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2023.04.01 11:19 M4xiiii summer car up to $25k - classic cruiser maybe?
the family car is slowly falling apart and I would like something new.
Id like something you dont see every day, something a little special.
budget: max. $25k (if thats realistic)
body style: I think I prefer 2 doors, coupe or convertible (4 doors are not generally out of question)
driving: not a daily, more like a good weather car, so fuel economy isnt important
big no's: EV, Hybrid, SUV
my ideas: 60s cars like a Cadillac Coupe Deville (cruisers), maybe japanese imports like a R32 skyline (or maybe even as small as kei cars), not a big fan of trucks but the Ram SRT-10 is a favorite too
I know my ideas are kinda random, but Id welcome suggestions / ideas.
I will also be honest and say that I cant work on the car on my own, a mechanic will take part of everything.
have a nice day everyone.
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Id like something you dont see every day, something a little special.
budget: max. $25k (if thats realistic)
body style: I think I prefer 2 doors, coupe or convertible (4 doors are not generally out of question)
driving: not a daily, more like a good weather car, so fuel economy isnt important
big no's: EV, Hybrid, SUV
my ideas: 60s cars like a Cadillac Coupe Deville (cruisers), maybe japanese imports like a R32 skyline (or maybe even as small as kei cars), not a big fan of trucks but the Ram SRT-10 is a favorite too
I know my ideas are kinda random, but Id welcome suggestions / ideas.
I will also be honest and say that I cant work on the car on my own, a mechanic will take part of everything.
have a nice day everyone.
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2023.04.01 10:38 AuroraStarM ETH military economist Marcus Keupp: Russia will have lost the war in October
Long interview with ETH military economist Marcus Keupp by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ). Source: https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/marcus-keupp-deswegen-sage-ich-russland-wird-den-krieg-im-oktober-verloren-haben-ld.1731488 Translated with deepl.com
Mr. Keupp, how would you describe the current war situation in Ukraine? What is the situation in the embattled Bachmut?
We are now on day 386 of the three-day "special operation" by Russian forces. Seriously, we see since January in the Donbass probably the last Russian initiative that is still possible in this war. This initiative is doomed to fail because the Russians are gradually running out of material and people. Moreover, the situation around Bachmut has no strategic significance for the course of the front as a whole. Ukraine is just now finishing training its tank crews in Germany and Poland. This means that we can expect a Ukrainian counteroffensive with Western tanks in mid-April.
What will this look like?
Ukraine will probably advance from Zaporizhia via Melitopol to the Black Sea coast, splitting the front in two. With a swing to the west, they could then encircle the Russian formations between Melitopol and Nova Kakhovka. Furthermore, they could then place Himars missile systems on the coast, thus putting the military installations in Crimea under fire as well as disrupting logistics. That will then be the moment when Russian defeat becomes apparent. That is my forecast. That is why I also said: Russia will have lost the war militarily in October. The military situation will be comparable to 1944, when the European war was lost for the Axis powers.
You rely mainly on figures: They say that up to 600 Russian soldiers are killed per day. Every day the Russians lost 5 tanks and 6 armored personnel carriers. Where did you get these figures?
Let me give you the example of tanks. There are good estimates. One is from the Swedish defense agency FOI. The other is the estimate from the IISS in London. These institutes come up with about 2900 operational Russian battle tanks. Now you have to counter that with the loss rate. For that, I'll take the Oryx blog. Here we are today at 1845 tanks lost by Russia - about 5 per day of war. So the remaining reserve of 1055 is enough for a maximum of 211 days of war. And this does not even include the technology effect - Russia is mobilizing older and older tanks, while Ukraine is receiving modern Western systems.
And where does the Oryx data come from?
Oryx is a collective that analyzes Russian losses. It is the best source of data on Russian losses that exists anywhere. There are various people behind it who sit and count in Poland and Turkey. This source is probably still conservative because it only counts what is actually proven in picture or video geolocated.
And suppose Russia has more reserves after all?
What can the Russians have left? They have the myth of an alleged wonder weapon: the Armata T-14 main battle tank, which we have not seen on the battlefield until today. In the spring offensive, we will see images of Western Leopard-2 and Challenger-2 tanks, which can shoot much farther than Russian tanks and therefore eliminate them from a distance. When you add up the technology boost to the Ukrainians as well as the Russian loss rate and depleting resources, there is really no other conceivable course than a Russian defeat.
You believe that Russia will not use nuclear weapons. How can you be sure about this?
Nuclear weapons are a psychological weapon that Putin uses deliberately. Especially in Germany, it has an effect. Just mentioning it creates this typical German fear discourse. I don't need to explain to you that a nuclear war cannot be won. Any nuclear use immediately leads to escalation, even in conventional terms. Putin can have no interest in that.
Nevertheless, the war is characterized by many imponderables: Weather, morale of the soldiers, material, not least also political decisions. Don't you have any doubts?
You can verify these figures. There is a large open-source intelligence community, of which I am a member, that gets satellite images, for example, or asks other people what has been observed on the ground. We have imagery from the population and data from subject matter experts. War analytics has changed radically. Previously, we had military experts who claimed something. Or we had formulas or theoretical models that were used to calculate something. Today, you see almost in real time what's happening on the front lines. This war is the best documented war in all of human history, not least because of social networks.
How transparent can figures on Russian reserves be?
There are all kinds of propaganda figures floating around: 12,000 to 15,000 operational Russian tanks. I have looked at this and come up with a figure of about 3,000 operational tanks at the time of the 2022 invasion. There can't be more than that. After all, why would the Russians reactivate ancient equipment like T-62s and T-55s now when they have much better tanks in their garage? It makes no sense.
Would China be able to upgrade Russia in the short term?
How would that work? The war material would have to be transported to the front by train. Just for a Russian fire frequency of 50,000 artillery shells per day along the entire front - as in the summer of 2022 - you would need a freight train of 1600 tons per day via Trans-Siberian Railway. Not only would that be logistically very difficult, you would see those trains immediately on satellite photos and then impose secondary sanctions on China.
And yet we are always surprised, not least we were after the Russian invasion began. When was the last time you were in Ukraine and saw the situation on the ground?
I have been studying Russia, the Russian army, the arms industry there, and the Northeast Passage in particular since 2012, and I also published a book on this in 2015. Since then, I have refrained from traveling to Russia because it was clear to me since the invasion of the Donbass in the summer of 2014 that the Putin regime no longer has any regard for law and order.
Do you speak Russian?
I speak a little Russian for everyday use, but I certainly wouldn't call myself an expert on Eastern Europe or Russia. There are others who know much more about civil society than I do. I am primarily concerned with an economic and military classification of the situation.
If your forecasts are correct, then the Russians should also be aware of the impending defeat. Why do they continue the war anyway? Are they guided by an irrational belief in victory?
Putin has unleashed dynamics that he can no longer control. It is very important in Russian social culture to show strength to the outside world. Otherwise, they are quickly questioned. What Putin is doing in the war actually has nothing to do with the war at all, but with securing his internal system of rule.
How can you rule out that the special forces financed by oligarchs will continue their wars with or without Putin and destabilize the region? So there would be no end to the war as you predict, let alone an orderly withdrawal.
I can't rule that out, on the contrary. After all, there is not only the Wagner force. There is still the Slavonian Corps - from which Wagner emerged - and Patriot - the private force of Shoigu. Gazprom has also just created its own private army "Staf-Zentr". In addition, there are four or five others. It is no coincidence that air defense systems are currently being installed everywhere in Moscow. This is preparation for internal conflicts.
What scenarios are you thinking of?
Russian oligarchs or military leaders could well come up with the idea of knocking Putin out with a few targeted ballistic missiles and taking power themselves. But: if Putin wants to prevent that, he would have to withdraw Russian troops from Ukraine in order to secure the internal stability of his regime by force. Even so, the end of the war could come sooner than expected. So it is not a contradiction.
The Russian side likes to be said to be impenetrable. Does this give the Russians a strategic advantage?
On the propaganda front, it gives them a massive advantage. They falsify statistics, tell fairy tales. Russia has done that very successfully for twenty years now. Someone like me who soberly notes that is now perceived as an exotic or a speculator. From this you can see how deeply Russian propaganda has seeped into Europe.
If the propaganda supposedly catches on so well, could it not also be that politicians in the West are losing patience, seeking an early peace, and thus thwarting your military scenario of a Russian defeat?
The military situation documents a brutal, objective reality that does not submit to political discourse. The balance of power is negotiated on the battlefield. The result is measured in destroyed systems and dead people. It sounds cruel, but that's how it is. It does not depend on the Germans or the French, at least in the political sense. Both Scholz and Macron come from a long tradition of friendship with Russia, even though both states now support Ukraine with weapons. I don't even listen to the political discourse anymore. What counts for me are the objective facts. And I observe them in the actual fight. There is no evidence at all that the military support of the West would diminish, even if the appeasers are disproportionately received in the media.
In this conversation, you give the impression that Europe is very Russia-friendly. But it's the other way around: large majorities in the West are behind Ukraine.
Not yet in Germany and France. But one should not overestimate that, because Germany is not a militarily decisive power. On the contrary. Germany would do best to hand over its weapons systems in full to Ukraine. Then Russian aggression would be neutralized in reverse, and today's ailing Bundeswehr could be turned into an army for the 21st century. Fortunately, Europe's security does not depend on Germany, otherwise we would have long been part of the neo-Russian empire.
Do you see yourself as an outsider in Germany?
Fortunately, I can say that I have not spent most of my adult life in Germany and am therefore immune to the strangely emotional discussion culture there. I am alternately called a hyper-realist and a Nato warmonger. I can live with that. I think in twenty years we will look back with horror at some German politicians and the Schröder and Merkel governments. We will shudder with pleasure and say, "Thank goodness that turned out well.
What do you mean exactly?
Just think what would have happened if the war hadn't come for another ten years: even more Russian money in Europe, Nord Stream 2 completed, Germany getting 70 percent of its energy from Russia. Would the Germans still have supported Ukraine then? It sounds cynical, but fortunately this war is taking place now.
On February 24, the Russian invasion of Ukraine started. Former German Brigadier General Erich Vad said on TV that Putin would win this war, that the thing would last "a few days and no more." Ex-US General Ben Hodges predicted the war would end in the summer of 2022. What did you think when you heard that?
I assume that quite a few members of the former political and military elites in Germany have worked for Russian interests or are still lobbying for them. This will be a very interesting topic for the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, because economic or propagandistic support of war crimes is also punishable. When a German officer retires, he no longer has a duty of so-called good conduct. He may then criticize the government, he may criticize the Bundeswehr, he may make forecasts and value judgments. But the oath he takes to the Federal Republic is for life.
Are you also annoyed by these colleagues because they damage the reputation of your discipline?
I'm annoyed because - consciously or out of naiveté - they spread the Kremlin's narratives and allow themselves to be guided by emotional moods instead of being guided by historical and military facts. There are quite reasonable military experts, for example Markus Reisner or Gustav Gressel in Austria, who see the course of the war more conservatively or pessimistically than I do. I can live with that. History judges us. Let us see in October whether what I have said is true. Let them look at me in ten years, with historical distance.
Does the thought that the war might not be ready in the fall make you nervous? Then your expertise, your calculation system would have failed.
No, because I don't believe in the Russian propaganda narrative. I look at: What does Russia really look like? Don't go to Moscow, go to Smolensk or to Pskov. That will tell you a lot about Russian reality. If you have seen these places, you will no longer believe in Russian strength.
In your interviews you give journalists and the public exactly what they want to hear: The war will end soon, the Ukrainians will be victorious, the Russians will leave. This scenario is seductive because it corresponds to our wishes. How do you immunize yourself against wishful thinking?
I'm not so sure that anyone and everyone really wishes for this outcome. But I have constantly adjusted my assessment to the situation. And I always ask myself the same question: Is what I'm saying still true? I was not as optimistic as I am now at the beginning of this war. As recently as the summer of 2022, I said: Ukraine is successfully resisting the invasion, but it is far too early to claim that it could win. One must remain critical of oneself. I strive to spend several hours every day reading and analyzing material. I have a reputation to lose as a scientist.
Exactly. You are a military economist at ETH, you train Swiss officers. Why do you risk your reputation with risky forecasts?
We have a historic hour in which you cannot stand aside. Either you oppose this regime or you become a collaborator of it. I asked myself in February 2022: Are you going to say something or are you not going to say anything? And I made up my mind then: I will not tolerate that this empire continues to project its power to the West, to the Caucasus, to Central Asia, and that might should rule over right again. I will use my analytical skills to accompany this war as objectively and fact-based as possible. And that means, in particular, addressing the Kremlin's imperialist policy, because it is ultimately aimed against the West. You don't do that without danger.
Military expert and artist
Marcus Matthias Keupp has been teaching at the Military Academy of the ETH Zurich, the training center for professional officers of the Swiss Army, since 2013. After graduating from high school, he did his civilian service and studied business administration at the University of Mannheim from 1997 to 2003, with a year abroad at the University of Warwick in England. From 2004, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Technology Management at the University of St. Gallen. In addition to his professional activities, Keupp is artistically involved with graphics, visual poetry and modular systems.
