There’s nothing I’d rather do than listen to loud music — if it’s the right kind.
Does it rock? Is it epic? If yes, turn it up. All the way up. I had a pretty decent aftermarket stereo installed in my truck back when I had more spending money, and it can get loud, to the point where you can feel the door speakers ruffling your pants and the subwoofer is kicking you in the chest, but sometimes I wish it could get still louder. When the music’s good, I don’t just want to listen to it, I want to LIVE in it. I want it loud enough to melt faces and crush skulls.
Er…well…yeah. Fortunately there’s plenty of room in the world for both of us. :)
It’s amazing what happens when you decouple your fiat currency from gold, eh? Before you know it, the shoe-shine boy is making more than a bank president used to and he’s in the 40% tax bracket. He’s RICH!
And a car costs more than a house used to, but those are what bankers call “details.”
Just remember, a brand new 1964 Buick Riviera, the super luxury rich guy’s car of the time, cost $4300 bucks. If you can find one now that runs and drives, it is worth $20K. A 60 year old car, twenty grand.
Meanwhile, DemocRats are melting down over DOGE cutting some government corruption.
On reflection, I feel that the memes are not savage enough. >:(
Aye. My 2019 Honda Ridgeline cost about 7 grand more than my 1977 townhouse. OTOH, said townhouse was $400K on Zillow a few years ago. [Looks again] $665K in theory.
Back in the 80s, Democrat James Florio got elected in New Jersey by promising to audit and cut taxes. Less than a year later he jammed through the largest tax increases in state history (at the time), including the infamous toilet paper tax.
I heard him reading a public service announcement telling us how, “the rich,” would now pay their fair share. Then I got to work and discovered that $35K/year as a single made me, “rich.”
I did enjoy seeing him hanged in effigy. Though he almost got a second term, it being New Jersey and all.
I think we should go to a “no” vote instead of voting for. If one person gets a flat “no” from the public and no one else has run, it’s a write-in ballot.
Rule of thumb in $TINY_TOWN is you are rich if you have enough money to buy your own food. The local distribution point for the food bank gets a lot of people on Wednesdays.
What happened in Finland during my lifetime was introducing the vehicle tax, year 1994. Now it is claimed that it was meant to be permanent from the beginning, but what I remember, as do most other people my age who owned cars back then I have talked with, it that when it was introduced in the press, before government started to collect it, was that all the talk was about “it’s only for a few years, until…” something.
So of course after a few years it of course was permanent (and had been meant to be permanent from the start… well maybe it was, that just wasn’t told to the voters then). No talking about getting rid of it anymore. You pay once a year for every car you own, all that is negotiable is in how many portions, 1 to 4.
Leftroids keep squalling about how their ‘right’ to health care justifies imposing socialized medicine on the whole country. Funny how they don’t believe the 2nd Amendment entitles me to ‘free’ guns paid for by other people.
Proper organized millitia would issue standard military-appropriate arms. In exchange, the millitiaman shows up when called. Logistical support when called is included.
Unorganized militia is a pick-up team who bring their own toys. Logistics is …. challenging. But these folks are just to buy time for the organized millitia and regulars to arrive.
And Essayons, as the Engineers say: we will try, we are trying, we are very trying indeed… It’s high time these United States had a proper organized militia, independent of DC.
Honestly CCO that read as an 88-90 Fox body Mustang coupe to me too. although with aftermarket fenders. But JP is right it’s got 4 doors so its something else totally. Same period though, that square body styling from that period was universal and kind of ugly.
re: mind control, actually a test that is prone to confounding factors.
Generally, there are two official narratives, or maybe even four. The narrative your faction likes, the narrative the other faction likes, the narrative the other faction wants to think you like, and the narrative you think the other faction likes. If you are good and careful with your intelligence analysis, you can maybe make your predicted narrative for the other faction match their actual narrative.
mind control hypothesis is partly an indicator for having an incomplete set of models in your mind for predicting how others think.
Okay, it can to be hard to understand both conformists, and goats. Etc. Trying to model minds alien to your own is pretty challenging.
But, when other people are consistently surprising you, and behaving in some consistent pattern that you just cannot explain or replicate for yourself? May be a failure of collection, analysis, and modeling.
And lying to oneself about a model being predictive when it is not is kinda shameful.
See the opposition’s largely untested ‘racism’ hypothesis. They may insist very predicted, and well proven. The issue is that they have mispredicted how the practicalities of US internal surveillance and force projection would allow fanatic idiots to do a lot of stuff, that would show up in various indicators. The missing indicators largely suggest an absence of those specific fanatic idiots.
Anyway, the academic trained people who are very loud in bragging on repeating university instructors by rote bother me a bit. If they had also weighted in what they were told about the experiences of their elder relatives, they might have an alternative explanation to mind control when it comes to disagreements about use of force scenarios.
