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Posts posted by flatdawgs
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5 hours ago, Zepol87 said:
I was Navy ATC. No thanks
Brother was Army ATC, then civilian after he got out. Saint Ronnie fired him and the world eventually ended up with yet another attorney then judge.
Thanks a lot for that, Ronnie - yet another reason you sucked.
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1 hour ago, Valmy77 said:
I don't believe PR was ever offered statehood.
The various PR statehood / commonwealth / independence plebiscites have generally been boycotted or deemed unrepresentative by one faction or another. It's far from a sure thing, should a binding referendum be held, that statehood would even be desired.
(see also Ghost's comment above)
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This country, despite an often violent and at times thuggish history, has been fortunate enough at times of major societal change to have avoided the reign of terror that has often followed upheavals in other places. When I see the utter hatred for fellow citizens (let alone fellow humans) that so many have crawled out from under their rocks to espouse, I'm not so certain we will continue to avoid it forever. Empathy fades quickly and the leopards thread becomes more and more popular when actual US congress members representing nearly a million people talk like Ogles. Ceauşescu and a Milan Esso station* out front should have told you. This is a ledge I hope can be stepped back from. It will require repudiation from a lot of people that right now revel in it.
*(Mussolini et al were executed at Lake Como, but the point/symbolism remains)
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49 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
Yeah, but see, each one of those files is labeled something like "Work stuff 9," except it's not work stuff, the number is the age of the subjects of the kiddie porn he has stored there. Super clever to name it "work stuff," though....the cops will never think of looking there.
First guy I ever had to fire literally had a folder on his work laptop titled "(Employee's) Porn." And it was. Called IT, HR, and the managing partner in before it was opened.
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2 hours ago, Tuco said:
I'm flying SeaTac to a small city in Texas, connecting DEN on the way there and DFW on the way back. I'm bringing lots of snacks, a bottle to fill with water, dressing in layers, etc.. Calling it an adventure. (And I've told my wife that I plan on working until I'm 78, in case that comes up in a damages calculation...worst case scenario.)
Flying SEA-ORD Friday, ORD-SAN Monday; no news on any abnormal delays yet. Still planning on going but definitely paying close attention.
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2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:
It actually says "military installations."
But that's fine, because he'll make up more bullshit that the Venezuelan military is in cahoots with TdA or some other narco-terrorist organization.
And now that he is going to commit undeniable acts of war, what's his plan for the humanitarian problem this is going to cause?
Hey, come on now, that's only Count 2 of the indictments at the first Nuremberg trial of major war criminals. Probably Count 1 as well, but certainly not Counts 3 and 4!
Yet.
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2 hours ago, wild_turkey said:
Why do you fuckers eat Mexican and BBQ in Europe? You have all of this amazing food to choose from and you blow a meal on a shittier version of something we already excel at in Texas. I’m genuinely confused.
Europeans in any given area do their local food - whatever it is - very, very, very well. They've been making it for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years, and enjoying whatever the local specialties happen to be is a huge part of getting to know the local culture. However, outside of the bigger cities there is typically very little diversity in what you can find outside of the local fare. If you spend any time at all in a place you'll eventually want something else, and most of us live in places here in the US where we enjoy many different types of food so we miss it at times. I can't get Vietnamese or Mexican for love or money in southern Portugal and was very pleased to find a Thai restaurant in Tavira that was at least a vague shadow of what I can eat in Seattle (for some reason Tavira has several good Indian restaurants and a new Indian grocery). Amazing as they are, you can't just live on sardinhas, bacalhau, or lulas for every meal.
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13 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:
I’ve a hunch Mexican food in Europe will improve in years to come. If it hasn’t already. And, bbq.
Exporting post oak wood is a growing industry. Got to be.
There's a creditable bbq joint across the street from the train station in Faro, Portugal - young Portuguese guy owns it, not an expat. It's where you change trains in the Algarve so I stop by there every once in a while. It's not even close to what you'd find in Texas/the South, but it's still pretty tasty.
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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:
lol Finland was one place where I could consistently buy things in the grocery store that upon eating turned out to be something completely different than I had thought (and I actually know a few words in Finnish). It was fun.
