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Mole

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  1. On the Giannis thing, he’s 26. At that age, neither KD nor LBJ had won a title and there were questions about their greatness and ability to lead a team to the title. Same with MJ before them. Winning an NBA title as a young player is really, really hard, even for the best players of their generations. We call into question their ability to do something just as they’re figuring out how to do it. The playoffs are a crazy puzzle. I suspect that in 10 years, the next rising young superstar will be compared unfavorably to Giannis for their inability to lead a team to titles. Or Giannis will be this generation’s hopefully less statutory rapisty Karl Malone.
  2. I’m a bit jealous of those complaining about wives putting items that are too big in small trash cans. In my house, the Starbucks stays sitting on the end table until I throw it away or the bugs turn it into compost.
  3. What about just sending out mass emails and texts with vaguely threatening messages about disappointing the REAL president and turning to godless socialism if they don’t donate? Throw in something about guns and CRT as well. It seems simpler, cleaner, and less fraudulent if you actually mail a naughty and nice list to Mar-a—Lago once a week.
  4. The “China made COVID to stop Trump’s re-election” theory assumes that being president during a national crisis is bad for re-election chances. In hindsight, he lost because of how unbelievably poorly he managed the crisis, but had he done what every other president in American history would have done, or even just nothing but cheerlead for the experts, he probably would have easily won re-election. That he would make disastrous decision after disastrous decision over and over again couldn’t have been assumed in late 2019. Trump used COVID to undermine his re-election.
  5. There’s a bit of a philosophical debate going on in the Mole household regarding cleaning. My approach to cleaning is to clean a room, then the next, and so on. My wife likes to put the system on trial and clean the entire house simultaneously. This involves taking out everything that’s put away and spreading it everywhere. A few items get shuffled around, a partial inventory gets made, and then it stays there indefinitely. When asked about the mess, I’m told that it only takes five minutes to put everything away, yet it all stays out. At some point, circumstances force me to pick up the mess, which takes far longer than five minutes, and I’m the bad guy for ruining the stalled inventory. This cycle repeats every six months or so. A few nights ago, I was the villain for not sharing her enthusiasm in downloading some app that plays Thomas the Tank Engine sounds; at 3 am. Our kid was awake and acting like you might expect an awake toddler would at 3 am. I had just starting working on my get him to sleep process, when she came in, grabbed my phone, and tried to download the app. The more it didn’t work, the angrier she got and the more wound up the kid became. I bit my tongue for about 10 minutes until she finally stormed out, mad at me for not doing something or doing something, I’m not sure. Then I got the kid back to sleep. I think we’re now paying $9.99/month to ThomasSounds.com or something, but it’s a small price to pay to avoid a return of that discussion.
  6. In many cases, these personal “north stars” are built on ever expanding conceptual houses of cards that don’t have much basis in reality. In their thinking, letting go of these other concepts means letting go of their north star. It’s a pretty foundational approach to a lot of preaching, both religious and political. It’s easier to convince someone to your way of thinking or acting if you make them believe that their core values are under attack. If we are unable to separate ancillary beliefs from the core belief (assuming the core belief is right, good, or helpful), there’s a certain gravity to the mess of core and ancillary beliefs that attracts new beliefs, creating some sort of intellectual black hole. Who knows what kind of degeneracy will attach itself to even good core beliefs? This past year has been pretty instructive. Even your statements about faith were perceived as some sort of indifference to human suffering. Historically that makes no sense, but in 2021 it’s a pretty reasonable interpretation.
  7. When my son was born, I became acutely aware of how much our culture feeds into the natural terror and angst of being a parent. If you listen to the “experts”, seemingly every choice is fraught with lifetime consequences. It’s scary enough being a parent, but our culture likes to amp that up to 11. It didn’t take long to realize how that baggage made everything, including parenting, harder. Most of the expert advice mostly boils down to loving the kid and staying involved anyway. I’m not sure how to square my experience with a parent being talked into faking a drive-by with his child and subsequently running over the kid. At least the father is engaged and actively listening to his child and they weren’t just staring at a screen.
