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Paired with a box Shiraz, for my spiritual health.
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Creamy pasta thing with probably too much parsley.
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I sent NGK a picture of a strikingly green plug I found recently in case they wanted it for that page. Rudey poos didn’t even reply.
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They’ll still be readable after only a few minutes of running won’t they?
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Spud’s answer now seems better than mine and stubby’s. Try it straight piped and see if you get the same thing.
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AHPP replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in General chat
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Superb.
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Exhaust valves were my first thought. Did they do them as part of the service?
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AHPP replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in General chat
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AHPP replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in General chat
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In the morning you’ll be sober and emus will still be babecunts.
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Oh that’s fabulous.
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Careful with sword thinking. I bet they have some tough bone in the neck. Axe on a chopping block probably surer. Now you’re into strapping an emu down though. I’d probably distract with feed and head shoot it.
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It’d be a pain if you did a nice clean beheading, only to discover they’re like chickens and can keep going for a bit. The difference being the beheaded chicken just wanders round whereas the beheaded emu still stands a chance of mugging someone. Unfriendly big bastards.
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Steel biner. Strong dog.
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Been dithering for years. Finally got a shepherd of my own. Sailor. Nearly two. Settled in unbelievably well.
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To each according to his needs.
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Can't read the article without paying and I don't fancy that. I think I know the thing though. Describe it.
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I know the ones you're talking about. Christiania, Užupis, the Berlin one I've forgotten the name of, Sealand arguably, Liberland obviously, the other one that's like that whose name I also forget. There have been loads of attempts at micronation genesis. Their problem in my opinion is they try to fit in to the paradigm of statehood. Individual liberty is a ground up, not top down thing. It works anywhere. You don't need a flag etc. The other problem is that these places might as well be Waco, Texas for all the even-handed publicity they get. This is all getting needlessly ideological. Someone tell me how more government and not less is going to improve the shit state of the housing market.
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On democracy:
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As long as they choose it for themselves only, that's fine. The problem is that democracy is 51 people telling 49 people what to do (far worse with the various voting systems we actually have). Plus there's always mission creep. You think you need a state to do something you perceive as lofty/complicated. The next minute, they're banging people up for an expired dog license. Where are these countries and why don't I know about them already?
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I don't care what you call what flavour of authoritarianism.It's authoritarianism, centralisation of power.
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Right. I'm opening a box of wine. Let's fkking have it.
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It's not. It sounds bombastic but people voted for socialism based on the election pledges of the German socialist party, among them that everybody should have a job, food, housing etc. Then they gassed a load of jews. A hard thing to grasp because we live in a pretty friendly world on a day-to-day basis but the evil is real and present. Socialism, communism, collectivism etc etc etc. I use the words fairly interchangeably. It's just authoritarianism (as opposed to libertarianism). It's a scale, not discrete ideological identities
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An alternative way of looking at it is that we sort of have a free market; that's to say the world's a blank canvas and what we have is what we have. It certainly tallies with the fictional (but not fictional) nature of statehood. Since humans enjoy various delusions of constructs like socialism though, there's nothing stopping us having a go at the construct of minarchism or anarchy. Stability is obviously very pleasant at the time if you have a job and a house etc but the comfort in that that period allowed all these problems we're talking about now to grow. The socialist policies that gave that stability kicked the can down the road. Socialist policy now would kick it further down the road. It doesn't work forever. Partially thermodynamics, mainly peasants with pitchforks when pushed too far. Where are you on monetary policy? I say that's the first thing to fix. I assume you put it lower on the list?
