weunice.bsky.social
Husband. Dad to 6. IT Professional. Data nerd. Synth nerd. Weather enthusiast. Former HS bowling coach (DSHS 2024 Boys D1 Champions). --- Fantasy football since 1995. --- Culture words for the year: Resilience, Effort, Accountability, Joy, Persistence
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Democrats in my red state believe deeply they cannot win. It is why they don't vote. They feel defeated. It is hard to convince them to vote when they are gerrymandered to irrelevance in the local votes that matter day to day. Of course they don't show up in national elections. They have given up.
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I love all the people cheering on these agencies and companies all of the sudden "getting efficient" when they forget that the people who patronize their small businesses kind of need incomes to purchase goods and services. It won't end well when their bread and butter isn't showing up.
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WOW .. color me shocked. This is good information. Of course, retention of the information -- particularly the checks and balances part -- is what we are struggling with these days.
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I believe it is. I'm from Louisiana and it was required when I was in school and it still is today. I mean, if it is where I am -- then chances are it is everywhere else.
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I love the folks managing these servers caught in the middle who are being told - "hey work late screwing all of this up" -- "hey work late un-screwing all of this up" -- All salaried. No overtime. Might be helpful to ask if that timeline is even reasonable before getting an overworked IT guy fired.
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The locals who serve the homeless on a day to day basis could have accomplished the same more humanely and for far less if they had just directed the funds to those who are experts in working to support the homeless.
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In the end, the courts will (likely) do the right thing but Trump will have the illusion of having stopped the funding of X, Y and Z and having done all the things he promised without actually having done anything. Its how this works.
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Stock up .. going to be a lot of opportunities.
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Does it matter? Even if they win they will dominate the Chiefs in every way and become, like, the first team to force 9 turnovers and lose to the Chiefs after the previous 80 teams were like 80-0.
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Listening to this right now doing a search on Severed Heads on Bluesky --- introducing my kids to this. They make music themselves and it is just too important to not expose them to Tom Ellard.
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Yeah, when 9/11 happened getting to normal as quickly as possible was important to thwart the idea with terrorists that they have made us afraid. Landry is playing this one well so far. There is a time to put differences aside and this is one of them. Kennedy tho ... yeesh!
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College football is image of injustice built on perceived power. True for decades. Money rules. As long as historical narratives sell financial services to alumni, erectile dysfunction solutions to winners and alcohol to losers, everyone is happy. Looking forward to when more than 10 teams matter.
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Week 17 had a lot of players written off for the year as well. Fantasy football commissioners might want to consider week 16 championship games in the future if this is what it is going to look like.
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The rich ones will win every time. Rank and file MAGA will lose to those who paid to exploit them. And it won't matter. They have already served their purpose.
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As long as you go early it won't be terrible. By 9am though? Chaos
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Doritos made a "name this flavor" contest about a decade back and I promise you it tasted EXACTLY like a McDonalds happy meal burger. I don't know what they named it but I bet that was one of the most common responses ... and that wasn't what they wanted to hear.
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Ahhh, remember the good ole days when culture warriors would share The Onion articles like they were real.
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I was hanging on for the Facebook page of a HS team I was coaching because it was the best link to parents --- but now, the value isn't even there any more. Engagement has dropped precipitously. I don't see value. Our local "rants" group is OK -- but mostly toxic trash. I'm back to message boards.
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You could just go to book signings. Or you can contact them via their socials and the good ones actually respond back. --- Until they become super famous, but most people are already accessible. No need to make an AI of them. --- Wait but with my plan you have to pay the author. Silly me.
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He literally said he didn't need forgiveness -- on camera -- when asked about his Christian faith. -- 'Why Do I Have to Repent or Ask for Forgiveness If I Am Not Making Mistakes?' -- Christianity 101 to affirm that you need forgiveness. How one expects any other values to follow is beyond me.
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Many who voted for Trump believe that the educated are "the elite". They also believe that Nobel Prize process has increasingly been "woke" as well. In their mind they want precisely the opposite of those things. The sad truth is, the consequences are going to have to mount -- a lot. It will suck.
