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THe internet isnt for solutions. It's for endlessly ranting about shit that pisses you off. This isnt a sexual relationship but it is intimate in the sense that i have to live with this fucking retard. My roommate is a 28 year old indian computer scientist who I figured was going to be straight laced, clean, boring yet sterile and cause me no problems. Turns out india breeds man children who can't do anything for themselves because they're expected to get married and the woman's supposed to do everything for them. He's been here for three days and the house already reeks of his B.O. Yesterday I was minding my own business making pasta when he launched into a story about how for the last three years he's been a speaker at a 3 day self-help lecture and for forty minutes talked about how he's helped people work on themselves though his buddhist brand of pseudo intellectual existentialist bullshit. I told him he should focus more on taking showers daily and washing everything in his bedroom. Thats my advice to all you suicidal retards: Just focus on taking showers.

What would you do if you found the girl you cheated on seeking council on the internet? Would you run back to her, or would you continue fucking around? Carry on.

Annie's Boobs? Hello Five.

Ladies bikes are the new fixed gears.

Best beer on the planet. If anyone's interested in trading beers PM me their addy and I'll send em whatever they want that's in easy reach of the area.

Not a fan of pork loin, oysters, cooked brussel sprouts, beers with alcohol above 8%, or people who waft the cheeses in wholefoods, but that pizza looked good.

I read this and picked up on a couple themes: Why isnt weed following in beer's footsteps? Throw money at lobbyists who'll throw money at federal politicians, ???, profit. Like the article says, there's no weed advocate at a state level, and there's hardly a weed lobbyist at congress. Give these politicians money and you bet nancy pelosi's sweet ass they'll be more vocal about the goodness of weed. Also it just goes to show you SF is just becoming a douchey conservative place to live.

More or less you got the point I was trying to make. Freestyle fixie riders seem to have forgotten all about the evolution bicycles already made before they were even born. It's like thinking you invented sex and nobody ever did it right until you came along... until one day you walk into your parent's bedroom and you realize you were doing it all wrong

12oz just needs to make a 99 cent app for the forum and the .com, and a $.99 monthly subscription for the blogs.

This is the funniest fucking thing to me. Write me down for a $24, 1 year subscript and a $35 gift card to Boston Market for what's probably a few days of $50/hr PHP reworking.

More of my old finished projects

Agreed, but is it possible for Occupy Oakland to take over a residence and leave absolutely no mark of ever being there? Any wear on the place is going to affect property value for the next guy. If it cares about their fellow man then I think Occupy Oakland is better off dropping the entire "we deserve to steal things because the cops are targeting us" schtick and find some legal avenue, because that's what Occupy Wallstreet did by taking zuccotti park and politically it was the right move to make. If they took time square or somewhere privately owned there would've been a whole lot more media backlash.

How do you know the house being squatted in is someone's property or not? One of the houses Occupy Oakland claimed as its own was recently bought by some family. Occupy Oakland apparently trashed it, but appologized and said they had no idea, and would be sure to clean it all up before the family moved in. You'd think the lesson there would be that there's no such thing as just a house the bank owns, and by claiming property that's not yours you're eventually hurting someone, but apparently not.

Ew. I missed that race this year. And I think i recognize mutton chops back there.

There is that about a college degree: it shows you're capable of completing something and therefor you look more productive, but that's not the only difference between a highschool dropout and a college grad. Highschool dropouts generally have social problems so a college grad also has a level of social adeptness. A highschool drop out would rather work than continue being a part of school. That work is unskilled labor and their skillset is easily replaceable. Most importantly a college graduate is a professional in a field of study and therefor is far more employable than a highschool dropout. Before the industrial revolution everything was hand made, which meant only a supermega rich few could actually afford anything. The industrial revolution was a middle finger to high society and their highly ornate and decorative clothing/houses/furniture as things could now be produced modestly and cheaply with an emphasis on practicality, rather than furniture with fucking lions feet for legs. It was also the rise of the blue collar worker as every new factory employed hundreds of workers who could make a living by just using their bodies. Look at modern architecture vs anything before the 1900's. We went from victorian houses to boxes by Frank Wright because we wanted to make beautiful and modern things for the working man and say fuck you to the wealthiest 1%. Eames invented the first plastic chairs and lamps because he wanted to make things as cheap and functional as possible for your everyman. Before industrial revolution After industrial revolution Same with clothes. Pre industrial revolution people had ONE set of clothes. Now we have goodwill for all the shirts we dont wear because we're all too fat (except for me). The overall quality of life for the working man VASTLY improved because of the industrial revolution. There was the largest redistribution wealth in American history. The problem is that we praised the wrong people. We praised and glamourized the entry level blue collar worker, as you see in sculptures and depictions all throughout detroit. We should've been praising and glamourizing those who invented the assembly lines, the adequate power grids, the city planners and engineers who made it all possible because those are the jobs that have survived all these years. Now the issue americans have is buying things beyond their means. But that's a high class problem that only happened because of the success from the industrial revolution. Lower and Middle Classmen started to buy that poncy high class lions feet chair bullshit again because it's human nature to be a bunch of peacocking douchebags. The focus from practicality shifted back to pre-industrial revolution ornate bullshit. And the market did what it always does, makes whatever people want to buy. If we still had that early industrial revolution mentality, cars and houses and chairs would be cheap and practical. But they're not and we've created a market of shit we can't really afford, because we like to pretend. I think of it like this: Right now the biggest contributor to market bubbles are the "high beta rich" these are guys who, within a year, start with nothing and make a few million. There's a culture amongst the high beta to buy lots of houses, yachts, planes, lambos, etc even if only a couple years ago they hardly had cab fare. This behavior created an artificial bubble of luxury superyachts with helicopter pads and submarine bays. You're a yacht company. One year you get an order for one superyacht. You prepare for next year and make/sell ten super yachts. Next year you make 40 super yachts but nobody buys any because your customers was really just one customer that went fucking bankrupt. And now you went bankrupt too because you have a bunch of luxury yachts for a market that didnt really exist. That on some level is the state of the world's ENTIRE economy. So yes. We are all better off because of the industrial revolution. We are also a lot dumber with money because of it too. I agree with you that kids should by law be allowed to mow their neighbor's lawn, paint their fence, all the shit every kid did when they were growing up, but to allow a kid that age to become a full-time employee at a company is where I draw the line. Can you imagine working a cotton gin while learning your shapes and colors? That's too oldschool for me. I'll come back to this in a bit and respond to the other parts of the post.

