Embiid
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If they want me in the office more than 2 days...they are gonna have to answer to Bella the cat!
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My company hasn't made any decisions about when we're heading back. We had a company meeting last week and it wasn't even discussed. It has been briefly discussed in smaller meetings, just basically them asking what do we expect when things get back to "normal". They ask what we expect/what do we prefer. People have said they want to work from home full time, but for me, I say I want to do a hybrid: office like twice a week and home the other three days, for the same reasons you said. I live alone, it's f***ing boring sitting there all day.
Embiid
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I see no damn reason for me to be in the office more than 2x a week even if it is only 6 miles away. Building is old and has air quality issues anyway. This past year I probably prolonged my life a few years....or maybe the damage is already done. But seriously, I can do my job 100% at home without missing a damn beat. I am basically my own boss with lots of autonomy and I don't need to be in the office to have pointless meetings just for face time and other fluff reasons. Lots of people socialize their jobs with gossip and office intrigue ....I am not missing any of that toxicity whatsoever. I like some human interaction but not BS office dynamics.
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All women, too. My wife said that birth control can cause blot clots, so there may be a correlation there, but that’s a complete guess
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Before the whole pandemic, my company was completely fine with me working from home anytime I wanted.
Some days I would wake up and decide f*** it I am not going in today.
I could do that most days. My boss wasn't a fan, but she never really said no, either. It's was more of an understood "if you can be here, be here". It was also a lot easier when I lived 1.5 miles from work and could walk in in 20 minutes, lol.
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New floors installed on my main level today. I'm in love.
Looks great, love the colors. Engineered hardwood?
Embiid
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Embiid
On early summer vacay
Seems pretty obvious now..
A year into the pandemic, it’s even more clear that it’s safer to be outside
A year into the pandemic, it’s even more clear that it’s safer to be outside
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Did you see that video of the "Ginger Assassin's" 7-10 split too? Third or fourth guy to ever do it on TV and the fact that he was up against Butturff stole the show for me.
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I hate this team
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It makes perfect sense. I don't like the guy at all, but I'm glad he feels comfortable enough to be open.
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What...eating cheese doodles and watching the Flyers in a vegetative state isn't healthy?
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Lord Defect
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How could he fly with those giant brass balls? Shooting a m16 from a plane he was piloting, holy f***.Today's Medal of Honor goes to Hilliard Wilbanks, who enlisted in the Air Force as a 17 year old. He started his career as an MP before qualifying for pilot training. He passed and was commissioned as an officer, becoming an instructor himself. He served in that position for a decade before being deployed to Vietnam in April 1966.
Wilbanks was a very busy man there. By February 1967 he had flown 487 combat missions, being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and 17 Air Medals. He wasn't in a jet, though. He was in a Cessna. Wilbanks was a forward observer, flying reconnaissance in a small single engine prop plane with a top speed of just over 100 miles per hour. On February 24th, he was scouting ahead of a group of South Vietnamese rangers who were about to walk into a Viet Cong trap.
The VC saw his plane, and realized that he had spotted them, so they immediately began to charge the rangers and started shooting at Wilbanks with small arms fire. Knowing that the rangers were outnumbered and would be routed at best and other air support was too far away to help, he started buzzing the enemy troops with his unarmed plane in an attempt to slow them down. Unfortunately, he didn't have much in the way of offense. The aircraft was armed with a few white phosphorus rockets, but he expended those quickly, and the VC kept advancing, forcing Wilbanks to fly even lower, and make strafing runs by firing his M-16 out of the side window of the plane.
This was obviously very distracting, and the VC made the observation plane their focus. During his third pass, he was hit by fire from the ground, and his plane crashed in between the opposing troops. One of the South Vietnamese soldiers pulled him from the wreckage, and he was evacuated onto a helicopter, but sadly died before reaching a hospital. His delaying tactic worked, though, and he held up the Viet Cong long enough for some F-4s to fly in and drop some ordnance on their position.
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Wtf did I just watch? They don’t even remotely try to make sense anymore.
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So it be was almost 70F here today. Friday there is a winter storm watch. Over 6 inches of snow expected in some areas. The weather has been stupid this year.
Today's Medal of Honor goes to Lewis Millett, a veteran of three wars and two different countries. He was born in 1920, and enlisted in the Massachusetts National Guard while in high school. After graduating, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps, but went AWOL in 1941 because he was worried the US wouldn't enter the war. He hitchhiked his way to Canada, and enlisted in the Canadian Army. He was deployed to London and served as radar operator during the Blitz. After the States started sending troops to Europe, he rejoined the American army, and went on to have an extremely eventful war.
