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Bored cops on patrol run a lot of tag numbers just hoping to get lucky. A former dispatcher told me some like to work my highway so I am careful. If one has a concealed weapons permit the info comes up when they run the tag number. That's just one of the reasons I don't get a CWP.
 
Sounds fun, @IamAllThumbs. I'm getting some projects off my plate so I can get back to recording.

Do you build the guitars from kits, or more from scratch?
 
I'm a Normal Person, not an atheist...
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Atheist- no religion addiction mental illness but may have other addictions/mental illnesses...
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Normal Person - no addictions and no mental illnesses...
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Working up a Normal Person Organization and own the websites... getting rid of addictions gets rid of the unneeded wars/mass murdering/murdering/hurting/hating they keep fueling...
I am a believer but do not use these forums to evangelize. I don't think you should use it as a soap box for atheism either. Let's be adults and give it a rest. Just saying ⋅ ⋅ ⋅
 
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Today when I lifted weights I did almost all the exercises while standing on a balance board. It's very difficult and I rarely manage to keep my balance for more than a few reps in a row (probably could keep it longer if I reduced the weight a lot) but it engages everything, not just the muscle group I'm focused on, so I try to do this once in a while.

At some point I need to swap in a pickup on one of my guitars because the old one was defective and EMG was nice enough to send me a new one. I'm new to this; gonna figure out how to neatly lift the Floyd Rose bridge out without unstringing.
 
In this country anyway you're pretty much only ever exposed to shiitakes and portobellos, sometimes to straw mushrooms in Chinese food, and that's it. And lately truffle oil, at least as a flavor.
Around here about May we look in the fields and woods for morel/sponge mushrooms... lately also been finding them next to my driveway... it's the only mushrooms most of us personally know that are safe... and free... fry them up on some beef steak...
https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/common-morel-fungus-picture-id505505411
 
Buzz isn't the only resident atheist here. I'm not going to tell other people what to think or believe. I will let people decide for themselves.
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Representing yourself without a lawyer doesn't usually go over well. Judges tend to already be prejudiced against people who don't have lawyers. There is phrase, "Only a fool represents himself". Even lawyers hire other lawyers to represent them.
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and were ordered to pay for the cost of processing the people that were brought over and sent back to Saipan.
I've also been the victim of various levels of religious terrorism. When I see people advertise evil by pictures or words, I try to counteract it... As Shan always says, "Be the change you want to see in the world"...
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There's another old saying: Judges were likely lawyers earlier and like to see their fellow lawyers make money. Judges also tend to favor lawyers like they were: prosecutors or defense... male or female... same race...
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Sub Captain lucky he wasn't made to pay for the fuel to transport those people by sub... and fuel for plane to fly them back... OUCH !!!
 
I am a believer but do not use these forums to evangelize. I don't think you should use it as a soap box for atheism ether. Let's be adults and give it a rest. Just saying ⋅ ⋅ ⋅
No such thing as "atheism"... it's just what's left of life when addictions are gone...
When I see people advertise evil by pictures or words, I try to counteract it... As Shan always says, "Be the change you want to see in the world"...
 
Cops in my area are very corrupt & do illegal things all the time. Some areas may have more oversight and not be as bad.
Cops were horrible around here a few years ago. This city had grown to 350,000 people and a 1,000 cops. By now it had been predicted to be at 500,000+... But because of mismanagement by you know which party/allowing drug abuse/ 1 1/2 murders weekly/scared fleeing residents, it has shrunk to 200,000 and can only afford 500 cops...
Well, cops aren't stupid... who was going to be the 500 cops let go? A few took early retirement. They knew any cop not getting his (unwritten) quota of tickets was going to be at the top of the list. So they were on every street corner trying to write plenty of tickets. Not able to find enough lawbreakers, they would just pull motorists over and write them a fistfull of tickets... prosecutors would go along with it and offer to tear up all the tickets except 1 or 2 if you would plead and pay for them. Eventually word got around to the point that if you told the judge they were "phony tickets", some of the judges would toss them. Nothing happened to the cops other than being let go. Judges felt sorry for them. Economy wasn't great at that time and few were hiring.
 
I've also been the victim of various levels of religious terrorism.
I almost was: remember the liquid explosives plot of 2006? 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot - Wikipedia
I was on one of those flights, leaving London. We sat on the tarmac for 5 hours. I ended up missing a concert I was supposed to see back in the US that evening, but that was better than dying in a fireball over the Atlantic in my early 20s.

Doesn't change my thoughts about religion though. I was a non-believer since birth, but sometime between about age 13 and age 17 I went from seeing religion with negative aggression, as you do Buzz, to seeing it as a neutral or positive thing that's simply "not on my menu", but still has a lot of interesting history and features. Therefore the kinds of negative messages you write about religion really remind me of stuff I said in junior high and early high school.

If you have a coherent argument to make I guess have at it, but the one-liners with random capitalized words do get really old, as does injecting it into every conversation, and I imagine it would be offputting to many forum newcomers. Glad to see we still are joined by friendly people doing cool projects (hi @RedneckGrump and @IamAllThumbs!) in spite of it.

Anyway Buzz, your question about mushrooms might have been answered by that "9 myths" video I posted earlier.
 
I'm a Normal Person, not an atheist...
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Atheist- no religion addiction mental illness but may have other addictions/mental illnesses...
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Normal Person - no addictions and no mental illnesses...
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Working up a Normal Person Organization and own the websites... getting rid of addictions gets rid of the unneeded wars/mass murdering/murdering/hurting/hating they keep fueling...
Ok, neither Iraq War was about religion. It was about the Bush Cabal / New World Order... Putin didn't attack the Ukraine because of Religion. He attacked because he's a Demon as far as I'm concerned. He's definitely not Religious. There's no Leftist politicians here that are Religious, they all bow down to Satan.
 
Hadn't heard of those... do you have a book on mushrooms... edible mushrooms?
https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/two-yellow-chantarelles-picture-id133823186
Someone told me years ago that chanterelles and a pink gilled white mushroom were safe with little chance of confusion. I once tossed a bunch of the white ones onto my lawn in hopes some spores would take hold but nothing happened. The chanterelles grow in my woods, but there's only a few in a cluster.

Just for kicks I googled "normal person".

A person whom has become, or has the natural disposition to be, adept at blending in with their surroundings by falling under social normalities.
No example can be given for a "Normal Person" because they lack the ability to be interesting and thus pertain no place in the memory.
 
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No such thing as "atheism"... it's just what's left of life when addictions are gone...
When I see people advertise evil by pictures or words, I try to counteract it... As Shan always says, "Be the change you want to see in the world"...
So you believe in God?

There's a difference in believing in God and Jesus and picking the Catholics that cherry picked the religion to accommodate their beliefs, but have no problem with the molestation of Children, and the Mormons who base their entire foundation on a dude that "Saw" God... He was probably on an equivalent of LSD.

Etc...
 
I almost was: remember the liquid explosives plot of 2006? 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot - Wikipedia
I was on one of those flights, leaving London.

Doesn't change my thoughts about religion though. I was a non-believer since birth, but sometime between about age 13 and age 17 I went from seeing religion with negative aggression, as you do Buzz, to seeing it as a neutral or positive thing that's simply "not on my menu", but still has a lot of interesting history and features. Therefore the kinds of negative messages you write about religion really remind me of stuff I said in junior high and early high school.

If you have a coherent argument to make I guess have at it, but the one-liners with random capitalized words do get really old, as does injecting it into every conversation,
Oh yeah, the reason it's hard to even take a sample size tube of toothpaste on an airliner nowadays... and they have atomic sensors that can detect explosive chemicals... I learned in chemistry class how to make explosives like PicRic Acid and TNT (TriNitroTouluene). Maybe if you had had part of your body blown off in an airliner explosion you still wouldn't feel so soft on addictions evil...
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I was forced into religion-fueled war, as was my brother, my father and uncles, grandfathers, great grandfathers, great great grandfathers, etc... I think it's time we put an end to them... and the wounding... and deaths... collateral damage... and misery... and destruction... we currently still have one going on in Ukraine(the other guy would have prevented that)... and other places...
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I have hundreds of pages of info on religions but try to keep it short, CLEAR, and simple in here for the people who fall for addictions... Also have websites... When I see evil pimped in pictures and words I counteract it... as Shan always says: "Be the change you want to see in the world"... I've always been like that...
 
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