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w/r/t the story I'm thinking maybe ab epileptic attack etc. where they pretty much knew they were out of danger currently, but she has the need for driving priveleges etc she needs to keep for her job etc. but I think you handled it well and i enjoyed the story.

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(Welcome to Gene's Fishbowl.)

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(Shhh! Gene’s quietly observing us, studying our behavior. But he can’t read what we say if we use parentheses.)

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You fool, he'll read that first! Then exponents, then multiplication and division, and then addition and subtraction.

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Good one!

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Birthing pains today 😹 Nothing great ever came easy, right?

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So.....is anything happening?

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Gene replied to a few of the comments from last week. Not sure if that was the intention or if that was just the best that could be done under the circumstances.

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It appears there was a good deal of discussion on the other thread titled "what should we talk about first," so I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I don't think I'm alone in this. :)

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Here all of us dumdums were waiting for a chat on or around the post that went up today, when we obviously SHOULD HAVE KNOWN that the chat would, without notification, take place in (response to) (some of) (the most recent) comments from last week's post.

Idiots, the lot of us.

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if we paid the $5 would we get this live? I mean people paid Southwest $$$ and they got nowhere live

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Are you saying we need to be elsewhere? There seem to be technical issues where we are now.

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There were comments - I went looking - on the other thread from Gene. I don't know which thread was where we "should" be chatting. ???

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Hey, as long as it's not a bedroom timer, you're fine.....

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I guess being late to the party is okay since we've had a Southwest experience. Any updates on what might happen?

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Please, someone, reassure me that Substack has not been acquired by Elon Musk....

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Has anyone ever seen Substack and Southwest Airlines in the same room at the same time?

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So long as we're waiting....Kevin McCarthy lost on the first round of balloting.

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Interesting. I wonder what happens now? I don't believe a Speaker nominee has failed to make the first ballot in quite some time....

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100 years, according to Steve Kornacki, who's at the same board he uses on election nights. McCarthy says they'll just keep voting.

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While the technical glitches are being de-glitched, I'll pose a curiosity: Does Rachel have her own word to mean "boyfriend"?

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"fnorfette."

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We have obviously got a tech issue here. Hang in there; I'm not sure substack is used to this volume of traffic.

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Just what need around here....ANOTHER traffic jam

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Maybe it's Adults Swim in the Gene Pool.

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What a wrenching story. I have an acquaintance who died, drunk, in the cold a few years ago. No one knows who, if anyone, walked past her. She was a person like us with a job, an apartment, a kid, and a drinking problem that she mostly managed.

And… this woman you saw did have someone with her. I probably would have done what the other person did and scuttled along. I appreciate the calculations: cops, ambulance, medical bills.

But on the other hand: Narcan, a wake up call in one’s life to stop doing so much shit (whatever it is), maybe even sobriety.

This kind of column gives people like me a thought experiment. So that when we encounter the situation we have a plan.

But I still don’t know what mine is.

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