But I was told to “shake it off” by the writers of ancient lore…

Just for causing anarchy… Tell your mom “I love you dad”.

As walking off the bus: “thanks for ride, oh BTW guw in row g is dead. Hope you have a good day”

While stupid to pivot to Ai, the stock was only 3 dollars 2 days ago. The percentage increases are incredibly misleading, they were probably increased as a result of news stories of the company stock increasing 300% yesterday. Most stock brokers operate on if they think other people will want that stock later, not actual future value of the company or endorsement of any decisions of that company.

I’ll always remember my grandfather’s last words before he kicked the can… “hey, wanna see how far I can kick this can?”

Seems systemic… Spend trillions every year and never win a war since desert storm or ww2 before that. It’s not budget, it’s not man power either the military are doing something really poorly or there is some type of corruption somewhere taking that money…

I agree I’m just confused how us seems to spend so much on military yet lose every war. It’s like a jock spending 12 hrs a day in the gym and losing every boxing match against the local chess club.

Not to mention so much news that we “rescued” one airmam from a down helicopter. Great, now compare that to D-day or any battle in the US civil war…no contest. We are using so many resources for “war” rather right or wrong doesn’t matter, we do nothing but lose. I’d fire every officer in the military, you have an effective unlimited budget, you have millions of man hours at your disposal but consistently fail at every “war” since… Desert storm? Even that is questionable. Even before that have Vietnam… Lost… Korea… Didn’t actually lose but still didn’t win… Ww2 ok yeah we won with cooperation from most other countries.

US is a “super power” and spend more than the 9 countries in the top 10 of military spending but we always lose…wtf??

What I don’t get if it’s really such a priority from him and he is so mad…doesnt America have enough bombs to just level the region? Can’t he just make a call and say “kill everyone, make it glass” and it would be done?

That would be horrible to do. I’m not condoning it and thousands of lives would be lost. That said in the 80s America could literally destroy the earth… With advancements in technology and the money we spent couldn’t they just say “do it” and make the whole area done for atleast a few generations? How do they lose wars? If they are so dead set on this can’t they just carpet bomb the entire country?

I preferred the no poop for 3 days thing but both are classics

True, totally doable and several people did so. There was even a bike rack installed on the premises.

What’s funny is in my experience in the USA it’s not that there are not busses but they take SOO much longer. I had a job that was 2.8 miles away. It took 7 or 8 minutes to drive there(depending on if you hit the one traffic light on red). Theres a bus stop outside the company. There’s a bus stop on the corner of my complex. I looked up on the bus provider website how long it would take…9 hours each way.

Years ago I was living in a different state, a friend was throwing a new years party in his college house and invited me. His college was 3 hours away. I thought about just taking a bus since obviously we would be drinking. I checked the bus schedule… It would take 2.5 days with 4 change overs each way.

I ended up just crashing on his couch and drove home after I recovered from the hang over.

Its just not feasible to take buses here due to how long they take.

Was it a good book series? Worth reading?