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I’m not a gamer.
whaddup doh
We won’t know until you publish those Craigslist ads.
Nostalgia just spews out of that song.
I heard once that Toto expected Rosanna to be their big hit, so they threw all their promotion behind it, and Africa was more of an afterthought.
Without listening to it, I can’t summon the song Rosanna to mind.
Africa, however, Comes out metal..
My favorite Leo cover, which I have posted before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0RV0kgdqJU
I ? Mary.
Box-heart?
Heart-box?
Not sure what you are going for there.
That move from Kill Bill.
I’m not fan of that one.
Yep. Mary’s understatedly hilarious in this. And Leo’s, uh, overstatedly hilarious.
Remember: these are the same guys that thought Toto was a good band name.
Well, they weren’t in Kansas.
https://youtu.be/P5ZJui3aPoQ
That dude has some serious hair.
I ? Kansas but… holy hell, I don’t think I’ve seen them in all their 70’s glory like this before.
The SU could make a damn decent sweater out of that.
I’m waiting for the unauthorized biographies before reaching that conclusion.
Hold the Line was a better song than either one of those two.
Erock & Rob Lundgren have a good cover of it.
I’ll just leave this here… It popped up my playlist.
Sweet – Love Is Like Oxygen – Disco 20.03.1978 (OFFICIAL)
Love all the “disco” references.
That’s a fantastic song.
Voted “Most Likely To Be Mistaken For ELO”
I used to think the same until roughly 20 years ago.
Nice one, how have I not heard this before?
I don’t remember when I first heard that song, as it was decades ago, and I knew it wasn’t ELO, but I have never liked it. Stupidest hook ever.
It’s just a silly love song. What’s wrong with that?
I’ve had enough of silly love songs.
Some people…
I love that song.
Relevant.
The scansion on “Africa” is terrible.
My friend used to teach the kids of one of the Toto guys and went to their house in the Malibu hills some years back. He was doing okay.
Toto is to Styx (https://youtu.be/5XcKBmdfpWs) as The Moopets (https://youtu.be/toZchPPu2QU) are to The Muppets.
I used to have a boss who was in a Styx cover band. Nice guy, good boss.
I also used to work with an Elvis impersonator. Never knew his name, only called him The King.
“Never knew his name, only called him The King.”
That is…excellent.
Way to go EA, alienate and piss off your customers. That’ll get the money flowing.
Dude. It’s EA, they managed to fuck up the Star Wars video game license enough that they lost it.
They also managed to fuck up Tetris.
Nintendo saved it with Tetris 99 (which does have an offline and single player mode as well).
Damn did they ever. Not a (modern) EA fan.
EA Sports NHL 95 was where it was at. You can make the Great One bleed.
Electronic Arts published some of the best games in the 80s for us geezers. I prefer to remember them that way.
The idiocy of California spreads to MT and elsewhere. I don’t suppose Idaho stops can be blamed on California though.
I’ve seen lane-splitting on 5 lane highways during rush hour in California that can’t fail to conjure the term “natural selection.”
But I don’t want them to fuck up MY car while they do it.
I generally don’t wish motorcyclists any ill. But it definitely falls into natural selection as you said.
I’ve seen idiots do it on bicycles on a two lane one way road going up to a stop light. Just so all the cars they just passed could pass them when the light turned green.
I love lane splitting when I still rode.
The safest thing you can do, as long as drivers aren’t dicks.
I know of exactly two people whp have crashed lane splitting. One was crazy as fuck and crashed at over a hundred after smacking a mirror with his bars and the other hit a guy’s door after he openwd it to spit. I know dozens of people who crashed other ways. Lane splitting is far safer than not almost always. Just give them some extra space to get by and everyone willbe happy.
If you do stuff that typical horrible drivers dont expect you are asking for an accident. Motorcycles just amplify the injuries. If you fuck with cars you will lose.
