that. Every damn one of them is exactly like that.
Once you accept that is how they are. and yo should not compare them to strong physically/willed men, then you can appreciate them. Its not a flaw, its a feature for them. Its only a flaw in a male.
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I'm going to leave this here. It is not my quote, but it is how I have lived my life for the most part up until I was 44. At which point, this became my mantra. That was ten years ago, I am 54 today:
"How do I deal with setbacks, failures, delays, defeats, or other disasters? I actually have a fairly simple way of dealing with these situations, summed up in one word:
“Good.”
This is something that one of my direct subordinates, one of the guys who worked for me, a guy who became one of my best friends pointed out.
He would pull me aside with some major problem or issue that was going on, and he’d say, “Boss, we’ve got this thing, this situation, and it’s going terribly wrong.”
I would look at him and say, “Good.”
And finally, one day, he was telling me about something that was going off the rails, and as soon as he finished explaining it to me, he said, “I already know what you’re going to say.”
And I asked, “What am I going to say?”
And he said, “You’re going to say: ‘Good.’ ”
He continued, “That’s what you always say. When Something is wrong or going bad, you just look at me and say, ‘Good.’ ”
And I said, “Well. I mean it. Because that is how I operate.”
So I explained to him that when things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that will come from it.
Oh, the mission got canceled? Good… We can focus on another one.
Didn’t get the new high-speed gear we wanted? Good… We can keep it simple.
Didn’t get promoted? Good… More time to get better.
Didn’t get funded? Good… We own more of the company.
Didn’t get the job you wanted? Good… Go out, gain more experience, and build a better resume.
Got injured? Good… Needed a break from training.
Got tapped out? Good… It’s better to tap out in training than tap out on the street.
Got beat? Good… We learned.
Unexpected problems? Good… We have to figure out a solutions
That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get started, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: “Good.”
Now, I don’t mean to say something trite; I’m not trying to sound like Mr. Smiley Positive Guy.
That guy ignores the hard truth.
That guy thinks a positive attitude will solve problems.
It won’t. But neither will dwelling on the problem. No. Accept reality, but focus on the solution. Take that issue, take that setback, take that problem, and turn it into something good. Go forward. And, if you are part of a team, that attitude will spread throughout.
Finally: if you can say the word “good,” then guess what?
It means you’re still alive.
It means you’re still breathing.
And if you’re still breathing, that means you’ve still got some fight left in you.
So get up, dust off, reload, recalibrate, re-engage – and go out on the attack.”
-Jocko Willink
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It has been going on for over 20 years. IN some respects 30 years. During the first gulf war, I caught the media lying and making shit up. It was small back then, but they realized they can say whatever they want and people will believe it. In 03-05 I was in my second war and caught them lying again and again. When you are doing exactly what they claim we are not doing, and not doing what they claim you are doing, well racist Don saying there is no teargas is just SOP man.
I personally know a few hundred AR15 owners who are not mass murderers, including myself. I know of a million or so who aren't either. I am not even a gun nut, I got one because its similar to what I carried in the military, plus ammo is cheap and easy to find. These twats aren't using hyperbole, they are using the Bill Clinton special, lie. Like its some wmd, shit its a medium power lightweight rifle with a varmint round. A .223 is not high powered, 7.62/.308 is starting to get high powered, but facts do not matter when your aim is to subjugate a nation for your own profit.
I'm not a proud boy, but calling them racist, white supremacist, or homophobic is laughable. That is nothing more than repeating a lie often enough until it becomes truth to people who know nothing about it. The media is playing on ignorance in every instance. When you know something about what they are reporting on, its easy to spot their lies and misleading comments.
CNN and the others cannot die out fast enough. Soros can kick his air addiction at any time, I won't mind a bit.
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Tim I would subscribe to your site, but I will not use paypal, can't use bitcoin (long story) so I need another option. Haven't watched mainstream news or even TV in close to 30 years, when they lie about you directly (when I was in the military) you stop believing anything they say. So I come to you reading the news and offering your opinion. We all know everyone who disagrees is going to get nuked from here, I no longer use FB, never had a twitter, but I started a locals community and Bitchute. I suspect Bitchute will be the one they come for next.
Corporate leftists.. we have seen that before, with the same censorship, calls for putting people in camps, and we know how it ends. The left likes to claim that corporate leftists were actually far right, but they aren't. There is no damn way a socialist can be right wing. None. Any idea how much it pains me to have to side with conservatives who are usually quite religious? My greatest concern about what comes after the coming conflict is if the authoritarian religious types take control and turn us into a theocracy, or they lose and we get a leftist authoritarian regime like we saw all through the last century. What will fill the power vacuum... that is what concerns me most.
Like Carl who wanted to play video games, I want to build fast old cars, and play some video games while being left alone. Can't do that with where we are headed.
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@lesterparker1594 FYI... at any time, for any or not reason at all, she can decide to toss you out, try to find a replacement, and make you pay her to do it. My first wife was a nightmare, from 1993 to 2001, then I had to pay her until 2015, lived in my car on active duty for two years. Second wife was with me from 2003 to 2013, she was wonderful, a 21 year old virgin when I met her, we got along great... until I got sick for a few months in 2012 and she met someone she thought was better than me. Then suddenly I was horrible, controlling, and evil enough to claim I did things that were impossible for me to have done. Judges and juries rarely side with the man.
So hey, good luck. My brothers have all stayed married, (for 20 years+) but also they haven't been unable to breathe for six months because of a chemical exposure, or been left barely able to walk thanks to the military.
I can meet women and they are most amenable to dating, but I am done with it. At 54 years old I do not have the life time left to rebuild yet again when she inevitably decides she can do better, and punishes me for being good to her.
Also both wives profoundly regret their choices, the first has actually admitted she was the entire problem, the second is finding out what it is to be 41 and unwanted.
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@minnesota_fats7344 my first car was a 1967 Cougar, had the same sequential tail lights, and I was always looking for Cougars and T birds for the motors to make them work back in the 80s.
I was 13 when I bought my Cougar for $450 in 1982. Haven't driven it since 1987, came close to getting it running 06-08, but had to start on the 65 GTO. (one of my current summer daily drivers) Then the ex gave me problems in 2010, followed by the divorce in 2013, and I had to rebuild my life again.
2015 to 2021 I was paying a mortgage and building loan, that slowed the car stuff considerably. Was also building my house, shop, making the driveway less of a swamp, etc.
Now I have to take it down to bare metal again, fix all the rust it developed since I painted it in 08 (I was much less skilled back then so it will be better this time) and now I can afford all the other stuff it needs.
Im trying to decide if I will start on the 69 GTO that is barely even a car, or get the Cougar done over the winter, along with one of the C10s.
I never had enough money to pay someone to do work for me, so I learned to do as much as I could. That included construction, welding, fabrication, everything to do with cars, producing fuel to run the cars, heating my home for cheap, electrical wiring in the house and shop... Being broke made me a hands on type.
I figure you can learn how to do it, if you're not afraid to screw up and you have someone to show you how the first time. Lots of creators on here show how to do car repairs.
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You have problem, you have it because your ancestors had it, you can't escape it, you should feel guilty about it, and there is a sky wizard who will kill you for having that problem, we have the remedy for the problem the sky wizard hates, so obey us and give us money. Cut out the sky wizard, make the problem what kills you, and claim the state has the fix for the problem so obey the state and give it money.
You can go the same way with marxism as a whole, with all its little abhorrent spin offs like socialism, communism, feminism, etc. You have privilege, you have it because your ancestors had it, you can't escape it, you oppress people with it, you should feel guilty about it, and we have the remedy for your privilege so you should give us money and obey. The marxists throw in the added bonus of if you are deemed an oppressor, they can justify any abhorrent action towards you.
What do all of these have in common? The problem does not exist. Snake oil...
I am big into old cars, I have over 30 years experience working on them, building engines, transmissions, and doing everything to them while rebuilding it so I can drive it. I am big into ethanol because i can make it at home and run my vehicles on it, while making a lot of power. I got started with ethanol in 2007 when I converted my 1970 GTO to run on it. Since then I have run my 65 GTO, 79 Formula, 98 Formula (with modern EFI) 68 LeMans, and others on ethanol.. for years. I have had zero problems with gaskets, engines, carbs, pumps, rubber, and everything else due to ethanol. Electrical problems keep me from driving the 70 GTO so I am going to give it a frame off rebuild, but it sits there with ethanol in the tank.
You see all these additives that claim to stop or prevent the deleterious harmful effects of ethanol. You are told it eats carbs, small engines, gaskets, fuel pumps, and whatever else. If you use that additive, you won't have any problems because of ethanol, not because of the additive, but because ethanol doesn't cause problems with vehicles.. unless of course you are drinking it then driving your vehicle into things, people, other vehicles, etc.
So they sell you a cure for a problem they claim you have, or could get, and when you don't get it, your confirmation bias will kick in and you will tell yourself the snake oil works. Not only that but you will go around telling everyone else how wonderful the product is, how you don't have harmful ethanol eating your pistons, you have been relieved of your privilege, and your sin has been absolved, so they should follow the same cult you do and buy into the same snake oil.
The difference is the car products only cost you money, the religious snake oils cost you your freedom, liberty, and limit your life to what they say you can achieve.
I'm not sorry, I prefer reality and a crazy amount of torque while my engines make clean power and will never wear out. They can keep their snake oils.
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My solution came about in 2007. you know, the last time gasoline was $5 a gallon. What is my solution? A 13:1 compression iron headed 462 cube Pontiac engine in a 65 GTO.. and soon other more aerodynamic cars, but for now the 65 is my daily driver in the summer. Race gas compression, right? So how is $12 a gallon race gas a solution for $5 pump gas? Its not. If you are up on the turbo and racing thing, you know I am not running gasoline.
I started running my cars on E85, and that allowed me to crank up the compression and run the engine hotter so the fuel vaporizes better in the ports. E85 still isn't my solution though, since it has gasoline in it, is sold by the gas stations, and they decide how much they have to get paid for a gallon of it. My solution is producing ethanol fuel from tree sap and cattails. I have over 300 maple trees on my land, and cattails can be found almost everywhere there is water.
About now you're saying , but sweaty fat guy, it eats everything, gums up everything it doesn't eat, and uses twice as much to make less power.... if you have listened to what some people say about it.
My 70 GTO has been on E85/E100 since 2007, original tank, steel lines, and I run Qjets, Holleys, and other carbs I convert. Zero problems and I don't do anything special, plus my cars all sit from October to May due to snow and salt. With the 13:1 455 running a Qjet carb, and making well over 550hp/600ftlbs, turning a 700R4 and 3.42 gears, it got an easy 20mpg mixed city/highway. Sure, you can do that with EFI in a modern car with lightweight parts, and sealed bearings holding up low profile tires that severely reduce rolling resistance... plus the aerodynamic improvements of new cars. Also the new cars need a blower to do what mine does NA at 6000rpm while making a ton of grunt from idle to 6000.
From 1995 to 2010 that 70 GTO had a 455 with 8.8:1 compression, that pushed its 4100lbs into the mid 12s with a 2.93 gear, and it got 18-19 average highway mileage. I ran the 10% in it all the time until it got a purpose built 455 with lots of compression to run ethanol.
The 65 gets 17mpg mixed with a 700R4, 3.42 gears and Qjets and FiTech EFI. Why does it get less? A 70 GTO is more aero than a 65 GTO.. considerably more aero, but also it has a 455 with 11.5:1 compression which costs some mileage over the 13:1. Last year I went to a 3.08 rear and a Th350 because the massive 455 grunt broke the 700R4.. and the GTO gets the same mileage that way. Plug in 3300lbs race weight, 550hp, and see what ya get for an ET. Thats my daily driver. Its been on E85 since 2018, zero problems with it too.
I had a 400 with 7.8:1 compression in the 65 for a few years, turning a Th350 and 2.56 gears, it got a best of 15mpg on pump gas. Bigger engine making a lot more power and running ethanol getting better mileage... hhmmm how does that work?:
The key is static compression ratio and maximizing torque between idle and 4500rpm. Around 12:1 is the crossover point where E85 and gasoline mileage are the same, provided everything else is the same and you only raised the compression. Also I can utilize the heat to get better mileage than that. The common thing is a 160F thermostat running gasoline, because it likes to ping/knock when its too hot, and diesel.
Ethanol has no such problem, so I run a 190 or 210 thermostat in my engines. As the fuel vaporizes under the carb or EFI, it cools the intake charge, making more power. The compression works that fuel air mix harder, producing more low and mid range torque, and ethanol itself makes more torque from idle to about 4000, and slightly more through the rest of the rev range. With the inherent low end grunt of a Pontiac V8, they lend themselves well to all of these changes. I can run however much advance the engine wants, no worries at all about ping/knock.. sure its rated at 105 octane but it acts like a hell of a lot more.
New cars have no problems with ethanol at all. That yellow wax and crud you find left over, is additives they put in. There is no waxy yellow gunk at the bottom of a whiskey or vodka bottle. Its not ethanol causing that stuff, its additives. I am not the only one to discover this fact. Read this:
https://www.onallcylinders.com/2018/05/25/ask-away-jeff-smith-e85-pump-gas-additives-not-ethanol-cause-corrosion/
Ethanol is simply very high proof vodka. Its the exact same chemical compound found in beer, wine, whiskey, burbon, and trace amounts in those fruity drinks the girls like. Its all the same stuff.
I have two engines in the works right now. One is a 505 cube Pontiac that should make 850hp without a power adder.... and ludicrous torque. Its similar to Big Chief's engine in the crow, but without the turbos and methanol. The other one is a 3800 Buick V6 that I plan to raise the compression to around 12:1 and increase the boost quite a bit, probably open up the heads too. Its going in a tube chassis car like an Ariel Atom with body panels.
I have a couple LS engines, both 6.0s, that are getting some of my other tests along the lines of Smokey Yunick's hot vapor engine, but only the fuel will be heated. Its easy to do on ethanol, and I will demonstrate if it works or not this summer in a 2007 Silverado that will be hauling cars around the country. $400 beater trucks are great test mules. The other is in my 76 C10 parts chaser, Its a cool truck and my goal is 30mpg from it.
I will be tapping my trees starting Sunday, and collecting sap to make fuel this year. The plan is to document it all on my channel and show everyone else how to do it, how to make fuel, convert vehicles, what happens when you utilize the heat and raise the compression... all of it. Because I love these old cars and I can't afford $5 gasoline. I can afford ten cent a gallon ethanol though.
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@Aanthanur hard to be paranoid when you're simply observing, have no emotional reaction because you really don't give a fuck. Paranoid people are afraid of things, like death. I am curious, inquisitive, and observant. I don't care if I die, I've lived a long eventful life full of violence and hardship.
You only have to listen to what people say to know what they are up to. With a marxist you have to put what they say into the matrix of alternate meanings they have for words. Its like War is Peace, Slavery is Freedom, Ignorance is Strength..
If you know the ideology, and it sounds like you are following it without realizing its marxist based on the words you chose for your short reply, its very easy to discern what they mean when they say certain things. Like how the commies call the government "The People of the Soviet Union" its euphemistic platitudes. Or how the WEF said "You will own nothing, and be happy" there is so much wrong with that its mind numbing.
No paranoia required, just listen and watch. However to not see what I see requires obedience and willful ignorance, not unlike young earth creationists ignoring evidence about the age of the planet.
I am old, maybe 15 years left to live, probably less if its natural causes, so it doesn't concern me much. It should concern you, because mass graves are their favorite thing. :)
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Its obvious that university students are not required to read Orwell, Bradbury, Heinlein, and Huxley. Its also apparent they are not taught biology on a regular basis.
I have a friend who grew up in Kenya, lived in Dubai when I met her, and now lives in Germany. She sees videos of people in California being asked simple questions, like geography, history, or basic things even people in 3rd world countries know, and they have no clue. The leftists say the world was laughing at us because of the cheeto, no they are laughing at us because of ignorant morons in California who think they know better than the rest of us... and because the creepy kid sniffer can't even follow a teleprompter and thinks its the 1950s... In 50 years they will call this the Alzheimer's Republic, reminiscent of the Weimar Republic but with more ineptitude and worse ideas.
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@highcouncil1302 look I understand you think that anyone who disagrees with you is probably a bible thumping, ultra conservative, republican, drill baby drill, MAGA hat wearing Trump fan.
Fact of the matter is until very recently I was anti theist, but realized that the smaller minds and follower types need an authority figure to tell them not to eat their children oil boil baby goats in their mother's milk.
So rather than being opposed to religion entirely, I allow for those that are currently not trying to take over the world and force everyone to live by their crazy bullshit.
First on my list is marxism, in all its abhorrent fucked up forms, from feminism and fascism, to communism, socialism, and progressivism. The concentration camps, starvation, and mass graves kinda turn me off.
I don't need some prescriptive ideology telling me what to think or do to get some nebulous reward. Equity, heaven, utopia what the fuck ever.
Likewise I do not need to be taken care of and protected by anyone, I can handle that shit myself, and not manage to shoot a bunch of bystanders.
I've never liked Trump, but I can't comprehend why people get so emotional about the guy and believe all the propaganda even when presented proof that it is propaganda. e.g. the very fine people hoax.
I am also adept at math as well as processes, trends, patterns, etc so incongruency stands out to me. I've never had faith in our political system, but holy fuck the bullshit was thick in 2018, 19, and 20.
Rather than listening to pundits its better to listen to what the politicians actually say. Joe Biden and Harris want a war, and they shall have one if they proceed with their plans to effectively nullify the 1st and 2nd amendments. They've said as much, thus I am not a fan, not that I would be a fan of the guy who fucked me out of jobs, sent me to war twice, sniffs little kids, lauded a klan member, and did all the fucked up things to black people he has done.
I still don't give a fuck about Trump. This is much larger than the cheeto. I know small minds have a problem an TLDR.
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Hey Shoe.. you have no idea how to be a man, what it takes to be a man, or what men do. You cannot fathom how to 'fix' men. Its a completely foreign idea to you. Likewise I cannot know what its like to be unable to open a pickle jar or the myriad other things about being a women. I'm not telling you how to fix women, but I can tell you how to make yourself more attractive to us. (Well not you personally, the ideology is repulsive, but you are kinda cute).
No matter how attractive women are, most of us are just not playing the game anymore. There is no incentive to do so. We lose our families, income, freedom, and homes, all on a whim. That is an incentive to not play the game.
If there was a street where 80% of people were hit by a bus crossing said street, would you cross it? Even if it was only 2 people out of 10, would you cross the street?
Men solve problems, do risk/benefit analysis, and decide if something is worth the effort or not. Guess what, women are not worth the effort, so men are not bothering to even speak to them, let alone waste income and time on them. They wanted it, let them have it, they can enjoy living alone from 40 to 80.
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@sarahnovella4971 I noticed something in the nearly 40 years I have been getting busy with women. The hotter they are, the less personality they have developed. The less attractive they are, to a certain point where they just hate all men, the more interesting they become, because they have to work for attention rather than it being thrown at them. Hot women are usually terrible in bed. The less attractive, but not huge, women are much better with spicy antics.
I got with mostly 5s to 7s, and some really homely women like my second ex wife. I wrongly assumed she was too fugly for any man to be desperate enough, while looking good enough to her to get her to sleep around. Well I took ill with a respiratory injury and that lowered the bar drastically. NONE of you are loyal... Its not in your nature. It only takes one event or thing where you perceive weakness and you jump to the nearest Peg D that looks your direction. I've seen THOUSANDS of women do that. The ones who don't have lucky men who have never had to fight off an illness or something else equally banal and ordinary.
On the flip side, the tall good looking men have to put in zero effort because you ladies just throw panties at them. They don't have to develop any sort of game or personality, and from the feedback I have gotten from women, they are like the hot chicks in that they are meh in bed. The men who are actually good for you, are invisible to you, or seen as weak/beneath you. This is coming from a 5'8" muscle bound man who has had between 150 and 200 of you get all kinds of naughty with him. Women shoot for the stars when they have a hard time walking across the street. That delusion is increasing and you all think you deserve the absolute best man, and nothing else will do for you.
The ones you find annoying are the ones EVERY chick is chasing, and he doesn't have to do anything to get the attention or the intimate access. You do not see the rest of them. You would see me because of my blue eyes, very masculine facial features, lots of muscle mass, and my deep voice. However due to me not being 6'4" many of you (who are under 5'5" even) decline anything to do with me. Lets say that it is 200 that said yes to being with me, there are a few thousand who said no, and many more thousands around the world that have showed zero interest in me so I ignored them. The really amusing thing to be is how many of you wrongly assume I am a nice guy because I am polite.
Men are not the shallow ones, women are, and that is getting more prominent daily. You keep going for the men who are vastly out of your league, they will tap it, but not put a ring on it or stick around for long. The guys you chase will never commit to you, and they treat you like a toy, but that delusion is a ratchet that assumes because that one hot guy hit it, that now you are worthy of only the hottest men.
Thats because of one simple thing. Every female on the planet assumes she is the only reason anything is even here.. solipsism is the main feature of the female psyche, and the female in the video bears that out with her assumptions and assertions. You can't see the world any way other than through the pro female lens, where women are the pinnacle of evolution and every one of you is the main character... the reality is that every woman on earth is one of the NPCs, but they think they are more important than they are. Its not their fault, its in their coding that has made humans prolific on earth.
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@doncarlodivargas5497 they want the big party that is all about them. They want all the resources we have and share with them, but they are reticent at best to do anything to our benefit in return for those resources. They want all the benefits of being men, with none of the responsibilities, whilst retaining all the benefits of being female.
No.. it is not logical, it is based on feeling, and that changes every second. The best words to describe women is predictable incongruency.
Every one of them assumes she is the main character and everything else in the universe is there for her benefit. She is the only 'real' one in her reality. Loyalty, honor, and duty are completely lost on them, as they serve no purpose for women whatsoever, they see those attributes as holding them back and oppressing them. Probably because they believe they are better than men and everyone else, while being incredibly insecure because the only value she has is rooted in her appearance.
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430 electoral for Biden? Dude I heard that and laughed out loud. It reminds me of seeing footage of our tanks driving around Baghdad and the Iraqi minister of propaganda saying the US army was beaten back, wiped out, and there were no US tanks in Baghdad. I was still in Korea when I saw that. The propaganda they are spewing is hilarious, either they are outright lying or they are stuck in their echo chambers. Did ya hear? Kim Jong Il played golf once, and made 18 hole in one shots in a row, then he never played again.
Millions of us didn't vote in '16, like me. In '18 I was called by the only pollster to dial my number, she asked what democrat I planned to vote for. I told her none of them, she replied they had all the information they needed on the republicans. No calls since that one. They know I am not voting for democrats, so now I am on the list of do not call numbers. If they can see who I voted for in '12 it probably confuses the hell out of them. I am registered independent.
I am voting next month, come hell or high water, even if I have to shoot my way through black bloc losers trying to keep me from our tiny township hall out in the woods.. as if that would ever happen. The only way Michigan is going blue is if they pull a Wisconsin or Virginia and cheat with 'found' ballots after the election.
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Michael Knowles: Marry one thats not going to get divorced.
TSFG: Yeah sure thing.. How do you know she is going to until she does it? I was with my second wife for 9 years, then she met this socially incompetent kid 7 years younger than her who she thought was her soulmate. She divorced me (at 30), lived with him for 3 years while her father supported both of them, then the kid took off 7 years ago and now she is 40, alone, unwanted. She was a 21 year old virgin from an intact, rather well off family when I met her in 2003.
She had the option to take 60% of my retirement/VA compensation despite not being part of my military life. She got the house, land, and one car, because that is all she asked for. The first one divorced me at 8 years (at 29) got the house, 71% of my gross income for the next 15 years, to the tune of more than $250k. When she did not pay for the house, it was foreclosed and destroyed MY credit, not hers. Two years after the divorce was final she tried to end herself and spent a month in the looneybin. They sent that bill to me and the judge said her boyfriend could watch my kids while she was in there. Guess what happened to my two little daughters while he was 'watching' them.
So Michael, how does one know she is a good one and will not divorce us like both of mine did?
Take the risk, end up living in an old cop car because you're indentured for a couple decades, as she raises your kids to be like the females depicted in these videos. Yeah... thats gonna work out great.
That is the reason men are not playing this game anymore. They are walking away in droves, not even dating, so all these females are sharing a small group of males who will never commit to any of them. Those men have the option to have four of them at the same time whenever they want, why would they ever commit to just one?
The rest of the young men learned from what happened to me and millions of other men just like me. Then you blame those men for not committing to females, as if they have any choice for many of them, while the remainder cannot keep her from trading him in for cash and prizes whenever she feels like it. Look at both my ex wives, they did much worse after they left me, lower value males, lower incomes after my support payments ended, and both of them are miserable and want me back.
Of all the women I dated over the last 40 years of being 'active' all of them who cheated, left, or otherwise ended it so they could try out a different guy, when talking to them now they are the ones who always say I was the one who got away. They had a man who was going places, who had goals, plans, aspirations... who traveled the world, did and saw amazing things, and now lives a life that is VERY enjoyable, passive income, live on 13 acres of woodland in a scenic part of the US, completely debt free, and I build old muscle cars that I enjoy driving, racing, and modifying. I own something like 25 to 30 Pontiac muscle cars, four GTOs, eleven Trans Am/Formula Firebirds, seven LeMans two doors, plus a couple Mustangs (71 fastback 84 convertible) 67 Cougar, and more...
They threw that away, and if just one of them had decided to stay and work with me rather than leeching from me, she would have a wonderful life with great memories. Instead they wanted instant gratification, something they thought was better, and since I didn't have lots of money to spare while building my life, it wasn't enough for them to waste on frivolous crap. Thus, they left.
WHY should I risk everything I have built a third time when its so easy for one of them to take EVERYTHING I have after just a few months of starfish in bed.... why?
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@mikeallan7740 I've often found it most amusing when someone says American muscle cars cannot turn corners or stop, of course if they're talking about a chevy or a Ford, they are usually correct. However Pontiac was already into turning corners and stopping in the mid 1960s, my 1970 GTO drives far better than the 1980 BMW 520 I had when I was stationed in Germany 30 years ago. My 1979 Trans Am with WS6, which is a handling and brake package, was better than any German car I drove over there too. A Camaro or Mustang was a scary ride over 80mph though. The faster I drive my 1970 to 1979 Formulas and Trans Ams, the more stable they are and 140 is no big deal in them.
I used a bunch of factory parts on my '65 GTO, swaybars front and rear, disc brakes, a fast ratio steering box, along with a few other parts, and it walked away from a friend's WRX STi on a twisty road. It would be better if I could run taller spindles on the front that change the geometry so the wheels lean inwards rather than outwards in a turn, but the control arms to do that won't fit with headers.
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@kenshinhimura9387 pinching pennies? Bit exactly. I've traveled the world a bit, I know history, and I know the pattern that is being played out right now. Its a cyclical thing, but this time a new idea was tried out and its coming to a head.
You could have invested that $6k a week into something useful, beneficial, that is sustainable. Sounds like you haven't, and you think a big pile of cash is all you will need. I've never really cared about money, far more important to me is what I can do, with or without money. Money just lets me do it a bit faster is all. You have the same mindset as the people who are causing the problem, and its amusing to me.
I could easily live like you do, but I am not livestock.
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I started with a '67 Cougar way back in 1982 when I was 13. I still have it, but have not driven it since '87. Life got in the way after starting to repaint it in '86. Super easy to work on, distributor is up front, unlike my Pontiacs and small mopars, but finding Cougar body parts means scouring for them, not much in the way of repops made for a Cougar. Same with the '65 GTO/LeMans, only quarter panels, fender/doorpatches, and floor patches available for them. Makes it more difficult to find certain things like door shells and full quarters. Those are easy to work on, but some stuff requires scrounging, which is ok for me since that is the old school way I do things and its cheaper for me that way. Having to scrounge everything is going to suck, no way am I touching an AMC or a Hudson. I am not a masochist.
The Cougar isn't as popular as the Mustang and camaro, so they are usually cheaper. The LeMans is the same car as a GTO but with different trim and engine, you can make a LeMans run just as hard as a GTO and no need to pay for the 242 vin (LeMans starts with 237). The LeMans is lots cheaper than a GTO unless the GTO is really ragged out and mostly missing everything. My 65 GTO rolling shell was extremely rusty for $1500 and a 65 LeMans post in grandma fresh not driven since 81 or so was also $1500 with a very nice interior for the GTO. I picked up a 68 LeMans rolling shell for $300 in '14. Lots of parts available for a 68.
The cars with no drivetrain and interior are fine for me, I have 20 engine and transmission cores sitting around to build, some on stands ready to go in, and lots of other parts needed to take a vehicle that has not been driven since the Reagan administration and make it a driver for cheap. It might be a bit too daunting for your first project, so at least get something that is all there even if it doesn't run or you will be hunting for all kinds of strange stuff, like brackets, mounts, and then figure out how to run it all. I run into that when I do a different year that I have not had before, so that 65 LeMans also showed me where the factory put things, so that was useful too.
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@woodheat411 since you asked nicely and all... In my spare time when I have been deployed, overseas, its winter time, or I hurt too much to spend time in my shop or yard since I was medically discharged 16 years ago, I like to game online. First person shooters, the harder the better, no console stuff, with games that require more than running around like a 4 year old playing fortnight. Games that require thought, tactics, and strategy.
Well those games attract a certain type of individual, usually the cocky types who will use names like killer, and whatever other macho things they can come up with. While stationed in Korea I hit on the idea of changing my name and going into our clan server with an alias.. and what name would be the worst thing for a macho gamer to be killed by?
Pink Fairy.
That was the first one because White Knight Assassin or Thunderbeast would get miffed at being killed repeatedly by a Pink Fairy. I discovered the psyop part of that that makes them incredibly angry, which makes them go into fight or flight and that results in them playing worse the madder they get. They get killed more and more until they rage quit.. but they always come back looking for revenge.
For a time my clan decided to go into other clan servers and we all chose a color of fairy to be. We got accused of being cheaters when we did.. it was glorious.
I started using other names, usually poking fun at myself rather than trying to claim to be a macho hard core killer. Things like Mega Jerk, Snuggles, Cuddly Puppy, and yes, sweaty fat guy. Thanks to having PTSD and some training, I have gotten quite good at those games. The goofier or emasculating it is, the more fun it is.
I had to retire Pink Fairy because server admins would ban me back when we had dedicated servers. They'd say nobody can be that good and the name makes it obvious.. lol but I never cheated. Its just not who I am and I don't know the first thing about doing that.
I am old and broken having lead a hard life, so I don't like drama and stress. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you are taking things far too seriously. Since I cannot run anymore I have gotten kinda fat, so the SFG name fits. It elicits a certain mental image, and I like making people laugh.
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@drain6390 requires no skills to watch them, but lots of skill to drive them. They don't go very straight when they have enough power. Its not like driving your Kia that goes 0-60 by Thursday... especially something that gets to 140mph in 660feet, and the faster ones of course.
People drive those 1000 miles and race at several tracks. Its called Drag and Drive, like HotRod Drag Week, Rocky Mountain Race Week, Sick Week, and a few others are springing up. The fastest vehicles run the 1/4 mile in the low 6 second range at over 200mph, then drive to the next track.
Lots of content on here for those kids of races, Riding with Alex Taylor is one of them, BangshiftTv is another, 1320Video is probably the biggest.
Then you have Street Racing Channel and SixSixty doing no prep, where they try to make 1500hp go down a track that is about as sticky as a public road, usually worse. Watch some No Prep, those guys are kinda nuts.
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The marxists are in full control of Canadian education now, its sad to say but Canadians gave up their right and ability to reverse it in 1977. How many Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, Austrians, Brits, and other Europeans mocked Americans for not surrendering our ability to defend ourselves.. Its been countless times I have read comments to that effect over the past ten years. They always said it could never happen there, the government will not do that to its people... and yet, here we are. Soon you will not be able to dissent, to speak out, and voice your derision for their policies and actions.
The gulags and camps of the soviets and 3rd reich are coming to the rest of the world. Enjoy what you have allowed to happen to you.
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@KevinJDildonik I did the shrink thing for a lot of years, my parents took me to them when I was a kid to figure out why I was angry all the time. Mom said to the shrink that I had a great life and nobody mistreated me, that was the beginning to seeing that shrinks have no freakin clue.
I talked to one in Korea for about 20 minutes who clued me in to why there is a rifle in every room, and why I am so big into old muscle cars. The cars are my family... since my family thinks of me as someone they can use. The one I talked to every week after that in Korea flat out said I was well ahead of her, so she asked me to give her insights and share my coping skills to improve her ability to help others. She was fresh out of graduating with her degree.
Yeah lots of people handle things differently. Thats obvious to me, because what is not a problem for me is insurmountable for others. What has no effect on me would make both my ex wives and every girlfriend revert back to being a 5 year old.
I can tell when someone else has PTSD, it shows up in how they move, walk, talk, and what they do.
Men and women have different responses as well. its the fight or flight mode, and its always on. Women tend to run and hide, trying to avoid everything that might trigger them. They are fat less prone to fighting, they flee instead. I have some female friends with it, and they prefer to stay inside and avoid everything.
Men on the other hand have a different approach. The weaker more timid ones will flee and hide. The rest will get very loud at first, which is a warning of what is to come if the threat persists. When the breaking point occurs, that man will go from being loud and yelling, to serenely calm as he hands out a vicious beating/attack on the threat. Overwhelming force, and they usually stop when they get tired or someone intervenes.
If you want to see a man like that in action, there was a video years ago with an old gray haired guy in a sky blue T shirt that had I am a MotherF*** printed on it, and a younger guy was instigating and eventually brandished a knife at the old guy. It became a meme about an 'ambulamps.'
The old man displayed exactly the process and when the switch happens the young guy is entirely unprepared for what is about to happen to him. Then the old man goes back to yelling. He warns the kid several times, and the kid persists. Then the kid found out the hard way.
The only thing we can do is minimize its affect on other people who live around or with us.
Mine is just as potent today as it was 35 years ago before my first war. The big difference is how I think and act when confronted with threats. I skip the warning part, am nearly always in the serene part, and tend to not go places where drunken college kids want to look tough by trying to get the old guy to back down or something. I'd rather not pay his medical bills for messing with the wrong man.
When its women, its entirely different. I have yet to see a woman with it who reacts the same way I do.
My hypervigilance is so strong that I play music as loud as possible while working in my shop or in my yard so I am not constantly looking at the traffic going by on the road 500 feet away. I live alone in the woods and let very few people come here.
When I am out in public I am friendly, polite, and courteous. I enjoy talking with other people who are into cars, especially old ones like I am. Any threat I cannot avoid finds a problem with me, and usually they run.
I'm only 5'8, but other men can tell by looking at me that I am not to be trifled with. My daughters like walking behind me in stores because as my oldest put it "they move out of the way for you." I try to be non threatening as much as I can, preferring to blend in if possible... and I wear clothes that make me look obese. Its also why I have my name on here like it is. Still people can just tell.
Its been a rough life, and I really don't want to inflict it on other people, even if they deserve it because they are messing with me in some way. Its cheaper not having to hire lawyers. Also in my 50s it hurts a lot longer when I overexert myself like I did wrestling high school and during the wars.
If it could get better, it would have by now. I simply deal with it more effectively.
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I've been rolling with $120 to $200 a week for groceries, but its all fresh fruit and meat, nothing processed, and I cook everything. Included in that is putting some food away in long term storage. I get lots of snow in winter, so I have enough to easily go three months without going into town. My land and home is paid off since 2021, bought it in 2013. I don't need car loans, and I drive cool stuff like a 70 Cuda and 65 GTO. I am building others, I am big into cars so my life is built around the car thing.
I cannot stand cities, I drive around them if possible. Give me open fields, trees, lakes, and nature. I will not live in a city. I traveled the world in my 20s and 30s with the USAF. When I wasn't on duty, I was off exploring and getting to know the culture of where I was. Best thing I ever did for myself was meeting people in Asia, Europe, and Africa away from the tourist spots, and 'retiring' to the woods of northern Michigan.
I've been to over 40 countries, but only Korea in east Asia. I wanted to check out the other places like Japan, PI, Thailand, but I haven't yet. Get out of the country you were born in, and discover the world, and get out of the cities because they are a trap.
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He actually said he lives more green than I do? I seriously doubt he is more green than I am. Calling me a rube, now that would be rich considering I have probably travelled more than he has, lived in other cultures and countries longer than he has, and I was neither pampered nor catered to when I did it. Empathy, sure he is probably more empathetic than I am, but I am willing to bet I am more logical, realistic, and knowledgeable than he is. I am one of millions of people who live in flyover states who live like I do... well not exactly as I do, most do not live in the woods, surrounded by nature, making renewable energy from the environment around me.
These ignorant, uninformed, self absorbed actors know only how to pretend to be other people who actually did things. They play parts in movies pretending to be people I have known personally, worked and fought along side of, while we did things these actors would never do. I suppose he smokes more weed than I do, its more medicine than recreational for me, so I stick to the CBD for the most part.
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@olivertwist1239 yeah, I know more racist non whites than whites, dating girls from nearly every race on the planet clued me in to that. To the leftists diversity means not white, and that reflects on them. I honestly do not give a fuck how resistant to UV someone is, I take people as individuals rather than avatars for their demographic or racial group.
If you're not an asshole and not a complete moron, you are usually ok with me. Blame the military for that if you want, blame my curiosity for variables in poon, whatever, its just not a big thing to me. Who someone is matter more than the shade of their skin.
Having been in the military, and having been involved with the gearhead culture for over 35 years, it is readily apparent some people are not as bright as others. When your military job has a relatively high ASVAB score requirement you tend to get better than average people working around you. Some morons slipped through the cracks though.
The thing about the military is it is entirely a culture, you learn to fit the culture because you want to be there. We volunteer to wear green, so you assimilate to the way things are done and a certain way of thinking. The USA used to be similar to that, you would keep some of your heritage, but you learned to fit in with your new country.
Everyone I grew up around was German, the Swedes lived 30 minutes north of us, the Poles were 30 miles east and a bit south. We are all Americans, but our families came from different places and we honor both, we wanted to be here, while not forgetting where we came from. I do not want to live in Germany, if my family had not left I would probably not exist, or I would have grown up in the socialist half near Dresden.
I prefer the USA. I prefer the culture we have to that of all the other countries I traveled to while active duty. I can appreciate their culture, and I had a great time in Europe, both ends of Asia and in Africa, but I like what we have here. I fought to protect it. Not for us white people, but for everyone who wants to come here and have a better life, assimilate to our culture like my family did, and be part of the greatest nation the world has ever known.
The people who want to destroy our culture, our way of life, that my family struggled to get to, then fought to preserve since the late 1860s, will forever be my enemy as long as they try to fuck up what we have here.
I can live anywhere in the world I want to, I have passive income and I learn languages fast, and yet I choose to live here. People who want me to feel bad about having low UV resistance would have better luck getting me to feel bad about how tall I am, and that isn't going to work for shit.
Anyone who plays racial identity politics, and does the race game relegating everyone into groups and they have to fit that group, are part of everything that the idea of the USA stands against. We are individualists, we are not group identitarians, though some assholes want to be. You succeed or fail based upon individual merit.
Trying to make everyone equal is a fools errand that only results in holding back the performers so the idiots and losers don't feel left out. We all have strengths and weaknesses, I am physically powerful but not very tall, so I can lift heavy shit but I cant run fast. Most people are well behind me where I have strengths. but I do not see myself as better than them, I see them as different.
I like different, its why I race Pontiacs rather than hondas, chevys or Fords, its why I do the things I do, rather than follow the crowd. I find my own way, and I take what suits me from other people, their ideas, cultures, words, methods of doing things, and apply them in my own way. I give zero fucks what the group is doing, unless of course they are doing it to me.
People look at me and assume I am a racist, they always have. They also look at me and assume I am an idiot, I let them think that. Most look at me and see an old fat guy, not knowing what my capabilities are. There is a reason I like sleepers, cars that look slow but are very fast... its who I am.
I am not the summation of white people, though I do have some very German traits in that I can work with metal, wood, composites, as well as farming and I am quite adept at military things... Germans do those things very well, and yet I am not like them beyond that.
I don't have any empathy without trying hard to think about it, I have no guilt nor remorse for what I have done in my life, I do not feel like a victim despite having everything taken from me many times, and yet...
I feel sorry for people who have that need to be part of a group, to fit in with someone, and that makes them willing to give up who they are to fit the collective. I see that as very limiting. My way is harder, because I do most things alone, but it is vastly more enjoyable and filled with opportunities, because I don't have to give a fuck what others think about what I am doing.
Collectivists can't grasp that, they NEED to be part of a group, and they want to believe they are good because they think the group is also good. To me they are sorta stupid and uninspired.
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@sigma80 the classiest girl I ever 'dated' who also treated me better than any other girl, has alopecia, not single hair on her anywhere, and she has her eyebrows tattooed on, was a bit unnerving at first, but she is a sweetheart, we are still friends after breaking it off back in 2018. No hair pulling with her. She is originally from New Mexico, Mexican Apache heritage, so she is sorta off white to nice tan. One of my favorite people in the world.
I decided way back in my teen years that I would not be like my uncle and two cousins, hanging desperately to the clown hair ring around the back of their heads if I went bald. I am 53, have a thin spot from a couple years of TRT ten years ago, but its not enough to notice or care.
In high school and before I enlisted I had long hair, wavy like the guys in hairbands, blond and the chicks loved it. It was the 80s after all... Once I got my day one buzz in basic, I can't stand to have hair anymore. If its long it gets caught in machinery, drags in oil/fluid when I am under a car, gets stuck under the creeper wheels, and keeping it clean was a huge pain in the ass.
No way in hell would I do combovers and all the other stuff guys do trying to have hair. Shave it all and keep it all short if I had a ring. My hair grows fast, I could shave my head every 15 days and have a huge pile of hair on the floor. I shave it once a month because its annoying. Why can't it be like the hair on my arms and only grow to a certain length...
Back in October when trying to start a fresh engine I built, I burned my eyebrows and half my beard off when it backfired through the carb. I looked funny for a few days.. lol.
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@MrAskmannen being tall is not always an advantage. More back problems, can't fit into certain spaces, leg room on planes, trains, and in cars, much harder to put on muscle and not look like a bean pole, and in an altercation with a 5'6 - 5'8 man who knows what he is doing a man over 5'10 has no chance and will find himself face down on the ground with at least one of his arms behind him being wrenched painfully upwards.
On the plus side they can reach things on the top shelf, girls irrationally think they are better because they are tall, so girls give it up easier to them.
An interesting aside I have noticed, while banging the girlfriends and wives of guys over 6' every one of them asked the same thing "How can you move like that and how do you know all of that?" It seems that getting laid is so easy for tall guys that they put zero effort into it, and are usually lame in bed compared to a man who has had to fight and put in work to get laid.
How does a 5'8 guy manage to pull the girls who are with taller guys? Its super easy to pack on muscle mass and look freakin huge... oh and it does translate into being stronger too. I am told I am good looking too, but I don't know since I am not into dudes. Girls want to be intimidated by the man they get naked for, and a weaker tall man doesn't do that as well as a short muscle bound freak of a man who fears nothing because he has already beaten everything.. lol
If more short guys realized that, they would not be so down on themselves and just give up. My half eaten TicTac has had lots of fun, its really small but very friendly if they can find it. Girls feel solidarity with me because most of the time I have to sit to piss as well, otherwise I soak my pants as it doesn't go beyond my zipper.
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@rebeccaconlon9743 really? The UK and Australia don't have no fault divorce, TV ads showing men as incompetent fools, and giving huge incentives to women to go to uni while affording men nothing similar?
Really?
Young men have no incentive to start a family, because the family can so easily be taken from them. That is fact everywhere in the west.
Do not take this as an insult to women nor you personally, that is not the intent. My intent is to show the disparity in how males and females are treated by society, in the media, and in the legal system.
I know divorced fathers all over the world, and somehow they all have eerily similar stories. Their wife cheated, filed for divorce, then she got the kids, most of his income, and the state helps her keep him away from his kids. Millions of men have been through this same series of events. UK and US are the worst about it.
I am waiting for someone at LE to have it happen to them, I hope it doesn't but just one of them going through it would open their eyes. Its the last thing I would ever wish on anyone, but Carl would definitely see the massive disparity and injustice done on men if he were getting divorced.
Steven Crowder has been going through it for the last two years, he is finding out the hard way what I have known for 20 years.
Its the same in the UK as here in the states, but some states are much worse than others. I own my land, home, and vehicles, I have no debt, and I have a decent income. Its all paid for with the last debt being paid off in 2021.
If I were daft enough to get married, when she decides she is not happy and wants to jump on someone else, the judge can and probably will give her most of my income, my land, home, and any vehicle she deems to be valuable. That happens here in the US and in the UK.
it benefits YOU, so you will not want to change it. It shows women in a poor light, so you will deny it happens. Its not women per se, its the laws that encourage women to act in reprehensible ways, because they are rewarded for it. All she has to do to justify her actions is claim, without any evidence whatsoever, that he mistreated her in the smallest most minor way, and she is justified in the eyes of society and the law for ruining his life.
UK US samey same.
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@evanc6110 I have heads with the same port work Big Chief has on the Crow for the 535, it might get 20psi at some point, easily 2000hp under 6500rpm. Otherwise it should be a 800 to 900ftlbs grunt monster from idle to 5000 at least. They make over 650 on a 467 starting around 2500 and carry it to 5000.
Pontiacs are an interesting thing, they have long high velocity ports, with a venturi shape that speeds the airflow up even more. It limits RPM, but builds mind boggling torque in the low and mid range. Thats just the garden variety D ports. All they need is a mild cam, some cheap headers, and highway gears behind them. The 400 needs more gear than a 428 or 455, the 350 needs a bit more than the 400, but all the same things work on them, and everything other than the cranks and pistons interchange.
350 and 400 have the same stroke as the 426 Hemi, 3.75" and a 3"main, the bore is the only difference. Its too much of a difference to bore a 350 to a 400. The 428 has the same 4.125" bore as the 400, but with a 4" crank and a 3.25" main. The 455 has a 4.155" bore and 4.21" crank on a 3.25" main. Everything else interchanges, heads, cams, lifters, pushrods, connecting rods, everything..
There are some year breaks, 64 and earlier heads require a different intake flange angle than 65 and later heads. 66 and earlier heads have a different valve inclination angle than the 14 degree 67 to 79 heads, so you need the right piston valve reliefs for the heads.73 and up heads have a smaller heat crossover, but you can use the gaskets for the early heads to put various intake manifolds on either head.
63 and earlier use front mounts, all later engines use side mounts, and the pre 68 engines, particularly 400s and 428s don't have the right holes for 74 and up Firebirds. Other than those its very simple and mounts are available to put a 428 block in one of those cars.
The 67 and up 4 barrel heads, and 76 up heads all had screw in studs, and 2.11" intake valves. Some heads had press in studs and smaller valves. 67 and earlier heads are closed chamber, 68 up are open chamber. 72 heads are missing the outer exhaust bolt holes, makes them a pain to put headers on. Thats the only year they did that.
The important casting numbers for heads are on the center exhaust ports, things like 12, 13, 15, 48, 62, 64, 96, 614, 722, 7F6, 6X, 5C.. those are what tell you what they are. The 15 is the only one with press in studs. All the 3 digit codes I put up are round exhaust port heads and are rare + expensive. The 16 is interesting because that is both a screw in stud press in stud and both D port and round port, depending on what it came on. Its one or the other, not all of them.
The D ports all flow around 130 to 150 cfm, and with good port work from Butler, SD, or KRE 250cfm is possible. After market heads vary, and there are actually quite a few to choose from, but you have to know who to contact about them. D ports, round ports, RA V, raised ports, and a Cleveland style canted valve head are all available.
Some of the 350 heads flow better than the other D ports, have screw in studs, but small intake valves. All the D ports, except that 350 head flow within 5 to 10 cfm of each other, so the big thing is chamber size which dictates compression ratio. 71 and later are low compression, 70 and earlier are higher compression. You can mill some 67-70 heads to 64cc and put them on a flat top 455 short block, and it makes 13:1, or you can put some 75-76 455 heads on and it makes 7.7:1.
The interchangeability makes them very easy to make fast, and you can tell everyone your 455 is a 301, 326, or 350. Its not like anyone other than a Pontiac guy will know, and he will have to do some looking around to see what it is. Ultimate sleeper engines. All the accessory drives work on all of them, within the year breaks which are dependent on which car they came in, the year, and the displacement. Too much to get into, but you can make a late engine look like an early one or vice versa by swapping out the front cover and accessories.
Getting 500ftlbs out of a 455 is super easy, and it will make it from 2000 to 4500 with untouched ports and a stock 67-72 intake. It will still pull to 5500 too, provided you have valve springs that don't float. imagine that much power in a light car, like 2700lbs, with a 3.08 or 2.73 gear, that is a low ten second ride you can drive long distance easily.
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@Ethan Semeraro easier to find a chevy, yeah, cheaper to make the same power, not under 650hp. Over 650 NA it costs about the same whatever you're doing. Pontiac guys are kinda rabid, and we collect parts. Its a relatively small community where most of us know each other, at least online if not in real life. The more of us you know, the easier it is to find stuff.
If you want performance then look into Jim and Floyd Hand. Jim has a 1972 Wagon with a GTO front end on it, he got it into the mid 11s all motor, with slightly reworked factory parts, including factory cams, weighing over 4200lbs, with a 3.55 gear. We call it a tractor engine build, and its what I build for my daily drivers.
Some guys are nuts, wanting to get $300 for a stock Qjet intake that you can get for $75, just because it has some date code they think is important. Others will trade or sell you parts reasonable. Some think a bare 428 block is $1500, double that and you have an IAII, why pay that much for stock stuff?
I am still getting engines, heads, transmissions, and all kinds of other stuff dirt cheap, but not from the loudmouths who think a 73 Bonneville 400 is worth more than I paid for any of my GTOs.
As for me, I don't sell parts often, because I am still building vehicles and engines. All the engines I have are destined for a home under a scooped hood behind a split grille.
People say the aluminum chevy heads are cheaper than aftermarket heads for a Pontiac, and they are. Thing is, a 400 or larger doesn't need the aluminum heads and intake to make decent power. When stock stuff works to over 550hp/600ftlbs, why throw a catalog at it?
The sbc needs almost $1000 in machine work just to get to where any 400 built between 1968 and 1979 is from the factory. The bottom end is strong, the only weak link is stock rods and that can be remedied with inexpensive forgings that cost about the same as resizing stock rods with ARP bolts. If you keep it under 6000rpm the stock rods hold up a damn long time. There is a reason Mickey Thompson used Pontiac power to run 406mph in 1960. They were the toughest engines you could buy that made the power he needed.
Pontiac was dominating racing from 1960 until the 1963 racing ban, stock and super stock classes, nascar, LSR, more often than not it was a Pontiac winning. GM did everything they could to hold them back, and they were still sneaking things through in 1974.
Also no matter what the magazines say, the Firebird was the fastest domestic vehicle from 1972 to 1979. The magazines tested a 2.41 geared every option 403 powered Trans Am in 78 and 79 that ran 16s, rather than the W72 which was nearly two seconds faster. The W72s could get into the 14s easily, if you didn't shift like grandma, they were all 4 speed 400s. The W72 cars were considerably faster than the Lil Red Express trucks. Both of them though, were faster than any chevy built between 1972 and 1993.
In 1987 I bought a 10th Anniversary 79 Trans Am, it was one of the 403 cars with a 2.73 rear. The previous owner put headers and dual exhaust on it, and that car would click off 14.70s all day long, weighing over 4000lbs. I later found that the heavy 'turbo' wheels slowed almost everything I put them on by a full second, they are that heavy. Some Centerlines or even steel wheels would have had that car tickling the 13s if not well into them. It made lots of Camaro and Corvette owners real mad, because it could leave them in the straights or in the turns.
There is still one guy back home who is pissed he could not lose me, then I passed him and lost him within two blocks in his 76 Camaro. The WS6 cars like the 10th TA go around corners far better than they should with 70 series tires. Herb Adams knew what he was doing. Driving a Trans Am or Formula is very different from driving a Camaro, the chevy floats as it goes faster, the TA gets more stable as it goes faster, that 10th TA went 145mph for 20 miles in 1988, and if the 403's valves didn't float at 5100rpm, it could have gone faster. The Olds is a great engine too, I like them a lot, but like the Pontiac more.
I've had a ton of fun with these things, and if I ever put a turbo on one, well...
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I have some gay and trans friends, I get hit on by men often because I am what they call a 'bear' with a barrel chest and lots of hair. To be honest, I kinda wish I was attracted to men because I could be getting a lot more sex than I am, and bitches be crazy. The hydraulics do not work. My trans friends, still have male shoulders, hips, jawlines, etc. It doesn't have the same effect on me as a feminine shape, so I am about as straight as someone possibly can be.. Not afraid of them or anything they have been my friends for decades, but just like fat chicks, the brain and plumbing say NOPE.
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@venge1894 that is along the lines of what I think, and what drives me. Its not a silver bullet one size fits all solution. Local production is far better than centralized distribution in many ways, but its not as profitable for people who move things around and want to control the supply and therefore the price.
Ethanol fits better in the rural world if they crank the price of gasoline up to 11. We can make it ourselves, and tell the people who want to force us to live in a city to suck our dicks.
I can't stand being around other people all the time. When I was in the military and had people on the other side of two sheets of drywall, I hated it. I put up with it and put it out of my mind. The chick who lived above us tried to impress us with her sexual adventures, and we tried to impress her with ours. She gave us knowing smiles in the parking lot. Where I live now, girls can walk around my yard naked, as long as they don't get tetanus from one of the vehicles.
City life does not fit me, and I would much rather be dead. I can't get comfortable and relax in a city or even a small town. I don't want everyone knowing what color my shit was this morning either.
I like lots of power when it comes to vehicles. I want it as cheap as possible, and reliable as fuck. Thats why I like big engines with lots of compression. If electrics were cheap like the old rusty junk I build, and as fast, reliable, and able to travel the same or longer distances, I would be all about them.
Simple fact is they are not cheaper, faster, more reliable, with a greater range. I'm a crippled war vet on a fixed income, who likes to drive fast cars. Electrics do not fit that. By the time they do, I will be dead because I am 52 right now.
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@venge1894 I build engines, transmissions, rear ends, carbs, EFI systems, and pretty much anything else. All I need is a core and some parts, and I can make analog caveman tech run damn good. Bash two rocks together and make it faster, thats what I find the most fun. Doing it with the simplest stuff possible.
My least favorite thing to do is chase wires and test circuits on a board. I usually get pissed and throw the thing across the room or bash it on a table like a caveman. Its just too tedious to me. Wiring it up, no problem finding the short or bad ground, ah fuck it lets put a different car together.
I have a really nice 4.8 powered 03 Silverado sitting here with electrical problems. I can stuff a 6.0/4L80 in it easily, but if I don't find the no start problem I just might create another one with the swap. Chasing wires in one of those is like herding cats in a rainstorm.
If there is ever an EMP I will probably have something driving within a day or two, because of all the analog stuff I play with daily. EMP a world of Teslas, everyone is walkin.
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My thoughts on the bows. I'm a gearhead, a car nut. New cars are appliances, old cars have a soul, you build a relationship with an old car, you're intimate with it as you keep it running. New cars are take this part off, put a new part on it, there is no massaging, no feeling to it, no muscle memory or thought, just unplug the old part and plug a new one in... the compound bows are like that, an appliance that you use rather than feel. I should get into archery, its quiet compared to a rifle, and even the appliance bows require skills that need to be honed and maintained. Can't get ammo right now, so practicing with the rifles and handguns isn't happening, everyone around me is saving ammo. Its been almost a year since I saw a box of ammo. Sadly I lost all of mine and all the guns in a horrific ice fishing incident.
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Well the guy I get weed from (legal in Michigan) is a black guy, he sees Biden for exactly what he is. Dude just bought his first pistol, and I taught him how to use it safely and effectively yesterday. All the black guys I know here are not voting for that guy, if they don't like Trump they just won't vote. They know how the dems have been keeping them from achieving, and the county they live in here is democrat run. I am not a conservative, not a republican, and there is no fucking way I am ever going to vote for Biden. The democrats will not get my vote as long as they push marxism, which is fucking all of them lately. The republicans lose me if they push religion like Romney, Santorum, Perry, etc.
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I wonder how much money google is being paid to sell out the people of the world, to censor them to where dissent is not allowed. I am curious to know if it will be worth it when the inevitable happens. I am atheist and not a Trump fan, but I am vehemently opposed to marxism.
Hey youtube and google... “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.”
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours?
"If you don’t want a house built, hide the nails and wood. If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none."
It would appear google is on the wrong side of history, much like the Time Man of the Year for 1938. How long until Abreit Macht Frei makes a return? Because that is the ideology youtube and google are supporting.
No worries, I will be uploading my content elsewhere, its not like I need money from youtube to survive. I make videos to inform people, so they can make informed decisions. You can run this platform into the ground, wonder why everyone left and its just a big echo chamber like reddit has become.
Will the thirty pieces of silver be worth it? Because you can't take it with you, and we all will kick our air addiction someday. What you do with your time on this planet far outweighs how much money you have when you are evicted from your meat sack. It happens to all of us no matter how much money we have, everyone will reach permanent equilibrium with ambient temp. It is inevitable.
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The average yield per acre is 328, that includes dryland, which relies on rainfall and has low to mid 200 yields, and irrigated which is over 500 gallons per acre of corn. 660 x 66 ft or 208 x 208 ft is one acre which might sound like a very large space to someone who lives in an apartment, but its small when you realize the miles and miles of relatively flat ground where farming happens. Getting 500 gallons of fuel from a small space actually works rather well.
Also, the ethanol process uses only 1/3 of the kernel, the starch, which is undigestable by cattle, chickens, etc. What is left over after fermentation/distillation is called distillers dried grains, or DDGS. People, cattle, and other livestock can eat that, and its healthier for all involved than straight corn is. Cattle will burn out if you feed them straight corn, it has to be cut with something else, or fermented in silage to break down the starch. Cattle pack on muscle 17% faster on DDGS than they do other feeds with whole cracked corn in them. Thus we can make more food while we make fuel.
However, there are other sources of starch/sugar we can use to make fuel. Cattails produce anywhere from 1000 gallons per acre to 10,000 gallons, the highest when used to remediate waste water, and the lower from streams and ditches. Cattails are incredibly difficult to kill, and they grow profusely, plus they clean water of nitrates.
What I use to make my fuel is tree sap. Its very easy, no enzyme required, collect the sap, get it to 10% sugar content by removing a little water, then add yeast. Wait a week, and run it through my still. What is left over is biodegradable, and I reuse most of my water.
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@nataliesuper5836 I lived in my car from 2001 to Feb 2004, while active duty in the USAF. The child support ended in 2015. My second divorce was final in 2013, and I closed on my land a week after it was final.
In Feb 2021 I paid off all my debts, early I might add, so now all I have is expenses like food, power bill, etc. I live alone in the woods, build vintage muscle cars and old trucks, enjoying the peace and quiet out here.
My daughters realized just how bad their mother was to and for them when they were in their early teens. Now they are 29 and just about 27, doing well in life despite the horrors their mother put them through.
I have several female friends, but will never endure another relationship. Simply because they do not last, the woman always decides to try out some other guy. So I keep them at arms length, and just wait for the inevitable, while enjoying the time I get with them in my life. They are too expensive in terms of money and time, and the last ten years have been the happiest of my life. I have gotten more done and accomplished far more things without having someone soaking up my time and money.
There is a lot more to this story, but these are the highlights. I adore women, but have learned not to trust nor depend on them. the cars I build are dependable, people are not.
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@alertgasper I am not concerned with if he knows what he is doing or not. There are many times where he gives information that is only applicable to mopars, like the front drum to disc thing. My Pontiacs have the same size rear drums regardless of if they have discs or drums on the front.
I don't watch to learn how to do things, like he said about me in a live a while back, I kinda know a lot of things already. The cool thing is I realize I don't know everything, not even close to everything, but I know what I know is mostly correct.
So the reason I watch is because I like to see what other people are doing, and I like to talk about cars with other gearheads. I can't watch the other non car channels for long, and this is one I can sit and listen to.. and sometimes if its not interesting at all, I do something else.
I've been thinking of making a hack channel, a DO NOT DO IT THIS WAY type of thing where I intentionally do it the wrong way, much like the guy who nearly electrocutes himself in every video. Not to be serious, but to be amusing. People like to be amused, especially by complete silliness.
There are some channels I watch that do that. They show things in video games, make outrageous claims, and make it completely ludicrous.. like you open a door and there are ten panthers or cougars in the room. The guy comes up with the wildest things, its a gift he has.
So Tony doing something like this with a nearly worthless 318 doesn't bother me. Now if he was doing it to a valuable engine, like a 455 HO or SD, then it would be different. Mortske has seriously jacked up a 10th Anniversary TA, but I can't save them all, and he has it so its not something I can do anything about. I could really use some parts from it for mine though...
The chevy guys blow up stuff every week, nobody really cares unless its a 409 or something cool, and not many chevy engines are cool, they're like cordwood.
In the end its a silly video on a silly website, and in a year we won't remember even watching this. The cat videos stick with you though...
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@rusinoe8364 I just bought a set of 17" wheels for my 68-72 GTOs and it was $1000 for the set, two 8" and two 9" wide. They are relatively inexpensive to be honest. The last set of 15" wheels I got were about $500 for the set, 7 and 8 wide for the 65 GTO.
It depends on what kind of wheels and parts you get. Everything has gone up in the last 4 years (thanks potato) but we can still find things. I get cheap cars all the time, but the less the money the more the work.
Last summer I pulled a 64 LeMans home after digging it out of the woods where it sat for 50 years. I paid the guy $400 for it. I'll put about $3000 into rebuilding it, and drop one of my engines and transmissions in to make it a fun straight axle hotrod. the year before I brought home a 69 GTO for $200 with a good title, it needs lots of work but I can do all of it. $5k total and I will be driving it.
Of course if you are starting from zero it will cost more for you than it does for me. I already have the shop, tools, equipment, skills, knowledge, and parts because I have been doing this more than 40 years.
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Raised ports help, no doubt about it. I like to look at the primary shape of the header as part of the port itself. Same with throttle plate to piston crown at BDC as the intake port. A straight high port is cool unless you have to make an incredibly sharp turn immediately after the exhaust flange. Mopar headers go all over the place because of where the chassis parts are. I guess the difference is if you want to rev the snot out of it, or grunt so hard it causes continental shift. The LA can rev pretty good with the right parts.
One thing I like about my engines over the chevys and mopars is I don't get burned plug wires with a Pontiac or 351C. The 4V Cleveland is the only small block to impress me, those things are nuts only needing a cam and headers. I like the 340 in the Cuda my dad left me, but I have no plans to race it. It really needs a better carb, I'll get on that when I get it where I live as its still 1000 miles away. I've never been a big fan of the B/RB engines, even though I have some of them. They work ok for getting around, but when I can throw a sub $2k 455 together, run the highway gear and a stock stall in a 3500-4000lb car and put bus lengths on the B/RB my friends put together for a lot more, I have no intentions of building a BBM for racing. The 413 in my RV runs like a swiss watch though, even if it sits for years at a time. Throw a battery in it, crank it until the fuel gets to the carb and its running. I like them better than the sbc and bbc for sure though, those poor iron lumps need all the help they can get which is why they have such a huge aftermarket for them.
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Its amusing he talks about the guys who can't get any and shows Rollo.. I figured out for myself that the apps don't work, but meeting split tails in person, in public, works. I get lots of attention in public, but online, its crickets. They see 5'8" and 55 years old and they nope right out of there. 20 years ago online worked, somewhat.. 5'8" still worked against me, it wasn't just my age, so I got the less attractive ones online. Now if I am on an app its dominated by 60+ 300lb+ ditchpigs.
I saw this dynamic happen overseas in the US military. Germany, Korea, Kuwait, Iraq... the number of split tails was always vastly smaller than dudes. The split tails invariably believed themselves to be 10s, regardless of the fact most military split tails are 4s to 6s
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"redistribution" doesn't work, and its NOT a good idea, taxing the rich is a bad idea because they'll just leave. UBI will make everything more expensive and it will all decay and crumble.
Small government, limits on what someone can do with their wealth, as in not buy people in office or buy legislation that benefits them at our expense, and stop regulating the small business out of existence. Currently they are siphoning wealth from all of us, and people keep demanding we follow the bad ideas of the soviet era... redistribution, UBI, onerous taxation on the rich, nationalizing businesses, and all the dei stuff is from eastern Europe 1917 to 1991. IT DOES NOT WORK.
Stop taxing people and telling them no you can't do this or that without thousands or millions of dollars in permits.
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I'm Gen X.. Divorced twice. I don't even bother looking for a girl anymore, partly because I like sleeping indoors and not giving my house to a chick who lies and cheats. Also because girls around here are nothing worth pursuing. If she is thin, she is on meth or over enjoying ADHD meds, usually they are fat, and the blue haired screeching harridans are gaining in popularity. If she is close to my age (52) and single, its because she made exceptionally poor choices in her life, and more often than not their appearance bears that out.
Girls in their 20s like me, no idea why as I do not exude "I HAVE MONEY" and I proudly wear my gray beard and hair. Girls in their 30s are mostly uninterested, probably because they are looking for a guy to pay her way so she doesn't have to work in the gas station anymore. Over 40, they are showing their desperation, and will follow me around in stores hoping to get some attention and validation. Over 50, its even worse, and just no... I have zero interest in a 200lb 40+ year old chick with a brood of ill behaved kids.
Its more enjoyable to not engage with them and build my old muscle cars. The 20 somethings are happy to believe my name is Sergio or Raoul, and provide me with no strings sex, so why should I keep any of them?
Females wanted this. This is what they get, men like me are checking out, saying fuck this shit Im out, and doing what they enjoy doing. It doesn't bother me one bit if these females are living alone in boxed wine and cat land. Its what they wanted, you know, fish - bicycle, patriarchy.. yeah, let them wither as they blunder their way into the no eggs section of life.
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I could survive if I had to, if the world goes to hell, the food trucks stop bringing food to the cities, I am good except for one thing. I grew up on a farm where the weather is very harsh, sub zero in winter, 110F+ in summer, with high humidity and strong winds possible. Nebraska tries to kill you just for living there. Now I live in northern Michigan, in a forest, with the worlds largest freshwater lake a mile from me. We can drink from the lake if we have to, no filters needed because its very cold all year. I can get food if I have to, and if the world goes to hell, you need to be able to do more than just gather stuff, you need to produce what you need to live.
I was in the military, deployed often, and have been all over the world. The problem is, without a certain thing, a supplement that allows me to walk in conjunction with a med provided by the VA, I can't walk after two months. That is because of my military time, they broke me with their wars. If you can't walk, you won't survive if everything stops. When I run out of that stuff, I am crippled. Nothing I can do about it either. If that is not a sobering thought, what is?
I've been there done that, lived off what I could find for months, and I know how to do things, like produce fuel, food, energy, repair damn near anything, build things I need, and I know how hard it would be without the availability of all the stuff that shows up on trucks. I figure 90% of the people living in cities would be dead in less than two weeks. I can make it about 6 to 8 months on my own if I have no other choice, but it would not be a fun time. Most of your time is spent finding or producing food to survive the winter. You better learn to make jerky and other food that lasts for weeks without refrigeration if you want to last more than a few weeks. You better learn how to get clean water if you want to live more than 4 or 5 days..
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@Bjjboxing no need for specifics. The root of the entire ideology is this: If I have something and you do not have it, it is because I stole it from or took advantage of you, not because I worked and earned it.
Everything else in marxism is justification for you to come take it from me and never have to earn it yourself. It is child like thinking, without the realization that someone, somewhere, has to make, mine, grow, etc the thing you want.
You want it, you resent you don't have it, you envy those who do, and you are too lazy to go get it, yet you feel entitled to it. That is marxism boiled down to the essentials.
This is not difficult to understand. If you are the type who likes to follow along, and take what others tell you as being factual or true without evidence (as most religious people tend to be) you will get lost in the justifications and minutia while completely missing the root of it.
When I lost my religion, a bit over ten years ago, I also lost the last vestiges of my propensity to follow along blindly. I break down things to their base/root, and see what makes them tick. I want to understand what people are talking about when they propose some ideology that we should follow. So I learn it, and in doing so I find where it fails, and what the underlying theme of it is. Its a mechanical based process in my head, and I do it with everything, which is why I am a huge car nut.
For instance, most religions are based on tribalistic in group preference. We are the good people, they are the bad people, and they are so bad we can do anything to them and it is justified. In this marxism is no different than any other religion. If you are not a believer, then you are the enemy and anything I do is good and just because god says so.
Where marxism differs from islam or christianity is the god of marxism is the state rather than some invisible friend or sky daddy.
Currently christians are not enjoying their religion being the basis for government, whereas many countries are islamic following islamic laws. That makes muslims think that everyone must obey their laws or die, get their hand chopped off etc.. the last religion I learned before throwing it all out for reason and logic was islam. I grew up going to lutheran schools and church, read the bible four times in lieu of science and math classes. I know a religion when I see one.
Now where the marxists and muslims fit together very well is they all follow authoritarian ideologies that seek to force the entire world to live by their rules, laws, edicts,. If the marxists think the muslims are their friends, holy shit are they incredibly wrong.
Neither of those ideologies will tolerate another to exist unless they have no choice or they are finding people of other ideologies 'useful' in some way.
That brings us to how marxism always ends up going to concentration camps, gulags, mass graves, and it fails miserably without some other society or people from which it can leech resources... which is what socialist programs are doing in Nordic countries and most of Europe. Tax the fuck out of everyone, but don't let the government run the companies, and make it seem like people are actually getting paid more.. or like Norway, use oil and gas reserves to pay for all the socialist pork.
The ideology always needs someone else to leech from, because marxism removes the incentive of people to produce, achieve, and become proficient. Why work for it when you aren't going to get ahead, and if you do get ahead then you stole it from someone else, and are sent to the gulags.. like the kulaks.
What marxists claim is not what happens. Essentially all marxism does is put a political elite at the top and force everyone else to work as slaves to support them. Exactly what it claims to fight against.
If you think otherwise, then you either don't know the history of, or the ideology itself, and you are absorbed entirely with the propaganda and victim olympics
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@Skelstoolbox I am 54, was in the military for a long time, even though I am 5'8 it was only moderate effort to pick them up. I learned how to tell which ones were interested, then I learned how to talk to them. By the time I was 19 I had some pretty stellar game, and my confidence was huge, just like it is now.
I know I can do things, because I have done it many times. Although as I get older, I do them slower, and it hurts more. Two wars, lots of altercations which were not started by me, and around 120 wrestling matches between 8th grade and my second year in the military. I was always muscular after I turned 15. and was benching over 300 before I turned 20. Muscle helps.
Most were ready to go within half an hour of meeting me, knowing which ones are interested made it go a lot faster with a decent batting average.
I met the first ex the night I turned 24, she asked me how many I had and I could remember 88 before her, she was 89. Then we divorced when I was 32 and I was off to the races again.
At any given time I had between 3 and 6 of them I could call to come over and get some. They rotated out and I met new ones. Second ex was somewhere north of 150.
My final divorce was ten years ago, and I put another 30 or so under my belt before last year when I essentially stopped talking to them.
Blond hair, ice blue eyes, 22" arms, strong jawline, heavy brow, and I have gotten better looking as I got older. Being funny really helps, and I even got some for having good grammar. The last year or so I am showing my age more, but I still get interest from them way too young. They are always smiling at me and looking down and away like they are shy. The deep voice helps a lot, and if I have been yelling or something the day before I am as deep bass as Michael Clarke Duncan was. I am told I smell good, my T really draws them in, even when I don't shower for a day or two..
Its not every woman, not even close to that, but its enough that I notice when they do it. I never thought I looked good, but apparently I did to them.
2 or 3 were exceptionally good looking. Most were 6-7, a huge number of 5s, and sometimes I would nail a large one to break a dry spell. Dry spells came when I would change bases, new country/state, new group of locals, takes some time to learn your way around. The second ex was quite homely, but she was a virgin and seemed to have the right mindset, so I gave her a chance and she screwed it up after 9 years together. These days I don't care what she looks like, if she has kids, or whatever, as long as she doesn't give me any luggage... like herpeghonasphyilades.
I don't know the actual number, can't remember them all. I have to think about where I was stationed, what car I was driving, what color they were, what language they spoke, or which phase of my life I was in. 30 to 50 was the highest rate, and most of them were between 18 and 28.
I feel far more accomplished about the cars I have built, how fast they are, the things I did in the military, the places I have been a,d the achievements I have attained, females were just a way to sate my ludicrously high drive. Around 38 it finally started to subside, it really sucked having to get some every two days minimum to be able to think clearly, so I found a way to get some.
Only two came from bar's or clubs. Most I met when they were at work, through friends, or just walking by and saying Hi.
Confidence, muscle, blue eyes, deep voice and game. I am one of the most masculine men you would ever meet, and I don't try to be, because it doesn't matter to me at all. I just am and have things I like to do, like building muscle cars, lifting heavy stuff, building houses, and landscaping. If I need something done, I learn how to do it or buy the equipment I need to do it.
Until I was 40 I was looking for one to spend my life with making memories. They just wanted the blue eyed silverback to give them a hard ride for the memories, most were one night stands or a few weeks to two months. 6 or so were somewhat longer, both marriages were 8 and 9 years, respectively.
I was surprised to learn most guys have 1 to 3 in their entire lives. I had a drive that needed satiated, that was most of it.
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How do we play to win? What do we do when faced with hardship, adversity, and have needs that are not being met? I know what I do, its sure as hell not begging someone else to fix it for me. I find a way to make it happen, even if I have to make the damn thing myself. I built my house, my shop, and cars I drive. There isn't a huge aftermarket for Pontiac, yeah we have a lot of stuff, but its not like other vehicles. I find a way to use what I have already, and I am always looking for and trading for parts I need.
There are two guys making RA V heads for Pontiac engines, two companies that make aftermarket blocks. Two companies making Cleveland blocks. One that I know of makes FE blocks and heads. If you want it, but can't find or afford it, and you want it real bad, you make it yourself.
I've been fighting alternators and starters that are dead out of the box since the early 90s, so I rebuild them myself. I buy the diodes, rectifiers, regulators and bearings, and do it myself. I know its done right because I did it. I can also increase the amps from 40 or 60 to over 100. Occasionally the rebuild will die, but I change the defective part and I am running again. If we really need to we can find a way to make points, condensers, diodes, and the rest. We have machining capability and composites that are better that what was used when new.
Yeah there will be an investment that takes capital, yes there is a learning curve and development of parts and processes, but the average Joe can get some simple used machine tools and start making parts. Quality sells, so if you price it where people can afford it, and make it the best quality you can, you will sell them. Somethings have a high demand, other things do not. Not much demand for wooden wagon wheels these days, not much demand for points either, but if things continue points just might be a lucrative item..
Making one is very expensive, it costs almost as much as making a million of them, but you can sell a million of them and make money on them all.
I will not buy a Cloyes chain ever again. I put one in a 5.0 Mustang in 1998, and the links snapped, taking out two pistons and 8 valves, bending all the pushrods in the process. It wasn't even broken in yet, still under 500 miles and he hadn't spun it above 5000rpm, I know because I made sure it would not. Rev limiters are fun and useful. Got it from NAPA, they would not back their part, they said it was a 'racing engine' and all the warranties are void. It had aluminum replacement heads with valve springs only 5lbs heaver open than stock. That was the last business that NAPA got from me, and I was moving a lot of stuff through my shop. I run Comp and Lunati chains, never had one fail yet.
If you want quality parts, there are plenty of machine shops out there who will make them. If it gets bad enough, it will be worth their time to set up and run 10,000 timing sets or whatever. If the big companies want to buy Chinesium parts and pawn them off on us, thats fine, I will have my brother reverse engineer the part and crank out 1000 or so on his CNC 5 axis. Then he can sell them and make his money back with profit.
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Do you have cattails growing nearby? If you do, then you have a huge supply of starch, 6 times the starch in potatoes are stored in the cattail roots. You can use that starch for flour, or with enzymes you can turn it into sugar which can then be used to produce ethanol for fuel, antiseptics, and getting a bit drunk.
You can also use tree sap to make vodka (ethanol) for fuel, antiseptic, and getting drunk, but the best time to tap trees is when the weather starts getting above freezing during the day and dips below at night. A simple still is very easy to make if you have some copper flashing and leadless solder. Be aware though, its illegal in most places to make your own like that, but its good to know where the vodka gnomes live in the event the governments all collapse and we live in a shtf world...
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fuck google Crowder has had to fight them with a rather pricey lawyer, and half Asian Bill is apparently pretty good at legal administrative violence. Daily Wire has the same thing to deal with. Hell they have removed my posts as I wrote them in the last couple weeks. Its kinda eerie watching text you wrote, turn red before your eyes, then vanish like you never wrote it.
They aren't letting daily wire show up in my feed, so I often forget to go watch their stuff, but I usually get Crowder, though not always. Tim's stuff shows up regularly, so he is skirting their bullshit and avoiding paying lawyers.
I don't know how the crowdfunding thing works, I thought about doing it for some of my projects, but I tend to like to do things on my own. It does end up taking me a while to finish things though.
Thing is, I am not jealous of what others do, I can do my own thing and I get out of it was I put in, unless the state says I have to give it away to someone who didn't earn it. Might be due to my military time, or the fact that I rebuild old cars for fun after I realized I hated working on junk for other people and closed my shop way back in 1999. Going racing like I used to required you to know something, put it into action, and then test yourself and your abilities against others, its all merit based. Who does better that day wins.
I never looked at other people who had more than me and wanted to take it from them, instead I wanted to know how I could get it, what I had to do to earn it, because nobody has ever given me a damn thing without me working for it. So Tim can do as he pleases, so can Mr Obvious, and everyone else. I like to hear their opinions, even if I don't agree with them. I will form my own from what goes on in the world and around me.
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My first ex used withholding it in an attempt to get me to obey and do what the ex demanded.. That did not work out so well for the ex, I simply ignored it and removed the ex from the bank account. Then I never initiated again. Was stuck in that for 8 years, and about once or twice a month we'd do it. Finding them disgusting makes a big difference in how much you want them. Had kids, otherwise I would have ended things much sooner.
The second ex rarely said no, even got busy the morning before the ex stepped out on me with a 'soulmate' probably because I was up front about what the first ex did, including using it like that. The 2nd knew if there was any irrational arguments, infidelity, or withholding, it would be over immediately.
The ex was still surprised when the text came in saying "Don't come home, nothing is here for you now." then I shut off service to the phone. The ex expected me to keep paying for everything while giving it up to this useless dude. The hilarious part is the only way that guy looked good enough, was because I was laid up for six months unable to breathe. I have found that NONE of them will stand by their man when he gets injured, falls ill, or appears not strong at any point. I healed, that guy didn't get better, and left after spongin off the ex's dad for 3 years.
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@ilovebutterstuff trade which Pontiac? I own eleven Firebirds, four Trans Ams, six Formulas, and a 68 Bird. Four GTOs, 65, 69, 70, 72, and 65, 68, 71, and 72 LeMans, plus a 72 Ventura and a 1938 two door sedan. Not really that into the G body, they are ok, but not really my thing.
Might throw a 4.8 or 5.3 in my sister's 79 Malibu, it was my grandma's car for a long time. I have the LS engines sitting around, take them out of rusty trucks to put in other trucks. Have 76 and 80 C10s, both are getting 6.0s, and I swapped a 6.0 into a 2007 GMC 1500 crew cab earlier this year, want it to pull my trailer around the country and haul the dogs and I without being cramped like in an extended cab.
I'm not putting the blower on yet, because winter is coming and stuff sticking out of the hood causes issues with that. I need to build another shed to store the hotrods in winter. The snow is kinda epic here, 150 to 300 inches every winter, my cars sitting outside get buried completely by January. I see them again in April. Stuff sticking out of the hood lets water in when it gets buried under snow.
It finally stopped raining today so I can move stuff around and work on the lean to. That crew cab needs another transmission, 4L60Es aren't known for being overly robust. Will probably rebuild one of the 4L80Es for it over the winter... if I get the shop insulated and warm enough to work in it. I kinda do the car thing... you can see what I am working on by clicking my name if you want. I don't make much content like Joker and the other guys, I make videos of things I enjoy.
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I am all about green energy, to the point I make vodka from tree sap to run my vintage muscle cars, ethanol is race fuel you can drink. I heat my home with renewable energy and limit the amount of electricity I use because the local plant is coal fired. Reuse, repurpose, rebuild, refinish is my modus operandi. However, when they start including things like government control, identity politics, and other marxist bullshit, they lose me. They do not only lose me, they become the enemy of all I have fought for and defended for a large part of my adult life.
The same way they claim me as one of them due to the fact I am an atheist, and the right wingers lump me with them as well to my chagrin, though I like to run my cars on very inexpensive home made fuel, I am not a marxist and never will be... I absolutely hate the way they try to say I am a feminist, socialist, or whatever else simply because of the way I do things, when I have no part of my being that is anything like marxism. I prefer reality far too much to be a marxist. I will fight them if it comes to that, tooth and nail, with every fiber of my being. The Iraqis could not kill me, the others who tried could not kill me, so rest assured, if it comes to it they will have a fight like they have never seen before. I hope they die off, lose influence and it does not come to that, but I will not live nor will I allow my kids and grandkids to live in a world like existed under the soviets.
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What do I think? Having had multiple restraining orders from my second ex as well as her and her boyfriend slashing his tires to blame it on me, resulting in me gong to jail, four false sexual harassment accusations, two false rape accusations where no sexual contact ever occurred, and being reduced to living in my car while active duty in the US military because my home state gave full custody and 71% of my gross income to her, assisted her in obfuscating where my kids were, preventing me from travelling to see them, seizing my bank accounts as a punitive measure resulting in my support payment not clearing so they could charge me more(along with leaving me broke for an entire month two times), and getting all of 12 days with my daughters in the first 7 years after the first divorce from an abusive, bipolar, cheating, extremely violent towards me and the kids, vindictive harpy who accused me of everything under the sun....
Yeah I don't think it ever happens that a vindictive spouse decides to tell lies to fuck over the guy she cheated on to make herself into the victim. Its just not in the realm of possibility, because wymxn are not like that, they are all sugar and spice, everything nice.. I must be an outlier, this rarely ever happens to anyone. /s
Thing is, nobody gives a fuck, and the man hating feminists will claim they are trying to help, but do everything they can to make matters worse. Yes, suicide was on my mind for over 15 years while I was indentured to her. Not at all while I was in jail though, because I actually got off cheap only having to pay him $3000 to take my 31 year old second wife off my hands. She is 37 now, and looking VERY rough, the first oe was 110lbs when I met her, she is now hovering around 300 and she wasted all of the $250k they milked from me to give to her.. So yeah, I am good now. Living alone, in the woods, with a house nobody can take an give to some lying cheating waste of oxygen.
Now both my daughters live 1000 miles from their mother, each within an hours drive of me. What does that tell ya?
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I was born in 69, so I am one of the older X'ers, and even though I don't despite the rainbow LGHDTVABCQTP types, I have zero interest in them or their proclivities. I have some friends who are into certain aspects of that, but we are friends outside of that. Most of them are gearheads like I am, we dig old cars and trucks, or long distance hole makers, and even RC aircraft and vehicles. With whom they want to exchange bodily fluids is not part of the deal.
I am not big on sportsball and I don't watch it, but that isn't being foisted in ads, videos, movies, and events that have ZERO to do with other sports. Not so with the LDHGTVQTPETC. That is everywhere. Its inescapable. Same with the messaging about how I am bad due to the fact I need sunscreen in the Mojavi.
That tells me its an agenda, a means of forcing something on all of us with no regard for our interests, proclivities, or moral guides. Being a retired member of the US military, I am not a fan of things being foisted upon all of us.
Currently I am not allowed to reply to others on here, and most of my comments like this are hidden or held for review, because I am critical of a certain ideology. Dude, I do car stuff, homesteading, green energy, and sustainability things. They do not want me to speak about anything in a reply to someone else.
When you remove a man's tongue, you do not silence him, you simply make it obvious you don't want anyone to know what he is saying.
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I'm an inadvertent environmentalist, I got into green energy because I live in a relatively remote part of the US, where gas prices are as high as California most of the time, the highest in this state all the time, the electrical grid is unstable so the power goes out at random, sometimes for days. Food is expensive here as well. So the more energy I can produce myself, the less cash I have going out to others for it.
Making 10cent a gallon ethanol from tree sap and 40c a gallon from cattails is a lot cheaper than $4 pump gas. Also I can make a lot more power, run very high compression, and it burns cleaner and cooler than gasoline. If the gasoline stops showing up, I will still be able to get around. So I am an inadvertent prepper as well.
I just wanted to drive my GTOs with the 455ci/7.4L engines that make over 550hp/600ftlbs, and not pay $12 a gallon to do it. All these twats using the environment to justify their marxist goals are pissing me off. These idiots in ER are of the useful type, completely ignorant and running solely on emotion, they have no idea what the realities are of what they whine for. They're children.
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1. Don't live in a city. 2. Don't live in a democrat controlled city. 3. Live in an area where your right to defend yourself is not considered a crime
They would have to stand in the highway to not be on my property 300' from the house. Come on my yard, walk through my woods, start a fire, and you are probably going home in a box. This state is a castle doctrine state, and open carry, where trespass on private property can get you killed here. Trust me, if 300 people showed up, I have enough magazines ready to go for all of them. Why they would show up in the middle of nowhere to a location that is kinda hard to find even when you know where it is? No fucking clue.. which is by design, it would take concerted effort to come here, most of these morons won't put that much effort in. :)
The sheriff here won't arrest you for defending your property, you come on my land with ill intent, the sheriff knows they will be met with a firearm. I can shoot in my yard, I am building a 400m range in the back of my property. No laws are broken, neighbors are shooting often too, you can hear them in the distance. If they hear me open up, chances are they will come help and then the mob will be surrounded.
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@sumdud2129 something worse than lockdowns is coming, something that will affect everyone. We do not need the media, they are corrupt and in bed with the tyrants, look at how YT censors facts to push the narrative. Nah, this will come down to each individual person putting their adult panties on and making it happen... like the truckers are doing up north right now. Well, down south for me, but you get the idea.
The thing about marxists is they do not give up power easily, and they always run and hide like Trudeau and Northam did when faced with slightly miffed people who merely show up. Imagine how the rats would run if everyone decided to be less than pleasant.
I'm not condoning it, but that is where this sort of thing goes when the government stops working for the people and sells out to corporate interests. For reference look at Nicolae Ceausescu, who got exactly what he deserved, because he earned it.
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All of this tech with implants and neural connections is both intriguing and terrifying, because of what others could and probably will do with it. If I could turn it off at will, and not let others into my thoughts, but then I could use it to virtually do things or learn something quicker and easier than reading it, I can dig that. Also after I am evicted from my meat suit I could travel the universe, exploring the cosmos, and have a virtual world I can manipulate at will, or experience several lives on my journey to the stars, if a copy of my consciousness was downloaded to a storage device.
However, that could be an excellent way to torture someone, put them in a hellscape, torment them constantly for fun, or utilize them for profit or amusement.
The risks far outweigh the benefits, because humans are inherently fucked up, capricious, vindictive, and spiteful far too often. imagine your ex wife getting control of your virtual world and what she could do with it. That is a nightmare worse than death to me. Let me go exploring the universe and making my own worlds to live in, and I am down with that after I kick my air addiction. Leave me here and make me run something for the amusement of others, and I'd prefer to just go into the long dirt nap.
My life has had more than enough hardship, terror, and violence at the hands of others. My reaction to it was to work at overcoming it all, and it made me into something unlike most men. If I had to deal with more of that shit, I think total deletion would be preferable.
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Heh... as if. I could have a wife and kids on my income that is well under $100k, I own my home and land that I b ought in 2013. I am 54 and the reason I live alone is simple, because I have two ex wives that took houses and money from me. They are not doing very well now, nowhere near as well off as I am, it was entirely their choice and fault, not mine. I live within my means, my first ex does not. I am a crippled Iraq vet, and you can look up exactly how much I live on if you like.
13 acres of land, a modest house that I built, 32x48x12 shop, and I drive 60s and 70s vintage muscle cars all summer that I build. GTOs mainly, I have 4 of them among others. I sacrificed heavily to get here, and people took from me all the way.
Now if I wanted to live in a large city, I would be living under a bridge or in a tent. Thats why I live out in the woods, with nature all around me, and when I step outside at night to take a leak and look up, I can see the ISS flying over, northern lights, billions of stars, and its absolutely beautiful.
Manage your money, find other income streams, put in the work and you can get somewhere in the USA. Sit on your rump and expect it all to be given to you, and you will end up like my ex wives. No sympathy from me.
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I wish my life would be about 70 years longer, and I could keep the function and health I have right now at 55... Why? Because I would really enjoy seeing all these entitled brats finding out how life works.... the hard way. I not only do my cooking, cleaning, laundry, I built the house I live in, the cars and trucks I drive, the computer I am using to write this, and I have done more in any single month of my adult life than that little entitled brat has done in her entire time here.
Why would I want to have one around if they won't help out around here by doing the little things? I provide literally EVERYTHING else, they can do just a little bit to show how much they appreciate what I do for them. the fact they can't grasp that this is how it works, shows just how poorly they've been educated, and the bad ideas they've been fed.
There is a reason I live alone in the woods, building cars and trucks. Its more enjoyable.
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I'm a man, I am not a girl, I sit how the fuck I sit, you sit how you sit, men and women are not the same. My existence is not disrespect to females, no matter how deluded and misandrist they are. Attack me for whatever reason, you should be prepared for my defense and quite possibly retaliation, male or female. If you want to be equal in this world, that is fine and dandy, but a man who attacks me is going to get more than a dirty look. If you want to join in and get a piece of this equality, you are most welcome, even if it is like embarrassing a 6 year old. Fact is, girls are protected by law, and society, they do this shit with impunity.
Orwell said it best, all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. Feminism is a dogmatic religion, just like islam or christianity. Same tactics, same goals of legislating everyone into obeying their ideology to benefit themselves, and none of it is based in reality. Its like Harry Potter mentions London, but its all fantasy. Thus if you outlaw feminism, you must also outlaw all other dogmatic ideologies, from marxism to judaism. Can't be one over another now can it? Because that is not equality.
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@Tamar-sz8ox the first ex was cute, but had a very high count, and I had no idea until after... her bipolar was a nightmare to live with, and she is over 300lbs now.
My second ex was a 21 year old virgin when I met her in 2003. Nine years later when we divorced because she thought she could do better at 30, she was within 10lbs of when we met. We never had a fight, we argued over esoteric and philosophical things. She was almost as intelligent as I am, which is rare in women.
Appearance? She was homely and dressed like a snowbarder most of the time. Her body was ok under the flannel, more than a full cup size difference, but she was a wild freak in private, and preferred to blend in and be unnoticed in public.
We got along great, she was faithful through a deployment, and even when I came back broken from the desert, with limited mobility. In 2012 I had a respiratory issue from helping her dad with some stuff, chemicals messed up my lungs.
She decided a guy 20 years younger than me, 7 years younger than her, who had never had a gf, could not keep a job because he is one of those entitled types who thinks he should be in charge on his first day, was her 'soulmate.' Not being able to breathe (temporarily) was all it took... even the unattractive ones are not faithful. He left her less than 4 years later, and she has been alone ever since. 20 years have not improved her appearance. Her opportunity was thrown away with me, in 2013.
I'm 54, have almost zero interest in females my age, because if she is my age and single, its because she made poor choices in life. A widow is different, unless she ended him.
I lost two houses, I own the one I live in now, and the 13 acres it sits on, with no debt. I have passive income, I can breathe, and I healed up during the six months I could not breathe and now I can walk without problems for a lot longer distance (haven't found the limit yet). I am NOT going to put anyone in a position where a judge can hand them the home I have built in the 11 years since my thin homely ex made a really poor choice in life.
We will allow women who are not perfect into our lives, if they earn it and aren't the size of a water buffalo. Don't nag us, don't start irrational arguments, don't demand we do everything for you. Its really simple.
Problem is nearly ALL of you fail at those simple things. When you do meet our low standards, you think you can do better and find out its diminishing returns. I've been with a couple hundred of you ladies, and have known thousands over the years, a rational, sensible, and calm woman is incredibly rare.
Enjoy the cats.
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ANY TIME they start out with "let me be clear" you can bet there is a specific idea pattern going on in their heads, and it is most definitely NOT family oriented.
She started out talking about 'these communities', who she means is the homies in the communitah. They started throwing ebony men out of families in the 60s, because it meant more money for the mom if there was no dad around. They called it section eight, mom gets housing and money, dad gets tossed out. Now they are blaming men for not being around, when they have been taught to not be around, and the moms will deride the dads to the kids.
Since the 1980s it has been pushed on the rest of us, but Asians and Latinos have resisted it far better, because to them family is everything. Cause the problem, blame someone else for the problem, keep people depending on the handouts so they keep you in an office you do not deserve. Want to know why men are using the immediate self checkout lane at a rate that is now 8x that of women? You only have to look into if he is dealing with the court system over his kids or assertions without evidence from the chick he is seeing. You will find your answer there.
Get rid of the incentives and safety nets that keep people impoverished through generations, and you will see the birth rate increase. You will also see poverty drop precipitously, but they don't want that for the homies. They don't want that for all of us either. They want subservient obedient beings from which they can profit.
That doesn't even begin to address the fact that most of the communitahs have the clinics where kids can be kicked out of their first room before they are ready to leave it on their own. What do you have in those parts of town? Long distance hole punch shops, a place to get a 40 or some MD 20/20, and room clearing services. That is the only thing that is zoned in those areas. Its designed to keep a certain demographic from thriving, its been going on for 60 years and its working flawlessly. Everything that comes from alone moms in the communitah is exactly what they want.
I am tired of the homies being used like that. I am tired of being eyed with suspicion and derision just because I have blue eyes and light colored hair.
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@pinesandtraplines its not so much that most people re religious, that is a result or a symptom if you will. Most people are followers, they want to be told what to think and do, they want to be absolved of their thoughts and actions, along with the consequences that come from them.
Its hard to be a leader, and its lonely. You are cutting the trail, making the decisions, and you bear the brunt of failures in your leadership. Most people do not want that, they want to go along with the herd, not direct the herd on where to go.
Then you get tyrants, who are poor and ineffective as leaders, weak, inept individuals who desperately want control, but lack the skills and discipline required for the job. They rule rather than lead, with violence and death as their go to tactic when coercion and demands fail.
The best leaders are the ones who take care of their people rather than try to control them, and usually are reticent to take the job, but end up there via merit and competence.
The congregation wants to know why it rains, or the mountain erupts, so they ask the old guy. The honest old gray haired dude says "fuck if I know, but here is what we do when it happens" and the wannabe religious leader says its the great juju in the mountain that makes it erupt, and it wants that girl who turned me down as a sacrifice.
Rather than discovering the why, they take the assertions of the 'old wisened guy' as the answer to their questions. Its also hard work discovering why things happen, its much easier to simply state "God did it, God wills it, and if its bad its because you sinned."
Why is there a difference in what people have, wealth inequality? Well the marxist says its because the wealthy people stole it from the poor people. The religious people say its because god favors/disfavors them as they have less sin, or more sin, depending on how much guilt you want your followers to have.
Someone like me says its because some people are smarter, work harder or longer than others, have better ideas, and sometimes people get lucky by being in the right place at the right time.
Some people do take advantage of others, which is obvious when you see TV evangelists demanding their 3rd Gulfstream, or marxists taking control and enslaving the people they claim to defend.. The people who buy into that WANT to be controlled, told what to think and will gladly give everything they have to support their dear leader.
I am not like those people.
How did Joe Rogan get to be the biggest podcast? Did he steal from ir take advantage of others? No, he called out comics who stole jokes. Did he sin a lot or not at all? No he doesn't seem to be doing that sort of thing. Does he push an ideology? Not really he gives his opinion rather than dictating what others should think.
Joe simply puts in the work and does his thing, and he happens to be good at it. He is comfortable with the attention, and he has found a way to use his attention to enrich himself and the lives of others, by talking, asking questions, and having interesting guests on. He talks to people who disagree with him and are completely full of shit, as well as his friends and people with whom he agrees.
Joe is curious, he wants to know why and to him, and people like him (in which I humbly include myself) do not accept the "god did it" answer. We are not followers.
I build old cars, usually from very rusty heaps of shit. Check my channel, you'll get the idea. I want to know what works and why it works. I don't simply replace parts, I want to know how and why those parts work, and what effect they will have on the rest of the vehicle. I test everything, and I have spent the last 15 years testing ethanol fuel, and I have found the consensus/narratives about it to be mostly erroneous.
I do not take the authoritative word for things, I want to know for myself. People tend to follow me, because they see I am on a mission, I am going somewhere, and they tag along to see where I go, what I do, and hopefully to either learn from it or laugh at my misadventures.
I tried to be a good leader in the US military, and people liked working with and for me, because of my leadership style. Listening to Jocko Wilink I hear him talking about the same things I was doing 20 to 30 years ago, long before I had ever heard of him through Rogan.
I had some very shitty supervisors in the military, capricious, vindictive, tyrannical, inept, incompetent, and they demanded respect. They got no respect, and I called out more than a few when they said to do illegal or unsafe things. I got moved around a lot because I did not blindly obey.
Then I had competent leaders who took care of us rather than throwing us under the bus to make themselves look good, who did not micromanage, scream and yell, or demand anything more than professionalism from us.
Most people want to follow. Very few are competent leaders, and some people you follow because they are doing things you can learn from. Most just want to be told what to do, so they don't have to think or decide for themselves.
Religions do that for them.
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@pinesandtraplines not close minded, more of an overall view. I'm a gearhead, I like to work on machines.. e.g. airplanes, trucks, cars, computers, guns, etc. I had to learn to see it as a whole, the various systems as they operate independently and together, and the minute differences between them all. No two cars are exactly a like, but the basics are the same for all of them.. Engine, wheels, tires, seats, etc.
I see ideologies in much the same way. You can get good stuff from them, but usually people have overstuffed them with a ton of crap that doesn't matter, but makes some people feel good.
Now you can tell me that sin causes transmissions to fail, or that magical fairies are why the stereo works and how the windows roll down, but I am not going to believe you... because I know how all of that works. Even if I don't know much about the car, like a SAAB or a new VW, doesn't mean I am going to believe a Bluetooth steering system is in any of them.
You might be prone to believing that, because someone told you thats how it works, and you can't be bothered to learn how it all works... since you probably have better or at least different shit to do, so you take their word for it. Then you might assume I am wrong because I know a DC current is applied to a motor and that is why the windows go up and down... to you its obvious a magical fairy lives in the door and needs special dust.
Most people need to have an authority above them, because they don't know much beyond what they do every day. They kinda follow along, doing what they're told, and just accept being a cog in the machine.
THERE IS NO PROBLEM WITH THAT... and it does not make them stupid, useless, or anything bad. It just means they do what they do, and are curious about other things, or not curious at all.
If everyone was curious nothing would get done. We need people who can do the mundane, the paper shuffling, screen staring, parts replacing, and moving bits of whatever around. Without most people doing tasks like that, including you and I, society would grind to a halt.
We have seen what happens when the authority is inept and ignorant, but has lofty ideas that do not coincide with reality. We call them communists and socialists, which I shorted to marxist and include all of them under that umbrella.
You can get some great info and advice from religions, they have been around for thousands of years and people tend to learn the consequences for certain actions in a human society. Learning from the mistakes of others is a good skill to have. Don't step there, because if you do your head will be removed...learning some things the hard way means you don't learn. Like every mushroom is edible, but some are only edible once. Info on mushrooms is great to have.
However, if you simply take the authority figure's word for it, and accept that 'god did it' you stop looking for the real reason it happened. My issue with ideologies is that people assert things as the cause that have zero bearing or more of a correlation than a causation. Then others are willing to kill because they believe privilege causes wealth inequality or some other nonsense.
Most people follow blindly because they are simply not curious about what is being asserted to them, or they are too lazy/busy to dive into it and find out for themselves. I have been both of those, particularly in my youth.
Leadership is a skill, you have to craft and hone it. It takes hard work, effort, discipline and dedication. Most people don't want to put in that effort, and that works for society. If it didn't work, we would not be here.
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I kinda know the Qjet. Considering I am the go to if you want one that runs on E85, I should know them. I pull the main well plugs out, tap the holes, stake and epoxy set screws into the holes. Also I redrill the needle seat inlet to .152" so it flows more fuel. I prefer the inlets with windows in the sides, but really any of them will work. You have to make a new seat with a check ball when you do that, but it works very well. I do that on gas and ethanol Qjets. The added heat for the float bowl helps atomization with the Qjet on E85, thats why I can get better mileage and power from them than the AFB and Holleys, but man can you make a Holley throw the power at WOT.... mileage goes out the window though.
My 455s will drain the bowl on Qjets or Holleys in first gear at WOT with a stock mechanical pump, or too small of an electric, plus it needs to be mounted lower than the tank and by the tank because they don't suck very well. Moving that column of fuel through the lines with a car that will cut a 1.6 60 ft will need a pump behind it. 7psi works pretty good and will keep the bowl full with the other mods I mentioned. Its not that the carbs can't handle it or the engine uses more fuel than it should its about overcoming the G force of the car leaving and pulling hard in each gear. 455s have a little bit of grunt to them... like 500ftlbs just above idle to 5000rpm is very easy to achieve.
That works for gas or ethanol, and my 65 GTO has a Qjet on it right now I have been getting tuned for E85. The pump is too small so it falls off in 2nd gear, but driving around its great. Its one of those really cheap fuel pumps with 1/4" inlet and outlets. Its not set up for drag just street driving, I have larger pumps if I am going to run it hard. Right now I am getting it to all work correctly. Each one is slightly different and it takes some time to get them right on E85. Much easier on gasoline, and you don't need a wideband O2 for gas, you can read the plugs if its not burning your eyes.
The later carbs like you have in the video have the APT system in them, that allows you to adjust part throttle and idle air externally. Its handy. Things I do to all of them are throttle shaft bushings, pulling the emulsion tubes from the main body to clean them, sometimes open the restriction on the bottom, and if I can get a smaller float for it I will run it so it takes up less space in the bowl. The brass and plastic floats work fine with ethanol, and I haven;t found any modern parts that are not compatible. Really old accel pump cups don't last long, but all the new ones made in the last 30 years work fine.
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@Destyvirago They have the same root ideology, its like catholics and protestants. Same thing but they see it different enough that they want to kill each other. The root is marxism, Givanni Gentile read Marx and based his shit off the idiocy that Karl wrote.
That is the reason the nazis called themselves the national socialist workers party. Socialism is marxist, so is feminism, communism, progressivism, post modernism.. the stupidity of Marx is the root of all of them. Doesn't matter if its democratic, national, or whatever else they want to put ahead of it, the turd is still marxist.
When you step outside ideology entirely, you start to notice the similarities among ALL of them... particularly the authoritarian ones. Taoism is simply 'fuck it who cares' whereas islam is 'fuck everyone who doesn't think like we do' and marxism is 'being a victim is amazing and you are oppressed somehow so you re entitled to what others have earned' but they all tell you what to think and how to live according to their ideas on life.
You can take the good ideas from them, and leave the shit ones, and not follow any ideology.
Marx did notice some of the things that were wrong with capitalism, but his solutions ranged from idiotic to abhorrent, and none of it has a good result when implemented. Its feminine short term thinking, its why it always fails.
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50/50 even? IT CANNOT HAPPEN. The human race will go extinct. Making men more like women makes them unattractive and undesirable. Making women like men also makes them unattractive and undesirable. We are different for a reason, men and women fit together like gears in a machine. The highs fit into the lows. If we are equal its like having two smooth wheels rather than gears, its very inefficient that way.
Females cannot lift what men can lift, they do not have the spatial skills and abilities inherent in men, they do not have the aggressiveness and problem solving inherent in men. That means they cannot do the vast majority of work men do.
I worked in a factory back in the 90s. From time to time they would complain about my overtime. When they did I would take a vacation day on Friday and on Monday, when I normally worked Saturday and often Sunday. The backlog of parts when I came in to work on Tuesday would me IMMENSE, visually displaying just how productive I am. It would be six months to a year before they complained about my OT again. Pay me a bit more, or pay five people to do the same amount of work... your choice. I quit that job in 1998, and in 2000 they packed up the entire plant and shipped it to Mexico.
My leaving cost them over $400k a month in production, and they were paying me $11.50 an hour. They didn't try to retain their most productive people for some reason.
Now, that is how we rectify this issue. We withdraw, take a vacation, we do not play the game they have rigged against us. Its a vacation, not a walk out. Make it hurt, make them beg you to return and do the work. Work for yourself, build your life and yourself, build muscle, build wealth, and increase your knowledge. The more you know and can do, the more valuable you are. If you are not valuable and you check out, it means nothing. the guy who did my job on 3rd shift did so little and was so inept at it, that nobody noticed when he took his two weeks of vacation or simply didn't show up. His effect was minimal. They sure as hell noticed when I was not there, and I made the job look easy.
Around 17 minutes LoM talks about the guys who say they checked out when they never were in the game. He is right. If your feed is all this content, and you aren't doing anything to improve your life, then you are doing what the people pushing the wok eness on us want you to do. i.e. Stop existing.
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@Interstellar Traveler I put up with it, endured it, and tried not to think about it while I was in the military. I was almost always just outside a major city. The closest to middle of nowhere was a couple air bases in Kuwait I went to.. not my idea of getting close to nature.
Just driving through a city makes me loathe it now. The worst place I ever went to was Paris France, Kuwait City was cleaner and smelled far better than the city of light. I don't blame Parisians for being rude and unhelpful, they have to put up with tourists all the time, but damn they take it to another level.
On the bus ride to Paris away from the cities France is an idyllic place, the small towns are quaint and the people are happy to see you.
Frankfurt Germany was very different from any other city I had been to. It was still a city, but the people there were not like in NYC, Paris, or any other major city. Germans love nature, they work hard to get a small garden plot where they can go relax by growing stuff in the summer. They try to stay connected to nature, not distance themselves from it, so its a different mindset.. or at least it was 30 years ago when I was stationed there. Oh and the beer...yes cant forget that.
I got to know Koreans quite well, and I adore those people same as Arabs and Germans, absolutely wonderful friends. I am still awed by the number of people I saw in the mall in Seoul. Too many for me, but once you get their culture, they are great people. I liked getting out away from the towns in Korea, but I couldn't do it much. Its a beautiful place but has no wilderness like where I currently live.
My base in Charleston SC had a forest on base, it was enjoyable going out there and relaxing when there were no bugs. It made the base feel less sanitized, less urban, despite being in the middle of a city. Five years was enough of that though, I might never go back there unless I have to.
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@joshuakhaos4451 if you can do all the work like I can, and don't need to take them to shops to get things done, you can rebuild an old car for WAY less than a new one. I built my 68 LeMans into a street strip ride for dirt cheap, other than the engine that is boost ready and can easily handle 2000hp, the rest of it is around $4500. (9" rear, cage, suspension parts, EFI fuel system, wheels and tires) If I wanted to paint it, add another $1200 or so for materials. The 65 GTO cost me $15k to take from a severely rusted rolling shell to a daily driver with decent paint and a 550hp 455 with EFI. The TKO600 I have for it will bump up the cost a bit, but it will still be well under $20k.
For the cost of a new 1500 GMC with no options, just a 5.3 and a manual transmission, I can build probably four muscle cars. I looked into a truck like that last year, and I 'noped' right out of the dealership. I am not paying $60k for a standard cab 2wd with nothing in it.
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@timothyarnott3584 I like KRE too, and I am probably going to hit up Jeff about a set of D ports for the 467 short block I have here, the round port E heads need a huge intake port, which is they they got the Wenzler Gutsram, had a victor on them before. It never ran quite right, made a ton of power but the Victor and 1050 were always a problem.
I spent a few hours talking to Jim back in 2005, he was a Nam vet and I ordered the 467 from them while I was deployed to Kuwait in 2004. He still remembers me, and he is gettin real old now. Have had some issues with certain people who work there, but David treats me right.
I called Flooper once around 1995, and that was enough to know to never trust the guy. He blocked me on PY and Facebook, which I found hilarious.
Nunzi got a couple calls in the mid 90s too, he is like the ultimate guru for Pontiac. Couldn't afford to get much from him back then.
I've been into Pontiac for a long time, even before I bought my first one in 1985. The only other engine I would consider for high performance use is the 351C, those little Fords impressed the hell out of me, which is why I still have four of them from the 80s and 90s sitting around. They are all 4V, but I have one set of 2V heads on one of them.
You can do so freakin much with factory Pontiac parts, its kinda crazy how fast they will go without much effort, and just with D ports. If you do the same things you do to chevy, Ford, and Mopar, you will go slower though. That is especially true for gears and stall converters. Its incredibly easy to make a Pontiac run slow, and so simple to make them sleeper fast. The best part is I can tell people my 455s and stroked 400s are really 350s or 301s, only Pontiac guys will know and they gotta go looking around a bit to tell.
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Social backlash? Well first thing I am not exactly part of the guarding wallets group even though we share a lot of ways of living. I am 53, divorced twice, indentured from 2001 to 2015 to the first one after enduring 8 years with her. Its amusing when I tell girls I don't date, will never get married again, and they cannot live with me under any circumstances. They can't handle rejection, even from an old guy. However, they don't berate or scream at me, nothing like that. They just have this very hurt expression, then they walk away.
I have quite a few vintage muscle cars, GTOs, Trans Ams, a Cuda, and others. I build ratty looking but scary fast street strip cars like my 1968 LeMans and 1979 Formula, the Cuda and 65 GTO are shiny with nice paint. So to these girls who see my cars and old trucks, they assume I am wealthy. If I want to rub it in I tell them I am debt free and own 13 acres of woodland where my shop and house are.
They can visit, have spicy fun, but they have to go home and they will get zero financial benefit from me. I lost two houses and shops to both divorces, why would I do it again? Why would I even risk it again? Sometimes I get the who hurt you thing.. I laugh at that. Who left me living in my car while I was active duty US military during a freakin war... my home state and my first ex. They didn't really 'hurt' me, but the experience of that and the second one made enough of an impression that I prefer to live alone and build hotrods rather than waste time and resources on females.
People accept it when I state that I am not looking an uninterested. Looking like a fat guy helps, but I am not really that fat, despite being huge.
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Were you a 605 or were you attached to the MAPS unit? I was a 605/2T2, at 435th and 437th APS, did TALCE, AMOG, and MAPS too... wait a minute, were you in basic and tech school at Sheppard in October 88 to February 89? Then did you get orders to Panama? I remember that name thinking back now. I've run into a few people from Rhein Main here on Youtube, only about four or five other cargo guys. Would be cool if we knew each other.
At Rhein Main I worked every C141 and C5 in the USAF inventory during Desert Shield/Storm. There was a news blackout about Rhein Main and Ramstein got all the press, but their entire APS unit came TDY to RMAB for the war, and rentals backfilled at Ramstein. One day I saw a Stars and Stripes headline that said "Ramstein looked like a C5 parking lot with 6 of them on the ground." I counted almost 30 C5s and nearly 40 C141 tails on the ramp, waiting to block out, or waiting to block in that night when I got to work at Rhein Main.
The only time my base was ever mentioned while it was open, was when a kid took over a Russian plane and tried to get asylum at my base. I was working that night, the SP's had lots of fun, they brought out the M60s and everything else they had, and told the crew to taxi to the Flughaffen.
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Yep.. blame guys for not being able to woo some female, and completely disregard how females are told they are amazing, given every leg up possible at the expense of men, whilst all incentives for men to even interact with females have been removed.
Man I tell ya what, I am THRILLED I am 54 years old, retired since 35, got more tail than a grand central commode, was 30 before the internet really got anywhere, and I have kids in their late 20s... except my daughters will probably never have kids, because of the lies they have been fed by society. Would have turned out better for them had I not been punished for being a good dad, and their mother given full custody for being a really bad mom. Duluth model screws over kids.
Oh well, there are a few million religious nuts who are having dozens of kids.
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@ComicGladiator if they could get their forces across Siberia before it was over... and then get across the water to invade. They'd need us to do both of those things. the hilarious thing is they would STILL need us to do those things today.
My military job was logistics, I loaded cargo planes and built pallets to put on planes. I loaded several Russian planes, IL76, AN124, and the AN225 that is no longer with us. They take several hours longer to load than our planes, and carry about the same payload.
No other country in the world can move stuff around the planet like we can. They could not believe what we did during the Berlin Airlift, it was unimaginable to them that we could supply a city entirely by air. We moved the entire Berlin Airlift tonnage in about 6 weeks in 1990, and about a month in 2003.
Traversing the entirety of Russia, even with the railroad, would be a nightmare of logistics. It would take years to move divisions to the east coast.
So if Japan were near Crimea, then sure, they would have been a factor. If you can't get tot he fight, you're not in the fight. If you can't sustain your troops, you're not in the fight.
I was writing on my tablet earlier, and my fingers are a bit too large, and without my reading glasses its hard to make sure its not autocorrecting things on me.
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@lastswordfighter you confuse atheists with marxists. Its ok, most marxists do as well. Threats of hell fire do not have an effect when you realize just how ludicrous the idea of an all powerful creator who has no idea how orbital mechanics work, or that the earth is not flat.
It sounds exactly the same to me as the marxists saying I have privilege, and I am a srupremeacist (gotta misspell it to get around censors) because merit matters as does hard work and self determination.
I know your religion, I was raised in it, sent to a parochial school for 6 years where we read the bible 4 times, cover to cover between 3rd and 6th grade.. save for song of solomon because they considered it too graphic. Not the revised version made to make it seem like christians were against slavery and didn't ignore a spherical earth that we have now. Nah the bible we read was printed in 1972 so it had all the abhorrent, reprehensible and illogical stuff still in it that apologists have removed or downplayed.
I have an exceptional memory even if I have to look up the chapter/verse number, because I had much more useful information with which to fill those synapses... you know, like how science works and math... since we read the bible in lieu of doing math and science. Then the tiny bit of science they did teach us was so very wrong...
I also know islam, thanks to getting engaged to a beautiful Arab girl 32 years ago. A pentecostal asshole from Florida is why I did not marry her. Fucking evangelicals, they are worse than the taliban.
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Its amusing. The things that worked in 1917 Russia, 1930s Deutschland, Cuba, West Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and other places, is not working here in the US. When we don't bow and cower to them, and instead we walk away from the rigged game, they don't know what to do. So what do they do? The only thing they know how to do, keep doing the things they are doing which aren't effective, but do it harder.
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@winry2357 yeah, inspection, light work, things like that. Women do that all the time. Also HR, and other office jobs. You're not the one changing valves for the boilers, now are ya?
My ex is the township VFD fire chief, because she can't pull anyone else because she is 130lbs, can't do the physical part of it well enough that anyone would trust her, and nobody else wanted to do the job.
Ten years ago when we got divorced because she stepped out while I was laid up with a respiratory issue, she brought her boyfriend/soulmate on the department. The other 12 members quit at the township meeting where she added him, because they all knew him and loathed him. Then he left her less than 4 years later.
Would you like to hear how 99% of the vehicle mishaps and safety write ups I had to do in the USAF as the safety NCO for my duty section were because of females? You kinda need to have a decent ASVAB score to get in the USAF... although they lowered the requirement for my job when they combined it with the female dominated job that worked along side us.
The females did passenger service, the rest of us did air cargo. They used to have us handle all the baggage for them before the two jobs combined. When we deployed, the women sat in the AC of the passenger terminal while the rest of us threw a few hundred 90lb bags out of the belly of the 747s and L1011s bringing people in, and then loaded the bags for the people going home.
When females screwed up twice, they were put in a position where they couldn't hurt anything. When a male screwed up twice he was kicked out.
I had one female who could operate equipment competently. She was a pudgy red head who grew up on a farm in Wisconsin. She was the only female I trusted to handle things on her own, and she never let me down. The rest of them were in the way, causing problems, and making unfounded assertions against people.
The attitudes they had were reprehensible, but I couldn't do anything about it or they claimed I did something untoward of a lascivious nature, their alternate was to say I was being mean to them. I treated them exactly the same as I treated the males, but they wanted to be special. Then I was forced to give them the best performance reports regardless of what they did, and my best males and I did not get the best, we got one step down.
Favoritism is alive and well in the US military, as is special treatment for females... its even worse in the civilian world.
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I have a 65 Tri Power intake I want to put on my 65 GTO, the center carb base on the Tri Power manifolds, except for 66, are smaller than the ends, so they require that base plate for the carb. All the other Rochester 2 barrels have the same pattern as the ends. Makes it so much fun. Since I will be using regular 2v carbs I have had for years on the ends, its going to be mechanical secondary. No worries, my 455s don't bog unless the air valve on a Qjet has no tension, setting the idle/float level is the hard part due to very high vacuum. Its in the works for this winter, if I can get the center base. So we might be doing them at the same time. Not much carries over between the Holley and the Rochester, other than they are carbs, but it will be fun to watch you build the Ramcharger.
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Tim, you keep saying these racists who don't give a damn about the poor and homeless aren't far left. That is exactly what they are. Marx and the post modernists especially, did not like the poor, they hated the rich. They wanted all the benefits of being rich, but without the effort required to earn it. So how does one manage to get resources and wealth without earning it? Read some Marx and he lays it out for you.
The elites running the show want to gain more wealth and power, so they pander to the poor, and give them just enough to keep them from going anywhere in life, but not so much that they can get out from under it. Its a state wide payday loan scheme, in a way. If you work or have a husband, you don't get the free money, so don't work, kick the father out, and you get free money. Its an incentive to not work and be a leech.
That is far left. The government takes care of you, giving you what it thinks you deserve, not what you have earned. Stop clinging to the idea that you're more socialist, you might like the idea of charity and helping the poor, because you actually care about people, but you aren't like them. You and I have lived the hard way, I too was homeless for two years on active duty (thanks child support that was 71% of my gross) and again from 2013-2015 and right now I live in a shipping container house I threw together... because of a divorce. I'm a white guy, and you are Asian and white, so we don't qualify for the free stuff from the identity politics types.
Being a veteran I qualify for empty platitudes and useless gestures, so I have that going for me, which is nice. Face it man, the far left doesn't care like we do. They want control, power, wealth, and they use the poor to get it by shaming everyone else, then justifying taxing the shit out of them by claiming its for the needy. Where does the money go? Yeah, not to the needy, not to fixing problems, it lines the pockets of the people running things... the leftists.
You and Stefan get along, take the time and watch his video about marx. Its an eye opener that will explain why SF has poo in the streets and suddenly nobody can figure out why that is.
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@Wayward2023 working on cars between my enlistments, I found mechanics with various levels from parts replacer, to guys who can diagnose problems, and then the guys who can rebuild or repair anything and solve nearly any problem.
Not many of us left who can build carburetors and tune EFI, even fewer who can do everything, body, paint, suspension, brakes, engines, transmissions, electrical... most are one or two trick ponies. Its just how it is, those things take decades to learn and reach proficiency.
Lots of electronics in the old cars too, well 1972 and up there are.
So much cool stuff came out of the space program, its messed up that they just don't have the drive to do anything with it now. They'd rather squabble about the scraps here, not realizing that solving the problems we need to live up there will provide solutions to issues we have down here.
Too many nearsighted people, who want instant gratification, and are too timid to take a risk and go explore. The problem is, they are making policy and running things.
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@Comakino LPG is stored as a liquid, it has a relatively low pressure at which it becomes a liquid. Hydrogen and methane/CNG have a higher pressure to be liquid, which is part of why the range with both of those is reduced from LPG, ethanol, and gasoline. The consequence is you need much larger tanks for hydrogen and methane, which is why they work for buses and trucks that run locally, but not for over the road vehicles. The range of LPG is similar to gasoline and ethanol, but still it required specialized equipment to run it.
No need to start an engine on gasoline then switch to one of the other fuels I mentioned here, unless the ambient temps are 20F or lower with ethanol. In which case a system similar to a nitrous oxide system can be used to inject methane or hydrogen on cold starts along with ethanol.
It is incredibly easy to produce methane/natural gas. You can make a lot of it without much effort or energy input, but it doesn't have much range. Hydrogen takes a lot of energy to break it apart from oxygen in water, which is why gov and companies are pushing for it, the supply is more limited and harder to produce and the pressure required to liquify it is over 20,000psi. The average Joe can't build that sort of thing easily, it requires special equipment. They don't want us to make things ourselves which they cannot tax or profit from.
The parameters for fuels we use for transportation vary rather wildly, meaning there is a lot more to these fuels than simple things like how well they heat water, aka BTU. Gasoline has the lowest compression ratio capability of all of them I mentioned in this comment. All the others will handle far higher compression ratios, and with compression you get better efficiency.
Other than the ability to heat lots of water, gasoline is the worst fuel we have, so if you build engines capable of running on gasoline you are going to be shorting the mileage right from the start on everything else. You are also losing a large amount of power by handicapping an engine so it will run on gasoline.
It depends on the properties of a gaseous fuel as to if its useful for various applications or not.
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It might work where you're at, but the 2018s here in the upper peninsula have had rusted body parts and brake lines for some time now. The salt is put heavily on the roads, and your dark vehicle will turn gray in ten miles or so. I buy $500 vehicles with decent frame/unibody, repair them enough to drive daily, then sacrifice them to the NaCl gods. If you care about your vehicle, you don't drive it once the salt trucks come out, and it stays parked until the second spring rain with no more snow washes the salt from the roads.
So maybe I will try the stuff on a winter beater, and see if it slows the rot or not. I'm betting it will look like the 2018 in a year or two. I have a couple 4x4 Silverados I am rebuilding right now, sandblasting the frames, rebuilding the suspensions, painting everything under them... just for use as a winter beater. Might be a quality harsh acid test of the stuff. If it works here, it will work anywhere. Check out my 'show quality' vehicles if you want to see epic rust.
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The truth is, feminists hate men and everything about us, feminism is cancer. It is based in marxism, where the biggest victim 'wins' and everyone is forced to mediocrity thanks to envy and resentment. Its cancer.
I have purpose, I do not need to be given anything because I will make, take, or earn what I need. I am not a weak little girl who needs a safe space or something given to me because I can't earn, make, or take it. If you need a safe space for your emotions, you are fucking weak. I make my world safe by being the biggest most capable ape in my world. Girls can't, and feminists wish they were born with a penis, particularly the male ones.
I open doors for anyone, I do not care if you are ugly, hot, old, young male, female, or deranged man hating feminist. Its a polite thing to do. If you take issue with it, you are either rude, or a fucking moron, and with feminists I tend to assume the latter.
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I've built a lot of engines, installed a lot of cams. Sometimes you get one that goes flat on ya. You can do everything right, and shit happens, it eats a lifter and lobe. I've soaked them, put them in dry but lubed, molyB, comp/crane/lunati break in, and even went a bit light on the break in time with one (that cam is now 27 years old and runs great). I've had all the big names and the no names flatten a lobe since the 1980s. The problem for me is a roller costs $1000 more than the flat cams. I have two rollers, one solid one hydraulic out of 20 vintage engines in my yard. Then I have an LS sitting here with a lifter mushroomed so I can't get it out except by dropping it through the bottom.. it ate that poor thing, and now the metal is all through the 6.0. Roller cams can go bad too. Its something you have to deal with and expect it can happen when you play with engines.
If people do not realize that mechanical things can fail even when brand new right out of the box, well then they are ignorant of machines. Its a lot better in some ways than it was 50 years ago, but in other ways its a lot worse too. Bad metallurgy, crap remans on alternators/starters/etc, so many things can go wrong. Its part of doing this kind of thing. If it happens to you every time, chances are you are doing it wrong. Once in a while, is to be expected. If you're 100% successful, then you aren't doing very much.
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@BoffinGrusky I've been overseas, starting in 1989 and the last time I was out of the country was 2004. Been around a bit. I can tell you how they are in Europe, both ends of Asia, mid east, Africa, and all over the US. Thailand, Laos, and the Philippines are your best bet. West Africa is second best, but they are willing to do about anything to get out of there, which means you can't trust them as much. Thing is you do not want to bring her back here.
I was engaged to an Arab woman in 1990-92, she ended up married to a German, got divorced after 20 years, and she came to visit me back in August. The 20 years she spent in Germany changed her, she was no longer the pleasant, enjoyable to be around feminine woman I knew. She spent the first two days nagging and berating me like I was her henpecked ex. We were friends for 30 years, and in one morning she managed to throw all of that away.
The west is the problem, because it has been infiltrated and subverted. That has made our women undesirable because of their attitudes and profound lack of loyalty.
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Yeah, it looks like the marxists are trying to subvert you guys. I am not conservative, but not a racist marxist democrat either. I am firmly in the middle, and though I am no longer religious I loathe when I am associated with those assholes on the left. They have a religion, the state is their god, politicians are their priest class, and speaking against marxism is blasphemy to them. Its rare I go a day without ridiculing or speaking ill of marxism, its an abhorrent ideology, and they try to sneak it into everything without you noticing.
Yet I try to live well, rarely drinking because its a waste of money and makes me fat. I have very few vices, I would rather be building something than watching TV or going out wasting money with groups of people. I like to think of it as being adult, taking care of business, not doing stupid shit, and having something to show for the effort I put in.
They want you to stop living well, but they want you to keep your ideology, because they can use it against you. Stalin used religion against the people of the Soviet Union, not trying to dissuade them from it, nor by persecuting them for having it, but by merely supplanting their god with the state. Thats the reason for what they are doing to you and your kids. They want to control all of us, and if they can use an ideology you are already controlled by, well they only need to control the ideology and they have you. Ready made submissive servants to them.
You are embroiled in an ideological war, and many of you are playing into their hand, and going ever more literal and devout is exactly what they want you to do. They love zealots, they want their followers to be that dedicated to the ideology and train their kids to be the same. All they have to do is get control of your religion, and they have been working on that for decades now.
Learn about marxism, what it is, how to spot it, why it never works. That is the only defense you have against it now. When you know what it is and what it looks like, you can then call it out for what it is. The only way you get to keep your religion is by joining people like me who hate marxism and fight against it.
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Tim, you believe in measured response, I can dig that idea. It works when you have a rational enemy that is willing to negotiate, but needs a little motivation. However, these fascist antifa types are not rational, if they were, they'd see they are the totalitarian fascists in this. They have been starting shit without consequences for three years now, that has emboldened them and they think everyone is afraid because they are so badass (in their own minds). No, everyone has been ignoring the spoiled well off wimpy kids because they are not a challenge one on one, its like beating up a 9 year old girl.
The way you deal with idiots such as these is you have to hurt them. You have to show them they are as wimpy as they actually are, because they think they can now bully all of us. You can only take so much from bullshit them, then you hurt them. With men it can always escalate to violence, if you keep pushing it and instigating, eventually someone will end up checking out of their meat suit. We are cavemen with iPads, this is how it still works with humans.
Did we use a measured response against, Iraq, Panama, Germany or Japan? no, not at all. Did we against Afghanistan, Vietnam and North Korea? Yeah, and look how those turned out. We were attacked 9 times while Clinton was in office, and he did nothing, which emboldened those who attacked us. Then we got 9/11 and Dubya went stupid invading everyone with poppy fields and oil, Obama created isis through his limp wristed ineptitude, what are they up to these days? A measured response with an ideologically driven enemy is useless. Marxism is what antifa is all about, and that kind of stupid needs an ass kicking once in a while.
No you can't let these halfwitted kids think they are tough and let them act without repercussions. Since the police let them do their thing wearing black, nobody is arrested for riots, its tolerated by the cities in which it happens, they think they have the government behind them, but they are so stupid they think the police are horrible.
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@topclips1872 people like you, who live in cities, are a vanishingly small minority. :) Besides, you would not be on their side of this.
Look at the people around you in the city, what do they know how to do? Do they know where to get food, how to repair their shelter, or build one if need be? Can they even repair a vehicle? Some can, to be sure. Most gearheads like me live in cities and towns.
The thing I learned in the military and doing the drag racing thing, is that most people are not into difficult activities, like hiking or building fast cars. Most people see a car as point A to B transportation, an appliance, and they only know how to put in gas, push the skinny pedal on the right, and try not to bump into things. I owned and operated a repair shop in the 1990s, most people have no freaking clue about most everything, not just cars.
You are apparently into living the hard way, as am I, we thrive in that environment. We enjoy the difficulty, because we understand the rewards that come from living that way.
I tend to overestimate opponents, rather than underestimate them. That played a big part in where I decided to live when I got out of the military. I chose this spot of land because it offers rather good concealment, plenty of space, and resources. Most people never even know is here, and I still drive by my driveway in winter, after living here 8 years. It just blends in to the forest and you don't notice it.
I can limit ingress and egress easily, I have cleared areas that make approaching undetected very difficult. I am set up like a FOB, just so I can rebuild old cars and relax. I have incorporated some of The Art of War already, there is only one way out for most people, good luck getting out with anything of value.... like your life.
I lived in cities while I was in the military, and most people who live there are clueless. Sometimes you meet one like you, who knows more than most, and likes to go out and survive.
Far more of them are soft, unprepared, and untrained. They don't know how to clean an animal, or what to do with it after its field dressed. They have no idea what is edible that grows around them.
If you think they will be walking the 20 miles to where I am to take my stuff, you are overestimating them. Besides they have to get past all the people who live between them and me, you think we won't cut them off long before they get here? We won't know they are coming?
We have several other combat vets nearby, we are what is called a force multiplier. We can train others to be very effective. Chances are the vets who live in town will not be coming out here to raid, they will be coming out here to trade, because they know what happens when you raid a hardened position.
You have to be quite stupid to go out and take from the people who can produce what you need, its even less intelligent to kill them. Who is going to produce it when they are gone? That being said, stockpiles are you collecting everything for the people who show up with more people and ammo. What do you do when everything runs out?
What do you do when the mountain goats have all been eaten and you have to travel five times as far to find more goats?
City people have short term thinking. What do I need today? I will just go to the store and get it. Its a 20 mile drive for me to get something from a store. I have to plan ahead, and when the highway can be closed for days at a time, its good to have plenty on hand. When the power goes off randomly, seven times in June this year, twice this month, what do you do?
Soft easy lives make soft people. You are not one of them, but your neighbors are.
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@cainabel6356 I'm a two war veteran, not a 'combat' job, but I still have training and experience. Most people think its like playing Call of Duty, run around spraying and praying. Its not.
As for tactics, that is amusing that you think you know. To help with my PTSD< giving my hypervigilance an outlet, I play an online game that is a WWII sim. Its squad based, tactical and strategic, and you need good communication to 'win' at it. If you play it like CoD you will die a lot and achieve nothing.
Most people play it like CoD, frontal assaults, stand back and keep shooting, no concept of how to attack or defend. I have an advantage, because I was trained, have done it in real life, both training and a less than friendly two way rifle range.
I can tell who else is a war veteran playing that, and who isn't. Everything we do in that game correlates to how it works IRL. Its kinda cool, though nowhere near as comprehensive as RL. Its a game, there are no respawns in the real.
You think you can read a book and know what to do? You think playing a video game will get you up to speed? Heh.. I dominate in that game because I am trained and experienced, I know what to do without thinking about it, and I can tell what is going on with minimal intel.
You come up against someone who has been there done that, someone not like me who had an actual kicking in doors, fire and maneuver job, they are gonna take you out. I got extra training in certain areas, and you would probably have a bad time against a group I was leading. Most of the men like that are not on the left though.. just sayin.
Some are, some just want to go back to fighting because it feels comfortable after you have done it enough. You never know until its all over.
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Swampy I grew up lutheran, sent to a parochial school for 6 years, we read the bible cover to cover four times, skipping song of solomon because its kinda soft core porn. I was the kid who asked the questions that got answers like "Because I said so" along with logical fallacies, and circular logic. Brawndo, its what plants crave.
I know your religion very well. I know what it says beyond the nice happy thoughts and love everyone narrative pushed to keep you in it. We did not discard the OT for the NT, besides the NT has plenty of jacked up stuff in it. Paul seems to have been more of a mole who wanted to cause rifts and problems in the ideology. I find that amusing now and I noticed it in 4th grade while reading the bible instead of doing math or science.
You can claim its about love and acceptance, but that is the same narrative of love and acceptance that is used to justify islam. As long as you're part of the in group and follow all the arbitrary rules along with the ones that have a purpose, you are loved and accepted. Step outside the in group with its rules, and the love stops.
When christianity is the law of the land, taking the book as the literal inerrant word of god, we get the same atrocities happening with the muslims. All one need do is look at history. Witch trials, burnings, hangings, all manner of torture, genocide and death because god wills it.
There is an upside, and a downside like the schwartz. Yes, second movie reference. It is an ideology not based in reality, with answers to questions made up on the spot as to why it rains, why we have earthquakes, and other natural disasters, and talking animals.
If you remove the fanciful and ignorantly incorrect shit, there are some good life lessons in there. My favorites are psalms 25:24 and 21:9. Jordan Peterson delves into that rather well, but he tends to ignore the downsides. Taking it literally and following it exactly rather than as an allegory or parable, well that just proves the reader lacks reading comprehension and awareness of the universe around him.
The penalty for most things is death, including trying to fly. So if you traveled by air, you should be stoned at the gate to the city.
Marxists do the same thing, they play up the positives while ignoring the abhorrent negatives. I am atheist, but I am sure as fuck not amenable in any way to marxism, socialism, feminism, communism, etc. That is where you and I will probably agree, and of late I find myself in agreement with you god nutters far more, but only so far.
I draw the line at an ideology telling me more beyond the simple, don't kill unless they're trying to kill you, don't steal, etc. So really, only two commandments fit our current laws, with bearing false witness only applying in court under oath. Pretty much every society has come up with don't kill and steal from your own tribe.
The rest of it is chuffa... another movie reference.
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@goner9696 Yes, I do think for myself. I might like the idea someone else has, but I evaluate it before deciding to run with it. I grew up going to a parochial school until 6th grade. I had the religion and bible drilled into me, we read it four times at the expense of learning science and math. I tried to believe it because I was told that is 'truth' but it never set well with me. I saw the circular logic as early as 4th grade, though with the limited education I had no idea what a logical fallacy was despite spotting them everywhere.
People try to tell me what is true all the time, if it matters to me directly I find out what is real and factual. That is how I got into running 60s era muscle cars on home made vodka. Its also now I tested and proved that ethanol does not harm vehicles in any way, its simply vodka. There is a wealth of misinformation about ethanol fuel out there, so in 2006 I decided to find out and started testing in 2007. Now I am one of the experts in certain aspects of ethanol fuels... particularly with vintage vehicles.
I make up my mind as to what is acceptable, honorable, and a good way to treat people. I have modified what I was told in children of the corn jesus school and thrown out the bullshit, keeping only what is useful. I do that with everything, separate the chaff from the grain, and my super power is streamlining mechanical processes. In other words, I do not think as most people think.
Everything is evaluated, everything is tested if it matters, and if it cannot be achieved with sound logic and reason sans the ideological lens foisted upon all of us by religion and political bullshit, I do not accept it.
I am this way because of the conflict with my nature and my nurture. I was severely abused for years, I learned not to blindly trust people from an early age, so I can spot lies and weasel words easily. My entire world is based on merit, and I can tell what kind of character a person has within minutes of meeting them. My bullshit detector is exceptionally sensitive and has been for 40 of my 50 years. There is no need for validation from others, but it is still kinda nice sometimes. However praise sets off my bullshit detector.
Having had a very shitty life from an early age, I can empathize with people despite having no empathy for them. Rather, I put myself in their position, but really do not give a fuck what happens to them. Yes... sociopath. However, my nature is not evil, I do not wish harm on others unless there is a reason, and they have always earned it when they received harm from me.
How I grew up made me this way, not a follower, not prone to accepting ideology, but I will pick it apart like an old car and take bits I like if it has any that are useful.
Most ideologies are not muscle cars or exotic sports cars, they are generic crap boxes with limited vision, an appliance for the mediocre timid followers who never think critically about themselves or the universe we live in. At most they might have a cool trim piece or a very specific solution to one issue and the rest is nothing more than scrap to me.
I enjoyed learning about other cultures and languages while I was in the military. Even there I rifled through their language and culture for various bits I could use that I did not have already. A good idea is a good idea, but turning a single good idea into an all encompassing ideology with tenets, precepts, and arbitrary rules to contain the blind followers, well.. fuck that.
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@Ronald Quincy Where did I say everyone is blind faithin it? Willful ignorance is mostly for the zealots, simply not thinking critically about what you have been told since you were very young is more of the default position.
Also faith is the preservation of belief despite evidence and with a lack of evidence. Risk assessment is not faith, like travelling on an airplane or into space. Faith is believing you will not crash even if every model of that plane has crashed before. If it doesn't crash then the religious ascribe that to divine intervention, whereas the rational mind ascribes it to the plane did not crash like the others so the conditions that cause the crashes were not met for that flight.
Is the marxist correct in believing socialism works if you do it hard enough? His confirmation bias will tell him it does despite all evidence to the contrary. Same as a young earth creationist will deny the earth is 4.5 billion years old because his book claims 6k-10k years.
My thing isn't with religious people, and you can believe the moon is made of tapioca pudding if you want. My issue with ideology is when it is pressed upon everyone else, because in every ideology there is demonstrably incorrect shit. You wanna believe it, go ahead, don't force me to live by your rules.
I have a VERY big issue with ideologies that intend to bring the entire world under their control, such as marxism and islam. So admittedly, you christian types are not as much of a problem, and as long as you remain that way we are good friends who agree on many things. Start rewriting history like Barton, pushing ideology into our laws like Perry, Santorum, and Sessions, and then we gonna have an issue.
I do not want islam or marxism to take away your religion or try to change what you believe by force. Its entirely up to you, and the line is crossed when its pressed upon others. I put in a good part of my adult life in the defense of your right to believe in talking snakes and prayer. This is America I live in, not some totalitarian nightmare.
FYI, I was a 'muslim' for about 20 years too, so I know what that is about as well. I almost married an Arab, which is a very rare thing for a mid western white guy. That is a story in itself, and a big part of why I decided to stop deluding myself with religions. I don't hate them, and I see the various small benefits/truths in them, but its something you should choose to follow not be forced into it like I was.
If there is a god who created the universe, I am certain he would understand how it works. If he doesn't tell us, then he intends to keep us ignorant unless he himself has no clue. The simplest answer is god is made up to explain to a kid why it rains or the earth shakes. However, there could be a god, we have barely begun to scratch the surface of the universe around us. I bet he would know that the earth is a sphere, orbits the sun, which orbits the super massive black hole at the center of the galaxy.. for starters.
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Dan is describing feminine vs masculine thinking in regards to risk aversion vs risk taking. Feminine thinking wants to stay safe and will gladly sacrifice liberty and self actualization to stay safe. Masculine thinking accepts risk and will eschew safety if the reward warrants taking the risk. Before you assume its based on sex, its not. Males can have feminine thought patterns and make feminine choices, and some females can think in the masculine, though due to how we are wired far more males will be feminine thinking than females being masculine thinking. The traits are in all of us, but which are emphasized and which are muted varies wildly among people.
All you need to do to see which type of thinking people are employing is observing how risk averse they are. For instance, the people who are saying things like "Why are we spending money on space exploration when we have problems to solve here on earth?" are thinking feminine. When you realize that solving the problems of space travel will give us the insight and experience needed to solve the problems here on earth, then you're using masculine thinking.
When you want everyone to have the same amount and its not based on merit or how much work you put in, everyone is equal and gets an equal share with no regard for the effort required to produce whatever it is that is being distributed, that is feminine thinking. When you understand that someone has to produce things, that everyone should be compensated commensurate with their input based on merit, competence, and capability, you're using masculine thinking.
Both ways of thinking are valuable, both are required for society to function. Its when one is emphasized more than the other, and the balance is artificially tilted to one side that problems arise. Currently we have no balance, and the feminine thought is overrepresented in society and especially in government. Marxism and all its little abhorrent offspring like communism, socialism, feminism, progressivism etc. are feminine thinking running rampant. That is why it always fails, always causes death and poverty, because you cannot force people to work for nothing and remove all incentives to produce. There must be a balance.
Feminine thinking is everyone has to wear a mask, and two or five masks are better than one, gotta be safe above all else. Masculine thinking is risks must be taken to keep society going and most people alive. When the risk is .0001%, its not even a risk worth considering. People still get married and the risk of a divorce is more than 40%. Would you cross the street at a busy intersection if 40% of people crossing there were hit by trucks? Yet people expect you to get married and risk getting hit by the divorce truck, but they want you to wear two masks and avoid everyone for a miniscule risk of getting a virus most people survive and never even know they have contracted.
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douglas wahid I'm not big on religion, I see marxism as a religion just like any other one. In group preference, wishful thinking, victim narratives, and they use logical fallacies to support their incorrect conclusions. The marxists have original sin and everything, white privilege, white guilt for slavery nearly 200 years ago, and other nonsense.
They do not listen to Abe, they'd hate him. They are all about resentment, envy, entitlement, and laziness. That is why they are how they are. If you have it and they do not, its because you stole it from them, and they are unwilling to work to earn it, so they want it taken from you and given to them. They feel entitled to what you have built, earned, made, or created, they want everything for free because they are lazy.
That is marxism and all its abhorrent little offspring in a nutshell.
I can give a synopsis about the abrahamics too, but I see no need to do so, only one of them is trying to take over the world at the moment. I don't follow any ideology, the closest I come is the idea of liberty that the US was founded upon. Free to do as I please, provided I am not infringing on the rights of others, and I don't need a higher authority to tell me what to do or not to do. I can figure that out on my own for the most part
The reason the marxists like islam and not your religion is simple, they do not like competition for the all powerful authority, as their god is the state. Yes islam shares the same god you do, under a different name, kinda like star trek series. Some overlap, same universe, same basic premise, but the names locations, and stories vary.
They like islam because the followers of that religion are easily controlled, simply tell them they are an oppressed minority and they will do your bidding. They do not have the global power of the US, Europe, and the UK, so they can be crushed if need be, so right now, they are a useful tool since they hate every religion other than their own specific brand.
I served for a large part of my adult life so you could keep your belief, and I will again if I have to. The point where I stop is if your religion starts trying to tell me how to live, what I can and cannot say, do or not do, and how to run my life. The US was not based on a theocracy, and I will fight to prevent it from becoming one, so that all may live here and worship as they please... even if I think its all made up or erroneous. I am not going to force you to do anything either, save for not forcing the rest of us to follow your religion, no matter how wonderful you think it is. :)
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You can blame rich people all you want, you can envy/resent them and decry how you aren't rich too, and you can blame the birth rates on them as well if you are trying to push an agenda. How much YOU have is irrelevant to how much I have, as long as you and I have enough.
