Quote from: TDoS on Apr 16, 2025, 10:07 AMThis confused me. I am paid a salary. What part of my salary has to do with bribery?

Being paid to post and mislead re peak oil.  You described it as a side gig, easy extra income rather than full time though. If you get paid full salary, 8 hr  for an hour or so activity, it's paid for by balooning national debt. That shows why minimal govt I advocate is necessary. 

After a recent exercise as a juror on a murder trial for a week, and having seen nothing that looked anything like corruption, if it is everywhere, how did I miss it? Witnesses testified, judges read some pretty expected rules, 12 common folk sat down at a table and said "SHIT!! did that guy kill that dude or what!" and that was about it.

If the sherriff and/or deputy or county official you brandished a rifle at had decided to say you opened fired at him or them, that would be open shut, credible witness/es to likely change the course of your life. Lucky for you the police, prosecution and court were not under pressure to increase the quota of arrests and convictions for not allowing access meter readers or similar. If that were the focus of a politicised issue with a hillbilly studies dept in every university stirring up a crisis fear about it, with an ever increasing budget making it a growth industry in the billion$, chances are better than even you would become a statistic to prove more needs to be done and spent.

 I never said every case is a sham trial and travesty. Where there is no interest in perverting the course of justice, it is frequently allowed.



Okay, now who are you referring to? Doomers, public servants, researchers, I mean this category looks like it might include just about everyone using money, and thereby a part of the current system.

Even Ted Kazinsky had to buy stamps, but the statist state of mind is over regulation, interference and their programmed belief system being as water to the fish. They love big brother and mind his business.

As far as oblivious...sometimes it is a good thing. Can you imagine the millions of manhours wasted worrying about peak oil circa 2005 or so? Two decades of people stocking up on toilet paper and guns, buying a hunting cabin, wanting to go "back to the land" and missing 2 decades of economic expansion in the US...the oblivous got that one right. So did those oblivious to t
he Mayan Calendar stunt. Or Yellowstone exploding...PLANET X!!

I never heard peak oil mentioned before 2008, so I don't know of anyone panicking in 2005 even if they decided to aspire to be off grid and self sufficient some time since then. The cost of living crisis would be far less of a burden not paying for food and energy. The time taken in trial and error, livestock herd size and fruit and nut trees growing to a worthwhile size.

Its amusing how many people now believe there are flat earthers and thats a phenomena that developed in the past decade. I see it often. You never ever see anyone claiming the earth is flat, but will see people referring to flat earthers and not just likening them to flat earthers, but believe that unspecified people do believe the earth is flat. That follows on from a valid but differing opinion to their own. Insisting there are only two genders is pre Copernicus in the 21st Century. The insistence oil is essentially infinite is the belief that could be considered flat earther to me. The mayan calendar having the world end on a year I forget and planet Nibiru were just open questions nobody could do anything about anyway. I don't recall seismic activity ever reported for a Yellowstone evacuation or risk. Did anyone you know of leave the US for fear of it? Probably not, but don't let that stop lumping anyone attributing the cost of living crisis to limits to growth with paranoidelusion.


 Although being educated also working in dodging all that nonsense as well.

Then it beats me why a highly acclaimed and accoladed Nobelaureate  published PhD professor  would go grow longhorn 🐄🐮 cows, chickens 🐔🍗 and xmas trees 🎄 on a 'remote' family ranch 👍