I honestly don’t know where to post this.

JohnInCarolina · August 23

Ike · August 24

Having lived thru it the last bunch of years...had to laugh

dbCooper · August 25

Fair warning, if you see it you can't unsee it.

"Texas woman’s tongue certified as world’s widest at almost 8 cm across"

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/8/texas-womans-tongue-certified-as-worlds-widest-at-almost-8-cm-across

JohnInCarolina · August 25

dbCooper said:

Fair warning, if you see it you can't unsee it.
"Texas woman’s tongue certified as world’s widest at almost 8 cm across"
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/8/texas-womans-tongue-certified-as-worlds-widest-at-almost-8-cm-across

Dios mio!

Canugghead · August 25

google pimp
edit: just saw it, imagine her going hawk tuah?

Gulfcoastguy · August 25

dbCooper said:

Fair warning, if you see it you can't unsee it.
"Texas woman’s tongue certified as world’s widest at almost 8 cm across"
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/8/texas-womans-tongue-certified-as-worlds-widest-at-almost-8-cm-across

Imagine the volume!

Legume · August 25

It’s great to see Kimberly Guilfolye finally get the recognition she deserves.

Botch · August 26

I wrote a wordy, bla-bla-bla response for the "Jordy's about to talk" thread on the main forum without realizing it was on the main forum (politics a no-no there) so I am posting it here, fwiw:

TechsasJim said:
I choose not to participate in this conversation bc I have absolutely not heard anything along those lines in any media I have read/seen.

This is the issue that is killing us as a nation. rupert murdoch was absolutely brilliant (wrt his own interests) in establishing faux news, which, by their own admission under Oath, are not a news channel but an Opinion channel (remember the $787.5 million decision/fine against them, not even a year ago? $787,500,000.00!!). rupert's brainchild has been instrumental in getting half of Americans to vote against their own interests, funneling all the wealth generated in this country to the top 1%. I would've loved to ask @TechsasJim which news sources he uses; he may have not answered (most trumplicans don't) but I guess he's left now so it doesn't matter. If someone watches only faux news/newsmax, or MSNBC, they won't have a good balance of what is really going on.

So how can anyone tell the accuracy of any news source? My answer is, you have to witness some big/historic event with your own eyes, in real time, and then after the fact see how various news sources report it. Normally that's very hard to do, but it's not impossible. I last did this rigorously in 2017; I took a vacation day and watched the James Comey testimony to Congress, live broadcast; no magazine/laptop/ distractions, I listened as closely as possible. After the 3, 4-hour testimony, I set my DVR (was on cable back then) to record the next hour of news on four stations: faux, CNN, CBS, and PBS (my hardware DVR could record up to three channels simultaneously, and I watched the fourth "live"). Review of all four of those hour reports both confirmed, and surprised me.
faux, not surprisingly, ignored the meat of Comey's testimony and mostly focused on "He was taking notes during this Classified briefing!!" PBS reported the testimony almost exactly as I heard it (which I expected); surprisingly, to me, so did CBS. CNN seemed to concentrate on the sensational, "gotcha" moments, and from that point on my two televised "trusted sources" were PBS and CBS; I don't watch CNN anymore other than GPS (Zakaria) on Sunday mornings.
I need to do this again (owners change) and the trump/Harris debate (if it happens) will be a perfect opportunity. I now use the "EweTube TV" 'net provider, which includes an unlimited "DVR" function, so I can record the debate and include MSNBC, NBC, ABC, newsmax, etc. I highly encourage anyone reading this, with that ability, to do the same. FWIW.

Botch · August 26

Oh and a followup: some changes we NEED to implement, if Harris wins the election and we don't descend into CW II:

- We NEED to reinstate "The Fairness Act", where any "opinion" news outlet had to present "both sides". I believe it was Pres. Reagan who did away with this law. (I'm talking about any "broadcast" channel, controlled by the FCC; this wouldn't apply to internet outlets, it can't). This NEEDS to happen.
- We NEED to reinstate our schools to a National standard. I know it's a popular belief that local parents should call the shots for their local kids, but we need to be teaching a nation-wide standard of History, science, sexual orientation, etc. Growing up in South Dakota, I never was taught about so many pivotal events in US black history, until the BLM movement; this isn't right. As an aside, I dearly loved my Father, but I left for college a racist because, well, that's how I was raised in Sioux Falls at the dinner table. Thank god for my Air Force years to finally wash that **** from my head.
- We NEED to eliminate the Electoral College. A President's actions, leadership, moral examples, etc affect us all equally, and we should ALL have an equal voice in deciding who it is. Right now, we don't. This goes back to the ultra-wealthy being able to fund candidates favorable to their own wealth growth in just a few states; this needs to stop.
- TBC (maybe)

Gulfcoastguy · August 27

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mark-zuckerberg-says-meta-was-pressured-by-biden-to-censor-covid-content

Just thought I would pass this along. An interesting take on freedom of the press.

