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Re: Stupid pipe **** that pops into my head.
@ShawnOL said:
How important is breaking in a pipe? Should I coat the chamber with honey?
A lot of pipes come with a coating in the bowl so that they really don’t need broken in. If you can see wood grain on the inside I would definitely break it in. You can do it by starting with very small amounts of tobacco at a time until it builds up a carbon layer. Just be careful not to use a really strong tobacco in regards to flavor unless it’s the only type of tobacco you plan on using that pipe for. With the wood completely exposed it will ghost much easier.
Rdp77
Re: Existing discussion posting problems
I see it's more than just the css issue, now when it loads fully, it shows an unfinished looking site. It doesn't looked good.
Yakster
Re: Existing discussion posting problems
This new format blows hard. Can we have the old one back?
Itsfine
Re: Political Discussions
@Amos_Umwhat said:
@silvermouse said:
This strikes me as an outstanding example of race baiting propaganda. Exactly of the nature to ensure that conflict between the races remains active in our country, and never dies.
With complete disregard of facts or truth, Mr. Bolling reaches into the psyche of the disaffected or delusional, offends anyone who believes in merit as being a primary source of personal accomplishment, thus keeping the flames of hatred stoked in order to provide a source of power for those who wish to exploit those sentiments in certain segments of our population.
Well, that's politics for you. Some things never change. I'm sure the Socialists will enjoy the gist of this one.
I should add that I don't fault Edward, having lived through the years when institutional racism was a real thing I say none of us want that to return. Why don't we just let it die?
I don't mean to start anything up because I really don't want to, but I think it's important that we all realize it's an institutional racism is alive and well in the United States of America. I was like you Steve. I didn't believe it I even spoke against the idea several times. And I adopted a black kid. I can tell you that it's real. I can give you a hundred no **** examples that will be tldr. Or maybe you wouldn't even agree with some of them. Maybe you would agree that was institutional racism just racism.
But that's not true. To me institutional or systemic racism means that the racism is built into the system + the system leaves one with very few choices but to remain in the system. Credit scores, public schools, social services, grocery stores, and prisons are all examples that keep systemic or institutional racism alive in this country.
You can slice it and dice it and alibi it anyway you want, but the bottom line is that if you're born into poverty, you're going to grow up in poverty and you're going to live in poverty as an adult. If you go up a class it is only one class. There are no outs unless you can shoot a basketball or sing a song. Poor people are born with no money they're trying to act like they have no money they're not giving opportunities to make any money, and they are encouraged to reproduce in the neighborhood with no money so their children grow up poor.
Itsfine
Re: Things I Hate
When they change something about the forum. Just opened it and all my fonts are different along with a few other things. Probably something to keep it up to date…but I still don’t like it.
Rdp77
Re: Things I Hate
@Rdp77 said:
When they change something about the forum. Just opened it and all my fonts are different along with a few other things. Probably something to keep it up to date…but I still don’t like it.
I just wondered in here to post the same thing.
Vision
Re: Political Discussions
Leaders, staff purged at US health agencies
Thousands of people are losing their jobs at agencies across the US Department of Health and Human Services, including at the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institutes of Health. Among the leaders who were offered the choice between administrative leave or reassignment to remote locations is infectious-disease physician Jeanne Marrazzo, who succeeded Anthony Fauci as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history,” says infectious-diseases epidemiologist Michael Osterholm.
