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Jacob Drafts

Former combat engineer. Current before cure tire repairman.

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2024-08-24 14:42:55

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I like my job. I don’t mind the 45 dollars an hour I get paid for coming in on my day off.

2024-08-24 13:03:27

Boss: I hate to bother you, I know it’s Saturday morning and your day off but…
Me: in fact you are the second person from work to call me on my day off.
Boss:….
Me: I’m already going to come in for a bit.

2024-08-21 22:20:19

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I try to learn something new everyday so thanks for that. I don’t think I’ll ever use it but I learned something.

2024-08-21 21:10:33

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Wait. We can mute people?!?!?!?!?!

2024-08-16 21:52:26

https://youtu.be/ER2bby2YK9U?si=7F3fc3iHFHLHo-7Q

2024-08-13 07:02:09

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_stew

2024-08-13 05:41:43

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I fix my coworkers mistakes for a living so the workload varies. They make the products on the line and when a mistake is made in a unit they send it to me and I fix it by hand. My belt holds 11 units before it’s backing up the main line and I don’t like to have downtime. I routinely skip meetings as a waste of my time. No one’s said anything to me yet so I guess I’ll keep skipping them.

2024-08-13 05:32:22

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That’s why I eat early. I might not get a lunch break depending on what happens at work.

2024-08-12 20:41:40

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Usually a couple hours after I wake up I eat something before work. I’m on my feet moving for 12 hours though. I don’t know that I’d call that heavy labor though.

2024-08-12 20:39:51

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I work two weeks on days and then two weeks on nights. I’ve noticed I get hungry at certain times of the day when I would be eating if I was on the opposite schedule. If I don’t eat anything I go back to not being hungry in half an hour. I usually only eat once or maybe twice a day.

2024-08-08 21:36:24

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I don’t think violence solves this issue. Well short of a genocide one way or the other though I fervently hope no one involved is so inclined. I’m going to weigh in as someone who is watching the small town my family has been living in and around for almost 300 years turn into urban sprawl for a large metropolitan area 15 miles away. For the most part it’s internal migration within the US. We won’t be rude to newcomers. Mostly. If you complain about the weather, the bugs or the way we do things then we’ll ask if you need help moving back up north. None of us like the extra infrastructure that has to be built, a dozen schools in my lifetime. The extra traffic. All the forest being clear cut for housing developments. The fact that now maybe we can’t just go shoot a .22 at cans in the back yard without some Karen calling the cops. Maybe it’s wrong to tar everyone moving here with that brush. It’s easy to do though and really we don’t know any of the newcomers from Adam. They are easy to spot though. Well. Easy to hear anyway.
Like I say I won’t be rude to you unless you start complaining about the place when ain’t nobody from here asked you to move here. That’s most of us but, and I’ll project here with conversations I’ve had with other people whose families have been here for generations. None of us particularly care for it if the people I know are any indication. That’s likely a function of numbers. Hundreds and sometimes thousands a year every year? Why would anyone expect us to like that?

2024-08-02 19:09:23

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This. If you don’t have freedom of association you don’t have freedom. Freedom is leaving people alone to do what they will if it is something that is a deal breaker for you. The criteria for which is a personal decision each person gets to make for themselves. Everyone else is of course free to not associate with you in response. I don’t care one way or the other about this particular issue but those that do are free to associate or disassociate as they will under any rational theory or libertarianism or freedom.

2024-07-24 19:56:07

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Course that number might be because of people like my grandmother who we’re pretty sure looking back on it beat being right handed into my uncle. Luckily that didn’t happen to me or my sister.

2024-07-24 19:54:54

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I feel you. I’m left handed in a right handed world. 10 percent of the population world wide they say. 12.8 percent in the US.

2024-07-20 06:46:17

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Fine. Whatever speed the impacts would not be fatal at. We could set that speed as the maximum speed. We don’t though. Because we accept that getting from point a to point b at the speeds we are accustomed to means x number of people will die.

2024-07-20 05:26:40

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For that matter we could make the speed limit 20 miles an hour and save 40-45,000 lives a year in the US. We don’t though. That would inconvenience everyone.

2024-07-14 13:35:19

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That’s what happens when engineers start bouncing ideas off each other.

