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Homercles

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  1. If it were me I’d also get a case of beer and my pellet gun, spend a few hours in the garage every weekend under the guise of ‘sorry honey I gotta care of the rodents’. Hell if a rat showed up I might offer him a beer, and if declines my hospitality I’d start blasting before hanging his body on the 4Runner as a warning to the others…be cool or get capped.
  2. I sure hope the delivery route goes through Rundberg
  3. Have it hosted by Mike Leach dressed in pirate gear and I’ll gladly PPV that shit
  4. I was on a pretty heady career arc to my early 30’s, serving as an IC to some powerful people at my employer and could have leveraged my own name recognition to jump into leadership…who knows what woulda happened, but the groundwork was there. Then I got married and had our first kiddo, and my life priorities changed. My long-time boss had always said ‘family first’ but I saw that he really meant it…two kids with the associated missed time they require, grad school, patience as I worked through a tough adjustment period in my life (and associated drinking problem), etc. A buddy of mine who did make that leap is now a Sr Director who they want to make a VP…he works 12 hours a day, phone never stops ringing, his wife practically raises their daughter solo, never gets to unplug. He doesn’t want those VP stripes even though it’ll probably mean his upward mobility will halt. Meanwhile I’d do anything for my boss because he enables me being a good husband/father and that’s worth untold amounts of money to me. Point being, I can’t respect someone who asks for endless sacrifice for the ‘firm’…let alone someone who demands it, in writing. Forget his accomplishments, I can’t respect Elon as a person.
  5. It was so fucking nice to not hear that whiny, dry voice going off on rambling, pointless rants recently. Even the way he often just leans against the podium and drools ‘words’ into the microphone is pathetic…and yet Biden ‘can’t string sentences together’. But I’m with Stache, I wanna see him get primary’d and then run as an independent. He can leech votes away from the GOP like he leeched global goodwill away from our country, and it’ll be their own fault for hitching the wagon to this dumbass grifter in the first place.
  6. Elon confidently tweeting about remote procure calls, micro services, serial requests and all the other examples where he’s publicly proven wrong…
  7. So you’re the reason Tapatalk is such a flaming pile of shit
  8. Having the same issues with Yellowstone flashbacks as I do with House of the Dragon…outside of Lloyd and obviously Beth, have a hard time always telling who is who. Was really ‘proud’ of young Rip playing it smart in the bar, however, and along with Jimmy/Lloyd are about the only characters I can really stand. On further reflection it’s really just the Beth/Jamie dynamic that is borderline exhausting to watch. I get that he made a poor choice when helping her sweep the unintended pregnancy under the rug, and he dug his hole deeper with his biological father…but once I saw the next episode preview I said to myself ‘oh boy, here comes yet more flogging for Jamie!!!111’. You keep beating someone down for a past transgression, their mood goes from regret to resentment to outright rage…giving them no choice but to seek out alternative paths for ANY positive reinforcement. It’s a fictional show so you need some arc to tell a story, but after awhile the Beth/Jamie dynamic is like listening to The Wall on repeat and eventually get to ‘JFC Roger stfu and cage that dripping self pity…have some grace and accountability’. “End up like a dog that’s been beat too much until you spend half your life just coverin up” Regardless I’ll keep watching it. It’s a show for my wife and I to watch together, need something to bridge until Ted Lasso / White Lotus episodes + burn time until Stranger Things / HotD / etc, and it’s gorgeous to look at. But damn I’m tired of the all powerful, beyond-the-law, pissed off, predictable pigeon hole they’ve jammed most of the women into. It feels lazy.
  9. That’s what I’ve wondered, including in this thread. Is he burning it down because he got his fee fees hurt in the spat with their prior leadership? Make it a massive 4chan for continued obfuscation of the truth in pursuit of further chaos and disinformation? Or is the simplest explanation, an outsized explosion of his ego fueled by autism and cocaine, the right one.
  10. I hate all these people
  11. Holy hell that’s absolutely awful.
  12. Happened to me too…I had adception at one point with the Safari/Tapa pop up on top of an ad on top of a ‘see new posts’ dialog box on top of the actual content. That’s how I ended up spending $12,000 on United Rentals.
  13. Dude people out there believe the earth is flat, raided a pizza parlor to free imaginary trapped children and that Apollo was faked Don’t bother
  14. Ok so inflation is up, the broader market is down 20+% this year, and the DT/6th Street Journal crowd have been crowing about both as a reflection of our current admin. Let’s checkin with bitcoin to see how well it hedged against these ‘headwinds’
  15. Think I have those same BR40 and they’ve lasted like 8 years so far, being used regularly. But otherwise agree on LEDs I’ve bought through Costco, they die in a few years…seems it’s not the element itself but shitty electronics on the driver.
  16. See the Kari Lake thread…Cement et al a week ago all bravado, suddenly got a bit quiet over there.
  17. So 78% reporting. What’s the consensus expected outcome? A page or two back, a few of our resident friends were bragging on Lake
  18. Yeah like a lot of folks he was hilarious when I was a kid. He was actually at the ROT rally like a decade ago, and his humor really didn’t age well…and my buddies were like ‘was he always this racist?’ but it def suited the audience
  19. Maybe they should move for a bad court thingy
  20. She reminds me of a few of my friend’s wives, who got all into real estate 5-10 years ago with inane fervor. Now that the market has cooled way off their desperate Facebook pleas to sell listings suddenly gave way to desperately-upbeat MLM supplement sales. Flavor of the day.
  21. In all seriousness I bet Tesla and SpaceX are loving this, while Musk fucks with his $44B fidget spinner, the other two companies he ‘runs’ are likely relieved to get down to work without him twiddling with everything. When I ran Tac Ops for a VP, I just need his decision then to get the hell out of the way so I could execute to his thoughts on comp and ben, travel, headcount horse trading, etc. When dad was still AD USAF he’d loathe visits by O7+ types because real work ground to a halt as all his airmen had to do sad shit like clean out the smoke pit and rake leaves…not doing those things would inevitably lead to some O5 EA passing on that General So and So was going to personally conduct the next readiness, thus making everyone else miserable. Can’t imagine what a visit by Musk be like.
  22. Latest drop widened the lead. Sucks but appears he won’t get it, but damn was it close. I’m sure Boobert says ‘mandate’ a few dozen times in the next week.
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