What's your evidence for that?
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fukupananvil
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Scary MF. Confronted directly, stumbles but recovers. Slick. That gal interviewing him has got some balls. Kudos to her. Maybe she will interview Mr. Jacksun and also render him momentarily speechless. 501c charity my ass.
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who fucking woke you up ???
socalrider
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So you're saying it's sub par?
As long as the crowd applauds.
Offing 102 people in the middle of the night for no apparent reason, less than cool. *suddenly sees the triple-bond connection between Saudi royalty and Bret Easton Ellis’s nihilistic Yuppie Puppies and their snuff films.*. Eww. Bad dreams again tonight, I suppose.
opcn
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China bans wordplay in attempt at pun control
Officials say casual alteration of idioms risks nothing less than ‘cultural and linguistic chaos’, despite their common usage
www.theguardian.com
fukupananvil
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Not sure about the kotex fermentation tank, however the diesel mixing tank exterior shows signs of discoloring. The black mold is soon to follow. Plumbing is fascinating. Iron and copper pipe. Should be interesting when objects start flying around in a pounding sea and the hull begins to flex.
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chester
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how many joins are build into that copper rats nest on the left?
Israel Hands
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He's molded himself to look more and more like Oral Roberts.
In college we'd watch Oral Roberts occasionally just for laughs, as he grifted to build his City Of Fraud.
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fukupananvil
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Quite a few. Looks like the builder smoked a few joints during the construction process.
I loved watching stuff like that, just staring at this tsunami of stupidity. I think it was one of these videos where I had a cruel thought: what if the audience isn't dumb as fuck? What if their intellect does scream "THIS IS INSANE" to them?
Then there has to be something very powerful inside of them to overrule reason and rationality. Something like strong feelings. Feelings like "shut up intellect! I know this is not real. But my reality is so bad that I prefer to live in koo koo land. The crazier the better"
I strongly suspect that Dugg just barely has a clue of all the various inner workings of his BSO. I support this suspicion by virtue of the fact he had many different volunteers over the years, tackling different jobs, and bringing their own "flavour" or twist to the job at hand. Not all of them were necessarily professionals in the required field( marine electronics,plumbing etc....) and as such perhaps better described as handy men or jack-of-all-trades.
Thus, trouble shooting any particular systems failure may well end up being a virtual nightmare, if not a complete cluster fuck, at precisely the wrong moment when all hell is breaking loose and a rapid solution is required to avoid a disaster.
Furthermore, upon viewing some of his latest welding failures and this despite over ten years worth of welding, it is rather clear welding remains something of a mysterious black art to Dugg and sheds a disturbing light on his earliest welding efforts when he assembled the hull and installed various internal structures.
Hence to your point about the consequences of shit flying about in heavy seas and the hull working in same seas. There may be loud popping and banging sounds as welds fail, steel parts fly around to impale/damage critical components and cold white panic sets in amongst both the crew and our rule dissing, authority mocking, ego-maniacal noble savage,Dugg.
That BSO will go nowhere near meeting a fraction of Dugg's stated plans and purpose for it.
Of course, I also may be entirely wrong and Dugg sails happily off into one of his glorious sunsets......but who am I kidding?!
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Maybe tainted stash in Tulsa.
Latadjust
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Does anyone know what percentage of the hard costs to build and operate the vessel to date were funded by donations vs out of his pocket?
Diarmuid
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Hmmm. Ear tufts, large canines, 25 lbs, hard to domesticate.... Sounds like someone had a smidge of Mexican bobcat in their family tree.
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Google "501c lookup", go to IRS and search name "sea chest foundation" for available records. Sea Chest Foundation is a charity, not an actual foundation, per the IRS determination letter. Years 2018, 19, 20, and 21 sea chest fndtn reported less than 50k donations each year, so less than 200k total reported for those years. Unknown if he declared a piece of equipment or hard supplies donated as a $ donation. Not sure how the sale of hats, shirts, mugs, bilge rats was accounted for. Not sure how the youtube income was accounted for.
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He also collects money via Patreon and directly via paypal. Those funds won't show up in what goes through the Seachest foundation. In his patreon begging video from four years ago he tells he's got 200.000 left and needs an additional 100.000 to finish the boat. And he asks for 100.000 more for things he'll need after launch.
opcn
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Making videos is work, and should probably be considered his primary form of employment. Patreon contributions are fee for service rather than charitable donations. Merch sales also fit that definition, if you spend $20 on a $15 coffee cup knowing that $5 is going to buy filler rod it's hard to call it a $20 donation to the project; if you buy an NFL jersey are you donating to the player's salary? I think they lined it up so merch purchased from one location would be socked away in sea chest foundation and merch purchased from elsewhere would go to Doug's personal checking account but it's still hard to know what to call a donation versus what we want to call revenue from the project.
