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- Tue May 21, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: The Internet is Disappearing!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10
The Internet is Disappearing!
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/internet-disappearing-dead-links-online-content-b2548202.html https://au.news.yahoo.com/internet-disappearing-study-says-161829908.html The internet is disappearing, a new study has suggested, as web pages and online content is lost. The web is often thought of as ...
- Mon May 20, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: A Derecho Weather Event
- Replies: 15
- Views: 264
Re: A Derecho Weather Event
What an insane event. Indeed. I am about 100 miles away from H-town, and we also had large storms that day. But Houston was hit worse. Power is about 80% restored. Yes. A huge number of folks lost power in the event. Someone from H-town drove up here to stay with me, due to power being *OUT* at the...
- Mon May 20, 2024 6:20 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Iran/Hamas attacks Israel
- Replies: 567
- Views: 1048668
Re: Iran/Hamas attacks Israel
Helicopter carrying Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi crashes. Is he dead, Jim? Supposedly dead. https://www.yahoo.com/news/iranian-president-7-others-have-died-in-a-helicopter-crash-heres-what-we-know--and-what-we-dont-145222301.html https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNzBhMjBiYTctZmYzYS00Y2UyLWE...
- Mon May 20, 2024 5:25 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: A thread for things that don't warrant their own thread
- Replies: 1422
- Views: 530377
Re: A thread for things that don't warrant their own thread
Prayers going out!Roux wrote:pretry
- Mon May 20, 2024 2:08 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Boeing Starliner 1st Astronaut Flight
- Replies: 37
- Views: 708
Re: Boeing Starliner 1st Astronaut Flight
SM wrote:I think a lot of that answer is China is going to the moon.
- Wolfie
- Sun May 19, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Iran/Hamas attacks Israel
- Replies: 567
- Views: 1048668
Re: Iran/Hamas attacks Israel
Is he dead, Jim?m2 wrote:Helicopter carrying Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi crashes.
- Sun May 19, 2024 2:39 am
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Boeing Starliner 1st Astronaut Flight
- Replies: 37
- Views: 708
Re: Boeing Starliner 1st Astronaut Flight
True.88 wrote:What the U.S. blows in military spending each year is an absolute crime, particularly when you consider how badly we treat the soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines.
- Sun May 19, 2024 1:24 am
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Doom
- Replies: 3340
- Views: 906639
Re: Doom
Aussie doom! Digital ID Bill passes Parliament The Digital ID Bill 2024 and Digital ID (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Bill 2024 passed in the Senate in March and has now passed the House of Representatives. This is a huge milestone for the program and has been in the works for many year...
- Sat May 18, 2024 6:48 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Boeing Starliner 1st Astronaut Flight
- Replies: 37
- Views: 708
Re: Boeing Starliner 1st Astronaut Flight
I don't understand what is so complicated about going to space. We went to the moon on the first try and never had a failed attempt. Let's just do that again. NAZA claims they *discarded* the hardware that was used to get to the m00n. Fifty years ago, the pioneering Apollo program, which landed ast...
- Sat May 18, 2024 3:49 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Weekend Roll Call 5-18-24
- Replies: 7
- Views: 257
Re: Weekend Roll Call 5-18-24
I never bothered to take time with blabber during the PET... but here are a few random thoughts....I had been to Vegas once prior way back in 1989. It might as well have been back in 1889. Completely different town. Absolutely NOTHING is the same. A town that offered great, cheap deals back then, i...
- Fri May 17, 2024 10:08 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Scottie Scheffler Arrested
- Replies: 15
- Views: 362
Re: Scottie Scheffler Arrested
- Fri May 17, 2024 5:14 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Scottie Scheffler Arrested
- Replies: 15
- Views: 362
Re: Scottie Scheffler Arrested
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GNyTSV3bgAAgpSi?format=png&name=small Gillis (police officer) said in the docs he stopped Scheffler's car and attempted to give him instructions on how to get around -- but Scheffler "refused to comply and accelerated forward." Gillis stated Scheffler's car...
- Thu May 16, 2024 2:20 am
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: TKO
- Replies: 17
- Views: 485
Re: TKO
I've never even been on a clay court. I have watched some of it and it is damn entertaining. Controlled sliding must be a difficult skill to master. The sliding/footwork issue is one reason why I was never real comfortable on clay. If a player does not grow up playing on the surface, getting used t...
- Thu May 16, 2024 12:47 am
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Tom Brady roast on Netflix
- Replies: 24
- Views: 574
Re: Tom Brady roast on Netflix
If a comedian's delivery and/or material is not good, his raunchy act will soon become boring.
