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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

A great book spine design.

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sorry to anyone who followed me for anything, ever. you are not getting that.

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like can we please be fr….if the canucks crash and burn and are at the bottom of the league for the next ~1.5 seasons then sure, quinn probably won’t want to re-sign. but if they bounce back next year (after a season that couldn’t really have had more things go wrong), imo it’s flat out disrespectful to quinn’s character to try and push the narrative that he would care so little about the team he’s grown up on — and is actively the captain of — that he’d ditch them anyways just to have a chance at the playoffs/cup somewhere else. surely you give this man more credit than that, right? because you can’t have it both ways where he is this ultra-mature guy who cares and has incredible standards, whilst also thinking that he’d ditch his team (and long-time teammates, best friends, etc.) even if there wasn’t a hockey reason to do so.

but hey, to go further in this hypothetical world so many national reporters want to live in where he jumps ship to go out east and play in a timezone that’s more convenient for them, what exactly do people think is going to happen in a quinn hughes trade? because it’s not as if the canucks would trade him for insignificant assets. at the same time, the acquiring team wouldn’t trade significant pieces without the assurance that he would be signing his next contract with them — so it’s not like they’d trade him to like, LA at the TDL for the price of a rental, and then he’d walk to the NJD in free agency. either NJD would have to pay up significant pieces (both to accommodate his future salary, and to win the bidding war for the canucks’ asking price), thus inherently changing the composition of their team and likely giving up players fans would not want to see leave, or they wouldn’t get quinn hughes. and that goes for any team acquiring him in this, again, hypothetical fantasy world that people want to become true.

as someone who actually follows the canucks, and not just one of their players, this is the most likely outcome: the canucks make the playoffs next year, because they don’t have literally everything possible go wrong. the team and players recognize that the steps forward they took in the 23-24 season weren’t futile, and they have the chance to be a competitive team. either heading into or during the 26-27 season, quinn signs a shorter-term extension — maybe 3/4 years — which gives the team the opportunity to continue to show that they will create a competitive environment for him.

ty for coming to my ted talk/rant, ly 🫶

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i’ll be honest, every time people outside of the canucks market try and get attention by talking about quinn to jersey it makes me root even harder for the downfall of the devils this season

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Do people still fw loscar like.. do yall even REMEMBER

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i’ll be honest, every time people outside of the canucks market try and get attention by talking about quinn to jersey it makes me root even harder for the downfall of the devils this season

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Guy who really needs to save his money: Hey I should buy hockey cards

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quinn to nj means nico to buffalo btw I saw it prophesied so be careful

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money is such a fucked up concept…. they took numbers & made them scary….. why would you do that to such a beautiful concept as numbers….

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absolutely fascinating when someone likes a post you reblogged in 2017 and nothing else like king how did you even find that

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Putting my hands over my ears and going "LALALALALALA" every time a player I like talks about how much they love and idolize Kane

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don’t take patchy from me 😪

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enough with the Quinn trade rumors. I want the pettersson trade talk ( how are the Canucks gonna get every pettersson in the league)

i almost pulled out my daggers halfway through reading this help 😭 but yes like. the ducks have one and WE should have him. get boston to trade us their new prospect. give them all to us we’ll treat them well 🙏🙏

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ai is making people way too comfortable with being incompetent stupid and useless… go learn some skills

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Every time I remember Thalia's actress in the show is British I laugh. Please keep her British. I need to see Percy making fun of her accent like "bit sad innit pinecone face" when he gets pissed and Thalia electrocuting him with four lightning bolts in a row. It would be extremely in character

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I saw this on Facebook and had to look it up. It really happened, albeit the details are different. From Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story:

"On the evening of MD-46, I finally played the trick that had been in work for over two month," said Garriott. "It even had the flight controllers puzzled for twenty-five years! My objective was to pretend that my wife, Helen, had come up to Skylab to bring us a hot meal, even though this was an obvious impossibility. Here is how the scheme worked. I recorded her voice on my small hand-held tape recorder before flight, pretending to have a brief conversation with a Capcom, with time gaps for his replies. The Capcom would be my only accomplice, but his role would be carefully disguised.

It was also necessary to have some recent event mentioned to validate the currency of the dialogue, so it would seem it could not have been recorded before fight. The short dialogue is printed below in its entirety. I knew that both Bob Crippen and Karl Henize were going to be Capcoms for Skylab, so they were brought into the planning, given the script and rehearsed on their timing. They kept the short script on a piece of paper in their billfolds, awaiting the right moment.

"For our flight in August-September, there would be many occasions of natural disasters involving forest fires or hurricanes, which would be widely known throughout the United States. So a few comments about one or the other were made on the tape. This led to four different scripts being recorded, one for each of the two Capcoms and one each for the two natural events. I would play the tape on the normal air-to-ground voice link with my wife's recorded voice and the Capcom would respond as if totally surprised by the female interloper."

Near the end of one period of voice contact Garriott said to the ground, "I'll have something for you on the next pass, Bob." Crippen replied, "Roger that, Owen." Then quietly and surreptitiously, he reviewed the brief script that had been in his pocket for all these weeks. Soon after coming into voice range, the ground heard this voice on the standard air-to-ground link:

Skylab (a female voice): "Gad, I don't see how the boys manage to get rid of the feedback berween these speakers.... Hello Houston, how are you reading me down there? (s sec. pause) Hello Houston, are you reading Skylab?"

Capcom: "Skylab, this is Houston. We heard you alright, but had difficulty recognizing your voice. Who do we have on the line up there?"

Skylab: "Hello Houston. Roger. Well I haven't talked with you for a while. Isn't that you down there, Bob? This is Helen, here in Skylab. The boys hadn't had a good home cooked meal in so long, I thought I'd bring one up. Over"

Capcom: "Roger, Skylab. Someone's gotta be pulling my leg, Helen. Where are you?"

Skylab: "Right here in Skylab, Bob. Just a few orbits ago we were looking down on those forest fires in California. The smoke sure covers a lot of territory, and, oh boy, the sunrises are just beautiful! Oh oh..... See you later, Bob. I hear the boys coming up here and I'm not supposed to be on the radio."

"Then quiet returned to the voice link, but we were told later, Bob Crippen had lots of questions coming his way in the Control Center," Garriott said. "What was going on? Where was this voice coming from? Bob must have been a very good actor, because he claimed complete ignorance and innocence of how it happened. Everyone heard it coming down on the air-to-ground loop. The whole two-way conversation sounded like a perfectly normal dialogue. No breaks or gaps, and they all heard Bob respond in real time. Could I have recorded Helen's voice on a 'family conversation' from our home? Yes, but there was no recent one. How would she have known about the fires, or who was to be on Capcom duty and how could she respond to Bob's comments in real time, as everyone could hear?

"No one ever worked out how this was accomplished. Finally, at our twenty-fifth reunion celebration in Houston in 1998, and with many of the flight directors and controllers present and still with no clue as to how it was done, I described it all as above. My prejudiced opinion is that this was the best 'gotcha' ever perpetrated on our friendly flight controllers!"

Crippen recalled: "That was kind of a fun trick. There was head rubbing.

Everybody in the MOCR, or the control room, was looking like, What the hell is going on?' We did a good job. It was fun. Working those missions got to be tough. We did all kinds of things to try to come up with levity. That was a nice one that the crew got that the ground control didn't know about."