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orangetastic1 1 point ago +1 / -0

Thanks for that mental picture.

Can you bleach your mind's eye? Asking for a friend...

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orangetastic1 1 point ago +1 / -0

We are planning on living abroad. Unfortunately, the US is a tax parasite on it's expats. But it still makes financial sense.

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orangetastic1 2 points ago +2 / -0

Those Crown Vics have gotta be hard to come by these days. Probably have to replace with an EV or something tiny and unreliable.

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orangetastic1 3 points ago +3 / -0

Still can't hold a candle to Big Mike.

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orangetastic1 2 points ago +2 / -0

Their leaders consider themselves a special, insulated, unaccountable class. Much like ours do. But theirs have been formalized that way for a lot longer.

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orangetastic1 5 points ago +5 / -0

Barnes seems like a lot of us - a serious person who is constantly being confronted with ClownWorld.

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orangetastic1 2 points ago +2 / -0

I'm a fan of Leno and of classic cars.

I think it's a decent investment, but I also think the market is heavily inflated by boomer nostalgia and they are dying off. I'm gen-x, and while I share a lot of their enthusiasm, I don't have the nostalgia factor. Hard to believe future generations will care much for most of the vehicles from the 50s/60s/70s once that generation fades and mine doesn't have the cash to carry the market at current prices.

Jay's definitely discerning and diversified. Some of his cars will always be valuable. But the stuff that will be valuable in the future is also megabucks now.

I predict a bit of a crash in the market over the next few years. Things have gotten so inflated that I got out of the hobby because I couldn't afford to pay Duesenberg prices for Ford parts anymore just because they're old. Jay will probably be gone by then though.

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orangetastic1 6 points ago +6 / -0

Was South Park involved in the creation of this?

I think the Canucks have been pranked.

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orangetastic1 5 points ago +5 / -0

I'm a big fan of the 1st amendment, but I could look the other way if their heads were all put on pikes.

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orangetastic1 4 points ago +4 / -0

I like "We be Q", 'cause it makes me think of BBQ.

Now I'm hungry...

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orangetastic1 3 points ago +3 / -0

I worked at a rural clinic system with about 7 locations. We had to go through active shooter training. We were told to act out as if it were real.

At one of them, one of the nurses acted out going to her car, grabbing her pistol and taking out the shooter. Fastest training session of all. She effectively ended the crisis in a few minutes. I don't think the trainer was amused but it was a realistic scenario. She was definitely a hero that day.

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orangetastic1 2 points ago +2 / -0

I haven't read the drops for awhile, but didn't Q imply that this was a long-term operation? If so, members of the military routinely cycle out via retirement.

That tells me that either the torch has been passed from generation to generation of a select few, or there's an incognito section of the military that is not subject to the general rules of retirement.

I guess I'm saying those 7 military people could be in flux over time.

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orangetastic1 2 points ago +2 / -0

Just like Idiocracy, tards are living kickass lives. Tards can even be President.

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orangetastic1 3 points ago +4 / -1

I think maybe not fren is inadvertently right.

1930s Germans were sick of the corruption and excesses of the Wiemar freaks. Kind of the way we're sick of the corruption and excesses of the progtardians.

Both 1930s Germans and us are forced to put our hopes and support behind a strong, charismatic leader hoping against hope he can undo the mess the lunatics before him had created before the country collapsed.

The artistic corporal would have barely been a footnote in history of the Wiemars hadn't screwed up so royally. Likewise Trump exists as a political force because of the mess the progressive leftist made.

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orangetastic1 11 points ago +11 / -0

Looks like there are some activities where the DEI quota isn't so important.

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orangetastic1 5 points ago +5 / -0

This is just the tip of the iceberg of problems with their data. About the only really solid data they have is from satellites and that's maybe 50 years worth.

Before that they have ground temp stations that are poorly located, uncalibrated and barely maintained. Worse, the data only really covers Part of North America and Europe with any granularity. Go back far enough (150-200 years) and the data is just some guy at a lighthouse randomly taking readings on a thermometer he may have built himself along the coast.

Then they use this crap data to extrapolate globally, and then use that limited inaccurate data set over 200 years to extrapolate earlier from tree rings and ice cores.

If it were actually good data, it still would have margins of error orders of magnitude greater than the changes they forecast. As it is, it's total bullshit.

They claim they can "fix" some of these problems with data massaging. That's not how data works - worshippers of "Science" should know this.

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