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So you just hang around your house in your pants all day? I think not.

Like Disco, I have a Koi pond (it's a roughly 600 gallon concrete pool). I don't have aquarium fish because I never had any luck with them, but a lot of the things that don't work on an aquarium are "easier" (as in I can throw money at) to implement. I could never get the filtration right on the aquarium and ended up getting algae all over the sides. Don't have to worry about cleaning the glass with a pond and the carp eat the algae that grows on the side. Also, heating the water isn't necessary with carp - they prefer colder water - so I don't need a heater. Other than that, the same basic process applies - you have to recirculate the water at a certain rate to keep the water healthy without having to do a water exchange, which can kill fish quickly. I'm going to implement some flora to pull more nutrients out of the water, though the water clarity is perfect as is. You get a better understanding of filtration when you deal with it on a larger scale: my pond has three-stage filtration, two mechanical and one UV, and adding a waterfall adds gravity to trap the remaining floating algae before dropping crystal clear water backing into the pond. The waterfall adds aeration into the water in addition to the bubbler I have at the back side of the pond. All-in-all It's worked really well.

My girl openly gags at my cheeseburgers and I give her a kiss. (My girl is the orange kitty in my avatar)

No dude: I'm literally dying. I'm stuck at home with Covid and I have nothing to do but sit at my computer in my underwear...waiting for the big reveal. (Ghosty, I'm not really dying. I'm just bored.)

I’m dying here Ghosty.

Happy Birthday!

Forgiveness doesn’t mean you have to relinquish the boundary. It really just means not actively fueling that anger by separating the person from the action.

Ghosty I believe in you.

So, what precipitated this altercation?

It’s been 19 years. He had daddy issues, but he didn’t pass them on to me. I miss him the more I deal with the rest of my family.

At this point, everything Israel does better result in the rescue of hostages or else.

I, for one, feel accomplished this week.

That might not have the connotation you think.

But seriously, which genre? Give us a little bit, Ghosty. Just a little.

How long is it?

He’s really proven to be an impotent leader. I think RBG and Kennedy were the de facto leaders because they had the experience and temperaments to anchor the court while Roberts could guide the technical operation. Kennedy in particular had the task of sitting on both Alito and Thomas after Alito pushed Thomas even further into social conservatism. Those two have a bad dynamic that you can’t just structure around.

He wasn't hopped up on goofballs was he? And by that, I mean snorting cocaine because, apparently, snorting is fashionable again in 2024.

Kennedy was pretty friendly with the liberal side before he died. Roberts has been more or less like a deer in headlights as soon as Jerkoff #1 and Jerkoff #2 get shown up with some stupid opinion or another. The other three seem to be following Roberts and they've come out with one or two unexpected wins for common decency.

Just means Roberts isn't a moron. I'm pretty sure he votes based on his beliefs as well.

Not picking on your post or disagreeing with your analysis of MD. Another part of the problem is that we're so invested in the military action itself we've lost sight of who the victims are. This whole time, the families of the hostages have been equally critical of the government and a lot of their anguish gets drowned out by understandable horror that continues to unfold. It's really hard to acknowledge the families who, through no fault of their own, deserve to be happy that their loved ones returned home and have every right to be thankful for the soldiers who executed the raid. We still have to because those families being whole is necessary for this conflict to end.

I posted in the other thread and deleted it. It's not just in poor taste, it's nothing to celebrate unless you're the family member of one of the rescued. You don't get credit for doing something after you created the mess in the first place. Here's the thing.... we probably wouldn't be even discussing this if this rescue mission had happened earlier in the campaign. There's a big difference between killing civilians in the process of pulling hostages out of their homes and killing civilians to blow up a tunnel beneath their homes. I'm not suggesting that Israel should have framed their operations in human terms to justify their actions, but, at the same time, a lot of the international condemnation centers on how Israel has gone about presenting their deconstruction of Hamas and its infrastructure. Unfeeling as it might sound, we as international observers can't offer much criticism if Israel had said "We had intel that there were hostages in this tunnel, so we razed the homes on top of it to get access and discovered, unfortunately, there were no hostages there to rescue." Of course, after one or two of these failed operations, that rationale can be nearly as damaging. Israel has no obligation to consider civilian casualties when there is reasonable assurance that what they're doing is to achieve a legitimate goal. Netanyahu opened himself up to taking unearned blame in this situation by not publicly prioritizing hostage rescue at the beginning of the operation instead of a quixotic quest to destroy Hamas. Israel is getting blame now because people are as apt to consider the rescue as a happy coincidence in the quest to ravage Rafah as they are a legitimate attempt of find hostages. Not only is that unfair, it's emblematic of how Israel botched a mandate to rescue it's lost citizens and protect itself in the process.

I need a new mattress. Valentine literally sinks into it.

My money’s on the Ghost.

Y/N?

Is your aunt hot?