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MidWestGuy
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re: Karoline Leavitt joins Fox News.
Posted by MidWestGuy on 10/5/26 at 9:10 pm to GoblinGuide
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I thought she was leaving the White House to take care of her children? Did they grow up in like 2 months?
I doubt her gig at Fox will take up 1/100th as much time and effort as being Press Secretary for President Trump. You have to be "on" pretty much 24/7 to keep up with him.
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re: Why the attention to Cornell 7? We all know why
Posted by MidWestGuy on 10/5/26 at 9:01 am to burger bearcat
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This girl acted like a huge degenerate whore. She was completely ashamed and embarrassed from the poor decisions she made.
I'm not sure that's the case (the ashamed/embarrassed part).
From the timeline I've seen (and some summary info from AI), she seemed fine with it all, she had texted some of the guys involved, telling them she enjoyed being with them and it's all good, she even told one she 'loved him'. And later said she was looking forward to the upcoming Halloween party at that same frat house.
Then she got a text from the frat house president, telling her she is banned from the party "for her own good". From AI:) "Immediately following the call, Doe texted another fraternity member, making it clear she viewed the decision as the chapter attempting to insulate itself from scrutiny. She wrote: "I knew this was going to happen. The woman will always get the short end of the stick. Yall aren't my friends. Yall are covering your asses." "
Sounds more like a woman scorned to me, than 'ashamed'. For the record, everyone involved are degenerates. It's sad that people with enough smarts and motivation to get into Cornell aren't more mature than this. Or are Cornell admission standards not what they used to be? I worked with two Cornell alumni that were great guys and quite proud of their alma mater.
re: Dumb f**ks that scream “tax the rich more!”
Posted by MidWestGuy on 10/4/26 at 9:28 pm to Ben Rumson
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15.6% of their earnings split evenly between the employee and the employer is generated to fund the social programs that the rich ...
And someone with only dividend income pays no payroll tax and (the part you 'conveniently left out) they earn no SS credits.
Same with the FICA annual cap - yes, you stop paying the payroll tax, but you also stop earning benefits. And SS benefits are 'progressive' in that the less you put in, the more (in relative terms) you get out.
So you should have completed your statement with: "to fund the social programs that the rich do not share in".
re: Recommendation for the single most powerful bidet I can buy?
Posted by MidWestGuy on 10/3/26 at 8:35 am to Jdiggy
quote:Agreed, they don't have a pump or anything, they rely on the water pressure coming in, so no advantage there. The electrics have water warmers in them, and a 'pulsing' option which is nice.
The electric bidets I’ve used don’t have more pressure than the cheap manual ones with just a knob.
So assuming you've got normal water pressure ( ~ 60 PSI), the issue is the *flow*. The supply line to your toilet tank is small, so it fills the tank fairly slowly (a blast would send water splashing around, and drop pressure even more (before the pressure sensing shower faucets, this would cause hot/cold spurts in the water to the shower).
So make sure you have good flow to the bidet. Those little shut off valves can get clogged, might need to replace it (look for one with a larger diameter body for lower restriction), and maybe a larger diameter supply line if you can find it.
re: The lone Clancy juror holdout hero was the only black person on the jury
Posted by MidWestGuy on 9/11/26 at 11:45 am to finchmeister08
quote:She's like a kid being told there is no Santa Claus.
"i have to sit with that for just a second"
She just wants to believe in her own bubble-world so very much. How dare this lady come on and tell me something outside of my bubble!
re: Foreign Exchange for Dummies
Posted by MidWestGuy on 8/29/26 at 10:09 pm to Jbird
re: Zipper Merging will be the downfall of civilization
Posted by MidWestGuy on 8/20/26 at 2:17 pm to Chad504boy
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Has everything to do with the entitlement of a zipper merge suggestion on the roadway
Huh? That's some Kamala level word salad there. "entitlement of a zipper merge suggestion"?
re: Zipper Merging will be the downfall of civilization
Posted by MidWestGuy on 8/20/26 at 10:01 am to Chad504boy
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these are the consequences of what stupid people think because its a zipper situation that they are going above and beyond to be dickheads and try to cut in front of people at the very last moment flying up when they weren't even here long after their lane ended and they think they have a right of way to fricking hit you and not be at fault.
