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Captain Ron

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  1. Let's not forget about Rumeysa Ozturk who had her day in court yesterday (hits close to home as she was kidnapped about 2.75 miles from my house). The defense was a habeas corpus petition for Constitutional violations by the government. While the government did a lot of hand waving "wrong state", "our fault you didn't know which state, but doesn't matter" etc. https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/us/rumeysa-ozturk-arrest-update-tufts-university/index.html As noted over the weekend even the State Dept knew she had no links to any sort of antisemitism or terrorism. Her only "crime" was writing an op-ed in the student paper speaking out against the University's response to the Israel-Gaza war. https://wapo.st/4iouvuJ
  2. Given the way those ended, any way to make this go faster?
  3. Oh man that shot was solid if not for that deflection ...
  4. The OG was likely the backbreaker.
  5. Alasdair is not convinced anymore. He's wondering why Ange hasn't been fired - in this video he notes that Levy has fired mamangers that were in far better positions than Ange has the team in. Watch us make the Europa final, and fire Ange the week before the game.
  6. Connections Puzzle #674 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Wordle 1,396 3/6 πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨ β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸ™‚ Daily Quordle 1177 4️⃣6️⃣ 8️⃣7️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟩🟨⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟩🟨🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ Thrice Game #656 β†’ 12 points! 🎲: 3️⃣3️⃣2️⃣3️⃣1️⃣ https://thricegame.com Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle #204 🟒🟒🟒🟒 πŸ”΅πŸ”΅πŸ”΅πŸ”΅ 🟣🟣🟣🟣 🟑🟑🟑🟑
  7. Talk about a case of "LITERALLY" needing to read the room.
  8. No disagreement with any of that. My main point is really a way to make sure you control your content while simultaneously being able to grow your site via something like Facebook, Twitter/X, Bluesky, etc. When you read the TOS, you realize that you are granting them a pretty wide, royalty-free, license to your material in a way that is very easy to lose control/rights to it (interpretation via Claude AI): If you just use links, you do a little work to limit what they get
  9. Because we also need it in Bluesky form
  10. Ever since I became aware of the Facebook TOS, I have seriously cut down on my posting to FB to a near trickle. Most of my posts are tags by my wife. I just don't like Meta having that much control of my content. For a site like Traces, I would be intrigued to see you could do a link that would provide enough information and a picture without making much of a post on FB proper. The big thing is that it would start to ween people off FB and over to your site, granted that would drive up your traffic and costs, but there is little question as to who controls your content.
  11. I wouldn’t say that there’s plenty of people that still are on Facebook. The question becomes could you easily move your services off of Facebook onto like say a blog managed by WordPress or something. Frankly, given the terms of service of Facebook I totally would move all that stuff off given the carte blanc that they have with your materials just my two cents.
  12. For a guy that says he’s not worrying about it and so over it he seems worried and not over it.
  13. I guess $1,000,000 just doesn't bribe like it used to. The FTC case went to trial today and Zuck took the stand on Day #1 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/technology/meta-antitrust-trial-ftc.html?unlocked_article_code=1._04.Djyc.sKvLy47CYL-P&smid=url-share Mark Zuckerberg Takes Stand to Defend Meta Against Antitrust Suit
  14. Captain Ron

    Comic Books

    Yeah, grading is all the rage now. It's really designed for selling comics. You get your book graded, sell it and the next guy can open it up himself. The downside is that you can't just see the books and worse, you have this whole thing about "maybe I don't want to open the comic up!" But in the end it's just what people do with a lot of high dollar books.
  15. Nice of them to give everyone the middle square for free.
  16. I spent a little time looking - Spurs have conceded first in 7 of the last 9 games and they failed to score in 4 of those. Just a poor run all around.
  17. Connections Puzzle #673 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Wordle 1,395 3/6 πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸ™‚ Daily Quordle 1176 8️⃣6️⃣ 5️⃣4️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ Thrice Game #655 β†’ 12 points! 🎲: 2️⃣2️⃣2️⃣3️⃣3️⃣ https://thricegame.com Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle #203 πŸ”΅πŸ”΅πŸ”΅πŸ”΅ 🟒🟒🟒🟒 🟣🟣🟣🟣 🟑🟑🟑🟑
  18. I would like to see the rest of this interview - but the beginning of this quote does not instill me with confidence
  19. Winning Europa will be great because we will nab a Champions League slot. But what will suck is that we will still have a full schedule without a squad that can handle it. The team will be ground down again. For those that don't know Spurs just hired former Arsenal CEO Vinai Venkatesham as their new CEO. Read details here: https://sports.yahoo.com/article/tottenham-appoint-former-arsenal-chief-142524692.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALnfGCnzqSdSU60BH5qJaGEFdBhBzANfHhG1_g1WZwlFYSmaPpQtN9FQunrFjwVkJ-KanZgMX9Sc5MsnA5XOmUudqgeWLSRbKCsSHqiAUfEGaEbcHWVT8_8-UuXi15YYs2xVvhcuC2D3KmcPrGTfq-A1vXKFJM3shpWAiZjhcX_T The guy did oversee most of the Arsenal time under Arteta which can't be seen as anything but a success., he stepped down last summer and this team has taken a step back this year (due to his move?). What does this mean for Spurs ... I will leave this for Alasdair Gold to answer, he address this for the first 15 minutes or so on this:
  20. I went back to watch Paris-Roubaix today - so good. Everything @G650 said.
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