Some people hold family relationships above politics. If that’s not for you, that’s fine. But it’s not a wild idea or unreasonable. It’s just a different way of dealing with a political/family dynamic and what you find more important.

To be fair, my own granny died thinking I was still a card carrying Republican. Sometimes you don’t tell Grandma you are a godless liberal. The old folks don’t really need to know everything. Christmas gets kinda awkward if you do.

Hollow point rifle rounds are absolutely a thing. I know this because I have a box of them at home. 30.06 hollow point is a common offering you can get basically anywhere.

I mean it’s an absolutely ridiculous thing to say. He should get flack for how patentedly stupid that comment was. But probably not fired.

We have officially hit the point where radio waves are the devil. As a lora nerd and a ham operator, it’s funny that the public is starting to catch on to all this.

It’s like the microchips in the COVID vaccine thing. Why would bill gates and the ghost of Steve jobs try to sneak all this into your life when they already got paid 800 bucks for you to own a smartphone?!? You already did it!

This is just a part of normal infrastructure now and your Amazon echo is way more useful to them than whatever conspiracy theory is getting cooked up about this shit.

Hell most of it is horribly implemented and borderline useless even if you had the explicit intent to be evil with it. Ffs

I’m already getting blasted with ads for the heir apparent to replace Beto here in Texas. Some baby faced compromise that the Texas DNC has picked because of the fucking algorithm or something. Useless bastards all of them. All the Dems in deep red that I know are watching with waited breath for mamdami to win so we can use it as an actual example of what real policy ideals and ‘fuck the DNC’ effort can be. It’s a thousand miles away but that’s what we fucking need to show that these basic ass milquetoast candidates don’t work. Ann Richards hasn’t been relevant for thirty years but they keep trying the same goddamn thing. Fingers crossed they figure it out eventually.

You are probably right. But from personal experience with both of the people who admitted they were wrong, the huge dose of humble pie they ate to ever admit to me, that’s takes real effort. One sees it in his pocketbook. He may forget. The other sees it after a solid dozen of his employees have been deported after ice raids. He’s hurting in his pocketbook and in the personal relationships he has built with his employees.

To be fair I’ve told these people that all farmers should be voting dem across the board, quite militantly, for years now. But guns and “Jesus” made them think I was a madman. I know and understand who’s blood and sweat our tiny world is built on,and finally they are starting to understand it. I hope it is a lesson that sticks. I’ll be doing my damned best to make sure it does.

These are people that have fallen for propaganda. Decades of it. They aren’t bad. They are just stupid for not paying attention. We can fix that. Call it out but please don’t forget your empathy. I’m having a hard enough time as it is.

I’m a farmer. I warned my neighbors. I’ve had two hardcore trumpers walk up to me nowon two separate occasions now and tell me to my face “you were right”

I took no victory lap when either of them admitted it. The fact they admitted it was mind-blowing in and of itself. I didnt think they could ever be broken to admit it.

My response, “we’ve got three more years of this bullshit”.

We’re all in this together. But now you fucking understand.

After I set up my server and paid for the hardware, after my vpn, and after I paid for my Usenet subscription, and yeah, after I paid for lifetime Plex. I’m money ahead. Easily.

I have no Netflix, Hulu, apple, Amazon. All of it. ,that’s a monthly sub for each. That’s satellite tv money each month!

It’s not a rug pull. I got my money’s worth. And I’m late to the game. God forbid you are an early bird and have been living the high life for years and years! It’s not a rug pull at all.

If the whole thing folded tomorrow, I’m still money ahead and a few steps away from adopting jellyfin. How the fuck is that a rug pull? It did what I wanted and has done it well. And when or if it fails, I move on. That’s more resiliency than 99 percent of the other services I have used. And a better service and platform to boot!

Rug pull? seriously?

I didn’t know that anyone was replacing the original massive attack intro. What a very silly thing to do.

House

Just to clarify and add to what you said, equity shares are not stocks. The gov gets dividends and such, but it isn’t stock that is bought and sold on wall street. It’s all about profitability and not about speculation. If the company makes money, so does the gov. If it loses money, the gov loses money.

I haven’t used it willingly ever. Especially after the one time copilot told me an acre is 4.5 football fields in area. I didn’t ask it, the response was just presented at the top of my results. I’m a fucking farmer for God sake. I know that’s very very wrong without thinking. I just wanted the square footage and was too lazy to use my calculator. Never again.

That being said, I do on occasion solicit my friend who has a subscription, just to request and have him send me a very specific image request and have him text it to me, so I can repost it.

Anything for the memes. Literally anything.

And momentum grew. You are right. But there are quite a few names lost to history that were a little too early or in the wrong place to be remembered. Not to mention, things didn’t work out too well for him or his followers after Harper’s ferry. Sure it was a catalyst, but it was one of the last major uprisings before the war. Not the first, and it is maybe just by chance that his uprising is the one we remember. We only have the fortune of hindsight to know that was a major pivotal moment.

Who’s to say where in the timeline we are? That decision is decided long after events and who wins in the long term. But the inherent momentum, the zeitgeist, is still of upmost importance.

Ok. You first.

That has always been the problem with the 2a crowd from either side. Momentum. The first few ten or hundred or thousand are considered crazy wildcards and psychopaths.

Luigi may be a patron saint to a lot of people, but ain’t nobody stepping up without more momentum. And it never showed up.

This isn’t any different, and that’s why it doesn’t work yet. Pay your taxes. Use the rest on things you support. Take that tax write off to give the gov a little less and donate to causes that are important. Get in arguments and talk politics at the bar and with your family, but put the guns away. It doesn’t help. So enough of it.

Momentum is what’s important.

So, the same as email, facebook, your search history, and text messages?

Jesus fucking Christ. For all I’ve kept up with this, and I really do try to pay attention to it all, that’s the first testimony I’ve actually watched. And I hated all twenty minutes of it.

That is absolutely chilling.

I assure you, the pilot forgot about the issue as soon as the plane landed, other than being mildly annoyed and bitching to his buddies. It’s really not a big deal. A random geriatric cirrus pilot in any class c airspace in any part of america has caused more of of an issue than this did.

Yeah it’s by the book. and not a real concern. But the media is picking up on SOP and having issues because it sounds scary to those that don’t know.

Were it not for recent stories and the general vibe, no one would have even noticed other than the weird feeling you get in your tummy when a plane moves in a way you didn’t expect. And that happens a lot. Bigger moves are made regularly to correct wind shear or avoid turbulence.

Oh it absolutely is. I won’t deny it. But it’s also funny and relevant.