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1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

Dog and I ran into our first bear of the season today.  Big fella.  Had to wait about 10 minutes for him to meander away and out of our path.  Of course the one time I decided not to carry the real camera with me on the mountain too.

Amazing summer day though. Low-80s in the valley, dews in the 50s.  Tons of sunshine.  Plenty hot to go swimming (dipped in the river) and comfortable enough to be very active without sweating to dehydration.  A perfect summer day.

Never seen a real bear outside a zoo. Id probably shit myself

19 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

You cannot change your drinks price more than once every seven days I believe.

Can always just go with 

2 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Ironically those go for more now on eBay than they originally cost.

 

Haha i figured. I never searched to see how much it could go for. Its open but only used a handful of times.

19 minutes ago, losetoa6 said:

No one plays Atari 2600 or Coleco Vision anymore 

My parents have an atari in original box in the basement somewhere. I remember hooking it up during a sleep over with my friendss back in the day. After playing with playstation 2's we got a kick out of it.

5 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Yeah. PC gaming is pretty incredible.  You def need to invest in a good system

The consoles are super hard to find due to chip shortages. I had been tracking restocks for a month or so and was able to get one at Wednesday’s GameStop drop.  
 

Microsoft’s Game Pass offers a ton of games for $15 per month. I haven’t had a new gen console since 1999

Ya it can be an investment and frustrating but also rewarding. One of the downside of pc gaming is bad code in a game. Red dead redemption 2 would randomly crash when released for pc. I wasted a whole weekend trying to solve the problem. A patch released fixed the issue later.

Upgrading the pc on your own can be rewarding. Doing the research and installing the parts feels good. Knowing you didnt need to pay bestbuy or someone money to do it. 

11 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

If you are able to, get yourself a next gen games console (PS5, XBox Series X/S). Just got a Series S and Game Pass.  
Holy cannoli 

I hear they hard to find nowadays. I went back to pc gaming a few years ago. I might miss out on some exclusive stuff and deal with more hackers/cheaters but least i have more freedom. Pc still the wild west while console kinda puts limits on you.

26 minutes ago, White Rain said:

We took the kids back to the Southwick zoo today. What a great day weatherwise and the crowds weren’t bad being a Thursday. It was maybe 4-5 years since we went last. Very relaxed Covid policy which seems to be the case most places now - I applaud them. Saw 99% of people unmasked.

Only saw two adults masked but caught a couple families with adults masks pulled down to their chins but their small children still wearing them. Felt bad for them. Still probably 1 in 100 overall had them on, maybe less? 

Ya southwick is cool. I want to go back this summer. My kid loved it 

Im gay

43 minutes ago, DotRat_Wx said:

 

Found a pic of u 2 on the internet 

6 hours ago, forkyfork said:

so you got your mandates lifted but that's not good enough? lolz. upper middle class white people are so fragile 

 I can show you alot of snowflakes if i flipped that last sentence around lol.

27 minutes ago, forkyfork said:

so you got your mandates lifted but that's not good enough? lolz. upper middle class white people are so fragile 

Racist much?

2 hours ago, STILL N OF PIKE said:

News media has devolved into a business . Attention grabbing and misleading headlines to garner clicks . The local news is NOT at that level (Or close ) but the politicized popular channels are and as are many trusted internet sources outside of maybe Reuter’s .

 The Covid has been no exception . It deserved a ton of coverage that is not the issue , it’s the hyping and selling perspectives and scrolling death dolls for effect / ratings that has infected the “news” and does so no matter the importance of the issue . So things get muddied. If people can’t see that they don’t want to .

We also saw a disgraceful attempt to push aside a lab leak theory to protect gain of function research due to the “ummmm we might have accidentally f’d up green lighting this research that may have led to half a million ? Deaths “

This attempt spanned from top scientific journals (lancet) to all news media . That’s a fact . It’s a microcosm of the “think this way or we will cancel you and or you opinion “ that has infected society and the reason many scientists who knew you can’t dismiss a lab leak theory didn’t speak up. Wether the lab leak is true (likely) or not , it speaks volumes (or should unless you don’t want to Listen ) to the steps that are  effective for a media campaign to frame a issue and shutdown legitimate debate very successfully . It should bother more people .

So the corporate media Unfortunately has little integrity and that is a big problem when trying to decipher information for a serious issue , we just saw science and scientists ..the holy grail of truth appear to say in a “unified front “  a lab leak definitely didn’t happen (and ridicule folks who didn’t think like them ) do a 180 and say oh ya ok that seems to make more sense ...and this seems to sit ok with people . 

