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Got_Bent ,

Why would you justify this insanity? Look at the clowns that they put on there — you don’t subject yourself to that nonsense," he said, evidently speaking of the jury.

Both sides had ample opportunity to vet potential jurors. Your side is just as responsible for its makeup as anybody.

Got_Bent ,

Both of those are way down from when I was in my twenties.

Got_Bent ,

The commenter above you was clearly not around in the eighties if they don’t think tobacco consumption has dropped. I’m amused that I’ve seen this argument at least twice in this thread.

Got_Bent ,

I love the hit counter. Super nostalgic right there.

Got_Bent ,

There’s pretty much zero oversight for a supreme court justice, right? I’m kinda surprised he didn’t just lynch a few brown and/or gay people in his front yard because doing so would have equal consequence - none.

Got_Bent ,

Tried, convicted, appealed all the way up to his own court, conviction overturned.

Got_Bent ,

If Trump wins, this guy gets a pardon and a cabinet position

Got_Bent ,

Even today when my daughter is a self sufficient adult, whenever she calls for advice, the first thing I do is bring my mind back in time to when I was that age and remember what was going through my head when a similar situation to hers arose.

It’s not natural for me to do this. I have to make conscious effort. But it’s proven to give me better perspective and increases her level of trust with me.

Got_Bent ,

The last time I logged on to Facebook was this past fall because there was a death in our fairly tight knit group of high school classmates. It had been three or four years since I’d been in there.

So I went on and said my words.

While I was there, I didn’t really notice what was in my feed.

What I noticed was suddenly I was getting notification after notification that my posts from years and years ago were getting deleted because they didn’t fit whatever the current terms and conditions of use were.

This amused me.

So I left my words of dead classmate up for a week then sent my account silent again.

I can’t see Facebook or any social media being a place I ever hang out again, which is a little bit of a bummer because without any social media, IRL social activities all but come to an immediate and total halt.

Oh well. I’ll live.

Got_Bent OP ,

I think that might be an option with at least two of the three

Got_Bent ,

Wisconsin has a big Hmong population, all of whom came to the US legally. Holy hell the things I’ve heard people say about them. As if they’re not even human. This sentiment doesn’t surprise me at all.

Got_Bent ,

This got me curious if one could buy land in some remote unicorporated area to avoid any tax jurisdictions, but it seems that there would at the very least be county level taxes.

Got_Bent ,

I swear the federal governments that killed off entire populations of native Americans and authorized the recapture of escaped slaves were less childish and vindictive than today’s GOP.

Got_Bent ,

Don’t underestimate the magic of presidential healthcare.

Nixon was the last president to die before his nineties.

If Trump were a regular person like the rest of us, he’d likely already be dead, but whatever voodoo those presidential doctors perform, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him zombie along for another twenty years.

Got_Bent ,

I, for one, would rather have milk from a bear.

Got_Bent ,

Hey man, when the serial killing manifests itself just remember I’ll always make you a kick-ass bloody Mary and I’ll never ask you to play Scrabble.

Got_Bent ,

I have a rock just like the one pictured. Generally found in riverbeds or beaches that haven’t turned it all into sand yet.

Got_Bent ,

The only surviving adult MOVE member, Ramona Africa, refused to testify in court and was charged and convicted on charges of riot and conspiracy; she served seven years in prison.

Jesus Christ! No criminal charges against police so let’s imprison the sole surviving victim!

(She did get a handsome settlement years later, so there’s that but holy hell man)

Got_Bent ,

Does this mean I still can’t watch porn in Texas?

Got_Bent ,

I thought Ozzy was the best metal

Got_Bent ,

Planely obvious

Got_Bent ,

I had a student some thirty years ago whose name was Oh Yu Suk.

It was difficult for me to maintain when I first saw it.

Got_Bent ,

I had to go look up when those things came out (1977) because by the time I got my hands on one in 1982 in the school library they were already little more than toys even when compared to the luxurious Vic 20.

I know we played some games off cassettes on them. I feel like Oregon trail was one of those games, but I’m suspicious of my own memory because I know I was playing that on my Apple 2, which I think had joystick driven hunting on it.

God I’m getting old and can’t remember the finer points anymore.

I do remember that other kids bullied the HELL out of me for carrying one of those plastic boxes full of floppies with me at school. Not a good time to be a nerd back then.

Got_Bent ,

By tenth grade I had been commissioned to write some software. When I completed it, I walked away from all of it because of the social stigma. Didn’t touch a computer again for ten years. I won’t say I regret that because walking away led me to other life adventures, but I will say I regret the circumstances that drove me to do it.

Got_Bent ,

I wish I knew the answer to this, but I don’t think a dollar amount floor on labor in fiat currency is it. That’ll just find a new equilibrium in a devalued currency.

I don’t write this because I disagree with the sentiment. I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment.

But wealth isn’t about dollars. It’s about assets. For day to day living, it’s about real estate.

