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re: A nice teacher story for a change
Posted by tadman on 4/13/26 at 10:24 am to Night Vision
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Did the other teacher have no insurance?
That's a bit simplistic... insurance takes forever and doesn't cover everything. Imagine if you were to move tomorrow how much uninsurable stuff in your house that you need day-to-day. Blankets, dishes, towels, clothing, raincoats, books...
Your house burns down and you need that stuff NOW. Can't haggle with insurance for twelve months. NOW. How do you sleep or dry off from a shower or clothe yourself in order to get to work or school?
Have a little compassion and reality.
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I have an early yeti soft side that seems to work pretty good. I won it in a contest a few years back.
re: What happens if China/Russia gets involved? Or China blockades Taiwan in response?
Posted by tadman on 4/12/26 at 1:00 pm to killercoconut
I think Venezuela and Iran are a very subtle warning to China to stay in their lane. In both cases Trump made a very sudden and violent move to take out an enemy. If I were an opposing leader with designs on a friend of the USA, I'd probably hold my cards close until the next president gets elected, one that believes in the "four tomahawk missles, a strongly worded cease-fire, and some sanctions" model that's been so effective.
I have a buddy who's wife is just like this. Big money, zero responsibilities, lots of time on her hands, came from a very conservative midwest family and rejects their mindset, went hard progressive.
But you can bet if some refugees or battered spouses were walking down the fairway at her country club she'd have them removed in a lightening fast moment. They might muss up the wax job on the Range Rover.
But you can bet if some refugees or battered spouses were walking down the fairway at her country club she'd have them removed in a lightening fast moment. They might muss up the wax job on the Range Rover.
Who cares. The state of Newsom, Pelosi, Harris, Schiff... isn't going to elect a maga candidate any time soon. He'll just be replaced by another prog-bot.
re: Don't Mess Around And Use Your Phone At The Masters
Posted by tadman on 4/11/26 at 1:16 pm to OntarioTiger
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masters have a full ER staff of volunteers... volunteer also get tickets to watch
Sounds like time to break out my MD certs again... paging Doctor Rosen-Rosen.
re: Don't Mess Around And Use Your Phone At The Masters
Posted by tadman on 4/10/26 at 7:14 pm to hubertcumberdale
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i dont have any issue with people doing what they please, even if it is gay
I wasn't knocking you if it came off that way. Was just trying to show the two sides and say honestly neither is wrong unti ESPN tries to force it all into a bro-out revenue stream.
It's kinda like "book club" which is really just drinking wine and complaining. I don't hate it, I actually love it. It creates a venue to keep that stuff out of my mind.
re: British Royal Navy: How it's Going Edition
Posted by tadman on 4/9/26 at 10:51 am to Deplorableinohio
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But they have universal health care.
Kinda.
I know people over there. You wait a bunch of years to get something that isn't life saving. It's not a great situation. My buddy has a handicapped kid on universal healthcare and although he does not pay much at all, he still complains all time about the car and has to be very active advocate.
"Universal health care" doesn't mean the magic land of excellent free healthcare that always takes care of you. It means the healthcare system works like the post office. Lots of complaints.
re: Don't Mess Around And Use Your Phone At The Masters
Posted by tadman on 4/9/26 at 10:46 am to hubertcumberdale
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always thought golf was pretty gay bc of the gay little rules and gay clothes and gay country clubs and gay douche bags who think all of that is cool
See this used to be the beauty of this sport.
You clearly don't like it, and so you don't go golfing nor hang out at places like that. You made a value decision about your time and money that its better spent elsewhere.
There is group that made a value decision that they want the rules, clothes, country clubs, and they spend their time and money there. They don't bother you, and you don't bother them on a saturday. Y'all are in your own way. It's a free country.
Until we decided golf is the next "bro out sport". Nike, Under Armor, Jaxon Kelcey, 24/7 tv talk sports coverage, Pat Mac Affee, the bald guy from ESPN, etc...
This is a bad move. The worlds don't need to collide. Let them be happy by themselves.
Make sure you understand "mean" versus "median".
Mean is the average
Median is the middle.
Mode is the most commonly occuring
If there is a village with four houses and the rents are $1000, 1000, 1000, and $40,000:
The mean or average is $10,750
The median is $20,000
The mode is $1000.
All three are important to understand, but all three do not tell the same story. IN this example the mean and median seroiusly distort the fact that most people in our make-believe village don't pay a huge rent.
Mean is the average
Median is the middle.
Mode is the most commonly occuring
If there is a village with four houses and the rents are $1000, 1000, 1000, and $40,000:
The mean or average is $10,750
The median is $20,000
The mode is $1000.
All three are important to understand, but all three do not tell the same story. IN this example the mean and median seroiusly distort the fact that most people in our make-believe village don't pay a huge rent.
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How is Netanyahu an expansionist?
If you have to ask this question you don't know enough about the topic to add anything to the conversation. Why do you think he thanked Trump in his first term for Golan Heights?
I'll give you a hint - it is Syrian territory occupied by Israel.
Youre delusional. Who actually would want the Golan Heights? As I mentioned above it was captured in 1967 in the war wherein Syria attacked Israel for the second time in 20 years. It is a desert area of maybe 700 square miles that produces a few barrels of oil and wine each year.
Now if you were an expansionist, wouldn't you want the oil territories nearby? Ports and harbors? Economic powerhouses?
Good luck in your delusion.
Last time I moved I went to a new GP that had trucker hats for sale in the front desk. I took it as a really bad sign that they didn't have their priorities straight. Boy was I right. Tried selling me all kinds of diet pills and homeopathic crap. I'm slightly overweight and they were pushing cray diet pills, I think it was another profit center.
