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  1. This era of political celebrities is disgusting. On general principle. The specifics of these particular celebs is extra disgusting.
  2. Hence the Hawaii Air 737s becoming targa tops in flight (lotta pressure cycles). One of the more fascinating things I'll never forget. My senior project sponsor was LTV. We went up there to tour their facility. At the time, they were rebuilding A7s for sale to smaller countries. So they had an A7 airframe/wingless fuselage up on a giant jig, with hydraulic cylinders at the nose and tail and it was fixed around the wing box. The cylinders were pushing the nose and tail up and down relative to the wing box to find the real-world fatigue limits of the airframe. Notable was that the nose and tail were being deflected nearly a foot upward relative to the wing box. You don't think of that kind of deflection in an airframe, but I guess it happens.
  3. In case you were unaware, most cast iron anything is cast in sand. Engine blocks, skillets, you name it. I was shocked to learn in the 80s that it remains, to this day, one of the dominant methods of casting iron and other alloys. And there's a lot of science or technique that goes into it. What kind of sand you use, how often you change it, whether and for how long you tamp the mold before casting to compact the sand, and so on, that provide opportunities for cost-cutting and enshittification. And some other things, like high-clay-content sand can make smoother castings. But the water content of clay molecules means they explode on contact with molten iron or other metals, which sends silica molecules into the atmosphere and creates silicosis problems for casting workers. And once the clay gets burned, like pottery, it goes from a fine colloid in the sand to big burnt clods, making castings rougher when you don't change the sand. Also, one of my lifelong fascinations is the amount of technology (engineering and ingenuity) that goes into manufacturing even a prosaic, no-moving-parts item like a cast-iron skillet.
  4. A characteristic of stupid people is bad memory.
  5. I always note the presence or absence of ag tags. It's notable that a lot of the troglodytes on texags lack the ag tag. Then again, not having an allegiance to a school by attendance/graduation and voluntarily selecting eaTme to root for and texags to do it on tells you most of what you need to know.
  6. https://sites.google.com/view/abmack33/speaking-out/updates?authuser=0
  7. Do we have any little fellas on the board?
  8. Also "without presenting evidence," which implies that there might be evidence. They've never had evidence, there is no evidence, they're fucking lying.
  9. TwiceHorn

    Mad Men

    Well, you could make her a more sympathetic, less bitchy frustrated, depressed, and drug-addicted housewife that is kinder to her kids. But that would make Don seem more like the dickhead that he probably is sooner than you discover that.
  10. On the other hand, Sark had not really built a program anywhere before either. Nor had he scaled the heights of CFP and returned pretty harshly to earth. He's stubborn or blinkered or something, but not incapable of learning.
  11. Man, there was an ouroboros, a circle-jerk, of suck going on in the early season. Arch, OL, Sark, WR, even RB a little bit. Each was making their own individual contribution to the suck, but it was feeding on itself and compounding into super suckage. Arch, for now at least, has seemed to muddle through the suck, and so has the OL, a little bit, and for now. I'm happy for him and glad the patience with him has seemed to pay dividends. We really actually know now what he's more or less capable of instead of trying to conjure it from the past. But the suck could return.
  12. TwiceHorn

    Mad Men

    Chauvinism and misogyny? But, more realistically, perhaps, I think she was intended to represent the underutilized housewife whose dreams and aspirations were crushed by domesticity. The topic of Mother's Little Helper. Why they had her express that as bitchiness is a good question. To some extent, it postpones the viewer's candid assessment of Don, so he's not unlikeable from jump.
  13. Also a much more rural or at least wooded state than people give it credit for.
  14. So nice that fucktard reps from backwater Georgia and Tennessee and Colorado have become national political spokesmen.
  15. Christine is real, for sure. And her shit seems to be private now.
  16. Have cowboy games programmed to record? From the VHS days, time shifting recordings don't necessarily infringe copyrights, so it probably just recorded it automagically and will let you see it. While they wouldn't let you see the live broadcast. Same reason game recordings often stay up on YT.
  17. Gobble my fucking crank, every single one of you stupid racist fucks.
  18. It might be a filter on social media that blocks posts or bans users. I know it's very hard to reference death or killing on a lot of platforms. "Unalive" has become a word because of it.
  19. Although that sounds pretty ominous, it seems the government has a point in that discovery as to prosecution motives isn't usually granted until the motion to dismiss is partially ruled upon. https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/selective-and-vindictive-prosecution/ Also fun fact. The prosecuting attorney here is from St. Louis not Virginia. Kind of like the two in the Comey case are from NC, not Virginia. Having to go far and wide to find people craven enough to do this.
  20. Sure, but she was only a by-marriage royal. Nonetheless, she should have been set for life upon divorce from Randy Andy. Most people would be. In the space of a 10-year marriage, she acquired really exorbitant tastes.
  21. I mean, the guy picked "Gunther Eagleman" as a nom de twat.
  22. A lot of them are constitutional, so not the Democrats' fault unless you want to fault them for not calling a convention or putting amendments on the calendar.
  23. It is but it isn't. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/31/trump-administration-mandatory-detention-deportation-00632086 https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/ It's the only thing currently standing between Trump and a complete walkover.
  24. That's probably gonna be fun. For Comey and counsel, at least. Somewhat unlikely we see it.
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