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OT- Turns out the Club Q killer ran a neo-Nazi website, among other things: https://apnews.com/article/colorado-springs-crime-hate-crimes-d2379dce03c66ea3bc0faa2c5ffb7c21

This is my surprised face. Honest. It's totally a coincidence that it looks exactly like my done-with-this-shit face.

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Feb 23, 2023·edited Feb 23, 2023

Oh how I wish we were done with this shit. I fear there is one coming that will make the Pulse body count look like noise.

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The real chance is to get more and more of the current SCOTUS cases:

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/feb/21/us-supreme-court-twitter-google-lawsuit-internet-law

This law has to be changed to match the Reality, regardless of the $$$$ the scumbag death-profiteers pour in to allow them to IGNORE their responsibilities.

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What if they use flying spaghetti to make the magic boundary?

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It never ceases to amaze – and in fact amuse – me that people think that they're all powerful God somehow can't see through a ridiculous trick. I mean way back in mediaeval times your average peasant thought you could bargain with an even trick the devil, but this is the 21st century – although perhaps not for Orthodox Jews. I'm not up on the distinctions though, are these the guys that where the funny hats and homeschool their kids?

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Maybe they don't think it's a trick... maybe they just think their god is a pedantic bureaucrat!

https://c.tenor.com/fVtcUsX--ZsAAAAC/correct-futurama.gif

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Or else he's dimwitted gull.

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Yes.

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Feb 22, 2023·edited Feb 22, 2023

That would explain the ignorance then. Very few Jewish people in NZ but I did work with one who was extremely well educated – eventually a doctorate. And he always claimed that when you might have to pick up and piss off because of pogroms, education is very portable. These guys obviously don't think that from what I've heard.

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Person. Man. Woman. Camera. TV.

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bcb1f709e4e5471905b415466f4df03b12c9996f465e3db153bc6bd72dbdae7b.jpg

And he knows what an elephant looks like! Stable genius, folks!

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"A test which would prove that you are physically capable of doing the job"

I am not sure there is a bicycle sturdy enough to support drumpster weight.

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He’ll claim the test is rigged because they won’t let him use a golf cart.

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Feb 22, 2023·edited Feb 22, 2023

About 290 is the cutoff for even trail bikes, with 250 to 275 being tops for 'road bikes'.

Don't know the actual component involved, but the wheels become a real issue very quickly. The drive train components also have issues because the pedal effort is not magically conveyed by the soul of the chain to the road, but everything inbetween (including the frame) needs to be suitably designed to take not just the dead load but also the loads from the drivetrain. (for a real treat, get on a carbon frame, pedal hard, and feel the frame behind you flexing left and right as you go)

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I don't know about wheels. I was riding with a friend and we zoomed under a bridge – at least I zoomed he looked – it was in the shade and I didn't see that there was a steel bar across the path. I hit it and did a ground loop. I needed a new set of front forks but the wheel was fine. Surprised the hell out of me, I was expecting the spokes to be all over the place.

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As I understand it a ground loop used to be when you may be stood on the brakes a little too hard when you are taxiing and your nose went down and your propeller churned up the ground, but I may be wrong. Whatever it was I did a complete somersault landed on my back in front of the bike.

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Not to be technical, but I think the term you're looking for is 'ouch'.

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Thought I'd ask because the term, in aviation talk, is sooooo confusing because the loops there are normally verticle, or similar.

You could have easily done a ground loop, depending on the angle, and then the side forces would easily ruin wheels. With the low, low spoke counts available, wheel damage is very likely for any side force.

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He's probably never moved on from his tricycle anyway.

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Feb 22, 2023·edited Feb 22, 2023

An elephant is the one with a tail at each end, right?

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I thought it was the animal they make Ivory Soap out of.

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Way to miss the point by becoming it, Cheetolini.

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No sense of irony these people eh?

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Remember: the Merigold Moron looks in a mirror and sees Captain America.

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I'm sorry Donald Trump and Chris Evans don't belong in the same Solar system, much less the same sentence.

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The lack of self-awareness is staggering. He'd hate this rule if it isn't allowed for the exam to be done by his hand-picked doctor, but instead, by a panel of "impartial" doctors from across the political spectrum.

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So FDR would be unfit.

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That wouldn't bother the Orange one. Most of his hated social safety net (such as it is) was initiated on FDR's watch.

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It really wouldn't bother the Orange one because he thinks FDR is a highway on the east side of Manhattan.

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To me it depends on how other religious and non religious people get to use the public grounds where these poles for the eruv are errected. As long as other religious groups can use the public grounds for their idiotic religious rituals. (e.g if the strings were tied to festivus poles)

Public infrastructure used for only one religion is wrong, unless infrastructure is made available to all religions. Again, it's all or nothing. Given the quagmire that is religious belief, nothing is the less onerous choice.

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And if local Buddhists were allowed to hand prayer flags from the strings! Those would make the neighborhood more colorful, at least.

