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Actually, inflation adjusted....the $7 box is close to on par with the old 59 79 99 value menu.
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I just listed two that linger in our church. Now, I don't think it was any sort of deliberate decision, just inertia. Once you do it a certain way for a while (eg, communion servers wearing vinyl gloves), it falls into the "that's the way we've always done it" trap.
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McConaughey for Governor? Alright Alright Alright
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....SO FAR..... Wait till the 2032 presidential race between Kid Rock and Taylor Swift. -
John Fetterman - saving America with sweatshirts and Umbros
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I hear ya. "Sending out cringy AI erotica for incels on the social media platform that he also owns" is an absolute requirement for me. That, of course, is why I am loyal to this platform and @immamac
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Someone needs to watch the Sexual Harassment Prevention video from HR.....
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That definitely had an affect. Shit, it did for us. We didn't really start attending church again till about a year ago. We got too comfy in our lazy Sunday mornings, just coffee and conversation. It was a good distraction, but at the same time, we ended up realizing that we were missing something. And I'd say church services themselves STILL haven't really gotten over COVID. A lot of leftovers (communion servers wear gloves, people don't hold hands during the Lord's Prayer, lotta little things like that). There's a confluence of factors, to be sure.
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That's my wife's (hopeful) take: resurrection is a foundational element of Christianity. Not just the "event" of resurrection, but the very concept. And, to be resurrected....a thing must first die. So, maybe it's time for "Christianity" to die. Which is a rough process, sad, and costly. But if Christianity can be what is resurrected, then perhaps that is The Way. We have a lot further to go, though. A LOT further.
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McConaughey for Governor? Alright Alright Alright
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1) Fuck that shit, he'll turn out to be MAGA. 2) Like the slogan though -- "Be a lot cooler if you did." That's good stuff. -
You may not. But a lot of people would, and have. They don't want anything to do with a movement that is widely and broadly associated with hate and cruelty. "Christianity" is a shit brand in the US these days. It means "I suck Trump's dick and devote an inordinate amount of energy to being shitty to other people." That's not a great brand, and it's a TERRIBLE brand for your core "consumer base": people who are interested in practicing actual Christianity.
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More than the two consecutive drivers who turned out of the middle lane the other night on my way home. Two blocks, two people who turned in front of me from the middle lane. Soulless evil fuckers. Waymo doesn't do me like that.
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My employment law partner advises "not in writing." So, take note.
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Huh....as a trial lawyer who conducts discovery and loves reading juicy emails in discovery...I don't entirely agree. I put "important" things in email all the time, and have clients that do so as well. BUT, I'm referring mostly to ministerial important things, not strategic things. "Remember, we have to get that order of 100 widgets to Spacely Sprockets by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. Have we got shipping lined up?" vs. "Remember to get shipping lined up for the 100 widgets that go to Spacely Sprockets. Gotta get there on time, because you know what a whiny dick that Spacely is. And I sure hope he doesn't inspect them too closely, because we've been cranking out at least 5% defective widgets in each batch this week." Important stuff can go in an email. SOME important stuff definitely should not. And yes, phone calls are so much better for all of those sorts of things. I much prefer the "Hey, there's something I need to catch you up on, time for a call?" message than "We need to talk about Bateshorn. He keeps walking down the hall with his dick out of his pants, and I think he might be drunk today, and also, I like the new secretary hire. Great tits." MAYBE don't put that stuff in writing, fellas. CYA emails -- a real thing. Damn right. Few things are more gratifying than a client starting in with "you never told me..." and you quickly pull up an email that says "the fuck I didn't -- I told you the whole thing, including the expected consequences, on September 3rd. After our 30 minute phone call discussing that very thing, as referenced in the email." For me, it wasn't with a client, exactly -- it was a third party arguing that I hadn't properly informed my client about something that they then acted on (they never should have been granted access to that information, but the bankruptcy court said "fuck your privilege.") Fine. Here's the email, on-point, and in advance of any action taken. Suck it, fucker.
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The most important part of that is that....the ship had already fucking sailed. Soybeans are purchased annually. China took care of its 2025 business. All those 2025 soybeans in the US? They aren't fucking going ANYWHERE.
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Y'all know he's literally the Anti-Christ, right? I'm not kidding, not even a little bit. As @Ghost of LL observed a while back, "Trump may be making me a believer in Christianity again. Because if the Anti-Christ is real -- and he most definitely is -- then maybe the rest of stuff in there has some truth, too."
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I caught that fuckup. Good. Fire up the P-38s and let's Yamamoto their fucking asses.
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Or....he's met Trump, and knows that he's a giant piece of shit perhaps the giantest piecest of shittest ever to merit a fecal metaphor.
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"Drop in US religiosity among largest in world" https://news.gallup.com/poll/697676/drop-religiosity-among-largest-world.aspx#:~:text=— The 17-point drop in,10-year period since 2007. Massive drop - 17 points - from 2015 to 2025. Gosh. What major trend took place from 2015 to present. Could it be the rise of the MAGA movement, which has thoroughly coopted Christianity? In America, 2025, if someone says "I'm a Christian," that is regularly perceived as "I'm MAGA." It has become, first and foremost, a political label. And . . . among people inclined to actually FOLLOW the tenets of Christianity, a most distasteful one. So, in a country where being "religious" largely means "I'm MAGA," it's not a shock to see a big drop in subscription to that religious belief (which remains our culturally dominant religion). TLDR: Nothing is worse for American Christianity than American "Christians."
