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Booth said:
Alec Baldwin must have a horseshoe up his rear end, and another blackeye for our supposedly greatest judicial system in the world. Prosecutors hide evidence and lie at every trial.

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How Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ manslaughter trial came to such an abrupt end

On Day 3 of the actor’s criminal trial, prosecutors were found to have hidden evidence, and the case was dismissed with prejudice.
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Baldwin has O.J. Simpson levels of unearned privilege, being able to successfully play the "dindu nuffins" card.
 
Freethinker said:
Here’s Trump getting an eagle on a short 4.

He more than held his own with Bryson.
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Freethinker: I know people will say a 210-yd par 4 and say I could eagle that. One of the hardest holes I ever played was a 220-yds par 4 at the Pearl Golf Course at Myrtle Beach. It had water for 210-yds and then it had 5 bunkers that were over your head if you hit into one, which I did. The wind was off the ocean, gusting about 30 mph and the greens were hard as concrete. I walked away with a smooth 9 and I'm glad to get that.
 
Anyone remember HO racing cars and tracks? At 1/87 scale they were huge for a while in the late 1960s. Aurora was the big name in the field, much like Lionel was for model trains.

When I was a kid we had a racing club that lasted for three years. We'd hold our meets at each member's house on a rotating basis. I even produced a newsletter for our club, an inkling of one of my professions later on as an adult. There were also national magazines devoted to model car racing, focused on the larger slot cars as well as HO. For a while there was even a business on a major retail-oriented road (McKnight Road for those familiar with Pittsburgh) that had a number of large tracks that kids would rent by the hour and race their cars on. I loved talking my folks into taking me to the hobby store periodically so I could buy a new Aurora car, which sold for $2.10 ($1.98 plus tax) if memory serves.

Seems to me that HO faded in the '70s so one probably has to be of a certain age to recall its heyday.

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Don Wassall said:
Anyone remember HO racing cars and tracks? At 1/87 scale they were huge for a while in the late 1960s. Aurora was the big name in the field, much like Lionel was for model trains.

When I was a kid we had a racing club that lasted for three years. We'd hold our meets at each member's house on a rotating basis. I even produced a newsletter for our club, an inkling of one of my professions later on as an adult. There were also national magazines devoted to model car racing, focused on the larger slot cars as well as HO. For a while there was even a business on a major retail-oriented road (McKnight Road for those familiar with Pittsburgh) that had a number of large tracks that kids would rent by the hour and race their cars on. I loved talking my folks into taking me to the hobby store periodically so I could buy a new Aurora car, which sold for $2.10 ($1.98 plus tax) if memory serves.

Seems to me that HO faded in the '70s so one probably has to be of a certain age to recall its heyday.

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It was just Hot Wheels for me back in the day. Slot cars were more for the rich kids.....
 
Don Wassall said:
Anyone remember HO racing cars and tracks? At 1/87 scale they were huge for a while in the late 1960s. Aurora was the big name in the field, much like Lionel was for model trains.

When I was a kid we had a racing club that lasted for three years. We'd hold our meets at each member's house on a rotating basis. I even produced a newsletter for our club, an inkling of one of my professions later on as an adult. There were also national magazines devoted to model car racing, focused on the larger slot cars as well as HO. For a while there was even a business on a major retail-oriented road (McKnight Road for those familiar with Pittsburgh) that had a number of large tracks that kids would rent by the hour and race their cars on. I loved talking my folks into taking me to the hobby store periodically so I could buy a new Aurora car, which sold for $2.10 ($1.98 plus tax) if memory serves.

Seems to me that HO faded in the '70s so one probably has to be of a certain age to recall its heyday.

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Yeah something like that was a dream for me.
 
Looks really cool! If you still have them and they work, I imagine they would be quite the collectible item.
 
Those two stuck astronauts that DEI NASA sent to the International Space Station must have a sense of impending doom that increases a bit every day.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Stranded NASA astronaut contacts to report 'strange' noise aboard ISS

Butch Wilmore contacted Johnson Space Center in Houston on Saturday to share his concerns days before Boeing's Starliner is set to undock and return to Earth unmanned.
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Despite being very talented and selling millions of records, Scott Stapp and Creed were ruthlessly mocked and hated by the establishment to the point that they fell into irrelevance.

www.breitbart.com

Creed Frontman Scott Stapp Urges Americans to Fight Back Against 'Powers That Be': We Are a Country 'Built Upon the Bible and the Word of God'

Creed frontman Scott Stapp launched an impassioned, anti-establishment speech during a performance in Texas over the weekend, bringing the concert to a halt in order to urge Americans to stand up for their rights and fight back against the abuses of what he called the "powers that be."
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Don Wassall said:
Greta Thunberg won't be foisted on us anymore by the corporate media:

www.thegatewaypundit.com

Climate Change Brat and Hoaxer Greta Thunberg Named ‘Antisemite of the Week’ by Jewish Advocacy Group | The Gateway Pundit | by Margaret Flavin

Climate change brat and hoaxer Greta Thunberg has expanded her vile rhetoric to Jew-hatred and joined the Hamas-loving pro-Palestine movement in a very public way.
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Lol she latched on to Free Palestine movement . That’s classic ha.
 
Don Wassall said:
Those two stuck astronauts that DEI NASA sent to the International Space Station must have a sense of impending doom that increases a bit every day.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Stranded NASA astronaut contacts to report 'strange' noise aboard ISS

Butch Wilmore contacted Johnson Space Center in Houston on Saturday to share his concerns days before Boeing's Starliner is set to undock and return to Earth unmanned.
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Left-wing, DEI Boeing having to be bailed out by "right-wing"* Elon Musk's SpaceX, which actually puts competence ahead of diversity, would be hilarious to watch if human lives weren't at stake.

