Tony Kulla

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Tony Kulla

Tony Kulla

@tonykulla32

Teaching math and enjoying life. Very happily married.

Wilmington, NC Katılım Eylül 2021
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Tony Kulla
Tony Kulla@tonykulla32·
Max Allegri is undeniably a great coach. His record proves it. But the second half of AC Milan’s season has been a struggle, and I wonder if his defense first and only approach has eroded the confidence of his attackers. The team basically has to decide whether to keep him and lose their best players (Leao and Pulisic), or find a coach with a more modern style who can make use of them.
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Tony Kulla
Tony Kulla@tonykulla32·
@picstoral @AvonandsomerRob It’s amazing how much cars have changed in 20 years. A sleek, low, long sedan? Now everything is a two box upright minivan in disguise.
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picstoral@picstoral·
1999 Dodge Intrepid. Best damn car I ever owned. Bought it in 2004 & had it for twelve trouble free years. It broke down once, but kept running long enough to get me home thanks to Chrysler's "limp mode". Turned out to be a $120 trans relay switch. That's it, no more mechanical problems. Damn I want that car back. New stock photo & just before a scrap yard came for it because it rusted underneath beyond repair. I cried.
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Rob Boyd, Esq
Rob Boyd, Esq@AvonandsomerRob·
If you could have ONE of the previous cars you've owned back in your possession, in NEW condition, which would you choose?
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Tony Kulla
Tony Kulla@tonykulla32·
We are far more likely to encounter unmanned probes than UFOs with biological aliens inside. Interstellar space travel isn’t compatible with planet evolved life forms, and sending probes “manned” by robots should technologically feasible way before sending living beings. We’re almost there now.
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Tony Kulla@tonykulla32·
@sonicgdavies What did the Saturn struggle with FMV compared to the PlayStation? You’d think they would have learned from the Sega CDs limitations.
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G Davies@sonicgdavies·
Think the Sega Saturn couldn't handle top-quality FMV right up there with the PS1, think again. Desire had top quality fullscreen FMV. #SEGA #SegaSaturn
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jeff johnson@Giantsfan014·
@Super70sSports No red blooded American walks out to the grill, cracks a cold beer, throws on some burgers while cranking fucking Prince in the back yard.
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Super 70s Sports@Super70sSports·
My 10 favorite Prince songs: If I Was Your Girlfriend Baby I’m a Star Pop Life Raspberry Beret Let’s Go Crazy Sign O’ the Times Cream Do U Lie? 1999 The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
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Tony Kulla@tonykulla32·
@JohnKrysinsky Rafa Leao is an elite athlete with a wide receiver body. He’s a great player in moments because of his speed but he’s not well rounded enough to be considered one of the very best in the world.
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John Krysinsky
John Krysinsky@JohnKrysinsky·
Here we go again, just in time for a new World Cup cycle. And with the WC in the US, this trope will likely be more nauseating than ever. The "best athletes" myth completely misunderstands soccer culture and player development. Elite soccer nations don't win just because they have fast or strong athletes; they win because of a deep-rooted, systemic infrastructure (which has a 100+ year head start on the US) that refines technical skill and tactical maturity from early childhood. If our top NFL or NBA athletes grew up playing soccer here, they would still be product of the same flawed US developmental system. They wouldn't magically inherit world-class soccer IQ or a world-class national team structure. Athleticism without the soccer brain is useless on the world stage.
The Late Run@TheLateRunShow

Is American football to blame for the USMNT not unlocking its full potential? 🤔 Gronk thinks if the roles were reversed and our best athletes played soccer instead at a young age, we’d be one of the top 3 nations 🇺🇸

