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    Thread: Extreme day trips
Post: RE: Extreme day trips

(03-24-2025, 10:51 PM)Gwaithmir Wrote: The most extreme day trips I've ever taken were my annual fireworks trips to Pennsylvania. My buddy, Tom and I would leave around 6 a.m. and arrive at the fire...
mordant World News, Politics and Current Events 20 201 03-25-2025, 01:19 AM
    Thread: Another Visit to "The You Can't Make This Shit Up" dept.
Post: RE: Another Visit to "The You Can't Make This Shit...

(03-24-2025, 10:01 PM)pattylt Wrote: Think he’ll lose his job over this?The main qualification for jobs in this regime is total fealty to Shitler, which is facilitated by the fact that you're such a...
mordant World News, Politics and Current Events 22 169 03-24-2025, 10:52 PM
    Thread: To Mars by the end of the decade?
Post: RE: To Mars by the end of the decade?

(03-24-2025, 02:53 AM)Minimalist Wrote: And we are already doing it..... far more cheaply.Yeah 50 years ago we did not anticipate being able to do so much with robotics / automation. It's a real boo...
mordant Science, Engineering and Mathematics 77 1,417 03-24-2025, 09:05 PM
    Thread: Extreme day trips
Post: RE: Extreme day trips

(03-22-2025, 07:42 PM)Fireball Wrote: As for travel, I'd rather not indulge at all. I can have my pocket picked at home with better recourse.I'm getting too old for that shit anyway. I have a firm ...
mordant World News, Politics and Current Events 20 201 03-23-2025, 05:24 PM
    Thread: Extreme day trips
Post: RE: Extreme day trips

(03-22-2025, 07:07 PM)Dexta Wrote: Its just, all that global warming pollution just for the sake of a few hours in a foreign place, for what? A slightly unusual meal? To look at some striking buildi...
mordant World News, Politics and Current Events 20 201 03-23-2025, 05:18 PM
    Thread: Fan Only Star Claims she Made 43 Million
Post: RE: Fan Only Star Claims she Made 43 Million

(03-22-2025, 08:14 PM)DrewPaul Wrote: Fans Only 'star' Sophie Rain claims she made 43 million. If true, it's a colossal monument to the stupidity of men. I doubt she has many female contributors. As...
mordant Off-topic 5 53 03-22-2025, 08:23 PM
    Thread: Lack of descriptions of criminals is more common now
Post: RE: Lack of descriptions of criminals is more comm...

Let's bring back galloping assumptions and anecdotal observations that play to our personal fears and biases to the police blotter!
mordant Off-topic 2 40 03-22-2025, 08:15 PM
    Thread: Europeans are less prone to crime
Post: RE: Europeans are less prone to crime

Ironically I suspect that citing actual facts & figures would produce a number of data points inconvenient to narratives like this. Also, history would like a word ...
mordant Off-topic 7 89 03-22-2025, 08:12 PM
    Thread: I feel that dating someone younger is problematic
Post: RE: I feel that dating someone younger is problema...

(03-22-2025, 11:46 AM)Harry Krishner Wrote: Dating older women is pointless. Saggy tits and nagging.If the objective of a relationship is perky breasts and 100% agreement, disappointment is inevitab...
mordant Off-topic 19 851 03-22-2025, 08:09 PM
    Thread: When will lefties submit to the God-Emperor Trump?
Post: RE: When will lefties submit to the God-Emperor Tr...

(03-22-2025, 05:16 PM)Kim Wrote: Fuuuk.     A weekend chew toy is one thing, but an ugly rabid, incel Trumpanzee?  Takes all kinds of mental illness, I suppose.   :shy:I love these people being summ...
mordant Off-topic 7 88 03-22-2025, 07:57 PM
    Thread: The British Empire was a net positive for all involved
Post: RE: The British Empire was a net positive for all ...

(03-22-2025, 07:31 PM)Minimalist Wrote: Most of the world is in the stone age, asshole.Best riposte of the month -- bravo! Although I'd have emphasized IN.
mordant Off-topic 3 54 03-22-2025, 07:54 PM
    Thread: To Mars by the end of the decade?
Post: RE: To Mars by the end of the decade?

(03-22-2025, 07:28 PM)Minimalist Wrote: Musk is nothing but an opportunist.   Just like Fuckface.I actually think that once upon a time he had some ideals and vision but at least since he bought Tw...
mordant Science, Engineering and Mathematics 77 1,417 03-22-2025, 07:44 PM
    Thread: Who's dead now?
Post: RE: Who's dead now?

