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2 hours ago, Gromnir said:
canada is a nice place to live, but we wouldn't wanna visit. i
Totally stealing that line
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So anyway I was looking onto taking G to Spain for her Birthday. I hadn't told her yet, she mentioned once a while ago she wanted to see Europe, Portugal & Spain in particular. I was 100% up for that. I've never been anywhere in Europe myself and I can speak Spanish passably well from working in Mexico. But I'm going to keep that one in my pocket until next year. Now she wants to visit Canada. It's literally three hours north of us but she's never had time to go. I suggested going to the Stampede in Calgary in July. Well take a week and explore southern Alberta and Calgary and come back through the Dakota's. She's very excited. I think is sounds like fun. The only place in Canada I've ever been is Toronto. And that was just for work.
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I betcha EVERYONE here will get it!
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4 hours ago, teknoman2 said:
My mother was a teacher until 2020 and had kids born after 2000 try to tell her "the truth" about events that happened in the 70s and that she witnessed with her own eyes.
The most bizarre example I've ever heard was three Bernie Sanders drones explaining to a sixty year old man that grew up in the USSR he didn't understand communisim.
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In today’s episode of “Comics @Amentep hasn’t read (because they don’t actually exist)
The Detroit Tigers actually made a comic book in the 70s
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4 minutes ago, Gorth said:
V'ger had help...
I thought we all agreed never to bring that movie up again? Dead stinky things should remain buried!
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Mystery issue experienced on NASA's Voyager 1 probe from 1977
It has travelled 45 years in space. It has travelled 15.5 Billion miles. In space! 45 YEARS. Why can't I get a laptop that lasts more than four years?????
Of course no one ever spilled coffee on the two Voyager probes. Probably.
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Biden admin considering shutting down their new "Ministry of Truth" : Biden Administration Considers Shutting Down Disinformation Board amid Blistering Criticism: Report
This would unquestioningly be for the best. Even if something like this is created with the best if intentions (not saying that is the case here) you had better believe it will be weaponized sooner or later. Almost certainly sooner. People are going to believe stupid and even dangerous s--t. There is NOTHING the government can or should do about it.
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I thought the best movie adaptation of Kings books was Cujo. That was the only one that checked all of the plot boxes without major changes.
I've said many times I've never been a fan of King's writing. He comes up with an interesting concept, bolts a makeshift plot to the concept and resolves all of it in 50 pages. Then he pads it with 150 pages or so of superfluous writing to glue it all together and then laughs all the way to the bank. Don't get me wrong, good for him. But he's not someone you are going to go to for interesting or memorable writing. I actually like the Bachman stories a little better because he was able to experiment with them. But one passage he wrote as always stuck with me. The next to las paragraph of Cujo changes the whole book:
QuoteShortly following those mortal events in the Camber dooryard, Cujo's remains were cremated. The ashes went out with the trash and were disposed of at the Augusta waste treatment plant. It would perhaps not be amiss to point out out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do the things his MAN and his WOMAN, and most of all his BOY, had asked or expected of him. He would have died for them, if that had been required. He had never wanted to kill anybody. He had been struck by something, possibly destiny, or fate, or only a degenerative nerve disease called rabies. Free will was not a factor.
Edit: I just reread what I wrote here and I think it comes off harsher on King than I intended. He is not a bad writer. Far from it. From a technical standpoint he is excellent. In the opening line of the Dark Tower he identified the Protagonist, Antagonist, setting, and central conflict and did it one sentence. And it was a good sentence. He does not leave loose plots threads and resolves all conflicts. The plots make sense. But he does not inspire you to identify with his characters. He does not put you in the story. You never forget you are reading a book. You never get invested in the outcomes. At least that is true for me.
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OK THAT I can get behind! He did steal the show.
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10 minutes ago, alanschu said:
While true I am encompassing in general institutions that are able to profit off of incarcerated folk, I'm not sure your assessment is correct?