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Tony Kulla@tonykulla32·
I love Janet Jackson and still listen to her albums, but she got a record deal because she’s Michael’s sister (her voice didn’t justify it), and then wasn’t the main creative force behind her music (Jam & Lewis), so I think she doesn’t get as much credit as artist who got to the top without such advantages. But she really did maximize the opportunities she was given and worked hard to be a better singer and songwriter, and her success is undeniable.
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Mr. Wholebean
Mr. Wholebean@footballguy82·
People talk about Michael, Prince, Beyoncé and Madonna all day… But Janet Jackson quietly gave us one of the greatest runs in music history and somehow doesn’t get brought up enough in “greatest entertainer ever” conversations. Why do you think that is?
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Tony Kulla@tonykulla32·
Isn’t it much more possible to send robots into space for thousands of years yo look for life than to send biological entities? Humans are almost at a point to use robots to “colonize” Mars, which makes more sense than sending people. Sending people to another star is far beyond us, but sending robots isn’t getting close to possible.
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Eric Weinstein
Eric Weinstein@ericweinstein·
We have all heard the same rumors. And…there is…reliably…*never* a *%#&ing tissue sample. I am happy to go on the record and say that I don’t believe that humanoids or even tetrapods on distant worlds are frequent cases of convergent evolution. NHI and craft are less silly.
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal

🇺🇸 A CIA physicist just put 4 alien species on the record. Dr. Hal Puthoff. 89 years old. Stanford-trained quantum physicist. Decades running classified programs for the CIA and NSA. He went on The Diary of a CEO this week and said the U.S. has recovered four distinct non-human species from crashed craft. No direct access, but he believes his sources. And his sources said 4. "People who have been involved in recoveries have said there are at least four types. 4 separate types." His colleague Dr. Eric Davis named them. Grays, Nordics, Insectoids, Reptilians. All humanoid. All pulled from wreckage. All held inside a program that ran 80 years outside congressional and White House oversight. Dan Farah spent years interviewing crash retrieval insiders for his documentary. One source agreed to go on camera, then pulled out days before filming. The message he sent said participating would cost him his life. Rubio confirmed on record that the government holds evidence of non-human intelligent life. David Grusch, former Air Force Intelligence officer and UAP Task Force member, testified under oath before Congress that the U.S. holds "non-human biologics" recovered from crashed craft. A former UAP Task Force director says he saw non-human beings with his own eyes. The cover is coming off. Slowly. Source: NYP

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Derek Richey
Derek Richey@BoomerRichey·
After Gio's performance vs Augsburg, I can see no rational reason why he shouldn't start or at least be getting 30+ minutes a game going forward with Gladbach.
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Tony Kulla@tonykulla32·
A bit of corniness I can deal with - there’s too much snark and faux edginess in the world. To me the biggest problem with Michael Jackson’s songwriting was just how unhappy he seems. There’s no joy in his words, and that shows up in his vocal performances (I never cared for his angry tough voice). Joy is the vocals from “Wanna Be Startin Somethin” or that smile on his face when he’s eating popcorn in Thriller. That’s the MJ who took over the world.
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Ladé@LadePlatinum·
Most of Michael Jackson’s introspective/inspirational music was corny and on the nose. It’s what weakens the Dangerous album. Jamiroquai once made a classic song called Manifest Destiny which is about apologizing for slavery. It has subtleties MJ’s introspective music lacked
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Tony Kulla@tonykulla32·
@LadePlatinum I prefer the 90s stuff Michael Jackson produced himself to the “producer of the moment” stuff. An artist in his 30s shouldn’t chase the trends in music, but should trust their gut and evolve the style that got them there in the first place.
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Tony Kulla@tonykulla32·
I enjoyed Project Hail Mary (both the book and movie), but ever since I can’t stop thinking about how difficult it would be to explain our clocks to aliens. A base 10 or base 2 clock would make a lot more sense…
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Tony Kulla@tonykulla32·
@ManagerTactical It’s not about our best athletes by up soccer. It’s about kids in high population density places (cities) playing EVERY DAY as their favorite sport and dedicating their life to going pro. Rich kids buying spots at academies can’t compare to that.
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Tactical Manager
Tactical Manager@ManagerTactical·
Here we go again with the “what if our best athletes played soccer” theory” 🤣😭🤣 The entire Spanish 🇪🇸 national team would not be considered “great athletes” by football 🏈 player standards. We don’t have a soccer athlete problem we have a soccer culture problem.
The Late Run@TheLateRunShow

