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Michael Bahr

@MikeValmike

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Business administrator, analyst, law graduate, technical writer, musician, husband, father, ASU Sun Devil! Opinions are mine and not of my employers/clients

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@MikeValmike
Michael Bahr
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@parismarx I've said it before and I'll say it again. AI is a solution looking for a problem no one has.
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@SpaceCoastCRE @texasrunnerDFW That doesn’t track with the ultra woke HR depts in modern public schools
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@j_ldn__ HOTELS: Come stay with us and relax, recharge, and enjoy your vacation ALSO HOTELS: We stop serving breakfast at 7:15am
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@Cooperstreaming I'm no doctorologist but I'm pretty damned sure promiscuity is not among the causal factors for endometriosis, yikes
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@CollinRugg @TaraBull808 I am broadly pro-immigration but it's clear to me the U.S. has gone way too far and badly, and it looks like Western Europe has done much of the same You know who gets most upset about illegal immigration? LEGAL immigrants! They played by the rules & resent those who refuse to
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@wanyeburkett I expect to have to pay my student loans. But for some people to get their loans paid off for free and not others, flies in the face of every notion of fairness.
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Michael Bahr
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@tumble_wood @parismarx People who want AI to be a thing: 1. AI Bros 2. Corporations afraid of missing out on another thing they don't really understand, like NFTs People who don't: 1. Everybody else who exists
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Michael Bahr
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@JGrantGlover Imagine simping this hard for the government and hitting send
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Michael Bahr
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@JulianeWriter The water shut-off pitch is also an incredibly common scam/con
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Michael Bahr
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@prstskrzkrk It's crass for him to be asking, but the estate absolutely is on the hook for the back rent. The disposal and mattress are question marks... landlord might be owed those, but most reasonable people would chalk that up to the cost of doing business, lest future tenants avoid
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@opinonhaver I hate the fact that this is something Trump is pushing, because I can't stand Trump, but seriously this is such a no-brainer idea that it's staggering we weren't already doing it. Get a U.S. university degree, citizenship comes attached to the diploma
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Michael Bahr
2 years
@EasterbrookG This is like that Norm MacDonald joke where the Washington Bullets didn't want to be associated with crime, violence, and corruption, so they changed their name to just "The Bullets."
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Michael Bahr
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@Spratlinger "Paradox of tolerance" strawman, which was in turn answered by a rebutting comic no one saw
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Michael Bahr
12 days
@CollinRugg Lol this literally just went up @Thepizzacake
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@thechosenberg Strike three, he's out. No normal man does this stuff
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@waterlover97 But he DID eat breakfast today.
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@bkowal23 @MistyMountainWI What color Lamborghini you gonna buy with the proceeds after you sell it?
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Michael Bahr
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@Cooperstreaming Single childless women are so happy they lead all demographics in antidepressant medication usage
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Michael Bahr
27 days
@NateSilver538 I promise you this is absolutely true I get called conservative a lot but what it really is, is that I am not part of leftward activism, and I just want politics to go away so we can all get back to living healthy and prosperous lives
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Michael Bahr
11 days
@tumble_wood @parismarx That's not the AI that is being pushed now; that's just coding that used to be what we called AI. Nobody has a problem with that and nobody cares about that. AI now in the form you AI Bros are pushing it, is the amalgamation of the LLM and the omniscrape to produce constantly
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Michael Bahr
29 days
@jk_rowling Remember in Harry Potter how it was possible for girls to visit the boys' bedrooms but Hogwarts itself literally prevented the opposite from happening? Some fairly prescient worldbuilding on your part right there
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Michael Bahr
27 days
@Stanley_2099 Oh. My. Goodness. No shame to you for going on tilt. Who wouldn't, upon getting jobbed like that. And much respect to Nicole for basically being as much of a good person as anyone could have asked her to be in this situation. So for context, I was a level 3 judge from
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Michael Bahr
16 days
@LuckyMcGee what's also hilarious about this meme is that she's on the component side of the PCB, not the side where the solder points are
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Michael Bahr
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@Kameron_Hay In high school a guy in my year found a Porsche 914 at the dump & got it running & daily drove it all the way thru graduation. Dude became absolute King Chad w/ a car literally dragged off a garbage heap. To this day I kinda want a 914 to tinker with, against all rational logic
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@OhMyEmz Dave Grohl has famously performed in several bands over the years easy to see how he'd get overlooked, all hidden away down there
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Michael Bahr
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@MiriVinni @Spratlinger And let me tell you, I’m getting pretty tired!
