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Re: Seek 20% salary increase for new job… - 2 months ago

20%? This says 30%: https://www.inc.com/lou-adler/dont-change-jobs-unless-you-get-a-30-increase.html At least you have a job and can be selective with offers when they come in. It does sound like you've made your decision... but consider the opportunity of being in a new place and to be able to do new things. g=

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Re: Is there reason to believe full football stadiums will be covid safe? - 3 months ago

Interesting digression about mayonnaise - how do you all feel about the stuff using, say, olive oil instead of the normal base (eggs?) To get back to the topic at hand... football stadiums. I am vaccinated. I attended Lollapalooza. Proof of vaccination had to be presented to attend, or for the unvaccinated a 48-hour recent medical grade negative covid test (not just the quick over the

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Re: Can you identify this $#%@& toy??? - 6 months ago

QuoteZ Monorail Z beat me to it... it's what I first thought of when I looked at it. It is clearly a poorly depicted, somewhat lopsided monorail on a very short rail. Or rather, the rail only extends out of one side of the mono because it's curving sharply to the left . I can see why one might think it was the stern of a ship but the "smokestacks" (aka rail support pillars) are

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Re: Columbus Cop Shoots/Kills 16-Yr-Old Black Girl Who Had A Knife - 7 months ago

QuoteLux Interior QuoteSteveOCouldn't have shot her in the leg, fired in the air first, anything but fatal shots? Shoot to wound/disarm is a TV/movie trope. Aim center mass & shoot to kill. Otherwise, don't shoot. Nonsense. There's a time for lethal force, and that time is VERY rare compared to how often it's used by present day police. My town's police hadn't discharged a firearm in

by gabester - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

New AppleID - 1GB and limited apps - sign in from Apple device to get 5GB and full features. - 7 months ago

TLDR: sign in from an Apple device with an AppleID/iCloud account to get full features and 5GB. I just created a new AppleID with the intent to share some iCloud calendar information with a some other people, and I don't want this touching my existing AppleIDs. I haven't done this in years... I have a couple legacy accounts from the iTools era! I've helped some friends and family set u

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Re: Herd immunity next week.... - 8 months ago

Just imagine if one were forced to eat Krispy Kremes... I've never been a fan, at least not of the glazed standard... too bad Dunkin' Donuts hasn't inspired this.

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Re: Why ban giving voters in line water? - 8 months ago

I was going to contend that you could simply distribute the water merely by leaving bottles on the ground adjacent to voters in line. Then I realized the "law enforcement" folks would just charge you with littering instead. Then I considered "selling" the water for 1 cent. But they'd get you for not having a vendor's license. When the laws are structured so that yo

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Re: Covid vaccine reaction poll - 8 months ago

I was lucky to get vaccinated with an unused, expiring dose of Pfizer over a month ago, and then scheduled and received the 2nd dose just over two weeks ago. After the first dose I felt giddy and elated and a little dizzy... with the dizziness maximized about 4 hours later into a moderate vertigo which could have been psychosomatic. I went to bed and slept it off. The next couple days I felt

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Re: As of Thursday, anyone 16 and older is eligible for the vaccine, in GA - 8 months ago

QuoteSpeedy Quotemattkime Eh, I'm not sure this is good news. It could be an indication that not enough people are getting the vaccine that should be. Quite true. One way to rectify this will be to encourage businesses - privately, of course - to append their current decorum regime to include "no mask, no vaccine" with "no shoes, no shirt, no service." Notice that does

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Re: You can only sit at one table... - 8 months ago

Table 6. Who wouldn't want to meet and converse with an astronaut?

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Re: Why people say "Jesus H. Christ", and where did the "H" come from? - 8 months ago

An old coworker who was a seminarian said it was H for Hernandez.

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Re: "Kentucky Senate votes to criminalize insulting police in way that could cause ‘violent response’" - 8 months ago

Quotewave rider If someone cannot reign in their emotions when insulted, they should not be in law enforcement. Full stop. This. And, if you're signing up to be an LEO, you should understand that the job is never to shoot first and ask questions later. The opposite - it should be to take a bullet before harming an innocent civilian.

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Re: Abandoning masks now is a terrible idea. - 8 months ago

Hey if you enjoyed COVID-19 you're going to love COBOLARRHEA-23!

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Re: Daylight saving time begins again on Sunday, March 14, when most Americans will move their clocks forward by an hour - 8 months ago

Of all the things that need to go, there's nearly universal consensus on this one. Can we just end the practice one way or the other? g=

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Re: cell phone deals: why do they ask you to port a line from a different carrier? - 9 months ago

Yeah I see this deal too... you don't need to port in a number, they can activate a new number for you. So, suddenly, you've got a business line! Or a phone you leave in your car for emergencies. What I do wonder is what happens if I then swap sims so that the new SE has got the SIM for the older model phone on my main number? I remember reading in the original Xfinity signup documentation th

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Re: US State Dept. official: 'Jewish ideas poison people' - 9 months ago

I'm always bemused when my MRFriends threadjack... Back on topic I hope the Department of State can figure out a way to see this individual suitably disciplined and in no position to influence future policy or further taint the image of the United States.

