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    OT: Sly Stone dead

    When I first started paying attention to music on the radio, at about 6 or 7, one of the bands getting a lot of airplay was Sly & the Family Stone. I liked it. It stuck. They remain one of my all-time favorite bands.
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    College sports have just been transformed

    I'd be willing to make a friendly wager that it tops out at less than 50. I'm thinking 20-30.
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    OT: Electric vehicles

    The only way to look at this situation is "cautiously". Musk was never a good fit inside the Trump orbit. He's personally toxic (not actually disqualifying) and has always been more popular among "the libs" than among core Trump supporters. Will said "libs" take him back? No way to say for...
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    OT: Electric vehicles

    Shares of TSLA down 12% on the events of the day. Elmo remains a master strategist.
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    OT: Electric vehicles

    Yeah, we all know that. Obviously we pump our own gas everywhere else. I've lived in other states, from time to time. I get it. It's cool. Still don't have to research every fuel stop to determine what kind of nozzle the pump has.
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    OT: Electric vehicles

    All the charger differentiation is not helping adoption. I can still go to the any gas station, anywhere, and toss the kid a credit card and say "fill 'er up". I don't want to put any more thought than that into the process.
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    OT: Electric vehicles

    The outlandish grill treatment has definitely been toned down on the '25 2-series cars. As such, it's livable. As for electrics... I don't dislike them, per se. I just don't think they're "enthusiast prime time" yet. The fast ones are horrifyingly heavy - a dual motor Polestar 3 weighs nearly...
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    OT: Electric vehicles

    I just can't convince myself to buy an electric car. I've tried, but it doesn't work. Thinking about a BMW M240ix. I've historically been anti-BMW but at ~58k, this monster is a performance bargain.
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    OT: THE RETURN! Annual Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Season Prediction Contest!

    Have you been tracking the degradation of the GFS? Per some of the remaining NWS folks, the staff cutbacks and reduction in data inputs (weather balloons) have rendered it unreliable.
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    OT: THE RETURN! Annual Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Season Prediction Contest!

    UPDATE: FEMA head David Richardson stated that he was unaware that the U.S. has a "hurricane season" and so, out of deference to the Current Administration, this year's "hurricane season", and by extension this competition, is cancelled.
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    Interesting Note from NJ Democratic Gov Debate - Fulop Anti Rutgers Football

    IT'S ALL LEGAL!!!!!!! Let the courts try and stop me.
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    Interesting Note from NJ Democratic Gov Debate - Fulop Anti Rutgers Football

    Ciaterelli is an *******, always has been. It's a shame the GOP can't find a guy who isn't a rabid mongrel. I don't like Sherrill. And my good friend / former leading NJ Dem legislator said of her, "she's not a team player and is not trustworthy". The entire field sucks. I think I might just...
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    OT: New Invasive bug tied to warming climate

    Whatever happened to those giant Asian spiders that were supposed to start showing up last summer?
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    OT: Cancer related to alcohol

    We like women, too! Some of us are just rogues, I guess.
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    OT: Cancer related to alcohol

    I can't keep up. I'm 62 years old and aside from a cholesterol level well-managed with statins, am in perfect health (also lost 20 lbs in the last 6 months). I'm keeping my nightly bourbon. I'm keeping my daily weed. I feel confident that when I'm dead and gone none of my beneficiaries will be...
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