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"That's why I say Russia will have lost the war in October".
ETH military economist Marcus Keupp believes he can calculate the end of the Ukraine war. He spreads this prophecy in the media. Is such a forecast serious, and why is a scientist risking his reputation?Mr. Keupp, how would you describe the current war situation in Ukraine? What is the situation in the embattled Bachmut?
We are now on day 386 of the three-day "special operation" by Russian forces. Seriously, we see since January in the Donbass probably the last Russian initiative that is still possible in this war. This initiative is doomed to fail because the Russians are gradually running out of material and people. Moreover, the situation around Bachmut has no strategic significance for the course of the front as a whole. Ukraine is just now finishing training its tank crews in Germany and Poland. This means that we can expect a Ukrainian counteroffensive with Western tanks in mid-April.
What will this look like?
Ukraine will probably advance from Zaporizhia via Melitopol to the Black Sea coast, splitting the front in two. With a swing to the west, they could then encircle the Russian formations between Melitopol and Nova Kakhovka. Furthermore, they could then place Himars missile systems on the coast, thus putting the military installations in Crimea under fire as well as disrupting logistics. That will then be the moment when Russian defeat becomes apparent. That is my forecast. That is why I also said: Russia will have lost the war militarily in October. The military situation will be comparable to 1944, when the European war was lost for the Axis powers.
You rely mainly on figures: They say that up to 600 Russian soldiers are killed per day. Every day the Russians lost 5 tanks and 6 armored personnel carriers. Where did you get these figures?
Let me give you the example of tanks. There are good estimates. One is from the Swedish defense agency FOI. The other is the estimate from the IISS in London. These institutes come up with about 2900 operational Russian battle tanks. Now you have to counter that with the loss rate. For that, I'll take the Oryx blog. Here we are today at 1845 tanks lost by Russia - about 5 per day of war. So the remaining reserve of 1055 is enough for a maximum of 211 days of war. And this does not even include the technology effect - Russia is mobilizing older and older tanks, while Ukraine is receiving modern Western systems.
And where does the Oryx data come from?
Oryx is a collective that analyzes Russian losses. It is the best source of data on Russian losses that exists anywhere. There are various people behind it who sit and count in Poland and Turkey. This source is probably still conservative because it only counts what is actually proven in picture or video geolocated.
And suppose Russia has more reserves after all?
What can the Russians have left? They have the myth of an alleged wonder weapon: the Armata T-14 main battle tank, which we have not seen on the battlefield until today. In the spring offensive, we will see images of Western Leopard-2 and Challenger-2 tanks, which can shoot much farther than Russian tanks and therefore eliminate them from a distance. When you add up the technology boost to the Ukrainians as well as the Russian loss rate and depleting resources, there is really no other conceivable course than a Russian defeat.
You believe that Russia will not use nuclear weapons. How can you be sure about this?
Nuclear weapons are a psychological weapon that Putin uses deliberately. Especially in Germany, it has an effect. Just mentioning it creates this typical German fear discourse. I don't need to explain to you that a nuclear war cannot be won. Any nuclear use immediately leads to escalation, even in conventional terms. Putin can have no interest in that.
Nevertheless, the war is characterized by many imponderables: Weather, morale of the soldiers, material, not least also political decisions. Don't you have any doubts?
You can verify these figures. There is a large open-source intelligence community, of which I am a member, that gets satellite images, for example, or asks other people what has been observed on the ground. We have imagery from the population and data from subject matter experts. War analytics has changed radically. Previously, we had military experts who claimed something. Or we had formulas or theoretical models that were used to calculate something. Today, you see almost in real time what's happening on the front lines. This war is the best documented war in all of human history, not least because of social networks.
How transparent can figures on Russian reserves be?
There are all kinds of propaganda figures floating around: 12,000 to 15,000 operational Russian tanks. I have looked at this and come up with a figure of about 3,000 operational tanks at the time of the 2022 invasion. There can't be more than that. After all, why would the Russians reactivate ancient equipment like T-62s and T-55s now when they have much better tanks in their garage? It makes no sense.
Would China be able to upgrade Russia in the short term?
How would that work? The war material would have to be transported to the front by train. Just for a Russian fire frequency of 50,000 artillery shells per day along the entire front - as in the summer of 2022 - you would need a freight train of 1600 tons per day via Trans-Siberian Railway. Not only would that be logistically very difficult, you would see those trains immediately on satellite photos and then impose secondary sanctions on China.
And yet we are always surprised, not least we were after the Russian invasion began. When was the last time you were in Ukraine and saw the situation on the ground?
I have been studying Russia, the Russian army, the arms industry there, and the Northeast Passage in particular since 2012, and I also published a book on this in 2015. Since then, I have refrained from traveling to Russia because it was clear to me since the invasion of the Donbass in the summer of 2014 that the Putin regime no longer has any regard for law and order.
Do you speak Russian?
I speak a little Russian for everyday use, but I certainly wouldn't call myself an expert on Eastern Europe or Russia. There are others who know much more about civil society than I do. I am primarily concerned with an economic and military classification of the situation.
If your forecasts are correct, then the Russians should also be aware of the impending defeat. Why do they continue the war anyway? Are they guided by an irrational belief in victory?
Putin has unleashed dynamics that he can no longer control. It is very important in Russian social culture to show strength to the outside world. Otherwise, they are quickly questioned. What Putin is doing in the war actually has nothing to do with the war at all, but with securing his internal system of rule.
How can you rule out that the special forces financed by oligarchs will continue their wars with or without Putin and destabilize the region? So there would be no end to the war as you predict, let alone an orderly withdrawal.
I can't rule that out, on the contrary. After all, there is not only the Wagner force. There is still the Slavonian Corps - from which Wagner emerged - and Patriot - the private force of Shoigu. Gazprom has also just created its own private army "Staf-Zentr". In addition, there are four or five others. It is no coincidence that air defense systems are currently being installed everywhere in Moscow. This is preparation for internal conflicts.
What scenarios are you thinking of?
Russian oligarchs or military leaders could well come up with the idea of knocking Putin out with a few targeted ballistic missiles and taking power themselves. But: if Putin wants to prevent that, he would have to withdraw Russian troops from Ukraine in order to secure the internal stability of his regime by force. Even so, the end of the war could come sooner than expected. So it is not a contradiction.
The Russian side likes to be said to be impenetrable. Does this give the Russians a strategic advantage?
On the propaganda front, it gives them a massive advantage. They falsify statistics, tell fairy tales. Russia has done that very successfully for twenty years now. Someone like me who soberly notes that is now perceived as an exotic or a speculator. From this you can see how deeply Russian propaganda has seeped into Europe.
If the propaganda supposedly catches on so well, could it not also be that politicians in the West are losing patience, seeking an early peace, and thus thwarting your military scenario of a Russian defeat?
The military situation documents a brutal, objective reality that does not submit to political discourse. The balance of power is negotiated on the battlefield. The result is measured in destroyed systems and dead people. It sounds cruel, but that's how it is. It does not depend on the Germans or the French, at least in the political sense. Both Scholz and Macron come from a long tradition of friendship with Russia, even though both states now support Ukraine with weapons. I don't even listen to the political discourse anymore. What counts for me are the objective facts. And I observe them in the actual fight. There is no evidence at all that the military support of the West would diminish, even if the appeasers are disproportionately received in the media.
In this conversation, you give the impression that Europe is very Russia-friendly. But it's the other way around: large majorities in the West are behind Ukraine.
Not yet in Germany and France. But one should not overestimate that, because Germany is not a militarily decisive power. On the contrary. Germany would do best to hand over its weapons systems in full to Ukraine. Then Russian aggression would be neutralized in reverse, and today's ailing Bundeswehr could be turned into an army for the 21st century. Fortunately, Europe's security does not depend on Germany, otherwise we would have long been part of the neo-Russian empire.
Do you see yourself as an outsider in Germany?
Fortunately, I can say that I have not spent most of my adult life in Germany and am therefore immune to the strangely emotional discussion culture there. I am alternately called a hyper-realist and a Nato warmonger. I can live with that. I think in twenty years we will look back with horror at some German politicians and the Schröder and Merkel governments. We will shudder with pleasure and say, "Thank goodness that turned out well.
What do you mean exactly?
Just think what would have happened if the war hadn't come for another ten years: even more Russian money in Europe, Nord Stream 2 completed, Germany getting 70 percent of its energy from Russia. Would the Germans still have supported Ukraine then? It sounds cynical, but fortunately this war is taking place now.
On February 24, the Russian invasion of Ukraine started. Former German Brigadier General Erich Vad said on TV that Putin would win this war, that the thing would last "a few days and no more." Ex-US General Ben Hodges predicted the war would end in the summer of 2022. What did you think when you heard that?
I assume that quite a few members of the former political and military elites in Germany have worked for Russian interests or are still lobbying for them. This will be a very interesting topic for the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, because economic or propagandistic support of war crimes is also punishable. When a German officer retires, he no longer has a duty of so-called good conduct. He may then criticize the government, he may criticize the Bundeswehr, he may make forecasts and value judgments. But the oath he takes to the Federal Republic is for life.
Are you also annoyed by these colleagues because they damage the reputation of your discipline?
I'm annoyed because - consciously or out of naiveté - they spread the Kremlin's narratives and allow themselves to be guided by emotional moods instead of being guided by historical and military facts. There are quite reasonable military experts, for example Markus Reisner or Gustav Gressel in Austria, who see the course of the war more conservatively or pessimistically than I do. I can live with that. History judges us. Let us see in October whether what I have said is true. Let them look at me in ten years, with historical distance.
Does the thought that the war might not be ready in the fall make you nervous? Then your expertise, your calculation system would have failed.
No, because I don't believe in the Russian propaganda narrative. I look at: What does Russia really look like? Don't go to Moscow, go to Smolensk or to Pskov. That will tell you a lot about Russian reality. If you have seen these places, you will no longer believe in Russian strength.
In your interviews you give journalists and the public exactly what they want to hear: The war will end soon, the Ukrainians will be victorious, the Russians will leave. This scenario is seductive because it corresponds to our wishes. How do you immunize yourself against wishful thinking?
I'm not so sure that anyone and everyone really wishes for this outcome. But I have constantly adjusted my assessment to the situation. And I always ask myself the same question: Is what I'm saying still true? I was not as optimistic as I am now at the beginning of this war. As recently as the summer of 2022, I said: Ukraine is successfully resisting the invasion, but it is far too early to claim that it could win. One must remain critical of oneself. I strive to spend several hours every day reading and analyzing material. I have a reputation to lose as a scientist.
Exactly. You are a military economist at ETH, you train Swiss officers. Why do you risk your reputation with risky forecasts?
We have a historic hour in which you cannot stand aside. Either you oppose this regime or you become a collaborator of it. I asked myself in February 2022: Are you going to say something or are you not going to say anything? And I made up my mind then: I will not tolerate that this empire continues to project its power to the West, to the Caucasus, to Central Asia, and that might should rule over right again. I will use my analytical skills to accompany this war as objectively and fact-based as possible. And that means, in particular, addressing the Kremlin's imperialist policy, because it is ultimately aimed against the West. You don't do that without danger.
Military expert and artist
Marcus Matthias Keupp has been teaching at the Military Academy of the ETH Zurich, the training center for professional officers of the Swiss Army, since 2013. After graduating from high school, he did his civilian service and studied business administration at the University of Mannheim from 1997 to 2003, with a year abroad at the University of Warwick in England. From 2004, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Technology Management at the University of St. Gallen. In addition to his professional activities, Keupp is artistically involved with graphics, visual poetry and modular systems.
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2023.04.01 08:42 Putrid-Composer8308 MY UFO experience in 2007
I've been active off and on Reddit for about the past decade, and I've been sitting on this since 2007. I went to an "alternative" high school - I almost dropped out, so I was offered the chance to make up credits by going to a wilderness program where we tended to chickens and a garden, and went on an annual 10-day camping trip. In 2007, we went to the Sierra Nevada mountains. Like most who share their stories, I feel stupid and skeptical to even recount it, but I've had aliens on the brain lately, I've been into the creepy and occult since I was a kid.
Incident 1: I can't recall exactly what time of year it was, but it must've been just before summer break, let's say it was around May or June. On one of the first nights, we stood around a campfire at night and reflected on the trip so far, and I believe I was one of the only - if not the only person who caught what happened. We were in a valley next to a small river, surrounded by mountains. One of the mountains to the west of the campsite completely lit up with blue light, as if a blue studio light large enough to light the entire mountainside flashed for a second. There was no rain, lightning, or a storm, the weather was fairly sunny and clear at that point.
Incident 2: Nearing the end of the trip, we'd moved to another area to camp for the evening, and everyone was laid out in their sleeping bags. I've never been a good sleeper, chronic insomnia since childhood, so I laid in silence while most others snoozed, staring up at the clear, star-filled sky. I noticed the starry sky being blacked out by something that looked about the size of a frisbee, it appeared to be a very thin, lightweight disc that hovered and vibrated slightly, like the surface tension of a leaf on top of water. It would stay stationary in one spot for 10 to 20 seconds, before rapidly zipping to another spot in the sky. It seemed to be tracing a pattern, repeating this process a few times, before finally zooming off at a rapid speed into the sky and disappearing.
