jakemerkowitz.bsky.social
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Graduated high school in 97. Early 90s alternative was basically everything that wasn’t hair metal. By the time I graduated nümetal was on rise and sucked! The only advantage I had was living in Toledo, I could just get the Detroit stations that were countering mainstream programming. Good times…
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There is one caveat - the screw on a propane tank is intentionally reversed. So don’t get mad if turning it the normal way causes the hose to continually fall off, it’s the thread being backwards.
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Patti Newberry using the power of the Fourth Estate to ragdoll the Second Estate. Not often the principal gets to fire the priest. Our little liberal Catholic Bubble On The Hill.
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Yep! They were basically coach-built so field repairs were difficult because the parts didn’t fit. The suspensions were elaborate but frequently undersized for the weight they were carrying. And if wasn’t the suspension, it was the engine. And the guns weren’t stabilized so no shooting on the go.
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Oh yeah, which disease do I need to have a chat with for trying to drag under the Internet’s favorite Talmudic interpreter? Bastard bacterium or vicious virus? Glad you’re feeling better (and will be available for artistic and legal consultation on (unlikely) inkings.)
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Sometimes you bring us wonderfully weird tales; other times, it’s just lawyering from ancient days. My ADHD was checking out from the lawyering. How about if I ever think of anything worth memorializing in skin, I’ll just call you and you can send me a bill? Or do you prefer to work on retainer?
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The buck went that way 👉🫧🫧🫧
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Also, it was wasn’t lashed down at all. It was plane and tug: “The F/A-18E was actively under tow in the hangar bay when the move crew lost control of the aircraft. The aircraft and tow tractor were lost overboard.”
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You mean this kind of WEEEE! youtu.be/ziCvqZIyjto?...
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It’s legal to apply intelligence testing (only holds in the 2nd Circuit of Appeals, but that’s still one major ruling for supporting dumbass cops.)
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Fascinating - thank you. 🙏 Is this a fandom theory or did some story patch over the apparent flaw in retconning?
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If only the fuckers in Lima weren’t such fucks, you can speed run that from I-275 to I-475. I did an up-and-back Cincy to Toledo in 5:45. Glorious day
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(Having just done a I-XIX marathon: the scene that causes the biggest continuity break between I-III and IV-VI: Leia apparently had a few seconds of full consciousness as a newborn with Mom because she remembers her “real mother was beautiful but sad.” Complaint over: carry on making smart points.)
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As a born-Catholic Cincinnatian - fuck the convert-choad. That he slimed pass the intellectual death grip the Church has on Cincinnati minds only to show-up acting like a fucking fool… shame. (Archdiocese of Cincinnati: 51st in population-size; 5th-largest Catholic school system in the US.)
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Don’t know who his benefactor sugardaddy is, but obviously it’s cheaper to keep Grover on the payroll to be trotted out whenever taxing the rich is brought up than to actually pay taxes.
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sad and creepy) threads in the Musk family that identifying all of Elon’s many motivations probably escape even Elon. Also, that kind of money amplifies eccentricities in ways none of us will truly be able to understand it all.
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I believe his mom’s family fled Canada for South Africa because Canada wasn’t racist enough for their liking. Also, his dad has pulled a Woody Allen and has taken up with a fostered/adopted daughter(?) because it’s not like she’s an actual blood relative (or some such.) There’s so many strange (and
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Umm…Miriam are you actually a hobbit (though still large for one?) This is the first time I can recall seeing you with everyday objects for a size comparison. And/or is your friend large for a human making you look extra small? (He’s giving Semitic Chris O’Dowd, a known large man, in the thumbnail.)
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Either that or he’s worried about another Jonestown situation of being murdered if the camera is ever off him.
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stronger motivation.)
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autistic child and Elon didn’t/doesn’t want to pay for child that is a living example than he isn’t the superhuman he imagines himself to be?) Maybe he just doesn’t want to pay for “failures.” (And also, there’s the simple “he’s just a perv” but he’s made such a big deal of it that it speaks to a
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and yet you end up with a disproportionate number of… “less-than-fully-ubermensches?” how much are you willing to pay to hide your high… failure rate? that directly challenges your self-belief in the quality and virility of your genetics? Was Grimes asking for greater resources for a severely
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Given his strong eugenics attitude AND his self-declared (and very obvious) Autism Spectrum Disorder, I wonder how many of the unnumbered children are low-functioning autistics? If you believe yourself an ubermensch and are attempting a breeding program, a attempting to be a one-man Nazi brothel,
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I would happily go back to 5 months ago when the biggest concern was Canada was at risk of a fascist PM rather than America having an actual open outright fascist dictator for a president. Ahh, nostalgia for better days…
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It’s literally how narcissists lure you in. Their ability to hyperfixate on you makes you feel so special. At some point, they flip the script and demand that you fixate on them. And if you don’t, they go ballistic.
