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"content": "<a href=\"https://nypost.com/2022/07/06/georgia-guidestones-destroyed-in-early-morning-bombing/\" target=\"_blank\">https://nypost.com/2022/07/06/georgia-guidestones-destroyed-in-early-morning-bombing/</a><br /><br />Seems some GOOD NEWS! Some brave soul destroyed that Satanist monument to the New World Order - the Georgia Guidestones.<br /><br />Well - actually only blew up but local officials showed the same bravery as the Uvalde cops and demolished the remaining structure advertising our Satanist leader's plan for a population cull. The stories on how it is SWARMED with Fuzz of all levels adds to that there is something really sinister vs some eccentric's art project being destroyed.<br /><br />Note - the first commandment of this thing - they want no more than 500 million humans to live. That means since - google search - 7.753 billion - 7 BILLION, 253 MILLION will be murdered by them. 15% of humanity will be allowed to live...<br /><br />There's real motive for it; The Environment. <br />Humanity in the resources it uses to maintain the 'modern' lifestyle will cause catastrophe to the planet. However our current civilization can last at least a thousand years with zero cuts or near infinite with a few sane cuts - and this is where massive solar/wind/water works come into play. They could make a world that was an \"Ecotopia\" but you could live like 90s Yuppies - just have a few massive generators/systems made by the workers before you injected a 'solution' into them to exterminate them. <br /><br />Even IF you chuck the \"Human caused climate change\" argument there's another reason; Natural resources. Again those are drying up and getting scarce/expensive. Cut humanity down to 15% and we can keep living it high and casually spend $ on researchers to work out how to recycle, make more stuff, generate better energy, etc. <br /><br />It's like almost going bankrupt but you manage to cut a few things and have years or decades left - IF you backstab a LOT of people and leave them out to DIE... Killing most of the passengers on the plane that goes down so the cans of coke and peanuts will last...<br /><br />The thing is - Who decides who LIVES and who DIES?<br /><br />I'd almost be for it -but I can learn from history - Eugenics.<br />Most of the time they talk about WW2 and that German leader with a moustache... That's not the issue. Ahem \"I confess only to Plagiarism! At the behest of Mein Fuhrer I copied - word for word - the United State's Eugenics laws. He wanted Germany to keep up with the Americas and Europe!\" - from the movie and RL - We had \"Eugenics\" but it became classism and racism - ready to sterilize a 3-time Chicken thief but not a 3-time Embezzler. The people in charge were greedy, short-sighted, average intelligence bigots who were the last people to objectively decide anything that important. I fear for humanity if the modern gaggle of Silver-Spoons and upper class WELFARE BUMS make such decisions. We'd have a worse setback than we did with a volcanic plume 100K years ago or the Great Flood 12,000 years ago. <br /><br />I do NOT trust them - for the sake of humanity.<br />They've decided that 3x Chicken Thieves should be sterilized - but NOT 3x Embezzlers. Inbred people needing surgery and constant medication vs healthy people not fully white. Including against IRISH people ahem... I'm sure they'd manage to pick every person and save a few slots for mistresses and boy a--- f-ggots lovers not one of them not a mess of inbreeding, genetic disease, average at best intelligence, craven cowards and the only trait standing out is GREED.<br /><br />Now perhaps this is but a spark of good news in a slide to oblivion. Maybe they'll make other, newer monument perhaps with a giant Baal statue with bronze arms so the fires can burn infants alive...? Or maybe people on the other end who decide things have gone on too far will go after elites, not random people? I guess time will tell.",
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"content": "https://nypost.com/2022/07/06/georgia-guidestones-destroyed-in-early-morning-bombing/\n\nSeems some GOOD NEWS! Some brave soul destroyed that Satanist monument to the New World Order - the Georgia Guidestones.\n\nWell - actually only blew up but local officials showed the same bravery as the Uvalde cops and demolished the remaining structure advertising our Satanist leader's plan for a population cull. The stories on how it is SWARMED with Fuzz of all levels adds to that there is something really sinister vs some eccentric's art project being destroyed.\n\nNote - the first commandment of this thing - they want no more than 500 million humans to live. That means since - google search - 7.753 billion - 7 BILLION, 253 MILLION will be murdered by them. 15% of humanity will be allowed to live...\n\nThere's real motive for it; The Environment. \nHumanity in the resources it uses to maintain the 'modern' lifestyle will cause catastrophe to the planet. However our current civilization can last at least a thousand years with zero cuts or near infinite with a few sane cuts - and this is where massive solar/wind/water works come into play. They could make a world that was an \"Ecotopia\" but you could live like 90s Yuppies - just have a few massive generators/systems made by the workers before you injected a 'solution' into them to exterminate them. \n\nEven IF you chuck the \"Human caused climate change\" argument there's another reason; Natural resources. Again those are drying up and getting scarce/expensive. Cut humanity down to 15% and we can keep living it high and casually spend $ on researchers to work out how to recycle, make more stuff, generate better energy, etc. \n\nIt's like almost going bankrupt but you manage to cut a few things and have years or decades left - IF you backstab a LOT of people and leave them out to DIE... Killing most of the passengers on the plane that goes down so the cans of coke and peanuts will last...\n\nThe thing is - Who decides who LIVES and who DIES?\n\nI'd almost be for it -but I can learn from history - Eugenics.\nMost of the time they talk about WW2 and that German leader with a moustache... That's not the issue. Ahem \"I confess only to Plagiarism! At the behest of Mein Fuhrer I copied - word for word - the United State's Eugenics laws. He wanted Germany to keep up with the Americas and Europe!\" - from the movie and RL - We had \"Eugenics\" but it became classism and racism - ready to sterilize a 3-time Chicken thief but not a 3-time Embezzler. The people in charge were greedy, short-sighted, average intelligence bigots who were the last people to objectively decide anything that important. I fear for humanity if the modern gaggle of Silver-Spoons and upper class WELFARE BUMS make such decisions. We'd have a worse setback than we did with a volcanic plume 100K years ago or the Great Flood 12,000 years ago. \n\nI do NOT trust them - for the sake of humanity.\nThey've decided that 3x Chicken Thieves should be sterilized - but NOT 3x Embezzlers. Inbred people needing surgery and constant medication vs healthy people not fully white. Including against IRISH people ahem... I'm sure they'd manage to pick every person and save a few slots for mistresses and boy a--- f-ggots lovers not one of them not a mess of inbreeding, genetic disease, average at best intelligence, craven cowards and the only trait standing out is GREED.\n\nNow perhaps this is but a spark of good news in a slide to oblivion. Maybe they'll make other, newer monument perhaps with a giant Baal statue with bronze arms so the fires can burn infants alive...? Or maybe people on the other end who decide things have gone on too far will go after elites, not random people? I guess time will tell.",
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"content": "<a href=\"https://youtu.be/Z_KWC_4WjGg\" target=\"_blank\">https://youtu.be/Z_KWC_4WjGg</a><br /><br />Doomcock hands Disney their rears!<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4178\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4178</a><br /><br />Again, Disney is getting WEAK - time to ATTACK:<br /><br />Letter to senators, congressmen - also SEC.<br />Polite, concise, to the point.<br />Demand S.4178 reversal of last two Mickey Mouse copyright extensions and no further extension. Also no bailouts or tax breaks, etc. They want to \"GetWOKE, goBROKE\" they can - but corporate Welfare takes 10x what low level welfare ever did. They aren't the Disney of America 1950s, Walt is dead and likely NOT in a freezing tube waiting to be woken up, all that remains is the corporate greed with NONE of the idealism or vision.<br /><br />Just as you don't like whiny debt factory \"Communists\" with striped hair wanting to create Pol-Pot's Cambodia with no idea how they'd die in a second in such a world we should be against \"State Welfare\" of big companies. Look at the empty shelves years after any legit pandemic emergency... That is \"State endorsed monopoly\" just like Post Soviet. A little state manipulation is needed so say food doesn't spike high and low creating famines and economic destruction which yes the 'free market' does. However they've allowed legit \"Free market competition\" to be eliminated in a lot of necessities (Toilet paper, baby formula, tampons...) and allowed a few companies to own most of \"The news media\" leading to this left/right \"Fake News\" show.<br /><br />Disney is a big portion of this behemoth but they make most of their money from things that should be public domain. Enough letters and they won't be able to do a huge bribe to every person at every level of the chain. They could have 1998 though it was rumored they only paid $3 million in bribes to protect a trillion dollar industry. Enough letters each and every one of a thousand officials, elected and in office will demand that much each minimum. All these failboat movies, China not liking them anymore.. (they should NOT have mangled Mulan, they loved 1.0)<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=disney\" title=\"#disney\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#disney</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=doomcock\" title=\"#doomcock\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#doomcock</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=buzzlightyearmovie\" title=\"#buzzlightyearmovie\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#buzzlightyearmovie</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=copyright\" title=\"#copyright\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#copyright</a>",
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"content": "https://youtu.be/Z_KWC_4WjGg\n\nDoomcock hands Disney their rears!\n\nhttps://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4178\n\nAgain, Disney is getting WEAK - time to ATTACK:\n\nLetter to senators, congressmen - also SEC.\nPolite, concise, to the point.\nDemand S.4178 reversal of last two Mickey Mouse copyright extensions and no further extension. Also no bailouts or tax breaks, etc. They want to \"GetWOKE, goBROKE\" they can - but corporate Welfare takes 10x what low level welfare ever did. They aren't the Disney of America 1950s, Walt is dead and likely NOT in a freezing tube waiting to be woken up, all that remains is the corporate greed with NONE of the idealism or vision.\n\nJust as you don't like whiny debt factory \"Communists\" with striped hair wanting to create Pol-Pot's Cambodia with no idea how they'd die in a second in such a world we should be against \"State Welfare\" of big companies. Look at the empty shelves years after any legit pandemic emergency... That is \"State endorsed monopoly\" just like Post Soviet. A little state manipulation is needed so say food doesn't spike high and low creating famines and economic destruction which yes the 'free market' does. However they've allowed legit \"Free market competition\" to be eliminated in a lot of necessities (Toilet paper, baby formula, tampons...) and allowed a few companies to own most of \"The news media\" leading to this left/right \"Fake News\" show.\n\nDisney is a big portion of this behemoth but they make most of their money from things that should be public domain. Enough letters and they won't be able to do a huge bribe to every person at every level of the chain. They could have 1998 though it was rumored they only paid $3 million in bribes to protect a trillion dollar industry. Enough letters each and every one of a thousand officials, elected and in office will demand that much each minimum. All these failboat movies, China not liking them anymore.. (they should NOT have mangled Mulan, they loved 1.0)\n\n#disney #doomcock #buzzlightyearmovie #copyright",
