Gravitiger

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InB4 get off your phone while driving. I used voice to text to post this.

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I don't think voice to text changes to "InB4"

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Yes. Especially with coffee or a drink.

Gonna start up again at 80.

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My grandfather quit a 3 pack per day habit cold turkey on his 70th birthday after 50+ years smoking. Picked it back up on his 80th birthday. Died at 87 of emphysema and heart disease.

10-team league. Half PPR. 0.25 per carry. 15 yards per point rushing, receiving, and return.

1 QB, 1 RB, 2 WR, 1 TE, 2 Flex, K, D, 2 IDP.

My WR are boom/bust (Pickens, P. Washington, J. Williams, M. Wilson).

Pretty stacked at RB (Gibbs, Swift, Coleman, B. Allen, Marks, R. White, Skattebo).

Switching out QB based on matchup (Lawrence and Love).

TE is McBride.

Been playing Steelers D all season and streaming Bears vs TB this week while they are on bye.

Had Loop at K and now need to drop someone to pick up another one.

Question is: Which RB do I drop (knowing they will get picked up off waivers for rest of season), or risk dropping Steelers D?

Also, which K to pick up? Bates? Santos? Gay (he's K3 in our scoring but not sure about their offense)?

League is highly active on waivers but very conservative with trades. Decent money involved and all pretty competent owners.

League is also highly competitive right now. 3 tied in first at 5-3. 3 more at 4-4. I am in the second group. 4th place with second most total points for. A win this week would likely move me into 1st or 2nd at worst, but concerned about which RB has the best long-term value and holding Steelers D while on bye.

My parents said it to my brothers and me all the time. My wife and I say it to our son and each other all the time, as well. We try to model it for him. It was apparently much rarer in her home growing up, so it's natural/organic to me, but something she feels like we need to make a conscious thing.

She gets hurt when he doesn't say it back, or when he says it to me but not to her. He's just turned two. Perimenopause and childhood trauma ftw.

Scaring "traditional Democrats" (whatever that means) about the dangers of radical liberalism is not a widely successful strategy. Research shows there is tremendous voter fatigue on that type of negative messaging. What works is positioning individual candidates as unique brands outside of the "traditional politician" mold.

Trump has lost/devalued his brand as an outsider and is now viewed by many voters as inauthentic and corrupt, a classic politician, so candidates who were closely connected to him struggled by association.

Look at who won, lost, and struggled yesterday. Get rid of the Boomer lifetime politicians (and their sisters). Find young folks, vets, school teachers, business owners, etc., without baggage. People who look good in a ball cap or flannel vest, share a beer, can speak authentically, and throw a fishing line or football without looking dorky or fake.

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I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but we're a lot closer to a cyberpunk dystopian future than people want to admit. And not to get political, but if the dems win the midterms and presidency in '28, it's almost a certainty.

They're already laying the groundwork via the media, "ex-AI company employees", and dem congressional members.

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Anti-data center candidates from both parties did resoundingly well in state elections yesterday.

Do Republicans show any sign of doing better than Dems on this? Didn't Trump just have all the CEOs sign a self-policing (wink-wink) pledge?

How exactly is "ex-AI company employees" warning about a cyberpunk dystopian future via the media helping the Dems lay the groundwork for a cyberpunk dystopian future?

Concert merch (t-shirts and posters)

I think the biggest shift is that different 18-30 year olds voted in this election versus 2024, not that so many of their votes changed.

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I thought she would win by at least 5 points.

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So did she. She barely bothered to campaign, and the national party spent very little money there.

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I don't think a Dem has won statewide since Musgrove won Governor.

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Has any black Democrat ever won a statewide election in MS? I know there hasn't been a black Senator since Reconstruction, but obviously they were Republican.

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plus a shite load of alters, bots and paid trolls

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LOL

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That's a really nice soccer stadium they have in Nashville and 75% of the crowd was sitting on the same side as we were.

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They probably put most people on the side that showed on the TV cameras, so it would at least look somewhat full.