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Nerdy guy with opinions, mostly that people should care about each other. Dad of two awesome young humans, sysadmin for the money, overly-distracted anime fan, baseball and hockey enjoyer. Pronouns in bio, deal with it. He/him.
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"Violence must stop." Perhaps you should tell that to ICE, who are perpetrating the violence, and not your constituents who are protesting peacefully in spite of repeated attempts to provoke them. Otherwise, you're just complicit in the lie.
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I should not be so surprised to see it from the chair of a tech conference, but I'll take a happy surprise.
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Just an economist with political ambitions saying "ACKTUALLY, it's ephebophilia" on main. Very normal times.
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Those paws. You're not kidding about lorge.
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I've been told there are people who simply don't hear the battery chirp. I don't know how.
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Senator, would this be a good time to point out that that "made-for-clicks twitter fight" is likely to spill a goodly amount of incriminating stuff that could fuel an impeachment inquiry and probably some federal indictments besides?
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Isn't Starlink a subsidiary of SpaceX? (But also, doesn't pretty much everyone who relies on terrestrial telescopes hate it intensely?)
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Aren't we getting a Bond movie starring Idris Elba this year?
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Does xcancel work?
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There's a potential argument for needing to retire legacy infrastructure, assuming it's not just deactivating a SKU on still-active servers, but there's a strong counter-argument that activation probably never increased sales enough to justify the cost of that infrastructure in the first place.
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Is it, though? Immanentizing the eschaton isn't new ground, this is just the most power they've had to do it.
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Netanyahu is committing war crimes, but that doesn't make the October 7 attack any less of a horror in its own right. Holding a vigil for the safe return of hostages, Israeli flag or no, is not in and of itself support for the ongoing genocide. The antisemitism lies in that conflation.
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Because for the most part, elected officials, especially executives, need vision and communication skills, not bureaucratic skills. Part of the job is to surround yourself with experts.
I do wonder why this question only seems to come up with women and people of color.
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When you're flirting with an all-time record bad season, you'll take any win you can get.
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*points back to the OP*
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Sometimes, but I suspect that's not her problem either. It's largely grandstanding.
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I wonder if it's more like "federal agents who are also Proud Boys."
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If it weren't a morally-repugnant waste of, well, everything, I'd be tempted to tell it to draw Trogdor the Burninator just so I could inevitably say it wouldn't know majesty if majesty came up and bit it in the face.
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Psst, you can and should simply block obvious trolls.
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Which is a crime because, at least in my experience, a good project manager is worth their weight in gold. (But a bad one might actually make the project *harder*.)
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Hold out for the smoked salmon samples in the refrigerated section.
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When is the "before" in this scenario? I can point to Asian and Hispanic foods (both frozen/quick prep and raw ingredients) in Costco near me going back a good 25 years.
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No, she's a jerk and a bigot. A choice, not a condition.
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My favorite term for this is "a distinction without a difference."
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You really *don't* have to conflate antisocial behavior with mental illness. The stigma just hurts people.
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No, it's not, and it's ableist to say so. Please do better.
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No, she's a jerk and a bigot. No need to perpetuate stigma.
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The stakes of elections can be pretty fucked up. I wasn't happy about the genocide, but I recognized that inaction would (and did) lead to *more* genocide and more suffering worldwide.
So now I have to fear for my family and friends. But your precious moral purity is intact. Good for you, I guess.
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We all know Bud Black was not the only problem, and the best hope for this team involves Dick Monfort hiring a PBO from outside, then shutting up and writing the checks (and that PBO should then in turn replace Bill Schmidt and give the manager—Schaeffer or other—free rein in picking new coaches).
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Baserunning may be the part I know the least about. Steal decisions seem a little haphazard at the moment, so more CS, and we see things like Hiura failing to tag on Freeman's fly ball when it would have produced another run. So work to do there
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Hitting's been a mess long enough (through at least three pitching coaches - Espy, Magadan, Meulens) that I wonder how much Buddy was meddling there too, so it'll take time for Pacheco and Wilson to work things out, though I suspect Schaeffer's "play free" mentality may show short-term benefits.
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The pitching's the big thing I've noticed: Black insisted on targeting low and away in hopes of inducing ground balls, but it didn't work well with everyone's pitch mix. Defense used to be a strength but has suffered this year in general, though we still see a lot of DPs.
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It reads as a heart-shaped ROFL. Given that it's attached to a post about a brutal murder as the culmination of an escalating string of hate crimes, I'm *really* hoping you're not rolling on the floor laughing...
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I don't think that emoji is conveying what you intended it to.
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Pitching has gotten a good bit better just on the basis of not being forced to pitch Buddy's way regardless of individual strengths. It's offense that's the biggest hangup right now, though we've seen an awful lot of weird defensive screw-ups too.
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They're not gonna sniff .500 nor likely even avoid 100 losses, but I'd still like to believe they're at least going to avoid being the worst ever.
That said, I'll feel a lot better about that idea with a win tomorrow or Wednesday.
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Yes, let's just abandon everyone if we can't get exactly what we want in the primary. 🙄