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  1. You got me curious and googled-- both FL and OK have the exact same legal status of weed; not legal recreationally but legal medicinally. And if "medicinal" status is anything like California where I can pay $50 to a yurt on Venice Beach (before it was recreationally legal) and get a medical card, we are good either way on that front!
  2. Why did everyone age up but Hank still looks the same from 20 years ago? Should be gray haired at least.
  3. Guys and Gals- I'm being relocated for work. It's either Florida or Oklahoma. The choice was obvious. Now do Oklahoma
  4. Anybody ever leave Texas for Florida? Seems like a "Texpatriate-lite" move, but at least you get real beaches (and more hurricanes, I guess too).
  5. French! But also TWITCH-esque. I once had a partner get positively offended when I characterized Cognizant (an obvious Indian heritage firm) as an Indian heritage firm with a "Sir, what do you MEAN? Our HQ is in Teaneck, New Jersey! We are as an American as Apple Pie"
  6. So 3 of the TWITCH? 90% of the Indians in my neighborhood are TWITCH.
  7. I actually didn't know that much about Weezer before starting this thread-- just the blue album from an eternity ago. Their Tiny Desk I just saw the other day was awesome. I did just recently learn that apparently the song on Pinkerton (and played below) "Across the Sea" almost or temporarily got him a ton of backlash for being a creep. The song is gas tho.
  8. Someone should tell him that if people "go back to not caring about the WNBA devoid of Caitlin Clark" the WNBA would take about 10 steps backwards and lose all the gains.
  9. Foo fighters suck and killers are cool but I want to hear you two debate weezer @ztejas@jimmyjazz
  10. Killers by a long shot. I don’t really like Foo Fighters.
  11. Spoilering this, it's long, but insightful: https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/ai-energy-demand
  12. I remember reading this is actually grossly misreported and misattributed. I'll find the write up and copy pasta it here from some climate journal I read it in a few months ago. Ironically I'll need to use an AI like perplexity to find the source, probably.
  13. Please take your medicines.
  14. Well they also complained that the asian person cast wasn't asian enough. So people will gripe about anything.
  15. but, but, but the rich men north of richmond!
  16. Maybe my all-time favorite gif.
  17. Haven't seen it but what press I did read about it was from a bunch of upset progressives about how it's normalizing indigenous people to give up their kids to the state or something weird like that.
  18. My wife would do $100 worth stuff for the parents at Christmas time and another $100 for end of the year (Teacher week or whatever they would call it) every year back in the day. Can confirm that teachers appreciated it and for the siblings coming up through the pipeline behind them it helped turn those 88's and 89's into 90's on the ole transcript Maybe it's placebo in my mind, but teachers are humans and in a jump ball they probably bias for the kids/families they like, was always my guess.
  19. Nice humblebrag, Dr. Casanova.
  20. Jewish, too, right? 10 commandments is OG Torah iirc....
  21. It makes sense if you think about it from the auspices of the WNBA writ large: Caitlin Clark is a single point of failure in the sense that Caitlin Clark has, by almost every analysis and estimation conducted, single-handedly grown the WNBA. In whatever metric you want to look at (e.g. eyeballs, ad spend, revenue, attendance, viewership, sponsorships, household name/normalization, non-fringe zeitgeist). She is akin to the celebrity CEO of a company who, if he/she gets hit buy a bus, the stock would tank 40% overnight. So the WNBA needs to diversify and hedge against the single point of failure (aka Caitlin Clark being catastrophically injured, leaving for a Saudi basketball team, or getting caught doing something morally egregious at a massage parlor) even if these things are wildly far-feteched and unlikely. You use the good times to plan for the worst case scenario and start putting contingency strategies into place for when/if they are needed. 100% the ex-Deloitte partner who runs the WNBA gets this and is thinking about this strategically. The problem is that it takes time to build off the Caitlin Clark catalyst to create an ecosystem of mini-Caitlin Clarks (and eventually, the "next" Caitlin Clark). The existing "legacy" WNBA'ers are bemoaning that they are chopped liver (except for the aforementioned exceptions over the last couple of pages and which @SarkAfterDark name checked previously) and instead of taking the hard swallow of (mostly) reality, are over-indexing on having a grudge on the white girl taking the women's basketball world by storm. And, to be fair, there is probably SOME truth to the idea that being mostly black and queer was not doing them any favors when trying to be the Patrick Mahomes of WNBA (complete with State Farm ads every 7 minutes) versus the straight white girl. This is America, after all (cue Donald Glover meme)....
  22. Yea for sure. But like others have said, his story is far from being over (for good and for bad).
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