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aBagorn posted:i find it wild that america has finally embraced pickleball. My folks started playing pickleball before the pandemic and I would join sometimes. It was always being played by retired boomers, so much so that most game times were weekday afternoons (when non retired boomers would be working). In the last few years it's exploded so much so that the community centers offer it several times a day with wait-lists, there are outdoor courts replacing tennis courts and it is getting popular with younger non boomer people. Personally I play it over tennis because I had an accident a few years back (don't recommend getting hit by a car) and it's easier on my body (and also I can no longer serve or smash in tennis).
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I have probably mentioned this in other threads but every victim of gun violence got together to form a lobby and bribed every pro gun politician one dollar more than the NRA then gun reform would happen the next day.
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Mar 29, 2023 05:27
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Counterpoint: they shouldn't be easily available because it just gives the killer more exposure, could inspire more people to be like the killer and adds nothing of value to society. It doesn't have anything that the public needs to see or know about.
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Mar 30, 2023 17:53
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Piell posted:Trump was apparently caught off guard entirely by this per the Maggie Haberman in the NYT article live update "What you gonna do? Indict me?" says man who got indicted
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Mar 30, 2023 23:44
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Yea the party of family values and law &order (TM) is gonna throw their support behind the dude who stole money to pay for the silence of his pornstar mistress. They can rationalize this somehow. Anyway, how soon will it be before Trump announces some diplomatic mission to Russia.
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Mar 31, 2023 00:17
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The New York Young Republicans just put out an absolutely bonkers statement about Trump's indictment and is vowing to organize protests outside of the courthouse next week. I'm having a hard time seeing the difference between this and a cult. Like the language being used is pretty much 1:1
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Mar 31, 2023 14:52
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Spiffster posted:On that topic when I do go to burger king I default ask for no mayo because that makes the sandwich’s calories drop a heck of a lot. I think the impossible whopper with just the veggies and ketchup is 450 or so calories which isn’t too bad. With its above 700. Fries are still salty as poo poo and a medium fry is almost the same calories as the burger sans mayo. After reading the internet all day at work about how everything sucks and the world is going to end and people are dying and everyone hates everyone, having a nice cold beer with some buddies can really take the edge off.
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Apr 5, 2023 17:12
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See I know that visiting my fourth brewery for another flight isn't healthy for me. The biking to my fourth brewery for another flight is though.
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Apr 5, 2023 17:36
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Mellow Seas posted:North Carolina lawmaker officially leaves Dems for GOP, says turning point was American flag criticism Someone took the "abortions of some, mini flag pins for others" very literally.
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Apr 5, 2023 18:45
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I noticed a few bars are serving non alcoholic beers and while I am not a big fan of the taste I know people that are.
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Apr 5, 2023 23:58
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There was one set up in Vancouver, Canada and the theory is that it's set up to spy on Chinese citizens living abroad.
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Apr 17, 2023 18:56
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The laptop was on par with "but her emails" and honestly nipping it in the bud instead of letting it spread with idiots was a smart call.
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Apr 21, 2023 21:16
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Zophar posted:Place your bets, treason or sex pest Why not both? So it is sounding like there is possibly a lot more damaging stuff against him that Fox is trying to get a head of here.
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Apr 24, 2023 19:00
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This is straying a bit into right wing talking points about the insurrectionists. They were absolutely willing to do violence to politicians there and the reason they didn't was that the politicians were under security and the J6ers couldn't get to them. The closest they got was that woman who was shot by security. They went into the building looking for politicians and it was more due to the action of security in the building that they couldn't find any. This is not to say that they didn't want to do violence in the first place.
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Apr 30, 2023 15:19
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I saw a school put on a play of Agamemnon....the play about a dude who sacrificed his children to win a war. It was a really good production. I wonder if that would get banned or would the board members like the idea of sacrificing children for some stupid reason.
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May 2, 2023 21:49
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:It might, but ESPN won't have to keep paying fees to cable and if more people "have a cable subscription for sports" than "only watch sports because of the cable subscription," then they will come out ahead. I imagine that is why they are doing it in the first place. The MLS (which already has a small viewership compared to other major league sports) moved to Apple TV. I can't talk about how it has been received (if you ask the league its been a success, if you ask the fans it has major issues) but the thing with ESPN compared to a league dedicated channel is that at least ESPN has a variety of sports so even though it is yet another annoying subscription streaming service (which is really just becoming cable 2.0 with the amount of streaming services needed now). That being said gently caress everyone trying to get into the streaming game. I am probably paying more now for the various streamers than I ever did for cable.
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May 18, 2023 17:52
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Maybe firing anyone at Twitter who might be able to fix these problems wasn't such a good idea.
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May 25, 2023 01:21
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Rogers being outed as an incel on mass media didn't really put a damper on the incel movement either. If anything it made him a celebrated figure in that toxic culture.
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May 26, 2023 02:51
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Did he force people to watch him swim or was it part of the job description. I mean I guess he could not swim naked. I know a few people who love to skinny dip and such but if he is doing it as a power play than that is hosed up.
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May 31, 2023 00:40
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cat botherer posted:Do they do that in front of their professional subordinates? They aren't really in a position where they have a protective agency following them everywhere they go.
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May 31, 2023 00:45
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Unormal posted:"the average 21st century president is convicted of 5 felonies after being president" is actually just a statistical error. Felonies Don, who lives in a gilded bathroom and has 34 felonies, is an outlier adn should not be counted Trump is truly the MVP and should be put into some record books as the the president with the most indictments ever. No asterisks needed.
