Groggio 1w ago • 100%
Post 2020 and the Covid19 epidemic the states couldn't decide on how to isolate, lock-down, and re-open. So they all split into "regional state medical associations" or something like that i don't remember exactly. This was not state secession or 'semi-autonomous region' recognition etc. But it was a clear and recent example how material situations can suddenly motivate or force a re-organization on national institutional scales. To spring-board off this we can theorize; if there was another "disagreement" between states on how to react to a new situation (medical or other) that they would make similar moves, such as re-organizing into state coalitions, or perhaps smaller break-away regions. Lead by whoever is sitting leadership at the time.
Groggio 2mo ago • 100%
Are ya winning son?
..and the original musical play from 1947. I guess the word 'brigadoon' was rolling around in my head for decades before recently viewing some other Scottish history videos; like [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMOiF_kuqUo). A bridge built around the 15th century over the Doon river. Anyway you can imaging the clumsy mispelling of the title foreshadows the clumsily writen Scottish stereotypes within the film. [Brigadoon 1954](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpk9JNUDr9k). I enjoy doing a historical material analysis of old 20th century english film while also cringing my face off.
I replied "that sounds very unrasonable"
Groggio 3mo ago • 100%
Groggio 3mo ago • 100%
The smoking of kindly special herbs, thustly inhaled and duely savored, rendereth ye a soft swerving of the body and aloofness of mind. 
Go on hexbear [*i*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hPUM01nuis)
Groggio 4mo ago • 100%
it takes time and logistics to meet and spend time with other people / make friends. Then it takes time and practice to learn making conversation smoothly and naturally. at times I had to force myself to go back to the very limited number of places I would find friends or new friendly people. US towns are not built for making friends, they lack some common social places that other countries do.
As for finding what interests you and doing something you love. idk everyone is different I tried many hobbies and crafts before finding things I like, such as DIY biking, kayaking, picnicking, music, computer and electric stuff. I try not to horde a bunch of bulky idle half-done projects cluttering up the place, but very happy with a few creative crafty projects that are useful like building a bike or sew fit a shirt or pants or alter an accessory.
Sorting posts and comments by 'new' to see posts before they are deleted or altered. Its what you would excpect the rah rah rah, bombs away psycho shit. But some interesting comments can be found. These are reactions to [warship close call houthi missile](https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/31/politics/us-warship-close-call-houthi-missile/index.html) *"Holy shit the CIWS (air defence machinegun) actually shot it down?!"* *"If CIWS was activaded that means it was within 1 mile / 7 seconds to impact."* *"Fuck. This is terrifying."* *"This is the first naval CIWS kill since the gulf war."* *"Isn't that system scheduled for maintenance this month?"* There are dozens of sub %eddits like this.
Groggio 9mo ago • 100%
These call centers are run like crooked gambling houses run by the mob. The local cops look the other way, take bribes. I've heard one actually got raided but that may be a rare occurrence.
I've been is crisis mode for days. Delving into the mess of computer issues for this older family member "jane" is exhausting. And the corporate bazingasoft OS is tedious as fuck. Jane's computer is total mess, weird settings. Managing the account sign-in / sign-out and password settings is incomprehensible. We're freezing and password updating everything. I'm gradually contacting professionals and applicable agencies. As well as making sorrowed lilting cries for help. I spil my jice. So hopefully the worst of it is over and we are safe again soon. Just needed to vent. These fucking scammers preying on elderly is wack and we just felt the full brunt of it. Pray for us, stay safe.   
Groggio 11mo ago • 100%
The punchline is AI "artificial intelligence" bazinga 
Groggio 11mo ago • 100%
Every fucking thing i search for and watch on youtube invariably leads to NAZI CONTENT in the sidebar. The 'right-wing' content is the majority of youtube's content but it also keeps pushing explicitly NAZI CONTENT in my fucking face. No matter what subject I'm trying to search.
It's like this. You give it access to a bunch of data like a text , variables , often a spreadsheet of text and numbers. Also live sensor data. Then uses algorithms to compare data and outputs useful things like text, images. Its also useful for pattern recognition and automating machines? Idk they called it something extremely dumb like 'synthetic thoughts' or 'cyber thinker' or 'fake smart thing' and havent shut up about it for 25 years now.
Groggio 12mo ago • 100%
smdh damn tankies sourcing documents and reading it, smdh.
Groggio 1y ago • 100%
Helping keep the Portland gentrifyers in check
Groggio 1y ago • 100%
Open 3D model program. Load a cube. Stretch it out long. Add curved roof. This bad boy is done!
Groggio 1y ago • 100%
I, a uniquely gifted westerner has invented a totally new and better, improved, more efficient version of existing tech.
No, thats been tried you are just complicating a working system, making it shittier, and selling a bullshit grifter solution. Or just doing it for hype and clout. Failing upward by being a yes-man for legacy tech capital.
No its better now. Bazinga!
Its when westoids act like they are inventing a new thing, or improving upon something, but its really just more enshitification, repackaging fragments of existing tech. Or worse; a more polluting, wasteful or dangerous "invention" that is popular purely for the ideology and decorum. Particularly of US west coast tech-company devotees. Absolutely convincing themselves that they'll eventually build a eco zero-carbon version of todays infrastructure but will do so by mining more rare minerals and consuming more oil to get to that speculative destination. Bazinga.