I'm currently watching a youtube documentary about the Nimitz and USS Roosevelt sightings, and it sparked the memory. The way the crafts in the Nimitz footage were described as hovering stationary before zipping off at high speeds to another stationary position was exactly the same behavior as what I saw in 2007. I'm highly skeptical, and more inclined to believe that the government does in fact have extremely advanced drone technology, but the dreamer in me wants to believe that it's aliens. I asked my mother if she'd ever seen anything UFO related recently, and she described exactly the same behavior in a sighting she'd had a few years ago, right here in our backyard in Northern California. Hovering as if observing, zipping to another spot, repeating the process, and so on, until zooming away.
I'm a healthy mix of doubtful and hopeful that there are other forms of life out there. I know what I saw, and those two events in 2007 will always stick with me. I just find it strange that so many people have seen crafts (whether alien or made by the shady US government) with the same movement patterns. Thanks for reading!
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Incident 1: I can't recall exactly what time of year it was, but it must've been just before summer break, let's say it was around May or June. On one of the first nights, we stood around a campfire at night and reflected on the trip so far, and I believe I was one of the only - if not the only person who caught what happened. We were in a valley next to a small river, surrounded by mountains. One of the mountains to the west of the campsite completely lit up with blue light, as if a blue studio light large enough to light the entire mountainside flashed for a second. There was no rain, lightning, or a storm, the weather was fairly sunny and clear at that point.
Incident 2: Nearing the end of the trip, we'd moved to another area to camp for the evening, and everyone was laid out in their sleeping bags. I've never been a good sleeper, chronic insomnia since childhood, so I laid in silence while most others snoozed, staring up at the clear, star-filled sky. I noticed the starry sky being blacked out by something that looked about the size of a frisbee, it appeared to be a very thin, lightweight disc that hovered and vibrated slightly, like the surface tension of a leaf on top of water. It would stay stationary in one spot for 10 to 20 seconds, before rapidly zipping to another spot in the sky. It seemed to be tracing a pattern, repeating this process a few times, before finally zooming off at a rapid speed into the sky and disappearing.
I'm currently watching a youtube documentary about the Nimitz and USS Roosevelt sightings, and it sparked the memory. The way the crafts in the Nimitz footage were described as hovering stationary before zipping off at high speeds to another stationary position was exactly the same behavior as what I saw in 2007. I'm highly skeptical, and more inclined to believe that the government does in fact have extremely advanced drone technology, but the dreamer in me wants to believe that it's aliens. I asked my mother if she'd ever seen anything UFO related recently, and she described exactly the same behavior in a sighting she'd had a few years ago, right here in our backyard in Northern California. Hovering as if observing, zipping to another spot, repeating the process, and so on, until zooming away.
I'm a healthy mix of doubtful and hopeful that there are other forms of life out there. I know what I saw, and those two events in 2007 will always stick with me. I just find it strange that so many people have seen crafts (whether alien or made by the shady US government) with the same movement patterns. Thanks for reading!
2023.04.01 08:38 MussleGeeYem My 11 Year Long Samsung Galaxy And 12 Year Long iPhone Ownership Experience Story: Here Are Things The Galaxy Does Better Than My iPhone
Introduction
I have been using Samsung Galaxy devices for 11 years, with my first Android/Samsung Galaxy device being the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (got the Galaxy Nexus in January of 2012) and with me currently daily driving the S22 Ultra (since May 2022).I have been using iPhones for more than 12 years, with my first iPhone being the iPhone 4 (got the iPhone 4 in December of 2010) and with me currently daily driving the iPhone 14 Pro Max (since September 2022) and the iPhone SE (2020) as a secondary iPhone for iOS development (since March 2022).
Here is my daily driver history:
Android:
- Samsung Galaxy Nexus (bought in January 2012, traded the phone in October 2013)
- Samsung Galaxy Note3 (bought in October 2013, traded the phone in October 2014)
- Samsung Galaxy Note4 (bought in October 2014, traded the phone in September 2015)
- Samsung Galaxy Note5 (bought in September 2015, sold to my cousin's son (16M) in August 2016)
- Samsung Galaxy Note7 (bought in August 2016, recalled in October 2016)
- Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (bought in October 2016, sold to my cousin's husband (40M) in April 2017 after he broke his iPhone 6 Plus)
- Samsung Galaxy S8+ (bought in April 2017, sold to my cousin's son in Vietnam (29M) in April 2018)
- Samsung Galaxy S9+ (bought in April 2018, sold to my cousin's husband (40M) in March 2019, with him giving me his S7 Edge)
- Samsung Galaxy S10+ (bought in March 2019, gave to my sister (21F) in March 2020 via mail, making the A50 as her secondary phone)
- Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra (bought in March 2020, traded the phone in February 2021)
- Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra (bought in February 2021, gave to my sister (21F) in May 2022 via mail due to her cracking her S10+ with the front suffering some cracks, got the S10+ back)
- Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra (bought in May 2022, still using it now)
- iPhone 4 (bought in December 2010, sold to Vietnam's used market in October 2011)
- iPhone 4S (bought in October 2011, traded the phone in September 2012)
- iPhone 5 (bought in September 2012 right after moving to the US, sold to my cousin (53F) in September 2013)
- iPhone 5S (bought in September 2013, sold to my cousin (39F) in September 2014)
- iPhone 6 (bought in September 2014, sold the phone on eBay in September 2015)
- iPhone 6S (bought in September 2015, sold to my cousin's daughter (17F) in October 2016)
- iPhone 7 Plus (bought in September 2016, sold the phone on eBay in November 2017)
- iPhone X (bought in November 2018, sold to my cousin's husband (55M) in September 2018)
- iPhone XS Max (bought in September 2018, sold to my cousin's husband (55M) in October 2019 with him giving me his iPhone X to help use that towards my iPhone 11 Pro Max)
- iPhone 11 Pro Max (bought in October 2019, sold to my cousin (53F) in November 2020 with her giving me her iPhone 7 Plus to use as a spare device)
- iPhone 12 Pro Max (bought in November 2020, device started breaking down, so I traded the phone in December 2021, initially planned to keep it for longer)
- iPhone 13 Pro Max (bought in December 2021, sold to my cousin (53F) in September 2022 after complaints that her iPhone 11 Pro Max is breaking down, with her giving me her iPhone 11 Pro Max)
- iPhone 14 Pro Max (bought in September 2022, still using it now)
- iPhone 5 (September 2015-November 2017): my cousin's husband (55M) upgraded from an iPhone 6 to a Galaxy S6 Edge+ and decided to give his iPhone 6 to my cousin (53F) due to him preferring Android over iOS (he kept the S6 Edge+ until May 2020 when he bought the S20+ and then he gave his S6 Edge+ to me in May 2020 via mail, but between 2017-2020, this acted as his 2nd phone as he was daily driving the iPhone X/XS Max mentioned above)
- iPhone 6S (November 2017-November 2020): my cousin's daughter (17F) upgraded from the 6S to the 7 Plus, along with both her parents (55M, 53F) not only due to the family switching from T-mobile to Verizon but also due to her cracking my old iPhone 6S, which caused her parents not only to replace the screen but also the battery)
- iPhone 7 Plus (November 2020-March 2022): my cousin (53F) received my iPhone 11 Pro Max, but since the iPhone 6S fell off my bike mount a month before, it cracked, and since the battery is so horrendous on the 6S, my cousin (53F) decided to give me her iPhone 7 Plus and I decided to take the 6S to the Apple Store in Cambridge MA to recycle it
- iPhone SE (2020) (since March 2022): Even though my cousin, and later I took very good care of the iPhone 7 Plus, the phone started breaking down on several fronts: the silent switch, charging port pins, and even battery started to die hard, and plus, since the phone is getting unsupported, I started deciding on the iPhone SE. After finding out the iPhone SE 3 was $429 and finding out I could get a prepaid iPhone SE 2 on AT&T for $150 ($50 plan+$15 activation fee but I cancelled auto pay immediately after buying the phone), I got the brand-new SE 2 instead. Nowadays, the battery started to fall apart (even though the battery is currently at 93% capacity) and even though this phone is not in a beta, there are a lot of bugs even on 16.3.1 (I am thinking of updating to 16.4 tonight)
Things my Samsung Galaxy does better than my iPhone
There are many things that Samsung Galaxy phones and other Android phones do better than iPhones, including the fact that on Android:- notifications are not cluttered in the lock-screen unlike on iOS
- Android is more customisable than iOS and Android is an open-source mobile operating system
- Many new features such as reverse wireless charging, in screen fingerprints, foldable phones, 5G, triple camera setup, phablet size phones,
- there is a real back button on Android
- No need to use iTunes; you could just transfer music and photos/videos between your computer and phone without the hassle of iTunes
- Some Samsung Galaxy phones (S1-S20 excluding the S6/Note5) have microSD and older Samsung Galaxy phones have removable batteries
- Some Samsung Galaxy phones in certain markets have dual sim support, but since e-SIM was introduced, first with the Pixel 2, and later with the iPhone XS, dual sim is less of an advantage
- There are a lot of options, including the M/J series for budget conscious buyers, the A series for the average folk in many countries, the S/Note series for power-users, business users for extra productivity (mostly the Note series) and phone enthusiasts (like me), and the Z series for certain business users for extra productivity and for Flexers
- On my Samsung Galaxy devices, I could share the Wi-Fi password to other phones using the QR code; on iPhones, I could only share the Wi-Fi connection with other iPhones
- Samsung Galaxy devices support split screen view and pop up view, but these two features are restricted to the iPad, and iPhones only support picture in picture video
- iPhone batteries start to massively degrade after a new iPhone and iOS version comes out
My iPhone 12 Pro Max (I got rid of it in December of 2021 after it accidentally fell out from my nightstand drawer and the back cracked a month before) started seeing its battery fail sometime in September 2021, when the 13 Pro Max came out. Say I leave the house at 10:00 and were to return home at 19:00. By 17:00, with medium usage + hotspot, the iPhone's battery would have depleted to around 20 percent. Plus, my iPhones typically consume more battery if devices are connected to hotspot than my Samsung Galaxies are.
Also, I did receive the Galaxy S7 Edge (2019), Samsung Galaxy S9+ (earlier this month as my cousin's husband upgraded to the S23+), and the Samsung Galaxy S10+ (last year), and given that I would sell these phones on the second hand market, I would test the phones for a week or two to see the phone's condition before assessing it and selling it on the second hand market. What I found is that even though the S10+ cracked and therefore, I donated it rather than sold it, all three phones seem to have solid battery, considering their ages. The S7 Edge with its 3600 mAh battery under heavy use after 3 years would go about for 6-8 hours before needing a recharge, and my S9+ would go about for around 5-6 hours as well before hitting down to 20% of battery (that is after 5 years and given the fact my cousin's husband is a power user), and even though the S10 cracked, it would go for 8-10 hours under heavy usage before draining to around 20%. I also got back my Note5 from 2015 once my cousin's son upgraded to my cousin (50M)'s S8 Active in 2019 once my cousin upgraded to the Note10+, and even on that phone, the battery is still very good considering its age and its 3000 mAh size, doing around 4-6 hours going down from 100-20.
- My Samsung devices have proven more reliable as a whole than many of my iPhones
Fun fact, my cousin (28M) switched from the iPhone 7 Plus to the Samsung Galaxy S10+ in March of 2019 and is now currently using a Galaxy S23 Ultra. From his 4-year long experience using just the Galaxy S10+ (he bought the ceramic colour with 512GB of storage and currently his father is using the S10+), even though he is a power user with him customising the phone with themes, being a heavy user, and having cracked his S10+ last year, the phone was still extremely reliable, working fully as intended, apart from the battery, which has been shortened to 6 hours of heavy usage before dying.
My iPhones however, were not so bright. Even though pre-2015 iPhones are mostly reliable during my time using it, since the 6S, there have been some phones which have showed issues here and there, sometimes within the first year of ownership. As for the iPhone 6S, it is basically only the battery, which has been extremely bad after a year and the fact it would sometimes shut off at 30% during cold weather.
Starting with the iPhone 7 Plus however, and there started to be a lot of problems. Even though my iPhone 7 Plus didn't show any problems during my ownership, even though my cousin took good care of the 7 Plus, when I got her 7 Plus in November of 2020 (she got the phone brand new at Verizon in November 2017), the silent switch started to wear down and get stuck, meaning it is hard to turn on silent switch, the charging port pins started to wear, making it very hard to charge the phone or connect the phone to the computer, and the battery started to struggle real hard.
