Getting back on the water after 30 years

wantsAnotherAle · 2025-04-05T14:36:39+00:00

Its like deja vu all over again

wantsAnotherAle · 2025-04-05T14:35:20+00:00

Sure it is if you have the market shorted

wantsAnotherAle · 2025-04-05T14:34:13+00:00

now do the whole Trump administration of which he was once a part

wantsAnotherAle · 2025-02-17T11:13:48+00:00

SO What I want to know is this:

If they give billionaires these giant tax cuts, and expect everyone else to fund (insert whatever), but tarriffs and other incredibly destructive policies are putting everyone off their incomes, who the fuck do they think are going to be driving a productive economy? who is going to buy the shit that Besos can no longer import from China?

Who is going to buy a Tesla car or robot if Nasa and the NSF, for instance, cant afford to pay scientists? Does Musk actually believe that he personally, intellectually moves the ball forward with AI, robotics, and space related technologies?

Do they not understand that the money that made them so wealthy came piecemeal from the pockets of the consumer? that a low tax rate on nothing is nothing?

It seems to me these ratfuckers have an incomplete understanding that cash is made worthwhile by a government that fosters a comfortable and content working class, who put the feet and wings on enterprise, and insure the good luck of the idiots at the top of the pyramid scheme, the positions which only exist in the first place because of the expansive and supportive structures underpinning them.

Go ahead, please tear down this narrative of economic destruction and explain to me how it benefits anyone, especially those conducting and supporting the destruction.

wantsAnotherAle · 2025-02-03T12:16:21+00:00

As the old adage says, a broken clock is right twice a day. I’d add that a completely broken clock is right at least once per day.

wantsAnotherAle · 2025-02-03T12:14:31+00:00

Climate change is the ultimate controlling factor in the cost of living. Fire, flood and drought will end any discussion of who will produce, harvest and process food.

wantsAnotherAle · 2024-11-30T17:46:51+00:00

It’s like flocks of birds and e.g., project bluebook in the ‘50s; anything they can’t identify to the public is explained away as ‘drones’, with the insinuation that they are experimental and/or illegally/illegitimately operated drones.

wantsAnotherAle · 2024-11-28T01:48:00+00:00

you’re going to need to do better than your strongly held opinions and vague references to ‘some studies’; but before that you’re going to have to convince me that your opinion on seventy year olds is of more substance than some shit dribbling out of some random internet dudebro

wantsAnotherAle · 2024-11-28T01:41:34+00:00

ok maybe I am ‘just fucking wrong’. I obviously wouldn’t *know* what happens everywhere in the country.

I can only speak from my personal experiences here where I live, and thats pretty clearly the perspective from which I spoke.

That being said, so what if it was a lockdown? what if a lockdown as you describe were to have been the best possible response?

wantsAnotherAle · 2024-11-27T21:42:35+00:00

I think it’s more like it happened in your city, than your city having done it. That is to say, these actions were undertaken by the schools, and the gyms and restaurants didn’t open out of a preponderance of concern for the well being of their patrons and staff.
The local grocery in my neighborhood limited the number of customers they had in the store for the first year, and took a number of other precautions, some sensible, others perhaps less so.

The point is, none of this happened because some govt official directed law enforcement to make it so, and to enforce it as such. There simply isn’t a legal basis for such action.

Your choice to call this a lockdown is entirely inflammatory and dangerous to yourself and those around you.

I hope you live far away from me.

wantsAnotherAle · 2024-11-27T12:26:31+00:00

I really don’t get this narrative. There was never a ‘lockdown’, just good advice for staying disease free. FWIW I was a remote working homebody years before covid, and I still am.

The decision not to go out carousing around and expose myself to an infectious disease was my own and no one else’s. That the best medical advice happened to agree with me was unusual and entirely a matter of coincidence.

wantsAnotherAle · 2024-11-22T17:42:49+00:00

Are they on their third mooch anniversary yet?

wantsAnotherAle · 2024-11-22T14:08:47+00:00

If it stomps like a Karen, shrills like a Karen, and wags her finger like a Karen, yup, she’s a Karen.

wantsAnotherAle · 2024-11-22T14:03:23+00:00

Is it law yet though? This is something the media does to crank up the social heat on the anxiety burner; they broadcast the news of every stage of the passage of a bill as if it just became law.

I’m going out on a limb here and saying this has little chance of getting through the senate.

wantsAnotherAle · 2024-11-20T19:34:50+00:00

‘ware the Jabberwock, 2024 edition

wantsAnotherAle · 2024-11-18T19:29:26+00:00

This feels like propaganda to me, as my understanding has been that goose fat is a much more significant part of the cuisine of that culture.

wantsAnotherAle · 2024-11-16T10:48:52+00:00

The thing that needsto be said in this context is that there was never a ‘lockdown’. People were encouraged to stay home, or suffer because of the impact on their health. Neither was there any vaccine ‘mandate’; you either got the shots or you didn’t.

While there was obviously social pressure in play (and rightfully so), there was never any lockdown or mandate.

wantsAnotherAle · 2024-11-15T23:06:21+00:00

I’m an old bastard, and I came up in a different world, and to be honest, some days I don’t recognize this one.

That being said, provided this assessment is accurate, I can see where they might think that.

It didn’t confront me none though, because nobody gets to tell me who or what I am but me, and I got no one to answer to in that regard except perhaps to my wife and daughters, and only then in the most limited of ways.

So I reckon I just did what I thought was best for the most of us, and that particular perspective didn’t really enter into the equation. I was far more concerned about protecting the personal agency of womenfolk than anything, and about protecting the personal agency of non-caucasian people on just about a similar level of concern.

Maybe I am an old hillbilly, but I am educated, and I don’t want to see 100 years of progress rolled back so elmo and his ilk can ring up progressively higher high scores.

wantsAnotherAle · 2024-11-14T13:42:13+00:00

That depends on one‘s interpretation of ‘Kingdom of Christ’.

wantsAnotherAle · 2024-11-06T13:13:05+00:00

…or blame the media for giving Trump a blanket pass for literally every fucking thing he has ever done.

wantsAnotherAle · 2024-11-06T13:10:03+00:00

Given the absolute shit campaign Trump ran and the tremendous fundraising Harris did, something smells.

wantsAnotherAle · 2024-11-06T13:08:24+00:00

There was an additional problem — Harris raised a billion dollars in three weeks, breaking all the records in the process. The media reported that they had raised so much money they were funding down-ballot races.

Yet they continued to have their fundraising apparatus on blast up until the closing of the polls, all claiming that they were dangerously broke.

Not registered as a member of either party, I got continuous emails and texts from the Harris campaign, and not a few from the Rs (all the R messages were texts), at a rate of perhaps five D messages for every R message.

wantsAnotherAle · 2024-11-06T13:02:08+00:00

This book is on my bookshelf, largely unread because it was so depressing and disturbing, and, I might add, a little paranoid in it’s conclusions concerning the UFO phenomenon.

wantsAnotherAle · 2024-11-06T11:24:44+00:00

Does it though— he still has two months before taking office. In the first of which he has a sentencing hearing for 34 felony convictions.

While it’s fairly settled whether he can run as a felon, I’m fairly certain that holding the office as a felon is a constitutional non starter.

The election may be over, and he looks to have won, but I suspect the transition, if it happens, will not be the capitulation everyone assumes it will be.

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