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I’m surprised we didn’t get more stories or talk about JD Vance’s lack of experience. You have to go back to Agnew to find a VP with the same lack of government experience. He was only Gov of Maryland for 2 years. Prior to that you could go back to Charles Dawes, under Coolidge. He had some non cabinet level jobs but never Governor or congress.

Will it get to a point where we look down on a person on twitter but not Bluesky? Or look up depending on your POV?

that's right. I forgot. Freedom of speech means a right to be heard.

right. You can make the case for Hinch. And the others. Hinch wasn't robbed, thats my point. People online were acting like he was.

That's news to Trump folks because they don't pay their bills. To think you'd have to pay a bunch of hardworking union folks to set up stages and speakers and platforms and sound and lighting.... Unless they think oprah does all that work herself.

He's a lame duck already. Congress will ditch him as he both ages and his teflon wears off. They have to get re-elected, he doesn't.

I got bumped, for free, on a flight from DTW to Chicago and yeah... it was basically comfort plus. Only time I've been upgraded. We fly to Chicago now rather than drive. By the time you factor in gas and parking fees... it was only like $100 more and that's worth the piece of mind.

and given Trump's celebrity and name recognition before he became a politician it wil remain to be seen whether any movement toward him from these groups is transferrable to other GOP nominees. Traditional rules don't apply when he's involved. Is it him or is it the GOP? I'm skeptical of analysis and monday morning QB before the new term even begins. We don't now what the dems need to do yet. Too early for that.

I'm not bothered HInch only finished third. They were the 3rd wild card. An 8 game improvement. KC was the 2nd WC and had a 30 game improvement and Vogt's team won the division and they had a 16 game improvement. It's not a travesty.

Voting was done before the playoffs

I quit pop about 10 years ago. I first gave up coke then diet. I lost more weight when I quit diet. Was totally addicted. I would get a 20 ounce after lunch and would feel the sensation immediately. More so than any booze or cigarette ever did. the only time now I ever have it would be in a mixed drink at a wedding or whatever.

I’m still using it but I find myself unfollowing accounts each time I go on there. Basically anything political except for certain right leaning people whose opinions I still value as a sanity check. I also still find value in some of the entertainment based people and such. But I’m limiting my engagement. I think I replied once to a post since the election.

Mrs McMahon…. Vince’s wife is in the running for Education. I mean… par for the course.

I know this is nothing new to all of you but I wanted to see it for myself... going back to just over 2 years ago in 2022.... 29-6.

I follow a lot of NASA sites on X, so far only their main account has transitioned to Bluesky, they've only made one post 6 days ago. Will be interesting to see waht they do given how ingrained they are with Elon. For reference on X, there's a NASA history page, a Johnson Space Center page, all the satellite centers like Glenn, Armstrong, Langley.... as well as some of the astronauts themselves. Will they be told not to do that by Elon?

saved them the hassle of signing him to a one day contract.

I turned off full access in my iphone settings for Google Photos to my photo library... but then when i go to google photos, I can't view them with that turned off. They require full access to my photo library on icloud for me to be able to view photos that they are storing?!? Oh, I can view their memories and faces and places and other compilations they've created for me but just not the regular picture roll. One strange thing I noticed which is either neat... or frightening. They do a collection based on faces. One of my lifelong friends is featured and it has the various photos of her and I from the last 10 years... and also a picture I took of our 4th grade class picture, the ones with 30 people in it. It freaking recognized a 51 year old woman from a tiny picture from 1983!

Not sure if this is a peeve or what... but I have a gmail account i use for internet stuff, like subscriptions and news sites, etc. It's only purpose is that. I tried to use it to register so I could read and I realized my account was locked due to size limits. Turns out Google Photos (Which I didn't know was a thing), syncs up with iCloud photos. So I deleted a bunch of videos and pictures from Google Photos. Last night I went to show a picture from October to a friend, and it's gone. When you delete from google photos, it also deletes from your icloud. There's no way around it. I had to go into my trash bin and recover hundreds of photos from this summer and fall, and a bunch of videos from the last 10 years. I spent 15 minutes looking for a way around it.... you can't turn it off. Yes, there is a 'sync' feature in google for Apple but it's just for "Favorites". I could try deleting the google photos app but I think that has to be done on every device. What a crock of ****. I'm already backing up to the icloud. All to get me to pay google for more storage?

yeah Tork has spring training, early spring training, to show something. Basically Harris will operate with the idea that no decision will be made or not made because they already have Spencer Torkelson on the team. He won't block any acquisition. That's probably true for everyone on the team outside of 4 guys.

Rodney played for 11 ML teams over 17 years. The first 7 of those were with the Tigers, then he played for 4 teams for 2 years, then 6 for 1 year.

McConnell is one guy I would bet on over Trump. Guy has balls of steel and has LBJ level craftsmanship in terms of senate manipulation.

The entire movement is based on strange logic.

And what was the crime? If someone got excited for an outlier poll that’s on them, not her. Did it cause any harm or effect?

Yeah my wife is a year older and went thru it. The 2nd made her tired. I planned it around my half marathon this fall and will wait until after the holidays. I got a bunch of time off so I don’t want to waste it on that.