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280 responses to “Sandbox – 31oct19”
Posted by: Roberta Cross | 03 November 2019 at 03:44 PM
…….oh Bertie.
https://www.midol.com/
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Fish @ 3:18 pm
Too funny. Hey, remember when all those brain dead TDS sock puppets like Ozzz and Pig Wiggley and Dougski and some others not worth mentioning came running over here to tie Epstein to Trump? Oh my. Lolita Express carrying frequent flyer VIP Bill Clinton to Pediphile Fantasy Island and they tried to make Trump the story, roflmao. Well, they went dead silent when Epstein’s prized portrait was released. Not a peep since! What a coincidence.
https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/clinton-painting.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1236&h=820&crop=1
Funny, one would think that possession of Epstein would have been a conversation starter, not a conversation ender, roflmao.
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Disgusting that this bozo denied the LE memorial flag plaque gift!! –
Maryland’s governor on Sunday sharply criticized Montgomery County’s top elected official for banning a police station from displaying a wooden “thin blue line” flag that was a gift last week from a local resident.
Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich called the flag “divisive” over the weekend and said it was not going to be put on display at the Fifth District police station, overruling officers who accepted the gift and said that it would be displayed.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, said in a series of tweets that he was “offended and disgusted” Elrich had arbitrarily prohibited officers from displaying the flag that was made for them by a father and his young son in honor of National First Responders Day.
“I have attended the funerals of fallen law enforcement officers across our state, and I take time to thank them every day for their dedicated service and sacrifice,” he said.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/maryland-governor-montgomery-county-executive-for-banning-police-divisive-thin-blue-line-flag
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Willie Brown told the truth and will botox Nancy pull his invites to the cocktail circuit? –
If the goal was to damage President Trump by formalizing the impeachment inquiry, it’s Mission Unaccomplished for House Democrats.
If anything, the vote solidified Trump’s hold on power. There were zero GOP defections, meaning we have zero drama heading into the public phase of impeachment. Everyone is pretty much in the same lanes they’ve been in since the Russian-collusion investigation, the obstruction of justice investigation and every other investigation.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/williesworld/article/Impeachment-a-winner-for-Democrats-Don-t-bet-14803559.php
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When all else fails, smoke rope.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-cannabis-hemp-millions-destroyed
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Now his mommy can rent out the basement after she washes the pringles and Cheetos out of the carpet and fumigates. Gage has a ‘real peerrrty mouf’ says buba at the prison! –
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2019/11/03/antifa-protester-gets-6-years-prison-brutal-assault-conservative/
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Pop, pop, pop. I hear some heads exploding. Sounds like it is coming from Back East somewhere.
“One person in attendance told Yahoo News on the condition of anonymity that they were horrified by the display. “Horrified. We were horrified,” the person said.
“Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, said the display dehumanized brown people. “It screams to white grievance voters that ‘real Americans’ should fear, exclude and dehumanize brown people,” Sharry said. “Only in Trump’s White House would a holiday event centered on kids, costumes and candy become a propaganda opportunity for his racism and xenophobia.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/families-visiting-white-house-were-invited-to-help-build-the-wall-on-halloween?
Pop, pop, pop…
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More pop, pop, pop. This time I think it’s coming from the West Coast.
“After returning from New York City, Sunday, on the South Lawn of the White House, President Donald Trump said he believed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) had “lost her mind.”
Trump said, “I think Nancy Pelosi has lost her mind.”
He continued, “I think, frankly, that she should go home to San Francisco. If you look at what is happening to her district, her district is going to hell. With homeless that they’re not taking care of, with needles all over the streets, with tents, with people, with sanitation, with horrible things being washed into the ocean, into the Pacific Ocean.”
He added, “Her district has probably gone down more than any district proportionally, in the United States. And what she has done for that district— then on top of it, you’ve got fires eating away at California every year because management is so bad. The governor doesn’t know he is like a child.”
Pop, pop, pop
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During an appearance on Sunday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Weekends,” Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) said Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham were “co-conspirators” of President Donald Trump.
