For those that think the files will be heavily redacted, I have a question. Ready?

We just got 20,000 docs that were not redacted in any way. How do you think the full release will be edited?

That’s rather the point? See how ridiculous is sounds in a different context?

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until Trump’s death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post.

I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realm of Greenland. I pledge my life and honor to Trumps’s Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.

Been saying this about tariffs for months:

Say you have cash on hand, or the ability to get a monster loan, to start a factory. You would be a fool to build in the US!

You know the tariffs will be disastrous and eventually repealed, and we’re seeing both actions right now. So even if tariffs allow you to compete with imports, the rug will get yanked out from under you at some point. And there you are, holding the bag on a brand-new, worthless factory.

The organ harvesting makes no sense in any case. You can’t run a corpse 300 miles down the highway and expect anything salvageable.

Then you’ve got American consulate employees in Cuba coming down with inexplicable brain problems.

One of their economic ministers wrote in a state journal that shit was bad. Imagine that. Official news, not a leak.

^ BINGO! They were shuffling paper before, now hard currency is leaving the country, a country historically starved of hard currency.

I feel ya. Didn’t pass a quick smell test for me either.

Take an hour, even half an hour, and see what experts have to say about making the call on “illegal orders”.

tl;dr: Make the call to disobey, you are fucked.

Not as easy to disobey as you make it out.

Short version

Good luck. There is plenty of law and precedent to examine if you want to put in the time.

tl;dr: Make the call on “lawful” orders at your personal peril, and you will almost certainly lose.

No way of telling. Depends on what Trump’s handlers whisper in his ear. ATM he’s mostly against Putin. Can’t find it ATM, but pretty sure I saw a story today about the US approving or shipping high-end weapons to Ukraine. 🤷🏻

It’s the filthy fucking Russians, always is. At what point does Europe call bullshit and invade?! Easy for me to say across the Pond, but if Mexico was constantly sabotaging America, we’d quickly kick their ass.

DG is all we have in the country. It’s not like some mom-and-pop could provide that range of goods at those prices. There are DGs where there is nothing else, never was. I’m on the edge of town and a lot of these people have to walk or bike to the store. The new DG was a godsend.

At the town outside my camp, 900 souls, there’s a DG and a gas/convenience/general store coexisting, only two businesses. I spend what I can with the local store, get what I can’t at DG. The DG is the only real general store (hence the name) for 25-minutes in either direction.

Every criticism I’ve ever heard is from city people.

Nature can exert similar pressures without intelligence involved.

“Survival of the fittest” has been around a long, long time and now we know better.

Went to Dollar General for a few things, refused to pay for coffee. I’d rather do without.

I’ve felt that dogs have taken the same path. Notice how expressive their facial muscles are? Wolves don’t have nearly so many facial muscles. Wild to learn about isn’t it?!

I think the hangup is thinking evolution can’t proceed quickly. We were taught in school that evolution take millions of years and we resist the idea that it can move quickly.

We’ve been figuring out over the last two decades that evolution can move fast, given enough selective pressure.

Arguing with a reasonalbe Christian on reddit 10-years back; Said African elephants were growing smaller, or no tusks, in response to poaching. He called it “breeding”. I call it hella selective pressure. Same difference?

Silliness aside, old rope kinda fascinates me. Some lasts forever, some is rotten beyond use. I have a giant sack at camp, all kinds. Interesting to see how different materials last, stretch, rot, etc.

Friend gave me quite a bit of the thickest nylon rope pictured. Made a shitty rope bridge out of it that might outlast my old carcass.