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The Sybian wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:56 am

Sabo wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:38 am
If you're interested in providing feedback to the CDC about your reaction to the vaccines ...
Been filling that out every day. Wondering how long they will keep asking me.

They asked daily for a week, then weekly after that.

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degenerasian wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 10, 2021 12:50 pm
Billy Horschel has been entertainment today.

It boggles my how these guys can get themselves in such trouble and end up with a par or bogie.

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You would know more than me but the countering statistic would be, how often do cops get shot by an unseen gun when they approach a car? Thus the having to see hands at all times. Or how often are guns in the car at all? I guess it depends on the area. I have no idea because in Canada, getting pull...

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Why are they pointing a gun at him? Because they can. I really wonder if "Disarm the Police" would've been a better rallying cry than Defund. At a minimum, the removal of a gun from the holster should be considered a use of force and subject to review and justification. For fuck sake, cops work for...

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One of my favourites as well. That stat about the brewers almost being in the NL for as long as they were in the AL makes me feel very old indeed. Just wait until we get to "the Giants and Dodgers have been in California longer than they were in New York." They've been the Dodgers in LA a lot longe...

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I got my wife to try edibles with me after a trip to Colorado.

They made her nauseous and head-spinny for a full day and a half. Some kind of reaction to an anti-depressant we think.

So much for that idea.

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Here’s one. We’re a year way from the Athletics spending as many season in Oakland as they have in Philadlephia. They already spent seven more years at the Coliseum than they had at Shibe Park, which opened in 1909 . When do the Braves get to Atlanta > Boston? And I guess the Orioles are way past t...

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One of my favourites as well. That stat about the brewers almost being in the NL for as long as they were in the AL makes me feel very old indeed. Just wait until we get to "the Giants and Dodgers have been in California longer than they were in New York." You are telling me the Giants and Dodgers ...

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Pruitt wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 09, 2021 1:17 pm
One of my favourites as well.

That stat about the brewers almost being in the NL for as long as they were in the AL makes me feel very old indeed.

Just wait until we get to "the Giants and Dodgers have been in California longer than they were in New York."

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L-Jam3 wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 09, 2021 10:59 am
And we're three years away from the Brewers spending as much time in the NL as the AL.

This is so wrong.

But Yount was one of my favorites too. In the mid-1970s we spent our summers running a restaurant in Wisconsin, where Yount was a big deal.

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Yeah, there's really not much the defense has now. The testimony yesterday that a healthy person would've died too was pretty damning, IMO. Also, the bystander testimonies are just gut-wrenching. The guilt they're going to carry the rest of their lives because of this racist piece of shit is so sad...

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Was pretty angry after reading BFJ's post and then got angrier after reading the next two and thinking about all of the kids who get completely left behind because their parents can't or won't fight how Max's parents are fighting for him and then angrier still thinking that means the system is prob...

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Yeah, there's really not much the defense has now. The testimony yesterday that a healthy person would've died too was pretty damning, IMO. Also, the bystander testimonies are just gut-wrenching. The guilt they're going to carry the rest of their lives because of this racist piece of shit is so sad...

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So apparently John Cleese is a Utah Jazz fan?

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This is what Robin Yount apparently looks like today.

Edit: And holy shit, he had an OPS+ of 135 for the 1980s.

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sancarlos wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 08, 2021 10:16 pm

That of course would be my mother-in-law's town.

Though I'm sure she voted for Gaetz. Unfortunately she's gone pretty MAGA.

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mister d wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 08, 2021 8:35 pm
Umps know to be aware of this sort of shit.

Okay but how many different places are they supposed to be focusing on.

I wonder, is this the kind of thing he other umps can advise on? The other three umps are in a much better position to judge something like that.

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I don't know how much you can really blame an umpire there. He's not really looking at the batter, he's looking at the pitch.

Pitches are fast and move a lot, so it takes a lot of concentration (and it's not surprising that umpires miss a bunch of calls). That should be a booth review.

