I stumbled across clips from Chinese TV shows that are what we'd call WWII dramas. They are about the various wars/occupations with the Japanese in the 30s and 40s. The acting seems pretty good, the action/stunts are dreadful. I don't understand or read Chinese so mostly the intricacies of plot go right past me.
Someone followed me on Twitter, and when I saw "donut" in their profile, I was very intrigued, but they have zero posts and zero followers. But THEN in discussion with some friends, we came to the conclusion that maybe "donut biter" is a euphemism??? Moral of the story: don't get drawn in by donuts!
We lost power about 1 AM. I think the transformer at the end of the street blew because the street and all the courts along the almost 2 mile street went out according to the PG&E map. Came back maybe 3:30.
Different bridge. You're thinking of 11'8" bridge in Durham NC, which is only a few miles away from my house and was recently raised 8 inches. The beauty of that bridge's height isn't that it's too low, it was that it was JUST the right height to fool drivers into thinking there was enough room so that they went at a pretty good speed and skinned off their roofs.
There is a non-zero chance that Tennessee's best player Henry To'o To'o (Jr ILB) transfers to Cal now that Pruitt has been fired. Henry reportedly was homesick and still likes Cal.
I really hope that as more people get vaccinated the social pressure will increase for everyone to get it. Also maybe there will be activities that require you to get vaccinated. Like, you want to get on this plane? We'll need to see your vaccination card.
Wow that's an eye-opening article. Though I'm sure most schools are doing the same thing. Tony Franklin doing the right thing rather than just sitting back.
Replacing your screws on your door strike plates with 2.5" screws dramatically improves the strength of a door. It costs almost nothing and even the most mechanically challenged person can do it.
Last February, my car was at my parents' for some reason, and when I went to get it, my dad had gotten a backup camera installed. I rarely had reason to drive then, and then the lockdown happened, so I REALLY didn't need to drive, and so now my car has been at my parents' place since June or July. My dad drives it for me occasionally, and it seems safer parked in front of my parents' house where they can see it then somewhere in my neighborhood where I don't see it regularly.
It sucks that the new carpool lanes, where different amounts will be charged based on the number of people in the car, will now be 3+ for free use with fastrak. Previously most were 2+ for free use.
I don't know about Fastrak, but an EZpass transponder can cut significant amounts of time from an east coast road trip. I'm just relieved that nobody uses it to issue speeding tickets.
I haven't experienced a significant time saving from EZ pass (as I'm still bitter about a really bad traffic jam due to an accident on the NJ Turnpike years ago) but I think this is also due to most people having it now so the cash-paying line is not that bad.
On the other hand, I almost missed my flight out of SFO 5-6 years ago because my rental car didn't have a transponder and the cash line for the Bay Bridge was significantly longer (and Google/Apple Map clearly did not factor that in). Just last year (in the end of February), my rental car in Florida said that they were going to charge me a $8 (IIRC) minimum cost for every day that I used it; around the AirBnB where I was staying in Tampa there was a stretch of highway that had a toll of under $1 that I had to purposely avoid (the most annoying was to switch on the "avoid toll" on my map apps) because I wasn't planning to go on the turnpike for basically half of the days of that trip. That felt like some kind of tourist surcharge for that area.
I'm so old that I remember when you needed special tokens / exact change for most of the toll booths on the Garden State Parkway. The NJ Turnpike isn't a great use case b/c you pay to enter and leave, and the true effect of the toll booths southbound is masked by the fact that they narrow the road to 2 lanes 40+ miles to the north.
If I go from the house to VT to see the ladies in the summer, northbound I hit tolls at the Baltimore tunnels, the bridge over the Susquehanna, entering Delaware, entering the NJ turnpike, exiting the NJ turnpike, multiple times on the Garden State parkway, entering the NY Thruway, and exiting the NY thruway (and if I were feeling frisky I could take the MA Pike & need to pay there as well). Not having to stop for each of those adds up.
rental cars from Boston are that way. You have to pay for the toll road to get out of the rental car lot so you have to open up the transponder for that. I forgot the cost but it was $X/day as soon as you open it.
