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Debris confirmed to be from the exterior hull of the Titan submarine has been found. Was the debris caused by a collision with an underwater UFO? US Navy vessels were involved in the "search." How did they get there so quickly? I smell a government cover up. THE TRUTH IS DOWN THERE ! !

Here's a link to the official application: https://idiotsrunningclub.com/idiot-application/

Just FYI - - according to NIH, for most women it happens between the ages of 45 and 55.

So in your world, people are absolutely compelled to go on say TIkTok and watch videos of people ridiculing them - - they have no choice in the matter? That's like saying that if you repeatedly got physically bullied at a specific location (like say the street in front of some big kid's house) while walking home from school years ago, you would be absolutely compelled to repeatedly walk by that same house and get beat up rather than taking an available alternate route to avoid the beating. The availability of an alternate route doesn't justify the physical bullying if you choose to walk by the house anyway, just like the ability to avoid TikTok doesn't justify somebody posting another video ridiculing you on TikTok. But nobody is forced to look at TikTok. You're a victim the first and maybe the first few times you watch a video of somebody ridiculing you on TikTok. If you repeatedly go to TikTok after that and watch videos of somebody ridiculing you, you're not a victim, you're a volunteer. Could the culture of victimhood be any greater in this country? People are responsible for their own choices. If you continue to go watch videos of other people ridiculing you on TikTok, knowing in advance that you are likely to be ridiculed there, that's on you, even though there is no justification for posting the ridiculing video.

Lots of companies simultaneously declare bankruptcy at exactly the same time and announce it in advance. Happens all the time.

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Of course they can - - it just takes more willpower than what you can reasonably expect kids or most adults to have.

Ron White reflecting on his conversation with the cops about being drunk in public after he got thrown out of a bar: "I had the right to remain silent . . . . . I just didn't have the ability."

The truth is out, I mean down, there: https://journalnews.com.ph/these-creepy-unexplained-discoveries-might-prove-that-underwater-ufos-are-from-outer-space/

If I recall correctly, some years ago you were dealing with (NC?) using eminent domain to take part of your farmland. I grew up on a WNY farm myself (Bills fan ever since the Jack Kemp days as a kid), and I always wondered how that turned out for you. As for me, I was still working when I began lurking here, but had already retired at a relatively young age by the time I formally joined in 2004. The day came when I had to make a choice between my ethics and my job, and with the benefit of years of disciplined spending (OK, maybe I'm just cheap) and some decent investment decisions that gave me "walk away" money, I made a choice that I've never regretted. When I later persuaded my significant other to also retire, she and I moved from a very large city to a small but rapidly growing one in a different state, where we built our retirement home. I've been blessed with a good life partner, a couple good dogs (one at a time), and generally good health. Somehow we both avoided Covid (the move to a small city probably helped). We are enjoying life after we each spent many years in good but highly stressful jobs, and we both are enjoying the Bills' resurgence after many years of football frustration. We've made lots of friends in our adopted city both separately and as a couple, and are hoping to travel a bit now that the pandemic seems to be fading. God's been good to us, and we have a lot to be thankful for. Go Bills ! ! !

"Body Heat" with Kathleen Turner.

I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. May God give your Dad the strength to deal with whatever the outcome of the surgery may be, and the determination to do whatever is necessary to speed his recovery.

Do you think all those clever people simultaneously decided not to entertain you any more, or might there be some other reason?

Flat 2% back on all purchases with no annual fee: https://www.nerdwallet.com/reviews/credit-cards/fidelity-rewards You can set up a Fidelity "cash management account" to accept the 2% cash back each month. The cash back money doesn't need to stay in that account for any specific length of time. You can set it up so that you can make an online transfer from the Fidelity "cash management account" to your checking account at any bank you choose whenever you want.

I'm not saying the strange fluid on the seafloor is coming from a buried alien ship, but: https://weather.com/science/video/strange-fluid-leaking-from-seafloor-and-scientists-want-to-know-more

Pretty smart - - hold back the best evidence for your theory until the football illiterates who don't remember 2004 have chimed in with their criticisms. For those who may not remember, the Chargers drafted Eli Manning, and then almost immediately traded him to the Giants. The Chargers got Phillip Rivers AND a third round pick AND a first round pick the following year. That 1st round pick turned into LB Shawne Merriman - - exactly the position that is currently the biggest question mark in our defense. For the illiterates among us, here are the facts about that trade: https://boltbeat.com/2020/05/30/la-chargers-eli-manning-philip-rivers-robbery/ Now I'll grant you that Hooker is not the prospect that Eli Manning was, but there are a lot more QB needy teams than there used to be. Remember the years the Bills recently spent wandering around the QB wilderness before they drafted Josh Allen? And Beane is a magician with roster moves - - I bet he could send Hooker to a QB needy team for enough draft picks to fill some roster holes, even if Hooker in a Bills uniform wouldn't fetch a first round pick. If I recall right, we got Milano in the fifth, and we could really use a good rookie LB this year. Get er' done, Beane ! !

