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I never watched The Wire but when people talk about the best shows ever it seems that it's always Sopranos/Breaking Bad/The Wire. I finished my rewatch of Better Call Saul. As I said I thought it was a lot better the second time around as I knew the overall arc but I forgot a lot of the smaller details so it felt fresh. The stuff at the end though was boring to me, when we get to Gene and he's working with guys setting up the scams. It didn't interest me. The Howard thing was just as shocking and in some ways worse b/c you knew what would happen. Really that was the end of the show as that is when Jimmy and Kim split up and Jimmy became full blown Saul. No need to linger on at that point as it wasn't about Saul Goodman being Saul Goodman, but about how Saul came to be. But the scene with Carol Burnett where Jimmy/Saul/Gene is appraoching her after she outs him and he's got the phone cord and wrapping it around his hand... that might have been the most chilling in the entire BB universe. What would he have done if she didn't have her medic alert thing? We never saw that character kill. Would he have?

I wonder if $200M incluldes the inclusion of the Home Plate Club they are doing this winter.

Well I mean they’ve got a bald eagle as an avatar. That tells you all you need to know.

Sounds like the admin is saying that something our resident maga-fanboy thought was a great idea is now a horrible idea. Can’t wait for the spin on that. but balls are in short supply

Or they could do what RBG didn't and retire within the next 18 months so that Trump and this Senate can confirm their successor.

DEI hire

I'm still not sold on AI being better for important tasks. I can see the value for things like creating low risk boiler plate thing. But if it's important to get a right answer then don't use AI. Maybe it's just in the applications I see. I see all these ads for things a friend of mine in the HR industry called "productivity porn". Ways to "optimize" your tasks and emails and meetings.... **** all of that. People spend more time trying to figure out how to "automate" something just to show they did it, when you could just do it. I have some tasks that I do that are remedial but I will also find the 5% that is wrong and its' important I find those things. I'd rather spend the 20 minues doing that instead of automating and letting the 5% slip thru until someone notices it. It's great until it doesn't work then everybody is scrambling trying to figure out what went wrong and that's time wasted because nobody knows the systems well enough because they used AI to get rid of the experts. There's a difference between AI and programming.

"too many Mexicans" guy is happy though.... (if he's still alive...)

that's what these old ladies tried to do to me at a church blackjack tent in 2012 because I split my 10's. I can still hear their gravely smoke filled voice "You don't split two tens". It's for a church. I'm not betting my social security check.

I give most of them a pass because I doubt they are out there absorbing all of this and researching issues, etc. These are people who have been living basball since their middle school years. During a season it's all they do and if they played in travel leagues as kids then their summers and weekends were taken up.

It's certainly not something I expect from someone who likes to flaunt their 'religion'. Attitudes like that represent the worst in people and are in direct violation of Christian values.

Do you happen to work with Indians? “Do the needful” is a common thing I hear from them.

This has been a lot better than I expected.

Anybody who supports this is an idiot. But it just falls in line with their casual racism and bigotry. The polite thing to say would be that they are ignorant. But that’s too kind. That’s the absence of the knowledge. No… in this case it’s just stupidity. These are the people who ate dirt as kids for fun and burned insects and spied on their sisters when they got dressed. When they walk by you can smell the **** on them because they think using toilet paper is “woke”.

If I got that I would be hitting “report phish”. I suspect that address will be getting a lot of emails over the next few days.

Especially considering the circumstances. Who are we at war with? This was all about “fire the blacks and minorities”. DEI and Woke are just their buzzwords.

Didn’t town Halls lead to the 2010 gains by the GOP in congress? Or was that before?

just go ahead and say the N word. We all know that’s what is meant.

Anti military huh?

Who do you think you are “owning”?

I saw it suggested somewhere that Tony Dalton should star in a Joker movie or series but instead of the dark version they make it similar to Cesar Romero’s portrayal on the Batman TV show.

I’ve heard that phone calls are effective. My people are all democrats.

The Kettlemans. She was kind of hot. Let’s see what they are up to. I’m sure when they heard Saul was gone they continued on their crooked ways. She’s like Kim. She needs the action. the actors went a long way to making the characters in that universe. Yeah if would be fun to see young hector and Don Eladio. But Mark Margolis is dead and Stephen Bauer is too old.