Does this mean that there is some reclusive Vietnam veteran with mystical powers meeting some geeky young kid in a run down trailer park in the deserts of Arizona and they’ll pair up with a truck driving privateer and his huge overly hairy former wrestling superstar that mumbles a lot, in their 18 wheeled highway tractor trailer they call the Centennial Turkey.

Easy … because that’s the excess supply from last year being sold as new this year.

Most definitely involves luck in many cases. My wife currently has pulmonary fibrosis, a life shortening disease that basically slowly erodes your lungs. We did our best to take care of ourselves, good food, not too much, not too little, vitamins, health conscience, exercise, keeping active, healthy mind, staying active, staying connected … and neither being too excessive or obsessive of taking care of ourselves either.

We have a doctor friend of ours who told us … it was just luck … we caught a bad flu a few years ago, just before the pandemic. I got over it, she never did and still hasn’t. She is healthy as anything otherwise but her lungs will give out in a year maybe two, possibly three but the end is coming and its horrible to think about.

We did everything right, we just didn’t get lucky.

My grandma on my mom’s side lived to be 85 but she had a bit of dementia at the end.

My grandpa on my dad’s side lived to be 85 too and his mind was great but his body wasn’t.

But every time I hear stories of people who lived long lives, you have to compare that to the number of people they outlived or those people from their generation who didn’t make it.

For every 99 year old, there were hundreds or even thousands that didn’t make it to that age. It’s really a very lucky thing to live that long … and even more like winning a lottery to live that long and have a bit of health and be in your right mind.

Yeah, I keep reminding people, especially young people about this.

What’s the use of living until you’re 70 if you spend the last ten years of life living in a body that is half dead?

I know one guy who worked in heavy industry retire at 65 and decided to just smoke, drink booze and eat junk on his couch for his retirement. He loved it for about two years. Then he had heart attack, diabetes, and early signs of dementia. He lingered for 8 more years living a miserable life before he died a slow death in hospice for about a year.

One my of neighbours is 80 years old and still at home … but for the past ten years, he’s been battling cancer, heart problems and almost semi regular infections of some kind. His entire life is just pain every day. He keeps ending up in the hospital for something … only to return a week or two later after having survived. He is just miserable all the time and the only way anyone can see him coming out of all this is to die.

I have another old friend who is 70, great heart, good weight, good bodily health … but she has Alzheimers … and she’s had signs of it for the past ten years. She’ll live for a while but what kind of life is it to not have your memory for the last ten years of your life?

Take care of yourself as much as possible now while you are young. Sure some of this is just genetics or luck but I’d rather try my best to have a decent quality of life later on than do things to guarantee I’ll be miserable at the end of my life.

Nationalism is nationalism and it all depends on the culture and race group

White Caucasians want a white nationalist state

Blacks want a black nationalist state

I’m Indigenous Canadian and I know a few extremely minded Native people who believe in a Red Nationalist State … I’ve known a few that if they saw a white guy on their home reserve, they’d beat up the white guy just because they were white.

It’s a human emotion … we like to be part of an ‘in’ group … and we want our ‘in’ group to be the one in control and hold power over all the other groups.

Any fascist state no matter the culture or identity is a fascist state that no one should ever tolerate

I’d say thanks … then ask them for a blender

Of course it is … a really disgusting terrible soup … but soup none the less

Sure … we’re free next week so we can talk then

At this point I believe that there was an advanced civilization 20,000 years ago … then they devolved into an absolutely stupid culture of people that didn’t care about reading or writing any more that they could only communicate by drawing simple stick figures and line animals on a cave wall.

Then they all evolved again to become us.

And we are continuing the cycle by dumbing ourselves down to the point where cave paintings will become meaningful to us again and we can repeat the cycle.

Bigger? … it just means you need more booze and junk food … infinitely

Local politician … a member of town council but also a character that just hung onto any and all political positions related to local politics. He never did much expect make money for himself. If he didn’t get on council, he would try for mayor, and if he got neither, Financial Controller, Administrator, Manager, whatever, as long as it was with the town. He was in essence a salesman because he could talk circles around most people with political language and a bit of education, especially when he dealt with the uneducated or gullible people. It was basically his entire career and he’s well on his way to retiring after having done nothing for anyone else or the town.

The current point of our human civilization is like cave men 10,000 years ago being given machine guns and hand grenades

What do you think are we going to do with all this new power?

It’s great because the internet was initially developed as a decentralized service so that if any part failed, the rest could maintain communications.

Over the past decade, corporations have been actively developing an internet of services that heavily rely on just a small set of services … and if any of them go down, everything is lost.

Then it should be on a moving sidewalk then to even the playing field … and increase the speed of the sidewalk to 50km/h

It’s been a year later and just discovered this … great read and great find! Thanks for sharing

The blind beating the blind

Classic one I’ll always think of when it comes to this orange turd … they should make that into a statue for everyone to remember

My favourite thing about this is that … he’ll be remembered forever for shit like this (no pun intended).

Think about it … JFK had famous speeches and lines like ‘We choose to go to the moon’ … Eisenhower is thought of to his line ‘the Military Industrial complex’ … Roosevelt for his ‘Day of infamy’ speech … even Reagan is remembered for his ‘Tear down this wall’ speech

Trump? … he’ll be remembered as a senile old buffoon who shared childish videos to make fun of the citizens he was supposed to govern.

… and it isn’t just representative of Trump … no matter how the country feels about it … his stupidity reflects on the entire nation.