, those people are in on it they are coconspirators with Trump.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/03/cohen-anybody-who-watches-fox-news-watches-it-too-much-hannity-ingraham-trumps-co-conspirators/
Really asswipe? Well come and get me, you Commie Son of a bitch.
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Pop, pop, pop. This one sounds like it is coming from across the Pond. Clean up on Aisle 6!
“She added, “Women birth all the people, make up half the population, but less than a third of the seats in the House of Commons are occupied by us.” She finished by claiming that women who acknowledge biological differences between women and men are often “subjected to cries of bigotry and transphobia when they say they don’t want to have sex with a woman with a penis.”
“It was the last part, apparently, that caused the uproar. It turns out, transgender rights activists get prickly when you suggest that only women can give birth, even if the person making that claim is a verifiable birth expert.”…..
“The UK is ground zero for internecine LGBT warfare over precisely this issue, and the chasm between trans activists and more traditional leftists seems to be growing wider, particularly the division between women’s rights activists and “trans-exclusionary radical feminists,” who claim to want to preserve the gains they’ve won for women by ensuring the gender binary doesn’t go by the wayside.
“TERFs have come under heavy fire for their views in the progressive UK and in Canada, where a recent panel, featuring a TERF, was widely protested and the panelist regularly compared to a Nazi.“ ……(not to mention a man dressed as a woman kicking the shit out of an elderly born-female feminist and lifetime woman’s rights activist.)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/birth-coach-hounded-out-of-job-by-trans-activists-after-saying-only-women-can-have-babies?
Pop, pop, pop. Yep, it’s time for LBG to part ways with T.
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Don
Pop, pop, pop. This one sounds like it’s coming from the DNC.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/11/this-time-the-gop-looks-ready-to-compete.php
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Well we knew she is a hard core socialist who hates us but its nice she has shucked any pretense. Its nice that she forgets that more than Bernie bros are listening! –
Ilhan Omar, at Bernie Sanders rally, calls for ‘mass movement of the working class,’ end to ‘Western imperalism’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ilhan-omar-bernie-sanders-minnesota-minneapolis
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Homey might have told too much truth but hey he has no chance anyway so why not –
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang said Sunday he supported the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, but acknowledged it could hurt the eventual Democratic nominee.
“I am for impeachment, but the fact is when we’re talking about Donald Trump, we are not presenting a new way forward and a positive vision for the country that Americans will get excited about,” the entrepreneur said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“That’s the only way we’re going to win in 2020, and that’s the only way we’re actually going to start actually solving the problems that got him elected,” Yang added. “Even when we’re talking about impeaching Donald Trump, we’re talking about Donald Trump and we are losing.”
Yang also spoke about the impeachment probe during an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash that aired Sunday on “State of the Union.“
The downside of impeachment, he told Bash, is that “the entire country just get engrossed.”
“And then, we’re gonna look up and be facing Donald Trump in the general election and we will not have made a real case to the American people,” Yang said.
The candidate was also asked whether the impeachment probe would hurt the eventual Democratic nominee for president.
“There’s a chance that it will,” Yang responded. “And I just saw that it seems like the significant number of candidates may be actually called to D.C. for the bulk of January, which would definitely take the focus away from the campaign.”
https://www.yahoo.com/entry/andrew-yang-impeachment-probe-could-170919749_n_5dbf182ee4b0d8b441d0b612
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GOP Presidential candidate and former radio talk show host, Joe Walsh, said today, “The Americans who listen to Fox News and conservative talk radio are being lied to and manipulated every day when it comes to impeachment….those people who listen to the opinion shows on Fox and those people who listen to my former world, conservative talk radio, have no clue because they’re being told every day: ‘He’s done nothing wrong’ … It’s dangerous.” He went on to say that when he was in radio he “got pressure every day” from his syndicator to speak highly of Trump.
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HAHA! –
That is why Thursday’s vote on impeachment says everything about Mrs. Pelosi’s speakership and nothing about Mr. Trump’s presidency.
This is Nancy Pelosi’s Waterloo, and she knows it.
