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Posts posted by UpperWestside
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5 minutes ago, Bullneck said:
I am a bit conflicted on how to best deal with someone who traffics in lies as a way of life. The spreading of a lie like this is damaging because her constituents hear this and it reaffirms what they think of Democrats. Her statement is not based in fact or really anything resembling reality. I think the media and prominent Democrats, looking at The Squad here, need to pounce on this lie and just shut it down completely. Any of the four of them plus Katie Porter is pretty good at this.
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On 3/11/2021 at 11:30 AM, Parliament said:
If you wanna come to Grand Forks, North Dakota I have a sofa in the basement. GF is kinda boring (nttawwt) but you said you like it cold.
Thank you for that invite and I appreciate the kindness. If getting to there was a bit easier for me I would go because I like to experience different areas of the country and I have never been anywhere near there. You might get a random PM from me in the future though about stopping through there. I was looking at my training schedule and it appears it starts in May and runs through the end of July. I think we are given 10 days off in the middle of that and I am definitely going to get out of here for all 10 of those days and go explore somewhere I have not yet been to.
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1 minute ago, Mdhorn said:
I hate the people that profit off racism.
I got past feeling hatred towards human beings who espouse these beliefs. I feel I think a certain sense of sadness to see people spend a lifetime hating others because of their skin color. You get one shot at life and it gets wasted on an irrational dislike and hatred of a race of people because they look different. All that hate just burns you up and destroys the soul.
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2 hours ago, Bullneck said:
Ruh, roh. The amendment to legalize weed in NJ passed last November (I voted for it). My kids are NOT going to like this.
I have yet to ever smoke weed in my life, but I am 100 percent for it being legalized on a national level. I passed on listening to the audio from that governor. He should have been called out on the spot for lying.
That we are still having a debate in 2021 about this being legal nationally is somewhat silly. I know conservatives thoroughly enjoy invoking quotes from the founding fathers when it strikes their fancy, but were most of them around at the moment they’d be appalled that marijuana isn’t legal.
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5 hours ago, Neonmoon said:
They say the quiet parts out loud.
If I did not know who he was and had never heard him speak I would still be leery of him because his facial expressions and body language are just off. I am certain we have all crossed paths with a person or two where we know something isn’t right. This is the vibe I get before the blatant racism comes flowing out so easily.
I will never understand racism beyond it being an aspect of society that is absolutely one of the most harmful things ever devised in the minds of human beings. My gosh we are all just people and we should celebrate that we are different instead of having to read about stories like this.
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Cuomo
in Cloak Room
Here is what is relevant. The governor of New York appears to have a mountain of evidence building against him. If he truly cares about the people of New York he would step aside. If he truly cared he would also have never sent his constituents to their death. Hiding the nursing home death total is is something a person that enjoys power would do. The totality of evidence thus far points towards that.
He has to go and New York needs to move forward with a leader with better qualities of empathy and respect for the lives of every person in this state.
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20 hours ago, mchookem said:
EMPATHY in our leaders means something. it means a lot.
Treating human beings with respect and dignity shows a great deal about who someone is. He said he would be the president of all Americans and he has stuck to that. His ability to show empathy is probably the best trait he has as a person and leader. Also it is his ability to identify so readily with tragedy that is endearing to people. Our society needs much more empathy and positivity and less misplaced anger and outrage.
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14 minutes ago, FondrenRoad said:
I had the opposite thought. As a married person with a child, covid has been irritating but never dark or challenging. Remembering my single self, I know it would have been much harder for me then. But everyone is different.
I have read and listened to too many folks who have not shared enjoyable experiences being around their family so much for the last year. I feel sad when I hear that because what an opportunity to grow closer with those you love and care about the most. I am glad that you seem to have had a good experience being around your family more.
Being single for me made for a 2020 that wound up being a great year personally. I feel a bit guilty saying that still because of what we endured as a country over the last year.
