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Fern Hollow Memories - ER - 1/29/2022 6:11:46 PM
- I enjoyed it too - Pebble - 1/30/2022 5:22:14 AM
- Good read - RobVG - 1/30/2022 1:19:36 AM

Just in case you forgot... - ER - 1/28/2022 12:40:17 AM
- GOP wants us to not judge the Nazis - RL - 1/28/2022 9:03:11 PM
  - Or Russia. Ask Hanity, Tucker. - podrock - 1/28/2022 10:36:56 PM
    - Its really about fascism... - RL - 1/29/2022 3:08:42 AM
    - Whatever the Dems are saying - ER - 1/29/2022 1:38:45 AM
- The GOP is banning books about the Holocaust to mark the occasion... - RL - 1/28/2022 12:50:23 AM
  - Appallingly predictable - Pebble - 1/28/2022 3:30:34 AM

This is the christian right.... - RL - 1/27/2022 11:52:24 PM
- Where do I start with my objections ? - Pebble - 1/28/2022 3:36:14 AM
  - There are giant monsters in our midst... - RL - 1/28/2022 3:49:13 AM
    - I wish I could disagree - Pebble - 1/28/2022 4:35:15 AM

If I was Joe Biden... - ER - 1/27/2022 3:31:30 PM
- If I were Joe Biden... - RL - 1/27/2022 8:13:36 PM
- Just to "own the cons?" - podrock - 1/27/2022 6:09:12 PM

So how will Sinema and Manchin sabotage Biden's Supreme court pick? - RL - 1/27/2022 2:41:19 AM

Coal mine fire investigated as cause of the Marshall Fire - podrock - 1/21/2022 11:10:54 PM
- More info from 9News - podrock - 1/26/2022 12:51:43 AM
- Is this similar to what 9news said ? - Pebble - 1/22/2022 6:31:47 AM
  - Yup. - podrock - 1/22/2022 12:38:02 PM
- Your work? - RL - 1/22/2022 4:15:43 AM
  - Who knows? - podrock - 1/22/2022 5:51:56 AM
  - The cult deserves to go down.... - RL - 1/22/2022 4:18:03 AM
    - Yes. - podrock - 1/22/2022 6:02:50 AM
- Access denied - Pebble - 1/22/2022 3:50:40 AM

Well, he's right, you know. - ER - 1/20/2022 9:30:47 PM
- Remember when the cowardly conservative cadre used to clutch their pearls and feign outrage when we pointed out the GOP was, down to its core, racist? - RL - 1/20/2022 11:28:02 PM
  - The intersection of all sets - ER - 1/21/2022 2:34:57 AM
- Or, as Bill Murray put it: - podrock - 1/20/2022 10:11:05 PM
  - Warren Beatty had a good idea. - RobVG - 1/22/2022 8:52:30 AM

Where does that 160 megaton eruption figure come from? - ER - 1/16/2022 4:22:12 PM
- Another estimate: >50 megatons - podrock - 1/21/2022 3:15:02 PM
- Different estimate from NASA: 10 megatons - podrock - 1/18/2022 8:02:19 PM
  - Like n/t - RobVG - 1/18/2022 8:05:34 PM
- After a bit of searching it appears megatonage isn't commonly used. - RobVG - 1/16/2022 5:41:25 PM
  - no, not by volcanologists - podrock - 1/16/2022 5:57:50 PM
    - "Like" - RobVG - 1/16/2022 6:51:03 PM
- Good question. - podrock - 1/16/2022 4:35:46 PM

Another nail in the nation's coffin - RL - 1/20/2022 2:06:58 AM
- The BBC view - Pebble - 1/20/2022 2:52:06 PM
  - I fear it will get VERY bloody... - RL - 1/20/2022 5:56:50 PM

UK politics - Pebble - 1/20/2022 6:09:58 AM

He couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery - Pebble - 1/18/2022 4:30:52 AM
- Nope, we don't have that expression here. - podrock - 1/18/2022 5:23:57 AM
  - It’s used for somebody totally incompetent…like boris. - Pebble - 1/18/2022 6:24:43 AM
    - here it'd be called a dust up - podrock - 1/19/2022 2:35:05 AM
      - Oh what fun I’ve had - Pebble - 1/19/2022 3:51:48 PM
        
