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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. A month ago slightly low platelets. now even lower platelets, also slightly low RBC, Hemoglobin, hemocrit. None of these numbers are dramatic, but there’s no easy explanation so we’re doing due diligence, as they say.
  2. Ring a ding ding
  3. I’m not ignoring anyone. But if I was it would be the fat ones.
  4. Welp. Now my blood work is weird. I feel great, I look good, according to various cardiovascular diagnostics I’ve got the heart and lung function of a 34 year old at 51. My resting heart rate is 43 bpm. but you know… the blood work. Maybe something, maybe nothing. Meanwhile I decided to totally change careers at age 50 because I love trouble so I’m doing all the shit you do at 25 except the stakes are much higher and I have two kids in college and I’m underinsured. in short, situation excellent. We attack.
  5. True but they also didn’t focus on anything, so…
  6. God JD Vance is such a pudding
  7. Exactly. That’s why they call it the myth of white supremacy. Everyone who makes it in this country works hard. Unless you are born two or more of really good looking, rich, smart or well connected hard work alone doesn’t get you much. And you need to be lucky also. I guess white boys have it slightly better at a traffic stop. That’s about it. And right about the time MLK started to point that shit out is when they shot him. Anyway that’s why “white trash” is such a potent insult. One time in middle school my friend’s mom called me and my family white trash to my face. Let me tell you- when a grown woman from HP tells a kid from East Dallas that he and his family are “white trash”, it’s a formative moment.
  8. Back in the 90’s my brother in law was talking to some girl at a humanities grad school type party in Hyde Park. Some kind of pony-tailed, New-Sincerity-scene-adjacent American Studies TA kept trying to work his way in and compete for the lady’s attention, but his efforts found no purchase. Making a tactical retreat, he found his way to the bookshelf nearby and began perusing the titles, then grabbed one very thick volume and announced in her general direction, “Gravity’s Rainbow? This is my FAVORITE book.” Suffice it to say he went home alone after he put on a live tape of The Reivers from his car and somebody stopped it and started playing Cypress Hill instead.
  9. "The genius of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity's Rainbow: he had to take all of his first year courses at, what was it, Cornell? One of his teachers was Nabokov. And everything he had in his first year’s physics went in to Gravity’s Rainbow. Whether it fit in or not, it just went in there. That’s one way of doing it." - Gore Vidal, 2006
  10. lol, Moses Brown started and went for 20/11. Welcome back Moses!
  11. are you asking what strategy will yield the most profit if the equity markets decline across the board?
  12. Soon as I see that thing near me I’m checking to make sure my wallet is still in my pocket.
  13. Agree with all that, but trading Luka this has replaced those for me. It’s not a perfect pass and catch in a close game. It’s not a fragile QB getting figured out and falling apart. It’s not the refs. It’s not just how baseball go. This was a direct fuck you to the city and the fans, straight from the management.
  14. I grew up in Dallas and while the cowboys were obviously king, the Mavs started playing at exactly the right time in my life (I was 7)for me to fall in love with the team, and I had a connection to it I don’t have with the Cowboys. We grew up together. I root for the Rangers and the Cowboys, but I love the Mavericks. Anyway I disagree that Jerry wouldn’t do anything this stupid. He would. But he wouldn’t and won’t do anything this painful for the fans, for better or worse, because he’s one of us, and his life is in the city. I think he understands that even though he owns the Cowboys, the star is bigger than Jerry Jones, and, the star is not The Star without the city and the fans. Thus to hurt the fans and the city diminishes him. That was even more true with the Mavericks, because there is no national brand. The Mavs are essentially a large market version of the Hornets or Pelicans. Nobody outside of Dallas really cares about the Mavericks, and local ownership from Don Carter through Marc Cuban understood that. And I believe the Adelsons understand it too, which leads them in a very different direction, because they aren’t local to the city. The Mavericks are a piece on a chessboard for them, and nowhere near the most important piece.
  15. We have too many restaurants right now, but that will take care of itself in pretty short order.
  16. Even more classless and tone deaf, you mean? The ongoing negative whisper campaign isn’t any better. In some ways the negative leaked about Luka are an argument that this wasn’t a hit job by the league, and Nico/Dumont really are that dumb.
  17. And as a new member of the unemployed population she should have no problem shelling out the ~ $2149.31 plus 2% administrative fee for that.
  18. This is exactly right. Up until that point, the assets in/out was very much in favor of the Mavs, even with Brunson leaving. He built the roster to win a championship with a healthy Doncic. And then to trade him for maybe half what he’s worth? Look, I don’t normally do conspiracy theories. I realize the Mavs now have the best (if healthy) front court in the league by far with Gafford/Lively, PJ and Davis, and Max Christie is developing into a legit allstar level player. But considering the impact on the future, and I mean two years out, not 5-10, and the current market, the Mavs should have gotten at least two more first round picks, AND Knecht AND probably Reaves on top of it. There are a lot of reasons for Nico and the Adelsons to do the deal as they did it. None of them have to do with the long term viability of the team as a championship contender in the city of Dallas. Of course the other possibility is that Nico really doesn’t believe that Luka will ever be that guy, and was willing to lose the trade to get rid of him.
  19. @Incredulity reading this thread like
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