Obtuse1
| Favorite team: | Duke  |
| Location: | Westside Bodymore Yo |
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| Number of Posts: | 30154 |
| Registered on: | 9/25/2016 |
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Didnt that culture call for the genocide of the Boers?
If you are talking about Boers and not modern Afrikaners, then their bitch was more with the British. The British killed thousands (probably tens of thousands) of Boer women and children in camps during the Second Boer War.
Also, Africa is far from a monolithic culture.
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re: Bourbon collection challenges
Posted by Obtuse1 on 3/31/26 at 2:37 am to CeauxPilot
I love all the newly minted bourbon drinkers because they took much of the pressure off the Scotch market. It still isn't cheap and full of shenanigans, but nothing like it was at its peak before the bourbon craze set in.
re: Trump willing to end war without opening Hormuz Strait - WSJ
Posted by Obtuse1 on 3/31/26 at 2:32 am to RazorBroncs
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This guy is thinking rationally. We don't NEED the oil that passes through the strait, the rest of the world does. We produce enough to be independent and then some.
We produce the oil to be independent, BUT 2 things are in the way:
1. Oil is a global commodity, are we going to turn anti-capitalist and not allow sales of our domestic oil on the global market?
2. This one is even bigger. Are the oil companies going to spend the time and CAPEX to reconfigure refineries to use US light sweet crude? In the long run it is probably a good idea, but the economics still don't favor that solution.
Plus, your whole premise is based on a fiction. The issue with gasoline and diesel is that they are inelastic goods. Small changes in supply or demand have outsized impacts on price of inelastic goods. Since crude is a global commodity, it doesn't take much constraint on supply to produce a large change at the pump.
I am all for the attacks on Iran if the administration's thought process is valid but I reserve the right to withdraw my support as the real process becomes more transparent, which may be well after the gun barrels have cooled. I have lived through over 50 years of lack of transparency and the words coming from this administration don't give me any more solace than those of past administrations.
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I said it is technically accurate, but deliberately misleading
It says women are 50% of samurai, then show samurai warrior armor in the title graphic.
Did you consider writing your headline you commited a worse "sin" than what you were complaining about? Your headline was misleading on its face, you admitted in this post, The graphic is what lead you down a primrose path not the actually headline copy.
re: Do you feel embarrassed and ashamed for not receiving communion?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 3/30/26 at 8:15 pm to LanierSpots
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Bread is not good for you
This is a SELA heavy forum, which means as a result of transubstantiation that wafer ain't bread.
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How exactly were they playing a key role ON the battlefield if they did not tend to fight as expressed by the sentence right before it?
Never trained for or fought in a war have you? If you have you would know a lot of people in the battlespace are not warfighters. Depending on the era, there could be more "non-combat arms" on the battlefield than not. This makes perfect sense for the Sengoku period.
As to the OP the headline is accurate, or at least there has been no information that it isn't. What misleads is the reader's own ignorance. I have never studied much about Samurai/Bushido, so the article taught me something. I don't mind when I am sorta suckered into learning.
re: Is this how atheists think Christianity started?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 3/29/26 at 4:13 pm to Albino Potato
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You have the tribe of Light mentioned in Numbers and the exact number of people is the speed of light.
First, it isn't "exact" and two, the number that is close to the speed of light is the SOL in miles per second, a measure of distance not formulated until the late sixteeth century. Any reference to the mile in the Bible would have been 8 furlongs (from the Greek milion) and been even farther from the exact 186282.
If this is what moves you to belief, then Nostradamus should be really high on your list.
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Without knowing the first thing about buying one, I imagine it's going to be important to answer whether you're focusing on very loud or very quiet sounds.
Good swing, but doubtful he is working at the extremes that need specialized gear. Other than the sound pressure level range there is also the frequency range. If you need to measure above 8kHz or below 30Hz you will need special equipment or compensation curves.
Quality names are Casella, Extech, General Tools, Reed, and B&K.
If you need a full suite of sound measurement, the UMIK-2 (miniDSP)
OmniMic V2 (Dayton @ Parts Express) will do about anything you need.
Without knowing what the OP needs it for chances are his phone or a $30 SPL meter from Amazon will do the trick. If he finds an old Radio Shack analog one sitting around they are actually excellent.
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You skilled chef de partie
Sorry, I am the boucher. I will forward the question to our poissonnier.
Mumbai is a great city. It has a massive shitty part like all large cities, but easy enough to avoid if you are a tourist or there for work. I would imagine most people here would marvel at the BKC. It is one of the most expensive areas in the world so you can imagine how beautiful and clean it is.
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It’s really just Hunter S Thompson fans that love it
This.
The more you have read HST and the more you like it, the more you are likely to enjoy the movie. That or being really frickin high.
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What if you put on a helmet along with other safety gear, and wore a go pro type body camera, and ran directly into a tornado. On foot.
Do it wearing a parachute.
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“Owners” in college sports cant get any of those benefits, at least those NIL donors
Read your statement carefully and consider it and maybe ask yourself what NIL actually means.
Agree with #1 100%. No fast food place beats a Hardee's breakfast biscuit.
I got decent conversationally in Russian during college and spent a summer in Moscow. This was back when I was preparing to meet the Russians in battle on the Fulda Gap. Turns out Spanish, Kurdish, or Arabic would have been better choices.
I hadn't paid much attention to Russian since then until the start of the war and I started watching some Russian newscasts. Most of my knowledge had evaporated and I would get excited when I would recognize a single word.
I hadn't paid much attention to Russian since then until the start of the war and I started watching some Russian newscasts. Most of my knowledge had evaporated and I would get excited when I would recognize a single word.
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I don’t know if I consider Duke to be in the South
In this context that is near laughable. Durham/Raleigh is a lot more traditionally South than especially Houston. I certainly won't say Duke's student body is highly Southern because it is covered up with rich kids from NJ but Rice is probably predominantly Asian.
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opinions on the university
It is a small (by national university standards) T20 school that along with Vanderbilt and Duke, makes up the best 3 universities in the South (if you consider TX in the South). A degree from Rice leaves very few pathways closed, really only the Ivy League good ole boy ring knocker jobs and grad school track. IMO it is a best of all worlds (small but top notch) which tends to provide a great experience along with a world-class education.
re: The War on Mosquitos. Best way to keep them at bay?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 3/26/26 at 10:11 pm to fr33manator
Accept they don't eat much.
If it weren't for my dogs I wouldn't care, they only get mildly annoying at the house or the camp a couple of days a year. I have been in places that you couldn't breathe without sucking them in your mouth or nose.
If it weren't for my dogs I wouldn't care, they only get mildly annoying at the house or the camp a couple of days a year. I have been in places that you couldn't breathe without sucking them in your mouth or nose.
re: Smartest woman of all time?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 3/26/26 at 10:08 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Hedy Lamar is hot, so she wins
I figured she would appeal to tOT. While she probably isn't in the top 1000 in raw intelligence like the Ask Marilyn woman she did some pretty interesting stuff in WWII with torpedoes. She is in the inventors HOF or whatever it is called.
I have some good friends who started dating 3 months after her husband died. She was very devoted to him and saw him through a long illness. My friends have been together for over 20 years and are a great couple, and both of their families love them.
re: Smartest woman of all time?
Posted by Obtuse1 on 3/26/26 at 9:30 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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I don’t know exactly but I bet she was a minority
Gladys West would be closest to fitting that mold.
My "guess" would be Sau Lan Wu for her contributions to the standard model of particle physics.
Dark Horse would be Hedy Lamarr.
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