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"content": "Sick of all the TRIPE on TV and \"Mainstream\" media channels? The talking heads yapping forever as in a parody of early Simpsons when Soccer came to Springfield?<br /><br />Here's something we can do that's political and makes a difference.<br /><br /><br />We need to end Disney's CopyWRONG.<br />Twice they've extended copyright to protect Mickey Mouse from having done to him what Walt Disney did to the Brother's Grimm. Along the line they've hurt society, our collective unconsciousness by letting a few publishers covet thousands of characters we grew up with in the background and should be able to use now. They've also allowed forms of harassment, blackmail, extortion because it is too easy to sue or threaten to sue over even a false claim of copyright. Furthermore trademark is abused to attempt to extend literary copyright - again the threat of a lawsuit even if obviously false is too likely to cost too much to defend and is not blocked or met with penalty when fake.<br /><br />This is Disney's fault.<br /><br />And I care NOTHING about making my own \"Mickey Mouse\" parody work. Rather I'd love to use some classic Pulp Characters but even ones in the public domain clearly can have an 'estate' that claims to 'trademark' them and uses the threat of a lawsuit to harass a creator or a marketplace owner. Extortion for money based on threat of even false claims cripples YouTubers and other social media users trying to make a few $ in these trying times.<br /><br />We need to get active and to end this.<br /><br />There is a bill - S. 4178 \"The Copyright Clause Restoration Act of 2022\"<br /><a href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4178\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4178</a><br /><br />It will remove the two last extensions of the Copyright clause and clarify some language. We are not just talking \"Steamboat Willie\" for Mickey Mouse. He'll go public domain up to today. I thank the Conan Doyle \"Estate\" for that - they tried (and Failed big time) to claim the \"Character\" of Sherlock Holmes was not \"Perfected\" until sometime mid 1960s. The judge would have rammed a two-by four up their posteriors if he was able to but it was still very expensive getting to that point with no real prosepect save a long lawsuit for damages only to get the funds back. The people feeding off \"Happy Birthday\" also met with a decision against them and face at least two decades of having to pay back those they sued or extorted with legal threat money - all those kids parties ruined - but have declared bankruptcy and ran off.<br /><br />If this bill is pushed through - and yes . it . CAN be we'll have a big public domain and shove it to Disney and the other Media Giants that covet most of pop culture and ensure we get garbage and real writers, good artists, excellent actors are marginalized for fear of having to compete.<br /><br />Here's how we do it:<br /><br />Write - a - LETTER.<br />Snail Mail<br />Polite, concise, to the point<br /><br />Demand S.4178 get support. Be civil. Be polite. Your own words.<br />Simple as:<br />\"I want you to support S.4178 - Disney has had an unfair advantage for too long. I want a 55 year from publication or author's death, whichever is shorter limit. I want the first instance of a character to be the entire character if public domain. I want strong penalties for copyright and trademark abuse. Loser pays for a lawsuit and additional criminal penalties for false claims.\"<br /><br />Sign. Date. Stamp.<br />Google your Senator, congressmen - write them no matter your party affiliation if any.<br /><br />This will work.<br /><br />A letter has power. It is someone who votes and influences at least a dozen others. You don't need to say it they know it. And even the greedy, corrupt ones do so also. This letter is worth $1000 in bribe money. Rather \"Campaign Contributions\" thanks to Citizens United. They will vote for something unpopular, immoral, despicable for a bribe - BUT - if there's huge public attention they'll demand more money. If they don't get enough money they turn on the bribers and hype themselves pretending they care.<br /><br />Normally I'd be pessimistic. Disney normally could counter this - BUT - the lockdown has drained their main resource -the parks. Their ideas are failboat. Live action re-re-makes of classics most hate. And Star Wars under them is only successful by momentum, the sale of legacy products, and by the fantasies and lies their 'social media' teams promote. They won't be able to sustain a constant fire-hose of money.<br /><br />Thus - do this - spread this<br />Support the bill S.4178 to reverse the Mouse's CopyWRONG extensions!<br /><br />Of note - while some might not care if 3rd parties get to write their own Conan stories with or without (without!) the \"REH Estate\" approving this would also make STAR WARS and STAR TREK fully Public Domain inside 15 years!<br /><br />-----<br />I \"Open Source\" this out of fairness since I am arguing for a limit of copyright. Note that I do...NSFW...material so if I am directly cited the Disney puppets will do \"AdHomenim\" - attack the source as if naughty stories somehow discredit someone. That is a fallacy, lots of \"Porn Producers\" - such as Hefner, Guccione and especailly Larry Flynt were very socially active and at least to give \"Literary, social, political' cred to their products pushed journalism that the big papers didn't dare touch. Free speech, exposing corruption, etc. That's for later.<br /><br />But by all means if you like what I say re-write it, use the graphics, your own words. NO need to cite or credit - I want this coming from as many angles as possible.<br /><br />Please - write this - cite this - write the LETTER - Encourage others to do so and I shall SALUTE you!",
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"content": "Sick of all the TRIPE on TV and \"Mainstream\" media channels? The talking heads yapping forever as in a parody of early Simpsons when Soccer came to Springfield?\n\nHere's something we can do that's political and makes a difference.\n\n\nWe need to end Disney's CopyWRONG.\nTwice they've extended copyright to protect Mickey Mouse from having done to him what Walt Disney did to the Brother's Grimm. Along the line they've hurt society, our collective unconsciousness by letting a few publishers covet thousands of characters we grew up with in the background and should be able to use now. They've also allowed forms of harassment, blackmail, extortion because it is too easy to sue or threaten to sue over even a false claim of copyright. Furthermore trademark is abused to attempt to extend literary copyright - again the threat of a lawsuit even if obviously false is too likely to cost too much to defend and is not blocked or met with penalty when fake.\n\nThis is Disney's fault.\n\nAnd I care NOTHING about making my own \"Mickey Mouse\" parody work. Rather I'd love to use some classic Pulp Characters but even ones in the public domain clearly can have an 'estate' that claims to 'trademark' them and uses the threat of a lawsuit to harass a creator or a marketplace owner. Extortion for money based on threat of even false claims cripples YouTubers and other social media users trying to make a few $ in these trying times.\n\nWe need to get active and to end this.\n\nThere is a bill - S. 4178 \"The Copyright Clause Restoration Act of 2022\"\nhttps://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4178\n\nIt will remove the two last extensions of the Copyright clause and clarify some language. We are not just talking \"Steamboat Willie\" for Mickey Mouse. He'll go public domain up to today. I thank the Conan Doyle \"Estate\" for that - they tried (and Failed big time) to claim the \"Character\" of Sherlock Holmes was not \"Perfected\" until sometime mid 1960s. The judge would have rammed a two-by four up their posteriors if he was able to but it was still very expensive getting to that point with no real prosepect save a long lawsuit for damages only to get the funds back. The people feeding off \"Happy Birthday\" also met with a decision against them and face at least two decades of having to pay back those they sued or extorted with legal threat money - all those kids parties ruined - but have declared bankruptcy and ran off.\n\nIf this bill is pushed through - and yes . it . CAN be we'll have a big public domain and shove it to Disney and the other Media Giants that covet most of pop culture and ensure we get garbage and real writers, good artists, excellent actors are marginalized for fear of having to compete.\n\nHere's how we do it:\n\nWrite - a - LETTER.\nSnail Mail\nPolite, concise, to the point\n\nDemand S.4178 get support. Be civil. Be polite. Your own words.\nSimple as:\n\"I want you to support S.4178 - Disney has had an unfair advantage for too long. I want a 55 year from publication or author's death, whichever is shorter limit. I want the first instance of a character to be the entire character if public domain. I want strong penalties for copyright and trademark abuse. Loser pays for a lawsuit and additional criminal penalties for false claims.\"\n\nSign. Date. Stamp.\nGoogle your Senator, congressmen - write them no matter your party affiliation if any.\n\nThis will work.\n\nA letter has power. It is someone who votes and influences at least a dozen others. You don't need to say it they know it. And even the greedy, corrupt ones do so also. This letter is worth $1000 in bribe money. Rather \"Campaign Contributions\" thanks to Citizens United. They will vote for something unpopular, immoral, despicable for a bribe - BUT - if there's huge public attention they'll demand more money. If they don't get enough money they turn on the bribers and hype themselves pretending they care.\n\nNormally I'd be pessimistic. Disney normally could counter this - BUT - the lockdown has drained their main resource -the parks. Their ideas are failboat. Live action re-re-makes of classics most hate. And Star Wars under them is only successful by momentum, the sale of legacy products, and by the fantasies and lies their 'social media' teams promote. They won't be able to sustain a constant fire-hose of money.\n\nThus - do this - spread this\nSupport the bill S.4178 to reverse the Mouse's CopyWRONG extensions!\n\nOf note - while some might not care if 3rd parties get to write their own Conan stories with or without (without!) the \"REH Estate\" approving this would also make STAR WARS and STAR TREK fully Public Domain inside 15 years!\n\n-----\nI \"Open Source\" this out of fairness since I am arguing for a limit of copyright. Note that I do...NSFW...material so if I am directly cited the Disney puppets will do \"AdHomenim\" - attack the source as if naughty stories somehow discredit someone. That is a fallacy, lots of \"Porn Producers\" - such as Hefner, Guccione and especailly Larry Flynt were very socially active and at least to give \"Literary, social, political' cred to their products pushed journalism that the big papers didn't dare touch. Free speech, exposing corruption, etc. That's for later.\n\nBut by all means if you like what I say re-write it, use the graphics, your own words. NO need to cite or credit - I want this coming from as many angles as possible.\n\nPlease - write this - cite this - write the LETTER - Encourage others to do so and I shall SALUTE you!",
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"content": "I was in a real school shooting too.<br /><br />Note my experience was much milder than those kids in Texas or Sandy Hook or....how many before and AFTER!? I bow in sadness to the recent victims however I will speak my MIND on this. Again I was in a similar though thankfully milder incident.<br /><br />This happened Decades past - in the 80s. I was an 80s kid. I'm an \"Xer\" I suppose but like that term as much as I suspect \"Millenials\" like their term. This particular incident only had ONE person dead (the Shooter) and happened way before the modern WWW internet so there's no link I could find if I even wanted to. Take it or leave it. It might be in a local \"Record\" somewhere but I don't think they did paperwork that well.<br /><br />I live in a small city most would consider a tiny town by coastal standards. Midwest. I keep leaving - for Germany, India, etc. and keep coming back.<br /><br />This happened when I went to Junior High. Middle School, Intermediate... Whatever. Keeps younger teenagers from beating up Grade Schoolers in school but protects them from older teenager beating them up and keeps schools from being so big you don't know who is what or where...<br /><br />On that day I was at a Geology or American History (the teacher taught both - great man - ruled school plays!) and I was my usual not too good student self; Head down on desk not in discipline but just so bored I couldn't even daydream. Then there were people screaming and I was being dragged from my desk and I just registered in my brain a bullet just shot overhead from the now breaking window. I've heard a lot about how the brain processes information - this was 2 seconds after it hit but my deliriously bored mind replayed the bullet flying through the window, that doubtless fantasy filling it in. It also replayed the bullet hitting the brick above the door-frame, leaving a blackened pock-mark and going into the ceiling insulation tiles. I also was aware of the small bits of glass flying. At the same \"Time\" I was being dragged from my desk by other kids or a teacher and we were half running half crawling at the same time out of the classroom. About partway out my brain hit all the \"Adrenaline\" switches and I got the hell out of there with everyone else.<br /><br />The bullet did go over my head but due to me being down on my desk I was in no real danger. IF like much of my early and very poor academic career I was being a \"Class Clown\" and standing ON my desk performing to get attention, however...!<br /><br />We were rushed into the school cafeteria which was the other half of the building. This school was a one story affair made of solid brick walls. Since this meant five layers of brick walls at an angle we were safe from anything short of a tank anti-armor shell.<br /><br />The shooting was not some deranged or disparing student - nor some disgruntled former employee - nor some evil madman out to kill. Well close to the latter but we were not his target. Nope. \"Domestic Dispute\". Some man who I think had a history of \"Spousal Abuse\" long before LEOs made money pretending to crack down on it had broken up with his GF / Wife and he'd gone nuts and started shooting. He was mostly shooting in his own home but his home was a more modern particle board + thin sheetrock affair and it was a good hunting rifle capable of taking a deer or moose down from a long distance. Eventually he was randomly shooting outside though so berserk and deranged it was unlikely he was targeting the school or children. Simply by sad coincidence he lived across the street and the bullet that might have blown my head off if I was doing the \"Class Clown\" act went into my classroom.<br /><br />Again this is for personal perspective. Mass shootings happened in the 80s including by kids who were often despairing of bullying at school. My experience was far less horrific than the major ones, before and after but I do have the first taste of it. For myself I feel a sense of guilt of being so 'out of it' but again my being a 'slacker' made sure my life was safe - I was laying low on my desk naturally. Not good for grades but my whole body was under that brick wall so even if he'd shot low enough to hit me it likely would have been absorbed or broken into smaller bits a doctor could have pulled out...<br /><br />The police came very quickly and the man was sane enough to threaten to kill himself and shout this from behind the soft cover of his house. This led to the next phase, an hour or more of long waiting in the Cafeteria - if anyone had to go to the bathroom there was a line to be escorted. Another bit of luck for I'd reviled the teacher for taking my usual can of Soda but if I'd chugged it in class...<br /><br />While this happened word got out and there were tons of panicking parents that like the Ulvade, TX they kept at bay - both from seeing the kids at school to stopping them from shooting the gunman in his house by filling it with bullets. Rural area, EVERYONE is armed really. Even the people who were \"Hippies\" in the 60s had a gun usually. However the difference was the brats were safe in the other side of the building not being killed one by one by one, begging via cell phones (they existed but big and pricey!) to be rescued as they were being shot.