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Homercles

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  1. So a mass shooting was averted by…a mass shooting?
  2. There were at least four I can remember…the state highway slowed to 35mph, a bunch of abandoned buildings with trees growing through them, a leaning barn, and then a gleaming post office right before speed limit went back to 65.
  3. If our drive from Austin to Durango was any indication, the only nice building in the whole one-stoplight was the…federal…post office. “Got damn bums living off that thur gobment handouts up there in Portland, stealing from us werkin folk”
  4. At first I thought Musk was driving some scheme to manipulate markets for his Tesla stock (maybe shorting, I dunno), then figured he bought Twitter to control messaging on SpaceX/Tesla/etc…it’s almost been a relief to validate he’s some regarded pseudo-villain like a real life Mojo Jojo.
  5. Believe you meant Sled Driver, which is an incredible (albeit short) read. PDFs are available online, which is good as it’s been a bit of a holy grail to find in print…with prices set accordingly.
  6. More like (sorry for huge gif)
  7. Your car runs leaner at higher elevations due to less oxygen in the air and I assume there’s less work to ‘pump’ the thinner air, along with slightly better aerodynamics. It’s also why mountain towns sell gas with slightly lower octane.
  8. 88 Bad Mofo has that market cornered
  9. Hell in ‘06 I’m not even sure your coach knew how to SPEAK English…17 years later and I still remember this halftime interview:
  10. I finally got the Preferred last year, and figured to get the Reserve once we had some kind of accessible lounge here at AUS. Once I saw how the ‘lounge’ was going to work, truly being useful only 20% of the time where weather here is nice…guess not.
  11. The best Simpsons episodes were the ones where Al Jean and Mike Reiss were show runners. Never knew Mike was insane to get on that pile of shit
  12. Why would the coast guard need to be trained and equipped for open-ocean, deep sea rescues? Isn’t their area of expertise…like…in the name?
  13. Any money left in the wreath fund? I have a great idea for a commercial space venture
  14. Oh I bet they’re ‘hanging’ with Epstein all right
  15. Something that seems lost with incel-types is that people (men or women) tend to gravitate towards those that make them feel good about themselves. Sincere compliments, making them feel heard, making them laugh, looking them in the eye when talking or listening…feel like these are learned skills that take practice you can’t really hone in social media. Speaking of social media, and I’ve said this before…places like Reddit / et al allow such narrow ‘specialization’ that it’s too easy to gravitate towards those echo chambers. Diversity in your experience is so critical to being a well-rounded, welcoming, open person that others will both find interesting as well as someone they can find common ground with. My father, retired USAF O6 who defied all odds starting as a reservist O3 who went AD as a lifeboat when his civ employer employed, once apologized to my whole family for dragging us all over the world growing up…he felt awful that we didn’t get to grow up with a group of folks or really put roots down. I told him it was the best thing possible for me to grow up realizing the world isn’t full of Americans and gave me some great stories to tell. He also was as far from an elitist officer as you could get, his E folks loved him, and that defaulting to respect is the way to live. TLDR: Make people feel good about themselves, and they’ll feel good about you.
  16. Helobious is wrong more than Rocko
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