I once had a few motorcycle guys try to citizen enforce me by blocking both lanes of an interstate so I wouldnt pass them faster than the speed limit in the left PASSING LANE. I flashed my lights to let them know they were blocking traffic and not moving right as slower traffic As REQUIRED BY THE WHITE SIGNS “slower traffic move right”.
I passed the bikes on the right shoulder and got back to my normal 90 mph speed. The motorcycle sped up to follow too close and do some kind of citizen enforcing. I slammed on the brakes and saw the guys shit himself facial expression. He slowed way down and never bothered me again.
Everyone is so powerfully ugly…
My money was on a Traveling Wilburys song.
I believe I detect something Fawlty in that discussion of towers.
flowery twats?
“Fawlty Towers” was a great show.
So 3,500,000,000,000 = 0 and 52 < 48, and the press just repeats it as a fact. What a world.
Numbers and logic are the domain of white supremacists.
Experts, man, experts told them!!
Glad you’re feeling better,
Thanks! Still in bed in a fetal position but getting better.
Gonna resume the audiobook “The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War” in a minute. Really enjoying it so far. Never heard how the Marshall plan + Stalin’s paranoia helped bring about the big freeze.
Related: for listening to audiobooks in bed, I use Lavince Bluetooth headbands. 8-12 hours of playing time after a 2 hour charge. Very comfy and dnont disturb the sleeping partner.
I just bought a pair of Raycon Fitness earbuds. I fall asleep listening to music at night.
As he was finishing The Fellowship of the Ring, Tolkien decided that the two towers of The Two Towers would be … Orthanc and Minas Morgul.
Huh. I was thinking Orthanc and Barad-Dûr.
That guy bringing up Sept. 11th is not right in the head.
“I can’t support $3.5 trillion more in spending when we have already spent $5.4 trillion since last March,” West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, a moderate Democrat, said in a statement released Wednesday. “At some point, all of us, regardless of party, must ask the simple question – how much is enough?”
Wow. I guess he wants to get re-elected.
Beginning Oct. 1, lane filtering will become legal for motorcyclists in the state of Montana, which experts say will ease traffic congestion but could make motorcycle riding more dangerous.
Interesting. The first time I encountered lane filtering/splitting was in Australia. I was not expecting it.
I find it quite telling that Manchin is from WV and Simena is from AZ.
They are by no means guaranteed re-election if they go along with this nonsense.
(The proggies in Az are already fundraising to Primary Simena)
I went to a high school in the hood but yet I had a better civics education than a lot of my acquaintances who went to school in affluent suburbs. I say this because a lot of them are whining on social media that it isn’t fair that two Senators from low population states should be able to hold up the process. I wanna be like….. “Bitch, the Senate is suppose to represent the state and the House is suppose to represent the constitutes of a state based on their population, ya dumb fuck.”
When one of my kids was little, she and I had a conversation about the word “fair”. In the end she said that “fair” meant she got what she wanted. I think everyone who uses it has that same definition.
Found the white supremacist.
They would have no chance if they went along with this spending monstrosity and they know it.
Not sure about that. Arizona just, apparently, elected Mark Kelly to the senate. Would she be dumped if she was just a bog standard Dem?
My Tolkien/Lewis/LeGuin soaked tween brain loved these commercials… too bad the wine was shite. https://youtu.be/og-TSulyHAw
At that age, alcohol content was the only property of wine that mattered. Actually the alcohol to price ratio was the key. MD 20/20 FTW.
Maybe it is just because I need life and laid, but I got a porno vibe from that commercial.
“Beginning Oct. 1, lane filtering will become legal for motorcyclists in the state of Montana, which experts say will ease traffic congestion but could make motorcycle riding more dangerous.“
Good law. Lane splitting is not inherently dangerous and in some situations is absolutely safer for the motorcyclist. Not to mention it makes logical sense not to sit in a traffic jam as a motorcyclist when you easily have enough room to move on through. Good move for Montana.
The cyclists just need to use their brains while doing it. Some take risks that seem nuts.
Exactly.
I’ve no issues with them doing it at sane speeds. Problem is they think that means 50MPH or more. Or that they should be able to filter through traffic that’s moving at more than about 10 MPH.
