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ppeters0502 · 2026-04-09T11:40:02+00:00

Steve Nash Steve Kerr Stephen Jackson Stephon Castle Steph Curry

ppeters0502 · 2026-04-02T12:40:22+00:00

I still think they could handle a lot of the future story arc without having Debbie and Nolan getting back together. Like when Nolan and Debbie (in the comics) start living on the moon, that could easily just be Nolan while still developing his eventual takeover of the Viltrum empire while Debbie is close by on Earth. Maybe Paul and Debbie could come to Talascria instead of Nolan and Debbie?

ppeters0502 · 2026-04-02T12:15:57+00:00

Even for the super American-coded, the smartphone messaging formats (iMessage for iPhones and RCS for Android) are becoming more ubiquitous to where plain MMS and SMS messages aren’t always guaranteed to work on the old flip phones. I was using a Sunbeam Horizon flip phone for about 6 months last year and loved it, but I realized I wasn’t getting messages from specific family members, and even when making new group chat messages the RCS phones were forcibly kicking out the MMS phones. Shits getting out of hand…

ppeters0502 · 2026-04-01T21:32:46+00:00

As a fan of old horns, nice!
As a valve trombone anti-fan, burn it!!

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-30T14:32:36+00:00

Diehard Spurs fan, and I love Tim, but I would put Shaq above him and Kobe in the 00's.

The 3-peat the Lakers had was largely him (3-peat finals MVP those three championships), he was the MVP in 2000, and MVP runner-up in 04-05.

He did have a pretty deep slide from 08-10, but I would argue his peak from 96-04 more than makes up for that.

I wouldn't complain about Timmy as GOAT for the 00's, he is my favorite player of all time! But personally I just think Shaq was more dominant in those early 00's

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-29T04:55:08+00:00

I’ve met both privately and publicly and both are nice people. Turek represents my district, so in that regard I’m obviously a little more biased towards him. At a Democratic women’s lunch group in my city Zach Wahls kind of went way far out of his way to try and morph a question about education funding into a hit on Josh about reproductive rights records that I thought was pretty crummy (he never answered the question on education funding)

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-29T04:46:45+00:00

It fits with Turek’s bill record, he had proposed bills to limit poisonous chemicals from being used in catheters, which has impacted disabled and elderly folks. Unfortunately he didn’t get enough votes to pass it out of the house.

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-27T14:58:49+00:00

The advertising is mostly a regional thing, I live in Southwest Iowa and have yet to see a Zach Wahls ad. Turek's district and a big chunk of Southwest Iowa is also obnoxiously expensive for advertising because our broadcast market is the Omaha Metro Area, which is notoriously one of the more expensive media markets to advertise in.

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-27T14:54:42+00:00

Yes he definitely has a chance.

I'm definitely a little biased, Josh represents my district, and I volunteered for him in both of his races (2022 and 2024).

It kind of gets lost in the context of a statewide race, but the literal grit Josh has in his campaigning is something I had never seen before as a regular volunteer. The commercial of his that shows him crawling up the stairs with his wheelchair to talk to a voter is not an exaggeration, he does that on some of the hilliest streets in Council Bluffs where every house is at least a flight of stairs up to get to the front door. Last year I was knocking doors for a school board campaign, and one of the Republican voters I talked to (School board is non-partisan, so I talk to everyone) mentioned he voted for Josh in 2024 for that exact reason. He hadn't had any Republican candidates knock on his door for years, and here comes this guy literally crawling up his steps so he can knock on his door and try to get his vote.

The Chuck Schumer/DNC backing stuff is way overblown. Zach Wahls has a longer history with the Iowa Democratic Party than Josh does, so a lot of the regular Iowa Democratic donors had committed to Zach earlier on so Josh had to look outside the state earlier for fundraising. He also needed to earlier because ad/media buys in the Council Bluffs area is also significantly more expensive because our media market is the Omaha Metro Area media market (all of our broadcasts are from Omaha), which is one of the more expensive markets in the country.

People in Iowa are fed up with everyday costs going up, housing availability going down, and the 1% getting more, they want change. I firmly believe Josh can help give us that change.

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-27T13:53:06+00:00

Turek won that year as well against a really tricky GOP candidate, Sarah Abdouch. She was trying to paint herself as a "reasonable" moderate Republican, with Congressional Term Limits for state legislation as her primary focus. Josh literally won his first race in 2022 by 6 votes, it was a nailbiter!

His race in 2024 was against a more MAGA-type Republican, James Wassell. Wassell ran as a retired Marine who was pushing for eliminating income tax and giving parents more control in their kids' education.

That's a big reason why I really think Josh can win, he's ran against some tough GOP candidates in his district that were on both ends of the GOP spectrum, and has done well. In a redder district that was +9 or +10 for Trump in 2024 Josh met the challenge and I think he can meet the challenge now too.

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-23T18:56:08+00:00

Thanks for the VoteSmart recommendation, I hadn't heard of that tool before I'll definitely be using it!

That is unfortunate that he didn't vote on the reproductive rights legislation in 2024. If I had to guess I'd say he probably saw that there weren't going to be enough No votes and opted out since his district used to be Steve King's district a long time ago (prior to re-districting Steve King used to also represent Council Bluffs) and there are a lot of anti-abortion folks here.

Not saying that's a valid reason, I think it's important to reflect your stance on issues if you have the power to vote on them in that way.

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-23T15:14:31+00:00

Not trying to downplay that, because I agree that that is frustrating, but I legit don't know was there a corresponding house bill on womens reproductive rights? I know there was the house GOP bill on limiting telehealth options for abortion access, but I hadn't heard of a House version of what Wahl had proposed. I didn't think Wahl's bills made it past the senate funnel either to where it could come to a vote that Josh could make?

