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atomheartbevo

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  1. So I avoided this thread like..you know...anyways, got to have a kidney and some lymph nodes out last summer, and I avoided this thread and Google in general because I didn't want to ponder the worst-case scenarios and I had already been stressing the shit out of myself and losing sleep without reading about it even more. It was far enough along that they couldn't save the kidney (I didn't even realize they could partially remove a kidney), but I still got one and it looks great and I'm taking better care of myself and my last kidney. My 3-month checkup looked great - they believe they got everything. About to get my 6-month checkup. Thankfully I had an acquaintance-turned-close-friend who went through almost the same thing last January, about 6 months before I did, so I had the run-down (and his urologist/surgeon). I got lucky as all get out. I got a very tiny glimpse of the hell some of you all have been through, and y'all are amazing.
  2. Mario Party Jamboree is perfect to purchase tonight in preparation for Snowpocalypse. This is a damn fine looking game from the YouTube videos.
  3. I’m not going back through the last few pages but what about tomorrow? This gal I’m occasionally banging on the side has a dipshit boss that had some big mandatory meeting on cutting costs and efficiency and motivation crap (sounds like her boss got hooked on Tony Robbins videos) in Houston on Tuesday, and last I heard he’s not canceling it, so she was going to fly from Dallas to Hobby. Which is not very efficient and is definitely not cutting costs, but whatever. Anyways, she said she booked us a five-star hotel for the night. She mentioned a niece that was going to be tagging along on the trip, but I’m not sure if niece by marriage or by blood, so I’m hoping things don’t get weird and that the niece is elsewhere. So is Hobby open tomorrow?
  4. Austin ISD just called it, closed Tuesday.
  5. She’s a 10 compared to who Leon is spending his free time looking at these days
  6. Pretty sure AISD and the City of Austin will close if we get even two inches. Can’t blame them becasue whatever we get will be tomorrow night and will be frozen Tuesday morning into the afternoon. Question is when will they call it.
  7. Wait meteorologists are fucking models?
  8. It could only be funnier if the gamer was a 12 year-old. A guy who thinks he’s an alpha male in his compound with a trench knife stuck in the wall, is arguing with neckbeards while Bezos is cruising the Caribbean on a yacht with his attractive girlfriend. I wish YGIFS were here to see this timeline.
  9. Neither is going to fail, but all of the sports people will now move to Mastodon to piss you off.
  10. Wouldn’t you like to go back in time to the 1990s and flash that headline up on a screen at a comic book convention?
  11. Leon is too busy attending to matters of arguing with literal neckbeards over video games to notice.
  12. Wanting multiple wives in 1850s America was some serious shit.
  13. I would say somebody got rejected by a human woman.
  14. The fact that they are holding back private/direct messages, better hashtag management, embedding, and a few other things in order to keep forcing people to Instagram is pretty fucking stupid, because it is opening the door to BlueSky, and it is still helping Twitter. Zuck had the chance to cripple Twitter and he passed in favor of trying to force people to Instagram. And everybody is noticing the amount of spam and general shiftiness on Threads, and it will only get worse as they loosen all of the restrictions. Facebook is not going anywhere, but I’m seeing more and more people reducing their usage and also looking around for groups away from Facebook, and I bet that trend picks up as the spammers and bottlers see what they can get away with and adjust accordingly.
  15. We are getting a Deltan in the Section 31 movie
  16. Yeah, they may not have his wealth, but they have their videogames and they will grind away for a shit-ton of time to get some trinket or title, and being faced with evidence that he takes credit for something they don’t think he could have earned will gnaw at them.
  17. I may be in Salt Lake City in March at a conference, and ti would be tempting, but I’m not sure yet if I’m going yet. I have a cousin that has been out there and took some photos, but it would be interesting to see it in person. I’m curious if you’ve dealt with the Descendants organization. I was a member for a long time, but have not renewed in years. There were some real characters in it - a lot of people who are members are not direct lineal descendants of anybody killed, but to hear them tell it, you’d think it was their grandma that was killed. Some of them are overzealous to the point where I felt that it hurts the organization and the main monument(s). Back in the late 90s, there were some work being done on a monument and a bunch of bones were found during the work, and they were sent off to BYU, and a bunch of family members lost their shit, which I completely understand. I absolutely understand that. The remains were then sent to an anthropologist at I think Utah State or the University of Utah. There was talk of trying to identify the remains through studies/DNA testing, and I remember some group offering up the finances to do it properly, and the family members/organization opposed it and wanted them back in the ground after the minimum worked needed to satisfy state laws (basically determine they weren’t recent victims of crime). I remember a bunch of “they’ve suffered enough, let’s get them back in the ground where they can be at peace” (more like pieces jumbled together) nonsense. The whole thing weirded me out, especially as a lot of the people pushing to rebury them ASAP did not seem to be direct descendants. They had the chance to potentially properly identify the victims and give them their own burial plots or at least their own boxes, but nope, if recall right it was about getting them back in the ground. I could have understood if it was the LDS Church saying that because they wouldn’t like the sight of the skeletons of little kids being named, but it was the Descendants group. The state and the LDS Church Seemed open to trying to ID them. And they have the information on living descendants and relatives, and they know the names of the victims and the ages, so it would not have been a situation like the DOD still identifying Pearl Harbor victims from large graves and trying to track down unknown relatives.
  18. I’ve worked with a lot over the years, and yeah, for the most part, easy to work with. I’ve even changed some views I had on them as well, but they still have their nutters who have to protect the church. I’ve even stopped calling them Mormons to their faces.
  19. Smith and Young just wanted to have a lot of sex with a lot of women, and Smith ginned up the perfect religion to make it happen, and Young was happy to further it so he cloud also sleep with dozens of different women.
  20. They are pissed. This kind of stuff leaking into the mainstream really pokes a lot of holes in the history some of them have in their minds, or that they tell their kids, of their heroic ancestors, all the while said ancestors kept getting run out of towns/states because they were assholes, so of course they continued to be assholes in Utah. It’s similar to the “the Civil war wasn’t about slavery” crowd when you point out that most of the Confederate states put out statements declaring they were seceding to protect slavery (Texas has among the worst of the declarations of secession). This is probably the most high-profile take on the Massacre, and there’s already been a few Mormons out there doing the “it wasn’t as bad as they made it out to be”. There’s been some recent books that made noise, but their audiences are pretty narrow, I’m pretty aware of the Massacre, but very aware of the Huff and Fancher families and the wagon trains as a whole - I have a few ancestors amongst those families in Benton and Carroll counties in Arkansas, and some genealogy/background research I had published on them made its way into a book on the Massacre. I’m a couple of episodes in, and gritting my teeth a bit over some of the errors (most of which were already mentioned). I am trying to just roll with it, but I keep wondering why they didn’t get some things right, that would not have distracted from the story and would not have cost extra, but Hollywood is gonna Hollywood. There was no need to make up some of the stuff, or compress some timelines, because the story, the characters, the land, would have been captivating enough. My guess is the people behind the show felt the need to be edgy and/or were worried they’d lose their audience. We won’t be getting any mini-series like Michener’s Centennial in the future, I’m guessing. But I’ll reserve final judgement until I’ve finished it,
  21. Scientologists would have done this shit if they could have gotten away with it.
  22. Voyager launched on January 16, 1995.
  23. Generations has grown on me over the years. Liked it when it came out, then kind of forgot about it as I moved on with ST on TV. Watched it recently and it is pretty solid.
  24. Late 2025 or 2026. Second season in pre-production.
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