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mgerrydoyle.bsky.social
Reuters Global News Desk editor, Asia. Defense, other stuff. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6 Ad astra per aspera
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Zhou Enlai’s famous quote that it was “too soon to tell” about the French Revolution is, of course, apocryphal. He misheard, and thought the topic was Prince and The Revolution. They didn’t form till 1979, years later, so there was nothing very profound about declining to assess their legacy.
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well yeah, with that attitude
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neither dave nor I is mad at the kids. the ncaa is awful, they screwed this up
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I don't think they shouldn't be paid. it was unfair how things were. players are getting compensated more fairly now. I'm just saying it has, to me, made division i less interesting and more like a pro league. maybe there is a better way to do this, is all I'm saying
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gonna have to start hanging sdbs on scan eagles
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Me: sometimes it hurts simply to extend, sometimes I put on 80s New Wave music and can knock out three hundred reps on the TRX band.” Doctors: Can you demonstrate? Me: well, ok. [pitching my voice to alto] “I was working as a waitress at a cocktail bar, that much is true”
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the first thing I thought of was "what's the longest band name I can think of?" and it was the presidents of the united states of america in my pants, which is bad on many levels
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that article is from 2018, it has been automated for a while and you didn't even notice
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I'm not sure that 74% figure is even remotely true btw and I have no idea how you'd even calculate it
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I am not at liberty to say
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wait no
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I have the whiskey glasses!
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I bought a boxed dvd set decades ago that included a metal replica of the origami unicorn, it was dope
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let's fucking go
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the gun is the coolest tho, come on
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losing a b-2 would 100 percent be a massive intelligence hit. old airframes but the tech and guts are gucci
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add this to the increasingly long list of fun and impractical things I want but can't justify spending money on
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two, two--four. and noodles
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do not humor him with this
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blasphemer. heathen. the depths of your wrongness are unfathomable
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I don't think k dies at the end fwiw
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I figured your entrance was more like