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Winterborn wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 6:21 am
Ibanez wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 6:14 am I have a sneaking suspicion that Kalm is a "debater" type personality according to Myers Briggs. I'm that type.


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That point could be debated. :coffee:
I see what you did there.

Fucking INTJ’s… :ohno:
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kalm wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 8:04 am
Winterborn wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 6:21 am

That point could be debated. :coffee:
I see what you did there.

Fucking INTJ’s… :ohno:
INTJ-A thank you very much. 8-)
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Winterborn wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:07 am
kalm wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 8:04 am

I see what you did there.

Fucking INTJ’s… :ohno:
INTJ-A thank you very much. 8-)
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Ibanez wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:08 am
Winterborn wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:07 am

INTJ-A thank you very much. 8-)
ha Ha hA HA
My ego swelled a bit when I read this after I took the Myers-Brigg test for work. :lol:
It can be lonely at the top. As one of the rarest personality types – and one of the most capable – Architects (INTJs) know this all too well. Rational and quick-witted, Architects may struggle to find people who can keep up with their nonstop analysis of everything around them.
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Winterborn wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:17 am
Ibanez wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:08 am

ha Ha hA HA
My ego swelled a bit when I read this after I took the Myers-Brigg test for work. :lol:
It can be lonely at the top. As one of the rarest personality types – and one of the most capable – Architects (INTJs) know this all too well. Rational and quick-witted, Architects may struggle to find people who can keep up with their nonstop analysis of everything around them.
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Ha! So I nailed it, didn’t I?

(I figured you’d take it as a compliment…which it was).
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kalm wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 8:04 am
Winterborn wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 6:21 am
That point could be debated. :coffee:
I see what you did there.

Fucking INTJ’s, smarter than me and faster to the punch(line) … :ohno:
FYP :poke:
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UNI88 wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:30 am
kalm wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 8:04 am

I see what you did there.

Fucking INTJ’s, smarter than me and faster to the punch(line) … :ohno:
FYP :poke:
I’m perfectly fine with being not very smart. :nod:

Also…

I know a few engineering types. They can be the dumbest smart people in the room. :nod:
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kalm wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:27 am
Winterborn wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:17 am

My ego swelled a bit when I read this after I took the Myers-Brigg test for work. :lol:



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Ha! So I nailed it, didn’t I?

(I figured you’d take it as a compliment…which it was).
You did and that is how I took it. :thumb:
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kalm wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:36 am
UNI88 wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:30 am

FYP :poke:
I’m perfectly fine with being not very smart. :nod:

Also…

I know a few engineering types. They can be the dumbest smart people in the room. :nod:
No argument on that one. Some engineers can be very, very specialized.
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It can be lonely at the top. As one of the rarest personality types – and one of the most capable – Architects (INTJs) know this all too well. Rational and quick-witted, Architects may struggle to find people who can keep up with their nonstop analysis of everything around them.
Architects? :suspicious: Nonstop analysis? :rofl: :rofl:

Some of these motherfuckers need to be stood up against a wall and be pelted with eggs, fruits, and vegetables.
I have a lot of pet peeves with regard to them, but my #1 is:
Don't put windows on the east, south, or west side of an athletic venue. Nothing worse than sun shining partially on a court, rink, or field.
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CAA Flagship wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:52 am
It can be lonely at the top. As one of the rarest personality types – and one of the most capable – Architects (INTJs) know this all too well. Rational and quick-witted, Architects may struggle to find people who can keep up with their nonstop analysis of everything around them.
Architects? :suspicious: Nonstop analysis? :rofl: :rofl:

Some of these motherfuckers need to be stood up against a wall and be pelted with eggs, fruits, and vegetables.
I have a lot of pet peeves with regard to them, but my #1 is:
Don't put windows on the east, south, or west side of an athletic venue. Nothing worse than sun shining partially on a court, rink, or field.
I think of myself as a Daniel Burnham type of architect.
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I took a test like that in 8th or 9th grade. My top two professions were lawyer and undertaker. Go figure.
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Ivytalk wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 2:26 pm I took a test like that in 8th or 9th grade. My top two professions were lawyer and undertaker. Go figure.
The test I took in 6th grade had me down for waste water plant engineer or a puppeteer. I think I would've been an amazing puppeteer. The path less taken. :rofl:
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GannonFan wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 2:35 pm
Ivytalk wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 2:26 pm I took a test like that in 8th or 9th grade. My top two professions were lawyer and undertaker. Go figure.
The test I took in 6th grade had me down for waste water plant engineer or a puppeteer. I think I would've been an amazing puppeteer. The path less taken. :rofl:
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I have taken the Myers-Briggs so much at work for training classes that I now refuse to do so.