Why don't we have jobs that pay as well? The manufacturing base has been sent to other countries. The workforce was doubled when split tails began competing for the leftover Joe jobs and busy work in offices. Every administration since Wilson has been working diligently to render all of us as rent paying serfs... the cheeto seems to be trying to fix that though.
What did rich people do previously? Rockefeller pushed amendments through that outlawed the competition for gasoline (ethanol) to make himself even richer. Hearst pushed to outlaw cannabis so he could eliminate hemp as a competitor. Gates has been trying to make everyone dependent on his OS, and now he is pushing 'health' things which will cost us dearly whilst providing no benefit, and probably harm everyone. Gates is among those who think there are too many people.
Now we have two billionaires changing things to benefit all of us. One is building and catching reusable rockets and silly fast EVs, and invested heavily to ensure we could speak freely online. The other has risked his life and being in office has cost him millions if not billions he could have made otherwise. Both are now maligned and loathed by those who listen to the people trying to make us all serfs.
The video you're featuring is doing the same, trying to make you resent rich people because you aren't one of them. Its on the same side as Rockefeller, Hearst, Gates, and many others who seek to own everything.
WEALTH IS NOT A ZERO SUM GAME!!!
You can make your own by producing something valuable that people want. Just because Musk has a lot of it doesn't mean you can't have a lot either, he does things the rest of us don't do... like taking a huge risk and investing in companies that he can turn around and make profitable. He is working on benefitting all of us.
If you are working for min wage it means you have no skills or knowledge. If you are broke despite making what should be enough money, you are living beyond your means. Wealth is built over time for most of us, thats why we have it when we are older rather than younger. You have to build on what you have, which includes skills, knowledge, abilities, and the risks you take.
Stop complaining that wealthy people have money and you don't. GO MAKE YOUR OWN. There is no damn reason why they should give you anything for which you have not worked and earned.
We start were we start, and you go from there. We do not start on equal footing and NEVR will. The idea that it all has to be equal is abhorrent lunacy, its what was running Romania and other eastern European countries from 1945 to 1992. That entire ideology is built on envy, resentment, and a sense of entitlement despite having done nothing.
Its like that broke skinny kid demanding to marry the hottest actress in the world, and getting mad when it doesn't happen, then resenting everyone and envying the men who get to smash.
Get yours, don't concern yourself with what others have, as long as they have enough.
Now... get off my lawn.
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The result didn't surprise me, having a non adjustable secondary opening rate like the E carb means its going to open slow, not be tunable, and it will always be down on power. The opening rate is set for a stock low compression smog 350 sbc, not a performance engine, its even too slow for a smog wheezer 440 from a pickup. To change the rate you have to swap the weighted valve for one with a different weight. Then you need a bunch of them laying around to get it right. Have to pull the carb apart to change it. Then you have the way the Holley does it on a vacuum secondary carb, a spring in a dashpot and you can get a quick change kit that makes it super simple and fast. The Qjet is an Allen head set screw and a flat blade screwdriver on the passenger side of the carb, even easier than the Holley. Super easy to get rid of a bog, if you know where it is and how to do it.
The secondary opening rate alone can cost you that half a second in ET. Sure you can swap metering rods and springs around easy on the E carb, but they don't have much of an impact. The benefit in that is you can't screw one up so badly it doesn't want to run, but you can really kill the power and mileage with one.
A mild engine like that will like vacuum advance with mechanical advance, allowing a better idle, probably more timing up top (low compression doesn't worry about ping/knock nearly as much) and the drivability will be greatly improved. I never run the vacuum advance to the manifold, always the the port on the carb that has no vacuum at idle, but as you open the throttle it gets vacuum. The reason I do it that way is simple, I can set the initial to where it has enough advance to idle great, accelerate without hesitation, and start easy when hot. Then it will have enough advance at higher RPM, and I make sure the mechanical is all in before 3000rpm. I toss the book settings for initial and the rest, even when its a stock cam, intake, and carb. Instead of putting it where the book says, I find out what the engine wants though testing.
If your engine needs full manifold vacuum at idle, as in connected to the manifold port, then you have something else wrong with the tune, usually not enough initial, and also probably a lack of vacuum and velocity. The sbc tends to be like that, low on vacuum without enough initial timing, because the full advance causes them to ping even with low compression. They can't tolerate more than 38 degrees, while some closed chamber heads will want over 50 total on race gas. I've seen chevy guys with jacked up carbs, and all kinds of band aids to get it to run, which is why they like the E carb, they can't screw it up too.
Know what I like most about my Pontiac engines other than crazy torque? I can see the spark plugs, and I never burn a wire on the headers. No need for headers that cover up the plugs or are in the wrong position like on a mopar or chevy. Same deal on a 351C, FE or LIMA(429/460) Ford engine, we just don't burn plug wires.
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I'm not down with the authoritarian bent, that uses green energy as a cudgel to impose their will upon us. Really not a fan of centralized distribution nor planning, both are designed to profit those in control at the expense of you who is paying for it. However... I am all about producing energy myself. Yeah its more work, its not the easy button of put your card in and pay the bill, its DIY. Sweat equity. You're not going to be able to do it living in a city or the suburbs. Did you know you can produce fuel for your car from cardboard and stale bread? Or cattails? Kudzu vines? Or any other starch or sugar you can find in nature? Did you know you can heat your home with a large compost pile and some plastic sprinkler tubing? If you have the space to do it that is.
Do you live in an apartment? You're dependent upon others to provide it to you. Your food, water, and electricity is brought to you from elsewhere, its not produced where you live. Your waste has to be taken away for you. What will you do when that no longer happens, or it becomes incredibly cost prohibitive? You will obey... thats what you will do.
Here's the deal. Making it yourself is more direct work, but it opens up cash from your normal job to use elsewhere. Stop watching TV and you will find lots of time to do things. When the power starts being unreliable like it is where I live, you will start looking for solutions... like I did 15 years ago. I can't afford $5 gasoline, which is why I started making ethanol from cattails, tree sap, and other things, and spent the cheap fuel years between 2015 and 2020 increasing the mileage and performance of my vehicles on E85. Now I am back to producing fuel because 87 octane is $4.60 and 91 octane is $5.90.
If you want to rely on the government, well that is what they want you to do.. because it makes you dependent upon them and thus easier to control. So who do you want to be dependent upon? Oil and gas companies? The government? How about yourself?
You can't make gasoline at home, you can't run a coal fired powerplant at home either. However, you can do other things, like producing methane, which can power a generator. That is super easy to do.... if you have the space to do it. Suburbs would require you and several neighbors to work together, apartments and the like will need a couple storage units you can use, so you will be dependent upon the grid. You can produce ethanol with a bit of equipment you can make yourself, its a simple process, but its also a large and involved process, yet that doesn't mean you can't do it.
Yeah, its prep type stuff... but I am not into that. I am into making fuel for my vintage muscle cars that make lots of power and accelerate ludicrously fast. To me the Plaid is slow. The reason I got into this is the power grid is down all the damn time here. Gasoline is expensive where I live. Food is expensive. I am a disabled Iraq War veteran on a fixed income. I could have lived in a small apartment and scrapped by living alone playing video games. Instead I bought some land in the middle of nowhere and got to work... working around my physical and mental limitations to become as independent as I possibly can.
I really like driving my 1965 Pontiac GTO with its 7.6L (462ci) engine that makes over 550hp/600ftlbs that I rebuilt from a very rusty empty shell. You don't have to do everything I do, but you also don't have to freeze, starve, and obey.
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First of all the idea of original sin is abhorrent. Holding later generations accountable for the sins of their forefathers is nothing more than justification for persecution of people you do not like or look like.
Second, there were very few who owned slaves.
Third the largest blocks of immigration were after the civil war. That is when my family and a few million other Germans showed up in an effort to escape the turmoil of the feudal wars ravaging what is now Germany in the 1800s. Holding all those people accountable for slavery who never held the black man down, never owned slaves, all based on the amount of pigment they have, their national origin, or whatever else is nothing short of blatant racism.
My family showed up just before 1900, and we have been working our asses off ever since in an effort to make a living. This is the same for most immigrant families who were never part of Jim Crow, or anything else to do with the attempt at extortion via victimhood that is justified with overt racism.
Fourth, all you need to do is look at people who win the lottery to see what happens when you give someone a bunch of cash who has not earned it. It is actually a means of holding people down when you give them free stuff for simply existing and they do not have to earn it. It is a form of slavery, though people think money cures all and you can't be a slave if you are paid. You still had to feed, clothe, and house the slaves before 1863, so giving them a little bit of cash to stay on your plantation is not much different.
Give them just enough to not want to work and lose the free stuff, but not enough to actually make a difference, that is what they are doing. It is reprehensible.
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@SystematicMechanic nice appeal to emotion fallacy you have there, and such nice white armor too! I have two daughters, been divorced from their mother for 21 years. Yes, when they break up with a guy it was just his turn. Thats how their mother raised them as I was prevented from being there by her and the state. No fault of mine in any respect, because the man is always guilty, the female always the victim, and the state gets paid to keep the father away from the kids. Title IV-d if you want to research that.
I have dated over 200 girls, slept with somewhere between 150 and 200, hard to keep track after being active for the last 35 years. You can put them on a pedestal and idolize them if you want, but it is factually correct that it is just our turn. Why so many? I was looking for one I could share my life with, go on adventures, and have shared memories.
Out of all those girls only one did not cheat on me or want to break it off so she could ride another Tab D. Just ONE.
My second ex was a virgin when I met her in 2003, she was 21 I was 34. For 8 years she was very good to me, never cheated, and honestly she never had the opportunity to sleep with someone who appeared better than me. Because she was homely and ungraceful. I liked her for who she was, not what she looked like. She did manage to stay thin the whole time though, which was nice.
Then I got sick from a chemical exposure and this loser 20 years younger than me started talking to her. I ended it via text and told her not to come home. She thought I would support both of them while shutting me off from the snot pocket. Even if I was getting some from her, that was it.
They falsely accused me of several things, I ended up sitting in jail for 15 days for something they claimed I did, but was physically impossible for me to do.
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You're still thinking state vs state, the map you have at 15:58 is more indicative of what it would be like, at best certain counties vs the rest of the state... An archipelago of urban areas is not going to be able to enlist people from the surrounding counties and force them to fight for them, if they try it they will find mutiny and those conscripts switching sides like when the Irish joined the Scots in the movie Braveheart... though not exactly like that. You touch on it and your assessment is correct around that map.
You are also missing the key component of what is driving all of this, which is a subversion that started in universities, progressed through grade schools, and is now invading corporate spaces. I've watched it happen in real time during my 53 laps around the sun. We used to fight them, I served in Europe in the 80s and 90s and got a big chunk of their wall from Berlin when it came down in '89. That is who we are up against, urban people who have been forced into dependency and want to retain it and the largess they get a small piece of as a result, rather than going out, earning it, building something, and investing in their own lives. Urban people would rather be taken care of than be the one putting in the work to produce what people need to survive.
Like you stated later... It really is urban vs rural, and sure the cities have the numbers, but they are also very vulnerable. Nowhere to grow food, no way to produce electricity, not enough water for everyone who lives there... if those supply chains are severed. A siege of a modern city would be nightmarish for its inhabitants, as they don't even know how to do the basic things that people did daily in centuries past. When the corner store is empty, what will they do?
They might assume they can go out and take what they want, but that won't work in the US as people outside the cities are not exactly helpless on their own. States like CA, IL, NY, and NJ have made it harder to defend yourself from the mob, but other states more than make up for it. The only way those urban wannabes can do things like they did in 2020 is if the city and state allow it, like you said they are incapable of working together and staying cohesive.
The thing that bothers me is what happens after the conflict. What fills the power vacuum? That is the terrifying question.
I already know what its like, been there, done that, got the T shirt and permanent limp with the nightmares as a bonus. I grew up in conflict, war felt like home to me. Hard living is comfortable to men such as myself, we have lived that way our entire lives. However, we are the leave me alone types, and will only get involved if we are imposed upon. Seems like the financial tactic being used right now leaves us with nobody to go against, since its global.
A possible spark is the first week of November, it seems readily apparent that its all going hard red, but if we see the early morning vertical lines putting blue just ahead after it all closes, you can bet there will be a conflict within the next six months.
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Why are men not getting married? Because they have seen what happened to men like me. Active duty military, the state rewarded her with 71% of my gross income, state law limits it to 68%, but they went for as much as they could take. Supposedly they are to leave you $950 to live on each month, but I had $100-$300. That was just child support, she didn't take alimony because she had another wallet lined up for plunder. I was homeless and living in my car for two years while serving my country. Can't live on base when you have dependents who do not live with you. Its almost like the military wanted to make some of us homeless.
The judge also started me $10k in arrears, which resulted in my drivers license being revoked, my passport revoked, and my security clearance being stripped from me. My credit was as low as it could possibly get, despite not doing anything wrong other than getting married. She cheated, was horrible with money, abusive, bipolar, extremely violent towards the kids and I, (and I am not a small weak guy, I killed people) and of course the judge said I am unfit as a parent because I was in the military and could deploy/get killed at any time. Last I checked, people can get killed driving to work or walking across the street.
After the divorce was final, she tried to kill herself and the state put that $9k bill on my credit, and went after me to pay it. She was not my problem, but somehow I was responsible for her actions despite the divorce being final. When I sent money for child support, they put it towards that bill instead, so my arrears continued to grow.
When I went to Korea, she changed her phone number, moved several times and I lost contact with my kids for over a year. Dubya changed a law which gave me some back pay and I was able to fly home on leave to find them. It took 8 out of the 14 days I had in the states to find her and my kids. The state law says they have to inform me of where she is living so I can visit my kids, and that she must allow me visitation. They stymied me at every turn.
The child support enforcement in my home state is run entirely by females, and they will lie, break laws, ignore US Codes which is Federal law, and do whatever they hell they want to make the life of a father as horrible as possible.I finally got out from under their thumb 4 years ago. She owes me almost $10k for when my youngest lived with me and she was being paid for it, her brother owes me more than $10k for shit he stole from me, I can't go after them for any of it.
I was stupid and married another girl after living with her for 7 years. 16 months later we were divorced, I was in jail for things I did not do, and homeless once again, but no kids, no alimony, and a chance to start over. She was a 21 year old virgin when I met her, not great looking but thin and had a pleasant demeanor, unlike the first one. Things were great for years, through deployments, dealing with the bullshit caused by the first, and she always said she would never do that, she wasn't that kind of girl.
Not all girls are like that ya know... but she did exactly the same thing the first one did. Lied, cheated, made false statements and accusations, and colluded with her boyfriend who worked with the county Sheriff as an EMT to set me up with a destruction of property charge. He got fired for it, everyone knew it was bullshit, but the prosecutor, a female, pushed the issue and a big scary war vet vs a poor helpless little girl is a no brainer. She was the victim no matter what happened, I was guilty of everything and more.
Why didn't she go after my money and the cars I have started rebuilding since I got these harpies out of my life? She knew if she did I would not allow myself to be indentured again. I would sooner, crush everything, set fire to everything I own, and eat a .45 ACP in her parents driveway so they had to clean up the mess before I would live in poverty again.
Now when men hear of my story, and the millions of others like it, they realize not only it can happen to them, but it probably will. Why the fuck would anyone willingly sign up for that kind of bullshit? Its better to live alone than it is to be a slave or dead.
If girls do not push to change the laws, they will sooner or later stop getting dick and they are already not getting commitment. Shit they barely get attention from me when they are the girl I have been fucking. Other shit is more important than she is, like everything in my life is more important than a girl. My dogs want to chase the ball, that is more important than a girl in my house.
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@Thundarr995 A stock engine doesn't need it, more valve spring pressure requires it, and at a certain point a gear drive is what you use to fight the valve spring pressure.
The double roller thing came form the chevy world, because chevys are not the pinnacle of engine design, they are barely adequate, built as cheap as possible, just good enough that people will buy them and think they got a deal. Chevy finally has a good engine in the LS that shares very little with the previous small block, it has more Buick and Pontiac in it than chevy, a lot more.
Weak suck poorly designed chevys use the timing gear to locate the camshaft, whereas quality built engines like the rest of GM, Ford, and Mopar used a plate sandwiched between the timing gear and the first cam journal to locate the cam. As a result chevy cams walk around, and with more spring pressure they can shove the cam into the timing cover. A double roller helps, but they also use cam buttons and other mickey mouse bullshit to try and fix what the factory left out.
A single row chevy chain is considerably weaker than the much wider BOP chains, also because chevys don't make much torque, they need to spin to make power. The factory Trophy 4 Pontiac chain is the strongest factory piece GM made that will fit one of the V8s.
Ford used the fiber gear to reduce NVH (noise vibration harshness) they were big on smooth operation all the way back in the 60s. Thats why they went with huge ports and tiny cams in the 351C 4V and 429/460 engines, and why you can't feel the AOD shift, you have to watch the tach to be able to tell its shifting. Ford is kinda nuts like that.
I've only had one timing chain break, it was a double roller from Napa, in a Cloyes box, stamped china on a link, and it snapped causing 10 bent valves in a 5.0 Ford, since it had stock replacement aluminum heads, the assholes at Napa called it a 'race' engine and would not warranty their obviously defective part. It broke within two weeks of putting it in. The valve springs were only 5lbs heavier open than stock springs. That was an expensive lesson about buying parts from Napa and other parts stores.
I've had friends really screw up their chevys though.. those engines were junk when new, and need the entire aftermarket just to be useful.
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I'm 55, USAF vet, traveled the world, the only time anyone ever took a shot at me was in the desert (Iraq, Kuwait, somewhere there) in 1991. How can Europe have inexpensive/free health care and all the other benefits? Its easy when they DON'T NEED A MILITARY BECAUSE THE USA DOES IT FOR THEM! Dubai was nice in 1991 when I went there on leave, long story.
Why does the US have high costs for health and education? Because of guv involvement. Compulsory insurance like for vehicles increases costs, and insurance colluding with medical companies makes things hideously expensive. Guaranteed loans for school floods universities with money and they find ways to spend it, because its impossible for people to get out of them. I have to deal with the VA, and if you want to know what it would be like when DC runs everything like they do in Europe, talk to one of us disabled vets.
Every one of the people in the video came from big cities like NYC and LA. Not a single one was what you would call highly capable and the 'males' are not masculine. They're all timid and afraid because they've been told they need to be. Get out of the blue 'd' run areas and the USA is a wonderful place to live. I don't lock my doors, I leave the keys in my cars, and if I want to put holes in paper I can do it in my yard and nobody freaks out about it. Nobody breaks in, steals from me, or anything else, and as long as I avoid drunken college kids who're trying to look tough, nobody starts anything with me.
I carry, but not because I am afraid of the people who live here or because I think I am going to get into some kind of high speed projectile exchange, it just doesn't happen. I have two blue cities I have to drive through to get back to Nebraska where one of my kid's live and some of my cars still are, so I have 300 rounds and a long distance scary hole puncher in my truck because I have to go through them. I will not be like Reginald Denny when the d's running the place decide to allow riots and I happen to get stuck in one while driving through.
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@GODCONVOYPRIME so you are unaware of his story? Ok, well I will help you out here. He came from a jewish family, was the reprehensible unmotivated kid who felt his family should support him as an adult like they did when he was a child. He sponged from them so much that they shut him out, and his buddy Engels supported him.
Thats the type of people his religion draws into it. The ones who are unwilling to earn a living, they'd rather it be taken from those who earn and given to them.
Karl's religion is based on the Abrahamic religions, like a scaffold under the fascia, its exactly the same layout, because dude was not very imaginative. It has a god, which is the main authority of the gov, priests are the elites and politicians, and party members are the congregation.. everyone outside that is an infidel who can be treated however the zealot wishes. When you see them as not only an other, but as lower than yourself, its easy to malign people.
Religions do that quite effectively. You're doing it now, aren't ya? Thinking I am beneath you because I do not share your invisible friends and beliefs. Admit it... :) I see you as human, a bit deluded perhaps, but same as everyone else.
So ol Karl wasn't exactly an atheist, but he was sure upset with his family for telling him no. Also it was not his belief in god or not that was his problem, it was that he resented not having everything he wanted given to him. That he did or did not believe was pretty much irrelevant, because he wanted power above all else.
The people who follow him are not atheist either, they are in a religion, or cult if you prefer. What is the difference in them? How long they have been around, and how many people believe it I guess. All of you do the same things to keep people in your 'in group' and following your religion. All of you push it on others, claiming sin or privilege (same thing really) is inherent in everyone and your religion has the cure.
Ya know what though? I support christians, muslims, jews, hindus, budhists, and the like, but not the followers of Karl.
It sucks writing about this on here, because most of the time my comments are hidden, so I have to dance around words to get my point across. Thankfully the USAF taught me ways to write using alternative prose, so I can skirt the bots some of the time. They keep changing the rules and adding more words to the list that gets me hidden.
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I enlisted way back in the 1980s under Reagan, when I did I took an oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, and yes that includes a government that decides to go the way socialist/communist countries have been since Marx wrote his whining rant about how hard it was being an entitled rich kid who had to work for everything. The Constitution puts limits on government as to what it can and cannot do, the founders were very aware of how government can become tyrannical and they intentionally put measures in place to limit government power. There is the quote about a government that is big enough to give you everything is big enough to take it all away, that is the idea behind putting limits with checks and balances.
The 2nd is the check and balance that is the responsibility of every citizen of this country. The first is first because it is very important we do not do what Brazil and other countries are doing, we have an obligation to speak up when our government or anyone starts trying to subvert or tear down our way of life. The 2nd enables us to actually do something about it. That is why its the 2nd and not the 8th.
Marxism in all its forms, socialism, communism, feminism, they are all not in line with our Constitutional rights nor do they mix with the intentions of the founders. Those who claim otherwise are simply useful idiots or intentionally blind willfully ignorant ideologues.
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While I was in the US military I had to live in a city, or on a base near a city, surrounded by concrete. A few trees here and there, but not what you might call natural. The closest to nature we got was deploying to the deserts of Arabia. I grew up on a farm, 20 miles from town. We had pastures on either side of the house, surrounding the cornfields. One had lots of trees, the other had very few, and both had ponds that my grandfather built in the 1950s. I could go into those pastures and lose myself in nature. I could walk half a mile to the river and walk through my uncle's pastures. Even in the fields I was closer to nature than in the cities. I never felt well in cities, I was always run down from scanning and having to observe everyone around me, assessing them for threat potential and other things. Too many people doing too may stupid things, and being excited about how incredibly ignorant they are. "Oh I pay someone to do that for me" is not something I aspire to claim. I do what I need and want to do, and the less I need others to do it, the better.
When I was forcibly retired from the military due to injuries sustained during my last deployment, I could have moved almost anywhere. I moved to a remote part of the USA, thick with trees, along the shore of the worlds largest freshwater lake. Its wild here, turkeys, deer, bear, wolves, coyotes and all manner of other wildlife walks through my yard or comes to hang out with me for a while. I have room to do my old car thing, and rebuilding muscle cars and trucks built before 1979 is my passion. I can use tree sap or cattails to make fuel for them, I can heat my home with what is around me for miles and miles. I can walk through the woods, and feel completely isolated from the idiocy of a big city. My closest neighbor is a quarter mile away, through the forest on the other side of the highway. The next closest is nearly a mile, and its like that until you get closer to the bigger city here.
I see people living along the highway, their house maybe 50 or 75 feet from the next one, treeless yards, bunched together like a salient suburb winding its tentacle into the woods along the asphalt. I can't imagine living like that
Moving back to a city would mean no old car building, could not afford the space to do it, and I can't have cars sitting around without plates, insurance etc on them. Then in some cities there is nowhere to park even a single one, so you have to ride the bus. Close proximity to people again and nothing to keep my desire to build sated. That alone is enough to make me want to stop living. No more walks through my woods. No more wildlife coming by to say hello as they look for food and do what they do. No more trees and lakes, bugs, and dirt. No more orb weaver spiders building their intricately beautiful webs where I leave the light on near them so they can catch more mosquitoes. People everywhere around me, ramping up my PTSD, preventing me from feeling at ease, calm, with no need to constantly scan everywhere.. if they take my land which I now own free and clear, it will have to be by force, and I will stack bodies if I must. It would be highly preferable to get my food from around me, and continue living alone, in the woods, where I can do as I please and feel at ease being a part of nature rather than apart from it in a city where I am dependent upon others to bring everything to the city to feed us, and rely on others to remove the massive amount of waste produced by a city.
They want to control us by making us dependent upon them, to keep people from knowing what I know.. which is how to fix damn near anything, and where the food and water actually comes from. They don't want us to be independent, they want us to be ignorant of how everything works, like a small gear in a massive machine.... but you have to buy, you have to work to buy, and you can never stop paying them just to exist.
That is slavery to me.
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SmashStomp, you are correct that they didn't turn superheroes into evangelical nutters, mostly because they couldn't. However, if they had turned Batman into Bible man (if you havent seen that its hilariously bad) it would have sold just as well as the lame attempt at turning the Ghost Busters into feminist empowered unfunny girls.
What the have been doing is trying desperately to enact laws based on religious dogma, and they keep getting shot down. Ya know, I have zero problem with whatever anyone else believes, but when they start trying to force those beliefs on everyone else, then this middle of the road straddling war vet gets uppity and itches for a fight. I don't give a rat fuck if its marxists or jesus freaks.
Another thing that really irritates the shit out of me is how atheist is conflated with marxist/communist/socialist. Both sides do this, and assume that because I do not share a god delusion, that I have to be marxist. I like my guns and capitalism derived wealth far too much to ever be a marxist.
Earlier today I saw a sign that made me laugh while driving. It said to live like a republican, you have to vote democrat. I thought to myself, no, voting democrat means you will "live" like a Venezuelan. I am not racist enough to be a democrat.
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@Wall3Wapter I grew up on a farm with 100-300 head of cattle and up to 1500 hogs at any given time, have travelled the world, was stationed in Frankfurt in 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell and also when the soviet union collapsed. I traveled to most of western Europe, missed Portugal but have been to the rest of them. I went through soviet countries and lets say it was less than pleasant.. massive understatement.
What is sad is people thinking social ism is in any way a good thing. What is also bad is you living in that country and NOT knowing what happened to the Kulaks and then the people who ended them or shipped them off to Siberia, but then seemingly taking the same position that starved millions of Ukrainians into large holes.
Its obvious you have no idea what you're talking about when you think that people being competent farmers is messed up. That is something you should be proud of, that your tiny country carved out of the ocean produces more food than any other country in the EU. It doesn't happen by accident, and its not what you call an easy risk free job.
Unless of course you do realize that the rest of the EU relying on your tiny country is messed up, but still that is beneficial to you and your country that you have people so very good at making food.
Sadly you won't be allowed to learn history as it was, you get the 'approved' version, the kind that says the Berlin Wall was for the protection of East Germany from the bad people we defeated in 1945... and not a means to keep people from escaping to the west.
I don't need to read it in books after 1975, because I was old enough to vividly remember it.
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Fact of the matter is I am a crippled war veteran. Is it my identity to be gimped and have a bunch of shit wrong with me? Fuck no. I can't pass it on to my kids, but my life is not what it was 20 -40 years ago either. She is clinging to her victim status like a lifeboat from the Titanic. If we could fix all the shit I deal with every day, I probably would. Mainly because I do not rely on being a victim for validation and I need no sympathy. My country broke me, so now y'all gotta support me, but I would much rather fix whats wrong than spend the next 20-30 years like I have spent the last 15. It would be great to be able to no longer be on a fixed income, right at the poverty level because I served my country and the democrats in congress sent us to the meat grinder again.
I can see if you are deaf and you do not want to change that, you are used to your life and people resist change. Not wanting to preclude a kid's cerebral palsy or another genetic/birth defect so they can live a life with a victim status is fucking idiocy. My cousin has a kid with a defect, a girl I was engaged to way back in the early 90s has a kid with major issues as well. They might like the way their life is, because they don't know any different. They will never be functioning adults, their mothers will forever be essentially chained to them because they need constant care like a 6' tall infant. You love your kids, but damn your life is filled with infant care for the rest of your life at best.
She wants to rail against this so she can keep her precious victim status? Fuck her and the horse she rode in on. Quality of life means something.
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I didn't get the last stimulus, I will not get this one if it ever shows up, but I have to deal with the inflation it causes due to my fixed by congress income. Crippled veterans do not get the stimulus. Fuck us, right? On the bright side we get paid on the 1st of each month, on the downside is it takes Congress at least two years to realize inflation has made what they give us to live on less than adequate. When they did that shit in 2008 it was 3 years before they adjusted, then it was another 6 before any more adjustments were made. Eh we are used to being fucked by the government.
The dems always cut our funding, they do not like veterans as we tend to not like them. Probably because they get us involved in wars and cut the funding so they can give it to others who aren't risking their lives.
Thanks to Trump, my land and home will be paid off 3 years early. I had to buy land after my second divorce, because she took everything else I had built after the first one took everything. I am in a place hardly anyone wants to live, and I had to build everything myself, so it was done as inexpensively as possible. Creepy Joe and his 'brave new world reset' wants to take what I have built away from me yet again. If they try it this time, they better plan on having a two way rifle range with me.
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@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz Yes I agree with you, we atheists are not devil worshipers, we don't believe that deity/angel exists either.. However the people doing all this shit do have a god, its the state or party. If you look at it from the outside, marxism looks a fuck ton like the abrahamic religions, they use the same things, shame, guilt, original sin, and screech louder rather than trying to support their ideology. Also calling anyone who disagrees evil, they are very much religious but they don't worship invisible friends or sky fairies.They worship the ideology and the state that runs it.
In group preference based on the ideology, and the outgroup is worthy of being dead to marxists and abrahamic believers. Same delusion, different names and nomenclature.
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I saw this coming.. My ex was very violent and abusive to my kids and I, the judge threw out all my evidence of her abuse, then rewarded her with 71% of my gross pay in child support, and full custody.. I was given 'reasonable visitation' as they put it as I was 'unfit due to military service which means you can get killed at any time' and other nonsense. The narrative is the girl is always the victim, the man is always the aggressive perpetrator, and he always deserves it if she abuses him.
Mind you I was 230lbs of muscle, military trained, and could have killed her with one hand, and she was 120-140lbs but would start irrational fights and escalate them until I would respond. She hit me with all kinds of stuff, ripped shirts off me, pulled hair out of my head, and it was almost constant. All I could do was endure it to protect my kids from her, or leave and abandon my kids to her.
They are always rewarded for their abuse, and men are always punished when they are abused. I am sick of it.
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I have a female friend, but I am also 54... she is HUGE, like 300lbs huge, but she can lift heavy stuff since she grew up on a farm like I did. She is reliable, if I need a ride because I cut off a limb, she will drop what she is doing and come help me. Not hot at all, but she is useful and a good friend. Here is the interesting part... if she follows 5 to 10 feet behind me through a store, I get lots of female attention. If she walks next to me like she is with me, I get ZERO female attention.
I have lots of old cars and trucks, many of which do not run and having two people to move them is so much easier and less time consuming. She also helped me build my house, she takes care of my dogs when I travel sometimes, so I keep her vehicle running in return. She is also interesting to talk to because she isn't clueless and is aware of how things work, she has really come around on lots of things.
If she was hot or even remotely attractive there is no way she could be just a friend.
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@TheFredmac that is the narrative being pushed. However the only way the F can be on the right is if you assume the default position is S, which is a precursor to C. Bear in mind I am not allowed to use the entire word, so initials will have to do.
C, S, F are all left, and the C and S types have claimed F is far right as a means of maligning them. It was a C's of USA directive to do exactly that way back in 1943. All of those are top down authority ideas. The USA is supposed to be bottom up, the people govern themselves. We are not in that paradigm of your L is C vs R with F.
You could also use collectivist vs individualist, with CFS being collective and the sensible world being individualist. The CFS side ALWAYS goes the same way, conflicts, big holes filled with people returning to biomass, and camps/trains. etc. Its not a bug, its a feature of them all.
Essentially CFS is a religion with various sects within, much like catholics, pentecostals, lutherans, methodists, baptists, etc. They are all christians, but different flavors. I suppose you could go a step larger and use the Abrahamics, judiasm, christianity and islam, which are all spin offs of zoroastrianism.
If you have not yet figured it out, I am atheist and eschew ideology as a rule. I can therefore look at how they act, figure in what they claim, and decide how to categorize them.
The funny thing is some of the eastern religions are more individualist. Working towards self enlightenment rather than collective consensus. I find that most amusing, because you have top down religions, like CFS and the Abe's, then you have shinto, buddhist, tao, and others which are more about your own self.
Where CFS stands out is that their favorite tool is removing people from meat suits. Its like their only tool, and they go to it willingly with great enjoyment. You can say islam does the same thing, and christians used to do that, but the difference is the Abe's have a set of rules that do not result in purity tests and purges. They don't excise their own, whereas CFS does that regularly.
Thats why I regard CFS as the far worse enemy, and why I will side with the Abe's against CFS, even though muslims would try to lop off my noggin if they were in power. The CFS types will most certainly attempt that if they get in power more solidly.... as in if the people of the USA are disarmed, then the nightmare that is CFS can begin in earnest and Orwell's visiton for humanity will come to pass. An iron boot on a human face forever.
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I would like to live this life until my body decides its done, then download my consciousness and then set it off to travel through the universe exploring new worlds. Rather than escaping reality, I want to study it and keep learning. I don't want someone else's story played to me, I want to live my own story.
Since it can take thousands to millions of years to travel the vast distances of our own galaxy, time dilation could make it seem like an eternity or a short nap. That appeals to me, like a video game but its in reality.
Also we could live a thousand lives during the trip, the same one over and over making different choices to see what the outcomes might be, or new ones based on history or stories. That idea appeals to me.
Video games are a way for me to do things I cannot otherwise do, like flying fighter jets, being a Viking, or surviving the wastes of Fallout. Yes Fallout and others like it are the stories someone else made up, but that is more of a sandbox where I can do things just to be funny.. I have no interest in games that are of things I actually do, like a mechanic simulator. I am a mechanic. Racing sims don't really get it for me, because you can't FEEL the car accelerating, braking, and going around corners. When you build and own race cars, a sim just isn't gonna do it for ya. I can't fly jets or even small planes, due to the cost of it not because I can't do it, so I get my flying fix in sims like DCS.
Escapes from reality aren't my thing, something to do while I am waiting to do the things I like to do, that is where games come in. Something to do whilst traversing the expanse of space could be lots of things. I like things to be realistic and difficult to master, not mindless droning and mashing buttons.
Thats why I race cars instead of cars being appliances used to get more taters and milk. I can still use them for that, but damn I tell ya what its a hell of a lot of fun driving a 1965 GTO with 550hp, and a suspension that turns as well as stops, but can also just cruise the highway. its also a ludicrous amount of fun taking a very rusty car and turning it into a fun daily driver, thats how the 65 started, and where the 69 GTO is right now. Reality is where the fun is, even if it involves work and pain. Its the payoff you get from what you put in.. If your life isn't fun, then you're not looking at it the right way.
However.. I want to see where this life goes, what I can do with it, and even though I live alone with chronic pain because of my military time, I am having fun with the time I have left. What good is fun without it hurting a bit? The visceral part of living is what makes it so enjoyable.
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Hey Jana, if you're reading this here's the reality. You would be lucky to get a man like me, not because of your looks or body count, but due to your attitude, the obvious feminism, and the self delusion. I'm 52, 5'8, have all my hair, heavily muscled like a power lifter from my military time, have been retired for the last 16 years, and a 30 something girl would be fun to hang out with or go on adventures.. but yeah, I am too short for you aren't I? I drive the cars I build, and I build what I like, US made muscle cars, some of which I have owned since before you were born. I own land, am debt free, and you can't have any of it.
Jana you are too toxic and delusional for me to even bother hitting you up. The tall men like me are not going to either. You are cute enough I will give you that, and I prefer small tits, but you are going to be nothing but problems, drama, and shit tests. Enjoy the box wine and cat land all the single girls over 40 around here are living in.
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Well ya know my old cars are green, since they run on cattail vodka. All my cars emit on my fuel is Co2 and water when they run on home brew, E85 has some gasoline in it, so it has slightly higher emissions. Thats it carbon dioxide and water. The energy required to build a new vehicle is far more than the energy required 50 years ago. I'm talking about amortization. Not too long ago it was Reuse, Repurpose, Rebuild, Recycle, and now the powers that be are saying 'Buy this new pos and throw it away in five or six years.' Even my severely rusted cars require less energy, and therefore produce less pollution, than the new cars. The metal for the replacement panels is usually recycled steel, because its cheaper. Also my cars are simpler, they barely have plastic in them. Far less material goes into rebuilding my 60s and 70s stuff than is used in new cars.
The Co2 emitted during the manufacturing of our old cars was soaked up by trees, grass, and other plants decades ago.
People used to tell me "Sell that old car and buy a new one that gets better mileage that you don't have to work on all the time." To which I would reply, "My old cars are cheaper, they are paid for, they don't require that much work to keep them running, and I enjoy doing the work."
Think about it. I buy a $500 car, spend $3500 rebuilding the engine to make more power and get better mileage, rebuild the brakes, suspension, and maybe a new set of tires. So figure $5000 to $7000 for one of my hotrod daily drivers, that doesn't need $2k in sheet metal panels.
Insurance when I lived in Nebraska was $25 a month, plates were $25 a year. Insurance here in Michigan for my old cars is $75 a month and the plates for my 65 GTO were $35.
Now if I want to buy a new car, I need to spend $350 to $900 a month on the car payment for 60 months, because its a $30k vehicle at a bare minimum. So I have to also pay interest on that loan, then my insurance is I kid you not, $400 a month minimum. Plates run anywhere from $1000 to $12k, depending on how much the vehicle cost to buy. I just about dumped a load in my skivvies when I heard a guy had to pay $12k to get plates for his new half ton truck. WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT! No wonder everyone else is broke as a joke.
Any idea how many cars I can rebuild for what a new one would cost me every year or month? I can do a lot more than just build an old car for the cost of a new Tesla. I don't even have $100k invested in my house, 32x48x12 shop (with a lift and other equipment), and 13 acres of woodland, additionally all of it has been paid off since 2021. I am debt free, because I live within my means, which has enabled me to have some really cool cars with big powerful engines. (except the Cuda, its slow, but pretty).
The newest thing I own is a 2007 GMC 1500 4x4 crew cab, I got it for $400 with a bad transmission. Swapped in a 6.0 with a 4L60E I pulled from a Tahoe I junked, and now its getting a 4L80E and a few more leafsprings out back so I can use it to tow my project vehicles around.. a crew cab gives me and my dogs a lot more room when we travel. I have another $500 3/4 ton crew cab with 350k miles, no rust but an expired engine and a few other parts that need rebuilt. Its parts for the 1500 now and the 2500 I use to pull my dump trailer and rented heavy equipment around. I have something like $1400 in the 2007. I take unwanted and broken junk and make it functional again... its what I do.
Now if you are unable to work on vehicles, you have no skills or knowledge, no tools or the place to do anything on them (and I rebuilt transmissions in my apartment complex parking lot while in the USAF, and in the bed of my C10 at the dragstrip) then sure, go buy a newer one and pay through the nose for it. Skills and knowledge are valuable, they are worth more than cash from what I can tell.
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@ashymush6414 You're correct about religion/ideology. I've seen the same thing from evangelical zealots who believe the earth is 6000 years old, people who off themselves to catch a ride on a comet, and from people wholly enamored with marxist ideology.
Willfully ignorant, have to fit the entire world into the lens of the ideology, and anything you prove to them to not fit their narrative makes them incredibly angry.
To me, its not a left right thing other than the ideology they happen to follow, its more of an authoritarian or not thing. They have thrown out one ideology, and taken on another, like an addict who gives up drinking for opiates. They don't want to, or can't decide for themselves, so they need an authority/higher power to tell them what to think, how to act, and it decides for them.
It would appear most people need that 'higher power' and they will make one up if they do not have one. They want to follow something or someone, and they are desperate to keep the lens in place.. to me its so they don't have to decide and make choices for themselves.
The big problem is how marxist ideology always turns out, mass graves, starvation, abject poverty... its a horrible mental prion disease.
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@sheepstate8796 I agree its a religion, and I see all religions in a similar light. When the religion has power and control over the laws and government, bad things ensue. It doesn't matter what religion it has been, you get Witch Trials, burning people alive, chopping off heads, and gas chambers from ideology with fervent followers.
For good people to do bad things, you need a religion. The fact of the matter is, marxism is a religion, just like all the others with some invisible friend, except the god of marxism is the state and the politicians are the priest class, while everyone else is subjugated to the state and priest class. At least with islam everyone can be a scholar, with christians the priest is no longer able to start wars or burn people at the stake. Meanwhile marxism goes the same way, every time, and it results in death, starvation, and abject poverty for the masses.
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@jesshorn257 Its the result of indoctrination, the younger you are when you are indoctrinated, the more 'set in stone' it is. There is another difference with marxism vs ideologies such as the Abrahamics. That is how marxism preys upon envy, resentment, entitlement, and laziness. Those are 'features' of the ideology, and the followers will have at least two if not all of those traits.
That allows marxism to take over minds of adults, not just children. Resenting that you don't have what others have, envying them for having it, feeling entitled to whatever it is, and being unmotivated to do what it takes to get it for yourself, well that is what Marx was like and his ideology uses that.
You tell an adult, especially today with the wealth of human knowledge on their phone, that donkeys and snakes talk, the earth is flat and only 6000 years old, they are going to look at you like you have a 3rd eye. that has to be instilled at a young age, before you can ask questions and make sense of it all.
Tell an adult who is pissed they live in an apartment and don't have a car that the only reason other people have houses and drive cars is because they stole it from those who do not, or took advantage of them somehow, people who are ignorant of what you do to buy a house or car are prone to believe it.
Get them pissed off and they think with emotions, not reason and logic. If you can get someone into an emotional mindset, they are VERY easily manipulated. That is the reason for the victim narrative in marxism, its to get you emotional so you don't actually think, you just accept the narrative that you're oppressed by some nefarious other. It is always someone other than your actual oppressor, someone who just happens to have more than you do, or appears to.
So religion gets put in place with kids, marxism is put in place with emotions and resentful entitlement.
I can see a benefit in religion now, where just a few short years ago I saw none. Its in the fact most people need a leader, an authority, and if its some abstract idea of an invisible friend who saddened when it watches you jerk off, well that is less harmful than the state telling you that you don't own anything and everything you earn goes to 'the people' which is actually the state.
Some people need it so they don't do stupid shit, but it can also be utilized to get people to do stupid shit, such as we are seeing now in democrat cities. Which ideology it is, and how it is interpreted matters.
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@jesshorn257 ideologies are about control, and they work very well on the ignorant who aren't very curious.. which is most people and that does not make them worthless or inferior, its simply how they are. If everyone were overly curious nothing would get done.. lol
Religions use guilt, shame, and fear to control people. It is most effective and can be used to achieve very beneficial means. At the basic level its a plan by which to lead your life, which is how the muslims see it. Following the footsteps of the prophet because they know he went to heaven, so its a good path to them.
The difference between christians and muslims is rather minor to be honest, once you know both of the religions, there is far more the same than different. I learned both, and I know them both quite well. To me it is like how do you get unruly kids to not do stupid shit and give them an answer to questions we as yet have no answer?
It works quite well, except some people like to fight over who has the better god or who follows that god better. Kinda like sports teams but with weapons. That is everywhere and I do it myself, I love Pontiac engines, to me they are the best thing ever, and its sacrilege to pull one out and put in a 350 chevy. Its a human thing...
With marxism, its similar in tactics, e.g. shame, built, appeal to emotion and other logical fallacies, but the means by which the people are controlled, and the reason for it is not from a benevolent place. Its from a desire to get something for yourself from others, but its wrapped in the lie that its for everyone.
Your religion is intended to help everyone, and still allow some to rise above others. Whereas marxism says it is about the good of the masses, but in practice it only serves those who control it. It takes the worst parts of religion, and turns it into a means for a select few to become elite and wealthy at the expense of the masses.
When it comes to kids today, that is the fault of the parents and society. Kids need a father, but the state is more than willing to prevent the father from being part of the child's life.
Mothers are given large incentives to throw the father out, divorce for any reason, and there is no downside for her, until the payments stop when the kid gets old enough. Its free tax exempt money for her, that is one hell of an incentive to kick out dad. Everyone in the family would be doing better, have more money, and enjoy a much better lifestyle if dad was still living there.
That is the root cause of the way kids are today, parents aren't active and available, most boys are growing up without a masculine father figure as an example of what to be, how to act, and what mistakes to avoid. In a way, religion can fix that problem, but the laws must be rewritten to no longer give incentives to mothers to become single mothers. Stop blaming dad for what mom does, and stop punishing dads for being male.
Good luck with that.
Single moms are the result and perpetuation of marxism in government. its part of the design and it results in what we have right now. That is what religions are trying to control with no sex until marriage, making it difficult to get divorced, and only one to four wives at a time. The kids need the father figure and they need to be supported. In muslim families, you can't get another wife unless you can provide her with everything the first one has, her own house, car, clothes, etc. They must all get the same, and the state does not provide it, the father of her kids does.
Is religion the answer to the problem, well sorta.. the ideas in some religions behind avoiding single mothers are very beneficial, but you don't 'need' a religion to have them, but religion is one way to do it. People have a need for that sort of thing, but it needs to be a set of rules that cannot be subverted or used to do abhorrent things.
Its not that women who are single mothers are bad, its that they simply cannot provide what fathers do for their kids. Its not financial provision, it is developmental. I taught my kids as much as I could before their mother took off with them when they were 5 and 7. I taught them to read, run computers, math, colors shapes, how to think critically, how to understand a problem and figure it out, I taught them empathy, how to restrain from playing too hard or too rough, dads do all of this naturally. Its who we are.
Now marxists want to make everyone nothing more than their identity, their color or gender. That allows individuals to control the masses, postulating they're all the same, so they all need the same things. It flies in the face of reality, logic, and reason.
So while you are in an ideological war with marxism and islam, I see ideology as either somewhat beneficial in certain aspects, or completely abhorrent. How authoritarian it is, and how much the followers of the ideology want to impress their will upon others, and the methods used to impress that will, that is how I decide what is abhorrent and what isn't.
The most abhorrent is marxism, by a wide margin.
Sorry this is so lengthy, its a rather large subject and I hope you read this far.
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@jesshorn257 We use our own morals, not so much those handed to us in the bible. Know how I know that? Because nowhere in the bible does it say "Do not own people" and instead it sets down "how" to own people and "who" you can own for "how long." The democrats fighting against abolition and civil rights used the bible to justify their actions and thoughts on the matter.
I had a parochial school teacher tell me that black people are the descendants of Cain, and their dark skin is the mark god put on them to show they are evil. She said that is why black people do the most raping and killing, because they are inherently evil. Even in 3rd grade I knew that was bullshit, and I was 14 before I even met a black person or anyone not from European ancestry.
Then you have other things, like sending the army off to wipe out every man and boy in the neighboring areas, but keeping the girls under 35 for themselves..
Then you have the whole thing where if a girl is raped away from a place where she can cry for help, she has to marry her rapist. If he does it in a populated area and she doesn't cry for help, well they are both stoned.
Sure, ya might say thats OT stuff.. but then Jesus comes along and says he is not here to change the old laws, not a tittle nor jot. Seems though that christians are ok with things prohibited in the bible, when it suits them, and not so ok with things which are no longer allowed despite the bible telling you the 'proper method' to do it.
Golden Rule, yeah, thats some good stuff but it is not unique to christianity.
Now, if you employ the religion like my mom and dad did, take comfort in it, live your life in a way that doesn't cause harm to others, and you do not try to impress it upon others, then I am all about you having it and following it. They didn't freak out when I changed mine, they didn't disown me, or harass me to change it back. They accepted it and allowed me to make my own choice sin life. You live like that, well you do you and enjoy your religion.
If you do like the marxists and a surprising number of muslims, and want to impress it upon others, well now we have a problem. You live by it and allow me to live how I deem appropriate, and we can fight the authoritarians together. Step across the line and start pushing religious edicts and laws on me, and you become an enemy just as they are.
I am more like Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, and to a certain extent Thomas Jefferson. If you read what they said, they were none too fond of religion, Jefferson removed all the fantasy stuff as he saw it from a bible. You can ignore the stuff David Barton wrote about the founders, he is essentially making shit up to sell books and push his agenda.
The Treaty of Tripoli should be enough to dispel the notion we are a country based on any religion at all. It was ratified unanimously. All are welcome here, none can be held above any others. Thats how it works.
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@jesshorn257 I grew up going to a lutheran church and school, I read the bible four times between grade 4 and 6, went to catechism class until confirmed at 13. We read the bible for at least an hour each day, rather than teaching us math and science.
Now if you have people cherry picking the bible, or going by some revised one that has all the really fucked up shit removed, then I suppose you are getting a different take on it than what I read and can look up online.
I would assume you have read it, for context rather than taking the word of someone else for it. Or do you do like one of my military supervisors and ignore the parts where it talks about slavery, genocides, killing entire populations and keeping the females for procreation..
If you think I am harsh about christianity, I am going easy on it compared to what I say about marxism. The teeth and claws have been removed from christianity, so we don't get things like the witch trials and burning people at the state for attempting to fly. That means its no longer as much of a threat to people as it once was, and can be again if allowed to be wielded by a capricious leader like a grand inquisitor.
I look at things for what they actually are, not what they shoulda coulda woulda been. I do not cherry pick only the good parts and ignore the rest. However, if I like a certain idea someone has, I will probably adopt it for myself, but I will leave all the other bullshit to them.
With religions and other ideology that attempts to prescribe how to live and what to do to gain some intangible reward, such as marxism and the abrahamics, its like sifting through feces to find pearls.
Lately I have refrained from criticizing religion, other than marxism, because I find myself on the same team with christians for more than a few 'conflicts of interest' but it does not mean I will accept the ideology and the postulation that an invisible friend exists who gives a damn about what positions I use when I bang some bar thot without marrying her.
Particularly when the hypothesized entity created the universe and has no clue how it works as evidenced by the explanations on the book. So is god ignorant of the moon orbiting the earth, the earth orbiting the sun, which orbits a super massive black hole at the center of the galaxy, or does it just want to keep us ignorant and subservient to it?
With marxists its obvious, they are doing what they accuse others of, but with christians its like they simply do not know. I think part of why the religion never really took despite a decade of indoctrination, is that I am both curious and skeptical, particularly when the supposed teachings go against known facts.
Being able to look it up online is doing more to motivate people to eschew religion than the marxists are, they just want people for their own religion and they do not like competition.
I can run into the character limit for comments easily pointing out the jacked up stuff in the abrahamics, there is an abundance of it. Which is why I figure if you're not pushing it on others, and only limiting yourself with it, by all means enjoy it and have a good time.
I don't need an invisible sky fairy to tell me not to be a cunt and steal from others, or kill people who aren't trying to kill or harm me. I figured that out on my own, and having made a taco out of a brown kid's head back in 91, I don't really need to do it again... unless they are trying to end my life like he was. I can figure out my morality much better than bronze age desert nomads who didn't know about the water cycle.
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@jesshorn257 lutherans are the first to branch from catholics, eg Martin Luther and his post it notes on the door.. Missouri synod is what you might call stodgy, or at least it was 40 years ago. My family founded the church we attended in 1868, and we were essentially driven out by other families who decided to go with the evangelical ideas of a pastor they hired. My dad is the first of us to not be buried there in 150 years.
Having spent time in the military, I got to meet people from all kinds of faiths, pentecostals, baptists, catholics, muslims, jews, you name it. I talked to everyone about it, learned what they thought, and tried to find out how much they actually knew about it. I got people who could recite bible verses but had no freakin clue what the verse meant. Just totally excited about memorizing it.
I spent a month total in a mosque in Dubai on leave in 1991, learning islam and a bit of Arabic from an Iraqi we wouldn't let go home to his wife and kids in Kuwait, because he had an Iraqi passport. We are still friends all these years later, and email every few weeks. His family was ok when he finally got to go home in 92.
Didn't get to see him in 01 and 04 when I deployed again, because the military said we couldn't talk to the locals or do anything with them other than sometimes buy stuff at the market. Apparently the evangelicals were trying to convert all the Arabs, and that doesn't go over well.
Its interesting how I 'gave up' on religion, it was seeing all these chain emails going around spreading false information about the other religions. Knowing christianity and islam quite well, I could spot the lies and bullshit very easily. I called it lying for Jesus. Apparently its ok to make stuff up to make others look like monsters if they have a different religion.. it was all over the place in the lutheran school.
My experience with pentecostals has been a mixed bag. One family is like my own, spent christmas with them in 03 while I was having the military correct my vision. Others decided they could mistreat anyone who didn't share their version of the religion, and they did.
My worst three supervisors, who capriciously and intentionally fucked up large things in my life, were pentecostal and southern baptist. It seems evangelicals and I are like oil and water. I can get along with everyone else without much problem. I realize they are not indicative of the whole, but the family who is close to me never had authority over me and wanted nothing from me. We game online together. Different dynamic.
Mistreatment by religious people isn't enough to sway my opinion, but seeing how people would fabricate things to make themselves look pious and others look like monsters, well that got the ball rolling.
then I got into science, because I was learning to make fuel ethanol for my muscle cars. Got into biology and chemistry, which led me to astronomy, astro physics and physics in general. I had been into geology since high school, so where i Live now is fascinating as glaciers dumped rocks from all over north Canada here. We have igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks along the lake shore. Its seriously a cool thing.
The more I learned, the more it became obvious god has no clue how it all works. So it dawned on me, that what is the simpler answer, that there is an all power all knowing being who has no idea about orbital mechanics, or that a bunch of desert nomadic goat herders came up with explanations to the hows, whys, and where's asked by kids of the gray haired people. Occams razor in action..
Then I learned about logical fallacies, found it fascinating that people will use them so often to defend the narratives in their ideologies. I reflected upon my past experiences, and realized human nature goes against most ideologies, especially marxism. Nobody wants to have what they earned taken from them and given to those who haven't earned anything. Nobody wants to work for no benefit either. the big one, women are not wonderful and always the victim.
the more I saw ideology from the outside of it, the more they all look the same. Its kinda like all the marxist ones are turds with varied sprinkles on them. Its still a turd no matter what you do to it. the others are less offensive, even with islam I can see the better points in it, but man there is some atrocious abhorrent shit in all of them.
I like to learn things, discover how it works, and why it does what it does. That can be stars, volcanoes, cars, people, and even ideas. I like to understand it as completely as possible, its how I have always been. Its not a passing thing where I simply accept the narrative. If it matters, I look into it and test it myself to find out what the facts are.
My ethanol project is huge in that regard, tons of misinformation out there about it. I can test all of it. I can't exactly test how a star works, but I can do the math on it and see how they come to the conclusion. You can't math god did it. Its a + or -, no gray area you have to believe or not. I asked myself, why did I try so hard to believe what I was told in school, despite the fact it made almost no sense. The answer was "for the approval of others" because that is what I was trained to do.
Problem is, when you grow up being beaten at random, neglected and mistreated by even your own family, you stop looking for approval in others, because they will probably beat you anyway. So when I see an ideology that requires force and violence to push its agenda, I see it as weak, unable to stand on its own. The only religion I have seen so far that doesn't rely on aggression, guilt, fear, and shame is buddism/taoism. Doesn't mean I will get into and follow them, they simply aren't as hell bent on authority as the others... though they are still capable of being authoritarian.
For me its not singling out any one religion/ideology, its about weighing them and seeing where they go, where they came from, and what the results of them are when they are in power.
About the only ideology I follow is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I am an E Pluribus Unum type, rather than an In God We Trust type. I don't pursue happiness, I pursue accomplishment, knowledge, capability, and the satisfaction that comes from doing something well. Happy is a fleeting thing, driving a car I built from a rusty heap of shit into an ultra reliable and quick daily driver, now that is the sort of satisfaction that you only get after overcoming an arduous struggle.
If you want to know more about that, check out Jordan Peterson's videos on the heroic struggle. He explains it quite well, and he is the reason I no longer have a vehement opposition to religion, because most people need it and he explained it in such a way it made sense. Boil it down though, and its about control. Its good to have control, but a loose grip is much better than a tight one on it.
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@jonrussell7567 One of my carry pieces is 15+1 of double stacked .45, and it can be suppressed as well. (gotta save that hearing) It stops trucks of peace with a few well placed rounds. A .44 would work well too, but it goes through more things so what is behind the target is more important, and you're usually limited to 6 shots.
They will run and hide the first time rounds come their way, they are weak and will only attack when they know there will not be a reply in kind. They have seen the videos of their wimpy friends getting rag dolled despite being armed too, they don't want any of that. It won't happen in states where concealed carry is a shall issue thing and people take advantage of it.
The guy who clocked that kid in the one video that is famous, I might not be as tall as he is, but I make the dude look thin. Throw in training with my hyper vigilance, and they gotta get real lucky.
I'd rather have one of my rifles, or the SPAS12 with sabot slugs, but yeah even a 9mm fmj goes through doors and glass. I'll have to test my daughter's S&W .380 on some junk cars, see how far it penetrates. I think not far.
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@jonrussell7567 A societal collapse would be a nightmare even for those of us who have land and the ability to produce energy..e.g. food, fuel, electricity, etc. Yeah I can live on fish, deer, rabbits, make vodka fuel to run my generator and vehicles, use methane and wood for heat, but its a shit ton of work and its very seasonal.
I do all of that stuff, and from December 1 to March 1 there isn't much I can do but wait for the snow to go away. Once the tree sap starts flowing and I can collect it for fuel, the work starts and its assholes and elbows until December. That is with being able to go into town to get food, and also being able to use gasoline and get supplies. So I really don't want that. The way I am forced to live right now is like a long ass deployment where nobody is shooting at me. It sucks, but its all I can afford to do. Death would be a blessing most days.
If the country goes to shit and they use the morons to justify more bullshit like they did after 9/11 (I was deployed to Kuwait when that happened), or worse case scenario the socialists get control somehow, my life here in the woods stops, it continues somewhere else with like minded individuals who aren't going to allow that to persist.
Thing is, we can't escalate it, the soymunists (I dig that) are the ones who have to escalate things, we merely contain them and don't engage unless we have to. Let public opinion swing to where those smacktarded nanners are looking like the villains, and things will work out. Its a hears and minds thing, not a force of arms thing.. until it becomes a force of arms thing. Then you and I, along with a million others, get to do it again.
The only hope I have, and really its how things seem to work out around here, is that the marxist halfwits run out of steam when people realize what they actually are, and that putting democratic ahead of socialism doesn't change the fact the end result will still be abject poverty, gulags, and mass graves. People like bloomberg are only making people realize how tyrannical the dems are becoming.
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@ROGGOAT07 I never took gold in a wrestling tournament, lots of 3rd place medals. I was 167lbs, the toughest weight class in Nebraska and Iowa, you had to be strong like the 185 and heavy, but quick like the small guys. I was close to the strongest, but not the fastest, and 5'7 to 5'9 guys dominated the weight class. Most matches I lost were by 1 or 2 points, I didn't get pinned, but most of my wins were pins.
I'm not a champion..
Also I went rounds in bracket racing, but never won the whole race. That is more about skill and consistency than physical strength. Drag racing is a lot of fun, and bracket racing takes most of the fun out of it, but its still fun.
The USAF made me the muscle bound freak I am. They nearly worked me to expiration in the two largest airlifts in world history.. yay me... 15" arms before the 1990 war, 22" after. Zero time spent in a gym. but I was on the flightline every night without a day off for more than six months.
Looking back it kinda sucked to be me.
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@MDE_never_dies Its funny that his name is actually Chad. He married a VERY hot chick and had four kids with her, she stayed thin and at 34 she was still smokin.. Long dark hair, big ol rack, trim waist.. but the wall was approaching fast. She left him when she was 34 to hook up with a 60 year old Doctor she met online, dude was bald, 40lbs overweight, and same height as her.
Chad is a farmer, he not only makes bank, he has $200k in the account he runs the farm on, just sitting there for expenses. Thankfully she didn't take any of his land or make him sell it, but she chose very poorly. Her Dr hit it for a couple years, and moved on to another younger one.
Chad went to Ukraine and brought back a 28 year old 5'4 mega hotty. I surprised her at my dad's funeral by talking to her in Russian. I learned it in Korea, with all the Russian juicys that were there at the time. Chad doesn't know any of it, so it was fun making him wonder what I was saying to her. I'm not quite conversational in Russian or German, but I can get around there if I need to.
I told him he was daft for getting married again, because he can pull any tail he wants, catch and release style. We will see how it goes when she gets her green card. She might stay with him, who knows.
I have game and muscle, thats it really. Couple that with the ability to read nonverbal communication ie body language, and I was able to pull lots of them. I am still awed at the Russian speaking women, even the homely ones are incredibly good looking and ultra feminine.
However you have to be a strong willed man to have one of them, because they will test you with fitness tests that make US females look tame. They will lose all respect for you at the slightest sign of weakness.
My suggestion for average guys is Thailand or the PI. Thai women are usually smokin hot, big racks on tiny chicks is common. Let me tell ya, they can cook too.. Arab women are good if you can manage to meet and marry one, its nearly impossible to do for a pale dude from the US. Had one of them too, she was amazing, we are still friends 32 years after her mother called off our engagement. Long story...
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Republicans are playing by the rules, democrats are not. When democrats 'win' there is no inquiry into the 'found' votes in the middle of the night that put them ahead of the republican candidates. They did this in Wisconsin when Evers won, and Michigan when Whitmer won, and now they did it again this year. 150,000 votes with 0 voters registered in the precincts. Everything they did here in Michigan was shady as fuck this election, particularly in Detroit where they blocked the view of the counting when those 150k votes showed up. Obvious fraud is obvious, but if the dems are allowed to take control without an inquiry, it simply stands.
Go ahead, put Biden in office, lets see how this plays out. Because when he starts ripping up the Constitution, he is going to have a big problem on his hands, and when Creepy Joe is kicked out for dementia Kamala will just get her Nuke Em all anti gun tsar to start bombing US citizens. This is the first time I have actually been concerned about a dem being in office, and I voted for the black guy before the orange guy.
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Fecal Matter thats a nice ad hoc ergo propter hoc ya did right there, very few females are funny, Nicole is quite funny very often. Whitney Cummings is not. Sarah Silverman made me laugh one time when she did the "I'm fucking Matt Damon video, but mostly that was because Matt Damon was in it. Joe had a blond chick on last year who was funny on his show, but her standup is meh.
Joe Rogan, kinda funny sometimes, but his buddy Krischer is a lot funnier.
I did stand up for a short time back in the early 90s, I know what it takes to get up there and try to make people laugh. Most females do not have it, and thanks to evolutionary pressures they really had no need to be funny. Just be available and you propagate.
I am not the only one with that opinion, its an observable fact that most chicks go for low hanging fruit, vagina jokes like the fat chick who touched her sister, and stuff that is only funny to ideologues like other feminists. Typically small minded stuff.
Nicole has a unique view of things, and how she puts it is endearing, she is one of very few. She is kinda like a female Bo Burnham without the nerdy quirkiness. That kid is out there like Robin Williams was in the 70s, so she is not exactly run of the mill funny either. I think she would be fun to hang out around and bounce crazy ideas between us, but its not gonna happen. I dig on her videos and have for a long time.
You do realize simping won't get ya laid, right? Kissing a girl's ass makes them dry up like the Gobi for you.
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Man they are so different, having emotional reasons why they eat so much. I can't fathom that, eating is a chore to me, for the most part.
Emotions are not why I am a SFG, I am 325 because muscle weighs more, and the US military packed a lot of it on me. Twice.. then wiped out most of my joints overworking me. Now, with all the mass, it doesn't take much to make me look pudgy. You can see my ribs, my arms and legs have surprisingly good definition considering I am 5'8" its not being able to run, and my body having a tendency to pack on muscle or pudge depending on activity.
Even with the really bad knees, I just unloaded 2,000lbs of wood pellets in 40lb bags, two at a time, in 20 minutes. Carrying them about 25-30 feet from the bed of my pickup to the place in the house where I store them. Two years ago I shoveled 12 tons of gravel from the back of my truck in about 6 hours, which included the 20 min drive both ways to get more gravel.
The scale doesn't matter as much to me as being able to fit in clothes, and not have flab everywhere. Currently I have a belly... thats about it. I could get down to 280 maybe 270, but I'd be ripped like a body builder if I did. Real hard to do that without running, and my 2004 deployment ensured I will never run again. Oh right now I am around 1500 calories a day.
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This is what marxists do, they try to break you down and tell you that you are nothing more than the color of your skin, you do not have a history, you don't matter, you are just like everyone else. Its a religion, or cult, the state is their god, the politicians are the priests, everyone else works to support them in the marxist model. They claim otherwise, but they are indoctrinated zealots. My family came from Germany to the USA in the late 1800s. So I get called a nazi and other crap, when I have never been a socialist or any other form of marxist, my family fought against the nazis in WWII and I fought against communism/socialism and islamic jihadis. Then they try to say we are bad because we are white and being proud of your lineage is a bad thing. My family is farmers, machinists, mechanics, engineers, and military men. That is our culture, its what we are not only good at, but thrive in doing.
They want you to be obedient, subservient, and servile. They want you that way so they can own you, run your life, and make you do what they want you to do, they do not care about you despite claiming they do. I will never submit to them, never obey them. They have a sworn enemy in me, and they will until the day I die. That ideology is the most abhorrent atrocity ever foisted upon humans, and they act and talk like they are doing 'good' for us... just like every other authoritarian religion.
To a marxist, you are cattle, live stock.. a resource to be plundered. Do not acquiesce to them, do not go quietly into the yokes they will put on you.
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Trump knows how to influence women, and what they are going to do and how they will react when he does something. If you are the type of man who does not bow down to women, you will be quite a bit like Trump. The democrats are all thinking like women do, even the males, they react the same way women do, so they are just as easily influenced or manipulated as the silly bints making all the noise.
Female thinking: Share what is brought to you with everyone, everyone gets a fair piece, spend the money at home, do not go out looking around because we need safety right here. They are ruled by emotion, and damn near every argument used by the democrats is an appeal to emotion fallacy.
Male thinking: Everyone gets what they earn, if you earn shit you get shit. Men need to explore because they go out and find the resources needed by the women and children, so they are not afraid of going over the mountain to find more food so to speak. Men ensure safety for women and children by a willingness to do what needs to be done, no matter how unsavory or dangerous.
Trump is a male who knows women, and yeah men can easily act like women, its what the left wants them to do because they are weak and easily manipulated. Trump is taking advantage of it.
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You probably won't read this, but I will write it anyway. In 2006 with gas prices going over $5 a gallon here, and me being on a fixed income after getting messed up on my last deployment to the persian gulf, I started looking at fuels I can produce myself to power my old muscle cars. I looked at hydrogen, methane, methanol, ethanol, and drop in replacements for gasoline like butanol. There was no way I could afford to drive with those gas prices, and I live 13 miles from town. Even with a front drive V6 Gran Prix it was too expensive.
The key focus for me was how much money was it going to cost me to produce the stuff, and how much work to make it.
By far methane is the easiest to produce and utilize, but like hydrogen you have to compress it into liquid and you still have limited range. The expense of a 22k psi fuel system and a means of compressing it to that limited both hydrogen and methanol to add ons or supplements. Then you need to store super cold fuel under incredible pressure.... just a bit beyond your average gearhead. Lots of energy goes into hydrogen to produce it, far more than other fuels as it needs to bebroken from oxygen in water... and that takes massive amounts of electricity. Not a big thing in Iceland where they have geothermal power, but a rather big problem in northern Michigan where I live.
I looked into methanol. I have run it in radio controlled aircraft and vehicles, and it has a host of special instructions. After run oil, top end lube, stainless everything, special parts, and you can't let it sit for long in the car, overnight will start to cause problems eventually. Making methanol takes a lot of energy, but there are multiple means of producing it. It is highly toxic, only 10ml can kill you. The entire process is toxic, so there is lots of risk and therefore expense involved. Yes it makes lots of power, but you have to make twice as much of it because of the way it runs, and the O2 it has in it.... which is why it makes more power. It burns too cold, so water doesn't get boiled out of the crankcase, and raw fuel seeps past the rings which dilutes the oil. That causes oil changes to be more frequent.
Butanol is an interesting one, its made with bacteria, and takes roughly 100 gallons of water to produce one gallon. It too is highly toxic like methanol, but for the most part you can run it in a gasoline compression ratio engine with minimal tuning changes. The toxicity, expense, and lack of capability that every other fuel I have mentioned thus far save for gasoline has... the ability to cope with high compression ratios. Its a rather exotic and very expensive fuel, so its out.
I came to ethanol, which many people confuse with methanol, particularly in how much fuel it needs to run, the corrosivity, and how its made. Most people assume they are the same thing just made from different things, ethanol from corn, methanol from wood. The reality of it is people drink ethanol every day, the stuff that goes in gasoline to raise the octane rating and lower emissions is the exact same stuff that is in wine, whiskey, beer, etc. Its vodka... moonshine is a very low proof ethanol.
I have been running ethanol in my 1970 GTO since 2007, the 1965 GTO since 2018, the 68 LeMans since 2014 (all of them have 455-461 cube Pontiac engines in them). I have run it in modern EFI fueled vehicles like a 98 Formula with the LS1, 92 F150 with a 5.0, 98 Gran Prix with a 3800 V6, and several LS powered trucks. None of which are rated as flexfuel. So far the only problems I have are with pump gas varnishing everything, causing rust, and not wanting to run after sitting for two months. I have ethanol that is 8 years old that runs great, just keep it out of direct sunlight and its fine. You never heard of vodka or scotch going bad have you? no rust, no corrosion, and my fuel lines and gaskets last far longer than they ever did on gasoline, especially race gas.
The 70 GTO has 13:1 compression, that requires more than 110 octane race gas. The 65 has 11.5:1 which requires 105 to 110 octane. The 68 has pump gas friendly aluminum heads and 10.5:1, it would run happily on 91 octane with its 461. I run them all on home made vodka, and E85. I don't even bother building pump gas engines anymore. The 70 had a pump gas friendly 8.8:1 455 in it from 1995 to 2010 when the 13:1 engine went in, and the ethanol engine makes considerably more power, like a full second and a half faster in the quarter mile while getting the same 20mpg mileage (with carburetors and we are talking 12s and low 11s, not 16s in the quarter). Its all in the static compression ratio, cam timing, and utilizing the heat rather than just shedding it all like you have to with gasoline. If you run ethanol like I do, in a low compression engine, it will get worse mileage every time. Raise the static over 12:1 with iron heads and you get the same mileage. There are other things you can do too, and I am working on demonstrating those.
So how does it stack up dollar wise? For about $5k I have everything I need to produce fuel, except I really want a larger boiler so I can run 500 or 1000 gallon batches. it takes ten gallons of water to produce two gallons of fuel, using the yeast I like best. The water is not lost, its not in need of treatment, and I can reuse it if I want. So a 1000 gallon boiler will get me 200 gallons per run. That means I only need two or three runs per year. One $4 bag of yeast will do all the fuel I need for the year, by culturing them a little goes a long way. I am working on various methods of heating the stills, but I have gotten the cost down to 10 cents per gallon using tree sap, and 40 cents per gallon using cattails. Cattails make more than twice as much fuel per acre as corn does, and they are considered weeds in most places. They require an enzyme like corn does, to turn the starch into sugar so the yeast can eat it. Thats why it costs more, you need to add enzymes to it when you use starch.
So gasoline is $3.40 a gallon here, and someone else produces it, ships it here, and tells me what I must pay for it. Then it will not run in my engines with more than 9:1 compression using iron heads. Gasoline leaves varnish in the fuel system as well as copious amounts of carbon in the engine which causes wear. They also require a large cooling system because of the crazy amount of waste heat from gasoline.
I get to enjoy high compression, cooler operating temps, more power, no carbon in my engines so they are just as clean inside as when they were assembled, and filling a 20 gallon tank doesn't cost me over $60, its around $2 with a couple weeks of work to produce enough fuel for the year. Its a week to collect the sap, three to four days of running the stills, and a couple days cleaning afterwards. Mostof that time is spent waiting for the sap to fill the containers or the yeast to piss vodka.
Emissions... neat ethanol only emits CO2 and H2O when its burned in an engine. The CO2 coming from trees and cattails means its carbon neutral, not that I think CO2 is a bad thing, more of it makes my plants grow faster and produce more food. Thats why its pumped into greenhouses. Still it should be making the people happy who don't understand things like the water cycle, history, and how correlation doesn't equal causation. They want all the ICE engines gone though, and they cannot control the production of home made vodka, so they cannot control the price, or how far you drive or how fast. They do not profit from you having to go somewhere if you are making the fuel at home.
Unless you can produce your own electricity (I'm working on that too) you will stay beholden to someone else for your energy needs. They will be able to shut it off, or make you pay whatever they want, just so you can get around... or you will have to ride the bus.
I will not stop building V8s, I love the Pontiac design, and the LS is a good engine as well, they are a lot alike. However, I want to see what a small high compression engine like a Buick 3800 V6 can do, because they get mid 30s mpg pulling around bulky 4 doors. I have a vehicle in the works using one of those engines for a test mule. Think Ariel Atom with bodywork to improve the aero and you get the idea...
If one of the OEs wanted to impress me, they would do something with the Brazilian engines rather than trying to make it even more difficult to produce fuel and expensive to drive yourself. They don't have as much job security when you can make fuel at home and your engines don't wear out..
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Its difficult to trust them when the majority of women who want you are married or have boyfriends. Having them facetime their boyfriend while riding me, trying not to laugh or cough, but making her roll her eyes back a little. Watching them text their guy as I'm behind her, telling him how much she loves him and wants to see him later that night...
I was looking for the long term thing, family, memories together, and improving our lives and that of our kids. I was NOT looking to have 150 to 200 of them open up for me. That kinda happened, because I was always looking for one to be with me on my life journey. Didn't have the internet 35 years ago, didn't have anyone telling us all this stuff until ten years ago. You guys get the benefit from us old guys who learned all this the hard way.
What the guy with the clipboard says is exactly right.
Apparently for 30 years of my life I was a 7-8, surprising for a 5'8" guy without much money. It was relatively easy for me to get women, but very few of them wanted to keep me around for any length of time. I was the 'fun' man, checking off boxes for them, muscles, uniform, bad boy, etc. The gray blue eyes and deep voice really helped too. In my 30s the hotness of what I could get jumped up by a lot. In my 40s it went up again. I was getting 20 somethings all the time in my 40s, and I had a soft harem of 5 to 8 I could call up and get with. The 2.5 years between my LTRs/marriages I had that going on and before I got married to some extent.
Having some smoking hot one eyeing me as I walked around with my daughter when she was a teenager was a new thing for me in my mid 30s. My kid is same height as I am, and got a rack from her mom, long blond hair, so everyone thought she was with me. The 40+ crowd of females gives me dirty looks when I am out with my kid, I smile back at them, they could have had a kid this cute too... if I was the father. heh...
I was surprised by it to be honest, since everyone said men over 40 are unwanted. Now I am 54, I try to NOT be attractive to women by keeping my belly, but now I need to get rid of it so I can fit between the bars of the roll cage in my drag car. That and the blood pressure and how much my feet hurt after standing/walking just needs to go away.
Still get 20 somethings flirting and hittin on me, the 30 somethings are looking for a wallet to plunder and they can tell I am not that guy, then the 40 somethings and up smile at me in public and hope I will talk to them, judging by their body language. Then they see I am wearing the clothes in which I work on my cars, oil stained, ripped up a bit, and they assume I am broke. The $300 redwing boots are completely overlooked by most of them.
Then if its summer they see me get in the 1970 Cuda or 1965 GTO and I bet they wonder what the hell is going on. My winter beater 2000 Silverado is the perfect disguise. Its maroon with a silver bed, because the maroon bed rusted away and I put on another one. Its beat, rusty, and loud. Runs great with 196k on it. They don't see the other 25 Pontiac muscle cars I own, the 3 vintage Fords (two mustangs and a Cougar), and the vintage trucks, like the 1950 chevy, and 76 and 84 C10s.
If I hook up with one, I lose time and money I could be investing in my vehicles. Can't be having that, I need to get things done before I reach my expiration date.
Can't trust them as far as I can throw them. I have been the side guy far too often so I know better. However, I really enjoy getting busy, and when I get a hot one I want to keep doing it with her. Can't trust myself sometimes, I will drop what I am doing and go get some, its a lot of fun when you're 50 and nailing some chick 3 years younger than your 27 year old daughter. My kid laughs at me, and she sees how women react to me when she is with me somewhere.
The strange thing is I never have and still do not think of myself as attractive. Yet here I am gray and pudgy with lots of muscle being obscured, and I still get attention from them. Its never made sense to me.
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@sandraajuzia2181 I'll give you my perspective, which might vary with other men. I am not having any more kids, mine are in their late 20s and I decided not to put myself in a position where the most important people in my life could be take away on a whim a second time.
If I could find a woman I can trust, who treats me with respect, is pleasant to be around, works with me to improve our lives that we share together rather than demanding I carry the burdens, that won't decide to trade me in the first or second time I fall ill, well I wouldn't mind if she didn't have kids. She has to be and remain physically attractive to me, and I would do so for her as well, as much as I can within my limitations... I can no longer run, and haven't been able to since 2004. Hard to stay in great shape when you can't run.
My second ex wife did not want kids, and I was perfectly amenable to that.
At this point in my life, mid 50s, a woman without kids that won't be having any is a bonus. However, most of them who are over 30 and unmarried are single due to poor choices on her part. She has probably passed up wonderful men hoping to get a better one, and feeling like she deserves to have the absolute best.
Its like finding a clean needle in a stack of needles that have some bloodborne pathogen on them. Its best not to poke around trying to find one and simply live alone, doing the things I want to do.
Now if I found a woman like that, who liked me and wanted to share in my lifestyle, is willing to put in effort and doesn't want to spend me into debt, I would probably give her a chance. Things that would get her removed from the position would be irrational arguments of any subject, nagging, disrespecting or talking down to me, getting angry over irrational or irrelevant things, and the big one.. trying to tell me how to live or what I can and cannot do. I lead, she follows, and we work together to achieve the things I want to do.
We can work on her things too, its not all about me, but the homestead and vehicles come first because that is where I live and how I get around.
Bear in mind, the things I do are fun and also geared towards living a sustainable life. Its a very unique woman who wants to live the life I have with me, and do the things I do. My kids are old enough to lead their own lives. Most women want me to sell of my old cars so she can have access to the money, thats the main thing that keeps me from allowing anyone in.
When men get old like I am, we want peace and quiet, someone who will make our life better without adding stress to it gets to stay. I sacrificed my youth to get where I am, and I am too old to rebuild again, so she would never be in a position where she can take what I have built from me.
I know many women, several of which do not want or cannot have kids, but that is not the reason they are not allowed to share my life with me. Its other things, her size, her appearance/grooming, smells/scents, attitudes, or a lack of dependability.
I try not to date young women for long, even if they want to stick around, because I am not having kids and I do not want to deprive them of a family. They have a time limit, I am not selfish, and its up to them to find a good father for their kids. It will not be me.
Her not having kids is more desirable to me. She could go the rest of my life and probably never meet my kids, so its like I don't even have any. The problem is all the other things, because a woman with all those qualities is rarely single beyond 25.
A man who wants a family will want a woman between 18 and 28 to have them.
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@sandraajuzia2181 I know lots of men like that. Now that we are older, most of our parents are gone now, but there is no shortage of them.
The messed up thing about what you want, is really simple. Every woman that I have showed her that I care, more than the most superficial, has done the same thing. Taken me for granted, then shared herself with other men, and some of them assumed I would continue to support her as she did that.
How does that affect you? Well men all over the world are discovering the same thing, so we are becoming more reserved, and we will not commit anymore. We will not tell you how much we care about you, because then you will leave or be unfaithful. That is based on experience, what we have learned from other women.
Now when a woman gives me attention, appreciation, and she shows how much she cares about me, I make sure she knows I appreciate it. After everything I have been through though, there is and always will be a suspicion that she is doing so to get something out of me, and once she gets it, she leaves.
Its not your fault, its not our fault either, but it is part of a deliberate plan to destroy family. Women are the only ones who can repair it, because they are the beneficiaries of all the laws, men are punished for what women do. So men are incentivized to stop interacting with women. That is the logical step when everything we do leads to legal issues when we interact with women.
So if you truly want one of us, you need to be realistic about him, and be faithful to him, all while encouraging other women to do the same. Until enough of you do that, men such as myself, will continue to not ask you out, not commit, and go on with our lives doing the things we want.
FYI when I want to, I can look a lot better than what I show the world on here. heh.. I like to make people laugh if the visit me.
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@sandraajuzia2181 if you are a good person, stay faithful, loyal, and treat him well, then yeah one of us older guys would probably enjoy having your company. The trick for you is to be and stay physically attractive, because if you are overly large or covered in ink, your opportunities dwindle fast. It works both ways, you have to be good to and for each other.
You also have to find a man who doesn't prefer to be alone over 40. Men such as myself prefer solitude, but I would be amenable to having a friend who looks good, treats me well, spends time with me, but doesn't live here. She will probably not be living anywhere near me, the women here are terrible.
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I'm inclined to agree that we can't just shut off fossil fuels, wind and solar aren't going to cut it. EVs are not the answer unless you live in an urban area where its warm most of the year (as in above 40F) and you have short commutes. Sure EVs are popular and work in Norway, but the gulf stream keeps Europe a lot warmer all winter than Michigan, Montana, Alberta, or Siberia. The range needed is not hundreds of miles either. Travelling 1000 miles in Europe means going all the way across it. For me its Michigan to Nebraska, not even half way across the US. I can do that in 14 hours pulling a trailer with my 24 year old truck, trying that with an EV would mean several travel days just to get there.
Bear in mind this is not coming from someone who is saying things like 'dig up more dinosaurs because I need gasoline...' other than to study the bones of course.
I produce ethanol from cattails to power my muscle cars, 1965 GTO, 1970 GTO, 1968 LeMans, and when I get some others built, they will run on my home made vodka fuel as well. Other than the used plastic tanks and pipe employed to ferment the starch/sugar, very little in the way of fossil fuels are used. I produce and use methane to heat the stills, its super simple to produce and use methane, but it doesn't work very well for vehicles because like hydrogen the range is very short. Also I use biomass, as in wood pellets made from sawdust to heat my home, along with another system that heats water to 140F without burning anything.
Why do I produce fuel and heat with primitive methods? Well its cheaper for me, because I can make cattail vodka for 10 to 40 cents a gallon. Premium is $4 here, it just came down from $5 two months ago. New gas station owners are having a price war where the old owners colluded to set prices high. They incentivized me to produce fuel for my cars starting back in 2007, and my fuel is VERY cheap compared to race gas which is the closest correlation, that stuff is $12 a gallon and up.
CNG is not available where I live, so I make my own, rather than buying it (or LPG) from someone else at a large markup to cover their expenses and make some profit. To put it in $$$ on propane my heating bill is $1200 a month, using wood pellets its just increased to $320 a month. I have the heat on from October to June because the snow shows up from November to May. My cost to replenish the hot water heater varies, but its usually $300 for the entire year.
The most difficult thing for me to do up here on the 46th parallel is producing electricity without unruly noise and expense. Wind is gale force or calm, not much in between. Solar doesn't work well because daylight is VERY short, particularly in winter, it gets light about 0830 and dark around 1730. In summer the sun is still a sharp angle rather than nearly directly overhead. Sure you get some energy, but its expensive and intermittent. This is the latest thing I am working on, producing useable electricity for myself without a noisy generator and messy acid batteries. The lithium based batteries are too expensive for me.
There is quite a bit involved with producing AC current, you have to get the hertz right along with voltage and amperage or you fry whatever you are trying to run on it. I can run a generator on methane or ethanol for months, but then I have that droning engine out there. As it stands the coal fired power plant feeding me grid power is the way to go... except it went out this morning, which is a common thing.
Its not an agenda to help the environment being pushed on us, its using environmental assertions to justify the agenda.
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When you play "Who is the biggest victim" all you are doing is dividing people based on rather arbitrary criteria. Identity politics is for those who can paint themselves as the biggest loser, the least capable victim, and they get points for being the most pathetic. Cool idea guys. You will always get this type of shit because people want to be in the popular group, they want the in group preference, and they like to see themselves as the 'other' who is oppressed by the majority. That delicious victim based attention is what they salivate over.
The weak minded and bodied types cling to this, incorrectly assuming they are the pinnacle of human advancement and arbiters of morality. They are unwilling to go out and work to get what they want, to get better, stronger, and more knowledgeable. They want it given to them because they are poor helpless, defenseless little kids, and enough whining about being helpless often gets you a cookie or two out of sympathy. They are playing the sympathy for victims card, and demanding to be given what they do not have because they have not earned it.
I was the short fat kid with zero friends and fucked with constantly. So many beatings I can't remember them all. Did I whine about it and demand everyone bow to me because I was the biggest loser? No, I changed everything about myself, got stronger, and went from the weakest, even the girls could beat me, to the strongest in the entire school. Those who played the victim have gone nowhere, and blame not having privilege or some other shit. I was poor as fuck, living in a poor as fuck state in the middle of nowhere, and yet I put in monumental effort and achieved things most never could, seen things most never will, and been part of history watching it unfold before my very eyes and not watching it on TV. Rather than saying poor me, I got off my ass and did things. I learned how and why. The only advantage I had was the mindset that I will not be a victim, I will not sit idly by and take this shit, I will do something about it.
You do not let the victim mentality idiots call the shots, because this is what you get. Its a religion, it acts like one too. They wall want to be oppressed for victim points, but want to tell everyone else how to live so they themselves will benefit most from it. Fuck that. I live my way, and if you are too much of a candy ass to go earn it, I give zero fucks.
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The thing in Canada is what direction they will go. Men are checking out, not committing to females, not dating. So how can the state force men to pay for females? By making it legal for her to say "I feel like his wife/girlfriend so I deserve support" and child support for kids that are not his. My home state will garnish your pay and give it to a girl you have never slept with, who you don't even know, if she claims you are the father and you do not prove you are not within 30 days. Its up to you to know about the lawsuit, and if they send it to the place you used to live, its still your fault and you are going to end up paying her.
The more we check out, the more the state will throw out due process, evidence requirements, and they will force random men to pay for females with zero benefit to the man. De facto married, but you get nothing out of it. I go by Thumper in real life, the only people who know my real name see my debit card or something official like that. If I am out looking for some strange, my name is Raoul or Sergio. Good luck falsely accusing me. I've had more than enough of false accusations already, lost two houses, most of my income, and sat in jail for things I did not do.
Imagine how lucrative it could be for females, the court making every guy she sleeps with pay her support... The only way out we have when they rescind our passport and other licenses is to self delete. That is what they want, either we pay and support someone like a slave/indenture or we end it all. It pains me that my daughters will probably never have a good relationship, but any man who gets married in the west is an idiot.
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Yeah, the long starch chains in cellulose/lignin are what keep things like switchgrass from being used. There are yeast strains that are genetically modified so they can eat cellulose and release etoh, but they are NOT something you want to get out into the real world.. imagine everything plant based being dissolved like a blight. Not a pretty thing.
There is a better feedstock than switchgrass and sorghum. It doesn't grow on cropland, it grows in places we don't really think of as useful. Cattails. Doesn't have to be a swamp, doesn't have to be a pond, just has to be damp enough for them and they grow profusely and are rather difficult to eradicate. I have cattails growing in my back yard, which is dry most of the summer, as in its not a swamp.
Cattails dwarf corn for yield per acre, wild cattails make around 1000 gallons per acre. Corn makes 250 to 500 gallons per acre, depending on if its irrigated or not. Cultivated and used to remediate waste runoff from livestock enclosures jumps the yield to over 10,000 gallons per acre, WHILE cleaning the water at the same time. The roots have 6 times the starch of potatoes, and they are easy to get to if you build the bed for them correctly.
I am working on the cattails to fuel thing, I need to get the two single acre beds done, and increase my production capacity to match. Its really quite easy to make etoh from cattails, knock the starch out of the fibrous roots, add a couple enzymes and wait a few days, heat it over 140F to shut off the enzymes and eradicate any competition for the yeast, then add yeast and wait a week or two.
The fun part is my cost, using easy to produce methane to power the stills, generator, and used for cold start aid, my cost per gallon is between 10 and 40 cents. There are so many other things that can be done in addition to making fuel, like earth worm ranching... because worm castings are highly desired for gardens and greenhouses. Also the Co2 from fermentation can be captured and fed into greenhouses, along with the exhaust from the generator, which is Co2 and H2O.
Its quite fun to do all of this.
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@elisabethn7962 at this point in life, the only thing keeping me here is my old cars, and wanting to build them. If that motivation was taken from me, my entire life would change in an instant, and not for the better.
Ended up in the ER two weeks ago because I couldn't walk due to the pain and swelling. I'd been trying to get the VA for a month, the line was always busy, and from Thursday at noon to Monday at 0800 you can't reach them anyway. This is my life now.
I've had shrinks hear my whole story and comment they are surprised I am still alive after so much abuse, hardship, and loss. There were things I wanted to do with my life, and a few times even those weren't enough to keep me here because they were taken from me. I scraped by somehow.
I avoid people now, because most of the stress and all of the violence I have endured has been at the hands of others. I will not allow anyone else to have power or control over me.
Ex wives, people higher up in my chain of command, family members, random people, many of them fucked me over, so rather than getting revenge, I withdrew. Sitting in a small cell is worse than being alone but being able to build my cars, spend time with dogs, and once in a while get laid.
Through the years people have tried to remove the cars from me. They don't get that doing that work is what keeps me here, and several people who fucked me over alive. One shrink figured out that my cars are my family, because people have almost always turned against me when I let them close. Old GTOs and Firebirds aren't going to fuck me over, but people will.
I am not a victim, I withdrew from society in order to protect others from me, and to keep me out of a small room with bars. I go weeks without speaking to other humans face to face, only to my dogs. I get my social time reading and writing comments, and playing games online with friends.
We can only take so much, and then we either break or we fight back. I did not break, but I managed to not give in and let the violence out. It hasn't gone away, its still in there, waiting and watching. I know I am a monster that doesn't fit with society. Problem is there are more of them, but at some point with enough bullshit heaped upon me, that won't matter anymore. I already don't care if I am alive or dead, so without the cars anything can happen.
Its best to leave me alone, let me do my thing, and I won't bother anyone. If they try to take from me and control me, it will be epic and the world will know my name. I'd rather stay a nobody who builds old cars.
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@cheshzone5281 thanks for the kind words and the reply, people have said I should write a book, I am considering it. Currently I am mired in family business and moving a bunch of vehicles. Its a long story in and of itself. Over the winter I just might start writing it.
You and I come from a different time, where people were expected to be honest and false accusations were not taken seriously unless there was merit to them, and proof against those accusations mattered. Females can do anything they want, and their husband or boyfriend will be responsible for it, even years after the divorce is final. We are always guilty, they are always the poor helpless victim.
It doesn't make sense to us, but that is the legal system. People like Joe Rogan have not been through it, so they assume we are outliers, not the typical result. There are millions of men like us who have been raked over spikes, broken glass, and red hot coals by females and the family court systems. Its all 'legal' and we are responsible for everything with no rights. She has all the rights and minimal responsibilities. She can do everything wrong and be rewarded at our expense for it.
its just how it is and nobody is going to change the laws any time soon. Instead they are expanding it, like in Canada.. where women sue for spousal support despite never having been married to, lived with, or in a relationship with a man. He has to pay for a passing fling, a side chick at best, just like he spent 25 years with her.
Sounds bleak, doesn't it? Well my friend, we are old and that is a plus if you look at it right. I am not lonely, though I live alone. I am not desperate for attention from females, I have been enjoying my life and my solitude. Its quiet here, I can hear birds singing outside as I write this, there is one with a unique call and I often mess with him by mimicking his call.
I am not longer forced to pay a girl that is fucking some other guy. My income is my own now, and I am enjoying using it to do the things I have wanted to do for the last 30 years.. but could not afford to do, because of females. For the first time since 1994 I am getting ahead and money just piles up in the bank despite me doing the car thing. its sad they are going to kill its value just as I get past being indentured to the ex wives, but it is what it is.
I do not look at it as though I am unwanted, because a man who owns land, has passive income, is capable, and builds old cars to drive for fun, is not exactly undesirable. You see here is the reality.. we are the prize to be won, we have the earning potential, even in our old age with the gray hair. We can build something, we will take risks that have a good pay off, we will put in the work and make shit happen... females are not like that, and as they age they look worse, while doing so their value plummets.
We are free you and I. We do not need them in our life, they need us. Its why she wanted to keep the wealth you amassed, because she is in her 60s as well I assume. She will live well beyond 80 unless she is morbidly obese, that is a long time to be alone for a woman. She is unwanted, because someone in his 50s like me can get college age girls if he wants. What would I want with any girl over 35? The wrapper isn't so great after that.. all I need to do is not be fat, and don't try hard to be like a kid.
I flaunt my gray hair, I fucking earned it. I survived and endured to get this old. I have what they need, wealth, stability, security, and the ability to improve my life. A woman who is our age and is single from divorce is a woman who makes profoundly poor choices and she will regret them. Never take them back.
They fear dying alone, its just what happens to most men, and honestly its not a big thing. Its how we lived that matters, not how we died. They fear being alone and unwanted, and the more desperate they are, the more willing they are to debase themselves to survive. The vast majority of them need a provider, and they are stupid enough to cut him loose when they have one.
Cut your loses, forget that bitch and what she has done. Water under the bridge, its in the past and yeah it hurts, but we learn from it not dwell in it. No need to replay it over and over, asking if you could have done something different or better. They act on impulse, they do not think ahead, they see only what they want right now this very minute, and they do not realize what the consequences of those actions will be. Let them fuck up their lives, because that is what they are doing.
I amassed wealth several times, only to have it taken from me and given to them. Know what each and every one of them does? They squander it, because it did not require any discipline for them to get it. They wrongly assume they will get more and what they have will last forever. What they do not realize is they are not building on it, they are consuming and they will never have more than what they took from you.. they will always have less. Every day that goes by she will have less, because she doesn't earn, she takes.
They REALLY hate it when you point that out, their shortcomings, the nearsightedness and myopic discounting of potential hazards that come of poor choices... "I am not like that" they screech, but they KNOW they are exactly like that, and it destroys their illusion when me say it.
You can build your life again and have more, even in your mid 60s, you did it already, you know how it works, you know what to do.. and now my friend, you know what NOT to do.. and that is allow one of them into your life and give her the opportunity to take everything you built.
When I came back from Kuwait in 2001 I had a skin infection, nothing I did made it go away, it would nearly clear up then come back and get bigger. I had a spot on my right shin that was always fucked up, and it lasted until 2014, but it would break out all over my body.
They put me on an antibiotic called a Zpack after some surgery in '14, and it started to clear up, and came back. So I had the VA give me a larger dose for a longer time and it finally killed whatever it was. I had been on other antibiotics but they did not affect it, and the worthless physician I had didn't care, he was there to get a paycheck.
Try some different things, something has to kill an infection. Nothing in this world is impervious, something somewhere kills whatever it is. Thats how it works. Problem is, will it kill you too? lol
Hang in there, get back up and start building again. Its what we do. Men find purpose and meaning in what we build, we judge ourselves and each other on merit. What we can do, what we know, and how competent we are at doing it is how we judge our value. The ugliest man can be the most competent and thus gain the respect of every man. We are the prize, and we do not NEED to give our abilities away, we don't need a girl in our lives. They 'need' us no matter how much they claim they don't. They simply cannot survive without us.
Let it go, let every ounce of anger and negative emotion go with her, she can have it. You have something better to do with your time, you have something to do with however many years we have left.
You are free to live now. Go live your life, build cool shit and enjoy it.
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@VR-nx5jg we all react differently to things, stress affects us all in a wide variable, what is easy for you might be a world of shit for me and vice versa.
So its not who has it worse, its more knowing we are not alone enduring the worlds of shit we all walk through. What motivates me is the good times, the fun, the enjoyable events, they are more enjoyable because of the shit. Its a stark contrast, like my white skin contrasting the last black girl I slept with, that is a good difference. I enjoy that.
The most important thing is that we learn from our mistakes, try not to make them again, accept what was our fault and what was caused by others, and do not dwell in it. I don't blame others for shit I did or caused, and I don't swim around in the hatred and bile of anger over what others did to me.
I share my stories so others know they are not alone, that it is all temporary, life gets better and worse as we go through it. learning to embrace the suck helps us endure, but ignoring things and just pushing through the pain is why I am crippled today. You have to know when to take a break, and when its a minor thing. I would push through all of it, and I destroyed several joints in my body 20 years ago. I am paying dearly for it now.
Take care of yourself, do what is good for you, and rather than lay blame, accept it happens. However, that doesn't mean you have to let people walk all over you, or keep toxic assholes in your life.
I know people who have had it far worse than I have, I see them as being on the same team. The survivors.
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@scottbaylo I guess you could call me stubborn, but I like to think of it as persistent, because if an alternative presents itself I will often take it.
I have noticed that the less BS I put up with, the better things go for me. I am permanently, intentionally single. Girls bring far too much drama and expense than they provide benefit, now that the ex's are paid off I am not making that choice again. I like girls, I am not ghey, don't hate or dislike them, I'd rather spend my time and money on things that benefit me that I enjoy.
My attitude improves when I build things, and they work well or very well. If I sit around and do nothing, my attitude gets much worse. If the chronic pain I live with gets too intense, that affects how I think too. Currently dealing with that, and I have a lot of stuff to do this summer.
Other people are stressing me out right now, my veterinarian is blowing me off, my ex threw out my property tax paperwork since she works at the township hall, and my brother is being a dick about my old cars that were on the family farm, that the rest of us siblings GAVE to him.
Just deal with it and move on. Its all you can do when other people F you over. I really hope my ex gets charged for messing with my tax paperwork, but considering she is a poor helpless girl, I doubt it.
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@chloecamp8714 someone replied to this thread today, and I completely missed your comment more than a year ago. You said the laws wouldn't have screwed me over unless I had done something wrong. The things I did wrong were
1. getting married
2. trusting either of them to at least do the right thing
3. thinking I had just chosen poorly like most people claim
4. not kicking the first one out the second she raised a hand to me, rather than taking it for 8 years.
Maybe I should have pasted her a couple times, but its not in me to do that to the weak, even if they are trying to harm me. So easy to crush her physically and mentally, but the state doesn't appreciate that so I would have been incarcerated for it.
If you think the laws are fair and men need to do something wrong to get smoked in family court, you either live in a country that is not the USA, or you are completely unaware of the laws. I worked to provide for my family, never mistreated any of them, spent as much time as I could with my kids, I taught them as much as I could which was extensive, and endured all of their mother's spite, vitriol, and less than pleasant activities.
The father has no rights in family court. None. He is always guilty, always wrong, and the mother is always the victim.
Ya know, the reason why I talk about all of this crap is quite simple. I want people to know that what they think is probably inaccurate when it comes to divorces, unless they are a dad who has been through it... then he knows. I want other men to know they are not the only one its happened to, because they and society do their best to ensure we feel like we are alone in all of this.
Now I am not perfect, I make mistakes all the time, I have failures that I will tell you about if you want to hear it, and if you think it might help you in some way. I learn from failure, it makes me grow.
As it turns out, back in '20 when my dad died he made sure that my siblings could not screw me over. Dad looked out for me, he was racked by guilt for how he treated me once he realized what he did when I was in my first war back in 1990. We still didn't get along well, but he hooked me up financially and left me a car that I appreciate every time I drive it.
The biggest gift he gave me was self reliance, and a toughness most people never develop. I always get back up and get back in the fight thanks to my dad.
That first post was just a short 'highlight reel' about a rather narrow part of my life. There was a lot more messed up stuff that happened, in the military, school, at home, in my relationships, and with random people around the world.
People mistake my politeness, generosity, and friendly demeanor as weakness, far too many have tried to take advantage of it. I can no longer trust people, which is why I live alone, don't date, and limit how many people know where I live.
The last ten years of my life have been getting better year by year. All the work and sacrifice is paying off.
As an addendum, that second ex wife, yeah she tried to end it all on the 10th anniversary of me ending our relationship via text when she cheated. Her 'soulmate' left 6 or 7 years ago, and she has been alone ever since. She turns 41 this year, its only going to get worse for her. Its criminal how people encourage women to destroy their lives like that.
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Yeah its a lot like Carter, man did he ever fuck us over. I was in grade school when Carter was president, I was 10 when the hostages came back from Iran right after Reagan took office. My mom was so happy and thrilled when Carter got elected, not that Nixon or Ford were wonderful.. When Russia invaded Afghanistan Carter imposed a grain embargo on the soviets. That left massive piles of grain on the ground to rot and the price of grain plummeted. The farm economy didn't recover until the mid 2000s. Since we lived on a farm, mom changed her tune about Carter, but she never liked Reagan or Bush, then was happy for Clinton who sent all my machinist jobs to Mexico with NAFTA..
Democrats gut the economy to make themselves richer at our expense, use inflation to mitigate their debts, and the media seems to support them. Ya know, if the media tells the useful idiots nothing is wrong, Biden is doing great, there is no inflation coming, everything is happy happy joy joy, and they will believe it. They believed orange man was bad and super racisssss and used Russia to get in office, and did all the things Biden actually did.
I run my cars and trucks on ethanol, I can make it from tree sap and cattails. Gas prices in 2007 are why I learned how to make it, and started building engines to run on ethanol specifically, their compression ratio is too high for pump gas, and I get better mileage on ethanol than I did on pump gas, while making a lot more power.
Y'all are fucked. I've been planning for the inevitable democrat control of the government since before Obama was elected. I know what happens when they get in office and have congress as well. I get fucked over, every damn time. My blue collar working class ass gets fucked by democrats. They are not acting in our best interest.. the cheeto did though.
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Why not do another 318 that isn't junk for the give away, and one that is reused garden variety most common parts? It would be fun to see just how much power you can make cleaning the castings up a bit, throwing gaskets, rings, bearings, and an oil pump at it so you know it will survive a while. THEN start doing fun stuff like cam, springs, intake, headers, etc.
That was what I was doing in the 1980s, because I could not afford pistons, machine work, balancing, and there were no aftermarket heads for my engines at that point.
Project creep is a thing. You start doing one thing, then suddenly while you are in there, might as well handle this, and then you find that, next you know its a full off rotisserie rebuild with lots of NOS and aftermarket parts being tossed at it. Young people can't do that. They can't throw $4500 at a top end for the engine in the $15k car they got from an old guy who thinks his 318 or 350 powered beater is worth a fortune.
People who are new to the old car life/hobby can't throw a ton of stuff at it either, they lack the skills, knowledge, and probably money too. You learn by taking stock stuff and making it work, refine it a bit so it works better, then step up as your experience and knowledge grows. They don't have piles of engines laying around like those of us who have been in this for decades. They have to scrounge up the stuff they need, and the older the car is the harder it is to find parts sitting in back yards and garages... at a sensible price anyway.
Keep it simple and show what stock stuff can do with a bit of massaging. Anyone can throw the aftermarket at an engine if they have a credit card. Anyone can mix and match parts to get more power from stock stuff, likewise anyone can swap in a newer engine and make it work too... Its more of a challenge to make it work with the most common junk out there, the stuff you trip over and ignore.
I can do the same thing with the Pontiac 350 that is sitting in a parts car for my 69 and 72 GTO. With its 3.87" bore a 350 has the same drawback and limitation that the 318 has with its 3.90 bore. The 350 is the easiest Pontiac to find, and they are dirt cheap when you do find them, just like 318s. Also nobody really minds if you ventilate a 350 or 318 block. Tear up a 340, 351C, or a 400/428/455 and people get irritable. There is a dwindling supply of them and they are wanted. 350s, 318s, 307s, 305s, and 302 Fords are everywhere taking up space. At least the 302 Ford has people who want them.
The two 326s I have are even less desirable, the front accessory drive on them is worth more than the entire car they came out of. A 326 might be the first engine I turbocharge... just because. If they go boom, nobody cares at all, the only useable thing on them is the crankshaft. They have a 3.7 bore and a 3.75 crank, the same as the 350 and 400. I used 350s for connecting rods and cranks in 400s that spun bearings in the 80s and 90s. They hadn't been beaten as much along with lighter pistons, so they had more life in them.
I have a couple untouched 400 Pontiacs and several 350s laying around, and putting them together with factory stuff is a project I am working on. Then mix and match stuff, like swapping the big chamber smog heads from the 70s that make 7:1 compression for late 60s heads that make 10:1, swap factory sized cams, then show the performance difference in the same car with a Dragy.
I have been working on the house and the shop all winter, its been mild here so I am getting a lot done. Its just really boring stuff, building shelves, making storage, giving things its place, and I still need to build a couple more sheds for storage and to park the 'nice' cars for the winter and out of the rain in summer. I got completely fed up with tripping over stuff, walking around engines and whatnot, and every flat surface being covered with parts, tools and things that had no home.
Thats where I been Tony... now that I have the resources to make it happen. I still watch, I just don't comment often.
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Considering I can collect tree sap, ferment it, distill it, then run my vehicle on it with very high compression ratios and boost, and then out perform the Tesla for about $10k to build everything including the stills, fermentation, system, engine, then stuff it in a cheap car.. and it costs me ten cents a gallon to make tree sap vodka. When you burn vodka in an engine it produces H2O and Co2, that means there is no black carbon deposits clogging the engine and fouling the oil. Read that as it doesn't wear out.
I'm talking 550hp/600tq from a 7.4L V8 that gets 20mpg in an old muscle car (that is with a carb, a Qjet no less, not EFI), and I can rebuild engines like that for around $3k. Im getting the parts together to do it with a 3800 Buick V6. Those things are like cordwood. The fun part is getting 13:1 compression with one of them. The plan is to build a ladder car like an Atom, but with fairings to improve aero, and power it with Buick V6s, both supercharged and NA.
Yeah I am a bit more into cars than putting a CAI and a fart can on it. Hydrogen is some cool stuff... but $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and all I need to make ethanol is water, yeast, sugar, or starch with an enzyme to convert it to sugar so the yeast can eat it, and about a week for the yeast to do their thing.
Kinda hard for city people to make their own fuel living in an apartment, so you guys can drive the slow stuff or ride the bus.
FYI you can do fuel cells with ethanol too, if you want electricity instead of torque.
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@ten_tego_teges I am not a conservative. I am not religious either. To be honest I am quite a lot like Carl has been, call it classical liberal as that is the closest to what I am.
The problem with you guys rom the UK is you have no freakin clue how massive the USA is. All you know is California, New York, and maybe Chicago. I bet you can't find Nebraska, Missouri, Idaho, or South Dakota on a map without googling where they are.
Why does California have so much crime? That is what you need to ask yourself, because its a rare thing where I live and have lived. Charleston South Carolina, (its on the southern east coast) had the most crime of anywhere I lived, and it wasn't that bad. Nowhere near what LA, Chicago, NYC, Baltimore, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, etc. Those are the cities that put us so high in the crime list. Remove them, and we drop to the bottom of the list.
What do all of those cities have in common? They are run by leftists. They want the crime, so they can justify the less than brilliant notions you espoused, like disarming everyone and then relying on the government to take care of them. They want all of us dependent on them, just like YOU are. Beholden to them for protection, and what will you do when they decide you need to be gone? You will go, that is what you will do.
I am a two war combat veteran, I have been disabled since my 2004 deployment. I am stuck with the government, and they still control my life. I am limited in what I can earn, and the medical care is sketchy, I am on my 9th physician since 2005. We do not usually get the A or B average Drs, we get the C average ones who can't make a go of private practice.
I worked for them, they used me up and tossed me out. I know how they function, and anyone who trusts the gov is not only deluded, but not overly smart.
So lets say we remove all firesticks, nobody has them, not even the gov. I am a highly trained, 300lb 5'8 muscle bound freak of nature. I fear no man, and all you average small weak people have zero chance against me... if I wanted to do with you as I please, you'd have to comply or it would get very ugly for you. Even with my physical limitations and chronic pain, you have zero chance against someone like me. none.
The whole reason we can defend ourselves with firesticks (outside the leftist cities of course) is so that someone who can beat me into pulp can be stopped by someone as slight, ineffective, and incapable as you.
How do I know you are soft, weak, and timid? Because of what you said. No man who has been through even half of what I have would ever say we need to disarm people for their own safety. That always comes from the weak, timid, ineffective, and incompetent.
We disarmed Iraqis for OUR protection, not theirs. Ponder that a bit...
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@Tony-lk6sn what have I done? Well... since you asked and did not bother to click my name to get an idea.. I will inform you.
Grew up on a farm in the 70s and 80s, wrestled in high school. When I graduated in 1987 I weighed 170lbs and could bench press 265lbs, I am 5'8" and that strength came from the work I did on the farm.
In 1988 I enlisted in the US military, at that point I could bench 330lbs because of the jobs I did, construction, agriculture, etc. In 1990 I was at the base, doing the most work, in the duty section doing the most work, during the airlift for Desert Shield/Storm. Came away from that being able to bench over 500lbs. You could say it was a physically demanding job moving cargo.
The 92 budget cuts put me in the civ world again, so I got jobs as a machinist/CNC prog, started a business repairing vehicles on the side. All the factory jobs went to Mexico in the late 90s so my CNC job and the repair customers dried up. I had a wife and two kids with a mortgage at that point.
So I enlisted again in 2000. I was deployed to Kuwait in September 2001. Went to Korea in 2002, came back in 2003 to the base doing the entirety of airlift for OIF/OEF, in the duty section doing the most work once again. My 2004 deployment had me loading cargo on planes single handed, 35 years old pushing 2000 to 10,000lb pallets on planes while the air crew stood around and watched. To get an idea, put two F150s bumper to bumper in a parking lot, put them in neutral, and push them from one end to the other all day.
That was my job, heavy lifting and lots of math.
That 04 trip destroyed both knees, hips, ankles, one shoulder, and one wrist. I live in pain now. Got out in 2005.
2005 to 2013 I spent barely able to walk, then the second wife decided to leave for a real winnar of a guy. Both my wives chose poorly.
In September '13 I bought my land, 13 acres of woods, an old hunting camp and started building a home for myself. In 2015 I got a building loan, built my 32x48x12 shop with a 5" concrete floor and lift for my vehicles, and a simple 20x24 shipping container house made from three of them. Cost me a bit over $30k.
Yes my crippled ass built my home and shop using the trees I cleared from my land to do it. In 2019 I rebuild my home to its current form, two story with a loft, 1050 sqft. The rebuild cost me $5k initially and yeah I did the work, hired two guys to help me put the roof up. Been finishing the house ever since, its very comfortable in here.
What else? Well I take rusty heaps of old muscle cars, and rebuild them into nice daily drivers with lots of power. GTOs and other Pontiacs mainly, but also some others, including trucks. I do everything, paint, body, interior, engines, transmissions, electrical, glass, EVERYTHING. You can see the cars I built by clicking my name on here. You can see the ones I am going to build too, this is what I do for fun.
Also I produce ethanol fuel to run my vehicles. Have been working on ways to heat my home for less money as well. I make the fuel from cattails, use methane I produce to heat the boilers and run the stills, so my fuel costs me between ten and forty cents a gallon, and I can run it with high compression and high boost. Its way better than pump gas, makes a ton of power.
When I wrestled, 3/4 of my wins were pins, I brutalized kids who got on the mat with me, broke one kid's arm, two kids ribs, and KO'd another. I was not pinned ever in high school, and all my losses were by one or two points save for one. A 4 year state champ who head butted me then got a 5 point move to put him ahead of me in points. He nearly knocked me out, two black eyes, nose bleeding profusely, we plugged my nose and I kept going seeing double and stars.
That is the highlights of a relatively rough life, oh and I KO'd my dad with a half power hit on his sternum when I was 16, I'd had enough beatings from him, and he found out the hard way. Nearly ended my older brother that same year, body slammed him three times on the sidewalk and concrete steps of our farmhouse one morning before school.
He is the reason I have lived with PTSD since I was 8 or 9. War felt like going home, and I downplayed the military part, leaving a lot out because this is long enough.
TL;DR. Two wars, combatsports, build and race muscle cars, built my home, and can lift VERY heavy things as well as do things that require a high intellect.
Your turn.
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@Tony-lk6sn So I enlisted again in 2000. I was deployed to Kuwait in September 2001. Went to Korea in 2002, came back in 2003 to the base doing the entirety of airlift for OIF/OEF, in the duty section doing the most work once again. My 2004 deployment had me loading cargo on planes single handed, 35 years old pushing 2000 to 10,000lb pallets on planes while the air crew stood around and watched. To get an idea, put two F150s bumper to bumper in a parking lot, put them in neutral, and push them from one end to the other all day.
That was my job, heavy lifting and lots of math.
That 04 trip destroyed both knees, hips, ankles, one shoulder, and one wrist. I live in pain now. Got out in 2005.
2005 to 2013 I spent barely able to walk, then the second wife decided to leave for a real winnar of a guy. Both my wives chose poorly.
In September '13 I bought my land, 13 acres of woods, an old hunting camp and started building a home for myself. In 2015 I got a building loan, built my 32x48x12 shop with a 5" concrete floor and lift for my vehicles, and a simple 20x24 shipping container house made from three of them. Cost me a bit over $30k.
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@Tony-lk6sn Yes, despite being crippled, I built my home and shop using the trees I cleared from my land to do it. In 2019 I rebuild my home to its current form, two story with a loft, 1050 sqft. The rebuild cost me $5k initially and yeah I did the work, hired two guys to help me put the roof up. Been finishing the house ever since, its very comfortable in here.
What else? Well I take rusty heaps of old muscle cars, and rebuild them into nice daily drivers with lots of power. GTOs and other Pontiacs mainly, but also some others, including trucks. I do everything, paint, body, interior, engines, transmissions, electrical, glass, EVERYTHING. You can see the cars I built by clicking my name on here. You can see the ones I am going to build too, this is what I do for fun.
Also I produce ethanol fuel to run my vehicles. Have been working on ways to heat my home for less money as well. I make the fuel from cattails, use methane I produce to heat the boilers and run the stills, so my fuel costs me between ten and forty cents a gallon, and I can run it with high compression and high boost. Its way better than pump gas, makes a ton of power.
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@Tony-lk6sn When I wrestled, 3/4 of my wins were pins, I brutalized kids who got on the mat with me, broke one kid's arm, two kids ribs, and KO'd another. I was not pinned ever in high school, and all my losses were by one or two points save for one. A 4 year state champ who head butted me then got a 5 point move to put him ahead of me in points. He nearly knocked me out, two black eyes, nose bleeding profusely, we plugged my nose and I kept going seeing double and stars.
That is the highlights of a relatively rough life, oh and I KO'd my dad with a half power hit on his sternum when I was 16, I'd had enough beatings from him, and he found out the hard way. Nearly ended my older brother that same year, body slammed him three times on the sidewalk and concrete steps of our farmhouse one morning before school.
He is the reason I have lived with PTSD since I was 8 or 9. War felt like going home, and I downplayed the military part, leaving a lot out because this is long enough.
TL;DR. Two wars, combatsports, build and race muscle cars, built my home, and can lift VERY heavy things as well as do things that require a high intellect.
Your turn.
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@darkerdaemon7794 you're preaching to the choir here, it became painfully obvious all the way back in 1992 that I was nothing but a number to the government. So when in 2005 they threw me away, despite training, prowess, and massive experience, and then told me to go die in a fire, eat a bag of dicks and fuck myself (in not so many words) back in May, I was unsurprised.
I was fully expecting the military to fuck me over yet again. That is why from 2000-2005 I used them as much as I possibly could, reaped every benefit that was available and my work schedule allowed. Then with the VA I have been getting compensated and working that system as well.
As for the people trying to subvert our way of life, I have no problem handing them their collectivist asses. I would rather stay home and build my cars, but I have nothing holding me back from opening a can of whupass the size of a large tank truck. Its just another day to me, and I will come home and get back to doing my thing when its handled.
If I die in it, who fucking cares, nobody cares right now so whats the difference? Men are expendable, we always have been, its a biological reality. What we can do when we are alive and functioning, well, that can be epic.Nobody will mourn me, well maybe my kid will for a week or so.
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@nocturnal5eyedmoth151 When you have a stressful situation or trauma, it creates what some call an emotional marker. Your first day of basic training can be one of those markers, or a car accident, physical abuse, just about anything where you are in very real danger or completely unable to effect a change in the outcome of events. It makes you able to (or forces you to) remember minute details and certain smells, sounds or weather conditions will make you remember that event.
With PTSD you can relive the entire day, or the event.
If I watch certain movies, I can be cold in my house with the AC on, but I feel the heat of the desert, the sand blowing into my face, I can smell jet fuel, diesel, and cordite. I can smell the bodies, and all the other things from those times, and its only on a screen, but it 'feels' like I am there. the last time I was in the desert was 16 years ago, but it feels like last week.
He could smell diesel, which meant he was there again, living the event in his subconscious or conscious mind. It is connected to your fight or flight response, and if you can't leave, you will fight. When we are at that point in this sort of thing, our response to the stress is vastly overblown in relation to the stressor.
The reason being that ultra violence will often be required to keep you alive in some of these events, so your mind goes directly to overwhelming force, and that little voice most people have that says "They have had enough" is simply not there or its ignored completely.
Its why a lot of us live alone, or spend as much of our time in nature as we can, because people caused the events and stressors. Its a survival mechanism from hundreds of thousands of years ago or more. If you survived an encounter with a wild predator, it was imprinted in your mind so you would be aware the next time a situation like that presented itself. Those who remembered survived and passed the traits down to their offspring, and now they are mostly dormant in us, but can be activated.
PTSD is a survival mechanism, the reason why it is a problem is that overwhelming force in response from rather mild stimuli. It takes a lot of mental effort to not follow through with what pops in your head when someone does something while driving that triggers it. You fuck with the wrong guy in the right way, you will be severely injured for simply saying or doing something completely innocuous to anyone else.
In crowds we get angry, because we have what is called hyper vigilance, we scan constantly and watch everything. Watching too much wears you down quickly, and when we wear down and get tired, we get angry easier. Anger with us is very different with anger from others, its often a rage that explodes without warning. Most of us control it, but its a shit load of effort and this survival mechanism never shuts off again once its activated.
A scene in the movie "Harsh Times" depicts it relatively well as far as the disproportionate response. He completely flips out at a guy in traffic, and the guy he flips out on has no idea what happened. I stopped watching it after that scene because I saw myself in it, so I don't know how the movie ends. Like I said above, Pvt Ryan really fucked me up. Hurt Locker did as well because of the visuals, not because of the story. I could smell that movie.
I've lived with this for a bit over 40 years, because my trauma predated my military time. I am in much better control of all of it than the guys who just came back from the desert and can remember life before the events that activated it. I barely remember life before, just bits and pieces. How much do you remember from before you were 8? Thats roughly when it started for me.
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@Benjanuva I was a USAF NCO 91-92 (budget cut got me in 92 and I was told I could not retain NCO when I went back in 2000) and 02-05, got out on a medical because I was doing the work of ten people, by myself in the desert. Fun times. I had ten airmen, two of which were female.
The USAF performance report is a scale of 1 to 5, 1 is kick them out immediately, 2 kick them out ASAP, 3 is nearly a career ender, 4 is what you get for showing up, and 5 is if you check off a bunch of boxes and jump through hoops.
I was 'required' to give them the best possible performance report despite the fact their performance was lacking, they did not do any of the extras the males are required to do, and they were both overweight. If I marked them down on anything, it was sent back to me and I was told to correct this, meaning give them a perfect resport.
Meanwhile I had a stellar airman who had a DUI two years prior, but not only turned his life around but became an exemplary Senior Airman (E4). I was told I could not give him a 5 and I had to give him a 3. This kid was going to school, volunteering off base once a week, his uniform was always as near to perfect as he could get it at start of our shift, and he had zero screw ups since his DUI. He was very competent and knew the job as well as I did, and I had a lot more time in than he did. I fought them to give him a 5, because he earned it. They downgraded it to a 4.
Then there is what they did to me. Please note the name I use on here, because it plays a part. In 1990 I was at Rhein Main AB West Germany. I had a job that required me to load and unload several hundred pounds of stuff from every plane that landed and took off, like hauling 200lbs to the top of a C5 several hundred times in a 12 hour shift.
I got HUGE... like bench pressing 450lbs huge, and I spent all my time on the parking ramp, not in the gym. 12 hour night shifts, waking just as tired as when I went to sleep. 7 days a week, no breaks from 10 Aug 90 to some time in January or February 91, then I got a day off, and a month later when to a 6-1 schedule until June. They packed over 50lbs of lean muscle mass on me in less than 6 months and I was already on a muscle waiver because I am 5'8" and due to mass could weigh 215.
Then I never got another 5 performance report again. I was always marked down on my weight and appearance, because 230lbs at 5'8" with an actual 14% BF does not look like the skinny guys the USAF wants. I came back from Kuwait in December 2001 with a six pack around 8-10% BF along with the ability to bench 500lbs, and they put me on the weight program. I use this name because of my return from that deployment and being put on the program.
They made me huge and capable of doing the work of ten man crews by myself, then punished me for it the entire time I was active. Then worked me beyond what most humans could ever withstand in the two largest airlifts in world history.... and I got 3s and 4s, but had to give lackluster females 5s. They made stuff up to give me 3s trying to get me put out.
It seems tiny guys can't handle being intimidated by a huge man that is not only far superior to them in strength and capability, but also smarter than they are. We had all this DIE stuff going on way back in the early 90s and late 80s, but it got really bad after 93 and I came back in 2000 to a completely different USAF. A soft and fragile one that catered to females.
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Europe has never been free, it was only an illusion for all of you across the pond. All of your forebears relinquished your ability to resist, in the last 50 years you have been turned into serfs. All the while Europeans and Aussies mocked us in the USA for not doing the same, disarming ourselves and putting our welfare in the hands of people who only seek to profit from us. They've been trying to render the US Constitution irrelevant, but they can't impose their will on us unless they disarm us.
We in the US are watching what is happening in Europe, and we are not going to go along with it. We are learning, and teaching our kids about the failures of Europe. The thing about amassing a massive pile of wealth, is you can't take it with you, no matter how rich you are, or how poor you happen to be, everyone meets the same long dirt nap. Live free...
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@Madmires you're doing a lot of conflating, particularly on the eastern side of Africa. You're writing about all these Arab things, and conflating them with sub Saharan Africa. Then you assume that because people can use agriculture and simple machines that they are advanced. Its like you think evolution takes a few weeks, you know like fruit flies.
Lets ask another question. Why are the middle eastern people so intelligent? Until Al Ghazali screwed over the islamic world with his half baked ideas about numbers being satanic, Baghdad was the world center for scientific discovery. The Arabs are a perfect example of a brilliant people being held back by ideology. The hewbrews are the same people with a slightly different ideology that is the roots of islam.
So why are they some of the most intelligent people on the planet? Because they lived in a desert. Survival pressure is rather high in the desert. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you have never been to these places, met these people, or seen where and how they live. It might be a surprise to you that the Arabs kinda look down on Africans, they see them as servants for the most part. That is putting it very mildly.
Conversely, why have the Maasai stayed very much like their ancestors were 400 to 3000 years ago? Other than fighting with other tribes, they really haven't had a need to adapt to something else. I admire that they have resisted European and Mid East influence and stayed how they want to be. They don't need a savior, they don't need tall buildings, they have a life they enjoy when nobody else is messing with them. Same with other tribes.
Evolution is not guided, its not intelligent, it has no bias other than this organism reproduced and this one did not. The environment plays a huge part in evolution, what is available for food, what dangers there are, and the organisms that are smarter tend to survive better in harsh environments.
It seems that in addition to evolution, you are unaware of bell curves and other distribution patterns.
Here is the thing that I think is really cool. We share almost all of our DNA with chimps, 2% is different, we have two chromosomes that joined together at the head, otherwise we are the same. Contained within that tiny bit is everything we have built, including the internet and a space program. Some people think that was genetic engineering, aliens or a god or whatever, looks to me like a mutation.
The really fun part is that I am honestly built like a gorilla, but with longer legs. I am the same size and strength as a medium sized silverback. 5'8, 330lbs, and I have benched over 500lbs. You can see my ribs, and I have a belly just like an adult silverback. You cannot tell me that we do not share a common ancestor.
As it turns out, I have 3-4% Neanderthal DNA as well, that is more recent. Most people think they were stupid, but in reality they were tool makers and very adept in combat. They were not conquered and wiped out, they interbred with humans and made my family. They were from an earlier migration and had adapted to norther Europe.
Other than camps and striped pajamas, what are Germans known for? Machines, engineering, military prowess, farming... every ask yourself why? Because survival pressure in a place that has harsh winters weeds out the stoopid.
You seem to be taking it as someone who is less intelligent is somehow less human or less important. Appears to me that is your own bias, and you are looking down on people like you have to save them or some other nonsense. I like and accept people how they are. I know exactly where I stand on IQ, I am not on the mean, and yet I don't look down at others who have less. They do not get pity, sympathy, or condescension.
They are who they are.. though I do have a certain derision for people who drive stoopid. It comes down to some things are easier for me to do than it is for others. I have no ego about it, as I prefer to utilize that particular aspect to solve problems and figure things out, and I do not prescribe to others how to do anything. Even when it comes to giving advice on building engines, they get a suggestion rather than a do it this way or else. I get lots of questions about a particular brand of engine, because they are my favorite.
If you think you are super smart and want to be humbled in a hurry, you only have to get into the gearhead world. Building machines.. you will soon find out that its not so much how smart you are, what is more important is what you know and have learned. There is ALWAYS someone smarter, or who knows more or different things than you do. You can make Einstein look like a chimp but not know what @.050 camshaft timing means.
Thats why I don't see it the way you do..
There are things I can learn from people who don't have the mental capacity I happen to have, its rarely going to be something mathematical, but procedural or ideas for certain things can come from people who are inexperienced and none too bright. Its a perspective and experience thing.
So you can point to Arab achievements and say they are African, and if you go back far enough in our evolution, we all are African and we can reproduce with any other human on the planet, with consideration for RH factors and such. We are the same species and we both vary wildly and are nearly the same depending on the criteria being measured.
You could assume that taller or shorter people are better... and you'd still be wrong. It comes down to the individual, not the group. You're thinking group, and that only works for generalities which are a rather blunt instrument. People who follow left ist ideology are completely hung up on the group. Probably because they themselves are mediocre at damn near everything..
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When these race obsessed leftists claim you are a not C, look at them quizzically and say in a Spanish accent "You keep saying that word, I do not think it means what you think it means" When they give you their idiotic new definition of racism where only white people are, you could use the same thing above or perhaps go southern and say "Bless your heart." If they persist point out that they are completely obsessed with race, and that gives the opportunity to quote the Bard... "Methinks the lady doth protest too much"
The point is never apologize or defend yourself, because that only gives the accusations standing. Instead completely ignore it, and mock them for their limited world view, archaic belief system, and obsession with resistance to UV light.
You can also agree and amplify, and go full ludicrous.. "Oh I am so glad you noticed, yes we are taking the democrat party at face value and accepting their inherent bias and predilection for oppressing minorities as a profitable measure." Give them a knowing wink, and include them in your group. Laud them as seeing the truth and recognizing that they too are the modern not Cs. Flip it on them...
For brevity simply mock and ridicule them for having such childlike and ignorant views, resorting to logical fallacies, and projection. When they scream, in a condescending tone say "Now now, lets use our indoor voices" with a saccharine smile.
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@ethosterros9430 muscles. 21" arms, 60" chest, 21" neck. Confidence, I talk to them like they are little girls, it works on 70 year olds and 18 year olds alike. They never really change much beyond 15 or 16.
I do not act like your typical 52 year old either. you cannot tell how old I am by the way i carry myself, they usually think I am mid 30s even with the gray hair. As long as they don't know the number, they are interested. Why do you think I say online dating doesn't work? they see 52, 5'8 and they say hell no. When they meet me in a park, at a store, or through my social circle, hear my voice, and see all my non verbal communication, they show interest.
Black T shirt, carpenter/cargo pants, Redwing boots and a ball cap. So the $250-$300 boots are a clue to the observant girl that I am not broke. When I shave my head I get a lot more attention than if its a quarter inch long. Shaved sides with a beard, like a viking look.
Also I am apparently decent looking in the face. The girls I have been banging for a while also say I smell good.
At this point its moot, because even when I see them show interest, I do not act on it. I have better shit to do with my time than deal with females. I have muscle cars to build, and bitches soak up lots of time and money I could be putting towards something productive rather than wasting it on some split tailed wallet leech.
Get to where you can bench 400lbs + and when you are 50 you will have girls showing interest as well... no matter what you wear.
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@lamentate07 I had one I was seeing for a while to went out of her way for me, and she actually paid for things. She took me to concerts, movies, and shows, she usually paid for food when we ate. It was all well and good as long as I was building my house and shop. When I didn't get to a planned upgrade to the house because of weather back in 2018, she changed.
She lives 7 hours away, and when I went there to visit, I had nothing to do but watch TV or do repairs on her house while she was at work. It cost me time to be there, when she was here I could get things done and still spend time with her.
We are still friends and talk often, but I do not need all the negatives that women bring with them today. Nagging, stress, complaining, expenses, leaving me 6" of bed to sleep on.... no nookie is worth all of that.
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@psychegoddessoflight9358 I like that, you have mixed some woo in with the basic adage of know thyself, lots of fun stuff to unpack. I dig it. and yeah.. people need to be honest with themselves, accept who they are rather than what they think they should be. If they don't like who they are, put in the work to change it and become the person they want to be.
Thing is that takes work. Most people are lazy, they want all the good and fun things, but they don't want to work for them. For instance, I put in a lot of work in my youth, but I am not going to do that now so I look fat. Thus I call myself the sweaty fat guy..
So much going on with people, so many different facets of the human existence, to think you know it all only proves you don't know enough to realize how much you do not know.
This life is interesting, because it can be terrifying and fun at the same time, and we look back on things very differently than when we are going through it.
Makes me wonder if there is something after this one or this is all there is? Either way I am having fun with it, good days or bad days, I find the fun in everything. Its enjoyable to learn more and experience things, even if the experience sucks.
How can people not want to live while they are here?
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@davey1602 I have about 4% Neanderthal DNA, so we definitely interbred with them. With how incredibly easy it is for me to pack on muscle, I'd say the influence is still here. Also they were adept tool makers, which might explain my propensity for machines and warfare. German ancestry is lots of fun. They were not dolts, they were quite intelligent and were probably subsumed into the larger group of sapiens rather than exterminated.
Now if sapiens could interbreed with them, as someone in my distant past obviously did, then it stands to reason that if we did come from Africa, the Neanderthals were from an earlier exodus and adapted earlier as well and thus had slightly different DNA.. though not so far removed as to end up like mules.
Your second paragraph gets into culture, which can vary considerably even within a larger culture. You see the me me me thing show up in urban areas where large numbers of people have to live shoulder to shoulder. The culture of Japan is very different and polite, whereas NYC is not at all polite.
However, when you get out away from the cities, particularly in rural environments like where I grew up in south central Nebraska, people are far more friendly. People who pass you going the other way on two lane roads will wave to you in Nebraska. The people I grew up around are very independent, and yet will come together to do certain things, like butchering, harvesting, the things which can benefit from more manpower. Its reciprocal, you help me I help you but only in certain aspects of living. German farmers... what can I say.
There is no need for an authority to come in and take everything, then divide it up among everyone. What we grow is what we keep, but we share manpower when its beneficial. The US still kinda operates this way, but we have had the urban types try to make it so the gov decides and divides resources.
Europe used to be that way, but now its more city than rural. My great great grandfather saw that coming and left the Dresden area to move to Nebraska in 1867. the feudal conflicts were also a big motivator.
Here lately people tend to assume that the government should decide and solve everything, especially in Europe. As if it worked at all in the east from 1917 to 1991, but hey why not try it in the western part, surely it will work this time.
I am not allowed to write the word that fits that but it starts with so has the cia in it, and ends with a list. People mistakenly believe that roads, public services, the military, and the like are all part of that. Those things are not part of that ideology. Pooling some of your resources to do a task is very different from pooling all of your resources and then having some 'authority figure' divide things up.
I find it most interesting that the Europeans of today cannot grasp that distinction, because just 30 years ago they sure as hell could. I know, I was stationed in Frankfurt when the Berlin Wall came down. Have a nice big chunk of it sitting next to me on my shelf.
Culture has a profound influence on people. travelling the world and getting inside the cultures to learn about them has taught me that. I find the vast differences in people to be very interesting. Different perspectives give you new ideas and insights you can sometimes use. To which I like having distinct cultures based on regional differences. Human adapt to their environment, and what works in Nebraska, or where I live in Michigan, doesn't always work so well in Dubai or Cairo... and vice versa.
However... I also realize that ideas and more importantly ideologies are not equal.. not even close to being equal. Some ideologies are vastly reprehensible, like the one I am not allowed to write on here.
Yeah I can tend to write a lot.
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@Ethan.Lamoureux prove it. Prove how the people of those states will see any benefit for the risk they are all being forced to take. Go ahead... Prove the Ogallala does not exist, or could be fouled by a simple spill. They actually moved it from the sandhills because that is the direct point where water refills the underground lake. Any idea how many wells there are along the pipeline route?
Prove that the company will not simply put the oil on the world market, and it will not be subject to centralized distribution where it can end up on the other side of the planet, and will instead be used here in the USA.
Simple geography, physics, and history are all I need to back up what I said.
Yeah I am more into ethanol fuel, because it makes more power, burns cleaner which keeps my engines cleaner so they last longer, it can handle 13:1 compression easily, and I can make the stuff at home from tree sap and weeds. But I am also aware of how the economy works, you should look into that a bit more, and I am entirely against marxism. I still have a couple winter beaters that run on craptastic pump gas, but all my hotrods and muscle cars run on ethanol. Its hard to give up the power and drivability you get from it and go back to being forced to neuter the engine to run pump gas.
It pisses me off that they have tried to claim the way I make energy off grid as support for their abhorrent ideology. It equally irritates me that clueless people decide they know more than people who are actually involved and knowledgeable.
But that is irrelevant to the fact that a pipeline across the Ogallala is a risk to everyone who lives in the region, and they get zero benefit from it. How do I know? Because the NG pipeline that went through a couple decades ago never made good on their claims of paying the landowners who had to accept it going across their land.
The tar sands oil is more abrasive and those pipelines fail more often, and it doesn't take much oil to foul drinking water rendering the entire state nearly uninhabitable. I grew up drinking that water straight from irrigation pipe, there is nothing like it in the rest of the world.
So prove how it is acceptable for people in those states to bear the risk with no benefit. I'll wait.
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@AboveWater its the media pushing that narrative, in movies, commercials, TV shows, news articles, etc. They have been captured, bought by those who want to see us falter and fail.... so they can exploit us.
Its also in education, starting very young and stretching into doctorate programs.
Its all pro woman, anti family, anti male.
Society isn't causing that, its being fed to society, and what you learn when you are young sticks with you like its carved in stone. Thats why they are going after kids.
Its an infection of a mind virus, its not something that occurs naturally it is inflicted on us.
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@@troyhailey you're not going to fix the problem by waiting until you're married. The problem is with marriage, not in that its a bad thing, but in how easy it is to dissolve it. You can be the best husband and father to ever have existed, but she can cheat, lie, mistreat you and the kids, and then divorce you, and she will be rewarded for her bad actions at your expense.
Getting married today is a monumental risk for a man. He receives no benefit, bears all the risk, while she receives all benefit and bears no risk. She has incentives to divorce, both monetary and social.
Until you fix that, abstaining is irrelevant, because it will not last as soon as she discovers another man who shows interest, who appears to be better than you, and society is telling her to go for it.
You won't understand until you have been through a divorce, its like combat, you have to experience it to know.
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@shawnwest3779 yep, people just blame ethanol, but have no idea what else is in there, or what actually causes the problem. Back in 1982 when they first started mixing ethanol with gasoline as an octane enhancer because MTBE and tetraethyl lead were killing people, causing cancer (and possibly causing Alzheimer's) lots of fuel pumps and carburetors got clogged with the varnish left by gasoline. Ethanol was blamed for a problem caused by gasoline.
Ever have someone do a bad job intentionally? They don't want to do it so they cause problems, mess it up on purpose, so they don't have to do it?
If you have kids or employees you will see it happen. The oil companies don't want to mix ethanol because they do not make it and thus do not control the supply/price of it. They could produce TEL and MTBE, but not vodka. So they mix additives and very low quality gasoline components that give lower fuel economy, less power, and cause problems.
The stations we had selling E85 from 2005 to 2015 had it priced ten cents higher than 87 octane, and one store manager said he was paying $4 a gallon for it when it was selling on the CBOT for $1.20 and they wanted $3.20 for it. We always have the highest gas prices in the state, and usually only California has higher prices than Marquette Michigan. They didn't want to sell it but corporate said they had to, so they justified it by jacking up the price so there was no incentive to buy it.
Flex fuel vehicles are tuned to get worse mileage on E85, they over fuel the hell out of them. Its intentional Also you will lose some mpg with low compression engines, but 12:1 compression is about where the crossover is and ethanol starts getting better mileage than gasoline above that, while making a lot more power.
Interesting thing a bunch of us long time E85 guys have found, is that when you let
a barrel of E84 sit open for a few weeks the % of ethanol content rises. What is happening is the low boiling point parts of gasoline are evaporating. Some of them boil as low as 80F, so they start vaporizing lower than that. Ethanol boils at 173F at sea level, and if its that hot we are all having a bad day.
I've had a 5 gallon bucket with about 3 gallons of E85 in it sitting open in my shop for the last 4 years. I use it to clean parts and soak pistons with stuck rings. Not much gasoline left in it at this point. If I filtered all of the solids out of it from cleaning parts, I bet it would still run no problem.
I've had ethanol sit for years and run good, it doesn't go bad unless its exposed to direct sunlight. Zero problems starting and running my cars and trucks that are on it after sitting all winter. I have more problems with exhaust leaks because the cheap headers I run tend to blow out the center gasket after a while. Its a D port Pontiac thing.
What I have found by testing and building engines to run specifically on ethanol by raising the compression ratio, disproves nearly all the negative stuff you hear about ethanol fuels. The only things I do different for an ethanol engine vs a gasoline engine is raising the compression and running it with at least a 195F thermostat in it, and not blocking the heat crossover under the intake manifold.
That is all you have to do to make it so it will not run on pump gas, but will run great on ethanol and get better mileage. Above 13:1 you pick up more mileage and power, provided you give it enough fuel. Most people don't. They think lean is mean and fat is safe with low power, which is true with gasoline, but backwards from ethanol. Just watched a dyno vid yesterday where they got less power with E85 than with 110, which tells me they ran the E85 too lean.
Funny enough running it too lean also kills mileage, more than best power does. In a drag engine economy isn't a big concern though.
I'm not selling anything, I have no investment or financial interest in ethanol or anything else. The reason why I comment with these long replies is because I want to give accurate information, and help people make more power, tune better, and know that its not ethanol causing the problems. I want gearheads to know that what they have heard about ethanol is mostly wrong.
I want them to know so they can make more power too.
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@Bacteriophagebs one aspect of my project is keeping it inexpensive, mostly because I haven't had much cash for the last 16 years. You can built a water filter from gravel, sand, charcoal and screen door screen in a barrel. Its easy to make charcoal, you stuff a steel barrel or Dutch oven full of wood, seal it so it doesn't burn, then build a bonfire around it. You can also build a stone kiln like they did around here in the 1800s, don't use sandstone though, it will crumble, has to be something metamorphic like granite, not sedimentary rock or igneous like lava, the lava rocks will work too, but often they are porous.
I spend $250 a month on wood pellets, they are a lot easier and cleaner than firewood, also since I don't want to cut down all my trees I have to get wood from others. I've only found one guy out of hundreds around here that sells actual face cords. Everyone else shorts you. So I found a way to heat water to 140F without burning anything, a big compost pile of woodchips and sawdust with 600' of plastic sprinkler tubing run through it.
Propane is $1000 a month minimum for my house, and that was three years ago when I priced it, it has tripled in the last year.
Electric is out because the power grid around here is less stable than my bipolar ex wife who is addicted to oxy, AND its hideously expensive. That also precludes an EV if I could afford one that had the range for me to get from home, to town, and back again on one charge.
I got into ethanol because it cost me less cash to produce and I can run race engines on it.. then I found out race engine compression ratios get better mileage. So now all the engines I built have as much compression as I can get out of them, so I can use less ethanol making lots of power.
Buy a still? Go to a hardware store and get the stuff to build one. Right now I am making a 30 gallon boiler for my channel. Its going to be a simple pot still for distilling water, you could use it to produce low proof shine, but I just want it to distil water. I have many uses for distilled water, batteries, my brix meter, fermentation, etc. If you have to buy the solder, flux, propane torch, and copper sheathing, its around $200. If you buy a still that $200 will only get you a tiny one, not a 30 gallon boiler. You can build it with simple hand tools, metal shears, a hammer, an old wheel, and a propane torch.
Did some of the metal shaping yesterday, doing the soldering today when it warms up a bit. Video should be out soon.
Caveman tech means anyone can do it, sure I have other tools I can use to shape and cut metal, they make the job go faster, but the investment for them is higher, If you have those tools already, you are ahead of the game.
I grew up on a farm in the 1970s and 80s. My father, grandfather and great grandfather were all very adept at a wide range of disciplines. Carpenters and welders, mechanical engineering to biology. To live 20 miles from the nearest town, with no vehicles until the late 1930s, you had to know how to do things. My uncle learned plumbing in the late 1940s after he got out of the Army so he could put running water in the house we all grew up in... in 1952. There was still an outhouse out back when I went to the military in 1988.
Its not like humans haven't lived without all the easy convenience stuff like turning up the thermostat rather than building a fire in a huge stove in the basement. People today are too soft, and they want it right now rather than putting in the effort to build it themselves.
When the trucks stop running and the power goes out, all of those people are going to have a very rough time. When gasoline is $12 a gallon, they won't be able to move much, they'll be scrounging for food, having to choose between eating something and being warm. City people are screwed when something like that happens. Then the morons go buy all the toilet paper. Now because of those idiots I have to stay stocked up on that too, just in case they all go stupid again. Stuff takes up a lot of space.
Most people have a throw money at it mentality, what can I buy. They are the ones who think having a certificate that says they own some gold or silver will mean something. You cant eat gold and silver, and if they actually have it in hand when it runs out, then what. No electricity, no crypto. Seems like many people always assume the power is going to be on.
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@alexmuenster2102 there is another thing going on, we in the military discovered it decades ago, my first encounter was Germany in 1989. 6000 men on base, 300 single women. The large and unattractive were approached so often that they assumed they were far more valuable than they actually are. They felt entitled to the bet looking men on base, and if you didn't measure up to her standards, speaking to her was risky.
