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  1. I thought surly was overrun with lawyers, but this thread makes it look it’s IT rather than attorneys. Consider me shocked that the IT world is all for working from home permanently. Ours have been out of office fires we at this point.  I am curious what those on the earlier side of their careers think as most here seem to be well into it and are at the stage of leave me alone and let me work.

    We’re pretty much work anywhere, but most people come in most of the week although hours are all over the place. Our people are in markets where commutes aren’t an issue outside of a couple of larger markets which seems to be a major differentiator. WFH/Covid has driven up comp in our industry significantly so we’re seeing a lot more offshoring of the lower level jobs which will probably bite us in the ass later I’m sure. I talked to a firm recently that went from 0 offshore hours a few years ago to 2M hours offshore last year. It’s a weird time in the professional services industry and decisions management is making will have a ripple effect long-term.

  2. 2 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

    The Disney thing isn’t even defensible.  I don’t like plenty of other things he’s doing, but there is at least the possibility someone can argue the others have some policy objective and aren’t just pure political retaliation on their face.  But the Disney stuff is just him openly saying he wants to use the government to punish Disney because they don’t support his politics.  It’s one of the most blatantly fascist things I’ve seen an American politician do.

    I drop in on a boating/fishing board that has a heavily conservative tilt. Those that hang from his jock have justified the Disney deal by viewing Disney as a governmental entity rather than a for profit corporation because of the district they operated under. They don’t understand there is a distinction between the two entities, but they are wholly onboard with the belief that Disney should not be exerting its influence in politics and that when they opened that door they jeopardized their standing as a stand alone autonomous entity. They also applaud the fact that Disney isn’t moving 2000 more libs to FL to influence the political landscape, so I’m not sure that’s going to play out as a loss.

    As far as the last few pages, civil discourse is clearly dead in this country which is kind of sad. Calling some random guy an “Uncle Tom” because he doesn’t vote like you is a little out there in my opinion, but whatever floats your boat. Roughly half the country would vote for Desantis tomorrow so the 3-4 people on here aren’t an anomaly. To them guns, sending the bad brown people home, owning the libs, and shoving alternative lifestyles back into the closet are way more important than some of the other things up for discussion. Small government sure as shit isn’t the reason anymore.

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  3. 4 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

    this is a fairytale. there are tons of people in here criticizing the show, yet only one of us continually gets singled out and personally attacked. which leaves us with one of two possibilities:

    either im going out of my way to upset everybody and blacklab is inexplicably white knighting me and "protecting" me

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    a bunch of people who already don't like me are going out of their way to freak out and and be combative and insulting every time i say something. 

    the fact that several of y'all have already admitted to believing the first option to be true is sincerely alarming. i haven't done or said anything to deserve it provoke your bombastic reactions. when you've got blacklab in a thread defending me, it's time to look in the mirror. again, it wasn't my posts that got deleted because they were personal attacks. that would be several of y'all. realize what's going on already. jesus.

    I don’t engage with you anywhere. Go back and read our interaction 5-6 pages ago. It reads just like I pointed out above. I also didn’t personally attack you at all hence the woe is me portion of the back and forth. As far as the others in this thread, most seem to be (somewhat) reasonable posters based on what I see elsewhere on this site. I’m not responding to you again, so you can feel free to just ignore this response and move on.

     

    1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

    Ted Lasso has been "woke" (whatever that means) since S1 E1.   What's different this season is that it's like the writers are going down a checklist of issues to work into the show, and basically doing drive-bys with those issues, like Duck mentioned.

    Rep to Derka for skillfully using "bombastic."  Good word.

    They have to have just about covered all of them at this point. There can’t be too many left that need to be worked in.

  4. 3 hours ago, blacklab said:

    If you want to argue the about the show it's fine, no need to attack other posters

    Really? Every time Derka posts something, someone disagrees with it, and Derka immediately follows up with a woe is me, why is everyone attacking me response to which people then respond to his woe is me diatribe. The last ten pages of this thread have been a beating of posts by a certain poster who doesn’t like the show but still bitches about it incessantly. There are still some interesting (maybe not that interesting ) discussions on this final season.

    As far as the show, it’s still worth watching which is all that matters. Some of the story lines are dumb, some of the new character introductions are worthless, but who cares. I watch it every week because it’s still more interesting than most other things out right now. 

