Posts by Danneskjold

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I've never lived in a place with sirens. My wife's family does, tornado alert, they beat cheeks for the bunker.

When the tornado hit us last year we had about a minute warning. We got a call from my mom to turn on the news. We did and it was calling out streets, 4 blocks, then 3 blocks, then 2 blocks away, and it was on us.

There's a siren here for the Nuclear Power Plant. They test it the first monday of every month.

And every single damn time for the first round of the siren I forget that it's the first monday.

Let's go birds:

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I can take you to dozens of town that are hanging by a thread or few that no longer exist. Real common in the Great Plains states.

Take a local town to me: Phoenixville. It was one of the largest steel producers in the United States. And then the American Government sold out American Steel to Japanese and German Steel post WW2 and the town died. MANY, MANY *union* workers hung around in town for decades convinced it was going to come back.

It got so bad that there was a time when I was growing up when you wouldn't dare walk the streets of Phoenixville without a weapon.

But as the blacks scared white people out of the direct suburbs of Philadelphia, Phoenixville got "gentrified" as a refuge. Any benefits that holds are fleeting because Philly really doesn't do anything itself. So people will learn that living in a nice suburb doesn't change the fact that they aren't servicing anything.

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I dunno about America, but over here people, on the right and the left, just don't seem to care, and this is not a new problem. It has been going on for decades.

I could see when I left school 25 years ago that the creation of 150-250 new jobs a year with over 1000 kids leaving school that same year was not sustainable.

Now huge parts of my hometown, for example, are a shell of what they once were, boarded up houses and stores, people on welfare with no jobs to sustain them.

At least in the City if god forbid I lose my job, I can have another by next Monday.

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It's basic economics, you failed socialist.

The "Service Economy" was a ruse invented by socialists to loot an amount of the country's wealth that will last them, and ONLY THEM, til they die.

Every town on the entire planet exists for one reason: to service something real. 9 times out of 10, it's manufacturing. Or making something. *Occasionally* it is a transportation hub to service another location's manufacturing.

No town, village, city, county, state, country, kingdom, or empire on the entire face of the planet, in all of recorded human history has EVER survived getting rid of making their own things.

Quote from Gina

Saw that a few years ago. Really horrible. She died.

Unfortunately, she did not.

Her mother, who jumped out of the back seat and fought the tiger, did die, however.

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It seems the Amish have decided to engage the culture.

It hasn't "turned" red. Again, I'm convinced that the ONLY reason that they didn't steal the election again is that Joe Biden dropped out so freaking late that they didn't have time to get new fraudulent ballots printed out.

We're still dealing with truckfulls of ballots just showing up from New York already filled out for 2020, and the Democrat Governor and the Democrat Superior Court aren't going to do anything about it.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne…ost-Bat-drone-photos.html

Nice.

Apparently it was going to be armed, then switched to unarmed, but now seems to be armed again.

Cool, but 80 companies is a lot. All it would take would be 1 or 2 to be compromised by China... And you know at least a quarter are...

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First 3 done:

I'd have the other 2 finished, but I'm learning this on the fly and learned that the rivets / eyelets I bought ain't nearly large enough for the 1/8" kydex sheet I got for the big ones.

The fittings are universal, I can change them out, switch the sides and adjust their position.

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Well, the judge is an idiot diversity hire, I wonder if her law clerks are also idiot diversity hires

One thing that democrats are good at doing is to NEVER hire anyone smarter than them. They are terrified of being replaced.

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Aren’t there laws against that sort of thing?

There may be fraud charges on the back end for the family wasting the money, but that's only if you can get a liberal prosecutor to prosecute.

Other ones, too:

I'm thinking $250 for these 15" blades, maybe $275 for the bigger ones? I had to get a 2'x4' sheet of kydex to have enough material for the big ones. But I'll do that in the coming days.

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Goddamnit.

How much?

The one on the far left. It's got a bi-color ironwood handle:

Almost 15" with a 9" edge. Made out of 8670, one of the toughest steels out there.

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Is that my knife design?

This one is a very large, straight camp-chopper type knife.

First Kydex Sheath formed:

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What the fuck are they drinking? It stained a styrofoam cup!

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New York is becoming the proof that Rand wrote a documentary.

I started rereading Atlas back in the Biden years but didn't have the heart to keep going. Picked it up again recently.

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Econ 101 is kryptonite to these people

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Universal Suffrage was a gigantic mistake.

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While the UK does not offer subsides per car built like the US, there are various things in place to make stuff like R&D cheaper over here. So its doubtful its a losing proposition.

The EU import market also helps give a ton of variety.

For me its working out the value factor, fuel is expensive but so is electric due to the failure of privatisation and and the soft touch approach of the regulators. Then again there are ways to charge your car for free.

Electric does work out cheaper overall, but time well tell how well the electric cars age.

There is talk of banning all non electric consumer cars by 2035. This should work assuming the new nuclear power plants are completed on time.

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In the new BBB, they were talking about taking away the 6-7K subsidy and Musk freaked out. Because apparently that's enough to take a Tesla from Profitable to Unprofitable.

And just to be clear, I'm not saying that the auto-manufacturers are losing money on a $100k car. I'm saying that they are losing $100k on EACH car. A lot of the big manufacturers are stopping or slowing e-car sales altogether.

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Teslas cost a fortune for what they are, but over here pretty much every brand offers electric cars now.

I have been down on Electric cars based on the range, however my total daily commute per week would be under 40 miles. Chargers are also provided at work.

So really Its just the cross country stuff I would worry about.....that I would never do as why would you drive across the UK in 6-7 hours when you can spend 4 hours on a train or 55 minutes on a plane.

Also chargers are everywhere anyway. So I guess my mindset is just old.

But then there is a bus service from my front door right to the office front door pretty much......

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Everyone has electric cars over here. The problem is that Tesla is the ONLY manufacturer that is making money on it. Ford, for example, is losing $100,000 PER ELECTRIC VEHICLE they make. Every electric car for Ford is 100 grand down the drain, net.