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Re: Florida republicans want mandatory outing of students - 2 months ago

I would venture to say that we are witnessing the slow formation of a theocracy.

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Re: Yacht Rock - 2 months ago

So, basically soft rock, or in radio terms, Adult Contemporary.

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Re: Happy Birthday MR Forum member Sam3 - 2 months ago

Thanks, everyone! I was not on the grid yesterday, so I didn't see this until now. I was out of town for the weekend watching my daughter bowl and a pretty big college tournament. She got me an Adrian College Bowling Dad shirt and I got my free Starbucks birthday treat, but otherwise it was a low-key day with lots of driving. My wife and I will be celebrating later today.

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Re: Robbery victim fires at attacker but instead hits girl, 9 -AP - 2 months ago

Quotegadje Quotelost in space So the shooter loses $40 and shoots the guy as he runs away. How fscked up is that. So the guy is robbed at gunpoint and shots the robber as he runs away. Unfortunately he shot an innocent person in this case. He needs to be held accountable for this injury. Had he actually shot and killed the actual robber, that would be fine with me. Last I knew robbery doesn

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Re: Should I get AppleCare+ for my iPhone 13 Pro? - 2 months ago

My rule of thumb has always been, get insurance on portables, skip it on desktops. Anything portable carries a greater risk of failure than a non-portable device. I had a 2010 MBP repaired twice while under Applecare. My daughter just the other day fell on ice and her iPhone 12 Pro Max took the brunt. It still (mostly) works, with just a small portion of the display showing black and

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Re: SCIENCE:'Study finds Western megadrought is the worst in 1,200 years '-NPR - 2 months ago

Are water civil wars in our future? I can just see the west wanting to take all of the Great Lakes states water supply to feed their nut habit.

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Re: Trump org accounting firm throws Trump under the bus - 3 months ago

Quotesteve... QuoteRAMd®d Who wouldn't want to be a teeny tiny fly on the wall seeing 45*'s reaction to this. Bet Trumpo is LIVID! Hope Junior, Ivanka and Eric are losing sleep too. I think this will help for His Orangeness to lose his grip on the Republican Cult. I'm not sure that I want that to happen. That greatly opens the door to a competent, dangerous autocrat like DeSantis inst

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Re: When we become an Oligarchy, who do you want as your Oligarch? - 3 months ago

Quotegabester I hear Peter Jackson's worth half a billion... but that was in New Zealand dollars. What's the minimum threshhold to qualify as an oligarch - I need to know that before I can answer. My first choice is, of course, to not have an oligarchy but rather a representative republic or even revise the US Constitution to bring about a true democracy. Otherwise, I'll hope the least capri

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Re: iPhone 13 Pro or 13 Pro Max? I'll take both. Delivered by courier. - 3 months ago

I have Apple's clear Magsafe case for my 12, the bottom of the case is cut out where the speakers and Lightning connector are, so when I'm fumbling around in the dark or in the coat pocket, I feel for the notch where the case ends and I know that it is the bottom of the phone.

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Re: Why must Mother Nature tease me so? - 3 months ago

I laugh at your 25° being called "Very cold". 7°F (-14°C) current temp here, could be considered cold.

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Re: Spent a day watching CNN - 3 months ago

News started getting dumbed down already in the 70's with an acceleration in the 80's. (kind of a longish read, but it lays out the problem effectively.) QuoteMedialit.org Some form of serious television journalism will surely survive. But it could well be reduced to serving a specialized audience, while most of the public watches nothing but the softest form of "infotainment." W

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Re: New York, Illinois to lift mask mandates, against CDC's advice - 3 months ago

QuoteRgrF Dem governors are reading the "election" room and going with politics over science, sound familiar? Our (Michigan) Democratic governor screwed us a while ago. No mask mandates in schools = spike of Covid in schools leading to school shutdowns. And to think that "I stand stood with that woman from Michigan."

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Re: Hey Gunners-here's your chance to help stem Covid (deerfestation) - 3 months ago

The wolves did a pretty good job of keeping the deer population in check, but then wolves almost got exterminated. With the wolf population having rebounded due to protection laws, deer population in those states again are starting to be managed by wolves. Oh, but those states either have, or want to restart wolf hunting and trapping because those pesky wolves are making it difficult for the beer

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Re: Apple Music Question - 3 months ago

Go to Settings > Cellular > scroll down to Apple Music and turn the switch off.

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Re: NBC News: More than 900,000 dead fron Covid - 3 months ago

QuoteGGD At some point I'd expect QAnon to spread that the virus was designed by democrats to only kill republicans. Don't give them any ideas.

