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  • Asking the tough questions

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    RenaudaR
    @taiwan_girl George would either have returned as himself or if he wished to be mischievous, dressed as an avian superhero.
  • Guess who's almost old enough to drink!!

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    jon-nycJ
    I started 2months before the coffee room was killed.
  • Hey LD

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    MikM
    Does that mean they don’t wear a dick hiding cup?
  • What are you reading now?

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    taiwan_girlT
    [image: 71gh4uLL13L._SL1500_.jpg] Quite an interesting book. The guy is an equal opportunity cynic on who is at fault; slams pretty much every administration in the 2000's. Soldiers get addicted to drugs (both prescribed and illegal) and alcohol to keep them energized. Then they need other drugs to help numb the pain from the things they see and do. Focusing on Fort Bragg, N.C., home to Delta Force and other elite military units, Harp uncovers a culture steeped in drug trafficking, weapons theft, and cover-ups. Drawing on extensive interviews and documentation, Harp alleges that soldiers returning to Fort Bragg from Afghanistan smuggled opioids and other narcotics into the U.S., sometimes in collaboration with Mexican cartels, and engaged in reckless, often violent behavior on the base—much of it fueled by substance abuse—that the military swept under the rug. A detailed history of the Army's entanglement with Afghanistan's opium trade and harrowing accounts of drug-fueled parties at Fort Bragg full of racist behavior frame Harp's discovery of a shocking number of deaths on the base: 109 from 2020 to 2021 alone, many of them unexplained. Harp's investigative rigor and visceral storytelling make this a disturbing must-read for anyone seeking to understand the full cost of America's overseas conflicts. It was a good companion to the book I read about the drug trade in the Gold Triangle in Myanmar. https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/95/what-are-you-reading-now/777?_=1774917935468
  • The Iran War (was Nuclear Program) thread

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    Andrea BA
    Jeezel, Pete.
  • Thailand trip log

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    jon-nycJ
    4 times a day I’m and out so they go through the motions 8 times a day
  • Zeihan on China

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    Andrea BA
    Something more recent: Link to video
  • Funny Pics

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  • Speaking of geezers

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    Tom-KT
    I heard one song-in a light tenor. His voice (one of the greatest ever) broke a bit. Here's a song from EARLY Fleetwood Mac that mentions McCartney's voice: Link to video I bought this album when it came out.
  • Who uses AI here?

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    markM
    I'm using a Chat-GPT Plus subscription for app development, database analysis and data management. I also use it for customer support issues, etc. It's excellent for producing apps that talk to APIs that I really don't want to code by hand. A shitload faster than any coder I have ever known. Including myself.
  • And I’m going fully cashless

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    jodiJ
    The nicest thing is to be able to deposit them online.
  • I just had my first penny shortage cash surcharge…

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    LuFins DadL
    Their system punished me for using the legal tender of the land! And is trying to force me to use Credit Cards m, which is against my religion!
  • Nope

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    taiwan_girlT
    @Mik
  • Parental Brag: Dean’s List Edition

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    taiwan_girlT
    That is awesome @jon-nyc !! While I am sure that some of it is due to himself, you and his mother are also doing soemthing right!!!
  • I heard that Bruce Springsteen song about Minneapolis today

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    HoraceH
    Jon loves Alex Preti, and Jon would look down his nose at Alex Preti, if Alex Preti were alive.
  • The Iran war memes thead

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    jon-nycJ
    https://x.com/jonfavs/status/2038437375702192538?s=46
  • Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks

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    AxtremusA
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  • Gas price check

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    RenaudaR
    @NobodySock said: @Renauda said: @AndyD Will your light crude oil run generators, or oil heating systems? Or does it have to be mixed with heavy crude first. No it has to be refined first - although the light crude produced in some Western Siberian fields could run a diesel engine once the parafins are removed. Light crudes produced in North America are used primarily for aviation fuel, motor oils and petrochemical production. For AC, What do we know as to the reason why certain types of oil are found in the ground in different geographies? Is it simply a matter of what kind of dinosaurs died in these locations? I’m sure there’s more to it but what do you know? I was a rig hand, Jim, not a petroleum geologist
  • Dov’e Riccardo?

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    One can accept the reason advertised as to why they shut this down to only allow you to go back to generations of relationships to acquire this citizenship while his and mine are three. The advertised claim is that most of these people who acquired the citizenship, never intended to move and live in Italy anyways, and while this may be true, I sense that the timing of this edict was more intended to stop what they foresee as a huge influx of Americans desiring to get out of the USA while getting is good. And my theory goes against my grain in that I abhor statements made by US citizens of anything oppressive that occurs globally and channeling it into some conspiracy, only meant for Americans, take Covid, for example. If one recalls, the first country to take a major hit once Covid was released to the world was in fact Italy. reason number 3537 that Trump has no business handling the reigns of power in the United States as he played along with this conspiracy, so as to downplay his incompetence and handling it when it first hit our shores. He let Maga run the ball with that one and kept patting them on the head, encouraging them. And it was then that I started having a huge distaste for these people and realized how truly selfish they all are in that they defied at every turn any type of quarantine restrictions placed upon them as an assault on their free will