All the videos I've seen of SpaceX mission control rooms are full of White men, with a few token Asians and women. Meanwhile, Boeing has openly stated that they want at least 20% of their engineers to be black. You think Boeing's safety record is bad now, just wait until the Magical Race starts making its mark. DEI truly is DIE.

*of course Musk isn't really right-wing, he's more libertarian, but the media keep calling him that and the sheeple believe it, just makes it more humiliating for Boeing
 
So after noticing that political ads on YouTube only seem to be those of the woke/leftist type, no matter where my location is, if it's a deep red state, doesn't matter (and they are localized, if you go to Wyoming you'll see Wyoming-based ads), I got curious and looked a few things up, and according to YouTube they take approximately the same amount of money from left-wing and right-wing candidates and organizations.

So I got to thinking, if you pay for an advertisement on a billboard, you can see your ad on the billboard. If you pay for an ad on TV (which is of course priced based on how many viewers are predicted to watch it), you can see your ad on TV on the specific show you picked. If you paid for an ad on the Super Bowl, you can see it during the Super Bowl. But if you pay for an ad on YouTube (paying more to have your ad shown more, of course), you have no way of knowing whether or not they actually ran your commercial as much as you paid for. Sure, you can ask them, but YouTube can make up any number they want and send it to you. There's no way to accurately confirm if you got what you were supposed to get.

Given the well-known woke/leftist bias of Google (which owns YouTube) and the potential for essentially uncatchable corruption (nobody's going to have the time to ask millions of people if they saw their ad, and half of the responders are just going to lie anyway), I believe that individuals and companies who are (or are perceived to be) "right-wing" or "anti-woke" are giving their advertising money to YouTube/Google in good faith, and Google is deliberately cheating them by failing to run their ads as much as they should. This is just a "conspiracy theory" and there's no way to prove it, but it's because guilt is virtually impossible to prove in this case that I believe they're doing it. They know they can get away with it.

For the record, there's no reason that any algorithm should be giving me woke ads, I never watch woke garbage at all and I don't watch much political stuff on YouTube at all (most politics that are redpilled enough to interest me are banned on YouTube). I know there's tailoring to interests in commercials because when I watch NFL highlights on YouTube, I get football-themed ads. So that's definitely part of how the algorithm works. But I'm quite confident that the corruption I mentioned is there.
 
The skewed algorithims on Google, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, et al, are only a mystery to the clueless advertisers who toss away hard-earned stockholder dividends to these hard-left entities.
 
This could also go in "Men These Days," but I was grabbing a quick meal on a business trip and I heard some conversation from a group of guys (college-age young men) at the next table. They were discussing various actresses, but the weird thing was they were talking about all of those women in a completely non-sexual way. They were so completely avoidant of any kind of remarks on those women's looks and sex appeal that I wondered if they were gay. (They didn't look gay, they looked pretty normal, but I actually hope that was the case because at least if they were homosexual they'd have an excuse). Are today's young men so brainwashed, so browbeaten into believing that heterosexual male sexuality is the most wicked of sins that they're terrified of expressing it?

Gen Z is seriously screwed up. It's not all their fault, but that doesn't change how screwed up they are.
 
Gator Dad said:
This could also go in "Men These Days," but I was grabbing a quick meal on a business trip and I heard some conversation from a group of guys (college-age young men) at the next table. They were discussing various actresses, but the weird thing was they were talking about all of those women in a completely non-sexual way. They were so completely avoidant of any kind of remarks on those women's looks and sex appeal that I wondered if they were gay. (They didn't look gay, they looked pretty normal, but I actually hope that was the case because at least if they were homosexual they'd have an excuse). Are today's young men so brainwashed, so browbeaten into believing that heterosexual male sexuality is the most wicked of sins that they're terrified of expressing it?

Gen Z is seriously screwed up. It's not all their fault, but that doesn't change how screwed up they are.
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I have encountered that a few times as well. A couple months ago myself and the group I was with overheard some guys who were much younger than us talking about some celebs and such and we said to them "would surely have a 3some with those ladies". These guys appeared to be offended by our rhetoric. I flat out said you guys must be **** if you didn't think of those hotties in their birthday suit. No pushback at all. They just walked away, what a bunch of cucks.
 
Any opinions on the Tesla Cybertruck, which I'm seeing more of on the road. They're classified as a pickup truck, cost from 80k up and have 600 to 850 hp. The interior dashboard consists mostly of a screen. They have a strikingly different, futuristic look.

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Any opinions on the Tesla Cybertruck, which I'm seeing more of on the road. They're classified as a pickup truck, cost from 80k up and have 600 to 850 hp. The interior dashboard consists mostly of a screen. They have a strikingly different, futuristic look.

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I've seen several being driven in my area of Western NC. There's a dealership in High Point I saw for the first time. I'm sure there's one in Charlotte and Raleigh as well. Not for me personally. I'm more of a traditional type of person, but to each their own. Might consider if it was a little less contemporary or futuristic. and less expensive, of course.
 
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I'm not particularly fond of electric vehicles in general. Not because they can't be useful but because of the "climate change" angle where if the government had their druthers we would all be driving them.

As for the Cybertruck, to each his own as far as the looks. I've heard that they are a blast to drive. There are a few here in my area east of Kansas City, one is painted black rather than the "DeLorean" stainless and it's actually pretty sharp.
 
I personally think they are ugly. I prefer pickup trucks like this aesthetically.
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However, I will give Musk and Tesla credit for pushing the envelope and coming out with something different. Most contemporary cars are cookie cutter and brands look more and more like each other. It definitely has a futuristic, sci-fi look like something out of Total Recall. So for people that are futurists, it’s perfect.
 
Tesla’s are fuggin ugly, especially the trucks. Elon running a good scam.
 
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