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  1. Another day, another perfect opportunity to repost this:
    15 points
  2. Right on cue the very post after mine demonstrated exactly what I was talking about. Millions of people like this. No clue what's going on, strong opinion, lack of any effort to question and educate, and therefore zero evidence to back the opinion up. Just millions of lost men and women twisting in the winds of a hurricane of bullshit
    13 points
  3. 12 points
  4. Wordle 660 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 🟨⬛🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Daily Quordle 441 4️⃣6️⃣ 7️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
    12 points
  5. It really sucks that one, if not the, major downfall of this country will be an intentional misinterpretation of an amendment in order to suit the needs of a very specific lobbying group, leading to one party benefitting and realizing the idiots that fall for it might win them elections, causing said party to quadruple down on the same intentional misinterpretation because they know it delivers votes, even though it kills children.
    11 points
  6. No. That's really not what the vast majority of Americans want. The polling on it is pretty damned clear. HOWEVER, the continuing obstinance of the psychopath gun fetishists in not just refusing to allow reasonable gun CONTROL measures (maybe, just maybe, set up a legal mechanism where the guy who everyone fucking knew "is a school shooter, that guy's nuts, he's been talking about shooting places up for years," etc. can't procure a firearm? Or maybe implement a safe storage law?), but is actively ROLLING BACK the ones we have (domestic violence order keeping violent spouse from possessing a gun? VOID) is absolutely going to result in a "0 guns" outcome for all of us, eventually. I mean, fuck, see Baba's dumbass take above "no law will stop ALL of X," which is used to support the argument of "therefore, no such laws." Imagine that reasoning applied to.....well, literally anything else. Dangerous driving. Murder. Assault. Robbery. Financial crime. I mean, it is a known fact that no law can stop ALL of any of those things, so I guess all those laws are pointless, and we should repeal them, because if they don't solve the entire problem, they are just infringements on our liberties. Right? The gun psychopaths tell us over and over that what we need to do is "harden our facilities!" Do a word search for "harden" on this board (maybe exclude the IPIHB forum from that search), and you'll find hundreds of mentions. Well, a bank is one of the most hardened, secure facilities around. They literally have armed guards, bulletproof glass, all that shit, depending on the branch. It doesn't matter. Very lethal weapons with a high rate of fire are functionally as easy to obtain as a Grande Frappe Latte with Extra Whip (gun shops probably have a shorter drive-thru line). The sane public is tired of it. They are tired of a response of not only "we can't/won't do anything about it," but a response of "and actually, fuck you, we're going to make guns MORE ubiquitous and even EASIER for anyone to acquire." The arrogance, unyielding approach, and flat-out contempt for ANY reasonable conversation is making "gun owners" a more and more despised group with each passing mass shooting (so, every day). And I say that as a lifelong gun owner who would like to remain one. If you are a gun owner, it is actually in your long-term interest to be part of the solution, instead of stubbornly insisting that there's no problem at all, and even if there is, fuck you, I won't let anyone do ANYTHING about it. But, I know I'm shouting into the void. And, in a generation or so, Fatty will turn out to be correct.....yet he will also only have himself and those like him to blame.
    11 points
  7. fuuck. ragey face Wordle 660 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    11 points
  8. Wordle 660 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    11 points
  9. Wordle 660 4/6* 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Daily Quordle 441 7️⃣3️⃣ 8️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨🟨🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
    11 points
  10. Took the long way home Wordle 660 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 ⬛🟨⬛🟩🟨 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    11 points
  11. Wordle 660 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Daily Quordle 441 7️⃣5️⃣ 3️⃣4️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Worldle #444 1/6 (100%) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 https://worldle.teuteuf.fr Blossom Puzzle, April 10 Letters: A E F R I L W My score: 226 points My longest word: 8 letters 🏵 💐 🌸 💮 🌼 🌹 🌻 🌺 Play Blossom: https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
    11 points
  12. As a former sufferer of Hillary Derangement Syndrome myself, this is correct. A whole bunch of us let 30 years of propaganda, which really got started because she had the audacity to sit on a committee to try to reform healthcare, taint our impression of her. Thanks Rush/Fox/et al.
