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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. If the parks are cutting back on services or open dates, then the next logical step is to give them away to private industry who will pay America a small royalty but only after all of their "costs" are covered.
  2. I have a distinct memory of being vaccinated at school for something. Late 70s. It was every kid lined up and someone jabbed something into your arm. I have zero reservations about any vaccine. When the HPV vaccine came out and insurance would only pay for younger men to get it, I asked the doctor if there was any harm in getting myself as an older, single guy. He said it would only harm my wallet and could possibly offer little to no value. I rolled my sleeve and said go for it. I was practically in line the day I became eligible for the shingles vaccine.
  3. when 4-7 companies are making ridiculous bank, need to deliver on big products, and compete for the same talent; salaries become tulip-level inflated. And paying someone $400K (or higher) doesn't mean that they produce more (better) than someone who is earning 150 or 200K. But when chairs are empty due to your competitor paying more, what can you do? I've always looked at some of the big tech firms like Ivy League schools. The tough part is getting in. Once you're in, you can deliver average work and thrive. I also bet that when you get 6 months of experience at Meta, you can jump to Google or MSFT for a big raise. Rinse repeat.
  4. Sad to hear that but 78 is a good life to live. I always liked the scenes with Charlie and Mac's moms. Crazy how that show is celebrating 20 years in 2025.
  5. I know nothing about employment law but I would prefer to be fired than resign unless there was a substantial $ package to resign. Perhaps even fully payable upon resignation. If Congress decides to not fund long term resignation packages, that isn't Elon's problem. I would also think long term that perhaps we will see a Dem president and congress one day that would want to make fired fed employees whole as opposed to those forced to resign. Maybe both would be treated equally but who know. However we all know that many Americans live month to month, if not paycheck to paycheck. It's easier said than done to tell someone to accept a firing with no severance pay. (Not talking about your friend here.)
  6. I bet many judges don't look to pick admin/paperwork fights so I could see them telling their staff to reply. Where it gets interesting is when a 19 year old developer decides to tell a judge that his entire staff is being fired for poor results.
  7. I'm not addressing exactly what you wrote but I think the time of year you renew matters. I've always found it difficult to find a plan that ends in Oct-Dec when many of us start using much less electricity. I just checked out Power to Choose for my ZIP code. Now it's very likely we're at a point of the year that they don't create 7-8 month plans but they have some other odd time frames like 16 months. Plan ends in 2025 April - 14 plans May - 8 June - 7 July - 1 Aug - 2 Sept - 0 Oct - 0 Nov - 1 Dec - 0 2026 Jan - 1 Feb - 38 Mar, Apr - 0 May - 7 June - 2 July - 0 Aug - 4 Sept - 0 Oct - 0 Nov - 0 Dec - 0 Or maybe it's a coincidence that there are very few 6-10 month plans but 4 or 16 months plans are more common. Not many people plan in 4 or 16 month timeframes. Weird.
  8. Employees have to summarize their week with five bullet points? I assume that Grok AI will analyze the bulletin points and decide if the employee performed well enough and if the job is needed. I hope the AI is secure since I assume that some employees who work in sensitive areas will have to respond with detailing said secret tasks if they want to keep their job. as always who elected Musk, a recent citizen, and his AI to rework the entire govt labor force, that even the president can’t fire.
  9. Trump today could suspend elections for his life and name Barron his eventual replacement, and there wouldn’t be a peep from the GOP politicians. At most a few might say that they disagree but they don’t really think that is going to happen. the only thing keeping America from being a dictatorship is Trump agreeing to not being a dictator.
  10. Hopefully there is some understanding of the cause of the blood clot to understand how to avoid more in the future.
  11. Forget the bureaucracy, govt vendors will help find the loopholes or processes for the employees. I'm waiting for the first DOGE person to die from an "overdose" after they start snooping on the CIA or NSA's payments.
  12. I've known more than one person who doesn't know how to turn off their sprinklers or they're more worried about knowing how to get it back on. Their lawn guy is outsourced for all aspects of it.
  13. I wonder why they start to drip at 37 and not closer to 32. It's not water starts to freeze at 37.
  14. The lottery system has always been about making money not offering a fair and transparent game. I recall when they were aghast at people complaining that scratch tickets' stated odds were wrong once the top prizes were redeemed.
  15. It's the idea that you have a CEO who is looking out for the best things for a company or in this case a country. Which is 100% what America rebelled against, not that George III was an absolute monarchy. Most of our beef was with Parliament.
  16. I would expect many of them could answer in the following way: Caitlin Clark, or whatever her name is The black girl from LSU who I hated Mary Lou Retton
  17. There are perfectly fine people in TW but it feels like they're overwhelmed with the large number of different folks. And yes about TW not just being aggy.
  18. I love how the lottery commission has now admitted that perhaps they shouldn't have gone out of their way to help a single store print every possible lottery combination. They agree it could be perceived as unfair which is an understatement of the year. I assume lottery directors or officials are someone's brother in law.
  19. We're close to living in a country where you're can't express yourself without fear of reprisal from the govt. Anti-Trump speech could very well became a punishable event. There's already a threat of punishment if you say something that Trump opposes. I agree that freedom of speech isn't free of consequences but that is reserved for the general public to apply those punishments like a boycott or rejection of something. But we will soon have the govt punishing you.
  20. The Woodlands look cosmetically great but there is something fundamentally broken with many of the residents. When I meet someone from there I have initial suspicion about them even to a point of assuming the worst until they prove otherwise. I would only think ok of someone if their answer, to where they live, was "I'm in The Woodlands but don't count that against me." I've also noticed that people from surrounding areas are quick to correct you when you say they're from the Woodlands. They're still in Montgomery County, so questionable, but there seems to be a visceral reaction by many to a connection to TW.
  21. Their future isn’t hard to predict for many school districts. The education quality will slowly get worse and in 10 years, parents will say that they have no choice but to switch the private but those darn private schools are too expensive. State reps will then work to give these parents more relief by raising the voucher money speeding up this downward spiral. this is fundamentally a money transfer from taxpayers to private schools, many of which are religious based.
  22. I need to rewatch to remember the exact line but I loved when reviewer mentioned that lunch would be provided for reviews lasting 8 hours. Then he hands Milcheck a lunch menu.
  23. SIAP but the character Jim Bridger, based on a real guy with the same name, was also in the Revenant. Played by Will Poulter in the movie. Wikipedia says there is doubt that was involved in the Revenant history and he denied it later. However some believe the was. For the commentary about Mormon history, Smith and Young are definitely up there on the list of weird Americans. The main Mormon church still lies about them.
  24. People on the right are so obsessed with groomers and trafficking but when there is evidence when there actually is a trafficker, most of them turn the other way. They have claims that the govt is making it up. Maybe I fall victim to conspiracy theories too, but I'm convinced that Russian and Chinese counterintelligence agents are sowing discord in online communities.
  25. The paperclip was the wrong direction making it difficult to understand where to start reading, or some BS like that? and it wasn't just feedback but rather its own printed section in the review. And Milcheck now has Ms. Huang spying and reporting on him. Then again, Milcheck is just getting a taste of his own medicine from how he turned on Cobel. I have to think that Milcheck is going to have more doubts about Lumon. And he could be like Cobel in that you have faith in the mission but doubts about the senior mgmt. And Mark is 85% done with the Cold Harbor file. the action is going to heat up soon.
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