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  1. 1 hour ago, Tylerocks said:

     I guess I need to pause playing the game for fear of spoiling next season.

     

    Furk

    Unless I'm misunderstanding your point, the the season finale of the show should match up with final chapter of the game. Season 2 on HBO, will follow the first half of TLOU Part II, which is a different game from the one you're playing.

  2. 21 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Funny.  But I’ll stand by my thoughts that rapists, murderers, and child molesters shouldn’t have a say in the direction of our country, no matter how “reformed” they are when they are released back into polite society.  

    What about drug users? Felony DUI? Theft? 

    Do you have any idea the breadth of conduct covered by felony laws?

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  3. 16 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I'll offer an educated but uninformed guess that that can be rebuilt for far cheaper than any replacement.

    I'm right, and I'm wrong.  https://sheldonbrown.com/sti-repair.html  It does say there that one of the problems is factory lube gumming up so you may be able to hose it down with wd40 or something and solve the problem.

    Also, 7-spd?  In that case, you're going to have a helluva time finding a hood/brake shifter, although an 8-spd might work.

    But, in the Sheldon Brown link, there's a guy selling rebuilt sets for a reasonable price and I bet you could trade yours in and knock it down another 25-50 bucks.

    Man, I had no idea it would be so hard to find. My post came before even doing a cursory google search. Many thanks 

  4. Picked up this used Trek road bike during the pandemic when my previous one was stolen. The right shifter has totally shit the bed and I need to replace it. PXL_20230303_235338790.thumb.jpg.da5f3ecbb9ab5d0b7a6fd6ae4717c00a.jpg

    Any recommendations on what to look for in a replacement for the right shifter? Admittedly don't know a lot about this stuff.

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  5. 1 hour ago, henrygandorf said:

     

    come on dude, it's obviously dlc.

    what the fuck is dlc?

    It's like an extra chapter that was released after the main game. You purchase and download. In this case, it was a short, standalone addition that was Ellie and Riley in the mall. 

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  6. Came across this article this past weekend. Longform detailing the illegal gold mining in SA and the criminal enterpirse that has grown around it. Absolutely mind-blowing what humans subject themselves to:

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/27/the-dystopian-underworld-of-south-africas-illegal-gold-mines

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    Owing to the difficulty of entering the mines, zama-zamas often stayed underground for months, their existence illuminated by headlamps. Down below, temperatures can exceed a hundred degrees, with suffocating humidity. Rockfalls are common, and rescuers have encountered bodies crushed by boulders the size of cars. “I think they all go through hell,” a doctor in Welkom, who has treated dozens of zama-zamas, told me. The men he saw had turned gray for lack of sunlight, their bodies were emaciated, and most of them had tuberculosis from inhaling dust in the unventilated tunnels. They were blinded for hours upon returning to the surface.

    I recently met a zama-zama named Simon who once lived underground for two years. Born in a rural area of Zimbabwe, he arrived in Welkom in 2010. He started digging for gold at the surface, which was dusted with ore from the industry’s heyday. There was gold beside the railway tracks that had once transported rock from the mines, gold among the foundations of torn-down processing plants, gold in the beds of ephemeral streams. But Simon was earning only around thirty-five dollars a day. He aspired to build a house and open a business. To get more gold, he would need to go underground.

    In no other country in the world does illegal mining take place inside such colossal industrial shafts. In the past twenty years, zama-zamas have spread across South Africa’s gold-mining areas, becoming a national crisis. Analysts have estimated that illegal mining accounts for around a tenth of South Africa’s annual gold production, though mining companies, wary of alarming investors, tend to downplay the extent of the criminal trade. The operations underground are controlled by powerful syndicates, which then launder the gold into legal supply chains. The properties that have made gold useful as a store of value—notably the ease with which it can be melted down into new forms—also make it difficult to trace. A wedding band, a cell-phone circuit board, and an investment coin may all contain gold that was mined by zama-zamas.

     

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  7. On 2/23/2023 at 10:05 AM, Zeus said:

    well we have this...

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/06/fact-sheet-the-bipartisan-infrastructure-deal/

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/02/updated-fact-sheet-bipartisan-infrastructure-investment-and-jobs-act/

     

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/15/tech/infrastructure-trains-railroad/index.html
     

     

    $1T or $1,000B or $1,000,000M or $1,000,000,000 theoretically going to fix some infrastructure. Of that $1000B there's $66B (6.6%) going to rail. Of that $66B going to rail $5B (0.5%) going for rail improvement and safety grants to Amtrak. Hard to figure out how much goes to freight rail of that $5B. I don't think any of the tax dollars are going to whatever rail lines the jorts have in Ohio shipping chemicals around. 

    Trying to get the federal government to tax and spend to actually solve any type of real problem is suicide. 

    Hopefully that's bipartisan enough to not be a cloak room rant it's just antigovernment in general. 

    Absolutely hilarious that the anti-government nut is complaining about the government letting America's infrastructure crumble over the last 30 years.

    Tell us, in your perfect world of a skeleton government and slashed taxes, who repairs and fixes the infrastructure?

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  8. 1 hour ago, Porterhouse said:

    It’s hostile because he sounds like….a surlyhorns bitch poster.

    First, he’s quoted in the paper and ostensibly interviewed on camera or audio because he mispronounces Bowie, as another poster said. That’s weak shit. Don’t EVER whine to the media unless the police aren’t doing anything. He comes across as an attention-seeking whiner.

    Second, talking about how it’s ‘horrifying’ and a ‘violation of privacy’ makes you sound like a pencil-dicked bitch. Basically, your average Austinite today.  

    Third, it sounds like he very much has a clue as to who was there, and surely has cameras.  But if he doesn’t, I’m sure insurance can cover it.  If he can’t locate the perps or his homeowner’s deductible is too high (gasp!), maybe he’ll have to go out of pocket to mitigate high school invader avocado stains. 

    Team High School Mansion Ragers. 

    what's your address?

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  9. 23 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

    it's pretty much an all or nothing moment whenever one of those shows up. you scrounge around and stab people and runners in the neck so you can save every scrap you find and then throw everything you've got at a bloater.

    afterwards, time to scrounge around for all the craft shit again.

    I started a play through of TLOU2 a few weeks back. Changed the settings to infinite ammo and infinite crafting. Totally different game. Just strolling into infested rooms without a worry in the world. 

  10. 37 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Of course someone like Tommy fucking Tuberville is tone deaf enough to fail to understand the optics of "we want to put more controls around these (often black and often from lower income household) athletes and limit their rights and earning potential artificially compared to the rest of society. mostly, we want to do this because we just want things to go back to the way they used to be (he damned near says this verbatim). we're doing all of this also because these boys and girls are just too stupid to understand how hard it is to graduate college in the first place, so we have to do their thinking for them."

    They understand the optics. Feature, not a bug.

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