I just want to add too that only in capitalistic societies do you even see what could possibly be construed as "classless societies." In Amsterdam millionares live next to middle-income families who live next to anarchist boat squatters. All these cultures and economic classes on the same block. That could not exist without capitalism. If something like that doesnt exist near you to the extent you wish it did, that's a cultural acceptance issue. Not an economic one. Also what country do you know offers free education to any child in this country, regardless if their parents are illegal immigrants? Then that grows up and gets subsidized college tuition, subsidized rent, subsidized groceries, subsidized everything. Meanwhile I have to pay full price for everything AND pay taxes to help Raoul get an AA in Advanced Physical Therapy at the local city college. And then when hes old im paying his social security.

Nobody taught you the history of graffiti then. Graffiti came out of a time when the Bronx was heavily dilapidated and neglected by the City of New York. Graffiti originates from Hip Hop which was a movement to rejuvenate the borough, not fuck it up. Most of your other posts follow the same flawed and incoherent logic. Why is everybody on the internet a wannabe anarchist? And you do realize anti-government/constitutionalist is an oxymoron, right? If what you're doing goes against "we the people" you are opting out of the constitution. You do realize none of those examples are examples of capitalism, right? China only now has become very state capitalistic and we have seen biggest redistribution of wealth in the history of the country. Cuba is now by choice of its people becoming capitalistic and the quality of life for those people has improved tremendously. When I went there in 04 it was definitely not capitalistic, nor was it any time before then. And there's no such thing as a classless society. We are not all equal. You cant do what I can do, and I cant do what you can do, and society doesn't equally value our talents. There is someone out there that's really good at puppetry and someone else who's really good at creating renewable energy. Guess which one can afford more trips to hawaii. Show me one example of this because the reality is exactly the opposite. Communist, socialist, feudalist countries maintain class divisions. It's only in capitalist societies do you see every generation better off than the last one, segregated communities becoming multicultural, poor becoming the richest in the world. You are sitting on the internet, in front of a computer, talking freely to other people with no restrictions, all biproducts of a capitalist society. You can't do this anywhere else. How exactly do you think you're an anarchist? Because you say anarchisty things? Name one anarchist thing you do.

