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my adblocker has dismantled more capitalism than every theorist alive combined
I'm thinking about disabling my ad blocker for The Nation just to figure out what kind of Galaxy Brain target marketing is going on there
Commie: capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them!
Capitalist: rope? Get with it, buy the new improved 2019 Hang-O-Matic
Commie: $29,995? I can't afford that
Capitalist: E-Z payments with 0% financing thru May Day
Commie: How much for my trade-in rope?
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David Burge
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Kinda scratching my head at a study that says Texas is 29 places below California on ranking "Best States for Taxpayers"
I moved from Illinois to Texas, but I also had considered a few places in California; Palm Springs, Temecula, Sonoma County. I certainly did my due diligence on comparitive financial impact. /1
Texas: a lateral move (to a house of equal value) meant no state income tax, lower sales tax, property taxes 30% lower, even in Austin, compared to IL.

California: a lateral move meant living in an abandoned crackhouse trailer park in Salton Sea. But 50% less prop tax. Yay! /2
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David Burge
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Winner of the first Indy 500 in 1911, Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp. Mostly a stock car with the unnecessary bits removed; also the first car with a rear view mirror. Won with a blistering average speed of 74.6 mph.
Marmon, based in Indy, made fine automobiles like this 1930 V16 Sedanette, until they succumbed to the Depression in 1933.

Detroit was the capital of mass produced cars, but the creme de la creme of American cars were made in Indiana: Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg, Marmon, Stutz
you can chuckle at an average speed of 74.6 mph, but that's with stops and refueling. The Wasp was capable of speeds ~90-95 mph. I will guaran-damn-tee you if you were behind the wheel of that thing at 90 mph you'd be soiling your drawers
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1954 Chevy Bel Air sedan #DavesCarIDService
1952 Lincoln X-100 concept car #DavesCarIDService
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This is a good video for those of you who want to learn more about action

Applying this into storyboarding, there are two things that stand out to me as being extremely crucial in that video: CLARITY and FOCAL POINT. In all the Indy clips used in that video all the shots are easy to read, and have only one primary thing the audience need to focus on.
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