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Firefop 3 points ago +3 / -0

I mean speak for yourself. I'm the oldest of 8 siblings (we're all middle aged now). There's a surgeon, and engineer and a general contractor, I'm the computer guy. We all have skillsets that would let is vanish into the hills and feed our families in an emergency.

We all collect different obscure bits of science. I can build a scoop generator from scratch. I know everything about electronics, batteries and enough chemistry to make basic versions. I know about fluid dynamics and pump systems. I can build a manual crank water pump out of a garden hose, a 5 gallon bucket and any sort of wood. I can build an Archimedes screw. I can make roman concrete. I'm a passable carpenter, I know how to build all sorts wood working tools up to a trundle driven saw... starting with a knife or an axe.

The engineer is also a potter. He knows how to preserve all types of foods. He makes pickles, smokes meat, etc.

The surgeon is also smith and a brewer. He can build a distillery from scratch provided we can get him a furnace/water/ore.

We all know how to farm, ride horses, care for animals and how to hit what we shoot at.. We all hike, hunt, camp, fish and we all have 3 or more children who learned these things from us.

If there's a societal collapse, we aren't starving... and anyplace we happen to end up is going to thrive based off our skill sets.

I imagine a lot of people are like us.

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Firefop 1 point ago +1 / -0

These are the same people who drive around in their car... alone... with a mask on.

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Firefop 3 points ago +3 / -0

I've found that coughing on them when they get too close works like a charm.

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Firefop 3 points ago +3 / -0

damn fucking straight. community schools where a few families take turns educating a handful of kids would be far far better than the current system.

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Firefop 4 points ago +4 / -0

Trump was our last chance at having a peaceful resolution. Next comes an actual tyrant. Irony is I don't even care anymore, I'm sick of trying to save these idiots from themselves.

It's going to get hard for everyone, but it'll be worse for them because them...

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Firefop 21 points ago +21 / -0

Exactly. Never though I'd have an emotional attachment to a radio host. But I really must thank him for beginning my political education.

And then continuing it over the years.

Damn.

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Firefop 8 points ago +8 / -0

If they get in your face just cough on them... they'll usually run

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Firefop 3 points ago +4 / -1

It hardly matters. back then we stopped germany from ruling europe. Now german is in control of the EU and ruling europe.

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Firefop 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yah, there will be no renewal from me this year.

In related news, I went to 5 car dealerships before I found one where the guy would shake my hand and didn't have a mask on. Smoothest transaction ever, I told him what I wanted, he let me drive it, I paid in cash.

I'm actively boycotting people and places that have employees masked up. If people in masks try to talk to me I say in a slightly elevated voice "Take off the mask!" and if they talk again "You're mumbling, take off the mask"

I especially love eating at places where the staff their masks on their chin. Those guys are going the extra mile to comply with the law without being idiots.

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Firefop 10 points ago +10 / -0

This, a lot of us have been buying physical silver for decades.

But don't fall for whatever this is.

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Firefop 2 points ago +2 / -0

You should always invest with caution. Never invest more than you can afford to lose.

But bitcoin isn't your traditional market, it's designed to become more valuable over time. Sure it's 'volatile' when you compare it's prices to a traditional stock. But it's not stocks. If you look at it as a min 5 year investment, it will change your entire outlook on buying it.

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Firefop 4 points ago +4 / -0

Sorry man, but you don't understand the technical underpunnings.

You can't stop bitcoin, the miners determine when and how a block is made. You literally can't block the traffic. Someone could try and it would take a few hours for the network to enforce encrypted connections and it would continue on.

They also can't stop bit torrents. They're alive and well and over 80% of the total network traffic last time I checked. Everyone runs protocol encryption to avoid the ISP meddling with the traffic.

Just because you were to uninformed to use proper security on your end doesn't make the technology not exist. Also, please stop being a leach and just pay for your content. I suspect the reason you hate crypto is because it's the single largest tool that works against government control of money.

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Firefop 4 points ago +4 / -0

Yah, I've just been mocking people like this telling them "I guess you shouldn't have voted if you aren't smart enough to know about the issues involved"

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Firefop 4 points ago +4 / -0

The 4s job is to vote when they're tied.

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Firefop 29 points ago +31 / -2

It's more robust and allows for tie-breakers when some don't vote. This way you can resolve the 2-2 vote but also the 1-1-1 vote without having them be able to become 2-2 votes.

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Firefop 1 point ago +1 / -0

Exactly. There's only one box left.

They burned the soap box. They stole the ballot box. They denied access to the jury box.

Only the cartridge box remains... that or a slow slide in oblivion.

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Firefop 1 point ago +1 / -0

Incorrect. You just forgot what the plan was.

The plan was to send Trump to destroy both parties and the media - While doing as much good as quickly as possible.

He did it. He exposed the corruption on both sides - revealed to everyone that we're effectively tax livestock and now it's all out in the open.

Legacy media will cease to exist over the next few years. Social media will be reduced to the point of not mattering.

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Firefop 1 point ago +1 / -0

Just ask yourself: "Self, what would I think if I were smarter and more informed than I am?"

If you can answer yourself you're insane.

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Firefop 2 points ago +2 / -0

I do find it off that pence would 'turn his coat' and take handshakes and tokens from democrats for certifying and then refuse to invoke the 25th, once he's bought might as well go whole hog.

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Firefop 1 point ago +1 / -0

Everyone who bothered to think a little knew pence was a coward. I mean ffs, the man can't even eat a meal with a woman unless his wife is there to hold his hand.

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Firefop 1 point ago +1 / -0

It's clearly faked. So where's Trump?

Did they grab him and are using the 25th thing to cover it up?

Did he escape the grab attempt and is in hiding coordinating with loyal military subordinates about to invoke the insurrection act and take them all down?

Those are the two most plausible options imo. Thoughts?

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Firefop 1 point ago +1 / -0

I wouldn't put it past Trump to have leaked this himself. He's a master of using an idiot block to expose people.

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