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Homercles

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  1. I just use google news as an aggregator, read multiple sources if I’m interested in the topic, and make up my own mind. Shit like TikTok certainly trains people to have minute attention spans, but that’s their problem…except when my wife sends me fuckin TikTok recipes. What grinds my gears more is websites with usually interesting content but are so mired by ads, menu bars and content preview that it’s a long, battery-draining slog just to consume their content. I’m looking at you Jalopnik
  2. I think they’re real, and the intergalactic probe crash landed in Lubbock wherein the aliens took one look around before promptly committing suicide.
  3. Best I heard today was ‘Glitch McConnell’
  4. So a mass shooting was averted by…a mass shooting?
  5. 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.
  6. 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”
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. More like (sorry for huge gif)
  10. 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.
  11. 88 Bad Mofo has that market cornered
  12. 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:
  13. 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.
  14. 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
  15. 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?
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