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Fate

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In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Moirai, often known in English as the Fates—were the personifications of destiny. They were three sisters: Clotho (the spinner), Lachesis (the allotter), and Atropos (the inevitable, a metaphor for death).

usually if you were alive and saw them, then you knew the end was near ...

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I just think about the fates in Percy Jackson.

BTW, I do like the new Percy Jackson series a little better than the movies. They also seem to follow the book a little better than the movie. Which I guess an 8(?) episode series can do better than a 2 hour movie.

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Southern

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food

even though i am not from the South. i associate southern food as comfort food. things like shrimp and grits. biscuits and gravy, all the things you get at Cracker Barrel, ...

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Southern Food is more than that style of food. I recommend going to the public library and checking out two of Sean Brock's books: Heritage and South: Essential Recipes. Brock took a deeeeeep dive into Southern food. Also, "High on the Hog" on Netflix is also a good watch.

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A game that Cal shouldn’t have won but did

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that was great trip and great to be at that game. we were up 21 or something in the 2nd half.

i do remember thinking that even we were up 21 that we had a good chance of blowing it.

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the most amazing, sensational, traumatic, heart rending... exciting thrilling finish in the history of college football!

https://youtu.be/mfebpLfAt8g?si=Xx-OGk75XDgj517T

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Disagree. We'd have felt hard done losing that game. We played a superior team toe-to-toe and gave up a 4th and 19 to let them almost steal it. The last play aside there was nothing fluky about our performance.

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But we should win every game.

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Probably an unreasonable expectation/goal.

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I only remember the plethora of opposite ones.

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We're making a Cal hype soundtrack that plays before the Band is in the stadium/arena. What's included?

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OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY

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Hunter Biden found guilty on all 3 felony gun charges

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witch hunt!

kidding ... i didnt follow too closely, but it seemed like that was very likely going to happen once the plea bargain got tossed out.

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Without having sat through the testimony, I expect he was probably guilty. My only concern is that there are probably tens of thousands who lie on their gun application and how many are prosecuted?

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Man elected to enforce his state's laws complains about his state's laws behind the 41 count ethics count against him

https://dailymontanan.com/2024/06/07/knudsen-calls-montanas-campaign-laws-silly-and-says-comments-were-proof-of-transparency/

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Recordings of Justice Alito and his wife are disturbing

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/10/alito-wife-supreme-court-recordings-00162610

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PRO

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Joey Chestnut banned from the Nathan's hot dog eating contest because he's sponsored by Impossible Meats

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10124395-joey-chestnut-banned-from-nathans-hot-dog-eating-contest-over-deal-with-competitor

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Oilers score in the first and then the Panthers score 4 unanswered goals to take game two to go up 2-0 and spark a shower of rats

https://www.espn.com/nhl/game/_/gameId/401675106/oilers-panthers

https://thehockeywriters.com/florida-panthers-and-the-history-of-the-rats/

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If you see a wayward bat, don't touch it because it might have rabies

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/40324850/vladimir-guerrero-jr-bat-gets-stuck-protective-netting

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In a 7-on-7 tourney, USWNT alumni beat my home team in my home town to take home $1m

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/40325344/oreilly-krieger-lead-uswnt-alumni-tst-title-1m-prize

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CAL

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Go Bears!!!

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DBD AV CLUB

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ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE

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If you think Cal will have it easier playing baseball in the ACC, you are mistaken.

Clemons (#3), UNC (7) FSU (10), NC State (12), UVA (16), Duke (17), Wake Forest (22) vs. Oregon State (6), Arizona (18), Oregon (23). There are tons of baseball fields out here.

https://www.espn.com/college-baseball/story/_/id/40324357/nc-state-takes-georgia-heads-men-college-world-series

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I think half the CWS teams are from the ACC and 3 are from the SEC and 1 from the Big-12. ACC baseball is going to be rough next year.

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Does Cal have an NIL structure set up for its baseball recruits and transfers? Do they draw from Cal Legends? BTW, there is no question this year’s Cal team (36-19, winning twenty of its final twenty-five games) could have done some significant damage in the NCAA tournament if they hadn’t been ridiculously snubbed.

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Hurley stays at UConn rather than take Lakers job offer of $70m for 6 years.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/40321008/sources-dan-hurley-rejects-lakers-offer-stays-uconn

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Good man.

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i like to when people stay at a place and continue something good. i myself sometimes wish i had stayed at previous jobs w/ a little more perseverance ..

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