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When I was in college in CS we had a Sun (Sun4/Solaris) lab, and SGI lab, a NeXT lab, some early iteration Linux boxes. We all just knew the BeOS ones would be next --- I graduated before I found out.
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Best game as a pro incoming.
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He should do lots of questionable things, legally, that greatly benefits his party but is, in essence, the same types of things Trump will do and he should do it the last day of his term. Supreme Court will have to decide to reign in the executive or allow a bunch to happen they don't want.
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I live in the deep south and we can grow them here but it's not super ideal.
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I live in South Louisiana. I can't handle the cold right now but I honeymooned in Seattle and laughed at the heat warning for 86 degrees when I went to a Mariners game. That is downright comfortable prime yardwork weather to me. You acclimate to the hot and cold but it takes time.
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I got into Chimay white because a place I went to at the beach had it mispriced the same as Corona and I didn't know it was a deal. I went there day after day on that trip just gushing about the white. I think I ran them out of business.
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I use it for summarizing 4 hour long meeting blocks to give me the gist of what happened. It does an OK job. Asking it for a succinct list of action items though? Terrible. It can be a time saver but you already have to know what you are expecting going in and adjust for it.
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It's all documented. Historians are trained to sift the wheat from the chaff. Propaganda has existed since we could write things down.
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Gave up talk radio and cable news for Lent one year. Best change I had made in years. Eight or so years free of the drama. Enjoy your new life.
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The way I read this I'm thinking "Cool. Your family does PowerPoint presentations for Thanksgiving" .. I'm like. To each their own. But then I read it a second time and I'm like "Ahhhh, I get it" ... Congratulations on a job well done. I'm awake now.
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As a reader, nothing makes me happier than the perfect word I don't know being used in the exact context it was coined for. I get to learn a new word. Some words in the English language as just like that --- gems to be had when they are encountered. I love that joy.
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I would always hit the high score at our local arcade hitting a few of the skip level jumps --- but I was actually pretty terrible at this game otherwise.
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Public school. Louisiana. We learned cursive. GenX.
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My mom was the same way. No video games but she and I used to fight over the high score at our local bowling alley. It was an "our time" game --- In the 90s, I used to set Arkanoid high scores at bus stations across the south.
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And our first PC we got in the mid 80s because my dads employer provided it. It was nice too. 286 AT, 40 MB hard drive. 640Kb RAM if I remember correctly. Had a board that could draw CAD drawings with little pens. It was pretty cool.
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In the early 80s very few people had them until computers like the C64, Atari 800XL etc. got really affordable -- and even then, you really had part of a computer. My 800XL didn't have a disk drive. If it wasn't on a cartridge, I couldn't use it.
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I am with you on Starry Night. I was shocked when I saw it in person. I have never seen a photograph that does it justice.
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Yeah, I feel your pain. I am about to add a third desktop solely to put Zoom meetings on so I can actually see the mess on my other two desktops.
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Remember, even the cranks have actual wisdom from lived experience that is timeless. Our job is to not give up on them. We have to understand that their experience is of a world that you don't really understand, and likewise, they don't really get the lived experience of today.
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I have noticed many ruin relationships right at the end making their funerals a relief. I think a lot of folks feel at around 50 they have "arrived", trust in their own "wisdom" and become overt and open with criticism of a world they dont get. They reject empathy and give up working on themselves.
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She did win a ring the year this picture was taken. The next year Clark won the F4 matchup but never won the ring.
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In my voting lifetime, voters tend to harshly punish parties that overreach on so-called "mandates" -- we have that going for us as well. We still teach our kids in schools about separation of powers, checks and balances and due process. We have to hope they "see" and respond in 2 years.
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The problem with most football coaches is that they are too afraid to lose their jobs thus some of their decision making rests on fear and knowing those who employ them believe "how its always been". If you play the odds appropriately, you should be aggressive like this. Eventually they all will.
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Interactions have been quality for me. There are literally ZERO bowling influencers here (that I have found yet). Fantasy football / NFL needs some growth but the ones that are here are awesome. My gap is news and real time interaction during live sports events that are not mainstream.