Starting with the iPhone XS Max and there started to be real struggles. Even though I didn't see any problems with either the iPhone XS Max and 11 Pro Max during my ownership and took good care of these two phones, when these two phones got passed to their second owners, problems started to arise. For the XS Max, in May of 2020, it got bricked, and it wouldn't turn on even if he plugged it in the charging cable or through iTunes, and my cousin's husband had to bring it to service, and that got him to purchase an S20+ given he prefers Android over iOS, and after fixing the XS Max, he gave it to his daughter (17F), who is his only child. For the 11 Pro Max however, the phone's battery drained fast and my cousin always had to rely on the charger, and plus, there are issues of connecting Bluetooth devices as well as with calls and volume whilst connected to Bluetooth devices, and my cousin always complained about these issues and even though I did attempt to fix, the issues didn't get resolved (I am tech savvy by the way, so I could get through a lot of issues, such as reset my bricked iPad using iTunes, etc.).
And now onto my iPad Pro 9.7. I bought the iPad in June of 2016, and even though I used it mostly for watching YouTube videos, Udemy and edX courses, the iPad started having a bricking issue in November of 2017. What happened was that I was charging and overnight, the iPad just shut itself off and never powered on again. I tried connecting it to iTunes and even though iTunes could recognise the device, whenever I reset it, errors keep on popping up and it is impossible to reset. I tried bringing it to the Apple Store, but they couldn't reset it either and they suggested that I replace the iPad Pro 9.7 with an iPad Mini 4 for $300. Then, I started taking matters into my own hands and finally resetted the iPad Pro successfully after multiple attempts in January of 2018. Four months later (in May 2018), the iPad bricked again, and I had to do the same process, and it took until August of 2018 after at least 5-10 tries for it to work again. And then in August 2020, whilst charging overnight, the iPad turned off and I thought it was toast. Turned out it was, as after countless times diagnosing the issues on iTunes, the iPad would keep on bricking after multiple reset attempts and after more than 2 years. Then, there was a miracle. In November of 2022, I finally got my iPad working again and I felt like I was very lucky, because I thought that the iPad was bricked forever and wouldn't go back on, ever.
Then, finally, it is my iPhone 12 Pro Max. I bought the phone on 20 November 2020, and by mid-September 2021, things started to go south for this phone. The top speaker started to fail and even though I cleaned it, the speaker was so muffled that I could barely hear anything from the top speaker. I brought it to the Apple Store and they said it is a digitiser issue and they couldn't even clean it for me, and around that same time, the touchscreen started to act up. With a lot of ghost touches, it started to become very hard to use the iPhone (and keep in mind, I have never replaced the screen since I never cracked the front screen). In October 2021, the phone started to have lose cellular signal when I enter the MBTA train and still didn't recognise cellular signal for minutes after I exited the MBTA and was at least a mile from that station on my bike, but luckily, resetting network settings did fix the issue with the cellular signal however. By the time the phone accidentally fell to the ground and the back did suffer some cracks in November, I started to give up on the iPhone 12 Pro Max and in December, I upgraded to the 13 Pro Max.
Even though my Galaxy Buds and my cousin (28M)'s Galaxy Buds did not show any issues (he bought the Galaxy Buds in March 2019 and after heavy usage, it still held up very well and he even gave it to his father), all 4 of my AirPods, even the AirPods Pro 2, have shown issues here and there. My first AirPods (January 2017-July 2018) basically stopped working, and hence, I bought another pair of AirPods in July 2018 and used it until February 2022, when I dropped it in the toilet. Even though I was using the 2nd pair of AirPods half the time (July 2018-January 2020, December 2020-April 2021, November 2021-February 2022), by late 2021, the AirPods started showing major problems. First off, the battery drains so fast even indoors that it only lasted about an hour. Then, once I am outside, the right side would disconnect after only 5 minutes of usage and the left side would keep soldering on. Once it fell to the toilet, it was game over (however, I still kept the AirPods, it is just in the nightstand sitting there, and I did clean it as well). I bought the AirPods 2 in February 2022, and after 2 months, at least once every week or two, the right side would discharge, even in the case (the case is clean by the way), until it went out of battery. I tried resetting the case and putting the case to charge again, but to no avail, and it took several reset attempts for it to return to normal. The same exact scenario happened to the AirPods Pro 2, which I got in October as my cousin wanted to gift me the AirPods Pro 2, in exchange for my AirPods 2. Except that sometimes, my iPhone 14 Pro Max couldn't even connect to the AirPods Pro 2 or even recognise it.
- Hotspot doesn't always work on my iPhones, but always does on my Galaxy
For my iPhone 14 Pro Max and previous iPhones (iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 12 Pro Max, etc), personal hotspot is very buggy. My Samsung connects just fine to the iPhone hotspot, but my iPhones don't. To preserve the battery, after several minutes, the iPhone SE would get disconnected from the iPhone 14 Pro Max hotspot (which is acceptable), but it gets worse. Even if I am currently streaming Apple Music on my iPhone SE with the screen on as well, the iPhone would disconnect from the iPhone 14 Pro Max, and it is very hard to connect it to hotspot. Sometimes, the iPhone SE would say 'Unable to join network' and others, it said 'Personal Hotspot Failure', which would force me to restart both the iPhone SE and 14 Pro Max. Now the Remote Hotspot Failure started happening since I got the 11 Pro Max in 2019, and at the time, my 16:9 phone was the iPhone 6S, and even then, there were hotspot failure problems. I restarted the 11 Pro Max, but the hotspot failure would return after a week or two. Even after resetting network settings in 2021 right before my 13 Pro Max because my iPhone 12 Pro Max would lose cellular connectivity even after I exited the MBTA tunnel and I am outside a mile from the MBTA station, once I got my 13 Pro Max, the remote hotspot failure still appears. My Samsung Galaxy over the years connects to the iPhone hotspot without any issues, and would stay connected even if I am not using the phone until I basically turn off hotspot on my iPhone.
Now due to the fact connecting my iPhone SE to the iPhone hotspot is so bad, I would typically use the Samsung hotspot as a backup (keep in mind my iPhone plan gives unlimited hotspot whilst Metro only gives 5 GB). Both iPhones connect to the Samsung hotspot flawlessly, without any issues.
- On my Samsung Galaxy phones, I can disable Wi-Fi using the Quick Settings (swipe down) menu, but for iPhones, it is less consistent
- Connecting to Bluetooth devices is better on my Samsung Galaxy phones than my iPhones
- Apple Pay sometimes doesn't work on my iPhone
Yesterday, I was at the MBTA station, and I was attempting to pay for the Monthly pass. Ironically, even though the reader did work, the iPhone 14 Pro Max kept on saying 'Hold near Reader', and even though I held it near the mobile payment reader for 10-15 seconds, it still didn't do anything. Fed up, after the second time, I repaid the MBTA ticket and used my S22 Ultra and the payment did go through. However, at the restaurant around 1 hour later, even though I didn't restart the iPhone, Apple Pay finally worked again as I was able to pay my meal using Apple Pay.
- Automatic updates are better on my Galaxies than my iPhones
- Wi-Fi is far better on my Samsung Galaxy/Android phones than my iPhones, iPads, or Macs
Fun fact: the Galaxy S21 Ultra was the first phone to offer Wi-Fi 6E and not even the iPhone 14 Pro Max supports this feature
Then in July 2022, during a flight from Dallas back to Boston, my iPhone 13 Pro Max and iPhone SE 2 would fail to connect to JetBlue's Wi-Fi network several times and if connected, the Wi-Fi was painfully slow and near unusable whilst my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra connected to JetBlue's Wi-Fi network just fine and worked as expected, with websites loading reasonably quick, just like at my university with the S21 Ultra.
- USB C lasts longer than lightning connector
TL;DR: Even though there are many benefits to owning an iPhone over an Android device, based on my user experience, after over 11 years of using various Samsung Galaxy phones, two Samsung Galaxy Tabs, and one Galaxy Bud and after over 12 years of using various iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and AirPods, I could safely assure that there are a lot of benefits to using Samsung and Android products over iPhones, namely due to the fact that notifications, customisation, features, options, Wi-Fi, multitasking, batteries, hotspot, Bluetooth, mobile payment, etc., are better on Samsung and Android products than on iPhones, based on my user experience.
2023.04.01 08:36 Putrid-Composer8308 My experience in 2007
I've been active off and on Reddit for about the past decade, and I've been sitting on this since 2007. I went to an "alternative" high school - I almost dropped out, so I was offered the chance to make up credits by going to a wilderness program where we tended to chickens and a garden, and went on an annual 10-day camping trip. In 2007, we went to the Sierra Nevada mountains. Like most who share their stories, I feel stupid and skeptical to even recount it, but I've had aliens on the brain lately, I've been into the creepy and occult since I was a kid.
Incident 1: I can't recall exactly what time of year it was, but it must've been just before summer break, let's say it was around May or June. On one of the first nights, we stood around a campfire at night and reflected on the trip so far, and I believe I was one of the only - if not the only person who caught what happened. We were in a valley next to a small river, surrounded by mountains. One of the mountains to the west of the campsite completely lit up with blue light, as if a blue studio light large enough to light the entire mountainside flashed for a second. There was no rain, lightning, or a storm, the weather was fairly sunny and clear at that point.
Incident 2: Nearing the end of the trip, we'd moved to another area to camp for the evening, and everyone was laid out in their sleeping bags. I've never been a good sleeper, chronic insomnia since childhood, so I laid in silence while most others snoozed, staring up at the clear, star-filled sky. I noticed the starry sky being blacked out by something that looked about the size of a frisbee, it appeared to be a very thin, lightweight disc that hovered and vibrated slightly, like the surface tension of a leaf on top of water. It would stay stationary in one spot for 10 to 20 seconds, before rapidly zipping to another spot in the sky. It seemed to be tracing a pattern, repeating this process a few times, before finally zooming off at a rapid speed into the sky and disappearing.
I'm currently watching a youtube documentary about the Nimitz and USS Roosevelt sightings, and it sparked the memory. The way the crafts in the Nimitz footage were described as hovering stationary before zipping off at high speeds to another stationary position was exactly the same behavior as what I saw in 2007. I'm highly skeptical, and more inclined to believe that the government does in fact have extremely advanced drone technology, but the dreamer in me wants to believe that it's aliens. I asked my mother if she'd ever seen anything UFO related recently, and she described exactly the same behavior in a sighting she'd had a few years ago, right here in our backyard in Northern California. Hovering as if observing, zipping to another spot, repeating the process, and so on, until zooming away.
I'm a healthy mix of doubtful and hopeful that there are other forms of life out there. I know what I saw, and those two events in 2007 will always stick with me. I just find it strange that so many people have seen crafts (whether alien or made by the shady US government) with the same movement patterns. Thanks for reading!
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Incident 1: I can't recall exactly what time of year it was, but it must've been just before summer break, let's say it was around May or June. On one of the first nights, we stood around a campfire at night and reflected on the trip so far, and I believe I was one of the only - if not the only person who caught what happened. We were in a valley next to a small river, surrounded by mountains. One of the mountains to the west of the campsite completely lit up with blue light, as if a blue studio light large enough to light the entire mountainside flashed for a second. There was no rain, lightning, or a storm, the weather was fairly sunny and clear at that point.
Incident 2: Nearing the end of the trip, we'd moved to another area to camp for the evening, and everyone was laid out in their sleeping bags. I've never been a good sleeper, chronic insomnia since childhood, so I laid in silence while most others snoozed, staring up at the clear, star-filled sky. I noticed the starry sky being blacked out by something that looked about the size of a frisbee, it appeared to be a very thin, lightweight disc that hovered and vibrated slightly, like the surface tension of a leaf on top of water. It would stay stationary in one spot for 10 to 20 seconds, before rapidly zipping to another spot in the sky. It seemed to be tracing a pattern, repeating this process a few times, before finally zooming off at a rapid speed into the sky and disappearing.
I'm currently watching a youtube documentary about the Nimitz and USS Roosevelt sightings, and it sparked the memory. The way the crafts in the Nimitz footage were described as hovering stationary before zipping off at high speeds to another stationary position was exactly the same behavior as what I saw in 2007. I'm highly skeptical, and more inclined to believe that the government does in fact have extremely advanced drone technology, but the dreamer in me wants to believe that it's aliens. I asked my mother if she'd ever seen anything UFO related recently, and she described exactly the same behavior in a sighting she'd had a few years ago, right here in our backyard in Northern California. Hovering as if observing, zipping to another spot, repeating the process, and so on, until zooming away.
I'm a healthy mix of doubtful and hopeful that there are other forms of life out there. I know what I saw, and those two events in 2007 will always stick with me. I just find it strange that so many people have seen crafts (whether alien or made by the shady US government) with the same movement patterns. Thanks for reading!
2023.04.01 08:31 MussleGeeYem My 11 Year Long Samsung Galaxy Ownership Experience Story: Here Are Things The Galaxy Does Better Than My iPhone
Introduction
I have been using Samsung Galaxy devices for 11 years, with my first Android/Samsung Galaxy device being the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (got the Galaxy Nexus in January of 2012) and with me currently daily driving the S22 Ultra (since May 2022).I have been using iPhones for more than 12 years, with my first iPhone being the iPhone 4 (got the iPhone 4 in December of 2010) and with me currently daily driving the iPhone 14 Pro Max (since September 2022) and the iPhone SE (2020) as a secondary iPhone for iOS development (since March 2022).
