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  1. Who is we? You work for Meta?
  2. I love the chance to dunk on MAGA's but not really understanding your police work here, Lou. California (a state) has wildfires every year. Asheville (a city) has two major hurricanes in 100 years. What exactly are you trying to say?
  3. have no idea what you mean
  4. Well, like the poster above said, the real fall-out of all this is that the D's lose credibility in the Arab and Arab-American eyes as a serious party who can implement and execute on their behalf instead of just lip service (if that).
  5. "Contine as a Guest" is my best friend.
  6. The epitome of the grifter, no doubt.
  7. Billionaire's should arise the MOST suspicion, using that logic though, right? I think so-- never trust the billionaire's man. "Behind every great fortune is a great crime, or something like that." - Batman, probably. ETA because I googled it and AI did the work for me: “Behind every great fortune there is a great crime” is a quote often attributed to French novelist Honoré de Balzac. However, the quote may have originated from a paraphrase in The Oil Barons: Men of Greed and Grandeur by Richard O'Connor. Explanation The quote suggests that all wealthy people have achieved their success through illegal or unethical means. However, many people achieve wealth through hard work, innovation, and ethical business practices. Origin The full quote from Balzac is, “Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu'il a été proprement fait”. This translates to “The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed”. Appearance in other works The quote appears in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather, which tells the story of a Mafia family.
  8. It's worth considering (and maybe this is intersecting in the other thread about health insurance and Luigi/UHC) that there is a profit-motive for vaccinations and one should be at least somewhat skeptical anytime someone stands to profit off you (IMO). Which, to wit, Moderna's stock plummted yesterday after restating their guidance of sales forecast by over $1 billion dollars. ETA link: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/13/moderna-lowers-2025-sales-forecast.html To me, I'm no going to be watching if Moderna tries some "oh you need this vaccine now for XYZ" because their shareholders are going to invent reasons for boosters, seasonal vaccinations, etc. I hope that's not the case, but it's still worth at least making yourself aware of the economic relationship.
  9. What exactly are catastrophe bonds and how have holders of them NOT lost their shorts, while everyone else is? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-09/catastrophe-bond-funds-say-they-ll-dodge-losses-as-la-fires-rage
  10. Where are you located?
  11. The NYT is on her: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/us/karen-bass-ghana-wildfire-travel-los-angeles.html and I guess it's always more perspective than reality:
  12. Being "social media sober" is what the Gen Z/Gen A associates at work are calling it, I learned recently at a happy hour. These are the same people who coined the term "sober curious", so take that for what you will. Anyways, the younger associate class did a straw poll around the bar and I was shocked that like 1 in 10 uses facebook, most have and use instagram and snapchat, and that tiktok is considered "brain rot". The flex is to be off social media and "raw dog". Of course they could just have been trolling me and messing with me because I'm old.
  13. Vegas64

    Getting old sucks

    Wasn't sure where to put this. Friday I took my grandson to the Cotton Bowl. He's a teenager and full of life, so we get there when it opens at 3:30 for the pre-game hoopla. That means we leave the suburbs at about 2:30p just to make sure we can drive safely in bad conditions, which I was tense driving the entire time. We get to the stadium and to our seats around 5:30pm and I hadn't eaten since 6:00am, so my eyes are bigger than my stomach and I'm like that Chris Farley character, "Lay off me, I'm starving!". I house a cheesesteak and then get some popcorn and some soda. Note: I didn't drink one sip of alchohol in any varietal at all. The game starts and it's a great game until the 2nd and goal play. So we are engaged, yelling, standing, cheering, etc. for the full time excluding the dozens of media timeouts. We stick around after the game, buy some merch, putz around a bit-- end up at whataburger for a late night taquito-- and we end up at home around 1am. I pass out on the couch next to the fire. Well let me tell you, the next two days I feel like I was a 25 year old on a bender hitting the night life hard. My voice is raspy and almost gone, my neck hurts, my back hurts, my head aches, my body aches, I'm fatigued, I feel like I had a horrible hangover. Again, not one drink of booze at all. This goes on all weekend and just this morning I'm feeling myself. tl'dr: Longhorn cfp game gave me a 2 day "hangover". If that ain't getting old sucks, I don't know what is!
  14. I agree with this. We had to drop some sports because grades were #1 priority and they were slipping and the time management piece was too difficult at some point to keep juggling all the balls and something had to give.
  15. Gunnar Helm is awesome. Big, good hands, deceptively fast. His only knock is he isn't a great blocker, but the games we got him involved were good offensive games and there is a reason for that. Will miss him, but I honestly think Niblack could be just as if not more special. Remember being impressed with him last year when he was with Bama and played against us...
  16. Based on the movies I saw this year, best to worst: 1) Harold on the Purple Crayon 2) Dune Part 2 3) Furiousa A Mad Max Saga 4) Ordinary Angels 5) Twisters 6) Kung Fu Panda 4 7) Inside Out 2 8- Unsung Heros 9) Daredevil vs Wolverine
  17. Can’t buy without an account :(
  18. Can you send a link for those who don’t have Facebook accounts?
  19. I tried to buy and my credit card auto declined it and flagged it as potentially fraudulent, but idk…
  20. Right, my first thought was “what if that fumble by Bolden didn’t pop right back into his hands on the kick off”
  21. What if Bond didn’t drop that 3rd and middle for a first down? I think the game changes if we drive and score there and it was a massive drop by a MASSIVE underwhelming and underperforming player this year. Im not one to disparage or be ugly to any of these kids but for those lashing out at Quinn, there are better targets IMO and one likes his milkshakes shaken not stirred, if you get my drift.
  22. Super important call out. If Arch is who we think he’s gonna be and if we look back and win it all and see the progression and trajectory just keep going up, we can look back and point to Quinn being the transition QB who made that happen. A lesser QB creates a situation where the boise is too loud and Arch transfers (either because he or his family don’t want to deal with it).
  23. I feel like Quinn to Arch is reminiscent of how it felt going from Simms to VY (minus the Chance Mock transition year).
  24. This was my oldest grandsons first “real” season of being a fan. I say that to mean, watching every game, knowing the players and being emotionally invested. We were very high at times last night in the upper deck (7-7, 14-14) and very low (screen pass, end), and as we dejectedly walked out last night I told him, “Welcome to being a Texas fan.”
  25. That's hilarious.
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