BottomlandBrew

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Can you imagine being an Iranian pilot and being told take off in some old Russian POS knowing that there were Raptors up there?

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I'd probably fly 50 miles from the base as quickly as possible, eject, and hide. Better odds at survival.

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Never Ending Story

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That entire movie fricked me up as a kid. The wolf Gmork scared me for years. Artax sinking in the mud was traumatic. The Nothing gave me my first ever existential crisis of "what does it all mean and what happens when the universe returns to nothingness?" It kept me awake for months.

Truly, a crazy movie for me. I need to get my son to watch it. He's a deep thinker.

Gmork scene:

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They should consider a type of pipe that can flex. The ground is always moving there and steel pipes cant take the stress

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Or, we can not pump out the groundwater so that the ground doesn't subside. But that would be too simple.

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Smith’s family was notified that she had been located and were informed about her request to keep her whereabouts undisclosed.

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There has to be way more to the story.

If you like sci-fi, Foundation is awesome. It has it's flaws, but overall it's very enjoyable.

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I will announce that I am taking donations to make a bigger prize fund this year.

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You got it. :cheers:

We save good beads and toys for my wife to use in her classroom as rewards.

I respect your opinion regarding small-town American manufacturing, but I do not share it. In my opinion, American manufacturing is not coming back in any meaningful way, tariffs or no tariffs. We are no longer a nation of producers. We are consumers, by and large. The producer mindset of the masses died when the Greatest Generation died.

Clinging to an out-dated sense of American exceptionalism is holding us back. We're fighting this anti-globalism fight instead of figuring out a way to use it while still maintaining our identity and sovereignty. I get it. I'm American, and I'm proud to be American, and I don't want to lose that, but I also see that the world is connected in a way it has never been connected before. We can't put that genie back in the bottle. We have to learn to leverage it before it's too late.

Add in automation, robotics, AI, and the coming workforce purge, and things are going to get rough. We're fighting a 20th century war against a 20th century enemy. We should instead focus on the 21st century enemy.

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I highly doubt the end consumer gets the eventual refund

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Stores will have an in-person only tariff rebate sale on Tuesday from 10:00 - 1:00.