Yes, a bicycle is going to do better than typical transit. Especially buses and over distances that would be a 15minute drive. Especially if you know neighborhood shortcuts. That said, I don’t think the woman in the story is going to be bicycling anywhere.

I’m with you on how things work when politics gets involved because government wants people poor and dependent but the fed doesn’t hand banks tax money. It creates it out of thin air. Modern money is loaned into existence. A few keystrokes on a computer and new money is created.

“every state runs a credit marketplace and every car loan is required to go through that marketplace”

The state took charge and instituted the (Prussian system) schools we know today to create fungible human resources for corporations, government, and military. The previous traditional american schools were more about things like understanding enough about finance to run your own business and such. That was their…

What Henry Ford believed or didn’t believe does not change the fact that if people in mass understood the financial system they would revolt. He could have believed it was conspiracy of lizard aliens behind it and that still wouldn’t invalidate the point of the quote.

The quote stands on its own merits of that if people understood how the system rips them off they wouldn’t be happy about it. Attacking the man who said it is nothing more than misdirection. Who’s promoting an idea of an international banking conspiracy? Oh of course, I started to mention that there are financial…

What government schools teach it? I had to learn about the monetary and financial system on my own. It wasn’t covered in any class in school. I didn’t argue the resources didn’t exist to learn on one’s own, but it certainly isn’t taught in the government schools to any reasonable degree.

Expecting people in this…

Just watched the whole video.... it goes into a tangent of people with financial problems being targeted by lenders and the loans being sold as investments. Why? Of course they stop short of going into that. That would get people dangerously close to things they aren’t supposed to discuss. Because the central banks…

“Postscript: as was pounded into my head in econ class after econ class, if you regulate “predatory” official lenders, you just create a market for predatory unofficial lenders, i.e. those using violence to enforce repayment.”

My HS required a basic “economics” class. I tested out of it and took another college level science class in its place. Given the simplicity of the test I don’t think anything of value was taught in the class.

“this is exactly why we need a life class to tell us about taxes buying cars or houses etc etc”

“Yes, many people will say “that’s what parents are for”...but parents suck...across the board. Mostly because there are no educational requirements to become a parent, no certifications for how and what you’re supposed to teach your children.”

The real point here is that people were not prepared in school to be able to recognize the most basic financial scams and to have even rudimentary financial skills. That basically they have been left in a state where if they had not taken action on their own to learn they could call victim to financial predators.

The location always has tons of cops when people are out and about on summer weekends plus traffic. Witnesses do not say anything about the lambo driver’s speed. Driving a lambo at speed there would get everyone’s attention.

Against a old type chicago light pole I believe it could split a CF lambo at 30-40mph.

You under estimate an old school Chicago light pole. Those things have zero give, no break away bolts. They will f’ a car up at even relatively low speed. Cutting a typical speed estimate in half would be a good start for an old green Chicago light pole.

I haven’t been on foot or bicycle at that corner in a long while…

You know how if the worst possible place for a screw to land might be 2% of the area but chances are 50/50 it’s going to land there or be teetering on edge forcing Indiana Jones like care to get it? Dripping works with similar principles.

I forgot about this one. Gear oil with new and improved grape scent:

Was it packaged like this:

sometimes you’re just bleeding and the blood drips places. Which is another thing to add to this... you’re working along and feel something on your hands... what’s that fluid... what’s leaking? It’s blood and you are.