He fought in North Africa, and was awarded the Silver Star for driving a truck filled with burning ammunition away from Allied troops. He managed to dive off just before it exploded. He also shot down a German fighter plane using a machine gun mounted to a half-track. Later, he helped invade Italy before being court-martialed for deserting in 1941. He was found guilty, and fined $52 (around $800 today). Not too long after that, he was given a battlefield commission.
When Korea rolled around, he got called back into service, and was promoted to Captain. He and his company were assaulting an enemy position on a hill when one of his platoons got pinned down by enemy fire. Millett grabbed another one of his platoons, ordered his men to fix bayonets, and led both platoons in a charge at the North Koreans, driving them off after some brutal hand to hand combat. It was the last time American forces used a bayonet charge in combat. During the fighting he was wounded by a grenade, but refused to leave for treatment until his men had completely secured the hill. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery while leading his troops.
Millett continued serving through Vietnam, retiring in 1973 as a full bird Colonel. Along the way, he earned a ludicrous number of medals. All told he was presented with the MoH, a Distinguished Service Cross, a Silver Star, Legion of Merit x3, the Bronze Star x3, four Purple Hearts, and a couple Air Medals. He managed to make it 88 years old before his heart gave out a month before his 89th birthday.
He fought in North Africa, and was awarded the Silver Star for driving a truck filled with burning ammunition away from Allied troops. He managed to dive off just before it exploded. He also shot down a German fighter plane using a machine gun mounted to a half-track. Later, he helped invade Italy before being court-martialed for deserting in 1941. He was found guilty, and fined $52 (around $800 today). Not too long after that, he was given a battlefield commission.
When Korea rolled around, he got called back into service, and was promoted to Captain. He and his company were assaulting an enemy position on a hill when one of his platoons got pinned down by enemy fire. Millett grabbed another one of his platoons, ordered his men to fix bayonets, and led both platoons in a charge at the North Koreans, driving them off after some brutal hand to hand combat. It was the last time American forces used a bayonet charge in combat. During the fighting he was wounded by a grenade, but refused to leave for treatment until his men had completely secured the hill. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery while leading his troops.
Millett continued serving through Vietnam, retiring in 1973 as a full bird Colonel. Along the way, he earned a ludicrous number of medals. All told he was presented with the MoH, a Distinguished Service Cross, a Silver Star, Legion of Merit x3, the Bronze Star x3, four Purple Hearts, and a couple Air Medals. He managed to make it 88 years old before his heart gave out a month before his 89th birthday.
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That mustache is out of regs, but not a soul had the balls to call him out on it.Today's Medal of Honor goes to Lewis Millett, a veteran of three wars and two different countries. He was born in 1920, and enlisted in the Massachusetts National Guard while in high school. After graduating, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps, but went AWOL in 1941 because he was worried the US wouldn't enter the war. He hitchhiked his way to Canada, and enlisted in the Canadian Army. He was deployed to London and served as radar operator during the Blitz. After the States started sending troops to Europe, he rejoined the American army, and went on to have an extremely eventful war.
He fought in North Africa, and was awarded the Silver Star for driving a truck filled with burning ammunition away from Allied troops. He managed to dive off just before it exploded. He also shot down a German fighter plane using a machine gun mounted to a half-track. Later, he helped invade Italy before being court-martialed for deserting in 1941. He was found guilty, and fined $52 (around $800 today). Not too long after that, he was given a battlefield commission.
When Korea rolled around, he got called back into service, and was promoted to Captain. He and his company were assaulting an enemy position on a hill when one of his platoons got pinned down by enemy fire. Millett grabbed another one of his platoons, ordered his men to fix bayonets, and led both platoons in a charge at the North Koreans, driving them off after some brutal hand to hand combat. It was the last time American forces used a bayonet charge in combat. During the fighting he was wounded by a grenade, but refused to leave for treatment until his men had completely secured the hill. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery while leading his troops.
Millett continued serving through Vietnam, retiring in 1973 as a full bird Colonel. Along the way, he earned a ludicrous number of medals. All told he was presented with the MoH, a Distinguished Service Cross, a Silver Star, Legion of Merit x3, the Bronze Star x3, four Purple Hearts, and a couple Air Medals. He managed to make it 88 years old before his heart gave out a month before his 89th birthday.
I read a book about an American that went to England or Canada specifically because America was taking too long for his liking to get involved.
Excellent book but I can’t remember any specific about it. I think it was called The Doughboys and was about WW1.
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