I’ve never seen someone split lanes at less than seventy.
I love it when one whips past while I’m changing lanes in their direction (with signals on)
I’m amazed that there aren’t more red smears on the interstates.
That’s the kind of thing I’m talking about.
If a car adjacent but slightly ahead of my is signaling, I’ll hang back to make space for him in front of me, and then, even if he’s started to angle in, VOOM ! Comes a motorcycle screaming past us.
Insanity.
I’ve been doing it all the time in MA, where it’s not legally permitted. That was the only way to stay sane when I commuted back home (the old place) in the evening. Then from time to time I drove a car to work and was reminded how awful it was to get stuck in traffic with no option to escape.
I have split lanes but I didn’t like to do it too much. I could just see a cage driver opening a door in front of me just tobe a dick.
In California you are not supposed to do it when traffic is moving higher than 50. I actually wouldn’t even call that lane splitting. If traffic is moving that fast it is essentially rapid lane shifting. I only do it when traffic is either stopped (like at a red light or moving very slowly. When traffic is moving at even 10mph you have to be super careful for those that make unsignaled lane changes rapidly. No doubt there are plenty of idiot motorcyclists out there. I’ve seen plenty of that. But in heavy slow traffic or at a light it really doesn’t need to be dangerous, and is probably safer for the motorcyclist than sitting at the tail end of traffic eating for someone on their phone to plow into their back at 25mph.
As far as I can tell, aren’t lane splitting and lane filtering two different things?
I thought they were the same thing from the article I quickly skimmed through. I don’t consider what UCS described as lane splitting. A better description would be high speed lane shifting, and yes, it is highly reckless and should not (and is not) legal anywhere that I know of.
My understanding is that lane splitting is driving through traffic on the line, between two lanes of cars that may or may not be moving, and stay that way until you can find a spot in a lane to drive in.
I understood lane filtering to be almost the same, but with stopped traffic at a light, with the intent to pull up to the stoplight and cut in front of the first car to wait for the light to change.
If that’s the case then there is no way such a thing should be illegal. Small win for liberty.
Or some street racer might go zooming by at 30 miles per hour,
Yeah… That’s not a street racer; if your car doesn’t rock a little when the pass you by, they’re not even trying.
The thing about crotch rockets I find amusing is that, because they’re expensive, some tuffcoolgai buys a 250cc engine on a full-size chassis and he sounds like he’s driving a lawnmower.
I had a neighbor who had a 1500cc Ninja and it was satisfactorily throaty.
My FZ-1 was a Yamaha R1 liter bike that they slid the pegs forward a little and the handlebars angled up so you could commute easier. Amazing bike (that they don’t make anymore). Sufficiently throaty when I wanted to leave traffic behind.
The CBR-954 I had was just a competition bike dressed up as a Coors lite can.
I miss them both so much.
I started off small with a 200cc Honda scooter that looked like a Vespa, then I went to a 1979 Kawasaki 650, then I had a Yamaha Virago 920. I don’t know if I’ll ever have a motorcycle again. There’s no mystery or cool factor, and I don’t go anywhere anyway.
I dig small displacement bikes. I like the Honda Cub, for example. Unfortunately I would look like a circus bear on one.
I was always a little partial to the Honda Rebel. A friend referred to it as a “going to the grocery store” bike.
The SU would kill, kill, killllllll for a Vespa.
She worries me some days.
(And I’ve actually offered to just buy her one, dammit . . . )
It’s a Friday and I’m home, so I’ll kick off the Zoom/Happy Hour/Weekend Update at 20:00 Eastern.
I hate nearly everyone in this story.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/30/mona-rodriguez-life-support-family-shot/
Right there with you.
Also one of my favorite press tropes is that when they have nothing good to say about a victim is that we celebrate his or her ability to procreate.
Nearly everyone?
I read that and I still don’t understand why he pulled the trigger.
Me neither.
Quote from Baby Daddy that jumped out at me:
Kavanaugh tested positive.