That's an argument against stupid drivers, not the 'zipper merge' - that's why I said it's a 'straw man'.
Anyone who thinks "they have a right of way to fricking hit you and not be at fault" is in the wrong in any situation. Has nothing to do with 'zipper merges'.
re: Zipper Merging will be the downfall of civilization
Posted by MidWestGuy on 8/20/26 at 9:55 am to Beer did clam
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I view zipper merge like cutting in line.
You are wrong. Educate yourself on the topic. Seems that most people are just like me, we thought those people were 'cutting in line', until we read about the advantages of the zipper merge, and why traffic dept recommend it.
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We seem to be normalizing poor behavior. Screw the warning sign, rush to the front of the line and butt in.
Take the signs down if you want people to take part in this dumbed down driving manuver.
It's not poor behavior, it's proper behavior. The signs are a warning that you need to merge ahead - do they say "merge NOW"?
I agree that you should not 'rush to the front of the line' - I avoid that so I don't look like I'm just cutting in - I approach slowly if the lane is empty.
Because so many people don't understand this, they really should have signs promoting the zipper merge to make it clear. They sometimes do, but we need it all the time - or send notices to every DL holder, and make them sign and acknowledge, or lose their DL. Then no one can claim ignorance. It should be on every driver test.
I need a sign to put in the right side window - "I'm ZIPPER MERGING - NOT 'CUTTING IN LINE - GOOGLE IT"
re: Zipper Merging will be the downfall of civilization
Posted by MidWestGuy on 8/20/26 at 9:49 am to Chad504boy
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They have no right of way to hit you.
Straw man argument. Of course no one has a right to hit you, geez.
The zipper merge is about merging, utilizing the available open space, and improving traffic flow. If you hit someone, that's on you.
Where does this even come from?
re: Zipper Merging will be the downfall of civilization
Posted by MidWestGuy on 8/20/26 at 9:38 am to LSUFanHouston
delete - respond to wrong post
re: Zipper Merging will be the downfall of civilization
Posted by MidWestGuy on 8/20/26 at 9:28 am to Violent Hip Swivel
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I like to think of myself as a very observant and knowledgeable driver
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this thread is the first time I've ever heard of zipper merging.
This is a contradiction. A "very observant and knowledgeable driver" would certainly be aware of the 'zipper merge', its advantages, and how to handle it.
re: K9 1, Muslim immigrant 0
Posted by MidWestGuy on 8/17/26 at 2:29 pm to Rekrul
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Bet he won’t do that again, fricking idiot
I'm not so sure - he didn't seem to be realizing that the more he fought/resisted, the harder that dog was going on him.
Very slow learner.
re: Trump is pushing the Senate to vote on the No More Changing the Clocks Act
Posted by MidWestGuy on 8/17/26 at 2:24 pm to cssamerican
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If we are going to do this why don’t we just get rid of US time zones as well, so I don’t have to do math on meeting availability
There is a historical precedence for this. In today's connected world, the entire world should switch to UTC ('Greenwich Mean Time').
The historical precedence is the train system in the US. Before trains connected cities with faster travel, and schedules, each city was on its own time zone - high noon, as measured by the sun.
Fast travel made that a mess. You'd need to reset your watch at every stop to keep up. So they consolidated time zones to minimize the problem (but created other problems). Today, we are instantly connected with any point on the Earth. If we all used the same system, then coordinating conference calls would be far simpler. No confusion over "what time is it where you are".
Sure, different areas would eat dinner at a different time, but I think you'd get used to that.
re: Jason Arday Dead
Posted by MidWestGuy on 8/16/26 at 10:57 am to 3nOut
Also from wiki:
Oh, he didn't say they were wrong - just that it was "cruel". There's that 'victim mentality' for you!
