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Richard Wilson4 said:We were talking about planes yesterday.
The real question is, who on earth would actually be flying them...
Tyler Jones6 said:The US is currently dispatching $350 million worth of anti-armor and anti-aircraft weaponry
bluecyclist64 said:...you're staying quiet, aren't you?
bluecyclist64 said:Are you one of those people too?
It never fails to amuse me when people start preaching about the "greater good" while completely trampling over the individual. It’s a tired old pattern, isn't it? Everyone gets so caught up in celebrating some collective milestone that they conveniently forget there are actual human beings behind those numbers—people whose own well-being is being sacrificed for the sake of the group's optics. I've seen it happen countless times in corporate offices from Chicago to Seattle; management celebrates a record-breaking quarter while ignoring the burnout and quiet misery of the staff who actually did the heavy lifting. It's a hollow kind of victory.👍
It feels as though Providence itself saw fit to drop you right into my path.🙏
Someone really ought to take poor Jonathan Wright2 and bring him over to my side at Alternative...🙂
Anderlone, for heaven's sake, did I not explicitly advise you against liquidating that controlling block of shares?🙂
This thread is an absolute dumpster fire.🤣
Jonathan Wright2 said:Look, Miller was just a link... I don't actually take him seriously, but at the time I was listening to what he had to say, so I used him in the intro... Not that lonetrucker4 is going to hunt me down asking where I got all this info—I mean, a person can't just pull these things out of thin air without some kind of source, right?
Basically, you aren't allowed to have an opinion or think for yourself—you just have to follow the script. That’s the absolute worst thing about lonetrucker4. He just kills any actual discourse.
I don't get it...
Am I not allowed to criticize or question the previous regime?
I tried to follow your logic there, but I think you totally lost the plot. You typed out a massive wall of text—and hey, thanks for the effort, really—but the point is: am I not allowed to doubt the official narrative? Am I supposed to just accept whatever is said and written as gospel?
Do you even realize this is a forum...?
A forum has a definition.
One of those definitions is having opposing views... Disagreement is the literal backbone of a forum.
I try to be brutally level-headed.
Look, I support the WWII era stuff, but I also understand there's plenty to criticize within it...
I totally hear you, and honestly, thanks for keeping it real.
Of course the threads I start have holes in them and missing pieces.
No doubt about it...
But that’s literally why we’re all here—to hash things out and debate...
Except then lonetrucker4 rolls in and shuts the whole thing down, and boom, end of story.
If a topic doesn't sit right with him, then it basically shouldn't exist at all.
On the flip side, though, how do you not see what's happening...?
Sure, back lonetrucker4 up, he’s a great forum regular, but how can you miss the serious issue with his moderation when it’s actively killing the whole purpose of this place...?!
urbanheron4 said:That isn't some valid metric for anything. The Republican Party pushed through dual citizenship specifically so they could sweep up more mandates from Canada, all while letting criminals loot the US and then flee back to Canada to dodge American justice. Besides, plenty of people identify as Americans based on their faith rather than any strict ethnic label...
Jacob Alvarez said:What exactly did he get wrong?
graniteharbor502 said:I misread the title—thinking it was some commentary on how half-naked models are cluttering up Adobe—and I actually felt a bit of excitement, but man, was I wrong once I clicked through to the actual thread... 😢
bluecyclist64 said:Total bullshit. His nose is slightly skewed to the right; the drawing isn't centered on his face at all. The teeth look fine, though.
Joseph Allen71 said:They aren't quite like Fernandel's, but they'll pass. 👍
Personally, I find those hairy feet of his way weirder.🕺
briskhound2 said:... What are we actually talking about here? How he supposedly has a great smile?
coppersailor28 said:Google.com...
I’ve been sitting here thinking about that one song... you know the one... and it just keeps looping in my head, playing over and over like some sort of relentless, beautiful haunting... It’s funny how a simple melody can just take hold of you and refuse to let go, dragging up all these old memories and feelings you thought you had buried deep under the surface... I wonder if anyone else feels that same heavy pull when a certain track starts playing, or if it's just me drifting off into these long, winding thoughts while the rest of the world moves on without a second thought...Gaudeamus igiturIt’s an international matter... High school graduation season is finally upon us, and honestly, looking at the state of these standardized exit exams... I don't know how anyone keeps their sanity through the whole ordeal... It’s just one massive, exhausting gauntlet designed to test everything except what actually matters in the real world... It seems like you may have hit "send" a little too early... I was just getting ready to dive into this, but there isn't much here to work with yet. If you have a specific post or some text you need me to overhaul, just drop it in... I'm ready when you are. It’s funny how people talk about student life like it’s some kind of carefree, endless summer vacation, when in reality, most of us are just trying to navigate a bureaucratic nightmare while keeping our heads above water... You spend half your time fighting with university administration over things that should be automated by now, and the other half wondering if you'll ever actually see the light at the end of the tunnel once the tuition bills hit. It feels like we're constantly being squeezed from every angle, between the rising costs of living in cities like Chicago or Austin and the sheer weight of the academic workload that seems designed to break you rather than build you up... And don't even get me started on the social aspect, which is often more exhausting than the actual studying because you're constantly performing this version of "having it all together" for everyone else. It’s a cycle that never really ends, just shifts into a different kind of stress once you graduate and realize the real world isn't much more forgiving than the lecture hall... The anthem...