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SparkyWilson
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re: Seahawks trying to sign Terrion Arnold
Posted by SparkyWilson on 8/20/26 at 3:38 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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Seems like a very high risk low reward type of situation.
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Probably the opposite. Don't commit a lot of money. If he gets convicted you don't have a significant investment. If he beats the rap you have him on a team friendly contract.
It's a one-year deal, $1.1 million. Probably an out if ends up going to prison.
As a Seahawk fan, I don't mind the move for the reasons you mentioned, and also because I believe Macdonald knows his locker room well enough to know it can handle this sort of thing.
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re: Number of unmarried young men is surging
Posted by SparkyWilson on 8/19/26 at 11:48 am to Sam Quint
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if my algorithm is anything close to correct men are being blamed for almost everything by their wives or girlfriends. If you've seen any videos on this mother that just murdered her 3 children you will understand what I'm talking about. She clearly admitted to killing the 3 children, the defense and prosecutors clearly showed she committed the murders but you have white women in all of the social media saying it was the husband/father. Young men see that and just throw up their hands and say "why would I want that?"
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it is pretty bonkers.
It is, and she's fully responsible, but I think some of the husband hate is coming from the precedent of the Andrea Yates case. The husband dropped the ball bad in that one.
re: Zipper Merging will be the downfall of civilization
Posted by SparkyWilson on 8/18/26 at 3:30 pm to Gator5220
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People who run to the end of the merge are nothing more than line-cutters in cars.
Yes, but if both lanes went all the way to the merge point, and then take turns getting through the merge point, you wouldn't have this perception.
Well, maybe you still would.
re: Zipper Merging will be the downfall of civilization
Posted by SparkyWilson on 8/18/26 at 2:30 pm to DustyDinkleman
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The people that are really stupid in all this zipper merge nonsense is the people who try to merge 500-1000 feet before the merge point.
This is precisely why I don't let those people in. I want them to go all the way to the merge point. i want everyone behind them to go all the way to the merge point.
When I get to the merge point, I let one care in and then keep going.
re: Bush’s failure to partially privatize social security was a massive fumble
Posted by SparkyWilson on 8/18/26 at 1:15 pm to Zach
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The arguments will be the same. "How can you cut my benefits after you've stolen my money for 50 years."
This. Nobody wants to be left holding the bag. Let the next crop of beneficiaries bite the bullet but not me.
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The only solution is the gradually increasing option to reduce your pay withheld in return for less benefits, leaving it up to you to use your extra money to plan your retirement investments. As time goes the gradual option will become 100% and SS will be gone. But that's gonna take a long time without the left promising everyone more money and scrapping the reform.
Not a bad idea and better than means testing, in my opinion.
re: Fauci and Covid Vaccine During Pregnancy
Posted by SparkyWilson on 8/18/26 at 12:49 pm to Sev09
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Anecdotally
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definitely
You can't get more definitive than anecdotally.
re: If you're into that fake place called space..
Posted by SparkyWilson on 8/18/26 at 9:49 am to cgrand
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where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see
I've never brought myself to watching that one again. Maybe it won't be as freaky as I remember 30 years later.
re: If you're into that fake place called space..
Posted by SparkyWilson on 8/18/26 at 9:40 am to cgrand
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if space can expand, perhaps it can be contracted (folded)
That's how you get Dune...or Event Horizon.
re: What coffee are you guys using?
Posted by SparkyWilson on 8/18/26 at 9:32 am to X123F45
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Going off of my my buddy who runs the line.
Same product, different bag.
You just said the same beans which I believe.
At the time private reserve was active, nothing in the red bags tasted the same those did. I'd be curious exactly what varieties of the red bag recreate that. If your buddy would like to share which red bag is the exact same as Private Reserve Louisiana, Evangeline, and Founders, I'm all ears.
re: Rams and Aaron Donald
Posted by SparkyWilson on 8/17/26 at 10:27 am to LooseCannon22282
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probably going to an all LA Superbowl
Chargers-Rams
They'll have a hard time again with Seattle. I think it will come down to those two again in the NFCCG.
re: Do women understand that men do not care about their careers. Etc?
Posted by SparkyWilson on 8/17/26 at 10:21 am to dyslexiateechur
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Some Women have more options than you think.
re: Do women understand that men do not care about their careers. Etc?
Posted by SparkyWilson on 8/17/26 at 10:19 am to Loup
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've noticed many women don't handle workplace stress as well as men do. They don't compartmentalize as well.
They don't compartmentalize at all. My wife asked one time why it doesn't all overwhelm me. I told it's because though I worry it about it all, I don't worry about it all at once. Women are spaghetti, men are waffles.
re: What coffee are you guys using?
