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Good for them.  Discipline coupled with real love and compassion goes a long way.  

2 hours ago, Pancho said:

I’ve been meaning to start this for over a year now, and I’ve never done it.  So why not start today:

 

Great thread idea and great story. As soon as I saw the title I knew this would be the first link. 

We need this thread. I was playing around with an International Shit we should know thread along these lines. 

Thanks @Pancho

Great idea. How often are they there?

I’ve been meaning to start this for over a year now, and I’ve never done it.  So why not start today:
 

Brilliant. Could use them at our local middle school…or start a nation wide movement

Not everybody works the day shift with Sat/Sun off.

I met a girl tonight who I think I might be in love with. 

9 hours ago, Bernard said:

None of them have a day job?

Bernard

It’s not 1980 anymore. People work all kinds of times.

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This is tremendous, including the epic cat shirt.

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4 hours ago, davidg said:

 

 

The Amish are nothing to brag about.  They are notorious puppy mill owners.  They have that nutty bible belief that dominion over the animals means "to dominate".  They think dominion means to "Dominate" using the meaning of the word in a football game context.  Fucking morons.  

 

 

I have good covid pandemic story. Because of the pandemic, my toddler and my wife stayed home together. My daughter, Sophia now speaks and writes in Russian. I think her Russian is actually better than her English.

If they had went to daycare/work, Sophia would be speaking Spanish.

It’s weird to see a stick figure of yourself in chalk at the playground and I’m labeled “папа”.

9 hours ago, PRONG HORN said:

The Amish are nothing to brag about.  They are notorious puppy mill owners.  They have that nutty bible belief that dominion over the animals means "to dominate".  They think dominion means to "Dominate" using the meaning of the word in a football game context.  Fucking morons. 

Puppy mill owners? Notorious? Funny, that’s the first time I’ve ever heard that allegation. It certainly wasn’t the case in Holmes County, OH or Elkhart County, IN. In my life I’ve had Amish friends, neighbors, classmates (up through 8th grade), and a babysitter. They were a part of my community my whole life until I moved away to college. Always were in my dad’s home town. I never heard about any of them selling puppies. I could offer some criticisms but notorious puppy mill owners wouldn’t be one. 

On 10/24/2021 at 10:37 AM, pacman said:

This is tremendous, including the epic cat shirt.

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Wait a minute….

 

 

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well i also googled it...and there's way more than just one article. ABC did an expose at one point, interviewing a breeder. it seems to be focused in Lancaster County, PA, however... so maybe the Ohio Amish don't participate as much.

On 10/24/2021 at 1:58 AM, Bernard said:

None of them have a day job?

Bernard

If a person cares enough about something, they will make things happen.  

https://www.notboring.co/p/sc3nius

I believe the premise of that article.  There are certainly risks that could derail everything, but I think this moment has the potential to be the start/accelerant of by far the greatest time in human history.

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5 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

https://www.notboring.co/p/sc3nius

I believe the premise of that article.  There are certainly risks that could derail everything, but I think this moment has the potential to be the start/accelerant of by far the greatest time in human history.

1 -- love the optimism.

2 -- as you would expect, I largely disagree with it.

For example:

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When it is all said and done, I believe that historians will look back at the Coronavirus pandemic as the greatest catalyst for progress and creativity in human history.

Strongly disagree.  We showed what we are capable of -- rapid vaccine development and crushing a novel disease.  But we also showed that we are utterly incapable of execution of the concept as a society.  Anti-vaccine movements, overlapping with actual violent resistance, show that we are dedicated to being shit-flinging self-destructive monkeys.

And celebrating "online collaboration?"  Nope.  We are killing ourselves.  We are physical beings, we need connection, we need contact.  We are experiencing a global crisis of depression and loneliness.  Technology is a tool, not a substitute for basic human needs, yet we're using it as that.  And it's breaking our hearts and souls.

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Third, catastrophe brings people together in ways that are difficult to accomplish in peacetime. In Tribe, Sebastian Junger wrote:  

Disasters, he proposed, create a “community of sufferers” that allows individuals to experience an immensely reassuring connection to others. As people come together to face an existential threat, Fritz found, class differences are temporarily erased, income disparities become irrelevant, race is overlooked, and individuals are assessed simply by what they are willing to do for the group.