2024-07-14 02:01:23

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I think all that’s happening anyway once we hit a certain point on the national debt and deficit. As far as a global power vacuum goes, this might be selfish of me but at this point I’m just worried about the 25 mile radius that is the corner of it that my family has been in for three centuries and will be in for another 300. Especially if worrying about the rest of it puts us at risk because of blow back and financial instability from the imperial infrastructure that has to he funded for that purpose.

2024-07-14 01:33:35

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Why would divided mean conquered? I guess given the times I need to change my profile picture from the marker of an ancestor with the same name killed during the French and Indian War to the ancestor with the same name that died in the 5th South Carolina Cavalry in 1864.
The federal government may have conquered the states attempting to leave last time. This time that would be after 50 years of deficit spending and 30 years of policing the world with a population less and less willing to die for some rich politician. I don’t think enough people have the stomach to force people to stay in and the government probably can’t afford to pay them to do it at this point. No one has the capacity to invade. Not even us if there were two continents this size with as many privately owned weapons and the same population. Even split into 2-3 countries.

2024-07-12 17:25:36

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Couple things. Some of us won’t have security agencies. At least at anything beyond a basic tier. There’s other options. For some of us anyway. I got thousands of relatives in this county and the adjacent one. Call it a 50 mile radius. We’ve all got weapons. That can be a ready built equivalent for those eligible for membership but one based on the honor system. Settling it in court also assumes both parties, whom presumably think they are in the right, are willing to accept part of the whole as a compromise or abide by a ruling against them when no one can really intimidate them into it. It also assumes they value giving up what they see as their legitimate claim over spilling blood. Small stuff? Sure. Big stuff? How much blood we talking? How much of it is on the other side? How much is on your side? What are your chances of victory? Those conflicts happened all throughout history in the absence of a state. Maybe they don’t if we get rid of the state but I wouldn’t count on it.
I was talking more about paying the piper in terms of the blood on one’s hands. Government advocates being culpable for everything the government does to keep order. Anarchists like myself being on the hook morally for things like duels and feuds that might very well be inevitable under our preferred system when we could prevent them by exercising violence against everyone on a lesser scale constantly to prevent large flare ups here in there by having an organized force with an effective monopoly on force. Us anarchists making the decision that a certain amount of blood being spilled in disputes where both parties think they are in the right and have sufficient force projection to prevail flare up as the cost of our system being in place. Just like statists should accept the moral negatives of the state as the cost of implementing a system that puts the kybosh on those flare ups.

2024-07-12 11:52:03

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In the absence of a state which completely changes the equation because people can’t contract their violence out to the state? Dunno. Some people would likely be more violent. Once those people are likely killed, they likely won’t be jailed which is a continuous drain on resources that is less likely to occur in the absence of taxation, the violence drops off. That’s the problem. We don’t see the violence now because it’s all one sided and we call it things like taxation.
In the absence of a state you have to respond to all sorts of things that not responding to now is an option. If you look like a coward that’s a giant come fuck with me sign. So the answer is likely in some ways more violence and in some ways less.
If we’re talking about in the presence of a state the violence is spread out. The state handles it all and has enough power that most people are forced into compliance which is violence when used in a way that would be violent if done by other people. Taxes. Fines for things like allowing smoking in your restaurant. People that support having that state as the alternative to an anarchy get to own all that though as the cost of doing business. Whether they work for the government or not. None of us get out clean. Whatever the system the piper has to be paid.

2024-07-11 20:32:50

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Depends on the circumstances. And the individual. Some will be. Some won’t be. That is different people will have different thresholds on when it’s not worth exercising violence to defend themselves. I can’t answer that question for anyone but me. I’d generally be more inclined because it’s less likely a group would have sufficient power to make resistance to their aggression futile.
I’d have the same right to use violence to stop someone stealing an apple from my tree if I catch them at it as I would to use it to stop them if I caught them at digging up the gold that is my life’s savings buried under that same apple tree. In one case I probably won’t consider it worth it. In the other? Depends on if I’m armed.

2024-07-11 19:32:46

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A system with a state is inherently violent. A state is merely an organization with sufficient means of violence that no one challenges them. It’s just not worth it. Until it is.
In the absence of a state each individual/group gets to decide when it is or is not worth it for themselves. And in the absence of the state would have all the weapons they want and likely be more skilled in the use of them than is the norm under the jurisdiction of a state that has a functional monopoly on violence.

