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7 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
You make a judgement on a group of soccer moms because people you don’t know “labeled” them. And let’s not mention nazi flags in churches. Oops. Didn’t mean to bring that up again. Sounds like someone else bites on propaganda.
Which churches JD? Not to be judgmental, but do you think any of those soccer mom's ever used the morning after pill? Simple is not simple. I'll bet you $1 that MTG and Boebert had some close calls. Now the one that almost missed the prayer breakfast in SC...
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Someone splain
This?
This reflects “what the energy of the Republican Party is in the conservative movement,” Dallek said. “All these questions of identity and culture, and the sense that America is, as they see it, slipping away from them” is what animates the modern conservative movement, he said. “It’s not energized so much by tax cuts or deregulation.”
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1 hour ago, Beck Water said:
So here I am, sitting comfortably on a sofa with a light breeze from a Dyson airblade fan. I don’t have any lights on at the moment, but that’s a matter of choice. There’s gray daylight coming in the window behind me. I could reach out and flip a switch and say “Let There Be Light”, and there would be.
A line of thunderstorms came through about 4 pm. I don’t recall it being forecast, but there it was, rain blowing sideways, light show, boom boom *click*
Across the street: power. Our side, Us, neighbors, and a couple hundred of our closest friends on a different feed: Nope.
Here’s the Facts of Life in the Midwest: when a couple hundred thousand of your closest friends lose power, the power company will remedy the big outages first and a small outage of a few hundred can just pound sand until the power company gets a Round Tuit, maybe for a day or two or three or four, depending.
We don’t have the fancy-pants option, but we are prepared. We hauled out the inverter generators, fueled them up, plugged them into the handy-dandy twist-lock exterior outlet, did some jiggery pokery on the electrical panel, flipped some breakers back on, and Voila! Our modem and router work, our fridge and freezer have power, our i-devices can be re-charged, we can use the igniter and turn on our gas stove. And I can sit in front of a fan, or under a ceiling fan, and turn on an LED light or two if I feel like it.
So now we start looking out the window. Neighbor we share resources with has a generator, but it isn’t working. Extension cord for her fridge: no problem. She’s got a modern one, 400W. If this goes on pushing 24 hrs, we’ll figure out how to rotate her chest freezer and ours so they both stay cool.
70 year old neighbor: the woman is a Machine. Drives around all day in a Sprinter van, 100 degree heat, doesn’t matter, delivering furniture and food to people in need, women getting an apartment after a stint in DV shelters, folks who’ve been burnt out and the like. Yeah, we’re gonna see her right. What’s the draw on her fridge, can we handle it without rotating stuff? Yeah, we can, and we got 100 ft of 12 AWG extension cord that will get most of the way to her door.
But behind that….we don’t have the capacity. Thw neighbor on the other side, who hasn’t had much to do with us since the Great Squirrel LIberation Excapade, I’d let her use my stove or recharge a battery pack so she can charge her phone and stuff, but her fridge is strictly On It’s Own.
So here we are, To Have and To Have Not, Midwestern Style.
I can make a difference to us, and a couple neighbors, but I know there are a bunch of families who can’t afford it who are gonna lose a fridge full of food, and there’s just not much I can do about that.
I got a quote on a solar generator and it was high. We've got a big propane tank underground and I think we'll go with an LP generator. Guy who quoted did the math for me fairly and I think I'll die before I recoup the cost. But the reliability of solar is appealing.
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29 minutes ago, 4merper4mer said:
Ofer so far huh?
Let me guess at some names that were mentioned on the tour: Drake, Sagan
A name that might have been mentioned: Fermi
Names that definitely were not mentioned: Ward, Brownlee, Von Neumann.
Accurate?
Carl Sagan was mentioned a billion times or more. Dude, you have got to visit this place. You can discuss it openly with these very cool folks...They didn't mention Fermi but I loved how he was portrayed in Oppenheimer.
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1 hour ago, Doc said:
It's already pretty much dead.
Yes, Desantis campaign...
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This isn't going away...and it shouldn't
https://dnyuz.com/2023/07/28/the-shady-backstory-of-floridas-outrageous-new-slavery-curriculum/
However, three members now claim they were neglected to be informed about Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new mission to restructure how Black history was taught. Instead, a totally different “work group” was quietly formed—and stacked with the Department of Education’s own appointees—to advise on the new standards and pass an agenda.