<br /><br />To the local Fuzz credit they DID put themselves between the Gunman and the kids and school. I think they even \"Commandeered\" some trucks from local businesses to be an extra layer of barricade. This is illegal but the nearby industrial businesses were GLAD to let their gravel trucks and other big, heavy things be parked in the school lot. Just plain decent - and with the news there they see \"----'s Gravel company!\" big letters in the background. If the gunman had shot out a window or tire it'd be worth it vs paying for a proper ad - but I think they did it 100% decency and public safety.<br /><br />I'm trying to be joking vs insulting to any local \"Fuzz\" if any read this and know me - not hurtful. They did try to talk the guy out. He hadn't hurt anyone. If he'd put his gun down the police would have kept him safe then trip to loony bin and lawyer and probably slap on the wrist compared to the damage and danger he caused. But - well I won't say I could do better but I imagine \"Police Chief Wiggum\" from the Simpsons opening up from its sealed plastic a book of pointers to ask a \"person in crisis\". And so with an hour of talking to him he gave up and shot himself... A tragedy and thank God it wasn't worse.<br /><br />I have other issues with my local police from back then to today - but at that point they reacted very quickly and did their best to avoid worse things and in the process put themselves between the shooter and the kids. A lot of parents shouted at them to let them pick up their kids but they'd be in more danger running out of the building and it would become worse with all the roads blocked off and angry people wanting to start shooting into the house.<br /><br />A world where there's free will bad things will happen to good and even innocent people. If the Columbine kids had not gotten their guns they might have worked on a better Thermal Fuse and the School's PROPANE tank would have been blown up killing far more people. Those who'll give up liberty for the false promise of safety deserve neither and will receive the absence of both.<br /><br />Note I don't hold either a \"Fashionably Radial\" anti-gun stance nor a hyper NRA gun fetishism. The real truth is somewhere between. I certainly CAN and WILL use a GUN to defend myself especially in my house. I am a \"Leftist\", my parents were (still are) \"Hippies\". So what? Both of them, especially my Mom, shoot pretty good. Old school Leftist, I'm quite hated by \"Pronoun People\" but I'm for what I see as right not \"Fashionably Radical\".<br /><br />When this \"Pandemic\" shit started I almost shot a man trying to break into my house.<br />Me and the threat of me using my gun made him run like a bunny, even before he broke my backdoor window. <br /><br />Some might think I should have called the police. My area has near \"Castle Law\" and someone entering the backyard without permission could be shot openly. Even the police announce raids and go in the front door if they have reason lawfully due to this. However he ran off and I probably would get in trouble if I'd chased him (outside property) and shot him running.<br /><br />I'd have only invited trouble calling the police. That was my hunch and it was proven right soon.<br /><br />When I went to the hardware store to replace OTHER windows broken - for a garage full of mostly junk I'd have thanked him to run off with.... Well person after person was literally SCREAMING at the store clerk because so many windows were broken, homes burgled and the police tended to just write them tickets - for \"Broken windows\" with a threat of a fine and lien on the property if not fixed. Sadly no glass or plexiglass in stock now or for the longest time... \"Muh Covid... Sorry but nothing coming in this week. Muh Covid....\" and they just screamed at the clerk. Dumb piece of meat that clerk, Simpsons \"I'm sorry sir...\" with broken voice fodder but still they were rude to the man after talking with Police who made it clear they'd not even attempt to find the robbers. I found pressed board and paint to just cover up the garage windows since while I wanted plexiglass no law forced windows. Then the screamers started fighting for the boards. I'd waited in a line of six screamers \"Socially Distanced\" and was just wanting a cut or two to fit in my car. \"I noticed the glass was gone, I'm going to make do with these...\" - I started saying - \"WHERE did you get those!?\" the screamers shouted - \"Aisle ---- just over there...\" and they were running, grabbing the tiles, almost fighting over them. And I just wanted a cut or two. You'd have thought the clerk would help me for getting the screamers to go elsewhere? Clerk was obviously hired there to keep the floor beneath him from growing tiny legs and walking off, he refused to help me make a few cuts so I could fit it in my car easier. He'd rather stand all day lying to get out of working \"Uh, guy that is ...uh...certified to use the cutter is gone today ... Muh Covid...\" -and since the boards would NOT be in stock with all the broken windows all over I had to lash these to my car (and I don't drive a truck, almost wish I did sometimes) and pray no accident on the way home. Then I cut, painted, fixed the broken gaps. Garage is dark but no one can peer in. Again I'd give 90% of the junk, I'll have to rent a dumpster someday...but the threat to me, my household of a robber getting in I'd defend myself.<br /><br />I think a few sane measures should be in place but more to limit the flow of guns to the criminal market. I don't mean someone is robbed and gun is used in a crime. They should report it then unless there's a real connection beyond no problem. I mean the guns bought by the TRUCKLOAD at a gun show and sold at a high markup to Gangs in big cities or to Drug Cartels in Mexico. Watching a \"Cop Show\" you think the first gun the police find they trace back to buyer #1, right? WRONG. That - \"One Man's Opinion\" is why the \"Lobby\" is so militant - the manufacturers probably rely on the criminal market and more laws will start at registrations and full tracking of guns and ammo so these will be traced much easier. It's not the \"Lone Nut\" they care about but rather the Gangs, Organized Crime and Drug Cartels - and these guys will just get guns internationally (Korea, China...) and they'd simply go out of business. Legit \"Law abidin' \" Gun Nuts have a couple of guns and they can hand these down to their grandchildren. My own gun was owned by my late Grandfather and works as good today as back then...<br /><br />However the NRA/Gun fetishism? It's a false confidence being sold. Do ANY of these \"Gun Nuts\" really think their toy guns will give more than academic resistance in the case of a USA turning despotic or some foreign force coming in? They'd help with Guerrilla style ambushes but also guarantee being a target of overwhelming force. Look at WACO for instance: Sure they held off the ATF for a while but then they kept them isolated and burned them alive when it was clear they weren't going to surrender. An earlier incident not talked about is the \"MOVE\" compound. A bunch of radicals holed up in a city brownstone who were willing to use guns to chase out the officers that harassed them because they were a nuisance. City BOMBED the building and most burned to death. In case of a \"WTSHTF\" moment having a pile of guns and screaming \"NRA!\" on YouTube and IRL just means they send the Death Squads to make sure you are either dead or in the FEMA camp being lined up for a \"De-Lousing\" shower and getting you there means nothing if it costs one \"Agent\" or a hundred of them. It's a false sense of security.",
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"content": "I was in a real school shooting too.\n\nNote my experience was much milder than those kids in Texas or Sandy Hook or....how many before and AFTER!? I bow in sadness to the recent victims however I will speak my MIND on this. Again I was in a similar though thankfully milder incident.\n\nThis happened Decades past - in the 80s. I was an 80s kid. I'm an \"Xer\" I suppose but like that term as much as I suspect \"Millenials\" like their term. This particular incident only had ONE person dead (the Shooter) and happened way before the modern WWW internet so there's no link I could find if I even wanted to. Take it or leave it. It might be in a local \"Record\" somewhere but I don't think they did paperwork that well.\n\nI live in a small city most would consider a tiny town by coastal standards. Midwest. I keep leaving - for Germany, India, etc. and keep coming back.\n\nThis happened when I went to Junior High. Middle School, Intermediate... Whatever. Keeps younger teenagers from beating up Grade Schoolers in school but protects them from older teenager beating them up and keeps schools from being so big you don't know who is what or where...\n\nOn that day I was at a Geology or American History (the teacher taught both - great man - ruled school plays!) and I was my usual not too good student self; Head down on desk not in discipline but just so bored I couldn't even daydream. Then there were people screaming and I was being dragged from my desk and I just registered in my brain a bullet just shot overhead from the now breaking window. I've heard a lot about how the brain processes information - this was 2 seconds after it hit but my deliriously bored mind replayed the bullet flying through the window, that doubtless fantasy filling it in. It also replayed the bullet hitting the brick above the door-frame, leaving a blackened pock-mark and going into the ceiling insulation tiles. I also was aware of the small bits of glass flying. At the same \"Time\" I was being dragged from my desk by other kids or a teacher and we were half running half crawling at the same time out of the classroom. About partway out my brain hit all the \"Adrenaline\" switches and I got the hell out of there with everyone else.\n\nThe bullet did go over my head but due to me being down on my desk I was in no real danger. IF like much of my early and very poor academic career I was being a \"Class Clown\" and standing ON my desk performing to get attention, however...!\n\nWe were rushed into the school cafeteria which was the other half of the building. This school was a one story affair made of solid brick walls. Since this meant five layers of brick walls at an angle we were safe from anything short of a tank anti-armor shell.\n\nThe shooting was not some deranged or disparing student - nor some disgruntled former employee - nor some evil madman out to kill. Well close to the latter but we were not his target. Nope. \"Domestic Dispute\". Some man who I think had a history of \"Spousal Abuse\" long before LEOs made money pretending to crack down on it had broken up with his GF / Wife and he'd gone nuts and started shooting. He was mostly shooting in his own home but his home was a more modern particle board + thin sheetrock affair and it was a good hunting rifle capable of taking a deer or moose down from a long distance. Eventually he was randomly shooting outside though so berserk and deranged it was unlikely he was targeting the school or children. Simply by sad coincidence he lived across the street and the bullet that might have blown my head off if I was doing the \"Class Clown\" act went into my classroom.\n\nAgain this is for personal perspective. Mass shootings happened in the 80s including by kids who were often despairing of bullying at school. My experience was far less horrific than the major ones, before and after but I do have the first taste of it. For myself I feel a sense of guilt of being so 'out of it' but again my being a 'slacker' made sure my life was safe - I was laying low on my desk naturally. Not good for grades but my whole body was under that brick wall so even if he'd shot low enough to hit me it likely would have been absorbed or broken into smaller bits a doctor could have pulled out...\n\nThe police came very quickly and the man was sane enough to threaten to kill himself and shout this from behind the soft cover of his house. This led to the next phase, an hour or more of long waiting in the Cafeteria - if anyone had to go to the bathroom there was a line to be escorted. Another bit of luck for I'd reviled the teacher for taking my usual can of Soda but if I'd chugged it in class...\n\nWhile this happened word got out and there were tons of panicking parents that like the Ulvade, TX they kept at bay - both from seeing the kids at school to stopping them from shooting the gunman in his house by filling it with bullets. Rural area, EVERYONE is armed really. Even the people who were \"Hippies\" in the 60s had a gun usually. However the difference was the brats were safe in the other side of the building not being killed one by one by one, begging via cell phones (they existed but big and pricey!) to be rescued as they were being shot.\n\nTo the local Fuzz credit they DID put themselves between the Gunman and the kids and school. I think they even \"Commandeered\" some trucks from local businesses to be an extra layer of barricade. This is illegal but the nearby industrial businesses were GLAD to let their gravel trucks and other big, heavy things be parked in the school lot. Just plain decent - and with the news there they see \"----'s Gravel company!\" big letters in the background. If the gunman had shot out a window or tire it'd be worth it vs paying for a proper ad - but I think they did it 100% decency and public safety.\n\nI'm trying to be joking vs insulting to any local \"Fuzz\" if any read this and know me - not hurtful. They did try to talk the guy out. He hadn't hurt anyone. If he'd put his gun down the police would have kept him safe then trip to loony bin and lawyer and probably slap on the wrist compared to the damage and danger he caused. But - well I won't say I could do better but I imagine \"Police Chief Wiggum\" from the Simpsons opening up from its sealed plastic a book of pointers to ask a \"person in crisis\". And so with an hour of talking to him he gave up and shot himself... A tragedy and thank God it wasn't worse.\n\nI have other issues with my local police from back then to today - but at that point they reacted very quickly and did their best to avoid worse things and in the process put themselves between the shooter and the kids. A lot of parents shouted at them to let them pick up their kids but they'd be in more danger running out of the building and it would become worse with all the roads blocked off and angry people wanting to start shooting into the house.\n\nA world where there's free will bad things will happen to good and even innocent people. If the Columbine kids had not gotten their guns they might have worked on a better Thermal Fuse and the School's PROPANE tank would have been blown up killing far more people. Those who'll give up liberty for the false promise of safety deserve neither and will receive the absence of both.