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1 minute ago, FondrenRoad said:
Are you single or married?
Not married yet, but I understand the challenges faced by those who have them. I will gladly welcome those challenges when they come even though I have an aversion to noise and am comfortable by myself. I look at the world a little differently after what happened to me personally in 2020 so that might have something to do with having somewhat rose colored glasses about this subject.
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I think that long-term the mental health of the American worker will be better if they either work at home or have a flex schedule where they are in the office a couple of days per week. This pandemic has shown that the old way of doing things was not good for the overall health of people who were commuting into work. There are certain jobs where you have to be there in-person. I will have one of those jobs starting in the fall. However, if you are in a career where working from home is an option it should be pursued if your company will still allow it once the pandemic ends.
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On 3/8/2021 at 1:12 AM, ROFL BOX said:
With the exception of the Snowvid we had, I dig Winter much more than the hot months - summertime is a killer for me.
I love winter! I am trying to find somewhere cold to go in April or early May. Summer is fun, but I would rather be walking through waist deep snow.
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On 3/8/2021 at 4:09 PM, Aqua Buddha said:
Good on Megan Markle and Gabrielle Union admitting to depression and suicidal thoughts. It lets people know it's OK not to be OK.
Slowly, but surely society is coming out from under the stigma attached to depression. So many of us have dealt with it for a time and I am sure many find it an ongoing battle, but it is nice to see people embraced when they feel depressed instead of feeling isolated and alone.
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23 minutes ago, Native Horn said:
Never heard of her, but that sounds great.
I did not know who this woman was either, but it’s good she was able to take a stand against the tenets that have been put forth by the Death Cult that she cannot abide by. Perhaps in certain ways it can be construed as being easier for her to do this because she is well off so taking a principled stand is not as hard for her. In her sphere of influence she can hopefully have a positive effect on at least a fraction of the people who like the work she done prior to this. Even just bringing a small segment of people out of the Death Cult and back to the land of the living so to speak is far more preferable to none at all.
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12 hours ago, Mole said:
Also, things that keep kids engaged need to be seen as essential to their education just like math and reading. That means sports, art, drama, music, scouts, and other things that don’t show up on standardized test questions need broad support especially in the most underperforming areas. Chasing the almighty test score might not be the best way to develop an educated populace.
If there is a single thing that needs to be removed from how we judge intelligence and knowledge it is this. Our current model of education just teaches to a test. Whether it is yearly tests or a test in a class covering a portion of material being studied, we are failing the youth of this country with this mode of education.
I am also a very, very big proponent of the arts being a bigger part of the educational experience. I do not believe we encourage this enough in our youth. Creative expression within children is stunted in our current model of education. I feel that one of the biggest ways to open the minds of children is to make teaching the arts a bigger part of the curriculum, especially in areas where the schools are on the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum. I find that we continue having a national conversation about how to reform education and keep students and parents interested and invested in their educational experience, but then I look the actuality of what is taking place and I see an experience that is dated and not conducive to fostering a learning environment that would make children excited about school. That's a lot of words to say that I want to see us as a country put a far bigger emphasis on the arts and not teaching to tests anymore and instead teaching in a way where both students and parents feel invested and excited about the education their kid is receiving.
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A lot of really substantive posts and ideas exchanged back and forth on this page! This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to check in and read this website. I would love to have some anecdotal evidence to add to this discussion about being in the classroom, but I will not until the fall when I begin teaching.
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Today was a fun day. I went to the evening Brazilian church that I try to attend at least once a month. It’s maybe 20-25 people in a church that seats 300 and the pastor’s daughter translates for me through a headset because my Portuguese is still not good enough to understand most of the sermon.
