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Semi_Hemi_Demigod

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I’m just this guy, you know. Except on Lemmy.

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Or cryptid currency, where you pay in bigfoot hairs and squonk snot

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Yes. We also accept snallygaster talons, chupacabra scabs, and toenail clippings from the Jersey devil

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You think that's bad, what do think I'm gonna do with all this Dewayo scat?

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Oddball is the greatest tank commander in film and I will die on that hill while shooting shells full of paint and blasting music

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You'd have to pay me a half million a year to be a teacher. It's insane people still take a job that stressful and demanding for such little money, only to be told they're overpaid.

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My favorite role he played was Oddball in Kelly's Heroes

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Don't hit me with them negative waves so early in the morning

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The fact that KSP2 is still on Steam for $50 is criminal

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Turns out the solution to poverty is to just give people money.

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The idea of "destroy the banks and free everyone" is in so many movies and shows. Sneakers, Mr. Robot, Fight Club. Hell, even Tuvok had a gang of teenage hackers "ethically distribute" money in SeaQuest.

I'm destroying war, corruption. I'm ripping the heart out of greed! [as they both battle to hack into and out of the world bank]

It does have some historical precedent. In the ancient Near East it was common for all debts to be destroyed every decade or so.

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Because it also gets down to 0C in Tennessee in the winter and houses need to be able to handle that, too

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If goods get more volatile in price maybe crypto could actually be useful for commerce. "This box of pasta went up 30% before I got to checkout, but Bitcoin is up 50% in the same time frame so it's okay."

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Vroom vroom is fun.

Shifting is fun.

Fun is good.

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Vermont has a program for remote workers to move there. I might take them up on it because there's no amenities in a city that can beat the night sky in a place with little to no light pollution.

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This is reinforced by a culture where it is in vogue to play up your misery, and it turns into a game of one upsmanship.

I think part of this is that people who post about how happy they are look like they're bragging.

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"I like how the lead makes the meat taste. Tangy and metallic."

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There's lots of non-legitimate ways people use guns. For example, I've only ever shot them for fun. I imagine being able to have a simulated machine gun experience without all the red tape is pretty fun.

However, we outlawed three-wheeled ATVs despite them being fun so it's not an argument.

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I hate that my first thought about my kid not having a cell phone at school is that I won't get a call from them if someone shoots up their school and will be panicking the entire way there.

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My grocery store just sent me an email saying that avocado and mangos are their top picks this week.

Coincidence?

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having the CIA snatch Netanyahu three months ago and deliver him to the Hague in a rubber sack with a note that says “We still love Israel but this guy can get fucked.”

Oh, I wouldn't do that. Just drop him in the middle of Rafah and let him walk home.

‘Will I ever retire?’: millennials wonder what’s on the other side of middle age ( www.theguardian.com )

Claire*, 42, was always told: “Follow your dreams and the money will follow.” So that’s what she did. At 24, she opened a retail store with a friend in downtown Ottawa, Canada. She’d managed to save enough from a part-time government job during university to start the business without taking out a loan....

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My mid-life-crisis car cost me less than $15,000.

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Not to increase your suspicion but over a decade ago James Comey joked about that and then Jeff Sessions grilled him in front of Congress:

FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday that he was trying to be "funny" when he remarked at a conference this week that some of the people he's looking to hire to fight cybercrime "want to smoke weed on the way to the interview."

As someone who has infosec skills that could be useful, the weed prohibition isn't the main reason I don't work for the government. It's that they'd make me come into an office.

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Every four years the new voters learn how fucked up their country is, and how ignorant their countrymen are, and the smart ones learn they're never going to get to vote for someone who isn't going to continue America's decades-long horrific foreign policy.

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Even if you vote you acquiesce to what's in charge. It's not like me voting for Biden will stop me being subject to Trump's whims if he wins. It's not like Scott Perry isn't my fucking "representative." That's how government works: Whoever wins makes the rules regardless of how anyone voted, even if they didn't.

