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  1. G650

    Ace Frehley - RIP

    So I just learned yesterday that my dad's old boss in the 80s was Aces uncle
  2. G650

    Ace Frehley - RIP

    Written by Russ Ballard for Hello, funny enough.
  3. G650

    Ace Frehley - RIP

    RIP Spaceman
  4. Ill take the over on the demon hunters
  5. Some fur trading alright.
  6. So I was going to add, that one, Brisket summed it up pretty well, though I can say I have unequivocally moved on some political positions, and two, I would describe myself like Twice. I make fundamentally conservative decisions in business. And here's the thing. In my lifetime, the Democrats have been the more fiscally responsible party. I wouldn't say it took deprogramming to see that, just eyeballs. I started with the thought Republicans were more conservative, but I didn't need any training to see that wasn't the case, just basic critical analysis. The other things I will add, is one, some of my early political memories were things like Tipper Gore grilling Dee Snider. Democrats came off as tremendous scolds. And you know what? They still do. I'm so fundamentally aligned with most of their policy positions now that it doesn't bother me, but I can assure you it once did. The other is actual change in policy preference, and this comes from basic reasoning. As a businessman, I can tell you I think any other business owner that doesn't want universal healthcare is an abject moron. It is one of the biggest drags on a business there is. And these MAGAts absolutely lap that shit up because go team red or something. It's insane.
  7. I can't remember if you posted here or not either, but you have definitely shared it before. I really love the 90s alt vibe, takes me back to my younger days!
  8. All the data I see shows they aren't drinking or fucking, so I'm gonna disagree there.
  9. Indeed. So fun fact, one of my nicknames in high school was Magellan because I have a really good sense of direction. To which i always asked 'are yall motherfuckers trying to stab me enroute?'
  10. Yeah I'm sure we are, it's Surly after all. I'm not denying how consequential Columbus running into America was to the modern world, I’m simply denigrating his aptitude. As far as Cabral being there on purpose or not, you have a bunch of rapacious Euros trying to hoover up every resource imaginable, so to my mind it really was just a matter of time. The monarchs were flinging expeditions in every direction to find whatever they could. And to my point to Treaty Oak, it's literally harder to not sail to the Caribbean than it is to sail there because of the weather patterns, so it was definitely gonna happen. Would be highly interesting to know what he knew (or thought) though.
  11. I mean, it's an interesting discussion, and I probably came a little hot there, but the thing to realize is that the only reason for all the eastward voyages was no one knew yet exactly how far to the west you would have to go. People did sail west, and had been doing so for quite some time since the Vikings and maybe earlier. The thing Columbus did was sail west specifically to get to the East Indies. Which of course he totally fucked up. Remember everyone knew this pretty quickly after he hit the Caribbean, Magellan went all the way around just a few decades later. And it was all because Spain was racing Portugal to get there faster. Columbus or not they were sending people there as quickly as that could, there absolutely no way America lies undetected for another century if Columbus doesn't show up. The question isn't really about Pre-Columbian expeditions, but Pre-Columbian contact where it becomes a big question if anyone came before him from Europe. Remember we are talking about this in context of hitting North America, not whether anyone was trying for the East Indies.
  12. That is an insane sentence and you know it. They were launching people westward like a t shirt cannon at exhibition basketball game.
  13. I'm not making a political discussion either, or saying what he did did not have far reaching consequences for us all, I'm saying he didn't really have achievements, he had dumb luck and doesn't deserve accolades for sailing to the wrong fucking continent. And that's fine. We can acknowledge he was consequential without making up shit like he was particularly skilled, because he wasn't.
  14. Haha, epic
  15. I'm not moving anything, I'm framing what Columbus did in a proper manner. If he didn't land here some other euro would have stumblefucked his way over at some point. He's just not as consequential as you want him to be.
  16. Well Leif Erikson did, but you are pointing out exactly what I'm saying. His accomplishment wasn't navigating, it was staying alive that long. And that was not as impressive as the Polynesians who crossed much bigger expanses of ocean long before Columbus was a twinkle in his momma's eye.
  17. Yeah I'm aware of what dead reckoning is, you learn it in beginning navigation course when you are like 12 years old. It's the all else fails option. There's a reason we call them the trade winds, and why they ended up in the Caribbean. He didn't really navigate much of anything, he just got blown there and home by default. There was not any precision navigation going on here, use a compass and vaguely wonder in that direction and that's about it.
  18. I am heartened to see so many young people moshing again.
  19. Why are young people such fucking dorks these days.
  20. The whole I didn't expect this has become such a meme I can barely laugh at it anymore.
  21. Patrick Kirch has done several books, he specializes in Polynesian archaeology.
  22. It's the reason they make so much money
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