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Michael Bahr
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@kennedytcooper To really get a sense of how good or bad things are, you have to count underemployment, and unfortunately that is a metric that is notoriously hard to count with any actionable level of reliability or validity
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Michael Bahr
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@HerbertHoopes @WomenPostingLs She’s a CNA, her son Aiden is her king, and she is overdue for an oil change for her Nissan Altima
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Michael Bahr
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@Spratlinger the karl popper one too
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Michael Bahr
3 months
@the_transit_guy Why do you waste time talking about places you know nothing about. the City of Maricopa is an exurb of Phoenix that, until the late '90s, was almost all extremely sparse desert wasteland. This housing didn't replace a forest or a wetland preserve or etc
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Michael Bahr
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@HazelAppleyard_ I've said it before and I'll say it again. If your partner hasn't gotten all the way yet, you aren't done having sex. Adults will communicate, experiment, accommodate, etc, to make sure the experience is good for both. And if nothing works? Maybe the couple is incompatible.
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Michael Bahr
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@MrAndyNgo These protestors badly miscalculate the influence their actions are having on normal voters
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Michael Bahr
3 months
@the_transit_guy See again you show you did no research about the place you are writing about. These Maricopa developments use (and HOAs require) low-water Xeriscape landscaping. No watering lawns, because no grass on the private lots. Just in the community parks and rainwater retention recesses
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Michael Bahr
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@thechosenberg Does she have any idea what a solid job that guy has?
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Michael Bahr
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@bendreyfuss Paying $45 each time for a Big Mac must have finally added up
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Michael Bahr
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@Mike_M_Klotz No sign of any 2004 Vintage Mint Green birbs. Wish I could have held onto mine.
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Michael Bahr
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@RedsRepair95 @CollinRugg Amazing the Subie could make it over the bikers' bodies with all that oil leakage
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Michael Bahr
3 years
@wcbc06 @darrenrovell People REALLY need to learn what price gouging actually is (and apparently, how to spell it). Dude, it's BASEBALL CARDS. It's not water or fuel or food. You don't NEED to buy it. Publishers pricing it for customers whose budgets exceed yours is not "price gouging."
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Michael Bahr
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@SerfToMogs @jk_rowling The girls didn't actually do it. The boys tried to get to the girls bedroom and Hogwarts turned the stairs into a slide back down to the common room. Harry asked Hermione whether it works the same for the girls on the boys' bedroom stairs and she was like "No, why would it?"
