Scott Wessman @scottew Twitter profile

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@scottew

3 months

tech is great but worth noting that Costco is doing $240b in annual sales and uses this for inventory management

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imagine having an apartment with 3 minute access to a $1.50 hot dog and drink between 10 am and 8:30 pm

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Costco, typically known for giant buildings full of bulk goods surrounded by massive parking lots, is working on a deal in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles that would put apartments full of potential customers on top of a planned store.

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When I sign my emails “Best” it’s because I did my best on that email

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Strongest Man competition in Utah has this as the first event

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groceries but evil

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***Longer post, feel free to skip*** Bring Back Low-Stakes Activities for Kids We took a wrong turn in the last ~20 years as a society by transforming too many of our organized extracurriculars for kids into high-commitment and high-cost activities. Low stakes, high mountain…

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Mormons: *eat breakfast* The Guardian: huh. wow. ok that’s fascinating. so they love breakfast eh

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2 years

We activated The Claw. Putin is done

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2 years

Highway signs and The Claw lit up.

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I’m not saying stripe is the mob but a guy with an Irish accent just called and said if I didn’t post something nice about the company he was gonna give me “first hand experience in headless commerce”

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3 years

Here is a periodic reminder that if you are a straight man in a professional setting, part of your job is having meals and meetings alone with individual women. This is about equity and fairness to your colleagues. Figure it out with your spouse/gf. There is a right answer here.

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3 years

I will laugh for the next year about dōTERRA On Guard® Sanitizing Hand Wipes going out to schools during an airborne pandemic

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8 months

(quasi-religious post, feel free to ignore) My church's new school honor-code prohibition on same-sex "romantic behavior" is morally wrong. I hope it (and the underlying doctrine that enables it) will change. Asking LGBTQ+ students not to find someone they like, hold hands…

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2 years

I’m not saying there’s a lot of covid in Utah but the inversion just dropped off cookies and asked if we needed anything

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@WorldWideWob Alpine, Utah

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2 years

wordle is the healthiest viral thing in years. Little tiny snack of a game, can’t be binged, easygoing social element. Granted very annoying to non-participants but a 30 second filter setup solves that part

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a bit cliche but it remains wild how you get unexpected bills from medical providers for like $1500, then when you call them about it they're like oh yeah haha that's not real, that's just our system being kinda silly 🤪

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Good example of Amazon selling out the customer for advertising revenue—search for “anker charging block” leads to - 4 competitors’ stores - 2 Anker-sponsored posts (ransom) - 2 products I bought before - 2 more sponsored posts flat out refusal to give me what they know I want

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2 years

prospero año Y felicidad? en esta economia?!

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1 year

Imagine being super nice, enthusiastic about and successful with your work, loved by fans, family, and friends, fairly private, then inviting a reporter to hang around with you, and they write a piece just making fun of all of it—you, your religious affiliation, your town. Wild.

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@WIRED

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Meet Brandon Sanderson. Brandon published two books in the time it took our writer to finish this story. Brandon's fantasy writing made him $55 million last year. Brandon doesn't think he's a very good writer. 📷: Michael Friberg |

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church lockup, scariest job

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@WorldWideWob Alpine, UT

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2 years

The real question is why Mike Lee was going so hard for Trump in that post-election period. My best guess: Lee believed (believes?) that Trump was his best shot at getting nominated to the Supreme Court.

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6 months

my wife is filling out a pre-visit registration form for a medical provider and encountered these choices when selecting her preferred language

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2 months

***Longer post, feel free to skip*** Bring Back More Low-Stakes Social Gatherings In the early 50s, my grandparents moved into a small home in Kearns, Utah, that had been built just a few years earlier, after World War II. Among my fondest memories growing up was going over to…

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2 years

weird how I am the one person perfectly balanced in my approach to covid, neither too strict nor too careless, while others seem to fall too far in one direction or another

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4 months

“those were the times I carried you”

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4 months

Wow. And there you have it. Six-month core PCE is at 1.87 percent, under the Federal Reserve's 2 percent target. I was cautiously optimistic about 2023 - I have some 'soft landing' blog posts from a year ago - but this disinflation is far beyond what I imagined. Let's dig in. /1

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3 years

normalize not doing a little apologetic half-jog when a car stops for you at a crosswalk

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2 years

bike infrastructure is so cheap

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@BrentToderian

2 years

The new Paris 2021-26 urban biking plan will invest €250 million to, among other things, make 52km of pandemic bike-lanes permanent; add 130km of new bike-lanes; add 130K new bike parking spots; & teach all elementary school students to bike. Leadership.

