hyogo

ancap // musician // anti-authoritarian

[Ford Racing @FordRacing]

La Sarthe on the dyno.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I needed to move a sofa.

I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"

I did not know anybody with a truck.

He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.

"You gotta know somebody with a truck."

I asked how one acquires such a person.

He said, "You just do."

This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.

He said, "Ask Kevin."

I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.

I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.

Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.

Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.

I had not asked for a second man.

The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.

They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.

I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.

I asked what I owed them.

Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."

That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.

Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.

We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.

Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."

I still think about that.

Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.

"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."

He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.

Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.

I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.

Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.

I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."

I have a guy.

I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.

He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."

I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

An American invited me to his house.

I asked what I should bring.

He said, "Nothing, man."

Nothing. I brought nothing. This was a catastrophe.

Every other guest brought something. Not gifts. Provisions. A woman brought a bag of ice. A man brought a folding chair. Someone brought paper towels, which is not a gift, which is infrastructure.

They had all been told nothing. They all brought something. Nothing means something. Nothing has always meant something.

Inside I said: THE HOST SPOKE FALSELY AND EVERY GUEST UNDERSTOOD, AND NOT ONE OF THEM CORRECTED HIM, AND THE SYSTEM HELD.

Then I learned about the second beer.

A man handed me a beer from a cooler. Not the host. A guest.

He was distributing beers that he had not purchased, from a cooler he did not own, to people he had not met. He had appointed himself. Nobody appointed him. He was simply nearest the ice.

Inside I said: HE HAS SEIZED THE SUPPLY LINE. IT WAS UNDEFENDED AND HE TOOK IT AND NO ONE HAS OBJECTED.

I drank the beer.

When I finished it, the same man appeared at my elbow with a second one, already open.

I had not asked. I had not signaled. He had been monitoring.

Somewhere in that backyard a man was tracking the fluid levels of eleven strangers and adjusting supply in real time and drinking while he did it.

I asked him if he was related to the host.

He said, "We work together."

Then he said, "Not anymore. He quit."

He does not work with the host. He came anyway. He is managing the cooler at the house of a man he no longer sees daily.

I asked when the host quit.

"Two years ago."

Two years. He has been coming to this house and running the cooler for two years past the expiration of their professional relationship.

Inside I said: THE ALLIANCE OUTLIVED THE WAR. THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN. IN MY COUNTRY THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN.

At the end of the night I moved toward the cooler to help clean up.

He stopped me.

He said, "I got it."

Then he said, "You're a guest."

Then, on my way out, he said, "Next time bring nothing again. It's funnier now."

He remembered. Four hours ago I had arrived empty-handed and he had noticed and said nothing and now he was making it mine.

I have been back four times.

I bring nothing. Every time.

It is now a bit. There is a running joke about it. Two people who were not there the first night have been told about it.

I have a bit.

I did not earn it. I was given it by a man who does not work there anymore.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I mentioned that my garage door was making a sound.

An American immediately said, "I got a guy."

He did not ask what the sound was. He did not ask what kind of door. He produced a guy on the basis of the word garage.

I asked who the guy was.

He said, "Just a guy."

He did not have a company name. He had a first name and a phone number in his phone saved as "Mike Garage."

That is the contact name. Mike Garage. As though Garage is his surname. As though there is a family.

I asked how he found this guy.

"My brother-in-law used him."

I asked if the brother-in-law was satisfied.

He thought about it. Then he said, "He's still standing."

The house is still standing. That is the entire review.

Inside I said: THEY DO NOT KEEP RECORDS. THEY KEEP LOYALTIES.

I called Mike Garage. He answered from inside a vehicle. There was wind. He said he could come Tuesday between eleven and four.

Between eleven and four. A window of five hours. In my country this would be a scandal. Here it is generous. He gave me a window at all. Some guys do not give you a window. Some guys say "Tuesday" and that is the whole appointment.

He came at 1:40.

He fixed it in twenty minutes. He charged me less than I expected and he did not take a card, only cash or an app I had never heard of.

Before leaving he looked at my water heater, which I had not mentioned, and said, "That's gonna go."

I asked when.

"Couple years."

I asked what I should do.

He said, "I'll give you a guy."

He gave me a guy. Mike Garage has a guy. The guy has a guy. There is a network beneath this country made entirely of men named after their function, and none of them advertise, and all of them are busy.

Inside I said: THERE IS A SECOND NATION HERE. IT HAS NO SIGNS. IT IS ENTERED ONLY BY INTRODUCTION.

I have been given four guys since.

I have a guy for trees.

I did not know I needed a guy for trees.

I have trees now, apparently. They are my responsibility. A man named Rick told me so and then left.

[Sleepy time bear @bridespanker]

Getting this later

[capricorn cunt 🎀 @celesitial]

hey so this can’t be allowed to ever happen irl

[Prozo @BozoProzo]

They do this so they can justify hiring a foreigner over Americans by the way.

Create a job listing that literally cannot be filled, go to the DOL and go "oh no, there are no qualified Americans! Guess we need to sponsor a visa!"

Then they hire a foreigner for half your rate.

[memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus]

It’s insane that basically everyone involved in the mental health field is mentally ill.

[bilatinman kio @kzzrttt]

the universal experience of watching evangelion for the first time and realizing that there’s a reason why all the fans are like that. it really is that good.

[california girl to male @hellrnaster]

you work in customer service long enough you start realizing some people are walking around operating on a subhuman level

[Louise Jensen Duffy (also Ernest Jensen) @LouiseWeebe]

You’re listening to Sisyphus FM, the home of non-stop rock.

[BowTiedRanger @BowTiedRanger]

Boomer slop from a boss bitch who married a guy so old he needs Viagra to get it up.

Have fun losing the midterms with these talking points.

[☀️AliquisNovus☀️ @PalmyrPar]

This whole internet thing is wrapping up quick. Was nice while it lasted.

[Marlin @nostalgiafkninc]

They used Flock cameras to track him down and then the Judge says they don’t violate fourth amendment rights because they can’t be used to track your movement.

[Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminlee]

Whores will do everything except for take responsibility and repent to God

[Lumpy @LumpyTheCook]

I’ve been ranting for years about how TVTropes and fandom wikis and youtube essayists did permanent damage to how people analyze stuff and discuss it online, only to find out that not only is there already a specific term for that phenomenon, but it predates all of those sites

[𝔃𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔞𝔰 𝔰 @OrdinariateUSA]

My uncle, a lifelong Republican, has repeatedly called Japan a “shithole” because their GDP & stock market has been stagnant for 30 years.

He then said “well, they need more people, and Japanese ain’t having babies, so gotta get em from somewhere!”

The brain of the average Fox News conservative cannot conceivably think beyond the GDP. They cannot conceptualize nations as anything more than economic zones.

[MLB @MLB]

Still riding the high of NiKo winning his first Major?

Baseball is here to keep the good vibes going ⚾️

[Conner @ScrawnyCG]

It's a good day to cry over a game of Counter-Strike.

[HLTV.org @HLTVorg]

The unsung hero of Falcons 🫡 @TesesCS