BLUF (communication) Puns

I don't even get it.

I have two kids with a 59 for the year. Even getting a 25 percent on the project would get them a passing score. . . Write your name on it and the title would be enough.

I told them this. They shrugged.

I seriously don't get it.

We were accepting late work back to AUGUST up until last week. Most kids didn't do it.

Other kids are SWEARING they did the grade recovery and I must not have entered the grades. Ha. As if.

One parent who I've been communicating all year to about her child's missing/incomplete work rolls in for an impromptu parent conference two weeks ago demanding to know why I never let her know her child failed. I pulled out my phone and started going through the text messages where she responded to me about the info. Last week she texted to let me know another teacher granted an extension until 5/21 and I should, too. This is a flat out lie because grades had to be posted by 3 today.

Today, I have a note in my box to call her. Uh no. Passed that onto admin.

Also had a girl show up for the first time since April 5 last Thursday wanting to know what she needed to do to pass...and saying she wasn't going to summer school.

BTW-- NONE of these kids were virtual. They were all in person students.

My favourite deck on hearthstone is questless quest mage (one with infinite fireballs antonidas, taurissan and gnomes)

Sometimes, when i miss one piece of the combo, i still play those cards, by emoting "well played". When my opponent sees, that i am already playing antonidas with gnomes, they concede.

That is a psychological warfare, because i am actually bluffing, as i don't have all pieces of the combo.

Have you ever tricked your opponents to conceding?

A lot of people think the Bears moving to Arlington Heights is a bluff to get more out of the city of Chicago. So, I have to ask, what exactly are the Bears trying to get from the city?

Is it to get a new stadium in same location? Is it to get massive renovations? Is it to get more control of the stadium and the field?

Whats the end game here?

BLUF: Both of these stocks are knee deep in the streaming wars. They both fell sharply last week due to a hedge fund liquidation. Read more about that in the link below. Over the past 5 days, DISCA fell 46%, and VIAC fell 51%. Both have a bullish sentiment, along with their pros and cons.

>ViacomCBS, Discovery plunge due in part to forced liquidation of Archegos Capital positions

Below is a 3 month snapshot of both stocks, along with SPY just for comparison purposes.

3 Month view of VIAC, DISCA, and SPY

Both VIAC and DISCA followed each other rather closely in terms of percentage gained. Even with the recent drop, had the stock been held, both would come out beating the market.

Profile Overview:

VIAC is approx. 18% larger than DISCA.

Brands:

VIAC Brands

DISCA Brands

Profitability:

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DISCA comes out ahead here. They both have a rather decent profit margin, but DISCA has a whopping 24% advantage over VIAC.

Momentum:

https://preview.redd.it/lm5e6jq4fsp61.png?width=1161&format=png&auto=webp&s=3e245da1875ed75731ddc6fed5d8a64aae9a3b25

Let's skip over the 1 month price performance, as this has been explained via the first link provided at the top.

DISCA comes out ahead in the less than 6 months, and the greater than 1 year price performance. Meanwhile, VIAC is the clear winner in the 9 month to 1 year price performance. Overall, both performed well recently, but DISCA has been consistently in the green.

Income Statement:

https://preview.redd.it/638r7ng5fsp61.png?width=1082&format=png&auto=webp&s=c67ae40ae70845b7ba971bdc1c6699017eb8684d

VIAC's revenue is the clear winner here. They pull in more than double DISCA's revenue. They al

Before we begin, I’m long term bullish on BTC/ETH/Crypto in general…if you aren’t WTF are you doing in this sub?

And..if DCA regardless is your thing; fair play to you, you’ll get no arguments from me as to the wisdom of your strategy. You’re already golden.

However, if you are a trader, all the signs are there for a continuation of the downward trend for a while yet, and it might be sudden, sharp and soon.

We all know China has “banned” Bitcoin a couple of dozen times but this time they either mean it or really want to give the impression they do. The reports coming out of Sichuan (accompanied by video of mining operations being shut down) are pretty convincing.

Reuters

Bye Bye

Wether it’s another bluff or not, it’s definitely seen hashpower drop to a six month low. And it’ll likely see prices drop.

Long term, North America will pick up the slack, but it’ll take time and it won’t be before Friday when a whole load of ETH options expire.

If this news adversely affects the entire crypto market, and drops ETH below $2,200 on the day that 1.5 billion in options are due to expire, the return to a bull market will be cancelled. I’m not sure how long the hopium will last for the people that are only just in profit from their stimulus cheques or (worse) the estimated 1 in 7 Hodlers who borrowed to buy crypto.

Like I say, it’ll all come good in the end. But as they say, forewarned is fore-armed. If there is a sharp drop on the horizon. Take courage from the fact that there’s identifiable reasons for any pullback and a pathway through it to greater heights.

Rule one is often given as “Don’t invest more than you can afford to lose”. Somewhere in the top five rules has got to be “Don’t act in haste”

Chain mail.

What are your thoughts on agents lying about having another offer? Does it happen often?

I feel like in my case agent is bluffing about having another offer. The property has been on the market for 2 months - I make an offer, agent is very responsive and we negotiate up a couple of times. Agent/owner wants more and comes back with a figure that is 5k higher than what I last offered (the amount is still way less than what unit was advertised at) I said I will come back to him. But then suddenly, the same day, he tells me he has just had a private inspection and an offer has already been made for that exact amount, indirectly asking me to push my offer up by 5k.

Is there any way to call the bluff, if it is in fact that?

I recently became the Section chief of a large section within the Communications Squadron, my dilemma is this: I cannot mandate the download of any program to someone's personal phone. However, I have 26+ people I have to relay information to, and text messaging seems like the best way to convey information. If you used a messaging app to disseminate information, which one did you use, and how did you justify using it?