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10 months

Springville Art Museum is doing its annual quilt show. Here’s Julie with “The Birthday Quilt,” her latest effort!

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1 year

ok maybe this is too far

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3 months

I too am part of the paid Mormon Twitter Program Each month I have to post a minimum of 5 morning run tweets and at least 30 tweets based on tired joke formats I receive $300 per month and am also entitled to all of the leftover sacrament bread in my church building

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@umberghauri

3 months

Just to be clear: -Mormons are paid to promote their lifestyle to recruit people to their cult -this woman is 22 and pregnant with her 3rd child, she was married at 18 -half the comments on her TikTok are younger women & girls saying things like ‘I wanna be you when I grow up’

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@EliMcCann I was on a weeklong backpacking trip in the Wind Rivers with some friends and in the middle of nowhere we saw a couple hiking toward us. When they got close we said hi and waved. No response, passed within 25 feet of us without acknowledging us or saying anything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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like clockwork

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3 years

"Avoid the appearance of evil." No. It is not evil. These are your colleagues, not prostitutes. "What if my neighbor sees me." Good. They will see you being normal and a professional. "What if they falsely accuse me of something?" Stop it. Control your imagination. Be normal.

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2 years

going back in time to tell Gordon Bitner Hinckley that the DesNews now features a regular columnist who thinks old folks dying from covid deserve a big shruggie

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2 years

Church is pretty weird a lot of the time but when a terminally ill neighbor stands up to thank everyone for their love and support and then describe her experiences with suffering and faith it feels like we are accomplishing something together in that moment

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6 months

one of the most diabolical works of literature, just a brutal read

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6 months

Love how this is a book that everyone gets people with the expectation that they’ll just read it to their kids like a normal book. Like lmao ma’am I cannot make it past page three w/o breaking down in sobs. Don’t even want it in my house. Can’t even look at the cover.

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1 year

church really went out there and turned whine into water

Inside what the Church of Jesus Christ is doing to save water and the Great Salt Lake

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and other state officials offer thanks, address how to solve the problem.

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2 years

Lord be with the comms team at the 7 tonight

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1 year

faculty supervisor didn’t have the heart to tell ‘em I guess

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2 years

The imminent greenlighting of the Little Cottonwood Canyon gondola project feels like an case study in civic failure—a solution obviously unfit for actual traffic mitigation; immense upfront and ongoing cost born by taxpayers; huge financial windfall to a few private interests.

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A level-headed senator and political leader who will be greatly missed. I differ with Sen Romney on various things but he served the way you hope someone will in government.

Senator Mitt Romney

@SenatorRomney

8 months

My message to Utahns on my Senate reelection plan:

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calling people who leave the church "alumni" from now on

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2 years

if I were a lending startup I would simply use alternative sources of data to achieve lower risk with borrowers who can’t qualify under conventional standards

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2 months

The large number of Punjabi truck drivers in America has resulted in targeted truck stops/food in places like Wheatley, Arkansas and Vega, Texas. Goat curry, butter chicken, and garlic naan on the road will do just fine. 🇮🇳 🤝 🇺🇸

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2 years

Jazz are going to absolutely destroy Dr Jordan Peterson (assuming Gobert is healthy)

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3 months

@MattDursh strong evidence!

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5 months

Provo should block off Center Street from University to 5th West and make it a huge pedestrian plaza. Lots of parking exists around that stretch, the shops are all close together, and being able to freely cross from one side to the other would make the experience a lot better.

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3 months

Laws like the "bathroom bill" just passed here in Utah encourage vigilantism and outright cruelty toward people, including kids. Regardless of whether this was the bill's intended purpose or a mere side effect, Utah is not better for prioritizing this kind of legislation.