I got in trouble because I extended a 'verbal greeting' to a female. I said hello, which is part of military customs and courtesies. We are supposed to say hello, good day, or whatever. However, being 5'8" and saying hello in passing to a female got me in trouble. I was said to have propositioned her in an unfavorable manner. aka SH.
They get so much attention that their self worth becomes unrealistic to the point of delusion. I know a 260lb mom, a good friend of mine, and she gets 300+ messages per day on dating sites. You can see she is huge, she mentions having kids, and she is in her late 30s now. If she is getting that much attention, think of what a mildly attractive one receives.
Mere men are not good enough for them, they think they deserve the 6'5 billionaire when they themselves are far below average.
Men are waking up to this and doing the same thing I did in 1990... they are no longer talking to them, not approaching, not asking them out. Women are being ignored by most men. I went off base to meet women, and I did VERY well off base.
As a result, women are becoming increasingly desperate for attention in person. I saw it just yesterday, two cute 20 somethings in line with me at the grocery store. When I spoke to them they lit up like I had made their entire week brighter. They were happy to be noticed, and one was wearing pants that ensured she would be noticed, but I was the only man to speak to her in the store. 54 year old me with no dye in my gray beard, and they look right past the color of my hair.
The problem with asking them out is they are very excited when they give out their number, but then they think they can do better when that ego boost has them check their messages on whatever app they use. They always flake, but they sure do like the attention when they see me in public after that... not that I give it to them when they flake.. heh... I tell them 'you had your chance, you blew it.'
The thing they can't handle more than anything else in the world is rejection. Thats why men not playing the game with them, and following whatever they want to do in life instead, is making them so angry and spiteful towards us.
We called it 'golden P syndrome' in the 90s.
In Korea all the males were taken to an auditorium and told to 'get with the Russians and Koreans off base, because all the military females would be chasing after the same handful of men on base, and when one caught something, they all caught it.' Ten to fifteen guys were nailing nearly all the females on base. Everyone else was a very bad no good person when he spoke to them.
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I've been rebuilding 99-07 Silverados to use as winter vehicles and to haul things long distance with my dog, since most of them are extended cab or crew cab. I added two more leafs from another truck I scrapped out to the back of my 2000 extended cab 1500 4x4, and now it doesn't squat when I hook up to my 1800lb car trailer. Just drove 2600 miles with it last week to pick up a 1932 Pontiac, I've made it into a very capable tow rig.
Also have 76 and 84 C10s, short box 2wd, they are my fun parts chasers, when I need to haul something bigger than I can fit in a 64-72 GTO. The newer trucks will go out in the salt and snow, the old stuff stays home like the muscle cars once the salt is out there, but all summer they get worked. The 50 Chevy I got last year is going on an 05 2wd chassis, then I can use a 6.0 and 4l80 to make it a tow rig/fun toy to pull the drag cars to the track.
There is NO FREAKIN WAY I am going to pay $80k for a new truck, not when I can fix a $500 rust pile for about $1500 and make it almost new again. After 2007 the electrical systems are too complex and therefore too expensive to repair, because I am not spending a few grand on a scanner/programmer so I can make the BCMs talk to the TCMs and everything else just so the window will roll down.
I owned a repair shop 25 years ago, I know what is required and I will not make that investment. Honestly if I could go completely back to carburetors I would, but its so easy to get a rusted out truck with a functional EFI system and good running engine, and I can do fun things with ethanol fuel to get very good mileage with EFI. Give me simple without all the extra crud, because I absolutely loathe chasing wires.
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I got over anxiety and rejection in 8th grade, I asked everyone in school a question that I knew the answer would be no. Basic repetition of hearing no. It was "will you marry me?" and the guys I asked if they wanted to go do something like racing after school. I wrestled and got VERY good at it, built muscle, and I could defeat almost anyone even the teachers. Ranked 16th in Class C-1. That builds confidence too. I had no actual interest in anyone at my school, because I was the chunky 4'9" kid until I was 14 and everyone had treated me poorly.
In the military I got more experience, and did very well with the split tails off base. On base, well I don't dump where I eat, and not being over 6' meant saying hi got me an erroneous assertion.
Forty years later, I can talk to people like I have known them for decades. Had to overcome a lot to get here. I am 5'8" so I had to learn how to talk to split tails. I can get almost anyone to stop and talk to me. However, after two divorces and living in cars for years, I lost interest in them.
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frosty pablo what the fuck are you on about? One chick, out of a few million men. Here's something to go look up, sharp shooter fallacy. There are zero females on the planet who can hang with me, none were ever born who could. Very few men for that matter, but I am still one of thousands, probably tens of thousands over the centuries of highly capable men and leaders.
I show respect for those who have earned it. Some is afforded those who have a grasp on language and coherent thought, neither of which apply to you. You are like the guy who says "I know a guy who has a 7 second Civic" when all you own is a non running slow as fuck piece of shit economy car and you catch rides with friends or ride a bike. There are billions of wannabes such as yourself, who talk big, but can't pack the gear. You are amusing and annoying to those who actually have done, and continue to do things you can only imagine doing. You have not walked the walk, and in a mans world, you do not fucking matter. Enjoy dying knowing you have achieved nothing, and the only sacrifice you ever made as putting your balls in a purse.
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@mrmrgaming did they interview JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, both Bushs, Bill, Barry, and the potato? They all invaded someone, somewhere.
Fidel took over a country and was doing some rather unsavory things to his opponents. I grew up with a woman who escaped on a boat in the early 80s. She and I are still friends, she is one of my favorite people in this world. Fidel was going to liquidate her entire family. Her little sister seems to have caught the bug that made them leave Cuba in the first place. She was too young to remember, but my friend was 11 or 12 so she remembers very well.
Interesting fact.. Fidel came to the US after he took Cuba and asked to be allies. Our buddy Nixon was working for Eisenhower. They treated him like a little kid and eventually brushed him off. So Fidel went to Kruschev and said, will ya help a brother out? Of course Nik said, "Why certainly, here use the ideas in this book and we will send you stuff." That worked great for Fidel until 1991..
I don't have a problem with Carlson doing what he is doing. Its what journalists are supposed to be doing, not telling all of us what to think.
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@joeywheelerii9136 the people responsible still have enough plausible deniability that the majority of people are not overly concerned with it. They think its erroneous info and fabrications, because they assume the people into kids are the creepy guys in panel vans.
I am in the middle of nowhere, not much I can do about the problems of your area from here. Which is why all of us veterans did not go to Portland and the other areas with daft kids larping as revolutionaries.
If there is a problem where you are, get busy dealing with it. Take back school boards, city/township planning/leadership and rectify the problem. You need to get involved locally first, if you want it done you cannot rely on others to do it for you.
When the big lines are crossed, the ones caved in stone for all of us who served our country, then things will happen that you will wish you had gotten involved at the local level and stopped it. The last thing you want is open conflict here at home.
I am not going to say what the lines are, but if you can read the Bill of Rights then you have a pretty good idea. What Illinois does honestly does not affect me, its up to the people of that state to remedy the situation. When it affects the rest of us, then it becomes the thing you really do not want.
You have to change your local area first, throw out all those who oppose our way of life and the laws restraining the government. Remove them from positions of power and influence, which means media, universities, and public office. You have to do it legally first, because the last resort is the one nobody wants. We honestly outnumber them, and its becoming far too obvious that they are stuffing and padding their way to retain power and influence. Get involved, get other people involved, and use the system the way its supposed to be used.
Thats why the free speech amendment is ahead of the 2nd. We are not supposed to jump directly to a two way rifle range.
I abhor politics, but being a crippled Iraq veteran, it plays a big part in my life. So I have to pay attention to what they say and do. You should be doing the same, and speaking out against them. You have the ability right here, stay within the rules, don't use their special words, and make videos about your concerns.
If you don't get involved and we veterans have to fix this, the cost will be unimaginable.
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Bo, you bounce a lot while walking. Just an observation. Good talk.
The more you do the impossible, the more it will be expected that you do the impossible. The more capable you are, the more is heaped on you. When everything is going well your work to make it work so well is invisible, but if one thing goes awry, then nothing you have done is valued. When you are the man who solves problems, everyone comes to you for answers, but nobody will be there when you need help with something, you have to figure it out on your own.
I can count on one hand where I received admiration or acknowledgement of my work/achievement from others, and I am 55 years old. The first time I received recognition was in 1991, when I got a USAF Achievement Medal for working 5,000 planes in the first six weeks of Desert Shield. Not my unit, not my duty section, not my team... It was me, just for me working all of them. My NCO put me in for a Commendation for the following 14 months of doing the same, but my Colonel said E3s do not get those. My job was Air Cargo, and I was lifting or pushing heavy stuff for 12 hour shifts, 7 days a week. imagine pushing two F150s across a parking lot for 12 hours. Or carrying 100lbs in each hand and running up 3 stories and back down for 12 hours. You get the idea. As a consequence, I am massive. 5'8" with a 60" chest, 22" arms, 21" neck, but I have a thick frame, my wrists are 9 inches in circumference, so its not a good look. More like a gorilla than a body builder.
That is what it took for someone to notice and tell me I did a good job. Most Achievement awards are given to people for participating in something rather basic and not really doing anything. When they read mine, in front of my new squadron, there was an audible gasp because they all knew what that amount of work was and meant.
Nobody else cares, and you, while reading this, do not grasp the magnitude of what I accomplished when I was 21. Thats ok, because I know. I didn't do it for you, or for recognition, I did it because it needed to be done and I was the man doing it.
Also to the non fellas out there who claim men need a non fella to do anything, I had nobody to come home to, just the other guy in my squadron that shared my room. All of my major accomplishments in my life have been made when I was unattached, living alone, and not dating. Non fellas are a drag on me, an anchor that prevents me from achieving. That is because they NEVER support and help me, all they have ever done is sponge up my time and money, demanding I do more for them, and then leaving when they find someone they think is better. I wish I had never wasted my time/life with any of them.
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I have no problem speaking my mind, online, in person, in public, whatever. Why is that? I can't be cancelled, good luck intimidating me, and everyone who knows me also knows I will state what I think regardless of what others say or think about it. Being able to call out the fucked up ideology being followed by these idiots is priceless. Call it out for what it is people, don't be too timid to say these democrats and BLM/antifa are marxists, the same as commies, fascists, socialists, feminists.. all the same turd with different sprinkles.
I may not be a big fan of Trump, but I am a sworn enemy of marxism. That is probably why I don't get any calls to poll me.
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Hey Sydney, I hear you commenting/complaining about not having a man/husband. I feel ya. My daughter can't get one either. You have a few things working against you. One, you are tall, and I really doubt you would lower your standards to date a 5'8 man like me.. 6'1 or nothing, right? Then you have the added problem that men like me have lots of options, and all the risk. You are well aware of the risk we have in relationships. We have incentives to NOT marry or even live with a girl. That leaves you with the men who have no options, and not enough balls.
I agree with you on this video, I want women to be feminine, because I like feminine women. even if they are amazon tall, like my daughter who is as tall as I am. I like them to have two X chromosomes if I am going to share bodily fluids with her. I want two X humans to have their own sports without any of us Ys in there, because its simply not fair for you to compete with us on those terms.
I have several friends who have a Y but present as XX, they are not activists pushing this stupid shit, and they are getting tired of being used as pawns in this ideological assault on our society and way of life. A few have been able to afford the surgery, and a couple you can't even tell there was is difference. Its not a life anyone would really want to have, because nobody wants you other than someone else with the same problem.
The way I see it is men have an out. We can live alone by ourselves, and be perfectly content doing things we enjoy doing. I build old muscle cars, and live alone in the woods, completely debt free only 8 years after my final divorce. Yes we end up paying for the mistakes our ex wives made, and we have to do all the dangerous, dirty, thankless jobs, but we can thrive on our own. Most men through history never had kids, a vast number died in battle long before they ever felt the warm embrace of a woman. We are expendable. Most of us accept that.
The feminist dogma claims to free females, but really what it is doing is trying to make you like us. You can't be like us. You lament not having a mate. I enjoy not having one. Girls are an option for me, I am good with or without. How many pretty girls like you and my daughters will never have kids? I think removing opportunities from females is a bad thing, but that is what is happening despite the marxists claiming they are freeing the girls. They are making women more dependent upon the state, while blowing smoke up their ass and telling them its good for them.
I am relatively certain they hate women, and they loathe the fact they were born without the ability to piss standing up and not get their feet wet. They resent being female and wish they were male.. thinking we have it good, and you know how 'good' men have it. They want females to have all the benefits with none of the responsibilities of being a man, and hate themselves at the same time. Cognitive dissonance doesn't hurt if you don't think about, realize, or comprehend the dichotomy causing it.
Men will simply check out and do what works for them. Our default setting is alone and it fits us quite well, most of us need minimal social interactions. I can go weeks without speaking to anyone other than my two huskies. Sometimes when I make a video I have to wait a day to finish the narration because I rarely speak that much and it starts making my voice crack and my throat sore.
So you and my daughter are kinda screwed by genetics, but my daughter has no problem dating men her height or shorter than her. Her problem is finding one that isn't a millennial loser. You are cute enough, smart enough, but unless you hook up with an old guy, its looking rather bleak for you. Boys have not been raised to be masculine men, I am sure you are aware of that.
Before you get the wrong impression, I will never marry again, no amount of coercion or threat of harm will ever make me do it again. The only way I date a girl now is if she makes the effort, I offer them a chance one time and if she flakes, plays hard to get, or sends one word text replies, she loses that chance. Like I said, I enjoy my solitude, even though I enjoy company as well. I am good either way, so she has to want it enough to make an effort. I've had my share of wallet leeches. :) That is how I keep them away. Now to go play catch with the huskies and replace the master cylinder on the 65 GTO and do some U joints on the 68 LeMans.
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Trump has been denouncing and disavowing the klan, white supremacists, and all that so called 'far right' bullshit. Its easy to do because its marxist leftists who make up those smacktarded groups. So yeah he said 'sure' right off. The implication is that he has not denounced them when he has all the fucking time. Wallace asked the same damn thing in 2016, and Trump ripped into him about it because holy fuck how many times can you ask the same thing and imply you aren't denouncing the marxists over and over again?
Then Wallace wants to give antifa and blm carte blanche without anyone opposing them as they riot and loot. That is what the fuck he implied, as if the Proud Boys are starting fights, looting, and rioting. Call everyone who opposes you a nazi white supremacist. commie 101 shit...
"When certain obstructionists become too irritating, label them, after suitable buildups; as fascist or Nazi or anti-Semitic, and use the prestige of antifascist and tolerance organizations to discredit them. In the public mind constantly associate those who oppose us with the names that already have a bad smell. The association will after enough repetition become fact in the public mind."
(Communist Party Directive, to United States Communists 1943)
I am waiting, I will not start shit, but I will damn sure be part of finishing it once the fucking marxists start it. They have not crossed the line, they are pushing up against it but haven't crossed it yet. Some of the state governments and media are helping them, its not a good idea to do that. We will see what the next 100 days brings.
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@ЕвгенийПершин-е1ь there are many wrong paths in life. People are motivated by different things. Some by money, others by fame and adulation, then you have time off, and some are motivated by themselves.
What they do with that motivation matters.
Also sitting around all day doing nothing and watching the lobotomy box will not be fulfilling to you. If it is, well then in my world you're a waste of O2.
Men and women find satisfaction in different areas. Men like things and achievement, women are interested in people.
If a male doesn't build anything, doesn't apply himself to do something difficult, he will feel useless, and that leads to depression for him. Video games scratch that itch, but they offer nothing tangible as a result of grinding to the next level, gathering resources, or winning the match.
Video games can be beneficial but they can also be a detriment. If you waste your life playing the game rather than doing something tangible in the real world, you go nowhere. That is the wrong path to take in life.
Women find satisfaction in family. They have been lied to for the last 60 years that they can be men, work like men, compete with men. Then they discover how miserable they are at 40 with no kids and no man, even if they have a pile of money. The money is not what they want and need, its a tool, a means to an end, its not the be all end all and it doesn't make them happy.
Having her kids and grandkids, and hopefully great grand kids running around is where she finds her ultimate happiness. That is being stolen from females today. Its being stolen and replaced with things that give a man satisfaction, but that doesn't work for them.
More to the point of what Joker was talking about... a life that is too easy is unfulfilling to humans. We like to struggle against something and overcome it. That is such a pronounced trait and need that people make up things to struggle against. They create drama because they are bored. Thats what women do when they have no family to fulfill them.
They chase happiness, but do not realize happiness comes from the intangibles.
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I could go to some other country, sit on the beach all day, and relax. I can't imagine anything more boring other than rotting in a jail cell. My 2001 deployment was like that, nothing to do all day but go to the gym after 9/11. I'd rather build my cars, have fun driving them, and go drag racing. Whenever I am not in the shop wrenching or welding, I think of all the stuff I could be getting done in the shop.
No female intimidates me, I am very adept at social interaction, and if I wanted to get some from a 20 something I can. I'm not that interested at 55. The cars and trucks are far more interesting to me. I will not make it to 80. No freakin way with everything I have been exposed to in the military and farming when I was a kid. I'll probably stack up one of my cars and go out that way.
I am debt free, own my home/land/shop, and since I don't pay income or property taxes, I have the equivalent of near $100k income, so I could live VERY well in the PI or Eastern Europe. I'd rather take rusty junk and turn it into a fun driver.
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@jennifersignsoflife1375 I have written comments, emails, and such like these many times. Hardly anyone cares who has not been run through it like I have.
Doesn't matter if its left or right, they both call us weak, accuse us of trying to shirk our responsibility, blame us for the bad choices of our ex wives, and continue punishing men. Josh Hawley came out recently and blamed all of us for not getting married, saying we watch too much pron and play video games too much. I emailed his office with much of what I said to you. Got a form letter back saying thanks for contacting the office.. and essentially it was we don't care what you think or say. Maybe if the millions of men who had similar things happen to them emailed all of congress...
But they won't care, there is no money in fixing the problem. They will simply find new and interesting ways to punish men.
That is why I am not an MRA, men whining about being indentured and financially ruined doesn't work. Whining works for women, but not for men, they are seen as weak, lazy, and all the bad things when they act like effinists whining until they could vote. Men had to go fight in wars without a say, and do fire brigades along with other dangerous public services to vote, women got it because the complained enough. No responsibility came with it for them.
It doesn't work like that for men.
I don't expect it to ever change, and even when men are reduced to 20% of the population with a war or something, they will still be maligned and punished at the whims of women, with the state enforcing it. As the population crashes, they will all blame men for not sacrificing themselves further.
Most people who read the comments are on phones or using the dropdown on the right side of the browser, thats why I break up everything I say into smaller paragraphs like this. So its easier to read online.
Long paragraphs like you wrote are very hard to read in this format. Most will skip right past them, doing the tl;dr thing most kids do. even the way I write is too much for many of the short attention span kids, that and they don't want to get information that contradicts what they were indoctrinated to think in school and by society.
Break yours up some more, make it easier to read. and thanks for the kind words about my writing. I blame the USAF for forcing me to have an extensive vocabulary due to a very specific way to write performance reports on my Airmen. Grousing about that is a post about 3x longer than any of them I say about why young men should avoid marriage.
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@krispypriest5116 I'm almost 55, a few weeks away. I have zero plans to be in a rest home, chances are I will not live that long anyway with my military time and all the things I have been exposed to. Been intentionally single for 11 years. Was seeing one for a while 2014-2018, but she knew there would be no commitment from me. Still good friends with her though, she earned it.
Had one a bit older than us hit on me yesterday, she made it plainly obvious what she wanted. Something about a 60yro with that 16 packs a day gravel voice and leathery skin, just doesn't do it for me, even if she is thin and seemed to have a nice shape to her. I was minding my business and she came up and started talking to me, they are getting some of that desperation going on...
Its really funny because I was wearing my work pants, tan carpenters with oil and grease stains from working on my cars. Driving my very rusty 24 year old winter beater with a heater 4x4. The cab is maroon and box is silver because the old box rusted away. You'd never look at me and think "now that guy is well off." I was doing laundry because I haven't gotten my off grid water system set up yet. Maybe June or July I will do it.
How sad does it have to be for them to want me, a dude who looks like he lives in a two story burrito bag? There is no way she knows anything about me, that I own a few dozen old muscle cars and trucks, own land, have no debt, and have been retired since I was 35... Sure its retired because of my 2004 deployment, but still.. its passive income and I can do whatever I want with my day.
Life is great without them in it.
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Ugh... no interest in seeing this bullshit. Just what I saw here is enough to make me nope right out of bothering to watch it. Only partially due to Drinker's opinion and observations, but also due to the scenes in the C17. I was in the USAF for a lot of years, where I loaded cargo planes including C17s and I am wondering how the hell they got the USAF or RAF to front them a plane for this bullshit. I get that its a movie and its for entertainment, but it doesn't even do that well, and ANYONE who has worked air transportation like I have will notice that everything inside the C17 and around them is wrong. Not like Tom Cruise is too short to be Reacher wrong, but like 'everyone on the fucking plane would be dead' kind of wrong.
You might say 'relax fat guy, its just a movie' but ever since basic training when I was trained to spot things out of place, nearly every military movie has made that attention to detail synapse twitch in my head like an epileptic going through detox from alcohol while an Alien ripped through their chest. When it was my job for a huge portion of my adult life, and if we fucked up, people died horrible fiery deaths, its like you watching someone mow the lawn and fuck it up compared to how you do it on the job. The helicopters carrying boats... um... these people can't grasp mass, gravity, and velocity... they make movies, who needs math and shit, amirite?
Its not just military and aviation shit either, since I have been a gearhead into cars for even longer than my time in the military, over 40 years with old cars, movies about vehicles make me twitch as well. Then a 110lb girl beating up a 6' 250lb dude is laughable. I am 5'8 and there is no girl on the planet who can go toe to toe with me and win. None. If they could get technical stuff correct, at least I wouldn't loathe hollywood as much when they inject all their woke bullshit into flicks.
At this rate I am going to make my own fucking movies, and they won't be full of stupid bullshit like these woke abominations.
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@TheyCalledMeT the socially inept have always been among us. Some people are more concerned with how others view them and they have a greater need for external validation. Boys in general under 20 or so have a hard time staying focused on anything other than pussy for more than a few minutes, unless its a video game. Boys have been like that for a million years, its not a flaw, its a feature.
You are talking about problems girls have, and ascribing them to everyone. It figures, most people are feminine thinkers and would rather follow and be told what to do so they don't have to take risks and decide for themselves.
Video games have design features that appeal to men because we like to build things, we appreciate a reward for an action. e.g. "I killed this animal, now we get to eat it." from caveman times thrust into the now. We solve puzzles, and a first/third person shooter or real time strategy game is essentially a puzzle that involves all the attributes inherent in males. Hand eye coordination, abstract thought, competitiveness, and the best game players have a visual simulation running in their head in addition to the game which allows them to anticipate what other players are going to do.
The thing where its a problem is time. You end up wasting time doing things to achieve, but there is no tangible reward for it. There is nothing in the real that is valuable or beneficial to you that is created. However, the physical aspects of it, e.g. hand - eye, problem solving, and tactical/strategic thinking are very beneficial.
Time is one of those things you can't get back, but you can't spend it all working either. You need down time, where you aren't thinking about the day to day grind, and you can shut down the part of your mind that drives you in the real world. Doing it in the virtual world is relaxing as well as exciting. Its active involvement and entertainment vs passive. When I was a kid in the 1970s, watching TV was boring as fuck. Three channels, two of them fuzzy, nothing but crap on all day. If I had the internet back then all my other interests would have matured far sooner.
Its like car guys I know who lament that kids aren't into cars anymore when the reality of it is a fraction of people give a shit about what they are driving, while the vast majority only cares that it starts, moves, and stops. You're putting your own bias into how you view the world, and not looking at it objectively. You're doing the doom and gloom thinking that the climate people are doing, except you're afraid of technology.
Not everyone is a leader, most are followers. We need followers just as much as we need leaders. Don't try to make everyone else fit exactly what you think they should fit.
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@mayshusakuhanamurasufferli5438 oh and did you ask 'who hurt me' with different phrasing?
Well... lets see if I can write all this without it being hidden, they usually hide it.
Well my first wife, bipolar and mostly hid it from me until we had the second on the way, decided that after 8 years of making my life a direct hell, she would make it an indirect hell and absconded with my two daughters. I got to see them a total of 12 days in the next 7 years, and the stte helped her hide from them me... because of hysterical twunts like you. :)
Bear in mind I protected them FROM her, and if you took the time to look into it, you'd find the vast majority of parental mistreatment of kids comes from mothers. I taught them how to crawl, walk, talk, read, write, math, run computers, colors, shapes, and how to do something you seemingly are incpable of doing... thinking critically and solving problems.
Well her mother, with the blessing of my home stte and her man hating mother, exposed my two little kids, who were 5 and 8 at the time, to a string of random dudes who did things to them... sometimes at her behest, sometimes without her knowledge.
Those are names that NOBODY will give to me, because they would have a mysterious run in with eternity... and it would be a profoundly less than pleasant trip.
You see, dads protect their kids, moms apparently do not. Your mom probably ran your dad off, and kept him away like what happened to me and my kids. Yet somehow you blame all men for what your mom did. Convenient.
BUT WAIT THERE IS MORE!
They also took 71% of my gross pay, which was illegal, but nobody cares and harppies like you celebrate it, which she wasted on frivolous things like drinking and such. It left me sleeping in my car and on friends couches while I was in the US military, during a freakin war... yeah it was for profit so I won't claim it was keeping you safe, you choose poorly so thats on you.
Then all the assertions that I did naughty things, but in reality all I did was extend a verbal greeting (saying hello and hi) to females who, like you, felt they were entiteld to only the absolute best looking men and anyone else who spoke to them was a horrible very bad no good person.
So while I do not dislike females, I rather enjoy a great many of them, I do have a disdain for those who are so myopic and self centered that they think and act like you .
So that is part of why I am kinda chuffed.. because everything YOU types get involved in, turns to utter crap, and then you blame us for it.
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Heh, BMI... its amusing to me. I'm 5'8, just barely. In high school at 17 years old I could have made that delusional dating ad chick's requirements other than being over 6' whatever. It takes a hell of a lot for a 6'+ dude to bench over 200lbs.
Senior year I wrestled at 167lbs and I was ripped, benched 265lbs, somewhere between 8 and 10% body fat. Enlisted in the USAF at 19, stood on my tip toes as I was 180lbs, benching over 330lbs, no six pack but no flab either. End of the Gulf War in 91, I was 230lbs, benching over 400. In 2000 at 30 years old I reenlisted in the USAF and I weighed 235lbs, bench was over 450lbs and I could run the mile and a half in 9-10 minutes. They claimed I was 15% bf by the tape, but calipers put me at 11%. Not quite the six pack I had at 17.
Now I am 53, you can see my ribs, no double chin, but I have that gorilla belly that barrel chested guys like me get with age. I am 310lbs... (down from 330 earlier this year when I got hurt again) and that muscle means I get college age (to geriatric) females smiling at me and flirting. I figure at 270 or so I would have a six pack again. Working on getting there so I can find clothing easier that doesn't make me look like a brick..
The USAF did this to me then punished me for being huge after working air cargo in two wars, with the largest airlifts in world history. I was right in the middle of them at the bases doing the most cargo/planes, in the duty sections doing the most work. Can't scratch or even reach my back, but even an old fat guy like me with obvious muscle mass can get the girls. After two divorces, I flirt and make them interested, then never follow up on it.
Yeah. I am an outlier, power lifter physique in a 5'8 frame with 9" circumference wrists and palms that are nearly 6" wide. 21" arms and neck, 60" chest, 38-40" waist. I shoulda been taller. Most guys who are my height and 300lbs are tubs of lard. It kinda sucks being this muscular, once I got it muscle has been rather hard to lose. Fat is easy to lose.
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Manual transmissions lost their allure for me when my Pontiacs started making so much torque that M21s, ST10s and other 4 speeds would last about two runs, and I had to baby them so they didn't break. The cost to rebuild the manual was a lot higher than a $120 kit, a $100 2400 stall, and two gallons of fluid with my own mods applied to an automatic. Of course I do things different, I make as much power under 6000rpm as I possibly can. I want torque off idle to 5000, massive torque, because then I don't need deep 4.xx gears, a 4k stall, and the need to spin an engine to 7500 or more.
When you are making 550ftlbs from idle to5000rpm, or 650ftlbs at 3000rpm, and nearly 700ftlbs at 5000 you want to keep it in that RPM range as long as possible, that means 3.00 to 3.55 gears, 1900-2600 stalls, will run faster and quicker than wasting all that power zipping through the gears faster because it has 4.88 gears and a 4k stall. You're not even using all that torque with the big stall and deep gears.
No worries, you'll all see how well it works in two months.
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Take it from a Gen X old guy who has been screwed constantly by the boomers. Its the young people who keep wanting the corrupt ones in offices. They offer you free stuff, and you believe them, not realizing they are turning you into a source of profit for them. You either give them political power, line their pockets, or both. Women of all ages do the same thing, but men tend to wake up around the time they hit 30... sometimes earlier, like I did at 23.
I got screwed in the gulf war, screwed when they kicked me out with the big drawdown in '92, then my factory jobs all went to Mexico because of nafta which was done to us by boomers. There was no financial aid for me, I am too pale and can piss standing up, when I went to school again in 1993. Student loans and my GI Bill were all I had, so I worked a full time job in addition to going to school.
At every turn the boomers enacted new things to leech more money out of me. At least I remember life before they ran everything into the ground. You guys are screwed since the day you were born. You aren't taught fine motor skills, so things like surgery and turning a wrench are exceptionally difficult for you. Most of you can't even swing a hammer, all you have done is swipe on a screen. That is no accident, and it is NOT your doing, it is being done to you so you cannot be self sufficient, capable, competent, and provide for yourself like I can.
DO NOT SUPPORT THE LEFT, they are the ones doing all of this to you. The GOP is no better for most of them, but the left is hard core determined to enslave all of you.
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Laws for the common good can be written in a way that does not serve the people, such as the weed prohibition at the federal level. It was enacted for the profits of a few, so individuals like Hearst could sell his trees for paper, and so hemp was not competing with cotton for textiles. The US Navy uses hemp rope exclusively, so they needed an importer once it was illegal to grow hemp in the US, and when you are the sole importer of something, you can set your price and gouge the US taxpayer.
Weed prohibition was about money, not about public good or health. Same with alcohol prohibition, the real reason behind it was eliminating ethanol/vodka as transportation fuel, leaving only gasoline and diesel, which Rockefeller sold, and Rockefeller funded the movement ($4 million in 1918 money, so hundreds of millions now) to make it a constitutional amendment. These were to serve the needs of a few over the rights of, and at the expense of the many.
Now bringing illegals in and calling it a sanctuary city is similar to the prohibition laws. They are bringing in people who will vote for the politicians who give them just enough free stuff that they don't have to work, and will allow them to live in that city. The few are manipulating the laws for their own benefit at the expense of the people they are supposed to serve.
All of these are framed as moral issues, when they have all been financial exploitation and power grabs. There is nothing moral about bringing people who will vote for you, then keeping them poor as fuck so they are stuck there, while simultaneously depressing the job market with far more supply than demand so wages stay low, which exacerbates the poverty problem. You can see it playing out exactly like that in the democrat cities. Yes some are making lots of money, but many more are barely scraping by and live off the backs of those making more, through taxes.
The democrats know they have to replace native born people with immigrants from socialist countries so they can retain power. Thats why Biden sounds like a delusional south American dictator running for office right now, and the rest of them wear the marxist ideology on their sleeve. It plays well with people from socialist countries, because its all they know. They don't care about the people, only that they themselves are in power. Harris especially wants that power, and she wants to plunge the entire nation into the abyss of socialism. They need illegal immigrants to do it, and then they will call everyone who opposes it racist. Just like Alinsky says to do.
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@_Arugula_Salad_ I went from the man who could move, lift, or do anything, to one who couldn't walk without excruciating pain... similar to you. It takes a bit of time to get beyond it, but you have to.
So this is our life now, we need to find things we can do to alleviate the pain without putting us in a coma, and still feel productive. Without feeling like we are doing something useful, we don't really feel like a man, at least I don't. I need to feel and be capable, or it really wears on me.
I made ways around my physical and mental limitations, found a mix of supplements and meds that help with the inflammation that makes everything hurt. Glucosamine and chondroitin works very well for me. Stopped doing things that cause inflammation, like drinking coffee and sugary stuff.
Mainly I don't look back at what I used to be able to do and wish I could still do it. Rather I look forward at what I am going to do, and I understand I am going to end up doing it over a much longer period of time than I used to. My thing is building 60s and 70s vintage muscle cars and trucks. I can get around my limits and still do it, but only about 4 to 5 hours per day, and on 4 maybe 5 days a week.
Don't focus on what you can't do, concentrate on what you CAN do, and make the most of that. Takes some getting used to, but you and I still have our appendages, the guys missing stuff have it worse.
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Tim, I am not a fan of the republicans either, too much god thinking, but the democrats have gone full religitard too now, but rather than it being jesus freaks and creationists, its marxism and islam. I used to be a muslim, I know whats up with them, and the delusions coming from the left astound me. I can't put the two together, except that the left kinda hates certain jews. I've been atheist for over a decade, nearly two, so the GOP gets my willies going with the theocracy shit, but the marxism gets my dander up even more. Haven't voted GOP in a very long time, didn't vote in '16 because it was a shit show, but I will probably vote next month, and not for the left. I'm not going to risk socialists and communists in office this time.
I'm not saying you should be a republican, but damn the dems have not only jumped the shark, they have decided to fuck it in the ass with a hammer and sickle. Identity politics is a losing game, its marxism and that shit doesn't fly once people realize whats going on. They do now. The dems are delusional if they think they are going to win any seats they don't have already. The last two weeks have driven off most of us who are swing voters.
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I am not allowed to speak either... and I do car stuff. Also, I have been into and involved with aviation and agriculture since I was a kid living on a Nebraska farm watching planes fly over in the 1970s. Chemtrails are not a thing, cloud seeding happens, but its at a lower altitude than commercial planes that make contrails. I was in the USAF loading C141, C17, C5, C130 and civilian cargo planes like DC10, L1011, and 747s. There isn't any room, nor are there 'spraying equipment' on those planes.
People who don't know anything about aviation, the atmosphere, and physics, can assume its spraying something, but they aren't at 20k to 35k feet. Its condensation aka clouds, just like starting a car on a cold day, or seeing your breath in winter. How persistent a contrail is depends on humidity, temperature, winds, altitude and barometric pressure. Two planes flying alone and one is making a short contrail, while the other is making a long one, are at different altitudes. If its intermittent like leaving dashes in the sky, its on the edge of where contrails are created, as it passes through different conditions it leaves intermittent contrails.
Cloud seeding happens with the big puffy clouds that are normally under 12,000ft. The really big supercells like roll across Nebraska all summer can reach up over 60,000ft, they look like a man-o-war jellyfish and spawn tornadoes. No need to seed them, those things just need convection and they make lots of rain. The hot air of the plains provides all the energy those super cells need.
The big puffy ones are called cumulus, the lower hanging ones are stratus, and the base of a supercell is cumulonimbus. A bit higher but still under 10,000ft are stratocumulus. The cumulus and stratus clouds are the ones they normally seed, because the cumulus clouds have the most water in them. Cloud seeding is dropping dust particles that have spikes on them, sorta like a morning star mace, water condenses on the dust and falls to the ground as rain. That is all its doing when they seed clouds. It does absolutely no good to seed clouds higher up, because its too cold to form rain.
A super cell has hot air rising which is at the front of the clouds, and cold air descending at the rear. The swirling actions is due to the Coriolis effect, the same thing that makes water in the toilet rotate the farther you get from the equator. If you're on or very close to the equator, the water doesn't rotate as it drains. Its due to the shape of the earth, aka a globe, and how the speeds vary depending on latitude, and it can even affect long distance marksmanship, because the target moves in relation to where the projectile was fired from.
As the hot humid air rises it starts to spin with the cold air that is going down, that makes tornadoes. If the air is humid enough it will create hail when the humidity condenses then freezes at higher altitudes. It gets colder the farther you go up, until the end of the atmosphere, where there is a very thin layer of hot air. Its roughly -60F at 40,000ft, so condensation getting lifted up there will freeze easily, and pick up more moisture on the way down.
The atmosphere is a lot like the oceans, in that there are temperature and pressure layers all the way through them. Submarines using sonar can use those layers to mask the sounds they make, by going above or below them, or simply dragging the tail end under the layer. The different layers don't really mix much. Things can sink through the layers, but the water tends to stay with similar temp water.. The air around us does the same thing, in that high altitude air doesn't really interact with low altitude air.
Do yourself a favor, dive into some aviation and meteorology, learn about the cloud formations, and things like the jet stream which has a profound effect on our weather. Then you can dig into why there are bands of desert on either side of the equator, and how all the oxygen released by the trees in the amazon forest is used locally. Its like cells around the earth where the hot humid air rises and the cooler dry air descends. The water vapor has a big effect on the air too.
Also just ignore all the stuff about warming and changing, the planet changes constantly and we have been coming out of a mini ice age since the mid 1800s. Stick to the facts of what is going up, what is going down, and why.
The more you learn about aviation the more fanciful and ludicrous the idea of spraying for hundreds to thousands of miles really is. Planes were making very persistent contrails way back in WWII, and they would hang in the sky for hours after the bomber streams had passed. Its really depends on the weather as to how long contrails stick around. The amount of water needed to spray for 3000 miles across the USA is more than the gross fully loaded weight of the planes people claim are spraying.
Cropdusters have rather small tanks of solution, because lifting it takes fuel and structural integrity, which also means weight. They fly slow because they need high lift wings, which tend to be thick in the middle and that causes drag. Yes C5s and 747s can lift a lot, but watch the wildfire fighting planes dump their loads of water, its not a lot of it for the size of the plane. Water weighs about 8lbs a gallon, and you still need fuel to power the plane, and the more fuel you put on, the less cabin load you have for cargo.. and then ambient temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure play a part in just how much an aircraft can lift.
We had C5s stuck on the ground in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia because it was too hot for them to get in the air, unless they were empty. They had to wait until it cooled off at night to be able to leave.
Aviation is rather complex with weight and balance being paramount, and air doesn't act the way you think it will, particularly the faster and higher you go. Every airplane has limitations on what it can do, based on all sorts of things, including power, the shape of the plane, and a lot more.
TLDR: Go back and read it, so you can learn something.. and chemtrails are not a real thing.
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Hold up, wait a minute, something ain't right. Ethanol was cheap and easily obtained and produced before prohibition.... which was funded by J.D. Rockefeller, the owner of Standard Oil, which was later broken up via anti trust laws. Ford vehicles prior to prohibition were dual fuel, they would run on gasoline or ethanol. There was a knob on the dash that adjusted the air fuel ratio, and a lever on the steering column where modern turn signals are that advanced the timing. You richened the mix and advanced the timing to run ethanol, which ran smoother, cooler, and made more power than gasoline. To run gasoline you retarded the timing and leaned the AFR, and since more than 80% of the energy in gasoline goes to waste heat, they tended to overheat.
Standard Oil refined kerosene and diesel fuel, along with some other things you get from crude that are valuable. What was left over he was dumping in the rivers around his refineries. Rivers on fire are something people notice, and Rockefeller being the astute businessman he was, realized that if he could sell the left over toxic waste from kerosene refining as a fuel, he would solve his waste problem and net a tidy profit.
The problem was, ethanol can be produced by literally ANYONE, from any starch or sugar with simple equipment easily made by hand. So farmers, ranchers, and average people with their own still and fermentation vats could produce fuel to run their vehicles. When they can do that, its very difficult to sell them gasoline, especially when it runs worse, makes less power, and overheats often. It does start nicer in cold weather, and makes abundant waste heat so you can employ the coolant as a heater in cold climates, like here in Michigan where on April 25th 2022 it was 22F outside.
So how does one fight a competitor that anyone can produce easily at home, when you're selling something they have to go to a specific location to buy from only one vendor offering it and it performs worse? J.D's answer was to push through a constitutional amendment, aka the Volstead Act, which made it illegal to produce and possess ethanol in any form, without paying a tax and having it registered. Blame it on people drinking too much, which was a simple thing for Rockefeller as he was a teetotaler, and you can force people to follow your personal rules and eliminate your competition.
Gasoline requires a huge investment to produce, you need to pull it from the ground after finding it, then refine it, then ship it around to where it can be used. You can make 500 gallons of 195 proof ethanol with a few hundred dollars invested in tanks, building a still, and having some starch or sugar to feed the yeast. But wait there's more....
Tetraethyl lead was intended to increase octane so engines could run with higher compression ratios, which not only increases power output, it also increases mileage and decreases emissions. The problem is gasoline cannot handle much compression as you describe in your video. With more heat and compression, it ignites when it wants to rather than when you tell it to. Ethanol on the other hand doesn't like to run on the diesel cycle, it really wants a spark before it will light, and then it burns fast and completely. So you can run extreme compression on ethanol compared to gasoline. I know, because I do exactly that.
My summer daily driver Pontiac GTOs will not run on pump gas, the static compression is far too high, and man let me tell you the 455s in them make ludicrous power... and get better mileage than the pump gas 455s I built in the 80s and 90s. My thing is cheap power, because I am a disabled veteran living on a fixed income, and $4 gasoline is onerous to me being able to survive. I started on this project in 2007 the last time gasoline was this high, and I realized I would not be able to drive my vintage GTOs with those gas prices, as they usually got between 13 and 18mpg. $80 to $110 a tank was simply unaffordable, and I simply cannot drive boring stuff. Producing ethanol myself was the answer.
Making it from tree sap, like I am setting up again 8 years after my final divorce, costs me all of 10 cents a gallon to produce. Making it from cattails takes a bit more energy and some enzymes, so that costs me about 40 cents per gallon to produce 194 proof fuel.
My 1970 GTO has a 13:1 static compression 455 with iron heads, and a cam with timing that produces very high cylinder pressures between idle and 4500rpm, its a mix of LSA and duration so the valve events happen to catch the most incoming air possible. It easily made 20mpg with a Qjet carb I modified, while producing nearly 600hp/tq. Its no wimpy cruiser engine, but it idles like one. I have something else in the works along the lines of Smokey Yunick's hot vapor engine, but its heating the fuel in the EFI rails not after its sprayed into the intake manifold. Very easy to do on ethanol, and I will provide the information and video later this year, currently I have snow and salt on the roads.. should be gone later this week and I can get started on it again.
My 65 GTO has a 455 with 11.5:1, the heads I ran on race gas in the 1990s with a different 455 under them. It gets 17mpg with the Qjets I convert or the FiTech EFI I have on it now. The main reason it only gets 17 is aerodynamic drag, it takes a lot to push it through the air at 70mph compared to the 70 GTO, or the 71-79 Firebird Formula/Trans Ams I also own, but they are undergoing full restorations in my shop. So the 65 is my summer daily, along with the pump gas fueled 70 Plymouth Cuda. I am keeping that one pump gas like a control group, and my god is it slow. Pretty green, but slow.
My thing is not the environment, not trying to sell anyone on ethanol, and I don't really hate the oil companies. Its all about being able to drive the vehicles I want to drive, and not have to spend all my income on fuel to do it. The fact that it burns clean, my engines, carbs, fuel pumps, and everything else lasts longer without gasoline or additives in it are bonuses to the fact that its cheap and makes lots of power.
Without Rockefeller funding the Volstead Act, we would still be running ethanol, with smaller engines, smaller cooling systems, making a lot more power, and getting better mileage than is possible on gasoline. We would also not have had so many people harmed by tetraethyl lead and MBTE, because ethanol can run easily in an engine with 22:1 static compression, and every farmer could produce their own.
Here is an interested bit. Corn from irrigated fields produces around 500 gallons an acre, sometimes more, sometimes less. They are going to produce the corn anyway, so we may as well use it to make fuel, because everything left over is a very high quality cattle feed. However, cattails, that grow profusely in damn areas, and will completely take over with nothing but sunlight and water, that actually clean the water as it flows past them which makes them grow even larger, can produce 1000 gallons per acre with clean water. Pass raw sewage through the cattail bed and they will clean the water and produce as much as 10,000 gallons per acre. 500 vs 10,000.
Now imagine cities using cattails to treat waste water, and harvesting them every fall for fuel production. Cities used to produce their own ethanol for light and fuel, before the Volstead Act. Imagine the medians along the interstate system and divided highways being filled with cattail beds rather than grass, and then harvesting them every fall to produce fuel. How many millions of miles of highway medians and ditches are unused?
Ever been to the southern US states? Alabama, Florida, Georgia, etc? There is an invasive species called kudzu that grows a foot per day with only sunlight. You can make ethanol from that, and it rivals corn for yield per acre as well. Currently that vine is smothering entire forests as it has no natural predators. We could stop its progress and save some forests in the process of making fuel from it.
So no, we can't do it all with corn, certainly not with pump gas compression ratios. With cattails, local production rather than centralized distribution, high compression ratios (and the other things I will detail later this year) using cattails, corn, spoiled produce from stores, stale bread, waste paper, kudzu and whatever else we are currently throwing out rather than utilizing, we could all be driving around in hotrods making ludicrous power with small engines... that only produce CO2 and H2O when they are running, instead of Nox, CO, and all the particulate pollution from gasoline and diesel.
Yeah we can still use gas and diesel, we can still use electric vehicles which are awesome in urban environments that do not have salted roads and snow. If its sitting at a light, its not using much energy, rather than an ICE burning fuel at idle. Where I live an EV is cost prohibitive and the corrosion is an issue, three Tesla vehicles have burned in the last two years, ending the passengers in the process. Its a corrosion issue from the heavy salt on the roads this far north.
Trust me though, if you were to drive one of my vehicles where I built the engine to run specifically on ethanol, for max efficiency, you would never want to drive a gasoline powered vehicle again. All I do is raise the compression and cylinder pressure, then make the cooling system smaller, because it doesn't need it. I have to run 190F thermostats just to keep condensation out of the oil, and my oil changes are once a year, not every 3k to 5k miles. Yeah I still need oil, like 10w 40, trans fluid, and gear lube, but I am trying to become as self sufficient as possible, so if the gasoline goes stupid high in cost, I will be driving rather than walking.
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Sure, there is a potential there is a god, there is a possibility that its all a big video game (would explain a lot) could be there is a whole world/universe outside what we can see, touch, taste, and feel. Lots of stuff is possible, not saying it isn't possible that a great being sneezed the universe into existence, which many consider a bad move. Its just as possible that humans are the highest intellect in the universe, which would be a HUGE waste of space.
I prefer to have evidence rather than assertions, claims, and hypothesis. Prove it. If it matters to you, prove it, one way or another. If you want to get into the existence of a particular entity, we can go there. Not in the comments section though, because the wonderful people who run this site won't allow me to reply to comments.
So far, I have no direct evidence of another universe/dimension outside out own. I am open to the possibility, and I like to think of new possibilities all the time. If something matters to me and my daily life, I test it to see what is factual and what is not. If its untestable, like how life began here, its not much of a concern because life is already here. It is, lets start from there because we can't go back to the start of things. We can infer from what we see from long before humans existed, but we will never know for sure.
One thing I have learned in my 55 laps around the sun, is that if you believe something because an authority told you to believe it, despite any and all evidence to the contrary, you just might be misinformed. Faith is something you do without evidence, its your choice to believe or not.
I've had interesting experiences, where I just know something that I really should not know. When I know what is going to happen before it happens. Could be I am observant and noticing patterns and trends, could be a faulty memory, could be lots of things. Many strange things have happened in my life that I cannot explain. I'm not really interested in explaining it or finding out what causes it, because its not something I can use to improve my life.. its just things that happen.
You can attribute it to whatever you like, that is YOUR thing. If you have a religion, its your religion, don't try to coerce or force me into your belief system. I'll make up my own damn mind and decide what I want to do with the time I have on this planet. Consider me agnostic atheist. Before you say I need to find Jesus, I already know the lutheran flavor of chrisianity, and islam as well. I just might know the bible better than you do, which to me is like saying I know Harry Potter better than you, but I don't read Harry's story, and I read the bible 4 times in parochial school. I know the bible before the latest revisions and additions to make it fit better with modern times, knowledge, and technology.. With that being said..bring on the logical fallacies.
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Here is a cool thing to think about. I like to race cars, and we have rules regarding racing because of various advantages that can be used. If I am named Stacey and have been cheating by running a bigger engine, and I get beat by someone it will surely appear as though they cheated to me. How can they win when I am cheating unless they are cheating too? They are cheating more than me is the logical assumption rather than they are simply better at building the car and driving.
Now what if I am known as 'The Don' and have been winning because I simply have the better vehicle, and someone named Joe comes from nowhere and wins? They don't seem to be putting in the work required, the parts they have will not make the power they are getting from it, so you start looking for things like nitrous oxide and things in the fuel (like nitromethane or hydrazine), or other aspects outside the rules.
When you have an engine on a dyno it makes a nice smooth curve that goes up a bit and comes back down. Sometimes its more steep or flatter, but its always a smooth curve unless there is a problem like a lean condition or a problem with valves. Now if you apply nitrous oxide to it, you will get a near vertical line on the graph when the nitrous is applied, and that vertical part does not happen without the nitrous oxide. In many racing classes, the use of nitrous oxide is illegal. Verticals in statistics almost always mean a thumb is on the scale, and that is very true in the automotive world.
In the circle track world they will tear down your engine to check to see if its legal, its called a claim. You pay a fee to cover the gaskets and whatnot and they tear down the competitors engine and check to make sure it fits the rules of the particular class. If its legal the win stands, and the engine is put back together. In some classes people can buy your engine dirt cheap so you don't want to sink a ton of money into it.
This applies to everyone. Claims are addressed, engines torn down, cars verified to meet the rules, and nobody is exempt. If there is an issue, its done the same way every time.
Now lets say a particular track owner likes a particular racer, and he doesn't bother to tear down the engine that has claims against it. Nobody will trust the track owner if he does that, and eventually everyone will stop coming there to race. Nobody racing means nobody paying entry fees, nobody paying spectator fees, and no business. They stop coming to play the game and will go to other race tracks... so then you can try to force them to only go to your race track, and play by the rules you set up.
Now I wonder where all of this might apply to something Tim says.
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@Motor-City-Mike I am not disagreeing with you, or saying you are chevy thinking. Also not trying to 'educate' you, others read the comments, most of what I say is for them, the people who don't know what we know.
The guy with the F100 is chevy thinking with the 4.56 gears, you and I are on the same page for the most part. You know FE like I know Pontiac, and I used to build FEs before the aftermarket showed up for them.
If you understand Bernoulli's principles, eg air speeds up when it goes through a venturi along with creating a low pressure area, and slows down when the space its flowing through opens up again (you know how a carb works) then throw in how long the 'tube' is as well as what shape it has will effect where any given displacement will make its power.
The Ford 5.0 intake in the 80s and 90s, along with the chevy TPI intake were attempts at making a tiny engine develop more torque between idle and 4500rpm, right? Same with the long ram Chrysler B/RB engines, tunnel rams and the very tall stacks for MFI, they are there to increase velocity and inertia. How long they are as well as how big and what shape they have matters as to where an engine of any displacement is going to make its power.
You can go too long and you can go too small or large very easily, that was the TPI problem, it just didn't work worth a damn because of the ports in the heads, there wasn't enough stroke with the 305 and 350 to take advantage of large runners, so they tuned for a max of 4500. the sbc is essentially useless there except in trucks and taxi cabs (its intended use)
The 5.0 did better because Ford has a thing for large ports and tiny cams, not that the 5.0 heads had 'large' ports, but for the displacement they were larger than what was needed so those engines would pull to 6500 if they had the valve springs to stay out of float. I built several of those as well, NA supercharged and turbo 5.0s. The explorer intakes had larger runners than the Mustang, which was larger than the T-Bird/Cougar intakes. The trucks had tall intakes and the 5.0 ran rather well in the F150 because of it. not great, but not as weak suck as a 305.(the small bore hurts the 305 too, but thats the other end)
Extending the runners has the tendency to increase toque at the expense of high RPM power. Those are extreme examples, tunnel rams, IR intakes, and the more modern EFI intakes etc. The same applies with Nailheads, Pontiac, and the FE. The 385 engines have larger ports to feed them, and they are more of a mix between bottom end and above 6500 HP. I like those things a lot and want to put a CJ headed 460 in the 71 Mustang I'm building. Right now it has a 351C 2v, the 4V is going in my 67 Cougar. Lighter than the FE and makes as much power easy.
Yes you can make a torque engine run at higher RPM, that is my 700hp Pontiac. The design still makes tons of bottom end though, even with a 270/272@.050 solid roller. The reason it has more bottom end than a comparable BBC is the port shape and the design of the engine, along with the 4.25" stroke, to some extent they all play a part.
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The only reason I would consider propane is if it was dirt cheap and I had an engine with a lot of compression that ran at a nearly constant RPM, like an irrigation well or generator. Methane is easy to produce and will give similar mileage to propane, which makes me wonder if one of those mixers would work with methane if it was jetted different to work with CNG.
If I lost a bunch of power, got abysmal mileage, and the fuel was more expensive than 87 octane (like propane is here) I would not have gotten into ethanol like I have. Lower cost, more power, runs cooler, and can handle as much compression as I can get from my engines, is what makes ethanol so very attractive to me, but the big one is being able to produce it myself from cattails growing on my land. The compression gets the mileage back while making more power, so I can use all my 60s era cylinder heads, that nobody else really wants because they can't be used with pump gas unless you dish the pistons.
In May I am headed to Nebraska to pull a 71 Firebird back from the farm, so I can build a mileage mule. The plan is to stuff one of my Pontiacs with an overdrive behind it, and whatever gears I decide on between 2.41 and 3.70... since I have all of those sitting around. The aero of the GTOs is bad, a Firebird is much better, but the 70-73 isn't the best, that would be the 79-81 nose for the 2nd gens. The car is manual steering, brakes, windows, etc, with no AC.
That means I can make it really light and low, then add some things like air dams and wheel spats similar to one of my TAs in an effort to keep air from going under it. Already have 17" low profile tires for lower rolling resistance on light rims to go under it. As it happens I can get front spindles that use Corvette sealed bearings and brakes to lower rolling resistance even more. Tapered roller bearings and the old single piston calipers have a lot more drag than the C4/C5 Vette pieces. Otherwise it will be very low buck, rustoleum paint with a quality clear over it, and hand made patches rather than buying repair panels for the rust thats left since I started on that car in 1999.
Plans are for FiTech EFI, carbs like Qjets, Holleys, and even Edelbrock, and maybe I will fab up what I need to put LS style coil near plug EFI on a 400 or 455 with 12:1 or more compression. I'm going to do testing as accurately as I possibly can to show the mileage I get. I have somewhere around 30 EFI systems for the LS engines now, I don't see why I can't use some of that stuff on old engines.
Also going to drop off 3 sets of heads, 670, 13, and 12 with my machinist friend back home. Those are all 72cc chambers with 2.11" intakes, 1.77" exhaust, and with a bit of milling make over 12:1 on a 400 or 13:1 on a 455 with a flat top piston. Guides, valves, springs, locks and retainers are going to be replaced, but otherwise no porting or filling the center crossover for carb heat. I'll be good for iron heads to go on several projects, including the 69 and 70 GTOs.
I wish I could put all of this into video, but doing the work takes me so long on everything that I end up with a bunch of stuff waiting for me to get back to it and finish the vids.. lol
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@katydidd6321 The name is epic, is it not? The second one was wonderful for 9 years, then she decided to be a typical girl, cheating while thinking she can get away with it, expecting me to continue supporting her while she banged some other guy, and assuming I wouldn't notice.
We were together for 8 years before we got married, and 16 months after getting married we were divorced because she made poor choices. So much for vetting a girl and her being a virgin when you meet.
Now you have to understand something about her, she is VERY intelligent, the only female to ever impress me with her capability to comprehend things normally not easy for females. Like backing up trailers, astrophysics, automotive tech, etc. However, she was socially inept, and had no ability to read social cues or to tell about people, sorta like Aspies.
Her and I fit together very well, we like living out in the woods, doing outdoor stuff, being part of nature, and we had wonderful discussions the entire time we were together. We didn't always agree so it made it lots of fun talking about various subjects.
Her mother and sisters encouraged her to leave me and hook up with this kid 20 years younger than I am, who can't keep a job because he too is a sperg with no social ability, and he feels he should be in charge when he only started the day prior. look in the dictionary under entitled millennial and you might see a pic of him.
He was her 'soulmate' but they were only together 3 or 4 years. I learned a lot about that kid from people he worked with, as this is a small community. For instance, she is the chief of our VFD, she brought him on the department and all of the other 12 people on the department quit at that township meeting. Its only her and one guy who moved here after all of this drama in 2013.
My point is simple, there is no way to tell if a girl is a good one or like my ex's unless you take the risk, put your entire future on the line, and take the bet against at least half your stuff that she won't cheat on you.
Why should we take the risk when there is no benefit outside sexual access in being in a relationship? I see females as an expense, because there has been no pay off for me, I invest time, money, effort, and all of myself into them, and they makestupid choices.
The benefit is all hers, the risk and expense is all ours. So yeah you ladies want us to keep putting our heads on the chopping block for you, and you all claim you're not like that... but there are millions of men like me who have been divorced from cheating girls who have claimed "I am not like that" but yeah... you all are exactly like that.
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For the last ten years I have maintained my weight, well above what it should be, I've had to change that recently for health reasons. I wear cheap work clothes to town, and all winter I drive a rusty truck with non matching doors, its red, blue, and silver. In the summer I drive my 65 GTO or 70 Cuda, but most often I am wearing the clothes I wear to work on cars, so they are grease and oil stained. I wear a ball cap, and I shave the sides of my head so I look bald when I'm not, my hair has been gray for some time now, I will not dye my beard or hair. I want to look old and unkempt. Even when driving my nice looking muscle cars, I want to appear to be broke and low class. My cellphone is always on GPS location so I can map where I have been and when.
I've had too many erroneous assertions, by two ex's and a handful of military split tails. Trying to assuage guilt in the case of the ex's, and I was guilty of saying hello while not being tall enough in the USAF. I stay home and work on cars, my house, or play video games. I am polite and courteous in public, friendly but I keep EVERYTHING superficial with split tails.
The second ex would call the police after I was seen driving the other direction on the only highway into town, or at a gas station filling the truck or Cuda. The GTO runs on E85, and I don't think the ex knows its my car, same with the Cuda because it has tinted windows. The last time the cops showed up here on one of those 'sightings' they were informed that if there were anymore, a lawsuit would be brought against EVERYONE involved, from the governor to the cops personally. The ex lied about me and I spent 15 days in county based solely on the assertions made, that were only to make me seem like the bad guy, and the ex look like the vic.. Funny though, everyone local to me knows that I was not the problem, because they all know the ex and have seen what has transpired since the split in 2013.
The largest town in the region is 26k people, my township is nearly 30 miles in length and only has about 1500 people living in it. Its rural and I can just disappear behind my woods. Since I am losing weight, I have to step up my hobo looking game, baggy oversized work pants and 3X T shirts that hide my muscles, seems to work quite well.
When I talk to people and they ask my name, I tell them my name is Thumper. Only people who have known me for many years know my real name, and all my friends call me Thump or Thumper. When I was dating between ex's I would tell them my name was Sergio or Raoul, because I look nothing like those names. Blond hair, blue eyes, I have nearly 100% German ancestry.. lol.
If I want to vanish, I can.. and will. Its easy for me to repaint my cars, or build another one to drive that nobody knows. I have a lot of old cars around here.. doing a 71 Mustang right now.
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So they are trying to convince females that monogamy is a good thing. Will they next be calling for the removal of anti male legislation and the massive incentives for a female to divorce and trade her guy for cash and prizes so she can try to catch another one and leech from him as well? AW HELL NAH... they wont do that, girls gotta be able to get the money they did not earn from the man who earned it. Because he took advantage of her by going to work, earning a living, building his life, while she did whatever she wanted to do... yes he stole from her, was a parasite to her, by giving her everything she needed to survive!
Yeah, as long as females have massive incentives to divorce and level false accusations to gain fame and fortune, more men will be sayin "Fuck that shit, I'm out." then taking their ball and going home. Why the fuck would I ever bring a female into my life again when the last two took everything I built, leaving me living in my car for years, the state taking my money and giving it to them, and forcing me into poverty no matter how much I earned? Since they are paid off I have bought land, built a home, and I am debt free... Why not just skip all the bullshit and hand it over to a chick who sleeps with everyone she meets and then live under a bridge until I die? Same difference...
Fuck em.. if they have sno cone colored hair, or if they want you to pay for everything, or if she wants to get married and bitches about it constantly, or any number of other things they do... just shut them out of your life. If they are pleasant, feminine, enjoyable to be around, they can share part of your life, but for me it is only one irrational argument started by her, and she is fucking gone.
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Bo, YOU are the soggy knees content he referenced, and his entire goal is to get young men back on the plantation of chasing unobtainable tail. Thats why he mentioned the climb ate change thang, all the elftists do that now. Seeing reality means you are soggy knees and a bad no good waste of oxygen that doesn't follow the narrative they demand you accept.
Sure, the young guys have a prawn problem, but ya know what? They really don't have an alternative because they have been shut out of the market.. unless they are 6'4" with a six pack and two helicopters, because that is wat ever average split tail thinks they deserve. Men and boys aren't really the problem, we tend to find solutions to things, and if we can't get any, we take matters in hand. The problem is WHY they can't get any....
Even when they get a match or approach for digits, they get ghosted and ignored. Its not the guys doing that. Its not men milking others for attention and validation.
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Men make friends differently than when we are boys. Your friends will come from your interests and activities. The vast majority of my friends came from me building and racing cars. A few are from the military, and a handful are from long distance hole punches or RC flying. The friends I have are mostly gearheads and drag racers. If your thing is video games, all your friends will be online. You need something in the real world. Something tangible.
I have ONE friend I can always depend on, and we have been friends since 1985, we met when I was 16. I got to be friends with his dad, who was one of my science teachers, I was the only student of his to attend the funeral. They are big into 59 Chevys. That friend lives 1000 miles away, but I can reach him any time.
My life has been rough to say the least. I live alone in the woods where I build my cars. That is by choice. I am in a completely different direction from most of the gearheads around here, so they don't come out here, but we get together and work on stuff at their shops, and talk at shows/races.
Be careful doing for others, you want friends that give back, that are reciprocal and it doesn't matter to either of you who has done more. You're always there, always dependable. If you do too much for others, they will come to expect it and will not reciprocate, you won't be friends long and they wont respect you.
If you want friends, you have to put yourself out there, get people to talk about themselves, and they will like you more. Having something in common will make the people you meet more interesting.
Just so ya know, drag racers are pretty cool, rarely judge anyone, and they will help you out even when you're racing against them. I've helped lots of guys go faster, sometimes even faster than my cars are. You could do worse for a friend group, and you don't need a fast car to be included. You can bracket race anything, even mom's minivan.
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@TheSuperappelflap my large and rotund female friend who does the seats in my vehicles and helps out around here moving the non running ones, says women are opting out of marriage too..
So the other day I explained to her that over 30 they can opt out all they want, its not like they have much of a choice anyway since they are 'practice' at best. What do we want with someone who cannot give us kids and a family that looks like the Crypt Keeper and has a blown out whistlesock that you need to rub the side to feel anything? Most of them have their own F'k trophies from various Chads, so they are even less desirable.
If they screw up and divorce at 30 like both my ex wives did, they will end up alone, unwanted, and living in poverty for the majority of their lives... which is what is happening to my ex's, the first is 49 the second is 41 and the years have not been kind. One woman I was seeing for a while between 2015 and 2018 makes bank, but she will be alone soon. She is 50, she is lots of fun and a good person, but that won't matter.
So ya know I am 54 and all of them are practice to me.
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@TheSuperappelflap want to piss off women? Explain to them that men are judged by their competence, capability, knowledge, and how well they can apply those things to achieve. Its merit based for men.
Women are judged on how they look, their youth, and fertility. Its not merit based at all, its entirely subjective. She can be a horrible, reprehensible person who is inept at everything, with a pretty face and get massive attention.
Thats why they wear makeup, dye their hair, and squish themselves into tight clothing, and men largely don't care how they look.
The amusing thing is women think that what they are attracted to will be attractive to men. So they get a job, degrees, house, car, and then at 40 they wonder why men don't care and ignore them.
They will claim we are intimidated by their 'power' when the reality is if she owns the house, she can tell us to leave and she will get to keep it in the divorce. If we own the house, the police will force us to leave and she will keep it in the divorce. Women look down on men who earn less than they do, its not like men get to see any of the money she makes, but she feels entitled to everything he earns.
I am thrilled to have been born male, because merit is something you can earn, and you don't have to be overly concerned with what others think of you. Women are dependent on attention and validation, and my god they are terrified of rejection as a result.
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Rigging the election is preposterous? Really? The least liked barely voted for, nobody came out to support him, but yet garnered more votes than the two most popular presidents in history, barely campaigned because nobody showed up, nobody watched online, nobody cared, then we watched as poll watchers were prevented from watching, sent home then the pollsters pulled out more ballots and ran them several times, in conjunction with the spikes that put him ahead.... coming from counties that have a long history of rigging elections, with 90% to over 100% voter turnout in those counties, and its preposterous?
In 2016 the BBC ran an article on how to spot a rigged election. The dems seemed to have used the BBC article as a template. Now they are trying to gaslight us, heather is gaslighting us, and YT will ban or remove anything that points this out, so we just believe it was all legitimate... FUCKIN PUHLEASE......
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What they are doing to men in movies and the media has gone from laughably nonsensical, to downright abby use ive. They paint us all like Homer Simpson or Tim Allen, as if we are helpless and need to be saved by the almighty pinnacle of human development owner of indoor plumbing. Like the Subaru commercial where the dude is standing on the trailer hitch of an Outback because he saw a snake... as the strong empowered not afraid of snakes or mice at all split tail giggles at him whilst carrying a plastic tote.
The Reacher thing sorta makes sense... in a certain way. Reacher was in the Army, I was in the USAF, and way back in 1990 we already had to contend with SA claims for simply saying hello without being tall enough. 6000 men, 300 or so 'not' men that get at ton of attention. Its the same sort of thing with online attention slathered on them, 2s think they are 10s. Speaking to them while not being tall enough, becomes a problem for the man who isn't 6'4" and ripped.
The military will punish any man who does ANYTHING without the approval of a split tail. My solution to getting in trouble for verbal greetings was to stop speaking to them entirely, unless it was a mission requirement. Yes or no answers only and they had to speak to me directly first. Never alone in a room with them, unless the door was propped open, and while in vehicles I was silent except for giving directions of do this, do that, while I do these other things. guess who did ALL the heavy lifting..
It messed with my game off base too, where I was more than attractive enough to get attention. The 'training' I got from the social experiment crud in the USAF cost me quite a few probable encounters.. including two very hot Russians while I was in Korea 2002-03. (I got several others but those two together.. yeah still salty about it) I didn't want to lose any stripes, because in the USAF they were difficult to get. Today at 55, it causes suspicion and doubt, are they really into me, or are they simply using me?
I know exactly when one of them is attracted to me, I learned how to spot it when I was 16, by watching the first one I got showing attraction to other guys at my school. All of the hints, I catch. The times they put themselves in my field of view to get my attention, I notice. The things they say and the expressions of interest on their faces, are obvious. However after going through the court system with two ex's I tend to not follow up, where 40 years ago I would have been buried in there within ten minutes.
I've mostly lost interest, not because my T is low, but because the risk far outweighs any reward.
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@wolfsmaid6815 she has had a good life, plenty of exercise, a nice soft warm place to sleep every night, the best food you can get for a husky. Just got a big bottle of CBD to help her out, she perked up immediately when I gave her some on a cracker earlier. That makes a huge difference for them. My other husky isn't a pure bred, she has some malamute or Alaskan in her, she is 11 now, rescued her back in 2015.
They are spoiled, they get a greenie every day, one of the small ones. I cut hotdogs into 4ths, for them too, when they are good they get a chunk, and since my vet said the Siberian is a bit underweight she gets a big dollop of peanut butter on a cracker every morning. Thats how I give them meds when they need it, and the CBD.
Every day I give them one to two full minutes of ear scratchins, and another of belly rubs. They have 3 acres of fenced in woods and right now they have lots of snow to play in. When I get a bunch of fresh lake effect powder they take off out the door like they aren't old dogs. They absolutely love the snow. Its hard to get the younger one to come in, she likes to sit in the snow and relax, when its powder she does snow angels that are more like dog circles. She always finds the coldest spot on the floor, so I put something soft for her wherever that is.
I'm not sure I will be able to bring myself to get another when they are gone, because if I get a pup it might outlast me at this point. I'm 53, probably won't see 70. Would hate to have a pup miss me like that.
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@wolfsmaid6815 I had to live in cities for years while I was in the US military, after growing up on a farm in Nebraska, cities felt overly crowded with people incapable of driving, with tight constraints on what I could do and own. Being a hardcore gearhead that meant I didn't have room to do the car thing and I had to worry about people stealing stuff.
When I met a girl from the upper peninsula of Michigan, and her family said they'd help me out when I was medically discharged, I took them up on the offer and moved up here. They treated me very well until she decided some kid 20 years younger than me, 7 younger than her, was her soulmate, then they immediately switched and hated me. Started extorting me for cash, through the legal system.
Couldn't find land back home I could afford, but this place came up for sale so I walked around it and put in an offer. They took it and after selling some car parts and my parents loaning me a couple grand, I owned land again a week or two after the divorce was final. Been building my life here ever since.
Its not paradise but it will do for what I want. There are 300' of trees between the road and my house/shop, and 200' behind it. Its 1320ft long, which is cool because thats a quarter mile and I prefer drag racing. The numbers fit. I carved out 3 acres from the woods, used the straightest maples to build my shop, and the house is built using shipping containers for the structure.
If I could find land in Nebraska that isn't $50k an acre or something equally ludicrous, I would move back there and rebuild everything. Lots more car stuff to do, the winters are shorter, and I have friends I can count on there. Everything is a minimum of a 5 hour drive to get anywhere from here. It fits the huskies pretty well though, we get lots of snow. 150 to 300 inches every winter.
Need to get a sawmill, so I can build another shed to store the old cars, keep them out of the weather. Have to drop some more trees before they fall on cars or the shop. Might as well use them to build rather than firewood.
All my stuff is hidden from view and I can drop a couple trees at the end of my driveway and nobody would ever know someone lives here. I am already 'bugged out' and hidden. I lived half a mile from here from '05 to '13 and never knew this place was here until '13 when I bought it, its that well hidden.
The younger pup is stressed out, I am working on the interior of the house, which means moving stuff around as I finish the walls. She doesn't like change much, but they love car rides. Picked up a $1000 '04 Escalade last summer, took the rear seats out, and I am building a deck for them. I have a mattress to put back there, so I can sleep in my truck when I go racing. They can travel with plenty of room and a soft spot to sleep.
Rebuilt an '07 GMC crew cab last year before I got the Caddy for the same thing, did an engine and transmission swap, and right now I am working on adding a couple leaf springs to it so it will pull my trailers without squatting. Might get ambitious and repair the rust, have all the metal sitting here to do it.
If it weren't cold enough that my joints ache all the time, it would be pretty good here.. the mosquitoes keep the thieves away.
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Used to do that all the time, some guys liked seafoam. They kept trying it even after the gas no longer left varnishes, and a broken engine isn't going to be fixed when there isn't enough carb to cause a problem. The reason today's gas doesn't cause all the varnish and carbon build up like we saw into the late 80s is very simple. When they started putting ethanol in rather than tetraethyl lead (TEL) or MTBE the varnish problem went away even when gasoline sits for a long time. It doesn't want to run when it sits, but there is no thick varnish in there. Look inside a gas tank of a vehicle that hasn't run since before 1982 and you will see a thick varnish. Why not TEL and MTBE? Well they both kill people and lead causes neurological problems. Don't eat the paint chips, don't lick anything from China, and don't breathe gasoline fumes with TEL in them.
Everyone is told to hate ethanol, but it keeps everything clean and allows you to burn the condensation that inevitably builds up inside the tank while it raises octane. The gasoline people say it raises octane like 2-3 points, but its more like 10 points. Its the best thing you can use when you have compression on the edge of needing race gas. Splash some E85 in every tank, up to 30% and the carb won't need any changes. Over 50% you start needing to change things, and at 70% you need a carb calibrated for it. EFI can handle 30% no problem, 50% if the injectors have enough volume (head room) and above 70% needs a tune or the flex fuel stuff.
In my engines that I run E85 and no gasoline, there is very little carbon and zero varnish, rust, etc in the tanks. If I run the home made E100 denatured with something other than gasoline, like methanol from washer fluid or HEET (which does the exact same thing with water as ethanol) there is zero carbon inside the engine and the oil changes look like it has never been run even after 10,000 miles. It comes out clean. Its the freakiest thing to people who have never seen it before.. lol. You change the oil due to thermal breakdown, not because its clogged with carbon. To legally run E100 on the highways you need to denature it, HEET works good as it doesn't introduce the heavy carbon that gasoline does.
Its kinda cool, my ethanol vehicles start no problem after sitting five months during the winter. The pump gas vehicles always need fresh gas put in them to run right. Vodka doesn't go bad, Scotch aged for 12 years is better, and ethanol does not break down unless its exposed to UV light for a long enough time. Ethanol is vodka, and the difference between vodka and whiskey is proof (how much alcohol vs water is in it) and whiskey is aged. Gasoline gets worse as the lighter components evaporate, because they are what makes it start easier.
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If you bully a male long enough, you WILL get a response, and you will NOT enjoy it. Eventually he will grow stronger, faster, more skilled than you, and he will crush you. Thats why bullying works to take meager boys and turn them into men, but if he is punished for defending himself, you get a completely different and far more terrifying response.
Without strong male guidance from capable, competent fathers and mentors, you will get a criminal. mind that simply does not care about right or wrong, he will do as he pleases. Men need to be taught how to channel those traits and capabilities, how to utilize them without misusing them.
It requires a man to be dangerous for him to be peaceful, because if he is not dangerous, he is harmless.. they have been trying to make all of us harmless for the last 60 years, and they will get the opposite in return. Biology does what biology does, and humans did not make it this far by men being passive, timid, and afraid of risks.
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@Mike-ul1xn I get that some things are not talked about, like my job (because it is not glamourous and is vastly important) but the outright lies and fabrications were surprising to see 30 years ago. Now I expect them to spew propaganda at us.
At first I chalked it up to the media being behind the times, usually 6 to 12 months. Like when it comes to memes and fads. A year after the Rick Roll thing died out, the media caught on to Rick Astley's video being watched an inordinate amount of times. They had no idea why it was so popular, or that it was the butt of a joke. Or the Tide goes in, tide goes out, you can't explain that thing... rofl.
But this was different, it was obvious propaganda and misinformation more than disinformation. Disinformation is saying Ramstein AB was busy as hell, while not mentioning Rhein Main AB at all when 90% of the air traffic from and to the gulf was going through there. Don't talk about where the most is happening, direct attention away from the critical areas. Its basic OPSEC even if all you need to do is drive by on Bahn 5 and see around 100 gray jets at RMAB at any given time in 1991.
Misinformation and misleading is saying things like Trump called skinheads very fine people, or Kyle R a whight supreemacyst militiamember. Its factually incorrect and there is no reason to shine the spotlight elsewhere, that kind of shit is all ideological and profit driven.
They use weasel words like 'This thing you know nothing about, but we might say is bad, may be causing you a problem' when its not what is causing you the problem, but it is blamed for it. They lead you to believe what they want you to without actually saying it. Covert propaganda 101. The way you spot that shit is by not being ignorant or misinformed in the area they are talking about.
I'm a gearhead, I know cars, trucks, airplanes, engines, and mechanical things very well, I understand how they work, and can usually improve upon them, knowing what changes cascade into, so I can predict what it will do if you change things. When they start talking about mechanical things, I know far more than most people and certainly more than the talking head and the person shoveling the shit into the teleprompter. Its incredibly easy to spot when you know about it or are an expert.
Being in the wars, watching it first hand rather than on a TV somewhere, you tend to know something about the subject that the media is portraying dishonestly. Sure, they could be simply wrong, but to be that wrong that often in so many areas, incompetence only goes just so far to explain it.
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What the fuck has AOC earned? She exploited the system and the ignorance/apathy of people to get her seat in government.
The socialists are always at least two of four things, if not all four.. Lazy, resentful, envious, and entitled. They want everything given to them and they do not want to work for it, then they resent those who have things they worked for and envy them for having it.. and the socialists are still too damn lazy to earn it for themselves. They want whatever it is taken from those who have earned it, and given to them. The big difference though, is they want to be taken care of so they never have to think, work, take risks, nor decide, they want a higher authority to do that for them.
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That mugshot chick fits the demographic for these marxist organizations. RBF (resting bitch face) older, no longer considered hot (if she ever was), which means she doesn't get the men/attention she wants, so she grows in resentment, envy, and feels entitled to something she can't have.. If she weren't crazy I would date her, but I am not who she wants, being under 6' and not down with her ideology.
If you pay attention, antifa and blm are filled with weak people, who are often unfuckable, mental problems, fat, ugly, not overly attractive if they aren't fat. This is the demographic that flocks to marxism. Envious, resentful, unmotivated/lazy/inept, and entitled.
How often do you find a body builder who served in the military, competes in MMA and has achieved things most people have not, joining these marxist organizations? I'd say never.. because that dude knows it takes hard work, discipline, and dedication to become proficient and capable, while being more than willing to put in the work. If you have built something despite the hardships and obstacles put in your path by others, you are far less prone to following that ideology.
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@wheels-n-tires1846 I caught a few of Tony's articles over the years, he is a way better writer than John Pearly Huffman, and JPH isn't terrible, he just has grammar issues. I read MMFF for a while, a bit more when I was working on my "Pit of Despair" 71 Mustang. Not quite as rusty as the 65 GTO, but close. Unibody cars seem to take longer than full frame cars to rebuild.
My family is a bunch of mopar nuts. The brother after me in particular, he is into Dodge like I am Pontiac. They have 69 and 70 Chargers, 70 Challenger, Darts, Demons, all kinds of stuff, and my dad had a 64 Sport Fury with the 426 wedge, 727 in it. He bought one new in 64, sold it a year before I was born, then found its twin in 2015. I read Plymouth only built 92 cars like that.. He left it to the oldest of us. Near as we can tell its an unrestored survivor with a fresh paint job and less than 40k miles on it. My older brother wrecks everything he drives, and he can't fix it like the rest of us can.
Dad left me a 70 AAR Cuda clone, its a 73 with all the correct 70 parts, including the 340. Its that eye searing green, so now I have to come up with a Pontiac color that gets more attention, that Cuda is the last thing you want to use to rob a bank. If you hate attention, don't drive something in that green. I have a 1500 Ram 4x4, 5.9 in it, need to get it running fix the rust and give it to my daughter.
So the Cuda will end up in videos, I need to do some work on it. I want to throw some wheels and tires under it, and keep the 15" rallys in storage. Maybe put a Sniper or FiTech on it too, the Edelbrock carb kinda sucks ass. I am not a fan of them. It should make for a fun ride in the summers when I am not cruising the GTOs.
Lots of projects planned for this year, we'll see how many I get to.
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@MrSwinger1 I paid $1000 for the 70 in 1994 drove it home. $1500 for the 65 in 2007 as a very rusty shell, spent abgout $15k rebuilding it, stuffing a 550hp 455 in, and upgrading the suspension with a faster steering box, WS6 swaybar up front and a GTO rear bar. Its Been my daily driver for the last 5 years.. it also runs 11s in the quarter.
Traded a carb rebuild for a 69 GTO last year, another rolling shell.
In 2014 I got a 68 LeMans rolling shell with buckets and a console floor shift for $300, pulled it out of a Nebraska pasture. Now after spending about $4000 total on it in 2015, I have a very light sleeper with an aluminum headed 461 built with used parts and a .030 over 400 block I had sitting around. $150 posi rear with 3.08 gears and a Th350 I rebuild back in the 90s.
Last summer I traded a smogger 454 for a 72 LeMans with the T41 GTO front end on it, the hood alone I could sell for about $2500, but I need that front end for the 72 GTO I bought way back in 1986.
Then all the Formulas and Trans Ams.. You can do this cheap if you are willing to scrounge parts and start with an abandoned project or a rolling shell like I do. I am still finding 400s and 455s around cheap, not all the time but it happens. Everyone knows I am looking for Pontiac stuff.
If they want to get into a Mustang, hell that is super easy, there are millions of those things and you can find a 302 damn near anywhere. It can be any car, doesn't have to be the top of the line. I have a ton of fun rebuilding and racing a LeMans, and my T37 is going to be moved to my shop later this year, along with a bunch of others I have had for decades.
Sure they are rough, but a $400 welder with a bottle of gas, a sawzall, cheap hammers and dollys, some filler, and implement enamel is all you need to build a sick ride that will be tons of fun for less than $5k.
Going out and buying a $25k civic then dumping another $10k into it to break violently into the 13s and blow it up every other week, well I suppose to some that is preferable. I bet I can run NA 11s with junk that cost me around $1000 for everything.
Thats a planned project for this summer. 72 Ventura I traded some Chevelle seats for, it was an auto trans six with manual everything else. I have a virgin 400 I got for $50 and a $200 set of 62 heads that only need cleaned up, a $140 cam and lifters, used Comp 995 springs, $200 or so in rings, bearings oil pump, and the most expensive part is the headers I bought for $275. Basic $100 rebuilt Th350, a $120 converter with a 2100 stall, and the 8.5" posi and 3.42 gears from a late model chevy that was rolled and I got for helping the guy pull the trans and put it in his Tahoe.
If i can scrounge all this junk and make it work, pretty much anyone can.
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@MrSwinger1 thats why I bought 13 acres of land 13 miles from the nearest town of hardly any people, covered in trees and built everything behind 300' of thick forest. You can't see shit back here from the road. My neighbors don't mind the drag cars when they can hear them, I am not running them at night. Besides the closest is a quarter mile away through the trees.
My 65 GTO wasn't even a good parts car when I got it. I have a video describing the build on my channel. Its a quick overview of 3 years work. That thing is a real GTO and the only one I could afford in 2007, so it got my time and some money.
The LeMans parts car that donated its interior and a few other pieces, like the grille surround, which was in better shape, is now going to be a dual quad 455 Gasser. The guy I got it from thought it was too far gone too.. hell I could have it driving in about two weeks if I had to or wanted to.
The 68 Firebird is rougher than the GTO was, and its going in the shop maybe this fall. Tube chassis, big engine, glass front end and doors.. street legal and ludicrous.All I need is a cowl, the roof, most of the quarters, and some rockers. I will get or make the rest... lol.
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@boarzwid1002 last month I paid off my land, 3 years early on a ten year note. Also paid off the building loan, two years early. that means I am debt free for the first time since I met my first ex in 1993, and I have a shop/home I cannot be thrown out of by the owner.. because its me. I cannot be removed and it given to a woman, because I will never get married or even have another relationship where they live with me. They can visit, but they gotta go home.
What do do with the extra cash every month... I know, I will build faster cars!
Life is so very good now, I wish I had figured out that girls and I simply do not mix 30 years ago. I would be in a much better place than I am today, because this is the 8th time I have rebuilt my life after something others did put me back to zero.
So now I am off in the 65 GTO to get bulk steel brake line so I can replace all the brake lines on the winter beater 2000 Silverado 4x4, and fix the fuel leak on the 2006 Gran Prix, or maybe scrap the poor thing and use its drivetrain to build a ladder car like an Ariel Atom. If you don't know what that is, search it. If I build it with a body and a heater I can drive it in the winter and still call it a 2006 GP.
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Do I work for or give money to environmentalist organizations? No, I don't and will not. Fuck them and their misuse of resources for ideological bullshit. What do I do? Far more than Tim and these so called environmentalists who want your money.
I produce my fuel with tree sap and cattails, to run my cars and trucks. I build my engines to take advantage of the superior qualities of ethanol fuel, namely very high compression and camshaft timing that produces maximum torque output between idle and 5500rpm with very high cylinder pressures. No need to cut the trees down, just tap them and get sap every other year, add yeast and then distill it.
I rebuild old cars (1932-1979) and improve them with modern technology, like overdrive transmissions and repurposing efi components to my dinosaur Pontiac engines. Rather than buying new, I refurbish parts that were made years or decades ago. The cost of making them is amortized already.
My house is four shipping containers, I heat with wood, solar, and biomass water heaters that produce high quality topsoil along with 140f hot water. Currently I'm on the grid for power but I'm minimizing the amount of power I have to buy with my efforts to produce my own power. Wind and solar are not enough this far north. I want a sterling engine for a generator, but finding one I can afford is tough.
Do I do all of this to save the planet? Nope, it will go on for another 5 billion years. I'm doing all of this because I can, I want to, and it saves me money. Besides, it's fun driving an old GTO that has 500-600 hp, gets 20mpg on fuel I make for 10 to 40 cents a gallon. And the cars usually cost me less than $5000 to build into daily drivers. A frame off rebuild of my 65 GTO was under $15k and it was very rusty when I got it. I used parts from other junk cars to rebuild it, not many parts are reproduced for the 65 GTO. So it ended up being very green out of necessity.
I live in a forest,I have wild animals in my yard all the time. Last week it was a juvenile bald eagle resting on a car, letting me get within ten feet of him to take a picture. A few weeks ago it was a bunch of turkeys with 8 to 10 young birds with them walking down my driveway. I have bears, deer, and the occasional moose with tons on squirrels. When the world goes to shit and all of you in the cities are starving without power, I'll be driving a 69 GTO that runs tens in the quarter mile and carrying my guns on me, just like I do now. I'm not a prepper, this is simply how I live.
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Trading one oppressive ideology for another... They aren't removing god, they are making the state god. That is marxism in a nutshell, the state is god, dear leader cannot be criticized. You can very easily be atheist and not be a marxist or any other ideological nutter. You can have a rejection of ideologies, particularly the ones not based in reality, like marxism, feminism, communism, socialism, and the abrahamic religions and not have to adhere to a different one. Those all use the same tactics and have similar dogmatic styles. The language is different, the god is moved a bit but it is still above you, but the obey dear leader or be shamed, ostracized, fined, shouted at, or simply tortured/killed if you dissent.
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Forget talking about the "D" hypocrites, their ideology doesn't care about that.
I don't want it banned either, I can't smoke or drink, but I understand if people want to. Them saying people can't is not going to end well, just like prohibition 100 years ago. Contrary to how I look and what my name is on here, I eat VERY healthy and have for many years. Tonight I had a baked chicken salad, zero calorie, zero sugar, no carbs dressing on it. I eat apples and oranges, sometimes bananas, and about once a month I will bake some home made bread to have ham and egg sandwiches in the morning. I'm active too, but somewhat limited mobility because of the military. Its a challenge, and I am figuring it out.
I used to drink alcohol, now I make it to drive my old GTOs, its a great fuel. Since I turned 45 for some reason I just get a headache when I drink with no buzz, so I don't. My dad smoked while I grew up, and it messed up my autoimmune system, any tobacco smoke will give me a migraine, fever, nausea, and turn me into a brown water cannon for 3 or more days. My family couldn't figure out why I was sick all the time growing up. When I left the farm I figured it out. My dad got lung and brain cancer because he smoked for more than 50 years. He died in 2020 after a mild car accident when the hospital didn't give him any alcohol and he detoxed. Can't do it that way when you're 76 and have been drinking like that since 1990.
My grandma on mom's side died of lung and throat cancer because her second husband smoked a pipe for the 25 years they were together. My grandpa, mom's dad, had a heart attack when I was 5. She never smoked a day in her life, and rarely drank.
My younger three siblings all smoke, and they know I can't be around it.. and yet they light up right next to me in an enclosed space. Then they wonder why I don't spend more time around them. I don't smoke weed either, I don't like feeling that way, but I do get some good out of CBD, it helps with the chronic pain I have from the military.
Still, despite me knowing its bad, and how it has taken people from me, I am against banning things like that. You can mess yourself up all you like, its your life. When it becomes a problem that affects others, like crank or driving drunk, then yeah that is not something I get behind.
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Until the AI can start producing a mode to get around, i.e. bodies that allow them to fly/walk/move and interact with the world and all of us, they are very limited in what they can do. Does automation affect me making vodka fuel and growing food? Yeah, some but until they can come attack me they don't have much reach over me. I bet the video games will be freakin wild with AI.
There is a consideration you've missed Joker, most people have. They don't want us to have myriad choices like we do now. They don't want what is best for us. Its much easier to be profitable when your livestock only eats one type of food, rather than several types you have to grow or buy.
The size of the herd matters too, 10,000 cattle is much more work than 300 cattle. I grew up with 100 to 300 cattle and around a thousand hogs at any given time. The more you have the more work it is and the more you have to feed them. You only feed them one thing, because they don't really need much variety to get ready for market. Feed them the cheapest thing you have that works and they will eat.
Fewer, consuming a very narrow range of products, to maximize profits. They don't need all the busywork jobs, and they won't need mechanics and other manual labor jobs either, because with vastly smaller populations they won't be allowed to travel and they won't produce as much waste.
So the only question will be, are they building a zoo or a farm? Because farm animals all meet the same end.... I wonder what they will do about all of us out here in the woods who can support ourselves.
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I can hate or loathe something without being consumed by it, I have better shit to do. I loathe marxism, and all its abhorrent offspring, beyond any sensible comprehension, but I only think about it when I am faced with it. Unlike the people who flock to marxism, and have nothing better to do because they are lazy, inept, resentful and feel entitled to what they have not earned. They cling to their hatred, its like a comfort blanket to them, seeing themselves as victims of merit, because they have none.
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@Ram Rod that is a very authoritarian/marxist view of it. Every living creature on this planet has the right to defend itself from threats/harm, some lack the ability, others simply kill what kills (or tries to) them with a poison, but we are part of nature not separate from it. Its unnatural to remove the right and ability to self defense in organisms that have it inherently. The world is an escalating arms race at every level of existence and biology. Our immune system is part of that, as is the use of tools. Even if you are incapable of defending yourself you have the right to do so.
We can speak, interact with others, and form ideas. Having someone who puts themselves in authority over us, tell us that we are not allowed to speak our thoughts if we so choose, well... it never leads to good things. Tyrants have a way of being ripped to shreds.
It is not a 'privilege' to think or defend yourself. It is not a privilege to not be owned by someone else. I see rights more as responsibilities, nobody is beholden to defend you, at the base level it must be done by the individual. You can believe anything you want, however factual or nonsensical, its entirely up to you to decide.. though most people are so weak minded that want others to do the thinking for them... they see rights as privileges that are granted and can be taken away.
I realize schools have been teaching kids that they are what their group or collective is, but that is not only wrong its idiotic and at best myopic. The summation of a person is not how resistant to UV they are, or if they squat or stand to piss, nor any other collective notion, no matter how much marxist idiots want it to be.
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I am not a republican, don't like Trump, but I like the job he did as president. I give a shit about the Constitution and keeping the Bill of Rights exactly as it is right now, and removing the infringements against the 1st and 2nd by democrats and big tech, and the Patriot Act's infringements on the 4th and 5th as well. My vote this year didn't matter because the dems cheated and the republicans allowed it with hardly a fight. I will probably not vote again, instead I will not comply with unconstitutional laws, rules, and edicts. If they try to force me to do so, I will fight them.. legally or violently, its their choice which. If they continue to toss out the Constitution and subjugate us, then they have chosen violence.
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Most people want to be a nameless unknown cog in a machine. They want the security that provides, and they value security over freedom. Freedom has a cost, along with it comes responsibility and a requirement for discipline to carry you when motivation wanes. Working as a hamster in a cubicle bears minimal responsibility, but has far more security, provided the Bobs don't come down and ask "What would ya say, ya do here?"
Some of us eschew security for freedom, to be able to express ourselves, speak our mind, drive the car we damn well want to drive and if we can't afford that car we build the damn thing. Some of us accept the responsibility that comes with taking your life into your own hands, taking the risk, and jumping into the unknown. Man there are a lot of 'i' s in responsibility and 'n's in unknown. Its fitting there are lots of 'i's in that word, because that is what you're in charge of when you accept responsibility.. you're in charge of yourself. You might have others subordinate to you for which you are responsible, so when they screw up you get reamed out, but you're still beholden to yourself. If you or the people under you screw up, its your circus, your monkeys, your problem.
Most people do not want that, they want to be told what to do, when to do it, where to do it. Its easier not having to think about all of that. That is cubicle life, and to me that life is akin to death. The closest thing to that was six years in a factory as a machinist. I'd rather be outside, doing something with my hands, making decisions, leading others, planning the actions for the day, and being aware of everything so nobody does something stupid and gets killed or kills one of our team. I've worked in -30F all the way to 135F, rain, snow, sleet, ice, unbearable sun, dust storms, tornadoes, all manner of severe weather. Have done that with people shooting at me, lobbing mortars in my general direction... and I prefer that to the safe secure confines of a cubicle farm or office. I'd rather risk death than feel dead, you live more in 9 seconds at full throttle in one of my cars than most people do in 50 years.
Some of us want to jump out of airplanes, most of us want to be safe on the ground.
To quote a gearhead I know "Its not fun unless its dangerous"
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The wrong ones... ROFL. They are ALL the 'wrong' ones. Doesn't matter how hot they are either, they cannot be trusted. I've had the hot ones, like super hot Russians, others that could be on magazine covers, and homely ones, small to large, young to old. All over Europe, the USA, and Asia, a handful from Africa too.
To be fair, I went for the ones who showed interest in me. So it could be the ones who are attracted to me are the horrible ones. I learned early in life, around age 14, that its a waste of time talking to the ones who aren't showing interest. Yes I learned that early to tell what interest and attraction look like, what they do and how they act.
I do not pick them up in bars, only pulled two in bars, its not my thing. I stopped going to bars 30 years ago because its just a waste of time and money.
About guys being able to pull hotties, yeah you can do it if you really want to.. I am inclined to avoid them, but if you want to find out for yourself, you can. I am 5'8" and have never had money. I have blue eyes, a deep voice, lots of muscle (I make Bo look tiny) and a dominant mentality/demeanor going for me, but I still had to learn to talk to and read interest on them. I got over the butterflies and nervousness before I turned 16 by asking every one of them in high school to marry me.. and they all said no, I got used to hearing them say 'no' and saying completely outrageous things to them. Rejection doesn't affect me as a result, it saves me time when I want some tuna.
After two divorces, I don't want them for anything more than an 0 face now.
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@the-eq5vh yeah. I have always been someone who does things that are silly, nonsensical, and I try to make people laugh. When you have a rough life growing up, you tend to do that. The added benefit to me asking them to marry me was the complete removal of any negative aspect of rejection.
I've done lots of things like that, learning about people, how they interact with others, the reactions they have to things, I wanted to know how people function and think. I wanted to know because I was getting beaten nearly every day for over ten years, and I had a VERY high drive so getting some was a means to an end. Its difficult to think about things when your brain gets a fog from having a drive like that, and no way to get rid of the fog.
Took me a long time to realize that women are pretty much all not trustworthy. I was 35 or so when it dawned on me that all of them are running the same basic program. I still like and appreciate them, but there is no way I can ever trust them. Its not like I trust males without years of earning it either.
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I like your take, so I watch your videos. We USAF guys gotta support each other anyway. I am growing weary of most of the content about this sort of thing though, its getting stale. Also the main stream is picking up on it now, even Tim Pool is talking about Title 4D.
There is a reason why I do car content, a bit of homesteading, sustainability, and DIY when I am not making goofy shorts. I like to make that stuff, if I made your kind of content people would either get incredibly pissed, or think I am lying. Also its hard to limit the profanity when I talk about such things.
I watch you and Popp when you guys drop something. Terrence has had me on a few times, to talk about my fuel project and some other things survival related, helped my channel out last year so I repay the favor as much as I can. Just about everyone else is being ignored, particularly if they talk about TV shows or the same thing over and over. Can only handle just so much negative.
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If you want more government control over your life, to be paid by them, and have them provide health care, we should have a chat. It comes with many strings attached, and it is not preferable to having opportunity.
I was USAF, we got to sleep in hotels on occasion, like my last deployment in 2004. Half the deployment in the Hilton, half in the Radisson in Kuwait City. The Hilton is in a beautiful location, it was very nice. Made bank, nobody was shooting at us running the airport where everyone came through going to Iraq, so it was my best of 5 trips to the desert. The others were less than comfortable, the worst being in 1991. We expect to end up sleeping anywhere they put us. I slept in trucks, airplanes, on the ground, under wings, in warehouses, in office space with bunks, conexes, shipping containers, about anywhere I could and not get run over. Its the nature of military life..
What should NOT be the nature of military life is what they do to us if we get out on a medical and end up disabled.
Obama cut VA funding twice, there was no cost of living adjustment from 2010 to 2017 despite costs going up over those years. Imagine its 2010 and you are forced to live on $2k a month. No, you can't earn more. Your spouse can work, if someone will stick around, deal with the nightmares, forced poverty, physical limitations, PTSD, and all the other crap that comes along with getting fucked up by the military. So far I have not found a woman who can handle all of it, so I live alone and probably always will. Its not easy having to rebuild from zero when everything you worked for is given to someone who does not deserve it. I live in constant pain, that subsides a bit if I don't move much, and Queen Nancy tells me I am worth $3000 a month. Congress gives themselves raises that are bigger than what any disabled veteran gets in a year, then she wants belt fed machine guns to keep the rabble away.
Always someone else to do their dirty work, its not their kids in the meat grinder, none of us get to sit on the board of a Ukraine energy company making millions.. Nah, we subsist on $36k a year while they in government profit from what we do.
Nancy and the rest of Congress, particularly democrats who treat us like a nuisance, can kiss my pasty white gelatinous glow in the dark ass. You'd think it would start to be enjoyable getting fucked at some point.....
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@joebidendagoat what facts say the cheeto is a criminal? How many investigations and nothing other than hearsay, conjecture, and fabrications. I don't like the guy, but lying about someone as much as they have makes me think they protest too much. Particularly when I have seen what the other 'side' has done, thing which if I did them when I was military would have netted me at least 20 years. Like destroying evidence, falsifying records, massive security breaches, selling boomsticks to cartels, and overthrowing mid east nations resulting in open slave markets. I suppose those are good things to you?
I remember the soviet union quite well, show trials, fabricating and asserting wrongdoing when there was none. They went so far as to claim the wall in Berlin was to keep the Adolffollowers out, rather than the reality of keeping people in. I have seen ducks before, heard them, and hunted them, I know a duck when I see it.
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Other than the weight, the only thing I don't like about the SPAS12 is reloading it. Since I know how to operate it the three safeties are a good thing. If I have to hand it to someone or drop it, just move one lever by the trigger and they can't fire it... unless they know how to operate it. The 8+1 capacity is enough to really fill the air with lead, and its so easy to handle even for my daughters. Reloading it hardcore sucks though. Unload in less than 3 seconds, reload in 20 to 30.
2 shot in the pipe, then 00, slug, 00, slug, 00 in the rest of the tube. Usually has sabots in it, I live in the woods so overpenetration is just a possible hole in one of my cars, and I have a welder.
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@nickolaslewis4416 I've had it for 30 years, since before the ban. It was cheap back then, and you hardly ever see one now unless its in a movie. As long as the shells are hot enough to cycle it, the thing is flawless and never has a problem. Less than 2 shot and you might as well pump it because its probably not going to cycle.
Unless someone has fired one a few times, they will have a negative opinion.
I have a bullpup escort too, it is much better for birds, clays etc. It needs a drum to be much fun, the 5shell mags go quick.
However if I really want to knock some birds down the Winchester model 12 lightweight my dad left me is my go to.. but geez that thing wears out your shoulder. I rarely miss with that one, so as long as I find birds its meat on the table.
The SPAS is intimidating as hell, open a door to that thing and people will start backing up, unless they assume its an airsoft or other replica. One round and they know its not. It doesn't bounce much, you don't lose sight picture, and the sights are very easy to use. With sabot or rifled slugs its very accurate too. Its like an extension of you that flings lead in a hurry. For what it was designed to do, it does it very well.
You should try one if you can find one someone will let you shoot. Yes I have been offered a lot of money for it, no its not going anywhere. I should get some more O rings and the choke set for it while I can though, been meaning to. I tend to forget about it until someone drags out an M4 with that small mag. Other than the limited rounds the M4 is pretty kick ass, I kinda want one...
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@googleusergp I've never gotten one in original condition, only two of my old cars are number matching. The 72 Formula with its 455 HO, and the 79 Trans Am 10th Anniversary. The only two that it really matters and they are going to be put back to how they were, especially since the 72 is so rare.
The 65 GTO wasn't even a good parts car when I got it, lots of rust and mostly parted out, just a roller.
The 69 GTO is a bit worse than the 65 was, but at least the pinch welds are in better shape.
The 70 and 72 GTOs came to me with 350s in them, the original 400s were long gone. The 68 LeMans was a lightly rusty rolling shell I pulled out of a pasture in 2014, it hadn't run or been driven since 1982.
So mostly I build them how I want to, use the parts in the engines that will work for what I plan to do with them, and I have no plans to sell them. If I have a car for sale its a Ford or a chevy. Been trying to get rid of a couple Mustangs... nobody is biting, they want them for free it seems.
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rawtheory333 I said I don't want to rip into your belief system. Its being nice to you. Not only did I learn protestant christianity, I learned islam as well. I also learned as much as I could about marxism. When ideologues run into reality, they come out with the logical fallacies. At this point its amusing with the abrahamic believers do it, because thanks to sensible non theistic laws governing the US your religion has no teeth.
Sadly we have enough marxist legislation already that they have real teeth. Be a dad and get divorced and you will find out all about marxism in our government. I'd really rather fight next to you against the authoritarians in islam and marxism, than with you. When you learn to rip apart islam, you also learn to rip apart every other ideology. Most people simply never look at their own and think about it critically. That comes from being indoctrinated when they are young. it doesn't make you stupid or anything, it simply means you are human.
If you really want me to show how jacked up your religion is, I can spend some time later this evening and do it up right. I've already heard about every logical fallacy and assertion to try and make reality fit your lens. I am not some kid who is mad at authority. I harbor no ill will nor resentment towards you or your religion, unlike marxism. So everything I say will be without emotion, dispassionate, and I will not be in the least bit angry.
Unless you're a priest or scholar, I probably know your religion better than you do. Why? Because I was the kid who was always in trouble for asking questions like "If god is all powerful, why can't he simply forgive sins" when I was in 4th grade.I didn't get a good answer then and have not ever since. Good luck getting me to believe in the idea of sin.
Take a couple years, learn as much as you can about islam and marxism. I learned islam in a Dubai mosque from an Iraqi my country would not allow to go home to his wife and kids in Kuwait City because he had an Iraqi passport. I was in the military that kicked Iraq out of Kuwait, he had every reason to hate me, but instead he treated me like a brother. Unlike the pentecostal NCO above me, he went out of his way to make my life hell because I was not a pentecostal. I realize it comes down to the individual, as I have friends who are pentecostal and would never do something like what that prick did.
Not only do I know yours, I know others as well. 50 laps around the local star gives you time to learn stuff. I love learning stuff, but if its not useful, practical, or realistic, well its just something I know about. Its kinda crazy how much info we can fit in our heads... well, some of us. I know a lot of idiots.
So if you want me to, I will later before I spend some time killing pixlelated nazis. Right now I have to go put a Th350 in my GTO so I can drive it some more before the snow gets here and my life turns shades of gray.
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The wage gap is not about misogyny or oppression of women, it is an accurate representation of the differences in work and performance between men and women. It is illegal to pay someone less based on gender or race.
So what this amounts to is feminists shouting from the rooftops to anyone who will listen "Women aren't working as much as men are!!!" but framing it so they can get paid more for less work so they have the same amount coming to them for fewer hours.
The woman of the year last year was a man. What does that say about women?
I saw this first hand in the US military, where you get paid for how long you been in and how competent you are. My job was extremely physical, lifting heavy shit, loading cargo planes. I was often teamed with the females, because I could carry their weight as well as my own, and get the job done. We never had all female load teams, they simply can't put enough muscle mass into it. Physiology, not discrimination. So I am doing a minimum of 4x the work, and getting paid the same as a girl who can't lift 40lbs. How is that fair? The females who couldn't do as much often got busy work jobs where they didn't do much all day and handled the trivial meaningless bullshit, they were often the cute ones who got those jobs. You girls want to be equal? You better start shooting some juice.
In my factory jobs, the girls got the very light duty inspection jobs, the men had the heavy lifting and dangerous jobs. We all were paid the same despite the girls doing far less physical labor and having far fewer skills such as machining and programming the CNCs.
Claiming most CEOs are men is idiotic. Why? Because I know I do more work than anyone who is on TV for a living, and I have never made more than $40k in my entire life. I do not see anyone clamoring for girls to do the heavy labor jobs, oh no they want the high paying jobs, but without the responsibilities that go with those high paying jobs. All the benefits with none of the responsibility and consequences. When they are CEOs they do so amazingly well... HP, Yahoo.... etc.
But fuck merit, lets all go with identity politics and you get paid because you have a vagina and are supposedly a bigger victim, not because you are capable.
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I drive old cars, newest one is an '06 and I only drive it in winter because of the salt, the daily in summer is a '65 GTO. If I leave my phone and tablet at home and use cash, I can go gray very easily. When I was stationed at Rhein Main AB in West Germany back in 1989-91, I got extensive anti terrorist training. It works against governments too, and they gave it to me. I have reservations about putting my face in videos on here, even if its just my old car stuff I've been doing. The less people know about me, the better, and I am nobody. ;)
So far in the USA we can still go gray, in the EU you guys are not so lucky. I use my debit card to prove I am in places when I am not home, writing on here or something. I have a vindictive ex wife who likes to call the cops on me for no reason, so I have been using their system to cover my ass. I can prove where I was, what I was doing, and that I was not where she claims I was. Those feminist laws are worse for me than the tech stuff, because all she needs to do is get a time where I am nearby and claim I threatened her and my rights go away. Its happened before, and she keeps trying to get me thrown in jail.
I can severely limit their ability to track me if I so desire, its not that hard to do.
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This is hilarious. Western chicks are so delusional and insecure. I don't need girls. Sure as hell don't need western girls, so they can live alone in boxed wine and cat land... 40 to 80 is a long time.
I'm 53, heavily muscled, debt free, own 13 acres of woodland, built my house and shop, veteran, have been 'retired' since I was 36, yeah I am broken but you can't really tell unless I let you see it. I build and drive vintage muscle cars and old trucks. My summer daily drivers are a 1965 GTO with a 550hp/600ftlb 455 in it, and a bright freakin eye searing green 1970 Cuda with a 340. I'm building a 69 and 70 GTOs, 72 Cutlass, 71 Mustang fastback, 76 and 80 C10 short box pickups, and others. The 68 LeMans is going to be a fast sleeper street/strip drag and drive event ride.
Way back in 1990 I was engaged to an Arab girl from Dubai. My military boss screwed me over when I was supposed to fly down there and marry her. Ended up married to two girls from the US. HUGE mistake. Twice divorced, kicked the second one out in 2013, she got everything but some rusty old cars and my income. So I built my life over again since 2013.
I do not date anymore. Not interested in US females, and rather than going overseas (where I did VERY well when I was stationed in and traveled to Europe, east, west and central Asia, and Africa) I prefer to stay here and build my vehicles and drive them. Tons of fun with Russian speaking girls, and Asian girls really like me, must be the blue eyes and I used to have blond hair before I went gray. No I don't dye my hair, I earned this gray.
Who wants a combative, demanding, controlling, bitc4y, complaining, unfaithful, obnoxious, Cant Understand Normal Thinker? Not me. I have had the foreign girl experience and it was pretty damn good.
My advice if you want to go to another country to get a girl is this:
1. Learn the language of the country you're going to, read and write it if possible
2. DO NOT BRING HER BACK HERE.
3. They will only respect you if you're dominant and do not let them walk over or control you.
4. Don't be a controlling prick, you need to be the confident leader or they will react the same way any girl reacts, ie. poorly.
5. Eastern Europe is hard mode, those girls REQUIRE a strong willed man. Asia and Africa are much easier. South America I hear is good in places but I have not bet yet.
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@STP-bc5cy if you mean Charleston SC... except for everything from King street to Dorchester Ave, everything around the base. I suppose rainbow row, the battery, and west Ashley are still ok from what I hear, and Mount Pleasant was ok 16 years ago when my enlistment ended and I left. Spuril ave is still a hive of scum and villainy according to my friends who live in Goose Creek.
I lived in North Charleston just outside the base... helicopters looking for Pookie and Ray Ray after they held up the gas station or whacked someone was a common thing, its interesting watching C17s dodge police choppers..
I got out of the south because the drivers in SC are some of the worst I have encountered all over the world. Koreans, Kuwaitis, Haitians, and Kenyans are all vastly better drivers, and in all those countries except for Korea traffic laws are suggestions akin to drink more water..
Since I moved the only thing I had stolen was some gasoline, by a methhead who figured I wasn't using it. He has been warned to say away or end up having a date with a backhoe and soft earth.
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The weak, timid, inept, and incapable are those who cry out "save us!" and use logical fallacies like "won't someone think of the children?" to justify overreaching government action. It is not the strong, capable, and skilled who beg for others to take charge of their very lives and rescue them from the perceived danger. No, the latter group are the ones who come to save the former. The strong can handle the problems themselves, and human nature tends to make us run into the fire to save those who are weak and incapable.
In the socialist utopia of the soviet union, they would tell those being arrested not to make a scene, do not disturb your neighbors, and they did not have public arrests. Rather, they pulled you to the side and then arrested you away from any support or possible actions by others in your defense. The soviets were weak minded, and their actions proved it, they were doing wrong and everyone knew it, but as long as it is night right before your eyes, you can rationalize and justify it in your head that the state must have been correct.
The whole of marxism is little more than envy, resentment, entitlement, laziness, and playing the victim to garner sympathy. It comes from the weak mind, not the strong and capable who engage in this thinking, as they do not need to have things given to them. No need to be given anything when you are capable and adept thus you can earn your on your own. "They have it because they took it from you" is marxism, reality is "They have it and you do not because they earned it and you have not."
Don't print or publish anything that might show the weakness of those people, as they loathe themselves and lament their ineptitude, but their ego is such that they would rather blame others than critique their own shortcomings. Blame those who can so nobody realizes you cannot. Commit a crime, but blame it on everyone else to assuage your guilt in self pity. That is what socialism and all the rest of marxist ideology is based upon.
You can be a victim if you want, but there is no moral supremacy in being weak. If you're a victim, that is exactly what you are, weak and inept.
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About 20 to 25 years ago there was a revolution in the world of Radio Controlled planes, helicopters, cars, trucks, boats, etc. It was brushless electric motors. The more voltage you feed them, the more power they make and more RPM they turn. Putting a brushless in an RC truck or car makes them LUDICROUSLY fast. It makes glow engines look very very sad. The electrics also don't have any goo to clean up from an engine running methanol and castor oil, sometimes with a little nitromethane mixed in. The brushless stuff makes the old nickel cadmium battery brushed motor stuff look like they're running in molasses.
That made foam electric powered planes lots of cheap fun. For $200 you can put together a 150mph plane in about half an hour while the battery charges. They are so cheap you can run into other planes, and either glue it back together in a few minutes, or swap a shattered fuselage or wing for another one. It is super easy to overpower an airframe made of foam, too much power too fast and they like to spin into the ground.. don't ask how I know.
HOWEVER... there are concerns, drawbacks, and hazards with electric batteries and motors. All the same ones Tony talks about, and also battery life. You end up replacing battery packs often, at most we get 5 years from one if its cared for meticulously. They range from $20 for one with a short duration (Mah is a rough measurement) to well over $300 for longer duration/range. The cost has come down on them, when I stopped flying (because I am building full size cars right now) the batteries were $80 to $100 each for 2200mah. Those are the $20 ones now.
If you don't charge and discharge them correctly, or they get any water in them at all, you have a fast burning very hot fire you cannot extinguish. Think for a moment about heat cycles. Engines get water in the crankcase, because they get hot, then they cool off and water condenses inside the engine. We have to run them hot enough to boil the water out, or the oil turns to a milkshake. Batteries get hot when you demand lots of discharge voltage from them, they go through heat cycles too. Better hope there aren't any cracks or gaps where water can condense in the pack... because if it does, poof..
Obviously there aren't as many electric boats, because RC boats don't always stay above the water, they get flipped easily. With NiCads and glow engines, you dry out the servos/reciever, flush the water out of the engine, and you're up and running again. I sank my 36" glow powered boat all the freakin time...With LiPo or Li Ion packs, you can only have that happen just so often.
Thusly I am not against EVs, but I want people to be aware of the hazards associated with them, and the limitations inherent in the designs.
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It depends on the women, but drag racing is a place where they aren't showing skin to get attention. A different kind of woman drag races than one who chases social clout. Alex Taylor has a FAST car, 7 second quarter miles, her dad built it for her a couple years ago. She is classy, even if she is one of those always happy 'bouncy' types. Then we have Miss Midnight Maverick, she is almost always wearing yoga pants, but thats about the extent of her "Look at MEEE!" and her husband/boyfriend who races with her is always using her posterior for thumbnails.
The drag and drive events are brutal, you race your car then drive it a few hundred miles to the next track. Its impossible for them to keep up their hair, makeup, and whatever else, so you get to see them how they really are. Sick Week, Ricky Mountain Race Week, and Drag Week are some of the bigger ones. Its a lot of work and minimal sleep, the faster your car is the harder it is to do it. Alex does that and she has a car that requires lots of work.
In the 90s when I was bracket racing there was a guy with a 66 Chevelle, about half a second faster than my car, cool guy. He had his gf/wife there helping him, we all pushed our cars through the staging lanes so they didn't over heat and to save fuel. Well she would be behind his car pushing it, and she always wore these cut off jeans that when she bent over to push the car, you could see EVERYTHING. My reaction times were always terrible when I was in the lanes behind them. Other than her, its rare that a woman who is actually in the racing part is doing the 'look at meee' thing.
Just so happens that drag racing is probably the only sport where women can compete with men on an equal field. My 26 year old daughter wants to do it, so I am building a ride for her. Something she can drive around and race on the weekends since there is a track on the outskirts of the town where she lives. Its a 1984 C20 on a C10 short box frame, I figure a truck is better for her than a car, and I have the truck sitting here anyway.
We don't mind females in drag racing, you get a certain mindset that doesn't lack the idea of merit. Win or lose, every race depends on your driving in bracket races. A 13 second car can race a 9 second car in brackets, and the 13 second car can win. The slower car gets a head start, and the faster car has to catch them. It evens out the $$$ disparity so you can go racing with grandma's Buick or with whatever you put together. The faster or more expensive car doesn't always win. These attention seeking types aren't going to be drag racing, its a merit based sport and the clocks don't lie. Get there first and you win.
I go to the gym when nobody else is around when I want to work out. The last twenty years all I want is cardio, haven't been able to run since 2004. Injuries from my last deployment prevent me from ever running again. Have had too much muscle for 30 years, I am strong enough, but I avoid crowds and want to be there alone, it helps with the PTSD.
I get lots of women looking at me, even with my belly. Its rare I get the disgusted look that the bug sandwich guys get, it happens, but usually the ones who have no interest ignore me completely. Fine by me.
So far this filming thing is not happening at the small gym I go to, at least not when I am around. I also go there to take a shower, since I don't have running water at my house yet. I am still building my bathroom, waiting on warm weather now. The only time I go during the day is when I am headed in for lumber or groceries and stop to grab a shower on the way in.
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@shapshooter7769 what do ya mean? I have a huge lake I can drink from directly, there are tasty fish in it, plenty of room for chickens, greenhouse, gardens, and since its a forest there are medicinal plants everywhere.
Also I am working on getting up to producing 1000 gallons of ethanol per year from cattails that I can use for all sorts of things, like antiseptic, fuel, party time, light without smoke, and trading. etc. The cattails are also edible, you can use the starch in them to make flour instead of fuel. Its only one acre of cattails to make 1000 gallons.
Tires for the vehicles will be a bit of a problem if the SHTF after a few years, but otherwise, no big thing. I have some tires stocked up.
The house and shop are Faraday cages, and I have entire EFI systems in old refrigerators along with starters and alternators. So I am set pretty decent for EMP/CME too. Dog sleds are a thing up here, not hard to build one either.
I have a means of heating the house and shop without burning anything, its a big compost pile that also produces methane which burns clean and powers my stills. It heats water to 140F for six months, then the compost goes in the garden or greenhouse. Methane is super easy to produce in large quantities and to use, burns clean too, only CO2 and H2O emissions from it, same as ethanol.
Its a mix of ancient cave man tech, 1800-1980 tech, and modern stuff. My immune system is what you could call robust, I get cuts all the time, put nothing on them, and they heal without infections.
Other than certain meds I cannot make, what else do I need?
The cool part about living in a northern US forest is how much is growing around you that you can use.
Unlike a city and the majority of Europe where you will be in competition with millions and you don't have the space to grow anything.
If the world doesn't go TANGO UNIFORM on us, I can have nice lithe young ladies walking around my yard wearing nothin but a smile, drive around in old muscle cars on 40 cents a gallon race fuel making LOTS of power from big cubic inch engines that I build. A 6.6L is small to me.
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UBI is not a means of empowering people, it is a means of limiting and controlling them. This is difficult for people to comprehend until they have seen it in action.
If you get $60k a year, every year, simply for existing, you are not going to do much of anything productive during that year. You will end up being controlled by the one who gives you the money. If you are earning your income, working your ass off to get it, you will have skills that are valuable, and a work ethic that makes you desirable to employers who have invested and taken the risks associated with running a business.
This system is being used with the welfare program in the inner cities, and on some native reservations. Some natives have no cost university available to them, few take advantage of it because why work when you get money for existing? Its just how people are, its not saying native Americans are lazy, hell no they are often bad ass and really cool people. But human nature is such that if you are getting enough without effort, you are not going to expend the energy to get more, unless you are one of the maybe 5% of people who strive to get as much as possible.. to the point of doing irrational hoarding, and/or working themselves their entire lives for wealth.
The effect is the natives are held down by the free stuff. They are not given a hand up, and the money becomes the limit on what they can earn, and someone else decides exactly what they are worth. When you are working, you decide what your time and effort are worth, you either take the offer to work there or you refuse it. If its enough for you, then you have decided that is your value. It self regulates to a point, because nobody is going to pay you $100k to do a menial task that any idiot can do. Supply and demand regulates it to a large extent. If you create a huge supply of money, the demand for it goes down, but that makes everything else cost more, so the value of money plummets.
Its very simple, but marxists simply ignore it and think it will work this time, because they can fix it and run it better than everyone who has tried before. Its ignorance coupled to naivety, mixed with arrogance, tempered by resentment and envy. That is what marxism is.
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Make the most of what you have, maximize its strengths, and minimize its weaknesses and you will go fast for cheap. That is why you do not take an iron head 455 with a 6000 RPM limit due to airflow and try to spin it to 7500 with a 4.56 gear like you do with a small block. Its not designed to do that, so you will go slow. Very slow... You can't run a 2.73 gear behind a 273 or 318 with a stock converter and hope to run 11s on the motor either. Its not designed to work that way, you need more RPM with the small engines.
Factory parts are trick parts, you can do so much with them when you start with the right engines and improve their ability to do what they are designed to do. Some engines have crap heads, tiny cams, poor intakes, some have better top end parts, what you start with will dictate what you have to do. Chevys need the aftermarket, unless you find some of the unobtanium parts like L88 or ZL1 stuff, garden variety chevys make garden variety power. They need all those parts.. lol.
The 351 Cleveland is an amazing engine. With a tiny cam the 4V made more power than any small block until the LS1 came out in 1997. Throw some more cam timing at it and you have 500 then 600 hp real easy. HUGE ports that like to rev. They are hard to find because they were only made from 1970 to 1974 in the states, Australia has lots of them though, if you don't mind shipping stuff from there. The 4Vs I have are the only small blocks to ever scare me.
The 65 GTO I drive daily all summer has had a frame off, not many aftermarket parts available like fenders, doors, full quarters, so I had to scrounge and make parts to rebuild it. I did all the work to rebuild it. It has a front 1.25" swaybar from a WS6 Trans Am, a rear bar from a 70 GTO, 3 turn lock to lock steering box from a mid 90s Jeep Grand Cherokee, I put disc brakes on the front from Summit, and some UMI rear control arms because they are cheap and stiffer. It has a 700R4 trans, 455 with 11.3:1 compression from '67 vintage 428 heads(670), and a 12 bolt rear from an ElCamino that I put 3.42 gears and a posi carrier into. I know what will fit from other vehicles that is an upgrade. It runs E85 and I use it to tune carbs I convert with wide band O2 sensors in the header collectors. It also has a hidden stereo with 12" subs, two decent sized amps, and it sounds real good for being in a rattly old 65 GTO. Its a very fun driver that handles great, gets good mileage, and makes silly grin inducing power. I have about $15k and 3000 hours in the GTO, it was extremely rusty.
Now on the other side of what I do. I have a virgin 400 block on a stand, I am considering doing a ring and bearing, hone the cylinders, then bolting up some stock 72cc 69 vintage heads (62s), run a RA III cam, a stock intake with an E85 Qjet I have done, and the only performance addition that isn't a factory sized piece will be headers. That is because manifolds that flow well to fit the X body 72 Ventura I plan to stuff this thing into are much more expensive. Headers aren't cheap either, but I found some used for $200. A Th350 trans and a posi carrier for the 8.5" 10 bolt rear with 3.08 to 3.42 gears stuffed in it. GM made a torque converter for the L88 Corvettes that stalled higher than a stock one, they sell for $100-$150 at any trans shop just ask for the Th400 High Stall, and it will fit both the Th400 and Th350 trans. The car came to me with no gas tank, so I have to put a fuel cell or something into it, and I will use an electric pump because mechanical pumps have a hard time keeping up with an 11-12 second Pontiac. Otherwise it will be as many factory parts as I can use. All up I will have around $2000 in the entire build, depending on which wheels and tires I put on it.
There is also a low buck stock rod forged .040 over piston 400 on a stand that has been in 7 vehicles I own. It has gone 12s in a 3700lb 79 Firebird with the 670 heads on the 65 GTO right now. It was a daily driver engine in the 70 GTO, 76 C10, 65 GTO, 71 Formula, and gets moved around into various vehicles often. I have some heavily ported RA III heads (48) that are fresh and milled to make almost 12:1 on a 400 with flat top slugs(they are 13:1 with a 455 at zero deck with 8cc valve relief pistons). That engine with a RA IV cam and some roller rockers I picked up cheap might find its way into the Ventura or maybe an Opel GT sitting in my yard. Not a max effort build by any stretch, more of an exercise in what can be done with a 400 on the cheap using reworked stock parts. $800 for the shortblock 25 years ago, $1700 to have the heads worked, and at most $500 for all the little stuff.
Only one of my engines is a full on, only the block, timing cover, and cam retaining plate are stock the rest is aftermarket build, its a 400 block stroked to 467 that makes 700hp@6500 on 92 octane and likes to idle at 1200rpm. At the rear wheels it has made 520ftlbs@3000 rpm with 4 bent valves, so its not an engine that starts making the power upstairs, its making it everywhere. Its near the limit of the stock block so no spray or boost allowed. You can go completely stupid like this engine, but its rather rough on you driving it around, NA pump gas making that much power is a radical engine, so much more comfortable doing it with boost.
I like cubes with a long stroke, they make lots of power down low so you can run a highway gear behind them and still haul ass. 11 second daily drivers are lots of fun, single digit cars are fun too but not as daily drivers. regardless, cars are tons of fun and I like throwing parts around and seeing what works best for cheap.
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Look at the election results by county in Michigan. Lansing, Detroit area, and Marquette are the only counties to go blue. All the others are very red. The blue counties are surrounded and if the red counties want to shut off the blue cities, it will be very easy to do so. Do not expect red counties to side with the state government if this continues. Texas is not disenfranchising the voters of Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia and Pennsylvania, it was the democrats changing the rules illegally and enabling obvious fraud to take place who did that. I am pissed they made my vote in Michigan null and void with their unconstitutional bullshit.
I am not a Trump fan, but I am even less thrilled by the prospect of Creepy kid sniffing Joe or Slaver Harris tossing out the Constitution so they can sell us out to China and plunge us into a marxist dystopia.
To the silly bint downstate who called for her 'soldiers' to make all of us who didn't vote creepy Joe pay, well sweetheart, you are severely outnumbered and outgunned. Push your threats at your own peril. We will defend ourselves, make no mistake about it.
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I simply adore that crazy eyed girl. Not for her abhorrent politics and minimal intellect, but for the memes. I love the memes. She is openly "Brawndo, its what plants crave" and its obvious to everyone with an IQ above 85 or so. Comparing her and her resentful, envious, myopic, naive free stuff for all and print more money marxist agenda to 90s democrat Trump is not only hilarious, its like comparing apples to rocks, the rocks in her noggin.The orange man is playing the media, making them do exactly what he wants them to do, meanwhile she is so inept and ignorant she has no idea what she is saying is not only fallacious, but moronic.
I am not exactly a fan of the cheeto, but I give more credit to the people of this country who can spot an idiot when they see one. Orange man bad is the media narrative, but orange man is somehow making life better without spending money he doesn't have available like the socialists always do. I think we would elect Forest Gump president before her, because at least he achieved something in life, and rarely said stupid shit, and knows he is stupid. She thinks she is a genius... and something from Bertrand Russell comes to mind. "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." She is sure of herself and her ideology... Orange man realizes his shortcomings and works hard at improving and maximizing his strengths.
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People don't criticize me when I tell them I produce my own energy, make fuel for my vehicles, and grow my own food. Most people I meet want to live in the woods like I do. When I tell them it costs me about ten cents a gallon to make fuel, and gasoline is going up daily, they don't criticize at all.
Why would I do all of this? Because I am on a fixed income, and my biggest expense is energy.. electricity, food, and fuel. The more of those I can make the more cash I have left for things I want to do. Its cheaper for me since I have skills, knowledge, the ability to learn new things, and some free time.
What I do get is people thinking ethanol fuels are bad for vehicles or the environment...its not.
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Those guys keep saying things like "We're saying males and females are the same" and "We're demonizing people with families" when its not 'we' who are doing it. Its an overly vocal group of people who want to have an authoritarian regime that they erroneously think they will control and benefit from, rather than the society we were building. They have infiltrated schools, universities, media, and government. They have enacted laws that punish men for having families and being good fathers, whilst rewarding mothers for throwing dad out and being horrific to their kids and now ex husband. These particular people are incentivizing the worst aspects of human nature, and punishing the quality parts.
Its not like this is new, it was done in Rome in the trial and error stage, and in eastern Europe between 1917 and 1990. It stifles society and destroys the civilization, the inept and incompetent are put in charge, the mediocre lauded and praised, while the competent, capable, and successful are punished severely. That always happens because its the religion of resentment and envy, its practiced by those who who feel entitled to what they have not earned and are too lazy and or inept to go earn it for themselves. They want all the benefits competent capable men enjoy, but without any of the discipline required to achieve that status, and without the responsibilities and duties of those men. Its more than eating their cake and having it too, they want the cake others worked to produce whilst doing nothing to earn it. Its the mindset of spoiled 8 year old girls.
That is not we, it is not us, that is entirely perpetrated by the people who want us all to believe that its the right and moral thing to do, whilst telling us its vastly popular. However if you do not agree with them and you dissent with their edicts and assertions, they seek to destroy you. Taken to the logical conclusion they dig large holes and return humans to biomass in them. Its as if people either learned nothing from the 20th century or they have no idea it ever happened. We had enough people fall victim to it over the last 150 years, we do not need more of it, and we certainly do not need it encompassing the entire world.... however, that is the goal. They call it a political policy or idea, when its really a religion.. and the most abhorrent one of them ever inflicted upon humanity.
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The communist guy in the black shirt seems resentful he doesn't have everything given to him, envious of those who have something he does not, and feels entitled to what they have, whilst being too lazy to go earn it for himself. The face tattoo chick is just as delusional, and it makes sense because most of her life things have just been 'given' to her because she is a cute girl. Protected, lauded, and given every opportunity unfettered by having to earn her way there.
Carl is exactly right. People like that do not appreciate what they have, because they have not earned anything, they did not struggle to achieve and overcome obstacles. They want it handed to them, and are resentful they do not have it already.
I built my house with my hands, not some contractor. I earned the money I invested into my land and home by risking my life and doing a mind numbing amount of work the commie guy can't even imagine. I hired two friends to come help put the roof up, they were paid for their labor and time. If they had no other choice and needed somewhere to live, they could come here, build a house for them and their families, along with me, and we could work together... but I still own the land. They earned a spot if they need it, by working with me. It is still my investment, and my investment dwarfs theirs when it comes to my land and home. That is me being very generous, its not being a communist.
Now why should I have to give up land and my home to someone who did not help build it, and has not earned the consideration my two friends have? I have some old cars, I sink hundreds to thousands of hours into rebuilding them. I invest time and money, time I cannot get back. Just because I have four old GTOs does not entitle someone else to them. I rebuild them from rusty hulks that cannot be driven, I do a vast amount of work so I can drive them. What entitles you to the car I built? You mounting a wheel or washing it does not entitle you to owning or even driving the car. You get paid for doing work for me, as my investment is vastly larger.
Nothing does. Taking what I have built and giving it to someone else or keeping it for yourself without agreed upon compensation is theft. Simple as.
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@Solon64 spot on man. Don't move my stuff, or I will never find it.
My first wife did minimal anything, and complained all the time about me doing more. I told her, go work 70 hours and earn a living and I will wash the dishes and laundry... her idea was I worked, and handed over my paycheck to her to use as she pleased while doing almost nothing.
That didn't fly. However, its what she has now with the spineless wimp she married 20 years ago. He obeys her and is terrified of her. I am thrilled she is gone.
The second wife worked out a bit different since I wasn't working a job anymore, after my last deployment in 2004 left me barely able to walk for ten years.
I did my own laundry and cooking, she was actually pretty good for me, up until the day she wasn't in 2013. She didn't spend frivolously, though she was expensive like they all are. I am vastly better at cooking than either ex wife.
I will not put up with someone who does nothing and causes me more work. Not my kids, not someone living with me, not anyone.
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They can't handle rejection, and they think men are equally impacted by being rejected. They can't comprehend that everyone else in the world is not just like they are, living life on easy mode. The huge ones have an idea what its like to be an average guy, but they can still get 300 messages a day.
Rejection is our state of being, we get used to it early in life. Thats why they are so up in arms about men who aren't trying to date, or are leaving the country, because those guys are rejecting them entirely.
I did quite well in my youth, and I can still do surprisingly good in my 50s. I am not average in any way other than height, I am 5'8". Thing is, even if you can get them like I did and can, its not worth the effort, they are a burdensome expense.
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I'm polite in public, If they speak to me I reply, and I am cordial. Looking like a silverback gorilla means I have to be polite... or the sheriff calls me later and tells me I can't go to that store anymore. They usually smile when they make eye contact, I do not smile back. If one of them is ahead of me in the check out line, looks back and appears afraid, I will say something to put her at ease and let her know I am not interested in doing anything harmful. Usually I make them laugh.
Its really amusing when they see me walk out to my shiny 65 GTO or 70 Cuda, and put my stuff in and I don't acknowledge them. Its incongruent with how I dress, often I'm wearing the clothes I work in, building cars, welding, etc. Lots of my stuff comes from Tractor Supply and Menards. The tell is the $300 redwing work boots they seem to miss. Those are the only shoes that hold up more than a year. In summer '24 I will be driving more than just those two. They'd never suspect that I have more than just the one they see me drive.
Its been years since I asked anyone out. I've offered to be friends, and being my friend is beneficial to them, but they think they are so much better than I am. Its most amusing... I have one female friend who is into cars, she has a 67 Mustang and she likes women. We help her out with it, and she is fun to hang out and talk to. She is like one of the guys, she is featured in one of my shorts no less. Female friends are ok with me, but I am done with romantic interests.
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Dude looks like that and is thirsty? He can pick and choose from hundreds of hottys, and homie is getting hung up on a 30 year old soon to be harpy? He needed this to happen, so he could realize how they are, what they do, and to learn what to expect. How to get over one? Go bang others. Make them earn the LTR, treat them all like plates and see which ones will put in the effort to get your commitment. I made my second wife earn it for 7 years, we married at 8, and were divorced two months short of 10. The more they have to earn it, and the less you give a fuck about them, the longer they will stick around. Rest assured though, every female out there can do what this one did, and any sign of weakness they perceive or talk themselves into can trigger her jumping ship.
They are playthings, not prizes.
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@0QualityOverQuantity I have two kids, daughters that are 27 and going to be 30 in a couple months. The worst thing to ever happen to me was them being taken by their mother and kept from me. I will probably never be a grandpa. I know for sure with the first one, her mother made her life so terrible that she doesn't want to chance doing it to her own kids.
Bear in mind, I am a two war disabled vet who came back in 2004 almost unable to walk, will never run again, grew up on a farm being mistreated by my family and the kids at school, been run over by cars, and a lot more. Losing my kids was the absolute worst.
They are so self absorbed and unable to manage impulses, that they make life changing decisions that profoundly affect everyone involved in a negative way. Then they tell themselves its not their fault, they had no choice but to burn their lives to the ground, and they blame anyone and everyone other than the actual culprit... themselves... for their misfortune.
I've been watching them grow old around me, I see what happens when they choose poorly, and other than lamenting my kids are suffering from it, I laugh in amusement at all the others sharing their plight. They are so easily influenced by dishonest and nefarious people.
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@larrygoerke9081 the 'everything I don't like is due to racism' thing is a symptom of marxist ideology. Ok perhaps its a feature of it. If you don't have what you want, its easier to claim you're a victim and blame others for your problems. Earning your way in life takes work, effort, determination, and perseverance which is hard, while being a victim is easy.
Making people resentful of others makes them easily manipulated, and if you can get them to see themselves as a victim you can control them. So any grievance will do, as long as it isn't the real reason. Like blaming slavery for your laziness, or blaming people in another state for what the democrats did to oppress you, so you still vote for them.
I've been fucked over by others most of my adult life, and beaten neglected and abused while growing up. They always seem to justify it with I deserved it, like my wife cheated and was abusive to my kids and I because of something I did, not that she is a waste of oxygen. I deserved the beatings my brother and dad heaped upon me, according to them. I deserved to be homeless because I am a white male.. but the big thing is I do not see myself as a victim.
Sure I am pissed that I could be in a much better place financially if I had never gotten married, I could be far better educated if I hadn't been sent to a parochial school that had us read the bible rather than study math or science, and many other things like that, but its what I plan to do with whats left of my life that matters to me.
My future is important, and I try to learn from my past. I learned the laws regarding divorce and marriage are abhorrent and leave nothing but risk for males. So I live alone and plan to die alone, because its better than being homeless or shooting myself in the head because the state gives everything I have to live on and everything I have earned to some bint. She gets rewarded for bad behavior I am punished regardless. Makes you eschew relationships.
Thats what they want though.. us to be alone, the birthrate to crash, and people to feel isolated.. that way they can be the saviors if the people just accept a marxist dictatorship for the masses, while the elites do whatever the fuck they please and profit from all of us.
Making people resentful makes them accept that easier. Making weak minded people feel guilty helps it along. That is why they went after racial differences, and why democrat cities are filled with impoverished single mothers making more incarcerated men and impoverished single mothers. Its a means of oppression they can spin to look like compassion and empathy.
That is why hard work, self determination, competitiveness, competence, and resourcefulness are all bad things to those people. They want us dependent, and if we can do for ourselves, why would we need them?
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Wait.. Tim, you think people who are renown for not being able to see farther ahead than right now, induce massive unintended consequences with bad decisions (e.g. supreme court changes for simple majority), exacerbate their ineptitude with a profound lack of judgement, and a thirst for power that overwhelms any logical thought, are going to be able to extrapolate from incomplete information and realize they are cutting their own throats?
Nah they do not think ahead, they are like a 6 year old girl who wants that doll RIGHT FUCKING NOW, and nothing else matters. Much like a dog chasing a car that has no idea what to do when he catches it, but not realizing when he catches it the car will run him over.
I think they want conflict, so they made the fraud obvious, and nothing will be done about it, we will never have another legal or fair election, and eventually the people will revolt... which is probably what they want so they can justify installing marxist laws and removing the constitution whilst claiming our system was bad and didn't work. You know, exactly what marxists have always done to take over a country. Until now they have done this to far more compliant societies that were mostly unarmed. Yes their downfall is coming, and the marxists will not win this revolution they are pushing so hard to get.
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@phoenixtoash2396 I do not underestimate women, particularly when they have the entire legal system behind them pushing every allegation as if it were written in stone fact despite contrary evidence. As for physical capability, I overestimate them constantly, always being defeated by pickle jars, having to bang them on the counter top a few times to get a pickle.
On the bright side, my second ex and one of my female Airmen in the USAF could back up a trailer, so two out of millions.
You're not alone in being unable to cook, most women today can't, just like most guys can't fix the vehicle they drive. Most people live in cities where they are insulated from reality, everything is brought to them making them dependent on the system.
Its amusing to me how so many people think being unable to do things and not knowing much of anything useful or valuable, is somehow a virtuous trait. The ladies have to tell themselves how strong, capable and independent they are every day... its akin to me saying I am 6'5" I know I am and I deserve to be!
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@thelogicalcaveman9139 imagine if you can, you have invested years of your life building something to share with your spouse, sinking effort into it, often decades are utilized to make this investment, and then it is suddenly ripped from you because she broke the contract.
She is rewarded for all your effort, everything is given to her at your expense, and she is the one who caused it, stepped out, filed for divorce, and she takes the kids and keeps you from them all while telling them you don't want them.
You have lost those decades, and your future is going to be paying her for her poor choices and betrayal. You have no way out of it, you pay her to get her back blown out by pookie and ray ray. You are kept impoverished as a means of punishing you to reward her, and everything you do to make your life better, is taken from you and given to her.
I say imagine if you can, because I seriously doubt you have ever earned or built anything in your life. You strike me as the type who comes along and claims what others have built, then runs it into the ground.
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The reason they are so miffed about men going elsewhere, is the fact they are being REJECTED out of hand. They are told "you're not good enough" before they even start, and its worse when its rejection by men they think are beneath them. They need everyone to like them, and cannot handle it when men reject them.
I love Filipinos, they have been some of my best friends while I was in the US military. Wonderful people. I'm not overly attracted to Filipino ladies though, Thai, Viet, Japanese, and some Koreans are more my speed. Eastern Europe and west Africa have amazing looking ladies as well. Yeah, I have traveled quite a lot. I never made it to South America, but I have dated Latinas, they can be awesome too.
Since I want to build my old cars, I have no plans to go catch tail in other countries. Its super easy for me, the deep voice and blue eyes get me lots of attention... even when I am kinda pudgy. I've lost interest and any 'spicy' activity is more of a maintenance issue, keeping things working and not backed up. That happens when you get in your 40s, and I am in my mid 50s. There are many things that are more fulfilling and enjoyable than having a wallet leech that gets less attractive every day.
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God exists because marque cysm exists... and is the most evil ideology ever inflicted upon humans. I'm not sure that tracks, Andy. I don't need to attribute evil to invisible friends, it very much exists in people. That is what happens to be behind the problems in the west. They're following the missteps of eastern Europe from last century, as if its going to have a different outcome this time.
I lived as a muslim for 20 years, after 20 years living as a lutheran, and yes muslims very much will not tolerate someone being derogatory towards any of the religion, culture, or Allah. I think the wokesters assume muslims are easy to control, manipulate, and that they aren't very bright. The only thing that has been holding them back is Al Ghazali saying math is evil around 1000 years ago, plus they like the simple life.
Its easy to shame christians into obedience to the wokesters, just call them istaphobes. Call a muslim an istaphobe and he or she will look at you like you are missing a great many brain cells. Try to force him to obey the wokester religion and you are going to have a bad day. Do it in an islamic country and the least that will happen to you is being put in a small room with no amenities for a very long time... but in some countries you will find yourself separated from your meat sack on Friday.
There are a great many things I admire about islam, a few things I admire about christianity, but absolutely nothing about marque cysm is admirable, and christians have allowed themselves to be subsumed by the wokesters pushing marque cysm.
Since I am technically an oppressed minority, I wonder if the wokesters behind the buttons and bots will let anyone else see this comment.
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@singingstars5006 thats only about the first divorce, the second one cheated, lied, and falsely accused me so I ended up sitting in jail for two weeks for something I didn't do. For 8 years she was absolutely wonderful, we never argued, never were angry with each other, sex all the time and she would initiate it often, then we got married. 16 months later we were divorced and I was living in my car again.
She was completely different from the first ex and every other girl I dated over the years. Yet she still did all the bad stuff all the others did. I figure its just how girls are.
They can do everything wrong, and still be rewarded for it. Because no fault means 'his fault' when it comes to divorce.
Even that is tip of the iceberg for BS I have had to deal with and endure. I avoid people now, because its rare I can find one I can trust, and even rarer I can depend on someone.
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@Microphunktv-jb3kj Face value of what she said about effi nism is all that is needed, because its dead nuts balls accurate. Its an industry term.
If you cannot do the job, you should not be given the job. Eye surgeon comes to mind as an occupation where merit and competence matters a great deal. However it is a rather low job on the strenuous level chart.
Know what happens when you put a female in a job dominated by males because it takes a certain level of muscle mass and spatial ability that women simply do not have? The females take up space and the men are worked harder because those females could be replaced by a male who is capable of doing the job.
Many military jobs are like that, including the military job I had. We loaded cargo planes, we pushed pallets on to aircraft, and built pallets of cargo. The pallets we use are 88x108 inches, and can weigh 10,000lbs as a single, and we can connect 6 of them together. When a pallet is over 6000lbs, you cannot get enough females behind it to move it on the rollers on the aircraft deck. You can fit about five people behind it normally.
I have 21" arms, 21" neck,60" chest and I am only 5'8, want to guess how I got so much muscle? Yeah, I had females on my load team in the first gulf war back in 1990-91. I ended up doing all the heavy lifting, which was just about all of the work. Even if we were only putting ice water in igloo cooler son planes, females could not lift the 5 gallon coolers, and I could carry four of them (two in each hand, give it a try sometime) up three stories to the troop compartment of a C5.. and move a similar amount of weight up there about 600 times in a 12 hour shift.
They want to be equal but physically they are not. They tell themselves they are as capable until they see me do more alone than ten of them can do together. then they rationalize their weakness however they can. I bet you every chick on these panels that these guys have will probably assume she can kick my ass... they are delusional.
