@CaptainCons they hopped on the phone which is its own hell. I’m convinced that’s why my grandfather’s generation would speak in one word sentences to get you to off the phone as fast as possible
Barry Melrose - for all the flash and fun you saw, which was so great and so real, is beloved at our place for a different reason.
It’s tempting to call someone like him “The man”. But, more than that, Barry was a man’s man. Someone who carried himself in a manner worthy of sincere admiration because of his foundation.
Treat people with respect and decency and earn it from everyone you meet. Work your ass off without complaint because it’s required to succeed. Which he did. Don’t shrink in the face of adversity but take it head on, which he did until the end.
Beneath the mullet and suits and flash was a kid from a farm in Saskatchewan who carried it with him everywhere. A man. In the very best sense of the word. He was so damn pure and so damn loved.
We’re so lucky this man came our way.
Barry was my best friend at ESPN. A big brother figure of rock solid values. I am shook to my core. Barry gave his life to hockey and some of his ESPN family, like me, learned of his shocking death today while at a hockey rink in Las Vegas preparing for the upcoming season. Chilling and fitting--the rink was Barry's home. A more beloved ESPN institution there has not been. We love you, Barry. Forever.
BREAKING: Google approves Pentagon to use AI tools in classified settings - marking the third major AI company to reach such a deal in recent weeks, following OpenAI and xAI
More than 600 Google employees signed a letter Monday urging CEO Sundar Pichai to reject the partnership
the current TSA mess is american politics in a nutshell.
the basic issue itself is manufactured and either side could break this deadlock but neither will.
the dems added policy terms/riders to a "must pass" funding bill to try and force them through.
the GOP are refusing to pass it because of those terms which would limit and hamstring ICE, provide asylum, etc.
the dems offer to split the bill and fund TSA. the GOP is saying no.
and everything deadlocks.
and so DHS goes unfunded and the pain gets piled on us while the donkeys and elephants play at brinksmanship.
they both love it.
the GOP get to yell and fundraise on "the donkeys won't limit immigration or let us arrest illegals!"
the dems get to yell and fundraise on "the GOP shut down the airports with bill riders!" and claim that "the jackboot republicans want to arrest your gardener!"
both sides think they are benefiting from the positioning and neither seems to care that there is a country full of people attached to their partisan poo flinging and the wreckage it inflicts.
this whole "and now it takes 3 hours to check in at the airport" is a contrived and needless problem. they generated it to play politics by inflicting pain on americans because this stuff is cash contribution gold and it benefits them.
the entire american political class has become a vicious parasite. they do not care what happens to we the people so long as their money keeps flowing.
and if you doubt this, consider: wev'e seen 1000 stories about corruption, graft, theft, mysterious $30 or 3000 million fortunes accumulated in a few years on a $175k salary. everyone sees it. they agree it's an issue, talk about it on TV, stump speech about it, but has anyone actually done a damn thing to stop it?
has anyone been investigated, held accountable, arrested? has any of the money been taken back? nope. nada. zilch. all the outrage is fake. there is just the swamp. and the swamp will lie and accuse and its dwellers will vilify one another and accuse each other of every kind of immorality and stupidity. but it's a just a cacophony of calumny played as pantomime and devolving to farce.
congress and the permanent state is a rancid and corrupt aristocracy. nothing more.
they do not serve the people, their serve themselves.
they will not solve the problem because they are the problem.
and they will never allow accountability because, above all else, the swamp protects its own.
Ellen Hughes was asked about President Trump's call to the USA hockey team and her answer showed that pronoun hockey Twitter's meltdown is not real life:
"At the end of the day, it's just about the country... That's all the men's team and women's team care about. If you could see what we see from the inside, and the men and women sharing dorm rooms and halls and flex floors and the camaraderie and the way the women cheered on the men and the way the men cheered on the women— that’s what it’s all about."
@amerine1000@Buccigross@NYIslanders Marchment messed around one too many times and found out. It’s how he plays and it eventually catches up to him like it did here
@Tomhennessey69 This kid deserves nothing. actions have consequences afor the left, right or center. Don’t hit me with What-aboutism, there’s right and wrong and the kid made the wrong choice. Didn’t want to debate, just wanted to be hateful. Rethink your end game