I think the best part of the day was getting dropped off afterwards near the grocery store. I went to Aldi and one of the stockers kept telling a woman a line was closed. She tries to go elsewhere only to be told to go back to where she wanted to get in line. Eventually a guy in line tells the stocker, “**** man! This is the line! Quit telling her it is somewhere else.”The cashier tells him it is the line. The stocker blames the security guy and mutters “I’m about ready to fight.” Just a frustrated kid that was embarrassed. The woman just bursts out laughing when he said it. I started laughing and the friend with her does as well. I told a story about a fight from last summer on 125th I saw and made a couple of jokes about what just happened. We laughed some more and she said “We need all the laughter we can get right now.” I was leaving and had two extra bags from Target so I gave them to two ladies. They were happy to have real bags and we talked for a minute because I was wearing a winter hat that said Brazil on it. Told them about the church and turns out one was half Brazilian which was cool. They made my day with just that 5 minute interaction. Cashier at Burlington was also nice. Found out she is in school still and that her mother was at work cleaning the AMC on 42nd that I used to go to all the time after work before COVID. Even spoke to two other women about a mirror we saw in the store.
All of that stuff on its own are minor things, but together it made for a really nice day for the people I crossed paths with and in turn they made my day. It’s cool just conversing with people and talking about a whole lot of nothing and laughing about it. The little unexpected things really are the best surprises.
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Cuomo
in Cloak Room
To borrow from the great comedian Robin Harris, Cuomo has Gotta Go Gotta Go!
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8 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:
Yeah I should have put Burneko's name on there but I intentionally did not link to new Deadspin because they suck.
I would not link to them either. It is not really deadspin. Defector is the good stuff now. I gladly pay each month to support Defector because of the insanely high amount of good material they churn out.
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I am looking into a trip to Colorado if my brother has time he can take off from work in either May or early August. August might be a better time to go. I do not go to any of the tourist places in Colorado outside of a select few spots. My second favorite spot to go there is up 16 miles of dirt road that is mostly potholes, but the payoff at the end of the drive is worth it. I picked out places there where I can have peace and quiet and run across almost no one. I want to share those places with my brother and my mom if she is in good enough health to go. His two year old daughter would be coming and so would his better half. I would love for my niece to get to see some beautiful places so early in life.
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I think Albert Burneko wrote that post on Deadspin back when he still worked for them. The cabin lie was so ridiculous, but that post about it up above was funny.
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They all want your attention and are trying to establish a pecking order. I know someone that has a smaller chihuahua mix and he tries to always get on your lap and in your face because he is attempting to establish his dominance. I set him off to my side to gently let him know he is not in control.
I would not feel guilty. Put them on the floor and let them know who is in charge. You do not have to have a stern voice with them. Just be consistent and set them down and leave them there. Praise them when they are doing what you want them to do. Be thankful the dogs want to be around you like that though. They inherently trust you which is something you can take joy in knowing.
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This is a story from Defector. It's the website the old Deadspin staff started and Albert Burneko, one of the best writers they have, wrote about his best friend that passed away on Thursday. If you're okay with the allergies getting a little worked up it is worth reading. Such a sweet tribute that he wrote. Dogs are just so much better than human beings at being compassionate.
SpoilerMarch 6, 2021 10:00 amI took this photoWhen you have four dogs—a weird number of dogs—people naturally ask you which of them is the most this or the best at that. I’m not sure that Dot was the most of any particular thing. I would talk about the other three—Grover the big sweet lumbering doofus, the perpetually confused, who dunks his face in the bowl of water and takes bites of it, who sorta plunks his big paddle of a paw on you or pushes his forehead into your leg when he would like to request some closeness; Chop, the vibrating runt with the light-speed metabolism, the boundless enthusiasm for smooching, the strange total commitment to indoor silence, who will not bark until he has trotted all the way downstairs and out the dog door into the backyard first; Bea, Dot’s sister, the neurotic and noisy hyena of a mutt, all wiry paranoia and intensity, who fully reclines next to her dinner and daintily selects and chews and swallows one piece of kibble at a time and will not be rushed, who cannot ever be close enough to my wife that she will not want to get even closer—and then it is time to talk about Dot, Dottie, Dottie Do-Right, and all I could ever say is just, “She is just the best damn dog. She’s the best dog.”
