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Vegas64

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  1. That's how you read the situation? I thought Alan was being a good, reasonable dude.
  2. My grandkids go to a school that is 4 day week, but private school. Most kids have the mom staying at home or if both parents work have a nanny that does a lot of the heavy lifting of driving and pick-ups and aftercare up to a certain age. There are no school buses and the expectation is that 100% of the responsibility is on the parents. And there is still so much griping and complaining about 4 days. I cannot imagine in a district where both parents work and there is no help and you have elementary aged children. It's a disaster waiting to happen.
  3. Cool thanks for the note. I respect that you got through it and enjoyed it, I've done a fair bit of looking into it, people either really love it and "get it" as experimental literature or, they are not as equipped like yours truly, and completely whiff and don't enjoy it. Either way, George Saunders is one of our generational greats and should get a lot more national attention as a public intellectual as well.
  4. https://ferosevr.com/lincoln-in-the-bardo-review-the-best-of-experimental-writing/
  5. Dude, I HAVE tried the audiobook. There are over 100+ narrarators and they are distracting and it's easier to zone out. Have you read and enjoyed LitB? Not to derail because "Love Letter" was awesome and deserves the flowers. I mean maybe it's just me and I am an illiterate donkey who doesn't deserve to know nice literary things, but if so tell me.
  6. Dude. I'm a complete George Saunders stan. I love 95% of his throughput. But for the life of me I cannot get through Lincoln in the Bardo. I've tried on three seperate occassions. And it's lauded. Litfic critters love it. It's consistently ranked and even a modern top 50 contemporary classic or whatever. But it's so bad and boring to me, I just can't do it. Help me understand. What am I missing? Signed, a Stan who wants to Stan but isn't Stanning.
  7. It's because Republicans cheat and interfere with voters and voting. Full stop.
  8. I think I misspoke upon furthe reading, currently the idea of the national government taking the 10% stake in Intel is NOT bipartisan but Trump led; what is bipartisan is the interest in the government getting involved in some capacity to help Intel as a matter of national interest (even much more so than U.S. Steel).
  9. Or....guaranteed a nuclear WWIII response.
  10. I wouldn't say they are doing the same thing. Not sure what BO&W is pushing but @Bozo_Casanova is coming correct and spot on. BO&W and other centrists oughta just shut up while he's teaching class.
  11. "6 hits off of Nolan" is saying Nolan had all the hits in this encounter. If it helps, substitute "off of" with "from" as they are doing the same lifting but it's clearer (though you lose the baseball idiom).
  12. My point is that in the current present time, the idea of the national government taking a stake in Intel (for whatever reasons; good, bad or indifferent) seems to be gaining bipartisan acceptance.
  13. Newsom got the game on lock right now.
  14. No CR/ but this seems bipartisan across aisles: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/us/politics/intel-chips-biden.html
  15. Is this school going to be the new Bob Jones or Liberty University? That's what your post makes me think.
  16. That post was 3 years old btw.
  17. TIL: Every species on Earth uses DNA that spirals in the same direction. Electromagnetism and chirality, baby.
  18. The diversity of Frisco Allen and Plano you speak of is South Asian/Indian. That's not *really* diversity IMO. I do find it funny that in these places the mediocre chains nobody goes to (e.g. Fuzzy Tacos, Kentrucky Fried Chicken, etc.) are being taken over by IndoPak fast food. Less Nazi's, more butter chicken with naan.
  19. Saw this and laughed too hard: "What do we want? Multiple Sclerosis. When we want it? Now!"
  20. Haha, don't put that evil on me ricky bobby. But might as well be. I imagine the whole state of Oklahoma thinks cybertrucks are the highest form of wealth and status symbol flexing too.
  21. Speaking of Clipse did anyone listen to their latest comeback album of sorts?
  22. Who told Gavin to stop being funny and hilarious and satirical? Booooo this tweet. Boring! Go back to winning over hearts and minds and clowning on dotard.
  23. I know we all live in different places and are of different means. I am not privileged enough to be wealthy and live in a good enough place where you these cars are ridiculed and you don't see them and they are considered garrish. To give you an idea of where I live, my kids and their friends think the parents having a Cybertruck is a flex and is cool and rich.
  24. Username checks out
  25. While I’ll never not be a dork, I will also not ever be able to prove a negative to you. I’m definitely not Chrispy, etc.
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