\n\nNote I don't hold either a \"Fashionably Radial\" anti-gun stance nor a hyper NRA gun fetishism. The real truth is somewhere between. I certainly CAN and WILL use a GUN to defend myself especially in my house. I am a \"Leftist\", my parents were (still are) \"Hippies\". So what? Both of them, especially my Mom, shoot pretty good. Old school Leftist, I'm quite hated by \"Pronoun People\" but I'm for what I see as right not \"Fashionably Radical\".\n\nWhen this \"Pandemic\" shit started I almost shot a man trying to break into my house.\nMe and the threat of me using my gun made him run like a bunny, even before he broke my backdoor window. \n\nSome might think I should have called the police. My area has near \"Castle Law\" and someone entering the backyard without permission could be shot openly. Even the police announce raids and go in the front door if they have reason lawfully due to this. However he ran off and I probably would get in trouble if I'd chased him (outside property) and shot him running.\n\nI'd have only invited trouble calling the police. That was my hunch and it was proven right soon.\n\nWhen I went to the hardware store to replace OTHER windows broken - for a garage full of mostly junk I'd have thanked him to run off with.... Well person after person was literally SCREAMING at the store clerk because so many windows were broken, homes burgled and the police tended to just write them tickets - for \"Broken windows\" with a threat of a fine and lien on the property if not fixed. Sadly no glass or plexiglass in stock now or for the longest time... \"Muh Covid... Sorry but nothing coming in this week. Muh Covid....\" and they just screamed at the clerk. Dumb piece of meat that clerk, Simpsons \"I'm sorry sir...\" with broken voice fodder but still they were rude to the man after talking with Police who made it clear they'd not even attempt to find the robbers. I found pressed board and paint to just cover up the garage windows since while I wanted plexiglass no law forced windows. Then the screamers started fighting for the boards. I'd waited in a line of six screamers \"Socially Distanced\" and was just wanting a cut or two to fit in my car. \"I noticed the glass was gone, I'm going to make do with these...\" - I started saying - \"WHERE did you get those!?\" the screamers shouted - \"Aisle ---- just over there...\" and they were running, grabbing the tiles, almost fighting over them. And I just wanted a cut or two. You'd have thought the clerk would help me for getting the screamers to go elsewhere? Clerk was obviously hired there to keep the floor beneath him from growing tiny legs and walking off, he refused to help me make a few cuts so I could fit it in my car easier. He'd rather stand all day lying to get out of working \"Uh, guy that is ...uh...certified to use the cutter is gone today ... Muh Covid...\" -and since the boards would NOT be in stock with all the broken windows all over I had to lash these to my car (and I don't drive a truck, almost wish I did sometimes) and pray no accident on the way home. Then I cut, painted, fixed the broken gaps. Garage is dark but no one can peer in. Again I'd give 90% of the junk, I'll have to rent a dumpster someday...but the threat to me, my household of a robber getting in I'd defend myself.\n\nI think a few sane measures should be in place but more to limit the flow of guns to the criminal market. I don't mean someone is robbed and gun is used in a crime. They should report it then unless there's a real connection beyond no problem. I mean the guns bought by the TRUCKLOAD at a gun show and sold at a high markup to Gangs in big cities or to Drug Cartels in Mexico. Watching a \"Cop Show\" you think the first gun the police find they trace back to buyer #1, right? WRONG. That - \"One Man's Opinion\" is why the \"Lobby\" is so militant - the manufacturers probably rely on the criminal market and more laws will start at registrations and full tracking of guns and ammo so these will be traced much easier. It's not the \"Lone Nut\" they care about but rather the Gangs, Organized Crime and Drug Cartels - and these guys will just get guns internationally (Korea, China...) and they'd simply go out of business. Legit \"Law abidin' \" Gun Nuts have a couple of guns and they can hand these down to their grandchildren. My own gun was owned by my late Grandfather and works as good today as back then...\n\nHowever the NRA/Gun fetishism? It's a false confidence being sold. Do ANY of these \"Gun Nuts\" really think their toy guns will give more than academic resistance in the case of a USA turning despotic or some foreign force coming in? They'd help with Guerrilla style ambushes but also guarantee being a target of overwhelming force. Look at WACO for instance: Sure they held off the ATF for a while but then they kept them isolated and burned them alive when it was clear they weren't going to surrender. An earlier incident not talked about is the \"MOVE\" compound. A bunch of radicals holed up in a city brownstone who were willing to use guns to chase out the officers that harassed them because they were a nuisance. City BOMBED the building and most burned to death. In case of a \"WTSHTF\" moment having a pile of guns and screaming \"NRA!\" on YouTube and IRL just means they send the Death Squads to make sure you are either dead or in the FEMA camp being lined up for a \"De-Lousing\" shower and getting you there means nothing if it costs one \"Agent\" or a hundred of them. It's a false sense of security.",
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"content": "<br /><br />I'm being sarcastic with this, but the modern \"Political Correctness\" people aka \"Woke\" or \"Social Justice Warriors\" are viciously racist and sexist and boiling growths of pure hatred. And I say also that their movement is fake and a mask for hateful nihilism. They should be treated like Pol-Pot wearing the SKIN of a dead \"Hippie\" but holding a pickaxe for your skull but the hippie face is smiling nice and he still has his \"Peace and Love and No War\" sign not yet illegible with blood...<br /><br />I was browsing in a bookstore the other day - the remaining nationwide chain - to see if anything was of interest. Since I find so little I like I usually can go \"Take my money NOW!\" when I do find the rare thing that catches my fancy. Now I'm not saying everything is lousy, just to my tastes not that much I find worth any time so I'm grateful to the remaining chain to browse and NOT buy in exchange for a latte...<br /><br />One of the many things I find irritating in how modern publishing (and other media) caters to these \"Woke\" is they let them sneak in and somehow control very old franchises such as Comic Books, Video Games, TTRPGs despite no qualifications save their vicious hateful politics masked in chowder made from real social progressive movements of the last century. They get to lord it over 20 year veterans, bully and harass them and output pure garbage I can not believe anyone saw fit to print even on an electronic PDF much less a real print. They get to openly display utter contempt for the existing fan-bases, readerships, anyone who ever liked the franchises they ruined. Really, William Shatner got burned in Effigy at least a decade after his \"Get a Life\" remark.... A dumb \"Pop Singer\" got booed offstage after bashing my \"Hick town\" city she toured through. How are they immune from biting the hand that feeds them?<br /><br />Even worse are the 'stealth' things - where they disguise something to appeal to a clear audience but subvert it -such as an RPG made to be \"Grim\" like its Grim-dark but reading in it's so \"Politically Correct\" anyone trying to play it would choke with the politics before getting to the game. A friend joked about said game that used the German name for a large two-handed sword as a \"Hyper Politically Correct parody, rather what said people would do if they made F.A.T.A.L.\" the latter a very notorious lowbrow TTRPG. Really, what if I took over Hallmark and made Grindhouse and B-sci-fi movies with the actors? Had the ladies wear see-through space-suits and pretend to fight then get grabbed by huge tentacled monsters of srpay latex? I bet I'd get overwhelmingly negative feedback if I did that and whoever hired me to head Hallmark would be fired - yet these \"Woke\" can keep wrecking comics, games, etc. with no consequence. <br /><br />I was almost tricked again by seeing this \"neverland\" world based around the classic Peter Pan but independent of Disney's work though the art-style is clearly inspired... Sorry Disney (and Bode) but you can NOT patent an art style....<br /><br />Well again almost bought it until I realized they'd bent the knee in a way I can NOT and will NOT support. They removed the \"Indians\" as a cheap way to cowardly slither under the fear of being accused of being hurtful, hateful, \"Problematic\"... BUT - they still wanted to play in Never-land and hopefully make MONEY doing so. Just without \"Problematic\" things that might be of trouble - especially if a bunch of Debt Factory suckers (excuse me, modern \"College Students\") wrote a couple of thousand letters under pen names or online hit the \"DMCA Complaint\" button with a proxy browser 1000 times like a Rat in a Skinner Box needing its next hit of drugs.... And that caused their product to be removed from the stores, costing money even if restored later since nothing wrong with it, no copyright violations, not hateful even if keeping the Indian characters...<br /><br />Better not to be problematic - Remove the Indian - Keep the LAND...<br /><br />This has been going on a while this fake 'culture war' that the elites set up to avoid a CLASS war which should be the issue - at least arguing they pay their real fair share in TAXES since they certainly demand so much from society... But we have all this cancel which has turned into a \"Bleaching\". Not whitewashing but bleaching - scrubbing - erasing - unpersoning....<br /><br />Remove the problematic characters used to promote - KEEP the product - that solves everything...<br /><br />And of all this swill of bending the knee cowardice I am somehow offended by this \"Never-land\" thing the most. Remembering that classic story, Never-land is a place where things of the past go when they can't live in the \"Real World\" anymore. In the Victorian age Pirates as known classically were almost all gone due to modern tech being able to police the waters better and America helping to end them. (\"...to the shores of Tripoli\") Likewise the 'magical' age of exploration - the mermaids and sea monsters, great beasts in the forest, mythical creatures of good and bad - all went to \"Never-land\" to escape...<br /><br />Native Americans were one of them. They were still real, still alive but it was assumed they'd be wiped out within a few decades. Killed off by massacre and forced assimilation of children and just seen as how things were. In that day - the \"Victorian\" age - many families had \"Stuffed Hottentots\" - yes Africans mostly but a few Natives of other lands that had been killed, skinned and gutted and mounted via Taxidermy as an animal. Tasmanians were a real hot commodity since there were no such thing anymore. H.G. Wells wrote \"The War of the Worlds\" in pure rage over the latter and though his story became popular was laughed off as a Leftist nincompoop... Also at this time L. Frank Baum was making good money from the Wizard of Oz and putting himself back towards bankruptcy self-publishing the same pamphlets he'd printed as a newspaperman demanding indeed a \"Final Solution\" to the Native Americans. While said work is general audience the very reason we have \"The Wizard of Oz\" and 14 Oz novels is Baum's open calls for genocide, countless print runs and distribution fees of pamphlets calling for people to lobby their senators and congressmen to mobilize the army to finish killing them all and to go on jury duty to forgive the rare times any crime against a Native goes to court... Really so FUNNY (sarcasm) how they bash HP Lovecraft for his 'racism' when Baum, Wilder, etc. were SO much more outspoken and HPL just wrote some poems, used a few stereotypes...<br /><br />Thus it was seen as just a given that there soon would be no more Native Americans, having proven \"Inferior\" by not having the weapons and drive to fight the \"White Man\" who indeed had \"Manifest Destiny\". Beautiful \"Noble Savages\" it was sad to see them go but it was the cruel hand of time. Robert E Howard's \"Bran Mak Morn\" character was a song for the lost Pictish peoples, BTW.<br /><br />This is disgusting and horrible, right?<br />I agree 100%.<br /><br />And you know what? It's hard to look up most of this. A lot of 'reprints' from said era carefully REMOVE the advertisements for stuffed \"Aboriginals\", advertisements to go on HUNTS for them, ads for Zoo exhibits that had imported 'natives', heroic stories of men like Custer killing the 'savages'... Lots of this have been erased as time has melted the pulps. Thus \"Revisionist historians\" who are often blatant racists can make strong claims much never happened as described. To any about to comment on this, look up \"King Leopold\" who is trending as I write this and understand in such a world he could be tolerated in the rest of what I said is quite believable - also again the early part of \"War of the Worlds\" Wells blatantly talks about the Tasmanian Genocide. Even the latter is being attacked by erasers of history. Oh, and look up \"Mummy Brown\" paint for real fun - the best paintings of the era, such as the Liberty Lady of the French Revolution is literally painted with the ground up bodies of dead Egyptians including perhaps a few Kings which would be stragely appropriate...<br /><br />In short Barrie including a tribe of Native Americans in Never-land was to be kind of a tribute to them - to keep them alive in Man's collective unconsciousness and stories, folklore, fictional worlds if they must all be annihilated... He probably knew close to zero about them save the surface imagery in other Penny Dreadfuls of the time but still made his mark. They would likely disappear from the real world soon so they'd live on in his fantasy and hopefully others at least.<br /><br />I'm sure the author of this RPG would disagree - but I think being afraid of some \"1/128th Cherokee\" on their Twitter Blog (Twitter = Toxic Sh-t Hole - one man's opinion) wearing made in CHINA 'Nativewear' bleating and whining that having them in a simple TTRPG book hurts them as bad as Wounded Knee or whatever is disgusting cowardice. If I'd done a project like this I'd have kept them, not turned them into \"Dryads\" - rather I'd have expanded back-story of them finding a way to flee to Never-land from the Genocidal Custer or countless others like him. They'd be a real people the players could interact with and IMO that'd be the better lesson.<br /><br />Thus I don't respect things like this more than any cowardly cash grab which - \"One Man's Opinion\" I do see it as... I wish no ill on the author but I'm disgusted by what I percieve to be as cowardace not any sort of real attempt to be \"Politically Correct\" which in practice is a vile form of it. If somehow including Indians in a Never-Land based RPG might be hurtful - put a note with links to real Native American (First Nations, whatever it is this week...) charities so people can donate $ to help them. I could understand outrage for say a re-re-make of the classic \"Custer's Revenge\" video game (Atari 2600 and Flash later) that's legit hurtful, maybe removing the attacking Indians from \"Oregon Trail\" though again that's erasing history but this is truly bad.",
