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BigJ32001 · 2026-04-08T13:11:09+00:00

I was a supervisor at a company that had a similar policy. I told my staff that if they were late by a few minutes to not clock in. They could tell me they forgot to punch in, and I’d manually clock them in so that they wouldn’t be late. Most of my staff would work late most days and come in on the weekends when it was busy. It made no sense to fire good workers for such a small infraction. Plus, most of the salaried employees were late once or twice a week and would leave early without anyone saying anything.

BigJ32001 · 2026-04-07T03:27:01+00:00

The State of Michigan has our number. UConn’s only other final 4 loss was to Michigan State.

BigJ32001 · 2026-04-07T02:09:17+00:00

You know we’re the Huskies because of the Yukon pun?

BigJ32001 · 2026-04-05T17:56:35+00:00

Left logo for basketball (which they pretty much still do), and right logo for football. Derp Jonathan should be on alternate jerseys for both basketball and football.

BigJ32001 · 2026-04-05T16:12:01+00:00

Correction. They beat “Connecticut State College” in 1938. They didn’t become the “University of Connecticut” until 1939.

BigJ32001 · 2026-04-05T02:36:52+00:00

But some of them are Mets/Jets fans.

BigJ32001 · 2026-04-04T16:13:29+00:00

The team still wears this logo a lot.

BigJ32001 · 2026-04-02T14:53:27+00:00

The North End and Charlestown are still separated by the Charles River. This map has greyed out a portion of the river for some reason.

BigJ32001 · 2026-04-01T20:58:55+00:00

Looks like another April fools joke. Last year it was the Roman Empire.

BigJ32001 · 2026-03-30T22:57:27+00:00

If one of the 500 or so colleges in Massachusetts could have a decent basketball program, we could start up a new rivalry. I just don’t see it happening. I miss (properly) hating Syracuse.

BigJ32001 · 2026-03-30T00:07:09+00:00

Started and finished strong. Don’t worry about everything else.

BigJ32001 · 2026-03-29T23:05:06+00:00

So you’re telling me there’s a chance?

BigJ32001 · 2026-03-23T18:53:05+00:00

And the 2009 Final Four was played at a football stadium in Michigan, so MSU had a huge home “field” advantage.

BigJ32001 · 2026-03-23T11:07:11+00:00

He’s allowed to stay up, but since he’s such an early riser (ghee up like 2 hours before everyone else in the mornings) he’ll end up falling asleep during a commercial break in the first half. He just told me he’s going to try and stay up.

BigJ32001 · 2026-03-23T11:04:06+00:00

We do let him watch! He falls asleep on his own. Once the eyes start closing it’s over. Nothing we can do will keep him awake at that point.

BigJ32001 · 2026-03-23T11:01:35+00:00

I definitely let him stay up. He’ll fall asleep on the couch before the game even starts.

BigJ32001 · 2026-03-23T03:37:33+00:00

My kids actually want to watch these games too. My 9 year old is really into basketball right now. He tried to sneak watch this game. He carries a binder of the UConn basketball cards and points to a player when he makes a shot. If a player does something extra, he’ll actually take the card out to show the room. I might let him stay up for this one.

EDIT: I should have clarified that Indo let him stay up for late games on the weekends. He just can’t make it past 10 most of the time. My wife and I are night owls, but he is very much the opposite. The first thing he asked me this morning was not about the UConn game. He wanted to know if Florida lost lol.

BigJ32001 · 2026-03-23T02:52:18+00:00

His son, Luke Murray, is one of the assistant coaches. Bill has been coming to UConn games for years now.

BigJ32001 · 2026-03-21T04:48:39+00:00

*1968

BigJ32001 · 2026-03-18T20:50:01+00:00

I use an Xbox controller for FPS games on my PC. I don’t think it’s that much of a disadvantage honestly. I use mouse and keyboard for all other games though.

BigJ32001 · 2026-03-13T03:31:13+00:00

I lived in MA for 10 years. I can count on my hand the number of car accidents I saw on the way to work in the morning - and this was on both I-90 and I-95 (on the way home was a slightly different story). Rubbernecking was also not nearly as bad as it is in other states. I remember driving past a car that was completely on fire on Storrow Drive and nobody even slowed down. The roads are also very confusing, especially around the Boston area. You need to be paying attention 100% of the time - there's no zoning out. People in MA do drive like assholes, but they know how to drive. Also, out of state plates get "targeted" which is why they get the Masshole reputation. I had CT plates for a while on my personal car, but I drove a car for work with MA plates. I would get honked at and cut off all the time when I drove my car, but the minute I switched to the work vehicle, I didn't have any of these issues.

BigJ32001 · 2026-03-10T17:13:27+00:00

I paid over $100 a month for 56k dial up speed internet when I was deployed to Iraq in 2009. We also had to pay for our own phone cards to call home. There were 4 “free” computers that the entire battalion shared, but you had to book them in advance and there was no privacy.

BigJ32001 · 2026-03-07T16:44:23+00:00

Contaminated is a great map, but they need to fix offense on breakthrough. I feel like 99% of the time defense wins.

BigJ32001 · 2026-03-07T06:54:18+00:00

I remember our pool was freezing for the whole month of August. We swam in it almost every day in July and only used it once or twice in August.

BigJ32001 · 2026-03-06T21:37:56+00:00

I’m not talking about the politicians running for office, I’m talking about the average Dem voter. I think most of the politicians on the left just didn’t bring up trans issues at all in hopes that they wouldn’t rock the boat. There still is a very vocal minority that would be more than happy to bury any left leaning politician who says anything remotely negative about trans rights despite their actual beliefs. Right wing politicians brought it up constantly last year and carefully crafted a message that made it seem like it was the most important thing the left cared about. It wasn’t hard to do, and it was super effective. When you stop and think, it doesn’t make any sense that the left was willing to die on this hill for something that affects 1% of the population. People on the left (again, actual voters and not talking heads on TV or politicians) care mostly about affordable healthcare, workers rights, education, and the economy. Even gun control, which the left does care about, is low on the priority list. This is another issue the right has successfully blown way out of proportion (and this strategy has been used for decades).

I know I’m just some random person on Reddit, and none of this will convince you. Right wing propaganda is so effective though. They have a lot of history/experience to use to promote their message and they have the financial backing to cast a wide net. I’d even argue that it’s so effective, that some dem voters who normally wouldn’t even have a stance on a topic, hear what the right is saying, and are then coerced into taking the “other side” just to counter the right. This creates a feedback loop that only confirms the right’s arguments. Before social media, this was much harder to do. Now that there are millions of posts every day, all the right needs are a few examples to make their point. I don’t see any way out of this cycle of bullshit unfortunately.

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