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Aspie 2 points ago +2 / -0

Right. There were Mexicans working on the slab for an addition to my house years ago, and one guy's wife sat in the pickup truck all day long watching him. :)

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Aspie 1 point ago +1 / -0

I still don't on a lot of those items.

I can collect rainwater. I can fish. I can renovate my home and build outbuildings without asking anyone. I can own a weapon. I can cut my hair, and actually did in the past. I have sold many things in large quantities without asking anyone. I can grow food on my property without asking anyone. I keep a supply of seeds and supplies on hand at all times. If I really wanted to, I could set up a lemonade stand or a fruit stand or hunt. I already have what amounts to a number of very small businesses. I have sold a lot of different things, including books I've written.

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Aspie 1 point ago +1 / -0

I don't like the idea of AI on corporate computers. Anything you ask will be recorded for later use against you. I don't have any "smart" devices at all.

What I want is a personal AI assistant located on my own personal computer equipment unattached to the internet, so it only knows the information I give it and cannot tell anyone else.

The problem I found in trying this is that I can't afford enough memory and processors. There are personal AI assistants discussed in YouTube videos, but they are either wimpy or on high end equipment.

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Aspie 2 points ago +2 / -0

The casket should be crap brown rather than gold.

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Aspie 3 points ago +3 / -0

But housing there costs a lot. And the traffic is worse than ever. I-540 around Raleigh helped for a while, but now even that is crowded. There is some cheaper housing in surrounding rural areas, but that is changing quickly. One of the up and coming bedroom areas in northward into Granville County.

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Aspie 3 points ago +3 / -0

If there are buildings that are half full, they need to be consolidated and the extra buildings sold.

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Aspie 1 point ago +1 / -0

Our neighbor a couple of doors down has goats plus sheep, ducks, and chickens. They rarely mow.

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Aspie 2 points ago +2 / -0

All the Hispanics in my area are in construction. They are good at it and very fast. All they need is someone in charge who is bilingual.

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Aspie 2 points ago +2 / -0

Ideally, taxes will shrink enough as the government shrinks so that private charities will get more donations to help people. None of the government giveaways are constitutional, even social security. I'd like to see the whole lot phased out gradually.

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Aspie 2 points ago +2 / -0

In my area of eastern NC, new homes are being built at a record pace. The carpenters and other trades are busy all the time. The cost of living here is low, so anyone in the trades might want to check it out.

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Aspie 1 point ago +1 / -0

I hear that Trump had a bug problem after Obama left. :)

My mother would have said that fumigation would be needed too.

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Aspie 2 points ago +2 / -0

I have attempted posts in the past and didn't succeed. There's not much to tell without a doxxing possibility.

It started as a small skin cancer, dermatologist couldn't see me for 6 months until it was too late for him to help. Then I was sent out of town to various doctors until they decided surgery wouldn't work.

After that, I was sent to my current oncologist. I was also sent to get radiation treatments to stop the bleeding and shrink the original cancer a bit. My hair in the area fell out, but it came back. The radiation only took 2 days. That was in December.

The oncologist started me on the immunotherapy in January. The radiologist showed me the results of my first PET scan and pointed out where the cancer had spread to my spine and liver. I got the immunotherapy treatments once every 3 weeks. The PET scan in July showed all clear.

I'll be getting the treatments for a couple of years after then just to make sure the cancer doesn't return. The cancer shows up in PET scans because it survives on sugar, and they inject you with radioactive sugar before the scan.

I do have compression fractures in my spine, which entails another treatment to help my bones. I also drink milk to help with the calcium. There's some pain in my back, but not too bad. The only side effect I ever had from the immunotherapy was some pneumonitis after the very first treatment. Medicine quickly knocked that out.

I have some really great doctors, and all of them happen to be women who were born up north and moved to the South for the lower cost of living.

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Aspie 2 points ago +2 / -0

My doctor is a very smart oncologist. She originally came from NY and talks a mile a minute. I have my wife with me to take notes.

The treatment only works for certain kinds of cancer, but the oncologist is so happy I'm doing so well.

I am also losing weight very gradually. I lost over 30 pounds last year, over 50 in the past two years. It's not good to lose fast, as there could be poisons stored in fat that might get released quickly. I know someone who lost a lot of weight fast, and she died soon after. I think she was around farm chemicals when she was younger.

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Aspie 1 point ago +1 / -0

Zelensky can just go to Russia and dazzle Putin with his piano playing talent. :)

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Aspie 2 points ago +2 / -0

I recognize that it's not a Hatteras yacht. School is out in my area. Being in the South, there are no snow plows, as they would sit idle for years before being needed. The roads ice up, so they are impossible to drive on. Just sitting still, you might slide sideways to the ditch.

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Aspie 9 points ago +9 / -0

My cancer was cured early in 2024. I started immunotherapy treatments in January, and the PET scan in July showed the cancer was gone from everywhere. A couple of years ago, when monoclonal antibodies was talked about in the news, people claimed that if it worked they'd never let us have it. Well it works, I've had it, and I've been cured of the cancer.

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Aspie 2 points ago +2 / -0

Snow happens occasionally in the South. The usual scenario is that a really cold spell sets in, and then Gulf moisture comes up the coast quick enough to arrive before the cold leaves. I'm in eastern NC. I got about 4 inches. It has been years since we've even had the ground covered in snow.

We got a foot or more in the early 70s. It was waist deep to my father in parts of our yard. In the late 80s, we got a similar snowstorm at Christmas. There were drifts up to the second floor of a downtown church. The city had to use frontend loaders to scoop up snow and load it onto dump trucks. Then it was hauled to the river and dumped. It was massive.

Younger people seem to think every weather event is somehow unprecedented. I've lived long enough to know better. I remember snow on the ground in my hometown on Christmas Day back in 1958. The snow was earlier, but it just stayed really cold for a few days.

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Aspie 10 points ago +10 / -0

If they are even vaccines. The clot shots weren't vaccines. At least one of them was mRNA as proposed for cancer. I don't want anything bothering my DNA. Moderna was originally Mode RNA.

I had cancer last year, but it was cured using monoclonal antibodies, now called immunotherapy. The brand is Libtayo. I had cancer in multiple locations, but the PET scan showed all clear after just 7 treatments. It's super expensive. I'm having to pay a whole $10 for each treatment.

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Aspie 1 point ago +1 / -0

Celente seems to be unaware of the things Trump did during his first term. He's also making a mistake by listening to CNN.

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