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"content": "\n\nI'm being sarcastic with this, but the modern \"Political Correctness\" people aka \"Woke\" or \"Social Justice Warriors\" are viciously racist and sexist and boiling growths of pure hatred. And I say also that their movement is fake and a mask for hateful nihilism. They should be treated like Pol-Pot wearing the SKIN of a dead \"Hippie\" but holding a pickaxe for your skull but the hippie face is smiling nice and he still has his \"Peace and Love and No War\" sign not yet illegible with blood...\n\nI was browsing in a bookstore the other day - the remaining nationwide chain - to see if anything was of interest. Since I find so little I like I usually can go \"Take my money NOW!\" when I do find the rare thing that catches my fancy. Now I'm not saying everything is lousy, just to my tastes not that much I find worth any time so I'm grateful to the remaining chain to browse and NOT buy in exchange for a latte...\n\nOne of the many things I find irritating in how modern publishing (and other media) caters to these \"Woke\" is they let them sneak in and somehow control very old franchises such as Comic Books, Video Games, TTRPGs despite no qualifications save their vicious hateful politics masked in chowder made from real social progressive movements of the last century. They get to lord it over 20 year veterans, bully and harass them and output pure garbage I can not believe anyone saw fit to print even on an electronic PDF much less a real print. They get to openly display utter contempt for the existing fan-bases, readerships, anyone who ever liked the franchises they ruined. Really, William Shatner got burned in Effigy at least a decade after his \"Get a Life\" remark.... A dumb \"Pop Singer\" got booed offstage after bashing my \"Hick town\" city she toured through. How are they immune from biting the hand that feeds them?\n\nEven worse are the 'stealth' things - where they disguise something to appeal to a clear audience but subvert it -such as an RPG made to be \"Grim\" like its Grim-dark but reading in it's so \"Politically Correct\" anyone trying to play it would choke with the politics before getting to the game. A friend joked about said game that used the German name for a large two-handed sword as a \"Hyper Politically Correct parody, rather what said people would do if they made F.A.T.A.L.\" the latter a very notorious lowbrow TTRPG. Really, what if I took over Hallmark and made Grindhouse and B-sci-fi movies with the actors? Had the ladies wear see-through space-suits and pretend to fight then get grabbed by huge tentacled monsters of srpay latex? I bet I'd get overwhelmingly negative feedback if I did that and whoever hired me to head Hallmark would be fired - yet these \"Woke\" can keep wrecking comics, games, etc. with no consequence. \n\nI was almost tricked again by seeing this \"neverland\" world based around the classic Peter Pan but independent of Disney's work though the art-style is clearly inspired... Sorry Disney (and Bode) but you can NOT patent an art style....\n\nWell again almost bought it until I realized they'd bent the knee in a way I can NOT and will NOT support. They removed the \"Indians\" as a cheap way to cowardly slither under the fear of being accused of being hurtful, hateful, \"Problematic\"... BUT - they still wanted to play in Never-land and hopefully make MONEY doing so. Just without \"Problematic\" things that might be of trouble - especially if a bunch of Debt Factory suckers (excuse me, modern \"College Students\") wrote a couple of thousand letters under pen names or online hit the \"DMCA Complaint\" button with a proxy browser 1000 times like a Rat in a Skinner Box needing its next hit of drugs.... And that caused their product to be removed from the stores, costing money even if restored later since nothing wrong with it, no copyright violations, not hateful even if keeping the Indian characters...\n\nBetter not to be problematic - Remove the Indian - Keep the LAND...\n\nThis has been going on a while this fake 'culture war' that the elites set up to avoid a CLASS war which should be the issue - at least arguing they pay their real fair share in TAXES since they certainly demand so much from society... But we have all this cancel which has turned into a \"Bleaching\". Not whitewashing but bleaching - scrubbing - erasing - unpersoning....\n\nRemove the problematic characters used to promote - KEEP the product - that solves everything...\n\nAnd of all this swill of bending the knee cowardice I am somehow offended by this \"Never-land\" thing the most. Remembering that classic story, Never-land is a place where things of the past go when they can't live in the \"Real World\" anymore. In the Victorian age Pirates as known classically were almost all gone due to modern tech being able to police the waters better and America helping to end them. (\"...to the shores of Tripoli\") Likewise the 'magical' age of exploration - the mermaids and sea monsters, great beasts in the forest, mythical creatures of good and bad - all went to \"Never-land\" to escape...\n\nNative Americans were one of them. They were still real, still alive but it was assumed they'd be wiped out within a few decades. Killed off by massacre and forced assimilation of children and just seen as how things were. In that day - the \"Victorian\" age - many families had \"Stuffed Hottentots\" - yes Africans mostly but a few Natives of other lands that had been killed, skinned and gutted and mounted via Taxidermy as an animal. Tasmanians were a real hot commodity since there were no such thing anymore. H.G. Wells wrote \"The War of the Worlds\" in pure rage over the latter and though his story became popular was laughed off as a Leftist nincompoop... Also at this time L. Frank Baum was making good money from the Wizard of Oz and putting himself back towards bankruptcy self-publishing the same pamphlets he'd printed as a newspaperman demanding indeed a \"Final Solution\" to the Native Americans. While said work is general audience the very reason we have \"The Wizard of Oz\" and 14 Oz novels is Baum's open calls for genocide, countless print runs and distribution fees of pamphlets calling for people to lobby their senators and congressmen to mobilize the army to finish killing them all and to go on jury duty to forgive the rare times any crime against a Native goes to court... Really so FUNNY (sarcasm) how they bash HP Lovecraft for his 'racism' when Baum, Wilder, etc. were SO much more outspoken and HPL just wrote some poems, used a few stereotypes...\n\nThus it was seen as just a given that there soon would be no more Native Americans, having proven \"Inferior\" by not having the weapons and drive to fight the \"White Man\" who indeed had \"Manifest Destiny\". Beautiful \"Noble Savages\" it was sad to see them go but it was the cruel hand of time. Robert E Howard's \"Bran Mak Morn\" character was a song for the lost Pictish peoples, BTW.\n\nThis is disgusting and horrible, right?\nI agree 100%.\n\nAnd you know what? It's hard to look up most of this. A lot of 'reprints' from said era carefully REMOVE the advertisements for stuffed \"Aboriginals\", advertisements to go on HUNTS for them, ads for Zoo exhibits that had imported 'natives', heroic stories of men like Custer killing the 'savages'... Lots of this have been erased as time has melted the pulps. Thus \"Revisionist historians\" who are often blatant racists can make strong claims much never happened as described. To any about to comment on this, look up \"King Leopold\" who is trending as I write this and understand in such a world he could be tolerated in the rest of what I said is quite believable - also again the early part of \"War of the Worlds\" Wells blatantly talks about the Tasmanian Genocide. Even the latter is being attacked by erasers of history. Oh, and look up \"Mummy Brown\" paint for real fun - the best paintings of the era, such as the Liberty Lady of the French Revolution is literally painted with the ground up bodies of dead Egyptians including perhaps a few Kings which would be stragely appropriate...\n\nIn short Barrie including a tribe of Native Americans in Never-land was to be kind of a tribute to them - to keep them alive in Man's collective unconsciousness and stories, folklore, fictional worlds if they must all be annihilated... He probably knew close to zero about them save the surface imagery in other Penny Dreadfuls of the time but still made his mark. They would likely disappear from the real world soon so they'd live on in his fantasy and hopefully others at least.\n\nI'm sure the author of this RPG would disagree - but I think being afraid of some \"1/128th Cherokee\" on their Twitter Blog (Twitter = Toxic Sh-t Hole - one man's opinion) wearing made in CHINA 'Nativewear' bleating and whining that having them in a simple TTRPG book hurts them as bad as Wounded Knee or whatever is disgusting cowardice. If I'd done a project like this I'd have kept them, not turned them into \"Dryads\" - rather I'd have expanded back-story of them finding a way to flee to Never-land from the Genocidal Custer or countless others like him. They'd be a real people the players could interact with and IMO that'd be the better lesson.\n\nThus I don't respect things like this more than any cowardly cash grab which - \"One Man's Opinion\" I do see it as... I wish no ill on the author but I'm disgusted by what I percieve to be as cowardace not any sort of real attempt to be \"Politically Correct\" which in practice is a vile form of it. If somehow including Indians in a Never-Land based RPG might be hurtful - put a note with links to real Native American (First Nations, whatever it is this week...) charities so people can donate $ to help them. I could understand outrage for say a re-re-make of the classic \"Custer's Revenge\" video game (Atari 2600 and Flash later) that's legit hurtful, maybe removing the attacking Indians from \"Oregon Trail\" though again that's erasing history but this is truly bad.",
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"content": "No drama or long rants.<br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=MotURevelation\" title=\"#MotURevelation\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#MotURevelation</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=season2\" title=\"#season2\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#season2</a> <br />Simply put - not going to watch<br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=notgoingtowatch\" title=\"#notgoingtowatch\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#notgoingtowatch</a> <br /><br />The disappointment ratio to ALL \"Re-Makes\" in this day and age is 99%. God HELP anyone today if they try anything new, anything not yet made into a movie already. In good times and bad times the HOLLOW-Wood has used the 're-make' crutch now slathering it with treacly modern \"Woke\" politics it seems - the latter some sick parody of real leftist and progressive ideals. This also cripples sequels with real potential like Blade Runner 2049or Tron Legacy as the studios can dump many millions into fake reviews and social media trolls to shill but many like me are sick of sequels.<br /><br />I'm not going to post a long rant every time they turn a character gay or swap gender/race. Or the latest re-make that is 99% going to be terrible and thus even when a good one sneaks by it will flop.<br /><br />Simply - hashtag notgoingtowatch - I won't watch, won't buy, won't 'steal' (illegal download) or whatever. Maybe in a few years I'd watch or buy the set from a DVD bargain bin at Wal-Mart if they still have those, but by then most are clearly garbage. Spread on social media - any re-make, sequel, prequel - not going to watch.<br /><br />A buddy has a neat more vulgar meme - which I agree with - he's welcome to post and I'd like to use it...?<br /><br />On that note - IF you are on the fence, not embittered? Find a pundit you like on YouTube or a few of them. WAIT a few weeks after release and then ask them or someone you know if they've watched. Instant stinker/trash filter there!<br /><br />Again demand NEW stuff - grab an Ace Double and get the rights - have a good writer adapt it. Sink or swim. I'll post another suggestion parade soon, want to keep this from being too long.",
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"content": "No drama or long rants.\n#MotURevelation #season2 \nSimply put - not going to watch\n#notgoingtowatch \n\nThe disappointment ratio to ALL \"Re-Makes\" in this day and age is 99%. God HELP anyone today if they try anything new, anything not yet made into a movie already. In good times and bad times the HOLLOW-Wood has used the 're-make' crutch now slathering it with treacly modern \"Woke\" politics it seems - the latter some sick parody of real leftist and progressive ideals. This also cripples sequels with real potential like Blade Runner 2049or Tron Legacy as the studios can dump many millions into fake reviews and social media trolls to shill but many like me are sick of sequels.\n\nI'm not going to post a long rant every time they turn a character gay or swap gender/race. Or the latest re-make that is 99% going to be terrible and thus even when a good one sneaks by it will flop.\n\nSimply - hashtag notgoingtowatch - I won't watch, won't buy, won't 'steal' (illegal download) or whatever. Maybe in a few years I'd watch or buy the set from a DVD bargain bin at Wal-Mart if they still have those, but by then most are clearly garbage. Spread on social media - any re-make, sequel, prequel - not going to watch.\n\nA buddy has a neat more vulgar meme - which I agree with - he's welcome to post and I'd like to use it...?\n\nOn that note - IF you are on the fence, not embittered? Find a pundit you like on YouTube or a few of them. WAIT a few weeks after release and then ask them or someone you know if they've watched. Instant stinker/trash filter there!\n\nAgain demand NEW stuff - grab an Ace Double and get the rights - have a good writer adapt it. Sink or swim. I'll post another suggestion parade soon, want to keep this from being too long.",