        My pleasure - podrock - 1/19/2022 6:12:17 PM
      - Re: here it'd be called a dust up - Pebble - 1/19/2022 2:46:28 PM

Glenn Beck has Covid again. - RobVG - 1/17/2022 10:06:08 PM
- So now he chooses the meds at last… - Pebble - 1/18/2022 2:48:43 AM
  - But he is taking garbage, mostly. - podrock - 1/18/2022 3:09:19 AM
    - That goes without saying - Pebble - 1/18/2022 3:35:49 AM
      - Yeah, but, - podrock - 1/18/2022 3:49:13 AM
        
        Very small rocks? Leave me alone ! ;-) - Pebble - 1/18/2022 4:27:24 AM
        
        Very smaller than even a granule - podrock - 1/18/2022 5:13:36 AM
        
        Go ahead, destroy my attempt at humour why don’t you ;-) - Pebble - 1/18/2022 5:21:35 AM
- I blame the Illuminati. - podrock - 1/18/2022 12:16:00 AM
  - 100% - Pebble - 1/18/2022 5:22:16 AM

Yo, Pod. - ER - 1/15/2022 7:24:50 PM
- Smithsonian global volcano project confirms no 3rd eruption - Pebble - 1/17/2022 5:06:10 AM
- USA pressure altimeter show eruption impact - Pebble - 1/17/2022 4:41:19 AM
- Video - Pebble - 1/17/2022 2:43:20 AM
- NASA’s video of the creation of the islands - Pebble - 1/17/2022 2:09:11 AM
- Potential 3rd eruption - Pebble - 1/17/2022 1:37:07 AM
- Excellent 3d model with bathymetrics - Pebble - 1/17/2022 1:31:11 AM
  - very nice! - podrock - 1/17/2022 1:52:44 AM
- Caldera size 7km x 4.5km - Pebble - 1/17/2022 1:23:04 AM
- Iss live stream of view - Pebble - 1/17/2022 1:18:51 AM
  - About discord, Pebble. - podrock - 1/17/2022 1:49:17 AM
    - BobN please - Pebble - 1/17/2022 2:06:17 AM
- Tonga - Pebble - 1/17/2022 1:04:56 AM
- Links I have a lot let me know what you are looking for - Pebble - 1/17/2022 1:03:43 AM
- Link - Pebble - 1/17/2022 12:54:38 AM
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-60009944?fbclid=IwAR1CYFS8sk5yB77iXIz_YHNKiSTHM10MUeTwgj8xHjhvy1o62sgGN1Llxks - Pebble - 1/17/2022 12:53:10 AM
- https://twitter.com/lcgeography/status/1482284599107538944?s=12 - Pebble - 1/17/2022 12:51:19 AM
- Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano - podrock - 1/15/2022 8:04:57 PM
  - This must be the highest energy event ever captured by satellites... - RL - 1/16/2022 2:28:36 AM
    - Pretty much - podrock - 1/16/2022 3:40:39 AM
      - Lightning strike map? - RL - 1/16/2022 1:14:42 PM
        
        Here you go: - podrock - 1/16/2022 2:25:37 PM
      - We had a tsunami warning along the coast of BC - RobVG - 1/16/2022 5:34:28 AM
  - Wow - podrock - 1/16/2022 1:10:55 AM
    - Update. That picture was taken during the previous eruption the day before. - podrock - 1/16/2022 6:57:05 PM

In response to Podrock's earlier post... - ER - 1/16/2022 4:59:50 PM
- Self admitted agent of chaos - podrock - 1/16/2022 5:10:13 PM
  - Burn it down - ER - 1/16/2022 5:21:07 PM

