Tales of the Belt
“So what do we really know about this guy?”
After the collapse of the Amazon, which is a tale in itself, the trade guild was formed, mostly Sales and advertising people, they still had specie, so weren’t affected by the demise financially, but knew the Market still existed for things, and as investors, Trusted with investments, and always seeking profit, we were called the Jews of the Galaxy, we never figured out who (((they))) were, all records of the before time have been lost.
We have developed a stable, ultra free market, and as such, we control most markets, price fixing is crushed ruthlessly, and we are a very diversified group, the Spice flows, the Saying goes. Investors are so rich, they can call points on the entire operation, so the discoverer is happy with 10%, the pilot/discoverers call themselves Made Men, if they get that far. We can also provide insurance, of any kind, for a price. Alliances with MS 13 helps with security, for an additional fee/points, we take our investments very seriously.
We have many hard assets, defendable planetary systems and so on, but our Guild lives on travel, the interstellar caravans we have created, the gifts we have brought to Humanity,
We thrive on trade, as all Humans do.
“ I have worked with the Cat for several years, he always turns a profit”
“But never 2B tonnes, right?”
“Yes Sir, but he’s done the math, odds are 90% plus, let’s do this!”
“Well then, let’s send a team from MS to, shall we say, observe?”
“ Done and Done, thank you Sir”
“Why the thanks?”
“He’s my Brother”
After a few days of Bureaucratic crap, the Transactions were complete, and following the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition, “never give away something you can sell”
I sold the investment rights to my little Brother for a nominal fee, and he was off. He had 200lb. Of specie, and a half million in credits, good enough we hope, at this point I can only wish him luck, and profit, Burn!
He had 200lb. Of specie,
Not bad.
Specie talks, Bitcoin walks, even though they use a form of it in the Tales, kind of like we do,
nice story. looking forward to more.
Thank you, there is more to come,
MS 13. Chortle.
On the bright side, Ding Dong, the Amazon’s dead!
(Disclaimer: I am a complete Amazon addict IRL. I’m not proud. I just need my fix.)
I’m soooo addicted to Amazon, it’s insane. The Fall of Amazon sounds worthy of a tale, where to begin?
I came very late to the party. Like, after all my usual shopping outlets closed, some of them permanently. Before then I had only used Amazon for deliveries once or twice.
Amazon Prime has saved my ass many times, especially moving up to rural Michigan, a Damned convenient Evil, who will Fall, watch for it!
I don’t do Prime. I order free shipping and wait a couple extra days. I have no use for any of the other Prime benefits. Well, except for The Expanse; and I can wait a decade for someone to put it out on DVD fingers crossed.
I use Amazon Prime to send stuff to my grand daughter in a remote village in Alaska. They have daily plane service, it’s not 2 day but 4-5 day or a little more.
I sent them a video player and a 32″ flatscreen, a few videos and other gifts. If I had to pay USPS it would be very expensive, take longer and get broken and not convenient.
Now shopping is very inconvenient for me but Jeffy is my good friend for a small purchase here in the woods.
MS 13. Chortle.
I’m waiting for Microsoft to sue MS-13 for copyright infringement.
Too early to go off-topic, so let give my compliments to the author for a good story.
“Tonnes”? It seems the whole Universe has joined the Commonwealth.
I thought it was a cool touch, we do use Meters as oppossed to Metres, so we got that,
Cheers!
“we were called the Jews of the Galaxy, we never figured out who (((they))) were, all records of the before time have been lost”
This one record survived:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAZhtT-dUyo
I forgot that, perfect fit for the tale, Thanks!
No idea what this story is all about, but it’s oddly gripping. Thx, Yusef.
I’m trying a different concept, it will make sense, thanks Straff!
OT: Fox reporter will get fired and cancelled soon. She announced on air that Fox has been muzzling reporters and will reveal details through Project Veritas.
Johnny Paycheck approves.
So does Jello Biafra,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeaV_4uE50A
I miss lefties like Jello. They seem to be getting more and more marginalized in order to present a unified left front.
He was honest, stupid but sincere, and a great Band!