"In 2019, privately operated facilities held 7% of state prisoners and 16% of federal prisoners."Of course contractors make a profit on their services. No matter that service that is. If a private company is running a SP for a State DOC they are making money on doing it. So yes you could say they are making money on incarceration but that dies not rise to the level you seem to want to take it. They are not "incentivized" to lock people up for a better profit. They don't lock people up. The State does that. All the contractors are doing is maintaining the facility, making sure the prisoners are fed, secured, and otherwise provided for. It is no different than a state run CP. The only ones I'm familiar with are done in Florida and they were all minimum security/work camps. White collar or non violent with short sentences. Medium and maximum security in Florida was not contracted last I heard. The scenario you are imagining just does not exist that I've ever heard of.
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Don't know about that. The plot made no sense. But then again it WAS a Schwarzenegger movie.
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33 minutes ago, alanschu said:
Could probably get deeper with it and ask "what is crime?"
And then expand whether or not a state that has private prisons that financially benefit from incarcerated persons might impact the rates of criminality among the population (or subsets thereof).
AFAIK no state has "private prisons". There ARE states that contract the administration of prisons but those contractors work for and are accountable to the state government just as state employees would be.
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On 5/12/2022 at 10:01 AM, Amentep said:
I think the last director assigned to The Long Walk film was André Øvredal (Trollhunter, Autopsy of Jane Doe, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark). Not sure if he's still on it, though, as he's working on The Last Voyage of the Demeter and, theoretically, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 2.
Only Bachman books I ever read was The Running Man and Thinner, as I recall. Although something in the back of my mind makes me think I might have read Desperation /The Regulators as well to compare the King vs Bachman versions of the story.
The running Man novella was so much better than the movie. But of course Schwarzenegger would not have fit the starring role if they had been faithful
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1 hour ago, ShadySands said:
But what modern day weapon would you take back in time to use in WW2?
Heavy weapons it has to be a MK-19 for me. Have you ever seen anything do so much damage so quickly?
Light weapons I’d say the M-249. The US had nothing close to it. The Thompson and BAR were short range only and had limited ammo capacity. The German MGs and British Bren were comparable in firepower but were much heavier and could not be carried or operated by just one man like the SAW can.
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6 hours ago, BruceVC said:
GD I have mentioned to you that you mustnt think Crypto is a real alternative investment to safe and normal investments like equalities or commodities like gold. Crypto has its advantages but dont ever think about it as a " replacement " to normal currency. Stay with what you know has worked for you like gold and property ....its much less potential risk
https://news.yahoo.com/crypto-market-loses-200-billion-181412696.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Like I always said, buying crypto is buying nothing
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12 minutes ago, Gromnir said:
corporal?
HA! Good Fun!
ps don't make the mistake o' referring to marines as soldiers.
LOL no they get to oversee the s--t details. That's a Corporal's s--t detail.
Believe it or not Corporal is a pretty good rank in the Marines. There are three ranks that. once you make them, your quality of life improves noticeably; Corporal, Staff Sergeant, and Major. In the other three services (not counting the Space Force because it's stupid) E-4 is pretty meaningless. In Navy you get your rating at E-4 so there is that. But in the Corps E-4 is where you start to be exempted from some of the petty BS
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12 minutes ago, Azdeus said:
Yuuup, there's a word in Swedish that fits it very well; "Straffkommendering" literally; "Penalty assignment" or... Well, it's sort of similar to getting assigned something like latrine duty. Huh. I'm drawing a complete blank on how you'd translate that properly to English. @Guard Dog@ShadySands You guys were in the armed forces, right? Did you have a fancy or informal way to refer to something like that? A position that noone wants and that's used to penalize a soldier?
It's called a s--t detail in the USMC
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Yesterday G & I were talking about the "collapse" of crypto and the economy in general. Then she starts laughing. She told me I had the perfect "prepper castle" to ride out the economic apocalypse and sold it. Zing.... that wasn't funny!
I told the worst part is the cash I received for the sale is worth 13% less than it was just six months ago!
Oh well. We're all dead in the long run no matter what. In 30 years it won't matter.
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6 hours ago, rjshae said:
It's not so clear cut. He was wearing a bullet proof vest and a tactical helmet, and he was (ineffectually) shot at by the security guard.
A ballistic vest will stop penetration by most pistol rounds and some rifle rounds. But you've still been hit by an object travelling 2k fps. That will take all the fight out of anyone
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18 hours ago, Malcador said:
Guess they shot as well as the Bucks, thankfully
Not funny but still funny
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You really have to pity the Reds at this point:
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The All Things Political Topic - Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
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