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Shambolic Rube
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Stanford matches could have both Mary Joe Fernandez and Lindsay Davenport on the sidelines, pretty cool!
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Do you have a feel for how many slam alternates typically get into main draw before qualies commence?
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Same with those mail-order meal kits, prep time always assumed we had a sous-chef
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I'd have guessed he'd have been in his 80s by now but turns out Wendt was only 34yo when Cheers debuted and 45 when it ended
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You rock, Shea. I faced similar challenges as a college student and I know how much this means to this kid
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Just as Republicans forget who was president during the strictest lockdowns they also forget who was the president who initiated Operation Warp Speed to develop these vaccines
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Kicked my derriere also, but still not as hard as did the actual shingles
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Ah, this must be why they roam in masked packs of six to ambush dangerous thugs who co-author op-eds for college newspapers
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And then busted out the cheat codes in set 2, mercy what a level
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Wanted to look up Townsend's ranking history, as I was surprised she'd dropped that low, but the WTA site for player info is now near useless for both content and usability. Found the info elsewhere, but man, their new website is awful
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Episodes like this are the ones I love the most: never cared about the song, never cared about the artist, listened with rapt attention to the whole thing. Great stuff, Rob.
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That was maybe the ugliest match I've ever watched from start to finish (though the fifth set of the 2020 US Open men's singles was worse). Credit to both women, though, for never giving up even as they couldn't find consistently good form
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Literally the only people who care about Biden's mental state at this point are pundits. I don't think even MAGA cares as much as the pundits want us to care. Given that Biden is not a threat to come back and run again in 2028 he's just old news
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An ice-in-the-veins shot for sure
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Nishesh is right on the bubble for direct entry to main draw at Wimbledon, and I feel like he needed a win here to stay at 100 and maybe move up a spot. Now at mercy of how other guys do this week, and could drop and/or be bumped into qualies by guys on protected rankings.
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One cited example is from Southern New Hampshire, a school that pays adjuncts only $2200 per course. Often adjuncts cobble together a barebones living teaching several classes in parallel for multiple schools. Not an excuse, but that business model pushes people to find shortcuts
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Not as efficient about it as Ron Wright, though
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Hell of a match by Collins, was relentless attacking Iga's second serve and, increasingly, her first. Middle of the second set I thought Iga had found her forehand but then she lost it again when the pressure built at the end of the set
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Malört?
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But, sometimes profs give an assignment because that's what their profs did and they're just doing what they know with no particular purpose
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Sometimes profs have a good idea of the why of an assignment and do a poor job explaining it. I have students who object to strict length limits in writing, so I explain that at some point in life they will be an expert tasked with distilling a complex idea in brief for a non-expert
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Whenever I watch my son play tennis and he has an easy putaway ball I think "Don't fuck this up Mitchell!"
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Yes, exactly so, he's a fan of Adams who has completely failed to understand anything Adams was trying to communicate
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Oh, for sure. I tend to be more engaged with this issue in the much scammier domain of sports stadium subsidies, where the investment return for localities is overblown and largely imaginary and mostly driven by local pols' eagerness to give away money so they can hobnob with celebs in luxury boxes
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Interesting, I never knew boundaries are not tied to the city
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Unrelated: as I look at the map the WL city limits are farther north than I realized. Why is Arbor Chase not considered part of the city for the purpose of school districts?
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Thoughtful analysis. I'm largely staying out of this fight because I feel ignorant of the main issues (though I'm generally skeptical of massively-subsidized economic development). My gut feel has been like yours, though - lot of overlap between these conspiracists and the school board conspiracists
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Nishesh had two set points in that breaker and Stan just came up huge on both, one with a booming ace down the T and one with a clutch passing shot
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Nice to see him moving well after his recent hip injury. And now he gets to face Stan! He's collecting GOATs before they retire
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Dems win and say we must "look forward", so voters forget what they'd see if they looked back. It's why I assume if Dems win in 2028 that GOP will be back in 2030 . "We have a recession every time the GOP has power, vote for them if you want another" is an obvious attack, but Dems won't go there
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There certainly is a toxicity problem that platforms choose to ignore, but the pundits often can't distinguish between the toxic and simple disagreement. That's why some choose to stay on Twitter (toxic) and not engage here - they don't like being in environments where people disagree with them
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Thus the invention of the "Twitter mob" as a social villain. People expressing their opinions en masse, how awful! Thought leaders should only have to hear what the proles think of them through a handful of letters to the editor!
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Agreed. Saw similar pattern last year, struggled to find motivation in events that weren’t going to add to his legacy
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Man, it's weird to see Novak playing so poorly. 20 unforced errors in the first set, many of them going for low-percentage shots
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Impressive!
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I think second set was 76 with 75 the score within the tiebreak?
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I think it's hilarious that they put down deposits on a car most people will probably assume is a recent-model Prius
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Same, was dialed into OSU for hours on end. I think by now I've laundered all the files through iTunes Match
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All those MP3s having been patiently downloaded over a period of months via a dial-up connection
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Just like the NYT columnists and other pundits and their whining about "Twitter mobs" as censorship before they turn off replies or running off to Substack/Free Press. Apparently when others exercise their free speech in response to your free speech that's bad!
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My recollection of these surveys is that conservative students claim to self-censor far more out of fear of judgment by their peers than out of fear of penalty by their professors
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I hope Nate Silver is feeling proud of himself, having done so much work laundering the lab leak stuff for normies as part of his paid-newsletter schtick
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Many pundits are wealthy enough to be Above All That, immune as they are from effects of bad policies. Cynically I assume Brooks reads the moment as "An attack on Harvard is an attack on people like me". But, eh, I'll take it, if that's what it takes for bland centrists with platforms to act
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Still some of his usual weak qualifiers, but when you have the world's most milquetoast columnist calling for "uprising" that's a hell of a thing
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Maybe create a separate feed with less political content? Compartmentalization matters
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Ours is small and very cute, so we constantly have small children asking if they can pet him and we have to say no. He does have a core group of people and dogs whom he has acknowledged as having a right to exist, but every other person and dog is seen as a threat
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Mine is <20lb so if another dog provokes him and he triggers it to respond he's screwed. Usually I have to pick him up quickly, at which point I have someone else's dog jumping up onto me while mine writhes and barks back.
Folks, just leash your damn dog in public
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My dog assumes everyone and everything wishes to murder me, so it's always a scary situation when someone's unleashed dog comes running toward us
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I can't articulate why the back 9 of the Masters on Sunday is the only golf I watch. I watch no other majors. I find the Father's Day schtick of the US Open to be cloying, but no more so than the mandatory reverence for Augusta National ("patrons", gag). But I watch it every year...
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Will look forward to listening to this! My kid (college player) played high school tennis and it was a plus in the eyes of the coaches who recruited him, as they could see he was an eager team player, always supportive of teammates