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MickBurke
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I thrive in incomprehensibility.

Don't recall which logical fallacy I'm trying to think of, but tell me louis... How would 'our country' repay 'its debt' if we DON'T move to a bitcoin standard?

It's like saying "how will me not eating sugar at every meal make uncle joes foot grow back?" Nothing's going to do that, but there's no reason for me to suffer the same fate.

Moreover, why do I give a single tiny little shit whether politicians can pay back the money THEY borrowed? When they default, I'm not taking responsibility for their irresponsibility and would encourage the people who are owed, to go directly to joe biden, nancy pelosi, mit romney et al. You can get $2,000,000,000.00 out of the top TWENTY richest of them... so go for it. Sure, it's just pennies on the dollar, but hey, that's inflation.

Is it just me? I always thought 'did the groundhog see his shadow' just meant 'was it sunny on groundhog day?'.

This whole - pull the groundhog out of his hole and talk to him - crap makes people who believe groundhogs can predict the weather look like crazy people.

"What is The Rhône."

I would say it boggles the mind, but not really so much anymore.

Interesting that according to most states laws you can use lethal force in only a few specific instances. Typically something like when it is "necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony. "

Yet they don't even hold to that standard when starting a WAR.

It's always 'our national interest'. Could you imagine if we were permitted to use lethal force to achieve or maintain 'our interests'?

BTW, I nearly said 'when declaring war' ... but they don't really do that anymore, do they?

Replying to Avatar Guy Swann

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Now don't tell me you don't remember me because I sure as heck fire remember you!

Replying to Avatar Jack Spirko

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When the US got into Vietnam there were two kinds of "advisors" who told our government what we should do as to escalation or not in our involvement.

One type said - "How can people who use bows and arrows to fight helicopters win a war? Let's go end this with all our military power."

The other type said - "How can we expect to win a foriegn war on ground we don't control, against people willing to use bows and arrows against helicopters? We need to stay out of this."

Today in Washington there is a beautiful, black and somber wall with 58,000 names on it that died fighting that war. 100s of thousands came back with broken minds and bodies and we got nothing from it. Not to mention the 100s of thousand of Vietnamese we killed for no real reason.

Rather than learn that the second type of adviser was correct, we have continued this path and did it all over again, in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the end killing millions of innocent people who were no threat to us.

US loss of life was small compared to Vietnam but we have yet another generation of disabled, broken and PTSD laden men and women for again NO GAIN. We got exactly nothing out of these two wars, they cost us over a trillion dollars and the blood of both sides for NOTHING OF VALUE.

Now as we thump our chest, this time not even half a decade out of the last idiotic wars, we still haven't learned a damn thing and seemed hell bent on a broader middle eastern war.

Profits for Lockheed and General Dynamics seem far more important that American interests and the good of the American people.

And while at it we engaged in a proxy war that killed 500K Ukrainian Men and injured about a million. Wrecked their entire country and destroyed their future for 50 years, at least.

But hey Black Rock can make a fortune "investing in rebuilding" after it is over, they already put out a plan to do so. I am sure the US Congress will subsidize it as they make billions off the suffering we enabled. And yesterday a sitting senator applauded this because it "weakened Russia".

We have learned nothing from history, because the people in power have made sure it was impossible for anyone except a true independent thinker to do so.

If you read all this and it made sense to you it is likely that the world around you does not. It is likely uncomfortable. However it is worth it, it just means you can think for yourself in a world that largely can't.

I had to choose between two:

"The lesson from history is that no one ever learns a lesson from history."

I couldn't find the other, but something along the lines of

'We don't study history so that we're not 'doomed to repeat it', we study history because it WILL repeat'.

Both form some redneck hippy duck farmer (who apparently now is also an 'anti war commie'.

As ever, well said Jack.

Did your medical cannabis doctor send you a thank you note after your appointment? Not what I would have expected from the LEAST expensive one that I found on a road side sign, but yea, they were great. Beyond the cost and the ease, Dr. Olson was great and very informative.

My wife had gotten someone elsewhere for twice the price who asked her a few questions, checked some boxes and went on to the next call.

Dr. Olson took her time and answered all my questions and even dug deep into some of the terpene options etc.

If you're in PA and need to get your 'certification' I recommend them.. um... highly.

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"I identify as" a free man... at least as much as I can get away with.

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Could only be more accurate if it was a dude.

That's fascinating, sounds a lot like the when one guy finally got a 4 minute mile, then everybody did. Fascinating that effect works with 'non human stimuli' as well.

So some years back I got a welder. Hadn't welded since a a 'tech skills' class in college that included a two week stick welding class. A friend wanted to do a MIG class at Eastwood. We did that and according to the instructor I did well.

After that I decided to try to fix a 'sun dial' thing that I got my wife years back and a limb fell down on. It was cast iron which I'd been told was challenging to weld. It wasn't pretty but good enough for my second time welding in 25 years and it worked, so I shared my results in a group that I was in on fecesbook.

Most were like 'good for you figuring it out / making it work', one guy said something along the lines of 'I love it when people break out their 'hobbyist welder' and blablabla... and ended with 'when it breaks again in six months do this or that (not really sure why I didn't pay better attention to what he said).

Anyway, I haven't been on fecesbook for at least 5 or 6 years now, but originally intended to share a photo there to say 'fuck you' to the guy who shit on my 'day of small beginnings', but instead I decided to address everyone else.

Sometimes when you try to figure shit out, or make shit work, it works and it lasts, so do what you can do, try to do what you can't and figure out what you can figure out, and don't worry about what anyone says about how well you do it.

#GrowNostr #GrowYOU

The thing 5 years later:

The test piece from my Eastwood MiG class: