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dancer62 posted...

I wish we could go back to when news was reported rather than manufactured.

this was literally never

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Mead posted...

now?

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I hope its good. The Wonder Years is one of the best shows ever made. Its not talked about nearly enough for how fucking amazing it is at being emotional, funny, understanding, and even educational without being preachy or overbearing.

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This is Twitter but has the same energy imo



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Glad to hear PotD didnt permanently ruin you.

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Isn't TC the same guy who believes in Qanon?

If I didn't know people like this in real life, I'd accuse TC of being a troll. Unfortunately about a third of americans really do think covering your cough during a pandemic is worse than worshiping slave owner statues or whatever

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Theyre huge and gross and I will swat one if it comes at me

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She cane out as queer, not bi

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so I can graduate on time *

I hate this class so so so so so so much but these assignments are literally already three months late so I really have to get them done <___<

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One of my favorite videos

https://youtu.be/7tsFeEr9FHQ

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Meatballs

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This topic embarrasses me. Im closing it.

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I guess this one is made of plastic? The outside at least. I dont know what the inside is

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Do you own any? I dont. I dont know anyone who 100% does, either.

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No, he hasnt posted here in years

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Lol ok

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deep dish is amazing. NY pizza is cardboard and a disgrace to good pizza everywhere.

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I'd support this. Fireworks are loud and dumb and occasionally burn stuff down. None of that is good.

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Hmmm, I like LBJ, Carter, Bush 41, Clinton, and Obama. Bush I like more as a dude than a president though, and LBJ's penis stuff doesn't sit well with me. Clinton did a lot of good, but messed up in some major major goofy ways.

So between Carter and Obama.... probably Obama.


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Legend+

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I don't think this version is as "pumped-up"/exciting/hype as the soundtrack is, but the staging and choreography made up for it, imo. It was also neat to see exactly who sings what parts, as that is sometimes confusing. Also also, I knew Lafayette/Jefferson were the same person, but I didn't know about John/Philip, Peggy/Reynolds, Hurcules/Madison, or Seaburry/Reynolds.

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Sarcasthma posted...

Please teach me how to rub women correctly.

https://youtu.be/rABpgP7G94M

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new mask policy not required in church



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captpackrat posted...

(Staff Sergeant Reckless, one of the most highly decorated war horses in US history)

This is good. The house didnt choose to be part of a war, or what side to fight for. It didnt even understand what was going on. He was just a good horse who deserves a good horse statue

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Martian Lincoln from Adventure Time. Gave up his immortality to right a wrong he did, and then gave his life to protect the people of Mars.

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MrMelodramatic posted...

statues of any real person is dumb imo. There should be statues for like, 3 things. Great achievements (monument to eradication of polio), great loss (holocaust or natural disaster), and maybe one for other organisms that arent human (Laika, or like the one of rats being used for science).

Making a monument to any one person or resembling any one person is always going to be bad because people arent perfect. Tear them all down is my stance. Obviously something like the Lincoln memorial is less problematic than confederate statues, but Im up for bringing them both down.

I guess a fourth type of statue I'd be open to is one about some future goal. Like a monument to peace, or ending world hunger. I can see this being problematic in some instances, but I think overall it would probably be okay.

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statues of any real person is dumb imo. There should be statues for like, 3 things. Great achievements (monument to eradication of polio), great loss (holocaust or natural disaster), and maybe one for other organisms that arent human (Laika, or like the one of rats being used for science).

Making a monument to any one person or resembling any one person is always going to be bad because people arent perfect. Tear them all down is my stance. Obviously something like the Lincoln memorial is less problematic than confederate statues, but Im up for bringing them both down.

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Work. At school I could cut class and hang out with friends. At work I can get fired and I dont know anyone and if I stop going I cant really live anymore.

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PowerSurgeX posted...

tl; dr

tbh me either but the headline sounds bad

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Sometimes people just rub you the wrong way

