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I’ve said this until I was blue in the face. The closure of NIOSH in Morgantown, the place that arguably led the charge for discovering black lung’s cause and combatting it, and continually working on particulate science, was the absolute biggest slap in the face to this state that could have happened. The biggest ally miners had in the the twilights of their careers is gone, and in it’s place, you get a “good job, bro” and kicked out the door by the mine barons. Any shot you have at recompense dies when they declare bankruptcy with yet another shell company; the holding ponds they’re responsible for? Not their problem. The recovery costs of the natural environment? State’s cost now. Yet all those profits go right into ol’ Jimothy Justice’s pockets. Probably amped as fuck that he gets to continue his racket, and ALSO vote on the policies that regulate the industry. How fun that is!

Fucks sake.

Part of it is there was some very real backstabbing done by the Dems with Bernie and Hillary in 2016. He won literally every county in the state in 2016 and they sent super delegates to the Convention and gave the state to Hillary, 19-18. It doesn’t excuse selling out the country for spite, but there is a very real thing perpetrated on WV voters by Democratic supporters. And we used to be a sorta blue state, up until that time.

My recommended is decent but every now and then it’ll try to throw some weird shit in there. Loves recommending me off-shoot Fox channels because I have the main one blocked. Seems like every few months it pops up. But yeah, I get a lot of MTB, Motocross, and OSRS stuff cause it’s what I tend to watch. Some random car YouTubers (Rob Dahm ILY) and random video essays about interesting stuff.

It’s not even a nostalgia thing; it’s a “me and my friends are hungry and the option is 4 pizzas from Little Caesars or 1 pizza from local place”. No one is trying to impress anyone, we’re all friends, we want to hang out for as long as possible. No one is bringing gourmet pizza to the creek to hang out, no one is bringing heirloom tomatoes and organic arugula and garlic infused olive oil pizza to a college football tailgate for $35/pizza. We’re getting shitty pizza from Domino’s, shitty lite beers, and we’re gonna freeze half to death playing cornhole in a parking lot and have a good time doing it lol

Brother I’m not saying I enjoy Papa John’s more. I’m saying I’m not bringing finely aged wine to drink in the garage while I listen to Creed. This is the guy that brings 4 of the most disgustingly conceived IPAs to a party, drinks one of them, and then wants Coors Lite from the cooler on someone else’s dime. Dude bringing a 4" personal pan pizza from Napolitano Italiano and wants to split it across 5 friends, only $15/ea for the pizza, and you get 2 bites of it. Dude wants the most memorable part of the night to be a slice of pizza and not hanging out with his friends.

This gotta be the dumbest bait ever. “You don’t eat expensive enough pizza”, what am I even doing with my time anymore lol. Waited a month to respond and comes back just to annoy me lmao. Lemme know what stupid little JRPG you’re playing so you can tell me why I’m enjoying bad video games too.

Lmao I enjoy it plenty enough. I just don’t enjoy it the way they insist I enjoy it. If I hated the food, I wouldn’t buy it? But if I’m grabbing a pizza or 2 for the boys to drink in the garage, I don’t need to spend $45 on the local place when Papa J is half the cost. I don’t get twice the enjoyment it if it.

Oh for sure, idk how you fix it. But by God I’m gonna let my opinion be heard in the mean time lol

Do something about the Fort Pitt Tunnel Bridge now. Place is a panic attack incarnate lol. Lower level of a bridge over a large river, very quick merging of like 5 lanes, a tunnel, and city traffic.

Lmao the governors tell people to run over protestor here if they are in the street. Both methods block travel in the city, Venice is just specifically aimed at inconveniencing Bezos rather than the general populace.

I just checked mine, my wipe is still complete save for 2 comments I think the tool missed. Around same time, June '23 but later in the month

I mean, I guess it depends. I row often, and I don’t wanna do it in a gym, so I purchased a rower. But if I didn’t want to spend the ~$800 on a nice Concept 2 rower, a gym membership for $20/mo would give me about about 3.25 years of rowing before I hit the cost of the rower. Then I also get access to every other machine they offer, free weights, other amenities such as pool and basketball court, classes they offer, trainer access (probably not great but better than winging it). That may be valuable to you or it may not, but it’s an option. You could run on a treadmill or lift weights at home, if you purchased the items. Sure, running outside is free and you can pick up/put down stuff whenever, but weather gets in the way, and unbalanced or unwieldy weight isn’t always safe.

Home workouts can be effective and many make it work, but some people like/need the separation. Sometimes when I get home, if I sit down, I’m just not gonna get up and workout at that point. Stopping at a gym in the way home gives a clear delineation between still working physically and being done with your days work when you get home. Or if they go in the morning, I can’t row at odd hours I may want to because of neighbors (it’s not quiet). I can go to some gyms at 5am or 2am if I really wanted to, where I couldn’t currently at home.

This also fulfills the anti-prophecy of him calling himself the most peaceful president ever. He only ever presides over peaceful times.

They’re OK with it because on the surface level, it’s what they want. Any single little bit of inspection and it falls apart, but they get to call them illegals, criminals, etc and talk about how good a job Trump is doing. They get to claim a win over the Libs, and that is the height of what they want from this presidency.

Fuckin consequences of your own stupid fucking actions. Bet he’s on FB in 3 weeks complaining about how no one wants to work anymore, but he’s still trying to pay immigrant wages.

“No one wants this roofing job in the dead of Florida summer for $14/hr”

“People downvoted my opinion and I didn’t like it. Here is why I do not deserve the downvotes and the website actually just targets me and my opinions only, and how it is actually Obama and Millenials fault”

That seems like socialism, Republicans would hate that. Guns are only for people who can afford them and white people, otherwise the cops wouldn’t know who to shoot and who to give leeway to

I don’t think it was confirmed until they were starting to get liberated, was it? Like it was probably predicted they were there, but that’s a pretty tough allegation to put out there and then be wrong on, victors or not.

You’re free to make your own instance if you disagree with bans or moderation, and others are free to defederate from you if they don’t wanna see it. What exactly is the issue, that you don’t get a captive audience?

It’s a scam. I saw something on…Bluesky? Or somewhere about a political party where people can donate. It’s mission was “Cooperation” or some shit, it didn’t have any info about candidates, positions on policy, or any of that. It was just vague buzzwords. And merch, they had merch. For a Political Party with no listed representatives.

I think in your heart of hearts, you know why.