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This year may be biblical
tp4tissue:
Sigh. Tp4 calculating recent expenses. No, don't stop @ go, just send Tp4 to jail.
motorized tv lift, $200
motorized desk lift $200
air purifier x4, $280
road food, rice, berries, veggies, ~(approx) subway veggie sub x60, $780, closer to $1000-1500
7800x3d base parts, $700
6950xt $600
7900xtx $1070
gas 6000 miles, $1300
midea u air conditioners x6, $1680
s90c 77" oled $2300
~$10,000, closer to $15,000 including hotel use.
That's 430x second hand air conditioners in India. For which that ailing farmer had to borrow money for. +Tp4 literally ate all his rice.
fohat.digs:
I am reading a book on fundamentalism and I was struck by this passage, and how you could fill the blanks with names of many different groups and get wildly different scenarios, but which are entirely reasonable. I replaced the original terms with blanks. Fill them in yourself.
“The issue of normalcy most divides the _______ right from left. The left longs for normalcy and wants _______ to be a nation like other nations. The entire _______ right, on the other hand, is united in its resentment of the idea of normalcy and its belief, along the lines of _______ religion, that _______ are exceptional – different from other people and nations. Reverence for the national past allegedly solidifies this uniqueness. Religious _______ believe that God made _______ unique, many of the secular right believe that _______ are destined to be unique by their past and have no free choice in the matter.
Another, but somewhat less important, reason for the affinity between the secular right and religious _______ is that the latter are capable of providing “convincing”arguments for perpetual _______ rule over the land of _______ and the denial of certain basic rights to the _______. These arguments are not only put in terms of national security but more importantly in terms of the God–given right to this territory. Secular _______ scholars and politicians are often far too alienated from the ________ past and _______ values to talk competently, or even to understand properly, such matters. Only the religious can provide an in–depth rationale for _______ policies, which are grounded not in short–term strategic considerations but rather in the long history of the special relationship between God and his chosen people.”
tp4tissue:
Language has always been vaguely defined.
It changes to suite whatever condition is temporally most likely to be valuable.
Benevolent vs Despicable Method. Do we judge the outcome or the method, or do we defer to the larger grand scheme.
Comprehension changes based on arbitrary cutting. Victims become Perpetrators, become victims, become perpetrators as you randomly step back in time.
tp4tissue:
They want to "grow" Vegas?
Tp4 was just there, experienced the fabled 120F @ death valley. It was 110 morning in Vegas, 100 at night. Homeless people would walk around the parking lot asking for water.
Seriously, the Arrogance and Worship of the almighty air conditioning.
Tp4 had an actual dark chocolate bar melt in his pocket.
Flames 400 feet high in Jasper Canada. Wildfires are out of control, the Town is likely lost.
Where's your air-conditioner god now?
tp4tissue:
Sigh.. Jasper Canada, you know, that town which denies Climate Change, voted against increasing fire mitigation costs,
GOT BURNED DOWN by wildfire, 1/3 to 1/2 of structures destroyed.
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