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After seeing the AQI of Omaha and Lincoln, it just makes me feel even more relieved that the fireworks are back to being illegal to light.

My little ole cow-town doesn't allow fireworks until July 3rd, but there's nobody to enforce that ordinance, so the fireworks have been going off since about June 15th. People have been lighting off their carryover from last year, ahead of the stands opening for business.

I'm not trying to come off too bitchy about others' enjoyments, but I really don't get how lighting off the same fountains and the same artillery shells can be entertaining for some. It's just that the enjoyment some people get lighting fireworks comes at the expense of our sleep schedules being disturbed... Nothing against fireworks really, it just gets old hearing the banging.

That being said though, shoutout to those of you who at least cleaned up after yourselves when the fireworks were over. YOU ROCK!

My guess is this will be the "totally not staged" sequence of events for this case, leading up to and following.

We will eventually get a of a mass shooter that the FBI or some Blue Police Department knew about for years, but didn't act on it. The media will talk about this non-stop, and it will be weeks or a month away from this case. The case will then gain notoriety if it hasn't already.

The blue team's politicians will then bitch about the case and use it as ammunition to try and bully and intimidate SCOTUS into ruling against our favor.

Once SCOTUS rules AWB's are unconstitutional, the Blue Team politicians will bitch about how SC got it wrong. They will call for court packing, and minutes after the ruling is made, the crisis actors on Bloomberg's payroll will make a sob story on the steps of the Supreme Court crying about how these "wuh wuh wuh weapons of war" belong on a "battlefield".

Unfortunately, many blue areas will probably take down their AWB's and just make a new ban in everything but name only too.

Wisconsin has reportedly finalized a deal to hire Shawn Eichorst as their new AD....

For those unfamiliar, Eichorst fired an 8-10 win coach when he was AD at Nebraska. Eichorst single handedly was the catalyst to Nebraska's struggles post 2014.

Eichorst would then go on to push for a terrible coach in Mike Riley, who would guide Nebraska to a 5 win regular season in his first year... If that wasn't bad enough, Eichorst EXTENDED Riley in a 4 win season just two years later, when that Husker team clearly had the wheels so far off the wagon, that they were in the bottom of the lake!

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! GOOD FUCKING LUCK, WISCY! THE DARK AGES ARE JUST BEGINNING FOR YOU!!!!!!!!

I can't be the only one who has noticed this, I see a lot of Vegan "influencers" who just look like the type to have smoked a pack a day for 30 years while they also claim to be "bodybuilders" or "health" influencers.

If your diet is making you look 15-20 years older than what you are, then I wouldn't be focused on pushing your views and diets onto others, you should be getting your zinc rather than acting like your diet is superior.

Because Dan did not want to share his policy positions on the 2nd Amendment beyond just "I support the 2nd Amendment" the last election cycle just to steal votes from Republicans who are 2A supporters, a townhall in Omaha exposed Dan's true views.

Dan was asked about his ideas to "fix" the "gun violence epidemic" and the gloves came off there.

Dan supports gun owners "re-registering" their guns and undergoing a psych evaluation every 5 (FIVE!) years in what he calls "pre-emptive red flag laws". Never mind the fact gun owners have to pay out of pocket for this expensive racket, since insurance won't cover this, but Dan just told potential voters that you MUST prove innocence before you can begin or continue exercising your right to bear arms.

Think of any multiplayer survival game that also has base building. There is always that one player who cannot be bothered to let the new players at least just accumulate some resources so they can stand a chance in the server world.

And what is that more experienced player gaining when they intentionally kill a newly spawned player with no armor and only a rock? Are you trying to store the rocks away like it's gold at Fort Knox? Go pick on someone your own size, friend-o. How hard is it to yield back when another player declares themselves friendly/not a threat on the chat?

I only KOS in these types of games if someone is a known griefer, but I will stop if they surrender and just want to play the game with a focus on resource building again. My code for these types of games has always been the same, don't bother me and I won't bother you.

I would much rather the newbies get their feet under them, learn the game and have some fun, I like having decently populated servers and griefing players just pushes them away....