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Truly an era of comic book villains. Plot twist: the American people side with the villains.
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Mentioned it on here before, but I drive downtown streets every day. Lots of Waymos on the road with me. They are among the best drivers -- and even among the most courteous -- in downtown.
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Taco Bell's glory days will always be THESE days: And I was a cheap-ass mo-fo; I NEVER departed upward from the 59 cent category. You could get 5 items for $3 plus some change from the sofa cushions to pay the tax. Sober, drunk, didn't matter. It was the value deal of the era.
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Well, but here's the depressing check: King Charles and the royal family have 1,000X more of a moral compass than anyone in the MAGA movement. Video of Trump raping a crying child could be played every day on every news show from now to eternity, and MAGA will not desert him. They won't even rationalize it. They'll tell us how it's actually a good thing. Again, just read the manual on cults, and you know every single thing MAGA and its enablers will do. That's one of the shittiest things about this timeline: it's all so boringly predictable.
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Cool thoughts, thanks. Yeah, load growth projections have become wonky as shit as multiple new adders have come into the mix. Was aware of accounting for charging EVs, but hadn't really seen/thought much about industrial and heat pump-driven growth. We'd all seen crypto mining already have an impact, but AI data center growth seems to be putting that to shame. What you say about what will happen to assets in any crash makes sense. Got a 25 yr old plant, with more expensive O&M and less efficiency, vs. a 2 yr old plant early in its maintenance life and quite efficient? When you have to drop generation assets, you retire that first plant every time. Tell me more about what you mean about getting electrical gear on the brown market?
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The story will quickly be that we want our leaders to be “alphas,” and there’s nothing more alpha than being a predator. These scumbags aren’t outliers in the GQP. They are its essence.
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Nice summary of the pitfalls and warnings from the Economist: Summary of the 7 deadly sins of our current economic era: Lust for Crypto Retail Envy Lazy circularity Furious dealmaking Debt gluttony Patriotic pride Avaricious fraud And what's coming: Judgment day For now, Wall Street expects the good times to continue. Credit spreads remain tight. Equity-market volatility is low. Retail investors show no signs of flagging. Last week Robinhood, an online broker, said that its clients’ borrowing had risen by 153% this year. The makings of a bubble often become clear well before it pops. Alan Greenspan warned of “irrational exuberance” in 1996, some four years before the next crash came. Yet in some corners the mood is beginning to sour. Take crypto. Earlier this year Strategy traded at more than double the value of its bitcoin holdings. As the price of bitcoin has fallen, the company’s shares have fallen even further. Its premium has eroded to around 20%. If it is unable to sell more shares, it may need to liquidate its bitcoin holdings to pay steep interest costs. As a large owner, and ever larger champion, of bitcoin, it risks ending up in a downward spiral. Worries about credit markets have grown, too. First Brands, a provincial manufacturer of spark plugs, borrowed more than $10bn before collapsing into bankruptcy. Its lenders now accuse it of fraud. Jamie Dimon, the boss of JPMorgan Chase, warned that more “cockroaches” would emerge. Since then a few have scuttled out from under lenders’ loan books. Some business-development companies, a type of private-credit fund, are trading well below the value of their assets. Shares in Blue Owl, a private-credit firm, have fallen by more than 40% from their peak at the start of the year. Markets and regulators have turned on Egan-Jones, one of private credit’s favourite rating agencies. The industry’s use of life-insurance policies to fund investments is also being scrutinised. Then there is the question of whether Silicon Valley’s colossal spending on AI will pay off before investors lose patience. If it does not, the punishment may be harshest for companies that have succumbed to the seven sins. The consequences, though, would ripple far beyond them. Losses for investors would spill over into consumer spending. Credit markets—and possibly the government—would also bear losses. Parts of the financial system that have hitherto been untested would come under strain. Engineers would be put out of work. But the financial engineers would be to blame. ■One thing it left out was the transformation of the American economy, in large part, to a fasicst loyalist economy. Want to get your merger approved? Pay the vig to the regime. Want to get regulatory approval for a permit, license, etc.? Pay the vig to the regime. Want to keep the DOJ out of your obviously shady business? Vig. Etc. etc. etc. Large enterprises have to pay the vig both to obtain favorable treatment, AND to avoid punishing treatment. They must pay both protection money AND bribes, with the same dollars. That phenomenon skews the fuck out of the market. The correction crash here is going to be insanely chaotic and wide-reaching, and here's the cherry on top: when it happens, we have literally the least competent, least qualified regime and operators within it in our nation's history. Our plane is going to hit a flock of geese and flame out all engines, and instead of having Sully on the stick, we have a team of deranged monkeys in ill-fitting pilot suits in the cockpit.
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