Here is my daily driver history:
Android:
- Samsung Galaxy Nexus (bought in January 2012, traded the phone in October 2013)
- Samsung Galaxy Note3 (bought in October 2013, traded the phone in October 2014)
- Samsung Galaxy Note4 (bought in October 2014, traded the phone in September 2015)
- Samsung Galaxy Note5 (bought in September 2015, sold to my cousin's son (16M) in August 2016)
- Samsung Galaxy Note7 (bought in August 2016, recalled in October 2016)
- Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (bought in October 2016, sold to my cousin's husband (40M) in April 2017 after he broke his iPhone 6 Plus)
- Samsung Galaxy S8+ (bought in April 2017, sold to my cousin's son in Vietnam (29M) in April 2018)
- Samsung Galaxy S9+ (bought in April 2018, sold to my cousin's husband (40M) in March 2019, with him giving me his S7 Edge)
- Samsung Galaxy S10+ (bought in March 2019, gave to my sister (21F) in March 2020 via mail, making the A50 as her secondary phone)
- Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra (bought in March 2020, traded the phone in February 2021)
- Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra (bought in February 2021, gave to my sister (21F) in May 2022 via mail due to her cracking her S10+ with the front suffering some cracks, got the S10+ back)
- Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra (bought in May 2022, still using it now)
- iPhone 4 (bought in December 2010, sold to Vietnam's used market in October 2011)
- iPhone 4S (bought in October 2011, traded the phone in September 2012)
- iPhone 5 (bought in September 2012 right after moving to the US, sold to my cousin (53F) in September 2013)
- iPhone 5S (bought in September 2013, sold to my cousin (39F) in September 2014)
- iPhone 6 (bought in September 2014, sold the phone on eBay in September 2015)
- iPhone 6S (bought in September 2015, sold to my cousin's daughter (17F) in October 2016)
- iPhone 7 Plus (bought in September 2016, sold the phone on eBay in November 2017)
- iPhone X (bought in November 2018, sold to my cousin's husband (55M) in September 2018)
- iPhone XS Max (bought in September 2018, sold to my cousin's husband (55M) in October 2019 with him giving me his iPhone X to help use that towards my iPhone 11 Pro Max)
- iPhone 11 Pro Max (bought in October 2019, sold to my cousin (53F) in November 2020 with her giving me her iPhone 7 Plus to use as a spare device)
- iPhone 12 Pro Max (bought in November 2020, device started breaking down, so I traded the phone in December 2021, initially planned to keep it for longer)
- iPhone 13 Pro Max (bought in December 2021, sold to my cousin (53F) in September 2022 after complaints that her iPhone 11 Pro Max is breaking down, with her giving me her iPhone 11 Pro Max)
- iPhone 14 Pro Max (bought in September 2022, still using it now)
- iPhone 5 (September 2015-November 2017): my cousin's husband (55M) upgraded from an iPhone 6 to a Galaxy S6 Edge+ and decided to give his iPhone 6 to my cousin (53F) due to him preferring Android over iOS (he kept the S6 Edge+ until May 2020 when he bought the S20+ and then he gave his S6 Edge+ to me in May 2020 via mail, but between 2017-2020, this acted as his 2nd phone as he was daily driving the iPhone X/XS Max mentioned above)
- iPhone 6S (November 2017-November 2020): my cousin's daughter (17F) upgraded from the 6S to the 7 Plus, along with both her parents (55M, 53F) not only due to the family switching from T-mobile to Verizon but also due to her cracking my old iPhone 6S, which caused her parents not only to replace the screen but also the battery)
- iPhone 7 Plus (November 2020-March 2022): my cousin (53F) received my iPhone 11 Pro Max, but since the iPhone 6S fell off my bike mount a month before, it cracked, and since the battery is so horrendous on the 6S, my cousin (53F) decided to give me her iPhone 7 Plus and I decided to take the 6S to the Apple Store in Cambridge MA to recycle it
- iPhone SE (2020) (since March 2022): Even though my cousin, and later I took very good care of the iPhone 7 Plus, the phone started breaking down on several fronts: the silent switch, charging port pins, and even battery started to die hard, and plus, since the phone is getting unsupported, I started deciding on the iPhone SE. After finding out the iPhone SE 3 was $429 and finding out I could get a prepaid iPhone SE 2 on AT&T for $150 ($50 plan+$15 activation fee but I cancelled auto pay immediately after buying the phone), I got the brand-new SE 2 instead. Nowadays, the battery started to fall apart (even though the battery is currently at 93% capacity) and even though this phone is not in a beta, there are a lot of bugs even on 16.3.1 (I am thinking of updating to 16.4 tonight)
Things my Samsung Galaxy does better than my iPhone
There are many things that Samsung Galaxy phones and other Android phones do better than iPhones, including the fact that on Android:- notifications are not cluttered in the lock-screen unlike on iOS
- Android is more customisable than iOS and Android is an open-source mobile operating system
- Many new features such as reverse wireless charging, in screen fingerprints, foldable phones, 5G, triple camera setup, phablet size phones,
- there is a real back button on Android
- No need to use iTunes; you could just transfer music and photos/videos between your computer and phone without the hassle of iTunes
- Some Samsung Galaxy phones (S1-S20 excluding the S6/Note5) have microSD and older Samsung Galaxy phones have removable batteries
- Some Samsung Galaxy phones in certain markets have dual sim support, but since e-SIM was introduced, first with the Pixel 2, and later with the iPhone XS, dual sim is less of an advantage
- There are a lot of options, including the M/J series for budget conscious buyers, the A series for the average folk in many countries, the S/Note series for power-users, business users for extra productivity (mostly the Note series) and phone enthusiasts (like me), and the Z series for certain business users for extra productivity and for Flexers
- On my Samsung Galaxy devices, I could share the Wi-Fi password to other phones using the QR code; on iPhones, I could only share the Wi-Fi connection with other iPhones
- Samsung Galaxy devices support split screen view and pop up view, but these two features are restricted to the iPad, and iPhones only support picture in picture video
However, there are many lesser-known things that my Samsung Galaxy phones do better than my iPhones (based on my experience over the past 11 years), and some might be controversial:
- iPhone batteries start to massively degrade after a new iPhone and iOS version comes out
My iPhone 12 Pro Max (I got rid of it in December of 2021 after it accidentally fell out from my nightstand drawer and the back cracked a month before) started seeing its battery fail sometime in September 2021, when the 13 Pro Max came out. Say I leave the house at 10:00 and were to return home at 19:00. By 17:00, with medium usage + hotspot, the iPhone's battery would have depleted to around 20 percent. Plus, my iPhones typically consume more battery if devices are connected to hotspot than my Samsung Galaxies are.
Also, I did receive the Galaxy S7 Edge (2019), Samsung Galaxy S9+ (earlier this month as my cousin's husband upgraded to the S23+), and the Samsung Galaxy S10+ (last year), and given that I would sell these phones on the second hand market, I would test the phones for a week or two to see the phone's condition before assessing it and selling it on the second hand market. What I found is that even though the S10+ cracked and therefore, I donated it rather than sold it, all three phones seem to have solid battery, considering their ages. The S7 Edge with its 3600 mAh battery under heavy use after 3 years would go about for 6-8 hours before needing a recharge, and my S9+ would go about for around 5-6 hours as well before hitting down to 20% of battery (that is after 5 years and given the fact my cousin's husband is a power user), and even though the S10 cracked, it would go for 8-10 hours under heavy usage before draining to around 20%. I also got back my Note5 from 2015 once my cousin's son upgraded to my cousin (50M)'s S8 Active in 2019 once my cousin upgraded to the Note10+, and even on that phone, the battery is still very good considering its age and its 3000 mAh size, doing around 4-6 hours going down from 100-20.
- My Samsung devices have proven more reliable as a whole than many of my iPhones
Fun fact, my cousin (28M) switched from the iPhone 7 Plus to the Samsung Galaxy S10+ in March of 2019 and is now currently using a Galaxy S23 Ultra. From his 4-year long experience using just the Galaxy S10+ (he bought the ceramic colour with 512GB of storage and currently his father is using the S10+), even though he is a power user with him customising the phone with themes, being a heavy user, and having cracked his S10+ last year, the phone was still extremely reliable, working fully as intended, apart from the battery, which has been shortened to 6 hours of heavy usage before dying.
My iPhones however, were not so bright. Even though pre-2015 iPhones are mostly reliable during my time using it, since the 6S, there have been some phones which have showed issues here and there, sometimes within the first year of ownership. As for the iPhone 6S, it is basically only the battery, which has been extremely bad after a year and the fact it would sometimes shut off at 30% during cold weather.
Starting with the iPhone 7 Plus however, and there started to be a lot of problems. Even though my iPhone 7 Plus didn't show any problems during my ownership, even though my cousin took good care of the 7 Plus, when I got her 7 Plus in November of 2020 (she got the phone brand new at Verizon in November 2017), the silent switch started to wear down and get stuck, meaning it is hard to turn on silent switch, the charging port pins started to wear, making it very hard to charge the phone or connect the phone to the computer, and the battery started to struggle real hard.
Starting with the iPhone XS Max and there started to be real struggles. Even though I didn't see any problems with either the iPhone XS Max and 11 Pro Max during my ownership and took good care of these two phones, when these two phones got passed to their second owners, problems started to arise. For the XS Max, in May of 2020, it got bricked, and it wouldn't turn on even if he plugged it in the charging cable or through iTunes, and my cousin's husband had to bring it to service, and that got him to purchase an S20+ given he prefers Android over iOS, and after fixing the XS Max, he gave it to his daughter (17F), who is his only child. For the 11 Pro Max however, the phone's battery drained fast and my cousin always had to rely on the charger, and plus, there are issues of connecting Bluetooth devices as well as with calls and volume whilst connected to Bluetooth devices, and my cousin always complained about these issues and even though I did attempt to fix, the issues didn't get resolved (I am tech savvy by the way, so I could get through a lot of issues, such as reset my bricked iPad using iTunes, etc.).
And now onto my iPad Pro 9.7. I bought the iPad in June of 2016, and even though I used it mostly for watching YouTube videos, Udemy and edX courses, the iPad started having a bricking issue in November of 2017. What happened was that I was charging and overnight, the iPad just shut itself off and never powered on again. I tried connecting it to iTunes and even though iTunes could recognise the device, whenever I reset it, errors keep on popping up and it is impossible to reset. I tried bringing it to the Apple Store, but they couldn't reset it either and they suggested that I replace the iPad Pro 9.7 with an iPad Mini 4 for $300. Then, I started taking matters into my own hands and finally resetted the iPad Pro successfully after multiple attempts in January of 2018. Four months later (in May 2018), the iPad bricked again, and I had to do the same process, and it took until August of 2018 after at least 5-10 tries for it to work again. And then in August 2020, whilst charging overnight, the iPad turned off and I thought it was toast. Turned out it was, as after countless times diagnosing the issues on iTunes, the iPad would keep on bricking after multiple reset attempts and after more than 2 years. Then, there was a miracle. In November of 2022, I finally got my iPad working again and I felt like I was very lucky, because I thought that the iPad was bricked forever and wouldn't go back on, ever.
Then, finally, it is my iPhone 12 Pro Max. I bought the phone on 20 November 2020, and by mid-September 2021, things started to go south for this phone. The top speaker started to fail and even though I cleaned it, the speaker was so muffled that I could barely hear anything from the top speaker. I brought it to the Apple Store and they said it is a digitiser issue and they couldn't even clean it for me, and around that same time, the touchscreen started to act up. With a lot of ghost touches, it started to become very hard to use the iPhone (and keep in mind, I have never replaced the screen since I never cracked the front screen). In October 2021, the phone started to have lose cellular signal when I enter the MBTA train and still didn't recognise cellular signal for minutes after I exited the MBTA and was at least a mile from that station on my bike, but luckily, resetting network settings did fix the issue with the cellular signal however. By the time the phone accidentally fell to the ground and the back did suffer some cracks in November, I started to give up on the iPhone 12 Pro Max and in December, I upgraded to the 13 Pro Max.
Even though my Galaxy Buds and my cousin (28M)'s Galaxy Buds did not show any issues (he bought the Galaxy Buds in March 2019 and after heavy usage, it still held up very well and he even gave it to his father), all 4 of my AirPods, even the AirPods Pro 2, have shown issues here and there. My first AirPods (January 2017-July 2018) basically stopped working, and hence, I bought another pair of AirPods in July 2018 and used it until February 2022, when I dropped it in the toilet. Even though I was using the 2nd pair of AirPods half the time (July 2018-January 2020, December 2020-April 2021, November 2021-February 2022), by late 2021, the AirPods started showing major problems. First off, the battery drains so fast even indoors that it only lasted about an hour. Then, once I am outside, the right side would disconnect after only 5 minutes of usage and the left side would keep soldering on. Once it fell to the toilet, it was game over (however, I still kept the AirPods, it is just in the nightstand sitting there, and I did clean it as well). I bought the AirPods 2 in February 2022, and after 2 months, at least once every week or two, the right side would discharge, even in the case (the case is clean by the way), until it went out of battery. I tried resetting the case and putting the case to charge again, but to no avail, and it took several reset attempts for it to return to normal. The same exact scenario happened to the AirPods Pro 2, which I got in October as my cousin wanted to gift me the AirPods Pro 2, in exchange for my AirPods 2. Except that sometimes, my iPhone 14 Pro Max couldn't even connect to the AirPods Pro 2 or even recognise it.
