Snake Diggity

Not that anybody should be counting on it, but a Charlie Morton-esque late career stint of health and performance is not outside the realm of possibility for McCullers. He’s only 31.

One of my favorite scenes in The Big Short is where the guy realizes there’s a mortgage bubble when the strippers are talking about how they’re invested in real estate. Saturday before the game we were eating at El Chile and my cousin mentioned bitcoin (as part of a larger conversation not really about crypto). Our waiter, a 20 year old pothead type, comes running over and is like “you guys into bitcoin? Great investment, I’m all in.” Dude was frothing at the mouth to talk about this thing he was invested in that he had no fucking clue about how it actually works. Bubble. Who knows how long it will take to burst. But it’s a bubble.

Dems need a young male version of Ann Richards. Maybe Chris “The Rock” Johnson? Sadly, I’m fucking serious. Although he probably wouldn’t win because he’s not white. Find a young white dude who talks like Ann Richards did. Eliminate all talk about gender. If it comes up, immediately respond with an angry, expletive-laced tirade about rich Republicans fucking over working class people. Turn every discussion about race into a discussion about income/wealth inequality across all races. Promise immediate cash payments to everyone with a job, paid for by an increase in taxes on the 1%. Talk about it in simple terms: if you elect me, I will send you money as long as you are working. PAWs: Payments for American Workers. Promise a balanced budget amendment. Adopt James Talarico’s message about Christianity and how the GOP are anti-Christian. Promise free universal healthcare, paid for by tough negotiations with healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies that will result in everyone paying less than they were thru private insurers. Bumper stickers that say “Candidate Name 2028: FUCK INSURANCE COMPANIES” would be effective. Outflank the GOP on border security: promise that you will roll out a program to legalize all immigrants who have full time work lined up, and that minors who have been here for 10+ years can get citizenship, but that outside of that you will be cruel to illegals (building a wall, patrolling the border, shooting people who refuse to go thru official checkpoints, sanctioning countries who allow migrants to pass thru to get here).

The non-tenders of Romano and Finnegan don’t bode well for Houston being able to dump all of Pressly’s contract. Doesn’t really make sense for Houston to trade him if they have to eat money, since the point of trading him is to clear payroll.

I am admittedly a helicopter parent. Part of that is just my personality, but I was definitely affected by an experience I had early in my parenthood. When my first kid was 3 months old, she got rsv and was really sick, so we took her to Dell Children’s. While in the ER exam room waiting to see the dr, there was some scuttlebutt out in the hall. Directly across from our exam room was another room, where I watched thru the window as a doctor and social worker pulled a young woman in to tell her that her child was dead. The scream she let loose is something I will never ever forget, and I will also never forget seeing the woman sitting on a bench outside the hospital sobbing when we left, with an empty stroller next to her. I found out she was coming out of a Home Depot in south Austin and the child walked out into the parking lot and was run over by a truck. The driver had to be chased down because he didn’t even know he’d hit anything. Anyway, ever since that experience I’m a total fucking freak when it comes to my kids walking by themselves, especially in busy areas. My 9 year old has always been super responsible and I’ve trusted her since she was 5, although I have never left her alone, mostly because of her younger sister. My 6 year old has the personality of a butterfly and still does not ever look before walking somewhere; I doubt she will be allowed to go anywhere alone until she’s a teenager. I think it’s ridiculous to arrest a mother for leaving a 10 year old unattended for a short time. A poster above nailed it: 5-12 is when it’s acceptable to start leaving a kid unattended or “free range”, but context should always be considered.

That med took a long time to get approved due to having difficulty showing effectiveness in trials (13 trials showed it was not effective before it got the 2 positive trials required for approval). That’s not to say it’s not worth trying if other things aren’t working, but I wouldn’t hold out much hope that it will be the answer. I 2nd Troph’s recommendation for ketamine for treatment resistant depression, especially if there’s suicidal ideation involved; the feedback on that has been very encouraging, and if my depression/suicidal ideation flares up again, that is what I will try. (I am not a doctor and everyone should consult their doctor instead of getting medical advice from the internet.)

wtf are YOU talking about? Your comment literally said “at no time since her announcement in 2019 has she been the driving force behind any policy ideas or political shift. Never a whiff of substance”, bringing forward the idea that she lost because she wasn’t the driving force behind any policy ideas and substance, as if that fucking mattered.

I really wonder what kind of info Elon got on Trump when he bought Twitter. He and Putin probably have the same dirt.

LMFAO thinking Harris lost / Trump won because of fucking policy. Dems played loser identity politics. If they’d ran a white male under 80 who kept quiet about trans and brown people, they would have won.

I’m dead serious McConaughey could win the presidency in 2028. The Dems need one of the following: a younger version of Al Franken, Straight version of Mayor Pete, or White male version of AOC.

Crypto douchebags are just the descendants of Dutch Tulip investors, pets.com hodlers, and MBS speculators. Talk shit incessantly on the way up, then disappear when the bubble bursts.

Negged unfairly? The motherfucker continually circumvents the ignore feature and posting rules by creating countless usernames. Fuck him and fuck you.

Another factor in my longevity is the fact that my job is sedentary. I realized recently that this year marks 20 years of having jobs that have me sitting at a desk for 40+ hours per week, and for the last 10 years I’ve worked from home so I’m not even commuting or walking around an office to socialize. There’s a lot of recent research that shows that’s a significant risk factor, even if you control for exercising and maintaining a healthy weight (and a recent article said standing desks aren’t really the answer). I probably only have another 7-12 years of work left. But I have been thinking more and more about changing careers to do something more active (although I’m not at all sure what that would be).

Great thread and timely as the bulk of the posters on the site are transitioning into being olds. I consider the 5 pillars of longevity to be genetics, sleep, exercise, diet, and stress. So I focus on the 4 of those I can control while being aware of the implications of the one I can’t control. TLDR: I am good at maintaining a healthy weight thru diet/exercise and getting plenty of sleep. I am bad at stressing out over little shit and eating too much junk food.

I like Breggy, but Adames is the better baseball player when projecting 2025-2030.