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Michael Bahr
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@LatestandNatest @lporiginalg you win the internet today sir
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Michael Bahr
2 months
@Empty_America True: Older houses have awful ergonomics compared to newer, esp bad kitchens & small master baths. Even 1990s houses getting bad: CRT-sized TV enclosures, brass & glass, many dividing walls. I lucked out w/a 2002 house designed w/ergonomics that became more common in 2010 & later
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Michael Bahr
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@iowahawkblog During most of that headline we had no possible way of guessing what the next word would be
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Michael Bahr
2 months
This post is like the review of Wizard of Oz that goes "Woman is transported to a surreal landscape and kills the first person she meets, then teams up with 3 strangers to kill again." Technically accurate but tells you more about the interpreter than the subject matter
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“Are men trustworthy?” This is the question at the heart of politics for women. Women on the Right make a trade - autonomy for protection from other men - with the men in these circles. They become kin, wives and mothers, to benefit from that protection. That's why even the
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@RogerHallamCS21 God I wish I could bet legit cash on the "under" against this prediction
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Michael Bahr
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@Stoic_Father I'm crushed that my 12yo son can't have the scouting experience I had. By the time I turned 12, I was already 2nd class rank and as I approached 17, I hit Eagle. But besides unlocking achievements there was a huge benefit from socialization w/ groups of boys in activity settings
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Michael Bahr
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@medina_irl I genuinely think 69/XXX might be better to pull than 001/XXX given the general tendencies of the typical MTG collector
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Michael Bahr
2 years
@grayzonewarlord Are they suggesting that teen girls' behaviors can ever be described as "sophisticated?" Because parents of teen girls know otherwise
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Michael Bahr
10 months
@DisneyLorcana Could you just say flat out that it will stay in print? That would solve the problem entirely. Catan has been in print for 28 years, you can't tell me you don't know how to do it. Today's announcement only tells the hoarders/speculators that they get one more shot at closet bait
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Michael Bahr
2 months
@mnolangray Can't wait to re-live my undergrad apartment-life process of taking six trips back and forth to my car lugging stuff in from costco grocery trips, locking car each time so the transient living in the parking lot doesn't steal my stereo for meth money, such good back exercise!
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Michael Bahr
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@SimpleSCOTUS One side of the electorate seems really upset at a ruling that basically just said "if these are to be banned, the Constitution assigns that authority to Congress, not to an unelected executive-branch department" I'm going to be charitable and assume most people just don't know
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Michael Bahr
2 years
@stevenaive @Jimsdoublechin2 Quite a ratio you got going here, and for a minor reply at that
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Michael Bahr
1 year
@pythonrocksnake @sgodofsk Amazon has been not-the-cheapest for a while, but Bezos burned a billion+ dollars of venture capital training everyone to think that it was, and it worked.
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Michael Bahr
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@JackChambersGB I mean technically it's not too late to have this. Cabo as an American resort city would rival Vegas inside of 10 years. Plus Sammy Hagar would make a few bucks profit on his real estate gamble, and who can deny the Red Rocker such good fortune?
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Michael Bahr
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@ianjhurst @monsterhunter45 What the humanities SHOULD BE, would be good. What they ARE, unfortunately, hasn't gone that way. I will stand with you in venerating the "ought" where humanities are concerned, because it's a tremendously good "ought" -- literally making lives happier.
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Michael Bahr
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@wanyeburkett He probably sees this as acreage that he can never utilize as optimally as you could. There's a legitimate case to be made that water access for your property could be worth its weight in gold looking ahead. Finances allowing, even in a clench, I'd try to make the purchase
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Michael Bahr
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@GameStop Discouraging that the bots bought you guys out within literally seconds of the noon stock drop
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Michael Bahr
2 years
@Keck553 @JoeBiden Don't forget 10% for the Big Guy
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Michael Bahr
3 months
@EricRichards22 GenX loves classic cars too but the date range of our center of interest is a lot more recent than for the boomers. I couldn't be bothered for a '60s Mustang but give me a 1994 NSX all day every day
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Michael Bahr
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@GarrettPetersen @zeta_globin Yup there it is. They had to thingify it, and now they can analyze it
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Michael Bahr
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@2FD2_ @parismarx That's the optimistic part of my outlook on AI -- it would be really great if it helped make drudge work faster. Unfortunately so far we're seeing that the output it amalgamates from the omniscrape can't be trusted. Lawyers have been disciplined just short of disbarring for
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Michael Bahr
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@QueerPhyrexia When you're already on crack, you don't have much in the way of time or resources to branch out into meth
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Michael Bahr
2 months
@BarrettKearns @TheDrugMoney @SpeedQueenHome Can confirm, just bought a house, my wife found out about Speed Queen and we brought them in. I have never ever had a washer and dryer that just plain works the way these two do, durable and simple, set-it-and-forget-it.
