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@Stuckey2 When my mom died we used to a lawyer who said not to pay any of the cards. He was going to send them a notice and the estate would be closed before they were likely to respond as a creditor.

Spent 20 minutes on a call with capital one for my dad’s estate going through process. At end of call, lady says we now own discovery and I can transfer you to their estate team since it’s a separate process. Me “great, yah he had a discovery card, that will save me a step” …

@acd82 @Popplayzz1 Imagine he animated someone who has like an undertaker silhouette from the back but then is revealed to be several mini @DanhausenAD in a coat.

@dmoon @Popplayzz1

The Guy who Danhausen is bringing back to life is Baron Corbin. According to Dave Meltzer.

@CamoGeeez @cl_all_day They probably prioritize the ability to do a backflip over power to left field.

@cl_all_day It’s because the first players recruited to the team likely had no more chance led with the MLB. But as the Banana games got more popular and more teams were added, more player with enough skill to still maybe have a shoot at the big leagues had more incentive to join as it grew

I think the funniest thing about the Savannah Bananas is that they just lose a fuck ton

@eathedocument I think it’s a 50s nostalgia song. “The Day the Music Died” was in 1959 and presumably he’s pining for the era before that.

it’s funny that “american pie” aka the ultimate 60s nostalgia song was released in 1971. i love the song because i wasn’t there but if i was alive in 1971 i would’ve been like thanks for recapping two years ago man…we almost forgot…

@seanhalfcourt I think it’ll be fine. Detroit’s recent teams that’ve swept have lost momentum. The Knicks will have been sitting and the Pistons (🤞) will come in with energy.

Boy do I have good news for you

@bobwojnowski It depends on the group, they have different rules. When my brothers were patients at the children’s hospital in Cleveland, there were often Amish patients. They were driven there in a van. I believe it was a service, but they also did use some technologies due to necessity.

I’m not judging, only observing. At this rest stop in Ohio, about 40 Amish people arrived and ordered Panda Express and Burger King. Very quiet, very polite. When I left, not a single buggy in the parking lot, just a giant tour bus. Did the Amish rules change and nobody told me?

Detroit impressions: • The downtown is full of beautiful buildings. All of them seem to have been built specifically in the 1920s. I guess that is after the city had accumulated enough auto wealth but before the twin hits of Modernism and the Depression. (I hadn't known that the GM Renaissance Center, built as a revitalization project, was at the time the largest private development in US history, and also at the time the world's tallest hotel. It may be large, but it is not pretty.) The downtown is surprisingly depopulated -- both the streets and the sidewalks feel empty. That said, it didn't feel at all unsafe. There are lots of great homes in the suburbs. • The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation is amazing, and it's worth visiting Detroit for it alone. Among many (many) other things, it contains the oldest known surviving steam engine in the world, the actual Montgomery bus on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a deconstructed Model T, a deconstructed Eames Chair, and many great cars, agricultural equipment, locomotives, industrial specimens, and more. (They have the Lincoln Continental that JFK was riding in when assassinated -- which, apparently, was returned to service and used by several subsequent presidents.) • The museum made me wonder why American car design peaked in the mid-60s. (This fact is very evident at the museum.) The LLMs blame the 1966 National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act. (Not quite wtfhappenedin1971.com, but close.) • Good food exists but it is hard to find. • The Heidelberg Project also exists and is unique. • We stayed at the Dearborn Inn, which is wonderful, and contains cottages modeled after the homes of significant American figures. Dearborn (and Hamtramck) are now predominantly Muslim, apparently for reasons that go back a century to Henry Ford's $5 wage. Dearborn felt noticeably prosperous (we stopped for coffee at a fancy Japanese cheesecake cafe); Hamtramck did not. • Michigan.gov says that the Hispanic population of Michigan is just 6%. Coming from California, the absence is very striking. • The Detroit Institute of Arts is remarkable, particularly the room with the American landscapes and the section with the Dutch masters (especially The Visitation). An obvious question is why there is nothing quite like it in the Bay Area given how much richer the latter is than Detroit ever was -- we techies are just so uncultured by comparison. The Diego Rivera murals are amazing (and quite strange; you can see why they were controversial). • Detroit is full of historic plaques -- they are truly everywhere. This is presumably due in part to the fact that Detroit has a lot of history, but it still has many more than places with comparable historical depth. Some research suggests that it might be related to generous tax credits for historic preservation. Whether or not that is true, Detroit persuades me that other places should engage in more plaquemaxxing. • I recommend a visit! You overall leave with some sense for how exciting America must have felt in the early 20th century.

@Erik_Quill The m-f ratio of this crowd is insane.

One look at this fanbase and I hate whatever band this is already

for safety

Between Ben Wallace, Ausar Thompson, and Dennis Rodman, the Pistons franchise has had 3 of the best defenders in league history

@LilyCGuiney He’s from Madison Heights and painted a whale mural inside one of the schools there. He also painted a lion on the side of Barbs Pizza and Pasties in Clawson!

@dmoon This is so cool I didn’t know he was from MI! Some goof commented something about whales not belonging in Detroit or Dallas so this doesn’t matter anyways but I can’t find the comment anymore so maybe they’ve realized how dumb that sounded & deleted. The whales are ambassadors!

YOU GUYS THEY ARE LITERALLY DOING TO DALLAS WHAT THEY DID TO DETROIT. SAME MURALIST AND EVERYTHING

@iJordanMoore I've ever been to Fenway, but enjoyed Wrigley.

The Mecca’s of each major 4 sport… MLB: Fenway Park NFL: Lambeau Field NBA: Madison Square Garden NHL: Belle Centre There shouldn’t even be a debate.

@RickSanchezc731 @WWENostalgia_ I was thinking of Howard Finkel, Mean Gene, and Gorilla Monsoon, but the color commentators were always entertaining.

@dmoon @WWENostalgia_ Back in the day when vince mcmahon jerry, the king Lawler and jim Ross did the announcing they used to have me dying. They were funny as hell. To me , those were the best days in wrestling.

2002: Bobby Heenan shoots on kayfabe, says “the magic is over” for wrestling

@RickSanchezc731 @WWENostalgia_ I watched an old clip recently and the announcers had broadcast voices, deadpan faces, and treated it as deadly serious. They'd do most of the selling. Now they are doing comedy the whole match.

@WWENostalgia_ Even as a kid , we knew it wasn't real🤣🤣 you don't watch It because it's real. You watch it for the stories. At least that's why I watched it back in the day. If the story telling is good , you forget that it's fake.

@junebug225 "My name isn't John Beatle." Guy must have hated the Ramones.

john lennon deadnaming bob dylan

We've lived in this house for a little over five years and in the last six months three things have fallen off the walls. I think Command Strips have a five-year service life. A diploma frame randomly fell and broke this morning.

@tmuxvim You could also inject common spam terms and possibly get them banned.

I put a prompt injection into my LinkedIn bio and recruiters are messaging me in Old English and calling me Lord.

@tmuxvim You should vary your replies, they probably have no idea what is going on: "What the hell??" "Excuse me?" "Unorthodox message, but you have my attention."