2024-07-11 18:43:42

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What’s to resolve? If they think they’re claim is legitimate and we don’t? Not because we dispute the facts of the case but because we interpret them differently. I would freely acknowledge, depending on the tribe, that they were in the area previously. That would not be the same thing as acknowledging their claim of ownership to the specific land in question. If they think being in the area prior to my family does mean that then there is an impasse and if neither side is willing to relinquish their claim a conflict. And once the first person is killed then it’s about murder. Specifically if they killed a member of my family that’s murder as far as my family is concerned since my family member would have been defending a legitimate property claim in our eyes. Likewise if my family member kills one of them in self defense, defending in our eyes, our legitimate claim that’s murder to them since their person died attempting to protect their legitimate in their eyes claim. Then we would really have something to fight about.

2024-07-11 18:09:56

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They give up or got us outgunned. There was never a settlement on the property prior to us as far as I know. If they can’t provide proof of one I would never view their claim as legitimate so we won’t be leaving.

2024-07-11 17:59:28

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I’m peaceful. That doesn’t change the facts though. In the absence of a large force with a monopoly on violence people will be there own protection. Which is fine as far as it goes. You don’t get that without having conflict when two parties have different interpretations of how property rights are applied in a given situation. Like I said sometimes one or both sides will decide not to enforce their claim to the property right. But that won’t always happen. For instance if someone came up and said they had a claim to acreage that’s been in my family for centuries we got a problem. I use that example because in my view property rights are established by homesteading specific acreage. Not by roaming through an area without ever approving it. The descendants of people who roamed that land hundreds of years ago or thousands of years ago before the groups that were here then might feel differently about it. In the absence of the governments of Lexington County, the state of South Carolina and the United States of America there is nothing to stop either side from using violence to enforce or defend their claim as they see fit.

2024-07-11 17:03:02

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It’s not about being pro or anti violence. It’s about the fact that violence is inevitable to the human condition even if everyone lives by the NAP. By virtue of the fact that there will always be different interpretations of circumstances. Sometimes one or both sides will walk away because they think it’s not worth the cost. That won’t always happen though.

2024-07-11 09:37:50

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It’s amazing how many libertarians and libertarian adjacent people don’t understand that people don’t process information the same way at a fundamental level. This means that even people who use the NAP to govern their actions will not interpret the NAP the same way in a given situation. So yes. Both sides in a conflict can actually think the other side violated the NAP on them and they are acting in self defense. Both sides. At the same. The chaser? You probably aren’t changing most people’s minds about their interpretation. Especially if their wellbeing is tied to their interpretation.
Nothing stopping you from defending yourself in any situation of course but when you and yours have to bear all the costs win, lose or draw against them and theirs, I hope it was worth it. Especially if your talking about a group local to you. The reality is if someone decides to end you and isn’t a complete moron about it you are done. It’s a rifle shot from 300 yards. Its a ball peen hammer to the back of the skull while you are walking down the street. Don’t forget that the family of the person you self defensed is still in the area and their response will be governed by their interpretation of events. We lose sight of that several generations into a society where the government has power enough to put the kybosh on most of that and people being used to using the state to handle disputes with one another and retaliating for wrongs.

2024-07-10 09:47:09

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Which is another reason to favor doing things at the familial level. It makes having several communities in the area more feasible.

2024-07-10 09:37:55

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I’d prefer the second. It means kids with shitty parents are at a serious disadvantage but that’s the case under the current system. The benefit is it’s a lot harder to kill local culture through indoctrination that is possible with centralized schooling. Even if members of the community are calling a lot of the shots. In my community it’s at the point where people not from here drastically outnumber those of us that are from here.

2024-07-10 09:30:29

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I’m on board with all that. As a heathen. I been to Dachau. I would encourage that visit as an example to the evil that’s possible when power is ceded to the government.

2024-07-10 08:59:33

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Schools are also decaying because parents aren’t the customers. The government is. Same with the police, military and courts. The trade off to user pays regardless of relative wealth is the state taking money from people and then purchasing the services. That makes the government the customer. Which is why those institutions are resistant to change and engage in behavior contrary to what private citizens want.

2024-07-10 08:54:08

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And because the government pays the bills and on the surface everyone is taken care of, people’s neighbors and families don’t intervene. In a society without that government bail out? We can’t stop you from walking out on your spouse and children but you better have a very good reason. Otherwise you might end up without any friends in town and family that has nothing to do with you. Without the above mentioned money printing, how many people are moving around at a whim? That’s something that is enabled because developers can borrow billions of dollars, in aggregate, and build millions of prefabricated houses. Without that? Moving and starting over somewhere else because you burned your bridges in the community you were born in just became harder.

