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#421 Re: The Garden » Electricity bill » 242 weeks ago
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Are some of you guys growing marijuana?
I used to. Got really good at it and had a whole hydroponic setup with LEDs and a carbon scrubber. My last grow I average about 2 dried ounces per plant - not bad for a grow in a 4x6 tent. But PA legalized medicinal and I didn't want a felony if someone went through my trash, so I gave that up a couple years ago. Hoping when they eventually go rec I can legally grow again.
#422 Re: Guns N' Roses » GN'R 2021 Tour Thread » 242 weeks ago
With Mexico cancelled and Aus/NZ very unlikely, how many more shows do they have to unveil it before everyone is commenting on which European show it debuts next summer? The answer is 6.
#423 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 242 weeks ago
mitchejw wrote:When are we going to address the obscene money the government throws at our military to do nothing except occupy foreign countries. What other industry do you get to retire after 20 years with a full pension and benefits? The military industrial complex is the single most bloated piece of the budget in our country. We've gotten almost zero return on that investment as a country.
Are you on crack?!?
In the 21st century in the aftermath of the Cold War, the United States became a hyper-power. There's everyone fighting for scraps at the bottom, Russia and China slightly above them, and the US miles above all of them.
While I agree the defense budget is getting a tad too high, gutting it is not the answer. There should be some cuts here and there but under no circumstances can we allow Russia, China, the EU, or any potential adversaries to move up as the US military goes in decline.
I would be for budget increases as long as it keeps US supremacy as the status quo.
You want to see a nightmare world? Place any country that's not the US in the number one spot.
We're about to remind the world who's boss with the unveiling of one of our classified space weapons. We can only have such weapons in our arsenal thanks to the bloated defense budget.
Zero return on our investment? You're crazy...
If you really want to cut the defense budget, let's start with ending the Marine Corps. It's the smallest of the four services and its primary mission - amphibious landings, isn't something it has ever really executed. D-Day? The largest and most memorable amphibious assault in the modern world - entirely done without the Marine Corps. Good luck getting California to ever allow the DoD to end their Marine Bases though.
But if you really want to cut the budget, get rid of all the private contractors that the military has allowed to take over nearly every facet of maintenance and supply. You need that Stryker fixed? A civilian is going to be doing that work instead of an Army trained mechanic. You want meals served on base or in a combat zone, civilians are doing that instead of Army trained cooks. You want a computer network installed, operated and maintained, well you're gonna have a shit ton of civilians in the mix instead of the Soldiers the American tax payer shells out millions per trained soldier. There was a great article from the AP last week on this very topic: https://www.yahoo.com/news/study-critic … 07607.html This is the shit Eisenhower warned us about. Not the US being the premiere military force in the world. He was very happy with being the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe.
There's a lot of fat and cuts that need to be made to the defense budget. But attacking the pensions of people who spent years in combat in favor of handing out free shit to humans so lazy and stupid they can't figure out how to make $15 is just so off the reservation and removed from how any society should function, you have to ask if the suggestion is serious or just more bait.
#424 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 242 weeks ago
Collateral damage and the misuse of drones has been an ongoing issue for over a decade. Obama bombed the wedding for those keeping score at home. But all of that is distinct and separate from a "targeted retaliation" the CiC hopped on national TV to celebrate and assuage the concerns of the American people who were horrified that 10k+ Americans were stranded and 13 American military members killed because the Biden administration failed to plan and execute an orderly withdrawal. Biden promised that he would hold the terrorist responsible for the Kabul bombing accountable. He got on national TV and said this. Then he bombed a civilian bringing water to his children, killing all of them. He then got on national TV and celebrated this bombing, telling Americans we got the guy behind the Kabul bombing.
I just can't take serious the folks who parroted every far left media conspiracy over the past 4 years remaining silent as the current occupant executed the largest foreign relations blunder in at least half a century, then murders 10-13 civilians, and celebrates it as a victory. If you think for a moment that if Trump was in the WH when this happened every pundit and media outlet in the world would be comparing him to Hitler and genocide, but a major story like this is ignored in favor 2 kids killed in a school shooting, a pretty white woman being snuffed by her fiance and more Covid hysteria, it's clear we're not operating from the same objectivity book.
#425 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 242 weeks ago
I mean you can think whatever you want....you were awfully quiet during all the bullshit in Syria and you didn't utter one word about the people dying in the middle east and Asia over the past 5 years.
I think it's quite opportunist that you basically keep making the same post over and over again.
Lumping Russia collusion into this for some random ass reason is laughable and shows me you're only interested in stirring the pot.
When are we going to address the obscene money the government throws at our military to do nothing except occupy foreign countries. What other industry do you get to retire after 20 years with a full pension and benefits? The military industrial complex is the single most bloated piece of the budget in our country. We've gotten almost zero return on that investment as a country.
