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wild_turkey

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  1. Ended up being the case but kind of humorous how it went down. I enjoyed the season. It’s a lighthearted drama that’s good for what it is and I think the cast is well done. Would like to see more of Elena and Ali.
  2. Well sure, but in Texas that’s a common choice for men. Even if everyone begins to look like generic country club clones of each other, at least you’re comfortable and you don’t stand out. If you’re traveling in Europe and you want to dress that way in the day, also fine because you’re on vacation, but it does make you easily identifiable as American. Just pack a better option for nice dinners.
  3. It’s because Incredulity is struggling to find some angle to portray Scott Pelley as the one who made a foolish decision. He can’t focus on the failures of CBS or the fascism imposed by Donald Trump or Larry Ellison because that’s his team. So he needs something to hang on Pelley and he’s concocted this scenario where Pelley will be hurting financially without his 60 Minutes job. Because Incredulity is speaking from the perspective of someone who A) would be hurting without his own job, and B) does not stand up for anything, and C) would gladly become a fascist if Trump and his party wanted him to as long as they change the word “fascist” to “patriot”.
  4. Surly Leftists did not make a stand or moral pronouncement with someone else’s livelihood. Scott Pelley made a stand for what he believes in. He is no longer employed by CBS but that was very likely to be the case regardless. He wasn’t willing to continue working for an organization that’s bending the knee for fascism. You keep circling back to his income or finances as if you think that’s the only thing that should ever matter for a person. Some things are more important than that.
  5. My experience has not been the shorts or sneakers that are the issue, but the kind of shorts and sneakers and the way a person wears them or the situation they wear them. The main thing I notice is American guys dressing like they just left the golf course. Tucked in Peter Millar polos with shorts and golf hats and On shoes, even at dinner in nice restaurants. They stick out like sore thumbs. Another thing is that athleisure as street wear seems much less common for European women than American women. That trend has eased up a little bit from what I’ve seen, but if I see women in yoga clothes in Paris, I still think there’s a decent chance they’re American.
  6. Maybe the child rape should also be in the news.
  7. Pelley went with the latter because he is a man with integrity and principles who stood up for what he believes in. Because the network he worked at for the last ~37 years is succumbing to fascism. Because 60 Minutes, the pinnacle of American broadcast journalism, and perhaps one of the least biased news sources, is being silenced by their ownership under pressure from Donald Trump. This is so plainly evident that only a brainwashed maga cult member could not understand it. You seem to think that Pelley made a risky choice from a career or financial standpoint, as if he’s some generic corporate mid level employee who accidentally lost his job over avoidable office drama. This is the complete opposite of that and every post you make demonstrates how little you grasp that. Pelley made the only decision a person with his values possibly could. His firing was inevitable and he knew that, but the alternative was so much worse.
  8. Fuck CBS, fuck Larry Ellison, fuck Shari Redstone, fuck Donald Trump for destroying our media, fuck Bari Weiss, and fuck Nick Bilton. I remember hearing 60 Minutes as a child in the 80s at my grandparents house. Even when I was too young to care, I knew the sound of the ticking clock and I knew names like Andy Rooney, Leslie Stahl, and Steve Kroft. As a young adult, I became a regular watcher of the show because it fell between NFL and other shows like The Amazing Race. Eventually, I liked 60 Minutes more than the adjacent programming. When I unplugged from mainstream TV, I subscribed to Paramount+ solely for 60 Minutes. It was premium American journalism and appointment television for me. I quit watching shortly into Trump’s second term when it was clear the network was compromised because the Paramount-Skydance merger was subject to Trump’s approval. Stories were getting pulled and the weekly programming was ignoring major issues like tariffs to air segments that seemed like a distraction. it’s clearly dead now. I hope Leslie Stahl leaves and maybe she and Scott Pelley and Anderson Cooper can form some kind of streaming situation and incorporate young talent. Get Kaitlin Collins in there. I’ll do my best to never watch anything on CBS again. What a disaster the last 18 months have been.
