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I automatically assume I’m dealing with an extremely dumb and easily influenced person. How about you?

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Seems pretty smart to me, I always research things that are important to me. I would never take on face value anything on social media, news outlets, podcasts, etc. A good example is the comments on this board about the “Inflation reduction bill” The bill is stupid, just more wasted taxpayer money. However, it is pretty obvious that none of the people posting about the bill have actually read it. So I would tell someone making erroneous comments about what the bill is going to do or not, to do some research, read the bill for yourself.

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Diamonds are not rare. Companies keep them locked away and only release 1/20th of them to keep supply down. So glad my wife hates jewelry. Diamonds are a waste of money.

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At one time DeBeers was spending a couple hundred million a year on ad campaigns designed to convince women that if the guy didn’t spend x times salary for a diamond they don’t love you, and thatvs used/preowned diamond was basically worthless.

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Yeah, I probably had 2 1/2 hours total invested in a private sell. From taking pics, posting adds, returning a dozen or so text and meeting the buyer. So, you really better value your time if an hour 45 is worth a couple of thousand. Close to $20 a minute. YMMV.

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Besides my time, it is worth a certain amount of money to avoid dealing with strangers, and handling sizable amounts of money. Sellers have been burned with fake cashiers checks, had the vehicle stolen at gun point, and the most common, the buyer claims the vehicle has a issue and wants their money back even though it was in writing that it was sold as-is.

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I FEEL SO MUCH SAFER WITH 80,000 IRS AGENTS WITH GUNS.

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People should read the bill, and quit believing social media posts. The IRS Criminal Investigation division has 2000 agents who are armed. They serve criminal warrants, just like treasury agents. They have existed as long as the IRS. The Inflation bill provides funding for hiring 300 additional agents over the next 10 years. The funding for 87,000 agents also over 10 years is to bring the agency back to their normal staff level which had declined dramatically, and to replace personal lost through attrition.

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now 75 and with my friend Viagra, I'm still slinging it around. With my wife of course, she's 68 and still hot

Leon Phelps would say…Uh yeah. That’s just disgusting.

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Exactly what did you think us old guys were doing? Your day will come....way sooner than you can imagine.

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You don't think people are going to slow down to a crawl or pull over at either end to avoid the fine?

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Sure, the stupid ones, as has been posted, the time difference between crossing at 60mph vs 80mph is about 4 1/2 minutes, anyone can spare 3 or 4 minutes to drive just drive the speed limit.

Can’t blame some of them, the advances in information technology that were supposed to make the workplace more efficient just created more things that could be done. More ways to measure, analyze, rack, and stack, requiring more reports to generate, producing more emails questioning the report, and on and own. People spending all their working lives lives producing nothing of value.

[quote]NO one was "militant" in their political/social views -- lest they be considered lunatics --

Everyone hung out...WITH EVERYONE ELSE (even with "different" people. That was how we learned "the world".)


We "knew"
the gummint had our best interests are heart" (yes, even if they hid their true intent well)

Girls were REALLY Girls -- freely embracing their femininity

Absolutely ZERO politics infesting ANY sports or corporations. BUT TBH, the Academe was already plotting and planning by then

There was no squawking about "racism" ; that situation was acknowledged by consensus as improving all the time.



You either were not alive, too young to care, or not paying attention in the 1960s and 70s

It was the most militant time politically and socially, violent protests, Kent State shootings, Weather Underground Bombings, The Black Panthers, Students for a Democratic society.

Politics dominated conversation, we had the Vietnam war, the Cold War, college protests, The Pentagon papers, watergate. The 60s and early 70s on college campuses were a hotbed of olitical activity, along with every dinner table in America.


Passive segregation was everywhere, there were almost zero mixed race social organization, it was a huge deal if someone just had a room mate of another race, a mixed race couple was as rare as a a unicorn.

No one under 30 trusted the government, “ always question authority “ was a common slogan.

Feminism was in the news every day, bra burning, girls quit wearing makeup, they demanded equality with men, and started to act like men, it was the beginning of the end of girls wanting to be girls.

Black athletes giving the fist in the air black power salute while receiving their medals at the Olympics. Walkouts in protest of racism was common among college teams all over the US.

Racism was in the news daily, as said before passive segregation was everywhere, school integration created white flight to the suburbs. Neighborhoods were clearly white or not. Redlining by realtors, and banks helped keep it that way, If you were black you couldn’t get a mortgage for a house in a white neighborhood. This went on well into the 70s, probably the 80s. Job applications by minority applicants often went into the trash without further review.

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If they knew exactly where they were then they need to explain why there were there all frickin day

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And bring a “safe cracker” to open a empty safe.