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An employee cleaning is not the problem, it’s their flavorless fried rice that is a crime against humanity.
We pushed careers over partnership. Made divorce cheap and easy with a soft landing built in. Ditched religion, which used to be the main reason people stayed when it got hard. Added apps so you can always find someone who looks better without leaving the house.

Now women have every incentive to walk and most men are just watching. Plenty of us still want a nice, virtuous girl to build a real life with, but that feels rare these days, and the risk isn’t worth it for a lot of guys.

What’s left? Your mom wanting grandkids and maybe God if you still believe.
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Hypothetically, does cooling from 84-83 cost the same or more or less than cooling from 70-69?

Cost less, how much less? I don’t know.
I would have easily been dead by now. Pneumonia a couple times, accident that I would have died from without modern medicine, had to have a medical procedure to correct a problem that would have eventually crippled or killed me by now.
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George better thank his stars that the moronic sequels came along because he fricked up his own lore pretty badly by himself.

The prequels weren’t good movies; however, the story is excellent, the issue was execution. 7-9 were awful movies, terrible storytelling, and took a dump on everything that was Star Wars.
If they ever figure out how to unload the plane quickly I will miss out on my entertainment of that one woman flipping out in the back of the plane because she is going to miss her next flight.
So what is the real world outcome? 4% inflation for the foreseeable future? Total economic collapse? Pretty much nothing? The problem is I’m not sure anyone knows; therefore, voters in general don’t care about it. So, nothing will be done until something happens that people can relate directly to it. Then I wonder if it’s too late then to do anything about it.
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New York has totally forgotten and moved on after only 25 years. Democrats today side with the hijackers, not the passengers, on those flights.

This is one of life’s mysteries that I will never understand.
It’s a bad idea, unless people are okay with winter and summer hours being different for some things. If we are going to do this why don’t we just get rid of US time zones as well, so I don’t have to do math on meeting availability :dunno: :lol:

re: How many Christians believe

Posted by cssamerican on 8/14/26 at 3:38 pm to
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I believe in a pre-tribulation rapture of all born again gospel believers. When this occurs Islam will become the largest religion on the planet (right now it's #2)

Nope, don’t believe in the pre-tribulation rapture, I’m not even sure how people see that when they read the Bible.
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From among the Islamic ranks will arise a "peacemaker" who will be their Mahdi, but will be the antichrist from a christian perspective. He will pretend to make peace with Israel but will desecrate their temple and declare himself to be God and failure to worship him will result in being beheaded, which is their thing for infidels. They (the muslims) think that the true Jesus is the antichrist in their belief system so these two theological systems will be at war in the end times. Christians believe that the real Jesus will return and destroy the antichrist and all enemies of God and set up his kingdom on earth.

This part seems plausible reading the Bible, as it reads as if all will have to accept some other form of religion.

re: How many Christians believe

Posted by cssamerican on 8/13/26 at 7:34 pm to
I believe Islam will be the world power by the time this happens or something like it , so no, I don’t think it’s gonna happen anytime soon
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with that said, eventually the workforce will flip and all these guys who are blue-collar workers making so much money now are gonna be dirt poor when the AI jobless crowd slowly moves over into their sphere. At that point, everyone will be poor.

Doubt it, most of the Ai jobless crowd won’t be conditioned to actual labor. I can tell you from experience, taking an office person and requiring them to physically work for 8 hours (Even in Air Conditioning) has shown me the vast majority would struggle, the vast majority do not adapt. Take the AC away and almost none will adapt.
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wouldn't those same people outside kill her for not covering her head and face?

It was so important that they recorded the proverb twice in the book.
Proverbs 14:12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death
Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death
Never understood why people bring personal belongings to work. Work is work and home life is home life. I’ve been working at the same place for 2 decades, if they fired me tomorrow I don’t need anything from that office, all I would need to do is turn in my keys, badges, and laptop to HR.

If true, all you can do is file a police report at this point.
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Jay Morris secretly sold 300 acres of his land to Entergy. He said he couldn’t disclose it due to the NDA he signed. I already posted about it in this thread.

There should be some ethics rules about this type of thing; however, if a data center wants to come in and buy properties under various entities to keep plans quiet they should be able to that without people gouging them because they know what is coming and how essential their property is to the overall plan. I’m assuming that is a major factor in the NDAs.
So are these discussions with different businesses where ideas and plans are thrown about but no commitment is being made by government officials? If so, NDAs are appropriate and should be used to keep dialogue open. If agreements are being made by government officials then obviously those agreements should not be under an NDA.
So which one is it?
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You share a common pair of great grandparents: you are 2nd cousins

You share a common pair of great great grandparents: you are 3rd cousins

To put this in perspective, I had great grandparents die in the 1920s, and a couple of my great great grandparents died before 1900’s. So, if you’re in you 50’s in a small town you could be married to a 3rd cousin and not even know it. That’s why I married someone from somewhere else, just in case :lol:
# No Bama
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One of the two is actually the first cousin of one their parents. What you described is 3rd cousins.

Nope, I know it’s confusing but what you’re describing is 1st cousins once removed.

1st cousins means you both share one set of grandparents, 2nd cousins means you both share one set of great grandparents. 3rd cousins means you both share one set of great great grandparents.

It’s not that hard to see how in a rural area you could get married (or far enough along along you just don’t care) unknowingly with a 3rd cousin because it’s likely you never discuss those people and few people would remember them any way. I would imagine second cousins figure it out before they get married though.
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My personal GOAT is Foghorn Leghorn. Love that character

Well, I say, I say… at long last! Somebody finally cracked open that window and let a little common sense blow in! Keep talkin’ like that, boy, and folks’ll remember why this ol’ rooster belongs right up there on the Mount Rushmore of animated characters! That’s a joke, son!