  9. I almost felt bad for Nate but then I remembered what an asshole he was to Jules in the first 2 seasons. The characters in this show have become very difficult to root for. There was a point when I could root for the high school version of Rue to get sober and make a life for herself. Now, she is sober, but she’s a young adult who repeatedly puts herself in the worst possible situations and you can’t even blame her stupidity on drugs anymore. I’ll watch the finale but it’s super depressing.
  10. I see a bunch of bitching and moaning about Paxton winning but I'm glad it happened. I'm not exactly surprised it happened, so the results of last night haven't significantly changed how I feel about state politics or the electorate (which to be fair, my feelings have been strongly negative for some time now). This sets up the ideal matchup from the Democrat standpoint. We may very well still lose, but in Talarico there is an excellent candidate who checks many of the boxes that voters should agree with. His platform focuses on everyday people vs. the billionaire class and he now has "The People vs. Ken Paxton". He's not making this about him. On the other side, running Paxton in place of Cornyn gives a non-incumbent MAGA politician who is perfectly aligned with Trump and has a terrible history. If any traditional R voters are frustrated with Trump and the direction of this country, this is the best case scenario for voting habits to change. In some ways, this is a bigger version of the Rehmet vs. Wambsganss special election in Tarrant County, which shocked most people. If you could blind voters to their names and party affiliation, and you just list Candidate A with his agenda and background vs. Candidate B with his agenda and background, one of them would win in a landslide. I realize that's not reality and Texas gonna Texas, but it feels like the best chance we'll have anytime soon, if ever. If Talarico loses, then at the very least, it gives me a barometer of just how bad this state actually is. As much as I hope that doesn't happen, it's useful information to know who I'm surrounded by and whether or not I want to spend the rest of my life surrounded by people who are incapable of changing for the better.
  11. Is Tapatalk no longer supported here? I've used it for years with no problems and far preferred it over the browser. A couple months ago, it started crashing if I ever tried to reply to a post. The app would close consistently with no warning. Browsing was fine, just no replying. Deleting and re-installing / updating Tapatalk did not help. Out of frustration, I deleted Tapatalk and saw the info to install the Surly "app" so I did that. It seems to just be a browser desktop shortcut but what do I know. That was a much worse user experience. It doesn't remember where the last post is that I read in a thread, so there's lots of scrolling to go back and find where I left off, not to mention clicking through pages of posts instead of infinite scrolling. Certain pages will suddenly crash and reload, which is maddening when in the middle of typing a response. Then the virus/antivirus ads that people have been complaining about. It was damn near unusable. So this week I reinstalled Tapatalk and it seemed to work for both browsing and replying. I thought maybe Tapatalk had fixed a bug or immamac had updated something. That lasted for 2 days and then it started crashing again when I posted a reply. Is there a fix for this? I have an iPhone 16 with up to date iOS and Tapatalk version. I do think Tapatalk allows the user to log into both Taptalk as a whole and also log into individual message boards, so maybe there's a problem with competing log ins?
  12. My growing concern is that Trump's actions, comments, truths, etc. are those of a president unconcerned with the results of an upcoming midterm election. On the one hand, he may just be completely unhinged at this point, so expecting any rational behavior from him is pointless. If that's the case, and it would be the best case for most of us, then his erratic behavior may drive the Republican party into the ground. Which would be great. On the other hand, I have a hard time believing that he could be so off his rocker that no one in his inner circle is capable of performing better damage control. And if he is at all grounded in reality, then it gives the appearance that he does not give a shit what voters care about because he either plans to cancel the elections, fraudulently manipulate the elections, or invalidate any outcome that doesn't suit him. Perhaps J6 was just a dress rehearsal for a much uglier situation later in 6-8 months.
  13. I’m enjoying this season but after the funeral episode and the Hampton’s episode, I’d really like to see Coop and Elena get back to stealing shut together. I’m still thinking Ash is a one season character and likely gets killed in a way that saves Coop at the moment when it seems like the walls have closed in.
  14. It has been incredibly consistent with release dates: S1 - 6/23/22 S2 - 6/22/23 S3 - 6/26/24 S4 - 6/25/25 Very satisfying as a viewer at a time when shows routinely go 18-30 months between seasons.
