Voltaire

Tim, I know the long beards and wide brimed fedora-looking hat isn't your version of Judaism but I wonder if you know enough about those guys to speculate as to the thinking behind why they would build a tunnel. I mean these tunnels are clearly really special to them. There is a reason as to why they have gotten so bent out of shape over the prospect of them being destroyed that they have engaged in a physical altercation with police to defend them which, in turn, means risking long prison sentences. I'm hoping someday soon to read an article about how important those tunnels are, what purpose they serve, and why it's so important to keep them, but until then, I am utterly baffled and so wonder if you might have some Jewish insights.

That's what I was thinking although the Aztecs were probably the worst human civilization.

Ah... so he attempted to do it because he knew in advance it could be done. Before AI, nobody went at it that long, maybe even the creators didn't know about the glitch.

I don't think anybody knew that the game glitched out and froze up at 999,999 until now.

As a teacher, I have great flexibility. I can choose to live in pretty much any community in America. One of the prime motivating factors in deciding to move to a bright red part of Florida was the complete shutout absence of politicians who resemble those on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

I'm wondering about Kimmel and if he's been on a list because of him being brought up the Aaron Rodgers thread... thanks in advance.

I wasn't a fake astronaut when I was 13, which is a good thing, because if I had been, I might have gotten blown up on board the Challenger. But yeah, give my 13 year-old self some fake astronaut diapers, I imagine I could have went toe-to-toe with this kid playing tetris for 36 straight hours.

Not you, those are mostly gutterboy, squistion, and Tim's battles. And it involves many, many variations: the appropriateness of drag queen story hour, gay pron in school libraries, transwomen athletes, boys raping girls in the girls restroom, the sex organ mutilation of minors, governments or non-custodial parents kidnapping children, schools not informing parents of transitioning children, forced pronoun usage, and such.

Liberals at this site consider themselves moderates because they realize there are fanatics like AOC and her squad, Hamas supporters, Communists, race hustlers, LGBTQ fanatics, ANTIFA types and all sorts of fruits and nuts to their left out there. We haven't had a flaming blue "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" member who checks the extreme left box on every position since torridjoe left after getting exhausted by singlehandedly taking on the entire forum for 50 pages or so over "being here illegally is not a crime.."

in Thank You for hosting.

Two years from now... "I offered to host a family and you gave me a half dozen large males with face tattoos who kicked my ass when I asked them not to host a fentanyl party in my spare bedroom. They took my car two weeks ago and raced down the expressway at 120 MPH eventually smacking into a school bus and when I asked you to remove them you accused me of hate speech and threw me in jail. My wife took the kids out of the house for their safety and they now live in the street outside our home, occasionally going inside for hot water until if got turned off because the bill didn't get paid. Fortunately, the immigrants got it turned back on through a government program to pay the expense."

Gotta hand it to you, that's a reasonably fine list.

We're losing sight of the absurdity of these tunnels. Apparently it's two different factions of religious Jews going at it over ownership of the building and the tunnels. Hopefully we get a description from one of the pro-tunnel people to explain why these tunnels were made and why it's important to keep them. I'm thinking they worry their synagogue will get overrun with Palestinian fanatics and they wanted an escape route... but... maybe there's some religious significance to it because these guys seem truly devoted to keeping it. You go to jail for fighting with cops. Maybe it's a holy underground shrine consecrated by God and only for the truly devoted and filling it in will set in motion JustinCharge's apocalypse.

It's not what you want but it is the easily predicted consequence of what you advocate for. When you were championing open borders, where did you think these people would go? There's not a bottomless pit of money, housing, health care and other resources out there and what there is is being used more and more by foreigners rather than Americans.

The NFL is more concerned with money than diehard fans. Teams too. They would rather fill the stadiums with deep pocketed corporate accounts than diehard fans that can't cough up the same amounts of money.

