beer used to be cheaper

This guy made a case that we are really in the year 1728 because Holy Roman emperor wanted their reign to begin in the year 1000 because its pretty. So they made up 290+ years of history and yanked the calendar ahead to cover it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_conspiracy_theory

The Holy Roman Emperor Otto III conspired with Pope Sylvester II (and quite possibly the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII as well) to doctor the dating system. The trio cooked the books to place their reigns at A.D. 1000, which they did because it is an auspicious number.

The three men added 297 years of bogus history to the early medieval period to facilitate this deception.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/what-is-the-truth-behind-the-controversial-phantom-time-hypothesis-45433

I quit using Amazon because the third party delivery company locally is owned by a neighbor that hates me. They sided-lined 10 or 11 packages in a row or just wouldn’t delivery them from their distribution center. I’d call support and they said the company just refused to delivery. They would send a ticket to the center. And they would ignore it.

And amazon would sit on the return for months because the delivery company would re-route my packages to have a delivery date months out. So amazon would sit on the refund for months waiting for the delivery date.

One driver apologized that he had to ask my neighbors first before delivering anything to this address.

And Amazon didn’t care shit in my opinion. No privacy as my packages were opened. No nothing but some folks in another country on the phone telling me call back in a week.

And that jackass delivery owner is a rich, blackmailing, federal agent piece of shit in my opinion.

Amazon is just another criminal sycophant-making machine in my opinion.

Bring on the robots.

Yeah but after that Musk used DOGE to shut down every regulatory commission investigating him, then he bailed.

Seems he got what he wanted

humans have a long history of enjoying intoxicants that goes back before we were humans.

cars ruined this.

but i think that getting intoxicated is fine, too. but i do have to stop regularly. i gave up on the thought of quitting, though. i prefer to think of it as stopping for months at a time with accepting the fact that society calls me a drug addict because society and i know that i will want to start again at some point.

massive inequality is not just income disparity

As someone that is single in a neighborhood of married people let me say I have seen five husbands cheat on their wives in the three years. And I don’t even know these people well nor do I know many in the neighborhood.

Men are just as capable of being shite. And now women can live life without having to have a man in their life. Like they can get credit cards and stuff that before the system denied them without a man in their lives. It is no longer weird to have a doctor that is a women. Or a CEO. Common place stuff these days.

So women’s standards can go up. As someone well below all women’s standards honestly coming to that conclusion … that I am free of trying to appear attractive to women … has made my lonely life get better.

let me guess … you will now have to ask an ai agent to communicate to your contacts for you

Yes. Once people see that they have numbers on their side … and the No Kings movement does … that can cause a shift in belief for change. Change in beliefs can create action.

The Emperor’s New Clothes is not a story about seeing the king’s dick. It is about the power of assembly in the face of tyranny. Not the power of websites, not the power of zoom meeting, not facebook. But the power of assembly in person together to cut down dictators and their toadies.

you, too, can die at the hands of AI and become forever enshrined as algorithmic data to help improve Tesla’s subscription services sales to the very wealthy and hostile

people that can’t speak truth need time to formulate bullshit

people that can’t hear truth need time to deny it

Tootsie

The rule of law has collapsed.

It is like the scene in Mars Attack! when the alien is running around with the language translator repeating “WE COME IN PEACE” while disintegrating humans left and right with their space pistols.

They will say whatever they have to while physically doing whatever they want.

Until we stop THEM ALL

I think that the repeated use in marketing and advertising of people telling you to make others experience envy for something they are selling is really depressing. Envy is one of the worst human emotions. And to do things to create it is not for the good.

I really appreciate all the answers.

I know that none of it makes perfect financial rational sense to try to create a new industrialization on a local scale at first. But I believe that as global systems rewire themselves with this new world that we can become more resilient by doing things that might not be 100% rational.

If I may quote poet Marge Piercy

The will to be totally rational
is the will to be made out of glass and steel:
and to use others as if they were glass and steel.

sometimes irrational is better; better to not treat each other as resources; we can build us.

How big is the facility if you don’t mind me asking ?

This is exactly the kind of question that I have come to expect from a moderator of a conservative community.

Let me guess you live in San Diego ?

I don’t need one. But there was talk a few years back about it.

I’m fine with letting that one be a grand moment in my gaming memories. No need to top it off.

photojournalist/caretaker Jade from Beyond Good & Evil.

Great character. Great game.