  15. Why are oil markets still so reactionary to Trump’s bullshit comments? He claims a deal is almost final and oil prices drop. Within days (sometimes hours, sometimes later in the same truth post) he threatens to bomb Iran and oil prices shoot up. It’s all 1000% bullshit at this point. Why does oil fluctuate so wildly on a crazy man’s online ramblings?
  16. Sure, but they could just focus on the economy as a whole because Trump promised his voters lower prices for everything from groceries to gas and his reality has been the opposite. I think a non-negligible percentage of people who voted for him did so primarily because they believed that lie and now they are frustrated and alienated. They are a different subset of voters from the MAGA faithful who merely supports team politics, racism, Christian nationalism, or other variants of hatred, regardless of how bad shit actually is. Then if they need examples of why the economy sucks, the Iran war and the ballroom should be 1A and 1B. Maybe highlight the lapse in ACA subsidies that made people either lose healthcare coverage or their cost went up. Maybe talk about the arch he also wants to build or the impact of tariffs.
  17. About a year ago, I had a few episodes of Raynaud’s phenomenon. Numb middle finger with loss of color lasting about 10 minutes each time. Annoying but not debilitating. I figured it was a symptom of my lupus, and given that things had otherwise been great, I was accepting of this. My rheumatologist knew and did blood work that was normal enough. This past winter, the Raynaud’s became more frequent. Otherwise I’m fine, still on hydroxychloroquine. Told my rheumatologist and she ordered more blood work which now shows strongly positive anti-centromere antibodies. That’s associated with scleroderma, which happens to have Raynaud’s as an initial symptom. Uh oh. I do NOT want scleroderma. I was accepting of the SLE thing because it’s always been well controlled with hydroxychloroquine, so well that I’ve questioned the diagnosis at times. Although I’ve also been a little fearful that the other shoe would eventually drop, and now I’m fearful that this is it. I have patients with scleroderma who struggle with it. To be clear, I have not been diagnosed with scleroderma. The American College of Rheumatology has a classification criteria that has multiple factors, of which I have a score of 6 merely on the basis of Raynaud’s and anti-centromere antibodies. A score of 9 is required for diagnosis and I’m fairly certain I am currently negative on the other criteria. But it just seems like something significant has changed and now it’s a waiting game for which other criteria will eventually become positive. I trust my rheumatologist. She and I share patients and have a good professional relationship in addition to me being her patient. So I’m leaving it up to her to figure out but I hate this development.
  18. This season has been pretty good so far. Ash clearly brings dirty money to the table. My prediction is that he starts applying the heat to Coop and Barney, and when it seems like they are stuck without an out, Ash gets killed by some unknown character with a vengeance. He portrays a happy guy that is set in life and likes to have fun, which means he probably isn’t set in life and he has crossed the wrong people or owes some massive debts.
  19. well episode 3 turned it up a bit
  20. Does Trump have about 15 lime wedges in a Collin’s glass? Is that a thing of his?
  21. This is completely staged. Maybe he will get a boost in approval ratings up to 36%. I don’t want him to be assassinated because I don’t want his supporters to turn him into a martyr. I will celebrate his death by any other means though. My current preference is for him to trip going down the stairs of AF1 and snap his neck. Just a pathetic demise of his own doing.
  22. So I guess we’re just doing this on a weekly basis now. Replace Vance with Witkoff and Kushner and then have to cancel again when Iran ghosts us. Maybe next week can be Rubio and Hegseth. But yeah, they are the ones desperate to make a deal. Iran should tell the world they will open negotiations when the U.S. no longer has Trump as president. Eliminate the cancer that started this mess and then let the adults discuss the future.
  23. Watched the first 2 episodes of season 3. Can’t say if I like it or not. The first episode started out with a bit of a Breaking Bad vibe, which I was digging. By episode 2, it seems to be meandering and the various plots are not overly compelling. I’ll keep watching but I have tempered expectations.
  24. So with TrumpMath, if a drug costs $8 and they reduce it to $4, would that be considered a 4% reduction or a 32% reduction?
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