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by AuthorTony
Fri Feb 14, 2025 8:28 pm
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Kaiser wrote: Fri Feb 14, 2025 8:21 pm He's happy to drink ash-flavored piss as long as you also have to.
Reminds me of a similar post I saw. "Trump voters would happily eat a sh*t sandwich as long as the libs had to smell their breath." And, yep, that's where we are right now.
by AuthorTony
Fri Feb 14, 2025 8:12 pm
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But damn I’m ready for the leopards to eat Trump voters’ faces. I don't think there's anything that can happen or that Trump could do that would make the vast majority of his voters regret their choice. They voted for Trump to own the libs even if the world burned and they suffered, and they're get...
by AuthorTony
Thu Feb 13, 2025 9:10 pm
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This country is getting dumber by the second. The Louisiana Department of Health “will no longer promote mass vaccination” according to a Thursday memo written by the state's top health official and obtained by The Associated Press. A department spokesperson confirmed Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph...
by AuthorTony
Thu Feb 13, 2025 12:54 pm
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Topic: You know what really grinds my gears...
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You know what really grinds my gears...

Or you could just be like my dad and leave every sporting event early (7th inning, middle of the third period, etc) to beat traffic. :face:
by AuthorTony
Tue Feb 11, 2025 10:27 pm
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Shyster wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 10:02 pm He meant that it's all posted on the world's town square and bastion of free speech and discourse: 𝕏.

Fun fact - That's the mine that was used in Day of the Dead.
by AuthorTony
Mon Feb 10, 2025 7:54 pm
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no stupid questions thread

Just found your book on amazon. I forgot to mention there is no upper case version of ß, so Rot fließt der Fluss becomes ROT FLIESST DER FLUSS. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I didn't see your response until just now - sorry! I appreciate the info. Do you do freelance work for translations? I don't know which of my oth...
by AuthorTony
Mon Feb 10, 2025 5:52 pm
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According to the alt NPS page: The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, the United States DOGE Service, as an entity protected from public records requests and most judicial intervention until at least 2034, by classifying its documents as presidential records. Weird how the party that acts...
by AuthorTony
Fri Feb 07, 2025 11:35 pm
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Morkle wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2025 11:16 pm IIRC USAID was also the group investigating Musk shutting off Starlink of Ukraine to aid Russia. At least, II read something to that today.

Speaking of the USAID stuff, I ain't seeing that money come back into my pocket, so where's the savings going?
Elon's pocket.
by AuthorTony
Mon Feb 03, 2025 9:45 pm
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Non Political Current Events Thread

faftorial wrote: Mon Feb 03, 2025 8:31 pm Monroeville Mall sells for $35mm to Walmart. The sellers bought it for $231mm in 2004.
I need to get up there again to see the Dawn of the Dead spots before they're gone for good.
by AuthorTony
Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:46 pm
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Musk isn't an official employee, correct? Are any of his "team" members federal employees? Do they have security clearances? I'll readily admit that I'm probably the dumbest/least educated guy in this "room" but it seems like there might be some sensitive information in these sys...
by AuthorTony
Sat Feb 01, 2025 6:38 pm
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So what's up with Musk's "team" gaining access to the US treasury records? Is it a big deal like Reddit is making it out to be, or just more random Trump BS? Explain it to me like I'm 5.
by AuthorTony
Fri Jan 31, 2025 8:16 pm
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Apparently the scourge of DEI has now caused a MedEvac flight to crash outside of Philadelphia. At this rate DEI is going to be a leading cause of death in the country before the end of the year. Hope our Philly 5AFers are safe. The Somerset County Treasurer (also a former State Police Sergeant and...
by AuthorTony
Thu Jan 30, 2025 12:12 pm
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I miss the good old days when conspiracy theories were about bigfoot, aliens (the outer space kind), and whether Walt Disney's head was cryogenically frozen.
by AuthorTony
Wed Jan 29, 2025 3:06 pm
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That's surprising. I guess they do somewhat care about public outrage. Nah. Karoline Leavitt, the White House spokeswoman, told reporters that the move simply meant a recession of the memo. She said efforts to "end the egregious waste of federal funding" will continue. She said the OMB me...
by AuthorTony
Wed Jan 29, 2025 9:11 am
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Home Improvement Thread

It certainly isn't a 400K quote but...

I was getting quotes for installing a post and rail fence using existing materials. Business 1 quoted $1000. Business 2 quoted $900. Business 3 quoted $2100.
by AuthorTony
Tue Jan 28, 2025 6:24 pm
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So, um, didn't Project 2025 specifically call for dumping civil servants and replacing them with conservative lackeys? https://apnews.com/article/trump-buyouts-to-all-federal-employees-f67f5751a0fd5ad8471806a5a1067b5e he White House on Tuesday began offering buyouts worth seven months of salary to a...
by AuthorTony
Sat Jan 25, 2025 2:40 pm
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I'm not sure whether this has been posted yet. https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/01/us-doj-halts-all-ongoing-and-future-civil-rights-litigation/ January 24, 2025 09:15:25 am The US Department of Justice (DOJ) ordered its Civil Rights Division to halt all ongoing litigation from former President Joe B...
by AuthorTony
Fri Jan 24, 2025 4:27 pm
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Topic: no stupid questions thread
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no stupid questions thread

Well... my middle name is Anthony.
by AuthorTony
Fri Jan 24, 2025 4:13 pm
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meecrofilm wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2025 4:01 pm
Hold up. You're telling me (and I feel comfortable asking this in this thread), that AuthorTony is actually an author?
I am. Just pulp though, nothing important. :lol:
by AuthorTony
Fri Jan 24, 2025 2:25 pm
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@Gaucho - I'm releasing my zombie novels in German, but I had a question about the title translation. The title I was given in German is: Rot fließt der Fluss
My book formatting software is changing the ß to ss. Should I be using one or the other, or are they somewhat interchangeable?

Many thanks!
by AuthorTony
Fri Jan 24, 2025 1:55 pm
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There's a really interesting documentary on Hulu called "The Grab." It's about water/food shortages and how countries are buying up farmland and raiding water supplies around the globe, including in the US. It's worth a watch.
by AuthorTony
Thu Jan 23, 2025 5:11 pm
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Movie Thread

I don't think I buy the correlation between longer run times and declining ticket sales. I think the latter is more of a perfect storm situation. COVID keeping people out of theaters, the very brief window between theatrical releases and streaming, more people having big/huge TVs and quality audio s...
by AuthorTony
Thu Jan 23, 2025 4:15 pm
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Movie Thread

I feel like there's a big difference between films aiming for awards being 150+ minutes long and something like IT Chapter 2 or the comic book movie of the week. Popcorn movies should be 90-100 min max.

Also, fwiw, I thought The Substance was 30 min too long.
by AuthorTony
Thu Jan 23, 2025 1:49 pm
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Movie Thread

Pretty neat to see The Substance snagged a few noms.
by AuthorTony
Thu Jan 23, 2025 9:11 am
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/politics/dc-officers-pardoned-trump/index.html President Donald Trump has issued a “full and unconditional pardon” to Washington, DC, police lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky and officer Terence Sutton for their roles in the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown, a case tha...