Desert Hermit

It’s Forbes - if they don’t use an image in the thumbnail of a thing people know, they might as well not use anything. It’s normie-facing.

How do those conversations go? Any takers so far?

Curious if Bsky is as far as most people will dabble.

This 1million%

Also grew up being promised that any day now, 1) Bill Clinton will take all the guns, and 2) We’ll go to FEMA camps to get gassed. It was all part of the UN Agenda 21 thing that George HW Bush/Clintons/Soros/CNN/Bill Gates and the New World Order One-World-Government are bringing.

Except none of that ever happened. Hm…were those guests on Art Bell in 1998 possibly…wrong?

And yet, 30 years later, here we are.

Depends on what you do with the cities. The Central Valley doesn’t want to be its own state.

The State of Jefferson would have started this process, but WWII got in the way. Except that was all predicated on being super racist.

I think if you get a legit Cal3 proposal, you might end up with a Cal4 where they pull from the six-state version where “Silicon Valley” is its own state shows up so that there can be some technopolis with custom laws and insane cost of living. Essentially, turning SFO into another Manhattan.

I would never move back to CA as it is, but if there was a breakup, I might actually go for it.

Depending on who built the house, it’s the standard for a “good” house in Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia and I think Kenya.