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In 1985 when I was 16, it became apparent to me that the less I cared, the more they wanted me. I'm not tall, only 5'8" but I had muscle and strength, I wrestled and was the strongest kid in school. Benched 265lbs at 17, and weighed 175. Sometimes they fought over me, but ALL of them did the same thing, all the way to the last one I was seeing 5 years ago.
They ALL thought they could do better, they all were unfaithful. Not a single one has done better, at least of the ones that are still around.
The other thing I had going for me was I DNGAF, drove loud muscle cars that shook the ground as they idled, which is still how I am today. The more ratty and dangerous the car was, the more interested in me they would be. The vast majority got with me within an hour of meeting me, back seat, behind a building, the living room floor while my friends watched Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man and were completely unaware.
Since my 2nd div orce in 2013, and finally paying off the first in 2015, I have changed my appearance and demeanor. I am polite, cordial, I make people laugh, and I find out about them so they will like seeing me, I develop rapport with the people who work in the establishments I frequent. I try to look how my name on here says I am. I try to look poor to homeless, doing my best to keep them away.
Being nice is how I got them to leave without drama and legal issues for the last 4 decades. All it took with one was making breakfast for the both of us, while I made some eggs and toast for myself. I learned that just leaving caused all sorts of problems with unfounded and irrational assertions, resulting in a few near scrapes with the legal system which I managed to avoid... well, until 2013.
I tell ya what, when they are unfaithful and feel guilty about it, they will do anything to put the blame on you, even cutting up the new boyfriend's truck and claiming you did it.... and so much more. They won a battle, but I won the entire wwoar. The ex is not having a good life, I bet it stings that my life is going so freakin well now.
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I've driven beaters my entire life. Can't justify the depreciation, interest on the loan, and insurance costs on a new one. My summer daily drivers are 50+ year old muscle cars. Winter beaters are 20 year old 4x4 Silverados. I rebuild the cars from rusty junk, and the trucks usually run and have extensive rust from the salt here. I drive a 65 GTO, 70 Cuda, 68 Le Mans with a supercharged 505ci Pontiac in it. I have crash and burn insurance on those cars and two trucks, even in Michigan where car insurance is high, Its $650 a year to drive old stuff.
I'll put the 70 GTO in the shop later this year so I can pull the body off the frame, clean everything, paint the frame fix the rust in the floors, rebuild the suspension, rewire it, then paint it something other than the god awful metallic beige that was its original color. When you can buy old two doors and muscle cars for $1500 or less, then rebuild them for $10k or so, you end up very positive in their value. I'm rebuilding a 71 Mustang fastback right now, when its done and painted I'll have less than $15k in it.
Buy a new car and you're upside down on it and have a payment every month. I build and drive cool stuff. There are people who claim it costs $100k to rebuild a muscle car, and it does if you take it to a shop to have all the work done. If you do it yourself, it is a lot less than that. I have a fun time putting a $2000 or $5000 car together, where that is the entire amount I spend, including buying the car and rebuilding the engine, brakes, suspension, etc.
I'm not rich, but I am not in debt, drive cool stuff, own a decent sized chunk of land n the woods, and lost everything but the old cars and my tools in 2013 to the second ex. Build it yourself. Houses, computers, cars, trucks, whatever. Doing the labor yourself means you aren't paying someone else $100 an hour or more to do it for you.
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@ddoherty5956 indeed. I am not allowed to use that C word anymore, which is annoying because it gets my automotive comments hidden.
I produce ethanol fuel from cattails, started doing it in 2007 when 87 octane was $5 where I live. As it happens, making energy yourself has a way of making you independent from all of that C word that is imposed on us.
Lets say they crank up the cost of gasoline to $15 or more, or outlaw it entirely in some misguided attempt at C wording all of us. Or the SHTF happens and society collapses. If you can produce your food, fuel, and electricity, you are ahead of everyone who can't, and you have not only a better chance to survive, but you can thrive.
Electricity is the most difficult and expensive resource to produce. If you want to run a generator, you need fuel for it, so you have to make the fuel first. Wind is intermittent and high winds will take out small turbines, solar is only useful if you have enough sunlight, which I do not up here on the 46th parallel. If you don't get the hertz and voltage correct, the appliance you are trying to power goes up in smoke.
In many ways its like gasoline, since if you do not have an oil field and a refinery, you aren't going to be making gasoline.
If you have a shallow pond or marsh full of cattails, you can make 1000 gallons of ethanol per acre. If you use them to remediate your water from waste, like runoff from a livestock pen, you can get upwards of 10,000 gallons per acre.
Making my own costs me between ten and 40 cents a gallon, and I can run very high compression ratios in my engines which increases torque in the entire RPM range, and that makes the engine use less fuel for the same power, and it gets better mileage than gasoline over 12:1 with iron heads.
Producing electricity is a much larger investment, and its very easy for it to all end up letting the smoke genie out.
If you aren't the one producing a resource, you are at the mercy of those who do.
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@degen83 I'm aware of that. However, there are other things in play in our society, things most people are unaware of, and they are completely ignorant of the gravity of those things.
There is a groundswell happening right now you probably have only head about in negative propaganda pieces in the media. One example is fathers, the media tells you that fathers go out for a pack of smokes and never return, never support the mother or his kids, the blame for single mothers is laid entirely at the feet of men.
The reality is very different. Fathers are being divorced and the state then assists the mother in preventing the father from being part of the children's lives. Men are punished for the actions of women, and women are encouraged with sizeable incentives to act poorly. You go girl divorce him, get paid and find a better man than the bum you are with. Oh sure, you can still have kids at 45, no problem.
Its marxist rhetoric in action via feminist laws, and media propaganda demonizing men for all of it.
What is the effect? Well, the old guys like myself who have been through it, have been talking to the young men and advising them to avoid playing this rigged game. They are listening, I am hearing people talk about reality rather than the marxist narratives fed to us by the media.
Young men are eschewing relationships in ever increasing numbers. There is zero incentive for them to have a relationship, its all risk. When you present men with massive risk and the only benefit is an orgasm, they are not going to play the game. They will check out.
Some of them are forgoing interactions with females, others are enjoying the free easy sex they get from all the girls who are told they should be promiscuous, because it has no downsides... but it does.
Already there are female writers complaining 'where have all the men gone?' and realizing that at 40 they are essentially invisible.. because a 50 year old like myself, who has built his life, doesn't look like a try hard loser, can get college girls to come over, get naked, have fun, and go home. What the hell do I want with a 40 year old or older when the 20 somethings are so willing and eager?
So what if that 40 year old has a degree and makes $100k a year. That isn't what interests us. Its what interests girls in men. We want someone pleasant to be around, minimal drama, and willing to get naked and have fun. We don't want to be forced to give a house to a chick who hates us and cheated on us with our friends.
So men check out, women end up alone with boxed wine, 50 cats (alive or dead, who knows for sure Schrodinger's old maid) eating microwave cooking for one from 40 to 80 because she listened to the rhetoric and believed it.
This my friend, is the cause of the dropping birth rate. Females want the best males, and 80% of men are below average to them. Its not worth it for a man to support a woman, because she can bail at any time, get paid for it, and he has to pay for her choices.
That is why we have Biden bringing in illegals, to prop up the welfare state, and create a taxable population that will grow for a few years, until they discover the same thing US men already know..
So how does this apply to the conversation?
Well, young men who realize this also realize what is causing the high risk zero reward. Its feminist legislation, the Duluth Model for example, where the man is always guilty and the woman is always the victim.
Currently they are voting with their feet, and walking away. They'd rather play video games and work a nowhere job, and enjoy the decline of western civilization than to endure the bullshit I am millions of other old guys have been put through. What incentives are there for those guys to do anything other than that?
What incentives are there for him to marry a girl, have kids, and risk living in his car for years when she decides his buddy Jim would be a fun weekend, then divorces so she can not have to answer to him for it? He is blamed for what she does regardless, so why bother playing the game?
Eventually the state will have to persecute them even farther to prompt them to pony up the needed cash. Higher taxes for single males and other negative things to get men to sacrifice themselves financially. When that happens, it will only take a spark and they will revolt. When they are left with no other choice but to pay and be expendable, they will say fuck it and fight back.
They destroyed the nuclear family with this shit, used propaganda to paint men as the problem, and now they are saying fuck it, taking their ball and going home. Children raised without a father are vastly more likely to become violent criminals at the worst, and poor as fuck at the least. Keep people poor and terrified of violence, they are easier to control that way.
Section 8 requires the father to not be in the home to get the money. That is a hell of an incentive for her to kick him out. Society blames men for what she does, men stop playing the game.. well except the stupid ones who perpetuate it.
There is a conflict coming. We have had nearly 80 years without a large war that would 'cull' millions of single men before they could reproduce. China with its one child policy now has half a billion men who have no choice, there are no girls for them.
We have a glut of expendable males. Its a bigger powder keg than WWI or WWII could ever have been. Like Hillary said, women will be the primary victims of war, they'll be most affected by the deaths of millions of men.
On the bright side the number of men in the west who are realizing the shitshow they are forced to live in has been created by marxists is growing fast. Those men do not end up antifa or other authoritarian commie types. You can thank us old guys for pulling them off that train to oblivion.
Until the laws are changed and fathers are appreciated rather than turned into villains, boys will continue to prefer video games to making babies they'll never get to see as they grow up.
That is only one other aspect, but it goes to the heart of the problem we are having now. Stopping the demonization of fathers would reverse most of the problems we are having. So i fully expect fathers and men to be turned into 3rd class citizens soon.
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@jakeq3530 isn't it interesting how people get upset when you point out the obvious? Women are especially upset about someone saying what I did, but I am not judging them. I am merely observing and relaying the information to others.
Men are wired to take care of women, women are wired to do what they do to be taken care of. They can earn their own way, but they really do not like it, they are miserable on their own.
Used to be women would only have one man willing to spend his life and resources on her, and without him life would be very difficult. Now they have the safety nets provided by the gov, they have society encouraging them to throw away the man who was daft enough to commit to her.. on the false assumption that she can do better.
They judge themselves when they read this, and of course they all say "I am not like that" but yes, they very much are, its how our species has become so proliferate.
Their nature has no restraints anymore, culture and society do not keep their nature in check. They are allowed to run rampant, and it is to their detriment, it affects them most after age 35. They all seem to think it won't happen to them, but it happens to all of them, everyone gets old... unless they are evicted from their meat suit.
Want to make an finiist incredibly irate? Have her read what I have said.
Fact of the matter is adore women, and I am still wired to be helpful to and protective of them. I have to go against my nature, leave them to their own devices, and not engage with them, because it is incredibly easy for them to simply take what I have earned and built... while providing absolutely nothing to me in return. In years past that was called theft or indenture, but now they call it justice... as if I ever mistreated any of them or deserve to have everything taken from me.
Its easy to live alone when you have spent years living in a car because of divorce. :)
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Tim, you're missing a bit of a larger picture. You see he has to have a fetish because he is with an Asian girl. It can't possibly be that she has a white guy fetish, or that she is seeking status from having a white guy. She wants to feel special because she has a white guy, but when she sees all the other Asian girls with white guys, she isn't special anymore.
So it has to be that he has a problem, because there is no way a girl can ever be wrong, have a problem, be responsible, or suffer consequences, men are always guilty, the woman is always the innocent victim. That is the rest of the story behind her racist drivel. The white guy has the problem, not her, she is virtuous and amazing! Its all him, she should dump him but won't because she perceives he has higher status than she can get elsewhere.
Ya know what they say about us white guys in Asia? We date/marry the ugly ones. I heard it while stationed in Korea, heard if while visiting Japan, heard it from people from all over eastern Asia. Her face can be hideous to them, but since she isn't a hambeast legbeard, she is hot to us. So the best status she can get is a white guy. I stopped dating Asian girls years ago because of the neurotic behavior they have about us white guys.
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Carl and Connor, if you want to bring back marriage, reign in the wild abandon of females humping the same top 5% of men, and millions of losers fapping to pron... you'd need to change the laws so the state will STOP punishing men for getting married. The risk involved with getting married is incredibly high for men, the incentives for women to misbehave and trade in their husband for cash and prizes so she can ride other Peg D's are also very high. She is rewarded for burning it all to the ground, and he is punished for her actions.
But you guys want to blame the guys who cannot attract said strumpets. What incentive do they have to do ANYTHING else beyond roughing the suspect, playing video games, and living in mom's basement? They don't have anything to work towards like we did when we were young.
You guys are married, and you have money, so the chances your wives can do better than you financially are small. I've been married twice, I am batting 1000 and both of them did exactly the same things despite being completely different with the only thing they shared was being owners of two x's.
Doesn't matter in ten years most people will be gone, the populations will have crashed, and all of the stuff you rail against will be the norm... thats their plan, and they want it within 8 years. Good luck.
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@ActivateMission2ThisTimeline they ignored it, or thought maybe this time socialism will work since Hitler and Stalin are long dead. Maybe they were simply ignorant of what its all about, I know I was until about ten years ago when I decided to look into socialism with a critical eye same as i did with religion. I had no idea what the problem was, I thought it was different from communism and marxism, but in reality its all the same turd with varied sprinkles.
People just don't know, they don't care, are uninterested, and just want to get on with their lives. Its only when someone else comes and foists an ideology upon them and it goes to shit that they start to realize they should have paid attention.
Problem is, then they are spending more time concerned with survival than bigger thoughts. The minutia of living in a harsh environment consumes them. That is by design, because if you are more worried about finding food and water, you aren't going to be thinking about politics or something big like astrophysics.
Thats where most people in Europe are headed right now, being more concerned with survival than rectifying the problem forcing them to think small and keep their head down.
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@CoolPapaJMagik I'm aware of that, we have had this discussion before.. you and I. The people who don't have a need for sunscreen can assimilate easily, provided they aren't kept from entering society and being a productive member. Shoving them into an area that clumps them together, and bringing ever more of them into that area like Europe has been doing, does not work.
They aren't getting the chance to assimilate, they are keeping their culture and don't really have much in the way of positive options. This is by design, its the entire reason they allow so many in then sequester them until they start acting out.
Then when the backlash begins they call the natives the bad people and use the backlash to justify removing rights and liberties. That is what they are doing in Ireland, and you can hear that blond chick saying it outright. Think about it, if you're engaged with the people who don't need sunscreen, you're not watching what the people CAUSING it are doing. Its a diversion as well as a means of justifying harsher 'management' of the indigenous.
They are letting ANYONE in, not the ones who want to start a new life, but the ones who want to exact their revenge are also being allowed to stay. You're looking at the wrong enemy is all.
I served in the US military while we were engaged with the no sunscreen types, believe me, I know how they are and what they respond to. Europeans are being set up and they are using others from elsewhere to force Europeans to obey.
I know, none of that will show up...
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@straightoutacopenhagen1672 there is this thing about environments affecting evolution that plays into what you're saying. Generally when survival pressure is low, life is easier, no planning is required, there is not going to be as much cognition and problem solving ability. Its more of a regional thing, because you can have the highest and the lowest within 400 miles of each other, the environments are different.
With anything else, there is some variance, and you are ascribing the median to an entire group. I can see why you think that way, generally it works.
Problem is you have the way genetics works, dominant genes are deciding skin tone, so when you go mixing people, like we have here in the USA, you get improvements to some of the 'lower' groups when it comes to planning. However, there is more to it, since weaker and less capable types will go to physical solutions sooner if they have the numbers with them. Look at your average auntie phah type, not exactly the pinnacle of masculinity are they? Fairly midwittery and on the upward side of the bell curve.
They're a product of their environment, urban, low survival pressure, easy to get food, don't have to plan ahead or defend themselves, so they tend to think and act more like females. The mouse utopia explains a lot of that tendency.
So you are not wrong, but there is a bit more to it. Thats why I take people as individuals rather than avatars of their collective group.
I've had massive discrimination in my lifetime, because of my physical size and appearance, people assume I am far more dim than I am. I tend to play that up, because I have found its better to have people underestimate you than get an accurate assessment of your capability.. particularly when you are demonstrably well beyond their abilities. That means I am aware that you can't judge a book by its cover, though generally you can get an idea in the first few pages.
Also once you are over 130 or so, everyone else seems to be surprisingly similar. Just sayin...
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I am reminded of something I read a long time ago...
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. [...] The eyeless crature at the other table swallowed it fanatically. passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams. Syme, too-in some more double complex way, involving doublethink-Syme, swallow it. Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory?”
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Its not time, not bad enough yet, all of this shit is happening in democrat cities and states. Its not going to be enough to motivate people or justify taking action at the citizen level. They have been skirting it for a long time, pushing as far as they can without stepping over this line, but now they think they can win. They think they're invincible and the world supports them. In the next two months, they will probably move into the non democrat controlled areas. Once that threshold has been breached, it becomes 'bad enough' and it begins, these kids and useful idiots are going to have a very rude awakening. They say they will tread, well to these kids on the side of Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Mao, good luck with that. Kiss your mom before you go out larping with the real world.
I've been hoping it would wind down, they would go home and stop being stupid easily manipulated morons. I don't want my third war to happen.
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@pauperslament3467 you're right. They are going to profit though. There is a certain range of cost to producing something, and selling your product above that cost is profit. When you can get the price well above the cost you can make high profits.
For instance, it costs about $2.50 to $5.00 to grow a bushel of corn, depending on how you go about it. If the price is below that due to low demand/high supply, farmers lose money just growing the stuff. When corn is $8 a bushel like it is now, they are getting a river of cash, because they are used to making a few pennies on a bushel rather than several dollars.
I don't know how much it costs to produce a barrel of oil, but when its over $100 a barrel, the oil companies are going to make a ton of profit, as it is a vastly high demand product.
The government wants their cut of everything, so they add taxes all through out it, so the cost is passed on to you. The oil companies still profit, and can easily pay any taxes when it costs $20 a barrel to produce it and they are selling for over $100 a barrel. Just an example, I have no idea what their cost per barrel is.
Even more simplistic. If I buy a truck for $400, put another $400 into it, then sell it for $5000, I can make a good bit of money. If nobody wants that truck and I sell it for $200, its not worth my time to do the work. If there is no demand for it, the value drops no matter what the cost is. When I sell it the state wants their taxes off the top...the guy who buys it pays that tax, not me the guy selling it.
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a coke bottle shape. Back in the 50s they were trying to go faster than sound in level flight but they kept running into a problem with drag. The wings increased the area where they attach to the plane, so the solution was to pinch the fuselage where the wings are, which decreased the area and allowed super sonic flight much easier. The other solution was to make the wings very small like the F104, but that made take off and landing speeds very high, also problems with stalls. Most of those jets came about in the early 60s, and the shape of jets influenced the shape of cars, so cars like 66-72 GTO/LeMans, Dusters, and others had the pinch in them like a jet, it just looks fast because jets are fast. Look at the body line along the lower part of the door, you can see it there.
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@jonjonboi3701 thats my point, some people think they need to be feminists, or socialists because they lost religion... most of us don't. Yet we are lumped in with them by the marxists (I use that as a colloquial catch all for socialism, communism, feminism, progressivism, etc. because Marx is the source of much of that idiocy) and the religious.
The religious people claim the marxists have no god, and yet they very much do. Their god is the state, their priests are politicians, he congregation is party members, and the rest of us are infidels with which they can do as they please... hence the mass graves, gulags, death camps, etc.
The marxists try to claim us so they can look bigger and more popular than they actually are. If I eschew one authoritarian ideology that seeks to prescribe to me how to do everything including what to think, there is not much chance I will accept another one that does the same thing.....
Yet some people do exactly that, and the religious posit their ideas upon all of us regardless.
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@jonjonboi3701 Who is the authority of the christians, jews and muslims? Their god and the priests are who tell us what god thinks or says. Who is the authority of the commies and all like them I lump together as marxists? The state, and the politicians tell us what the state wants.
Its all authoritarian top down bullshit, even if you cannot see it. I need no god nor authority above me telling me what to think, say, or do. I can decide for myself, and the idea of original sin is ludicrous to me, even if its called privilege.
I surmise you're religious, you want to be special, part of the in group, and you don't want to realize you are following an authoritarian ideology that shares a template with marxism. I understand, they tried to indoctrinate me with all of that as well, the problem was I understood more about the natural world than my parochial teachers even in 5th grade. I am not easily deluded by others, nor myself, so it didn't 'stick'
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I build the same cars and same style I did when I was a teenager in the 1980s. Still have most of them from back then, and have gotten more since. I like beaters and daily drivers... that have big freakin engines in them that haul ass. 20mpg with a 15 second wheezing small block, or 20mpg with a 455 running 13:1 compression and a 110LSA cam that lopes a bit and rips off 11s in the quarter while running E85? Yeah I go for the 400/455 in a GTO, LeMans, early Formula, or Trans Am, a highway gear, sometimes an overdrive trans, and its always low buck... ok almost always, one got a bit stupid in the power department, but its still ugly. Slot mags are my all time favorite wheel, problem is getting a set new these days that are bigger than 15x7.
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I was in the US military, stationed overseas for most of my time. I learned real quick to go away from bases, get out in the country and immerse myself in their culture. That can be highly dangerous in some places, so you need to be smart about it. You're not going to be picking anyone up in Baghdad or any place like it. Germany was fun 35 years ago, Korea was ok 22 years ago. I never made it to PI or Japan. Regardless, even in the US I had to get away from the base to meet someone.
There are certain people who do not reflect the US military in a good light. For instance, Army was not allowed in the pub district in Frankfurt Germany, but USAF was. The Army guys would start fights, bust the place up, and get projectile vomiting drunk, it was so bad they would ask to see our military ID, and the Army guys could not get in. The only Marines in the area were embassy guards, and they do not act that way in public, if at all.
Now you have the same thing going on with the civilians, they congregate around certain areas and some do not act right and that shows everyone who looks like them in a bad light. Guilt by association.
A funny thing happened to me in Seoul, we were at the COEX mall, where I saw something I never saw anywhere else in the world. A mass of humanity flowing though the building, with a couple inches between them, thousands of people in a tiny space that made New York look sparsely populated and Chicago uninhabited.
My friend and I were walking around, I had no money because of the ex wife, and four young ladies spotted us, came over and wanted to get pictures taken with us. They had never met Americans before, wanted to practice some English, and they looked at us like we were Brad Pit in his fightclub years. We talked a bit and they melded back into the endless stream of humanity walking through the mall.
Nothing like that ever happened in any other country, Dubai was the closest in 1991, but it was only men who spoke to me while I was there. They always asked the same thing, was I from NYC or LA? I told them I was from a place half way between those two cities, they had no concept that driving across the US would not take several days rather than two hours like driving across UAE. I tried to explain to them its like driving to Belgrade or maybe Moscow from Dubai.
Outside the base in Korea were a bunch of clubs and bars, most of which had juicy's working there, scantily clad ladies who would ask you to buy them a juice, and they'd sit and talk to you while they drank it. You had a choice between a $9 juice or a $12 one. This was not the place to find a wife, but to find a willing Russian or Filipina that was down for spicy time, that was the place. Osan AB was the only time I was ever asked out by attractive women, I told them I had no money, and they said they didn't care. Half an hour later it was spicy, they just seemed to like blue eyed German Americans.
Germany was an amazing place to be in 1989-91, I got there when I was 19 and nowhere in the world has ever compared to that. Korea was like Disneyland while Frankfurt was like Las Vegas, but far less expensive and infinitely more fun then Vegas.
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Connor.... my man. I take umbrage with the end of this segment where you show the stay at home girlfriend, and lambast the man who doesn't put a ring on her finger and make a legally binding contract with her. Here is the point you are missing.
Hypothetical. If you have a street where 40% of men are hit by busses and trucks when they cross it, are you going to cross there? What about if its 80% of men? How about 20%? 2 men in 10 get hit by a bus on that street.. Sure, maybe if its that low you'll risk it, but 4 in 10? 8 in 10?
Why aren't men getting married... what could it be? Is it that they are afraid of commitment, family, and just want to go through life buying cars and large houses? Well Tate seems to be like the last two. Or could it be that young men have seen what happened to their fathers, uncles, or the millions of men on the internet that have been talking about losing everything they worked so hard and invested decades of their lives build... to a cheating wife, or one that wants to go play the field so she leaves the man who put a ring on it when she was 20 something? (It doesn't work out well for her after the child support payments end, just sayin)
The bus hit me twice and I chose my second crossing VERY carefully and waited 8 years to see if it was safe.. then only 16 months later I was sitting in jail (15 days) for something I didn't do, homeless, and paying her to sleep with the guy she met 3 weeks prior to me kicking her out for cheating. That was in 2013. She was absolutely wonderful for 8 years, and raving about how well we fit together, until she decided to eat a bowl of stoopid flakes and end up alone, unwanted, relying on her dad for everything only 4 years later.
I spent two years on active duty sleeping in my car and on friends couches because the first ex cheated, abducted my kids, took them 1500 miles away in 2001, and then lied about me to the court... who also threw out all my evidence of her mistreatment of them and me. 71% of my gross in support for 15 years. Taxes were roughly 24% of my gross.. what does that leave you? Indentured servitude is what that leaves you.
So it is not that every girl will do that, not very much is 100%, 80% sure.. no problem, but not 100%. However what is 100% is that she can get rewarded at YOUR expense, just because she decides she wants to go hang out with Salem, or perhaps Raoul, could be Dave.. or Carl. His name is not important, what happens to YOU once you have made that commitment is what matters. You see, YOU are held to that commitment, she is not. She can end it at any time and be rewarded for it, no matter what she does, what she says, and all of her bad choices in life even after the divorce are still your fault.
My home state is coming after me for bills the ex incurred TWO YEARS AFTER the divorce was final, coming up on 8 years after the child support ended. Hell man she is remarried since 2002 and they still want pounds of flesh from me for what she did when he was with her.
Do they ever let you off the hook? Doesn't seem like it.
Why should young men put their head on that chopping block and hope the ax does not fall? Its not like girls these days are more trustworthy, down to earth, pleasant to be around, feminine, or anything else a man wants in a life long mate.. They are encouraged to be like men, and we want to be with females. Prenup you say? All she has to do is say she felt coerced or threatened to sign it and they toss it out.
If you have never been through it, then I can understand your eagerness to admonish men to take that leap of faith and cross that busy street. Once you have been through it and watched that woman you cared so deeply for, who had kids with you, turn into a raging vindictively capricious monster who will fabricate any accusation to get back at you so she can feel like a victim rather than guilty because she freakin caused her problems, yeah you will be a bit more understanding and far more reticent to write a check against a girl.
Marriage these days is simply a man betting everything he earns and built for the rest of his life that she will not act poorly or make bad choices.
I am not against girls, when I was your age I had a particular fondness for girls like Dominique, a really nice girl from Togo was a wonderful experience, she decided not to continue with me and we split without drama. The girl from Dubai was my choice for a long term thing, but my military supervisor didn't like the fact that a pale guy from Nebraska would marry an Arab girl from Dubai, so he threw everything he could at preventing it. That was in 1991. I would date today, except I can find no suitable girls in my area. The last one I was seeing lives in Chicago, which is a 7 hour drive from where I live.
I am 53. If a judge awards a girl everything I have built since my last divorce in 2013, I do not have enough years in my life to rebuild. Everything I invested in for 44 years was taken away with one choice of hers, in essence 44 years of my life were stolen and I am just now getting my life rebuilt.
Today I am wiring up my kitchen in the house I have been building since 2019. Not having it built, not paying someone to build it, I built it. I had to because I was set back so far in life that I should be far better off than I am today, and I simply cannot afford to pay others to do things for me. That chick in the red you guys showed, man.. I'd like to sit and talk to her about her ideology. She will be screaming and calling me names in less than five minutes, and I will only have to show a few facts.
As for Tate, its not so much about stuff. Its about doing things you want to do for you. He likes the expensive cars, I like dirt cheap rusty old muscle cars, its not the car that gets it for me, its what I do with those cars. When I build them, I put myself into them. When I race them that is my knowledge and skill employed to build them being put into use. When I drive them its pure satisfaction because I built it from a rolling wreck that wasn't even a good parts car when I started.
Its not the car, its what I did with the car. Cars do not take off with your house and most of your money... just sayin.
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The pill is not about having a single income family, its about men realizing the system is rigged, what pitfalls and traps are out there along with how to identify and avoid them. It is about teaching men about split tail nature, which we have been lied to about forever, they are NOT sugar and spice, they can be vile, vindictive, and capricious once they have extracted everything from you they want. If you want to get married and have kids, well you better know what is probably going to happen, what to look for, and who to avoid taking a chance on. Its about opening your eyes and seeing the world for what it actually is, rather than what you've been told it is, over and over since you were old enough to understand.
Living within your means is apparently an unheard of thing for millennials and younger. Do you need an $80k to $150k vehicle? Do you need a $500k+ house? Do you need the newest and latest phone? My ex wanted to live like that in the 90s, but I bought a $37k house that was built in 1910, we drove old cars I rebuilt like my 1970 GTO that I paid $1000 for in rough condition. I also had a $200 pickup, a 1976 C10 that I kept running.. today they are worth a lot more than I paid for them, and have put into them in parts and labor.
I was the one who earned so I said where the money went and I made the decisions. All my bills were handled easily with one paycheck where I was making $11 an hour and working 50 to 70 hours a week, usually 60 hours in a factory. The ex wanted to spend more than I earned, we could have been so much better off if the ex didn't spend everything by Tuesday when I got paid on Friday. After the split, the ex got 71% of my gross pay in the military, leaving me sleeping in that beat up old GTO or on friend's couches, because I got $100 to $400 a month to live on from June 2001 to Feb 2004.
As the cost of everything has gone up, so have wages. My kid gets paid $24 an hour, to babysit 3 kids, my kid is bad with money just like the ex, because the ex got full custody when the kids were 7 and 4, I was prevented from being around them. The older kid of mine is making around $30 an hour and doing rather well.
The factory jobs are gone, they were shipped to Mexico in the late 90s. Inflation has been rampant because of the poor choices made by the people in office. Its been intentional. We are all getting screwed. The dollar amount is higher, but you are roughly in the same position I was when I was in my 20s and 30s. NOBODY was paying for a house and new car on minimum wage, those jobs are not intended for that. Low paying jobs are a foot in the door, a way to get started learning skills, its for teenagers living at home with their parents. If you raise min wage, all you do is price people out of jobs and make everything more expensive.
You can look up what compensation is for a disabled veteran, which is what I am. Its around $3800 a month. In 2005 when I was medically discharged, it was $1900 a month. Thats a big jump caused by poor financial planning by the office people in DC, but my buying power is roughly the same, I can't do much unless I save and plan for things. Still I paid off my land in 8 years on a 10 year note, my building loan was paid off in six years.
I sacrificed and worked at rebuilding my life despite being physically limited after the second ex took off in 2013 and left me living in my car again. I bought my land so I could build a home and not have it taken from me by a judge to be given to someone who betrayed me. Its why I live here alone with a dog, and build old muscle cars, still have that 70 GTO... and many others I bought dirt cheap because they are rough. I built my house and the shop where I do the car thing myself, worked through the pain I live with daily, and struggled while learning new things and finding ways to do the job without lots of money.
I buy old stuff and rebuild it. Anyone can do what I do, and there is no luxury about it for me. The work I did in my 20s and early 30s wore out my knees, hips, ankles, a shoulder and an elbow, gave me PTSD and a bunch of other things, before I was 35 years old. Its been a hard life, beyond imagining for most people. I've never been wealthy, so I figured out ways to do things without money, and get what I wanted from life. I'd be much better off if I had never gotten married, but I can't change that now. If I wasn't a disabled vet, I'd probably be earning a lot more than I am getting now.
The most I ever paid for a car was $7500 and that was in 2004 for a 1998 Pontiac Formula, like a TransAm with the same engine and suspension, but with a cloth interior and fewer options, a low buck performance car.. something Detroit doesn't make anymore. I paid $27k for my land in 2013. Got a $30k building loan and invested my monthly income into building as well. Most of the cars I own were less than $1000. Its not difficult to work on old cars and trucks, they are VERY simple until the early to mid 80s. Anyone can learn to repair the old stuff, its easy and all the information for doing it is available right here...
If you want things, you're going to have to build it like I have.
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@victoria3241 boomers are the parents of X and millennials, all of which have been subjected to the hippy dippy BS of the boomers who thought they were so amazing. The woke crap comes from people like Jane Fonda, Andrea Dworkin, and all the soviets/bolsheviks who came before them. X is not old enough to have been parents to millennials on a large scale, its still boomers.
X has been one of those generations that was overshadowed by the one before it, the boomers have lingered around, screwing things up, thinking they were doing good.. and some of them did.
However, there are some not so wonderful boomers, they are in media, government, and education. There are so many of them its taking forever for them to kick the bucket, and Barry is the youngest of them to hold the big office.
Most of X is ineffective, trust me I worked with them and the number of incompetent people who only know one thing slightly well in this generation is huge. They were not the ones who came up with participation trophies, political correctness, and all the woke crap. It was forced on them, which is why so many are incompetent.
Also I see a marked difference between urban people and rural people, its quite amusing having lived among both. The urban people, regardless of what generation they are from, assume they are smarter, better, and more capable, just because they live in a city. They have a surprising amount of hubris, for people who cannot survive without the corner store providing everything to them.
I taught around 30 city kids how to drive while I was an NCO in the USAF. They had no clue how to operate equipment, or do much of anything really. They were unaware, wholly ignorant, and as the millennials started filtering into our ranks back around 2000, I noticed something else very different about them. They had no concept of consequences.
Now you can blame X for that, but I am early gen X born in the late 60s, and my kids were still very small when I was in my 30s, so these people were raised by boomers, and every one of them was a city kid. We had ten of them get in trouble for using drugs, and three of them for selling drugs on base.
I asked what they were thinking when they had to come work for me as punishment/corrective action, and they all said they didn't think the USAF was seriously going to react the way they did. They thought all the videos warning them were just there to scare them, but that nothing would happen.
My youngest brother graduated in 2000, my older brother in 1986. It was the youngest kids from the boomers who seemed to have no concept of consequence and responsibility.
I was the NCO in my unit who got all the screw ups, the problem children as we called them, and it was my job to straighten them out, or kick them out. Luckily for me, none of the guys caught with drugs were mine before they were caught. I had to keep them out of trouble after they were caught, while they waited for the trial and sentencing. The one who was selling hard stuff on base is up for parole in two years. He got busted in 2004.
I noticed a difference in how my boomer parents were with me, and with my youngest siblings. Its like my parents were tired, they kinda phoned it in for the younger kids, but I got to enjoy the full fury of the generation who was raised with corporal punishment just because. It made me willing to GTFO as soon as high school was done.
Not getting hit or beaten every day was a nice change when I left... well after I had showed my dad and brother what happens to people who hit me when I was 16. Nearly ended my brother one morning before school, if he had gotten up and tried to hit me a 4th time I was going to split his head open on the concrete steps to our house and leave him there.
I tried to raise my kids, I have two daughters, so they would not have a life like mine. I taught them to read, do math, run computers, crawling, walking, running riding bikes, all before they were 4 years old. We had fun with all of it, and they learned discipline and critical thinking skills.
However the boomer influence, particularly the Dworkin type of influence, encouraged my now ex to cheat, take off with my kids, move them 1500 miles away, and the state rewarded her for hitting my kids and throwing them into walls when she wasn't berating them. They gave her 71% of my gross pay, leaving me $100 a month to live on.
That is the root of all our problems today, the boomers enacting legislation that punishes fathers, applauds mothers, and rewards mothers for being reprehensible as they throw the father out of the family. They encourage women to be alone moms, they offer huge incentives in money and housing, and women are all too eager to take it.. only to later discover they are unwanted, alone, and the only thing anyone wanted them for after their divorce was their snot pocket.
Now I doubt you have read all of this, because X and younger city kids have the attention span of a gnat and its probably hidden from everyone else, but on the off chance someone gets to read it, well it has been interesting watching all of this happen. Its going to be very interesting watching all the urban types react to reality here in the near future. Its gonna get ugly for them, and they have no idea how to react or survive when everything is not brought to them.
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@Fennerex V sure, well trained and effective teachers are what we need.. I hear you and agree with that point.
However the essential puzzle piece you are missing is the simple fact that the people who wish to own us, do not want us educated and capable. The teachers they create are solidly on the left, and if they somehow avoid that programming, they are driven out of teaching positions.
There are no teachers who motivate boys to become masculine men, to overcome adversity, build their skill set and capability. That is by design, because capable masculine men with myriad skills are a threat to those who want to own us.
I've watched this happen and saw the results of the kindler gentler participation trophy way of schooling kids when the 18 - 22 year olds showed up in my unit in 2000. We had to retrain them to understand what consequences were, we had to teach them stoicism and other masculine traits. Hell I had to teach several of them to drive just so they could operate the equipment.
The kids coming out of school now are obese, incapable, directionless, and unmotivated. They have no idea how much potential each one of them has. They think they are all tough, but have zero training, and almost no muscle, they have been treated like broken females.
That is not an accident.
Really man, how difficult is Ohms law? How much did you struggle to understand electrical circuits? Its not overly difficult, but people make it out like its some kind of mystery. I am going to assume it was as easy for you as it was for me, and my mind is geared more towards mechanical processes than electronics. Hydraulics, machines, engines, transmissions, welding, machining, I have a gift for all of them, but anyone can learn it.
Very few will figure it out on their own like I did, but if they are told they can't learn it other than by going into debt, they won't take the time to figure it out on their own.
I had everyone in my life telling me I was incapable right up to the point I enlisted at 19. Then my training was sink or swim, fail twice and you get punted or put into a job with low skill requirements... like handing out towels at the gym.
It comes down to men like you and I to teach these kids that not only can they do the things we do, they are capable of so much more, and they don't need any hand holding to get there. Nobody says you have to play the game they set before you, and the men who can set their own game seem to do quite well. They don't have to be wealthy at the start to do it either.
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The deaths are dropping, the deaths never really got that bad worldwide, some places like Italy with a mostly geriatric population that live in close proximity to lots of people had more deaths, and old people in Michigan, NY, and other states died because the governors said put the covid people in with grandma.. and the dems have been trying desperately to get rid of the cheeto. Hillary won't let it go.. Why is that? Its like they are on a timetable for something, they are pushing to lock everything down, institute tracking systems, make everyone around the world afraid, and they have a deadline to achieve it all.
I wonder if Alex is right, and they are trying to reset the entire world and put us on a marxist base, where the elites run everything and the rest of us work to support the politicians. It seems like it would only be marxist for us, the elites live however they want to and we pay for it.
Interestingly, we have not had a school shooting, or much of anything like that in some time now. We have leftists in 'peaceful protests' killing people but that is swept under the rug, not talked about, ignored or simply justified by claiming the victims are nazis. Even the formerly anti gun people went out and bought guns and ammo when they thought we were going to be extras in Walking Dead season 2020, all while Biden and the dems say they will ban then confiscate guns from us when they get elected.
If Hillary were in office we would be locked down like France. We would also have probably started a fight with Iran and North Korea, she was setting them both up for that just like Bill did with Iraq and Afghanistan.
Is it war? Is it control? Alien invasion? Globalists working a for profit scheme? A death cult that wants to eradicate 90% of humans on the planet? its easy enough to see they are trying to manipulate us. I wonder if anyone will actually see this post, or if because I said certain things youtube will shadow ban it like others I have written.
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@MajesticLawnGnome my first wife was 20 when I met her. She filed for divorce when she was 29 assuming she could do better. Well she found a spineless wimp she could control, so I guess she is happier now. Met the second ex when she was 21, a homely virgin from a decent family and she was quite intelligent with a good attitude, so I looked beyond her homely appearance. She filed when she was 30, hooking up with a guy 20 years younger than me that her parents loathed, couldn't keep a job, and she was the first lay he ever got at 26. They lasted about 3 or 4 years, and I kicked her out in 2013... so its been almost 10 years. Now she is 40, and doesn't even get used for a hookup by random desperate guys. Utterly alone and her dad just died last week, he was paying all her bills.
If they had any logic or reason at all, they would be able to see that at 30 they aren't going to attract the same quality of man they did at 20. Nope they are delusional and think they can do better, that they deserve better, are entitled to better. I have yet to see a chick over 25 who divorces and does better and I know thousands of people from my time in the military.
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@CaptainFantastic222 really? Because he said that thing about not coming to change the law, not a tittle nor jot in Mark, I think its 19. That law he speaks about is from Leviticus, which is most definitely not woke at all.
Paul is the one who went against the old laws, and like most woke males he hated females. Probably couldn't get any like most woke males.
Paul existed, or at least the same guy wrote the letters, because every letter was designed to subvert the christians from within... just like woke people who have no clue how anything works, but they demand to be put in charge and given free stuff.
The way I see ideologues is the same way I see Trekkies, they argue about fictional stuff and are overly concerned with what is on deck 37 vs deck 38 of an imaginary ship.
Ol' Karl built his cult on the template of the Abrahamic religions, which I find most amusing. All of his assertions were wrong, and the notions to make things equal are misguided and irrational to the point of being ludicrous, if not for the way they zero out millions of humans. Its a feature, not a bug.
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Now that the democrats can rig any election they like here in the USA, I fully expect to be dead within 24 months. Biden/Harris will sell us out to China, and the entire government will be run by democrats, who will support selling us out to a marxist regime, and work to install the same system here. First on the list will be the Bill of Rights, the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th Amendments. They will pas laws that would nullify those, all with the justification its for our safety. Those amendments limit our government so it cannot pass laws that (1) control speech, public assembly, or religion in the first. (2) Infringe upon private ownership of guns, so we have a means to resist a tyrannical government or foreign invader. (4) Prevents the government from searches and seizures of our property or information/papers/etc without due process of law and a damn good justification for any seizure of our property. And the last one (5) prevents the government from compelling US citizens from incriminating themselves.
The USA is the only country in the world that limits its government in this way. The government here is supposed to be working for the people, but starting this year they will push to make the people work for government.
Way back in 1988 I took an oath to defend the ideas set down on paper 230 years ago, those ideas as still very relevant today, and our rights are not given to us by government, we have them by simply being born. Yes I am old and gray now, served in two wars already so I know what is coming, the democrats have embraced marxism entirely and they want to be in control of our country, and let China control the world. I and almost every other veteran of the US armed forces will not abide that. We will fight against it, and I know what that means. Either I will not see 55 years old, or I will be forced to live under the marxist boot for the remainder of my life. There are over a million veterans like me, who know war, who have the training and experience fighting exactly this kind of fight. We have little to lose, and much to gain, we have already proven we are willing to put our lives on the line to preserve our way of life. There are a lot more Chinese than a million though.
I have no faith in the government that is coming in next month, the election was rigged and they stuffed the ballots, thus no confidence in the system any longer. Its painfully obvious what they did, there is even video of them doing exactly that, and still the try to gaslight us into believing its legitimate.
I want to be left alone so I can live in the woods of Michigan or out on the plains of Nebraska, spend time with my Siberian huskies, build my hotrods, run them on home made fuel, and enjoy my life, but these people are intent on making that impossible.
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Food lines? Not where I am, not how I live, I have several months worth of food, ammo, and fuel stocked up because it snows here.. like 250 inches every winter and we get snowed in often. I have a huge lake I can fish, all kinds of things I can forage in the woods, so the only problem for me is feeding my dogs long term. I moved far from cities, the largest near me is 26k people, the closest one bigger is 3 hours south. Living green and sustainable is less expensive for me, sure its more work, but I don't need much cash. That allows me to put cash into old cars, because that is what I am into. If I don't put my savings into it, my land, home, and shop are paid off by June next year.
I planned ahead, started way back when Obama was in office, and I have built a home where I can survive a long time without input from the rest of the world. It just costs me less living like this. I can build damn near anything I need to survive too, and repair most things. The less you know, the more shit costs you.
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He is smokin crack, the absolute worst 'leaders' I had in the US military were female, capricious, entitled, vindictive, spiteful, inept, micro managing, and almost entirely incapable... Do it her way even if its illegal, unsafe, against regulation, causes vastly more work, but she demands you do it her way. Disagree or refuse to break laws/regs and you are harassing, hating, or persecuting her. They were always looking to get out of doing shit, pawning it off, and their ineptitude would result not in them being discharged, oh no, they were given busy work jobs where they couldn't fuck things up. Can't kick out a precious girl.
The female reservists were the worst, and those fucking rentals (male and female) are often very worthless and mostly cause more work fixing all their fuck ups.
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My first ex is miserable and married to an unambitious guy in his last few months of life.. he is 65 right now. When he goes, she will end up homeless, destitute. My second ex is 42 and also miserable, but alone for 8 years now. Both thought they could do better than me. They couldn't, and didn't. This is not uncommon, its becoming ubiquitous. Frivolous divorce from a good man, end up alone on public assistance. Once the money coming in from me ended, they had no other recourse, no plan, no future.
I am 55, my life is going quite well. health is good, debt free since Feb 2021, my land and home are paid for.. I bought my land in 2013, closed two weeks after the divorce was final. Built my house in 2019. I build hotrods for fun and enjoyment, its how I stay busy rather than sitting around since I retired in 2005.. well 'was' sorta retired by the USAF.
The schadenfreude I get from seeing this happen to them is massive.
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@richard_from_england333 here in the US even if they have really bad ideas they have a right to own as many as they like. Despite all the noise they make, and how media and the certain people in offices support them, they are a small weak ineffective minority of miscreants. At best they'd be a mere annoyance for a few days if they tried to take over by force. An annoyance to the rest of us, no need to even bother the military or police.
They are LARPIng, completely clueless about how things actually work, and they do not have the will required to do what they'd need to do. They talk big, march around, try to get someone to get in a scuffle with them so they can claim they are being repressed like some peasant digging in filth when the king walks by. HELP HELP! I'M BEING REPRESSED!
They're allowed by certain cities to do the silly things they do, but rest assured, its not like that in the rest of the country. Bear in mind the US is rather large. I can drive 70 miles an hour and it will take me 8 hours to get to Detroit from my home in Michigan, and I will never leave the state. Its 14 hours driving 70-80mph to go from where I live to the center of the US, and 24 hours to the east coast, around 40 hours to get to the west coast from here. My point is you only see the silly people, not the millions of us who aren't in the daft run cities.
There was a joke in the 60s and early 70s in south east Asia, about rifles never being fired and only dropped once. Its similar to that.
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I do not give a damn about any green new deal ban cars to save the planet communist crap, actually I am quite opposed to it. I am someone who likes to drive severely overpowered muscle cars on a very limited budget which is why I got started testing and producing ethanol.
Interestingly, I have been running E85 and home made E100 for almost 13 years, in my 1970 GTO, 5 years in my 68 LeMans, and two years in my 65 GTO. Also ran E85 and hydrous E100 in my 98 Formula with the LS1, a 98 Gran Prix was also used as a test mule until the ex got it in a divorce. I park my old Pontiacs every November, pull the battery, and rarely touch them until the snow is gone in May. I get 200 inches of snow every winter, so they often end up buried under feet of snow. Notice I did not drain the tanks, carbs, or put any additives in, simply pull the battery and drive the $500 winter beater until it rusts in half from salt.
Apparently you are unaware of testing on this exact subject... other than mine.
https://www.onallcylinders.com/2018/05/25/ask-away-jeff-smith-e85-pump-gas-additives-not-ethanol-cause-corrosion/
I am the first to covet Qjets to E85 all information you will find about it comes from me, and I convert all kinds of carbs and EFI for my vehicles, I own over 40 in various states of functionality. The newest is an 06 GP I got for $700 to drive in the salt, the oldest is a 32 Pontiac two door sedan, the 65 GTO is my summer daily driver with a 455 wearing iron heads from a 67 vintage 400 that make 11.5:1 compression. I have run FiTech EFI, Demon 850, Holley 780/850, and several Qjets I have converted for my own engines and for others. The 70 GTO is going in my shop for a frame off soon, it has electrical and suspension issues, might as well do the whole thing.
Hydrous ethanol means it has water in it, and straight out of my tree sap vodka still it is 185-194 proof. 100 proof is 50% water 50% ethanol, so 180 proof means it has 10% water in it. I denature my off site fuel (highway use) with things other than gasoline, I have to by Federal Law as a micro producer. Otherwise its moonshine and highly illegal. To make ethanol begin to be no longer useful as a fuel you have to add roughly 4 gallons of water to a ten gallon tank of fuel. I can tell you from experience its not going to absorb that much water from the air. Put a garden hose in the tank, or leave it under the gutter spout and it will. Right out of the still you could drink my fuel, but it doesn't taste very good and will give you a serious case of cottonmouth, and its illegal. Very illegal.
So in more than a decade of testing with carbs and EFI, including leaving a fully assembled Qjet in a 5 gallon bucket of E85 with the lid ajar for over a year, then drilling it to run E85 back in 2008, I have had zero corrosion issues. I have barrels of E85 and E100 that sit around for months to years without any problems with it going bad. My carbs start every spring without issue, I have a 30 year old Carter electric street pump that I ran under the 70 GTO until last year when I started using it to pump fuel out of barrels. My fuel tanks are spotless inside. My rubber hose that connect the pump to steel line, and then to the carb all last longer on E85 and E100 than they do on race gas for sure, and also pump gas.
My testing is more 'worst case scenario' than yours, and I am driving them every summer without problems. Open to the atmosphere for 7 months of sitting.
It is not the ethanol causing the problems. If it were my carbs, pumps, tanks, etc would be junk yet they are perfectly clean and run great year after year.
The problem is with additives put in the fuel by the companies that mix ethanol and gasoline, not ethanol itself. Want proof? Ethanol fuel is exactly the same stuff as whiskey, vodka, beer, wine, and those fruity drinks your girl loves so much. I hear there is a little bit of it in White Claw too. Take some high proof vodka or whiskey, put it in a jar with a chunk of aluminum. At 160 proof it can start causing problems due to electrolysis pulling aluminum into suspension, but above that its harmless, and it takes forever to happen.
There are no fuel additives mixed in with taxed consumable ethanol. So if you get a 120 to 160 proof you will eventually get a little corrosion over a long time. Fuel ethanol is well above 160 proof, and some water getting in it is no problem, it works the same way HEET and Drygas work. HEET is mthanol, which is corrosive to carbs and other parts and Drygas is methanol mixed with isopropyl, they bod to water like ethanol does and that allows you to burn it. Gasoline does not mix with water, ethanol does and it lets you burn the water as fuel until its out of the tank. A pint of water in a tank of gas and you have big problems, a pint of water in ethanol and you will not notice a difference.
That waxy yellow stuff that clogs the jets in small engines is not from ethanol, its an additive. Two stroke oil doesn't mix with ethanol, but castor oil does and you can run chainsaws on castor oil and vodka without problems. I run either 10% in my chainsaws, or I richen the mix and do the castor oil/straight ethanol thing. I live in the woods 3 hours north of Green Bay Wi so my chainsaws get worked.
Pump gas goes bad in a little over a month here, fought with that on the 65 GTO after I finished the frame off on it in 2013. Leaving pump gas in the tank like I do E85 made it not want to start and run after just a few weeks. The EFI helped with that, but its a problem I do not have with high amounts of ethanol. Rust in the tanks is a big problem here as well, in the vehicles that run no ethanol premium. The water just sits in the bottom of the tanks and starts to rust.
Now back in the 1990s I ran another 455 in my 79 Formula that had the heads which are on my 65 GTO right now(670 for the Pontiac guys). That was a race gas only engine, a 400 with those heads flattened the upper rod bearings in one night of driving and two hits in 1st gear running 93 octane. I had to replace all the rubber fuel hose every year, and pumps lasted about 3 years. There was zero ethanol in that VP Red and Sunoco 110 octane race gas. Gaskets in the 850 Holley lasted a year and a half, then the accel pumps started leaking. It was $5 a gallon back then, now is more like $8-$10 a gallon. E85 is $2.24 a gallon and everything lasts longer on it, plus it makes more power, burns cooler, is less affected by weather so it has more consistent ETs, and I can daily drive race gas compression on the cheap.
That is why I am into ethanol, also I can make it for 10 cents a gallon from tree sap collected from the trees on my land. Give me all the power. I have another set of heads (48 milled to 64cc and ported to 260@.550 by BPG for the Pontiac guys) that make 13:1 on my flat top Icon piston 455, but stock style Pontiac head gaskets aren't fond of more than 12:1, and cometic gaskets are $86 each. I drove the 13:1 heads daily for a year before the cylinder pressure from the compression and cam timing pushed water into the oil. It was easier and cheaper to drop the compression to 11.5 and use cheap FelPro ($15ea) gaskets, so thats what I did, because having your daily broke and waiting a week for gaskets sucks.
With premium being $4 already here, and 87 octane just dropped to $2.69 yesterday, I can't afford to drive without my fuel project. Check my channel, you can see them running on E85 and E100. I have 35 years experience running pump and race gas in addition to running E85 and E100, carbs, EFI, old stuff, new stuff, small engines, four and two strokes. Its my thing, which is obvious since I own over 40 vehicles.
I am not finding any of these corrosion issues with the northern Wisconsin sourced E85 and the northern Michigan grown home made E100 I make. Well, other than my rear tires can be easily turned into molten goo at any speed under 50mph. Due to regional and state changes to gasoline formulation, you might get some problems from various additives, but its not the ethanol causing the problem.
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@Jennthegreen they didn't have a choice when their mother took off with them, moved 1500 miles away, prevented me from being a influential part of their lives. She was rewarded for all the atrocities she inflicted on my kids, including bringing males who did things to them when they were young.
She did not teach them to be adults, and when I finally got to spend time with them again, not only were they afraid of me because of what their mother had told them, but they were doing other things like shoplifting.
The Duluth model is why she got full custody despite doing everything wrong and endangering my kids. She was rewarded with 71% of my gross income, which she squandered on herself. Gross, as in before taxes, so I was left with $100 a month to live on for several years.
I was working very hard to keep them from having a childhood and life like mine, and she did everything she could to ensure it was in many ways worse than mine. She did it out of spite and capriciousness.
She left when they were 4 and 7, prior to which I taught them to read, write, math, computer skills, and I was there when they crawled, walked, ran, and rode a bike the first time. I was working 50 to 70 hours per week and still spent as much time with them as I could.
I have a divot in the back of my skull where she hurled a coffee mug at me while I was teaching our youngest to read. No warning, no argument, she just clocked me in the head causing me to bleed profusely. She nearly hit my 3 year old with the second one, which bounced off the floor and broke the screen door window to our house. She was unmedicated bipolar, rapid cycling every few seconds to minutes, and she took it out on me and the kids.
The judge told me directly to my face without blinking that I was an unfit parent because I am male. They used all the instances where the police showed up because the neighbors called when they heard her screaming at me and throwing things... against me, insinuating I caused and perpetrated all of it. I never once touched her no matter what she did, and I was almost always bleeding when they showed up. Guess who they wanted to haul off... not her.
Bear in mind I am a combat veteran, very capable of inflicting grievous harm on others, but also of immense restraint. For 8 years I simply endured what she did, trying to protect my kids from her. If I had taken them and left, I would have been arrested. She could take off with them whenever though.
8 years enduring her, 15 years indentured to her.
The laws used against me are rooted in that F word I am not allowed to use on here, where the man is always guilty, and the woman the helpless victim.
So yeah... unforgivable as my kids, who are now 27 and nearly 30, had no damn choice in it. Rest assured, if the world goes tango uniform and society breaks down, I have retribution to exact... not on their mother, she is mental and could not help it... the rest of them, yeah... they should leave for Peru or Mongolia. Somewhere they can hide.
I have no compunction about rendering to permanent room temp, the type of people who thought up the Berlin Wall.. of which I have a chunk I knocked off the wall in 1989. I will forever be the sworn enemy of that religion, you can count on that.
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Bo you mentioned something that clicked with me. You said something like 'if you haven't lived an extreme life' and that must be why I am not lonely despite living alone for the last eleven years. I've lived an interesting life, done lots of things most people never will or even would. I keep people out of my life, they have to earn a place in it. Everyone is welcome to try out for a spot, but it doesn't mean they'll get one. I was married twice, 8 years with both of them. Glad they're gone because they were an expense.
I have zero sympathy for people like them, who put work ahead of people, who ripped their kids from their fathers out of capricious spitefulness, and like the 30 something dude who is so milquetoast milk probably curdles in his presence. The best things in life take monumental effort. An easy life is a boring life. My life is getting better, while my health gets worse because I am 55.
I look back at my life and its like Forest Gump in that I was there when history happened, did amazing things, but in areas nobody notices or knows about despite being incredibly important. I never did a busy work job, where you push paper around and put cover sheets on the TPS reports. I did the difficult, dangerous, and technical jobs. If I traveled to South America, Antarctica, and Australia, I would have been on every continent. If I traveled between Dubai and Seoul I would have gone completely around the earth. Most people live their entire lives within 200 miles of where they were born. I've been 10,000 miles from my birthplace, and currently live 1000 miles from there, out in the woods.
There are too many fun things to do to sit around feeling sorry about being alone, other people tend to muck up my plans. Once in a while i need someone to help me move a non running vehicle or put a roof on, but otherwise I'm good alone. I prefer it and have for some time. When enough people in your life harm you, being alone is a wonderful thing. Its peaceful and with far less stress.
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Orange Man Bad and if you disagree you are guilty of wrongthink, its room 101 for you with the rats. You must learn that 2+2 = 5, that War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength. Academia is blind to it, or they are willing participants thinking they will be high party members when the world descends into the abyss of marxism.
When someone thinks with emotion rather than logic, and yes scientists are just as susceptible to emotion based thinking, they are very easily manipulated. Why do you think scientists use instruments and double blind tests? To remove their own bias and emotions from affecting the result.
Making the facts fit your narrative is not scientific, its marxist, or to put it more broadly, ideological. I have seen ultra religious young earth creationists do the same thing that I see marxists doing now. The ideology rules their paradigm, its a lens through which they see the world, and the world must fit that lens. To do that they will employ logical fallacies to support their illogical positions. Its a litmus test that shows who is pushing ideology and who is supporting reality when they use a logical fallacy.
So David can try to shame you into accepting his ideology, doesn't mean you have to or will. I like reality, and to me 2+2 = 4 and it always will. You can put me in a camp to indoctrinate me, make my life miserable, shame me daily, feed me constant propaganda , and I will be amused because I have been there before. Before you take me to the gulag you better bring some body bags because I am not going without a fight. Like I said, I have been there, I know what is coming if I go with them. How badly do you want to force your ideology on me?
I will not bend to marxism.
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@templarrising6299 its the only way to do it, for yourself, and usually it turns out to be by yourself when you're one of us. The hardest thing I ever did was rewiring my mind, cutting off the old well worn in synaptic paths and carving out new ones.
The result is I can function better with a society that is generally safe, but there are no more connections possible with others. Its not the rewiring that prevents connection, its the trauma that created it. I simply don't need, and honestly can't have, anyone else in my life. So many years alone that I prefer it now. Most of my social interaction is through text, not because I am afraid or need to hide, but out of convenience and economy.
It costs less to write than it does to drive in to town and spend time with people. If the people in the interaction are annoying or unable to comprehend things, I can simply ignore them. So writing on forums, and in comments, while making a few videos, is how I share the wealth of information and experiences I have amassed over the years.
Its a strange dichotomy, liking people in general, some as individuals, not being able to trust them, and still feeling disdain and derision for so many. The PTSD is not the reason for it, doesn't cause nor exacerbate it. The root is how people treat others, what they did to me for years, what I have endured and survived, mostly through sheer will and resilience.
PTSD is a survival mechanism that can't be shut off once activated. You can turn it down, but never turn it off, like the TVs in 1984. Its there to help you identify threats, notice patterns, read the nonverbal information people display subconsciously.
Where it causes a problem is the way we tend to react to perceived threats, when the threat level is minimal to none. We are geared up for conflict and danger, but without danger we simply are worn down until we become frustrated and then angry. That is why so many of us want to go back, its the only place we feel normal, like we belong there.
I don't push people away, I simply stop talking to them. I cut people out of my life all the time, nearly daily, but also in large groups. The people who contact me are the ones who give a fuck, or want something from me. Usually the latter. I am selective about who I let in, anyone gets a chance, very few get to stay.
About the only thing I miss is the feeling of 22 year old tits on my face and her ass in my hands. Still get that from time to time, but its not a priority.
I'd rather build muscle cars. I can trust what I built, because I build good shit.
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@PlatinumBishop72 not as many as there used to be, but yeah. However, if anything happened to her I was the guy they were coming looking for, before anyone else.
For the last 10 years I have been sure to make a digital record of where I am, what I am doing, like buying something small to get a transaction on my bank statement, the GPS location is on my phone, things like that.
Had an issue with the second ex calling the cops on me when she saw me going the other direction on the highway, at a gas station filling up, or simply driving by. The last time they showed up, I mentioned that if they come again for that nonsense, then EVERYONE involved, the cop, the prosecutor, state, county, my ex, her entire family, is getting sued for hairrasssing me, and I would make it my life's mission.
For some reason, they haven't been by since, except for when two state troopers wandered out here looking for some tank or something. I was polite with them, suggested they should leave, and when asked about my 60s and 70s muscle cars parked everywhere I informed them that I have never really sold any, and daily drove them for years. Got the first one in 1982, the year my second ex was born no less. Now I am rebuilding them. its kinda my thing.
If the world ever goes tango uniform, I have a nice tidy list of places to visit.. Funny thing is neither ex is on it.
Why? Well its simple, they have done far more damage to their own lives than I ever could, so seeing them suffer is enjoyable, why would I ever want to shorten it?
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@crosstie417 you have been lied to. What is doing the problems you describe is additives put in by the gasoline companies. Ethanol cleans everything, leaves the engine spotless when you run straight ethanol and never run gasoline in it. People blame ethanol for everything, as if it something other than plain old simple vodka, just like you get in a bar or store.
Is there any gummy residue left over at the bottom of a scotch bottle? Whiskey that is aged for years? Vodka? Beer? Its the exact same thing in the bottles as it is in a fuel tank.
I make ethanol from tree sap, cattails, and this year will be from some coffee grounds. My carburetors are perfectly clean, as are my fuel pumps, tanks, lines, and the rubber hoses last longer than they did with gasoline. Particularly longer than when I was running 110 octane race gas in the 1990s. I only got a year out of rubber hoses on race gas. I have the same hoses on the 65 GTO since 2018, and the same in the 70 GTO since before 2007 when I put it on ethanol..
Engines in Brazil, that run a million miles in taxis, are torn down and have less wear in them than a 50,000 mile engine that runs on gasoline. They run hydrous ethanol there, meaning it has 5% to 15% water in it and no gasoline at all. They run almost everything on ethanol in Brazil, and they export their oil.
On top of that, remember how I mentioned race gas? Well with my Pontiac engines you need race gas if your static compression ratio is over 9.5:1 with iron heads, and 10.5:1 with aluminum heads. Running E85 and my home made fuel, I have daily driven 455ci Pontiac engines with 13:1, and the 65 GTO has 11.5:1 in its 455, the same cylinder heads I ran on race gas in the 1990s.
It makes more power because it has a lot more oxygen in it, which is also why you need to run more of it. Its not like adding fuel just wastes it, you get more power with ethanol than you do on gasoline.. particularly in the idle to 4000rpm range where most daily driven engines spend their entire lives.
The added benefit of the high compression like I run in my engines, is they use less fuel while making more power, in effect they are 'working' the fuel harder, so they make more torque, and its easier to move the vehicle. I get better mileage on ethanol, both E85 and my home made stuff, than smaller engines do on gasoline. I ran a 400 with 7.8:1 compression that would run on camel whiz 87 octane, and it got 15mpg highway, put a 455 in it with 13:1 running E85 and home brew, it got 17mpg and is almost three seconds faster in the quarter mile. You can't do that on gasoline, because it will knock the upper rod bearings out, overheat, and break pistons, all while making a lot less power.
You have been misinformed about ethanol, it leaves nothing behind when it burns or evaporates. Anything left as a deposit was put in by someone, and its not ethanol.
What gasoline leaves behind is the black carbon deposits, worn out engine parts from all the gritty carbon floating in the oil, and varnish that clogs everything like hoses, lines, injectors, carbs, and fuel pumps. I let a car with 0% ethanol premium gas in it for three years, and the fuel pump stuck. Now in addition to repairing or replacing the rear end, I have to do the fuel tank, pump and sender as well, they are full of rust and varnish from the gasoline.
I build cars, I can do literally everything including machine work on the engines and tuning EFI as well as carburetors. Old cars are the reason I am on the planet, and I am not overly wealthy. If ethanol destroyed parts and caused lots of problems, I could not afford to run it. Instead ethanol costs me 40 cents a gallon to produce. So if the gasoline ever dries up, like in an apocalyptic movie, or simply gets too expensive, I can still make fuel to run everything I own.. easily and cheaply.
The whole reason I got into making ethanol was because 87 octane pump gas was $5 a gallon in 2007 where I live. With a $1900 a month fixed income I was not going to be able to drive my 1970 GTO ever again. Congress decided we crippled veterans should get a little bit more since then, gasoline is $3.50 now, and I am planning to make 1000 gallons of fuel this year. I am always changing things to make my cars more efficient or faster. So I know exactly what is going on inside the engines, transmissions, and fuel systems.
Gasoline is the worst thing we can run in our engines.
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@TheH8redd didn't know about them, I was busy trying to keep up with my first wife's spending in the 90s, divorced in the 00s, crippled since 05. Lifting was never an interest of mine, nobody was more surprised to learn that most people are not able to bench over 200 let alone 300 or 400 than me. I thought most people could do at least 250 or 300.
You know what Dunning Krueger is? Were the stoopids think they are brilliant, and the intelligent think everyone else is also intelligent.. yeah, its something like that.
By the time I learned about the strong man competitions I was already unable to run, and barely able to walk. Going from a highly capable and motivated man who could run for miles and do damn near anything (other than fit into a large T shirt) to dealing with intense pain for a week after walking 100 yards in a day, kinda messes with your head.
Its only been the last 5 or 6 years that I can walk without an obvious limp, and if I stop taking my concoction of meds and supplements every day my knees swell up like basketballs and my hips stop working entirely.
There is more to my time in the USAF than packing on muscle. I didn't come back with everything working in acceptable order, to put it lightly. So now I am that old guy that did something 20 years ago and had no idea that it was unusual.
When I see pictures of myself, I am astonished at how big I am. I forget because from my POV I am not much bigger than most people. In a photograph its entirely different.
Tell ya what. I will post a pic of my family standing with our cars back in 2017 on my community page. You can see how much larger I am than my 180lb Army vet brother, and my older 300lb fat ass brother. See if you can guess which one is me.
Yeah... I look fat, but I really don't have that much on me. The VA says I am around 18% to 20%, but it makes me look like a blob. I know because they gave me an assessment for a gastric bypass, I am not eligible for it, my BF % is too low. The belly makes me look real bad, but it happens to old guys.
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I don't need info, this is what I have done since the 1980s and do all summer... being late May to October, because the snow here is epic. Most of my cars range from 1932 to 1979, with most being between 65 and 72. I have winter cars that I drive in the salt here in northern Michigan, and they are $500 front drivers and rusted half to death 4x4s. I drive them until they rust in half or have so much wrong with them that its not worth it to fix it. Then I part it out and scrap whats left. No way am I going to drive anything I care about in the salt. Seriously, the current beater is a $500 2006 Gran Prix, its that dark blue green, and it turns gray in the 13 miles it takes me to get to town. As soon as the salt is gone, the 65 GTO or a Firebird comes out.
Plans are to haul a 71 Formula I have had since the mid 90s up here and go through it dirt cheap. Put one of my running 400s in it, an OD trans probably a 2004R, a Qjet or some FiTech EFI, and either 2.41 or 3.08 gears. Maybe throw a stereo in it and use that as my grocery getter, which will mean I can take the OD out of the GTO and make it quicker and more of a fun car.
The goal is to have several daily drivers, so I can walk out, get in one and go.. whatever I feel like taking that day. Also to have a few that don't look fast, but will click off tens or faster without anyone being able to tell. I love a sleeper... and ugly cars make great sleepers.
Life is too short to drive an appliance.
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Great advice on this one. I've had my purpose since I was 13. Everything I have done outside that purpose was in support of it, other than starting a family 30 years ago. To the young guys.. DO NOT GIVE UP. The only person you should impress is yourself. Your tombstone will have a start and end date on it, the space between those dates is the important part. Make it a life worth living, take some risks, get out of that comfortable spot and explore the world. Don't get hung up on stuff, you need some things, but stuff should not be your focus.
I have a bunch of muscle cars, most of them don't run and need full rebuilds. I enjoy doing the work, because when they are done I can drive them. I have a ton of fun driving them, and knowing my skills, knowledge, and capabilities are why it runs. I upgrade them often, just put a 5 speed in the 65 GTO, the overdrive is nice. Took me two days to put it in, swapping from an auto. ITS NOT THE CAR, its what I DO with it.
I have a lot of tools, a shop to work in, and I have a lift in it. I do not work on cars for a living. I could not stand to work on cars to pay bills. I wanted to know all of this FOR ME. FOR MY BENEFIT. Yeah I can make money with it, but I don't need to. I pursue all sorts of things with vehicles, lower elapsed times, better drivability, better mileage, handling, and I like to build things that are both understated and obnoxiously irreverent. Sleepers and fun stuff like hotwheels cars you can drive.
That was my purpose in life, and I have done a lot of jobs to pay for parts, tools, the shop, and most importantly the knowledge required to do all of this. The knowledge is the priceless part, I suggest you strive to have as much of that about a wide array of subjects, because the more you know the better your life is, even if you're stuck in a temporary position that seems hopeless. It gets better because YOU make it better. You have all kinds of information right here, I didn't have any of this until I was nearly 40. You have a huge advantage over me, imagine what you can do if you take the time to do it.
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@calvanoni5443 I live the rural life now. Bought my land in 2013 after my second and final divorce. I am done giving away property and money to women who did everything wrong, yet I am punished for it.
I found land I could afford, sold some old car parts, my dad gave me a couple grand for the down payment, and I paid it off in 2021. Dad had to help out because he very rarely did anything like that for me, and I was pretty much broke with nothing but rusty old cars after the divorce.
Its 13 acres of woods about a mile from Lake Superior. I cleared 3 acres of trees, used some of them to build my shop, and built my house with shipping containers.
I can grow food, produce fuel to power my vehicles, and have been working on making electricity. Ethanol fuel is simple, and any vehicle will run on it, even diesels if they are modified correctly.
The most expensive and difficult thing to do yourself for sustainability is produce enough electricity in a form you can use it all year. Doing it quietly without burning things in engines, in the north where solar is ineffective for 7 months of the year, and the wind is either calm or gale force, yeah its challenging.
There is no way I can live in a city, I had to while in the USAF. It was something I had to endure, living in an apartment with people packed in around you is not my idea of 'living.'
Finding land that is suitable for farming that is affordable, now that is difficult to do.
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Go back a couple thousand years, when wars were fought with swords, shields, spears, and even before that when tribes fought with sharp sticks and rocks. If you don't know what happened to females when the Red Army invaded Germany in 1945, you should look it up. The bible talks about laying waste to cities and regions, ending the males, taking the females for reproductive purposes, and turning adolescent males into slaves. Perhaps a million years of that happening over and over around the world as humans warred over resources, and females were a resource back then. genetic diversity to ward off inbreeding...
The females who were more agreeable to being 'handled' to put it very mildly would have survived longer than those who fought back against it. Creating a selective breeding loop where the females soon were all the ones who got damp and developed that fantasy of being taken and ravished. When a girl is too much trouble to get down, and you have plenty of others, chances are she is not going to reproduce.. do the math on that one in barbaric terms.
The subject of this video is NOT a new thing just emerging, you are simply just becoming aware of it. Its funny how every generation thinks they have discovered sechzy times, when its how they got here.
The thing that I find very interesting, since I am a very heavily muscled male with extensive training, is that so far not a single girl I have been with has been more interested in gentle, slow, caring, vanilla nekkid time. Now there may be some inherent bias, because what girl would want to do it with a man that is roughly the same size and strength as a medium sized silverback gorilla that does NOT want it rough? Its somewhat of a given that she is going to get moved around a bit.
Do all girls have that fantasy of being taken? I dunno, but holy smokes a lot of them do. Is it a majority? I would say that yeah more than half are all about it as long as its not going to end them or actually be against her will. pretending it is via force is quite different from actually being forced. Her female ancestors had the traits that kept them alive, and one of those traits just might be getting overly damp when a man's hand wraps around her throat, pulls her hair, or picks her up and holds her against the wall... which does not have to be against her will for the effect to work, and considering how prominent the fantasy is, its a safe bet that moistening is automatic forced or not. A completely involuntary response to stimuli.
Being a man who has been to war, been in god knows how many fights, can pick up a 200lb girl and fling her around like a ragdoll if I so choose, and can easily end most men with nothing but my hands and skills, yes females are turned on by that sort of thing. Seeing me lift heavy stuff has gotten me lucky more times than my ability to write and knowing the difference between innuendo and double entendre... though that has happened as well. Girls are turned on by intellect as well as brawn. One girl who liked my writing and knowledge of English was equally turned on by my hands which are nearly 6" across the palms and covered in callouses, scars, and obvious damage from work.
Don't hate me, this is what I have observed and deduced knowing quite a bit about history and just how unpleasant humans can be to each other. I am not judging females for what they like, and I have been willing to give them little bits of that in the past.
Now does bdsm correlate with wealth and status? Not really. I know poor girls, rich girls, and everything in between who like that sort of thing. If the man has a dominant personality, wealth, and status, then yeah she is going to like him a lot. Those are things every girl on the planet is attracted to. The more dominant you are, the more females will want that from you. Yes, several of my ex girlfriends and both ex wives wanted that sort of thing, though they did not often get anything like that. Gotta trust people a lot to do that stuff. I don't trust many people.
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@jaytaylor9232 ya know something, I have been hit by cars, run over by farm equipment, nearly crushed by cargo, been through two wars, grew up getting beaten nearly every day, kicked by horses and cattle, and I live in constant pain from my 2004 deployment. But the worst thing that ever happened to me was my kids being taken 1500 miles away and not being allowed to see them because of their mother's lies.
In the 90s when my kids were little, I was working 50 to 70 hours a week in a factory to make enough to support them. I spent as much time with them as I could, so I was there when they both crawled for the first time, walked, talked, and everything else. I taught them to read when they were 3,the first letters my oldest learned were GTO while sitting on my knee at the nose of my 1970 Pontiac GTO. They both came out to my garage to help me with stuff, and they learned a lot about vehicles and stuff. We had lots of fun together..
I loved being a dad.
The state and their mother stole all those years from me. They allowed bad things to happen to my two little girls at the hands of guys their mother hooked up with. They rewarded her for all of that, and punished me. After she took them, she screwed them up to the point the oldest resents even being born, and the youngest can't find a decent guy because she is too much like her mom. Her mom was the town bicycle, I had no idea when I met her, it became apparent after the divorce when people told me about her past.
Funny thing is the second ex was a 21 year old virgin when I met her. We had no kids, she didn't want any, because she knew she would be a horrible mother. Props to her for realizing that. Eight years together, no arguments, weathering the problems cause by my first ex, particularly financial problems, sex all the time, we got along great in every way and had intellectual discussions often, it was idyllic.
Then we got married, she cheated and did all the stuff the first one did, plus a few other things. Just short of 10 years together, only married for 16 months.
Sure they are all different, but the basic program running in their thinkin meat is exactly the same. They will all do the same things, given the opportunity.
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@terenarosa4790 she was 30 when she decided a loser 7 years younger than her that feels entitled to be in charge despite having zero experience, was a better choice than a man who was already accomplished, had passive income, was capable despite being crippled and unable to walk very far, and only needed to wait two years and the child support from the first one was finished.
Here is the thing I have learned about females, and I am NOT saying you are bad people or anything, its just how you are. If you are aware of it, you can change it and not act poorly.
There is more in the world than you, and your feelings. Don't be solipsistic. That is the hardest thing for a girl to do, because its your nature.
Do not act on a whim, think about what will probably happen if you make that bad choice, rather than ignoring the consequences and relying on all the legal benefits you get for acting poorly. The money runs out sooner or later when the kids get old enough or the alimony ends, and then you have nothing to live on, or much less.
You get everything up front, you are most attractive in your youth, by 30 that is fading fast. It is an incredibly bad idea to dump the man who got you at your best in your early 20s, and try to get a better man in your 30s. Its not going to happen. Problem is, you have had everything easy for the first 30 years, so you don't know any different.
If you want to have kids, time is not on your side. My cousin's daughter had a kid when she was 34, he is in a wheelchair and will never be more advanced than a 3 year old. My second fiancé was engaged to me when she was 28, that was 32 years ago. We didn't get married and her first kid came along at 32, the second one at 35 and that kid is never going to be more advanced than a 3 year old. My youngest sister had her first kid when she was 18. 20 years later she had her second kid, and he was born deaf with other issues.
The older you get, the less viable your eggs are.... until they stop working. The risk of defects is a lot higher than the effinists claim it is, they say 2%, but I know five girls who are very close to me, who had late maternal age kids with issues.
Part of the deal with my ex is I got sick. I was exposed to a chemical in paint that jacked up my lungs. I couldn't breathe well for six months. Walking ten steps left me winded.
Just as I started to get better, she decided to cheat, lie, and have me thrown in jail on a false accusation. No possible way I could have done what they claimed, but the courts don't care. I am a man, so I am always guilty. So much for being there and caring about someone. She abandoned all her pets for that guy, and her family loathes him.
Her shortsightedness and lack of impulse control has lead to the point where she turns 40 in 18 days, is alone, unwanted, broke living off her dad, with no future outside of regret, resentment, and misery. Even at her best she was a 3 on a scale of 1-10, I liked who she was and didn't mind how homely she was. There is no way she will ever get a man better than me, because I could have, and did a lot better than her. I liked her for her, and she was wonderful to be around for years.
Then one day she threw away everything we had invested together... on a whim. Now she is paying for it, only 9 years later.
Now I own land, lots of cool old cars, a huge yard, and 11 acres of woods around it. I am debt free, with passive income so I can do what I want, when I want, and travel if I want to... well before the less than brilliant restrictions of late.
She chose very poorly, only knowing the guy for a handful of days. Solipsism, no impulse control, no loyalty, and she rationalized it all and told herself that we never got along, and she was looking for a way out the entire time. She wasn't. If she had been, I would have punted her out so she could find out for herself. Now she knows and its too late.
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@terenarosa4790 I knew the first one for 4 months then she got pregnant. She was never faithful to me, but it would hurt my daughter too much to know I am not her dad and her mom lied yet again. We were married 5 months later.
The 2nd accused me of vandalizing her boyfriend's truck. They claimed I ran 150 yards, cut up his truck, and ran 150 yards back to my truck. That was in 2013, and the last time I ever ran was 2003.I got hurt on my 2004 deployment, and I will never run again, not more than a few steps anyway.
Her dad also had several people working for him, they were all at work. So somehow a crippled guy, who could not breathe well, as in my other reply to you, was supposed to have run 300 yards, stealthily, did a bunch of damage, that only showed up after he drove a couple miles.
Males are always guilty when accused by a female.
I wanted my kids to have a better life than I did. Their mother was hell bent on them having the same kind of life she had. Broken home, being touched by adults when you are under ten years old, living in poverty, and growing up without a dad.
The difference is her dad honestly did not care, that guy cheated on every girl he was ever with. I did not cheat on either wife.
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@terenarosa4790 very few people are. The fact that you realize you can screw everything up, and that you don't want to screw everything up like my ex wives and millions of others, says something about you.
Its that you tend to think ahead. To be honest its a very rare thing in girls. I know two, only two, who do that. One is a business owner who grew up on a farm.
The other is an HR tax expert for a huge corporation who grew up dirt poor, married a shiftless good looking guy, and is now a single mom making nearly $200k. It was fun dating her, because she could do all the fun stuff like travel, and she got concert tickets for us all the time. She is the only girl I dated for a while that I m still friends with.
Don't worry, the vast majority of guys are not independent, and they are only marginally strong... though my paradigm is somewhat skewed from 'normal' people who haven't been worked nearly to experation.
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Arthur Pilgram I don't hate them either if they don't want one. However they tend to hate me because I have one, or fear what I might do with it when I am someone they should want to be armed.
Having been through two wars and also being assaulted/beaten often in my youth, I know that not everyone is nice and reasonable. Its why I am trained and have lots of muscle mass. I needed it to defend myself before I got out of high school, and it kept me alive in the much larger conflict later.
I would very much rather we all got along, nobody had to get violent, and people didn't try to impose their will on others. Humans are simply going to always be violent and have the capacity for stupefying violence.
We are not that far removed from the caveman who harnessed fire. In his world extreme violence was a requirement, and we have no evolved beyond having it in us, even if some places are safer than the outside world.
These anti gun people have often grown up without much conflict in their lives, its something on TV, it is not reality to them. Its a terrifying what if, not memory of it actually happening and they survived/endured it.
If you live in a dangerous world, like I have most of my life, you will find ways to protect yourself. Other than drunken college kids who want to try and impress their friends, I do not get many people wanting to assault me anymore, as I am not a soft target.
Those people simply do not know what is out there, but they have seen TV and movies that show them all sorts of things that are fallacious at best... like a .223 making a huge exit wound or blowing up a car. The do not know that hiding doesn't make you safer,it only makes you a stationary target.
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Look what the Biden regime is doing to border patrol, they will do that to every government employee including the military. They are like vindictive wives projecting all her cheating, malcontent, and animosity upon her husband while gaslighting him about how much she cares for him, while blaming him for everything that goes wrong. Always blame the man when a marriage dissolves, because he has zero incentive to divorce as he has to pay for all of it, and laud the female who files for divorce, because she has every incentive to divorce him, and he has to pay for it all.
That is what the administrative and legislative branches are doing, and it seems the judicial branch is ignoring what the other two are doing. Rest assured, you will be blamed for all the problems caused by the corrupt assholes in office. Weak minds always blame others for their own faults, misdeeds, and failures, Stalin, Adolf, Biden, Castro, Obama, and both my ex wives... probably your ex wife too.
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My issue with the EPA is simple. The people running it are clueless bureaucrats, they are not scientists, they are not technically minded, they are inept government employees who listen to the people some politician tells them to listen to. They think ethanol is bad for the environment, because there is propaganda out there saying that, brought to you by oil companies that want no alternative fuels.
So even though I make my vodka fuel from tree sap and cattails, and my old GTOs only emit CO2 and H2O running on home brew, they want to say its illegal because the car was not designed to run on it. Know what it takes to make an old car run on ethanol? Swap the carb. Well that and slowly clean all the varnish out of the fuel system that has built up from gasoline. However it it has been running on the 10% pump gas crap, its probably clean enough.
How do you make it run very well and get the same mileage as the same size engine does on gasoline? Crank the compression over 12:1 with iron heads. You can't run pump gas anymore, but you won't want to with how fun and inexpensive it is to run it on vodka/moonshine. Daily drivers with 13:1 making nearly 600ftlbs of torque from 2000 to 5000 rpm are LOTS of fun.
So if they leave us alone and don't tell us we can't make our old hotrods run on clean burning vodka, its not really a problem to me.. because we can all switch with our performance vehicles. If you want to know more about all of this ethanol fuel thing, you can follow me on here. I am working on some videos explaining what I have been doing for the past 14 years.
I really think those morons will make up rules without having a freakin clue though.
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@jankowalski6691 well, keep in mind she is bipolar, so rational thought was not part of her daily routine. She wanted me to work, and let her have all the money I made to spend as she wanted. This was a VERY bad idea, so I was supremely reluctant to do that.
I allowed her to access to the account so she could 'take care of the bills' and what I came home to a month later was a $400 overdraft fee and no utilities on and a notice from the bank about our mortgage not being paid. One week's pay would cover all our monthly bills easily.
The overdrafts started the same week I let her spend money, and she hid everything from me saying she handled it. I was working 50 to 70 hours every week, and this was before debit cards were so ubiquitous. I was paid every Friday, and she would have the account overdrawn with bad checks by Tuesday. Bipolar people are notoriously bad with money. 30 years ago when I was with her, I had no idea what bipolar was, or that it even existed. I know now..
Another thing bipolar people do is being incredibly promiscuous. I'm not entirely sure when she started or if she ever was faithful, but she got with her best friend's husband, a guy who was on base and getting bad conduct discharged for having CP on military computers, and she was making videos with that guy and his wife, right before she took off with my kids and moved them 1500 miles away. Those videos were passed around to other units on base.
When I would not obey her irrational demands, she would like to throw things at me and hit me with stuff. She ripped lots of shirts and I started shaving my head to keep her from ripping tufts of it out. Bear in mind I am NOT a small guy, at 5'8" I was 240lbs and could bench press 450lbs easily in my 20s. By my 30s that was over 500lbs. I could have ended her with one hand, without even exerting myself. Think gorilla with a human face and longer legs. Thats me.
I have a divot in my skull where she hurled a coffee mug at me while I was teaching our younger daughter how to read when she was 3. Nothing with her made any sense, and she was a living nightmare to live with.
The police would show up and they only ever wanted to arrest me, despite the fact there were no marks on her and I was usually bleeding from something, she actually cut me with a knife twice, requiring stiches. I was concerned every time I went to sleep about what she would do.
She moved out twice trying to get me to obey her, once after I stopped her from throwing our younger kid into the wall a second time. She had just turned 3, and my ex called her a long list of names, hit her a few times, then grabbed one arm and flung her into the wall, and was going to do it again when I intervened. I wasn't fast enough to stop the first one. She cleaned out the house with her brother and mother.
When she filed it was her last ditch attempt to make me obey her, hand over my entire paycheck, and work just to fund her shopping spree. Anyone who knows me will tell you , that would never happen. I am not the obedient type. I lead, others follow.
When she finally left I was relieved, except I knew what was happening to my kids. However what happened to my two daughters was even worse than I thought, she was letting guys do what they wanted to them. When I confronted her about it, she said "Well, that happens." and of course they wanted to arrest me for what she allowed to happen while I was 1500 miles away serving in the military.
I reenlisted in 2000 in an attempt to dig out of the debt she ran me into between 1995 and 2000. I had been out for 7 years, so I went back in as an E4. A 30 year old E4 with one war under his belt, about to go into the second.
3 years ago she admitted she was the problem, caused all of the issues we had, and she realizes it now that she is sucking down a bunch of lithium which makes her somewhat sane.
We've been divorced since 2001, she has been married since 2002 and has made that poor man's life a living hell, but he is pretty much spineless. She runs his life the way she wanted to run mine, so they are destitute, in debt to the tune of nearly $200k, and many of the people they owe money to try coming after me.
There is a lot more to this story, but this is long enough and I bet they will hide this comment anyway.
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@saigoncowboy8149 my second ex was set for life, all she had to do was be faithful. In 2012 I had a respiratory injury that left me unable to breathe for six months, it was excruciating to take a deep breath. Just as I recovered from it, she decided to run off this a guy who was 7 years younger than her, 20 younger than me, who has zero future. He wasn't good looking or better than me in any way, other than I was just getting over a prolonged illness.
Balding with those fleshy jowls you see on old guys who work in offices and don't take care of themselves, and he was only 24... He isn't very bright either. The first time he met me he wet himself. Everyone who knows him, does not like him, she picked a real winner.
They lasted less than 4 years, he took off to Montana where he isn't doing very well, but can't afford to leave. She lives two miles away, is unwanted now that she is 42, has no income so her mother has to pay her bills and provide her a vehicle. her dad passed in February 2023 and she has been in the padded ward three times since then.
Where am I? Well. I own 13 acres of woodland, built my house and shop on it where I rebuild old muscle cars and trucks. I'm on a fixed income but its roughly the equivalent of $100k a year since I don't pay income or property taxes. My daily drivers in summer are a 1965 GTO I rebuilt from a very rusty rolling shell, and a 1970 Cuda. I have around 30 Pontiacs in total, mostly GTOs (4), LeMans (7), and TransAm(4), Formula(7) Firebirds between 1964 and 1979. One Formula is a 1998, it was my economy car from 2004 to 2017.
I've been debt free since Feb 2021, paid off everything early. Not bad for being divorced in 2013 and her getting the house, shop, and a pile of cash. The first one was still soaking up half my income until 2015, then the child support ended. That let me invest everything I had been paying her into my land, and a bit more.
Both my ex wives chose poorly when they left, neither has improved their lives and they never will. I was the absolute best thing that ever happened in their lives, and they thought they could do better. Man were they wrong.
I no longer date, will not marry anyone, and I am enjoying life considerably in my mid 50s. The car I am building right now is kinda silly, with 7 to 10 psi it should be making over 1000hp. Its a 1968 LeMans with a completely aftermarket 505 cubic inch Pontiac V8 in it. Not a chevy or something, a real Pontiac. I am leaving everything to my younger daughter and a couple friends, if they outlive me.
Well the UPS truck just brought more car parts, so I guess its time to go back to the shop and build the toys. Today I am replacing all the exterior sheet metal on a 2002 2500HD Silverado 4x4. I need it to pull my dump trailer around hauling gravel and whatnot. The 1500s could do it, but not safely..
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I've known the media hates me for over 30 years now, ever since they lied about me, my unit, and the US military during the first Gulf War. I've been catching them in lies, half truths, misleading weael words, propaganda, and outright fabrications ever since. When you are an expert in something, you can spot the bullshit very easily, and I happen to be an expert in several areas. When you are wearing the 'boots on the ground' and you are seeing history unfold in person rather than on a sanitized screen half way around the world, you can VERY easily spot the propaganda. They lied about me (because I was the NCO in charge of this particular aspect of my job), my unit, branch, and the entire military in 2004 as well, claiming we had done nothing when it had been done for months. The Army was being slow, but they blamed all of us, including the USAF of which I was a member.
They don't let facts get in the way of their propaganda. Reality does not matter to their narrative. Their go to tactics are gaslighting and projection, accusing others of what they themselves are doing, always painting themselves as the victim. Its a very feminine mindset, passing the responsibility and blame on to anyone they possibly can like a spoiled 8 year old girl.
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@thewaterguy17 I learned to read them in 1985. I studied them, watched them interact with other men, and paid attention to the way they looked at him, how they stood, and their body language. In 1986 I figured out how to get in there, basically asking was a no, and just doing in a playful way allowing her to stop it at any time worked great.
You can learn to tell which ones are into you by watching them, they ALL do the same things. Learn them and wait for one to look at you that way. Do not hit on waitstaff, they are playing you for a bigger tip, and they will flirt and feign interest to get one.
Yeah I am 54 years old and my name fits me to a large extent, but I still get college age women looking at me the same way they have since the 80s. I want nothing to do with them, at any age, because I am twice divorced. I am less than amenable to sleeping in a $500 car because she got everything else.
Here's the kicker. I am 5'8" and have never been wealthy. I have muscle, heavily muscled with a huge chest and huge arms, which has been on me since high school, and got some big jumps from the wars. I dress like a homeless guy and barely care for my beard just to keep them away from me.
If I can attract them looking like I do, damn near anyone can, and anyone can learn to read them like I did. My notch count is between 150 and 200, because I could tell who was interested, and I focused on them. Turns out the ones who like me, no matter how hot they are, happen to be the least desirable mentally and emotionally.
Go watch them for a few weeks and pay close attention to how they interact with good looking tall men. They really all do the same things.. honest. In Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, they are the same.
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@DeadlyPlatypus no I never wrote my own EPR, but I was forced to give 5s to mediocre airmen who were kissing ass and doing the least possible. Also they wanted me to give one of my best airmen a 3 rather than a 5 because he got a DUI 3 years earlier while I was in Korea.
That kid was squared away, always on time, never complained, and was VERY good at his job. I relied on him to handle things often. When he was first stationed there he got in with the 'party group' in the dorms, and wrecked his truck. He pulled his head out of his ass and got going the right direction.
I fought the E9, 1sgt, my E7, and convinced the commander to give him the 5 he earned.
I always got a 4. One area was a 4, everything else was a 5. They always dinged me for being big, and while I was 50lbs over my max weight, it was muscle because loading cargo planes in wars can pack lots of it on you. I came back from Kuwait in December 2001 with a six pack, I was shredded and the lightest I had been since the gulf war at 215lbs. They put me on the weight program and tried to keep me from testing that cycle.
They wanted very specific things on our EPRs, you seem to know about them so I will explain. We were only allowed one space at the end of the bullet statement, so one space or none at all. No punctuation, and it had to convey the meaning commensurate with the level of the accomplishment. That meant I had to find words with the right number of letters, that conveyed the proper meaning and emphasis or they kicked it back.
My captain had a pink pen she used on EPRs to kick them back and show where they needed work. All the other NCOs hated that pen. After my first one handed in to her, I figured out what she wanted. I never had one kicked back again. She wanted mt to teach all the other NCOs how to write them like I did. I told her thesaurus dot com is how I wrote them.
It took me weeks to write one, because I was also being worked in my duty section by the reservists, who thought i was malingering. I was the safety NCO, vehicles, NCO, building custodian, had ten airmen in two different sections on two different shifts and I only worked with two of them for two days a week. Working nights I would have to stay until 0800 for the motor pool to open so I could take vehicles in, and then I usually had to change tires on the K loaders.
So I would do a 12 hour shift pushing pallets and running the load teams on aircraft all night or driving the lead 60k because the loadmasters would ask for me to do it, things went smooth when I was in the first loader. They even tried to call me in on my days off to run K loaders.
When I got jacked up in Kuwait in 2004, I came back barely able to walk. The reservists decided that I needed to work both load teams, so I would spend the entire shift sitting in a K loader since I couldn't push anymore.
I had no real time off, because my weekend was middle of the week, and invariably some reservist would screw something up and I would have to come in during the day to fill out all the paperwork, EPA reports, and help clean up the huge mess she left.. it was always a female causing it, and they would be nowhere to be found for all of that.
That kind of thing happened to me my entire time in, I was always picked for random drug screening, the people doing the screening knew after the first year. I was on the chem shelter and SCIPS team for both my squadron and SFS. I worked nights at my squadron days with the cops so during the week long chem exercises I got little to no sleep. The cops always got us 'ended' by doing something less than brilliant like turning off the pressure system too early in the exercise. I was an E3 so I had no say in what the higher ups decided to do.
That was Germany before the gulf war had me working 12 to 14 hour shifts no time off from 10 Aug 90 to some time in January or Feb 91 when we went to a 7-1 schedule until June, then a 3-2-2-3. The only way I knew it was Thanksgiving was a chaplain was going around handing out turkey sandwiches to us on the flightline. I asked him what this was for.. I didn't even know it was November.
So unlike most people in the USAF, I actually worked, mostly out in the weather, doing the difficult labor intensive physically demanding stuff, even when I was an NCO.
I do not miss it in the least.
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@Topper Rune Back then 'regulated' did not mean red tape and bullshit, it meant training so the civilians could work along side the 'regular' army. What happens with an untrained bunch of idiots carrying guns? They shoot themselves and two people in their group with an accidental discharge.
Personal responsibility, yes. Its what every right is. each of us is responsible for defending our rights, exercising them, and not infringing on the rights of others. The onus is on you and I to decide and choose. The authoritarians who want to eliminate the bill of rights, which is a limit on what government can do, want the state to be the only one to choose. That brings us to what that authoritarian state would use to justify their edicts.
Morality, well that varies from person to person and society to society. Being moral before 1863 meant you could own slaves. Its still 'moral' in some parts of the world. Your morality probably does not match up with that of mine, or other people who live in a place like, lets say Sudan or Saudi Arabia. That authoritarian state would dictate what is moral to you, and what is immoral. Here in the USA we get to decide what is moral for ourselves, but what we decide cannot go against laws already decided by the citizens or the Constitution.
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I might do something other than the usual automotive content I do, because maybe someone else will benefit hearing about what I went through, what I did to make my life better, and where I am now. I'd rather not talk about my past in a video, comments are one thing, I'll write it in comments without a problem. Thing is, I don't want pity nor sympathy, don't have a use for either. I like to think positively, and look forward rather than back, learn from the past and don't let it dictate who you are.
If it will help other men, then I figure why not, hardly anyone watches my stuff, so its doubtful anyone would get anything from it.
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@slewone4905 yeah I know how they adjust it. We had no growth with Obama, but prices went up because of inflation, it seems they don't give a fuck about inflation. It wasn't until Saudi Arabia flooded the market in 2015 to run Canada out of the shale business that gas prices dropped below $4 here. The growth was stagnant, so no cost of living adjustment for SSDI or VA compensation, Congress gets a raise though..
Still Obama cut the VA funding twice during his term, outside the compensation. That meant fewer health care and service reps around the country, we only have one rep for the 300 mile x 150 mile peninsula I live on. We had six before Barry.. One guy for all that area because of Obama, I suppose Barry would rather we didn't have anyone.
They had to cut all kinds of programs and positions, my 8th Dr in the last 15 years just retired back in September. The big ones in large cities like Detroit and Milwaukee weren't affect as much as the small ones, if at all.
The large regional hospitals are filled with worthless civilians hired because of race and gender rather than competence and merit. They are clueless and don't give a fuck, and if you are white they ignore you or fuck you over at every opportunity in the big cities.
We who served and came back broken are stuck with them, we can't work a normal job, and many of us are going to be single the rest of our lives because we can't afford a family. Living alone in an area with 200 - 300 inches of snow every winter where 15 acres sells for around $30k, then living in a shack you built yourself allows you to look like you're doing ok, as long as nobody comes over and sees how you're living.
I could never do it in a place like California or any big city, I would be living on the street or under a bridge there. Throw a divorce in there with most of your income taken for child support an alimony, and its a fuck it why bother living proposition... a key issue with the 22 a day stat.
Thing is, nobody cares, nobody really gives a fuck.
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@mikec3201 they want the power vacuum, they think they will take control then, thats what the marxists did in other countries where the people were unarmed, mostly illiterate, and essentially serfs. Here many people own homes, land, businesses, and guns. Lots of guns and ammo out there.
They are relying on the ignorant and lazy to side with them to get free stuff, because our way of doing things is hard, it requires work and effort.
Their way requires work as well, but after they have spent everyone else's money, taken what the people have built, and then they need more, but they don't want to do what it takes to get more. Then you are forced to work and you don't get anything for it. Work more, still nothing, do a great job and it pays the same as a shitty job, so why bother? Competence gets you thrown in a gulag because you end up doing better than others and they resent you for it.
Nah.. they will not be in control if the world melts down but doesn't go nuclear. The marxists will be wiped from the face of the earth, and their ideology outlawed because it only ever causes death, poverty, and starvation. They are the ultimate form in delusional, thinking it fails because you didn't do it hard enough. Just keep bashing the tea cup with a piledriver, it will work someday..
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What do men want? Well, I wanted someone to spend my life with me, grow old together, have some kids, raise them to have kids, live a comfortable life (not chase piles of money) and enjoy life building old cars that my kids, then grandkids and I could have fun building and driving.
What I got was indentured servitude from 1994 to 2015, 71% of my gross in child support, two ex wives who cheated and were rewarded for it at my expense, and rather than being in a comfortable position by the time I was 45 I was rebuilding my life for the 8th time.
I live alone in the woods, building my old muscle cars and trucks, enjoying whats left of my life and there is NO DAMN WAY I will ever let another woman into it. I am not a wallet, not an ATM, not a pack mule, not a servant.
That is what the left says we are, at best... at worst we are the problem with everything, the cause of all hardship and strife, and if we were only like women the utopian future would be here.
I find that amusing, because everything a woman has control of fails or flounders. The last thing men need to be like is women. They need us far more than we need them.
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@BlitzedNostradamus have you ever been in a fight where you get hit so hard you see stars, your mouth goes dry, and your vision becomes a tunnel? Ever been picked up and thrown through the air and felt the jarring impact when you contacted the ground again? I have.
The size of the person doing all of that too you matters. Currently I am quite massive, very muscular, well trained in several means of self defense, yet despite being 5'8 I can throw a beating to most men, but someone who has the same difference in size is going to knock me into next month if he gets the chance. There is no female on the planet who can take that kind of beating. Its fantasy to think otherwise. At the same weight the female is going to get pummeled. You can only take so many TBIs before you're done, and the structure simply is not there for females to defend against males.
You should see what I do to guys I outweigh by 50 to 150lbs. You'd never think a female can hang if you saw what I am, or the hundreds or perhaps thousands of men who can do more than I can, capable of doing. Fights with men who have real power and training behind them vs smaller people, or worse yet the untrained, do not last long. Seconds and its over. She can't do enough damage to win unless she uses some kind of weapon.
She gets thrown into a wall, she is not getting up for a while. Its like getting hit by a car, which also happened to me. The pain shut me down, I could not move for several minutes, and it was excruciating when I tried to move despite no broken bones. Its hard to imagine until you have experienced it. I've been hit by men and women, its an entirely different world one to the other.
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@AndrewBrownK 30 is when everything starts slowing down. Healing times, metabolism, T production. I packed on my mass at 21, trust me you won't be putting in that kind of work outside the US military. Push two F150s across a large parking lot for a few months on end, and you get the idea of what I was doing. Eat healthy, heavy protein and moderate carbs, hold off on sugar but you still need a bit of it. Fruit is better than candy.
Lift heavier than you want to if you want to put on muscle fast, and you are going to have to eat an insane amount of food too. I ate at least 3 MREs every night, I was always eating in 1990-91 doing the airlift thing.
you only want to have 15" to 17" arms and bench around 300lbs, more than that and it starts causing issues with range of motion, breathing, blood pressure, etc. I'm around 20"-21" arms, and I have lots of issues because of it now that I am 54. I am still packing on muscle, but I am not like normal people at all.
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I do it sorta similarly. Tony remember a couple livestreams back when I mentioned I am running 42 to 45 total on my 455 with a closed chamber head on E85? Those heads were on another 455 in the 1990s, running VP red and Sunoco 110 race gas. It wanted 52 degrees total with both of those fuels. E85 burns faster so it wants a bit less timing. Its what it wants and it runs fastest and the most drivable with that much advance. No the balancer did not slip either, and multiple lights have been used to see where its at including dial back and marking the balancer ring..
What happened when I backed it down to 36-38 total like all the chevy guys say to do? It went from 11.40s@120mph with all the advance, to 13.20@ 98-100mph with 36 total and the same initial on race gas. You could say that is a rather large difference in performance. I raced it 12 years, shifting at 5800rpm, the trans would shift at 6000. It wants that much advance, and without it, the car slows a lot. I was honestly surprised when I found it wanted 52 total in 1998, I hadn't checked it, I just cranked it up until it didn't start hot, then retarded it until it did start. To get 36 I blocked the advance slot under the weights.
Do an image search for the chambers of a Pontiac 670 head, its an oval shaped chamber with two large quench surfaces top and bottom. The open chamber headed engines want less, usually around 40 to 42 total. It also had springs and weights that had all the mechanical advance in before 3000 rpm. Running an HEI in the 90s and an MSD 6AL with MSD distributor now. I think.. I have a lot of engines, some with HEI, points, or MSD stuff.
I find the sweet spot for initial by giving it advance until it doesn't start hot. Back it down to where it never drags the starter and thats usually pretty good. Then I add mechanical and vacuum advance until it surges going down the road at a steady speed. When it surges it has too much advance. At that point I see what the numbers are giving me my min/max, and I used to take it to a track to see what it wanted for best power, then what it wanted for driving around in traffic. The track is 5 hours away, so I haven't raced in a long time. I have a Dragy now, and I use that to tune things.
I never hear them rattle, mainly because E85 doesn't ping with less than 16:1 compression, the race gas never pinged either, and the pump gas engines all had between 7.5:1 and 8.8:1 so they would run no problem on 87 octane and not ping. Fully machined combustion chambers FTW. Why pay for premium when a point of compression doesn't get you much gain? Crank it up to 12:1+ On E85 and enjoy the extra power or leave it on 87 octane. A chevy or LA engine will ping, but my Pontiacs didn't as long as the cylinders/chambers weren't fouled with oil and carbon.
I don't run the vacuum advance to manifold vacuum, I put it on the port that doesn't see vacuum until the throttle opens far enough. That way its not rolling around with full advance all the time, which causes surging and other not so wonderful things.... like running hot and losing power up top because the vacuum drops so it loses advance. It makes it easier to get the drivability without the vacuum advance cranked up all the time, mostly because Pontiacs are not slugs under 4000rpm, even the 350s and 326s are making more of their power under 4500, and pulling to 5000 at least.
I have around 2 months left before I can drive anything old that I care about. The snow is still deep, the roads are still salty, and currently we are enjoying a downright balmy -2F here. Otherwise I would go make a video of what it wants for advance.
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@vanderumd11 in my defense, I got married the first time in 1993, long before the internet was useful for much, and at 24 I had no idea what bipolar was or how to spot it. I know now... Divorced in 2001. She was and still is a walking nightmare of irrational impulses. She hid all of that until after the first kid came along.
I was very careful with the second one, she was completely different from the first and from Dec 2003 to November 2011 when we married she was on her best behavior. Right up until May 2013 she was absolutely wonderful to me. She was a 21 year old virgin when I met her, and she had the right attitude about life.
We never had fights because she was not irrational, she was also very smart and didn't get upset when I knew something she didn't, we actually competed to see who had the larger vocabulary and things like that. We had fun together.
I had my lungs messed up by a chemical in automotive paint, bad respirator, and for six months I couldn't breathe worth a damn. Apparently that was her limit, seeing me unable to do much, she figured she could do better than me. the fact the ailment was temporary didn't matter, she saw me as weak because something happened to me.
The guy she left to be with was a very low value kid, 7 years younger than her who was desperate for a piece of tail. She was his first, and he stuck around for less than 4 years. Wrongly, I assumed she was too homely for anyone else to want her, never underestimate the desperation of betas and omegas was what I learned.
She had to prove herself to me for 8 years, and during that time she acted right. I was already recovering when she decided to screw up her entire life. Despite how smart she is, there was almost no impulse management in her. Without me leading, her life has gone from quite good to really bad. She got fired from her township jobs this month, she is 41 with a useless degree, unemployed, unwanted, and of course she blames me for her poor choices.
So its not like I went out and jumped on the first hotty I met and put a ring on it, or went into it with the delusion that she wouldn't do that to me. If we had never married, she probably would not have stepped out.
Now that I am no longer paying the first ex, and I have all my income available to me, its kinda fun being single with a $90k+ passive income. I'm a rather capable combat veteran that builds old muscle cars to stay busy in retirement. Even with the chronic pain and limited mobility issues, I am still more capable than most men half my age.
She left for a guy who had to be supported by her dad because he could not keep a job, that left her when she was 35. She really screwed up, and now she is paying for her poor choices and bad actions.
The red philosophy started in earnest right as my second divorce was finishing up. I was one of the originators, not a prominent one, but I was there near the start. Lots of my input is repeated today, ten years later. You have already benefitted from my experience, someone had to have it to share it.
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@smurf_n_wesson9064 perhaps not make the member's life a living hell when their spouses do it.
I know male military members who were deployed for years at a time, they'd send them home for one night, then back out again for another year, over and over. Its the very rare wife who doesn't act poorly in that case. Only one of those men did not get divorced, he has a Filipino wife. She was awesome too, I have known them for 30 years, and he never moved from his first base and retired after 22 years there. Bear in mind that you need a long (2+ years) and short (1 year) overseas tour to retire at 20, he got both of them from deployments.
They could also put limits on how much military pay the state can garnish to give to her as a reward for banging half the base. Seriously, the judge in my case was a Marine, and yet everyone involved in child support assumed that the military would give me housing and free food when they took all my pay.
71% of my gross... 24% in taxes, do the math on a $1740 base pay...which is the taxable part. All the allowances, like BAH, BAS, hostile fire, family separation etc. are non taxable, because they change from base to base and the last two are nonexistent except in combat zones like Korea and the Persian gulf region. BAH and BAS are not paid when you go to places like Korea, but you get a room and food.. yet the entire year I was in Korea I went backwards in child support.. because they had to give me something, and that was $100 a month. However I could eat and had a warm bed to sleep in... didn't matter that I went three years without seeing my kids or being able to talk to them on the phone.
The point I am trying to make is quite simple. The US military ignores the extremely high divorce rate, and they claim its less than 10%, when the reality is more like 90% of married members get divorced. Then they hang the member out to dry, heap more stress on them, and seem to do everything possible to make their life more difficult.
There is no study ever going to be made that measures how many veterans and active members ventilate their thinkin meat because they are involved in a divorce. That is information they do not want to admit.
I survived two wars, 3 direct combat tours, several instances where I was nearly coming home in a box, I've been run over, stabbed, bludgeoned, survived several car wrecks where I was a passenger, I am missing teeth, live with chronic pain, and have thousands of TBIs from my really horrible family life in the 70s and 80s... but the absolute worst thing, the most painful, impossible to endure, and what made me want to end everything every second of every day, was having my two daughters taken away from me and prevented from seeing me or talking to me by their mother.
Finding out that she exposed them to horrific things, with the males she brought home, just about pushed me so far beyond caring about myself...
She was rewarded, I was punished over and over for what she did. By the state and by the military. My unit in Korea saved my life, even though my immediate supervisor was one of those who wanted to make my life hell because of his own problems. Still there was no shrink capable of dealing with what I was going through. It was only three people in Korea who actually helped me rather than trying to get me to jump out my 4th story window.
They just don't care, even though they claim they do. Its cheaper when the member does it themselves, so they get the use out of them, then try to make them end it when the opportunity arises. They have never cared and the Dear John letter is a joke, because it happens to almost everyone.
Can't do much to prevent a spouse from cheating, she is going to do it unless her culture is enough to dissuade her.. like Filipinos and Arabs.. good luck getting an Arab wife, I nearly did. They end up on a base/post where all the single men are in good shape, then when the husband deploys, she starts having them come visit for a while.
Don't get me started on how the military females are.. lets leave it at what they do on deployments and unaccompanied overseas tours would make professional ladies of the evening blush.
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Joy Behar needs to be fired. Why? Not because I am outraged or she was mocking someone, but for equality. The left wants to use these sorts of silly things to fuel the outrage, by all means, use their own rules against them. The left is full of racists who are calling everyone else racist in an attempt to hide the fact they are racists, thats how they know that wearing white is a dogwhistle for racists... and that is why they were all wearing white during the SOTU
Really, fire her ass, don't let her work again, and fine her as well. I mean if they can get rid of Sargon, Jones, and others for no reason at all, then cultural appropriation is good enough.
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Men follow competent leadership, if there is anything about Trump as president its competence. You can dress like a clown paint yourself orange, wear a big red ball nose, and if you are a competent, capable, confident leader, men will follow you into the teeth of hell. Hillary does not command respect, she demands it, and she is incompetent, arrogant, and gives zero fucks about the men she sends into the meat grinder. She would be the worst of tyrants if she had been elected.
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Tim.. please stop conflating types like Sam with those of us who simply do not believe in god, because the lefty types have a religion. I do not. I have my own moral code that I live by, it overlaps with more than one religion, that doesn't mean its based on or rooted in religion. However, religions are probably based on the same things that formed my moral code.
Essentially I will defend some and not others, depending on the situation. I do not take from others, because I do not like it when someone takes from me. I try to speak truthfully and factually, because I have an earnest desire to be accurate in the information I share and pass along. You could say it is a self centered moral code, and you'd be right. If I don't like it, then I am far less apt to inflict it on someone else. Just like the golden rule.. which is somewhat ubiquitous among humans, at least within their own tribe/in group. Less so with the out group...
Where I stray from the turn the other cheek, and kinda go OT, is when someone does something egregious to me, or attempts to harm me in some way. The US military has the same response that I have, overwhelming unrelenting force with an incredible amount of less than polite behavior. I get beyond mean when its warranted, to the point of sadistic. That stems from how I grew up, which was very unpleasant with my older brother trying to delete me often, and my dad taking his frustrations out on me, and being a farmer in the 70s and 80s was very frustrating.
I am of the leave me alone or else way of thinking. I'll not harm you, provided you do not harm me. Break that, and you'll find out the hard way. It has to warrant negative action though, minor slights are irrelevant, deemed not worth the effort. I have very little compassion and sympathy for those who make poor choices. Nobody had any for me when I made my poor choices.
Sam and his ilk have a different sort of self centered thinking. They crave power above all else, and the ends justify the means with them. They'll do anything, and they believe might makes right.. you know, like tankies. They want what others have, and are willing to take it from them in any way possible, including appealing to an authority to take it for them. They use someone else to do their dirty work most of the time.
Most often they are the type of people who are not competent enough to handle things on their own, so they need a large group, authority, or others they can cajole into acting on their behalf. It is NOT masculine thinking, Sam and his compatriots share a 'not male' mindset. They'd rather take, than earn/build, because they are not capable of building/earning.
The fact they do not believe in the christian god is utterly irrelevant, as they are bereft of morality and only use it against others when it suits them. Believe me, there are types like that who are christians, and they will happily do things to non christians that anyone would consider abhorrent. I knew several like that while I served in the USAF. My older brother is very religious, and he will do any heinous thing to someone who does not share his beliefs. They are not moral people, and the idea of a god is not going to restrain them, rather they use it to justify their actions against others. That is not a ubiquitous trait among the religious, its a subset that exists everywhere, and the left is chock full of them.
They are the people who only refrain from doing ill and dastardly deeds because of fear they will be judged for it in the afterlife. They are the entire reason that part is included in religions. "Even if no man sees you do said nefarious thing, God does and he doesn't forget, so be good..."
I am not saying there is no possibility of a supernatural being, there may be. I am open to the idea, and if I meet one when my body achieves permanent equilibrium with ambient temp, I will have some questions, and I will expect some answers. Yes the subject of at least one will be moral and why so many negative things happened to me, so often. I want to understand the mechanism, like is it karma or something? The idea of a god is very interesting, but it leaves so much unanswered and untestable.
Gnostics say there definitely is or isnt a god. agnostic means there may or may not be one. Atheist is simply not accepting the narrative that there is a supernatural entity that created or runs our reality. Might be, might not be, I will be curious to find out someday.
One thing is certain though, the biblical god never bothered to explain important things, and the bible does ok in describing many aspects of human nature. Proverbs 25:24 is one of my favorite passages, there are two others almost exactly like it. Sin is blamed for disease, not microbial life and viruses. If you get sick, you did something bad, not that you caught a bug. Electricity is not explained, and it was left to human to figure it out, so did god want to keep that from us for thousands or even millions of years? If so, that is rather capricious, intending to keep us ignorant, and then telling us its witchcraft to attempt to fly. Orville and Wilbur might not have survived the 16th century..
As for the US being based on christian morals, well there is some validity to that, because the bible never once says not to own people, and that was legal here until 1863. It actually prescribes how to own people in the bible, for how long, who, their kids, etc. as well as disciplining them.. as long as they don't expire within 3 days, its all good. That is one area where my moral code does not fit with the bible. Even if some owners were nice, its still not a cool thing to own others, someone should inform the 'd' types about that. Well, except they won't be listening because if it gives them more power, they are all for it.
There are lots of things like that in the bible that people tend to intentionally overlook or ignore. Its written for middle east bronze age nomads. Some of it still fits today, but we have moved beyond a great deal of it.
Nowhere in the bible does it say the earth is a sphere, the moon orbits the earth, the earth orbits the sun along with the other planets, and the sun orbits the center of the milkyway galaxy.
Ya know how when you're an expert in one area and spot inaccuracies or falsehoods in an article, and then the same source tells you something about an area where you are mostly ignorant, and you take that as truthful? Yeah.. Gell-Mann amnesia.
I was asking questions like that in parochial school, and correcting my teachers who claimed things like the axis of the earth flops around every year to create the seasons. I got in trouble often. I wanted to know and understand how things work, what is the process, and it could be biologic, mechanical, electrical, thermodynamic, or any mix of them, I wanted to know how and why. Religion can't give you that. It will only give you "god did it, so stop asking." I compartmentalized it all for around 35 years of my life, then as I learned more I looked at religion objectively, and reverse engineered it.
I found religion is for those who need someone to decide for them, as they cannot decide for themselves, due to lack of morality like Sam and his peers, or those who are coming up short in cognition and cannot extrapolate what consequences are in store from making certain choices or taking actions. They think in the now, rather than thinking ahead.
HOWEVER... I realize it is very useful for moderating human behavior, as long as it is not used to stifle human creativity, like brning someone for trying to build an airplane, balloon, or parachute. Until very recently, life was extremely arduous and dangerous, people spent far more time trying to survive than they did thinking. Only the wealthy could afford to think about things like Newton did. Einstein was the first thinker to not come from sizeable wealth in his immediate family.
Its only in the last 150 years that every day normal people would be able to stop and think about the big questions, and try to figure out how everything works. Its a luxury afforded to us at this amazing time in history, so I vehemently oppose and will resist those who wish to take us back to the subsistence struggle and subservience of the past. I am most decidedly against Sam and his ilk, for that very reason, as they don't care about human advancement, they want to be the ones in charge and thus the ones who gain power and wealth... which they could never do if those things are decided via merit.
Religion gave the masses an answer to big questions that placated them, and that is double edged.
Ok now we resume the usual program of building hotrods and making vodka fuel from tree sap and cattails out here in the woods. I am not wealthy and yet I can do things that very few people in history ever could, thus I appreciate the world we live in and more aptly, the time in which we exist. Not knowing if this is all there is or not, well, that makes me appreciate this life even more. I get to do things, learn and invent something that could benefit all of humanity. I would say anyone could do it, but no... some are not capable, so they want to take what others have built.
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@franceshaypenny8481 yeah, they come and leech from us, then they leave for what they assume is a better man, only to discover he just wanted to hit it and quit it. So she throws away the time and resources that have been lavished upon her by the man who put a ring on it when she was at her most attractive.
Thus most of us are taking the catch and release option. A growing number are opting to ignore and disregard women as they live their lives in peace, without having to pay her to get under some other guy(s).
Here is the other thing... if men to don't approach women, NOTHING HAPPENS, because woman are too terrified of rejection to put themselves out there. So it is insanely easy to avoid entanglements, we just ignore you.
I can attest from personal experience that working for the benefit of someone who betrayed and mistreated you, while not being allowed to enjoy the benefit of your labor, is the second worst thing that can happen to a man. The worst thing is having his kids taken from him, and women do that with capricious zeal, just to punish him for her poor choices, like cheating and leaving him.
When women become someone we can trust, who are not going to trade us in for cash and prizes on a whim, who won't accuse us of things we did not do to save their own feelings, and who aren't incentivized to leave by getting most of what we have earned and built, then maybe we will start talking to you again.
The thing is, at any time she can decide to burn everything to the ground, and punish him for her actions. The later it happens in his life, the worse it is for him, because he has less time to recover from it. That alone means men cannot trust women, because there is nothing keeping her from doing that to him.
Its not that every woman will do that, its simply that every woman can.
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@psvids2228 you don't even have to be religious, you only have to understand that life is built on merit, competence, capability, knowledge and reason for them to hate you. You can have any skin tone, any religious belief from old man in the sky to great juju in the mountain, and if you understand that people must earn what they get, you are bad people to them.
They want us to roll over and allow them to enslave us, along with the useful idiots out there pushing this abhorrent idiotic ideology. The problem is they have indoctrinated our youth with it, mislead and lied to them, told them their marxist ideas are the correct ones while leaving out that it always fails, and fails spectacularly in the same way every time.
We are going to have to rectify this while people who are old enough to remember the soviet union are still alive. The kids have no idea what the hell that was, or why it was horrible. They are told it that the only reason communism didn't work was because the USA prevented it from working.. not that its a horrifically flawed basis that promotes ineptitude and mediocrity to the point of mass starvation.
Good ideas do not need to be forced upon people.
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You're off a bit in the timeline, just like Omar but in a different way. Humans were around more than 120k years ago, thats not enough time to evolve into humans. That takes considerably longer. Civilization with writing hasn't been around that long, but humans most certainly have. Creationists are also pushing an agenda, so you might not have gotten accurate information there as well.
These 'sky is falling types' are trying to say right after the last ice age was when it was was this warm before, but that is incorrect. Until the mid 1600s we were in the medieval warming period, when Greenland was settled for a while, and the earth was much warmer than it is today. They like to ignore that fact and call it a fabrication, because it shows their fabrication to be obviously erroneous. Temperatures rise and fall in cycles, and we have had several ice ages in the history of the earth.
They also like to point at Venus and claim we are heading towards the same thing. Except the atmosphere on Venus is 95% CO2, whereas on Earth the atmosphere is 78% nitrogen, just under 21% oxygen, and the rest are trace elements. There is less than .04% Co2 in the atmosphere, a far cry from 95% on Venus where the surface temps are around 700F to 900F.. give or take. Its also considerably closer to the sun, but they say that doesn't matter.
They are all excited saying its the warmest in recorded history, but they leave out the fact that the thermometer was invented in the 1700s, and nobody recorded temps until the 1800s. So who was recording prior? Oh the ice cores... right. That is believable to people who don't get much ice and snow fall.
Where I live we get 150 to 300 inches of snow every winter. It compacts down and makes layers. In Antarctica it is possible to snow every day, yet they claim they can tell when the years start and end. For someone who lives in the north part of the US where its been around 50F to 65F for almost the entire month of July, I find that dubious at best.
Now I am not saying the climate is not changing, because it changes all the damn time. I am not saying we humans aren't polluting our little ecosystem on this mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam, because we are. The thing I am saying is that giving money to people, and living in some draconian nightmare dystopia is not going to make a damn bit of difference in what the planet does.
Also the assertions they make such as the earth will be more arid are erroneous as well, because heating the oceans evaporates more water, which condenses over land, and comes down as rainfall.. its that whole water cycle thing. We have deserts and rainforests because of how the air rises and descends, aka convection, around the equator and over every continent. The deserts are shrinking, not growing, they are becoming green despite all the doomsday predictions of dustbowls engulfing the earth.
Its all nothing more than justification to force people into subservience to a ruling class that seeks to profit from all of us, and control us so they can maximize profits. That will also limit us so we cannot become the next Elon Musk and rise to be wealthy on our own, only the chosen will be allowed to prosper, everyone else will be held down and their movement limited.
As for livestock.. does anyone understand that there were herds of millions of bison on the plains of north America until the railroads went through? I grew up in Nebraska, where the Arbor foundation started. There were no trees in Nebraska until about 130 years ago. They were planted, because when the bison roamed the plains, they ate or trampled all the saplings. You had to go to the black hills of South Dakota to find trees in that region. They called it a desert, despite being crisscrossed by rivers and streams.
Now tell me how all those bison roaming around, outnumbering cattle by a couple orders of magnitude, did not fart as much as cows?
To someone living in a city, all their assertions might sound plausible. To someone who lives in and is surrounded by nature, its far less plausible. When I was a kid they were claiming an ice age was coming. Then Al got up there and said nah its gonna be like Venus and we would have no snow anymore... by ten years ago. You can see videos of how much snow I have to deal with on my page. Al was off by just a HUGE FREAKIN LOT.
The little thermometer on my PC down on the right corner said TEMPS RISE! But it dropped to 58F from 61F and of course they have that reading bright red. I have worn a sweatshirt most of this summer while working outside and I am not even in the farthest north part of the lower 48 states.
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19 lives in mom's house, mediocre pay working in a prison. You think you're alpha? What, are you 6' tall or something and think that makes you alpha? Its not how tall you are, how much money you have, or how easy it is to get laid. The best way I can put it is: Are you a man who can lead and people will follow on their own volition? Not thinking you are, but men actually follow your lead. Men do not willingly follow incompetence, indecision, ignorance, and insecurity.
Kid.. you display all the things men do not follow. You're not an alpha, most men aren't. very few are, and they are rich, poor, short tall, ugly, whatever, its a mindset, a way of being, not a physical trait. Know how many wives of 6'2 and taller guys my 5'8 ass fucked? You'd be surprised...
I'm older than Rich, have nearly been completely around the northern hemisphere, only the stretch between Dubai and Seoul needs to be traveled for me to have been all the way around. I've gotten laid on four continents, and well over 150 separate pieces of ass, was in my first war at 21, second war at 32. I've built cars that will stomp a mudhole in Rich's exotics, for less than a total of $5k in the entire car. If you put a female first in your life, you will have a shitty life.
Am I an alpha? In some respects I am a bit higher in the hierarchy of men than most, but certainly not the pinnacle. At 19 I had the mindset, but not the experience nor capability to lead others, and I had a rather arduous life in my youth and due to allowing females into it. Jocko Wilink is alpha as fuck, he has the mindset, the ability, the experience, and the decisiveness. He is near the pinnacle, and the measure by which we judge ourselves.
I can get laid easily in my 50s, by college age girls to 40 somethings, because I don't give a fuck about them and I have muscle from the immense effort I put in building my life. Getting laid is not my priority, it should not be yours either. Your priorities in life speak volumes about you, my priority until I had kids, and after they were taken from me at 7 and 4, has always been me and what I wanted to do with my limited time on the planet. Its why I build cars and joined the military. Not to be some superhero badass, but because the experience of the military used to be very beneficial. Its a fucking shit show now.
Here is what females cost me. Nearly 30 years of my life wasted, I worked mind numbing hours at ludicrous effort levels and retained zero benefit from that time as it was all taken from me and given to them. The first ex got over $250k out of me over 15 years, and I barely earned that much, if I had earned more it would have been more. The state kept me impoverished and adjusted upwards if I earned more, but was very uninterested in lowering it. The second ex got me convicted of something I did not and could not have done, no evidence, no proof, but a scary muscular war vet being accused by a poor helpless female who was caught cheating, well he is obviously guilty.
They have no concept of loyalty, not even an inkling of honor, its a foreign concept to females. Those are male ideals, and applying them to females is futile and non productive. They are different from us, they think and act differently, we cannot be judged on the same criteria and standards, because of that difference. Physically the female will always fail, emotionally she will fail, rationality, spatial skills, logic, reason... all fails for her. Being able to sit and do banal inane tasks and work a social system, holy fuck she will crush men in that area.
Being different we want and need different things outside food, water and shelter that everyone requires. Do you think she will be faithful and loyal, especially if you find a church going virgin? Fuck no man, all she needs is an opportunity that appears better than you, and she has multiple safety nets paid for by you if she makes a bad choice by leaving you. She can do anything short of murder and be rewarded for it, and you have to pay a large part of that reward. The reason divorce rates are dropping is very simple, marriage rates are plummeting faster, if nobody is getting married, chicks can't get divorced and take the cash and prizes. The rate of marriage vs divorce, that ratio has got to be ludicrous, but nobody is going to per capita study that and report honestly on it.
You want to put that as a priority in your life? Stop thinking with your dick. Everything you earn and build can be taken from you legally by the state, and given to her when she is sucking some other asshole's dick. Focus on what you want to be, what you want to do in life, and whatever you do you need to avoid the mistakes I made which was getting married twice, and putting too much time and attention into females. Its not an investment, they are a depreciating liability. They are like boats, expensive to get into when they're new, but worthless in ten to fifteen years and you have to pay to get rid of them.
That being said I still like girls a hell of a lot. If I could find one I can trust and depend on to not legally destroy me I would gladly spend time with her. The problem is, they are simply not trustworthy on the same scale as men, and most men are shit. You can trust them to be female and do female things.
My old cars, like the GTOs, now they are an investment. Even if I never sell one and I only drive or race them, I am getting benefit from owning and maintaining it after I spent years and dollars on them. Only if they are stolen or burned to the ground am I completely out my investment. My land, shop, and house are paid for just 8 years after my final divorce, and I put a fuckton of hours into building all of it. Nobody can take it from me without compensation, unless I fuck up. That is an investment. Having a place to live and do my work without worrying about someone else telling me I need to move, that I can't do this/that or cut/plant a tree or that I can't park that old rusty car there until I start rebuilding it next year... now that is better than any amount of sex I had in half a century of living.
Holy fuck man, all you want is some pussy that is around all the time, and you live with your parents. Your priorities are fucked. Its because you are only 19 and haven't experienced anything yet.
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Imagine believing men have privilege in this world. Sure, those men born into wealthy families, who happen to be over 6' tall have it somewhat easier in life in some ways. The rest of us, who have to work and struggle to get anything in life, who have to learn how to talk to girls just to not be arrested for saying hello to one, knowing we can be drafted and nobody will step up to help us as we are expected to help others.
Morbidly overweight and exceptionally unattractive females at least have an idea what its like to be a man, as nobody wants to help those females either. They still have the legal system and society supporting them. Men have to do it themselves, there are no safety nets for us.
The only way you could ever look at males and want to be one is if your head has been filled with ideology, resentment, and envy. The ideology doing this is rooted in resentment and envy, and it always fills large pits with 'undesirables' and nonbelievers.
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I started watching this show while making lunch. Just put something on to see how it turns out, if it was crap I would not watch any more after my food was done. I spent a bit too much time watching this. It was refreshing to see and actual story, with insights into human nature, even if parts of it are campy as hell. Also, its no wonder the woke morons try to claim it 'happened' because of capitalism, because when your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail as you keep whacking the shit out of things.
People who are motivated by money, not very good with financial decisions, are lured in by the promise of lots of money... they are victims of their own ineptitude and greed. Its quite the metaphor for life, because if you make bad choices, are inept, incompetent, or trust the wrong people, well you can be evicted from your meat suit. Obviously the woke morons will have a problem with that, because they are by default inept, incompetent, resentful, and feel entitled to what they have not earned, and they are incapable of earning it. So they will project their own failings and incompetence on others.
I spent a year in Korea, was stationed there. It was a very rough year for me, going through a divorce, having everything ripped away from me, financially ruined, the stress was incredible, and I knew when I got the orders what it meant. I was very salty about going right at that point. I got to know the Koreans, the people who worked with us on base, some who owned businesses off base, and a few others. My experience was a wonderful one, just like when I spent time living among the Arabs, they are absolutely wonderful people. I want to go back to Korea for a visit now that I am not stressed out and completely broke. My overseas tours turned out to be the fondest memories I have. Two and a half years in Germany, a year in Korea, and over a year in the Persian Gulf over five trips there. Yes, Russian girls are just as hot as you are told they are.
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@alkestos Karma smacked both of them hard, the first one is turning 49 this year, is well over 300lbs, she was never over 135 with me, even while pregnant. She remarried but he is one of those shiftless, spineless types who lets her run his life. She nearly lost their house last year, but her mom died and left her just enough money to get caught up. They'll lose it later this year unless she gets her little 'substance' issue remedied. He wants away from her, but if he goes she gets most of what his disability is, so he would be homeless like I was, but he is 63.
My house is out in the woods, I have a snowmobile trail along the back side of my land, and they do not bother me. I build drag cars, so motorsports are fine with me, I barely hear them. She lives about 100 yards from railroad tracks with coal trains going by every half hour day and night. They paid $150k on a 30 year note for a single story 1200sqft shack next to the tracks. She is obviously really bad about financial decisions. They have zero chance of paying it off early or even in their lifetimes.
When she goes she will leave absolutely nothing for our kids, she has no idea how to manage money, save, or make good financial choices. They get paid once a month, just like I do, but they are broke after the first week. She rips through it all that week, spending on frivolous crap. That is why I removed her ability to have access to my bank account when we were married in the 90s, she would spend everything I made and not pay any of the bills.
Back in 2000 she and her mother came up here to pick up some of my kid's stuff she left here when she lived near me for 4 years. The look on her mother's face was priceless, especially when my kid told them how much land I owned. They saw the old muscle cars, many of which were now painted and looking good rather than rusty and rattle canned like when I was stuck with that albatross around my neck.
It was at that moment she and her mom realize just how badly they screwed up. Her mom always hated me, but when she saw what I am building here, she changed her tune entirely. Her passing was not a source of stress or sadness, not even in the slightest. I will not feel any sadness when the ex finally augers in.
If they came here now and saw the house I build in 2019 and the improvements I made around here, they'd feel even worse about how they treated me.
Mother in laws are a funny thing. Both of them encouraged their daughters to leave me, the best man either one of them would ever have. Both of them regretted it.
The second MIL was all pious and haughty in court, until I told the lawyer a story about her 2nd oldest daughter's mother in law. She was in the courtroom with my lawyer and I, trying to intimidate me or something. Well the other MIL left her two sons and shacked up with a guy for a few months, then came back to her kids. I relayed that to my lawyer loudly enough she could hear it, then added "I guess its ok when its your own daughter and she is cheating under your own roof" which is what my ex did. She turned several shades of red.
Then she got to know my ex wife's 'soulmate' a bit better. To say this kid is socially inept and unremarkably mediocre yet arrogantly assumes he should be in charge of everything is an understatement. He is 20 years younger than I am.. lol 7 years younger than my ex.
After three or four years of her parents supporting him along with her, because they can no longer extort money out of me, they broke up. Now when I see the ex's mother in public, she looks excruciatingly embarrassed, she knows she encouraged my wife to leave me for him, and now she is unwanted, alone, and 40 still living off her parents.
Her sisters encouraged her to leave me as well. The youngest, there are four total, saw me last September at a township thing, and when she realized it was me she gave me the dirtiest look as if I was the cause of the problems her sister is having. If they ever meet or talk to me, I will be polite, cordial, even friendly, like I am with all of her relatives I bump into.
I harbor no ill will towards them, because my life is vastly better than it would have been supporting her. Its because I appreciate them encouraging her to leave me, since a millstone is the last thing I want to carry while treading water. Now I am on dry land and have built something of value.
Can't be mad at them for that.
As for removing oneself from the living, yeah.. I came close quite a few times in my life. My family mistreated me too, I live 1000 miles away from them for a reason. My life until 45 years old was a living hell. Want to know why I am still here?
Because I dig old cars and I like building them, driving then racing them. I managed to keep them through the divorces because they were not shiny, looked rough, and the ex's didn't realize how much they were worth. I have uploaded some of them, if you want to see what I build. Life is great, as long as I keep people out of it.
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@ryantucker2166 never had much money, and now that I am debt free, own land and am doing quite well considering, I hide it. Picture a silverback gorilla, but with blue eyes, blond hair, and a deep voice that makes panties melt. Also I am 5'8" but they really wanted to know what its like with a muscle bound freak who can do literally anything to them that he wants.
Driving ratty, obnoxiously loud, and obviously dangerous looking old muscle cars plays into the bad boy image. Dark T shirt, ball cap, jeans, and redwing workboots has been my civilian uniform since I was in high school.
Its funny, when I painted my cars and made them shiny, the interest dropped off the map, even though they are still loud hotrods that can stomp a Hellcat in the quarter. A shiny pearl blue 65 GTO with a 550hp 455 in it is apparently too grandpa for most of them. The 70 Cuda gets lots of attention, they like the lime green, but they just want their pic taken with it.
We'll see what the 68 LeMans with a 6-71 supercharger sticking out of the hood, big tires, and loud pipes does. Last year with a dual quad tunnel ram on it, taking it to a couple shows it stopped everyone driving in and made it on the local news channel in the lead of the segment driving out... With 7psi it should be over 1000hp. If we are done with snow, it will be out in a couple weeks.
The cars I build to have fun, scare myself, and see just how fast I can build stuff to be. Apparently they garner interest from the not men as well as men. The rougher and rattier looking the better, it has to be evil or sinister looking though, with an obvious intent to it.
I've been building muscle cars and hotrods for 42 years, got my first in 1982 when I was 13. Still have it, and many others. Cars are the entire reason I exist.
The fact that 'not males' aren't a priority in my life is also very attractive to them.
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@edenelston7668 we are not trashing marriage, the laws regarding divorce are. I'll help you understand what I mean, because I've been through it twice now, for the same reason both times. I own my land, house, vehicles, etc and I have passive income, all debt free paid off 8 years after my second divorce and 6 years after I was no longer indentured to the first ex for 71% of my gross pay. The 71% left me with $100 a month from 2001 to 2004 while active duty in the US military, so I was sleeping in my $1000 car that I had bought years before.
Lets say I get married again. It goes great for a year or two, then she decides to cheat, start hitting me, doing some meth, and generally acting poorly in every possible way. She files while she is off with her latest boyfriend, and the judge gives her my land, house, vehicles, and most of my income leaving me with a tiny fraction of what I get every month. Meanwhile I did not cheat, don't drink or even smoke, and I do not mistreat her in any way.
Neither of my wives did much of anything, but they sure liked spending the money I earned. They both cheated, the first mistreated me and our two kids, and I have scars from where she stabbed me and a divot in the back of my head from a coffee mug she hurled at me while I was teaching our 4 year old younger daughter how to read.
If I get married again despite the fact she did not help build anything, she did not put anything in to my property or the marriage, but yet she is rewarded for being reprehensible. TEN YEARS of my life invested building my house, shop and vehicles with my own two hands, and the judge will simply declare it to be hers.
If I were to have kids with her, she gets custody of them by default. However after having the state prevent me from being with my kids, just because I am a dad, I got out of the gene pool when I was 38, so I won't be having any more kids. I am 53 now, and I do not have enough lifetime left to rebuild again when a judge takes everything from me and rewards some cheating harpy with it.
The thing is, what happened to me is beyond commonplace, its the default in the US. Everything he has earned before or since is handed over to his cheating wife. She can divorce him for any reason, and be rewarded for it. No matter what he does he has to pay her and then they wonder why so many men are ventilating their thinkin meat.
Women are not worth the effort and risk, they are not feminine, they are not fit, and they are wholly incapable of loyalty. The only reason a woman stays faithful is she does not have the option or opportunity to cheat. Yet she has every incentive, financial and societal to cheat and take everything from the man who is daft enough to marry her.
SIX men in one THOUSAND are daft enough to get married now. Two years is the average length of a relationship, because the female decides to move on. They divorce their way into boxed wine and cat land.
I need a woman like I need a large gaping hole in my head... its the same thing really.
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@creativeed6788 its better to live alone, because no matter how reprehensibly she acts, the state will reward her for it. Avoiding women completely until they wake up, stop being like these examples, and the state changes the laws so men are not held responsible for the actions of women with everything being taken from the man and given to the cheating woman.
THERE IS NO WOMAN GOOD FOR MEN NOW. They are all spoiled, entitled, and delusional. The risk is too great to put in the effort, which is why young men are not engaging with them. When a man does not approach, talk to, and essentially pursue a woman, do you know what happens? NOTHING HAPPENS.. women won't approach us, they fear rejection too much. They are upset because men are rejecting them out of hand, before they even get a chance to set up camp in his wallet, or even speak to him.
Its not 30+ years ago. A man who is daft enough to get married deserves to be living in a $500 Crown Vic cop car, because he should know that is what is going to happen to him when she says "I'm not happy"
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I did not find any issues like that with the FiTech I was running on a very mild pump gas 400 with a Performer intake, it never had a problem with power, drivability, cruise, or acceleration. It ran quite well and achieved similar mileage to my Qjets that I build. With 2.56 gears, Th350, stock stall, 27" tires, 7.8:1 compression, 224/228/114 cam, and driving in a rather 'spirited' manner on a two day, 600 mile drive with 400 other vintage vehicles in Nebraska, it managed 15mpg in the 65 GTO. We were doing up to 110mph on open stretches, and there's plenty of open highway in Nebraska.
Then I pulled the 400 and dropped my 455 in, which is also quite mild with a similar sized cam, and I swapped Performer, RPM, and Torker II intakes on it, the lower two for hood clearance, and it drove the same with all three intakes. The heads on the 455 have the center heat filled with aluminum, and they make 11.5:1 compression with the flat top pistons and 4.25" crank. It runs on E85 and I noticed a big difference in drivability when it was cold and after it had warmed up enough. Once the heads and intake got hot enough, it ran better, until it warmed up it didn't like to accelerate very hard. It regularly knocked down 17mpg with 2.56 and 3.08 gears. I had 3.42 gears and a 700R4 in it for a while, and still 17mpg was the best it would do. 65 GTOs drag a bunch of air around at 70mph.
The ECU board seems to have broken a wire on the FiTech so now it has an intermittent no start/random shut off issue. Give it five to twenty minutes and it starts again, how long it stays running varies. It loses the tach signal and will not run.
I'll bring ethanol into this as a means of comparison.
You're not getting more power when the intake charge isn't hot enough to vaporize the fuel, you're getting excess waste heat. Gasoline burns slow, but it has a sharp spike when it ignites, the power event is rather short, but yeah its still burning which only serves to make everything hotter.
The burn rate difference between ethanol and gasoline is why ethanol runs cooler, it has absolutely nothing to do with BTU content. The reason you need to run more ethanol than gasoline is because ethanol has more oxygen in it than gasoline.
Latent heat of vaporization is superior with ethanol, which is why it cools the intake charge so drastically, making superchargers run cold, and making more power than gasoline, especially in boosted engines. Ethanol vaporizes at 173F at sea level, gasoline is made up of various chemical components that have boiling and flash points between 80F and 450F. Those heavier components never vaporize until its already burning, thats why it has a slower burn rate and more than 80% of the energy in gasoline goes to waste heat. You can't get around having atomized gasoline in the plenum and cylinders, because you're into the combustion event before any of it even comes close to 400F.
Blocking the heat crossover limits the heat to the intake manifold, which can pick up .2 in ET on gasoline. The effect is the plenum stays cooler which helps with detonation/ping because when gasoline gets hot, it wants to ignite on its own. Blocking the crossover is almost entirely irrelevant on ethanol, because it vaporizes readily in the relative vacuum of the plenum and whatever heat is in there already, and really you want the fuel to vaporize as much as possible, because vapor burns.
Take a spray of any liquid fuel and set it on fire. What happens is the droplets burn from the outer surface towards the center, the gasses evaporating from that droplet are what burn. Burn a little gasoline in a clear jar in a dark room, and you can see the fire is hovering above the liquid, because its burning the vapors. Vaporized fuel burns much faster, atomized fuel burns slower and creates more waste heat.
My ethanol fueled cars don't like to start when its colder than 40F. I have to get enough fuel into the plenum and give it a few seconds to vaporize before it will start. Its very slow to vaporize when its cold out, thats why they put gasoline in E85, to help with cold starting... (and to keep oil companies happy). When its hot they start very easily, provided the tune is acceptable. The blower is kinda neat because you can watch it go from bone dry and somewhat heat soaked after it sits a while soaking up heat from the heads, to condensation and frost forming on it as it runs. That is vaporization doing its thing, and dropping the IAT 100F is easy with ethanol, nearly impossible with gasoline as it doesn't want to vaporize.
The light stuff in gasoline will start to evaporate, which is how you get bubbles in fuel lines on hot days, but the heavier stuff won't. Thats why it seems like the engines need some atomized fuel, you just can't get around the fact there will be atomized fuel in the charge without a way to heat the plenum over 450F. Thats what Smokey Yunick was doing with pre chambers and forced induction to keep it from evaporating out the bowl vents. The hotter you get gasoline, the more prone to detonation it is, so it is not a good fuel if you're trying to get a clean powerful burn by vaporizing the fuel.
Its kinda funny how you can employ Smokey's vapor fuel idea on ethanol and you only need the fuel to be 200F in the EFI rails, I was working on doing exactly that when the FiTech lost the tach signal. I needed to regulate the fuel before the EFI unit so no heated fuel returned to the tank, so I didn't get to prove it while the FiTech was on the engine. I have another EFI unit, but I am building a different car to test mileage, something more aerodynamically friendly.
