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I had an argument with my then pulmonary doctor over this a few years ago. At an appointment he asked how I was doing under a certain medication. I told him I hadn't heard from anyone. "Do you answer your phone when it's an unknown caller?' No "You should aways answer your phone". If it was important they should leave a voicemail. We went round about this for several minutes. Then he said "you'll enjoy Dr. XXX" and walks out. It turns out his "assistant never sent the prescription in (the prescription comes from s speciality pharmacy). And never contacted the specialist to set up an appointment, until I called his office the second time. I stll don't answer my phone on unknowns. I figure if they needed to call me they'd leave a message. If it's not in my directory...

I wonder if there's betting going on whether Tork makes it 6 games in a row? Probably.

Don't worry, he usually finds his car keys eventually after he sobers up. one of the other parents will pick his kid up from little league practice nobody with any sense would put a drunk in charge of this much destructive capability

One guess ... 😁 What I wonder as I see this picture is, what are these military people actually thinking as they are watching this shambolic farce? These aren't rank and file guys in their late teens and early twenties, are they? If they are at a Pentagon briefing, they must be highly ranked officers with decades of service across multiple administrations. Do they actually respect Bob Ritchie as a symbol of American military strength? I guess the Mike Flynn-types would, but that can't be most of them, can it?

If I don't recognize a number, I don't answer. Let them leave a message if it's so important. They almost never do. Occasionally, if I am annoyed enough, I will log into my Google Voice, which is under a different number, and call the number back to see whether it's real and if so who it is. Vast majority of the time, it's not even a valid number, or if it is, a recording tells me some flavor of "we are not available to answer your call". So, number spoofing, because of course it would be. On the other side of the ledger: One of my favorites when I call a bank about an issue is the menu items (which I have to listen to in its entirety because it has recently been changed 😏). The first option is usually, "to check your account balance, press 1", and I'm thinking, how old and/or offline do I have to be to have to call a bank on the phone to see how much money I have with them? Do people actually choose that option often? Last one: whenever I call a utility like DirecTV for customer service, the first three options are usually about sending them money: "To make a payment by phone, press 1; to make a payment by credit card, press 2; to make a payment by check, press 3 ..."

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What the actual F. Whose brain-addled idea was this?

4) I moved to a subdivision where my HOA handles lawn care, even though the yard is small enough that I can handle it

The Tigers are now in sole possession - yes you heard that right sole possession – of the American League Central division with a 15-14 record because the Guardians played yesterday and lost.

It was the thing that made me call my friends. "Hey, you see someone tried to execute the President?" I think that raises to the point of interest among people whose job is relevant to that issue.

If the Red Sox fired the manager and staff this early, they were probably contemplating making a change in spring training. It’s not as though Cora was setting the world on fire with this team. He inherited one of the greatest teams in history and cruised to a ring in 2018, but ever since, they’ve been kind of flailing, clustering around .500, never winning another division, and missing the playoffs more than making them. Another thing to remember: Cora was not this front office’s guy. He belonged to the Dombrowski front office. Craig Breslow gets to reshape the on-field coaching in his image now, but then he gets full blame if they end up flailing, too. I sure wouldn’t want to be a Red Sox fan right now.

This reminds me of when some fashion or other NYC-centric person dies and the national news programs, based in NYC, assume that most people care.

Completely unserious administration exhibit #zillion

There's 3 stages of wealth and lawn care: 1) I'm poor and have to cut my own grass 2) I can afford to pay someone else to do it 3) I'm rich enough to buy my own riding mower and love driving around doing it

I never engage with anybody who calls me that i don't know. I have to call Walgreen's a lot for prescription issues. It takes 90 seconds to finally get thru the pharmacy line, meaning it's calling them directly. Until then I get the automated script about hours and "if this is an emergency...." I am told that "In most cases I can help you...." which is not true for my situation, which is why I am calling. Their system is only as good as the app. If the app can't do it, then I call.

The kids’ll love it, the kids’ll love it …

Is "the game" important to the average Washingtonian in a bar on a Saturday night? It may be a company town, but maybe playoff hockey matters more to those not actually attending the dinner. The upshot here is that the WHCD dinner an irrelevant and outdated institution. And the shock value of threats against a hugely unpopular President just has diminishing returns at this point?

Many retail stores have LED digital shelf tags showing price posted in front of products, which presumably are Bluetooth-enabled and thus can be changed online. So the idea, I guess, would be to triangulate your position in the store via GPS with the products they know you buy frequently through your loyalty program via a persistent cookie on your phone, and then as you position yourself closer to the product, the price on the shelf labels increases. Either that, or, they have no shelf label posted showing price, then when you pick up the product and have it scanned at the register along with your loyalty ID, they apply a “special” price “just for you”. Now that I spool it out, the latter seems more likely as long as people get used to not seeing prices listed on shelves.

This is why I’m thinking their strategy might be to not to stop the election beforehand as some people believe, something the American people are not close to being ready to accept, but to tie up the results in court instead, to the point which Congress will not be ready (or willing) to seat representatives on January 3, and we would be without a Congress for an indefinite period of time. (lol, I know big loss.) That, or Republicans might refuse to accept the results of Democratic wins, Mike Johnson will still claim speakership, he will seat a quorum of Republicans, including election losers, in order to act as a rubber stamp for Trump for as long as they can manage to (i.e., an “anticongress”). Either way, it would solidify the unitary power of Trump and lead to who knows what after that.

I also said Detroit would sweep. So, ya know.

They were a member for 59 years

All of these explanations ignore that perhaps he's been honed down to his gritty layer and it's all sustainable. The Tigers end up with a roster chock full of infielders that can play 7 positions, Hinch in 7th heaven.

39 - accurate number of letters in his last name.

So, the original Dylan Byers note was correct. DC is an industry town. Not having "the game" on (which for DC's media and political community is the WHCD) is not cool if "the game" is as important to the community of interest as the WHCD is. But, private equity or some gulf sheikh probably owns the bar (forget about any kind of local mom and pop joint) and they don't want anything stopping people from drinking and hooking up. The goobers not caring about the WHCD is of interest to the fact that most people don't focus on the details of how the sausage is made. Somnolence is one results. The other is gross distortion because the distance and filters people get media from make it harder to understand the relevance of many parts of how the sausage is made.

I hope that he was gambling on his team last year so that he could share with the many of us that lost money on his ****ty play at Cincinnati.