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bicycle medic, collecter of broken but still usable machinery
ちょっと日本語を話せます
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There's a LOT of money going into voter suppression efforts this year, and this is part of that.
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Oh, no, that one's a welding burn and that one's a mosquito bite, or maybe a tick but I hope mosquito...
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Every picture of JD Vance looks like he's gestured for you to remove your headphones so he can tell you about how putting Scientology on the block chain will be the disruptive religion for your generation.
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I have a recording 8track in the turntable console, but it's difficult to find tapes!
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Like cancel culture, they love it when they're sowing it, and are outraged when they're reaping it.
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There are a whole class of tests called enzyme linked immunosorbent assays that work like this and it's pretty trivial to make them glow on positive. Many already do that for automated assay readers.
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This is arguable, but I think the concept of greek tragedy was precisely people who have something akin to a superpower, and by using it, they destroy themselves.
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Deep state gay agenda
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You definitely aren't the only one. My stream is full of similar observations. Personally don't know.
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We went the wrong way on Quandary because we thought we were following a path. We were but it was a path made by elk or deer or something a great deal more brave than I was. Now paths are better marked.
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Btw there are some like Antero that don't have scrambling but are very bad if you dislike heights. I felt queasy on Quandary tbh.
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I did Princeton when I was 7. It was the only time I've been altitude sick, and I was too young to explain what I was feeling. Massive, Elbert, a bunch of the ones around Leadville (where I spent my childhood) are decent and safe. I've never done the scary ones and won't.
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Quandary is hard/steep. That's exhausting. Most of the collegiates are pretty low key, as are Antero and Shavano. I dislike holy cross because the hike out is so hard, and I loathe longs, fwiw.
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I offer track cyclists in response.
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We did the same. No ceremony, we signed the paper, _awesome_ party afterwards.
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Is there a wedding-lite option? Like the reader's digest of weddings where you can just blow through the dreary stuff in a few words?
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This isn't the case anymore, but for many years 40% of Subaru's international sales were in a region 100km wide bounded by Cheyenne and Pueblo.
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This happens at the boulder farmer's market
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Hah I'm going to elitch's tomorrow for the first time in 35 years
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The Princess Bride of Frankenstein The Rocky Horror Picture Show Of Hands A Star Wars Is Born Gone With The Wind In The Willows
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I get the threat part particularly. It's ice cream season and that is trouble.
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I forced myself to get rid of my scale and it helped some...
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Fwiw in most Baptist churches it's grape juice, I guess because Kool-Aid has some pretty heavy baggage associated with it.
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I have a vba/excel script that four other people use regularly and someone finally asked me about the comment after a line that takes the modulo of a quadratic equation, that says "no idea why this works but don't change it" and I'm all "I think that comment speaks for itself..."
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I suspect, from observation, that people who would drive at a given speed, when stuck in traffic for a while, will drive much faster when they get a chance, out of frustration. As a cyclist, watching people blow through neighborhoods at 70mph because of a slowdown on the main roads is scary.
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"at 78, trump has had 3 wives, 6 bankruptcies, and 34 felonies. It's crucial to consider how that may affect young boys." For some completely inexplicable reason that nobody could ever possibly explain, they choose to criticize Taylor for not doing things, instead.
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I heard a description of Europeans and Japanese of eating until they aren't hungry, as opposed to Americans who eat until they are full, and that has really stuck with me.