Pelosi Bonaparte has desperately tried to throttle down the impeachment freight train that the crazies in her party have been frothing about since Election Day 2016.
Not because she likes Mr. Trump or wants him to be president, but because she is a smart enough politician to know that impeachment will fail to remove the president and could very well cost Democrats control of the House — not to mention assure Mr. Trump’s reelection.
In that case, Pelosi Bonaparte still goes down in history as the nation’s first female House speaker, but she also goes down as the first female House speaker to lose her majority — twice.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/03/the-nuclear-option-nancy-pelosis-waterloo/
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Posted by: bertie cross | 03 November 2019 at 07:18 PM
That’s horrible Bertie….you probably shouldn’t vote for him them.
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Joe Walsh? Too much drugs when he played with the Eagles. He has no business commenting on politics.
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Oh Bobbie.
Sometimes you sound exactly like Punchy. Exactly. Makes me wonder.
May I suggest you find some Mitt Romney quotes or William Krystal prose. Those are better than Joe Walsh quotes. Or that resident “conservative” at the NYT, roflmao.
GOP Presidential Candidate……Bill Welds? He was the VP Libertarian Party candidate in 2016. Joe Walsh? How about Mark Sanford! Mark Sanford don’t like Trump one bit. I know, I know! How about “conservative” Jeff Flake. Bingo!
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For your reading pleasure.
Joe Walsh, appealing directly to voters.
A Tea Party Republican from Illinois, Walsh served one term in Congress before losing his seat to Democrat Tammy Duckworth in 2012. Walsh then became a conservative talk radio host, with a syndicated show carried by the Salem Radio Network. The right-leaning company has been steadfast in its support for Donald Trump, and quickly dropped Walsh from its roster after he announced his bid on Aug. 25. Walsh, who has expressed regret over his history of using racist slurs, is running, like pretty much everyone else in the race, as “not Trump.” Yet, in many ways, the two are quite similar: Walsh—who says he plans on making a “moral case” against Trump—also has a checkered (and rather sordid) financial past, rife with unpaid debts, tax liens, and foreclosures.
Age: 57 Years in political office: Two
Who gives him money: Walsh’s has not yet filed financial disclosures for the 2020 election cycle. His 2010 congressional campaign included major contributions from insurance companies, the hospital and nursing-home industry, and the investment/securities interests. Retirees were also an important donor bloc. Walsh has not reported using any of his own money in the past.
Biggest idea for the economy: Reduce the size of government and shrink the national debt, which has ballooned to almost $1 trillion under Trump. His campaign has not released many specifics beyond that, but a continuance of his rightward lean on social spending and defense is probably to be expected.
Social media following: Twitter: 223,000, Facebook: 1,000,000, Instagram: 6,200.
Who will like this candidate: Conservatives who hate Trump, Republicans who hate Trump, Libertarians who hate Trump, independents who hate Trump.
Who will hate this candidate: Anyone who loves Trump.
What he says about Trump: “I’m running because Donald Trump is not who we are,” Walsh says in his announcement video. “He’s the worst of who we are.”
https://qz.com/1696901/2020-republican-presidental-candidates/
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Nice try Joe,, he’s a minority in the repub party. and that why no one listens to him.
Need proof? Trump is President, and he ain’t.
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Life imitating art…
Stan wants to have babies!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PObBA2wH5l0
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BTW Joe, not ONE self respecting LIB here has dared back anyone of their own running against Trump.
I guess that means they must be voting for Trump because any one of the Commiecrats looking to take him down,will take the nation down the sewer with them. Their retirement accounts will be worthless, The tax man won’t care you voted LIB,,(sorry no discount) The IRS will assume you are ready to be bled dry.
All that free crap needs to be paid for somehow.
And how the price of electricity will go through the roof with all that overpriced, soon to be mandated green power. Cheap power has to go.
Ready for that electric car? Have fun during the blackouts.
Now tell us again why your voting Proggy?
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Another home invader gets what coming his way.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/colorado-homeowner-shoots-alleged-burglar-denver-gun
To bad the homeowner didn’t finish the job…But a great post from the story none the less.