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Yes, I am aware that elections are a thing.

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Like I haven't been doing that for the last quarter century...

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It doesn't seem to be doing anything but I guess you're welcome

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Gay marriage was implemented by the courts and I'm no fan of the ACA

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Continue pushing after the election has ended instead of the usual “Oop, election done. All good.” and then panic four years later.

Pushing what exactly? Is there some kind of button everyone else is aware of? Perhaps it's a lever?

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They also helped Bill Clinton get elected, so that's nice.

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Oh, totally. But that goofy big-eared Texan with the charts and "can ah finish" helped Clinton.

Maybe Democrats need to do something like that.

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Dana Carvey's impressions of him were hilarious

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Politics means being annoyed, angry, and depressed about things you can't change in any meaningful way every year until you die. Or every four years if you're lucky enough to be able to ignore it.

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I love mowing lawns. Put some headphones on and a good audiobook and I can mow for hours. I'm actually a little sad that I only have a small lawn now, because I can barely get into a rhythm before I'm done.

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My elderly neighbor got one and it's quite fun to watch it tootle around his yard.

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I used to have about five acres and would only mow the area around my house. But when I went to sell it the realtor said I had to mow all of it because it looked "messy."

Dumbasses want to move out to the country and live in a damn suburb smh

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I've considered it, but they all want to mow it down to nothing and I like my grass longer

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Alright maybe just the suburbs

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Take one of those air mover things, pack the inlet full of weed, light it, and hook it up to the Capitol's HVAC system

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Nothing, unless they win the election

Even then a Sinema or Manchin or some other asshole - my odds are on Fetterman right now - will sabotage it and we'll have to wait another decade before we have another supermajority who will probably do the same thing.

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we’d be sweeping the legs out from under the private healthcare industry

And health insurance. Which is why we'll never do it. The president who puts almost a million people out of work will never get re-elected.

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Much like most cultural events, I'll just wait for the funniest clips to be posted to YouTube

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Zoom debates! I can use my bingo card from work!

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The Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brien and narrated by Patrick Tull are my absolute favorite audiobooks

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The other problem is that duty cycles are such a nerdy thing to be concerned about nobody has any answers about them. The specifications don't have them, the sales guys know nothing, and short of disassembling the stove and looking up the model number of the regulator I can't make an informed decisions. Which sucks when you're dropping a thousand bucks on a stove and a few hundred to get electric run to my kitchen.

Which is why I would love to be able to test drive a stove. Even if it's just with a pot of water I could get an idea of how frequent the duty cycles are on various settings. But there's no appliance store that will let me do that.

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The crowds vary wildly at Disney World. First time I went with my kids we did the first week of November. Not many people at all, and we could get on a lot of rides without much of a wait and it wasn't too crowded. Bonus: We got to see the Halloween decorations the first day we were there, and then Christmas decorations for the rest of the time. 10/10, would go again.

The second time we decided to do a Christmas trip. There were two days where Magic Kingdom literally told people there wasn't enough room. Even Epcot and Hollywood Studios were crowded, and we didn't get on many rides. The hotels were loud, too. 1/10 would not recommend.

However, I haven't bothered looking at prices because my kids are grown and I'm happy being at home, but if I had to pay 50% more for the first experience it would have been worth it, and the second I wouldn't have taken even if it was free.

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I took my kids in lieu of them having birthday parties one year. We told the person when we checked in and they gave us a few stickers that said "It's my birthday!"

Everyone in every park who saw that sticker stopped and wished my kids a happy birthday. The guy sweeping up trash on Hollywood Boulevard, the cashiers at Epcot, the housekeepers at the hotel, everyone. Even Cinderella stopped marching in the Main Street parade to come over and say "Happy Birthday!"

I get that they're a horrible, soulless corporation but damn do I appreciate how special they made my kids feel.

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