So, as you would expect, lots of turnpikes have gone cashless/contactless in COVID, thus making the transponders somewhat essential. This turned out to be the biggest pain in the ass from the cross-country road trip me & the traveling vizsla took this past summer, as my Fastrak was no help.
It started with Illinois, then Indiana, & Ohio...each has their own state-specific payment systems. PA, NY, NJ, plus MD & DE (I think) are the EZ Pass...MA is separate, as is Maine. Plenty of work went into trying to pay these online....in the end, it was easier to just wait for the violation notices to arrive.
True - the EZ Pass would've worked in both, now that I think about it...I just remember having to pay BOTH MASS DOT and Maine DOT separately for the same days drive...I should've just saved my EZ Pass from my upstate NY residency.
Speakers. The stock speakers were lousy and I enjoyed listening to music on the way home from work (back when I had a commute). It was a fun but time-consuming upgrade.
I was talking to the missus about this subject generally, in terms of how difficult it is now to make upgrades to car audio. Used to be you could just swap in a new single DIN unit & better speakers with no hassle, now not so much...
On the TSX many of the stereo and AC controls are on the Nav touch screen. There are physical buttons for things like prev/next preset, or turn on AC or defrost. But if I want to change which vents the air goes to then I need to have the touch screen. There is a common problem where the CD reader for the NAV goes bad and you lose the touch screen so I wasn't able to fine tune my AC or my radio. Which I think means I can't replace the head unit because I'd lose all the controls like setting each of the presets, etc.
yes it is. Turns out there was a local place in Louisville that fixes them up so I think I had to pay $600 for them to replace it. Been fine ever since.
In the Miata I have added a Bluetooth FM transmitter because the 23 year old OEM receiver doesn't have AUX or Bluetooth. On the TSX I added a hands-free kit before I drove out to Portland for a year because hand-free is required there.
roof racks. while i know there is little practical difference and Thule is actually made in Sweden, i am partial to Yakima racks (even for our Volvo).
we have a giant roof box and 4 bike mounts.
on an average day the bike rack is permanently mounted to the car because i never know what ride i might end up on.
the roof box is great for additional cargo, especially on ski trips and camping trips. it was also essential to have enough space when dropping 2 girls at sleepaway camp
Recently added a roof rack which makes hauling a 8ft+ surfboard in(on?) a Model 3 very easy. Surprisingly you can fit <8ft boards inside the car with the backseat down and front seat pushed forward. It does whistle a bit over 75mph and I can't keep the rack pads on due to the vibration sounds they make between 30-40mph
Every previous car I've owned I upgraded the stereo, but I've slowly lost interest in this after switching from music to mainly podcasts while driving.
It was on 580 by the Oakland zoo, where the freeway winds and rolls along the hillside. I was coming home from work and traffic started to slow. I was in the left lane and in the distance around a bend in the road, I could see something in the right lane. As I got closer, I was driving alongside a large pickup truck and couldn’t see to my right. Then out of the blue a fucking turkey walked in front of me, I hit the brakes just as the damn thing took flight and it hit the front cross bar with a loud thud. In the rear view I saw a plume of feathers but at that rate of speed I couldn’t slow down or pullover so I drove home. I parked in the garage still shaken at what just happened and went inside. The next day when I walked into the garage, I saw my front crossbar missing and was like HOLY SHIT! Went to work and came home and removed the rear crossbar.
it was a yakima rack that had the towers and door clips. No damage to the rain gutters but my doors each have a small dent on top where the rack ripped off
When I used to live in Hercules but worked on Gilman there were days where it took 45 min to get home. Instead of going up 80, I'd take 580 over to the Chevron refinery and take Richmond Parkway. It certainly wasn't shorter but I was able to go 60-70 most of the way so it seemed to be faster. Even if the distance was probably 3+ times longer. This was 25 years ago, before the made Richmond Parkway into a 4 lane highway.
I've noticed that about 2 years ago that Waze stopped sending me through residential neighborhoods. I still remember those shortcuts and still use them, but notice that the traffic on them was much lighter after the change.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday explicitly placed blame on President Donald Trump for the deadly riot at the Capitol, saying the mob was “fed lies” and that the president and others “provoked” those intent on overturning Democrat Joe Biden’s election.