I mean.....we're literally fighting tooth and nail to do the OPPOSITE of that.  We disdain the idea of the commonwealth and the common good.  We worship at the altar of the petulant individual with oppositional defiance disorder -- do something for the common good?  NO WAY!  YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!  We are fucking broken in this respect, at least here in the USA.  But hell, maybe that's a good thing.  Other cultures have shown that they can handle these things better than we can.  Maybe we are surrendering our role of global leadership, because we're so busy smearing shit all over ourselves.

The piece tries to raise the counterpoint:

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Plus, COVID shocked the system and woke us back up. While people are still tribal, and there are plenty of idiots out there digging in deeper in counterproductive positions, most of us banded together around a shared mission. In Fritz’s parlance, we’re a “community of sufferers,” our differences temporarily erased and replaced by a hierarchy based on ability to contribute. 

Yes....but it's more than that.  The counterproductive movement is bent on violence, controls many levers of power, and has taken a firm position that if they can't have a society that works the way they want it, they will destroy society so nobody can have it.  When the counterproductive idiots are a poison pill, that's a big-ass problem.

But maybe we can overcome them.  Maybe we can fend off the poison pill.  I hope we can.

I mentioned the book in other threads but if also fits here. Factfulness by the late Hans Rosling discusses how news is reported and why so many people are ignorant of the true state of the world. The author gave multiple choice tests on world health and wellness issues to many different groups of people (including journalists and Nobel Prize winners) at his speaking events and they always did worse than if they randomly guessed. Most people are pessimistic about the world because, in large part, of the way news events are covered. Fear and panic sells. Rosling presents the facts that show that things are going well in the world and getting better all the time. In case anyone is wondering, Rosling was no right wing nut—he was a socialist MD from Sweden. There here are too many Eeyores here.

1 minute ago, HouTex said:

I mentioned the book in other threads but if also fits here. Factfulness by the late Hans Rosling discusses how news is reported and why so many people are ignorant of the true state of the world. The author gave multiple choice tests on world health and wellness issues to many different groups of people (including journalists and Nobel Prize winners) at his speaking events and they always did worse than if they randomly guessed. Most people are pessimistic about the world because, in large part, of the way news events are covered. Fear and panic sells. Rosling presents the facts that show that things are going well in the world and getting better all the time. In case anyone is wondering, Rosling was no right wing nut—he was a socialist MD from Sweden. There here are too many Eeyores here.

Agreed. The most clear recent example was the poll showing massive portions of the population overestimate the chance of being hospitalized with Covid after diagnosis. The news has beat people over the head with Covid for 18 months with that result. Truly mind blowing. 

3 hours ago, HouTex said:

I mentioned the book in other threads but if also fits here. Factfulness by the late Hans Rosling discusses how news is reported and why so many people are ignorant of the true state of the world. The author gave multiple choice tests on world health and wellness issues to many different groups of people (including journalists and Nobel Prize winners) at his speaking events and they always did worse than if they randomly guessed. Most people are pessimistic about the world because, in large part, of the way news events are covered. Fear and panic sells. Rosling presents the facts that show that things are going well in the world and getting better all the time. In case anyone is wondering, Rosling was no right wing nut—he was a socialist MD from Sweden. There here are too many Eeyores here.

I think I have something to read. 

1 minute ago, MissingInAction said:

My date this weekend said I have an exceptionally good looking penis.

Rules.

4 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

My date this weekend said I have an exceptionally good looking penis.

Sure, but he's an old man with bad vision.

9 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

My date this weekend said I have an exceptionally good looking penis.

 

7 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Rules.

Please don't post pics of your exceptionally good looking penis

3 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

 

Please don't post pics of your exceptionally good looking penis

What about MY pretty good looking penis? 

1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

Is it time for the first surly dick pic challenge?

Is there enough bandwidth?

PSA: no girl ever wants a dick pic. ever. seriously. if she says she does she's only saying that bc she knows you want to send it. there's no secret hidden thread on pinterest with women showing off dick pics they've received.

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58 minutes ago, mchookem said:

PSA: no girl ever wants a dick pic. ever. seriously. if she says she does she's only saying that bc she knows you want to send it. there's no secret hidden thread on pinterest with women showing off dick pics they've received.

Well I know someone who's not getting any dick pics. 

10 hours ago, GringoSalado said:

All true, but there are still Amish puppy mills. wtf

And yet I’ve never seen one and I’ve never heard that any of my family who still live in Amish country have ever bought a dog from an Amishman. 

In typically Surly fashion, a thread started to highlight what is good in the world devolves into a dick pic challenge, with a side of Amish puppy mills and we're still on page 1. 

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