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gyroprotagonist

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  1. FIFY Keep it up! real food around the corner. I continue to sabotage my vague notion of eating well. Discovering that my work place has Twix ice cream bars in the snack court has not helped.
  2. maybe you handy people can help me out. trying to find a shutter control rod for plantation blinds. all the shutters are wrecked in my sons room with 90% of the blinds detaching from the frame due to them being old the plastic pegs crumbling form the sun exposure i guess. I drilled out and replaced all the fittings and put back most of the shutters so far, but the control rod for one of the windows was broken. the rod is flat on one side and a rounded half-circle on the other. I just need one ~50" rod (insert jokes here). Perusing HD i did not see anything. I could maybe make a piece of molding work and it's cheap at $2. Web searches turned up a few leads, one would not long enough. would have to get 2 shorter ones and i guess dowel them together. cost ~$20. The only ready to go product i saw wanted $90 for a composite plastic piece 70" long. any ideas on where to source a single piece?
  3. watched the Jon Oliver piece last night. The part when he/his admin directed cops to go in guns drawn and arrest poor (mostly/all black at least from the video) people for voting issues that happened in some cases years ago was crazy. Even the cops were like WTF am i doing here dragging people out of their homes on this BS. all of it to manufacture some tiny shred of evidence that tougher election security is needed. Hurting people for an insignificant bullet point in his narrative.
  4. we are not talking permafrost here. does the ground get 'frozen' because of a colder winter? asking for a Texan...
  5. wow! that place looks amazing. need to look into going skiing in summer now Park City UT just got ~2 feet of snow. Wish we were there this week, but next week looks pretty good as well, but not 20+ inches. Flying out on Friday
  6. Nice! we are headed out for a week on the 13th and staying at that place right by the orange bubble lift in the Canyons (Grand Summit i think?). Went last year for spring break, but did not venture out too much into town but want to hit up a few more places to eat this time so thanks for the recs.
  7. i have done it just transferring from mm wallet then transferring the resulting coin back to the wallet using sushiswap. sushi can pair coins for a liquidity pool and break them up when needed. As far as taxes i just calculated as i sold things. The pool(s) that i was staking in generated a few different types of coins over time. I would generally collect each week and sell. I used a zero cost basis for the sale counting it all as taxable.
  8. coverage will return to stuff like tan suits, kneeling athletes/halftime performances and book bannings in school libraries. every time gas crests $3.00 a canned story will come out. Just need to keep the lib bogeyman a smidge more esoteric and undefined and it's all good. maybe even a few more stories about kids using litterboxes in schools for good measure. Oh i know. how about a Dilbert redemption tour?
  9. It's beside the point, but how about crating the fucking dogs in your house when you are out instead of chaining them to ground or whatever. My 70lb aussie is strong a hell and I could imagine her pulling up any sort stake in the ground given enough time. But she's perfectly calm in her crate. Not advocating for this but is mandatory liability insurance for dog owners next? Seems like there are enough grifting opportunities for the lawmakers to get it done. must have a doggy DNA test to determine 'bad breed' % and your rate is based on that. Dogs would need to be chipped showing proof of ins updated every year by the vets. Vets would run a service like the car inspection places. Dog cops would walk the beat with a chip reader and issue citations at dog parks and neighborhood sidewalks.
  10. I always thought that was the key for the Fan. maybe it's a chicken and egg deal, but after they finally stuck with the core guys over time, they gained some traction. I listen to the Fan a little more cause i finally know who those clowns are. been freebasing truth serum i see.
  11. need more discussion of wolf pack attack tactics and the limitations of pack animals in 1v1 fights against bipedal meat bags. Shirley there is a dissertation written about this
  12. composting is the true tyrannical threat here. not wanting to know about girls'/women's' menstrual cycles or removing 'banned' books from the library or calling for registered Dems to give up their right to vote should they move to a red state. All that is super cool and not tyrannical.
  13. made it in Wed night and Thursday turned out awesome after ~10in falling on Wed. park was empty and thicc powder everywhere under a bluebird sky. we were not used to skiing in that powder kids and i got stuck a few times Friday was still not crowded and could find good snow fairly easy. Kids did some 1/2 day lessons. daughter is getting good at snowboarding Sat we got off right when the lift opened and ran as many as we could on the backside but the hordes were unleashed around 10:30 and 0-5 min lift lines went to 15-20. Sunday was super crowded and there was no escaping 20+ min waits in line. I cannot recommend enough the Burton step-in bindings and boots for a snowboard. they worked flawlessly and it took ~10 seconds to click in after getting off the lift. no more bending over or sitting on my butt to strap in or make adjustments on the bindings. Just find a relatively flat spot and then click in similar to a ski boot (but heel first) They are expensive but after testing them out for the first time, they are best thing i have ever purchased RE: snowboarding. with some more practice i think i will be able to step in while moving off the lift.
  14. taking off for a few days in Angelfire. looks like they are getting 6" tonight. Stopping in Lubbock halfway to spend the night w/ inlaws but may have to delay taking off early Wed morning due to the storm. Supposed to ski Th/Fr/Sa/Su. Fr-Su look like fantastic days. Have chains ready to go but hopefully the road crews do some work before hitting any rough patches.
  15. learn me on what is the 'benefit' to not expanding Medicaid? I mean aside from dunking on poor people. isn't politics 101 taking as much Federal money as possible?
  16. they did at UT at least. There was a EE class where we had to pretend to pitch to VCs. get up in front of the class and go through a pitch. The Indian and Pakistani students really went after each other (class got to ask questions during the pitch). Then everyone turned a white dude when the crux of his plan was to use basically slave labor after he denigrated most of Asia in trying to explain his point. Prof had to stop his pitch lol Also a writing component class was required to graduate. I took American Studies where we met at Posse East most fair weather days. Requiring them and being good/decent at it are 2 different things though.
  17. what is the ven diagram for - female maga fanatic who is employed - realtor ?
  18. maybe we can get Animal Farm 'more equal' tiers of citizenship.
  19. not to derail the thread, but this shit blows my mind. I have not been in a gym other than our local Y in probably 15 years. cannot believe the gym allows it. Shirley it violates the TOS
  20. is shit like that for real? people setting their phones on tripods to record themselves working out in a public gym?
  21. save $5 and go pantless. WTF, i can't see asking/'forcing' people to donate to divisive charities at work.
  22. his other series Traveler's Gate trilogy is really good too. i am big fan of WW
  23. they need a 'patch' for the dopamine/serotonin (or whatever) hit i get when consuming chocolate. that pull is way stronger than anything i have had for tobacco or caffeine. It's nothing to do with hunger or being full. luckily had metabolism to counter the results but nearing 50 that may be waning. around xmas time i just said fuck it and started rampaging on sweets and lo and behold there is 5lbs more of me to enjoy in 2023 so far.
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