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@DavidDack my best time was 22:15 when i was 35. i worked my ass off for that and i am slow as shit and i don't think it was "good" for recreational at 35. maybe sub 21. 18 is real good for just about anybody

What counts as a “good” 5K for a recreational runner? Sub-35? Sub-30? Sub-25? Or depends who’s asking? Be honest. Everyone has a secret line.

@bankertobuilder Jeez. I read this and realized immediately this was a parody account, but i am not sure how may posts of yours i replied to already not realizing it was parody. And my sister lives in Clifton NY, which could be the exact burb you are mocking.

This is my wife’s hometown, population less than 75,000. There's a beautiful Holiday Inn we stay at when we visit. Over 5 unique Starbucks locations. Has 9 strip malls you can visit and get pretty much anything you want. Has a Chili's and a Mexican restaurant. No walkable areas at all. You need a car here. Walmart on the edge of town. Small towns like this are the backbone of America.

@CoachBeede Friends with a couple who both went to top tier schools in the 80s and aren't billionaires. Begged them to let their son play football. There's plenty of kids that score 1570 on their SATs. There are very few who are also 6'5/270. He's playing offensive line.

High-academic recruiting is different. The transcript matters earlier. The target list has to be realistic. The athlete has to fit the school, not just the roster. The family has to understand admissions, timing, development, and level. Baseball can open the door. But academics often decide how many doors stay open.

@wakeupnj They all secretly love living in NJ and then, even worse, they move to other states and loudly complain how much better it was in Jersey (except for the taxes and the politicians)

Absolutely hilarious Jersey is the one state that hates everyone 😆

@Ravenismeee Yes, unfortunately they do, because there are a whole bunch of babies that you work with, evidenced by the replies, that will clam that their - migraines asthsma wherever - is triggered by your perfume

Does your boss have the right to tell you that your perfume is too strong and it’s offensive to others in the office and you should stop using it ?

@Milajoy People of other races started to be heard.

When I was growing up in the 1970’s and 1980’s no one saw color. No on was obsessed with color. We were all just Americans. When did that change? Why did it change?

@bluelotdegen State legislator who also works at a law firm. You generate business and assign it to the people who do the work. Trust me. You can be doing this at like 32

Looking for a career that allows me to play golf and pretty much do whatever I want all day with no responsibilities that also pays 6 figures lmk

@DanReese21 Good friend is over the top maga, i am not. Good friend loves to live in college towns. i think he loves debating and mocking liberals and he is doing it in good faith so he gets away with it.

Raising a family in a college town is underrated. - educated and diverse population - better cost of living than most major metros - generally great public schools - culture/arts/music/sporting events - stable local economy (university is often the largest employer and isn't going anywhere) - usually a sneaky good food scene - big enough to not be bored, but small enough to avoid the hassle of large cities (e.g. traffic) - a unique energy/vibe College towns also in the top 50 of the 2026 Best Places to Raise a Family in America list: Ann Arbor, MI (#9) Berkeley, CA (#16) Boulder, CO (#18) Madison, WI (#19) College Station, TX (#27) Columbia, MO (#31) Lexington, KY (#32) Gainesville, FL (#36) Lincoln, NE (#43) (Rankings from Niche. Take them for what they’re worth. There’s many other wonderful college towns not listed)

@adamshuaib I was one of those people until i was 38 and got job where i had to dabble in a little bit of everything. Then went back to being a lawyer where specialization matters. i learned that the specialists operate in very narrow corridors and make shit decisions out of their zones

The strongest predictor of who does extraordinary work isn't intelligence or ambition. It's whether they ever obsessed over something pointless. We've seen this across 5,000+ startup meetings, but the pattern shows up across scientists, writers, athletes and artists. They'd spent two years optimising their fantasy football algorithm, or memorised every player in the NBA at 11, including bench warmers. Or built a Lego replica of their school. Or collected a thousand train tickets. None of it really had any point. What they were demonstrating was probably the hardest skill in any field: the capacity to stay interested in something for much longer than it typically deserves. The path to genius is 95% boring repetition. The people who break through don't have more willpower. They have a broken off-switch. You can fake ambition in a meeting. You can't fake having spent years obsessed with boring things that didn't matter.

@shagbark_hick 1. Job forces me to drive around nj and i enjoy taking alternate routes just to try it. /. I love looking at maps. 3. I dread asking my wife to look at a map when we are on a road trip and need to find something very specific. Like a wawa.

I frankly mistrust any man who: 1. Is hopelessly reliant on Google Maps to get around 2. Appears to lack knowledge of basic US and world geography 3. Isn't regularly spending "a little too much" time looking at maps 4. Has an abysmal sense of direction

@CoachSwit And yet you keep making money off of a new crop. Fwiw, i happily paid the money to coaches i liked and didn't like so long as my kid was happy.

Lots of parents struggle when their kid’s sports career ends because for years it was a huge part of their life. The games, travel, friendships & routines… then one day it stops and life gets real quiet. Some friendships last, some fade. Most aren’t ready for that part.