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Michael Bahr
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@tempebarstool Hell yes, all of ASU's best years started off training at Camp Tontozona in Mogollon Rim Country. Time to start a new era with coach KD
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Michael Bahr
1 year
@mvantosh @feb31st We're all free to agree and disagree on the issues, but if you're seeing a pro-choice, anti-MAGA libertarian like me as "hard right," your calibration may be significantly compromised. I'd earnestly recommend you get off social media, go broaden your horizons, and I wish you well
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Michael Bahr
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@HazelAppleyard_ This reads like creative writing that a woman wrote. The same gf who wouldn't enforce boundaries on Flirty Chad "instantly breaks up" with the man she's pregnant by when he asks for a test? OK. "Deep down I knew the baby was mine" is not a man's statement. Etc.
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Michael Bahr
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@Grummz @jasonschreier @JamesOKeefeIII I find that these practices don't improve the game. If enough people agree, we'll see more Suicide Squad flops and the game studios will be forced to come to Jesus by the financial realities. I'm a married father in a family of five who all play video games, so I assure you the
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Michael Bahr
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@Grummz Isn't taking Sony's word for it re: Microsoft's cost situation, kind of like taking a Boston Townie's word for it on whether or not the Yankees suck?
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Michael Bahr
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@the_transit_guy Don't threaten me with a good time sir
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Michael Bahr
20 days
@Noahpinion It feels like moderate leftward voices are drowned out on topics like this and I'm not sure what we do about that or if it's even solvable
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Michael Bahr
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@Scearpo Thank you for articulating this aspect, this perfect facet, of why I love cars and driving
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Michael Bahr
3 months
@Matt_Archi08 @PierreVLeBrun I know it's tough to see from outside AZ but it's really not like that, the Yotes are LOVED here, their situation just keeps jamming into the worst possible spots in local politics in a state that is as polarized as they get and with a volatile, loose-cannon economy
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Michael Bahr
3 months
@GayBearRes Seriously though, if they can make it to 2027 or so, they’re gonna be ok. Home values never sustain a drop. If you bought at 2006 peak you were ok in 2011 in most cases. Today the worst mortgage of 2019 looks like a bargain.
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Michael Bahr
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@MikeMillerMPH @the_transit_guy City of Maricopa isnt urban though, not even suburb. It's an exurb that only exists to meet demand for affordable single-family houses w/in commute range of Phoenix. Dense development isn't in the picture there and never will be. Instead it's in Scottsdale (see photo), Tempe, Phx
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Michael Bahr
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@jkarsh He's obviously talking about how he can't run for a third term. But you knew that, you're just baiting responses for your $17 in ElonBucks. It got me to reply, so I guess you pulled it off, at the low low cost of your own integrity and credibility. Sweet bargain, eh?
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Michael Bahr
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@DerekThomas0817 @CollinRugg I'm assuming the WNBA players aren't deep enough in understanding sports to realize that when someone cheap shots your star, you bring in a thug off the bench to enforce in response, and the thug makes good and sure to deliver a clear message regardless of nominal penalty
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Michael Bahr
1 year
@BoostBizOnline @MoneyJrod As an owner of four Hondas, I can say you will probably be fine :)
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Michael Bahr
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@ryrzny @melissasavenko Stop, stop, you already sold me Elbow room and cars are awesome
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Michael Bahr
1 month
@nienna121 Catholics and Mormons have entered the chat
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Michael Bahr
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@SpiritedSparr0w As a person who appreciates really well-done ink, I don't understand why Lainey draws so many women with the most absolute garbage tattoos possible
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Michael Bahr
2 months
@cremieuxrecueil I completely understand their point of view. I'd be worried about an unplanned pregnancy too. Is it possible to make a giant stock bet somewhere for IVF providers seeing a surge of business in 6-8 years when some percentage of those people change their minds about having kids?