I just wrote out a whole bunch of thoughts but I don’t think they’re applicable to the topic.

Maybe do things like:

Unoccupied residential real estate is taxed at some obscene percentage of assessed value.

No individual may own more than ten living spaces (apartments are a need, and somebody’s got to own them)

Entities (looking at you black rock) may not own residential real estate.

REITS are absolutely off the table.

Water is a public good and Nestle can get fucked

Student debt and medical debt are capped at some percentage of income formula.

And to get really crazy, instead of minimum wage, employers must demonstrate that employees can afford two bedrooms with no more than twenty five percent of gross wages.

I’m drinking beer and watching rich people ride horses. These are casual thoughts without citation and are not intended for academic review or criticism.

Got_Bent ,

I believe the standard counter to that is that if you can’t meet that standard then you either shouldn’t have employees or you shouldn’t have a business

Got_Bent ,

Money laundering

Got_Bent ,

I don’t know what a PSN account is, but I’m surprised you can get one in North Korea.

Got_Bent ,

I was lily white guy living in ground zero of MS13 gangland in Los Angeles in the early 2000s for four years. I know it’s crazy, but best neighbors I ever had. We all bbq’d together, watched each other’s kids, and got along well.

One morning I was taking a bus to work. Two guys robbed me while I was standing at the bus stop. I had fifteen dollars, which I happily gave to them.

I went over to my neighbor that evening and told him what happened.

The next day, there was fifteen dollars in my mailbox.

I moved from there to high end HOA in Texas and holy hell it was miserable. I hated them all. They were the nosiest, most judgemental assholes imaginable. One lady would go walking down the alleys checking how many beer cans people had in their recycling and called the police on one house charging them with child neglect because of beer cans in their recycling bin. Fuck that neighborhood forever.

(There’s a funny coda to the robbery. I smoked a lot back then. When they were done shoving the gun in my ribs and walking away, I blurted out, “guys, I’m stressed. Do one of you have a light?” and I swear on a stack of books of your choice that one of them turned around and lit my cigarette)

Got_Bent ,

In the moment it felt like a “nothing personal just business”

Got_Bent ,

Where’s the next Kent State? The weapons and armor are much bigger this time.

Got_Bent ,

Bartender, I’ll have a screwdriver.

Got_Bent ,

Looks like he lives in the US. He’d better be careful if the Cheeto takes power. Donny would love to send him to his Russian piss buddy in the Kremlin.

Got_Bent ,

Considering that you’re probably making something like $1,500/mo in some place where rent is $3,000/mo I’d say take every discount you can get.

I briefly looked into doing a doctorate. The economics of it turned me away right quick.

Got_Bent ,

I lived in Korea for a while where they also do the ten thousand thing. I got used to it for numbers up to about ten million, but then would get quickly lost.

Since everybody was making a couple million won a month, knowing numbers that big was necessary.

Got_Bent ,

So you take a bad beer that’s been sitting in the sun for a few months. You know that smell?

Ramp that up a few orders of magnitude to the extent that it seizes up your breathing and makes your eyes tear up to the point of near blindness.

Got_Bent ,

We need a national Mitch McConnell ban.

Got_Bent OP ,

I’m likely your dad’s age. Strange that he wouldn’t get this concept. Even if you’re in my contacts, I’ll text before I call to ask if it’s ok. Even with my own spawn, I don’t just up and directly call her.

Got_Bent OP ,

I’ve had the same number for over twenty years. My guess would be all that time yielding no results from those calls. Otherwise I guess I’m just lucky. I almost never have my ringer or vibrate on so I never even see them as they come in.

Got_Bent OP ,

For friends my own age, we’re all working sixty plus hours a week because hurray America and we live in different time zones. It’s a mutual courtesy to set a time to talk.

Got_Bent OP ,

I never see most of these calls. They just show up on recent activity

Got_Bent OP ,

Oh no. My car warranty is about to expire, isn’t it?

Got_Bent OP ,

Username really checks out here

Got_Bent ,

Friend of mine had a heart attack in his early thirties working for AT&T in the nineties. I ended up in the ER with acute chest pains working for UBS.

These days, I’m generally able to weather the daily shit storms, but I’m mostly dead inside just waiting for the sweet, sweet relief of the real mortal deal.

I kinda wonder what the machine is going to have at its disposal to extract more out of me after I’ve left this mortal coil. Reanimated labor I suppose.

I got a pretty decent raise a couple weeks ago. As I usually do, I expressed my appreciation, but added the commentary that when a hundred percent of my time away from work is spent bedridden from exhaustion, what’s the difference between an $X thousand dollar raise and an $X million dollar raise.

Got_Bent ,

There’s also the little detail that I’m not a dev. But let the guy have his moment I guess.

Got_Bent ,

I am so much NOT a dev, that it took me a minute to even register what you were trying to say. I thought of a college classmate whose name is Dev.

I too have had my time in hard physical labor.

But you do you. Enjoy your Internet sanctimony.

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