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In South Dakota, Mr. Trump enjoys the backing of Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican, who said there were no plans to enforce social distancing for the presidents visit.
Were asking them to come, be ready to celebrate, to enjoy the freedoms and the liberties that we have in this country, Ms. Noem said in an interview this week with the Fox News host Laura Ingraham. We wont be social distancing.
In recent weeks, South Dakota has had one of the countrys most encouraging trend lines. The state has averaged a few dozen new cases each day, including 85 announced Friday. There has not been a day with more than 100 new cases in South Dakota since late May.
In Washington, however, officials are adamantly opposed to the celebration that White House officials defended as a gathering people could enjoy safely. Administration officials noted that the celebration was scaled back from last years event, when Mr. Trump turned the holiday into a salute to the military, with tanks on the streets of the capital and flyovers from Air Force One as well as aircraft from each branch of the armed forces, as he delivered remarks from the Lincoln Memorial.
Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, said this week that Mr. Trump had recommended following guidelines set by local authorities only on wearing masks not on social distancing overall. The C.D.C. guidelines, Id also note, say recommended, but not required, she said. We are very much looking forward to the Fourth of July celebration.
This year, the National Park Service said it was taking extra safety precautions on the National Mall, installing more than 100 hand-washing stations throughout the area, up from 15 last year. Officials also said they had 300,000 cloth facial coverings on hand to distribute.
We are committed to providing the American people with a safe and spectacular celebration of our nations birthday in Washington D.C., which will honor our military with music, flyovers and fireworks, a spokesman for the park service said. We are doing so consistent with our mission and historical practices, and we hope everyone enjoys the days festivities.
The presidents political opponents, however, said the celebrations were about one person, only: the president himself.
Donald Trump is seeking to aggrandize himself and divide our nation at yet another rally, said Andrew Bates, a spokesman for Mr. Biden. Joe Biden believes the presidency is about serving the American people whereas Donald Trump only exploits it to serve himself.
On Friday, Mr. Trump spent the day at his golf course in Sterling, Va., before he departed for South Dakota, and White House officials said they had no safety concerns about the trip.
But the virus has already shown it can infiltrate the administration, and the White House has experienced the dangers of staging large gatherings as the pandemic rages. Vice President Mike Pence postponed a planned trip this week to Arizona after Secret Service agents set to accompany him tested positive for the coronavirus or showed symptoms. And at least eight campaign staff members who helped plan Mr. Trumps indoor rally last month in Tulsa, Okla., have tested positive, either before the rally or after attending.
Before the president left for South Dakota on Friday, Trump campaign aides were circulating on social a doctored image of Mount Rushmore, featuring Mr. Trumps face carved into the stone next to some of the nations most revered presidents.
Mount Rushmore, improved, one aide wrote.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-mount-rushmore.html?referringSource=articleShare

Standing in a packed amphitheater in front of Mount Rushmore for an Independence Day celebration, President Trump on Friday delivered a dark and divisive speech that cast his struggling effort to win a second term as a battle against a new far-left fascism seeking to wipe out the nations values and history.
With the coronavirus pandemic raging and his campaign faltering in the polls, his appearance amounted to a fiery reboot of his re-election effort, using the holiday and an official presidential address to mount a full-on culture war against a straw-man version of the left that he portrayed as inciting mayhem and moving the country toward totalitarianism.
Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values and indoctrinate our children, Mr. Tump said, addressing a packed crowd of sign-waving supporters, few of whom wore masks. Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders, deface our most sacred memorials and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities.
Mr. Trump barely mentioned the pandemic, even as the country surpassed 53,000 new cases of the coronavirus and health officials across the country urged Americans to scale back their Fourth of July plans as the pandemic made a frightening resurgence.
Instead, the president leaned into the culture wars that invigorate his base of supporters. Railing against what he described as a dangerous cancel culture, Mr. Trump said the left wanted to unleash a wave of violent crime in cities across the country. He said they think the American people are weak and soft and submissive.
In contrast, he framed himself as the leader who would protect the Second Amendment, law enforcement and the countrys heritage.
His speech came at the end of a day when at least five states Alabama, Alaska, Kansas, North Carolina and South Carolina reported their highest single day of cases yet. Newly reported cases of the virus were rising in all but a handful of states, and many large cities, including Houston, Dallas, Jacksonville and Los Angeles, were seeing alarming growth.
Mr. Trump planned to follow up his trip with a Salute to America celebration on Saturday on the South Lawn at the White House, marked by a military flyover and the launch of 10,000 fireworks on the National Mall.
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser of Washington has warned the gathering violates federal health guidelines. The Trump administration, which controls the federal property of the National Mall, pushed for the celebration, ignoring a mayor officials view as a political rival.
Throughout his presidency, Mr. Trump has tried to bend events to his will, often using social media to drive home his alternate version of reality and, thanks to the power of repetition and the loyal support of his base, sometimes succeeding. But the presidents attempt to drive deeper into the culture wars around a national holiday, during an intensifying health crisis that will not yield to his tactics, risked coming across as out of sync with the concerned mood of the country at a moment when his re-election campaign is struggling and unfocused.
I dont think it will work, because what he is trying to do is pretend that the situation is better than it is, said Michael Beschloss, the historian and author of Presidents of War.
Mr. Beschloss compared Mr. Trump to Woodrow Wilson, who presided over the influenza pandemic in 1918 by trying to pretend it was not happening, and to Herbert Hoover, who in 1932 tried to project that the Great Depression was not as bad as people were saying.
People voted him out because they felt he did not understand the suffering, Mr. Beschloss said, referring to Hoover. Mr. Beschloss said that while presidents had always celebrated the Fourth of July, it was also highly unusual to turn it into a partisan rally.
Most presidents in history have understood that when they appear at a national monument, its usually a moment to act as a unifying chief of state, not a partisan divider, Mr. Beschloss said.
Mr. Trump has consistently played down the concerns over spikes in new cases, even as many cities and states have had to slow or reverse their reopenings, claiming that young people get better much easier and faster, that the death rate is declining and that the virus will just disappear.
On Thursday, he lauded his administrations response, referred to the surge in new cases as temporary hot spots and focused instead on what he said was evidence of the economy bouncing back.
A lot of people would have wilted, Mr. Trump said at a news conference where he praised the latest job numbers. We didnt wilt. Our country didnt wilt.

