@rktpoweredkeith I’m looking to buy one. I really wish the community would come together to support a full annual calendar of races to look forward to. Or, if that’s too much, maybe a biannual schedule.
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Austin Smith
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Austin Smith
@austincamsmith
📍Colorado & Georgia Aviation 🚀 Mountaineering 🏔️ Cinema 🎥 Literary fiction 📖 The Beatles 🎸
Denver, CO Katılım Nisan 2009
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Vroom! Saw an acquaintance’s hangar open and saw him getting ready for a test flight of his F1 racer.
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@benryanwriter This same thing happened to a coworker’s niece in 2012. She’s been paralyzed from the neck down ever since. Horrific.
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I started seeing a chiropractor at age 23 in a desperate attempt to treat the chronic pain that had derailed my life. He assured me I would improve once my spine was put back in alignment. I realized he was a quack when I heard him give the verbatim speech to someone in the next room. It is wrong to dole out false promises in exchange for people’s hard earned money. It takes their hope, raises it, dashes it, and then charges for the service.
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta
Caitlin Jensen, 28, walked into a Georgia chiropractor in June 2022. She came out with four dissected arteries, a stroke, cardiac arrest, and a traumatic brain injury. It took her nine months to say "Mom" again. She had come in for lower back pain. Your brain runs on four arteries. Two carotids in front, two vertebrals in back. The vertebrals don't run free. They thread up through narrow bone tunnels inside each cervical vertebra, C6 to C1, then loop around the top vertebra in a tight horizontal curve called the V3 segment. When a chiropractor performs a high-velocity rotational thrust on the upper neck, V3 gets stretched and snapped against bone. The inner artery wall tears. Blood seeps between the layers. A flap forms. Flow blocks, or clots break off and travel to the brainstem. In Caitlin's case all four vessels tore. Paramedics worked 12 minutes restoring her pulse. Surgeons placed a stent in one artery and repaired what they could in the rest. The brain injury came from the bleed that followed the stroke that followed the dissection. One in 20,000 spinal manipulations triggers this. Arterial dissection causes 2% of strokes overall but 8 to 25% of strokes in patients under 45. In 55% of cases symptoms start within 12 hours of the adjustment. No screening test identifies who's at risk beforehand. The American Chiropractic Association's own spokesman told the New York Times patients should get vascular scans before neck manipulation. Almost none do. Informed consent matching a surgical risk disclosure isn't standard. The average victim is 40. Caitlin's back pain lived four vertebrae below the artery the thrust tore.
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@natecooley @dissidentwest I've always felt Children Of The Revolution would have been a better title to the film. All of the adults have the maturity of children and the actual children in the story have more backbone than the adults. The adults are just kids playing with guns.
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@dissidentwest One Battle After Another
Okay, not the best. But deserves to be mentioned because of the fact that it IS a Rightwing coded movie when everybody just reflexively assumes it’s Leftwing.
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What’s the best right wing coded movie that was clearly not intended to be for a right wing audience?
You’re not allowed to say The Matrix.
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@benryanwriter Claude is a far superior product for most every productivity task that I've come across. I do keep ChatGPT around for information/topic requests/summarizations in the way that I used to seek out some fact or information on a topic from Google.
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Update: Claude seems far superior to ChatGPT. I wish I hadn’t spent so much time with the other company!
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I'm thinking of switching to Claude simply because I'm tired of uttering the four syllables of "ChatGPT" when I make reference to it. It's so much easier just to say, "I asked Claude."
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@holland_tom @TheRestHistory Omg. A jealous fire burns within me.
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@AmericanGwyn Laughing out loud in a Waffle House right now.
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@CalumDouglas1 I saw it here in Denver a few years ago. It is a true beast to behold sitting on the tracks, huffing like a wild animal. I've never met a machine that felt so potent at rest.
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Spitfires are nice, but I think my new favorite WW2 machine is the 4041 Big Boy, built in WW2 in 1941 to pull heavy machine cargo supplies for the war effort, it is the biggest steam engine in the world.
