sammarroy.bsky.social
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Reacher vs Wade Boggs vs Andre the Giant, that's a PPV I'm making room in the budget for
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Did you feel it? I saw the notification on the QuakeFeed app a couple minutes after it happened but I didn't notice any shaking
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The first time I went to Hooters I was a junior in high school - February 1st, 2003. I know the date because my buddies and I walked in find every patron and server staring glumly at the big screen, watching news coverage of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster as it was unfolding
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“So, where are these swimming pools I’ve heard so much about? I wore trunks under my suit!”
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I know this is a Letterman specific thread but following up on the first ballot hall of fame TV on the Radio performance you posted I gotta mention the Run the Jewels x TV on the Radio one off from Colbert - it's truly incredible www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHRH...
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We might be the only two people on here streaming the show lol but man almost every act has knocked it out of the park
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The PBS American Experience: Command & Control documentary from about 10 years ago about an explosion in a nuclear silo in Arkansas in 1980 really drove home how fragile the entire nuclear infrastructure is, and how even just housing all these weapons is much sketchier than most of us realize
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Not Nerds Inc, that's for sure
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Have been listening to the Blowback pod season on Pol Pot/the Khmer Rouge and "sending urban know-nothings out into the fields to farm" is pretty much exactly what led to a quarter of the Cambodian population dying lol
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Oh, definitely, not complaining too much. It was pretty funny though, we had been catching up for a couple hours when something came up that led me to brag about how much money the EDSB Charity Bowl had raised, and her eyes lit up with recognition
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I'll never forget a story from a few years ago about an elderly Trump supporter who had his life saved by an immigrant who lived next door to him - he said incredibly nice things about them, even teared up,,, and in the same article reaffirmed that he still agrees with Trump's mass deportation plans
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Damn if only I had known it was that easy! I had to go out for beers with a girl I've known since childhood and discover she was one of his good friends at WSU to get the follow back
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I'm extremely jealous
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I don't have any inside information and I'm sure you're right that a lot of people will be disillusioned by this, and if they find a decent private sector job they'll probably stick with it. I'm just trying to be half hopeful/half realistic
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Can we get a zoomed-in shot of the flavor list? These look incredible
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Yeah - I mean, sure, maybe the IRS and CFPB won't be able to hire back the same accountants and economists, but on the health side especially a lot of doctors and researchers have a very personal investment in what they're doing
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There are going to be tens of thousands of experienced, highly credentialed professionals out of a job as a result of all this, and I don't think there are tens of thousands of comparable positions open in the private sector. A good chunk of them would likely come back for lack of a better option
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I have family/friends who went to/played at Montana and Montana State, and from talking to them it doesn't seem like there's much interest in moving up from the fanbases at any of the Montana/Dakota schools at this point, especially after most of the southern FCS powers cleared out
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The presence of a domineering mother does show up pretty frequently among serial killers, though. I agree that blaming misogyny, broadly, on women is very misguided, to say the least, but I do think an abusive female presence in someones formative years can engender that kind of hatred later on
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This is what you have to accept when you have a guy like Steve Ballmer as your owner - definitely better than a penny pincher, cause he genuinely wants to win, but he loves the idea of bringing in big names to his own detriment
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Jimmy Clausen is the guy he reminds me of more than anybody, if we're doing NFL comps - arrogant even after failing horribly
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This is exactly what I was going to say - a ton of coaches talked after the pandemic about how much better they were at their job when they were forced to spentdmore time at home and had more balance in their lives ...and from what I can tell almost none of them has continued that practice lol
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Have you ever actually seen this in the wild? I remember one of the early smart car ads touting that as a feature but I live in a city where you see a lot of itty bitty vehicles and I don't think I've ever seen one do the perpendicular park
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Once the Sonics left I became an NBA Ronin and honestly it’s been a pretty satisfying way to consume the league, you can just root for whichever team has the best vibes each year and appreciate individual players without worrying about them hurting your team
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I thought Cena taking the belt off Cody, giving Cody a couple months off while Cena takes a victory lap, and then Cena dropping it to someone new at Summerslam was the obvious move but hey it's cool to be watching an era where the obvious move isn't made
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In high school I ('03 or so) I searched for Bone Thugz - one of the top handful of results was this fan page where they explain that Layzie was originally called Bizzy but changed his name because Bizzy was busier. This is unironically what they've taken from us www.angelfire.com/ca4/bonethug...
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Schumer couldn't have held Verdun
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If I wasn't already friends with her these posts would have shown up on my TL out of context and I would have been positive you two were appropriating Yinzer culture
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And at the end of the day the reason ppl always talk about these marginal calls they seem to get the benefit of is because they’re really, really good at taking advantage of the breaks they get. There are a lot of missed calls every game, but lesser teams don’t capitalize, so they’re irrelevant
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I was very much an adult before it dawned on me that their tour bus wasn't actually that big. Not many things about my childhood embarrass me anymore but not realizing that big warehouse set they used wasn't actually on wheels is one of them
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First thing I thought of when they announced this
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On the bright side he's responsible for one of the funniest @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social bits ever - episode 3.36, where he's blamed for Mark Richt being fired, with Spencer calling him "the deceiver, the false prophet" and Ryan saying his head will be served on a plate like John the Baptist
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Anyway, per your actual question - Canned Heat Blues by Tommy Johnson, 1928. I think a lot of early blues is more interesting as a historical document than something I would actually listen to regularly, but this one has always connected with me
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I liked Sam Cooke well enough based on what I'd heard over the years from his radio friendly hits, but when I stumbled across his Live From the Harlem Square Club live album I was truly blown away. It's so goddamn raw, almost nothing like the polish you hear from his album cuts