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 It's going to be important to look poor  
 The financially "grey man". 
 I think if I was a game company that put out games on old consoles years ago, and I wanted to com... 
 Wouldn't make it past the bean-counters that approve the development expenditures. 
 Agreed. 
Reminds me of the DRM failures in the music industry to try to prevent P2P sharing.

 
 Someone should really be reporting on the astronomical rise in auto insurance rates in the USA. 
... 
 There is some talk but it's not generally from any media outlet. 


 
 Anyone else having Liquid Television flashbacks? 

No? 

Just me? 


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 I see this a lot. 

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 Interesting. 
I read much of the same for my own education and to better define my opposing position.( for my own clarification)

Then preceded to enjoy being around people I agree with. 
 The first promised failed will be Ross.
Followed by pardoning a Biden. 

I hope to be wrong. 
 The Minotaurs before their charter. 






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 Some of us have done this on logging roads without navigators.  Because we can. 
 Interested in the late smoke. I've been rather unpleased with adding smoke after reaching temp.

I suspect it's something I'm doing that is the issue. 
 That's my understanding as well, but experimentation is always interesting. 

I'm interested in what you find out. 
 C'thuhlu's beard! 
 That is definitely an adventure. 
Glad to hear the dome was intact and the raft was recovered successfully. 

Those pics pics are fantastic. 
 A general rule is that most people require leaders. 

It's also a large part of why parts of the right have been so directly demonized by the left. 
Much of it's core focus is to understand power. 
 The warnings about it's data collection and possible uses were warned about from the release of the game. 
 Yes, dear.

I didn't catch the autocorrect. 

Thanks for the explanation of English contractions. 
 I agree. 

An unfortunate sign of willful ignorance in the face of novelty and convenience. 
 It me!


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 Assuming sides a quite a stretch. 
 when you speak truthfully about the degraded state of a group or institution, those who traffic i... 
 Really? Keep going. 
 It me!


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 many American Christians rely on the State to enforce their morality through the threat of violen... 
 It's mostly boomers.
The rest are lost morons that can't handle honesty and self reflection. 
 He wasn't part of the state that the current version of the church is hiding behind. 
 So passive aggressively state failings but make sure no one is called for it. 
 Thank you! 
 Do you answer your door with your weapon showing or did you grow up somewhere nicer than I did? 🤔 
 Weapon exposed is giving up initiative. 
 Especially at that point. 
Self defense claims can get very sticky, legally. 
 It's as important as regular training. 

Andrew Branca does a very good series on the Law of Self Defense. 
(Available as general and individual state specific courses) 
 It's perfect... For going to "all meat Mondays" rather quickly. 
 Much of it is. However. Still humans here... mostly. 
 It happens a lot. 

I recently put a commercial diesel truck into (an exhaust filter) regeneration process. 

As I stepped out of the cab. The mummified cat that has been in the engine bay went through the cooling fan. (At 2600 rpm)

Got a face full of mummy dust. 
 i wish i had a picture to share in full glory what a near full moon rising over the evergreen tre... 
 I have just stuck to pointing my telescope (dobsonian) at Jupiter so my kids can watch the orbit of the moons. 
 Absolutely! 
 ill just be calmly, quietly working on something productive, when a random insult to no one in pa... 
 Maybe. 

For some of us, it's a reaction to being treated like garbage by managerial class asshats that failed to learn how to use tools. 
 That's what I'm getting at. 

I've spent careers in this, only to realize it's a non-issue. 
 Consumeriat-Entertainment-Establishment priorities.

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 It would probably have been more if Quinones would relax a bit. 
 Being able to watch Western propaganda vs Russian propaganda over Ukraine has been helpful.
 
 Alright. 
You got this old, dumb metalhead's attention.
 
 Truly a master of his craft! 


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 Can floor temperature effect how slippery it is? I noticed the last two days my wood floors are g... 
 Temperature is one of the things that can have an effect on it. 
Humidity being another major factor.

A few other things are-
 What wood it is. 
 What it's finished with. And how often it is refinished, polished, waxed 
 What it's cleaned with.
 
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 An emergency appendectomy is better than Paul v Tyson 
 There is still a lot of life in the beast. 
It will reorganize and attack a few more times. 

It's success will be measured by the populations it eliminates. 
 Most of the West will fall to totalitarianism of one flavor or the other. 

It seems it is the will of the masses...
If 2020 was any indicator. 
 Raiding the houses of pensioners (or other citizens) for voicing their opinion on the internet is... 
 Predictable, in this era. 
 Had a new neighbor trying to warn me of danger tonight... From his car.

Context- 
I live across the street from the largest city park on earth. 

The coyote he was concerned about is the one that rests in my front yard between two ficus trees. 

He's a recent transplant from the biggest west coast state in North America. 

When told about the javalina that ate his pumpkins, He told me I was wrong. 

Good luck in central Arizona, transplants.




 
 Watching this timeline is confirmation that Harambe was right. 
 Well, I'm not going to do the moon any injustice by posting a picture from my shitty phone camera... 
 I've got some rare clouds blocking the light. 
But I'm enjoying a bowl of tobacco while the coyotes sing. 

Prost! 
 BTC will save us. 
Freedom!!!
Hey dummy, get on board! 
Holy hell. A thing that didn't work while I'm being used!!!



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 Panem et circensus.

I don't care what happened. 

 
 Avoiding it, actually. 

This is exactly what I'm here for.