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I’ve been screwing around with some old rotten pieces had laying around for a few years, replacing everything rotten with something pretty. Lots of faults and flaws and material removal and it became a sort of side meditation for me these last few months. Gonna start applying tung oil finish this weekend (which itself will take a few weeks to complete correctly).

A sense of entitlement

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/us/politics/harris-billion-dollar-fundraising.html

I think he has a greater impact by spreading dangerous mind viruses through his engagement platform, elevating certain voices and suppressing others all in the name of free speech and hatred of censorship.

What’s there to debate? It happened and another country did it. The world is complicated and power is shifting. Simple solutions rarely suffice. Too often those offering those faux solutions are snake oil salesmen preying on people who deserve better. And I’d wish you great success in your efforts and be the first to applaud you if you managed to pull it off. Literally thousands of people are trying to do exactly that every hour of every day while we comfortably act like Monday morning quarterbacks here. By tuning your brain like a radio with drip drops of misinformation every few minutes of every single day; leveraging your evolved ape shortcuts and heuristic weaknesses by cultivating themes from trusted sources and preventing counter narratives from entering the bubble. By continuing these efforts across platforms and revisiting them until you’re no longer able to capably separate fact from fiction nor even accept as a foundational premise that objective facts both exist and must inform our critical thinking. But now we’re even more off topic. The pagers were just a first strike to knock the enemy off balance before the broader incursion. Netanyahu is the one who must make peace and every incentive he has is telling him he must not. 1700 Israelis were brutalized a year ago. Since then, 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in response, more than half of them innocent women and children. Trump is a cartoonish buffoon who puts idiot ass kissers in position of power and makes campaign contributors ambassadors. Perhaps if you’re serious about becoming an ambassador yourself you should buy some of his gold sneakers and some of his cryptocurrency before he bankrupts that, too.

A nice article outlining how special counsel Smith is using the courts own immunity logic to press the case against Trump. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/how-jack-smith-outsmarted-the-supreme-court/680149/ Non paywalled gift link for a full read: https://archive.ph/fywL4

This is why I’ve stopped engaging with your threads. It’s like trying to nail jello to a wall

Where I am in the Midwest, militias are very real and far more organized than I’d like. They’re often excellent hunters and have huge tracts of farmland for training and staging of operations. They also have vast acres covered with thousands of barns full of hogs and pigs for feeding dead body parts to.

Trerl probably just doesn’t read much. Terel might’ve just made an honest mistake. Trool surely wasn’t trolling. He certainly wasn’t consciously being disrespectful or childishly dismissive, isn’t that right, Tool? That would be below, Trurl and I trust they recognize a phonetic spelling would be Comma,La.

A good carpenter would first ask you to clarify what type of hammer it is. Framing hammer? Ball peen hammer? Tack hammer? Sledge hammer? Dead blow hammer? Rubber mallet? Etc etc.

One of the problems with this thread is the broad all encompassing use of the word divergent. Divergence includes a vast category of traits and characteristics. Some of those traits might help increase the likelihood of successful reproduction while others of those traits might hinder the ability to secure mates and reproduce. Details matter and you may as well be asking whether detached dangling earlobes are an evolutionary advantage.

This thread is about Israeli operations against Hezbollah and other Iranian proxies.

Isn’t it obvious, though? The best way to stop bullying is to force those being bullied to surrender their rights, their lunch money, and just give in to whatever is being demanded of them. Duh. That’s just logic, yo. What hurts my brain is how so many people are so completely aligned with this type of ignorant thinking.

The election is a month away and they’ve already filed hundreds of challenges to the results in those aforementioned courts

You know what else people call a “movement?” It’s that thing we do in the morning after a cup of coffee. The overlap in this particular Venn diagram is significant now that I think about it.

… because easy lies are easier for you to accept than hard truths

America voted for a woman by a margin of 3 Million votes in 2016. America voted against Trump by more than 7 Million votes in 2020. America will almost certainly vote again for a woman (K.Harris) by an equally absurd margin in these next 4 weeks. “America” isn’t the problem. The electoral college putting so much disproportionate power into the hands of around a dozen voters in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan is.

Until the very next morning, of course. Reality check from Axios: It was a strategic play to appeal to moderates during the debate and throw Walz off his game (as he prepared for attack dog Vance, not midwest nice Vance). But it was another lie, in essence, like much of what he said during the debate itself (like that comment about a Fed study saying housing prices were higher due to illegal immigrants or that Trump defended Obamacare, for example).

Since you seem to put so much faith in your cloudy crystal ball, how about you instead share something more useful than a blinkered uninformed partisan opinion... maybe something like next weeks lottery numbers? Such simplistic answers are for seriously deluded simpletons. Alas, you're hardly alone. Such a shame.

It seems clear the intent here is drive views to a video, not to learn, engage, or correct misunderstandings.

I suspect part of it too is the Ayatollah is really old and no longer totally in charge. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if his mind is ailing/failing, lieutenants below him are making these kinetic decisions, and there are quite likely some rather bitter power struggles happening in real-time in Tehran regarding who will takeover as his successor.

A large part of it is more emotional than strategic IMO, plus bowing to internal pressures not to look weak. Israel has been humiliating them and also Iran hadn’t yet responded to the killing of Hamas leader Haniyeh inside the country a few weeks ago. Then they killed Nasrallah in Beruit a few days ago. If I had to guess, timing was due to the ground incursion into Lebanon making Iran look even smaller and weaker, plus Bibi yesterday in X saying that “regime change in Tehran is imminent” implying he plans to send troops into Iran next. That’s the sort of thing that gets under peoples skin especially when they’re already pissed off, and internal political pressures to hit back hard are surely at a boiling point.

When demand exceeds supply's slender frame, Price gouging inflates costs, exploiting the gain. This unfair practice takes advantage of need, Leaving consumers with a financial bleed. Scalpers, too, resell at excessive rates, Buying low, selling high, with profiteering weights. Price fixing, a collusive, hidden scheme, Undermines competition, harming consumers' dream. Laws step in to protect and defend, Consumers' rights, a fair market to amend. These practices harm families, with unfair might, Laws ensure fairness, protecting what’s right.

I like to think my kids bedrooms are chaotic, and that has nothing to do with chaos theory either. You’re a ridiculous human.

Even more annoying to me is how commonly poorly informed voters simplistically assign blame to US Presidents for high fuel costs, but both of us are now venturing off topic on this front.