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Giff wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 11:44 am Do you capitalize the first word after an abbreviation?

If it's a proper noun, yes.

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We just finished watching A Gentleman in Moscow on Paramount+.

I thought it was fantastic.

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Yeah, I'm with PDX here. Computers do a fine job of making it work for reading. I've never once thought about the period being an abbreviation for anything. Imagine "anything." being a shortener. That said, legal document where there are likely a lot of different punctuation may be the is...

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I think the principle is "liberalism is the greatest danger facing this country."

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Good lord, that sounds awful.

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Okay, people who are 58 shouldn't die from falling in the shower.

I hope drugs were involved. Or at least others in the shower.

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Oh christ. Is "still uses Calibri" going to become the new "two spaces after a period"? The 2 spaces after a period are way too ingrained in me now. There's no way I'll ever change that. My first boss out of law school beat that into me. She insisted every document was consisten...

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Johnnie wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 4:51 pm Nikki Haley endorses Trump. She's getting raked on social media for being a coward.

Calling her a coward implies she’d rather see Biden win. We have no evidence of that.

Haley acted out of principle with this. The problem is that her principles are terrible.

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I created a team using Autoselect. Is there a Swamp league to join?

Edit: Nevermind, I just had to click Continue one more time and it was automatic.

Now I need to learn who my players are.

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Am I making this up or did there used to be some sort of ask or rule (I"m talking about back in the 80's or 90's) that credit card companies tried to enforce about not allowing vendors to charge a fee for using a credit card? I remember hearing that, too. But it was probably just wrong, becaus...

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Colorado has learned that 2-0 really is the most dangerous lead in soccer.

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Taunting the AZ AG was stupid enough. But doing it while in Arizona?

(Edit - apparently he was in Florida.)

I guess he’s the mayor America deserves.

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I guess I was mixing up in my head the Seaver game, where he got the last 10 to set or tie the then-record of 19.

Anyway, I hope Pirates fans are enjoying today ...

Edit: It hurts to see Kyle Hendricks this bad.

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It's probably not going to be today (even though he's K'ed each of the first 6 Cubs he faced), but Paul Skenes is going to put up a 20-K game before his career finishes if he doesn't completely destroy his UCL multiple times. The only thing that will stop him today is his pitch count. Is the record...

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It's probably not going to be today (even though he's K'ed each of the first 6 Cubs he faced), but Paul Skenes is going to put up a 20-K game before his career finishes if he doesn't completely destroy his UCL multiple times. The only thing that will stop him today is his pitch count. Is the record...

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blundercrush wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 1:09 pmAlso full self driving will absolutely kill you/your family, and your neighbors, so if you are stupid enough to use that shit you deserve what's coming to you.

To be fair, so will human drivers.

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Skenes has faced 7 batters. He has 7 Ks.

To be fair, he's facing the Cubs.

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This one too:

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Still, anything that gave us "bleach blonde bad built butch body" can't be all bad.

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I passed a car this morning with LVL XNG.

So today I learned there's a local brewpub called "Level Crossing".

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My wife is an amazing cook, so bringing in her leftovers trumps fast food most of the time. Mine is that I rarely want the thing I just ate. That's my main issue as well. I find I eat less when I know it's something we've made enough for leftovers that we'll eat for lunch the next day, so I guess t...

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rass wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 10:06 am(sounds bad for Scheffler assuming the officer wasn’t dumb enough to lie at this point)

Yeah, that's the big question, isn't it.

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Fuck Greg Abbott. I want him to die in a way that causes the most suffering. I really want someone to simply knock over his wheelchair. Then he gets hit by a train. Train is too quick. A slow moving one. Where it drags him for 100s of miles into west Texas. And he dies from bleeding out and dehydra...

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P.D.X. wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 1:51 pm Wish there was a player on my team named Gavin Beavers.

You know he'll end up playing in Portland for a decade.

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So, my oldest is done this month as well. He'll have his H.S. diploma and almost enough dual enrollment credits to have an AA. We toured Embry Riddle a year or so ago, as he wants to be a commercial airline pilot. Roughly $75k/yr, and you still need 1000 flight hours after graduation to get your co...

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The Boy just got notice this morning that he got into Rutgers Business School off the waitlist. So glad he already accepted at Rutgers (School of Arts and Sciences), otherwise he'd have to rescind an acceptance at another school and resubmit his commit announcement on his school's Instagram page. T...

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Fun time last night.

I love it when I have a good soccer team to watch.

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Motherbitch Talking to the Mrs. who’s down in Turks for friends’ 50th birthday trip. Me: Today’s is something I want to do to your ass. Her: Eat. Me: Nooooo. It’s got to be five letters. Her: …. Okay. Munch. Mr: …well, you got two letters in the right spot. I don't know who Mr. X is, but that looks...

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Johnnie wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 3:54 pm Then there's this asshole:

Was she the one who used the flamethrower to burn books?

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Are we underestimating Biden just a little bit? He's a lot emotionally tougher than we've been giving him credit, and this guy has decades of experience in front of the mike. He's also going up against a guy who is clearly in mental decline. I can very easily see Biden chuckling at him, needling hi...

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mister d wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 8:53 pm Was Jesus really big on assertive masculinity and fighting against DEI?

Yes. And leaving immigrants to drown. And machine guns.

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Assassination attempt on Prime Minister of Slovakia.

Now we wait a day or two while every accuses the assailant of being on the other side.

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Ryan wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 4:13 pm My 3s and 4s in Wordle are now tied for I think the 4th time thanks to a couple good weeks. The 3s have never taken the lead.

That happened to me a month ago. It’s been a horror show for me ever since.

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PHREFLN

Tom Petty fan?

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OK, I guess the story about his wife at least makes this something better than "he's notably Jewish".

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Why did people walk out on Seinfeld at that graduation?

Has he made any public statements about Gaza?

Or is it because he's, you know, ...

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Dave’s question reminded me of this poem we read in high school: From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the...

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