I would call the fight with Everae Altana in FFX one of the exceptions, but a couple Phoenix Downs aren’t exactly rare.

If you can learn to write a business proposal, you don’t have to be able to afford it. A bank will practically shit themselves to give people loans that can show that an initial investment of less than $500,000 to $750,000 (for a 150 acre farm) will produce an average of $1,200,000- $1,500,000 per year every year for the next 25 years.

Edit: the previous reply in this chain wasn’t me. I appreciate their support though.

Edit 2: if you don’t know how to write a business proposal, librarians can and will help with that.

Buy a corn farm and change the crop from corn to solar. Between 25% and 48% of the corn in the US is turned into ethanol for cars. You’d be doing double duty combating climate change, and living the capitalists wet dream of one time investment with constant return.

Every individual civilization has followed that pattern with a few exceptions. Overall, however the previous view is correct historically speaking. As a species things do just keep getting better for us, except in periods of systemic transition.

I went to university when I was two weeks away from my 16th birthday. I started smoking weed that summer, and tried alcohol when I was 17.

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Edit: but I originally got the Internet in my house in Aug of 1986. I was almost 6 years old. I’ve been on the Internet since before it was the World Wide Web. Back in the days of BBSs, and MUDs. By the time I got that UIN, I was already 15, and heading to university.

I’m reasonably certain that I may be among a few hundred people that never went backwards on our connection speed, and had 24 h access to ISDN by 1996, and never have lost Internet access since 1986.

Just like Indiana, PA.

Same people that deny that the US invented concentration camps to deal with the natives

Not when we (The US) have 1200-6500

THEY FUCKING BETTER NOT! All those rivers are Source rivers. They ALL run off into the Mississippi, or The Great Lakes, and St. Lawrence.

Ohio is practically the heart of the midwestern, eastern, and Great lakes river watershed

Not even the knot tying badge? I was duped!

/s

Kkk isn’t widespread, organized, and in leadership everywhere anymore. Not even two generations back, this was not true, and even today there are pockets of holdouts.

I’d nickname her Bupu, lol. She’s adorable.

Tasslehoff needs a stick. A hoopack or chapack.

Drop out. Act.

Which is which? I assume Cece is on the left?

Bone spurs are actually a VERY common Medical Discharge with Full Benefits from Boot Camp. My division alone had around 12% of the recruits develop bone spurs from marching with full rucksacks. This was the Navy, I can’t even imagine how bad it is in the Army and Marines. That being said, we know what causes it in young people. Excessive marching. I seriously doubt that Drumpf was even in marching band. (I was in marching band, and thought those marching drills were excessive, until I got to Boot Camp.)

Not since DOS v 6(?). Once Windows 3.11 came out my father had had to upgrade his machine enough times that we had 1 computer for each family member. We literally had hand-me-down computers instead of clothing.

Ahh they call me Hitler Pete!

That’s the sound of an SS Beat!

When my guns go click-clicky-boom click-clicky-boom click-clicky-boom!

Kk. Thanks!