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  1. I stayed in Townsend last year and loved it. Also to check GSMNP off the list. As mentioned upthread— some breweries and decent food, easy access to good hiking in the park. Quiet and nice. My kids bugged us to go to Gatlinburg then looked out the windows at the unwashed masses and we just kept on going, LOL.
  2. It’s the feared Waffle SS.
  3. https://en.safa.news/post/2487/Jerusalemite-prisoners-enters-his-36th-year-in-occupation-prisons Sorry, 1983 and six people dead.
  4. Was reading Al-Jazeera today and they have a list of the “political prisoners” Israel released along with sentencing information and then you Google the first guy and he blew up a bus and killed 7 people in 1986. lol, never change! https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/features/2025/10/13/explainer-who-are-the-palestinian-captives-israel-released
  5. Typing “I love Hitler” into my Young Republican Telegram chat while denouncing soft censorship on campus.
  6. I once had a non-core family member tell me that hurricanes helped the economy by getting construction companies to work. I said if that were true, we could just knock over houses, break some windows, and flood a bunch of businesses to get ourselves out of a recession, but the thing is he was really dumb.
  7. Thanks to AI we can finally use the Internet to get our rocks off, truly groundbreaking stuff. https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/14/sam-altman-says-chatgpt-will-soon-allow-erotica-for-adult-users/
  8. Elton’s X is rediscovering the need for account verification from first principles and there’s a real metaphor there for his “genius.”
  9. Is Tory Blalock really 5’12? Cause to me he looks more like 72 inches.
  10. LOL. America is one big shitty infomercial.
  11. BRB, gotta finish my long think piece about how young conservative dudes are sad cause they can’t get laid.
  12. I can’t tell if you’re trolling or what. IU under Cignetti hasn’t played PSU. Cignetti has the same number of top 5 wins (1) in 1.5 seasons at IU as Franklin did his tenure at PSU. Before Cignetti IU had 9 plus .500 seasons since 1980! Finished ranked once (2020). Literally one of the worst P5 programs. And as mentioned, Cignetti has won lots of games in the playoffs and against top 10 teams at the FCS level. I am on record saying that firing Franklin has a high chance of blowing up but come on man.
  13. Winning against Oregon with IU’s roster is a very different story than trying to win with Penn State’s roster. Not even close to the same comparison and Cig’s been at IU for just a year and a half. At JMU he made great playoff runs and took them to the FCS championship game. He’s a hell of a coach.
  14. Comparing the Polynesian navigators European age of exploration mariners inevitably ends up doing a disservice to both; they weren’t in a race or competition and they did incredible things for different reasons. It’s a mistake to underestimate their skills, abilities and intentionality. The Polynesians spread out over a vast Oceanic world that had no comparison to any other seafaring people. The settlement and establishment of that world took place over millennia, although often in quick bursts like the settlements of Hawaii and Easter Island. There were unreal blue-water navigators with skills honed intentionally and incredible ship-builders; their ocean-going canoes were not janky or poorly suited for their waters and voyages. They were built for purpose. Many of their voyages were born of necessity— for instance Hawaii was probably reached after a long period of settlement on remote islands that had to be abandoned. They mastered their world, but it was truly their world: only sporadic and limited contact with the continents beyond. Early Europeans were in fact significantly impressed by the navigation skills they found and the drift theory was not borne of pure bigotry; most islanders had stopped building their impressive oceanic canoes by the time Europeans arrived. And those canoes were made for the voyages they took; the exploration stopped roughly around the roaring forties. The Iberians burst out of their peninsula in a fit of activity that is maybe matched only by the era of aviation advancement. Consider that the Americas were unknown in 1492 and yet by the middle of the next century the Spaniards established the Manila-Acapulco galleon and the Portuguese the yearly India Run. They established the system the modern world runs on (for better or worse); there’s not a fundamental difference in what they were doing and today’s Amazon Prime. They turned different worlds into one world (including the Polynesian Oceanic world). None of it was accidental or blunder, they adopted and developed their navigational systems specifically for this purpose. Shipbuilders from antiquity to the Middle Ages would knock their vessels in a few weeks to suit their purposes and then all of a sudden the early moderns will labor for months trying to put something together that might stand up to a voyage around the African Capes. That doesn’t make what they did less impressive— it makes it more so.
  15. Absolute stallion. Legend. Masters ready.
  16. It’s pretty instructive that basically every Native American identifier for their own tribe is something like “the only real humans” and the names they have for neighboring tribes basically translates to “total dickhead assholes.” The Parks Service had to change tons of signs all over the Southwest after it became apparent that “Anasazi” meant “ancient savages” in Navajo. People are pretty much just people everywhere and the most meaningful difference is just access to high explosives.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. The discovery of the Bulge of Brazil is super historically interesting: Cabral was following ocean currents to ease a voyage that was intended to eventually go east and some think he legitimately wandered too far west and some think the coast had been sighted before. The treaty dividing new lands had already been signed. Cabral did figure out that he had sailed to a continent and not an island. They were relatively uninterested in Brazil as a settlement till well into the 16th century. The Portuguese would have been good candidates to find something. I just don’t know if the Spanish or anyone else would have purposefully sailed west (not intending to loop back towards Africa) if CC hadn’t been so stubborn with his miscalculation.
  20. The petrostates and the Europeans are going to be pressed to donate. And right now the smart money is just to invest in those contractors because there’s no foreseeable decent investment climate for the strip itself.
  21. It’s debatable when the Europeans would have sailed to the Americas again if Columbus didn’t. Columbus miscalculated two things: the circumference of the world (undershot) and the size of Asia (overshot). Had they got the correct numbers (and he was debated at the time while astronomy and calculation was getting better), the idea of a Western passage would have possibly been abandoned. They didn’t know another continent was there and would have assumed it was impossible given the technology of the time. Eventually yes but the timeline could have shifted over a century easily. There was no historical memory of Ericsson.
  22. Facts. And it does make me wonder if Florida will make a move on Billy like their fans hope. They are at least more likely to let him finish the season to see if he can pull out of a flat spin. Because some schools are about to really overpay the coaches they end up hiring.
  23. Fajitas and chicken with a red carneceria marinade. Homemade guacamole and chipotle salsa, charro beans not shown.
  24. If you told me that people rapidly lost sympathy for the Israeli cause the more they were forced to work with the Israelis I’d absolutely concur as I’ve seen it happen over and over. It’s a statement of fact and not how thing should be. There’s a long history of antipathy towards the Palestinian cause especially from the neighbors that host large Palestinian populations. Being handed the job of keeping a lid on Gaza isnt likely to be endearing.
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