Sure, buy the 50 lbs of honey now. Convert it to mead. Profit.

Never go bud to mouth.

1. When you’re chasing your next meal, you don’t have time to complain. Western society enables us to shift our priorities to higher levels on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
2. Feelings project differently in different cultures. For example, Spanish speaking people often align depression with physical exhaustion.
3. You many not know the people well enough to know their most intimate thoughts and intentions. Complaining in autocratic societies could be considered dissent and get you killed.
4. Similar to 3, they may be treating you as a D-list celebrity or a tourist because they have something to gain from doing so. Refer to point 1.
5. Consider the audience. Who are the kind of people who have frequent access to Internet in these countries and would want to talk to Western citizens?

We are mad and we’re getting madder. We just haven’t hit the fever pitch yet. There hasn’t been a catalyst.

But eventually there will be one and we’ll be able to coalesce around it. Seems like Moscow Musk is starting to be the foil, but so could a number of other things: egg prices, bid flu, new Hoovervilles. Something will make it happen.

Now is the time to plan and prepare.

I have some engineering concerns.

For one, reducing the turbulence area and increasing the air intake at that angle is going to create a vortex near the intake. This could lead to dangerous cavitation and knocking effects. It likely will require splitting the powertrain into two chambers by an internal membrane. My suggestion is somewhere near the Mason carpetbagger and the Dixon scalawag.

For two, I think that was genius what you’ve done with the reduction of the diffuser, thus minimizing drag. But where, my friend, do you plan to dispose of all the waste products? We don’t want those infecting the rest of the machine, and I think it’s disingenuous to think we can just empty those right out into the environment, particularly when said waste products don’t believe in said environment.

Keep trying to will those thoughts into existence…may work out for you and your party one day.

This is factually untrue. At the end of the Trump era, China had thought they had the upper hand on the global stage, but we have put into place more stoppages around the world. So much so that Blinken said on The Interview the other day that whenever he and the Chinese ambassador meet, the ambassador starts off by complaining for 30 minutes on how the West has railroaded their plans.

He also put it eloquently, that whenever parties from other nations come together, there’s always a seat at the table available for America. They want to know our position.

Just like our union of states, it is essential that the West remain a union of nations. If we do not, then divide and conquer could absolutely mean our decline.

Coincidentally, I was on my bike the other day in just kind of a funk. And I was sitting there with a sourpuss mug thinking how no one ever smiles on the greenway anymore, particularly in bigger cities.

And then just like clockwork, as soon as I finished my thought, a guy who I never would have predicted looked over at me with a beaming bright smile. It changed my whole day.

There are still a lot of us around these parts that strive to be kind and generous, it’s just that kindness and generosity doesn’t sell a lot of newspapers.

The Man of Culture

Switch to everclear and you won’t have this problem.

Not sure I would trust a biscuit on set nor anywhere nearby. That seems like an easy way to get “I can’t believe it’s not butter” on your buttered biscuit.

You had the perfect word to fit in there and instead you went with “gone”!? Come on man!

Sure it is buddy, sure it is.

I’m not right leaning, but I live in a right leaning area, and I think most all of us could stand a bit of time back in nature. So here’s what I would consider.

• A hunting or fishing license and classes
• A long weekend camping in the woods
• A trip to a national park
• Boat license lessons
• A craft class at a local Uni, like welding or pottery. They’re usually pretty cheap and a lot of fun
• A rafting trip

Not knowing him at all nor what he likes, perhaps a guitar and guitar lessons. That’s something I truly enjoyed in my late teens/early 20s. Or tickets to a music show or comedian he likes.

Nerds!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIZH5TKnEeg&t=24s

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I stand corrected. My memory served me incorrectly.

Nevertheless, they are more prepared now and the MAGA party holds more of the power compared to last time. It’s a bit like putting the foxes in charge of the henhouse - I suppose we’ll have to see where those that remain of the former GOP are willing to push back.

You are giving examples in history and changing the dates to the first Trump presidency, which is somewhat confusing.

Those things certainly didn’t happen because the GOP did not have a majority in the legislature. I agree that it is unlikely that these will occur during this term as well, given that the majority in the house will be very small, but I assure you there will be bills passed that will continue to strip away power from the legislature and grant those powers to the executive. There will also be interpretations of the law that will disenfranchise the citizens and/or will have repercussions for years to come.

LegalEagle gives a pretty good rundown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG_L3fLLG3c