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Mustang posted:Personally, I think DeSantis is doomed on the national stage. No matter what, the GOP primary is going to be nuts. I can't wait for the weapons grade insanity.
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Zamujasa posted:honestly one of the most dangerous things about desantis's potential candidacy is that his age will be a big bonus over the dem side who cannot seem to find anyone under 70, god forbid if biden runs I will be thinking long and hard about who to vote for in the primary. Do I use my primary vote to try to get someone other than Biden on the D ticket or do I use it to (hopefully) poison/influence the R ticket?
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pantslesswithwolves posted:The Pacific Ocean is choking with garbage, much of it coming from cheap Chinese products, dumped with reckless abandon. One of my wife's friends just declared that the previous balloons under Trump are just what the Biden media machine wants us to think Edit to add: how do you even counter these people if that is their version of reality?
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CainFortea posted:I bounced off DS9 season 2 a number of times. I loving hate everything about the maquis. So stupid. So when I was IK in SciFiWiFi I ran a competition to show me the very best of DS9. Didn't care about spoilers or order or anything. Each poster got a few sentences to set the stage for the episode if they wanted to. This about sums up my experience with DS9 as well. For whatever reason the show never "clicked" for me. I can see why others enjoy it. I just don't.
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Kazinsal posted:Right. I don’t remember much of really late TNG, mostly because it seemed like they were running on fumes at that point. I think it was something to the effect of, "if you travel too fast, you might accidentally time travel. So we now have a speed limit!"
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Feb 6, 2023 21:22
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McNally posted:It was "warp drive is tearing apart the fabric of space-time in a specific region, please observe a speed limit until we can figure poo poo out" Ah, it's been forever since I've watched pretty much anything Trek. Apparently even my memories of the show are fading away.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I think you should let him start a thread about war crime theory, so he can lay out his beliefs and arguments, and background on how he came to to these conclusions. I can't remember the last time we had a Mod Challenge here....
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Feb 7, 2023 18:52
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facialimpediment posted:woops twitter broke again These tweet limits seem rather high. Wouldn't this only really cause issues with brand/customer service and bot accounts? To be clear, I understand the poo poo show that must be going on to require such limits. Just curious about why THAT.
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Feb 9, 2023 01:43
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Who had stealing puppies on their GOP crimes bingo card? Bonus points if you can guess the offender before clicking! https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/09/george-santos-was-charged-with-theft-in-dog-case.html
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Kesper North posted:The Estonian foreign intelligence service just pulished their annual security report. Some interesting reading. Lol, Russia is trying to make the Legion of Doom.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I got Beans when my neighbors at my last apartment complex were trapping stray/feral cats. Little dude was a wild late stage kitten. Worked out great, easily the smartest cat I've ever had. We recently discovered that one of our COVID shelter cats will play fetch. But only with those plastic rings from bottles.
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Feb 10, 2023 18:09
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facialimpediment posted:From what a lot of news articles are saying, you can simply get way more data than with a satellite. A typical satellite moves at around 7000 MPH, while the balloons might hit 60 MPH. Shove high tech sensors and comms equipment on a balloon and it's likely to get way better quality data and a lot more of it. First, old people need to stop printing poo poo out. Everyone needs to stop printing poo poo out. Second, instead of a balloon, what was it, a drone? I'm trying to imagine something the size of a car that would enter our airspace unwelcomed. I can only think of glider/drone/balloon type items, unless it is.... aliens.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Sounds like you'll be on board with the Luca for Immortal Dog-Emperor platform Isn't Luca the official mascot of this place?
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Cats live for murder This is true. It is also why I am not afraid of us shooting down an UFO. Aliens are NOT ready for the poo poo cats do.
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Wonder Free posted:They’re good dogs. One took down 8 coyotes protecting its flock recently. https://people.com/pets/great-pyrenees-named-casper-attacks-coyote-pack-to-protect-sheep/ I read an article that says they think he hunted down the remaining 3 while he was missing for a couple of days. I desperately want that to be true. It's like Rambo in dog form.
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lightpole posted:I think natural gas was banned in CA at least, dryers, furnace/boiler, stove. I just got my stuff in before the change but electric is so efficient now anyways I kinda want to go that route. Just finished my in floor radiant and will just use a flash water heater for heat but I wish I had known you could do cooling with it as well and then my house would be perfect. Eventually I suspect my gas range will become expensive or it will simply get old. Either way, I intend to replace it with an induction range. Hopefully I also have solar and batteries in place by then.