I expect the good souls on the left will be cheering on his impending death before the day is out.
I misread that as “Kinnath tested positive” and was asking questions about your condition before noticing the error.
I understand the confusion. But rest assured, kinnath rarely speaks of kinnath in the third person.
Can confirm that you do not talk about yourself in the 3rd person.
Which is strange because you are definitely a mead-first guy.
You should go for second person plural, future tense.
“Youse will goes to the Meads.”
I’m sure he was vaccinated too.
But let’s not let that stand in the way either…
Yeah, I delved into a twitter thread and it was 95% “death wishes” and “why didn’t the FBI arrest him?”
People still salty that a trumped up rape accusation from 30+ years ago didn’t derail his SC nomination.
Oh, I immediately thought of the TOS writer. I guess we’re talking about the judge? I forgot about him.
“Infowars founder Alex Jones LOSES defamation cases and will have to pay damages to Sandy Hook families after he claimed school massacre was ‘a giant hoax'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10050437/Alex-Jones-loses-lawsuits-Sandy-Hook-hoax-conspiracy.html
There is still only that one weird picture of the shooter?
I’m not surprised he lost the case.
After watching Vive Frei’s breakdown of the deposition tape, I said, “Jones will lose because he is icky.”
Ridiculous. Defaming dead people? Fuck the Sandy Hook families and fuck the legal system.
Apropos of nothing, any news on the Las Vegas shooting?
No? Just open and shut then.
Carry on.
There was no Las Vegas shooting, comrade.
State calendars actually go from Sept 30 and the next day is Oct 2. No one knows why.
I . . . wut?
Not true…but wouldn’t doubt it crossed some FBI minds.
Oct 1st 2017, some patsy that the FBI/Deep State/Lizard People were grooming to be a mass shooter and thus take all our guns, broke early and killed a bunch of rednecks at a country and western concert, but the scene was too compromised to blame it on the lone nut job, so they just don’t talk about it anymore. Thus Oct 1st never happened.
Thanks for the assist Hype!
I’m here to help.
“The Supreme Court revealed Friday that Justice Brett Kavanaugh tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday night, three days before the court is set to begin its first in-person hearings in 19 months.
The justice, 56, is fully vaccinated against the virus, as have all other members of the high court. He is currently experiencing no symptoms and his wife and family have tested negative.
The court said Kavanaugh had tested negative as recently as Monday morning.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10049583/Vaccinated-Supreme-Court-justice-Brett-Kavanaugh-tests-POSITIVE-COVID.html
Why the fuck are they even testing him then?
*facepalm*
To get him off of cases would be my guess.
I mean, you can just spin up a false positive at will, can’t you?
How often do they test these people? Big Pharma is making serious bank on this BS.
Smells like a false positive to me…but I’m no SCIENTIST.
He is currently experiencing no symptoms
No symptoms, no test. Pretty fucking simple concept.
Asymptomatic transmission is an article of faith among the elect. Praise Fauci.
Would make me wonder. If they did PCR testing for the flu all the time…would we see the same ‘positives’ all the time.
There is no legal way except impeachment to remove a SCOTUS justice, so what would Lefties do if one justice refused to get the gene COVID19 therapy?
Hate birds need to up their game, they have serious competition.
https://nypost.com/2021/10/01/evil-rooster-terrorizes-nyc-neighborhood-attacking-residents/
What a cock.
How is he with chicks?
“America thinks the unthinkable: More than half of Trump voters and 41% of Biden supporters want red and blue states to SECEDE from one another and form two new countries, shock new poll finds
Many breathed a sigh of relief when President Biden was elected, not for policy but for a reunification of the country after four years of tumult and fiery division under President Trump. But eight months into the new presidency, America’s deep disunity might not be letting up.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10050039/More-HALF-Trump-voters-want-red-states-secede-union.html
I wonder why that is. These fucking people…
” I may punch my wife in the face every night, but I don’t understand why she would want to leave me.”
I’m old enough to remember when Biden campaigned on “unity”.
