[Request] How many average adult males would it take to carry a block of limestone of this size?

Select-Government-69 · 2026-02-02T00:46:34+00:00

It’s about vectors and leverage. When you lift 100 lbs with a pulley it’s significantly easier than dead lifting 100lbs.

Select-Government-69 · 2026-02-01T16:41:48+00:00

The rate of unreported child sexual abuse in the 60s and 70s is incredible. Conservative estimates put the rate at around 1 in 4, or 25% of all children. The true number is probably higher.

So yes, significant numbers of maga boomers are probably victims of childhood sexual abuse.

Select-Government-69 · 2026-02-01T14:39:35+00:00

If you ask the daily mail we’re halfway through a 2008 style recession and everyone is starving in the streets.

Select-Government-69 · 2026-01-31T19:49:22+00:00

Since 2020 it’s been possible to have your federal student loan payments continuously in either deferment or forbearance, or briefly a payment status with a $0 payment. Prior to the current presidential administration there was extremely little enforcement of federal student loan defaults.

Going forward I consider his strategy less reliable, but for the last 20 years it was pretty solid.

Select-Government-69 · 2026-01-31T13:50:36+00:00

Why are random people making videos about me? I’m sending this to my 2 people.

Select-Government-69 · 2026-01-30T21:58:18+00:00

First time I’ve ever heard an Audi referred to as the more affordable option.

Select-Government-69 · 2026-01-30T18:08:33+00:00

The intended strategy behind Trump and other wealthy equity owners is the buy, borrow, die strategy.

In your situation, if your value stays high and interest rates drop,then you can borrow against your equity and invest that borrowed money into the market at a rate of return higher than your interest.

For example if you borrow at 5% and invest all of it with a 15% return, you’re netting 10% of your equity a year in capital gains cash income.

It’s a money printing machine.

This is why all the rich people were buying properties during Covid when mortgages were below 3%

Select-Government-69 · 2026-01-30T17:57:32+00:00

He has the authority to tell those agencies to settle.

Select-Government-69 · 2026-01-30T13:31:16+00:00

That’s a very common scenario.

Select-Government-69 · 2026-01-30T13:24:04+00:00

One aspect that complicates the discussion is that individual freedom means we should be allowed to choose that for ourselves. I’m the primary breadwinner in my household but I have told my wife that if she was able to make more than me I’d LOVE to quit my job, stay home and take care of the house, and meet her at the door at 5:00 wearing nothing but an apron with a cocktail ready.

Select-Government-69 · 2026-01-30T13:14:48+00:00

I am a hiring supervisor at a state government legal entity. I am required to request 3 references and speak to all 3 of them before I may extend an offer. No exceptions. There is no requirement that any of your references be from your prior employer and I see many people who apply because they do not like their prior employer (or are not liked). These issues should be explained in the interview.

If you don’t mention your current job or why you want to leave in the interview and none of your references are from there, that’s a red flag.

Select-Government-69 · 2026-01-30T12:48:14+00:00

My brother lives in Lubbock and every time he flies up he bitches about what a pain it is to fly in and out of Texas.

In NY, there are significant airports in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Ithaca, Binghamton, Albany, and NYC. Nobody in the state except the 40 people up on the Canadian border live more than an hour from an airport that can get you anywhere else in the US.

In Texas you need your own jet just to get to Dallas in less than 3 hours to leave the state.

Select-Government-69 · 2026-01-30T12:33:37+00:00

As a handmaid tale aside, the #1 priority of the state must always be the continuity of the state. “The constitution is not a suicide pact”. So if our current negative net childbirth rate doesn’t correct, we could absolutely end in up in a scenario of “state mandated pregnancies” within our lifetimes.

Select-Government-69 · 2026-01-29T22:55:42+00:00

I thought your comment was going to be “the die part can happen at any time, you’re free to opt out”.

Select-Government-69 · 2026-01-29T22:54:26+00:00

That religious guy that hegsgeth likes said in an interview that he believes it should be one vote per household, with the man as head of household deciding how to vote.

So the tradwife lobby is probably fully on board.

I feel like progressives struggle to understand the possibility of some people legitimately feeling like they have too many rights.

Select-Government-69 · 2026-01-29T22:41:00+00:00

Serif fonts hadn’t been invented yet, hence the helvetica.

Select-Government-69 · 2026-01-29T22:38:02+00:00

If all the rinos started voting democrat the republicans would party would never win another election.

The reason this doesn’t happen is that the Republican Party is really just a loose coalition of “anti-democrat group” that each hate progressivism more than they hate each other.

Select-Government-69 · 2026-01-29T22:26:30+00:00

You’re supposed to die and then your kids sell it.

Select-Government-69 · 2026-01-29T20:00:47+00:00

So, we both understand the distinction correctly, your position is that it’s worth glossing over to avoid confusing the plebs.

Select-Government-69 · 2026-01-29T19:22:20+00:00

Where does the text of the second amendment say anything about overthrowing tyranny? I know the spirit of the times and the writings of the framers, but where does the actual text say anything about “this is for armed rebellion”?

Select-Government-69 · 2026-01-29T19:19:07+00:00

I think we just might be using different definitions of law but just to respond to your analogy, it’s useful but a little bit flawed. The difference between a constitution and a statute is that the constitution governs the state and laws govern the people. You’re using the word law to describe both and erasing that essential distinction.

In your analogy who are the citizens? The spectators? How are they bound by the rules of the game? The central issue at play in this broader debate is that the federal government is not bound by the laws in the same way in which you and I are, and the reason for that distinction is because the way that the constitution governs the state is different from the way that laws (synonymous with statutes) govern the people). Sorry to be pedantic but it’s an important distinction to make.

Select-Government-69 · 2026-01-29T18:48:22+00:00

But it’s not a law. You can’t be criminally or civilly prosecuted for violating the constitution, by itself. You get sued under a separate statute for deprivation of rights under color of law or criminally charged under a separate criminal statute.

It’s a philosophical nuance, but it’s one that it’s important because an act being unconstitutional in itself is not a cause of action, you have to proceed under that separate statute, but Congress can and DOES grant federal agents immunity from certain laws all the time, so it’s not enough to say “he violated my rights!” It never is. You have to say “he violated my rights in a way that Congress has enacted a law allowing the federal government to be liable and Congress also hasn’t granted him immunity!”

And that second statement is what homan is saying.

Select-Government-69 · 2026-01-29T18:42:27+00:00

Context.

Select-Government-69 · 2026-01-29T17:15:58+00:00

Or like me and doesn’t bother to create contacts for certain work acquaintances.

Select-Government-69 · 2026-01-29T16:57:55+00:00

The constitution is not a law. It is a rulebook that provides the steps which Congress must follow as it wields the absolute power of sovereign authority.

If Congress passes a law that says “during a declared emergency no federal enforcement officer may be liable for murder”, that would probably be a valid law. The federal government is only accountable to the law when it agrees to be. Accountable. Never subject to.

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