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Kind of OT, Detroit restored its formerly-abandoned train station, and it's MAGNIFICENT. Go Detroit!!!

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I want the Sears Tower. I want to make it completely unrentable an then get huge tax breaks like Trump Tower.

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I just want one with an old water cistern on the roof.

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I will buy Trump Tower and implode it.

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Better yet, keep it and turn it into a center for social activism, where the great Unwashed can plot the downfall of the billionaire class.

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ok

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Someone/ group should def put together a co-op to buy one of these buildings to do… stuff in (orgies).

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USE THE CHAIR, JOE!!

𝗕𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻'𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 $𝟱𝟬 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲

https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/politics/article/biden-s-reelection-team-launches-50-million-ad-19517822.php (AP via local news)

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“𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑤ℎ𝑜’𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑜’𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦,” 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑑’𝑠 𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑚𝑢𝑔 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐵𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ-𝑓𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠.

I hope that resonates, but I dunno...

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Should be HIT HIM WITH THE CHAIR, JOE!

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Now I'm imagining OHJB in pro-wrasslin' garb (or probably more like old-timey boxing gear) leaping off the top turnbuckle to deliver a crushing move, and then Kamala throws in a folding chair for him to finish of the Heel.

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What is the debate?

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Well, I do hear Trump is a master debater, mostly from his cult members.

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I meant WHEN, LOL.

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Why? the reason for the debate is the election. :P

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And here's your real estate hate read of the day, in case Rebecca doesn't post one in Tabs:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/realestate/derek-jeter-home-sale-orange-county.html

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I hate him for the look on his face.

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Wait until you check out the stupid looking property!

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𝗜𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻, 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗟𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗚𝘂𝗻𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗢𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝗨𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱

Many firearm owners in the United States do not securely store their guns, even when the weapon is kept loaded and there are children in the home, according to a report released on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The report, which relied on data from 2021 and 2022 from eight states, found that many gun owners kept weapons unlocked and loaded in their homes despite rising rates of suicides involving guns and firearm fatalities among children.

Gun storage practices varied across the eight states: Alaska, California, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio and Oklahoma.

Of those surveyed in Ohio who had both children and a loaded gun in the house, about a quarter said that the weapon was kept unlocked; it was the smallest percentage among the seven states with available data for that metric. In Alaska, more than 40 percent of respondents fell into that category...

“Storing a firearm out of sight or out of reach is not secure firearm storage,” said Thomas Simon, who is an author of the study and a researcher at the C.D.C.’s Division of Violence Prevention.

“A father told me he didn’t even know his son knew he kept his firearm in the closet until he found his 15-year-old son’s body from a suicide.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/health/gun-storage-homes-children.html

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"If it were locked and unloaded, it wouldn't be ready for the home invasion I have to Jason Bourne my way out of."

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I think I mentioned that I had a tour guide in Iceland that (probably because he's horrified by US gun policy) mentioned that you *can* own a gun in Iceland, although it's strictly regulated. One thing they do there is surprise inspections, making sure any guns in the house are adequately secured. Not that the gun loons would ever go for in it, but I think if you have kids there should be checks put in place that your deadly weapons aren't accessible.

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Here's how you can own a gun in The Netherlands:

Go to a gun club to try to become a member.

They interview you.

You turn in a declaration of good behaviour (government paper that says you don't have the type of history that makes you problematic, i.e. no relevant criminal record).

The gun club gives you a training.

The gun club decides if they want you as a member.

After you've been a member for a year and you've had at least 18 shooting sessions, you're allowed to buy a gun.

You go to a gun store and buy your gun, instead of the gun they hand you a form.

You take that form to the gun club and find two members willing to sign it for you.

Take that signed form to the police, they will give you a license to own a gun.

Now you finally get to pick up your gun. It will be handed to you in disassembled form.

You take your disassembled gun to the gun club where it is re-assembled and stored safely in a locker. At no point is the gun ever outside of the gun club in assembled form.

Hunters and gun traders have similar rules, with the rules for hunters the most relaxed, since you actually need your gun in functional form outside. The again, hunters need additional licenses and permits: Yearly hunting license, membership of a game management unit, zone permit for shooting a gun, and if you want to sell the meat you need a butcher's license as well. Alternatively, you can bring the carcass to a licensed butcher and they'll butcher it for you. When it comes to which animals you can hunt the following: Wild duck, rabbit, hare, pheasant, wood pidgeon (each has a specific season, of course). All other animals can only be hunted if the province determines there are too many of them, and then you get a number of kills you're allowed to make. This always requires a zone permit, even if you hunt without a gun.

Fun fact I just found out: Hunting with a ferret is a thing that happens often enough that it gets mentioned on the government website.

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'Fun fact I just found out: Hunting with a ferret is a thing that happens often enough that it gets mentioned on the government website.'

Now I kinda want to go start hunting just so I can go hunting with a ferret. Of course it'll mean I'll need to also go out and get a ferret.

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You can also use a falcon or most dogs (for some reason a few like whippets are excluded), if you really want a hunting menagerie. Though you need a falconer's certificate to hunt using a falcon.

