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  • Find something you actually enjoy.

    Historic European Martial Arts. Swing a sword and mace.

    https://youtu.be/sMPSCb7frrc

    Or you can dance, or juggle, or tumble...

    Stephen Fry lost 100 pounds by listening to audiobooks while he walked.

    There are game consoles that connect to a treadmill; you have to keep your legs pumping or the game stops.

  • I have to agree with Stephen King and say that the Kennedy assassination was the moment it snapped.

    Going heavy in Vietnam started the destruction of the US economy, and Nixon tripled down on it.

  • Here's something not many people consider.

    Before Reagan, popular media had tons of intellectual content. Superheroes would hang out with Edgar Allan Poe or Sitting Bull. Cartoons like Mr. Peabody taught kids the names of historical figures and Bugs Bunny played opera.

    Then Reagan deregulated kids TV and you got half hour long commercials for GI Joe and The Transformers.

  • Drama

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  • Old time science fiction writer Fritz Leiber posited that the best place to hide time travelers was in a theater. Theaters opne and close and no one is amazed, and if a civilian sees an astronaut talking to someone in armor it's not a big deal.

  • Sadly, the Air Force has to rebuild it so it can serve as a Presidential plane. That means the 'gift' will cost the taxpayers more than just building a new jet would. One of the reasons the emirs needed to get rid of it is that 747s are old tech and there aren't a lot of mechanics who specialize in them any more.

  • In case you didn't know.

    The plane isn't some special gift the Qataris built special for Donnie.

    It's a white elephant they've been trying to unload for years.

    It's like a fat guy giving the pizza kid the old bike he hasn't ridden since he got over the DUI restrictions.