- Hotspot doesn't always work on my iPhones, but always does on my Galaxy
For my iPhone 14 Pro Max and previous iPhones (iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 12 Pro Max, etc), personal hotspot is very buggy. My Samsung connects just fine to the iPhone hotspot, but my iPhones don't. To preserve the battery, after several minutes, the iPhone SE would get disconnected from the iPhone 14 Pro Max hotspot (which is acceptable), but it gets worse. Even if I am currently streaming Apple Music on my iPhone SE with the screen on as well, the iPhone would disconnect from the iPhone 14 Pro Max, and it is very hard to connect it to hotspot. Sometimes, the iPhone SE would say 'Unable to join network' and others, it said 'Personal Hotspot Failure', which would force me to restart both the iPhone SE and 14 Pro Max. Now the Remote Hotspot Failure started happening since I got the 11 Pro Max in 2019, and at the time, my 16:9 phone was the iPhone 6S, and even then, there were hotspot failure problems. I restarted the 11 Pro Max, but the hotspot failure would return after a week or two. Even after resetting network settings in 2021 right before my 13 Pro Max because my iPhone 12 Pro Max would lose cellular connectivity even after I exited the MBTA tunnel and I am outside a mile from the MBTA station, once I got my 13 Pro Max, the remote hotspot failure still appears. My Samsung Galaxy over the years connects to the iPhone hotspot without any issues, and would stay connected even if I am not using the phone until I basically turn off hotspot on my iPhone.
Now due to the fact connecting my iPhone SE to the iPhone hotspot is so bad, I would typically use the Samsung hotspot as a backup (keep in mind my iPhone plan gives unlimited hotspot whilst Metro only gives 5 GB). Both iPhones connect to the Samsung hotspot flawlessly, without any issues.
- On my Samsung Galaxy phones, I can disable Wi-Fi using the Quick Settings (swipe down) menu, but for iPhones, it is less consistent
- Connecting to Bluetooth devices is better on my Samsung Galaxy phones than my iPhones
- Apple Pay sometimes doesn't work on my iPhone
Yesterday, I was at the MBTA station, and I was attempting to pay for the Monthly pass. Ironically, even though the reader did work, the iPhone 14 Pro Max kept on saying 'Hold near Reader', and even though I held it near the mobile payment reader for 10-15 seconds, it still didn't do anything. Fed up, after the second time, I repaid the MBTA ticket and used my S22 Ultra and the payment did go through. However, at the restaurant around 1 hour later, even though I didn't restart the iPhone, Apple Pay finally worked again as I was able to pay my meal using Apple Pay.
- Automatic updates are better on my Galaxies than my iPhones
- Wi-Fi is far better on my Samsung Galaxy/Android phones than my iPhones, iPads, or Macs
Fun fact: the Galaxy S21 Ultra was the first phone to offer Wi-Fi 6E and not even the iPhone 14 Pro Max supports this feature
Then in July 2022, during a flight from Dallas back to Boston, my iPhone 13 Pro Max and iPhone SE 2 would fail to connect to JetBlue's Wi-Fi network several times and if connected, the Wi-Fi was painfully slow and near unusable whilst my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra connected to JetBlue's Wi-Fi network just fine and worked as expected, with websites loading reasonably quick, just like at my university with the S21 Ultra.
- USB C lasts longer than lightning connector
TL;DR: Even though there are many benefits to owning an iPhone over an Android device, based on my user experience, after over 11 years of using various Samsung Galaxy phones, two Samsung Galaxy Tabs, and one Galaxy Bud and after over 12 years of using various iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and AirPods, I could safely assure that there are a lot of benefits to using Samsung and Android products over iPhones, namely due to the fact that notifications, customisation, features, options, Wi-Fi, multitasking, batteries, hotspot, Bluetooth, mobile payment, etc., are better on Samsung and Android products than on iPhones, based on my user experience.
2023.04.01 08:25 nuraman00 The Beverly Hills 90210 Show Podcast: Episode 56: California University 101.
Matthew Porretta (Dan Rubin), Zachary Throne (Howard McDermott), and Director Gilbert Shilton are guest hosts.
"The Little Fish" is also discussed.
* The "set dressing" for the Beverly Hills Beach Club was left up for a 3 months. The city of Santa Monica didn't want it, so I think they had to take it down.
That was part of the reason why there were no more episodes at the Beverly Hills Beach Club.
* The plot of Steve cheating on the placement test, came from Charles Rosin's real life.
When he was at the Universit Of Wisconsin - Madison, he saw a redhead in front of him. He looked smart, so Rosin cheated off of him for the math portion.
He told the dean that despite his placement tests scores, he was going to scale back on the math classes.
He would later see that redhead at Berkeley.
* When Rosin was in middle school, he had to make up a play based on a book he had to have read, before the civil war.
He never read a book, and made up a play about John Brown's attack.
* Throne auditioned for Josh Richland. He didn't get it.
When he was leaving the room, Jason Priestly sees him and says hi. He had known Throne from The Heights.
Jason and Shilton told Throne to come back and read for Howard, and he got the part.
* A few episodes in, Brian Austin Green told Throne that there was going to be a meth plot.
Brian Austin Green stops by.
* Green had known Throne, from when Green and Throne promoted their FOX shows together, Beverly Hills 90210, and The Heights.
* Throne and Green got along great. Green said it was a fun story line.
* Green is in a documentary called Kid 90.
Soleil Frye Moon recorded a bunch of stuff, including her interview with Green a few years ago.
Green did it, but never really thought it would be published, because a lot of these things never get released.
To his surprise, 3 years later, it was released.
* Brian Austin Green saw Jason Priestly and Ian Ziering recently. He complains that they are 10 years older than him, but he has the grayest hair.
* Shilton loved working with Tori Spelling. She was always prepared, knew her lines, and never missed a beat.
* They weren't going to have Andrea get pregnant from the first guy, so they introduced Dan.
* This was the first time Porretta had a recurring role on any show. So it was cool for him to keep working with the cast and crew every week.
* He hadn't done too much stuff before, and he was still young. He had just finished the movie "Robin Hood: Men In Tights".
* His whole experience with the show was great.
*He loved working with Gabrielle.
* He didn't really know what was going to happen. He said you get the script, and evolve.
Then one day, when he got the next script, he said "Oh wow, Dan's going south". (As in his behavior.)
* He likes plain croissants more than chocolate chip.
* Shilton says having background extras was important for the college scenes. It creates the impression that everyone has their own world and agenda.
The Little Fish:
* Shilton says he had no issues with Shannen, during any of the times he worked with her. Everything she did was well, and look at how great her perforance was.
* The shots from the ocean's point of view was logistically challenging. They had to create some pipes.
* Mollin says there was a lot of conversation about how the fish would look, when it was caught.
They ended up using only dead fish, and Shannen would move the tail with her baby finger, to make it look alive.
Why Brenda and Dylan didn't kiss:
* It's better for the heat between them if they don't kiss.
* Brenda wouldn't do that after what Kelly's been through.
* Dylan was going to go back to Kelly.
* They did not want to compromise their moral compass.
* Brenda and Stuart eloping was slotted for a huge ratings push.
On Andrea reviewing the Peach Pit for the Condor:
* Larry Mollin once had lobster bisque in hot weather, and got food poisioning.
That's why it was written for Andrea to order the lobster bisque at The Peach Pit.
On Andrea and Brandon both not working for the CU Condor:
* There needs to be less of a production for the set, if Andrea is pre-med. If she works for a paper, then they have to have a newspaper staff and newspaper room.
And for Brandon, they wanted him in campus politics.
* Larry Mollin's junkie friend said you can put crystal meth in orange juice, to get some nourishment.
* Throne recalls one of the episodes where he had to come through a door, and say one line.
He rehearsed walking and hitting his mark a lot this one day. He did it so many times, he eventually forgot what his line was.
He was embarrassed. He thought he was going to get fired.
As he was leaving, Porretta came in for his scene.
A crew member named Diane then said "Matthew, do you want me to tell you what your one line is"?
* Porretta recalls a time when they were about to film a classroom scene.
They had to fix the lighting, so he had a few minutes.
He was getting very nervous.
He went to the bathroom and started talking to himself.
When he gets out, the sound person comes up to him and asks if he's ok.
Porretta says yes.
The sound person says "we can hear everything you're saying in the bathroom."
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"The Little Fish" is also discussed.
* The "set dressing" for the Beverly Hills Beach Club was left up for a 3 months. The city of Santa Monica didn't want it, so I think they had to take it down.
That was part of the reason why there were no more episodes at the Beverly Hills Beach Club.
* The plot of Steve cheating on the placement test, came from Charles Rosin's real life.
When he was at the Universit Of Wisconsin - Madison, he saw a redhead in front of him. He looked smart, so Rosin cheated off of him for the math portion.
He told the dean that despite his placement tests scores, he was going to scale back on the math classes.
He would later see that redhead at Berkeley.
* When Rosin was in middle school, he had to make up a play based on a book he had to have read, before the civil war.
He never read a book, and made up a play about John Brown's attack.
* Throne auditioned for Josh Richland. He didn't get it.
When he was leaving the room, Jason Priestly sees him and says hi. He had known Throne from The Heights.
Jason and Shilton told Throne to come back and read for Howard, and he got the part.
* A few episodes in, Brian Austin Green told Throne that there was going to be a meth plot.
Brian Austin Green stops by.
* Green had known Throne, from when Green and Throne promoted their FOX shows together, Beverly Hills 90210, and The Heights.
* Throne and Green got along great. Green said it was a fun story line.
* Green is in a documentary called Kid 90.
Soleil Frye Moon recorded a bunch of stuff, including her interview with Green a few years ago.
Green did it, but never really thought it would be published, because a lot of these things never get released.
To his surprise, 3 years later, it was released.
* Brian Austin Green saw Jason Priestly and Ian Ziering recently. He complains that they are 10 years older than him, but he has the grayest hair.
* Shilton loved working with Tori Spelling. She was always prepared, knew her lines, and never missed a beat.
* They weren't going to have Andrea get pregnant from the first guy, so they introduced Dan.
* This was the first time Porretta had a recurring role on any show. So it was cool for him to keep working with the cast and crew every week.
* He hadn't done too much stuff before, and he was still young. He had just finished the movie "Robin Hood: Men In Tights".
* His whole experience with the show was great.
*He loved working with Gabrielle.
* He didn't really know what was going to happen. He said you get the script, and evolve.
Then one day, when he got the next script, he said "Oh wow, Dan's going south". (As in his behavior.)
* He likes plain croissants more than chocolate chip.
* Shilton says having background extras was important for the college scenes. It creates the impression that everyone has their own world and agenda.
The Little Fish:
* Shilton says he had no issues with Shannen, during any of the times he worked with her. Everything she did was well, and look at how great her perforance was.
* The shots from the ocean's point of view was logistically challenging. They had to create some pipes.
* Mollin says there was a lot of conversation about how the fish would look, when it was caught.
They ended up using only dead fish, and Shannen would move the tail with her baby finger, to make it look alive.
Why Brenda and Dylan didn't kiss:
* It's better for the heat between them if they don't kiss.
* Brenda wouldn't do that after what Kelly's been through.
* Dylan was going to go back to Kelly.
* They did not want to compromise their moral compass.
* Brenda and Stuart eloping was slotted for a huge ratings push.
On Andrea reviewing the Peach Pit for the Condor:
* Larry Mollin once had lobster bisque in hot weather, and got food poisioning.
That's why it was written for Andrea to order the lobster bisque at The Peach Pit.
On Andrea and Brandon both not working for the CU Condor:
* There needs to be less of a production for the set, if Andrea is pre-med. If she works for a paper, then they have to have a newspaper staff and newspaper room.
And for Brandon, they wanted him in campus politics.
* Larry Mollin's junkie friend said you can put crystal meth in orange juice, to get some nourishment.
* Throne recalls one of the episodes where he had to come through a door, and say one line.
He rehearsed walking and hitting his mark a lot this one day. He did it so many times, he eventually forgot what his line was.
He was embarrassed. He thought he was going to get fired.
As he was leaving, Porretta came in for his scene.
A crew member named Diane then said "Matthew, do you want me to tell you what your one line is"?
* Porretta recalls a time when they were about to film a classroom scene.
They had to fix the lighting, so he had a few minutes.
He was getting very nervous.
He went to the bathroom and started talking to himself.
When he gets out, the sound person comes up to him and asks if he's ok.
Porretta says yes.
The sound person says "we can hear everything you're saying in the bathroom."
2023.04.01 08:16 trippinxt Tohoku-Tokyo Revised Itinerary (somewhat final version but suggestions still welcomed)
Stalking the forecasts and real-time IG stories of the places I plan on visiting, here is my somewhat final itinerary for my upcoming Tokyo-Tohoku trip on April. I will be using the 6-day JR East-South Hokkaido Pass. Feel free to give suggestions.
