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Her saying these things is just her method of being an influencer, she's no different than people on tiktok and other similar social media platforms who do things just for attention. She knew that tweet would cause a shit storm. Nothing will happen to her. She's just throwing shit at the wall. All these grifters like this.

I've muted her, blocked her, and done the same for a lot of people and it has made my twitter experience so much better. We just don't need to see it anymore. I think the more people that do that the better off it'll be. That may piss off Elon (i've done the same to him) and they'll complain about "traffic". but whatever. Just do it. Some of the journos too. I'm on their side most of the time but just go ahead and spend a few minutes blocking/muting shit. The "For You" tab is great to spot it.

ah ok. now I know who he is. I didn't read them. I think you can look at each one on a case by case basis. If it's blatant and not germane to the character's actions or speaking style then I don't have an issue with it. Also if it's a distraction. I had this thought recently when I watched The Verdict for the first time. When Newman slaps her it was startling. Both that he did it and b/c it wasn't treated as a thing. He was mad. Slapped her. Then the other guys just pulled him away and off he went, like this is what people sometimes do when they get mad at a woman. He had every right to be furious with her obviously, so express it in a different way. If you are stereotyping minorities like we'd see with Asians and Black people back then, I think those are ok to edit or have a disclaimer b/c it's not the same thing as a slave owner using the N word. That's how they would have talked so represent that.

I don't even know who that is.

I do too. We've evolved to an on demand culture in how we consume our media. We don't just accept what they put in front of us. I think that's changed our brains a little bit. Even the earlier days of cable, up until 2000 or so. You didn't have 300 channels, but maybe 30 or 40. Just randomly hitting the "Channel up "button until you saw something you liked. Now we seek out specifically what we are looking for. We don't pick out a movie on Saturday to go see at the theater and hope we like it. I miss sitting down with my family as a kid and watching CBS on Friday nights, or being in high school and watching NBC on Thursday nights while I did homework. Now I have more available but spend 30 minutes looking for something, then end up watching The Office or whatever. It's hard to commit even 30 minutes sometimes where as in the past I feel like we didn't have so many distractions so we would.

when we were driving home from our yearly trips to TN, we always picked up WJR just south of Lexington. That's when the mountains started to give way. This was only during the night though. When I started driving I would like to leave around 3 pm, but before that the "old people" left in the morning.

My company sends out phishing tests and if you fail, then you are put on a list for potentail training. If you pass, you don't. The way you pass is 1) don't open it, 2) they give us a method to report a phish attempt. It's also a good way to get out of some stuff. A few times I would say "Sorry, didn't see that, I thought it was a phishing attempt"

Pre WDFN I would listen to "Sports Wrap" on WJR, it was in the evening but I don't recall the precise time. 6:30 to 8? Frank Beckman... Paul Chapman... Steve Courtney (He's still around I guess, I saw him in a commercial, haven't listened to WJR in a very very long time). On the weekend ESPN Radio was fun. I delivered pizzas so it was always there for me. Just a couple of guys goofing off in a studio. They made me laugh. There's something about the need to fill air over a few hours in an era when not everything was televised. So you'd hear the updates every 15 minutes and it was like listening to guys live tweet events. Had a morning show vibe to it and a fun way to stay on top of national sports news.

Near Sibley and Allen, Riverview. Next door to Riverview Highlands. They have a couple of very cool looking small buildings on the property.

Unless he plays well. Which I don't expect. The new fences means he will be hitting some bombs!

Imagine a 20 year reunion of the 2012 team and a 350 pound Miggy comes out to the seating area.

During election season there were Karmano people meeting at our civic center, where we work out. This group of people were far out The cars with stickers all over them people with hats and shirts fill or bottoms and other things they looked like clowns

Even the base coaches are better

I was interrogated about them a few weeks ago by someone who didn’t know that JV and Max play for the Mets. When I told him and the contracts he then went on about how they make too much money.

Finley roasts the state GOP.

I never knew any of that until I read a great book about the relationships between presidents. Roosevelt stripped Hoover’s name off the dam. Truman put it back.

I’ll throw out Hoover and Truman as guys who got redemption. Truman just by paying more attention, thanks to the Ambrose book, and Hoover for his post WWII work on saving Europe from famine. Can debate it obviously. Ford just cashed it all in and joined any board that would have him.

I’m sure Howard Kurtz will talk about it too. Right?

Jimmy Carter entering hospice care. 98 years old.

Straight up mafia tactic. “Pay us to not let people steal your stuff”. You are giving them money that they invest. It’s not a storage locker that you are renting for your money.

They raised the price of at bat $10. Last couple of seasons I got it free for being a ticket holder. I love the convenience of not need to find a radio to listen. Mentally $30 is a big difference from $20 though.

Censorship!

Saw Ant Man. Liked it. Tight movie. Didn’t feel bored. Majors was awesome. Sets things up real nice. credit scenes are really good.

Nope. Probably thinking he has some NDA/non-disclosure thing in play.

Camp feels different this year. Throws are crisper. Guys are attentive. Motivated. Asking different questions.