HASSAN-CHOP!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siqPMOYh7DA
Not to signal that this show was in the same class as Seinfeld and Cheers, but (because we've been watching recently) this just reminded me of the Friends episode when they're in London for one of Ross's like, 1000 weddings, and Joey is super homesick for America and keeps seeing the Cheers intro and just wants to be "back in good 'ol New York City.... where everyone knows my name [sigh]... and America's the best! [says something along those lines in his toast]" Oh! And then a few episodes later they excitedly name-drop seeing Donald Trump at the elevator in a hotel/casino in Atlantic City
Yup, and it has started for anyone paying attention. Everyone been paying attention to their grocery shopping receipts? gas prices? bills in general? The dollar isn't worth what it was just 1 year ago, and it's going to get a lot worse.
Ohh, thanks for the idea, hadn't even thought of Hogan's Heroes (wife and I have been going through all the old shows lately. Incredible how difficult it is to find All in the Family anywhere... anyway). M.A.S.H. is another one we want to start. Has always been my grandfather's favorite show and I've never even seen it, so I think that may be next up on the list. Also been rewatching all the old Stargate SG-1 episodes. Great show, and I've never been much into sci-fi like that (star trek, etc).
I've been buying everything physical now, especially older stuff. I recently found myself watching reruns of Beavis and Butthead on Pluto TV and realized how edited they were (from the "Mike Judge Collection"), and it made me pine for the original releases. I haven't seen them in so long — as in, the real unedited episodes with music videos — because they've all been edited to shit. I managed to find a fantastic bootleg (free to torrent, but I paid for a physical set anyway) that has EVERY episode, unedited, with the music videos, etc. My god, brought me right back to childhood, and that show is so much greater than anyone even remembers, because we can't even see the original damn show anymore. The music videos, imo, are the best part.
The problem lies all in how the show was filmed, and a major problem with a lot of 90s shows, is that none of it was shot on film (it was expensive and required large equipment lugged around everywhere), so with VHS emerging as an industry standard, and most people unaware of TVs being on the verge of entering HD capabilities, (mostly) everyone just recorded straight to VHS. For these shows, it's really not even possible to upconvert the quality and move it from 4:3 to 16:9, it can only be done with shows shot 100% on film (since they're far above even 4k and shot wide angle and cropped to 4:3 for our 90s viewing pleasure, so we can easily go back and pull their master films to edit to 16:9). This is why a ton of 80s and 90s shows are still 4:3, yet we're seeing movies as old as Lawrence of Arabia and Wizard of Oz getting 4K releases
yup, same. I've been moving a lot of money around because I really see the USD getting weaker and weaker, and I've been diversifying a lot more into things I normally wouldn't allocate as much funds too (silver/gold, ammo, emergency food, etc, and have moved a lot more of my funds in the traditional market to crypto — half in stable coins earning a decent APY). Really sucks, because this also totally effed the housing market, and my newly wedded wife and I were planning on buying a house this year, but... idk, too much uncertainty, and such a seller's market now, since everyone is bailing on the cities to places like where we live. Used to be we could get a really nice house for under $200k just last year (over 2000 sq ft, huge piece of land, secluded, etc), and those same houses now cost about... probably 30-50% more depending on the location. So now I'm about to extend my lease on an overpriced townhouse instead of buying our first home. Really blows... oh well.
