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Cheers brother. I was once a minor local celebrity in Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania because of my beer knowledge. I used to be a home brewer and was involved in brewing clubs and had a lot of brewing friends. Before covid I was a bar manager for a craft beer store/restaurant/bar called Kreugels Beer and Deli. We were regularly featured on a local TV show called “Wine Hops and Road Stops”- think of a low rent version of “Diners, Dives, and Drive-ins”. The host, Jeff Bonomo, still does it. The episodes are all on YouTube im in a lot of season 3 and 4. I would do segments where I would talk about craft beer and the history of brewing. With my Irish hat and my red beard i’m kind of recognizable. For a little while every time I went out I’d hear “hey you’re that beer guy!” Lol.

Literally the day before covid shutdown jeff told me the bosses at the TV station wanted to make me a paid co-host for the show. I was RIGHT there… Fame money women… Or actually none of that. Lol. But seriously, they did want to bring me in but then shutdown happened and everything changed. My bar closed it’s doors permanently not long after. I miss those days

3- lol no. I can barely make enough to meet our monthly delivery goals. But, we don’t put the electronics in them. A areospace company does that. I make the carbon fiber housing. You wouldn’t believe the tolerances; “difficult to make” isn’t even close. I work 7 days/65+hrs per week. I’m the only one who can make it.

2- I guess Egypt was the Sahara? I didn’t really see the dunes beyond what was around the great pyramids in Giza. But there were lots of guys with camels offering pictures and rides. Actually kind of scammy though because they would stand behind you with their camel and their kid would snap a Polaroid without asking and demand money. We were told just to pay everyone. Something like that would be like $0.50.

I DID however spend 3 days with the bedouins in Southern Israel. I went to a fancy English speaking high school called The Anglican School International. You should look it up. It’s a beautiful campus. There were like 20 people in my graduating class in '97. They organized a few trips for us every year. Some of them were really amazing. I got to ride through a scrubby desert in military jeeps driven by teenage soldiers once.

The bedouin trip was amazing though. They are a nomadic Arab tribe that live in tents like they have for thousands of years. They are basically the middle Eastern version of the Amish. So I’ve of the days we went on a 12 hour camel ride through the Negev. My camel was such an asshole that a little boy had to lead him the whole way. Did you know that a camel’s neck is flexible enough to bite you while you are sitting on them? Yeah neither did I. Guess how I learned.

So on the way back my friend and I decided we were done with the camels and would rather walk. As the supreme confident 16 year olds we were, we lagged far behind the group lifting rocks to find creatures. All we found were little yellow scorpions, but we found TONS of them. We picked then up by their tails and the them at each other. Fun stuff.

Months later we were in study hall in the library just flipping through interesting books like the Guinness world records and stuff. 90’s version of doom scrolling. On one page we saw that scorpion we were playing with. The “yellow Palestine scorpion” also know as a “death stalker”. Yep. One of the most venomous creatures on earth. We were throwing them. Guaranteed death. Nervous system shutdown. The only thing that saved us was that truly dangerous creatures tend to be chill. Fun times.

1- I met zahi hawass in 1995 before he was anything other than an egyptologist and a university professor. The charisma you see on TV is 100% the real him. At the time my family was living in Jerusalem Israel. My dad was an engineer for Intel helping set up a new chip manufacturing facility on the outskirts of town.

In the 90’s there were a lot of improved relationships between Israel and its neighbors. In 1973 there was the 6 day war where Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and a could other countries I can’t remember, all attacked Israel simultaneously. At which time Israel kicked all of their asses back to their deserts of origin in less than a week.

Anywho… In 1995 Israel opened its southern border into Egypt for tourism. I think they called it the Tabla crossing. I was 15. We drove across the Saini desert in kind of a tour bus. We were the first Americans to make the trip. Long fucking drive too. I think it took something like 5 hours just to cross the endless wastes.

