Don't know about y'all, but any race down here has at least a half-dozen people nobody has ever heard of. If not for social media, nobody would.

Mirrors? It was on video. So they could be positioned just out of frame… They ought to take that trick to Penn & Teller: Fool Us…

@taiwan_girl akshually, I've never read any of the Reacher books. That's @jolly, I believe.

Oh, but I do. I do.

It's pretty bad when droogs are more civil.

In the war on drugs, it's pretty clear that drugs won.

@Jolly said in Thank you. Now leave.: @taiwan_girl said in Thank you. Now leave.: @LuFins-Dad said in Thank you. Now leave.: The whole point of the mandate is public health Exactly, and I think that the vaccine accomplishes this. I think that statistics show that vaccinated people are less likely to get sick, and if they get sick, less likely to be hospitalized, and if they get hospitalized, less likely to die. Now, tell me again why we are kicking a rescue swimmer to the curb. We shouldn't. As I said upstream in this thread, science and knowledge changes. We (generic we) need to change with it. However, in my opinion, it is something that is very difficult for public figures (for example, politicians) to either A)admit they were wrong or B)just change their mind when new information comes in

Saw a note that came to me that the OPEC is currently under pumping their stated output, so the actual decrease in production will be about 800K- 900K barrel per day. (Not a small amount of course, but a fair difference from 2 MM barrel per day)

@Jolly said in $5,000,000,000: https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-surgery-poised-to-become-a-5-billion-industry Fashion ain't cheap Remember when the permanent wave caught on? Price was no object. These things come and go. If the industry receives enough funding I expect we'll discover all kinds of new genders that will benefit us all.

@89th said in Pianoworld sold: without it I wouldn’t have met y’all and been on the latest iteration of the coffee room. :couple_with_heart:

@Aqua-Letifer not really. He's intrigued, but he doesn't really interact with it.

For a wonderful moment, I thought you’d discovered a decent British newspaper and you’d been weaned off your Daily Mail predilection. Sadly, it’s the “New York” variation on a paper that even Murdoch couldn’t ruin.

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@Jolly said in "Inadvertently": https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mar-a-lago-documents-inadvertently-published-online-and-undercut-trump-s-privilege-claims/ar-AA12DKRO?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=c67b1b0f716f4b3d902291d7484c09c9 Slightly related: My malpractice attorney(s) always told me to never, ever, use the word "inadvertently." It connotes "carelessness." "Accidentally" is a better choice.

@Mik Yeah, me too. Even back when I had a normal immune system.

@Axtremus said in SecTreas says economy not meeting equal opportunity: @Copper said in SecTreas says economy not meeting equal opportunity: @Axtremus said in SecTreas says economy not meeting equal opportunity: @Copper said in SecTreas says economy not meeting equal opportunity: Have government policy that encourages families rather than hate them. Name one government, anywhere in the world and any time in recorded history, that encouraged families. The United States Are all problems solved in the United States? Prior to LBJ things were headed in the right direction. Then the democrats embraced dementia.

@Mik Putin has been at war with the West for the last seven years, maybe longer. Am surprised it’s taken Cohen so long to figure it all out. Cohen comes across as less than rational about it all.

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@George-K said in SpaceX launching in a few minutes: Pretty sloppy. That first stage landing was at least 10 feet off center. Years ago there was a Soviet weightlifter who was paid extra, by the State, every time he set a world record. So, he made sure he set the record by the narrowest possible margin, leaving room for him to set the record again in the next competition. Maybe it is something like that.