Rocbert
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@SMB_path @TennisonEddie $70/click? has to be an exaggeration
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Local man doesn’t realize it cost that company $70 when he clicked on their website
And 5 other people did before he actually called and booked an appointment as well. So it was $420 for that company to even get into his house
Because Google blows and is the actual real reason home services prices are insane
THE OCpatriot™@OCpatriot_
Water heater died last night. 5 yrs old, still under warranty. Called Manufacturer, they said they'd send parts, but that'd be 4-6 days. Couldn't leave my family without hot water that long. So I called local repair company, they'd been there 5 minutes when they quoted me $1,100 to fix it. Wouldn't break it down to parts and labor until I leaned on them hard. - $300 parts - $800 labor For 30-40 minutes of work. For a water heater that cost me $700 with sales tax. I called the manufacturer back and told them the situation and that I planned on buying a new unit at The Home Depot and install it myself (I'd installed my current one). Rheem said no problem, take your old one with you and we'll give you full credit towards your new one. With the military discount from my buddy that was helping me, I was out of pocket a whole $65 when it was all said and done, and even traded up a model with a longer warranty. Thank you Rheem, thank you Home Depot. Fuck off predatory appliance repair companies.
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@No_Mo_Diversity @nut_history Rose chose to be a table setter rather that a power hitter. In the late 70's, I recall a reporter asked him why he doesn't hit more home runs and he told the reporter why. The next day versus the Mets he hit 3 home runs.
Ryan threw harder longer than anyone in history.
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Two incredible players but I would say Nolan Ryan and Pete Rose are two of the most overrated players in MLB history
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@robmcthai I always forget about that guy I had read his books years ago. I feel like I don't see much from him anymore.
Smart guy I learned a ton from his material, He was definitely a pioneer in the short game field.
Thanks for the reminder!
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This drill will drive you absolutely nuts. And that's exactly the point. ⛳️
18 holes. One ball. A wedge and your putter on the practice green.
Chip and putt out. Move all the way around the practice green, not just your comfortable, stock little chips.
Awkward angles, tight lies, longer pitches. All of it.
Keep score.
The average Tour player gets up and down 60% of the time. That's roughly 11 out of 18. That's your number.
Can you do it?
Here's the kicker, you cannot repeat it the same day.
One attempt. Before you leave the course.
That's it.
This is not a comfort drill. This is a threshold drill. It is designed to test exactly where your ceiling is and then push through it.
The one-attempt rule is what gives it teeth, because you can't grind it out, you can't retry, you can't manufacture a good score through sheer repetition.
You get one shot at it and then you live with what happens.
That's the whole point.
It forces you to actually focus, actually compete, actually feel the weight of each chip and putt when the score is real and the window is closing.
And when you don't hit 11? You don't get to fix it today. You walk off the course with it.
That discomfort is the work. Learning to perform under a threshold you can't reset is exactly what separates a practice green from a golf course.
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Everyone loves to remind teachers about summer.
Fine. Let's do the math.
This week I worked nearly 60 hours.
6:30 arrival. Unpaid lunch with kids in my room. Covered PE — I teach Spanish. Graded vocab tests Friday night. Graded a children's book project on Saturday. Turned one into a movie and posted it for the class. Five hours of lesson planning today.
The standard work week is 40 hours. The extra 20? Unpaid.
Some weeks, the grading is lighter. Some weeks it's worse. This is not the worst week I've had.
But yes. I get summers off.
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@shipwreckedcrew The weapons the 9/11 hijackers had, per the on board flight attendant calls, were all explicitly legal at the time. The issue was not faulty security screening.
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Maybe you should watch the CCTV of the 9/11 hijackers waltzing through airport security run by rent-a-cop security outfits.
Are you old enough to remember when there was no security to the gated areas? You could walk with your traveling friend or family member right up to the jet way door and hug them good-bye just before then got on the plane.
Or you could wait at the door for arriving passengers -- all without any screening by anyone?
Yeah -- it was a glaring security problem that needed to be addressed in a meaningful way without delay.
Is today's TSA the best fix? Maybe not.
But to second-guess the fix put in place in 2002 is just historically ignorant.