Credit: I took this photo
Bea and Dot were born stray somewhere in the Carolinas, generations removed from anything anyone would recognize as any particular breed of dog; they stuck together through pounds and rescues until we found them, tiny, wormy, and glassy-eyed, living in someone’s kitchen with 11 other dogs. Dot—her name was Jackie, then—stretched her neck forward until we were nose-to-nose and stared into my eyes for long seconds, then turned her head and pressed her cheek into my surprised face, in what could only have been analogous to a hug. That was her move, a brilliant mutt’s key for unlocking people: staring into your eyes, with her big long pointy wet nose a centimeter from your face, and then pressing her cheek into your chest. We called it The Cheek.
Credit: I took this photo
Dot did not ask for much. That may have been her defining trait. When people talk about the intelligence of dogs, I think mostly they are talking about dogs’ genius for figuring out how to fit in among humans, a whole different species from them—in my imagination, in some ancient time some of the wolves set themselves apart from the others via their curiosity about these weird smart hominids who were good at hunting food and could make fires, and that curiosity was an evolutionary advantage, because it meant easy access to abundant food and warmth and relative safety, two hard things to secure for wild animals; those wolves’ descendants were dogs, canis lupus familiaris, which after all are just wolves that have adapted to living in communities of humans rather than communities of wolves. Mutts are the ultimate expression of this: When there are not idiot people selectively breeding them for adorably squashed faces or foofy fur or a psychotic fixation on sprinting after small things, what aids a dog’s efforts at surviving and thriving and mating and having babies are things like adaptability, resourcefulness, a keen eye for figuring out how to fit in with and around the people. Anyway, by this standard Dot was the smartest dog I ever met, patiently and dutifully fitting into the background of the needier three and the bustle of a busy human family; and then, once in a while, weeks or months in between, The Cheek. To make sure everything was OK.
I have so much more I could write about Dottie. How she was the most conscientious and responsible dog I ever knew. How every waking minute of her life, right up to the last, you could witness her earnest effort at figuring out what the pack needed from her and quietly doing it. About the room she made for the klutzy, clueless purebred puppies, when they came along, about the patient “I guess this is just how things are now, huh” look she’d give me when they were crowding onto a small dog bed with her.
Credit: I took this photo
About how she was the one my son always felt safe walking on the leash, because anything else might happen except for Dottie pulling or giving him trouble. About the time my mother-in-law fell and hurt herself on her way up the stairs, and Dot came and sat silently next to her. About the time there was a new baby over to visit, and the quiet and steady eye Dot kept on her all day. About how when Bea would get wound up with anxiety and climb over the fence, Dot would bark at her in alarm, and then dutifully follow her over, to make sure she didn’t get in trouble alone. About the weird ragged moaning howl she’d make as she raced the other dogs down the stairs to dash back and forth and flip out at deer, her one indulgence; about how annoying that could be when I was trying to work, and about what I’d give to hear it now. All of this hurts a bit to think about, today.
Dottie died on Thursday around lunchtime, in a little patch of cool grass with her family around and me feebly pressing my face into hers. She was a good and faithful dog who gave us everything she had, and I will miss her forever.
Credit: I took this photo
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I had to switch over to purchasing Britbox to watch Inspector Morse. That site is a treasure trove of great shows and movies though. I think it is 7.99 a month for it. Well worth it in my opinion. I gotta thank @Brothahornfor the recommendation on this show. I will also watch Inspector Lewis once I am done.
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Rewarding fiscal irresponsibility...
in Cloak Room
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This was a fun read from the OP right before the election. This place has a lot of intentional humor which is cool and partially what makes the site a great read. Unintentional humor is fun too! Bolded for emphasis.