I remember the first time I detected that all Republicans had daily and weekly talking points after watching Fox News. It seamed to have happened post-9/11, after 24 hour news became a major part of American’s lives. Republicans definitely innovated and discovered this move before Democrats. They had talking points on Iraq, on Healthcare, on
I used to a play a pencil and paper game called Shadow Run, where you and your friends pretend to be a band of adventure seeking bounty hunters working for major corporations in a post-apocalyptic world similar to the movie Johnny Mnemonic. In this crazy, post-apocalyptic world, it was quite easy to buy medical evacuation
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A few years ago, I discovered a type of music called Nortec, a fusion of Norteño (a style of folk/country music from Mexico) and Techno. One of my favorite recent songs, is Sueño Fronterizo by a duo called Bostich y Fusible. Most people would consider me fluent at Spanish, but I often miss a lot
Background There seems to be two main camps in this violent debate between Internal Combustion Vehicles (ICE) and Electric Vehicles (EVs) For convenience, we’ll refer to the first group as The Tesla Fanbois, and the second group as The Never EVs. I’m not in either camp. I’m just a regular dude, a long-time open source
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On one side of this argument, people see billionaires and are disgusted with it. I get it, with Elon Musk in the news almost everyday, it strikes me as similar to the royal family in the UK. On the other side of this argument, there are people that say we shouldn’t tax wealth because it’s
The year was 1993, and I was sitting next to the waterfall at The Gorge, part of the Summit County Metro Parks. It’s a huge waterfall that’s 420 feet wide, and 60 feet tall. The sound of the rushing water drowns out everything. If you’re talking to somebody, you have to scream. The waterfall is/was
The Socialist has had a bit to drink and starts talking about the errors of man, and how collective pursuit is the only way for us to stop all human suffering. The Anarcho-capitalist overhears him, cuts in and argues that this is all bullshit and that unrestricted pursuit of our own self interest is the
It was the early 1990s in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. A lazy suburb in North East Ohio made up of Cape Cod and Colonial homes. If you drove through this town, you would never know the darkness that lurked below the surface. The yards were well maintained, and people smiled at their neighbors. But, below the
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This toy is the closest we’ll come to having a Tesla any time soon, but my daughter loves hers. I won’t be buying a Tesla any time soon, because I still see some serious problems. While I hear a lot of Tesla fanboys talk about how great Teslas are, it feels like a religion. I’m
Here we are in 2020 with another set of sub-optimal choices between two candidates for president. I don’t think it’s quite as bad as 2016, but neither are exciting. You could not convince me to go out and proactively campaign for either one of these candidates. Sigh. If you even kinda concur with my above
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