McConnell's remarks as he opened the Senate were his most severe and public rebuke of outgoing President Donald Trump. The Republican leader vowed a “safe and successful” inauguration of Biden on Wednesday at the Capitol, which is under extremely tight security.
“The mob was fed lies," McConnell said. “They were provoked by the president and other powerful people, and they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government which they did not like.”
A lot of people are skeptical that the Senate Republicans would ever vote to convict Trump in the impeachment trial (and believe me, I get it), but the fact that McConnell is being so public with his criticism makes me wonder if he's got them.
McConnell isn't dumb. I think he sees that the GOP has a major long-term problem if they stick with Trumpism. They are going to lose the suburbs for a generation.
Can't believe the Warriors came back to beat the Lakers. I think I watched most of the 1st half and then went to get some work done. Checked ESPN before bed and saw the Warriors won. I guess the Lakers just got bored in the 2nd half.
Lakers started missing shots and turning it over a lot in the 4th quarter (no surprise I guess, that's usually how big comebacks happen). Warriors actually played really well on offense, sharing the ball and getting everyone involved. And of course, if you let a Steph Curry team hang around, you are playing with fire.
Also Oubre had a hell of a game, 23pts and forced a bunch of turnovers. If he starts hitting 3s at his previous ~35% clip the Warriors will be a force to be reckoned with in the West. Especially if Wiseman continues to improve.
Harden and Durant have combined for 138 points in their first two games together in Brooklyn, according to ESPN's Stats & Information research.
That is the second-most combined points for teammates in their first two games together with a franchise in NBA history, after Wilt Chamberlain and York Larese had 151 with the Philadelphia Warriors in 1961. Chamberlain scored 139 of the 151 points, with Larese scoring 0 in their first game together and 12 in their second.
one of my friends is high up in the legal team w/ the Mets. i suppose his job is independent of owner and GM, but perhaps people want to bring in their own staff for certain positions.
he deals mostly w/ the contract negotiations and player issues, union, etc
Reached by ESPN on Monday evening, Porter acknowledged texting with the woman. He initially said he had not sent any pictures of himself. When told the exchanges show he had sent selfies and other pictures, he said that "the more explicit ones are not of me. Those are like, kinda like joke-stock images."
He probably also drives a Vette. Small dick syndrome.
Men's Tennis won their season opener 5-2 over SMC yesterday. Volleyball will start 22-match Pac-12 only (it's likely to be brutal for this young Cal team that lost some key would-be-seniors to graduate transfer) this Friday. Men's Water Polo will also start the first of three Pac-12 only weekend tournaments this weekend.
Off Topic Youtube:
I stumbled across clips from Chinese TV shows that are what we'd call WWII dramas. They are about the various wars/occupations with the Japanese in the 30s and 40s. The acting seems pretty good, the action/stunts are dreadful. I don't understand or read Chinese so mostly the intricacies of plot go right past me.
The plot: the japanese are bad.
They are! At least at the time.
Have you seen Ip Man? (Movie) Stunts are amazing.
Essays scrapped from SAT exams
https://allaccess.collegeboard.org/update-reducing-and-simplifying-demands-students
Someone followed me on Twitter, and when I saw "donut" in their profile, I was very intrigued, but they have zero posts and zero followers. But THEN in discussion with some friends, we came to the conclusion that maybe "donut biter" is a euphemism??? Moral of the story: don't get drawn in by donuts!
that seems weird.
It's SO WINDY in the Bay (or at least my corner of the Bay; I haven't actually gone outside)
It is really windy and cold in San Diego. Maybe the QAnon storm is upon us?! LOLOLOL
Yes, very windy here in SF.
We lost power about 1 AM. I think the transformer at the end of the street blew because the street and all the courts along the almost 2 mile street went out according to the PG&E map. Came back maybe 3:30.
Power went out here, came back on but cable and internet are out hence I am using my phone
I was hoping power would stay out so I didn't have to dial in to my 6 AM call. But unfortunately it came back on along with the cable.
Great photo, SGBear, I think that overpass has been featured on Jalopnik many, many times.