Is American football to blame for the USMNT not unlocking its full potential? 🤔 Gronk thinks if the roles were reversed and our best athletes played soccer instead at a young age, we’d be one of the top 3 nations 🇺🇸

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Tony Kulla@tonykulla32·
No album will ever sell at well as Michael Jackson’s Thriller. It was a different world back then, and MJs timing was perfect with the rise of MTV (which he must get some credit for). Without those iconic videos Thriller probably would have “only” sold 15 million copies in its original run.
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Tony Kulla@tonykulla32·
@GRReynolds3 The amazing thing about Prince’s Emancipation album is if you ask ten Prince fans to pick their favorite 12 songs of the 36 you’ll probably see all 36 songs represented on at least one list. One man’s filler is another man’s favorite.
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Tony Kulla@tonykulla32·
I disagree. Even one album a year was a compromise for him. That’s why there’s a vault of material. The artistic side of him created constantly and was uncompromising because he had full control over that. The commercial side existed in the real world where money matters and he didn’t have complete control. He could have released and album every five years and still have created the same amount of art.
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Tony Kulla@tonykulla32·
Listening to 90s Michael Jackson and wondering if it’s a hot take to say I greatly prefer the songs MJ produced by himself over the Teddy Riley productions on Dangerous and HIStory. Nothing against Teddy but NJS just doesn’t suit Michael.
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Tony Kulla@tonykulla32·
@iamslickrick01 I’d argue his 90s career is massively under appreciated and justified him as a great artist if he never did anything else. By the 90s the critics simply wanted to move on, and creating reductionist narratives like “Prince isn’t leading any more” became fixed in people’s minds.
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Rick
Rick@iamslickrick01·
I still bet most people kill to have a career that P had despite not having “hits” the whole way the whole time. He did it on his terms almost the entire time and went out doing what he loved his way.
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Rick@iamslickrick01·
I think Prince’s “problem” wasn’t the music. Not the quality or the quantity. It was his lack of playing the game and lack of promotion + changing musical landscape. You can put out a Parade in 1988 or 89 but it’s still getting beat by rap/hip-hop and new jack swing
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Tony Kulla@tonykulla32·
I think it was the right move from a mental health perspective - the level of superstardom he achieved with Purple Rain isn’t good for anyone. But from a legacy perspective I’m not as sure. He could have done with a bit less self sabotage of his career at times. Even I was frustrated with him in the 90s sometimes. He did a fantastic job in 2004 of making everyone forget all that though.
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Flex Marqueez
Flex Marqueez@FlexMarqueez·
@iamslickrick01 Prince instinctively understood after Purple Rain that trying to sustain that level of success was the wrong path, because it was simply impossible to maintain.
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Tony Kulla@tonykulla32·
Oops, I forgot to include “100 mph” on this one. Could have been a big hit for him.
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Tony Kulla@tonykulla32·
After two years of touring and promoting Pop Life, he could release his next project (replacing Parade): PARADE  side one 1. Mountains (3:57) 2. Kiss (3:37) 3. Baby You're A Trip (5:51) 4. Anotherloverholeinurhead (4:00) 5. Sometimes It Snows In April (6:48)     side two 6. A Love Bizarre  (featuring Sheila E) (3:46) 7. High Fashion (5:06) 8. Girls & Boys (5:29) 9. New Position/I Wonder U (3:59) 10. Nothing Compares 2 U (4:40) Loaded with singles, and again WB could promote it heavily with enough time. This pushes Sign o' The Times to 1990 and overall we would get less music, but commercially I think he would have sold far more records with this approach. That wasn't his goal, obviously, and I'm not sure if history would view him any differently.
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Tony Kulla@tonykulla32·
Imagine a world where Prince compromised with Warner Brothers and agreed to launch an album every two years instead of every year. Following up Purple Rain (which launched June 1984, 20 months after 1999), he could wait until 1986 to release a new album that was a bit more commercial than Around The World In A Day but still allowed for artistic growth. Just using songs he wrote and recorded for himself and others, here's my view for the retitled followup to Purple Rain:
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