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Directly? I do not think it means what you think it means.

Hate the guy all you want, even for this, but don't try and juice it another 20% with emotional words that are ultimately incorrect.

In the 80's and 90's I was be inspired by every NASA plan they announced--new celestial body being explored, new type of craft, new rocket, new telescope. In the naughts and early 10's I still had a sense of hope and aww but was becoming jaded. Now when I see announcements like these I actually get mad.

Layoff everyone on the PR team and just do shit. When you are 95% of the way there and actually have some sort of prototype, announce a hard plan and details. No interviews, no artist renditions of shit that's never going to happen, no congratulating yourself for ideas and hopes, just get shit done--that's the best PR. James Webb and was a constant massive let down because of its continuously slipping deadlines. Years and years late and billions over budget....but then...it actually happened and it was amazing.

NASA, quit setting our expectations if you never meet them. Just do shit and let us be amazed when it happens.

I love that we ruined our escape character in language.

We now need a new way to convey to listeners that our words need to be taken literally. Perhaps the VBA method and just double the 'literally's:

I took a flaming shot of tequila and my mouth is literally literally on fire

I caught on but was more offended by referring to it as 'maple syrup'

You mean the primary where Biden ran virtually unopposed and then Harris got the nomination?

'Walkable' has been heavily influenced by the car culture we live in.

Too many, crossing an intersection with a traffic light makes that commute unwalkable. In my suburbia, going from one shop to another 5 doors down requires driving.

Further the 'hate-' prefix in an accusation makes it one I immediately tune out.

It's just a manipulative word that lets you incite people while not actually revealing what was said.

Fast forward to blackjack and hookers.

No, people who do it are to blame.

>>>Feel free to look at my comment history on matt's previous articles

Feel free to post one simple link for us.

You can't do that but you can follow the above sentence with 1000 more words?

Everyone do yourselves a favor--go to a thrift store and buy a few microwaves. Find a field, string a hundred feet of extension cords from an outlet and start microwaving all the things your not suppose to.

My favorites: Ivory soap--bubbles outward; Grapes--see article; Incandescent lightbulb --lights up; Wine bottle--explodes, do this last

Also lots of things you think would be bad do nothing: spray paint can, soup can, silverware, cup of gas with aluminum foil in it.

Thats not really the ACA\Obamacare story, but it's still funny:

https://navigatorresearch.org/the-affordable-care-act-remain...

Explain the program and then call it'ACA' and people loved it. Explain the program and call it 'Obamacare' and polled people disliked it.

Shakespeare was wrong about roses.

Yeah, everyone in the 80s remembers what a hell hole america was thanks to what Pepsi and coke were engaged in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cola_wars

How could more cheating avenues not equal a more likelihood of being caught?

Car analogy--I never had to take my 1976 Olds Cutlass in because the key fob got out of sync or because the touchscreen got fried or the electronic power steering module shorted or... or .. or

More points of failure = more failure.

The term "religious fact" always puts a smile on my face.

You've not been paying attention. Laws can be undone easily with laws.

Pass your 'no KOSA' law. And then when they want KOSA, they just pass KOSA with a sentence that says this KOSA law supersedes prior 'No KOSA' laws.

You need to limit their power to do that and the only way is constitutionally.

No it's definitely ironic, in the rain on your wedding day kind of way.

What's the * doing? Is that you civil disobedience? Is that how you stick it to the man? Do you think it's the way to sway people who are in the fence about trump?

I just don't get people and their nano aggressions.

Free speech for all. Well, except those I disagree with.

First, what is there to wonder about? Stakes. There are things to be gained from winning (and purposely losing).

Second, no one sport has more cheating than any other with similar stakes.

Third, "cheating" is more of a spectrum than binary. Travelling with the basketball is cheating and sometimes penalized. Having your husband kneecap your Olympic skating rival is cheating as well.

Fourth, "cheating" is relative and always in flux. You could head slap an NFL receiver in the 1970's, but no longer. Forward passes in the NHL were illegal in olden times, but fine today.

You sound just like the adults he was talking about.

Oh good, more semantics to the rescue. You're as great as those people who ended homelessness with 'unhoused', ended racism by lumping all non-whites into 'people of color'.

I'd say 'God bless you sir', but that's hate speech as well now.

My pity and my respect are mutually exclusive. This author seemingly wants both and gets neither. People like this are worse than the bullies.

Either be brave enough to stand up for what you believe in or shut up and do your capitulation in silence.

Sinmilar thing happened in Missouri in the 90s, but without supreme court help. Voters put a law on the ballot, it passes, legislature passes another law cancelling it out.

So now when the voters want something they no longer put a law on the ballot, they put a Missouri amendment on the ballot. Those can't just be overwritten by a legislature law, those must either be found unconstitutional or canceled out by another amendment.

It's a fun game the voters of Missouri and their representatives have created for themselves.

..and blackjack and hookers.

In fact forget the salad.

Depends on your definition of 'penalized'. FICO is all about identifying good ROI candidates.

Say you are a lender, you want someone who constantly uses credit, always pays their bills and has the capacity take on new debt. That's what FICO is for.

It's not some consumer reward system. It's not your score to game, it's a score on you for companies to game. Quit playing the game.

Credit score NULL.

With blackjack and hookers. In fact forget...

Why not just use the actual article title:

'Ottawa condemns Chinese executions of four Canadians on drug charges'

Instead of that weirdly tensed one? 'Had executed' makes it seem like they undid the executions.

'Tax' like most words, does not in fact have a real well defined meaning.

Remember how Pluto stopped being a planet because 'planet' went from just a word to a technical term with a well defined definition? Most words don't have that.

So, tax is any money given to the government. Income tax, sales tax, fees for registering cars, admittance to national parks, etc etc. Anytime the government collects any money that is a tax.

To paraphrase a great statesman---a lottery is just a tax with extra steps.

define 'clearly'. I'll take my answer in the form of a link to any of his work.