Suzzer, I've been thinking of how it would be if some websites and/or forums banded together to create subscription packages that would disable ads. Like, if you could pay a buck a month to get no ads on ten sites, that'd be pretty handy. I see some places asking for a dollar for one month ad-free on their site and it seems a bit much.

Suzzer,

Get an electric car.

With respect to the first idea, that exists. I can't think of the name, but it advertises on some of the Crooked Media podcasts. With friends Like These is the one, I think.

There's a magazine one. But all the magazines suck and it's just PDFs, not access to the websites. I specifically want the top Newspapers and maybe The Economist.

Kinda hard to go on long photography trips into the boonies when you're worried about charging every 70 miles.

Those are the trips to the gas station that bother you? Not the ones in town going back and forth to work?

Get a little electric car and rent a car for your trips. Enterprise will deliver a car, full of gas, to your house.

Hybrid cars are great for road trips. Very quiet, ideal for listening to road music.

I think suzzer does have a short commute, so with a plug-in hybrid with EV only mode he would barely use any gas for daily driving.

This is a great idea and I would pay way more than $10 a month for it. The only thing stopping me from spending like $50 a month on subscribing to each is the annoyance of signing up and the subsequent barrage of marketing emails.

The work gas station trips bother me. I just hate gas stations. It always seems to be the left side of the road, sometimes it's really slow, sometimes the station is packed, sometimes the stupid nozzle keeps shutting off, gas stinks, etc.

But I barely go to work anymore so it's not a big deal. I like my fj cruiser for road trips, it's decked out the way I want.

We thought a cafe that served school lunch items from the 70's (er, 70's styled, fresh food) would be pretty awesome. Elementary school pizza with that weird crust, turkey cubes and gravy, see through tacos, comfort food for olds basically.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/ampht...ack-of-effort/

Well yeah, just world hypothesis is an extension of God is good and just.

White evangelical baby boomers. Worst of the worst.

I'll give the Baby Boomers SOME, just the tiniest bit of leeway there since the Protestant work ethic vibe (e.g., spiritual salvation and decency is defined not by sacraments or ceremonies or charity or religious devotion but instead via work, frugality, self-sacrifice) predates the Baby Boomers. You might be able to get me on the fact that the phenomenon was never that real and even the historical veneration was itself a product of scholarship during the Cold War to try to come up with some faux pseudo cultural historical things that separated Americans from Communists.

So, is the Protestant work ethic thing real and is it really an American cultural pathology? Maybe? But if you agree it is a real cultural and social phenomenon then most believers agree that it predates the Baby Boomers.

So while I'm happy to be the first to line up and lambast white Baby Boomers for all kinds of things, sometimes I find in those kinds of polls a deeper, more fundamental American exceptionalism thing that is longer and more durable then a few generations back.

The pbj sandwiches stand out for me. I hated them then but I'd try one now.

This is how you defend our borders and defeat ISIS.

https://lm.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...v-V1XY58Et5UUb

I am telling you guys, I'm spinning gold over here and y'all just don't get it. I'm like the Oracle at Delphi or some ****. Someone better jump on hipster mini-golf and my online subscription consolidator.

http://gettep.com/

Mike Cernovich and ACist blast from the past Stefan Molyneux have both shared this on Twitter lately:
http://www.mcmasterleaks.com/h-r-mcmaster-facts/

So that's cool.

It's a little weird they cropped off the Rothschild part of the Garrison cartoon.

Yeah the resident bat**** crazy libertarian-turned-Trumpite on CP made a McMaster thread. To their credit no one else on the forum is biting at all.

If these disinformation geniuses are only reaching the nutjobs like VarianceMinefield with their 6D chess, I'll breathe a lot easier.

https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/s...74022040948736

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DAMN SON

Another entry in the occasional series of LC thread posts about Dubai high rise fires (there've been a lot):

Dubai's Torch tower catches fire -- again

I dunno. I'm thinking it's a combination of "because they had to" and "worked, but didn't work as hard as they claimed to, but because they work they yell about how hard they work and everybody else needs to get off their lazy asses." With a dash of got paid pretty well to stack that **** on conveyor belts and peanuts were profitable back then.

Don't get me wrong, there were lots of hard working, genuine people. Thing is, there still are.

Ironically, the HARDEST hard working of the bunch never would have lead us to the industrial revolution and computing and scripting **** that would normally take 3 people 10 hours a day but now kaki shorts guy can do in 2.

I think I'm rambling now, and get the feeling this wasn't even your point. But until we're dropping dead at desks and jumping out of windows, we'll always lag behind japan.