Me no Asian. Me swear. Me hate all Asian soooooo much. Me a milky white American, promise. I America, Patriot and freedom soooo hard, and trust me, noone like you slanty eye Chinamans. No no. I love U.S., but We hate u long time, go home please. Signed — A very very white, not Asian in any way, American
Jack White is fantastic! He probably is more left-leaning, but you're right, he doesn't make noise about it, and you know what? He actually MAKES A DIFFERENCE! He not only puts out AMAZING music (I particularly love his first 2 albums w/ the Raconteurs), but he's also worked INCREDIBLY hard revitalizing Detroit (where he's from), among other things. He opened his vinyl pressing plant there as well (which not only helps Detroit/local economy, but helps bring back an entire industry — did you vinyl this past year, for the first time since the 80s, sold more than CDs? Not more than digital, but still impressive). He also helped with a MASSIVE donation to restore a reallllllly old and historical (negro league) baseball stadium in Detroit (and then played himself there on opening day). Just all kinds of things like this, putting his money where his mouth is, working in areas he's passionate about, and actually helping out communities, industries, creating jobs, etc. Saw him play in Cooperstown (is it obvious he loves baseball?) too and that was amazzzinggggg. OH! And he also had a GREAT performance on SNL this past year after someone (forget who) backed out for some stupid political reason — and his performance was great, and even held a message (it merged "Jesus is Coming Soon" — and old blues song about Spanish Flu — into his songs), but without being overly political and virtue signaling
Funny, as someone who grew up Christian/Catholic, but with one side of the family Catholic and the other side Jewish, I always associate the gold chocolate coins with Hanukkah. We always celebrated Christian holidays in my house, but went to grandparents or aunt/uncle/cousins house for Hanukkah, and I'll always associate the chocolate coins as gelt and playing dreidel with my cousins lol. Christmas was more bigger gifts, and then yea there'd be chocolate, usually in the form of wrapped Santa characters, etc., in the stocking. Now that I'm an adult, I gave everyone in my family a 1 ounce silver round of Trump for Christmas lol (and kept 10 for myself).
Not to mention Pineapple Express, which, look... in hindsight is a whatever movie. But when it came out it was pretty groundbreaking for a "buddy-stoner flick." It wasn't like anything we'd seen before, and up to that point, stoner comedy was low-budget, unknown, bad writing, etc etc., save for maybe cheech and chong (which still fits all those categories but at least were iconic characters). Pineapple Express today has been repeated so many times that it's tiring, unoriginal, and easy to brush away, but at the time, it was really great, and groundbreaking in many ways — where the hell else (circa 2007) were you going to find so many laughs in a comedy film that also has enough action to almost pass as an action-adventure flick with comedy.
And spot on with Superbad. That movie came out I think the year after I graduated high school, and watching it around then, all I could think was "wow, they literally perfectly captured what my high school experience was like." I'd never felt that from a show or movie before
That's who it was, Billie Jean King, thank you! Also appreciate the full story/context. For some reason I always thought it was McEnroe that played Billie Jean King.
"rolling on the floor laughing." It's old-school/AIM-internet lingo those danged kids that are now all in their 30s or 40s used to use
didn't John McEnroe get beaten in his prime by a pro female tennis player?
Lol, this reminds me of gym class back in high school, there was always this 1 girl that would try super hard, so we'd all be playing like, ultimate frisbee, or flag football or something, and all the girls would choose to just chill on the track or something, but this one girl would always pick a contact sport with us guys, and we'd be... somewhat competitive, but mostly just having fun, while this girl would be trying soooooo hard, basically tackling and shouldering the guys to try and show how tough she was. We started calling her "ice box" because she reminded us of "ice box Becky," from the movie Little Giants lol. Someone had to eventually tell her to chill tf out or one of the guys was gonna eventually stop pulling punches and push it from 3 to 10
As a kind of silver bug (I stack a fair amount, but it's definitely the smallest part of my portfolio) that buys regularly, there's a MAJOR shortage of physical gold/silver right now (this market is SUPER manipulated, controlling/suppressing price, largely by being able to sell non-physical "investments" in gold/silver [stocks/ETFs, funds in 401k that give exposure, etc] that are "backed" by gold/silver, but... they really aren't, and there isn't enough physical gold/silver to cover these "gold/silver backed funds."). People are waking up to this and making a mad dash, it seems, to buy physical silver/gold, and we're seeing this play out now. Pretty much EVERY site is low on (or has no) stock, and if they do, prices above spot are INSANE. For instance, on SD bullion right now (which advertises low inventory, high demand, and long shipping times)... to buy 1x1oz silver round (current value is about $25/ounce) would cost about $31 or more. We're looking at, at best, $6 above spot — in the past, I could get rounds for about $1-$2 above spot price (for instance, when silver was around $28/ounce, I paid the same price per round that I'd pay today, with it valued closer to $25). So yes, something is certainly going on. I've been reluctant to buy w/ demand so high that it's forcing physical prices so far above spot, but if my hypothesis is correct (on manipulation and scarcity), the price should continue going up well enough for it to be worth it.