Turns out he was talking about the game engine.
It was what his AI was running on.
He is trying to mandate unity.
I hope there is a DMZ between the two, I’ll move there.
I don’t know, but when you tell half the country to fuck off and try to subject them to your will, those people may take that the wrong way and feel like their only recourse is leaving altogether.
Such a plan is doomed by geography, the divide does not map to the existing internal borders. It’d be war within minutes.
^This^
If you tried to do this state by state, Minnesoda would be dragged into the Peoples Democratic Republic of Right Thinkers because the 7 county Twin Cities metro area would vote for it. The other 87 counties would pretty much vote 100% for joining the Republic of Deplorables.
And if you let those rural counties secede, then you’d have a tiny blue state surrounded by hundreds of miles of rubes.
See the clinton archipelago below.
one round of nuclear strikes would clean up so neatly.
I tell my brother: “I’m an engineer. There is always a solution.”
“There are no solutions, there are only trade-offs.”
– Thomas Sowell
Give them a highway like the Berlin Corridor to the nearest Real Communist enclave.
Honestly these numbers aren’t as high as you think. At any given moment, secession sentiment runs over 30% in most states. Got a long way to go.
NH Exit.
We don’t need to secede. We only need to build walls around the Clinton Archipelago.
Look at the migration patterns over time
I call it the metastasis for short.
Interesting, it could be done, but we need a decent seaport, so say, Nuke L.A. and take the harbor?
Dammit, Scotland Stole some of my mountains!
And that is why secession wouldn’t work, as the split isn’t remotely regional.
I mean, if CA wants to leave, we approve that as fast as possible. But otherwise, it doesn’t make sense.
And if we ditched CA and let the parties reach a new equilibrium, the Ds might not be too bad.
It we expel California and New England, the rest of the country will balance out.
yeah, the obvious answer to the lefty complaint about “Wyoming gets two senators, representation, waaaaaah!” has always been, split Cali, but none of the whiners ever promote that. Which is what tells me they’re full of it.
California should be split into one cluster of coastal city-states and a couple of backwoods districts which they’ve been oppressing for so long.
Yup, State of Jefferson. I’d love to see it but no way the proggies running this place would let it happen.
They want (or at least think they want) mob rule.
There are commies in every state.
Civil war 2.0 is here but many Americans just wont admit it. Democrats declared war on the constitution and Americans who want America to not be communist.
Two words: India. Pakistan/Bangladesh.
I’d also like to share this gem that came up on YouTube playlist.
JAP LANGUAGE USEFUL PHRASES” USMC MARINE CORPS WWII TRAINING FILM 64734
I’m not sure how to count the many ways I’m triggered. First the title. Second it’s all CAPS. Third the pronunciation by the expert is awful. And fourth, so is the grammar.
Thank God in those days none of that shit mattered when one was trying to win a war.
I only recently learned that ‘skosh’ comes from ‘sukoshi’, after G.I.s picked it up after WWII.
I thought it was Yiddish.
Of course now know better.
Well, you were only off by a tiny bit….
There are boo-coo words picked up after a war.
Speedo, Speedo!
When I was in Okinawa the Marines used go-men-a-sai as “you’re fucked”. So I was amused when I started to really try to learn Japanese and discovered it really meant “I’m sorry”
Baka
That’s great. In some ways it still works.
From the morning thread, does your BIL live in Kobe? Kansai people generally have more of a sense of humor about things.
I have Chubu relatives, specifically Shizuoka. I don’t know the differences among regions. Where is the Jersey of Japan?
Kobe, I think. Or is that Boston?
Yokohama. I mean, fuck, if you are named after a damn tire…
Rand is tearing up Becerra, Gotta Love that guy!
https://youtu.be/MI_Dm3pj3dQ
Sick burn. Surprised YouTube hasn’t pulled it.
Yeah, Rand Is a Doctor, so Becerra had to take it, it was delicious!
Neighbor update: She’s at home, the parasite friend is still with her, social services is involved and taking statements, and I need a couple days break from this crap
In many ways seems like you dodged a bullet. Good luck!
