@catseye3 said in More on Biden/Afghanistan: Thinkers/writers like this are so dangerous to the uninformed mind. He seemed so plausible! Of course but Russian foreign policy countering and offseting US influence in the Middle East is not implausible but very real.

@bachophile said in How to measure like a Brit: aviation Is flying safe with all these different units? Yes! Pilots flying international routes deal with this assortment of units daily. We can juggle them in our sleep. Pilots are superhuman.

All the shit my state is known for is crap I can't relate to. Yessiree, Old Bay, sailboats and blue crabs are quite the thing on the other side of the Eastern Continental Divide. Try sweet corn, buckwheat cakes and pickup trucks. Motherfuckers.

I read that many of them left Haiti for South and Central America in 2010 after that earthquake, but economic conditions have worsened in those places. Also heard the cartels were bussing them to the Texas border.

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@george-k said in The "Justice for J6" rally in DC: Seems like only yesterday that we were being told that this would be the second assault on our democracy. Wait...it was yesterday, LOL. Yes, it's so comforting when idiocy is specifically not lionized. There's hope yet.

@89th said in Things you did not know: Those were pretty cool.... bananas are berries, who knew? I knew that one.

@copper said in Barstool Conservatives: @jolly said in Barstool Conservatives: The chanting did more to break the progressive narrative on campus than God and Man at Yale ever did. Hope See, it is possible for you to see the occasional impoliteness vulgarity as hope.

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Why are the roofs white in Bermuda? It turns out they are designed this way to harvest rain. The steps slow down heavy rainfall helping the gutters to collect the water and store it in a tank under the house. ... It's still white, because this reflects ultra-violet light from the sun, which also helps to purify the water. 

@mik Yes, it'd be the camel's nose under the tent. That's the thing about insidious effects. What's outrageous today becomes dubious tomorrow becomes accepted the next day and then, god help us all, improved upon the day after.