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  1. because incredulity responded to someone posting a tweet pointing out that project 2025 wants to undo regulations on garbage truck operation by teenagers and captainant needlessly trolled him and then we all got to be exposed to a lot of stupid thoughts.
  2. well you are really going to be mad to find out that the state of texas has compulsory education law requiring children to be in some sort of school until 18. https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.25.htm you're being obtuse about the garbage truck stuff. dahobbs articulated it perfectly...there is nothing prohibiting 16 and 17 year olds from apprenticeship and learning trades...but there are certain functions that we as a society say they should not be solely responsible. are there plenty that could do it without incident? of course. but we as a society have determined that it is not a good idea to make them entirely responsible for certain processes.
  3. while i was just messing with you above and i don't disagree that getting people into a vocational training system to start their trade careers is a good idea, i think you are doing that thing here where you interpret the regulation through the lens of right wing twisting/amplification of a misinterpretation of the black letter of the regulation itself...conveying it as something more oppressive than it actually is. when giving it a plain read, i think you will find it doesn't lack sensibility.
  4. since i have decided to be super pedantic in this thread all of a sudden, i will go ahead and correct that team green has 2 and probably adding a third next episode. but you're right, rhaenyra has amassed a signficant advantage. the only thing keeping green in it at the moment is that they have the vince young of dragons. so, spoiler alert, guess what's going to happen in the next episode?
  5. who knew that incredulity was such a man of the proletariat? just joshin ya. but i do enjoy some french literature.
  6. looking at this map, it appears that the lake in the kingswoods that they tricked us into thinking we were going to get to see alicent skinny dipping in is about 66% as far away from KL as harrenhal and she was there the next day. https://quartermaester.info/
  7. not to continue to dwell on the pedantry of continuity and time context complaints about a dragon battle show but it had been a while since i had looked at a westeros and essos map and i have to say that one thing that pops as a tad annoying is i had forgotten that harrenhal was a lot closer to the east side than i remembered. i don't know why but in my mind i was putting harrenhal farther northwest closer to somewhere similar to riverrun or ashemark. the fact of the matter is, harrenhal is not that far from either kings landing or, more to my annoyance, dragonstone. we are left with this impression that daemon is backpacking in eastern europe pre-internet while rhaenyra is stuck at home in rural idaho wondering how it's going with no word. we just saw ulf take silverwing out joyriding to and from kings landing in an hour. harrenhal is almost the same distance. how about just flying over there to check in on how the progress is going and as a reminder who the hmfic is? also, it seemed like aegon made a pretty quick day trip to rook's rest from king's landing which is about the same. it seems to be a key to the plot between rhaenyra and daemon that they are separated by worlds and not in sync...this map reminds me that such a thing is a bit silly. similarly, feels like it is taking cole a hell of a lot longer to get to harrenhal than it did to rooks rest despute being close to the same distance. anyway, not important.
  8. for the less initiated among us...where in that trailer is Tom Bombadil? is it the one talking to (presumably) gandalf?
  9. sulking, but he will be back.
  10. good call. forgot that.
  11. while aegon and sunfyre are both down for the count at the moment, i suspect that will change. they also went way out of their way to indirectly introduce alicent's son daeron in oldtown earlier this season. i suspect that is not incidental. if we assume that daeron is going to show up with a dragon, that would be three for verde (aemond on vhagar, heleana on dreamfyre, a third if daeron has one, and then aegon and sunfyre on the i.r.). blacks have rhaenyra on syrax, jace on vermax, daemon on caraxes, addam on sea smoke, hugh on vermithor, ulf on silverwing, baela is on moondancer, and rhaena's out there trying to find a wild one). 7 with the wild one possibly coming into play for 8. arrax and maelys already taken out by vhagar. from what i understand after talking to some nerds, caraxes and vermithor are the only ones that even have a prayer matching up against vhagar in a 1v1. i'm thinking if i am rhaenryra, i's offer each of daemon and hugh a little three way action with me and mysaria to go make a run at vhagar with caraxes and vermithor and then while the three dragons are going at it and distracted, come in with syrax from the top rope and bite vhagar's head off.
