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Deardorff,

I look at history, especially economic history.

But if I think deeper about my quote you quoted it does open up a lot of things.

I could say that the American dream was destroyed by greed, and I don’t necessarily point to the wealthy or necessarily government. The middle-class kinda did a lot of self inflicted wounds by living large and beyond their means.

The deficit has been a problem since the year 2000, when the surplus and a balanced budget were in place. Both parties that will remain nameless created this monumental deficit.

There are many factors that got us here. Pretty much making China a favored trade partner was a mistake. There have been mucho bad policy making.

The list goes on and on…

Your point is well taken.

Cal
 
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Wow.

I just out smarted the filter.

I will spell it out horizontally again: tortilla.

Now vertically:

T
A
C
O

No in two syllables with a line break:

TA

CO

When I post let’s see how many tortilla’s we get.

Try it yourself.

I would like to know if I am singularly targeted and filtered.

Perhaps my use of language/expression is like The Gulf of America, or a twist on that.

T-A-C-O

There is another test.

T.A.C.O.

And another…

Game on…

Cal
 
Around 2007-2008 Damaso Reyes started the NYC Meet-Up thread. After about 3-4 Meet-Ups Damaso left for Barcelona and gave me this responsibility. I am a lazy-slacker who kinda inherited this.

When I was attacked by trolls the community defended me, and pretty much this thread was a “safe-place.”

We are a community, we are friends, and yes we personally know each other.

At one point I looked upon this gig as a public service, but in the end I got more out of this than I gave.

This censorship that I discovered today could blow up.

I don’t know where this is going, but I hope I don’t end up in some “detention center” AKA Concentration Camp, for use of the expression T.A.C.O.

Let me say that again.

T
A
C
O

If I suddenly disappear I hope you know what happened.

BTW, know in the past I have been mistaken for Latino, even by Latino’s.

Just because of the tone of my skin I have been called a Spic and separately Puerto Rican.

Just last year in Peekskill, an immigrant city, someone walked by and said, “Chinatown- New York City.” It happened to be a Latino who said this to me as we walked past each other on a sidewalk. The message was clear. In other words I was being told to go back from where I came from.

I was not expecting this, especially in the City of Peekskill, but racism is everywhere. This too was not the first time I was told to go back where I came from.

So is it a possibility that I could be detained and go missing? Don’t discount what is going on.

Something strange happened in this thread.

Cal

T.A.C.O. First then tortilla’

Here is a test tortilla. What got “corrected.”
 
Calzone said:
The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) denoted a slowdown, and this is what took down the indexes and made them turn red. Seems to me though that the indexes are mucho resilient when they really should not be.

Should I use the B-word (Bubble). I’m under the opinion that the economy is clearly slowing down, inflation is rising, and employment is not so great. Remember Trump fired the head of the LBS for reporting a bad number and the previous two month’s labor reports were revised lower.

Slowdown, slowdown, and more slowdown, but the markets still are in nosebleed territory and are making higher highs. What I am saying is that the markets are not reflecting the economy. As I say, “The numbers don’t lie.”


BTW a family member who was a gamer/coder recently got AI’ed, meaning has lost their job and was replaced by a machine. There is a very long list of jobs where AI will replace humans.

My friend Mike the Skinny Hipster use to be a fashion photographer, but that job is gone. They say that live models will get replaced by AI generated images.

A commercial photographer I met at a recent meet-up lost his job he says to Covid and the Pandemic, but that job was getting phased out too. Doom-doom-doom…

Then look at the jobs that AI can’t replace: the trades like plumber; roofers, landscapers…

Do you see the future yet?

Cal
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Not much of a flinch, I was thinking to do some small investment but guess it is going towards savings accounts and winter vacation anyways. It basically looks no good, but markets are still at it as noted. European markets are a bit decoupled, but still when the US sneezes... the rest catches a cold.
A local economic newspaper had a funny article title that our economy is recovering, invest now! Whereas another one had a much more bleak and realist headline.

AI is very much present, and

Tacos are usual in this side of the Atlantic, though not as autentic. Tortillas are a different dish (omelette) in Spain. I do recall quite funny that it had to be NYC the place to have a Cubano Sandwich
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So the automatic filter does not like certain food? It's been funny to see the thread act like a chat for a bit.

PD: I had the tab open ready to post and forgot when switched to something else... I think TikTok mind spreads out of its userbase.
PD2: Would be easy to ask who is maintaining the forum, could be some embedded "feature" autocorrecting.

Calzone said:
Around 2007-2008 Damaso Reyes started the NYC Meet-Up thread. After about 3-4 Meet-Ups Damaso left for Barcelona and gave me this responsibility. I am a lazy-slacker who kinda inherited this.
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Which is a neat connection now that I think, I am from Barcelona and saw his exhibition of The Europeans summer 2012. Still a kid then, he is not active at RFF nowadays but I saw he is around NYC now?
 