The debate over a shotgun or handgun gets a good answer.
“My preferred defense weapon at home is my 12 ga.
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Practice drill: Stand in your hall with an unloaded 12 ga. Pretend you hear the intruder behind you, swing your 12 ga around to confront the hypothetical intruder. About the time your shotgun barrel tears through the sheetrock you’ll understand why I like a .45 / 410 revolver.”
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Walt- cut off the barrel, solves your problem and makes it even harder to miss.
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Hi Walt, when can we get a bbq rib again, my lovely wife and me enjoyed the ribs you delivered to the Republican party fun at the Penn Valley park a bit ago.
I hear your love of a tight 45 but I gotta give love to our minimum legal length 12 gauges with a ready 6 on the little stock.
A mix of sweet magnums, mil spec 00 mixed with discarding sabot magnum hollow point massive deer rounds that will tag em!
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I have my scattergun(s) I will use whatever I can reach first.
The sound of a pump gun is a universal language that shit is coming your way. So is the distinct sound of a .45 slide racking a round.
Did I just get an order for ribs? I just happen to have a fresh batch of pulled pork vacuumed sealed in the freezer, I slaved over on Friday. I have extra.
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Perhaps the best meme I have posted in years: Guns.
https://www.facebook.com/TAPTheAmericanPatriot/photos/rpp.426883867374699/2680151245381272/?type=3&theater
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,,,big tech ponies up $4.5 Billion to help with housing shortage in Cali…
Let the Cali hater whining begin!!!!
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Life under the green new deal –
Thunberg is pleading for public help to make the 6000-mile trip through carbon-free modes of transportation.
“As #COP25 has officially been moved from Santiago to Madrid I’ll need some help,” Ms Thunberg tweeted from Los Angeles.
“It turns out I’ve travelled half around the world, the wrong way. Now I need to find a way to cross the Atlantic in November … If anyone could help me find transport I would be so grateful.”
Help might be at hand however via the Spanish government:
Spain’s Ecological Transition Minister, Teresa Ribera, made the offer however she did not clarify exactly what it would involve.
There has also been response as to whether Spanish taxpayers agree with their government’s decision to fund Thunberg’s race back across the Atlantic in a carbon-free mode of transportation she approves of.
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2019/11/04/theyre-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat-more-climate-activists-cry-for-help-to-reach-cop25-climate-conference/
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Good for them Dougy,, Any bets our homeless problem WON’T go away? Is your rent going to go down?
Can’t wait for the list of “strings attached”.
Some do gooders tried to make cheap homes out of cargo containers. Then the state had their say. After spending 100 grand on ONE to meet state regs,, they gave up.
State regs, fees, and bureaucracy, all that money ain’t going very far.
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Don @ 7:33 am
She should stick out her thumb, wait for a Telsa, and hitchhike her way to Spain.
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re: Walt@7:52
You would probably enjoy this set of videos, starting with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA5fh29rhLs
It’s well done, and would give a layman a good idea of what it takes to build a small house in CA, plus the issues with that sort of construction (HEY! THEY’RE SHAPED LIKE A BOX! THEY’D MAKE A GOOD HOUSE!)
A lot of comments mentioned that it was the best ad against building shipping container houses you could make.
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Thanks Scenes, I gave it a look.(all three)
Gotta love the price breakdown.
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What light (non?) thinkers like Biguns miss is that CA’s state govts have put big tech’s tit in a wringer with its no growth and anti-housing policies so that the employees they need no longer have affordable housing available to them within commuting distance. So their alternative is to pay such employees astronomical wages, or attempt the alternative of subsidizing their housing costs. None of this is altruistic or intended to alleviate the state’s mid-class housing shortage or provide homes for the homeless. Lefties like Biguns, desperate to find any salutary evidence for socialist governance, will grasp at any straws, no matter how fantastic, to sustain their perpetually absurd narrative.
