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OniRonin posted...

god damn america -- that's in the bible -- for killing innocent people

People afflicted with religiosity haven't read their holy book either, they have a distorted memory of the simplified My Weekly Reader version paraphrased by their equally illiterate sunday school teacher.

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Muscles posted...

@PO, You know damn well what holidays are, I'm only talking about real ones like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, etc. Not hallmark ones like valentine's day or bs little ones

And because you aren't getting screwed, only the people that have to work instead of getting to spend it with family

Ah, so people shouldn't celebrate holidays by going out to eat, or to a play or concert, or nightclub, or travel to be with family, or.....

I've worked on holidays most of my life, in universities, hospitals, and in shows. Eh? In research, ongoing experiments have to be observed and logged regardless of day.

You either work or don't on holidays. Surprise! Very few of us can justify only working banker's hours 9-5 M-F.

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Unbridled9 posted...

Yup. Multiple times. It can be distilled down to 'We are all sinners but God sent Jesus to die for us so that we may be redeemed and have the chance to go to heaven after we die; but we have to accept Jesus into our lives and live in a good and godly manner by doing so to be saved.'

Actually, I read it more like "immature temper-tantrum god becomes jealous of other gods, sends his best friend to hell, sends a minion to rape a human woman so he has a sort of 'son' he can put to death by torture as an elaborate joke on his worshippers that he had been stringing along for thousands of years as his Chosen People". Pretty good deal for clergymen, if you have a god you can't trust, why should you be surprised by what priests do?

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Just the part where Gozer took the form of a giant slor.

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Politicians. Bah, humbug!

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divide by zero error. redo from start.

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Raddest_Chad posted...

OK, boomer came along at the perfect time. As most Trump supporters fall into that category, I'm sure.

Sure, kid.

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Hil/billy is scary enough to shut most people up. What were the major political parties thinking last election? Certainly nothing like selecting the best and the brightest to represent the US. I'm tempted to say clowns, but I've studied with top-ranked Ringling Bros clowns, clowning is a highly trained and honorable profession.

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Yup, pretty easy. Just holding in the interlock until it warms up enough to stay on its own. I hope it's in the basement or furnace cubby, I hate crawlspaces under the house.

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I've been subbing for two classes in addition to my own for the past two weeks, that's plenty.

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Buy your own? Like a little man?

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Never realized it's a "handicap" button, it just says "open". It's sure handy when I'm wheeling a cart with classroom supplies. I also use the elevator instead of carrying my cart up or down the stairs.

Other times, stairs are much faster, as is not waiting for the powered door.
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55F, I hate to pay heating bills. I wear layers of clothes in the winter, like to curl up on the couch under blankets.
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The mix of humor and action, with likeable characters in an engaging setting.

The Expanse outpoints it on visuals, has likeable characters, but generally just misses the charm of Firefly.

Starhunter was good, actually Firefly borrows a lot from it, even to the point of mentioning the bounty hunters' "Trans-Utopian" spaceship in one episode, and Percy and Kaylee are similar, as are Zoe and Luc. Dark Matter with it's ensemble cast and humor probably comes closest to Firefly in appeal.
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Judgmenl posted...

Is it Halloween?
I don't think I've ever celebrated. Today's Wednesday.

Tomorrow, the 31st. In some locations, Beggars' Night is the night before, other locations, the night of. I don't expect many kids, so I won't carve my jack'o'lantern until tomorrow.
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C'mon! I'm carving a Jack-o-lantern, have a bowl of candy to give away for Beggar's Night, I'm staying home, not going anywhere. I used to dress up when I worked in a haunted house for Halloween, I really don't need to now.
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Many! Most fighting games other than Soul Caibur and Mortal Kombat, most Tomb Raider clones, there are whole genres I avoid. I played an Assassins Creed game for a few minutes once. Downloaded some Far Cry games but never played them. Played a few tedious minutes of Ocarina of Time, haven't touched another Zeldoid.
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Yep, hate figuring out how to show AV material all over again. Aargh! Last week, three classes, three classrooms. Had to have my grad assistants figure out how to get audio back in one room, at one point had ten student engineers working on the problem. Great story now, frustrating at the time.
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I opposed the previous one, the bobblehead alien sock puppet even before he declared war on the forces of law and order in the US.
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One comes as a set, Hil/billy, that's worse.
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I made scalloped potatoes, diced some delicatessen ham into them. Why pay fast food prices?
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Mauser vs. Springfield vs. Enfield vs. Arisaka?
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Ferarri619 posted...

