If I was a doctor, I would readily diagnose bone spurs in any young man coming to me who doesn’t want to lose his life in an unwinnable war started by a pedophile with dementia to cover his crimes, and I wouldn’t even charge for the consultation.
There’s no shame in dodging that one.
Oops, wrong order of magnitude. Well spotted.
As our foremost intellectual in the cabinet Markwayne Mullin would say, that was a misspoke 🙂
For context: Vietnam had 40 million people during the war, the US sent 550,000 troops there and it lost the war
Iran is 5 times the size of Vietnam, has 2.3 times the population, and is just as determined to kick GI butts as the VCs were. And Iran has just mobilized a million troops.
How will 13,000 US troops become anything other than dead bodies and war prisoners in very short order, pray tell?
Have the Epstein file been released? No? Then more distraction will soon be needed. That mostly answers the question.
Don’t wait for a Taylor Swift “Fuck ICE” song anytime soon
Taylor Swift is a billionaire. She’s in the club. She’s not gonna shit the bed 🙂
For me, pretty much all of Bob Dylan’s production. I know he’s supposed to be a Nobel-Prize-winning genius singer and songwriter, and everybody is in total awe of his talent, but… honestly, I’ve seen people sing better and play the guitar better in the metro.
I don’t dislike Bob Dylan, and his lyrics were a powerful product of his time. But he’s always seems very meh to me as a musician. I just don’t get the hype.
It’s not hoarding as long as it doesn’t impair your ability to lead a normal life in a livable home. Beyond that, to each their hobbies.
…now
You have to be very patient and have an awful lot of storage space - and bet that the junk you’re storing will be worth something some day - to even bother keeping crappy stuff in any large quantity to turn a profit in the future when the stuff is still crappy and not worth a damn now.
The reason 386s are getting rare is because nobody in their right mind made that bet when they were still around and completely deprecated.
The only person I met who made a similar bet and won big money was a Brit who bought 6 Jaguar E-Types sight-unseen when they came out, and put them in storage for 30 years (prepared professionally for long-term storage too). When those cars came on the market, brand new with zero miles on the clock, they sold for millions, the guy bought a nice house in Hampshire and retired in comfort.
He told me he just knew that model would be a highly desirable classic the minute he saw a picture, and almost bankrupted his family to buy them as an investment. Ballsy.
My Mom had a saying when I was young(er): vintage is all the crap we couldn’t wait to get rid of and couldn’t throw away fast enough.
Decades later, I totally get what she was saying: 30 year old PCs are utter crap in my eyes. Good riddance. Who wants to restore that junk: it was cheap-ass commodity hardware at that point. A PDP11 on the other hand… 🙂
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure I guess. I can’t count the number of PCs I brought to the recycler simply because I literally would have had to pay someone to take them back in the days. I wish I had kept them to sell to today’s enthusiasts and get back some of the insane money that stuff sold for when it was new.
Here’s some Sway porn going on my MNT Laptop: a remote i3 session running remotely on my work machine through RDP, in a Sway session nested in another Sway session 🙂
Ask your Dad about that timeshare he got suckered in in the 80’s, for a comeback.
They sure don’t make good presidents.