Elon hacked the timeline to give her embarrassing 2020 primary performance as well. To stop the Harris/de Blasio alternate future.

* slaps sphere *

"You can fit so much Perlin noise on this baby."

Thanks for the insight.

I live adjacent to national forest and the forest itself is pretty much the same on public and private land. When people around here clear their land they basically break even or have to pay to get rid of the trees because, shocker, saw mills for lumber aren't setup to process oak/maple/hickory. So it's either pulpwood, or truly prize specimens (which are rare) get sold to smaller processors as like "bespoke" trees for making furniture.

Our softwood stands come nowhere close to competing with Canada and the southern states in terms of tree size and number, so even if you do have loblolly (or whatever) it's not economic to harvest. I mean, you make a little bit, but it's laughable. It's only worth it if you are going to clear the land anyway for development.

So cutting a national forest to compete with Canada wouldn't even work in the most bare naked capitalist, Looten Plunder-ass sense.

Pez

At first I was confused because this is also Charlie Kirk's nickname.

I invite you to look beyond the machinery of misinformation—an integral part of this aggression—and instead speak with those who have visited Iran. Observe the many accomplished Iranian immigrants... Do these realities align with the distortions you are being told about Iran and its people?

Sorry is there an Adrian Zenz-like figure I can ask instead?

Seriously though I admire that, despite all we've done to them, he still responds with a dignity that we certainly don't deserve. Of course we're totally deaf to this as a people, but I respect the gesture.

Reference

George Orr is a draftsman with a mysterious ability. Some of his dreams are "effective" dreams that change reality. Orr's effective dreams shift the entire universe, changing both the past and present and creating a new timeline.

Former prosecutor, btw.

Been awhile since I saw ol' Dookie Chute, glad he's still fucking insane.

I had a dog who developed seizures. Low dose phenobarbital solved the issue thankfully. It was a little inconvenient because he required regular liver tests and also, phenobarbital being a controlled substance, I had to buy it at a regular pharmacy. But other than that it was fine, much better than the seizures. He had no issues until he died (years later) of unrelated problems stemming from old age.

I've actually been there. This is hilarious, but the serious side is that their county doesn't have the money to spend on this kind of shit.

When people say the USA doesn't have "real poverty" I always think of the two barefoot kids I saw carrying buckets to the creek. Or the partially collapsed rat's nest/lean-to "cabin" that I was sure had been abandoned for decades, but then had smoke coming from the chimney in winter. Half the walls were plastic tarp and scrap metal. That's Adams County.

The town of Portsmouth is right next door in Scioto County, and it was ground zero for the opioid epidemic in the USA. The first pill mill was right there. Last time I was there on any sheltered stretch of the river you could find addicts living in tents. The librarians carry Narcan.

But they raid Afroman's house looking for weed.

I don't think I've ever seen a more patient person in an online forum.

People just don't understand the scale of these global systems, which is understandable since the numbers are incomprehensible. They think what they see in daily life represents one cell of a giant organism, but its more like one atom.

The big, thick roots on trees are mostly just structural. The interface where trees actually absorb stuff they need to live is a thin layer under the soil made up of billions of tiny "root hairs". Even humongous, old-growth trees are dependent on this layer of roots so small and ephemeral that they may only last a few days. Where these roots meet the soil there is such a complex mixture of bacteria, fungi, sloughed off tree cells and whatnot that it's impossible to say where the soil ends and the tree begins. This region is called the "rhizosphere".

The exudates that trees secrete into this region produce an electrical gradient that pushes needed chemicals back into the roots. These secretions also support soil organisms. Over millions of years they've co-evolved to the point where trees release chemicals purely to feed them and, in return, they extend the tree's "reach" into the soil and provide chemicals the tree can't make, in some cases literally piercing and growing within the tree's own cells. There's some research now showing that trees (and other plants) can even communicate via chemicals in the rhizosphere. Kind of like how neurons communicate across a chemical synapse.

I love this fact because it inverted the way I think about trees. In a way the forest we see is like a living protrusion of the rhizosphere, with trunks and leaves only serving to deliver sugar, carbon, and other stuff down to where all the action is. I hope it lightens your mood. If you can see a tree now there's a good chance you are witnessing a fungal symbiosis that nobody has ever identified.

"A guy who likes to keep an empty stomach until the hard part of the day is done."

"Garlic"

"Sapper Morton"

So oracle eats its seed corn to build even more fucking data centers rather than accept the risk evaluations of their lenders.

Man, what god damn geniuses over there. I bet they can't wait to have their ghost writers felate them over this decision in their future "autobiographies" that will be for sale at the airport. Oh wait, silly me, there's no ghost writers anymore!

Maybe they discovered another secret stan video of Condoleezza, but in Iran this time, and they just want to ask her, "no seriously, what the fuck?"

I was thinking Khorne wasn't appropriate for the USA because Khorne cares about honorable combat. Then I thought Nurgle because we're all fat and sick and because of the ivermectin brain-worms shit, but no, Nurgle is actually an avuncular and loving god in his own way. Tzeentch actually plans stuff and thinks ahead.

I think its a Slaanesh cult. The elites are all pedos, the propaganda is obsessed with genitalia, the populace doesn't give a shit as long as the treats flow.

Somebody here said something like, "Can't wait for libs to tell me I'm responsible for a Vance presidency because I refuse to vote for this ghoul." I think about that every time he opens his mouth. Can't wait for all the milquetoast liberal pushback against Newsom's despicable rhetoric to melt away into "Blue no matter who" the minute he is coronated by the plutocracy.

You know it's going to be a good diner when its one of these bad boys:

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