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Our Response to Natalie Cline’s bullying of a high school student Today, Utah State Board of Education member, Natalie Cline posted a mocking statement on Facebook targeting a female high school student. Cline’s post inferred that the teenager might be transgender. The student…

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Biden will lock up the election tonight if he does Gene Wilder’s Willy Wonka “fall into a somersault” move on his way to the dais #StateOfTheUnion

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1 year

the church can tell how committed I am to staying by the way I humbly accept its apps and website asking me for login credentials approximately seven hundred times per month

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6 months

it’s weird how a meal at Five Guys is like $21 now while an appetizer/entree/dessert combo at Chilis is like $13 or something. We’ve reached chain dining inversion

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3 years

"But so-and-so ended up having an affair with their admin." Guess what, lunch didn't cause that. "But I live thousands of miles from any colleague." Okay, you got me there buddy. Go in peace.

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1 year

Some personal news! I've recently joined Etogy, a small but mighty payments company here in Utah. The team has quietly built a wonderful business over the last decade, and I've known the founders for a long time. We're going to build even more great stuff in years to come.

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2 years

you don’t get to punch someone in the face and then tell them to calm down

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@KUTV2News

2 years

Senate President Stuart Adams said he hopes the state will "move forward" from the trans-athlete bill: "I just don’t think it’s very considerate or kind to keep bringing this issue up because it is divisive." @JeremyHarrisTV #utleg #utpol

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3 years

"But my dad/religious leader told me it was never appropriate to be alone with a woman." It's okay to be wrong about stuff. Forgive them for harboring an old approach and chart your own course. "But I don't know if I can control myself." You can. You do every day in other ways.

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4 months

suddenly realized why Mitt decided not to run again

Deseret News

@Deseret

4 months

Have you ever dreamed of operating a big rig? Are you a fan of hot dogs? If you answered yes to both of those questions, your dream job might just be on the market. | By @JustGambles14

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1 year

It’s true. The Mormon thing to do would be to release him from the House with a terse “vote of thanks”

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1 year

Rep George Santos (R-NY) tells reporters the criticism last night from Sen Mitt Romney (R-UT)….. “wasn't very Mormon.”

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I keep waiting for a religious freedom talk from the church that doesn't have an ugly straw-man of the "evil secular outside world" but so far no luck

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1 year

We Mormons get really upset at attacks against our religious identity but we allow our church’s newspaper to publish opinions angry at the existence and accommodation of trans people, many of whom were born and raised in our faith. This feeds the cycle of hate and mistrust.

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@Deseret

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Opinion: This year I bought a strange holiday gift for my kids: I gave them dictionaries. | By Valerie Hudson

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morning hike

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3 years

POV: Tillamook ice cream is on sale for $2.99/carton

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It is bogus to hand the trophy first to the team owner rather than the head coach. I will die on this hill.

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2 years

@pmarca Can you handle this? Thx Sent from my iPad

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have…have we gone too far

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log off, set phone down, touch grass 🤦‍♂️

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2 years

please remember to check your children’s candy this halloween season. i just found the entire “time for some game theory” thread in my sons fun size snickers

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morning run

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The mortgage interest deduction while folks highlight the unfairness of student loan forgiveness

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Weekend of General Conference, large group of returned missionaries flies into Salt Lake, rents a huge house together, has the reunion Friday evening, during which someone murders the former mission president. All have motives of various kinds...

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What would be a good theme for a "Knives Out" mystery set in Utah?

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Needed a cord and looked in my big box of cords and found the right one. Never give up on your dreams.

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wait, not there guys, GUYS

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morning run

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1 year

Lost delta diamond status at the beginning of this year. Painful. The perk I miss the most? Each flight you get to pick one bag from someone of lower status to get rerouted to the wrong airport

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on the bright side it's nice to have a handy reference for when people ask what is meant by the term "coastal elite."