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In 2026, media sources reported allegations that Arday had plagiarised some of his writings, falsified research, and made false claims in his academic and personal history. Arday called the allegations "cruel" and acknowledged mistakes in his work,
Oh, he didn't say they were wrong - just that it was "cruel". There's that 'victim mentality' for you!
re: Jason Arday Dead
Posted by MidWestGuy on 8/16/26 at 10:48 am to lsuconnman
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making him the youngest full professor in Cambridge’s history before even published anything
Sounds a bit (OK, a *lot*) like giving someone the Nobel Peace Prize, before even doing anything.
re: The "tax the rich" ideaology.
Posted by MidWestGuy on 7/21/26 at 11:45 am to VOR
quote:Only an extremely small percentage of the population is capable of producing wealth. It seems reasonable that the concentration of wealth would be concentrated in this group. They also know how to leverage it for more production.
society and economy can’t function properly when most of the wealth wealth is concentrated in an extremely small percentage of the population.
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Most of my career was engineering support of production lines. I interfaced with the lowest level assembly line person (many were hard working and fairly bright), to the R&D 'braniacs' and top level managers and marketing/sales people.
Everyone was needed to function. The 'braniac' was not going to sit on an assembly line (and it would waste their talents). No group could do the other groups job. If you took the companies funds, and divided it up, the assembly line people couldn't create wealth with it - they didn't have the knowledge, often not the capability or motivation. We *need* to let the elite *be* elite, or we all lose.
re: The "tax the rich" ideaology.
Posted by MidWestGuy on 7/21/26 at 8:34 am to Red Stick Rambler
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Tax the rich, feed the poor
'til there are no rich no more
Unfortunately this is nothing new
I dunno, I'm a cynic, and I always took that as a cynical statement, to say that when there are no rich, who is left to feed the poor?
You taxed prosperity to extinction, and now all you have is poor. The money's all been distributed, and those who actually know how to produce wealth won't bother. Where's all the 'new' money come from? If the poor knew how to be productive, they wouldn't need help being fed, they wouldn't be poor. Basically, "Atlas Shrugged" played out in a few lines of a song.
re: Slash, hold my beer
Posted by MidWestGuy on 7/6/26 at 10:38 am to TigerAxeOK
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Shredded on a Schecter....but it does look close to a Strat or Tele.
I caught that after I posted about it being a Strat. I'll not edit though because I still stand impressed.
Yes, leave it. "Strat" has become shorthand for any Stratocaster style guitar (which Fender is fighting now, but like "Kleenex", I think that train has left the station, long after their patents expired).
But yep, good tone for the song.
re: Husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suspected in Napa County hit-and-run
Posted by MidWestGuy on 7/5/26 at 9:58 am to BHS78
The AP headlne is 'interesting'. When I read it, I thought Pelosi was hit, and the other guy ran. Often, a hit and run means you don't have the guy in custody that did the 'hit. They don't come out and say that Pelosi was the one that hit the car, they say he was 'involved' in a hit-and-run.
So if a guy wearing a MAGA hat shot up a place and killed a dozen people, would they report that so-and-so was 'involved' in a shooting?
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Paul Pelosi in hit-and-run in California, car left with major damage, authorities say
The husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was involved in a hit-and-run in California that left a parked car with “major” damage authorities said Saturday, and he could face misdemeanor charges.
So if a guy wearing a MAGA hat shot up a place and killed a dozen people, would they report that so-and-so was 'involved' in a shooting?
re: Millions of kids go hungry in America......
Posted by MidWestGuy on 7/5/26 at 9:52 am to Missouri Waltz
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I do not want any kid to be hungry. I want all kids to live happy and carefree lives. If we feed some cheats so that the underprivileged will get what they need then so be it.
OK, but let's fix the problem, the parents/cheats.
Take the kids away from them, put the parents on some kind of community service program to pay back the cheat, and sterilize the parents so they can't produce more kids they won't take responsibility for.
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