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Jun 10, 2023 07:46
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Canadian here and while Kelowna is a very nice place to visit these kind of arseholes are pretty much par for the course for Kelowna. Think of holiday town filled with partiers and good time it was just a joke bro drunkards, spray on tans, and smugness rolled up into a small city. Besides that though it is really a nice place with lots of natural beauty and the worst people.
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Jun 13, 2023 17:14
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You can look at caste systems to see that racism and othering don't need capitalism to exist.
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Jun 19, 2023 14:55
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Cars are such a convenience that I am kind of surprised no one here is suggesting trying to make cars that are more environmentally friendly/electric or otherwise. Some people are treating it as an all or nothing situation.
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Jun 23, 2023 14:52
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My buddy doesn't know who the Wagner group is so was thinking it was a group of soldiers fed up with the war and wanting Putin gone so the war could end. Had to tell him that the Wagner are pissed that Putin doesn't like the way they are war criming around Ukraine like he wants them to and they are more than happy to keep killing Ukrainians.
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Jun 25, 2023 17:28
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It would be a bigger deal if Obama did it. I feel like RWM don't amplify meaningless poo poo like how low the president bowed or how they shook hands or whatever if it wasn't Obama doing it
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Jul 10, 2023 15:52
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ColdPie posted:What is the supposed reason we're showing Hunter Biden's hawg on the House floor? To embarrass Joe Biden because MTG is incapable of empathy or shame or many many many other human emotions except spite.
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Jul 19, 2023 22:02
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Staluigi posted:sounds good "Just think of how disrespectful this is to all the people who died because they couldn't afford insulin"
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Jul 28, 2023 19:46
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:According to the indictment, Trump's attorneys have been trying to argue that he was not criminally liable because he is delusional, is surrounded by malicious people who had their own motives for misinforming him about the election, and he frequently believes anything that other people tell him. I don't know. Maybe saying Trump is a dumb dumb who is too stupid to do bad things might get him to confess on the stand all his crimes. Worked against Sideshow Bob afterall.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1687198419910275072 Seeing that this is Trump I wonder how many warning he will get for every time he violates the gag order.
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Aug 3, 2023 22:36
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Regarding the loneliness thing I was biking around the other day and went by a park and saw a group of maybe 20-30 people playing games and cheering each other on and such and I thought "man I really would like to be doing what they are doing, being out with a whole group of people just having fun" and then I realized that: a. It was probably a church group and I am not even Christian and I know my synagogue doesn't do things like that b. None of my friends would ever organize a thing like this. Hell, some of my friends became complete shut ins during covid and have had to resort to therapy to gain the confidence to leave the house and be around people again. I used to organize a softball team in a rec league years ago before covid but I decided it was time to let someone else do the organizing and the whole thing fell apart because no-one else wanted to organize. It became a thing where I felt that the only way I would get to see people or do fun things is if I was the one making the effort to reach out and do something and it just got so tiresome after a while that the last year I just gave up on keeping in touch with people. I wouldn't say my friends are lazy (well they are) but it definitely feels like people are caught up in their own stuff and don't make time for socializing anymore, and to try do so feels like way more effort and stress than it is worth.
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Aug 8, 2023 19:29
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Donald Trump: Rico? Never heard of him but everyone said he was a bad hombre. A no good guy. I think he got me coffee once. No one liked him. Anyway I am curious with Trump facing so much in so many different places does he have to fly all over the country to make court appearances? How does that work?
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Aug 14, 2023 20:53
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7c Nickel posted:I'm pretty sure it's just that while Asa is a weird name, Ada is a woman's name. Yea the only Ada I know is a woman and I think people are over thinking this. Trump called him Ada because he is doing the schoolyard taunt of calling someone by a girls name. Trump isn't some genius here. He is just a schoolyard bully and his supporters love him because they all love schoolyard bullies.
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Aug 24, 2023 17:02
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Give it three years before the libertarian paradise devolves into cannibalism and tribal warfare.
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Aug 28, 2023 01:51
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There is a very famous book, beloved by many, that features lots of perverted sexual acts. It also features the rainbow. Perhaps these idiots have a point and the bible should be banned from all libraries As someone who works in a library please don't ban any books from the library.
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Sep 14, 2023 23:55
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I AM GRANDO posted:I can’t believe that quote is true. Nobody on Earth could ever think Gaetz is smart. It's more of the fact that you can get away with a lot more if you don't have any morals or convictions to hold you back.
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Oct 1, 2023 18:22
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The only way you can hope for someone who agrees with 100% of the things you want is if you personally run for position and hope people vote for you. Saying x candidate only agrees with 80% of the things I like so I won't vote for them and having the candidate who only agrees 30% of the things you like win is not a great position to be in. You are allowed to not like everything a candidate stands for just as long as they stand for enough of the things you do like.
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Oct 29, 2023 03:35
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Wasn't each candidate for house leader promising not to work with the Dems at all? Who would the Dems have supported if each candidate promised to tell them to gently caress off?
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Oct 31, 2023 01:08
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So how many days away are we before they start talking about this hip new book they found called the Protocols of the Elders of Zion?
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Civilized Fishbot posted:An important mechanic here - looking specifically at the post you screenshotted - is that early in the morning of Oct 7, it wasn't yet clear that Hamas had killed/was killing a ton of civilians. At first it was only clear that some Palestinians had escaped from Gaza and that they had disabled an IDF tank, it's not horrid to celebrate that. In this case people can be quick to post hot takes without waiting for any other context to come through. It is pretty much the dril tweet about "not having to hand it to Isis"
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