That propensity to ignite when gasoline feels like it is why they have gone to direct injection. They crank up the pressure like a diesel, because the fuel is injected in the last few degrees of crank rotation, limiting how much time it has before the spark lights it. They have to overcome the cylinder pressures, or nothing will come out the injectors. They also need to move a lot of fuel in a very short time, so 22,000psi is normal for direct injection.
The high pressure also adds some heat to the fuel, but the main thing is to get a fine enough spray that the droplets will start to vaporize so the engine will run and not have atrocious emissions. Direct injection is a band aid to overcome the problem if static compression and heat lighting the fuel air mix prematurely with gasoline.
Direct injection is possibly the worst way to run ethanol fuel, not the 10% stuff, but 70% to 100%. It has limited time to vaporize, so you will get even worse mileage and any power gains will be negated as well. You want a long hot intake port between where ethanol is introduced and the bottom of the cylinder on the intake stroke. That gives the fuel maximum time to vaporize, which allows it to burn completely, with less waste heat, more power, and no harmful emissions.. unless you irrationally believe Co2 is harmful.
You want the time in the runners with ethanol, whereas with gasoline you want to limit how much time it has to get hot. Cold gasoline makes more power and resists ping/knock better than hot gasoline.
Why does my 455 get better mileage (17) than a 400 (15) in the same car, but on ethanol vs gasoline? Well, thats simple. 7.8:1 vs 11.5:1 means the high compression 455 was working the fuel harder and thus getting more power from less fuel than the low compression 87 octane happy 400. The stroke and how much torque they both make plays a part in that, but really its all about the compression ratio. If the crossovers in those heads hadn't been filled, the 455 would have picked up some more mileage, maybe 2mpg, possibly 4, due to evaporating the fuel better... if the car wasn't so drag happy. I swear the .cd of that car has to be abysmal. Let off the throttle at 70 and put it in neutral and it feels like you're on the brakes until you get down around 45-50.
So you could say I disagree with your assessment of why TBI units tend to run like crap, though engine heat probably plays a part, but so does exhaust leaks, vacuum leaks, improper O2 placement, and general hamfisted installations of most of those units. I believe my 340 sucked an intake gasket, because it smokes out of one bank, drinks oil while not leaking it, and the FiTech I have for it will not idle, which points to a vacuum leak fouling up the MAP sensor. Above 3000rpm it runs great, but you need WOT to get it running and it will not idle. So I am pulling the intake later this spring.
I sent it back to them and they tested it, runs fine on their engine. Its a 400hp unit, so it is too small for all my E85 fueled Pontiacs, not enough injector to handle them. I might pull the injectors out of the larger one and put them in the small one.. lol.
There are certain engines, like the LS, which do not like the TBI systems on a dual plane, and I believe that has to do more with plenum design and firing order than anything else. I think that because my 400 and 455 ran the same with whatever intake I put on them. Usually its something wrong with the engine or installation when they don't run right, at least with FiTech. The one I have that broke I bought in 2016, and it made it to 2024 and was driven a lot, easily 50,000 miles.
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Digging my cars out of the snow in May is my version of unboxing. Yeah I usually still have snow in May, sometimes June, and occasionally July. I have enough Qjet cores that I don't need to buy China carbs. I have tons of problems with fuel systems running gasoline, bad pumps, clogged filters, stuck/clogged injectors, jacked up carbs filled with gunk... and yet somehow zero problems on the vehicles I have running E85 and E100. The tank on my 98 Formula is trashed inside, its all rust and varnish, so much crap in it I can't bring myself to put it back in. That is from sitting for two years with no ethanol premium in it. I think its going to get a stroked 6.0, 9" rear, and a new tank so I can put it on ethanol too.
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Cool 60 four door, quite the nice drive around for the enjoyment of driving a sofa kind of car. One of my long time friends is big into 59s, he has an example of every body style/type offered in 59 except for one. His ElCamino has a 348 with Tri Power, three two barrel carbs on it.
The chevy was the economy division of GM, so they had barely adequate engines, brakes, suspension etc. Some upgrades and they are a lot better. The Pontiac from 1958 onward was the performance division of GM, they handled, stopped and accelerated a lot better.
I feel for you guys outside the US, its incredibly expensive for you to own our cars. Importing parts was challenging 34 years ago when I was stationed in Germany, the internet has made it less cumbersome, but its still a problem. I can go buy a $500 Silverado or Sierra 4x4 2500 and yank the 6.0 out of it. Sell the good parts from the truck, and scrap the rest, leaving me with a good engine and transmission with a tidy profit. Thats what I did to put a 6.0 in my 1976 C10 pickup. With a cam swap and some headers, a 6.0 can easily make 500hp around 6500rpm. I have something like $2500 total in the swap for my C10.
If I am spending $9000 on an engine, its going to be a rather serious Pontiac V8, and will make between 600 and 750hp/tq all under 6500rpm, these things make 500 to 600ftlbs from 3000rpm to 6000 real easy. Usually a low buck rebuild with all new internals and using the factory crankshaft will run me around $3000 and it will make over 500hp/tq. Like I said, its nice living in the USA and being able to do all the work yourself. For $15k I have an engine capable of 2000hp with 20psi... like is in my 1968 LeMans.
As for the EV and emissions thing, I make ethanol from cattails and run my cars and old trucks on that. It only emits Co2 and water, very clean burning when you don't mix it with gasoline. My daily driver 1965 GTO has a 455 (7.4L) with 11.5:1 compression to take advantage of the ethanol fuel, it gets around 17mpg mixed city/highway driving, because a 65 GTO is not exactly known for being aerodynamically slippery... Also I tend to drive it somewhat 'spirited' as they say in Britain, when you have 550hp and nearly 600ftlbs under your foot, it can be intoxicating.
The 65 GTO runs on ethanol, and has since 2018, the 70 GTO has a 13:1 455 in it and it has been on ethanol since 2007. It averaged 20mpg with me driving it, somewhat harshly.. it has better aero than the 65 does. I need to rebuild the suspension on the 70 and replace the wiring harness, 55 year old cars need things redone at some point.
Since I make the fuel myself, its a very green process and my vehicles are neutral, if you're concerned about such things. Essentially my fuel is 190 proof moonshine, and vehicles run wonderfully on it.
The cost of an EV conversion is what keeps me away from them. Also the fact that to make it to town and back from my home, most of them need recharged, and they can't be driven in winter because the batteries won't recharge if its too cold. You see the distances are much greater here in the US, the closet town to me is 20 miles west, the next closest is 25 miles east. With an EV on a cold day, you have to plan a trip between them and back very carefully and you might not make it. Then you have to drive 45mph to extend the range, while everyone else is going 65 to 70mph.
An EV that can make the trip on a single charge is going to cost you over $80k here. I can rebuild lots of rusty junk for $80k. I go on 1000 mile road trips every summer, that is a 14 hour drive straight through in an ethanol or gas powered vehicle. Its a two or three day trip in an EV, waiting for it to charge and driving slower to extend the range. If you're pulling a trailer like I often do, the range is even shorter on the EV. I routinely make 2 hour drives around here to get parts and go to appointments. The USA is freakishly huge, and its difficult to wrap your head around it unless you travel across it yourself.
We are different here, and yes we have roads with curves, hills, and all the fun stuff too. We have straight roads that are rarely traveled where we can enjoy high powered cars, not as nice as Bahn 3 and 5 where when I was stationed in Frankfurt, but we can open up our rides and go fast where I am from. Taking tiny European cars and sticking our V8s in them is a fun time for us. Like the AC Ace, the Opel GTs I am currently getting parts together to build into V8 powered monsters, and all sorts of other things. Anglia's are fun racecars as are Thames delivery vans that made it over here.. I kinda want to V8 a Trabant.. Too much power is almost enough for someone like me.
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I'm 51, divorced twice. Never going to be married again. Girls are like boats, expensive when they are new, and worth-less as they get older. I suppose you could liken them to appliance type cars, Camry, Accord, Taurus, things like that. They are not like a GTO, Chevelle SS, RoadRunner, or 68-70 Charger. Those appreciate in value as they get older, and you can rebuild them. I have a winter beater, its my MILF mobile. Its a 2006 Gran Prix I got for $500, rusty, worn, needed about $400 in parts and a new set of tires to drive it. It gets driven in the snow because the roads are salted heavily here in Michigan. 250 inches of snow a season is why. When I am done with it, it will have rusted in half or gotten so bad its not worth fixing. Its the single mom/MILF of the automotive world. Nice leather heated seats, but the car is beat. The winter beaters usually last me two to five years, then I part them out or simply scrap it.
My summer daily is a 65 GTO, sure its 55 years old, but its going up in value, it was a rusty wreck when I got it, and put 3 years of my life into it, along with about $15k in parts. You're not going to do that with a 2001 Taurus, or some other crap box. You can think that hot thing you're banging is like the GTO or a '69 Chevelle, but really she is an old B2000. Even if she is in pristine condition, not many will want her, but she will take almost anything out of desperation. You are holding onto something that is getting worse as the years go by, and you always have the chance she will take your house along with most of your future income so she can get driven by someone else. Why would you do that with someone who is already used up?
I'll test drive a car, or run a beater and get the last few good years from it, but I do not keep them around long. Same with MILFs, and chicks my age. Not that I will keep a 20 something around long, they usually bail on their own.. works for me. With that its back to swapping a 6.0 in my lowered '76 C10 short box.
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They crave power and control above all else, they do not care about the environment, its merely a pawn to them like minorities, gays, trans etc. All the 'solutions' to the 'problem' they whine about include socialism, communism, and fascism, with the ruling elites telling the rest of us what we can do as we work for them. They use appeal to emotion fallacies, which is what having Greta do the talking is, to sway people to support them.. "How dare you attack a child? Won't somebody think of the children?" her entire diatribe at the UN was nothing more logical fallacies and bullshit. When your ideology needs to employ logical fallacies to support itself, it is not based in reality.
socialist, communist, fascist, feminist... at this point whats the difference? Its all fruit of the same poisonous weed. Same goals, same tactics, same bullshit rhetoric, same logical fallacies, different paths/methods to achieve those goals.
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@BringDHouseDown nah.. the seeds probably blew out of a passing truck from another field and grew 'volunteer' as farmers call it, meaning not planted by them. Monsanto said the entire crop was now theirs because some volunteer plants on the edge of the field were patented.
Imagine if you will, that you own a car (I know, there is no need for one since your mom drives you around :P) and that someone drives by then claims dirt from their car splattered yours, so now they own your car and you must pay them for it.
Almost all seeds have now been patented, meaning you have to pay people to use them, and you are not allowed to use seeds you have been planting for generations, just because seeds from some company found their way into your field. Cross pollination means genetic material from the volunteer seeds is now included in your seeds.
Historically farmers would plant enough to eat, some to sell, and enough for seeds to plant next year. The paradigm now is to buy hybrid seeds from a large company that produce a diminishing yield if you plant them in subsequent years. Job/profit security..
That tactic has been used many times, along with propaganda to get people to support it. The Volstead Act was not about getting people to stop drinking, it was ineffective at that. What it was intended to do was eliminate competition from Rockefeller's Standard Oil from being produced or sold in the US. You had to get a license, and they were expensive and rarely handed out.
You see, before prohibition vehicles were mostly running on ethanol, not gasoline. Farmers could produce their own fuel to run vehicles and farm equipment, they ran cooler, lasted longer, and made more power than gasoline powered alternatives. How to get people to buy your inferior product? Outlaw the competition.
It was so effective that after 7 December 1941 the US had to build massive ethanol plants to produce torpedo fuel, octane enhancers and power boosting ethanol for planes. Few people know that the ME262 and the HE162, the two first operational jet fighters ran on ethanol, aka potato vodka.
After the war the oil companies took out a full page ad in the paper, made it look like a news paper headline, claiming the ethanol producers in the USA were using rum from the Caribbean. It was not true, but that did not matter, within 6 weeks all the companies that sprang up to feed airplanes and torpedoes went bankrupt.
Monsanto and the rest are simply doing what corporations and feudal lords have been doing forever. Using the power of law to protect their profits at the expense of the rest of us.
Here lately they want to rule over us, and profit from us, while we live under a totalitarian marxist bullshit system. They don't want any more people doing what Elon Musk and Bezos have done.... build an empire of their own.
Blaming the farmers is the latest thing in the propaganda war, and far too many ignorant NPCs fall for it.
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darrell holland cities are full of dependents that need everything brought to them. When the trucks and trains stop bringing everything and the power goes out, cities eat themselves. You can't grow food, produce fuel, or do much of anything in a city without the raw materials being brought in, and then what industry is there is not enough to sustain the city. When the power goes out and its winter, people freeze by the thousands in cities.
The people in them appear to be idiots, buying all the toilet paper, bread, and bottled water, because they only have enough stuff in their domicile for at most a week. They all seem to think they possess higher than average intellect, but most have no idea about anything outside the city.
Dependent on everything being brought to them is not taking over.
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I have had a conversation with people with whom I disagree about gun control, all they bring is appeal to emotion fallacies, marxist ideology(usually unwittingly) and their fear of the unknown mixed with condescension.. Of course, I am ex military, and realize that having more people armed is the best way to keep people from showing their ass and getting stupid. Nobody walks into a gun store and starts shooting, they go to soft targets where they know people are unarmed. They do not want us to have any weapons, because they are afraid of everything and want the government to take care of them, provide for them, and essentially be their daddy.
I too am anti war, I did two of them. 90-91 and 03-05, coming back from the second one unable to stay in the military. Having been on the permanent DL since 05. However I am 100% vehemently against marxism in all its nefarious abhorrent forms. The democrats are going full retard marxist, and gun control is one aspect of that. They want the government to be the only entity capable of force, and the people to work for government. Since the inception of this nation government has been intended to work for the people, so that puts me at odds with the entirety of the democrat party.
I am forced to be dependent upon the government, they broke me with a useless war in the desert, and now I am beholden to them to survive. What they the politicians 'give' to use crippled vets is a pittance compared to what they pay themselves, and in many places its less than people on welfare who have not earned a fucking thing, they merely exist. I know that nobody really gives a fuck about us, we get empty platitudes and hollow promises, and while some talk about the 22 a day of us offing themselves, nothing is done to fix the problem. They at best put a bandaid on a sucking chest wound. If it were 22 females a day killing themselves, it would be a national emergency, but since its us nobody really gives a fuck.
So while I like some parts of her 'platform' she will not get my vote, nor will any democrat as long as they stick to this woke, leftist and marxist bullshit.
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@minervarose7664 you don't date many women, do ya? They like to be pursued, and lots of them get mad at me when I don't pursue them and cut all contact the first time they say no. Play hard to get, and you don't get got, its a simple thing for me. I have better things to do than chase females, like washing feral cats while shirtless.
I used to waste time with that, and got many of the women to acquiesce.. that means say yes. I had the added benefit of learning what women did when they are attracted to men, so I knew which ones liked me and which did not.
Gaston is not used to one not being completely enthralled with him. He surmises she is playing hard to get. Something I bet you can't comprehend, because you can't see it from a masculine view.
Gaston is persistent, and that used to be what was required to get women to like you. Not giving up at the first hint of resistance, but to keep coming back and saying "Well.. hello there again.." All you youngsters think you know so much, but you've been lied to, especially about women. And no.. women don't know themselves very well, because they rationalize and justify anything they do or don't do. Reality is a foreign concept to them.
The notion that women want men to ask for consent for everything is ludicrous, and dreamed up by females who have never had an abundance of male attention. I am guessing YOU fit that category. I am going to surmise that to you most forms of male to female interaction are akin to a snuggle struggle. Enjoy the cats. :)
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@rajeshjoshi4735 lol... women are easy, just have muscle and don't give a damn what they think or feel. Any man can build muscle, I started as a teenager on the farm and wrestling in high school. I have a voice people like to hear, so I guess I had that going for me as well. I am often asked if I do radio or TV commercials and whatnot.
My focus has always been on building cars, well after I realized I could not afford airplanes it was. I wanted to go racing with them, could not afford to buy a fast car, so I built them. It took me a few years to figure out how to make it work, what parts to use, and things like that. That was my priority until I had kids. Then it was my second priority.
Females were a priority for a day or two on a weekly basis. Sorta like a side quest in RDR2 or FO4.
Thinking of a 54 year old 5'8" guy who looks like a pale gorilla with a gray beard and a belly as a Chad is amusing. Now my cousin, who is named Chad, is 6'7" and looks like the Technoviking meme, and guess what.. he is divorced twice same as I am.
His wives were far more attractive than mine, but did the same things mine did. The wrapper changes, but women are all running the same base program. Her country of origin doesn't matter unless the culture where she lives is beneficial to men.
Chad's second wife was Ukrainian, in her late 30s and still smokin hawt. She ran off with some 24 year old dude.. man, did she ever screw up. Chad is well off enough that he is learning to fly helicopters, and she took off with a guy who can't buy a car and is shorter than I am. Go figure...
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Never heard of her before this, which is rather surprising considering how many C130, C141, C5, C17 crews I knew. I was in the USAF (Air Cargo) 1988-92 and 2000-05, Desert Storm, OIF/OEF, lots of humanitarian missions, loading planes all over the world. I was deployed to Kuwait in September 2001 and I knew what was coming when I saw the second plane hit, just had to wait and find out who would be finding out the hard way.
I was downsized in '92, against my will, but we didn't need as many people since the Wall came down. Tried to stay in, but no job was available to me. My 2004 deployment was my last, came back messed up, barely able to walk. Not from enemy action though, its a long story. Tried to stay in but if you can't run, you can't deploy they told me.
The USAF is small enough now, and I was part of it long enough, that we probably have mutual friends/acquaintances. Most of us don't talk about our time in the AF. Its cool that she can tell her story so well, and gets the chance to do so.
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I'm 5'8, muscle bound but not ripped, weigh around 300lbs, I've never thought I was good looking. I don't like how I look, but there isn't much I can do about it, other than lose the belly. My face is going to still be how it is, and I am still going to be huge without a belly and a low BF%. Even when I was wrestling and in the military and was low BF%, I didn't like how I looked. Currently I am around 20% BF and its going down as usual when it warms up.
Because of that I don't really care how I look. I wear black T shirts or hoodies, jeans or cargo/carpenter pants, a ball cap, and redwing work boots. If you like me, great. If you don't like me also great. Whatever, it doesn't affect what I think of myself.
What does affect how I think of myself is what I can do, what I know, what I have done, how competent I am at doing those things, and how capable I am. That is how I judge myself and other men, by our competence and capability. You might not know what I know or be able to do what I do, but there are things you can do and know that I don't. So its not like anyone is better overall, but you can be better or worse at certain things.
I am not good at bracket racing, but I am pretty good at building cars that win street races. I suppose if I set my mind to it I could become good at brackets, but I don't really have the desire to do that. With drag racing its easy because we get a number for ET and MPH, and we can usually tell who wins when we aren't on a track. The faster car doesn't always win, the more expensive car doesn't always win either. Drag racing is cool like that, you can win without spending mountains of cash... if you're smart.
I can lift heavy stuff, but other guys can lift a lot more, I don't judge myself by how much some other guy can do unless I am directly competing with him. I have to admit I kinda look down on a man who cannot lift his own body weight, unless of course he is crippled or something. For me its a lot of weight to lift.. lol. Yeah I can... easily. So what, it doesn't do me much good other than being able to lift transmissions and carry them around. Its keeping me from repairing my skid steer, because I won't fit into the space I need to get into so I can work on it. Any normal sized guys that are good with hydraulics hit me up...
How I look doesn't matter to me, what I can do matters. How people see me as far as appearance, IDGAF, how competent and capable they see me, well I care about that a little more. Really though I am judging myself on what I did yesterday vs today. Maybe that is because I had a really rough childhood and life until I was 45.
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@Mattical1980 I watched Dawkins, Hitchens, and Sam often around 2010, but then I saw something happen. First place I saw it was reddit, where they started claiming that if you were atheist then you were also a number of other things by default. I spoke out about the pro woman cult, and was instantly banned from every atheism subreddit. They flocked to a certain manifesto, apparently trying to be the opposite of religious.
Then as I watched more of what was going on, it was clear to me that many people dropped one religion and picked up a cult. They call it a political system, but its a straight up cult. I am not allowed to write it here, if I do this comment will be hidden.
I had decided to eschew fanciful thinking about sky wizards and invisible friends, but I had no use for another religion that fed me equally incorrect solutions to common problems. I don't have a use for any sort of original sin, especially when they call it some kind of privilege that I have because I need sunblock in the summer at the beach.
I took an oath in 1988 and fought against that ideology until it collapsed a few years later. I will not halve my intellect and reason just to believe in another cult.
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@RoganGunn exactly. It appears to me that people who do not build anything, only buy things, want perfection at any cost to the builder, but want it given to them for free. The whole time I was rebuilding my 65 GTO from a very rusty pile of junk I told myself "Its a driver, not a show car" because perfection is vastly more hours and effort than good enough to drive.
I came from a farm in the 70s and 80s when Carter eviscerated the ag economy with his grain embargo. I learned that if i wanted something, I had to work my ass off to get it, or build it myself from whatever i could scrounge up. Nothing was given to me, I worked to eat and keep the house warm, I was in charge of firewood from age 11 until 17 when I left the farm. Cutting it, stacking it, bringing it in the house and keeping the fire going, and Nebraska is not a warm place in winter. Hypothermia is one hell of a motivator.
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The way to get good mileage is to make as much torque as possible, with the least throttle angle, and get the most work from the fuel, in the RPM range the engine spends most of its time. It looks like Thunderhead did exactly that, but with low compression on pump gas. Higher compression would get him a gain, but pump gas has its limits with how much you can squeeze it before it starts doing its own thing.
After maximizing the engine parameters, the next course of action is reducing drag and reciprocating mass. Drag in the form of bearings, aerodynamic, and rolling resistance. Very light wheels and brakes with low profile tires running high pressure so they roll easier, lightweight rear axle, driveshaft, and transmission parts will all improve acceleration and thus mileage as its easier to move the vehicle. Above 50mph aerodynamic drag starts playing a big part and that increases as you go faster. The faster you go the more power it takes to reach and sustain that speed.
New vehicles have low drag body panels, flush mounted glass, and the CD is a lot lower than in old vehicles. Then you have the sealed bearings of the new cars and trucks, they turn easier than the old tapered roller bearings we have to repack every so often. Drum brakes can be adjusted so there is no drag, disc brakes in good shape on newer vehicles come close to no drag, but the pads are still touching the rotor. Aluminum driveshafts lightweight parts in the drivetrain, and reducing unsprung weight will get you more performance, which is how my 300hp 1998 LS1 powered Formula Firebird could get 27-31mpg highway and run mid 13s in the quarter.
Compared to my 1965 GTO the Firebird is super slippery with rollerized everything and vastly better aerodynamics. If you drive a big old brick like a pre 1968 Fury, GTO, or Galaxie/Fairlane you are going to be very limited by the aero unless you get exceptionally anal about eliminating drag.
A ridge cut in the bottom of the venturi will not do anything beneficial. Between the way the air flows around the throttle blade, and the reduction of velocity at the big end of the venturi, the air won't act any differently. If it did work like that, then 4 hole carb spacers with ridges (which are already available) would do the same thing, because you can put the ridge/channel anywhere in the holes of the spacer. You pick up some plenum volume and effectively lengthen the port with carb spacers, but otherwise they don't really affect the fuel flow.
This guy needs to learn more about how air reacts when it flows around different shapes and through different sized orifices. Then you have wet and dry airflow, meaning does it have fuel going along for the ride or not. Its all VERY important stuff. That 'modification' won't do a damn thing beneficial. You can really screw up a set of heads if you start digging around in them with a die grinder, and you can hurt the airflow even though the port is now larger. The shape matters more than the size of the hole when it comes to cylinder heads, as does the length of the runner. Air has a way it likes to flow, it doesn't always make sense to us, because we have a hard time seeing what it does. We can get an idea in a wind tunnel, but its still hard to tell what its actually doing or what changes in certain areas will cause.
He also needs to learn that rebuilding a carb isn't bead blasting it so it doesn't look like its been sitting in the dirt behind the shed for the last 15 years. I would be embarrassed and hide forever if I sent a carb in that condition to Tony or someone else with a large audience, let alone anyone that I told it was ready to run. Thats akin to 'ran when parked' but it sat for 5 years with no hood on it so the cylinders are full of water and dirt.
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No worries, the socialist diet is coming, and its nearly impossible to be a fat bastige in that 'system.' It worked flawlessly in Ukraine in the 1920s, is still working exceptionally well in North Korea and Venezuela. I suppose the people who want a lower population would push this and promote it, because heart attacks, Type II, strokes, and so much more, are wonderfully effective means of reducing the population. Getting them to do it willingly and eagerly, well, that just makes it easier.
I am 'fat' because my last deployment in 2004 left me unable to run ever again. Walking is still a problem. Permanent injuries suck. Lots of muscle mass and strength, but a belly like a gorilla because I cant run anymore. Hell yes I have a problem with fat, and no interest in fat girls whatsoever. A girl who cannot wipe her own ass is not attractive, nor is one that has to drag it forward... ewwww....
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Sure, I don't have millions, I have tens of thousands in the bank, but I have investments in me, my land, and the vehicles I build. I have done more in my life than Tate has, a lot more, thing is I was never chasing clout, money or fame. I don't give a damn about those things. I wonder how he would have handled living my life, because its been 50+ years of shit as I fought to improve it for myself. Been crippled since 2004, my last deployment kinda tore me up.
I don't want to buy everything, I like building the stuff I want. I think the biggest difference between Tate and me, other than I am 5'8 and stronger than he is by a wide margin, is that I do not need validation and admiration from others. I literally do not care about being validated by others, I'd rather motivate them to take some risks and build things like I do. I'll teach them how if they really want to know.
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I'm a 55 year old Gen X'er. The boomers screwed us all, but so freakin what. Yeah I bought a house for $37k when I was 26, but I was also working 50 to 70 hours a week to take home $750 a week. The house was built in 1910, is located in middle of nowhere Nebraska, and I was a CNC programmer/machinist working for $11 an hour. Wife and two kids, and that wife kept me broke with an inability to manage money that continues today... thankfully that one is someone else's problem. I lost that house in 2001 when the divorce came along. I was paying her until 2015, 71% of my pre tax pay, which turned out to be nearly all my disability when the USAF broke me in 2004.
The 1970s to 90s were supposedly good times, but not for me. My life has been rough, and only the last ten years has it become enjoyable. I still don't have much money, but it sure looks like I do. Sweat equity is how I have things, with a focused use of minimal money to get here.
Today, you probably have an income higher than mine, but I definitely worked harder, longer, and more dangerous jobs to earn it. The problem is too many of you live in big cities where housing is expensive, and you're unwilling to move somewhere that isn't taxing you at 50% to fill the coffers of the boomer still running the place. Then you complain that you don't have everything that I have, when I have spent five decades trying to build what I have now, and four times in those five decades everything was taken from me due to the actions of others.
You guys have so many opportunities to make cash and never have to work for a 'Just Over Broke' job. You seem to think it was easy 30 years ago, but are unwilling to do the jobs that pay well, like trades. The guys who are out there actually building, repairing, maintaining things are getting paid, but too many of you want the office job. Office jobs are deadend nowhere hellholes where you're trading hours for dollars and doing nothing productive... nothing you could do on your own to make money. Those jobs are dependent on someone else telling you what you're worth, and you all flock to them.
There is no free ride, unless you're cute, not male, and some old guy will fund your lifestyle. Damn guys, you are on a source of wealth right now, reading this, when you could be making content that people will watch and enjoy. Telling stories, giving good information, sharing how to do things. Oh wait.. you have to know something to do those kinds of videos. Experience has to be earned, it comes naturally but its acquired over time.
I had nothing for years, decades.. everything I earned was taken from me and given to someone who did not deserve nor earn it. What I have now I built myself, with my hands. Employing my skills, knowledge, and experience gained over the last 45 years. You have to gain those things, they aren't just given to you, and you don't know just how much you don't know even exists yet.
Welcome to being young, where life sucks, but you can have fun and not hurt for two weeks after. Just keep moving along with learning, and two generations after you will complain about how good you had it.
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Way ahead of ya again... Been picking up 99-07 Silverados and Suburbans for the last 3 years. Mostly 2500 trucks, but some 1500s too. Sure they are rusty, but as long as I have a good frame and a title, I can build a nice reliable truck rather cheap. Fenders, doors, rockers, and cab corners are cheap new, and I can get rust free ones almost every time I go back to Nebraska.
Have also been buying rusty but otherwise straight two door cars from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Pontiacs of course. Yeah most of them are beyond normal people, but I am not normal as I have time, the place to do it, a welder, sawzall, lift, and just enough money to make things happen. I'm taking a 4x4 crew cab 1500 I got for $400, putting it on a 2500HD 2wd frame and making that my long distance tow rig for me and the dog. I'll throw a cam in the 6.0 and rebuild the 4L80 while I have them out. I'll be into that for about $3000 total.
Old trucks like the 50 Chevy 3600 I got two years ago, and an 05 2wd 1500 frame to put under it, have been what I am looking for. Swap the old body on the new chassis, throw a 6.0 from one of the 2500s in it, and bam... cool old truck with extra power on the dirt cheap. Already have a pair of square body GM trucks, 76 and 84 C10s, both shortbox, but they are for me and the kid to drive.
Have a handful of OBS trucks, 88-99 GM, those things are starting to pick up in value around here, provided they aren't a rust bucket. I have a long box 4x4 and a short box 2wd in that body style, the box is junk on the 4x4, so it will probably get shortened a bit, and either a flat bed or a stepside put on it. That will leave my driveway real fast when someone sees the frame is solid, painted up nice, and the rust is all repaired with quality work, not bondo and chicken wire.
If I had someone around here to help me do the work, I would be all set and building cool rides for people.
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I grew up on a farm, we had 300 head of cattle at any given time, 1000 hogs and we bred them, sometimes we had chickens. It is in your best interest to keep the animals healthy and happy, because having half your herd get sick from something and die is devastating. We lost 50 cattle to a lightning strike one year, just a bunch of dead cows and calves laying in the pasture. That puts a severe dent in your ability to earn a living.
The sows we had had their own crates where they would pop out their little pigs, you have to keep them separate because other sows will eat piglets from other sows. If a pig dies in the pen for whatever reason, they'll eat it. Hogs are incredibly smart, problem solving even, but cannibalism is no big thing to them. I raised the runts that were pushed out of the feed troughs by the larger pigs, I made sure they got enough to eat and didn't die. They'd follow me all over the farm, without a pen, and come running when I called their names. Then we ate them or sold them to the market so you could eat them.
Chickens.. holy shit what a fucked up little cunt they are. A few in your yard like Joe Rogan is one thing and its fun, a few hundred of the little fuckers is entirely different. They are a ton of work, and they are so easily carried off by predatory wildlife. There is only so much you can do with them in large numbers, and as long as they are warm and have food, they don't really give a damn. If they free range all they do is look for food and sleep. Give them food and you are the most popular thing in their world.
If you see cattle penned into a feedlot, its is due to weather/seasonal, health reasons like some of them are sick, or they are being moved to another pasture that isn't ready yet. They act the same whether they are in a muddy pen or in a thousand acre grassy pasture. If you are the food guy, they come running to you anytime you are around them. They would follow me around the pasture while I fixed fences. You need fences so they won't get hit by cars, trucks, and trains, or get mixed in with someone else's herd. Grass is cheaper, but so much grass can only support so many cattle until its all chewed to the ground, then the grass has to regrow.
If you don't care for the animals, you will lose your investment both money and time, even though you shoot them in the head, hang them from their back legs and let the blood drain from their cut throat, they are like friends to you while they are alive. If you have unhealthy cows of sows, you don't get calves and piglets that survive and thrive. There are things we have to do to protect them, and people who live in a city won't understand.
Most people think farmers are sadistic idiots, and that because they themselves have no idea what is going on, neither do the farmers and ranchers. To live that life you have to be not only adept at a great many things with a high proficiency, you must also have wide ranging knowledge from mechanical engineering to chemistry and biology, knowing about weather can help a lot too. I could look at the sky, see where the jet stream was running that day, and I guessed better than the weather people when we would get rain. I can also repair almost any machine in the field, and a lot more. I only farmed until I was 17, then left too much work for too little money.
Nature is a resource, if you do not take care of it the right way, you really screw it up and everything dies.
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Tim, you said they need to remove creepy losers who essentially catcall girls. Using the same train of thought, Alex Jone should have been banned. Anyone who says anything untoward should also be banned. Free speech is one of those things that you have to take all or nothing. You can decide for yourself if you agree, or if they are some kind of whacko nutjob creeper. It is not YouTube's job to police our speech, no matter how creepy or nutty.
As far as that ginger mangina who can't get laid, well his videos show how ineffective he is at talking to girls. Its a fine example of what not to do, and people need examples of what not to do. However, there is a difference when it comes to speaking to girls, one you will encounter when your fame hits a certain level. If you are hot enough to her, and that can be tall, famous, rich, good looking, muscular, famous or a few other attributes, well anything you say or do will not only be acceptable, but it will be hot to her. Girls who dig goofy looking gingers will like that guy, so his ham fisted attempts will work with them. They will not work on girls who do not find him attractive.
Removing these guys who can't grasp some simple concepts, can't read body language in people, and can't pick up on the cues that a girl is either into him or not into him, well that is doing a disservice to guys trying to learn about the complicated dating/mating rituals in which humans engage. They need the examples that do not work just as much as examples that do work.
Girls are not special, they are people like everyone else, even if they get treated special, they really aren't. They are people, they put pants on like everyone else, shoes too, even if they are fabulous shoes she only wears once. Offending them is not a crime, insulting them is not a crime. Criticizing them is not a crime. Disliking someone even if they are female is not a crime. Those things are not even worthy of retribution, they are people, like you and me, and if they want to be treated as equals, well they need to be able to handle some criticism and people who don't particularly like them for whatever reason. So taking down videos that show some moron saying stupid shit to them is in the same vein as Alex Jones, some might find it distasteful but I find socialism and marxism far worse than distasteful, I find them abhorrent.
If someone is daft enough to believe the earth is flat and under a cover like a really big terrarium, well that is sad, but not the problem of YouTube, you, me, or anyone with the intellect to understand it doesn't work that way. We simply point and laugh at them. That is how this works.
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I rebuild enough transmissions that I have been buying the special tools I need to do them, also bought special tools to rebuild differentials and pull bearings off faster. Right now I am collecting manual transmission stuff, not tools, but all the things I need to put a 5 speed in the 65 GTO and a 4 speed back in the 70 GTO. When I start on the 69 GTO I will either do another 5 speed or rebuild one of the 4 speeds I broke back in the early 90s.
While I was married or paying kid support, I had to do everything super cheap, improvised tools, work arounds, and since automatics were a lot cheaper to rebuild than 4 speeds, all my manual cars went auto. Autos break fewer U joints, differentials, and driveshafts, and I know how to make them shift so hard the windows rattle a mile away. Drive one of my autos and you will not think of it as a slushbox... especially the manual valvebody units.
Its nice finally getting to where I should have been 20 years ago, able to do things without scraping by every month. I'd be doing better without the inflation, but as it is I can do far more than when I was paying for other people. I'm thinking I need a 4L80 with a brake for the 68 LeMans...
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Hows this for creativity? The original brake booster from the 65 LeMans parts car has been sucking brake fluid from the MC on the 65 GTO. I ordered one that was supposed to be a direct replacement... and there is no freakin way its gonna fit. Its completely wrong. So what to do...? Well I mounted the MC to the firewall, and pulled the clevis and jam nut from the booster, didn't have any fine thread allthread, so I had to get creative. Looking around I found a head bolt from one of the LS engines I am putting in old trucks. Cut the head off, beveled the end with the shank, and ran a fine thread die down it about three inches. Not exactly fun and exciting, but it worked. Cut to length put in the top hole of the pedal arm, and no more worries about the booster draining the MC.
The LS head bolts are torque to yield so you aren't supposed to reuse them. I've swapped heads around from four engines, so I have lots of those things in a box and laying around.
I have no idea what that booster fits, it is nothing like the GM, Ford, or Mopar boosters I have changed or pulled off. It has bolts that stick through the firewall rather than holes for the studs mounted to the firewall. Its been sitting here for months waiting for me to get to putting it on. Too late to return it now. the last thing I returned to Summit never showed up, and I have no idea where it went. So I figure when I build a ladder car with the 3800 engines trans and cradle from a rusted out GP, it will probably get that booster so I have a use for it.
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@Sorain1 well, there is a lot to the idea. If the US wasn't war weary in 1945 after being caught flat footed in '41, the political will might have been there. The biggest factor in how effective a military happens to be is not the capability to fight.. its logistics.
The US does logistics better than not only anyone else, but EVERYONE else. The US also innovates better than anyone else. When the Berlin Airlift was going on, the Russians did not believe how many C54s and C47s were flying into Berlin and back out again, as fast as they were. The Russians STILL do not have the capability we had with those old prop driven planes.
Germany lost army after army to envelopment, and they were wholly incapable of resupplying them by air, even when they had air superiority. The Ju52 was very much inferior to the C47, and the Russians had to copy or lend lease our planes just to have air logistics. Their current Tu95 strat bomber is a derivative copy of the B29.
Add to it that we were the only nuke capable nation for several years, we had B29s being built at the rate of several per day at five aircraft plants, and the P80 was better than anything the Russians had until 1951 when the MiG15 came out.
Germany was not going after the infrastructure in Russia like the 8th, 15th Air Forces and RAF bomber command were. The Luftwaffe simply did not have the bombers available to do such a mission, they had an entirely tactical air force, not a strategic one like the US has. the US had B29s at both ends of Russia, and China was not yet in play until after 1948 when Kai Shek was abandoned by Truman, and he lost to Mao.
We can see how well the Russian pilots did vs American pilots in Korea 50-53, they were nowhere near as good, because they are limited by their command and control 'system' which is being generous calling it a system.
It would not have been 'good' for the US or Britain, but the Russians would have had a very bad time, and they would not have ruled over eastern Europe until 1991.Russia had only started industrializing in the late 1920s, and while they could produce lots of stuff, it was low quality stuff copied from others.
Migoyan was a brilliant aircraft designer no doubt, but the 'system' they were using to run the country was appallingly inefficient, and he was limited by it. They really screwed themselves by imprisoning him for ten years, and purging so many competent leaders from their ranks.
As for the weather, well, Americans are used to similar weather to Russia, look at Chosin reservoir and Bastogne, the US does just fine in winter and spring mud. Germany, not so much.
The US clobbers militaries so easily for two reasons, technological advantage, and an unmatched logistics support system. My USAF job was airlift, I was at the base doing the most work, in the duty section moving the most cargo for Desert Shield/Storm and OIF/OEF, and its something armchair generals overlook. Where Germany could not support their troops outside Stalingrad, the USAF not only could, but did the equivalent many times through history, and I was part of the two biggest times.
Airlift in 1948-49 is WHY we didn't go to war with Russia when they blocked off Berlin by train and roadways. Truman allowed them to take eastern Europe, they could have been pushed back if Truman had wanted to... but he was sympathetic to them, unlike Churchill and Patton.
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@hunterbidensschooldumpster9031 first cool name, the long ones are best. I went mid 11s in a heavy 3750lb car in the 90s for $4500, all motor, that included the purchase price, and a year's worth of insurance as it was a street car. I drove it to work quite often and it made road trips.
With all the lighter stuff I can get my hands on, and the ease at which I can make power with my old dinosaur engines, its even easier to go faster now. Not only that but now it can go around corners as well as stop, not just haul ass in a straight line. No, you won't be doing it with a chevy, Ford or Mopar. Sure as hell not with an import.
A friend of mine holds a mile top end race, and a McLaren has won it most of the time. It starts on the 4th, tomorrow as it were, and ends on the 5th this year.
I have a plan that includes 1900lbs 650ftlbs from 3000 to 5000rpm, and a 2.41 or 2.73 gear with decent aero. As long as I can get it done before the economy goes completely to hell, trying to make it next year. And no, it is not a diesel.
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@solanumtinkr8280 also the Pimental study did not survive peer review. Look up a Steiger 4 wheel drive tractor, that was the largest one at the time he did the study. He claimed it would only last ten years farming 100 acres. Those tractors last decades farming thousands of acres. He included all the inputs of mining the steel, building the tractor, and everything else, and skewed it as far as he could, just to get ethanol to be negative in EROEI. That is just one thing he skewed horribly.
Then he used efficiency tables from beverage ethanol producers, who make ethanol more for taste and use low efficiency pot stills. A pot still will make 40 to 60 proof in a single run, that is 20% to 30% ethanol, so you have to run it multiple times to get to 190 proof. That requires a lot more energy.
A packed column or a plate column like the ethanol plants use, makes 190 proof in a single run. Same energy as a single run using a pot still, but with a far greater yield.
So that judge to whom you referred is right, people can make their numbers look however they want them to look. Pimental was paid by oil companies to do a study in an area in which he has zero expertise. It amounts to little more than basic propaganda. However people are still using his erroneous numbers to base their studies, and like with a PC, sh** in = sh** out.
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I drive old muscle cars. Check my channel and you can see them, the 65 GTO is my daily driver. I am not wealthy, I build these things. If they want to impugn my masculinity, its all good, and doesn't bother me. How many people can do what I do? I've already done it, I am proven, my skill and knowledge is driven daily all summer so I don't need to prove anything to myself. She can say I am compensating and I will agree, then proudly exclaim I am packing a half eaten TicTac. It'll freshen your breath...
Envy me all you want, but it only means you haven't put in the work to have it for yourself. I can't afford to buy these things done, but I can build them. I'm not chasing excellence, I am chasing torque and that satisfaction I get from throwing a bunch of rusty junk together and gaptizing the store bought cars. :)
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@Enpeesee Grayscale can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.. most people complain about ethanol, funny thing is its the additives they put in that cause all the problems. Its not ethanol causing the problems.
Ethanol is vodka, fuel ethanol is very high proof, with 20% or less water in it. Any starch or sugar, even things like waste paper can be used to make fuel.
Whiskey, vodka, wine, beer, all have ethanol in them, its the same stuff no matter how its made, the differences are in proof, how much of the fermentation solids are left in it, and if its aged or not.
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@mersauff223 go ahead, tell yourself its the worst 5%... You can tell yourself you will be an astronaut and fly to to Alpha Centauri next week, it would be far more accurate but just as fanciful as thinking that women today are not exactly like all of these.
Society encourages them to follow their nature and be exactly like these females are. They are incentivized to be that way, and its more like less than 1% DON'T act like that. Take it from someone who has watched all of this come to pass over the last 40 years since going out with my first one.
Even 50 year old females are acting this way, they are lucky I even say hello to them or acknowledge they exist, then they want to act poorly and try to turn me down... when I am not even interested in them. Its amusing as hell from my perspective. I am 53, gray hair and beard, and I had no less than five 20 somethings hit on me while shopping this weekend.
They don't want me, they want my wallet. Doesn't matter how old they are, they are all like that and only care about what we can do for them. They will do nothing in return for us, then they will go find another man after at most two years. This is the reality, and society rewards them for being like those in the video.
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@jonathanjacob5453 yeah it happens, I had it happen to me when I was in Korea. One hell of an ego boost for a 5'8 muscle bound freak of nature who always assumed he wasn't very good looking. I had Russians and Koreas hitting on me, even when I told them I had no money because it was all going to the ex wife.
Most of the time though, they are too timid and afraid of rejection, so they put themselves in your line of sight, and do something silly, like bend over or strike a pose that will accentuate her best asset. They like to do that in stores, looking intently at the bottled water trying to get my attention. Its hilarious.
I am not attractive to all females, but I am to enough of them that I could have one a week relatively easily. The Russians accused me of being a 'playboy' all the time, which I found very amusing. So I figure I was right on the 19% or 20% for most of my life, and had no idea most of it.
If I lost my belly and dress in something not from a hardware store, it would be very easy for me now with all the weak soybois around here. I'm just not interested, I've had lots of them and done everything except twins at the same time.
When they are looking at a ripped guy, who has a strong jawline, and heavy brow, who is 6'2 or taller, he doesn't even have to be that muscular, just not skinny and weak looking, she would be screwing up if she came out and said that to him. Most of the tall guys have no idea what a chick acts and looks at them like when she is interested. Its obvious once you know what to look for. They all do exactly the same things.
I used to go talk to the ones who looked at me like that. Its how I got so many of them. I ignored the ones who didn't look at me that way, they had to show interest for me to bother.
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Tim we are still humans, not many generations removed from cavemen with sticks, we are cavemen with smart phones. There are stages to disagreement and conflict. First is about ideas, good ideas, bad ideas, you talk about it and if both parties are amenable to logic and reason as well as the argument is based in logic and reason, the conflict does not escalate. When you have someone unwilling or unable to realize their idea or want is not the best idea, you get escalating conflict. If I want something you have you do not want to just give me, there are options. Accept you will not give it up, pay you for it commensurate with its agreed value, steal it from you, or take it by force. The same pattern fits with ideas and everything else in human life.
We talk.
We argue.
When arguments break down for whatever reason (usually some ideological bullshit or emotional attachment) you are left with...
Intimidation.
Violent force.
Heinlein was right when he stated that voting is violent, it is forceful and is backed up by force. The entire legal system of every country and society on earth is backed up by force, even if they have no vote. Our vote is the least violent means of exerting our will. When the vote is subverted, the election rigged, votes miscounted, or any other nefarious hijacking of the system, you risk outright violence.
For all of time men knew that if they kept pushing against another man, against his will, the ultimate answer to it is violence. That is from a simple whack in the nose, all the way to death. The ultimate deciding factor is always violence, and that is true from spiders and flies, lions and gazelles, and among we the primate cavemen with smart phones and silly hats.
Now because males under 40 have been raised in a bubble wrapped world, not allowed to discover what happens when your mouth writes checks your ass can't cash and they persist with their antagonizing of others, they assume they are invincible. They are unaware of the reality of all life on this planet, and somehow assume they are above it. The same thing happens with abusive females, the state empowers them to be violent, society accepts and encourages them to be violent, and if the man defends himself even by restraining her, he is said to be the aggressor. She has carte blanche to do as she pleases and his only recourse is to leave, and if they are married, she gets to keep whatever of his she wants, he has to give her anything she wants or the state will take it from him by force. He has no choice but to endure her violence, and she can do as she pleases without consequence. the police show up and only care what he did to her, she is always the innocent victim, he is always guilty. Get divorced just one time and you will find out first hand how this works. False accusations work the same way, and we have seen massive false accusations over the last 4 years.
The leftists in the state want a monopoly on violence, which means you are dependent upon them for your defense, safety, and security. You are not allowed to defend yourself, you are not allowed to use violence when violence is foisted upon you. They do not want to allow you to defend yourself against subjugation or enslavement, they want you to do as you are told. You have no choice but to acquiesce to the state and hope they will save you, but most often they only show up afterwards to look at the mess you left as you were evicted from your meat suit. That my friend is how tyranny works.
This is antithetical to the very root of our nation. Our way of life and nation were born out of not allowing others to dictate to us what we can and cannot do, what we must do, and them using violence against us like the abusive 110lb female with the force of the state behind her. It is not in most of us to lay down and take it. Our families came here to not be indentured servants or slaves to some tin pot dictator or king. We knew that if push comes to shove, we are on our own and it is our responsibility to defend our property, family and our own lives.
We do not give up, we do not acquiesce, we will not accept being ruled by others. We came here so our descendants would not have to endure that type of existence.
Rights are not privileges, they are responsibilities. Ultimately you are responsible for protecting your own rights, and you are responsible for the exercise of those rights. Our Constitution limits government and other authorities, not the people themselves. We are unique on the planet with that limit on government. All others limit the people and allow them their rights.
When redress of grievances is ignored, stifled, ridiculed, dismissed out of hand, and there is no other option left to us.. well its the American way to settle things. It is the natural order of life on this very small mote of dust we call earth. We are not above it, we are part of it and thus even with our rights we are subject to nature itself. We will however, not allow ourselves to be subjected by others. You can't fight the hurricane or tornado, even with a billion people, but 56 determined men can change the course of human history.
Your idea of 5th gen warfare is nothing more than an expansion of argument. Without the propaganda arm of the democrat party calling everyone who disagrees with them a racist national socialist, we would not be headed directly into the abyss of conflict. You cannot malign people as they have for long, before they decide fuck this, I am not taking it anymore. They laud and downplay violence on their side, and claim even speaking is horrible violence when it is those who dissent and disagree with their ideology. Yes it is a propaganda war, it precedes and runs concurrent with the shooting war. What they are doing is straight from marxist literature, they are following a script. Once you know the story you know what they will do next.
The key to it is getting the people to believe the propaganda, when they stop believing it, the tyrant will force them to believe it. You will never get someone who understands the ideas and benefit as well as risks of individual liberty to accept what the dems/marxists are trying to force upon us. All you can do is make their lives miserable, untenable, or simply lock them up/kill them. If they do not relent and they continue with their campaign of subjugating the people, infringing upon their rights, and essentially turning them into chattel for corporate owners, well... you are going to get a violence that will make the riots of last year look like a child's birthday party. Freethinking people would rather be dead than enslaved.
The last resort is always violence. Always.
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@scottbutler2343 I agree, except love is fleeting and often conditional, happiness is the same sort of thing. Which is why I am more concerned with merit, and the satisfaction that comes from a job well done. Even if I hate the job I have to do, I do it well because I get a satisfaction from it I don't get any other way.
Where ideologies come in is when certain people try to control others, telling them what to do, what not to do, and giving a prescription to follow on how to live, think, and speak. They inherently become authoritarian, even the idea of liberty the USA was based upon runs the risk of being exactly that.
However with most ideologies, such as marxism and Abrahamic religions, the authoritarian bent is a feature rather than a bug. "Kill the infidel" is ubiquitous to those ideologies. Liberty is you leave me alone I leave you alone but we can work together when we can benefit from it. Thus liberty is superior to all others we have seen thus far.
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@somebody700 I'll give you some background so you know I am not making shit up. I grew up being sent to a parochial school where we read the bible 1 or 2 hours each day, and spent about ten minutes a week on math, with no science. You could say I know the bible rather well.
When I was 21 in 1990 I met an Arab girl from Dubai, we were engaged, so I had to learn her religion, culture, and a good bit of Arabic in the process. In 1991 I took leave to go to Dubai after the fighting stopped (mostly) in Iraq to meet her family, and I lived in a mosque being taught about islam by several scholars.
One from Kansas where he grew up about 120 miles from where I did in Nebraska. That man knew christianity as well as I did, and islam very well. Not unlike a trekkie knows the books and movies. Fun times. Another one was an Iraqi who lived in Kuwait City, and the military of which I was a part would not let him go home, and yet he treated me like a brother. I had two weeks each time I went there so it was like boot camp for islam.
The pentecostal racist prick who was my immediate supervisor fucked me around, I missed my last flight to get married, she got in an argument with her mom and her mom called it off. I carried on learning about islam for the next 18 years. I figured, why not, its good to know things.
So technically, I am a sunni and a lutheran, in addition to being an atheist. Cool eh?
When I enlisted in 1988 I wanted to know why communism was so bad that I had to be sent to Germany to keep the soviets from taking over Europe. When the wall came down in 89, I got to meet people from the other side, and I contrasted the average German and Pole against the guys flying in for the INF treaty. :earned enough Russian and German to talk to them, and get an idea of what marxism is about.
The more I looked into marxism, the less I liked it, sure they say all these nice sounding things, but really its just a way to subjugate and enslave people. Then I found the Gulag Archipelago, and that put a very fine point on it.
On one trip to Dubai from Frankfurt I had a layover in Yugoslavia (when it still existed) and got to experience the communist state first hand. Lets just say it was unpleasant, and call it an understatement. It was a long layover both ways, flying on JAT.
Obviously I was in Germany when the wall came down, got a big chunk of it on my shelf to remind me why socialism is abhorrent.
I can attest that Islam, be it sunni, shia, or sufi has the intent to make the entire world islamic. The sunnis who taught me were not radicals, or if they were they kept that shit to themselves, because I was a US military member after all. I could be a spy, coming to a corner of Dubai (before it was changed into the skyscraper Euro holiday spot it is now) to spy on the Arabs..kinda far fetched, but still.
I got on with her dad very well, he died 5 years ago, and over the years we stayed in touch and he was a wonderful man. Her mom was far more religious, so she was quite terse with me, makes sense knowing how religious moms are. The girl and I are good friends still, long story there.
So when I say that there is a feature of all these religions to be violent, genocidal, and wanting to take over the world, I am not just pulling it out of my ass. I am not some wet behind the ears kid who read a Dawkins book and now thinks he is an expert.
You would never call lutherans radicals, they are like catholic lite, half the guilt and no kneeling or praying to angles, saints, etc. However, the bible is full of stories about eradicating other people and religions from the mid east. The reason why its not quite as adventurous now is due to the influence of the US Constitution.
Secular laws prevent witch burnings and ethereal evidence, there is no blasphemy laws in place (yet, the marxists are trying to change that as we speak) either. I can say anything I want about the god of Abraham and legally nothing can be done to me.
That does not change the nature and history of the ideologies. They are still set on spreading, but to give the christians a fair shake, they mostly want to be left alone and only indoctrinate their kids, they will offer it to you, but its up to you to accept it. Whereas islam will accept you if you join, kill you if you leave, and if they conquer your area force you to convert, die, or become a slave.
They all come to you with the smiley face and saccharine smile, telling you there is something wrong with you, and they have the cure. To the credit of the muslims, they do not have original sin, but the christians and marxists do.
The original sin of the marxists is privilege, and they will punish you for the actions of people who look like you hundreds of years ago. It doesn't matter to them that you were from a family of slaves, your skin color is light so you are guilty of owning slaves and benefitting from it. It doesn't matter than you are just as poor as the others, someone can simply say you did something and its off to the gulag with you.
For an ideology to be abhorrent to me, they will have a prescription of how to live, what you must do, and then limit your liberty upon pain of death. e.g. If they will kill you for what you say, that religion is abhorrent. All the Abrahamics do that, and marxism mirrors the methods and tactics of the jews and christians, but Marx made up his own bullshit to utilize the same tactics.
From my standpoint outside religion/ideology, and favoring liberty over all of the prescriptive idiocy of those things, the Abrahamics look the same to me as marxism, authoritarian cancerous mind memes that most people seem to need to provide guidance and a sense of belonging.
I look at the big picture, the things they all do, very much like the breakdown of life on the planet. e.g. Kingdom, phylum, etc down to species and race. Authoritarian kingdom, the phylum is terrestrial god vs ethereal god, and they keep splitting off as you go.
The most common thing among all of them? Every member of every ideology thinks they are the only ones who got it right, everyone else is wrong, and theirs is the 'true answer' to living, and will definitely bring about the utopia/heaven. They also call themselves peaceful, and they are as long as you are of the same exact flavor as the group in control of your area, and you do not step outside in the least. With us or against us, and against us gives us justification to kill you.
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@somebody700 you know man, muslims make up almost half of my group of friends. I have no ill will nor animosity towards religious people, provided they do not try to force it on me, or treat me poorly because we do not share a religion. There are things I like about islam, there are things about christianity I like as well, but I cannot take them as a whole.
I'd rather take the parts I like and apply them to my life.
Unlike many people who don't realize I am 'technically' muslim, and will comment about how horrible the people are, I realize Arabs and Persians are actually wonderful people, who want the same things from life, and want a better life for their kids than we had. The few who do the stupid shit give the rest a bad image, but that is what you get with ideology.
When it comes to god, if you find comfort in the idea of there being one, by all means life your life that way. I tend to live my life as if there is a god, but I do not worship one. I handle things myself, do what I need to do in my life because nobody does it for me. No need to have someone tell me how or what to do, I can figure it out on my own.
I treat people fairly, I do not look down upon them unless they have proven to be lesser somehow,(usually acting stupid or being willfully ignorant) and then I would rather lift them up than mistreat them. I can empathize because there are many things I don't know.
My mom had a unique way of practicing her religion. She took comfort in it, rather than allowing it to dictate her life. My dad was similar in the way he was. They never knew I don't believe in it, but I can see a benefit in certain religions now.
I saw where someone, I think it was Sargon, pondered who will win, marxists or muslims, if they started fighting. Well one thing I must give credit to the muslims for is the will to do whatever it takes, even to the point of being horrifically violent, even cruel, to those who mistreat them. If islam could throw off the bullshit of Al Ghazali, muslims would not be hampered by technology.
Honestly its a terrifying thought, because of how certain people, like the ones you mentioned, having far too much influence and control. But if instead of becoming war like, we could work together not for profit but for the betterment of all men, put that untapped intellect to work and find a way to go to the stars named by Arabs, and fix the problems we have.. a renaissance of what Baghdad was prior to Al Ghazali..
A place where all are welcome, all can learn, and nobody needs to kill over who has the best god. Leave the religion out of it and find out what mysteries await us in the natural world, discover what is far outside the old books.
Yeah if I ever go to Saudi Arabia the whabbis will want to chop off my head.
We could all be so much more if we didn't want to amass more wealth than humans could ever spend, and then use it to hold power over others. We can't take it with us, and after a certain point where they no longer need be concerned about day to day living, its shameful we do not invest in discovery.
Allah needs no son, he needs no tradition either, I remember a surah about that. Without our own sons to pass it along, what is the point of having it all? What is the point of not giving sons the gift of hardship and struggle, so they can develop the discipline needed to live a quality life. You can see how they turn out when they always have wealth, they lack discipline. They never grow up.
If god exists and is truly the most merciful and beneficent, then he would want us to continue exploring, developing new ways to solve problems, and to travel the stars rather than squabble over bits of dirt and money.
I say 'if god exists' because the old holy books shove god into a very small space in the gaps of knowledge. There is so much more to know than what people knew 1500-2000 years ago.
Look at us, talking without seeing, possibly on opposite sides of the planet, this was not possible this easily just 30 years ago. Where could we be in another 30 years if we dropped all the bullshit and greed?
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@nuckygulliver9607 Norm was awesome. I wish I could boil things down into a succinct but powerful comment like he could. I end up being overly verbose.
I am not a conservative, I am an atheist who is big into green energy, semi auto rifles, large capacity magazines, and drag racing. I did stand up for a very short time back in 1992, decided not to pursue it. I used to enjoy making people laugh, it helped the pain I live with.
The woke are not funny, because everything they say or do has to be filtered through the ideological lens they have willingly accepted. There is no getting around it, marxism is simply not funny. You can easily make fun of it, but authoritarians are not funny.
The constant purity tests and virtue signaling are the cause, because the best comedy offends you a bit. Not a disgusting offense, like the fat chick talking about her snot pocket reeking like an overcrowded hamster cage, but something that allows you to make fun of yourself as well as others. Make you think, and offend you a bit, like did he just say that?
Also girls cannot be funny. They are not equipped to be funny because there is no evolutionary advantage to them being funny. Betty White comes close, but she didn't write most of her material. Her delivery is wonderful though, I like her a lot.
The left feel the need to preach to you. Shame you, make you feel guilty. That shit isnt funny, and they are more concerned with being a victim than anything else. Thats why they come off as lame.
The Onion was awesome, until it got woke. Then it became a shithole. Matt and Trey fuck with everyone and everything, so I dig them.
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@ezioauditore3128 you know how the Potato said you need F15s and nukes to take on the US? Well, yeah, that is if you want to go head long into a fight with us country to country. Try that, you gonna get tore up.
See if you can wrap your head around what I am saying, without actually saying it. Every year, about this time Wisconsin alone fields what is nearly the largest force in the world, just to fill the freezer with deer meat.
Look back a few years ago when Ralph Northam was trying to impose his will on Virginians, news reports say 20k showed, but others say more than 100k were there. He fled and didn't try to do it again before he left office. All they did was show up.
The same thing happened in Michigan, on a smaller scale. Citizens showed up and displayed what can happen if politicians get a bit too much like Adolf, Vlad, Karl, or Joe.
I am a veteran, cold war, Kuwait, and Iraq. If we had to go up against a nation of crazy people with long distance hole punches that outnumbered us by more than 10:1, all of our tech and capabilities would not matter much. We would get our asses handed to us, particularly if they were defending their homes, families, and their way of life... and that is when we were not the limp wristed woke soft safe space military that would actually obey unlawful orders.
The media and those in offices are making a huge deal out of bumbling goofballs and a few agitators who are on the same side as the current office people, in an effort to keep people afraid. What can you do alone? Not much really...
Thing is, we are not alone. We don't need everyone to show up either. Suffice it to say, that even an air cargo box kicking pallet pusher like me, is well aware of what to do and how to go about it... if the need arises. Men like me can train thousands of other men, and the guys who did a lot more of that type of thing can as well. I know things other than how to put vehicles and pallets on airplanes.
F15s cannot hold ground. You need boots on the ground to do anything. Another thing you should realize is that over the past 20 years we have been sending young men to another country to fight an asymmetrical conflict. Most of those guys are not on the side of Karl and Vlad, and they are decided not fond of the potato, Ralph etc.
Somewhere around a million of us have been cycled through multiple trips to the sandbox over the last 20 years. If only 10% of us train up 1000 others, anyone trying to impose their will on us is going to have a VERY bad day. That is why the media is making a huge stink, and getting people to think like you do... that its hopeless. The reality is all we need to do is not comply with what they dictate to us.
I was stationed in Germany in 1989, I have a chunk of the Berlin Wall on the shelf next to me. It reminds me of the horrors inherent in that ideology, and it also reminds me that no longer complying in submissive obedience can free you. That was my take away from the end of the CW. It became too dangerous for the people who were trying to control everyone, because the people stopped caring what the state media said, and they started doing what they needed to do even when tanks were sent in.
Imagine if you will that East Germany was more like Wisconsin. Would it have taken from 1945 to 1989 to get the comms to BTFO?
Want to know why the US military is so lethal? Its not the tech and capabilities, its the people running it. Not the officers that get all the accolades, its the NCOs and enlisted people who are too full of hubris, piss, and vinegar to allow a loss. The administrations screwed the pooch in Nam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, it sure as hell wasn't the guys in green who messed up.
Most of those hubris filled men are like me now, in the civilian world and wanting to be left alone so they can enjoy the rest of their lives. They will not start it, but they will finish it, and of course the media will call them every negative oriented ist and phobe name imaginable. Whomever messes with those guys is gonna have a really bad day... and think about this, all those guys know the tactics, capabilities, and how to operate the equipment in addition to how to blend in if they so choose. They won't stand out on a military base, because they know the unspoken stuff.
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We had a wake up call 15 years ago. Katrina was the justification for gas prices going up. Rather than whining about it, I figured out how to not only produce fuel, but to improve mileage as well. It snowballed on me into working to produce energy myself, since its my largest expense. The cool thing is trying to save money due to a fixed income, I have developed the means to make it. If the power goes out, which it does here often, it went out this morning at 0650, I have several means of producing electricity.
Rather than assuming everyone else was right, I decided to find out for myself. Does ethanol really eat engines, carbs, fuel tanks, and rubber hoses? Is it really as bad as they say it is? Does it take a lot more to produce than you get from it? What I have found over the last 15 years of working on producing fuel, and making my cars run very efficiently on it, is that no... it doesn't do any of those things.
Now Tim my ask his guest from a while back, the 'energy expert' if that is true, or if we can get better mileage on ethanol than on gasoline, and he will say its not true. Its because he doesn't have all the information, and people want to be able to run gasoline as well as other fuels. I forego running gasoline entirely with my engines in my vintage muscle cars, and not only can I get better mileage I make a lot more power doing it. I can explain it if you like, but if you don't know about engines, physics, thermodynamics, and mechanical processes, you're probably not going to get it.
Its not a matter of how many BTUs are in a fuel, unless you are trying to heat water. A gallon of gasoline, 7lbs of firewood, and a quarter stick of dynamite all have about the same BTU content. The way they release that energy is very different. There is a lot more to transportation fuels, and engine design, than just BTU content.
Do you want to know why I got into making ethanol? Because I have vintage muscle cars, and I like to build, then drive them. Since I can't work a normal job after my last deployment in 2004, I am on a fixed income of what congress says I am worth. Its not a lot. I needed a means of driving my vehicles that I could afford. The old GTOs and Firebirds are the only reason I am still here, and haven't done the self check out as yet. Whats the point in having them if you can't drive them? Yard art might be cool, but its not very useful. $5 a gallon was the motivation in 2007 for me to learn how to do this.
You see, gasoline is produced in a handful of refineries around the world. Oil is only produced in a few places around the world. So you are reliant upon the people who pump it out of the ground, and refine it to provide it for you. Anyone, anywhere, can make ethanol as long as they have some sort of sugar or starch, some yeast, and some water. They use corn because we have so much of it, corn is easy to store as well as transport, not because its the only thing we can use. I use cattails, tree sap, and coffee grounds to make fuel.
When the potato was installed, I knew we would come to where we are now. They have been talking about doing this to us for a long time now, making gasoline hideously expensive to stop the big change is their wet dream. Now they get to do it.
Now I am ahead of the curve, and you will be paying $10 a gallon soon.
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@maengh82 Its kind of a long story about the first one. Got the oops I'm pregnant, and I assumed my health insurance would cover the birth, but then they didn't so I got married for no reason. She hid her bipolar from me for months, and then she got progressively worse.
Got to the point where if I did anything nice for her, buying a pair of pants, giving her orgasms, taking her out to eat, literally anything and she would start an irrational fight over nothing, which she would then lose, and she could feel like a victim rather than feeling guilty.
As I pulled away from her and stopped engaging, she got more violent and the abuse then went to the kids as well. I stayed as long as I did to protect my kids from he, I knew the state would never allow me to have them, so I stayed.
The cops would be called, I would have deep bruises, cuts, ripped clothing, hair ripped out before I started shaving my head to avoid that, and me being a 230lb ex military type who wrestled, could bench over 400lbs, and had extensive experience defending myself, all they asked was "did he hit you, touch you, push or anything?" They always wrote it up like I was the aggressor. They used that against me in court and threw out all the evidence I had of her abusing me and the kids.
I never hit the bitch, though maybe I should have. Problem is, when I hit people it does extensive damage unless they are big enough to handle it. Her 120lb ass wasn't.
Believe me, I know precisely how horrible a choice it was. Problem is, everyone, especially feminists and the family court, blamed me for all of her violence and irrational bullshit. That and society is all women are wonderful, they can't possibly be the problem, its always the man, so he has to be doing something wrong... and then you blame the guy who was trying to do the right thing for his kids, and let her ass off the hook. You're sucking that feminist tit pretty hard.
She knows she will be alone if she fucks up with her 2nd husband, and he is a spineless wimp who lets her run his life, which is what she wanted. All the benefits with none of the responsibility.
A girl is kinda different at 20 than when she is 25, and they can hide the bipolar and borderline when it suits them. Now I know what to look for, when I was 25, I had no clue what the hell bipolar was, what to look for, or how to deal with it. 25 years later, I am an expert at spotting it in them.
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Try being someone who converted from christian, to islam, and is now an atheist apostate to both. It gets you a death sentence in the religion of peace, and christians hate you just as much despite being on the same side against islam and other totalitarian ideologies. Constantly lumped in with the commies and socialists, and they call us nazis, because everyone who isn't a commie is a nazi to them.
I want you to be able to have your religion, I fought communism and islam to defend your rights, but if you try to force your religion upon me, I will fight you too. American first, everything else, religion, nation of origin, your shade of pigment/melanin, if you can piss standing up and not get your feet wet or not, all of that is secondary to being an American.
The leftists try to claim non believers such as myself as among the ranks of the marxists, but that is an entirely different thing, those bastards have a god, and its the government. I don't want that crap any more than you do. There are millions like me, not leftists, but don't follow a religion, and you guys do purity tests and toss us out just like the damn commies.
FYI atheist doesn't equal marxist. Ben Franklin wasn't a leftist twat, and what he wrote is very similar to what I think. Ben didn't follow religions or believe in gods either, nor did Payne. Jefferson was at best a deist, who thought a supernatural entity started the universe but then stepped back and doesn't care what positions you use when banging.
And yet, christian zealots think the US is founded by christians, and everyone who isn't one of you is automatically the enemy. From my perspective, it sure looks an awful lot like islam... and ya both share the same god, just so ya know. The names are different because greek/italian/english is different than arabic. Abraham-Ibrahim samey same. Moses-Mosa samey same. The only religions that follow Jesus are christians and muslims, but the muslims don't elevate him to god status, and their prophets are special, living perfect lives, so David didn't get drunk, nor did he send a general to the front so David could bang his wife. Its like zoroastrianism is v1.0, judaism is v1.1, christians are v1.2, and islam is v1.3... and you guys act like its completely different when in reality its the difference between a lutheran and a pentecostal, which is fucking huge.
Yeah I know your religion quite well, and I know islam very well also. There is a reason I am atheist now, and learning two full religions tends to do that.
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Travel the stars and search the galaxy? Tim that is a masculine thought. Exploring, finding out what is on the other side of the hill or mountain is a masculine thought process. Leftists do not have it.
The left wants everyone to be safe, take no risks, be told what to do. Competition is bad because you might get hurt feelings. Exploration is discouraged because its risky, what if there is nothing there, or there is an unknown danger?
They think its better to stay here and be safe, not spend money going off planet when we can spend it on buying shoes (metaphorically).
They want everyone to have the same, because that is what mothers do, ensure all the kids have some and they don't care or even want to know where whatever it is comes from, and if one kid got more food before, well he gets less now so the other kids can get more. Look at leftists like helicopter parents bubble wrapping kids, and it makes perfect sense why they do this stupid shit.
They think like little kids, and want everyone to be little kids with them, and have government be mommy who protects them, and daddy who gives mommy things to hand out to the kids.
If we ever want to travel the stars we need to get the feminine thinking types out of office, out of positions where they can influence government, public opinion, and world events. The great reset is feminine thinking gone mad, assuming we will be happy renting everything we need from them. Spending money makes females and feminine thinking males happy, it gives them a dopamine hit.
The problem is, their idea goes against masculine thinking, and I cannot help but think that way. Forcing me to live with feminine thinking will only piss me off, sending me to a camp to be indoctrinated with their bullshit will incense me beyond measure. All they will do is solidify my resolve to end the tyranny of the Karens. I will never acquiesce to their authority and way of doing things.
I WANT TO TRAVEL THE WORLD AND THE UNIVERSE. I want to know what is out there, how it works, and why. I don't want to destroy it, nor do I want to capture or conquer it, I want to learn from what is around us. We will never get to do that as long as marxists are running the show. They think small and look inward, they do not think outside the box, they want you to keep your hands and feet inside the box because there might be something scary out there.
That is all they are, Karens. Male, female, young, old... the leftists are Karens. Many people on the right are Karens too. Its not a left right thing, though the leftists are consumed by feminine thinking. Its a masculine - feminine thing. Its supposed to be complimentary, but they on the left have made it adversarial and weaponized it, and are calling masculinity in every respect toxic... because they know they can't compete with it, and they can't control it, so they vilify it.
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HELL YES we can own nukes, warships, attack and other aircraft, cannons, and tanks. The problem is nukes are HIDEOUSLY expensive to produce. Warships are expensive, aircraft are expensive, cannons can be cheap or expensive. If you can afford it, you can own it. The intent behind the 2nd is to give all of us parity with our own government, or the military of any other country that wants to come in here and tell us how to live, in addition to enabling a 105lb female to defend herself from a muscle bound freak like me who isn't a cordial type as I am, but wants to inflict harm upon her. Protect yourself, your way of life, and your property.
Anyone who wants to take that ability to defend yourself from you, wants to control you.
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This video you're showing is partly right, but framed in an disingenuous way. They show the d run cities that have been forced into causing a huge gap between the wealthy and the poor, while eliminating the middle class. That is all a huge problem in blue cities, and the author of this video is going to tell you the solution is the cause.
GET OUT OF THE CITIES! You're not required to have a corporation owning you, you don't need a store front to start a business. If you have no skills, GET THEM! You can lean anything you want right here on the tubes. I'm debt free, own 13 acres with a home and shop for my car rebuilding. Paid it all off in just 8 years on less than $50k a year. I'm 3 hours from the nearest big city.
Stop complaining and start learning the doing. I know hundreds of job skills from heavy equipment operations to building computers and everything to do with cars. I know about aircraft, aviation, and orbital mechanics too. I cook my food, bake bread, and can build with wood, stone, metal, and composites. If you want something you have to put in effort to get it, you must go above the minimum and the middle point, you need to challenge yourself then test yourself against others.
I'm tired of the woe is me complaining, i had to work for decades to get ahead because ex's put me back to zero twice. Betty busy living and stop whining.
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@michaelparsons3007 creator... that can be your parents, gravity, space aliens, invisible all powerful sky fairies, xenu, evolution, or any number of things. I am a creator, I make things, I put things together from seemingly disparate items and ideas. Are you or I a god? Maybe to someone who has no idea what a smartphone is, we might seem like gods. However a god is not required to have rights.
Yes christian belief influenced the founders, but they did not take it as the means by which people should be governed. One lifetime before the Declaration,, we had the Salem Witch Trials. Its the same distance from them, as 7 December 1941 is to me. they were well aware of it, and what went wrong with religion at the helm. That is why we have a separation of church and state.
Also, they were deists, christians, non believers like Franklin and Paine, and many other sects of various faiths. England at the time was a functioning theocracy, and the King declared you had to believe in his religion. The founders understood that no single religion could rule over others and still have liberty. It had to be all or none, there could not be one for the state and still allow you to follow whatever thing you felt was right.
That is quite profound.
Think about it. If the majority becomes muslim, would you want to live in an islamic theocracy? How about a scientology theocracy? Catholic if you're protestant, evangelical if you're not a rapture believing snake handler? Do you want the state to follow a religion in that case, or would you rather be able to follow the one you like and not have others forced upon you?
Yes they used the word creator, because it is ambiguous, and they used it as such for a reason. It can be many things, like described in the first paragraph. It does not have to be the christian god, it can mean whatever it means to you.
I for one will not be thrilled to live in a pentecostal or southern baptist theocracy. That would be at any point in my life, from growing up in a lutheran family and going to parochial schools, to meeting an Arab girl in 1990 and learning about islam, then eschewing religion entirely in 2008. At no point would I want someone controlling the government who speaks in tongues and bases their laws upon the ideas held by evangelical types.
That is why I would not vote for the likes of Perry, Santorum, and Romney. They all espoused the idea that religion should be part of government, and none of them had a religion close to the ones with which I had been involved.
Likewise I will not vote for a marxist nor a muslim that will push the idea that their religion should be the rule of law here. I find marxism to be the most abhorrent ideology ever devised, and by no small margin. included in the marxist ideology is socialism, communism, fascism, feminism, post modernism, and others.. all are bereft of value in their entirety, due to the results of them all.
The fact of the matter is, the use of 'creator' in the declaration allows even me, to be part of the group. What created all of us is gravity, without it nothing would be here. Every living thing on the planet, be it 'created' and poofed into existence or evolved (whatever you happen to think) has the right to defend itself, and they will. To remove the right of self defense from humans is abhorrent to nature. We are part of this world, we are not separate from it.
Religion is not necessary for liberty and rights, however with liberty you can believe whatever you want, be it space aliens, all powerful gods who don't understand orbital mechanics, or whatever else the human mind can think up. Liberty and our rights dictate you cannot force that belief on the rest of us.
I prefer to focus on the part of the Constitution where it says 'a more perfect union' which implies continual improvement, not being rooted in bad ideas or implementing bad ideas, but taking the best from the ideas of others and leaving the nonsense and abhorrent out.
The oath I took to defend our way of life, includes your right to believe whatever you want, as well as mine. That is how it was intended, you are not compelled to believe nor follow any religious ideology. There is an influence of ideology in our laws, not all of it beneficial, most of it is negative to someone, as ideology tends to favor the 'in' group who ascribe to it. eg the way feminist laws have been implemented in family court, it is most abhorrent. ref. 'Duluth Model' if you're unaware.
Any who try to impose their ideology upon all of us, will be my enemy and that is not an enjoyable position. I will defend you and yours until the point you push it on the rest of us.
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@michaelparsons3007 what if I draw something, on a rock, with charcoal I made myself, what human created any of that? I can have my own thoughts and ideas, even if someone else has them, they are still mine, and I come to them often independent of input from any others.
It doesn't mean there is or isn't a god, you can claim there is a god, but I can also claim there is an invisible dragon that lives in my shop who doesn't show up on IR, but rest assured, he is there... watching the underwear gnomes have orgies with the garage gnomes when I leave them LSD and donuts.
Its written down, so it must be true. Prove its not true and I will use the same method on gods. :) Prove the Greek gods don't exist, or the Norse gods. I don't see any ice giants. How do you know, your god is the right one? You don't believe in any of the others, so in that we are exactly the same, I just go one more.
I'd still surmise that if god created the universe, he would understand how it works. If he didn't want to tell us, and told us its using witchcraft to attempt to fly, then he is being capricious and wants us to remain ignorant. He told us the earth is flat, sitting on pillars, with a metal covering that contains the entire cosmos. That is the 'firmament' mentioned in the bible.
An all powerful being who made it, should know the moon orbits the earth, the earth and other planets, along with a few billion asteroids and bits of dust, orbit the sun, which orbits a super massive black hole at the center of the galaxy, which is moving away at an increasing rate from almost everything else.. instead we get flat earth that has everything close by.
No mention of the electromagnetic spectrum, kangaroos, celestial mechanics (in the correct form), boiling points, nuclear physics, internal combustion, germs and microbial life, or that when you mix sulfur, charcoal and nitrates together you get gunpowder. they knew about yeast, but not that it was microorganisms that made bread rise and sugar water turn to vodka.
So is your god clueless about what he created, or does he not want us to know. I'd take the easy route and assume that it was made up by people who tried to explain why it rains and day turns to night... among other things. Its why sin is said to cause disease, not poor sanitation and single/multicellular microlife.
Yes I am taking a literal interpretation of the bible, because that is what the zealots do. The moderates support the zealots, and the zealots keep moving things ever towards more crazy shit.. exactly how the democrats have gone from pro slavery - anti black people to anti humans pro communism. The zealots keep pushing the envelope with support from the clueless moderates..
Ideology not based in reality is all the same to me man, and the only ideology that seems to NOT be a huge problem for humans, is the one based on liberty, self determination, and inalienable rights as set down in our Constitution. Its specific in some ways, such as limiting government, but very broad in action.
Its sublime. It does not need a god to work, and that is the beauty of it.
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@trevormurray617 I was a USAF NCO, I was the one who got all the 'problem children' the ones who got DUIs. wouldn't take showers, had bad attitudes, etc. The result was I rarely got a day off, and despite working nights I was awake most of the monday to friday days dealing with issues caused by my screw up airmen. If you make 2 years service mandatory, you just made every E5 and E6 life a living hell. The kid I had who got the DUI turned his life around and became shit hot, the ones who didn't want to be clean or show up for work, well they ended up being put out.
Unless we can do more than take away free time and make them do pushups or some mindless shit like painting rocks or cutting the grass with nail clippers, conscription is not going to have the effect you desire. Some will hate it no matter what, and more shit will get dumped on them, until they get a bad conduct discharge. I wasn't a screw up and I still got shit dumped on me, like having 8 out of ten subordinates being fuck ups... and a bunch of other shit because I was the oldest at my rank in my unit.
A few will end up getting their shit together, but most will not. I saw what happens when participation trophy entitled brats enlist, one of them has three years left on his 20 year stretch for selling cocaine to other airmen on base. Thankfully he was not one of mine... not to mention they are coddled now, not like when I enlisted during the Reagan administration.
Lets not do that to the NCOs.. mmkay?
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@stoltzk I usually write for the benefit of other people who might be reading the comments weeks or even decades later, rather than the individual I am replying to. So I get what you're doing, and I will use trolls like that to expand ideas and pass along information to others who might need to hear it.
I don't give a damn about the tardednanner trolls and insecure spoiled brats, so I never get emotional about what I say. Usually I am chuckling as I write stuff to them, and I find creatives ways to call them less than brilliant that they take as compliments.
I had a few kids try to start stuff with me because I have been writing a lot about PTSD and the rather unfavorable life I have had which 'gave' it to me. They ask why I would write about the bad things in my life, why I would say anything, or that I am bragging and one called me pretentious. I tell them that my message is not for where they are at this point in their lives, its for someone else who is at the point I was in several years or decades ago.
Then I get people telling me how much what I said helped them, gave them insight into a loved one who deals with the things we do, or that I explained things that they could not quite figure out. That is who I am writing to, the people living the life you and I lived, and trying to live with what has happened to them, and why they might not fit with polite society.
These spoiled entitled kids don't get it, because they have soft bubble wrapped lives, but they think they are some kind of badass tough guy... probably because nobody has hit them hard enough to knock them down and make them see stars for a while... because they said the wrong thing to the wrong man. They can't grasp the fact that men like you and I are how they could have that soft bubble wrapped life of entitlement and safety.
Thats ok, we didn't do it for them even if they don't have to grow up in a nightmare like kids in other countries... who don't have access to commentary on the internet. Point and laugh at their ignorance, and write to the people you care about.
I'd say happy holidays or merry christmas, but after enough mil time they become just another day to us. We cold war guys are getting rarer, we should pass on the knowledge and memory of why we fought against so cia lism. If we don't who will?
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@Freud_Mayweather I build cars, from a pile of steel tubing, or from rusty rolling shells. I can do literally everything to rebuild them. Technically I can repair anything on US made vehicles built between 1909 and 2008, but I need some more equipment to work with the body control modules they have been using since 2000 or so. I owned and ran a repair shop in the 90s. I daily drive cars I rebuilt from rusty heaps, like my 1965 GTO. I need to repaint it soon...
So if I see a car on the side of the road, I can probably fix it, either right there or in my shop. The thing is, unless she pays me for everything, and I would be just as expensive as any shop in town for labor, I am not getting anything for doing the work. I don't need to make money that way anymore.
I lose time I could be using to do my own vehicles and house projects. Females are an expense, a liability, they bring nothing and demand everything... Ok well they have moist orifices, thats the extent of their value to me... sometimes they can help me move a non running vehicle.. sometimes.
If you want to see the kind of stuff I do, check my channel on here.
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Black women are the fastest gun owning demographic in the USA? Well its about damn time. An armed person is less likely to be a victim. Ya know this chick is right about something, black people are being oppressed, they are being exploited, there is systemic racism within the USA. Where is the most black poverty? Where is the most black crime and incarceration? Where are the most black single mothers? Who runs those places? Who run the city and state where our lord and savior in a wife beater Floyd was killed? Why is there a rampant drug and crime problem there?
Despite 20 to 110 years of democrat control of these urban areas rife with poverty, crime, and broken families, they still blame everyone else for what the democrats are obviously causing. Decades of democrat control and those cities are shitholes. There just might be a connection.
It pisses me the fuck off, because I have lots of black friends and I have a problem with people who exploit my fellow Americans. I'm a veteran who enlisted to defend our way of life, that does not include the way democrats have put minorities on the plantation, not to pick cotton, but to farm votes.
Ridicule a racist democrat today!
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How do you bake a cake? Do you just throw flour in a pan and toss it in the oven? Nah, you need a lot more stuff to bake a cake, and you need a special sequence for some types of cake. You can make cake with corn starch rather than flour, or even cattail roots can be used to bake a cake. Its still a cake. So if you point to someone not using whole eggs or flour as them not baking a cake, well... you are ignoring all the other aspects of what goes into that cake.
Come on man, I'm a mechanic and a machinist. I grew up on a farm. I spent a large part of my adult life in the US military. Now when I see a plotting graph, with a big spike in the middle of it, it screams at me that human intervention happened. In a machinist world it means someone crashed the machine, meaning the ran the tool bar into something it was not supposed to contact.
If you know anything about statistics you know that what is looked at matter just as much as obvious spikes, because you can use them to show reality or your version of it. Its like looking up at the daytime sky and declaring "THERE ARE NO STARS!" or living in a city your entire life and not believing that you can watch the ISS fly over at night with the naked eye.
One of the easiest things to do is use someone's ignorance of a subject to mislead them. If you know nothing about physics and mechanical things, you just might believe that magical gnomes are what makes your transmission work in your car. It is incredibly easy to gaslight people who are clueless about something, they can watch it happen, but then you insistently demand it did not happen, and they will eventually believe you.
The thing about that November of infamy is that most people are math illiterate and easily gaslighted. The best thing I can say about it is everything regarding it was 'incongruent' meaning the result was not aligned with what preceded the result.
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@williamhuynh869 the difference is that men and women are not interchangeable. Western men are wanted in other countries, western women are not, because they are unfeminine, combative, annoying, and untrustworthy. Women outside the US and UK/Europe, want a man who can provide, a good life for her, and western men can do that. Men want a woman who can help them, raise a family with him, not always engage in a power struggle, and not run off at the first opportunity. Nobody wants western women because that is what they have been encouraged to be for the last 60 years.
All I had to do in other countries was show up, and they came to me asking if I had a GF. I am a 5'8" guy who has never made more than $40k a year. Sure I have lots of muscle and a dominant mindset, but they don't know how I am until they talk to me. I tend to hide the muscle, so they think my name on here is who I actually am. No, they weren't all looking for a green card either, the Russian ones in Korea just wanted to have a dominant man for a change. They were way hotter than the Ukrainian in this video. She is a 2 or a 3 over there, so it makes sense why she is in the PI.
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@quacktac people don't respect someone male who kisses their ass, nor will they like someone who is trying to please them. You should try to be the best possible version of yourself, know and be more capable tomorrow than you were today.
Men are judged on what they can do, how well they do it, and how much they know. With us it is all merit based, so even an ok looking dude like me can attract people to follow him.
Confidence, competence, capability, and discipline are things people admire in us. Having a wealth of experience and knowledge from having done it and as a result becoming proficient, and then making sound decisions with confidence (even if it doesn't work) will gain you respect. However, if you fuck up too often, nobody will trust you no matter how confident you are. That is where competence comes in.
Find out what Jordan Peterson says about agreeableness and nice guys. Dude is spot on. You don't have to be a contrarian, but if someone is full of shit, don't just go along with them. A thousand years ago or more that would have ended up with you dead more often than not. Therein lies the reason why 'jerks' are admired and followed while nice guys are maligned and distrusted.
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@KA-vs7nl why would you feel sorry for me? A hard life makes you a hardened man. Experience is the great teacher and failure its best tool. My life is quite good now, very enjoyable other than the chronic pain I live with. The things I saw and did most people will never do, or even imagine that it can be done.
Living alone in the woods is awesome, its quiet, I can do what I want when I want, and I don't have to ask permission to do it. I'm building a 400m rifle range in my back yard, no wind because of the trees so I will be able to zero everything in near perfect.. well as good as the various platforms can be.
Debt free and owning enough land to live on, its worth all the BS I endured to get here. However I wish I would have never gotten married, sure as hell not to a harpy from the USA. What a waste of time and money that was. The only benefit is knowing to not do that.
Back in 1994 it was a different world though, no internet resources like you guys have to help you avoid mistakes. Sure we had the internet in the 80s, but none of you could use it, only those of us in the military could. Its come a long way, and you guys get to benefit from it.
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@AmeliaBodilia thanks, have been told that I should write a book a few times, might do some of it this winter. When I write about my life the usual responses are anger and depression, or people are relieved that their life didn't have that much crap in it.. heh.
I saw some therapists, the one I had at the end of Dubya's term was stellar, then Barry came in, cut VA funding, and they canceled the contract. Then I had to see in house shrinks at the VA.. absolutely worthless experience.
Here is what I found, I am the only one who can fix things in my head. As long as I am not deluding myself and going down unproductive paths what I do in my head works best. Lower stress, deal with the things in my past that had emotional markers attached to them, and do my best to prevent others from making my life harder, or taking from me... and life is good.
Physical activity, lifting heavy stuff, getting my heart rate up a few times a day, and achieving goals I set is far better than any shrink I have seen.
The cars make life fun and worth living. The dogs keep me company and grounded in reality. Weather keeps me moving because hypothermia is one hell of a motivator. I concentrate on that, because people have always been the source of stress in my life.
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@White_Wrath they won't let you live in the woods, they will condemn your dwelling because its not net zero even if you have no electricity, then they will also say you aren't on the grid which adds to condemnation. Also they will put a value added tax in excess of the property's value and then claim they are taking it for unpaid taxes when you cannot afford thousands per month in taxes.
I am already living in the woods, barely on the grid. Other than the grid electricity, I am damn near carbon neutral since I produce vodka fuel for my cars, can heat my home without burning anything using compost water heaters, and have the ability to grow and catch my own food. Thing is, they DO NOT CARE about the environment at all. They want to force all of us to move into the big cities where they can control every resource we get, only give us what they want.
That means they will have less inventory requirements, more profits, they will only have to produce a handful of things rather than a myriad of products, and we will still work for them but have no benefit from it as we will be in constant debt to them. No meat so you cannot build muscle nor think about much more than basic survival, barely enough food to survive so you cannot store anything.
The really fun part is they cannot handle 7 billion people under that profit maximizing scheme of control, so they have to cull about 6 billion of us to make it work. You cannot herd a billion cattle or pigs, but a few thousand is easily managed. We are chattel to them, they think they are better and smarter than we are simply because they have money and we don't.
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1961 Bay of Pigs, 1898 The USS Maine, 1933 Reichstag fire, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin, 1915 Lusitania, 2001 WTC, 1993 WTC, 2000 USS Cole, 1983 Marine Barracks Beirut, 1996 Khobar Towers, 1941 Pearl Harbor, .... In every instance, no matter if it was engineered like 1933 and 1964, the gov used it as justification to suit their interest and did not give the public a full accounting. What they are doing here amounts to the same thing as the Reichstag fire in 1933, trying to get political support for their leftist regime by demonizing the sensible opposition in any way possible... including manufacturing a situation, like 1933 and 1964.
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I don't give a rats ass about Trump. I honestly don't. What I do care about is ending the corruption in politics, stopping the erosion of the bill of rights, and ending the censorship being forced upon us. These people are following a religion, its based in marxism, you can tell by the identity politics, top down governance, free shit for everyone, and the woke bullshit. The Establishment Clause prohibits religion based legislation.. Their laws rooted in marxism are illegal, which means title IX, all the family court laws, critical race theory and more are ILLEGAL. Fuck these people and their bullshit ideology.
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She asks if I fought, endured, and survived to get what I have.. Yes, I did. I built my house, I did not hire a contractor nor did I buy it, I built it with two friends of mine who were paid for their help. She is NOT entitled to my house, nor my land, as she has done FUCK ALL to improve it and has not earned it. I have.
I build drivable old muscle cars from very rusty heaps of shit. I put hundreds and thousands of hours into them, money that I earned, and it took me several decades to gain and hone the skills required to do it. Just because I have four old GTOs does not entitle her or anyone else to one of them, BECAUSE I FUCKING BUILT THEM.
Bitch, if you want what I have, come try to take it and be prepared to be fended off with extreme violence. How about instead of taking what we have built, you put in the work and build your own home? It wasn't given to me, why should it be given to you?
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@russellguyton3109 thankfully when the VA sends me to the ER and doesn't want to pay for it, because with a blue admin they are 'closed' from 1200 on Thursday to 1200 on Monday, Medicare will pay it now.
Two different VA Drs I had missed pneumonia, a very easy thing to diagnose. The ER discovered it within two minutes once I got in to be seen. The first time it cost me $6k out of pocket, because the VA would not cover it.
Then I had two good Docs, and until recently the people working there were all vets as well. They have run off the veterans, and replaced them with civilians, which judging my Milwaukee Wi and Lincoln Nebraska VA's its not a good thing for the patients.
Lincoln is the absolute worst one I have been to, the nurses are all sitting around, telling stories, messing around on FB, while people wait several hours for appointments that come and go, then they are sent home to try again tomorrow. Everyone there needed to be fired.
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Oh geez, you mean the marque cyst spin off effinism is why my two ex wives were encouraged to eat a bowl of stooooopid flakes, cheat, lie, divorce me, and the state enforced punishing me, whilst their families encouraged them to burn their lives to the ground, and its all coooominisysms? NO WAI! I never woulda guessed dat!
Duluth Model, adopted by many states either implicitly or covertly, designed to destroy the family, and people say its not marque cyst ideology.. Well if they defend it, they must be marque cysts.
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@muhdiversity7409 I take VERY rusty old cars, and rebuild them into nice shiny daily drivers with lots of power, and its vastly less expensive and far more rewarding than any relationship I had with females.
I cleared 3 acres of trees and used some of the larger maples to build my shop where I build the cars. Something I could never afford to do when I had a female living with me. They kept me broke and I had to be concerned with keeping enough cash around to cover emergencies. That means I had to take far fewer risks too.
Its not that I don't like them, its not that I am angry with them, as I am quite fond of them as people and intimate partners. The problem is how they can take everything I have and invested in as a reward for doing everything wrong. Its that they cannot be trusted, so I don't even bother doing so. Enjoy the time with them, then let them see themselves out when they think they can do better, and they always think they can.. Yet they rarely have.
My first ex cost me more money than I have invested in my 13 acres of land, 20 muscle cars, and the house and shop I built, with all the tools and equipment I have to rebuild cars. What do I have to show for it? One kid that hates me, and another that calls me when she needs money. Other than that... nothing.
I lost from 1993 to 2015 and was kept from getting ahead at all the entire time. I barely made as much money as she had taken from me and handed to her in that time.
There might be a 'hood one' out there somewhere, but I am not looking for her, because she is hidden by all the not good ones. Its like sifting through a stack of needles covered in Ebola, looking for a clean one. Not worth the risk and effort.
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I'm simply amazed that one of them realizes "They" are the problem, even if it took 40 years to realize it, or thinks they know what a man is or should be. She described my first wife almost perfectly. My ex tried literally everything to get me to obey her and hand over the money so she could go shopping and spend it on herself. She tried, but I did not bend, no matter how many times she cut me or hit me with things, withheld spicythyme, I never gave in. Her second husband lets her run his life, the income is made by him, but she dictates what happens with it. She got what she wanted, and when that dude croaks in a few months to a couple years, she will have nothing but debt.
My second ex wasn't like the first, but still took off and blamed me for all her failures and poor choices.
There is only one thing I want from them and its not very important to me in my 50s, building cars then going drag racing is vastly more enjoyable, and infinitely less expensive.
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No matter what, even if its just sitting out there day dreaming about what you plan to do with it for a couple hours, DO SOMETHING on your project car every day. I wasn't feeling it today after unloading 2000lbs of wood pellets from my truck, but I went out and welded a sump into the new gas tank I got for my latest project. Don't need it for the engine in it now so I will plug it, but I might at some point in the future, and the time to cut and weld on a fuel tank is before its had fuel in it. The new tires will be here for it day after tomorrow. Its hard to believe I am getting new tires for a car I am not planning to drive right away when the snow melts, but it makes it easier to move it around the yard... and I can run them on another car if I want.
I've had cars sit for years, and even decades, because I have wanted to build something else first. I don't entertain the idea of selling them, because I am going to build them, but I need to get something else done first. I have a rough order, a sequence of events you might say, where I want to do this one, then that one. I have a plan in my head for each one, and most of them won't require paint, well not nice paint, so that cuts time and money out of the build and lets me get more of them done.
There are reasons why I want to do a particular car or truck first, here lately its to open up shop space by getting the parts ON the vehicle instead of hanging around the shop taking up space. Thats how I got started on the current one, its a drivable engine stand. Cars take up a lot less space when they are all together, they take up a wild amount of room when they are torn completely apart. Drivable or at least moveable under its own power, makes yard tetris so much easier. The C10 is next because so much of it is new parts sitting in the shop, like the doors, fenders, and other replacement metal.
There are times when I lose my motivation to get out in the shop and work. The last two weeks have been like that because I was trying to get enough done that I could go back to Nebraska and pull another car home from the family farm. It didn't work for me to leave, so I took a break, ordered some parts I was waiting to buy because I would need that money for gas. Might as well make it happen in the shop, because I won't be able to drive anything cool for five months. I'll go get that car in April, when its warm enough that my house won't freeze if I am not here to keep the fire going.
Here I am, back at it again... even making video of this build.
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Hate to break it to you, but they are going after vehicles too. When I am not a crazy long distance hole punching nut, I am a hard core gearhead (ok most of the time I am doing gearhead things.) Its why you are paying $4 for gasoline and they are pushing everyone towards electrics which are considerably more expensive so only certain people will be able to drive in their perfect little world. I don't mind EVs, except the limited range, expense, and corrosion issues that tend to make them catch fire. The Tesla Plaid hauls ass, which is cool.
Its all about control. So long as we have the long distance hole punches, they cannot force their will upon us like that. Thats why they are going after the hole makers.... so they can deprive us of everything else.
For the record, my GTOs and Firebirds (all vintage between 1965 and 1979) run on vodka, aka ethanol. Its clean burning, makes lots of power, allows me to run high compression in my daily driver which makes even more power, and everything lasts longer in my vehicles... except rear tires. I don't run the stuff because its green. I run ethanol because I can make it myself, like when no other fuels are available, and I don't have to pay the price they demand I pay for it. Everything else is a bonus.
Making your fuel is like reloading, but you make the powder and projectiles yourself. Using cattails a gallon of vodka fuel only costs me 40 cents to make. That is 10x less expensive than gasoline.
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He has had it easy for so long, he is insecure about believing he deserves what he gets. He doesn't have to work to get laid, his job promotes him because he is a tall good looking guy and people like him. It sounds to me like he has impostor syndrome, does he really think he has earned what he has? At our core, men judge themselves on what they have achieved and earned, and if it has been too easy the achievement is lessened.
I am 5'8 and will be 50 next week, I had to develop seriously good game to get laid, and I had to do it the hard way before the internet, which meant trial and error over years of figuring out what works and what doesn't. I had to fight against all kinds of bullshit from life and others throwing obstacles ahead of me. I am very strong physically, 350 is what I can do for reps. The way I got that strength damn near killed me, and it was from one 14 month period of my life when I was 21, and it was not in a gym. I survived and endured, then was punished for being this muscular, nobody cares how strong you are if you do not look good in a uniform made for skinny wimps.
The point is I had to struggle for everything, nothing came easy, and my self confidence is solar system sized even if I am not tall enough for 60% of girls out there. I know full well what my capabilities are, because I have been challenged my entire life, a continuous struggle to achieve. Set back to zero 8 fucking times since I got out of high school, two of them being divorces that left me homeless. Some shit comes easy to me, to the point of it being intuitive, such as mechanical process, but everything physical I have had to work harder than everyone else because I was a 4'9 fat kid until 7th grade.
Contrast my self confidence and being self assured, needing no external validation whatsoever with his need for validation from others to assuage his own insecurities. He doesn't feel he deserves life to be this easy, to get the attention he gets, so he is driven to perfection in a vain attempt to quiet the demons in his head. I know I earned everything the hard way, so there is no demon in my head saying "you do not deserve this." The demon in my head says "those people cannot be trusted, because everyone always wants to take from you." That has been my experience.
Dude needs to have a situation where he is not easily top dog or close to it. He needs to be the bottom of the barrel and work his way out of it, challenge himself with mind bogglingly difficult goals and achieve them. Its going to be hard for him to do that outside of the military to be quite honest. He will have no real strife thrown at him by others, people adore him.
In essence, he is the hot chick who gets all the attention and I am the fat chick who has to have a personality to get laid. Hot chicks have that impostor thing too, life is too easy for them to believe what they have was earned. Often, it is not earned, but dude has achieved and earned already. He can bench 350, which is more than the overwhelming majority of people on the planet will ever lift. He has a good job making bank, and pussy is thrown at him because he has worked on his appearance.
So its not that he actually has it easy like a hot girl who just has to not get fat and she gets free shit handed to her by thirsty simps, he only perceives it as too easy and can't believe he deserves it. He has to figure out how to believe he deserves it. He needs that ultimate challenge, the arduous coming of age task that civilizations used to put boys through to turn them into men. He needs to kill the wolf like Leonidas.
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I called it. Bought my land in 2013, right after the bottom fell out of the market after the 08-09 fiasco. This happened several times since the late 70s. We are sitting in a bubble again, and its gonna pop. If you bought during the last 5 years, you are going to be upside down for ten years at least. Hope you like living there and can make the payments. 43% servicing debt is wild. I made sure my debt payments never got over 20% of my total income, so I could live and do things. Back in the 90s the bank approved me for nearly $200k for a house, which was silly because I was earning about $2000-$3000 a month working a ton of OT. I bought a $37k house, and I was able to pay the mortgage and all our bills with my first weekly paycheck.
The ex taking off and getting 71% of my before tax income was why I lost that old small house. The ex's brother also was allowed to move in my the MIL and he tore the hell out of it, then took all my appliances while I was in the USAF. The MIL said the AF was paying for my housing and food so the brother in law could live in my house without paying rent. They just couldn't understand why I was so massively upset. Just another leech on me. I am so glad to be done with that family, they aren't real bright. I had no idea until after my first kid was on the way. Makes me wonder if the kid is mine...
Living within your means.. thats what I do. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. Give it a year or two, maybe the end of the current admin, and see what housing costs. You not being able to afford a house for the last 8 years has been beneficial to you, because you are not stuck with massive debt and no way out of it. I am debt free, and have been since 2021.
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Someone should let the red head from a bottle harpy know that women like men who put them in their place, show strength, and do NOT accept female bs. I've been that sort of man for my entire adult life, and when I acted the way she thinks I should women lose interest. Its how I get rid of the clingy nutters who boil pets and firebom cars... I treat them nice and ask for spicy time, and they are gone within two weeks, and they think its their idea.
She is upset that men like me do not want her, and the tall good lookin guys REALLY don't want her. She thinks marriage is winning, because she wins in it. The longest sentence is "I do." She not only has an empty egg carton, its full of dust, cobwebs, and varied detritus.
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SuperDave Miorgan its not abusing it at all. I give it what it wants, and use the vacuum as well as mechanical advance. The 670 heads on a TRW flat top 455 with stock rods wanted 52 degrees total, while running VP red and Sunoco 110.
It ran like that for ten years, the only thing that killed it was someone dumped lead shot in a valve cover and one of them found its way to #7 rod journal. The rest of the bearings were nearly perfect, and I raced it all the time, and street drove it often. Probably 300 to 400 passes on the street and various tracks. No signs of detonation on the pistons or the bearings.
It honestly lost a full second in ET when I backed it down to 38 total.
Those same 670 heads on a stock rod TRW flat top 400 running 93 and some octane booster flattened the upper rod bearings with two first gear only hits. I backed the timing down to around 28-30 and it still flattened them. I pulled the crank, turned it, and put it back in with .020 rods, .010 mains and its still running today. Its sitting on a stand waiting to go in my 72 Ventura. It has ported and milled 48s sitting on it, thinking of going to a cam close to the 041. it has a 744 clone in it right now.
With E85 the 670 headed 455 with Icon flat tops, 4.25" crank, and a zero deck, likes 45 total. Its my daily driver in the 65 GTO. That short block had the milled 48s on it before the 670s. but with 13:1 it wanted MLS head gaskets. Was too much for the FelPros. Ethanol burns faster, but cooler, and is softer on parts while making more power, yet those closed chamber heads still want a bunch of advance. Not as much as slow burning race gas, but a lot.
As long as you get it enough octane, you can give it as much advance as it wants. 13:1 isn't even a challenge for E85, hell you can run 20psi with that much static on E85.
Now the open chamber heads (like 48, 12, 13, 62) want less advance than the closed chamber 670s, but even the 5C and 6X heads want more than 40 total, and they can do that on 87 octane.
If you are trying to make the small chamber heads work on low octane gas, you aren't going to be able to run much advance without hurting stuff. 11.3:1 is no problem with 110. E85 is rated at 105 but it will do a lot more than 105 gasoline will.
I can't afford to blow these things up, so if I hurt one with too much timing or something, I would not do that again. So far the only one that broke due to something I did was my very first 400 with 5C heads. I didn't have to clean enough and it wiped the bearings. At least it was a 557 block.
Two of them have been broken from people putting things in them, the other was my Butler 467, an asshole dumped gravel down the 1050. They fixed it for me and its still running. I ordered it from Jim while I was deployed to Kuwait back in 2004, otherwise I would have just gotten the parts and used one of my blocks. Needed it ready to go when I got back to the states. A neighbor didn't like the sound of it, so he graveled it.
Otherwise I get decades out of my engines, even with stock rods. So I must be doing something right. And no I don't throw that much timing at a chevy or a Ford.
I am considering a 4" crank for the IAII block I am going to order next month. Want to put my BPG ported Edelbrocks on it and throw it about 20psi. A 4.25 or 4.5 might be too much torque to ever think about hooking it in anything I own. Throw boost at it and everything changes in regards to timing and AFR.
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@DonaldEMinor yep, and a lighter car can go fast with less power. I raced what I had, and what I had was junk I could find cheap. Turns out it was heavy stuff, so small engines were not going to make it fast.
I got the traction issue solved enough to run low 11s with a set of sticky tires on an otherwise stock suspension, it did have an alignment I put on it that dropped .4 and picked up 5mph, nothing special, lots of caster, zero camber, and half a degree toe in. Trued the rotors and rear drums, repacked all the bearings with good grease, and made sure the brakes weren't dragging.
You have to look at it as the whole package, it all has to work together and you get the most from reduced friction and mass. A friend of mine was running 11.2s with a 302 chevy that had way too much cam in it, stuffed in a T bucket. All up it was about 1400lbs and he was only 150lbs.
Let him drive my car at the track when it was only running high 14s and he about grenaded the 400 I had in it, because he could floor his little 302 and barely get the tires hot. My 400 broke them lose easily and he stayed in it. It was spinning well over 7000 with stock rods, I am lucky he didn't toss one. That short block is still alive today, waiting on a set of heads and a chassis to get done. It ran 12s on pump gas a year after he almost broke it. Then I built another 400, then a 455 to go in the car.
Makes me wonder what one of my 455s would do on a T bucket like his. I really should have built one, but I already had a car that was legal to drive around, to work, on road trips, and a dedicated race car wasn't in the cards with a wife, two kids, and a mortgage. I have that Opel GT sitting here begging for some power, so I just might find out what it would do in a light chassis instead of nearly 4000lbs.
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@28oct-30 ya know, those riots were in blue cities that enabled, allowed, and encouraged the riots, the blue cities are defunding the police. If the idiots who vote for the marxist morons want that, well they can have that. There were no riots in cities and states that are not run by marxist idiots.
The whole point of the riots was to make people afraid in the hopes that normal people decide to fight back, which the media would spin as huwite supermanning violence. The same way they did in January, and any other time someone defends themselves like the kid in Kenosha. They wanted us to respond, so they could vilify us and call for draconian measures against us.
Do not let yourself be ruled by emotions, as they are very easy to manipulate, which is why emotional people flock to the marxists.
When the rioters come to where we live, and not just where the marxists encourage them, or when the creepy kid sniffer regime sends jackboots around to pick up our means of defense, or starts incarcerating us for saying things like I am here... well, then that is them doing something that will justify the response.. are they daft enough to try and disarm us like that? I think they are.
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I was beaten daily by either my dad or my older brother at home on the farm, at school my brother spread a rumor I was gay, that got me beaten more. The asshole he was added to the beatings from other kids. I was the short fat kid because of a messed up diet they had me on from age 4 to 13. I could not lift over 50 lbs when I was 12, and I was all of 4'9 until I was 13. My brother poisoned, stabbed, ran over, bludgeoned, and beat me at random, he took great pleasure in it. Dad used me as his vent for frustration and anger, if he was mad I was getting hit.
In 8th grade I got into wrestling, the beatings continued. When I was 16 I had learned enough, gotten strong enough, and had grown to 5'6, and I could carry 200lbs easily. This is from farm work and from wrestling that I gained the strength. Ended up going to state in the toughest weight class 167lbs, and I could beat everyone on my team in succession easily. Imagine how much mass you need to be 5'7 8% BF and weigh 170lbs... and I was quick.
My dad went to hit me one night, and I hit him first, knocked him clean the fuck out and mom freaked. Dad never went to hit me again after that.
My brother decided to start beating on me one day, so I body slammed his ass on the concrete steps to the house three times. I am 50, he is 52 and he is to this day very afraid of me, because I can bench well over the 265lbs I could at that point, and I have far more training. My bench is north of 400 now and with military training, lets say I have no fears of other people.
The kids at school realized I am not like my brother, not gay, and I earned their respect by being funny and beating the fuck out of another bully at school who was a year older than I am. After seeing what I did to that kid, everyone knew not to fuck with me, and he was a wrestler too.
Its strange how you can go from being the weak fat kid everyone even the girls fuck with, to being the still short 5'8 kid that everyone knows not to fuck with and now the girls want to fuck you.
My brother was abusive and capricious about it, the rest of it including my dad using me as a punching bag, helped me become strong and dangerous, but with a restraint to keep myself from ending up in prison.
There is benefit to fucking with the weak kids, but only if they decide to do something about it and not be the victim and just let it happen. Training, experience, and hardship are what makes us men. Competence and capability is what makes us great men.
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I do not need my smart phone to travel. I do not live in western Europe where the socialists are trying to create a new soviet union and the fear over the overreaction to a mild bug is how they are justifying it. Not much Europeans can do about it, you have no means to resist, no capability to remove dictators yourselves, you are subjects and the generations before you allowed you to become subservient to government. Previous generations allowed themselves to be disarmed, and it might be a good thing because Europe sure likes to have wars. Regardless, over there across the pond, you're screwed and have to do as you're told.
They are trying to do these things here in the US. They're trying to get us to submit, be disarmed, and become dependent upon the government. Many are eagerly submitting, the large population centers want someone else to take care of them, give them free stuff, and they think that will make life easier.
Give me a bad social credit score, I don't care. I will still do what I want to do as I am not beholden to others. I've spent the last 8 years busting my ass to become self sufficient, debt free, and I can travel without being traced or tracked. Try to disarm me, limit my movement, tell me I can't own a vehicle, tell me I can't say what I want when I want and where I want, well, we gonna have a problem.
I took an oath several times to defend our way of life and risked my life to do so, I will not submit and cower to authoritarians who are ignoring the idea that set the US apart from every other country on earth.
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@wtice4632 my first ex is from Ne, and in that state the man is always guilty, always wrong, and always unfit to be a parent. The only way a father will get custody is if the mother relinquishes it to him. The state likes to take the kids when the mother is incarcerated... they really hate dads.
State law stipulates no more than 68% of net income will be taken for support. They took 71% of my gross, while I was active duty in the USAF, which left me sleeping in my car and on friend's couches from 2001 to 2004. The only time I was able to eat every day and sleep in a bed was when I was deployed to Kuwait Aug-Dec 2001, and when I was in Korea June 02-June 03. They left me $100 a month to live on.
When I would go home on leave, the state would actively try to prevent me from seeing my kids. The ex would move, change her number, and do all sorts of other things to keep me from my two daughters. The state helped her despite it being law that they had to tell me where she was living and assist me when she was being combative during visitation.
The law says one thing, but they do whatever the hell they want, and the man always pays for it.
The judge started me out 6 months in arrears, which was over $10,000 with a $1740/month base pay. At $5000 behind they revoke your drivers license, put a stop on your passport, and any professional license you have is revoked. So I lost my DL, passport, and security clearance all in one day... because the judge said so. That made things difficult when I deployed in 2001, Nebraska freaked out like I was trying to evade them or something by leaving the country. The security clearance thing nearly got me kicked out.
When I got back to base the USAF treated me like I was some sort of tool who could not handle money, sending me to classes about money management and financial responsibility. Then at the 'classes' I would explain that child support was taking damn near everything, and the instructor would say "oh, you're not overdrawn or anything like that?" Nah just sleeping in my car and eating cheese sandwiches every other day.
I know one guy who got his kids in that state, its because she took off and abandoned them, signed them over, all so she could do crank with the guy she met. Everyone else I know who has been divorced there has gotten similar treatment to me.
Prenups do not matter there either from what I am told. Judges routinely throw them out. The reason is the feds pay the state in kind for how much money they assess the father in child support. Some of that money goes into things like the judge's retirement funds. It comes out of the Social Security funds, and Nebraska always wants more money. Title 4D if you want to look into that.
They are trying to extort me even now, 7 years after my child support ended because my kids turned 19, and 21 years after my divorce.
So I admonish men to not get married at all, but sure as hell not in Nebraska.
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The Siberian husky I raised from a little furball is 13 years old, coming up on 14. She can't hear out of one ear, and the other doesn't do so well but she can hear loud enough noises. She is tuned in to me, she can tell when I am having a hard time with my PTSD or other stresses. She will come to me and pester me until I pet her, and it always brings me back to reality. We have been together a long time, longer than any relationship with a woman I have had. I have tried to give her a good life with plenty of exercise, interesting things to investigate, tennis balls to chase, rabbits to catch, and she likes car rides. I will be so sad when she leaves me. Every time I get a fresh snow she is in heaven. I posted a video of them going out the back door into the fresh powder earlier this year. She has some words she uses for what she wants, the one she says in the video is what she says when she wants to go outside. She is a very good alarm clock, if you want to get up when the sun peeks over the trees.
My yellow lab died last year, he had a benign tumor that was keeping him from eating. The vet removed it, but due to complications he died a week after coming home. He was 11 and I got him when he was six months old. He hated car rides at first, and he wined the entire 1.5 hour drive home from where I got him. Then in '13 I had to make a 14 hour drive and the dogs had to go along. He wined for half the trip, then he settled down and got used to it. After that he loved getting in the truck and going somewhere. His favorite spot was in front of the wood stove, soaking up all the heat from it he could. His next favorite spot was the old couch I left in the back yard for them, he always wanted a soft spot to sleep.
I like dogs more than I like people. Dogs deserve to be liked.
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@realwickedbrew I don't watch sportsball, have zero interest in it. My 'sport' is underground and illicit anyway, two guys with huge V8 engines, perhaps some turbos or nitrous on them, finding a deserted back road and seeing which one is faster. That is my thing.
The problem is already coming to pass that I can't get parts. It took me 4 months to get a set of tires for a truck last year. The first set was stolen from UPS in Chicago. The second set was supposed to be 16" but they sent 15" tires. Third set was in stock until I clicked order, then they were backordered. It took me a month to get them to cancel that. Finally I got a set of the most common size of tire for a light truck/SUV.
In 2019 all I had to do was click on what I wanted, and it would be here two days later.
I live in the middle of nowhere, closest neighbor is a quarter mile away, on the other side of the highway and there is a thick new growth forest between us. I go into town once a week to get supplies, sometimes a couple other times to get parts from local stores. I avoid people as a matter of course, because I am divorced twice and have been fucked over a lot in my life.
I live in a small shipping container house I built (1050sqft. its actually kinda interesting, but a tad cold right now with single digit F weather but its paid off and I am debt free) I heat with wood, make tree sap ethanol to run my vehicles, and I rarely buy new things other than gaskets and consumables like food, tires, etc.
They want everyone to live like I do, but take public transportation. If I take the bus into town, its a two day shopping trip because the bus only goes by once in each direction during the day. Miss the bus, you're stuck there unless you have a vehicle. This time of year its often sub zero weather with 150-300 inches of snow, so a 4x4 is pretty much a requirement. Then the salt rips through them so I drive $500 beaters in winter.
The idea behind all of this is to kill off our economy, force us into poverty, then they can 'rescue' us with their socialist ideas where they are the all powerful authority and we work for them, rather than being able to work for ourselves. There is no room for what I do with cars in their world. There is no way I can live where I do in their world, and with my PTSD, someone will get killed if I am forced to live in a city. I need nature.
So they want to take everything from me that has kept me going for the last 40 years, and they think it will make me happy. Why else would they want to disarm all of us? Because we will not stand for that shit.
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@SuperZebezian it depends on what you like, want, and believe if the past was better than the present, or vice versa. I was born in the 60s, and many things are vastly better than they were in the past. Some things are worse, some things are the same.
For instance, its only been in the last 20 years that you and I could ever have this conversation. I can do so much more now than I could 30 years ago. Vastly more information is available to me now as compared to years ago. Medical services are a lot better than in the past, if gov had never gotten involved it would still be affordable.
I could easily support a wife and family, 30 years ago and/or today. You can't do it on minimum wage, and min wage is not intended to do so. If you don't live in a large city with millions or tens of thousands of other people within a mile of you, its actually quite easy to live and thrive today. If there are no jobs or opportunities where you are, then move. I did many times in my life.
I don't understand why people feel the need to live in a city where everything needs to be brought to them so they can survive, and the cost of living is so high. For some reason those people assume they are smarter and more capable than those of us who eschew cities and the masses of people in them. They know how to do precious little, but believe they are smarter, its most amusing. Dunning Krueger in full effect.
The dating scene is horrible now, and has been for several years. Education is utter junk today as well. A huge cost with minimal benefit, its not worth it. People are more concerned with what they can buy than what they can build or create. People are also far too concerned with what other people have, but are unwilling to put in the effort to achieve what others have, they want it taken from those who earned it and give to those who have not.
Too many think that because Joe over there is wealthy, that he took advantage of or stole it from others. Once again, those people are unwilling to do what Joe did to get it, they only see the end result, not the effort required to achieve that result.
I lived in the 70s and 80s, it HUGELY sucked. Probably because I didn't know anywhere near as much then as I do now. If I could do my life over and keep all my memory and knowledge, I'd be a billionaire before I turned 21.
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@TezzRah Ten years ago I bought 13 acres of woodland for less than $30k. In 2015 I got a $30k building loan to build my shop and house on that land. In 2021 I paid off all my debt. From age 19 to 35 I sacrificed a huge amount to get ahead, and everything I earned was taken away from me at 32 years old and 44 years old, so it could be given to someone who did nothing to earn it.
No I do not live in a city, I am 3 hours driving time from the largest city in the region, which is Green Bay Wisconsin. I grow food, produce fuel for my vehicles, and I build the cars I want rather than buy them. I traded hours for wealth, not dollars. The dollars I got were invested in me and starting ten years ago, my land. I lost two houses to divorce, 2001 and 2013. Life has been a struggle to say the least.
It only in the last 5 years that I have gotten more than $40k a year. Most of my life was spent under $25k a year. Way under that.. I lived within my means, my ex wives did not. Now I drive cool vintage muscle cars, and am building more of them. I am completely debt free, because I only accrued debt that benefitted me, except for the debt forced on me by the state in my divorces.
The thing is, you are allowed to do what I have done, but you need to earn it. Nobody is going to give it to you unless you're female.
Your problem is you want to live in a big city where everything needs to be brought to you so you can survive, and your waste taken away for you. I see that as being a dependent, and in being dependent on them, you are limited to what they will allow or give you.
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They did not learn when all their suppliers sent factories to Mexico in the 90s, scrap went to 90%, and they had supply problems. I worked for Dana Corp in the 90s, CNC machinist. We supplied Buick for the 3800 engine, Ford for the 5.0, Electromotive who builds train engines, and many others. They packed it up in 98 and sent it to Mexico because of NAFTA. Biden was instrumental pushing NAFTA through, Ross Perot was exactly fucking right. A great sucking sound. I ended up back in the military in 2000, and we all know what happened in 2001 and started in 2003. I am permanently fucked up now, because the only way I could support my family was the military. ALL the jobs in my state I could do were sent to Mexico.
Ya know what? Fuck em. I am not going to buy a new car anyway. The aftermarket is where my parts come from, and if they are chinese junk we never buy them again. There is a huge push to have our parts made in the USA not in Mexico or China, because the quality from outside the US sucks. Democrats are out for themselves, and they will exploit people for profit, that is how I got fucked up in their war. They profited while I got fucked up. Then they use marxist rhetoric to get people to think they are for the little guy.. its ludicrous.
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@contumelious-8440 Considering there is more oxygen in ethanol and methanol, they produce more power and thrust than fossil fuels, with less waste heat.
One of the original Gemini 7, Gordon Cooper, had no jet fuel available to fly back to Florida, so he fueled up with methanol and flew back. He found increased performance at higher altitudes due to the added O2 in the fuel, and it did not use nearly as much fuel as the BTU content would suggest. Also, in later tests he found that jet engines running on straight ethanol or methanol cleaned the smog laden air in the Bay Area... so it cleans the air while you make more power.
I find the BTU thing laughable, because that is only a measurement of how well any given fuel heats water. There is a lot more to internal combustion fuels than how well they heat a pound of water one degree.
So yeah, ethanol and methanol would be more than adequate to fuel an F18, besides, the modern carriers have catapults that throw them into the air. Aviation, high performance automotive engines, and fuels are kinda my thing.
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Because some people have a problem with something, does not mean everyone should be deprived of it. Its a basic 1A argument. Some people have a problem with high speed long distance hole punches, and they are trying to ban them. I am unthrilled about bans on things.... particularly because someone is offended, upset, or angered by it.
I agree its not an addiction, its something else, often a lack of willpower, or they like to wallow in guilt/shame. Religious people like to use shame and guilt on people, that creates hangups. Then we have the other side that goes full nannertarded and do things that harm themselves.
Matt, you're married and unlike Crowder and I, you are not divorced, you have not had everything you earned and built taken from you. Thus you still promote marriage, and I agree that marriage and intact families is the foundation of civilization. The problem is, the laws encourage women to destroy their family and marriage, society encourages it as well, then of course they blame the man. Change the laws and society's view of men, or watch it crumble to dust. Your call.
I am never getting married again, don't date either, because I prefer sleeping indoors in my own bed, and not in a vehicle.... but I am still a man. Gotta clean the pipes occasionally, use it or lose it is a real thing. If you're waxing the carrot several times a day, you got a problem. If its a couple times a week maintenance issue, thats not a problem. You might have an issue with it because you're very religious and married.
Marriage is far too risky for me, since I was held in poverty until 2015, and now at 54 I do not have enough lifetime left to rebuild yet again when the judge gives her everything I have.
So should I risk going out and getting the herpghonosyphilaids, or check out a free cam site to drain things? I can go out and meet women, I can get them in bed, but until the laws are fixed that incentivize them to throw me under the bus and ride me like a wild ATM shaped mechanical bull, they will not be married to me. There are more risks than sin, you can catch things that never go away, but what is a man to do? I am not a priest, I am a hyper masculine man with daily requirements, like the morning Shi-Sho-Sha.. except I don't shave.
Now if these ladies want to screw up their lives for money, who am I to stop them? I profoundly screwed up my life for women, ok they screwed it up for me but still. We all make choices in life, we all take risks.
The last thing I need is a nanny, telling me what I can look at, say, own, or do. I will not take a nanny that says I no longer own things just as much as I will not accept a nanny that says I have to follow religious rules, to me its the same thing. I am an adult male, I can choose for myself, and as long as I don't listen to the mainstream, I do ok. I have done amazing things in the ten years since my final divorce, far more than I could have with a wife attached to my wallet. I know, because I have had that.
So you want to ban spicy videos and such. Ok, I want to ban all religious based legislation from our country. Oh wait, we already have that in the Establishment Clause of the 1A. Those people who go too far and have rainbows on everything, yeah, them.. they are pushing their religion on all of us. How about we focus on stopping their religion from owning us and deal with spicy content later?
I agree entirely, kids should not be exposed to it, but once they start hitting puberty they are going looking for it. Like long distance hole punches, its best to educate kids about dangerous things, rather than keep them in the dark and make them afraid of it. Seems people like to go extreme with everything, rather than sensible, logical, rational solutions.
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@busimagen I had the work ethic, made a mistake in getting married to someone who had no interest in working with me, she just wanted to leech from me. She brought that out after the first kid.
The things I have endeavored to do outside of that mistake, often failed because it was not the right time. Other people had made changes that affected my efforts, and were far beyond my control. Like when I started a business right as all the factories in the area were being closed and sent to Mexico. All my customers had no money, they all lost their jobs.
Timing can be considered luck.
If I had never gotten married, I would have stayed where I lived, pursued my interests, and would probably be VERY well known here on YT, because of the things I do. People I know who are into the same things, have mutual friends and they know some really big names on here. 1320video and Cleetus Mcfarland are from the same group of gearheads I come from. We have mutual friends and people who raced against and with. I left to go back to the military in 2000, just as things were getting started for them.
Unlucky on my part, because of a bad choice. Currently I have something else limiting me, which precludes me from building something like they have. It is beyond my control once again, which is how things work with the feds.
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I'm not a mopar guy, but I reworked the throttle and kickdown linkage on my dad's 426 wedge in his 64 Sport Fury so it would work with the dual quads someone put on it. You can't look that up in a book, you have to understand what needs to happen, what does happen, and then figure out how to make it function correctly within the confines of what needs to happen so it works right.
I see stuff in my head, then I try to make it reality with metal, wood, composites, or whatever. I picked that up from my grandpa, he could make almost anything from wood, just about anything from metal, and he never had a plan on paper. All I need is the vision in my head. I'll end up doing some stuff a couple times before its right, that is going to happen no matter what.
Filming it, hell I have no idea, that takes a different skill set. I'm learning that though.
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The marxists, that is what the greens and labor are, are using trans people to push through legislation that they can then use to force people to think and speak they way they want them to. Once they have normalized the crazy and idiotic marxist ideology, they can subjugate the western countries... because it has worked so well in so many places.
Marxism, and its branches, eg socialism, feminism, communism, post modernism, etc are all caner. They are mind cancer like every other hare brained ideology that is based on wishful thinking, envy, and resentment that provides the in group with preferences and supposed privileges. The thing these morons who vote for these smacktards don't realize, is they will be the first to be sent to gulags and reeducation camps. That has been the modus operandi for the commies ever since the inception and implementation of the first marxist state.
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This is very interesting, range, corrosion based fire hazards, and expense are what keep me from getting into the EV world. I prefer electric RC planes and flying drones is fun, so I am not against it at all. Just can't afford the range I need in a vehicle. My solution is making vodka fuel from cattails, tree sap, and coffee grounds.
I raise the compression to over 13:1, run them hot so I can utilize the heat to improve mileage, and they make lots of power. It precludes running gasoline in my engines, but since I can make fuel ethanol for less than $1 a gallon with cattails as well as coffee grounds, and one acre of cattails makes roughly 1000 gallons of fuel while cleaning water, I don't mind not being able to use gasoline. I have gotten better mileage with more power on ethanol than I could on gasoline with the same size engine, in the same vehicle, by simply raising the compression ratio from 8.8:1 to 13:1. I picked up 3mpg over gasoline and somewhere around 100hp/150ftlbs with increased airflow, the fuel, and the compression ratios.
That was a 4100lb 1970 GTO getting 20mpg mixed city/highway with an old Qjet carb I converted to ethanol. The aero is not stellar on a 1970 GTO, and the unsprung weight, rolling resistance, and drag from things like wheel bearings, means getting 20mpg with a carb and being able to traverse the quarter mile in 11 seconds, is kinda hard to do. Sure, a modern vehicle with EFI, less drag, lighter components, and low rolling resistance tires can get 20mpg and 600hp relatively easily. I did it with 1960s (at the latest) tech though. It got 18 highway and 15 mixed on 87 octane, and ran 1.5 seconds slower in the quarter with another 455 I had in it, the 8.8:1 engine.
Its fun building a $3000 engine that will push a 3500lb muscle car through the quarter mile faster than a Tesla Plaid, with fuel you can drink and make yourself. That last part is why I am into doing this, because I am a hardcore gearhead who loves cars and racing, and if I can produce fuel myself for cheap, then I can buy more parts with my limited income.
Yes, if you run ethanol in a low compression gasoline engine, you will lose mileage. If you have 12:1 with iron heads (on my vintage Pontiac engines) to utilize the heat more effectively, you will get the same mileage with more power. There are other things you can do to improve it... Not going to get into that here though.
Best part is I don't need a lithium mine, an oil well, or anyone else telling me how much I have to pay for my fuel.
If I could get batteries like these, and electric motors that make the power I like, without having to spend tens of thousands for each, use wind and solar to charge it, without having to worry about the corrosion issues I deal with living here in the north where we get 150 to 300 inches of snow every winter, and the degradation of battery power in cold weather, I would be all about silently going fast. That is a lot of issues to overcome, and I am 53 years old so the chances I will see EVs that go faster and farther as safely for as cheap is probably not going to happen. I need to be able to travel 1000 miles in less than 14 hours, and EVs can't do that yet.
I like technology, and I use it where I can, when I can afford it. I also like caveman tech due to the simplicity of it. I don't focus on what I can buy, I'd rather think and act on what I can do, make, create, or adapt. I build my cars from rusty heaps rather often, and I will never buy a new vehicle. The closest to a new vehicle I will ever have is one that I build myself from a pile of steel tubing, with a bender and a welder.... and that is in the works.
So if they can make sodium-sulfur batteries work and make them dirt cheap, then we only have the problems of windings and magnets, plus heat/cold and how we produce the electricity.
I want a Prius, not to drive. I want the power units, the engine/generator, and the battery pack, because I can power my house and shop with them. Run the engine on vodka or methane (real easy to produce copious amounts of methane) and I can go off grid for the rest of my life. The drive motors can be used for all sorts of things, sawmill, water pumps, and more. So a Prius would be a fun addition to my project. The grid is unstable here, the longest I have gone with uninterrupted power in the 15 years I lived here is six weeks.
Gasoline has been over $5.20 for the last three weeks, and with all LED lighting, a fridge, deep freeze and a PC on in my house, my power bill is closing in on $300 a month. Heating with propane is a minimum of $1000 a month, firewood is a pain in the ass because people think 6 face cord will fit in the space 1 face cord takes up. CNG is not available here, but that is cost prohibitive too now.
Energy is my largest expense, which is why I have been working on making it myself. If I could do the car thing with electrics and get the performance/range I get with vodka for a similar cost, I'd be all over it.
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Guys, I am not defending her.. but all of you probably have the HSV, if you have had a cold sore, you have the HSV. If you had chicken pox, you have HSV.. now there are different strains/types of the virus, not all of them cause the red bumps on your bits.
To put it in car terms, lets take General Motors, its the virus 'family called herpes' and chevy gives you the red bumpies, Caddy does nothing bad and you don't even know you have it, Buick is chicken pox. Pontiac is awesome just because its awesome. (yes I build and drive old GTOs) etc.
Then you have all the different types of chevy from the old 1958 Impala to the 2023 Volt, some are benign, like the Vega others are like herpes such as a Camaro. The virus is always evolving, new strains pop up from time to time, like a new model of car and the differences in the current models year to year.
So the cold sore is a type of Oldsmobile Ninety Eight (probably the one granny Edna drove through a farmers market one Sunday morning) and the painful red bumps are a chevy Camaro. Technically its all HSV, but different types of it. So the cold sore and the burning ring of fire are closely related, but not the same thing.
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Wait.. this kid thinks he can't do what I do, which is putting in the work and making things happen to achieve my goals, because he doesn't need sunscreen? If he wants to drive an old muscle car around, but he can't afford to go buy one, he can learn to rebuild one that has rust and is missing parts, like the engine, transmission body parts, etc. Thats what I do, and doing it the way I do it is very inexpensive cash wise, but does require me to put in work on my vehicles.
He can buy some land in a rural area, build a house on it, build a shop to work in, and have his own business going for way less than buying a tiny house in a big city like Chicago or NYC. I have invested around $80k cash into my land and home, 13 acres of woodland, 1500 sqft shop, paid off the mortgage and building loan in 8 years. If I moved all the project cars out and did some landscaping, about a month's worth of work, I could sell it easily for $250k. With a $60k log cabin kit I could get over $350k out of my land if I wanted to sell it. Thats more than double return on my investment.
How can I do things so cheap? Well I can run a chainsaw, equipment like excavators and skidsteers, forklifts, and dozers. So all I have to do is rent them for a weekend, and everything is done. I can wire everything to code because I read the code books. I prepped the foundations for everything to code, by reading the codes. I don't want the massive snow we usually get collapsing roofs, so its all above code.
If you can read, learn to do things, watch videos about how to do it, then you can do everything I do. You do NOT need some stuffed shirt bureaucrat to take it from someone who has built it, and give it to you... which is what he thinks he wants.
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The common theme arises, blame the men. Lets all collectively blame the men. We shall not only double down, but quadruple down on blaming men. Then when they ask how not to be so horrible, we shall tell them to "be yourself" and "respect women" which is code for do not improve, do not build yourself nor your life, and treat women like they are superior to you especially when they do not deserve it and have not earned respect. Blame the men and give them nothing to rememdy the situation, just scream at them and make it worse.
80% of men are invisible to all but the bottom 10% of females, and those delusional females still think they deserve Chris Hemsworth looking guys. That means 20% of men are getting all or most of the the sexins. Honestly I was rather surprised to find myself in the top 20%, though I would be around the 19 to 20 percent, as it still usually required lots of effort and knowing how to talk to women to get some because I am not overly tall and don't have a bunch of money. However it is easy for me compared to most guys, and to hear that most will only have 3 partners in their entire lives was strange to me, as that is a couple weeks to a month when I am looking. The 80% guys have to lower their standards drastically, bang the immense lardaciousness of the chicks who have their own gravity well, or they will not get any.
Whamans are always looking to trade up, they will trade up if the opportunity presents itself, and even when its not a trade up and they end up worse off in every way. Both of my ex wives did that.. which is amusing, but still, its sad that it happens so often. I don't want my daughters to end up poor, alone, with 40 cats from 40 to 80. Well this tendency to trade up means they will ignore the vast majority of men out there, and sleep with the few while sharing them with other women. I watched it happen on military bases, which is a microcosm of society. On base I was not a 20% man due to being 4 inches shy of 6', but off base I was. This is how I know what is going on with these guys.
Call me sexist all you want. I have been watching and learning how this all works for the last 4 decades. You can't fix it, our culture and society is doomed because too many are thinking with the feminine mindset and not the masculine one. Whats the difference? The former is making sure everyone gets a share, nobody is left behind, we are all equal, and safe, others should provide for you. The latter is exploring what is over that ridge, meritorious advancement, earned respect, capability and knowledge are lauded, risks are taken, and we build rather than make sure everyone has an equal share. If you don;t get it, well not sure what to say other than you need to learn more about how life actually works.
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Not only do farmers work harder than city people can imagine, they are also far more intelligent and business savvy than urban people give them credit for. You cannot be an idiot and farm successfully. The less savvy get weeded out. You have to have some kind of twisted obsession to farm. I grew up on a farm, joined the military to get the hell off it and actually get paid for working my ass off. I see people make a big deal about subsidies.. that amount to the amount close to buying a used pickup. So $10k or even $20k is a drop in the bucket when your fuel cost is more than that, your tractors sell for 10x that, and combines are even more than that, $350k for a used one. Then you have all the other stuff needed to farm. The numbers for someone who only has 1500 acres would make the average cubicle dwelling gopher gasp.
Resources being taken away from wighte people? If minorities want to get into farming, by all means, knock yourself out. You can enjoy never having a day off, working outside in the weather, always being stressed about the markets because you don't get to set the price for what you produce, you are told what they will give you for it. Imagine if you built cars or computers and had someone telling you what you could get paid for it... or some chick giving blowies on the street corner, she doesn't set the price, the guy who is getting the no teeth edging performance tells her what she gets for doing it.
So many stupid people out there who have no damn clue and yet the spout off like they are an authority on the subject.
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The new cam sounds pretty good. That thing rips pretty good for just a 318.
I have air bags in the rear coils of my GTOs, they don't have a wheel hop problem or spin too much, though I can destroy the tires easily if I want because 455s are like that. I can use it to fine tune the suspension, and for when I want to carry something heavy in the trunk like tool boxes, fuel, etc. With the A body GM coil spring rear ends an air shock moves the weight point, essentially changing the fulcrum, and that causes a host of other issues including wheel hop. Another thing I have on my '65 that helps a lot with twisting the body on launch is a rear sway bar and UMI tubular control arms. The stock arms are rather flimsy, the boxed arms for a factory rear bar are better, but tubular arms have removed any notion of axle tramp. You can see some older GM cars lift the drivers front wheel high in the air on launch, and some leave nice and flat, that is the swaybar in action on the flat leaves.
My leaf spring '79 F body has high rate WS6 springs, they're intended for cornering on a Trans Am or Formula. They do not hop and the body only twists a small amount, the problem with the Firebird (and the parts car for Firebirds a pos Camaro) is the front subframe flexing at the body mounts. The camaro has hop problems because they have lower rate springs and they handle even less well than one might expect compared to the Formula and Trans Am. The air shock or helper bag works pretty good on the camaro with its weaker springs and softer suspension.
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That tw@t would have freakin died of exhaustion trying to keep up with me back in 1990-91 during the massive airlift for Desert Shield/Storm working cargo planes. 12-14 hour days, 7 days a week, waking as tired as I went to sleep, taking MREs off airplanes just to eat something, and I gained more than 40lbs of lean muscle mass in less than 6 months. He would have freakin died throwing hay/straw bales with us on the farm in the 70s and 80s. At 18 years old, 5'8, 170lbs I bench pressed over 300lbs thanks to farm work... and I got even bigger and stronger at 21 in 1990.
I make automotive videos of the cars I build, the video part is super easy, building the cars is where the work is.
Individuals like 'male' that are amusing in their ignorance.
Had a fat chick say my life was easier than a woman's because I am male. Two freakin wars, farm work, months of straight work with minimal breaks and no days off, constant beatings growing up, being held down and not allowed to succeed. Yeah... my life was so easy that I am 53, been crippled since I was 34, and at 33 I bench pressed over 500lbs.... all from my jobs.
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Tony don't get discouraged man, keep putting it out there and giving correct information. Its not a matter of opinion that bore x bore x stroke x .7854 x number of cylinders is how you figure cubic inch displacement. There are other ways to do the same thing, but that is the simplest one I have found, and all of them have the same basic structure to the math. You can go with radius of the bore and then use all of Pi rather than 1/4 of it, its still the same thing.
Arrogance: Thinking you know but have not done it.
Confidence: Knowing you know because you have done it.
I get lots of crap about ethanol, people claiming it is highly corrosive, eats carbs, gaskets, pumps etc, and all manner of other idiotic bullshit. I have found none of that to be true in the 13 years I have spent testing, driving, producing fuel, converting carbs as well as EFI, and tuning to run ethanol. Keep putting factual information out there, let the know it all's who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground (but read/heard it somewhere from someone equally clueless as they are) regurgitate their drivel. They are not your target audience, the people who realize they are missing the bits of info you are providing are your target demographic. If you had no clue I would not be replying here, as I would not be watching your videos.
The secondary air valve opening rate is adjusted on a Qjet with the spring, and while Qjets and T-Quads are both spread bore, they are very different carbs. They are more dissimilar than similar, in function, tuning, and operation. Those same 'experts' probably have no idea how a Qjet works or is different, they see small primaries and big secondaries and assume its the same thing. It took me years to get the experience with Qjets that allows me to do the things with them that I do, and others cannot seem to duplicate.
Don't stop doing what you do and continue reading comments, and give accurate info when someone offers incorrect, erroneous, fictitious, or misinformed crap. Its the only way we can pass along what we have learned over the last several decades.
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I'm a gearhead who is into green energy because if I can produce it myself, its cheaper for me due to the fact I am a disabled vet on a fixed income. The fact that my engines make more power, last longer, run cooler, and emit only Co2 and H2O, are all a very nice bonus. Making fuel myself from cattails and other 'waste' products is the reason why all my Pontiac muscle cars run on ethanol. The stills run on easily and cheaply produced methane, which can also run my generators. There is no way what I do could ever sustain a city, too many people densely packed and stacked on top of each other. Out here in the sticks, we could make all our energy easily, but the cities are a sinkhole where energy goes in and very little comes out... except the massive amounts of poo.
I looked into EVs, the hydrogen Ian seems to love, and all manner of other 'drop in' fuels when 87 octane was $5 a gallon here in 2007. Ethanol is the only one you can produce cheaply on your own that has a decent range. Methane has the same drawbacks and limitations that hydrogen has, but hydrogen requires a much larger electrical power source to produce than methane.
Can we make enough ethanol to fuel everything? Nah.. even if we lined every highway and road with cattail beds that were 50 feet wide, and turned all the corn made every year into fuel and then fed to livestock as DDGS, we can't meet the demand. We can get close with ethanol, but there is no way with low compression engines designed to run on 87-93 octane gasoline. Every method required to improve mileage on ethanol will preclude the use of gasoline, so its one or the other. However, with a dedicated engine designed to run only ethanol with hydrogen and methane as alternatives, we can get a lot better mileage than we can on gasoline while making the same or more power with smaller engines that require less mass and less cooling system mass... but you cannot run gasoline in that engine, and it will be too lightly built to run the diesel cycle. Trying to get better mileage with flex fuel is a nearly insurmountable problem, because gasoline has massive excess heat, and ethanol needs heat to do its best.
Thing is, the people with interests in mining and natural gas are pushing the EVs on us. Thats where their financial interest is, so thats what they are trying to force us to use. I cannot use an EV truck for what I do, as I make several trips a year that are 1000 miles one way pulling a trailer. I won't even get into the problems with EVs here in winter, with the salt, cold temps, long distances... EVs are wonderful in an urban setting with ambient temps that are almost always above 40F. Short commutes, low speeds, not really moving much more than some people and a carry on, that is where EVs shine.. None of that works here in the north. Cities are great for EVs, the distances between cities is the domain of gasoline, diesel, and ethanol powered vehicles.
Most people have extremely limited knowledge in vehicles, fuels, energy production, and how much effort and work goes into producing all the energy we use every day. Its mind boggling how much we use and produce. I'm not sure what the average individual is more ignorant of, economics or energy. They are both high up in the spectrum of people are clueless about them.
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@bobkelly3944 where do you get that? straight white guys are the other, the outsiders, the evil wreckers, the disparaged class marxists are railing against. Wealthy, entitled, envious, resentful, lazy losers can be white male marxists, but with those attributes the sex and race don't matter.
All someone needs to be to fall for marxism is lazy, entitled, resentful, and envious of those who have earned what they have not. Their color or plumbing doesn't matter, but it appears that females fit this much more often than males, resenting the fact they have to sit or squat to pee and lack upper body strength. The males who are weak and think like a female, yeah they go full retard into marxism.
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Tim, we are Americans. We aren't milquetoast, mild mannered, limp wristed, people who acquiesce to the whims of others. Our melting pot culture takes the best from all walks of life, and blends it together to create a nation that is the only super power on the planet. The reason we have not had a major war in almost 80 years is because the US military has so much destructive power with such a small force, and we can quell any belligerence from a state easily. We made nukes obsolete by having the capability to make any country a glass topped self lighting parking lot and not even leave the house.
We are not a nation built upon pleasantries and niceness. Speak Softly and carry a Big Stick. Trump is not what is wrong with our culture, he exemplifies what made us who we are as a whole, and who we are as individuals. Despite many of us wanting to be entitled to the earnings of others, the majority of us are not the type who will leech off the rest, and that is why we are loathe to accept a leader who will take us to where that is the norm. Obama said one thing, and did another. Trump is doing what he said he was going to do.
