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I've always wanted to try deep fried turkey, but I've never had the opportunity. I'll get around to it one day. Happy Thanksgiving!

Reminds me of when I had an absolute bloodbath on my back patio when I lived in (coincidentally) California. Coyotes had climbed up our hill chasing something, probably rabbits seeing as there were a lot around that frequently visited, and just started destroying everything and physically attacking the house in the middle of the night. They repeatedly charged (and struck with their entire bodies) the back glass sliding door I had that went to the living room (it was a weird house - California...), but weren't able to get through luckily. Left carnage everywhere - looked like somebody had been murdered on my patio. I'll take the raccoons, thanks.

Trump Wonders Why the 100th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage Wasn't Celebrated 'A Long Time Ago' this guy lmao

*fraud detected*

No doubt, but you may have vaguely heard in the news recently about a certain Giuliani being a part of a slightly illegal scheme to dig up dirt on a certain Biden. It might make a little bit of more sense to go with the "40 years of blackmail that I already have on the guy" rather than unnecessarily opening up the risk of going to prison on a separate-but-the-same-exact-idea scheme...if you actually have anything, which he probably doesn't. Not because there isn't any, but more likely because he's an inane blustering hack fraud.

Yeah, the lack of the normal BBCode mode makes editing BBCode in any real manner a terrifying nightmare from which we will never awaken. ...But hey, at least images you copy+paste automatically get embedded tags. That was worth the trade, .

One Cut of the Dead (2017). Recommended by RLM's Jay (his second favorite movie of the year), very unique and entertaining and bizarre film on multiple levels. Pretty masterfully made. The premise is simply that a Japanese film director has been tasked with making a live, one-cut zombie short film. Wasn't sure if I was enjoying it at first, but it all worked out (note: don't watch the trailer as the movie will be very much spoiled). 100% on Rotten Tomatoes if that means anything.

Pretty powerful speech from House Majority Leader Adam Schiff on the closing of the impeachment hearings yesterday.

hwinfo64 is great, though it's a little overkill. Video of its sensors in action: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/prf7fw0bm6dmzdo/2019-11-20_22-48-09.mp4

I won't lie: I took a perverse pleasure in seeing this picture.

Packers were like that for a lot of this decade with Aaron Rodgers. Hoping they get bounced much the same way we did (...although preferably with less winning in the Wild Card/Divisional rounds).

Earlier in the season, I thought the Seahawks would falter and be replaced by the Rams, but they just keep barely winning games, whether it's against great or terrible teams. Bah.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/470861-biden-says-he-wont-legalize-marijuana-because-it-may-be-a-gateway-drug Biden's officially against legalizing marijuana due to it possibly being a "gateway drug". Well, I'm glad he said it out loud, because the Democratic voter base is pretty overwhelmingly in favor of it, so hopefully it hurts him. (e): Also, Trump tying a gubernatorial election to himself and saying that the Republican candidate losing would be a personal loss to him backfires once again, with both Kentucky and Louisiana electing Democratic governors this month. Fun stuff.

@KaineParker & @213374U: I know there's something to be said about fighting the good fight - really, I do...but there's a big difference between discussing with someone who is simply frequently on the opposite side of you vs. a hack fraud ideologue who consistently displays zero good faith any time you engage with them on any issue. Stop giving the latter the platform to spew their bull****...or at least any bigger of one than they're unfortunately currently afforded, .

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NFL is such a danged copycat league. Whooping the Cowboys at AT&T Stadium is the Packers' thing! (e): Of course, right after I say that, the Cowboys get 2 TDs...

Yeah, if HoonDing posted that, I'd be having a hoot - instead, I'm not even able to read it until someone else quotes it. What a shame.

Hey, I'm of the opinion that we may very well be frauds, too. We're probably just better frauds than the Cowboys is all, .

I'm hoping this will be the Cowboys', "Wow, the Cowboys are actually good...for real!" game, where they then immediately get embarrassed the next week to someone much worse.

lmao (Context: Trump's guy, Matt Bevin, lost the Kentucky governorship tonight)

Thanks for linking, that was all over the place but still sort of great. Interested to see where it goes. Love the setting and premise*, and there were some immediately likeable characters on top of it. (e): Hope it gets picked up by someone - I see that this was an indie production. *Charlie's aim will no doubt remind NWN2 players of Kaelyn the Dove, even if the setup to get there is very different...

It was pretty bad. The offensive line got manhandled similarly to week 1 @ Bears, which got Aaron Rodgers doing that thing that magnifies the problem tenfold where he refuses to take shorter plays and instead keeps trying to sit in the pocket for ten seconds waiting for that big play downfield that never comes. In other words, the exact opposite of what you want to happen in a situation where your offensive line is getting destroyed.

The person in government was elected or appointed by someone who ran on serving their citizens, and is entrusted with powers, duties, and responsibilities to do so. When they accept a bribe, through our legal bribery system or not, they tend to do things that run contrary to their elected or appointed purpose/promises and against the wishes of their voters. There would be no need to bribe them to take a stance they already had, right? They're the ones that ran on doing right by their citizens - the briber did no such thing, and is merely taking advantage of the bribee's moral capriciousness and, if the bribe is legal, our legal system allowing such to happen. It's not that the briber did nothing wrong per se (morality still exists even if our corporate world insists to this Earth's fiery end that it doesn't), but they're not the ones that're turning around and selling me and my fellow citizens out for a dime after promising to do the exact opposite and getting voted in for it.