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Am I understanding correctly that vaccine passports and ID's for sports games tickets are tyranny but ID's for voting is a necessity? I don't think IDs for will call tickets are tyranny. I think they're saying requiring IDs for tickets but not for voting is hypocrisy. I found myself wishing this mo...

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I've fainted twice in my life and they both sound like what Sybian goes through. The first time happened at the bar I used to frequent almost daily from 06-08. A couple days later it started to happen again and I let the bartender know. She did what Syb's nurse did and immediately got me a cold tow...

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The Sybian wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 08, 2021 1:55 pm

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 08, 2021 1:51 pm
I I sit when I pee about 80 percent of the time.
Bring this to the "Things that Make Me Old" thread.

Or the "I realized there's no one else who's going to mop the bathroom floor" thread.

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I can't believe this thread has fallen all the way to the bottom of the second page. SMDH.

Anyway ...

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OK, this is really fucking scary.

I figured no one really fainted anymore, it was just a thing for women to do in old movies.

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Holy fuck, Syb. Did they take you to a hospital?

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Plus we just had another routine man-kills-partner-then-himself event in an Ogden store parking lot.

Men should not be allowed to own guns until they stop killing three women every day with them.

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More Republican Family Values! Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill admits affair, won’t run for U.S. Senate: ‘There’s no excuse’ After initially denying reports of an affair, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill on Wednesday afternoon told AL.com that he had “an inappropriate relationship” w...

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Getting my second Pfizer on Saturday. My son got a shot through his school today (first day NC opened it to everyone), and a dude two people in front of him (a grown man) collapsed about two minutes after he got the shot. My son said he just dropped. Left in an ambulance. Don't know what that's abo...

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What are examples of the arrogant liberal certainty about science? Good lord there are probably hundreds, but how about "The Covid vaccine is safe," even though it didn't exist six months ago. Not to mention all kinds of scientific principles about sexual orientation. LIberals used to be arrogantly...

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A_B wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 07, 2021 1:13 pm
Reds on pace to score 1,458 runs this season and this game isn't over yet.

I take my optimism when I can.

On the other end of the spectrum, the Cubs are batting .125 as a team (through nine innings today).

National League pitchers entered today with a collective BA of .132.

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Would it even be fraud to create a nonsense market and bail with the money? Lawyers are already on it ... Are NFTs Securities? In the case of NFTs that constitute art or collectibles, on the surface of things, such NFTs should arguably not be deemed to be securities. (Needless to say, any given NFT...

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So after 80+ years Topps is going public (via SPAC). They are describe as a trading card and NFT company. Can anyone ELI5 an NFT for me? I just looked it up on Wikipedia and I'm more confused than when I started. Can anyone ELI5 ELI5 for me? Explain Like I'm 5. As in this shit is way over my head s...

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I think one of the biggest arrogances of humans, especially conservatives, is that we know just about everything there is to know about science, economics, the universe, etc. when humans of every era have basically held that same belief and we've always been proven wrong. It should be humbling, but...

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A_B wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 07, 2021 12:07 pm
I’m all stuck up!!!!!

Awesome, AB.

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Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:28 am

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 06, 2021 8:25 pm
So after 80+ years Topps is going public (via SPAC). They are describe as a trading card and NFT company.
Can anyone ELI5 an NFT for me? I just looked it up on Wikipedia and I'm more confused than when I started.

Can anyone ELI5 ELI5 for me?

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Has anyone watched the 'Jack Ryan' series on Amazon? I've watched the first two episodes this week while riding my wind trainer, and thought it was decent, but I'm just wondering if its worth getting invested in it. Did both seasons. It is okay. Not very Tom Clancy but who cares. Just a decent acti...

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EnochRoot wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 06, 2021 7:20 pm
So I'm watching Being There (Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine). Where's this freakin movie been all my life?

I think I watched that movie in the theaters, when it came out. Possibly even with my parents.

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I think one of the biggest arrogances of humans, especially conservatives, is that we know just about everything there is to know about science, economics, the universe, etc. when humans of every era have basically held that same belief and we've always been proven wrong. It should be humbling, but...

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