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  • Hay Cats! Your "Can you tuck me in?" post of the day

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    MikM
    Awwwww
  • @Jolly got a new Carr!

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    JollyJ
    Need a Winston?
  • Gray

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    @Copper said in Gray: Some do a better, more natural, job of aging. Clint Eastwood is one who comes to mind. Maybe Diane Keaton, Al Pacino, George Clooney (maybe a little) I think it is more "accepted" for guys to age than for females.
  • The battle for the climate will be won or lost in Beijing

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    @Copper said in The battle for the climate will be won or lost in Beijing: US coal exports [image: 1677515727066-7b1408bd-e5de-4ef0-9692-3baf85368b86-image.png] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/exports-of-coal#:~:text=Exports of Coal in the United States averaged 580.58 USD,United States Exports of Coal. Copper, are you saying that after President Trump declined the coal industry, it took President Biden to bring it back.? LOL
  • CPAC 2023 Conspicuous Absences

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    George KG
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  • The Butt Lift Boom

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    JollyJ
    The Kardashian Effect
  • We're done!

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    CopperC
    Murder!
  • China gave us COVID

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    MikM
    McSushi? Brrrrr
  • “We encourage you to list your preferred pronoun”

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    Ouch.. Just picked up a cup of coffee.. Donald the Barista has a They/Them name tag. I get my coffee and without thinking say “Thank you, good sir!” Oh well…
  • The Consultant

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    George KG
    Don't waste your time on this one. Waltz is great, and the rest of the cast is pretty good as well. All this really needed was a comprehensible story.
  • No disability here

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    @89th said in No disability here: ... charcoal factory in Central America. They are doing it without a respirator. Their lungs will likely be severely compromised before long.
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    JollyJ
    It wasn't, except for the extreme partisan idiots.
  • Big Green is Back

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    JollyJ
    Remington reopening that factory means a lot, for both sportsmen and defense. Like many other businesses, the ammo biz has consolidated. Remington, Federal and CCI are owned by Vista. Their main competitor would be Winchester, owned by Olin. Hornady would be a smaller competitor, along with the small brands of Cor-Bon, etc. But we have a bottleneck...Primers. Only Vista and Olin make primers in the U.S., AFAIK. Previously, reloaders and small manufacturers could source primers from other sources, such as Serbia (Prvi Partizen), Norma (Sweden) or Russia (Tula). For obvious reasons, much of the European supply is unavailable. I'm hoping that opening the Remington factory means the domestic primer problem has gotten better. I think it's one more reason we need to take a look at monopolies, industry consolidation and domestic manufacturing of strategic components. Too many points of failure...
  • DC Defenders

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    @89th said in DC Defenders: Funny, I have a buddy who has been talking up the DC Defenders for a while now. I always thought he was joking but he seems to be serious... The game yesterday was between two of the league's better teams. It ain't the NFL, but it's not bad. I've seen a few games and they've mostly been pretty competitive. Some of the rules are a little different. I think some are better. Kickoffs are different, and much safer. No kicking for extra points, instead they have a one-point, two-point or three-point conversion, starting at the two, five and ten yard-lines. Teams have a choice between trying for an on-side kick, or getting the ball on their own 35, Fourth and 15. The last two minutes of each half have college clock rules - the clock stops on a first down to move the chains.
  • Happy Birthday LuFin's Dad!

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    markM
    Happy birthday!
  • Meghan & Harry to sue South Park?

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    George KG
    Prince Harry is surrounded by victims In a shocking twist after the last three years of Prince Harry’s perpetual victimhood tour, last night in a live therapy session the prince finally admitted what we’ve known all along: that he isn’t one. Back on the stage for a live streamed Q&A with toxic trauma expert Dr. Gabor Maté, Harry claimed, “I definitely don’t see myself as a victim.” You had to pay thirty bucks a head for the pleasure, but boy it was worth it to hear that. Victim, no. Narcissist, maybe. Later in the interview Harry said that sharing his experiences of his terrible life in his bombshell memoir Spare “feels like an act of service.” I’m sure his late grandmother would have different views on what a lifetime of service actually entails. But credit where it’s due: the jig of Hapless Harry’s victimhood can finally be laid to bed. Just kidding. Though Harry doesn’t “see himself as a victim,” that doesn’t mean he doesn’t want us to think he is one. The prince lamented about growing up in a “broken home,” adding that he shipped his family across the pond to break the “cycle of pain” that came with growing up in castles… conveniently ignoring that nearly half of marriages end in divorce and more people now grow up in “broken” homes than whole ones. In fairness, he hardly stood a chance of putting his big-boy pants on with Dr. Maté. His on-stage companion was sympathetic enough to ensure that Harry fermented in his own misery. He was reminded of his trauma at every turn and diagnosed with four disorders, adding a new one to the list, Attention Deficit Disorder — which left even the prince bemused. It’s quite easy to see how Harry ended up in this cycle of victimhood. His on-call team of therapists are there solely to stroke the prince’s ego. The last three years have been spent talking in therapese, with too much “but how did that make you feel?” and not enough conversation about the consequences of his own actions. His wife, the most prolific victim on earth, has found more ways to be persecuted than I’ve had cooked dinners. Meghan stepped out of line? Nope, it’s a press narrative concocted because of her skin color, gender, eye color, hair color, religion, age or weight. Pick one. Maybe California does that to people, but since Harry met Meghan it’s impossible to ignore how fundamentally he has changed. The fun, naughty prince that the world had a soft spot for has been replaced by somebody so gloomy you wouldn’t even want him at your birthday party. The pair have been notably missing from A-list events recently and it’s not hard to see why. Could you imagine being sat next to someone who spends their days doing nothing but tending to their chickens and unpacking their trauma? I think it’s time that Harry got some new friends. I’m all for being more in touch with your feelings, and understand that the days of toxic masculinity and “manning up” are long gone — but Harry is proof that spending your days surrounded by people that validate your victimhood doesn’t do you so well either. "His team of on-call therapists..." LOL.
  • Hay Cats! Your "Knowing when to let go" post of the day.

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  • Stupid People Do Stupid Stuff

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    Wow! Really glad it wasn’t worse. Youngest son “26”, lives in old apartment with radiator heat and got a really nasty steam burn last November. That was a pretty scary phone call from ER and he certainly would attest to how painful burns are. Glad you are doing okay.
  • History of American Journalism

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  • Some thoughts from The Critical Drinker

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