And no, I have no problem with you disliking my method of commenting. If that’s where you stopped it would be no problem. But your response to people saying things you don’t like is to start a crusade to eject those people from your world.
In college I took aikido classes. I had thin gi pants designed for taikwando, not grappling. With all the ground movement the knees ripped open constantly.
So each night after class I’d cut new squares out of an old white t-shirt, and then sew those squares onto the ripped-open knees of those gi pants.
My sewing technique was crude: just two pieces of cloth pressed together, then a doubled thread wrapping around that seam again and again and again. The seams were tough and thick, like scars on the pants.
Each class, they’d rip open again, and I’d add more path material and more thread. Eventually the knees were many layers of torn and patched cloth, with thick scarlike seams criss-crossing all across them. The inside of those knees were very rough and it was kneeling and crawling on that roughness that was tearing up my knees.
I didn’t have money for laundry either so every class I washed that gi in my tub and wrung it out as best I could to dry for two days until the next class.
I spent nearly as much time tending that gi as practicing on the mat. It felt cool. The skin of my knees grew thicker and more leathery as I tore it up and it healed repeatedly, matching the uniform’s knees getting thicker and gnarlier.
Every night after class first it was hydrogen peroxide for the blood (always blood in the knees after a class) then scrubbing that with a toothbrush, then churning the gi in the tub. The water would get murky and surprisingly dirty and then I’d pull the thing out of the tub a few inches at a time, wringing it as tight as I could to get the water out, then dropping the dry end on the bathroom floor and grabbing another couple inches to wring out. My forearms would be just dead, my hands wanting to cramp from all the gripping and twisting.
Video games might not sound like much of a change, but they’re more active than watching movies. It’s a small step away from that totally passive mode.
I don’t know much anything about electric motors but could you use the same motor and just spin the thing up more slowly? Or would you need a different motor for that?
Within 20 years I bet we’ll have small fusion reactors that just sit onsite and generate all the power you want. If we survive WW3 that is. A toaster-sized generator will be able to run a gravitron no problem.
Get yourself kidnapped by some hindi-speaking cult. Take lots of acid, and try to convince them to let you go. Join the cult. Eventually, lean to speak hindi. Sober up from acid. Kidnapping and cult never happened. But now you speak hindi.
I will always remember fondly my days in the Savannah, serving under Colonel Mustard. It left a great impression on me, like the burn marks on a frankfurter. They’re on my upper right arm, because the Colonel thought I was one of the enemy one night while he was in his cups and sought to grill me. Well, he certainly gave me the third degree I’ll give him that. Yes, yes, I remember my days in the sweltering heat, in the Savannah. Under the command of Colonel Mustard.
Some may ask where I got these lines. It was Colonel Mustard, in the Savannah, with the potato masher.
It’s not a lack of government regulation, but rather a lack of competition that allows them to charge what they like.
Prices are naturally regulated by markets, when competition exists. But the government forcibly shut down a lot of the companies, forcing market consolidation. This means less competition.
Monopolies are a lack of competition. By definition. We need to encourage the starting of new businesses in existing industries if we want to solve monopolistic price fixing. Small businesses failed and got absorbed by larger businesses during the pandemic.
The new businesses that came into those spots are more likely to be big chains, companies with lots of cash reserves.
Now we all just have to recalibrate our price expectations to 2020 prices x 1.5 or whatever it settled out as. Oh, and we’ve all gotta go find new jobs at the higher rates or we’re all poorer.
It’ll slow down now as the market fractures and evolves a new foam structure. For a while we had only big bubbles but small ones are always forming. As they grow into the places the previous small bubbles filled, the price rises will slow down.
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And no, I have no problem with you disliking my method of commenting. If that’s where you stopped it would be no problem. But your response to people saying things you don’t like is to start a crusade to eject those people from your world.
That is why you are worth the effort of opposing.