(03-22-2025, 03:38 AM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (03-22-2025, 02:24 AM)c172 Wrote: George Foreman, 76. One of the few likeable boxers.Yeah, he was a real sweetheart.
mordant World News, Politics and Current Events 2,513 187,903 03-22-2025, 06:46 PM
    Thread: Extreme day trips
Post: RE: Extreme day trips

Well as a counterpoint, if this person really gets as much enjoyment and relief from drudgery from a day trip as most people do from a 2 week trip, then it's one round trip either way but only a day o...
mordant World News, Politics and Current Events 20 201 03-22-2025, 06:44 PM
    Thread: Empathy lessons in schools?
Post: RE: Empathy lessons in schools?

(03-17-2025, 10:28 PM)pattylt Wrote: What I’m curious about is how did so many Americans loose empathy?  We seemed to be better at it in the past…or I was just surrounded by empathetic people? It al...
mordant Science, Engineering and Mathematics 17 411 03-22-2025, 06:37 PM
    Thread: To Mars by the end of the decade?
Post: RE: To Mars by the end of the decade?

(03-22-2025, 06:04 PM)DrewPaul Wrote: ? (03-22-2025, 05:52 PM)Kim Wrote: The company was incorporated as Tesla Motors, Inc. on July 1, 2003, by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.  They served as...
mordant Science, Engineering and Mathematics 77 1,417 03-22-2025, 06:22 PM
    Thread: To Mars by the end of the decade?
Post: RE: To Mars by the end of the decade?

(03-22-2025, 05:31 PM)DrewPaul Wrote: (03-22-2025, 05:09 PM)mordant Wrote: While in the abstract I've always thought being a Mars colonist would be a great thing, the last person I'd want leading ...
mordant Science, Engineering and Mathematics 77 1,417 03-22-2025, 05:56 PM
    Thread: To Mars by the end of the decade?
Post: RE: To Mars by the end of the decade?

(03-18-2025, 05:33 PM)DrewPaul Wrote: If they do outfit a ship to travel to Mars it should be an all women crew of petite women. They use less oxygen, consume less food and as a result, excrete less...
mordant Science, Engineering and Mathematics 77 1,417 03-22-2025, 05:31 PM
    Thread: To Mars by the end of the decade?
Post: RE: To Mars by the end of the decade?

(03-17-2025, 04:53 PM)Paleophyte Wrote: (03-17-2025, 09:03 AM)Dexta Wrote: Absolutely. Manned space exploration is a prodigious and entirely unnecessary waste of time, money, expertise and resourc...
mordant Science, Engineering and Mathematics 77 1,417 03-22-2025, 05:15 PM
    Thread: To Mars by the end of the decade?
Post: RE: To Mars by the end of the decade?

(03-17-2025, 01:04 AM)Kim Wrote: I think it's cool. :shy: Elon should go first.  :dodgy:While in the abstract I've always thought being a Mars colonist would be a great thing, the last person I'd wa...
mordant Science, Engineering and Mathematics 77 1,417 03-22-2025, 05:09 PM
    Thread: Is evolution a valid theory?
Post: RE: Is evolution a valid theory?

(03-20-2025, 06:27 PM)DrewPaul Wrote: The word theory isn't exclusive to scientific theories.No one said it was. To the contrary, there's a scientific sense of the word that is appropriate here, and...
mordant Atheism & Theism 66 1,365 03-20-2025, 06:34 PM
    Thread: Religious education
Post: RE: Religious education

(03-19-2025, 04:08 AM)Szuchow Wrote: I think that there shouldn't be religious education in schools, however comparative religions might be ok. Still I would prefer to teach kids philosophy or ethic...
mordant Atheism & Theism 125 1,807 03-20-2025, 06:29 PM
    Thread: Political Watch
Post: RE: Political Watch

(03-20-2025, 10:36 AM)epronovost Wrote: (03-19-2025, 11:08 PM)Dānu Wrote: It's more a matter of currying favor with corporate donors than ideology, but sometimes it's hard to tell. There's always ...
mordant World News, Politics and Current Events 3,203 131,232 03-20-2025, 06:00 PM
    Thread: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Post: RE: The trump chronicles (topical thread)

(03-20-2025, 05:19 AM)Cavebear Wrote: (03-09-2025, 12:00 AM)mordant Wrote: It's about time for a military coup, if you ask me. Same fate as Saddam. It's not an accident that the top brass and JAG...
mordant World News, Politics and Current Events 17,639 949,687 03-20-2025, 05:45 PM
    Thread: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Post: RE: The trump chronicles (topical thread)

(03-19-2025, 10:27 PM)pattylt Wrote: (03-19-2025, 07:31 PM)mordant Wrote: All my work is done on servers that are physically located somewhere around Chicago (Azure Data Services / Microsoft) beca...
mordant World News, Politics and Current Events 17,639 949,687 03-20-2025, 05:37 PM