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    Look at the third scale on the ventral side of its body. If it bites you and you die before you can get help, its probably an African Death Adder. If you don't die, its probably what we call a "cute little brown snake"

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    18 hours ago, David Dennison said:

    How many officers are willing to carry out orders to use force against Canada?

     

     

    This is now my revised guess on how American Civil War II starts. Insane dOTarD orders military to invade Canada. Some units refuse. Some states refuse to send their national guardsmen. More insane shit from ThE DOAtard. Voila- Civil War II. 

     

    Original guess was doTard was convicted of some federal crime, Florida refuses to extradite him, Biden or Harris sends in US marshals to arrest him, florida state troopers fire on US marshals, etc etc etc. 

     

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  3. On 6/10/2023 at 4:22 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

    They made a Freddie movie, and it was pretty good given the budget.

    Yeah I’d be all in on an Owney Madden - Hot Springs movie or show. I liked Boardwalk Empire, but in a different world, Owney in Hot Springs is a more entertaining show. 

     

    Cool story bro: I was on the TCU campus one day 10 or so years ago, and there was something going on at the stadium. It was free to go in, so I did, and they were filming that movie. I got to sit in the stands, so maybe  I'm an extra in the stands somewhere. I had to sign a release before they would let me in. 

    It was cool to watch how they filmed the football scenes. But it was also hot as hell, so I didn't stay long. 

  4. On 2/20/2025 at 10:22 AM, tigol said:


    Then why do these truck owners leave them running constantly? Some fuckers won’t even turn them off at the pumps. They sure as fuck don’t when they run in for their 12 pack.

     

    Might be because they don't want the interior to get hot with the AC off for five minutes. 

    But I think a lot of those idiots think its better for the engine to leave it running than to turn it off and back on. Gramppaw probably told them that when they were 15. 

    I don't know too much about diesel engines, but way back in the day that might have been true for gasoline engines. Not anymore. Now it just wastes gas. 

     

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  5. On 3/9/2025 at 5:19 PM, Beau Vine said:

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    They didn't lose, they just ran out of wind?

    Are they seriously blaming the wind for losing? Does the wind only blow when they are at bat? Even the weather is against them?

    jfc. 

     

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  6. 3 hours ago, bolverk said:

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    https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/solar-accounted-84-new-us-power-added-2024-report-says-2025-03-11/

    March 11 (Reuters) - Solar energy accounted for 84% of new electricity generation capacity added to the U.S. power grid last year, but the industry faces a challenging future with the new U.S. administration's energy policies, a report published on Tuesday said.

    The country installed 50 gigawatts (GW) of new solar capacity in 2024, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie groups said in the report, adding that 2024 was largest single year of growth by any energy technology in over two decades.

    WHY IT IS IMPORTANT
    The solar industry was a major beneficiary of subsidies contained in former President Joe Biden's landmark 2022 climate change law, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

    The Trump administration has said it was reviewing federal funding plans, and any removal of tax credits issued under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act would impact clean energy deployment.

    The clean-energy sector has been on high alert since the election of Donald Trump, whose first executive orders prioritized unleashing U.S. fossil-fuel production, paused federal wind projects and froze funding for clean-energy projects from two Biden-era laws.

    BY THE NUMBERS
    Total U.S. solar capacity is expected to reach 739 GW by 2035, the report said, warning that changes to federal tax credits, supply chain availability, and permitting policy will cause slowdown in solar deployment.

    The low case forecast showed a 130 GW decline in solar deployment over the next decade compared to the base case, representing nearly $250 billion of lost investment, according to the report.

    KEY QUOTES
    "Last year’s record-level of installations was aided by several solar policies and credits within the Inflation Reduction Act that helped drive interest in the solar market," said Sylvia Levya Martinez, Principal Analyst, North America Utility-Scale Solar for Wood Mackenzie.

    "We still have many challenges ahead, including unprecedented load growth on the power grid. If many of these policies were eliminated or significantly altered, it would be very detrimental to the industry's continued growth."

