The Sure Thing Puns

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The panda holds up his hands and says “I was born with them”

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> "No, the only time I took a game off is when I couldn’t walk. The thing about taking games off is your games, your seasons in your career go by really, really, quickly. So, you want to make sure you don’t miss any of those moments. The other part about that is there are kids in the crowd and families in the crowd…. this will be the only time they get a chance to see you. They save up their hard-earned money to watch you perform. So, if you can walk and perform get there and perform."

Source: article by Frank Isola of the Athletic

Frank Isola is a Senior Writer for The Athletic New York, covering the Knicks and the NBA. He is an award winning journalist having covered the Knicks, Nets and NBA for both the New York Post and New York Daily News for 25 years. Frank appears regularly on ESPN's Around The Horn and PTI and hosts a morning show with Brian Scalabrine on SiriusXM NBA Radio.

Background: I (20F) stopped talking to my bio dad (40) after he let my half sister, Alyssa (15) live on her own. My father was never there for me growing up and our relationship at this point was more that of a friend who I tolerated for the sake of having a relationship with my baby siblings. Alyssa came into our lives I want to say about two years ago, no one was aware of her existence until that point. She was what you would call troubled, she did drugs, had failing grades and hung out with a bad crowd. Over the last two years she has shaped up a bit more but she’ll still lie to us about things.

Alyssa’s living arrangements changed with her mom where she’d have to share a room with her sister, somehow the solution ended up being her living in an apartment with other teenagers and no adult supervision. Our father decided to take a trip up there to figure this out. I thought this meant he’d have her situated in a place with at least a trusted adult to watch over her, but when I asked all he had to say was he got the phone numbers of the parents of the teens staying there. At the point where I realized he actually wasn’t going to do anything to help this situation I lost it. For 20 years I have let go of all the times he wasn’t there for me because I thought he had changed and so I could have a relationship with my baby siblings, but abandoning my sister? That was too far. I will admit I said hurtful things but they were meant to hurt, he had to understand how much he hurt me and how he was still failing to make up for it.

Now here’s the part where I might be in the wrong, he technically doesn’t have any legal right over Alyssa. Which was strange to me because after she found out she instantly changed her last name on all of her platforms, so I would think he would’ve had the opportunity. He also made the point that I’m not a parent and will regret how I treated him when I am one. I don’t think he has much to say about being a parent since he abandoned me, barely sees Alyssa, and his wife takes care of his other two kids at home (3F and 1M). All I know is that if my kid was out there somewhere and no one was making sure they got home safe at night or made sure they had enough to eat I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night.

I’ve held my ground on this and only text him when I’ve dropped off a birthday or Christmas gift off on their doorstep for my littlest siblings. He has messaged telling me when he’s free if I want to come over, says he loves and misse

I work at a pizza restaurant and I was working the oven and expo, basically cooking the pizzas, cutting them up and dressing them however the customer wants and then serving them. We also serve a few desserts and if a customer wants them heated up we place them on the lip of the oven for a few minutes in a paper bag. There are desserts in display cases next to the register so the customers can see what we have, and then we have the desserts already bagged and ready under the register.

When a pizza is done we call your name so there isn’t usually anyone standing right there waiting for their pizzas, rather they sit down and wait for their name to be called. This day, however, there was a woman leaning on my station staring at me as I was serving the pizzas, so I asked her if she was waiting for something. She said “I just ordered a cookie but I saw her (girl on register) take one from under the register instead of the case, can I get a fresh one from the case?” I explained to her that the ones underneath are indeed fresh we just prewrap them so we don’t have to do it one by one when there are long lines. She still insisted she got one from the case. I told her they were from the same batch if not older in the case, which was true. They usually sit in the case for a few days while the wrapped ones under the register get sold every day and they stay fresh since they are wrapped. After going back and forth with her while working the oven, she would not stop asking for a “fresh” cookie from the case. So I went and got the hardest oldest looking cookie from the case and put it by the oven to heat up, but she was impatient and just wanted it right then. So I handed her a rock hard cold cookie and she walked away. I can guarantee it tasted like shit but thankfully her pride stopped her from complaining.

