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tokamak

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  1. 1-14 with RISP is not good
  2. lol ump was excited on that safe call
  3. looks fair on review
  4. Does Goode have speed? Seems like you'd steal here.
  5. OK let's put a little pressure on Pickens
  6. Yep. Tenn pounding them all into the ground. That'll work.
  7. Intredasting. I guess they'll go to Kavan if Mac gets into trouble?
  8. Thank God OV season is finally upon us. I'm ready for some shit to start happening.
  9. 2 runs? In the second inning? Slow down, 1927 Yankees
  10. Hats off to UTSA. Down 6-1 early and battled back.
  11. I’m following on ESPN’s game tracker. “Hitter doubled to shortstop” is not a phrase you see every day.
  12. Not only were the 4 best teams all on the same side of the bracket, but it was the day game bracket. Just a masterclass in seeding and scheduling.
  13. I think it’s cool that they track down the HR balls and give them to the parents. Can’t imagine how good it feels to get handed one of those balls in this situation.
  14. God damn these announcers need to shut the fuck up
  15. Does it make me a bad person if I say that I think Landry is a pretty good looking young lady?
  16. If he has an offer for $7m for 3 as a TE....he should take that.
  17. Just got my settlement offer and I still think they're fucking crazy. What happens now? If you go to a hearing to they just steamroll you or is there a chance of bringing it down from their offer?
  18. I'm grateful for all the constructive comments I've gotten, but this was never meant to be a "fuck this, I'm out, where we going?" thread. I'm well aware that we already have that on this forum. The extremely high likelihood is that I personally live out the rest of my days and kick the bucket right here in these United States.
  19. Are we going to start doing that creampuff shit? That's so embarrassing to have a week where everyone's playing Nicholls State or whatever.
  20. I definitely could've gone with a less clickbait-y thread title. That's on me. I have an engineer's mindset and I like to be as prepared as possible for externalities. I don't know that anything in the thread's first paragraph is even debatable at this point, although I'd love to be convinced otherwise. Extrapolation is always very tricky, especially when we're talking about human events, but it's all we can do. On current trends, the world my kids will inherit won't be as welcoming and dynamic as the one that I inherited. How best to pave the way for them? That's all.
  21. Apologies if this is well-trodden ground in the CR. Delete thread, ban user, etc. I mainly just want to explore strategies to set my kids up with attainable options. Particularly interested in hearing the perspective of Surlyites with older kids, like high school and college-aged. @956 Worldwide makes good points about choosing a career field that offers good mobility, but my kids are young enough that it's hard to even predict the trajectory of the American university system between now and then.
  22. The end goal of Trumpism is Putin’s Russia. Insular, inward-looking, and apart from the global community. Economy in the hands of a small political in-crowd. Intellectuals, dissenters, and the press harassed or worse. A population that’s homogeneous, aging, angry, and paranoid. Even if courts or future elections overturn specific policies, the perception that America is unwelcoming and unfriendly will last for a generation or more. I’m probably 10 to 15 years from retirement. I can ride it out and then check out. But we have elementary school-aged kids. A life in Putin’s Russia is not what I want for them and we’re now facing the same tough decision that a lot of Asians, Latin Americans, and Africans did in the 20th century: would my kids have a better life outside of the place that I call home? We also, fortunately, have some means to do something about it (not Surly 1%). Would like to hear serious thoughts on how best to prepare them. Foreign language lessons? Somehow start building a case for residency/citizenship elsewhere now? I think a few of you have sent kids overseas for college - is the idea/possibility that they will stay? I’m honestly not trying to be alarmist, just proactive. If my take on the world turns out to be dead wrong, then great. But I’m also not the kind of person that wants to leave any stone unturned.
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