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Homercles

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  1. He’s also done something like 20 Cameos, including talking smack at a FF Draft. Considering it for my buddy’s birthday. Dude has his occasional issues but it’s gonna be a sad day for me when he retires…perfect fit for Stillwater.
  2. Get a test pipe with a bung for an O2 sensor and get one of those mini-cat sensor extensions, be done with it forever.
  3. Both cats on my CTS-V died within a year and could only find one OEM…ended up selling the car as I got tired of trying to fix it. My wife’s Explorer is starting to throw those codes now too. I’m to the point that I may start mining for palladium and platinum. I currently hate the fucking things. I’d bet most of those folks are in a shitty situation trying to make a buck, which doesn’t excuse their actions at all but I think the better solution is to come down hard on those buying them…not killing another person. As noted I’d intend to scare the shit out of them and bet they aren’t coming back, I wouldn’t live in fear they’re going to break into my house to fuck with my family. But you do you man. You’re not alone. My NextDoor feed is full of people itching to shoot those folks. I’m just saying it’s not me…the legal hassle, the potential guilt, the permanent change I know would grip me after killing another person, isn’t remotely worth it. Directly threatening me or my family is the only conceivable circumstance I could see shooting someone.
  4. Uhh yeah I’m not killing another human being over stealing something…especially the cat off my car. Scare him away, hold him for the cops, shoot out his tires if he’s close, whatever. Dude may be a piece of shit thief, but he’s still a person with a family and may be in desperate circumstances…or not…I’m still not killing someone over it. Now I catch you in my house with my family home and you don’t immediately run? Different story. Y’all live out your castle doctrine fantasies.
  5. From what I understand ‘the nuclear codes’ (gold codes) change regularly and wouldn’t be worth much of anything. All they are is a way to positively identify the President when he phoned in a launch order to the national command, who then transmits both the code to unlock the weapons/safes plus another code they match in the locked up book to verify its an authorized order. Besides you’re not gonna just call someone on an unsecure line to kickoff WWIII because you had a code book. Much, much more damaging would be details about the design, materials or performance figures of a warhead or delivery system…say how to make FOGBANK, details on the strong/weak link setup in the PAL, or exact dimensions of the warhead in the B-61–12 bomb. With that information you could either design your own or detonate a stolen warhead. Saudi’s would love that I’m sure. But that stuff is ‘born secret’ and I can’t imagine it’s ever just floating around the White House. Ultimately I wish NYT or whoever hadn’t gone straight to nuclear secrets/codes. It’s a nuanced subject, and we all know these lunatics don’t care for details…and if it turns out to not be nuke stuff but ultimately just as damaging (say details on the B21 or formula for F35 paint or a dossier on intelligence sources), we know they’ll just say it was overblown.
  6. Look y’all…I’m a Poke, forged in the pessimistic burning dumpster that was the football program from 98-02. I’ve had my heart ripped out multiple times and knew with absolute certainty that yet another shaky, flickering ray of hope was going to be snuffed out last year when Caleb Williams came to town. It ended up being a last-second, incredible victory over the house that bag-o-dicks built. Let’s not assume it’s over just yet.
  7. This…I’d like to hope that the occasional, dedicated crazies getting appropriate consequences, televised nationally, is enough to gut-check most of the rest. It’s gotta be harder to convince a critical mass of people to take up arms against the country when they regularly see folks dying in corn fields, killing themselves or being locked up. It’s all fun and games on 4Chan/Truth Social/etc until Billy badass actually gets killed for trying to attack an FBI office.
  8. This popped up on my google news feed and seems telling. Bam states he’s much better off without Jackass in his life, Steve-O recounts how he was likely about to get back onboard until Bam skipped the zoom call with key players and everyone else saw him wasted the night before via TMZ (which Bam claims was just sipping beer): https://movieweb.com/bam-margera-steve-o-jackass-interview/ Sounds to me like he refuses to acknowledge the problem and just wants to keep drinking
  9. Wouldn’t surprise me…his wife, or eventual ex wife I dunno, has long been onboard that all-consuming in-your-face style of agency. Edit: Yeah his FB page is that way too with a long, rambling (shocker) video about it along with a teaser to maybe be on tv?
  10. It was on the front page of Reddit. Sorting by controversial to see what mouth breathers gave to say were all pointing out how the AR is nothing like original M-16, the ammo is only middle of the size range for a rifle, it’s not the weapon it’s the user…all the usual flatty talking points.
  11. I know there’s a photo album thread somewhere, but beyond the disgusting actions it took for Trump to be able to take this photo that day…him holding the Bible in a staged, awkward way with a scowl on his face really seems to sum up his exploitative personality in general. Now contrast that with this Souza photo, taken off the cuff in the Oval Office. When I think of who I want leading my country, I value character and accessibility…not tear gassing protestors to pave the way to a church.
  12. Well he’s already using this to fundraise. I thought he was a billionaire? /s
  13. Comments on YouTube, Fox and Reddit are telling me this is only going to galvanize his fan base. Yet I would expect that they were already going to vote for him or it’s possible he won’t be able to run at all. After years of these clowns spamming every website with their cultish drivel I sure hope this goes where we expect it to.
  14. The hinges on my Happening Bunker broke off from excessive, overly excited usage the past few years. Is this latest dust up worth getting it fixed over? It certainly feels different given legit action by (supposedly) non-political agents of the government…but what are the chances this results in nothing? It makes sense to me that the DOJ/FBI would legit have to have ironclad documentation and purity of purpose to raid the Mar-a-lardo residence of a prior president…and the Fox Q News types certainly seem to be wound up…but I’ve been burned before
  15. Homercles

    LBGTQ

    Yeah because there’s no LGBTQ in theater
  16. I dunno I think Ford was an excellent Ryan in Patriot Games. That being said I can’t imagine anyone else playing Ryan in Red October, which is a testament to how well Baldwin played the role of analyst-turned-hero. Red October was yet another testament to practical effects having much longer staying power than early CGI…or most CGI as far as I’m concerned. There’s a short video on YouTube detailing the models they used for exterior and the gimbaled set for interior of the ‘big sonovabitch’. It was all really well executed. Ultimately though my favorite Clancy novel is Cardinal of the Kremlin, and I lament that they never made a serious attempt to put it to film. The detailed tradecraft, Filitov’s threadbare mindset haunted by ghosts from his past, interesting tech and different approaches of atmospheric attenuation for the lasers, desperate advances by the closeted lesbian spy, the archer and attack on the Russian base, sensory deprivation for information extraction, wild ending…it was a very complete, plausible story.
  17. Whoever coined that term ‘the party of NO’, probably during Obama’s term, was absolutely on the nose. I’m not really sure what they’re for anymore…because their stance is all an exercise in contradiction: they espouse small government (build the wall, corporate tax breaks, etc), limited regulation and oversight (see 2008 financial crisis, or trying to castrate renewables), and personal freedom (abortion, voting, gay marriage, church and state, etc).
  18. ^^ Didn’t that destroy a bit insignificant bit of the city with the volume and bass bins? It was a floating stage, right? And Waters continue being Waters, saying Ukraine is in the wrong for not suing for peace, Taiwan is rightfully China’s and Russia had already pretty much defeated the nazis before the US entered the war. https://consequence.net/2022/08/roger-waters-biden-war-criminal-russia-china/amp/ Obviously Barbarossa was falling on its ass about the time the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, so the war of attrition really cost Germany the initiative and was arguably the beginning of the end…but I don't know I’d argue that Russia won the war all by itself.
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