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I get up at 5 so I feel like a bad fan for turning off the game.... I even hated leaving it when it was tied in the 8th...

probably a response to the clickbait rumors and that generated chatter.

The throw to the plate to get the runner excited me in ways I might be embarrassed to admit.

My algorithm is triggered by Melissa hitting Jamaica. Started last week when the resort I follow started posting stuff. We went for our honeymoon in 1998 and have always said we’d go back for our 10th then our 20th then our 25th… but we always want to go someplace new. Tbese poor peoole.

Working here means you are on the books as working. There's a threshold that you have to be under to still qualify. It's actually less likely because it shows they are going through the proper channels. The fraud examples people like to cite are under disability... because they know a guy who knows a guy who said his cousin is "disabled" but just smokes pot all day. Because of that anecdote then nobody else should qualify either.

69% of people getting SNAP are either children, elderly, or the disabled (my son among the latter). Of the remaining 31%, 70% of those are working. Keep that in mind when you hear the usual chest thumping about "fraud" and "lazy people".

yeah but "both sides are the same"

All you need to know about Leyland is the way he got emotional when the team won the division in 2011, after the city went through the recession and bankruptcy and all that... he grew up in a very blue collar world so he understood the city. He just started talking and realizing what he said and he started to choke up... that's character. Then he danced with the fellas in the celebration. I remember the first time I saw him with the Pirates... "hey, it's Harry Dean Stanton!"

About 6 weeks ago this guy started getting sick and throwing up. Then he stopped eating. A bunch of tests and few thousand dollars later we still don’t know what it was. Doctor thought it was addisons disease which would have meant forever treatment. It wasn’t. She knew of a parasite with similar symptoms so we treated it as if it were that. I swear at one point I figured we were going to lose him. I had already told myself that. He was on prednisone and going out every hour. One night he’d just go out there and lay down. I had to put his leash on to simulate a walk and that got him back in. He would only eat chicken if we made it and barely any at that. Then one day he finally ate a half serving of his food. A few days later he was back to his normal diet and routine and now he’s better than ever. I was feeling guilty over not taking him for enough walks. Sunday is our long run day but with the freep half marathon last week and our post race massages, which is worse for us physically than the race itself, we decided to walk our route today and take him with us. He loved it. Out in the woods and taking in all the smells. He’s been sleeping since. Dogs rule!

I didn’t understand the point there. Is it to justify Islamophobia after 9/11? Like if a Muslim says they had a hard time afterwards we just say “shut up”? That’s the bigotry so I guess we can add that to the list of adjectives. I certainly don’t anticipate a response because the right on this site are intellectual cowards.

I remember when these rednecks killed a Sikh after 9/11 because they were too ignorant to know the difference.

Dip****s proudly voted for this.

I’ve seen references to that. on that subject. I grabbed this off the Insta today

I miss that. We had one guy who grilled hot dogs and had beer for the adults. I know it ranks below ball park hot dogs, everything does, but I think trick or treating hot dogs are higher than Home Depot hot dogs.

I used AI all day today at work. I’m finally taking the plunge to use Alteryx, 7 years after taking the initial few hours of training and forgetting it . My job has gotten a lot less technical over the years, more strategy and decision making and delegating, but I still run regular SQL based queries that I wrote 15 years ago and still create new, yet relatively simple ones. No need to learn how to do it via a workflow instead of the 90 seconds it will take me to make my own. So I used our internal AI tool to ask it question as I figured out the different ways to do these things. It was very helpful. On the old days I would ask Google and then spend all that time wading thru sites. This cut thru all that crap and saved so much time. And being able to ask questions based on your previous one is so important. Having the conversation. “I don’t see that anywhere” is what I told it today and it totally knew what I meant and gave me ann answer. That’s where I left today. I still didn’t see what it was referring to and I honestly can’t wait for Monday to follow up with it. then I spent tonight using to see if Geddy Lee was at game 1 tonight. ChatGPT has strict standards for proof. It went thru 4 layers of searching and found lots and lots of evidence that he wpuld be and was but would not commit fully since it did not see a screen grab with a timestamp or the LAD reference visible. I asked Grok was he was like “oh yeah. Some dude on X who has rush in his handle saw him”. I didn’t care that much but was interested in what it would take for them to say it. I just went back to check again and they’re like “nope, not yet”. That’s literally what it said.

