As of the most recent reports in January 2026, Dallas Pokornik remains in federal custody. The case is still pending, and trial proceedings are expected to continue, with reports noting he is set to face trial in March 2026 (based on available reporting).

Morgan Freeman has indeed communicated this idea often.
This was his way of emphasizing what some call a “color‑blind” approach to race,
the idea that if we stopped highlighting racial categories in everyday interactions,
racial divisions could diminish over time. He is not a representative for most black people in the US. This contrasts with the majority view among Black Americans, who see racism as both systemic and structural, requiring active attention and solutions.

You're making an "appeal to authority" fallacy. The reasoning goes like:
“Morgan Freeman says stop talking about race → therefore, that is the best way
to reduce racism.”
It’s fallacious because his celebrity status does not confer special insight into
systemic sociology.

I think it's just an argument from people who want people to stop talking about racism.
The reality is that racism is reemerging in alarming ways, more openly than in previous decades, making silence both unrealistic and dangerous.

Ignoring race doesn’t make racism disappear. It can hide inequalities,
invalidate experiences, maintain the status quo, and erase cultural identity.
Real change requires acknowledging race, while addressing inequities.

"disruption of a worship service" is that a crime?

You lot are scolding "woke" a lot, but maybe you'll think differently
when you understand how fugging hard it often is.

I let this brilliant piece of comedy support my point:
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How convenient. I say you did see enough, and found no way to defend it.
Anyway, most Americans did see enough too, and are FUCKING FED UP.
Trump is doing EVERYTHING you lot always said that Democrats would do.
The big tyrannical government is HERE, and it is terrorizing EVERYONE.
You can sure hide in you cave for a while, but they will STARVE YOU OUT.

No, because their king doesn't want to be a DICTATOR. Neither does mine.

No, dumb-ass, he is explaining CAPITALISM!!!
Lots of people, making lots of money, from your need to live under a roof.
People making money is good, until it starts hurting the actual goal.
The goal of building houses is to put a roof over your head, not making people RICH.
However, if you let capitalism go unchecked, that twists everything in that one goal.
That's NOT fraud, that is the direct result of the politics that YOU support.

All these costs he is listing are the result of CAPITALISM:
- Middlemen inspectors (Private companies, hired by buyers, sellers, or lenders)
- Contractors (Private companies)
- Lawyers (Private companies)
- Lobbyists (To protect the profits of big private companies)
- Labor unions (To prevent exploitation by private companies)
- His favorite: Consulting (Private companies making big bucks for advice)

"Nobody in America anymore knows what the fuck they are doing."
No, because you kicked out all knowledgeable PUBLIC servants,
and replaced them with the fore-mentioned PRIVATE businesses.

Yes, REALITY is wonderful thing, isn't it?

You/they are linking one fact with another. The fact that New York lost 78,000 residents
is not surely related with taxes going up. It is confusing CORRELATION with CAUSATION.
There are also lots of working class people moving out of New York, because they cannot afford to live there anymore. That's NOT because of taxes, that's because of capitalism making their houses and the cost of living ridiculously expensive. It's up to the people to vote for a major, who represents the idea of which people are allowed to live in a city.
Do the people want just wealthy people able to live in New York, or should working class people be able to live there too? The result is tax policy that might turn away some wealthy people, but WILL make it more affordable for the working class people.

That $24.5 billion figure isn't applicable. This refers to net adjusted gross income
moving out of the state, not the loss in taxes for the state.

If you look at the taxes that New York collected, there is NO decline:
2014-15: ~$43.7 B
2015-16: ~$47.1 B
2016-17: ~$47.6 B
2017-18: ~$51.5 B
2018-19: ~$48.1 B
2019-20: ~$53.7 B
2020-21: ~$53.7 B
2021-22: ~$55.0 B
2022-23: ~$58.8 B
2023-24: ~$53.8 B
2024-25: ~$61.2 B

Do you see a drop op $24.5 billion there?

