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  1. 17 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Well executed CBT is a really wonderful thing and helps so many "illnesses."  I am quite sure there is a "medical" component to most illnesses, as well, but I don't think we have really zeroed in on what it is or how to treat it.  I think the study of brain scans, which is relatively new, is going to lead somewhere on all of it, eventually.

    This lady is a leader in the field. https://irp.nih.gov/pi/nora-volkow

    The most exciting thing about CBT combined with science and our understanding of the mind is that we get closer and closer to being able to figure out how we work and why. The work done now may not fully benefit any of us, but generations of folks way down the road will be thankful for the time spent on this right now.

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  2. I had a chance encounter recently at work. I never seat myself at work because I will just wait until it is my turn to seat a group. Anyhow in comes a man with his wife and daughter for breakfast. I am still getting my bearings, but he looked familiar. Once he said where they were from it clicked in my mind. It was Steven Furtick. Normally I am not in favor of megachurch pastors, but I have listened to several of his sermons on YouTube and I like that he does not dress flashy and just encourages people to come to church as they are.

     

    I speak to him away from the table after they are done because I am sure his wife gets enough people stopping them randomly back home in Charlotte. They were here for his daughter’s five year trip. Each child gets a vacation every five years and since COVID messed hers up last year they brought her to the city to see three Broadway shows. We talked and found out we had a good deal in common. We’re both small town guys and he knew the school my family founded in his home state of South Carolina, which is Wofford College. 
     

    He asked me what I was doing with life and I told him getting a masters so that I can be a therapist and work with kids and families, especially children with autism. I told him I worked with people who are hurting emotionally and that I just listen and do what I can to help them have a better day each time I see them. He said God has me right where I am supposed to be and I definitely agreed with that. Anyhow that was a blessing to get to speak with him. Told him if I ever go to Charlotte and it isn’t just to switch planes that I’ll come to a service. 
     

    God puts you in a certain place for a certain reason and I am glad I am where I am right now. 

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  3. Just now, ztejas said:

    He's on pace for 66 right now. He'd have to really cool off to not get well into the 50s. 

    I feel like he’ll set the Yankee franchise record for sure. Hopefully I can bear witness to a few of them going forward after tonight’s misadventure…lol.

  4. 1 minute ago, Scraps said:

    Yeah massive swing and a miss

    I want some sherbet though Of course they did cause Manfred called in a rain delay like he always does when the Yankees are losing at home

    It did start to rain rather hard and they went to the delay right when they should have. I would’ve probably called for the delay a little earlier than what they did. The rain was just stopping and starting constantly for the last 15 minutes before they took a break.

    Just now, ztejas said:

    Judge gonna get to 60?

    Yes. Probably 63-65 with how he’s swinging the bat.

  5. 2 hours ago, clapclapclap said:

    Cooper Manning Syndrome is tough.  Glass half full take:  At least Joey doesn't whine about struggling in the shadow of his 2 very successful brothers, Earnest and Julio.

    I always thought Pico was the most successful member of the family.

  6. Judge with two more homers. The last one a grand slam. Did this guy witness either homer tonight? No, no I did not because I got to the game late and then had to leave during the rain delay. The highlight of tonight was coming into the game and some very drunk woman tried to grab ahold of me twice while getting in and her friend had to intervene to tell her to stop. I just laughed and paid her no mind.

  7. I wanted to go to this game today, but I had worked 16 hours yesterday and came back for another 10 this morning and afternoon. Unless he totally falls off the map, Judge will be the MVP. He’s having one of the best seasons in Yankee history and watching him do his thing in person is pretty cool. 

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  8. 7 minutes ago, Helobious said:

    He’s a gigantic upgrade over Gallo (but I would be too), but he’s also a slap hitting singles machine like IKF is. Not exactly going to put us over the top. And you just know the FO is shutting it down after this until the deadline.

    Hes also a good example of why analytics are often terrible tools for analyzing baseball players. He has just 17 XBH all season, yet his OPS is almost .800 apparently. Very misleading. 

    Well I don’t expect to see him get a ton of extra base hits. What I do expect is he will get on base and with the hitters behind him he’ll get driven in quite a bit. The Yanks have needed a guy who can get on base more frequently at the top and he can do that. 
     

    And the defense markedly improves. Every time I see Stanton in the outfield I somehow expect an adventure. If you attempt to look at the overall positives of this move I think you will see it’ll pay off pretty well. If he performs well the next two months they should definitely make him a good offer to bring him back. Also anything that means less Gallo or Hicks is okay with me.

  9. 13 minutes ago, Helobious said:

    Fucking christ. Cashmans big, season-saving move is getting benintendo. I don’t even think he has an ops over .700 this year. Fucking useless penny pinching idiots. Soto & Castillo are free to go to other playoff contenders.

    Benintendi will be extremely useful. Put him at the top of the lineup and let him get good pitches to hit. The Yanks need a table setter and he can do that if they slot him in the leadoff spot.

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  10. 32 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I think the difference is that all these other religions aren't as big of assholes as the christian warriors are.

    Oh absolutely. There is just this inherent inferiority complex with these people I would loosely call Christians. They are no more a Christian than I am the starting shooting guard for the Lakers. Forcing a faith on people for no reason other than to be as big a jerk as is humanly possible is ridiculous on every level.

