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  1. moss

    How brainwashed are you?

    @Daniel, dude, you want to lead an "oppositional writing" workshop with me? This is awesome ;-) -AJ
  2. moss

    How brainwashed are you?

    Oh Jeeze, this is in the realm of personal power tripping on the part of the substitute teacher. Rough experience! Built character the hard way, sorry about that! When I first started drawing military equipment, jets, tanks, war scenarios with my crayons I had no concept of painful injury and...
  3. moss

    ART BlackBird for "MRT and SRT"

    This has to be expected with a Gen 1 mechanical multicender, they'll get there. Pretty interesting that the "nose/limiter" failure occurred as a result of "resin contamination" on the climber's line. If you didn't read the notice the small nose piece (not life support) was smashed off when a...
  4. moss

    How brainwashed are you?

    Daniel inspires me to think things through a little deeper ;-) Laptop for longer stretches of writing, thx! -AJ
  5. moss

    How brainwashed are you?

    Apparently Mellon's donation for the military payroll is in violation of the "Anti-deficiency Act" which requires that Congress approve all U.S. government spending including voluntary services and donations. Which is why the military can't technically be paid during a shutdown, Congress would...
  6. moss

    How brainwashed are you?

    Always follow the money upstream to see who's doing what. Major anti-vaccine financial supporter Timothy Mellon just gave Trump $130 million to help keep the U.S. military paid during the shutdown. He's been backing Robert F. Kennedy Jr's political and anti-vaxx endeavors: "Mr. Mellon, a...
  7. moss

    How brainwashed are you?

    Children are much smarter than that. They know BS when they see it. Give them some credit.
  8. moss

    How brainwashed are you?

    I did not realize you are an expert in space travel technology. When we were kids we'd listen to my dad's surplus U.S. Army tank shortwave radio. It was rumored in the early 60's that a Russian cosmonaut was stranded in orbit. We thought that if we scanned through enough of the shortwave bands...
  9. moss

    How brainwashed are you?

    That's just patriotic ritual, young kids have no idea what it really means. Every culture/religion has rote words like that kids learn to recite, it's nothing in the big scheme of things. Certainly people talk about their "allegiance to the flag". That's something different, has to do with what...
  10. moss

    How brainwashed are you?

    I’m not going there, the theory that good old Santa is the red with white dots embodiment of Amanita muscaria. The reindeer are flying, defacto tripping. Santa is sipping reindeer piss and tripped out hisself? Or the other interpretation is he IS the trip by dint of being the very fungus in...
  11. moss

    How brainwashed are you?

    Can you tell I love this subject? If you want to follow a more expansive definition of brainwashing the following question is relevant. Who was/is your biggest brainwasher? Your parents. Talk about a totalitarian regime! “If I say so it’s true!” And then if you were raised in anything vaguely...
  12. moss

    How brainwashed are you?

    Usually called trolling, should be called trawling ;-) When things go bad the fisherman returns home and repairs the nets. But sure enough, back to sea again, nets lowered. -AJ
  13. moss

    How brainwashed are you?

    The term "brainwashing" has its roots in the early cold war period, post WWII. It was taken up in popular culture in TV, movies and novels. A very compelling idea, a person's beliefs could be washed away and replaced with a new belief system. It turned out to be pseudoscience. In reality the...
  14. moss

    How brainwashed are you?

    Makes no sense. There is no unified "brainwashing force". Or large group of "brainwashed" people. Except perhaps under the forced (at gunpoint) belief systems of the most totalitarian regimes. Even then a large number of people are making a show of "belief" so they can eat and have a roof to...
  15. moss

    How brainwashed are you?

    It's funny in an ironic way but I take it straight on, prefer not to read into it. @Daniel are you intending sly comedy with the subject line or are you straight-up asking a question? If you answer "both" you're DQ'd ;-) -AJ
  16. moss

    How brainwashed are you?

    Well, you are presenting an argument by asking that question. It's like saying "You are brainwashed, prove to me you're not", and... "If you disagree with me you're definitely brainwashed". Who wants to play in that sandbox? It's more fun challenging your premise ;-) -AJ
  17. moss

    How brainwashed are you?

    Also... the subject line "How brainwashed are you?" presumes a lot. A shotgun blast loaded with ridicule is a lousy way to argue your point. -AJ
  18. moss

    How brainwashed are you?

    NASA funding cuts? Incompetent/inconsistent government and corporate leadership? And more specifically SpaceX's Elon Musk is a deeply erratic individual who seems constantly on the edge of meltdown. So NASA is dumping him for a new rocket/spacecraft builder, that just added another couple years...
  19. moss

    Solo Night Climb and oak climb with a friend

    Well hell yes! A recreational climb, superb. At night, even better. -AJ
  20. moss

    Temporary rope cable to climb above a bad codom in a catalpa

    Makes sense. I informed the owner that the tree has problems. There's zero chance they were going to pay to do anything about it. It looked like they were just getting by and tree work was the last thing they were going to think about. -AJ
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