Its all talk shows now. Everything is opinionated instead of just reporting the facts.

If something dont fit a certain narrative then its ignored. Just the way it is for both left and right.

53 minutes ago, Cyclone-68 said:

Governor Baker is my mommy 

1 hour ago, DotRat_Wx said:

Camden is my favorite ballpark. 

Baltimore has a special place in my heart. It's unfortunate to see the wire this summer, and see how just little the city has changed from then until now...

I always heard the beer is cheap in park. That still the case today?

7 minutes ago, KoalaBeer said:

Two pump chump nowadays? 

On a completely different note I came here to post this hilarious and egregious lead story on Yahoo! right now. How the hell did they think it was a good idea to use that graphic, while they got the graphic correct in the article is beyond me. Bunch of clickbait a**holes probably gave a lot of uninformed folks a heart attack. Not to mention no model or forecast has a Hurricane developing out of this. 

 

Typical media nowadays. 

11 minutes ago, forkyfork said:

i like nature and getting laid

Ya me to. You got me there

36 minutes ago, forkyfork said:

we'll destroy capitalism after the boomers die

You like mediocrity?

55 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Had dinner at baldies in lakeville tonight… absolute packed house; no masks in sight. Awesome 

Any govt teets there?

4 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Less than 50% of American adults trust the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and many believe most users abuse it. The latest welfare fraud statistics, however, show that the payment accuracy of SNAP is over 92%, while the food stamp trafficking rate in the past few years has been only 1-1.5%. These figures show that the US authorities have found efficient solutions to food stamp fraud.

https://balancingeverything.com/welfare-fraud-statistics/

Thats great stuff. Glad to know its not as bad and found solutions. I wonder if ex coworker is in that stat or good at hiding it.

21 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

We’re talking about welfare not safety. Easy for the agendas to point to the inner city poor areas but they always neglect to see the rural whites sucking from the govt teets, and in greater numbers.

Where did i even say white/black? 

3 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Sure. Blame the inner city….Nobody talks about this though:

https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org/post/rural-americans-are-now-largest-slice-federal-food-aid-recipients

FRAC analyzed the USDA data and found that nationally, 16 percent of households in ruralareas use SNAP versus 13 percent in urbanareas. The population of older people is larger in rural areas, which Vollinger said is driving the increase.

So you trying to say the kid i worked with didnt quit and sell his food stamps?

1 hour ago, PhineasC said:

At some level, people have to want to help themselves and their communities. But certain people don't want to hear that line of thinking and shout it down.

The government has lately been actively disincentivizing people from trying to pull themselves out of poverty-stricken victimhood, so things will keep getting worse.

 

Ya cause people think they are entitled. Why do better if you gonna lose free health insurance and food stamps. I had a coworker quit his job cause he made to much money. Would of lost food stamps and where he lives. Would also sell his food stamps on the side

11 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

You claimed from that pic they are junkies. I merely stated differently. The topic changed away from capitalism though, once you wrongfully made those assumptions. ‘anti-capitalism’ states have homeless problems so the issue isn’t a capitlaism vs socialist debate and I think the pic was just a funny meme that takes on a life of it’s own. In fact, there are plenty of European countries with better social programs than the US with a higher homeless rate, like Sweden for example.

That pic is anti-capitalism thoe. It insinuates capitalism is the root cause of it.

Finding a tent city funny seems kinda obsurd to me. Maybe show some compassion for those people.

1 minute ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Good for you. Not everyone is the same. Take your own beliefs of that particular situation out of it and look at it with some compassion. Up to 45% are said to suffer from mental health issues, and roughly 11% of the 630k+ homeless are veterans. It’s not all junkies and/or people who are just aren’t that motivated to be better, as you claim. 

Ya, and thats a social issue. Capitalism didnt cause that. 

I have plenty of compassion. Im fine with helping those who need help (vets/mental health). But to think its a capitalism problem is a cop-out.

53 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

You’d be surprised how much of it is mental health first and foremost, and, not just being an addict. But hey, keep making assumptions. 

Mental health for sure. Not really making assumptions.

What percentage of people on the sidewalk are there cause of badluck or layoff?

You can strip me of all my education and leave me with nothing, you wouldnt find me on that sidewalk. 

1 hour ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

I guarantee that most the homeless in that picture have drug abuse problems, cant keep jobs, in/out jail, etc 

Iv seen it first hand with employees i worked with. Nobody wants to live on the street and if you apply yourself and do the right thing in life you wont.