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Copa Cabana and other beaches in Rio

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when i was 6 i lived in Rio for 6 months since my dad was on an extended assignment. for some reason we just lived in hotels the whole time.

- 2 months on Copa Cabana

- 2 months on Ipanema

- 2 months at the Sheraton that had a private beach

we didnt have to go to school. we just took a bunch of school work from 1st or 2nd grade or whatever it was.

i still remember eating the best tropical fruit in my life and a month trip thru S America after our stay ended including trips to Buenos Aires, Iguazu Falls, Machu Picchu, Mexico City, etc

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People have gone nuts for the pink Stanley Starbucks Valentine's Day partnership mugs for some reason. They are retailing on the secondary market for hundreds of dollars.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stanley-cup-craze-pink-target-valentines-starbucks-collaboration-sold-out-videos/

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Just to end up in the back of the cupboard like Nalgene, Hydro Flask, Clean Canteen, and every other commemorative cup

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Follow-up from yesterday's avalanche story: a first-hand account of what went wrong and right

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tahoe-avalanche-survivor-describes-buried-snow-rcna133570

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What card games have you played the most?

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1. Pedro

2. Hearts

3. War probably, it's how we kept ourselves entertained as kids

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blackjack

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Jan 12·edited Jan 12

Asshole ... favorite drinking game

Hearts in college .. many late nights instead of studying.

Bridge in grad school .. many bottles of Jack Daniels to go with it.

i started to learn how to play bridge more seriously the last few years in grad school. we started off playing regular rubber bridge at home and then transitioned to duplicate bridge. i had a steady partner and we would go play duplicate bridge at the local senior's club once a week.

we even went to a ACBL sanctioned tournament once in L'ville and i might have collected a quarter or half a master point.

it is an amazingly complex game and i can see how it takes years of practice to get good at it. ideally would like to find someone people to play w/ again.

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Cribbage, hearts, bridge (though it's been a very long time since I last played), gin rummy

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Hearts, crazy eights, rummy.

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Lately various Uno-related games, especially Uno (various versions), Phase 10 and Skip-Bo.

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In order of time spent, 1) cribbage and 2) gin rummy

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Cribbage. Nothing else is even in second place.

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What's for lunch?

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bag of trail mix

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leftover pizza, banana, orange. boring.

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Indian takeout/delivery

I am working at the Bothell (near Seattle) office this week and someone is buying lunch for the group today.

been here all week for a combo of working and helping w/ hobbled daughter w/ food and rides to class

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Whatever the wife makes me when I get home from teaching my morning class.

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leftover pizza (not good pizza, but it's in the house, so...)

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Still probably beats my peanut butter sandwich.

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Chicken Caesar from Safeway.

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OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY

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In 2021, the NYT issued a report on the Trump family empire, including the Patriarch's tax-dodge schemes. The report won a Pulitzer and describes some of the stuff that Trump Org is in trouble with New York right now for the civil fraud case.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

Trump sued NYT, his niece Mary Trump, and three NYT journalists. Not only did Trump lose his case - he was ordered in August to pay nearly $400k in defendant's legal fees thanks in part to sharpened New York anti-SLAPP laws. The news was highlighted today by one of the defendants who won. Suck it, traitorous leach

https://twitter.com/susannecraig/status/1745875236149440586

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Like my mother-in-law who is terrible at coming up with reasonable offers in Monopoly, Speaker Johnson demands funding for 900 miles of Border Wall for support for Ukraine. Democrats tell him to go suck eggs.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4404265-democrats-reject-johnsons-border-demands-as-part-of-ukraine-aid-package/

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Oregon SC won't touch ballot ban under the 14th Amendment unless SCOTUS hears it first

https://twitter.com/DemocracyDocket/status/1745851454651252804

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Yahoo is a terrible news source. They ran this article and failed to realize that the Nevada GOP Primary vote is meaningless since the GOP runs on a caucus system in Nevada

https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-wont-nevada-ballot-154819859.html

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Trump admits that he violated the Emoluments Clause. Trump defense is "trust me bro, I'm rich so $8m is nothing to me"

https://newrepublic.com/post/178023/trump-shocking-confession-bought-foreign-governments

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Texas messes with the US after it kicks Federal Border Patrol out and starts to patrol their own border.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-blocks-federal-border-agents-processing-migrants-eagle-pass-shelby-park/

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Black live should matter, including in Vallejo

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cops-fired-55-shots-sleeping-214834840.html

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In my experience, not much matters in Vallejo.

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US and UK strike Yemen in retaliation for Houthi attacks on ships. "Huge" protests break out across the US with a dozen or so protestors

https://www.the-express.com/news/us-news/124079/yemen-air-strikes-joe-biden-protests

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I get it, he kind of had to do something, but man, the prospect of being dragged into a war with these goons is blargh. Can we not just find some other shipping routes?

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PRO

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Jets Micheal [sic] Clemons takes the effort to sends out personal messages to individual Browns fans

https://fxtwitter.com/plastiqemacheen/status/1740760790620364989

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Dodgers trade Busch and Almonte for two Cubs draftees P Jackson Ferris and OF Zyhir Hope. Perhaps one day, Ferris Saves

https://www.truebluela.com/2024/1/11/24034861/dodgers-cubs-trade-michael-busch-yency-almonte-jackson-ferris-zyhir-hope

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Thunder squeak by the Blazers by only 62 points

https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401585157/trail-blazers-thunder

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Jerod Mayo to be elevated from LB coach to HC at Patriots.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/patriots-hire-jerod-mayo-as-head-coach

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The Pats don't have a GM, so this sounds like it was 100% Robert Kraft

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Damnit. The joke was right there and I didn't see it.

"Kraft offers Mayo"

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DBD AV CLUB

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CAL

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Cool segment tonight on KPIX about the Cal WBB team doing boxing per Charmaine, who apparently is a pretty serious boxer.

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Definitely an improvement, don't you think?

https://twitter.com/joseph_gaglione/status/1745555848309649745

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Going to be a new eyesore for 30 years.

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I assume they used shipping containers bc fast to put together?

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That and few hippies are strong enough to toss one aside or have keys that can disassemble them like the previous fencing

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Vast improvement. Now, get the student housing built and dismantle the wall.

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So they've turned it into an industrial park.

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Go Bears!!!

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Cal gets a PWO with a fun name. #Tahiti

https://twitter.com/SGBear2/status/1745680481406849249

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ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE

SANTA CLARA DEFEATS GONZAGA AND YOURS TRULY RUSHES THE COURT

https://twitter.com/THOD_24/status/1745673287190126825

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[MBB] Utah beat Pac-12 cellar-dweller UCLA 90-44

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/game/_/gameId/401607375/bruins-utes

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whoa

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i guess it is fair to say that even Cal basketball is better than UCLA!

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Norvell gets a big raise/extension at FSU

https://twitter.com/NicoleAuerbach/status/1745858067072221518

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[CBS' Gregg Greer] Kalen DeBoer to Alabama

https://fxtwitter.com/GreggGreerCBS/status/1745589494131151007

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FSU gets dinged for recruiting violations over NIL. It couldn't happen to a more deserving fan base.

https://www.ncaa.org/news/2024/1/11/media-center-nil-related-recruiting-violation-occurred-in-florida-state-football-program.aspx

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Anybody need a rookie real estate agent in the Las Vegas area?

https://twitter.com/wykingjones/status/1738282157599306106

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He's got to be a better real estate agent than he was a coach. Right?

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Maybe they'll make room for him at Stanfurd.

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