     

    Dual land use- grazing and solar generation. Sheep/cows/whatever get some shade, humans get electricity and wool/beef/whatever. 

     

    Also, what is causing the unprecedented load growth? Could it be.. I don't know... bitcoin and AI?

     

     

     

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  7. 35 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

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    i'm skeptical of that pic. Not in the sense that its photoshopped, but more in the sense that I don't think those cops are actually protecting the Tesla dealership. I think there is a more innocuous reason for them all standing around like that. 

    Or at least I hope so. 

     

     

  8. On 3/6/2025 at 10:15 AM, royiv said:

    Fraud, Waste & Abuse is the name of Abbott, Patrick and Paxton’s band.

     

    Which one is Fraud, which one is Waste, which one is Abuse?

     

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  9. 57 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

    I didn't.  But I still have rubes all around me. Starlink is the only internet service I can get and I'm not exactly in the boonies. But I am considered rural.

     

    how many sieg heils per month does Starlink charge?

    Or can you pay in number of vets who will lose healthcare? Or maybe in HIV cases not prevented per month in Africa? How about number of measles deaths per month? Which plan did you choose?

     

  10. On 3/8/2025 at 10:57 AM, Nuge said:

    A high percentage of them are blaming Doge/Musk and not Trump.  They're a package deal shit for brains.

     

    On 3/8/2025 at 11:07 AM, Thatguy said:

    This mother fucker said " Elon Musk has basically taken over our government, and is, calling the shots, unfortunately". No motherfucker this is what Trump asked him to do. These fucking clowns keep referencing Elon Musk as if he is separate from Trump. He is not!

     

     

    Once again democrats fail at politics. 

     

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  11. On 3/9/2025 at 9:15 AM, Francisco 2.0 said:

     

    Rookies.

    Tire slashing is too much work.  What you really should do if the situation ever calls for it is to have a nice pair of side cutters handy and just cut the valve stems off.  You can do that much quicker and with far less work.  However, with the advent of modern battery operated power tools, one can just use a 3/4 bit with a drill and go through the sidewall.  Or, with a sawzall, just make a large cut.  However, those methods make noise and might draw unwanted attention.

     

    Aside from that, what happened to you sucks, and yeah, I echo the sentiments of others.   Time to rebadge your car as a Buick or Audi or something.

     

    A sharp pocket knife will slide into a sidewall like butter. 

    You could do it without even breaking stride, except for a slight dip in your shoulder to reach down to tire level. 

     

     

  12. On 3/1/2025 at 5:04 PM, randomhorn said:

    Recently finished the Silo series.

    Currently halfway through the Zones of Thought series by Vernor Vinge. I finished the first book “A Fire Upon the Deep” and part way through the second “A Deepness in the Sky”. Very interesting universe, characters, and concepts. Really enjoying it.

    The Hyperion Cantos and “3 Body Problem” are on the list, but may not be next. One of these days I may pick up Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy again. Only made it halfway through “Red Mars”

     

    Not a big fan of Kim Stanely Robinson. Couldn't make it through Red Mars, or the one about New York City after sea level flooding. 

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  13. On 2/28/2025 at 8:24 AM, Js1 said:

    After their weeks long stay at Mar-a-Lago

    "I knew nothing about that"

    After a photo emerges of them dining with Trump at MAL

    "I know nothing about that"

     

    Of course, the "journalists" didn't follow up with questions that mentioned those facts. 

     

     

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    What are the odds that the winners are somehow connected to lottery officials, or are actual lottery officials hiding behind

    "The winner, identified only as a business entity called Rook TX, of Scotch Plains, N.J."

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  15. On 3/1/2025 at 6:20 PM, Royalfan5 said:

    Just want to point out that if you are getting yelled at out in Oakley Kansas, where the last Democrat that was voted for President locally was FDR’s first term, and Carter was the last to crack 40%, and the last to exceed 21% was Dukakis in a bad drought year, shits going to get bad. 

     

    So he'll get primaried and they'll elect someone worse. 

     

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