2024-07-02 02:45:40

Tried out my “new” wind up shaver. Good shave. Now to see if I can find spare razors for something made in 1972.

2024-06-27 22:38:53

Murica!!!
https://youtu.be/9cwA8xxPG64?si=eW9lmCwsGzctlJIT

2024-06-24 22:01:04

https://image.nostr.build/17308b20c5a2b57648a701d4a17f84747062609e2b9fceeb69cdb42319d97fe5.jpg

2024-06-24 20:48:07

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We only ever had outdoor cats when I was a kid. Including one that made it to 17 and could still take down a squirrel blind in one eye, half blind in the other and eat up with arthritis. We fed her. She just liked to keep in practice I guess.

2024-06-24 20:39:04

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say. Or yellow vs green in this case.

2024-06-24 20:33:59

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On the yellow side of yellow-green.

2024-06-24 19:13:12

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Have there ever been elections without interference, both foreign and domestic? Anywhere in the world at any point in history? Is such a thing even possible?

2024-06-23 20:31:24

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It’s real easy to right every wrong when you get to socialize your costs for doing so.

2024-06-23 08:38:49

When you need a bridge…
https://youtu.be/5pMeb4ZSHh8?si=OHdTOMZs8-_oMSK-

2024-06-22 22:46:53

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https://image.nostr.build/a09a73011b07a3b6b964b7a40c3409d57ac2319955c5b293b088b13f9268d0f0.jpg

2024-06-20 14:45:54

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There’s a difference between living somewhere, legally or not, and being part of the community. Just moving in doesn’t give you that. My area is going through large scale migration right now. Citizens moving in from 1,000s of miles away. All legal. My family has been in this county for 300 years. Well. It will be 300 years in 2045. I don’t figure to be the one to leave. Even if people are ruining it. I figure that all dries up as the current financial system becomes less and less able to build 1,000 homes at a go and sell them later instead of a few people moving in and building houses as they move. I’ll say it though, when people move into an area and start wanting to raise taxes to pay for more schools and teachers I start to get onboard with not having the vote until you’ve lived in a community for 10-15 years.

2024-06-20 14:30:00

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Especially if they aren’t allowed a say in who gets to by shares or told they have to let you buy shares.

2024-06-20 14:29:05

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You don’t but why should the people with a long term generational share in the company trust you or think you should have a say because you bought shares last month.

2024-06-20 13:43:55

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Those people are like shareholders in a large publicly traded company that want money now but won’t own shares 50 years from now and know it. They don’t mind gutting R and D for money now. Why would they? The consequences of that will be someone else’s problem, they’ll have moved on or will then. Or they’ll support spending money on the wrong things because it will boost profits in the short term. Or because “its the right thing to do” for social justice.

2024-06-20 13:31:42

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I’m not advocating for anything. Just making an observation. If you engage in non peaceful behavior as a form of protest you better be ready to be violent because when it’s time to be violent it’s time to be violent. Also the second you start to show violence towards people, and their property, that were neutral in the conflict you increase the likelihood of not liking how they choose to enter the conflict. Take the BLM stuff. Are there problems with policing in America that need to be fixed? Absolutely. Does that take burning down a police station or three maybe with the cops inside? Maybe. You burn down private property you just lost me and millions of other people. Why? I got property and it’s real easy to picture that happening here. I also start to think about whether or not I’d engage in certain behavior against those people if I caught them in the act. From 5-600 yards away. It didn’t by the way, the BLM protest by me consisted of people walking down the sidewalk carrying signs with local businesses staging bottled water for them and a couple of restaurants setting up grills in their parking lots and cooking for them. On an unrelated note, it’s legal to drive around with a loaded handgun in your glove box or center console here. No permit needed and most of the population does.

2024-06-19 21:49:02

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He has to. It’s also why he can’t fix the problems even if he wanted to. That would mean admitting he was wrong for 50 years. That’s something most people don’t have in them.

2024-06-18 07:15:24

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The house I grew up in and where my parents still live? My great grandfather and his brothers built it. My father’s mother and uncle were born in that house. There’s always a next generation in the clan that will need housing.

2024-06-18 07:04:20

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My father’s parents built a small house and then added rooms as they added children. I’ll grant you this was probably helped by the fact that they had a brick house and my great uncle and his brother were brick masons. We’re also the kind of family where everyone shows up to work on a house, chop firewood or harvest the garden. I suspect that sort of thinking and way of doing things would make a comeback under that type of financial situation.