Wish I had better answers, but there's at least some observations that correlate to what many think is currently going on w/ metals.
Very much so. This is just another one of MANY parallels to U.S. today and pre-war Nazi Germany. This is hardly ever taught, was even was scarce learning for my history degrees, and most don't know this, but the Holocaust started — and not targeted at Jews — long before war ever broke out.
During the pre-war years, when Hitler wasn't seen as the evil monster we know him as today (and was actually pretty well-liked in Germany), there were a number of programs, many aimed at euthanasia, but broadly speaking, were aimed at removing essentially any one considered to be a "burden" on society. How did this start? Well... the same way Reagan warned us that socialism/communism and/or fascism would enter the U.S.: through government-run healthcare.
So, part of why Hitler was so well received was that he was finally turning the German economy around. A lot of this was because of the MASSIVE welfare state he ushered in, which included healthcare (coverage, state-run facilities, etc). These facilities, at first, were considered a great thing, as they were seen as how progressives today would see them: hEaLtHcArE is A hUmAn rIgHt! etc. etc.
But what started happening? Well... first it was the extremely sick, the mentally and physically disabled, and those that generally required extensive (and expensive) inpatient treatment at these facilities. They were the first brought in. Then, we have the elderly being brought into state-run facilities as well — also a large economic burden on society. Before long, many of them were being killed — some of them, it was extremely obvious, others... it was more just kind of letting it happen even though they could have been saved (cost-benefit analysis), but tl;dr was they were killing many of their "burdensome" citizens. This part isn't a perfect analogy, but a lot is just basic human nature/financial incentive, and the same reason we saw EVERY death being attributed to Covid (massive payouts/hospitals make way more $$ if it's a covid death).
It wasn't long before, with the facilities already built, and the mechanisms already in place, that they were sending healthy (but burdensome) citizens to these facilities for the same purposes. Those that were "impure," and those that were dissidents/political opposition/threats, etc. Most facilities had furnaces, and stacks of smoke were common. Most remained unaware, but plenty started to realize what was happening, as family/friends disappeared, died under mysterious circumstances, etc., all while a "strange smell" permeated the towns.
Ultimately, it was actually insurance companies and records that uncovered all of this and brought it to a (temporary) halt. But in the end, once the war broke out, this model was brought back, and used as a foundation for the camps and Final Solution. Even today, it's tough to find much on this, but I was fortunate enough to have a decent professor that directed us to the right articles on JSTOR and some good books to learn about this.
This is happening in America today. And not just this, but so much more. Just the general dehumanization of an entire class/group of people, and blaming them for ALL of the country's problems, etc. Dehumanizing them, pushing false narratives, and painting them in such a way that others in the population generally see them as second class citizens — same way nazis saw Jews — and we all know where that leads. The only difference is they flipped the identities, falsely painted an entire group AS nazis, and well... what moral, but uninformed moron with no capacity for critical thought wouldnt want to treat nazis (which, as we know, is just anyone to the right of Marx. Double points if also white, male, and/or straight) as subhuman? This is where we are, right now, at this very moment, and more people need to start taking this seriously (myself included). Just being aware of it (and even being prepared) isn't necessarily enough.
libgen.is has had almost everything I've looked for on it. Even got almost every textbook there. In any case, looks to be on there: https://libgen.is/search.php?req=turner+diaries&lg_topic=libgen&open=0&view=simple&res=25&phrase=1&column=def
You click whichever one you want by choosing one of the "mirrors" on the right. Sometimes one may not work/try the other. When you click that, it should bring you to a page where there's a hyperlink reading "Get" at the top of the page. Clicking that should download it.
Also, they often have various formats (mobi, epub, pdf, etc) — depending on how you prefer to read it, you can use a free program called "calibre" which can convert any kind of text/e-book from one format to another (so I'm often converting pdf to mobi so I can send it to my kindle).
A lot of them do - my former employer outsourced for HR/used a company that was also essentially the HR department for a number of other companies.
