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And they say American ingenuity is dead.

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There was an explosion of euphoria yesterday in Cub world when they re-signed Bellinger.

At our local Greek breakfast place, a guy was wearing both a Cubs jacket and a Cubs hat. (Not a ballcap, but a driving cap - it looked really cool actually.) He had me beat because I just had a Cubs sweatshirt.

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Aren’t those more efficient than “there’s nothing we can do about that” and “even though that’s the case”?

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Or "What is the ask?" grrr In my new role as dealing with Customer Support tickets, I have found myself saying that...and hating myself as the words leave my mouth. Didn’t Calvin and Hobbes have a thing about Calvin nouning verbs? Or was that verbing nouns? Anyway, “what’s the ask” is muc...

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Watching Masters of the Air Episode 5. Fuck. Every one of these 8th AF guys was a redshirt. Wife basically went upstairs a couple weeks ago tired of a similar sentiment. We haven't watched it since, but I'll finish it up soon enough. (This really is a mild spoiler for Episode Six.) Episode 6 was le...

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And if he doesn’t? Still doesn’t matter if not enforced by…anyone. Whatever criticism you want to level at the various enforcement bodies and legal jurisdictions I don't think you can accuse them of not going after Trump. He's looking at two civil trials and four criminal trials in a 12-month span....

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Watching Masters of the Air Episode 5.

[+] spoiler: Fuck. Every one of these 8th AF guys was a redshirt.

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tennbengal wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:27 pm And if he doesn’t?

Still doesn’t matter if not enforced by…anyone.

Yeah, but he's always being audited. That's why he can't publicly release his tax filings.

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The reason that pitchers get hurt so often is simple: The human body is not meant to do what pitchers do. I present this with a caveat, though, which is that I would argue that the human body is literally built to throw things. There’s evidence that thrown object hunting is actually a crucial point...

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Good lord, that brings back nightmares from my adventures in 2014, when we drove with the dog in the motorhome with the window open, looked back, and he was gone.

http://sportsfrog.net/phpbb/viewtopic.p ... 405#p43405

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A_B wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2024 2:07 pm
sancarlos wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2024 2:02 pm I read awhile back that he really wanted to pitch for Seattle, his hometown team, but they passed.
RIP Mariners. Can't believe I missed that one.

Don't worry, AB. At least one person got the joke.

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Doesn’t sound legal at all and yes this is a naive thing to say. With Lara Trump as the RNC Chair, I'm sure she will act in the best interest of the Party. There have been rumblings about Trump fundraising being fraudulent for many years. I think they send out those emails with just enough of a tet...

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Apparently Rass has a spiritual cousin in Salt Lake.

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Anybody catch any of Monsieur Spade on AMC, starring Clive Owen? It is about Dashiel Hammett’s private detective Sam Spade (made famous by Humphrey Bogart in the 1941 film noir, The Maltese Falcon ), but it is 20 years later, he’s living in retirement in France, and he gets caught up in a local int...

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And it's not just the south and blacks. Our history classes generally completely gloss over the countless Native American massacres we committed over a few centuries. Might have a paragraph or two on the Trail of Tears, but we'd been slaughtering and stealing from the natives for a few hundred year...

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For example, how many of you are aware of the Wilmington, NC massacre? It was as large or larger than the Tulsa massacre. I believe it is the only successful armed coup in American history, yet few outside of NC have heard of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_massacre Heh, I literally ju...

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I am…I still think it’s great. Yeah, I think its great. The CGI gets a little janky in spots, but I can look past that. Any of the gunner positions would be horrible…you’re just so exposed. Or the bombardier...sure, I sit here in a glass bubble, totally exposed, as I try to hit a railyard from 30,0...

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Rex wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 7:20 pm OK I've heard of curling, and I've even heard of Canada, but "Mountain Time Zone"? That's a bridge too far.

The best time zone for sports.

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Without using MAGA-brain logic, what difference does this make negatively for a criminal defendant? Like normally, let’s say the DA isn’t banging anyone, she’d appoint the best prosecutor, right? But if she just appointed the guy she’s raw-dogging, he would by logic NOT be the best prosecutor in th...

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Counterpoint: if there was damage to a global cultural treasure such as the Great Wall or Angkor Wat or the Great Pyramid or the Sydney Opera House due to a disaster, rich people spending their money to repair it IS doing something that matters. Agree. Culture and arts and symbols matter, too. It’s...

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It's almost like local politicians bringing politically motivated criminal charges is a bad idea.

Though none of today's theater has anything to do with the merits of the criminal charges.

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Lol

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I dunno. I love the Slovenia stripe, but the vertical stripes with it make me dizzy.

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That's the thing. Fox and their ilk have successfully turned politics so partisan that a true follower believes 100% of the things their party leaders (or Tucker Carlson) believe. If they like Putin and Russia, then I like Putin and Russia! Or even worse, "if the [Dems/Liberals/Elite] hate Put...

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L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 2:10 pm Dave Stieb was really under-appreciated.

Yeah, he had a helluva run from 1982-85 especially.

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Yes, the Offseason is over, Spring Training has begun.

(Ok, so this tweet doesn't actually have anything to do with spring training. And may have been posted before for all I know.)

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Wasn't the ultimate result of the Muller report was that Putin tried to bribe Trump, but TFG was too fucking stupid to understand the deal? Both Mueller and the (then-Republican) Senate concluded that Trump welcomed and took advantage of Russian assistance. As Trump Jr famously tweeted out, when th...

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Is that Rachel Dolezal? About two weeks ago I got a call from a manager; one of her employees asked if her Only Fans account violated the Firm's outside employment policy. I told the manager to go through all the videos to make sure there is nothing with Firm branding present in any of the content....

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Okaloosa County is really backwards. My mother-in-law lives there. They’re not hiring the best candidates.

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Hopefully it's just acorns falling.

Edit: Nope.

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I am not envious.

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That's fantastic, Dave. Congratulations.

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Good guys with guns down in Matt Gaetz country ...

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Sorry, bud. Make it a priority at your next job that they also include west coast business trips. That would be ideal. Glad I got a final trip in and one to Seattle right before I left. I appreciate all the support, but not down (yet). Actually a little excited about the postings I'm seeing, so may...

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Thierry Henry does a great job getting the ball down - without using his hands!

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Damn, Syb. That must be so stressful. Good luck.

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It’s not about faith, it’s a political play. I will say this, when I saw the ad live, I automatically looked for overt bigotry and was pleasantly surprised to see them including folks that are more obvious targets of Christian hate - minorities, immigrants, drug users, queers, etc. It was only afte...

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One RMNP note is that the West side of the park (from Grand Lake to the top of Trail Ridge Road) imo is better than the East side. There are about 1/10 the visitors so it's much much quieter, and it's the only place I've ever been to where I've never *not* seen at least a couple moose (we've been u...

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L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 2:04 pm That’s like complaining that your pawns don’t correctly understand the en passant rule.

Lol

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I just learned by listening to the Beatles channel that Admiral Halsey didn't in fact, "need a bath or he couldn't get to sleep" he needed a "berth or he couldn't get to sea". No fucking way. Way. Makes sense when you consider he's an Admiral. Well, yeah, but all that stuff abou...

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