Tried out my “new” wind up shaver. Good shave. Now to see if I can find spare razors for something made in 1972.
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.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say. Or yellow vs green in this case.
On the yellow side of yellow-green.
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?
It’s real easy to right every wrong when you get to socialize your costs for doing so.
When you need a bridge…
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.
Especially if they aren’t allowed a say in who gets to by shares or told they have to let you buy shares.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don’t think people are arguing against it per se. I think a lot of people want something that can only be achieved that way at least anytime soon, aren’t willing to contribute if they aren’t going to make money and then wonder why they don’t have the thing. Like a bank or credit processing system that doesn’t report gun purchases to the government. You probably need a bank owned by shareholders that specifically opposed to policies like that and the only way to get that is probably for those people to get together in the millions and chip in 50 bucks a piece and then lock in ownership. Not have it be a publicly traded company and you probably won’t get funding from the feds or the fed. So yeah. Making money? Probably not happening anytime soon. It did a better job of achieving your ends than spending the same money in politics would have though. And how many of those people donated more than 20 bucks a piece to political pro gun organizations to do that, to no effect.
Want a bank that will loan money to buy non traditionally shaped houses or look at the value of the soil on two different farms and charge based on that instead of just the value of the house and the amount of land? Same thing.