I think Egypt was trying to lay out the red carpet for us. We stayed as a hotel that was unbelievably lavish. Lol, we were told we must stay in our rooms or be off grounds between 5pm and 7pm because they sprayed for mosquitoes. These guys are wearing these gas powered foggers full of DDT that spread a haze you couldn’t see through.

We met Dr Hawass at our hotel and he rode with us to Giza. In pictures the pyramids look like they’re in the middle of the desert but in reality there’s a densely populated neighborhood right next to it. He walked through all of them with us. We walked through every interior room and walkway privately. He showed us his personal dig sites and I saw, with own eyes, heiroglyphs of a kangaroo. There’s debate about this but I know what I saw. He took us through the museum and we bought some little statue figurines from a street before that Dr Hawass authenticated. He said they were legit middle kingdom artifacts. It was unreal. I boldly drank tap water because I wanted to develop an immunity to the local pathogens, anticipating a return. I never did visit Egypt again but I did suffer through amoebic dissentary for 3 weeks.

It was years later when I started seeing Dr Hawass on TV. At first I was like… wait I recognize that voice… Then the holy shit moment when I realized what a true gift it had been to get a private tour. It was me, my parents and my 5 year old younger brothers; 5 days in Egypt, I’m pretty sure the whole things didn’t cost $4000 at the time.

I 100% agree voting is the way forward but what if things have changed and it takes a couple election cycles to truly recognize the scope of the damage? I think the curt plan for righting the ship isn’t working. I worry that it’s already too late to vote our way out of this. Russia, North Korea, Syria, Romania vote too. How do we get back what we have lost?

I wish I had the balls to stop work to protest. I’m not allowed to talk too much about my job but I am basically the only person who makes a thing that the majority of the naval fleet pilots use to do their missile jobs. I’m deeply anti establishment but I’m personally knckle deep in the machine.

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FUCK. just… Idk FUCK. I’m pretty sure we are both on the same side but are equally pissed off from opposite sides of the same problem

We are all experiencing the consequences of a plan laid out long before people were looking close enough to see pawns for the queens.

I think the “so what do we do now” argument is over. We are at triage levels now. Yes protests are necessary. Protests are the immune system that will save us all eventually, but I’m not a leukocyte. I am a platelet. I am the strong back with a broom and a shovel that will clean up when it’s over. The survivors are the ones who rebuild.

I’m not talking about the Republicans that were voted for. I’m talking about who they are now becoming. This is very obviously a coordinated effort to change the foundations of our system into something it’s not.

I apologize for the insult. That was not cool.

It was the survivors who rebuilt Germany.

You dumb shit. It’s a fucking US government coup. No one ever voted out a dictator.

You’re still not getting it. This is a US government coup. They’re not following laws or the Constitution because they arent the US government. It’s the fucking Confederacy again.

Let’s just hope they spare your family.

We are witnessing an administration who does not consider themselves to be bound by established laws and norms. We are watching our constitutional rights being eroded one by one in real time. Do you think he will ever say “oh man I would love to do something but it would be illegal if I did”. Who is being naive now?

When they come for your guns they will absolutely have a response to this. They know many people would rather die. They will kill you no matter what, but now what if they punish your family? What if they seize all of your assets and those of your nearest family? What if they financially ruin your loved ones after you die? Are you going to protect your weapons at the risk of hurting those you love? I’ll bet most don’t. What if they threaten to arrest your parents and send them to a labor camp?

When “they” are no longer subject to being voted out of office there is no longer any reason not to use maximum force to compel compliance for anything. They are showing us what they will do to those they deem to have no constitutional rights. Next anyone who protests will be labeled a terrorist and arrested. Anyone who fails to comply will be a terrorist. Anyone who is registered Democrat will be classified as an enemy of the state.

You will be bent into submission because you have weaknesses that they do not. Rattle your cage all you want. Dictators ALWAYS disarm the population.

And, you know, to set precident for suspending constitutional rights. All roads lead to martial law.

Martial law and suspension of rights nationally is next. They are absolutely going to come for your guns.

Of course.