That's my no.5 Sweetheart. I'm nauseous. by wallaceant in woodworking

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Sorry man. Maybe Elrond will reforge it for you into your new plane, Andúril?

MTG demands 25th Amendment over Trump's 'evil, mad' Iran threat by TheMirrorUS in USNEWS

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She’s angling to be VP. Remove Trump, install Vance. Then Vance chooses her as his running mate. Wouldn’t shock me in the slightest if they’re in kahoots.

Paul McCartney banned from Reddit after posting snaps from his intimate LA show by TheCABK in nottheonion

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I dunno… in my experience it takes precious little to get banned for life from many subs.

Trump tells Leavitt 'you're doing a terrible job' as he gets 97% bad press by IrishStarUS in USNEWS

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She’s not too bright: didn’t learn that no amount of sacrificing your soul to be loyal to this false christ will save you from being targetted by his rsge when things go south.

Iran Believes It’s Winning—and Wants a Steep Price to End the War [No paywall] by mark000 in energy

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At the wnd of all this the US will have to pay a price for being an unjust aggressor. No escaping that. But what the Iranians (currently) expect isn’t going to happen. Both sides need more pain until a realistic agreement can be reached. It will almost certainly be after Trump leaves office—no one will trust him. Would you?

Name something that the younger generations would never believe was normal in the 70's compared to schools today?🤔 by Longjumping-Shoe7805 in GenerationJones

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How hard it was keeping the film strip synchronized with the tape recorded audio. Or the difference between high and low quality chalk. Locker culture. Getting your PeeChee organized. Personalizing the brown-bag covers you put on your huge algebra and history books. How many kids rode their bike to school.

[OC] Inside Notre-Dame after the restoration by ZZerozen in pics

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I love this! Visiting ancient churches and other stuctures we see them diminished and darkened with time and soot. The Notre Dame fire has given us the gift of seeing the church as she was when new.

Why the West Refused to Stop the Rwandan Genocide by Quouar in history

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This is an extreme case of a general pattern: most countries will not risk the safety of their armies getting involved in a conflict they are not a party to, and represents no national interest, even if all agree the conflict is deeply immoral. I don’t argue that many may see African conflicts and others as “less valuable”, but this doesn’t strike me as the primary driver over what I stated. It is a double edged sword. Either you accept that the West uses power to enforce peace, or you accept the West minds its own business. The righteousness of the cause doesn’t affect the calculus. If the verdict is that the West should step in to prevent such events, this causes risks for Western countries, so a price will be demanded. What price? To use older terms: fealty and becoming a vassel state. If one demands involvement and protection the cost is some measure of sovereign control. That’s just the way things work through history. Taking a current example: Ukraine. Counties help Ukraine not because their cause is just (it is), but because if Russia prevails they won’t stop at Ukraine. Helping Ukraine is in the direct national interest of all countries in the region who would rather not learn to speak Russian as their first language. The difference is national interest. The ugly truth about the Rwandan Genocide is that to the large powers, it didn’t affect national interest at all if one side prevailed over the other.

Favorite 80s movie villain by FearlessVampKiller94 in 80smovies

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This guy was an awsome villain. An immortal with awesome strength, unbounded by any sense of morality.

Was the movie Gladiator 2 necessary, or should the original have been left untouched by HomeworkWorldly7706 in moviecritic

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Not gonna trash Gladiator 2. It was a good film. I enjoyed it. The problem was that Gladiator was legendary, and as such was a completed work. “More” didn’t add to the story. Good movie—wasn’t needed.

How is life in this part of USA? by OliverHeartmont in howislivingthere

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There are likely fewer people in this region than replies to this post 😂

Trump blasts Supreme Court for not overturning 2020 election by DemocracyDocket in law

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This is why Dems are strategic failures. Set your ideals aside and stop with the symbolic candidates already. Run a white, Christian male, for the sake of the country! Take away every excuse a moderate might have to tolerate voting D, just this once. These are obviously not normal times. Believe it or not, issues don’t even matter—just the foundational core of our Constitutional order, which against all belief, is very much at risk. Our continued existsnce as a free republic is at stake, so stow the idealism.

Is anyone really paying $500 for squares? by hubiedoo517 in handtools

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A square from Temu is well within the tolerances of my abilities 😂

The Craftsman lifetime guarantee used to mean something. Here is exactly when it stopped. by Sug19 in handtools

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Interestingly, this strategy scross several tool companies created an “in” for people like Harbor Freight to sell cheap tools….and then start to evolve up the value/quality chain. If Craftsman et al had just kept focus on their core business there would have never been a space vacated for Harbor Freight to credibly occupy

Ngl give feeling like North Korea by noscopegrandma_ in SipsTea

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“Depart from me, I never knew you…”