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  1. The post was presented as representing a possible groundswell of opposition from a "regular dude" farmer/firefighter. Unfortunately, I don't think that's what that represents. Love what he says, but until further notice, a minority like Talarico.
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    RIP Greg Iles

    I read his Natchez books, having had relatives that lived there, and recall enjoying them. Wasn't aware of or read anything else. RIP.
  3. Titanium is quite soft unalloyed and un-heat-treated. So not nearly as stupid as glass. Also much lighter but very corrosion-resistant. But stupid nevertheless.
  4. Reuters and AP don't fuck around. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-crime-crackdown-deploys-troops-washingtons-safest-sites-2025-08-23/ By contrast with central Washington, residents of Ward 8 in the city's southeast - the area with the highest crime rate - said there was not a guardsman in sight. With the ward's murder rate dwarfing that of most other neighborhoods, many locals said they would welcome troops on their streets. Also Most of the soldiers told Reuters they had been instructed not to talk to the press. Instead they had all been issued with a printed statement they produced from their pockets. It states that they are in the city to support "district and federal law enforcement by keeping DC beautiful and safe."
  5. I think pretty clearly the rebranding effort was designed to distance them from old farts and country fucks. Don't know if it would have worked, but the MAGA shitshow was something else.
  6. Gonna be pissed about the Fox logo in the corner.
  7. Yeah, I aint givin Fox a nickle. Gonna piss me off having to watch it OTA next weekend.
  8. That's actually depressing in that I was hoping that was kind of an "everyman." Instead its just another political pervert like us. Meaning, won't make a shit.
  9. At least we have Greg Swindell. Oh . . . wait . . . furk.
  10. Perhaps unsurprisingly, most of the US is not suitable for growing coffee. Others have tried and failed to produce coffee across the country, but for now, Hawaii, California, and Puerto Rico are the only places producing coffee on a sustainable scale. https://cornercoffeestore.com/where-is-coffee-grown-in-the-us/
  11. Fuck you you syphiltic cunt. You didn't give Maryland shit.
  12. Excellent point. People with mental health issues are extraordinarily resistant to treatment, even if available. There are a variety of reasons for this, but it is definitely a frequent characteristic of such disorders. For example, the addict who doesn't reach bottom by being homeless and the attendant further degradations, and voluntarily seek and comply with treatment, probably has no bottom and is doomed to institutions, jails, and death.
  13. I really do want to punch some acting-out MAGAt. Thankfully, I'm not around many on a day-to-day basis.
  14. I didn't get it quite right. I am approximately the same age and I'm not going to claim any great level of fitness or athletic ability. But, considering our respective athletic ability accomplishments in our 20s, I could make a much better effort at that obstacle course, for the cameras, than he has. Fat slimy walrus-looking piece of shit.
  15. Goddammit Cain, you slimy fucking walrus-looking piece of shit, get the fuck off my obstacle!
  16. The settlement was reported to the 9th Circuit together with a request to postpone oral argument. It appears that the original case was dismissed as not being covered by ERISA and not federal and that on appeal to the 9th Circuit. Doesn't seem to be any real obvious connection to an immediate downside for Elmo.
  17. Yeah, I figured you might be able to thumbnail vibration analyze the things. But there's a lot going on there beyond the masses of the pistons just slinging around.
  18. Well, depends on definition of "flat." If you mean horizontally opposed or boxer, that is less than perfect, but inline is the most inherently balanced. Looking it up myself, rotating-plane balance on a 3 is off, while reciprocating balance is perfect. Also, the power strokes don't overlap, which is a power-delivery issue I suppose more than a vibratory one. But that also can devolve into a torsional imbalance that's made worse by the length of the inline 6 crank. It appears that a horizontally opposed six would be quite well balanced if the engine used "fork and blade" rods so that each pair of opposing cylinders shared a common centerline, but in reality, most times the rods are paired next to each other, necessitating some longitudinal spacing of the opposing cylinders.
  19. Is a 3-banger as smooth as an inline 6? This seems like something @jimmyjazz could answer on the theoretical basis. ETA: the answer seems to be no.
  20. Yes, that may be where it ends up. But, I do kind of wonder, when push comes to shove, whether these field-grade officers are going to be as loyal as they think.
  21. Although you may ultimately be correct, I'm not sure the national guard really counts as the military in the sense that it is outside the normal chain of command.
  22. UTD got a huge boost early on from TI and TI founders, who wanted a school to work-study TI employees. They offered to do the same for SMU, but SMU declined, seeing itself as a liberal arts and business school. So its beginnings were different from most of the other UT "satellite" schools.
  23. Moreso than last time, he is completely surrounded by yes-men.
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