Different bridge. You're thinking of 11'8" bridge in Durham NC, which is only a few miles away from my house and was recently raised 8 inches. The beauty of that bridge's height isn't that it's too low, it was that it was JUST the right height to fool drivers into thinking there was enough room so that they went at a pretty good speed and skinned off their roofs.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXX0RWOIBjt4o3ziHu-6a5A
Elsewhere in college
There is a non-zero chance that Tennessee's best player Henry To'o To'o (Jr ILB) transfers to Cal now that Pruitt has been fired. Henry reportedly was homesick and still likes Cal.
To'o To'o's position coach was just fired too.
https://twitter.com/davidubben/status/1351252619205992448
Henry also started following all the Cal coaches on the socials
RubbingPalmsTogether.gif
the monkey wrench in all of this is if he was one of the recruits to get a McDonald's bag.
For those out of the loop:
https://twitter.com/BR_CFB/status/1351584828714528773
Huskies may be losing their DC
https://twitter.com/WestCoastCFB/status/1351406463889989633
been announced I think
Top 2 DC in all of college football? That seems lofty.
That rating is not far off. If he leaves, it will produce a real challenge for Jimmy Lake & the Dawgs.
Hot take: DCs that have almost elite defense with 3* players should be ranked above DCs that have 5* players.
Today in Covid
Because this is Trump's America, the State of Missouri's Covid vaccine site needs this type of information:
https://covidvaccine.mo.gov/facts/
well... I can't blame them.
We did it, America. By the end of today, we'll pass 400k deaths.
https://twitter.com/RiegerReport/status/1257429780758216722
Hit it around mid-day. But come tomorrow, it also is beginning to really look like we'll also actually enter a new era in leadership.
Marist poll on which Americans want a vaccine
https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1351554068129476612
If 42% decide against getting it, we're going to be dealing with COVID-19 for several years.
I really hope that as more people get vaccinated the social pressure will increase for everyone to get it. Also maybe there will be activities that require you to get vaccinated. Like, you want to get on this plane? We'll need to see your vaccination card.
Tony Franklin vs. the powers that be
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/01/19/tony-franklin-middle-tennessee-football-coronavirus/
Tony Franklin is a good man. It's disappointing to see that he's now been betrayed twice by the sport he loves.
Wow that's an eye-opening article. Though I'm sure most schools are doing the same thing. Tony Franklin doing the right thing rather than just sitting back.
Give the DBD a life hack (a shortcut that increases efficiency)
Do not refrigerate tomatoes
Replacing your screws on your door strike plates with 2.5" screws dramatically improves the strength of a door. It costs almost nothing and even the most mechanically challenged person can do it.
If you come across a pistachio that refuses to open, use the shell of another pistachio to get leverage in the gap to help pop it open.
I guess unlike Clams or Mussels, the unopened pistachio is still safe to eat. But will it taste good?
They're just like all the other pistachios.
so, not really?
Yes
Our coolers have bottle openers velcroed to the side.
I put Googly eyes on my computer camera so that I look at it more often.
What after-market thing have you added to your car?
A couple of empty Starbucks cups on the floor.
Last February, my car was at my parents' for some reason, and when I went to get it, my dad had gotten a backup camera installed. I rarely had reason to drive then, and then the lockdown happened, so I REALLY didn't need to drive, and so now my car has been at my parents' place since June or July. My dad drives it for me occasionally, and it seems safer parked in front of my parents' house where they can see it then somewhere in my neighborhood where I don't see it regularly.
oil.
What?!?!?!
our accord burns some oil (has a bad cylinder, but not worth it to replace the engine on a 13 year old car.
Car seats for the kids.
One of those pine tree air fresheners.
An EZPass transponder
Same, but Fastrak
It sucks that the new carpool lanes, where different amounts will be charged based on the number of people in the car, will now be 3+ for free use with fastrak. Previously most were 2+ for free use.
I don't know about Fastrak, but an EZpass transponder can cut significant amounts of time from an east coast road trip. I'm just relieved that nobody uses it to issue speeding tickets.
