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  1. On 4/18/2024 at 8:16 AM, closetohumping said:

    Gilbert is an upper middle class suburb with a decent Mormon presence.  Apparently, kids are jumping people at in n outs and the mall.  When I was a bored teen I turned to heroin.  🤷‍♂️https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13292811/Arizona-teen-gang-Gilbert-Goons-preston-lord.html

    Heroin? Damn dude, I thought I was off the deep end my senior year splitting a sixer of Zima and a joint with a friend at lunch before strolling into Ms Pierce’s art history class.  

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  2. We bought a used receiver and plugged it and some speakers we’ve had sitting around for a while for the kids TV in the den. Stretched its legs with some Spotify through the TV app. Got to a Brandi Carlile song and she popped up on the 70 inch TV… 

     

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    omg she is sooooo hot in this pic.  

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  3. 8 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

    One client is a NZ company. They do a lot of environment work in the South Pacific. Owner has been working there for about 40 years and says the damage is real and getting worse. His big bitch. Micro plastic and chinese fishing boats, or raiders as he calls them.

    The oceans in the south are a quantum leap better than in the north, but again no where is unscathed.

    We’ve dove reefs down there that are still super healthy and unbelievable how much life is there. The Caribbean reefs are trashed. Florida reefs are about to disappear. 

    I know shit is bad, but I’m an optimist so I’m going to share good news and enjoy it for what it is, hope that while it’s too late for a lot maybe it not too late for all of it. 

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  4. 6 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

    This is great, but very misleading. This impacts the tourist trade. Not the water around the island. I lived there in the early 1980's for three years and was at the beach every weekend. All over the island. Reefs were pristine, lots of fish. Went back in the 1990's quite a bit. My brothers live there. It was night and day and has only gotten worse. Some areas, where the resorts are have maintained some beauty, but it is not the same and doubt it will recover.

    Santo Domingo is filthy. The two rivers do nothin gbut push waste into the water. You DO NOT swim in the city. I mean NEVER. No one does. Puerto Plata is going in that direction.

    So don't want to be a downer, and as I said, this is great. But it is a band aid when amputation is needed.

    I’ve spent enough time around to be under no illusion these moves are starting from a position being ahead. The Caribbean especially is turbo fucked.  South Pacific not so much. But everywhere is playing from behind at this point.

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  5. 1 minute ago, Sawbonz said:

    Exactly. The only argument I see being made against it is it sets a bad precedent, as in another sovereign nation could do the same to us. First of all, we would never have significant assets parked in a country who would do that to us on a whim. And if some nation did it because we unlawfully invaded a third party sovereign nation they would be justified in doing so. 

    Yeah I worked through the precedent concern pretty quickly too.

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  6. I’ve actually seen quite a bit of good news re EVs (growth rate is down but the growth is still incredible), solar panel production, microbes to reduce methane in agriculture, ocean clean up, river clean ups.  

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  7. 34 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

    I mean if the core of your political argument is that people like you instinctively have idiotic political opinions, perhaps you shouldn’t share your idiotic political opinions.

    Put another way, just because YOU are a bat shit crazy woman doesn’t mean WE all are… 

    wait, that might not go over here as well as it sounded in my head.

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  8. Holy wow Batman. That’s idiotic. Men start wars, men kill people, men rape women, men kill pregnant women, men enslave men. We’d be better off if women were subjugated to men?

    holy fucking wow. 
     

     

     

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  9. 2 hours ago, CHIEF said:

    No its even worse, cheerleaders.

    My niece played travel club softball, and she has been married for about two years with a new baby, and is in a stable committed relationship. I believe your friend may be on to something. Having to compromise on team decisions, and work within that team provides a lot of maturity and growth.

    When CHIEF Jr.'s girlfriend would get bent out of shape he would tell her, "you are just like a toddler throwing herself to the floor in a candy store, you are an embarrassment to be around." The beauty/crazy matrix is for real.

    CHIEF

    My 16 year old son is done with the ladies for now. He says they require waaaaaaay too much attention. 

    I’m going to tell him he needs to scope out the team sports girls that don’t have time for him. 

  10. 5 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    What the fuck does “Ghost of Based Patrick Henry” even mean?  It that a band or a 3-D hologram based on the life of Patrick Henry?  
     

    what is happening to these people and where do they get these agendas?  It’s like Don, Jr. locked a half dozen Qanon leaders in a bathroom with a pound of blow and told them not to come out until they had finished it and could produce a two day Hilton conference about Satan and Child Molestation.  

    There is a long history of sanctification through comparing themselves to the evil in the world. The worse they become the worse the evil in the world has to be so they can be the light of the world.

    its shocking, freighting, and disgusting.  It’s so bad. 

    the depth of lies and the degree to which they believe this shit is going to lead us down the brisket path and that’s not a bbq food tour.

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  11. That’s radio. And on the public tv side I’ve been enjoying the hell out of Frontline from PBS the last few days.  The News Hour is pretty good historically I haven’t sat to watch it in a few years.  I watch BBC on TV more than PBS and admit to flipping through the majors when events happen. But damn the big three are lazy and are just on a 20 min news loop and talking heads. It’s so bad.

  12. 4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    I love Marketplace.

    And I sweatergawd…I always like Birdnote when I catch it. Dear God, what happened to me?

    Marketplace is awesome. 

    2 minutes ago, F250 said:

    I regularly listen to Morning Edition/Market Place, All Things Considered, and Science Friday.

    Let's not forget Texas Public Radio. Texas Matters, Fronteras and The Source which is San Antonio focused.

    Public Radio is really fucking good.

    Texas standard, morning edition, all things considered are my other favs.

    bbc world on early early Friday mornings (like 4am) driving to the coast to go fishing is hella good.

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  13. The last few days I’ve been on a truth binge, watching documentaries as much as I can. “Putin and the presidents” and “behind the wall” are two that stand out and came together in my thoughts tonight.

    Not 40 years since the Berlin Wall fell and these people excuse Russian atrocities. That’s OUR lifetimes. HOLY SHIT.

    We should not support Ukraine because … the answer for everything, “corruption”.  You ask point blank, “are you kidding me?” Have you seen what he’s done to that country? Their response, “where did the money go?” Again, “are you kidding me?” It went to Ukraine you fucking moron. The department of defense acknowledges a 2% error rate in inventories. That’s your reason to let Putin invade? Clinton didn’t have enough time, bush was duped, war in geoegia befuddled him, Obama had no interest in being defined by Putin and ignored crimea, Trump was a fucking Putin clown. And now he’s invaded Ukraine because Biden is weak?  “Are you fucking kidding me?” Biden told Obama he had to stand up to him, Biden strengthens NATO, expands NATO, everyone with half a brain in Europe realizes Putin has to be stopped or the balkans are next. And these morons  are “just asking questions.”
     

    I’m so god damned mad right now.

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