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  11. I do not think that any of these zealot Christian school prayer warriors realize that they have opened schools to EVERY religion to try and do the same thing in schools. Unintended consequences and whatnot. I hope I see Rainn Wilson standing in front of a school in some rural East Texas school district promoting the Baha’i faith.

  12. 15 minutes ago, DanRydell said:

    My girlfriend's department lost 10 out of 21 teachers (at a "destination" suburban district) after last year. 9 of those 10 left education altogether while the 10th moved out of the area to another school due a spouse's job change.

    This is all by design. The students are the ones paying the price for the greed of the Boomer generation who cannot keep their hand out of the financial cookie jar.

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  13. On 7/2/2022 at 2:11 PM, Mrs Whiggins said:

    For most districts, I believe that is under a different revenue stream than say funding teacher positions. Most buildings are built through bonds.

    Bond elections decide most of these stadiums. The implication and appearance of having these absolutely worthless monoliths to go and worship teenagers is that states like Texas put a high premium on sports and not education. Try and tell someone a school district in Texas spent 60 million on a football stadium and wait for the incredulous look you’ll get.

    We are dumbing down an entire generation across the country with the lack of funding for public school education. Charter schools are only exacerbating this crisis. If you are associated with a charter or send your child to one shame on you for being part of the greatest monetary scam in the history of education in our country. You are putting money in the pockets of people who want to completely destroy public schools beyond repair.

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  14. It bears mentioning again that our education system in the public sector is absolutely designed to fail. While the machine was put in motion long before Betsy DeVos was destroying it in the storefront window, seeing her killing public schools should’ve been a wake up call for all of us to do something. I include myself in the group that has not and did not do enough to stop the spread of charter/money grab clownshow that these schools are.
     

    We are underfunding and undereducating millions of our youth and it is on purpose. The tool that should be the most important thing every child has is a stellar education. We should collectively be ashamed that we are giving them something that resembles a 3rd World education.

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  15. 18 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    So much this.  I just...god dammit.  All the talk on this thread of how he keeps his cool and is able to complete a rational message despite being interviewed by a pot of soup just doesn't matter.  

    Being upset about it probably accomplishes little. You just do what you can in your own life to change things and that’s it. We all get one shot at life. I have no desire to argue with these folks or put them down. If they want to live a life filled with hatred for others and be miserable then by all means let ‘em have at it. When you feel angry and upset about things done by these folks it just pulls you into their world where they feel comfort in a really disastrous construct. 
     

    I am still glad though that there are decent human beings like Buttigieg out there. He is using the platform he has to do as much good as possible and in most cases his work is helping those who hate him whether they realize it or not. That’s a true public servant in my opinion.

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  16. 7 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

    When he first came on the scene, I read a story about him.  His parents were both Professors at Notre Dame.  His father is from Malta.  He was known to speak several languages; a half-dozen by some accounts.

    So, here's the story.   A prominent South Bend newspaperwoman was having lunch with a friend in a South Bend restaurant.  Mayor Pete happened to walk by their table and stopped to say hello.  He was, of course, acquainted with the newswoman.  She says hello, and introduces her friend, her old college roomie, who was from Norway.  Pete immediately starts chatting up the roomie in Norwegian. 

    The newswoman, who knew Pete's background well, basically says "motherfucker, you have no connection whatsoever to Norway, how do you speak the language?"

    Pete explains that he came upon a great book from a Norwegian author, and he enjoyed it so much he sought out more works from the same guy. But, he found that only the book he had already read had been translated into English. So, he fucking learned a new, exotic language so he could read a few books. 

     

     

    Our last president could not read the literary works of Dr. Seuss.

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  17. 4 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

    he's also a smart motherfucker.

    Oh exceptionally intelligent. The person that can make their point without having to yell at the top of their lungs is the person I would like to see lead this country. 
     

    I have a boss right now that is just awesome. I was talking to a co-worker and the way I described our boss was he never has to tell you he’s in charge. He’s confident in who he is as a person and that rubs off on people. I see the same qualities in Buttigieg. He can lead and set the example and do so while being mild-mannered throughout.

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  18. 51 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    It’s what we in the business call “executive presence”.

    Remember he went to a finishing school (McK).

    He’s what I would call a very empathetic human being that genuinely cares about the job he has. That is extremely rare to see someone in politics actually take it seriously and be a public servant. 

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  19. 1 hour ago, ztejas said:

    I love Harden quitting on two teams within 18 months, being on the wrong side of 30, playing like shit for an entire season, then talking up how he's going to sign a team-friendly deal with the 6ers before inking 2 years $68 million. Like anyone in their right mind thinks that you're worth more than $34M per at this point. 

    Yesterday I mistakenly made a friendly bet with a longtime friend that Harden would finally make an unselfish decision. I owned up to being wrong and gotta do some push-ups…lol. I’ll do more push-ups to pay up on this bet than Harden has done in the last five years.

    The Sixers are not serious about winning if you give that player that amount of money when he is, at best, your 3rd best player. It’s not even a given that he is that on a nightly basis since he flat out refuses to give even the bare minimum effort on the defensive end.

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