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bolverk

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  1. Wordle 1,348 4/6 ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟩⬛🟩 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #626 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🙂 Daily Quordle 1129 7️⃣4️⃣ 8️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
  2. Living back in the Permian now, believe me, I know. I was just mentioning the one and only thing keeping them afloat with any kind of real opportunity.
  3. The formatting is fucked up because you continue to insist on NEVER posting a shit in plain text, so I'm only going to guess that the enlarged, italicized font is the actual deleted post, to which I can only respond by saying that poster is a fucking bigoted asshole. The automatic assumption that 90% white means no crime (complete horseshit) belies the lived experience of people, such as myself, who live in communities Anglo-minority ones who still keep doors unlocked without any concern, at all, that some pack of wild minorities is coming to get them at night. Don't get me wrong, though, I'm not advocating people leave their doors wide open, but all I can say is that it's some fucked up, paranoid thinking. It's the exact same type of divisive indoctrination that got us where we are today. Divide and conquer.
  4. More or less, yeah, except for the towns with oil, but that's going to go away, too (at least as an industry with job prospects). Something to keep in mind is that, in some weird ways, small towns might actually be the canaries in the coal mine. Harbingers, so to speak, of the eventual changes to the labor market as AI hits the White Collar class and replaces more of those automated or back-office kinds of jobs in the cities and suburbs (obviously, there are risks to more jobs than those). But don't worry; this isn't a treatise, pompous lecture, or grand theory but only a thought to seriously consider. It's more or less the same concern that leads to grappling with the possible necessity of UBI over the long-term.
  5. That word looks like a slangy, kind of a kids' way of saying "eleven hundred" in German or how it might sound like, but it got no hits on Google.
  6. KUT goes out and talks to some Austin/Texas Tesla owners. A couple of the comments are hilarious. Oh, and the head of the Tesla Owners Club of Austin interview above who thinks Elmo's a genius?
  7. PSA: It looks like the full season (6 quick episodes) drops tonight after 11pm.
  8. Yeah, we've covered the Mennonite stuff pretty thoroughly, although I'd characterize them more as Germans. Yes, they migrated to the steppe around the Volga River centuries ago, but they were never "Russian." This particular group resettled some time ago in Canada, and then they moved to Chihuahua state in Mexico at some point. And, now, since the 1990s, a bunch of them are in parts of West Texas with the highest concentration in and around Gaines County where they likely make up about half the population. I've been there; it's a weird on-the-ground social and cultural dynamic.
  9. Trump is trying to create plausible deniability by having someone like Elmo insert himself into everything to take the blame, while Elmo has announced he's using AI to make decisions on whom to cut and is, therefore, himself unaccountable. This is only one piece of the "governance through mafia tactics" Trump political philosophy.
  10. For the last 30 years (at least), the Republican playbook has primarily consisted of only three plays: Deny Deflect Distract
  11. Hey, it's how the mob works. They've just automated it for greater corruption efficiency.
  12. I get a chuckle, too, at your handle saying "Roll Left" when you actually Roll Reich. Hey mods, can we get a name change for the Nazi behind this account?
  13. They don't want to be held accountable, so they have the AI make decisions and wash their hands of it.
  14. The people who know Russian oppression are with Ukraine. And Japan is with them.
  15. Canadians are still helping, too.
  16. Ukraine still has friends
  17. 124 cases now, stretching from Dalhart from the north to Odessa on the south. Cases by county: Dallam (Dalhart) 4 Dawson (Lamesa) 7 Ector (Odessa) 2 Gaines (Seminole) 80 Lubbock (Lubbock) 1 Lynn (Tahoka) 1 Martin (Stanton) 3 Terry (Brownfield) 21 Yoakum (Denver City) 5 Cases by age group: 0-4 years 39 5-17 years 62 18+ years 18 Pending 5
  18. Funny enough, she just gave her first major public appearance and spoke at the NCAA. https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/kamala-harris-naacp-image-awards-trump-rcna193497
  19. That bird was caught red-handed with the Red Hand of Ulster.
  20. There's got to be about 40 counties around the state that get a population boost of at least 1,000 each because of the way we count prisoners as part of the apportionment process. See, prisoners are counted as residents of where they are held, not where they are from. Of course, the vast majority of these prisoners are from the big cities (not because they're inherently more dangerous, but because that's where the vast majority of people live). There's a shitload of these smaller, rural counties where the prisoner population accounts for 10, 15, 20% of the population, and they get that extra population boost in their district of people that don't vote, therefore having zero influence on their politics, that gives the rural areas an outsized voice through over-representation and that doesn't even take into account the gerrymander.
  21. Nearly got got. Wordle 1,347 6/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #625 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🙂 Daily Quordle 1128 7️⃣8️⃣ 5️⃣4️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
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