I am not a fan of him, I can't stand to hear him talk, because he uses small words that the people on the left end of the IQ bell curve can grasp, he doesn't talk over many heads and it annoys the fuck out of me. "Its really great..." I want to gouge out my ears. But I know he isn't talking out his ass, and if you can't handle a little bit of ridicule, well, you have been sheltered from the American culture.
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As I have gotten older, the age of women who are into me has expanded, because now the old ones think they have a chance. The biggest gap was 18 when I was 49. Earlier this week at the grocery store I had two in their 20s flirting with me, one was definitely out trolling for attention with her yoga pants. As long as I don't tell them how old I am, they don't seem to care that much about it.
Your average 54 year old is considerably different from me. He doesn't have much muscle, because he spent his life in cubicles and doing soft hands jobs, and was never worked like I was. He didn't develop the skills needed to talk to women, and the majority of them try too hard to get the young ones. I simply talk to them and watch their body language. EVERY one of them has so called daddy issues, there are just as many without as there are women without insecurity... which is none. They all have daddy issues and insecurity, its in their nature.
Lately, I have been trying to look unattractive, and I tend to act goofy, especially in my automotive videos, because they are too expensive in time and money, with minimal return on investment. If you are an accomplished and physically powerful man, they will be interested in you at all ages. Not all of them, but lots of them.
I have been to Europe, both ends of Asia, and Africa, dated women in all those locations and all over the US. For a 5'8" man I have a very long notch list. They do not want a try hard, they do not want a weak male, they do not want someone they can push around, unless they are simply getting money out of you. It doesn't matter what part of the world you're going to, women are essentially the same everywhere, the difference is what they think they can get.
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@davidhaaijema4521 being a father is infinitely more difficult, arduous, and demanding, I do not care what any of the efinists say about it. Changing diapers, doing laundry, and cooking food is easy. I did all of that along with working 50 to 70 hours every week when my kids were little, and I taught them to crawl, walk, run, read, count, math, run computers, drive cars, marksmanship, and how to think critically so they can solve their own problems.
Fathers are the leader of the family, and being the leader bears the most responsibility and is the most demanding. It is not my fault if all those women out there chose to open their legs for men who were not going to be good fathers, nor is it my fault that they throw those good men away whilst thinking they can get a better one. That is the fault of the efninists.
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@tuseroni6085 nobody defended me growing up. My dad beat me when he was frustrated or angry, which was often. The rest of the time he had the notion I was unwilling to do work. My older brother beat me at random, severely. I have had hundreds of TBIs because of him. My brother would start beating on me, mom and dad would break it up, then they would beat on me as well. That went on until I was 16, at which point I was strong and fast enough to seriously injure both of them. My mom never cared about me, I was their least favorite kid out of six. Mom obviously resented me for some reason, and before she passed she said I was the only kid she didn't have to worry about, she knew I would just handle things.
Thats what I learned from my family. Self reliance, self defense, and self importance. Nobody cared about me growing up, nobody cared about me while I was married with kids, nobody cares about me now. Fine by me, because people are untrustworthy as a whole. In the US military was the first time anyone seemed to actually care about me. I had some good people in various units, and some horrible ones as well.
So where did I get this overwhelming urge to defend people? Why am I not a bully to others because I was bullied and mistreated? Its innate in us. Nobody instilled that in me, it is who I am. The part that was installed into me like a program virus is the dark side that nobody wants to see running free and unfettered in the world. That side is an uncaring monster that doesn't have that internal voice telling it to stop because they have had enough, it just wants to end everything that is a threat.
I live alone and avoid people to keep him from getting out, drunken college kids who don't know about him like to act tough and try to intimidate me. They have no idea what they are messing with, they think I am just an old guy that looks like my name on here. They don't see the two war combat vet who can destroy people with bare hands... because I hide him.
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Hey guys, ignorance isn't the same as being dumb, low IQ, poor ASVAB scores, or stupid. Its being unaware of something, and we are all ignorant of something... somewhere. Like just how well endowed you guys are, and I desperately want to remain ignorant of that. Most of their constituents are ignorant, a good number are also stupid, low IQ, poor ASVAB scores, and stupid, but ignorance is the big one.
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War... Tim talks about war, and how Tyler Durden said we have no great war, we are not rockstars and astronauts.. Truth of the matter, war sells, Its why the media pushes us towards it, so they have something to write about. They crave conflict, because they can write about it and people will actually read what they write... unlike most of my posts that seem to be shadow banned.. We have not had a major war in 80 years. That is enough time that four generations have been born. China had their one child policy, and most families wanted boys, so they have a few million guys who will never have kids. In centuries past, those same men never had kids, because they died in seemingly pointless, useless wars. Men are expendable, its why we do the fighting, society can exist with only a few men being fathers.
So now we have all these dudes walking around with nothing to do, no direction, listless, and they are simply existing. A hundred years ago they would have been running across the Somme getting cut down by machineguns in huge numbers. Think of war as a population control... and now we have people who say we need to control our population. China with millions of military aged men and no pussy to be had. The US rigging elections to put the pro war guy back in office over the dude who was making peace in the mid east and trying to end our for profit conflicts in the desert and mountains.
My generation and the two generations after me have thousands of men who have endured the oil wars, a few thousand of us have died, and more than a million carry the scars of that conflict with them forever, I am one of many with the scars, though mine are not always visible. Kids deploying to Afghanistan right now were not even born when 9/11 happened, they do not know a US without being involved with one of the great blunders, a land war in Asia. Vietnam was only from 1964 to 1973, my first war began in 1990 and its still going. Over 30 years of mucking around with the same patch of real estate, killing the people there and claiming its to liberate them. Its for profit. Not mine, not the other veterans, not you the people, but for the politicians who send us, the banks who fund it, and the corporations that supply it.
Back to the front, you will die when we tell you to die, back to the front. We are being herded into a conflict, shoved into a meat grinder as a means of population control, and to weaken us so an ideology can be forced upon us. Win win for those who profit from such things, as their sons do not have to fight. The poor do the fighting, and the dying, the wealthy profit from it because they provide the means to wage war. For Adolf to pay for his social programs in a country that had zero financial solvency, he needed a war to justify government spending. War was his answer to the forced impoverishment of the German people. Its like it was almost inevitable, like those in control during Adolf's war a hundred years ago were planning on throwing another after the populations rebounded a bit. Its not like we haven't had assholes doing this for centuries.
Gotta keep the legions moving, fighting, building roads, they gotta be employed to justify their existence ya know. Now we have legions and no justification for them being here, we are a drain on society by virtue of so many of us being here. So they push us into corners, knowing we will only take so much before we snap and fight back, sparking the conflict everyone craves and the profiteers thrive on. Or we will simply get on the trains, go in the camps, and become ash like 80 years ago. Who will die? They care not, because it will not be those who own the governments and the media, it will be we, the many, the unjustified, the expendable, the meaningless.
All I want to do is enjoy the woods where I live, make moonshine tree sap vodka fuel for the old cars and trucks I build, and have one of my Siberian Huskies laying on my feet when she isn't out romping about in the freshly fallen powder. These media assholes, moron politicians, and smacktarded nanner bankers want to force me into my third war, a new chapter with an expanded area of operation, so they can shove more of us expendables into their meat grinder to feed the machine.
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@Erica-cf1xb sure, we want one, its not gonna suck itself now is it? However, the drama, stress, and expense we have to endure just to get some moist orifice is not worth it. Only the guys who have never gotten any, or have had minimal interactions with women, are clamoring for more interest from them.
Our default position is being alone. Most men are completely unwanted and invisible, and a few of us in the top 10% get most of the attention from women. When the rest of the ten percenters get tired of female entitlement and crap, women will double down on hating us and doing the things that drive us away....
because they have no introspection, and they are solipsistic. They think the world exists for them.
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The wanderer do you think religion is right wing? Authoritarian ideologies are somehow far right in your mind? I guess if you take the leftist version where anyone who isn't a comy is Adolf, and Adolf is the farthest right you can go, then I suppose... you'd be as ignorant as they want you to be. :)
Far left = authoritarian
Far right = anarchy.
Put that in the context rather than Adolf vs Vlad/Karl. There are many other choice sin life that are not rooted in Karl's witless ramblings. Religions are usually authoritarian.. from the big juju in the mountain to the invisible sky wizards, one of whom is said to have who flown DC9 looking spacecraft into volcanoes and infected us all with thetans
Karl's ramblings have resulted in what essentially amounts to a religion full of people trying to pass it off as a political agenda. The thing about religions is they all seem to adore wishful thinking, they concentrate what they think should be rather than what is, and they will make up anything to justify their faith in whatever it is their religion demands of them. Logical fallacies abound among the religious trying to preserve faith in the ideology.
Its feelings over logic and reason in every instance of religion so far.
The most amusing thing to me is how people will drop one, like an Abrahamic religion, and pick up another like Karl's religion, because they think its opposite or something.
Ever see that cartoon where the old guy escapes various entrapments, says "I'm FREE!" then falls into another one? Thats how I see religious people and Karl's followers, they're all a giant turd with different sprinkles. However the Karl sprinkles tend to fill large holes with biomass that used to be human at a far higher rate than the others... and the rules for doing it are constantly changing.
Karl's religion is like an unmedicated bipolar ex wife being instructed what to do by a spoiled 8 year old girl.
But hey props to you in assuming I am a religious type. :)
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Dudes my age (54) that are on dating apps are the desperate ones. How do I know? Because when I checked out the apps a while back (10 yrs ago) all it showed me was 200lb+ and 60+. Like I wanted a 60+ when I was mid 40s and tappin 20 somethings. I get attention in public, quite a bit of it actually for an old gray haired sfg.
I am actively pushing them away, using my appearance and disguising my wealth so I look homeless or near to it. The 30 somethings are dropping hints on me every chance they get. The one at Lowes sees me come in and drop $1k a few times a week while I am building, so she has an idea that I am doing ok retired. Yesterday while picking up food, there was a thin one about 60 who was eyeing me, and when I didn't say anything or return her smile, she got haughty. What does she have to offer me? A headache and drama, that is what she has to offer.
Two divorces is enough, and they are a waste of time. I have better things to do like most accomplished men my age. Quality men are not using apps because its nothing but a string of ditchpigs on there. Maybe I should lose the belly, dye my beard back to my original blond, keep the high and tight with skinned sides trimmed, and make them even more annoyed I don't speak to them. Muscle bound 55 year olds with a full head of hair are kinda rare.. lol.
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40 years with it here as well. I used to help others, but they take advantage far too often. People have been the source of the majority of my stress and problems. So I avoid them, except for a select few. After two divorces and being homeless because they cheated and I was left with nothing, I don't even date anymore. I am more content and happier than I ever have been before. Rather than going the route of various substances, just because I didn't know 13 years ago that any of it would help and I have nothing against it, I took on the challenge of rewiring my mind instead. I learned to utilize things like hypervigilance, I rarely get tickets while driving. I'm always aware so I don't get in car accidents. That sort of thing.
Where I had the most problem was getting mad and going into a rage, that calm rage where people just get hurt because they fucked with me too much was going to get me in trouble. Thats what I worked on rewiring. It was not fun, I had to relive all the fucked up shit that happened to me over the last 5 decades, deal with it, and essentially flood myself with it... and it helps to avoid road rage by reminding myself they are idiots, they can't help it because they are idiots. After all this time living with it, I don't know what life would be like without it. My first experience with war felt like I was home, I had PTSD long before I enlisted.
I am good living alone, I have Siberian Huskies, and a bunch of old cars to keep me busy. Staying busy is a big part of my therapy. The VA us fucking useless, so I do it all myself. They hired a bunch of feminist twats from social services, and males are always to blame with them. They have no fucking clue what its like to have lived what we have lived, and I got tired of teaching them four years ago.
Life is good now.. as long as I keep people away.
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@nixie8435 now that is awesome. I am all about teaching our kids ourselves, rather than sending them off to be indoctrinated. It does help when we actually know things. I was teaching my daughters everything I could when the ex took of with them. They learned to crawl, walk, ride a bike, read, write, do math, run a PC, shapes colors, all kinds of stuff from me, even while I was working full time jobs and putting in 50 to 70 hours a week. Then when the oldest was 7,. the ex took off with them and I got 12 days out of the next 7 years with them.
So while I do not share your religion nor faith, I am all about the same type of life and living. Live well, teach our kids to be good people, make good choices, and defend our way of life to the death is the way I see it. I honestly want you to keep your religion, particularly if it gives you comfort. I am more concerned with people learning how, why, what and where so they can survive if/when the world goes to shit.
Its funny, I like people in the abstract, but few people personally.
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Tony, I have thought of things like your steam idea. Energy is my biggest expense, and I would much rather spend my money on car parts... like the 505 ci Pontiac I just ordered half an hour ago. Bear with me here... The idea isn't to power a car exactly, well not directly, but to heat stills so I can produce vodka fuel. I can make a vacuum still that can boil at room temp, but thats very complex and needs a container that can handle near zero vacuum inside it. Out of reach for someone like you and me. The safest way is no flame, so that means electricity. How do I produce enough electricity without it costing me a fortune?
While searching for a heat source that can get to at least 173F, preferably 200F, I came across an interesting thing. Its a big compost pile with plastic sprinkler tubing run through it. 600' of 2" tubing. When microbes eat the woodchips, sawdust, and grass clippings, it makes heat. Give them a ton of water with the wood and they make even more heat, which allows me to make 140F water at about a gallon per minute for 6 months, give or take a week or two depending on the size of the pile. Now I can use that to heat my shop and house, and I plan to do that too. Heating my house in winter is my biggest expense by far, and I use wood. Propane is $1000 a month, electricity is more than that, and the power goes off constantly up here. Wood burns without electricity so I don't freeze when the lights are off. Currently I am having a heat wave at 25F, Friday it was -15F, it varies between -20F and 30F all winter. I'd much rather live in Tennessee, but land is cheap here... because people can't handle the winters. My Pontiac parts guys are in TN too..
Here's what else I can do with hot water. I can run a Stirling engine with it, and a large enough one can power a generator. The problem is finding one big enough as that is 1800s technology. They used to use them to ventilate mines. Then I can use the hot water to get the mash up to 140 or so, and electricity from the generator to go the last bit. I am getting multiple uses from it. and when the pile is done making heat, it gives me high quality topsoil, that I can use to grow more food.
Its impractical to run a Stirling engine in a vehicle, just like a steam engine you need to be able to heat it and that takes a while. Stationary power they would work great if you have a reliable heat source. Also they are large because they use a big flywheel to store kinetic energy, just like the flywheel of a car. They rotate kinda slow, so it would need to be turning a generator or some kind of variable trans.
Steam needs pressure to work, and you need to condense the water at the other end, unless you release it and resupply the boiler. Its a considerable amount of pressure and heat required. Water boils at 212F at sea level, as you go up in altitude that temp drops. Low pressure = low boiling point, high pressure = higher boiling point. Adding steam to it is making it a lot more complex, and you can read that two ways, expensive and difficult to maintain. Two power systems means you have to carry both of them around with you, it works fine in very large vehicles like trains and ocean going ships, or in plants like pumping stations, but sucks to fit into a car or light truck.
That two power systems thing is why I am not a fan of hybrids, but a Prius would give me some cool things to use around the shop/yard... and yet I will never drive one. Battery tostore electricity, an engine to power a generator, drive units to build a sawmill, early machine tools, or water pumps, sky is the limit there..
Like I have said several times before, I like ethanol fuel because I can make it at home rather than being forced to buy it from the gas stations.... and I got started doing it in 2007 when 87 octane was $5 a gallon here in northern Michigan. Its a bonus that I can run very high compression ratios with it, and that it makes more power than gasoline does, its also very easy to tune. Its not like methanol, so it doesn't have all the drawbacks methanol has, like corrosion, horrible mileage, after run oils, top end lubes, etc. Its simply vodka and I wanted to find ways to produce it without a huge investment and continual cost, because hell I could just run gasoline and built 8:1 engines with all the smog parts I have laying around.
I'd much rather be able to use the small chamber high compression heads from 67 to 70 and enjoy the power I get from them, without having to worry about if the timing is too advanced or not. Since I can make fuel for about ten to forty cents per gallon (I'm not using corn) I don't need to pay the $3.50 for 87 or the $4.60 for premium they want at the pump.
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@WhiteTrashMotorsports its not about BTU, its about how much O2 is in the fuel. Also you are throwing more air at it, and I assume have low compression, as in under 12:1. So the more air you throw into the engine, the more fuel you need, then the more O2 is in the fuel you compound how much fuel you need to add. Lean is bad with boost, no matter what the fuel is. Puts holes in things.
The way you tune for power is different on ethanol vs gasoline. If you want more power you run gasoline leaner, until you break shit, and that is too far. To make more power with ethanol you throw it more fuel. Rich = more power with ethanol, and less power on gasoline. So to make best power on ethanol you run it around 7.5:1 AFR, but to get best mileage from it you run it 8.5:1 to 10:1 AFR depending on your engine design and cam timing.
You want all the power, so you throw fuel at it. Refer back to having more O2 in the fuel from the first paragraph.
Compression is the next thing. the harder you work a given amount of fuel the more torque you will get back from it. Thats why the OEs are going to direct injection, so they can raise compression ratios. They introduce the gasoline at the latest possible time, which doesn't give it a chance to ignite before the spark. Otherwise it would be pining and knocking things apart.
With ethanol you can run a lot more compression than with gasoline. My daily drivers have 11.5:1 to 13:1 with iron heads, on Pontiacs with 4.15" to 4.21" bores. They don't really like more than 9.5:1 with 93 octane pump gas, and then you have to back the timing down. What happens if you run a Pontiac 455 with 10.5:1 on 91 octane? It either won't run because the timing is retarded too far, or it knocks the rod bearings flat as soon as you stand on it. Ask how I know...
On the 13:1 engine it has 42 degrees total, and likes 16 initial. It also has the heat crossovers, they are not blocked off. I like to run it with a 190F to 210F thermostat so it gets hot enough to boil condensation out of the crankcase.
The 11.5:1 engine has closed chamber heads so it likes a bit more timing. On race gas in the 90s it wanted 52 degrees, but now runs great with 48 total. No way you can do that on pump gas.
Then the 13:1 455 gets better mileage than the pump gas 8.8:1 455 in the same car, and runs more than a second faster in the quarter. 20mpg and over 550hp/600ftlbs from an old iron head engine with a Qjet running ethanol is pretty decent. the only thing not mild about the ethanol engines I build is the compression.
You can run over 20:1 compression with straight ethanol, and 16:1 with E85 is easy to do. So my little 13:1 is no big thing.
Under 12:1 you will lose mileage, because the engine simply isn't working the fuel hard enough. With boost you will use a lot more as well, because more O2 in means it needs more fuel.
Stroke an LS to 427 or larger, mill some 4.8 heads about .060, maybe half that depending on lift, pistons reliefs etc, run a slight dome, but not enough to cause a piston to valve problem. Run a cam with around 210-224 at .050 and 114 LSA. Then tune it so it has around 9:1 AFR, feed it the timing it wants for best power, and go drive it on E85. You will see what I mean.
The problem is getting enough compression from those engines, which is why you need to stroke it over 400ci. probably be a good idea to O ring the block and heads, since it only has 4 bolts per cylinder.
That would be a killer daily driver engine in something. Its my plan for my 98 Formula, and I am keeping the 2.73 gears, but upgrading to a 9" rear. The 7.5 is already broken.
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Tim are you missing or simply ignoring the obvious that the democrats have embraced marxist ideology and are trying to ram it down the throats of all of us? Pushing that shit while there are videos of unarmed people being run over by armored vehicles in Venezuela is going to be a hard sell. Rather than pull back from it, they are doubling and quadrupling down on it and clamoring for more socialism and government control. It was only 6 years from Venezuela banning the public from owning weapons to those citizens being run over by armored vehicles. Just 6 years.
Buh muh private platform is nothing more than a subversion to get the government to regulate online content. You already know what happens when regulation goes the way it always has, then upstarts can't get going without a billion dollars up front, so it stifles competition. That allows the government to control who gets to be the public square. Its a set up for when the marxists can finally get a nutter like AOC in the oval office, it will be set up so the government runs everything, controls the media entirely like Pravda, and nobody, least of all some YouTube kid in a beanie can put his buck oh five in and speak his mind.
I know it sounds tinfoil hat. McCarthy actually found lots of marxists and communists in our government, but since the marxists were in key positions in the DOJ, there was nothing he could do about it. Currently there is no law against being a useful idiot who believes marxism is a good idea. If there were, well, first of all we would not be a free country where you can be an idiot freely, and second we would not have so many of them in the edu system nor running for office.
Yes the silencing of dissent, conservative or not, is making it appear that marxism is the way we are all leaning. But the root of it is not the censorship, its the people behind it pushing to turn us into Venezuela then from there into slaves so they can become even more wealthy off our backs, similar to the way Castro died with $900million in assets while his people lived on $25 a month... I am centrist too, left in some ways, right in others, sure as fuck not an evangelical nutter. I am an atheist, and abhor ideologies such as religion and marxism. I prefer reality over wishful thinking, victim celebration, and resentment justifying racism, no matter what ideology from which it stems.
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@angrytedtalks it works for smaller people, certain demographics are going to be on the high side, others on the low side. Generally speaking though, its blunt and general enough to be an acceptable guide. BMI was initially developed with starving French people in mind, rather than someone like the more robust German farmers from farther east who did not experience the famines 200-400 years ago.
I find it rather amusing that people from West Africa are usually slim, and relatively tall, but when mixed with Brits and Dutch they develop a propensity towards being massively overweight. Genetics vary quite a bit as far as size and strength go.
Outliers give the fatties an excuse or justification for being hamplanets. Take Samoan's as an example, they are massive people and its relatively natural for them to be on the morbidly obese side of BMI. They might look fat, but they have an abundance of muscle. Strength like that is rarely symmetrical like a body builder, its more power lifter.
The main issue I have with it is when BMI is used has a hard rule for people as no consideration is afforded to the outliers... like in the USAF. They made me huge by working me non stop for nearly a year, then punished me for it continually until I got out. Didn't ask to be this big, didn't try to be either, it was forced on me.
I don't mind being called fat, but I do mind losing my job over it and being told things like "We need to get you off the fast food and sugary stuff" when in reality I cannot eat that, but its assumed because that is how most people are.
Those people are often delusional too, like lizzo thinking she is attractive. 35 to 40 years ago girls like her simply did not exist. Now they are everywhere. I think the body positivity thing is a population control, being massively fat is detrimental to your health, and if you will end yourself by eating ice cream and several pizzas daily, its easier for those who want only 500 million humans on the planet.
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I am 54, saw lots of guys like all of you over the years, did nothing in your 20s, barely anything in your 30s, by the time they hit 40 life has mostly passed them by as they wasted years. Then in their 50s they try to make something of themselves and can't figure out why they are invisible. All the while they desperately try to look younger.
I am 5'8 and I got LOTS of women, and that was part of the problem. Everything I built in my 20s and 30s, other than the muscle which doesn't go away easily, was taken from me in divorces. At 45 I was looking at a nearly empty parcel of land, and started building my home to replace the two I had lost. What a waste of time females are, they can jump on another peg D any time and YOU have to pay her to do it.
I guess I am kinda lucky since I still have hair on the top of my head, at 21 my military job endowed me with 22" arms, and the plumbing works good, but I would be vastly better off if I hadn't been forced into poverty no matter how much money I earned. Yeah I have chronic pain from two wars, but I have no debt, own my land, and I build old muscle cars for fun out of rusty heaps that no sane person would consider rebuilding... for fun. I did all of that in the last ten years since my final divorce left me living in a 1996 Tahoe.
Don't chase females, chase things that matter. I've been chasing knowledge, skills, and cars for a long time, and I caught quite a few of the cars. Money just lets me do things a bit faster, its not what drives me. Not having any makes it far more difficult to do what I want to do, but having a big pile of money doesn't do me much good either, its only when I use it that it does me any good. Chase money if you want, it comes and goes easily and quickly, besides the way things are going now its not going to be worth anything rather soon.
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Not all muscle car engines are big bore short stroke. I give you Pontiac as an example. People often assume Pontiac engines are low power, in reality they are low RPM. They make their power in a different RPM range than other V8s of similar displacement. Its that whole tq vs hp thing, and to me hp is simply tq over time.
For something not related to bore/stroke... The 400 Pontiac and sbc 400 share bore and stroke, 4.12" bore, 3.75" stroke, but they make very different power, because of something you alluded to, port length and diameter. the Pontiac 400 will make more torque everywhere in the RPM range that the chevy, under 6500rpm. Over 6500 the larger and shorter runners make the sbc an RPM engine.
The Pontiac has a 2.11" intake, and 1.77" or after 1972 1.66" exhaust valve. The sbc in stock form had 1.96" intakes and even smaller exhaust (with the largest intake valves being 2.02"), which is due in part to the 23 degree valve angle, while the Pontiac has a 14 degree angle (much like the 12 degree LS engines). The difference in runner length, and the valve angles that allow different sized valves make the two same size engines behave very differently. While you are lucky to get 450ftlbs anywhere in the rpm range from a small chevy, the Pontiac does it easily and a 400 with slightly more airflow can make 500ftlbs around/between 3500-5000rpm.
Sure the sbc can make more peak hp, but its sucking wind until it gets over 6000rpm and never achieves the torque of the Pontiac in its entire rev range.
So lets got big bore/short stroke vs long stroke/small bore with similar displacement engines. The 455 Pontiac with 4.15" bore 4.21" stroke and the 454 chevy with 4.25" bore and 4" stroke. The chevy has larger runners and canted valves which makes for low velocity at low RPM. To match a 455 the chevy needs its displacement increased to 572ci and then its still kinda lacking to a regular D port 455, not even a round port like the HO/SD/RA II/RA IV engines. It is incredibly easy to produce 500ftlbs with factory iron heads, intake, and a factory cam from 1967-1972 with a 455. Yes the 454 is capable of more hp, that just means it is making more torque above 5252 rpm, which means they need more gear and stall to run well.
Every Pontiac from the 287 way back in the 1950s to the 455 that ended production in 1976, and the 400 that went until 1978, had the same runner length. In 1967 the change from 24 degree valve inclination was made to 14 degrees, and along with that came the 2.11" intake valves that even fit in the 350's 3.875" bore which shares the 3.75" crank of the 400. They all have 6.625" connecting rods as well as all the heads being the same bore space and bolt layout, so you can bolt any head to any block, though valve sizes and reliefs can cause problems with early engines.
That makes Pontiacs unique in that they can show the differences in stroke while using the exact same heads, intake, and camshafts. Have to also realize something else, Pontiac tended to under rate their engines, they usually made a lot more torque than they are said to make in stock form. The factory claimed numbers are misleading, its best to look at the dyno graphs to see the curves.
The intake ports are actually 'too small' for Pontiac 400s and 455s, but they were designed to produce prodigious grunt, and they do that VERY well. What happens when you increase the port size with a Pontiac engine? It simply makes more torque everywhere in the RPM range. Factory cfm in D port heads is around 195 to 210cfm around .500" lift. That limits RPM greatly on a 400, 428, or 455. The 428 shares the 4.12" bore of the 400 with a 4" stroke, since I did not mention it earlier.
For instance, I have a set of ported aluminum heads for my Pontiacs that flow 330cfm at .550 lift. While running a 272/278 at .050" lift duration solid roller with a 110 degree LSA, with right at 10:1 compression on a 4.18" bore, 4.25" stroke in a 400 block (you can go to 4.5" cranks easily with Pontiac) and a Victor single plane intake, the resulting 467ci engine produced 522ftlbs at the rear tires, way down at 3000rpm... while being down a cylinder and having four other bent valves. It was still making 500rwtq at 5000rpm while 'hurt.' (someone decided to dump gravel down the carb).
With the increase from 200cfm to 330 the torque and HP it made went up substantially. Peak hp once it was repaired was a bit over 700hp at 6200rpm and the torque was over 650ftlbs from 2800rpm to 4500. That much torque will move heavy stuff real easy, or light stuff VERY fast.
Where most people go wrong with a Pontiac is putting deep gears, like 4.10-5.13 behind them, and 4500 stall converters. They are wasting all that torque the engine is making between idle and 4500rpm when they do that. You have to increase the airflow over 330cfm to get more than 7000rpm out of it. I run 3.08 to 3.50 gears with 2400 or so stall converters behind my 400 and larger engines. I want to keep it in the 2500 to 5500rpm range as long as possible, because that is where its making its power.
The engine I just built is 4.35" bore and 4.25" stroke which comes out to 505ci, and currently it has those 330cfm heads on it with a slightly larger solid roller cam than my 467. The 505 has a 3.50 gear behind it right now, but I might go 3.00 when I put the roots supercharger (6-71) on it in the spring. That combination should be good for around 1000ftlbs around 4500rpm with 7psi.
Compare dyno sheets from 455s and 454s with similar sized cams and compression with garden variety heads like D port Pontiac and oval port chevy, then you will see how much difference there is in the two because of runner length, valve angle, and chamber shape. If you like peak hp the chevy will win. If you realize torque is what moves things, the Pontiac will stomp on the chevy and have its way with its significant other after defiling the chevy corpse... all while pushing highway gears.
Yeah my idea of 'big torque' is somewhat different than someone who lives in Europe where a 4.0L is considered a big engine. Anything under 6.6L is what I consider small. Which 400hp engine is going to be faster? The that makes 400hp@7500rpm or the 400hp@4500rpm?
I'll take my under square Pontiacs with long runners and big valves for my daily drivers.. like the 65 GTO that runs mid to low 11s in the quarter mile and gets 17mpg because it has 3.08 gears, no overdrive and runs on E85 or E100.
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@jameskester7745 my second ex wife was a 21 year old virgin when I met her in 2003. We were together for 8 years before we got married. We never fought and when we disagreed we discussed it and our arguments were over intellectual things. The spicy fun time was daily to at least 3 times per week, and she was saucy and adventurous, we had lots of fun.
Then I painted some parts for her dad, used the same mask two days in a row, and screwed up my lungs for six months. She decided this kid she met who was 20 years younger than I am, 7 younger than her, was her soulmate. Her parents loathed that kid, and her dad had to support both of them because everyone that kid met also disliked him. They lasted less than 4 years.
She was with me just short of ten years, and married for all of 16 months. She was set for life with me. Now she is in and out of the mental ward at the local hospital, alone and unwanted at 41.
ALL of them are the wrong one, because there is zero social pressure and massive incentives for them to toss the good man out in the hope they can get a better one. The problem is, they rarely do better than the one they get when they are 20.
Society tells them they can do better, and that they deserve a better man, but reality does not agree. The state pays them at the expense of their husband, which is an incentive for her to divorce. More than 80% of divorces are filed by women, and the majority of those are because she is cheating or wants to get some guy she just met.
Women cheat far more than men do, because most men simply do not have the opportunity to do so. Even the 300lb women I know can get some easily any day of the week, but I know men who have never had a woman, and they are just average guys.
Trust them if you want, but chances are you will end up living in your car and paying her to sleep with someone else... just like the rest of us have.
Remove the incentives for her to trade you in for cash and prizes, and give men some sort of incentive to marry, and then it can work. For now, its not about the right or wrong woman, because it doesn't matter what she is. ALL of them CAN do to you what my ex's did to me, and they will be praised for it by their friends and family.
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I picked up an 84 Mustang convertible that had a turbo 4 in it for $200, plan is to stuff a 302 from a rusted F150 in it, and a T5 a kid pulled out of his Mustang and gave to me for helping him swap in a TKO, then sell it. I have two Opel GTs, one runs but is gutted, decent shape though. The other is a rusty beat to death shell. The plan for the Opels is tube chassis, Pontiac V8 i have sitting around, narrowed 9" turned by a Th350, and see how fast I can make it go in no prep.. the other one will get the same set up with one of the 5.3 LS engines I have in rusty trucks. Sounds like a long time to do all of that, doesn't it? Honestly about a year if I stay motivated and I don't die. This year I did lots of work on the daily driver 65 GTO, the 76 C10 is in the shop right now, and I got a bunch of work done on the street strip Pontiac toys, a 68 LeMans and a 79 Formula.
Right now waiting for parts to show up is what takes most of the time.
1-6 business days in shipping means three weeks now. Still waiting on tires for my winter beater 4x4 Silverado and 200-300 inches of snow every year means you need a 4x4 as back up at least. Next day means 4 days, but ground is two weeks where it used to be two days at most. So I have to order stuff long before I am ready to actually build it... or make it myself.
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@theplasticspoon2196 I've made it a vanishingly small chance. I don't give them my real name. To the world, I am Thumper. Only people I grew up with, or actually dated, know my real name. I go to the place I need to get stuff, get it, and get back in my vehicle.
I am polite and cordial if people make eye contact, because a muscle bound man who isn't polite gets calls from the sheriff... they use my banking info to find me from the stores I frequent. I do not hit on anyone, just polite and friendly.
Because of ex wives making erroneous assertions, I make sure I have a record of where I am when I am not at home. I buy something to create a paper trail so I can prove where I was at a given time. Both of them learned that I can dispel their claims easily. The second one had the cops 'visit' me when she would see me on the highway, going the other direction, or when she would see me getting gas or something.
Saw her at the grocery store last summer, she smiled until she realized she is supposed to be mad at me because she ran off, and I have to be at fault. I think the cops realized I will make good on my lawsuit if they follow a frivolous claim by her again. Told them I'd make it my life's mission to sue everyone involved with her using the police to harass me.
She looked super happy to see me, until she remembered she divorced me to be with her soulmate for 3 years.. now she is alone and will be the rest of her life.. Its sad what they do to themselves.
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Atomization is a spray like from a garden hose, its still liquid in varying size droplets. Vaporization is like fog, its no longer in the liquid state, its a vapor. Emulsification is adding air into the circuit to start the atomization sooner.
Boiling points decide when a liquid turns to vapor. Everything has a boiling point, even rock and steel. Some are higher than others, some lower in temp. Lower the pressure on the liquid, you lower the boiling point temp. Raise the pressure and you raise the boiling point temp. You can boil water in a styrofoam cup at room temp, if you lower the air pressure around it. The higher in altitude you go, the lower the boiling points are. Evaporation of water starts to happen across the temperature range as long as its above freezing. Water is kinda cool since it doesn't always act like other liquids.
Gasoline is made up of various chemical compounds with boiling points between 80F and 450F. Its hard to get it to vaporize as a result. It takes time to vaporize it and needing 450F to do it means it will not get the chance until the combustion event, and then it is too late.
Why does it matter to an engine? Well its about surface area, more surface area will burn faster, more completely, and therefore cleaner. If you can vaporize the fuel you will use less fuel to make the same power, because more of it goes to actually pushing the piston rather than going to waste heat. Gasoline in a normal vehicle is around 18% to 20% efficient, in a lab under controlled conditions they can improve that somewhat, but real world consider it well below 20%. That means 80% of the energy goes to waste heat and doesn't power the vehicle.
Large droplets have less surface area in a given space than a vapor has. If you pour gasoline into a glass jar and light it on fight, you will see the flame is above the liquid, because it is burning the vapor coming off the liquid. The liquid doesn't burn, the vapor coming off it does. Dump it on the floor and you increase the surface area by a lot so the flame gets larger.
Vaporize it so it is a fog and you have no large droplets, its in a different state which vastly increases surface area.
Gasoline is relatively slow burning, especially race gas because it doesn't vaporize well. Even when you introduce it to the relative vacuum of the plenum/intake port, it doesn't want to vaporize well. On cold days it does it less effectively than on hot days, but with gasoline you have other things to consider.. like its propensity to ignite when it wants to due to heat and compression rather than when the spark is introduced. Dieseling, detonation, and spark knock.. its breaks stuff and its why diesel engines are built so heavy, because the combustion event happens when it wants to rather than when we tell it to. They also need high compression to get diesel to ignite, that also requires heavier construction.
Lots of people are trying to build hot vapor engines that run on gasoline right now. The problem is they have to heat the fuel to over 450F for it to fully vaporize, and the lighter stuff is going to boil into gas long before that. So you get bubbles... and 450F is well out of the range of these engines, except in the exhaust system. Do you want to run your fuel through the exhaust manifold first? That is a not a great idea, very high pressure fuel, more than 100psi to keep the lighter components from boiling running through a exhaust manifold to get enough heat. Can't run it back to the tank either, and your injectors have to be able to withstand that temp. It just got VERY expensive and complicated.
On the other side you have ethanol, which has a superior latent heat of vaporization, meaning it cools the intake charge as it vaporizes. The boiling point of ethanol at sea level is 173F, so you can get it to fully vaporize in the intake manifold as it hits the relative vacuum with only 200F fuel temp and 60psi to keep it from boiling. Well within the operating temp of our engines. You can run the engine hot, like 230F coolant temp, heat the fuel to 200F, and even heat the air coming in past the throttle blades, and ethanol will still cool the intake charge making it more dense for the combustion event.. and you will get better mileage than gasoline doing that as well.
Throw 20:1 compression in on top of the heating/vaporization and you increase mileage and power well above that of gasoline engines, and possibly above diesel engines as well... but in a lighter, easier to cool engine that makes plenty of power.
I am doing that with Pontiac engines with anywhere from 11.5:1 to 13:1 static compression with iron heads and cam timing that builds as much cylinder pressure as I can get. I've surpassed mileage and power over pump gas engines of the same size, and the cool thing is I can go from 7:1 all the way to 13:1 on a Pontiac 455 with just a head swap. So I can do it with the same car, engine, trans, rear, etc. Only the heads and fuel change.
20mpg and 550hp near 600ftlbs from a 7.5L engine running ethanol through an old Qjet carb in a 1970 GTO that weighs 4100lbs and doesn't have all the nice friction reducing things like modern sealed wheel bearings, low aspect ratio tires, lightweight drivetrain components, and reduced rotational mass. It ran mid 11s with a 2.93 gear behind it.
I am working on a couple vehicles with less weight and far better aero than my GTOs. Click my name on here if you want to see them and follow my fuel project..
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Feed livestock DDGS, the fermentation process uses the part of corn that livestock cannot digest, leaving the beneficial part of corn, and thus reduces methane coming out their ass. Cattle gain muscle mass 17% faster on DDGS. We get a clean burning fuel, more food, and less methane. What we don't get is marxist control, which is what these people are pushing on us. I will not be eating bugs, living in a pod, or walking where I need to go.. because I can produce my own food, fuel, and electricity so I will not be moving to an overpopulated city where I will be dependent upon everything being brought to me and my waste being taken away.
The vegan types who push this kind of shit are supremacists, they think they are above the food chain and are somehow special, while the rest of us are beneath them. We are not above life on this planet, we are connected to it, and everything self propelled on the planet eats something else that is alive, or its offspring. Seeds are the offspring of plants, they work hard to make seeds and fruit. Because they don't see wheat as cute and cuddly, or potatoes as adorable like a rabbit, calf, or a piglet, they will eat the plants without a second thought.
It comes down to them dictating to us what they think we should do, as if they are some 600lb brain and the ultimate moral authority. They can keep their ideology and dogmatic religion to themselves, I have no need for it since I understand and accept reality.
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@sarahrobertson634 Individually, nah we are not missed. However, more of us are saying fuck it and not bothering to even interact with females unless we have to. That attention you crave does not come from us anymore. Young men are doing the same thing we do. That free stuff you get dwindles to nothing as you grow older. Your reply to oldman is typical of someone who is myopic and cannot see what it means for you beyond today.
The attention you get in your teens and 20s is gone by the time you hit 40, you might get laid easily, but nobody will keep you around or be exclusive with you. When you are my age, you will be unwanted, unappreciated, alone, and wondering what happened in your life to cause it.
You happened. You caused it. Its coming for you, and I am sure of it because I have watched exactly that happen thousands of times over the years. Both of my ex wives wish they had never filed now, because they do not get to enjoy what I have built since they've been gone. Nobody wants them in their lives, and they cant support themselves, so they are trying to get me to take them back.
You are destined for loneliness and despair. Get a copy of "Microwave Cooking for One" and start stocking up on cat food. Boxed wine is always available and its cheap so you'll be able to afford it. You will most definitely screw up your life. I can tell from one sentence... and the fact you sit to piss.
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It is not a radical position to not be a socialist, communist, or any other form of marxist. Apparently if you are not one of the mindless drones and useful idiots who follow blindly like lemmings, you are called radical right wing on CNN and the rest of them. No wonder they think nazis are right wing and vastly different from them, despite playing the same identity politics, pushing a socialist agenda, and being overtly racist. The only difference is they want a communist world state, and the nazis wanted an Aryan world state.
CNN and the rest of you moronic leftists, stop hating me because I have blue eyes, light colored hair, and a German last name. I am not one of you.
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In 1987 I got a loan for $2000 to buy a 1979 10th Anniversary TA. In 2001 I got a $2000 loan to buy a 1992 F150, divorce and the ex prevented me from doing much until 2015. In 2004 I got a loan for $7000 to buy a 1998 Formula and paid it off in 2005. Still have my first car that I bought in 1982, when I was 13, a 1967 Cougar for $450. I am into old cars, most of them are older than 1979. I rebuild then drive them. I can do literally everything that needs done to completely rebuild a car or truck.
Been rebuilding engines since I was 8 and started repairing small engines that mom ran out of oil. First V8 rebuild at 13. Learned transmission rebuilding at VoTech school in 1993. Self taught everything else.
In 2016 I started daily driving my first complete frame off rebuild, a 1965 GTO. The second and final divorce forced me to delay driving it from 2012 when I got it drivable, until 2016. It was a very rusty parted out rolling shell. The pinch welds were completely gone so there was no way to put front and rear glass in it. The floors were mostly gone. It was a mess, but I drive it all summer now, with a fuel injected 455, spinning a TKX 5 speed and 3.08 rear gears. I have less than $20k in it. I finished the rebuild for around $8500, the rest has been engine upgrades and the 5 speed.
Right now I am doing a 71 Mustang, its a bare shell and I am finishing the metal work I started in 2006, and put on hold to do the Cougar which was held to do the 65 GTO. Long story. I need it out of my shop, so it will be getting paint very soon and I have an entirely new suspension waiting to go under it. Need to order rear leaf springs, shocks, and rear drum brake parts. Other than new skins for the seats, I have everything here to make it drivable, not quite roadworthy, but put a battery in and I can move it around the yard easily. I'll finish it later, have some others I need to work on.
Last fall I took a 71 Ventura that hadn't been driven since the late 80s, and made it drivable. It needs shock absorbers, door glass, and the interior put back in, might put new leafs under it too. I am taking all the cars I don't plan to do a frame off/ground up rebuild on, and making them run/drive with engines I have had for years to decades.
In winter I drive 2000-2007 Silverado 4x4s, they are VERY rusty up here from the salt, so I can buy 2500s with 6.0s in them for $400. Lots of parts on them to keep the winter daily 1500 and 2500 running. I'll be taking the 2007 GMC crew cab 1500, and putting the cab and box on a 2005 2500HD 2wd frame to make it my long distance hauler. It will pull the race cars around, and make it more comfortable for me and my dog to haul my cars off the family farm. Its going in the shop as soon as the Mustang comes out, and I need it done by June.
When you don't care if its perfect or not, you can really get a lot done. I don't build show cars, I build drivers and fun cars, so they happen fast. I do it right of course, but there is a big difference between doing it right and doing it show car quality. That difference is time, something I am running out of due to age. I'll be 56 here soon, and a hard life will catch up to me eventually.
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@Sierra Danielle the only sacrifice men make is an orgasm. Holy shitballz. Really? The whole thing is a risk for men, even talking to females is a risk at this point. I know, because in 1990 I stopped speaking to military females because saying hello whilst not being tall or good looking enough was tantamount to harassment. I am 5'8 so extending a verbal greeting got me in trouble four times. Well someone overheard me saying hello, accused me, then three more jump on and complained I said hello to them as well.
Then while married to my first ex wife, she was physical, verbally, and emotionally abusive to my kids and I. She cheated, assaulted me with whatever she could pick up, and eventually kidnapped my two little girls and moved them 1500 miles away. Every time the cops showed up they wanted to arrest me, despite no marks on her, my torn clothing, and I was usually bleeding from her cutting me or at the very least scratching me. I have a divot in the back of my head from a coffee mug she threw at me while I was playing with my kids on the floor.. I was teaching them colors and shapes.
Then the state decided that 71% of my gross pay was about right for child support. That left me living in my car from 2001 to 2004, and sleeping on friends couches, because I had all of $100 a month to live on. I was active duty in the US military at the time. The only time I got to sleep in a bed was on deployments, I did two of them in those years.
That isnt the worst part. Unlike you assuming fathers are superfluous, the worst thing that ever happened to me was her taking my kids. I got to see them a total of 12 days between 2001 and 2009. For a dad who was there when they first crawled, took their first steps, taught them to ride bikes, how to read, how to count, to do math, colors, shapes, operating a PC, and all sorts of other things to give them an advantage in life, it was horrible having them ripped away and hidden from me.
The state helped her hide them from me, against state law. They punished me for being a good dad, rewarded her for being horrible and untrustworthy at best. When she tried to delete herself a year after the divorce was final, they sent me the hospital bill and the judge said her boyfriend could watch them for the month she was in there. The same boyfriend who used that time to touch them in a way that if I could ever find him he would never be found again.
I bet your mom divorced your dad and told you he never cared, never wanted to be part of your life... she did that to my kids too. They were terrified of spending the summer with me, she told them I wouldn't feed them or do anything with them, that all I cared about was money. Know what she did when they turned 19 and the child support ended? She kicked them out. They moved 1000 miles away from her to live close to me, because other than my second ex wife causing problems, they had great summers when they came to stay with me. They also had food to eat all month, unlike with their mom who wasted all the money in the first week of the month.
Know why I am not against abortion? Because it is the only way a man can avoid the hell I went through at the hands of a vindictive cheating lying pos and the state.
Most of us want kids, most of us want to be there for and protect them like I wanted to be. What we don't want is to have kids with someone like you who doesn't appreciate what we do for the mother and the kids, or who makes our life a living hell. The risk is minimal to mothers in child birth, its become quite rare unlike 150 years ago. The risk to fathers is immense, and people wonder why men self delete at such a high rate, all while ignoring the fact that most of those men have been dragged through family court.
That is what they want to avoid. Working for the benefit of someone who not only provides nothing in return, but can utterly destroy your life and make you wish you never had kids in the first place. The only way you could even come close to understanding what its like for a dad to have his kids taken from him like I did, is for you to have a kid who is over 5 and they get deleted or taken. For your sake I hope it never happens to you... even though I despise your attitude of fathers do not matter.
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I'm just about 54, haven't wrestled in over 30 years, haven't been able to run since 2004 because of my last deployment, and I am 5'8. Even if the 5'2 individual is really good at BJJ, chances are very slim that they'd win. I never lost a wrestling match to anyone taller than 5'10 though, I pinned everyone taller than 6' that I came up against. I'd get in the ring with her, but to be fair I am heavier than both of them combined. At least Jake would know what I am going to do, so he could do a lot better than she ever could, I am definitely stronger than he is, but he is faster, younger, and is trained. She doesn't have much chance.
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When I was 12 in 1981, dad brought a 65 Barracuda home, it had a 318 two barrel swapped in with a 4 speed. Older brother who was 15 wanted a Charger, dad figured the Barracuda was good enough. Brother didn't like it. I liked it because it was really different, not a camaro or Mustang, more like a fishbowl with a man pedal. Dad decided it was "too hot" for a first car, so he took it back. I wanted a 67-69 GTO because of how they looked.
Dad could have gotten me into mopars, he was a HUGE Plymouth fan (which is how I ended up with the Cuda). All he had to do was keep that little fishbowl looking thingy and I would've been a mopar fan. Ended up with my 67 Cougar a year later and man was it slow with a 302 2V from a 68 Galaxy in it. I continued to search for a GTO, missed out on some really awesome ones in the 80s.
Then I discovered how much power Pontiac could make with factory parts, 12s with highway gears in a 3500lb LeMans was super easy with a 455, 13s were even easier with a 400. The problem was finding 400s and 455s to drop in.. that took a little while. That first 400 I had hooked me for life, much to the dismay of my dad.
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@adamjames1375 I have a couple chainsaws I ran on vodka/veggie oil. They are very clean with no problems at all. They are a bit hard to start when its cold out, like colder than 20F. Four stroke engines run on it no problem small, large, whatever, they are simply clean and run a lot cooler. Air cooled engines need to have the air blocked off so they get warm enough.
About the only thing you can do to increase compression in a two stroke is a thinner head gasket, not many long stroke cranks are made for them, and pin height makes a big difference with engines.
I have several Pontiac 455s and 400s that I stroked to 461 or larger, and currently have a 505 that is completely aftermarket, except for the front timing cover. All have run on ethanol for years, except the 505 which I built back in September.
The 455 in the 70 GTO is a 13:1 engine with iron heads. The 65 GTO has 11.5:1 with iron heads, and it would do better with 13:1, it gets better mileage being a 455 on ethanol than a 400 did running pump gas with 7.8:1 compression in the same car, despite the 400 having a 2.56 gear behind it and the 455 has a 3.08. The 455 would pick up mileage with the 2.56 and not lose any performance, but that poor little 8.2 rear won't live long behind nearly 600ftlbs.
The 400 got an absolute best of 15 on a long highway trip, the 455 does 17 regularly mixed city and highway. The 65 GTO is not known for being aerodynamically efficient, its like pushing a parachute with a box car.
The 70 GTO has no problem achieving 20mpg mixed city/highway with a 3.42 gear and 700R4 trans behind its 455, and that is with an old Qjet I modified back in 2010. Currently the 70 is waiting its turn in my shop where I will do a frame off rebuild on it, the wiring harness is trashed and the suspension is needing lots of work. I've had it since 1994, put it on E85 in 2007 with another 455 in it that had 8.8:1. Best it did with a 2.93 rear gear was 20, usually got 15 to 18 on 87 octane. It got 20 following a semi at 80mph down I-40 across Tennessee when I moved to my base in Charleston SC from Nebraska.
I've run ethanol in my LS powered trucks, 1999-2007, the 98 Formula Firebird but it would need larger injectors and the rear diff bearings are hashed. I parked it with 93 octane no ethanol gas in it back in 2017, and by 2019 it would not start. The gasoline varnished real bad and stuck the pump. Funny how none of my ethanol fuel pumps ever stick and they can sit a lot longer than 3 years, since I don't drive them every summer.
One of them is always out, but I have lots of vehicles to choose from, and projects I like to do.
Where I have found problems is when the oil companies put a bunch of additives in the fuel. If I get E85 as far south as I-80 or farther south than that, I find a white chalky residue left over, sometimes yellow wax/gel, and a lot more rust in everything. E85 from Marinette Wisconsin doesn't have as many additives in it, no problems with that stuff. Just like no problems with the fuel I make from cattails, tree sap, coffee grounds, etc.
Its the additives, not the ethanol causing problems. I am not the only one to find that. Jeff Smith who was a tech editor for Hot Rod magazine and now writes for Summit Racing at their onallcylinders page found the same thing. Additives cause corrosion issues, not ethanol. Go read his article if you want more info on that. Its easy to find. I'd give you a link but its not allowed on here.
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I live in a 1050 sqft container home I built for around $20k. Its on 13 acres of woodland, well away from town, and more than 3 hours from a major city. It just happens to be near a huge freshwater lake from which you can drink directly without a filter. I have well under $100k invested in my land/home/shop, but I have been living here since 2015. I've done all the work, with some hired hands from time to time, like putting up roofs and pouring concrete which are not one man jobs. Bought the land in 2013, started building in 2015, paid off the mortgage and building loans in 2021 on a $40k fixed income. Debt free living for 3 years now.
One of my neighbors has a channel where he builds off grid homes and cabins here and in Alaska. You could quit your job, buy land in the middle of nowhere (obviously NOT Europe), and document building your home, setting up a septic system, building off grid utilities, and document all of it right here... for $$$. That is if you like not being stuck in a city paying exorbitant taxes with your neighbors on the other side of a 4" thick wall made of gypsum board. You should know, living out here away from cities means more physical work, and learning how to do things yourself rather than paying someone to do it for you. Doing it yourself means you have more money to use on things you want, and improvements.
BTW I produce fuel for my cars from cattails too. Doing that will help me grow more food once I get the greenhouses built. The Co2 from production and running it in a generator will feed my garden all year in the greenhouse. I got into producing fuel in 2007 when gasoline was $5 a gallon the first time. It was entirely a financial incentive, to be able to drive my cars and trucks without all my money going to gasoline, food, and heat.
Wouldn't you like to live away from nosy neighbors and crime, eat healthy food you grow yourself, drive a vintage muscle car on fuel that you produce for less than a dollar per gallon? The two I drive in summer are currently a 1965 GTO and a 1970 Cuda. The GTO has a 7.4L or 462ci Pontiac V8 in it that makes over 550hp. Trust me, it MOVES and thanks to some upgrades it goes around corners far better than an old muscle car is said to. In a few months I should have the 1970 GTO on the road again, and maybe the 67 Cougar I have owned since 1982, when I was 13. Going in the shop very soon is my 1976 C10 pickup, its my parts chaser and I will drive that when I need to pick up something that won't fit in a muscle car... and to pull the trailer so I can bring more rusty relics home to rebuild.
I am reworking the interior of my shop now, its been temporary placement for everything since I put it up. Now that I have built a few cars and trucks in it, I have a feel for where I want everything. Also it has been getting difficult to get around because of all the parts and equipment I have in there. Once it is done and organized, I will continue doing like my neighbor does and sharing the how to's with anyone who is interested.
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@wanderingdoc5075 when you have two kids, who you try to give a much better life than you had, free of abuse, fear, and violence, despite their mother wanting to inflict all of that on them and you, then they are ripped from you and you only get 12 days in the next 7 years with them, you decide to not have any more kids.
You do not want to feel that kind of pain again. I been hit by a 45mph car, run over by things, beaten unconscious, and survived two wars, and the worst pain I ever felt was my kids being taken from me.
So you're fuckin eh right I got out of the gene pool, and I am waiting on some bint to claim I am the daddy. Did it when I was 38, and at my age now (51) I really don't want little kids running around the house, and having to start over again from zero after their mother decides I need to be indentured until I am 70 something.
1994 to 2015 was long enough to be forced to work for an ungrateful cunt.
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@inanimatemist8610 yeah, didn't say nobody from the city enlists. However, there is a rather sizeable difference between a rural military member and an urban one. Physical size, prowess, ability to learn quick, and mental acuity are higher in 'farm kids' than it is in 'city kids.' However... city kids ALWAYS think they are smarter, faster, stronger, better etc.
Having been a USAF NCO training and leading people, doing a VERY physically demanding job, the urban kids were lacking. Hell, in basic I had to put my hands on the back of our 'flight leader' and physically push him through all of the runs in basic. He was supposed to be some big high school football star from Flint, and a Nebraska wrestler and to motivate him to freakin run.
I'm not sayin city kids are lower in cognitive ability or anything like that, more along the lines of they haven't had to learn very many different things or develop much of a work ethic. They have to catch up, they don't know things like movement, being silent when walking, how to use tools, operating heavy equipment... all sorts of stuff that farm kids already know when they show up.
Ask anyone in Nebraska and Iowa (where the best wrestlers come from) if the farm kids or the town kids are the ones who will crush you. Generally speaking of course.
You being urban will undoubtedly assume you are better than the hayseeds, because that is the narrative you have been fed. It might be in your best interest to tread lightly around rural raised men. Particularly if they worked with livestock. Its a world you can't imagine unless you lived it.
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So they want the government to be the arbiter of what is truth, fact, and real as well as what is fake, misinformation, and lies. Makes prefect sense, because then the government can control the flow of information so you never hear that Hillary had a private server with classified material that got hacked, and that she deleted 30k emails while under subpoena to hand them over. Hello 1984, Orwell was right but had no idea how well it would be done. Slavery is freedom. War is peace. We have always been at war with pacifica.
What cold possibly go wrong having politicians deciding what we should hear, I mean that has worked so well every time it has been implemented like in Russia, Germany, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Chile, Brazil, South Africa....
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@jerrywhidby. if you saw my land, you'd see how difficult it would be to get a bus in here, and hit the house. You will need a chainsaw. The cement trucks had a wonderful time getting here, they are shorter than a bus. The semi that brought the roof trusses for the shop could only get 100' in so I had to move them all by hand to the build site. Its why I don't have a car hauler, nowhere to turn it around and it won't make it in very far.
I suppose they could start a wildfire in the woods, but depending on the wind and time of year, it might not go so well for them. Still won't burn me out, just piss me off by killing my trees. It might burn some cars if I don't move them out of the way.
City people just don't understand rural life. I am far scarier than they are, I have access to a backhoe and a stack of 55 gallon drums that will fit nicely at the bottom of the worlds largest freshwater lake. I've fought commies before, have a nice chunk of Berlin Wall on the shelf next to me I knocked off back in '89. They don't scare me, they annoy me.
A well trained team like SEALS or other SF guys could get in here and fuck me up (easily I might add), but a bunch of untrained idiots who played Call of Duty... I find it most amusing. Why would a bunch of operators ever mess with an old guy like me anyway? Only idiot kids and the most stupid meth heads would.That is if they could find me before I find them.
Its fun stuff to think about, hypotheticals of what would you do if the world goes to shit. I live how I do because I enjoy it, its fun, and I love nature. I would rather work around nature than make it fit my will. It makes it beautiful/cool to live here, and hard to attack.
Did my time in conflict, been trying to avoid it for the last 15 years. Unlike most, I know what exactly it means if they keep pushing this bullshit. Been there done that got the chronic pain and nightmares. Today is the first day in a month I didn't hurt so much going down my steps was a chore. Its a good day so far.
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This is very true... for people who feel a need to fit in, conform, and desperately want to be perceived as high status.. the type of people who keep up with the Joneses. The system is designed to use you up then discard you if you're overly concerned about comparing yourself to others. That type of people want to be in the herd, and they follow fads, trends, like the same music/food/clothes/cars others like, and they don't seem to think for themselves.
They believe what they're told on TV, by the talking head put there to give them opinions. They read the headlines and believe it rather than reading the article to find the facts and truth in the last paragraph or sentence, or they never realize that the entire piece is fictitious, fantasy, or outright lies. They want you to think negatively, use your emotions to decide rather than logic and reason.
If you fall for it, well.. you're just one of the masses who thinks they are superior to those who don't subscribe to the idea of needing the new shiny whatever, the big house, the job in a big city that pays a lot, but then all that pay is siphoned off via ludicrously high prices/costs for everything.
I learned when I was in 7th grade, way back in 1982 that nobody cared about me, nobody wanted me around, and trying to fit in with them was futile. So I stopped trying. I did my own thing, decided what I thought and wanted based on what I think, rather than what the talking heads on TV tell me. I compared myself to who and where I was yesterday. Rather than trying to tear down those who had more than I did, I wanted to know how they got it, and what I needed to do to get it for myself. I don't envy nor resent rich people, and as long as they don't try to run my life or buy legislation that negatively impacts me, I don't care that they have a lot more than I do. I don't get free stuff, I have had to work for everything, and thats how I like it.
The thing I dislike most is what I have worked for, built, earned, and sacrificed to get, being taken from me and given to someone who doesn't deserve it, who has not earned it, and played no part in making it. Thats like if you build a house, and they come to you and demand you let other people live there. I build old cars because I enjoy the work and then driving them when they're done. Those people would come to me and demand I give away the cars I built with my own two hands, to someone who doesn't have a car, despite those people never putting in any work on it. When you live in a large city, you are under the thumb of exactly those types of people.
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Ford was still sending back the entire lot of parts when they had a problem in the 90s. We were supplying Ford with 4.0" piston rings for the 5.0/302 when I worked for Perfect Circle, and one day the individual who was packing the rings to ship got one of the 4.030" packs of rings in with the 4.000" packs. We would make the rings then hang them on 2' long pieces of pipe for all the following operations. She put some 4.030s in, about 2 feet worth and it shut down Ford's entire line, engines and cars. They were decidedly unhappy.
They sent back ALL the Perfect Circle rings they had in inventory. We got a large box where they pulled all the rings from the machines that install them on pistons, where they just tossed them in. It was a huge mess.
Because of her one goof we lost all the Ford business, both OE and aftermarket. They went to Sealed Power, and then Dana Corp, the owner of Perfect Circle, bought Sealed Power and Ford ended up dropping them too. That was in 1997 or 98, I left in 98, the plant was packed up six months later and sent to Mexico where they could pay them $2 a day instead of paying us $11 an hour. The scrap rate was around 90%, but they saved so much on labor they didn't care. No health coverage, OSHA, or any other regulations. I do not envy the Mexican employees...
When I started working there in 1993 the temps inside the plant would get to 130F in summer, the highest we saw was 137. One day I left the plant and walked out into 105F weather and it felt like I needed to bring a jacket to work. I brought that up when the people who worked in the air conditioned offices and never came to the floor between March and November said "Its useless to to pull air from outside the plant, because if its 90F outside it will be 90F inside." Well a 35 degree temperature drop from inside to outside when its over 100 outside is a problem.
People who worked there would call Osha and they would show up in December or January when it was only 80F to 90F inside because outside it was -10F to 20F. Then in 1995 Osha came in July, the guy walked in took one reading 3 feet inside the door and it said it was over 125F in there. Osha then forced them to install huge fans to bring air in and overpressure the plant so the chrome plate bath scrubbers would work.
I seriously doubt Mexico has better conditions for the workers making their piston rings, but who knows, maybe they can afford to air condition the entire plant since they barely pay them.
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Ok I can do better than the detractors. I go on there, get me a nice conservative girl, things go great for a while, then suddenly I come home to the locks changed and a Sheriff waiting to serve me papers saying she gets most of what I have worked for. Know why the divorce rate is only 41%? Because only 6 men out of 1000 are getting married. The laws are not changing any time soon... and there are massive incentives for her to trade us in for cash and prizes.
I remember when we could find someone who would stick around for the rest of our lives. Its incredibly rare these days. Sure it happens, but I am not willing to take the risk a third time just to find out if she isn't like the rest of them. Doesn't matter what we men bring, because she can take it all from us on a whim if she so chooses, while society, the state, and all of our friends cheer her on.
I don't use dating aps anyway, because 53 years old and 5'8 without a fleet of helicopters doesn't get me anywhere near as far as meeting a girl in public and saying "HI I am Raoul, whats your name?" Having a dead sechsy voice makes it vastly more lucrative in person.
If you're a good down to earth wholesome girl who would like to go on adventures and drive vintage muscle cars for fun while living in the woods, well there just might be a chance for ya. You'll have to prove yourself to me though, because I have been burned so much that I am still crispy 9 years later... but, I am debt free so there is that.
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@ericb2103 the media reports it how they feel like reporting it, saying what they want to say to support their narrative, rather than what actually happened. They did that to things I saw in 1990-91, 2001, and 2004. The media, including Fox News, lied about me, my unit, and the entire military on several occasions. They claimed to be places they were not, because I was there at that time and they were nowhere to be seen.
They don't show what really happened, they show what they want people to think.
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He lost, but not by very much. Legal weed passed with a larger margin(hell yeah). Now I wonder what the reaction would be if it was a man who left that voicemail, would it then be ok to fire him? I bet his ass would be gone real quick and it would be all over the news here, I only heard about this through Tim. Imagine if a white guy said that, the racism card would be thrown like weak jabs in an antifa black block.
He had a whole bunch of old white guys voting for him, so I was surprised that haggard bint won, but maybe she had more dead voters...lol. Stabenow isn't as far gone on the identity politics train, which others jumped on thinking it would get them somewhere. I don't loathe her, but she has kinda screwed me along with the rest of the veterans living here, but then Obama's administration did that worse, so whatever.
The best part of last night is Dianda lost, so now with any luck I won't have to see his stupid fat face, and hear his pathetic attempts to get people to like him. He spent a shit ton on ads, every video I watched had his ad stuck in it. Got annoying fast. He tried to play the "for the little guy" card, but then slapped 'progressive' and other shit on his ads that essentially said he plays identity politics, is a socialist, and that shit won't fly outside the Detroit/Lansing areas.
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@somedandy7694 I'm 52, sure as fuck not a celebrity, and I have some advice for you. NEVER GET MARRIED. It is nothing but risk for you with the probability being you end up indentured to her for decades, and there is no benefit to you. Its very advantageous for a female to marry, as they bear minimal risk and receive all the benefits which are enforced and handed to her by the state.
If you hook up with a girl, make damn sure she knows that if she fucks up just once, she is gone and of course never marry her. That keeps her acting right.
I like girls a hell of a lot. I have two daughters and wish they could find quality partners. The problem is the state and society provide massive incentives for girls to go stupid and trade in the good man they managed to get for cash and prizes. She has financial and social incentives to cheat, be abusive, and do whatever the hell she wants to any man who is daft enough to commit to her. The only downside she has is that when she hits 30, male interest in her will plummet, and by 40 she is existing alone in boxed wine and cat land, making recipes from "Microwave cooking for one." She will be able to leech massive amounts of money from you, while she is fucking some other guys, and telling everyone how abusive you were when you cheated... when the reality is she cheated, did everything wrong, and was rewarded for it at your expense.
So never get married.
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Dude is divorced, can't see his kids, apparently blames it on men and the patriarchy, probably is not high IQ which explains why he is a marxist, so he believes that feminists are on his side when they are the reason he is divorced and can't see his kids. The Duluth model did not from strong willed males, its pure feminist rhetoric and propaganda.
As for gun control, how about we ban marxists from having guns, then we can make them ride short buses and wear helmets. Yes, I know that is offensive, but they seem to think its a good thing to be violent over emotions, want to subjugate everyone, and hold an irrational ideology. How about irrational ideology that makes you blow yourself up or try to kill cops, then you lose your guns.
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@thestarseeker8196 nah the malaise, and message segregashun (gotta spell suff wrong to get beyond the shadows) is by design, its is not a natural progression. It has been inflicted upon us as a society, with crap in the media, from commercials to movies, in education, and in legislation that is intended to make everything worse, not better. The intent is to cause rifts between us, get us to divide up along arbitrary and idiotically superficial lines, and promote ineptitude, weakness, ignorance, victimhood, and hatred as virtues.
It has been done to us intentionally. Sadly I bet nobody sees this, even with the spelling errors.
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@thestarseeker8196 did you read what I said? Do you think its a good thing that people are being told that "This demographic is bad because of their skin color" or that the answer to corporations buying politicians is an authoritarian state that controls your every movement and thought like in Chy-- nah?
Yeah, we have a lot of different colored people here from all over the world. Used to be that if you came here, you adapted to fit the society we have built, regardless of where you came from. Now the drive is to destroy what we have built, claiming its bad and always against those with more UV resistance.
I dated my first black girl in 1987, was engaged to an Arab girl in 1990. I don't care what color someone is, I care about WHO they are. Of course I am not into fat chicks, but thats something people can control.
I had this college girl tell me I had a 'fetish' because I got with girls who weren't white. That it is bad for me to date outside my race, but ok for her to do the same. I see nothing wrong with dating someone with a different skin color, the only problem is sunburns the closer you get to the equator, and vitamin D deficiency the closer you get to the poles.
That crap has been fed to society for the last 50 years, slowly at first, now its openly stated and people accept it as fact. Why would they think otherwise when they are told all through school that white males are the problem, everyone else is a victim.
Our nation is not being allowed to make up its own damn mind, we are a nation of individuals who work together at times, we are not the group who shares visible similarities with us. Just like any other ideology, if you indoctrinate the kids, you will probably keep them stuck in that ideology forever.
What we learn between birth and about age 10 or 13 is sorta set in stone for us. We are ignorant of everything else, how it works, what happens, etc. So if you accept what the authority tells you when you're young, you will stick to it for decades if not the rest of your life.
Its by design that all of this tripe is being fed to us, its intentional with a goal in mind.
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While in the USAF I was the target of several erroneous assertions, I am not allowed to use the other words on here, so I have to use euphemisms and alternate nomenclature. I do not have free speech online. My solution in the military was to not talk to anyone who didn't P standing up. I was never alone in a room with them, and would not associate with them after duty hours. If one of them came in a room where I was, I would leave if I was alone. Imagine Mike Pence rules turned up to 50.
I still was the subject of claims, not nice to them, being mean, all sorts of things. Damned if you do, damned if you don't, but I was NOT going to make it easy for them to take my hard earned stripes.
I live alone in the woods now, I am more cordial to them, but have zero interest in dating. Two divorces and I just don't need the drama, I get enough of that from my kids.
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ind0ctr1n3 thats why I give a damn about myself, and I live the way I want to live. I was seeing a girl from 2014 to 2018, and she wanted to break it off so she could go sleep with a fireman. He dumped her two weeks later. Then an Exxon engineer, and that lasted all of two months. There is no immediate consequences for them being impulsive, and no penalty for being violent. I stopped dating, mostly stopped talking to females because I can't trust them. Had several false accusations while I was in the military, and in both divorces.
Yeah I've been divorced twice, both times they lied, cheated, and did everything wrong, but were rewarded for it. I was punished regardless of what they did. Its not worth it to date, have a relationship, or even allow a girl into my life.
While in the military I dated girls from both ends of Asia, all over Europe, and in Africa. Every race on the planet. Every social class from trailer park to high class girls who wanted a muscle bound freak of nature, all of them did impulsive things, and every one of them cheated. The ones I kept in touch with over the years all want to come back. No damn way can they come back, they've already proven themselves untrustworthy.
Hundreds of girls between 1986 and 2018, looking for one who wanted to share the experiences and adventures of my life.. every damn one of em cheated, and more than a few decided to get violent, or otherwise mistreat me.
It doesn't bother me living alone, I can do what I want when I want. If I want to order a $2000 EFI system for one of my old cars, I just do it, because I have money now that its not being soaked up by a 120lb leech. I am almost 53 and this is the first time since my tour in Germany ended in 1991 that I have been able to buy a $2000 item without a loan.
They dragged me down that much. 21 years of my life were wasted because damn near everything I earned went to the first ex. That is nearly half my life, and most of the adult part. Its not worth it, because girls are not an investment, they are an expense that can destroy your life. I realize not every girl can do what all of them did to me, my three brothers are still married and never divorced. The problem is that every girl CAN destroy my life, and I am too damn old to rebuild again when the state gives her everything I built since 2015, regardless of her putting nothing into it.
Men are responsible for what the females they allow into their lives do. I'm done playing a rigged game. I have never been happier, more fulfilled, and more satisfied with my life than I have been for the last 5 years.
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@williambranch4283 Who need to be heard by the media and the drones who live in cities? Also... are you not hearing me now?
Any idea how many people tell me they want to live like I do? Growing food, producing fuel for my vehicles, owning enough land I can survive off it very easily, being debt free with privacy, owning as many vehicles as I want, being able to put holes in paper at a distance from my front or back porch, and not being encumbered nor threatened by the drones and NPCs who live in cities....
If the world collapses, I will not only survive, I will thrive because I know how to produce almost everything needed to live. What I cannot produce, I can repair. If people come to take what I have, they will probably become fertilizer rather than leaving with something.
I can be heard just fine, if I choose to be. If the internet goes out, well... then we are kind on our own, aren't we? Then all those people in cities who can hear you become a threat. I have all the voice I could ever need, right here, in this keyboard, with this monitor... as long as all those crazy people with stockpiles and underground bunkers aren't correct with their predictions of cataclysms.
I got into producing everything I need because I am on a fixed income, being a crippled veteran. I realized as soon as I came back from my deployment in 2004 that I would be dependent on the money they give me for breaking me. The less I have to spend on energy, which is my largest expense, the more I have left over to buy parts for my old GTOs and Firebirds.
The bonus is I can produce what I need if its all shut off, by nefarious actors or something as simple as a solar flare.
You might have never heard of me before, but many people around the world have. I've only been using video for things for the last year or so. I've been running on the "try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo" principle for a long time.
I don't need to be stuck in a pen somewhere to be heard... over the bleating of the other sheep.
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I was a kid in the 70s. We had The Jeffersons, Sanford and Sons, Good Times, Barney Miller had black cast members who were intelligent and well spoken, Welcome Back Kotter had a mixed cast too. Its not like all we had on those three channels what Whitey McWhiterson, The Jeffersons was a spin off from All in the Family for fucks sake. Sesame Street had Morgan Freeman and many other minority actors on it when I was a kid, that is where I know him from, not all the movies he has been in since you guys were born.
In the 80s we had Roots on TV and it was hugely popular. Darth Vader was voiced by a black man and that voice is one we all know and love, despite it being Darth fucking Vader. The A Team had a black guy who built the amazing shit. Magnum PI had a black chopper pilot. Sure they were ancillary parts in many of these shows, but its not like we never saw anyone who rarely gets a sunburn on TV. Nobody bitches about white guys who get supporting roles vs starring roles, its entertainment, its fucking television, its a fantasy.... Your fantasy can be anything you want it to be, even if yours is 5 bbc giving you facials, whatever you're into man.
Shoehorning females into old stories doesn't work. You want a kick ass female lead? Ellen Rippley. That is a hardcore surviving bitch who can handle shit and not play the 'I am a strong independent girl' self talk game so many need, she just does it and that she is a girl is secondary to everything else. A 105lb girl who can beat up 250lb muscle bound guys, yeah, sure thing cupcake...James Bond gets the shit beat out of him all the damn time in some of the movies, he isn't infallible, but you know a woman playing him will be.... exit suspension of disbelief for all but the nutjob feminiazis out there and submissive males who want a girl to control them. The rest of us will just be meh.
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@scottgarbs7761 yeah. like my two daughters.... that my ex exposed to some really fine upstanding guys, then settled for one who stopped doing things to them when they turned 10. They keep him away from me, and yes.. she knows what he did. When I confronted her about it she said "Well, that happens."
On the bright side, when I interact with someone who has kids, I am good to her and the kids, but I do not get attached to them. I am still friends with a couple of them, so I know I had a very positive influence on their kids.
One kid, who is a senior this year, turned his life around and started making great choices, taking care of himself, and his whole mindset changed when he hung out with me for a while. He was into sports but really picked up the effort after I gave him some guidance. Kid is going places.
Mentoring is usually better, more like a big brother to the kid than a father figure.
Are most guys like me and will be a positive influence in the lives of kids without dads? No, they aren't.
Most of them will get roped into being an ATM for her, and then discarded when a better ATM comes along. That is why I stay arms length from the mom, do not get attached to any of them, and release her to greater opportunity when she desires it. If I am not good enough, fine, be on your way.
I mentored people in the USAF, and I had 4 younger siblings, the youngest are 10 years and 13 years younger than me, so I know how to deal with kids exceptionally well.
Most people have no clue, like my ex. Its best they avoid the ones with kids.
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@Lumino3 its more than TV, I haven't really watched much TV in the last 30 years. IN 1990 I was stationed in Germany and was engaged to a beautiful Arab woman who lived in Dubai (before the towers and stuff were built) calling her took a whole stack of 5 Deutschemark coins just to talk for five minutes. Letters took three months because they had to go through NYC first.
Now she and I are still friends after all these years, and we talk a couple times a week on various video chat apps. Man that would have been good to have 33 years ago.
I can talk to my friends in Australia, South America, Europe, Asia, and all over the US and Canada while we game together on PC.
I can look up car info and order parts that show up in a day or two, and find the rare stuff that I usually have to search years to find, but its a couple minutes now.
I can be as connected as I want, or I can go outside into my woods and disconnect from everything.. then make a video about the car I am building, or the road trip I am taking in a different car I built.. I can livestream the build and drive if I want.
30 years ago all of that was impossible, the internet was only for the US military back then.
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@mostlypeacefulmisterputin thank you for that, I hadn't done the math or researched into that part of it yet as I am not a chemist. I only pick up what I need to know. I know there isn't enough water in the atmosphere to cause a problem with ethanol, but there is with gasoline.
ANY water is a problem with gasoline, as they do not mix. So that 40g (rough estimate I assume) that condenses in the tank, can add up over time. If you only open the tank to add more ethanol it means you have burned most of that 40g that was possibly in there. If its gasoline, you have definitely not burned that water out. Its still sitting there. Its why we have products like HEET and DryGas, which do exactly the same thing ethanol does, let you burn the water that condenses inside the tank. Well it removes it and goes through the engine harmlessly... not like water catches fire.
Lets say I have 94% ethanol with 6% water in it, or even anhydrous ethanol, lets call it a 10 gallon tank to make the math simple. At 160 proof, or 80% is when an electrolysis starts to form and non anodized aluminum slowly, very slowly, is pulled into suspension. So we need to add around 2 gallons of water to get to 160 proof (6% less with my 94% ethanol) and then wait a couple years for the aluminum to be 'etched.' It does not harm steel at all, with any proof. Its still a viable fuel, but starts to lose power after 160 proof. 180 proof, or 90% is the goal for making your own, more proof than that is a plus.
40 grams is a long way from 2 gallons... since a gallon is 3,785g. I'm assuming you are going with worst case, high humidity etc? If they drive into a lake, or park it under the gutter downspout and it fills with water through the vent, that could lower the proof far enough. You'd also have a trunk full of water and a soaked interior.
In the 15 years I have been running E85 and E100, the only issue I have found regarding evaporation is my ethanol content goes up when it sits in an open barrel or in my tank. The gasoline components start vaporizing and boiling off, leaving higher ethanol content.
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@AAa-yv6pm I get what I can out of them, its not all that much compared to what people think. CBD works ok for the chronic pain I live with, I am not a fan of getting high or drunk. Not opposed to it, but I like to be able to think clearly, nearly all the time.
The cars are the only thing keeping me here, so I tend to have a lot of them. Too much work to do so I can never die.. lol.
I lived in the south, too many stupid people down there, the people are stupid here in the north too, but not as many people. I want to move to Nebraska, where I grew up, or a state bordering it on the eastern end, because that is where all the racing is... and around 20 vehicles I own are there. Not Colorado, they are fast becoming a marxist shithole like Michigan is.
I don't mind the cold so much to be honest, but here there is nothing going for a gearhead like me. Its like a retirement home, everything is dead by 8pm, nobody wants to go race, hardly anyone drives something old or fast, so the motivation to build stuff is a lot less. The only thing people do around here is talk shit and get drunk. That means I have to drive 5 to 10 hours to get a race, and travelling has its own issues.
Problem is land is damn expensive in Nebraska now, same in Iowa, Missouri is ok if you get away from everything. Haven't looked around Kansas yet. Wyoming is kinda like where I live now, land is cheap, but living is expensive and the VA is a hike unless you are close to Cheyenne.
So I keep building stuff and waiting for an opportunity. Moving all my equipment, parts, and vehicles (that I want to keep/build) is the logistical problem. Need somewhere to go with them if I sell this place until I can build a new shop. Can't just pick up and move it all to Alabama or something, it doesn't work like that when you are one guy with limited mobility and nobody will lift a finger to help you out... without paying them $95/hr.
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All the people who want to change the cosmetics and be called something else, there is a sport where your physical limitations and attributes are much less of an issue. Come on out to the dragstrip and go racing with us. Most of us don't care about your personal life, we only care about you being able to operate a vehicle and not run into things.
My ability to throw you over my head is irrelevant at the start line, how fast you can run is also not an issue. React faster to the lights on the tree, shift when you need to, and you can win against all of us who have been racing for years or decades. Until you get into the single digit 1/4 mile times, its simple and not very demanding.
If it comes down to sports where strength, speed, and endurance matter.. well, you gonna suck. You wont make many friends with us drag racers by being flamboyant, but if you are adept at racing you can wear a skirt or whatever and we won't care. Once you put the safety gear on, the flame suit and helmet, you're just another racer.
It is a 100% equal playing field.. which is probably why they aren't interested in it. Because merit matters, the timing lights do not lie, and you cannot argue with Chrondek.
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This idea will play into the hands of sociopaths, because we do not give a fuck what you non sociopaths think of us, and we are experts at manipulating people. We can show you whatever we want to, so you will think or act a certain way, and the passive aggressive weak shit most people do is childs play to us. We see through it and are amused by the machinations of the 'normal' people. We see you as weak minded.
If they want to end up being ruled by someone like I am, well this is the perfect way to do it. I could use that system to great advantage, and also have an entire economy built outside of that system. This leads me to believe it was invented and is being built by people who have similar traits and mindset to mine, but they have swallowed the marxist koolaid. They wish to impose their will on everyone, whereas I only intend to enjoy my life and do the fun things I like to do.
Most people will follow along, never venturing to change the situation, only trying desperately to fit in with it. Then there are the others, who do not follow.
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My dad was born in 44, mom in 45, they had six kids. I am number two and the least favorite to put it mildly, even though the four after me followed my path. My brothers wrestled in school, 1 went military like me, the other got into machining, building cars is something we all do. Mom went in 2014, dad in 2020, and left us all a car, except the youngest who got the family farm because he has the youngest kids.
I got debt free and improved my house and shop with the money I got, I would have been debt free a year later anyway. All of what I got was invested in assets that appreciate or will make me money somehow. The brother who went military did essentially the same as I did. The rest of them, well they squandered the money. The sis after me bought a new camper, those things depreciate faster than cars do.
They looked down on me because the ex was gifted 71% of my income by Nebraska (where we all grew up) and I was living on $1500 a month after getting out of the USAF in 2005. It was only $100-$400 a month while I was active duty 2001 to 2004. I had to plan six months in advance to go see my kids 1000-1500 miles away, just so I'd have the money to get home. Since the ex has been paid off ten years ago, life is far easier, less stressful, and comfortable, but I still live like I only have $1000 a month. I will never be 'rich' but I do have some assets.
My ex squandered everything when my ex MIL passed three years ago, and will have the house foreclosed later this year. Most people can't handle money. I have limitations because I am a disabled vet and they don't allow us to have income other than the VA, without special permission. So I can't do normal investments like stocks or rental properties. I learned to live frugally, and when I get a large sum I invest it in something useful or valuable that I can actually touch.. It has to be tangible. I can't monetize my channel either, so I am not overly concerned about building it.
I have two kids, one is mad at me and doesn't want anything, the other is going to get the land and a bunch of cars/trucks, but my kids are now too old to have kids, I will never be a grandpa. The youngest is almost 29 and has no prospects, the ex ruined their lives and mine. I expect everything I built will be sold off or run into the ground then scrapped, and all the time and work I put into them will simply have been wasted. All because of my ex, ruining my kids lives, and preventing me from being their dad.
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I wonder how many people realize that nazis were leftists, 'national socialist workers party'... far right my fuckin ass. Maybe to the communists, but the default position is not socialism. The communist leaning call everyone who disagrees with them a nazi, because they are perceived as the greatest evil in the last century. The fact of it is marxism is the greatest evil, it spawned communism, nazis, genocides, feminism, identity politics, and all manner of fucked up things.
You are all the same to me when you are a socialist, or follow any marxist/socialist agenda, you are the same book as nazis, just a different paragraph. Still ice cream just a different flavor. Marxism is not as nice as ice cream, its more like shit and its peanuts or corn in the turds that makes any difference.
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Long style pressure plate? It needs a diaphragm pressure plate that increases pressure with RPM. The long style has coil springs that have the most pressure when the pedal is depressed and the least when the clutch is applied. The long style ends up having very high clutch effort to get enough clamping force. The diaphragm allows lighter clutch effort and can allow for more clamping force as RPM increases, with the low power of the bottle rocket the diaphragm will work the best.
Here's why the auto is faster, provided you have enough power to make up for the increased rotational mass and drag from hydraulic pumps(which is usually around 300hp and tq). The first 100ft is where you will get the most gain in ET unless you increase the power output. You do not get torque multiplication with a manual box, you only get that with a torque converter. You get gear reatio leverage, more like a longer lever with a deeper gear running a manual trans, but no torque multiplication. The stator in the converter can double the torque to the input shaft that it gets from the engine, it goes away quickly above stall speed, but if you have 300ftlbs at the crank then at the stall speed it can have over 600ftlbs. That gets the car moving much easier than a manual trans which has to rely on gearing and RPM. Now change the angle of the stator and you change the torque multiplication of the converter. Torque multiplication is why autos don't need as much final drive ratio, its easy to get a 2.73 gear moving with the auto, its a challenge with a manual and will make it unfun to drive. The manual needs more gear, because it lacks torque multiplication the converter provides.
If you have a low powered vehicle like a Honda, most pre 2008 Mustangs, 71-92 Camaros, etc. the manual trans can be faster, because they had such weak suck engines the auto was a drag on them. Get over approximately 300hp/tq the auto will be faster, and with less final drive ratio.
Going with the deep first gear of the OD manual trans is doing it the hard way, but it also means the driver is going to be a big part of the ET. He will have to get the launch RPM right within a couple hundred, the shift points right within a couple hundred, and he has to put just enough slip in the clutch to not bog the engine or shred the tires. Its going to go through more parts, its going to break things, and it will break more things as you go up in power with a manual trans. Auto transmissions are vastly stronger than manual transmissions, the planetary set handing all the torque has at least four times the surface area of gear engagement than the manual does, and if you think the automatic is a slushbox that shifts like grandma's LTD then you haven't driven an auto set up to race.
I can build a Th350 that shifts so freakin hard you get tired of it and it breaks the tires lose on every shift. Its easy to make the auto manually controlled so they don't shift until you tell them to. Its not a just put it in drive and stomp the gas prospect, you still have to get the shifts right. The Th400 in my street strip toy has a reverse pattern manual valvebody, if you put it in what is low 1 on a normal trans, it is in 3rd and will start in 3rd without running through the other two gear changes. It shifts hard, but not so hard the tires go up in smoke on every shift. With the torque from my 455s and even the 400s, its incredibly easy to break a manual trans.
Manuals can be more fun, a lot more fun, and I love driving them, but the auto is faster and stronger, plus a lot cheaper to rebuild and they have less breakage after the slip yoke.
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@mrjoeramsey in 2006 I started looking for alternate fuels I can make, because 87 octane was $5 a gallon here. I am big into muscle cars, mainly GTOs, Formula and Trans Am Firebirds. Have a Cuda, Cougar, and a couple Mustangs as well. No way I can afford pump gas when its over $3. I am a disabled veteran, Cold War, Gulf War, Iraq War, which means I have lots of time but not much money.
I looked into hydrogen, lots of energy in making it, not much coming out, but its a good clean fuel that can handle high compression. A tank the size of 20 gallons liquid fuel would hold roughly the equivalent of 3 gallons in range. Then it needs a high pressure tank, like 22k psi high to store as much as possible.
I bought a junk truck last year that had the hydrogen system on it, I know you are talking supplemental like that, not a completely different fuel. The problem being you still need to buy gasoline. You cannot make gasoline, kerosene, or diesel at home, but you can make other fuels.
Methane is even easier to make than hydrogen, microbes do all the heavy lifting for you as they decompose biomass. Once again the problem is it needs to be compressed like hydrogen and even in liquid form it doesn't have the range.
Then I checked out methanol, race fuel like used in Top Fuel Dragsters that is mixed with nitromethane, crazy amounts of power with nitromethane.. but methanol is VERY corrosive, highly toxic, and is more difficult to produce than the fuel I decided to produce and run my vehicles. The toxicity and corrosion, along with severely reduced range was enough to keep me from going with methanol.
After more than a year of research into various fuels that we can make ourselves, I decided on ethanol. People have been making ethanol since the stone age, maybe longer. Its yeast pee, vodka, whiskey when its aged in barrels, its the same stuff thats in beer and wine.
People claim its corrosive, but I have not found that. They say you get half the mileage and no power on it, but I have not found that either, its proven to make more power than gasoline. People seem to think its something other than vodka, and conflate it with methanol.
I've had Qjets running on ethanol since 2007, my 70 GTO was the first one I converted and used E85 to fuel it with its 8.8:1 compression 455, it was my test mule for a long time. In 2010 I built another 455, with 13:1 compression, ported heads to make more torque, and a cam with a wide LSA for minimal overlap. Its a beast of an engine, that with one of the Qjets I have converted got 20mpg in that 4100lb GTO with a 700R4 trans and a 3.42 rear gear. Well over 550hp and 600ftlbs from that thing. That is a lot better mileage and power than it made on gasoline with the 8.8:1 pump gas 455 I had it in with a 2.93 gear and 2004R trans.
In 2018 I pulled it out of the 70 GTO and put it in the 65 GTO. The 70 needs work, the electrical system is shot, the suspension needs rebuilt, and I just finished the frame off on the 65 in 2016. The 65 is a lot lighter, but has vastly worse aerodynamic drag than the 70.
I only drive my GTOs and other old vehicles from May to November, we get a lot of snow here, and they salt the roads heavily, so nothing I care about gets drive in winter.
Ethanol doesn't like to start when its around zero Fahrenheit, but methane does. If I want to drive one of my ethanol engines in the dead of winter, I have a modified nitrous plate that I can fill with home made methane and use that to start it. It works pretty good, but since I don't drive my hotrods in the salt, I don't have it on anything.
I can do the hot vapor engine easily with ethanol, you can do a bit of it with a carb, just run everything hot and keep the heat risers the factory used for cold start. It works very well with EFI, you heat the fuel in the lines before it goes to the rails and after the regulator and return.
It works very well. I am building a 6.0 LS powered 76 C10, 4L80E, 3.73 gears in the stock 12bolt, with a 2005 EFI system and tank. It will run on straight ethanol, maybe E85 at times, and will have the option for heating the fuel by running it through a heat exchanger tied into the heater hose.
Also have a FiTech that has been on the 65 GTO since 2016, its getting heated fuel in the spring once I work out an external pressure regulator and return so I can deadhead it at the TBI. Been having too much fun driving it to mess with it much, the power is incredible. It likes to break transmissions.
Hydrogen is a nice supplement, so is methane, but to produce enough and use them in a daily driver that needs enough range to get me to town 25 miles away, they just can't do it easy nor cheap. It costs me about ten cents a gallon to make tree sap vodka to run in my vehicles.
Gasoline will be $5 a gallon here very soon, and I don't think it will stop there. I have three vehicles in the works as ethanol mileage mules. The C10, a 79 Trans Am that is also getting a 455 or a 400 with lots of compression, and my version of an Ariel Atom powered by a high compression supercharged 3800 V6. You can easily run 13:1 and 20psi on ethanol, this will be les than that.
The last one will get some body parts to lower the drag that a bunch of tubes hanging out in the breeze causes. Check out Cleetus McFarland's Leeroy in the wind tunnel to get an idea of how much drag an exposed cage/frame causes. Its a lot.
Still trying to decide what I will make it look like. I like the looks of a GT40 and a Daytona coupe, but I can make it look however I want with fiberglass and formed aluminum sheet. Goal is it to weigh under 2000lbs with me in it, so that means it has to be 1700 or less. Tall order..
Funny thing, the government did legislate ethanol out of the transportation fuel sector with the Volstead Act, aka prohibition. Leaving Standard Oil and Rockefeller as the only fuel source in north America. Ever since its been lots of propaganda, like it eats carbs, gaskets, etc. Its simply vodka, very high proof vodka.
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My first car was a 67 Cougar, hard to find parts for it in 1982 when I got it, just as hard now. Its ok I learned how to make lots of things doing the 65 GTO, which also does not have a ton of parts repopped for it. No fenders, doors, or full quarters, patches and skins only unless they came out with those things recently 66 to 70, lots of parts.
I own mostly orphans, Mercury, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, and a Plymouth. The chevys are all trucks, and even the 71 Mustang doesn't have as many parts for it as the 64-70s, but you can make things work.
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I've had lots of poon, they do blend together, can't remember most names, have to think about what car I was driving, where I was stationed, or what country I was in to start remembering them. I'm not top 10%, probably at the 20%, or lower with good game. I didn't lose my ability to care about females, I shut it off after two divorces and a lot of poon where they are all the same with slightly varied wrappers.
I don't give a rat fuck if some actress can't get a top tier man, or if she can't get a homeless guy to go down on her for a bottle of MD20/20. They are not my problem, and I will point and laugh at them as they realize they are inboxed wine and cat land.
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The only sports where women can compete on an even field with men, are marksmanship and drag racing. We welcome anyone to come racing as long as they can handle the vehicle, do not hit anything, and don't oil the track. Young, old, male, female, fit, or obese, you can come race with us. We have bracket racing which handicaps the car by ET so it comes down to drive skill, a 10 second car can race a 22 second car and its anyone's race, because the slow car gets a 12 second head start.
Any sport that uses strength or speed women cannot do it on par with men. My daughters are hardcore, but they cannot open a pickle jar. Thats why they both carry a .380 ACP.
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He is into that certain ideology which I am not allowed to mention on here. The people who are into it are resentful, envious, lazy and entitled. They resent that others have things which they themselves do not. They envy those people who have things they do not. They are too lazy to put in the work to get them, but they want it given to them without work. Still, they feel entitled to what others have built, grown, crated, or made.
They see a building someone else built, and they want to take it and use it. They don't want to build their own. They see you have two cars that you paid for and have maintained, they want them taken from you and given to them.
I have nothing good to say about that ideology, however it is absolutely fabulously effective at turning people into biomass, and removing excess population of a species whittling it down to below minimum. Deletion is not a bug, its a feature of the ideas Karl vomited nearly 200 years ago.
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I've been thinking about building some cars like that, sorta kit car like. Tube frame, very basic body, and use a Buick 3800 V6 and transaxle in the back, like an Ariel Atom, but much easier to get into and out of, with vastly better aero. Its on the agenda for late this year, to build a quick frame and mount one of the engine cradles I have laying around to it. Super simple, should get good mileage, and the supercharged version should be rather spirited to drive.
Really any transaxle and engine could be used in it, but I have four cars with the 3800 in them, and they are wonderful little engines. Build the first body from sheet aluminum and steel, pull some molds, make the rest in fiberglass, and I can make it look however I want.. exotic, cute, silly, plain, a pickup...
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The BTU content of ethanol is mostly irrelevant, unless you plan to heat water with it. BTU is how fast a fuel can raise the temperature of 1 pound of water 1 degree. Look it up, that is all its measures. Over 80% of the energy in gasoline goes to waste heat, cars are lucky to get 20% of the energy to move it, in the real world they are around 17%-18% with EFI. With a carb, ethanol is 40% efficient, meaning it only loses 60% of its energy to waste heat.
The mileage difference is due to ethanol being an oxygenated fuel, you add even more oxygen when you add more fuel, so its a compound interest sort of thing and you have to throw more at it to make the AFR work. You will lose mileage with a low compression engine on ethanol. Its just not working the fuel hard enough. Crank up the compression well beyond what gasoline can handle, to around 12:1 static and you get the same mileage as gasoline with LOTS more torque in the low to mid range RPM. That is why my Pontiac engines run so freakin well on it, they make all their power between idle and 6000rpm. 500ftlbs just above idle is super easy, and its still making 500ftlbs at 6000. Its hard to imagine when you have a tiny engine that needs high rpm to make power.
16:1 compression is easily handled by E85, meaning $2 a gallon fuel will outperform $8+ race gas and you can drive it on the street. My daily driver 65 GTO has just under 12:1 and the 70 GTO has 13:1. Ethanol will still run at 5:1 compression, and anything up to 26:1 with straight ethanol. Its an amazing performance fuel, and its cheap.
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@anaximanderofapollonia9842 not exactly... she was loyal until I took ill from painting some stuff for her father and it messed up my lungs for 6 months. Apparently I looked so bad that someone far less valuable and competent seemed like a better deal. I recovered, went back to my life and some of my military injuries healed enough that I am doing even better than before the paint messed me up.
Nobody accuses women of thinking ahead, planning for the future, and controlling their impulsive nature.
So in the ten years since I kicked her out for cheating, she got the house, falsely claimed and got me thrown in jail for two weeks for something I didn't do, but then I started rebuilding.
I bought 13 acres of woodland, built my house and shop on it, did most of the work myself, all while crippled and on a fixed income of less than $40k a year. Paid off the mortgage and building loans in 8 years on a ten year note.
Her 'soulmate' left after 3 years and she has been alone and unwanted ever since, with her dad paying her bills... except he died back in February.
Her shortsightedness, impulsiveness, and unbridled female nature is what caused her to end up living in poverty, alone and unwanted. She turns 41 this summer, and 40 to 80 is a long time. She chose poorly when she cheated.
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Tim, ya caught on. They create a problem, then use it to stay in power by blaming it on everyone else, and by preventing it from being fixed. They do this with garbage, crime, poverty, single mothers, you name it. Its not new. Its been used many times in the past, and extensively in the former soviet union. Its always some nefarious 'other' causing the problem, the wreckers, kulaks, breakers.. its never the people in power causing it and perpetuating the problems.
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Cool car. I'd rather build a car than buy one, mostly because money doesn't matter much to me. What I can do, know, build, and what I can do with what I build, that is what matters to me. I can't leave anything stock, I don't change it just to change it, I try to improve it. Make it do what it does, better. Like the engines I build, they are designed to make considerable torque between idle and 5500rpm, its so easy to get 500ftlbs from them over that RPM range. Trying to make it spin to 7500 is working against what its designed to do, so I figure out how to make more torque between idle and 5500rpm. Meanwhile the HP takes care of itself. One of these is making north of 650ftlbs at 2500rpm and over 700ftlbs at 5000. That is called enhancing the strengths.
I have a kink where I like to go fast for minimal cash. Anyone can throw money at something, you have to understand how it works and know it very well to make it faster without throwing a liquid nitrogen cooled credit card at it. Some things you need to spend the money on, some things are superfluous. Targeting the areas I want to improve without wasting money on fluff that does fuck all works quite well. For me its not about flashy, my fastest car is plain ugly, oxidized paint, rough body, no interior to speak of, and it beats the hell out of you driving it around. My favorite comments are when someone says there is no way that thing will run because its not shiny or something. Its usually followed by "Holy shit that thing moves."
Thats my thing. Money simply allows me to do it faster than if I had to make everything myself. What is valuable to me is knowledge, skill, and ability. What I enjoy is blowing the doors off someone who has a ton of money sunk into their vehicle and I have $5000 or less in the entire car. I have $11k in my fastest one, it runs single digits in the quarter on pump gas, with no power adder and it weighs over 3200lbs with me in it. The daily driver will bust a C8 without breaking a sweat. I rebuilt that thing from the rustiest piece of shit I have ever seen.
I like to build them. I don't look down on people who buy them, its just not my thing.
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Joker, get a small dump trailer and a 2500 truck to pull it, the concrete companies usually sell gravel and the stuff that comes out of the trucks and didn't work for concrete. They usually give the leftovers away and its good for filling holes. I use that stuff a lot, and you can gravel your driveway for cheap hauling it and spreading it out yourself. You will get to know the people working there and the drivers, and you will build your network as a result. You will find someone who can do the concrete on a weekend as a side job. The contractors are not going to be overly interested in a small job like yours, they are usually putting their effort into the big stuff like municipal buildings where they make a lot more money.
When I built my shop I prepped the foundation, dug the footings, tied the rebar, built the forms, then one of the drivers at the nearest concrete companies came out with two guys and we poured my 32x50x6 slab on a Saturday afternoon in September 2015. I had everything ready to go, and they came out and we made it happen. I leveled it with string levels and a shovel, got it within a quarter inch of level across the entire slab. He checked it with his laser level and asked how I did it, he was surprised I did that with string levels. I had a lot more time than he did to do things and we military guys tend to do things 'differently' than civilians.
I rented skid steers and mini excavators to remove the stumps and big rocks, growing up on a farm and moving cargo in the USAF means I can operate damn near any type of heavy equipment. I ran the 12k rough terrain forklift when I built my container house, after I poured the concrete in 16" sono-tubes sitting on bedrock that holds the containers off the ground. When I set the containers down I was within a half inch of square just eyeballing it.
The more you learn to do yourself, the faster and less expensively you can get things done. Having to rely on others to get stuff done puts you at the mercy of if they want to do it or not.
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What they cannot deal with or handle, but they will dish out like its water.
re·jec·tion
/rəˈjekSHən/
1. the dismissing or refusing of a proposal, idea, etc
2. the spurning of a person's affections.
"some people are reluctant to try it, because they fear rejection"
They simply cannot accept that they are not everything they think they are, they feel entitled to what we have, and of course to the best of us. The solipsism is so strong with them that they can't realize they do this all the time, for no reason other than to mess with us.
For the last 25 years since I started meeting girls online or using text to converse with them, I have had some rules. One is if I get three single word replies in a row, they never hear from me again. They usually have so many other guys talking to them that they don't even notice. Saves my time and energy, because I usually have more important things to do. Another is if they decline a meeting without offering up a different date/time, I stop contacting them. No need to chase them, because they are not very important. I'll chase down a set of cylinder heads for my car, but I will not pursue a female.
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Man, if I gotta spend $10k to get into it, I am not gonna get into it. Thats more than the budget for most of my entire builds.
Back in 2014 I pulled a 68 LeMans Sport out of a Nebraska pasture for the princely sum of $300. I rebuilt a Pontiac 400 for it from the stash of stuff (I've collected from junkyards and people throwing them out), that cost me $1900. Chucked a Th350 behind it with an 8.2 BOP posi rear. Rebuilt the drum brakes, suspension, and painted it satin black with $60 worth of tractor paint. A couple years ago I threw together another 400, but with a used stroker crank turning it into a 461, and some used Edelbrock heads set up for a solid cam. Now I have $3200 in the engine, and about $4100 in the entire car. Home made fiberglass front bumper and hood, manual steering box from a 65 LeMans 4 door, manual master cylinder, and gutted everything it doesn't need. Made a radiator support from an old aluminum screen door, and all that dropped 800lbs out of the shell. I gotta weigh the thing now.
If you're willing to do some work and don't care what it looks like, you can still build some seriously fun stuff. I got a couple Opel GTs last year, $750 chassis kit from Jegs, some welding, cutting, pasting, and throw spare parts (like one of my 455s or a cammed 5.3) in them... and yeah thats going to be a project very soon. That will be after I get the 76 C10 running with a 6.0 swap, which is the focus after I get the trans installed in the 65 GTO I did a frame off on for less than $15k... and it was the rustiest heap of shit you've ever seen. Its 455 is gonna break this poor little Th350 like it did the 700R4s, but the Th400 needs a driveshaft length I don't have.. yet. There is a 72 Ventura sitting here, rough as hell, but its gonna be a sleeper that looks nearly stock with an undisclosed displacement Pontiac under the hood.
Cubes are the easy and cheap way to go fast, just put them in the lightest car you can.
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I'm a crippled two war veteran, not in a chair yet, but its in my future. The VA could easily force something like this on all of us, stop supplying our meds, stop the compensation, and then offer to delete us as our only choice. I grew up very interested in history, and I remember this sort of thing happening between 1936 and 1945 in central Europe. I served in that particular place in Europe from 1989 to 1991, keeping this type of people from overrunning all of western Europe. Now people are demanding that they control us.
I am stuck with the government, they owe me because they broke me. YOU DO NOT WANT THEM TO BE IN CONTROL OF YOU! They are essentially in control of me, not what I do every day or what I say, but I am not allowed to earn money other than what they give me. If I go to the ER because the VA is closed like they are from Thursday at noon to Monday at noon, I have to pay out of pocket for it.. and its usually at least two months worth of compensation. Remember I am not allowed to get any more than what congress says we are worth.
That is why I am very keen on what the politicans say and do. If I am given only the choice to not exist, well, I have had that choice before and I will react the same way. I am still here, those who offered that choice are not.
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I worked in a factory where the temps in summer would reach 130 degrees. I had to wear protective clothing, heavy rubber steel toe rain boots, and I had hot oil sprayed on me making me even hotter. The girls who inspected parts showed up in tank tops and shorts, then they'd take the fan I had and put it on themselves. In winter the temps would drop to around 75-80 degrees, and guess where one of the furnaces was located.. right above my work area. Rather than put a sweater or jacket on, they'd roast my ass with the thermostat. I ripped the dial off one day, it was fixed a few days later..
Also we got paid the same, despite they sit on their asses and I am lifting heavy shit, running/programming CNC lathes and mills, and getting hurt from time to time when machines would fail... Equal pay for equal work my fucking ass. Visual inspection gets paid the same as skilled labor, what the ever loving fuck. Don't get me started on the bullshit special treatment girls get in the military.
Girls are solipsistic, they only are aware of themselves, nothing else matters. Its all about them, and what men have to endure matters not to them, its only what affects girls. Its no surprise that they'd take an Onion article and turn it into the most important thing they can imagine.
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@prodigalson6166 the one where ya called me an ingrate just showed up.. lol. Relax my friend, we are on the same page. Its all good, I write a lot and sometimes its hard to follow, especially when I get interrupted.
It happens that I insult and offend people rather often, its part of life, not intentional, but I am fond of reality, and reality doesn't give a fuck. You're good with me though, just about everyone is ok with me, unless they try to take from me without compensation, harm me or others, or other things that are ubiquitously bad or dishonorable.
I have no ill will towards ideologues, even if I loathe the ideology they follow. I used to follow some too. If I can remove the emotion and see reality without the ideological lens, so can others. Most want to keep the comforting lie though, and that is ok with me as well. We all have to make our choices in life, and I don't want to make choices for other people... unless of course they ask me to or depend upon me to do so.
I hope you have a good day, its beautiful but windy here... and remember, youtube comments are where you find some interesting and/or annoying people. I like the conversation and interaction, even if they get mad or call me names, its all good and part of human interaction. :)
I was USAF, what branch were you?
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Gascoigne you sound like my sister in law, she rocks. I have not been lucky enough to find a female like that, not through a lack of looking. I thought I did, but just when I was about to pay off the first horrible mistake of an ex wife, she decided to become the second horrible mistake after 8 very good years together, despite the hardship imposed by the state on behalf of the first. You probably know how the first wife was, very much like your guy's ex.
So now I live alone in the woods, doing what you're doing and more, producing fuel to run my vehicles and generator, and so much more than that. The second one would have loved living like this... but she decided to hook up with a loser when I got sick from chemicals while doing something for her dad. It was temporary, but her choice was permanent. Even if the world goes to shit, I am the only one producing food, fuel, and electricity, she made her choice and must live with it. They only get one chance with me, the first one screwed that up, and so did all the other girls I didn't marry because they did roughly the same thing, just earlier.
I think I am too easy to get along with. They assume I don't care if they sleep around or make bad choices like that. They find out the hard way. I stopped looking two years ago. Its too expensive in time and money. If I don't look or go talk to girls, nothing happens, nobody comes by and wants to be part of my project. They see my old cars when I am out in them and want to go for a ride, but I am not going to risk everything I worked for again.
I am too old to start over, and if she gets any of my retirement, I might as well just off myself after setting fire to everything I own. I'd rather stay alive and build cool cars, power then with tree sap vodka, and go fishing when the world goes to shit. Its good to know girls like you exist, and ya know, the problem isn't so much that you or some other girl would cheat and take everything I built... its that any girl can.
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Gascoigne Its good to hear you and he turned your life around. I tried that with my first wife, and the second, but a person has to want to change for themselves. You did it, most people do not. I changed the way my mind works starting back in 2009.
I have lived with PTSD since I was 8 or 9 years old, hard to tell when it kicked in, but it was early in my life. It was the hardest project I have ever undertaken. Its still a problem, but I can live without being worried that some moron is going to do something and get killed for it, and my anger rarely comes out now, which is kinda nice.
Every girl I date now knows up front that if she does things like my ex wives, or any of the girlfriends before them, that is in line with bad behavior, they are warned about it only one time. Things like starting irrational fights, not being honest, and using sex as a weapon or treat, things of that nature, and if she does it twice, she is removed from the sphere that is my life, and there is no returning to it.
There is no reason I have to put up with that sort of thing, and if she gets violent just once, she is gone. I have endured enough violence in my life I will not welcome it back in... particularly when they can bring it and I can get arrested for what they did.
Disagree with me all you like about opinions, preferences etc. Display irrational behavior, and I am out. The second ex and I had discussions about all kinds of things, deep intellectual discussions, and it was wonderful. We never fought, she was very intelligent and able to keep up with all the various subjects in which I am well versed or an expert.
She was however, very solipsistic, socially inept due to mild autism/aspergers, and being quite homely and plain looking. I liked who she was far more than how she looked. Seriously on a scale of 1 to 10, she was a thin 2. She was 21 when I met her, and I was 34, she was a virgin which is a feat around here, but how homely she was was a big part of it. She developed some strange thought patterns because of the teasing she got from other girls, and the disinterest from boys, fixed many of those over the 9 years together.
The first one by contrast was a 6, great body, but not overly smart. She resented when I used words she did not know or understand, and man was she ever irrational. I learned how marxiss think being with her, as she would accuse me of things I could not possibly have done, then I discovered she was doing exactly those things. Then I started to listen to what she accused me of, and I knew what she was up to. Like I said, she was not real bright.
I've known some quality girls in my life, mostly from other countries, but very few from the US. They always think they can do better here, always looking to trade up, and they usually end up trading down and not knowing it until much later.
Its kinda sad, but I own four GTOs and driving them makes me happy. Training my huskies and playing with them in the yard after we get a foot of fresh powder is far more fun than dealing with fixing someone just to have her take everything I worked for, or have me thrown in jail to salve her ego and assuage her guilt.
The second one did both of those. She is 38 now, and the years have not been kind. Her boyfriend is turning 31, he works for her dad because nobody else can stand him. She will end up alone and miserable. I am happier by myself than I ever was with someone.
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I spent the larger part of my adult life between 19 and 34 in the USAF working ground crew loading cargo planes like the C17 and C5. On one deployment we lived in the Kuwait City Hilton, check that place out sometime, it was a $350 a night room to myself. Walk out to the balcony and there is a combed white beach looking out over the crystal clear blue of the Gulf. Then we stayed in the Radisson, also a very nice hotel. USAF air crews stay in hotels all over the world, most are US owned/run chains.
If the Trump resort was less expensive than other lodging, then I don't see the difference just because he is in the Oval Office. If they were gouging the government, like some airlines do when you tell them you are military and they double the cost of your ticket (looking at you Delta) then its a problem. We are supposed to find the best cost lodging balanced with security and proximity to where we are working. In Kuwait City, you are kinda limited, so we got the Hilton and Radisson. If Trump was supplying a secure location where we would not get kidnapped or otherwise harmed, for a comparable or lower cost, then he was doing a good thing for the USAF.
I can see where people would have a problem with Trump having USAF crews stay at his resort instead of one of the others. What it actually costs, now that is the important part, not so much who owns it. Still its a unique situation.
We either stayed on Army posts or in hotels. The USAF has standards for lodging that the US Army and Marines do not have. In fact Army and Navy base housing is substandard to the USAF and if forced to live in it AF people are paid more to make up for it. When I was stationed in Charleston SC my brother who was Army came by on leave to visit, and he said I lived in better housing than what the Army officers live in, and I was an E4, a relatively low rank. Its part of why I joined the AF, so I would be sleeping in trucks parked on pavement or in a decent room rather than in mud.
All of this is very different than a politician having his kids and brother go around making deals for influence in our government... especially with commie China giving them cash for beneficial influence over out government. Biden was selling us out, making money at our expense. NAFTA enriched the polticians and cost me my civilian machinist jobs between my enlistments. I had to go back to the military because all the skilled/machinist jobs in my area were sent to Mexico. I wonder how much of a kickback Clinton and the rest got for making that deal that fucked us.
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@shannonmarquardt2578 oh and I have kids, while working a factory job 50 to 70 hours a week, I still made enough time to teach both my kids to crawl, walk, run, ride bikes, operate a PC when they were 3, how to read, count, do math, and when they were teenagers I taught them how to drive.
Who is going to pay me for doing my own laundry, cooking my own food, building the house, keeping the vehicles running, doing repairs on the house, and catching all the spiders to move them outside where they can eat more mosquitoes? I do everything around here, and you can only do a small fraction of what I do.
You are physically incapable of doing the jobs I did, like the military, construction, machinist, mechanic, and farming. Any time you want to change lives, let me know... you can have the destroyed joints from being worked so hard they wore out before 35.
Living with their mother all she did was a bit of laundry and some not so great cooking. You want to be paid for that? Man what an easy, coddled, privileged, bubble wrapped life you must lead to feel that entitled. I guess when everything is given to you for your entire existence, you expect it... don't ya.
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@BWatskins there is one thing where because I have not gotten this one specific thing, I now have a whole mess of things.
I have wanted a 1969 GTO Judge since I was ten years old way back in 1979. I missed out on buying two of them in the 80s. As a result it was an itch I could never scratch, no matter how many other GTOs, LeMans, and Tempests I bought, built, and drove/raced, they were not a 69 Judge.
Now I have four GTOs, 6 LeMans, 11 Firebirds, and more... most of them are projects, not drivers. I enjoy building old cars into fun street machines and daily drivers, so I am ok with my 69 GTO not being a Judge. Also I have lots of vehicles because I find the rebuilding of them very enjoyable, satisfying, and I get to improve my skills and knowledge with each one.
Imagine that being the case with everything, because you're so shallow that you always want the new shiny thing. its not the thing, its not the chase, its just the incessant, driving, all consuming, obsessive want. Its not the journey, nor the destination, not even the scenery on the trip or the memories, its just the pure covetous want that drives them.
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@rollin19 I'm rebuilding my 76 C10 right now, 6.0 LS swap, just got a parts truck so I can use the EFI and 4L80 trans from it. Got new rockers, cab corners, bed patches, and I am putting a floor from an 04 Silverado in it that got rolled, so I can use the leather seats from it.
It was a 350 when new, I got it with a 305 which sucked, dropped a Pontiac 400 in it and drove it for a while like that, then needed the 400 for the 65 GTO and I put a 454 in it which really sucked. The 400 pulled like crazy, tons of power and didn't use much gas, then the 454 was weak suck and got about 4mpg. The carb from the 454 is great, runs quite well on a 400 Pontiac I put it on, but that pig bbc had no guts at all. Thats why its getting the 6.0 and 4L80. The one in my 99 Silverado 4x4 runs great.
I had to work with different straight sixes on the farm, never had to touch a slant for anything other than oil changes, plugs and points. The chevy 6 was a cantankerous bitch on an irrigation pump, I hated that thing. Not enough power to pull the water up from a pond so we had to carry water to fill the head and spin the shit out of it, and getting it started every year was a several hour to several day ordeal. It just didn't want to run.
I am not a mopar fan, I don't like working on them for the most part, so not having to mess with the slant was nice. Dad was a huge mopar nut, he left me a 70 Cuda AAR clone, and my brothers all got old Plymouths he had. Oldest got the 64 Sport Fury with a 426 wedge, dad was the original owner of one, this was its clone. The brother after me got the 36 Plymouth business coupe, 360, AC, 727, super nice street rod.
On a farm though you work with what you can get, so we had all kinds of engines, the 413 industrial was a decent one, it chucked a rod, broke the skirt out of the block, dad welded it up, put a couple new rods and pistons in it, and ran it for another 15 years. Those RB engines are beasts. My Pontiac chucks a rod and it breaks the cam and the block more often than not, but they rarely throw rods when you don't spin them over 6500rpm..
Fun times with engines growing up and in the military, which is where I drove 300 six Ford F350s.
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@rollin19 In 07 I found a very rusty 65 GTO for $1500, it wasn't even a good parts car. A rolling shell with swiss cheese floors, no pinch welds so no way to keep glass in it, the dash had rusted away from the cowl completely, and it had some really bad repairs done sometime before it got this bad. Its one of the worst cars I have ever seen get rebuilt.
I spent 3 years working on it, and have about $15k invested including the FiTech, a very healthy 455, suspension upgrades, and the complete frame off I did on it. That is my summer daily driver, and it hauls ass. Rain or shine, if I don't need a truck I take the Goat. You can see a video I made of all the stills I took during the build on my channel.
In 1994 I bought my 70 GTO for $1000 and drove it home, it had a 350 and a broken M20 in it, the original 400 was long gone. I built a 455 for it for $1800 with a cast bottom end, ran heads from a 75 400, and that pushed it into the 12s with a 2.93 gear, stock converter, all motor... and the 70 was 4100lbs with me in it at the time.. I am a bit heavier now.
That was my daily until 2004 when I picked up a 98 Formula, it had AC and got 30mpg while having 300hp to play with.
The 70 was the first one I converted to E85 in 2007, then I built a 455 with 13:1 compression for it with milled RA III heads. Its waiting for its turn in my shop so I can fix the minor rust, rebuild the suspension, replace the entire wiring harness, and make everything under it nice and clean like the 65 is. Then it will get driven more. Its not going to be a carb tuning mule like it was until 2018 and the 65 got the job. Now a 79 Trans Am is getting the carb tuning job. I have four of those.
I bought all of the others decades ago when they were $500 or less cars, drove some as dailys for a while.
I missed a few really cool ones, like a 69 RA IV 4 speed Judge for $1200 in 1985, and a 71 455HO 4 speed Judge for $4000 in 1987, but I got others like a 10th Anniversary TA and a 72 455 HO Formula.
I rebuild the stuff nobody else will touch, like the 69 GTO I have to go pick up, and a very rotted 68 Firebird.
The GTO is a rolling shell, minus the front sheet metal with no rear end under it, so I have to take one along to roll it on my trailer. I have almost everything I need to rebuild it, except for quarter skins, the floors, and door skins. I'm thinking fiberglass front end, tall spindles from one of the Firebirds, and big freakin swaybars with a fast steering box. power it with a round port 455 or stroked 400 so it has around 600hp... just enough to be fun. Make that thing go around corners and squish your brain into the side of your head. I have others to go drag racing, might as well make the 69 the fun one to drive.
I do all of this on a very small budget, lots of trading for parts and I do all the work. Getting kinda old to do all of this now, but it keeps me busy.
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@rollin19 I live in northern Michigan, the only way heat is a problem is getting enough of it from October to May. A manual is out, hard to find them in good shape around here, everything is 4x4 and I lucked into the 2wd 4L80.
I rebuild transmissions, it costs me less to go through an auto than it does a manual. besides finding all the clutch parts for it would be a huge pain in the ass. At least the 65 and 70 GTOs along with the 79 Formula were manual trans cars, so the pedals are there.
Went to autos in them because the 455s I build break 4 speeds easily, so the M20 and ST10 I have are both broken, and its $1000 minimum to fix them, then clutches, pressure plates etc.. A Th400 costs me all of $200, plus a converter. I can make a Th400 or Th350 shit harder than a manual, so they break shit if I really want to. There is no slush to them when I am done.
The 76 will end up pulling the car trailer around, particularly if I go racing again. I like the way it pulled the 79 Formula to the track in the 90s, my dad and I built a trailer to go behind my C10, the top of the trailer bed is only 14" off the ground, and the C10 is in the weeds low. Catches less air when its lower, and makes getting lowered vehicles on and off the trailer a lot easier. The 70 GTO and 72 Formula are both very low in front, can't get them on most trailers.
I'm not opposed to manual transmissions, its that they cost too much. A manual that will live behind one of my engines is $2800 minimum, for just the trans. One that will live behind the most powerful engine I have is over $4k.
Then you get into the auto has torque multiplication and the manual does not, which is why autos are faster and need less final drive gear behind them. You can turn that 500ftlbs into 1000ftlbs at the input shaft very easily with the right stator in the converter. The planetary sets will handle it too.
I am looking at the new TKO trans, they want $2800 for it at Summit, I'd like to put that in either the 65 or 70 GTO, because I don't race them, they are drivers. The 70 is too damn heavy and the 65 can't fit enough tire under it.. lol so they are cruisers. A 5 gear would be a lot of fun in them and make people go ooooh ---- aaahhhhh...
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@rollin19 The saginaw could be broken by a 305, they won't last a day behind my 455s unless I drive like grandma, and not my grandma, she had a lead foot. The ST10 is a Borg Warner Super T-10, they are quite beefy, stronger than the Muncie M20 wide ratio and M21 close ratio 4 speeds, but not as strong as the M22 with its straight cut gears. My 400s can break the Muncies easily, and a mild one ballooned a Vega converter in one evening, first stall was around 3000, second was 4000, then 5000, and after that it would not spin the tires on gravel. That was a 400 that pushed a 3750lb Firebird through the quarter in the 12.8-12.6 range, so really mild.
The Saginaw was what they put behind chevys, I won't even bother with one of them.
A 455 that can put a 4100lb car into the mid to high 12s pushing a 2.93 gear can break a stock Th400 with clutch packs from a truck, the ones that have 5 and 6 friction clutch packs, not the weak suck 4 disc clutches that came behind the sbc. That is a 455 with 8.8:1 compression, not one of the 11.5:1 to 13:1 engines I daily now. 600ftlbs is easy to get with one of these things, and it makes it from 2000 to 4500.
The Tremec will do it for a while, but they are kinda pricey. I can get a T10 brand new for around $2000, but I want the overdrive.
I'm not playing around with 300hp small blocks, the 6.0 in the C10 has a mild cam and headers, it should be well over 450hp if Richard's dyno is right. The same size cam and headers on a 6.0 in his video made close to 500ftlbs around 3500. Stock stuff won't fare well and I know the 4L80 is going to need some attention before too long.
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I am stuck with the VA for health care, last year they decided to no longer provide T replacement shots unless you are exceptionally low, and then you get a topical that barely works. Mine has been low for some time, since around 38 but wasn't earlier in life. To try and get my motivation back I have looked into supplements, they kinda work for a while, but I have to keep increasing the dosage and then stop for a while to notice the effect.
I have plenty of muscle as it is, I am not trying to build more. For me it is a quality of life issue, motivation, energy, and mood are why I was on it. The VA says don't shoot yourself, but the things that work best to keep us from ending it are not allowed by the VA.... and people want socialized health care like I am forced to have.
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That camera you showed will follow the mic? That could be handy for doing work got a link?
I do car stuff... I'll tell anyone about it. It is more difficult doing automotive, because I have to do actual work and film it. Say what you want about me, my cars, or my work.. I'll probably laugh and agree with you. My family doesn't care, they don't watch it. Most of my friends on FB are car people, and many of them have their own automotive channels. We watch each other's videos, its good to keep up with people you know and the builds they're doing.
The surprise surgery last week put a hurtin on me, I was all set to make a bunch of vid about this Mustang I am doing, and I was hit with three weeks of light duty.
My cameras have to be a mix, gopro for action shots, with mounts to stick to glass or metal, a DSLR for stills and video, and some other digital video like the one I am using for the Mustang build. I've been making video for over 30 years, just not posting them until recently. I don't need income from it, if I make any it will go to my kid.
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I'll answer it for them. No, do not date, fuck, marry, support, or give attention to someone with bad politics. Anything close to marxism, including socialism, communism, progressivism, feminism, fascism, nazism... is bad politics. NEVER DATE THEM.
So its not we non leftist nutter types who are unfuckable, its them.
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Bjorn, hate to break it to ya man, but you are RP. Its not pickup artists, its not dislike or disdain of those who are not men, its simply a rather non conformist view, where the narratives pushed on all of us for decades are being rejected. Go back to the movie which spawned the idea, its about rejecting a false reality.
Poppy is miffed because you dare do something of which Poppy does not approve, you are a masculine man who does things outdoors, builds fires, cooks his own food, and power lifts. Those things are frightening to Poppy and friends. You see Poppy and friends are ensconced in the false reality, they desperately want to keep all of us in there with them, like crabs in a bucket. Poppy is disdainful of men who act like men, instead of like the opposite/complimentary side of humanity.
I am quite certain that if Poppy were to find me, there would be a screed about why some old gray beard guy builds hotrods, makes fuel, and built his own house, instead of doing everything the way Poppy would have it done, the Poppy approved method. Poppy can go eat some sticks for all I care, as I have no interest in the bleating of sheep.
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Top Fuel dragsters and Funny cars don't run on gasoline. They run on methanol and nitromethane.
Ethanol does not increase the cost of gasoline, it lowers the price of pump gas by being an exceptionally effective octane booster/enhancer and ethanol is super easy and cheap to make. Just adding 10% of it raises 70 octane ultra crap gas to 89 octane crap gas. It also helps keep the engine and fuel system cleaner. Most problems associated with ethanol are actually due to additives. I have tested this extensively over the last 14 years and Jeff Smith of HotRod Magazine and Summit Racing On All Cylinders tested it for a year, you can read all about it here:
https://www.onallcylinders.com/2018/05/25/ask-away-jeff-smith-e85-pump-gas-additives-not-ethanol-cause-corrosion/
Ethanol is simply vodka, or if you age it in a barrel then its whiskey. The same stuff we use as a race fuel and I run in my daily drivers, is the exact same stuff you get in a bottle or can to watch the big game or talk that chick into getting naked for you.
Gasoline is all dirty. The black carbon deposits caked on valves, piston rings, and polluting the oil all come from gasoline. If you run your vehicle on straight ethanol, hydrogen, methane (CNG) or straight methanol, your oil is not going to turn black unless the engine was previously run on gasoline. Methanol runs very cold, and that means you do not boil condensation out of the oil that collects in every engine due to the heat cycles. Also unburned methanol ends up in the crankcase oil, diluting it.
When running ethanol or methanol you have to get enough heat in the engine, takes some doing on methanol because it cools the engine more as you run it. Ethanol allows you to run a 200F thermostat and boil the water out of the oil in your daily driver with 16:1 compression and iron heads, or 13:1 with 25psi..
Right now ethanol sells for less than $2 a gallon, E85 is around $1.80 here when pump gas is $2.20 for 87 octane, and 92 octane is $3.90 a gallon in my area. So in my 65 GTO (11.3:1 455), 70 GTO (13:1 455), 79 Formula (10.5:1 467 with 700hp/tq) 68 LeMans (12:1 461) and my bolt on only 98 LS1 powered Formula, I run E85 or E100 I make myself for less than 50 cents a gallon, from tree sap and cattails. The 70 GTO gets about 20mpg, the 65 has really bad aero and gets 17mpg, but both of them run mid 11s in the quarter. the LS1 has a lot more power but loses about 2mpg... when I am not beating the snot out of the poor thing.
Ethanol makes more power than gasoline too, even in low compression engines, but you are going to burn a lot more in an 8:1 engine than you would in a 13:1 engine with the only change being the static compression ratio. Around 12:1 with iron heads the mileage equals out between gasoline and ethanol, the loss in mileage with flex fuel vehicles is because they have to be handicapped with low compression to run gasoline, that that hurts mileage on ethanol, and the programs in the EFI are set up to give less mileage on ethanol.
If you lose power running E85 to E100 its because you probably are running it too lean, its a mistake lots of people make when they switch. It also causes drivability problems if you run it too lean, and too lean is over 10:1 AFR. Best mileage on E85 is around 9:1 and best power is around 7:1. You have to run more ethanol because it has more oxygen in it, its not a BTU thing. If you work the fuel harder you make more torque, more torque means its easier to get the vehicle moving, easier to move means less throttle angle to make the same power, and less throttle angle with more power means better mileage.
That is how I get 20mpg on E85 with an old Qjet on a dinosaur 455 with iron heads making around 600ftlbs between 2000 and 4500rpm. At 5500 its still making over 550ftlbs, so its not like its all done at 4500.. but it will push a 2.56 gear in a heavy car no problem.. but the transmissions are not a fan of that.
Go ahead though and spend that hard earned cash to buy race gas for your car that only needs 90 octane... or spend a lot more for that 12:1 engine you could be running on pump E85 for dirt cheap. Doesn't bother me, because I am not trying to sell you anything.
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@Emorphiamusic what happened in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan was not a failure of force of arms. It was not a defeat of the military either. It was failure of politicians to do something other than throw a war for profit. They did not plan to 'win' those conflicts, they wanted to milk the profits from them. Its completely different compared to the declared wars we have fought. Their profit, at our expense. However, that being said your thinking "guerilla warfare is won by the idea that every person can be an enemy combatant" is exactly correct.
The reason being political will of politicians who are removed from the conflict themselves, will have to concern themselves with the possible consequences of a very unpopular conflict. The Tsar found out just how that works with the first revolution in the midst of WWI. With a heavily armed populace, consider it a certainty if the gov starts pushing conscription and other banana republic actions like we are seeing now.
I am a US veteran, Desert Storm and OIF, initial enlistment was during the cold war. There are at least a million of us out here in the civilian world who are less than favorable to what is going on. How many on active duty are as competent as all of us old guys, how many will support illegal actions by congress and the potato? These are all important things to consider, because pretty much anyone who goes against the US military does not fare well... and the current regime is not viewed as 'our side' by the overwhelming majority of veterans and active members that I know.
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@guillermoelnino you're not entirely incorrect, but you are missing some pertinent info. Where are the majority of military men who fought in the wars over the last 35 years? They are not in the military in large numbers, they have been purged to a large extent. So they are in the civilian world... like me.
At least a million of us war vets are out here in the civ world, and we know not only the capabilities, tactics, and how it all works... we know the weaknesses, limitations, and can also blend in to the ranks if we so choose. We know how to fit in and not stand out.
Yes we fought insurgents, and we know how to defeat them, we also know what the insurgents could have done better, but we weren't exactly going to share that info with them or anyone else.
Your assertion that there are 50 for every one is missing out on something important, paid mercs will not risk everything for a paycheck, but men defending their families and way of life, the men who just spent the last 30 years fighting in the desert and mountains, yeah... they will fight ceaselessly. No my friend, they do not have 50 to 200 million men at their disposal, willing to subjugate all of us.
So far, 'they' are being allowed to do some things, but if they start stepping over certain lines, they will find out the hard way just what a domestic enemy entails.. because they will be on the receiving end of a few million oaths.
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I get really tired of people claiming triggers, having PTSD because of bullshit reasons, and others assuming you are weak because you have it.
First thing, its not about being too weak handle it so you get PTSD. Its a survival mechanism that once activated does not shut off. In a dangerous environment it can help keep you alive, problems arise when you return to a safe society where there is minimal or no threat. It hijacks the fight or flight and it can then be set off with seemingly innocuous things. Men tend to fight, women tend to flee when they have it. You end up constantly scanning for threats that never come, and it wears you down, then even a mild threat gets the same reaction that a serious one gets. Not much in between.
However, nothing mild can activate it. I have it from years of physical and mental abuse, random and arbitrary beatings when I was too small to defend myself, and being shot at, poisoned, stabbed, run over, and other near death experiences when I was a kid.. By the time I went to my first war, I'd had PTSD for almost 15 years. I didn't know that was what it was until I was almost 40.
Second thing. You are absolutely right about people having no clue what is out in the rest of the world. They do not know the violence and terror that is common in many societies on this planet. Humans are only a couple chromosomes away from chimps, we can be equally as brutal as they can. In the real world you can't run to a teacher, you have to handle things yourself. Disarming everyone is not the way to make everyone safe, educating them and exposing people to an idea of what lurks out there dos much more. Training people to be ready for what might happen is also far better.
I have seen some shit you can't forget. I lived with a boiling pit of rage that would come out with the right provocation, and after I found out what it was, and what caused it, then I could work to minimize its effects on myself and those around me. Its still there, but I can get around in public much better. I still do my shopping at night when nobody is around, and I live far off in the woods with dogs where I can see things coming... but I haven't exploded into a rage or the calm fury with which I deal with threats. Its still there, I can use it if needed, but now I can mostly control it.
Could she get it from watching videos? Fuck if I know, everyone is different and react different to stimuli and stress. One thing I do know, is I can't watch certain movies (Iraq war specifically) and I can get flashbacks from others like the screwdriver one you mentioned. However, I can also use some of them to flood myself to where I no longer have the reaction to it. It sucks having it, but over 40 years I have learned to incorporate certain aspects into useful skills.
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A 'WORLD" organization wants to collect a blood sample from me so I can fly internationally... Due to being a US military veteran, I have been to four continents with only three to go... and it also means my own government is already up my ass looking around and collecting data on me. If they think I am going to go along with that shit, on top of all the TSA bullshit, holy fuck are they mistaken.
In 1986 a bomb exploded on Rhein Main AB West Germany, it was 150 feet from the room where I lived from 89-91. The result was the base was on 100% check at the front gate, vehicles were searched, IDs had to be present, and they could do whatever the hell they wanted to do in searching... short of large scale property damage. I understand full well the idea behind security, but a bunch of religious zealots is rather different from a virus that barely kills anyone it infects.
They are acting we are in the middle of Walking Dead episode 1 and the world is coming to an end. The reaction is far more detrimental than the virus, and yeah if Biden pulls a miracle out of his creepy ass, it will be gone before Valentines Day next year.
I won't be travelling internationally anyway.. Been there, done that, seen it, killed people, had fun, got drunk, got laid, yeah I'm good.
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@rgriffith2006 first, my family got here from Germany after the civil war and moved out to Nebraska, the region where racing is going insane while the rest of you go around in circles so you don't get lost driving the same car with different stickers.
So yankee doesn't fit.
We had to drive several miles just to find pavement. I'd wager I have a lot more mile on dirt and gravel than you do. Have probably gone faster on dirt than you have as well. The gys who grow up in the country off the paved roads like I did can probably drive, but the city people are idiots.
Then we have snow.. lots of snow. High winds, where a 40mph wind is a breezy day and 60mph winds you start to notice while driving. Ah but the snow...
In Charleston all the way over to northern Texas, a flurry is enough to scare everyone off the streets and cause multiple accidents, not enough snow to actually collect on the ground or get packed down mind you, more like a slow falling white rain that melts immediately. All the bread and bottled water vanishes from stores with a flurry.. somewhat different from the snow packed roads and whiteouts from November to April in shithole Michigan where I live now.
Yeah I want to move, not because of the snow, but because nobody races here, yet they all talk shit about how fast they are.
I drove all over the south while stationed in Charleston. Drove allover Europe while stationed in Frankfurt Germany. All over Dubai and Kuwait while deployed there. Didn't drive much in Korea, only there for a year. The worst drivers on the planet are in the south.
At the end of I-526 in Charleston there is a big sign that says "KEEP MOVING MERGE LATER" and there is a lane dedicated to the merge. Those southern halfiwits stop there and wait for oncoming traffic when all they have to do is go around and keep moving like the sign says. Its worse when it rains.
All along I-26 as it winds from Sommerville to Charleston idiots stop in the middle of the road on blind curves, they stop at merge lanes like at the end of 526, they block intersections by pulling into them after the light has turned red. It rains almost everyday between 2 pm and 4 pm in Charleston, and every time it rains someone gets killed in an accident, and several other vehicles are destroyed without fatalities.
North Carolina, not quite as bad, but still not great. Florida, and Georgia, i you see oranges on the plate up here in the north, you give them plenty of space because they have a hard time driving on a dry road. Bama, LA, and Miss, they don't really leave their state much, rarely see any of those plates outside their state. At least they know what stoplights are for in those states.
Look at the bright side, y'all hicks drive better than the idiots in California, and most of ya know what a turn signal is for.
Want to know something funny? The county I live in here in Michigan has ok drivers. One mile west of me the new county begins, and the Biden signs popped up all over there. Those idiots make Charleston drivers look like German drivers, i.e. very competent and professional. I can go on for hours about those morons, and when all the RVs and idiots out playing 'Sons Of Anarchy outlaw banker' show up driving 45 in a 65 limit, yeah it gets sporty around here with all the stupid.
Two weeks after the first snow, and everything changes here. People remember how to drive and they stop driving like they're from Atlanta.
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Its not hard to be prophetic, 1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm etc were all warnings about marxism, as seen in real time in the Soviet Union stating in 1920. It looks like prophecy or a Democrat "How To Destroy Your Country" manual because marxists do the same thing every fucking time. In the 80s we had some leaps in technology, and they kept coming around faster.
Extrapolate the trajectory and its easy to guess with some accuracy where we will be, even if we don't have the exact details spot on.. like who would have guessed smart phones would be a thing? Not hard to guess there will be something similar. I remember video games in the 70s and early 80s, and I dreamed of having games that look as good as they do now. From Pong to some of these FPS games like COD, BF, Fallout, etc, its a massive change, but not out of the possibility in just 30 years.
The first flight was in 1909. The C5 Galaxy flew in 1969, and the Wright Brother's first flight could have happened entirely on the flight deck of the C5. That is just 60 years and two wars.
If we can get rid of the abhorrent mind cancer that is marxism, we can actually not end up in a dystopia. That is the common theme with all the dystopian books and movies, an authoritarian marxist regime with overbearing power and control over your very existence through technology.
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@Nathan_091 I can provide some guidance, especially the loneliness part. I have spent most of my life alone, but I am rarely lonely, and not at all for the last 10 years. Why is that? Because I have things I want to do, and most people can't help me with those things they just get in the way.
The whole old car thing is not about the cars as much as it is what I want to do with them. Its my vision for what I want them to be, and I invest myself into them. They are my skills, knowledge, and abilities brought into a tangible form that I can use and enjoy.
You don't have to be a car guy to have that. That is just how males are, we are more interested in things than people. I've always been interested in how things work, what goes on inside and why. I had to learn how people work and why they act certain ways, just because I have to live among people..
I am not saying work yourself to the point you are too busy to even notice nobody is around. I am telling you to pursue what drives you. It can be anything, story telling, math, rockets, moving rocks, digging holes, learning about the universe is fun, no matter what subject it is.
If you feel lonely, look up at the stars at night, preferably away from city lights so you can actually see them. All those stars and planets are made of the same stuff we are made of, but we are aware and can study everything else. We can use materials made in stars to build things. Its kinda cool when you look at it that way. Even sweeping the floor is cool because all the stuff on the floor was once inside a massive star.
We are lucky, even if we have a rough life. There are trillions of potential people who are never born, that sperm never meets the egg, but it happened for us. We won the largest lottery ever to be born on this planet, at this particular time, so we can do all this cool stuff. You are off in some other country, talking to an old guy who lives in the north of the USA, and we can share videos and stuff, not just text or letters that take months to get around. How freakin cool is that?
When I was 21 and stationed in Germany, it took at least one month for my letters to get home, then another month for them to get back to me. Phone calls were very expensive, and the internet did not exist. We are connected like never before... its a cool time to be alive.
The big thing about not being lonely is being someone you find interesting, someone you like to be around. I have become someone I find interesting, because I have done interesting things.. and often its like it wasn't me doing all of that, feels like a book or a movie I watched, but it was me doing it.
It takes time to make that happen. You have to invest your time, and what you invest it in will affect how your life goes. I had lots of hours where I could do very little, and I have had plenty of time I spent doing things like playing video games that really don't benefit me in a tangible way. They keep me from dwelling on certain things though, which is why I play them.
Young men like you need mentors, someone to teach them how to be a man. Someone who can guide them, instill discipline to do what needs to be done so you can enjoy the fruit of that labor later. Someone who teaches you how to think, rather than telling you what to think. Asking the right questions is far more important than you think.
You don't have to become a muscle bound freak like I did, but not being weak will make life better. Going through hard times is what makes you stronger and tougher. There is no other way.
Look up Jocko Wilink's video titled "Good" and watch some of his other videos. Adversity, failures, all these supposedly negative things, are actually opportunities. A man like him is a good example of how to be a man... and you don't need to go off to war to implement what he says.
The info you need is out there, but you need to be smart about where you get information from. Lots of people will lead you into a bad place, you tend to figure out who that will be over the years.
I would say it gets better, but really that is up to you. What you put into life will dictate what you get out of it. Free stuff doesn't help you, earning what you have... now that is beneficial.
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@GoldenEagle_Matariki_Kaleolani nah, she did not cheat, but she wanted to try a cute guy who lived closer than a 7 hour drive. So we ended it amicably. I don't blame her really, and she isn't overly promiscuous, but she ends up getting dumped relatively often. She has two teen sons, and most guys just like to hang out with her, they don't want to commit either.
It was difficult for me to drive 7 hours down to Chicago, because it took time away from building my house, working on vehicles, and doing things around here I need to do. She could only come up for a weekend, and had to find someone to watch her sons, they weren't quite teenagers then.
She is one of the few good people left in this world, and I have a high degree of respect for her. Definitely one of the classiest chicks I have ever been with.
She was all in and treated me right every time we were together. The distance between us is the problem, not trust. If she was closer she would be allowed in my circle, and she has an open invite to come here if the world goes to hell or Chicago gets bombed or something and she needs to get out.
She digs the old car thing I do and still sends me pics of cars she sees and likes. I am rebuilding a car for her, she is funding it, and trades me parts for my vehicles for the work done to hers. Its going to be a cool ride, I need to finish it and get it out of my shop this winter. I don't build cars for just anyone, she impressed me that much and treated me right, even now.
Its not often you find a girl like her, and yes the native and Spanish in her is very attractive. She is considerably different from the northern tribes where I live. They are still decent people, but they are different from Apaches.
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Hey Matt.. I am 54, a two war veteran, father of two daughters in their late 20s, I build muscle cars for fun and enjoyment, built my house, the shop where I build cars and repair my trucks, I even have a chunk of Berlin Wall on my shelf next to me from 1989 when I was stationed in Germany. I build PCs as well, on which I play games. Red Dead Redemption 2 might be a better suited game for you, unless you're skeered of the outdoors. You might want to stay away from the combat flight sims like DCS, they have a learning curve and operate like actual aircraft. I game in the evenings when I have nothing else to do, particularly in winter, its relaxing and fun, plus I get to meet other old guys who game like I do. Most of my friends online are in their 40s to 70s. Yeah, we have a 78 year old who games with us in Call of Duty 5... a nearly 20 year old game.
Consoles are for kids.
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@fluttercoat3899 thats because you met leftists. The rest of us you never know what we believe, because we don't tell you. I grew up in a lutheran church, one my family founded. They ran my entire family out 90 years after we founded it, and they did it to other families. I remember the saccharine smiles and empty platitudes offered by people in our church.
The worst people in the USAF who mistreated me the most heinously were evangelical: baptists, pentecostal, and other snake handling babbling to themselves whack jobs. Strangely enough they were all named some variation of William.
I do not have a problem with religious people because of their beliefs, nor as a whole, I rather like most of you. However when they justify abhorrent actions with their religion, then I have a problem with them.
As for my purpose: I help young men to realize their potential, avoid the pitfalls society sets in their path, and give them the guidance they did not get from their fathers because their mothers had them thrown out of the family.
Additionally, I have been perfecting several forms of green energy, which amusingly enough are not what the lefties want us to do, that enable poor people to produce energy themselves from the things around them. Its more of a rural thing than an urban thing.
I tech them to make vodka(ethanol) fuel, how to make their vehicles run on it, rebuilding engines to take advantage of the superior qualities, and they make incredible power too.. which honestly is the entire reason I got into making the stuff. Cheap race gas I can make myself rather than paying someone else $12 a gallon for it. Not saving the planet or some nonsense, I have GTOs that need fuel and $5 for 87 octane is simply unacceptable.
Imagine being able to heat your home for less than $300 a year, including providing all the hot water you need, and in the spring the system used to heat the home and water provides premium quality topsoil for gardens and greenhouses.
I teach people how to work on their own vehicles, to save money on repairs and maintenance, giving accurate and correct information about how to do the work, and how every system on it functions. Often I provide them with shop space and tools to do the work themselves, training them and making them more self sufficient.
