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Justin Rothling retweeted
This is the only way they can avoid insolvency.
They HAVE to crash the system to shift the blame off of them and onto a system that can’t be held accountable.
The same people involved in DotCom are involved today.
Justin Rothling retweeted
Wake Up to Guitar Greatness
Nuno Bettencourt, "Midnight Express" (Live, 2003)
Nuno's acoustic showpiece closed 1995's Waiting for the Punchline, Extreme's last album before they split for over a decade.
Back in 1985 (age 12), in elementary school, I was in a play as the lead villain. My teacher asked me if I had a rock song that we could use as my entrance on stage…
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I always wondered why my quick twitch muscles reacted to an opening correctly, but the punch was slow af. Just before it might land…end of dream.
Justin Rothling retweeted
This is why leather craft will never die.
Geometric stamping looks so simple until you actually try it.
Every single hit has to be perfect. Leather remembers everything and one stamp too deep or one line off-angle, and the whole pattern is ruined.
You can't erase it.
This technique is hundreds of years old.
Before machines, this is how people made bags that survived the harshest journeys, saddles that lasted a lifetime, and cases that carried their entire lives.
It's slow. It's loud. It's hard on the hands.
And that's exactly why it lasts.
Thanks to leathersmiths like Clair Kehrberg.
I agree, I stopped watching all sports, except the World Cup, eight years ago. That has now lost its luster. All of the joy I used to experience as a player are long gone. I try to give it back as a coach, but I’m working within a fraudulent system.
I hate to say it folks but I think sports as a whole may have peaked. Everything about sports just feels so forced and unnecessary, a desperate attempt for a private equity firm to squeeze more juice from the lemon. You have college football who is going to expand to a 24 team playoff, getting rid of the most unique thing about college football; its regular season. But these people aren’t college football people, they are tv executives and investors. They could care less about the sustainability of the sports and the tradition of it, they only care about turning a profit.
The MLB playoff have begun and if you are between the ages of 22 and 65, you probably haven’t seen much of them because they are all on during the day. A MLB playoff game started at 2 PM Eastern on a Tuesday. This is 11 AM Pacific. Why? Because NBC has to be the only network that can air the Wild Card round, so they need triple headers to be able to get all of the games in. Atlanta and Philly are heading into a game 3 and didn’t even know what time they were playing til about midnight last night because of conflicts with other games and network availability. Corporate greed has completely botched the MLB playoffs so far in order to keep all the games on NBC.
It feels as if sports have peaked across the board. We’ve gotten to a point where it’s impossible for fans to care more than they have before, spend more than they have before, or watch more than they have before. Every consumer situation has an infliction point, where the capacity of the consumer is maxed out. The product has to back off in order to not burn out the customer and keep them engaged enough to have them invested long term while they back off and recharge short term.
I believe that is where America is with sports now. It currently demands too much of us on a daily basis and has ruined the reasons that we have fallen in love with it. Maybe we all just need a break…
Plus, the get out of jail free card? This is on a whole other scale.
I’m probably wrong but I’m sticking with the removed camera was the gun. It had the estimated trajectory angle, behind upper right side. It would explain why no one witnessed the shooter or weapon, the audio reverb, and with patsies running everywhere as a diversion. 🤷🏻♂️
Reminds me of Juve 2006, and Marseille 1994
MANCHESTER CITY - A FEW THOUGHTS
It may be true that ‘money makes the world go round’, but having listened to both BBC 5 Live Sports’s and The Athletic’s podcasts on the situation, it’s clear that it can be its downfall too.
What a mess.
The Premier League pursuing legal action with one of its members was obviously the right thing to do, but the cost is going to be huge.
And I’m not talking for Manchester City.
But for us, the supporters.
Can you imagine what’s ahead?
An appeal, more legal wrangling, claim and counter claim, clubs suing each other and then maybe the league.
But more importantly the loss of trust from those who watch the ‘product’.
I’d suggest that watching games quickly loses its appeal if one can’t be sure that the points won/dropped may be lost/regained in a court of law months or years later.
The whole thing becomes a farce.
Because of the dangerous mix of money and ego.
Never has the phrase ‘win at all costs’ been so apt…and the cost to brand ‘English Premier League’ is colossal.
To quote journalist Martin Samuel in The Times “What remains of this league is now rubble. It is a reputational dumpster fire.”
What a shit show.
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My favorite Austin proof. 🍪 🍪…with an hour to spare.