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"content": "Finally. Ordered ~ 2 years ago - just got.<br /><br />I'm a big fan of Lone Sloane and Phillipe Druillet's artworks. What got me into Heavy Metal Magazine yes even above the T&A. Druillet is a real crazy train to hitch on but one I've not regretted.<br /><br />I'm posting this because \"Titancomics\" the printer is getting serious slander - all these negative reviews attacking the quality of the books and translations.<br /><br />First - the quality you don't see these days. Most stuff - even by \"Major publishers\" is printed by cheapest bidder you know where and is essentially a laserjet print with glue from a glue gun at the back edge. TitanComics have saddle stitched middles of larger folios, arranged to hold the pages for best grip but maximum flexibility. You can open these flat without damaging the pages or cracking the spine. The pages are rich offset press color holding the standards BandeDessines or European Comics require.<br /><br />I now have ALL the classic Druillet. Even waiting a while for this one my only choice till recent was a FRENCH copy for $300. Even if I'd splurged on that I'd still have ordered this one!<br /><br />Finally the translations. I am no expert in foreign languages and frankly do prefer (for Lone Sloane especially Sallambo) the Heavy Metal crude direct English by Demuth. It was truly \"Dark Gothic Poetry\" in brutal declarative language. AND - back in the day everyone hated it with the passion the \"Prequel Haters\" spewed venom on Jar Jar. When later presses translated it - same smart a---ed \"Hipsters\" spewed fashionable venom on the new ones too. I like the story and the art - of course not being in English originally is that there will be some slight loss - this current one is excellent, nothing unforgivable.<br /><br />So again - I vouch for TitanComics and their Druillet printings. Excellent quality, cheap price that's amazing for said quality... (Exterminator-17 by Bilal+Donnet!!!)<br />Just - when pre-ordering - be VERY forgiving a wait time...!",
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"content": "Finally. Ordered ~ 2 years ago - just got.\n\nI'm a big fan of Lone Sloane and Phillipe Druillet's artworks. What got me into Heavy Metal Magazine yes even above the T&A. Druillet is a real crazy train to hitch on but one I've not regretted.\n\nI'm posting this because \"Titancomics\" the printer is getting serious slander - all these negative reviews attacking the quality of the books and translations.\n\nFirst - the quality you don't see these days. Most stuff - even by \"Major publishers\" is printed by cheapest bidder you know where and is essentially a laserjet print with glue from a glue gun at the back edge. TitanComics have saddle stitched middles of larger folios, arranged to hold the pages for best grip but maximum flexibility. You can open these flat without damaging the pages or cracking the spine. The pages are rich offset press color holding the standards BandeDessines or European Comics require.\n\nI now have ALL the classic Druillet. Even waiting a while for this one my only choice till recent was a FRENCH copy for $300. Even if I'd splurged on that I'd still have ordered this one!\n\nFinally the translations. I am no expert in foreign languages and frankly do prefer (for Lone Sloane especially Sallambo) the Heavy Metal crude direct English by Demuth. It was truly \"Dark Gothic Poetry\" in brutal declarative language. AND - back in the day everyone hated it with the passion the \"Prequel Haters\" spewed venom on Jar Jar. When later presses translated it - same smart a---ed \"Hipsters\" spewed fashionable venom on the new ones too. I like the story and the art - of course not being in English originally is that there will be some slight loss - this current one is excellent, nothing unforgivable.\n\nSo again - I vouch for TitanComics and their Druillet printings. Excellent quality, cheap price that's amazing for said quality... (Exterminator-17 by Bilal+Donnet!!!)\nJust - when pre-ordering - be VERY forgiving a wait time...!",
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"content": "<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpDr62lcJzg\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpDr62lcJzg</a><br /><br />Simpsons clip time!<br /><br />Poor Lisa Simpsons trying to be a tabloid news reporter since times were changing and the days of reporters who did things like find the TRUTH and report real NEWS were dying... Just wish the yapping, talking heads (not the cool band inspired by) had to get out and do garbage like this at least. They are going to be clowns reading the public propaganda because the king had the town crier beheaded, fine but they have to dance and roll and do tricks... No 3rd party reporting on the puppy mill being shut down (usually rightly so) but they have to go INSIDE and see the squalid horror and get mutant inbred puppies sic'd on them by insane owners... <br /><br />Back 80s, 90s they'd go \"And that's why I got my Rabies shot in advance... Adoptions are being set up ... and ... but I'm keeping little scabies who chewed through my suit...\"<br /><br />Now it'd be \"I'm a ---- NEWS-READER!? WTF did my contract say I had to get my hands dirty?\"",
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"content": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpDr62lcJzg\n\nSimpsons clip time!\n\nPoor Lisa Simpsons trying to be a tabloid news reporter since times were changing and the days of reporters who did things like find the TRUTH and report real NEWS were dying... Just wish the yapping, talking heads (not the cool band inspired by) had to get out and do garbage like this at least. They are going to be clowns reading the public propaganda because the king had the town crier beheaded, fine but they have to dance and roll and do tricks... No 3rd party reporting on the puppy mill being shut down (usually rightly so) but they have to go INSIDE and see the squalid horror and get mutant inbred puppies sic'd on them by insane owners... \n\nBack 80s, 90s they'd go \"And that's why I got my Rabies shot in advance... Adoptions are being set up ... and ... but I'm keeping little scabies who chewed through my suit...\"\n\nNow it'd be \"I'm a ---- NEWS-READER!? WTF did my contract say I had to get my hands dirty?\"",
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"content": "<a href=\"https://youtu.be/cilyaEK90SI\" target=\"_blank\">https://youtu.be/cilyaEK90SI</a> <br />This is incredible.<br />Guy made his own \"Cloud City\" playset - sick of the lackluster Kenner/Hasbro plops of ... toys that he found disappointing.<br /><br />I'm very into the idea of making toy playsets for some of my science fiction and fantasy adventure stories - but a few years down the road. Focus on writing for now.<br /><br />Also - and I say this with cautious respect to the RetroBlasting guy since he MADE it - but I'm going to try Vaccum Molding for large sets like that.<br /><br />Easy enough for me to carve things out of clay - say the sides to the \"Relayer\" (ship from \"Brothers of the Sun\") or to make castles, walls, rough rocky terrain and then fire it, drill a lot of tiny holes, put over a suction bed - then have hot plastic sheeting on top. Certainly a lot of work but once done can manufacture a lot of larger parts and much easier/cheaper than \"Injection Molding\" which is needed for Action figures and smaller parts to reproduce rapidly with precision detail.",
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"content": "https://youtu.be/cilyaEK90SI \nThis is incredible.\nGuy made his own \"Cloud City\" playset - sick of the lackluster Kenner/Hasbro plops of ... toys that he found disappointing.\n\nI'm very into the idea of making toy playsets for some of my science fiction and fantasy adventure stories - but a few years down the road. Focus on writing for now.\n\nAlso - and I say this with cautious respect to the RetroBlasting guy since he MADE it - but I'm going to try Vaccum Molding for large sets like that.\n\nEasy enough for me to carve things out of clay - say the sides to the \"Relayer\" (ship from \"Brothers of the Sun\") or to make castles, walls, rough rocky terrain and then fire it, drill a lot of tiny holes, put over a suction bed - then have hot plastic sheeting on top. Certainly a lot of work but once done can manufacture a lot of larger parts and much easier/cheaper than \"Injection Molding\" which is needed for Action figures and smaller parts to reproduce rapidly with precision detail.",
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"content": "Hey - are you sick of the upcoming so-called Live Action Cowboy BeBop and how some ugly flat chested \"Actress\" insulted the fans and talked like she was trying to play Naga from Slayers? How you know it'll be a trashy flop and ensure it's NEVER made into a legit \"Alita\" style movie though it should be?<br /><br />This is the first TL/DR part of what you can do.<br /><br />Long and short:<br /><br />Do NOT watch it. Don't even CLICK it if subscribed to Netflix.<br />Spread the word NOT to click it.<br /><br />IF someone is \"on the fence\" give them the argument that even clicking it will support it (% of Netflix revenue) and they should wait 2 weeks and try a few trusted reviews. NOT \"news\" sites - these are bought out. People they trust to review - in my case Doomcock, ClownfishTV and a few others. They've been totally right on MOTU: Revelation and even SW: Last Jedi on how they sucked with specifics.<br />---BTW - the creator of BeBop rejected and disavowed from this trash - spread that to people on the fence. The creative guy behind this doesn't even want his NAME on it it's CRAP. Why should they spend an evening trying to watch a dumpy, ugly, ex SPANKING video 'actress' that's sub I.N.S.E.X. beauty requirements and spits upon fans butcher Faye's character?<br /><br />This will help crush the people doing the movie and help end 're-make' culture . \"one man's opinion\" they are doing a \"pump and Dump\" - they deliberately made a FLOP crud turd of a movie, likely keeping much of the money provided. They want to run and file insurance reports, government bailouts, collect margin bets and NOT pay Sunrise a penny of royalties.<br /><br />My upcoming essay is longer with more ideas - but \"Don't Click\" is the easiest and simplest to spread. Spread it - ok to spread the graphic.",
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"content": "Hey - are you sick of the upcoming so-called Live Action Cowboy BeBop and how some ugly flat chested \"Actress\" insulted the fans and talked like she was trying to play Naga from Slayers? How you know it'll be a trashy flop and ensure it's NEVER made into a legit \"Alita\" style movie though it should be?\n\nThis is the first TL/DR part of what you can do.\n\nLong and short:\n\nDo NOT watch it. Don't even CLICK it if subscribed to Netflix.\nSpread the word NOT to click it.\n\nIF someone is \"on the fence\" give them the argument that even clicking it will support it (% of Netflix revenue) and they should wait 2 weeks and try a few trusted reviews. NOT \"news\" sites - these are bought out. People they trust to review - in my case Doomcock, ClownfishTV and a few others. They've been totally right on MOTU: Revelation and even SW: Last Jedi on how they sucked with specifics.\n---BTW - the creator of BeBop rejected and disavowed from this trash - spread that to people on the fence. The creative guy behind this doesn't even want his NAME on it it's CRAP. Why should they spend an evening trying to watch a dumpy, ugly, ex SPANKING video 'actress' that's sub I.N.S.E.X. beauty requirements and spits upon fans butcher Faye's character?\n\nThis will help crush the people doing the movie and help end 're-make' culture . \"one man's opinion\" they are doing a \"pump and Dump\" - they deliberately made a FLOP crud turd of a movie, likely keeping much of the money provided. They want to run and file insurance reports, government bailouts, collect margin bets and NOT pay Sunrise a penny of royalties.\n\nMy upcoming essay is longer with more ideas - but \"Don't Click\" is the easiest and simplest to spread. Spread it - ok to spread the graphic.",
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"content": "Attn: NETFLIX over the Gawd-Awful \"CowboyBeBop\" adaptation you intend to EXCRETE seemingly just to continue the pain and worry of 2020 onwards...<br /><br />You expect foaming rage, outrage over picking a \"Bizarro World\" person to be Faye. Myself I'm thanking God you haven't done \"Outlaw Star\" but too many characters even though modern CG would make the FX possible without a \"Ten Commandments\" budget.<br /><br />I won't buy.<br />I won't watch.<br />IF it's on a service I might subscribe to I won't click.<br />I won't buy it in the Wal-Mart bargain bin in a few months.<br />I won't even \"Steal\" it... (illegal download)<br /><br />FURTHERMORE - I'll look into:<br />1 - A letter campaign to advertisers - writing to ....soda, ....jeans - whatever companies might support the project and messaging them - polite, concise, to the point - that I will avoid their product for a year at least for supporting this regurgitation.<br />2 - Actor boycott - will go on mailing chains and when the actor gets another roll, is being considered for ones write to the producers en-masse (and we'll look up INVESTORS, Banks) and promise to not watch if they hire them.<br /><br />BUT - it won't be regular foaming updates to keep the \"Buzz\" going - just quiet networks of \"Don't watch this. Wait. Don't click. Wait for ..... to watch first.\" and boycott letter campaigns.<br /><br />Frankly - as a friend pointed out - I think these things are set to fail and that the companies behind them have bought a property for name recognition but - per George Lucas \"Even I can't live up to 30 years of HYPE\" so they \"Margin Bet\" against the team, deliberately using the interest and selling. <br /><br />If ONLY there was a media that wasn't just \"News\" slapped on entertainment. IF ONLY we had real police, prosecutors, federal agencies not a \"Justice by Points\" worker setup where they'd choke a man to death for loose cigarettes or try to entrap a 50 something guy in a mid-life crisis but HIDE from those that fight back - as in \"Talk to my lawyer\" which corporate crooks, CEOS, real Organized crime do. Want that \"Conviction\" ratio so crimes that damage society they hide from looking for easy busts like trying to turn a flirtatious teen girl into a criminal with herself a victim...<br /><br /><br />NETFLIX - remember the \"Sonic\" movie?<br />You CAN turn this around with a good budget, good FX -AND- get a good actress who can Liquid diet and dress proper for awhile. Otherwise we'll make sure this flops faster than you can short-sell - AND the Fed Fuzz plus investors get a LOT of letters...!",