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(Sorry, the ADHD took over and this got off onto tangents of tangents… Apologies)
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There’s the whole group that think all popes after John XXIII & the Second Vatican Council are illegitimate. They hate the Church for no longer doing all masses in Latin. Opus Dei & that Pious X Society in Kansas that was preyed upon by a pedophile priest. There are a LOT of reactionary Catholics
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joke about “They tried to kill us. We survived. Let’s eat.” was about what he was expected in terms of the depth of celebrating the Seder meal. (Then again, we were always trying to excise as much Sages discussions to get through the meal with some haste and that was just immediate family. 🤷♂️)
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I only ask about time because as a cashew, all the non-Jewish friends wanted to join in for some ecumenicalism so we tended to take a while. We didn’t realize how long we were taking until one of my dad’s Jewish friends joined us and he teased us for how long the whole thing took. I guess the old
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So do you think there’s enough for a purely feminist haggadah or would you still need to have a bunch of blathering old men being sagacious in order to fulfill the Passover tale? (And if you could write a ladies’ version, could you include a choose-your-own-Seder-duration indicators?)
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It would look more medieval Europe. Maps showing states belie modern America. I live in the Semiautonomous Region of Cincitucky. The massive urban core would act more as a feudal free city. Especially east of the Mississippi, you’d fight out from the cities instead by states given the red/blue split
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Europeans would’ve built full-size pickups for the US market, but we slapped the chicken tax on them. And until ~20 years ago, the Germans (primarily) weren’t interested in building cars in the US. It’s why Toyota and Nissan build full-size pickups in and for the US market almost exclusively.
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The Palestinians are nuisances that need to be cleared off the land to make room for the Jews so that Jesus will come and fulfill the Book of Revelation and bring about the end of days.
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No, you need to pay attention to the Evangelicals - they are the money propping up the worst parts of Israeli society. They have this idea that in order for Jesus to come again, all the Jews need to be in Israel. Once that happens, then Jesus will come, kill the Jews, and bring about Armageddon…
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I asked my sister on your behalf. She’s a customs broker so she’s neck-deep in this shit.
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On a device that has the answers, just too lazy to switch apps, but here is the answer: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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(That may be tariffed - I know southern Ontario had huge ketchup factory; just not sure if it made sauce just for the Canadian market or whether it produced product for all of the US & Canada…)
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Baptist sect. They’re going to hell and are willing to take the rest of us with them. (A cousin, raised Catholic, married a Baptist and took to her faith version. Apparently he and his wife are bitter assholes according to my cousin and uncle. They were chagrined at a recent lunch about that fact.)
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You know how Jesus said to love your neighbor as yourself? I think there are a lot of self-loathing MFers out there who don’t like themselves and have a twisted malevolent glee at hating their neighbors. A lot of the Evangelical movement is underpinned by the fire-and-brimstone, you’re-going-to-hell
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She only wants you for a quick article quote? Something like “Ken White, noted 1st Amendment attorney, said on BlueSky…” Or is she afraid you’ll send her a quote for a quote and she’s cheap?
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Dixie never dies… it just becomes more genteel.
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My sister, a customs broker, is losing her mind. This shit happens so that even Customs can’t provide adequate guidance so “use your best judgement.” 🤷♂️🤯 Plus the tariff stacking - there’s a lot of small business bankruptcies acoming. 10% customs jumping to 70% or more. Insanity!
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And Richard Spencer, founder of the “Alt Right” white supremacy and tutor in bigotry to Stephen Miller
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If you fled communism, anything that’s remotely leftist is a risk of going back to bad times and places. Also see the old Cubans in Florida. (I don’t fully understand the thinking because it never fully aligns with the Western political spectrum, but the brasher the capitalism, the better!)
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Maybe there’s a few companies still cutting actual paychecks these days but most want an EFT paycheck deposit. Usually the company’s bank will provide free checking accounts to the employees as part of a corporate banking agreement. So young men have to go out of their way to not have a bank account
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I would attribute to something far more evil and sinister - this is a gang of rapists. “I’ll use you how I want and if you dare breathe a word of this to anyone, I’ll make the 2nd, 3rd, 4th…time so much worse.”