It weighs over 500 tons, and carries 25,000 gallons of water. Its 133 feet long and is articulated so it can manage corners.
It can do 80mph and has 8000 horsepower.
Union Pacific have a website tracker so you can see where its going to be at all times !
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Cormac McCarthy’s estate is auctioning off his 1995 Lotus Esprit S4S on Hagerty Marketplace, if you’re interested. 18k miles. Highest bid is currently $2,600 (I expect it to go a good deal higher, of course). Close of auction is April 27th.
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@AmericanGwyn Selling my house on Monday. Buying Cormac's '95 Lotus project car is exactly what I know my financial advisor would want me to do with the money.
(But really I bid to say I'd done it and now I've done it, so it's all yours)
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@AmericanGwyn @symeew13 His voice is like a warm hug. One of my favorites of any singer of any genre.
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@j00ny369T Above my office desk, I keep a 1941 map of Cairo from my grandfather's time in Egypt with the RAAF. It's one of the most handsomely drawn things I've ever seen in addition to being my most treasured posession.
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Fabulous quote from William Gass on fiction plots:
Vincent Czyz@VinceCzyz
@AmericanGwyn In “Finding a Form” he argued that “there’s bird drop, horse plop, and novel plot. Story is what can be taken out of the fiction and made into a movie. […] Story is what you do to clean up life and make God into a good burgher who manages the world like a business.”
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@SnazzyLabs I vibecoded one in a couple days that integrates with my Outlook. I'd never coded anything in my life. Went live on it 2 weeks ago and it serves our needs better than any CRM I've ever used. The future is wild.
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@realbriankemple I, too, have come to be suspicious of the benefit of reading just to read. A podcast can take the place of most beach/biz reads. But I do think the benefit to reading Great books is very meaningful, even if the benefit is somewhat intangible and diffuse throughout one's life.
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I am someone who loves to read. But the inherent benefit to reading books, even good or Great books, is much smaller than many advocates would like it to be.
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@historyrock_ The Beatles, they who recorded Helter Skelter in 1968? Also a ton of late 60's heavy psych bands.
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Imagine hearing this in 1970 after a decade of The Beatles and the Stones
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@Tom_LSOO Blood Meridian is bloody, violent, esoteric, and also hilarious. All of McCarthy is hilarious and any adaptation without his dry humor will err. NCFOM got this right. Good news, there has already been a perfect BM adaptation, & I mean this quite sincerely: youtube.com/watch?v=dLii6u…
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@Tom_LSOO Great video, Tom. I always find the audience crossover between Malick and Cormac interesting & true. I think for many, including myself, it's a first encounter with the sublime. Indeed, the script for The Tree of Life reads nearly like a McCarthy novel. They were also friends.
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For decades, Hollywood has tried to adapt Cormac McCarthy. And now that his magnum opus, the notoriously violent Blood Meridian, is once again in production, what can we learn from the previously adapted works of his? How to film this "unfilmable" author? youtu.be/irQstK-L1Oo
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@AmericanGwyn @uncult_swine Agreed. I feel most of the big name guitarists - Gilmour, EVH, Hendrix, Page, BB King, SRV, Iommi, etc. - are rated correctly. I can't think of any of them that are overrated by the culture. Lifeson, however, has always been underrated.
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@uncult_swine 100%. He also revolutionized the world of gear, basically created the Super Strat, normalized the Floyd Rose, introduced that high gain Plexi tone that became de rigueur in the 80s. Most amp modelers have a “Brown” setting because of him.
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Calling EVH overrated is rage baiting nonsense (& I've fallen for it).
Not only was he ridiculously skilled, he pioneered a style of playing which revolutionised guitar playing.
I usually find these "debates" garbage but it's akin to saying Einstein was overrated as a scientist.
auds⸆⸉@PAlNTEDLADlES
dimebag darrell, kirk hammett, eddie van halen
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