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  • I Upgraded

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    HoraceH
    I don’t use it frequently. I mostly drink coffee these days. I’ll probably have her back into tea someday. I have a whole cabinet full of pu erh my wife gave me.
  • Inside the Capitol Today

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    CopperC
    idiots
  • Tell me, again, where "Democracy dies."

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    HoraceH
    @doctor-phibes said in Tell me, again, where "Democracy dies.": @horace said in Tell me, again, where "Democracy dies.": I am aware of exactly zero anti-Trumpers who ever cared whether he was maliciously lied about. I am also aware of exactly zero anti-Trumpers who would admit to that fact. One must keep up appearances, after all. Their facade of virtue is totally fooling everybody, just ask them. I'm what you would call an anti-Trumper, and I also think the media treated him unfairly. I actually think what the US media did was terrible. I've stopped listening to NPR, pretty much the only US media I could stomach, because they are horribly biased. In some ways they're worse than CNN because quite a few of them appear to honestly believe they're being objective. The US media bias tended to have two effects - it cemented the people who didn't like Trump even more securely in that camp, and it also made his supporters rally around even more, even when he behaved very poorly, which he frequently did, so it was counter-productive in that regard. So, now the country is even more divided. Trump's still an asshole, of course. Yep, well put.
  • All settled except some minor details

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    OptimisticO
    @jon-nyc said in All settled except some minor details: @lufins-dad that’s a good distance. Easy enough to get him for long weekends but not so close he brings his laundry home to you. Agreed. Three hours was my undergrad-to-home distance, and it´s my distance to home now, too. Just perfect. Congrats to Luke!
  • The Harry / Meghan / Oprah interview

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    George KG
    https://twitter.com/DadJokeMan/status/1371775156843126789?s=20
  • Hey Copper and others who know NC beaches

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    jodiJ
    Wow, thats a nice looking place.
  • Time for a new barber

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    brendaB
    @jon-nyc said in Time for a new barber: I think you’ll have more control with a circular saw, Brenda. Arms won’t get as tired either. LOL, Jon. I'm scary enough with the electric hair trimmer.
  • Futoshiki

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    brendaB
    Me, too, Jodi. I love crosswords and many puzzles. I'll have to try it when I'm not tired. LOL
  • Need a loan?

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    taiwan_girlT
    Kind of funny, the headline is: "The Biden Federal Housing Administration is Now Guaranteeing Mortgages for Illegal Aliens with DACA Status" But, the sentence in the article says: "...illegal aliens whose illegal parents allegedly brought them stateside when they were children — will now be eligible for home loan applications thanks to a change in FHA policy that was brought about right before President Joe Biden took office." While the headline is "technically" correct, it could have also been said "President Trump administration changes FHA rules to Guarantee Mortages for Illegal Aliens with DACA status"
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    Doctor PhibesD
    The interesting part is whether the Pope fully agreed with it or not, because he had been hinting otherwise.
  • Mother used deep-fake photos to frame daughters cheerleading rivals

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    George KG
    @jodi said in Mother used deep-fake photos to frame daughters cheerleading rivals: @george-k Yup - she has eyebrows, they’ve just been covered over with lots of makeup and made WAY bigger. This was posted on a FB group that I'm in...it has to do with cats. But, geez...
  • The sun sets on Trump in Chicago

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  • An all too common day in the life of a police officer

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    kluursK
    The whole "defund police" thing makes me crazy. These folks see humanity at its worst - and we ask a lot of them. I can't imagine too many people being able to endure this woman.
  • Can you imagine this ad today?

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    AxtremusA
    @lufins-dad said in Can you imagine this ad today?: I ask again, do you really think those ads would be frowned upon? https://apple.news/AesVoFh8vSwCl8EdSqgjxsg The two are different in nature. One is an employer wanting their employees to look/act a certain way. The other are individuals choosing the look/act a certain way. A closer comparison might be something like this: https://www.hooters.com/hooters-girls/ The Thai variant is a bit more specific: https://www.hootersasia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/JD-OP04-Hooters-Girl-Waitress.pdf
  • On a Mission from God

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    brendaB
    A blunder or a test run?
  • Unfolding A Man

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    brendaB
    What a story. How sad that it took all these years for him to finally get successful treatment.
  • Rating Nursing Homes

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    @doctor-phibes said in Rating Nursing Homes: @loki said in Rating Nursing Homes: I’ve always known I would rather die than go to a nursing home. Good news/Bad news - You'll die either way. Yeah, but it will be autonomously versus in an undead government funded facility.
  • Your expense account

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    L
    The only safe humor for boomers. See, we aren’t cancelled.
  • Overturn a certified election?

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    CopperC
    The right answer is not "it was only 6 votes" The right answer is more like "we have reason to believe the count is wrong" And it's ok if we cheat because we are not old white men
  • Tackling drills would have been a lot more fun.

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    JollyJ
    @taiwan_girl said in Tackling drills would have been a lot more fun.: @jolly Though as a "counterpoint", I was shown an article where there are a number of states that are looking to restrict or ban transgenders from competing in the opposite sex sports. The article asked those states for specific examples within those states where there were transgender people competing on opposite sex sports that were a problem, and pretty much every state could not name an example within their state. As the article say, "It is a solution in search of a problem" (Just to be clear, I think that transgender people completing in opposite sex sports does give them an advantage) Connecticut has already had a problem. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Athletically speaking...Back in the dim mists of high school, I was slower than an arthritic turtle. We're talking 5.8 40's. That's laughable. I was faster than a lot of girls and a heckuva lot stronger. For example, I have jacked a softball over a three hundred foot fence...I don't think there are any women in NCAA softball who could do that.