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  1. 1 minute ago, fattyflattie said:

    I’ve owned horses much longer than I’ve had kids, but point taken.  I’ve been talking them out of rodeo since they were toddlers, but the fancy equine sports never crossed my mind. 

    I can’t think of anything I want to own less than a fancy horse. Maybe an Alfa Romeo or one of those snakes that gets big enough to try and eat you. 

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  2. On 3/26/2024 at 11:04 PM, uoftorange said:

    When I got married I told my wife that I was very particular about my clothes.  Where they go, how they get folded, etc.  That I don't mind her doing laundry, but you can't get upset with me if I change something or say something.  If you are, just don't do it and we're cool.  That took like 3 times to fix.  Now my wife isn't allowed to do my laundry.

    Housekeeper or I do it.  Housekeeper does it "wrong" to, so I redo it.  But I don't get nasty looks as I redo it like I do from my wife.  

    Sounds like your wife figured out how to not have to do laundry. 

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  3. 8 hours ago, crash_davis said:

    They choose not to kill us. Can you imagine a great white being this playful?

     

    Not an orca but time to tell the story of my phone wallpaper:

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    I took this (no zoom) from a paddleboard in the Laguna Madre in winter 2020. Small pod of three that swam under and around my board and let me have a good look.

    And dolphins are charismatic and nice and (unless they want sexy time) entirely uninterested in harming you.  But they are also a LOT bigger than you think they are, and they swim a LOT faster than you realize and it is much more unnerving to be on top of them on a wobbly board than you’d think.  Very much a “they belong here and I do not” moment.  I can’t imagine orcas. 

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  4. 4 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

    This is my oldest. 20 hours a week at gym (replaces school PE) and who knows how many hours at home during the week.  But she excels at the competitions (1st overall ~30% of the events while podium on ALL but one event (Covid), took 1st overall at state for her group, etc)). Plenty of adversity, time management, diet/health management, and the fitness aspect is off the charts. The mental focus they have to maintain is unreal for some of the skills.  It’s a good balance of team and individual accomplishments.  

    Her passion, her goals, and when it’s no longer fun, it’s over.  If grades dip at all, same.  It was nice because she was good but not great at any other sports, except distance running, which she didn’t have a passion for.  Maybe she can pick that one back up in high school. 

    Now, if I could get my middle one to not love dressage, I’d be in good shape.  

    I have one hard and fast sports rule for my daughters and that is “no riding lessons.”  I saw how my parents went from “trial riding lesson” to owing a horse that cost more than any of our cars that all of a sudden my sister didn’t want. 

  5. We have built systems of such size and complexity that they approach forces of nature.  Even intelligent and rational people are incapable of giving a full account of how and why a ship the size of the Dali can be loaded with precision and safely sailed out of Baltimore Harbor, under a bridge, and across oceans.  
     

    Ask a smart, educated non-expert how “GPS” works and you’ll get something like “a set of satellites send messages to receivers on earth.” The ship’s captain is aware of many computers and what their functions are on his vessel.  But he is likely quite incapable of explaining how information is placed on a small piece of ultra-pure silicon. 
     

    Moreover, we have built these complex systems so well that serious malfunctions are rare and usually unnoticed by all of us. It’s a miracle that we EVER sail skyscrapers on their side underneath the Key Bridge.

    And as a species, we got where we are by closely observing cause and effect and by never accepting that things “just happen.”  It is a feature, not a bug, for us to come up with theories.  The theories going around about this are no different than “Thag got struck by lightning because he must have angered the Storm God.”  We have to actively fight our brains to get to where we can accept “some shit I don’t understand just happened.” 

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  6. 12 minutes ago, naija said:

    Can't say I ever had a fear of bridges, but after reading this thread, and seeing so many confess to it, I'm wondering if I've just been blissfully naive. 

    I’ve always been more afraid of tunnels than bridges. Bridges don’t faze me. 

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  7. 16 hours ago, chainsaw said:

    In six months? By a world class military? With my tax dollars?

    “The Burmese junta can’t be doing a genocide of Muslims as bad because they’re not aligned with the U.S. and their military isn’t as good,” thanks for this crystalline distillation of tankie thought and reminder that this isn’t really about Palestinians or lives at at all.

  8. Staying with the crew in a place near the quiet entry to the Great Smoky Mountains national park and decided to show them Last of the Mohicans tonight after a day hiking, since it was filmed not far from here.

    Besides the general awesomeness of DDL plus Michael Mann and a great source material—  just so refreshing to see how this movie LOOKS.

    - Filmed outside with good lighting and no mood filters.  The mountains, rocks, trees, water, sun, light all looks like what we saw today. 
     

    - Kickass costuming and sets, the Huron village is a Huron village they built for the movie.  The costumes have color and bulk. The makeup looks like normal people who have been outside sweating and running around. 
     

    - The battles and fight scenes are well-choreographed, easy to follow, and yet still manage to look real and chaotic with genuine smoke and fire.  
     