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Or TST to post banners with the 7 tenets on the poles.

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I'm solutions oriented. How about one of these: https://www.nexus.edu.my/sites/default/files/news_events/alyah_social_distance_hat.jpg

Tie a string around the end of the tubes and you have your own little private domain that goes wherever you go. Problem solved.

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And you could hang wind chimes from it and annoy the fuck out of everyone around.

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Better than Hip-Hop at 160db. I've actually had the bass vibrate my sternum while sitting in another car with the windows up.

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I've had the bass vibrate the glass in my hand while the car playing the hip hop was driving past my house.

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An express ticket to Neck-Trauma-Ville.

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Feb 22, 2023·edited Feb 22, 2023

I don't understand why they can't spend twenty-four fucking hours on their property like their religion tells them to do. WTF‽‽‽ 🙄

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Religion also requires them to go to synagogue. When these rules were written 30-50 centuries ago, the synagogue was always in walking distance. Now most of them have to drive, which means bringing their keys from inside the home to outside.

Conflicting rule,s and obvious kludges to make them sort of work, surprises you?

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I don't get how having keys in your pocket constitutes work. If that is the case wouldn't operating a motor vehicle also be considered work?

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I think it's a different rule than the no work rule. Something about carrying personal items between the private and public domains. (Presumably, clothing doesn't count)

You're trying to apply logic to religious rules. No wonder your head hurts.

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(Presumably, clothing doesn't count)

That would at least make it a little more interesting.

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I'm in favor of public nudity. I hate putting on pants to check the mail, take out the trash, or get the groceries off the porch.

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NYT (I think) had a good article about the guy who had to hire a person to push his child's baby stroller because of those kinds of 'pull it out of your arse' rules that the Professional Jewish parasites have the time to make up.

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Feb 22, 2023·edited Feb 22, 2023

hassidic Jews forbid the use of motored vehicles in their neighbourhoods on Shabbath. It causes a lot of problems in Israel.

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Israel needs to stop kowtowing to them.

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Feb 22, 2023·edited Feb 22, 2023

You can only ignore and take voting privileges/citizenship rights away from ARAB CITIZENS in the theocracy of Israel. Oh, and basic human rights, too, but you also get to de-humanize ARAB NON-CITIZENS even though you don't have the joy of taking away voting rights/citizenship rights.

The Hasidim and East Europe Jews, with high birth rates, are also a handy answer to ARAB CITIZEN high birth rates, too, so don't see any end to the kowtowing.

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It doesn't seem things will go that way. At the foundation of the country someone (Einstein?) feared this.

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When you get down to it, the obvious solution is to watch it on television at this point; but that wouldn't be synagogue in their eyes.

Of course, my opinion is that if some god has such a problem with how he/she/it is worshiped, they can very well come around and explain it. This attempting to figure out the rules all the time stuff is ridiculous and considering no god I've ever heard tell of has anything to say is just proof atheism is the way to go.

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I'll say it again:

Any being, deity or mortal, that desires worship is not worthy of it.

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There is ceremonies who require a minimum number of participants (10 I think), I don't remember the name of the group, I read this in Jewish mythology based urban fantasy books.

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It's called a minyan, and is 10 or 12 men (depending on what authority you are quoting and what ceremony you are referencing). Women don't count/aren't allowed (again, depending on the sect involved.) I've had a couple of run-ins w/ the local Orthodox synagogue, which was supposed to allow its space to be used on Election Day for voting, but reneged w/out notice because a morning prayer ceremony was occurring when the polls had to open. Voters had to vote on the sidewalk outside, once in the rain. As the local election supervisor I had to report them to the County for violations of their contract. Apparently, according to the county, this was longstanding behavior but no-one had wanted to report before. They accused me of anti-Semitism, unmoved when I told them that my family came originally from al-Andalus and were Jewish exiles after the catholic reconquista. I was female so I didn't count.

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They were also Ashkenazi, so you didn't count, either?

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Yup. A bunch of racism there, doubtless, tho most of my family is now blond/blue. It always made me wonder if they had any idea how hard it is to maintain any sort of tradition under such circumstances. (In my family's case, it was beloved foods, not any religious stuff, but still.)

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"I know, I know. This is a LOT for one day."

No it's not. This would have been a slow day back on pathoes.

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On patheticos he wasn't the only one to post.

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OT but jesus!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee082T9_1p8

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Next to this "monument" I want a statue of the American woman who was vacationing in Malta and had to be transferred to Spain because she was having a miscarriage and Malta don't do abortions even to save a woman life.

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Feb 23, 2023·edited Feb 23, 2023

So nothing about making graven images, then? What happened to the Second Commandment? Or are they far more gung-ho for the Second Amendment?

They should rethink this. The statue of Christ the Redeemer recently got hit by lightning. Again. Maybe YHVH was sending a message.

