Screwball

#BoycottTwitter

I've heard that somewhere. Let me see...Yea, ole George from circa 1991.

It's truly amazing how all this shit works. I have been dealing with my end of life will and trust, so I had to go to my bank. I made that the last one on my list of things I had to do. My lawyer told me what needed to be done - pretty simple - document a payable on death to this/these accounts. Nope, not simple. The card on their desk said they were my personal banker, but they had no clue. I spent about 10 minutes, most of which they were on their computer trying to figure out what to do. This should be simple. Of course not. At the same time, I have been talking to another bank. I would love to move. I ran into a young lady working her way up the banking system, so we've had some really good conversations, and she's giving me info on her bank. Her training isn't so much about customer service, but how to make money off of you. NO! Tell me it ain't so. The best part - I talk to her in a bar and not at the bank - so she can be honest. Marketing, bullshit, promises. No different than taking the Series 60s type stuff to eventually tell people how to invest their money. I considered doing that at one time but once I studied enough, I found out you had to be a lying sack of shit. She tells me about the things they make her do. Interesting stuff. I asked her about SARS (suspicious activity reports). That would be a no go - even at the bar. Too funny. Dealing with the financial wizards of the world is all about separating us from our money - it's that simple. Think about this. If you buy and sell a stock, you have a price you paid, and a price you sold. You made money or you lost. When you see the paperwork of that trade (CUSIP #) they settle 4 digits to the right of the decimal point. For example $100.xxxx. Why? How can we have a penny to 4 digits? Because we can.

The name "Rocket Money" triggered an alert on my money meter. But that's just me. The world has went insane.

We've had railroads since the 1800s and now we've fucked it all up. Congrats America We couldn't pour piss out of our boot if the directions were on the bottom.

To the bold. I couldn't agree more. Shit, they could rig up 4 cheap 50 dollar phones above each axle bearing and if it melts you don't get a signal and you know something was wrong. That might be cheaper than many more millions of dollars of other shit that don't work. I'm kidding, but not by much. This kind of shit drives me nuts. I spent 35 years in the hell hole best described as Office Space and Dilbert. Early on, some guy who took me under his wings told me how it really works; the only way it can get anymore fucked up, is if it gets bigger Fact check = true

I really hate the Twitters and Facebooks of the world, but I do find Twitter somewhat useful. Facebook, not so much. I found more on Twitter than I did from any news outlet. I usually don't wade into Reddit but I checked there too. Thousands of pages. Can't wade though it all. I went into Google Earth and zoomed into this town to check it out. It's hard to know the exact location of where the cars went up in flames, and where it relates to the town, but I think I'm pretty close. There is a town hall Wednesday at the school, so they say. Best I can tell that's only a few (at best) miles from where the chemical pit lives. Not a big town. I talked to a guy tonight who worked for a cleanup company for this kind of shit. Known him forever. It was our Monday beer night - couldn't wait to talk to him. Of course he was all over it too. He worked all over the country cleaning toxic messes - many of them train related. Neglect was the first thing out of his mouth. Imagine that. I'll bet the ambulance chance lawyers are already on their way to fleece these people, and in the end, only them and the owners, as George Carlin would say, will come out ahead in this. The rest can eat PVC

I disagree. There are safety devices to scan for this kind of thing. In this case it looks pretty convincing it was a "hot box." There were pictures long before there was a catastrophic event. Call it a wheel bearing. They have sensors along the tracks to watch for this. As it should be given the technology we have today. But it failed. Some way, some how. Why? Because somebody fucked up. Penny smart, dollar stupid. Capital expenditures, research & development, and of course, safety - takes the back seat to stock prices, the next earnings report, and all the money the corporate big swinging dicks can profit on their contractual stock options. People on the inside - the workers - and in this case the people who really do make the trains run on time - could easily make a open and shut case of neglect - total disregard of safety - all in the pursuit of profit. They have the technology to have prevented this right now. But laws/rules don't matter anymore, depending on who you are. This will be another case. They will spend millions litigating this over the next X years, eventually pay a fine, not admit guilt, and all is good. Just like they do with the criminal banksters. So it's all good. Except for the people of EP. Funny though, one would think their stock price would have got whacked. Not really. Maybe that tells us all we need to know.

Since I live about 3 hours away, and have family closer, I have paid close attention to this. That town is uninhabitable at this point, IMO. My family was evacuated back in the 90s due to a toluene spill due to a pipeline break that ended up in a creek. We could smell it for months. It was 10 miles away, and a gnat on an elephants ass compared to this one. We were out in the sticks too. No doubt a once thriving support town during the industrial revolution - turned into blight thanks to globalization - and now they get this. I feel so bad for them. I've never been there, but plenty of places like that on the east end of OH. I'll bet they would be a hoot to have a beer with. I hope they sue the ever living snot out of them.

