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  1. Sounds like bunker busters deployed if Furdow was a target. Super curious to see if they worked. So far from what I understand it their efficacy on a fortified bunker that deep was theoretical..
  2. Let the drunk guy cook, I always say.
  3. Could have been a google search!
  4. I mean...I'd ask VY for an autograph and hang it in my office or frame the football. Also grown men:
  5. I agree with you but I also see where it is different with males being fanatical/fans about females. There is an inherent power dynamic and inequality at play that undergirds it, versus females/kids and other men waiting outside of male athletes hotels, etc. It will have to be a learned and evolved parasocial relationship if WNBA is going to mature and be a big time league to drive the big time bucks. I'm just saying I can see how it would creep women out because while I'm sure there are authentically good-natured men who are just fans of the sport and the league and the players, there has to be a massive amount of creeps who are super creepy as well. The caitlin clark stalker comes to mind.
  6. The flipside is that when/if the layoffs happen and it's a pure spreadsheet exercise and you are axed...well, you should have been looking around and trying to challenge and stretch yourself instead of just coasting along, maybe?
  7. I think you said you were a global alliances guy in big tech because we had some chuckles poking fun at Atos and Cognizant the other day. Here is what I'll tell you-- take it with a grain of salt and for how much you paid for such sage internet advice: Now is not the time to get antsy and underwhelmed and start ruminating how you are wasting away your life and having a career-life crisis. The job market for people like you (e.g. good money and things are good) is extremely tight right now. I have a friend who does what you do who can't get an equivalent job after being laid off at big tech a year ago. He's thinking about selling his boat it's that bad. He's had a few interviews that go to panel but ultimately don't get them as the market is lousy with ex-aws, ex-google, ex-salesforce, ex-SAP, ex-microsoft, etc. etc. all vying for the same $400-500k OTE jobs, which are shrinking. In fact my friend at AWS who has a global alliances role said they aren't even hiring at L7's for the roles anymore like when he got on-- L6 or less. The blueprint is out for how to do more with less operationally in tech (just read the latest from microsoft this week and from andy jassey today). I think we are about to enter into a (brief) time where things are going to degrade for sales bros and, if you are an old, you definitely need to hang on and keep cranking out good work where you are and maybe pick up a gratitude journal hobby for when you start feeling job-wanderlust. All that, but also --and this is no offense to you-- but you probably think you are better than you are because you are comfortable, well-liked, make good money and do well to attain in an ecosystem and organization you've learned and get. But by all means, put some fillers out and see what sort of bites and conversations you can get and stress test it for yourself, but I think we are entering into a time of retrenchment. https://www.wsj.com/tech/microsoft-layoffs-sales-ai-25638cab
  8. Just a friendly reminder for the board that paywalls to read articles are ignored by AI: 1) Copy the URL 2) Copy Paste the URL into your favorite prompting tool 3) Read
  9. There's a NYT article about how Gen-Z is earnestly making the Diet Coke as this vice that takes the edge off and is calling it a "fridge cig". Also they are calling Mountain Dew Ice "fridge heroin". https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/style/fridge-cigarette-diet-coke.html
  10. I don't have to read anything you previously have posted, just the fact you described the persona as "ball knowers", you self-selected into one of those groups. I'll let you discern which.
  11. I've been with the company for twenty-four years. I was posted in Greece for fifteen. I've advised and armed the Hellenic Army. I've neutralized champions of communism. I've spent the past three years... learning —Finnish! Which would come in handy here in Virginia, and I'm never ever sick at sea. So I wanna know why... I'm not gonna be your Helsinki station chief.
  12. Now that’s a font and website UI/UX I haven’t seen in a while /obiwon
  13. Maybe in this sole way does he mirror the American populace and constituents on both sides, thanks to brain rot cellphones.
  14. As this is going to a game 7 and this saga is closing, to put a bow on my first foray and learning about prediction market gamblings: What started as a $100 investment into the NYK to win it all, with a bunch of moves up and down and around other games and doing some hedging, my ending position is: OKC wins: I win $200 (2x) IND wins: I win $4600 (46x)
  15. Which honestly feels light compared to his first term when he golfed 3x a week it felt liked.
  16. I’m curious to see the odds in a winner take all game 7 after OKC showed the lack of a killer instinct tonight. I tend to agree OKC is the better team on the whole, but the problem with allowing it to go to a game 7 is that anything can happen in a single game— players get hot, players get cold, team makeup, chemistry, nerves, coaching etc are more magnified. Pacers feel like the “team of destiny” and Halliburton with the game winner would be rejected from a literary agent because it’s too on-the-nose and fake underdog cliche, but stranger things could happen…. who am I kidding. Bandana, Pollyanna, lilweezyiana. OKC in 7.
  17. Geez. Thanks for the link.
  18. Of course I realize that. However, do you realize that my comment was in response to the rest of the league who "literally hate her" despite her adding zero's to their bank account? (which was directly quoted in my response)
  19. I think he meant the disconnect between the actual dates of something happening and the date we celebrate being incongruent. e.g. July 4th isn't when we had freedom, though we celebrate it like it was V-Day for the revolution.
  20. With all the Israel/Iran stuff I hadn't seen anything else really reported on this. Is it over? Did everyone go home?
  21. What do you mean Putin gave nothing. He's offered to mediate peace! What a mensch.
  22. Was Israel's hospital being used to house terrorists and terrorist operations and munition storage? Or was it a normal healthcare space full of sick people? Inquiring minds.
  23. Not just your speculation, but a common one in the diplomatic space. Rumors abound that Bibi has a weapon capable now after literal decades of development and that we wouldn't be where we are today if there wasn't at least a plan to see it through to the end (complete disembodient of Iran's programming). No half measures. The other side of the rumor mill is that Bibi & Trump/U.S. brokered a partnership to see it through-- Israel doing 90% of the work and American putting in the finishing touches with the GBU-57's. Or Bibi could be calculating that he could see his 90% through and then cajole and sell Trump on finishing them off and sharing the credit or something. We don't know what we don't know, lots of informed speculation at this pointm though.
  24. But it's not fair that they couldn't get those commas themselves and it's dirty, colonizer money...
  25. I like you and believe you but you should have probably just left all that out in the first place. It's an online messageboard-- nobody has any credibility without links. Unless you are on the recruiting board.
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