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I've had a CZ-75 sp01 for years. Love it

A friend of mine went to Prague to teach English for 6 months like 13 years ago. I think you only need an associates degree to get in. He overstayed his visa but got a Swede girlfriend who hooked him up with some kind of EU immigration status. He didn't speak any Czech when he went, and in fact he's still not great with the language. Easy program to get into, I've met a few people around the states who worked with him.

I've had a few friends locked up, they said it was mostly just boring. Its not like those MSNBC shows where you get SA'd at the door. The other inmates are essentially your neighbors for years, its in everyone's best interest to be somewhat chill.

Yeah IIRC it was essentially a way for the early government to cheap out on arming an entire army. They allowed private stockpiles of guns so that a few rich dudes could arm their neighbors if need be.

Vincent Fusca, a big Qanon celebrity, was standing just behind Trump during the shooting. If you watch the video he's just to the left of the "You're Fired!" sign and doesn't react at all to the shots. A lot of Q people think he's actually JFK Jr in disguise.

Yeah it was pretty fucked up, what.cd had some some of the strictest content rules of any tracker. Just to get on you had to do an interview with an admin with questions ranging from "what kind of music do you listen to?" to "What is your primary mode of transportation?" I think it only had ~300,000 users, you had to maintain a ratio so that every member contributed to the site. Some big artists like Trent Reznor were members and would actually put their own albums up because they knew what users were super vocal about spreading stuff that they like.

Idk if the Americans could force the French government to cooperate and get them to seize the servers

What.cd was a music/book/software torrent site that rose from the ashes of oink's pink place. The french government indeed seized the the servers at the request of the American Government.

I sent this to my libertarian-turned-lib friend and he immediately said, "Oh he must have been Ukranian Resistance after the war." But they said he fought in WWII. "Oh well it was late in the war and he didn't get convicted of any war crimes." Libs refuse to believe that any Ukrainian can do wrong throughout history now. Canada is apologizing profusely today because they "didn't know the guy was a Nazi."

The Xiaomi 13 is awesome. I would gladly take one over an iPhone.
I use Xiaomi's LED lightbulbs in my apartment. They're equal build quality to the Phillips-Hue bulbs but less than 1/4th the price. The Xiaomi bulbs are also far more compatible with third party apps, including the hue app.

Originally it was a space for artists. It was a music festival that didn't provide any music, musicians just showed up and performed so you would never know what you were going to see. Attendees were expected to literally be part of the event. Buying things, from food to drugs, was discouraged. You were supposed to just barter or provide for the community.

Obviously all that is out the window now. Its just a big wealthy orgy waiting to see Diplo.

Yeah Portland, Oregon is probably going to be wiped off the map at some point. They're predicting a 9.0+ quake here at some point at there's barely any seismically sound infrastructure.

The David Lynch film had a line of toys released from the movie. One of them included the milking cat