WAR ROOM LOUNGE V23: November Sixth LOOMS

[Jack V Savage]

I use my Kindle app on my phone for almost all my reading. I like to keep certain kinds of books in physical form, like cookbooks or anything where I might see myself going back and forth between pages and chapters often rather than reading something with a narrative. That's still a big advantage for paper books over digital books.

Sometimes it's easier. Kindle lets you just tap the screen to read end notes or footnotes. But I can't imagine trying to read Pale Fire on a Kindle.

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

Anyone else know someone who had a meltdown over the midterms?

Buddy calls me up late last night all flustered. I try to calm him down. He wasn't have any of it and didn't much care for me saying the border wall is dumb and Trump lies all the time. I think he hung up on me and blamed his battery. lol

Funnier still is last week he was having marital difficulties arising from political disagreements. Ok, that's not that funny. But it did all of the sudden make far more sense.

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

Anyone else know someone who had a meltdown over the midterms?

Buddy calls me up late last night all flustered. I try to calm him down. He wasn't have any of it and didn't much care for me saying the border wall is dumb and Trump lies all the time. I think he hung up on me and blamed his battery. lol

Funnier still is last week he was having marital difficulties arising from political disagreements. Ok, that's not that funny. But it did all of the sudden make far more sense.

Reaction around these parts has been pretty mild so far compared to what has become the norm. I live in a liberal part of a swing state and people can get downright rowdy over politics. After Trump's election, only about half the kids in my son's class showed up the next morning.

Seems like after this one, everyone can at least point to something to avoid hysteria. The GOP kept the Senate, The Dems took the House. Both wanted to have done better, but no one got blanked.

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

Reaction around these parts has been pretty mild so far compared to what has become the norm. I live in a liberal part of a swing state and people can get downright rowdy over politics. After Trump's election, only about half the kids in my son's class showed up the next morning.

Seems like after this one, everyone can at least point to something to avoid hysteria. The GOP kept the Senate, The Dems took the House. Both wanted to have done better, but no one got blanked.

My buddy's in Cali. Damn illegals taking over. Need a wall because it's better and cheaper than drones.

 

[Ruprecht]

I think a lot of them will continue to close, but at least in major city centers there will continue to be enough of a business case to have a few good ones for a very long time.

I don't actually get the ''buy everything online'' craze. For some things, sure, things for which it probably doesn't make sense to have a local store. For example, my lifting gear was the most recent thing that I bought online, and the first thing that I bought online in about 3 years. I very much like the immediacy of purchasing something in the store, and I hate the cardboard that piles up from the ol' lady's internet purchases.

It's funny though that amazon might simultaneously be killing the bookstore while saving the paper industry.

Works perfectly for me. I hate shopping. Don't like to go and get something without knowing exactly what I'm getting, where I'm getting it and how much I'm going to pay. At which point the only reason not to buy online is if there's something I need to evaluate in person. Test drive or sizing.
With books, and especially novels, it makes sense because I can get them way faster than they'll arrive here anyway. I follow most of my favourite authors' book releases. With the reference books I buy they'd need to be ordered in anyway, so the brick and mortar stores have no advantage there either.

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

My buddy's in Cali. Damn illegals taking over. Need a wall because it's better and cheaper than drones.

My uncle was squeezed out of Cali a few years back. He ran a heating/AC business and he felt it was becoming too hard to make ends meet. He moved to S. Carolina and is prospering in the same field.

Anytime people talk about Cali he says the same kind of stuff.

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

My uncle was squeezed out of Cali a few years back. He ran a heating/AC business and he felt it was becoming too hard to make ends meet. He moved to S. Carolina and is prospering in the same field.

Anytime people talk about Cali he says the same kind of stuff.

Even 25 years ago I wouldn't have wanted to live there. Nothing's changed.

I think my favorite part of the conversation went like this:

Homie: Illegals are taking over.
Me: There's been a net outflow over the last decade.
Homie: What? Where'd you hear that?
Me: Read somewhere something saying so.
Homie: You can't trust the stats.
Me: They're the same stats people are relying on to say it's a problem to begin with.
(some sidetracked shit)
Homie: Well that's just wrong because I can see it whenever I go outside.
Me: Go ahead and look it up.
Homie: I don't need to look anything up.
Me:

 

[Jesus H. Sherdog]

@Gutter Chris

 

[Jack V Savage]

Anyone else know someone who had a meltdown over the midterms?

Buddy calls me up late last night all flustered. I try to calm him down. He wasn't have any of it and didn't much care for me saying the border wall is dumb and Trump lies all the time. I think he hung up on me and blamed his battery. lol

Funnier still is last week he was having marital difficulties arising from political disagreements. Ok, that's not that funny. But it did all of the sudden make far more sense.

