David Broussard | M365 Architect

Senior Solution Architect, M365 Evangelist, Teams Lover, SharePoint Consultant, Blogger, Proud Dad of two, and married to a wonderful woman

[David Broussard | M365 Architect @dbroussa]

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[David Broussard | M365 Architect @dbroussa]

@RickPartlow66 2022 is even also wrong:
- Week 3 NYG (2-0)
- Week 11 MIN (8-1)
- Week 12 NYG (7-3)
- Week 16 PHI (13-1)

2021
- Week 2 SDC (1-0)
- Week 4 CAR (3-0)
- Week 18 PHI (9-7)

2020 - the first year the meme is actually correct

[David Broussard | M365 Architect @dbroussa]

Not like the Pokes had a great season last year, but when they played KC on Thanksgiving, KC was 6-5 meaningful that they beat two teams that had a winning record when they played.

The prior year was not much better but they defeated two teams under the meme’s criteria not 1.

23 the Pokes defeated The Jets (1-0), Seattle (6-5), Philly (10-2), and Detroit (11-4) or four teams.

Jerry Jones as the GM is a pretty massive cross to bear for Dallas fans without resorting to incorrect memes. All you ever have to do to punish a Cowboys fan is ask how many Super Bowls Dallas might have won had Jones not driven JImmy Johnson away due to his ego.

[David Broussard | M365 Architect @dbroussa]

What do you call someone who immigrates to Sweden?

Artificial Swedener…

#DadJokeADay

[David Broussard | M365 Architect @dbroussa]

@DaddyWarpig I can see a couple of reasons...

I mean she does have a couple of good points...

[Christian Buckley @buckleyplanet]

Be sure to check out Episode 188 of the CollabTalk Podcast as I chat with Orchestry CEO, Michal Pisarek (@MichalPisarek) about the shift from “governance” into “AI readiness,” and how ISVs help orgs reduce sprawl, risk, and noise. https://t.co/gPRu2b6xhq

[David Broussard | M365 Architect @dbroussa]

@Jringo1508 I came for the BBQ post and have stayed for the rest of them.

[A Soldier's Whisper @SoldiersWhisper]

Petty Officer 3rd Class Lauren J. Singer was traveling over the Coronado Bridge near San Diego, California, returning to her on base residence, when she noticed a stranded motorist outside his vehicle.

Singer asked if he needed any help, and the driver responded that he was fine. Something in the manner of the driver’s response triggered her intuition and made her feel that something was not right.

She noticed the driver putting a rope around his neck. As he was putting a foot on the barrier to jump over the side, Singer rushed to his side, pulling him back. Startled, she grabbed him and asked what he was doing. He coolly responded by saying that today was the day he was going to die. While Singer was holding the driver, she noticed a knife on the barrier ledge. She cut the rope from around his neck, dropped the knife and kicked it underneath the car. She then identified a gun in his pocket. She removed the firearm and directed other stopped motorists to lock the gun securely in the trunk and call 911.

She stayed with the suicidal driver until the California Highway Patrol arrived. Singer’s willingness to assist a stranger undoubtedly resulted in saving his life.

We salute you Petty Officer Singer! The 2020 USO Sailor of the Year!
#Military #Hero #SuicidePrevention

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

The Media Only Loves Us When We’re Dead: Part II

I’m not done with this "reporter" yet. And I won’t stay silent while the media drags warfighters who bled for this nation and are now trying to make it better.

I’ll be honest, I’m ashamed I didn’t look deeper into the story of @SeanParnellUSA sooner. The GWOT cuts too close to my own scars, so I looked away from the broader history. But not anymore.

Media scrutiny isn’t new. Even George Washington was mocked in print. But the latest attacks on Sean Parnell say far more about the press than they do about him.

So pause and remember where you were on June 10, 2006.

1. The most popular song was Hips Don’t Lie.
2. The top movie was Cars.
3. And Sean Parnell was leading 39 men through a mountain ambush by over 250 enemy fighters. He was wounded three times, and stayed in the fight. By the end of that deployment, 85% of his platoon had been wounded.

Funny how you only get one Purple Heart for taking three hits in one battle, but a thousand paper cuts from the press for doing nothing wrong.

So let me get this straight: guys like him are good enough to fight your wars, bury their friends, and carry the silence of it all for the rest of their lives, but not good enough to help fix the institutions that failed them?

Who better than them?

You think you're criticizing one man. But behind every name you recognize is a platoon’s worth of warriors you never will. Quiet. Steady. Carrying the same resolve that got them all home. And whether you realize it or not, the hopes of a generation of warfighters rest quietly on his and @PeteHegseth's shoulders.

You forget: the fire that forged these men didn’t burn them up, it tempered them. And here’s the part you never seem to learn:

If you keep mocking the warriors who came home and tried to lead, don’t act surprised when fewer of them show up next time. Why would they?

Or maybe that’s the media's goal? But it won't work.

Because in this country, it seems the only time the media honors them... is when they’re coming home in a box draped in the American Flag.

***Please share this widely to counter the harmful "media" narratives that exist to malign warfighters who bled in battle and are trying to make a difference.***

[David Broussard | M365 Architect @dbroussa]

What did the Algebra book tell its therapist?

I’ve got so many problems…

#DadJokeADay

[David Broussard | M365 Architect @dbroussa]

“Everything worth doing is slow”

Truer words have not been spoken.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A backyard. One man guarding a grill for four hours.

He never left it once.