Sedition - podrock - 1/13/2022 9:45:20 PM
- Horrific situation over there - Kirikiri - 1/15/2022 4:17:46 AM
  - I suspect some here will consider this alarmist... - RL - 1/15/2022 8:41:36 PM
    - The Need For Chaos - podrock - 1/16/2022 5:34:26 AM
    - I'm not sure I fully agree with you, - ER - 1/15/2022 9:47:31 PM
  - The world needs to pay attention. - ER - 1/15/2022 5:28:24 AM
    - I think the world has a pretty good grasp of what is happening here - RL - 1/15/2022 7:05:03 PM
- I'm only in 14 pages out of 80 some of the indictment. - podrock - 1/13/2022 10:31:55 PM
  - In 4 years the US government will be pandering and catering to these traitors - RL - 1/14/2022 6:42:21 AM
  - Timing is everything - RL - 1/14/2022 1:24:46 AM

The Second Horseman - ER - 12/6/2021 2:32:44 PM
- Cold War 2 - Sui - 12/7/2021 3:54:17 AM
  - I don't know if I have a different perspective of the Cold War, - podrock - 12/7/2021 5:00:48 PM
    - I think I do - Sui - 12/8/2021 9:33:48 AM
  - Cold War have a way of heating up unexpectedly. - ER - 12/7/2021 4:32:40 AM
    - Thank you, I will - Sui - 12/7/2021 4:40:47 AM
  - An Ambitious Topic. - podrock - 12/7/2021 4:22:45 AM
- Hope you're right about a "bluff". - RobVG - 12/6/2021 10:57:02 PM
  - The Putin Calculus - ER - 12/7/2021 4:16:39 AM
    - Still think it's saber rattling ER? - RobVG - 1/15/2022 2:53:00 AM
- Just hope nobody does anything stupid - podrock - 12/6/2021 6:59:05 PM
  - Yup - RobVG - 12/6/2021 11:00:15 PM
    - One of many stories - podrock - 12/7/2021 5:32:15 AM

Moved to Flame “Look at all of the people fighting for me!” by RL January 6, 2022 6:23 pm (n/t) - podrock - 1/11/2022 7:03:59 PM

We really need more stories like this... - RL - 1/8/2022 2:00:39 AM
- There are plenty of them - ER - 1/10/2022 3:46:29 PM

Right-Wing Dictatorship 'By 2030, If Not Sooner' - RL - 1/4/2022 7:48:28 PM
- "I don't need your war machine, I don't need your ghetto scenes." - ER - 1/6/2022 4:40:31 PM
  - Canada had institutional racism - BuckGalaxy - 1/6/2022 11:12:15 PM
    - Yeah, you stole their land. - ER - 1/7/2022 12:10:12 AM

Is that a solution I see before me - Pebble - 1/4/2022 4:32:30 AM

Every day is January 6th - RL - 1/1/2022 10:47:21 PM
- Remind me … - Kirikiri - 1/2/2022 2:29:24 AM
  - January 6th was the American conservatives attempting to stage a coup - RL - 1/2/2022 3:45:01 AM
    - Yes, I know the extent of it - Kirikiri - 1/2/2022 4:41:29 AM
    - This is how bad it is getting... - RL - 1/2/2022 4:09:33 AM

2022 - Raoul - 1/1/2022 8:36:34 AM
- Good to see you! - RL - 1/1/2022 11:44:54 PM

Betty White has left the building - RL - 1/1/2022 12:27:40 AM
- Let’s hope it doesn’t set the pattern for 2022 - Kirikiri - 1/1/2022 2:39:38 AM

Just watched "Don't Look Up" - podrock - 12/28/2021 4:16:13 AM
- Watched it last night. - RobVG - 12/30/2021 5:58:39 PM
  - And sharks with lasers. - podrock - 12/31/2021 6:40:07 AM
  - Watched it too - Kirikiri - 12/31/2021 2:08:10 AM
    - Good thing - podrock - 12/31/2021 6:42:15 AM
      - With my mood right now - Kirikiri - 12/31/2021 9:37:41 AM
- Not to be confused with this - Kirikiri - 12/28/2021 12:37:09 PM
- The Trailer: - podrock - 12/28/2021 4:16:33 AM

How apt - Pebble - 12/25/2021 4:29:19 PM
- You can't have a ding without the dong... - RL - 12/25/2021 4:46:25 PM
  - Falls on floor laughing - Kirikiri - 12/25/2021 4:48:36 PM

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