Relevant Rant: So now that the massive freeze is at least paused, I am awaiting delayed trash pick up in my liberal city. Civic recycling is now every other week so do I put out the recycling that was not picked up? Who knows, but its out there. On my morning walk I see all sorts of items that people are trying to somehow get rid of. These items aren't routinely picked up anymore so you can try to arrange something, or leave them out hoping someone else wants them or you can schedule the city to pick up and after one item this is a paying proposition.

Back in the day American made products were durable. The Maytag repairman truly had a boring job as far as I could tell. I still have some of the furniture my dad owned. Now cheap Chinese goods including the "fancy" IOT appliances last what, 2 or 3 years without major issues? Today we have a refrigerator that leaks, accumulating slabs of ice under the lower freezer tray, an internet enabled washer that could somehow 'remotely' diagnose its ailments but which sounds like a jet engine every time it is used and various and sundry defunct appliances that are now non-discardable by ordinary means.

Meanwhile our city has high sales tax and implemented a "use" tax plus various and sundry zone based sales taxes. When the "use" tax was implemented the city manager used city funds to send out cards explaining why if we didn't put in the use tax we "wouldn't be like other places". How many small retailers can compete with Amazon now that it takes an entire department to determine the rates for every jurisdiction in America. Good bye to on line sales if you aren't a big guy, I suspect.

Back to trash pick up. What happens when I realize that the cheap "hecho a Chine" (my melange of the stupidity I know it isn't linguistically correct at all) crap I've been buying will live on my curb for the next century or until the city notifies me they won't pick it up? How about maybe I reconsider any purchase that puts me further into this debacle? Now sales AND use tax revenue declines for my woke city, but I can at least have a laugh.

>>18041906

The fingerprinting at the turnstiles going in makes the criminal class feel at home, I guess.

>>18041924

Indeed.

>>18041915

Kind of concerning to me that I look at this as a possibly beneficial development.

>>18042268

>https://twitter.com/goodfoodgal/status/1608352080561074180

There has been a super long opportunity for repentance, whistleblowing, truth telling. I was really questioning what was going on, because so many people are waking up that it's almost too late right now. I now think that was the point. Give the "bad guys" opportunity to come clean. The carnage is so bad no one will have any problem with seeing them removed from society.

I've shared "anti-vaccine misinformation" since 2016. With rare exceptions most people didn't receive the truth from me. "I trust my doctor" might be famous last words for some.

>>18042274

Americans are retarded due to the full CDC schedule plus fluoridated water and leaded chocolate.

https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/book-review-cause-unknown-the-epidemic

I learned something after the movie "Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe" came out. To know how a society is doing don't look at the prominent and "important" people look at the "least"- the babies, the children, the mothers.

SIDS "sudden infant death syndrome" cases have been going on for how long? Did anyone in "public health" bother to time the deaths to days post "well-baby" pediatric visits?

Now we have "Cause Unknown"…potentially civilization ending loss of life among the young vaccinated population of mostly working people and school children.

Pointed out by a "public health official"? Nope. Former Wall Street type who simply looked at the data.

>>18042380

If I still had social media accounts or if my e-mail was still working, I'd be sending that meme all over the place!

This is what got yahoo to can my e-mail:

https://www.brighteon.com/5a5a41d6-193e-43d9-b427-9a20665d45bd

It wouldn't have been so bad except she was head of the ACIP (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices) for the CDC at one time.

The deaths? That means the vaccine is working!

https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-12-30-ayurveda-cures-65000-patients-indian-town-covid.html#

>>18042428

I really wanted to take a "sabbatical" of sorts due to history of traumatic events and significant difficulty in finding a suitable job and living situation. During "COVID" I was so angry about the conditions in my liberal city that I stopped shopping. I saved enough money for about a year's worth of living expenses. I timed my departure for when my income would be low enough I wouldn't have to file taxes. Of course I PAID taxes, though, due to legalized confiscation from paychecks but that's another story.

I will do A LOT to avoid the necessity of filing again. I think people should plead the fifth.

Seeing Trump go through this is just one more nail in the coffin of dealing with the "government".

>>18042452

I guess we'll find out, because they look like they'll be the only ones left.

I once looked at an obituary in a small town newspaper of someone who died pretty old about 100 I think. It was a huge family with the older generations living to 100 easily. Reading the genealogical info. that went with the obit felt like I was reading how to prune a tree. Younger generations not having as many offspring and not living as long.

We've been like to about A LOT.