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Discussion in 'The Water Cooler' started by Artem256, Jun 1, 2019.

  1. GregH

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    Check your privilege! How dare you be a responsible adult when the government can take care of you.

    My parents got into to similar situation when I was in high school. My dad drove tractors cutting roadsides in the evenings during the summers. During the whole year, twice per week, he and my mom delivered newspapers to the homes of kids like me that had paper routes. Get up at two a.m., have all the papers delivered by 5 am then go to work all day. As the oldest, when one of my parents was sick or when my dad had to travel for work, I was the back up. 13 years old, wake up at 2 am, deliver with them until five then run my paper route by 6 am. Breakfast, school all day, foot practice, home work, in bed by 10pm. I did this dozens of times through high school. They never missed a mortgage payment either.

    Before we had kids, I busted my ass to make sure my wife and I would never be in that situation. I have no pity for adults who go through life with the sense of responsibility and maturity of a spoiled child.

    Good for you!
     
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    The organization Yes For Minneapolis is an organization pushing to defund the police in Minneapolis record show 78% of their funding comes from outside Minnesota.
     
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    65-70% of that is probably from Soros alone
     
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    By Biden's logic....I'm a pilot, captain, engineer, truck driver, crane operator, commercial farmer, herdsman..etc,etc etc...He has spent his entire life lying about his life . There is a void where truth would go in his brain.
     
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    My company reports our individual CO 2 emissions due to flying... Since covid, I'm down 62k lbs... I think we have like 2-300k travelers globally... The other big consulting companies are the same... We're some of the biggest airline traveler community. A fraction are traveling now...My neighbor an airline mechanic (one of the big ones in the news regularly lately) tells me, they just returned some capacity from the desert parking lot...but still aren't back to normal.

    Global shipping also down... Big boats are a big greenhouse gas creator (keep buying cheap sh!T from Amazon, made in China)... Container availability finally stabilizing. Port capacity, drivers and trucks to move goods are the new bottle neck... Net less emissions.

    Pretty sure the pandemic has been a greenie wet dream, and if the last 18 months hasn't moved the needle.... And the reading first fires haven't blotted out the sun... Only next best hope are volcanoes...

    https://apnews.com/article/science-...ka-volcanoes-0d2938a17d74c42391aacfd6184846ec
     
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    Grew up pretty similar. We lived in a ****ty little trailer park for a while and my dad finally got tired of the repairs and everything else. But my mom has always been bad with money so to get our own place he worked 2 full time jobs for about 3 years to buy a house and ground to put it on. Worked at a steel manufacturing plant on 3rd shift then would go straight to hauling feed for local feed mill until about 5 in afternoon. Where if I wasn't in school i was with him all day throwing bags or scooping the truck out. Slept till 11pm and back to it again 5 or 6 days a week. Even as I've gotten older I still don't know how he didn't work himself to death. Which maybe he did cause cancer got him in 2004 when he was only 54. Rest of the time he was a otr truck driver and was constantly on the go just so we wouldn't go without anything at home.

    But seeing what is happening today, i guess that's just the privilege of my skin color and it was easy.

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    Here's an idea ......


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