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Pentagon audit says Boeing cleaned up on Air Force parts, including soap dispensers marked up 8,000%
  • It's one soap dispenser michael. What could it cost, $80,000?

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    Why are the Latinized/Romanized forms of ancient Greek names more popular?
  • As medieval and renaissance scholars regained interest in the pagan past, they wrote about it in latin. That's why we still largely use the latinized names.

    These scholars used latin partly because it was the lingua franca of their elite audience, but also that way the only people who could read it would have had a proper church education. And thus less likely to be lead from the path of righteousness by these pagans and all their wicked thinkin'.

    This practice of using latin for religiously risque material continues well into the modern period, where the sexy parts of native american myths were marked by an abrupt shift into latin. I believe the first scientific account of penguin necrophilia was written in latin as well.

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    What is your pet peeve in 2024?
  • If someone reads my comment, and they'our not sure if I'm serious our not, that's ok with me.

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    Had to dig under my foundation. What should I put in the whole when they fill it in?
  • Rebury the disarticulated ochre-painted bones of an important deceased community member!

    Under the house is the best place for them.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Çatalhöyük

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    What is your pet peeve in 2024?
  • Yeah, I've never seen or heard that either. I'm sure there our plenty of dialects where those two words sounds similar or identical.

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    Epstein showed me photos of Trump with topless young women sitting in his lap, claims author
  • that affirm your position.

    I'm looking for news that affirms reality. Trump's public record words and actions already left no doubt that he's molested children. This writer's credible but unsourced account is just to remind people that trump has molested children, something that most people realize from trump's words, actions, associates attitude.

    When something looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, hangs out with ducks, eats bread at the park, and admits in public and private to being a duck - it's unreasonable to argue that we can't assume it's a duck.

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    Tucker Carlson claims he was mauled by a demon while asleep, leaving claw marks
  • The two reasonable explanations are:

    1. Nup, just not at all. He has no scars, this never happened and he knows that.

    2. He got cut by a call girl or call boy and definitely deserved it.

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    US officials say video falsely depicting voter fraud in Georgia linked to 'Russian influence actors'
  • Twitter is run by a russian influence actor. Facebook has been hosting russian influence operation content for what a decade now? Fox gleefully pushes that stuff. There's a host of grifters and alt-right entry-point content online that's lousy with it.

    It's crazy how much of our media space has been seized by brutal foreign oligarchs. I feel like it wouldn't have been this easy for them if we hadn't spent decades letting brutal domestic oligarchs take almost all our media space.

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  • Why would you peel a carrot?

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    Epstein showed me photos of Trump with topless young women sitting in his lap, claims author
  • Take Trump out of it for a second

    But then it becomes a completely different scenario.

    Trump has repeatedly admitted to molesting women, he's bragged about forcing his way into women's locker rooms, he joked openly and without judgement of epstein's love of kids, he has scores of sexual assault allegations, he has enough money and clout to cover up his rapes and he's been convicted of illegally covering up legal but embarrassing sexual encounters.

    Trump has definitely molested children, it is a fact. It's literally beyond a shadow of a doubt.

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    What's the strangest insult that you have ever received/given?
  • "Edomite!"

    I was getting onto a bus, someone looked me over and spat out the word. It was clear from the tone that it was an insult, but it also sounded suspiciously bronze age, so I was very excited to find out what it meant.

    Turns out it's a biblical reference used by some black nationalist groups in the US to refer to white people as unclean or diseased. Edom was one of several late bronze age Canaanite kingdoms. At one point the torah describes them as slightly paler and dirty, hence the insult.

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    Walked into Powell's for ONE book. ONE.
  • Ah! Yep, definitely the same place!

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    I wish I could have a tractor car.
  • You know I almost didn't post, thinking about that exact point?

    But at least two of them are holding weight on them - rightmost of the front pack and leftmost of the mid pack. Also I'm guessing that they'd still need more robust arms than that just for lifting and carrying in high G, right?

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    Walked into Powell's for ONE book. ONE.
  • Have you been to More Books, around the corner from the Powell's on Hawthorne? They don't want you to use your cellphone, are anti-wifi, only accept cash and use a handwritten ledger - all of which I find quite charming in a bookstore.

    They had a ~100 year old typewritten compilation of translated Chinese sex jokes.

    Not much fantasy/sci-fi but if you like books it's got a real 'living my best life in my bookstore' kind of vibe that you might enjoy.

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    How do adults find happiness in life?
  • I really love seeing a well curated list, and that's a well curated list.

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    How many do you recognize?
  • I think blocked has got to be what's-his-fuck, the one who's always spreading russian influence operation content and insists he's a human on his profile.

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    Epstein showed me photos of Trump with topless young women sitting in his lap, claims author
  • It is interesting to see how different acceptable public behavior is now.

    I presume that anyone following politics knows that can't hurt trump, at least.

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    Epstein showed me photos of Trump with topless young women sitting in his lap, claims author
  • Ah, I think I misunderstood then. It sounded to me like you were saying that young meant young but still of legal age.

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    Epstein showed me photos of Trump with topless young women sitting in his lap, claims author
  • Legal. Probably why they used that term.

    I doubt it.

    There's no point mentioning it at all if the topless women were obviously legal, but plenty of reasons to be unclear if they were obviously underage.

    Mentioning epstein and "young" women very clearly implies underage, without opening the door to defamation.

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    Epstein showed me photos of Trump with topless young women sitting in his lap, claims author
  • Trump has definitely molested children. He's a serial rapist whose hang-out buddies are some of the world's most prominent pedophiles.

    Even if trump wasn't specifically asking for children, there's no way he's checking IDs before he sexually assaults victims of trafficking.

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  • Chinuk Wawa, also called Chinook Trade Jargon, is an incredibly simple language with like ~1000 words and basically no grammar. It's a pidgin of several native languages with some english and french influence.

    The language was spoken by settler and native alike, until the railroad arrived and English overwhelmed it.

    The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde built a very nice app to help learn this very important part of our region's heritage.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_Jargon

    https://www.grandronde.org/services/education/chinuk-wawa-education/chinuk-wawa-app/

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chinuk.wawa&hl=en_US

    https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chinuk-wawa/id908108231

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    newrepublic.com New Poll Shows Trump’s Desperate Play for Key Voting Group Is Failing

    Donald Trump held multiple events to court Black voters, and not one of them paid off.

    A survey of 600 likely general election voters in Michigan, released late Thursday by WDIV Local 4/Detroit News, found that zero African American respondents said that they supported Trump, while 82.1 percent said they supported Vice President Kamala Harris.

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