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TwiceHorn

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  1. TwiceHorn replied to DocZaius's topic in Books
    I am reading Too Big To Fail, maybe again. I know this story, from The Big Short, the movie TBTF (which I recall being something of a snoozer itself), or some other source. I don't think I actually read the book previously, but can't be sure. It's very long, and I think I would remember having read it just by virtue of its length. I'm finding it tremendously boring. Exhaustively researched I guess, with biographical deets on every greedhead character in that saga. Maybe it's my distaste for people who annually make 10s of millions of dollars in 2008 bucks for doing risky things of dubious value to anyone except the parties involved and a shit ton of externalities for the rest of us. I'm kind of considering the Sorkin book on the 1929 crash, but this isn't making me want to tackle it. He's no Michael Lewis or Bryan Burrough. Sidenote: I am historically a fan of "business history" books or whatever you call them, and have read and enjoyed a ton of them. Barbarians, Liars Poker, Milken/Drexel, and so on. So it's not the genre.
  2. What's the Israel puppet thing? AIPAC?
  3. He still won't fuck you, Greg.
  4. I suppose that after he went over his time and refused to yield the floor, he was asked to leave, did not, and was therefore trespassing. That would be the only way this is slightly legit.
  5. That's pretty powerful.
  6. I have an inexpensive Chinese gents folder made of Damascus. It seems to be very good steel, quite hard, not brittle. YMMV, but they might be pretty good at that.
  7. TBQH, as the kids like to say, a goodly number of American farmers need to be put out of their misery (and their dependence on the US taxpayer). But, because I like to avoid cruelty, that needs to be done gradually, without events like mass bankruptcy caused by a dumbass trade war. Maybe by natural attrition.
  8. Because I am a sick fucker.
  9. What about Halle? If she were smarter and not so cray? Hmmm?
  10. I'm one of the last people that wants to shortchange veterans. But I am personally aware of several that have substantial disability ratings and payments basically for aggravation of known existing conditions (knees that were fucked up in high school sports, a tendency toward depression and other MH issues that were problematic before enlistment and short of PTSD (non-combatant veterans)). In several of these cases, these problems quite nearly disqualified them from service, so known to the military. They get a couple thousand a month and pay substantially reduced property taxes, among other things. I'm not wholly opposed to tightening up disability standards. Regardless, I am suspicious of anything that happens under Whisky Pete. Looks like this might not affect those maimed or suffering severe PTSD, as I don' think you can claim medication fixes any of that.
  11. I know, I appreciate your posts, also. I'm just intuiting stuff, I don't know shit. Weirdly enough, or expectedly, between engineers and small business owners, a lot of my clients and those I interact with are dumb enough to be Trump voters, and quite a few are part of the base (my dead reckoning of it), while others tend to be of the sort of "libertarian/both sides/they're all shitheads" persuasion and seem to appreciate less dramatic shitheads than Trump.
  12. Can you elaborate on the first? I agree that people saw a pretty complete lack of leadership on his part. But I think that's inherent to the guy. He did do Warp Speed, which I guess was sort of successful, but of mixed impact because it swiftly delivered a drug that a whole lot of his base didn't want or came to not want. Also, your second seems to somewhat contradict the first, especially in the context of softlynow's post. I think a lot of not-quite-low-info, but disengaged voters still sensed that Trump was a shitshow without knowing any details. And I'm not sure how better leadership on Covid would have changed that perception.
  13. 8Cr13MoV is fine by me. But I'm a cheap date steel wise.
  14. Yeah, a nug of truth going both ways, really.
  15. 8Cr13MoV/CPM-S30VLulz.
  16. For better or worse, that seems to be a long-standing talking point of the right regarding any minority candidate. I'm not saying it's valid against all of them, but there's a nug of truth to that, I guess.
  17. Yeah lotta people did some hardcore outdoor living with fairly suspect knives by today's standards. Could argue I suppose that a handforged carbon steel knife of simple construction is better/more reliable than an imitation tacticool blade.
  18. As I have said here or elsewhere, it's just my feels, but I think a big factor for Biden's victory was "emotional incontinence fatigue" among otherwise fairly non-committal voters. And that was absent in 2024 and goldfish-brained people just forgot. It may take longer exposure to Crockett than a nine-month campaign for that fatigue to set in against her. This boils down to fight Trump with Trump tactics or with how we really wish things to be.
  19. TwiceHorn replied to RollLeft's topic in Cloak Room
    Also, I have kind of pondered that type of malapropism. I think it speaks to someone who reads a lot and thus encounters words and feels comfortable using them with an at least contextual definition (sometimes they fuck up the meanings, too). But they don't spend any time discussing such matters using those words with intelligent people, who might at least steer them toward proper pronunciation and usage, if not correct them. Might especially be a creature of the internet. Before it, one usually had to seek out high-minded reading with perhaps advanced vocabulary. Now you can find it, even stumble upon it, with high frequency.
  20. TwiceHorn replied to RollLeft's topic in Cloak Room
    Also, Trump GOP.
  21. The other thing is the equal time rule would require Colbert to at least offer Crockett, Paxton, Cornyn, and Hunt. Paxton on Colbert would probably be high comedy, though.
  22. Geezus. MIght be cheaper than a purpose build turbo genset, but I cannot imagine that that is in any way fuel efficient. By the 80s, 737s were using high-bypass turbofans, which are particularly ill-adapted to just turning a generator. I suppose they take the fan and duct off, but again, geezus.
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