It's just political actors trying to prove their idea, with data manipulation.
There is certainly a movement of people trying to avoid taxes.
But you forget that taxes ALSO move, in relation to people and business.
Poor states are trying to lure business with low taxes.
But when that results in more business, they can raise taxes again.
New York can raise taxes, because they have lots of business.
They have the luxury to raise taxes, without it affecting tax income.
When a state uses the higher taxes for the benefit of the working class,
those people are able to improve themselves AND improve the economy,
which in turn will increase the return in taxes for the state too.

Your thinking is completely fixed on the idea that wealthy people create wealth.
That's not true; the working class creates wealth and the wealthy just siphon it off.

The top 1% richest households in the US own approximately $50 Trillion to $52 Trillion. What wealth have they created for you lately? Do Americans have better healthcare, education, public transport, childcare, and overall quality of life, created by that top 1%?

You don’t need a green card, visa, or even to live in the US to buy property in the US.

In most countries, non-citizens can buy property. I can buy a home in Italy,
use it a week per year and rent it out to who ever I want the rest of the year.

Still, restrictions are very common, such as:
Limits on land vs apartments (e.g. foreigners can buy condos but not land).
Approval requirements or government permits.
Caps on how much or where foreigners can buy.
Extra taxes or fees for non-citizens.

In this case, I indeed didn't know anything.
Like I said, I just asked ChatGPT.

ChatGPT didn't agree with you. Take it for what it's worth, which is not a lot, because you're not taking it anymore:

Short answer: **No — that explanation is largely false and mixes a few half-truths with outright misinformation.** Let’s unpack it cleanly.

---
## What’s wrong in that statement

### 1. **Creatine does NOT require 75 g of glucose to work**
* Creatine uptake into muscle is **not dependent on a massive insulin spike**.
* Insulin can *slightly* enhance creatine transport, but **normal meals already provide enough insulin**.
* Research shows creatine works perfectly well **with water alone**.

👉 You do **not** need 75 g of glucose (that’s ~300 calories of sugar) for creatine to be effective.

---
### 2. **More expensive creatine ≠ better creatine**
* The gold standard is **creatine monohydrate**.
* It’s cheap, stable, and extremely well-researched.
* Added glucose does **not** make it higher quality — it just makes it a carb supplement plus creatine.

If anything, “expensive creatine with tons of sugar” is often **marketing fluff**.

---
### 3. **Creatine is NOT injected**
This is a big red flag.
* Creatine is taken **orally** (powder, capsule).
* There is **no standard or legitimate practice of injecting creatine**.
* The body absorbs creatine through the gut → bloodstream → muscles.

If someone says “inject creatine,” they either misspoke badly or don’t understand the topic.

---
### 4. **Creatine doesn’t directly “repair muscles”**
Creatine:
* Increases **phosphocreatine stores**
* Improves **short-burst power output**
* Allows **more reps, heavier loads**
* Indirectly supports muscle growth by improving training quality

It does **not** directly repair muscle tissue like protein or calories do.

---
### 5. **Insulin spikes that big are unnecessary and often counterproductive**
* 75 g of glucose daily just for creatine can:
* Add unnecessary fat
* Spike blood sugar
* Be harmful for insulin sensitivity (especially long-term)

Top athletes absolutely do **not** rely on sugar bombs just to make creatine work.

---
## What’s actually true (the real science)
✅ Creatine monohydrate works on its own
✅ Taking it with meals is sufficient
✅ Insulin *can* help uptake slightly, but normal eating covers this
✅ No glucose minimum exists
✅ No injection required
✅ Cheap creatine is just as effective

---
## Bottom line
That explanation is **scientifically incorrect** and includes:
* A fake glucose requirement
* A misunderstanding of insulin
* A false claim about injection
* Confusion about muscle repair

"taxation without representation"?
A large majority of Americans support higher taxes for the wealthy.

"If you have propety there,you sell it" To someone who doesn't care about taxes?

The wealthy get income from ownership, not wages. You can't just move that.
If they get income from stocks, the state doesn't get taxes from that anyway.