2024-06-17 16:07:49

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Ah yes. The draft. With a last name like mine glad I’m 36 now.

2024-06-17 16:05:15

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Eh. I think you could make it work in excess of that number as long as your still at a point of I don’t know you but I do know 3 of your cousins. I think the biggest problem is people thinking it’s ok to forcibly take resources from others for their own safety. Paying the police and military and so forth. It might be necessary but no one wants to be the bad guy so they contort themselves mentally to come up with a way that they aren’t a thief and if anyone was killed resisting a murderer. Worse yet if they weren’t a trigger puller for the government or an elected official but just a voter they’re a coward who contracts their dirty work out by means of secret ballot on top of being a thief and murderer.
And yes. If you believe taxes are theft this is the only way to look at your neighbors who don’t or the ones who think it is but decide we have to do it anyway. Even if you shouldn’t say it because those people are the bulk of your society. Does it make them a bad person? Are you a bad person if you survive a plane crash, have no survival skills and break into a remote hunting cabin for shelter and food? Does it change if the cabin is occupied and the owner doesn’t want you there or to share his food so you get into a fight and kill him? How is that any different at scale when it’s a large collection of individuals doing it through the government?

2024-06-17 15:50:47

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You can’t get good output with bad input and most people have chosen to use a system of bad inputs because they think it’s a better system.

2024-06-17 15:43:09

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One time a buddy of my dad’s had cancer, couldn’t work and needed money. He sold my dad a pistol for 300 bucks. My dad’s more of a revolver guy so he sold it to me for 300 bucks. Fast forward 4-5 years the guy is back on his feet and wants his pistol back so I sold it to my dad for 300 and he sold it back to his buddy for 300. Then I went out and bought one just like it for 400.
I think that works in places where you know the people involved or at best if you don’t know them you know their cousin. There’s other things involved. If you go to someone who doesn’t know you from Adam they don’t have that personal connection so that’s a non starter because they’ll always have something else to do with their resources if the possibility of profit doesn’t exist.
My pet idea is that the Libertarian Party and its dues paying members would have been better off starting their own bank and credit processing system than wasting the money in politics. The response is typically I would be interested in that if was profitable. Why would profits come into it? You aren’t receiving a return on your investment in the libertarian party. So you’ll waste money on politics but because it’s a business you suddenly have to make money instead of just breaking even or even never seeing that money again but now there’s a system in place that does more for your ability to do business without the government shutting you down with a simple email to your bank instead of taking your bank to court, than 70 years or 700 years of playing politics was ever going to get you.

2024-06-16 13:06:53

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Not me. I like land.

2024-06-16 12:59:25

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Is that like the time some transplant from Pennsylvania was running her mouth about how she couldn’t believe we were all against paying higher slightly property taxes and a slightly higher county sales tax to improve the schools because they aren’t adequate and we didn’t know what high taxes were. Even with the increase they wouldn’t be anywhere near what she was paying in Pennsylvania.
Lady we’ve built a dozen schools in this district the past 25 years over people moving in. We didn’t need all that before you moved here. Want to know why there isn’t enough infrastructure and the current tax rates don’t allow for improvement? Look in the mirror. Nobody asked you to move here.
Then we’re the bad guys for asking if she needed help moving back to Pennsylvania since she apparently doesn’t like it here.

2024-06-16 12:48:50

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They need to figure it out. They’ve basically turned this half of the county into urban sprawl for the state capital across the river and in the next county over the past 40 years.

2024-06-16 12:46:33

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I’ll never get another vaccine again. How can I trust them about all the other ones? I can’t. They ruined that. I hope it was worth it.

2024-06-16 12:44:39

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Yep. Looking at moving a bit further out myself. I’ve never lived inside a city or a town but that urban sprawl catching up to me.

2024-06-16 12:25:55

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Have fun. It’s almost time for me to get ready to pick up my aunt for father’s day and my sister’s birthday. I guess we’ll be outside by my sister’s garden even if it will be 100 degrees out. Last year she made ice cream and blackberry cobbler with blackberries from my aunt’s property. Speaking of enjoying things without worrying about future consequences.

