Halfway to Idiocracy

I can’t tell if the Onion gets their ideas from the stuff DeSantis does or if DeSantis gets his ideas from reading the Onion.

I just woke up and read the headline as “highly photogenic bird flu”

I have nothing to contribute to this conversation. Just wanted to say that was a horribly written article.

Shit…my wife just thought of a bigger diamond I could buy her.

We tested Comac parts for FAA certification. When you’ve tested parts for decades you can pretty much nail down the cause of the failure be it design, process, materials, a combination and so forth.

Also the c919 is only certified in China. It can’t fly in the US or Europe.

There is more that goes into an airplane than the people maintaining or assembling it, which can and does go afoul. There is the entire manufacturing process, how materials are sourced, processed, refined, machined/formed, heat treated, stress relieved, coated/plated, assembled, and the list goes on. That is a major factor why aircraft are so safe and if you think China’s material and process controls are as rigorous as someone like Boeing or Airbus, it isn’t. It has taken decades of actual aircraft manufacturing to get the formula right for those respective companies and they continue to evolve as time goes on and new information is learned.

Might find your answer here around the 50,000 year mark.

Do doo be-do-do
Mah Nà Mah Moon
Do do-do do

I’ve enjoyed reading many of these comments and I wanted to expand a bit on the reason for the question.

Several friends of mine would camp for several days and do the kind of things guys do. Then we’d realize we’re kind of gross, rude, not attractive, have a lot of shortcomings, and generally not full of great qualities. But, we’ve all been married a long time and will ask ourselves why in the hell did our wives agree to marry ugly, gross fools like us? We know why we married them; they’re far better people than we are! My wife is obviously smarter than me and it isn’t even a fair comparison.

In the end, I guess we make them laugh and are extremely wealthy.

I lied about the extremely wealthy part. I meant borderline poor.

Still better than the original

I’m sorry to hear that. It looks like my surprise at the numbers is more of me being out of the loop. I have Internet with AT&T and that is all I have (no cable or streaming other than HBO Max that comes with AT&T).

I was more surprised there are 35.9 million Xfinity customers!

Do bunkers typically have windows?

What a waste of a $200+ text book!

Hamas says the fighting must stop before hostages can be released. Israel said fighting will stop after hostages are released.

180 degrees apart, going round and round on the carousel of carnage.

TL;DR: Don’t care

Was a baby when it was done so don’t remember any of it. Been this way my whole life so have nothing to compare it to. Never bothered me, never was a topic of conversation, and nobody ever cared…probably because it is extremely common where I live.

This is Aughra from The Dark Crystal.

“…the shocking savagery of a Palestinian corpse that refused to condemn Hamas even when kicked.” Absolute gold!

Women are at an unfair advantage when competing against men in fishing. History has shown that men almost always report larger than actual fish size. The discrepency is more pronounced the smaller the fish is. This bias in measurement has drifted over to penis size as well.