I have taken it no less than 10 times and I come up ISTP every time.

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CID1990 wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 4:55 pm I have taken the Myers-Briggs so much at work for training classes that I now refuse to do so.

I have taken it no less than 10 times and I come up ISTP every time.

In Star Wars characters, it means I am Chewbacca.
I see the resemblance. 8-)
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Being wrong about a topic is called post partisanism - kalm
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UNI88 wrote: Thu Jan 27, 2022 11:16 am
Civility? What civility? (I seem to remember Trump being raked over the coals for his language.)
President Biden called a reporter who asked him about the potential political consequences of inflation a “stupid son of a bitch” at a White House event on Monday.

Mr. Biden’s comments came after Peter Doocy, a White House correspondent for Fox News, asked the president if inflation would be a political liability ahead of the midterm elections.

“No, that’s a great asset. More inflation,” Mr. Biden said sarcastically. “What a stupid son of a bitch.”
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Winterborn wrote: Thu Jan 27, 2022 11:29 am
UNI88 wrote: Thu Jan 27, 2022 11:16 am
Civility? What civility? (I seem to remember Trump being raked over the coals for his language.)
President Biden called a reporter who asked him about the potential political consequences of inflation a “stupid son of a bitch” at a White House event on Monday.

Mr. Biden’s comments came after Peter Doocy, a White House correspondent for Fox News, asked the president if inflation would be a political liability ahead of the midterm elections.

“No, that’s a great asset. More inflation,” Mr. Biden said sarcastically. “What a stupid son of a bitch.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-curs ... 1643073814
And their defense will be the very mature - "but they (Trump) did it first" even though this has been escalating for years.
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UNI88 wrote: Thu Jan 27, 2022 11:57 am
Winterborn wrote: Thu Jan 27, 2022 11:29 am

Civility? What civility? (I seem to remember Trump being raked over the coals for his language.)



https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-curs ... 1643073814
And their defense will be the very mature - "but they (Trump) did it first" even though this has been escalating for years.
Defense implies they are actually talking about it. It has been just dirt under the rug outside of some non-mainstream (FOX aside) sources so far.
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CID1990 wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 6:31 am
I was just about to post this.

Most transparent administration ever was another campaign promise that has not materialized.


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A former Westchester (NY) County Executive exposed covert operations used by DHS to relocate illegal migrants from southern border states to other parts of the country. A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request produced video proof that the Biden administration does not want Americans to know about it.

The former county executive, Rob Astorino, is currently running as a Republican candidate for the governor of New York. He appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show on Wednesday night. The video footage that was run during his segment shows a plane on the tarmac of a Westchester, New York airport in August 2021. The flight landed during the night. A Westchester County police officer recorded a conversation with a federal contractor on his body camera. The video shows proof of a secret charter flight used to transport illegal migrants from the southern border to New York.

“The government is betraying the American people,” said the federal contractor

“Our government is completely out of control right now. They have lied to us. They’ve lied to the American people,” Astorino, who is running as a Republican for the governor of New York, said Wednesday on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”

Astorino said he personally saw the migrants being put on a bus to a Costco, where they were “then released into cars into the community.”

The 51-minute footage of the August incident shows Westchester Police Sgt. Michael Hamborsky peppering federal contractors early in the morning with questions about the after-hours flights and why local police were not provided details.

“You’re on a secure facility here; we really don’t know anything and we’re in charge of security,” he told one of the contractors.

“This is anti all our security stuff,” Hamborsky said.

...

The New York Post first reported last August that a private security firm signed a $136M contract with the federal government to transport the illegal migrants around the country.
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BDKJMU wrote: Thu Jan 27, 2022 3:40 pm Where are BLM’s millions?
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I never knew the specifics before this article.

Avenatti somehow convinced the Publisher of Stormy Daniels book to send him the book payments.

Siphoned money off! What a sleaze. :lol:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... trial.html
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This is kind of ironic:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-jud ... 022-01-28/
A federal judge invalidated the results of an oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday saying the Biden administration failed to properly account for the auction's climate change impact.
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