This is the thing. There's a real human cost to propaganda addiction and to the hysteria about immigration.

 

[Gutter Chris]

@Gutter Chris

 

[Gutter Chris]

Anyone else know someone who had a meltdown over the midterms?

Buddy calls me up late last night all flustered. I try to calm him down. He wasn't have any of it and didn't much care for me saying the border wall is dumb and Trump lies all the time. I think he hung up on me and blamed his battery. lol

Funnier still is last week he was having marital difficulties arising from political disagreements. Ok, that's not that funny. But it did all of the sudden make far more sense.

No meltdowns

Most of my chatter is friends excited prop one passed at the moment

Thats legal weed

 

[Gregolian]

No meltdowns

Most of my chatter is friends excited prop one passed at the moment

Thats legal weed

And they claim it isn't addictive....

Ask a person that smokes recreationally every day to quit cold turkey and watch them freak the fuck out like an alcoholic who can't find their vodka stash. There may be no addictive chemicals in it but you for sure can get hooked on the way it makes you feel.

 

[Gutter Chris]

My thoughts on prop one and maybe some of you guys whos states are further along will be of some help

The wording in prop one says you can grow up to 12 plants , 2.5 zips can be out. You can possess up to 10 but has to be properly stored ...... Anyone knows a thing or 2 about cultivation should see the problem right away .... Where to the other 14 pounds or so of flowers go ?

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

This is the thing. There's a real human cost to propaganda addiction and to the hysteria about immigration.

For sure. In his defense, Cali is kinda ground zero for the problem (if we call it such). So I can't fault him for wanting to curb illegal entry, but the wall idea is ridiculous. And saying he doesn't mind how much Trump lies because of NK and Iran seems a little short-sighted to me.

No meltdowns

Most of my chatter is friends excited prop one passed at the moment

Thats legal weed

Congrats! Aren't you in that line of work with medical or did I imagine that?

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

nd they claim it isn't addictive....

What's the difference between that and habit-forming? Is daily exercise and addiction or just a good habit?

 

[Gregolian]

My thoughts on prop one and maybe some of you guys whos states are further along will be of some help

The wording in prop one says you can grow up to 12 plants , 2.5 zips can be out. You can possess up to 10 but has to be properly stored ...... Anyone knows a thing or 2 about cultivation should see the problem right away .... Where to the other 14 pounds or so of flowers go ?

The WA law is equally confusing. Like, you're only allowed 4 plants for recreational use, can only smoke in your domain (which is rough cause Western WA the housing prices are so ridic most people rent and rental agencies and shit don't want you smoking inside) and you can only have a certain amount cultivated at any one time for use... BUT, if you have a Green Card for medical use the sky's basically the limit for you.

 

[Gregolian]

What's the difference between that and habit-forming? Is daily exercise and addiction or just a good habit?

I think when it hits the level where one of my roommates is at where he CAN'T write "music" or can't cook WITHOUT having a smoke first... that's an addiction.

Basically when it starts controlling your life.

EDIT:
Let me just add I have no issues with smoking pot, smoking cigars/cigarettes (I hate the smell of cigarettes personally but whatever), or drinking or even light use of things like shrooms, LSD, Molly, or X.....

But when you basically can't function without it? That's an issue.

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

My thoughts on prop one and maybe some of you guys whos states are further along will be of some help

The wording in prop one says you can grow up to 12 plants , 2.5 zips can be out. You can possess up to 10 but has to be properly stored ...... Anyone knows a thing or 2 about cultivation should see the problem right away .... Where to the other 14 pounds or so of flowers go ?

You're getting over a pound per plant?

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

I think when it hits the level where one of my roommates is at where he CAN'T write "music" or can't cook WITHOUT having a smoke first... that's an addiction.

Basically when it starts controlling your life.

Can't or doesn't want to? The artistic creativity might not be there, but certainly food could still be prepared. Call it what you want, but lumping it in with things that create real physical dependency muddies the waters (in my opinion).

Work controls my life. Guess I'm addicted.

 

[Captain Davis]

Anyone else know someone who had a meltdown over the midterms?

Buddy calls me up late last night all flustered. I try to calm him down. He wasn't have any of it and didn't much care for me saying the border wall is dumb and Trump lies all the time. I think he hung up on me and blamed his battery. lol

Funnier still is last week he was having marital difficulties arising from political disagreements. Ok, that's not that funny. But it did all of the sudden make far more sense.

I bitch on here about politics, but it doesn’t really affect my life much. I’ll get pissed over something in the news, but I’ll blow it off pretty quickly. I don’t post political shit on social media or call people and cry over it. I may discuss things with friends or here, but outside of that, it doesn’t really take up much of my time.