North and West

I saw the Grammies were on last weekend and I swear I felt like my father when he only heard of Blink-182 this past summer when I heard the winners. They could have told me that the best new album was by the group Milwaukee M12 Cordless Drill and I would have been like, “huh, guess that’s what the kids are listening to nowadays.” .

my guy is resting up for it .

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I just skipped ahead from Post 400 to Post 633, so I’ll ask the question everyone wants to know: What’s going to happen at MMU? .

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Isn’t that amazing? Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you. .

It obviously hasn’t snowed much this winter, but has it felt colder this year more so than recent winters, and colder more often and consistently? Or is it more just recency bias from warmer winter being more often now? Just thought of that today as it was chilly out and looks chilly on my phone forecast. .

have we discussed the sun angle .

By phrasing it like that, aren’t you providing credence to what I was saying? Personally, I don’t like Trump nor did I vote for him, but when questioning a few things about the other side’s mistakes, it gets turned up to 11 and you turn off persuadable people. Getting yelled at is not a fun experience for people and drowns out the message. .

I like him. .

I think for you guys to get your points across better is to have more humility rather than insulting others. I think a lot of what you said is valuable and I agree with - insane defense spending, environmental healing, food health and safety, a tax code that favors ultra wealthy - but the messaging is losing. It sounds religious. More in the aspect of “I’m right, you’re not only wrong, but in fact too dumb to realize I’m right.” I mean, we’re glossing over the recent issue of the pain of school closures, not being able to question Covid’s origins, and lying about Biden’s mental deterioration after many of us have had elderly loved ones that we’ve seen decline with age. People don’t have to be in lockstep with everything. Humility should be acknowledging your own mistakes and poor choices, but showing why the path you’re promoting today is beneficial and helpful to the future. .

I think it’s good for pest control, though. Not great for the drought. .

I’m reading this this morning and I think to get your point across, it doesn’t help to encourage the person you’re speaking with to question if they’re smart enough to understand the world. If I’m at work and I need your help on a project, I don’t think rhetorically asking you if you’re smart enough is going to help you see my point of view or what I’m working to accomplish. It may in fact make you think I’m difficult to work with and you’ll do the bare minimum but nothing more. We all work with people we think we’re smarter or better than; actively reminding them of that can work against our self-interests. .

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Mets baseball in sixteen days! .

I mean, if we’re on weather boards in our spare time, I doubt any of us are idiots, right? I just don’t think name-calling or insulting others helps change minds. I don’t think anyone would go on a date, insult our date, and then hope they will immediately see the error of their ways and beginning to change. It’s why I don’t like or voted for the current office holder. .

Man, that’s harsh. I think we’re all just trying our best everyday. .

I don’t fully agree or disagree with you. The deficit spending can’t be sustainable. .

My mistake; I didn’t see it. I just opened the storm thread for Saturday and jumped from 15 to 185 since I last saw. Haven’t seen the February thread since last night. I hope it’s insane. .

It’s tough for anyone to hear something they don’t want to hear. Human nature. .

I think policy impacts are separate from the observation that any organization you are in - private, public, non-profit, or beyond - is that roughly any organization has about ten percent of employees who are unnecessary. Look at any corporate job you’ve been in or government entity you’ve dealt with - they’re inefficient. We’ve all worked with people where we wonder what they do. I was once that person in a job where I didn’t have enough to do; it was fun, but I knew I could easily be cut. I left before that happened. The federal government as a whole is just the largest entity, so the sheer number of people that wouldn’t be missed is that about ten percent across the board. It becomes a tangled web we weave when they’re targeted for vindictive reasons in certain areas. .

I hope they’re asking why watches are issues either seemingly really early or really late. We need to make advisories sensible again. .

The past five years have been just terrific. Glad to see it’s getting better. .

this is the plot of Camelot .

love the sun angle talk. most wonderful time of the year. .