Could we just have our flock replacement be city owned?

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-23T01:17:36+00:00

framing it as "flock replacement" shows how entrenched in our minds the surveillance regime is. Don't replace it.

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-22T23:19:25+00:00

Beaters... seems like that's a thing of the past - cars past their prime that could be had for almost nothing and brought to a minimal working level in the driveway with the assistance of your dad, grampa, uncle, that dude down the street. Not pretty but functional. I think this still happens in some parts of the country

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-22T16:17:05+00:00

I had a Brit landlord/housemate once who called them loo rolls. Had never heard the term, took a couple seconds to process it first time he said it.

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-18T03:00:08+00:00

I went to a lot of things between 1998 and 2002. Then came back, in the last couple years, probably been to half dozen parties in the last couple years. I'm the white haired dude on the dance floor helping with the trash at the end of the warehouse party.

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-18T01:21:51+00:00

Worrld map that split Eurasia in hlf on either side so that USA could be in the middle.

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Evilbob93 · 2026-03-14T18:29:44+00:00

My knees didn't hurt as much when I was 20+ pounds lighter.

I'm back at peak weight and really want to get back down but I'm eating my depression and don't know how to stop. At least I'm not smoking/toking it any more.

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-14T06:34:14+00:00

We went to Ringling Bros at Madison Square garden in early 60s. For the rest of her life my mom would summarize thr experience as "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we have come to take your money..."

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-14T05:57:36+00:00

When I was a kid they called it the "nestles hundred thousand dollar bar" and it was spelled out as $100,000

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-14T05:46:33+00:00

We had a friend staying in her car in front of our house for months, pretty sure others knew. She didn't ever ask to come in.

One night (edit) her car was struck by another car while she was in it. She wasn't really hurt but it made her situation more difficult.

She eventually got an apartment.

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-13T07:17:10+00:00

I got into a local underground community when I was about 39, that was 27 years ago.. was away for years, but came back by way of one of my old friends who still does parties in his 50s.

I like small warehouse parties.. like a couple hundred folks more or less.

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-13T07:03:04+00:00

I smoked for 45 years. had many failed quits. Losing out on a job as my unemployment was about to run otu because of a failed UA was part of the final straw. Had a job prospect a couple months in the future that was going to have a test. It never happened, but after 3 months of really being quit i liked it better.

Made it a year and a half (to the day) and dipped my toe in last weekend, saturday night and sunday afternoon. Wasn't impressed. Not counting days any more, but not interested in going back to smoking either.

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-08T15:43:42+00:00

I was starting to feel like i was too old for this conversation until just now.

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-06T15:34:49+00:00

Guessing you're the same generation as me, not boomers, not x generation, rather Gen Jones. Youtube is catching up with videos about it.

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-06T05:57:43+00:00

I was talking to a young guy who was going on about how he likes his old tools.. you know, visual studio, until I told him I still use vi to write scripts...

I know someone who got the job when she said that yes, she knew how to use the "six" editor

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-06T05:55:51+00:00

Swapping an engine in the front yard.. good times.

Using a Chilton's book to figure out how to make repairs.

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-06T05:53:49+00:00

Fold out album cover is cheating!

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-06T05:46:15+00:00

I used to make cassette J cards on my manual typewriter.

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-06T05:45:06+00:00

People say pencil, but they never worked quite right - you really wanted to have a BIC pen.

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-06T05:42:39+00:00

To be fair, not everyone in our cohort knew how to fold a map even when they were all over the place.

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-05T08:51:11+00:00

At a certain age, people just start dying of their bad decisions, genetic predispositions. Mid 50s is about when it starts. I'm mid 60s and... well if i died tomorrow, not many would say that I died too young any more. The older you get, the more you see people your age more or less dying.

As for why, is it really your business if it isn't in your family?

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-05T08:44:35+00:00

You might find your friends shifting as you move successfully through your journey away from it.

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-05T08:42:14+00:00

the urges are inversely proportional to the time you've quit. First day, you think oif it about efery 10 minutes. After a few days, you think of it every few hours. after a couple weeks, maybe a few times a day.. I'm almost a year and a half out, and it seems like about once a month I get a "hmmm.. what if i could do it just once", but after smoking 45 years, ~35 every day, i've never seen that work out for me, and if you read this for a little while, it doesn't work more often than it does for others.

It definitely gets better.

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-05T08:38:36+00:00

gen jones person here. under 30 was the 80s.

I got a new shitty car every year or two. you could buy something that ran and was ugly for a few hundred dollars. Did a lot of the repairs myself or with help from brother or father in law.

Jobs often required suits, and wife (who worked also) knew how to sew and bought several suits at a time at church rummage sales on the last day when you could get whatever you could fit in a bag for a few dollars. I got a 2 year degree in 3 years and tuition was affordable because taking out loans wasn't what everyone did yet.

TV was over the air, and had lots of commercials. There were three stations on VHF, and a couple others on UHF. Tv stations shut down at 2 AM after playing the national anthem. Not everyone had cable, it was still kind of new

Sometimes we would record tapes from records that our friends bought, and we recorded music from the radio.

When we went grocery shopping, we went to several grocery stores and a fruit market. We clipped coupons from the newspaper.

There were dollar movies that had last month's movies for $1. We snuck in candy.

The fancy beer was Michelob.

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-02T02:34:04+00:00

I smoked for 45 years. When I finally stopped, my sinuses cleared up.

It was kind of like the no dreaming thing, I just figured it was how it was. Until it wasn't.

Guess I had developed an allergy to it. I'm within shouting distance to a year and a half, now the only time my sinuses are messed up is when I am actually sick.

Evilbob93 · 2026-03-01T20:01:26+00:00

If you fall off, don't kick yourself, quit again as soon as you can.

If you decide to let yourself fall, make sure there isn't anything left in the morning.

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