Thank you for answering the question, although with much snark. It was an honest question.

It’s for draining your boat. Lacking it will sink your boat.

LOL, read my story below. Tried exactly that, and it worked well enough to get beached. Shenanigans followed.

They ALL do! I have 5 kayaks, 1 giant canoe and a 10’ flat bottom. They all have a drain plug of some sort.

Within seconds of shoving off into the swamp last spring when I noticed the missing plug. Trick here is, the canoe takes a minute to flood and I would have been well away from shore before noticing. Also, the monster LIPO4 battery and trolling motor would have took us to Dave Jone’s locker with the quickness. Can’t imagine how I could have got that gear back, but at least the water’s clear!

Story time!

Drunk dad takes me and my Boxer pup on the lake in our crappy little boat. Great times! Until we stopped for a minute to rescue dog overboard. Then we start sinking, plug’s laying on the deck, and the motor won’t start. Then dad falls out trying to get the dog. At this point we’re up to the fucking gunwales with water. Never saw dad panic before or since, guess he couldn’t swim, but he was flooding the boat trying to scramble back in.

Forgot how I managed, but got it beached on the closest shore. Dad bails of the boat with his cookie tin full of pot, terrified it got wet. It wasn’t, so he rolled a joint.

Boat won’t start because the battery was underwater too long, dead as a sack of hammers. I take his keys and start on the 12-mile walk back to the car. 10-miles of dragging that fucking dog down that country road. Why dragging? Because it got dark and I had trained her to not move when she saw headlights coming. Fuck me. Why 2-miles short? Because dad came driving up!

So many lessons learned that day. #1 was probably: Just walk to the nearest house and ask for help. Fuck me.

(This was in the early 90s, no cell. Dad actually had a car phone, for all the good it did.)

Next time I’ll tell y’all about me and the boys sinking my canoe. That was a great camping trip.

How do you think image enhancement has always worked? Do you think AI tools are ignoring 30-years of Photoshop equations?

And no, we shouldn’t be fiddling with primary sources. Do you think Wikipedia is a primary source?

This article does a poor job of covering the background.

But Louvre workers call Macron hypocritical and say the 700 million to 800 million-euro ($730 million to $834 million) renovation plan masks a deeper crisis. While Macron is investing in new entrances and exhibition space, the Louvre’s annual operating subsidies from the French state have shrunk by more than 20% over the past decade — even as visitor numbers soared.

https://apnews.com/article/louvre-museum-paris-closed-lines-delay-2bbf9be4f49de739fd14dd4d908e4d72

The staff is getting their ass kicked.

I’m thinking you don’t understand how many acres it takes to feed a few people. I’d be scared shitless trying to feed my skinny family of 4 on a single acre, and that’s assuming a constant water supply.

OK, looked around a bit, yeah, we’d starve on 1 acre.

If you’re a Mexican politician who has, in any way, crossed the cartel(s), you have to know there’s a target on your back.

My question is this: Do they not have access to government protection? Hell, even private protection?

I’m barely above average IQ, not a great shot, no formal combat training, yet I feel I could have fended with them off with my AR and a like-armed buddy. Again, I’m certainly no badass, but an AR with a mid-tier red-dot sight is literally a point-and-click interface. Some kind of panic lock and strong door would likely have gone a long way as well.

In May, the mayor of Santiago Amoltepec was shot dead in an ambush along with two other people who were in the car with him at the time of the attack.

THAT is different situation altogether, requiring professional security. But they couldn’t have a couple of armed men to guard a building? Just standing inside looking out the window? What am I not seeing here?

Police corruption will certainly come up, but I feel they have to keep that on the down-low, not, “Oh! It’s you guys! Come on in!”

Similar to my ex-wife who grew up on well water with loads of minerals. She found tap water to be disgusting and said it tasted of chemicals. And everywhere I’ve lived in America, the tap water is indeed loaded with chemicals.

For anyone wanting a cool experiment to try: Turn your tap water on full blast and fill a cup. Immediately hover your nose directly above the water and take a deep smell. Now set that glass in the sun for an hour or three, or just leave it on the counter for a day, smell again.

For a longer term experiment: Water identical plants with a) only tap water, b) only rainwater. I catch rainwater and have found a profound improvement in my house plants and terrariums.

When I started learning SQL Server, I was so ignorant I couldn’t even search for what I needed.

Don’t feel dumb. Just figured out a couple of years back that hats are useful, often necessary, in the sun. I’m 54.

Young men come up fighting as well. My ex-wife worked in surgery and got punched a few times. Don’t know what I’d be like now, but as a young men, back the hell up from the bed.

The guys with Glocks? Agreed.

Boeing is straight fucking scum, but that was the strangest plane crash I’ve ever seen. (LOL, like I’m an export.) The truth will out.

So sorry, but it’s been a few years. Took a stab at finding it, failed. You’ll find many like discussions here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/liberalgunowners/

I know. Reddit is anathema around here, but there’s a damned fine, and sane, community there.

And one man walked away from that. The mind boggles.

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People always frame this shit as, “What ya gonna do against tanks and drones?!” Not a goddamned thing. But let’s just say the military infrastructure would collapse in weeks without civilian help.

I could go on all night, but there was an excellent post on /r/liberalgunowners that outlined dozens of ways to fight the military on the streets. Much of it was, “Those tanks and drones don’t drive or maintain themselves.”

federal employees writing essays of loyalty and praise

I’ll be the devil’s advocate here. They only need write on what they will do to move his agenda(s) forward. It’s not the dick sucking thing it’s been made out to be, but it’s still too fucking close for comfort.