Bogie Bob

Thinking thoughts

[Zack D. Films @zackdfilms1]

Spinning Mt Fuji Like A Beyblade 🤯

[Card Goat @storyofthegoats]

Half of my timeline is forecasting an imminent global economic meltdown while other half is buying baseball cards at a furious clip

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

The Goo Goo Dolls played this concert on July 4, 2004. There’s a strong case to be made that—down to the exact day—it represented the peak of American history.

Post-9/11 unity still defined our social ethos. The country was finally overcoming the shock of the horrifying attack, but it was still thought about, discussed, memorialized daily.

The war in Iraq, though divisive, still looked winnable (at least possibly, by some). George W. Bush and John Kerry were running in a contentious election, but their campaigns would end up looking positively gentlemanly compared to anything that would follow beginning with the Obama era four years later.

The stock market had recovered from the dot-com collapse, and the housing market was still booming. The Global Financial Crisis that would bring ruination to countless retirees and permanently set back the earnings potential of millions of millennials remained years ahead. Nobody outside Wall Street had ever heard the term “subprime mortgage” or “collateralized debt obligation.”

Facebook has recently launched, auguring the age of social media. But its usage was still confined to a few thousand early-adopting users at selective colleges; it would be months before it became a household name, years before its algorithms turbocharged cultural—and political—division, incentivized the mass production of digital slop, and fried the collective dopamine receptors of mankind.

The first iPhone was just a sketch on a white board in Cupertino. Text messaging and mobile email barely existed; office workers could leave their cubicles and not think about work until the next morning. Music was purchased on CDs, movies were rented at Blockbuster, homework was turned in on paper. MTV still played music videos.

Kids could be kids. Reasonable adults could have reasonable debates about reasonable political differences without crashing out or canceling relationships. Culture wasn’t defined by irony, discourse wasn’t consumed by political polarization. The world wasn’t yet digital; it was governed by people—our logic, our emotions, our human hearts—not by algorithms in distant data centers. It was all still authentically human. It was all still real.

And the Goo Goo Dolls went up on stage in Buffalo, New York, on the Fourth of July, with nothing but raw spirit, and absolutely crushed Iris in the rain.

We didn’t know it at the time—wouldn’t realize it until years later—but that was the zenith for us. The peak of America’s exceptionalism, the apogee of unbridled Americana. That was the top.

I will always love this video.

[rudy betrayed @rudy_betrayed]

“The big bang theory doesn’t make sense”

Buddy nothing makes sense. What the hell is a black hole

We don’t even know what’s at the bottom of the ocean

You’re reading this message on a rectangle of melted sand with a chip inside that harnesses the power of lightning

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

What happens next?

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[Pharma Phan @pharma_phan]

"A p-value of 0.05 or less represents statistical significance, meaning that there is a less than 1-in-20 likelihood that the observed results occurred by chance." -- found this in a 10K 🙃

[Bogie Bob @bogiebob24]

@SteveMichaelsen @noat_future Elite packaging - would love an access code if available 🙏

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@itsCblast Play

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Give me Charmin ultra soft and a good sized toilet over the Eiffel Tower any day of the week

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@shaktontweets @SpikeEskin Good call @SpikeEskin ! Whole lotta standing and clapping after that bomb!

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I may not know a lot, but I do know Maria Sakkari stinks

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@rektfencer 🫡

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@shaktontweets https://t.co/svPdWOZwGh

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@bertkreischer first thing wifey says - “his stomach is discussing”. Glad you’re shedding some lbs

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@JohnnyAction_ @shaktontweets @JohnnyAction_ ready to conquer Canada

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@shaktontweets @JohnnyAction_ @JohnnyAction_ what’s good superstar?!

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@shaktontweets @JohnnyAction_ Lobster pasta best pats dish of my life. Sorry you had to enjoy

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@whop @Larrylocks8 @tommyob95 @ThaLoungeSports Eagles > Bengals

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@TheRealEstateG6 Deal