An article online says "Larry Page has apparently left California personally and moved to states such as Florida — including buying high-value property there — amid the debate over a proposed California billionaire wealth tax."
So there is just a DEBATE, and he gives that as a reason. That's just nonsense. So he bought property in Florida and he sold it in California? How is that a loss to California? Some other wealthy person will own that property.

If more states are raising taxes on the wealthy, others will follow, because it's easy revenue. You can have a race to the bottom, until the wealthy pay no taxes at all, or you chose to reverse it. Stop cucking to the wealthy.

Did you research the sources of the protein in the supplement?
And did you check that they contained all essential amino acids?

Often it's just whey protein, a byproduct of cheese-making, which they had
lots of trouble selling, until they marketed the shit out of protein products.

The body can create creatine itself, but they say it helps produce energy for short, intense bursts of activity. Think of it as a rapid fuel reserve for your muscles and brain. If you work out vigorously, I can imagine it would help.

This is doxing. A sheriff is not supposed to do that.
The guy was already punished under the law.
A sheriff shouldn't add a trial by public opinion.
The sheriff is not breaking the law in Florida,
but he is sure as hell disrespecting the 14th amendment.

You would never see this in my country.

There are already states with lower taxes than New York, so why are there still
so many there?

They don't have to LIVE there to tax them. They have income and property
in New York, so Mamdani can tax that income and property. They cannot divest from New York, because Wall Street is there. If they do, someone else just buys it.

It's a bullshit argument, made up to create a race to the bottom for their taxes.
FUCK THEM, start a race of their taxes upwards.

And the EU pushed back by threatening with the 'trade bazooka'.
Meanwhile, your dollar is falling harder and harder, because several countries'
Central Banks are dumping U.S. Treasuries, because they consider Trump a risk
to the stability of your country and the world.

There are lots of used car salesmen, so you don't need to maintain a good relationship with them. That's different for all the countries that buy most of your products.

"Higher taxes on high-income earners and large corporations".

High-income earners and large corporations are leaching off the labor
of the working class. I am very much supportive of taxing them more
to get back some of the benefits of that labor.
Your own history shows that to benefit the whole of society.

The federal corporate income tax rate for large corporations in the U.S. was progressive, but the top statutory rate was 48% for much of the early 1970s.
The federal individual income tax was extremely high for the top earners.
Early 1970s (1970–1972), the top marginal rate was 71%.

That's what we got EU-regulations for. However, the maximum allowed lead content for food is much lower than for food supplements. If protein powder is considered
a food supplement, it would possibly be risky to use that in large quantities.
Products like protein bars and protein shakes are considered food in the EU,
not food supplements, so they should be safe.

I think the whole protein hype is nonsense. Our consumer information program "Keuringsdienst van waarde" (Inspection service of value) researched it and they conclude that almost everyone gets enough protein in their food. Only top athletes might benefit from same extra.

Well, it's not my most important metric to decide if I want to live in a country.
Not being sent to die in a dictator's senseless wars is higher on my priority list.

Healthy diets don't make anyone sissified and weak.
You're making a "Correlation–causation fallacy".
You are correct in thinking that sissy/weak men care about their health more,
but you are reversing the logic. It's not the healthy food that made them sissy/weak,
it's being sissy/weak that makes men care about their health.
Together with the manly culture of meat and BBQ, that makes you relate unhealthy food with "real men" and healthy food with "sissy/weak" men. That's irrational thinking.

Understand that there is lots of marketing behind the idea of manly men. They advertise it with a big hairy man, on his ranch, cutting up a dead animal, putting it on the grill, in a leather apron, covered in smoke, drinking beer, with his mates. And for a while, that's all a lot of fun, good eating, good times. But if that makes you eat unhealthy everyday, you end up fat, out of breath, with diminished heart function from blocked arteries, elevated cholesterol and hypertension, requiring medication with side-effects, possibly turning diabetic, and all medical bills associated with it. It was all very manly for a while, but it can turn that big burly man into a weakling, who cannot do his job anymore and probably dies before his retirement.
Is it manly, when he leaves his wife without his income and lots of medical debt?

