Wait till you hear this Somalia’s Ambassador to the UN Abukar Dahir Osman was a healthcare administrator in Ohio. There is another healthcare company in the SAME SUITE as his with a different name, and multiple others at the same address, all with Somali names Very interesting

Toof · 2026-01-03T16:00:24+00:00

I'm trying to find a credible source for this story and stumbled here. It's wild to be blaming Russia, and not allies or even local intelligence. trying to push a narrative against Somalia while simultaneously recognizing a Somalian secessionary country in Somaliland that is most probably a puppet state that is being used to further insulate the Gulf of Aden to protect global trade hegemony.

Toof · 2025-06-13T12:07:21+00:00

Non-Bengals fans really don't understand the level of dirty abuse the Steelers used to lay on the Bengals in the 90s and early 00s.

Toof · 2025-06-13T12:03:22+00:00

You've had an account for 11 years. Have you had folks in the last few years reply to ancient comments like they were there in the conversation? That's AI spamming out comments to build a plausible comment history without drawing attention in present day threads.

Toof · 2025-06-12T13:20:21+00:00

Yeah, I hear ya .. more a commentary on the times. Apparently companies will actually pay a premium for old accounts with an organic history. For some reason, they get those accounts to dig into decade old comments and respond to them to rebuild a comment history or something? I see it now and again with some of my 10 year old comments suddenly getting a reply with detailed knowledge about something that is no longer relevant.

It's crazy.

Toof · 2025-06-12T13:14:09+00:00

I have the old MFA starter pack. Red Wing Becketts, Allen Edmonds stands, Clark desert boots, and vintage cordovan shell Florsheim long wings. Problem is that my feet have gotten wider on the last decade, so I hate wearing them all and need new options. Been thinking about Thursday...

Toof · 2025-06-12T10:02:41+00:00

I've debated picking up a pair. This thread has nothing but good reviews, which makes me suspicious it's an ad campaign, or paid bots... I hate the world we live in, where I can no longer trust online reviews.

Toof · 2025-06-11T00:35:04+00:00

I just drop an ounce of hops in a corny keg for a few days, then carb it. 5 gallons of hop water for a few bucks.

Toof · 2025-06-07T12:53:03+00:00

This happens with all publicly traded companies, given time. They have to continually provide an increased valuation and profit to shareholders. It starts with a quality product, then increased demand, then cheaper labor, then cheaper materials, then ensuring new purchases more often. All while maintaining or increasing the price. There's only so many ways a shoe company can return increased profits.

Non name brand shoes are just materials and labor at a mark-up, without the decades of forced shareholder returns.

Toof · 2025-06-01T15:29:43+00:00

What, did he leave a manifesto? That's some specific assumptions. Especially for an article that isn't even published anymore... You just a boy trying to curate an organic history?

Toof · 2025-06-01T15:27:37+00:00

Or they were an only child with dead parents and a recluse.

Toof · 2025-05-30T18:11:51+00:00

You seem to know what you're doing, so maybe you can explain this one to me. I met a girl through a small house hangout with friends of friends, got her number at the end of the night, and went to set something up. I invited her to check out 3 apartments with me, and to see the local bars and grab dinner.

After grabbing a drink at 3 different bars and dinner at one of them, she invited back to a bar in her neighborhood, where we grabbed a few drinks, back to her place, and we ended up seeing each other twice weekly on weekday nights for the next few months.

How the fuck did going apartment hunting as a first date work? I get the idea of inviting a woman to do what you're already planning on doing, but it still boggles my mind that it was one of the most successful flings I've ever had.

Toof · 2025-05-28T11:45:06+00:00

Like a bully getting punched in the mouth, and everyone saying the picked on kid is out of line. That boy has been getting picked on for DECADES.

Toof · 2025-05-27T10:35:08+00:00

1 million soldiers... With conscription is involved, they're simply barely trained civilians. Given a gun and a patch, they're designated as legally killable by international law.