Thanks. I’ve been assured by two attorneys that we’re in the clear because we’ve never accepted money from her, but the thought of interfacing with the bureaucracy in a situation like this is anathema. I don’t trust them at all.
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Farewell Australia!
https://youtu.be/dFvx3qbCWYE
That is damned depressing.
Nice shout-out to DeSantis.
The clip where the policeman says to the protester that he agrees with him and the protester asks “Then why are you standing on that side and not this side?”
“Because this is what I’m paid to do.”
SMDH.
I think i have the idea worked out, it should be fine, thanks for the tip!
/G
I wonder, in my more cynical moments, if that cop, realizing that he was being recorded, said what he said in order to give himself plausible deniability in some future world where perhaps the police in Australia would be held partially responsible for the shit that’s going down there right now.
From the comments”
Pointer Mom
2 days ago
“I was worried that, with Joe Biden as president, the US was the world’s laughing stock. I stand corrected.”
I’ll make this offer/request here in PM links where there are more Glibs:
Any Glib with website design want to make some extra $$ to fix up my Patreon account/blog? I think it only requires some minor cosmetic changes and a few mods, nothing exceptional.
It’s WordPress I believe (much to my chagrin) so familiarity with that is likely a necessity… (I think).
Shoot me an email please and we can discuss details. I’ll pay market rates for the work and I don’t think it will require more than a few hours (then again, I don’t know how to code, so take that with the appropriate amount of salt)
I would think such an offer would be right up SP’s or WebDom’s alley.
SP did the original, but she’s got a bunch of other stuff going on. Although if she can find the time, that’s cool, too. I just didn’t want to impose given their recent move and new gig as restaurateurs.
“ATLANTA (CBS46) — A 30-year-old Douglasville woman named Terresha Lucas has been charged with making terroristic threats in the Brookmont subdivision of Douglasville.
According to the Douglasville Police Department, residents on Manning Drive began receiving notes last December from a person who claimed to be a white male member of the Ku Klux Klan. The notes threatened to burn down homes and kill people.
The police department’s investigation into the notes led them to Lucas, who is a Black woman.
Lucas, who described herself as a 6-foot tall, white male with a long, red beard, has been charged with 8 counts of making terroristic threats.”
https://www.cbs46.com/news/black-woman-in-douglasville-accused-of-pretending-to-be-white-man-threatening-neighbors/article_4ccc0a7a-216c-11ec-bdef-3bd5aa74a0ef.html
WHITE SUPREMACY AT IT AGAIN!!!
Shape Shifters All the way Down!!!!
transphobe
I think they meant that Lucas described herself in the letters as a 6-foot tall white male.
Lived experience
Told you democrats were still running the kkk.
Paging clayton bigsby.
Eat drink stink.
https://eastongarlicfest.com/
Running this weekend. I mean, I like garlic, but I’m not particularly festive about it.
I guess a garlic festival is better than a sawdust festival. I do like garlic in regular amounts.
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
https://twitter.com/stclairashley/status/1443665467940483072
OFFS!!
You forgot a trigger warning.
When I had to stop playing LotRO, I had just finished scouring Mordor and was about to retake Minas Morgul/Ithil
“Infographic: How To Tell A Prison From A Public School”
https://babylonbee.com/news/infographic-how-to-tell-a-prison-from-a-public-school
OMFG. The Bee is just too good. We’re not worthy.
By far the best comparison on that infograph. They have some top-notch writers. Imagine them, taking over for just a year on SNL. It might make its way past the greats of yesteryear.
https://kval.com/news/local/oregon-sues-counties-over-ordinance-nullifying-new-statewide-gun-safety-laws
Now do local immigration sanctuary laws, you mendacious cunt.
THAT’S DIFFERENT!!!!1!1111!11
Shit for brains stopped clock Sen. Wyden (D-NYC) discovers some civil liberties abuses again
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2021/10/dhs-compiled-intelligence-reports-on-protesters-arrested-in-portland-without-legal-justification-report-finds.html
Oregon U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden said the report confirmed “stunning incompetence, mismanagement and abuse of power” by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under former President Donald Trump’s administration.
