hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
16hr ago
And what was the survival rate in the gulags they were sent to?
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
You can sell parts of it, you know, not the whole thing.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
You have to knock on the door and be buzzed in, and they may or may not have inventory.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
This has happened before- literally half the silver that has ever been mined was extracted in one lump sum by the conquistadors in the immediate aftermath of pizzarro’s conquest. It caused gigantic inflation in Europe.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yes. Usually 'the men are fags, but the women are so ugly who could blame them'. Referring to female activists as desperate for male attention or male activists as sleazy rapists is also popular.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Does John Fetterman count?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You can buy them from online retailers for a premium over the metal cost. The premium will depend on retailer markup and also on what, specifically, the piece you're buying is; generally for coins state issued pieces have a higher premium than privately minted ones(these latter are called 'rounds' to clarify that they are not legal tender but are in other ways identical to coins) and bars/ingots will have higher premiums the smaller the piece is. Retailers will give a discount for paying in crypto and ship to your house in a package from a fake business so no one knows it contains precious metal. To cash in, pawn shops and coin stores will generally buy at a slight discount from the metals cost- this could still be worth it if it goes up enough in the meantime.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yes, they piss money away, because that's what corrupt political machines do. They don't pick fights with the federal government for ideological reasons because that'll get their toys taken away.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The whole thing about Chicago democrats is that they're consistently moderate compared to other big city democrats, because they are a corrupt political machine and not an ideological movement. Deciding they're just not going to fight ICE because what's in it for them is very in character.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
So what you mean is 'are we looking at high long term inflation'? And that's sadly baked in.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
At the very least, these people are going to need to step inside a heated shelter and have some tea. Possibly change clothes and get into a different vehicle as well.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The whole thing is deeply unserious- they would never face the logical consequences of their actions. They're the good guys in an elaborate game.
Newsflash- it isn't a game. Confronting police like this is a very hazardous activity that gets people seriously hurt, or in some cases, killed.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
No police force had their procedures written with the assumption that random people will stalk them to run into their operations blowing whistles constantly. And nobody is making these randos run into the middle of active police operations blowing whistles and starting fights. ICE seems to be moving around conducting targeted raids, not 'going door to door getting in fights with protestors'. The fights with protestors seem to be things that, frankly, are self inflicted- even if ICE climbs the escalation ladder too quickly, running into active police cordons blowing whistles everywhere and attempting to obstruct them will get some police response.
This did not mean Alex Pretti deserved to die. But a strategy of 'interrupting police cordons to physically obstruct operations and then attack police for trying to arrest people' will leave bodies lying in the streets. If the Trump admin was competent they'd use the FBI and US marshalls to start arresting protestors that physically obstruct ICE after the fact. But still.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It still wouldn't make any sense if it was 46 F out.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I'm curious about these numbers- do you have a source collecting by language? Just want to check a bunch of stuff out, not doubting.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There isn't an 'incel' community anywhere, because that would entail the incels being a 'community', which they aren't.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Kinda clear from context he wasn’t talking about 46 F.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
You just said so- the Amish. They retain their trad way of life in the middle of an ultra-modern society.
For a much more tech-y example, try the hutterites.
In Russia, there's the Anastasianists. They don't seem to be lindy, but they're living a traditional peasant lifestyle.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
He didn't 'allow' them to disarm him. He was disarmed while struggling and the gun went off(either because of manufacturer defect or due to mishandling). This is... a dangerous combination even if he's technically innocent of everything except resisting arrest and interfering in federal police operations.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The labor shortage is definitely real. Most of these people are now either in the gig economy or sponging off welfare at lower consumption rates than pre-covid.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Or he got lost on the greyhound. Or he was dressed appropriately for the weather a week before and didn't check the weather forecast. Or...
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Fahrenheit set its 0 at 0 because that was the coldest temperature old fashioned dial thermometers could measure, and its degree as 5/9 of a degree celsius to make it 180 degrees(like degrees of an angle) on old timey dial thermometers between the freezing and boiling point of water. They're both arbitrary and random.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Eight celsius is cold enough that it might be unpleasant without proper clothing, but it's not 'passers-by should worry about hypothermia'.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
If you offer six figures to work as a janitor, of course you'll get people willing to do it. But the end result of that is far fewer janitors, not janitors getting a pay raise. There simply isn't a world where general construction laborers are all making well above average salaries, although there is a world in which construction is completely unaffordable. Drywallers, hotel maids, etc are not suddenly going to be making offshore-rig wages- although there might be no drywallers or hotel maids.
Being far more familiar with the blue collar labour market in areas with lots of illegals than you probably are, I can't really give a source but you'll have to take me at my word- illegals do not get lower wages than legal workers. Part of this is doing more physically demanding hazardous work, sure, but part of it is also that any part of America which attracts illegals(they are, after all, not going to rural Mississippi) has a severe labour shortage anyways. Illegals make a very similar dollar amount to legal workers doing the same jobs, although usually without healthcare, retirement, unemployment insurance, etc. This is cheaper for the employer, but not due to wages. Illegals are preferred partly because of this, but as much because they don't smoke weed every day, ask for overtime, etc. They're there to work and make money, and the employers which hire them are used to paying cash because legal workers prefer it too(can't get child support deducted that way, can spend it on drugs without having to go to a shady gas station and pay 10% to a middle easterner who mutters racial slurs while he cashes it, etc)- but the illegals' preference for cash is far more sympathetic to most people, including the mildly racist who are nonetheless disgusted at the behavior of the lower working class that competes with them for jobs. And blue collar management in the lower midwest speaks Spanish anyways.
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