I forgot just how great the homestead missions were in AC3. It felt so rewarding to see your home grow.

There hasn’t really been a base of operations for the last couple games. Yea in odyssey you had your ship, but you couldn’t go inside of it. I would love to see something similar to the homestead missions return and let you grow and customize some kind of home or base for your character again.

EDIT: Guys I’m not shitting on Odyssey. It’s a well needed breath if fresh air and in my top 4 games of the series. It’s just a feature I miss upon replaying AC3

Dan should seriously think about letting Stu drive at least one segment an hour to help take pressure off of Dan next week. Stu has proved he's the master of the blind remote on this other shows, and especially Weekend Observations.

Is the same bullshyt we have been going through for the past two years. We lose week 1, everyone come out here and argue what they think is the issues. Some flame while others try to calm the situation and call the haters fake fans.

But let’s be honest here, we stayed here for past two years because we still love the team. We can have our heated argument after a lost in this sub-reddit, but at the end of the day, we still come back again next week to cheer the team on.

There’s nothing uglier than a fan base who tears one another apart rather than being united as one to support the team. I wish that the first post the boys see is us cheering them on, rather then talking them down.

WE BELIEVE IN YOU MY BOYS, SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT WEEK

I've been a SysAdmin/Generalist for thirteen years, working for my most recent organization for just over seven years.

In the last four years, I've had 8 new direct supervisors, one of which also became my SysAdmin counterpart after my original SysAdmin co-worker left when said supervisor was promoted from a Development QA position by a clueless IT Director. When THAT supervisor/counterpart was replaced by one of the CTO's buddies a year ago, said buddy stated "I'm a manager, I won't be working on anything... That's your job..." and suddenly a two person role fell on one person's shoulders. Mine. He lost his job less than three weeks later for some things he said. Suddenly, the only person left who knew it was a two person role was me. My requests for help fell on deaf ears, and C-Levels said there was no room in the budget. The CTO left, and a new one stepped in.

Follow the departure of my counterpart/supervisor with a storage array failure the day he left, that I was able to get operational long enough to get redundant arrays installed and get back to better than 100%. Then a ransomware attack that purged our entire infrastructure that I was able to stop only because the alerts notified just as it started, but not before irreversible damage was done to our production systems. Four weeks of 20+ hour days getting code together, pulling SQL databases in raw form directly off of the SQL storage array. A 12 day marathon from-scratch deployment of our infrastructure to Azure, which we had no experience with. And finally, an AD domain rip and replace to eliminate the compromised domain with a best-practices, secure, no legacy garbage in sight AD domain structure...

The new CTO is a phenomenal person, and one of the only reasons we've been able to survive through all of the above. He is also one of the only reasons I've been able to work through the stress. It's sad that having someone like him come in is such a shocking change from what it used to be, when his management style should be the standard all companies strive for.

To add on to the stress issues above, no clearly defined business support plan for after-hours support. My cell number is the one that people dial when they choose to voluntarily work weekends. When I raised this, I was told to shut my phone off. My response is: Where would the organization be if my phone had been off the night the ransomware went down? It is known and acknowledged that I am the only reason we were able to even get our

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I really love Revolut. Got it when it was new as I was travelling and now I use it as my primary card, but I only just saw today all of the things I had signed up for with them.

What exactly am I talking about:

• Marketing emails

• Marketing push notifications

• Sharing you personal information such as name and email address (unspecified if it's limited to name and email) with social media and advertising platforms.

