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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Master Epstein Thread
« on: July 11, 2025, 09:53:15 AM »
Damn, Ghislaine.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Shows that have you by the balls, or vag...
« on: July 09, 2025, 10:48:51 PM »
Saw the Mr. Robot addition and immediately went to the episode with the scene where they play the Basket Case lullaby. Love that scene.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Master Epstein Thread
« on: July 09, 2025, 06:19:06 AM »Maybe it wouldn’t have mattered, but it would be political malpractice not to put it out there.It would be weird if this was all running cover for Trump. You'd think that the previous administration would have been pretty eager to get that out there prior to last November.
I'm guessing it's mostly about running cover for others.
I posted this in another thread, but I'm pretty sure that if the former admin releases that list and Trump is on it, he says "it's an absolute witch hunt" and all the people who were going to vote for him anyway go ahead and believe him, then it's forgotten about between the election and when he takes over and he has no consequences for it.
In all honesty, if that list is released October 2024, does Trump actually lose enough support to lose the election? He's wiggled his way out of absolutely everything.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Master Epstein Thread
« on: July 08, 2025, 05:03:21 PM »
Yeah, I’m guessing there is a name or names in the docs that both parties don’t want revealed. Those names may be different for the two parties or not.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Master Epstein Thread
« on: July 08, 2025, 04:44:24 PM »The result isn't different of course. We're still not getting answers.It would be weird if this was all running cover for Trump. You'd think that the previous administration would have been pretty eager to get that out there prior to last November.
I'm guessing it's mostly about running cover for others.
What's the difference?
But Fitz implied that this was cover for Trump's personal embarassment, and based on (1) the prior admin likely having access to this and (2) a pretty contentious election last fall, it seems unlikely that Trump's own implication is the motive.
My guess is CIA/foreign interest concerns. But regardless, the story we're getting seems like total horseshit.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Master Epstein Thread
« on: July 08, 2025, 04:06:05 PM »
It would be weird if this was all running cover for Trump. You'd think that the previous administration would have been pretty eager to get that out there prior to last November.
I'm guessing it's mostly about running cover for others.
I'm guessing it's mostly about running cover for others.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: House buying/owning advice
« on: July 04, 2025, 01:56:50 PM »Starter homes used to be available in safer areas. The city has sprawled so much, I don't know if those are still available at all in a reasonable drive to the city. Starter homes now seem to be homes that need love that also require you to trade a level of safety as well.Fwiw, there are still homes under 300k in PV. They’re small, but that’s what “starter homes” are supposed to be.
High crime is the new starter home.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: House buying/owning advice
« on: July 03, 2025, 02:14:11 PM »There is nobody coming out of college that needs a “starter home” in PV. You can buy homes like that for significantly cheaper elsewhere in the metro.Congrats to all who bottom ticked the home buying and then bottom ticked the 2.125% 15 year mortgage during covid. Feeling deep sadness for Gen Z tho.
https://x.com/Barchart/status/1940565812563399028
was just having this conversation. i'm locked at 2.75 on a 30. My house value just keeps skyrocketing even though I don't want it to. My first house in PV that I paid 150k for now sits basically untouched from when I owned it amongst mega mansions. I'm sure the owner gets a call or knock on the door daily from someone that wants to buy and knock down. It was an awesome 2 bedroom "starter" home like many others in PV. It's now valued at $350k per tax assessments. Imagine coming out of college and that is the starter home price and your interest rate is 7-8%. No chance of us being able to afford that. It just can't continue...can it?
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kc restaurant suggestions
« on: June 30, 2025, 03:02:38 PM »I've never tried it but i don't think so. Which is weird because they also sell ciggies there.Have you guys tried the pizza spot at Linwood and Gilham? You, weirdly, have to buy a membership, but the pizza is pretty darn good.
Are you allowed to smoke indoors? That's why a lot of places do memberships. I bet that's it.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kc restaurant suggestions
« on: June 30, 2025, 12:09:13 PM »
Anything south of 435 is southern.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: book recommendations
« on: June 27, 2025, 07:41:32 PM »
Always planned to name my first child Sydney. Then I met Mrs. DQ who decided she ought to have a say too.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kc restaurant suggestions
« on: June 27, 2025, 07:40:20 PM »
Have you guys tried the pizza spot at Linwood and Gilham? You, weirdly, have to buy a membership, but the pizza is pretty darn good.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: maps and liniguistics, (now my master cool maps thread)
« on: June 12, 2025, 01:44:29 PM »
55 italy? pooping almost 8 times a day?
