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Imported Scotch Socialist
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Parlor Pink. Golden shellback. Maroon, white, buff, and blue. Public history and Public lands. Gun guy but not your gun guy. Hedge-wizard. Opinions my own.
Getting the fuel has been the long pole in the tent not the design.
November 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
There was a C+(his description) physics student in Princeton in the 70s who designed an atomic bomb for his seniors thesis. Feynman was still there and he he gave him an A then took the thesis, demanded all of his work, and told him not to replicate it.
November 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Supposedly in Southern Italy a rumor spread amongst the Germans that Americans had revolver or semiautomatic 105mm pieces, without really understanding how we did TOT.
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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In conclusion gender is a land of contrasts.
November 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I think of AGI as an intelligence collection ship
November 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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The origins are F'd up, but its purpose was noble both then and now. Lincoln made it a holiday during a time of unprecedented crisis to remind us all to be thankful for what we have because everything was so freaking sh*tty.

I consider this a similar Thanksgiving.

Happy Turkeyday!
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
We bought the Ridgeline during the height of the 2020 madness, and the upshot was they didn't even blink when it came to haggling-or loading all the extra crap on it. It was MSRP but very much a "just what you see pal" situation. In and out 1 hr adventure.
November 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Look, I have a truck. It's also a Ridgeline that will never be more than a rough roader(although at least the drive to our cabin is a mile of rutted out road!) and Lowe's parking lot crawler.

Odda are OOP lives in the burbs and it'll never do anything close to justify the cost.
November 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
My uncle has a F-250, he also uses it to haul a big camper and it sure as hell feels like he uses it at least once a month, going by his Insta, so I can't really criticize that. But odds are good the OOP is not doing that.
November 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The OAH conference in the spring is going to have a lot of drinking in the hotel lobby, I can feel it.

Just two years ago it was about commemorating v. celebrating the 250th and now it's

*Gestures*

This
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Just think the Framers of the Constitution 💯 thought that "complete loser who was pissed off that high society wouldn't like him so used populist tactics to overthrow the government" was a possibility and this is what is on the 250th pass.

Bacon's Rebellion - Wikipedia share.google/JCAjxktoU3Uf...
Bacon's Rebellion - Wikipedia
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November 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The +Yeti+ beats the Loch Ness Monster?

We used to be a country, a real country.
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"Childhood never ends, so no one should have adult responsibility."
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM