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California returns beachfront property taken from Black couple in 1920s
Board unanimously agrees to complete transfer of parcels in area once known as Bruce’s Beach, which was a resort for Black Americans
www.theguardian.com
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Nazi-Looted Painting Returned to 101-Year-Old Dutch Woman
Over 75 years ago, Germans stole 'Portrait of Steven Wolters' from Charlotte Bischoff van Heemskerck’s father
www.smithsonianmag.com
You know, I really do wish that there was an androgynous version of puberty. I myself would have certainly preferred it to both the male and the female kinds, no doubt.
One actually can be MtFtM pseudo-trans. It's when a male transitions to female and then transitions back to male. Sometimes people really aren't sure of what exactly they are:
Transgender lawyer has gender re-assignment surgery for THIRD time
Samantha Kane, from west London, said she 'had no choice' but to transition back to a woman again, following two previous sex changes. She had been living as Charles for 13 years.
You know, I really do wish that there was an androgynous version of puberty. I myself would have certainly preferred it to both the male and the female kinds, no doubt.
One actually can be MtFtM pseudo-trans. It's when a male transitions to female and then transitions back to male. Sometimes people really aren't sure of what exactly they are:
Transgender lawyer has gender re-assignment surgery for THIRD time
Samantha Kane, from west London, said she 'had no choice' but to transition back to a woman again, following two previous sex changes. She had been living as Charles for 13 years.www.dailymail.co.uk
This is a photo of this person after they transitioned back to male (and before they once again transitioned to female):
They look about right for a MtFtM person.
So, basically, testosterone replacement therapy transforms the guys on the right to the guys on the left
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A centenarian drunk driver:
www.dailystar.co.uk
Man, 100, is UK's oldest drink driver as five over 90s caught since 2017
Data obtained by vehicle leasing firm Select Car Leasing showed how four times as many men have had their records endorsed for alcohol-related motoring offences as women in the past five years
www.dailystar.co.uk
bintananth
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If someone that age still has a drivers licence in the US the cops probably wouldn't give a shit what their BAC is because they probably learned how drive before cars had even the most rudimentary of safety features.A centenarian drunk driver:
Man, 100, is UK's oldest drink driver as five over 90s caught since 2017
Data obtained by vehicle leasing firm Select Car Leasing showed how four times as many men have had their records endorsed for alcohol-related motoring offences as women in the past five years
Actually, I suspect that they would care about their BAC because a drunk driver is a dangerous driver regardless of their age.
bintananth
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A sober driver would have problems trying to get a pre-WWII car that doesn't have an key-turned ignition circuit even started and out of "park". Starting a pull-start lanwnmower is easy compared to that.
Simonbob
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I know somebody who's seriously into old cars, up to and including pre-WW1.
Very interesting to start, with nothing like the standardisation we're so used to now. One car I helped to start has a crank starter, an external hand break, and throttle lever on the steering wheel. You move the lever to the right position for engine starting amounts of fuel, then crank until it starts, or you screw the timing and it kicks you. And, if you don't watch the breaks, it can roll when you don't want it to.
Can be a little scary. Harder to drive, too.
bintananth
behind a desk
Messing up that start sequence could lead to the "kicks you" part of it breaking one or both of someone's arms and a 911 call for an ambulance.
EDIT: The 12V lead-acid battery is an amazing invention. The $180 battery I bought around Feb 1 to replace a dead one is probably worth more than the scrap value of the '99 car I placed it in.
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Simonbob
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bintananth
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The "I need emergency services right fucking now" number varies by country:I'm an Australian!
That means a 000 call.
EDIT: The US has the added bonus of non-emergency publicly listed numbers for dispatch to handle situations when you do need a first responder and it's not an immediate emergency. That came in handy when someone sideswiped my parked car and a neighbour's parked car - jamming them together - in the middle of the night.
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So apparently John Hinckley Jr, the mentally ill man who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan back in 1981 in an attempt to get the actress Jodie Foster to fall in love with him. Instead he just injured both the President, as well as Press Secretary James Brady, Police Officer Thomas Delahanty and Secret Service Agent Tim McCarthy (notable for being, AFAIK, the only Secret Service Agent to literally take a bullet for the President)) was released from the mental health incarceration he had been confined to since the crime back in the Summer of 2020.
Apparently since his release and the gradual removal of conditions he had to meet since his release, he has decided to pursue his musical career again and this includes him having a website, a YouTube Channel and a Twitter account with over forty thousand followers. He's also looking to form a band.
Note the lack of stance on Political Assassination.
He tried to do a (sold out) concert last month but apparently it was cancelled... likely because it's John Hinckley.
Apparently since his release and the gradual removal of conditions he had to meet since his release, he has decided to pursue his musical career again and this includes him having a website, a YouTube Channel and a Twitter account with over forty thousand followers. He's also looking to form a band.
Note the lack of stance on Political Assassination.
He tried to do a (sold out) concert last month but apparently it was cancelled... likely because it's John Hinckley.
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Basically, women are starting to wake up to the fact that being an Only Fans "model"/e-whore is having consequences for their lives (e.g. jobs, dating, et cetera), while others are still calling others (read: men) who have issues with their "profession" (when it comes to associating with them e.g. dating prospects) "insecure" and "controlling"... despite crying that they're not finding any men that want to seriously settle with them (read: using them for casual fun, pumping and dumping and ghosting, et cetera).
sigh These women! No, we just don't want to seriously date or marry whores. Any man with any shred of self-respect doesn't want to marry or settle down with a sex worker -- we certainly wouldn't want them to be the mother of our kids.
"But, but that means you're an 'incel' or a religious nut!"
Again, no.
While I no doubt believe that some men have religious objections, most others (read: atheists and more liberal Christian denominations) wouldn't care if a woman they're seriously interested in had a 'few' (and I stress few) hookups or relationships in the past. That "no hymen, no diamond" shit going around? Yeah, that is shit that no-one except a fringe few subscribe to.
There is, however, a vast difference between the above and what is basically a sex worker, or a woman that gets railed by twenty different blokes a month all the way through her teens/twenties for fun (e.g. being an unpaid sex worker).
They can shriek their little, dyed-haired heads off all they want at calling it sexist/misogynist or whatever, but it doesn't change reality -- being a sex worker or an unpaid whore gives you a reputation, a stigma. It'll affect your life going forwards with how people perceive and interact with you.
Accountability and consequences. A modern woman's kryptonite.
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In order to experience love one has to have courage.
Love intimacy it requires opening yourself up to others it requires vulnerability its also a lot of hard work and requires restraint and pacience. A true lasting love is not found in wurl wind affairs, its found in a mutual day to day struggle.
The reason why your wife is happy with you is because she has the courage to love, cherish her the world is full of cowardly hearts.
Unfortunately, that doesn't work in the modern day.
Being the nice guy simp/"best friend" doesn't work 99% of the time, and when it does? It's because they're approaching the Big Three-Oh. That's when they want to settle with the guy they wouldn't have even looked at in their teens/twenties.
Zach, I'm begging you bro for your own mental health: don't be a simp/nice guy. Lose that way of thinking. It doesn't apply in the modern day, and it'll draw you down a cold, miserable road.
Edit: not to say your wife is like that, I'm glad you've met a rare unicorn, but still lose that way of thinking outside of her/on other relationship dynamics. It ain't gonna end well.