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Tyrant of Ants said:
You first. Don’t forget to bring your katana. Might need it.
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Hey, they've got a city, Huntsville that used to have the highest percentage of its' residents that had PhDs of any city in the USA. When they first built Huntsville into Rocket City, U.S.A. do you know what the first thing all those scientists and engineers did? They got a library card. Most of my father's family comes from the Huntsville area. In fact, after divorcing my mother, my father was dating the secretary of Werner von Braun. The people of Alabama are very proud of Huntsville and the space program. They also have excellent highways in Alabama. Too bad their social sense of justice is not as advanced as Huntsville's technology.
The weather there used to be very nice but my relatives now tell me that the summers are so hot that you don't want to go outside.
I've got relatives in Huntsville, Decatur (nearby Huntsville) and Birmingham ( not real far from Huntsville). Huntsville is in North Alabama not far from Tennessee.
Another neat thing about Huntsville is a booster rocket that I recall that is installed along an Interstate freeway on the outskirts of Huntsville.
 
Tyrant of Ants said:
I actually I found it enjoyable the many times I visited some of the southern states. Absolutely love the food. Like the music scenes. Even find their accent to be charming. A lot of the people there are simple folks and openly friendly and welcoming.
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I love the food.
Here's a simple gesture that farmers down there do. You'll be driving through the countryside and a farmer sitting on his front porch will wave to you.
I also love seeing the fireflies in the late evening and throughout the night.
Yes, people will be friendly to me but then I'm White. My wife is Asian and gets mixed treatment, sometimes great and sometimes not so great. I'd say she gets great treatment more than the other.
I use to love going for long walks in the early evening right after supper.
This reminds me, do you know the difference between supper and dinner? Dinner is your evening meal while supper is your largest meal. Dinner is usually also supper but sometimes supper is at lunch. Learned that from one of my Alabama uncles.
 
Whoo hoo.

We get $600.

I hate this government so fucking much. We are peasants to them. The ONE time as a nation in crisis we needed them, they fucking showed us who they really are.

Fuck all of them.
 
Strenuus said:
Whoo hoo.

We get $600.

I hate this government so fucking much. We are peasants to them. The ONE time as a nation in crisis we needed them, they fucking showed us who they really are.

Fuck all of them.
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Strenuus said:
Whoo hoo.

We get $600.

I hate this government so fucking much. We are peasants to them. The ONE time as a nation in crisis we needed them, they fucking showed us who they really are.

Fuck all of them.
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This X 1000...start naming your children corporate names...here's my grandson...Bank of America and here's my grandson Oracle! That's little Ford over there and that's little Hewlitt Packard the III
 
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Tyrant of Ants said:
Until I came to America, anything in my stomach to keep from starving is good. Didn't matter if it's breakfast, lunch, supper, or dinner. Food is food, and you'd better eat your share when you can.
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I know that feeling. It's why I've put on so much weight.
 
Ten billionaires reap $400bn boost to wealth during pandemic

Ten of the richest people in the world have boosted their already vast wealth by more than $400bn (£296bn) since the coronavirus pandemic began as their businesses were boosted by lockdowns and financial crises across the globe.
The extra wealth accumulated by the 10 men – approximately $450bn, using Forbes figures – over the past nine months is more than the £284bn the British government is estimated to have spent on tackling the pandemic and the economic damage it has wrought on its 66 million people.

In a related report, the campaign group Americans for Tax Fairness estimates the collective wealth of America’s 651 billionaires has risen by $1.1tn over the same period. Frank Clemente of Americans for Tax Fairness said:
“Their pandemic profits are so immense that America’s billionaires could pay for a major Covid relief bill and still not lose a dime of their pre-virus riches. Their wealth growth is so great that they alone could provide a $3,000 stimulus payment to every man, woman and child in the country, and still be richer than they were nine months ago.”

“Extreme poverty is rising for the first time in a decade and hundreds of millions of people face dire hardship; in many cases failing into debt, skipping meals and being forced into destitution,” Arendar said. “Governments need to stop pandering to the richest. A wealth tax would barely make a difference to the fortunes of the richest but could provide a lifeline for those hit hardest by the pandemic.”

While many small businesses have been hit hard by the pandemic and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, Amazon’s shares have increased by 90% since March.
 
HailBlazers said:
Ten billionaires reap $400bn boost to wealth during pandemic

Ten of the richest people in the world have boosted their already vast wealth by more than $400bn (£296bn) since the coronavirus pandemic began as their businesses were boosted by lockdowns and financial crises across the globe.
The extra wealth accumulated by the 10 men – approximately $450bn, using Forbes figures – over the past nine months is more than the £284bn the British government is estimated to have spent on tackling the pandemic and the economic damage it has wrought on its 66 million people.

In a related report, the campaign group Americans for Tax Fairness estimates the collective wealth of America’s 651 billionaires has risen by $1.1tn over the same period. Frank Clemente of Americans for Tax Fairness said:
“Their pandemic profits are so immense that America’s billionaires could pay for a major Covid relief bill and still not lose a dime of their pre-virus riches. Their wealth growth is so great that they alone could provide a $3,000 stimulus payment to every man, woman and child in the country, and still be richer than they were nine months ago.”

“Extreme poverty is rising for the first time in a decade and hundreds of millions of people face dire hardship; in many cases failing into debt, skipping meals and being forced into destitution,” Arendar said. “Governments need to stop pandering to the richest. A wealth tax would barely make a difference to the fortunes of the richest but could provide a lifeline for those hit hardest by the pandemic.”

While many small businesses have been hit hard by the pandemic and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, Amazon’s shares have increased by 90% since March.
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Everyone that works in an Amazon warehouse in the Portland area gets free Christmas candy this week. Your one sided article sure didn't mention that.
 
HailBlazers said:
I feel bad for the drivers too, i see them sprinting around the neighborhood.
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About 6 months ago Amazon started renting the huge (empty) parking lot on the north side of the former Xerox (and Tektronix) campus in Wilsonville. They keep at least 130 delivery trucks there now, and when the drivers start to arrive (and depart) it is a shit show. They haul ass into the campus (15 MPH zones) and haul ass out of the campus. Speed before safety. But as long as Bezos keeps racking up the billions and America keeps receiving their cheap crap quickly, who cares if the occasional dog (and/or walker) becomes a casualty? I feel bad for the drivers.....but then I don’t. We all make choices......and I’ve made the choice to walk my dog there.......and to throw rocks at the speeders. Even the surliest delivery driver isn’t gonna stop to kick and old man’s ass when they’re on an Amazon deadline.......
 
its too bad they dont realize (politicians, Bezos, etc) that if the majority of the country is financially screwed and behind in rent or car payments or tuition or credit cards, they wont spend money, hire new employees, use Amazon as much, and so on. I think I learned the basics of economics in 4th grade
 
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