Got_Bent

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Got_Bent,

The only thing of this ilk that I’ve participated in is sending interns to the supply room for a box of checkmarks.

Joke was on them. There was no supply room.

Got_Bent,

The only surviving adult MOVE member, Ramona Africa, refused to testify in court and was charged and convicted on charges of riot and conspiracy; she served seven years in prison.

Jesus Christ! No criminal charges against police so let’s imprison the sole surviving victim!

(She did get a handsome settlement years later, so there’s that but holy hell man)

Got_Bent,

Does this mean I still can’t watch porn in Texas?

Got_Bent,

The future is either going to be very very lonely or very very gay.

Got_Bent,

They used up all their resources ensuring that they were included in the pamphlet for The Oregonian Landscaping Company.

Got_Bent,

Tomorrow we find out the driver was a Boeing whistleblower.

Got_Bent,

Planely obvious

Got_Bent,

Of all hills to die on that ruin your reputation and legacy, why this one? I just don’t get it.

I am a gen x cis heterosexual white male.

Transexuality is strange and foreign to me. I don’t understand it. This gives me exactly zero right to take any stand against it. I’d say it gives me less right to express an opinion as how could I be knowledgeable on something I’ve just admitted I don’t understand?

Let people live and go enjoy your billions.

Got_Bent,

In a different comment, I talked about the difficulty I have with pronouns. It’s not because it offends me, it’s because the traditional usage is so hard wired in whatever part of my brain oversees language.

Got_Bent,

I had a student some thirty years ago whose name was Oh Yu Suk.

It was difficult for me to maintain when I first saw it.

Got_Bent,

I had to go look up when those things came out (1977) because by the time I got my hands on one in 1982 in the school library they were already little more than toys even when compared to the luxurious Vic 20.

I know we played some games off cassettes on them. I feel like Oregon trail was one of those games, but I’m suspicious of my own memory because I know I was playing that on my Apple 2, which I think had joystick driven hunting on it.

God I’m getting old and can’t remember the finer points anymore.

I do remember that other kids bullied the HELL out of me for carrying one of those plastic boxes full of floppies with me at school. Not a good time to be a nerd back then.

Got_Bent,

By tenth grade I had been commissioned to write some software. When I completed it, I walked away from all of it because of the social stigma. Didn’t touch a computer again for ten years. I won’t say I regret that because walking away led me to other life adventures, but I will say I regret the circumstances that drove me to do it.

Got_Bent,

I wish I knew the answer to this, but I don’t think a dollar amount floor on labor in fiat currency is it. That’ll just find a new equilibrium in a devalued currency.

I don’t write this because I disagree with the sentiment. I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment.

But wealth isn’t about dollars. It’s about assets. For day to day living, it’s about real estate.

I just wrote out a whole bunch of thoughts but I don’t think they’re applicable to the topic.

Maybe do things like:

Unoccupied residential real estate is taxed at some obscene percentage of assessed value.

No individual may own more than ten living spaces (apartments are a need, and somebody’s got to own them)

Entities (looking at you black rock) may not own residential real estate.

REITS are absolutely off the table.

Water is a public good and Nestle can get fucked

Student debt and medical debt are capped at some percentage of income formula.

And to get really crazy, instead of minimum wage, employers must demonstrate that employees can afford two bedrooms with no more than twenty five percent of gross wages.

I’m drinking beer and watching rich people ride horses. These are casual thoughts without citation and are not intended for academic review or criticism.

Got_Bent,

I believe the standard counter to that is that if you can’t meet that standard then you either shouldn’t have employees or you shouldn’t have a business

Got_Bent,

Money laundering

Got_Bent,

It’s gonna be unbelievably dystopian if this guy weasels his way back into office. No policy other than unhinged vengeance.

Got_Bent,

I was lily white guy living in ground zero of MS13 gangland in Los Angeles in the early 2000s for four years. I know it’s crazy, but best neighbors I ever had. We all bbq’d together, watched each other’s kids, and got along well.

One morning I was taking a bus to work. Two guys robbed me while I was standing at the bus stop. I had fifteen dollars, which I happily gave to them.

I went over to my neighbor that evening and told him what happened.

The next day, there was fifteen dollars in my mailbox.

I moved from there to high end HOA in Texas and holy hell it was miserable. I hated them all. They were the nosiest, most judgemental assholes imaginable. One lady would go walking down the alleys checking how many beer cans people had in their recycling and called the police on one house charging them with child neglect because of beer cans in their recycling bin. Fuck that neighborhood forever.

(There’s a funny coda to the robbery. I smoked a lot back then. When they were done shoving the gun in my ribs and walking away, I blurted out, “guys, I’m stressed. Do one of you have a light?” and I swear on a stack of books of your choice that one of them turned around and lit my cigarette)

Got_Bent,

In the moment it felt like a “nothing personal just business”

Got_Bent,

I saw an article yesterday that the state of Berlin is trying to give away Goebbels villa for free because nobody wants to buy it and the upkeep is expensive.

My very first thought was that if Elon hears of this, he’ll jump at the opportunity.

Got_Bent,

Could be Argentina

Got_Bent,

I gave up on those years ago because I couldn’t fight through the endless roving bands of feral children attacking the food the second it would come out.

Got_Bent,

Where’s the next Kent State? The weapons and armor are much bigger this time.

Got_Bent,

Yeah, when I became aware of that one, it got watched in a private tab in a different browser

Got_Bent,

Bartender, I’ll have a screwdriver.

Got_Bent,

So you take a bad beer that’s been sitting in the sun for a few months. You know that smell?

Ramp that up a few orders of magnitude to the extent that it seizes up your breathing and makes your eyes tear up to the point of near blindness.

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