San Francisco is awful

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#576
luthervol said:
I have never claimed there are no intolerant morons on the left.
I have never claimed there are no pathetic extremists on the left.
I have never claimed there are no extreme racists on the left.
I have always claimed those things are far more prevalent on the right.
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When we put the things you do claim on the continuum tho ... I mean , I don’t see a point in going below the absolute number of “0 “ but if we are trying to be fair and accurate . Does ones negative score start pulling down their positive scores like a credit score does ?
 
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#579
luthervol said:
I have never claimed there are no intolerant morons on the left.
I have never claimed there are no pathetic extremists on the left.
I have never claimed there are no extreme racists on the left.
I have always claimed those things are far more prevalent on the right.
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I've never dumped in the flower pot.... you sir are wrong as usual.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
I bet the people running the city are scratching their heads and cannot understand what is going on. They really are that clueless and ignorant.
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43% decline in sales tax . 128% moving van requests above the national average of other cities . Gee I wonder what’s causing all this ? Wtf is this , this is a comment under the article , is this true ? How is this even possible if it’s true ?

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Y9 Vol said:
The state/city that Kamala says is the "model" for the whole country.
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Unfortunately some lefty leaders are taking her word for it. Roanoke VA now has a free needle program, and the corresponding sales tax decreases, business and wealth departures, **** on the streets, and exploding crime rate and homelessness.

The only interpretation I have is that this is the exact society people on the left want. There's no other explanation.
 
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ButchPlz said:
Unfortunately some lefty leaders are taking her word for it. Roanoke VA now has a free needle program, and the corresponding sales tax decreases, business and wealth departures, **** on the streets, and exploding crime rate and homelessness.

The only interpretation I have is that this is the exact society people on the left want. There's no other explanation.
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The more people the left gets hooked on government support the more power they have . SF went from safety net to super nanny state with this is the model. Keep that crap on the left coast as long as possible .
 
#593
#593
Orange_Crush said:
Just curious, but where'd John Galt go?
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Since our international flights have been cut to essentially zero, I have been flying transcontinental a lot in these past few months. I have searched Colorado from top to bottom, east to west, and if he doesn't turn off that damned cloaking device I will never see it. But if I do.... I won't tell..
 
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Gotta say, for me anyway, that book was a tough read. Seemed like Tolstoy with War and Peace... I had to make myself push through it...and it isnt an extremely long book. Her writing style was just tedious to me I guess. In contrast, my favorite books ever, Robert Jordans Wheel of Time series, is about a dozen books each as long or longer than Atlas and nearly every evening when sitting down to read after dinner I would later look up to see it was 2AM or something and several hours had escaped in the blink of an eye...
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
Gotta say, for me anyway, that book was a tough read. Seemed like Tolstoy with War and Peace... I had to make myself push through it...and it isnt an extremely long book. Her writing style was just tedious to me I guess. In contrast, my favorite books ever, Robert Jordans Wheel of Time series, is about a dozen books each as long or longer than Atlas and nearly every evening when sitting down to read after dinner I would later look up to see it was 2AM or something and several hours had escaped in the blink of an eye...
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Same, same and same.
 
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#596
Cool. I read something a while back that said Amazon prime or somebody was gonna make a TV series for WoT...which in my opinion is the best books of its genre ever written, bar none...

I dont see how a "normal" series for the netflix/prime model of 10 to 12 episodes an hour long could even cover the first 2 books, or honestly any way that the series could be done justice. You would need an amazing director and budgets, like for LotR...and probably close to a season per book...so 8 to 10 seasons maybe to get through it all? Such incredible books. That series is when I realized my weird "gift"? Not much of a gift I guess, just something that apparently doesn't happen to most people from what I can tell.

At the risk of sounding even crazier than I actually am, which is well documented, here we go...

