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orangetastic1 5 points ago +5 / -0

Here's my theory. I'm GenX, although I've been called a "boomer" 1) because I'm conservative and 2) because some dumb-as-rocks 'tards think anyone over 30 is a "boomer" because making an effort to know what a term actually means is too hard even though they are attached to a device that gives them access to a wealth of information previous generations couldn't even dream of.

But I digress.

There are knumbskulls in every generation. The thing is, stupid used to be lethal, or at least painful. Definitely in the boomer generation and to a lesser extent in GenX, idiocy had real consequences. The smarter of us survived and the rest either got smart or didn't make it. Not to mention, many boomers got eliminated in 'Nam and GenX in smaller skirmishes.

I think each successive generation loses fewer of it's morons over time as we get better at keeping the species alive and that brings the average intelligence down. And that's why the newest generations are trending stupider in comparison.

A smaller factor is those dipshits that are destined to off themselves in those recent generations haven't had a full lifetime to accomplish it yet, so there's still time and hope, on average.

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orangetastic1 4 points ago +4 / -0

"officials apparently ARE NOT SURE if Iran "intended" to down the Apache"

I have Apache's flying low over my house regularly. If I managed to shoot one down, I'm pretty sure that nobody would be considering if I I "intended" to do it or not.

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orangetastic1 3 points ago +3 / -0

Ya gotta be pretty out of touch with reality to need a poverty simulation to understand the concept.

Maybe hire fewer elites and the problem would solve itself.

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orangetastic1 4 points ago +4 / -0

I don't prejudge any black individuals I meet socially or in a business setting. In fact, I know some fine ones who I have nothing but praise for.

But as an older white guy, if I randomly meet a younger black person, I'm going to exercise caution or avoid interaction. It's just pure statistics.

My solution is to live where its 99% white so I don't have to worry about it. Nobody gets offended, and I don't have to worry about being assaulted. The fact that just about everyone I meet is carrying (including me sometimes) makes me even less worried.

Scott Adams wasn't wrong.

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orangetastic1 1 point ago +1 / -0

Isn't it a serious engineering challenge to liberate heat in space? There's no medium for convection so it has to be radiated. Maybe if in orbit within the atmosphere that's less of an obstacle...

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orangetastic1 1 point ago +1 / -0

Been years since I was in Toledo. We called it the left armpit of Ohio, but some parts were admittedly very nice.

Others were, uh, darker. I wonder if this was some wackos or just some hoodrats being gangsta.

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orangetastic1 5 points ago +5 / -0

It's not a bug, it's a feature. At least for the 'rats in charge.

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orangetastic1 5 points ago +5 / -0

Always been conservative. I'm open to new ideas, but always with the philosophy that things are the way they are because our ancestors learned from their mistakes and traditions are simply the result of them figuring out what worked best for everyone.

So I'll consider a new approach, but only if you can acknowledge how and why the traditional ways were put in place in the first place.

“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up"

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orangetastic1 6 points ago +6 / -0

They didn't go to Cuba? I heard it was a socialist paradise with free health care.

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orangetastic1 5 points ago +5 / -0

Not making any suggestions, but the same could be accomplished today easily via remote control, making the end far less messy. Kinda surprised no one has picked up that torch yet, TBH.

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orangetastic1 4 points ago +4 / -0

Seems like a great project for a legitimate NGO (assuming such a thing actually exists) would be to develop some sort of tractor-mounted metal detector or ground penetrating radar system that was inexpensive and easily-deployed.

Unfortunately, just about everywhere there's been an armed conflict in the last century, there is unexploded ordinance left behind.

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orangetastic1 4 points ago +4 / -0

They will drag the election out and continue to "find" ballots until the Dem wins. Then they'll stop. How many times do we have to see it happen?

I would love to be wrong and hope I am.

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orangetastic1 9 points ago +9 / -0

Weird how the fedboi "protests" have stopped too.

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orangetastic1 3 points ago +3 / -0

She put out some decent music a few decades ago. This could have exposed her to a new audience and resurged her career.

Dumb decision on her part, IMHO. Unless she likes the obscurity she's obtained.

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orangetastic1 2 points ago +2 / -0

Don't know why we didn't take the opportunity to put refineries on deactivated military bases to avoid the regulations. Seemed like a good idea back then.

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