kyleblarson

I haven't officially been a resident but have spent a ton of time in almost all areas of Japan. It's extremely location dependent but in my experiences in rural Japan as a gaijin there can be some initial coldness in interactions but if you show even the least amount of effort to speak the language and respect the culture that coldness evaporates.

Alternatively it would be interesting to have a race or series of races where it's anything goes, including drugging. It's already such a cat and mouse game so why not just embrace it.

Is there an old man coffee variable?

The mob that Vox represents these days is miniscule

I live on a large property in a very rural mountain area in the US. My property abuts state land on 2 sides but we've never really had any issues with trespassers, likely because of the first sentence of SoftTalker's comment. Our area is one of the most popular mule deer hunting spots in the Northwest which seems like it could be problematic, but in my experience the hunters are extremely respectful of private property. It's also nice to be able to hunt mulies on my own property and not worry about errant bullets. It is a but unsettling in the last 2 weeks of October (regular rifle deer season) when the local grocery store literally fills the aisles with pallets of Busch Light and Fireball.

Interesting read given that I am 2 weeks out from an l4/l5 microdiscectomy / laminotomy.

Because long haul trucking routes never go through Wyoming, the Dakotas, Montana, etc?

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I have 2 wells, irrigation, a big shop and a smallish house. I live on the eastern crest of the North Cascades mountains in Washington State US and it can be -30c in the winter and 40c in the summer. Heat pump system with wood backup for the house and woodstove in the shop. When looking at the costs to put in the genset the difference to go big was de minimus.

I have a 50kw generac tied into my house with a 1000 gallon propane tank.

I was a bit too young to get too many shows (I saw one in 1993 and a couple of JGB after that), but I have extremely fond memories of going to the local head shop in my town that had a massive tape collection. You would bring 6 blank tapes and pick 5 from their library that they would copy for you and keep the other blank as payment.

I can usually pick up any Michael Lewis book and be entertained even if it's the 5th timing reading it.

Government controlled media outlet fear mongering in support of more government power. Shocking.

How else are they supposed to get to Davos to lecture the peons?

I don't have an idealogical horse in this race, but I bought a ~2500sqft home a few years back in an area where summer highs can get to 100f and winter lows can reach -25f. The house only had a 20 year old electric furnace and no AC. Replaced it with a large heat pump system with a new electric furnace for backup heat when it gets super cold. Also included an air filtration system. It was a big cash outlay, but totally worth it as we now have AC in the summer so we can keep windows closed when the smoke is bad, the filtration system works really well for the smoke, and the system almost never needs to use the furnace backup. Speaking with the previous owner, the winter electric bill savings have been around 30%.

I work in this industry and the rate of fraud from bcom bookings is massively higher than other channels.

I should add that I live in an area where ~40% of my driving is not on pavement, I am in 4wd at least half of my driving time and I have a second set of wheels w studs that I run from Nov to early Apr.

I have had 5 Toyota trucks and only replace them because I get antsy every few years for the newest thing. Never had a single problem with one and my current 19 taco at 70k miles just feels like a break in period. Each time the trade is is quite close to what I paid for it. Have been looking at getting a late 80's 4runner as a fun second rig and don't anticipate any issues with that either.

As a general rule I do not listen to people who fly hundreds of thousands of miles per year in private jets while suggesting that others sacrifice.

Sounds like he dodged a bullet landing a solid 6 figure job rather than paying tens if not hundreds of thousands for the next 4 years (or going into that much debt)

That's as good as money sir, those are IOU's.

I'll stick with my Crocs, 10 year old hiking backpacks and Timex iron man watch that I got when I was about 12.

Somewhere in nature right now there is a poor phoneless man sitting peacefully next a waterfall who has no idea how outraged he should be.

Then why should the plebs pay 50% more for gas to get to their minimum wage jobs?

Yeah right. Just as schools are already working around affirmative action rulings to continue to effect actual institutional racism, they will find a way to continue to give legacies a leg up in the admissions process. With the size of endowments of top schools these days they effectively operate as for-profit hedge funds that happen to have educational institutions attached. Does anyone seriously think a school would say "thanks for that library you donated but your grand kid only has a 3.8 gpa so maybe look at state schools."

"succumbing to the pressure of your own creation" is an apropos choice of words in the headline of the article.

Upon rereading the quote I noticed the use of "in a resurfaced interview". I wonder if that was an intentional jab.

This quote shines light on his hiring philosophy: “When I started the business, one of the things you’ll find, there are other sub-operators out there, but they typically have, uh, gentlemen who are ex-military submariners, and they — you’ll see a whole bunch of 50-year-old white guys,” Rush told Teledyne Marine in a resurfaced interview.

“I wanted our team to be younger, to be inspirational and I’m not going to inspire a 16-year-old to go pursue marine technology, but a 25-year-old, uh, you know, who’s a sub pilot or a platform operator or one of our techs can be inspirational,” said Rush.

It is peculiar how all of these recent "conspiracy theories" as named by corporate media eventually turn out to be true.

The homeless industrial grift marches on.