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1 day agoI can only hope that Biden opens the flood gates and sends as much as possible as quickly as possible.
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4·3 days agohttps://youtu.be/35DSdw7dHjs?t=32
I’ll see your 1984 and raise you a 1976.
https://youtu.be/35DSdw7dHjs?t=32
From a 1976 movie, Network.
I’m a native New Yorker. All the best places here are also getting grabbed up by rich folks from overseas.
None of the rich care about things like nations or peoples. There’s them and the peons who serve them.
Never did it myself, but I heard of a club called ‘Dual Cool’ that does it recreationally.
Search and see.
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Same effects with spearguns
My favorite Bond movie is Thunderball. It was made back in the day, so when you see 100 guys jump out of an airplane and scuba dive into a battle with another undersea army you know that it was all real people.
33·8 days agoFor fun, watch the movie “The French Connection.”
Besides still being a great film with plenty of action and suspense, you get to marvel at the fact that, at one time, the police seizing 60 pounds of heroin was headline news around the world.
20·17 days ago[off topic?]
Any time you start a new treatment it’s a good idea to keep a log of how you feel.
“The Eiger Sanction” has entered the chat…
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“High Crimes” is a novel about a disgraced Olympian who gets a job as a corpse retriever on Mt. Everest. The families of dead climbers pay her to find and bring back the frozen bodies of their relatives.
https://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/1930/dark-horse-collects-sebela-moustafas-high-crimes
20·1 month agoThis has been going on for a long time.
Back in the Reagan Era the US was miles ahead of the Soviet Union’s military by any metric. So the Right came up with a new metric, “throw weight.” The Soviets had inferior missile technology, so they had to build bigger weapons to carry the same size warhead. The War Party would go to Congress and the public and show how much bigger the Soviet missiles were and claim that it proved how weak the West was and why we had to spend more.
It was like saying a musket from 1776 was better than a M-16 because it fired a larger bullet.
“You, know, I hear people talk about that a lot, but honestly, I have no idea what it actually is. Can you give me some pointers?”
Now they are your mentor.
“Comfortable silence” is a thing.
And walking away is always an option. “I’m gonna see who else is here,” or “I’m going to get a drink/some fresh air” or “good talk.” are acceptable ways of ending a chat
Ask questions, then just listen to the answers. Nod and add the occasional ‘go on.’
People will usually let you know what excites/interest them. If someone is wearing a football jersey ask them what the best game they ever saw was.
People don’t expect you to entertain them, they just want to know that you are interested in them
Read the rules.
If you want to argue the minutia of building codes of the past, I’m sure there’s a sub for that.
I don’t think that the 1960’s life style was ‘lesser’ than today’s by any means.
Check “Hell’s Angels” by Hunter Thompson. There’s a chapter where he runs down the economics of being a hippie/biker/drop out.
A biker could work six months as a Union stevedore and then go on the road for two years. A part time waitress could support herself and her musician boy freind.
There was a popular travel series. The first book was “Europe on $5.00 A Day.” Eventually, they had “Paris…” “London…” and other great vacations all for $5.00/day.
Sporting events, movies, and concerts were much cheaper.
If you wanted distraction, there were book stalls and news stands everywhere.
Putin doesn’t even have to ask him.
The most insane thing about Trump is how much of a weakling he is. All he had to do was demand $50 billion from the Saudis on Inauguration Day 2016 and he could have sailed along without a care. Instead he decided the smart thing to do was chisel his supporters for nickels and dimes.