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Lefties like Bigums, desperate to find any salutary evidence for socialist governance, will grasp at any straws, no matter how fantastic, to sustain their perpetually absurd
Well, when our California schools magically rise out of the bottom quintile of the nation’s K-12 public schools, I might listen to what he has to say.
Techies? Cash rich, house poor. That’s why the big tech companies have showers on their ‘campuses.’
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Posted by: BigAnus | 04 November 2019 at 07:23 AM
Awww…..dry your eyes dugsKKKi……I’m sure that as the member of a minority (the cranky elderly) you should qualify for some of that sweet, sweet corporate cash.
Things are looking up for you….~!
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Yup! –
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/11/04/nolte-2020-swing-state-polls-show-why-the-media-want-trump-impeached/
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,,,450,000 $1,000,000 homes for techies,,,at 3-4 nerds per house,,,don’t forget the garage conversions,,,should get some folks out of their camper vans and off the streets of Sunnyvale
,,,or multi story techie apartment campuses
George has it backwards,,,Cali is for high density in the cities so the countryside won’t get paved,,,no “growth/anti-housing” the the classic whine
,,,or put that money toward rapid transit.
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“Techies? Cash rich, house poor. That’s why the big tech companies have showers on their ‘campuses.’”
I honestly don’t know why they don’t put up dorms. They hire an awful lot of people who are fresh from college (or nearly so) and it sure would simplify your new job at Google to have a place to live. Plus, you’ll tend to stay there since your housing is tied to the company.
The company sto’ is a pretty effective idea.
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Administrivia – please note the 4nov19 update for Scattershots and post comments accordingly.
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AHHHhhhhh… Back to the coal mining way of life. Right Dougy?
Company housing, company rules of living, company money again, and say it can’t be taxed, and only good at the company store.
Not 16 tons of coal quota,, just 1600 lines of usable code.
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If you have a spare bit of time, this is worth a gander. Pretty long, so skip around at will. Have fun. Share your favorite parts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmeQGX567Ic&t=50m18s
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/04/watch-nationals-ryan-zimmerman-to-trump-thank-you-for-continuing-to-make-america-the-greatest-country-in-world/
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ITS THE ECOMNY STUPID! 3 market records today. Sweet. 😉
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,,,Day Trader Donnie is Back!!! breathless with the latest financial market noise of the minute!!!
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,,,Wally Boy,,,no one said anything about company towns. But Big Tech could become landlords like your heros Trumpski and Kushy Kushner
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Dung says,,,”no one said anything about company towns” No need to. That’s what it’s all about. 600,000 a year, and back to living in dorm room conditions. Sure thing Dung, The Commie lifestyle. I guess it beats living in a motorhome, and having to change streets on a daily basis…. But the money is GREAT!
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Biggums sez
“,,,or put that money toward rapid transit.”
We have put billions into the Brown Streak. It’s slower than grandma and she is 92. It’s neither rapid or transit.
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“,,,or put that money toward rapid transit.”
Between where and where? ‘Rapid’ is easy, it’s called an airliner. Infrastructure in place, straightforward to expand.
I’m thinking ‘rapid transit’ really means ‘mass transit’. No problemo, just add some Amtrak trains and buy some buses…and throw in a whole boatload of subsidies.
I can’t say that it works too well right now. Just book a train from Colfax to LA and see what the transit time is (and cost). I expect that ’round these parts, ‘rapid transit’ means ‘free bus from the Rood Center to the Ridge to see your welfare case worker’.
I expect you’ll see something like rapid transit someday in California, but it’ll require robot cars. You not only get many points to many points (instead of station to station), but you get the security of not being bolted into a metal box with crazy homeless people. Win win. Heck, they’ll probably even run on ‘lectric. In the meantime, ‘mass transit’ is just a boondoggle to hand out money for politically connected directorships.
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“Dung says,,,”no one said anything about company towns””
Actually, that’s exactly what I was getting at. For the large south bay companies, it would make really good sense. You’re expected to be at your desk 12/7 in any case and not having to worry about renting an apartment would be brilliant for your average 23 year old super genius Googler.
People over 40 wouldn’t live like that, but then, they are unhireable in any case.
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