  8. I can't decide if people watch too many movies or not enough. This is what happens when people are bored and watch a medium amount of movies.
  9. I know it was pretty forgettable, but:
  10. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.
  11. The CR has taken an extra weird and dark turn today. Do some deep breathing, listen to some good music, watch some basketball tonight, and let’s all try to come back tomorrow with just a normal amount of existential angst. Relax; the sun will eventually consume the remains of everyone and everything you’ve ever known or loved. It’s gonna be ok.
  12. I’d like to lose another 20 pounds. Anyway, all this ice cream won’t eat itself.
  13. The Men in Black scenario is a 50% probability since either it’s true or it isn’t. On an unrelated note, I’m a terrible poker player.
  14. I had to bury a good dog this weekend. He was getting old and showing pretty serious signs of heart problems, so I knew it was a matter of time. His last moments were one last time outside on a beautiful day, mealtime, a few moments of rest, and a few minutes of labored breathing while my son and I sat on the floor with him. I had been debating for a few days if it was time to take him in to be put down, but I guess he got to go out on his own terms.
  15. Fraud is the wrong word to use for the Georgia Kemp/Abrams election. The actions that have been alleged are perfect examples of institutional racism. Systems that are on the surface-level are “color blind” but clearly are designed to disenfranchise certain voters more than others. If you move more often, if your name is harder to spell and someone somewhere mistypes it, etc, you might be more likely to get purged. Allegedly of course. But it wasn’t fraud since it was plainly done through the system. Allegedly, but also very openly. It also seems strange to have the head vote counter running their own election for governor.
  16. This is another one of those things hackers use to guess your password if your password is about steak and toast like me. Don’t fall for it.
  17. Mole

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    This is a good comment... for me to poop on.
  18. Am I that bad at math or reading? I don’t understand one of the following: 15%, more than, 1 out of 6.
  19. 1. It’d be an interesting study to see how church attendance affects individual behaviors. In other words, is the evangelical a better tipper on Friday night than Sunday afternoon? Are group dynamics at play? Late vs. early service grumpiness? I suspect that the proselytizing and Chick tract stuff goes way up after church, but the money thing would be interesting to learn. 2. Setting aside the day of the week issue, the treatment of the Sabbath is addressed a few times in the New Testament, both by Jesus and in the Epistles. I don’t see any biblical justification for an outright prohibition on going out to eat after church, although individuals might make different choices based on their own conscience. Using the Sabbath as a gotcha betrays a preposterous reading of scripture that nearly matches the ones found in some evangelical churches. Using the Sabbath as a gotcha is also what they did to Jesus, so checkmate, atheists. 3. when I worked as a server, the jerks and cheapskates seemed to come pretty randomly. The stereotypes never seemed to hold up for me. I was also terrible at my job, so the difference between a bad tipper and a reasonable tipper wasn’t significant.
  20. Alternate hypothesis: there’s a mostly even distribution of rude and cheap people across most demographics. There might be some trends among the cultures of various groups, but nothing that would explain the consistently stated experience of servers. Therefore, the belief that the after-church crowd is unusually terrible can better be explained as a reaction to the plain hypocrisy of coming from church and treating a server poorly. There is probably a similar mix of rude and cheap people in all demographics, but the rude/cheap post church customers are more memorable. Every server has that story. Don’t be one.
  21. When my kid was a newborn, my wife bought some snot sucking tube/filter contraption called a Nose Frida. You would hold one end in your mouth, stick the other end in the snotty nose and suck. I was horrified. She used it twice and got sick twice.
  22. Wasn’t Brisket’s dying children meltdown after the OU game or some other ugly loss? I’ve been trying to figure out what horrifying national event aligned with a terrible loss weekend to figure out which game it was, but there are too many candidates.
  23. Should have been a blinking envelope.
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