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  1. As for me, I can't say I've had consensual sex with a lot of different women. But of the ones I've been with I don't recall any of them expressly saying "yes, I'll have sex with you" (or anything similar). That just doesn't seem to happen in the moment. But I do recall quite a few saying "no". And we didn't. (Admittedly, that's what happened more often than not.) So it seems like saying "no" might be a bit different than not saying "yes".
  2. So your position is that, if the woman doesn't expressly say "yes, I will have sex with you", then it's rape? It sounds like that's what you're getting at. btw, Have you ever had sex with a woman? Or a man for that matter? Asking for a friend.
  3. That Tweet doesn't do the story justice: Quote: The USC Trojans had an imposter inside their football program and the person was only discovered after an attempt to field punts during a recent spring practice. Sound crazy? That's just the beginning. According to Scott Wolfe of Inside USC and confirmed by Fox Sports analyst Petro Papadakis, a homeless man recently spent several days inside USC's football facilities according to security sources including sharing a jacuzzi at the McKay Center with other football players, eating at the program's dining hall and slept in a suite at LA Memorial Coliseum.
  4. This is the sixth year in a row we play Ohio State in a cross-over game. But in those six years—since 2016—we've only played Rutgers/Indiana/Maryland a total of five times for all three teams. What's up with that? Shouldn't our cross-over games include all the teams an equal number of times? It seems like every year we play tOSU and either Michigan or Penn State. But we don't seem to catch the East Division cellar dwellers very often. The B1G schedulers are certainly not doing us any favors.
  5. Quote from the Tweet above: She said LeGrone's accuser saw him come in the room while she and Hunt were having sex and didn't say "What's going on here? Hold on a minute. Stop. "She has an obligation and a responsibility to do or say something to make the fact that she doesn't want to do this reasonably known to the person that's doing it. She has that responsibility and she didn't do that," Hughes said. ============ It looks like an issue that could possibly decide this case is that the victim didn't say "no". I'm not sure how I feel about this. I think LeGrone is a slimebag, and probably a sexual predator. I'm glad he got booted off the team and left UNL. OTOH, if the girl is going to claim rape it seems like she should have said "no" at some point.
  6. That's almost as perplexing as the people clamoring for the well being of illegal alien children while at the same time supporting abortion rights. It's okay to kill unborn U.S. children, but it's untenable to hold children abandoned by their illegal alien parents in hotel suites. Weird, huh?
  7. I'm gonna try that. I'll let you know if I get to single digits.
  8. Pretty good study by the FBI (LINK) that answers the questions: "how do the active shooters behave before the attack?" and, if it can be determined, "why did they attack?" Here are the FBI findings: 1. The 63 active shooters examined in this study did not appear to be uniform in any way such that they could be readily identified prior to attacking based on demographics alone. 2. Active shooters take time to plan and prepare for the attack, with 77 % of the subjects spending a week or longer planning their attack and 46% spending a week or longer actually preparing (procuring the means) for the attack. 3. A majority of active shooters obtained their firearms legally, with only very small percentages obtaining a firearm illegally. 4. The FBI could only verify that 25% of active shooters in the study had ever been diagnosed with a mental illness. Of those diagnosed, only three had been diagnosed with a psychotic disorder. 5. Active shooters were typically experiencing multiple stressors (an average of 3.6 separate stressors) in the year before they attacked. 6. On average, each active shooter displayed 4 to 5 concerning behaviors over time that were observable to others around the shooter. The most frequently occurring concerning behaviors were related to the active shooter's mental health, problematic interpersonal interactions, and leakage of violent intent. 7. For active shooters under age 18, school peers and teachers were more likely to observe concerning behaviors than family members. For active shooters 18 years old and over, spouses/domestic partners were the most likely to observe concerning behaviors. 8. When concerning behavior was observed by others, the most common response was to communicate directly to the active shooter (83%) or do nothing (54%). In 41 % of the cases the concerning behavior was reported to law enforcement. Therefore, just because concerning behavior was recognized does not necessarily mean that it was reported to law enforcement. 9. In those cases where the active shooter's primary grievance could be identified, the most common grievances were related to an adverse interpersonal or employment action against the shooter. (49%) 10. In the majority of cases (64%) at least one of the victims was specifically targeted by the active shooter.
