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I_dream_of_Geni

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About I_dream_of_Geni

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    Comment #48676229

    Oh grand! And I bet that these rehires are going to be FULLY emotionally invested and fully loyal for the future. just stupid all the way around...

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    Comment #48419518

    "The recent incident of this nature occurred on May 29, 2026, when a LATAM Airlines Boeing 787-8 (registration CC-BBD) had its L2 passenger door torn off by an air-stairs vehicle o…

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    Comment #48285015

    Yikes! I know that this is "normal" here in the U.S., but the guy paid over $26K just to sell his home. We sold our home with a "quit-claim deed" and only paid a lawyer $600 to wri…

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    Comment #48284913

    Sounds exactly like car insurance. If you don't "move around", they keep pricing it higher every year until you wake up...

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    Comment #48284858

    To be fair, there's piles of sh*tty renters too, who abuse the system and ruin the experience for everyone. If you have ever been a landlord, especially in certain market areas, it…

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    Comment #47345985

    ...except that "snarky, rude, and tone-deaf" generally gets the downvoting (flagging?) mob to come in and "phoosh".

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    Comment #47345949

    Yes, these are MY questions and feelings too. In the past, if I just HINTED at asking these kinds of questions, I was downvoted into oblivion (in other accounts. I have to say THAT…

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    Comment #46895878

    And (weirdly, I think) a few years back they called alcoholism and smoking diseases, which, well, really??

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    Comment #46894068

    Honest question here: how is a worm (parasite) considered a "disease"? I Googled this question two different ways and got two different responses.

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    Comment #46894040

    This cracked me up...

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    Comment #46782837

    You obviously didn't Google this, since there are states in America where the people are PROUD to show off the guns and gun racks in their trucks. Yes, they proudly display these g…

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    Comment #46257213

    "The capsule is strong enough to survive a storm at sea or getting crushed between two icebergs." The first part is probably true. The second part is folly. "Remember the Titanic".…

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    Comment #46152533

    I guess you have a point. I just use core system applications and a few browsers other than Safari. Sorry you guys have so much pain.

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    Comment #46152504

    Thanks, friend. ;-)

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    Comment #46152497

    Tahoe 26.1

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    Comment #46152490

    Nice. Yours didn't work, yet mine did. Sorry mine works, bro.

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    Comment #46123558

    Interesting take. I've used MacOS for 30+ years, and for the last 20 years have had zero problems with updating immediately... For that matter, iOS has been flawless also.

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    Comment #45907641

    The mighty penny is dead. Long live the penny!!

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    Comment #45907565

    The mighty penny is dead. Long live the penny!!

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    Comment #45892365

    Gee... And I thought $5 spent at Starbucks was outrageous...

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    Comment #45800155

    I was waiting to see in the comments EXACTLY this question: There is no way to dump this heat. 1000hp? Yeah, maybe for a few seconds, even with oil coolant pumping through there. T…

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    Comment #45697869

    X-Ray tables?? Seriously? Why are the feds looking at the gambling, and NOT the uncontrolled beaming of raw x-rays into a room full of people. There's GOT to be a law covering that…

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    Comment #45697769

    Haha! We did the same thing! And we caught about 2 gallons of yellow jackets too. We let it run for about 10 hours (it gets them coming or going), and then when we took down the va…

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    Comment #45697634

    I feel the pain. On a camping trip on the banks of the Mississippi one year, my son and his family slept overnight in his minivan, with just the rear window "wings" cracked open sl…