I like cooking them myself. I got a Weber last year and a griddle top and frankly, I've not used racks since then. I should have just bought a blackstone. The best chicken I've ever made is cooked on that. I usually cook them all on Sunday then we have have it for the rest of the week for whatever purpose comes up.

We don't use delivery but the pickup and mostly only on non perishables. Soups, pastas, sauces, etc. Anything fresh we try to get from our local market, not a chain. The only thing I can't get her to budge on is she buys chicken breasts in the large packages because at the local place it's "too expensive". Trouble is I spend 15 minutes hacking them up because they are machine cut and there's always some bone and tendons and gristle still on. I tried showing her how much I cut off and the weight to balance the cost but that's a battle I won't win.

I was in Canada for about 40 minutes on Sunday. Ran over the bridge, up Riverside then back through the tunnel. The boarder guys in Canada are great. They high five you and cheer you on. The people in Windsor are fun too. The border guys in the US are what you'd expect. They look like they hate their jobs and hate you. People were having fun and that's not allowed in the US anymore.

"wrong within normal parameters"... as I like to often quote PJ O Rourke when he announced his support of Hillary Clinton in 1996. Until Trump came along the US was still going in the same general direction. Now that's all gone. Trump, especially Trump 2.0 has reversed that. To be a conservative/Republican today, if you called yourself one 20 years ago, is a direct contradiction. The party and platform is simply indefensible.

But now we have seltzers and their variants. My local store is about 50/50 in terms of shelf space between beer and what I'll generically call seltzers. I have to drive further away to get good stuff. I still try to support breweries who bottle their product.

There's one scene not directed by Coppola. It's an establishing shot of when they go to Vegas. They shoot outside of a Casino and you see some hippies. Not what you'd find in 1950's Las Vegas.

That looks great. I've migrated back to lagers and pilsners in particular. I like the taste of a strong IPA and if I am somewhere new I might get one. But for my every day drinking now I am back where I started. Although the cooler weather now means stout season is upon us. The craft brewery industry is in trouble. The lure wore off for the main demographic. For a long time it was about the chase. Finding something new or going somewhere new. It was referred to as the Pokemon generation growing up. My local brewery has reverted back to the "dad" beer. I just feel better the next day having a lager vs an Ale of some type, espeically when it's 2 or 3 of them.

Well yeah no **** it went on before. I didn’t suggest otherwise. My point wasn’t intended to be about these particular incidents. Im talking about the culture of gambling itself. why make it easier for people and practically sanction it and promote it? It’s an impossible goal to eradicate harmful behavior but it should still something that’s not considered socially acceptable and definitely not part of leagues official business. It’s disingenuous to heavily promote something for the fans that the participants can’t do. Gambling can an addiction I see no practical difference between a player who bets through a bookie or through one of the “real” sites. For any sport. Once they get in that world bad things can happen and it affects the fans perception of the integrity. But who knows. Maybe that doesn’t matter. Maybe they can start bets on whether a game is fixed. As long as theres money to be made by a corporation and some college kid things he can score then it’s all good. but believing that there’s still some iron curtain between legalized gambling and the underworld that Chauncey was a part of is like believing that stripper is just doing it to pay for nursing school and would NEVER go further or that the owner isn’t peddling in underage stuff. If it makes you feel better go ahead and believe it.

This is why the whole legal/official gambling and pro sports cross pollination stinks. This stuff doesn’t exist in a vacuum. There’s many ways to both incur and pay a debt. I’m glad I am capable of not caring about money.