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Thanks! Yeah its been a blast to play with. I was just playing around with the bluetooth and wifi now that my new computer has bluetooth as well. Figured out how to update the firmware on it and wirelessly upload the photos to nikons online free storage thingy! Ive got alot more to learn but I think the next step is starting to dive into Light Room. Thats a whole nother world. Absolutely! let it rip baby! I know its much more difficult to share photos but please do when you can. Ive got too much on my plate to dive into the film camera yet but its on the list.

Lovely photos, @Viva la FCB so I assume you're enjoying your camera? I'm attending a gig tomorrow, might as well make use of my 16$ roll

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Some more pics from an extended weekend adventure. Was a hike we did down a small valley where they had a handful (maybe 6 or 8 ) train cars that had derailed sometime in the 50's that where beyond recovering. The locals throughout the years graffiti'd them... in the middle of a forest nearly.. was kinda cool. Also the waterfall was a different area but man I dont think Ive ever seen it raging this much.

DeSantis is just a moron with a Harvard degree, he could have backed off on Disney but claimed victory and the low info base of GOP voters would have been none the wiser, while he'd still retain Disney support for his candidacy most likely. Truth or accuracy doesn't matter so much to voters, as long as you say something enough times confidently enough, Trump's demonstrated that these lies just get accepted as truth by enough people. Instead he's ended up tying up millions of dollars of taxpayer money into a legal battle with Disney... a company that is notoriously good at winning it's legal battles... while costing the state billions of Disney investment and just saw Disney's plans to relocate thousands of it's white collar tech workers to Florida scrapped in an instant. Even if you've got some high-info GOP voters out there who may have considered him... if you're a fiscal conservative, you'd likely be seeing him as a clown who's blowing his state's treasury on these idiotic battles he's picking to get national media attention. And if you're a pro-business conservative, you've just seen him go against an American business institution and one of the largest employers in the state. This is a media created mess - treating Trump as a serious candidacy has permanently changed political discourse in the US. He has a real cult of personality (don't ask me how lol), I'd say 20-30% of voters are pretty firmly in his grasp. It's got the GOP in a race to see if any candidate can "out-Trump" Trump in primaries. And then the question has to be asked... does the Trumpiest candidate that makes it through primaries have a chance at winning moderates over with a moderate democrat running against them. Left-wing voters will hold their nose and vote against anyone Trumpy, even if they're voting for a democrat that's about as left wing as George W Bush. I don't think America can clean up this mess without things getting a hell of a lot worse than they already are. But even then... I'm not so sure - we saw people storm the US capitol and most of the punishments we've seen so far have been a comparative slap on the wrist. Are Americans too complacent to demand a government that actually works for them? Tbh, I think so. This was a country founded on a protest of lack of representation despite high taxes - look at California, it's got the most democrats AND republicans in the country. It's the economic backbone of the US. And for months it had just 1 senator representing it's interests in the senate. It has the most members of the house of representatives and at the same time is the most underrepresented state in national politics per capita. 12% of the US population controls 60% of the US senate. It's a broken, outdated, and anti-democratic system of government that goes around acting like it is the bastion of freedom and democracy.

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Took a weekend roadtrip up to Whistler, BC for 3 nights. The Sea to Sky Highway is a beautiful drive this time of year, we also stopped a bunch along the way up (only roughly a 2 and 1/2 hour drive total). Been waiting for my passport renewal as the bastards went on strike in the middle of me mailing it in.

@Tommy Looks great mate. Brings back a lot of memories from our holiday in Makarska last September. I think between the pics you'll take and mine somewhere in this thread, we have enough to convince this lot to go there Best waters in Europe hands down for me and I include Greece in that. Enjoy!

Commiserations @Stan @Dan you nearly did it. is this the strongest team to ever be relegated from the Prem? you have some top players, no way should Forest and the like be finishing above you, where's it all gone wrong this season and will you bounce straight back?

I wondered what you meant until I read back on the posts.

Nudge is correct, John's post has very little to do with the subject matter of this thread, which is actually about neo-nazis and holocaust deniers.

Imagine getting one lifetime on this earth and will fully denying yourself of a medium/rare steak! I can understand being picky about where your meat comes from, I’m anti religious slaughter and I’ve been in that many abattoirs & Battery farming set ups with work to avoid supermarket meat all together. I don’t think I’ll ever understand subverting natural instincts and thousands of years worth of human evolution to suddenly walk away from our place at the pinnacle of the food chain. It must be some sort of mania brought about by vitamin b12 deficiency

Some animals can't exist in the wild without human's farming them.Just food for thought.

We're technically not herbivores either, considering we can't digest cellulose ... Within biology, humans are regarded as omnivores, and rightly so - we've been scavengers from the early days as we have the capability to digest both plant and animal matter. Today it's perfectly possible to live healthy on a completely vegan diet in a developed country if one makes sure to get all nutrients from alternative sources (especially B12 since we can't acquire it from non-animal sources), but we're not biological plant-only (or meat-only) eaters. As for factory farming, it's horrible because of the drive to maximise output by minimising the costs, thus resulting in horrible living conditions and administering drugs to stimulate aberrant growth. It's nasty af, both in regards to animals and the health of the consumer.

Many humans have painful and deprived lives that would be improved if they had the luxury to afford animal products. What you're saying makes no sense. Are you saying that animals don't live in luxury or that ease of access to animal products isn't indicative of a luxurious and decadent society and/or culture? Humans come before animals, always (well of course there are exceptions), you cannot ethically tell a person with hunger pangs that they need to take better care of their animals when they themselves probably live an equally brutal life. When a culture or society has advanced to the point where animal welfare is a serious consideration then it's a culture that has advanced beyond the need for animal products; as it has become a luxury; not a necessity for survival. The squalid conditions of animal farming is due to the decadent nature of many nations. High animal yield is due to high crop yield, only societies with food to spare have high meat based diets, which is most western nations. Which leads to the self-actualisation of animal morality, only when the need for our own survival is removed do we care for the survival and treatment of animals.The ethics of treating animals correctly doesn't exist in a Moroccan goat-herding village. Choice is a luxury, we can choose to eat meat, or not to and live a healthy productive life. Most people don't have that choice.

Wow ! You people from first world countries debate on such luxurious issues