I've been rooting for that team since Bo roamed the sidelines and know and like plenty of people that went there, even though I know it's a den of woke BS. As for Sparty, it was a lost season but it looks like they are going to successfully hose Mel Tucker and re-coup his salary over bullsh*t. Hopefully the Oregon State guy they hired to replace him can turn the program around because of this fiasco, they risk becoming a perennial also-ran like Purdue or Illinois. Seems to me they were fotunate to get him as the collapse of the Pac10 freed him up.

Oh, so very this. ^^^

If I did, I could have set aside a fifteen hour block or whatever to do so. Once upon a time I was really good at that game and regularly got deep into the top speed level.

These tunnels remind me of an odd article I remember from years back, about how Orthodox Jews hang invisible wires in their communities. I forgot every other detail about it, so I went to look it up again just now. They're called eruv and aparently they need to be hung up so that people inside them can attend synagogue. https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/03/the-nearly-invisible-wires-that-enclose.html I wonder if the tunnels are related to that. Or perhaps they, like their Palestinian neighbors, from somewhere deep in their psyche, harbor an innate compulsion to build tunnels everywhere.

CDub is a great, outstanding human being who has a more jaded and negative opinion of racial and religious minorities than I do. Yes, I do disagree with him on this, but we like and respect each other, and so don't hold your breathe on seeing me call him out. There's more. CDub happens to be the Geek that lives closest to my family in the Detroit area and is one of only two Geeks (the other being nobody) that I've ever met in person. When I was in China and now that I am in Florida, for anything local going on, he's the first source of information I turn to. Also, during the early days of COVID, when people were dropping dead in Hunan and before the disease spread to the US, CDub went to some lengths to help me procure masks, although the effort failed as they were hard to come by, but not for lack of effort. (It was Fireballer who did, in fact, get my family masks).

Until now, it had never occurred to me that ZZ Top might be a Jewish band.

I know. I watched them all year. Baltimore exposed them. They're arguably the second best team in the NFC but the secondary is too leaky (although CJGJ returning should help) and pass rush is mediocre unless James Houston returns. Scrambling QBs befuddle them. They're not close to San Francisco IMO. Their record is based in part on going 8-0 vs the weak teams of the NFC South and AFC West divisions. Then they also got in a funk during the easiest stretch of their schedule when they played tight/poor games and escaped with a 3-2 record vs the Bears (2), Chargers, Packers, and Saints.

Not really. The favorites should cruse because the stratification is more pronounced and higher than usual this year. Its not just the the favorites are playing at home, but that other than KC/Miami and head-up-their-tush-push-Philly and TBB, the favorites are also significantly better.

Yup. I don't see it. SF and Baltimore are worlds better than anyone else in their conferences. If either get tripped up it'd be Baltimore by Cleveland since division rivals know each other better than anyone and Cleveland has already shown that they can beat them in Baltimore this year. In the NFC, barring injury, SF is pretty much a lock. NFC Wildcards aren't very good, well Philly can be plenty good if they can wake up. To help them out they have the easiest first round opponent of all, but their team is collapsing and they have lost to teams worse than Tampa Bay recently. Pitt and GB are one-and-done. LARams do have a shot at Detroit, a better shot that Houston has at the Browns. I'd much rather have seen the Lions get the Packers. But the Rams are still too top heavy and Detroit D plays better vs pocket QBs. Houston feels like surprise crashing dinner guests. It's different with Tampa Bay since we knew all along the NFC South would get to submit an entry and even there, their least bad team isn't in. Personally, I do think Miami is better than Kansas City but I remember how they lost to the Chiefs (KC was also the better team that day which sometimes doesn't match up with who gets the 'w') on a neutral field and now they play in Arrowhead, so I can't go there. Detroit looked better than Dallas when they recently played. It's easier for Dan Campbell to fire up Lions who know they're better and got cheated while the Cowboys go in knowing they are inferior and stole the game.

SF is way better than the NFC. Baltimore has bigger landmines to navigate by way of Buffalo or Cleveland or the Chiefs but should still win. And if Baltimore does win the NFC team, SF or another, will not beat them.