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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. Did Katrina clean up as a spring break mission trip through the BSM. We basically were just gutting houses down to the studs and piling everything out by the street. One of the houses must have been a proctologist or something, because we found this fake foam butt with a hole and stuff in it for practicing sticking sharp objects and stuff up it. Also found gun safes that obviously had ruined guns inside them, old quartersawn hardwood floors that had been ruined, etc.
  2. I somehow simultaneously both respect you more and less by finding out you own a Tec-9.
  3. I thought it was a nice call back to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (the novel that Blade Runner was based on). Especially since the previous scene dealt with the central theme of the novel.
  4. Yeah, im not reading the next four pages or whatever have been posted since this, but there is a big difference in mobilizing the militia to put down something like the whiskey rebellion and mobilizing the national guard to fight crime that is at a 30 year low and happens to manifest itself in one particular form of crime. And I'm not even completely sold on the justification of mobilizing the militia for the whiskey rebellion. We fought a war to rif ourselves of the kind of control that a colonizer uses to take control of the colonists, yet a lot of those same aspects were at issue with the whiskey rebellion. And now we are using the militia aka national guard to fight a surge in crime that is actually a statistical low point... It occurs to me that maybe we shouldn't have passed all those gun control laws that were designed and used to keep undesirable people from bearing arms because it sort of puts some limits on our liberty.
  5. Yeah, but the woods next to your childhood house didn’t have professional conservators taking care of them. They had teen kids trying to get the pages unstuck by slowly peeling them apart, only to get them stuck again.
  6. Bill Clinton's presidential library probably has the largest collection of vintage Playboy Magazines in the world.
  7. You've clearly never experienced the pleasure of postulating the obvious answer to whatever dilemma your female significant other has proffered to you only to find that it is completely wrong in every way.
  8. In my experience, women don't want a smart man, generally speaking. They might say they do. But a smart man will call them on their bullshit.
  9. Also, there was a line about her being able to hear certain frequencies in I think episode 1. Clearly she has more capabilities than the rest. You gotta pay extra for that.
  10. Marcy's not out there with those things, those things are out there with Marcy!
  11. @kingkoopa6 did you ever finish Rebels, or are you still working on it?
  12. Go to Traveler's Antiques and Trading outside of Amarillo. Buy several pounds of black powder, drill some holes, get some model rocketry igniters, and boom. Even with the drive, you will still save some time. You could also probably find some of the black powder substitutes locally.
  13. I plan on having a few form 1's ready to go, because why not? 2 liter bottle? Why not? I also need to learn CAD, because an integrally suppressed pen gun that shoots .22lr would be pretty sweet to print out. Would it serve a purpose? No, but it would be pretty a pretty cool project. Also, FYI, there is a forced reset mod sailing on the strange waters for your 10/22...
  14. I had an old Case knife we found in my grandfather's stuff after he died. When I looked it up, I saw the same model and age for sale for like $1200. There are lots of people who will pay good money for some of those old knives.
  15. Username checks out.
  16. He also left out the part about your pets getting eaten.
  17. Meh, I still quote movies that came out from before I was born or when I was too young to be watching them when they came out. There just aren't movies like that anymore.
  18. If we ever set up a base on the moon it is still going to need power while it is not in the direct sunlight. Also, the reaction could be utilized to provide warm habitat for people in the vacuum of space.
  19. Well, rights for women hasn't always been sacrosanct. Women were basically assumed to be vassals to their husbands or fathers for most of history, so it kind of makes sense in a twisted way if you look at it from the perspective of society over 100 years ago. The husband and wife were "supposed" to be one. But like you said it didn't work that way the other way around. It took quite a while for that to change even after the women's rights movement took off, however the women still had birthright citizenship on account of her parents until they married. As an aside, my Great great great great grandfather came over from Denmark in 1833 and our family still bears his very Danish name until this day. I have a copy of the ship's manifest from when he landed, as well as a copy of the record of his christening in Copenhagen and his marriage license in the Georgia. It's funny how my last name is Danish, but I actually have no other known Danish ancestry other than him.
  20. A couple of weeks ago things were pretty slow at work, and I ended reading/reading about several court cases involving birthright citizenship. The judicial record with regards to the SCOTUS is pretty consistent and pretty clear. Most of it involved Chinese or other Asian immigrants on the west coast, but the results were pretty consistent. I really dont get how they think they have the legal justification for what they are doing right now unless they think the law doesn't apply to them, which it seems they think.
  21. I'm sort of philosophically libertarian to an extent, but I recognize that libertarianism doesn't have very many practical applications in today's world unless we can somehow unwind untold government intervention. And even if we did manage to do that, there is still a need for government. IMO, much of what we see on the "conservative" or "liberal" side of politics involves the denial of certain human rights in order to shape society into whatever whichever group thinks it should look like instead of actually protecting all of human rights. That said, my kids have watched plenty of PBS kids shows. I have watched the occasional shows intended for adults. I'm not sure I'm seeing any bias. I mean, there is undoubtedly some sort of bias in any given show because the creators have biases, but I can't really recall anything that blatant.
  22. I'm a firm believer that the Americas were much more populated and advanced than previously thought. I think there is enough evidence to put the Clovis first hypothesis to rest, although I haven't seen any convincing evidence that any pre-clovis civilizations were particularly widespread. But looking at those images, I can't help but think there is a strong possibility that those scientists are reading more into the data than it says. I'm not saying I don't think it's a possibility, but prehistoric anthropologists seem to be pretty clanish and not welcoming of any hypothesis that contradicts their beliefs. More so than most branches of science, for whatever reason. Maybe it has something to do with funding and some kind of intense rivalry on who can come up with the best solution to the questions. It would be pretty cool to see those hypothesis validated, and I'm rooting for them, but I'm skeptical. Of course I'm saying all this without having actually spent some time looking into the data, so I can't entirely discount them either.
  23. There's also big bore air guns if you want something with a little bit more power. https://www.airgundepot.com/big-bore-airguns.html
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