• Third party promotions emails and push notifications

• And sharing of information with credit bureaus

I have no memory of agreeing to any of these although I'm sure it's in some lengthy TOS, but the good thing is it's easy to opt out. Android instructions: Simply go to the dashboard, click on the settings button (gear, top right) and click on privacy. Each has a toggle. It takes less than a minute. I guess bigger banks are doing the same thing, so once again Revolut is leading the way when it comes to digital banking, although it would be better if they didn't sneak these things in.

My father seems dead set on this idea that 1) I always disagree with him and my mother and 2) that disagreeing with him in any way, no matter how small, is unacceptable. Just constantly picks fights over this sort of thing. A couple weeks ago we were talking about what we should do on a Sunday night and my mom suggested we watch a movie on DVD and I said I would rather not watch a movie. He fucking blew up asking why I couldn't just say it was a good idea and why I always had to go against what they were saying. Like, it's a movie... I wasn't rude about it or anything. I wasn't preventing them from going and watching the movie themselves...

And today, my mom was pointing out a guy running in red pants in the backyard and saying it was really weird for a person to wear red pants. Frankly it's far weirder to give a shit about what kind of pants a total stranger is wearing than to wear red pants, but whatever. I cracked a joke about the police pulling him over and fining him because his pants were too weird. Meltdown. "[Mom] was saying his pants were weird! All you had to say was yes, I agree, his pants are weird! Is that so hard? Why do you always have to argue?"

I could tell my mom didn't really care, but she always defends my dad whenever he's having one of these kinds of episodes, so she went and insisted all he wants is for me to try to be more agreeable and is that really so much to ask of me?

He insists I can "sometimes" disagree with him but I do it too often and "generally" I should agree. Where is the limit? Is he keeping a spreadsheet of every time I said something he didn't like? If he actually did he would see how often it actually happens versus how often he just decides completely innocuous and neutral statements are attacks on his dignity. I am pretty sure the reason it sets him off is that he hates being reminded that his adult daughter has opinions independent of his and that I am not an extension of him.

I would try to leave, but because of COVID-19 I can't move out right now so I am pretty much stuck with these people.

I was watching the development of the Coronavirus on the sideline until I saw videos and news of China's explosive reaction to the Wuhan outbreak. There were five things that stood out:

1. All transportation leading out of Wuhan was shut down (roads were closed and trains, ferries, and airport operations were halted). Roads were even sometimes blocked with makeshift barriers. Public transportation within the cities was also shut down. A total of 11 to 18 million people were subjected to an involuntary lockdown.
2. Two emergency hospitals were hastily built. The construction sites were covered with machinery and workers. It was hard to comprehend how they could work in an organized fashion. There are 19 more makeshift emergency hospitals being built.
3. By February 2, China had sent nearly 2,000 additional medical staff to Wuhan to assist with an outbreak that at the time had officially disclosed only 14,000 thousand infections. By February 13 the number of health specialists sent to assist with the crisis in Wuhan had surpassed 2,500 .
4. Manufacturing operations were completely halted. Originally it was as an extension of the lunar year holiday and they were scheduled to restart operating on February 20th. Operations were later re-scheduled to restart only on March 11. There may be further delays as we approach this new deadline.
5. More than 1,700 health works in China have become infected despite of their extreme level of protection (body suits, eye protection and masks).

This speaks for itself. People are comparing this to the flu or SARS. When was the last time China did anything even remotely like this to contain a virus? When was the last time a disease was spread with this speed and overloaded their healthcare system with such magnitude?

The world's anemic effort to raise awareness and preparedness both mentally and in practical terms is very worrisome in contrast to the observed reaction in Wuhan. We have to consider that there may be economic and political conflicts of interest in raising awareness of the real risks that COVID-19 may pose.

The POTUS claims the USA is well prepared. How can we be well prepared if the current capacity to test suspected cases is estimated at 50-100 per day? By February 25 there were only 426 tests performed in the USA. The criteria to test people is too restrictive and it contributes to the virus ability to spread undetected. Unfortunately, this gives us a false sense of security. A public official has estimat