Local Fox tv station. Was hoping it really was Fox News, and not just the opportunistic Ailes allegations.
OT: NH’s next US Rep?
A New Hampshire man who was charged in connection with the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, after he admitted he “chugged” wine he found in one of the offices during the riot, now says he’s running for Congress.
Jason Riddle told NBC Boston on Sunday that he is still working on the details on his campaign, but plans to run to represent New Hampshire’s second district in 2022. Democrat Annie Kuster is in her fifth term as a U.S. congresswoman representing that district.
A side note: I’ve noticed this change in terminology describing the Jan. 6th festivities. “Insurrection” is not used in the article.
Prepping for a leftist no-shit insurrection? Oh sorry, fortifying democracy and the government forever.
I’m surprised he’s not in jail.
“ “It tells them I show up,” Riddle said about his role in the riots. “I’m going to actually keep my promises and make some changes”
?
“I’m crazy…for justice!”
History repeats.
https://mobile.twitter.com/LizardK420/status/1403869991208775683
I’d like to thank the retards at Walmart for shipping mayonnaise from a warehouse in Phoenix.
Mayo keeps, you don’t have refrigerate it if you are careful, although i wouldn’t try it it in AZ,
It doesn’t do so well in temperature extremes. At least it’s not freezing.
Stupid question… do they not sell mayo in your grocery stores…?
Not Blue Plate. Or Hellmans (#3 on my mayo list, and no Best Foods is not the same thing).
the fuck it ain’t, same mayo, different name
Yeah, that gave me pause.
I do like my Hellman’s. I’ve tried all the generics and they suck.
Unilever’s big lie.
@Gustave, it was called Best Foods way before Unilever got into it, and the reason I know about Hellmans is the BF label said, “Hellmans, East of the Rockies” I read as a kid, 40 years before Unilever. I buy Hellmans now, same thing as BF,
Unilever’s has been fucking with the recipe. The website used to acknowledge there was a slight difference between the two
https://old.cbbqa.org/recipes/Mayonnaise.html
You and Schumer. SMDH.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9686097/Chuck-Schumer-sparks-outrage-referring-mentally-disabled-homeless-children-retarded.html
OFFS. Get with the times old man and stop using language that was current ten years ago.
I hate Schumer as much as the next person, but pick something else.
That said he is all in for woke America, so I’m not shedding any tears for him.
Schumer.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OkzaOwAmDmA
I forgot that! I haven’t watched that in years.
Ah the euphemism treadmill. I tend to agree with you, but there’s an argument to be made that if the people that have been planting landmines everywhere start stepping on them, they might actually stop planting them and maybe even start removing a few. I doubt it, but I see the argument.
Nah, let him be hoisted on his own retard.
Scott Adams: Difference btw Trump and Toobin? Trump is accused of stoking an insurrection.
*snort*
Nice.
Bravo
Ugh I’m over rain especially when the wind won’t pick a direction and stick with it.
Make one of these.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=83tMBFGcfZA
Here’s another reason the Belt is for me, bugs. last Friday working on the refrigeration units outside, my feet and legs were attacked by every biting insect available, right down to bleeding bites, I HATE BUGS! A friend told me when she is in tick infested areas, she wears tick collars on her ankles and wrists. a pricey solution, but where I golf, I have ticks land on me daily, Yuch! So Tick collars it is,
We use tick collars around the ankles when we are camping. It makes a huge difference.
bare skin? or around your socks? I wonder about toxicity to Hoomans,
socks
Put on socks, put collar around angle, fold top of sock down over the tick collar.
We don’t go into the woods where we normally camp. But it keeps them from crawling up your legs from grass. Very effective.
if we go of into the brush and sticks we still play out of it, so we are in Ticklandia, tick prevention is a must, thanks for the guidance on the collars,
You are welcome.
NYC privilege… no bugs. OK, no bugs that attack. Cockroaches run away.
Dude… When the wind is coming across Jamaica Bay, it blows swarms of biting horseflies from their homes on the marshy islands of the Bay into the Rockaway Peninsula, particularly Riis Park. A weekend working the ice-cream cart on the boardwalk will tear your legs up.