    - Consistent sound all the way through, you can leave it on one volume and hear every word and never have your ears blown out. 
     

    Granted this was a major-budget picture with a tier 1 director and the world’s best actor but DAMN.  I cannot remember the last time I saw a new movie that looks and feels this good and real.  Truly, we reached peak movie magic between about 1990-2000 and it’s been downhill since then. 

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  9. 3 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    Were they, though?

    Dawg, you’re not going to be denying what happened to the Rohingya on an Israel thread are you? They were all forced out of their homes and live in the worlds largest refugee camp, tens of thousands murdered, more raped.

  10. 2 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    I was referring to their openly genocidal rhetoric, but whatever man. You're clearly just trolling so fuck off and farm more fattyflattie likes somewhere else.

    I’m sorry, I thought you said “behave.” 
     

    So many right-wing figures to choose from and you land on “Nazis…..” 

    (if you’re looking for a better comparison, try maybe the Burmese junta or the Croatians in the 1990s). 

  11. 10 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    Just say what you want, dude. I'm over it. I tried to be a bigger person about this and I guess that was a mistake. So, that being said, do you feel better? You can call me antisemitic (again) if it's not enough for you.

    I will not apologize, ever, for comparing aspects of Likud rhetoric directly to Nazi rhetoric. Obviously the two groups are not the same, for a multitude of reasons. I will not apologize, ever, for referring to Netanyahu as a right wing psychopath, because that's what he is. If you still have a problem with that, I'm not sure what to tell you other than just put me on ignore so you can stop reading my posts.

    LOL, you went from “do they behave any differently?” to “they are not the same” in back to back posts.  Completely incoherent. 

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  12. 13 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

     

    I know that most Jewish people/Israelis don't want to be in conflict with their Palestinian brothers and sisters, but at this point I lose a little sympathy (at least towards Israelis in Israel) every day Netanyahu and his special little cabal of right wing psychopaths (honestly, it feels a little too on the nose to call them Nazis, but do they behave any differently?) remain in power.

    Yes, very much so.  And not even when talking strictly about the attempted extermination of Jews.  I’m tempted to say something snarky but instead I’ll just suggest you do as much reading on this as you did on the Israel-Palestine conflict.  Making comparisons like this is a short circuit to trivializing yourself. 

  13. 31 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

    So? Study Islamic history. Radicals do not see countries. Are you going to say that ISIS in ME was all Syrian/Iraqi?

    Sorry to derail. Back to fuck Russia. May another one of their ships become a submarine.

    Not at all, I’m saying they recruit from all those places but are not as successful at being a going franchise inside of places like Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan. You don’t last long being a jihadi there, you bug out and go to places like Afghanistan or Syria. 

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  14. 2 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

    Nope. Sorry Sir. they have hit into Iran's NE and into Pakistan. They are not an Afghani group. The Chechen's and Dagestanis operating in Afghanistan were not Talib usually. They were other groups that went on to form ISIS-K. I am talking 2007/2009. In Afghanistan they started in Badakshan, far NW. Rumors were they came across from China, but nah. And remember one rule of crime and terrorism, you don't do things where you shit.

    And he was a product of the USSR. So yeah, they were anti-Jihad/Islam etc.

    There are a lot of "Stani's" who live and work in Russia still. Shit jobs, but they are there.

    What groups do you say are not good at fighting?

    ISIS and the Russians. Better at terror and cruelty. 
     

    ISIS-K has raised all kinds of hell across Afghanistan. Most of the leaders are Pakistani-origin. 

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  15. 2 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

    Not just Afghanistan. It is where they became active. This is Khorasan. Notice the countries? Quite a few were beaten down by Russia (USSR era) and many remember. I brought up this region recently and don't think many thought it was of importance. This is the Achilles heal of Russia. Of note, they and the Taliban want a lot of the same land. Add to this it could get the Dagestani Jihadi'ss going again and things don't look good for the Bear.

     

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    They claim this province but their real home is in Afghanistan, this is one of the few successful attacks outside of Afghanistan. 

    Uzbekistan is a mellower place than when I lived there under Karimov but it’s still a shitty place to try and jihad.  They used to drag your ass down to the police station if your beard was too long, call your parents in and berate them in front of you for raising a “wahabi” and then make you shave. If that didn’t work, then boiling you alive in the basement of the interior ministry was always a contingency. 

    It’s notable that they succeeded in Moscow. Both groups are good at cruelty and not so good at really fighting. 

    One thing that’s notable is that these attacks are all over Twitter where in the past it would have been pulled down. Great recruiting material for them. 

     

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  16. 1 hour ago, Schulz2.0 said:

    This was ISIS-K, Afghanistan.

    POV: You’re a Tajik day laborer who got fed up with Russia and joined ISIS-K.  You’re sitting in a Moscow courtroom getting ready to plead guilty, the shreds of a plastic bag still hanging from your neck after an “interrogation.” Your only cold comfort is that Russia doesn’t have the death penalty. 
     

    Then it hits you. Russia doesn’t have the death penalty.

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