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  1. 7 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

    Costco has Bose QuietComfort headphones for $169 ($160 off).  

    Grabbed two directly from Bose for my wife and me. You get an additional 10% if you sign up for their mailing list. Ordered them, got the confirmation and unsubscribed. Got two sets for less than $400 all in. 

  2. 44 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    This. We won’t collect that revenue. They’ll just stop coming.
    And I recall on our summer trip to the Yosemite valley floor like 10+ years ago, it was full of buses of Chinese tourists. Take those out of the mix, and revenue would go way down.

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  3. 15 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Is mark kelly a person that can win potus in 2028?  He’s white and male so that’s a decent start for so many voters. Veteran, senator from a swing state (zonahorn I’m sure would have something to say about that characterization), not ancient, demonstrable family man. 

    He’s not a very charismatic public speaker.

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  4. Just now, Baldwin said:

    I do not disagree with you that there is evil all over the place. That is what I am fed up with. No matter which side is in power, nothing ever changes, and evil is the reason for that. Greed is the reason for that. Corruption is the reason for that. Money is the reason for that. I go through swings of really caring and realizing that nothing I ever do will change it. The system itself has become too powerful. 

    A lot has changed with one side in power. 

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  5. No government employees should be paid during a government shutdown, including legislators, judges, etc. American workers should sack up and not go into work if they’re not being paid.  Bringing the whole economy to its knees in short order would help end this nonsense. There are not enough consequences to a government shutdown now.

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  6. 4 minutes ago, Derka said:

    second, i cannot possibly make my main point any more clear: “checking in” is not an effective form of suicide prevention. i’d wager that the overwhelming majority of mentally ill people who’ve killed themselves in this country had people who checked in, if not full on vibrant social lives. they still killed themselves. it’s a lifelong demon of an illness that deserves so much more legitimate attention, discussion, and care than it gets, indescribably so. 

    To your point, one of my closest friends killed himself almost 15 years ago. He lived next door to another one of our close friends. He killed himself on Monday morning after Super Bowl. He had attended a Super Bowl party at our friend’s, his next door neighbor’s, house that night. I spoke to him on the phone that night. We laughed, we talked about a trip we were planning with our group of friends and we BS’d about the game. No sense at all from me or anyone that attended the Super Bowl party that was anything was amiss. The next morning he was supposed to meet his mom, who also lived nearby, for lunch. Instead he walked out into his backyard, stuck a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Turns out that he had bought the gun several weeks prior so he had likely been experiencing suicidal ideations for a period of time and none of his friends or family members had any clue. Mental illness can sometimes be invisible to the people closest to the victim. 

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  7. 2 hours ago, royiv said:

    United canceled my wife’s 5p flight tomorrow and booked her on a 11a flight. Now she has to take the day off and reschedule all of her meetings tomorrow if we want to go on our weekend trip.

    Welp, now our return flights on Sunday to IAH were also canceled so now I’m hoping I can limp my way home from Wichita to IAH tomorrow. United was not, in fact, done canceling flights for the weekend as they indicated in the tweet posted above.

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  8. 24 minutes ago, Scholz said:

    My lane is not whining my way through life and dealing with things that can be gasp hard. It pains me that there are so many so called adults in this country who are perpetual victims and always looking for something to be offended by.

    Well, glad you’ve got it all figured out. We should put you in charge of solving the mental health crisis in this country. It would solve a lot of problems.

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