@bookshelfbattle @KeenanPeachy Agree. The characters were good. The storytelling was the worst ever

Nerd here. IMO all those characters were fine. It was the writers who couldn’t tie up a cohesive arc because JJ loves to open boxes that he never closes. They shipped Rey and Finn only to send him off to a casino planet with a pointless chubby girl. They hooked Rey and Emo Vader hinting they might destroy both sides in a movie that kept repeating the mantra of destroying your past to create a new future only to give us more of the same. And Luke was more angry and bitter than Hammil but they never tell us why.

It does feel gratifying to see that ten years after The Force Awakens opened---and everyone at Disney desperately tried to convince themselves that they had seen the future, that the movie was great, that JJ Abrams had done it, that a new iconic yet authentically SW trilogy had been launched, that Mary Sue, Emo Ren, the annoying orange robot soccer ball, the whiny black stormtrooper, the washed up boomer versions of the original stars were awesome-- that finally Disney and everyone involved has finally surrendered to the truth: the most expensive misfire in Hollywood history that wasted a classic storyline.

@JackPosobiec Sad thing is that all the Rey Kyli Ren and Finn were all decent characters you could root for or against, and they still squandered it

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@AttaBoi_Westy Travolta doesn't think he is acting here. That's why he is so good.

He is a phenom. Incredibly intelligent. 😳

@sweatystartup HC Bucknell Colgate and Lehigh are sub ivy and better than any school in the south except vandy duke and uva. And the students are all wall st kids that will get jobs that keep them rich.

The entire Patriot league is a complete waste of money. I cannot believe parents will send their kids to these schools and send them into massive debt for these degrees. Embarrassing.

@systematicls This is the stupidist post i have ever read, and what truly pushes it over the edge is the use of $10 words and ai drafted talking points that seem smart but are nonsense. Is every reply a bot or a sock puppet for the original poster

@RealDianeYap And then the guy gets married again.

Easy. Men’s lives tend to get harder after divorce because their wives were doing so much they never even realized. Women’s lives tend to get easier, happier, more free.

@helloparalegal Didn't happen.

A litigation attorney called me last month. Solo, mid-sized matter, opposing counsel was a partner at a 200-lawyer firm. Deposition the next morning. She was drowning. "I have 14 deposition transcripts, 9 expert reports, 200+ exhibits. I can't keep track of who said what. The associate I'm using is six months out of school and is missing things." I asked her two questions: - How are you organizing this right now? - Have you ever heard of Obsidian? She was using folders. Word docs. Yellow stickies on her monitor. She had not heard of Obsidian. I told her to do one thing before the deposition. Set up an Obsidian vault. Drop every transcript, every exhibit summary, every witness profile in. Plain markdown files. Backlink every name across the matter. Run one Claude Code query against the vault before she walked into court. The query: "Read every deposition in this matter. Identify any place where this witness contradicted earlier testimony, or where any other witness contradicted what this witness said. Quote the exact text." She set it up Saturday afternoon. Four hours. Free. She ran the query Saturday evening. Three contradictions came back. One was material. In the witness's own deposition six months earlier, he had testified that he had not been in the warehouse on the night in question. In a 30(b)(6) deposition three weeks later, the company's HR director produced a swipe-card log placing him there. Her junior associate had reviewed both depositions separately and never connected them. The agent connected them in 40 seconds. Sunday she walked into her co-counsel's office and dropped the printout on his desk. "Where did you get this?" "From a markdown file." The Monday deposition went very differently than expected. She is not the only litigator I have helped do this in the last six months. The pattern is always the same. The lawyers running their cases out of folders, Word docs, Clio "matter notes," and human memory are leaving facts on the table. The ones running their cases out of Obsidian + an API-direct agent are finding the things their associates miss. Free plugins do the structural work: Templater for new-matter intake, Dataview for deadline dashboards, Tasks for court deadlines. The agent layer (Commercial Terms API, ~$50/mo) does what no SaaS will ever do for you: → Cross-matter witness lookup. "What do I know about Expert Foster across all matters?" → Deposition outline drafting. Reads the witness profile, matter facts, your prior outlines. → Exhibit summaries. New PDF lands in Discovery, summary appears the next morning. → Timeline construction. Reads every transcript in a matter, builds the chronology. → Pattern cross-reference. "Has opposing counsel run this argument before in another matter?" Most litigators are paying $500-900/mo per attorney for SaaS that does none of this. Clio does not do cross-matter pattern matching. Westlaw does not read your own depositions. Harvey is a chatbot with the agent features turned off. The "workflow you own" isn't a slogan. It's a directory structure plus an API key. Most litigators will not build this. The ones who do will keep finding the things their associates missed in 40 seconds, on a Saturday evening, before a Monday deposition. This is what "own your workflow" actually looks like for a litigator. Here is the structure:

@TheGrandeTop10 @mansourtarek_ @WSJ @Kalshi What risk was he hedging when he bet that a celebrity would say a particular word?

I find it interesting that @WSJ posted an article on why @Kalshi doesn’t work, yet the opening story shows exactly how it does. You still need to be fiscally responsible; putting your entire portfolio in one trade isn’t smart, nor is it Kalshi’s fault. The man made $41K.

@buccocapital Best free restaurant bread can always be found in Hoboken

This Atlantic article about the quest to find the best free restaurant bread is the most enjoyable essay I have read in…I quite literally don’t know how long It is delightfully insane. And incredible writing