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Chopper

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  1. According to a Canadian mill owner I saw interviewed a few months ago when the tragic tariff conversation began, the fluffiest tp only exists in the US thanks to imported Canadian pulp.
  2. Different sport but the convo above reminded about seeing it the other day.
  3. https://archive.ph/PE5Af beginning
  4. Also it takes a very special accountant to acknowledge the political independence of the Fed yet blame a particular president because they're a trained grievance monkey, and the appointment of the Fed Chair predates the president they blame anyway.
  5. Amusing but sad but amusing - admittedly I most likelly watched it only bc of the cute woman in the USC sweater
  6. TDS...tiny dick syndrome?? This is both hilarious and startling.
  7. Is crying about interest rates at the same time you're driving up home prices by raising taxes on things like copper and lumber being a good member of team #bothsides?
  8. OTOH LA grand juries are (rightly) frequently refusing the US Attorneys efforts to indict ICE protestors.
  9. This thought seems so quaint today: “The flood alert system is one governmental project that has proved necessary and beneficial to the people who pay for it,” the Kerrville Daily Times wrote in a 1991 editorial. “Whether that tax increase was necessary or whether funds could have been found elsewhere is merely an arguing point for curmudgeons.” In the following few years, the quality of governance in Texas would suffer a severe slide downhill. I'd pin it on the q-nut conspiracists but that's probably too simplistic. What Dick Eastland said in 1988 in advocating for a flood warning system, “If it saves one life down the road, it will be worth it,” makes me think about what he did/didn't do on the night of the floods, question why there wasn't decisive action, think about his decisions to get his property out of the FEMA flood zone, leave several of his cabins in the most precarious of positions while building new structures uphill, and wonder about the story his phone records on that night may or may not tell.
  10. https://archive.is/2cigI or https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/guadalupe-river-authority-property-taxes-upgrades-20766494.php
  11. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/guadalupe-river-authority-property-taxes-upgrades-20766494.php if you hit a pw https://archive.is/2cigI
  12. There may be a decent overnight train to a destination you'd prefer. Worth checking.
  13. Agree. Oxford and a couple Cotswold villages, or Oxford and Bath, would be a nice 3 day trip. I wouldn't want to spend the short amount of time I had going to and from an airport 2x. If I had my heart set on going to a second country however I'd definitely depart out of LCY and choose a destination that has a smaller airport which of course further limits the options. Nice or Luxembourg, perhaps.
  14. Making more people aware of the details of your conspiracy and causing the material to be FOIA-able...brilliant move, sir https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-the-universe-of-those-with?utm_source=substack
  15. Even if you rarely watch that idiot speak, I recommend the above vid. The dementia is pathetic.
  16. House of Reps grinds to halt due to the desire to avoid releasing Epstein info
  17. Elizabeth Potter MD of Austin, calls United Healthcare to try to get her patient approved for the lifesaving treatment she needs. Hilarity ensues.
  18. Article https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io/we-have-to-stop-using-facebook-and-x-to-warn-people-about-disasters/ "I wish I could tell you that Kerr County's dangerous over-reliance on a single, massively flawed social media platform was just a small-town Texas thing, an unfortunate but thankfully rare aberration in American disaster communications practices. Unfortunately, it's not. I suspect that the terrible truth is that far too many local authorities are now communicating important messages to the public exclusively via Facebook, Twitter, or some combination therein. And while I say this with the clear caveat that I've been unable to find little recent academic research or reporting on this issue, I've seen enough anecdotal evidence pointing in this direction to scare me. It's 2025. We're living in a time when social media oligarchs have stopped even pretending to care about the greater good, their platforms have been intentionally engineered to hide non-brainrot information from its users, young people have largely fled to TikTok, and the federal government is starting to mandate using Twitter for official communications. In other words, we may be glimpsing the leading edge of a big problem with how American local governments communicate with the public about stuff that can kill them. " very interesting article, the rest is at link
  19. Obtained because a brave soul in Vancouver snuck into the US for the wifi
  20. That the potus' attorneys in a 1st Amendment case don't know what a fucking "exclusive" is for a newspaper.
  21. WSJ claimed the Trump–Epstein article was an “exclusive.” But what if they actually showed it to people? https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.693830/gov.uscourts.flsd.693830.1.0.pdf No word on fake citations yet!!
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