@Chris_arnade Before Amazon existed, I did school supplies box packing for a summer. It made me appreciate an academic life as a true luxury.
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Curious Chuck D
@Curious_Chuck_D
I’m doin’ good – actually kind of busy doin’ nothin’ these days, but it’s OK! Take care and stay safe!
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I also never ever want to do any of those three things again.
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I spent every summer from 3rd grade to last year of college working. Picking fruit, painting houses, washing dishes.
While I needed to do that to pay for things, including college, in retrospect i'm also very glad I did because it gave me a perspective you can't get from books and is generally lacking with a lot of the very well educated.
Helen Andrews@herandrews
Really surprised by the number of people in the comments saying that math camp or SAT prep are genuinely better uses of a summer. Teen jobs aren’t some distant boomer nostalgia thing. They’re an important American tradition from our lifetime, not our grandparents’.
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@KrisAbdelmessih What is wrong with "generational wealth"? First time, long time.
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$GME with $6.3bn cash ($4.3bn net) trading at $9.7bn mkt cap...
Ryan Cohen@ryancohen
Now we know why Buffett is sitting on 300 billion
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Ray Charles took gospel songs and straight up replaced God with pretty women and lol appropriation blah blah blah
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@enriqueabeyta @realDonaldTrump Interesting take. My uninformed thought was that this tariff exercise was a way to get a consumption tax to replace income taxes. Regressive but feels populist. It is so funny, because 1988 Joe Biden would have loved this as a deep blue pro-Union strategy.
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Obviously #tariffs have been a HUGE topic these last few weeks.
Been listening to all of it and think that @realDonaldTrump is engaged in a misdirection with his #Canada and #Mexico tariffs.
The REAL GOAL is to get 30% tariffs on #CHINA by all 3 North American countries IMO.
The fentanyl situation is real especially with Mexico.
It is more important, however, to the administration for them to maintain their emergency powers.
Think eventually we get a lot more enforcement from Mexico - including allowing US troops - and some smaller stuff from Canada. Doubtful that the "emergency" is called off though.
RE-SHORING is also a very real goal. Think the administration wants to see announcements from major corporations of moving production to the US. Also think - that unlike before - they are going to follow up on them.
The REAL GOAL, though, is this 30% tariff on China.
Think Trump takes the US tariff up another +10% in April and convinces Canada and Mexico to match. This creates "Fortress America" against the true trade CRIMINAL on Earth - China.
For what it is worth - also think the push for ending the #RussianUkrainianWar is ALSO about China.
@realDonaldTrump wants to separate Russia and China and allow the USA to focus 100% of their resources on counteracting the Chinese.
We shall see...
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@RobertMSterling Was he working his ass off up to this minute and then taking a break? I'm just saying the judgment can be tough
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Waiting to get my hair cut today. Middle-age guy walks in with his two sons (early teens).
Sits down, pulls out his phone, and spends the entire time scrolling, completely ignoring his boys. No attempt to engage with them whatsoever. Like they’re not even in the room.
It’s just sad to see. The bar to being an involved dad is so low, and some guys still don’t care to dedicate even that minimal level of effort.
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@AaronNagler I'd rather get impact at Edge for that price
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@TylerHerrick @Lambeaughini Checking in with lambeaughini on Daily would do numbers, I'm just saying...
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@TylerHerrick Off topic, but when is @Lambeaughini getting a nomination for Packer Fan of the year.
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@NikoMcCarty This was great! This person has to get to DC for more examples. Many Federal agencies still have the machine shops that produce the signs, people that produce regs that require further signs, and a management that insures that the lowest risk version of that sign gets made.
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There's a font used just about everywhere — on road signs, elevator buttons, and old computer keyboards — that has no "official" name. You've probably seen it hundreds of times without realizing.
Its origins can be traced back to an obscure Wisconsin machine shop. A great blog🔻
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@RobertMSterling My daughter called an umbrella a "rainbrella", which I've adopted.
