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atomheartbevo

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  1. So you're saying they are on a treadmill?
  2. Was the Mexican dead or alive when you took it from him?
  3. I've been saying for decades that I'm going to get with Sela Ward, regardless of how many annoying restraining orders get in the way, but it isn't happening. Yet. Netanyahu barely survived a no-confidence vote last week only because he caved to the Orthodox part of his coalition and said he wouldn't draft their sons, so I'm a wee bit suspicious as to the timing of this war.
  4. One thing I've never bought in all of this, is the idea that Iran, as soon as they got nukes, was going to nuke Israel. Because if they did, it then becomes an existential threat to Iran and the Shia religion, and the Iranian leadership, and they know this, and they know if they popped a nuke in Israel that they would probably get the Arab world involved against Iran as well. Fallout doesn't care about borders. At the least, Tehran ceases to completely exist, and the Sunni nations would be pleased to see the Shiites go down hard. But, if I were Iran, I can totally see wanting a nuclear deterrent going forward.
  5. June 22nd, Tesla Robotaxi in Austin, mark it on your calendars!
  6. Hope their field reporter was covered in bug spray.
  7. I didn't get married until my late 20s. High school was rough, college better, and then things kept improving, similar to your arc. One thing that is weird to me, and this could obviously be anecdotal/recency bias, but it seems like a lot of younger guys have problems making friends with girls. Just normal friends - co-workers, classmates, etc. For all of the joking in this thread about seeing women (or men) as hook-up objects, some younger people seem to have a problem with chit-chatting the opposite gender in a completely platonic way. I had this conversation/lecture/TED Talk with a early-20s cousin a few years ago at a family reunion. He had not brought his girlfriend to the reunion because she had suddenly become his ex-girlfriend and he was kind of complaining about it. I basically said, "don't you have a number of female friends you could call up and get somebody to go out/run around with you for this kind of stuff?" and he looked at me like I was speaking in tongues. Like it didn't occur to him to have a number of platonic female friends. To go back to your point about it being easier to hook up with other people now than at any point in history, back in the 90s, I found making friends with a lot of women a great way to well, meet more women. My places of work were usually sausage fests and/or the women were married, so I'd make friends with the married women, make friends with female neighbors at apartment complexes, etc., and just by acting like a normal, decent person, you will stumble across a female friend who loves to play matchmaker. At the very least, you'd get invited to parties, dinners, etc. where you'd meet more women. Here in 2025, it's even better - just be a decent person, make a bunch of female friends, be Facebook friends with them, don't post batshit conspiracy theories or misogynistic bullshit on your FB profile and feed, post nice comments/responses, etc. and you are exposed to a whole shitload of women of all ages and needs/wants. Youth really is wasted on the young. If I somehow ever end up divorced, I will be using the hell out of these tools to easily find my next ex-wife.
  8. Pretty sure they could figure out all of the exit/entry points on that thing and completely seal those in for starters if they didn't want people on the ground.
  9. This I've heard about from various places, but not sure on the validity. Would make perfect sense given the proximity. They absolutely do. Al-Assad going down was the last gasp at Iran having any serious allies. Yemen is a proxy, but even they have limits on what they can do.
  10. Look for them being stuck in the dishwasher, clothes dryer, under a sink cabinet, etc. Allegedly.
  11. Thought it was going to be about the Netflix documentary on David Gilmour, but now I have my doubts about it being real, as there are like 5 different names for it floating around.
  12. I'm willing to give that whole "Leftovers" thing a shot where 2% of the religious types disappear/are raptured up. And you have a basement?
  13. He gets another house if he snores too loudly instead of the fucking living room couch?
  14. That maybe why Iran is unwilling to back down now - same boat as Putin - a big sign of weakness and you're kaput as a leader.
  15. Thanks to all of the idiots who listen to Andrew Tate and Ben Shapiro and Crowder and Musk and who are too far gone on saying stupid shit on social media, or who immerse themselves in the online gamer culture (the toxic part of the culture I should say), guys like my son will clean up when he's older. I would argue it's far easier to get laid in this atmosphere if you're a young man than it was when I was a young man because you have so many easy avenues of connecting with women (or men if that's your deal). A smartphone and a few social media/dating apps gives you instant access to more available people in a few minutes than those of us growing up in the 80s or 90s would see in several years of bar hopping or trying to dip your pen in the company ink. All it takes is to be clean, semi-presentable, and don't say or do stupid shit, and be willing to listen to the other person and act like you give a shit. But plenty of young fucking morons buy into the "alpha male" shit that they are being sold on social media. I could spend 30 seconds on the FB and Instagram profiles of my younger cousins and tell you which of them will have no problem finding somebody to hook up with, even get married, and which are going to be incels for a while until they find some idiot woman who was raised by shitty parents.
  16. Yep, unlike the Baptists, they'll say "Hi" to each other in the liquor store.
  17. @RamjetFDO and the other Photoshoppers need to get to work. And it looks like Israel is doing circumcisions on the wings of their aircraft.
  18. My oldest is doing a scout camp and living out of tents, and got two full rounds of storms, so you can thank him.
  19. We have a President who has publicly talked about taking natural resources from at least two other countries who are or were at war. The Iranians will have it on their minds.
  20. If you’re Iran you have to be a bit concerned that not only are other Muslim countries not complaining, but they are in fact allowing Israeli fighters to fly through their airspace. And you have to be really concerned that your proxies are mostly sitting this one out, outside of some token gestures If they try to shut down the Strait of Hormuz/Persian Gulf in some kind of retaliation against the West/fuck with oil supplies/prices, they could find themselves being hit by the Arab nations. And now that Israel (population 10 million), controls Iran’s (population 91 million) airspace, Israel probably won’t let up any time soon. We can talk about peace negations but Israel is just not gonna let off the gas. I won’t be surprised if we see major changes in Iranian leadership.
  21. It’s actually interesting. Started out American, Japanese company licensed branding or whatever from the Americans, then eventually bought the whole thing and 7-11 is glorious in Japan compared to here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-Eleven_Japan
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