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1 year

Hypothesis: WFH vs. in-office is going to become one of those things that new CEOs like to change whenever they get installed. In office now? Well we need to attract good people wherever they live. Remote working now? Well in-office fosters collaboration/creativity & repeat

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Our youngest (12) told us she wants to do a “last day as a kid” outing with us when she turns 13 where she does all the kid stuff one last time (play at playground, happy meal, etc). Love the idea, chances of parents crying are approx 1000%

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2 years

walking through the hotel lobby at a conference after your morning run

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B gate losers gotta swim the tunnel, it’s not our fault they chose to fly non-delta

KSL NewsRadio

@kslnewsradio

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Breaking news- The Salt Lake International Airport announced the tunnel that connects the A and B concourses is flooded. The airport is working on alternative ways including a bus bridge for passengers to get around.

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I am begging members of US Congress to stop actively trading stocks

GURGAVIN

@gurgavin

2 months

JUST IN : NANCY PELOSI JUST BOUGHT PALO ALTO NETWORK CALLS WORTH UPTO $1.25 MILLION DOLLARS $PANW

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school should end before Memorial Day and not start until after labor day

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living with one’s parents during various phases is smart and economical and makes good use of surplus space that older couples have in their homes

FXHedge

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MOVING BACK IN WITH YOUR PARENTS IS SO COMMON NOW THAT IT’S NEARLY LOST ITS STIGMA (Fortune) In the months after the pandemic hit in 2020, nearly 50% of young adults—those aged 18 to 29—lived at home with their parents in the greatest numbers on record since the Great…

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2 years

We are in an interesting era in which fintech's coolness has worn off a bit in favor of web3, while the market opportunity for fintech remains bigger than any other time. Going to be a lot of uncool, $50b companies built in the next decade

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Ah yes, the Tyrannicene Creed

IGN

@IGN

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Researchers say the Tyrannosaurus Rex may have actually been three separate dinosaurs.

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The fact Redbox has lasted this long is incredible really

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I am begging members of US Congress to stop actively trading stocks

unusual_whales

@unusual_whales

2 months

BREAKING: Congressman William Keating appears to have sold Boeing, $BA, stock on Feb 28, 2024. The DOJ announced it was investigating Boeing on Feb 29, 2024. He sold the DAY before it was reported that DOJ was investigating Boeing.

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@utahbug was—owned by a Canadian company now!

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@tobi @stevesi Respectfully I think you are overrating how negative reactions have been. They've seemed mostly positive, with very loud complaints about a few headlines that focused on the reentry failure.

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find me a better place to run than new york city, I’ll wait

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4 months

I'm no Republican or Democrat, but I'm a fan of reasonable, get-stuff-done politicians. I don't need full ideological alignment with someone to support them. Being a progress-oriented, ethical steward of public outcomes matters more. I believe Gov. Cox is one of those people.

Spencer Cox

@SpencerJCox

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Excited to officially file for re-election. Serving as your governor has been the honor of a lifetime. We have accomplished so much together and can’t wait to finish what we started. I can’t thank you enough for your kindness and support!

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designer: so get this: a lamp— boss: okay I’m listening— designer: —with POWER OUTLETS on the base boss: dude that’s brilliant designer: right?! it’s perfect for hotels boss: absolutely…hey what if we also make the outlets too loose to hold the prongs designer: I LOVE that

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2 years

lol have to admire this

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2 months

Just build more housing. It is not a demand side problem!

NewsWire

@NewsWire_US

2 months

BIDEN TO PROPOSE $5,000 CREDIT FOR FIRST-TIME HOME BUYERS: WAPO

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escalates quickly

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Office cornfield watch: goodbye edition Thank you Visa for everything 👋🙏

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buying the most expensive bougie turkeys and finding the priciest gasoline in town to own the libs

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2 years

high school starting at 7 am is not good for kids and yet we do it anyway

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1 year

We have so many good moments as a church, yet at our worst we resemble the mundane bureaucracy of a decaying regime, unable to stop external progress and reduced to investigating our own membership for disloyalty

BYU-I instructors fired for failing ‘ecclesiastical clearance.’ They can’t find out why.

BYU-I adjunct instructors have been fired for failing an "ecclesiastical" test. But they can't find out the reasons.

www.sltrib.com

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