I pulled up stakes and went to another GP after realizing I never talked to a real person on the phone after 2-3 visits and had no questions answered.
I pulled up stakes and went to another GP after realizing I never talked to a real person on the phone after 2-3 visits and had no questions answered.
re: government workers dropped again (-8K) in March, down for the 6th straight month, and 8 of
Posted by tadman on 4/5/26 at 8:24 pm to LongHornHandy
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I have an open contract with a government agency to supply some goods and they are so incredibly hard to deal with. The absolute worst make-work bozos that couldnt' hack it in real life. They work four day weeks. They demand to know each step my guys are going to take, every half hour. They want to know the make and model of each piece of equipment we use. This is not how you get stuff done. This is how you obstruct stuff and justify your existence. And waste literally trillions of taxpayer dollars.
The hilarity is what you describe is government workers view of the shite contract companies provide. Contracts selected are often bottom feeders with the lowest bid provided, so of course with so many of you being shite you will run into people wanting to hold you to what you agreed, in the contract
If you're new to government contracting just tell us, don't bother writing a book about it. One line. "hey I don't really have the slightest f*cking clue what I'm talking about but here's an opinion anyway". Maybe you could also tell us what you had for breakfast or who you think is going to win the D3 womens NCAA tourney.
Thanks dawg.
re: Golf coach Butch Harmon says Trump is not welcome to be a member at Augusta National
Posted by tadman on 4/5/26 at 8:20 pm to HailToTheChiz
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You're telling me they found a way to shove more kelce brother shite down our throats at the Masters?
Thank you. I will probably watch none/less for this reason.
Can we please go back to the Arnie/Jack years when golf wasn't such a mainstream spectacle? I'm about over the "nike presents golf as a fashion show" years.
re: Iran Has Allowed The First Western Ship To Pass Through The Strait Of Hormuz
Posted by tadman on 4/5/26 at 8:17 pm to DeathByTossDive225
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Putin is one of only a few self-righteous militant expansionists in the modern world. Netanyahu is another.
How is Netanyahu an expansionist? Given that in literally the entire modern life of the country they have been invaded repeatedly by an enemy that surrounds them and swears to completely annihilate Israel and destroy America.... it seems reasonable that they have taken enough new territory to property defend themselvees and since 1867, never taken more... you can't exactly paint an expansionist picture here. Occasionally bombing the Iranians that constantly torture Israel is not expansion.
So ok to drill right through the tree or do you make brackets that don't puncture the tree?
Tree house in a pine stand
Posted by tadman on 4/3/26 at 8:53 pm
Would you build a tree house in 3 or 4 pine trees? Was thinking use carriage type bolts, drill through the pines, build a floor about 6' up and then some walls. But I have concerns pines aren't super stable. Might just grab some 4*4 and make a free stander.
re: Iran Has Allowed The First Western Ship To Pass Through The Strait Of Hormuz
Posted by tadman on 4/3/26 at 9:56 am to DeathByTossDive225
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Because they’re nationalist knuckle draggers who believe the end of NATO would be a good thing for the US.
Is it really being a nationalist knuckle dragger to continue repeating the same policy that hasn't worked since 1960? Is it being a nationalist knuckle dragger to consider putting other allies first when the "allies" we have in Europe have not done much ever?
What have the western Euros ever done for us other than French support in the war for independence? Cursory support after 9/11, but then ran away like a scalded cat when a few bombs went off in Spain. That's literally it.
re: Iran Has Allowed The First Western Ship To Pass Through The Strait Of Hormuz
Posted by tadman on 4/3/26 at 9:53 am to SlowFlowPro
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How will our economy function without rich people buying our goods?
We can't sustain our economy relying on poor countries like Venezuela and El Salvador.
And why are people shitting on Europe when we are the ones who went rogue without discussing this war with Europe?
Your post indicates a significant ignorance of temporal context and economics.
re: Iran Has Allowed The First Western Ship To Pass Through The Strait Of Hormuz
Posted by tadman on 4/3/26 at 8:56 am to LuckyTiger
We have a fundamental problem with the Europeans. We feel close to them as something like 80pct of us have european roots and live a quasi-european culture. We aspire to their luxury cars, their clothes, watches, sunglasses...
Yet the vast majority of white/euro people here in the state left europe because they didn't like how things were going and wanted something better. We rejected the kings and nobility and establishment and economics in search of a place with more opportunity and better rule of law.
I don't know who should be our allies, but the Europeans might not be the right ones. We rejected them for a reason when our people came here.
Yet the vast majority of white/euro people here in the state left europe because they didn't like how things were going and wanted something better. We rejected the kings and nobility and establishment and economics in search of a place with more opportunity and better rule of law.
I don't know who should be our allies, but the Europeans might not be the right ones. We rejected them for a reason when our people came here.
GOOD.
I have an open contract with a government agency to supply some goods and they are so incredibly hard to deal with. The absolute worst make-work bozos that couldnt' hack it in real life. They work four day weeks. They demand to know each step my guys are going to take, every half hour. They want to know the make and model of each piece of equipment we use.
This is not how you get stuff done. This is how you obstruct stuff and justify your existence. And waste literally trillions of taxpayer dollars.
I have an open contract with a government agency to supply some goods and they are so incredibly hard to deal with. The absolute worst make-work bozos that couldnt' hack it in real life. They work four day weeks. They demand to know each step my guys are going to take, every half hour. They want to know the make and model of each piece of equipment we use.
This is not how you get stuff done. This is how you obstruct stuff and justify your existence. And waste literally trillions of taxpayer dollars.
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