When people break down near my home, I help them out, like earlier this week when a nice lady and her son had a flat tire, and the wheel was rusted to the axle. Her husband came out but didn't have the tools needed to change the tire, namely a torch and a big freakin hammer. So I offered that they follow me to my shop, we heated the axle and I whacked the wheel with the hammer and a block of wood, then changed the tire to the spare, and filled it with air.
I have gotten people back on the road so they could make it to town without paying for a tow truck/roll back, after they hit deer, bears, etc.
I rescue and foster dogs that nobody else wants or can handle, like the 1.5 year old Alaskan husky that just took a dump on my floor while I write this to you. So I gotta clean that up now. He will learn eventually, he is usually pretty good about it.
Every so often, in a check out line I will pay for the stuff someone else has, just out of pure kindness. No thankyou is needed, its to brighten their day. Bear in mind I am a crippled war veteran, living on a fixed income so it is a sacrifice for me.
I teach people how to do things all the time, inspire them to learn more, and hopefully that gets them to be less dependent on government and people who want to take from them.
Everyone in my township knows they can bring me their vehicles or small engines if they can't afford to fix or replace it.
I give vehicles to people who help me out when I need it. Not new ones or anything, but reliable daily drivers so they can get around. Sometimes its a muscle car, sometimes a 4x4 truck.
When going to stores, I try to brighten the employees day, not by preaching to them, but talking to them and remembering them so they know I actually give a damn about them. Its fun watching their faces light up when they see me, knowing that I know who they are, what classes they might be taking if they are young, and other personal things we talk about while I make them laugh and chuckle. Working retail sucks, and it pays poorly.
If waitstaff does a good job, they get a 50% to 100% tip. Remember, I am not wealthy, I live on VA disability payments, but a good job deserves a reward. I leave it and walk out.
I sacrificed my health and my youth for the good of the USA and the world, and most people dump on me.
My purpose in life is to figure things out, make the world a better place than I found it, and never ever treat anyone like so many religious zealots have treated me, even when I was religious. If you're not the same flavor or brand, they seem to think they can do what they want to you. It was always the religious people who had a problem with me dating women who had a darker skin tone than I do... and yeah that has been an equal share of god nuts and lefties.
I would like it if all of you acted better, I would like you more. Problem is you think you are better than everyone else, pious and haughty, looking down your nose at people with disdain behind that saccharine smile.
Its funny because I have more justification to dislike humans because of what has been done to me, but unlike all of you... I still like people, even if they are whacked out lefties with garish hair or snake handlers babbling to themselves.
We don't have to agree to be friends, unlike all you authoritarian types who demand everyone share the same fantasy you have.
So um... what do ya do for a purpose? Make yourself wealthier and talk down to people?
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Through my travels around the world, I noticed that the Asians REALLY liked me. Blue eyes, blond hair, only 5'8" so I don't tower over them. I've learned some Japanese, Korean, Thai, Arabic, and Laotian over the years, in addition to Russian and German. Not conversational, but enough to get around in those countries. I like to say I can get slapped in a bar or travel around in those places.
After my travels and experiences, I am rejecting them. Until last year I stayed overweight to keep them away. Health is making me get fit again, so I hope now I am old enough to keep them away by looking homeless. I reject them simply because they can take everything I have built from me, even when I didn't even know them when I paid off my debts and built my home/life.
I'm 55 and out of the gene pool for over 15 years. I won't be rescuing someone who has consistently made poor choices and is ruled by irrational emotion.
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Tim the left isn't going to stop. They are escalating, they are pushing, and they are trying to find anything to justify what they are about to do. I have done my two wars already, I do not want a third, but the only choice they are giving me is roll over and let them take everything I have built from me, or fight them. I know where this goes, I have seen it before, I was born in the middle third of the 1900s, WWII wasn't that long before me, and Vietnam was in full raging force when I came screaming into the world. The marxists do not stop, they do not relent and be satisfied with what they have, they always want more, they want what you and I have, but they don't want to work to get their own.
It is not the non marxists / non democrats who need to back down, because we are not pushing on them... not yet. In 1939 when Adolf invaded Poland, the first thing they did was seize a radio station and began broadcasting propaganda to make their invasion look 'legal' and we are seeing the same damn thing here.. its what they have been doing since well before the cheeto took office.
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@albertgaspar627 can't do what I do, in a city or town. People have a hard time grasping that. They have silly rules like your shop can't be larger than your house, and every vehicle needs a license plate with insurance even if you are doing a ground up rebuild on it and the poor thing doesn't leave your garage while you work on it.
One of my major projects this winter is finishing my shop, getting it organized so every tool and piece of equipment has its place. My problem for the last 8 years is I have had to store so many engines, transmissions, and other parts, while working on daily drivers and winter beaters, that the shop isn't done. I need to build another shed just to store engines and other big stuff... so I can work and get the engines/transmissions, into vehicles.
Running vehicles are far easier for playing yard tetris. Dan from DDSpeed shop has the same yard tetris game going on, but at a much lower level than I have. That is slowly changing.. which reminds me, I need more sawzall blades and a concrete saw with a metal cutting blade on it... make trucks into small pieces.
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@lunaflamed ya do realize there was considerable time between his imprisonment when he wrote his book, and when he started eradicating the 'un-utilitarian' types as I will refer to them on here. It was the disabled and mentally unwell who were used to develop and perfect the gaseous methods.
Ost = East, so the Russian side of things, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, etc.
You can like the guy if you want, but I will forever not be a fan of him or his frenemy Joe S and the rest of them over there. After 1992 I got to meet lots of Russian speaking people, and we got along great, absolutely wonderful men and women. Not a fan of the pol stuff in Europe.
I take people as individuals, not as avatars of some arbitrary group and the assumption that they are all the same. Aka the American way of doing things... before the collective types subverted and infected damn near everything.
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@muhdiversity7409 I don't make millions, but I do have some things that would get me quite close to a million if I sold them. Vintage muscle cars... my land... things like that. I hide that, and the fact that I have just under $100k in take home, in passive income. I look homeless, destitute, and when I meet a digger while I am driving one of the muscle cars I test her to see if she just wants the bag or she wants to know me. Its easy to do...
If I won the lotto and had a billion sitting in the bank, I would dress the same, act the same, and just build cars faster in a much larger and nicer shop. The cars would still get my daily driver quality paint and interior, because cars are meant to be driven, not sit in a heated garaged and looked at. I would be over a million income if I had never gotten married, and subsequently divorced.
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@TheHylianJuggalo hang on a minute, there was no crime involved in the OP's illustration. That is an entirely different thing than seeing your messed up parent do messed up things and having a messed up life. I mean it was perfectly legal when my ex wife subjected my kids to unsavory things in life... at least they would not prosecute her for it.
Also you are talking to a man who has been convicted of things he did not do, with zero evidence, all on the word of a female (my second ex wife), and had multiple other accusations tossed at me by females trying to extort money and cars from me, or simply claiming I was harassing them for extending a verbal greeting whilst not being tall enough to speak to them.
Every girl I know save for one has had a story about unwanted whatever, and that one girl is the Arab girl I tried to marry 33 years ago. We are still friends, she is pretty cool and lives in Germany. Both of my sisters claim things happened to them, but I believe my first ex definitely had experiences like that... not that she was probably resistant to it, more like regretted it later.
Do I believe the stories? Its damn hard to after so many accusations and time sitting in jail for absolutely nothing. They get so much social cred for it that when I hear those stories my mind goes almost immediately to a stolen valor type thing. Where someone pretends to be one of us veterans, but is not... I mean how many people can be space shuttle door gunners like me? Thats a joke, not being a veteran, because I am, but the space shuttle thing... it illustrates a point that people can make up whatever they wish.
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I build Qjets and Holleys, you could say I know carbs very well, I do E85 conversions on them. I have several E carbs, and I am not much of a fan for performance use. Not because they don't run, its because they leave power, drivability and mileage on the table compared to the other two. The Holley gets about the same mileage as the AFB/AVS but the E carbs are down on power, and the drivability is meh compared to a Holley. The Qjet blows the E carb away for mileage and drivability while making noticeably more power. Qjets are not for noobs though, not even a little bit. Once you learn them, every other carb is easy.
Where the E carb shines is for people who have very little understanding of carbs, driving mostly stock or very mild 350ish cube engines. I notice the difference in all these carbs because I daily drive a 455 with more than 550hp/600tq. There is a sluggishness that can't be tuned out with the E carb on my engines, they are simply down on power.
The 455 HO in my 72 Formula displayed the difference very well. The guy I got it from threw away the Qjet and stock aluminum intake, which are now worth about $3500 because they were only used on 455 HOs, and put an 800 AVS on it. He struggled to get out of the 13s, trying everything you do to a chevy to go faster, 3.70 gears, 3000 stall, Torker II intake, MSD6AL and the best he could do was 13.4@98. I put a stock iron intake on it with a Qjet, was stuck with the 3.70 gears which slow down a 455 compared to a 3.08-3.55, and the 3000 stall wastes 500-800rpm of torque, but the first run was a 12.60@110. Some tuning got 12.40s, but with a 3.08 or so rear gear it would be an 11 second car all day.
I messed with that AVS for days, springs, metering rods, jets, and there just isn't much you can do with them. Not enough secondary opening rate tuning available to make a difference. The Qjet owns the E carb hard core with tuning of the secondary opening rate. Its an Allen head set screw and a flat blade screwdriver to get the perfect opening rate within a handful of runs.
There just isn't enough range for them, ya get what ya get and gotta be happy with that.
That is a bonus for people who have no idea about carbs. They really can't screw anything up. I have bought several 4150 Holley 850 carbs from chevy guys who thought they could run 62 jets in them on their 350 chevy, and they never got them to run. The first was a very nice Carb Shop carb, got it for $75 when he paid $450 and couldn't get it to run. I jetted it to 82 front 88 rear and it was absolutely amazing on my 11 second $2700 Pontiac 455.
Its very hard to screw up an E carb like you can a Holley, and you really gotta know the Qjet to do what I do with them, so the E carb is absolutely perfect for the guys who don't know much about it... especially the ones who turn the idle mix and think they are rejetting it. My brother who is a heavy mopar nut likes them because his cold blooded 360s will shred a power valve on the first crank. He killed a decade's worth of power valves one year with one of my 4150s on his 360. For some reason, I have yet to ruin a PV on my engines. I have a 780 Holley 4160 ready to go on my dad's 426 Wedge in his 64 Sport Fury so we can put it on E85 and get it to stop running so damn hot, but I have to make it back home to try it out.
If you have a stockish 350-360, and just want to throw it on and go, the E carb is your baby. You have to work pretty hard to jack it up enough it won't run. I put them on cars I plan to sell so I don't have to part with my Qjets and good Holleys. If I need a carb and I am not near my stash, I will get an E carb from someone used and throw it on until I get back to my stash. They work, but I don't expect much from them... also I don't drive anything smaller than a 400 in summer that isn't fuel injected.
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@willhiggins9563 its really curious when a week later all these ballots show up for only one party, none for the other, and its just enough to preclude a recount... There is no evidence of many things because it is hidden, ignored, suppressed, or obfuscated, but it doesn't mean it did not happen.
We can have massive evidence, and people in key positions will make sure it does not go anywhere... e.g Comey, Hillary, illegal servers and subpoenas for emails that are deleted and nothing comes of multiple felonies...
Its strange how people who have dirt on the Clintons kill themselves and none of the cheeto's accusers mysteriously die...
but yeah the narrative of nothing to see here, no foul play, the 12 people at a dem rally are going to outvote the tens of thousands at a cheeto rally, is obviously the correct narrative.
Bernie wins the primary and the delegates go to Hillary.. nothing to see here.
Just say it didn't happen, there is no proof so stop looking. That is essentially "God did it" and it might work on the weak minded and ignorant/apathetic, but people will notice eventually. It needs to be researched, but good luck getting that done when the dems hold power in the states where it was used.
Operational security was one of the things drilled into us in the military. There is none when it comes to elections on those states, you cannot trust the outcome any more than you can trust intel that has been filtered through 50 people. That is why all of this has caught my interest, not because I am a republican or a cheeto fan.
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@alexp.6406 I have two daughters, they are 26 and 29 right now. Sorting laundry is not a big thing, I did that when I wasn't teaching them to read, write, do math, run PCs, shapes, colors, crawling, walking, riding bikes. I cook far better than their mother ever has. I did all of that while working 50 to 70 hours every week in a factory and in my side business working on cars. Outfits for kids. Really? That is the toughest thing worth mentioning? Simple solution after they are 3 and can understand well enough, tell them to pick something and put it on. If its goofy, have them change one particular thing that makes it goofy, or let them fly their freak flag.
Of all the jobs I have done in my life, being a father was the easiest and most rewarding. That is coming from a man who served in the USAF during the two largest airlifts in world history, as a key player in said airlift, loading aircraft and building pallets to go on planes.
I taught my kids math using my wrenches, they learned fractions and basic math skills. I taught them to read starting out the same way with both of them. I sat them on my knee at the nose of my car and taught them using the emblem in the grille. Yeah the first letters my daughters learned were GTO. The youngest gets that car when I kick the farm off the perch as it were, along with all the other cars and trucks I have.
The worst thing to ever happen to me, and I have been shot at, bludgeoned, run over, stabbed, poisoned, and crippled due to extreme over work(I live with chronic pain), was when the ex took off with the kids and the child support enforcement people helped her hide them from me out of vindictive capricious spitefulness. I never mistreated any of them, but she mistreated me and the kids. She exposed them to random males who did things to my daughters. She is the one who stepped out and did everything wrong, and she was rewarded for it. They also took 71% of my gross pay for support, leaving me with $100 a month to live on from June 2001 to Feb 2004. I slept in that old ratty GTO all those years.
I was punished for being a good dad.
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In 1988 I enlisted in the USAF, my job was Air Cargo Specialist, essentially the same thing Tim did at O'Hare. Throwing bags, pushing pallets, building pallets of cargo. Large pallets that can weigh 10,000lbs each. In 1988 there was a strength requirement, I had to prove I could lift a certain amount of weight over my head to get the job. There were VERY few females in Air Cargo as a result, they ended up in Passenger Service where they worked the gate and we cargo guys threw the bags for them.
Then in 1990 or 91, the USAF in all their brilliant wisdom merged the two career fields into Air Transportation. Suddenly we had to have a certain number of females doing ramp (loading the planes), cargo processing (building/breaking down pallets) and fleet service (loading meals/water/etc on planes).
Fleet might sound easy, but it required carrying 200lbs up the step trucks into C5s, and women simply could not do it. That meant the male had to do ALL the heavy lifting while the females watched and carried paperwork. Many of them could not lift 5 gallon igloo coolers, and C5s required two to four of them in the troop compartment alone. Ramp is pushing pallets on planes by hand. You cannot get enough females behind a 6000lb pallet for them to move it themselves. There is no way they can move a 10,000lb pallet. I could load an entire C5 by myself, and I did it often. C5s hold 36 of those pallets.
Working with equipment that handles those pallets, and working on aircraft is inherently dangerous. You need to be aware at all times, and the USAF has rules and regs about how to do it safely. I was the Safety NCO for my duty section, as well as the vehicle NCO who was responsible for all the vehicles. Along with training, and a bunch of other extra duties. In six years as Safety NCO, I had one male have an accident, a poorly built pallet tipped off the forklift he was driving. Not his fault at all.
I had literally hundreds of mishaps involving female operators.
From backing into aircraft with enough force to punch holes in the fuselage, impaling 55 gallon drums with fork tines, and even driving forklifts off docks. I had ONE female I trusted to operate equipment, she was a portly farmchick from Wisconsin. She had been driving tractors and stuff since she was 10, just like I did from age 8. She was the only female who could back up with a trailer.
Some jobs are simply beyond females to do. I had males who could not lift and drive worth a damn, but they were a small minority, like two guys could not drive safely no matter how much training I did with them. The one kid who wasn't strong enough gained strength and within a couple months could do it easily. He just had to work at it. When the females worked like that, they broke. Their body could not handle it, they did not get stronger, joints failed on them within days to weeks. My joints failed at age 35, after being smack in the middle of the two largest airlifts in world history Desert Shield and OIF/OEF. I was at the base doing the most work, in the duty section doing the most work. I was 21 when Desert Shield began, and I gained 50lbs of muscle in the first six months of it working 7 days a week, 12 to 14 hours every night.
Out of the several thousand people I served with, the females were the least capable physically by a wide margin. However, they were vastly better at talking on phones to retirees who wanted to take a hop on a cargo plane that had some open seats, and doing paperwork that made my brain scream from boredom. We all have things we can and cannot do. I cannot fit in small spaces, women can't lift anywhere near as much as I can.
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@POLARTTYRTM I have no idea where the two who falsely accused me have ended up, one is probably no longer with us because she was in her 60s when she accused me 30 years ago. One can hope... that it was painful and slow.
My 1st ex was vioent, and if a man had done even a fraction of what she did, he would have at best ended up in ICU. She had the state behind her, and they always wanted to take me away when she was the one causing the problem, escalating, and being vioent. Gotta have typos for it to show up here.
I am not a small timid wimp. I am a two war combat veteran who grew up in a very dangerous environment. War felt like home to me. I can inflict grievous harm on most people easily, so a 130lb chick would stand no chance. Problem is the cops have those hole punches they carry, and there are lots of them.
If I became an un fat man, I would probably still weigh 280lbs rather than the 310 I am right now. I am 5'8 and you can see my ribs, but I have a gorilla belly. 21" arms, 60" chest, 22" neck, 40" waist.
Right now I am dealing with ligament issues, too much muscle mass for not enough connective tissue, getting old sucks. I got the muscle when I was 21, a good bit more at 35, then more at 45. Now at 53 things don't heal as fast or as well. Otherwise I can lift very heavy things easily.
With the training and strength, if I want to harm someone, they will get harmed. Severely.
I would rather build old GTOs though, far more enjoyable.
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Hey Matt... what do you propose men do about the laws being abhorrently against men? Nobody is willing to change said laws, because they won't want to appear to be against women, because women are the larger constituent block. The men who are not playing the game, not dating, not getting married, are NOT retreating. Hardly... they are applying pressure, especially when they decide to do the bare minimum to survive.
Why is that? Well, if they aren't putting in what my generation (X) did, they won't be able to be taxed as much, they won't backstop the economy, they won't support the free money for females, and the Title 4D incentives to screw over fathers. The states lose money from the Social Security fund when they cannot levy a man with child support, because he has no kids. The lawyers and judges cannot make money off divorces when men are not getting married. Women find themselves lonely, alone, childless, or alone moms because they tossed the father out thinking they would be better off with all the free money, and that they could get another man... not happening.
The economy doesn't have its greatest engine pushing it, the work of men building, creating, maintaining. Men can live VERY frugally, and if they aren't buying things or supporting women, that is going to cause some consternation in board meetings, now isn't it?
I know how frugally a man can be, I lived on $100 a month from June 2001 to Feb 2004 while active duty in the USAF... because my home state took what remained after taxes, and I got a C note every month to do with as I pleased... I would have starved without the deployments and the year in Korea where I had food and a room supplied to me. My rank was too high to live on base but Nebraska felt that 71% of my gross was almost adequate for child support. Young men have seen what happened to millions of men like me, and my story is not unique, its freakin ubiquitous. Its common for the dad to have no access to his kids, and yet be indentured to their mother, even when they aren't his kids.
Men have stopped being the yoked oxen, they are beginning to realize that they are putting their head on the choppin block when they say 'I do' and its only a matter of time before she decides she can do better... as there is ZERO consequence for her leaving, and ZERO incentive to stay.
Men have ZERO incentive to get married, or even date, because they can lose every hour they have invested in their family on the whim of their soon to be ex wife.
So you see, not playing the game is applying pressure across the board. Punishing men will not bring them back, nor will shaming them as you have been doing, threats will be met with ambivalence at the least, and something rather distasteful at worst.
I don't date anymore, because I am 54 years old, and have spent the last ten years rebuilding my life since my second and final divorce. I just can't bring myself to give another house, parcel of land, and the majority of my military compensation to someone who decided to cheat on me and do everything wrong.
There is no damn reason I should date or even approach a woman with romantic intent. NONE. I only stand to lose everything again, I will gain nothing. Lots of them want to get their hands in my life/wallet, because they think I would make a fine ATM for them to make withdrawals.
Tell me... what benefit do I receive from having a woman in my life? What does she add that is worth the risk of ending my life living under a bridge because everything I sacrificed for in two wars, two divorces, and rebuilt with my own two hands is taken from me and given to her when she decides to jump on a different Tab D? What do I get from it?
or are men just here to be workhorses and ATMs?
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@vyse102 that doesn't seem likely to be honest, but one thing is for certain it will not be caused by a female fucking up a relationship. You have to have a relationship to get fucked by one, well most of the time.
The thing that concerns me is how the creepy demented kid sniffer is pushing the WEF thing where they claim by 2030 we will own nothing and be happy. Being a slave and forever in debt to them does not sound like something that will make me happy, particularly after I have invested years of my life and nearly all the money I have into building my shop, home, and paying off the land I live on. I own this free and clear, no debt at all, and they want me to rent it from them?
I see a trail of body bags behind me if they manage to do that. Take my old cars and home from me, and I have nothing left to live for, and a bottomless abyss of rage inside me that will turn my training and abilities into a nightmare for marxists. I will not stop until either all of them are room temp or I am. I have been fucked over in my life enough, if it happens now there will be rivers of blood.
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Hey Tim... methane is easy to produce and collect. Ethanol is also easy to produce. You can run generators on both of those, you can run vehicles on them too. If you have maple or birch trees on your land, you can tap them and make fuel like I do. Cattails, waste paper, stale bread, donuts, mesquite seeds, coffee grounds from the local coffee shops, can all be made into fuel. Ethanol is a great hand sanitizer too. Its super easy to make a vehicle run on ethanol, a bit more involved to get the most mileage from it, and contrary to what people constantly say, it doesn't hurt a damn thing in your vehicle.. except perhaps the drive tires due to increased power.
Methane can be made with a compost system, and collected from your septic system. You can also produce methane and heat water with a woodchip and sawdust compost pile, running plastic sprinkler tubing through it then to radiators. It makes 140F water for 6 months from a pile of wood chips 20ft diameter at the base, soaked with water. I found that looking for a way to heat my stills to produce ethanol, I will have it set up in my house this coming winter so I don't need to burn as many wood pellets or firewood, might be kinda hard to get pellets this winter.
I don't have natural gas available, propane is cost prohibitive at more than $1000 a month. Pellets cost me $250 a month, firewood varies because most of the assholes around here think a face cord is 2' high' x 4' long and 12" wide, rather than 4' high x 8' long and 16" wide. Gasoline has been over $3 for a few months now, I bet its closer to $4 with this shit going on, any excuse they can use to justify charging us more, they will. Thats the whole reason I got into making ethanol, methane, and heating with woodchips.
I guess its time to start making videos on how to produce energy and make things run on it.
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@evilestmonkeey thanks, I am a gearhead, interested in things that go and how they work. I learned over the last 5 decades that what happens in politics affects what I can do with vehicles. Both financially and legally, if I can't get parts or tires because the government does something stupid, it impacts my ability to do the things I enjoy.
The big reason people have forgotten how to do all the stuff I do is very simple. It takes work, man hours are spent producing energy. Honestly its not all that much to keep it going once its built, but its something. People want the easy button, set the thermostat and let it run the heat or cooling, take the car to the shop rather than fix it yourself.
They would rather watch TV or do something passive with their time spent not at work. How many hours does the average person have to put in to fill the gas tank, pay the electrical bill, and put processed prepackaged food on the table? I'd guess its more than I have to put in making fuel, growing food, and creating a current. I know it was a lot more when I worked in factories and served in the military.
I goof off most of the time now, but I am also physically limited and get money from the government breaking me on my last deployment in 2004. Someone with a bit of knowhow and motivation could take any number of the things I am working on, and turn it into a thriving business. I can't because the amount of time I can spend on my feet is short. There is no getting around it either, I have tried.SO I might as well share it with people.
Thanks for the sub. Tell your friends and help keep me motivated to actually do the video stuff. ;) My thing is making cars go fast, not so much making videos.
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@evilestmonkeey same thing here, I am jacked up because other people were idiots. Otherwise i had a mostly good time there. grew up on a farm in Nebraska, not the most enjoyable life, but I could walk off to fix fences around the pasture and spend time with nature. I hated living in cities while I was in the military. I tolerated it...
I have two friends that are fun to go do things with, one is into cars like I am, the other is into guns like I am into cars. They both live 1000 miles away. Otherwise I am alone other than my dogs and two cats outside that keep the rodent population good and dead.
I learned the hard way not to depend on people, not to trust them, and to just do it myself without waiting on others. I'll be 52 in a few weeks, I was 34 when I got hurt, but I can get around better now than I did back then, the wonderment of meds and supplements.
I find it to be a curious dichotomy that I distrust and dislike most people, but want to help people in a more general manner. I'll teach you how to fix your car, make fuel, plan an invasion, assault a fixed position, or plan a load of cargo then tie it down with nets... but after that leave me alone. Most of my social time is in auto parts stores, talking to car guys while picking something up.
The thing is I don't fit well with others.
Just picked up some brake parts so I can throw a different rear end under the 65 GTO, going from 3.42 gears to 2.56, the engine has more than enough power to handle that, I want to drop the cruise RPM down, and that will do it. The 455 keeps breaking overdrives, so back to the tall gears.
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@hitmonlee6062 yep, it takes both people acting right. I held up my end, they dropped the ball and failed on theirs. After all the chances I gave the first, the second only got one chance. I kicked her out via text. She is not having a good life now.
Some people see me driving my cars, with a gray beard and hair, then assume its some mid life crisis thing. I never had one of those, because I have done so freakin much in my life that there is very little to regret. After I turned 23 I had already proven I can do damn near anything. Desert Shield/Storm proved I can do things very few others can. Besides, I have been driving these cars since the 80s, its not like I went out and bought one last week, I've had most of them for decades.
Its a good way to spend your time when not at work, building something with your hands is very rewarding for men. Its what we are built to do.
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@sweetiespoon5150 thats a long winded 'not all women are like that'
YES YOU ARE. The only ones that aren't are the ones that realize they can't do better. If she thinks she can, she will do the same thing all of you do. Its not a dig, we are not judging you, but YOU are judging you. Its your nature, its how all of you are, and we accept it, you should too.
However it would do you well to restrain your nature rather than just saying you do and rationalizing it when you don't. You can tell yourself you aren't like that, but from the outside you're nearly indistinguishable from the rest of them, the wrapper changes but the predictability of women is the same. Once we know you, we can predict what you are going to do before you do it. :)
No worries though, you're still a good person, unless you are into hard chemicals or have pine boxed someone innocent.
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@blue4948 I direct your attention to Hank Johnson, the member of congress alluded to in this very video, who was/is overly concerned about Guam capsizing and grilled an Admiral about it. Maxine Waters who told homeless people to go home. AOC who had no idea what a garbage disposal is, how math works, and many other things. Doesn't take much looking to find how ignorant and incompetent the people in congress are.
They are not brilliant, most are below average intellect, the rest on the mean or very near to it. They have a thirst for power and control, a lack of morality, self awareness, and common decency, they are out for themselves and fleece us to get what they want. Very very few of them garner something other than disdain from me.
I am a veteran who they sent into the meat grinder twice. I came back in 2004 barely able to walk, and they have been messing with VA and military funding since the Regan era ended. These people running the country are average at best, and assume everyone else is stoopid... just like the apparent C average physician the VA assigned to me, she is my 9th in 15 years. She thought I would be susceptible to circular logic and baseless assertions that contradict military training and first hand experience. I have had one decent Dr at the VA, and the only mental health professional to actually benefit me was contracted to the VA until Obama cut the funding the first time.
They do not care about us, we are chattel to them.
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@delailama736 ah yes, ignorance is strength. The more I know about things the better my life is. Have to admit its because I like to do things most people won't do, they'd rather watch TV and be told what to think. Most people want to be given things, or be able to buy things, whereas I like to build things.
Most people have no idea how their car works, if I told them it was magical fairies and gnomes they would believe me if they did not know those are imaginary creatures. Same with their phone, computers, tablets, and appliances they use daily. They have no concept of where the energy comes from that keeps them moving, nor how to produce it.
I call people like that dependents. They are dependent on the system, because they are clueless about damn near everything.
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@jaxxbohol6475 most of them are complaining about the men who have the most options not committing to them. The 5% or so who are the tallest, best looking guys who use them as a side piece. They think they deserve the absolute best, and just because one of those guys will give her the Tab D in her slot C, they assume that raises their value.
So they are NOT talking about the majority of men, because even those of us in the top 20% don't have the options of the 5%. We don't get as many opportunities to get another one (or cheat), but these chicks do because they are good enough for damn near every man to be amenable to bustin one out with them.
The fact is women file for divorce the overwhelming majority of the time, because they think they have a chance at a man they assume is better than the one they have. Its only when he doesn't commit to them, or he is actually lower status, value, and quality than the man they gave up, that they start to whine and cry about it... and that is most of the time.
However when she cheats and leaves like that, she ALWAYS blames her ex, no matter what he does. He always mistreated her, always cheated, and always did the exact things she did, to hear her tell it. She does all those bad things, and blame them on him, because if it was so easy for her to do it, he just had to be doing it too!
There is no logic nor reason, its all feelings, rationalizations, justifications, resentment, and feeling entitled to far more than they warrant.
Society, the media, and all the apps like tiktok offer unfettered action on her part to do all of that. They agree that men are to blame, and the women are always victims, which is the rationalization women use to feel better about themselves when they just destroyed their own family and future. There is no immediate downside to her acting poorly and making bad choices, that all comes to fruition later, when she is 35+ alone, unwanted, and even the top 60% of men ignore them.
The narrative is men are always the one cheating and abandoning their kids.
The reality is women act poorly, throw fathers out of the family to get cash and prizes, file for divorce, and capriciously make the father's life a living hell.
What man in his right mind is going to leave a woman when he has to pay her 50% to 75% of his income, give her the house they lived in, provide everything to her she had when they were together, and never get to see his kids? Not much incentive to divorce there is it?
Now what woman will not take advantage of being paid by her ex, having him pay for all her living expenses, while she gets back on the CC to 'find herself' while society, the media, and their families encourage them to do it?
The narrative is pure fantasy that men are leaving and women are victims in all of this.
Men are not dating, not getting married, because of that dynamic. There is no benefit whatsoever for a man to marry. None. Even dating is risky as judges are starting to give everything he owns to her just because they dated for a while.
Then people wonder why the birthrate is dropping, men would rather sit around playing games with friends online, and women keep making these embarrassing videos about how 6'7 chad only used her as a side piece but she wanted to crawl in his wallet and set up camp.
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@angrydragon4574 my friend Brandon, the 30 year old, simply has no drive, no goal to achieve, nothing pulling him towards greatness. Its common among young men these days, no real reason to apply themselves as long as they have a job that meets their needs right now.
I came from some pretty serious poverty, farm life was lots of work and no money. If I made money somewhere else like working for a neighbor, my parents usually took it from me. When I got a job off the farm, my mom wrote some checks on my account and bounced me for a couple thousand dollars. That hurt. My register was correct and up to date, but not for the $20 she pulled out three times. Small town local banks that know all of us is now that happened.
The result was I had the mental drive to do what I had to do, to get the things I wanted from life. Mainly it was cars, I absolutely love old cars and live for working on and driving them. Having a car had the added benefit of being able to get into town 20 miles away and meet girls. I had nothing, and most everything I earned was taken from me. Thats also why I am not a big fan of so cia lism. Its essentially the same thing, but its not family taking everything from you to give to someone else.
Brandon and other guys I know have nothing to strive for, there is no motivation to earn something. That applies with girls too. He doesn't want to bother to learn how to talk to them.
Its always amusing when I have a cute college age girl sit near me with similarly aged guys sitting near her, obvious orbiters of hers. Then I strike up a conversation and get farther in a few minutes than they have the entire time they have known her.
Nobody is teaching these guys how to be men. There is no benefit to them being men to be honest, whatever they earn will be taken from them. Its a no win situation, and its why I frequent channels that address that kind of issue. I don't need the help, but I can provide some guidance to the guys who need it. If they want it, I share it.
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@angrydragon4574 the effinists have done quite well getting people to think that a man learning to talk to women is negatively manipulative. As if females aren't inherently like that and do it to literally everyone they meet. The reality it is is simply learning to get people to like you, which was written in a book a hundred years ago by Dale Carnegie. 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' is for business people and salesmen, but what Dale says in it works to meet girls too.
I 'game' everyone I meet in public, I have to or I get calls from the sheriff telling me I can't go in there anymore. It seems some people are intimidated by me when I act like I did in the military. That kinda makes sense because I am roughly the same size as a medium sized silverback gorilla. I find that having somewhat of a relationship with people I interact with often, such as parts store people and the ones who work at my grocery store, goes a long way.
You aren't giving them what they want, you are simply being personable, friendly but not appearing weak or some other unattractive thing. As it happens people who are good at making video content on here do the same sorts of things.
Humans interact in certain ways, learning how to interact and benefit from it is relatively simple, unless of course you are on the spectrum.
It is fun talking to girls, its like banter with an old friend when you do it right, and they respond positively. It took me almost two years to learn about girls, and I watched them every day at school and what a particular one did who ended up being my first. There is a look they all have when they are attracted to someone, once you see it you cannot unsee it, and I watch girls give that look to other guys all the time. They don't realize they are doing it, its not an intentional thing, but they all make the same facial expression no matter what country or culture they are from. Once you know that, you know which ones like you.
After you know she likes you, then its up to you to talk to her. They are voice activated, not coin operated like many guys think. They crave interaction, they adore mystery and discovering about us, they want to chase even more than they want to be chased. People want what they cannot have.
Its just like learning anything else, playing guitar takes practice, repairing cars takes time and experience and even after decades you will still make mistakes on cars. Interacting with people is a good skill to have, because everyone has other people in their lives.
There are manipulations that are as potent as cheat codes, like engaging her negative emotions then switching to logic and making her laugh, that is how I can meet a girl and ten minutes later being balls deep if I want. I made quite a few less than stellar choices with crazy girls doing that, which outweigh the times when she wasn't crazy.
Hell man, I had a girl who would drive 7 hours one way to come see me and took me to concerts in Chicago on her dime just because at the start I was funny and knew the difference between innuendo and double entendre.
We males cannot just wait and stop looking then someone will appear, that is how females do it. If we do that, nothing happens as girls do not approach us, they fear rejection far too much. Also we cannot just 'be ourselves' as men are built rather than born. We have to earn manhood, effort must be expended for us to have any value to anyone. A man with no skills nor abilities is a useless male.
Robert Heinlein wrote: "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects"
The meaning is that men need to know things and be able to do things, the more we know and the more we can do, the more valuable we are. Thats why a 20 year old male has almost zero value in the world, but he can have more at 30, 40 and 50, because he should have learned a great many things.
Learning to talk to girls is simply another skill we can acquire. It takes time, effort and failure to get it good enough. If you try once and quit at everything, you are going to have a very boring life, and nobody will respect nor admire you.
Its wise to not make girls your priority, but being able to talk to them is beneficial. If you plan to buy and sell things, whatever it is, or to lead people, you had best know how to talk to girls, because talking to them is just like talking to a man, but with the added area of getting them nekkid. They are people too, even if they are quite different from us in some ways.
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@tititigabu8200 I've been told I should write a book about my life when people hear about the beatings, mistreatment, wars, divorces, travelling the world, and building muscle cars. You seem to be the only one telling me I should write about all the girls I slept with, I find that most amusing.
For one, not many people would ever believe my story, and another I can't remember all of them, but it would be one hell of a fun x rated book. If I made it a movie I would need someone like Ron Jeremy with an average sized tool to play me.
Makes me wonder though, has my life really been that interesting and people would actually like to read about it? Its kinda like if Forest Gump wasn't slow, got many girls in bed, got divorced and rather than meeting presidents and being a billionaire he ended up being a crippled war vet living alone in the woods because he can't trust people anymore since so many people mistreated and took from him.
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@tititigabu8200 now that makes sense, and its a good idea. I have survived and endured a lot in my 53 laps around the sun, and I have come close to checking out several times, both through actions of others, and on my own, but I am still here.
How I managed to not end up with the entire world knowing my full name is partly because I had taken the time to learn how to talk to girls in my teens and was completely fearless with them. What are they going to do, reject me and say no? Yeah probably... so what. There is a new crop of girls turning 18 every damn day.
Most of the cereal K types aren't good with females. The guys who go on rampages are not good with females. If we try to educate those guys about how to interact with females we are called horrible very bad things. I had all the prerequisites for a cereal K, except I got the pooniti.
Getting back up after being beaten down, over and over and over again is a skill men need to learn. Knowing which fights are worth the effort and which aren't is a good thing too.
The problem with books and comments is there are a certain number of guys who feel I am bragging, and then girls tell me to seek help. lol. Which I find very amusing. Its not bragging, its saying DON'T make the same mistakes I made, but get past them like I did, in whatever way works for you.
I have friends who are in their 50s like me, who have had less than 3 girls in their lifetime and haven't gotten any since the year started with 19. They are hateful men, they resent that they were unable to do what I did regarding girls, they just wanted one. I wanted one, but ended up giving a lot of them a chance.
So how to write a book like that? No idea. Best I can do is write what happened, what I did about it, and where it got me. Are people bright enough to figure the rest out for themselves?
I am working on a book though. Which version to write is the big question. Also working on a gearhead movie, I have a bunch of friends with cars and a story in my head. Just need to get them all together and make it happen. Already have one girl who will get nekkid for it.. lol.
How to teach a resentful hateful man how to repair his life.. man, that would be one hell of a book.
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You are as bad as I am! You thin the herd, send one out and bring another one home. How many XJ's do ya need? 99-07 Silverados are my winter beater of choice, so I have more of them at the moment than I have Firebirds, and I have 12 Birds.
I just scrapped a 99 Silverado, which opened a space... and now I am headed to Nebraska to drag another one off the farm and bring it up here. Also hauling my broken skid steer to my friend 38POSracing so he can fix it and use it, hopefully to put concrete in his shop, and that opens up space in my shop. Its no longer doing shelf duty
Ya know, my dad could have gotten me to be a Mopar guy with that gold/bronze 64 Barracuda he brought home in 1981 for my brother to look at. They only wanted $300, but my brother wanted a Charger. I liked the little fishbowl looking thing with a 318 in it backed by a 3 speed. Dad said no and he took it back to the guy. He ended up with 25 Pontiacs and a handful of Fords in his yard at the farm, because he took the fishbowl back.
In 1985, he could have given me $1200 of the money I made selling sweet corn in 1982 and I would have gotten a 69 RA IV 4 speed Judge. Then I would have the 67 Cougar, the Judge, and probably a pickup... instead of over 70 vehicles.
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She is attracted to a wide range of men, all women are, that is not the issue.
What they think/feel they deserve and are entitled to is where the problem arises.
They can be (and often are) attracted to the 5'8" guy that is 5" taller than she is, but she always thinks she is entitled to 'better' despite the fact that guy might be the absolute best she can get. They assume taller = better.
They look at one attribute and base everything on that. Like how tall he is.
I am 5'8" and LOTS of them are attracted, but damn near all of them think they can do better. They are deluding themselves.
That is like going out to buy a red car and ignoring all the blue ones, despite the fact the red cars she finds are all 400k mile hoopties. She demands a red car, and will not accept any other color, no cares are given to what model or manufacturer, it has to be red. I have found most men are like me, we don't really decide on things by the color of the car, but what its capabilities are, how reliable it is, and how well that fits with the cost to buy and maintain it.
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I'm not big on mopar brakes, doing points on a 69 Charger with a small block sucks ass(not enough room for my big freakin melon back there), the way a 426 wedge always runs hot no matter what you do is exceptionally concerning, plus there is no way to run an aftermarket temp gauge, alternators on Omnis still make me beyond pissed, having to pull the entire fascia off an Intrepid to replace the headlights is plain asinine. The cam sensor on the 1500 4x4 Ram is gonna suck. I hated doing the 3.0 V6 water pump and timing belt in the Caravans, something like 8 different sizes of bolts and around 20 bolts holding the plate on the outside of the engine with two inches of space to get in there and get them out. On the bright side if a Caravan with that six is not smoking, its out of oil, that is a nice feature.
Those are some of the reasons I am a Pontiac guy who came from a Mopar family. Well I like the look of a GTO too, the 71-74 Roadrunner/Satellite/Sebring is a nice shape, but they are hard to find and stuffing big inches into them requires changing all kinds of stuff. If it has a Pontiac of any size in it from 1965 on, a 455 will bolt in using the same mounts, trans, and everything else... and it can be made to look like a 326 if you want. I can make a 540 look like a 326 too, the ultimate sleeper engine.
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Identity politics is left wing. It matters not if its white supremacy or black supremacy, that shit is left wing from the outset. Democrats are the party that invented the kkk, Jim Crow, and started the civil war to preserve slavery. For the last 50 years at least, they have been trying desperately to push their history onto the republicans, and it has worked rather well. Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes truth.
I am in the middle. I do not follow identity politics, nor am I at all fond of marxism or other dogmatic religions. I do not ascribe to the current media narrative of white people are evil right wing violent misogynist racists, but I can easily see how the left is fully embracing marxist ideology and trying fervently to push it upon all of us. Nobody was more surprised that I found myself agreeing with certain republicans than yours truly. When Trump won the nomination, the party changed from "We love Jebus and our invisible friends" to "we love America, free speech, and our way of life" whilst the left regressed farther into identity and the tar pit of intersectionality, calling everyone who isn't a marxist a nazi (without realizing they were the national socialist workers party) as if marxism is the default.
The left is falling into the abyss, and desperately clutching at all of us like crabs in a bucket, in an attempt to drag everyone with it. So the enemy of my enemy is my friend, which is how I suddenly find myself aligned with the god nuts on some issues.
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@hendo337 the 72 is one of 11 Firebirds I own other than the 68 that is a very rusted bare shell, well whats left of it, and a 98 Formula, they are all between 71 and 79, in addition to GTOs and LeMans.
You'd be interested in my brother's cars. My dad left me a 70 AAR Cuda clone, the oldest got his 426 wedge 64 Sport Fury which is a twin to the one he bought new and sold before I was born, and the brother after me got his 36 Plymouth business coupe. They they have Chargers, the oldest has a 70 383 727, the one after me has a 69 318 auto with a sure grip, and his son has a 73 Charger with a very healthy 360 stuffed in it.
How I ended up a Pontiac man is a bit of a long story. The short version is I saw a blue 67 GTO in a magazine and I was hooked forever, even before I knew they hauled ass. My first car was a 67 Cougar, its sitting in my yard waiting for me to get back to it. Next year I will have owned it 40 years, and I haven't driven it since 1987. Makes me sad.
I'll be making videos of the Plymouths when I go home next month, I have to move a bunch of Pontiacs off the family farm and haul them 1000 miles to where I live now. Between the brother after me and I, we own well over 100 vehicles. He has mopar I have Pontiac, Ford, chevy trucks, and some Dodge trucks. We are a gearhead family.
A summer of adventure driving junk hauling junk. I need someone to drive the Cuda, would make it easier than hauling it.
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@neilfreytag9166 I barely eat, and when I do its lean meat, veggies, salad, fresh fruit, and any bread is home made with unbleached flour and no sugar added.. maybe a bit of honey. I am massively muscled from my military time, I can lift 500lbs, put it on my shoulder and carry it. I moved heavy stuff on and off airplanes, did things normal humans cannot do.
I intermittently fast, because to me eating is a chore, I don't enjoy it. Not a scheduled thing, been thinking about including it on a set timeframe. See how it works. High school wrestling had me starving myself, can't do that anymore.
Also I am 5'8" and this morning I was 321lbs. My A1C is 6, my LDL is a touch high (12 over recommended) because its winter and I am not as active when its cold here, and my BP was decent 135/70. The fruit and bread are the A1C thing. I have no extra chins, a small belly, you can see my ribs, and I am solid... think power lifter rather than bodybuilder. The rest of my blood work is perfect, not bad for someone who will be 55 soon with limited mobility.
Twice a month I get something like those small cinnamon rolls that come in a pack with ten to fifteen of them in it. Started doing something sugary like that this year, and my BF% has been going down. It keeps me from going into starvation mode and packing on pudge. My body will store everything if I only eat protein and don't get enough good carbs, and some sugar on occasion. The protein thing is from a diet I was on as a kid in the 70s and early 80s, where all I could eat was beef, chicken, pork, cauliflower, and broccoli. It stunted my growth, made me the super pudgy short kid, and I had zero energy. Too much protein turns to pudge now.
The rest of the time its water, chicken or beef, sometimes rice, and maybe a couple cheese sticks. Half a cup of yogurt to keep the gut biome happy, and stay active.
Can't drink or smoke, both make me sick immediately. Its fun watching people try to guess my weight, because I look like 210 or so. Its getting annoying how everyone thinks I eat fast food and sit around all day like Tim said. My food diaries I keep for the VA show I am eating 1500 to 1800 calories a day. Its just how my metabolism is, and its super easy to pack on muscle.
I got out of the USAF in 2005, weighing 235 and making the tape no problem as long as they taped me correctly. My shoulders and arms no longer fit in my uniforms from 19 years ago, but my belly does. Building my house and shop, clearing three acres of new growth forest by hand, prepping the foundations, and doing 90% of the work myself, I packed on another 40lbs of muscle at least since 2015. Its all in my back and shoulders.
Went too far with protein in 2019-2021 and got up to 340 (all of it pudge), on my way back to 280 where I should be pretty well defined and ripped. I want to fit between the bars of the roll cage in my race car, and be able to zip the fire suit that is required for the ET my car runs.
No, most people are not like me. If they are 300lb and 5'8" they are buttergolems with gravy and rocky road blood types. They will never do the amount of work I did (on duty, not in a gym) to build this much muscle. I know the muscle will be the end of me, but I did not try nor want it, but when you're worked like I was during the two largest airlifts in history, well... your body adapts to lifting heavy stuff every day for 12 to 14 hours.
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@SayfumaniMyG I have two ex wives, first has been gone since 2001, second since 2013. The first STILL complains to our kids that I just did whatever I wanted to do, didn't obey her at all. Well, I was earning all the money, doing all the work to keep things going, and all she had to do was pick up toys, put laundry in the machine, heat up some burger and noodles, so yeah.. I was not going to obey her and let her decide where the money went.
Besides she is bipolar and horrible with money, she can waste several thousand dollars in a day and have nothing to show for it.
In 1994 I bought a 1970 GTO for $1000 from a guy I worked with, she still complains about me buying it. Until I took it off the road in 2015 because electrical problems and the suspension needs work, it was the most reliable car I have ever had. Its going in my shop early in 2024 for a frame off rebuild. Its going to be a daily driver with lots of power like my 65 GTO is.
A good method for sorting women is if they tell me to sell the old cars and buy a new one. I would spend time with a woman who was into road trips, 600 mile cruises, racing, drag and drive events, and building cars to do all of that. So far I only found one who is that isn't married to my brother. She lives 7 hours away from me, and we are still friends. Was seeing her from '15 to '18, best woman I have ever met, but she still wanted to end it because I didn't get my house rebuilt fast enough for her. heh..
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@smithsmith1956 5000 years isn't long enough for something to evolve, nor is 10,000 years. We are essentially cavemen with smartphones and airplanes. That means we are running the same program that hunter/gatherers had 20,000 to a million years ago. Civilization acts to restrict human nature for the benefit of all of us, for the most part. You can use religion, social pressure, or a legal system to curtail the parts of our nature that are detrimental in today's society....
Except those restraints are only applied to men, whereas women are allowed to do as they please and are rewarded for their less than advantageous actions and choices here in the west. Women have carte blanche, and her bad actions will be paid for by men, all while they claim we oppress them. Its lunacy.
Overseas in Asia, and eastern Europe, society still holds women to a certain standard, and men are held to standards as well.
The downfall of any civilization comes about when women are relieved of accountability and responsibility while both are heaped on men, and men are forced to atone or pay for what women do. Its inflicted on societies, it is not a natural occurrence, it is intentional and by design, pushed by a certain type of individual who craves and covets power above all else. They'd rather rule over an ash pile. Thats why women burn their families and lives to the ground so often and eagerly.
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Learn how to repair vehicles, even if you don't want to do it for a living. I rebuild a transmission for my car and it costs $300 for an old 3 speed automatic, and $800 for a newer 4 speed automatic. YOU will be paying someone like me $2500+ to rebuild it, and more to install it.
Brake job at a shop costs you $1000+. Rotors, pads, and calipers is about $300 for most vehicles, more for heavier trucks like 2500s and less for front drive crapboxes.
The newest vehicle I own is a $400 2007 GMC crew cab that I swapped a 6.0L engine into and rebuilt the transmission in it. I have about $900 in it now. It is to pull my trailer around so I can move my old cars sitting in Nebraska at the family farm, to where I live in Michigan, so I can get to building them.
My daily driver is a 1965 GTO with a 550hp 455 in it, I did a full frame off on it for $15k, and it was OMG rusty. The other summer daily is a 1970 Cuda AAR clone. I'll be rebuilding the 69 and 70 GTOs this fall, and currently I am building a 1000hp Pontiac powered 1968 LeMans. I build and drive cool stuff. I can do literally ANYTHYING to any vehicle built between 1910 and 2010.
I own 13 acres of land that I bought in 2013 for $30k. Paid it off in 2021. I lived in a 1971 Travco RV while I built my shop and house in 2015. Cheap land is out there if you have income source that doesn't require you to live in a city.
I got a loan to buy a 1979 Trans Am in 1987 ($2000) a 1992 F150 in 2001 ($2000) and a 1998 Formula Firebird in 2004 ($7000) otherwise I have driven old cars that I repaired/built for the last 35 years. In 1987 I had just graduated. From 2001 to 2015 I was paying child support and the state would take any savings I had. I had to take out loans for vehicles I can otherwise pay cash for and not even think about it.
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@TheodoreDane Bill is a talking head on the lobotomy box, and like the overwhelming majority of them, he is not a great thinker.
The thing about the L's is none of them are great thinkers, however they believe they are. They spot problems like just about anyone can, but the solutions they posit and the results they assert that will come from their solutions, are incorrect. They are using child like thinking, and its feminine thinking on top of that. Not saying females can't think, but they think differently than men, with different outcomes, and there is a reason why men are dominant...
You can read any of their political literature, and if you view it with a skeptical eye rather than take their assertions as being factual or true, you can learn exactly how they think. At which point you can predict what they will do next, because they are not leaders, they are followers trying to lead, so they follow the script that has been infecting nations for centuries... which has always resulted in the downfall of that civilization.
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@davidli7829 good luck to ya, I'm not telling anyone to give up, but they need to realize women here cannot be trusted.
In the US, you are going to find it difficult, the only demographic with lower general smv than Asians is basketball females. I think that sucks, a lot of my friends have been Korean and Japanese, wonderful people. Have had lots of Filipinos for friends too, along with the guys from Guam they were the best people to have around in the military. Most loyal bro's I've ever had.
Get jacked, it helps. Get a wife from Asia, thats even better, and don't bring her to the states.
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@therongertz3570 either you don't know much about Karl's stoopid ideas, or you have been told something erroneous about them, because the oppressor/oppressed part is 101 stuff. Karl's harebrained notions are the root of feminism, communism, socialism, fascism, post modernism, and every other stoopid idea like them.
Its the religion by and for people who are resentful of others, envious of what those others have, feel entitled to what they have, but are too damn lazy and or inept to earn it for themselves. Thus they want it taken from those people who earned it, and given to they who have earned nothing.... in some childish notion of equality which results in a race to mediocrity, abject poverty for the masses, and authoritarian control enforced with brutal violence.
The hilarious part is those marxists all say that is what capitalism does, then they say it wasn't real * ------ism * or that it only fails because the USA influences it.
Somehow being paid for what you produce, and not being paid for being a lazy good for nothing twat, seems to work better than removing every incentive for people to produce, and then forcing them to do what you want them to do... and filling large holes in the ground with them so they can return to biomass.
I am old enough to have served in the US military standing against the soviets, and young enough to have fought in the desert in two wars. I know how it works, what it claims to be, and why it never works. It is impossible to gaslight me, and I can spot a logical fallacy from two miles away.
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@shawnlinnehan7349 ok so if you never get to see your kids, have no input in their upbringing, does it matter if its still your genetics? The mother can keep you away from your offspring so incredibly easily, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Besides, billions of men never reproduced throughout human history, the majority were taken out by disease or conflict, and the rest were simply unable to 'woo a strumpet.' There is no shortage of genetic cul-de-sacs in biology.
We have had 80 years without millions of young men being removed from the gene pool, so we have what is essentially an overabundance of them. With so many to choose from, their potential mates flock to the best looking, tallest, and wealthiest. Only when there are fewer males will the 'not males' accept anyone outside the top 10%.
I'm a 20% example, it was easier for me than most guys even though I am only 5'8" because of muscle mass, facial symmetry, and a dominant mindset. The deep voice helps too. However, in the current situation 20% isn't good enough, they want 10% or less, and that is even the 200lb+ examples that think they deserve the best men.
Live your life best you can, enjoy the ride, because as men we are not entitled to anything. Its not nihilism, its reality.
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@ligafftheindifferent3495 so far she has only met two chads, that I met. No they did not want her for anything long term. Despite being rather good looking, much like her mom was 30 years ago, but she is 5'7 and usually dates guys shorter than her.
The messed up part is that her mom exposed her to lots of things she should not have been, while she was keeping me out of my kid's lives. $100 a month to live on and 1500 miles distance makes it easy.
She ruined their lives out of spite for me, because I would not let her control me, would not hand over my paycheck for her to do with as she pleased, and I would not obey her. Then I rejected her when she tried to manipulate me with divorce papers and taking off with the kids, and she wanted me back.
My youngest has ink, which her mother let her get at 15. She learned from her mom about boys and her number surpassed mine before she was out of high school.. and mine is quite high, triple digits. My kid is aware of the consequences of her choices, and what her mom did to her. I am honest with her, and she trusts my judgement of men she dates. Problem is she lives 1000 miles away.
I think her mom has had at least double what me and the kid have had. I had no idea she was the town doorknob, and I think the first one is not mine. Their mother is vile and repugnant in what she allowed to happen to them. When I confronted her about it with the guys she was shacking up with, she only said "Well, that happens."
This was 30 years ago when I was in my mid 20s, we didn't have a community like we do now, no internet, smartphones, and nobody talked about such things. We had to find out the hard way. The red stuff came about a decade after my first divorce, right as the second one was about to happen. Also she was far worse after we married than before.
Why do ya think us old guys tell young guys what to avoid?
I wish I had someone 40 years ago telling me everything we are sharing now. My life would be completely different and probably far better. If I had any kids they would not have such messed up miserable lives, because they would not have had that thing for a mother.
Alone moms are the worst possible thing for kids.
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@chrish2112 do you know what it takes to find yourself above average?
1 year of dedicated heavy lifting
6 months of going out and speaking to women to get used to it and build confidence.
Being clean cut and well dressed. (something I rarely did, the bad boy thing worked for me)
Don't act or think desperate, build confidence by doing physically difficult things.
When I want to avoid women, like I have for the last 5 -10 years, I dress so I look like my name on here, NOT so they can see the muscle I have. I wear baggy cheap clothes from Menards and Tractor Supply. I don't trim my beard. I try to look shabby. At that point it doesn't matter what I am driving, they ignore me.
When I want them to see me I wear a T shirt that fits tight around the chest and has short sleeves that let them see my upper arm. I trim my beard and shave my hair into a high and tight, skinning the sides and back. usually its black T shirt and jeans. Like I said, bad boy thing. Big arms and chest, big rough hands, driving a 1965 GTO that makes lots of noise, or the bright lime green 70 Cuda, then I get a ton of attention.
The cars are an extension of who I am, not a status symbol nor trying to be something I am not or by having a flashy car. I have built and driven those kinds of cars since I got my first one at 13 way back in 1982. I have a lot of them..
Build muscle, wear your hair so you don't look unruly or unkempt, and walk like you are the baddest mofo in the valley, because you KNOW you are, since you have been tested in competition. Trust me, they will notice you.
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Its not about the gays or very finite number of people who think they were born in the wrong body... those poor souls are being used as meat shields for the power hungry control freaks pushing this crap to the forefront. They know most people react negatively, and they are using that to drive wedges between all of us, because that makes us easier to defeat. They want control over us, and are using the gays and trans people as pawns, just like they have other minorities.
They are pushing marxism, without realizing the abhorrent effects of it that come later. At the start marxism promotes mediocrity and ineptitude as virtues, getting people to be comfortable with being incapable and ignorant. All of these blue haired nutters (aka useful idiots) will be tossed into whatever they are using as disposals after the marxists have enough control. They are for destabilizing, and thats the last thing the owners will want. Its why China has outlawed feminism, because its a destabilizing tool, and it ruins everything it touches.
After that, the most capricious, violent, and willing to do the unspeakable will come to power, at which point millions or perhaps billions at this point in time, will starve to death. That is how it has played out every time that abhorrent ideology has been implemented.
The gays and trans people are meat shields, pawns at best, used as a cudgel to browbeat people into accepting anything, no matter how utterly imbecilic and detached from reality it is.
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@allantidgwell5624 I have had friends from all over the world, dated girls from every race and social class on the planet, I see people as individuals, and they can be whomever or whatever they want to be. If they are good to have around, they are welcome, if they are toxic I have no use for them, regardless of what they look like.
I am beyond pissed off at what these assholes have done to black people for the last 55 years. Oppressing them, but telling them its everyone else's fault, removing opportunities from the areas they forced them into, and then pandering to them to keep them voting for their oppressors. They don't let them get educated, have jobs, or keep fathers in the home. All to push their fucked up agenda, and they claim to not be doing exactly what they are doing.
Now they are doing it to an even smaller group of people, and if you look at the nightmare black people are living in, you can bet they want the same for the rainbow community. Its why they added the black and brown stripes to the flag. It fuckin sickens me. Why can't they leave people alone, let them live their lives, and stop taking advantage of them to gain power and control?
I am not a republican, hell I am an atheist who started out lutheran for 20 years, was muslim for 20 years, and going on my 12th year without a religion. Not conservative either, not exactly. I do not have a party or group, but one thing is certain I abhor authoritarians of any stripe or flavor.
This nation was not started to push authority on others. It is antithetical to what we are supposed to be. These people are pushing authority on us, telling us what we must say and do, trying to limit what we can say and do, and using minorities to do it.
There is a difference between allowing people to be what they are and want to be, and forcing ideas on them or trying to make everyone think a certain way. I do not have a side, so I look at things without emotion or preconceived ideas that have to fit a narrative or ideological lens. I see things for what they are, and the affect they have.
It was a huge surprise to me to find myself agreeing with the conservatives and religious nutters about much of what is going on. We have the same enemy, that enemy pushes their own ideology/religion... I lump them all together and call it marxism. I do that because they share traits, just like the Abrahamic religions share between them. While I do not condone wiping out religious folk, I would gladly see every last bit of marxist ideology wiped from the earth. The problem is, people will always be resentful, envious, lazy, and feel entitled to what they have not earned.. and thats all it takes to fall in with that particular religion.
We all need to push to make marxism a religion, because then any law rooted in it, is unconstitutional. The Entitlement Clause prohibits religious legislation... and they are pushing a cult on all of us. I will not abide it because of what it does to people.
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@BoB-th8wm thats kinda how it works... I was in the USAF 1988 to 2005. My job was Air Cargo, moving heavy stuff. 10,000lb pallets, chaining down tanks/truck/aircraft inside the cargo planes, its all heavy lifting. How it works is when the females are on the load teams, they are mostly an obstacle, sometimes they can operate the machinery, but usually the men just have to do more work because they have ineffective, incapable, inept people taking up space on the team.
A conflict like Iraq means an insane amount of work, its hard to imagine unless you've done it. Imagine the highest intensity workout you can do, for 12 to 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. Pick up 200lbs and run up three stories. Push two F150s across a football field. Thats a close approximation. Females cannot do it, they break if they are put in the heavy lifting positions. In the first Gulf War I got freakin HUGE because I was often saddled with females, so I had to do 90% of the work, and essentially the females were spotters.. which they did poorly.
So when we would deploy after 2001 the females would sit in the airconditioned buildings, doing the light work, like herding passengers. Meanwhile the rest of us were in the belly of the planes, throwing a few thousand bags that weigh 80 to 120lbs, pushing cargo, and all in 110-130F heat. No females were sent to places like my first two trips to the sandbox in 1991, you know where you get shot at.
My ex wife is a volunteer firefighter. All 120lbs of her homely self. They made her chief because nobody wanted the job, and she can't do the rest of the heavy lifting. It was amusing in 2013. She decided to cheat on me with a kid she met on a training trip. He is so disliked among the firefighters, that when she brought him on to our township VFD, all 12 others quit that night at the township meeting.
They loathe that guy, not because he was banging my ex, but because he is a loser that thinks he should be in charge despite knowing nothing and having no experience. She was with me for almost ten years, from 21 to 30. She was a virgin when I met her, and I was the only one until she ate a bowl of stupid flakes. She was with him for about 4 years and her dad had to pay their bills and support them, because they are incapable of doing it themselves.
She left a capable, but crippled, veteran with lifetime health care and passive income, who can still lift very heavy weight, build damn near anything, and I healed up enough in 2013 that I can walk normally now, but I will never run again. She was with me in 2004 when I got messed up on my last deployment. She jumped to a loser who can't keep a job, isn't very bright, was balding at 24 and had those fleshy jowls like you see on the 60 year old bankers and execs.
I build 60s and 70s muscle cars and trucks to stay busy. I own 13 acres of woodland that I bought and closed on two weeks after the divorce was final. Paid off all my building loans and the mortgage in 2021, three years early on a ten year note. I am debt free and have been building a rather ludicrous engine this year, around 700hp on the motor, but capable of 2000 with 20 psi. I am intentionally single, I'd rather build cars than waste time and money on females. Girls still flirt with me at 53, but I am not losing everything I have built.
She is alone, just turned 40 Aug 6, nobody wants her for anything more than a warm moist place to jack off.... and those guys are not the high value males, she gets the losers and meth heads interested in her. Nobody wants to join the VFD while she is there, because she is known to make poor choices, bad decisions, and she is dangerous to have around in that environment. When she is stressed she breaks down into a 5 year old and cannot think or function.
They do not think ahead, they only think about what they want right this second, and they assume they will always have the same interest from men they get when they are 21.
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@ohsweetmystery when people decide that they will force you to live how they want you to live, say what they want you to say, and tell you what you cannot say or think, then its those people which we must be concerned about.
I've seen that from the Abrahamic based religious nuts who want to ban music, video games, and anything else that doesn't 'give glory to' their god. Here lately though it is people who want to compel us to use the words they say we must, and not to use other words, and they are also religious authoritarians, but their religion has the state as its god. They are also known as woke, the moniker they have given themselves... as if they are the enlightened ones or something.
I will not, cannot, and have not sat idly by while that type of individual tries to impost their notions and ideas upon all of us.
Who they sleep with doesn't matter to me, unless its kids, in which case they are reprehensible. How they dress or want to appear to the world is entirely up to them. Also how much money they have or make doesn't matter to me, provided they are not using it to push their will on all of us, or me personally.
When they are overly concerned about how I live my life, I will be VERY concerned about what they do, say, and put into legislation. To use their phrase "We don't do that here."
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I said hello to a nice young lady who works at Tractor Supply, we had a pleasant conversation and she is obviously interested despite the fact I am older than her dad. Fun people are fun, interesting people are fun to be around. Retail jobs suck so I try to brighten their day when I can. Well I got a call from the sheriff telling me to not talk to her, because the 75+ year old guy who has had the same obese wife for 51 years was offended that a 22 year old would enjoy talking to a masculine male. Well, since I am friends with his boss, because I went to school with her parents, he will be greeting people at WalMart soon....
When you get in trouble for even speaking to them, because someone else has a problem with it, I can see why young men don't do it. It doesn't bother me what other people think or say, I am not breaking any laws, and the opinions of sheep matter not. I told the sheriff that I will talk to whomever I damn well please about any subject I wish. Since the manager helped me find a bladed weed trimmer an hour earlier, it wasn't her who called the sheriff. She would have told me... and yeah she was flirting with me too, because I am fun to be around in person.
Women are starved for attention, they brighten up even when I speak to them. Men are not approaching them, because they have been told not to their entire lives. They aren't like me, they care what others think of them. When I try to teach young men how to be confident, talk to women like they are people (that they have known for years even if they just met) and being comfortable with it, people call me names and accuse me of things. Men have to learn those things. The man haters don't want us to teach young men, but then they whine that men don't approach them.
The women I talk to don't need to know I am doing quite well, and I wear work clothes all the time to avoid entanglements. I have zero desire to date, because I am twice divorced and I rather enjoy the house I built on my 13 acres of land since my last divorce ten years ago... and the fact I am debt free. However I will talk to women, flirt a bit, make them feel good about themselves, brighten their day, and go on with my day. I've been doing it since the early 1980s when I was a teenager.
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Hey Matt. I don't drive old muscle cars to show off my wealth or how much I paid for them. I build them to have fun driving them. Ii suppose you could say I'm displaying the time I spent building them, but it's more about enjoying what the skills, knowledge, and abilities I've amassed can do for me. Nobody cares that i drive old rusty trucks that i keep running, they only notice the GTOs, firebirds, and the cuda. I'm hardcore built not bought.
However. The exact type of female who wears body paint to the gym is the same one that thinks she deserves to be given a car i built. No matter how many times I might avail myself of her moist orifices, it doesn't come close to being equal value to the time i have invested into these old cars. They are most definitely seeking attention and validation.
The cars are my vision, brought to reality and existence via my skill, knowledge, abilities and perseverance. If you like them, hey cool, if you don't, also cool, but they don't exist for the approval nor validation of anyone but me. Its fun driving these things, even in the dark when nobody else is around. I'm a crippled veteran so i don't have much money, but i have a bit of free time
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Stranger Things has kids and its not sexual, no problem. I watched a bit of Big Mouth since my 23 year old daughter likes it, I am not a fan. This cuties shit? I am not a conservative, not religious, but sure as fuck not down with pedophilia. This is yet another reason to not like marxists. Seriously, what the fuck. I'd been considering dropping netflix for a while now, they killed the stuff I liked watching and replaced it with woke bullshit in which I have zero interest. No problem with lesbians, gays, trans, etc, I have several friends who are each of those. I don't really care to watch movies and shows about them. Movies with minorities no problem as long as its not absolute shit, and most stuff coming out of hollywood lately has been absolute shit.
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Man, they are so high on their own flatulence that they think they were FOR civil rights and all of us were against it. Then they feel so 'elite' because they have some degree, that they can't comprehend that does not indicate intelligence, competence, or capability. They assume they are better than the rest of us.
I am weary of their false sense of superiority and elitism. Rather than thinking they are superior to us, they should realize we vastly outnumber them, and we are far more capable, competent, and incredibly more dangerous than they could ever hope to be. All 'we' need is something to unify us, and they will be wiped from the face of the earth.
It will not be like the Thor movie where Jeff Goldblum manipulated the dolts by saying they won. They can assume we are that dim... and I rather enjoy them underestimating me. They should let me live my life, build my hotrods, and enjoy my remaining years, because motivating someone like me to act would be world changing, and not in a way from which they would benefit.
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He is like so many people I have known over the years who drank or smoked their lives away. People with amazing talents, woodworking, carpentry, welding, metal work, highly skilled guys, become nothing because they crawl in a bottle and can't get out. Watching what happens to people over the last 55 years of living has made me appreciate how I didn't succumb to those negative habits. I have other bad habits, but they aren't anywhere near as destructive as drinking and smoking.
I grew up on a farm 20 miles from town, working every day, after school I had work to do. I wrestled in high school so I could do something other than firewood, irrigation pipe, and working with livestock. Why does that matter? Well, as it happens men who live that sort of life growing up have a different mindset. We don't quit, we don't let anyone hold us back, and we work towards what we want. Nobody gave me anything, I worked for everything from age 7 to now. That life also packs muscle on you, because you are lifting heavy stuff all day.
Never worked a menial job in retail. Never worked fast food or as a waiter. My jobs were all technical, construction, heavy equipment operator, machinist, CNC programmer, automotive repair tech, engine and transmission builder, logistics in the USAF. I've been homeless, unemployed, divorced living in an old car because Nebraska took all my money to give to the ex. Rarely drank, never smoked, they are a waste of money and I realized that at 19 years old in Germany.. going through a case of excellent German beer a week, realized the money was going towards nothing..
I think urban people are at a disadvantage, because they don't learn how to do things that could be sources of income. I was rebuilding small engines at 8 years old. Did my first V8 at 12. At 7 years old I was driving tractors. At 9 I was driving grain trucks on gravel roads, two speed axles, manual transmission in a 1952 GMC cab over. I helped pour my first concrete slab when I was 8, we built the forms and did all the work, so when I poured the slab for my shop in 2015 I knew how to do it. I learn how to do things rather than paying others to do it for me, I had to on a remote farm with no money.
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Dick in a box: Funny. On the Ground: Funny. Im on a boat: Mostly funny. Jizzed in my pants: Gross and funny. James Franco saying he has a tiny penis, its really small and creeping girls out: very funny.
The continual political bullshit from an outraged marxist view, not very funny.
The Colbert Report was funny. John Stewart was funny. They both did political stuff, and it was funny. The shit they are doing on TV now, is not funny. Trevor Noah, seriously unfunny. Don Lemon is funnier than Trevor.
The left can't meme. NPCs are limited in responses, you must ask the right questions. SNL jumped the shark some time ago, and the only funny thing in quite a while was the digital shorts Andy and crew did. Now Alec back in the Pete Schewtty days, yes very funny everyone loves his Schwetty balls.. but this crap, not funny.
I don't like Trump, I call him the Cheeto, but I do not have Orange Man Bad Syndrome.
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Good luck finding my house, good luck leaving if you bring that shit here, those city kids will have a very very bad day if they come by here. I am nearly always home, and my god the rifles here since my dad died and left he part of his stash.. its epic. from 22-250 to 45-70 and dad left me an additional 2/3 of the .223 ammo already here, so I am well over 5000 rounds for that alone. Then the woods and swamps on my land, infested with mosquitoes, or covered in shoulder deep snow in winter, well... Seriously, they will have a very very bad day.
Even if they get my real name, GPS doesn't bring you here.. lol. Usually people end up 50 miles away from here if they follow that. There is a reason I live in BFE, after two wars and a really shit life, I want to be left alone. Bring that nonsense here and you can join some Iraqis who met me briefly.
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@Khunark most vehicles ran on ethanol before the Volstead Act, funded by Rockefeller, the owner of Standard Oil. Prohibition was designed and intended to eliminate fuel ethanol as competition for Standard oil's gasoline. Most farmers had stills, because ethanol is more than just vodka and fuel, its antiseptic, sanitizer, degreaser, and when mixed with easily made turpentine provides light. He funded a constitutional amendment to eliminate his competition, and force all of us to run gasoline... and the result was tetraethyl lead with all its problems.
Ethanol was the norm before prohibition. Not the alternative.
In WWII ethanol production ramped up fast because torpedoes ran on it, aircraft used it to increase performance especially at high altitudes since it cools the intake and provides oxygen while allowing more ignition timing and power. In fact the Me262 and HE162, the first to operational jet fighters ran on ethanol, potato vodka to be exact.
After the war we had a huge ethanol production capability, and that was a threat to oil again. A front page ad was taken out on all the prominent papers, and it was written to look like a news story. It claimed the ethanol plants were using Caribbean molasses and rum to produce ethanol rather than US grown grain. It was an outright lie, and they had to retract the advertisement, but it worked anyway. Within six weeks of its printing, all the ethanol plants had closed and gasoline was again the only fuel available.
The propaganda continues today, and people simply do not know how easy it is to produce ethanol, run their vehicles on it, and how cheap it is to do it.
Ethanol is vastly superior to gasoline, except in cold weather starting. Its true if you run it in a low compression engine intended for pump gasoline, you know 87 octane to 93 octane, it will get worse mileage. However if you run it in engines with 12:1 compression, suitable for only the highest octane race gasoline, you get better mileage than gasoline. As compression increases, so does mileage and power. The handicap is gasoline and its pathetic octane.
There is another benefit for the auto makers, in that gasoline leaves black carbon deposits through the engine, and it causes accelerated wear. Engines wear out, so people need to buy another vehicle. It was more of a problem before 1995 when EFI was worked out to the point engines can go 300k easily now, but there are taxi cabs in Brazil that run for millions of miles without a rebuild, on hydrous ethanol.. meaning it still has between 4% and 15% water still in it, and no gasoline at all. Those are also low compression engines, they could be getting so much more from them. The racers in Brazil already know, and hardly any of them run race gas.
How do I know all this? Because I have been producing ethanol to run my vintage GTOs and other muscle cars, and I drive 11.5:1 and 13:1 Pontiac 455s daily, that on any pump gas will rattle themselves to death in less than an hour. it flattens the upper rod bearings, take a wild guess how I know that.
I've been doing this since 2007 when gasoline was $5 a gallon where I live, and now its close to that again. 91 octane is over $5, 87 is $4.20, tree sap vodka is 10 cents a gallon, and cattail vodka is about 40 cents a gallon. So that is more than 15 years running ethanol in old and newer vehicles, up to 2002, and I have yet to have any problems with fuel systems, engines, carbs, EFI, or anything else. Its all very clean, and if I don't run E85 my oil changes come out looking as clean as they went in, only change it because of thermal breakdown.
My daily driver 65 GTO is kinda quick and it has no forced induction. Thats why I run vodka fuel.
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@mmiddendorf Is not overboard, its how we are trained. We do not apprehend for trial, we eliminate threats. Every branch trains for that, in the jobs that might, probably, or definitely will end up doing that. My job was a 'sometimes we have to fight back' kind of job. You do not half ass it, you do not let them get away if it can be helped, because they will come back at you when they regroup.
Consider Private Ryan for a moment, a fully fabricated story to be fair, but when they take out the MG nest and that one guy survives, then they let him go, he ends up putting extra ventilation holes in the guys and Upham finally does what they should have done in the first place.
Its a different world, its not the movies, its not video games, its not fantasy. You either give them new leaks and ventilation, or they give them to you.
If you are in the way, and you are part of the enemy force, you're a lawful target in our world. Its best to not be in the way of someone like the operators who do that sort of job. Dead men tell no tales.
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I'm, a man. What I look like body wise is entirely up to me. If I want to lose the gorilla belly, I have to put in the work. I have large muscles due to privilege.. meaning I was privileged to be forced to work myself nearly to death in my first war, carrying the weight of the females assigned to my team so I could get the job done.
The idea that a female is responsible for herself like I am is misogyny, its hateful towards females to expect them to have responsibility. Eastern European, Japanese, Thai, and Vietnamese girls are obviously an impossible standard for females in the west. Just because girls were almost all able to fit through bus doors in pairs 40 years ago, rather than most now needing to be greased to fit past bus doors, does not mean its possible for girls to be thin and healthy looking. Fat is obviously so healthy, and everyone knows men are attracted to a 600lb female who can't get up from the couch on her own.
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Why is it always a Mustang? Because Ford built a million of them between 1964 and 1966. They weren't taken care of, they were commuter cars. Back in the 80s I saw entire car lots with nothing but Mustangs in them, and most of them were ROUGH. Then you get people who have questionable knowledge, minimal skills, and they want to flip cars to make money. They don't know how to do it the right way most of the time. If they do know, they are more concerned with selling it than making it a quality driver.
I am just an old guy out in the woods, playing with rusty junk. Sure I ran a shop for a while, and worked on cars for a living between my enlistments, but I am not some high end builder. I play with junk and polish turds. I do not buy cars like that, because I will look under it and walk away or tell them the highest I will go is $500. I'd rather pick up something that is a rolling shell than buy someone else's screw ups that I gotta fix.
Still I have had to rework vehicles done by local shops, and I have seen where they tell the customer some BS just to squeeze money out of them. Like $1200 to replace the swaybar end links ($12 a pair) because the steering wheel would shake when she hit the brakes. Warped rotor and a bent wheel... $120 in parts to fix it. Some people have no problem with screwing people over. I am not one of them.
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So this guy, a father, is accused of domestic violence and has a warrant for him. That is exactly what the left wants. Fathers are superfluous you know, the feminist laws push that idea. Having been in a relationship with a crazy bitch that the state allowed to be abusive to me and my kids, I can see another side where dude is just trying to keep her crazy ass from doing harm and he is charged with domestic when she is the violent one. Now we do not have evidence to that, but having been in that situation I can see how it comes about as I was also trying to keep my ex from assaulting other people.. because the fines would come out of my paycheck.
Dude could have been hitting her for not drying the dishes right, or he could have been trapped with a crazy bipolar bitch, with reality being someone between those.
So dads are bad, unless they get shot by cops, and are not white, and then dads are wonderful because they can be used to justify riots and other bullshit.Its almost like it is by design..
I've fought communists before. I have a chunk of Berlin Wall on my shelf from '89. I have served in Korea, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. If they want to keep this up and bring it to my door, well I have no problem with making them wish they never came out here. :) I live alone in the woods away from people to avoid exactly that, because I want to be done with that shit. Two wars, five deployments, and 8 years overseas is enough. 8 years enduring a crazy bitch was enough too. I am tired of this marxist bullshit, but they keep pushing.
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So you have an office job, where you push paper around all day and put cover sheets on your TPS reports. You follow the trend and now you are priced out of owning a home because you can't swing the $500k+ price tag to live in a 'good' neighborhood. You live a life of debt, taking from Pete to pay Paul, paycheck to paycheck in your office job that is supposed to be making you 'elite' with your white collar.
What else do you know? What do you know how to do? When the light switch fails in the house, you have to call someone to come fix it. When the tire goes flat you have to call someone to come change it. You have to buy a new car under warranty because you can't fix it yourself, you have no idea how it works and have no tools nor skills, because that is 'beneath you' and only good for drop outs.
If the power goes out for ten years, such as a Carrington event, how useful is your ability to use spreadsheets and word documents? Can you get food? Purify water? Build a shelter? Keep transportation running? Can you do ANYTHING regarding survival in a desperate situation where everything is not readily available to you? Nah.. you go to the store and buy all the bread and bottled water since you can't even bake bread, or purify water. You don't know the first thing about it. You look down on people who can do those things, who build for a living, who can weld, design and repair machinery... its beneath you... but you're entirely dependent upon those so called 'lowly' people... you just don't know it.
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In 1991 I was getting paid $963 a month. E3 pay. Since I was in Germany working shifts where the chow hall wasn't open, I got COLA and BAS, so my checks were around $1100 a month. I made $13k that year. In 1996 I was making $750 a week working 10-30 hours overtime every week. The ex made sure all of that was wasted every week and we were overdrawn for as long as the ex had access to the account. I bought a house in 94 for $37k, built in 1910, it was not palatial by any stretch, but it worked for my and my two kids. If the ex had NOT financially ruined me at every opportunity, I could have built a life and saved something.
It was NOT easier in the 80s and 90s. You needed skills and experience to earn more than just above min wage, which was like $7.50. You can still get inexpensive houses, but they aren't in large cities or suburbs around them. Freakin duh... go where life is more affordable, but yeah you are still going to have to work and improve yourself to earn a decent amount, then LIVE WITHIN YOUR MEANS. I swear man, I hear young people complaining that they have to put in work and not just be given stuff, claiming we didn't have to work 40 years ago.
You probably have had no job as difficult as the easiest one I had. Learn and become valuable, don't expect anyone to do it for you..
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@brookeshane3170 they get worse when it gets harder for them, and they are rejected more. They cannot handle rejection, its why negging works so well on them. When they outnumber men, they will all hate men, because they get rejected often.
The les types are usually that way because they wanted the top men, but weren't good looking enough to get the dregs. Thus they resent men. Its all entitlement with them, they feel they deserve the best just because they exist, and when they don't get what they feel entitled to, they hate everyone, not just the ones they desire. I have yet to meet an attractive one, sure some are into both men and women, but the women only types are more often than not envious and entitled.
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Every job I have taken has given me more skills I can use, and I never finished my degree in mech engineering and automotive tech. No need to, it wasn't going to garner me any more cash. GI Bill and a full time job paid for my school, I took out a $2k student loan right out of the military, and paid it back with GI Bill.
As it turns out I already knew everything I was 'learning' in school, the only new stuff was rebuilding automatic transmissions, and doing front end alignments with a Hunter rack. Everything else I had learned on my own, all the math I picked up being a machinist let me breeze through engineering. All the good paying jobs went to Mexico in 1998, so in 2000 I went back to the military and got out on a medical in 2005.. they broke me, which happens when you are 35 and working like you're 21.
Now I rebuild rusty old muscle cars for fun and enjoyment. I could be making a lot more money than I am, but I like being able to get up out of bed when the bladder demands it rather than to make it to a job.
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Why not take your van and go sit in the mountains while the world burns? Why don't I just sit here in the woods, build my muscle cars, make fuel for them, and enjoy my life without getting involved? Well its simple really.. the people CAUSING all of this don't want me to live in the woods, even if it is vastly more environmentally friendly than living in a city. They don't want me to build and drive old muscle cars, even if they run on clean burning vodka/ethanol fuel made with cattails that also clean water for me. I realize that if I sit back and watch it all go on around me, when they take complete control the way I want to live will not be aligned with what they demand I do and how I live.
They will come to me, tell me I no longer own the land I worked my ass off and sacrificed greatly to buy, I cannot live in the home I built with my own two hands, and that I cannot drive the cars I built in the shop I built using the trees I cleared from where it now stands. It will not matter that I owe nothing to anyone, and I am owed by many others, they will come take what I have for themselves, and force me into a small space in a city, so they can control everything I do.
Its not about the environment with them, its about controlling and profiting from all of us.
When they come to disarm me, so they can later take everything I have built and invested my life into, that would probably be when you all learn my real name. Unless of course they do it without alerting anyone that some crazy crippled war vet filled a bunch of bags on his way out when they showed up to infringe his rights and take his property.
I want to be left alone, so I can live out here in the woods, do the things I enjoy doing, living with nature, playing with old cars, watching sunrises, sunsets, and the stars, then pass everything I have built in my life to my daughter. They will not allow that. That is who I will fight, and I will fight them until I am no longer homeothermic and breathing. When they start the fight I will not stop until they end me. Already did two wars, why not 3 conflicts in one life?
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This is spot on for tall good looking guys, and good looking guys in general. Its not the only way to be attractive.
I've been on both sides, invisible and obviously wanted. I spent so much time invisible and loathed that I am still amused when one shows interest, and I've been on the interest side of it since 1986. I was not treated well growing up, or through most of my adult life. I had to develop game, to learn to talk to people, to get them to like and respect me. Figured that out and how to read the split tails when I was 16-17. I had to work for everything, nothing was given to me.
I am not 'high value' as in not wealthy, tall, or overly handsome. I am intimidating. 21" arms and a 60" chest on a 5'8" guy looks like he's a gorilla. People move out of my way in crowds, at concerts, in stores. If they see me, they move. My kid noticed that and commented on it, before that I was unware.
I move like someone who has been trained and tested, because I have been. Wrestling in school, the military, countless instances of defending myself. If I am not making people laugh, I get calls from the sheriff telling me I can't go shopping there anymore. Civilians don't understand military bearing, it frightens them.
People are attracted to competence, confidence, and silent intimidation. Not glowering, just by being there you can intimidate others. Your posture and body language matter. I try to soften mine in public. I want to go unnoticed, blend in, and not frighten anyone. I've been trying to keep them away for the last ten years, and the belly has worked great for that, but health is forcing me to get more svelte.
To put it in an automotive metaphor. I am a ratrod or a ratty old muscle car with a supercharger sticking out of the hood, faded oxidized paint, and a spartan interior. The tall wealthy guys are Ferraris, Lambos, Porsches, shorter guys are BMWs or AMG Mercedes. If you drive a BMW you are seen as a wallet. If you drive that rough but scary sinister looking old muscle car that shakes the ground at idle, you are tickling a very different part of their brain. Intimidation makes bits moist.
Also I have a deep voice, people often ask me if I do movie voice overs or things of that nature. That draws them in, the blue eyes and DGAF mindset hook them. You can be short and attractive, but it takes a lot more work than just having good genetics and growing tall. You don't get 20 inch arms by sitting around, you don't even get 17 inch arms without work.
However.. the drawback to how I am and look is that I am 'fun time' and not a 'long term prospect' so I have had LOTS of one nighters, week long to month long flings, a few have gone for a few years, but most were one to three and done. I did not try to have a 150+ count, I was looking for just one, and they all opted out on their own, since I have never had an abundance of money. Was married twice, 8 years and 9 years respectively. Both made very poor choices in leaving, they are miserable today. I am glad they're gone.
Busted off a piece this week, I can get it when I want it, don't have much interest these days. Only one bucket list item isn't checked, thats twins. I've done everything else. My interest now is in finishing my house, building my old cars, and going to dragstrips and running the cars I build. Fitting between the bars of the roll cage is important, which is also why I am becoming more of a sweaty svelte guy. Can't lose muscle easily though, so I am mostly stuck with it.
I suppose if you have no muscle, a high pitched voice, no confidence, and a zero to 3 count, this will all sound implausible or impossible. Go lift really heavy stuff over and over, test yourself against others who are better than you, and find out for yourself what I have known for 45 years. I am almost 56. Had the DGAF attitude since I was ten, because I was the short pudgy kid everyone picked on, until I was 16 and the world changed for me.
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no, red pill is about realizing the narrative you have been fed is erroneous at best. The original metaphor in the movie was about religion and the notion that government is there to benefit us rather than control us.
As with anything going against the ramblings of Karl M, his followers will infiltrate and run anything off the rails that disagrees with their narrative. Is SOP and they have captured the media, education apparatus, and now government is almost entirely under their control.
What Zuby and his guest are doing here is propping up the narrative that men are to blame, men are bad, and there is no fault with women at all. Be a better man they say...
Two 6'+ guys with lots of money telling us to be better men, while neither of them has ever been divorced or married, has no kids, was never separated from those kids, and that means they have no freakin clue what they are talking about.
They could be considered to be talking about themselves, the top 5% of men in the world with the most options when it comes to women. But the invisible 90% of men out there, yeah, these two have no clue what life is like for those guys.
I am between those two groups, I managed to get with lots of women over the years, and I never mistreated one, but they sure liked to mistreat me. They could do so with impunity, the cops never cared what they did to me, only if I touched them while they were doing it. I am 5'8, with pale blue eyes, which means I got them interested, but then they always wanted someone taller with more money or whatever.
I know what its like to be invisible to women, and I know what its like to be wanted by lots of women. Very few other men know what that is like, least of all Zuby and his friend.
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YA know, if a girl wants to look like a hamplanet, or a butter golem, then by all means go for it and eat your donuts and whatever else. Do not expect me to appreciate how you look, or want to get with you. I will not find you attractive, not even a little bit. Tess Holiday does not do it for me, girls who look like her are hydraulic killing. Also do not expect me to pay for your medical bills and the insulin you're going to have to inject so you don't lapse into a coma.
Its not like I am an Adonis, hell I am not even 6' tall. In my winter jacket I look fat, but in a T shirt you can see its not fat. Unless I get something tailored, all I can wear is T shirts and jeans, because with a 52" chest and a 38" waist, and being average height, T shirts are all that fit. So I feel ya, but I also worked my ass off to build muscle, I never eat crap like donuts. Ever. Your choices make you who you are, and what you eat is as important as how much of it goes in your pie hole.
So my overly muscled ass is not going to be trying to bump and grind with a fat chick. You can be as fat as you like, but if I want to bang a mattress, well I can do that without you.
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The king is a bit optimistic, but the Buicks are awesome and fun. The BOP engines are kick ass with stock stuff. Hey we could do some low buck pump gas builds and see where the bang for the buck is. Pontiac Olds and Buick with garden variety parts, no porting, like a mix and match using the factory parts. We can do 400s or 455s, I don't have a 428 crank, but suppose I could get one. I have two 455 Olds engines, a J head and an E head, and lots of Pontiacs. One of the 455s is a cast .030 piston stock rod mill I put together back in 1994 and daily drove until 2004. Name your compression ratio, I'll match it and we can put it in a similar weight chassis, I have lots of A bodies, an X body, and several F bodies I can throw it in.
My channel with Pontiac vs yours with Buicks? Come on lets do something fun with old non chevy stuff. I am probably doing a 455 Olds with the J heads later this year for the Cutlass in my shop, so we could include that one too. I'll refrain from the goofy stuff long enough to do this... and I will drag whatever I build down there to Tennessee so we can line up and run em. Low buck mix and match stock stuff. I have a $2100 400 with 10.75:1 on the stand right now ready to drop in, and I can swap on some heads to make between 7:1 and 13:1 on the $1800 455 all cast short block sitting in my 65 Gasser.
You guys could get in on the "How fast can you go for $5000 or less" thing over here.. https://bangshift.com/forum/forum/bangshift/project-cars-update/the-5-000-bangshift-project-car-challenge
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@dennisrobinson8008 despite my name on here, I have been the other guy who she drops everything for, who she leaves her husband/boyfriend and rides me.. one even did it while facetiming him. They will move mountains for the man that makes the panties damp. This has been the case so many times, with so many women who have taller, better looking, wealthier husbands, and they want the silverback gorilla slamming them into the wall experience.
When I hook up with a single one, I don't pay for much. Coffee or a soft drink at most, with tire wear, fuel, etc. thrown in.
I've gotten some because I write well, and knew the difference between double entendre and innuendo. She actually paid for me, bought dinner often, took me to concerts, movies, and on trips. Have gotten a great many of them by telling them no. Some by saying "Hey you're kinda cute, what time do you get off work?" as I paid her in the drive through for my tacos. One was a wrong number and I said she sounded cute. My voice and the muscle really work for me.
When she has some other guy paying for her, and she has a chance with a man who makes her's look weak, she jumps at it and he doesn't have to pay. The guy she committed to has to pay.
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How would you like to drive a 450- well over 550hp naturally aspirated vehicle, that doesn't require a large cooling system and gets 30mpg running on a fuel you can make yourself that is carbon neutral and does not pollute since it only makes CO2 and H2O when you burn it in an engine?
Here is the short version of how. Take nearly any V8 5.0 or larger in displacement, (any engine will work, but you get more power from larger engines) crank up the compression over 13:1 but keep it under 22:1, add an EFI system that allows you to heat the fuel in the rails to around 200F before the injectors, but after the return line, you don't want to heat the tank. Place the injectors farther up the intake runner, more like a carb introduces fuel at the start of the runner, the modern EFI intakes aren't intended for wet flow, but you can introduce the heated fuel farther upstream to ensure it has plenty of time to vaporize and cool the intake charge. Direct injection won't work so well, its a bandaid for gasoline.
Now run it on E98 to E100. You'll get more power, cooler operating temps, a cleaner engine, vastly cleaner exhaust, and better mileage doing this.
If you do not denature the vodka with gasoline, and instead use some other substance to make the government happy, you will only produce CO2 and H2O. No, it is not new, vehicles ran on ethanol before they ran on gasoline. Prohibition made it illegal to produce ethanol in the US, leaving only gasoline for transportation fuel. Who sold gasoline? Standard Oil... who owned Standard Oil? John D. Rockefeller. Who gave $4 million to the temperance movement that pushed a constitutional amendment through to ban the production and sale of ethanol in the USA in 1918? John D. Rockefeller.
Did you know the Model T was dual fuel? To run ethanol you increased the ignition advance with a lever where a modern turn signal is, and richened the carb with a knob on the dash sorta like an airplane. To run gasoline you retarded the timing (a lot) and leaned the carb. The gasoline setting produced more heat and cars overheated more often, to all the damn time. People preferred to run on ethanol because it made more power, was more reliable, ran cooler, and they could make it themselves rather than paying Rockefeller..
Nearly every farmer had a still before prohibition, so they could make fuel for tractors, antiseptic, and mix it with easily made turpentine for light before electricity. You could also get good and drunk on it. It was more cost effective to turn your grain into ethanol/vodka to ship it to market than it was to more it as grain before trains were invented and railroad laid everywhere. That was the reason for the taxes on ethanol, and why bootlegging is a thing.
I make my ethanol from tree sap. Maple syrup is far more valuable, but I don't eat pancakes or waffles, and I drive my 65 and 70 GTOs with 455s a lot. I get 20mpg with a carb and no heated fuel in the 70. The 65 is really bad on aero so it only does 17-18, but it has a ton of power. I'm doing a more aero vehicle or two to see how far I can push it with the heated fuel rails and EFI. GTOs are kinda bad over 50mph.
One vehicle will be LS powered (possibly a tube chassis 73 Opel GT), the other will have a 3800 V6 with as much compression as I can get out of the poor little thing, might throw the GTP blower on it I have sitting around. Then its going in a ladder car like an Ariel Atom I am designing that will have some body work to clean up the aero so its not as bad as Leeroy. Drag is bad for mileage mmkay.
I'll be doing a video series of the builds and how its all done.
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the chaz was full of white supremacists, because Seattle is very full of democrats.. The chick in Michigan has been through the concealed carry classes, same one I have been through here in Michigan, we know we will be arrested if we pull our pistol even if we don't shoot anyone. Its how it works, because the gun owner/CPL carrier is the responsible party here. The other chick was probably banging on her car and trying to block her in, getting irate and knowing that the media will side with her because of her race.
The police will investigate, get evidence and see what was going on, then move from there. If she was justified then no problem, and she very well could have been because threatening you, following you, trying to block you in so you cannot leave, well... those all amount to a felony here in MI. Brandishing a weapon, which is what she did, is a misdemeanor and she can lose her CPL for a year.
Just watched the video.. she said she 'hit' their car, not tapped it. She was trying to block them in and struck their vehicle when they tried to leave. This is why you need a dash cam in your vehicle. Its getting as bad as Russia with all this crap. Fuck with people in a concealed carry state and chances are you are going to meet Mr. Equalizer or other Handheld Wireless Conflict Resolution Devices.
The last thing I want to do is pull mine, because it means legal issues unless they are threatening/shooting at me. I will do everything I can to deescalate and move away, getting in a fist fight with a gun on you is not only a bad idea, its illegal here. If you meet Mr. Springfield you have severely fucked up and will probably get custom ventilation added to your person. It is the last thing I want to happen because it is a world of legal bullshit for me, and I want to be left alone.
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@JackHaveman52 I have a large chunk of that wall on my shelf from when I was stationed in Frankfurt back in 1989, we knocked it off with a sledge. I found their propaganda about it to be quite amusing and sad.
Once you know what marxism is, you will always know how a marxist thinks. They are unimaginative followers, that makes them very predictable. Its why their go to is calling people nazis when those people disagree with them and their fucked up ideology.
Also once you know marxist ideology and rhetoric, it is incredibly easy to spot.. because they have no imagination, so all they do is swap words around to obfuscate their bullshit. Whatever they call it, you can bet its nothing like the nomenclature they assign to it. After all, its a child like mentality of resentment, envy, entitlement, and laziness that draws people to it.
When your only tool is a blunt object, every problem looks like a nazi, but of course they ignore the fact that the national socialist workers party was a very slightly different facet of their own ideology.
fuck those idiots.
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@ckjscellmate7658 just the other day I had three women in their mid to late 20s, talking with me and vying for my attention. They were all rather large, so they weren't going to be getting anywhere with me, so I had fun talking to them, and making them bristle a bit. They probably thought I was hitting on them, but I was finding out more about the youth today. The least huge and best looking of them worked pretty hard to get my attention, which I found amusing.
The older women in there were obviously not approving of this gray haired old man talking to the young ones and not to them. Every day beyond 30 she goes, the less interested in her I will be. The vast majority of women are uninteresting to me, certainly those over 35, because the wrapper is showing the wear at that point.
Fact of the matter is that none of them in this area have a chance with me, no matter how compliant, attentive, or interested they seem, but the closer they are to my age the worse they look... and I can get attention and interest from the young ones real easy.
No, we are definitely not the same, and certainly not the same value as we age.
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@The-Real-Blissful-Ignorance currently you can eat healthy, its more expensive, but you can do it. I eat lean meat, fresh fruit, and fresh/frozen veggies. I get no soy, no HFCS, and none of the chemicals.
My plan for when they do that to all of us is growing my food, fishing, hunting, and producing my fuel as well as electricity. Already doing most of that, need to build a greenhouse and some cattail ponds to make more fuel, thats on the agenda this year and next summer.
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What American does to maintain its power? Well, some presidents do that kind of shit, like regime changes that result in open slave markets. Yeah I am callin out Dubya, Clinton and Obama.. fuckin war mongers. Some of them do other stupid shit, like the Eisenhower administration where the CIA held a coup in Iran then installed the Shah.. which bit us in the ass in 1979, the Bay of Pigs was another fiasco as was the Gulf of Tonkin. Yes I will criticize them all, republican and democrat.
But what we do to maintain our power, and consequently prevent other countries from going all blitzkrieg on the rest of the world is spending more than the next ten largest militaries combined, along with a nuclear capability and airstrikes anywhere in the world within 24 hours. We keep the peace, and the rest of them have been enjoying the security provided by us and have used the extra funds to pay for their welfare programs and other socialist shit. We have prevented large scale conflict around the world for 75 fucking years, despite a few knuckleheads overthrowing governments and getting involved in classic blunders such as land wars in Asia.
So to the rest of the world that bitches about America, kiss my crippled veteran ass because we kept you from being invaded far more often than invasions happened. Yes I was part of the force that threw Iraq out of Kuwait in 1991, and then had to go back in 2004 because Dubya decided to show up his dad. One justified war, and one what the fuck are you thinking war under my belt.
Nobody reads these anyway... I am just writing because its good therapy and why the fuck not. Most of us veterans are alone on the holidays, because though we get lots of empty platitudes like thanks for your service, nobody really gives a rat fuck about us. So I am going to the kitchen for more whiskey and coke, maybe a hard boiled egg and some jerky too. The farts will be epic but nobody will notice because nobody is here. I sacrificed my youth and health for people who do not give a fuck. You're welcome. I'd do it all again.
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@Don-ds3dy after seeing one I liked, decide to jump on my friend while she was out with me, I haven't really been susceptible to that particular delusion. I see them for what they are, and make choices based on how long I think they will remain faithful.
The first wife baby trapped me, long story and it was 8 years of hell living with her, then 15 years paying her to make some other guy's life miserable. There was no love there, except for my daughters, one of which might not be mine, but now that she is almost 30 years old, whats the point of finding out for certain?
The second wife was wonderful for 8 years, we got married to get her health care, and 16 months later she did the same thing the first one did. To say I did not expect it would be a lie, I knew she would, but I thought it would take at least 3 years before she burned her life to the ground.
When your trust is betrayed by every female you meet, and none of them are faithful, loyal, trustworthy, or truthful, its difficult to be blinded by love. I gave them chances, took risks, it cost me from 1986 when I got the first piece of tail until 2015 when the last payment went to the ex.
Its funny though, one from 32 years ago, who probably would have been faithful to me, came to visit this week. Turns out she thought she could talk down to me, like I am some beta male, like her ex was. I can't wait to put her on the plane tomorrow, she is insufferable in her old age.
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I have responsibility for MYSELF... not for you. If I blow through a red light, its on me if I smack that bag lady pushing her cart full of cans across the street. Those are rules we all agree to so we can be on the same page while operating vehicles, we are not forced to drive. We do not have a rule that forces us to get a jab, wear a mask, or any of the other stuff they're demanding, not in the USA anyway. I am not infringing on you or your rights by living my life, with the jab or not. You forcing me to get it and wear a mask IS infringing on my rights.
I will not surrender my liberty for a bit of safety, sure as hell not when the overwhelming majority of people get the sniffles. I have PTSD, do you think I expect others to not do things that will set me off? No, I am responsible for me, not for you. I cannot force you to do something, just as you cannot force me to.
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I built a 1050 sqft 2 story container house, on my 13 acres of woodland. Its perfect for me because I live alone and build old cars. My 27 year old daughter gets this place when my expiration date arrives, along with the cars and the means to produce fuel for them. This home is easy to heat and defend. I can go off grid any time I want.
Divorced twice, lost two houses, most of my income, lived in my car for a total of four years, and in an old 1971 Travco RV while I built my shop and house. I am debt free and build race cars and 50+ year old daily drivers for fun now.
No you cannot come live here with me, I don't want anyone within a quarter mile of me. Since I own enough land around the house, and there is a swamp along the north end where you can't build, so unless I allow you to live here, you can't. Squatters will find out how unfriendly I can be, and if they persist, a date with a backhoe is possible.
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@fletch52004 I have a somewhat different take than most people who talk about things that young men need to know. I try to keep ideology out of it, that means no religion or wishful thinking about what shoulda coulda woulda.
Jocko Wilink is an excellent source for young men, he teaches leadership, responsibility, how to look at trials and hardship as a benefit. He puts it well so its easy to understand without sounding preachy. Also, same as I am, he keeps ideology out of it. Its a military mindset where facts and reality are paramount, as is leadership. When you get into ideology, you get off in the weeds and start losing people who don't share that ideology.
Currently I am working on a large project I am not sharing online, its taking up all my time until the end of the month. After which I will pick up the video content again and maybe throw some how to stuff in along with why and what. Really I should be working rather than typing. heh..
I can't find anyone to apprentice with me around here, nobody wants to work with their hands, and if they do they want to get paid more than I am for it. I have some content waiting for me to get to uploading it after some edit work, but I probably won't get to it until winter.
There is an extremely high chance that if I share the NBC training I got, that nobody will be allowed to see it. They have done that with my projects about making fuel to run my vehicles... that and I am busy with things other than the fuel project this year so the content regarding that has been thin.
What kind of stuff would you like to know from an old guy who has seen two wars, two divorces, builds/races muscle cars for fun, makes fuel for them, built his house and shop, lives alone, and has endured a mind numbing about of hardship?
Be specific and if I know something about it, I'll either write about it on my community page, make a video, or put it on my locals under the same name. I really need to get back on my locals page. Summer is super busy time for me.
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My dream is different than yours. I DO NOT want to live in a city, or in the suburbs of a city, sure as hell not a blue one. Nobody was ever buying houses on minimum wage. You need some skills and experience to make yourself more valuable, and then your pay will increase. A degree is a waste of money now, unless its some kind of STEM or vocational thing like plumbing/electrical etc. Do NOT be an auto mechanic, it pays poorly and works you to the point your body wears out in less than 20 years.
I had several jobs in my life, the jobs paid less when I was young, and the pay increased as I got older and gained more knowledge, skill, and experience. THAT IS HOW IT WORKS! Sure my dad bought his first house in 1967 for $2500 and paid it off in 5 years. I bought my first house in 1996 and paid $37k for it when it was built in 1910 and was actually three additions to a shack. Lost that investment to divorce in 2001. Inflation is why the dollar is worth less and the cost of things go up. Thats why my dad got his house cheaper than I did.
I worked on cars and as a machinist in the 80s, enlisted and barely made enough to do anything in the USAF for four years. $700 a month was my starting pay, $1100 a month when I got out at E4 in 92. They kicked me out with the drawdown in 1992, and I went to work in factories doing the CNC machinist thing. The factories were all packed up and sent to Mexico between 1997 and 2000, so I went back to the USAF in 2000. $1740 base pay in 2000, and Nebraska decided that $1200 of that would go to the ex for child support, leaving me $100 a month to live on after taxes. I was stuck paying her from 2001 until 2015. The USAF broke me in 2004 and kicked me out on a medical in 2005, the VA finally started paying me compensation in 2007. It was $1900 a month for 100% disability in 2007. By 2015 the compensation was close to $3000 a month. I am not allowed to earn more than that.
What did I do after my second divorce in 2013? I bought 13 acres of land on a ten year mortgage for $23k. There was a run down cabin here and electrical power run to it and its covered in trees, that was it. I carved my home out of the woods despite chronic pain and limited mobility, on $3k a month. I took out a $30k building load, built my shop for $18k by doing 99% of it myself. Built a shipping container house for right about $22k as I had money come in from the VA and USAF screwing up my pay over the years.
You can still get land cheap here, but if you plan to buy land and work a job stocking shelves, running a cash register at a fast food joint, or some other menial job, you aren't going to do it. Like I said before, NOBODY was buying houses and new cars on min wage. NOBODY. Those jobs are for high school kids to get some money while learning skills you can only get from jobs, like talking to people in a business setting aka customer service, and the basics of working a job. You have zero skill so you get a min wage job.
I grew up on a farm which meant I knew things already, heavy equipment operation, mechanical repair to vehicles and machines, hwo to use all sorts of tools, how to solve problems, how to read micrometers and blueprints, and a work ethic that makes city kids look like they don't do anything all day. Anyone can learn the basics, especially right here watching videos. You can learn how to do EVERYTHING I have ever done, right here watching videos on it. From building your house and car, to managing finances, its all here... for free, you only need to go looking for it. You can even learn cooking on here and other useful skills that you will need every day, if you come from one of those sheltered families that doesn't know how to do anything because you all live in a city.
The more you can do yourself, the cheaper you can do things, and the more you can get out of life. Stop thinking about what you can buy, and think about what you can build, and how you can go about building it.
Mainly though, stop being resentful that someone else has something you do not, or more of something. Who cares if they started out aas a rich kid, you didn't and I didn't either. So we have to work more to get to a certain level, that is life. Something I have seen over the last 50 years is the people who are born into something, and have parents give them everything rather than the kid earning it, take longer to get started in life. They do not appreciate what is given to them, because there was no effort or discipline to get it. Living a hard life makes you fare more resilient and stronger, those who grow up with soft easy lives end up soft weak people.
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@hellaspoicey2280 the name I use here is a poke at myself and the USAF. I'll explain a bit if you like.
Back in 1990 I was at Rhein Main AB, a base that is no longer there, and when Desert Shield started I found myself working to exhaustion every day from 10 August to some time in February or March, no days off, and doing a crazy amount of heavy lifting. I worked air cargo, loading cargo planes, and 85% or more of the traffic going to Saudi Arabia and UAE was going through my base. I had to work every plane that came in.
Naturally I got very muscular, to the point I could bench press over 450lbs easily, and pick up 500lbs, put it on my shoulder and carry it up several flights of steps. Muscle weighs a lot more than the other thing that makes you big, which I am not allowed to write on here.
So the USAF has standards for weight, and my max was 175lbs, and when I wrestled in high school I was at 167lbs to 172lbs and roughly 10% BF. So with a six pack and being absolutely ripped, the USAF said I was obese after 1990.
The war packed lots of lean muscle on me in less than a year, and I was 235lbs, 22" arms, 52" chest, 21" neck, 31" thighs, and I was most definitely the strongest man in the unit, and on base for that matter.
I am big and strong, but short at 5'8, and wearing hoodies and whatnot I look like a tub-o-grease. The second war put more mass on me, and building my house and shop here in the woods has put even more on me since 2005. So at 15% I look like most guys do at 25%. Currently I am around 18% to 19%, but it looks like more.
If you can't laugh at yourself, then you are taking life far too seriously.
As for hygiene I take it seriously, but I am still building my house. Running water is on the agenda this year. The problem is a septic system since I am well away from town and the only thing connected to the grid is electricity and internet. Its like a deployment where nobody is shooting at me and I am not loading cargo planes. When I had houses with my wives, I would shower morning and when I got done working, and I was usually not too high on BF%.
Also the name is a hook, something to get people to go look and find my automotive content.. lol
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Tony is a mopar guy, and he knows those things very well. I am heavy into Pontiac with a bit of Ford, so I know where to go if I want to sell or buy parts for those. I am more into building these days, 30 years ago I was selling parts to pay for my builds, but anymore I prefer to build nice looking daily drivers and street machines.
Anyone can do it if they can take a car apart and have a spot they can store the parts until they are sold. A junkyard has hundreds or thousands of vehicles, guys like Tony and I have a dozen at most, but anyone can do it with a single car. Particularly if they part 4 doors which use most of the same parts as two door muscle cars.
That was my thing in the 80s. It was much harder back then, now I can post something online and its usually gone in hours if not minutes. I have to be quick to get parts I want, and if its not in the first two to five minutes, someone else buys them. Its only when someone is asking stupid money for a common part that it doesn't sell. You put a good price on it and its gone.
The guy who wants $600 for a factory iron intake from a '69 400 is nuts, because those are everywhere for $75 and very common, most don't care about a date code and those who do know they can get one for $75. $300 for a factory Tri Power is a decent price without the carbs and linkage. Complete but needing rebuilt its minimum $900 for the 65-66 units. It depends what it is, the condition, and what it fits.
Its really easy to do this with the internet now. All you gotta do is be willing to cut the thing up after taking it apart carefully. However, when its in decent drivable shape and someone cuts it up for parts, that is just sad when it could be built into something cool. A 74 Duster is meh.. a 78 Camaro is even more meh. A rust free two door 60s GM A body or mopar E, A, or B body even without being one of the big engine cars would be very sad to cut up.
I've rebuilt cars that were so far gone nobody else would even consider them, and they aren't even good parts cars. The only car I cut up for my 65 GTO build, which was REALLY bad, was a Tempest that had a tree fall on it and sat in the woods for 30 years. The parts I needed were in good shape, so we cut the car up with a sawzall and carried it out by hand. I got about $4500 worth of parts for the Goat from a $300 wreck. If you saw my GTO build, you'd think I am nuts.
Wait until ya see the 68 Firebird I am building... it makes the GTO at its start look minty.
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I have no interest in 'ball' sports. Don't really watch sports. I am big into drag racing, I love doing it, building cars to go racing, and I like channels with no prep racing. You know something, we drag racers don't care if you sit or squat to pee, we don't care who you prefer in bed either. The amount of ultraviolet light resistance you have is irrelevant to us. Line up and race, you don't get a handicap for being something other than male.
We have bracket racing, which is making it so slower cars can race faster cars, because not everyone can afford a top fuel dragster. The slower car gets a head start, and if they both run their dial in and cut the same light, they should reach the finish line at the same time. How fast you react to the green light, how repeatable you are with shift points and not running into things, and how well you can guess (educated guesstimates) what your car will run decide who wins and who loses.
There is no damn reason males and females should be competing against each other in sports where your physical size, strength, lung capacity, oxygenated blood capacity, and speed matter. Before my last deployment ended my running days in 2004, there was no female on the planet who could hang with me in power lifting, MMA, and some other things I was into. Even now at 53 years old, I am stronger than all but 0.1% of the world population, there are no females that compare.
Drag racing is mental as well as physical, but even a fat old guy like me can drag race. If you think its just boring driving in a straight line like you're in traffic, then you need to search for some no prep on here. 1500hp cars trying to get moving on tiny tires... the rear end wants to go ahead of the front very easily, and it will do it crazy fast.
Its equal parts skill and luck, but sometimes luck plays a huge part of it. The cool thing is damn near anyone can develop the skills. I'm building my daughter a vehicle to go racing, she lives 3 miles from a dragstrip and she knows more about cars and trucks than the guys she dates. She doesn't have the money to build it herself, I am going to surprise her with it.
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@hanskloss7726 ya know, I have never really considered myself good looking, but apparently a sizeable number of women do/did. I'm 5'8 and muscular, they like my voice, pale blue eyes, so the Asian ladies REALLY like me.
Thing is, they don't want to stick around. They get the silverback gorilla railing them against the wall or whatever they like, and then they would run off to some small wimpy guy. Took me forever to figure it out. It would seem I am not considered a "long term thing" to them, but they like having me on the side or for a week to a couple months.
I spent 20 years looking for someone to keep around, make memories, have a family, etc. Discovered I can't trust any of them.
So I am not a lothario, nor am I a Don Juan, but somehow I got a ton of 5 to 7s, a few really hot ones, and lots of below average chicks hit on me all the time. If they are thin they get a chance.. heh. I like them average, and the 4s are eager to keep me coming around.
It wasn't until I was 45 that I realized most men never get more than 3 in their lifetime. I thought everyone could do as well as I did, and I thought it was difficult to get them, but in reality all I needed to do was talk to them for a few minutes and within half an hour we were busy.
I get to see the other side of them, the side they don't want their husband or boyfriend to know about. She can be completely innocent appearing and acting, but she goes absolutely wild once we are alone. There is one in my home town, who wants to get some every time I go back, she is married to a guy who my first fiancé cheated with when I was stationed in Europe back in 1989. Poetic justice I figure..
I get it now, but for most of my life I had no idea why they were like that with me. All over the world, Europe, Asia, Africa, multiple US states, they all acted and responded to the same things in the same way. The majority didn't like me, but the ones that did would be down for whatever I wanted to do.
Females make zero sense, there is no logic no reason, its all feels with them and feels change instantly so you never know what you're gonna get. Some have at least a bit of impulse control, but the majority do not.
Untrustworthy unless they know they can't do better.
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You can be a shredded 6'4" gigachad and making 100k a month, she will still be looking for someone better. How do I know that? Well my cousin Chad (yeah thts his real name) is 6'7" looks like the technoviking, and both of his wives looked at 5'8" silverback gorilla looking me with that certain look that belies their lascivious intent. If you know what to look for, you cannot unsee it when they do it. I'm 54 and this has been over the last 10 years.
Both of them left him for shorter men, the first one left for a physician in his mid 60s ($$$$$$) who is shorter than I am, and the second one is Ukrainian, over 40 she left for a guy in his early 30s that looks like a pudgy fratboy. She stayed long enough to get the blue passport and green card. Both of them were very attractive women until they were 35. Still not bad looking in their 40s.
One of my friend's and his dad have me over for thanksgiving every year. My friend's step sister is close to my age, her husband is a retired cop that is 6'3" and a really cool guy. All through dinner she was making eye contact with me and I caught her staring at me in my peripheral vision. She has done this every year for the last 5 years that I have been going over there.
They are like 7-11, they may not be doing business, but they are always open. They are with Mr Right now, and looking for Mr Better than Right Now. Loyalty is not a virtue or even a consideration for them.
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@OldSaltyBear they stop developing between 16 and 19, they are forever stuck in that mindset.
I am old and gray, 54 laps around the sun with no hand on the wheel. 32 years ago I was stationed in Germany and engaged to a beautiful 27 year old Arab woman from Dubai. Her mom decided to not let me marry her, its a long story. We had no contact from 1992 until 2006, and I she had married a German and had two kids, the younger of which is disabled because she was 35 when he came along.
Well she came to visit me in August this year, after having been divorced for 6 years. When I picked her up in Chicago at the airport, she had nothing pleasant to say to me. The beautiful and wonderful woman I knew 32 years prior was replaced with a 60 year old that felt the need to berate and disrespect me over any small thing. Was it 24 years of being married to her ex that caused that, or was she simply hiding that from me until the week before she got on the plane to visit?
Since 06 we have been talking often, and video chatting for the last 4 or 5 years, a couple times a month to several times per week. I informed her twice while she was here, that when people disrespect me and treat me poorly, they simply never hear from me again. I was polite to her and we drove around my area to see things and do stuff. Still she wanted me to spend the night in the hotel room, but sleep in the other bed and not have any happy endings. After the 7 hour drive from Chicago and all the disrespect she threw at me on the drive and the next day, her chances of getting any intimate time from me was well below zero.
She reminded me why I have been intentionally, and permanently single since my second and final divorce in 2013. My first wife was a bipolar waking nightmare, the second wife was really great and we got along extremely well.. for 8 years. Then she tired to destroy me and my life, just 16 months after we married.
My ex's are 49 and 41 now, the latter is alone and unwanted, just lost her job with the township due to malfeasance, and ten years has not been kind. Nobody in our township has anything good to say about her, but they all seem to like me. Honor and integrity seem to matter here. She was a 21 year old virgin when I met her.
The first one is over 300lbs, married to a guy 10 years older than me who has maybe 2 to 5 years left at most. I doubt he will make it beyond 67. He is very unhealthy, but he hands over his monthly VA and SSDI checks to her and obeys her.
It seems that once they hit 30, they change into some kind of hagraven. As they get older, it gets worse. I got the best years of my wives lives. They were 20 and 21 respectively when we got together. They were 29 and 30 when they thought they could do better, and discovered the hard way they could not.
I don't think humans are supposed to live much beyond 50. I can tell ya it hurts a lot every morning just getting out of bed, but also I had a very arduous and difficult life, with two wars, two divorces, and chronic pain from the military. Women go downhill so fast after 40... but they linger until 80 or 90.
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@chuckthebull most people desperately need to be part of a team, they want to fit in so badly they will do anything to be accepted. They need the validation of others to feel good about themselves as they are incapable of self validating.
Then you have people who want to be led around, told what to do, think, say, and how to act. They want an authority looming over them because that absolves them of having to decide for themselves, because that is hard and risky.
When you're talking to gearheads and hot rodders, you are talking to people who are slightly different in how they want to fit in. Sure they might have the political leanings and religious bents that most other people have, but they are not risk averse, they don't mind leading or breaking new ground, and many of us thrive on that sort of thing.
We have an aesthetic we like, because ugly is obvious, beauty is often understated, and the garish will be dated in weeks. Some follow the trends, doing the 'hot' things because everyone else is doing them, but many others do things the way they like to do it, and improve upon what they have always done rather than change everything entirely.
Most gearheads are not political, unless the government is trying to ban our cars, guns, or other freedoms, then we will act and be quite vocal. We care about cars and other machines, not so much as a status symbol as a means todo our thing. Its partly the car, but so much more of it is WHAT we DO with the car. We put so much into them that they become an extension of ourselves, an example of our knowledge, skills, ability, and our vision of what could be.
If we care we do our own thing, if we are disinterested, we don't really get wound up about it.
I realize you're a troll, and most people don't feed the trolls... but conversations, more engagement in the manner of comments on videos helps the channel hosting the conversation. Also when I reply to trolls, I provide information for a great many other people, they are my target audience, not someone who comes on blathering about something as if they are about to die unless everyone agrees with them.
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Let me guess, Hooters is bad, but gheypride parades with guys in leather buggering each other in the street while handing out candy to kids is completely acceptable. I have two daughters, 25 and 27, they are not ugly nor plain, neither wants to work at hooters. However the younger one likes to show off her assets and look 'cute' as she puts it. She is an assistant manager at a Mexican restaurant, and she gets better tips because of those assets. Its her life man, and their mother made sure I was not allowed around them as they grew up. Still you won't see my kids on OF or anything like that, because out of respect for me they won't do pron.
That being said, hooters is mediocre food. The girls are meh and its not at all 'racy' or anything. My car club went to one on a cruise night, if my kids wanted to work there it would be no big deal, its not like they are giving old fashions in the back room for $40.
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DeleteGTA TrashGrinders you probably are completely unaware of how they show interest. Also you probably have no idea how to talk to them. I am 5'8 and I had a VERY high drive when I was younger, so I learned to read them so I could tell which ones were interested and which were not.
Then I learned to talk to them. What you don't say is more important than what you do say. How you stand, walk and present yourself matters even more than what you say or don't say.
If you look harmless, soft, unconfident, incapable, and timid, you will not have them like you no matter how tall you are. Honestly you aren't missing anything a silicone sleeve and some lube can give you.
Friend of mine is the manager at my gym, dude is a ripped 6'2 guy, and can't get any attention from them at all. Dude is a 27 year old virgin. His demeanor is soft, compliant, and he drives a light blue Honda Fit, a completely feminine car.
He has to be polite at the gym, and you don't sh** where you eat, but he can't get any play away from work.
If he or you could talk to them like I do, walk and move like I do, you would have them throwing panties at you. Nobody would ever look at me in public and assume I am harmless, and the name on here is because the USAF called me that when I had a six pack.. I am overly muscular... also I have been trying to look that way to avoid entanglements with females, and so far it has worked very well.
Two divorces is enough, and at 54 I am too old to come back from another evil Cant Understand Normal Thinker taking everything I have built and invested in because some judge gives it to her. Like I said earlier, you're not missing anything good, but you aren't being plagued by a 120lb leech camping in your wallet either.
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@Shadow66090 Its how you carry yourself and how you speak to them. Guessing by your name on here I am thinking baltics, used to be Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, with what we colloquially in the US military call "Russian women' because you all learned to speak Russian until recently.
Those chicks are difficult, they want to get the hell out of there and to move to the US. That might change here soon though. You have to be the most strong willed and confident man to get one of them. It was easy for me to hook up with them in Korea, they were there looking for a way to the US and for money they'd get from silly military members daft enough to give it to them.
You have much better women there than we do in the US, trust me on that. You have to be hard core though, stoic, competent, masculine, capable, and not willing to put up with any crap from her or anyone else.
If you develop game and confidence like I did, you will be inundated by them... overrun. Swamped. lol. Build muscle, get hardened in your mind. It will do you well in life, not just with women.
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@William Rockwell you're not paying attention.. Almost everyone who plays identity politics hate the tribe with small funny hats, even members of said tribe. The whole thing is ludicrous to me, because its based on resentment, envy, and entitlement.
The common theme among people who solely look at race is resentment, very often with a massive dose of ignorance thrown in. They resent people who look different.
I can see having an issue with ideologies, because I have serious issues with ideologies.
There are people in the funny hat group that have exceptionally bad ideas, but those bad to abhorrent ideas are found outside the curly haired people Adolf and others have tried to squish from existence. Ideas are like that, they can infect anyone like a disease, and bad ideas are just as hard to correct as good ideas are to instill.
I take people on an individual basis, not by what group they belong to. I've had some seriously fucked up experiences with pentecostals, and yet some of my good friends follow that religion.
Playin identity politics and other collectivist bullshit is too much like marxism for me to give it much credence.
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@Eneeki well with her I developed a respiratory issue from paint fumes, laid me up for about 6 months. Right as I recovered, she met a kid 20 years younger than me, 7 younger than her, who showed interest in her. She wasn't pretty, but very plain, the thing she had going for her is she is thin. Like yours, she was wonderful to be around, we never fought, and got along even when we disagreed. She is very smart, but not good at social things.
Her mother and sisters encouraged her to leave me and go with the other guy.. and then they met him. Nobody likes that guy, and he left before they were together for 4 years. Of course her mom and sisters blame me for her poor choice to leave, especially since I am doing very well financially now that I don't have to give half of everything to the first ex anymore.
She left in 2013 and in 2015 I was finally financially free of the first one. Not good timing on her part, she could have been set for life, all she had to do was be faithful.
Now she is 42, alone, and she will not find anyone else, you have to be attractive to manage that, and the years have not been kind. She is still kinda thin though, saw her in a store last summer. She left her cart full of stuff and ran out of the store. She smiled a really big smile when she saw me, and then she remembered she was supposed to not like me anymore. Her poor choices and bad actions have sentenced her to a life of loneliness and poverty once her mom passes away and can't support her anymore.
They don't realize the consequences come for them later, not immediately.
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@lizstewart1532 the 60s is when the feminine mindset started to gain traction in society, and that is when the decline began. Women are risk averse, they want to stay where they are, and divide up resources brought to them by men. They do not want to advance, and their idea of progress is to go backwards. Rome followed the same path, allowing women to wield power and control over society, and they made the males think like women. The west is doing the same thing now, and you can see the results all around you.
Thing is, you ladies think you are the pinnacle of human development, that the entire universe is here for and because of you. Its why you feel so entitled to everything, and assume if it was your way, everything would be wonderful. A society with a feminine mindset is a weak society... but yeah pretty mud huts.
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@ErikDeMann you can use the dishwasher and other appliances if you like, but I prefer to show the much larger picture of what men have accomplished since 1945.. its not landing on the moon, computers, or anything else like that, but they all stem from it. Men have kept the world from having large scale conflicts. Men of the USA to be more specific. The military might and prowess of the US has kept the world at peace, to the point conflicts are used for profit now.
The reason is to make women feel safe, and to keep them safe. The unintended consequence and downside is that there have not been millions of men culled from the population, and in places like Asia with one child policies they have hundreds of thousands of men who will never procreate. War is a population control, and its now being used to make a profit. Resource gathering and hoarding, which is the feminine mindset in action.
A man's house can be spartan, almost nothing in it and he is comfortable there. A woman's house is filled with useless junk littering the walls and shelves, throw pillows, and other nonsense. Men go over the mountain to explore and bring back food and other things, women stay home and make sure all the kids get equal amounts of food to eat. These days men are thinking far too much like women.
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When I got out of the military, I moved to Michigan. It took me four years to establish residency so I could get a drivers license, vote, etc. Every time I got what they said I needed, they came up with something else I needed to have. They said get a bill in your name, I did that and it wasn't good enough for them despite having the physical address on it, because it was mailed to a PO box. It went on and on, more things and then it wasn't good enough when I did it. Who was running the state at the time? Democrats. Maybe why I had so much bullshit is because I am a white guy. Yeah it has to be that I am a white guy, there is no other explanation for it. Its always because of that white privilege I have been having, going off to two wars, spending most of my time overseas, deployments, divorce, being indentured to the ex wife... Damn I am so filled with privilege
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Dr. Peterson, I have been involved with ethanol production in the US since 2007, not in a large industrial capacity, but a small personal produce it here - use it here operation. I use cattails (typha) to make ethanol fuel to power my vehicles. They are incredible plants. They will soak up all the nitrogen from livestock and other food production, growing far larger in doing so. They remediate water as it flows past them, and use those nitrates to produce more starch which they store in their roots (rhizomes).
This is a well known aspect of these plants, and not only do they make at least double the ethanol per acre of corn, they are also edible for humans. There are some time constraints for producing ethanol with them, as they tend to rot if left out too long, which makes corn more convenient, but they dwarf corn for output of starch per acre, particularly when employed in remediating water.
Cattails are an excruciatingly simple solution to the so called nitrogen problem. However it is not the solution desired as using cattail beds to remediate water does nothing to further the agenda of downsizing Europe's carbon that happens to be walking around and speaking. It would also put Europe on a solid footing producing transportation fuels, including methane which can be used to heat the stills. As it is all above ground renewable and not fossil fuels, this would be the go to solution to the problem rather than cutting food production and driving farmers off their land.
As you might know, every tree and plant that falls to the ground and is broken down produces/releases methane and CO2. If there is so much concern over both of those trace elements in our atmosphere, by all means we should capture and utilize them should we not?
Another area I have been working in is improving fuel mileage with ethanol fuels. Its actually quite simple to achieve greater fuel mileage on ethanol than is possible with gasoline. Its a matter of mechanical (static) compression ratio and utilization of heat to vaporize the fuel before its introduced to the intake plenum. It burns cooler, produces only CO2 and H2O rather than CO, NOx and the rest of emissions of gasoline. We could build very high compression smaller displacement engines which have a higher power output, efficiency, and require less coolant system mass and capacity. Lighter more efficient vehicles would result in NOT using gasoline at all as gasoline is severely limited by octane and its massive waste heat problem... which accounts for over 80% of its energy content.
Additionally, when you run an engine on ethanol, methanol, hydrogen, or methane, it cleans the particulate and other pollutants that create smog. The air going into the engine is dirtier than the air coming out.
Yes the 'problem' with my solutions, and other methods for things like heating my home, would make everyday common people more independent regarding energy, and thus less controllable, so it is doubtful that anyone, least of Dr Peterson will be able to read this. They really seem to enjoy hiding my comments and content about this project.
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I've had PTSD and major chronic dysthymia since I was 8 or 9 years old. I can't remember a time without all of it. Served in the Gulf War and Iraq War as well. I am nearly 53 years old now, its a long time to live with that. There is a long string of broken relationships behind me. I've given up on them entirely, I still have friends and will date a girl if one fits my criteria, but I won't get serious with her. Its not fair to her or me.
In 2009 I got an accurate diagnosis of PTSD for the first time. I spent 2010 to 2012 rewiring my mind, creating new synaptic pathways to replace the old well worn ones that lead to the anger, rage, and not so pleasant reactions to common things my mind perceived as threats. Its not an easy thing to do. I had to sift through the memories, and flood myself with them until they had no effect on me. Self talk to remind me its current year, not 1978, 1984, 1990, 2004, etc. When I would start down the path that lead to the calm rage that got people hurt, I would chide myself like a good friend saying something like "Come on, you know where that goes, lets not do it." I had to make a conscious decision of what my reaction would be.
I liken it to walking through a snow covered forest. The well packed areas between the trees are the old synapses, and making new ones takes effort, and you still have to go around trees, rocks, and other obstacles. Its not an easy thing to do, following the old paths is the easy thing.
I grew up in a world of shit, and had been running from it my entire life. I live 1000 miles from my family as a result, and have only one person I can kinda count on. I was divorced in 2001, indentured to her until 2015 and for many of those years I was homeless, even while in the military. I was with my second ex from 2003 to 2013, and only married for the last 16 months. She could not handle me dealing with all of it, she wanted it to be all about her and I was fixing myself.
I did all of that without drugs. The VA put me on celexa and that made my world a nightmare in less than a week. At that point I decided to never use drugs to fix my thinking meat. No weed, no climbing in bottles, no pills, just facing my past, dealing with it, and planning for my future. The people at my VA now are useless anyway, so I do all of the work alone.
Most people are unwilling to do all of that. They want a pill to make them feel better right now, and I see that to be like your car having an oil leak. Rather than taking the car apart to fix the leak, they just keep putting more oil in, as the leak gets progressively worse.
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@countryrockin05 when the D's put a bunch of gun control and other unconstitutional stuff in bills, then put something on top of it that would supposedly benefit those of us who are veterans, I don't want the R's to pass it. Then we get dolts such as yourself who say the D's are trying to help us and the R's are stopping them. You fell for it, because you are easily manipulated.
The reality is when the R is in office we can walk into the VA and be seen, at most we have to wait two days. When the D's are in, such as now, what I could normally get seen for same day, now is scheduled 90 days out. I waited ten months just to get a crown on a cracked tooth, because it cracked the week after the potato was installed. When the cheeto was in there, it was no problem getting in to the VA, but nearly impossible with Barry in there.
Barry's administration cut VA funding twice during his term, and we also did not get a cost of living adjustment from 2010 to 2017 despite costs going up on everything. Congress gave us the largest cost of living adjustment I have seen yet this year, because inflation from money printer go BRRRR has made our money worth a lot less... while they give themselves raises that are larger than the entire amount of compensation we get in a year.
Barry's actions cost us all dearly, we used to get quality mental health care through contractors, but then they brought it into the VA and hired a bunch of C average people who couldn't make it in the civilian world.
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I have been beaten nearly to death, I have been run over, shot at, stabbed, worked extremely dangerous jobs, been through two fucking wars, countless beatings and physical assaults in my life... I have been living with PTSD for most of my life, and yet I do not irrationally fear the world and sit at home cowering in fear. Her entitled ass says she is afraid.. fuck, if I go near most bars some drunken idiot will start shit with me almost every time. What the fuck does she have to worry about, nobody has tried to kill her. For the first 34 years of my life that was a real thing for me.
Its not who has it worse, I know all about anxiety and I bet hers is mostly due to the ideological narrative she has been fed saying she is a fucking victim. A chick making hundreds of thousands of dollars to be in front of a camera is somehow in more danger than the average man. Sure thing princess, sure thing.
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Ask a split tail what the problem is, and they will blame EVERYONE except the split tails, who are usually causing the problem. This split tail says "People are waiting until their late 20s and 30s to have kids" which is completely irrelevant to men as we do not have a biological clock. Split tails are waiting, and they are squandering their prime years. So obviously, blame men... and couch it that men are waiting too, as if most men have a choice in the matter.
The vast majority of men are rejected by the split tails based on arbitrary criteria, such as height. At least with our income we have some influence, can't change how tall you are. All you can do if you're short like me is build muscle.
Its not being too picky, but that they are completely opposed to not having a top 1% man, when they themselves are the 99%, as in the most bland, common, unremarkable, and typically mid. Squandering their fertile years, being told they can have kids when they are 40, and chasing the never ending stream of rotating Richards that they all share. Sure though, call it people and imply its men doing it.
About the economy. I have never made lots of money, but I have worked to build my life, and rebuild it when it was destroyed by an ex.
Take it from a dad, when you have kids you will find a way to support them and you will try to give them a better life than you had. We are wired that way, no matter what the split tails claim. You will do whatever it takes, work as many hours as needed, and you will sacrifice yourself for those kids. Most of us know this before we ever have kids. I was 24 when my first came along in 1993, and 27 for the second in 1996. The youngest is now older than I was, and has no kids.. time is running out for my daughter to have kids.
The problem with men not wanting to have kids is EXACTLY what happened to me. My two daughters were taken from me, hauled half way across the US, and then I was punished for being a dad and forced to pay for them, without being allowed to be included in their lives. Both of my kids are now screwed up, because of what their other parent did and exposed to them. The ex messed them up so bad that no quality man wants anything to do with my daughters.
The youngest is covered in ink, dresses like a street walker, and goes after the complete wastes of oxygen.. The ex allowed my kid to get ink at age 14 without consulting with me. When my daughter said "I don't need you or your permission." I said fine, and hung up. Did not speak to my kid for over a year. Guess who realized what dad was worth after a year of being shut out. By then the damage was done, and my kids are ruined.
So all of you young guys see what happened to me, and you see your choices are all jacked up like my kids, because they had no father allowed in their lives when it mattered most. Between age 3 and 15. I do not blame you for walking out, not playing the game.
I get your point about money and economy though Bo, I agree. The big cities have been turned into the poor and ultra rich. Its by design, and why I keep saying GET THE HELL OUT OF THE CITIES. You get to keep more of your income even if it is smaller. Don't worry about the number, focus on quality of life. You DO NOT NEED to be a millionaire to have a good life. Sure, its nice to have a ton of money, but you can live quite well on a lot less.
Still... why share what you have with someone who can take it all from you on a whim?
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Equal opportunity would be great, I would be in a completely different life if I had been offered the opportunities many others have had.
According to my ASVAB and a test I took after my first enlistment to attend a VoTech school in Nebraska where I grew up, I am supposed to have a rather high IQ. Growing up I was on a restricted diet, ostensibly for allergies, but in reality it was my dad's smoking making me sick. Meat, broccoli, and cauliflower was what I lived on from age 4 until I was 14. Its still messing with me today, hence the name I use on here. Your body will store energy, converting protein to lipids if you don't get enough carbs and simple sugars. Along with being the overweight kid, I was the short kid, and at 14 I was still 4'9" and only grew to 5'8" when I was 20. It also dampened my intellect in school, and even more so my motivation. I simply did not care to get good grades or even do the work. My life was a fog that didn't really lift until I was 18. My family life was atrocious, growing up on a farm meant I got hit often. Have had PTSD since I was 8 or so. Older brother made my life a living hell until I was 16... at which point I harmed him enough that he never came near me again. We are in our late 50s and he is still afraid of me. Wrestling in school made me into a monster, strong and very capable. I bench pressed 265lbs when I was 17 and weighed 175lbs. I can lift a lot more than that now.
Grades 1 to 6 I was sent to a parochial school that eschewed science and math for bible study, so I know the bible VERY well, but could not tell time without a digital clock until I figured it out myself when I was a senior in high school. I had no appreciable math skills, since the teachers essentially used flashcards for five minutes, and assumed that was good enough. It might be somewhat obvious, but my reading skills were post grad level when I was in 4th grade. In the 70s and 80s nobody noticed that incongruency, bad at math, exceptional at almost everything else, but unable to stay awake during class. I'd do the assignment in 5 minutes before class, and only turn enough of them in to pass.
You could say I had a rough life, if I told you more about it YT would hide this.
When I enlisted at 19, back in 1988, I learned small math skills playing spades and hearts with the Turkish national civilians who worked with us on base in Germany. I knew quite a bit of calc, trig, and other math from working as a machinist before I enlisted. As long as I had a calculator to do the small math, it was super easy for me. Sometimes I think I should learn more math, but instead I learn what I need rather than filling my synapses with things I don't need. German efficiency I suppose.
Could I have been a high paid engineer had I not been sent to some children of the corn school and not forced on the restricted diet? Probably... but to be honest, money never really excited me, its more of a tool to do what I want to do a bit faster. I like to build things. I design it in my head, then make it a reality with my hands. I prefer working with metal, but wood, ceramics, and composites are within my ability as well. Sitting in an office all day is torturous to me, every job I ever had was hands on, including the USAF where I built pallets of cargo, pushed them on planes, and was worked so long and heavily that I gained 50lbs of muscle in less than a year in 1990, and my body wore out in 2004, because of the two largest airlifts in world history. I was in the middle of them, usually doing the work of 5 to 10 people. Also I had the highest ASVAB scores of my flight in basic, our scores were on the sign in roster and back then the USAF didn't use the aggregate, you were scored on individual aspects of the test. I had one area where I wasn't the highest score, and I was only two points lower than the other guy.
In school everyone assumed I was Forest Gump, because I saw things differently, I visualized everything in my head, so I could turn it around and view it from multiple angles, then I could extrapolate possible and probable outcomes from various inputs. Apparently, that made me seem 'slower' than the other kids. Its also why flashcards hindered me greatly and I developed a mental block about math. When I was 9 I was already rebuilding small engines and driving farm equipment. By 11 I was building V8s and understood almost completely how they worked. I like building hotrods and street machines, I loathed working on minivans and boring front wheel drive econobox appliances that people use to commute.
Fact is, I like where I am today, even if it means chronic pain and a limited fixed income. I do things with vehicles and engines that engineers say will not work. I am glad I was not put in the box where I disregard anything that hasn't been accepted as functional. I make things work simply because I am not aware that it will not work. Not having to make a cost analysis to assuage the concerns of bean counters means I am unencumbered by overabundance of fluff. I built the house I live in, and the shop where I work on cars, and I don't mean hired a contractor. I rented equipment to clear trees, then used those trees in the construction, then hired to guys to help put the roof on. I did all of it, other than the roof of the shop and house.
How many engineers will tell you that an engine can achieve better mileage and power on ethanol than it can on gasoline? I've done it with several vehicles, its been my focus since 2007. Two years ago I started building a race car again, something to go have fun, mileage is not a concern with that one. I can show you how to do it, but you will not be able to run that engine on gasoline, it will rattle itself into pieces if you try.
I know this is too long for people to read, and its somewhat off topic, but my point is this: A 4 year degree from a prestigious institution is not required for most people. In many ways it could stifle the creativity of someone like me, and they'd do much better with a VoTech that doesn't have a rigid structure and a boat load of useless prerequisites. Thats what I went to, work at your own pace, and I was doing 12 credits a month in automotive, 6 in mech engineering because that was classroom based. I wanted to pick up the knowledge I could not figure out on my own, and become aware of the small things you'd otherwise miss. I was building entire cars before I ever stepped foot in school, I was there for the fine adjustments so to speak.
My sister nearly flunked out of the University of Nebraska, she went to party and had a 2.8GPA. I was taking engineering math, which wasn't my strong suit as we know from above, and had a 3.8GPA, while working a full time job as a CNC machinist/programmer.
I own my land and am debt free, I can live on zero income, surviving off my land if I need to. If society collapses, I am still good.
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@ljb9983 it depends on the situation and why someone is threatening you. Some altercations you cannot escape, they are intent on bringing it to you so the best move is to be as capable and highly trained as you can be so you have a much better chance of coming out on top or unscathed. Other situations you can simply walk away from. There is no benefit and the threat isn't as dire, like someone calling you names. No reason to get physical, just chuckle and walk away.
I have lots of training and experience, both military and civilian. Early on in my life I had to defend myself almost daily, I lost all the time until I was 16. Since then, which was 1985, I have not lost any altercation foisted upon me. A combination of wrestling and going against my older and much larger brother, along with the kids in school made me highly capable of inflicting harm. I know when someone is intent on it, and when they are just running their pie hole.
Its been a while since I had to defend myself, probably because of the muscle packed on me in my first war in 1990-91. Not many people are daft enough to mess with a man who is built like a medium sized silverback gorilla, that can obviously lift very heavy things.
The only people who have seriously challenged me since 1991 have been drunken college kids, trying to look tough for their friends, thinking the old guy with a belly is an easy target. They are easily ignored, because I am disinclined to pay their extensive medical bills that will surely be incurred if they decide to pursue physical means when talking doesn't suffice to salve their fragile egos. Its rare I hit anyone, usually I put them at a disadvantage, and if they continue they get a dislocated shoulder or hyper extended elbow, something to remember me by for years to come as they get older and it aches.
I am not the toughest nor baddest, but training puts you in a different league than normal people. They have no idea what to expect and are much easier to defeat... and it can be over in seconds, with them learning a tidy little lesson. Most of the time, I avoid places where people will force me to act, I like life without that stuff, preferring to race my old cars and have fun.
Training and experience teaches you not to start things, avoid most things others try to start, and how to handle the things you cannot avoid. Every man should get that kind of training, especially the weak and timid ones.
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Application is very important, what engine its on, how many cubes, cam specs, gear ratio, stall, weight of the vehicle, and intended use all matter a lot. The Edelbrock carbs make all my Pontiacs slower and use lots more fuel, the engines are too large for the carbs, and a 455 can handle a really fast secondary opening rate because they have high vacuum, and an 850 is usually on the small side for CFM. My 340 likes a small carb, and I have one of those cheap AFB like Demon carbs on it, uses more gas than the Qjet I had on there, but it doesn't drown that poor little engine at WOT. The Cuda is a rough application for a carb, small 340, 3.23 gear, stock stall, in a relatively heavy car with factory exhaust manifolds on it.
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@apebass2215 I was working more than that trying to keep up with her spending habits, then when I cut her off from the bank, she freaked out because she could no longer have me overdrawn $400 by Tuesday when I got paid $750 - $1000 every Friday.
She left because she could not control me, and because I did not hand over my paycheck to her so she could waste it on useless crap. She whined and started fights with me until I let her 'take care of the bills' then one day two months later I come home to a dark house with the power out, the water is off, and we are $500 overdrawn.
This is how bipolar females are. You cannot trust them, you cannot depend on them, and they will waste every bit of money they can get their hands on, all while screwing anyone willing to put it in them.
When I was 24 I had no idea about all of that, it wasn't until after the divorce and I was talking to some females in the psyche ward that I found out what was going on for the last 8 years.
Every time I spent time with her, did something nice for her, bought her the thing she so desperately wanted, it would be the cause of a fight later that day or the next day. She would feel guilty about what I did for her, then she would start a fight, escalate it to violence, throwing things at me, cutting me, ripping my clothes to shreds, trying to pull my hair and scratching the hell out of me, whatever she could do to get me to engage with her. She needed to lose the fight she started, because then she could feel like a victim rather than feeling guilty.
She would do the same thing to our 3 and 5 year old daughters, throwing them into walls, calling them names, and other things I cannot write on YT. I stayed to protect those two innocent little girls, because in my state the father only gets custody if the mother relinquishes it. No way in hell was she going to do that, she wanted the money, all the money.
She trapped me with the first kid, I was breaking it off when she said she was preggo. I did not want to just abandon a kid of mine, if I was going to be a dad, I was going to do it right and a better job than my dad had done. She made damn sure I was not allowed to do that after our oldest turned 7.