Actually, Mitch. I was very vocal about my opposition to Trump's escalation of force in Syria. It turned out he was right and I was wrong since he removed ISIS from Syria and Iraq, but my opposition to the strikes after reports of Assad using gas are well documented on this forum. It's not opportunist when the story broke today that the Pentagon is now confirming no ISIS-K members were present in the strike and 7 of the dead are children. Biden, the Pentagon and the media previously reported it was a smashing success of revenge against the bomber who killed 13 Americans and several hundred Afghani's. The only hypocrites are those who parroted garbage media headlines about how Trump was destroying our image abroad, when it's been the G7 condemning Biden for his atrocious handling of Afghanistan and the latest nuclear deal with the UK, Australia and France. I'm not shocked you're ignorant of all of this, because you've made it known you make no effort to stay informed.
People that preached Russian collusion should be embarrassed as they're just as uninformed and irrational as the morons who think the election was stolen or that Democrats harbor children in a pizza basement for good times. The only difference there is a million+ more mouth breathers who bought hook, line and sinker any outrageous story about the former White House occupant, but are conveniently absent and silent as all of their predicted fears under Trump actualize under Biden.
Your attack on a military pension for those who make 40k a year and deploy to act as the sword of the US is the bait and stirring the pot. Thanks again for proving you never have anything informed or original to contribute, just weak deflections from any criticism toward your adopted outsourcing of thought. I don't get any pension, I only did 9 years so if that was a dig at me, you failed. If you can't explain why Biden is so great and all your reasons for why Trump was so bad are debunked, maybe you should just sit in the corner and acknowledge you don't have a clue and are only here for attention.
#426 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 242 weeks ago
So now that it's confirmed Biden's drone strike that he and the media celebrated as being tough has been confirmed by the Pentagon to be a murder of 10 innocent civilians with no ISIS-K members in the strike, does anything happen? Or does the Orwellian response to violence and incompetence shield Biden from any accountability? Is there a point where the people who bought into the hysteria over Trump do any reflection and recognize who they put into office and how incompetent and damaging Biden has been? The man botched Afghanistan's withdrawal because he lacked any plan, rushed in Soldiers to prevent a massacre and got 13 of them killed in a suicide attack, then launches a retaliatory drone strike that murders 10 innocent Afghani's including 7 children. In my not so humble opinion, if you remain silent now after spreading all the lies about Russian collusion and every other wacky conspiracy the corporate media peddled for viewers, you are an absolute fraud.
#427 Re: The Garden » Electricity bill » 242 weeks ago
Yea, during the summer months I pay about $340 a month to keep the home temp at 70/21 degrees. But outside of that it’s around $200 a month in the middle of the US.
#428 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 243 weeks ago
I’m not. The recall hasn’t been within the margin of error for months. This is a state that went 64-34 for Biden. It went 62% for Newsom in 2018. The idea that a Trump surrogate could get elected in California is almost laughable.
#429 Re: Guns N' Roses » When’s Hard Skool? » 243 weeks ago
Could it be it's doing it on an algorithm because of people searching "Hardskool Guns N' Roses?"
That’d be my guess. Their algorithm wouldn’t be worth a cent if it didn’t do this, and they’d have a major design flaw if non-public data entered into a separate database influenced their algorithm.
#430 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 243 weeks ago
"I know that the United States has given control over broadcasts to four companies/networks, and those same 4 companies dominate media information on cable networks. But you're not allowed to criticize the opinions and narratives put forth by other human beings employed at the networks. It doesn't matter if a network has a city in flames behind the anchor as the anchor tells us all is peaceable and quiet here. A monopoly on information means a monopoly on information. You can't be trusted to take the undisputed facts from a story, and inject and interpret on your own the nuance and context of a situation. Yes, a 16 year old black girl was in the motion of plunging a knife into another teenager's chest, but that information isn't relevant to the broadcast story of another white cop gunning down another black person. If you had that information or thought that fact a relevant part of the context, you might come to a different conclusion than Don Lemon. And we can't have people thinking differently than what I want them to hear. You're not allowed to view the video on an ABC newscast, and opine that the ABC anchor was wrong for not addressing it as part of the equation.
I personally don't pay much attention to any information stream, and just happen to vaguely recall the headlines of the algorithm provided headlines that scroll across my web browser. It doesn't matter that in 2019 my party adamantly defended the filibuster and used it on nearly every piece of legislation. It doesn't matter that I held this position just 24 months ago in support of it. I have opinions that are entirely given to me by other people, and I'm going to defend them no matter how ridiculous I look or how unable I am to provide supporting documentation to prove what I think of reality is remotely represented in any data. When others take different sources of confirmed data from multiple sources and confirm their own informed opinion, well that's just horseshit.
I've never read Noam Chomsky nor am I aware that he was/is one of the leading progressive intellectuals of the 20th century. Nor do I know most of his career has been on the science of language and communication, and how governments and media manipulate words to convince the general populace of non-truths. But if I did know any of this, I would tell Chomsky to go fuck himself and to not spend thousands of hours analyzing print media to identify biases and disinformation injected into them.
It's all or nothing. If you don't want a Podiatrist doing your brain surgery, but want them to do your bunionectomy, just fuck right off. I never read more than one source on a subject because once I've found an answer I like, I'm committed to it. Even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Love it or leave it, man. Either you blindly accept the media's narrative, or you refuse to discuss the variance in narratives between networks and all the context and nuance a 2 minute segment between commercials left out. Otherwise you're just a hypocrite."
