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injinji
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There was a really good Nova on Wednesday night about electric airplanes. I wish I could have stayed awake for the end of it.
DIY-HP-LED
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The new lithium sulfur battery breakthroughs will but them over the top for small scale and private aviation. Perhaps hybrid turbo electric jet engines will be developed one day that use batteries and a fraction of the jet fuel for long haul commercial planes. However there should be plenty of power and range for small planes and other smaller flying vehicles, the powerful electric motors are small and light, they just need the batteries.
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Roger A. Shrubber
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and not laughing...
HGCC
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Buddha isn't doing it right. See you have to punch the other person enough that a big hole is formed so you can pour the poison out of yourself and into them. You gotta make a new hole, most of the time there is so much hot air coming out of the existing ones it just pushes the poison back out. Really jam it in there, it will stick.
captainmorgan
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DIY-HP-LED
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There's probably an app for that, Beyond the Grave, or Zombie Phone, might be good names! Keep it plugged in with a wireless connection and it will text friends and family for years, even answer them! Could even have an image of yer tombstone on the screen, a virtual proactive memorial
Maybe even messages from beyond: "It sure is hot down here, I'm saving you a place by the fire"... For those you don't like! 
DIY-HP-LED
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I kinda figured he was into mindfulness and that is probably what lead to his split from the GOP, a practice will grow a conscience on a tree stump. Steve is pretty clearheaded and articulate, he defends liberal democracy and the US constitution these days, he's done with the GOP.
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Steve Schmidt’s Lonely War
The political operative shares 14 years’ worth of grievances. He swears he’s never been happier.
he revelation arrived on horseback.
One morning this winter while staying at the Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain, just north of Tucson, Arizona, Steve Schmidt was out riding. As he made his way along the desert path, he later recalled, his mind wandered and relaxed in a way he had experienced before only through meditation.
Schmidt started meditating after the successive health scares (a brain tumor followed by a fall from a different horse that resulted in a broken back, he said) that led him to get Cali sober, trade red meat for salads, start exercising, and lose 50 pounds. Yet the more he solved every problem he perceived to be within his control, the more it became obvious that mindfulness and wellness could not cure what he had identified as the biggest source of his unhappiness. He believed he had enemies, and he believed they were winning.
He had been “a celebrity” and “a famous person” since going to work for John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, he said. That came after working on George W. Bush’s 2004 campaign and in the White House, where Schmidt managed the Supreme Court nominations of Samuel Alito and John Roberts before heading west to salvage Arnold Schwarzenegger’s bid for reelection as governor of California. Of the ways that status had changed his life, he fixated not on the opportunities and wealth that had put the son of a schoolteacher and phone-company lineman from North Plainfield, New Jersey, on cable news frequently, made him buddies with Woody Harrelson (who played him in the HBO adaptation of Game Change), and parked a ’65 Corvette Stingray in the driveway of his 7,500-square-foot home, but on every hater in his mentions and every hater in the press and the hater he hated most of all: Meghan McCain.
He blamed her for, among other insults, leaking the news that, like Donald Trump, he had not been invited to her father’s 2018 funeral. And though many press accounts of the 2008 election told of Schmidt’s involvement in the VP-selection process, Schmidt considered Meghan McCain’s characterizations to be the primary reason anyone had the impression that he was to blame for the catastrophic decision to choose Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate. “There’s different versions of this story,” Meghan said in 2012, following the premiere of Game Change, “but Steve Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace were the people single-handedly responsible for finding Sarah Palin, and now they just trash her all day long, and they did not treat her with the respect that she deserved.” In 2021, after John Weaver — who, along with Schmidt, had co-founded in the Trump years the save-the-soul-of-the-GOP organization the Lincoln Project — was accused of initiating improper sexual communication with younger men to whom he had offered professional guidance and opportunities, Meghan’s public criticism sharpened. Her father had “despised” both Weaver and Schmidt, Meghan said in a tweet, and had personally banned both men from his funeral. “Since 2008, no McCain would have spit on them if they were on fire,” she said.
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Steve Schmidt’s Lonely War
The political operative shares 14 years’ worth of grievances. He swears he’s never been happier.
he revelation arrived on horseback.
One morning this winter while staying at the Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain, just north of Tucson, Arizona, Steve Schmidt was out riding. As he made his way along the desert path, he later recalled, his mind wandered and relaxed in a way he had experienced before only through meditation.
Schmidt started meditating after the successive health scares (a brain tumor followed by a fall from a different horse that resulted in a broken back, he said) that led him to get Cali sober, trade red meat for salads, start exercising, and lose 50 pounds. Yet the more he solved every problem he perceived to be within his control, the more it became obvious that mindfulness and wellness could not cure what he had identified as the biggest source of his unhappiness. He believed he had enemies, and he believed they were winning.
He had been “a celebrity” and “a famous person” since going to work for John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, he said. That came after working on George W. Bush’s 2004 campaign and in the White House, where Schmidt managed the Supreme Court nominations of Samuel Alito and John Roberts before heading west to salvage Arnold Schwarzenegger’s bid for reelection as governor of California. Of the ways that status had changed his life, he fixated not on the opportunities and wealth that had put the son of a schoolteacher and phone-company lineman from North Plainfield, New Jersey, on cable news frequently, made him buddies with Woody Harrelson (who played him in the HBO adaptation of Game Change), and parked a ’65 Corvette Stingray in the driveway of his 7,500-square-foot home, but on every hater in his mentions and every hater in the press and the hater he hated most of all: Meghan McCain.
He blamed her for, among other insults, leaking the news that, like Donald Trump, he had not been invited to her father’s 2018 funeral. And though many press accounts of the 2008 election told of Schmidt’s involvement in the VP-selection process, Schmidt considered Meghan McCain’s characterizations to be the primary reason anyone had the impression that he was to blame for the catastrophic decision to choose Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate. “There’s different versions of this story,” Meghan said in 2012, following the premiere of Game Change, “but Steve Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace were the people single-handedly responsible for finding Sarah Palin, and now they just trash her all day long, and they did not treat her with the respect that she deserved.” In 2021, after John Weaver — who, along with Schmidt, had co-founded in the Trump years the save-the-soul-of-the-GOP organization the Lincoln Project — was accused of initiating improper sexual communication with younger men to whom he had offered professional guidance and opportunities, Meghan’s public criticism sharpened. Her father had “despised” both Weaver and Schmidt, Meghan said in a tweet, and had personally banned both men from his funeral. “Since 2008, no McCain would have spit on them if they were on fire,” she said.
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captainmorgan
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injinji
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That is going to leave a mark.
hanimmal
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Im glad that lady got that baby out of the crib right away and took cover. But maybe next time don't put the baby front and center? It is not like it is going to be aware of what is happening.
Roger A. Shrubber
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is anyone willing to bet me that those weren't republicans? too bad the suv didn't explode...
rkymtnman
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this would make me happy.
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Colorado voters could decide whether to legalize psychedelic mushrooms this fall
A measure to allow for the legal cultivation and use of the psychedelic fungi is one step away from making the November ballot.
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