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"content": "Attn: NETFLIX over the Gawd-Awful \"CowboyBeBop\" adaptation you intend to EXCRETE seemingly just to continue the pain and worry of 2020 onwards...\n\nYou expect foaming rage, outrage over picking a \"Bizarro World\" person to be Faye. Myself I'm thanking God you haven't done \"Outlaw Star\" but too many characters even though modern CG would make the FX possible without a \"Ten Commandments\" budget.\n\nI won't buy.\nI won't watch.\nIF it's on a service I might subscribe to I won't click.\nI won't buy it in the Wal-Mart bargain bin in a few months.\nI won't even \"Steal\" it... (illegal download)\n\nFURTHERMORE - I'll look into:\n1 - A letter campaign to advertisers - writing to ....soda, ....jeans - whatever companies might support the project and messaging them - polite, concise, to the point - that I will avoid their product for a year at least for supporting this regurgitation.\n2 - Actor boycott - will go on mailing chains and when the actor gets another roll, is being considered for ones write to the producers en-masse (and we'll look up INVESTORS, Banks) and promise to not watch if they hire them.\n\nBUT - it won't be regular foaming updates to keep the \"Buzz\" going - just quiet networks of \"Don't watch this. Wait. Don't click. Wait for ..... to watch first.\" and boycott letter campaigns.\n\nFrankly - as a friend pointed out - I think these things are set to fail and that the companies behind them have bought a property for name recognition but - per George Lucas \"Even I can't live up to 30 years of HYPE\" so they \"Margin Bet\" against the team, deliberately using the interest and selling. \n\nIf ONLY there was a media that wasn't just \"News\" slapped on entertainment. IF ONLY we had real police, prosecutors, federal agencies not a \"Justice by Points\" worker setup where they'd choke a man to death for loose cigarettes or try to entrap a 50 something guy in a mid-life crisis but HIDE from those that fight back - as in \"Talk to my lawyer\" which corporate crooks, CEOS, real Organized crime do. Want that \"Conviction\" ratio so crimes that damage society they hide from looking for easy busts like trying to turn a flirtatious teen girl into a criminal with herself a victim...\n\n\nNETFLIX - remember the \"Sonic\" movie?\nYou CAN turn this around with a good budget, good FX -AND- get a good actress who can Liquid diet and dress proper for awhile. Otherwise we'll make sure this flops faster than you can short-sell - AND the Fed Fuzz plus investors get a LOT of letters...!",
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"content": "<br /><br />I've got a mild proposal - based on one I read of years ago - to capture excess Carbon from the atmosphere. In a way that will pay for itself not cost and cost and in a way that will do no real damage and can be stopped in a heartbeat if somehow it is necessary.<br /><br />Use the laziness of mankind.<br />Use the 'free market' that is in reality maintained and managed by any government - lest I be able to commit robbery versus paying for something next time I go to a store and fear no Police save store security....<br /><br /><br />My solution to \"Capture Carbon\" requires no fantastic static device nor magic rings to summon an eco-terrorist via Alchemy... It does need existing tech, such as diesel powered garbage trucks, bulldozers, excavators - but those already in use. And salaries to American workers. Also to forestry officials and Arborists... Getting ahead of myself.<br /><br />The solution is to:<br /><br />1 - collect paper and wood waste - anything with plant cellulose. Newspaper, old IKEA failed projects, lumber scrap from construction (if to broke to re-use, $ and workers decide) clippings from lawns, shredded tree branches from lumber harvesting...<br /><br />2 - take it to mass landfills and BURY it<br /><br />3 - plant NEW wood/plant fiber sources. New as in re-forest areas - say those now empty and vandalized or burned for insurance \"Housing tracts\" that suddenly people aren't begging to sign a $1 million high interest loan to only drive 5 hours daily to the crushing soulless office job... they shack up with 3 or 4 others in a roach apartment and save $ now... Tear down that development, re-plant the forest. Grow huge tracts of forest, of Hemp or other useful plant fibers...<br /><br />4 - SELL at slight profit the Lumber and plant fiber. NEW IKEA furniture to try to assemble. NEW newspapers, comic books and copies of the Men's Magazine the late Larry Flynt started. NEW paper cups.<br /><br />5 - Go back to stage 1<br /><br />I'd set this up as a government funded corporation - run at slight profit - good salaries to the workers but strict rules (salary caps, NO outside gifts, bonuses) and 3rd party oversight to prevent corruption. This would ensure wood and paper be at a sane price so you could build that house, print that \"Hot Sexy mag\" physical copy, \"Captain whatever\" comic book, make that disposable paper cup... - not free - they'd BUY it and then make things with it and SELL it. As more and more free lumber is taken and the forests not harvested are protected and patrolled by police and Neo-Earth First! who've spiked it so much you'd not get a foot into it without the saw exploding these \"Public For profit forests\" will be the main baseline for new lumber. It will end the false economy of taking someone else's forests, or public resources without giving back to it, without re-planting. Police and surveillance will patrol this - for it will be many millions of dollars annually above costs to plant, nurture and protect.<br /><br />Furthermore - as artificial controlled setups this will stop the \"Forest Fire\" problem - at least in those areas. Arborists and the Forest agency will help in planning these growths so the forests will have large barriers between them and be harvested and replanted before they'd burn down naturally. The empty fields after harvest could be torched and re-planted as necessary. I envision a hexagonal pattern if seen from the skies of younger to older forests then empty spaces where harvested. These farms would have spaces that kept moving from planting to growth to harvest so lumberjacks were always kept busy and a steady supply of lumber was available. This could be scaled up or down yearly.<br /><br />Doing this would capture a LOT of carbon from the atmosphere. It will also clean the air of smog and pollutants and the parks of wood in between harvest and planting will be wonderful spots for nature walks, vacations, hunting depending on area. No need for high tech static turbines or Blue Homonculi with green Mullets and bad jokes. It uses our own laziness as far as bad practices with easy disposable wood products but controls a false economy (no consequence harvesting) and makes the market support it for what it is worth. Public forests aren't well protected. A for profit government/public company farm will have thousands of cheap instant internet connected cameras - if poachers appear the forest rangers with a ton of highway patrol will drop by as they put that first chainsaw into a tree - and they'd lose their vehicles, go to jail, be fined many thousands of dollars and vilified all over TV - as despicable thieves.<br /><br /><br />Now I credit this idea in part to an earlier proposal made by someone else - a very good idea turned bad by recognition of Man's greed and stupidity - it was 1 - plant forests - 2 cut them down - 3 bury them 4 - go to step 1... Laughed out of the ballpark because A - the wood would be poached and B- the lumber industry lobbyists would be like a LOLcat \"Can Haz? Pleeeze? Can Hazzzzz!?\" People would poach lumber or lobby to LOOT the landfills - especially now. Nobody would do that over piles of old coffecups, failed DIY furniture and soiled dirty men's magazines... In a thousand years it'd be an archeological gold-mine. In a million years the evolved tortoises, raccoons, etc. might use them for Coal and have our current issues and the chance to learn or not learn from their mistakes...<br /><br />Take note - this is for PAPER/WOOD products. It IS good to recycle metals. For instance recycle a can of soda you save enough energy to fill it 3/4 with gasoline. Increasing prices have led to mechanical and magnetic seperation at the dump but good idea to participate when possible. Plastic I'd argue NOT to use when possible in favor of paper/wood if this idea is enacted except where needed hopefully for long term use or with a clear path to recycling worked out.",
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"content": "\n\nI've got a mild proposal - based on one I read of years ago - to capture excess Carbon from the atmosphere. In a way that will pay for itself not cost and cost and in a way that will do no real damage and can be stopped in a heartbeat if somehow it is necessary.\n\nUse the laziness of mankind.\nUse the 'free market' that is in reality maintained and managed by any government - lest I be able to commit robbery versus paying for something next time I go to a store and fear no Police save store security....\n\n\nMy solution to \"Capture Carbon\" requires no fantastic static device nor magic rings to summon an eco-terrorist via Alchemy... It does need existing tech, such as diesel powered garbage trucks, bulldozers, excavators - but those already in use. And salaries to American workers. Also to forestry officials and Arborists... Getting ahead of myself.\n\nThe solution is to:\n\n1 - collect paper and wood waste - anything with plant cellulose. Newspaper, old IKEA failed projects, lumber scrap from construction (if to broke to re-use, $ and workers decide) clippings from lawns, shredded tree branches from lumber harvesting...\n\n2 - take it to mass landfills and BURY it\n\n3 - plant NEW wood/plant fiber sources. New as in re-forest areas - say those now empty and vandalized or burned for insurance \"Housing tracts\" that suddenly people aren't begging to sign a $1 million high interest loan to only drive 5 hours daily to the crushing soulless office job... they shack up with 3 or 4 others in a roach apartment and save $ now... Tear down that development, re-plant the forest. Grow huge tracts of forest, of Hemp or other useful plant fibers...\n\n4 - SELL at slight profit the Lumber and plant fiber. NEW IKEA furniture to try to assemble. NEW newspapers, comic books and copies of the Men's Magazine the late Larry Flynt started. NEW paper cups.\n\n5 - Go back to stage 1\n\nI'd set this up as a government funded corporation - run at slight profit - good salaries to the workers but strict rules (salary caps, NO outside gifts, bonuses) and 3rd party oversight to prevent corruption. This would ensure wood and paper be at a sane price so you could build that house, print that \"Hot Sexy mag\" physical copy, \"Captain whatever\" comic book, make that disposable paper cup... - not free - they'd BUY it and then make things with it and SELL it. As more and more free lumber is taken and the forests not harvested are protected and patrolled by police and Neo-Earth First! who've spiked it so much you'd not get a foot into it without the saw exploding these \"Public For profit forests\" will be the main baseline for new lumber. It will end the false economy of taking someone else's forests, or public resources without giving back to it, without re-planting. Police and surveillance will patrol this - for it will be many millions of dollars annually above costs to plant, nurture and protect.\n\nFurthermore - as artificial controlled setups this will stop the \"Forest Fire\" problem - at least in those areas. Arborists and the Forest agency will help in planning these growths so the forests will have large barriers between them and be harvested and replanted before they'd burn down naturally. The empty fields after harvest could be torched and re-planted as necessary. I envision a hexagonal pattern if seen from the skies of younger to older forests then empty spaces where harvested. These farms would have spaces that kept moving from planting to growth to harvest so lumberjacks were always kept busy and a steady supply of lumber was available. This could be scaled up or down yearly.\n\nDoing this would capture a LOT of carbon from the atmosphere. It will also clean the air of smog and pollutants and the parks of wood in between harvest and planting will be wonderful spots for nature walks, vacations, hunting depending on area. No need for high tech static turbines or Blue Homonculi with green Mullets and bad jokes. It uses our own laziness as far as bad practices with easy disposable wood products but controls a false economy (no consequence harvesting) and makes the market support it for what it is worth. Public forests aren't well protected. A for profit government/public company farm will have thousands of cheap instant internet connected cameras - if poachers appear the forest rangers with a ton of highway patrol will drop by as they put that first chainsaw into a tree - and they'd lose their vehicles, go to jail, be fined many thousands of dollars and vilified all over TV - as despicable thieves.\n\n\nNow I credit this idea in part to an earlier proposal made by someone else - a very good idea turned bad by recognition of Man's greed and stupidity - it was 1 - plant forests - 2 cut them down - 3 bury them 4 - go to step 1... Laughed out of the ballpark because A - the wood would be poached and B- the lumber industry lobbyists would be like a LOLcat \"Can Haz? Pleeeze? Can Hazzzzz!?\" People would poach lumber or lobby to LOOT the landfills - especially now. Nobody would do that over piles of old coffecups, failed DIY furniture and soiled dirty men's magazines... In a thousand years it'd be an archeological gold-mine. In a million years the evolved tortoises, raccoons, etc. might use them for Coal and have our current issues and the chance to learn or not learn from their mistakes...\n\nTake note - this is for PAPER/WOOD products. It IS good to recycle metals. For instance recycle a can of soda you save enough energy to fill it 3/4 with gasoline. Increasing prices have led to mechanical and magnetic seperation at the dump but good idea to participate when possible. Plastic I'd argue NOT to use when possible in favor of paper/wood if this idea is enacted except where needed hopefully for long term use or with a clear path to recycling worked out.",
