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I read something the other day that I'll have to find. The basic premise was that the waste water isn't really dangerous and it's really being used as an excuse to get around WTO prohibitions on blanket tariffs because Japanese exports are dominating their market. Edit: turns out I read it in an unsourced reddit post https://reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/s/V6j3doIXvG

Maybe that's why they hung up on us.

"mr trump, are you pooping right now?" "hnngnnnnn NOO nnnnnghhh"

pooping remember potty-training your toddlers, when they deny they're pooping in their pants while actively grunting one out

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1694872033752908217?s=20

https://twitter.com/_sn_n/status/1694779219069329634?s=20

Not really related, but I just tried to schedule a first pediatric dentist appointment. There's a place right down the street that has a bunch of high reviews, their website says they're in-network. So I call them, they call me back and start inputting my info. Then "we accept that insurance but we're out-of-network so there will be an additional upfront cost we can't calculate, you may want to talk to your insurance." That doesn't make sense but I'm also dumb, so I call the insurance and they confirm at least some of the providers at that office are in-network and they offered to call the office with me on the line and sort it out. Well sure, first time any insurance person ever tried to do something helpful for me. So she calls over, they pick up, she starts explaining her bit, the receptionist asks her if I'm an existing patient but realizes I'm on the line too, and then abruptly says "we don't do conference calls." I offered to drop from the call so they could talk business or whatever and no one replied, then insurance lady realizes we got hung up on and I was talking to nobody. So me and insurance lady were just kind of sitting there shocked for a minute at how rude that was and I got angrier and angrier as it set in, so we both agreed that I'll just find a different pediatric dentist. idk maybe they have a rational reason for refusing insurance/patient conference calls, but had to vent that out so I didn't write a mean Karen review on their google page

I haven't traveled very far, but that 15 minute car ride can be brutal

Evidently Ukraine ran a completely uncontested raid in Crimea. https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1694663958215705062

https://twitter.com/keithedwards/status/1694523402193711199

Hogan strongly considering a No Labels run https://www.cbsnews.com/video/third-party-2024-bid-very-likely-former-maryland-gov-larry-hogan-trump/

his center of gravity is too high, like a toddler

My friends conscripted me into their quartet, but we only play once a week because scheduling. Still in Act 1, iunno how much more we have left. My character is a dwarf fighter (so I don't have to learn any more mechanics) who for some reason can jump 3x farther than anyone else and it's hilarious every time I jump.

APOLIGY ACCEPTED PLEAE MOVE ON

There was the original software default theme and we pretty much immediately flipped it to the UEMB default, and until now that was it so there was no real reason to know.

I have thoughts but I need to sit and type them and I got distracted by life. But once I sit down I'll type something out and draw more attention to the If you scroll to the bottom of the homepage, there should be a little button that says "Theme" that you can use to individually toggle from the default format to the ASMB one. If it makes sense to make more themes we can do that but making the one we did was a massive pain in the ass v because I'm really dumb.

isn't that just what FEMA is authorized to disburse before having to go to congress etc.

https://twitter.com/keithedwards/status/1692579692736397685

they shouldn't have been smoking on board

https://twitter.com/dril/status/1692637579164680244?s=20

popped up in my algorithm, can't speak to whether it's a legit site but it said he recorded a few episodes before he died https://tvline.com/casting-news/johnny-hardwick-death-king-of-the-hill-reboot-returning-dale-1235027891/

We're going to open up a thread just to kind of open the door and discuss what people like, don't like, or want to see happen here. With @scoobdog's ASMB Survivor game complete, we'll be looking to archive the ASMB 20th Anniversary event board in the near future. Props to everyone who participated in the anniversary event, and in particular everyone who popped in to reconnect with the community. June was a pretty great month here - just a refreshing combination of nostalgia, returning faces, and new energy. Anyone who wants to get one last word in should jump over before it closes shop. Some of the threads may be ported out to live boards and we'll probably anchor some sort of shout-out thread in this folder for anyone who missed that boat but still wants to say hi or reintroduce themselves within that ASMB context. But anyways - moving forward! I'm going to open the floor. Setting aside the anniversary itself, we're about a year into the last big site revamp. So how do you feel about UEMB? Where do you think we succeed, and where do we fall short? What could we do better? What should our "voice" and direction be? (I'll add some of my own thoughts in a follow-up reply, once I finish thinking them up and then type them with my fingers.)

My understanding is anyone who was on the US payroll at the time will try to do the same. There's the a chance of rolling some Trump-appointed judges at some point in the process, and it also changes the composition of the potential jury pool.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/nyregion/sam-miele-charged-george-santos.html