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  5. Sucks to see the thread updated with new people impacted. It doesn’t mean much from an internet stranger I’m sure, but you all are in the thoughts of many around here. Keep us updated.


    Wife had a PET scan yesterday related to a large mass that was found in her lung on a CT scan several months ago. Goes in yesterday, gets a text update this afternoon that results have been posted to her online portal. Her follow up was scheduled for next week. That seems like a pretty shitty way to handle scan results of this magnitude in my opinion. Luckily, it’s not cancer and appears to be a large cyst that she’s going to have to have the lower section of her lung removed to resolve, but I can’t get past the thought of what a shit way to find out you had cancer. Maybe, that’s a normal process but that just seems strange.

  6. 1 hour ago, shadow_operative said:

    he's been a wildly famous coach since before he ever met her. she knew who he was and still wasn't interested. the only reason she ever became interested was because she witnessed him have a bad date. his job title and paycheck had nothing to do with it. 

    I don’t keep up with episode by episode history, but he wasn’t “wildly famous” when she was introduced in Season 2 in the episode with his parents. He may be “wildly famous” at the end of Season 2 and in Season 3 which also happens to be the season that she took an interest in him. Hell, it was only an episode or two ago where the manager gushed over him in front of her.

  7. 46 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

    well that's not what happened on this show, so i have no clue what you're getting at here. 

    It kind of is. This is his first year, he doesn’t get the time of day up to now, presto he’s famous, she finds out he’s famous and likely well off, now they’re banging. That’s a story that is old as time. That’s one of the more believable stories.

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  8. 4 hours ago, Atxracer said:

    I hate to ask this but my wife (no pics) wants to be like all the other dumbasses on the lake and get a jet ski.  I don't keep up with this stuff but what's the latest and greatest? I was thinking a 2 seater and 3 seater.

    People will hate on it, but my jet ski’s have as many or more hours than the boats. The kids like to just ride around on them and I liked using them for a skate session where I didn’t really want much of a wake. I’ve just been buying 2 seat Sea Doo GTI’s. They only run 55 or so, they are easy to maneuver for the younger ones, I don’t want 3-4 of them on it at once, and they have enough power to pull someone on a skate or tube. One ride on the 300 horse model was all I needed to know I didn’t want my kids or nephews on one, so I went to the low end. I may go with Sparks when these get replaced as they rarely pull anything any more.

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  9. On 4/23/2023 at 11:14 AM, Dutchrudder said:

    Many years ago, I bought my wife and I 32 oz RTIC insulated cups for Christmas or something. It was a great idea, she loves icy drinks, tends to sip on them all day, and these things don't get condensation everywhere. She liked it so much, that she had me buy a second set to always have one available when they are in the wash. I of course buy the exact same cups, same tops, same straws, different colors so everything is interchangeable and simple. Things are good, shelf space required is minimal.

    Fast forward 6 years and I just counted 11 different varieties of insulated cups, sizes, tops and straws. Most are not interchangeable. Some are the same brand and look nearly identical, but the tops between the 20 oz and 32 oz are slightly different sizes that don't actually work together. Some are just for water, some are for soda, some are for wine, and others are coffee only. We have so many of these things I don't know what to do with them, but I need to adjust the shelf height in the cup cabinet to fit the new 48 oz Stanley mugs she got from Target. I call these her "Trucker cups", because they are comically large, but we need this size so she doesn't have to fill her water cup as many times during the work day.

     

     

    Just checked the cabinet here, we have 77 different Yeti’s, Tervis, Stanley’s, etc currently in the cabinet. I would bet there are easily another 10 or so floating around in cars, gym bags, etc. with the kids. I think maybe 2 of them are ones that were bought for me. My wife has a buying problem.

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  10. 12 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:
    22 minutes ago, KeysPhoneWallet said:
    Would have liked to see the cowboys take the GA TE instead of the Michigan TE

    This was a god awful pick. As much as people pimp McClay, he has no idea what he's doing after round 1. If you can't hit on rounds 2 and 3, you will swim in mediocrity forever unless you make up for it in free agency or trades. Something Dallas does none of. Or has an elite QB and coaching staff to cover the warts, also something they don't have.