  12. it's actually three posts above your original question. the teleprompter appears to be in tact. at the end of the day, i wish everyone would cut it out with the q-anon level bullshit around this. it wasn't a pr stunt, people died, dipshit was truly in harm's way and regardless of whether it was a bullet graze or a some sort of shrapnel, it really doesn't matter. trump leveraging it and gqp dipshits pretending it's some politically motivated leftist plot to take him out are pathetic, but acting like conspiracy idiots on this just helps keep it in the cycle.
  13. what are some examples of the values that made us so god damn good to begin with that have been lost and what do you believe a vote for trump will do to help restore them?
  14. i am picturing the galaxy brains that were sitting around the computer editing this with a self-satisfied sense of "yep, this thing is done, how awesome is this? let's put it up." i have tried to think of something equally cringey as this unbelievably dumb shit and i genuinely can't recall anything at the moment.
  15. i went to the surly tailgate before the wyoming debacle with 4th&five, his wife, and my wife. my wife has no idea this place exists and is highly confused as to what's going on. i hand immamac a hundred bucks and grab some brisket (which to this day i am still amazed that imma could make such a tasty brisket) and booze and linger around the edges. my wife, confused, asks me wtf is going on and so i tell her all these people congregate on the internet and call each other dipshits over inconsequential banalities and occasionally lose their minds over sports. i point to imma and add that he administrates the site and that's why i handed him the money. anyway, my wife, who is recovering from growing up in an adventist family says "you know, for a guy that fancies himself as having a fairly enlightened perspective on the history of christianity, i find it pretty amusing that you are apparently loosely part of a congregation of idiots that are led by jesus christ himself." i chortled. but yes, the economy is humming while at the same time, is not egalitarian in the distribution of the benefits. both are completely true.
  16. the last seven posts in this thread are absolutely glorious and a perfect encapsulation of surly. i literally lol'd at the exchange. well done all around, gents. every last one of you is getting a hookem from me.
  17. glad i could do my part.
  18. pretty sure danny carey uses at least some paiste 2002s as well.
  19. when i got the core set last year, i went ahead and bit the bullet and just got all Ks for hihat, ride, and two crashes (you can see them all in the pix above). i added a little zild splash and it really makes me appreciate how awesome those Ks are. whenever i finally give up on being a good drummer and am ready to unload the set, i will send them to you. but i will require backstage passes to their grammy debut.
  20. i see what you are saying looking at this pic. there's just no way i can do that with the 8x10 with the current hardware setup without putting all my cymbals except the ride to the left of kick drum which would be a little weird. will try this set up for a hot minute though...and i have moved the snare back since snapping that pic. but no traditional grip here.
  21. while i don't share hagbard's passion for responding to a proposed itinerary by performing due diligence for a merger of multi-national corporations...i would say that i agree that the itinerary is ambitious and that your kids better be the kind that enjoy time in the car. we tend to think of something 90 miles away as an hour and a half drive. that's not quite how it works traversing scotland. feels like maybe one of your spots between ft. augustus and edinburgh should get the kick. if you aren't playing st. andrews, then probably a better time to be had skipping it but you do you. if you are in chill mode in ireland the preceding week, then maybe not too bad. but that is a lot of go-go-go that you better be confident the other four travelers are down for.
  22. overall theme correct. it blows my mind how much the misogyny comes out and what gets judged. i have an aunt who is a fucking democrat mayor of a town and the most ultra-feminist, progressive person and her response to my pointing out sunday that kamala had to be the one unless you want to lose atlanta, philly, pittsburgh, detroit, and milwaukee was "she needs voice lessons, her voice bugs me." wtf, bitch? that said, i do believe that ron's inability to function like a normal person and all these weird android trying to pass as a human displays of awkwardness completely halted and destroyed his momentum...a kind of slow burn howard dean.
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