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I hope you find them
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I hope you find them
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I have an anti-vax doctor in my family. It’s baffling, but his brain has gotten fried over the last 5 years
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What is this
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Yet unions are overwhelmingly MAGA because racism, homophobia and transphobia are more important than worker’s rights
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His explanation makes me think of Ralphie saying how his glasses broke after he shot them in A Christmas Story
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Hannah Arendt touched on this kind of thing a lot in The Origins of Totalitarianism
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You’re arguing with a dead comedian
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Sports aren’t serious enough to hate. Hubris before the fall stories are always fun, though.
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That would still be better than Nico’s connect rate on deep balls
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He can overthrow with the best of them
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Oh no, will only be 70-30 GOP going forward
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But even Chile lasted 17 years and it wasn’t really voluntary democratization on Pinochet’s part. Agree that the spirit of the piece works but it lacks sharpness.
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Needs to be define as right wing authoritarianism and I think it works that way. Left wing authoritarianism has some democratic examples (Eastern bloc, Mongolia) but many are still in power. Authoritarianism is hard to kick out regardless of spectrum.
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And unions are MAGA hotbeds. Go figure
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Based on history, they wouldn’t
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It was sillier than I expected but I liked that about it. Best Superman movie since the Reeves ones.
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A big part of that is the best and brightest wanting to come here from around the world and that has taken a big hit
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*hugely expansive of HIS control, as he views himself as the federal government. L’état, c’est moi.
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Ban buybacks and capital return will just happen in another form (e.g., dividends).
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Classic Hitler/Stalin stuff
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You’re talking to the guy who keeps making excuses for people who support fascism
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1st round pick value right there. Especially since they have him this season too!
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Do you think dividends should be illegal?
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I was just about to say I feel that I’m lucky I live in an area where this “impress my peers with my kid’s birthday party” energy isn’t present at all - turns out I’m in the Seattle area too. My friends in places like Dallas and Nashville succumb to it.
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Next Dem admin?
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Yeah, being a literal traitor and trying to overturn an election, pardoning the thugs who who participated, consolidating dictatorial power, undermining the legal system. and turning the military inward puts Trump above everything.
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Uhh, he is not even in the realm of Trump. Is this a serious post?
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Racism bigger driver than worker’s rights
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What do you mean by bankers? “Them”?
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An event that brings in billions of dollars uses volunteer labor?
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Emotional rollercoaster
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I’m going to stop donating to this dreck
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Too bad they’ll be rigging things so much over the next few years it’ll be hard to dislodge them anyway
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Mona-Lisa Saperstein was the worst. It’s right there in the show.
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It told me to eat 20 eggs when I said I was short 20 g of protein for the day and needed something to close the gap that wasn’t too filling
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Well, aside from the queue there’s also the risk you’ll get locked up without due process.
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My (former) Republican friends have gone from faking being offended with fascism word being thrown around to answering with pretty much “yeah, so”. Along for the ride if they think they can benefit.
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My expectations are not high from the trailers. Sounds like it was better?
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Absolutely. I have no patience for them anymore.
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Maybe Jill Stein voters?
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40 something here who watches everything with subtitles 😬
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I was on Orcas Island in Washington last year and the house had a telescope. It was wild how many unique skyline clusters you could see from there.
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It’s not the Democrat base, though. It’s the kind of people who were posting on Twitter that they wrote in Yasser Arafat for President in 2024 or voted for Jill Stein.
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Got sucked in by algorithms
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The capitulation was so swift and encompassing this term. That made me lose more faith in this country than the election itself.
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Don’t forget Teen Vogue, non-ironically
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It’s extremely mediocre and the fries are the worst in the fast food game
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I haven’t really paid attention the last year and a half. Who are all these players?
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I have to spend all my energy for those types on my parents. Don’t have any left for “friends”.
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That would be a *former* friend for me
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I have a 2015 home and it was built with ductless mini splits. It’s not great the few times it gets really cold, but overall I’m happy. I’m sure the newest ones do better when it gets below 40.
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Yeah, this one will be different for sure!
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Perfect fit just like all the other “gritty” guys they’ve acquired over the years who contribute little
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Feckless and worthless
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Glaubhaftunwitz
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He hasn’t had authority to do lots of things he’s done. It no longer matters.
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If you have to put a bunch of stuff on fries to make them edible, they’re not good fries
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Mid is a compliment to their fries
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I think your point around goaltending covering up mediocre (and that’s generous) 5v5 play is much more worrisome than losing Marner
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“My team traded Ryan Reaves and all I got was this lousy chlamydia”
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They’re giving them consumer-grade tech that’s intuitive for simple tasks like texting each other and watching videos. No set up, troubleshooting, and tweaking needed like in the old days.
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Will we have this same conversation about Skenes at some point?
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How much is it going for? Because I’ll beat it
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Why would anyone believe anything he says one way or another
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The immovable object vs unstoppable force of MAGA cognitive dissonance
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It wasn’t that they weren’t allowed (I don’t think), it’s that no one thought to bring them / send their kids to school with them. At least for us elder millennials.
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It’s a charity in the city he’s from. It’s not like it was a stopover.
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They will be fine. Probably not more than fine, though.
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Looking good, man
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Most of Canada does not live in mountain towns, so having a snow day if you live in a mountain town hardly seems like good criteria to qualify being Canadian
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Snow day? I never had snow days no matter how much snow. Has Canada gone soft?
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Trade Kampf? Sign me up now
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You’re not even thinking about the agent fees. What about the agent fees?!
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Me reading BlueSky replies
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I put him more in the B-/C+ camp, like 80% of GMs. He’s just another potato in a bag of potatoes and ultimately doesn’t change the direction of this franchise one way or another.
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At a minimum, I’m extremely comfortable saying that Marner is not $3-5M / year more valuable
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If I’m flying to LA, SF, SD, LV, Phoenix - I always check Paine flights
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That’s actually what makes Paine so great, especially for those in the northern half of the city and parts of the Eastside. It takes about the same amount of time to get there - maybe less depending on where you are - it’s easier to park, easier to get through security, and it’s not crowded
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Life’s all about tradeoffs. Would you rather be miserable before the flight or during the flight? Flight time to Denver makes it a tough call.
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You can fly to Denver via Frontier now
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Vegas, LA, Phoenix, SF, San Diego, Denver, John Wayne (for Disney trips). Even Honolulu seasonally. That covers several of the most frequent destinations out of the Seattle area.
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Top notch experience when flying to those cities, though
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I also downloaded those as “quick” games but I’m afraid to look at how much time I’ve ended up playing them
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And the nice thing about Gamepass is that those are all games I probably never would have bought. I’ve tried so many games I wouldn’t have otherwise.
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When I get like that, I play games that I can play in really short bursts (15 minutes) and put down. Inside, Limbo, and Superliminal are all cool puzzle games where you can easily just do a puzzle or two and turn it back off. It doesn’t take 30 minutes just to get warmed up.
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I got back into video games a couple of years after about 15 years away and I agree. I play story-driven games, and with GamePass, if I don’t like something I just stop playing it instead of having to justify a purchase by finishing it. It’s been a good decompression tool.
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There’d only be a rule change if Toronto were in a low tax jurisdiction
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Congrats, Jeff. Really happy for you.
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Canadian here who’s lived in the US for a long time. Once I got used to F I preferred it to C for everyday use. The rest of imperial units are terrible.
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But we live in air, not water
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Even some Seattle suburbs have done a great job of densifying. The below compares Bellevue from the late 90s to the some time in the last couple of years
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And the new guy loves signing bad contracts for term. This franchise winning just isn’t meant to be.