You start groping yourself … touch your chest, your face, your arms, reach around to you back, touch your shoulders

HEY! … I’M STILL ALIVE!!!

Someone did unplug it a few decades ago … no one has bothered to plug it in again … I think they set fire to the plug to make sure no one plugs it in again … ever

The funniest things I’ve seen since the last Naked Gun movie with Leslie Neilson was everyday American politics.

Your story needs a lot more context for anyone to provide reasonable advice on here.

If it’s a nice clean park in an affluent neighbourhood, chances are someone accidentally lost the money.

If it’s in a sketchy part of town with higher levels of crime nearby … chances are it was drug money that was tossed for one reason or another because something bad happened.

So the resulting answers will be different … if this all happened in a law abiding neighbourhood, then you should take your time and official avenues to figure out if someone lost their money. If it’s in an obviously rough place where drug dealing or other illegal activity is happening, then I would probably say to just keep the money and don’t talk about it too much. It’s not easy or advisable to return money to criminals or people engaging in criminal activity.

This was also about 15 years ago so I don’t know of limitations, regulations, vehicle type or anything else had to do with it all

We did that 260 kmh for about five minutes in the south of the country driving to Nuremberg and it was just that once. We were too afraid after that and just drove the same speed as everyone which was an average about 140 to 160 kmh

I don’t know honestly … all I know is that the A6 had about 5,000 km on the odometer and everything was pristine new … it was the most luxury brand new car I ever drove. We had to haggle the rental guy to upgrade our rental from a standard rental to one size up … he didn’t have anything in our range but said that he would look into upgrading us further and we ended up with the A6.

Like I said, we were on a nice long downslope in the country side. It was easy to floor it and build up speed but the car seemed to max out at 255 260 and I couldn’t get it any further. The best part was that Mercedes flashing us from behind and wanting to pass.

Later on on the same trip, we noticed two helicopter flights overhead carrying cars away from an accident … they don’t seem to bother calling in tow trucks to carry things away because the pieces of cars that are left from a high speed crash are small enough to be carried away with a chopper.

We traveled to Germany years ago, rented a car and drove on the autobahn with no speed limit. We were on a long down hill in a brand new audi a6 … beautiful car and I floored it in the passing lane to 260 kmh … I was scared shitless because I knew that all I needed was a rock on the road or a little bump and we’d both be dead. I looked in my rear view mirror and a guy was flashing me from behind. He wanted me to move over and he passed us just seemingly floating right past us in a luxury Mercedes.

That was the fastest I’ve ever driven anything and it was scary. The car was fine, it’s just knowing that if any small thing came in our way at that speed, the car would fly, crash, crush us to death, rip apart and blow up in a blaze of glory. You can survive a crash at 140 kmh … it would be a miracle to have your body remain in one piece in a crash at 300 kmh

As if we’d ever be able to make decisions for this.

We have laws for humans that we don’t even follow or adhere to

If he won’t step down … the Democratic Party should just step out and form their own party minus this dinosaur.

Owning guns to defend yourself against tyrannical government made sense a hundred years ago … it wouldn’t make a difference in modern times.

Just launch all the nukes and make them all detonate to equally cover the entire continental US with fire and radiation … BOOM! … no more wild pigs!

If they are honest about what they are suggesting … the first step would be to be explicitly clear about who THEY are and WHO they represent.

I really don’t care that much about the technical side of things because I’m not that technically knowledgeable. However, I am more apt to trust the judgment or recommendations of prominent people in the industry (that are not corporately attached or controlled) … I would also trust public institutions or journalists or academics with a track record of social advocacy and wanting to represent people instead of corporations or businesses. I would also trust politicians or political advocates that mostly represent people and public institutions.

I really don’t put my faith in any one person no matter who they claim to be to just say they want to build something meaningful and give me no information on their background, who they worked for, who they represent or what kind of people or organizations they associate with. There have been far too many ‘good natured’ technocrats and technology people from the past decade or two who claim to say that they want to change the world for the better and then end up wanting to burn it all down for a profit.

Depending on who the group is … it is good to first do a thorough check on who the group is … it can just as likely be a group of scam artists that are riding on some nationalism band wagon happening around the world these days.

MAGA Idiot: … are they hurting my political enemies? are they hurting the gays? the commies? … then it means I’m winning … please donate to my gofundme because I can’t afford my insulin anymore

If someone who has been in office doing their job for decades and still hasn’t changed much … why does anyone expect them to do anything different now?

This reminds me of a film ‘Black Legion’ starring Humphrey Bogart from 1937

https://archive.org/details/black-legion-1937

A reminder that fascism and intolerance go hand in hand

Might as well rewrite history and say that in the 1940s, America fought Central European powers with alternative government systems

That’s the amazing thing human society. We all hold the power controlled by the few. Yet we all choose to believe that we can’t do anything about it all.

It was the same in the beginning, it was the same in the ancient past, it’s still the same today.

Go forward in your mind about 20 or 30 years after having gone through your current position or situation without positive or negative change. Pretend that everything just coasts along at the same pace.

What would your future self say to you right now.

I tell this to people about flags all the time … any time you change the colours, image, orientation of a national flag … you’re announcing to everyone that you’ve broken away from the nation and are standing on your own with your own group now. You are are saying that you are no longer part of the nation, and that you’ve set up a new group that you stand for that has nothing to do with the nation. It’s an historic thing about adopting flags and especially new flags … especially during times when people couldn’t read - they might not be able to read your manifesto, but they certainly knew what a new flag meant. It’s an historic part of vexillology - the study of flags.

The blue line flags in the US and Canada are a display that they no longer identify with the country they are part of … they’re wanting to stand on their own against everyone else.