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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Deep Thoughts (shower thoughts ok too but no Pit stuff)

« on: Today at 06:43:11 AM »

i found this on reddit and thought it was interesting.



“As incomprehensible to us as airplanes are to ants.”

I like this phrase. An ant could be out in your yard when a jet flies over and not recognize the jet as a distinct part of the environment, much less identify as something artificial.

I wonder if there are aspects and characteristics, or even objects, in the universe that we are simply unable to comprehend in any meaningful way. There are questions we will never be able to answer because we can never know to ask them.

This is covered in The three body problem.


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Essentially Flyertalk / show us your buds (appreciate spring, you crapbags)

« on: April 22, 2024, 07:12:39 PM »

It’s getting warm enough in Ks that I bet you could get peaches most years my grandmother had a peach tree for years in SEK

I buddy has blue berry bushes that go gangbusters with enough rain


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Cell Phone Insiders

« on: April 22, 2024, 02:48:35 PM »

I've got a 13 pro that's about 18 months old but the battery is starting to really get short if I'm on it a lot.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Possible WW3 thread

« on: April 22, 2024, 01:38:44 PM »

I bet it was because congress approved aid.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: appliance talk

« on: April 22, 2024, 01:19:30 PM »

Clams— dishwasher question. If the dishwasher is leaking water can I fix it or do I need to call a guy out? Call an appliance guy?

my dishwasher had an error due to a leak.  2 weeks later and 3 motors replaced and she's purring like a kitten again.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Cell Phone Insiders

« on: April 22, 2024, 01:18:34 PM »

I wear slim fit jeans and can't imagine walking around with a MAX in my pocket

I know Pclams is 6'10'' so maybe his skinny jean pockets are that much larger.

would LOVE a max though

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Possible WW3 thread

« on: April 22, 2024, 01:06:26 PM »

The term receives increased attention when controversies involving Russia are in the news. For example, writing for Slate in 2014, Joshua Keating noted the use of "whataboutism" in a statement on Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, where Putin "listed a litany of complaints about Western intervention."[35]

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Possible WW3 thread

« on: April 22, 2024, 01:04:12 PM »

He's doing the whaddaboutism that's Putin's go to defense of everything.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kc restaurant suggestions

« on: April 22, 2024, 09:47:17 AM »

Ponaks is what all the boomers remember going to the boulevard to have margs and tacos in the 70's and 80's and it was THE GOOD STUFF.

Manny's is kind of the same.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: cooking

« on: April 21, 2024, 06:57:51 PM »

Na
Na
Na

NACHO!


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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Possible WW3 thread

« on: April 21, 2024, 10:01:59 AM »

Hmmm where have I read these talking points before

https://twitter.com/gerashchenko_en/status/1781770421513154651?s=46&t=qihx_M5rao00w7e29gt7Rw


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Shows that have you by the balls, or vag...

« on: April 19, 2024, 03:58:23 PM »

If you're a fan of Conan, his show on HBO "Conan O'Brien Must Go" is pretty enjoyable.

Been waiting a while for this and it is classic Conan


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: cooking

« on: April 18, 2024, 08:27:03 AM »

u got pics m8?

no pics,

just regular red sauce, I use san marzano tomatoes with a little paste to thicken, and use either ground pork or ground beef for meat.  mushrooms and lots of onion and garlic. 

Bucatini look like super thick spaghetti noodles but they are hollow and are great if you have a good sauce because the sauce works it's way into the noodles.  They are so good.

But the cheap pasta brands (i usually buy barilla pasta) don't make them.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: cooking

« on: April 17, 2024, 08:07:02 PM »

Man, it has been YEARS since I had a bucatini noodle but the other day I just happened to notice some at the grocery store. Made “moms spaghetti” last night so I guess “moms bucatini” and it was magnifico


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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: MEGA MAGA

« on: April 17, 2024, 02:15:38 PM »

They still haven't figured out what censorship is.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: MEGA MAGA

« on: April 17, 2024, 01:38:50 PM »

Incels are very angry about NPR today.  New DEI boogeyman?

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1780597079439446250

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: LOL TRUMP

« on: April 17, 2024, 12:39:07 PM »

I read the transcripts of that and even some gifs

They were hilarious and completely disqualifying statements for someone trying to become president of a homeowners association let alone president.

That being said, to actually hear/listen to the audio was the most bizarre thing ever

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Serial killer thread

« on: April 17, 2024, 12:08:22 PM »

John Douglas' books mindhunter (series is based off of) and BTK are great.

There's another called cases that haunt us that isn't as good.

Douglas profile of BTK led them to come up with the idea to put the lead detective front and center and make him look like a "super cop" that was assigned to catch a "super killer" IE BTK because JD hypothesized that this would be irresistible for BTK and that BTK would engage with this "super detective" because BTK thought he was so much smarter than everyone else.

And it worked like a charm.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Serial killer thread

« on: April 17, 2024, 11:32:26 AM »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Serial killer thread

« on: April 17, 2024, 09:56:15 AM »

I remember within the last year, authorities in KS and OK were working with BTK's daughter on some cold case murders/disappearances during the time he was active but also during the time he is not known to be active...

Never really heard any updates though.

John Douglass who helped develop the FBI profiling program in his book about BTK hypothesized that Rader found some other outlet when the murders stopped but others think he may have continued killing, just not in the wichita area.

What kind of other outlet? Because I can tell you, nothing beats the pure sexual thrill of murder.

douglas surmised that during the dead time he had a job as an city code enforcement officer where he basically got to drive around and give people citations for ridiculous things.

I'm pretty sure that people even called in to complain that he was a jerk/creepy.  Douglass thinks that he was likely casing people fantasizing etc.

Based on Douglass profile and his psychopathy, if there were murders, Douglass thinks that he would have been compelled to brag about them but who knows.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Serial killer thread

« on: April 17, 2024, 09:26:37 AM »

I remember within the last year, authorities in KS and OK were working with BTK's daughter on some cold case murders/disappearances during the time he was active but also during the time he is not known to be active...

Never really heard any updates though.

John Douglass who helped develop the FBI profiling program in his book about BTK hypothesized that Rader found some other outlet when the murders stopped but others think he may have continued killing, just not in the wichita area.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Possible WW3 thread

« on: April 16, 2024, 01:16:09 PM »

the F35 could not live up to it's promises but it could also be the most advanced combat aircraft we have.

Both things can be true.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Recent motion picture viewing - Add your own!

« on: April 15, 2024, 03:05:46 PM »

Civil war is fine, kind of boring.

I did like how they framed what the war was about and it took a while to get there.

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Wacky's World / Re: Wacky Ban

« on: April 15, 2024, 03:04:28 PM »

CANCEL CULTURE

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Possible WW3 thread

« on: April 15, 2024, 03:02:39 PM »

bIdEn iSn'T bAcKiNg oUr aLlIeS!