hamiltwan.bsky.social
You snooze, you lose.
Well, I have snost and lost.
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Wild that they made Star Wars movies and didn't have the equivalent of having a cop or doctor (for a police procedural or medical drama) in the form of someone who spent 10,000 hours with the EU. I bet Rian Johnson did though.
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Or that beef is extruded naturally from the ground!
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Counterpoint - I once saw Hollis Thomas in the airport and he was legitimately the size of a compact car.
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Did...did we used to dress up in taco suits? I feel like I'd remember that?
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Next thing you're gonna tell me is that the dreads aren't real??
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Is it June already? Time for a "leak" from the Eagles that this year, Davis is in the best shape of his life.
Obviously I'm falling for it again tho.
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It's amazing the number of charts where you see a series of dips in some quality of life indicator as it's like: pandemic, global depression, war, global depression, Ronald Reagan, global recession, pandemic.
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Especially because this is a percentile! Those men may be better off, they're just less better off in comparison to women. Which is fine!
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It's pretty wild that 100% of them profess to love the musical Hamilton, and one of the main themes of that show was that in politics it is better to stand for anything than to be (or appear to be) "standing for nothing."
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There are also a bunch of pundits who decided their beat was "anti-woke" and somehow the Dem establishment decided that must be what they should stand for too, despite it not really being any specific policy. So you get a ton of people who don't even know what to pretend to stand for.
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This is why you can't let Pittsburgh make decisions.
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Also, there are tons of places selling them, so the really good places aren't charging too much, like you might find in a smaller town.
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NY Bagels are good (imo, and I lived there for 6 years) because there is enough demand that you're getting them fresh, and from people who have been making thousands every day for a long time. There are bad bagels in NYC too.
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Philly people get called a lot of things, but even the worst Dallas fan wouldn't think to call us snobs.
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(Philadelphia parochialism>>>NYC version)
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Is that like a Wawa?
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Obviously, it's named for being invented (by you) in the "California Zone."
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Lol at you thinking "getting your ass beat" is _you_ choosing violence.
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So reading through the replies, I think the guy somehow thinks that the actors that have parents as directors are nepobabies because their parent is a director, not because their parent is in the same industry as them? He's cargo culting the term?
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But imagine how good a burger made from a million dollar Saudi racehorse I stole would be.
Probably not great? Horses aren't good for burgers? But still!
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If a reporter can ask him "do you think you'd be doing a better job if you were still in charge," he will absolutely say he would be better, and that he was in charge. No way he has the sense to realize that is economic suicide.
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Really enjoyed "the Cowboys make mistakes, but not at that level," and then checking to see if they've extended Parsons yet. Nope, looks like they're being safe and just giving Dak a bunch of top of the market short term deals that certainly haven't wrecked their ability to spend.
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You'd think Jerry Jones would be too busy with other things to be writing SportsNation blog posts.
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Didn't read the article, did it talk about how he was a healthy scratch during the Super Bowl, which the Eagles won, after winning the NFCCG, which they played in, and was attended by people with internet enabled cellular phones? Because Cowboys fans don't have context for that.
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THEN WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU ENDORSING HIM.
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That is a disputed territory with Australia, so he considers it part of Oceana.
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North America here is New York City (but also not including Staten Island or the Bronx).
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Which you'd think Will would recognize, since it fits really well into his theory that social media shapes people's opinion on the economy. But he loves to just be mad that the median American is better off and not grateful enough about it.
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Yeah, that I have less of a feel for, I don't live in Raleigh and I feel like there is a general "I'm from the Triangle" that supercedes being from Raleigh, and a lot of the smaller towns (and especially Durham) have more local pride than Raleigh specifically.
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Cary thought it could pass a multimillion dollar bond to build more community spaces, but apparently people were mad that they had to pay for the new park (despite loving the new park!) and voted no pretty convincingly. They want rural taxes and urban services.
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But I have been surprised by the number of people who want the benefits of urban life (almost everyone) but are unwilling to accept there are some tradeoffs (traffic or slower driving, you have to pay for services like transit and public spaces, etc.).
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Yeah, some of that is just that it is a small city graduating to a medium/large city. I do think the area (can't speak to Raleigh specifically) is doing a better than average job of building housing supply. Just can't keep up with the growth.
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And I think it fits well with the general Stancil theory that media and social media has a huge influence. If you are slightly better off than in 2021, but it's much more noticable that a lot of folks lost important benefits as we pulled back the social safety net, that _feels_ bad.
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I think Will is right in a general sense (the average American is better off, especially if you consider the negatives of stress and "lockdown" such as it was and legitimate physical danger), but he has to argue everything in the maximalist way. A chunk of folks certainly benefited.
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I'm curious what the flaws were that you'd found? Raleigh specific or just not the right place for you?
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They don't have ultrasound in Star Wars, they had to trade it so you could hear lasers in the vacuum of space.
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Jalen Hurts
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Maybe that is why the evil R2-D2s are after him?
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I don't know the show very well, but I know people get mad if you call him Dr. instead of Doctor because his PhD is in art history or whatever.
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They should make a show where he finally goes to medical school and none of the magic stuff is relevant. Just a drama about the challenges of learning to be a Dr., and also he has a magic screwdriver.
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Let's just pretend I put in the effort to wake up at 3:30 am to reply to this as a very funny trolling move, because obviously that is not something I'm gonna actually do.
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Man, I'm not going to argue with you about how condemnations of violence need to be phrases.
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Yes, this is my point. She condemns these acts and certain bad actors still claim she is antisemitic.
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BDawk apparently might be available
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Hey, "this shipment" doesn't exist without the widget makers! Especially because the Gnomes keep disappearing into the deep caverns right when we need to assemble the final product because of the darktide rising.
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It's not a 100% effective method (See: Rashida Tlaib), but it certainly is much more effective than the other options, stay silent like a coward or talking about how you can't make an omelette without a little bit of othering innocent people.
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We will remember you....
(It probably isn't that Sarah McLaughlin, is it?)
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Underated that his sleeves are growing.
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Jerry, N(gmi)o