—
“It’s just fine now”, he continued.
For dog lovers
Random dumb question….I used to use half.com to get rid of books/dvds pretty easily/conveniently – but now that ebay has completely absorbed it, things look a little messier. Does anyone know if there’s still a simple way to just list a title by ISBN # if you want to unload it “fairly cheaply” without going through all the rigmarole of validating the exact condition – ie. used, good condition? Instant sale vs bidding issues?
Also….I do have some collectible items that I’m thinking about selling just to free up space and funds – but again, not sure I want to deal with the issue of grading/scoring and being paranoid about buyers. Any glibs have a lot of experience with ebay recently? I haven’t done much at all for the last 10+ yrs – hence I had to create a new account and lose my decently scored previous account to inactivity.
eBay now has a huge database for media and you really don’t even need to write a description, just mark the condition from a drop-down list.
Ok, so they carried that over from half.com then.
BTW, was there someone here in the market for the Dune Encyclopedia?
I don’t know about half.com. On eBay you just put in the ISBN, click a few buttons, upload a pic, and boom, you’re done.
I’ve recently been selling a number of things from my Mom’s estate and from our basement on eBay. As Mojeaux mentioned, it is fairly easy. Also, eBay handles the payment (for a fee, of course), and you don’t ship until payment is confirmed. The fees do seem to be higher than many years ago, but, for me, the fewer hassles makes it worth it. Listing an item is free.
Also Amazon allows you to be 3rd party seller like ebay but the amazon fees really take a bite out of profit. You get bigger audience though, if you just cant sell something on ebay.
Regarding the comments above about splitting the country – I just want to flag this conversation for after “The Spark” publishes its last chapter.
No Spoilers Ozy!
Man, there’s so much I want to say to defend myself on this, but I can’t. Put a Psaki in it and we’ll “circle back.”
I look forward to the next installment, you are very “creative” shall we say,
Huzzah!
This topic pops up regularly.
My schtick is forming a new country from the states covering the Louisiana purchase. Although I would happily expand that to everything between Appalachia and the Rockies.
I know y’all want the easier way by simply breaking up with the democrats. Never going to happen.
Democrats are commies and commies wont ever stop because their ideology requires dragging everyone into slavery.
On the upshot, democrats are pussies in general. Once civil war 2.0 turns violent, democrats wont last long. Its why the democrats are so desperate to avoid armed patriots from defending themselves.
They move fast
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-vaxxer
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/574964-supreme-court-denies-new-york-city-teachers-request-to-block-vaccine
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request from a group of New York City public school teachers to block the city’s coronavirus vaccine mandate.
The teachers, who refused to receive a COVID-19 inoculation, filed their request Thursday to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who handles emergency matters arising from New York, after losing in the lower courts.
Sotomayor denied their request unilaterally and without comment.
Score: Wise Latina 1; Teachers 0
One would think that it at least deserves a conference given the implications. A government is moving to deny someone their economic freedom. But what do we know.
That’s Fascist dog whistling all the way down!
A request by a group of Indiana University students in August to block their school’s requirement was denied by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who handles emergency matters from Indiana.
If ‘both sides’ are doing it, there may be an actual reason for this, not just partisan posturing. Standing? maybe… Rico? IDK IANAL.
I personally think that some conservatives like barrett are avoiding doing their job to make govt insufferable to more and more Americans. That is one strategy to cause the tipping point on americans fighting back.
Kind of like the frog being heat shocked a few times and it gets pissed then attacks the person handling the heat.
I personally think hyperinflation and forced firings will be the straw that breaks the camels back.
You first EA, you first.
Hold the fort down. I am going to a hockey game. T-Mobile Arena is just ‘masked’ but I am guessing once in seats, who gives a rat’s ass. Actually, like the Raiders game, most people once through the ticket gate dropped them also.