Random thoughts

[pakalolo]

The democrats have very consistently shown authoritarian inclinations. I entirely distrust their approach to managing the country and maintaining freedom and rights. Have a close look at the UK for where you may be headed.

How many wars started while Trump was in office? How may peace/trade deals got signed? Please compare to the last 3.5 years. 50the0K soldiers killed and wounded over Ukraine (both sides) but civilians. Is that what you want for people? We (the West) provoked this war for poilicial reasons. Give Russia back the Russian speaking parts of Ukraine, raise your children to be good people and get on with life. War should be reserved for when there are no better solutions.

While Trump was certainly no angel is this regard, the current administration has ballooned the national debt even more. I don't think many people in the US are aware of how high the national debt is compared to the government income (aka taxes and fees). That is not partisan, that is a danger to everyone from almost every US politician. You are very, very close to a situation that can't be fixed. If this happens, there will be a very large effect surging around the world. You are paying the price for this already. Printing money/running up the debt has directly resulted in massive inflation.

A country needs a leader, a real leader, not a kind faced cheerleader. You want someone to fight for your country, not a committee to decide how to best reach a consensus regardless of the outcome. Biden is not that leader. Biden is not, and has not ever been any sort of leader. Your country is being run by a committee. Harris is perhaps even worse of a leader than Biden. She is, to put it bluntly, a moron. Walz is pretty hard left and has a history of lying (not excusing Trump, just stating facts). But neither of them are going to be a leader. Like Biden, Harris will be the nice face person for an unelected committee. You probably don't see that as a bad thing, but you really don't want a faceless committee running things.

2020 was not an insurrection. It was, at worst, a rowdy demonstration of losers and trespassing. I have been through two coups (Thailand not Canada). This was not even remotely close. It was most certainly not "armed followers storming the Capitol". They may have supported Trump politically and disbelieved the election results, but it is not like he has a private army. The only shots fired were AT them not FROM them. Even Trump told them to protest peacefully. If you don't see that, then you have been mislead.

Yes, Trump is a narcissist. Yes, he has a nasty mouth. Yes, he takes criticism very poorly. Yes, he does not like to admit being wrong. He has a whole slew of bad personality traits. He is a great leader in spite of all that.

This (https://www.noaa.gov/news/statement-from-noaa) suggests that there were initial models that show Alabama as impacted. Weather changes, wind direction changes. Not really a big issue in my mind. No one died from this unlike the Afghanistan withdraw.

I'd have rather that Trump picked Tim Scott over JD Vance but I don't have any fear of Vance. Have you looked at Walz's positions and past? If so, you may well get the government that you deserve. Look south of the border for another example of a population that has the government that it deserves.

Your post is full of misinformation and is a classic example of why we frown upon poltical disucssion on FC.

This topic is to end right here. Do not respond. Any further posts on this topic from anyone will be deleted and risk a warning point.

 

[cybrguy]

Hilarity ensues...

 

[florduh]

Random thought: George looked good in the wig

 

[florduh]

nerd's AI girlfriend thinks he's a shitty writer

 

[florduh]

First of all. Hey, Jessica. Shut the fuck up!

Second of all, I got bad news for you about people working in an office.

 

[mephisto]

I have gone back to blazing my herb as of late. Great deals on Dogwalker pre rolls and general apathy towards the ritual of vaping has driven me back to fire.....My arsenal is well stocked with heavy hitters, it's just so much faster and easier by smoking. A minor relapse to be sure, but I had to cleanse my soul since I will be out in the woods burning fat hog legs all weekend. Peace FC!

 

[florduh]

 

[florduh]

we need reeducation camps where people stare at this cartoon until it finally gets drilled into their fuckin heads

 

[florduh]

 

[Bakin4Life]

This. It's all tied up in the RE; what they own / rent, what they pay to maintain what they have, whether there be all, some or no (!) employees actually using it.

My old company actually sold their multi-acre campus that they had owned / been building up since the '60s, during the pandemic.
They realized that the cachet of a nice physical plant didn't fit in today's decentralized workforce, after keeping the trains running, remotely.
Got a very nice return on the assets, and happy employees that saved money and time commuting.

 

[Rodney]

https://imgur.com/a/rlh0qji

 

[Radwin Bodnic]

 

[Rodney]

OK guys pay attention now!!!!!!! watch this but keep in mind this is the prelude to something even more funny

part 2 will be posted later today

 

[florduh]

Everything these 3 GOATs have to say is just as true today:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1840524936152055998

🫡

 

[Rodney]

https://imgur.com/a/rlh0qji

I posted this to my vegetarian friend on steam and she was seriously not happy lol

 

[Vitolo]

 

[Rodney]

ok part 2 now

 

[florduh]

Every man woman and child in Alaska just got this:

We should have a national Sovereign Wealth Fund

 

[Bakin4Life]

I posted this to my vegetarian friend on steam and she was seriously not happy lol

Probably bc she could envision you actually doing this, in her mind, and contemplating whether you've actually done it, when she would've been the recipient of said ice cubes.

