Neauxla_Tiger

Second the giraffe tools. Have a reel that stakes into the ground. It's compact, nice looking, works well. However, I did have to replace the nozzle. The nozzle that came with mine was only plastic and broke. Got a metal nozzle and it's been perfect since then.

Just to try and spin current events into a positive for SLI...

Maybe the recent choking off of China's oil supply will hinder some of their lithium miners' production, thereby lowering worldwide supply and raising lithium prices.

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There's no tax advantage.

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OK, that's fine. But that's not what you said in your original post. You said specifically because it had Trump's name on it, you wouldn't touch it. Which does not sound like a decision based in logic or reason, but rather an emotional decision. Which is dumb. So I asked if you would forego doing something in your kid's best interest purely out of your own personal vendetta against a man who has no idea, nor does he care, if you don't use this account? If you have a kid that is eligible for the seed money, you'd be legitimately retarded to pass up the free money just because ORANGE MAN BAD even if you don't want to contribute any additional funds yourself.

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Let’s talk to the people who invested in trump university, Trump casino, Trump miss universe beauty pageants, contractors who worked for Trump and never got paid

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Nowhere in your incoherent rambling did you make any valid point. None of this has anything to do with Trump accounts.

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if anything this money will be owned by the Trump family and one day they will just steal your money from your accounts because they can. The whole Trump family is demonic. You're delusional if you put anything in this ponzi Scheme!

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:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

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Auto repair costs are starting to decline, and the frequency of accidents declined in 2025.

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Well this would be welcome news. Can only take getting bent over by my auto, health, and home insurance so many times each year. Maybe we're seeing the impacts of deporting all the uninsured illegals. That thread from yesterday comes to mind about the traffic in Kenner being much better after ICE came to town

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"From a very, very young age, I don't know what it is, but I always had this urge — almost like a compulsion I can't control — to hurt kids."

This is what evil sounds like

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I had to click on the article to verify this was a real quote. Wow. I presumed this was a case of the infant screaming crying for hours until she got frustrated and lost her cool, which is obviously still not an excuse to shake and drop the baby on purpose, but this.... this is something else.. Don't see how she can be allowed to continue to live in society with this kind of cat out of the bag.

I watched someone throw trash out their window (driving a piece of shite car of course), and then proceed to turn into a grocery store parking lot. The littering itself is annoying, but it enraged me to no end that they could have waited 2 more seconds and thrown it away in a trash can at the store. Unbelievable. Nearly turned around and slashed their tires.

By the same token, there's always some a-hole that dumps their fast food scraps in my trash at the curb when the trash guys leave my lid open. Because of course they can't wait 2 seconds to get home and throw it in their own damn trash . Even though it's in my can, it still pisses me off because their ketchup and whatever other disgusting shite bakes in the sun and makes my can smell like shite.

I've had this issue twice. First time it was because I didn't upgrade the old doorbell transformer, so it wasn't sending enough power for the ring to charge itself. Ordered the recommended size up and replaced. Hardest part was just locating the transformer. Mine was behind the indoor chime. But I was looking around in the attic for a while. So if you have an older house, it could be this .

Second time, it just seemed to be a faulty ring unit. I was in warranty still so they sent a new one after a lot of head banging going thru troubleshooting.

This is one of those things where it's actually more dangerous for kids the more adults there are around because everyone assumes somebody else is watching the kids and lets their guard down. When you're alone with the kids, you know the burden is 100% on you.

My wife and I always end up being the ones at parties that watch everybody else's kids for this same reason. It may seem like we're being helicopter parents, but you just can't assume somebody else is watching them.

Lithium prices have been spiking lately. At their highest mark since November 2023 and still going.

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And was Lucas firing off water ballons?


I was wondering what he was shooting too. It was like green ooze. I was thinking maybe gasoline to enhance the flame throwers.

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I thought it was pretty clear it was balloons filled with gas or lighter fluid or something. All Mike had was a flare gun, so Lucas threw the accelerant, and Mike shot the flare at it to ignite.

My main gripes are:
1. the unnecessary shoe-horning of the gay character. As others have said, it's not just the existence of a gay character, but it just seems so trivial in the context of the world/universe being on the verge of collapse. Not realistic that everybody would take time out of their doomsday prep to sit and listen to Will's confession. And for the viewer, we've all been watchign 5 seasons of build-up for the final show-down with the main villains...nobody wants a detour for this shite. So anti-climatic. It doesn't help that there's overall fatigue with all movies/shows these days that force a DEI character/plot that doesn't fit. I just finished Ted Lasso a few weeks ago and the whole episode about the side character's coming out was the same thing... not a problem that he happens to be gay - the problem is that we detoured from the main characters and plot to develop this side character's sexuality that NOBODY cares about and it did nothing to advance the show (At least it did nothing that merited an entire episode).

2. Overuse of "GD." I don't really have a visceral reaction to that word like some religious folks do. If it's used in the right context, fine. But it became noticeable how overused it was. I don't mind cursing at all, but when it gets plugged into casual dialogue that doesn't call for it, it gets distracting. They had little kid characters who hadn't cussed the whole series suddenly cussing like sailors. It was just so odd.

3. As everyone else said, the epilogue was comically long. We paused after the final show-down and couldn't believe we weren't even halfway through the finale. The rooftop scene with the older kids was completely useless. I couldn't wait for that scene to be over. Besides Steve, it was all of the most unlikeable characters in the show who all grew up to be even bigger douches than they already were.

4. They should have used all the wasted airtime on Will's gay storyline and the absurdly long epilogue to spend more time on plot-centric stuff. Where did the space rock come from? How did Mind-flayer corrupt Henry? What was the end-game for merging earth with the Abyss? Is there any depth to Mindflayer at all besides being a big shadow/spider monster? What was the military's goal with the experiments? It seems like every kid they experimented on went sideways and they couldn't contain it, yet they keep trying for more.

Also, this one's minor, but to add an observation nobody else has pointed out yet: how did little Linda Hamilton's character slam/pin that soldier into a wall? He's got like a foot and a half and 100 pounds on her at least :lol: Yeah, yeah, I know, it's a fictional show with monsters and space travel, but the little things can still be believable. It just takes me out of the moment.