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Re: Andrew Cuomo is a survivor - he will not be removed from office. T or F - 9 months ago

QuoteLemon Drop Up to New Yorkers . They've been through so much and he's been the leader. That can be incredibly powerful and can transcend many things. I mean, they are the people that brougth us crazy uncle Rudy... (I know city vs state... what does one say if one intends "the people of the city of New York" vs "the people of the state of New York?")

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Re: Spring/Summer fencing project (not the parry and thrust kind) - 9 months ago

So... did this post start out placed on the "wrong side" or did one of the comments get it moved over here?

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Re: National Anthem at CPAC. Pick a key! Pick a key! - 9 months ago

I don't know, MRFriends... that version was perfectly appropriate for CPAC - tone deaf and off key are kind of their area of expertise... Newt, back me up on this!

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Re: NBC: 'President Biden declares major disaster in Texas following severe winter storm' - 9 months ago

QuoteSteveO The commercial power grid in these affected areas of Texas should be paying for every_penny of these damages including wrongful death lawsuits. They are the ones who chose to leave their customers literally in the cold after being formally given the recommendations by the Feds that would have fixed these issues 10 years ago. I agree that the power operators ought to be held account

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Re: Beyond the public beta - StarLink accepting preorders! - 9 months ago

Thank you for posting this - I signed up for the beta last summer, was asked to update my address from simply a zip code to a specific location in the fall, and have heard nary a peep since (and I'm in a service location I would think is eligible for SpaceX testing in NE WI near the UP.) Disappointed I never got an official beta invite. Concerned that SpaceX may be playing favorites in som

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Re: Presidential seal stationery? - 10 months ago

Shouldn't the subject be Presidential Steal Stationary??!

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Re: Working mini PoweMac G3 - 10 months ago

That is a case I could see putting my Pi into... hm... now to figure out how to make one out of Lego!

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Re: Snow should be measured by weight, not by volume - 10 months ago

Snowblowers are for wimps... real men use Snowovels! But getting back on-topic, yes, weather reporting it's X inches isn't as helpful as Y-foot-gallons or something like that, in other words one square foot of snow is the equivalent weight of so many gallons of water... feels a little more specific than SWE.

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Re: '...disowning me and claiming I'm possessed by the devil.' - 10 months ago

Problem is, Kinzinger's from Illinois, and I predict he'll flame out in disgrace or corruption like other Illinois Republican proteges and impresarios such as Aaron Shock, Jack Ryan , Bruce Rauner, or even Dennis Hastert, or just to name a few who come to mind off the top of my head. And of course honorable mention should go to the Illinois Gubernatorial Incarceration Rate!

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Re: “ A zero-emissions US is now pretty cheap “ - 10 months ago

I just want to point out that as our grid becomes increasingly renewable-powered, zero emissions will slip away from our grasp thanks to upcoming energy-consumption increases from the likes of EVs (currently our gas/diesel/ethanol vehicles aren't accounted on the power grid) as well as blockchain-derived virtual currencies and training/utilization of increasingly pervasive AI. And let's not forge

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Re: Remember "The Swamp" that needed draining? - 10 months ago

Quotehal President Trump rescinded an executive order early Wednesday morning that had limited federal administration officials from lobbying the government or working for foreign countries after they leave their posts, undoing one of the few measures he had instituted to fulfill his 2016 campaign promise to “drain the swamp.” Trump had signed the executive order with much fanfare in an Ov

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Headline I'd like to see: "Joe Biden UNPRESIDENTS Donald Trump" - 10 months ago

It's been a day of memories... And past this I'm content to let the 45th President slip in to memory except for occasional updates on his hopefully ongoing legal defeats for criminal malfeasance! But maybe a T-Shirt that says "I survived... and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt and a flu that was supposed to go away by April." Too soon?

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Re: Jehovah’s Witnesses is bankrupt? - 10 months ago

I was thinking this thread would be about the organization declaring bankrupcty as a way to get out of liability due to a New York State law this year allowing those who have experienced abuse at the hands of an organization (think JW or the one that sounds like Science but ends in -tology) at any point in the past to file suit against the organization. Netflix has a show about it I think...

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Re: Twitter Bans President Trump (Finally!!) - 11 months ago

QuoteLemon Drop So when future historians want to write about Trump, how do they get these tweets? Its the primary record of his presidency. .They are not in the public domain and never will be. Links to his tweets embedded in thousands of existing articles are now dead. This is nerdy me thinking out loud, not that important. This site still has records, so maybe the content is accessible vi

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