Hunter Stanley

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

My father died in Japan in February and I could not get back.

I told exactly one American, and only because he asked a direct question at a bad moment and I have never been able to lie fast enough.

He did not say he was sorry.

He said, "You busy Saturday?"

I was not busy Saturday. I have not been busy on a Saturday since I arrived in this country.

He wanted help moving a riding mower to the other side of his garage. The mower runs. He drove it out himself. I want to be accurate here, because I have thought about it a great deal since: the mower ended that day about two feet from where it started.

We were in the garage five hours.

There was a small refrigerator out there with beer in it and one orange drink belonging to his grandson, and neither of us touched the orange drink at any point.

We discussed a shelf. We discussed a bolt for some time. Around one o'clock we spent close to forty minutes on the correct way to coil a hose, and he was wrong, and I told him he was wrong, and he told me to prove it, and I proved it, and he said "huh," and that was the end of it.

He did not mention my father once.

I had prepared for it. In my country a man in mourning is approached with fixed phrases that have been in service four hundred years, which is the entire purpose of them, and I had built mine in English over three nights. They were not good. They were ready.

I never used them. I still have them written down.

At six he said, "Same time next week?"

We did that for five Saturdays. We moved a workbench. We rewired a light that already worked. One Saturday we sorted screws by length, which is not a job. That is somewhere to put a man.

In April a neighbor three doors down lost his mother.

I do not own a mower. I own a boat trailer that does not need to be moved.

He came at eight. He is coming again this Saturday.

I have not said one word to him about his mother and I am not going to.

He knows what time.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I needed my lawn mowed. I asked an American for the name of a company.

He said, "Get a kid."

A kid. Not a service. A child.

I asked which kid.

"Any of 'em."

I asked where one obtains a kid. There is no directory. There is no listing.

He said, "Ask around."

I asked around. Two days later a fourteen year old named Cody was standing on my porch.

He did not bring a mower. Nobody told me this part. The kid uses your mower and your gas. He brings arms.

I asked his rate.

He said, "Whatever."

Whatever. A negotiation had opened and the other party declined to attend.

A blade drawn against no opponent must be returned to the sheath in silence.

I put my wallet away.

So I conducted research. I asked four adults what the correct amount was.

Four numbers. Twenty. Forty. Twenty five. One man said he gave a kid fifty once and could not remember why.

There is no rate. There has never been a rate. An entire national labor market runs with no published price and every participant is somehow satisfied.

I looked up the state minimum wage. I timed the work. I arrived at a defensible figure and I paid it.

My neighbor watched this from his driveway.

Later he came over and told me, kindly, that I had underpaid.

I said the amount exceeded the legal minimum.

He said, "Yeah, but he's a kid."

THE PRICE IS NOT THE PRICE. THE PRICE IS THE PRICE PLUS SOMETHING NO MAN ON THIS STREET WILL SAY OUT LOUD.

So I corrected. I overcorrected. Sixty dollars for forty minutes.

The same neighbor came back over.

"Alright. Don't ruin him."

There is a floor and there is a ceiling. Neither is written anywhere. Both are enforced by men standing in driveways with their arms folded.

The samurai who cannot read the room dies in the room.

I have been dying in this room since June.

Cody was thirsty. I did not offer him water, because he had not asked, and a warrior does not name another warrior's weakness.

My wife told me he is fourteen and it is ninety one degrees. I now leave a bottle on the step where he can take it without being seen taking it.

I asked my neighbor why the whole street does this. Why grown men pay a boy more than the work is worth and then pretend not to have noticed.

He said, "You're not buying a lawn."

Then he went inside, because apparently that was a complete explanation.

Cody has cut my grass eleven times. He is saving for a truck. I know the exact figure because he told me, unprompted, in August, sweating, holding my own mower.

Last week a family moved in three houses down. The man came over and asked if I knew anybody who cuts grass.

I said, "I got a kid."

I heard what that sounded like. I did not correct it.

He is nine hundred dollars from the truck.

A mountain is not asked to be smaller. A mountain is walked around, at night, quietly, by a man with a truck payment he intends to make on someone else's behalf.

I have started mentioning him to people.