When I started reading that series in particular, it had been out for years, and my Dad had all the books through book 6 or 7. I kept having those experiences where I would lose several hours at a time, and be almost in a trance state to where people and things in my immediate area just ceased to exist from a conscious mind perspective. I realized then that once I began reading his prose, not long after starting, my body and part of my brain would go on "auto pilot". I no longer had to actually read the words (consciously) or turn pages, those things became "automatic" like breathing or blinking...my conscious mind was just "watching the movie" that was painted in my imagination by the words which he wrote. I was completely immersed in that world, not in this one at all...able to watch the Aes Sedai weave their magic and Rand do the same ...hours and hours of "watching the movies" in such incredible detail due to the way Jordan wrote. Maybe people would describe that as an "out of body experience "? I don't know. I myself am certainly not interjected in the story...more like I ceased to exist at all as a person here, and I am just a silent, invisible observer of what unfolds.

Reading those books, in this way, is one of the most enjoyable experiences of my entire life. I know it sounds crazy, I have asked a couple of intelligent folks close to me that read if they have the same experiences and they looked at me like I had an extra limb growing out of my forehead or something lol. It is just an amazing experience though, and I have tried since many different authors, wanting to experience the same complete immersion in their universe, and for whatever reason I cannot experience the same way reading the vast majority of them. The masters, Heinlein and Asimov, can take me there sometimes. C.S. Lewis as well. They are few and far between though, and best I can figure it is about the writing style, not content, that makes the "magic" happen.

Anyway, I know this sounds crazy, but yall already know I am a couple sammiches short of a picnic, anyway. Wish I could better describe how amazing it is to leave this world completely and travel to other places, mentally anyway. Better than any movie, video game, or any other form of entertainment that I have ever experienced. Also, I am glad to know another follower of the Dragon Reborn. Lol
 
#597
#597
marcusluvsvols said:
Cool. I read something a while back that said Amazon prime or somebody was gonna make a TV series for WoT...which in my opinion is the best books of its genre ever written, bar none...

I dont see how a "normal" series for the netflix/prime model of 10 to 12 episodes an hour long could even cover the first 2 books, or honestly any way that the series could be done justice. You would need an amazing director and budgets, like for LotR...and probably close to a season per book...so 8 to 10 seasons maybe to get through it all? Such incredible books. That series is when I realized my weird "gift"? Not much of a gift I guess, just something that apparently doesn't happen to most people from what I can tell.

At the risk of sounding even crazier than I actually am, which is well documented, here we go...

When I started reading that series in particular, it had been out for years, and my Dad had all the books through book 6 or 7. I kept having those experiences where I would lose several hours at a time, and be almost in a trance state to where people and things in my immediate area just ceased to exist from a conscious mind perspective. I realized then that once I began reading his prose, not long after starting, my body and part of my brain would go on "auto pilot". I no longer had to actually read the words (consciously) or turn pages, those things became "automatic" like breathing or blinking...my conscious mind was just "watching the movie" that was painted in my imagination by the words which he wrote. I was completely immersed in that world, not in this one at all...able to watch the Aes Sedai weave their magic and Rand do the same ...hours and hours of "watching the movies" in such incredible detail due to the way Jordan wrote. Maybe people would describe that as an "out of body experience "? I don't know. I myself am certainly not interjected in the story...more like I ceased to exist at all as a person here, and I am just a silent, invisible observer of what unfolds.

Reading those books, in this way, is one of the most enjoyable experiences of my entire life. I know it sounds crazy, I have asked a couple of intelligent folks close to me that read if they have the same experiences and they looked at me like I had an extra limb growing out of my forehead or something lol. It is just an amazing experience though, and I have tried since many different authors, wanting to experience the same complete immersion in their universe, and for whatever reason I cannot experience the same way reading the vast majority of them. The masters, Heinlein and Asimov, can take me there sometimes. C.S. Lewis as well. They are few and far between though, and best I can figure it is about the writing style, not content, that makes the "magic" happen.

Anyway, I know this sounds crazy, but yall already know I am a couple sammiches short of a picnic, anyway. Wish I could better describe how amazing it is to leave this world completely and travel to other places, mentally anyway. Better than any movie, video game, or any other form of entertainment that I have ever experienced. Also, I am glad to know another follower of the Dragon Reborn. Lol
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I say, just let it be. Look what Hollywood did to Stephen King's Dark Tower. It became a modern He-Man movie.
 
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