It's a replica, according to the web page.

@Mik I can’t hear Fur Elise without mentally singing the McDonald’s commercial For me it’s Schroeder and Lucy.

I can remember when IBM ruled the world. Woke, broke

I wouldn’t call that normal prepper behavior. His risk of being targeted is many orders of magnitude more than others.

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Revolt: @Aqua-Letifer said in The Revolt: It used to be, publishing was to blame for most of it. The self-help/daily-schedule-to-greatness section of the bookstore is one of the most competitive in terms of submissions. What people really like to hear is how complex problems can be easily solved by a framework that has a simple name. MBA dipshits read these books instead of real ones and it all trickles down from there. I was once forced to read a book entitled 'Who moved my cheese?', which I was informed was a profound piece of philosophical thinking. What it actually was was some dickhead writing this great long-winded parable about a bunch of fucking rodents, with the final message 'change happens, you need to accept it and move on'. Apparently this book has sold 30 million copies. I do know they gave one to every single person in the company. Anyway, my friend in sales opened his next meeting with the question 'OK, who cut the cheese?' I was given the same book and was told the very same about it. I remember thinking the intended readership must be 5th graders.

Yup. I think you mentioned this before that the % of adminstration positions in colleges has increased a lot over the past few years.

@Doctor-Phibes And no, that's not necessarily true where I come from. Plenty of people aren't speaking received pronunciation etc. up in't North. Ayup, thay’d be knowin’ nowt about ‘at.

And a core drilled in 1966 in northwest Greenland suggests that that site was ice-free2 for an unknown period of time around 400,000 years ago. Thank goodness they stopped using fossil fuel 400,000 years ago so the ice could freeze again.

Saving for later.

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If anybody is bored, here is Hunter Biden 2018 tax return. For 2016, Biden paid the IRS $462,754 in taxes, 29 percent of his income. For 2017, Biden paid the IRS $710,598 in taxes, 30 percent of his income. For 2018, Biden paid the IRS $659,366 in taxes, 30 percent of his income. https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/24223166-hunterbiden-1040-2018-binsider/?embed=1&responsive=1&title=1

Oh how the Folgers commercials have evolved… Link to video

Recent report from the International Energy Agency https://www.iea.org/reports/oil-market-report-december-2023 US oil supply growth continues to defy expectations, with output shattering the 20 mb/d mark. This, combined with record Brazilian and Guyanese production along with surging Iranian flows will lift world output by 1.8 mb/d to 101.9 mb/d in 2023. Non-OPEC+ will again drive global gains in 2024, projected at 1.2 mb/d after OPEC+ deepens its voluntary oil cuts. ICE Brent futures continued to fall in November, declining by $5/bbl to $83/bbl. Surging US crude exports and weaker global demand growth pressured the prompt crude price structure. The WTI contango deepened. Oil’s bearish drift continued in early December after the 30 November OPEC+ meeting failed to halt the price rout, with Brent prices about $25/bbl below September’s annual high.

@LuFins-Dad said in WWAD?: @Aqua-Letifer NAMBLA? I’m not sure if it makes you a horrible person to even think of such a thing, or if it makes you a great person that you can think of these ideas but resist the temptation to implement them…. It's actually 89th's fault I know what NAMBLA is. He said it once, I called bullshit it even existed, he showed me on The Googs on either my or his CRT monitor. It's just a good (and well-deserved) shorthand for "most evil organization ever."

This poses all kinds of interesting questions. I can only assume they don’t take returns… Are they selling at market value or below? If at market, that kind of defeats the purpose, no? By the way, @jon-nyc may find this interesting… We were planning a Bösendorfer Show at a local Costco before COVID shut things down. They had several shows in California and Phoenix that were successful…

@jon-nyc said in Doom Debt: It’s nonsensical to think an entire generation will never be able to afford a home. What happens when the boomers and gen xers die? They’re just going to sit empty? They’ll all be converted to rentals? I remember reading something about how there would be a down trend in housing prices for a long time. As the US becomes more of an aging country, the available single family houses will be greater than the demand.