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Good for him. I must say my father never went to any of my "a boy and his guitar" stuff and I couldn't contemplate him doing so in my wildest imagination. Is that a 714ce? Very nice.

That would be regime change since the Ayatollahs probably would not take kindly the American Satan moving into their beloved country. And since we've done something similar to a couple countries in the neighborhood without much success we at least should have learned we are not too good at taking over Islamic countries and making them workable. Also, this would mean a pivot away from China--not in our best interest at the moment.

Wishful thinking on the part of the Israelis.

@LuFins-Dad said in Minnesota state reps shot in their homes:

The suspect is a Tim Walz appointee, and was apparently carrying No King flyers. So it seems likely the guy is probably an extreme left whacko or an extreme right whacko.

Crazy world we're living if it's all the same.

@jon-nyc said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread:

Rock the Casbah.

@bachophile said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread:

Back in the shelter. Feel like I should be singing gimme shelter by the stones.

Good luck Bach, hope it all goes well for you and your.

@Horace said in USAid:

Bill Gates Memorial Continent

That's a great post.

@89th said in USAid:

JFK knew... USAID was first a defense strategy, and second a humanitarian effort.

Either way this is F***ed up. Why can't indigenous people in a region they have been living for thousands of years sustain themselves without the aid of Multi National relief agencies? Africa is the most handout receiving continent of the world.

@bachophile said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread:

No, we keep getting messages from the powers that be, that there is still a big danger of ballistic missiles. Not to be euphoric.

Dig out all the problems. When all this is over Israel should donate a bunch of camels and lots of sheep and let them go back to the people they really are.

When people come over your house and see your piano and ask you to play something, that piece by Chic Corea is EXACTLY what you should play. Light, airy, kind of simple in it's way, inviting, yet astoundingly beautiful. Yet nobody but a really brilliant artist can actually do something like that. It's what makes the piano such an annoying instrument to play.

I saw them twice. Once with my wife and once with a girlfriend before I met my wife and I've been married a looooog time.

They stole the design from the French.

I'll try it. It seems it could be a bit thick--but there's GOT to be a lot of flavor to it. The blue cheese, and the French Dressing ( a nice touch.) I would suggest the OFFICIAL mayonnaise should be Dukes. Our old friend Plays88's family were the people that made the stuff. All I buy.

Good luck Jon, good boy though--he is paying attention to the road. (And not to his a-hole father posting pics to his a-hole friends on a chat site!)

@Mik said in Single Americans Earning the Average Salary Don't Get to "Live Comfortably" in the USA:

It is. We got ours through five undergrad year with no debt and a car. Ever since then she's made consistently good decisions. A lot of that is we normally involved her in the reasoning process behind how we made decisions as a family.

White Privilege. This is EXACTLY what systematic racism looks like. (And FWIW my wife and I did the same for our kids. We, like Mic try to be good parents.) And talking about money, not as a fixation, but gently explaining situations and costs and rewards all through a kids life gives them some understanding of what life really looks like. Nothing worse than being brought up in a fictional universe and then at 18 or 21 being thrust out there in the real world to fend for yourself.

Obviously, "Horace" has been a ChatGPT plant program all along. I must say, he fooled me, but I started getting suspicious when he got in the 98% (or something like that) in the math exam. Good he's coming clean. Though no doubt he would have been exposed sooner or later. Also that 6' 8" physique made of solid muscle didn't help his case either. And why "Horace" of all names--well Horace was the Roman who said: "carpe diem." It's all making sense.

"Buy the ChatGPT program, only $19.95 a month."

Don't let the "Horace" program fool you--stay HUMAN TNCR!

@Doctor-Phibes said in 2025 Pride - Day 4:

I you want to go on a holy war, well, it's a free board. But we all know how those turn out.

We do; so this: Maybe it's best we don't go down this route. It may be just me, but we're all getting a bit long in the tooth for the "you're stooopid!" "No YOU'RE stoopid!". "No you're even MORE STOOPID!!"

There are actually some really great posts on this thread and sifting through the nonsense is a bit of a pain. Thanks in advance.

And Phibes--not just directed at you. You were just the one who wrote the incriminatory post.

Except, except we kind of make fun of everything around here. We point out foibles and flaws of different people and issues and discuss the matter. I have a little problem with the "you can't say that" "I'm tired of seeing those criticisms," tone of this thread. Just pointing that out. A bit too sanctimonious for my tastes. But carry on.

As to the "gay/trans issue." The issue is largely epistemological. If indeed you see the world as an objectivist, starting out with a tabula rasa, you see that there are two sexes and they behave in a normative fashion and anything outside of the normative is dysmorphic. Unempirical ideas like a multitude of "genders" don't actually exist. No moral judgement need apply (obviously it can be applied but there is no need to do so.)

On the other side if you approach the world as an idealist then there might be a "reality" out in the world, but you will never know what it actually is, all you know is how you interpret the world you sense with your "reason." If your world view shows you that you are a man in a woman's body then you are a man in your own reality no matter what skin or organs you have and that is sufficient to be your true reality. BUT, no one else has to believe what you believe about yourself.

The problem comes when the idealists force the objectivists to conform to their way of thinking and when the objectivists try to force the idealists to their way of thinking.

I keep thinking WWLD. If Larry was still alive he'd be tearing everyone a new one as we speak.

Didn't President Don pass an executive order about banning PRIDE month yet? What the hell has he been doing all these months?

Overall, this is the most brilliantly curated song list. Ever. Thanks!