Fries, gravy and cheese curds. In other words, Poutine Pizza

I like that! More Canadian than Canadian Bacon!

I like Hawaiian, ham and pineapple

I don't think it's strange, but you don't often see Barbeque Beef as a pizza topping. I like it and make my own.
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Fierce_Deity_08 posted...

I could see it in NASCAR or other vehicle races, but not really any of the others.

I wasn't aware that there was a separate women's division in NASCAR. Even the local "powder-puff" events I remember from when I was a kid have fallen out of favor. My childhood heroes, Pat Moss-Carlssen and Denise McCluggage competed in both ladies' and open-class racing in the 1950s and 60s.
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MyPetKenshin posted...

dancer62 posted...

Since they have female hormones, they have female muscles. Seems fair. I'd guess they often have more bulk and longer bones than natal females, and less flexibility, so advantage or disadvantage, I don't know.

I haven't knowingly sparred against a transperson in tournaments, but have gladly fought exhibition bouts against men when there aren't female opponents in my class. It's fine with me. Easier than some 200+ pound females I've fought (I'm 5'1 140)

1. Female hormones dont give you female muscles. A MtF trans individual still has larger and denser muscles than a female.

2. Anybody can call themselves trans. They dont actually have to have gone through surgery or even taken hormones. And depending on the rules of the sport, they can still compete while being largely considered a male biologically.

3. You mustve sparred against some weak males, because your experience is extremely specific and anecdotal. Im 6 foot tall, 245 pounds with no formal training in self defense or martial arts. But I guarantee you if we got into a ring together, youd walk away injured.

Youre actually doing more harm to women than you realize by downplaying whats going on here.

An admittedly cursory search of the literature doesn't indicate a particular advantage to MTF athletes over natal female athletes. Jokes about Russian weightlifters aside, the Olympics and highest levels of sports are not overrun by MTF athletes.

1. Female hormones = female muscles. Male hormones = male muscles. Overdose of male hormones = bigger muscles plus nasty side effects. No hormones = loss of muscle mass and strength. Check eunuchs.

2. Unless I'm badly mistaken, for sanctioned sports, trans athletes have to pass the same physical examination as their natal sisters, including steroids, metabolites, etc. Hormones must be documented as maintained at female levels for at least a year.

3. Big tough untrained male, small disciple-level trained female. Hmm. Sue Shiomi?
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Since they have female hormones, they have female muscles. Seems fair. I'd guess they often have more bulk and longer bones than natal females, and less flexibility, so advantage or disadvantage, I don't know.

I haven't knowingly sparred against a transperson in martial arts tournaments, but have gladly fought exhibition bouts against men when there aren't female opponents in my class. It's fine with me. Easier than some 200+ pound females I've fought (I'm 5'1 140)

In golf, being taller and longer-boned with the ability to use longer clubs might be a small advantage, but I'd still expect experience and skill to prevail.
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Just made corned beef hash and eggs this morning. It has been a while since I cooked anything fancier than grits for breakfast. It was good. Maybe pancakes and bacon tonorrow if I'm ambitious.
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Check thrift shops. An old good quality machine for $25 that can be cleaned and lubricated is probably the best deal. I'm using a 1959 Singer that was only a couple of years old when I bought it as a teenager. Basic zig-zag but I'm not doing embroidery anyway.
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My phone stays in my purse when I'm driving, but my GPS and dashcam mount by suction cups on the windshield.
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Sarcasthma posted...

dancer62 posted...

I can't imagine anyone spending more than $50 on a phone.

Because you grew up in a time before technology, right?

I've always been fascinated by technology. I built my first video game for oscillocope display in 1961.

I always have more hobbies and interests than I can really afford. A phone is a really low priority appliance, like a toaster-oven, it just needs to work, the cheaper the better. Cars, planes, golf, martial arts weapons, yes, worth spending money on.
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I can't imagine anyone spending more than $50 on a phone.

