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  1. yeah, i've actually felt bad for all the Tesla drivers here. there are a TON, Denver had some kind of rebate program years ago and i've never been somewhere with so many EVs! it's actually pretty cool. but knowing Denver went for Harris close to 80% i know most of the Tesla drivers here are not in support of Elon's current warpath.

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    i am seeing more and more with stickers and magnets with some variation of the 'bought before i knew he was an asshole/crazy' message. the dealership here is one of the ones that has been attacked. gotta be pretty scary for the local owners. i've only seen a handful of the frankenmobiles.

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  2. On 3/19/2025 at 2:11 PM, mchookem said:

    that sounds like a nightmare to witness. i know there are images you can't get out of your head. I'm sorry.

     

    apropos of fucking nothing, i didnt even know where to put this and i can't believe this thread is right here.

    i think I just saw a man die in the gotdamn waiting room of my heart doctor. like an hour ago. I'm here for a simple follow up in cardiac unit, dude was walking directly in front of me,  between me and another guy, starts making terrible noises and gasping, stumbling, then just started falling me and the guy were closest and grabbed him to sit, he couldn't speak just these horrible noises, gasps, everybody in waiting room starts screaming, I'm hollering at receptionist that he's collapsed...a couple nurses run out and it's all 'he's crashing! no pulse!' within 90 seconds there are about 30 medical folks surrounding him, he's on the floor they're doing chest compressions, they rolled in a crash cart, shock him...

    oh, and also, my mate just happens to currently be in the ER in this same hospital for tachycardia or 'aflutter' or something, he's gong through some weirdness they can't quite pin down it's a teaching hospital so they're trying to figure it out, not a crisis he feels fine except for a resting HR of 136 lol but his pcp sent him here this morning to ER bc they were better equipped.

    so like a lot, all at once, and this poor guy is clearly having a heart attack right in front of me. like wtf. I kinda lost my shit standing against a wall out of the way. and then they call me back haha.

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    anyways, I'm in ER now w/ spouse, my appt went great* except for elevated bp and hr which doc said is understandable. mate is fine just bored and still trying to figure out why he's sitting here with 130 hr.

    I've calmed down, asked about the man, 'they got him back!' (they were hollering his name while it was happening so i asked about him, told them I was right there when it happened). this hospital is the fucking bomb, love the docs here. 

    and if you're going to have a heart attack, not sure there's a better place than in the fucking waiting room of the cardiac unit at a big teaching hospital! wow.

    sorry for typos, I was all stream of consciousness there for a bit.

    so how's y'alls Wednesday? 😜

     

     

     

     

    *fyi if you have persistent afib I cannot recommend having cardiac ablation enough! wish i'd done it before we went to Europe last year, has made a huge difference. 

     

    update...confirmed the gentleman survived and was discharged today. i know that bc i was back at the hospital today bc my spouse has been there since all this happened Wednesday. turns out he was 'technically' in heart failure and had his own emergency cardiac ablation this morning 😕 spouse, not stranger man who collapsed in front of me. 

    anyways. new territory here. but we're home tonight ❤️

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  3. 3 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    So if I understand the plight of the farmer:

    costs go up they get free money even if crop prices go up. 
     

    prices tank, they get free money even if costs drop accordingly. 
     

    bad crop year?  Free money. 
     

    good crop year?  Still free money but yay bumper crop!
     

    and they’re mostly all against socialist freeloading policies. 

    Simplified, but how far off?

    hmmm i'm starting to think my niece becoming a farmer bc her plans to serve her country in the NPS/USFS/BLM got blown up might not be such a bad career move 🤔

  4. 1 hour ago, aggie08 said:

    Nah, I'll just wait until you seamlessly transition into how physically unattractive California and New York progressive women are vs. deep South conservatives fending off diabetes.

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    1 hour ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

    Way to be a shining example of Christ's love to the world, deacon. 

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  5. 3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    A nice blend of being blissfully unaware and being members of the dominant class inflicting the pain instead of receiving it will do that.  They are winning -- they are on top, they are inflicting their vision on everyone else.  Standing on top of the pile and stepping on people feels GOOD.

    I mean, non-jewish Germans were much happier than jewish Germans in 1939, as just one little example.  White Americans were much happier than black Americans for most of last century, as yet another.

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  6. 1 hour ago, Satchel said:

     

    fuck you, you stupid lazy motherfuckers

     

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    article is paywalled...wtf is he talking about and is he serious? as someone married to an elderly SS recipient, gotdamn.

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  7. 3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    Words and ideas aren't going to move the needle anymore.  Those days are over.  The Rule of Law (necessary to do things like win elections and such) is over.  Stop thinking the old world still exists, and the old rules still apply.

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  8. 15 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

     

     

    the dumbest people fucking alive ....

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    Penalty starts at $10,000 minimum up to $10 million damages for certain forms of gender-affirming care. 

     
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  9. 🤔 that's sounds a bit like "every other country has similar rates of mental illness why are we the only ones with people getting their faces blown off in school and church and grocery stores, what could the difference be?"

    almost like... there's something different about America 🤔 like... we're special. one might even say... exceptional. hmmm 🤔 

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  10. 30 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Trump is making the Kennedy Center unwoke by bringing on the flamboyantly day Ric Grennell to stage performances of Cats and do interior design.
     

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    there's literally nothing about him that isn't stupid and gross

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  11. 1 hour ago, Auto Driller said:

    So you have to visit a Social Security office in person to receive benefits.

    But they are closing Social Security offices.

    hmmm i'm starting to see the actual plan here...🤔 

    'don't be silly, of course we're not going to cut social security, we would never! we're just going to make it increasingly difficult for you to actually figure out how to get it until you give up and die.'

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  12. 8 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Correlates with the timeline social media went into hyperdrive....newsflash people.  Get the fuck off social media.  You want to talk politics and geopolitical shit, do it face to face.  

    Social media and the rise in depression

     

    That's people.  Find better people, or change the subject

    My man!

    definitely agree on the social media point - it has changed people's brains. probably irreversable unfortunately, horse out of the barn and whatnot. also, valid point about the young'uns not engaging in as much, uh, extra-curricular distractions as we did. 

    as far as finding better people...have you been to rural Anderson county? 

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    but seriously...she can't really 'change the subject' b/c she feels pretty hopelessly outnumbered. she's also not super confident in being able to argue her opinions which, yeah, that's a personal issue for her to deal with. i don't really have the same issue though...which i have no doubt is why these same conversations don't ever really happen when i'm visiting. heh. what she tends to do is just leave lol. like literally just flee. which has made for some awkward calls from dad: "where'd you go?? you got up to get a drink and just left??" 😄

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