Besides it's a lot more fun enjoying the PvP aspect of a game when players are on more level terms with you anyways! That being said, I still carry on in these types of games by not emotionally investing in a base or whatever when it is ripe for the pickings when I'm offline or AFK.

A friend of mine likes to talk trash towards me, and he thinks he's pretty clever about it. His playbook is to simply get his "punches" in, and then he quickly tries to redirect his attention elsewhere (like the bar's TV) in an effort to ignore me while I'm dishing the comeback. In some cases, he will try to "shush" me, which is pretty much his way of saying "I won".

When the ignoring happens, should I just pat him on the shoulders and just mention that he must be really giving the next comeback a lot of thought after I drop the comeback?

Anything clever that you guys can come up with for the shushing?

I remember in the early 00's and even the 2010's where most food brands would advertise "With dietary fiber" alongside advertising "reduced carbs" on their food products. It didn't seem like the fiber craze really went away in the 2010's either.

Well... looks like companies advertising added protein is "in" now for the 2020's. While protein is great and all, the food companies advertising added proteins don't really have a significant amount of protein in their foods.

Depending on the wording used, it's more than likely you're looking at foods that merely have crumbs worth of protein in them "Good source of protein" usually means 5g of protein. Not to mention it's the cereal companies that pounced on this, so you are still consuming the added sugar that most cereals are known for STILL.

If getting your protein is important to you, there are much better ways of getting it than a bowl of sugary crap. I for one will mix me a shaker bottle of whey protein if I'm in a pinch with that particular macro... at least that is much healthier and significantly more efficient than a bowl cereal.

Little backstory, I met some friends to shoot hoops at the local YMCA this morning. We were slowly getting enough players for a pick up game for another team, the other team pretty much knew each other, except for their 5th guy they seemed to not like when we talked number 5 (I'm gonna call him 5 from now on) into coming over to play.

When the game started, 5 was ignored. He'd be open and the guy who had the ball would either dish it off or find one of the others on the arch to try and splash a three. 5 would work to get open, he would YELL "I'm OPEN!" but yet they just would not dish him the ball. When I say ignored, like I really mean it, they weren't even acknowledge the dude and would rather play 4v5...

I felt bad for 5, like the times he took shots when we traded players around, he had pretty good form and he had good shot selection. He made good decisions too, but the important thing is it was just a pick up game. Who in the world cares if he took a few bad shots, or made bad decisions?

I know there's gonna be people saying "well maybe its because the other team didn't know him!"..... Everyone that I know actually is quick to dish the ball off to the new guy (hell, even the new girl), something about getting them involved in a TEAM sport, also me and everybody I know wants to get the ball into the hands of new guy to see what he CAN do!

What is wrong with people just leaving 5 out of the game?

Just a peeve of mine that stands out for me in the online dating world, because it is so low effort. The response also throws the ball in my court to carry the conversation myself. It is a bit of a head scratcher, because I'm often wondering if the woman is not interested, or just isn't a conversationalist. I get that "Hey how are you today?" is a very basic question to ask, but it takes little to no effort to respond with "I had a pretty rough day! The office is in a frenzy over some deadlines we need to meet!" or whatever. If I get consistent "Good", "Good you?", or "Nice", for a response without the other side putting in effort, then I'm moving on.

Like it just feels insanely awkward, it might as well just be a conversation with yourself at that point. I used to try and put effort into text messages with these types of women in the hopes I'd get a more thoughtful response. when I got one word "Nice" response from a woman after sharing with her that I was at a baseball game, I'd basically say something like "Yea, for sure! I was at the Rockies game, it was an extra inning thriller and the Rockies walked off the Dodgers!"

Yeaaaaa no point in carrying on. Everyone has their reason for why they are not putting in some effort. Not interested? possibly. Not a conversationalist? Could be the case. Both? Sure. If you aren't interested, just don't match with me in the first place though.

Also for the ones who are gonna say "Maybe she is that busy!" I'm working 12's a lot during the summer, and I can still find time in my busiest of moments to write up a story about what is making work so hectic for me and all I do is press buttons on a CNC machine lol.

"Excuse me" is meant to be the polite way to let me by when you are the one standing in the way of everyone and blocking to flow of foot traffic.

