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Wow. It helps the historic drought situation of the last decade+ I imagine but it happening feast-or-famine is always terrible.

Just looked it up… Bill Dwyer was in the Penn. State House and had been found guilty a few months prior of a bunch of racketeering, bribery, perjury, conspiracy charges about taking money to award a contract to an auditing firm in California. He was to be sentenced the next day. Some say that the hounding of the press drove him to it, but 🤷🏻‍♂️. That was a lengthy sentence coming his way and his life was basically over so he probably would’ve have done it anyway, but maybe in a different, private way. News can’t / shouldn’t let a guy off easy there’s a chance of whatever. But if it hadn’t happened how he did so publicly, I imagine the coverage would have been quite different.

In J-school, the ethics of reporting on it was that public suicides like this are fair game for coverage… bc quite a lot of people saw it. The case study then was the government official accused of embezzlement in Philly iirc who called a news conference and shot himself in the head on air at the podium. To not mention it at all is a whitewash to something that happened so publicly. That they published graphic description and so many photos including a lot of the sheet-draped remains? Yeah, that is *quite* tough to defend… but I’m also betting the story got a lot of clicks for the same reason people slow down and look over at accident scenes #rubbernecking. Suicide where it was done privately is generally not reported unless the person was a public figure, and even then is not accompanied by scene photos… but for some true rags like NYP it may have less to do with decency and more that they don’t have access to the scene.

You do know they’re printing organs in labs *now*, right? It’s going to take time before it’s a routine thing to replace a heart but surely not 50K years. Maybe 100, and that’s with massive-profit insurance companies & the slowness of public health guideline changes blocking the way.

There was a guy whose autopilot Tesla got into an accident because he went to sleep. He thought the car would be able to do everything. I don’t remember if he died. The thing with this technology is that it is / will be there as the basis / primary system but it still requires & will likely always require a human to be behind the wheel supervising it and making corrections and decisions that AI isn’t / might not be quite programmed to do. Detour, road washed out, debris, accidents, animals in the road, etc. It’s a long way off from what they call the “Level 5” self-driving.

My uncle (a Marine ‘Nam vet) hanged Stern out of a window by his shirt collar when he was in Hartford in the ‘80s(?). It was at an office party or something, my aunt worked at the station and Stern said something to really p— him off.

Bipolar runs in the family a bit on my mum’s side, and my mum was in and out of treatment for it when I was very young, and my oldest brother and, from the sounds of it, his son (11) have it. (Autism — which I have) & schizophrenia also are cluster diagnoses that run alongside with bipolar in heredity.) He hit on good drug treatment for it and they’re looking into for my nephew with aggression and a lot of sleep issues. Thanks for some insight. BTW, diabetes also runs on my mum’s side, and my brother’s numbers were up, and he started Ozempic awhile back and it’s been terrific for him. A1c is down into the 5s, and he’s lost 50 pounds so far; doc says he’s the poster person for it.

On the FB page of Bobby Trosset: Full piece: https://tinyurl.com/2s44vrt7 That was back pre-Internet and 24/7 media with space to fill. Hopefully Angelos continues to feel the heat on his BS.

I believe I saw a headline that said a Yankees announcer also laid in on O’s front office. Broadcasters have to stick up for their own lest other or their own ownership tries to put the screws to them and the job just becomes happy-face jingoism or else you’re canned.

A paragraph on that? Fake Fat Sunny and his long string of aliases who all go on and on in a free association tangent and say the same thing twenty times… is back / has changed names yet again.

So Josh came out to practice today with a blue helmet. Same as last season’s red one, it had the same center vinyl decal as the white helmets which throws things off. I just think it’s a huge tease for the marketing dept to be doing this stuff. Give us a red helmet & throwbacks or get off the pot! Also, a blue helmet simply makes the unis way to close to the NYG.

I share his birthday. This is number 43 for me. It’s also Martin Sheen’s.

There is one in Manchester CT, at Shea’s per a thread last year looking for a BB bar in CT. I did not get there last year as I had access to a Sunday Ticket, but maybe will catch a couple there this season.

Sal C tweeted today that there will be no red helmet and Kelly-era throwbacks this year. Disappointing 😕.

A bit surprising / disappointing that Araiza is not suing the piece of 💩 lawyer who absolutely “litigated in the media” last year when he was the mouthpiece 📢 for his lying 🤬 of a client.

A bit surprising / disappointing that Ariza is not suing this piece of 💩 lawyer who absolutely litigated in the media last year when he was the mouthpiece 📢 for his lying 🤬 of a client.

It was reported in an article that she had made public statements about suicidal thoughts in recent months after her son died by suicide last year. 😕

My uncle is a disabled Vietnam vet who started a higher-end carpentry business in the ‘80s and has said these kind of complaints have been happening since EEO / affirmative action / quota programs started and for whatever reasons, despite advertising and bending over backwards to get minority construction businesses involved, it continues to lag because there aren’t a lot of them and/or they don’t apply to bigger contracts. Some guys would actually put a company in their wife’s name so she owned it on paper and game the system, he said. You can write up whatever legal quota and easier access and incentive stuff you want, but you can’t force people to bid on a contract. 🤷‍♂️

Authentics / Elite are now at about $300. I ordered a white throwback one with my last name and favorite number a few years ago when they had a 25% sale. I’ve since customized a Kelly-era authentic (whose vinyl numbers peeled in the wash) with twill name & numbers from an eBay seller who does it with Cricut or such, and I learned how to sew and it looks great.

Red Wolves or Redtails were the best options and Snyder was too cheap, spineless, and/or stupid to make it happen. Red Wolves / Redwolves was a copyright problem with the NBA’s Timberwolves? Bah. 🦓 💩. There are / were teams with literally the same name in major sports leagues & colleges. Jets. Oilers. Cowboys (Dallas, Oklahoma State). Kings (Sacramento, LA). Half of the CFL is some form of Rough Riders. Bulls (Chicago, NYC Red Bulls). I could go on if I had had some caffeine this morning. If I were a new owner, I’d make sure to scrub 🧽🧼🪣 anything Dan Snyder was involved in. Going back to Redskins is a nonstarter, financially speaking. Trademark office and the courts iirc ruled that a trademark will not be allowed for the word.

As an aside to the aside, there’s a pair of Case Keenum’s blue game-used uniform pants on eBay from last year, and they are size 28. 🤨. How is an NFL QB who is not Bryce Young a size 28 waist?

What’s her income minimum tho? I’m betting $2M+/yr. More and more it’s like online dating has become a place where people try to custom-order a possible partner’s every characteristic. And then complain that no one is date-able.

Up here in the northeast of CT, we have our own style with Willington Pizza, which invented the red potato pizza, which has a base of sour cream (when I make my own version at home, I use ricotta), layered with about 1/8”-sliced pre-cooked red potatoes, cheese (I use provolone), and topped with broccoli, bacon crumbles, and some white onion. It won the CBS Morning Show’s award in the mid-90s for the best pizza in the country. They also have a California pizza with sun-dried tomato and artichoke heart topping, and many other classic and some interesting combos, such as the Pickle Pizza. Usually I make my own at home, as it’s gotten quite expensive. $30 for a large ~16” pie.

TBH, I’m not liking the disrespect of dropping a guy’s jersey on the floor. Just invites being pinned to a bulletin board and bad mojo from the football gods.

Great for you! Get a GOOD home inspector when you find something you’re very interested in, especially when you have little / no experience with homeownership.