John C.

Senior aged male, burned out lawyer, tyro web designer, buoyant harp player, conservative libertarian, mostly strict constructionist, and hopeful grandfather.

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@Eden__04 I was there, don't see anything that didn't exist. If it's in the blurry background then not fair. Between girl 3's legs could be a cell phone or a comb or just the pavement behind. There were all manner of tats back then, nothing dated on her. Is there ever an answer from OP?

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@SeckinerZeynep If reading it twice is supposed to suggest there are two groups of brothers, then 8.

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@Georgia_07os Aside from the obvious – one guy is in the left side of the frame and the other guy is in the right side, the guy on the left has his eye clearly open, the guy in the right doesn't; and, right guy has a darker tie.

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@Gosleepriya 3 excluding the title and assuming case sensitive.

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@Barron_trump1_1 09486

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@llixeey 95

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@0DonaldTrumpJr1 1912

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@0ivankaTrump1 5379

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@AvaBennettqk Black powder musketry.

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@sanam_514 Sorta depends how you define "hole", if broadly defined there's 16 but if you flip the shirt over you could say there's 12 more, so 28 but then if you look around from inside you might say there's 16 more, so 44.

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@0DonaldTrumpJr1 93

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@Urs__01 16

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@elonnews40 9 is the only bucket to which there's open flow from the faucet. It will not only be the first to fill but the only one to fill. This assumes further supply of water (not depicted) to the faucet, without which none of the buckets will fill.

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@DJRobRavine @elonnews40 Good eyes. Nice to see an answer with explanation. I'd use "blocked" rather than "capped" which, due to oil background, I use in context of a pipeline that was open (flowing) but has been capped (shut in). Different semantics, same result.

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... mortgages with 11% interest, and making a $400 used car get us by until the day we celebrated by making the last payment on our student loans. We were so dumb we didn't think to demand the government should cancel our loans. Yeah, X should make an effort to get seniors here.

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If this venue is all about free speech, why can people prevent other people from reading what they publish? I'm referring to blocking, not subscriptions, although I also find subscriptions obnoxious and presumptuous. Blocking followers has some logic, to distance oneself from certain people or groups one may not want to be perceived as endorsing or welcoming. But blocking followers is different from blocking readers. People might fear being criticized about what they write, but isn't criticism part of free speech? If you're a liberal (or conservative) and you can prevent all the conservatives (or all the liberals) from reading what you publish, isn't that anathema to the concept of a dialogue, an exchange of ideas, an open debate? Isn't that the goal of free speech? And yet you can have a soapbox here and make it so only people who agree with you can read what you publish. Maybe you'll be safe from somebody saying, "Hey, did you see what Bob wrote yesterday? What an idiot!" Is this supposed to be a safe place where people can find reinforcement by excluding anybody who might disagree with them? It seems dissonant to me. It cuts off pathways to discussion, negotiation, compromise, and resolution. It nourishes the divide and blocks progress. The corollary to Free Speech should be Free Listening and Reading. We should all be free to read whatever we want. Blocking unwanted personal messages is one thing. Blocking unwanted listeners (readers) is counter-productive and essentially a reverse restriction on free speech. Well, okay, maybe people wouldn't want the FBI reading what they post. Thomas Jefferson no doubt wanted freedom to speak things in secret from the British. But I think what he had in mind was being free from getting shut down, imprisoned or killed by the British. I don't think he was too worried about being criticized or even heckled by them. He probably would have welcomed it.

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... aid in getting emloyment, much less a mortgage and a home with a yard and a picket fence. Not that it matters what we sacrificed for college, maybe with help of GI Bill if survived 'Nam, living in cheap roach infested rentals, then working 12-16 hours a day to pay...

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they could unload on us 'boomers who, as is well known, are responsible for bequeathing following generations a world where getting a college degree leaves one crushed with student loan debt and maxed out credit cards, and tats and piercings that turn out to of little...

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... affairs and relevant issues. Instead of directing unproductive vitriole against contemporaries with whom they need to be engaging in rational discourse toward achievement of workable solutions

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... dose of senior intellect and wisdom, although some might call it a dose of senility. Still, we could serve as a target at which millennials and younger could vent barbed ires (didja catch that?), leaving them calmer and more capable of rational discourse about current...

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... Insurance, or something, to pay for it. There should be a senior discount, say 50% at age 65, with an additional 10% for each year past 65. Or maybe instead, if 65 or older, make that annual payment a "lifetime" blue check. I remember thinking this place could use a good ...