I haven't experienced a significant time saving from EZ pass (as I'm still bitter about a really bad traffic jam due to an accident on the NJ Turnpike years ago) but I think this is also due to most people having it now so the cash-paying line is not that bad.
On the other hand, I almost missed my flight out of SFO 5-6 years ago because my rental car didn't have a transponder and the cash line for the Bay Bridge was significantly longer (and Google/Apple Map clearly did not factor that in). Just last year (in the end of February), my rental car in Florida said that they were going to charge me a $8 (IIRC) minimum cost for every day that I used it; around the AirBnB where I was staying in Tampa there was a stretch of highway that had a toll of under $1 that I had to purposely avoid (the most annoying was to switch on the "avoid toll" on my map apps) because I wasn't planning to go on the turnpike for basically half of the days of that trip. That felt like some kind of tourist surcharge for that area.
I'm so old that I remember when you needed special tokens / exact change for most of the toll booths on the Garden State Parkway. The NJ Turnpike isn't a great use case b/c you pay to enter and leave, and the true effect of the toll booths southbound is masked by the fact that they narrow the road to 2 lanes 40+ miles to the north.
If I go from the house to VT to see the ladies in the summer, northbound I hit tolls at the Baltimore tunnels, the bridge over the Susquehanna, entering Delaware, entering the NJ turnpike, exiting the NJ turnpike, multiple times on the Garden State parkway, entering the NY Thruway, and exiting the NY thruway (and if I were feeling frisky I could take the MA Pike & need to pay there as well). Not having to stop for each of those adds up.
Tourist gouge is more like it. Easy to abuse, no local backlash to discourage it.
rental cars from Boston are that way. You have to pay for the toll road to get out of the rental car lot so you have to open up the transponder for that. I forgot the cost but it was $X/day as soon as you open it.
Everything about driving out of the Boston airport is a disaster.
So, as you would expect, lots of turnpikes have gone cashless/contactless in COVID, thus making the transponders somewhat essential. This turned out to be the biggest pain in the ass from the cross-country road trip me & the traveling vizsla took this past summer, as my Fastrak was no help.
It started with Illinois, then Indiana, & Ohio...each has their own state-specific payment systems. PA, NY, NJ, plus MD & DE (I think) are the EZ Pass...MA is separate, as is Maine. Plenty of work went into trying to pay these online....in the end, it was easier to just wait for the violation notices to arrive.
I hope this is permanent. It does such a good job of preventing the huge traffic jams at toll plazas during summer travel season.
the only tolls I've come across in MA & ME are EZpass but it would be *very* New England if they're not standard in state.
True - the EZ Pass would've worked in both, now that I think about it...I just remember having to pay BOTH MASS DOT and Maine DOT separately for the same days drive...I should've just saved my EZ Pass from my upstate NY residency.
Speakers. The stock speakers were lousy and I enjoyed listening to music on the way home from work (back when I had a commute). It was a fun but time-consuming upgrade.
I was talking to the missus about this subject generally, in terms of how difficult it is now to make upgrades to car audio. Used to be you could just swap in a new single DIN unit & better speakers with no hassle, now not so much...
On the TSX many of the stereo and AC controls are on the Nav touch screen. There are physical buttons for things like prev/next preset, or turn on AC or defrost. But if I want to change which vents the air goes to then I need to have the touch screen. There is a common problem where the CD reader for the NAV goes bad and you lose the touch screen so I wasn't able to fine tune my AC or my radio. Which I think means I can't replace the head unit because I'd lose all the controls like setting each of the presets, etc.
yikes, that seems sub-optimal.
yes it is. Turns out there was a local place in Louisville that fixes them up so I think I had to pay $600 for them to replace it. Been fine ever since.
In the Miata I have added a Bluetooth FM transmitter because the 23 year old OEM receiver doesn't have AUX or Bluetooth. On the TSX I added a hands-free kit before I drove out to Portland for a year because hand-free is required there.
Maybe I should buy a big spoiler for the Miata because they add 20 HP right?
Add some stickers on the window too. I think it's about 5hp per sticker.
oh yeah I forgot about that. The Japanese characters are 7 hp per character.
A front & back camera system. I bought it after getting rear-ended when stopped at a stop-light.