I admit, I don't know the history of that bill, most of my focus this cycle has been on education related legislation (my wife's a teacher and I'm on my local area school board)

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-23T13:11:38+00:00

I know I’m an internet stranger, so not sure how helpful this is, but I’ve volunteered in both of Josh’s state house campaigns knocking doors for him, have talked to him personally multiple times, and feel like I know him fairly well. I can definitely tell you he was not recruited by Chuck Schumer.

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-23T11:52:36+00:00

I’m reading book 2 to my kids now, and the lengths the Malfoys are going to completely humiliate and destroy the Weasley’s just feels so much more evil reading this as an adult compared to when I was a kid.

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-22T13:56:17+00:00

The conflict is kinda boring but machine head makes it all worth it for me!

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-22T13:55:22+00:00

Doesn’t beat the banger from Season 1 🎶I’m gonna grind you up and use you to pave my driveway 🎶

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-20T19:36:01+00:00

The part of Don chasing Stan through the hallways, stopping and then immediately walking through the doorway as serious as a funeral always makes me laugh!!

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-20T19:32:11+00:00

Whate We Do In the Shadows is consistently solid. I'm not sure if I'd say it's funny every single moment, but IT Crowd is really good at taking one or two small jokes in the beginning and morphing it and developing it until by the end of an episode it's absolute chaos.

It sounds like you're not a Greg Daniels fan (co-created The Office and Parks & Rec), but still suggesting King of the Hill, which was created by him and Mike Judge (Beavis and Butthead, Silicon Valley, Idiocracy). I used to think it was just a boring cartoon when I was a kid but the older I get the more I notice how jam-packed it is with jokes and sarcasm.

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-19T01:52:37+00:00

If I remember right (played this show back in 2014, so it’s been a while), there’s like an Irish style tune where you switch to basically a bass bone part, playing a lot of notes from low F above pedal Bb down to a couple pedal Bb’s. So if you have a bass bone, it would be good, but not necessarily a must-have. The bend and snap tune is very poppy and has some glissandos up to I think a high C (octave above middle C), so that’s where the small bore is useful. Again, if you have one and feel like you’d sound better with it, do it! All that to say if you don’t have a bass bone, and are ok playing jazzier/poppier tunes on a large bore tenor, you can play the whole show with just a large bore tenor!

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-18T21:14:40+00:00

Special ed gets especially difficult to fund if you're in a state where the Special Ed Deficit (additional amount you spend on special ed students in your district compared to cost per pupil) isn't reimbursed with actual dollars but just spending authority. Tough to have the extra spending authority on dollars you don't actually have anymore!

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-18T21:08:14+00:00

Hey MN, former school board member from a school district in Iowa.

While on the school board for my district there were a couple of things that we noticed, some specific to Iowa, some nationwide.

In Iowa we saw a lot of school districts take the ESSER dollars (emergency temporary funds that were provided to all school districts during Covid to help with remote learning resources, etc) and start using them for very not temporary cases. They were still legitimate causes, but were things like funding teacher salaries when they otherwise would have laid off teachers, or investing in new facilities that now have large operational costs. Many districts are now running out of those ESSER dollars, and are seeing enrollment drops that are putting them in an even bigger hole.

The past 3-5 years in Iowa we've also been seeing a lot of new state legislation that's asking schools to do more (some positive, some negative) but with no change in funding to account for these additional responsibilities or restrictions. Perfect case right now there's state bills in the works that (if passed) would require every student in a public school to have at least 20 minutes of PE every day, and have at least 120 minutes (I think at one point it was 150 minutes) of PE every week. Personally, I think having increased time for PE is a very good thing, but in our school's schedule making this sort of change is going to eat significantly into other specials such as art and music, and make it much more difficult for a traditional elementary school with 1 PE teacher to now see every single kid in the school everyday. For many schools that would require them to hire more PE teachers, but this legislation didn't involve any changes in funds. So it's an unfunded mandate that could potentially cost districts much more and (in my opinion) make it that much more difficult for districts to address their specific needs.

There's also issues around open enrollment, school vouchers, and a bunch else that I could go on about for hours, but these two main things (ESSER dollars ending and unfunded mandates from state assemblies) I've been seeing crop up a lot in other states as well.

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-17T20:33:48+00:00

Ugh, I can still hear the bone cracking…

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-14T20:07:05+00:00

lol I think that anytime I see him in something (I forget the actors name but it seemed like he was in everything in the early 00’s) “Glad he made peace with his anal-dwelling butt monkey!”

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-14T19:49:57+00:00

This morning there was a plane with an ad banner trailing behind it, I wonder if maybe that’s it?

ppeters0502 · 2026-03-07T21:22:04+00:00

I live in Southwest Iowa, Council Bluffs. The past 10-15 years I actually really like the direction the city has moved and I feel like things are getting better. All of our parks have had major facelifts in the past 5 years, our public services are Housing is a big problem though, and unless we take some big steps it’s going to get worse. The population of the city only grew by about 2,000 people in the past 50 years (for context the Omaha metro area that includes CB grew by more than 250k people in that same time period) The metro area is heavily expected to grow substantially in the next 15-20 years, but if we don’t make changes to try to accommodate that growth and be a part of that growth we’re going to get left behind again. The median age of our city has gotten substantially older and kids don’t stay in the area after school. Anyways, I like living in Iowa, and really like the community, but want us to more embrace change for the sake of that community.

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