- Wed May 15, 2024 4:56 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Doom
- Replies: 3340
- Views: 906639
Re: Doom
The way inflation is calculated has been revised in significant ways twice in my lifetime and in minor ways an innumerable number of times, again, in my lifetime. The inflation that led to Jimmy Carter losing the Presidential election was calculated using a different statistical method than the inf...
- Tue May 14, 2024 1:54 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: A Murder of Crows...
- Replies: 46
- Views: 1184
- Tue May 14, 2024 1:21 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Doom
- Replies: 3340
- Views: 906639
Re: Doom
Bad inflation data today... Wholesale inflation picked up in April to its highest rate in a year as price hikes continue to weigh on American businesses, hamstringing the Federal Reserve’s plans to cut interest rates... https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-wholesale-inflation-just-hit-its-high...
- Tue May 14, 2024 12:47 am
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Cal
- Replies: 136
- Views: 25185
Re: Cal
Cal
The Lions sign J. Goff to an extension.
Four years, 212 million dollars.
https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-qb-jared ... -extension
The Lions sign J. Goff to an extension.
Four years, 212 million dollars.
https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-qb-jared ... -extension
- Mon May 13, 2024 4:20 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Doom
- Replies: 3340
- Views: 906639
Re: Doom
The strategy for decades now has been to inflate, inflate, inflate... Nobody in a position to dictate policy gives a rat's @ss that the common man is being decimated by inflation. make billionaires more billions Yes, exactly. And when they finally decide to "pull it," and end the farce, th...
- Mon May 13, 2024 4:13 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Trump/GOP bullshit
- Replies: 4597
- Views: 1127710
Re: Trump/GOP bullshit
Bidet and Dump and both very old and worn out. Watching either of them is the theater of the absurd. When Dump made his "Jimmy" error, he was reading off a teleprompter and wasn't paying attention, or the 'prompter did not keep its speed up, or whatever... So, he fouled that off his foot. ...
- Mon May 13, 2024 12:23 am
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: TKO
- Replies: 17
- Views: 485
Re: TKO
Why aren't there more clay courts in the US? I don't really buy the conventional wisdom that clay courts never caught on in the US because they cost more to maintain. I've seen only clay courts in Colombia and Buenos Aires. If Colombia can afford clay courts, the US can too. Anyway, tennis on clay ...
- Mon May 13, 2024 12:17 am
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: TKO
- Replies: 17
- Views: 485
Re: TKO
Nadal won’t get past two matches at this rate, he’s not 100% and doesn’t have a lot of matches under his belt. I've watched highlights of some of Rafa's recent matches, and he's not looking good. He looks stiff, slow, and is often found out of position. Unless his draw is really favorable at the Fr...
- Sun May 12, 2024 4:45 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: TKO
- Replies: 17
- Views: 485
TKO
NoVax got *doinked* by a water bottle at the Italian Open. Went to the ground for 20-30 seconds, and was said to be bleeding. Said he did not sleep well that night. Here a look at it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xncCfMoWaoo Two days later NoVax was upset by Alejandro Tabilo. Rolled in straight...
- Fri May 10, 2024 8:46 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Miss USA and Miss Teen USA...
- Replies: 27
- Views: 733
Re: Miss USA and Miss Teen USA...
Your denial of reality is fascinating in similar fashion as to those who believe in a flat earth. During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1588856560i/3706._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg - Geo...
- Thu May 09, 2024 9:44 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Doom
- Replies: 3340
- Views: 906639
Re: Doom
See you in 10 years!
#doom
- Thu May 09, 2024 2:00 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: HPG
- Replies: 3
- Views: 158
HPG
You're the movie review guy here. I will wait for your review of -----> Unfrosted . A movie about Pop-Tarts can't be all bad. :smile: I read a few reviews and watched a couple of video reviews, and the reviewers have generally not been real enthusiastic about the movie. Some chuckles, not terrible, ...
- Thu May 09, 2024 5:28 am
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Miss USA and Miss Teen USA...
- Replies: 27
- Views: 733
Re: Miss USA and Miss Teen USA...
I don't know what will be revealed, but I suspect they stepped down due to...HPG wrote:What do you think is about to be revealed that caused these pageant winners to step down?
HPG wrote:sexual abuse, manipulation
sexual misconduct by pageant organizers
- Wed May 08, 2024 6:26 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: This shithole is malfunctioning
- Replies: 5
- Views: 147
Re: This shithole is malfunctioning
The board has been under bot attack for a couple of weeks now.