I love my Pingo Doce grocery store in Portugal - food quality is so much better than here, although it took a while to get used to shelf-stable milk and eggs.
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10 hours ago, Txzen said:
The article pretty clearly states at the end that UCLA has not agreed to the deal.
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Was at the Seattle march - 90,000, no arrests, one guy along the route yelling something unintelligible at the marchers. Cops here were barely in evidence; they stay a block away in either direction to stop traffic on the cross streets and basically just wave at everyone.
It's easy to march in a place like Seattle, or Portland, or NYC - it's those of you who go out in small towns and red states that will end up making the difference. It's showing up that shows like-minded people in your communities that they are not alone; that there are others like them out there. It's people like you that run risks that we don't. Without the big cities and blue states there would be no momentum for this - but without the smaller communities throughout the country nothing will ever change. Thank you to everyone who went out today.
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16 minutes 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.
You're not incorrect re France's earlier colonies, particularly in North America (and on the frontier, the British were more relaxed about it as well, both often using intermarriage as means to effect trading relationships). The French in Indochina tended also to be somewhat more tolerant. However, the French Caribbean colonies were quite harsh on the matter, as was French Africa (even more so after the first world war). There is a fairly obvious reason as to why the difference. Metropolitan France, on the other hand, was much more open to those actually in France; this dated back to the Revolution.
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23 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
Also, in case anyone hasn't noticed, miscegnation produces some remarkably attractive humans, so I say let's get on with it.
Brasil. Enough said.
(The French and British generally took a much dimmer view of such practices in their colonies than the Portuguese and Spanish did, hence the, um, fairly attractive populations of several of our neighbors to the south.)
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10 hours ago, NWBuck said:
Been pulling something for a while now
A while, you say? Nice humblebrag.
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6 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:
Not Europe, but damn this made me smile. Was not sure where to put it.
Really enjoyed my time in Mindelo just before Covid. Cool people, good food, extraordinary musical culture. Força as tubarões azuis!
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2 hours ago, TreatyOak said:
I personally don’t care about the political discussion here either way. As a history lover, I was responding to the posters who are trying to negate his achievements, which were extraordinary for their day, and kicked off a golden age of exploration, because of today’s conventional wisdom.
The Portuguese had already reached and rounded the Cape of Good Hope and entered the Indian Ocean by then. I'm pretty sure Henry the Navigator kicked off the golden age of exploration, staring out at the vast ocean from Sagres.
25 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:It’s debatable when the Europeans would have sailed to the Americas again if Columbus didn’t.
Cabral reached Brazil in 1500; it would be hard for me to believe that the only reason he did so was due to Columbus' voyage a few years before. Hell, da Gama completed his India voyage in 1498; regardless of Columbus, Portugal would have kept exploring - they had been for a half-century prior, quite lucratively - and due to that almost assuredly the Spanish (and likely the English) crown would have been obliged to do the same.
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Same as it ever was. When I was in Zambia, a decade or so ago now, some Chinese mining company managers were killed near Kitwe in the Copper Belt (I was in the South Luangwa, so not nearby). When I asked some Zambian friends about the incident, they said "we know colonialism when we see it." The Chinese were (are?) brutal and I'm sure they are not alone in that.
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2 hours ago, Chopper said:
In every other functioning democracy in the world, the ruling party would seek to compromise instead of demanding the opposition rollover, and stomping hteir churlish little feet until they do so.
In every other functioning democracy in the world, the government would have fallen.
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My avatar is not confirmed as caretaker president.
Seriously, at one point Rajoelina was considered as a young leader who could clean up the country's endemic corruption and myriad other problems. Only about a third of the population has access to electricity. The country has mineral and O&G resources, particularly in the south, but as in many other places these are exploited by Western multinationals and the Chinese, and any returns are skimmed off the top. It is sad as it is a beautiful place with the kindest people.
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2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:
Albert Speer laughs - laughs - at that puny piece of shit arch. Do better.
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Jeffrey Epstein needs his own thread
in Cloak Room
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Yeah, this whole thing is weird. If now there are allegedly 100 GOP reps who are willing to vote to release the files, why do they need Rep. Grijalva's signature on the discharge petition? Why can't one of those 100 who haven't signed do it now?