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"content": "<br /><br />Humanity is bad at math, let's face it.<br /><br />Hey, I spend time being a writer... In any age but especially this one - I'm not preaching downwards. I'd make far more money and far quicker if I got a soulless business degree and spent all day kissing up, kicking down and making sure the last plant got shipped to China or if funded to be shipped back to the USA was done by literal prison labor. Or used my tech skills to make viruses, hack old people's computer systems to mine BitCoin and burn out some Grandpa's processor and give him a $500 monthly power bill and cook his phone. Or setup a scam center in India or Jamaica, use my tech industry connections to create a chain of \"Call Forwarding\" so the random \"The police have found contraband directed to you.. You can appeal but a fine must be paid now or....\" scams seem to come from inside the USA... Or - well don't want to give ideas, and both of the previous are done so much there's qualifications and a waiting list...<br /><br />But you write because you are called to it. Same with music and art.<br />IMO, that should be first to hopefully drive away the \"I wanna be the next ...famous overrated hack.... coz MONEY\" people...<br /><br />But in focus I'm thinking about humanity in general - the chance of a disaster such as an Asteroid/Meteor wiping us out or other world wide and cosmic event.<br /><br />I've seen - source - my own eyes - the difference in how mankind manages his priorities and it is NOT good...<br /><br />In the 00s we had one of many near misses by an Asteroid that could have wiped out a city if it hit or caused more damaging tidal waves. Not end of the world but certainly 'catastrophic' in terms of trillions of dollars, possibly millions of lives lost. NASA detected it but way too late to change it if it was a danger. They placated the News (aka entertainment with the 'news' label on it) and the public with the words \"Don't worry, it's one in three million at worst...\"<br /><br />No panics, no calls to either purge NASA's leadership - or - (better choice) give them a little money - just SOME of the money we are taxed that was supposed to pay for more Apollo, Shuttle and an O'Niel space ring station but went to the KOCH brothers (and other elites) in terms of tax breaks, subsidies... Just 1% back they could probably map the skies and have a near 100% chance of detecting any city-killers or worse decades ahead.<br /><br />Nope - Elites need that tax money for their next yacht, mansion, to pay bribes when the Generalissimo demands more bribe money than the barefoot children chained to deadly machines in a toxic ramshackle factory saves versus hiring Americans...<br /><br />Same year - this was I think when I visited my Dad in California - either early 00s or early 10s - there was another \"Mega Jackpot\" announced on the Tax on Stupidity aka Lottery. Hey, I play it once in a while, I can call it \"Tax on Stupidity\"... Not yet a Jackpot but by numbers it was 70% likely to win and win big that week.<br /><br />I couldn't get into the convenience store to get a soda pop. Lines of 30 people and standing room only. People with armloads of tickets... It's like an early Simpsons... All that money for \"Dooohhhh!\" after the second number even with several hundred $ 'invested'... They could have had a line for \"Non-Lottery purchasers\" for people who wanted an unhealthy snack or GAS and had to get to WORK...!? I thought they made $ off of that but sold tickets at cost...<br /><br />So - it was pretty funny - there was NO public panic at a one in 3 million chance of a mini-geddon by meteor strike... Though that would have killed up to one million people and likely weakened the economy adjusting for it. BUT - a one in 500 million chance (someone might win that week) of the illusion of limitless wealth (most Lotto winners are broke <5 years) and they packed retail to pay that tax on stupidity. NOT going to look up the specifics. The sick thing is it's happened many times. Any Asteroid news is \"Ho Hum\" to most and any \"Big Lotto WIN coming!\" is headline news and makes it hard to get junk food at the convenience stores even late into the night... I've abstained from sugared soda pop for years now but once in a while want a random treat snack or especially a fried burrito/mushrooms...an ice slushy drink...<br /><br />Well - I'm not bashing humanity nor pretending to be super smart - but I do have an idea;<br />NASA? Listening?<br /><br />How about NASA supplement itself with a LOTTERY?<br /><br />Start small, make sure it's funded by the eggheads and MIT finance people they hire under strict contract. They have decent salaries that can get high but strict caps and rules so the profits go to NASA mostly. But have NASA run a lottery that mostly pays out money but can have some options like \"A piece of the .... mission\" or \"A trip to space! (conditional on health, etc. alt prize $)\"<br /><br />They can use this money to pay for mapping the skies, researching and building Asteroid deflectors - and funding space missions. The $ thrown away in huge profits for lotteries could be given to NASA directly so even if you waste $ paying a 'tax on stupidity' you still pay for the space program. Since it'd be money going directly to a Government agency it also might turn into something the IRS would work with you over? And again a neat \"Booby Prize\" it'd be cool having a piece of aluminum with corroded epoxy paint that had once been into SPACE...!<br /><br />Again - prizes like:<br /><br />More tickets - mass produced memorabilia - small amounts of money - larger amounts of money - free tours/vacations to Huntsville, AL, Cape Canaveral - Large amounts of money - \"Space\" memorabilia such as parts of rockets, bits of used in space tech - Jackpot and/or \"Astronaut\"<br /><br />Win a few million or become a \"Civilian Astronaut?\" Boy would THAT be close!<br /><br />Just don't freak out like that Astronaut did in that movie over the statue... Wait a minute... It was the Statue of Liberty!? He'd gone into the future and those MANIACS... (heh, Simpsons ref)<br /><br />I make this proposal in all seriousness. A sane and or smart world NASA would have HUGE a investment of resources - Defense would be stripped to 1/3 the current level (Nuclear deterrent, reasonable intelligence/research and decent standing army) - 1/3 to paying the deficit and rebuilding infrastructure, 1/6 to NASA, 1/6 to \"Securing the General Welfare\" that is make things better for more people... No soldier would be fired, rather they'd be transitioned to \"Civilian Corps\" and run the trains, watch the bridges, direct mass-traffic in things worthy of \"popular science\" covers.<br /><br />Realisticly<br />We do not live in a sane or smart world. However it isn't about what is ideal but how to use resources. Since there is a strong \"Stupidity\" resource must only the rich elite and con-men use it? I'd rather a benign government agency fund itself without constant battles over taxes and worth in a world where the funding that DID go to them funded \"Flammable Pajamas\" and corporate raiders looting companies or sending them to China.<br /><br />I hope this is done. Like all things, consider it entertainment and make it a tiny SUNDRY of any spending. But you'd be funding an aspect of the government - and save the tickets likely the IRS would work with them a bit... At least \"Gambling Losses\" which CAN be counted since they tax winnings! And maybe someday - well as a Science Fiction writer (and fantasy, etc.) I'd be through the ROOF if I got a bit of aluminum with some paint that was one of the space rockets!",
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"content": "\n\nHumanity is bad at math, let's face it.\n\nHey, I spend time being a writer... In any age but especially this one - I'm not preaching downwards. I'd make far more money and far quicker if I got a soulless business degree and spent all day kissing up, kicking down and making sure the last plant got shipped to China or if funded to be shipped back to the USA was done by literal prison labor. Or used my tech skills to make viruses, hack old people's computer systems to mine BitCoin and burn out some Grandpa's processor and give him a $500 monthly power bill and cook his phone. Or setup a scam center in India or Jamaica, use my tech industry connections to create a chain of \"Call Forwarding\" so the random \"The police have found contraband directed to you.. You can appeal but a fine must be paid now or....\" scams seem to come from inside the USA... Or - well don't want to give ideas, and both of the previous are done so much there's qualifications and a waiting list...\n\nBut you write because you are called to it. Same with music and art.\nIMO, that should be first to hopefully drive away the \"I wanna be the next ...famous overrated hack.... coz MONEY\" people...\n\nBut in focus I'm thinking about humanity in general - the chance of a disaster such as an Asteroid/Meteor wiping us out or other world wide and cosmic event.\n\nI've seen - source - my own eyes - the difference in how mankind manages his priorities and it is NOT good...\n\nIn the 00s we had one of many near misses by an Asteroid that could have wiped out a city if it hit or caused more damaging tidal waves. Not end of the world but certainly 'catastrophic' in terms of trillions of dollars, possibly millions of lives lost. NASA detected it but way too late to change it if it was a danger. They placated the News (aka entertainment with the 'news' label on it) and the public with the words \"Don't worry, it's one in three million at worst...\"\n\nNo panics, no calls to either purge NASA's leadership - or - (better choice) give them a little money - just SOME of the money we are taxed that was supposed to pay for more Apollo, Shuttle and an O'Niel space ring station but went to the KOCH brothers (and other elites) in terms of tax breaks, subsidies... Just 1% back they could probably map the skies and have a near 100% chance of detecting any city-killers or worse decades ahead.\n\nNope - Elites need that tax money for their next yacht, mansion, to pay bribes when the Generalissimo demands more bribe money than the barefoot children chained to deadly machines in a toxic ramshackle factory saves versus hiring Americans...\n\nSame year - this was I think when I visited my Dad in California - either early 00s or early 10s - there was another \"Mega Jackpot\" announced on the Tax on Stupidity aka Lottery. Hey, I play it once in a while, I can call it \"Tax on Stupidity\"... Not yet a Jackpot but by numbers it was 70% likely to win and win big that week.\n\nI couldn't get into the convenience store to get a soda pop. Lines of 30 people and standing room only. People with armloads of tickets... It's like an early Simpsons... All that money for \"Dooohhhh!\" after the second number even with several hundred $ 'invested'... They could have had a line for \"Non-Lottery purchasers\" for people who wanted an unhealthy snack or GAS and had to get to WORK...!? I thought they made $ off of that but sold tickets at cost...\n\nSo - it was pretty funny - there was NO public panic at a one in 3 million chance of a mini-geddon by meteor strike... Though that would have killed up to one million people and likely weakened the economy adjusting for it. BUT - a one in 500 million chance (someone might win that week) of the illusion of limitless wealth (most Lotto winners are broke <5 years) and they packed retail to pay that tax on stupidity. NOT going to look up the specifics. The sick thing is it's happened many times. Any Asteroid news is \"Ho Hum\" to most and any \"Big Lotto WIN coming!\" is headline news and makes it hard to get junk food at the convenience stores even late into the night... I've abstained from sugared soda pop for years now but once in a while want a random treat snack or especially a fried burrito/mushrooms...an ice slushy drink...\n\nWell - I'm not bashing humanity nor pretending to be super smart - but I do have an idea;\nNASA? Listening?\n\nHow about NASA supplement itself with a LOTTERY?\n\nStart small, make sure it's funded by the eggheads and MIT finance people they hire under strict contract. They have decent salaries that can get high but strict caps and rules so the profits go to NASA mostly. But have NASA run a lottery that mostly pays out money but can have some options like \"A piece of the .... mission\" or \"A trip to space! (conditional on health, etc. alt prize $)\"\n\nThey can use this money to pay for mapping the skies, researching and building Asteroid deflectors - and funding space missions. The $ thrown away in huge profits for lotteries could be given to NASA directly so even if you waste $ paying a 'tax on stupidity' you still pay for the space program. Since it'd be money going directly to a Government agency it also might turn into something the IRS would work with you over? And again a neat \"Booby Prize\" it'd be cool having a piece of aluminum with corroded epoxy paint that had once been into SPACE...!\n\nAgain - prizes like:\n\nMore tickets - mass produced memorabilia - small amounts of money - larger amounts of money - free tours/vacations to Huntsville, AL, Cape Canaveral - Large amounts of money - \"Space\" memorabilia such as parts of rockets, bits of used in space tech - Jackpot and/or \"Astronaut\"\n\nWin a few million or become a \"Civilian Astronaut?\" Boy would THAT be close!\n\nJust don't freak out like that Astronaut did in that movie over the statue... Wait a minute... It was the Statue of Liberty!? He'd gone into the future and those MANIACS... (heh, Simpsons ref)\n\nI make this proposal in all seriousness. A sane and or smart world NASA would have HUGE a investment of resources - Defense would be stripped to 1/3 the current level (Nuclear deterrent, reasonable intelligence/research and decent standing army) - 1/3 to paying the deficit and rebuilding infrastructure, 1/6 to NASA, 1/6 to \"Securing the General Welfare\" that is make things better for more people... No soldier would be fired, rather they'd be transitioned to \"Civilian Corps\" and run the trains, watch the bridges, direct mass-traffic in things worthy of \"popular science\" covers.\n\nRealisticly\nWe do not live in a sane or smart world. However it isn't about what is ideal but how to use resources. Since there is a strong \"Stupidity\" resource must only the rich elite and con-men use it? I'd rather a benign government agency fund itself without constant battles over taxes and worth in a world where the funding that DID go to them funded \"Flammable Pajamas\" and corporate raiders looting companies or sending them to China.\n\nI hope this is done. Like all things, consider it entertainment and make it a tiny SUNDRY of any spending. But you'd be funding an aspect of the government - and save the tickets likely the IRS would work with them a bit... At least \"Gambling Losses\" which CAN be counted since they tax winnings! And maybe someday - well as a Science Fiction writer (and fantasy, etc.) I'd be through the ROOF if I got a bit of aluminum with some paint that was one of the space rockets!",
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