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You might want to write that down. And once one election is stolen there will be no going back. And before you accuse me of overreacting consider that Trump had lined up fake electors in the last election.
And yet MAGA still sends money.
That is a direct attack on the truth.
It seems rather silly, but people actually have an attraction to individuals who profess more extreme political beliefs than their own. This phenomenon is called “acrophily.”
Tank Man
Desperate people do desperate things.
And we don't even know his name.
^^A11^^
A History Of The World According To Getty Images
I don't often lose stuff but when I do it's because my wife moved it.
I walked up behind my wife watching a video on her laptop and said, "Who's the fucking nerd", and to my horror, the nerd on the screen laughed. It was a Zoom meeting. The nerd was my wife's gastroenterologist.
FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY
Some of us have just dropped the D because we can.
-wait for the car-
I would love to know if some of our names translate oddly in Asia.
I have dreams like that!!!
The internet has ruined me.
Titanic Spoof
Jews Control Everything
Bulked Harry
Ship Wreck
In the event of a tornado or other such natural disaster place wieners and/or cheese in your pockets so the search dogs will find you first.
Stop acting like people didn't ignore their children before cell phones.
OBJECTS OF INTEREST
Sinkhole in the middle of a farm in Konya, Türkiye
^^C1^^
Goddamn, that's a beautiful dog!
"Let's decorate our balcony with the cheapest, ugliest, weakest furniture the world has ever known."
I hate that shit. The ONLY reason I can condone them is when they are turned into cheap wheelchairs with one of those kits.
There are alternatives to those Walmart Chairs...
Think about the brilliance of the shipping container. Being all the exact same shape and size must have taken some cooperation. Was there an international meeting of shipping companies where they worked out the details?
"This photo from 1979 shows a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employee opening the world’s heaviest hinged door, which was eight feet thick, nearly twelve feet wide, and weighed 97,000 pounds. A special bearing in the hinge allowed a single person to open or close the concrete-filled door, which was used to shield the Rotating Target Neutron Source-II (RTNS-II) -- the world’s most intense source of continuous fusion neutrons."
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The way the door steps down smaller and smaller must make it nearly impossible to blow inward.
I am slower than a cat's slow motion.
I just thought of something. The Coliseum was partially dismantled to provide building materials for later buildings. That means that somewhere those stones still exist. Imagine inspecting an old bakery in Rome and finding out its foundation was made of part of the Coliseum.
I wonder why the handles are not staggered like the foot pedals.
The brilliance of that robot is that it is all-terrain and hooking it up to a vehicle that is not makes no sense.
Model Rocket
Small Car
The fact that eating healthy and exercising actually does make me feel better is offensive to me.
My wife and I spent quality time together without phones or computers last weekend. We won't be making that mistake again.
HUMAN ACTIVITY
One of my exceedingly beautiful bartenders was "hired" by three old men to sail to the Bahamas on a yacht with two other equally beautiful young women. They spent their time sunbathing - sometimes topless - and provided eye candy for the old men who never laid a finger on them. I think about that a lot.
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Her name was Amber. I asked her what her major was and she said, "Human Sexuality". I told her that I minored in that when I was in college. She, in fact, majored in Gender Studies and got a job in New York City six months before she graduated.
When applying for any job he should just show them that clip.
I've shown you food served in a shovel before but I never knew the shovel was that big.
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Me: New York Times Sunday crossword, 43 minutes. True.
But my biggest thrill was finding a puzzle that had these two words crossing one another: FOLIO OLIO. I still have it.
I was told that the tip of a whip breaks the sound barrier and that's what produces the crack.
The way he tossed the saw I'm assuming the tree crushed something it should not have.
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Wrong again. I found a lighter version that shows that it was not a chainsaw.
Did they land on it or is it just a clever trick of photography?
Modern-day gold prospector
My friend used to do that in mountain streams in North Carolina. His greatest find was a megalodon tooth that was as large as the one pictured here.
As I understand it, the tooth is not a fossil but rather the actual tooth.
Sparring
Sometimes when I tell someone that I don't smoke or drink they ask, "So, what do you do then?" I tell them I just breathe and don't stagger.
My high school was a wild place. You could get your ass kicked at 7:30am.
PROHIBITIONS FROM
AROUND THE WORLD
Since 2009, Greece has outlawed wearing heels at any historical site. Apparently, the pointy heels apply too much pressure to the ground and can chip away at architectural structures.
Apparently, flip-flops are prohibited on the Italian island of Capri since they are “excessively noisy,” and residents want to enjoy their “peace and quiet.” Tourists may, however, bring “loud” shoes and wear them in the rest of Italy.
After the 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests, also known as the Greater Chinese Democratic Jasmine Revolution, the word “jasmine” was blocked by China Mobile and China Unicom, suggesting that one can’t use the word “jasmine” on the internet in China. According to a report in The New York Times from May 10, 2011, selling jasmine flowers at flower marketplaces had also been prohibited.
Singapore forbids the import and trading of chewing gum, except for a few varieties allowed for medicinal reasons. The country also takes prohibition very seriously; the importer might face jail time and huge fines.
A regulation limiting social media users was enacted in Russia in 2014. That meant bloggers with more than 3,000 daily readers had to register with the country’s mass media regulator, Roskomnadzor, and follow the rules that apply to the nation’s major media outlets.
Foreign names are not permitted to be used for Portuguese infants, so Aiden, Ashley, Bruce, Charlotte, Dylan, and Jenny are all prohibited. A law also forbids giving a kid a nickname as their legal name. For example, the name Tom cannot be used, but Tomas is permitted. Any name with C, Q, or W in it would be disallowed in Iceland because these letters do not exist in the Icelandic alphabet. Denmark has a list of around 7,000 baby names that are allowed, and, like in Germany, gender-neutral names are off the list.
Importing Ballpoint Pens (Nigeria). In addition to ballpoint pens, so are prohibited all types of footwear, live or dead birds, spaghetti or noodles, carpets, and cocoa butter.
In 2013, the South African government threatened legal action against media sites that published images of President Jacob Zuma’s home. The photo ban came after a lengthy dispute about Zuma's house in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal — a massive property with a mini-football field, a gym, and helicopter pads. A controversy broke out after it was learned that more than £12 million in public funds were spent to renovate the property, leading various media sources to publish aerial pictures of it.
Since 2013, using more than 25 pennies in a single transaction has been prohibited in Canada. This was one of the laws set to place to gradually phase out coins.
3 comments:
A2; Billionaires again! If the government were to confiscate the wealth of the top billionaires....first the government would steal half of it; then with the rest divided among the population you would have hardly anything left. This Marxist delusion is based on the notion that wealth is a fixed cake, which you can tuck into and spread around. It isn't; as soon as you start confiscating the rich withdraw and divert their money. All of thentieth century European history was about proving the mythology of socialism. Americans live a long way away and many seek to revive these futile struggles. You have the best and most efficient method of raising wealth for the masses ever devised by man. Sit back and enjoy it.
Dear Mike, What about when we used to tax the shit out of the mega-wealthy. We did great things back then. But for the sake of argument let's say that half the wealth in the country being controlled by ten or so people was a good thing, what percentage would you consider a bad thing? I'm assuming 100% would disturb you, so where do we draw the line before we tax some of it away from them?
RH
Ralph, perhaps turn the question around. The amount of wealth billionaires control is trivial compared to the federal budget. Their income is even less. It appears your only rationale to tax them is because they have more or earn more than others. In that case, where do you draw the line?
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