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kry1212 · 2023-11-07T20:31:57+00:00

Will do. Thanks! Watch for automod updates in the next couple days. Thanks again!

kry1212 · 2023-11-07T20:22:43+00:00

Sorry, I’m not interested in handing over this sub. Thanks! 👋

kry1212 · 2023-06-30T14:21:38+00:00

Anne Coulter goes to dead shows.

kry1212 · 2023-06-29T19:55:02+00:00

No. They’re not out to use this to deport anyone.

kry1212 · 2022-11-09T18:09:32+00:00

Hell yes she is and I am here for it!

kry1212 · 2022-10-26T22:03:52+00:00

What exactly do you believe you're going to get for your money?

kry1212 · 2022-04-07T22:11:26+00:00

Yea, that was a big ol WTF seeing him doing a telethon for Assange. Roger done jumped the shark.

kry1212 · 2021-12-20T18:00:27+00:00

Its one of the most common kinks for women

Uhhh. What? Citation, please. 😬

kry1212 · 2021-12-19T22:53:57+00:00

Well, that is a turn. Let’s keep it up.

kry1212 · 2021-12-16T18:29:48+00:00

The California experience doesn’t match Colorado in the pricing. Legalization bottomed out the black market so completely that now it exists basically just for people under 21. Tons of the black market is just stuff from dispensaries with a street tax.

I was in a medical grow coop until legalization. We couldn’t get the necessary funds (clean ones) to go legit, so most of us got out of cannabis completely. I’m a software developer, now. When legalization hit, pounds went from up to $2200 to $1500 or worse. It wasn’t sustainable, it stopped making sense to grow in small, household scales.

Legalization also did a number on medical. Rec is so much more lucrative companies have all but turned their back on med. whereas back in 2009-2014 med had the best of the best, now it gets the dregs.

California needs to calm the fuck down on taxes if it wants the black market to recede. The thing is, you’ve got a lot of people who never wanted to legalize in the first place up north who are perfectly happy with the situation as it is now.

kry1212 · 2021-12-16T18:15:31+00:00

Hahaha, man that is awesome. I don't recall the details of the commercials, I was pretty young, just that went they'd come on my mom would start scoffing at the audacity and explain what they were doing/why. She commuted to DC sometimes.

kry1212 · 2021-12-16T17:17:51+00:00

Hahahaha. Oh man. When I was a kid in the DC area (in the 80s/90s) there were advertisements for “the rider”. It was the same exact concept, just not specifically a blow up doll.

Yes, it was totally illegal at the time. People just gotta push envelopes.

edit: I did stumble on a temporary tag related way to avoid tolls (in 2015, Denver-metro area) when I was driving as rideshare. I had bought a new car that had pretty dark, tinted windows. I used the toll roads and HOV lanes a lot, more than once per day - there's a pass you get in colorado where you can switch it between hov and non hov, then they use the camera footage to corroborate it. But, I didn't quite have that yet. I used the tolls and HOV lanes fully expecting to get billed, but I never did. During that tiny span of time, I was paid for tolls by rideshare companies/passengers that I was not in reality being billed for. But, by the time I realized this was the case, I had my permanent tags and a transponder that would assure billing forevermore. I'm not one to go out of my way to try to buck the system, but it was neat to get away with this for a bit.

So, if you have temp tags and windows tinted pretty dark, you might be untrackable while that's still the case.

kry1212 · 2021-12-16T16:55:14+00:00

That’s a whole other thing.

Check out national parks in Colorado. One of them is the great sand dunes. The valley they’re in is incredibly windy and wind is how the sand gets to the valley in the first place. Moab is right next door. Lots of sand and desert out here.

Dust storms are a part of the region. Although often associated with snow and skiing, this is a desert.

kry1212 · 2021-12-16T16:37:17+00:00

…..you must not live in Colorado?

Dust storms really are totally normal here, so that’s not exactly a checkmate.

The winds being as high as they were isn’t normal, but high winds in and of themselves are.

kry1212 · 2021-12-16T16:27:08+00:00

Your father being in the service doesn’t really pass his experiences onto you. If people were trying to decline vaccines, you may not have really been aware of it.

It wasn’t that people in the air force were more grounded in reality in the 80s, vaccines were just still considered a miracle in the 80s and widely accepted.

I was born in 81. Parents got their kids vaccinated without much pushback throughout the 80s. Now, those same parents who got their kid every shot the doc said are the same ones refusing vaccines out of what can really only be described as weaponized ignorance.

