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    I'm pretty sure that the first tornado shot is from Andover Kansas. (I verified that it is) My brother's band lead singer lost her home as a result.

    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp8BcySnwwM


    https://www.tiktok.com/@davaug/video...nder_device=pc - Michen_888 tiktok actual drone footage

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    My brother is on the left in his band...'his' band is a controversial 'perspective'

    The family redneck...(In truth, there are plenty of us but declining in numbers) I try to talk him out of it, but he won't give...
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    I had a first conversation with my oldest half sister. Apparently she's a real badass, sure talked like it...She has a history of managing a software company which is where she started her career. A pioneer of sorts. Later she went on to managing staff for hospitals. She is about a year and a half younger than I, and is anxious to get back to work after some serious health issues.

    She impressed me as very 'bright', so, of course, I had to get me in and I admonished her that as the oldest sibling I was by default the 'smartest'. It was a joke and it fell flat as a pancake. She didn't even crack a grin vibe.
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    Profound thought for the day: Well maybe not, though I was in my mental flowzone when it occurred to me, but, of course, I didn't spend the night at a Holiday Inn Express.

    At what level does a person relinquish their principles in favor of what they desire? Sounds like the emotional development of a 5-year old. But that is not as low as we can go as humans. At birth a baby is left to the mercy of instinct, an instinct for survival. And there we have the gist of the average MagaLander. For ever Trumpers applying logic to the phenomenon it becomes obvious that they feel their survival is threatened. Is that the whole story? I don't think so, the question remains where does the fear that invokes the instinct come from? Let me illustrate:

    Earlier today I was walking through the park, holding my dong, and reminiscing. No, not really, I wasn't reminiscing. I happened upon a young mother with her, I'm guesstimating her 2.5 year old son. He was running and saying, "I running away!" His mother scurried after him and he abruptly stopped and started running towards her, yelling with joy, "I running very fast!". As I passed the mother, I said, "He's really running fast" and she replied, "Yeah, he can go backwards, too". So, i look at the kid and say, "Wow, that is really good!". In the blink of an eyelash, the kid says in the best adult language ever uttered by a virtual toddler (with the possible exception of my daughter and Aragorn), "The police are coming!". I was guffawing meanwhile his mother was rushing him readying to pounce on him. I don't know, I have this sneaking suspicion it might have something to do with the things we are exposed to at a very early stage.

    But yesterday, that was another day. On my neighborhood board there was a thread that had been started by a Hispanic woman from Mexico. Her son had been bilked by a scammer purportedly selling an IPhone, he had been saving money from his job around his high school schedule. She started the post to 'warn' other parents to be wary of this guy and probably many others. Some people were sympathetic and had offered to donate some money and I guess what were older phones but after a short while, things diverged, people were accusing her of running a scam, including setting up one of those 'donate board things'. There was absolutely no evidence that she had done anything of the sort, nothing. Naturally, after awhile the thread was overrun and shut down.

    I posted to her that I had a practically brand new IPhone 13 that I would give to her son and somehow through the grapevine the message got through to her. Evidently, I had started a new thread, but anyway, later she came to pick it up and expressed much thanks, I thought she was going to kiss my feet, but she wouldn't accept my invitation to step into my living room, hmmm, and related in her broken English how ashamed she was because people didn't trust her and thought she was a bad mother. I reiterated in my broken English that too many people are just fuckheads.

    The moral of the story is that there are literally hundreds if not thousands of people on the forum and 5 of them responded to my post with a thanks. I responded back to one of them and stated that, "I don't have a problem taking a chance on people, if they are scamming for personal gain that is between them and their God."
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    Ok, so maybe I was wrong...

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    Dreamland:

    I dreamed that Aliens attacked the entire world with 'Lava bombs' and then nukes, and then a good faction started dropping anti-metallic bombs which came close to impact but didn't blow because they repelled from the impact.

    It was wild, it started where I wasn't working, so I was at my brother's house trying to help with a construction company that was doing some minor updates on his house. Long story short, his house ended up collapsing with my help and 'their' incompetence. It was obvious that my brother would not be financially responsible (I was worried about that) and then the entire neighborhood started collapsing and then the community and then the region. When a group of people recognized that we were under attack and saw the encroaching lava climb elevation, we all ran in high panic literally for the hills. We were stuck and desperate, people were in impromptu fashion performing music for the huge crowds. Then the lava started climbing again and more panic ensued, a small group of us banded together and there was one guy that was obviously an accomplished 'survivor', very intelligent and was making all the right moves so I followed his ass... We climbed a metal tower to stay above the inferno but it was then the Alien beings started attacking with advanced weapons, so still following we managed to maneuver our way around the tower to avoid getting blasted. At one point we got separated as we were both targeted by the Aliens. One took a special interest in 'getting' me. So we started, in a manner of speaking, dueling with each other. They were shapeshifters and the alien took on the persona of a human. He was extremely smug and superior to 'us'. I tricked him and caught him off guard and forced him off the tower, he just bounced into a sploosh and recovered. At one point he stated that he had analyzed my DNA and was surprised to learn that my DNA was composed of 24 different Alien species. Then I managed to hook up with the first guy and as we were getting ready to get the puck out of there, a cartoonish friendly 'grey' started pantomiming that we should follow him up a secret passage in the tower. We did for awhile and then started suspecting that it was a trap and took off running...I guess I woke up at that time.

    Pretty strange dream and emotions.
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    Tomorrow is my 1st day that I have had to report physically to work in over 3.5 years. I'm not looking forward to it, at all. I'm too old for this sh*t.
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    Quote Originally posted by Chuckie View Post
    Tomorrow is my 1st day that I have had to report physically to work in over 3.5 years. I'm not looking forward to it, at all. I'm too old for this sh*t.
    Have you been able to work from home all this time?
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    yes, And I don't wan't to change. I lost my last job which was perfect for me because I didn't want to compromise on the the work from home thing and I paid the price. Though, I got paid full salary for nine months without doing a day of work. It is embarrassing to be such a loser. I don't plan on doing it that long. I've always been pretty good at getting what I wanted from my masters and I was not always a favorite among co-workers because of it. Such is life, one has to work for those little life's perks that at least I have always wanted.
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