I ran a drill rig for soil sampling for a few years. One day it was 100F outside and we had to drill inside a drycleaners. They had dryers and steam presses going , so it was a humid 130F inside. We used a remote drill rig which required running 100 lb hydraulic lines from the truck outside. These lines got so hot you couldn’t touch them with a bare hand. So imagine trying to move these heavy as hell lines without them touching bare skin and while having to shift your hands around constantly to avoid burns.

That ties for worst with the day we drilled at a gas station in a farm field in the middle of nowhere where it was -20F not counting the wind chill. The thing about soil sampling for contaminants is you have to wash the drill between holes. At those temperatures everything froze instantly and the machinery kept locking up with ice. It took us 8 hours to do what would normally take 2. And then we got a flat tire driving back…

The subpoena was happening either way. But the bonds are a gift to prevent prosecution. Or at least that’s how I read it.

Edit: Looking at it another way, buying the bonds could be Trump buying the guys silence when he testifies.

I’m assuming he didn’t so much buy the bonds, but was gifted them.

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1. Visible tattoos. Have to be off legal age to get a tattoo, right?

2. Talk to them. Even if it’s awkward, it’s practice.

I forget what they are called, but there is basically a parachute on a rope that gets dropped into fast deep water currents to tow boats.

I don’t do it as often as I should, but I like making a big batch of soup or stew and freezing it in portion size containers.

45: $20,000 in sinus surgery so you aren’t halfway suffocating while you sleep.

They do. Men lose bone density as well, just at a slower rate. It’s at about 20% when men are 60 instead of 50.

See? Switching to Apple makes everything worse.

I wrote for 7 or 8 books of a popular role playing game. Won an industry award at GenCon for one of them.

It may not seem cheap at first, but 3D printing. What it costs to set up, you can quickly make up by not having to spend money on things you can just print for yourself. There are loads of little plastic parts that break that cost a fortune to replace. I’ve done new shelf brackets for my fridge and new locking clips for my windows for example. On top of that I’ve printed loads of presents for people. My mom can’t stop talking about the windmill I printed for her deck.

If the essentials of life are all shifted to “welfare capitalism” the power of class and capital to subjugate is greatly diminished. Add in mass union membership and it gets even better.

Not really. It’s entirely possible to pick and choose. We chose a socialist model for fire department because the capitalist model proved disastrous. Many countries successfully did the same for healthcare, retirement, and all sorts of things. At the same time, capitalism is great when you want a million choices on TV to watch or a grocery store with a whole aisle of different types of cookies.

To me, the difference is the impact of failures. If someone starts a company making a new type of cookie and it proves not to be profitable, it goes bankrupt. Unfortunate, but ultimately not a big deal. If someone has cancer and curing them isn’t profitable, you can’t just give up. That person’s life is more important than profit.

People argue back and forth whether capitalism or socialism/communism is a superior system and they are all wrong. Those concepts are just tools. Saying one economic system applies to all situations is as silly as saying the only tool you need to build a house is a hammer.

Mmm…coconut oil.

There are dozens of us!

Or the Holy Trinity of Cajun and creole cooking, celery, onions, and bell pepper.

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