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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. I just leave them on all the time as I prefer it. My ADD makes it hard for my brain to focus on what is being said with all the background noise in movies and TV nowadays, so having the titles on helps me keep up with what is going on.
  2. Rapinoe rocking the Chilli Bowl.
  3. Oh, so she didn't forget her cards?
  4. At first I thought Vietnam was just kind of clumsy, but they are straight playing dirty.
  5. Yeah, that was deserved. The first half was pretty slow, but it turned out to be a pretty good match.
  6. Nigeria is getting pretty scrappy.
  7. How do the Surly music experts feel about this cover?
  8. If this takes down Dan Patrick the Democrats are gonna be pissed that they could have KO'd him all this time with just a $3 million donation from the right PAC.
  9. Are there a lot of courthouses in Tennessee where lynchings haven't taken place?
  10. I was born in '85, and I don't remember the word queer being used that much as a serious derogatory term. Yeah, we played smear the queer, but it was always a word that didn't really make sense to me as a derogatory term. If we wanted to call someone gay in derogatory way we said faggot. Queer was a word that old people used if they wanted to say something hurtful. I'm not saying it didn't happen, but it just felt off if somebody tried to use it with venom.
  11. I think you missed the part where they are all used the way retarded is now, and retarded was meant to be a non-offensive way to refer to those people. Now thise words are no longer associated with mentally disabled people and are just insults. If the word retarded follows that same path, it will lose the current connotations it has, and we will have to explain to our kids that special didn't always mean that.
  12. So, if you want to use the word retard, you might be able to just wait a few years, as words like idiot, moron, and imbecile aren't really considered particularly offensive anymore. Just be careful using the words handicapped and disabled, as they are clearly on borrowed time.
  13. Which is also why we can still call people dumb.
  14. Well if they keep putting the same tire back on that could be part of the problem.
  15. Do you get offended when people reply in incomplete sentences?
  16. of·fend /əˈfend/ verb 1. cause to feel upset, annoyed, or resentful.
  17. People are still buying Tecovas?
  18. Um, excuse me, but Roadhouse and Red Dawn were both made in the 80's. Point Break came shortly after. And let's not forget about Predator, Rambo, Die Hard, or even those forgotten treasures like The Outsiders.
  19. In the middle of a rewatch of The Clone Wars, and there is so much there it is easy to forget just how strong some of the arcs are. In season 3, the get the Nightsisters Arc, followed up immediately by the Mortis Arc (which I'm in the middle of right now). There is so much great content, and most of the rest of it is pretty good and worth watching to flesh out what exactly is going on in the Clone Wars. I've been keeping notes as I've been watching through it, and so far there are only five episodes or so that I've felt like we're a bit of a waste of time, and six that could go either way. Now, I just have to finish 70 some odd episodes before Ahsoka comes out, and maybe if I have time, a rewatch of Rebels as well. Sorry Star Trek Strange New Worlds and Foundation, you'll have to wait.
  20. Very nice. I have a whole bunch of places like that marked on my Google maps of places to check out, but most of them are clustered around the area from Queretaro up through San Luis Potosi. I need to find more places like that for when I am in that area.
  21. I deal with stuff at a raw materials level more so than a consumer level. Mostly it's stuff like making a PE resin with specific properties in order to allow it to adhere to dissimilar resins (like PP or something else) at a molecular level. So like if you wanted to blow a film with a layer that has heat shrink properties and a layer that has UV resistance or an O2 barrier or something, you could either throw a layer of what I make in between or mix some of it in with one of your base resins depending on the application and your final product wouldn't have layers that want to separate. But I'm usually told to make something particular and not always filled in on the end application of whatever it is I'm doing.
  22. Taking gear that you may need off of your fallen comrades is nothing new in war. It's been done in pretty much every conflict in the history of war, and is essentially essential. Now, if he was taking personal belongings to keep as his own, that would be a different story.
  23. I wonder how much gold is buried in the silt at the bottom of the Mississippi or the dirt where the old channel used to run.
  24. I think we are entering an unprecedented era in which technological progress is so much faster than anything we've adapted to in the past. It's going to be painful in the short term, but we will eventually figure out how to deal with it.
  25. Technical question here: do they not have specialty versions of these plastics that will allow stuff like PLA to adhere to PETG? I only ask because chemically modifying plastics to allow them to adhere to dissimilar plastics is pretty much what I do for a living.
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