Everyone else drifted and drank and laughed. But one man stood alone before the flames, turning meat with a long fork, immovable. I knew him at once. The keeper of the sacred fire.

I took my place beside him and said nothing. After a while, he spoke.

"Low and slow," he said, eyes on the coals. "You can't rush it. Rush it, you ruin it."

I bowed my head. A blade, a tea, a life. None can be rushed. I had crossed four thousand miles to hear my grandfather's words from a man in a "KISS THE COOK" apron.

"Everything worth doing is slow," I agreed.

He glanced at me. Something passed between us.

"My wife says just use the oven." He shook his head at the fire. "She doesn't get it."

"They never do," I said.

And this is where it turned.

For the first time in years, this man had been understood. And he rose to meet it. His back straightened. His voice dropped low. A teenager reached for the grill and the man lifted one hand without even looking. "Not yet." The boy retreated. He was becoming what I already believed him to be.

A woman asked when the food would be done. "It's ready when it's ready," he told the flames.

Three people approached. Three were turned away with a single word. By the fourth hour, no one questioned him. The whole party had arranged itself around the man and his fire, the way a village arranges itself around a shrine.

Then he handed me the fork.

"Watch it a sec. I gotta pee."

I have been trusted with castles.

I have never been more honored.

He served everyone before himself, and ate last, standing, still watching the coals. We never traded names. We did not need to.

He believed he had finally met a man who took his cooking seriously.

I believed I had finally met America's last samurai.

Neither of us will ever correct the other.

So tell me, America.

Who is the man at your gathering who will not leave the grill?

Have you ever once asked him why?

I think he is still standing there.

Guarding the fire.

Waiting for one person to understand.

[David Broussard | M365 Architect @dbroussa]

@BecketAdams

[David Broussard | M365 Architect @dbroussa]

This wouldn’t surprise me at all, eventually. We are on the cusp of artificial wombs right now. They have been proven to work for animals and the human testing is being slow-walked for a number of reasons (one is that the medical community does not like the idea that it would be possible to make almost every pregnancy viable earlier in the pregnancy. Now it wouldn’t be NICU trying to keep a child alive if they are born at 25 weeks, but rather take the same child and move them, and their placenta to an artificial womb and bring them to full term before birthing them.

We already have IVF (though improvements there are much needed), and, theoretically, it would be possible to fertilize and bring to full term a child that never is inside of a human being. From a social standpoint, that will have massive repercussions, more so I think that legalizing birth control and abortion.

There are myriad legal and ethical issues that need to be considered here as well, but ignoring them won’t make them go away. The current practice of fertilizing multiple eggs and then selecting the “best” for IVF and (often) destroying the rest, needs to be reformed and improved so that the success rate drives the elimination of that process. In the end though, enabling women to not have to carry a child to term if it would be harmful to them (and eventually if they just don’t want to) is almost impossible to stave off.

[David Broussard | M365 Architect @dbroussa]

@ZitoSalena A long time ago (mid-90s) there was a person who liked their Microwave popcorn burnt. So, they would overcook it and the smell would permeate the entire floor. Eventually the company removed the microwaves entirely.

[Matthew J. Peterson @docMJP]

The idea that you’re supposed to pretend that allowing massive mail-in balloting operations or lax rules around proving you can legally vote are not attempts to “fortify” elections is absolutely ridiculous.

And yet we still see people repeating the lines like lowing cattle that this is a moral and righteous position. You reveal your herd behavior if you’re still doing this.

It’s totally absurd, but at this point it does the service of revealing who’s too cowardly or psychologically dependent to think in very basic ways for themselves.

It’s the opposite of citizenship and civic virtue and the very definition of low-agency. Which is exactly what it’s designed to encourage and capture.

[David Broussard | M365 Architect @dbroussa]

This is exactly why Cornyn got tossed out for Paxton (apparently a deeply flawed candidate). The ability to ignore the blatant abuse against conservatives being ignored by the GOP exposes how little they actually care about conservatives.

[Mollie @MZHemingway]

@JohnCornyn @WSJopinion The weaponization perpetrated against conservatives by the DOJ is a massive, republic-threatening problem and letting them get away with it scot free with the help of "Republican" senators is disgusting, actually.

[David Broussard | M365 Architect @dbroussa]

@JohnCornyn @WSJopinion This behavior is exactly why you go your a$$ tossed out of the Senate. Just six years too late it seems. You are disgusting.

[David Broussard | M365 Architect @dbroussa]

@docMJP It was nice to see them be blatant about it...but it was alsonsad that so many either ignored that hypocrisy or didn't see it at all.

[David Broussard | M365 Architect @dbroussa]

When do you know that the Man in the Moon has had enough to eat?

When it's full...

#DadJokeADay

[David Broussard | M365 Architect @dbroussa]

What's the best thing about Switzerland

I don't know, but the flag is a big plus.

#DadJokeADay

[David Broussard | M365 Architect @dbroussa]

Having worked for many years as an election worker and judge…I think that people should work at a polling place to see what the process looks like.

That being said, I also think that the more people actually work elections, the easier it will be to actually enact meaningful reforms of the terribly broken system that we have across much of the nation.

After watching what happened in 20, I stopped working as a judge because no matter how well I run my election in my vote center in my county, it can all be undone by another county or state that doesn’t run a proper election, much less ones that allow votes to be cast by mail.

We don’t take our elections seriously…having more people worth the elections will also show them just how banal the reforms that are being requested actually are, and the accommodations provided for the vanishingly few exceptions that exist.