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that "blackening" is a specific blend of seasoning

curious what your blend is?
It’s simple because of the hyper-aggressive tax approach of the state of California. If you have not experienced it, then it is really hard to comprehend. Count yourself fortunate.
In this case, the position is that any incentives in a contract anywhere in the country (world?) that are tied to a performance that is taking place in that state is taxable revenue. No one has successfully challenged the power of the, ironically named, Franchise Tax Board.
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How do these layoffs affect the office real estate market. So many large towers in downtowns across the US and so many vacancies.


I think Covid optimized remote work capabilities and efficiencies. My bias is that is playing a more prominent role v AI as far as office space
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Goodbye, good luck and learn to code


the incredible irony of this is the first job that is being replaced by agentic AI is: Coding
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replace them with other credentialing boards

To be clear, neither one are credentials boards. ABPS (American Board of plastic surgeons) is the Board, and States give license to practice.
Next iteration of "School House Rock". I learned stuff from School House Rock, I learned stuff from this. All good as far as I am concerned.
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How often has a coach been fired from a school just to come back less than six years later
what was the interval for Ron Polk?
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Anthony Johnson’s was lazy

Typo's happen.
Good think you didn't put the 's on his first name, then he might really feel insulted!

re: Joe Cox making rounds...

Posted by NorCali on 1/26/26 at 2:32 pm to
Gulf Shores building a "New" High School because of over-capacity and Orange Beach just built one as well. Permanent residents with young families flocking to paradise island because of remote work made possible post-covid. And they still building more homes in Foley!
I had a 10 foot snow drift in my attic last year from sideways snow
They have to support all the hype they generated last summer and not admit they were wrong.
Add to that it’s a supposedly very weak QB class.
And who was the one that was supposed to give him supervision and hold him accountable. That’s the worst part.

re: Boutte over Stingley

Posted by NorCali on 1/19/26 at 6:28 am to
Watching that video clip, looked like stingley was in perfect phase until about the 10yard line when boutte used his arm to create a breath of separation but amazing one handdd grab to complete the catch.
Smiley’s has an early bird special which was solid. Our first few years of marriage we would love to go there and laugh about the fact that it was usually packed with folks on social security. But the food was great!
Many bridal parties in the back room as well
So 50 minute Uber from airport and while riding to your hotel get the driver to swing by the Leif Erikson statue in front of the church and you will probably have seen “the sights” in Reykjavik. Seriously, the hotels are utilitarian mostly and the food is unique but perhaps not in a foodie kind of way. Get the game streaming on an app (make sure you have a vpn with US connection) as chances are you will be awake at 3am anyway
You are already doing great with ring road
Groked it in X

Turned out better than expected ??

re: Kiffin is a trip lol

Posted by NorCali on 1/16/26 at 6:05 pm to
It’s an interesting question. Is it linked to your time zone or straight up EST?
Setting the table for a coach pipeline from NC State perhaps?

re: Wade will be our next coach

Posted by NorCali on 1/15/26 at 5:31 am to
He took McNeese State to the tournament twice and got their first win. That is objectively a better performance than the current coach who had better resources.
Alternatively there may be better options outside of Wade.
They’re trying to keep college players that are great college players, but not great NFL players around longer to improve the quality of the product on the field to compete with the NFL. This will also increase depth across schools.

re: Tiger emoji from Darth Kiffin!!!

Posted by NorCali on 1/14/26 at 7:12 am to
Love it. What would it look life if you changed the dish to a Death Valley like stadium?
Good question as we live west of it. My observations:
Lots of neighborhoods with older, smaller one story ranch style homes. Nothing that you look at and say I want to bring my family here. Though there are some areas that are being revitalized close to the wahoos stadium for instance, so it is being updated.
Near the jail and surrounding areas, particularly west, there is an issue with homeless/maybe drugs/ maybe mental illnes/ maybe all of the above. Since it is a military base and VA hospital town with a reasonable climate, my guess has been a lot of vets with drug issues
As others have said though, downtown is small but nice. Very few high rise buildings (which limit growth) but older and smaller with decent amount of character.
Last point, and possibly biggest, is the limitations of the airport. Usually parking is almost always near capacity, flights are mostly to hub cities, though Chicago and New York and Miami flights are seasonal. If the airport could expand and add more flights, which is happening, it would help, but always will be limited as Atlanta and Orlando are “drivable” .
But with the new remote work economy, this entire region from Folry to Panama City is growing
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If you actually talked with a mechanic, you'd know they give new guys shite for borrwing tools, most have a pretty hard held rule that if you ask to borrow the same tool twice, the next time you'll be told to buy your own.


Not the point. Dealerships are shifting the cost/risk of doing business to the mechanics and yet wonder why they can’t find people that chose to go into the field. Mechanic has to buy expensive tool x, then it is replaced by tool y, the mechanic takes the hit as an employee, not the dealership. And the dealerships have become such a strong force they don’t have to change. They own local politicians and judges so they get away with crazy business practices that hurt the consumer and clearly their own mechanics!
Look at the number of states that block direct to consumer sales. That’s the dealership lobby at work. Just an outdated business model that is so entrenched that we all suffer from it

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To be fair, I’ve never seen Kiffin with a good defense
see his time at Alabama as the closest example