2024-06-16 12:09:26

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All this ham talk done got Tom T. Hall stuck in my head.
https://youtu.be/wDJfd9ufE84?si=t30WIjaxKg07Qfkc

2024-06-16 11:48:27

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I think it’s an and. You need to be aware of both factors and make a good decision that no one else can make for you. I bought some seasoning for meat with bitcoin the other year and I enjoyed it immensely. It won’t be a regular thing I usually mix my own but it was fun to try something else and I hadn’t bought anything with crypto before. I look at it like silver, common caliber ammunition, knives and firearms. I can and have used all of those items in the place of money while making an exchange, while obeying all applicable law, but I usually just use USD.

2024-06-15 20:03:07

Decided to add another gadget to my collection. Bought if out of the estate sale of a friend of a friend. Should ship Monday. Hopefully I’ll be using it this time next week. https://image.nostr.build/1644d9c2471e9c887f17f056f1e074ec11574fabb2d7ea894b1b2efe31ea8d9d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/8850ae91891e912160043854ce297f716e00ee6d078367a57a319e24597c5ffb.jpg

2024-06-13 19:30:51

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Just zapping the profile. Which never had to go through zapplepay.

2024-06-13 09:32:26

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I don’t know much about the electronic security stuff. It’s been a few years, 15 of them, but I was trained in breaching buildings. I figure electronic security is like physical security. There isn’t actually a system with no vulnerabilities that will keep everyone out if they are willing to sink the needed time and resources into getting in. It’s about not being the low hanging fruit and it taking long enough that you can realize what is going on and respond as appropriate.

2024-06-13 09:27:27

Got to clock in an hour early for a meeting that’s definitely not a waste of time for everyone involved. At least its Friday on Thursday and once I clock out tonight I’m off until Monday night. Well. Unless they call me wanting to know if I can come in this weekend for some overtime.

2024-06-13 09:01:23

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Sounds like it’s a problem with the system then. For the time being I’m just zapping the profile of people whose posts I normally like.

2024-06-11 15:03:36

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I think I just identified my mother’s Christmas present.

2024-06-11 09:12:04

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I set it up the other year but I’m not so good with this stuff. Sadly my go to plan of asking my sister isn’t feasible at this time.

2024-06-11 09:03:31

Noticed the other day that my zapplepay isn’t zapping when I like posts anymore. Tried resetting it up. No dice. Tried zapping individual users on nostr. That worked no problem. Not sure what the problem is.

2024-06-10 18:56:22

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What did they think was going to happen? That the bull wouldn’t want his freedom to?

2024-06-10 17:53:15

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I think those limits don’t apply in a system where the banks just throw loans at people because they can just create the money that they loan out.

2024-06-10 17:47:34

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Tell that to the people who are coming in and putting in 1000s of houses every year. In the county I live in I mean. Hell the mayor in one of the small towns near me is *bragging* about getting ready to double the population in a 5 year period.
Why shouldn’t the locals feel a certain way about that? The ones that aren’t getting kick backs from land developers I mean.

2024-06-10 17:26:53

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Especially if you move to small town/rural area and not a city that already had 100,000 people in it.

2024-06-10 17:19:49

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Individually? It’s not. When you’re talking about doubling, or more, the population over the course of 20 years it becomes a problem. That person should also accept that they aren’t a part of the community in the way that someone from there is and they need to accept being treated differently by people until they assimilate which might take a few years, a few decades or a few generations.
I’m not even saying they need to be forced out. Just don’t expect people to like their community changing or be nice and accepting of the people doing the changing. I would be down with anyone trying to force that acceptance being forced out.

2024-06-10 17:07:12

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Are we talking setting up shop in an existing community or starting a new community in the boonies? Its unrealistic to expect people to not react in certain ways to their community being changed without their input. And it will change. If for no other reason that more people means more problems simply in terms of needed infrastructure and the fact that a certain number of people just aren’t going to get on board with societal norms for whatever reason.

2024-06-10 16:09:56

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Paying in for generations I mean. I went to elementary school in the same building my grandparents did. Now there’s a dozen new schools in the county and property taxes are higher than ever. That’s all from legal immigrants. I wonder how many new teachers that is. Yeah people moving here en masse is great.

2024-06-10 16:06:28

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Also in the absence of government owned “public” property there would be places that would have no “public” property and right to travel might be restricted just to people from the area by the ownership instead of open to all. I guess that’s the real question. Is any government ownership of property legitimate given there funding mechanisms or is it all ill gotten gains from criminal activity. Speaking of taxes. While education is one of the biggest line items at the state and local levels it’s not immediately clear to me why people should have the right to move into an area en masse and necessitate all sorts of previously unneeded infrastructure. Including maintenance and staffing of the infrastructure. Especially if they immediately get the vote and can start voting to raise the taxes of people whose families have been paying in to build and then maintain what was previously enough infrastructure for the population.