  9. I liked the MiB use of that line better:
  10. I've been working on a little workshop for myself at my house. This will allow me to get most of my tools out of the basement and free up a room in the house. My house is 105 years old. It has a detached garage—also 105 years old—measuring 9'x18' that is too small for a car. The garage was built for a Model A sized car. I've done several little "projects" so far to build out this workshop. Here are five projects I've completed over the past couple months: Walk-in Door: I knocked a door width hold in the brick wall and took out one bay of a three-bay window to put in a walk-in door. This eliminates the hassle of lifting up the garage door to enter and exit the workshop. Hardwood Floor: I had bunch of short floor plank scraps left over from a large (25'x65') hardwood floor I installed a couple years ago. So I used a bunch of these scraps to install a hardwood floor in my little home workshop. They're free! I put 3/4" treated layer of OSB underneath, between the flooring planks and the concrete floor. I'll put the third layer of polyurethane on the floor soon—maybe tonight. (I put the 2nd layer on a couple weeks ago—but thought I better get a 3rd layer on before I start putting stuff in the room.) Motorcycle Turntable: I installed a 27" diameter turntable in the center of the floor—level with the rest of the floor. This way I can position the center stand of my Kawasaki 1100 on the turntable and turn the bike around in the shop. The turntable is made from two pieces of 3/16" plate steel with spray silicone lubricant in between them. With the bike sitting on its center stand, I can lift the front of it with two fingers of each hand and rotate it around. Shop Bench: I spent a lot of time designing and building a shop bench. It's sturdy as hell! I just got done with it yesterday. I installed it directly into the two remaining bay windows (south facing) so I'll have good light. It extends into the room about a foot or so. I used 3/4" plywood for the bench surface, and polyurethaned it to make it look sharp. I covered the plywood edges with strips of oak from the flooring. (I had a couple of long pieces left.) I installed a vintage Chas. Parker 23X bench vise on the bench. I have another vintage carpenter's vice that I'll install at some point at the other end of the bench. Wood stove: The garage had a half chimney extending halfway down with back wall from the ceiling with a port to feed a pot belly stove duct into. I bought a Fisher Mama Bear wood stove from a friend. Damned thing weighs around 400 lbs.! Rather than having the wood stove sit directly over the hardwood floor, I left a 3'x4' bare concrete space in the floor where I didn't put hardwood flooring planks. I laid some large profile, thin bricks in this "hole" in the flooring so it'll be the same level as the flooring. The bricks sit loosely on the concrete floor, and the Mama Bear sits on the bricks. Once I get the 3rd coat of poly on the floor I'll start moving tools in: radial arm saw, bandsaw, mig welder, anvil, drill press, router table, etc. I'm also going to build a small (very small) "room" attached to the outside of the workshop to house my air compressor. It's just too damn loud to have inside the workshop. I'll run an air-line through brick wall so I can have air in the shop—without the noise of the compressor. Edit: Just laid down the 3rd coat of polyurethane on the back half this morning. I had to move all the stuff I have in the room already to the front half to finish the floor coating (pic below).
  11. Couple accidentally paints over $500,000 artwork in gallery CARLA SINCLAIR 2:24 PM TUE APR 6, 2021 JonOne, a graffiti artist from New York, had an untitled piece on display in a gallery at a mall in South Korea. It was worth $500,000, but now? Maybe not so much after a couple visiting the gallery butchered it with thick strokes of dark paint. In their defense, they say they thought the art was participatory when they noticed paint cans and brushes in front of the painting. LINK ======================================================= So it was "graffiti art" and there were brushes and open cans of paint in front of it? And someone painted on it? Sounds like something I might do.
  12. I'd want their hoodie to add to my collection.
  13. Right column is from the last 2020 game, Rutgers. Farniok, Gaylord and Boe gone from this two-deep.
  14. Rewatched Jerry Maguire on Peacock. Best sports themed chick flick evar!
  15. This conversation is fun, fellas. But I've got some work to get out the door today. Buh-bye!
  16. Ha ha! Maybe you're not the one doing the sorting. Maybe you're the one being sorted.
  17. Okay, so you’re skeptical about the watchmaker’s analogy. Fine. I guess it’s possible that a watch lying in the forest could have been created by lightening striking a vein of iron ore, then trees falling and twisting in just the right manner to create the springs and gears of the watch. It could happen, sure. ===================================== But since you don’t know who made the watch, I ask: Who keeps the watch wound and running? The ecosystem that is earth is incredibly complex—far beyond any technology that mankind has come up with so far. We can’t even make a grasshopper! Yet the complex systems of plants and animals just keep ticking right along, interacting and reproducing and living, year after year, millennium after millennium. Why doesn’t the earth’s ecosystem degrade and fall apart like any other complex piece of machinery? Maintaining all this complexity seems to defy the Third Law of Thermodynamics. What’s special about the world that staves off entropy? Or don’t you believe in the Third Law of Thermodynamics either?
  18. Not that complex?? Ha ha! You've got to be kidding. How much money would it cost to make a pair of grasshoppers? I don't mean mechanical toys. I mean small animals that can survive in harsh conditions, eat many different kinds of food, and reproduce year after year to carry on for thousands of years. The technology of grasshoppers is far beyond human comprehension.
  19. The people who knew him best during the three years of his ministry—his apostles—left their homes and jobs after his death, and spent the rest of their lives spreading his message. Nearly all of them suffered horrible deaths rather than renounce their faith. So there's that.
  20. Maybe it's all part of the sorting process. I'm just spitballing here.
  21. Agreed! +1 I seek answers all the time. Everyone should!
  22. I see posts like yours and @Omaha-Husker 's post and it saddens me. Not because I think you're wrong, but because the churches and religion you've experienced has clearly done you a disservice. Many churches and religions—not all, but many—are in the business of self propagation and wealth gathering. For these churches worship and learning about God is of secondary importance. It's a sad state of affairs.
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