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Many public pools in my area are closed. Most were built in the 1950s-1960s when the feds were throwing grant money out to municipalities for big public works projects like hospitals, pools and libraries. Had another one just wiped out by a recent flash flood. Back then, they poured pool shells sometimes with just 4-5 inches of concrete. That gives out after years of water pressure and weight. Usually a crack will develop that can't be filled, so it persistently leaks water, and then, in a worst case scenario, a sinkhole of unknown depth, develops underneath the shell, which requires the entire pool to be completely removed. Today it's a minimum 6-8 inches of concrete for a public pool, 12" if the town can afford it.

I can see the USPS becoming the company that delivers prescriptions daily from central pharmacies as Walgreens and CVS roll back retail pharmacy for large central pharmacies. Your day-to-day medicines are processed like Amazon Subscribe and Save and routinely delivered. Since so many people have chronic health conditions and need the same medicines every day, there's a lot of auto-pilot medicine prescriptions to be filled. Not a lot of money in it, but it's a service the USPS is ideally suited to do. I could also see them carving out a niche as couriers for lab draw stations. I also wouldn't rule out Amazon, in the end, partnering exclusively with the USPS for their deliveries. Instead of Amazon spending tens of millions on vans and staff, they will contribute to the USPS. Delivering your $5.30 order of cat magnets is expensive if you factor in the the actual cost of that "free" delivery. I just don't see how Amazon continues to do that.

He's too valuable (and likely too expensive) to/for LVR to trade away for the 1-year tank. Caleb Williams needs somebody to throw to. Raiders will have their work cut out to lose more than the Cardinals, but a season with little to no Jimmy G. should do it.

I think Vegas is tanking this season for the #1 pick so this would be part of the plan.

I think that's due in part to the fact that although technology has allegedly evolved considerably since the 1960s, just flying people around the Earth seems difficult to do today. I've always been amazed that today's NASA can't build a new Rocketdyne F-1 engine, or anything close to the thrust it produced, even if they had an unlimited budget to do so.

The window is right now. This is the year for the Bills. Burn the boats behind you.

A decade from now, history likely reflects that Biden, and not Trump, was the President who committed the felony crime, deserving of legitimate impeachment. Of course, President Biden likely gets away with it and suffers no consequences. I think he drops out of the 2024 race by the end of the year and America and its media conveniently forget about him. "Let the tired old man rest!" they'll say.

The Patriot Way to me was an emphasis on reducing both the mental and emotional errors when the games counted. You rarely saw a Patriot lose their cool and get an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. You also rarely saw the mental gaffes. That was a big part of why they were extremely tough to beat. The hard practices were likely as a means to reduce apprehension and hesitancy. Getting hit with the full force of a grown man is a shocking experience to the body, and it's something that your brain and body have to be accustomed to happening.

All ESPN has to do is make segments like this. 8 minutes and 34 seconds of great television.

What led me to believe it's the dreaded slowdown is that estrogen acts as a fuel to thyroid cancer, which she had sometime ago. She's likely been advised not to take HRT and risk the potential spread to other soft tissue in the body. He was, in turn, likely in a relationship with a beautiful woman that increasingly had no interest in being touched as the hormones fade. With no children to be impacted, why be roommates?

Lamar Jackson. Chronic health issues and a fragile knee that likely isn't right. He's a black box of medical issues. Why Baltimore did that deal, I'll never understand.

She's 51. He's 46. Menopause (and manopause) takes no prisoners on relationships. My completely unsubstantiated speculation is the well ran dry on one end or the other.

An interesting coffee table book would be the homes of the Bills players . No real commentary other than a picture of the house, and name of player. You figure with Josh Allen or Von Miller money, you live in a place like Dana Point. But what if you're Boogie Basham or Dean Marlowe, or James Cook on a rookie deal?

I think his entire career came down to that Jacksonville playoff game because it was an inflection point for the franchise to be in it, and to boot, a very winnable game. I think TT gets the Fitzy treatment if the Bills win that game.

Well, they'd all suddenly take up an interest in minor league baseball. 😀

Voted "not bad." Sure, it would have been great if the Bills won them all. I think fans generally underappreciate how utterly dominant the Bills were in the 1990s. You're very unlikely to see a team go to four consecutive SBs ever again. The Bills went to playoffs in eight of the ten years in that decade. It's also a symbol of how great the NFL used to be IMO - when teams could build teams of great players vs. today where you get to have one great player.

I really like the mini-Buffalo logo. That is sharp.

The ARA San Juan, an Argentinian diesel single-hull sub, imploded at just 3,000 meters in 2017. A USN Seawolf sub, with a state-of-the-art, classified hull design, has a crush depth of 2,400 meters. This dude took a barely tested carbon-fiber hull down to 13,000 meters. These billionaires had to be on some sort of drugs to get in that rickety-ass submersible.

From what I understand about the sub, it had no redundancy in operations - there was no plan B for power or communication. It had crude design - controlled by a PlayStation controller and navigated by text message. Dangerously naive. It all sounds like a very bad idea. There are fishing boats that hit the lake with more robust design. If they happen to survive, there's no way they should be permitted to do it again.

Play every game as if if they burned the ships behind them. That goes for the coaches too.

I feel a sense of uneasiness. There's a sense there's something off with this team of players, and it wasn't resolved this offseason. The Bengals game (no one showed up by the fans), Frazier's unusual exit and Stefon Diggs's absence at camp are all symptoms.

I think his seat is hot. He's 2001 Tony Dungy to me. Another lackluster playoff performance could do it. It's a Super Bowl window year with a Super Bowl roster.

Jobs that retirees I know have: Street sweeper operator Very short haul truck driver (back and forth between warehouses) Grocery store stocker Grocery store cashier Lab courier (picking up bloodwork from labs) Prescription delivery Equipment rentals clerk (he teaches homeowners how to use the equipment and also not kill themselves) Range safety officer/firearms instructor Small engine mechanic Generally, in my area, there's a niche of jobs that 1) teens used to do 2) people who now work at warehouses used to do 3) simply can't find someone wanting part-time work in that particular job - like the trucking and street sweeper. Grocery stores in my area will give a retiree all the hours they could possibly want.

"The iceberg floats on water with only approximately 10% of its volume above the water and 90% of its volume below the water."

His career has mystified me in that if a HC position was the ultimate career goal, why didn't he go the Pete Carroll/Lovie Smith route and go to the college ranks to hone those skills? Pete Carroll was a much better coach at Seattle than he was in NE because of his stint at USC. I feel Leslie Frazier waited too long and that window has closed.