@fcmcommw @AdamMazza @alixonmartinez2 110k annual salary is nothing? LOL. What world do you live in?
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Todd Pedlar
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Todd Pedlar
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Physics prof @luthercollege, geek-of-all-trades. BA @whitmancollege '91, PhD @NorthwesternU '99. @belle2collab Researcher. Thoughts expressed are my own.
Decorah, IA Katılım Ocak 2009
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@AdamMazza @alixonmartinez2 Appreciate the dialogue but we’re not just googling. This is our world for the last year and we’re in the thick of it at this very moment. 110k annual salary is nothing nowadays. that’s like saying to someone it’s ok to go buy a 500k house on a 110k salary.
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I’m not against D3 programs…
I’m against recreational baseball asking you to pay $45k + for “an experience”
Don’t be stupid.. if you are somewhat “good”… then, go juco..!!
Simple.. GO JUCOOO!!
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Trump: "There are those that say this is maybe the biggest summit ever. They can never remember anything like it. I can say in the United States people aren't talking about anything else."
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@amconmag Trump trying to display strength by pulling the handshake close to himself… he’s such a clown. Xi is laughing at him the whole time.
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President Trump meets with Xi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing
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@SwanPrincess926 @khnh80044 Why would she get fired? There’s no chance that happens (but I guess you got a reaction, which perhaps is what you wanted)
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Love how she grabbed her by the waist, held on tight and didn't let go! not all heroes wear capes.❤️
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🚨MASSIVE INSULT: Trump just landed in China.
Xi Jinping did not greet him at the airport.
Instead: the US Ambassador, China’s Vice President, and two foreign ministry officials.
The White House is calling it “red carpet treatment.”
The same summit that was downgraded to a low-impact meeting before it started.
The same China that offered no clear agenda and no concessions.
He brought the entire American corporate elite 7,000 miles for this.
China is treating the United States like a third world country. 🤦🏾♂️
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@WVPitt One of the great joys of summer when our girls were young enough to need supervision but old enough to swim with me present was the quiet reading time that allowed me in the early evenings poolside several days a week :)
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Football practice starts this week for the middle school kid (South Carolina may be the best state to homeschool) so that means I pick up a random fiction book to read while sitting in the drop-off/pick-up line.
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@reedrrosales 9 flights is crazy... 12 flights total. Maybe they could donate a flew flights to #d3hoops to get a bit better bracketing there? (are the budgets for different sports really so different that they'll fly 12 teams in the spring and don't like doing half that for basketball?)
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As for softball, I can’t believe they flew 9 teams. I didn’t mock a softball bracket, but I have to imagine that it would’ve been way easier (and cheaper) to fly the west coast teams + TLU. Again though, I didn’t mock a softball bracket, so that’s just speculation on my part.
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The brackets are out for baseball and softball. How did the committees do? Let’s split each field into 4 sections of 16 to find out.
Key for the pictures below:
Green = “1 seeds” (1-16)
Yellow = “2 seeds” (17-32)
Blue = “3 seeds” (33-48)
White = “4 seeds” (49-64)
#d3baseball
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Kari Lake: “Jamaica is a country I know very well, full of incredible people, and if confirmed by the Senate, I look forward to strengthening the partnership between our nations, advancing America’s interests abroad, and building on the deep friendship shared by the American and Jamaican people.
Honored to continue serving in this HISTORIC Administration!”
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump
JUST IN: Trump nominates Kari Lake as U.S. ambassador to Jamaica.
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Whoever is running TSA's social media has fully accepted the agency is security theater and is just leaning into the bit. Love that for us.
TSA@TSA
Protein shakes? 3.4 oz or less, but rotisserie chickens??? As many as you can fit in your carry-on.
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@worlwidemurphy @charlescwcooke He can pretend that he can, (and his supporters think he can) but just like in the preceding two cases, ultimately, he can't.
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@charlescwcooke He can impose tariffs and outlaw birthright citizenship. Why can’t he suspend the gas tax?
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@anneapplebaum @RadioFreeTom Good riddance. Sorry to any Jamaicans here, though.
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Looks like Kari Lake will become.... ambassador to Jamaica
whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…
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@Ol_Treacherous @PeteHegseth @DeptofWar Of course - if he was actually taking about things which the secretary of defense openly claimed himself.
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@PeteHegseth @DeptofWar Mabey Captian Mark just forgot what “classified” means.
I mean, they really don’t go over opsec and stuff like that when you receive a clearance.
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“Captain” Mark Kelly strikes again.
Now he’s blabbing on TV (falsely & dumbly) about a *CLASSIFIED* Pentagon briefing he received.
Did he violate his oath…again? @DeptofWar legal counsel will review.
Margaret Brennan@margbrennan
After hearing the Pentagon classified brief on Iran war impact on US weapons stockpiles, Senator Mark Kelly says it is "shocking how deep we have gone into these magazines." He said the Tomahawks, ATACMS, SM-3, THAAD rounds, Patriot rounds, so those interceptor rounds to defend ourselves have been hit hard. He says it'll take years to replenish those stockpiles, which could affect a hypothetical US conflict with China. @FaceTheNation
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@PeteHegseth @DeptofWar Love when the trump administration claims that (1) there was an illegal leak (2) and it's all lies.
completely incoherent of course
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@teressa_kopp @PeteHegseth @DeptofWar The principal person demoralizing the military and making them embarrassed to serve is the clown testifying before the Senate committee.
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@PeteHegseth @DeptofWar “Captain” Mark Kelly is insufferable causing great harm weaponizing the power of his Senate position to demoralize our military and to lie serially with impunity spewing leftist propaganda making honest heads spin.
No respect whatsoever for Kelly.😡😡😡
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@jimboxp @AlecStapp They don't mean median by income. They mean the number of flights taken by the middle person in the distribution of all adults ranked by number of flights taken. That number is zero.
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@AlecStapp Where does this stat come from? I'm a little bit over the median American.
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One of my favorite stats that serves as a reality check for people:
The median American took zero flights last year.
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin
Politicians and journalists massively overindex the importance of air travel to American life
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@shank_life @AlecStapp Well, look at you, putting your rhetorical skill and tremendous vocabulary on display!
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@AlecStapp Something that evefects 9 in 20 Americans is a pretty big deal in a country retard
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@Roofthatch22 @AlecStapp Median was intended. Take the population, rank by number of flights, quote the number of flights taken by the middle person in the distribution. As long as fewer than 50% fly in a given year, the median person didn't fly. (and yes, it's the mode as well - most people didn't fly)
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@TheRochaSays @RpsAgainstTrump I really don’t understand why everyone is calling this a golden calf when the direct analogy is clearly Nebuchadnezzar’s giant statue in Daniel 3. THAT is the kind of problem we have here, not the golden calf…
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For fuck’s sakes. If you’re a person who worships the Bible and respects God’s Word, how you don’t see that this is LITERALLY WORSHIPPING A GOLDEN CALF IDOL in violation of God’s word is beyond me.
It’s so f’ng obvious that it truly beggars belief how these people don’t see it.
(Also, Mark Burns can kiss my Christian ass with his lies. It’s not like there ISN’T a historical record of religious people kowtowing to people in power for wealth and status and lying to their followers about it.)
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump
MAGA evangelical leaders gathered this week at Trump National Doral Miami to bless a towering gold statue honoring Donald Trump, led by pastor Mark Burns. Trump himself called into the event to thank Burns and the guests. “Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf. We worship the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone,” Burns later said.
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