[Kendall Baker @kendallbaker]

The dichotomy between Barstool’s talent (mostly liberal) and Barstool’s core audience has never been more obvious than in the comments on these Hunter Biden podcast clips lol

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

“We don’t run a hype machine up here in the Midwest… when we fall short we don’t cry a river and whine and complain. And that’s why we’re the best”

Curt Cignetti ended his first media day as a national champion with some shots fired at the SEC

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

FLASHBACK: Merril Hoge absolutely NAILED his career projections for Jadeveon Clowney and Johnny Manziel.

“I'll take Khalil Mack in a heartbeat over Clowney in a heartbeat. Even if he develops he still won't be as good as Mack”

“Manziel will be a 0 to 1”

[BrilliantlyDumb @RobbyBerger]

The Jet featuring- Tony Romo, Theo Von, Jordan Peterson and Doc Emmerick

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

“You know what has been endlessly pissing me the fuck off? There’s a trend right now where athletes are like ‘How did you spend your first million’ or like JJ Redick talking about what 10 million dollars does for a player. And every single one of them are like, ‘Well what you don’t realize is Uncle Sam takes 50% off the top’ as if they’re the only people who pay fuckin taxes dude. Everybody pays taxes!” -Rone on Son of a Boy Dad

[Hunter Stanley @HunterDStanley]

@NUCLRGOLF @BrysonLegion Brandel just doesn’t like him. He’s so biased. If this was Rory he wouldn’t be saying this.

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

David Friedberg: California’s Voting System Looks Fraudulent, But It’s Working Exactly as Designed

@friedberg believes California’s extremely loose election laws enable “appointments” not free elections.

Why? The voting data in LA makes no statistical sense.

“ Pratt's post-election mail-in ballots declined by 1/3.

So statistically, the population of people that send in their ballots late reduced for Pratt by 1/3, increased for Nithya Raman by 80%, and Karen Bass 10% less, if you just look at the mail-in ballots before and after election day as a comparison.

I don't know if there's a sociopolitical way that you can assess those statistics and assume that these are individuals casting their individual vote for who they think should be Mayor of LA.

Basically, the concentration of incremental votes that Nithya Raman got came around the Skid Row area in Los Angeles.

But when you look at the basic statistics of what happened in person, mail-in before, mail-in after Election Day, it becomes a real statistical quagmire on how did this sort of a sociopolitical shift happen in such a way that it did?

Now, there was a report published, and they highlighted the 2018 California midterm elections and the challenges that they saw arise in that midterm election because of some of the legislative changes that were made.

First, California Assembly Bill 1921 legalized the practice of unlimited ballot harvesting in the state. What that means is that any individual in the state of California has the right to go and collect ballots from any other individuals, regardless of relationship, fill them out, and send them in.

California, two years later, 18 months later, also passed a law that made it permanent that every person registered in the state of California would get a ballot, so tens of millions of ballots then get mailed out.

Then there was another series of laws that were passed that said anyone can register to vote. You don't need to prove your citizenship. You can use a gym membership card as an example.

So anyone can register to vote. There is no proof of ID when you get a ballot. There is no demonstration that the person who fills out the ballot has anything to do with the individual who's supposed to be voting that ballot, and it is legal for an individual to go out and collect hundreds or thousands of ballots, ship them in, and they will all qualify in these kind of mail-in ballot voting processes.

So there's nothing illegal or fraudulent going on. In fact, the system is operating exactly as intended.

It has been set up and structured in a way that with the right construct, you can get an individual appointed, not elected, but appointed to a particular role in government under a, quote, ‘free election’ in California.”

[Alex @ajak1033]

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[Munro Live @live_munro]

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[Hunter Stanley @HunterDStanley]

@racjac24 Why does Dean Wade play? He gets cooked on defense and can’t make a shot when they help on Mitchell and Harden. Kenny is in his bag rn lol

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

Zyns are SAFER than smoking.

But now, some states tax them the SAME as cigarettes. Some as high as 95%!

That's just dumb.

“If you make the safer alternative more expensive,” @gbentley1 of @reason explains, “more cigarettes will be sold.”

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[Hunter Stanley @HunterDStanley]

@NoLimitGains You literally said you would never charge money lol stay away folks

[nick wright @getnickwright]

This caption reads far harsher than the commentary/clip actually is.

Michigan folks are (understandably!) irritated with me from without watching it. Apologies!

Overall point is the current CBB system doesn’t allow for us to become attached to teams/watch them grow together.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

@NateSilver538 It’s paywalled.

If only 0.1% of users can derive value from the content, it will organically rank lower.