You can see it by noticing how many users are online.
It was 154 last time I looked.
90% of those are bots.
You can see it by noticing how many users are online.
It was 154 last time I looked.
90% of those are bots.
- Wed May 08, 2024 5:55 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Pop, you familiar with these books?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2193
Re: Pop, you familiar with these books?
Ken wrote:I have no shame in saying it again... globe-deniers are the lowest form of human intelligence.
- Wed May 08, 2024 9:33 am
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Pop, you familiar with these books?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2193
Re: Pop, you familiar with these books?
Of course, these computations are based on assumptions you don't believe, so you'll simply reject it. But I have answered your science questions with science answers. I don't expect the same courtesy in return. Pull up one of the many old "flat earth" threads and look at my posts in them....
- Wed May 08, 2024 3:58 am
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Pop, you familiar with these books?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2193
Re: Pop, you familiar with these books?
What is the nature of the sun's movement in the sky, and how do you know this? Does it travel in a circle within the firmament, or sway like a pendulum from one end of the earth to the other? How are the different seasons accounted for on a flat earth? These questions are easily answered with globa...
- Wed May 08, 2024 3:44 am
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Pop, you familiar with these books?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2193
Re: Pop, you familiar with these books?
See if you can honestly prove it 10 ways you can tell the Earth is round This is predictable, yet very embarrassing. Their #2 proof is debunked by poptart here (and many other places) ----> http://theoneboard.com/board/viewtopic.php?p=1028483&hilit=ship+horizon#p1028483 My post on 6/12/20, 7th ...
- Wed May 08, 2024 3:17 am
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Pop, you familiar with these books?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2193
Re: Pop, you familiar with these books?
Ken, I'm afraid your hypothetical demonstration is an apples and oranges comparison. I guess the point you want to make is that we are moving, but that movement is relatively slow in relation to the size of the globe. Because of those factors, you say we don't feel the movement, and water is not flu...
- Tue May 07, 2024 11:54 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Pop, you familiar with these books?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2193
Re: Pop, you familiar with these books?
It's called real world observation. You opined that there's no way that water can cling to a flying spinning ball. I proposed an example of exactly that, which is easily observable, and you seem to discount it. What, then, are you looking for? How do you define a "science experiment?" Why...
- Tue May 07, 2024 11:47 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Pop, you familiar with these books?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2193
Re: Pop, you familiar with these books?
Post a science experiment backing up your fantastical claim that water can cling to the outside of a flying, spinning ball. It is absurd. Get on a bicycle, into a car, on a skateboard, or whatthefuck ever. The earth rotates (as proven) 360 degrees in a 24 hour period which is equal to 15 degrees/hr...
- Tue May 07, 2024 11:33 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Pop, you familiar with these books?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2193
Re: Pop, you familiar with these books?
As Smackie & Mikey have pointed out presenting fact-based arguments is an act of futility due to SB's refusal to accept facts. The problem is that the globe cult tells me things are facts when they are NOT facts. They make assumption after assumption after assumption... Test your globe, Diego. ...
- Tue May 07, 2024 11:32 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Pop, you familiar with these books?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2193
Re: Pop, you familiar with these books?
Show me the proof you have that we are spinning. You gave me an answer, which I appreciate. Of course, these computations are based on assumptions you don't believe Right. You have made the assumptions that you know the circumference of the earth, and that the earth is a globe. You found a speed th...
- Tue May 07, 2024 11:24 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Pop, you familiar with these books?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2193
Re: Pop, you familiar with these books?
Simple geometry is what Eratosthenes used to closely approximate the earth's radius. Not that you'll accept this, but his methodology was brilliant. He did this by considering two cities along the same meridian and measuring both the distance between them and the difference in angles of the shadows...
- Tue May 07, 2024 11:14 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Pop, you familiar with these books?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2193
Re: Pop, you familiar with these books?
Equatorial radius: 3,963.1906 miles Polar radius: 3,949.9028 mi The numbers are different because the earth is ellipsoidal rather than perfectly spherical, with a slight bulge at the equator and slightly flattened poles. Now, the only way for me to know this for sure is for me to personally take th...
- Tue May 07, 2024 11:09 pm
- Forum: Cul de Smack
- Topic: Pop, you familiar with these books?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2193
Re: Pop, you familiar with these books?
Very scientific. What is the nature of the sun's movement in the sky, and how do you know this? Does it travel in a circle within the firmament, or sway like a pendulum from one end of the earth to the other? How are the different seasons accounted for on a flat earth? These questions are easily an...