    I got bored and looked at the roster because you constantly post this every year in draft threads. Their starting lineup currently is made up of the following guys drafted in the round noted: 

    QB - Rd 4; RB - 4; WR - 1, 3, FA; TE - 4; LT - 1; LG - FA; C - 4; RG - 1; RT - 1

    DE - 2, 4; DT - 3, 3; LB - 1, 1, 4; DB - FA, 2; S - 6, FA

    K - FA; P - FA 

    That's not nearly as bad as you want to make it out to be. Basically 18 of the starting 22 are Dallas drafted players with 12 of those 18 being drafted by Dallas outside of round 1. When you look through the backups, they are also full of mid/late round draft picks. That's also on a team that made the playoffs and didn't exactly suck. They have plenty of issues but your constant bagging on their draft abilities are a little misguided.

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  11. 3 minutes ago, Newy25 said:

    The Jaguars have to be shitting themselves watching teams reach as they trade down. They are going to get a top 15 player here at 27. 

    Scratch that thought.

  12. Would have preferred one of the TE’s there. Did Buffalo moving up throw them off or something because Mayer or even Murphy (maybe even Porter) make a whole lot more sense there.

  13. If you really want to see how fucked up this legislature is, look at their political moves to try and take over the Nashville airport authority, Music City Center, the development boards for the stadiums, etc because they are pissed Nashville leadership spoke out against hosting the GOP convention. I think they lost round 1 with trying to require a reduction in the number of board members in Metro Nashville. It’s crazy at this point, they think they can just pass whatever laws they want to do whatever they want unchecked. They may be right.

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    On 4/16/2023 at 6:51 PM, TwiceHorn said:

    Anyone seeing these reports about Sexton from a legitimate source?

    This Brian Manookian cat seems to be "on the right side," but lacks a lot of credbility.

    It will be interesting to see what happens. There is nothing that says he can’t use his per diem to buy a house in Nashville. That part is overblown. Most of the more well off lawmakers have condos/houses in Nashville including all of the ones I know. They get their per diem based on where they actually live which offsets part of the cost like a per diem should. That part is also not an issue. The issue that will hang him is the wife/children and the school enrollment because that seems like it should change residency rather than show temporary status unless his speakership gets him around it which it should not. 
     

    The affair is going to be an significant issue if it gets confirmed which it seems to have been based on the reaction to it coming out. This is going to be a solid FAFO moment it looks like. You better make sure your house is in order if you are going to make the National news cycle.

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  15. 20 minutes ago, The Dog said:

     

    If you watched this afternoon her defense was different than the other two and she was clearly making the case that she never yelled, spoke out, did anything other than walk with the other two. I would assume that will ultimately be what those 4-5 people hang their hats on as to why they voted differently in that case.

    Jones has made the news several times for the way he has handled some things, so he was clearly getting voted out as retaliation for some of the other issues. That may have been the vote difference for the two between him and Pearson.

    If you listen to Faison’s interview on CNN it tells you everything you need to know and hopefully people take that response and run with it.

  16. 1 hour ago, mchookem said:

    i know nothing of their districts but hopefully all three can go back and be re-elected in massive landslides in their districts. 

    i have always felt that's what Franken should have done... just run again and win. 

    The two that were expelled should be reappointed. The one that didn’t get expelled would not have been reappointed as Knox Co is controlled by R’s at this point.

  17. 11 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    The fuck? You think that representive is projecting the optics of being a hoodlum? In what manner is he presenting himself that way? Be specific.

    Being black of course, what else could he be saying other than making an overtly (maybe not so overtly) racist comment.

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  18. 11 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    Nashville home prices are approaching Austin levels and the entire state is much higher than neighboring states. 

    For politics, I can't support the 3 yahoos that are fixin to be voted out.  Stop shouting, do something substantive.  Neither will work of course but being a street hoodlum is bad optics. 

    I think you might have missed the point where they can’t do something substantive because of the gerrymandered districts in this state.

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  19. 14 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

    I cannot fathom that a majority of the Tennessee House is going to vote to expel those Members.  But if they do, then there's a real crisis of electoral legitimacy that faces the Legislature.

    There is virtually no chance that they don’t go through with it unless it comes down from above to stop it for bigger picture reasons. Sexton has already let it go too far (and compounded it with his insurrection comments) and if it hits a floor vote then it will follow party lines. This isn’t the first round of issues with this group, so the olds feel justified. They will pick up another R from the Knox Co appointment, Memphis and Nashville may just reappoint the expelled members.

    Fucked up world we live in, especially in the south.

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