The_Caretaker

When I was a kid, this hippie college student gave me advice about tattoos. He said "never get a tattoo, the government already has too many ways to track and identify you." When I was in my 20s, I watched a guy get arrested because his tattoos gave him away. He was wanted for a felony but he had used his brother's identity documents to get a driver's license. The cops had a database with the tattoos of former inmates, including him. They suspected him but didn't have enough evidence to arrest him until they saw his tattoos. Tattoos and branding have been used by many governments for centuries to mark convicted criminals. The reason you hold up your right hand in court was originally so they could see your criminal history. It is also where we get the term a "marked man" There is no good reason to get a tattoo and lots of reasons why it's a bad idea.

It was General Motors. The toons in the movie were a non-political allegory for the black communities that were destroyed in real life.

I would be happy if they just brought back the light rail that got people around in American cities 100 years ago before the car manufacturers bought up all the rail lines and shut them down. Crossing the country by train would be great but we need to be able to get across town first.

Various depictions of clocks are common in prison tattoos, for obvious reasons, but that doesn't mean all clock tattoos are prison tattoos. I have seen gang tattoos that were depictions of a woman with a pistol or a woman swinging on an inverted carpenter's hammer.

Not a Jewish state, a Zionist state. A Jewish state would follow the Mosaic Covenant. They wouldn't covet their neighbor's property (Palestinian's land) They wouldn't kill (genocide). They wouldn't take the name of God in vein by attributing their horrible actions to their god. They wouldn't steal the land and houses from people. They wouldn't bear false witness against their neighbor by calling Palestinians terrorists for simply not giving up when their land is being stolen. A Jewish state might not be that bad, a Zionist state, on the other hand, is a fascist state. #Gaza #Genocide #Fascism #Netanyahu #Zionism #FreePalestine

The other problem is that regardless of whether the shortage is real or propaganda, the Japanese government makes it very difficult to buy foreign rice. Imported rice could provide relief but you can't find it. I have access to shop on US bases because I'm a veteran. There is high quality US grown short grain rice, which is what the Japanese prefer, for about 500 yen a kilogram. And long grain California rice and Thai rice that is much cheaper, but not as tasty as short grain rice. Japan could make more imported rice available but then the farmers in Japan wouldn't be able to fail to meet the country's food demand and get rewarded with more money. New weather patterns from climate change require farmers to grow more heat resistant strains of rice. The farmers, in typical Japanese fashion, would rather have a root canal with no anesthetic than change even the smallest thing.

It's still AI. You have to read the fine print. Asian Intelligence.

I grew up poor. Eggs were always a cheap source of protein. Peanuts and chicken also fall into the category of cheap protein. Eggs are unreasonably expensive at the moment. Beans and peanuts are still cheap and there are meats like pork and beef that aren't affected by bird flu. It seems like the same bullshit here in Japan with the rice prices. It was 900 yen for 5kg of rice until last year when they jacked it up to over 3500 yen and now it's 5000 yen. The price went up 5X in a year and there is no shortage. You can always find rice in the store. There have been tariffs on foreign rice for decades. It seems like Japanese and Americans are not so different. The corporations rip us off and we just bend over and take it.

If it has Trump's name on it it will either be a scam or a fantastic failure. When has anything he was involved in been anything else?

I beat him to it. I escaped from the USA during Trump's first term. Not going back. I'm also a veteran and everything about Trump and his cult reminded me of the countries that we are always spying on and invading.

Get two free cigarettes, if you're here for dialysis.