What?

I doubt it. Nobody who cares about what they’d have to say actually reads books, and they wouldn’t be able to afford a ghost writer anyway.

I met him once when his band played at my base. Had a long conversation about building a fence and how he was impressed with my fence building ability. I told him he was great in The Stand and he said “Really? Thank you for saying that. Nobody ever mentions The Stand to me.”

There’d have to be some sort of stipulation that made it so nobody could do that. I don’t know how you’d do that, but it could probably be done. Are there any laws that prevent people convicted of fraud from doing the same thing again? Maybe something like that.

I would love to see them roofing houses or working in a foundry. Hell, even seeing them trying to be a janitor or something.

Could you imagine Elon Musk running a fryer or injection mold for 8 hours? Who am I kidding? he’d never pass the piss test required to run the injection mold.

Better yet, seize their assets and make them try to make a go at it as a regular person.

or at least that’s what I’ve been shown

You ever think you may not have been shown the whole picture?

He’s not going to listen to you.

Careful, people don’t like to be told that we are doing things.

It’s worse than reddit.

I think I’d rather just have a weird nose.

🤣🤣🤣

As my dad would say: " Can’t win for losing!"

I mean,. they were basically slaves.

Nah, pigs are cool and really smart.

Not to be argumentative or anything like that, just wanted to state that I used to have a job where we worked 4 tens and I loved it. Two more hours a day kinda sucked, but having a 3 day weekend every week was nice. Granted, 4 8s would be better if I still made the same money every week.

The problem with cars is primarily fuel. Gas is only good for a few months then it degrades fast. Now, they can be made to run on alcohol, but making enough alcohol to be feasible to fuel a car is a pretty big undertaking. Then you have things like oil, grease, and tires. Plus, modern cars are complicated and, honestly, pretty fragile once the roads start to degrade. Without maintenance, roads degrade pretty fast.

If you have to have an engine, motorcycle will be better,. but at the end of the day you still need fuel, oil, grease, and tires.

Horses are fine if you know how to ride and care for a horse. Horses eat a lot, not much of a problem, however, come winter time you’re going to start searching for fodder. Horses require a lot of upkeep. Can you shoe.a horse and trim the hooves? No? Congratulations, your horse is now lame and the most humane thing to do is to shoot it. Horses are unpredictable and flighty. You might get lucky and get a calm horse that will comply with your commands, but I wouldn’t bet on it. They are prey animals and they are jumpy as fuck. The amount of times I’ve had a horse drag me into the woods at full speed because it saw a stick that kinda looked like a snake is too many. If you must ride an animal, get a mule. He won’t be as fast and might be more stubborn, but he also won’t take you anywhere that will get you killed and he’ll climb hills and mountains much better.

Bikes: Bikes are great and don’t need much maintenance. However, once the roads are wrecked after a couple of winters, they lose a lot of practicality. Another problem is that they require you to up your calorie intake in an environment where that may not be possible or will at least be difficult. Tires are still a problem, but at least changing a bike tire is easy. One problem I see is that once the roads are potholed and grown over, off road areas are even more overgrown, granted, a good mountain bike will still make it through, but you’ll be burning even more calories.

It’s probably me. I never was fast enough for tag. I was great at hide and seek though.

Hating everyone is only going to make you miserable.

Townsends. They do 18th century cooking and living history.

Case in point. I couldn’t imagine being dumb enough to believe that about an entire country.