I know I may run into a scenario where someone wants to be intentionally stubborn and, my goal is to not leave anyone out of the loop. I have tried using iMessage, however, not everyone has an iPhone, so group messages have large gaps where my android users cannot receive messages.

Edit: thanks for the helpful responses.

BLUF: Civilian Chief of the department overruled my request for a favored 3rd party application to group text, and said we’re using Teams.

While I can appreciate the reasoning he used for mandating Teams, I don’t agree, it’s not convenient for messaging, and stuff get posted there all the time and ignored...

Tweet >Spoelstra on LeBron, "In the Finals, he was making adjustments to our adjustments to the adjustments. And not making an adjustment to the adjustment I thought about making an adjustment, but I bluffed the adjustment, and he knew I was making a bluff." . . .

Lmfao it gets better >By the end of the series, I had no idea what the adjustments were."

What type of army of primates are we? One made up of squirrel monkeys in the ranks and files? I think not. We are APES...Diamond Apes at that! Stop complaining and wasting your energy on what’s out of our circle of control.

We have our exord: Buy the dip and HODL.

Now, go live your life and enjoy the day. See you on the moon!

Easy HODL. We aren’t budging. In fact, we’re ADDING soldiers to the army each and every day. Triple and quadruple digits is where AMC is heading, and that’s that.

Following home inspection mold was found in the basement.

Mold inspection report sent to selling agent.

Selling agent responds with “we have an investor offering more than what you paid and willing to take care of the mold issue without a credit.”

They accepted my offer and I was the highest bidder, now after the fact they’re claiming there is some mystery buyer.

Either that’s true and i’m screwed and have to just pay for it myself or they are bluffing and I would like to find out how to call them out without risking the deal falling through.

I’ve reached out to my lawyer and am waiting for response but I’m too eager and asking for the internet’s advice, thanks.

Hey guys I was planning on purchasing an xbox series s, apparently on the Xbox website the $1 game pass ultimate deal is ending in 3 days and I will probably be able purchase my xbox series s in a week or so. Does this offer come back from time to time? Or is Microsoft just bluffing to get more sales?

Wouldn't I just need BLC, and then I'm on MLI?

The general consensus seems to be that in the A vs B fights when he says that he was just trying to sike out uraraka but isn’t it likely true? Because we see him use poltergeist, size, and twin impact, after he copied one for all (yes it was a blank meaning he couldn’t use it properly but he did still copy it it did take up a slot) now it’s technically possible he didn’t have twin impact anymore when he fired his shot at deku that seems to be what his monologue about effects remaining is eluding to but I feel like that explanation is still shaky. Yes effects of quirks can remain and yes twin impact specifically is a delayed effect quirk but while the effect can be set up in advance it still needs to be consciously activated for the second impact to happen it’s not a specific time delayed or anything so it seems weird that monoma would be able to activate the effect of a quirk he didn’t have anymore. Plus even if that is how it works monoma only touched deku for less than a second. That means he would have to set up twin impact at the moment the hit landed but also be copying one for all at that exact same instant. It seems weird that if one for all was taking twin impacts place he’d be Able to simultaneously replace and use twin impact at literally the same time. Basically it seems like to me that he wasn’t bluffing about being able to copy 4

I think Lucian was bluffing with the intuit charges in order to buy time to get through the portal. He wasn't going to set them off because doing so would have killed Cree and Cree was the one who could actually open the portal. The M9 could have attacked, forcing him to flee or ending him then and there.

So, rewatching the final battle of ATL(O)A. Then, at this moment: "FIRELORD OZAI! YOU AND YOUR FOREFATHERS HAVE DEVESTATED THE POWER OF THIS WORLD! AND NOW, YOU SHALL PAY THE ULTIMATE PRICE!" I suddenly started thinking... What if he was bluffing to prove his moral superiority? The commonly accepted explanation of that quote is that it was "Kyoshi" (all Avatars before him + Raava) and that Aang stopped himself by taking back control, since: "When you unlock all Chakra's, you'll be completely aware of and have full control over all your actions in the Avatar State." However, that's what bugs me: He is completely aware of and has full control over all his actions. This means that the quote has to have been Aang himself talking, not "Kyoshi". And since he was likely never planning on actually killing Ozai (he didn't want to in the previous episodele(s) and learned to Energybend before the battle), it would have to have been bluf/an act to further prove his moral superiority: "Even when thousands of past lives are controlling me and ordering me to kill you (bc in the Avatar State, I am [supposedly] controlled by my predecessors [as far as you know], I still find the strength to take back control, because killing = bad!" It also seems that he, like Ozai, is not giving the general fight his all. (Ozai doesn't blast away his Earth shell, sven though he likely could, and seemed to be toying with him and Aang... I mean: You're in the Avatar State, so you can bend all 4 elements at once with boosted Firebendibg [bc Comet] and you're very powerful bc of it, as shown by you easily destroying entire canyon pillars, but you can't catch up to and/or kill Ozai?! You must be kidding!) This would further support my theory: "Wouldn't wanna accidentally kill Ozai now, losing our moral superiority, would we?"

Tldr; I didn't have the energy to win but I "Well played" and my opponent conceded.

Game is coming to an end. Long match of my Dragapult/Salamence deck against Centiskortch (in Expanded).

I have 1 prize left to take. They have 3. I hide damaged Dragapult on my bench. No energy. I active Salamence with 2 double colorless energy.

They hide a damaged CentiMax on the bench. Active a sacrificial Snorlax. Hammer one of my Doubles and pass.

I don't have another double... but they don't know that. I quickly "Well played". Lysandre up the CentiMax, play some random air balloon to a benched Crobat.... and they concede.

Thanks for the win mate.