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Michael Bahr
2 years
@georgeupper @Alwaleed_Talal @elonmusk @Twitter @Kingdom_KHC Exactly. "Growth prospects" are baked into the share price of every stock, every day, every microsecond. @elonmusk is offering a significant premium above that valuation. If you won't sell, and you have a fiduciary duty to any downstream investors, you are defrauding them.
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Michael Bahr
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@PrivateTom69 @NateSilver538 Yeah which is a problem because the U.S. hasn't had meaningful deflation since at least 1971 I wonder why
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Michael Bahr
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@BunnyJoBurton Ori and the Blind Forest is a Metroidvania that can be played on Steam with KBM, and is sneakily one of the best games of the modern era
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Michael Bahr
9 years
Wow got mail from @SpocksB and @nealmorse and it made my day! I absolutely love these guys, thank you so much!
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Michael Bahr
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@jmwilt21 When Apple does it, you can have the tech without having to be your own tech support, rooting your device, installing a bunch of bootloaders, etc etc I abandoned the PC/Windows world in 2006 and have not for one microsecond thought, "gee, I should consider going back"
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Michael Bahr
2 months
@StatisticUrban Quad cabs definitely didn't exist before 2004, your graphic definitely proves it
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Michael Bahr
29 days
@tomgara I do notice the glass holds up to basically anything now. I don't want to dent the metal though - feels weird to say that when there's glass nearby - so I still use the very basic magsafe plastic sleeve. I would agree the bulletproof Otter cases we used to use are overkill now
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Michael Bahr
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@BridgetPhetasy It’s creating business havoc on only a few hours notice. If they had enacted it starting 2022, no issues
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Michael Bahr
2 months
@Antweegonus They always specifically want to walk alone in the city at night but they forget that (1) men also get mugged when we try to do that, and (2) they wanted the police defunded remember?
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Michael Bahr
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@masonmennenga lol I am pretty far from religious and even I know that the book of Luke is literally part of "the gospel"
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Michael Bahr
2 months
@audrawrongspeak I appreciate your language specificity in this thread. I'm trying to teach my teenaged daughters that these men exist and the girls need to be on their guard. I'm trying to teach my tweenaged son not to become one of these degenerates.
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Michael Bahr
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@famandfire I wish U.S. service workers were simply paid full market value for their labor, and there were no tips, but until that's actually the system in place, I will tip them when appropriate, because I'm not going to backstab them just because they're playing the hand they are dealt
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Michael Bahr
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@jordanbpeterson In the 1990s, we considered LGBT rights advocacy to be correctly progressive. I wonder sometimes whether any momentum would have started back then, if midrange voters had known what was going to happen to kids
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Michael Bahr
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@BarryMarkson1 My grandparents voted straight Democrat in the Arizona mail-in ballots in 2022. I pled with them not to, but they couldn't hear me, because they were dead.
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Michael Bahr
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@eric_seufert How does "non-farm output" recognize the throughput of email jobs? Some amount of labor is clearly occurring, but it's questionable whether that labor produces value that can be consumed downstream of it Genuine question, not snark
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Michael Bahr
2 months
@famandfire We don't have to worry about school shootings in the U.S. either. Obviously even one is too many, but statistically speaking your child is in greater danger of being struck by lightning or hit by a falling satellite. The media amplifies the shootings to stoke fear and bait views
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Michael Bahr
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@GayBearRes Buyer's realtor, if any, messed up. Listed at 698k. Just write an offer that says yes. If you're worried about losing a bidding war, don't. They'll tell you if they get a higher offer during the consideration period. If it never happens, the sale proceeds uneventfully.
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Michael Bahr
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@chesterbelloc3 Forget about the inconsiderate folks; be with your wife in the time you two have, and know that many of us here are heartbroken for you both and sending our love in all sincerity
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