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The best random part about having small kids is how they mispronounce things and it’s so adorable that you not only don’t correct them, you start adopting it yourself.
During Covid, our daughter couldn’t say “hand sanitizer” correctly. Three years later and we all still call it “hanzatizer.”
When my son was two, he had a toy Elmo guitar that he called his “kintar.” My wife and I only stopped pronouncing it like that once he started real kintar lessons and we sounded dumb in front of the teacher.
Our toddler is two and she calls her backpack a “pack pack.” Now the other kids talk about getting their pack packs ready for school every day.
We’re having pasghetti for dinner tonight.
It probably sounds stupid, but it’s little things like this that make parenthood—despite all the challenges—an irreplaceable joy.
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@AaronNagler Even above the AT-ATs and snow speeders? That is still my personal favorite sequence.
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Legit my favorite sequence in any movie ever.
The Sting@TheStingisBack
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) I was 9 when I saw Empire, and the Asteroid Field sequence was THE most exciting thing I'd ever seen. I wish I could go back and see the look on my own face, wide-eyed and amazed. Movies are emotional scrapbooks, it's why we love them.
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@tomowenmorgan If you are spending enough time with your kids, the inevitable yelling will be balanced out by 10 times more positive interactions.
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"If you're not yelling at your children, you're not spending enough time with them"
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@AndrewBrandt So we go back to the "under the table" payments instead?
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Assuming approval of House settlement, Ohio State football will need to get "under the Cap" next year.
Roster reportedly at around $20M in NIL payroll.
Cap will be roughly $20M, but for all college sports.
Thus, the need to trim.
But yes, there will also be "supplemental" NIL.
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@AndrewBrandt Is there some point where the NFL and College pro-football become more overtly antagonistic?
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Launching next week: The Draft Industrial Complex. A new weekly podcast keeping an eye on the DIC, with my co-conspirator @TylerDBrooke.
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@Chris_arnade The cast gets locked in somewhere was a go to plot trope in Sitcoms.
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It sticks with me because it was both so comical -- this was a very divey dive bar and everyone involved had clearly spent a life bouncing around the very bottom of society -- and yet so great an example of something that's an universal all over the world.
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One of my most enduring memories from my ten years traveling the US was being in a dive bar somewhere in Ohio and a woman got all upset that her man had went into the bathroom, locked it, and that was half hour ago and he wasn't answering and he had history of passing out and she needed help and for the next twenty minutes every man in the bar gave it their best shot -- some running and throwing their shoulder against it, some trying using improvised ply-bars, some trying to pick the lock, some with absurd rube goldberg like schemes -- finally, one of the guys got it open by taking the door off the frame using tools from his truck and after the guy who had passed out from some concoction of substance, was woken up, for the next two hours the man who opened the door strutted around like the cats meow. He was the hero of the night and he got free drinks and that dude was one proud dude, beaming, and recounting the story of how he opened the door to everyone, including me who heard it about four times, and each time he told it, it got more impressive.
Men need to feel valuable. They need to solve tasks, and if they don't have healthy ways to channel that, then they will find unhealthy ones.
Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌@Chris_arnade
I read this article and it boils down to the writer believing the Hero archetype is corrosive, bad, and unnecessary -- an outdated concept of masculinity. I personally think the continual appeal of the hero archetype, especially to younger men, is something a society shouldn't dismiss, and rather than try to make it profane, realize the universal need for it, and the good that can come from it. A society where a young man wants to rush into a burning building to save someone is actually a good thing,
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@AdamSchefter If Tom Brady and the Raiders get this highly esteemed candidate, how much does Tom's media position with Fox give him an unfair advantage?
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In attending Orange Bowl last night, power of sports struck me.
We lament the chaos in college sports with Portal, unrestricted free agency and NIL, etc. But we watch.
Similar to the NFL: we complain about officiating, stoppages, concussions, etc. But we watch.
We always watch.
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