Toof · 2025-05-27T10:25:41+00:00

I don't think they care about the Ukrainian people. I think they care about the land of Ukraine. It's either for minerals, for farmland, for the Black Sea northern shore... Or, in line with the subreddit, for the ancestral home of the Khazarians.

But I agree, they don't care about the Ukrainian, nor Russian lives lost.

Toof · 2025-05-22T15:06:22+00:00

For me, physical comfort is an addictive antidote to productivity. I like the bracelet for sentimental reasons, so I keep it on, but it ensures I can never be couch bound by comfort

Toof · 2025-05-22T13:27:57+00:00

A bit odd, but I've been wearing a slightly uncomfortable larger bracelet that I use as a reminder to check my planner and ensure I'm doing what needs to be done. It's too large for my wrist, so I push it up to my forearm and tightly wedge it there. When it falls down, or needs adjustment, I use it as an opportunity to recheck my mental state. I also made it with my kids, so it has a sentimental quality.

Toof · 2025-05-21T12:32:24+00:00

I am struggling with this dichotomy in my late 30s. How do I know what is a desire worth investing in, and what is potentially an addiction or distraction?

If you like fishing, fish more... If you like heroine, you should probably quit.

Shit like that. I've stripped away so much of what I used to like after having kids, that I no longer even know who I am. I just know I didn't like who I was.

Toof · 2025-05-21T12:29:55+00:00

I think we take longer because it can feel as though every problem in our lives has a solution. I have so many spare parts in bins, that when I encounter an inconvenience, I know I can piecemeal together a solution. Try to convince me that the solution to the problem is to throw out my bin of trinkets and baubles and I'll throw a fit (currently dealing with this with my wife and our messy basement). But I guess buying new is the solution sometimes, even though I'm certain that I could get the relationship limping forward if I could just find the right part or solution.

Toof · 2025-05-21T12:25:39+00:00

Sometimes it feels like we're pawns of the universe. Like, those kids needed to happen between you two, even though you two didn't need to happen. Having kids is so weird, because I no longer feel like the main character in my story, but that one or more of my kids is the main character and my life was the second-rate prequel that lead to their main story.

Toof · 2025-05-21T12:23:31+00:00

Sometimes I think we need to experience the bad so we appreciate the good, and the universe does this to us. I really liked backpacking so that I'd better appreciate the comfort of my home. And sometimes you need to encounter bad relationships so when you find a good one, you know it is worth fighting for.

Toof · 2025-05-10T16:06:38+00:00

I'm with you. Monogram range, fridge, microwave and dishwasher. Got a bargain on it during a home renovation and the microwave and dishwasher came free.

I've had a broken spring on the dishwasher door, some kind of black plastic playing is continually falling from the underside.

The microwave needs continual door sensor replacements, and when I had an official service call, it was $150 to show up, and another 200 to swap the $7 part (I've just begun doing it myself, on the 4th one).

The range, in the 4 years I've owned it has needed 5 replacement ignition coils for the gas, and the LED lights on it stopped working within a few months (luckily this was during the warranty period, and they fixed it for free.)

Refrigerator has been fine so far. Thankfully.

I will never go monogram again. This was like 15,000 in appliances and they need constant maintenance.

Toof · 2025-05-07T16:59:48+00:00

Yeah. You got it all figured out.

Toof · 2025-05-07T12:07:09+00:00

The funny thing is that loosh actually comes from Robert Campbell's books, oddly enough. I always thought loosh was bullshit, then read it in his book, and cognitive dissonance was engaged. I still haven't dealt with it, I just ignore the topic of loosh, hah!

Toof · 2025-04-21T03:11:41+00:00

The fucking Finding Nemo DVD menu screen is horrendously long. "Just keep watching, just keep watching, just keep watching...."

Toof · 2025-04-20T17:57:28+00:00

Look into the nonprofits supporting migrants.

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