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

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?

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.

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.

More to point I was born without gills or webbing.

Not me. I like land.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

All this ham talk done got Tom T. Hall stuck in my head.

https://youtu.be/wDJfd9ufE84?si=t30WIjaxKg07Qfkc

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.

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.

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

Sounds to me like the good Colonel needs to be involuntarily recalled to active duty and attached to one of the embassies that would be in harms way as a legal officer.

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.

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.

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.

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