Studies show that top athletes perform much better on a fully plant based diet, than on meat, even high quality unprocessed meat that is considered healthy. It takes more effort to balance a plant based diet, to compensate for some deficiencies (only Vitamin B12 cannot be compensated without supplements), but then it provides the body with a much more complete source of nutrients. It opens up all the arteries to utilize the full power of the heart, which make top athletes perform their best.

Actually that manly American food culture turns people malnourished.
All those jiggly asses you see walking around are STARVING for vitamins (Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Carotenoids), minerals (Potassium, Magnesium), fiber, anti-oxidants, healthy fatty acids, complex carbohydrates, prebiotics & gut-supporting compounds. They're not strong and tough, they're dying.

Of course, I'm not turning this knowledge into full practice. I still eat meat (but a bit less), because I like it. A long healthy life is not worth a lot, if you need to suffer every day to achieve it. I have no interest in sports, I just don't want to suffer illness and die young. That requires a healthIER diet and some exercise. That's not much of a sacrifice. A well-balanced diet is much more interesting than only hamburgers and steaks. I like variety and eating food from all over the world. Especially Asian countries have developed a diet that is both healthy and great in taste and variety.

“Variety’s the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour.” — William Cowper

I also always bring my own pillow and duvet. Not only for hygiene, but also because
I have very specific preferences. This was not possible when we went on vacation
by plane, but the last time was ten years ago, to Barcelona. They had very hot pillows
in that apartment, so the next day we went to IKEA to buy cooler pillows, and we just
left them there after our stay.

The video is not what you're expecting, I think.

If you're ever going to a hotel again, bring a UV-lamp.

Have you ever seen this video of CSI London?
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Mar-a-Igloo? OK, that's funny!

But you do know what you're saying there, I hope.
Sending the military to kill an alley, to enrich Trump personally.
We have to go way back to find a king who made his country do that.
My, oh my, did that man ruin your country's morality.

Tell that to Trump

“What people do not understand, they seek to destroy.”

You are a descendant of the Europeans who brought that sickness,
not of the indigenous people who died from that sickness.

Certified Nutritional Practitioner says:
"I Looked at the New US Food Guidelines And Something Doesn’t Add Up"
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One example; the messaging was: "We are ending the war on protein!".
Like there are not shelves stacked with products marketing "EXTRA PROTEIN".
Why is everything your administration does SO INCREDIBLY STUPID?

If you want to stay healthy, listen to specialists.
Do not listen to your administration, because they DON'T listen to specialists.
Your administration listens to lobbyists and people with brain-worms (literal or figurative).

The milk and meat lobby has significantly delayed and distorted public understanding
of the health risks of animal-product consumption, contributing to preventable disease.

WHY OH WHY is the rent price of apartments a justification for using oil until climate change turns so bad that even complete morons accept the truth, the government shitting on The Constitution, trying to destroy democracy, the destruction of the First Amendment, the return of the Jim Crow era, letting tech billionaires control everything and fill the country with datacenters, the destruction of education, the cruelty towards poor countries that desperately needed money for HIV prevention and famine reduction, cutting funds to child cancer research, their health insurance premiums skyrocketing, ICE and the National Guard terrorizing citizens (like right-wingers have fear-mongered for decades about the libs doing that), their immigrant neighbors' families getting torn apart by ICE, the media getting flooded with AI generated misinformation and the governmnet creating the surveillance-state, the constant sickening hypocrisy of the other side, family members turning into complete cult-members and the stupidity of the (wannabe) dictator in the White House?

New York is PRIME REAL ESTATE. Every square foot is fought over by rich people working in Wall Street and real estate speculators, who drive the prices up to ridiculous heights. These are CAPITALIST excesses. The failure of New York Democrats is that they were corporate centrists, who allowed that capitalism to drive out working class citizens from their own city, because they couldn't afford it anymore.

Still, those Democrats did some things to keep rent prices from not escalating to even more ridiculous levels. Do you think that Republicans would have done anything?
Of course not, they would call that 'socialism' or 'communism'.