We should have a national Sovereign Wealth Fund

We do. It's in private (corporate) hands, though. Would be quite easy to implement, though, since so many oil leases are on federal lands
Downside is that if it were ever distributed, the windfall would trigger the majority of the country to fanatically support 'drill, baby, drill' (mine / frack / etc.) People tend to be shortsighted; understandable, when you realize how many ppl are nearly hand-to-mouth, in this country.

As for the AK Permanent Fund... those yearly checks are likely still on the decline, as the North Slope fields have been past peak for 20 (?) yrs or more. Easy enough to find out, but I need to take some medication right now.

Palin signed a bill back in '08 that increased the yearly payment by $1200 for one year; hence her popularity around that time. Alaskans love their yearly PF distributions.

 

[florduh]

Downside is that if it were ever distributed, the windfall would trigger the majority of the country to fanatically support 'drill, baby, drill' (mine / frack / etc.)

Ok, but there's already is an incentive to drill. The major shareholders of our oil companies want to renovate the kitchen in their summer yachts every year. Hell, if it were up to me, every single oil company would be nationalized. They didn't make the oil. They just drill America's oil and sell it back to us at an obscene profit. That wealth should not be in private hands.

There's also a common misunderstanding about the AK Permanent Fund. Most of it isn't made up from simple oil sales. It's a portfolio of stocks, bonds and real estate.

This video is 6 years old (the APF is now up to 85 billion) but it's still cool:

There's no reason a national sovereign wealth fund would need to be oil based at all

For example, there's a lot of worry about automation lately. Well, current and future automation technology is the result of over a century of human progress, much of it done with government funding. Why should the people who happen to be major shareholders of certain tech corpos be the sole beneficiaries of that progress?

Here's a paper on setting up a national "social wealth fund":

Social Wealth Fund for America ❖ People’s Policy Project

A plan for a dividend-paying social wealth fund in the United States.

www.peoplespolicyproject.org

 

[Bakin4Life]

Ok, but there's already is an incentive to drill. The major shareholders of our oil companies want to renovate the kitchen in their summer yachts every year. Hell, if it were up to me, every single oil company would be nationalized. They didn't make the oil. They just drill America's oil and sell it back to us at an obscene profit. That wealth should not be in private hands.

There's also a common misunderstanding about the AK Permanent Fund. Most of it isn't made up from simple oil sales. It's a portfolio of stocks, bonds and real estate.

This video is 6 years old (the APF is now up to 85 billion) but it's still cool:

There's no reason a national sovereign wealth fund would need to be oil based at all

For example, there's a lot of worry about automation lately. Well, current and future automation technology is the result of over a century of human progress, much of it done with government funding. Why should the people who happen to be major shareholders of certain tech corpos be the sole beneficiaries of that progress?

Here's a paper on setting up a national "social wealth fund":

Social Wealth Fund for America ❖ People’s Policy Project

A plan for a dividend-paying social wealth fund in the United States.

www.peoplespolicyproject.org

Will read this later; need to hit the grocery. But, given I see UBD mentioned... what are your thoughts re: UBI ? No rush to reply. Thx.

 

[Octavia]

Probably bc she could envision you actually doing this, in her mind, and contemplating whether you've actually done it, when she would've been the recipient of said ice cubes.

Yeah, something like this would sour or ruin a friendship for me too since the only people who’d get the hotdog cubes are people who thought you were safe. It’s a joke for folks who don’t have any sort of dietary restrictions, but it shows that you don’t take her and her preferences seriously, and something like not eating meat or drinking alcohol is generally very personal (either due to allergies, religious belief or some other conviction).

Edit: also forgot the most important part, hot dog water is famously disgusting even for meat eaters. It’s essentially the burger king foot lettuce of ice cubes

 

[florduh]

what are your thoughts re: UBI ?

I guess it would depend on how it's structured. Funding enough of a basic income to cover the current basic cost of living in America could be hard. A basic dividend from a social wealth fund seems more feasible and would be self funding after a certain point.

Although all of this is kinda academic/speculative. Because looking around, the only UBI we're likely to get are Universal Basic Internment camps.

 

[Rodney]

Yeah, something like this would sour or ruin a friendship for me too since the only people who’d get the hotdog cubes are people who thought you were safe. It’s a joke for folks who don’t have any sort of dietary restrictions, but it shows that you don’t take her and her preferences seriously, and something like not eating meat or drinking alcohol is generally very personal (either due to allergies, religious belief or some other conviction).

Edit: also forgot the most important part, hot dog water is famously disgusting even for meat eaters. It’s essentially the burger king foot lettuce of ice cubes

100% right on all of this. I should feel bad but I do not and the best of it is that she is not even a a full vegetarian as she eats burgers a few times a year.

I think doing this to anyone would be horrible.

 

[Bakin4Life]

should feel bad but I do not and the best of it is that she is not even a a full vegetarian as she eats burgers a few times a year.

A. It's a fookin' MEME, for chrissakes. NO one should take it seriously.

2. If she cheats with red meat especially... she's just virtue signalling, IMHO. (why beef? It's the most resource-intensive protein, and now intensively factory farmed worldwide).

Sorry if that sounds RW-ish; I thought 'hypocrite' was too easy.