These sorts of introspection tests are how I can infer that while I am deeply insane, I do have some of the tools for predicting and understanding how ordinary sane Americans think.
Re: AGW If you suppose that AGW is real, global totalitarian government was always a remedy that would fail much quicker than the idiots involved predicted, and was certain to do so in a way that raised doubts both about AGW’s reality, and about environmentalist policy.
Re: lazy unskilled university students
Those are down stream of the prison schools, with their often insane university trained ‘instructors’. These are downstream of an abusive environment that leaves students going into university badly crippled. These are downstream of the pernicious and excessive child labor laws, that try to force students to prefer the ‘advantages’ of an often counterfeit and fraudulent ‘higher education’. These are downstream of the pernicious and excessive adult labor laws, that price many cripples out of the employment market, or require of them empty degrees.
If you’ve got an Android phone, then Google has a free auto-translator that can auto-translate whatever the camera is looking at. I suspect iPhones have one, as well. But my phone is an Android, not iOS.
The hippo pic reminds me of a post by John Ringo on FB about the alien commander who comes back from his field patrol in Africa, and has to explain to his human fellow soldier (who can’t keep a straight face) about how alien’s patrol got savaged by a particularly dangerous example of Earth fauna known as… a hippo! :P
Those things are dangerous, and should not be messed with.
I attended a talk by an Aussie about gravity mapping Lake Alfred in Africa. One night in his tent, he was awaked by something tickling his feet. It was pitch dark inside, although the tent flap was open and there was a full moon. A flashlight revealed a (wild) elephant trunk exploring the tent for fruit. The rest of the of the elephant was blocking light from the doorway.
I vaguely remember a short story about aliens abduction. They insist on capturing the most dangerous thing on the planet to show humans how strong they are, and to steal from the best, “resistance is futile”. Obviously the species “man” isn’t the most dangerous. Look how easy they are to kidnap. So the captive starts working them through –
Hippo
Skunk
Lion
Cat (seen that cartoon too “you had one job” – to pickup the sleeping cat)
Rattlesnake (alien has an allergic reaction and dies)
According To Hoyt 
Nice ones.
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I’d rather listen to chaos than loud music.
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Well, some music is chaos. (~_^)
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So, you might want to look into Sun Ra and his Astro-Infinity Arkestra. Anything from The Magic City onward, really.
https://sunramusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-magic-city-cd-lp-digital
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There’s nothing I’d rather do than listen to loud music — if it’s the right kind.
Does it rock? Is it epic? If yes, turn it up. All the way up. I had a pretty decent aftermarket stereo installed in my truck back when I had more spending money, and it can get loud, to the point where you can feel the door speakers ruffling your pants and the subwoofer is kicking you in the chest, but sometimes I wish it could get still louder. When the music’s good, I don’t just want to listen to it, I want to LIVE in it. I want it loud enough to melt faces and crush skulls.
Er…well…yeah. Fortunately there’s plenty of room in the world for both of us. :)
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This is the way.
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Good to see the American has a .30 caliber to use on that cryptid. Not a Barbie gun. :-P
She doesn’t need to explain anything. At all. :-D
Income tax was temporary and only the rich would have to pay it. Guess we’re all rich now, eh? :-(
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“Guess we’re all rich now, eh?”
It’s amazing what happens when you decouple your fiat currency from gold, eh? Before you know it, the shoe-shine boy is making more than a bank president used to and he’s in the 40% tax bracket. He’s RICH!
And a car costs more than a house used to, but those are what bankers call “details.”
Just remember, a brand new 1964 Buick Riviera, the super luxury rich guy’s car of the time, cost $4300 bucks. If you can find one now that runs and drives, it is worth $20K. A 60 year old car, twenty grand.
Meanwhile, DemocRats are melting down over DOGE cutting some government corruption.
On reflection, I feel that the memes are not savage enough. >:(
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Aye. My 2019 Honda Ridgeline cost about 7 grand more than my 1977 townhouse. OTOH, said townhouse was $400K on Zillow a few years ago. [Looks again] $665K in theory.
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If you can find one at all – even if it doesn’t run and drive – then it somehow survived “Cash for Clunkers”.
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If it had run when Cash for Clunkers was in operation, they wouldn’t have taken it anyway.
They only wanted functional vehicles. So they could destroy them.
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There is no shoe-shine boy. He’s in a gang selling drugs because of ‘child labor’ and ‘minimum wage’ laws that protect him from being exploited.
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KABOOM (phone booth blows to bits) (trumpet music)
“There’s no need to fear! Underdog is here!”
