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  1. On 1/20/2022 at 11:19 AM, Brisketexan said:

    Man...y'all have seen/heard the contortions of the "everyone should have a government ID to vote!" crowd when it's suggested that "fine, let's get a uniform government ID." right?  "No way am I gonna give the Deep State my information!  That's fascism/communism/naziism/a vegan plot!"

    The governing rule is cognitive dissonance:

    We desperately need to mandate government IDs, but don't make me get a government ID.

    Every vote is sacred and must count, so we must require voter IDs to prevent ineligible votes, but it's perfectly ok to impose that rule in a way that will create barriers to eligible voters actually voting.

    Everyone has an SS number.  Requiring a person to produce that card in no way will restrict voting rights.  However there'd need to be a mechanism in place to ensure only one vote was cast per assigned number, and that mechanism would have to be a computer system of some kind.

  2. 1 hour ago, henrygandorf said:

    i've never read the books but is the main character supposed to be so big, or is this just a weird casting decision?

    C'mon man, that topic has been beaten to death. Cruise bought the rights to the series, and is 100% not what Reacher is supposed to be.

  3. On 2/1/2022 at 9:05 PM, Neonmoon said:

    What’s the typical meal situation like on a weekday? What’s on the menu?

    The hardest part is pairing the correct cab, meritage or old vine zins with marmot mash or bear surprise.

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  4. On 2/1/2022 at 4:51 PM, SimonBolivar said:

    I always thought that large portions of Siberia and Alaska were mosquito shitholes in the summer.

    Oh yeah worst mo-skee- toes in the world apparently. They suck big bull moose dry, vampire style.

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  5. 2 hours ago, Mdhorn said:

    Especially enjoy the last two details which work well individually.  The drips can express gravity and smears act as visual trails--along with the splatters, they convey movement.   

    Oh fuck that noise.  It’s clearly a bunny, and a chicken. 

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  6. On 1/31/2022 at 4:10 PM, Superhero said:

    I’m already thinking about next year’s car. We’ve been looking at pictures and the boy wants someone being shot out of a canon. “Daddy, all we have to do is carve the wood to look like a canon.” 😀

    I want to win this bitch next year. Speed all the way, no aerodynamic drag at all. 

    It’s all about axle smoothness, and weight location, and a kick add paint job of course. 

  7. 14 hours ago, Muny_Tex said:

    I don’t have hard data on this, but it anecdotally seemed like those of us on team slab fared better than yall pier & beamers in avoiding pipe cracks/bursts/damage during the snowmaggedon last year.


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    Yeah because they didn’t insulate the crawl space properly.

    Slabs are fine, but have less efficiency than a crawl space in that HVAC can be routed there, pipes are completely accessible, and floors tend to be warmer on crawlspace homes. 

    A crawlspace is more expensive to build typically.

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  8. 36 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Just to expand, the Green argument is that new nukes will take a long time to build and in the interim emissions don’t drop, and they are afraid that some countries will fiddle-fart around on the tenders and decisions and use that to stall transition, and remain concerned over radioactive waste.

    From the Greens that’s credible.  But the solid, German defensive wall on this one across parties is completely due to economic interests.  The French want nukes, because EDF wants to build them.  The Germans want the whole EU to use German renewable tech and suppliers. 
     

     

    I call BS on that argument a bitX. They’ve been bashing nukes a long time, and that hasn’t been an argument regarding not using it.

  9. 25 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Nuclear IS green, it's surprising to me that the dogmatically pragmatic Germans continue to refuse to consider it. Why is that the case? Spectre of Chernobyl and all that?

    Good question. The Germans, and the French are diametrically opposed on the use of nuclear energy.  The Germans are seemingly scared to fucking death it'll kill em all.  They do make for ripe, terror inducing, military targets however.

  10. 52 minutes ago, troph said:

    If money was no object I would be all over antiquities. That’s a dangerous area for sure. Indiana Jones shit right there. 

    Yep I am fascinated beyond belief by ancient artifacts . I have a Sumerian  object with cuneiform writing .  It’s a scribes creation describing something, who the hell knows what, but you can actually make out finger prints embedded in the clay it was molded from.

  11. 43 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

    Some people don’t consider photography art. Some do, I am one of them. I have been doing photography since I was 17, taking breaks here and there. For the past 12-13 years it has been non stop. I have self published a couple of books and sell prints (not a lot, but usually 5-10 a year). I am about to put out another book of black and white work.

    Not saying what I do is anything special, but it’s what I spend most of my free time doing. A few nice folks from this site have bought my books and prints.

    Here is my kind of sort of portfolio album on Flickr. I am trying to quit Instagram, so not going to link that.

    https://flic.kr/s/aHskz7i5wq

    Are there womens tits ? then yes it's art....

  12. I am a huge art lover my entire life. My Grandfather, and my uncle are/were both fine artist painters.  I have the gene, but never had the time or inclination to develop the skill set.  I collect original poster art from the late 19th thru mid 20th century.

     

    The poster below was the first of our collection. it's 10' tall, and laid rolled up in our first house for 5 years because we didn't have a wall tall enough to display it. I've added to that first poster over the years with probably another 15-20 or so original travel posters, ski posters, airline posters, and a few poreclain/ metal signs thrown in for good measure.

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