kingbob

Congratulations! One of the kids in my troop growing up similarly got it done right before his birthday. Whether you cross the finish line at 14 or 17, it’s still a huge accomplishment.

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forcing most cargo ships that are not Chinese or Russian flagged to divert around the horn of Africa because of the missiles they supply to the Yemeni rebels

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Sounds like Europe’s problem. American fuel and American products rarely get shipped via the Suez/Red Sea. That’s Europe’s link to India/China. If they want it open, maybe they should do something about it?

The Saudis and UAE have both been waging war against the Houthis for decades with zero success. If the Europeans want regime change, if the Europeans want energy and shipping security, they should sacrifice sons of Europe and tax dollars of Europe to secure it. European governments seem more interested in jailing sons of Europe for posting memes noticing how European politicians import Muslims by the millions and cover for their atrocities against European citizens (rape gangs, stabbings, terror attacks, etc).

The energy security of Europe is not worth a single drop of my blood or a single penny out of my pocket. F$&k everyone who isn’t us. America first, America only.

It’s not nearly as ghetto as you would think…it’s WAY MORE GHETTO THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE.

Slice of birthday cake.

If you’re poor, the things you have no choice but to buy are the things that have increased most in price: basic food staples, rent, health insurance, car insurance, fast food, etc. I don't care that flat screen tvs are cheap. I'm still using the same tv I bought 15 years ago. Gas is cheap now, which is great, but gas is always volatile.

The job market is atrocious right now. White collar is shedding jobs left and right and almost no one is hiring. Even the engineers aren't finding jobs. Blue collar isn't much better right now, tbh, and wages are preposterously low.

Prices are high even if the rate of increase has slowed down and wages are not increasing anywhere near the same rate to catch up, assuming one is getting paid at all.

I see signs of positive growth to be optimistic about the future, but times are very tough right now.

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They don’t play CFB in Greenland

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Well, $1.8 billion/$30 million/year = 60 years. One loses $1.8 billion upfront, the other costs nothing up front and loses only $30 million/year. It would take 60 years of losing $30 million to equal the loss of $1.8 billion up front for a new stadium.

The Chimes, Elsie’s, Raul’s, Inga’s, and Louie’s are all classic BR/LSU staples for a reason.

There’s not much to see in BR, especially with the lakes under construction and the USS Kidd in dry dock out of town. The old state capital, LSU Art Museum, new state capital, and capital park museum are alright downtown. At LSU, there’s the Tiger Cage.

However, I would focus far more time on New Orleans. Walk around the Quarter, window shop on Royal Street, see St. Louis Cathedral, the French Market, ride the streetcar up town, do a lap at Audubon Park and drink freezes at Camilia Grill, grab po’boys at Liuzzas or Parkway and picnic under the pavilions at city park, New Orleans Art Museum, Civil War Museum, The Cabildo, WWII Museum, southern food museum, voodoo museum, serial killer museum, the zoo, the aquarium, etc.

It doesn’t make much sense to play tourist in a non-touristy place when there’s one of the best tourist cities in the world a short drive away.

Sounds modest but positive, especially with the rate of inflation down. This isn’t an economic miracle, but it’s definitely a positive sign of good potential for next year.

Exodus is part of the pentatech; the five books of Moses, aka, the Torah. So, yeah, pretty Jewish.

Tbh, I fully believe that the Exodus story (a large levantine population migrates to Egypt, rises to prominence, then is enslaved there before being freed following a dramatic series of seemingly supernatural plagues with natural explanations, who then migrated across the Sinai peninsula as a nomadic tribe for 40 years before resettling back in the levant) will someday be proven true by archaeology.

The only reason it hasn’t already been definitively proven to be a historical event is due to modern political narratives influencing scientific institutions to actively suppress findings, curtail excavations, and blacklist archaeologists who publish unapproved findings.

Dr. Zawhi Hawas in Egypt is one of the biggest road blocks, as he is essentially the final say on all digging in Egypt, and he is objectively opposed to anything involving the possibility that the biblical Exodus could be true because he opposes the creation of the modern state of Israel.

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They're too busy chasing down trendy craft beers and IPAs that taste like fruity dog shite.

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That’s millennials. Gen Z doesn’t really drink much. Those that do drink, pretty much only sip seltzers or cheap lite beer. Gen Z has largely been priced out of social drinking, or really social everything.