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Steezo posted:Goddamn superbowl ads this year have me wishing for a Taliban callback. That dog food commercial was pretty good. The wife was crying half way through.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:A town of 8000 is cut off to the point where we have no idea if it's even there Man, that is nuts. You guys get storms on a seasonal basis or do they tend to miss you guys?
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Do we have any train nerds? I saw another headline saying there was a train derailment in Tennessee also last night/yesterday. I went to look it up and found this: https://www.newsweek.com/more-dozen-trains-have-derailed-us-this-year-1780952 We have had more than a dozen derailments so far this year. Apparently, this is a common occurrence with an average of 1,704 derailments a year. My question is this: Is the severity of the accidents we are seeing due to labor issues, regulatory issues, poor/aging infrastructure, or an all of the above issue? Are we seeing more "spectacular" events because the rail workers normally prevent and/or mitigate these spills? Is it a case of, no workers to see us doing the wrong thing so we are going to do it? It just seems that there are suddenly a bunch of leaking chemical tankers falling off of tracks, what else would cause this?
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:There were derailments in SC and TX yesterday also. I saw those as well. It was part of what prompted me to start looking at things. stealie72 posted:Actual train nerds will have real answers, but from doing light reading on it over the last couple decades (used to work for a place that tracked chemical spills), the real high level answer is I get that they are probably stretching their maintenance further. I also get the labor cost issue. I'm trying to figure out the "why now?" It doesn't seem like there was a noticeable change after the strike was blocked, then suddenly, we have trains leaking poo poo and killing people all over the place. I had expected a slower, more incremental degradation of the system.
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Maintenance costs money, giving workers rest and PTO costs money, safety costs money--and all cost more than whatever fines they'll get slapped with for destroying a town.
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stealie72 posted:Don't have time to find the data right now, and maybe someone else has it, but I wonder about "suddenly, we have trains leaking poo poo and killing people all over the place." We may very well have hit an increase, but I'd think it's equally probable that it's just the media is suddenly paying attention. There's a lot of train track in BFE. Good point. I hadn't considered that it just wasn't on my feed.
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His current head of hair is all plugs. For a while there he was a solid stage 4 (almost 5) on the male pattern baldness scale.
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I'm not sure what #BlackGirlMagic is (no, I will not go on twitter), but even without that knowledge I don't understand this tweet. Edit: I am confused about how black history month pertains to Afghanistan of all places.
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Blackhawk crash in Alabama https://abcnews.go.com/US/survivors-after-black-hawk-helicopter-crashes-alabama-highway/story?id=97237264
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Putin has tossed out the START treaty in a speech this morning. I'm sure there is someone that believes this means Russia nuking Ukraine, but I doubt that will happen. What is the end game here other than an attempt at North Korea style "diplomacy"? https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-politics-de0af48be7ea480ccb0175f55a065363
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facialimpediment posted:So all of this AI poo poo is basically just rebranded chatbots, but you very much shouldn't rely on voice passwords anymore, apparently! Ha! The other day the wife asked if it would be better to use a voice ID. I told her to just keep using the multi factor we are currently using. Glad I made the right choice.
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We have any Tennessee goons in the house? I just came across this article: https://newrepublic.com/post/170759/tennessee-becomes-first-state-pass-ban-drag-shows When I try to dig in further I only get sources like Entertainment Weekly and the like. When they link to an AP article, the article is missing. I would have imagined that this news would be bigger, or is the bill so poorly written everyone thinks it will just fall apart? What am I missing? How is this being received in Tennessee?
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facialimpediment posted:For the full review of what's going on about that bill, though from a non-Tennessee perspective, Chris Geidner is my guy: Thanks for that. It is about what I found as well, but wanted a sanity check. I'm confused about the apparent lack of coverage on this, it seems like it is mostly being talked about in entertainment news. Maybe it's getting drowned out by other news right now.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/AP/status/1630247111546552323?t=hUIgsmkPIpQl-z0t2ewH8Q&s=19 Did she make it to the debates last time? The name is familiar, but in a "I kinda remember a joke vaguely and her name was the punchline" familiar.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:"China hits out as US bans TikTok on federal devices" That is just them confirming that it is a spy app, right?
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