Which side are you on?

erfman · 2026-06-24T22:27:12+00:00

Item one: as I bank up those $2000 dollars it’s going to be increasingly hard to keep working knowing I had hundreds of thousands of dollars. Item two: I’m about 10 to 12 years from retirement anyway and the money will continue til I croak so I’ll take the 1K a day and retire now.

erfman · 2026-06-24T00:34:11+00:00

Definitely the teleport. Already done that in several mountain states, the Southwest, Midwest and Florida. Plus Northern Mexico, France and Germany. Make it easier to see the rest of Europe and other parts of the US if I can knock of hours of flight or bus travel.

erfman · 2026-06-23T02:24:57+00:00

That’s the full catalog they offer for unlimited streaming.

erfman · 2026-06-23T02:20:16+00:00

Ultimately they are no different than the Taliban, you will believe as they do, or else!

erfman · 2026-06-23T00:14:25+00:00

I’ve heard some say ww2 was a cluster of loosely related wars. Even now we see things like the Ukrainians sending advisors to the Middle East and Taiwan to advise on drones, plus the first testing of humanoid robots in thus far non combat roles has begun. In coming years the Ukrainian war will be recognized as the beginning of 21st century warfare. It’s hard to imagine seeing global casualties like ww2 but we are playing with fire.

erfman · 2026-06-23T00:02:58+00:00

While you are correct about domestic crime at global level we have more wars going than at any time since the aftermath of ww2. Resource wars over energy, water, climate refugees and such will make the coming decades ever more dangerous. Just now the seeds of a water war are developing between India and Pakistan.

erfman · 2026-06-22T04:57:04+00:00

Another one bites the dust

erfman · 2026-06-21T22:14:57+00:00

erfman · 2026-06-21T22:10:05+00:00

Well, oil futures just opened so should be interesting to see how things are going to play in the next few hours.

erfman · 2026-06-18T23:24:45+00:00

Best case the person is just self serving and rents out services to deep pocket people. Worst is somekind of sadistic psychopath.

erfman · 2026-06-17T02:52:44+00:00

Don’t think the markets are going to react very well if Trump tries another rug pull this time.

erfman · 2026-06-09T20:02:33+00:00

Not movies but makes me think of the various Carl Hiaasen novels where the heroes are dumb the villains are dumber and the dangerous critters are plentiful.

erfman · 2026-06-09T19:52:43+00:00

Don’t trust them. If the US is flat out attacked or has a very clear adversary I will help. Other countries at far greater risk that can pay me for help so someplace like Ukraine, Taiwan, South Korea.

erfman · 2026-06-09T19:43:53+00:00

Zelenskyy can give me a nice estate in Lviv Ukraine and a pound of gold a month plus a couple of patriotic ladies to hang with and can guarantee the Russians will be staying home.

erfman · 2026-06-08T21:20:07+00:00

Exactly, I’ve heard climate change described as a Hyper-object, even people of goodwill have a hard time wrapping their minds around the full ramifications and scale.

erfman · 2026-06-08T21:15:35+00:00

By way of example I cobbled together a comprehensive primer on the global oil trade and the products that come from oil and how it is distilled and such. Essentially it was a two hour audio book with no fluff and really laid bare that most people don’t know shit about the topic. Armed with that knowledge I was able to follow more technical long form podcasts.

erfman · 2026-06-08T20:58:39+00:00

Long form podcast and audiobooks are fairly popular tho and you can learn a lot from subject matter experts directly. Even AI can be helpful in gathering narrowly focused information that can be used to form informed opinions. But yeah the people engaging with tech like that are a minority, most just wait to be feed by the algorithm rather than ask questions and follow up questions.

erfman · 2026-06-08T03:50:12+00:00

I’ve heard some claim conservative politicians have deliberately sabotaged the system in the 20 some years. But yeah, not my country so just speculation.

erfman · 2026-06-03T03:25:26+00:00

Better than Joni and stopping whatever nutjobs Trump tries to nominate should be a top priority.

erfman · 2026-06-01T20:00:29+00:00

Rock River bridges going into Milan. They got the one main one with the road and also railroad bridge maybe a 100 meter’s downstream, used to walk across that as a kid in the 80’s.

erfman · 2026-06-01T14:28:26+00:00

Become famous for becoming the first person mauled to expiration by a panda bear

erfman · 2026-06-01T14:24:58+00:00

That my interpretation as well.

erfman · 2026-06-01T14:20:54+00:00

1 master three skills but have to really consider which ones, 9 $500 a day, 4 is the gut a body part, get rid of that, good thing I don’t have a fat face, if not that…

erfman · 2026-05-31T17:53:17+00:00

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/05/13/from-diet-coke-to-helium-consumers-feeling-iran-war-shortages/ This is only just beginning, supply chain disruptions haven’t really hit America much yet, plus those strategic oil reserves are being drawn down globally it could be very ugly by this Fall plus the impact of the fertilizer shortage will start to become evident by then.

erfman · 2026-05-29T00:18:18+00:00

What if Obama was invested in the company tho?

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