My 2nd great grandfather John Sanford Wood. He joined the PA 50th Volunteers In 1861 and during the Civil War was shot in the arm near present-day Hilton Head, SC.
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Results from sub information gathering on "Trade Deadline and fan opinions"

I made a post on all 32 subs for all 32 teams trying to gather a little intel to make this post. I asked 4 questions and looked at the overall themes of responses and put together a bit of a comprehensive fan wish-list for early Trade Deadline thoughts. Iโ€™m going to circle back closer to deadline to see how much these expectations/wants have or will change. A special thanks to all the subreddits who participated - I got a slew of great responses, some DMs thanking me, and a couple bits of hate. Special shout outs to

  1. Majority of the subs - very welcoming and I had a blast seeing the insight into your communities. A lot of deep care for your teams
  2. Calgary Flames sub for removing my post and not responding my message to the mods
  3. Oilers sub mods for getting my auto-removed post back up and live within minutes
  4. Columbus sub for shaming me for posting and chirping me for living in Edmonton (even though I live in Ontario)
  5. u/Gruskin for his comment โ€œI want Lou to trade for a rocket so we can shoot Chara into the sunโ€ because it made me shoot coffee out of my nose

I have separated the teams into 4 categories - Sell, Buy, Stay, and Buy-if with buy if being a lot of teams feeling that they will stand pat unless certain deals with very particular circumstances come out.

The 4 questions were

  1. Do you want your team to buy/sell/stay put at deadline
  2. What would your needs to bring in at deadline be? Do you have ideal targets?
  3. Who or what would you be willing to ship out?
  4. Who are the untouchables?

So without further intro - let's get into it.

Sell

Columbus Blue Jackets

Needs/Wants to bring in?

Picks/Young Defense/Prospects

Who are you willing to ship out?

Domi, Korpisalo, and Laine (if they canโ€™t reach a deal by deadline) - they did most of their selling before the season started

Untouchables?

Jenner, Bjorkstrand, Werenski, Texier, Boqvist, Sillinger, and Merzlikins

New Jersey Devils

Needs/Wants to bring in?

Goalie, Picks, and prospects

Who are you willing/want to ship out?

Suban, Vesey, Severson, and Tatar

Untouchables?

Hughes, Hischier, Bratt, and Hamilton

New York Islanders

Needs/Wants to bring in?

Puck Moving D, 1RW, Cheaper Backup Goalie

Who are you willing to ship out?

Chara, Varlamov, and any UFA although there was a definite sense in the comments that this year โ€œhas been weirdโ€ and the results donโ€™t match the expectations they have for this

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(Spoilers Published) Unfair Criticisms of Daenerys

Abolishing slavery peacefully

America

In order to abolish slavery, the United States ultimately had to fight a war. Peaceful abolitionists who called for gradual abolition were still attacked. Congressโ€™ initial attempts at compromises between abolitionists and pro-slavery factions, such as the Compromise Act of 1850 and the creation of the 36โ€ฒ30 line, not only did not prevent war, but indeed may have accelerated the outbreak of war. And even with those concessions, the Supreme Court only benefited slaveowners with their judgments in cases like Dred Scott v. Sanford, severely derailing the abolitionist cause. To the Southern states, slavery was a way of life, an integral part of theirย โ€œcultureโ€, which the Ghiscari elite in Meereen claim as well. To defendย โ€œtheir way of lifeโ€, the Southern states were willing to fight a war. They did not want gradual abolition of slavery, they did not care aboutย โ€œpeacefulโ€ methods of abolishing slavery, and they did not concede to compromises or deals. For them, it was either a full allowance of slavery or nothing at all. This is thus why the civil war broke out; slavery would not have been abolished if the Southern states were not cowed by force and forcefully brought back into the Union.

Haiti

Haiti is widely known as the first country to ever abolish slavery in all its forms. Did they accomplish this peacefully? No, they accomplished this by fighting a bloody war against France. The Haitian Revolution was not a flowery show of negotiation, peace, and compromise.

Britain

Britain is hilariously cited as an example of a country thatย โ€œpeacefullyโ€ andย โ€œunilaterallyโ€ abolished slavery. . While it is true that Britishers did not fight a civil war amongst themselves to abolish slavery as the Americans did, it is entirely incorrect to say that the process was peaceful. Firstly, what is erased in this narrative is that there were slave rebellions and slave revolutions in Britainโ€™s colonies. One of the most famous examples of this is the Baptist War of 1831, which took place in Jamaica after the Jamaican people began a peaceful protest against slavery which escalated to an armed conflict (that the colonial officials and garrisons put down). This incident among others led the Parliament to take steps to pass the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. So no, Parliament did not abolish slavery because abolitionistsย โ€œasked nicely." Moreover, even after the passing of the 1833 Act, slaveowners were still compensated for thei

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Walking like Fred Sanford...wtf?!