I've been thinking about getting one for all the cars except for the Miata. I'd be afraid with the top down it would just be stolen.
roof racks. while i know there is little practical difference and Thule is actually made in Sweden, i am partial to Yakima racks (even for our Volvo).
we have a giant roof box and 4 bike mounts.
on an average day the bike rack is permanently mounted to the car because i never know what ride i might end up on.
the roof box is great for additional cargo, especially on ski trips and camping trips. it was also essential to have enough space when dropping 2 girls at sleepaway camp
Recently added a roof rack which makes hauling a 8ft+ surfboard in(on?) a Model 3 very easy. Surprisingly you can fit <8ft boards inside the car with the backseat down and front seat pushed forward. It does whistle a bit over 75mph and I can't keep the rack pads on due to the vibration sounds they make between 30-40mph
Every previous car I've owned I upgraded the stereo, but I've slowly lost interest in this after switching from music to mainly podcasts while driving.
I had a roof rack on my car until I hit a turkey on 580 near the zoo.
did the car or the roof rack make impact w/ the turkey?
It was on 580 by the Oakland zoo, where the freeway winds and rolls along the hillside. I was coming home from work and traffic started to slow. I was in the left lane and in the distance around a bend in the road, I could see something in the right lane. As I got closer, I was driving alongside a large pickup truck and couldn’t see to my right. Then out of the blue a fucking turkey walked in front of me, I hit the brakes just as the damn thing took flight and it hit the front cross bar with a loud thud. In the rear view I saw a plume of feathers but at that rate of speed I couldn’t slow down or pullover so I drove home. I parked in the garage still shaken at what just happened and went inside. The next day when I walked into the garage, I saw my front crossbar missing and was like HOLY SHIT! Went to work and came home and removed the rear crossbar.
what happened to his fleece vest?
wow so the whole front crossbar got ripped off. Wow. It didn't damage the rain gutters?
it was a yakima rack that had the towers and door clips. No damage to the rain gutters but my doors each have a small dent on top where the rack ripped off
Shortcut
I take a shortcut to the stadium on game day. Truthfully, not shorter, but avoids a lot of traffic.
there's something to be said for a route which keeps you moving even if it is not shorter. Good for one's mental state.
When I used to live in Hercules but worked on Gilman there were days where it took 45 min to get home. Instead of going up 80, I'd take 580 over to the Chevron refinery and take Richmond Parkway. It certainly wasn't shorter but I was able to go 60-70 most of the way so it seemed to be faster. Even if the distance was probably 3+ times longer. This was 25 years ago, before the made Richmond Parkway into a 4 lane highway.
I've noticed that about 2 years ago that Waze stopped sending me through residential neighborhoods. I still remember those shortcuts and still use them, but notice that the traffic on them was much lighter after the change.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
The number of National Guardsmen removed from protecting DC because of ties to right-wing militia groups has risen from two to 12.
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20210119/2-guard-members-made-extremist-statements-about-inauguration
McConnell: Trump 'provoked' Capitol siege, mob 'fed lies'
https://www.wdrb.com/news/national/mcconnell-trump-provoked-capitol-siege-mob-fed-lies/article_62371712-5308-5d10-a470-067b96266b27.html
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday explicitly placed blame on President Donald Trump for the deadly riot at the Capitol, saying the mob was “fed lies” and that the president and others “provoked” those intent on overturning Democrat Joe Biden’s election.
McConnell's remarks as he opened the Senate were his most severe and public rebuke of outgoing President Donald Trump. The Republican leader vowed a “safe and successful” inauguration of Biden on Wednesday at the Capitol, which is under extremely tight security.
“The mob was fed lies," McConnell said. “They were provoked by the president and other powerful people, and they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government which they did not like.”
A lot of people are skeptical that the Senate Republicans would ever vote to convict Trump in the impeachment trial (and believe me, I get it), but the fact that McConnell is being so public with his criticism makes me wonder if he's got them.
I bet a small amount that he does, and wants to purge him.
McConnell isn't dumb. I think he sees that the GOP has a major long-term problem if they stick with Trumpism. They are going to lose the suburbs for a generation.
