Obviously, he’s in sales. He’s sold used cars, satellite TV, dabbled in NFTs, and medical equipment like scooters and stair elevators. Got his start selling those copper bracelets at a mall kiosk in Jersey.

He’s also a toootal stoner, used to have mad nuggz but mostly uses a wax pen these days. Just look at his eyes. Has a little percocet snorting habit.

He’s a fun dude, but don’t trust him and don’t introduce him to your sister.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychrolutidae

Exactly. I used dying grannie as an example talking about it. Also, “You haven’t made a major purchase in 6 montths.”

Woah.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs

This may be the true inverse of that statement. Automated for maximum efficiency/extraction.

Cyberpunk dystopic as fuck.

I have something I call the Styrofoam Plate Theory.

Gourmet French cuisine is based on peasant foods. I.E. making cheap ingredients taste good. Coq au Vin was a way to cook a tough old rooster and it tastes amazing.

So, gourmet is often based on poor people food.

Soul food/Southern home, Mexican, Indian: all poor people food.

So, if you go to a restaurant or gas station and the food comes on a styrofoam plate, it is strongly correleated with good food. A language barrier, menu with pictures and numbers, rundown dining room, and a clean bathroom all increase the likelihood of truly wonderful cuisine.

That’s really fucking funny, if true. (black humor, dead baby funny)

You got a sauce on this?

Walser said that all the cars retained their original PRV V-6s

I had to look up a sand rail chasis. I’m more of a machine guy than a car guy. Totally a dune buggy pipe frame with integral roll cage.

I guess they did body swaps when doing offroad. Which totally makes sense. Not sure if the DeLorean is a sports car or a sedan, but the frame wasn’t built for Hollywood stunts.

I didn’t know that about the Volvo, that’s pretty funny. Means it was cheaper and easier to do a body swap than try and keep one properly running. Maybe it was just that hard to get parts.

Two minutes hate!

I’m hopeful that maybe some of the MAGAts wake up and start thinking. They were arguing completely opposite of this just last year. How could you not feel confused and angry and lied to? I also kind of feel foolish for still hoping.

As to the actual existence of a list or blackmail material? IDK, maybe? Probably? Intelligence services would be fools not to have it and hide it. Either way, we still haven’t seen the JFK files or whatever.

Anyhow, go blue team. rah. yay.

Anybody know what’s going on with tariffs, Medicaid, or executive orders? That whole ICE thing seems to keep sliding off the cliff.

Sure do hate those fuckers.

I think you’re catching downvotes cause most people now think the DeLorean was cool because of the movies.

They don’t realize it flopped due to being insanely heavy, overheating, and other mechanical problems. Really expensive, as well. Also, the whole thing with the owner being busted for a massive amount of cocaine.

The parallels are actually pretty funny and you’re not wrong.

Be a good toy and bite the pillow. You know we have to check your bad place.

Neato. Thanks!

That whole Sultanate thing sounds even more complicated than European aristocracy.

Should I ever get the chance to try Malay food, what should I try?

I don’t know much about Malaysia other than Islam has become the dominant religion and that it has many small language/cultural groups.

If you have a moment. Given my level of ignorance, could you please tell me about it? What do you hate about it? What are your favorite things about Malaysia?

No, you have to cut down any maypoles you find.

For extra credit, you can also enslave any virgins dancing around them but if they get preggers, you have to marry them. You can marry more than one, IIRC.

Aluminum oxide. Pretty damn inert.

By extremely poor, I’m talking physically disabled/mentally unwell/severely addicted. My viewpoint is from a rural southern us perspective. You see someone walking or biking, the assumption is that there is something very wrong with them and that they are probably homeless or nearly so. The only time you don’t assume that with bicyclists, is if they’re wearing spandex on a touring bike or are a kid.

I’m a total redneck so I’ve had plenty of friends and acquaintances that dealt. One former friend, only man I’ve ever called brother, I rode shotgun for a few times when he was making big moves. (he fell down the rabbithole with conspiracy stuff, we don’t really talk anymore, the brother I loved is gone)

I’m still adjusting to seeing so many people walking in my new home. Other than gas station/general stores, I’m used to stores being 30mi/48km away.

Anyhow, anybody moving product had to have a vehicle as a basic part of their trade. Like a shitbox civic and a Hipoint 9mm were a part of the starter kit or something.

You can get fresh fish, but, you usually pay a premium. Fresh farmed catfish and tilapia are common. Now that I think about it, that’s a type of factory farming I’m actually pretty okay with. As far as I know, their suffering is minimal and the environmental impact can be minimal or even positive when they are used to clean wastewater or fed byproducts. But most freshwater fish simply cannot be purchased, you have to catch them due to the laws. I now live within 300mi/482km of the coast, which is close by my definitions.

So buffalo vs bison is a funny thing. The american buffalo and bison are the same animal. However, buffalo refers to the wild ones and bison is farmed. Market hunters gunned them all down on the plains and that extirpation largely led to regulated hunting. Rinella drew a tag for one of the last populations of actual wild buffalo up in Alaska. (This stuff is closely regulated and actually backed by population science, one of the areas of law I actially agree with) So, he had to hike up a partially frozen river and stalk a buffalo, process it, and then pack and raft it out. He did this solo. He wrote the book while he was living in Manhattan, IIRC.

What about invasive vs naturalized?

Yeah. I bet we’re going to find that it increases dementia rates by a lot.

I wonder what the effects are on brain development as well. I could see it doing something similar to children raised in warzones, fucking up adrenals and stress responses.

Right there with you on small trucks, the kid and I have been drooling over the Slate even if it is Bezos. I drive a '98 Ranger, and we’ve been kicking around the idea of a Ranger electric conversion.

Got me. Totally made that assumption. I now live within an hour of downtown of a large metropolitan area, there’s even bus service here. However, even here, life without a vehicle would be full of hardship.

I’m used to only the extremely poor not having a vehicle. I don’t know the percentage, but a large chunk of our homeless live in their vehicle and have jobs. Which sounds like pure hell.

Another assumption I made is game not being available unless you hunt it yourself. I’ve read about butchers in Europe selling game but I have no experience with it. The only wild meat you can purchase in a store is saltwater fish, pretty much everything else must be farmed. I understand, and agree, with the original intent. Market hunting was a terrible thing, effectively wiped out the buffalo for instance. It now needs to be brought back, and closely managed, for whitetail deer.

American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon by Steven Rinella is a fascinating book. Rinella is one of the few modern hunters that I respect. He also has a show, MeatEater, that’s pretty great. He’s a thinking man’s hunter.