So I (M47 y/o) got up from my work chair and was walking to the kitchen to get some water (I work from home) and damn if I didn't notice I was doing the "Fred Sanford walk"! I guess my left thigh got numb from sitting too long or something but HOLY SHIT did I stop walking and correct my walk to regular, lol.

Has this happened to anyone else yet? You find yourself doing an "old man type walk" and have to correct yourself?

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Here is a Market Recap for today Tuesday, January 11, 2022

PsychoMarket Recap - Tuesday, January 11, 2022

After one of the wildest days Iโ€™ve experienced in the market, stocks carried on yesterdayโ€™s momentum, with all three major indexes advancing as market participants digested new testimony from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

Markets Today

  • S&P 500 (SPY): +0.91%
  • Nasdaq (QQQ): +1.52%
  • Dow Jones (DIA): +0.50%
  • Russell 2000 (IWM): +1.05%
  • Volatility Index (VIX): -5.05%
  • Advanced Micro Devices (AMD): +4.02%
  • Sea Limited (SE): +6.01%
  • Albertsons (ACI): -9.56%
  • Virgin Orbit (VORB): +27.83%
  • Shake Shack (SHAK): +12.14%
  • Amazon (AMZN): +2.40%

During his confirmation hearing before Congress, Powell said the US economy was healthy enough to support a reduction in the accommodative monetary policy that has propped up the markets for the last two years. This means putting an end to quantitative easing and raising the interest rate.

He said, โ€œAs we move through this year โ€ฆ if things develop as expected, weโ€™ll be normalizing policy, meaning weโ€™re going to end our asset purchases in March, meaning weโ€™ll be raising rates over the course of the year. At some point perhaps later this year we will start to allow the balance sheet to run off, and thatโ€™s just the road to normalizing policy.โ€

Powell reiterated that the Central Bank was prepared to act if the pace of inflation does not begin to moderate in the coming months. He said, โ€œIf we see inflation persisting at high levels, longer than expected, if we have to raise interest rates more over time, then we will.โ€

Powell said the moves are in response to an economy with a strong labor market, with an unemployment rate of 3.9% in December, but elevated inflation. Powell said, โ€œWhat that [the unemployment rate coupled with elevated inflation] is really telling us is that the economy no longer needs or wants the very highly accommodative policies that weโ€™ve had in place to deal with the pandemic and its aftermath. Weโ€™re really just going to be moving over the course of this year to a policy that is closer to normal. But itโ€™s a long road to normal from where we are.โ€

The Fedโ€™s most potent tool remains interest rates, which the central bank has pinned to zero since the depths of the pandemic. Raising interest rates could address higher demand by making it more expensive to borrow. However, higher borrowing costs would not do much to address supply-side constraints and shipping bottlenecks that are greatly contributing to the rise in prices. Pow

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"They die from one punch lol"
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based off a dream my friend had (reupload bc i missed coloring a couple things)
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What if Deimos survived in MC 9?(Original video in comments) v.redd.it/mde5683eqqk71
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SERIOUS: This subreddit needs to understand what a "dad joke" really means.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

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Just because it's a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

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The gang is here
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Iโ€™ve got this disease where I canโ€™t stop making airport puns.

The doctor says it terminal.

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Blind Girl Here. Give Me Your Best Blind Jokes!

Do your worst!

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Arms (OC)
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I heard that by law you have to turn on your headlights when itโ€™s raining in Sweden.

How the hell am I suppose to know when itโ€™s raining in Sweden?

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Puns make me numb

Mathematical puns makes me number

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Petition to ban rants from this sub

Ants donโ€™t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

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So my mom is getting her foot cut off today.. (really)

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

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Armed Neo-Nazis now patrolling the streets of Sanford, Florida huffingtonpost.com/2012/0โ€ฆ
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French fries werenโ€™t cooked in France.

They were cooked in Greece.

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This subreddit is 10 years old now.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

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Why does Spider-Man's calendar only have 11 months?

He lost May

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When I was a single man, I had loads of free time.

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

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You've been hit by
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I'm sick of you guys posting dumb wordplay in here for awards and upvotes.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

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My 4 year oldest favourit joke, which he very proudly memorized and told all his teachers.

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

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Dropped my best ever dad joke & no one was around to hear it

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies ๐Ÿ˜‚

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What starts with a W and ends with a T

It really does, I swear!

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My wife left me because I couldnโ€™t stop doing impressions of pasta

And now Iโ€™m cannelloni

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Why did Karen press Ctrl+Shift+Delete?

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

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Steve JOBS would have made a better President than Donald Trump

But thatโ€™s comparing apples to oranges

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I just flew in from Chernobyl

And boy are my arms legs.