Gotcha. Tactical Coordinator in Navy patrol aircrew parlance.
As far as being disappeared, I don't think anyone in this little cul-de-sac of the internet has anything to worry about regarding political reprisal. Now, random nutjobs are everywhere, just like your neighbors, Cal, but that doesn't mean that we need to stop speaking. If we do that "they" win. "They" being the fearmongers who would rather the populace be uneducated docile sacks of labor, beholden to debt and taxes. I am not one of those. As Cal has stated, very recently, long-standing governments were changed because people could not afford flour to make bread.
I'll just reiterate: 1793
Phil
 
Phil knows and understands that I tend to do very gross exaggerations, but the context is in the realm of possibility.

Arab Spring was caused by hungry children. In a way the U.S. was to blame. A strong dollar made commodities like food expensive. Commodities are priced in U.S. Dollars.

My neighbors have 4 building lots as their property. They have a driveway where two cars and a full sized pickup truck can park side by side. I understand not wanting to shuffle cars: inconvenient; and also not good for a car to start and then not really run.

In front of their house was a handicapped parking spot for a member of their family, so their son who lives in their basement along with his girlfriend always-always park in front of our house.

Understand that the city took away the handicapped sigh, and only a partial outline of an oversized handicap parking space still exists on the pavement, but even this is 2/3rd’s removed by a rather large blacktop patch fron the natural gas line replacement.

Pretty obvious that this is no longer a handicapped parking spot.

The son and the girlfriend now do not block our walkway. Understand that “Maggie” is 72. Snoopy and JJ’s kids never park in front of their own house. No big deal, but that is the kind of people they are. It is nice to have the convenience of unloading groceries through our own front door. Also our mammoth Japanese Maple offers a shady spot to park, and know our Audi is a black car.

They fly the yellow “Don’t Tread On Me” but they don’t understand the unspoken second half of that motto meaning “Live and let live.”

They are forceful with their positions and politics. Also some racial remarks of other people deeply offended me.

They bought a second home in Texas for retirement, and broadcast how they hate New York. They even fly the Texas State flag.

BTW not happy people, kinda angry.

Cal
 
Jorde,

Trump Always Chickens Out is a Wall Street term that evolved from Trump’s threats of tariffs that always got revised, rescinded, or delayed. This phrase:

T
A
C
O

Was coined by Wall Street traders who figured out the pattern quickly and made mucho money. Of course Donald Trump deeply took offense to this colloquialism.

Buck-buck-buck.

Basically

TA
CO is a big insult.

Do you see why I might be getting censored? We are not talking about food here. LOL.

Trump
Always
Chickens
Out

Is a funny term that targets one person.

Buck-buck-buck…

The filter is trying to eliminate a derogatory term. So here I am making a big deal of this. I confess, I’m a drama queen, and of course I live to annoy people it seems.

Buck-buck-buck.

Call me a bully, but I can’t help it.

Cal
 
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I’m having my friend Bobby build me a custom Tele bridge pickup for a Tele with a pine body. The very first Tele’s before there were Telecasters were prototypes made of pine.

Pine is an interesting wood and is very different than say an ash or alder guitar. My pine Tele has great articulation, clarity, and vast note separation. For me great for Jazz although the sound is kinda compressed in a pure way. Another way to express this is that the notes are not so full, although this guitar has a lot of resonance and notes tend to “swell” as if an electronic effect was in use.

The pickup I currently have installed is a high output Lollar J-Street that is ill suited. In about 2 weeks I should have an ideal optimized pickup for a guitar I built from parts I gained by bargain hunted using time as my friend. Also I just happen to have the spare parts laying around on-hand.

Guitar mill offers many pine bodies, but I wanted one that had clear pine without knots. When they listed a few new ones that were clear (rare) I bought the best of three being offered, then I stalked a vintage roasted maple 1-piece neck that appeared to be quarter sawn. Snagged that one as a lucky find.

Pine is soft and damages easily, so Leo Fender later went with swamp ash and even later alder. My body is very light in weighty. Has an airy acoustic tone also that projects well even without an amp. Plays almost itself.

Kinda excited.

A nice reward for around when radiation therapy ends.

Cal
 
I’m taking mucho laxatives to combat constipation. Using two types as recommended by the radiation oncologist. Doing the max dose of Gas-X also in conjunction with my inhibitor and steroid.

Hope I don’t have a repeat of evacuating 3-5 PM.

My bowels presently are growling and even howling. Kinda like a soundtrack from a horror film. Now a whale sound.

Oh-boy. Pretty much no real science going on here, just experiment until I get it right. Today I am just repeating what I did yesterday. If required I’ll tone down the dosages.

Today we were going to go out, and I had the opportunity to park right in front of our house. I decided to save the wear and tare on the car, and left it parked in front of our own house. Surely this will annoy someone.

“Ha-ha,” I say.

BTW in the almost 5 years we have lived here I think this might likely be the first time I parked the Audi right in front of the house overnight. This I think will come off as provocative. Ask me if I care,

Cal
 
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