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Back in the 80s, Democrat James Florio got elected in New Jersey by promising to audit and cut taxes. Less than a year later he jammed through the largest tax increases in state history (at the time), including the infamous toilet paper tax.
I heard him reading a public service announcement telling us how, “the rich,” would now pay their fair share. Then I got to work and discovered that $35K/year as a single made me, “rich.”
I did enjoy seeing him hanged in effigy. Though he almost got a second term, it being New Jersey and all.
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I think we should go to a “no” vote instead of voting for. If one person gets a flat “no” from the public and no one else has run, it’s a write-in ballot.
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I believe in one of P.J. O’Rourke’s books he gave that the Democrat definition of “rich” is that you have a job and an alarm clock.
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Rule of thumb in $TINY_TOWN is you are rich if you have enough money to buy your own food. The local distribution point for the food bank gets a lot of people on Wednesdays.
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Ours ticked up in October, November and December and is now down a bit.
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What happened in Finland during my lifetime was introducing the vehicle tax, year 1994. Now it is claimed that it was meant to be permanent from the beginning, but what I remember, as do most other people my age who owned cars back then I have talked with, it that when it was introduced in the press, before government started to collect it, was that all the talk was about “it’s only for a few years, until…” something.
So of course after a few years it of course was permanent (and had been meant to be permanent from the start… well maybe it was, that just wasn’t told to the voters then). No talking about getting rid of it anymore. You pay once a year for every car you own, all that is negotiable is in how many portions, 1 to 4.
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Leftroids keep squalling about how their ‘right’ to health care justifies imposing socialized medicine on the whole country. Funny how they don’t believe the 2nd Amendment entitles me to ‘free’ guns paid for by other people.
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I find your idea intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter
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Proper organized millitia would issue standard military-appropriate arms. In exchange, the millitiaman shows up when called. Logistical support when called is included.
Unorganized militia is a pick-up team who bring their own toys. Logistics is …. challenging. But these folks are just to buy time for the organized millitia and regulars to arrive.
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Hooah!
And Essayons, as the Engineers say: we will try, we are trying, we are very trying indeed…
It’s high time these United States had a proper organized militia, independent of DC.
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(clicks “like!”)
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Regarding f*cking like the government, that isn’t really a great recommendation. It is all the time, no one enjoys it and it costs too much.
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Butt sex without lube doesn’t sound fun unless you’re really anal retentive.
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Nurse: “Lube?”
Doctor: “There’s no time for lube!”
Prof. Block [desperately]: “There’s always time for lube!”
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To the Mexican coworker;
“Go ahead, make my day.”
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Is that a Fox body Mustang drawing on the road?
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No. Something European by the plate and 4 doors but doesn’t come across as BMW. Maybe an Opel Ascona
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Honestly CCO that read as an 88-90 Fox body Mustang coupe to me too. although with aftermarket fenders. But JP is right it’s got 4 doors so its something else totally. Same period though, that square body styling from that period was universal and kind of ugly.
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SFBS!
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That speaker seems to be about 5 feet in diameter, so tuned for about 220 cycles. Based!
We saw signs like these in UK castles – https://img.freepik.com/vecteurs-premium/illustration-vectorielle-panneau-avertissement-glissant-sol-glissant-signe-danger-glissant_550971-367.jpg?w=740 – our guide told us that means ‘tapdancing required’
Remington Nylon 66 in the 2A meme; nice little .22
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The Heinlein quote with the astronauts reminded me of the Major Matt Mason dolls (I mean “action figures“) my brothers and I used to play with.
The Space Crawler was cool.
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bougie man is a cool idea.
re: mind control, actually a test that is prone to confounding factors.
Generally, there are two official narratives, or maybe even four. The narrative your faction likes, the narrative the other faction likes, the narrative the other faction wants to think you like, and the narrative you think the other faction likes. If you are good and careful with your intelligence analysis, you can maybe make your predicted narrative for the other faction match their actual narrative.
mind control hypothesis is partly an indicator for having an incomplete set of models in your mind for predicting how others think.
Okay, it can to be hard to understand both conformists, and goats. Etc. Trying to model minds alien to your own is pretty challenging.
But, when other people are consistently surprising you, and behaving in some consistent pattern that you just cannot explain or replicate for yourself? May be a failure of collection, analysis, and modeling.
And lying to oneself about a model being predictive when it is not is kinda shameful.
See the opposition’s largely untested ‘racism’ hypothesis. They may insist very predicted, and well proven. The issue is that they have mispredicted how the practicalities of US internal surveillance and force projection would allow fanatic idiots to do a lot of stuff, that would show up in various indicators. The missing indicators largely suggest an absence of those specific fanatic idiots.
Anyway, the academic trained people who are very loud in bragging on repeating university instructors by rote bother me a bit. If they had also weighted in what they were told about the experiences of their elder relatives, they might have an alternative explanation to mind control when it comes to disagreements about use of force scenarios.
