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Well, that took a turn

I’m fine with whatever they come up with.

Stop making sense.

Wishful thinking people have been predicting the demise of the Republican Party for years now, but it looks like it might be the Democrats who will be basically extinct by 2030, and it will be basically suicide.

Now I definitely don’t want either team to win.

A couple of Microsoft Store apps on my Win10 machine default to opening links in Edge, and I don’t think that can be changed.

I like cultural and sociological topics, so I am re-reading Colin Woodard’s American Nations; and a book about the lives of ordinary people in North Korea entitled Nothing to Envy. I am also awaiting two books from my library I have on hold: The Generation Myth by Bobby Duffy, and Highly Irregular, a book about the oddities of the English Language, by Akira Okrent.

I don't wanna know a single nother thing about ZipRecruiter.com.

Watching any streaming event or show in which you are forced to sit through commercial breaks, and they have only one commercial in "rotation".

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I was 14 when I broke my right tibia. It's such a minor break that they had me in a walking cast and I had a normal gait within two weeks. I even hit a home run in gym softball with the cast on! I had a runner, of course ...

What's the confusing part, djhutch?

Best football play you may ever see.

Dorothy would definitely be Marsai Martin. Good actor, right age, right look. I could see Wallace Shawn as the lion. If you want someone younger, Thomas Middleditch would be a good fit. Hold a cattle call for the Scarecrow. I have no strong feelings on this one. For some reason, I like Terry Crews as the tin man. He’s a guy who could convincingly wield a fake ax. Good witch: Constance Wu, all day. Bad witch: how about Kristin Stewart? Or, if you want to play it more age-appropriate and funny, perhaps respected character actress Margo Martindale. Play it dark and weird? Tilda Swinton. I like Samuel L as the wizard.

Fox is second-rate on more than just the actual broadcast. That pre-game with A-Rod, Papi, and Bug Hurt is a complete clown show as well.

Pecuniary Maneuverability Inevitable

Yet another talent we raided from the Dodgers. Nice.

OK, so, maybe "nonchalance" isn't the operative word here after all.

I've been re-reading Colin Woodard's American Nations book, and this tweet reminds me what he wrote about those people whom he termed as Borderlanders: basically the Scottish, Northern Irish, and northern English settlers of Appalachia and their descendants: "While hostile to external restraints on their behavior, the Borderlanders could be uncompromising in enforcing their own internal cultural norms. Dissent or disagreement—whether by neighbors, wives, children, or political opponents—was unacceptable and often crushed savagely." So, see? "Cancellation for thee but not for me" didn't come out of nowhere. It has a long and rich cultural history with these people, who have been very successful exporting this way of thinking throughout a good chunk of the United States, in large part through their colonization of interior First Nations territory. I think it has also caught on with Americans who are not of that national stock because of the rugged individualism associated with them that has been romanticized as the one true American cultural ideal. IOW, people who think it makes them look cool to be rough and tough on others.

It always is.

Or I can post it in an unrelated forum and someone who works in that line of business can share that feedback with his bosses. Either or. 😉😁

Speaking as a customer, I would feel more that’s the case if they started off by asking me questions about my customer experience, rather than would I please drive some more business their way.

Oh yeah, I definitely think that’s a core principle in the Kremlin’s playbook here: employ a firehose strategy so relentless that we eventually throw our hands up and give up. Their goal is to break down our resistance so they can roll the metaphorical (I hope) tanks in without firing a shot and they can commence the overt plundering and retribution.