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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. So, if you want to use the word retard, you might be able to just wait a few years, as words like idiot, moron, and imbecile aren't really considered particularly offensive anymore. Just be careful using the words handicapped and disabled, as they are clearly on borrowed time.
  2. Which is also why we can still call people dumb.
  3. Well if they keep putting the same tire back on that could be part of the problem.
  4. Do you get offended when people reply in incomplete sentences?
  5. of·fend /əˈfend/ verb 1. cause to feel upset, annoyed, or resentful.
  6. People are still buying Tecovas?
  7. Um, excuse me, but Roadhouse and Red Dawn were both made in the 80's. Point Break came shortly after. And let's not forget about Predator, Rambo, Die Hard, or even those forgotten treasures like The Outsiders.
  8. In the middle of a rewatch of The Clone Wars, and there is so much there it is easy to forget just how strong some of the arcs are. In season 3, the get the Nightsisters Arc, followed up immediately by the Mortis Arc (which I'm in the middle of right now). There is so much great content, and most of the rest of it is pretty good and worth watching to flesh out what exactly is going on in the Clone Wars. I've been keeping notes as I've been watching through it, and so far there are only five episodes or so that I've felt like we're a bit of a waste of time, and six that could go either way. Now, I just have to finish 70 some odd episodes before Ahsoka comes out, and maybe if I have time, a rewatch of Rebels as well. Sorry Star Trek Strange New Worlds and Foundation, you'll have to wait.
  9. Very nice. I have a whole bunch of places like that marked on my Google maps of places to check out, but most of them are clustered around the area from Queretaro up through San Luis Potosi. I need to find more places like that for when I am in that area.
  10. I deal with stuff at a raw materials level more so than a consumer level. Mostly it's stuff like making a PE resin with specific properties in order to allow it to adhere to dissimilar resins (like PP or something else) at a molecular level. So like if you wanted to blow a film with a layer that has heat shrink properties and a layer that has UV resistance or an O2 barrier or something, you could either throw a layer of what I make in between or mix some of it in with one of your base resins depending on the application and your final product wouldn't have layers that want to separate. But I'm usually told to make something particular and not always filled in on the end application of whatever it is I'm doing.
  11. Taking gear that you may need off of your fallen comrades is nothing new in war. It's been done in pretty much every conflict in the history of war, and is essentially essential. Now, if he was taking personal belongings to keep as his own, that would be a different story.
  12. I wonder how much gold is buried in the silt at the bottom of the Mississippi or the dirt where the old channel used to run.
  13. I think we are entering an unprecedented era in which technological progress is so much faster than anything we've adapted to in the past. It's going to be painful in the short term, but we will eventually figure out how to deal with it.
  14. Technical question here: do they not have specialty versions of these plastics that will allow stuff like PLA to adhere to PETG? I only ask because chemically modifying plastics to allow them to adhere to dissimilar plastics is pretty much what I do for a living.
  15. If I recall correctly, there was even an interview with a Russian soldier explaining how it wasn't gay to force a new recruit to suck his dick...
  16. Shoot, search on transmission issues with any vehicle that has a CVT these days.
  17. I'm pretty rough on watches. I'm pretty consistently wrenching on something or doing some other type of work that eventually leads to it getting covered in scratches. I try to remember to take my watch off before doing any kind of work in tight spaces where it is likely to get scratched, but sometimes I forget, and sometimes I don't have the time to. So I generally only wear cheaper watches (although I do have an affinity towards automatic movements). I just ordered a timex expedition for like $30 because I know it will get beat up pretty quickly. However, I am considering one of these for the sapphire glass and Seiko automatic movement at a dirt cheap price. Maybe it will survive a bit longer, and I can always (maybe) replace the glass or movement in the future if they become an issue.
  18. I think a key factor we are missing in this discussion is pay for workers. Yes, it is alluded to, but the fact that wages have stagnated is really the elephant in the room. I could care less if CEO's were making record amounts of money if workers were also doing the same. The ever expanding pie of capitalism works decently enough I everybody gets an ever expanding piece of it. But when CEO's are getting the ever expanding share and the share that the workers get stays the same while inflation bumps up key things like the cost of housing up 40% in one year and when food is a major driver of inflation (affects those with more kids disproportionately), then we have a serious problem. We have fewer workers doing more work because workers are generally more skilled, but those extra skills aren't translating into more income despite the extra education they have to acquire along with the associated debts to get those jobs.
  19. When I was involved with the local VFD we had an app that would go off for every 911 call with a little description of what it was. Seems like they just don't want these ladies getting in the way all the time.
  20. Sounds like it's time to embrace your inner lesbian.
  21. I was born in '85, so I missed out on a lot of the more adult movies of the 90's until I was older. But over the years I have come to realize that the late 80's through 90's was truly a renaissance of movie making. If they had the technology we have now to make the movies they made back then...well they probably would have used it as a crutch like they do today.
  22. Same for embedded YouTube clips.
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