Like Deerflies? those things leave giant welts,
Permethin for ticks and mosquitos. You can soak clothes with it. Lasts a few weeks. Vicks will keep deer flies away.
Permethin es no esta bien con Kittah, in a collar for me, fine,
Oh. Well, I don’t live near a swamp so I guess there’s that. 🙂
Michigan is a swamp, surrounded by a bog, surounded by big lakes, we have too much water, and bugs…
/the only reason i might bail out
Fuck Ben Mankiewicz and his commie lapping HUAC revisionism. If I was dictator, I’d put a statue of Elia Kazan larger than Rio Jesus right below the Hollywood sign.
Too Local?
Ugh when I watch that channel I flip away from that shit because I know it’s going to piss me off. Just the movie, kthxbai.
Normal Lloyd is fascinating but he was unrepentant and still hated Kazan for what he did. Mankiewicz was throwing out that Kazan didn’t have to name names and did so only because of the threat of being blacklisted.
The latest incoherent babble from the Vatican about pro-abortion politicians taking communion:
https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/42408
“For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle? So likewise you, unless ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken, for ye shall be speaking into the air?” /1 Cor. 14:8-9
Like One True Catholic Joe would give a shit and stop taking communion even if he was explicitly prohibited from doing so. Fuck the communion, they should be excommunicating those politicians who hold themselves out as Catholic while shitting all over church teachings. Want to support abortion? Fine, quit the church.
Glad I’m one of (((Them))) if not real, in solidarity,
Gotta go Glib friends, time to make the turn, I’ll check back in in about 6 hours, Cheers Friends!
Night, Yu!
Ooh! I see that the new Fall of Civilizations podcast is out. The Assyrians: the Empire of Iron”
For those that don’t know the series, it’s not an audio podcast. It’s filmed in glorious HD and is an excellent series. Doesn’t have to be in order. Someone linked the Sumerians episode here and I was hooked!
I’m a subscriber on Patreon but you can also watch on YouTube (with some commercials).
That would be me, Watson is really good, up there with Carlin, thanks for the tip!
Hot dogs
fried < boiled < grilled < campfire
cut in half and friedSome time soon when it’s not so daggone hot, I want to have another andouille-nee roast over our fire bowl up on the “pitcher’s mound” (remaining mound from a reportedly huge tree long since removed) in our back yard.
…but right now, it’s past midnight in the One True Time Zone (EDT) so I’m going to bed. Good night, Glibs!
Microwave?
Hmmm.. Between fried and boiled.
Also forgot the roller machine.
Huh, Steamed. All-dressed with onions, no? And mayo (but that might be just me).
Sliced, spread between paper towels, microwaved, and stirred into Kraft Mac and Cheese.
/former babysitter
/former poor college student
^this, still makes for a good cheap lunch at chez Yusef,
You people are strange.
Hot dogs are for kids.
Try Nathan’s Collosus dogs, then talk to me,
/Big Kid
FTFY
If you are not turning them into octodogs your not living your best life.
The Bee ?
https://babylonbee.com/news/activists-fight-racism-by-making-sure-pop-culture-depicts-only-white-people
No, its not.
Double Mustache Is The Latest Male Fashion Trend
Civilisation is finished,
HEY YUFUS !
Monday is my d̶a̶y̶ night off. So adhering to schedule, Ive been up all night, fucking off, cleaning the crib, and having Tall Cans®.
Have some orchestra-backed Del the Creator.
That’s a big ass band for one little rap dude,
Sup Tres!
That’s not a double mustache. That’s a mustache and a beard with male pattern baldness.
I’m a big fan of a magnificent mustache, but no. Just…no.
“Still, even if everyone on a cruise ship is vaccinated, there is a chance that someone will get the virus. Callahan worries about the potential for a cruise passenger to unknowingly spread COVID-19 in a Caribbean country with low vaccination rates.”
https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2021/06/a-titanic-clash-florida-governor-challenging-eager-to-restart-cruise-industry-over-mandating-the-vaccine.html
So, the vaccine doesn’t work?