2024-06-10 15:57:07

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I guess. Good luck to you if the people whose border you want to cross don’t want you there and you decide to fight it out with them. Hope it works out ok for you. Not that it’s my business one way or the other. Unless you’re talking about where I’m from and then if I’m forced to pick a side it won’t be on theoretical principles. It will be based on who I’m related to. Whether that’s an illegal immigrant from another country or a legal one from New York, Ohio or Pennsylvania.

2024-06-10 15:49:33

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Right to travel does not equate to right to be accepted by the locals. Down to them refusing to sell you land and refusing to sell you building materials and food if one of their number does sell you land. In the absence of laws regulating discrimination that would happen some places.
Sincerely a local from a part of the world where if you moved here tomorrow your descendants might be considered locals in 100 years. Maybe.

2024-06-10 11:52:40

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That’s rather optimistic. I’m inclined to think they were crooked from the start back before they changed their name to the FBI even.

2024-06-09 09:31:34

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What’s that quote about being less than 50% literate is being illiterate. I’d put myself in that category with this type of technical literacy.

2024-06-07 10:06:44

https://youtu.be/B_enD2j1Sbc?si=Tv_4JcRBNEHoWnmU

2024-06-03 18:33:14

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That’s one of those I need proof but I wouldn’t be shocked to learn it was true conspiracy theories. Not even a little surprised.

2024-06-03 04:53:48

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Nickelodeon. Strictly for Hey Arnold and The Last Air Bender.

2024-06-02 02:18:21

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I’ll keep using my store bought stuff including parts kits I finished at the house but homemade is always an option. Maybe not this primitive. My mother’s younger brother is a trainer machinist. With his own set up on his farm.
https://youtu.be/KptCCbTcq_o?si=wmwBYr12xg9gjHZR

2024-06-02 02:12:01

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Then crazies have to be locked up. To be free is to have access to weapons.

2024-06-02 02:08:56

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Guns are like drugs and prostitutes. If you’re 15 and have worked for several months, while budgeting accordingly, any of the three are available near you. It’s just a question of whether acquiring one of the three is high enough on your preferences to offset the risk of punishment. As things deteriorate and the state loses power that becomes less and less of a barrier to entry. In any of the three markets.

2024-06-01 20:48:53

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I thought about joining a few years ago. For about 30 seconds. Then reality reasserted itself. Boy was I right on that one.

2024-05-30 23:04:18

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Membership is definitely worth it. Even at full price. It’s so worth it that not only do I have one, I give my sister and brother in law one for Christmas every year.

2024-05-29 02:27:39

Oops.
https://youtu.be/o7728p9VaxY?si=6Uuao28WduHpGiul

2024-05-28 22:32:04

Now I got quarters in my loafer’s trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent
Jimmy Buffet- We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us About, 1983

2024-05-25 23:05:20

Them: how’s it going?
Me: I pulled the head off Elvis filled Fred up to his pelvis…
Them: what?
Me: what?

2024-05-24 22:32:04

Is it stealing if someone put the price of the drink I bought in the break room at 20 cents instead of 2 dollars? I tried to explain the mistake to the kiosk but it wouldn’t listen to my explanation.

2024-05-24 22:26:42

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I guess I should have asked the Drill Sergeants to stop the bus from the Airport on our way to basic training so I could get some good food. I haven’t been back to Saint Louis but maybe I should put it on the list for next year’s vacation.

2024-05-24 21:24:38

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Right. I’m not even saying it’s a bad thing to have elites necessarily. That probably comes down to how they are selected and what they do with it. The culture of the group. In this case NOSTR and Twitter.

2024-05-24 21:14:53

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Are there any groups of people without elites? That is people who might not have official authority over the group but who have more influence in the group than other individuals? Is such a thing possible once you get to a situation where there are enough people that you can’t really know everyone?

2024-05-20 21:34:30

I’m not saying this is everyone on Nostr but…
https://youtu.be/s0O-i9kLyPQ?si=4Y0UWhg7s_vQHTIg

2024-05-20 19:05:27

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Meat seasoning from @npub1g38…fpvg