Front end Friday! CPR E-8 #1801 ended up in John St by error, so, the roundhouse crew thought it would be fun to send her into Southern Ontario with the all stops local. Sharp looking unit! Railfans will be out to see this rare unit!
#FEF#modelrailroadingisfun
Never Forget 2020...when skate parks were filled with sand to make them unusable during COVID mandated lockdowns.
Never forget how they treated us, locked us down & ruined outdoor parks to keep us inside.
My wife planted zucchini in our garden so I’ve begun to grapple with the annual problem of “what to do with all of this zucchini”. First up, pistachio orange zucchini bread! It came out really well, everybody loved it
Horrible stuff out of Venezuela, they need to be in our prayers but we also need to be there as soon as possible to support them in their rescue efforts, and in their rebuilding efforts. We have our own problems sure, but laying claim as regional hegemon comes with duties and this is an excellent opportunity to show that we take those duties seriously
I’d imagine they’ll have to reinstate him eventually. At this point something like 3/4ths of all BlueSky traffic is probably people from here logging onto their account over there to grab screenshots of the latest insane ramblings from Ken “Popehat” White
This is one of the best illustrations of what socialism (in any form) does to the poor. It promises a ladder of programs & benefits but can’t lift people out of poverty. No country on earth has made the poor better off under socialist governments.
There’s a kind of terrible movie that I love called Flashback, in it Dennis Hopper references that the Interstate Highway System came along and killed the soul of America. I agree with this sentiment and when time allows try to avoid driving the interstate as much as possible
Muslims gang raped 250k+ British girls.
Evidence that Fauci funded gain-of-function research with tax dollars was made public.
Illegal aliens tried to blow up White House UFC event.
Media: OMG did you see the algae in the Reflecting Pool???
Elon Musk just proved that ownership in America is a legal fiction.
Musk: “You get taxed on what you earn, you get taxed on what you buy, and you get taxed on what you own.”
Think about what property tax actually means.
You worked for decades. Paid it off in full. The deed is in your name.
Stop paying the government its annual fee. Watch them take it and sell it to someone who will.
You never owned that house. You were leasing it from an entity you never signed a contract with.
Income tax tells the same truth in softer packaging.
The government does not take a portion of your earnings. They decide how much of your own labor you are permitted to keep.
That is not semantics. It is a confession of who the system believes your time belongs to first.
Sales tax buries itself in the receipt. Two people exchange value voluntarily. A third party who contributed nothing takes a cut simply for allowing it to happen.
Now stack all three.
Taxed when you create. Taxed when you spend. Taxed when you hold. Taxed again when you die and try to pass it to your children.
At no point in that cycle does the system recognize your output as yours.
Because money is not an abstraction. It is crystallized human lifespan.
Every dollar taxed is an hour you already lived, already bled for, already gone.
The state is not managing an economy. It is claiming dominion over time you will never get back.
And spending it on systems you never asked for and actively oppose.
The institution extracting all of it faces zero obligation to perform. A contractor who delivers nothing gets fired. A bureaucracy that burns through trillions gets a budget increase the next fiscal year.
SpaceX pays taxes to the agencies that obstruct its launches. Tesla funds the regulators drafting rules to shield its competitors.
The builders are not subsidizing government. They are financing their own friction.
The tax code is 74,000 pages long. Not because the economy demands it. Because the extraction had to be buried in enough complexity that you would stop asking who it was designed to protect.
The past belonged to the people who taxed the world.
The future belongs to the people who build it.
Hey guys, I have to report something.
I disconnected my router to clean up the cables, an hour later I noticed my Internet wasn't working. I called support and was on hold for 20 minutes.
When they asked which lights were on I noticed it was unplugged.
I'm retarded.