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SimonBolivar

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  1. Oblivion remake is out right now! Looks pretty good if you're into it. Oh, and it's also Steam Deck verified.
  2. That 4.01 (APY) savings is much more fun to keep up with right now than the brokerage or 401k account.
  3. Any social media talk about JD Vance using the righteous power of right wing God to kill the lefty antichrist in Rome? If not I'm surprised.
  4. They're going to throw us a wildcard with a Crusading Pope.
  5. Weirdly enough I hit that rut 18 years ago in the required REL 1310 at Baylor as a freshman where they treat The Bible as literature instead of as scripture and were taught about how the Baptist traditions of authorship and all that are just not historically accurate. I remember sitting in class and thinking "well shit" when going over the age of the Gospels for the first time. Great Texts courses there just further entrenched that skepticism with the common themes from Mesopotamia that were centuries before the Old Testament and were rather obviously incorporated into the Abrahamic religions later on. I view these moments as key points in my life where it really checked my ego into, "you aren't that special cosmically" and also gave me a healthy distrust of anyone claiming to have all the answers.
  6. I absolutely love sitting down at a restaurant at the end of the day with 2,500 calories to go and some tired ass legs. It really ties the day together.
  7. The lesson moving forward is to only take cold hard cash, in advance, for services from the United States. Well until the dollar officially crashes then only take Swiss francs.
  8. Not at the Wichita Falls School of Christianity and Buc-ee's Services™️
  9. I wish they would replace the North American game with Kingsville (they play a noncon vs Northwest Missouri State that day). That would've been fun for their first season.
  10. Don't affect is life? He had to press "English" on the ATM the other day.
  11. Now it's me that looks like a loser!
  12. Djurgården making the semis of Conference with Betis, Chelsea, and Fiorentina is cool.
  13. Get you the tightest Houston Dynamo jersey you can fit into for the next appointment.
  14. I really like China Family on Airport's version, but I've learned to embrace the hunt through the chiles for any leftover chicken or peanuts.
  15. Next time you're down at MDA go to Mala Sichuan and get the Spicy and Crispy Chicken which is my favorite meal on this planet. When I was taking my grandfather to MD Anderson after graduating from BU, in my bum unemployment year, they were treating him for multiple cancers on the same day which was a thing of beauty but took some time. I got me an annual pass to the Houston Zoo and would chill there on nice days while he was getting his treatment and if the weather was bad then I'd just wait in the lobby and see how many elephantmen came through. Always somebody worse off.
  16. Sorry for quoting such an old post but There are much better works (this is coming from a guy who used to have Foote as his avatar on this site) especially when Foote is saying things like "The North fought that war with one arm tied behind their back" which is generally not considered to be true. Historiographically, he doesn't really fit into the equation that much and if you're looking for a full synthesis then McPherson is still probably considered the "best" of the books that can also be categorized as pop history. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War... book by James M. McPherson ($5) I also recommend watching Yale's David Blight's course (an entire semester of HIST119 at Yale for free) if you haven't watched it yet on YouTube. Here are the books in that course, The NPS also published this essay from Alabama Prof George Rable in '04 that has some great works on different subjects in the war but is over 20 years old now. civilwarbibliography.pdf Here's the required reading list for my school's graduate historiographical class from Fall 2023:
  17. It was a hell of a thing when Spock died
  18. Look at Mr Big Bucks over here that can afford the $.03 finance charge.
  19. That was already illegal, he just hated lip synching so he made it illegal. Turkmenistan is/was an incredibly interesting place. Here's a video of the president after him "winning" a horse race, until it faceplants and the video was smuggled out after threats to journalists in the audience. You'll notice that the other jockeys are letting him win before he faceplanted. I'm assuming Trump's recent golf championships are exactly the same kind of thing.
  20. Read up on Saparmurat Niyazov (Türkmenbaşy) if you want to see our future. 1.) in 2002 he renamed the days of the week and the months (including naming January after himself). 2.) He made it mandatory for schools to teach his autobiography, Ruhnama, and eventually it became part of the test required for people to get driver's licenses. He famously stated that the only two needed books were Ruhnama and the Koran. 3.) Created a new Turkmen alphabet 4.) Closed the Academy of Sciences 5.) Shut down the internet in 2000 6.) Closed all hospitals outside of the capital. 7.) Closed all libraries outside of the capital. 8.) Cut pensions causing the deaths of thousands 9.) Removed all dogs from the capital 10.) Replaced the word for bread with his mother's name 11.) When he quit smoking, he made it illegal in public and for all government employees 12.) He banned car radios 13.) Banned video games 14.) Required doctors to say an oath to him instead of reciting the Hippocratic Oath. 15.) Built a mosque that could hold 10,000 people as his mausoleum where he put scriptures from both the Koran AND Ruhnama on the walls. Although not everything was bad as he did ban lip synching at concerts in public.
  21. I see that Chris Van Hollen has never heard of Leo Ryan.
  22. I'm glad I stopped watching at 3-0. Saturday was too nice of a day to keep watching that.
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