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Beyond Meat CEO says a smear campaign almost killed his business. Here’s how he’s fighting back
  • I'm 100% omnivore, but I fully support the alternative "meat" companies, hell I sometimes eat them cause they're tasty. I think it sucks that some groups are seeking to paint them in a bad light. Compete on the quality of your product. You didn't need to pay disingenuous games to do that.

  • Thanksgiving is my least favorite holiday
  • So here's the question, would be happier to skip the "celebration"? I put celebration in quotes because it sounds to me as if it is far from a celebration for you.

    If you would be happier skipping, if your mental health would improve due to avoiding all you mention, then your responsibility to yourself is to make your excuses and not attend.

  • BASIC Co-Inventor Thomas Kurtz Has Passed Away
  • Me in the winter of 1979, halfway through my sophomore year of high school. I'm taking a sheet-rocking class and can't stop coughing and sneezing.

    What can I transfer to?

    Well we have this new class about computers?

    I dunno what the fuck that means but I can't keep sheetrocking.

    I walk into a room full of DecWriters and teletypes.

    To connect to the computer you dial this phone number when you hear this weird noise you push the phone into these rubber cups.

    You talk to that computer using this thing called BASIC. You can actually get the computer to do things!

    I remember my first guess a number program, and printing it out to show my dad. He didn't understand it but thought it was cool I did.

    45 years later I'm still making computers do things through code. All thanks to BASIC.

  • Why are they always larping as ancaps/libertarians?
  • AnCap here, I think I would like to understand your comment better.

    I'm mostly puzzled you don't believe AnCaps believe in freedom of choice, particularly as that is bedrock AnCap philosophy.

  • 'Yellowstone' Cast Reflect on Kevin Costner's Exit from Series
  • Such a great show, but the writing in season 5 was bad enough to make me but want to watch the second half.

    I probably still will, but it's a series with a big asterisk next to it on my list of favorites.

  • Ending Relationships
  • Holy smokes I'm sorry. I didn't know if my story can encourage you or not, but maybe it will.

    I got married in 1987. Not quite 20 years in in 2006, we split up. I was unhappy, and became an asshole and walked out in her and my three sons. I realized almost immediately that I couldn't look myself in the mirror. And twenty months later we decided to give it a shot. It lasted almost two years before the wheels finally came off for good.

    So here I am, not quite 50 and very single. I met another girl, we became a couple and have now been together 13 years.

    It can happen. You can find happiness again

  • California governor calls special session to protect liberal policies from Trump presidency
  • This is a fantastic post. Thank you. I do know that the Feds often use the Commerce Clause to put the lie to my original statement, but with the abandonment of Roe, I've repeatedly heard "it's in the hands of the States" so maybe my hope is that someone somewhere my see a need to remain intellectually consistent.

    Pipe dream, but a nice thought.

  • California governor calls special session to protect liberal policies from Trump presidency
  • Not progressive, and I roll my eyes at many things California does. That said I 100% applaud this. I wish more states used their power as individual states to reign in the Federal government.

    Remember The Constitution says any rights not specifically granted to the Feds are the States.

    Good for California.

  • A fascinating bit of baseball history

    project318.substack.com Surprise Begonias

    A polka is always better when shared by friendly strangers.

    Surprise Begonias

    I'm trying to learn to be a fan of baseball. This sort of history helps shape that burgeoning fandom.

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    I'm Writing a new Substack about baseball

    open.substack.com An Old Dog Learns New Tricks

    For as long as I can remember, and that's quite a long time, I have thought I should be a baseball fan, but I have never ever been a baseball fan. Soccer? I've been #RCTID since 1976. Football? I've been a Seahawks fan since I learned to understand football. Basketball? I can vividly remember celebr...

    An Old Dog Learns New Tricks

    I've long thought I should be a baseball fan, join me on a quest to become one.

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    Trying to find a song based on a very tiny fragment of memory

    There's a song, I think I only heard one time likely on KGON in Portland, OR and likely in the late 70s. This song has haunted me over the years but I have never been able to locate it again.

    The one thing I really remember is that there is a spoken-word portion where the vocalist talks about the Boogie Woogie, but pronounces it more like Boozhi Woozhi.

    I'm laying in bed quarantined with Covid and once again its memory and my inability to determine what song it was is haunting me.

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    Favorites Broken on Series X

    My favorites broke. They were working great but now they don't work at all. I can't favorite anything there icon sits in the middle of the plus sign and I can't move it to any open slot. Things I had already favorites continue to work, but I can't add new things or swap things out.

    I've tried dropping my entire inventory and then picking things back up but that is not resolving there issue. It's not game-breaking but it is frustrating.

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    Holy shit USL officials are awful

    Playing Oakland in injury time we score an ugly goal (likely an own goal).

    Ref indicates a goal.

    Oakland's keeper who is a complete wimp rolls around on the ground.

    Stadium replay guy plays the goal.

    Ref watches the replay and reversed himself.

    Appalling.

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    LouCity v. Oakland

    Anyone else in the stands tonight?

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    gloves for large hands

    I've never shot with a glove before and think it's time. I have pretty big hands XL motorcycle gloves are typically too small but not always.

    So who recommends what?

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    XBox Summer Sale has XCom 2 at $9.99

    If you've been waiting to buy on console, now is the time to pull the trigger

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    XCOM 2 on the Series X

    I own XCOM 2 on PC. Is it worth getting it on the Series X so I can play while sitting on the couch?

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    XCOM 2 on Series X

    How does XCOM 2 play on the Series X? Is it worth getting even though I already own it on PC?

    Love the game and would love to be able to play sitting on my couch!

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    Weather Delay in Denver

    Anyone have any insight into Rapids v. Timbers? Should I stay up later than I was planning (I'm on the East Coast). Or should I go to bed?

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    BTA 3062

    Shortly after my previous post about BEX, my merc company folded due to a lack of funds.

    I took the opportunity to install BTA and give it a try. I love the depth, I love the details, but I'm really struggling with the lack of a cohesive art style. I'm finding it pulling me out of my suspension of disbelief.

    Has anyone else had that difficulty? Will I outgrow it with time?

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    Is the video game fair game here? or is it table top only?

    If the video game is fair game...

    I've been playing BEX, and I suck at it mostly. I always play Ironman, so that entails lots of restarts. I finally have a merc company that has lasted a bit. I've moved up to 2 and 2.5 skull missions.

    Needed some money quickly and took a 1.5 skull mission. Comstar showed up, wiped my lance it was the last mission in my current system, I didn't know what I was going to do to not go bankrupt.

    Discovered I had Shadowhawk in cold storage sold it, started taking out my "starter" mechs on half-skull and one-skull missions, I'm starting to become a bit more financially solid again and may have survived afterall.

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