Apr 14 (Fri) - Arrive at Narita around 12noon. I expect to take a bit of time in the JR East office at the airport to exchange my passes and make shinkansen seat reservations (my friend who's a local in Tokyo noticed that trains, especially last trains are packed! She even posted an IG story where people were already standing in the aisle of the shinkansen) - Check-in to Ueno hotel - Explore Daikanyama and Shibuya
Apri 15 (Sat) - D1 pass - 6am Ueno to Sendai (1.5hrs) - 8am Leave luggage at Sendai hotel - Tour Shiogama Shrine and Matsushima bay - Links regarding the Shiogama Shrine Spring Light-up would be appreciated. So far this page says Apr17-18 but it seems too late as far as sakura forecast goes - Stay in Sendai - *Shiogama full bloom Apr 8
Apr 16 (Sun) - D2 pass - 7am Sendai-Yamadera (1hr) - How long is the hike up to Yamadera temple? - Yamagata after lunch till sundown - Stay in Sendai - *I originally wanted to go to Funaoka in the morning but it's almost full bloom as of posting so I don't think I'll catch anything on my dates so I revised my plan - *Full bloom Yamagata Tsuruoka Park Apr 8 / Tendo Park Apr 13
Apr 17 (Monday) - D3 pass - 7am Sendai-Hiraizumi (50min) - Leave luggage at station, rent a bike - Since temples don't open until 8:30, would it be enough time for me to see everything until 12noon? Rapid 39min train is 12:22pm otherwise I'll have to catch the the 1.5hr train at 1:21 🙃 - 12pm Hiraizumi-Morioka (39min) - 1pm leave luggage at hotel, lunch, maybe check Morioka Castle ruins if not tired - 3pm hotel check-in, rest - 4pm Morioka-Kitakami (20min, shinkansen 1/hr only - Kitakami cherry blossom festival until night - Stay in Morioka - *Full bloom Hiraizumi Apr 10 / Kitakami Apr 14
Apr 18 (Tue) - D4 pass - 5:30am sunrise at Morioka Castle and/or Takamatsu depending on laziness lol - 8:50am Morioka-Aomori (1hr15min) - 3:56pm rapid train Aomori-Hirosaki (34min) - 5pm Check-in to Hirosaki hotel - Hirosaki Park for sunset and illumination (if there is, since offical festival starts Apr 21 but based on previous years' vlogs lighting starts ahead of festival) - *Full bloom Morioka Castle Apr 11 / Takamatsu Pond Apr 13 - *Full bloom Hirosaki Park Apr 17 / Aomori Happo Park Apr 19
Apr 19 (Wed) - D5 pass - Full day Hirosaki, bike around - Send luggage to Tokyo via hotel - Cafe/restaurant recos? - Possible sidetrips? Ashino Lake is interesting but takes 1.5hrs and too infrequent afternoon trains
Apr 20 (Thurs) - D6 pass - 6:30am Hirosaki-Akita (2hrs18min) - Akita castle ruins and museum - 1pm Akita-Kakunodate - Kakunodate cherry blossom festival has been moved from Apr20 to Apr15 - 6:58pm Kakunodate-Tokyo (3hrs) - Stay in Ginza - *Full bloom Akita Castle Park Apr 13 / Kakunodate Apr 17 / Hinokinai River Apr 18
Apr 21 (Fri) - 10am TeamLab planets (booked) - 2pm Tokyo Ad Museum - Ginza shopping - 5pm Kameido Tenjin Shrine Wisteria Festival - *Hopefully arrival of luggage from Hirosaki
Apr 22 (Sat) - 10am brunch at Jiyugaoka - 12nn Harajuku-Omotesando-Aoyama shopping - 5pm Shibuya Sky (booked)
Apr 23 (Sun) - 8:30am Nezu Shrine (depends on Azelea blooms) - 10am Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art to check if I can get same-day ticket to Dior exhibit - 10:30am Kiyosumi-Shirakawa coffee crawl - Last minute shopping at Shinjuku or Ginza depending on time - *Ginza rooftop recos? - 5:30pm head to Narita Airport
Useful Links: - Cherry Blossom Festivals - General Sakura Forecast - Detailed Tohoku Sakura Forecast
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Apr 14 (Fri) - Arrive at Narita around 12noon. I expect to take a bit of time in the JR East office at the airport to exchange my passes and make shinkansen seat reservations (my friend who's a local in Tokyo noticed that trains, especially last trains are packed! She even posted an IG story where people were already standing in the aisle of the shinkansen) - Check-in to Ueno hotel - Explore Daikanyama and Shibuya
Apri 15 (Sat) - D1 pass - 6am Ueno to Sendai (1.5hrs) - 8am Leave luggage at Sendai hotel - Tour Shiogama Shrine and Matsushima bay - Links regarding the Shiogama Shrine Spring Light-up would be appreciated. So far this page says Apr17-18 but it seems too late as far as sakura forecast goes - Stay in Sendai - *Shiogama full bloom Apr 8
Apr 16 (Sun) - D2 pass - 7am Sendai-Yamadera (1hr) - How long is the hike up to Yamadera temple? - Yamagata after lunch till sundown - Stay in Sendai - *I originally wanted to go to Funaoka in the morning but it's almost full bloom as of posting so I don't think I'll catch anything on my dates so I revised my plan - *Full bloom Yamagata Tsuruoka Park Apr 8 / Tendo Park Apr 13
Apr 17 (Monday) - D3 pass - 7am Sendai-Hiraizumi (50min) - Leave luggage at station, rent a bike - Since temples don't open until 8:30, would it be enough time for me to see everything until 12noon? Rapid 39min train is 12:22pm otherwise I'll have to catch the the 1.5hr train at 1:21 🙃 - 12pm Hiraizumi-Morioka (39min) - 1pm leave luggage at hotel, lunch, maybe check Morioka Castle ruins if not tired - 3pm hotel check-in, rest - 4pm Morioka-Kitakami (20min, shinkansen 1/hr only - Kitakami cherry blossom festival until night - Stay in Morioka - *Full bloom Hiraizumi Apr 10 / Kitakami Apr 14
Apr 18 (Tue) - D4 pass - 5:30am sunrise at Morioka Castle and/or Takamatsu depending on laziness lol - 8:50am Morioka-Aomori (1hr15min) - 3:56pm rapid train Aomori-Hirosaki (34min) - 5pm Check-in to Hirosaki hotel - Hirosaki Park for sunset and illumination (if there is, since offical festival starts Apr 21 but based on previous years' vlogs lighting starts ahead of festival) - *Full bloom Morioka Castle Apr 11 / Takamatsu Pond Apr 13 - *Full bloom Hirosaki Park Apr 17 / Aomori Happo Park Apr 19
Apr 19 (Wed) - D5 pass - Full day Hirosaki, bike around - Send luggage to Tokyo via hotel - Cafe/restaurant recos? - Possible sidetrips? Ashino Lake is interesting but takes 1.5hrs and too infrequent afternoon trains
Apr 20 (Thurs) - D6 pass - 6:30am Hirosaki-Akita (2hrs18min) - Akita castle ruins and museum - 1pm Akita-Kakunodate - Kakunodate cherry blossom festival has been moved from Apr20 to Apr15 - 6:58pm Kakunodate-Tokyo (3hrs) - Stay in Ginza - *Full bloom Akita Castle Park Apr 13 / Kakunodate Apr 17 / Hinokinai River Apr 18
Apr 21 (Fri) - 10am TeamLab planets (booked) - 2pm Tokyo Ad Museum - Ginza shopping - 5pm Kameido Tenjin Shrine Wisteria Festival - *Hopefully arrival of luggage from Hirosaki
Apr 22 (Sat) - 10am brunch at Jiyugaoka - 12nn Harajuku-Omotesando-Aoyama shopping - 5pm Shibuya Sky (booked)
Apr 23 (Sun) - 8:30am Nezu Shrine (depends on Azelea blooms) - 10am Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art to check if I can get same-day ticket to Dior exhibit - 10:30am Kiyosumi-Shirakawa coffee crawl - Last minute shopping at Shinjuku or Ginza depending on time - *Ginza rooftop recos? - 5:30pm head to Narita Airport
Useful Links: - Cherry Blossom Festivals - General Sakura Forecast - Detailed Tohoku Sakura Forecast
2023.04.01 08:11 BetteDavid Roscoe's Recap - Season 15 Episode 14
- This week’s guests are Anita Wigl'it and Kita Mean
- Silky Nutmeg Ganache was in the audience, and the back of her head is in frame for alot of the viewing party.
- According to Kita, Art Simone returned on DRDU1 because of something “behind the scenes” and that “favours had to be made” in order for the season to go to air. We know that the producers had to reshoot the Episode 2 lipsync, so it sounds like Art only agreed to refilm these scenes if she was allowed to return to the competition, otherwise the producers wouldn’t have a show. Kita hints at this later on but never confirms anything.
- After getting eliminated on Season 8, Naysha got all the way home before she was asked to return to the competition, and hadn’t unpacked yet. She then changed some of her runway package around after she found out she was returning.
- Anita jokingly says Kita winning was “the best of a bad situation”.
- Anita rapped her Queens Down Under verse for the crowd.
- Kita says that since Drag Race Down Under was commissioned by Warner Bros. New Zealand, the show was always meant to film in NZ.
- The DRDU set was 10 minutes away from Anita’s house.
- The Australian queens were given a week’s worth of food to ration over the 7 day quarantine period before filming. After the first day, Coco Jumbo asked someone in production “so when do we get tomorrow’s food”.
- Halfway through, Naysha warns the viewing party that they may lose power at any moment due to the wild weather outside.
- Batty gives a shoutout to twitter dot com user Seddera Side.
- An audience member asks the queens what era they are in:
- Batty is in her “trans” era,
- Kara is in her “taxpayer” era
- Naysha is in her “going to the gym getting ready for Mr. Continental” era
- Kita is in her “blowies in the bathroom” era
- And Anita is in her “circumcised” era. Anita loves cut American cock.
- Silky, Honey Davenport and Naysha are all competing in Continental this year in different categories.
- Kita says Anita was given a laptop with internet access during CANvTW filming, which Anita denies. Kita says “I didn’t sign an NDA for Canada VS The World”.
- A producer on DRDU1 let Anita and Kita have dinner together once during filming, and Kita says he wanted to fuck all the queens. He only managed to fuck Kita before getting fired.
- Anita felt a lot of pressure on CANvTW being the first Down Under representative. She would love to return for another All Stars season.
- The workroom in CANvTW was 4x the size of the Down Under one. Anita thinks CANvTW was filmed in an old aircraft hanger.
- Naysha would like to get rid of Ross and Carson from the panel. Naysha would rather receive constructive criticism from another drag queen instead of Ross and Carson. “You don’t do what I do, you don’t get on stage, you don’t lipsync, you don’t go to the fittings, you don’t design your costumes, you don’t know how to comb a wig, but you’re gonna tell me how to do it?”
- Next week’s guests are Carson Kressley 💀, Detox and Jujubee.
2023.04.01 08:02 SignificanceThin3923 [Store] diretide cc1 and cc2
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Diretide CC 1
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rikiScarlet Subversion14$2
ClockwerkSeadog's Stash13$2
Faceless VoidChines of the Inquisitor14$0
PhoenixCrimson Dawn13.5$1
invokerangle of vex118$ or 9 tf2 keys0
brewmaster The Wilding Tiger 14$0
Diretide CC 2
heroset nameavailablepriceresereved
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legion commanderbrids of prey14$ or 2vtf2 keys0
PudgeCursed Cryptbreaker13.5$0
PudgeCursed Cryptbreaker(unbundled )13$0
HuskarSacred Chamber Guardian13$0
Treant Protector(rare)Grudges of the Gallows Tree010$ or 5 TF2 keys1
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buyer goes first..
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hi i have direteid cc1 and cc2 to and wanna Trade with marketable items, dota 2 items , cs go items, tf2 keys and items , older cc , arcana,terrain king’s new journey ,weather \*\*
Diretide CC 1
heroset nameavailablepriceresereved
:-:-:-:-:-
snapfirewhippersnapper14$ or 2 tf2 keys0
rikiScarlet Subversion14$2
ClockwerkSeadog's Stash13$2
Faceless VoidChines of the Inquisitor14$0
PhoenixCrimson Dawn13.5$1
invokerangle of vex118$ or 9 tf2 keys0
brewmaster The Wilding Tiger 14$0
Diretide CC 2
heroset nameavailablepriceresereved
:-:-:-:-:-
legion commanderbrids of prey14$ or 2vtf2 keys0
PudgeCursed Cryptbreaker13.5$0
PudgeCursed Cryptbreaker(unbundled )13$0
HuskarSacred Chamber Guardian13$0
Treant Protector(rare)Grudges of the Gallows Tree010$ or 5 TF2 keys1
we need to be friends for 30 days to trade
buyer goes first..
Add me if u are interested or text me in instagram
Steam acc :[https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198341311899/](https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198341311899/)
2023.04.01 07:00 SteamieBot The Steamie - Saturday 1 April 2023
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Today in Scottish History
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Mostly cloudy throughout the day.
