They never list titles or condition of the books so I just assume they are the same books you can find in big piles at the dump mostly old text books and technical books. I love books I own hundreds of them, but people don’t buy enough 2nd hand books there are sites where you can buy books by the yard so you can have a neat and matching library, there are warehouses full of books to rent for movie sets. Noone realy cares they just want to be upset.
Nah, cops are not your friend, I’m a 50 something white male, I have called the cops 3 times in my life.
When I was 15 I found a guitar in the woods, cop did everything he could to pin the theft on me, even searched my house.
Late 30s some kid stole my sons bike, we knew who did it but the cops just said well we didn’t see it happen so we can’t do anything.
At 50 a friend attempted suicide, I called an ambulance, cops got there first, walked right past my unconscious friend and started poking around the house.
I raised my kids to stay out of trouble and stay away from cops.
That’s cause people think changing the password all the time is safer, all it does is force people to choose the easiest password or write them on a piece of tape under the mouse mat.
Between tenitise and auditory hallucinations a lot of my life dose have a background sound track, it’s normally just a little to low to make out the song.
Beer bottles not so much, I’ve been hit with a beer bottle and a wine bottle, hurt but adrenaline is a hell of a drug. I have seen a guy do the super cool break the bottle on a table to threaten a guy once, he needed 20 or so stitches when the neck of the bottle shattered in his fist. But it did stop the fight.
One of my favorite sci-fi books has the main character going through the thousands of paper files stored in his space ship.
But computers still work with our current understanding of physics, I’m far from being an expert but without magic I don’t see a way for faster then light or time travel to work.
I like watching suspect interviews, all the cops follow the same script, if people would just shut up and ask for the lawyer far fewer crimes would be solved.
I tell my kids to treat cops like vampires, never let them in the house and sticking to your rights is garlic to them.
Not to mention a lot of UPF is fortified with vitamins a lot of people would not get enough of otherwise.
(Obviously not all UPF is fortified, but every time I see someone cutting it from their diets they just replace it with something like chicken and rice, because, it can honestly be a hassle to find decent fresh produce)
My child and I both have strong food aversions and my wife is vegetarian, I do all the cooking and we eat very little “junk”. But there has been times I couldn’t even find all the ingredients to make salsa without taking a 40 mile one way trip to the “big city”.
I’ve noticed that kids become adults, and a lot of them stop growing emotionally just after puberty, I have a fake face book profile that I occasionally check up on the people I grew up with, every one of them is exactly the same as they were at 18, they even were the same clothes. The only thing that has changed is there is a lot less hairspray and several of them are dead. They even all meet up every 4th of July, they invite me to it at every funeral I attend.
Nah that’s not how cops work, it would go like this.
“The suspect was wearing blue jeans and a black sweatshirt”
“The guy we have in custody is wearing a teal tee and a kilt”
“Exactly, that is what a person would change into to try and get away”
I have watched so many body cam videos that I can promise this is how it would go.
In most cases they pick the guy who they think did it and then work on proving it.
There is a video where the cops interegate a mentally ill man for hours “because he murdered his father” when he asks if his dog is ok they tell him, she is now but she will have to be put down if you don’t help us on this case" I think he ends up sorta confessing, so the cops call his sister, like he had begged them to do in the beginning, the father was safe and sound at sisters house.
For all the people who will read this and say “bullshit” I found the video for you.
The fucking thing that keeps me on my meds is the fear of our leagal system.
So are me and my cousin Methue.
Store the maps in a laptop case so people think you are breaking out the pc.
Also I love maps and as a kid, in the 80s I had maps of just about everywhere, I collected park maps from all the places I hiked and had geological survey maps of the state I lived in. I kept all the maps in the back of my Datsun 510 station wagon. I got lost very often when driving but I would pull over a dig through the maps till I figured out where I was. I did have one of those big roll up maps that you see in old schools, where you could pull it down and it would roll itself back up, but it from the 40s and it’s Africa so there is not any real information on it but it was fun to haul it out un roll it and say " nah I don’t think that’s it" and let it flap around as it rolls up.
I went looking for an image of my map, and found one. https://oldnewhouse.com/products/vintage-classroom-pull-down-map-of-africa-2196?srsltid=AfmBOoqDLztG46dLMq7Eh-hPMAtz0SEnlpnpdGQUu4GIuE5qwMe7MnqT
My map doesn’t look as nice because someone kept it in the back of a Datsun station wagon and used it as a joke prop.
I’m 56 and in all my years there is only one conversation I would like to redo and that was when I was 17.
My eldest brother was in another state helping his dad fix up a house. He called home around midnight and was going on about how I should take care of myself and a bunch of other stuff, he was mentally ill and it was obvious he had gone off his meds. He kept calling till like 3 in the morning and I was sick of hearing it and just wanted to go to sleep so I could make it to work in the morning.
So last time he calls he is going on for 15 min or so about “hey 1d10 don’t worry about anything, dad will take care of it, my dad will take care of it” so I kinda snaped and said "good, can I sleep now? I hung up the phone and went to sleep, less then a hour later my mom wakes me up to tell me my brother killed himself.
I didn’t go to work that morning, I didn’t go to work for a year. I just went fishing. My brother loved fishing and always tried to get me to go but I didn’t fish and never went with him. After the funeral I took his fishing gear and went fishing almost every day from dawn to dusk for an entire year.
Both of the mothers of my children quit smoking and drinking when the got pregnant.
Every one I have forced to sit through the first 3 episodes of Red Dwarf has gone on to watch every episode and now incorporates quotes from the show in normal conversation.
But they are not one, when all the resources and tools are owned by the big companies that is when they fight each other, and for that they need cheap expendable ground troops, so ask yourself “which company do I want to fight for?” The Gaggles of Google, how about Amazon’s 6/7 mechanized infantry, or the SpaceX Xforx.
Oh it’s gonna all be memes and violence from then on, you will get paid in company money and live in company community’s, eventually the world will be devided into roughly country shaped chunks run exclusively by a single corporation or a consortium of smaller companies.
Gonna be just like the utopian sci-fi, you know Neromancer, Blade Runner, Cyberpunk, and my favorite Downbelow Station.
I’ve never been to Vegas, but from what I’ve seen how would a person even notice the addition of these trucks?
Considering that they are using pseudo intelligence* write the code I think the power settings is the least of our concerns.
*PI should replace AI as it is a more accurate title
I’m the opposite, with drugs I get between 5 and 10 hours of sleep, without drugs I stay awake for days (10 days is my record).Though we may be on different drugs, mine are mood stabilizers and seditives.
Most “rare” books exist in digital format.