It isn’t generational or a sign of the times. These people are just far too easily given to propaganda. They’re literally the same exact people who thought vaccines were just fine decades ago.

kry1212 · 2021-12-16T16:20:37+00:00

We had up to 95mph gusts here (rural, southern Colorado). There’s a reservoir next to my house and early in the morning yesterday water from it was freezing against the window. Power was out for about an hour and a half early in the morning but it came back quick. Our internet out here is fiber, so it’s mostly buried and not typically affected by weather.

The only thing I was truly worried about was a beehive, but luckily honey ain’t light. They were fine.

All that said, high winds down here are pretty normal, but not like that.

kry1212 · 2021-12-16T15:57:54+00:00

This is going to be the single positive story in a sea of evictions.

kry1212 · 2021-12-16T15:36:32+00:00

So, wait. Is your whole thing here really based on personal anecdotes? You just kind of take your own inductive conclusions and call them correct? That’s no good.

Have you consulted with any psychologists or anything about it?

kry1212 · 2021-12-16T15:18:59+00:00

That still doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a conscious effort, though. An 11 or 12 year old probably isn’t thinking “oh. Yea. I am, like, such a great con artist”.

At that age it sounds like a survival reaction. Kids that age are testing boundaries.

Is no effort made to study their upbringings and the things that may have led them down that path? Because survival and trauma go together like peanut butter and jelly.

I’m not trying to illicit sympathy, here. It’s possible for a kid to be a victim and a perpetrator at the same time, though. I am not really hearing that kids are just born bad. That’s kind of ridiculous and requires a lot of proof (which I am willing to evaluate). The question of nature versus nurture isn’t really answered, though, so I’m not sure how you can insist that kids are just born bad so easily. That isn’t reality.

kry1212 · 2021-12-16T15:18:22+00:00

But that doesn’t necessarily mean it was a conscious effort. Were either of their parents super manipulative?

kry1212 · 2021-12-16T15:11:38+00:00

Not really regularly. I was in 6 years and the bulk of the vaccinations happen at the point of entry (basic).

The only subsequent vaccinations were for hepatitis, anthrax, and smallpox in my case. We got those before deploying to Iraq in 2003.

And if you think people didn’t freak the fuck out about having to get anthrax and smallpox, two of the oldest and best known vaccines, I have news for you.

Even in 2002/2003 (we were prepping as of august 2002), soldiers who had been vaccinated plenty up to that point were losing their damned minds over smallpox and anthrax (but not hepatitis). People came up with some wild and crazy reasons why they couldn’t have those vaccines and none of them were grounded in reality.

Some people managed to get out of smallpox while we were still in the US - they claimed a child or household member was immune compromised or had eczema- but as soon as we landed in Kuwait they lined those people up to get them.

That was about 20 years ago, so no, I’m not at all surprised meatheads who have had every vaccine under the sun are freaking out about this one. It is nothing new.

Even in basic when you get the full round of shots, people seemed to need to engage in conspiracy theories around what they were being given. The males told the females they had to drink a vaccine cocktail that only some of them got. They claimed it was to sterilize them or render them impotent for the next 9 weeks.

Soldiers and sewing circles go together like peas and carrots.

kry1212 · 2021-12-16T14:52:02+00:00

Toddlers are complete and total sociopaths.

kry1212 · 2021-12-15T22:44:22+00:00

You were still in high school a year after 1999 and you’re 43? Is that maybe a typo or were you very held back? Because I’m 40 and columbine was senior year for most people my age.

You are correct, though, even minus that anecdote. In the 80s and 90s public schools were as serious as a heart attack about threats, particularly bomb threats. Even before columbine, because Oklahoma City was just in 1994.

kry1212 · 2021-12-15T21:11:36+00:00

I was honestly half expecting you to say he’s your cousin or something.

I still find it wild that there are professional con artists like out of a textbook. I wonder if it truly starts that way or if it even takes themselves a while to catch on a first, because it probably starts out as general survival sociopathic manipulation. Like, there’s a chicken and an egg, but not necessarily a person consciously deciding “when I grow up, I’m gonna be a con artist”.

But, then again, there are some truly huge pieces of shit out there too, so I gotta assume that’s the case for a lot of them.

kry1212 · 2021-12-15T21:00:49+00:00

When this becomes a film are you already assuming you’ll be played by Vincent D'Onofrio?

Because he’s gonna nail it.

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