It was walkie-talkies today.
It was walkie-talkies today.
Where do you live where this could be problematic?!
Sometimes we men don’t ask for help simply because we want to see if we can do it ourselves. It’s a test.
I often have work at my camp that makes me think it would be smarter or safer to wait until I can get help. Then I think, nah, you can figure this out. That often leads to novel solutions.
Crying in front of a woman has got me dumped a few times, like next-day dumped.
Had a reddit post deleted for using retard as a verb, as in, “Have you tried retarding the action, maybe it’s too fast?”
Recently started writing fiction and you gave me an idea, not sure how, but you prompted me.
I was thinking on how disgusted I would be with myself trying to “write” fiction with AI. But then I thought, what if I used it to spur ideas, not for compiling the text?
For example, I have a good start on a story, no idea where it’s going, but had to get the first bit down. Figured the next part would jump on me at some point. Creativity is often like that. A young woman has done our narrator wrong, horribly so. What did she do? I’m sure it has something to do with sex, but I’m stumped. AI might kick my imagination in gear. Hmmm…
Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.
We out here poking and peeking.
Seems counterintuitive, but I’ve had more productive arguments with conservative vs. liberal friends. By productive I mean to say, the conservative often changed his view, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot, sometimes a complete reversal. In any case, they listened to my points and would reason with me. They would often shift my thoughts or, at worst, I came away understanding, if not agreeing. If one’s only experience arguing a political point is online, well, your mileage will vary.
Liberals, on the other hand, often won’t engage in real life arguments, at all. “This doesn’t bear discussion. I’m right, you’re an idiot, I’m out.” Try arguing a conservative take in a room full of liberals. You’re getting shouted down, and you’re not getting invited back. Winning hearts and minds here guys?
Both sides are religious in their online echo chambers, ears firmly plugged, “You will toe the party line, comrade!”. (Point goes to the online liberal, they’re a bit more lenient.) The echo is so strong around here, posts get down voted for having the impertinence to ask a clarifying question or so much as explaining a conservative view, even if not holding it. Fuck me, I’ve seen dozens of buried posts, posts that only stated a single, inconvenient fact. Hell, I check the negative posts because I often find an interesting take or new thought. Watch the down votes roll on this post merely because I related positive personal experiences with conservatives. No value judgements, just stating what I’ve seen in real life.
(Here I’m going to ramble around a bit, hoping I can get back on track at the end…)
Funny story, I was at a house party and wandered upstairs to find my dad moderating a debate (I forget the topic) in a room full of drunk college kids. After a few minutes he called a halt. Pointing to the debaters, he said, “You’re going to argue his view and you’re going to take his. Switch sides.” Momentarily taken aback, they wholeheartedly jumped into their new roles. I suspect dad timed that to teach me a lesson, he often said, “If you can’t argue both sides, you don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Pre-Obama, I used to be fairly conservative, thought I was anyway, listened to talk radio while delivering or eating lunch. One afternoon I realized dad would be ashamed to hear that I got all my views from one side. So I started reading CCN, that hotbed of radical-left boogeyman I had heard so much about. Let’s see what these liberals have to say. Well, CNN was anything but a hotbed of whacky liberalism, even back then. Terrible journalism, yes, opinions rampant in every “news” story, but nothing like the bias I had been listening to. (And here we are, back to experiences differing in real-life arguments vs. online, or on-air as the case may be.)
About the same time, Limbaugh turned me off like a light switch, never listened to another word after snapping off my radio. A caller was relating his experience with purchasing and installing a wind turbine at his home. Rush laughed, on cue, at the silly liberal notions of clean energy. OK, that sucks, but to be expected. The caller starts talking about the expense and hassle of hooking it to the grid. Limbaugh went off, over and over again, “You mean to tell me the windmill needs power to function?! Har, har, har!” The man was only trying to explain that he wished to pump excess back into the grid, get paid, but all in all, the system was a loss for him. Rush was a very intelligent man, knew exactly what the caller was trying to say, knew if would be construed as a benefit, cut him off every time he opened his mouth to explain. Fuck you Rush.
That last anecdote seems to contradict earlier statements. I guess what I’m getting at it that conservatives are close-minded when they’re in their echo chambers. Confronted with a live human being, they’re mostly pleasant to argue with. Bet money that, one-on-one, Rush would have argued in good faith. When contradicted, liberals come with “tell it to the hand”.
/rambling-nonsense
And Obama bagged on Romney for it.
“The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back.”
Yep! I’m going for something like those two, stuff like Con Air or The Rock.
Spectral! Unique plot, as far as I know. Never seen anything quite like it, probably watched it 10-times by now.
LMAO, my man co-opted an old racist tune. You go on with your bad self.
Bible’s already covered this and the bees won.
Judges 14:8 (KJV)
8 And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.
In other news, I can’t believe I pulled that out of my ass. No idea what this bit of the Samson story is about.
Favorite all-time painter!
“Raphael, imma let you finnish, but Maxfield Parrish was the one of the best painters of all time. Of all time!”
LOL, you would love my house and decorations. Also, this.
Stolen AGAIN?! (The theft plays a part in the painting’s fame.)
I got best results having my dentist make me a mold ($70) and using Amazon whitening tubes.
I pronounce it both ways. Huh. Did not know that about myself.
Me too. I’ve got several “purses”. Can’t stand much in my pockets.