Nothing annoys me more than when I say "excuse me" and all I get is a stare like I just spoke Japanese in the middle of a US Super Market or any public space. EXCUSE ME MEANS TO FREAKING MOVE SO I DONT HAVE TO WAIT ON YOU!

If you want me to be a jerk after being polite, then not moving out of the way when I need to get by is a great way to accomplish that, you'll get a stern "That means get out of the way" from me. For those of you who are polite enough to get out of my way, huge thank you there! Let's grab a beer sometime :)

Oregonians,

Not only are your gun rights significantly neutered, as you are all aware, but your right to hunt, fish, trap. If you think that is bad, the ballot initiative is also going to ban animal agriculture.

It's all part of the plan, for years gun grabbers have acted like we need to respect hunters and the "hunting weapons" such as the pump shotgun and the bolt action rifle are off limits, but a total ban on hunting is going to invite a broad sweeping gun ban on all types of firearms. The reasoning is simple, "You can't hunt anymore, so now all your weapons have no legal use".

I feel bad for the Oregon residents who didn't ask for this shit. If you live in a red state, thank your lucky stars you're not being ran by a bunch of septum piercings and purple hairs.

What a joke their segments are, aren't the anchors aware we gripe about them always having to mention LeBron?

On their morning NBA segment before the NCAA Baseball Selection Show, the anchors were talking about pop culture of 1999-00. It started with the top of the Billboards with some song by Cher, then they went and mention some nerd culture by mentioning The Phantom Menace, and last but not least!?!?!...

They mention Lebron dunked it at age 14 in 1999.... You guys could've brought up anything else, like literally anything else... You could've mentioned the most popular cellphone of 1999, the most popular video game of 1999, the top selling automobile of 1999, the most viewed TV series of the time, etc.

but noooooo, we gotta remind the people that LeBron dunked it in 1999 instead!!!!

Guys, RELAX!

Nebraska is a lock to host a regional, the game last night isn't going to backslide us out of that. Yes, I'm only 80% confident about what I just said there, because the NCAA might pull some black magic out and screw us, but that is a doubt.

Look at Nebraska's resume if you still believe we will not be hosting.

About the game though, for those complaining about the B1G bottling the scheduling, that performance last night shouldn't hurt our chances to host if the selection committee gives us the benefit of the doubt.

Playing baseball into the witching hour is tough, I don't drink alcohol, and even I was struggling to function at 10am without a hangover. I was loaded on coffee and doubled up on Velo 6mg to get me to wake up, and I was still dragging ass. The baseball team likely felt the same way too. Some of y'all need to realize just how much a game that went as late as the Michigan game went can really fuck with the itinerary the players are on.

They likely had to speed run getting ready for bed, and still had to get up early-ish for breakfast and game prep walkthroughs. That is a lot tougher of a pull than playing two games in 5 hours at times when players are expected to be awake.

Nebraska is hosting a regional, but still we should all be pissed at the B1G for bottling the scheduling.

No really, congratulations!

You just made a fan out of me. The NHL playoffs compared to the NBA has been miles better. I'm loving every minute of it, and the games have been so unpredictable. I love how one game in the playoffs can be a snoozer.... until it isn't and the goals just come left and right.

That being said, I'm drawn to following the Colorado Avalanche. They're the closest team for me here in western Nebraska, and I'm already a fan of the Broncos... and the Rockies. The Rockies being ass and shit gives me the free pass to be a bandwagoner :)

I didn't even think to write this post until I heard my neighbor down the street honking. I'm assuming they're trying to get the other family members to hurry up for church.

All this accomplishes is annoying everybody else in the neighborhood. I don't want to hear your car horn when you're trying to get the wife to hurry up with her hair or whatever. Just go inside and tell them to hurry up since they clearly cannot hear the car horn inside the house.

As the title explains, I live out in BFE and I have a shop that I used to let people borrow tools from. By people I mean close family and friends only, and looking back this was a bad idea from day one of taking ownership of this shop.

At first it was a phone call "Hey man, can I borrow a 14mm deep socket from you??" sure, no problem! You're gonna bring it back, right?? like for real, you're bringing it back, right?? (insert Anakin and Padme meme here).