before I start these are some great responses btw Im really just trying to state facts and let people decide for themselves if the scene of 12 year olds working the fields works within their own sense of moralism. Im on the fence about it. I would prefer if kids learned how to build rockets and build weather balloons and dream about space and sharks... but there are very poor developing parts of the world that need kids to have strong work ethics to survive. I also think the age of "if you work hard every day and keep your nose to the grindstone, you will be rewarded for your hard work." is over in America. You have to be smart about it and for the most part that means not getting locked into an unskilled labor job early on and sacrificing education. I'm a liberal on most things but I wouldnt say Im a hardcore democrat. There are many instances when I think taxes, tarriffs, and subsidies are just a bunch of broken hammers... and not every instance of poor economic growth and joblessness needs to be treated like a fucking nail. Look the statistics are in. Highschool dropouts have a 20% unemployment rate. College graduates have a 2% unemployment rate. The workforces and companies of our parents (Saturn, Kodak, and hundreds of others) are dead and gone. The business models that made them successful are failing. You can't just recommend your children the same career path you took because that career path rarely still exists. Statistically speaking, the best career advice you could give a kid is to stay in school and graduate college. I agree that kids need direction and chores and jobs but theres a difference between working for your family and working to support your family at age 12 or even 16. That responsibility shouldnt be handed to a kid and a kid should never be forced to take care of their deadbeat parents. That's one instance of wellfare that I think is crucial to give kids a chance at having a normal childhood and become positive and productive members of society. What 60 year old do you know is still in the blue collar workforce? Most 60 year olds who worked their whole lives have happily retired by now because they grew up in a good time for blue collar labor. The begining of a real decline in manual labor started in the early 70's and has continued to now. The barfights im referring to were always between factory workers fighting over girls, status, and whatever else. Old dudes are too old to keep that shit going. Oakland in the 70's is a great example of this. From WWII onward california became an industrial powerhouse since we manufactured most of what was used to combat the japanese and nazis. California Alone quickly rose to having the 4th highest GDP compared to all the other countries in the world. We had a lot of manual labor and a lot of America flocked to areas like Oakland to get work. These workers were able to buy cars, houses, boats, all on a factory worker's salary. Then the 70's rolled around and the tipping point came and machines took over the factories. Unions and politicians fought back against machines by creating tax inscentives and other government inscentives for companies to use less machines and more labor, but the reality is it's just not profitable anymore. And like i mentioned earlier manual labor has always attracted anti-social people who can't work white collar jobs because they're just not that way. They dont value social skills and higher education because the money for manual labor was more than enough. Now in the 70's you have families falling apart because Dad's plan of working in a factory isnt something Junior can emulate because all the jobs are disappearing, including dad's. Junior's parents are also of the antisocial blue collar breed so Junior has two needs: One, he seeks a job. And two, he seeks a healthy family relationship elsewhere. Blue collar areas look down on education because historically people have been moderately successful without it. Plus college is expensive and seen as some poncy white collar b.s. The only other option for youth in Oakland is Gangs or pimps and prostitution because they provide both money and a very tight sense of family. And in the 70's that what you saw in Oakland, more pimps and prostitutes than anywhere else in the country. Also a whole lot of crime, civil rights groups fighting for social change and so on... all spurred on by unemployment and an economic downturn. I would say there's a large poverty level in america where people don't have iphones or air conditioning, or even bedsheets on their mattress. This christmas I donated about a grand in crap to a single mother and her two kids who didn't even have a vacuum cleaner. I literally spent a thousand dollars on things I completely take for granted. If children in america didn't have access to public education and a modicum of wellfare you better believe that those parents would be forced to put their children into some sort of sweatshop work program like you saw in 1700's and 1800's America. I know the farmer you're talking about (think I saw him on food inc) but not the details surrounding the incident you're reffering to. In either case. Those are state laws. http://www.labor.ny.gov/workerprotection/laborstandards/workprot/hrswork.shtm That kid could get a farm work permit in New York and many other states. I think that kid that is banging on their neighbor's door is running away from some other issues at home as well. There's a lot of ways for kids to make money. A ten year old became half a millionaire for jailbreaking the first iphone. A kid in my hometown made a million dollars on some torpedo pool toy. Those free thinking and generally considered "white collar" jobs are perfect to inspire kids to do great things. Also considering farming is rarely profitable anymore, and most American farmers do farming on the side, how responsible is it to assimilate a child into farming? Unless that child becomes a chicken savant chances are he too will be hurting for money his whole life without a college degree. Considering homeschooling is legal in most states (california requires a teaching credential) and public educations are optional I dont know how you could assume the state owns children or parents. And college education is the exact opposite of worthless. It's just becoming more popular so many industries are becoming more competitive. If you get an undergrad in biotech you're looking at a guaranteed 80k salary, and well into 6 figures by halfway through your career. If you get a degree in building sandcastles the job market is probably going to be a lot tougher. And I dont know if it's in people's interest to work hard. Tenured teachers rarely work hard, but that doesnt mean public schools suck. I've had overpaid private school teachers slack on their jobs just as much. And there are as many dumb harvard grads as there are dumb UC grads, so students dont necessarily like to work hard either. It's all about monetizing incentivizing an optimal workflow, which is a lot harder to do than just say "free market capitalism" or "state capitalism" works the best. There's social and cultural influences on how people work. The chinese will work in factories until the bones in their hands disintegrate, and THEN maybe complain. Americans no so much. There's a reason why state capitalism works so well in china and why there's no fucking way we could emulate a chinese economy here in america, even when we too are state capitalists.

Yo bfish'd! Long time no see. Those pieces in the second post are excellent. Safari chairs were part of the inspiration for the original concept "Churchil" in sf. Just finished the website http://churchillsf.com/ In other news I signed up for a few classes at the crucible. I hope to build a couple steel legged, live edge wood table tops for my new apartment. Just a little sourcing the wood slabs and mig welding so it should be easy enough.

More on that first one Just so fucking amazing.

If casek was still around for this

I think not posting would've meant the same thing but whatevs.