There are no capitalist solutions to a capitalist problem.
That's why the working class in New York voted for Zohran Mamdani.

Are you supporting Russian economic politics over Democrats?
Which relevant economic principle, that you have ever advocated for,
is championed by Russian politics and opposed by Democrats?
And how is that affecting rent prices for working class people?

In one post you are praising Russians for keeping rent low (which is nonsense,
if you consider their spending power) and in the other post you are accusing Democrats of trying to make America in Russia.
What is it?

And Trump has sent that message to Norway, while the Nobel Committee is an
independent private body that does NOT represent the Norwegian government.

Trump doesn't understand that Norway is a democracy, that does not meddle
with independent private Committees in their country.

I bet that most 4-year olds are able to understand the problem, if explained well.

There is no plan to have anyone "bumming off their government".
Can you do anything else than only venting your prejudices?
Mamdani actually has plans to deliver many things that Trump promised,
but never intended to provide. It was just a ruse to steal votes from gullible people.

The plans of Mamdani STRENGHTEN the economy, because it's all investments
in people who are now struggling, to maximize their potential and spending power.

Top priorities of Zohran Mamdani for New York City:

1. Affordability & Housing
Mamdani’s central focus is lowering the cost of living, especially for renters.
* Freeze or sharply limit rent increases for rent-stabilized apartments
* Build roughly 200,000 permanently affordable homes over the next decade, prioritizing union labor
* Strengthen tenant protections and crack down on predatory landlords
* Expand supportive housing, including for formerly incarcerated and elderly residents

2. Cost Relief for Families
He emphasizes reducing everyday expenses for working families.
* Universal, free child care for children under five
* Fare-free buses to reduce commuting costs and improve transit access

3. Economic Justice & Tax Policy
To fund expanded services, Mamdani promotes progressive revenue policies.
* Higher taxes on high-income earners and large corporations
* Reducing excessive fines and bureaucratic hurdles for small businesses
* Stronger enforcement against wage theft, including by delivery and gig-economy companies

4. Transportation & Infrastructure
His transportation agenda centers on safety and accessibility.
* Expanded bus service and bus-priority corridors
* More protected bike lanes and safer street redesigns
* Pedestrian-focused urban planning

5. Public Safety & Community Wellness
Mamdani supports a non-traditional approach to public safety.
* Creation of a **Department of Community Safety** focused on prevention, crisis response, and social services
* Investments in violence prevention and mental-health response rather than policing alone

6. Governance & Schools
He has taken a pragmatic stance on city governance.
* Support for maintaining mayoral control of schools while reforming oversight
* Collaboration with education advocates and labor groups on school policy

The country is notorious, because of the "Nigerian prince" meme, but actually it isn't even in the top 10 of Countries that host the most scam call center operations.
The most activity on that front are:
1. Myanmar
2. Ukraine (mostly aimed at Russian citizens)
3. Cambodia
4. Pakistan
5. India
6. Georgia
7. Parts of Latin America, Africa, Laos, the Philippines, and East Timor.

Nigeria is more widely recognized for online scams and fraud schemes, particularly romance scams, advance-fee (e.g., “419”) scams, business-email compromise,
and other cybercrime types, and individual scammers or networks often operate decentralised from homes or smaller offices rather than huge call-center compounds.
“419 scams” are a type of advance-fee fraud, named after Section 419 of Nigeria’s Criminal Code, which outlaws fraud. They trick a victim into sending money, personal information, or valuables upfront by promising a much larger reward later, a reward that never actually exists.
Personally, I consider these the bottom of the barrel. When people fall for it,
I consider it a TAX ON STUPID.

Back into the stone age? Did they ever leave it?
It would be a gift to world if Nigeria was helped to progress.
That's 233 million people that you want to put in misery.

There are many scam call centers in the US too, and your government doesn't do near enough to stop them, because they are owned by wealthy people.

I have not have a scam phone call in years. I get a few scam messages per year,
but I am smart enough to recognize them and throw them away.