    10 points
  13. There is virtually no chance Ukraine has as much munitions as it wants or needs. It's a systemic issue. I've posted about it before. First, let's take a look at the US economy. It's no longer a manufacturing powerhouse, and hasn't been really since the 70s and 80s, when it systematically began offshoring its most important supply chains for cost savings. That's important because it limits how much of the peacetime economy can be moved into military production. Namely, zero. A significant part of the biggest manufacturing capability the US retains is subsidized one way or another through the defense industry. Not all of it, but a significant part. Those manufacturers depend on the US budget and how the Department of Defense allocates its funding for market indicators on what it should invest in. By far the biggest expenditures go towards research and development for big ticket items, and the support and maintenance for those items. When it comes to artillery, the US has deemphasized it as a centerpiece for their military doctrine really since the Korean War. Either conflicts are asynchronous, such as Vietnam or Afghanistan, or the US uses complete air superiority and then munitions delivered through the air to fulfill the same kind of function artillery used to provide. Basically US and western based tactics emphasize air superiority and ground based mobility, more so than artillery. The market indicators for manufacturers for 60 years, then, has been to produce a minimum of artillery shells simply to keep stocks up and to make sure there's plenty for troops to train with. Which they've done. That's around 14,000 shells per month maxed out. It's not enough to simply tell defense contractors we want more shells. That's not how it works. There's no excess capacity out there waiting to be utilized. For companies to invest in new production facilities, they're going to want assurances the DoD isn't going to just pull the rug out from under them with a different administration, or a shift in doctrine. That's not easy to do. They have been doing a lot of work on that front, so that this summer they're expecting to raise production to 40,000 shells per month. Next year they think they can get it up to 90,000 shells per month. That's not disinformation. That's straight up logistics and how the industry works. If you go to Europe, the situation is both better and worse. There's at least more options for artillery shell production, but because of the political realities of EU and NATO, production has to be split between different countries for virtually any system produced. That's not a big deal for peace time, because the collaborative process which is far from efficient can still produce the result needed given enough time. Just need to make enough people happy. But in wartime, the collaborative process makes everything bog down. France wants to keep all the business and purchases in the EU. Countries like Hungary and Austria don't want to subsidize with a single penny munitions going to Ukraine. Hungary because it views Russia favorably. Austria because it values its neutrality, even though it's a part of EU. Then there's Switzerland, which produces a decent amount of 155mm shells, but doesn't want them going to Ukraine for the same reason. There are 155mm shells being produced elsewhere around the world, but those have their own complications. Then you have the atrophy of EU military spending. Recently it was discovered there simply aren't enough explosives being produced in the EU to make the artillery shells they have the capacity for, and again, buying outside of the EU is fraught with political tension of one kind or another. With all that, then you take a look at the sheer number of shells Ukraine needs every month. Ideally they'd love to have somewhere around 400,000 shells per month. 400,000! Per month! Combined the US and the EU can't come anywhere close to that. They can't even hit the 100,000 mark together. Ukraine rations to fire off about 120,000 shells per month, but even that is only sustainable because the US and EU draw down on their reserves, which has its own issues both in terms of military readiness for the countries drawing down, and politically with politicians who want to curb the amount of support being given Ukraine. I'm not competent enough to talk about the documents and how real they are. I tend to believe they're real enough. The funny thing to me is many of the leaks seem to have occurred on Discord where gamers got into heated arguments over Ukraine, and so someone spilled the documents as a way to win an argument. Which sounds completely farcical unless you've ever been on Discord. I can believe it. And then they've been altered to fit agendas as they got passed around. Regardless, the lack of shells is a real issue that isn't going away. My biggest hope is that they've been able to ration their use enough in their defense of places like Bakhmut so that they have enough to mount an effective offensive, but I sure am glad I'm not the one having to make the decisions as to how much rationing is enough, and how much is too much.
    10 points
  14. Wordle 660 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    10 points
  15. TBH, if the concept of public libraries never existed, and someone proposed them in the year 2023, that person would be attacked viciously.
    9 points
  16. They needed one of those.
    9 points
  17. I am gonna x post this to the bivalve thread. I’m most of a bottle of wine and a kitchen cocktail in and don’t care about the length of this post, because this meal fucks. Yesterday I grilled shrimp and with my heads and shells I made shrimp stock. You can add all sorts of aromatics, but I just boiled the heads and shells and added a carrot, some salt, a few stalks of parsley. That’s all prep for today, which is mussels day. Soften up a shallot in some olive oil in a big pot. Then add a bunch of garlic. I used, I don’t know— ten or 11 cloves? The point is that you’re never gonna cook this and say “that was too much garlic.” Measure garlic with your heart. When all that’s soft but not brown, add like a tablespoon of tomato paste and cook that down a bit. Don’t burn the garlic. Then add a big splash of shrimp stock— make sure it’s the darker stuff at the bottom. And then equal parts white wine. And then like a pound, pound and a half of mussels and a halved lemon. Let that shit cook and steam over medium or medium-low. Add a generous handful of fresh parsley at the end. And you should be making spaghetti. And the spaghetti needs to be cooked in about half shrimp stock and half salted water. And then when it’s done, you put the spaghetti in a bowl, top with a ton of mussels, and a ladle of that garlicky wine cooking liquid. And then also, you need like two baguettes for a family. The mussels are great but the main event is mopping up that garlic-wine-shrimp broth liquid with a baguette. Italians don’t mix bread and pasta but you’re not in Italy and this is good as fuck, who cares what they say. You can make all this without the shrimp stock but you’re not really getting the full meal that fucks if you do.
