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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV356Gx4nhE    A living breathing online dater who lost his fortune to a scam.  Thought they didn't exist.  They used to just fall for fake positions of authority, requesting anonymous deposits.  Authority figure scams work because animals are programmed for obedience.  1 of the only online dating encounters lions had was with a scammer.  He quickly gave up.  It could happen to someone really desperate or in an asian culture which hits hard on marriage as rite of passage.  Maybe a 15 year old lion could have fallen in love to the point of losing his fortune but not after 50. As long as lions are sane, a scam is not likely to work anymore because they know too well how the social order works.  Once you know it's all based on status, just how stressful it is on the breadwinner, & can afford paid encounters, love is never what it was again.   ----------------------------------------------------...
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 We might be nostalgic for the 70's once again.  There was a failed 70's revival in the 90's, complete with Neil Diamond tours.  The stagflation is arguably worse now than the 90's.  Housing inflation in the 70's may or may not have been worse than now.  It doubled from 1977-1982.  It only increased 25% from 2020-2025, but that was the nationwide average.  1977 didn't reflect a rise in flyover state costs from a population shift from job centers to flyover states but might have reflected similar increases in all areas.  Housing inflation continues to be concentrated in just a few states, lowering the average.   Lions believe modern inflation is equal to the 1970's but technology deflation has offset the housing inflation.  Inflation is a lot more tolerated because animals are a lot more invested in assets & reaping very high returns.  Losing your small cash position isn't the disaster it was. It could always swing the opposite w...
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  https://x.com/geerlingguy/status/2022105811955462631/photo/1  A better photo of the original Finder interface being emulated on a pico pi intrigued lions.  The best images lions have of their own were from a few seconds of camcorder footage.   That was a purely graphical interface.  There was no command line.  Macs didn't have a command line until they moved to UNIX, as far as lions know.  Lions didn't use a Mac from 1997-2013.  By 2014, the MacOS command line was essential in most everything.  None of that generation had any clue what it was like just 20 years earlier.  The Phintage Collector said Macs 1st got a command line in 2001 with  Mac OS X.  There were various UNIX emulators & BASIC interpreters which provided a command line on top of System 7.  Lions played with Minix & chipmunk BASIC but they were all toys.  Actually did connect a terminal program on the Mac to Linux briefly, using a long lost ser...
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr6pxF3CL58  Funny seeing 3 of the lion kingdom day jobs from the superbowl formation.     The bald eagle's path was also visible.   1 last photo of the hills from this spot.     Lions surmised the finished product would look like Emeryville.  https://sfyimby.com/2025/12/construction-imminent-for-6200-bollinger-canyon-road-san-ramon.html    That's actually a new road & sidewalk next to the iron horse trail.  They're going to have cars crossing the current east/west walkway at 1 more point.  They're stepping down the height on the side facing Bowling Alley Rd while having the full height just next to the bike path where most animals won't see it.  Lions pondered moving there, but it'll most likely be over $5k.   https://sfyimby.com/2024/01/permits-filed-for-glen-at-heath-farm-development-in-walnut-creek.html Nifty view of the battlefield in 1970.  It was harder to ...
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