SippyCup

What? Intelligent people get fooled all the time. The NXIVM cult was made up mostly of reasonably intelligent women. Shit that motherfucker selected for intelligent women.

You're not immune. Even if you were, you're incredibly dependent on people of average to lower intelligence on a daily basis. Our planet runs on the average intelligence.

In their defense they were drunk as fuck at the time. And were wearing racist costumes for some reason.

Obviously they weren't thinking clearly. Or much at all.

Our domestic food supply is critically dependent on a number of tools and spare parts that will no longer be easily obtainable. A lead time of 6-7 weeks is the difference between a good harvest and no harvest at all.

Once a week, when she's gone, lower the saturation on her monitor by like 2%. After a few months the colors she picks will be so different it won't really matter anymore.

Printing off a single webpage that contains a recipe for a peanut butter sandwich.

The best times I had with any PVP shooter were always in the middle of the day on weekdays. It was always a bunch of working age guys like myself and that was the only time they had to play. Dudes were always friendly, games were always fun. 3pm Eastern hit and the fun was over, if it was Friday you were done playing for the weekendb unless you stayed up really late, even then, it was never as good.

Chinese made parts are generally worse. At least industrially. We buy a few things from China that we need in high volume and we have to go over every single part because inevitably 25% will be out of spec in one way or another. We've bought Chinese steel a few times and about half of that material was basically useless.

We avoid Chinese tooling, parts, and steel as much as we can. We will buy used Western made machinery before buying new Chinese machinery for the same reason. The two Chinese made presses we have have had to be rebuilt twice, and were only ever used for light duty stamping. Those presses, only about 20 years old are being decommissioned rather than repaired any further.

Most of what we use is American or German made. German parts generally hold tighter tolerances but they seem to last about as long. We have a few French made lasers that work really well until they don't, and then they're a nightmare to service.

None of that matters. Because we cannot function without these things coming in from overseas. I don't know of any industrial building in my city that can. We make a lot of stuff in this town you need that you'd never think about. Conveyors, refrigerated trailers, the hydraulic fittings and irrigation systems that literally supply the entire agricultural sector, all of it depends on a vast intercontinental trade network that is actively collapsing. The latest order of punches and die inserts we ordered are sitting on a boat in Schenzhen and have been for weeks. Because even though we're willing to pay the tariffs on the few things we order, the ten thousand other customers may not be. And until they can fill a boat with goods people are willing to pay a premium on, that boat isn't going to leave harbor.

Empty shelves are only the beginning of how irrecoverably fucked we're about to be.

Satanic schools here we coooome

I call it the keg.

I used to have a mighty one pack, right out of high school my abs were a giant block of solid muscle. Theeeen I went to college and it just became fat.

The man loves 3 things. Beer, himself, and trucks. He's clearly drinking the first and fucking the other two, hard to judge a man who's obtained the kind of success in live that allows him to indulge in his hobbies.

I'm forming a new party called the "Guillotines for anyone with more money than me party"

We'll guillotine anyone with more money than me. That's my whole platform. I don't have a lot but I'm comfortable. If you also don't have a lot but you're comfortable boy do I have the party for you!

A guy with literally 0 State department experience, and a single term in any elected office.

Like, dude probably has some contacts in China but this appointment makes no sense.