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MC Fresh Breath

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  1. Hey dude, first off, welcome to the club! Very similar to you as to when I started getting into this. I really enjoy the landyachtz videos (I don't own one of their boards) : For me, practicing foot stopping over and over was key to getting comfortable. You really have to bend your knees more than you think. Then the more you skate, the more you'll get comfortable with speed. I know, duh, but the thing to keep in mind is those of us who take it up as adults are different than adults who "get back into it." No muscle memory to go back to, and now that we're older, our progress is slower. So during warmer months I try to set an 'every day' goal of getting on the board. Maybe some days its just 10 minutes. Other days shoot for an hour. But every day, a little something. In terms of stopping for a long time every time I went out, I would just start out with get going, stop under control. Repeat. Add a little speed and you can use the foot drags to slow down w/o stopping all the way. Have fun!
  2. Yep. Trevor Noah, among others, has had some pretty good stuff on how Poland treated Syrian refugees versus Ukrainian refugees. The differences are stark and brutal.
  3. Yeah, I'll probably take a breather for a while.
  4. My point was as a M's fan I would have liked to have seen them improve enough to where they could make the playoffs w/o the need for them to be expanded. Mainly just bummed about how the lockout just put owner greed in the face so obviously. And they essentially won, as they always do. And the parallels to America and corporate life. Baseball certainly mirrors a lot of society, both good and bad. The owners of this country always win. Oops, slight CR there. Sorry, but not totally sorry.
  5. I hope I get into the spirit of things as the season approaches. Lockout stuff, blackout stuff, rule changes, e.t.c. has me wondering how much time I'm giving to watching billionaire's pawns these days. Like every season I'm sure I'll sucked back in. And now even if the M's make the playoffs its under the 12 team expansion playoffs. bleh.
  6. It is. Universal DH. 12 team playoff. No re-seed in the LDS. Advertising patches and decals on unis and helmets.
  7. Was sorry to read about this. A bit more details on the instagram page that I can't embed here. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca295C2vC6B/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
  8. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/10/cpi-inflation-february-2022-.html
  9. Cartalk not going away. Some of you are missing the Forest(er) for the trees. But the attitude of blaming the poor for being as such sure seems typical.
  10. It read to me like telling people who are in bad situations to just go buy another car that gets better gas mileage. Which seems problematic. Maybe I'm misinterpreting. But a poor person stuck with whatever gas guzzling $2k car they happen to have isn't going to run out and buy a Prius. As well, it seems to ignore that consumer goods rise along with the increase in fuel prices. And typically even when those fuel prices go back down there isn't a corresponding decrease in the price of goods. This is all but one piece of the larger puzzle of course. The thread (and from here on out I'm not really aiming this at you per se) went about as I expected and seized upon all those poors making bad financial decisions while ignoring the astronomical amounts just printed up and given to the already wealthy (see the cares act for but one example). While the wealth gap gets larger and larger the man in charge has the audacity to say "Americans have to sacrifice." If only the poor would give up their fancy iphones and that avocado toast. We have great big safety nets for those rich enough to take advantage of them. By the way, we actually don't "have to sacrifice." They could just as easily give everyone money for gas if they wanted to, but they don't. Just like they could give us all free health care and education, but they don't. Or they could quit giving billions to say, Israel, while telling us that we have to sacrifice. And then us willing guppies say "hey poor people, quit driving as much and shut up." Argue about the polls as much as we want, there's a very large amount of folks left behind economically. Plenty of them with college degrees, btw. And the generations after the millennials have it even worse. I don't know why I rail about it other than to express frustration I suppose.
  11. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-and-wealth-inequality/
  12. "At the start of 2022, 64% of the U.S. population was living paycheck to paycheck, up from 61% in December and just shy of the high of 65% in 2020, according to a LendingClub report." https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/08/as-prices-rise-64-percent-of-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck.html
  13. Well I just read his Wikipedia entry. Uh, fuck that guy.
  14. Good tracks. I'm not with it enough to get your last sentence, so it's over my head either way. He seems to get attention on r/hiphopheads. And I remember "Super Gremlin" from a few months back.
  15. I'm not siding with Greenwald here but some of the "here's a capture Russian soldier" videos have made me a bit uncomfortable. There was one where it sure seemed like the soldier was reading a script he was told to read or reciting lines he was told to recite. Maybe its all the Vietnam War stuff I've seen where we didn't quite appreciate that going on when our folks were captured.
  16. Glad I revisited. Saw a "ZZ Top coming this summer" type of announcement and did a double take.
  17. The Evacuation Route from Mariupol is Mined, Corridors Lead to Russia and Belarus https://www.novinite.com/articles/214142/The+Evacuation+Route+from+Mariupol+is+Mined%2C+Corridors+Lead+to+Russia+and+Belarus
  18. whoa! you're almost as old as armybrat!
  19. I forgot to note that the batmobile chase scene in iMax was very very awesome.
  20. Pretty much this. Enjoyed the first two hours. Somewhere in the third hour was really ready for it to end.
  21. Me either so I searched the name. From the AP: So since he wasn't totally crazy someone crazier will get the nomination.
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