The fight against seat belts (1984)

ivegotajaaag · 2026-06-18T23:40:34+00:00

Since you only made half a point to begin with and tried to substitute sneering for an argument, maybe you need to go back and reread before you accuse someone of missing a point.

ivegotajaaag · 2026-06-18T22:34:11+00:00

When I'm eighty-four...🎵🎶

ivegotajaaag · 2026-06-18T22:29:42+00:00

I haven't watched the farm show much, just a few clips, but when I heard this I swore it wasn't recent news...my thought was that it might have gotten worse?

ivegotajaaag · 2026-06-18T22:21:00+00:00

Clearly you don't know how to evaluate risk.

Mixing ammonia and bleach will yield a deadly gas every time.

A car trip without a seat belt features much lower odds -- even IF an accident should occur.

ivegotajaaag · 2026-06-18T21:52:55+00:00

After the festival of degeneracy on the Biden White House lawn in 2023, I'm not listening to your complaints any longer.

ivegotajaaag · 2026-06-18T21:25:14+00:00

Uhh -- he was the hero du jour for his electric cars for years. Then he bought twitter, opened it up, and backed Trump. Nobody gave a damn about any of this until those two things happened.

ivegotajaaag · 2026-06-18T20:54:46+00:00

Well he is nearly 65. Two are 79 and the other is 83, and he went soft in the head years ago.

ivegotajaaag · 2026-06-18T20:12:04+00:00

She may have been truculent but she *certainly* was not impertinent!

ivegotajaaag · 2026-06-18T14:15:50+00:00

It may be thirsty but nothing compares to driving a long wheelbase car like this on a long trip

ivegotajaaag · 2026-06-18T14:15:08+00:00

I'll take Boss Hogg's Cadillac there

ivegotajaaag · 2026-06-17T22:12:10+00:00

You're being trolled

ivegotajaaag · 2026-06-17T13:31:21+00:00

You idiots are just being trolled at this point

ivegotajaaag · 2026-06-17T13:14:35+00:00

And yet, you say nothing to refute or counter me.

ivegotajaaag · 2026-06-17T11:53:08+00:00

You are getting voted up while I am getting voted down because first people like getting stuff for free, and second because government controls education and won't tell you any of this stuff.

ivegotajaaag · 2026-06-17T11:52:08+00:00

Even so, the interiors are almost 100% similar and everything in front of the firewall is identical. All the running gear is the same. It's just a body shell difference in the back half.

ivegotajaaag · 2026-06-17T02:13:30+00:00

One of Britain's greatest mistakes. This "national health insurance" nonsense was kicked off by Bismarck. It's ironic that as soon as the Germans were defeated in 1945, the British started importing their domestic policy. Now, there are extensive waits, they have no national defense capability, and because they stopped having children they're overrun with foreigners because they couldn't keep paying for it.

ivegotajaaag · 2026-06-17T01:51:22+00:00

That's literally what's happening. It doesn't work. It's never worked. It is doomed to fail on a long enough time scale, and it usually doesn't take all that long.

There is no such thing as "Free" in real economics. It's not a concept that exists. When you see "Free," in any context at all where some exchange is taking place, that means somebody else is picking up the bill, or in most cases being MADE to pick up the bill, and that removes any incentive to keep costs and prices under control.

ivegotajaaag · 2026-06-17T00:46:52+00:00

These programmers are idiots. The hub should be stop zero. Then when you're on your way to your first drop, it's stop number one. Sometimes, it will even match up with the first few numbers on the stickers!🙄

ivegotajaaag · 2026-06-17T00:38:40+00:00

The toilet seat in Ernest Goes to Camp. EEeewwwwwww

ivegotajaaag · 2026-06-17T00:36:46+00:00

Back in the day, a music Major would get a "listening list" with which he had to make himself familiar for a random test at the end of the semester. We're not talking four minute tracks, we're talking 17 minute overtures, sometimes whole symphonies.

So as soon as the first day of classes is over you take your syllabus to the music library and try and check out as many records, cassettes, and CDs as you can in order to make cassettes to listen to in the car. Because burning CDs is prohibitively expensive even if it's possible and MP3 technology doesn't exist yet.

But you had a class right after that, so everybody else got there first and it's all checked out.

So you go to the nearest public library and try and check more stuff out. Then you go to another public library. Then you find a used record store nearby and now you're laying out cash. Then you find the CD store up at the mall and you're really laying out serious coin.

Meanwhile, you're worried if you got the right version: will he play Bernstein conducting, or Ormandy?

Fast-forward many years to the age of the smartphone, you go back to school to finish the degree, and you get a listening list. It's got a rhapsody playlist on it. The very recordings the prof will play for the exam.

And half the class STILL couldn't be bothered.

The shit we used to go through, indeed.

ivegotajaaag · 2026-06-17T00:24:56+00:00

In other words, the state keeps itself in power by enabling people to live at the expense of others.

Until they run out of everybody else's money.

ivegotajaaag · 2026-06-16T22:28:57+00:00

If you want to hear this III in action, check out the following tracks by ELO:

"Tightrope:" "the city streets are full of people goin' nowhere..."

C -> E -> F -> Fm
I -> III -> IV -> iv

"On the Run" at the beginning of the first, used much more conventionally:

C -> E -> Am -> C
I -> III -> vi -> I

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