JohnInCarolina · August 27

Gulfcoastguy said:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mark-zuckerberg-says-meta-was-pressured-by-biden-to-censor-covid-content

Just thought I would pass this along. An interesting take on freedom of the press.

Yes unfortunately Zuckerberg's letter is being widely misinterpreted as Meta being censored, even though that's not what happened. Because to be clear, the freedom of the press was never in any doubt here.

It is permitted, under the First Amendment, for the government to ask corporations to do things. There is nothing wrong with the government contacting them regarding various posts and indicate "hey we thought this was bad and kind of dangerous". That's probably what we should want them to do. In the end, even Zuck's letter makes it clear they didn't always comply with the requests.

Lastly, always helpful to remember that Mark Zuckerberg is a jackass.

Gulfcoastguy · August 27

Now he’s a jackass? I was careful to pick the article from the Daily Beast rather than Newsmax, Fox , etc. No comment about either of the two examples that he cited? I assume that you read it all.

JohnInCarolina · August 27

Gulfcoastguy said:

Now he’s a jackass? I was careful to pick the article from the Daily Beast rather than Newsmax, Fox , etc. No comment about either of the two examples that he cited? I assume that you read it all.

Well, he's always been a jackass. Has that ever really been in dispute?

I couldn't actually get the link you posted to load properly. I don't know what the issue there is. But I've read about this story at other outlets.

Gulfcoastguy · August 27

That’s odd. I just clicked on the link and it carried me right there.

lousubcap · August 27

@JohnInCarolina - no issues with the posted link using Chrome. FYI-

JohnInCarolina · August 27

lousubcap said:

@JohnInCarolina - no issues with the posted link using Chrome. FYI-

I was using Chrome. It would load the page, just not the story. It was very odd. Oh well.

Gulfcoastguy · August 27

Did you try your phone?

JohnInCarolina · August 29

Botch · August 30

I think we have at least one Civil Engineer on the forum, can't remember who it is. This is a CE/urban warfare type question.
In israel's continued efforts at palestinian genocide, they've now attacked the West Bank, which they already occupy/police. Their first wave of attack was not bombing, nor Special Force squads, nor anything else, but rather.... bulldozers.
Bulldozers have now ripped up all the main roads thru the palestinian-occupied territories, now followed by motorized infantry/artillery, which are rolling/bouncing over the torn-up roads in an invasion. I do remember that Traitor was denied a military parade along a route in Washington DC, because even those well-maintained roads couldn't support the weight of tanks, etc, so Traitor had to move his military parade to Charlottesville.

But here's my question: why tear up the roads with bulldozers just prior to a motorized invasion? Does ripping up the roads give motorized mil vehicles an advantage, or does it just make impoverished peoples' lives that much harder to pull their wooden carts from point to point? Anyone? Why did they do this?

Gulfcoastguy · August 30

I would be the Civil Engineer. I can speculate some but understand that I don’t have all of the data.

From looking at the Ukraine war , one problem that both sides had when attacking was antitank mines. They can be planted in roads the hole disguised and blow the tracks or tires off a vehicle. A common defense is to just plow them up. Then there is the real fact that a 70 ton steel tracked tank is going to tear up the road anyway. Military vehicles can travel without a road. That sucks for civilians or the irregular military forces that travel in cars and pickups but we used to carpet bomb German cities in WWII, just google Dresden in WWII. I can re visit this later.

Botch · August 30

Thanks for your response, @Gulfcoastguy, but you've hit on two questions I already have:
1 - Yeah, anti-tank mines can blow the tracks off a vehicle; can't they do the same thing to a bulldozer's tracks? Are bulldozer tracks a lot stouter than those on a tank? (I have no idea).
2 - Yeah, a 70-ton steel-tracked tank IS going to tear up the road anyway; so why use a (lightly defended) bulldozer first? I really want to understand this, and I don't.

Gulfcoastguy · August 30

Okay the blade of a bulldozer is in front of its tracks. By actually plowing it lifts mines, often without exploding them, and pushs the mines to the side. The bulldozer can often have an armored cab. They can also quickly push aside barricades of rubble or burning tires. They can also tow disabled tanks or other vehicles to safety or out of the way. I would have to see pictures to make more guesses.

DoubleEgger · August 30

A mine flail is the preferred method of mine removal. Like the bullbozer, the blast from a mine is in front of the machine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mine_flail

Also, in response to an earlier comment, tanks and other tracked vehicles do get stuck off-road. Ukraine had an advantage in the early parts of the war because Russian assets were getting stuck in the rainy season mud.

Botch · August 30

Thanks guys.

JohnInCarolina · August 30

lousubcap · August 31

He has been completely injected and compromised by the CHEETO secret sauce. F'me.
CHEETO makes Nixon look like a saint.

DoubleEgger · September 1

Canugghead · September 1

and had sex with a porn stud while pregnant

JohnInCarolina · September 2

Canugghead · September 2

I honestly don’t know where to post this.

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