Burning Mountain in Australia, 6000 year old coal seam fire.

1.7 billion years ago, natural Oklo breeder reactor in Gabon.

Woah, never heard of this. Got a link or a technical term?

The naturally occuring nuclear reactor in Africa is really interesting as well. So is the coal fire in Australia that’s been going on for like a thousand years.

Yeah, life goes on. What can I do about it without jeopardizing the safety of my people? Nothing, at this point.

We moved to a better state, I’m loving the first real winter of my life.

Getting chickens and probably rabbits in the spring. Time to prune apples, grapes, and blueberries as soon as I get a thaw. About to lift the main beam of my garage so I can repair it in preparation for redoing the roof. We agreed this evening that family movie night is Sundays and family game night is Thursdays. Our son knows to mostly keep his mouth shut at school and he makes straight As. My girl and I have some parties to attend coming up and I’ve got a cigar social on Saturday. Will pick up some work at a local shop this year to save up more money to build my own little machine shop.

Life goes on.

I passed through terrifying back when Q started pushing nazi crap and friends, family, and coworkers were parroting it and couldn’t be convinced otherwise. Propaganda is wild and people don’t know much history.

Roll the dice and hope it doesn’t play out that way again. We’re about as ready as we can be, not going to try and fight the power. We’re married white homeowners and very low key.

There was an elderly German couple that lived across the street from us for a little while when I was a kid. I’ll never forget her saying, “We knew, everyone knew. Don’t ever let anyone tell you they didn’t know. But what could we do about it?”

Looks like you caught another ban. I just had a thread removed for sealioning. Ehh.

Anyhow, hit me up by PM if you want.

As far as firearms go, yah, but nuanced. I do support more stringent purchasing requirements, some common sense limitations. Ultimately, we need a cultural shift back to where they are viewed as tools and not a male enhancement device. I use them for farming and hunting. However, the gun debate is pointless until the US rejects the overt fascism that we are seeing now. Bigger fish to fry.

While I’m obviously in favor of free speech, I think the algorithmically altered shit that is happening with corporate social media is a major problem. As is state level actors like Russia and China using Western social media to influence elections. Foreign involvement in US election social media should be squished like a bug, that is the opposite of free speech.

DEI in particular, that whole thing has been so politicized that it’s hard to see the forest through the trees. Systemic racism is real, seen it all my life in the deep South. Fought against racism when running a corporate shop and it was an uphill battle. IDK, I’m probably more sympathetic to too much DEI than none. I feel like it and cancel culture are a distraction mostly used by the Right. Discrimination is a real problem, and discrimination laws along with workman’s comp and other protections should actually be enforced. The companies that do this shit should be fined out of existence.

Having moved from the south to the northeast, I’m liking the higher level of government involvement in some areas, especially schools and roads. Sucks that I can’t throw away cardboard, recycling bins aren’t big enough to get rid of it, can’t burn it, and I’m not allowed to burn it.

Anyhow, mostly I dislike fanaticism of any stripe. Religious, political, or whatever. I’ve said before, to the Republicans, I’m a radical leftist demon. To the leftists outside of the US, I’m a centrist or right. We’ve lost nuance. Currently the far right is a much greater threat to my people than the the far left.

Mostly, I’m looking for unbiased and timely discussion of news. Warning of what may be coming from the nuts now in power.

It’s totally possible. Like, historically the parallels are spooky.

I don’t have a good feel for the likelihood yet, too early. We may end up with camps, we may just have another four years of slide into shit before the next possible crisis.

Oh man. Buckle up. The hive mind here is something fierce. Something about the Left eating their young. People get real pissy when you question a common narrative you find here. It’s becoming harder to separate fact from fiction for me. I can’t decide if my bullshit detector is accurate or malfunctioning.

It feels like there may be a fair amount of propaganda happening. Like back during the early days of the r/thedonald when you could you could watch the Russians clock in and stir up the magats and q’s. Just a different political flavor.

IDK, I say this as a blue voting redneck and supporter of socialized medicine and queer rights and so on.

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