Everything posted by TwiceHorn
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Non-political tariffs thread
Not to mention he's going to owe all those illegal tariffs back to the payors. So this is going to be a double-hit.
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Trump’s America
At some point, it seems that a sitting President who uses the civil justice system should waive immunity, at least from civil suits. If the sonofabitch has time to write dirty letters and sue, he can sure as fuck be sued.
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The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Yeah, that's an interesting phenomenon, the battering effect of the waves is worse, but the relatively short period means a ship is less likely to get broken between them. Also kind of interesting, the freshwater environment means the ships last a lot longer, so there were riveted hulls and steam propulsion long past their obsolescence in oceangoing vessels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_St._Marys_Challenger
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The Supremes
Still takes four votes to grant cert.
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Trump’s America
Ugh. Unfortunately, UK defamation laws are considerably more liberal than US because there's no First Amendment and associated public figure/actual malice standard. Still, I'm not sure their laws will "reach" this. The loser pays attorneys fees, though.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
Well, it's not like our base is going to vote Republican. It is probably going to be tough on incumbent Ds, though.
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The Supremes
Unfortunately, that was procedurally a shitty case to overturn Obergefell. I wouldn't take this as much of a victory. That said, fuck Kim Davis in her goatse ass.
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The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
I guess maybe we should point out that a lot of US iron ore was mined in northern Minnesota and Michigan. And that ore was put to use in steelmaking plants in Detroit and Ohio, and places like Gary, Indiana. So, even though they are inland lakes, the routes sailed by the ships were pretty akin to oceangoing routes.
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The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Some fun factoids. "Lakers" were frequently owned as an investment by insurance companies. Edmund Fitzgerald was an insurance executive. It's kind of fascinating to me that Great Lakes shipping developed its own kinds of vessels for bulk transport, mainly iron ore, but also grain. One of the more interesting variants of a lake freighter was the "whaleback."
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Fat People
A couple of tbsp of ACV probably can't do much harm, but probably don't swill it around in your mouth very long. I'm going to guess that it's less pharmacologically active than ivermectin, so less potential to do harm or have unintended side effects. But eating many food substances in regular quantities can have unintended effects. But, it does crack me up when the health nuts claim that naturally occurring (chemical) substances aren't "chemicals." It's all chemicals, all the way down. It does seem, though, that synthesized or refined chemicals can be more dangerous than naturally occurring counterparts.
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Trump’s America
Powell was only convicted of state offenses, so pardon doesn't reach her. I don't think Giuliani was convicted of anything, but was indicted on a few state crimes, including that Georgia fiasco.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
The only thing that might justify this is they think Rs are going to have to eat healthcare cuts more explicitly than if it is rolled up in the shutdown.
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The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
There's a book coming out about the wreck that includes the story of the song, which is actually quite interesting. I posted a link to a RS story about it on the GL thread. https://www.amazon.com/Gales-November-Untold-Edmund-Fitzgerald/dp/1324094648
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ICE activity/raids
The judges in Oregon and Chicago have found ICE accounts of violence from protestors justifying their own violence to be not credible, which is a polite way of saying complete bullshit. And whose testimony contradicts and belies ICE and CBP? Local cops, mostly, supplemented by video.
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Trump’s America
Goblin is good, if you want to stick with the alliteration.
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I for one welcome our new AI overlords
Also, any time you see the term "financial engineering," someone is about to get fucked. And usually fucked in such a way that taxpayers are holding the bag.
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2025 Week 12: Texas @ Georgia
Well, the scary thing is that the defense has been gashed pretty good several times this season.
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Trump’s America
Maybe it's just the movie, but "gremlins" I think are small and cute, maybe gargoyle or golem is a better word.
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I for one welcome our new AI overlords
So it's shit, wrapped in bloody flux.
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The Big 10 is pushing ahead with massive private investment deal over objections from Michigan and USC
We got our taste of how PE would bring even more crass commercialization to CFB and other sports in Steve Patterson.
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
It's like kids who did their term papers and what not straight out of the encyclopedia, back in the day. Funny thing, though, I'm an internet junkie of sorts, but mostly to read. I spend about half my time on some kind of reference site. Like, we started thread jacking somewhere on ships of the line and battleships. I spent the next couple of days looking up naval battles in the age of steam, and the development of battleships. Which is a topic I have geeked out on before.
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2025 Week 12: Texas @ Georgia
The same people responsible for all that had us preseason 1. We sniff our own 9.95 farts. Shit, we don't sniff em, we huff those motherfuckers.
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2025 Week 12: Texas @ Georgia
And this is why I keep saying our OL last year, as talented as it might have been, wasn't championship caliber. It wilted against UGa (x2) and tOSU, particularly in the run game. That may have been partially the RB's fault, but only partially.
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2025 Week 12: Texas @ Georgia
Ackshually, they probably are. They've been stacking talent wood longer than we have, and possibly/probably more intelligently. By most accounts, their DL is down from last year. But within the expected delta of a team of its stature. We've gone wildly outside the expected delta with subpar OL recruiting/development. And they are positioned to make us pay. That's before you get to coaching, and offensive skill position talent, which are either too subjective or intertwined with OL performance, or both. That's not to say we can't or won't win, but I think UGa is, overall, a better team than we are.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
So ACA recipients, like myself, are getting fucked early, but as fewer poors have healthcare, we're all gonna pay the hospital tax and everyone's premium is going up.