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My 7 year old daughter just told me this one. I'm so proud. What did the duck say when he bought chapstick?

Put it on my bill

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So 2 trees got arrested in the town I live...

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

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Here is a Market Recap for today Tuesday, January 11, 2022

PsychoMarket Recap - Tuesday, January 11, 2022

After one of the wildest days Iโ€™ve experienced in the market, stocks carried on yesterdayโ€™s momentum, with all three major indexes advancing as market participants digested new testimony from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

Markets Today

  • S&P 500 (SPY): +0.91%
  • Nasdaq (QQQ): +1.52%
  • Dow Jones (DIA): +0.50%
  • Russell 2000 (IWM): +1.05%
  • Volatility Index (VIX): -5.05%
  • Advanced Micro Devices (AMD): +4.02%
  • Sea Limited (SE): +6.01%
  • Albertsons (ACI): -9.56%
  • Virgin Orbit (VORB): +27.83%
  • Shake Shack (SHAK): +12.14%
  • Amazon (AMZN): +2.40%

During his confirmation hearing before Congress, Powell said the US economy was healthy enough to support a reduction in the accommodative monetary policy that has propped up the markets for the last two years. This means putting an end to quantitative easing and raising the interest rate.

He said, โ€œAs we move through this year โ€ฆ if things develop as expected, weโ€™ll be normalizing policy, meaning weโ€™re going to end our asset purchases in March, meaning weโ€™ll be raising rates over the course of the year. At some point perhaps later this year we will start to allow the balance sheet to run off, and thatโ€™s just the road to normalizing policy.โ€

Powell reiterated that the Central Bank was prepared to act if the pace of inflation does not begin to moderate in the coming months. He said, โ€œIf we see inflation persisting at high levels, longer than expected, if we have to raise interest rates more over time, then we will.โ€

Powell said the moves are in response to an economy with a strong labor market, with an unemployment rate of 3.9% in December, but elevated inflation. Powell said, โ€œWhat that [the unemployment rate coupled with elevated inflation] is really telling us is that the economy no longer needs or wants the very highly accommodative policies that weโ€™ve had in place to deal with the pandemic and its aftermath. Weโ€™re really just going to be moving over the course of this year to a policy that is closer to normal. But itโ€™s a long road to normal from where we are.โ€

The Fedโ€™s most potent tool remains interest rates, which the central bank has pinned to zero since the depths of the pandemic. Raising interest rates could address higher demand by making it more expensive to borrow. However, higher borrowing costs would not do much to address supply-side constraints and shipping bottlenecks that are greatly contributing to the rise in prices. Pow

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War against slavery

Abolishing slavery peacefully

America

In order to abolish slavery, the United States ultimately had to fight a war. Peaceful abolitionists who called for gradual abolition were still attacked. Congressโ€™ initial attempts at compromises between abolitionists and pro-slavery factions, such as the Compromise Act of 1850 and the creation of the 36โ€ฒ30 line, not only did not prevent war, but indeed may have accelerated the outbreak of war. And even with those concessions, the Supreme Court only benefited slaveowners with their judgments in cases like Dred Scott v. Sanford, severely derailing the abolitionist cause. To the Southern states, slavery was a way of life, an integral part of theirย โ€œcultureโ€, which the Ghiscari elite in Meereen claim as well. To defendย โ€œtheir way of lifeโ€, the Southern states were willing to fight a war. They did not want gradual abolition of slavery, they did not care aboutย โ€œpeacefulโ€ methods of abolishing slavery, and they did not concede to compromises or deals. For them, it was either a full allowance of slavery or nothing at all. This is thus why the civil war broke out; slavery would not have been abolished if the Southern states were not cowed by force and forcefully brought back into the Union.

Haiti

Haiti is widely known as the first country to ever abolish slavery in all its forms. Did they accomplish this peacefully? No, they accomplished this by fighting a bloody war against France. The Haitian Revolution was not a flowery show of negotiation, peace, and compromise.

Britain

Britain is hilariously cited as an example of a country thatย โ€œpeacefullyโ€ andย โ€œunilaterallyโ€ abolished slavery. . While it is true that Britishers did not fight a civil war amongst themselves to abolish slavery as the Americans did, it is entirely incorrect to say that the process was peaceful. Firstly, what is erased in this narrative is that there were slave rebellions and slave revolutions in Britainโ€™s colonies. One of the most famous examples of this is the Baptist War of 1831, which took place in Jamaica after the Jamaican people began a peaceful protest against slavery which escalated to an armed conflict (that the colonial officials and garrisons put down). This incident among others led the Parliament to take steps to pass the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. So no, Parliament did not abolish slavery because abolitionistsย โ€œasked nicely." Moreover, even after the passing of the 1833 Act, slaveowners were still compensated for their

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