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Celebrity Deaths (whenever)
« on: June 11, 2025, 02:44:09 PM »
he's the guy from that one barenaked ladies song
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kc restaurant suggestions
« on: June 10, 2025, 04:36:22 PM »I've tried everything on the menu at every one of these places and if I could give them all negative 10 stars I would. That's how bad kc pizza is i hate kc pizza, I am so jealous of other cities that have good pizza.You're a weird food guy, mocat.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kc restaurant suggestions
« on: June 09, 2025, 09:11:38 AM »Prime socialThis would be my recommendation. Very cool spot. Too cool for me, really. But if you're looking to impress out-of-towners at a cocktail place, that would be my rec.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Best thing for breakfast.
« on: June 05, 2025, 04:05:39 PM »
I've been a smoothie boy lately.
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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: June 04, 2025, 04:07:38 PM »An incredibly ugly human being as well?
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kansas City things
« on: June 02, 2025, 02:49:45 PM »Big slickA time when the city's stars shine their brightest!
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Learning Piano
« on: June 02, 2025, 02:42:31 PM »literally LOL'd at the thought of you sitting down at your in-laws piano at thanksgiving or something and then having a panic attack because the keys weren't labeled.Yes! We are the same!
I also exclusively learn by watching the falling keys method on YouTube. I did learn to play Epiphany from the movie Soul using actual sheet music but it was just note by note finding the C key and then counting to what key I needed to play lmao. Then I just have to memorize it because looking at the sheet music as a whole is like looking at a paragraph written in Japanese or something.
I constantly say to myself I need to start back at the basics and learn to read music and learn where the keys are and all that stuff and then I don't and instead learn to play the first 30 seconds of Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol before moving to learning the first 30 seconds of the Top Gun Theme then moving to Right Now - Van Halen for cat football reasons.
Like you, I just find it really fun to play something recognizable. I have no interest in practicing scales lol.
lol exactly. i can't fathom actually ever reading sheet music. that's why webpianoteacher's method really appealed to me. the problem i have with him is that i never watched all his tutorials and don't really care to - so i don't know exactly what all his various squiggly lines mean. also, the production quality of his lessons are objectively bad - it's sometimes very difficult for me to tell which keys he's pushing with which finger, and when. which means i have to waste a lot of time going back 5-10 secs to try to decipher what he did. then he will realize he mis-wrote something, so he'll say it but then race through it. then he'll skip to a different part of the song without telling you. some tutorials are certainly better than others, but i find the whole experience to be somewhat aggravating. unfortunately, he has many of the songs in his library that i want to play, which is why i never cancel.
if you could combine piano with nate's presentation and teaching style, with webpianoteacher's song book and general approach, i'd be a much happier bad piano player.
not sure if you've ever used them, but the silicone labels you can place on top of the keys is incredibly helpful, but with an obvious downside. i was at my in-laws house, and they have a piano. it was suggested that i play one of the two aforementioned songs that i actually know how to play. so i sat down and prepared to play. but without my silicone labels, i literally couldn't even get started. i was completely lost.
learning sheet music is pretty easy. you don't really need to know the rhythm/counting stuff -- especially if you're playing familiar music. But recognizing which notes are where is very helpful. I know webpianoteacher (or just "sean" as we call him in my house) does a whole walk through on theory which is helpful and interesting (imo). the circle of fifths, in particular, is mindblowing just to see how all of the puzzle pieces fit together. idk, i think it's interesting.
Really, if you can just get a feel for knowing what notes are in what keys and knowing the general chords associated with the keys, that goes a long way. OTOH, if that feels like homework or boring or whatever, don't bother with it! keep having fun playing piano! but the circle of fifths is neat and i bet you guys will agree if you watch a 10-15 minute youtube video on it.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kc restaurant suggestions
« on: May 28, 2025, 02:00:48 PM »
Yep. Love the Maj. Stop by Jimmy John's next door and pickup a day old bread for dessert.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kc restaurant suggestions
« on: May 27, 2025, 09:40:38 AM »Corrado is famously talented at eating fishKatdaddy!
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Kc restaurant suggestions
« on: May 22, 2025, 04:03:12 PM »
i love jun's.
in my head i pretend that uncle jun from the sopranos owns it. ayyy fuhgedaboudit!
in my head i pretend that uncle jun from the sopranos owns it. ayyy fuhgedaboudit!
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Cars.... How far have you went before getting a new one?
« on: May 20, 2025, 10:07:50 AM »
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Best thing you've bought recently
« on: May 19, 2025, 09:10:39 AM »I bought a stihl br600 last weekHave we talked about this before? I got the Husqvarna 150BT last fall. I love the backpack.
i think it was jesse james that said to never bring a knife to a gun fight. well he was right
Tom, I also have that edger. I've only ever used it for shaping beds (i.e. creating an edge a few feet from the bed where there wasn't an edge, and then digging up the grass inside the edge). Do you use it for like, post-mowing edging?