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Re: NBC News: More than 900,000 dead fron Covid - 3 months ago

All Biden's fault (according to my right wing friends).

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Re: "New Poll: Biden and Democrats Approval Slipping among All Black Voters, including Older Black Voters, A Traditionally Stalwart Group" - 3 months ago

And yet all the media talk about is the inflation, and prices going up. If the media don't report the high job growth and other positive economic indicators, how are the people supposed to find this out?

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Anybody watching the Olympics opening ceremonies? - 3 months ago

Coverage is not bad actually. One commercial break every 30 minutes, and they are still showing the countries that are entering during the commercial break. Minimal comments during the beginning also was appreciated. ::Edit:: OK, maybe I need to revise my assessment, silly chit-chat with Lindsey Vaughn and ignoring Switzerland and Sweden, and cutting to commercial after 15 minutes.

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Re: Michigan city’s winter festival postponed because of too much winter - 3 months ago

You want to talk about Wimps? Woodland Mall in Grand Rapids closed due to "inclement weather" Wednesday. GR was in the 2-6" range and finally got 5" officially. Closing a mall over a measly five inches of snow??? Their Michigander card should be revoked.

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Re: We said goodbye to our dear kitty today - 3 months ago

That's so sad! We are in an OK state right now with an 18 month old GSD and a (we think) 3 y.o. grey kitty who decided to adopt me, much to my daughter's disappointment. You will always think about your kitty, but take the time to remember and heal right now, no matter how long it takes.

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Re: Snow fizzle - 3 months ago

We got about 5" in Grand Rapids.

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Re: This time for the midwesterners, how much snow? - 3 months ago

We got about 3 inches in GR. The snow was to end about 7-8pm but abruptly stopped at about 5:30pm, so I was able to go and blow all of the snow and not have to worry about more accumulation after I went to bed. Edit: My house got about 3 inches, the official NWS airport measurement is5".

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Re: What Olympics? Advertisers lie low ahead of Beijing Winter Games - 3 months ago

I would laugh if they had a heat wave and melted all of the artificially generated snow so much that no skiing or snowboarding events could take place.

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Re: So what are you doing about Spotify? - 3 months ago

QuoteRolando Quotevision63 YouTube Music allows you to upload 100,000 of your own songs and listen to them for free. Spotify allows you to upload but you have to subscribe to their premium service. Apple too. There is no extra charge to bring your own songs to AppleMusic. Or sign up for iTunes Match for $25/year. All of your music will either be matched with high quality AAC files, or they

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Re: Heading to San Diego for a Week. Stuff to do with a teen? - 3 months ago

Is there the option of doing watersports, like jet ski tours or parasailing? We did that in Key West and my18 y.o. daughter loved it!

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Re: What Olympics? Advertisers lie low ahead of Beijing Winter Games - 3 months ago

Media is real sensitive to cybersecurity and surveillance as well. At least our company is. We are sending a sports reporter to the Olympics, he also was issued a burner phone, and his laptop was wiped clean and a new install of the OS and only certain apps that he needs to do his job were added. All connections to corporate networks was removed, the only way he can send video back is through a t

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Re: The Punisher skull image - does it exist solely so @#$%& can identify each other? - 3 months ago

And yet Disney, who sued day care centers for painting Mickey Mouse-like graphics on their walls, has decided no to be litigious to reign in the misappropriation of this skull symbol.

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Re: What is the score for NewsNation TV? - 3 months ago

NewsNation is a rebranded WGN America by Nexstar when they acquired Tribune. They are getting rid of most of the syndicated programs and are turning it into more of a CNN, Fox, MSNBC news cable channel with more of an emphasis on news as opposed to commentary. They are running a 2 hour straight news block that is countering the opinion shows on the other cable news outfits. NewsNation was critici

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Re: Why Russia experts say Putin is detached from reality - 3 months ago

Don't trust the accuracy of the historical account either, he is making a case for annexing the Baltic countries as well... QuoteThe southern and western Russian lands largely became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which – most significantly – was referred to in historical records as the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Russia. Only in his mind was it referred to as the Grand Duchy of

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Re: Federal judges reject Alabama's congressional map - 3 months ago

Quotedeckeda We have GOT to get voting maps out of the hands of those who benefit. Michigan has. QuoteBallotpediaThe MICRC was established after voters approved a 2018 constitutional amendment that transferred the power to draw the state's congressional and legislative districts from the state legislature to an independent redistricting commission. Under the terms of the amendment, "Wi

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