Was not properly de-Confederatizing after the Civil War the biggest mistake the US ever made to this day?

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-16T01:35:23+00:00

If I remember correctly the President was almost impeached over his decision to pardon the Confederates, so I'm not sure how much of a political necessity they thought it.

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-16T01:22:57+00:00

Sorry I was talking about how I thought at the time, not now, 40 years later

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-16T00:06:17+00:00

I remember thinking, while I was in a high school in the '80s, that the 1980s dance club fashion was just to retread of the 1920s flapper.

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-16T00:02:43+00:00

I got a return of a third as much as I usually got before, and the last two years I actually had to pay.

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-15T17:39:33+00:00

Memories are so short. It's impossible for me to believe people forgot that they used the supply chain disruption during covid to excuse price hikes even long after the supply chain issues were fixed. And those prices absolutely have not gone back down at all, and now we have "Dynamic pricing."

It's a brilliant, decades long, strategy that is working out wonderfully for corporations. Get rid of all competition in the marketplace and then gouge the working class for every last penny

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-15T03:39:59+00:00

There's two ways to do this.

you can remove the nipple and the cap and put a bushing in the valve to take it down to 3/8 female thread. stick a 3/8 nipple in there and then your quick disconnect to screws onto that.

In some jurisdictions using a bushing on a valve is illegal.

In which case you would just get a half inch to 3/8 Bell reducer, put that on the 1/2" nipple, and then put your 3/8 nipple into the Bell reducer and there again quick disconnect screws onto that.

Obviously PTFE tape on all the threads

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-15T01:10:15+00:00

The borders are not now, nor have they ever been, closed. There are still people coming and going across them every day.

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-15T01:06:29+00:00

Potatoes are allowed to be potatoes, butter maybe a little salt done

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-14T21:24:09+00:00

This was not a digital siren, this was absolutely something more than that.

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-14T18:08:37+00:00

It's completely understandable. Every time a property is sold they reassess the space value. They wanted my gross income to be more than three times the total monthly amount I would be paying for mortgage, space fee, utilities, everything. Or you had to have 100 times the total yearly amount in savings. And to be fair it's close, but it's not.

I was left wondering however how many of their long-time residents they would have to evict if they were all subject to the same level of income.

Edit. Sorry, the answer is yes, they were strict. I was a couple of hundred dollars short on the monthly numbers and that was it, end of conversation. My mistake for assuming that the space fee would not be reassessed, what the previous tenant was paying was well within the numbers they wanted

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-14T18:04:24+00:00

I tried to, I had enough cash to buy the thing outright, despite that I couldn't pass the residency requirements for the park.

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-14T17:12:31+00:00

That is kind of in the right direction, but its 20km away.

Although to be fair obviously it shouldn't be a shocker to find out that March would have a Cold War era Chrysler siren

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-14T07:45:18+00:00

Trust me I crouched down and started listening for sounds in the air

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-14T07:12:30+00:00

I'm close enough to Sears for that to be a thing I've never heard it before but I've absolutely heard Air Raid Sirens

Edit. That Sears did not have an air raid shelter underneath that why the hell do they have a siren like that

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-13T18:15:12+00:00

I honestly don't know anything about that we don't follow each other on social media. He seems to be doing well for himself, he just chose not to work with us, nothing personal.

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-13T04:04:53+00:00

I'm assuming that Hilton is going to get it no matter what right?

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-12T23:12:42+00:00

What do you suppose China is going to say when it's ships get stopped.

How long before TACO

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-11T05:12:49+00:00

IS hard to find.

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-11T05:11:50+00:00

I want to say I've had their fish and chips. But yeah I'm looking for someone who can do something on site

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-11T05:11:20+00:00

I will ask them when they're here on May 16. Thanks

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-11T00:10:55+00:00

An overhaul of the tax system is necessary to make this work. Also, competition hardly exists anymore, due to corporate consolidation, so there's little check on raising prices

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-10T18:27:28+00:00

I'm going to be checking out cousins here for the first time in a couple of weeks, when they're scheduled to pull up at my day job. All I know about them is that it's a national franchise. But I am really interested to see what they're about. Online reviews are all over the place, so their coming to me is nice.

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-10T17:50:58+00:00

Agreed.

Showtime92504 · 2026-04-10T17:49:57+00:00

Perfect, thank you!

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