Yea, spoiler, the tools are never brought back unless you start breaking knuckles over the tool and ask for it back.

Then we go a little bit deeper down the iceberg, and it's no longer asking for permission to borrow tools, and now it's just the "heads up" phone call or text. Like you hardly even get the chance to say "No, I need that tool" because the person who gave you the heads up is already down the road. I've had to put my foot down and say "Hey mother fucker, I need that farm jack you walked off with, bring it back" It's an exaggeration there, I don't call people mother fuckers often, it's just a "Hey, come back with the tool!".

Then deeper down the iceberg is the missing sockets out of the set, because now people don't even bother asking! One of my pet peeves is missing items out of sets! I really, really, should've started locking up my shop, but I was nice enough to still play repo man for tools.

Well, playing repo man gets so old, so quick. 90% of the time, they loan out the tool you loaned out to them, and they won't take responsibility to get it back for you. In other words, that ratchet is no longer yours unless you REALLY want it back.

So, yea, here I sit having to shift from being "the guy" everyone asks to borrow tools from, to being the perceived jerk because everyone took advantage of my generosity. Sorry, but if anyone wants a tool, they can go to the hardware store and buy that shit themselves buy the set to make it worth the trip IMO. There is no compromises here anymore.

I've tried the whole "You can't borrow the tool, but I'll come over and use the tool to fix whatever it is you need" and all that accomplishes is people start expecting me to put down what I'm doing to help them.

I was once okay with people bringing their hunks of shit over to my shop to work on in order to avoid tools from getting walked off with, but all that accomplishes is their shitbox car taking up space in the shop for days to months.

Nowadays, whenever I get a call from someone who discovers my shop is locked up tighter than a nun's cunt, I tip them off to whichever hardware store is having good deals on tools. Ehhh hopefully that is a good way of firmly saying no, while also letting people off easy!

As an example, I'll use my co-worker, who thinks there is a right and a wrong way to enjoying MINTS.

He once saw me put an IceBreaker between my lip and my gums, and says "You're supposed to put them ON your tongue!" for the entire breakroom to hear. I just shrugged and went about stuffing my mint the way I liked it, and the guy just goes "I guess you just don't like tasting the flavor!"

uhhh.... I can taste the mint's flavoring just fine where it's at???

Different story, but I've been enjoying sunflower seeds wrong my whole life apparently! I don't eat sunflower seeds all the time, but a few years ago I was on a tear with sunflower seeds, and my BIL saw firsthand how I enjoy sunflower seeds.... one seed at a time!

My BIL chuckles and says "You're supposed to grab a mouthful and throw them in!"

I just don't like shoving mouthfuls of sunflower seeds in because I WILL chew sunflower seeds until my cheek and tongue are raw. Also I'm so paranoid I'll have to be social unexpectedly if I shove a handful of seeds in my mouth and will look like a chipmunk lol

As for how I enjoy mints especially, it's because when I quit chewing tobacco, stuffing a mint where I used to pack a chew did juuuust enough to scratch the oral fixation itch.

Look it's cool as shit if you want to have a proper verbal filter, I don't fucking care, just don't be correcting me for dropping swears, I'm 31 years old.

In a little bit of seriousness, it's actually annoying how the people against swearing are dedicated to the point that NO excuse for swearing is safe. It's been about 8 years ago, but I was at a public park playing frisbee golf with friends when I would break my foot from stepping in a badger hole that was covered in the weeds.

When the break happened my initial reaction was "OW FUCK!" and some lady no joke watched me squirm in pain only to come over and say "watch your mouth, there are little ears around!" and she stormed off to tell little Timmy not to repeat the naughty word I screamed out. Didn't even bother trying to help out, she must've thought I was faking it lol.

If I wasn't so preoccupied with being in pain, I would've told her off. IMO I'm a grown ass adult, I can say whatever I want, when I want.

Also another thing that makes the anti-swearing people unbearable is the disagreement in music. If the song just casually drops one FUCK, shit, piss, etc. in the lyrics, then the anti-swearing people expect you to change the song. Yet, they will listen to some depressing ass song, but it's okay because there is no swearing in the lyrics, but the singer is singing about how depressed they are!