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Hostile City ambassador/Go Birds absolutist. Once put Trump on hold while buying a sandwich at Wawa.

Philly area
Joined July 2007
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This is literally the plot to "The Best Years of our Lives," which is one hell of a great movie
America after WW2 was fucking crazy, like you find some 23yo who had to rip a guy's trachea out with his fingers on Guadalcanal and you just hand him an apron and big goofy glasses and say "Ok, youre the hardware store guy now, have fun, sell some Carpenters pencils, be normal".
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is this real life or a fever dream
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I was 10 and doing my fifth grade spelling work at the kitchen table while my dad listened to Mondale and Reagan debate in the other room. And I distinctly remembered Mondale agreeing that taxes would have to go up and thinking well, he's never going to be president.
What is the oldest political news story you can remember? For me it's Joe Biden being selected as Obama's VP.
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Around that same time, maybe older, I remember my grandma explaining why she had so much government cheese in her basement.
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Derek Harper retweeted
Newly-introduced bill being walked onto the NJ Senate floor today without the usual committee hearing. It would extend NJ's ban on police within 100 feet of the polls to federal law enforcement/active duty military.
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This is quite interesting: Two independent estimates of the evolution of Earth's gravity over the past 220 My produce very similar results. One method is based on the measured body volume and estimated weight of extinct animals (mostly dinosaurs), while the other method uses a reconstruction of Earth's past diameter from a NOAA map of oceanic lithosphere ages done by Maxlow (2012). The first method uses the circumference of femur and humerus weight-bearing bones of extinct animals to estimate their weight when they were alive. The ratio of that weight to the animals' body mass (assuming an average tissue density of 0.99 tones m-3) gives an estimate of the relative gravity in the past. The second method assumes that Earth has been expanding according to Maxlow's Expansion Tectonics. These results indicate that during the Mesozoic Era (the era of dinosaurs), from 252 My ago to 66 My ago, Earth's gravity was less than 75% of today's value. This can help explain the enormous sizes of some sauropods.
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I have never heard a flow state described so succinctly before.
No exaggeration, this guy might be the best interview in pro sports right now
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Derek Harper retweeted
Family Guy recently made a Civil War version of "Who's on First" that had me crying laughing. It had no business being that good.
Abbott & Costello - Who's on First Pure comedic genius
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And I want to know to what extent did concern for the NFL's betting partners put a sleepless Jalen Hurts out on a London field
This is pure speculation bordering on conspiracy, but like I obviously want to know what, if any, involvement the NFL itself had in the starting QB of one of the teams in their big, marquee London game getting medically cleared to play despite not getting cleared to sleep.
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I'm not exaggerating, Jeffrey Lurie needs to hire an independent investigator to review the entire decision making process that led to Jalen Hurts not only playing that game in London, but then getting onto a transatlantic flight back. He could have died, heads need to roll.
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I got does in different area codes (201, 973, 609, 908, 732)
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Actually we were correct to note Trump’s routinely bizarre, obsequious posture toward Putin. Just because you chose not to see it until now when it’s shoved directly in everyone’s face doesn’t make us hysterical, it makes you transparently wrong all along.
There's been a lot of hysteria over the years at Trump's posture towards Russia, which has often been worse rhetorically than practically. But this time, the wolf comes as a wolf.
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Derek Harper retweeted
Me on Aug. 1: "I'm so excited for Eagles football" Oct 15: *Googles what a superficial blood clot is*
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Well, *this* I mean, without the crash, I wonder if Hillary Clinton doesn't get nominated and wins.
For those who were adults during the 2008 financial crisis, what was your holy crap, the economy is actually crashing moment?
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I was a newspaper reporter in South Jersey covering places with the greatest job losses east of the Mississippi. I saw former high-rolling general contractors survive on pity and yard work. I saw 30-year casino employees walking dogs. And I saw dollar stores go out of business.
For those who were adults during the 2008 financial crisis, what was your holy crap, the economy is actually crashing moment?
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🚨GINORMOUS HONKING METAPHOR ALERT🚨
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I see it's the time of the year again when people start edgyposting about the guy whose repeated behavior so horrified colonial authorities that they dragged him home in chains.
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My belief is that cities that only exist because of air conditioning aren't culturally real places, and the fact that nothing is ever set in these blistering exurbs shows we all recognize that fact.
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The Art Deco posting shall continue forever
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Is it me, or does this look like a movie poster in itself?
Currently in a theater that’s being invaded by mice. I saw one. But then saw others. Kind of distracting. I am going to make a list later: movies where I encountered mice in the theater. I think this is the 4th time it’s happened while I’ve been in NYC.
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