Jeff Deist@jeffdeist
To all of you fuming in airport lines today, your misery traces back to July 2002-- when the GOP led house voting overwhelmingly to create TSA as part of a new fedgov department known as "Homeland Security." This was sold by Dick Armey to a very willing George W Bush the same way the CIA was sold to Truman: as a "consolidation" of existing agencies, reports, channels, etc. Efficiency! And hey, if a few airport scanners need to be sold to this new department, so be it. So instead of owners- airlines- working with airports to secure air travel, we get the worst combination of inept and sinister: DMV/USPS meets Michael Chertoff. Ten Rs voted no. Chris Cannon (UT) John J. Duncan Jr. (TN) Jeff Flake (AZ) John Hostettler (IN) Jerry Moran (KS) Ron Paul (TX) Tom Petri (WI) Tom Tancredo (CO) Charles H. Taylor (NC) William M. Thomas (CA)
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@yamma_jamma @paned_neis_o_de @domdyer70 Calling them furbabies puts them on the same morality level as a human. Humans are created in God's image. Dogs, though we may love them, are not.
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@paned_neis_o_de @domdyer70 It may be a dog to you but it's a Fur baby to me and I'm quite grown up, why don't you do a little of your own and not make flip remarks to people about how THEY feel about THEIR own animal or others.
Nobody asked you.
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@shipwreckedcrew This is true. But it's also true that in many (most) places you can't build that 1,100 sq ft 2&1, that would be an amazing starter home. Government regulations make it impossible.
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Because surveys show that when you ask 20-somethings what they "think" a starter home is, they describe the home they grew up in -- usually not Mom & Dad's first home, but the homes the kids had when they were older.
They want 2000+ square feet on a decent sized lot in a nice neighborhood with grocery store a mile away, school right down the street, and 10 minutes to work.
So does everyone -- that's why those are more expensive.
That was my parents' third house.
VMW@Vwms63
@shipwreckedcrew Why do people pretend there are no starter size homes out there?
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@ScottKacsmar Looks the same. They just called it different/ what they wanted
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WHAT A CATCH KHALIL SHAKIR
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I think the people arguing for simultaneous possession (which goes to the offense) forget what those plays actually look like. You have both players fighting for the ball on the ground.
That didn't happen here. The defender clearly stole it away from Cooks before he completed the process.
Ben DiNucci@B_DiNucci6
This is an INT every time. If defender isn’t part of the play and the ball comes free - it’s incomplete Cooks never has control of the ball
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@EndresenHeather @edwardscpa Sellers notes are a financing tool for the buyer. If the buyer wants part of the consideration to be at risk, there are other mechanisms: holdback, escrow, earn out, right of offset against the note, each of which can be negotiated independently. Your statement is overly broad.
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@edwardscpa Seller notes are supposed to be “at risk” if the biz doesn’t perform post close, seller skin the game. Better to have no seller note at all than one with predatory creditor language. Many deals won’t come together without some seller skin in the game, however.
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PSA to all business buyers:
Do NOT under any circumstances sign a seller's note that contains this language:
"Confession of Judgment"
Saw it again today in a draft seller's note for one of our Viso clients. 😡 The language is being removed or we're not closing.
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@davidbhappy @BigBrainHistori @Founder_Mode_ This is a perfect example of his ability to understand that what he did was, in fact, a moral good.
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@BigBrainHistori @Founder_Mode_ This is a prime example of a humans unbelievable ability to disconnect from the evil they have perpetrated on the world through rationalization.
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WW2 pilot Paul Tibbets on carrying out the order to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945):
When asked how he'd like to be remembered, he gave a direct answer:
"I did what I was told to do and I was damn proud of it."
Tibbets addresses the question he's been asked countless times... whether he has any regrets.
"No regrets. Whatever. I've never lost a night's sleep. I've never lost 15 minutes sleep."
He explains his mental framework for processing his role in the war:
"This was war. I didn't carry the war with me. I didn't start the war. I had a job to do during wartime and nothing personal entered into that. I was to do what I was told to do."
When confronted by those who suggest Japan was about to surrender anyway, Tibbets pushes back:
"You've been listening to too many revisionists. They weren't about to surrender."
He references the book 'Downfall' by Richard Frank, which he says was written after classified materials were released.
According to Tibbets, the book demonstrates that no legitimate surrender overtures were made because only one person in Japan had the authority to end the war — the emperor.
"It's nice to think about getting the war finished," Tibbets observes, "but it can only be finished with the number one man doing the job."
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@AirAeon @RealBlackIrish "Watch out! It's a Golden Retriever!" Said no one ever.
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@RealBlackIrish Do people not realize that you can get doggy hugs and belly rubs WITHOUT even the possibility of having your face chewed off, by having almost any other breed? Like, are their brains capable of processing that fact? 🤔
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@tjmcaulay Why are so many people unable to differentiate between "This is the rule," and "This is what I think the rule should be?"
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I'll use this one to address, what I think, are all the bizarre responses to me saying the whistle is irrelevant with respect to Replay awarding a recovery during the immediate continuing action.
