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In the early Mapquest era; I once had someone call me from a cell phone because they could not figure out DC so they needed me to get on Mapquest and give them turn by turn directions like I was a living Google map; I cannot imagine what that call must have cost

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Bragging online about how you are too smart to fall for a scam is a really good way to make yourself a target for scams

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I have nothing of substance to contribute to the current discourse about the French Revolution except to remind all Americans that Les Misérables is not about the French Revolution; it was a historical novel from 1862 that runs 1815 to the June Rebellion of 1832 against the July Monarchy

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

2013: Sixer's fans are told to Trust the Process as their team that knocked off a 1st seed two years earlier is turned into maybe the worst NBA team ever for the hope of becoming great; they finished this year 24-58 and haven't been out of the second round since 2001 (1/x)

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

Just put this here for later... I think the President is going to name himself Fed Chair

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Grocery stores rightly get a lot of flack for putting out matzah for every Jewish holiday, but you don't get points as a retailer for putting out Hamantaschens for sale for Passover

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Its telling that every post here of a small business going under from the tariffs has a very large % of comments mocking them for voting for it, even though there is normally no textual evidence about the politics of the person or even a stereotype of it; people just long for a morality play... 1/x

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

The Searchers (1956) Directed by John Ford Cinematography by Winton C. Hoch

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

April Fools jokes in the internet era are a curse and should have been abandoned decades ago; they had a logic in the pre internet but now are just an excuse for everyone to tryout their Onion auditions or yet more “wacky” branding

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Reboot The Wire but Hamsterdam is now just a farmer's market

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Walgreens prepares to file bankruptcy and close down in 7 years which the media will credit to “changing market conditions” www.marketwatch.com/story/walgre...

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First Federal Judge has argued (though not for the majority) in a published ruling that term limits do not actually exist for Presidents, see Castro v. Oliver (2025) (10th Circ.) (Eid, conc.); in fairness, it reads better in the original German www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/f...

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

Seeing Joann Fabrics filed bankruptcy again and is closing 60% of their stores and waiting to see in their ownership history when they were bought by private equity that ran them into the ground

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

Once again it is journalistic malpractice to talk about the closing of a company bought by private equity that failed after the purchase without talking about that takeover and instead take the PE's claim for why the company failed at face value, as is with Quiksilver, Billabong and Volcom today

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