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High Plains Drifter

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  1. 1 minute ago, Anastasis said:

    Triple jump may be the worst thing that a kid can do to their body. 

    Other than apparently telling a kid to leave your school tent and getting stupid when they want to pick a fight. 

     

    I ran track in HS. I've been to most of my daughter's track meets. Yet, I still have no idea what the triple jump is. 

    I guess I could google it, but I prefer to remain ignorant in this case. 

     

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    Just cut the cable a few days ago. Also nixed a couple of streaming services. 

    We have two trips planned this summer, probably going to bag one. 

    Daughter had two summer camps planned, might see if we can get our deposit back on one of them. 

     

  3. 2 hours ago, Ojo Rojo said:

    A message board poster named Tuco knows more about the global economy than the president of the United States and all of his advisors.  That is something.  (No offense.  Good post.)

     

    small quibble: at least some of his advisors know that tariffs are going to do the global economy. They are just too chicken shit weaselly fucks to speak up. 

     

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  4. 37 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I'm glad you survived.  I stumbled into track when my son made the team.  I had absolutely no concept of how boring a track meet could be, especially a one-day meet.  He did five events -- sprints, jumps and a relay.  It took ALL DAY every one-day meet.  Drove me crazy.  I started driving him to meets and going back home to Austin.  Good luck, son, I'll pick you up at 6.

     

    What's the only sport more boring that Track?

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Field. 

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  5. 18 hours ago, HenryJames said:

    n the end, Musk cursed the Cybertruck by ignoring the reasons people buy pickup trucks — to haul things around and drive well in offroad conditions.

     

    Bullshit. 90% of the F150s sold in this country never haul anything that wouldn't fit in the back of a subaru and never go off pavement. 

     

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    I spent all day yesterday at my daughter's district track meet.

    Checking in safe. 

     

    She did well-- she's advancing to area in two events (800 and mile). Didn't advance in high jump. No PRs but it was windy af. And kind of cold.  

    No stabbings. Lots of displays of good sportsmanship. Runners from different schools high fiving each other or congratulating each other at the finish line, etc. 

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  7. 1 hour ago, UTGrad98 said:

    We will have to suffer to fix it. And I dont mean a 2 month pandemic sell off and job loss, or even a 2007-2009 recession. We will need to suffer for a decade or more to have real change. For people to understand.  Ive said it before, Im beginning to realize human beings as a whole, are not smart enough to continue a democracy. Eventually they will destroy it and the pieces will have to be picked up again. Too much variation in intelligence and for lack of a better term, good and evil thoughts and motivations. Smart evil/greedy people are the worst....and the rest enable them due to what I have stated previously. Its who we are as human beings. Too much variation.

    If IQs were in the range of say 110-125 and the range of emotions/drives we felt were narrower, I think democracy could work indefinitely. But not right now. The math doesn't work over centuries, or even decades.

     

    So what you're saying is we need somebody like this to lead us: 

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    which would be an improvement, tbh. 

     

     

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  8. 1 hour ago, Samson's Wig said:

    The feel-good inclusivity politics of the last thirty years are a big part of why we are now dealing with conspiracy theorists who are confident enough to espouse idiotic bullshit to anyone who will listen.  They genuinely believe that they are reading and doing research because they have no fucking clue what that means.   I know the Internet and social media provide a platform, but if we adequately shamed stupid people for being stupid none of this would be happening.  Instead, we pass kids along who can't read, convince certain folks (mainly white suburban kids) that they are intelligent because they score high on really easy standardized exams, and generally coddle morons of all stripes.   Maybe it's time to bring back the judgmental shaming of kids.  At the very least, start failing the kids who are too stupid to pass our embarrassingly easy public school classes instead of passing every single one of them along.   At least then, they'll know they're stupid and/or lazy and will have the opportunity to do something about it instead of just meandering into adulthood with misguided notions of their own intelligence. 

    TLDR: We would have fewer stupid adults if we started telling stupid kids they're stupid again.  Put that on a red hat. 

     

     

    tldr: We suffer fools gladly. We shouldn't suffer fools at all. 

     

     

     

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  9. 26 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    1) they will not separate/disentangle in any meaningful way.  They aren't following any rules or norms re Elon as a "government employee" now, they won't in the future.

    2) GOOD.  Tie them together.  For eternity.  Then tie them to 1,000 cinderblocks, and toss them both, together, into the sea over the Marianas Trench.

    Attack Elon.  Attack Trump.  In every possible way, in every arena.  Relentlessly.  Attack until they are finished, and then attack the rubble.  Elon is right about one thing: we ARE in a war for civilization.  Do you want it to be a fascist oligarchical hellscape, or maybe, just maybe, have societies that also consider what is good for the people as a whole?  Elon, you declared war on us.  You don't get to fucking walk that back.  You get to lose.

     

    Once again. We should be attacking CONGRESS, who is just letting this shit happen. Neither DoTArd or BDNB (Broke Dick Nazi Boi) will be on a ballot. 

     

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  10. 17 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    In this scenario, Jeff Bezos would owe $10,000,000.00, while the other 99 people combined would owe $4,950,000.00. In this scenario one percent of taxpayers would be responsible for 66.89% of all tax revenue! How unfair that would be to Jeff Bezos! Those other 99 would be riding his coattails without his getting nearly the same benefit!

     

    But Jeff Bezos is actually getting much more benefit than the middle class people. Because he has more to lose. 

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  11. 40 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

    You Sure GIFs | Tenor

     

    I get what you are saying, but I'm not so far out on the ledge that I think that states will be putting him on their ballots, with a few exceptions (Florida, OK). However, I am far out enough on the ledge that I think its possible he refuses to leave at the end of his current term, declares martial law, stays (or tries to stay) in power, and we have civil war II. 

    Regardless, either way, he won't be on a ballot. So voters' anger over doge won't directly affect him, which was my point. And unfortunately we are too stupid to direct that anger at the people who are allowing this shit, which is Congress. 

     

     

  12. On 3/30/2025 at 2:30 AM, tx 3 putt said:

    Trump won West Virginia by 70% of the votes.

    West Virginia receives 50% of its annual budget from federal funds.

    Trump froze federal funds to West Virginia and farmers are losing their farms.

    #FAFO

     

    The thing is, even if the common clay of West Virginia do end up blaming DoTarD for this shit (narrator: they won't), it doesn't matter, because doTArd won't be on another ballot. 

    The congressmen who are allowing this will be on the ballot again, and they aren't taking the heat if dOTarD (or nazi bitch) is. 

     

    IOW, blaming DoTARd doesn't really matter. 

     

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