And the people that gravitated to the Republican party I think are unlikely to be motivated to keep on voting with Trump not on the ballot.
That's also what I think. They aren't really Republicans, more Trump fans who like his kind of chaos.
Who are the first ones to abandon ship?
Trump "environmental" plan struck down in court, so Biden admin won't need to do anything to implement their plan instead
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/why-it-matters-trump-s-pollution-plan-just-got-upended-n1254720
[Family guy skin-color meme of protestor vs. rioter]
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-protests-virginia/police-seize-firearms-from-black-men-at-virginia-rally-for-gun-rights-idUSKBN29N0XP
The White House issues the 1776 Report.
J.F.C.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Presidents-Advisory-1776-Commission-Final-Report.pdf
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/19/trump-1776-report-plagiarism-460464
Excellent takedown.
What are the odds that outgoing President Trump had any input on the writing of this or read it?
That's why there are pictures
The ideas are bad, the writing is bad, and even the formatting is bad (left-align in a multi-column document?!).
This has Stephen Miller’s claws all over it.
Last day
12 12 12 hours to go . . .I wanna be elected
PRO
Can't believe the Warriors came back to beat the Lakers. I think I watched most of the 1st half and then went to get some work done. Checked ESPN before bed and saw the Warriors won. I guess the Lakers just got bored in the 2nd half.
Lakers started missing shots and turning it over a lot in the 4th quarter (no surprise I guess, that's usually how big comebacks happen). Warriors actually played really well on offense, sharing the ball and getting everyone involved. And of course, if you let a Steph Curry team hang around, you are playing with fire.
Also Oubre had a hell of a game, 23pts and forced a bunch of turnovers. If he starts hitting 3s at his previous ~35% clip the Warriors will be a force to be reckoned with in the West. Especially if Wiseman continues to improve.
I know maybe a week ago the Warriors were like 20th in 3p FG%. But if you took Oubre out then they were like 5th.
Yeah Oubre and Wiggins were hitting shots they'd been missing before.
Harden and Durant have combined for 138 points in their first two games together in Brooklyn, according to ESPN's Stats & Information research.
That is the second-most combined points for teammates in their first two games together with a franchise in NBA history, after Wilt Chamberlain and York Larese had 151 with the Philadelphia Warriors in 1961. Chamberlain scored 139 of the 151 points, with Larese scoring 0 in their first game together and 12 in their second.
by that measure, Wilt outscored them both by himself. adding Larese just pads the stat
Met's new GM fired for sending dick pics. On the job for a whole 37 days.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30741273/new-york-mets-fire-gm-jared-porter-wake-report-sent-explicit-texts-images
one of my friends is high up in the legal team w/ the Mets. i suppose his job is independent of owner and GM, but perhaps people want to bring in their own staff for certain positions.
he deals mostly w/ the contract negotiations and player issues, union, etc
I'll never understand why any guy ever does this.
you must not have any equipment that needs showin'!
Reached by ESPN on Monday evening, Porter acknowledged texting with the woman. He initially said he had not sent any pictures of himself. When told the exchanges show he had sent selfies and other pictures, he said that "the more explicit ones are not of me. Those are like, kinda like joke-stock images."
He probably also drives a Vette. Small dick syndrome.
He's an idiot is what he is.
wait, so sending dick pics doesn't work when trying to score with the ladies?!? Damn
I think it entirely depends on how interested the ladies are in the first place.
It doesn't.
what if she asks for one? should you decline?
If she asks for one, and you want to send it, go ahead and send it, but it is my belief that the solicited dick pic is a rare beast indeed.
CAL
Modster in the transfer portal
Smart for him...no tears shed here...best of luck.
Men's Tennis won their season opener 5-2 over SMC yesterday. Volleyball will start 22-match Pac-12 only (it's likely to be brutal for this young Cal team that lost some key would-be-seniors to graduate transfer) this Friday. Men's Water Polo will also start the first of three Pac-12 only weekend tournaments this weekend.
“The longest distance between two points is a.....Shortcut.”
heh.
reminds me of the poster at Top Dog about the Road to Sucess
http://flowingdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/road_full.jpg