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I was being a tad facetious. As a teen, I used to accompany an Aunt & Uncle of mine when they'd go bird (pheasant, grouse) hunting in rural Ireland and we would always have at least one or two gun dogs with us.

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When ferrets are outlawed, only outlaws will have ferrets!

Actually, ferrets are already outlawed as pets here in California.

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Go find Rudy Guiliani's rant on ferrets. He became positively unhinged on his radio programme when he was mayor.

https://slate.com/technology/2014/06/ferret-legalization-in-new-york-rudy-giulianis-anti-weasel-rant-video.html

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But they are responsible gun owners, AMIRITE?

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Remember this?

𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻, 𝗵𝘂𝘀𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2021/07/16/rochester-grand-jury-indicts-warren-husband-weapons-child-endangerment-charges/7995949002/

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Yeah.

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It's the sort of thing you'd imagine a parent would make sure of.

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reluctant updoot

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Morning all! I woke up with a sore throat, bleh. I sound like Marge Simpson. ☹️

At least I won’t have to grow increasingly hoarse talking to Granny today, she’s still in the rehab unit for her arm. Small blessing? I think I’m gonna need to give the weed a break tonight, maybe. Womp womp.

How’s everyone here?

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lol getting ready for work already

/sobs

I hate heat time. I wish I could schedule cause guess when we'd be doing all the lab work? Hint hint, would be now

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None of the buttons were working for me here earlier; I had to clear cookies and log back in.

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My like button is permanently borked.

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Yay, I had the same problem now it's fixed!

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Well, a few weeks ago I mentioned that I was having trouble sleeping but that I wasn't worried because sleep would return. And it has: took three naps yesterday and a four hour nap the day before PLUS going to bed early and sleeping like a rock.

It is better to be ready to slip into a nap at any moment than to be unable to sleep, that is for sure. My sympathy to all struggling with sleep in either direction!

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"It is better to be ready to slip into a nap at any moment than to be unable to sleep, that is for sure." Just ask your pilot.

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I wish I were Alito’s neighbor. I’d fly a flag that said, “BRIBE SHAME”. And not in Italian.

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I would have pride and BLM flags year round.

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Isn't there a "lagoon"? I'd be having GAY LAGOON RACES every weekend until Thanksgiving.

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And "MY JESUS LOVES EVERYONE" rainbow window shades in EVERY window

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Did Land Shark already post an article on Billionaire Boy Geeen-yus bragging on how he was gonna sell 1 billion robots by 15 years from his new Tesla manufacturing arm, all at 10K a pop? Dunno, but the numbers seem a little sus, there, bro.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2024/06/14/elon-musk-says-teslas-optimus-robot-could-drive-company-to-25-trillion-valuation-heres-what-experts-think/

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Elon would NEVER overpromise and underdeliver.

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I still can't believe his shareholders caved and handed over that money to him instead of telling him to get fucked and sue them.

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That is horrible news :(

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He's got beyond the 'dancing man in a robot suit' stage, I presume?

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PRESUME NOTHING!

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This is what you get for your 50 billion dollar payout? Geez, what a ripoff.

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Sure beats trying to improve the cars I guess?

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"Here’s What Experts Think"

Unless it says that they FINALLY recognize this blowhard for the blowhard he is, I am not reading this.

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You'll be happy to know that even the suck-ups at Forbes say it's pretty unlikely.

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So, let's see ... the robot will randomly crash into things killing humans and catch fire?

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The robot will be a human dancing in a robot costume.

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But Eloon already has robots that do that they’re called Teslas

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Nope. Reasonable. If Trump is elected, the DoD will buy them.

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LOL, that's encouraging. A whole army of malfunctioning wastes of money.

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And that would be different, how exactly?

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Why do you hate the vets, MG?!

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As opposed to half of Congress being malfunctioning wastes of money?

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LOL!

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Living with a bleeder is often entertaining. Like this morning. I need to go in early because it is gonna be (how ya feelin?) hot hot hot, so I get up, stretch, batcat leaps onto the bed for the morning howdy do and nails husband's foot in the process.

Much cussing is the result.

So instead of peeing then strolling down stairs to feed cats, have my morning caffeine and the like, I am running about grabbing bandages and neosporin. Only the cut is too long for a regular, so back down I go for the gauze and pad. Only I forgot to snag the tape, so back down and up I go.

Guess I got some exercise in at least.

Also, he waited til I taped it up to tell me it felt too lose. That was irksome.

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Tell him next time he can rub some mud in it.

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"Looks like you're gonna bleed out. Sorry, oldtimer."

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“ put some Windex on it pal”

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Guess who is dropping by the pharm for some gauze and shit to keep in our bedroom today?

hint hint hint

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Get some kitten mittens.

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Kevlar

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And did we learn anything?

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘻 𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘺𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 2022 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘜𝘚𝘋 𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 $1 𝘵𝘰 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 – 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 "𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘪𝘯" 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘦, 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳.

𝗖𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼-𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 $𝟰.𝟱 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳

South Korean outfit that sparked 'Crypto Winter' will melt away after SEC order

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/17/terraform_labs_payment_closure/

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Dramatic hero's revelatory announcement

https://youtu.be/Uz8AeQWzPEo?si=vuD0ePO5Gn_L_ZEV

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