“It’s the same divide techniques that they used on the plantation,” African American History Task Force member Dr. Donna Austin told The Daily Beast. “It’s the same, identical thing. They always use methods of dividing the African and African American people. That’s what they do.”
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20 minutes ago, 4merper4mer said:
I don’t doubt it’s a great place. If they’re making claims about aliens, they’re embellishing. If they’re simply talking about the cosmos it indeed sounds like a great place.
Their primary mission is to find evidence of alien life.
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54 minutes ago, 4merper4mer said:
To Next:
1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Kaku is a charlatan
4. See 3
5. I’m sure he’s smart but being a charlatan is where the $$$$$$$$$$$ are.
To RTH:
They’re either wrong, embellishing or lying but everyone has to make a buck.
Not embellishing. It was in winter. There was only 4 other visitors there. The lady I mentioned gave us her mini science experiment lecture in a lecture room - usually for kids. Told us all about herself. This is a hidden gem and people should go. There's a railroad ride in the summer that goes near it. On my bucket list
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5 hours ago, 4merper4mer said:
Your statement about math is false.
Many physicists, chemists and astronomers that work there disagree. The $10 tour we took in a diesel van was guided by the PhD Chemist widow of an astrophysicist who worked there too
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11 hours ago, Big Blitz said:
Perhaps he should pay more attention to what the descendants of slaves think
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4125593-desantis-faces-backlash-from-black-conservatives/
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1 hour ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:
The teacher said you’re sassy!
There’s a way that things should be.You’ll paint flowers the way they are,
So repeat after me:
Flowers are red.
Green leaves are green.
There’s no need to see flowers any other way
Than the way they always have been seen.
Don’t be the teacher, Red.
good idea. I was thinking of teaching anatomy and physiology to nurses.
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3 hours ago, 4merper4mer said:
Then add that to the list you’re wrong about.
Visit the Green Bank Radio telescope complex in West Virginia. The real characters from "Contact:" worked there with SETI. There's no phone signals or even spark plug noise (they use diesels) so they can listen. The math says it's highly likely there are other sentient beings in the universe...
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On 3/15/2022 at 7:28 PM, Big Blitz said:
We know them better then they know themselves
The R's have the house. Is their heat tolerance better than mine? In the sunbelt red states? Should we help them when they're m-e-l-t-i-n-g? Farmers Insurance co is speaking. Should we listen or make them cover Fla? Socialism...
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This was pretty good, Irv
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There's a reason Jamaicans still mourn him
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1 hour ago, Big Blitz said:
i have a 401K. Today was a good day/week/month. Everthing is cyclical x apparently the weather. That's what is scaring me...
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29 minutes ago, Orlando Tim said:
This is a bad argument. Let the lie fly and just pretend it is not a lie. If someone blatantly lies you call out the lie, or else you have to do that with all the lies. This is not a mistake, this is intentionally lying to get headlines.
This is solid gold...
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My American dream
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On 7/6/2023 at 11:21 AM, Over 29 years of fanhood said:
$93 per person? That’s swankyBS. Go to Aldi . Buy 3 pounds of brats for $8. Some potato salad, Baked beans and cole slaw. A six pack of knock off Corona and you're good for $20. I bought the brats for a Rotary party here and everyone loved them. It also helps when everyone brings a dish.
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1 minute ago, John from Riverside said:
I know I can’t believe doc just said that
I'm into the makers. I'm doc. He's an imposter.
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5 minutes ago, Irv said:
Honestly. Are you OK? I'll stop busting you. I'm worried. It's just a chat board. You OK?
Fine, yes. Genny always gave me the *****. Labatts is very good beer. Honestly, my wife is getting pissed at me laughing to myself. I think my first was truly Shlitz. I think that's what they had on tap for a New Years Eve party in a bar on Lake Ontario. They were heart up and we were underage, and they welcomed us. I think the beer on tap was Shlitz. Place burned down the next day. True story. Google it.
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11 minutes ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:
addressed previously.
equals asked and answered. Slightly longer but more definitive.
Covid Protocols 2023
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Posted · Edited by redtail hawk
It's real life. People make mistakes or unexpected things happen...but I am soft hearted x when I'm not.