Well, because you specifically asked, at least as recently as 2018 (google is my friend):

I know a guy who is fond of saying: "If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes."

Now that I have your attention, what are your favorite rhetorical responses to questions that have an obvious yes or no answer? Here are a few for starters: For "yes:" 1. Does a bear s**t in the woods? 2. Is the Pope Catholic? 3. Does a one legged duck swim in a circle? [my favorite, even though the real answer to that question is probably no] For "no:" 1. Does a chicken have lips? Personally, I sometimes take the Yogi Berra approach and mix and match just to see people's reactions, for example: Does the Pope s**t in the woods? or Are bears Catholic? Expand my repetoire - - whaddaya got?

For the same reason that the North American Indians would have fared better, in the short term at least, if they had killed Christopher Columbus and his entire party of explorers.

Unlike 4merper4mer, I don't claim to have absolute certainty that there is no other intelligent life in the universe. That's why I'm open to considering anybody's logical explanation for the Fermi paradox. But it's disingenuous to pejoratively call the Fermi paradox a "rabbit hole." IF life hypothetically somehow forms from the right mix of non-living chemicals when the circumstances of temperature, pressure, etc are just right, then given the vast number of other planets in the universe, those conditions statistically would be expected to exist and have caused life to form in numerous locations. So where is everybody? If they ain't around, and we currently have no evidence that they have ever existed anywhere , then maybe the hypothesis that life will form from the right mix of non-living chemicals under specific but currently unknown conditions is simply wrong. If you think the hypothesis is correct, where is everybody? Of course, you can always avoid the logic of the analysis by calling the Fermi paradox a "rabbit hole" that isn't worthy of your consideration.

The folks at SETI think that, just like in 1961, we only know the value of one of the 7 factors that have made up the Drake equation since it was first postulated in 1961. Here's the proof: Excerpted from https://www.seti.org/drake-equation-index (for more complete details read the full link): ___________ "The Drake Equation was cooked up by astronomer Frank Drake in 1961 to serve as the agenda for the first meeting on the topic of SETI. . . . At the time of the meeting, essentially none of the seven factors in the equation was known excepting the first, the production rate of stars. . . . It has been sixty years since the Drake Equation was conceived. Have we nailed down more of the terms than the single one known in 1961? Sadly, no. . . ." __________ Like any formula or mathematical model, the adage "Garbage in, garbage out" applies. The fact that most people in this thread disagree with 4merper4mer's conclusions doesn't make him a troll. When you make what the SETI folks readily concede are just "guesses" about the value of 6 of the 7 factors, everybody is just speculating. Although 4merper4mer doesn't explain his analysis particularly well, if any of the 6 unknown factors have a true value of ZERO, then we are alone in the universe. That is true whether or not that math dashes the hopes and dreams of the scientists and ordinary people who would like, and in some cases fervently hope, that we are not alone. SETI says that the fraction of suitable planets on which life actually appears is unknown. If your own "guess" is that life actually appears on some planet anywhere in the universe other than earth, you have to explain the Fermi paradox to justify your "guess." I have yet to hear an explanation for the Fermi paradox that makes me think that 4merper4mer's conclusion is wrong. I find the topic interesting enough that I am willing to entertain new explanations for the Fermi paradox from people with some basis for attempting an explanation. With most human knowledge available on the internet, anybody can do google searches to look for a rational explanation for the Fermi paradox provided by someone with the appropriate education or training to enlighten the rest of us. If you ever find such an explanation, please post a link. I'll read it.

I'm not saying it was aliens, but when the earth's core starts spinning in the opposite direction, you gotta wonder what's happening on the ocean floor . . . https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-inner-core-started-spinning-other-direction-study/

By a team-mate in my younger days to opponents when things first started to get chippy (not if there was any imminent likelihood of a fight): " Little guys get in groups - - big guys single file ! "