Only if you wear 2 masks and stay 6 feet apart, unless you are seated at a restaurant, then your fine,
And its before 10 pm (which is when the bars in Ohio had to close)
Everyone knows the virus attacks most after dark.
Is that you, Newt?
He was, but he got better….
It makes it more likely that if you have it it’ll be asymptotic which brings one back to the (probably) low likelihood of asymptomatic spread. If they’re going to piss their pants over low probability possibilities like that they may as well go ahead and send all of those ships to the scrapyard.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1OjTspCqvk8
?
https://mobile.twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/1404444670843768834
Good.
Oh, benevolent State. Im not worthy of your kindness!
Ohioans can fish without a license in the state’s public waters Father’s Day weekend
Fishing license always reminds me of this.
Fishing always reminds me of this.
I knew what that was before I even clicked.
Morning Glibs.
Had a steak for breakfast because I need to use the beef in the fridge before any of it goes bad. (it’s not there yet, so it was delicious)
Good morning, U. That’s a manly breakfast.
It was supposed to be dinner, but if I strung them out on dinners, something would spoil.
I may have stocked up too much.
And yes, I know I have a freezer, but it’s crowded, and after the freezerburned beef, I don’t want to risk ruining another piece.
You can’t be too careful with good beef.
I have a hunk of beef tenderloin thawed that will likely see the grill today.
Awesome! I did that on Sunday morning. 16 oz. steak, onions and a spud.
Hello again, from sunny Michigan, a glorious 72 today, no rain, too bad I have to work, Carpe Covfefe!
WRT to the hot-dog discussion.
Hebrew National are the apex hot dog. Change my mind.
I grew up with pork-based dogs, beef hot dogs taste wrong to me.
I don’t care about your mind on the matter, you’ve just been accustomed to the flavor.
Costco house brand (same as they serve at the food counter) is our usual. There is however, a Polish grocery in the neighborhood that makes them in-house, and offers several different blends of meat and casing choices.
I fry them up with chopped onions, seasoned salt, pepper and Lea and Perrins. I take them out of the skillet and then brown the pre buttered buns in the same. When they get crispy and golden brown, pull them out and add a generous dollop of Kraft’s Cheese Whiz. I’m a terrible person but I still like it after making up the recipe forty-five years ago.
I would eat tons of those; they sound delicious.
When 1st marriage broke, I lived on them for awhile.
You need to slice the dogs ever so gently so that you can feed the the diced onions into the slit.
Lips and assholes!
AKA Glibbroads and Glibboys? 😉
Cuntes and Cods.
Hamburgers are “gut bombs”! Same country, different culture…
Everyone here says Sabrett’s are the best. I prefer Old Kayem personally.
Dang, I could rock the double moustache if I wanted to and yes, those Watson videos are pretty solid.
If it’s not on the upper lip, it’s not a mus/moustache. If you can fit two decent ones up there, more power to you. Otherwise, go goatee, Van Dyke, or the full (well-groomed) beard if you want hair on your chinny-chin-chin.
I am aware, Red.
The photo from the article has an older fella rocking the double-vision. Rainbow on the top lip, rainbow on the bottom. Must admit that I’ve never seen that one before.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/247997/breaking-morning-mass-nixed-from-june-15-pope-francis-biden-meeting
I thought Gropey Joe was excommunicated.
*shrug*
Separation of Church and State. Nominal Catholics. Believe or not, Joe and Frank (The Hardly Boys).
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2021/06/14/disney-world-spike-in-concealed-firearms-pandemic/
I haven’t been to Disney in a long time – do they have walkthrough metal detectors at the gates?
Dunno. I haven’t been there since the late 80s.
If you carry you start turning into a donkey. Them’s the rules.
I know that they lit their collective hair on fire but up here even one concealed firearm would shut the entire tourism industry down.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9686425/Cashier-shot-dead-duty-deputy-injured-customer-got-argument-mask-policy.html
Intelligence is knowing how to recognize violent, antisocial people by their behavior cues.
Wisdom is knowing not to mouth off to them.
Remembers many bar fights – Yep!