Around 5 to 10 degrees.
Travel
No line problems reported.
Today in Scottish History
1 April 1811: The birth near Kirkmichael in Ayrshire of James McCosh, the clergyman and prominent philosopher who became president of Princeton University in the USA.
/GlasgowMarket Digest
Looking for 1 Skegss Ticket
1 bottle of Macallan Gold Double Cask Whisky
Any tickets for Goat at the QMU available?
Looking for 2 x Interpol tickets for Edinburgh May 31st
2 golden circle motley crue tickets Glasgow green
Looking for 2x Tickets Scotland v Spain tonight
Selling sitting Ed Sheeran tickets tonight 50 pounds each OBO
1x Tim Heidecker: Live! @ The Garage tonight available (Tue 28th march)
2 Dictator tickets required for Good Friday at King Tuts
Tile adhesive & Edge tile trim
4x Tickets to Henry Rollins @ Glasgow Pavilion Wed 29th
2x Fern Brady tickets for tonight at the Kings
2x Joesef tix @ Barrowlands tonight 7pm - £20 each
I'm selling 2 tickets to Darren Hayes 31 March
Tune of the day
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2023.04.01 06:58 _Triple_ [STORE] 900+ KNIVES/GLOVES/SKINS, 50.000$+ INVENTORY. M9 Fade, M4 Poseidon, Kara Gamma, BFK Freehand, BFK Bright Water, Spec Gloves Kimono, Nomad Fade, M9 Doppler, Skeleton, BFK B.Steel, AWP Fade, Stiletto Fade, S.Gloves Slingshot, BFK Ultra, Kara Damas, Bayo Lore, Bayo Gamma, Flip Fade & A Lot More
Everything in my inventory is up for trade. The most valuable items are listed here, the rest you can find in My Inventory
Feel free to Add Me or even better send a Trade Offer. Open for any suggestions: upgrades, downgrades / knives, gloves, skins / stickers, patterns, floats.
All Buyouts are listed in cash value.
KNIVES
★ Butterfly Knife Freehand FN #1, B/O: $1867
★ Butterfly Knife Bright Water MW, B/O: $1098
★ Butterfly Knife Blue Steel BS, B/O: $907
★ Butterfly Knife Ultraviolet FT, B/O: $789
★ Butterfly Knife Stained FT, B/O: $695
⎯★ Bayonet Tiger Tooth MW #1, B/O: $888
★ Bayonet Gamma Doppler (Phase 4) FN, B/O: $727
★ Bayonet Doppler (Phase 2) FN, B/O: $608
★ Bayonet Doppler (Phase 1) FN, B/O: $521
★ Bayonet Rust Coat BS, B/O: $253
★ Bayonet Night FT, B/O: $251
★ StatTrak™ Bayonet Lore MW, B/O: $751
⎯★ Karambit Gamma Doppler (Phase 4) FN, B/O: $1343
★ Karambit Damascus Steel FT, B/O: $774
★ Karambit Rust Coat BS, B/O: $537
★ Karambit Boreal Forest FT, B/O: $488
⎯★ M9 Bayonet Fade FN, B/O: $1523
★ M9 Bayonet Fade FN, B/O: $1523
★ M9 Bayonet Doppler (Phase 4) FN, B/O: $1008
★ M9 Bayonet Blue Steel FT, B/O: $534
★ M9 Bayonet Rust Coat BS, B/O: $449
⎯★ Flip Knife Fade FN, B/O: $703
★ Flip Knife Gamma Doppler (Phase 1) MW, B/O: $509
★ Flip Knife Doppler (Phase 1) FN, B/O: $406
★ Flip Knife Freehand FT, B/O: $228
★ StatTrak™ Flip Knife Bright Water FN, B/O: $332
⎯★ Falchion Knife Doppler (Phase 2) FN, B/O: $292
★ Falchion Knife Doppler (Phase 3) FN, B/O: $264
★ Falchion Knife Marble Fade FN, B/O: $258
★ Falchion Knife Bright Water MW, B/O: $133
⎯★ Stiletto Knife Fade FN, B/O: $822
★ Stiletto Knife Slaughter FN, B/O: $569
★ Stiletto Knife Doppler (Phase 1) FN, B/O: $530
★ Stiletto Knife Crimson Web FT, B/O: $396
★ StatTrak™ Stiletto Knife Scorched FT, B/O: $172
⎯★ Gut Knife Doppler (Sapphire) MW #1, B/O: $830
★ Gut Knife Fade FN, B/O: $204
★ Gut Knife Tiger Tooth FN, B/O: $138
★ Gut Knife Bright Water MW, B/O: $104
★ Gut Knife Freehand FT, B/O: $92
★ Gut Knife Urban Masked FT, B/O: $82
★ StatTrak™ Gut Knife Rust Coat BS, B/O: $93
⎯★ Shadow Daggers Fade FN, B/O: $258
★ Shadow Daggers Doppler (Phase 3) FN, B/O: $165
★ Shadow Daggers Blue Steel FT, B/O: $82
★ Shadow Daggers Bright Water FT, B/O: $82
★ Shadow Daggers Blue Steel WW, B/O: $80
★ Shadow Daggers Rust Coat BS, B/O: $74
★ StatTrak™ Shadow Daggers Marble Fade FN, B/O: $186
⎯★ Classic Knife Slaughter MW, B/O: $311
★ StatTrak™ Classic Knife Stained BS, B/O: $163
⎯★ Talon Knife Slaughter MW, B/O: $605
★ Talon Knife Scorched MW, B/O: $290
⎯★ Ursus Knife Marble Fade FN, B/O: $405
★ Ursus Knife Night Stripe MW, B/O: $162
⎯★ Paracord Knife Stained WW, B/O: $125
★ Paracord Knife Forest DDPAT FT, B/O: $97
★ Paracord Knife Safari Mesh FT, B/O: $96
⎯★ Navaja Knife Safari Mesh FT, B/O: $71
★ Navaja Knife Scorched WW, B/O: $71
⎯★ Nomad Knife Fade FN, B/O: $1015
★ Skeleton Knife, B/O: $909
★ Bowie Knife Boreal Forest MW, B/O: $106
★ Survival Knife Forest DDPAT FT, B/O: $97
GLOVES
★ Driver Gloves Crimson Weave FT, B/O: $335
★ Driver Gloves King Snake BS, B/O: $270
★ Driver Gloves Lunar Weave WW, B/O: $113
★ Driver Gloves Overtake WW, B/O: $88
★ Driver Gloves Overtake BS, B/O: $67
⎯★ Moto Gloves Transport MW, B/O: $171
★ Moto Gloves Polygon BS, B/O: $137
★ Moto Gloves Transport WW, B/O: $71
★ Moto Gloves 3rd Commando Company BS, B/O: $62
⎯★ Specialist Gloves Crimson Kimono WW, B/O: $1027
★ Specialist Gloves Tiger Strike FT, B/O: $654
★ Specialist Gloves Mogul FT, B/O: $295
★ Specialist Gloves Lt. Commander FT, B/O: $277
★ Specialist Gloves Crimson Web FT, B/O: $275
⎯★ Sport Gloves Slingshot FT, B/O: $796
★ Sport Gloves Amphibious BS #2, B/O: $699
★ Sport Gloves Omega FT, B/O: $656
⎯★ Broken Fang Gloves Unhinged BS, B/O: $60
WEAPONS
AK-47 Case Hardened BS, B/O: $130
AK-47 Bloodsport MW, B/O: $79
AK-47 Fuel Injector BS, B/O: $76
AK-47 Fuel Injector BS, B/O: $76
AK-47 Bloodsport FT, B/O: $70
AK-47 Neon Rider MW, B/O: $60
⎯AWP Fade FN, B/O: $864
AWP BOOM MW, B/O: $84
AWP Containment Breach FT, B/O: $69
AWP Containment Breach FT, B/O: $69
AWP Wildfire FT, B/O: $59
AWP Chromatic Aberration FN, B/O: $59
StatTrak™ AWP Hyper Beast FT, B/O: $65
StatTrak™ AWP Hyper Beast FT, B/O: $65
⎯Desert Eagle Blaze FN, B/O: $565
Desert Eagle Blaze FN, B/O: $565
Desert Eagle Printstream FN, B/O: $155
Desert Eagle Cobalt Disruption FN, B/O: $58
⎯M4A1-S Icarus Fell FN, B/O: $414
M4A1-S Printstream MW, B/O: $204
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2023.04.01 06:46 FinlandBall1939 Ummmm what is happening in my area tomorrow…. Why 5% tornado? :(
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2023.04.01 06:44 FinlandBall1939 I live in Ocean County New Jersey. Wtf is going to happen here tomorrow?!?! Why tornado? D:
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2023.04.01 06:20 lafc88 MLS 2023 Season, Saturday @ 6:39pm: Match 5: Los Angeles FC @ Colorado Rapids
Los Angeles FC @ Colorado Rapids
Game Day Poster
MLS Season 2023 - Match #5
Saturday, April 1st 2023
Approximately 6:39 p.m. PT
Location: Dick's Sporting Goods Park 6000 Victory Way, Commerce City, CO 80022
TV: MLS Season Pass on Apple TV
Radio: 710 AM ESPN, ESPN LA App, 980 AM La Mera Mera
Outdoor Weather: ☀️ 62 Degrees, 23% Humidity, 10 mph Wind, 0% Precipitation
Dicks Sporting Goods Park A-Z
LAFC Away Day Seats - Section 136
Previews
Los Angeles FC Preview
Colorado Rapids Preview
Player Availability Report
Questionable
Cole Bassett (left hamstring) (Rapids)
Braian Galvan (groin) (Rapids)
Out
Maxime Crepeau (right leg fracture) (LAFC)
Yaya Toure (right knee) (Rapids)
Moise Bombito (left knee) (Rapids)
Jack Price (Achilles) (Rapids)
Aboubacar Keita (left hamstring) (Rapids)
Tickets
Ticketmaster
Referees
REF: Drew Fischer
AR1: Kyle Atkins
AR2: Felisha Mariscal
4TH: Diego Blas
VAR: Malik Badawi
AVAR: Tyler Wyrostek
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Game Day Poster
MLS Season 2023 - Match #5
Saturday, April 1st 2023
Approximately 6:39 p.m. PT
Location: Dick's Sporting Goods Park 6000 Victory Way, Commerce City, CO 80022
TV: MLS Season Pass on Apple TV
Radio: 710 AM ESPN, ESPN LA App, 980 AM La Mera Mera
Outdoor Weather: ☀️ 62 Degrees, 23% Humidity, 10 mph Wind, 0% Precipitation
Dicks Sporting Goods Park A-Z
LAFC Away Day Seats - Section 136
Previews
Los Angeles FC Preview
Colorado Rapids Preview
Player Availability Report
Questionable
Cole Bassett (left hamstring) (Rapids)
Braian Galvan (groin) (Rapids)
Out
Maxime Crepeau (right leg fracture) (LAFC)
Yaya Toure (right knee) (Rapids)
Moise Bombito (left knee) (Rapids)
Jack Price (Achilles) (Rapids)
Aboubacar Keita (left hamstring) (Rapids)
Tickets
Ticketmaster
Referees
REF: Drew Fischer
AR1: Kyle Atkins
AR2: Felisha Mariscal
4TH: Diego Blas
VAR: Malik Badawi
AVAR: Tyler Wyrostek
2023.04.01 06:17 DarkOompaLoompa 30 - Psychology prof. reviewing papers and grading assignments, looking for new connections
Writing this post as I take a break from reviewing some papers and grading some assignments. I would like to meet new people and just have nice conversation with any of you who wants to connect with someone like me. I just started working as a professor and peer reviewer and so far I've been loving it. This semester that just ended I taught 3 classes, and it was quite a lovely experience. Some interesting stories, but overall pretty good.
I am someone that has some interests such as music, traveling, and just exploring. I enjoy archery and drawing, I also am getting back into videogames after a 10 year hiatus, so if you can help me here, feel free to reach out.
I really enjoy day transitions, meaning, dawn, dusk, the twilight to me is something I really admire and easily can just stare at and feel a lot of emotions. I like rainy days, but I can also enjoy a sunny breezy day, I prefer cold weather over warm weather. I have a German Shepherd, he's a good boy.
If you've managed to read this and want to talk to me send me a message or a chat, I have no preference. Also, If you have any questions let me know and I'll be more than happy to answer and talk to you
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I am someone that has some interests such as music, traveling, and just exploring. I enjoy archery and drawing, I also am getting back into videogames after a 10 year hiatus, so if you can help me here, feel free to reach out.
I really enjoy day transitions, meaning, dawn, dusk, the twilight to me is something I really admire and easily can just stare at and feel a lot of emotions. I like rainy days, but I can also enjoy a sunny breezy day, I prefer cold weather over warm weather. I have a German Shepherd, he's a good boy.
If you've managed to read this and want to talk to me send me a message or a chat, I have no preference. Also, If you have any questions let me know and I'll be more than happy to answer and talk to you