Thursday Night Open Thread

One of my favorite music videos from the early days of music videos was the Dire Straits song “Money For Nothing.” I liked the song before I saw the video. I liked it after I saw the video.

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What’s on your mind? Got something you’d like share? A joke? Something that’s been on your mind? It’s Thursday Night Open Thread.

Who wants to start?

Another Commune Waiting to Fail. Try the Free State Project, Instead

A company called Blue Frontiers plans to build 300 houses on a seaborne platform off the island of Tahiti that will run under its own governance.

*Sigh*… I remember back when it was 3000 miles wide and called “America”.

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Yes, Why DON’T the Blades of Grass Just Get Pushed Over?

[How Lawn Mower Blades Cut Grass (at 50,000 FRAMES PER SECOND) – Smarter Every Day 196] (Viewer #1,736,798)

You can jump out after 7:52

Link of the Day: Rating This Zero Pinocchios

[High Praise! to The Babylon Bee]

Democrats Accuse Trump Of Sexism For Not Nominating Female Justice They Promised To Block

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Icebreaker: What’s the Best Piece of Advice You’ve Ever Been Given?

Previously: “The 25 most popular icebreaker questions based on four years of data

76 Fun Icebreaker Questions

Currently: The Only List of Icebreaker Questions You’ll Ever Need (Not all of which will be used, since some are either/or questions, which are boring.)

Your mission: answer the question in the comments with a good story.

If you don’t have a good story, you are encouraged to make one up.

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?

It’s either “wear your seatbelt” (which has saved my life a couple of times) or “don’t try to beat the stock market, settle for a tie by buying Index Funds”.

Also, “don’t try to have the last sign on the moon, you’ll only die tired”.

Hippies Ruin Everything

[High Praise! to Freedom Is Just Another Word]

Straight Line of the Day: Recently Stolen from a Top Secret Pentagon Research Laboratory…

Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.

Recently stolen from a top secret Pentagon research laboratory

The Illustrated Frank J: I Thought We Settled This Issue on June 17th

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Let’s Flip That Coin Again

The city of Boston is considering extending voting rights to non-US citizens.

What a silly thing to do. I know for a fact Boston has a perfectly good harbor they could throw them into, instead.