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I collect vinyl and I've started collecting cassettes. idk if it's a new thing, but a lot of bands I listen to are starting to release stuff on cassette and I'm super into it. Right now I only have about ten, but that's ok because I don't even have a way to play them lol

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Zeus posted...

Probably a lot less dangerous as well.

idk about that. I'd do my best to avoid hitting a horse, and it has a mind of its own so it'll probably try to avoid hitting me. Bicyclers are a lot harder to spot, and a drunk rider won't have good street-crossing or lane-switching skills

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sure but I don't think I can say what kind

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sry guys i had taken some <redacted> and the whole idea of "things happen" was pretty amazing.

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Sephiroth C Ryu posted...

Horses: The original self-driving car. I wonder if anyone ever got in trouble for riding their horse while drunk (as in, just riding the horse, and not from causing any incidents on said said horse riding due to being intoxicated).
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In my city, there's laws against horse-riding drunk in public. Also biking, but I'm sure that's more common.

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Suddenly all your plans stop being plans Like I had avocados last night I was going to use for breakfast but this morning theyre too mushy

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CruelBuffalo posted...

Im a person of color. But I am not black. No way would I allow my name to be used in a promo like that

Yeeaahhhhh. I'm noticeably Hispanic, and I've been told before that Hispanics - especially darker-skinned ones - are able or should be able to say the n-word with a soft 'r'. I'm not sure I buy it though <_<

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GateOfDoom posted...

10 dollars? Add two zeros at the end and im in.

$10.00

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New or at least newish

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a thread where white people talk about how great Hispanic people are, in a comment section about the death of Vanessa Guillen



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Same deal

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In response to our governor signing a new executive order requiring masks be worn in public



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SunWuKung420 posted...

Lol. Computers will always lag behind human skill.

have you owned a computer in the last 25 years?

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No, but aside from being a cool skill (I guess) it doesnt seem practical. My city is always very traffic-heavy and I putting in any extra work to driving sounds both unpleasant and unsafe

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I have nowhere else to put them and I want to share.
Feel free to add on

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

no, this COVID stuff kinda fucked everything with that up but its worked out since she doesnt have to be in school and can work from her laptop so weve been together the last few months with no LDR shit

Yeah covid has been mostly shit, but its actually been nice for me to just sit at home and be together with people I enjoy being with instead of filling my hours around people I couldnt care less about. Not really looking forward to the day I have to start leaving home again.

Jen0125 posted...

I've lived with boyfriends since I was 19. First in college and now with my current boyfriend.

Oh nice. Anything your exes did that annoyed you that your current bf doesnt do?

SunWuKung420 posted...

I've lived with several girlfriends, moved across the country with one and waited until I was married before moving in with my wife. My only advice is be yourself and be honest.

I moved across the state for a girlfriend. At first it seemed like a good idea, then it seemed like a horrible idea, but it turned out to be an overall positive. Funny how things sometimes turn out okay.

ClarkDuke posted...

i think most of the advice given so far is great, but the advice i could add is to not expect perfection.

and, expect problems and learn to adapt early, everything in your current phase is going to be a honeymoon phase.

also, feel free to help out, but don't bend over backwards early, or you risk her expectations on it becoming a regular activity.

be yourself from the start and don't put on a false face like so many do, and remember to keep bills separate until marriage, there's no court for roommates, ok?

Finances should be fun blah. Hopefully if we can both find the kinds of jobs were looking for, well both make a decent amount of money, especially for our area. But shell be making AT LEAST two times as much money as I do. Social science vs. STEM lol

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ReggieTheReckless posted...

27, gf was 23

adjl posted...

Currently 31, she's 25. I guess that would have been 29/23 at the time, them.

Hmm okay. Im a bit younger than you guys, but not a whole lot. Id be 25, her 23.

Jen0125 posted...

My boyfriend and I moved in after dating for 4 months and we'll be together 6 years in October. Just gotta make sure you're communicating each other's needs well.

Woah, four months?! That was really quick. Communication is key, I guess! I think were fairly good at communication our needs, so Im optimistic about that. I guess that means you wouldve been in your mid-20s when you moved in, too.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

whoa Ive been dating my gf 3 years September too

Cool! Did you end up moving to NM?

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ReggieTheReckless posted...

6 years ago I moved from chicagoland to florida. gf gets a job down here and follows me down 2 weeks later. fast forward 2 years later we are married. fast forward to now and it's just more of the same. life for us is easy together

It's kinda just something you need to do and if it doesn't work out at least you saved yourself the trouble of finding out before it was too late!

scary how old were you?
@adjl same question

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