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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. given the state of things, I plan to ignore it.
  2. 100%. The goal is to make it as difficult as possible for someone to get vaccines. And costs will go up for them as insurance companies will use this as loopholes to not cover them since after all, they're now not necessary for most.
  3. I was receiving a message to update my iPhone all day yesterday so I relented. I think my IT dept set up a policy that we needed to upgrade so the phone kept trying and trying. So far I'm mainly meh about ios26. I don't mind the new look as I like something changing every so often. And after watching a few videos on the improvements, many won't work on my older iPhone due to lack of apple intelligence.
  4. Teachers have a right to their personal opinions but they should exercise caution when posting anything online. Districts have often been ruled by a small minority of parents/citizen who clutch their pearls at anything. We're not that far removed when a divorced, female teacher would be run out of a small town for being a disgrace and setting a bad example for the girls. Much less if they're posting opinions online that some in the community would disagree. I imagine there are busybodies in school districts that follow as many teachers as possible in an attempt to catch them posting anything scandalous, including going back in the teacher's history of social posts. Their goal is to find anything that would allow them to kick out a teacher.
  5. Or just ask your doctor's office for a covid vaccine shot. The doctor can sign off on it without you claiming to have a condition that you don't.
  6. I'm quick to apply minor updates but not so with major ones like iOS 26. I will look to wait for 26.1 which most likely is within a week or 2 if not sooner.
  7. saying an outrageous comment and then quietly apologizing days later, is the best path for them. Most who agree with him, with either not hear the apology or they will brush it off that of course he had to "apologize" to shut up his bosses.
  8. Any opinions about ESPN Unlimited? I was away from home the last few Saturdays so I hadn't had to figure out how to watch more college games yet.
  9. 99.99% (or more) of Americans think this was a horrible situation and should not occur. But people are still allowed to have negative opinions about what Kirk said without that being a celebration of his death.
  10. I dislike Fuentes and his views but he's spot on that Kirk effectively had a cocktail party trick when it came to debating emotional college kids who lacked extreme details on a subject. Kirk had certain facts and arguments memorized and he effectively forced the most questioners down the argument tracks that he had previously crafted. Kirk would frequently interrupt people to get them on the track he wanted. And he would shut most people down if he started to lose control of the conversation. And in today's video clip economy, it's a very effective debating technique. And he was very good at it. I imagine that he also used this technique in conversations with leaders like Trump. I'm sure he would read the room, but he would be able to take Trump to a conclusion that Kirk wanted.
  11. Happy to eat crow if I'm wrong but did Kirk ever comment on the fact that we learned that the Kerr County emergency response director was asleep and sick when people were dying from the flood in his county? Another fact is that the director is a white man. Can you just imagine how Kirk would have treated this news if the director was a minority, female or even transgender?
  12. the NFL is very much about virtue signaling with patriotism. Was there also a moment of silence at the UT game? I would think Belmont would want to avoid the controversy mainly in terms of some students booing.
  13. At this point, I don't think we will ever know the political leanings of the shooter/murderer. If his world is more about memes and phrases for the lulz, he could very well make comments that show him to be on the other side of his true feelings. Applying logic to a few comments here or there or looking at the scribblings on the shell casings, is not the same as reading the Unabomber manifesto in 1995. And both side will claim a false flag op if anything comes out contradicting their desire of the shooter's beliefs.
  14. His effort is a great analogy for his overall career. He starts off to accomplish something, when we all know his motivations are clearly just to help himself, and then he makes a mess of it. I wouldn't be surprised that this was the first time he's held a paint roller in his hands.
  15. Yes his actions and bringing attention to this will create 10 more copy cats. Not that Cruz won’t be internally happy about it. He wants that.
  16. Not that he will display it but Vance must be giddy at the idea that he has a murdered Charlie Kirk to springboard his 2028 candidacy. He can’t outwardly run but this gives him cover to slowly move himself in the spotlight. i wish the more left leaning WH reporters would bait Trump more by asking him about Vance’s actions. They could easily manipulate Trump into shutting Vance down.
  17. Took a few years but McCaul announced he’s not running in 2026.
  18. In what scenario could an older Jamaican man been conversing with Eric Trump? And where Eric would have done anything but ignore him?
  19. To each their own, but I’m tired of hearing about this story. Time to move on.
  20. I’m assuming now that the clippers org and Ballmer will stop all comments. For all they know, there could be more docs that are waiting to contradict them. They will eventually be released by the reporter(s) but it’s always better to release them to show someone is lying. i didn’t watch or read Ballmer’s initial comments but I’ve seen some analysis claim that he didn’t explicitly deny the charges. Instead it was some vague, “we know and follow the rules.”
  21. Zero chance that Ballmer wasn’t fully aware of what was happening if not orchestrating it himself. Not the first time that a player got extra perks but this isn’t using the owner’s yacht for a week. the only question is whether the NBA will have the balls to do anything and can they get Ballmer to accept it. Most likely Ballmer needs to find a fall guy like his buddy, to reduce his personal penalty. I don’t think Ballmer will care if there is a money penalty. finally the funniest part is that this could have mostly been ignored if Kawhi had just been willing to perform the most basic work for the $48m. A few appearances and social media posts. Possibly as a little as one day of total work over a couple of years.
  22. Hearing that Kirk’s team drove him to a hospital with lower trauma rating than 2 others in the wider city. Maybe it didn’t matter but this was a bad idea. EMS may have been able to stabilize him onsite and maybe get him to right ER in the fastest manner, including helicopter. like I wrote, maybe he was already dead but driving someone in a private car is rarely the best idea especially in a city.
  23. shooting someone for political beliefs is an assassination. This shooting wasn't related to a robbery or other basic criminal act, so unless it can be found to be personal, like Kirk was banging the shooter's wife, I don't see how anyone wouldn't think of this as an assassination. Just because Kirk wasn't an elected politician, it doesn't make him any less of a political figure. In many ways, he had more power than some back bencher representative.
  24. They're reporting that they found a rifle. Now would there be many discarded rifles in that area that are not the assassin's weapon? Probably not. But then again, it could be a smart idea for an assassin to plant other untraceable weapons in the area to create confusion to aide their getaway. Not that everyone thinks that far ahead.
  25. Kirk was a grifter who pushed a agenda to earn money and power. I'm surprised that after the Trump shooting last year, there isn't more of a standard procedure to keep people off rooftops. And then check the rooftops. It would seem like a drone could be sent up to look around. Its the type of risk management where you know the chance of a event occurring is very low, but the impact is sky high. You have to invest in addressing that risk. Putting a few extra dollars in his pocked may have cost Kirk his life. Poor choice.
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