Posted by SparkyWilson on 8/17/26 at 10:16 am to X123F45
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they did me wrong by dropping their private reserve line
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What if I told you... It's the same beans
They don't roast them the same. Name an alternative Community Coffee variety available now that tastes as good or better than the Private Reserve. I'll wait.
re: White guilt is dead — and we killed it
Posted by SparkyWilson on 8/14/26 at 4:43 pm to Ailsa
You just know something is about to go down.
re: White guilt is dead — and we killed it
Posted by SparkyWilson on 8/14/26 at 3:25 pm to OchoDedos
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Don't put your horses before the cart. White quilters are alive and well judging from the number of Socialist Democrat victories in elections
Definitely the white quilters are who we really need to worry about!
re: What is your life’s purpose?
Posted by SparkyWilson on 8/14/26 at 3:23 pm to TexasTiger08
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To live it.
Not a complicated thing really.
I think this guy nailed.
"Time enjoyed is not time wasted."
Higher purpose is up to the individual, but there's no metric for what qualifies as high enough. The vast majority of us aren't going down in the history books as making a world changing contribution or a noteworthy action, and that's all right.
There are times a feel like I'm in a funk myself. The rat race and the everyday maintenance feel like a grind and that I don't have it all together. I tell myself that one day it will settle down enough for me to do this or that. Only problem with that is if I wait for some distant point in the future to enjoy my life, I may never get there.
So to answer your question, my wife and my kids are my main purpose. It's weird how all that worry stated above becomes a distant thought when one of my kids falls asleep on me. It's no small matter that I get to be a big part of their world right now. I enjoy side projects at the house where I can see the work of my hands that has solved a problem no matter how small. I enjoy catching up with friends that are still friends despite the years and distance between us. Watching hilarious snippets from stand up or youtube videos (that one with the wife making husband lunch and the comments put to autotune song) or watching favorite movies (90's full of classics) are a favorite past time.
Just keep breathing. Keep living. Find joy wherever you are.
re: Man who killed pregnant wife and two daughters is getting married
Posted by SparkyWilson on 8/14/26 at 10:33 am to castorinho
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Snapping is one thing.
Driving out to a tank battery and putting your kids in an oil tank through a small hatch, is on a whole higher level.
It really is insane. Like I said, there's always some kind of stressor or trigger. He probably had a lot of underlying issues that made his snapping worse.
re: Man who killed pregnant wife and two daughters is getting married
Posted by SparkyWilson on 8/13/26 at 4:57 pm to Dingeaux
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the wife absolutely did not deserve to be killed but she was definitely crazy. from the footage in the documentary, I can see how he was miserable with her. She seemed to be belittling him in a lot of the facebook videos. She was definitely no picnic.
I saw that too. Treated him like a moron for all of social media to see.
A cautionary tale of why it is so important to marry the right person.
re: Man who killed pregnant wife and two daughters is getting married
Posted by SparkyWilson on 8/13/26 at 4:45 pm to Strannix
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What a mentally disconnected monster to do what he did
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Don't in any way take this as some sort of qualifier or mitigating fact but everyone should watch all the footage of his wife. She was batshit fricking insane, I could easily see how she drove him crazy. Every second of their life was some sort of choreographed Facebook moment.
A common thread in Criminal Minds and Mind Hunter is there's always a stressor or trigger.
It wasn't just that every moment was some sort of choreographed Facebook moment. Their finances were in shambles. She had champagne tastes and they had a beer budget. She was doing the MLM thing and was not doing well. Pretty sure she was having to buy her own product since she had no downline. Kids were going to an expensive daycare while she had no real job. They were in debt up to the gills.
The side piece was his escape from all of that. I think reality eventually set in that he could never be with the sidepiece. A divorce would have him chopped in half financially. He couldn't afford a secret life and his family; he couldn't even afford just his family and there was a third child on the way.
That he thought offing his family would solve that shows pure delusion. I assume he had a psychotic break when reality set in.
re: Man who killed pregnant wife and two daughters is getting married
Posted by SparkyWilson on 8/13/26 at 2:32 pm to gumbo2176
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I remember him begging for somebody to come forward with any information to help find his family. Maybe even in tears. What a POS.
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The part I remember the most is when he said he smothered one daughter to kill her and the other daughter asked him if he was going to do that to her----and he did.
I can't fathom being that uncaring and cold.
And he didn't just place them in an oil storage tank. He had to cram them through an opening that was too small. I don't care how bad his marriage and finances were, those girls undoubtedly called him "Daddy" and gave him lots of hugs. Why we let m'fers like this live is beyond me.
re: Ukraine Kicked Our A$$ in War Games
Posted by SparkyWilson on 8/13/26 at 2:03 pm to prplhze2000
If you ain't f'ing up, you ain't learning anything. - Rodney Cathy, railroad contractor
It's no surprise they have the edge here; they have multiple years of drone combat experience on both offense and defense. This is a huge learning opportunity for our armed forces.
It's no surprise they have the edge here; they have multiple years of drone combat experience on both offense and defense. This is a huge learning opportunity for our armed forces.
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