They get hired to basically just handle submitting paperwork, like for enrolling in health insurance, short term disability, etc. But since the job can be done working like 10 hours a week max, they end up inventing other shit to do. Our company always just had our CFO handle that stuff, but we've grown and he needed help, so now we have an HR person... just met her... felt like I was in one of my critical theory heavy liberal arts elective classes. I'm a bit worried tbh
Dude the only "straight" shit now is all incest porn. Like, obviously (for most) they just give titles like thaat even though it's unrelated actors, but why tf is every video titled "brother _____ sister," or "mommy teaches son a lesson," etc etc? It's clearly social engineering. It never was like that until the past few years and I'm led to believe it's intentional
booze and my body just never agreed. Which would have been a good thing if it hadn't led me to experiment far too much with other substances my body didn't react as poorly too.
In any case, I still did plenty of drinking my senior year and in college, and I kind of just always bypassed that "sloshed, out of it, telling the truth," phase. I'd basically go from lightly buzzed, jolly, and fun, straight to laying down outside in a pile of snow telling everyone "I need h2oooooooooooooo." I met my dad's second wife after I got the drunkest, and sickest, I ever got in high school (almost 15 years ago now)... I went to go to sleep around 2am at my friend's house, never fell asleep, thought 5 minutes had passed, and all of a sudden it was 7am and I was sooooooooo sick. Started panicking and driving back to my dad's (the cooler parent), knowing he was at work, so I could just vomit in and sleep in his bathroom. Ended up yakking all over myself while driving there, right as I was driving past a cop so I couldn't pull over or go out the window.... just had to take the hit. Walked in, and was not expecting a stranger in his bed — as I'm covered in my own puke lol. Was just like "oh... uh.... hey. I'm [my dad's name's] son. Hungover... going sleep now, nice to meet you." Never talked about it again lol, but that was about how most of my nights drinking went. Nowadays, I might drink a glass of wine with dinner once or twice a year.
My friend on the other hand... whew. Basically alcoholic, still today. But definitely hits the "overly truthful," phase a lot. Another senior year flashback: just before iphones, he had a palm pilot or w/e the closest thing was to an expensive smart phone. We went to a party kind of in the hood, where we really didn't know anyone outside of our group of about 5 or 6. He lost his phone. Thought someone stole it. Again... bad part of town... very diverse... upon losing his phone and thinking it was stolen, he screamed "which one of you n****[hard R]* stole my phone!" Fight broke out, had to have my friend's back obviously even though I was like "oh wtf, thanks dude, now we're the racist white kids starting fights," lol
Now I'm just addicted to coffee. And this wall of text is the result of the caffeine. Whoops.
I will sponsor one donut-addict, purchasing them 1 donut of their choosing each day for the next year, to not get the vaccine.
Rubin's fine, because he doesn't advertise himself as the face of conservatism or hide from what he is: a liberal. Rubin is just a liberal that actually saw what was happening on "his side" and coming from the left, and, like any rational person, reacted with a simple "what the fuck?" It's even put him on a mission against big tech where he's actually at least trying to do something about big tech censorship and cancel culture. He's gained appeal with the right, simply for pointing out the absurdities on the left, so that alone has led many to this conclusion about him, but it's an unfair application, as, again, he is not artificial or trying to come across as some kind of traditionally ideological conservative. Same with Tim Pool. These are admitted liberals. They've just maintained some logic and capacity for critical thinking, which means they'll often denounce certain things/ideas that make them appeal, and appear to some, as conservative/right wing. In any case, I'll take what I can get from people like them, whereas Shapiro is far more deserving of criticism for espousing his beliefs as if they are the true and only tenets of conservatism
Sort of related: I wanted to make a science-fair as easy as possible but still get an A in middle school, so I decided to put the scientific method to work on the question of "how much football gameplay are you getting for your $300 ticket?" So I'd sit with a stopwatch, and literally time from snap to whistle for every play. Turns out the average was about 11 minutes of action. The rest is just clock-ticking, "like a rock" commercials, and Buck or Colinsworth telling us how "now here's a guy..." Teacher even kind of joked about how I barely did any work, but gave me an A because I still met all the requirements. All the male teachers loved it and were joking similarly about how creative my idea was for basically getting the assignment done in a way that allowed me to just watch football games