Groggio 1y ago • 100%
Bazinga! (damn no Sheldon bazinga emote)
Every building is an illuminated billboard now. Every billboard is a video screen now. The billboards heckle and point at you *"Hey, hey consumer! Check this shit out. Bazinga burger and colored sugar drink. If you don't buy this you're and iiiidiooot, lmao!"* The roads are all toll roads with adverts. They pay homeless wanderers to sweep the road and also wear corporate advertisement jumpsuits. Every vehicle has the make and model plastered all over it in bold, contrasting font. The now ubiquitous lithium mine refineries provide *"smoke clouds that provide atmospheric shade for you loyal peasants"* in some neigborhoods. The most popular TV show is 'Bazinga Today' where the children of oligarchs come to bazinga-splain how mining, logging, and drilling are good actually. The logging-mining-drilling program is eco friendly green tech that you should be investing in, or laboring under. *"buy my book!"* Everyones wallet is twice as large but half as valuable due to the new tangled mess of digital currencies, credit cards, benefit cards, bazinga coin, and all your private information that most stored require you to divulge when buying treats. America still loves hamburder. America #1. Average life expectancy is 33. You are now a digitized avatar for bazinga burger ads. Your physical body is sold to be exploded on live TV.
Groggio 1y ago • 100%
Power to first nations people, relatives and friends of Wilamet, of Ilahee, of Chinook, Kalipuya. Of the coast & Columbia river basin. Happy to see the ceremony went well.
Groggio 1y ago • 100%
If I was turned into a tree I'd want a root burrow for critters, a hollow top for birds of prey. Some bat pockets, a bees nest, squirrels. Every creature that dwells in the wood. Like a mini aircraft carrier of wild beasts. Clawing and swooping at meddling pmc bystanders.
Groggio 1y ago • 100%
In the yodelverse people communicated from mountain ridges by yodeling. In this case they eventually automated yodeling machines to connect the continents and PYD (personal yodeling devices) where people yodel memes and media content.
Groggio 1y ago • 100%
This ties in well with my post "they grow grass fields just for the tax status and maintenance fees". Critical of the vast hayfields that do more to protect dynastic monopoly land ownership in the western US than produce anything useful.
Also that as the US dollar collapses, the only real remaining currency is social status as determined by ones job title and who they subordinate. In a word where everyone in partially homeless and money is worthless, only property owners and managers have status that is traded among themselves. They just have to pay people in tenuous promises and token payments to get the desperate masses to labor under them. Where picking a job is less about who pays more, but who exploits you in the least tedious and degrading way.
Groggio 1y ago • 100%
WALKING IN A WINTER WONDERLAAND!
Two images. 1st is a heavy-duty lifted truck hauling a trailer with an artsy ATV. A hippy wearing tye-die  2nd is a heavy-duty lifted truck hauling a trailer with a ATV or boat. A chud waving a flag  
The Burner Party. lol got'em. 
Title. Example. The nearby city uses prison labor to sweep homeless camps. The prison laborers cannot refuse to sweep or else it gets marked against their jail program terms. Simply put: city managers forcing prisoners to evict the homeless. Under capitalism every business and institution gradually replaces 'free trade' exchanges into blackmail bargaining at its core. The car repo and tow truck scam companies, pay-day loans, expanding of rent deposits and lease requirements, etc.
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Bazinga anglos having a treats related meltdown. Invidious link: https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=e8fDM60MS84
This was Al Capone. Prohibition era liquor seller. Mafia style gangster with henchmen and turf warfare that made everyone seek to put him in jail and stop the madness. But the local state or federal agencies couldn't nail him with anything because 1) They were buyers, sellers, and consumers of alcohol. Sugar cane plantation owners? 2) His gang of followers was intimidating. So they chose the next best thing for surface appearances of decorum and "rule of law". Which was to charge him with 'tax evasion' Its just funny how Trump, and the Bidens, Bush's, other ruling party oligarchs also profit from illegal trades, rackets, scandals, boondoggles, insider dealings, wars, etc. And they can't ever hold each other accountable because they are all complicit, would incriminate themselves. Curious. 
North America, west coast, somewhere in a valley full of streams, towns, roads, and farms. But is it a farm? Friend says to me. They grow the hay and sell it just to cover cost of property tax, and to file as a farm. In other words just to own and sometimes buy more. Like a wealth reserve, a private real-estate commodity. Sure there are exceptions, hay for dairy cows, mules, horses. Never the less. If this is correct, this is no different than a feudal monopoly strategy 'princelings' and dynasties have been operating even in 1500s like. A literal monopoly on land, all land, every excess inch of land. No birds, no fox, no deer or rivers or fish just grass. Dead fucking grass to feed into a tax loophole document in a box. Vast unproductive land monopolies. In my western democracy? In 2023? Its more likely than you think.  
These rafts are great. Every raft or canoe used is another car off the streets. And they'll get you into remote, vacant spots near water. Bottle recycling is another scam with few real applications for re-used plastic material that still eventually needs disposal. Its always a landfill. Car transport has crystalized into an expensive, gridlocked, toxic nightmare that makes the old disused murky waterways look appealing again. All the great powers of the world are united in keeping us perpetually dependent on oil and coal. Smart people should be testing new ways to escape this vampires castle. No one is coming to save us. Weather mule carts, sail boats, bikes, rafts, etc whichever works. Just start building the tools and networks today for any chance to see results in our lifetimes. Which brings me to "how feasible is water travel for me?" well its complicated. We want multiple trips a week to the city, up and down stream, through all seasons. Which means a dedicated raft or boat design to optimize local conditions. Paddle configuration, push pole through shallows & banks, wind usage or storm hazards. Live near the water or find suitable anchorage. Local laws. Maybe a 'part 2' is needed. Thanks. example: [Bottle raft](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg0PZKZ-y5g) , [Ton Le Sap lake](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e__weTGdEA8) , [towed shuttle punt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqd_BxodRNM) check online for local waterway maps.