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WhatTheBuck

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  1. I’d settle for being a peso billionaire.
  2. He’s afraid of sharks. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/21/donald-trump-sharks-speech-stormy-daniels And mosquitoes. https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-dont-like-mosquitos-2016-7
  3. I’m not watching that dumb cunt speak.
  4. My god. I was searching for a clip from Frasier, the original Cheers spinoff, and came across this clip from the reboot. Holy crap, it looks even worse than I imagined. Does my necro-bump confirm that the show no longer has any apologists? This looks awful. (Although Lilith — still would. Don’t judge.)
  5. Ftr: Revelation 13:16-17 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 16 Also, it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be given a brand on the right hand or the forehead, 17 so that no one can buy or sell who does not have the brand, that is, the name of the beast or the number for its name. The chapter concludes with verse 18: 18 This calls for wisdom: let anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number for a person. Its number is six hundred sixty-six. There’s a footnote to that: ”Other ancient authorities read six hundred sixteen” The full chapter: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation 13&version=NRSVUE
  6. Ah. You watched a partial eclipse through your office window. No wonder you didn’t get it. Sorry you missed the totality. It’s a completely different experience. There's no comparison.
  7. Thought I posted this one before. Maybe it was on shaggy.
  8. Judge him through the lens of a narcissist whose view of his own importance, strength, ability, intelligence, and capability is utterly divorced from reality. I’m pretty sure he genuinely feels the threat of potential jail time for his (many) crimes.
  9. I think his narcissism causes him a lot of stress because most Americans constantly refuse to shower him with the love and praise and adoration and unquestioned admiration he thinks he deserves. Look at how the North Koreans (that he sees) treat Kim Jong Un. He genuinely believes that’s how Americans should see him. It drives him crazy that most of us don’t.
  10. I wonder if there’s a correlation between intelligence and the responsible practice of citing one’s sources when posting on the internet.
  11. The proximity of the moon to the earth depending on its orbit I’m sure is a factor. (Oh, already covered I see.)
  12. Whitey doesn’t like seeing black people being treated equally. They especially don’t like running into black people who are smarter than they are. They really, really, really get freaked out about the possibility of getting beat out for the affections of a white woman by a black man.
  13. Have we learned nothing? Don’t believe a word Trump says. If he gets back into office, he’ll enact a national ban to secure the loyalty of the hardline extremists he needs to keep him in power for the rest of his life. Don’t fall for his lies. It’s amazing that anyone still takes the shit he says seriously.
  14. No. He won’t. Because Trump may or may not have any kompromat over him. If he does, it’s not that Lindsey’s gay, it’s about some little boy(s) he’s diddled. But it could just be that Lindsey has a craven lust for being close to power. He’s like the cheerleader who just wants to date the captain of the football team. The starting QB. It’s about status in a world that parallels the social dynamics of high school.
  15. This. None of the pictures or videos I’ve ever seen before prepared me for the intricate detail and the magnitude of the thing. None of them here come close. The thin, shimmery radiants of the corona that reach out much farther than any of the pics capture. The crystal clarity can’t be captured by camera. And then there’s the suddenness of it. You’ve been staring through your eclipse glasses for so long while this opaque disc slowly covers up the filtered orb of the sun. It’s a subdued, filtered, monochromatic view. Sort of abstract. Time ticks by. At about 50% coverage I noticed the wind start to pick up. Then things slowly started getting darker. Then the temperature started to drop. The sun becomes a thin crescent and then finally it’s gone and there’s nothing but black in your filtered view. Then you take off the glasses and BAM! You’re back in full color and there it is in all its majesty and it’s beyond your imagination. It’s bigger and brighter and whiter and CLOSER than you were expecting. There’s deep dark sky around it with stars and planets and an eerie twilight glow all around the horizon. At my latitude it got pretty cold. It’s still early spring. I wore my hoodie. My neighbors were donning theirs. Every second was precious. There were whoops and hollers from some viewers. Mostly it was just “Wooooooow.” It was ethereal, surreal. Just astounding. Breathtaking. Awe inspiring. Not gonna lie, I shed a few tears. Just out of happiness and joy and wonder. It was so worth it. You really can’t over-hype it.
  16. That Dark Star > Sugar Mag > Caution is so badass. The Dark Star turns very Sugar Mag-ish for quite awhile before they make the segue. And the segue is really smooth. So is the segue from Sugar Mag into Caution. Phil starts playing it during the closing climax of Sunshine Daydream and Billy picks it up then off they go. That whole suite is pretty, well, sweet. Seriously, though, the jam from Dark Star into Sugar Magnolia is special. I left for home a little after totality, while the eclipse was still going on, and threw on disc 3. The Dark Star played while things were still a little shadowy and I was still buzzing over what I’d just seen (emotionally, not chemically), then by SSDD the eclipse was over and I was grooving in full sunlight. It was pretty sweet. I listened to Dark Side of the Moon yesterday to get ramped up for the event. This isn’t the Dead but it’s Dead family and it fits too.
  17. He found the exception that proves the rule, apparently.
  18. Yep, I listened to a guy on NPR a month or so ago talking about how you should do whatever you can to get in the path of totality, and as deep into it as you can get. He emphasized how precious it is and how you should try to get as much time in totality as possible. He was right. I could’ve stayed home, gone to the northernmost part of Dublin and seen 1:23 of totality. I could’ve stopped in Delaware and seen 2:35 of totality. Instead I drove on to Marion and got 3:34 of totality. Every extra second of jaw-dropping wonder was worth it. I’m so lucky that I could leave a little after noon and be back around 5:00.
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