And they’d get extra copaganda out of it! Look, we’re just fun loving guys playing with kids!

Subscription fees plus the double dip into selling bulk licensing of your thin client to companies who make computers.

I grew up in the middle of nowhere in East Texas as well, probably an hour and a half into Texas from Shreveport. I can say this has been true since at least the 80s that I’m aware of. It’s not “lol, can’t train 'em gotta put 'em down!” and more “I guess I could call the sheriff and he’ll come out and maybe accidentally shoot my dog along with this pack of aggressive, possibly diseased animals who may be gone in the half hour it’ll take him to get here or I can make sure my dog and kid are safe.” I guess there was also “I’ll go ahead and risk my life and start the treatment for rabies and try to catch this pack of feral animals and take them to Dallas where I’m sure the second I turn my back they’re going to be put down because they’ve been out here killing and that’s all they know.”

We had wandering strays that never caused a problem. We did have a problem with meth heads dumping failed fighting dogs. The only time it got to be a real gray area was when you weren’t sure whether a dog had a disease that caused balance issues or if one had just tangled with a wild animal and was hurt. But a hurt dog is also a dangerous dog and you’re still running up against waiting half an hour for a sheriff that might show up blasting every animal in sight whether it’s gone or not and possibly having your family hurt.

Life is complicated. And it sucks. And some of us are just out here doing the best we know how. Except Kristi Noem apparently who hated that dog and didn’t care for it or train it properly, blamed the dog for her failure, then decided she also hated a goat, missed the kill shot, and had planned so poorly that she had to go reload and come back for round 2. That’s fucking incompetence and spite, not protecting her kids and her neighbor’s chickens. Luckily she surely won’t bring that kind of incompetence and hatefulness to any job she might do with the government. Surely not, no way.

I was actually talking about Pan Am flight 160 the same day. This would have been a better story. Wow, that’s crazy. Looks like 2 of them made the news.

It was a very small event on November 3, 1973. Interestingly one of the three raptured made big news, but it was covered up. He was a pilot.

A couple of things.

First, that was mostly a conservative fantasy. They pretended to be waiting for a corrupt government because they were big and manly. Most of the “left” (I mean, you know, left of Republicans) wanted gun control ranging from sensible roadblocks to an outright ban.

Second, no matter whose fantasy it was, it was going to be a fantasy once modern war machines were invented. Let’s say I go get a semi automatic rifle. Convert it to automatic. Build IEDs and homemade grenades. But the second drones start dropping bombs on my house I’m fucked, as are my family, probably my neighbors, my friends, and anyone in close contact.

I’m not saying this to be defeatist. I’m not saying this to try to prove you wrong. This is what it was for. But this ain’t gonna get the job done with the modern state of technology and the people in charge being walled away from the general population. I don’t know exactly what the answer is but I’m open to suggestions.

Hey! They also destroy communities by forcing them to pay for infrastructure upgrades while the companies get tax holidays in return for a bunch of jobs that only last 2 years during the construction phase and only add about 25-50 permanent jobs to the local economy long term.

Let’s also not forget bringing back mothballed coal plants instead of building new ones.

No, but you could probably port Firefox to Holy C.

I had a part time gig DJing at a strip club for a brief time. It gets old much quicker than people think.

That was my question. I’m working on a brisket as we speak and I don’t plan on watching sports, wearing a red hat, or treating any women like shit.

I also have a truck that I haul shit in, but notice I don’t feel the need to ask what’s wrong with that. I know very fucking well what’s wrong with trucks.

I like the idea of paying taxes, I just hate that I’m paying a larger percentage of my “wealth” than someone whose net worth is several orders of magnitude more.

The other side of that is when I see someone using a service that my tax dollars are paying for I feel pretty good.

“I don’t know how to read so it looks bad if you do”

Nice. Now I’ve got to go look. I’ve been looking at 20mm ammo cans and they’re about the same size as that (the .50 cal cans are too small for me).

Appreciate it, friend!

The pictures are awesome and I love the scenery there. But what I’m stopping in to say is I dig those saddlebags. Ammo cans?

That’s because they want to put it out at the same time as the machine and frame. They’ll continue to be quiet until they secure the RAM they need or drop the other hardware due to shitty AI companies buying everything up.

There’s really not a lot to say about the controller until release.

Yeah, it starts at almost $80k for first year here with a senior officer that hasn’t made Sergeant getting up to $140k. A captain makes between ~$150k and just under $210k.

As a cadet it’s $50k. Which will never make you rich but if you’re stuck in a minimum wage position or as a gig driver that can be attractive, especially knowing you’ll soon bump over $25k.

That’s not counting incentives for higher education, having places like communities and shopping centers hire you to patrol off hours, more than 50 days of time off (PTO, personal days, “physical agility days” that can be traded in for $1000 a pop, and holidays, plus compensatory time at 1.5 hours), paid parental leave, retirement, halfway decent insurance, tuition assistance, continued training leave, student loan forgiveness, free public transportation…They have the benefits most of us should be getting.

The bourbon scent just smells like charred vanilla and tastes like shit.

Others have already pointed out this is the tape in and that’s the headphone jack. To the left is an effects send and return which is after the preamp but before the power amp (it’s an in and an out where you’d plug in certain effects pedals). Far to the left is the instrument input. Depending on the specific signal you could probably route it through the effects return which bypasses the distortion of the preamp. I’d have to see exactly what the fuck they thought they were trying to accomplish.

The color of it makes me think of the old Peavey Rage 158 amps but they didn’t have an effects loop or tape in. So I’m not exactly sure which amp this is. The far right knob is the master volume and the one left of the effects loop is reverb. That’s not important but it’s interesting to me.

Partially correct. They’ll step in because they signed contracts and have moved AI under the umbrella of National Security. Brockman donated $25m back in September. Trump signed Project Genesis in November. So all these hardware companies feel pretty good because it’ll be backed by taxpayers.

“Did you bring home the gold?”

“I brought home something”