    9 points
  18. Mine are also toys. I don’t need them. They are also locked in a safe. Id also hand them over tomorrow if the laws were changed. Or register them. Or go through background checks (maybe piggy back off the ones I do for coaching and being a ref)… you know basically anything other than the shit that’s being done now.
    9 points
  19. As a diehard Astros fan, I also love to collect 2022 Phillies merchandise to display in my house. If I walk into your house and see Adolf Hitler's teapot, I'm going to assume my Jewish ass is not welcome, and there will be nothing you can say that will convince me otherwise.
    9 points
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    9 points
  21. Wordle 660 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    9 points
  22. Wordle 660 3/6 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Daily Quordle 441 5️⃣3️⃣ 7️⃣4️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟨🟩⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
    9 points
  23. I think this is 4 bogeys in a row. Not fun. Wordle 660 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Worldle #444 1/6 (100%) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 ⭐⭐⭐🏙️🪙 https://worldle.teuteuf.fr Daily Quordle 441 8️⃣9️⃣ 🟥7️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟨⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
    9 points
  24. Wordle 660 4/6 [emoji834][emoji834]🟨[emoji834][emoji834] [emoji834]🟨[emoji834][emoji834][emoji834] [emoji834][emoji834]🟨🟨[emoji834] 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    9 points
  25. Nice. The vehicle seems vulnerable, but it's surely pretty effective otherwise.
    9 points
  26. What Perry was expressing on social media and in texts with his friend Holcomb is no different than what thousands of right-wingers have been openly expressing and normalizing for years now via their wartime Come And Take It flags and decals. It's not "I wish to live in peace but shall regretfully have to shoot you if you infringe what I believe are my rights". It's "I HOPE you infringe on what I believe are my rights so I can kill you and my fellow Americans".
    9 points
  27. I got to kind of meet Dave South once. Navasota Little League didn't have a summer program, so he played in the College Station program one summer. Steve Kragthorpe was the aggy OC, and his son was on the team, so Steve helped coach. He was amazing with the boys, and had every one of them working at every position, including pitching. They all improved greatly and had a ball doing it. He had some of us dads in the stands charting pitches for pitchers and hitters. He was in the stands with me one afternoon while I charted my son's pitching when Dave South came up and started talking about the upcoming football season. Steve asked him nicely to let him finish coaching the kids' game, but South wouldn't let up. Steve had to get rude about it before a couple of dads who were aggy came over and distracted South, leading him away. I always remember South as that dick, and enjoyed his constant disappointment. Kragthorpe, on the other hand, has always had my admiration and respect.
    9 points
  28. I confess to having been blind to plenty of shit over the years, some of it embarrassingly so. But I remain baffled how smart people didn’t see EXACTLY what Trump was well before he won the nomination. He is and always has been a low IQ malignant narcissist. Imagine what a low IQ malignant narcissist would do if he became president. That’s exactly what Trump was, and exactly what he did. The horrible thing is actually how EASY it was to predict. He is a simple, dim, pathetic little man. There is no complexity, nuance, or unpredictability. He was never, ever going to find a more “measured and mature” path, because he has always been completely incapable of such a thing. I cannot put into words how much I hate him, and how much I hope that he is dropping dead of a massive coronary as I type these very words
    9 points
  29. Before I got married my ex had a place for me to put my money as well
    9 points
  30. Sounds like regulating a fundamental right to me . . . .
    8 points
  31. Actual footage of Porterhouse's "hair product" in action:
    8 points
  32. I worked at a place in Georgetown 20+ years ago and "KJ" was the absolute best seller on the menu for the Sun City crowd and the up and coming Georgetown yuppies. One day we were out of KJ and some 35-40ish year old Karen asked my buddy who was waiting on her if he had any Kendall Jackson Chardonnay. He said , "No ma'am we don't" Her response was an indignant "Do you even know what KENDALL JACKSON is?" He said, "Yes ma'am. It's an overpriced, mediocre California chardonnay. We normally have it just for ladies like you, but today we are just out of stock". She called the manager over and demanded a new waiter and that he be fired. She got a new waiter but he wasn't fired.
    8 points
  33. 8 points
  34. Seriously this. I don't say this to gloat, but I told everyone who would listen exactly how it would be. My opinion of Trump has not changed since roughly 1988. It's blindingly obvious who and what he is.
    8 points
  35. Considering that there is compelling supporting evidence that TheMailbox is actually Geoff Ketchum over here sniffing for recruiting intel, it actually tracks that he wouldn't know jack shit about the history and timline of recruiting and the internet.
    8 points
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    8 points
  38. Wordle 660 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Daily Quordle 441 9️⃣8️⃣ 4️⃣6️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    8 points
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