$1500 for a project car to rebuild, sure. $1500 for flying lessons, sure. A phone?
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keyblader1985 posted...

Comparing Nintendo to Fisher Price is a gross exaggeration. There's a difference between games for all ages and games specifically for children.

There have been Rare exceptions (pun intended) with offerings from Rare, RockStar, Suda51, etc., but these are mostly known to gamers. To the general public, Nintendo means chibi mascot games for children.

The Tetris craze sold lots of GameBoys to travellers, the Wii Fit fad sold lots of balance boards to moms, but both were short-lived, leaving the detritus of Pokemon cards and toys for elementary-schoolers.
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EvenSpoonier posted...

The general public never thought of Nintendo as the kiddy company. That belief hasn't always been restricted to incels the way it is now, but it's always been niche: it's just way more niche nowadays.

Huh? Nintendo has always been the safe choice for parents, the Fisher-Price For Ages 3-5 of video games. It's how they made their niche.
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Bugmeat posted...

dancer62 posted...

But, wow, a 146-year-old that was a kid in the 1880s, what stories they could tell! They might have even seen the Buffalo Bill shows and could critique my gun spinning and trick shooting.

You're in your late 90's?

Alright, misread it. Half would be 36, so younger would still be 36, older would be 109, my grandparents' generation, not quite as interesting, but still some good stories to tell. Twice my age would be more fun.
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Dunno. A 36 year old would be okay, I'm much younger than my chronological age anyway.

But, wow, a 146-year-old that was a kid in the 1880s, what stories they could tell! They might have even seen the Buffalo Bill shows and could critique my gun spinning and trick shooting.
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Yes. Kiddy chibi mascot games and gimmicky toy-quality consoles are Nintendo's trademark.
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Hil/billy would have been much worse. The Demogogues are sore losers.
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Grits. With or without bacon and eggs.
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OmegaM posted...

dancer62 posted...

My friends and I consider men weird. Their priorities and worldviews don't seem sensible at all.

How? Just curious.

For example, just look at this flight of fantasy:

MyPetKenshin posted...

Not to be rude, but yall women are driven by your emotions half the time. Even what youre saying right now is most likely because you were hurt by a man at some point in your life.

Huh?
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My friends and I consider men weird. Their priorities and worldviews don't seem sensible at all.
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C-Raine posted...

Another non-gang related mass shooting in a 'gun free zone', who woulda guessed?

Um, the news this morning is saying that it was gang-related. As a point of interest, both shooters have a history of violent crime, and were, in fact, already out on bail awaiting trial for previous offenses, including assault on a deputy sheriff who was working security at a bar.

I'm trying to imagine how more laws would be helpful, when existing laws certainly weren't a deterrent in this case.
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Mead posted...

Finally a new Armored Core

Ace Combat.
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Gotta love simple-minded sheep with a flawed understanding of Kindergarten science.
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Wow! Reminds me of acoustic modems and remote terminals for mainframes!

And the local non-profit dial-up ISP I helped set up with grant money in the early 1990s. Housed in donated space in a public library.
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Forza Horizon 4
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CNN : who, during the Gulf War, showed pictures of planes clearly taking off and said they were landing? And described the jets' afterburners as "booster thrusters"?

Now we can be sure that the silly political wrestling will just fizzle.
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Better than ever at 73. Built my first video game in 1961.
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I've been involved in gaming since the mechanical scrolling arcade racing racing games of the 1950s, built my first electronic game to move dots of light around an oscilloscope screen in 1961, and have enjoyed the ever increasing sophistication of games to the present. Now vastly enjoying driving digital versions of my real-life cars around the British countryside in Forza Horizon 4, playing daily since the game came out.

With the vast array of possibilities, saying you can't find a game worth playing seems a lot like saying you can't find a book to read, a movie to watch, or food to eat.

OTOH, I most enjoy games related my real-world intersts and activities: sports cars, aviation, golf, swordsmanship.
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

Coffee?

beer?

Beer for hydration. Coffee for caffiene. Irish Coffee for.... alert inebriation?
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