These sorts of introspection tests are how I can infer that while I am deeply insane, I do have some of the tools for predicting and understanding how ordinary sane Americans think.
Re: AGW If you suppose that AGW is real, global totalitarian government was always a remedy that would fail much quicker than the idiots involved predicted, and was certain to do so in a way that raised doubts both about AGW’s reality, and about environmentalist policy.
Re: lazy unskilled university students
Those are down stream of the prison schools, with their often insane university trained ‘instructors’. These are downstream of an abusive environment that leaves students going into university badly crippled. These are downstream of the pernicious and excessive child labor laws, that try to force students to prefer the ‘advantages’ of an often counterfeit and fraudulent ‘higher education’. These are downstream of the pernicious and excessive adult labor laws, that price many cripples out of the employment market, or require of them empty degrees.
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“That field isn’t hiring”. WORD.
Now I wish I read Japanese, I want to know what that bit with the cryptids is….
The cave painting on the car rocks!
Fauci, ow.
Okay with both, indeed.
Better coverage than Verizon. SNRK
That trolley problem is a canon INTJ solution….
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If you’ve got an Android phone, then Google has a free auto-translator that can auto-translate whatever the camera is looking at. I suspect iPhones have one, as well. But my phone is an Android, not iOS.
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I can’t even copy and paste it because it’s an image, not text. (This is an antique desktop that’s over twenty years old.) Arrgh.
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Nope. Mine barely dials numbers to get a person.
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The translation of the Japanese (I used CoPilot) is:
(Upload the image, and need to spefically ask CoPilot to translate the Japanese writing in the image)
CoPilot responds:
“I intend to send your soul back to hell.”
“Fool… Do you really think you can defeat me and my army?”
Wow, that’s intense! [Yes, CoPilot added that.]
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Plus, Japanese is written right to left, so the demon’s dialogue happens first and the human’s declaration is his response to that.
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Cool!
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now about that call to animal control
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Stealing that.
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The hippo pic reminds me of a post by John Ringo on FB about the alien commander who comes back from his field patrol in Africa, and has to explain to his human fellow soldier (who can’t keep a straight face) about how alien’s patrol got savaged by a particularly dangerous example of Earth fauna known as… a hippo! :P
Those things are dangerous, and should not be messed with.
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In Peter Capstick’s books, he mentions that when he was there, hippos were the top people killer among the herbivores (Crocs led the carnivore list).
“The path to my hut was along the riverbank, and bumping into something big enough to have Liberian registry was a concern.”
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I attended a talk by an Aussie about gravity mapping Lake Alfred in Africa. One night in his tent, he was awaked by something tickling his feet. It was pitch dark inside, although the tent flap was open and there was a full moon. A flashlight revealed a (wild) elephant trunk exploring the tent for fruit. The rest of the of the elephant was blocking light from the doorway.
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WildEarth had the time they explained that hyenas love jeeps, so locking up your jeep in a garage at night was a thing.
But monkeys love makeup and beauty products even more, so don’t let them get into the women’s bathroom.
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Could be worse: :-D
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I vaguely remember a short story about aliens abduction. They insist on capturing the most dangerous thing on the planet to show humans how strong they are, and to steal from the best, “resistance is futile”. Obviously the species “man” isn’t the most dangerous. Look how easy they are to kidnap. So the captive starts working them through –
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There was a hilarious thread on Twitter a day or so ago about how Vance and Trump are clearly both amalgamations of multiple people.
https://x.com/hemingquay/status/1898066953345892487
And I’m like, ‘Yep. Can see exactly how future historians would think that and be completely wrong.’ Weird times we live in.
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On the Europeans and rapists….That makes complete sense of an otherwise puzzling mess.
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ME: I used to laugh at Whoopi Goldberg.
ALSO ME: Used to?
STILL ME: …
ME AGAIN: Fair point.
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Knocked it out of the park this week. TWIP, watch your back, ’cause Sarah’s gunning for you!
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Touch grass vesus evil people must pay:
One cerftainly will touch grass if one digs the grave in a sunny spot in the back yard.
Until we meet again! HAHAHAHA!
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I laughed at the Sheep Cherokee, though the pedant in me says it would be hard to get a sweater’s worth of wool off that critter.
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There’s something wrong with me. I laughed so hard the first time I saw that that Dan came to see what it was…..
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Sorry you didn’t have the puppy meme. (“Fine. I won’t give up. But I will cuss the entire time.”)
Have there been any reports of con crud? I’m not exactly sick but I keep running out of energy.
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That is the exact reason why dad said we couldn’t keep it, ten months ago…. He gets waaaay too attached too quickly.
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