General Yoyo Thoughts

USPS was fine until the current admins work to gut it. And going further back, USPS was profitable until a 2006 law required it to prepay health benefits 50 years in advance.

But yeah lets privatize it so the current postmaster general who has millions invested in USPS competitors can profit more

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Itā€™s actually 75 years in advance that theyā€™re required to fund due to that law. :scream:

Also itā€™s a service literally written into the constitution. Itā€™s not supposed to be profitable.

In other news, I got a Kappa recently thatā€™s supposedly a ā€œB-gradeā€ that I literally cannot find a flaw with. Super fun throw and I love the laser engraving!

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Whered you find a kappa?

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I bought one from someone on the Facebook BST ā€“ I posted a ā€œLFā€ post and they messaged me. Could probably find one on here posting a LF.

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I havenā€™t had any issues with usps recently. Actually, had 2 packages in the last 2 weeks get here literally in 2 days. A third will be here when I get back from Pennsylvania on tuesday. Maybe it depends on the area? Iā€™m on the east coast.

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I was sent some bearing blanks from @YoYoExpertGarrett and everyone he sent them to got theirs but I donā€™t know where mine are, I havenā€™t checked the Mailbox at the address he sent them to in a bit because my big sister was exposed to someone who had Covid and had to quarantine. She got negative test results on Tuesday night. I reckon Iā€™ll check it soon. :joy:

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@YoYoExpertGarrett tried to send me some bearing blanks two separate times and I didnā€™t receive either of the attempts, so youā€™re not the only one! Probably got stuck in machines somewhere along the line.

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Iā€™ll send them out in different packaging Monday.

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Can anyone tell me when Duncan started making amazing Yoyos again? Just tried a tourney, orbital gtx, freehand al, and butterfly al and these are all amazing. They arenā€™t just smooth and stable players, but they provide something new and interesting.

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Interested to know that as well, it was sometime between 2011 and now lol. The Butterfly AL is a super fun throw.

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Itā€™s gotta be when the Haymaker X arrived in early 2018, right

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So Iā€™ve been pretty down in the hobby for the past month and not having much fun at all. Hit a rut and lost a lot of my enthusiasm. Sometimes when I donā€™t have a bunch of enthusiasm moving me, it can feel like moving a mountain to do things for me.

Then I was talking to a friend yesterday on the forums and I decided itā€™s been a while since Iā€™ve payed things forward (my goodness so many have done so much for me in this community! :heart: :heart:)ā€¦so Iā€™d like to do something nice for him.

Itā€™s the best Iā€™ve felt in the hobby for weeks and it was in that moment that I realized that when Iā€™m actively doing nice things for peopleā€¦those are the best of times Iā€™ve had in this hobby.
Doing nice things and paying the karma forward is my jam.
Itā€™s not about landing awesome tricks, or putting long hours into practice. Itā€™s not about progressing and showing off and making people proud.
Iā€™m at my best when Iā€™m being friendly, straight up, and kind.

At the moment Iā€™m not even really throwingā€¦Iā€™m more of a ā€˜fanā€™/spectatorā€¦but at least I can still do kick ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā–  for people :smiley:.

haha I must sound conceited as hell.
Just wanted to share.

I :heart: being nice and it feels so damn good to be able to pay a tiny bit of the kindness yaā€™ll have showered me withā€¦back.

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Your friend should send you his Tishee, to match the Banshee SS :joy:

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Or maybe he doesnā€™t really love me :frowning:

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He should prove his love for you :slight_smile:

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Itā€™s really the only way to prove his undying love and devotion to me!

:smiley:

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Ultimate test would be if he can take a green sharpie to it before sending

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Thatā€™s actually pretty brilliant if I do say so myself! I bet itā€™d turn out great!

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Favorite organic mono metal here on yye?

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