That was about 100 years ago, and why the fuck is that a justification
for ICE behaving like a military junta? The tyrannical government is here.
This is what the Second Amendment was intended for.

And I predict that the majority of New Yorkers will be very happy with him.

She did not try to run him over, she steered away from him. I HAVE EYES!
He was actually putting himself in danger, by getting much to close to a car.
If an officer actually gets hurt, it's 100% valid to stop the car.
Cops do this many times a day, and mostly no one dies.

There is no evidence of that internal bleeding.
The source that they refer to is "2 government officials".
By the way, a bruise is actually 'internal bleeding' too.

That claim that’s circulating online is a false rumor and has been debunked
by multiple fact-checking sources.

According to multiple credible reports and video analysis, at least one ICE agent
did tell Renee Good to "drive away", but other agents gave conflicting commands
at the same time.

Why do you always want to believe lies, instead of your eyes?

Renee Good said: "I'm not angry at you!"
The ICE officer called her a "fucking bitch", after he killed her.
There is something wrong there, without even looking.

You keep supporting a president who wants to make ICE immune to Law and Order.
NO ONE is above the law. Especially not officers that are this level of unqualified.

And politicians should not call someone a terrorist on this questionable evidence.

Are you kidding? ICE is terrorizing everyone who reflects less than 80% of sunlight.

Some liberals do cry about the decision to keep using oil until climate change turns so bad that even complete morons accept the truth, the government shitting on The Constitution, trying to destroy democracy, the destruction of the First Amendment, the return of the Jim Crow era, letting tech billionaires control everything and fill the country with datacenters, the destruction of education, the cruelty towards poor countries that desperately needed money for HIV prevention and famine reduction, cutting funds to child cancer research, their health insurance premiums skyrocketing, ICE and the National Guard terrorizing citizens (like right-wingers have fear-mongered for decades about the libs doing that), their immigrant neighbors' families getting torn apart by ICE, the media getting flooded with AI generated misinformation and the governmnet creating the surveillance-state, the constant sickening hypocrisy of the other side, family members turning into complete cult-members and the stupidity of the (wannabe) dictator in the White House.

That's all rational reasons to feel depressed about the state of THEIR country.

It's not your country, because your side has always hated America.
You want America to be like Putin's Russia and Erdoğan's Turkey.

I found only one funny, the rest was cringe and stupid.
You're political side really has a disability to do humor.

You still don't understand the difference between sex and gender.
One is biological and the other is identity. That simple concept explains EVERYTHING.
And all those questions and jokes prove that this simple concept is too difficult for your side to understand. This indicates a general low IQ on your side of politics.

Nope, Leo has rational reasons to be angry, about your refusal to be rational.

The term irritable male syndrome (IMS) is used in scientific and popular texts to describe a pattern of irritability and mood changes linked to hormonal fluctuations in males. However, it is not an officially recognized medical diagnosis in major clinical classifications like the DSM-5 or ICD-11; it remains a descriptive concept rather than a standardized clinical condition.

I would say that irritable male syndrome is the clearest reason for the existence of MAGA that I ever heard. The whole movement is based on primitive gut feelings, that things in the US are not going well, without any rational thinking about the reasons for why things in the US are not going well. If you look at MAGA crowds, it's clear that ALL these men have some form of hormonal imbalance. Either they are testosteron bombs who are frustrated for women not being interested in them, or they are middle-aged men in their penopause.

A lot of democrats are jelly fish indeed. Only the lefty progressives are fighters.
But look at Republicans. Almost none of them agreed with tariffs and said nothing.
Most of them think that Trump is crazy to focus on Greenland, but they say nothing.
The only ones who say something are the ones who are not up for re-election anyway.
They are all jelly fish. The only one with some principles and half a spine is Rand Paul.
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Golden Earring (Dutch band) - Twilight Zone - 1982
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Somewhere in a lonely hotel room, there's a guy starting to realize
That eternal fate has turned its back on him, it's 2 a.m.

