Likewise, don't fall for the class warfare propaganda. I know many millionaires and they are mostly completely normal, hard working Americans. There's a big difference between a successful millionaire business owner and somebody who's sold their soul to get into the club (most celebrities, many Fortune 500 CEOs, etc.). In fact, I would venture to guess that only a few percent of the super rich are truly terrible people. I know at least a few who have net worths in the high tens of millions, and they are completely normal folks who've just been at it forever and amassed serious wealth.
On the flip side, I do know one CEO (not friends with), who is definitely in the club, who's also a millionaire, and he's the kind of person who, in my opinion, would kill your family for money.
The same people who want to cause a race war also want to cause a class war.
Interesting, they hadn't really occurred to me previously that, aside from also wanting us to eat poop and bugs or whatever else we shouldn't be eating, that this may be a form of land grab; bankrupt all the farmers and buy their land up, on the cheap...
I'm not suggesting that anyone should give them a single dime or any compassion (nobody should)... but it is their stupid ancestors' faults for raising them without corporal punishment and ruining the country by not posting attention. Recognizing this is not licking their asses.
Absolutely true.
Because I'm paranoid about the financial climate, I'm always more likely to keep more cash, even if we have a loan racking up interest (mortgage / car leases are the only debt). My wife would always pay a little extra on the mortgage, she used to convince me and listen to my rants about how we need to keep cash, and then she finally just started doing it every month. After five years we owed like $30,000 less on our house when we sold it, and we saved a few grand in interest.
I said they went to college and wasted their time and never worked a day in their life and then compared them to stupid dogs. I'm pretty sure that is not the same thing as licking them up the ass LMFAO. I don't have any compassion for the stupid and ignorant. However, you literally cannot blame them for how they were raised, by their stupid parents and by the stupid government that their parents put into power.
100% concur. Speaking of pools, about four years ago when my friend was down visiting, we were in the pool drinking beers and this topic came up, so we decided to try it out, so we both started saying "my back hurts" and talking about "back pain" for a minute or so. Later that night one of us got back pain ads on the YouTube app, and the other did a day or so later (don't remember who was first).
Exactly, it was a tough bullet to bite when we decided to buy (knowing that we will take a hit, but the trade-off being that we are not in a rental for perhaps half a decade - at times it feels like a consumer decision, doing something because we want it rather than because it's the financially prudent thing to do, but... literal YOLO comes to mind).
We did spend less than our last house, but because the rates went up, even with the big down payment (most of the prior sale proceeds), our mortgage is actually more per month now. At some point, once we're able to refinance, the payment will be lower than our last house. Until then, I'll feel sick about the situation, especially if prices do tank quickly.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_cheese
Joking (not joking) aside, I see this mentality with a lot of millennials, and when you think about it it's kind of like a general strike by an entire generation, "we're not gonna work under these conditions". It sucks for generation Y peeps (just before millennials) like me, because I didn't create a lot of the problems that led to the disparity, and I, along with most everybody I knew when I was younger, worked as a teenager and as a young adult and didn't get a college degree. The millennial generation were most all tricked by TPTB into wasting their time in college and dicking off, and now they have no work ethic or sense of responsibility, and you can't really blame them because they were brought up this way. They all got participation trophies and free Internet girlfriends and really didn't have to try hard for anything, and now all of a sudden they can't have anything and so they're saying "fuck it we'll just sit here on our asses", and once again we can't really blame them because they weren't the ones that created the bullshit environment they grew up in. You can't really blame a stupid dog for biting strangers if you don't discipline the dog when it's young.
Also, pertaining the government cheese, as long as there is any available welfare, these kinds of choices are easy to make. If you make somebody choose between working or dying of starvation, what do you think they're gonna do? It's pretty easy to fix these problems, but it takes some pain in the beginning when you peel that Band-Aid off.
I think this is honestly the most accurate version of the future, barring some kind of drastic change due to AI, war, etc. Your prediction of the feds reaction to this mild-ish stagflation scenario is also corroborated by their actions in the 70s.
One of the reasons my wife and I decided to buy a house again this fall, after we sold our house in late summer, was because I was concerned about how long this process will take. A lot of people are waiting for quick things like "house prices are gonna drop by 30% this year", but the reality is we could see fairly flat markets in a lot of areas for 5 or 10 years, and we just didn't want to be in some kind of bullshit rental for an indeterminate amount of time. Holding onto hundreds of thousands of fiat dollars didn't sound particularly appealing, despite the good feeling of having a huge cushion for a rainy day, because you just never know when the Fed is going to put it or some bullshit rug pull is going to happen (digital Covid, new plandemic, civil war, etc.), and everything is going to be lost, so I'd rather us be in a house that we can say is "ours" than in somebody else's house when SHTF.
I think, in order for an EMP to have a wide reaching impact, the nuke would need to be 3-15x higher up than the balloon is said to be (at 100k ft). Although, the very northern part of the American continent, just east of the middle point, it is said to be the optimal place for an EMP to have the widest effective reach. For a bomb small enough to be carried by a balloon, which also has some form of satellite looking array, the bomb would have be designed specifically to output higher frequency gamma rays that interact with the atmosphere, but my understanding is that the lower down in the atmosphere that you get the less effective the EMP will be because of gamma ray radiation attenuation by ordinary atmosphere (versus something much higher that would be able to interact with the magnetic field and ionosphere before ever encountering ordinary air molecules and water vapor).
That's a terrifying thought. I hope he's ok.
Ice Age Farmer was the food (and everything) shortage Paul Revere of our time. His content has probably helped convert a hundred thousand people into preppers. He helped me sell others, including our neighbors, into prepping. He got me to up my game more also. When I listened to his first digital covid episode in 2020 I immediately (that day) ordered 3 more months worth of storable food.
Man, I've wondered about this for a while. On one hand, I think something was going on that was really stressing him out a bit before he dropped off everything and went to just Telegram (maybe threats?), so I could imagine a scenario where he just said "fuck it what else can I do; i've already said my piece" and just quit... but on the other hand, I really wonder if he did actually "disappear"… which would indicate some thing that he said was too close to the fire.
interesting. The only scenario I think about, pertaining evidence of life out there, is the prospect of humans that left at some point.
Imagine thousands of years ago some humans escaped earth and went to Mars or some other place within our solar system, in an effort to survive some form of cataclysm (e.g., solar micronova). Now imagine they hadn't achieved a much greater degree of technology than where we are now, and so the ones who left didn't really have the technological means to come back; they simply left with the means to create a semi-permanent habitat somewhere in the solar system, perhaps on the other side of the moon, where they would avoid atmospheric effects of the nova and where they would be shielded by the earth in their timing. In that scenario, there would be this human civilization in the solar system that knew we were here, but which couldn't get back. Eventually, perhaps after even a single generation, failures and their planning would result in failure of their settlement, and there would just be artifacts left behind all these thousands of years later.
Yes, but on a constellation of perhaps a dozen or so satellites, rather than thousands. Imagine how economically impossible it would be to mount in attack on the entire starlink constellation (perhaps mobile megawatt scale lasers, which wouldn't last long in the vanguard).
I believe you are right. My theory on UFOs back in the olden days, such as Roswell and everything through the Cold War era, is that we invented most of the sightings so that they would be understood by the Soviets as high-tech war items. To the extent that there are actually observable UFOs, they are most definitely US government weapons.
Surely this is a dub using metal gear solid 2 style graphics, since they're using terminology like "deepfakes", etc.