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Even though I'm conservative, I think there's a lot of quasi-sincere personalities on the right. People who are ultimately more fueled by making a name for themselves and/or making bank. I had an intimate conversation with a public figure who is (or was) agnostic but searching out the Christian faith. He told me Charlie Kirk was having in-depth discussions about biblical passages over text with him. That gave me a lot of respect for CK. Very busy but cared enough about this man's soul to do that with him.

I watched the longer video to get an understanding of how the bystanders operated. The hardest part to watch (aside from her last conscious moments) was the desperation of those who did ultimately attempt to render her aid. It was heartbreaking. Makes me want to take some first aid, gun shot wound, advanced bleeding, etc., classes.

Insightful thread. I worked in a public HS for a little while and can attest that this mentality abounds. https://x.com/CBHeresy/status/1964415435002052634?t=VilUezdKMFR8N9qP7GD6_g&s=19

What he's talking about reminds me of the political spats at this place. There is a caveat though, people who would otherwise be stupid in this manner, but they have solid (relatively speaking) intuition.

She's easy to dislike, but the producer (or at least his son) is scape-goating her. Her crime was being too loud about the woke elements of the plot, but she isn't why it's woke, or why the dwarf debacle and crappy CGI happened. She truly seems like a narcissist, so it's weird to defend her on one hand, but the failure is on Disney fundamentally, and they're just happy to let her be piled on.

I'm going to be 40 later this year and just recently got married (5 months in). I'm really on the fence about having kids, haven't had the ticking biological clock feeling, but I am feeling like it would be time to try if we're going to do it. And I lean toward going for two if we commit to it. My husband has a 14-year-old son with his ex-wife. He's great with kids and would be happy with more, but he's also baseline content now. He feels like he'd be happy either way. Curious to hear from you guys, if any geeks had kids around this age.

It was a male voice that requested visual separation. I don't know if that sheds any light on who was controlling the helo in the moment. The piloting controls are meant to be shared if needs be. If it was a more experienced pilot flying, I could see some deference/false sense of safety at play. With a less experienced pilot, the other aviators are going to be more on guard. But then again, their training probably hammers that everyone be vigilant like their lives depend on it, at all times. It's going to take time to understand the breakdown.

On approach I tend to speed up so I can be obviously first, or slow down (as long as no one is right behind me) so I'm obviously last. When that fails, I mostly intuit (sometimes unsuccessfully) what we're all feeling () the order is and proceed accordingly. I don't trust that what I perceive to be a tie, or not a tie, is a shared perception.

Aww. Thanks Strike

Thanks! We first connected through Christian Mingle back in late 2017/early 2018 (we both aren't sure). He drove a couple hours to see me a handful of times. I thought he was really handsome and really nice but for whatever reason I just wasn't attracted to him. It was weird, internally... like why not? In hindsight I believe it's because he wasn't really himself. He was a year or so out from his marriage failing (infidelity on her part), and he was still reeling from that. Very gunshy but probably trying to play it off. Fast forward to 2022 and I moved to his county. I sent him a text one day (we had kept in text contact until probably sometime in late 2020), when it occurred to me he was the only person I knew in the county. He was in a relationship at the time, so the texts were cursory, and then he wound up sending me more purposeful texts a few months later. We met up and the attraction on my end was pretty instant. The rest is history. He's more of an extrovert and chipper person, but he can definitely enjoy his alone time, too, so we meld well in that sense. And even more importantly he has good character and a kind heart.

I felt it just as a smooth wave under my feet (while sitting in home office) in inland Nor Cal. Some colleagues in a skyscraper in Sacramento really felt the swaying; there was cracking and crashing noises, drawers coming open. Unnerving but everything/one is fine.

Thanks! I'm doing well. Semi-taking care of my parents (compound-like living situation), and I got married recently. Moved from Sac almost 3 years ago and I'm in a somewhat saner county.

I'm hoping the economy hangs on for dear life, a worse virus isn't released, people here eventually see what's happening at the fed level is actually good, and decide not to lean back into the vomit. Wishful thinking but

Good Tariff discussion on X: https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1857394368094597519

I like a decent amount of Trump's picks, but I've always intuitively had an aversion to Gaetz. Kenneth Copeland physiognomy. He seems to be his own man, though, which is rare in DC.