scarecrowbob

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by scarecrowbob 5mo ago
Well, it's a weird site. Most of my interactions are through the /active page or specific search terms. When I started to do that in about 2021 it certainly made it a lot easier to find what I as curious about. Unfortunately, wh
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by scarecrowbob 5mo ago
It's okay that I only killed, like, one of your kids, you have, like, 4. Right?
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by scarecrowbob 5mo ago
So, question from the peanut gallery: how is this different than saying if folks don't get a job it's just because they "weren't qualified"? And isn't that just a tautology? Isn't the point that we might t
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by scarecrowbob 5mo ago
Are you missing the /s?
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by scarecrowbob 5mo ago
As much as I enjoy DA, Kuhn takes it a little further- it's almost like folks live in completely different worlds because the worlds are made up of fundamentally different basic parts...
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by scarecrowbob 5mo ago
I found Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" helpful on this topic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...
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by scarecrowbob 5mo ago
I mean, they aren't there to police the hyper-wealthy, so I'm not sure why you'd expect them to go after those folks... that's like expecting the DEA to go after the CIA. But to your question: Cuba, actually.
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by scarecrowbob 5mo ago
On some level, yes, but having words to describe sub-sets can be useful too. A "human" is just a "featherless biped", after all? I think the Goomba Fallacy captures something helpful to me- it's helpful to know the
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by scarecrowbob 6mo ago
To these folks the constitution is just paper. Just like their bible, the words mean whatever they say they mean. Politically, I am an anarchist, so I already believed that they operate with disdain for the folks they govern- I look at how
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by scarecrowbob 6mo ago
While there is no worls in which I support DJT, I don't think that his supporters and (more importantly) his material situation care about anything the guy actually does. I could look at the "grab them by the pussy" thing and
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by scarecrowbob 6mo ago
What could possibly be the content of that blackmail? It feels like every couple of months some new horror drops, yet there he is, chuggin along.
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by scarecrowbob 6mo ago
Good for you but we don't all live in large cities or participate in "the" industry.
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by scarecrowbob 6mo ago
I have a similar situation with a smaller system in rural CO (4kw panels, 6kw inverter, 15kwH batteries). If you get far enough out it ceases to matter. The (unpermitted, about 25-year-old) shacks I live in never had power and getting an ea
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by scarecrowbob 6mo ago
Generally not outside of the bar-band level, but it is highly variable.
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by scarecrowbob 6mo ago
I mean, I certainly am looking forward to taking negative positions about the deaths of folks I am interested in... if I bet $50K that arowthway won't die suddenly then I am sure that probably won't happen, right?
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by scarecrowbob 6mo ago
Well, to be fair, I don't listen to a lot of recorded music, and while I hear a lot of music it's mostly in whatever circles I am in. For instance, I learned "Big Cheesburgers" by Blaze Foley picking bass on stage during
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by scarecrowbob 6mo ago
I'm not familiar with this writer. I'm not surprised- I know many hundreds of fairly good writers who live and die, many without recording much of their work. It's not at all uncommon in this world. What is rare is that the
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by scarecrowbob 6mo ago
"No need for hyperbolics, no one will take you seriously." There are some groups of people, many on this forum or even this thread, whose respect for my position would make me believe there is likely an error in my position.
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by scarecrowbob 6mo ago
I mean, the fact that it's Pretti who you're drawing the distinction on might indicate to you where your racial biases are here. Aesthetic differences are differences: red is not blue, afterall. However,
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by scarecrowbob 6mo ago
Oh, that's not true that there aren't folks in the US in favor of "open borders". There are a lot of us left-libertarians who are in favor of humans having the same rights as capital, we are just easy to ignore because i
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by scarecrowbob 6mo ago
As a person who spent a couple of hours watching our local ICE facility today, I'd say the differences are purely aesthetic. I've gotten to where I don't really care -what- the law is and believe that from an ethical standpoi
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by scarecrowbob 6mo ago
I was. We were doing things, yall just didn't pay attention/
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by scarecrowbob 6mo ago
The issue is that most events don't even sell out. This is a terrible idea.
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by scarecrowbob 6mo ago
Having produced, performed in, and engineered a number of shows and festivals, this is a terrible idea for a pricing strategy. Consider portajohns for an outdoor festival- incentivizing folks to wait until the last possible minute makes it
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by scarecrowbob 6mo ago
You might not remember any. That doesn't mean they did not happen. I rememebr friends doing migrant support in San Antonio in 2012 and similar actions. I bet it feels nice to pretend that it's other folks who are hypocrites. But
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by scarecrowbob 6mo ago
The easy observation is that it's far more likely that guns simply do nothing than they are to kill anyone. I am about 50, and I can tell the difference between when my mental health was in a place where I might kill myself and where I
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by scarecrowbob 6mo ago
Just because you seem genuinely curious I will say this: Yeah, it scares the crap out of me too. I'm queer and very far to the left politically, and my neighbors all have a lot of guns and if you listen to what they say they think that
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by scarecrowbob 6mo ago
Not being able to get stuff on a pallet or in a 5 gallon bucket or whatever has its own cost. Hell, not being able to invoice on NET30 or have a supplier or even not having to pick and pack stuff has a cost.
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by scarecrowbob 6mo ago
All your analysis does is ignore what folks' actual concerns are. Of course everybody eventually has to take a shit and has dumb jokes. You're just ignoring some very real differences in how folks relate because of their circumsta
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by scarecrowbob 6mo ago
It's almost like our material relations to others defines our primary concerns and thus our class interests and thus how we exist among other folks. But that's just, like, such a 19th century communistic view on things. We may all

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