Before she left with my kids in 2001, she had been sleeping with another couple on base, I had to go back to the military to keep up with the debt she caused between 1994 and 2000. That guy was getting kicked out for looking at kid pron on government computers, and his wife was a raging effinist who seemed to think it was mistreatment if I did not just hand over my entire paycheck to the wife. They made pron videos that went all over the base, and friends in other units were telling me about them. That crazy chick was putting BS in her head and the ex left with them when he finally got kicked out.
In the US military, if you spouse is writing bad checks, on base or off base, you the member gets in trouble for it. You lose stripes which means less money and can get kicked out. I needed to stay in and keep my stripes because all my machinist jobs went to Mexico after NAFTA. There was no way in hell I was allowing her to have any access to my bank.
My only fault in all of that was continuing to bang her after the drunken encounter after I went to all the local bars for my free birthday drink. I met her the night I turned 24. She hid most of the crazy from me for three months, then came up pregnant. She was never faithful to me or anyone else in her entire life so I am very doubtful that the kid is even mine. I know the second one is, we did a DNA test because the two cannot be any more dissimilar unless one was a different race. I was working a full time job so she had 8 to 10 hours to do whatever she wanted.
I trusted her, and I trusted the second ex, but at least the second one gave me 8 years of wonderful time with her before she did the same stupid crap the first one did.
I have dated really wonderful girls over the years, but in the end they all do the same stupid stuff. The Arab girl is still friends with me, we were engaged 90-93. Long story there, other people's racist BS is why we were not together. We would still be together if not for those people. She turns 60 next year. Her story is a very sad one, especially after not being allowed to marry me.
The Mexican Apache chick who lives in Chicago and grew up in New Mexico was awesome, but she wanted to try out a firefighter after being with me for 4 years.. then he dumped her two weeks later. She has been getting P&D ever since. Nobody wants to keep a 50 year old single mom around.
At least with the Russian girls I knew where I stood, and I knew I could be, well had to be the real me to keep them around. No soft weak males can be with them, those insanely hot chicks are ruthless and demand a dominant male who enforces boundaries with them. They like to use weak males to get a green card in the US. They just wanted to bang me, since it was obvious to them I am not long term material. Not because I cheat or mistreat them, but because there really isn't any softness to me.... unless I want the chick gone.
I get rid of them by being soft, probably how you are, and they lose interest immediately, and are gone without drama within a week or two at most.
Most American girls are just not worth the effort. They are a fun warm moist place to bust a nut though.
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I had issues with my 340 in the Cuda vapor locking, which I solved with 3/8" feed line and an electric pump, which the alternator is not fond of, seems Mopar likes to go barely adequate like chevy tends to do. That makes me rather reticent to upgrade the alternator, because it might fry something else in the barely adequate electrical system. In all my years of running Pontiacs with Qjets, starting back in 1985 when I bought my 72 GTO, I never had a problem with vapor lock. Living in Nebraska it gets rather warm in summer and quite chilly in winter, roughly 110F to -15F with a serious wind chill, so its not like the weather was always pleasant. The heat under the intake actually helps my E85 Qjets pick up even more MPG over Holley carbs.
The float bowl being tiny is a problem with my E85 Qjets, it drains fast when the secondary opens. The solution is enlarging the fuel inlet, running the seats with the windows, and electric pumps regulated down to where the pump can keep up without blowing past the needle seat. Needing a higher float level means I can run a smaller float found in other models. 5/16" is too small for any engine to make decent power, the minimum I use is 3/8" and all my big power engines are fed by half inch or -10.
One of the most annoying things about the Qjet is how the needle seat sticks almost every freakin winter when I park it. They do that on gas or E85, doesn't matter which fuel I use. One thing I absolutely adore about the Qjet is the ability to tune the secondary opening rate easily and very quickly. An allen wrench and a small flat screwdriver are all that is needed to make the bog go away forever.
That is my biggest gripe about the Edelbrock/Carter, no simple and easy means of changing the air valve opening rate, you get what you get, and that is why they always leave power untapped. ALWAYS. Holley made it simple with quick change spring kits, but you have to tear the E carb apart almost completely, and then have a selection of air valves to try out. There is minimal tuning available with the E carb, which is wonderful for people who have no idea what they are doing, they can't screw it up badly enough that it wont run.
I too have a fondness for the 4100 Autolite, had them on my 4V Clevelands in the 80s, despite being a bit small on CFM they worked great on my Fords. I think i have three or four of them still laying around at the family farm.
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So not using my real name, not putting my phone number in, using a unique password for social media that is completely different from all my others, and not using my phone for facebook and whatnot, is why I get ads that appear like they are throwing things at the wall to see what sticks. When I order car parts online, I get ads from those companies for a little while, then its crazy shit from there. They must think I have some kind of cross dressing fetish, because of the stuff for female clothing. Hell I don't even have my real name on my email accounts.
So is it me or is it the other guy with my name. There are only two of us in the entire world with that name... Google me and he shows up and all of my cars, you can't even find out what the hell I look like unless I send you a picture or you know me IRL. If I want to go off grid, trust me I can make it happen easily. You might get a glimpse of my plates at gas stations, you might not. Facial recognition might get you somewhere, if I don't change my beard very often.. and its always changing.
I am not paranoid, but I am kinda private. Thats why I don't have all my info out there. I like being a hermit. They can have the dark profile on me, its not doing them much good. Now getting better pron links would be nice, you know the free amateur stuff with cute girls, I can dig that. Send it my way oligargooglebook. Give me the pron man!
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There is a plan to sell you a product, part of that plan is to limit your choices so you have no other choice but to accept the product they sell you. It is much easier to sell you an idea if you are ignorant of everything that stands in opposition to that idea.
Do you know how your car works? How about your cellphone? How about something simple like where the electricity or food comes from? You can be told whatever someone wants to tell you that explains how it works, and the veracity of that information is for you to decide. I could tell you its garage gnomes that make your car work. Or coffee ground pixies that make your cellphone function. If you are amenable to the idea of small or invisible critters running around, you just might believe it.
If you are ignorant in an area, and we are ALL ignorant of something somewhere, that is an opportunity for someone to misinform you and get you to believe their idea, which is buying their product. Censorship is a means of limiting your information, keeping you ignorant, preventing you from learning about something they do not want you to know.
Who's plan is it? What nefariously nebulous entity is working feverishly to keep you ignorant? To answer that, look to who is trying to sell you something, and who you are not allowed to criticize.
If they are trying to sell you something, they want to keep you interested in their product, limiting your choices so they are the only place to get it keeps you from straying away.
If you are not allowed to criticize them, they are trying to assert dominance and control over you. Keeping you ignorant is how they retain that control. History is rife with examples of this, from the bible only being written in Latin, keeping people illiterate, all the way to the silencing of dissenting voices on social media that are pointing out how you are being manipulated... to protect those who want to control you, and keep you buying their product.
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@thosewhobelieve122 well hell yeah, good to know you got out of the city and are learning things. Don't sell yourself short, and think big. Yes its a lot of work, but it can be done, and once you're used to the work, you'll find you enjoy it. Think bigger and don't be intimidated by how big the project is.
Break things up into smaller bits rather than looking at the whole. I learned that on the farm, because you get up, work all day, go to sleep, and do it again the next day. Not many days off, and plenty of 24 hour days when I was farming. That prepared me for the military rather well.
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Bjorn, what you can do with the coffee grounds is collect them, dry them out so they don't mold. Then you can use them as fertilizer in a garden, or you can convert the starch to sugar with enzymes called alpha and beta amylase, then add yeast in an anaerobic environment (a fermentation lock is required easy to make it) with water, and make vodka. The ethanol that makes is useful as an antiseptic, fuel for any internal combustion engine, it can provide light, and you can drink it too. Building a small still is very easy, and can be cheap depending on how much copper costs. The reason you use copper is simple, its easy to work with, shaping and soldering it is very simple and easy, and it doesn't rust. Yeast are incompatible with rust as it kills them. A packed column will up the proof, but you can build a simple pot still and make 50-100 proof easily, 100 proof is 50% alcohol 50% water. 200 proof is 100% ethanol 0% water.
If Norway will let you make your own antiseptic, that is one thing you can use. Otherwise, composting it for the garden works great. I drink lots of coffee, so I have lots of grounds to deal with. the left overs from the still are good for animal feed, like chickens, hogs, etc, or fertilizer. You can farm earthworms too, the castings they make is wonderful fertilizer, and you can go fishing lol.
Coffee is beans, you get the Ph right and you can do anything with it you can do with other beans.
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Finally someone else realized that HP is TQ over time. RPM is revolutions per minute, that is a measurement in time.
This video is very simplistic and blunt, which is ok for a YT video as its real easy to get off in the weeds with this sort of subject. Make traction a non issue and TQ wins. I have to admit getting my engines to hook is the challenge, and then getting them to not lift the nose off the ground is the next challenge once the tires hook.
Gear ratio is VERY important as is the torque curve of an engine when it comes to acceleration. Other large factors include mass, drag, etc. The engine design matters a great deal as well, because good luck getting a Honda 4 to make 1000ftlbs at 2000rpm. Can they handle over 70psi?
Lets make it easier to understand and make them both 500hp engines, but one makes that power at 5252 and the other at 10,000rpm. The 5252rpm engine is making 500ftlbs, and its going to be making 500ftlbs below that point as well due tot he nature of how torque is produced. The 10,000rpm engine is only making 265ftlbs, so it will need lots of gear to get anywhere.
I tend to build large engines, 455+ cube Pontiacs, which due to their long runner high velocity port design create copious torque between idle and 6000rpm. 500ftlbs is about where they start out with iron heads, and that is 500ftlbs from 2000 to 4000rpm. Some heads carry it a bit farther, enlarging the ports on a Pontiac simply nets you more torque everywhere, there is no hole in power created by the port being too big. The velocity of the port from venturi to the piston at BDC is high because of the length, shape, and size, so these engines fill the cylinders VERY well under 6500rpm. Yes, its apples to walnuts to compare it to a smaller engine, but bear with me.
A smaller engine, like a short runner length 1.8L Honda, making 500hp at 10krpm is going to have very meager torque through its entire RPM range and never come close to the torque produced by the Pontiac, even with the V8 at idle its making more torque than the Honda ever does. However, using gear ratios, and we are talking DEEP gears in the 5:1 range, can get the tiny engine through the RPM range much quicker thus mostly ignoring the lackluster torque production under 7500rpm. It lives at high RPM, and waddles around down low like a drunken water buffalo.
If the vehicles weigh the same, the torque engine is going to stomp the RPM engine because it doesn't need as much gear ratio, and the longer it stays in each gear the more time the engine has to accelerate the mass in that gear. After 60 feet or so, the deep gear isn't helping you much. If you ride in one of my 3.08 geared vehicles you will see the difference in acceleration with something that has 4.10. Its a big difference. The 3.08 with 500ftlbs pushing it for longer will put bus lengths on the 4.10 geared engine, not because it doesn't shift, but because the longer lever (after the fulcrum) lets you do more work and move it farther when you have the power to lift it. A 3:1 ratio requires more force to move the same mass than a 4:1 ratio does, as the shorter lever allows less force to move the same mass, but not as far.
Tiny high RPM engines require very light vehicles, but if you match the weights and maximize the gear ratios for the torque curve, the engine with more torque is going to accelerate faster.
My Pontiacs with iron heads are RPM limited, they simply do not want to pull after 6000rpm. I shift them at 5800 so the transmission makes the gear change right at 6000. Thats the trade off with long high velocity runners, you limit RPM, but maximize torque. If I run a 4.10 behind my 455 it slows down and is no longer accelerating past 800ft or so. The 1/8, 330, and even the 60ft will be slower with a 4.10 gear than a 2.73 to 3.55 gear behind my engines. More gear is not better in this instance, and a 4.88 will make it even slower, its moving the engine through the RPM range too fast and isn't using the force available for as long as it could be.
Its similar to supercharging a smaller engine, you don't need much gear with a roots blower, because it will be making high torque right off idle. Thats why TF dragsters and Funny cars are limited to a 3.2 gear, its an attempt to limit the top speed so its survivable in a wreck. Those engines are a wonderful example of how both torque and horsepower interact, but are far removed from normal vehicles because of the immense power they crate on nitromethane. Spooling a turbo at the line does the same thing, it increases torque at the launch RPM and all through the run, so they need less gear.
If you are trying to move a heavy vehicle, like a 4000lb muscle car, you want thick torque everywhere in the RPM range of the engine. If you have a 1500lb car you can match the performance of that 4k vehicle with a fraction of the power. Thats like freakin duh, right? Thats why the tiny engine cars can weigh a lot less than large cube vehicles in events like domestic vs import. you have to handicap the bigger engines because they have so much more potential and can make vastly more torque.
What are the drawbacks to high RPM? Wear on the engine, dropped valves, broken valve springs, rods deciding they want to be lawn ornaments freed from the confines of the block and their connection to crankshafts and pistons... things go boom with more RPM because of the forces involved. Piston speed, centrifugal force, the pistons changing directions at TDC and BDC, all are trying to rip the engine apart. Thats why I kinda like the big engine that makes tons of power under 6000rpm, because it will last longer since its not flinging pistons and rods around at astronomical speeds. My engines last decades of racing with minimal maintenance, how often does a 1.8L Honda need rebuilt if its making 700hp at the crank?
Racing is racing, going fast is cool no matter how you do it. I have my preference, you have yours. Who is faster depends on lots of variables, same as who spends more to go that fast. We put limits on vehicles so your 13 second Civic doesn't have to go heads up against my 11 second GTO (or the 8 second LeMans), except in brackets where you get a head start. Who can make more power and get it to the ground within a certain displacement range is the question they use in land speed racing. Its super easy to go fast with big cubes, its more difficult and thus more expensive to do it with fewer cubes, and you need a lot more RPM to do it.
Its fun to think about the 500 or 1000hp low vs high rpm engine, but in drag racing more torque is going to make you faster, because you are accelerating a mass from a dead stop. So I would advise you to build as much torque as you possibly can at the RPM your engine is capable of producing it, and let HP do its own thing.
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@robertsmith4681 that one and its close relative represented by a hammer and a hooked piece of steel that cuts wheat. To me, they are the same turd with different sprinkles. Sorta like lutherans, pentecostals, baptists, methodists, etc are all christians along with catholics. Sure they vary somewhat, but its the same basic religion.
As for the irony, look at how that country formed in 1948 has treated the people who were living there when Britain gave them that land. Its very reminiscent of how those particular people were treated in central Europe in the 30s and 40s.
After all, they are the demographic that gave us Karl and many of the rest of them. I think Plato wasn't one of the tiny noggin cover people, but man do they ever think alike. Funny how its not all of them, but so many of them are involved with this sort of thing.
Who would think that people who always play the victim and revel in it, would ever victimize others and justify it with their own victim status...
I'm glad my friend Zigglebauer wasn't like that, we got on great and he was unfond of that sort of thinking as well.
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Young men don't have mentors, every time one of us 'old guys' tries to connect with them, provide guidance and advice about what to avoid, and what to look for, we are called bad names and silenced. Thus, young men have no rudder, no compass, and no direction. They have been trained to think of what they can buy rather than what they can build, and every time they consider building something, its ripped away from them and they are punished for it. If they don't conform and enter the rate race and cubicle farms, they are ostracized. That is all after they have been treated like defective (not men, I am not allowed to use the other words for those who aren't male).. gee I wonder why that is.
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Brandon... I am hurt. Personally hurt to my very core. Why do I feel so slighted and disquieted? Because you skipped right over my precious, my baby, my Italian sweetheart that is in so many movies and only one has it being fired in semiauto rather than pump. Yes, you ignored, unheeded, dare I say neglected as it simply cannot go unnoticed by those who have found one and had it since before the infamous Bill the Cigar wielder's ban of it.
The glorious, amazing, so sexy, far better than a street sweeper, only surpassed by the AA12 with much larger mags, terminator of dinosaurs, 'antiaircraft gun' in a robbery of a bookie whilst looking for a man missing a finger, carried 3000 miles to Nashville, the ubiquitous, big black buy a shotgun SPAS 12.
If you do not have one, or have never seen one, come by and bring a few cases of shells, and you can fire mine.... once I retrieve it from the bottom of Lake Superior where it was lost in a tragic ice fishing fire last July.
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I am VERY aware of inflation and stupidity that raises prices of things. I am on a fixed income, Congress decides what I am worth. They don't want to pay me more, so they hide inflation and just let the money they 'allow' me (for getting fucked up in their war) to buy less stuff. Its the reason I live alone in the woods, produce my own energy in the form of food and fuel, working on electricity production on a larger scale.
I knew I was fucked if Hillary was elected, so when Trump won I used those 4 years to improve my situation. Now I know I am fucked again, and its good I continued with my green energy projects. I am not a prepper, but I do things like preppers, because it costs me less cash to make energy than it does to buy it. In 2007 we had $5 gasoline, no way in hell I could drive an old GTO that got 15mpg mixed driving on pump gas. So I got into making ethanol. Using tree sap costs me about ten cents a gallon to make fuel, cattails is about 40 cents a gallon because of the enzymes needed to convert starch to sugar and a bit more energy needed. I built engines with very high compression to take advantage of ethanol, and that increased mileage. That same GTO that got 15mpg on pump gas got 150hp more, 200ftlbs more torque, and improved mileage to 17 mixed and 20 highway with an old carb. I run my newer vehicles on it too, its really easy. I'm working on videos showing how to do all of this and why.
I can feed me, maybe one or both of my kids, so why the hell would I want some chick to leech off me? Its not like she is going to put in work with me to make energy. They will be walking and starving, I will be driving over powered muscle cars and have plenty to eat.
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@MasakanSolaris I am not a republican, not a conservative, not religious whatsoever though I learned more than most about christianity and islam, and I am old enough to remember the Soviet Union, I traveled to soviet bloc countries, that means I know what the fuck was going on there. I have a chunk of the Berlin Wall I knocked off in 1989 sitting on my shelf next to me to remind me of why socialism/marxism is an abhorrent ideology.
I know how humans behave, what motivates various people, its a leadership skill/quality that most do not have. That means I know what happens when you give people things rather than having them earn it. They get lazy and dependent when you give them free shit for simply existing, and they do not value what they have.
I am old enough to remember when democrats were the ones calling for segregation and opposing the civil rights act, and watching the south go from democrat run states to republican run states, and to watch California go from a vibrant place anyone wanted to live, to a shit hole people are fleeing in droves. In my lifetime Detroit went from a burgeoning powerhouse of manufacturing, to a shit hole that makes California with shit on the streets and homeless people everywhere look pleasant.
Chicago has been corrupt for a very long time, people there seem to relish the idea of electing felons and crooks. How many mayors are doing time now?
Nobody is equal, fucking nobody. Someone is always stronger, faster, smarter, taller, shorter, better looking, more capable, more adaptable, more competent, and more adept at abstract thought. You are a perfect example of median IQ, as are most people who are leftists.
Most leftists are so resentful that they are not only weak physically, but also as mediocre and average in intellect as can be, the thick part of the bell curve at best, and they envy those who are not as pathetic. Yet they feel entitled to what others have worked for and earned, and want it taken from them and give to the useless lazy fucks who resent not being given everything just because they exist.
I abhor every authoritarian ideology, no matter what language it is written in, what god it wants me to follow be it an invisible sky daddy or an all powerful state. I can decide for myself what to think, believe and do, I need no 'higher power' to do it for me.
You see, to me marxism and all its fucked up offspring like feminism, socialism, communism, etc is nothing more than another religion not based in reality. Wishful thinking abounds, logical fallacies are the go to defense of all of those ideologies, be it the abrahamics or the clueless socialists. Sure they might point out some problems, but the solutions they offer are crap.
The little bits of useful knowledge in all of these ideologies are like pearls buried in a pile of shit. Its hard or impossible to tell the difference between the shit and the pearl until you wash away all the shit. Leftists and god nutters love the shit, and focus on that instead of reality, because their reality is shit and they want something better they have not earned.
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Kyle X I live in the UP, been here for 15 years and I am sick of having twats like her in Lansing dictate what I can and can't do out in the woods, because they have 'democrat run city crime problems' down there. Its like California telling me what I can and can't do because they have shit on the streets in SF and gangs in LA.
When I was a kid in the 70s and 80s growing up in Nebraska, Detroit wasn't a shit hole wasteland, by the time I drove through there in 2003, the democrats had done the damage, and blamed everyone else for the problems.
I was hoping to sell my land when its paid of in about 18 months and move somewhere that doesn't snow in May, with a dragstrip nearby, and doesn't have gas prices higher than the rest of the country outside certain places in California. But this place is going to be a wasteland after everything dries up around here from this lockdown.
The economy here is based on tourism, and most of the jobs that were here are going away, my land isn't going to be worth a damn for the next ten fucking years. She found a way to fuck the entire state so it looks like Detroit.
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Contingency IBCT thats giving them an inordinate amount of leeway, sure they are citizens, but look at them. They are exactly the people who can be utilized as justification for draconian edicts. They're soft, never had any power nor authority in their entire lives, they have achieved nothing more than existing and eating. They are the resentful losers that were employed in decades past as useful i d i o t s.
What happens when you take useless, soft, resentful people and give them some authority? They become tyrants, tin pot generals who will ignore rules, regulations, and law. I saw it in the US military when we had reservists with higher rank (E7) put 'in charge' of things normally handled by active duty E5s who know the job inside and out. The reserves had no idea what they were doing, how to do it effectively, safely, and efficiently, they made up what and how to do the job out of ignorance then demanded it be done their way.
These people were recruited for a reason. They are fodder, and when they get whacked doing something as harebrained as shown in this video, it will be used as justification for crackdowns and tossing things like the bill of rights.
Its not like this is new, it has happened before, a script is being followed that was employed many times in the past. Ignorance and resentment are the only things it needs to work.
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I absolutely loathe the media, they lied about me, my unit and all of us in the military multiple times. I enlisted in 1988, medical discharge in 2005, served in Desert Shield/Storm and OIF/OEF, five trips to the desert, a year in Korea, 2.5 years in Germany. I have been stuck with the VA since 2005 for medical and for an income. I can tell you how it goes depending on if its red or blue in the oval office. In my experience over the last 20 years with the VA, red is vastly better than blue. When the cheeto was in, the VA worked a lot better for us. When Barry and the Potato were in, it was a lot worse. Walk in or next day appointments with the cheeto, ten month wait with Barry and the Potato.
I had my appendix removed a month ago, had to go to the local ER and hospital for the surgery. Its a two hour drive to the nearest VA that can do it, but much like Canada the wait to get in to have surgery was weeks. If I waited for a blue staffed VA to handle my surgery, I'd probably be unalive right now. The Docs, nurses, and my dental people are wonderful.. its NOT them that are the problem. Its the bureaucrats, the office weenies put in place to slow things down and soak up taxpayer money.
Sure, the cheeto is in office right now, but hasn't had time to change all the jacked up stuff the potato admin did. I understand he is busy with lots of things, and I know the VA will improve, especially if they get rid of the slackers who only get a paycheck and do no actual work. It took a few months back in '17 to straighten out, and was seemingly the next day in '21 that it all went to hell.
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@JasonDeville-fi4dh my ex and her boyfriend claimed I carved up his truck, there was zero evidence that I was anywhere near where they were. They claimed I ran nearly 300 yards, cut up his truck with a dozen people working in the area, and ran 300 yards back. I haven't been able to run since my 2004 deployment, in 2012 I was dealing with a respiratory issue that left me unable to breathe so walking ten feet was nearly impossible. All this happened in May 2013.
Yet somehow they claim I managed to do it, when the more plausible thing is they cut it up themselves because they knew I was bringing her dog to her. Had to pay him $3000 and sat in jail for two weeks.
The hilarious part is he used to work for the sheriff as an EMT, he was soundly disliked and chased the non males around trying to get some, which they rejected. One had to have her brother and father tell him to leave a wedding reception or end up in an ICU before he left it alone. That one was 5'3" and roughly 260lbs, mid 30s with two kids.
They treated me like a celebrity in jail, they knew it was a fabrication, they knew him and my ex. So I was allowed to do almost whatever I wanted, and just had to sleep there. He was fired, and fired from every other job, so her dad supported both of them until he ran off before they had been together 4 years. Now the ex is 42 and has been alone for 7 years, almost as long as we were together (9 years)... and I am still blamed for the poor choices and bad actions of others.
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They wonder why we are avoiding them, not interacting, and they all end up getting P&D'd by the same handful of tall guys in their area. I was married twice, had kids with the first, there was zero satisfaction had with either of them. Stress, drama, irrational arguments, massive expense, entitlement, yeah that was bountiful. All my satisfaction in life came from what I did, my effort, achieving my goals, overcoming hardships and obstacles, doing things very few others ever could.
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I bought my first house, which I lost to her in the first divorce, when I was making $11 an hour, working 50-70 hours a week. Also I was working on cars out of my one car garage to make extra cash. I tried to live within my means, but the ex wife had no concept of it.
I grew up on a farm, in the 70s and 80s. No AC and at 13 I planted 2 acres of sweet corn and tended to it until it was ready to pick. Then I got up at 0400 to pick a load it so my dad could drive me into town where I sat on a corner and sold it. I made $1500 and dad took $1100 of it. I used my $400 to buy my first car, which I still have 38 years later.
If you look at the videos on my channel you will see the results of my work. I didn't go to school to learn all of that, I learned by doing it and I started out with no tools at all. If you want something you gotta work for it, and the color of your skin doesn't fucking matter in how much work you have to do.
I still don't make $45k a year.. and I own 13 acres of woods, built a container house, and a shop so I can do my car thing. I put in stupid amounts of work to get where I am now.. so if you want shit given to you, well I don't fucking care. I had to put in the work, you can too.
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@Krelian4400 I had no problem getting lucky, somewhere between 150 and 200 of them said yes. Both in cities and in rural areas, all over the northern hemisphere. As for entertainment, I've never been someone who likes bars or clubs, drinking alcohol is a waste of money, running it in your car is lots of fun.
I build and race muscle cars from the 60s and 70s, they are popular with females too, my rattiest, loudest, least shiny, and fastest vehicles are panty bait. Movies, internet, sports, travel, and quality time with friends is available out in the sticks, its not like it was in the 1980s. I figure you don't remember the 80s anyway.
Never really had a problem with medical, even overseas. I have more issues with the VA than anything, but that depends on who is running that particular hospital/clinic, and who is in office more than its the VA.
London and other cities are getting culturally enriched whether they want to or not, I guess if you like getting mugged and your vehicle broken into, maybe unalived for your shoes or something, then the cultural enrichment is just right. I lived in cities, and the reason I was never mugged is because I do not look like an easy target, I look like the kind of man who will crush a skull out of boredom.
Food, you think nobody has food in the rest of the world? You need to get out more, like out of the city and see the rest of the world.
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I am 51, have respiratory issues stemming from my military career and my hobby. I have been vaccinated for all kinds of shit, including anthrax and small pox twice. I get a flu shot from the VA every year, along with tetanus and other shit when I need it. I am not opposed to vaccines, I understand how they work, and I will get them when I need them. This one has me concerned, because I have seen this sort of rush and push to do this one thing before...
Back in the late 80s while stationed in Frankfurt Germany, another unit at Ramstein AB with a bunch of my friends and people I knew in said unit, got a flu shot. Every one of them got sick, some were even hospitalized, and the flu shot on their shot records was nothing more than an x and a line, usually its exactly what the vaccination was. I saw their shot records, we kept them with us when we deployed and changed bases. They were still testing on us under Reagan. Now they want us to just accept this one and assholes like Gates are pushing it? Sorry, I am going to have some qualms and concerns about it.
I do not trust the government because I worked for them for most of my adult life, and have been forced to deal with the VA for the last 15 years.. the word that best describes the government is inept. I say that and I have a pretty decent local VA clinic with quality workers. I have been to others, like Lincoln Nebraska, where they are not quality workers and its a nightmare to go there for anything.
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The reason for all the vitriol spewing from this one, is that ALL of them, every single one of them, cannot handle rejection. Stop saying the ones like this are masculine, they are NOT. They are insecure and have no strength of mind nor body. They know their clock is ticking and after 30 they discover what being invisible is like. They tell themselves they are different, they aren't like that, and it won't happen to them, they will always be beautiful and wanted. The quality of man that wants them declines rapidly after 30. By the time they are 50, only the 70 yr old men will consider them.
This one would be incredibly lucky to have a man like me, but men like me don't want her. I was staying heavy enough to cover my muscle, because its very effective at keeping them away. health problems are making me lose the padding now, that and its much easier to get into the roll cage of my race cars. While I wasn't ever top 10%, apparently I was in the top 20% from 17 on. I got lots of them. When they act like this one, they have been rejected, turned away, told they aren't good enough, and that creates a seething hatred in them that permeates their very being.
I've been overseas, in the USAF and I traveled while on leave. I got off the base and explored the local populations and cultures, learned as much about them as I could, and usually tried to blend in as much as a blond haired blue eyed guy with 21" arms can. I fit very well in Germany, because that is my ancestry, but I stood out in Korea, and had them coming to take pictures with me in Seoul. That was a trip.. feeling like a celebrity just because of my blue eyes and light hair. Asians seem to really like me, from anywhere in Asia, not just the eastern part. The quality you find in other countries far surpasses what we have here in the US, and it appears that their quality in Europe has declined to that of the US. Africa was amazing, but I never made it to South America, maybe someday.
I can find any size, shape, and skin tone right here in the US, but they are all broken here. They've been fed so much bee ess they could be mushrooms. They are far too much like this one, thinking they own us, that they are entitled to what we produce, and thus are completely irrational and spiteful when rejected. The guys getting the passports are rejecting them en masse, out of hand, completely even without seeing or speaking to them. It doesn't take much experience with them here to realize they're all broken. Why else would I want to keep them away?
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I live in the northern reaches of the lower 48, the power goes out here often. We get an average of 210 inches of snow every winter. Not a typo, 210 inches. The longest I have gone without a power outage in the 15 years I have lived here was 5 weeks. The power can be out for days in the winter, and it goes out even in summer when there is no bad weather. So I have a generator I can use to run my entire house and 110v mig welder, in the event I need to fix a vehicle and to keep my fridge working. I have a month's worth of canned food and frozen food at all times. I have two months of drinking water on hand, and can make more easily with my firepit and one of the small copper boilers. I have stills that I can use to distill water and also produce fuel grade ethanol for vehicles and the generators, antiseptic, and maybe in a pinch some party time, but its really not for party time. Wood heat is how I heat my home. My house and shop are inadvertently Faraday cages, due to the steel roofing and wire mesh in the concrete of the shop, and my house is made from shipping containers.
Sounds like a prepper waiting for the zombies/commies, don't it? Nope, its just what I have to do to live here on a small fixed income. Its inexpensive to live like this, doing the work I need to survive rather than paying others to do it for me. Consequently there are few things I cannot make, repair, or do. I am heavily armed, military trained with those weapons, and I can grow food as well as hunt/trap/fish, but I let the wildlife be so its there when I need to eat it. I am set for most problems we will encounter here. Its hard to even find this place, even more difficult to get in without being noticed. I like my privacy.
A forest fire would ruin most of what I have, one in winter would be the worst possible catastrophe for me. Not much you can do about that, fire does what it wants a gives no fucks about you. Blizzards are a weekly thing, high winds every few days coming of the lake, and its already cold enough I need a fire at night to stay warm.
Its just how things are when you can be snowed in without power for a month as late as May. You have no choice but to plan ahead when nature tires to kill you every year between November and May.
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@highlighted I have seen it with the religious nutters, spouting bible verses as if that would convince anyone who isn't sharing the delusion. The point of the NPC is these people are lacking intellectually, they follow along blindly without their own thoughts, they listen to others and believe them without any evidence, or rational thought taking place. This happens with the thick part of the bell curve all the way down to the people who make Forest Gump look like Socrates.
Its not so much about the lefties, but they seem to be lacking some smarts lately with obvious examples of socialism going to shit in a bucket in real time, its about stupid people who follow along without thinking. I am neither left nor right. An atheist gun nut with a drag car that runs on home made renewable ethanol. I call it like I see it and its easy to piss off all the people who suck the party dick, doesn't matter from which party they are swallowing. Lately its the idiots on the left who are in the news, not the you're going to hell sign carrying idiots.
So suck it up buttercup, you're surrounded by idiots on the left. Enjoy and welcome to where I have been my entire life, surrounded by idiots.
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@buckeyejim2989 ethanol is one of the things that I am really big into. Not to save the planet or anything, but because it makes lots of power, drives great, and all of us can make it ourselves dirt cheap if we have the space to do so.
The whole reason I got into making it, and running my cars on it, was because in 2007 when gasoline was $5 a gallon for 87 octane, I was living on $1500 a month because the ex wife was getting everything else I earned, and I was not allowed to get a job. The VA said I can't earn money anymore, so I was on a fixed income.
I wanted to drive my 70 GTO, 79 Formula, and the other old cars I own, and $100 a tank was no bueno. I looked into all the other fuels, methanol, isobutane, EVs, hydrogen, methane, and settled on ethanol because its cheap, easy, and makes great power while allowing me to run all the cylinder heads from the 1960s that make 11:1 and higher compression on my Pontiac engines.
I type fast, so its no big thing for me to write out a long winded comment like that. Read this one out loud and that is about how long it takes me to type it. I can't draw anymore, can't write with a pen and paper because my hands don't work so well, but I can still type. Carpal tunnel and old age have messed up my hands.
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Waves, imperfections, caveman paint job.. ITS A DAILY DRIVER! Its NOT a show car. While we need to have the engines as close to perfect as we can get them, paint and body can be good enough because nobody other than us, or an actual body guy, is going to notice the flaws. My 65 GTO is shiny with a base/clear pearl blue on it, its really flashy, but its a daily driver quality job. I didn't build it to be overly nice, I built it to drive and not give a damn if it gets a chip, run, or sag.
Now when I repaint my dad's 70 Cuda, and my 72 455 HO Formula, they will not be daily driver quality paint jobs. I will put my best effort into them, because they are deserving of it, the GTO was a really bad basket case, not even a good parts car. So its lucky to be driven at all.
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They aren't transitioning to green energy, they are transitioning to expensive, unreliable, and very limited energy because they loathe your existence. They seek top profit from you as they slowly evict you from your meat suit. Its either that or they simply are not bright enough to realize that centralized distribution doesn't work with wind, solar, and bio fuels.
Make it yourself, cut out the middlemen, and stop paying what they demand from you to survive. I started doing exactly that 15 years ago. Had to start over again in 2015 because of divorce (that is another can of venomous worms) but next year I should be mostly off grid, producing most of my food and energy. I live in the woods, not in a city or town, so its easier for me to do it.
If you live in a city... you are screwed.
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I'm 52, not far from 53, and I have ZERO interest in dating 50 year old and older girls. Looks is only part of it. The much larger part is that if she is single at my age, its because she made poor life choices. Why do I want to saddle myself with her baggage and lack of foresight? The 30 something girls do not want me, because they are looking for the man who will give them a credit card and allow them to do nothing or go shopping all day. Thats not me. The 18 to 28 year olds like me for one thing.. silverback gorilla sex. In their 40s and up, they are desperate enough that they will do anything just to get attention from me. I'm a 5'8 Iraq War, Desert Storm, Cold War veteran who can't walk very far every day. I am not wealthy, and yet girls half my age are interested. I don't make the rules, I simply observe what is going on.
Females do this to themselves. They have an expiration date set by nature, its biological and not up to us or them. If they squander their time, its on them, and yet they still blame anyone but themselves for their own choices.
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Fidel's bastige offspring ran and hid, just like Ralph Northam.. who is Justin's friend in blackface as both are weak willed tyrants who would only ever send others to enact violence in their stead. When faced with actual strength, they cower and hide. Stand up to the tyrants, show them you will not be controlled nor allow yourself to be enslaved.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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@kennyshepard-ww1gk we had a guess what they could do, Afghanistan showed how ineffective their CNC was in the soviet era. Good to meet another TACP/ROMAD, a friend of mine who was a cook during Desert Shield/Storm was a TACP in Afghanistan, made it to the cover of Airman Magazine even. I was cross training to TACP when I got messed up in 03/04 and the last deployment finished me off.
We also saw how inefective their air power was in Vietnam. You probably remember more about that one than I do, since you are older.
My deployments aren't what I am basing my opinion on, definitely not the last two. 2001 was boring, we were stuck on Camp Doha because 16 days into the deployment someone flew into buildings, and no more planes came to work. Living on Doha and not going anywhere left us fighting over who got to go work when planes started coming in again.
The last one in 04 was uneventful for the most part. The USAF paid me back for all the times they screwed me over in that we were at the Hilton for the first half, the Radisson for the second half. $86 per diem and 5 months tax free. It got me caught up on the child support my home state started me out $10k behind on.
However, I was loading C5s and C17s single handed, pushing all the pallets myself, night after night while the rentals drove. The consequence was my upper GI being trashed from vitamin I and no food (the AF always forgets the guys who work nights) in copious amounts so I could walk. Both knees, hips, ankles, shoulders and elbows were trashed. As it turns out when you are 35 you can't work like you did when you were 21 even if you have enough muscle. If you can't run for miles, you can't be a TACP now can ya?
I never said you don't know what an A10 can do. It only takes seeing what they leave behind to grasp its abilities and limits. I know how effective the SU25 is, and its real good against obvious targets, when there is no air power contesting it.
The Russians throw meat at the problem, we in the USAF are quite adept at mincing meat. Its considerably different since I was an A1C in the 1980s. Have you talked to the current TACPs about what our junk can do? Its really interesting. You know what we could do in the 80s, which is more pertinent to Fulda.
However, my initial comment was about logistics more than A10s and airstrikes. When it comes to that, unless you were a 605x1 before you were a 1C4x1 (or what the AFSC was before they changed them in the 90s) chances are you won't know what our logistics can do, or what effect it has on conflicts as well as humanitarian efforts.
Did you participate in REFORGER while you were in? For me it meant chem exercises running the SCIPS and shelters under the squadron buildings at Rhein Main. Being in logistics we were the means by which everyone would get to Europe, and after seeing our capabilities first hand in 90-91, getting enough armor and mech inf divisions in country would be about 3 days and then increase every week... as long as we kept Rhein Main.
On 10 August 90 it was like someone flipped a switch and the C141s and C5s started landing and taking off every 30 seconds, and it didn't stop until October 91.
Now we have more C17s than we had C141s and they carry almost double the cargo as a C141. The C1 can also operate from highways like a C130. The 141s and C5s moved a mind numbing amount of stuff in a short time.
Go back to 6 June 1944, the invasion was more about logistics than the battle to take the beaches, which is why Eisenhower got the job as supreme commander rather than someone like Patton. Look into how much stuff they moved onto the beaches after they were secured that morning.
How does that play into Fulda? Well, the Russians have a crappy logistics system, our air logistics can do more than their rail and road logistics. We can move more stuff faster than they ever could.
Germany lost and was pushed back from Stalingrad because they could not supply their armies. Same with Napoleon. Facts not lost on the US military, especially with what they learned in 48/49 with the Berlin Airlift.
Desert Storm was against the 4th largest military in the world that was using soviet doctrine, CnC and equipment. I saw first hand what the AH64s and A10s did along with F15Es, Harriers, and Tornadoes did between Kuwait City and Basra.
If the soviets came through Fulda, it would have been like December 1944, a fast push that would be stopped in less than a week, then when their supply dwindles to a trickle, they retreat like Iraq did. Would they have reached Rhein Main? That depends on how good YOU guys did your job lasing targets, and how long it takes us to get air supremacy.
What happens to an army without air cover? Six day War, Yom Kippur war, take your pick of any fight Israel had with their soviet supplied neighbors in the 60s and 70s.
How many T72s can each M1 take out? Only reference we have is Iraq in 91. The TOWs worked pretty well, and the hellfires worked even better.
The Russians do not have stellar equipment. They do not keep up on maintenance either. They rely on throwing meat at problems. We rely on our people not becoming meat and keeping them supplied with more than enough stuff to keep fighting.
How hard do you think we would have trained in the 80s if we were told the Russians weren't capable of rolling over us in a week? You train hard and well above whatever you think you might need, then when the fight comes you the result is overwhelming because you trained to fight that 350lb guy and you only get a 150lb guy in the actual fight.
Panama was the first indicator, Iraq removed all doubt. Even in the 80s our capabilities dwarfed all other countries.
Seeing it and the after effects of our shock and awe made me realize just how much we overestimated the soviets. We needed to though, because complacency is how we got into WWII. Even with all the woke and diversity above all else, we still have far more capability than everyone else.
You are seeing it tac. I am seeing it strat. It makes sense due to your job that you see things tactical, whereas I was involved with both. Still though, you never saw soviet equipment in action whereas I have. :)
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My take on the sports thing. I am a drag racer, I like to race the cars I drive on the street. Now lets say we have a door slammer group, everyone is driving cars without any modifications other than engine bolt ons. Naturally aspirated so no blowers, turbos, or nitrous, and no nitromethane allowed either. So our cars run anywhere from 11 to 9 seconds in the quarter mile and must weigh at least 3000lbs.
Then someone shows up with a Top Fuel Dragster, not street legal nor driven, supercharged, running nitromethane, in an 1800lb chassis, capable of 4 second quarter mile times and 300mph. The track allows the dragster to run with all of our heavier cars with less power. Know what most of us would do? Put our car back on the trailer and never return to that track. We would go to other tracks that don't let someone who did not qualify against all the other dragsters, beat up on us.
So the dragster wins, big deal. The only way it wouldn't is if it broke and could not make a pass. It could do easy half power runs and still run 4 seconds faster than our fastest car. Even if you put a car body with doors on it, and call it a door slammer, its not the same thing.
In drag racing, and the no prep/street racing circles as well, we don't give a damn what color your are, how resistant to UV you are, if you sit or stand to piss. It does not matter. What matters is how fast your vehicle is, and if you can drive it safely without hitting the other car or anything else. Your skills matter, and all the large variables are already taken care of. Strength, muscle mass, oxygen capacity, height, none of that matters except that heavier people slow the car down some. So it is a level playing field where females can compete with males, provided their car is capable.
You can be trans, straight, or second cousin to Big Gay Al from South Park, we don't care. However, if you aren't running a car that fits the rules for the class, you are out. Look up John Force, he has four daughters, three of whom race. His kids are highly competitive, partly because dad has sponsor money in excess... but also because they have a desire to race. There have been several females who drag raced over the years, and even more people who aren't worried about getting a sunburn. Apparently the leftists don't care because the only thing to bitch about is who has the liquid nitrogen cooled credit card and who doesn't.
We have classes of vehicles because things like power and weight matter. A vehicle with 900hp racing a 200hp vehicle, even if the lower powered one is 400lbs lighter, means the higher powered car is probably going to win.. unless the driver smokes the tires or screws up somehow. Putting a biological male in competition with biological females in damn near any sport other than drag racing, means the females are more than likely going to lose.
Males and females are not interchangeable. In sports and professions where strength, muscle mass, oxygen capacity, endurance, and size make a big difference, females are always at a disadvantage... even if you dress up the male to look like a female.
So if girls want to be treated as equals, come on out to the drag strip and hang with us. Don't run into things and we will get along fine.
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My 65 GTO has that same paint on it, a Ford color called Flame Blue, and it is an amazing looking pearl in good light.
That poor thing makes me feel vastly better about my 71 Mustang than I ever have since I bought it around 1997. The rust was REAL bad on it, but not in the subframe rails, I have a bunch of work and money in it for sheet metal, but I am not excited about driving it so it sits there taking up space.
Really I should knuckle down and finish the thing, especially since my skills have improved since I started the work on it in 2005. Get it out of my shop, running driving, and maybe someone will want to give me money for it. I want to when the NNN is over and I have my other cars all moved here, and it will be a cool car, not a hackjob like that poor Cougar.
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People wonder why I am so heavy into Pontiac. Massive interchange between all the engines, from the 326 to the 455 and all the old engines, most of it will physically bolt on. Then they wonder why I have ten (6 Formula and 4 Trans Am) Firebirds, four GTOs, and five LeMans two doors. Why do I need a pile 350s along with all the 400 and 455 cores? Because all the stuff other than the pistons will fit a 400, and the 455 needs a different main journal crank in addition to the pistons. I have piles of head bolts, front drives, and all the other stuff that comes with parts cars that I need to put an engine in a rolling chassis. People give away 350s, and they can make good power too, just not like a 455 can.
I run the old fasteners through the bead blast cabinet, its faster than the wire wheel and cleaner for me too. I do them at the same time as the valve covers and other pieces. It still takes up lots of time, but I have also pre cleaned all the stuff I need to build four more engines, and its sitting in boxes. When you do this as much as I do, you get to know exactly what you need for every build.
Many of the cars I own were bought as rollers, or non running. My daily driver 65 GTO was a rusted out hulk that wasn't even a good parts car when I started. It needed everything, and I found a granny fresh 65 LeMans that hadn't been driven since 1982 in Flint Mi for $1500. It provided the interior and a bunch of small stuff. Now that LeMans is going to be a gasser, its not scrap if you build it. Going from scratch, finding every little piece is going to suck. If you know what you need, that is a huge head start, if you have no clue you better be good at fabrication.
I like Pontiac because cubes make it easy to go fast. A $2700 455 with stock rods can push a 4000lb car into the 11s with a 3.08 to 3.42 rear gear. Been there done that in the 1990s and no nitrous was needed. Imagine that engine in a 2100lb car with enough tire to hook the grunt and a taller gear to harness it longer... How to get it in the 2100lb car? Better know exactly what it needs and what it doesn't, and know how to not only weld, but how to shape metal. I like how the exhaust ports point downward rather than straight out, so I have no need for fenderwell headers unless I raise the engine a bunch. Besides, they are the best sleeper engine ever, because it can look like a 301 but really have 540 cubes under the hood.
The 68 LeMans has a 400 stroked to 461 with Edelbrock heads in it, low buck used parts for cheap power, but I had to fabricate an alternator mount for it. None of the brackets I have, not currently being used on cars, would fit those heads. I made the front bumper and hood from fiberglass, pulling molds from the steel parts. That car is similar to the bottle rocket, being mainly scrounged parts and has home made/fabricated stuff all over it. It was a $300 rolling shell I pulled from a Nebraska pasture in 2014, and turned into a street strip / summer daily driver with a 400/Th350/3.08 posi in 2015 for all of $3000, then I put the 461 in it this spring. Its silly amounts of fun, and thanks to having a big pile of all the stuff needed to throw an engine in, it took me all of a month to go from rolling shell to driver.
Without all that stuff, or having to change everything to make some other engine work, it might take forever. Having a pile of engines and cars sitting around takes space though, so whatever you do, if you have only one car, don't lose or throw away all the stuff you need to put the engine back in. I have been building Pontiac and Ford engines since the 1980s, that means I know them very well. So well I often think I forgot to do something because I have done it so many times before, was that a 25 year old memory of torquing the rods and mains or a week old memory???
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Dave, you and Michael are surprised that dependent people folded so easily? He said it himself, he is dependent upon the system, he doesn't know how to drive. I was driving tractors in the field at 8 years old on the farm, I had to because we needed to get work done. I was driving on the dirt roads at 11, and it was 20 miles to town where the girls were, so if I didn't have a car I wasn't going anywhere. There was no catching the bus, calling a taxi, or riding the subway.
People in cities have everything brought to them, food, fuel, clothing, literally everything is brought to them, and their waste is carried away by the system. I live alone in the woods of northern Michigan, grew up on the plains of Nebraska, served in the military for most of my adult life. I have to either make it myself, or go get it, and if I order something, overnight means two days later it shows up, and if I order it and use basic ground it shows up in two days.
I produce fuel for my vehicles from tree sap, I can grow my food or collect it from nature, but I am leaving it untouched as long as I can get meat at the store 20 miles away. Not only can I drive damn near anything, I can repair it as well, because there is no inexpensive way of getting it to a shop and a service call is exorbitant. I built my shop and house with my own two hands, not writing a check to a contractor and waiting for them to give me the keys. I cleared the trees, worked the foundations, removed rocks from the ground, and built my home.
How many city people you know can do that sort of thing? Hell he can't even drive!!!
They folded because they are dependent upon the system, without it they are fucked. They don't have the first clue how to build a shelter, fix their car, produce food, fuel or energy. If its not brought to you, well, you're helpless like a small child.
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For every Kurt Russel, Keanu Reeves, and James Stewart, there are about 100 Seth Rogans. The misconception they have is that they seem to think we give a damn what they think, or that they have the authority to tell us what to do. The reality is, they are pretenders who pretend to be people who actually DO things, and read lines written by other people. If they want to give their opinion on that, by all means share it with the world how well you pretend to be capable people.
Those of us who are the people who actually DO and DID the things actors pretend to do, don't need their advice or direction, as they know somewhere between jack shit and foockall about what it takes to do it in real life. They are dancing monkeys, they are here to entertain us not to 'bless' us with their drivel and echo chamber derived bad ideas. Shut up and dance monkey dance, you aren't any more special than the rest of us monkeys, and I would say actors are less so.
FYI James Steward flew 20 combat missions over Germany in a B24, he led men in combat. Lee Marvin was a Marine in the pacific and survived island invasions. Tom Hanks pretends to be like them. Not that being in the military gives you special status or privilege, but men like James and Lee actually DID things portrayed in movies.
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I am your average 5'8" white guy, well overly muscled but nothing else really stands out about me. Yet I have had two false rape accusations, and 4 false harassment accusations. One of the harassment claims was a 3rd party deal where I had a female friend with whom I had the same kind of banter men share with each other, and another guy developed a problem with it. That one spurred two others, the bandwagon thing reared its ugly head and suddenly saying Hi and hello with no sexual connotation involved as deemed harassment by other girls wanting to get some validation and attention.
If false accusations are so rare, why the hell have I had 6 of them? Is it due to me not being afraid of women and speaking to them just like I do everyone else? Is it because I am too short to speak to girls who think too highly of themselves? Or could it be that its far more prevalent that girls will use an accusation to get something they want, and convince themselves that they are right in that very female solipsistic way they can? I have never catcalled anyone, I don't try ineffective methods of meeting girls, and holy fuck is that ineffective. I do not force anyone and never have. If she says no just once, I stop everything, and simply leave, which often pisses them off more than anything. If she isn't enthusiastic, I am out. Its not like I have a difficult time with girls. I will walk out for even less than a no, its not like I need them in my life to pay for everything and validate me.
Yes I know assaults happen. I endured daily assaults for 10 years, and not catcalls or whistles, but physical assaults. A beating is a little more intense than someone speaking to you, be glad you think a wolf whistle is horrible, because that means you have never been beaten unconscious. I know full well that some girls are actually forced, and its not simply regret or some malicious bullshit like you get with ex wives. The thing is though, women are not all wonderful, they are humans, they have the same tendencies to do fucked up things that anyone can do. They are not even mostly wonderful, women can get just as violent, though lacking upper body strength they are less effective. Saying this does not mean you hate women, but avoiding the obvious fact that women are humans too means you are delusional and not wanting to face reality.
They have every incentive to accuse, they can make it up just because they don't like you like in the high school that recently came to light. There are very few consequences for a false accusation, nothing happened to any of the girls who accused me, and I was raked over the coals for months due to each one. What incentive did Ford have? Political for one, $800k in gofundme for another, and what is the downside? She will be forgotten in a month but still have that cash and the idea that she at least tried to keep the SC from going 7-2 against the far left in the next ten years.
I have two daughters, and when they were with me they were taught to NOT be victims, to not wallow in self pity, to not feel entitled to everything just because they are girls. My oldest is vehemently anti social justice and anti feminist. Why? Because she realizes her mother was not the best interest for her and her sister, but the state gave them to her and prevented me from being an influence in their lives until they were of age, and she realizes feminism and social justice is why the states fuck over dads.
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I game on console, when we get a kid being annoying, we mute them and let them rant all they like, or play music or whatever. One guy in COD would play recordings of evangelical rapture preachers, I got in trouble for notifying them about him, they said he can play it however he wants. I found that amusing, but he was still annoying, so I quit playing that game. I only play games that have dedicated servers, such as run by teams/clans with admins. Consoles have that jacked up match making, no dedicated servers, so I will not be wasting money on those games.
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Been saying this for years, males and females are not the same, not equal, not interchangeable with the only difference being indoor or outdoor plumbing. Squat or stand.. its far more than that. If you force females to compete with males in areas that require strength, endurance, spatial skills, and speed, girls will always come up short. Its not misogyny its biology. Its not social influence that packed on so much muscle mass that I can lift 500lbs or easily lift 200lbs and carry it across the room. It was my military job and my physiology, its what I was born to do. Build things, move things, lift things, do things and win wars.
As it happens, I got all this muscle mass BECAUSE of females, I was teamed with females during the 1990-91 gulf war, loading cargo planes for the USAF. I did all the heavy lifting, they were spotters for the vehicles and carried the paperwork and things under 50lbs. I can move a 10,000lb pallet alone, and when I was 20-35 could move them all day, females struggled with a 2.000lb pallet in pairs. You need more girls than you can fit behind a 88"x108" air trans pallet to move a 10,000lb pallet.
It is unfair to make females meet male standards, they are not physically equipped to do what we can do. Likewise they are much better at things that we are not built to do. The females were quite happy sitting inside, checking parts, going over lists, reviewing manifests, that sort of thing. It was drudgery for males. Can males do it? Yes, but the females are often happier doing it than males. Can the females do the physical work, to an extent, yes.. but when paired with a male, he will end up doing the vast majority of the physical work.
Show me a girl who can bench 300lbs and I will show you a few hundred guys who can. There are no females who can lift what I can lift, unless they have a crane or forklift. The US military has a different standard for males and females, for good reason. Females simply cannot keep up with males when it comes to physical requirements. Its biology, not misogyny.
Having read that, you might think I am a female hating creep... not so. I am all about reality. I am also into drag racing. here is what matters in drag racing: How fast you can react to a light turning on. Can you do the same thing at the same time every time in fractions of a second? Can you not run into things in a vehicle that can go zero to 60 in one or two seconds, or at the extreme 0 to 100mph in one second (Top Fuel dragsters do that) None of this requires physical strength, some spatial skills are required, but mostly its reaction time and repetition/muscle memory. Girls are lighter than boys, so girls have an advantage when it comes to vehicle weight. All this muscle I carry around makes me weigh 300lbs, a girl who weighs 90lbs can operate the same vehicle and she has around a .2 second advantage due to weight alone over me in vehicles slower than 10 seconds to cover a quarter mile. Getting a vehicle moving is easier when its lighter, and yes girls can be VERY good drag racers.
In this particular sport, females can compete with males very close to equally. Look up Ashley Force, the daughter of John Force who is one of the most successful drag racers in the history of the sport. Ashely has won a national championship, and beat her dad in a drag race. Shirley Muldowny was another female drag racer who won championships, and came back after a horrific crash that shattered one of her legs, she is tough as nails. Like me, John only had daughters, no sons. Our kids are going to be gearheads regardless if they are boys or girls, its the nature of having a father like John and I who do the car/racing thing like we do. My 24 year old daughter knows more about the vehicles her boyfriends drive than they do.
Can my daughter defend herself against the average male? Not very well, she is tough and at 5'7 she has some physical strength, but she is still limited. So limited in fact she was unable to operate any of the .45 pistols I lost in a boating accident, so we had to get her one that was easier to operate, so she could load it and fire it without struggling. That pistol allows my daughter to defend herself from faster and stronger males.
Males and females are DIFFERENT. That doesn't mean one is better or more valuable, although it could be argued females are more valued than males are.. after all, who does most of the dying in wars and industrial accidents? Who does society care about more, that pretty blond who went missing on spring break, or the homeless guy under the bridge? However, males and females are complimentary, we fit together like gears in a machine. If the gears were smooth and perfectly equal as the feminists/marxists claim, the machine would not work. It requires the highs and lows to fit together so the machine will work. Trying to make something do things it is not designed/built to do will result in lackluster results, making it do what it was designed/built to do better as in accentuating the positives rather than trying to change the negatives, usually results in better outcomes.
You cannot judge a female on the same standard you judge a male, nor vice versa. While parts will interchange between male and female, like heart, lungs etc, there are vast differences in who and how we are. There is no getting around it, no changing it, we are different no matter how much they scream and claim I hate girls because I see reality and want my daughters to have a fair shot at life and living. Forcing everyone to fit a mold, or claiming they are the same when they are not, does nobody any favors, least of all females. All that does is set the standards so low that they are meaningless, and then you must hold back those who can achieve more to make up for those who cannot. Then we get into Harrison Bergeron...
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I broke the trans in my daily driver 65 GTO four times this summer. So I put in something that will handle the power a bit longer, and now its faster.. not slipping into 2nd makes a big difference. I got ten years out of the 700R4 I built for that engine. I enjoy working on my cars, almost as much as I enjoy driving them. Old cars break stuff, it just happens. I like to build cars with stuff I have laying around, see how fast I can make it go, and do it for as little cash as possible.They break all the time, in small strange ways, not usually engines, transmissions and rear ends. Its shifter linkages, electrical, and tires. It breaks I fix it. Its an opportunity to make it better, do an upgrade, or replace problems entirely.
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@MoldycheeseJr thats how it is for far too many dads. We are blamed for her actions, like the trope that dad went out for milk and never came back. Nah, mom threw him out and prevented him from being there, all while telling the kids he didn't want them and left them. My ex did all of that and told them I wasn't paying her when she was getting 71% of my gross pay and I was sleeping in my vehicle on base.
I have two daughters, the youngest (almost 27) talks to me, she knows what her mother did. The oldest is going to be 30 next spring, and she won't talk to me. I have seen her in stores, and she is trying to turn into a boy. Their mother screwed them up real bad. They were told I didn't want them, only cared about the money, and never spent time with them. She kicked them both out when the child support ended, so who really cared only about the money?
They were 7 and 4 when she took them, so the oldest should have remembered spending time with me and me teaching her to read and do math.
From 2001 to 2008 I got a total of 12 days with them. It was easier to tell myself I never had kids. She stole their childhood from me, and my guidance from them. I will never forgive her for doing that. There is a lot more to this, I am sharing a brief overview.
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@BrianWaller-qe7gr her mother, sisters, and friends all encouraged the second ex to leave me for a guy she had just met. He was a real piece of work, they loathed him, her dad had to support him and her, even had him work for the family business because the kid couldn't keep a job. The reason he couldn't keep one was he was incompetent, but felt he should be in charge when he had just started.
Well the kid left her after 3 or 4 years, I don't keep track of her, but my neighbors told me. Now her family blames me for what she is going through, as if I caused it. I warned all of them what he was like, what would happen, and how it would end up for her.
Funny thing is her dad saw the same things I did, but her mother demanded they make my ex happy by letting him into their house and family. They all regretted it.
Then there is this other thing, she was on the VFD, they made her chief because nobody else wanted to do it, and she wasn't strong enough to do the actual job. They had 13 members including her, and they all knew that kid from training and working with his dad's VFD in another township. They hated that kid. Every firefighter and EMT in the county does, he is that much of a creep.
She brought him on to the VFD for my township, and 12 members quit that same night at the meeting. It was only the two of them until he left. Now another guy has joined, he moved here after all this took place in 2013. She is still chief, and the township treasurer, and she keeps not only screwing up, but doing illegal things, and they won't do anything about it because she's female and they have known her since she was a kid. Both of those jobs are part time, she gets about $750 a month to do them.
I call him a kid because he is 20 years younger than I am, and 7 years younger than her. At this point its all very amusing to me.
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@xxxlonewolf49 she was better than the first one, completely different too, and for 8 years she was really good to me. The first was a nightmare from the moment we got married in 1993 until I was done paying her to be reprehensible in 2015.
I gave women one more chance in 2003 and allowed the second one into my life. She was homely but treated me great, never argued or fought, and we had lots of fun together. We got married in 2011, divorced in 2013, but she had to screw me over so she could feel like a victim.
Was divorced from the first in 2001. She has been trying to get me back for the last ten years. I think I would take a steam roller demise before taking her back... maybe not something that drawn out and painful, but definitely checking out rather than letting that back in.
I'm not really going a way that is mine so to speak, more like just done with them. Can't trust em, and I don't want to lose everything I have built since 2013, so I'll never commit even a little to one. Not worth the risk.
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NEVER depend on a split tail for anything. Bro screwed himself with the neck tattoo, just a fact of life. It shows poor decision making.
About the youtube thing: You need to make content people actually want to watch, and you have to make it regularly. You can't do a video every so often and expect it to go anywhere. You have to be entertaining or provide useful quality information. Rants and stuff will only get you a few views. I am using inconsistency to keep mine from going anywhere right now. I have my reasons why I am not building it, just keeping it on life support, don't worry about the reasons.
You have to treat it like a job, you have to put out regular content. It will take a couple years of making a video every day for you to go anywhere. This is not a get rich quick thing, unless you have adipose tissue hanging from your ribcage, and even then it takes some effort.
I do car related stuff, I don't talk about this part of my life in my videos, my videos are about things I find fun and entertaining. My ex wives are not entertaining for me, for the most part, watching them flail and fail in life when they assumed they could do better, well.. I enjoy that greatly.. I have to work on the car, make a video, then edit it into something you want to watch. Its like having 3 jobs.
Likewise Bo has to spend hours looking for something to talk about, then he has to talk about it, and make it interesting, then go back and make sure the video sounds and looks good. ITS FREAKIN WORK no matter what you do.
Without putting in the work, you will go nowhere. You're a man, nobody gives you anything for free. Vibes and happy thoughts are not going to have the same results as action. You cannot make something happen or bring a vision into reality without putting in work to make it happen.
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My problem with the XL is it goes over the water supply for people living in 7 states, and the people bearing the risk receive no benefit, and those who enjoy the benefits have minimal risk. The jobs would only last a handful of years, and it would not be for the people living in those states. I am from Nebraska, grew up there and its an important thing to consider. However the way and reason Biden is doing this is not acceptable either. I am ok with a pipeline provided it does not foul the water for all those people.
The people who voted for Biden are either ignorant, idiots, or imaginary. They are claiming the election was fair and legal, and we are questioning it. Then they say we need to prove it wasn't despite all the obvious evidence it wasn't, and just accept the claim it was. The onus is on the one making the claim to prove it, NOT the one questioning said claim. They can try to spin it so we have to prove our own questions, but it only works that way in marxist states.
I live greener than all these pricks. Its pissing me off that they are shoehorning marxism and globalism in with green interests. I do green because I can make a lot more power cheaper and my engines last longer on it and the heat for my home is far less expensive. Fuck these assholes.
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Merit plays a big part in sports. If you can do the job better than others, you get the job, because the team wants to win. In pro sports its a business, and people make money on winning teams, so there is a financial incentive to getting the best players possible. If there are very few black quarterbacks, it is more probable that few black athletes can do the job. I don't watch pro ball sports, but I liked college football for a while. Tommy Frazier was one of my favorite all time quarterbacks at Nebraska, and he won a national championship while he was there. The people of Nebraska love that man, but he was a better running back than quarterback out of college, because Nebraska was a running team back then... when they were winning.
In racing nobody gives a damn what color you are, only how well you drive and how fast your vehicle is. You want to see true equality? Watch some street racing videos, like 1320video, SRC, SixSixty, DNR, and others. If you win, you get respect, if you lose and don't make a bunch of excuses, you get respect. If you win or lose and make a bunch of excuses, nobody respects you. That is in a world where everyone talks shit, tries to hide their true capability, and wants to make you think their car is slower than it really is... including me and my vehicles. I'll tell you the 467ci (7.5L)engine in my car is only a 301 (4.9L) making 350hp, its up to you to know if its not.
The gearhead world is a meritocracy, and you have to prove what you claim. Nothing is given, you must earn it all. You want more black guys winning races? Well they gotta put in the work like everyone else, and they have to learn how to win, just like the rest of us. You want more black QBs or head coaches? Well performance matters, and some people do some things better than other people, what color they are doesn't fucking matter, what matters is how well they can do it.
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Smithfield was bought by a chinese company not long ago... There has been a backlash against them for it. Winter sucks for me, just got 12" of heavy wet snow last night, power has been off for 5 hours, this is April typical here. My friends all have leaves, grass, and warm weather in states south of me, and I have snow and my generator going. The highway is closed, and its 20 miles to town where most things are closed anyway. I'm already there, the worst case scenario for urban dwellers, and its Monday for me.
I have a lake you can drink from without boiling the water first, there's fish in it, and wildlife walking through my yard all the time. I can pick up a fishing rod or one of several rifles and get lunch/dinner for a week, and having several thousand rounds of ammo for each rifle means I can hunt and fish for a long time. I am behind on making fuel for my vehicles/generator, but I can fix that without much effort once the snow melts. Plenty of things I can ferment out there, just gotta go get it.
My main worry is the bank deciding to call in the loan with only 16 months left to pay on it, or the government going tits up and shutting off my supply of VA sourced meds.
You urbanites are kinda fucked.
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Jack Murphy is the kind of male who needs to feel like he is not what he actually is, he needs people to think he isn't what he is. He is desperately seeking approval, he is the inept mediocre blowhard who tries to take charge, only to fail miserably while the competent leaders watch him falter and fail. Mentors do not charge the apprentice, that is a good rule to live by. While the apprentice does work to benefit the mentor/master, they are both gaining from it as the mentor supports the apprentice as he learns.
When you mentor someone you are not teaching them to be your subordinate, you are teaching them to be your peer.
I cannot take a male seriously who claims to be ultra masculine and know everything about being a man, but has 12" biceps. No muscle does not make a man, but the experience required to be the man he claims to be, will pack muscle on you. He is all talk, no substance, no experience behind it. A beard does not make you masculine, it only means you are male.
When this channel brings him and his outburst up, well, his failure is complete. While I am not deriding the people on here in any shape or form, they are not the most masculine of men. Average guys to be sure, I suppose Leo is the most masculine of them all. Doesn't mean they are not good at what they do, or that they give out bad info, but can you see any of them doing something like building a log home or living off the land? I can't.
My point is not that they are low T soy sucking simps or something, I do not think they are. They are cool dudes who were in the chess and AV clubs in school. The kind of guys I game with online, not the guys I want with me to assault a fortified position or to move heavy shit.
They are not the type of guys who give two shits if they are masculine or not, they are doing their own thing and that makes them admirable in my book, that its a useful positive thing, well, there is a reason I subscribe here. Jack gives a shit and he is trying hard to make everyone think he is, so he can make money from them.
To the guys at lotus eaters, when the inevitable divorce happens for you, hit me up as I have information you can use during that time. :) Hopefully you do not need it.... but your wives have every incentive to trade you in for cash and prizes. Good luck, well I hope your luck is better than mine was.
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@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 I needed the knowledge I have now, but without the internet that meant learning the hard way with no direction or help in any form.
I spent lots of time scrounging through junkyards looking for parts, and the best material I had for info was a MOTORS manual that was loaned to me. Now I have books just in the event the electricity goes off forever.. lol
Nobody was around to warn me about what would happen when I got divorced either. I found out the hard way in 2001. Having most of your income taken from you and given to the person who caused all the problems, makes life difficult, but you learn from it. Losing 25 years of income like that is VERY difficult to overcome.. I wish someone had informed me, which is why I get in trouble on here, because I inform young men of what can happen.
2015 was the last year I was living on 4% of my income. Thats all they left me after taxes, and when you have never earned more than $40k in your life, 4% is not much.
No way would I want to be 18 right now, I did my two overseas conflicts. These kids have one coming, because the d's absolutely love starting them.
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@derp8575 In Desert Shield I was worked so hard and for so long that I gained 50lbs of muscle mass, which made me able to do things normal people could not, since I was already stronger than most people before August 90. I was 21 when that happened.
I was 35 when I deployed to Kuwait the final time in 2004. I was stuck with a bunch of reservists, and since they knew I could push all the pallets myself, thats what happened. I worked, they drove the vehicles and goofed off.
As it turns out at 35 you can't do what you did at 21, your body will break, and after that much insane wear, I came back with an upper GI problem from all the ibuprofen I was taking without food, since the USAF forgot people worked at night. There was no way for us to eat anything during our 12 hour shift. I was taking a lot of it. Actually too much. A C5 carries 36 pallets, each of which is 300lbs empty, and can be 10,000lbs as a single. I pushed all of them on for weeks, alone, while the air crews stood around and watched slack jawed.
Both knees were trashed, my hips were none too great, shoulders trashed, elbows and ankles trashed. My back is great, everything attached to it is screwed. Small blessings.
There is more to it, but thats how I got kicked out.
Since I could no longer run, hell walking was excruciatingly painful since I was not allowed any more NSAIDs, and the whole list of other things wrong with me, they put me out in 2005 with 10% disability to save the USAF money. The civilians and reservists at my based all assumed I was malingering, so they worked me harder when I got back from the desert.
So yeah, medical discharge.
The VA took an entire year and a half to decide how jacked up I was. Then they took taxes out of my back pay on top of that when they decided. I am not a fan of Detroit VA, but they did award me 90% service connected, and the people in Milwaukee asked how the hell I was on active duty for so long with so many things wrong with me. I've been 100% permanent and total since 2010. That just means I am not allowed to earn money in any other way, and congress decides what I am worth.
20 years ago I was being paid almost double what I am now while active. When I got out it was a huge pay cut, $1900 a month for the first two years. Not enough to live on in most places.
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Tim, I am in the center, slightly right of you, but not terribly far, mostly its that I loathe social justice ideology. To hell with being victims, get off your ass and build something is my view on it.
The left is going fullretard, all of us are nazis to them simply because we don't agree with the mindless drones and resentful bigots on the left. There is no way in hell (not that I believe in hell) that I will ever give in and back down. They will run into a wall with me, because I am vehemently against socialism, communism, marxist ideology, and that includes feminism. The naziss were socialists, they hated capitalism just as much as Stalin did, so yeah, by default I loathe them as well. Plus the nazis played identity politics to the extreme, so they have more in common with antifa and the progressive than they do with me and the conservatives with whom I find myself agreeing on matters of free speech and due process. Color me astounded that I agree with the religious nuts.
Isn't it time to start calling them what they are? When anyone starts spouting identity politics, or any of the other marxist based ideologies, I call them on it. Most of the time they don't even know its marxist ideology. Like christians don't read the bible, apparently marxists don't read his books either. They are fine with violence because its what marx utilized.
Yes I am not capitalizing his name because I feel he does not warrant that respect. He was a piece of shit, a resentful envious misanthrope that used everyone he came into contact with. It makes perfect sense why spoiled rich white kids gravitate towards him, because they want everything given to them and not have to work for it, just like he did. Anyone who is resentful and unwilling to put in the effort to get what they want via merit is going to cling to marxist ideology.
I am ex military, grew up dirt poor on a farm, I had to learn how to do things myself because we could not afford to pay anyone to do it for us. I have had to bust my ass to get everything in my life. Served in two wars, ran my own businesses, worked factory jobs in really shitty conditions for the same pay that the girls who did less arduous, dangerous, and unskilled jobs got. I have lived my entire life by merit.
That means I can see when people are demanding something for nothing, being envious and resentful, and lumping the blue collar working class in with their parents who have never worked a shitty job in 130F heat... So no, I will not back down.
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Kids don't know jack shit about fuck all. At 16 you have essentially zero experience, in anything other than having shit provided for you. Listening to easily persuaded kids repeat the bullshit fed them by people pushing an agenda is at best idiotic. There is a logical fallacy in play when a kid is used like this.
Appeal to emotion or argumentum ad passiones ("argument from passion") is a logical fallacy characterized by the manipulation of the recipient's emotions in order to win an argument, especially in the absence of factual evidence.[1] This kind of appeal to emotion is a type of red herring and encompasses several logical fallacies, including appeal to consequences, appeal to fear, appeal to flattery, appeal to pity, appeal to ridicule, appeal to spite, and wishful thinking.
It is simply "won't someone think of the children?" and it is used all the time by the left to push their marxist agenda. Used to be only the fringe of the left was marxist, now the fringe left is not marxist, and most of them have no idea they are following an abhorrent ideology with new nomenclature.
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I might have been tough in my youth, but now all the dangerous and arduous things I did in my youth have caught up to me. Give me my coffee, an old hotrod, a Siberian Husky sleeping on my feet, and my home in the woods, its all I need. Everything else hurts. The Finlanders who live around me have a word, Sisu, that kinda means toughness, but also resilience, perseverance, perhaps even some stoicism, its a bigger idea than just being tough, but it can also mean just that. To survive in the north, you need some of that.
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Tim, I know you can't say it, but mark my words and lets see what happens in the mid terms. I predict we will see those now familiar spikes, snowing up only for one candidate, in just enough numbers to put them ahead, and many hard red areas will 'elect' a democrat to congress. They will get their 2/3 majority and then be able to do whatever the hell they want, including amending the Constitution.. and the Bill of Rights will vanish before the end of the Creepy Joe, Heels Up Harris regime.
When they can fabricate as many votes as they need so the one who will play their game (McConnel for instance) will get the curious spikes that only happen when a thumb is placed on the scale. Elections don't matter anymore, because it is no longer the will of the people, its whatever corporation or would be owner of politicians want.
Lets see how it goes in the mid terms. If we see the same spikes, we know beyond doubt that we have no voice.
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Regarding the last one.. I have noticed that females show a lot more interest when I am walking with a thin attractive one. They also show interest when my 300lb female friend is following me through the store about ten to twenty feet behind me. If my rotund friend walks near me like she is with me, I get ZERO attention from other females.
When I am alone in a store, I get some attention and they try to get into my field of view and other things if they are interested. The number of women who smile at me then look down and away is surprising, because I do not see myself as overly or even remotely attractive.
They seem to enjoy competing for the attention of a man. They also seem to be drawn to a man who obviously is getting attention from other women. Now if he is with a very unattractive female like my large friend, they appear to decide there is something wrong with that man and they do not interact if at all possible.
Considering how risk averse and unable to handle rejection they are, they try to get us to approach them in different ways. Its amusing when some chick walks by me, bends over to look at something on the bottom shelf in the store, then stands there and intently reads the label on bottled water for an inordinate amount of time. She wants me to approach her... after two divorces and living in my car for a total of 4 years... I am not very interested in approaching.
I am 53 years old, 5'8, gray beard, belly, not bald I usually have a high and tight, but also have 21" arms, 60" chest, 40" waist, and nearly no neck, with wide earth mover hands. So I know why they are attracted, its the muscle and my attitude, not my height and wallet. Its still surprising when they do these things.
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@Barbreck1 you're right, except that survival now is easy. Poor people are fat in the US, first time in history for that. Idiots are kept safe by bubble wrapping them, quite literally in vehicles.
The cars I drive are more than 40 years old, there are no airbags, no crumple zones, and not even collapsing steering columns in many of them. You wreck one of those above 40mph and you are lucky to survive it. Stick a fork in ya, you're done.
You can plow into another vehicles head on at 65mph, 130mph closing speed, and both parties can survive it in modern cars. You can wreck a car every day of the week and maybe get some sore muscles. The idiots were weeded out prior to the 1990s, because their own stupidity ended them.
Its even easier to be ignorant of how things work, because so much is done for you. Do you know how a cellphone works? How about a car, truck or bus? Do you know how airplanes fly? Why a refrigerator keeps things cold or how a thermos knows to keep the hot things hot and the cold things cold? Do you know how to build a house? Those are things I know, that most people have no freakin clue about.
Like a Bethesda game, it just works. They put in the fuel or plug it in and thats all they know.
100 years ago if you were stupid, you died by doing stupid things. Now the stupid are allowed to flourish, reproduce, and its because they are protected from themselves. Caution hot filling. Not for internal use. Do not insert into bodily orifices. Warning labels are on everything because of stupid people.
Whats worse is the opinion of stupid people is held in high regard. Ignorant, uneducated, indoctrinated, and put in political office being concerned that Guam will capsize. Those people are willing to believe what their favorite authority figure tells them.
and they make little idiots who are also protected.
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@iamrocketray of that I am well aware. I ran an auto repair shop in the 1990s, and I served in the military in the 80s and 2000s. Most people don't think, they follow and obey. They aren't inquisitive about how things work, why it does what it does, all they care about is that they get one and it works... for a while... until they can buy a new one.
Cars and trucks are very simple, even the modern ones with wiring everywhere use the same basic ideas despite being loaded down with eye candy and comforts. People don't want to know how an engine works. They don't want to know how the TV works, they just want to be told what to think by the talking head on it.
They are the 80%, the drones, NPCs, followers, barely cognizant automatons. Then there is the 20%, of which 80% are not overly competent and capable, but they have the mindset and are curious about the whys and hows. That last little bit, they are the competent leaders, the people who understand how things work, and why.
If you have ever seen the scifi movie District 9, there are aliens stuck in an enclosure after their ship crashed. Most are drones, workers who don't think. One is the navigator of the ship, he is vastly more intelligent than the rest of them. Thousands to one, because you only need one leader to direct the drones and the technology keeps them working.
Its a natural distribution, its just how things are. The problem is when the idiots are put in positions of power, or the barely competent, worse yet the incompetent and prone to corruption like we have in congress right now.. The smart people do not go into politics, the power hungry control freaks consumed with greed go into politics. The people who can not competently operate a motor vehicle go into politics. The drones watch TV so they know what to think and say.
I know where I fit in that hierarchy, because I was in the military, an NCO, and I had to lead people and work in dangerous environments. Some of them were smart, some were less than bright, and you learn what people are capable of real quick. I do not see myself as one of the 10%, but I can definitely tell that most people I know are in the 80%.
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Women want to act like the top 1% of males who can bang anything, and they think its makes them attractive to us. It doesn't, we are disgusted by a woman with a notch count over 5. Above 2 she is practice. That is hard wired into our brains and more than two tells us we cannot trust her. If a man gets married, he is making a bet against everything he owns, at least half to 75% of his future income, and his freedom that she won't cheat, lie and then divorce him on a whim to get the cash and prizes from him.
All the incentive to date and marry has been removed from men, and women told they all deserve the very best, wealthiest, and tallest men. Men are indifferent females are delusional.
This is being inflicted upon society and its very intentional. The plan is to lower the population worldwide, but mainly in countries that have people who can resist being forced into serfdom.
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@odoggow8157 between my enlistments in the 90s I worked in a factory, we all got paid the same based on how long we had been working there. The females did the part inspection and light work, men did the dirty, dangerous, heavy lifting jobs. The plant floor was hot, like 130F hot in summer, and 90 to 100 in winter despite sub zero weather outside.
The females wore shorts, tank tops, and basic shoes, men wore the cheapest stuff we could find because we were covered in oil, coolant, and compounds, and usually had to wear plastic aprons, gloves, and tall rubber steel toe boots.. You ended up sweating a lot and having to drain it out of those boots.
They did all the light work, males did all the heavy work, and we all got paid the same. Doing the same job my ass, no female could handle the chrome plate area, lifting 100lb to 250lb arbors all day and working at a feverish pace. Chrome plate ended up with acid burns all over them, and lots of crushed fingers and hands. Got paid the same as dainty little miss priss doing visual inspection on her ass in shorts with a fan blowing directly on her.
Thats how it goes, they get paid the same for vastly less work.... and they still cry but my ooooppressshuun!
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I am a crippled war vet, I am dependent on the government. Here is what that means. I am restricted from earning more than congress decides I am worth and right now that is about $3000 a month. They can pull VA funding any time they wish, and Obama did it twice, there was no cost of living adjustment between 2010 and 2017 either. I have to wait for an appointment if I have a medical issue, and if it happens between Thursday at 3pm and Monday at 0900, I have to go to the ER and usually pay out of pocket for it. the last time that happened it was $12,000, four months pay for two hours in the ER and three hours waiting to get in. Mental health care is a farce, the VA has no fucking clue how to deal with us, our problems, and what affects us, they just hand out pills.
So I went to war twice, in 1990/91 and again in 2004, put in a herculean effort in my job, and was permanently disabled at the age of 34. When I can get in to the VA I get ok care, have to explain to the Dr my situation every fucking time, and I am on my 8th Dr in 15 years. Went three years without one because of the turnover rate and Obama cut their funding while making it a shitty place to work. That means we get the mediocre to bad Drs. The nurses and PAs are pretty good though... at least where I live, another VA I went to in Lincoln Nebraska was a shitshow, the nurses were more concerned with facebook than with doing their damn jobs. Five hours waiting to get a shot. A simple fucking shot that takes ten minutes anywhere else.
I live alone, because who wants to be around a war vet with PTSD for very long? The nightmares, physical limitations, agitation in crowds, and I have a profound lack of appreciation for drama. I don't earn enough to pay others to do things for me, so I have to fix my cars, build my house, and I built a shop to keep my vehicles running, and to work on others I get cheap to keep myself busy. 45-50 year old crippled guy building a house damn near alone.
I used to be ultra self reliant and highly capable before they fucked up my body, now I can walk about an hour a day. If I stand too long, I have to take two or three days off, they won't fix the problem until I am over 60. I live in pain, I feel an icepick jabbing into me right now. Nobody cares so I do everything myself.
This is what these lazy fucks are clamoring for, to live like I do? Allowed a certain amount of money for simply existing? I earned this and look what it is. I have a bunch of old cars, most I have had for years or decades, and I put thousands of hours of time into them, so I can feel useful. They might look nice in pics of video, but they are beaters with shiny paint I spray on them.
If they think they will be better off in a socialist country, they are sorely mistaken. They don't care about being limited, they want to be taken care of. I don't have a choice since if I were to work it would be so slowly its not profitable for anyone. They want to be children and the state be their daddy. I just want to be able to walk and run again, or sleep an entire night without waking up ready to kill something. I am highly aware that under a socialist system I am going to be left to rot, the victim classes are ahead of me. Thus if it comes to that, expect to hear my rifles sing the song of my people once again.
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@mysteriousmansion1841 thank you, I am doing ok, but I would like to have running water and better insulation in my house. Driving 13 mils to take a shower at the gym has gotten old after 6 years. It feels like a long deployment where nobody is shooting at me, I can smoke weed if I want to, drive my cars any time I like that its not snowing, and play video games all winter. Just as trapped as a deployment, but I can do what I want to do within my small, scenic, tree and snow covered prison. Sometimes I even bother to go get laid.
Today I spent my 'able to walk' time cleaning up after the huskies who got into some stuff and made a massive mess. the younger one loves to shred paper, so if she gets a shopping bag, newspaper, magazine, or anything like that its confetti while I sleep.
I keep a positive outlook because I have no choice by design. I have too much shit to do to end it all. Too many responsibilities, too many cars I want to build, things I want to do. Comments I want to post to youtube were precious few people read them. ;)
I can't imagine people wanting to live beholden to others, told what they are worth, and limited by force in what they are allowed to do. It might be that I have bigger dreams than they do, and the will to make them happen despite obstacles, hardships, and limitations.They might want to be a house cat, or a plant. I wanted something more from life than to be 'taken care of' so the hard limits really irritate me.
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Joker, I will be making a video showing how to build the compost pile heater, and how to produce methane with it later this fall. If you want to do it, start getting woodchips, sawdust, grass clippings, enough water proof material to line the bottom, some fencing panels that will make at least a 20'x20' circle, 600 feet of 2" plastic sprinkler pipe, and two of the 275 gallon square plastic tanks, or a large tank with a removable lid to make the methane. I usually put around 275 gallons of water into them, so a tank to hold that much will be needed, no use in wearing out your well pump, collect rain water from the roof of your shed.
You mentioned it the other day in a video. It will be towards August or September when I do it, I don't need to heat anything until October. I'm trying to order a sawmill so I can make lumber and get plenty of sawdust, and later this year I will probably get a 3 point PTO driven woodchipper for my tractor too. Then I can make heaters without having to travel to get the wood. All I have to do is clean up my forest every year.
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Its not about the environment, that is merely the justification they are attempting to use so they can force us under their control.
Engines burning neat ethanol produce only CO2 and H2O, no need for a catalytic converter, they also waste less energy as heat, and the heat can be utilized to improve efficiency, meaning better mileage. Ethanol can also handle very high compression ratios, in the 20:1 range which makes more power and drastically improves efficiency.
We could have smaller engines which means less mass, smaller cooling systems which means less mass, making more power, burning denatured ethanol, getting better mileage than gasoline vehicles and the CO2 would be from plant matter already above the ground so its close to zero carbon.. not that I see CO2 as a pollutant anyway. It makes my plants grow faster and produce more sugar that I can turn into more fuel.
Also there are ways to make ethanol that do not involve corn, monoculture, or actually killing the plants that make the starch/sugar. I make it from tree sap and cattails. I run old carbureted and newer EFI vehicles on it. I get better mileage and a lot more power from ethanol than I do on gasoline, because I am not handicapping the engine so it will run on gasoline. These are high compression engines that are made to run hotter than you can on gasoline so the fuel will vaporize more completely, which also increases efficiency.
No engine or fuel system parts have been harmed in the 15 years I have been testing ethanol fuels in worst case scenarios regarding supposed corrosion. Quite contrary to the claims made, my fuel pumps, carbs, injectors, filters, and engines last much longer than they did on gasoline going all the way back to the 1980s when I started building engines and vehicles to drive/race. The rear tires are another thing entirely, with all the extra torque the tires can let the smoke genie out very easily. One must be careful with the throttle and 600ftlbs from idle to 4500rpm.
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They do not want us to travel, its not about the environment, its not about climate, its not about what is best for us. Its about controlling us, our movement, and making us dependent upon them and the system they force on us, so we are easier to exploit for profit.
Electric vehicles are expensive, have limited range, suffer from corrosion and that creates fire hazards, require a never ending supply of minerals like copper, lithium, cobalt, etc. The batteries have a shorter lifespan than ICE power, and still need to be charged somehow. They can be shut off remotely in most current models, if not all of them. They are dependent upon the grid, which has its limits and vulnerabilities. The big thing is the expense, to get the range costs a lot more, and you still have to wait for it to charge so long trips are going to be longer.
I like the power electrics make, the Tesla is surprisingly quick for a four door family car. So I am not against them, they would work well in an urban environment where stop and go traffic is the norm. They are not using much energy when not moving, and the pollution to charge them is moved outside the city, which already has more than enough waste to deal with. They still produce waste heat, but only when moving and charging.
My big issue with them is cost, range, and how easily they are disabled by someone who wants to control you. Nobody is going to be able to command my 1965 GTO to shut off, nor any other pre 2004 vehicle I own and they cannot prevent me from using tree sap vodka to fuel it. They can run the price of gasoline into the $20 range, and I will still be driving old internal combustion engines for cents per gallon... and making a lot more power while doing it.
Like I said before though, its not about the environment, because they do not want me making my own fuel, food, and electricity as they do not profit from it. They do not want me to become energy independent, they want me dependent upon them for everything, because then they can control me. Shut off the energy when I say something they do not like.... that is where they want to take us.
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@bpint695 its funny you say that, because I fake being nice all the time. Last week I was talking to one of the guys who works at the grocery store I frequent, and told him why I am so friendly and kind while I am in there. Its because if I show my true self, the military trained all business man, I get calls from the sheriff telling me not to go there anymore.
So I am polite and kind to people, like letting someone with a handful of things go ahead of me in line when I have a cart full of stuff.
Well one of the 33 year old not men, was privy to our conversation, and yesterday when she saw me, everything about her had changed. Her body language, her demeanor, her expressions.. she was showing massive interest, because now she knows I am playing a role (the nice guy), so the incongruency with how I look and how I act was removed. She had minor interest before, but it was ramped up significantly yesterday.
However.. there is also a thing where they are far more attracted to me the week before their monthly thing. So she is probably starting that soon. During that time and the week after, they have the least interest in me. I learned that many years ago, and it has been a constant with minimal variables. The reason they like me in the first place is the muscle, deep voice, and the hyper masculine facial features.. even though I try to look like my name implies on here and I don't dye my beard, its mostly gray.
Other people in line picked up on her reaction to me.. it was most amusing.
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@brooksroth345 I never worked retail, food service, or any min wage job. Never applied for one. I grew up dirt poor on a farm in Nebraska, 20 miles from town. Had to sell sweet corn I grew to buy my first car, then I had to keep it running on a shoestring. If it wasn't running, I could not get into town to get parts or work a job. I didn't get paid working on our farm, my brother did. You could say I had quite a lot of pressure on me to make something of myself, because working for nothing on the farm wasn't going to get me anywhere.
I worked construction, as a mechanic, got a machinist job that taught me a lot, but then lost it because I got pink eye. Worked for seed companies during harvest which was 12 hour days 7 days a week August to November. I put in as much overtime as I could so I could get off the farm. A year after I graduated I enlisted in the USAF. I did four years and the drawdown in 1992 left me a civilian again. Got a factory job 8 months after I got out, that was not an enjoyable 8 months. I hunted rabbits in ditches so I could eat something.
That job was damaging my health after 6 years working there, so I moved on to an auto repair shop. Once I got the customer backlog caught up, nobody came back. Started my own shop and was doing ok, until my now ex decided to spend all my seed money on frivolous stuff, like going to the bar and getting hotel rooms... without me. Ended up going back to the military in 2000, just in time for my second conflict.
Came back from my 2004 deployment unable to run, and barely able to walk. I live in pain now, and have been out since 2005. it would be another ten years before the first wife was paid off and my income was only going to me. The second wife took off in 2013, and left me with nowhere to live... again.
I built my house, and the shop where I work on my vehicles, using the trees I cleared from the land I managed to buy as my second divorce was final. Working through the chronic pain, on a very tight budget in 2015, I managed to get the shop done and build a temporary house from 3 shipping containers. I rebuilt it in 2019 to a larger version with much improved insulation.
If I had relied on someone else, or waited for someone to do something for me, I would have gone nowhere. Almost everything I know, other than my military job, is self taught.
One of the guys I worked for said I had whiskey taste and water pocketbook, but really what I have is ambition to do things most people never would. I never made more than $40k, and still managed to do a lot more than most people could on that.
I never finished my degree, and I was taking 12 credit hours while working 50-60 hours a week, and I started a family with the first wife. I got one student loan, for $2000, and paid it back 6 years later.
Here is now I see life, you can either beg others for everything, or you can figure out how to earn what you want yourself.
Getting pregnant to get benefits is a very short sighted 'solution' and it only makes life harder for the kids you'll have. Being risk averse and thinking short term does you no favors.
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damage.... heh. I have been running hydrous ethanol, with 4% to 15% water still in it as it comes out of my still, and E85 since 2007 in my 1970 GTO, with the original tank and hard lines. The 1968 LeMans has been on it since 2015 with the original tank. The 1965 GTO since last summer after I completed a frame off rebuild from a very rusty rolling shell. The 1998 LS1 powered Formula has had everything from E0 to E100 run through it without modifications.At 50% the 98 Formula throws a lean bank code because the ECM has tight parameters, but at 30-40% it makes a ton of power. Larger injectors and a retune and it will run E100 no problem.
After a decade running hydrous ethanol and E85 I have zero problems with corrosion, eating rubber parts, and actually all of it lasts longer than it did on gasoline. No stainless, no special rubber, just basic NAPA and Advance Auto rubber fuel hose, and whatever electric pump will hand with my 455s.
Water in ethanol fuel is not a problem at all, until you get to about 30% - 40%, then it starts to pull aluminum into suspension via electrolysis over a rather long time. Water and ethanol mix together in such a way that yo have to run them through a still to separate them, and if yo add 1 gallon of ethanol to 1 gallon of water, you do not end up with 2 gallons, its a bit over 1.75 gallons. They bond at the molecular level, and that allows you to burn water that collects in the tank from heat cycle condensation.
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They can't comprehend that anyone would not agree with the marxist ideology, they live in a bubble where everyone they know feels the same, or at least says they do. That echo chamber prevents them from seeing the fact that most people in the USA are opposed to marxism, but it has been whitewashed to seem as though it isn't what it is.
Rather than take responsibility for making an sjw fantasy turd, they must put the blame elsewhere or it will shatter the fragile belief system they are clinging to.. much like when you show a christian young earth creationist fossils.
I saw the first six Star Wars films in the theater, first run, starting when I was 8 years old. You could say I was a huge fan, it blew me away. 1977 was a HUGE year for movies, Alien, Smokey, Star Wars, and other amazing flicks were either made or released that year... most of which the old people just didn't get and the critics hated. Now we get propaganda, wishful thinking, showing that heroes are losers and that we should not aspire to achieve, just sit back and take what is given to you.
They are making crap movies now, with crap writing, crap actors, crap premise and plot, and rather than coming up with something new and unique, they rehash everything... and can't figure out why the movies are failing. They are making John Wayne B movies but putting John Wayne in them after he is famous and hoping he can carry a B movie, but he can't because he has been dead almost 30 years. How the fuck do you get 9 hours of film from a short story you can read in about an hour? You fill it with all kinds of extra bullshit and still call it the Hobbit. Thats how.
At least Marvel is doing something interesting.
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@UltraKardas you did not read what I said either. Karl created his own religion, using the template of his family's small hat religion, but warped from his resentment, envy, laziness and entitlement. Every marxist ever was filled with resentment and entitlement, and they are too lazy to do what needs to be done to get what they want. They feel entitled to what they want but will not put in the work to earn it, instead they want it taken from other people and given to them. That is exactly how Karl was, and if Engels had not supported that asshole, he would have died of starvation.
I know about the mouse utopia experiment, we are living a version of it. Rome fell because of it, every civilization goes through it, but now we have even more idiotic religions...
I was going to ask how hard it is for religious nuts and zealots to comprehend that not believing in something does not require tenets, pillars or whatever else. Then I remembered, that zealots have to see the world through the ideological lens placed over their eyes , and its impossible not to see the world in a religious way.
Most people NEED to be a follower, they need someone else to tell them how to live, what to do, what not to do, when to do it, and they shirk the responsibility that comes with deciding for themselves. They want others to decide for them, and they can attribute any fucked up thing they do to 'gods will' or the mysterious nature of their fabricated god.
To kill the infidel is not murder, it is the path to heaven, deus vult. Just because they do not believe the same as you, god says to kill them. Wipe out an entire culture, enslave their kids, and take their females as sex slaves. Thats the 'morality' of your god, the same god the muslims worship 5 times a day, and yet y'all think that somehow its not the same god with the same stories and same fucked up tenets.
I've read your bible five times in parochial school, in lieu of learning math and science. I know what it says, what it demands, and how Jesus tells you to stop bothering to live, earn, and put in effort because he is coming back any day now in his 'sermon on the mount.'
However you compartmentalize it, and think you are just and moral because your bible tells you its true.. then you cherry pick the parts you like and ignore the parts you do not... like owning people. Your bible tells you the 'proper' way to own people, and that you can beat them as long as they don't die within three days.
I have my own morality and it is far better than that of your god. I do not need to be told how to live, I can handle that myself. I do not need someone to decide for me, or to wait for them to get around to helping me, or providing me with the strength or whatever to go through life..
AND STILL.... I will fight for your right to delude yourself and then you will piously treat me like shit because of your fucked up ideology. The marxists are worse than you guys, because you have no legal power to enact the demands of your god, while they are allowed to craft laws based on their religion, and it will soon outlaw yours. Bunch of myopic, ignorant, self deluded dumabsses because you can't comprehend what the fuck I am telling you.
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@thegrayone5666 you think having a screen babysit your kids is capitalism? You think being paid for your labor, or selling something for a mutually agreed upon price is somehow the same as a religion?
Deciding for yourself, making your own path through life, becoming someone valuable rather than one of the billions who simply show up and do the minimum, or following along doing just the minimum and surviving, is what is called liberty. You get to decide if you will be useful and productive or a loser. What you put in is what you get out.
It is not capitalist that I had everything I earned taken from me and given to two cheating wives. Its not capitalist that I was working for 4% of my pay because the rest was going to taxes and the ex. That shit is socialist.
Its like most people think all the socialist bullshit injected into our legislation and markets, including the fiat currency, is somehow capitalist. They can't comprehend the fact that diluting the workforce by getting females to go work lowers wages, as does bringing in illegals. It drives down wages through supply and demand.. and people wonder why we have a problem with needing two incomes to live beyond their means.
They can't understand that is what is happening in democrat run cities, they want to keep the minorities from achieving, they want to keep the poor from getting anywhere, and the whole time they tell them they are poor because of someone other than the actual culprits who have had control of the city for decades. They blame capitalism, when all the problems are socialist/marxist in our system.
The problem is the same in capitalism as marxism, as to why everyone is not rich. People are not equal, some are stupid, some are lazy, some run into bad luck, others get fucked over through no fault of their own, but most make poor decisions. Those people will be poor in capitalism, but if they pull their heads out of their asses they can improve their lot in life.
Those people are put in control with marxism, because the stupid, ignorant, lazy, and resentful are lauded and are to be emulated. With marxism the more useless you are the more valuable you happen to be. If they have it and I do not its because they stole it from me or took advantage of me, not because I am a lazy good for nothing moron who never put in the effort and just want it all given to me.
The stupid I run into in the yotuube comments still baffles me. The ignorance is utterly astounding in its scope and breadth. How can people remain so ignorant with so much information easily attainable? People don't seem to stop and think, they just parrot what others have told them and then try to claim victory. The only place with more stupidity that I have been to is facebook. I hear twitter is rife with morons and ideologues... I never bothered to go there.
and assholes like me write too much.
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@Bender_B._Rodriguez Been thinking for myself my entire life, and my bullshit detector is very sensitive. If I found something to make me think there might be a god who supposedly created the entire universe, yet doesn't know how it all works, then I would question the intellect of said god.
Occams razor: The simple solution is usually the right one.. god was made up, just like all the other gods.
Ok, so lets hypothetically agree god is made up. What are the upsides and down sides?
People get comfort from the idea there is a benevolent invisible guy in the sky who is watching over them. As long as they have something to cling to they will do what they must to survive, even if they then attribute it to the sky fairy. I figure that is a plus.
Ignorant uneducated morons in the past needed something to keep them from doing stupid shit, the ol grape and pillage but instead of the other side of the mountain they would do it at home to their neighbors. Protecting the people from idiots with the fear of someone always watching. Also a plus.
The idea that if you lead a good life and believe in the sky fairy that you will have eternal life, well.. that is a double edged sword. It will limit some people so they do not achieve what they could have, because 'hey, fuck it, I will live forever if I waste my life reading this book and doing the little dances it wants me to do.' but it can also lead people to good lives.
Some down sides:
Most wars have ben justified with religion, despite being mostly fought over resources. The Hebrews killed off as many people around them as they could, if they hadn't you' have no idea about their sky wizard. You'd probably like the JuJu in the mountain or something.
When religion is in control, you get atrocities, witch burnings, beheadings, mutilations, stonings, public executions for trivial things such as me writing this ... which along with my apostasy would get me beheaded in Saudi Arabia. Its demanded by their god to kill people, not because they have killed people or done something evil... but for arbitrary shit that in the big scheme does not matter.
My god is better than your god, and the elitism that brings where believers think they are better than other people when they are doing some seriously fucked up things. This is ubiquitous among people following the marxist religion.
So the way I see it as long as religion does not hold the power of the state or some warlord, it is benign and can provide comfort for the 80% of people who need an authority to follow. Allow any religion to run a government and you will get people being killed for stupid reasons, and other idiotic shit.
a bit over 1000 years ago Al Ghazali fucked over the entire Arab people, by claiming math is evil (essentially) which kept the previously thriving Arab culture stagnant. The greatest minds were in the Arab world, and now all that intellect is stifled and shoved into a box of violence and death.
I myself have a similar story to the Arabs, and trust me I adore those people... when they aren't needlessly killing others. (yes every race does it too) I wonder where they would have gone, how far humans would have progressed by now, if only the Arabs were not stifled by Ghazali.
I was sent to a parochial school, we read the bible instead of doing math and science. All the science they did teach us was wrong. I was in my 20s before I got a handle on math, and I discovered its intuitive to me, I am not 'stupid' like my parochial teachers claimed I was. They wanted to put me in special ed, and remedial everything despite the fact I was reading at post grad level in 5th grade.
Where could I be today if I had not been held back by idiots who can't comprehend why we have seasons and why we can see some constellations in winter and others in fall? I explained the axial tilt of the earth to my teacher in 4th grade, he flat out said I was wrong and the earth flopped around on its axis.
Nothing good came of his teaching, in 5th grade I had surpassed him already. I was stuck with him from 4th to 6th, and my parents wanted me to do 7 and 8 there as well, I told them if I go back there I will kill him. There is more to that, but I would have ended the prick.
That is not why I am atheist, that moron only fucked up my education, and I lost my religion in my 40s. It never really took anyway, my bullshit detector was working in Sunday school, and I got in trouble for asking questions they could not answer with anything more than because I said so or the 'mysterious ways' bullshit..
I am not a bronze age desert nomad who has never left the local area, I have traveled the world and seen things most people never will. I was there when history happened, not watching it on TV. The more you learn about other people, their beliefs, their culture, what they want for themselves and their kids, you start to realize we all want essentially the same things.
I don't need an authority to decide for me, I can figure this shit out on my own... because I have been doing that my entire life. You never know, I might be smarter than you and that is why I don't delude myself with thinking I was atheist, religious, atheist, religious or some other nonsense. We might be equal intellectually, but my experience has lead me to question things where you have not. It could be lots of things, but you cling to the delusion, and I do not.
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@sarahalderman3126 first marriage was 8 years of hell. Then another 15 years indentured to her with the state taking 71% of my gross and leaving me living in my car on active duty in the US military from 2001 to 2004. Finally paid her off in 2015. She turns 50 next year, is 300lbs, addicted to oxy, and her spineless wimp of a wallet is growing some balls and has left her.
The second one turned 40 last week, is alone and unwanted since her 'soulmate' that she decided was better than me dumped her for years ago. She lives off her dad, he pays all her bills. She was a 21 year old virgin when I met her in 2003. We lived together until 2011 and never fought, argued, or had any problems. Got married in '11, and were divorced in 2013.
You can't get two more disparate people then my ex wives, and yet they both did the same thing. Lied, cheated, falsely accused me so they could feel like a victim since they caused the problem.
So you have made it 21 years. Did you accept it and forgive her when she cheated? Do you think she never has? If she really hasn't then she must not have had the opportunity, e.g. she is a 'big girl' or you guys are ultra religious.
Not impugning your wife, not every one of them will cheat given the opportunity... my issue is that they can, and will be rewarded for doing it. The state and society reward them, financially and with social validation respectively.
If you have a good one, congrats, its rare. I can read people exceptionally well, so I can tell when they are thinking about cheating, when they are going to do it, and when they have done it. Girls all have the same tells, they all do the same things, act the same way when they cheat. Once you know it, you cannot unsee it.
I am number 2 of 6 kids. Four boys two girls. My brothers are all still married, but the oldest has a wife nobody else would consider getting into, the second one has an interesting relationship where she knows she can't do better than him, and the youngest, well... his wife is fat, lazy, blue haired, and if she had the chance she would cheat in a heartbeat and take him for everything he has.
We entrusted the family farm to the youngest, land that has been in our family since 1867. It will not end well for her if she decides to divorce him and take that land. Its only a matter of time though.
For everyone who isn't either lucky, or is blissfully unaware of her cheating, its roughly a 60% chance they will get divorced. That is akin to 6 of 10 people getting hit by trucks crossing the street at a particular intersection. So you're one of the 4 who made it across. Would you actually cross that street if 6/10 get whacked there?
I got hit on that street twice. I am sticking to muscle cars and investing in things that I will not allow the state to take from me, and give to an undeserving
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@iv6123 how exactly do you do that? You have to take the risk, put your head on the chopping block and wait to see if she has the state drop the ax or not. Let me tell ya, its one hell of a risk.
Try this out for size. That 71% of my gross in support equaled to over $250k over 15 years ('01 to '15). The judge started me out $10k in arrears, which meant my drivers license, passport, and security clearance were all revoked immediately. I lived in my car on active duty from 2001 to 2004 because I was getting $100 checks to last me the entire month. When I was sent to Korea I went behind because we get paid less, and they sometimes gave me $50 a month.
I had standing bench warrants out for me from 01 to 15, they liked to seize my bank account when I got close to being current which would make the payment bounce, and they could then tack on interest and extra charges.
From 2001 to 2008 I got to see my kids a total of 12 days. When I would go home on leave I would have to hunt her down like a PI to get to see my kids. She constantly changed her phone number, screened calls on holidays and birthdays, and if I managed to send a gift she took it for herself or threw it out.
The only way you know if she is going to cheat is to hook up with her and find out. We bear all the risk, as everything paid to her comes from us. Everything we invest and build is taken and give to her by default, and it doesn't matter if she cheated, lied, or mistreats the kids. She is rewarded by default.
No fault divorce is a nice way of saying its "His Fault"
As a 53 year old guy who has had to rebuild his life 8 times, and only two of them were from a huge deficit thanks to divorce, I have to recommend not taking the risk.
Everyone thinks it won't happen to them... until it does.
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@mattbarker1411 you don't know about no fault divorce I take it. Its the mans fault, just like no fault car insurance here in Michigan.
Sounds good on paper, but here is how it works. Lets say someone is driving drunk, comes down my 400' driveway, bashes through my shop door and bashes my car inside. My insurance has to pay for all of my stuff, my premiums go up, and I can have my insurance canceled because of it.
Here's how it works with divorce. She says "I am not happy" files for divorce, and they don't give two ratfucks what she does, she can bring her boyfriend to the court proceedings and suck him off while the judge watches, and you will still have to pay her.
Its the point that Tim is talking about, no fault divorce makes it so men are not even dating anymore. We are checking out and keeping our wallets to ourselves.
I caught both my ex's cheating, hell the first one was making videos with the couple she shacked up with and they went all over base. Judge did not care.
I had a 4" thick folder with photographic evidence that the first was hitting me and our two young daughters, including the scars I have from where she threw things at me. She stabbed me several times. She is diagnosed bipolar and was rapid cycling. Judge threw it out.
A 130lb girl is always the victim, even when the 230lb combat veteran man she is married to never harms her in any way and absorbs all of her violence to protect his kids. A man doing a fraction of what she did might not survive an encounter with me, but I never harmed her. Did not matter. The cops always wanted to haul me off, and would have if she told them to.
That is the reality of divorce in the USA. Very few states care if she cheats, is violent, or even has a substance problem. Last I knew South Carolina did 20 years go, but thats the only one I am aware of.
Its based on the Duluth model. The man is always guilty, should always be arrested even if he has been stabbed/shot/bludgeoned/etc, she is always the victim and is allowed to remain when she is the cause of all the violence. If she is violent its because of something he did. You know, exactly like what you said.
I never cheated on either of them. Never harmed nor hit them, hey were treated very well with me.
Ignorance of all of this, such as you and most people have, is why its still in effect. You don't know or care until it happens to you. You also assume it won't happen to you. Well... lets see how your relationships go.
I am done with them.
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We are not disparaging women when we point out their nature, and that nature is the reason we are all here right now. However, to them it appears they are being called subhuman because they judge that exact female behavior to be unsavory. It is their own judgment on themselves with which they have the problem. They do not realize they are being hypergamous, solipsistic, and following exactly the natural programming which has made our species so prolific.
Its how you are ladies, no need to hate yourselves for it, but we would greatly appreciate it if you kept it in check.
You cannot judge women on the same scale as men, nor can you judge men on the same scale as women. We are too disparate in too many ways that are intricately important. No its not apples and oranges differences in humans, but the differences are profound enough to make for very different thought patterns and behaviors, along with capabilities. We are not the same, its called dimorphism. Judging a female on the male standard will always result in the female doing no better than mediocre at the very best when it comes to these criteria.
The willingness and eagerness to always trade up that is hypergamy is not a deficiency in females, its a fucking feature. However, it is adverse to social norms for most societies, and is therefore subject to controls in many of them. It does not make you bad people, it simply makes you willing to trade in one man for another you perceive to be better.
How it relates to us older guys talking to the young guys, well they are told girls are amazing, wonderful, awesome, nearly perfect and will never cheat, lie, or falsely accuse. They are not informed of the human nature inherent to all females, nor are they educated on the nature inherent to every damn one of us. They are told at best lies, and that leads them to take risks that end up with their world being shattered, losing their kids, having to live under the poverty level, and often out of their car if they still have one she did not get in the divorce.
We are simply educating young men to not fall into the pitfalls that have been set before them which will harshly punish said young men for the actions of the females they decide to write a check against. You may claim not all women are like that, but you are not very introspective and also judging yourself on the male scale. You do it every time a man speaks to you who is unattractive, and every time an attractive man notices you. You are exerting your hypergamous tendencies, and you don't even know it. You see, it is how the human mating ritual works at its very core, and civilization is for more productive when hypergamy is kept in check and beta males can get laid then have families.
That is why your hypergamy has been controlled, well, attempted to be controlled since the dawn of civilization. Y'all will hop on another stick if you get the opportunity and never feel even a little bit bad about it. You simply deny you are like that, when in fact it is at the very core of your humanity. Its a feature that has kept humans thriving for a bit over a million years.
Its who you are, and that does not mean we dislike you, hate you, want to control or limit you, just that with the laws we have now, we get punished for it, and you get rewarded. We are imply informing young men that they will be punished if your hypergamy runs rampant while they are attached to you legally.
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@GomersPile01 yep, they're being promoted. Its a bait and switch, a chameleon, Trojan horse, push females out there and drown out the men. The crap they are putting in my suggested area on here is hilariously bad. I am into cars, off grid/sustainable living, making fuel/energy, and watching a bit of red pill. In that order. Today its all BS, pop songs, and other crap. If I want to listen to music its usually industrial, like Rammstein and similar bands. These chicks are plastered all over my feed,. I do not care for them or their messages.
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The kids are assholes, I do not blame the dogs for being dogs.
The dogs are not the problem. Dogs have a nature, its in every one of them, not just certain breeds and if they are threatened or their pack members are, they will fight. If they think of other animals as food, they will try to kill and eat them. Its all in how you socialize dogs with other pets.
I am allergic to cats, but I have two cats that live outside and keep the rodent population in check. I live in a forest so there is plenty for them to catch and eat. I feed them on top of the rodents they catch.
I have two Siberian Huskies that get to live inside. The younger husky is a rescue because she used to escape and catch cats in the small town where I found her. I make sure the cats and dogs don't mix, because those huskies can run down almost any animal. The cats learned to stay out of the fenced in yard when the dogs chased them up trees one time they were back there.
The huskies have a 3 acre fenced in yard, 8' high fence with logs around the bottom so they can't crawl under. The cats have the rest of the forest. If the huskies escape, I have to wait until a neighbor calls me and says they are have them. They go hunting and there is no stopping them. If you know huskies, you know recall is not their strong suit. They do what they want, and merely decide that what you are suggesting might be fun for now.... or not.
My daughter has pitt boxers, sweetest dogs ever... until someone in the group of dogs has a disagreement, then the pitts go for ears and legs. Her dogs get along with cats, but the cats stay away from dogs.
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This is why I paid off my mortgage and building loan in Feb 2021. Been debt free since. I knew this was coming, and I didn't want a bank telling me I don't own it anymore. You want a home? Buy a chunk of land in an area where most people don't live. Build a house on it like I did. Avoid cities like they're full of brain munching zombies. You can make money working for yourself instead of stocking shelves, handing people coffee, or whatever nametag and hairnet job you have.
Live within your means, and that is NOT renting a tiny apartment for several thousand a month in a big city full of horrible people. Don't drive a new car, buy a 20 to 60 year old vehicle and learn to keep it running. Its vastly less expensive working on it yourself than taking it to a shop. Harbor Freight, Lowes, Menards, even NAPA has quality low cost tools. There are how to videos on here catering to whatever vehicle you end up getting. I rebuilt transmissions in the bed of my pickup, so you can keep an old car running too.
I saw what the two previous blue regimes did, and I knew they would end up running things into the ground again, so I made it happen during the downturn after 2008. Bought my land in 2013, after putting work into it, I could sell it for a hell of a lot more than I have in it... but I am not selling it. I like living here, and I can live off my land if I have to. Looks like I will have to in the next few years.
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I hated the two of these I saw... because I know cars far too well to believe any of it.
In 2001 I was deployed to Kuwait, 9/11 happened and we were stuck on Camp Doha for the next 7 weeks. The first Fast and Fictitious movie was out and we could go watch it for free. We went to see it out of boredom. At this point I had been building hotrods, muscle cars and had a low 11 to mid ten second 79 Pontiac Formula I built. 455, ported heads, mild stall, fun stuff. I had been running nitrous and built some boosted 5.0s for guys for a while, but didn't need it with that one as a 175 shot gave it at most .2 in the quarter.. maxed out on gearing. So I am sitting there and watching this flick, and my brain is screaming at all the BS I am seeing. It completely pulled me out of 'suspension of disbelief' which you need to enjoy a movie. The wannabe car guys were all talking mad trash and believed it..
The military trains us to spot things out of place, uniforms, people doing things they shouldn't, things that weren't there yesterday, any incongruency. I happen to know cars, as I was an ASE certified master tech, and ASE master machinist at that point. Don't need the certs now, so why pay for them? I had the certs because I ran a shop building engines, transmissions, changing gears/setting up rear ends, building carbs, modifying EFI, and generally making shit go faster in the late 90s. NAFTA sent all the manufacturing jobs to Mexico, so I had to enlist again after being out 7 years. Yay more wars.. so much fun and excitement.
The combination of my knowledge base, the real world experience with turbos, nitrous, superchargers, and understanding math when it comes to gear ratios, top speed, acceleration and the relation to engine RPM, made these movies unwatchable.. Knowing how fast the fastest imports were at the time made them hilarious. Out driving the beater Formula and having kids in fart can and wing Hondas trying to race me was most amusing. That thing would stomp most street bikes of the time, liter bikes were a challenge with small riders. I saw lots of ricer flybys a mile from where we started, then they'd go on their forums and brag about it.. the turbo Neon kids were the worst though, my god they were slow and pathetic, thinking 14s are SUPER fast. Hell tens was slow as fuck where I came from... the land of 1320Video. My car was 4th fastest street car in the Nebraska town I lived in, but not even top 100 in the state... and that was in the 1990s. now its even worse.
Gone in 60 seconds with Nick Cage is just as bad. Yes most military movies suck to me too, since I know that as well. So car movies, war movies, and anything else where I am not ignorant of whats going on are hard to watch.
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I didn't plan to be on a fixed income at 36, in 2005.. but here we are. I am stuck with the VA, not allowed to earn money elsewhere. The ex kept me from getting ahead on anything, saving, investing, and the ex was getting 71% of my income before taxes until 2015. I fully expected to work my entire life, and once healed enough to walk from my last deployment in 2004, I have been working for myself. I can't afford to pay someone else to do things for me, so I built my house, shop, the PCs I use for this and gaming in the evenings, the cars I drive.. I usually build or make things rather than buy them. Any savings I made would be seized by kid support enforcement, they intentionally kept me living on nearly nothing. They seemed to enjoy punishing me for the audacity to be a dad.
The last three days I dug a trench from the house to the shop to bury Cat5 so I can get wifi in the steel walled shop. I've been rebuilding a 71 Mustang for the last couple months, built a 71 Ventura before that, and worked on the interior or my shop while doing the cars. They are both low buck builds, definitely NOT $50k to $150k builds like most people claim it costs to build old muscle cars. More like $3500 for the Ventura and the Mustang is going to be around $15k, it was super rusty. The replacement sheet metal alone was $3500, but also I started on it way back in 2005. The 69 GTO is super rusty, but the 70 GTO isn't too bad.
Might sound like I have a lot of money invested, but the 70 was $1000 and I got it in 1994, the 69 was $200 in 2021, its THAT rusty. I get the cars that are too rusty for anyone else to even consider rebuilding them... because they need to pay shops to do all the work, whereas I do it all myself.. it just takes me a while, because I am still physically limited, it simply hurts less now than it did 2004 to 2014. I order the sheetmetal, cut the rusty stuff off, weld in the new parts, paint it, rebuild the brakes, suspension, engine, and transmission, wire it, recover the seats, and turn it into a daily driver. I do all of it, except machine work on the engine, because the tooling to do so is expensive, but I can do the machining. I was a machinist when I wasn't in the military.
You gotta stay busy. The more active I am, the less everything hurts. From about 7 years old to 36 I was working and extremely active, doing things most people never would or even could. Now since my injury, I need to walk every day, need to have something to do, so I build old cars that I have usually owned for years or decades. Digging the trench was a bit much for someone in his 50s, I should have rented a trencher, but this cost me a lot less to do it with a pickax and shovel. For a few years I would take January and February off, to save money because heating the shop cost to much when its that cold. When I started moving in March and April it meant a lot of pain, shortness of breath, like I was getting back in shape for wrestling way back in high school. Now I can stay active all winter, and even if its -10F I can work in the shop without it costing me a fortune in fuel. Insulation makes a big difference, that was my winter project along with the cars.
Its kinda funny, getting messed up in the desert was possibly the best thing to happen to me, since everyone else has always taken from me and given nothing back. Had to do everything the hard way, which means doing it myself, but now after 20 years of effort, I am ok as long as I never get married or ever date again.
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I like first person shooters on the PC, online used to be what I wanted to do. Combat flight sims like IL2m, Call of Duty, the Ghost Recon from around 2001, those were what I was into. Picked up Skyrim and FO4 along with GTA SA, IV and V. I like those too, and thanks to the devs going with the asinine console matching system for all games, the FPS on PC is utter crap now. The combat flight games are full of story line love story bullshit, and while the graphics look good they are button mashers for kids. COD5 was the last one with dedicated servers for us, and now we wait 10-15 minutes to find a match, and then it drops us intermittently. They do nothing about the obvious hacks, but want us to spend real money on crap.
I only game in the winter, because where I live there isn't much to do with all the snow and cold temps. I still have snow here mid April, just got 3 inches yesterday. Red Dead Redemption is probably the last game I am ever going to buy, when it is released for PC... unless Rockstar keeps going with the GTA like it has been. They do this micro transaction crap, I am out.
So all the kids can have the button mashers and mindless spend money to win crap. I bought the damn thing, I am not sending more cash to you so I can open up a new whatever. I am almost 50, and most of the guys I game with on PC are around 50 to 60, and the kids come from consoles to play with us, get pwn3d, then buy some cheats so they can hang with the gray beards.. I and many guys my age are like fuck it. We started the whole video gaming thing 30 years ago, we want cool shit, not you kill someone and they turn into a 4 story building with garish colors everywhere. The console games will stick around, because kids will buy that shit, but we are the ones who have the money....
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@ericbishop1161 3.42 to 3.73 run essentially the same ET, but 3.73 loses a couple MPH according to Jim Hand.
What intake and heads are you running, have they been ported or not, what camshaft as in what is the @.050 lift duration, and how much stall? How much does it weigh?
You don't have to worry about the rods breaking with a stroker kit, so if it pulls to 6000, shift it at 6000. If you have ported Edelbrock heads with more than 300cfm at .500 lift, you can probably get 6500rpm out of it instead of 5200, but shift it before the point where it stops pulling. As long as you aren't floating any valves it should be good for at least 6000 even with iron heads.
An interesting thing I have found with Pontiac engines under 5500rpm, is they will run a lot faster with more timing. If you have a tall gear like a 3.08 or 3.42, it will stay in the lower RPM range longer, and that is where you want quite a bit of advance.
Provided you aren't going to run into ping/knock due to low octane, you can probably crank in a bunch of timing. Make sure you have good fuel, like race gas or E85, take it to the track and keep adding timing until it stops going faster.
The 79 Formula with 670 closed chamber heads, running 110 octane VP and Sunoco race gas in the 455 with 11.3:1 compression, was running 11.70s with 52 degrees total advance, one of the chevy guys said it shouldn't need more than 36 degrees, so we backed it down at the track. It slowed to 13.20s. I checked the balancer, it did not slip it was dead on. Those heads on the 455 in my 65 GTO running E85 like 40 to 44 total.
I found that to be a rather big difference and an interesting thing. Best I can figure is the 455 stayed in 2nd and 3rd for so long under 5000rpm, that the extra advance was what it wanted. Like I have said a few thousand times, Pontiacs are different and take different thinking, its more like a diesel that can rev to 6000.
Now if you have small chamber iron heads and have been running it on pump 87 or 89, DO NOT CRANK UP THE TIMING. You will flatten the rod bearings the first time you open it up on low octane pump gas if you have more than 8.8:1. Ask how I know.
The other thing is you want to run both vacuum and mechanical advance since you are driving it around. You want a fast advance curve, full advance before 3000rpm. You also do not want to connect the vacuum advance to full manifold vacuum, that is a weak suck chevy thing, you want to vacuum advance to come on after you are into the throttle.
No need to lock out the distributor, because with as much advance as it probably wants, it will have a really bad hot start problem. You have lots of torque available, too much at times, so you have to find that happy medium as it gets rolling. If it can dead hook, throw as much at it off idle as you possibly can.
If you have an Edelbrock carb, swap it for a Holley or perhaps a FiTech/Sniper system. the secondary opening rate of the Edelbrock carbs is too slow for a 400 or a 455, they leave power untapped. I ran a Demon 850 double pumper on my 8.8:1 455 in the 70 GTO, and from idle it would smoke the tires without holding the brakes. No bog, no lag, nothing but 'hold on to your butts' power.
If you drive it often go with a vacuum secondary 850 or 950 Holley, Demon, or a clone. You want the secondaries to open fast, but not bog, so a quick change kit of some sort is what you want. Change the springs until it just rips. My 455ci + Pontiacs usually have more than 15 inches of vacuum at idle, even with a big cam in them. When you have that, you can go with the lightest spring and it will not bog.
Mechanical secondary carbs just use a lot more gas driving around. These days that is not an acceptable thing, it gets expensive fast.
If your car is under 3400lbs, a 2.73 to 3.42 gear would work best, heavier than that a 3.42 or just keep what you have now. 2400 stall is all you need, unless you have more than 320cfm and a 270@.050 solid roller like I do. Then it changes things.
The 70 GTO was getting low 1.90 sixty foot times with a 2.93 gear, 1900 stall, Th400, and that 8.8:1 5C headed 455 running a UD 280/288 which is only a 224/228 cam with a 110LSA. That car without me is every bit of 4000lbs. I weighed 230 back when I was racing with it sometimes. It also liked to break Th400s, not burn clutches, it broke hard parts like center supports, and popped clutch pack springs out.
Lots of weight trying to be moved by lots of torque, with a highway gear... Transmission torture test.
Don't worry about matching the trap RPM to your shift points, you want that 463 to be grunting the entire length of the track, keeping it in its happy place RPM range as long as possible. Even a 240@.050 cam will grunt like crazy down low in a 455. I have an XE284 in a 461 with Edelbrock heads, its a freakin beast everywhere in the RPM range.
Part of why the Formula ran slower with the 4.10 gear is that it was all done at 900ft. So it was turning 6000rpm for the last 400feet of the track. That is not nice to stock rod Pontiacs. However the 3.42 gear 1/8 mile times were 7.40s, the 4.10 gear 1/8 mile times were 7.90-7.70, the taller gear pushes the car harder provided it hooks. I found that picking up .1 in the 1/8th is like picking up .2 to .4 in the quarter.
Making a long runner high velocity port vehicle RPM takes a lot more work than making it fast by improving what it is designed to do. Still you can easily take it to 6k and it will probably run in the 11s with just that.
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First ex was BPD. All of that from the vid and more, a lot more. I was punished for everything, but never did anything wrong... not even once. I was only trying to protect my two kids from the ex. Thats the only reason I stayed 8 years. It all came out after the second kid, some of it after the first. jealous of the kids checks out. I have a divot in the back of my head from a coffee mug hurled at me while I was teaching my younger kid to read... my kid was 3. The world goes hazy, and there is blood everywhere, no reason. Guess who they wanted to arrest while I got stitches.
I completely shut down, avoided the ex as much as possible, and spent time with my kids away from the ex. Did not participate in spicy time, the ex was giving it to anyone else anyway. The ex figured out the best way to hurt me was to take my kids, 1500 miles away, keep me poor by having 71% of my before tax income go to support.. and then proceeded to destroy the lives of my kids out of vindictive spitefulness.
In 1993 I had no idea that BPD even existed, how to spot it, or what would happen. I didn't have the internet to inform me, I was on my own, and the police, courts, and Nebraska itself was against me and sided with the ex in everything. I was treated like a criminal, and at best a wallet.
I never wanted to get revenge on the ex, I figured the damage the ex could do to h-self is far worse than what I might do, and a long life means decades of suffering. I live well, the ex is 51, over 300lbs, and in massive debt, because BPD cannot handle money. Also there is an issue with this stuff called oxy, and I don't mean the cleaning supplies. The life the ex has created is a living hell, and that entire family deserves all the misfortune and maladies that have happened to them.
Like I said, I had no idea, and nobody had any information 32 years ago.
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@Rivenburg-xd5yf I don't think its evil, but self absorbed, greedy, unimaginative, dishonest, disloyal, and willing to deceive for their own self interest.
Now those things are often considered evil, but to be honest they are simply part of human nature. The degree to which those traits present themselves varies greatly among people.
Now think of an ex wife... who cheated, lied, tried to paint herself as the victim when she was the reason everything went to shit. Is she evil? If you are her ex, you will definitely think so. To me, they are simply like the talking heads on TV, the democrats, and every marxist ever. The order I put them in is from mildest feminine thinking to the crazy batshit insane detrimental to everyone thinking.
Males can think that way too, look at all the marxists, Joe Biden, Clinton, Obama, they all thought and then took actions like females do. Obama had to be the most effeminate male to ever be elected to the oval office, before him it was Carter.
Females are not bad people, they are different than males, you cannot hold females to male standards, it is unfair to all involved. You cannot hold males to female standards either, because females will never get a fair shake if you do that. Put one high school basketball player in the WNBA and watch him dominate.
We are what we are. You can be the best version of yourself, but you cannot be something you are not. I am not tall, but I am very powerful. I will never run a 4 minute mile, I will never be a CEO, because I have zero interest in being one.
I accept who and what I am, everyone should as well, and work to improve themselves rather than drag everyone else down to their level.
The media, well they have no foresight, apparently no memory, and completely lack impulse control. They are very feminine minded.
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Ford and Kavanaugh are close to my age. Yeah, I am a gray haired guy who watches Tim and can set the clock on the microwave. I saw the pictures of her from when we were all in high school, and while I was not one of the popular kids, there is no way in hell I would have even hit on her if I even noticed her. When I was in school, I had very low standards, but she was below them by a good distance.
Now Bret was a popular guy, well off family, probably had an easy time with the ladies, easier than I did for sure. If she went to school with him, she wanted him, but he never even noticed her. She was so homely and fat as to be off his radar. We had Pheobe Cates and Farrah was hot back then. No fucking way was a popular guy going to try and force himself on an ugly girl.
She probably fantasized about it, and then turned that fantasy into her own version of reality, but no fucking way would that dude try to get in her granny panties. She is a feminist because she was too homely to get the guys she wanted, thats why most of them are feminists. Envious and resentful they aren't getting what they feel entitled to have, as in the top men who go after the cute girls who don't end up feminists. They then decide to hate men rather than lower their own standards and get with the fat nice guys wearing fedoras that will worship their gelatinous asses and kiss their cankles. Nope its better to be resentful and hate men entirely because you are ugly and loathe to do anything about it.
Show me a hot girl who isn't in movies that claims to be a feminist, and I will show you the most delusional entitled chick on the planet. Ford is delusional, but has never been hot. Not even for a minute at closing time near a convention for chubby chasers.
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Well Tony, you could avoid all of that fun, and start with a rolling shell that has almost nothing in it, or needs everything replaced. Sure it will still fight you and make things difficult, but when you replace everything and rebuild all the stuff you can rebuild, its good for a long time.
My 65 GTO was like that, everything needed replaced, nothing was good on it so I replaced or rebuilt all of it. Its a constant thing, something needs attention every year, some are recurring, others are new problems that crop up. Some of it I expect, like the 455 munching on Th350s and 700R4s. They just can't hang with the engine and the way I drive it.
I am afraid to do anything major on the Cuda, because mopars like to cause problems out of nowhere. It just turned over 50k since its restoration and cloning, has some issues from my sister driving it in the rain too many times, but for the most part it runs good. The wipers don't work on it, and I haven't looked into why, so I don't drive it in rain and it has RainX on it in case I get caught out in it. It has known electrical issues, the alternator isn't big enough, 60amps won't run everything. The GTO has a 100 amp alternator I built for it. For some reason I can't get the rebuild kid for the mopar alternator to turn it into a 100 amp unit like I can with the AC units.
Just part of the deal really... If you don't want to work on stuff, go buy a new Toyota or Kia, then you can't work on it without $40k in diagnostic equipment.
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What are they going to do when they discover lawnmower blades make fine cutting tools? Make everyone take care of their lawn with weed trimmers? Oh no, you can use the cords/strings, oh wait, lengths of rope, belts, neckties, garden hose, omg.. high places, windows of defenestration, blunt objects, lamp posts, construction cranes, moving vehicles, trains, water... England is going to get bubble wrapped until all the English have expired, then England will be populated by easily managed people who don't like the weather.
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@musclecarenjoyer the rarest Firebirds are 1998 WS6 Formula convertibles. If you can find them, you have the choice of red or black, because there are only two of them. My 1972 Formula is rare also, 276 were built that year with the 455 HO, mine is one of them. It was special ordered by a gent in Alaska who wanted to pull his boat around. He ordered a one of one within the 276 with that engine.
I build these cars, usually from rusty junk. I can rebuild, repair, and/or refinish everything on them. I am trhe only one who works on them, rebuilding engines, transmissions, differentials, suspension, electrical, interiors... everything. The 65 GTO wasn't even a good parts car when I got it, and now its one of my summer daily drivers. The 69 GTO is even worse than the 65 was, I'll be starting on it this fall. The Cuda gets taken care of quite well, because its so expensive to repair.
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For a minute that I was like YAY I am rich because I have a shop, lift, tools, time, a bunch of cars... and then yeah.. I am not rich I just been doing this a long time.. and I built my shop myself. This video was freakin awesome.
I didn't start out with a shop, lift, tools, etc. I lived on a farm, and I was into airplanes. Then I discovered those soft cuddly things called females and suddenly a car was interesting so I could get into town 20 miles away... eventually when I got a license. I rebuilt all the small engines my mom blew up on the tiller, mowers, etc starting when I was 9. It kinda snowballed from there. Constantly reading, messing with my first car I got when I was 13 by selling sweet corn I grew, and as I broke stuff I fixed it.
The youtube thing is real simple all you need is a camera, an internet connection, and something to talk about. JUST FREAKIN DO IT. Last year at this time I had all of 110 crazy people who wanted to see what I was doing once a year. As I write this there are 1121 crazy people following along. Put up something that interests you, and other people will probably be interested too.
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I have a different view on it, if its fake then I don't care. If its real, I really don't care. The way to handle extortion is to out it, go ahead and send fakes to everyone all you need to do is show the messages about having to pay them. If I need to I will prove its fake by sending out the real deal.
Having been in the military I have zero shame about anything and no filter either, I will say what I think, everyone who knows me also knows I am exactly like that. I've never considered a sewer slide over what someone said about me, its always been something vastly more pressing when that thought crossed my mind. Good luck finding actual pics of me with my real name. There are only two of us with the same first and last name in the entire world, and the other guy doesn't have any pics either.
As for the economy, its coming around. I have a friend who recovers furniture and car interiors, that friend's shop is swamped with customers right now. Not only is the economy improving, people are rebuilding old higher quality things rather than buying new junk.
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I'll start by saying my preference is around the average appearance of her being 22, her actual age can vary in both directions, and for legal reasons they need to show ID. Where I live 16 is legal, but I am not going there knowingly. The same average appearance of age has been constant my entire life, that sort of thing is hard wired into our noggins as men.
She gets over 30 and we all lose interest fast. We are not wired to be overly wistful for 35 year olds, because procreation is the reason for our wiring. Women over 30 are going to have a more difficult time with kids... biological fact, not a feeling or preference on my part. Over 40 the chances she will have a healthy kid is very small, if she ever even has a kid at that age.
Women have the ticking clock, its not imposed upon you by men, it is biology. No need to feel all salty because at 35 you are nearly invisible to us, or that we are very reticent to commit to you above 30, its how we are wired. Its the same as you ladies wanting the 6'4 guys and you tend to ignore all of us 5'8 guys, and you make fun of us. Ah but we cannot say anything about your age being too advanced for our preference, as men are not allowed to have preferences.
Now here is the brain twister. I am 54, I do not dye my beard nor my full head of hair, I flaunt the gray that I earned in two conflicts overseas, and years of arduous hardship imposed upon me by ex wives. I look considerably younger other than the gray, and if I dyed my hair or simply shaved it all off I could easily pass for 35 - 40.
Guess how old the women who are most interested in me happen to be. 18 to 27. Even with the gray beard.
Now are women wired to prefer men older than they are? I would say overwhelmingly yes, just as they want men who are taller, stronger, more capable, and have more wealth then they do./ Women like to date up, they very rarely date down. They want to get that bag, and have a man who can protect them, and give them that credit card with no limit that is paid by someone else. Admit it ladies, thats what gets ya moist...
We men have a much longer procreation window, we can have kids until the stick up becomes more of a hold up.. which is the 70s for most men, some later, some earlier. As men go through life they increase their capabilities and wealth, which are what women are most attracted to.
We are wired this way.
It seems that the only people who have an issue with me being with a woman who is in her 20s, is women over 30. The dirty looks I get when I am walking round with my 26 year old daughter from those women who are ten years beyond their "best before" date are very disapproving. They don't even consider she might be my kid, they assume that she is dating me. They also have issues when that 25 year old is flirting with me as I go through her check out line at the grocery store. I have had the police called on me because she was being flirtatious with me.
She is of age, she can do what she wants.
The whole barely legal thing, thats more about this cashmeoutside chicka being somewhat famous than it is about her age. Men are curious about famous women. We are wired to be curious about women, and if we weren't curious about you, there would be no reason for us to interact with you whatsoever.
Sydney, you got dealt a raw deal to some extent, you are quite cute, but you are also tall. 5'10 is past the point even 6'5 guys want. Now you are over 30, and despite being somewhat famous and very amusing to listen to, the attention you receive is almost certainly dropping. Its not like you would ever want to spend time with a 5'8 man who is the most capable man you could ever meet, you want someone taller than you, who has more money. Well, you are taller than the average man, so you are down to less than 5% of men worldwide who would be tall enough for you. I would be happy to spend time with you or any other tall woman for that matter, it doesn't bother me in the least. You won't like the muscle and stature I have though, its a given. I look like a gorilla.
Its normal for you to dislike the fact that women ten years younger than you are getting all the attention. That happens to every woman as she ages beyond the interest of men.
Thing is though, civilization has only been around for what, 10,000 years? Not enough time for evolution to do its thing. We have only had low survival pressure and modern technology for what , 80 to 120 years? Prior to that it was arduous for women and they could not live alone without doing untoward things to survive. In essence, we are cavemen with cars, airplanes, spacecraft, and smart phones. When I was 21 it took a month for a letter to travel from my base in Germany, to my family at home. Now I can talk to them with video chat from anywhere in the world. Technology is changing mind numbingly faster than evolution ever could.
The wiring we operate on is still the same as it was half a million years ago. You cannot change that hard wiring, we are going to like and want what we want. Men 500 years ago were marrying 15 year olds, and that was considered 'old' way back then. Had to get the family started early so they could work the land with dad. That has changed, and now women can wait until they are in their 20s before having kids and still have enough to start a basketball team of their own. In Japan women over 25 are considered old maids, or leftovers, and they look young until they hit 70 or so.
I think its creepy if someone over 20 is interested in females under 17 though... once everyone is over 18, its game on. I've dated women considerably older than I am, as well as half my age who are younger than my two daughters, the older one will be 30 next spring. It actually works out rather well in modern times for a man who is 35-45 to be with a woman who is in her early 20s. That is maximum attractiveness to each other, provisioning and fertility... At 40 a man who has not been divorced will be hitting his stride and his earning potential is starting to rise rapidly. We have to work for it. Women are born with it.
So don't get all salty because some guy with a salt n pepper beard is talking to that 27 year old, he is probably the best thing that could ever happen to her. When you see how 20 year old males compare to us older guys, you will see what I mean. Masculinity has been driven out of those poor kids, and women like masculine men. Such is life.
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I vetted my 2nd ex for 8 years before getting married, she was a 21 year old virgin when I met her in 2003. I was 34 and she was wonderful, until 2011 when I got married so she could get health care. In May 2013 she decided a loser her parents loathe was her soulmate, her mother encouraged her to leave me and be with that kid 20 years younger than me, 7 younger than her. She lied about me so she could be the victim and feel justified for what she did. I did 15 days in jail for shit I didn't do.
She turns 40 this coming August, the soulmate is long gone, her parents support her. She was homely at 21, I figured she was too ugly for anyone else to want. There is always someone desperate enough. I got along with her very well, the sex was quite good, and she stayed thin the entire time we were together. You can't trust them to be anything other than a girl and do girl things.
Vet them all you want, get a virgin if you want. They have every incentive to lie and trade you in for cash and prizes. If you want to get laid, go for it but protect yourself, never marry, and never let them live with you. Do not support her, because it is wasted effort. They are not investments of your time and resources, they are at best leeches in your wallet, at worst the reason you will sit in prison for shit you did not do. They want to be playthings, so treat them as such.
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RealPeterAndrewNolan you need to have a common interest. Then you need to be competent, capable, and knowledgeable. You have to be a role model that draws people in, so if you failed you simply weren't.
You wanted to lead, well leadership among men must be earned. If you are not competent and capable, nobody is going to follow you, no matter what you do. You must prove your competence and capability, and do so many times to get men to follow you.
For instance. Take a video game where teamwork is key, like Squad or Hell Let Loose. People will follow a competent leader, and they will get in his squad map after map, because they do well with him. They will leave an incompetent leader, and avoid him like the plague. You have to know things about those games to be a competent leader, you can't just jump in and know what to do or how to do it.
If you get in there and try to micromanage everyone, telling them to go here, do this, and make poor choices, they will not follow you. If you get in and give them an advantage over the other team so they can have fun beating on them, they will follow you. Lets go this way and achieve this, rather than everyone go here and do this this this and this. Good leadership seems effortless, but it comes with experience and competence. If you have neither, nobody is going to follow you, they will run off and do their own thing.
Making friends is a lot like leadership. You should treat your friends like you care about them, the same way you should care about the people you are leading.
These are skills I have honed over the last 40 years, in the USAF, in video games, and among friends where we share cars, marksmanship, or aircraft as a common interest. In those games I mentioned above, people eagerly jump in my squad to follow me, because I make it fun and we can get behind the enemy and make things happen. Even guys with only a few hours in the game catch on and start being very effective.
You cannot force anyone to like you, just like you cannot force a woman to want you. Men have to earn everything.
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@Jordan-ff6mc what do you like to do? What would you like to do? Men have to do things, and we make friends by doing things. I do the muscle car thing, and I do it low buck for the most part. Using methods anyone can copy or emulate. I have lots of people I know who are into cars because of my interest in them. Just got back from a show two hours ago. Saw several people I know, got my social time in.
It doesn't have to be cars, but it can be. Its damn rewarding to rebuild an engine and hear it start for the first time. You did that, its your knowledge and skill put into action and it functions. THAT is what motivates men and gives us satisfaction. Not the engine, its utilizing your skills and knowledge and seeing it work. We judge ourselves and each other based on what we can do, what we know, how good we are at doing it, and what we have done before.
I should have made a video of everyone staring at my car when I left the show a couple hours ago. I built it to be ostentatious, over the top, and glaringly obvious. Its loud, ugly, obnoxious, and people had huge smiles on their faces and their cameras out when I cranked it up to leave, and when I brought it in and parked it at the show all eyes were on it. I built it to have fun and to make people smile, not for the attention. I don't crave attention, but I can handle getting it. You can do the same thing in your way.
Cars are my thing, my example, and you don't have to be strong or physically fast to be into them. Anyone can get an old car and start working on it, and these days people will flock around an old 50s or 60s 4 door or wagon, because you just don't see them anymore. The ratty stuff gets more attention than the shiny stuff, because people can relate to it.
Find the thing you like to do that is not watching youtube videos or cranking it to prawn, get deep into it and as you improve in your skills, you will earn friends. Men have to DO something to make friends, its not about feelings, its about common interests.
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Jack Strawb I see movies for the story, to see where it goes, what the characters decide to do, and what the writers think would happen. The effects are used far too much lately.
Alien had minimal effects and is an absolutely fantastic movie. Great story, excellent execution, great acting. It should be the standard for a strong female lead, not the mary sue bullshit they are doing now.
Star Wars the year before had ok acting, ok yet engaging story, and interesting special effects. Now those are full of bullshit, crappy acting, and a shit story.
Band of Brothers and The Pacific, excellent shows. Done very well, very engaging story, and the effects are realistic. I've been waiting years for the miniseries about the 8th Air Force over Europe.
Then you have John Wick. Minimal story, lots of action, but still makes you feel for the guy. Its cool because Reeves can and does actually do all of that gun play. Far better than the last two Matrix movies.
Most movies and all TV shows these days insult my intelligence, they are geared towards the lowest common denominator and filled with woke bullshit.
I am going to make my own movies, if Kevin Smith can do it in his 20s I can do it in my 50s. Besides digital video is cheap and I already have all the cars for my movie. I just need drivers, another editor, and a reason to get us all together.
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Using state authority to oppress minorities is what that twitter moron thinks is right wing? Does he know ANYTHING at all about Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, the Un family, or who pushed to keep slavery in the US throughout the 1800s? Does this moron know anything at all about history or even reality?
The absolute worst atrocities in human history have been perpetuated by the authoritarian left. Identity politics is authoritarian left.
What they are doing sounds eerily like "we have always been at war with eastasia" followed with "we have always been at war with oceana" War is peace, weakness is strength and the rest of it. 1984, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, and Brave New World are not How To books, they are fucking warnings.
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I live in the upper peninsula of Michigan, we usually get 150 to 300 inches of snow every winter. This year the winter has been warm, hardly any snow, and I have gotten a lot done when usually I am stuck inside.
Why no snow here? Why is it warm instead of cold? Well I have been watching the jet stream and most of the year it has been way up by Hudson Bay. When its that far north, its warm here. When its south of us (here on the 46th parallel) we get polar air and temperatures are VERY cold. the wind coming off Lake Superior makes lake effect as water evaporates from the 40F surface of the lake, into cold dry air, and we get deep blankets of snow.
With the jet stream that far north, its been super mild.
I grew up in Nebraska, and all I had to do was look at where the jet stream was for the week and I could tell what the weather would do. You can see that supercell coming at you all day, and the next, and the next... the weather in Nebraska is awe inspiring. A thunderstorm at night is probably the most impressive light show you can witness short of northern lights where I am now.
What makes the jet stream go north or south, who the hell knows, but that has far more effect on the weather than anything else I have seen in the last 50 years.
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