MidWest Meetup?
You make it and intro, Ill move the posts 
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I see you have made it, and there has been some contributions already, So let me know if you want me to move the posts from here ( which will throw out your message timeline ) or just let 'em die in here, Iām happy either way
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I donāt see anything too important if it doesnāt get moved
You ever noticed how they give you more captchas the more protection you have?
Like not even reasonable more, if Iām on TOR and blocking everything but captchas I have to spend minutes solving little AI riddles to read a fucking blog post. I hate captchas so much.
Btw, this works some times.
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Big data doesnāt like anonymity. The more you block scripts, the more stuff they throw at you to make you stop.
In the case of TOR, the company thatās singlehandedly responsible for serving up those captchas is Cloudflare. Thatās one hateful bunch of sumbitches I wish would burn in hell.
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Some of these chinese products make me think that Iād need chinese furniture with extremely thin doorsā¦
The communist party in the PRC imposes very strict standards on how hard doors and furniture should be for the police to bust open when they come get ya in the middle of the night.
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As much as I hate the CCP, something tells me that youāre joking.
However, the marketing picture that I posted earlier does not inspire confidenceā¦
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Iām partially joking 
Do you often see pure Chinese products that inspire confidence? Itās getting better for sure these days, but Chinese-branded products - particularly consumer products - are rarely something you know will be quality-built, durable and well-engineered.
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Last couple of interesting looking Chinese products I saw were direct rip offs of designs that someone else had produced and paid a Chinese factory to make them, so the factory also stole the design. 
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A sizable portion of my rather large collection of vaping mods is Chinese ripoffs: they work great on account of the good western design for a fraction of the stupid price the original US companies asked for the genuine articles. So Iām not complaining
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I hope some advertisment is okay hereā¦ I just saw that one of my all-time favourite games is for sale on steam, and since I spent tons of hours with it and enjoyed it a lot, I thought I might just share it.
To be honest, it has nothing to do with implants or cyborgs, but it has a wonderful gloomy setting and tons of great storys - with quite a few interesting ethical decisions to be made, and thatās what made me think it might be interesting to some of you 
If itās not, just ignore this postā¦^^
edit: ha, the number one on my list of favourite games is for sale as well!
Maybe itās a bit too āoldā, graphic-wise, but it tells an impressive storyā¦
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Planescape: Torment FTW! So much nostalgiaā¦
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I love all those little storys around the main plot - the main story is really great (and sad, and beautiful), but the amazing moments are the stones in the sennsate room (with the recorded memories), the story of Es-Annon, the girl who walked tons of planes and is afraid of portals now or the giant golem who forges the weapons of entropy.
Itās just incredibly creative and strange and unique. And the soundtrack is hauntingā¦
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Thatās so well known in the car community that people call over to factories to figure out what off brand turbos are just clones of high end ones.
I personally hate that and try to buy from the original company when possible.
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So you only buy human-cyborg implants from Dangerous Things 
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If you drew a line down the middle of the country then yes, it would run through āthe mid westāā¦ But the far western end of it.
When looking at compass points you donāt call the direction between North and East āNorth Westā. Can I suggest we divide the continental US into five groups, the Atlantic coast, The Pacific coast, the middle, the inland east and the inland west. Those titles are descriptive and donāt need explanations about why āthe mid-westā includes so many states in the North East quadrant of the country, and none in the South.