The rules prohibit unnecessary contact after the ball is dead. The ball is *always* dead by rule *before* the whistle blows, except in the extremely rare case of an erroneous whistle (I've noted this numerous times). There can be, and sometimes are, times when there are fouls called for unnecessary roughness that occur before the whistle is blown.
In the current play under discussion, if a defender is not going for the ball and "blows up" the player picking up the ball or any other player either before or after the whistle, it would have been unnecessary roughness. If there was forcible contact between players as they were going for the football, it would not be a foul.
This is the rule at every level of the game and one of the first rules officials learn when they begin officiating.
Finally, if just a small percentage of all those on X that seem to be really interested in explaining the rules to me would become officials, it would go a long way to solving the critical shortage of high school officials and our dialogue would be much more productive.
Ray Trapani@Raytrapani
@yolo42053727364 @moss1585 @tjmcaulay As he’s walking unsuspecting to the ball because play was called dead, if this rule were to be true it would be fine to blast him as he’s going for the ball
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@Zim423 @BBGreatMoments They're 8. Eight year old kids can't pull that off.
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@BBGreatMoments It's not hard at all. He should have immediately charged him at full speed and once he fully commits back to 3rd you fire it to the 3rd baseman for the tag out. The pitcher/first baseman then covers home in the catchers place in case it turns into a pickle.
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Every catcher’s worst nightmare right here 😂👏 (via ahickman_5/TT)
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@skyhookt @marcportermagee No it’s not lmao it’s extremely trainable. I spent like 2 weeks practicing that test on my own and went from an average score to perfect score without much effort. Absolutely not an IQ test. Also not that hard.
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LSAT scores by gender for 2022-23 testing year
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I got to visit On-A-Slant in North Dakota, where the Heart and Missouri connect. You can sit in a reconstructed Mandan village, and look out on the water. It's just blindingly obvious that tribe would be in a position to dominate trade moving through there. Just a magnificent commercial location.
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We mapped ancient trade routes across North America… copper moving 1,000 miles, shells moving inland, obsidian crossing whole regions but we almost never talk about the languages that made those exchanges possible.
You don’t run a continental economy with hand gestures.
Somewhere in that silence is a missing chapter of diplomacy, translation, and shared vocabulary that archaeology hasn’t even begun to reconstruct.
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You said 7 times as many in the US. The response was "US is bigger." You then reverted to per capita, implying that your 7x number was per capital. It's not. The 7x number is total. Per capita the US is slightly higher in knife homicide, while the UK is higher in overall knife crime.
Don't insult someone's intelligence when you can't get the facts right yourself.
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An anonymous coward who isn’t bright enough to do simple arithmetic. Per capita more knife murders in US than UK.
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The whole point of a written constitution is to bind future generations. If there isn’t a fixed meaning then you really don’t have strong constitutional protections.
Anthony Kreider@anthonyjkreider
@RonDeSantis It actually should be the current public meaning. We bind ourselves to that law. The framers can't do that for us. So, we are the ratifiers today.
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I think this is actually indicative of how @DavidAFrench thinks. Combining holier than thou morality with total denial of the reality of how this morality negatively impacts those living in the real world. There is no way his kids didn't tell others, and he is blind to that reality.
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We told our kids there was no Santa (though we did tell them about Saint Nicholas), but we also told them in no uncertain terms not to ruin Santa for their friends. Believe it or not, they kept quiet!
Caitlin Flanagan@CaitlinPacific
You’re fine to tell your kid there’s no Santa. But if your kid tells my kid there’s no Santa, it’s going to be you, me and some very complicated and unresolved emotional issues.
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@SkylineReport @sanakuma4 The founders were total morons, saying "people" but meaning "states" in the second, and only the second, amendment.
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That’s a post-Heller fantasy. The framers tied 2A to state militias, full stop. Scalia grafted an entirely new “individual right” core onto the amendment that never existed in the text or the founding record. My article walks through the receipts. Over 200 historians filed an amicus brief saying the same. Scalia wasn’t a historian. He blew past the evidence anyway.
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The Second Amendment didn’t “evolve.” It was hijacked. “The people” used to mean the militia. Now it means anyone with a trigger finger — thanks to a 40-year propaganda campaign that rewrote history, captured the courts, and left America drowning in gun violence. Judge the receipts yourself.
P a u l ◉@SkylineReport
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@Top100Rick Jay Roberts does some of the best short form video content ever. So perfect in how concise he is. Every word and shot is useful. No fluff.
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You can purposefully lean the flagstick away from you for an advantage…sometimes?
Golf rules I had no idea about part 337.
Imagine seeing a player lean a flagstick away from the ball to make a bigger hole. Would have assumed always a penalty.
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