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- 30 years of grinding code & racing deadlines thru the night;
- Another 10 doing anything BUT;
- And retired to care for impatient beasts.
They're about as grateful as IT bosses, but more interesting. How many things CAN go wrong with a gelding's sheath?
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I see - thanks.
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Call the waa-mbulance.
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And IT. With no overtime pay.
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Did you go to ASU too? 😃
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"Technomancers"? Why are these rich guys so high on sci-fantasy? It's like they want to operate the planet like a video game.
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Ah. Gross... I don't know what twisted these people's brains so bad. Nostalgia for the Dark Ages?
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And helped fund Project 2025.
"Since 2021, Leonard Leo’s network has funneled over $50.7 million to the groups advising Project 2025, including donations from key Leo-linked groups such as The 85 Fund, the Concord Fund, and DonorsTrust."
accountable.us/leo-koch-net...
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At the same time that he called for a Supreme Court review, he dissed Leonard Leo, who had a major hand in seating the following Justices: Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett.
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I guess people who cheated in college keep on doin' it. The difference (I hope) is that millions of people will witness the fraud.
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This was truly insane of Trump. At the same time that he calls for a Supreme Court review, he disses Leonard Leo, who had a major hand in seating these Justices: Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett.
www.thefp.com/p/leonard-le...
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Double hell if you have large mandibular tori.
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I just looked up the one for restless legs. It was published in PLoS, not the New England Journal of Medicine. I can't imagine the NEJM using a title like "how the media helps make people sick". journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...
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It's another outraged-headline grab.
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I don't think you read my posts sequentially. It seems not.
Again, tell the Oxford English Dictionary or the State Department that THEY are wrong, because those are the sources I was quoting.
Maybe, if people have points to make, they can do so constructively & without insults. Or not. I'm out.
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I can "tell really easily because of how (sic) they have a different number of letters".
My intentions were friendly & hopefully constructive, & yet, here comes the snark. I never used the word "Semitic" except to offer the term "pro-Semitic" to counter "antisemitic". It was a question, not canon.
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Exactly how, Anonymous? Why don't you lay out a practical plan?
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International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance: holocaustremembrance.com/resources/wo...
Otherwise, please take it up with these people, the dictionary, whatever. I was referring to common usage. Maybe you can change common usage. Go for it.
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Sad and scary, definitely, but also humorous, at times, in the way the characters are drawn.
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I'll have to read "A Good Man is Hard to Find". "The Enduring Chill" started as character portraits of the sick man and his mother and sister, and as you read, you start seeing that it's an x-ray of the human condition. O'Connor is frighteningly clear-eyed about human behavior and motives.
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I took the definition of antisemitic from the Oxford English dictionary and the U.S. Dept. of State.
I completely agree that Jews should be safe and experience dignity, whether as part of the Diaspora or in Israel. I feel that ALL people should be, although conflicting needs can be difficult.
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What about Miller/Musk/Miller, like a sandwich? 😈
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What do you disagree with specifically, Aston?
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I think I agree. They both live for the limelight and adoration. If one disses the other publicly, as they are sliding towards, it could turn into the Hatfields and McCoys.
I hope, anyway.
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Clearly we can be pro-Semitic, if that's a word, while opposed to genocide in Gaza. Muddying the terms helps CREATE war.
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- Anti-Zionism: opposition to the movement for a Jewish state in the Land of Israel/Palestine (many variations on this)
- Genocide: large-scale murder of civilians within a national or racial group.
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Something that happens pretty much constantly is that people argue without defining terms, and thus are unknowingly arguing about different things.
For example:
- Antisemitism: hostility, prejudice, or discrimination directed at Jews
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Just read it. Thanks! HELL of a story!!
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Interesting and well-written. Thanks.
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Ah, "undulant fever". Nifty term.
From your link: "treatment takes several weeks to months. And the infection can come back". Sounds appropriate for people who advocate drinking raw milk. DUMB.
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Aha ha ha!! He's "too tough" - what a chud.
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I know. I have a tiny piece of it.
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Ah, I'd never heard of "treasury stock". The grift might be that prices are easier to manipulate than those of other assets. Witness Elon bouncing Dogecoin prices around a while back.
Maybe lately too? I haven't been watching crypto lately. Losing money made me analyze the scamminess a little.
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You bet!
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Mead?
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Delish!!
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Germs like Campylobacter, Cryptosporidium, E. coli, Listeria, Brucella, and Salmonella. Symptoms like diarrhea, vomiting, paralysis. Outcomes like Guillain-Barré and hemolytic uremic syndromes, stroke, kidney failure, death.
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of guys.
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I think TrumpCo is throwing the word "treasury" around meaninglessly, to get people to reprint it and muddy people's discernment about what it means. Because this is a private (stupid) endeavor. It's like buying $2.5 billion of Cabbage Patch Kids as an "investment".
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Wait, what does this have to do with the Treasury?
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I remember my VW bug trying to break down on the freeway while I was on my way to teach a class as a faculty associate. (Read: bottom dollar teacher.) When I pulled into the university parking lot, it was hard not to notice how very nice the students' cars were. Probably parent-supplied.
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College sophomore weed party script...
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Why? I live near the Tonto National Forest, have followed this case off and on, and am curious.
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Thanks!
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"In the rough and ready style of the frontier, "catch as catch can" wrestling was more hand-to-hand combat than sport. Lincoln, an awesome physical specimen at 6-feet-4, was widely known for his wrestling skills and had only one recorded defeat in a dozen years."
nwhof.org/hall_of_fame...
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I just choked on my supper and my Dad (physician) rolled over in his grave.
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papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....