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  1. On 10/16/2025 at 8:29 PM, G650 said:

     

    Written by Russ Ballard for Hello, funny enough. 

     

    5 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

    So Ace's passing and this thread lead me down the road of Ace-era Kiss revision.  No doubt New York Groove was a stone groove.  I had no idea it was a cover until just a couple days ago.  Here's the original for those who may be interested:

     

     

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  2. I literally have a ring of that, and I'm as far from a Nazi as it gets. I would say the chances of anyone involved in special forces from 2001 to 2010 or so not having some sort of Totenkopf memorabilia is lower than those that do just fwiw

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  3. 1 hour ago, tbone_ said:

    That better be some life changing tone for a emoji2397.png year wait

    If I'm honest, I've never been over the moon with it. It's definitely very good, and does the BB thing as good as anything, but it's definitely a certain sound.

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  4. 6 hours ago, Chopper said:

    If anyone on this thread is in KY today keep your ears open for the locals talking about the new healthcare rates, which became public yesterday.

    “In Kentucky, a 60-year-old couple making $85,000 per year could face an increase of $23,700 in annual premiums. In Nevada, a similar couple could pay an additional $18,100 in annual premiums, while in Minnesota, the cost might be $15,500 more and, in Maryland, an additional $13,700.”

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/health/aca-health-insurance-costs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

     

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  5. 7 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

    I don't think that's at all accurate w/r/t the French.  I'll let one of our more knowledgeable posters speak about the experience in Louisiana, but in Quebec the French were pretty libertine when it came to mixing with the local indigineous population.  That's probably to be expected because the male-female ratio of French people was way out of wack.  It was largely a fur-trading colony; there weren't just a whole lot of mademoiselles.

    Some fur trading alright.

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  6. 3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Can't improve much on that.

    But more than any slogan like small government, I am just fundamentally conservative.  I'm kinda cheap, I'm super-careful with my clients' money and resources and my advice to clients is conservative, although I present more extravagant options.

    I was never comfortable with the social/culture bullshit.

     

    3 hours ago, bolverk said:

    You're describing fiscal responsibility, not conservatism as a political philosophy. The GOP hasn't been fiscally responsible since it embraced Reagan's voodoo economics. It was never about "balanced budgets," an idea they sold to the public to win campaigns. 

    The "conserve" in conservatism is all about retaining the proverbial status quo, i.e., maintaining a specific social hierarchy, protecting the rich from the poor, ensuring the wealthy keep their money, etc.

    It's a political movement inherently designed to keep the hoi polloi in check, and you can draw a through-line all the way back to feudalism, where it was assumed a specific social class had the divine right to get richer off the backs of the serfs, with knights acting as enforcers. If that also sounds like the Antebellum South and the Post-Reconstruction South, then you can start connecting the dots to modern-day Conservatism.

    ETA: Oh shit, I just realized I'm in the Peter Thiel thread. You know, the guy who follows Curtis Yarvin, a crazy fucker who wants us to live in a world of technofeudalism.

     

    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.

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  7. 7 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    This thread is too long for me to remember if I've posted this track.  It's me and my dad band, but with my daughter on vocals and (believe it or not) Daryl Hall's drummer Brian Dunne on drums and percussion.  Mixed in my spare bedroom, which is suboptimal in many ways, myself being not the least of the reasons.  I *hate* mixing.  Feels like a never-cracked puzzle to me.  Anyway:

     

     

    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. 47 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    They’re actually getting better post pandemic by many objective measures. Don’t overweight political hit pieces and blueanon perspective. 

    All the data I see shows they aren't drinking or fucking, so I'm gonna disagree there.

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  9. 8 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    I think we are kind of talking past each other: I was trying to say that Columbus’ miscalculations of the size of Asia and the size of the world led to him trying to reach the East Indies via a westward route— and this was significant. Both in the attempt and where he landed. 
     

    Cabral is interesting— did he really stumble on Brazil by accident or had someone seen/suspected a land mass was there? And what would have been the follow-up had he been first. Would they have followed the coast north or would they have done what they did, which was use Brazil as a source of hardwood and a launch point for a southern route? Hard to say since the Spaniards were already in the Caribbean. Regardless, by the time Magellan was doing his voyage Spain was in the valley of Mexico. The Columbus voyage really did result in a few decades where a lot of history happened. 
     

    I don’t dispute at all that Erickson made it to the New World and established a colony. Just that the impact was marginal. Some wild stories from a long-dead Viking culture that was as far away from Columbus in time as we are, if they were known at all. 

     

    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.

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  10. 22 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    I am unaware of a single documented intentional attempt to reach the Indies via a westward route prior to Columbus. The volta do mar had been figured out but that was always intended to turn east and follow the coast of Africa. Ships were expensive and crews wanted at least a chance to return home.  Not a sarcastic ask: if you know of any voyages pre-Columbus I’d be fascinated to know more. 

    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. 

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