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grin and bare it

A blog by Matthew Dicks

Climate change is real. Democrats knew this 30 years ago.

By mattyd | March 8, 2024

Just for the record: Climate change is accepted as a dangerous reality by all reasonable people. Democrats and Republicans alike. In 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its summary report on the…

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Love your job.

By mattyd | March 7, 2024

An 18-year-old hacker from Oxford has been sentenced to indefinite confinement after a series of astounding cybercrimes. While on bail for hacking Nvidia and the phone company, the hacker’s laptop was confiscated, and he was…

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Smoking going away

By mattyd | March 6, 2024

A student asked me, “Why would anyone start smoking? It just means you’ll have fewer friends.” It’s a good point. Though smokers and nonsmokers don’t always segregate themselves from one another, it’s often the case.…

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Sucker-punched

By mattyd | March 5, 2024

I was punched in the face – twice – in a dream last night. Both times, I argued that I had been sucker-punched, but in both cases, my combatants disagreed. They claimed that since we…

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A pie for a baby

By mattyd | March 4, 2024

Years ago, a principal was running my school, and he was a monster. A narcissist of the highest order. We had no affection for each other, and we made it abundantly clear, both in action…

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Toilet for the win

By mattyd | March 3, 2024

Years ago, on the way to Florida, my best friend and I played the “Best of All-Time” game, in which competitors must argue for the best of all time in a variety of categories: Movies.…

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Cinemetic quandaries

By mattyd | March 2, 2024

When Darth Vader is chasing Luke Skywalker down the trench of the Death Star in Star Wars: A New Hope, he notes that “the Force is strong with this one.” Shouldn’t he be more alarmed…

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Resolution update: February 2024

By mattyd | March 1, 2024

Every month, I report the progress of my yearly goals to monitor progress (or the lack thereof) and hold myself accountable.   The following are the results from February 2024. PERSONAL FITNESS 1. Don’t die.…

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Teach people how to deal with you

By mattyd | February 29, 2024

I was speaking to a business associate last week. She and I exchange a great deal of work regularly. We have quite a few ongoing projects at the moment. Amid the conversation, she said, “Is…

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JD Salinger: Bullets, bombs, and a book

By mattyd | February 28, 2024

A client recently told me that he can only write at a particular time of the day and only on certain days. This was not the result of a tight schedule or the demands of…

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