Hasn't your combine ran out of gas yet? As far as logic, I recommend you try some sometime.

This disaster in Ohio sure sounds like a mess, yet little to no coverage in the MSM. I don't get that. I'm glad I don't live anywhere near there.

The above was from May, re; Bates. He did in fact end up at EMU. I'll give you a scouting report. I don't and didn't know much about the guy. I have ties to Toledo so I watch all their games. A couple of weeks ago, Bates chucked in 43, but they came up a little short on Toledo's court. I watched a couple other of his games, can't remember against who, then the UT/EMU game yesterday. He only had 4 points in that one. The guy is an incredible talent. A bit skinny IMO, but what a show he can put on. NBA next year? As far as EMU, they are not doing so well in the MAC, but they have 3 guys who can just go off. Acuff had 35 yesterday. They are long, athletic, and very talented. If they make the MAC tourney, they might be the team nobody wants to play. There are six games left, they should improve, and all you have to do is get in. If they would win in Cleveland I would not be surprised at all.

The population of East Palestine is around 5k. So that's 5 bucks a person. How generous.

That's exactly what happened. You should find another echo chamber to live in.

If you are referring to Roth and Twitter - all I can say is - bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit.

We are preventing WWIII by trying to start WWIII. War is peace Freedom is slavery Ignorance is strength Now all we need is our 2 minutes of hate...Oh, wait

Funny, the WaPo runs a hit piece on this woman a day after she shreds Yoel Roth, chief censor for Twitter, in congressional testimony. Apparently anyone questioning censorship is a nazi whore and should be attacked in the press. Orwell is laughing in his grave.

Like a couple million dollar per shot mission to shoot a hole in a few weather balloons with a missile that cost 400 grand alone, just to prove we have the Bigus Dickus in the world, while they laugh at us. We are no better with balloon than we are with pipelines.

No company the size of Twitter, or Tesla, does jack shit without being funded, lawyered (maybe not a word), and advised by Wall Street. BAC is one, and many of the other usual suspects are involved as well in some capacity. They do, after all, own the place. We are just pawns.

I'm all for that too. When is it going to start? *** I'm just catching up here, been busy. I've just read about 5 pages of people arguing about how to control news/speech/information - call it what you want. Someone above posted a picture that showed around 75% of our people get their news from a social media site (if I read it correctly). Then people argue about who it should be and how. Why? What's wrong with many forms of information? If you don't want to read it, don't. If you don't believe it, fine. Go where it makes you feel happy I guess. This started about the Twitter files - it doesn't matter who the people were who exposed them - or the venue that it has been disseminated through. Cast all that aside, there are over 600 screenshots of internal documentation of some really bad shit. Things that should concern all Americans if they care about the rule of law and the corruption that goes on. And it ain't about dick pics.

Elmo already did look into it, and made public a treasure trove of internal Twitter documents, which was disseminated via Twitter by 5 or 6 different people. They came out in pieces, each dealing with many hot button topics of the day we have went through over the years. I suppose what one reads out of them depends on their tribal outlook of the world, but it's some really wild shit. If you have read the 600 plus Tweets and the countless articles about what they exposed, and don't think there is anything wrong, you have your head planted firmly up your ass. There was a hearing in congress today along these lines, so I'm sure the fix is in. Pun intended.

I thought it was common sense. Stupid me.

We don't know and it doesn't matter. There are no black swans. Everything happens for a reason. Plan accordingly. At this point, I see no reason for China to start bullshit with us - they need us economically - for now.

I'm kind of shocked at what I read here, re; the balloon. IF, this was a China spy balloon... Let's start there. What are they doing this for if they can see all they want to see on Google Earth or Tic Tock? Resolution, taking advantage of distance and speed. Lower, slower vs. satellite images from much further away. We know almost every country of the war machine has geosynchronous satellites reading our every move. But they are watching from space. With a balloon, you can get much more detailed images. Think of a drone and the cameras they use today. Incredible what they can see, and for not much money. Even Cornhole cops have a drone that can read a license plate from a quarter of a mile away. Then there is thermal imaging. A spy satellite miles in space can't use that technology to see where the hot spots might be - but not at this detail they would get from a balloon. AKA; targets. If you poke around on Google maps, which is quite handy for planning a trip because you can visit before you go, we ain't playing with the same shit. Places are blurred out, no street view, etc. Even homes of the ruling class. They are not going to give us that stuff, and they would be really really stupid if they did, national security and all. What I'm not sure about is if China did this on purpose, what do they have to gain?