It's 2 a.m., the fear has gone (It's 2 a.m., the fear has gone)
I'm sitting here waiting, the gun's still warm (I'm sitting here waiting, the gun's still warm)
Maybe my connection is tired of takin' chances
Yeah, there's a storm on the loose, sirens in my head
Wrapped up in silence, all circuits are dead
Cannot decode, my whole life spins into a frenzy

Help! I'm stepping into The Twilight Zone
Place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?
Help! I'm stepping into The Twilight Zone
Place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?

Soon, you will come to know when the bullet hits the bone
Soon, you will come to know when the bullet hits the bone

I'm falling down a spiral, destination unknown
Double-crossed messenger all alone
Can't get no connection, can't get through, where are you?
Well, the night weighs heavy on his guilty mind
This far from the borderline
When the hitman comes, he knows damn well he has been cheated

And he says
Help! I'm stepping into The Twilight Zone
Place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?
Help! I'm stepping into The Twilight Zone
Place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?

Soon, you will come to know when the bullet hits the bone
Soon, you will come to know when the bullet hits the bone
When the bullet hits the bone

Help! I'm stepping into The Twilight Zone
Place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?
Help! I'm stepping into The Twilight Zone
Place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?

Soon, you will come to know when the bullet hits the bone
Soon, you will come to know when the bullet hits the bone
Soon, you will come to know when the bullet hits the bone
Soon, you will come to know when the bullet hits the bone

When the bullet hits the bone
When the bullet hits the bone
When the bullet hits the bone
When the bullet hits the bone
When the bullet hits the bone
When the bullet hits the bone
When the bullet hits the bone
When the bullet hits the bone

Oh, man, HANS Island?
I have never heard of the Whisky War.

However, there are these 'conflicts' over small pieces of land, sometimes completely useless pieces of land, all over the world and history. I remember a funny one, which is talked about by The Tim Traveller. I can highly recommend this video and his channel.
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Hans is a common first name in The Netherlands. One of my colleagues is called Hans. The name is also used for fun sometimes. I remember a time when we played D&D. One of the players killed an innocent villager (for the greater good, of course) and the dungeon master made a fuss of that. So, the mage of the group said: "Don't get your panties in a bunch, I'll resurrect him!". Well, he tried, but instead he created an undead, who looked at the mage as his master. This is a heinous crime in mage lore, but he just decided to let the zombie tag along and used it as bait and to check for boobytraps.
So, the group had an extra member, and someone suggested to name it "Hans".
The dungeon master found some ways to punish the group for that, like villagers turning against us, for having undead Hans, and Hans making life hard for the group by doing stupid undead things and starting to rot and stink up the place. It was all very funny,
until eventually Hans was sacrificed in some attack. I can't remember all the details.

It's certainly a feat to keep that truck running, without any money.
However, it doesn't take much, to make a simple truck keep going forward.
Most scrappers in a scrap yard will be able to drive, with some tinkering.

The difference is that developed countries have standards for safety.
Your truck has other requirements than just the ability to go forwards.
Those requirements are for your safety as well as everyone else's on the roads.
That's why the US doesn't have the same rate of road deaths as India.

The reason for why so many 50,000 mile trucks end up in the scrap yard in the US:
1. Severe collision damage — Frame or structural damage makes repair unsafe or uneconomical.
2. Flood / water damage — Electrical systems become unreliable and uninsurable.
3. Insurance total-loss economics — Repair costs exceed vehicle market value.
4. Frame rust / corrosion — Structural rust fails inspections and can’t be economically fixed (regional: salt belt states).
5. Part-out value exceeds whole value — Truck is worth more dismantled than repaired.
6. Fleet write-offs — Companies retire vehicles for accounting or liability reasons.
7. Emissions or regulatory failure — Compliance cost exceeds vehicle value.
8. Theft recovery damage — Stripped or vandalized vehicles are too risky to repair.
9. Manufacturer buybacks / recalls — Rare safety or lemon-law removals.
(This ranking reflects real-world frequency)

Clarification: Most 50k-mile trucks that are “scrapped” are:
- Not mechanically worn out
- Often drivable
- But, removed due to economic or safety reasons

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