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  1. ignatius
    "holding its own alongside the explosive rock climax of Queen’s revered ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’." ^^ from the about bit below the video. lols.
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    independence through independents…
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    my grandma smoked from age 16 to 85. at 85 she forgot that she smoked because of the alzheimer's. never got lung cancer, no heart problems.. just the uh. alzheimer's.
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    it's a shame borat can't sneak in and take a shit on the stage or something
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    is this how trump was elected in 2016? ?
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    is this a subtle hint that china will be incorporating taiwan soon? https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4266780 Chinese netizens try to pad their Olympic stats with Taiwan's medals Chinese nationalists console themselves by including Taiwan's wins in fictitious medal table
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    Das Boot
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    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    god bless'em
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    this is pretty hilarious.
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    initially when the highway system was being designed in USA the intention was to connect cities to each other but keep the highways on the outskirts of metropolitan areas and not go right through cities etc.. i guess sort of like the german autobahn??? Eisenhower was more than disappointed when the highways started carving up cities in the blueprints. as for food.. portland and the willamette valley are good examples of how regional food can supply a place (and beyond). some of this is historical and can be credited to oregon's slow growth and being a small state etc.. but also in the 80s the city created and urban growth boundary to help prevent sprawl. this forced developers to reclaim property inside the beltway and turn it into neighborhoods.. it also meant that farmers couldn't partition up their land and cash in to developers who would build suburbs. the farms still exist. and it means there's lot's of local food grown to supply restaurants and grocery stores. also kept the place connected to its roots and helped keep a more diverse economy. not everyone is happy about the urban growth boundary but it's one of the big reasons portland is what it is. it's notoriously difficult to expand the boundary to allow for more development. so, infill happens meaning "upzoning".. which is also a double edged sword at times and something not everyone is happy about but it mostly works.
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    just saying hi https://www.instagram.com/p/CSX9ocPhg3k/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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    https://i.imgur.com/80IyJkP.mp4
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    new building in north portland. beavis and butthead laughing.
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    yeah.. also, the mad man strategy which is what Nixon used. implying he was fucking crazy and drunk and the B52 bombers were always flying and during times of higher threat levels or whatever used as leverage as they would be told to fly closer to legal boundaries or whatever.. literally in the air 24 hours a day for months for weeks/months and stuff like that.
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    i'm almost 50 so lived through the same. this seems worse because i'm older and it's more real. nuclear war seemed like a thing that was avoidable. not inevitable like climate collapse. ymmv of course but after i saw Red Dawn (first pg-13 movie ever) i knew that the youth of america would kill the communist invaders and chase them from our land so was less worried. i think the early parts of the cold war with drunk russian leaders and the US 'mad man strategy' as well as russian cuba missile crisis etc were probably more scary. by the 80s it seems like the cold war was stable and i was also only a teenager so i mostly thought about BMX bikes and boobies and when to yield to pier pressure to smoke weed.
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    FU. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    oh wow. she was a staple in shows of a certain era. seemed so young. i guess i remember her as a funny 1980s bikini babe. fucking cancer. ugh.
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    could go for more in the vein of that Syntax release.
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    one of my nephews calls this kind of story "panic porn" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58130705 he has high hopes for technology. being a young person i think it's part of his way of not descending into hopelessness. he usually says "Carbon capture, nuclear, geo engineering. We’ll be fine." and then i have to remind him that "we" really means "some people" will be fine and those people are the super rich people and that regardless of what happens a lot of people will suffer... and that those technologies are far away and so far very ineffective in any meaningful way. so it goes. gonna have 3 days over 100 degrees this week followed by about a week of above 90 days. not totally out of line for august in portland but after all the previous days above 90 and above 100 and that insane week of the heat dome.. we're all well sick of it. on the plus side.. when the arctic ice melts it'll really open up that part of the world for arctic drilling!
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    i quit FB at the start of the pandemic. so glad to finally quit. didn't have to manage the work page anymore. i had my personal page whittled down to the handful of people i wanted to interact with. but had every other thing blocked or hidden. some of the groups were useful and it was good for finding out about events and shows.. but otherwise it was a trash bin. i could see it turning into a groups and events type thing and then for keeping in touch with family. etc. would be nice if it would experience a sort oof crash in user base. but there's billions of people on it so would take a lot to get to doodoo itself.
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    https://www.wsfa.com/2021/08/07/more-than-65000-vaccine-doses-wasted-because-low-uptake/
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    it's a lane divider because people probably come and go at same time and don't stick to their lane unless told to. people often pull up in the middle of gates.
  25. ignatius
    freedumb don't need no permit. hopefully the capitol police have back up this time. not that it'll be as big as the trump lead rally... but would be nice not to have the capitol stormed and stuff.
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