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"PRO LIFE" Republican in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq_h1LWtV9U

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https://popular.info/p/florida-school-board-bans-three-books

I thought things were looking up a little. Obviously I was wrong.

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Murder, rape, torture, genocide, slavery, incest, cannibalism, etc. etc. All found in the bible.

Let's ban THAT book as inappropriate.

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Would it surprise that Baggett is a registered repuke?

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It would surprise if she was registered as anything else. The positive responses give me a small hope that this will come back to bite the board members in the ass next election.

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Feb 23, 2023·edited Feb 23, 2023

WhoTF is this teacher to decide what OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN read, as in check out from the library?!

I have no doubt my education was marred by the idiot teacher who told the librarian I couldn't check out any more history, biography, or science books, but had to only check out 'boys doing sports and fishing' crap.

Another reason I deliberately chose to live in an area with a great local schools and meaningful magnet schools (not just DISCIPLINE! magnet schools).

Another reason it's the beginning of the end when TEACHER EDUCATION is run by backward, reactionary pinheads and hired by the same, on the local level.

As I've noted, had an elementary principle who wouldn't let black kids participate in the May Day Festival because they didn't fit in with the look of the sea of white faces. However, the teachers were completely against all the principal's nasty predilections, and even the kids could tell what was going on.

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This is just so stupid. WITCHES are not real

https://www.youtube.com/live/jXcpz2a8Q0Y?feature=share&t=541

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What about those 8 documentaries? About the boy who lived.

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That bonehead Jerk needs to bone up on his Twain and what Twain had to say about witches...

https://www.twainquotes.com/Witches.html

And he said this (posthumously) in 1923.

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Feb 23, 2023·edited Feb 23, 2023

If anyone is having trouble with the link address I supplied, type a search engine with the words "Mark Twain quotations - Witches"

(Not sure why I'm having trouble with the link. I've typed it numerous times successfully and I typed it EXACTLY as it's shown)

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Feb 23, 2023·edited Feb 23, 2023

Don't type it. Copy & paste the link instead.

http://www.twainquotes.com/Witches.html

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Never needed copypasta before today.

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Did you read the description?

"The Charlie Kirk Show is LIVE on Salem"

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Honestly, I can't watch this guy. I can't get past the funny shape of his head. It's on me I know, but ....

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OT

I've done it! I've located God! His name is...Stephan Pastis!?!

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2023/2/21

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Pastis? Isn't that what Maigret used to drink?

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Feb 22, 2023·edited Feb 22, 2023

In the novels, he is more a beer drinker. Pastis is drink about everywhere in France but it's still a Southern alcoholic drink.

It's also the name of a pastry, no anise in the recipe.

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I remember – and I haven't actually read the novels for a long time, but I did see the British adaptation with Mr Bean in it – he often called in for an aperitif or a digestive or something? I really must dig them out and read them again if that's all I can remember. 😁

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Feb 22, 2023·edited Feb 22, 2023

Pastis is an "apéritif" a drink before the meal. "Digestifs" are strong alcoholic drinks but they are usually fruit based like Armagnac.

I saw the first season, Rowan Atkinson was as great as in "Black Adder".

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I watched every episode – I think about 50 – of the series with Rupert Davies and Ewen Solon, although to be fair I did fall asleep during one episode because I'd been out the night before. And I think Atkinson was perhaps slightly better.

Actually, back in the day just about everyone had a Maigret, and I remember they got them all together at some stage, from all over Europe. If I remember correctly they looked remarkably similar.

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I only know the one with Bruno Cremer that I don't like.

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Well, Peter and Jennie Mayle drank it, while their workmen "boodled" across the countryside to the strains of The Magnificent Seven theme.

Opalesces like absinthe, but less brain rotty (The Ricard bottle is half empty and need to order a new one for Summer).

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What is it with Abrahamic religions bragging about how great their god is yet still have their hands out for that taxpayer $$$?

Let them pray for what they want. Keep their hands off of our wallets. God will provide, right?

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That's why there is a sucker born every minute.

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David Hannum was a prophet.

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So does that mean before eruv orthodox Jews had to go to the synagogue in their birth day suit ?

Eruv doesn't cause problems for now but will happen if some fanatics decide that non Jews have to follow their religious rules on Shabbath like hasidim Jews do ?

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Feb 23, 2023·edited Feb 23, 2023

"(Does their God see through that little trick…? Shut up and stop asking questions.)"

It always puzzles me why they go to so much trouble to sneak around so many of their own laws rather than just amend or rescind their laws.

Nevertheless, I have an even better sneak-around: Put up four poles on their own property in a square spanning one square foot, and tie string around them. Then DECLARE EVERYTHING OUTSIDE OF THE STRING AS BEING INSIDE THEIR ERUV. That way the entire world is "surrounded" by their eruv except for that one square foot.

Tadaaaa.

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Feb 23, 2023·edited Feb 23, 2023

String it around your hat. Then wear it. Portable eruv! Giving a whole new meaning to 'personal space' :)

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